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Polish state-owned companies to build temporary hospitals
(PAP) aa/ej October 30, 2020
Radek Pietruszka/PAP
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has obliged large state-owned companies to build more temporary hospitals, Michal Dworczyk, head of the PM's Office, said on Friday.
The new hospitals are to be built in a number of cities across the country and have a total of some 3,000 beds.
Dworczyk told Polish Radio One that the "the situation is very serious." He did not rule out the introduction of additional measures in the face of a growing number of coronavirus infections as the health service is "already at the extremes of endurance."
The first temporary hospital was opened at the National Stadium in Warsaw on Thursday. Currently it has 300 beds, when fully completed it will offer 1,200 beds.
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Pfizer to slow supplies of Covid vaccines to Poland - official
Nationwide study to determine exact number COVID-19 infections and how many people are ‘immune’
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Mon., August 31, 2020
Mary Zeran opens first solo show at Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Mary Zeran of Cedar Rapids installs “Going Against the Pattern,” a piece requested by the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art as part of her first solo exhibition there. Her show features about 20 works following the evolution of her 10 years as a full-time professional artist. The museum owns several of her pieces, and she also has her works installed in the U.S. Cellular Center, UFG, several buildings in Coralville, and in private homes. (Lori Tofanelli)
Mary Zeran Cedar Rapids Artist
“Japanese Overlay,” 2013, acrylic, Dura-Lar film on cradled panel, 3 inches by 45 inches by 2 inches, is among the works in “Mary Zeran: 10 Years.” She likes working with the transparent film’s smooth texture, which allows her to mix paint on the surface, then cut out and layer various elements for her collages, which look different front and back. (Cedar Rapids Museum of Art)
Mary Zeran’s “Quirky Progress,” 2012, acrylic, Dura-Lar film on cradled panel, 40 inches by 40 inches by 2 inches, is on view at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. (Cedar Rapids Museum of Art)
“The Beauty of it All #2,” 2014, acrylic, Dura-Lar film on Lenox 100 drawing paper, 20 inches by 16 inches, is included in Mary Zeran’s solo exhibition. (Cedar Rapids Museum of Art)
Mary Zeran’s “It Was So Warm,” 2015, acrylic, Dura-Lar on Lenox 100 drawing paper, 30 inches by 22 inches, is on view on the second floor at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. (Cedar Rapids Museum of Art)
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Mary Zeran’s career path has been as colorful and abstract as the artwork she has been creating full-time over the past decade.
She initially embarked on a prelaw, political science path at the University of Iowa.
“And then I realized that just wasn’t going to be my thing,” she said. “So I thought, well, I’ll go into journalism, because I like magazines.”
So she switched majors. The UI Journalism School required her to have two minors. She chose art and something else she can’t even remember. Doesn’t matter. She took her first art class — and was hooked.
“I knew that’s where I should be,” she said.
Afraid to tell her parents that she was switching her major to art, she was surprised when they were delighted. Turns out, she was following in her matriarchs’ footsteps.
“I didn’t realize that what we did growing up was making art,” said Zeran, now 56, of Cedar Rapids. “My mom and my grandma always were making things. My mom always made my clothes, but she also did wood carving, and she painted on the wood carving. And my grandma had gone to Iowa State and designed textiles and things like that. So I came from this very use-your-hands, making kind of family.”
After getting her MFA at Iowa in 1991, followed by a year of professional development at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, she had hoped to teach at the university level, but the market didn’t work in her favor in the early ’90s. So she worked other jobs, including department store displays, before concentrating on her own artistic expression.
And now a decade of her evolution is on display through Jan. 3 in her first solo exhibition at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. That’s an especially poignant site for her, since that’s where she found her “community of people” when she and her husband, Jeff Schipper, moved from Seattle to his hometown of Cedar Rapids 16 years ago.
Her work has been shown as part of several group exhibitions at the museum, most recently during “Up All Night” and “Into the Blue” in 2019, and “Beyond the Prairie: Midwestern Art from the Collection” in 2018.
Her solo show, “Mary Zeran: 10 Years,” features a few pieces on paper, but the majority is her collage work. She paints and assembles the elements on Dura-Lar, a clear polyester film, then mounts the finished product on a cradle panel, a flat piece of wood, made out of a birch and pine combination. In essence, it’s a shallow box that will hold up to the weight of all of the different pieces that go into her collages, which are covered with “a lot of glaze,” she said.
“It’s an engineering thing,” she added, “but I also started my art career as a sculptor. And so for me, I loved that 3D quality that you get from a box. It just feels good to me. I think making art is very tactile, especially for me.”
“She’s the only artist that I know who works in this particular media in the way that she does,” said Kate Kunau, the museum’s associate curator. “I love it because it really emphasizes the color and the brush stroke and the texture, which are the underlying tenants of all painting. ... In a way, she’s really taking painting down its basic tenet and then cutting them out and collaging them in this really interesting way.”
“I usually paint just without any plan, just like one of those free association things without judgment,” Zeran said. “And then when I start putting things together, that’s when I really start thinking about how things relate to each other and whether they work with each other, when the pieces talk to each other.
“I believe that whatever you feel, whatever the artist is feeling, comes out of their heart through their arms, through their hands, through the brush onto what they’re painting,” she said. “And so for me, the act of painting is a lot about transformation.
“I guess the closest example we could come up with is this idea (that) we’ve just had this hurricane, which was really intense and really devastating, and a lot of us are still reeling from it. And how do you get through something like that and not let it traumatize you for the rest of your life? How do you come out on the other side? Just having worked through it and having learned something.
“For me, I’m free-associating and I’m painting and I’m listening to music (classical to Led Zeppelin) and usually I’m painting the feeling I’m hearing from the music. And then when I start putting things together, that’s when things get a little dicey. I don’t know what’s going on — it can start to go badly. I can mess it up, but I never throw it away when I mess it up. I just keep working it till it feels done.
“And so that’s what the act of making art for me is. It’s almost like a lesson for living your life — how you can go through tragedy and survive it. You won’t be that person before the tragedy happened, but it’s about resiliency — being resilient and getting through things and even trying to be positive and have a positive outcome.”
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She took that positivity to Kunau and executive director Sean Ulmer three years ago, suggesting a solo exhibition tracing the trajectory of her 10-year career. Kunau and Ulmer were intrigued, and slated the exhibition for April 25 to Aug. 30, but with COVID-19 pandemic initially shutting the museum’s doors, the show was pushed back, opening this past Saturday.
Museum mission
“Supporting local artists has always been such a big part of our mission,” Kunau said, “tracing back to Grant Wood and Marvin Cone. It’s something we still really want to focus on — to have exhibitions of their work.”
She added that reaching a decade milestone is “a really big deal” for artists. And to make the show even more exciting, Kunau and Ulmer asked Zeran to create an installation directly on a gallery wall. It’s huge — about 192 inches wide by 7 or 8 feet tall — and the various pieces that make up the collage took about two months to paint. Her home studio wasn’t large enough, so she rented space at the Iowa Ceramics Center in the Cherry Building. Another 20 pieces round out the exhibition.
“We initially intended it to be a summer show,” Kunau said, “because it’s really bright and colorful and fun and summery. And now it’s going to be a bright, colorful fun show in the autumn.”
Viewers “will be able to really see her progression,” Kunau said. “She started out working kind of small and figuring out what colors she likes, what kind of marks she wanted to make and how those marks could work together, play off each other and create a narrative. And then you’ll see her work get really large, and then small again. People will see it become maybe slightly less organic and more geometric, so the shapes change. And you can tell when she goes through a period where she’s really interested in this particular color combination or this particular mark. You can really see the trends in her art.”
“This is the biggest moment of my career,” Zeran said of the museum show. “It’s amazing, especially because it’s something that I never thought would happen. I can’t believe that they said yes.”
• What: “Mary Zeran: 10 Years” solo exhibition
• Where: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 410 Third Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids
• When: Through Jan. 3, second-floor gallery
• Hours: Noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday; noon to 8 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday
• Admission: $8 adult, $7 college students and ages 62 and over, $4 ages 6 to 18, free ages 5 and under
• Safety: Face masks/coverings required
• Details: Crma.org/
• Artist’s website: Maryzeran.com
Comments: (319) 368-8508; diana.nollen@thegazette.com
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Kenney’s UCP leadership win sets up ideological battle against Notley’s NDP
Gary MasonNational affairs columnist
Published October 28, 2017 Updated October 28, 2017
It was a moment that seemed inconceivable even a year ago. But there was Jason Kenney, the former federal Conservative cabinet minister, strolling across a stage here Saturday evening to accept the leadership of a new political institution built on the smoking ruins of the province's two right wing parties.
Mr. Kenney now has the controls of the United Conservative Party, a vehicle he insists will be the death of the NDP government of Premier Rachel Notley. It will be hard to bet against him.
What Mr. Kenney accomplished in 20 short months is remarkable. It was July 2016 that he announced he would resign from federal politics to begin an odyssey to Unite the Right in Alberta – the only hope, he insisted, for beating the NDP.
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As long as the right remained divided in two camps – the Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose – than the NDP had an easier path to remain in power. His plan? Step one: run for the leadership of the iconic Tory party that held power in Alberta for nearly 44 years running on a platform to wind the party up and resign it to the dustbin of history. Step two: win. Step three: convince the Wildrose to do the same and negotiate the terms for the establishment of a new political party based on the merger of the two. Step four: win the leadership of it.
Say what you might about Mr. Kenney's ideology – and there are many moderate conservatives who intensely dislike the man and find his views scary – what he accomplished here this weekend deserves recognition. After what he pulled off against all odds, he might consider winning a general election easy.
In choosing Mr. Kenney over his two challengers – former Wildrose leader Brian Jean, and Calgary lawyer Doug Schweitzer – members of the new UCP opted to go with a leader who holds more extreme views on a range of issues. They opted to go with a leader who offers the clearest choice between the UCP and the governing NDP.
The fact that Mr. Kenney won while offering little on the policy front speaks to just how much the members of his party believed in his often divisive rhetoric and the wars he set up throughout the campaign with Ottawa and Quebec on one side of the country and its neighbor British Columbia to the west.
Mr. Kenney, wisely, tapped into an anger that continues to percolate in the province. It is an anger rooted in the hard times the oil recession has wrought. He didn't offer ways he was going to make the good times magically return, rather he expressed rage at Ottawa and Quebec over equalization payments, suggesting he was going to launch an effort to renegotiate terms with the federal government.
It didn't matter that a number of respected economists suggested his angst over equalization was misplaced, and would never work, people in his party liked the way he was sticking up for his province. And he did it in a way that was much more convincing than his opponents.
Mr. Kenney's victory sets up a much more pure, ideological battle with the NDP.
"It's going to be a very binary election," former Tory cabinet minister Thomas Lakaszuk told me. "Centrist Albertans are going to have to turn right or left now. Personally, I think a lot of Albertans will hold their noses and vote NDP rather than support some of the extreme views that Jason represents. Jason Kenney's Alberta isn't around anymore. The province has changed. What's that saying? 'You can't step into the same river twice.' That's Jason's dilemma. People change and provinces change. Jason doesn't understand that."
Perhaps. But polls have consistently shown Albertans are not happy with the current regime. Much of that is tied to the oil crash, and a need to blame it on whoever is in power. But also, conservatives have done a good job of suggesting Premier Notley has brought in a rash of environmental measures that will cost jobs, and take money out of the pockets of consumers, all based on the false promise Alberta would get a pipeline in return.
That is far from a certainty, even though the twinning of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline has been approved.
And then there is the state of the province's finances and the record level of debt that has accumulated under the NDP's watch. Again, it matters not that the government had few options in the face of the oil crisis, $94 billion in arrears (the amount of debt Alberta is forecast to have by 2020) in a province that is used to having very little of it makes the NDP extremely vulnerable.
In any event, the next two years should be quite a show. Ms. Notley is wickedly smart and a fierce debater. Mr. Kenney will have his hands full. But after watching what he pulled off this weekend, it's hard to imagine he's daunted by the prospect.
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Margaret Nevius (16 Apr 1768 – 25 Jan 1852)
Margaret Nevius was born on 16 Apr 1768, at Somerville in Somerset County, New Jersey 302, Page 480; 106). She was the first daughter born to Jacobus Nevius and his wife Pieternellite (Cornell) Nevius.
In 1792, Margaret Nevius and Henry Voorhees married, likely in the Hillsborough Township of Somerset County, New Jersey (125; 137, Page 344; 302, Page 480). At their marriage, Henry was 23 years old, and Margaret was 24. Henry Voorhees was a son of Stephen Petrus Voorhees and Margareta (Van Dyke) Voorhees. A daughter Ellen Voorhees was born to Henry and Margaret Voorhees in Somerset County, New Jersey on 24 Jun 1796; a second daughter Margaret Voorhees was born on 6 Jul 1798 (302, Page 480).
In about 1800, the families of Henry Voorhees and his brother, John Steven Voorhees, migrated from Somerset County, New Jersey to the Lodi Township of Cayuga County, New York (300, Page 143). Henry and John Voorhees acquired land in Section 38 of the Lodi Township. A daughter Annie Voorhees was born to Henry and Margaret Voorhees on 23 Jul 1800 (302, Page 480). Annie may have been born in New Jersey or in Cayuga County, New York.
The 4 Aug 1800 federal census of the Ovid Township of Cayuga County, New York enumerates the Henry Voorhis household (1317). Henry Voorhees was 26–44 years old. A 26–44 year-old female living in the household was very likely Margaret (Nevius) Voorhees. Three females less than 10 years old were very likely Ellen Voorhees, Margaret Voorhees, and Annie Voorhees.
Henry Voorhees appears on a 1803 tax list for the Ovid Township of Cayuga County, New York (1320). A daughter Mary was born to Henry and Margaret Voorhees in Cayuga County, New York on 1 Feb 1803 (302, Page 480). A son Stephen Voorhees was born on 3 Sep 1804 in Seneca County, New York (302, Page 480).
Henry Voorhees died on 20 Feb 1806 in the Ovid Township of Seneca County, New York (137, Page 344). At his death, Henry Voorhees was 36 years old. Margaret (Nevius) Voorhees was 37 years old, and their oldest daughter Ellen was nine years old. Henry Voorhees is buried in the McNeal Cemetery in Seneca County, New York.
The 4 Aug 1810 federal census of the Ovid Township of Seneca County, New York enumerates the household of Margaret (Nevius) Voorhees, more than 44 years old, with five children (1343). Ellen Voorhees and Margaret Voorhees were likely the two females, 10–15 years old. Stephen Voorhees was likely the male recorded as less than 10 years old. Two females, less than 10 years old, were likely Annie and Mary Voorhees. At the 7 Aug 1820 federal census of Ovid in Seneca County, Margaret (Nevius) Voorhees was more than 44 years old (1344). Four female members of the household who were 16–25 years old were likely: Ellen Voorhees, Margaret, Annie, and Mary Voorhees. Stephen Voorhees was likely the male, 10–15 years old.
The 1 Jun 1830 federal census of the Ovid Township of Seneca County, New York enumerates the household of Margaret (Nevius) Voorhees, age 50–59 years (1345). A male, 20–29 years old, was likely Stephen Voorhees. A 20–29 year-old female and a 15–20 year-old female have not been identified. The 1840 federal census records Margaret Voorhees as 70–79 years old (1346). A 40–49 year old female and a 30–39 year old female were also living in the household. The 40–49 year-old female may have been Margaret’s daughter, Ellen Voorhees.
The 1850 federal census of the Lodi Township of Seneca County, New York enumerates the household of Margaret Voorhees, age 83 years and born in New Jersey (1347). Ellen Voorhees, age 52 years and born in New Jersey was living with her mother.
Margaret (Nevius) Voorhees died on 25 Jan 1852 (106). She is buried in the McNeal Cemetery in the Ovid Township of Seneca County, New York.
A. Van Doren Honeyman states the given name of the first child born to Henry and Margaret Nevius as “Nelly”, very likely an alias for “Ellen” (302, Page 480).
Seneca County, New York was created from parts of Cayuga County, New York on 24 Mar 1804.
106. Gravestone, Margaret (Nevius) Voorhees, McNeal Cemetery, Ovid, Seneca County, New York, 25 Jan 1852. Find A Grave Memorial: 63749086. (Images: Find A Grave. Image on file.)
137. Elias W. Van Voorhees, ed. A Genealogy of the Van Voorhees Family in America. New York City, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1888. (Images: Ancestry.com. PDF file on file.)
300. History of Seneca County, New York 1786–1876. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Everts, Ensign & Everts, 1876.
302. A. Van Doren Honeyman. Joannes Nevius and His Descendants, A.D. 1627–1900. Part 2. Plainfield, New Jersey: Honeyman & Company, 1900. (Images: Ancestry.com. PDF file on file.)
1317. Henry Voorhis Household, 1800 U.S. Federal Census, Ovid, Cayuga County, New York, 2 Aug 1800. Series M32, Image 141, Page 556, Roll 28, Family History Library Film 193716. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. (Images: Ancestry.com. Image on file.)
1320. Henry Voorheese, Tax List, Ovid, Cayuga County, New York, 1803. Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799–1804. Series B0950. New York State Archives, Albany, New York. (Images: Ancestry.com. Image on file.)
1343. Margaret Voorhies Household, 1810 U.S. Federal Census, Ovid, Seneca County, New York, 4 Aug 1810. Image 00155, Page 243, Roll 36, Family History Library Film 0181390. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C. (Images: Ancestry.com. Image on file.)
1344. Margaret Voorhise Household, 1820 U.S. Federal Census, Ovid, Seneca County, New York, 7 Aug 1820. Image 78, Page 331, NARA Roll M33_74. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. (Images: Ancestry.com. Image on file.)
1345. Margaret Voorhees Household, 1830 U.S. Federal Census, Ovid, Seneca County, New York, 1 Jun 1830. Page 102, Roll 109, Series M19, Family History Library Film 0017169. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. (Images: Ancestry.com. Image on file.)
1346. Margaret Voorhees Household, 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Lodi Township, Seneca County, New York, 1 Jun 1840. Page 262 Roll 339, Family History Library Film 0017206. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. (Images: Ancestry.com. Image on file.)
1347. Margaret Voorhees Household, 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Lodi Township, Seneca County, New York, 9 Aug 1850. Image 51, Page 23A, Roll M432_597. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C. (Images: Ancestry.com. Image on file.)
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THE ORCHESTRA NOW (TŌN) – DECEMBER CONCERTS
November 21, 2019 /in Press, Press Releases /by Brian Heck
TAN DUN TO CONDUCT U.S. PREMIERE OF HIS VIOLIN CONCERTO: RHAPSODY AND FANTASIA AT ROSE THEATER SERIES AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2019
SIGHT & SOUND SERIES AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART CONTINUES WITH HONEGGGER, VALLOTTON & THE AVANT-GARDE IN PARIS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2019
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, November 21, 2019 — Tan Dun, world-renowned composer, conductor, and Dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, will take the podium for the opening concert of The Orchestra Now’s Rose Theater series at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Dec. 15, 2019. The program will be highlighted by the U.S. premiere of Dun’s 2018 Violin Concerto: Rhapsody and Fantasia featuring the award-winning Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing, who recently premiered Dun’s Fire Ritual – A Musical Ritual for Victims of War with the Oslo Philharmonic. Hemsing is also the subject of the upcoming documentary Forte directed by David Donnelly, focusing on women in the arts. Other works on the concert include Stravinsky’s Fireworks, Debussy’s Rhapsody for Clarinet with Hungarian soloist and TŌN musician Viktor Tóth; and Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin Suite.
Also in December, TŌN presents Honeggger, Vallotton & the Avant-Garde in Paris, the second installment of its popular Sight & Sound series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in which conductor and music historian Leon Botstein explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts (Dec. 8, 2019).
Sight & Sound Series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Honegger, Vallotton & the Avant-Garde in Paris
Sunday December 8, 2019 at 2 PM
Composer Arthur Honegger and painter Félix Vallotton were both Swiss nationals who spent the larger part of their careers in Paris, where they became part of the avant-garde scene in music (Le Six) and art (Les Nabis). Both explored the intersection of tradition and modernism. Honegger’s first symphony mirrors the magnetism of Paris in the 1920s, and this event marks the work’s first NYC performance in 58 years. All presentations in this series offer a discussion accompanied by musical excerpts performed by The Orchestra Now, with on-screen artworks followed by a full performance and audience Q&A.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Honegger: Symphony No. 1*
The Artwork of Félix Vallotton
*First NYC performance in 58 years
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 26, 2020
Tickets priced at $30–$50; Bring the Kids for $1. All tickets include same-day museum admission. Tickets may be purchased online at metmuseum.org/sightandsound, by calling The Met at 212.570.3949, or at The Great Hall at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
TŌN Rose Theater Series
Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall
Tan Dun Conducts Stravinsky, Debussy & Bartók
Sunday, December 15, 2019 at 3 PM
Tan Dun, conductor
Eldbjørg Hemsing, violin
Viktor Tóth, clarinet
Stravinsky: Fireworks
Tan Dun: Violin Concerto: Rhapsody and Fantasia (U.S. Premiere)
Debussy: Rhapsody for Clarinet
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Tickets priced at $25–$50 are available online at jazz.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office at Broadway & 60th, Ground Floor.
The Orchestra Now (TŌN) is a group of 65 vibrant young musicians from 12 different countries across the globe: Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Peru, Taiwan, Ukraine, the U.K., and the U.S. All share a mission to make orchestral music relevant to 21st-century audiences by sharing their unique personal insights in a welcoming environment. Hand-picked from the world’s leading conservatories—including The Juilliard School, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and the Curtis Institute of Music—the members of TŌN are enlightening curious minds by giving on-stage introductions and demonstrations, writing concert notes from the musicians’ perspective, and having one-on-one discussions with patrons during intermissions.
Conductor, educator, and music historian Leon Botstein, whom The New York Times said “draws rich, expressive playing from the orchestra,” founded TŌN in 2015 as a graduate program at Bard College, where he is also president. TŌN offers both a three-year master’s degree in Curatorial, Critical, and Performance Studies and a two-year advanced certificate in Orchestra Studies. The orchestra’s home base is the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center at Bard, where they perform multiple concerts each season and take part in the annual Bard Music Festival. They also perform regularly at the finest venues in New York, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others across NYC and beyond. HuffPost, who has called TŌN’s performances “dramatic and intense,” praises these concerts as “an opportunity to see talented musicians early in their careers.”
The Orchestra has performed with many distinguished guest conductors and soloists, including Neeme Järvi, Vadim Repin, Fabio Luisi, Peter Serkin, Gerard Schwarz, Tan Dun, Zuill Bailey, and JoAnn Falletta. In the 2019–20 season, conductors Leonard Slatkin, and Hans Graf will also lead TŌN performances. Recordings featuring The Orchestra Now include Ferdinand Ries piano concertos with Piers Lane on Hyperion Records, and a Sorel Classics concert recording of pianist Anna Shelest performing works by Anton Rubinstein with TŌN and conductor Neeme Järvi. Upcoming albums include a second release with Piers Lane on Hyperion Records in the spring of 2020. Recordings of TŌN’s live concerts from the Fisher Center can be heard on Classical WMHT-FM and WWFM The Classical Network, and are featured regularly on Performance Today, broadcast nationwide. In 2019, the orchestra’s performance with Vadim Repin was live-streamed on The Violin Channel.
For upcoming activities and more detailed information about the musicians, visit theorchestranow.org.
Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein brings a renowned career as both a conductor and educator to his role as music director of The Orchestra Now. He has been music director of the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992, artistic co-director of Bard SummerScape and the Bard Music Festival since their creation, and president of Bard College since 1975. He was the music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra from 2003–11 and is now conductor laureate. In 2018, he assumed artistic directorship of Campus Grafenegg and Grafenegg Academy in Austria. Mr. Botstein is also a frequent guest conductor with orchestras around the globe, has made numerous recordings, and is a prolific author and music historian. He is editor of the prestigious The Musical Quarterly and has received many honors for his contributions to music. More info online at LeonBotstein.com.
A world-renowned artist and UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassador, Tan Dun is a winner of the Grammy, Academy, Grawemeyer, and Shostakovich Awards; the Bach Prize; and most recently Italy’s Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement. His current season includes leading the Orchestre National de Lyon in a five-city China tour, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra in a four-city tour of Switzerland and Belgium, as well as engagements with Oslo Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, where he was recently named Artistic Ambassador. Mr. Dun currently serves as the Honorary Artistic Director of the China National Symphony Orchestra. Next season, he will conduct the English Chamber Orchestra in their tour to China. He has led the world’s most esteemed orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, , Metropolitan Opera, BBC Symphony, and Sydney Symphony Orchestras; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, and the Filarmonica della Scala; among many others.
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Arthur Honegger’s Rugby Cadenza: The Sight and Sound of Vallotton and Honegger
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Time to Rise Up
She lived in a tent, so the tent peg and hammer were readily available. She probably knew that she didn't seem to pose a threat. She was a woman. She was alone. But when it came time to take care of the enemy...she rose up and took the opportunity she was given.
We had one of those large family Bibles when I was a child. The picture that went with Jael's story intrigued me. The image of a woman about to hammer a tent peg through a man's temple...kind of sounds like it should be in one of today's crime shows instead of the Book of Judges.
However, there is something about this story that draws me more today than the picture did when I was a kid. Obviously the fact that a woman was highlighted and celebrated for her victory gives me courage. But also there is a distinct quality in her that blows my mind.
She quietly silenced the enemy.
She didn't need fanfare and an audience. She didn't wait for someone to join her to make her feel stronger. With an unshaken calmness, she gave Sisera milk to drink and covered him up, causing him to doze off...leaving him unknowingly vulnerable.
Unknowingly. Sisera, the man lying in her tent, was an army commander! How could he possibly feel threatened? She was alone. She was a woman.
You are just one person. How could you possibly be a threat to the enemy?
I urge you to step into the secret place with the Almighty God. Close the door to your prayer closet and find yourself alone...but not alone. Your weakness may even be a lure to leave your enemy unknowingly vulnerable. But it's time to rise up and let the enemy know what happens when he takes a step in your direction.
It's time to rise up with no need for an audience.
It's time to rise up with no fear of the enemy.
It's time to rise up with complete confidence in our God.
May an unshakable calm saturate you today, giving you a fearlessness to take up the tools the Lord has given you and show the enemy what happens when he comes near your home.
Rise up.
Father, I wonder if I would have had the courage to face a physical enemy in the way that Jael did. More than that, I pray that You give me the courage to face the spiritual enemies that would see me as one who isn't a threat. I hide myself in You, Lord. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Judges 4-5, Psalm 91, Matthew 6:6
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Sweden is the best country in the world to be an immigrant
10/07/2017 Adam Taylor 0
A new ranking of the best countries to be an immigrant has placed Sweden in the top spot, closely followed by Canada, Switzerland, Australia and Germany.
The United States, a country which was largely founded through mass immigration, came in seventh.
U.S. News and World Report, which compiled the ranking, said it looked at measures such as economic stability, income equality and job markets to create its list, using a special survey of the opinions of more than 21,000 business leaders and other elites, as well as members of the public.
The ranking’s authors say they also used data from the World Bank and the United Nations on migrant populations in different countries, as well as the amount of remittance sent back to their country of birth.
The immigration project is part of a broader ranking, launched by U.S. News and World Report last year, that attempts to determine the world’s “best” countries in the same way that the publication also ranks colleges, hospitals and cars.
Eric Gertler, co-chairman of U.S. News and the New York Daily News, said that the experience of creating the best countries ranking showed them that many people view immigration as the most important issue in the world.
“With the recent spotlight on immigration in the U.S. and abroad, we wanted to dive into its potential benefits and challenges on a country’s perceived economic status in the world,” Gertler said.
Specifically, immigration in Sweden became the subject of an unusual public debate in the U.S. this year, with President Donald Trump suggesting at a rally in February that immigration had led to problems in Sweden and that the country should serve as a model for how the U.S. should not allow some immigrants in.
“They took in large numbers and they are having problems like they never thought possible,” Trump said, sparking a flurry of angry responses from Swedes.
Sweden had become a popular destination for refugees from Africa and the Middle East over the past few years, taking in more per capita than any other European nation at the height of the migrant influx in 2015. Though the U.S. News ranking is not designed to look at refugee or asylum policy specifically, it does consider measures relevant to it.
“While our methodology did not focus on refugees specifically, it did take into account immigration policies and integration measures per analysis from the United Nations,” said Deidre McPhillips, a U.S. News data reporter who helped design the rankings.
“Our aim with this package was to focus on the economic aspects of immigration and the impacts this could have on a country’s perceived standing in the world.”
Sweden wasn’t the only Nordic country to fare well – Norway, Finland and Denmark also took places in the top 10, largely due to favorable perceptions found in the survey about their economies and commitment to income equality. Other countries, such as Canada and Switzerland, were given positive marks not only for their economy but also integration measures for immigrants, such as language training.
While the U.S. scored well because of the large numbers of remittances, U.S. News said that the country fell in the rankings due to its perceived economic inequality. Britain ranked even lower – 17th – despite its strong economy, because its immigration policy specifically favored its own nationals. U.S. News noted that it was one of only six countries that had similar policies, including Saudi Arabia and Myanmar.
Generally, European and North American nations rank highest, though some European nations – most notably Serbia (68) and the Czech Republic (50) – ranked far lower.
The highest-ranking Middle Eastern country was the United Arab Emirates at 15, while the highest-ranking Asian nation was Singapore at 18. Brazil is the highest-ranking country in South America at 32 and South Africa is the highest-ranking African nation at 45.
In total, 80 countries were included in the ranking. Kenya came bottom of the list, preceded by Guatemala and Tunisia.
Tags: Australia immigrant sweden The immigration project World Report
Author: Adam Taylor
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Life imprisonment for sniping and shelling civilians of Sarajevo
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Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia
The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind!
International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia has rendered the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for one of the commanders that made the Sarajevo siege the longest one in human history.
The Tribunal's Appeals Chamber today sentenced Stanislav Galic, a former Bosnian Serb Army commander, to life imprisonment for his role in the campaign of sniping and shelling against civilians in Sarajevo from September 1992 to August 1994. This is the first time the maximum penalty has been rendered by the Tribunal's Appeals Chamber.
The Appeals Chamber dismissed all 19 grounds of appeal by Galic, including those which claimed that Trial Chamber wrongly convicted him of the "acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which was to spread terror among the civilian population" of Sarajevo. The Appeals Chamber allowed the appeal by the Prosecution on the length of sentence, quashing the Trial Chamber sentence of 20 years.
The Appeals Chamber noted that the Trial Chamber relied on a plethora of evidence to demonstrate that terrorisation of the civilian population was the primary purpose of the campaign of sniping and shelling and that Galic, who held the position of commander of the Bosnian Serb Army Sarajevo-Romanija Corps (SRK), had the intent to spread terror among the civilian population.
In the findings upheld by the Appeals Chamber, the Trial Chamber established that the evidence demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that Sarajevo civilians were indeed made the object of deliberate attack by SRK forces. They were attacked while attending funerals, while in ambulances, trams, and buses, and while cycling. They were attacked while tending gardens, or shopping in markets, or clearing rubbish in the city. Children were targeted while playing or walking in the streets. These attacks were mostly carried out in daylight. They were not in response to any military threat. The attackers could for the most part easily tell that their victims were engaged in everyday civilian activities.
The Appeals Chamber specifically addressed a number of incidents, including that of 5 February 1994 when a mortar shell exploded in the Markale market in downtown Sarajevo, killing some 60 people and injuring more than a hundred. The Appeals Chamber found that the Trial Chamber's finding that the mortar shell came from SRK positions was not one that no reasonable trier of fact could have made. However, it held that the Trial Chamber was "incorrect to find that the shell was deliberately aimed at the Markale market but that, in any case, this shelling incident was an example of shelling that deliberately targeted civilians."
With respect to the Prosecution's appeal on sentence, the Appeals Chamber found that, although the Trial Chamber did not err in its factual findings and correctly noted the principles governing sentencing, "the sentence of only 20 years was so unreasonable and plainly unjust, in that it underestimated the gravity of Galic's criminal conduct."
This decision on Galic's appeal was reached by a majority of judges with Judge Schomburg dissenting with respect to the customary law nature of the crime of acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population. The decision on the Prosecution's sentence appeal was also reached by a majority of Judges with Judge Pocar partially dissenting and Judge Meron dissenting. Judge Shahabuddeen appended a separate opinion on both issues.
http://www.un.org/icty/pressreal/2006/p1131-e.htm
Sarajevo siege general gets life
The appeals court at the UN war crimes tribunal has sentenced a Bosnian Serb general to life in prison for his role in the Sarajevo siege in the 1990s.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6196498.stm
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I'll be at the ICTY in a couple of months, so that will be an interesting experience.
Finally! It's about damn time one of those Serbian war criminals got what they deserved.
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Is there an appeals process?
This was done during the appellate process.
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Ayayi gets Zags' 1st ever triple-double in rout of Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Joel Ayayi figured it was only a matter of time before he got a triple-double.
It happened on Saturday: Ayayi had 12 points, 14 assists and 13 rebounds, and top-ranked Gonzaga routed Portland 116-88 for their 16th straight win.
It was the first triple-double in the Bulldogs' history — which is saying something given the talent that has come through Spokane.
“I had a feeling it was bound to happen at some point to be honest, and I’m just lucky and thankful it happened today,” he said.
Even coach Mark Few was surprised it was Gonzaga's first. He noted that former Bulldogs Domantas Sabonis and Blake Stepp were certainly capable but never reached the milestone.
“It's quite an accomplishment, anytime you get a triple-double, it just shows how engaged you are in the game, and just how many good things you do to help your team win,” Few said. “And that's obviously what Joel does. He's got a knack for winning.”
Drew Timme added 26 points for the Bulldogs (12-0, 3-0 West Coast Conference), who were riding the nation's longest active winning streak.
Ahmed Ali had 19 points for the Pilots (6-5, 0-2), who have lost 13 straight against Gonzaga.
It was Gonzaga's first “true” road trip of the season — the team played a number of early season neutral site games.
The Zags were coming off an 89-62 victory over BYU in Spokane on Thursday. Corey Kispert had 23 points in the game, which was hastily scheduled after both teams lost opponents because of COVID-19 protocols.
Kispert, who leads the WCC in scoring, finished with 14 points against Portland.
Ayayi, a junior guard from France, was the reigning WCC Player of the Week after collecting three double-doubles last week. He had a conference-best four double-doubles heading into the game against the Pilots.
Leading the nation in scoring offense, Gonzaga has 85 or more points in every game this season.
Portland hung with the Zags at the start, but starting forward Eddie Davis collected two early fouls and went to the bench. The 6-foot-6 junior was averaging 11.2 points and 5.2 rebounds heading into the game.
Gonzaga started pulling away midway through the first half when Ayayi's jumper made it 23-16. The Zags stretched the lead to 39-25 on Anton Watson's layup and led 56-35 at the half.
The Zags were 0 for 6 from 3-point range in the opening half. Kispert hit the team's first 3 at 3:37 into the second. Instead, Gonzaga had 80 points in the paint, compared to Portland's 26.
“I thought we played offense pretty good most of the night. Guys just took what was theirs, especially that top six or seven,” Few said.
Seven Gonzaga players were in double figures and the Bulldogs led by as many as 36 points.
The Pilots were coming off an 88-64 loss at San Francisco on Thursday.
“They really hurt us inside," Portland coach Terry Porter said. “But also, transition. They had 40-something points in the first half. I don't think they made a perimeter shot. They made free throws and points in the paint, basically layups. They didn't make a shot outside the paint in the first half, of their points.”
Gonzaga: The Bulldogs were one of nine unbeaten teams in the nation. ... Few is 40-2 against Portland as coach of the Zags. ... Guard Aaron Cook was on the floor after missing two games with a leg injury.
Portland: The Pilots' last win in the series came in January 2014 at the Chiles Center. ... It is the second time Portland has hosted a top-ranked team: The last was last January when Gonzaga won 85-72 at the Chiles Center. ... The Pilots fell to 0-9 against teams ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25.
ALSO, ANTON
Sophomore Anton Watson, a 6-foot-8 local kid from Spokane, finished with a career-high 23 points. Few said it was nice to see Watson get his offense going.
“He's got incredible hands on the defensive end and he does a nice job connecting all our actions in our offense, and defensively we're able to do some things that maybe we can't with our other bigs," Few said.
Gonzaga hosts Pepperdine on Thursday.
Portland hosts San Francisco on Thursday.
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Klopp's mood sours further as Liverpool drops points late
Already angered by fixture timings in a congested schedule and hindered by a long injury list in his squad, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was given another reason to be unhappy following the latest contentious incident involving VAR in the English Premier League.
The champions dropped two points after conceding a goal from a penalty in the third minute of stoppage time in a 1-1 draw at Brighton on Saturday.
The spot kick was awarded following an intervention by the video assistant referee, who previously ruled out two Liverpool goals at Amex Stadium for offside — one of which couldn’t have been tighter against Mohamed Salah.
“You cannot imagine how many things are hard to take (at) the moment,” said Klopp, whose list of gripes is getting longer by the day.
Liverpool’s coach made clear his frustration by sarcastically applauding the assistant referee after Pascal Gross converted Brighton’s equalizer. He spoke to the match officials as they walked off the field after the final whistle. Klopp wasn’t finished there, continuing his complaints about broadcasters post-match regarding a schedule that has seen Liverpool forced to play on Wednesday night in the Champions League and then Saturday lunchtime in the Premier League.
“The only thing we have to do is deal with it, recover, prepare again and go,” he said.
Indeed, for a team that is back atop the league as it looks to retain the title, Liverpool is an unhappy bunch.
Salah, who recently returned to action after contracting the coronavirus, was substituted around the hour mark — just like he was on Wednesday in the 2-0 loss to Atalanta in the Champions League — and didn’t hide his unhappiness.
Klopp made it clear he was trying to protect his star attacker, who set up Liverpool’s goal scored by Diogo Jota.
“We have to be careful (with Salah),” Klopp said. “He doesn’t like that, but that’s it.”
Already missing Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez and Thiago Alcantara because of injury, Liverpool has another issue to contend with after the versatile James Milner hobbled off with a hamstring problem.
Likely adding to Liverpool’s frustration was the sight of arguably its biggest threat to the title, Manchester City, regaining its scoring touch in a 5-0 win over Burnley a few hours later to close the gap to the champions.
MAHREZ HAT TRICK
There had been concerns about City’s once-prolific attack, with the team scoring just 10 goals in its first eight games. All it needed was a visit from Burnley to get City flowing again.
Riyad Mahrez scored a hat trick while Benjamin Mendy and Ferran Torres added goals as Burnley was beaten 5-0 for a fourth straight time at Etihad Stadium. Three of those have come in the league in successive seasons.
City should be in the goals in its next three home games, too, with relegation contenders Fulham, West Bromwich Albion and Newcastle visiting in December.
It was Mahrez's first hat trick for City, while Torres scored his first Premier League goal having already netted for the club in the Champions League and English League Cup since joining from Valencia.
EVERTON'S SLUMP
Everton's slide after its brilliant start to the season continued with a 1-0 home loss to Leeds.
After opening with four straight victories, Carlo Ancelotti's side has won just one of the next six games and hasn't kept a clean sheet since the opening weekend.
Raphinha grabbed a 79th-minute winner for Leeds with a 25-meter drive, and the Brazilian winger impressed throughout in just his second start since moving from Rennes in the summer transfer window.
In an end-to-end contest at Goodison Park, Jack Harrison struck the post with a header and also had a shot cleared off the line.
West Bromwich Albion picked up its first victory and left Sheffield United as the only winless team in the league with a 1-0 win at The Hawthorns.
Conor Gallagher's 13th-minute goal lifted West Brom out of the bottom three, until Monday at least.
Sheffield United squandered a string of late chances — Lys Mousset shot over the crossbar from inside the six-yard box in stoppage time — and remained in last place and on just one point after 10 games. Last season, the team was challenging for European qualification until the last few games.
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People’s Choice Slipper Contest!
Help us decide the People’s Choice Slipper award! To vote just “Like” your favorite slipper on the Gleeson Library | Geschke Center’s Facebook page in the People’s Choice Slipper contest Album by noon next Friday 9/28/12.
The prize will be a new iPod Nano.
We all congratulate the winner of our Slipper Party and contest earlier this month: Saba Mashadialireza. Now we want to know whose slipper you think is the best. (Saba’s Slippers are ineligible for the people’s choice award)
The Library is Open all Night five days a week. So study in the wee hours of the morning and “Like” your favorite slippers on the Library’s Facebook page.
Honolulu Library and Reading Room Association
My exhibit of postal librariana titled "America's Public Libraries and Their Forerunners 1731 to 1956" includes a section on membership libraries. It begins with artifacts related to Benjamin Franklin's Library Company of Philadelphia which was established in 1731. The Peterborough Town Library in New Hampshire, the first public library in the U.S. was established in 1833 and the Boston Public Library, the first large municipal public library, was established in 1854. Even as free public libraries began to replace fee based membership and subscription libraries there were still membership libraries that were being established. One of these was the Honolulu Library and Reading Room Association (HLRRA) which was established in 1879 when Hawaii was still a country ruled by a king. Hawaii also had its own postal system, and in my collection of postal librariana I have two postal cards that were issued by Hawaii that were mailed by the HLRRA. One is an 1892 printed notice of the annual membership meeting sent by H. A. Parmelee, the Secretary of the HLRRA and a founding member, and the other is an 1898 hand written second overdue book notice from the librarian. The library component of the HLRRA became a free public library in 1903 when the Territorial Government appropriated $10,000 annually for its support (Hawaii became a Territory of the U.S. in 1900). The Association component of the HLRRA continued as a fundraising and support organization and eventually became the Friends of the Library of Hawaii. Hawaii received a $100,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie in 1909 for a library building which opened as the Hawaii State Library in 1913. I found two online resources on the history of the HLRRA. One is the website of the Friends of the Library of Hawaii and the other is a library school class paper by Avis Poai at the University of Hawaii Manoa. Incidentally, if you are in the Milwaukee area this weekend you can see my postal librariana exhibit on display at the Milwaukee Stamp Show.
Happy Constitution Day!
Happy Constitution Day, USF! September 17th is the 225th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Now, courtesy of The National Constitution Center, you too can become a signatory of the U.S. Constitution! Sign online at http://constitutioncenter.org/i-signed/
Here’s some Constitution Day trivia to impress your friends:
The U.S. Constitution is the oldest and shortest of all the written national constitutions in the world.
More than 11,000 amendments that have been introduced in Congress, but only 33 have gone to the states to be ratified, and only 27 have received the necessary approval from the states to actually become amendments to the Constitution.
Of the 27 amendments that have been approved, only one has ever been repealed — the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition).
To get you in the spirit of Constitution Day and geared-up for the November elections (as well as fulfill your need to further procrastinate), here’s a video from The National Constitution Center on the role of the president and the executive branch in the U.S. Government:
For more information about the U.S. Constitution and Constitution Day, see Gleeson Library’s online guide or contact Carol Spector, the library’s Government Information Librarian.
New York’s First County Bookmobile
Images of children using bookmobiles are among the most endearing portrayals of public library service. An especially appealing image (shown above) is included in a publication titled The Library of the Open Road by Ralph A. Felton and Marjorie Beal published by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University in November, 1929. It shows children using the Monroe County (NY) Traveling Library. The publication is Cornell Extension Bulletin number 188 and it makes the case for establishing county libraries in New York. The image of the Monroe County Traveling Library also appears in an article titled "The County Library" in the January, 1926 issue of The American City Magazine. I also found a 1923 newspaper article about the Monroe County Traveling Library which includes the same image. The newspaper article which appeared in The Monroe County Mail stipulates that the Monroe County service is the first of its kind in New York. The headline reads: "Only County in the State Which Provides Free Books for Residents of the Smaller Villages and Farm Districts and Delivers Them From a Real Library on Wheels Right at Their Homes - As Many as 200 Books Loaned Daily". The article makes very positive comments about Miss Ruth Drake, the librarian of the Traveling Library, who was interviewed for the article. She is probably the woman in the doorway of the Traveling Library image. I also have a postcard (see below) showing a later bookmobile used by the Monroe County Library in New York.
1928 Rural Libraries Bulletin
The extension of public library service to rural areas in the United States has been a goal of state governments for more than twelve decades (the Massachusetts Free Public Library Commission was established in 1890). The passage of the federal Library Services Act in 1956 was a major impetus to achieving this goal and in many states 100 percent of the state's residents have access to public library service. I have several items in my collection that document the efforts to extend public library service to rural areas in the 1920s. One of those is a U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers Bulletin issued in April, 1928. The conclusion of the bulletin states: "The purpose of this bulletin will be accomplished if rural people, State legislatures, local officials, and library agencies, in view of demonstrated accomplishments, cooperate to make rural library service, as compared with other forms of public service, equal, efficient, and complete." The bulletin has been digitized and is available through the Hathi Trust. Of the many illustrations related to rural library service and its promotion in the bulletin, I was most taken with an image of a participant in a parade dressed as a book promoting county libraries in California and an image of a small building at a county fair papered in book jackets promoting county library service. Personal editorial: Even with decades of effort there are still millions of people in rural areas in the U.S. without access to free public library service. I think this is a national travesty. Why is it that the library profession can be so passionate about the censoring of a single book and yet tolerates a situation in which so many people have no free access to books and other materials in a public library.
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Dr. Hali Kilbourne is a Research Associate Professor with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory campus. Before coming to Southern Maryland, Dr. Kilbourne was a visiting professor at McDaniel College and held a prestigious U.S. National Research Council postdoctoral position with which she worked with the Climate Diagnostics Group of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory. She obtained her undergraduate training in Geology from Smith College and graduate training in Marine Science from the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on understanding the climate of the last 2000 years to provide context for modern changes and to improve our understanding of climate system processes driving climate variability. Such information can help us improve climate models used for predicting future climate change by providing datasets of historical climate variability for data-model comparison.
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Local Statistics from January 2019 – Point in Time Count Southeastern Virginia Homeless Coalition (Norfolk, Chesapeake, Western Tidewater). Statistics include data from Portsmouth and Virginia Beach.
1,079 persons counted
129 chronically homeless individuals
112 veterans
100 victims of domestic violence
61 reported substance abuse
169 reported serious mental illness
Why are so many homeless?
It can happen to anyone, anytime. Sometimes it’s a result of circumstances beyond our control: natural disasters, job loss, eviction, divorce, domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse, or medical bills.
It is difficult to say exactly how many homeless people are in the Hampton Roads community, but in 2019, officials counted 1,079 homeless people in area cities including Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and Western Tidewater. Every month The Union Mission houses hundreds of homeless men, women, and children. There are other shelters with less capacity throughout the area that also house the homeless. This means that on any given day, there could be as many as 1,500 homeless people in the Hampton Roads area. In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has greatly affected this vulnerable population. Those who had jobs have often lost them or had their hours reduced. More and more people are experiencing homelessness for the first time — and many don’t know where to turn. We hope to help as many as we can.
More families on the streets
The face of homelessness is changing. 58 percent of the homeless people in large metropolitan areas are families: usually a single mom with children. They live on the streets or in a temporary shelter. Often they have lost jobs or lack social support systems. They are the fastest growing population of homeless people today.
At least half of homeless women are employed (or employable), but do not earn sufficient wages to support themselves and their children. Families experiencing homelessness move frequently between shelters, overcrowded apartments, and temporary arrangements with relatives or friends. Homeless children are twice as likely to experience hunger or health problems, or to repeat a grade in school. Homeless families need assistance with housing, employment, childcare, school enrollment, transportation, recreation, and parenting skills.
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In line with the need to reach out all components of the Syrian political landscape, Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura met in Geneva today with a delegation from the Syrian Opposition Coalition led by Dr. Khaled Khoja.
Mr. de Mistura heard Dr. Khoja’s views and perspectives on ways to resolve the ongoing conflict in Syria.
The Special Envoy will continue to meet with various Syrian stakeholders, including the government and other opposition representatives, in order to ensure Syrian participation and ownership in the process leading to a political solution of the conflict.
“The Syrian people must be involved in the settlement of the conflict,” Mr. de Mistura said.
"What is currently important is the momentum of what was achieved in Vienna,” he said. Everyone agrees that there is an urgency to have a common understanding on how to end this war, this conflict," the Special Envoy said.
Mr. de Mistura will brief the Security Council early next week on the way forward after having held talks in Damascus, Moscow and Washington.
The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, met today in Geneva with His Highness Prince Karim, Aga Khan. Mr. de Mistura and His Highness Prince Aga Khan discussed recent political developments and the humanitarian situation in Syria. They also reviewed ideas for future rehabilitation and recovery.
Mr. de Mistura will brief the Security Council next week on the way forward, following the Vienna recent meeting and after holding talks in Damascus, Moscow and Washington.
Geneva, 06 November 2015
Within the framework of the ongoing Geneva Consultations, Deputy Special Envoy Ramzy Ezzeldine Ramzy met today in Geneva with representatives of the Union of Syriac Women and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who briefed on the situation in Syria. They discussed ways to support people in Syria in their daily humanitarian needs. Mr. Ramzy also discussed with the representatives of the Union of Syriac Women perspectives on a political solution to the Syrian conflict which could meet the needs of diverse components, which make up integral parts of the Syrian society.
At the end of today's meetings, Mr. Ramzy stressed that, "all should put their differences aside to ensure that aid reaches all those in need, but ultimately only a political solution would allow to address the deepening humanitarian crisis in a sustainable manner." While highlighting the urgent need for a political solution to the Syrian conflict, he added that, "it is critical that women organizations are included in any political process, fully participate in it and contribute to it".
On 22 May, the Special Envoy met with the Islamic scholar Muhammad Al Habash and Hind Kabawat and Asma Kftarou from a civil society organization called ‘Tastaqil. He also received a delegation from the Kurdish National Council, with whom he shared views on ways to end the conflict, with due respect for Syrian diversity while maintaining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria. He also met with Najla Riachi Assaker, the Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the UN in Geneva, and discussed ways to support Syria in launching a political process, as well as the urgent need to alleviate the humanitarian suffering and its impact on the neighbouring countries. Mr. de Mistura also received with deep sadness news of the kidnapping of a priest, Father Jacques Mourad, on 21 May in Homs, describing the “grave act” as being unfortunately not the first of its kind and “one of the sad consequences” of the raging conflict.
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Cha Tae Hyun
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Cha Tae Hyun is a South Korean actor, singer and radio DJ. Born on March 25, 1976, he launched his career after coming in second place in the 1995 KBS Talent Contest. The exposure brought him many commercial endorsements and television acting roles. Cha Tae Hyun’s career took off after he starred in the widely successful 2001 film “My Sassy Girl” with Jun Ji Hyun. Soon thereafter, he released his debut music album called “Accident.” He went on to star in many more popular films, including “Lover’s Concerto” (2002), “Scandal Makers” (2008). In 2012, Cha Tae Hyun became a regular cast member of the popular reality show “2 Days & 1 Night.” He has also worked a radio DJ when he hosted his own show called “FM Popular Music With Cha Tae Hyun” from 1999 to 2000 and “Mr. Radio” from 2007 to 2008. Cha Tae Hyun married Choi Suk Eun, his high school sweetheart, in 2006 and they have three kids.
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VolkerFitzpatrick achieves RoSPA Gold Medal Award
VolkerFitzpatrick has been presented its fifth consecutive Gold Award in the prestigious RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2013.
These awards are non-competitive and are based on the organisation's individual occupational health and safety performance assessed against the judging criteria.
To achieve a Gold Medal Award companies must not only provide evidence of a good health and safety management system, but also show that good health and safety practices have been embedded into the culture of the company and are kept at a high standard for over five years.
Steven Bridgen, head of HSEQ at VolkerFitzpatrick, said: "This is an excellent achievement and provides recognition of our efforts to continually raise health and safety standards, ensuring everyone goes home safely each day."
The RoSPA Awards scheme is the largest and longest-running programme of its kind in the UK. It recognises commitment to accident and ill health prevention and is open to businesses and organisations of all types and sizes from across the UK and overseas. The scheme not only looks at accident records, but also entrants' overarching health and safety management systems, including practices such as leadership and workforce involvement.
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Swastika flag on display near Iowa elementary school 'sickens' officials
Austin Cannon / Des Moines Register
The resident of a house directly adjacent to an Iowa elementary school recently displayed a painting of a swastika, sparking outrage on social media and action from Des Moines Public Schools.
William Stark displayed six wooden pallets painted as various flags in front of his home in the 6000 block of Southwest 15th Street in Des Moines. One was a “German war flag” with the swastika on it. Others included Confederate flags, a “back the blue” flag supporting law enforcement officers, an American flag and a combination U.S.-Confederate flag.
Stark wore a hat with Confederate flags on it Tuesday when he said he hadn’t painted the flags out of prejudice. He’s not racist or a white supremacist, he said, adding that he would paint any flag if asked.
He’s sold the swastika flag, which featured the swastika in the center in front of perpendicular black bars and a red background. The buyer had dared him to display it in front of the house.
"The guy that wanted me to make him a swastika one (said), 'Bet you won’t put that out there ...' " Stark said.
In a statement provided by spokesman Phil Roeder, the school district said it has worked with the Des Moines Police Department to ban Stark from school property due to "numerous conflicts" he and other residents at the home have had with the district. Stark's house on Southwest 15th Street shares a property line with Morris Elementary School.
“We should all be sickened that someone would promote the hatred espoused by Confederates and Nazis within sight of the front doors of an elementary school,” the school district’s statement read. “At Morris Elementary School, where more than 60% of the students educated are children of color, students see these symbols of hate when they arrive and leave school, or are simply on the playground.”
Roeder said school officials "have recently notified (residents of the home) that DMPS has worked with the Des Moines Police Department to have a criminal trespass advisory issued against them. The police will be notified if they are on school property."
Several drivers on Southwest 15th Street slowed down to look at the painted flags Tuesday afternoon. One woman watched from a doorway inside the school. Photos of Stark's paintings sparked hundreds of comments on Des Moines-related Facebook groups.
A Des Moines city spokesman said Stark is within his rights to display the flags.
"While the city may find these signs inappropriate and repugnant, particularly when displayed near an elementary school attended by students of diverse backgrounds, it must be noted that these residents have First Amendment rights protecting their freedom of speech, especially in and around their homes," said Al Setka, communications manager for the city. "As ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court, 'such speech cannot be restricted simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt.' "
The Anti Defamation League classifies both the swastika and the Confederate flag as hate symbols, saying the swastika, in particular, “has served as the most significant and notorious of hate symbols, anti-Semitism and white supremacy for most of the world outside of Asia.”
Stark blamed “society today” for the complaints over the flags. He said the swastika flag is historical because it was what the Germans painted on their airplanes during World War II. He thought it was in “better taste” than the standard Nazi flag that contains just the swastika.
When asked what he would say to a hypothetical Holocaust survivor who has concerns about the pallets, Stark said: “I’m sorry for their luck, but I don’t mean nothing by it. I don’t judge you. Only person that’s supposed to judge me is the Lord, you know what I mean? I don’t judge nobody else, don’t judge me.”
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Yukon seeking affordable housing solutions
Yukon Housing is looking for ways to spend $13 million on affordable housing. The government released a request for qualifications on Wednesday.
Oct. 25, 2013 2:00 a.m.
Yukon Housing is looking for ways to spend $13 million on affordable housing.
The government released a request for qualifications on Wednesday, asking for proposals to construct and operate new affordable rental housing in the territory.
“We’re looking to leverage the $13 million into $26 million in actual investment,” said Michael Hale, Yukon Housing Corp’s vice president of operations. “We’re not talking social housing and we’re not talking condos. We’re talking affordable housing.”
Whitehorse’s current vacancy rate is hovering around one per cent, which makes finding rental housing for single people, young families and lower income Yukoners very difficult, Hale said.
The plan is to have organizations pitch ideas and for Yukon Housing to bring 50 per cent of the cost to the table. The organizations, whether they be interested First Nations, non-government organizations or private business, must bring 50 per cent as well, but it doesn’t have to be in cash.
“It could be a First Nation with a stake in a construction company, or someone wanting to contribute land to the project. It’s got to be 50 per cent, but the equity need not be in cash,” Hale said.
It also has to be targeted at affordable housing. The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation defines “affordable” as a rental rate no higher than 95 per cent of the median rent in the area. The median rental rate in Whitehorse was $875 in June.
“We all know there’s a gap in affordable rental,” Hale said, “and we know this isn’t going to answer all the questions. But this is something that we can move on quickly. We can’t afford to wait until the housing action plan is finished,” Hale said.
By partnering with local groups, Hale said he hopes that some projects could be ready very quickly, depending on the idea. If a proponent wants to repurpose an existing building, something like that could happen within about a year, Hale said.
The money is coming from the leftovers of the $50-million Northern Housing Trust, which the federal government gave to the territory to address housing needs here in 2006. Most of the money – $32.5 million – was given to Yukon First Nations to address their most pressing housing needs, and $4.5 million was used to construct the new Betty’s Haven, a 10-suite transition home for women fleeing violence.
But one expert on housing issues thinks the government is putting the focus in the wrong place.
Judy Graves, the recently retired homelessness advocate for Vancouver, was in Whitehorse this week for a number of public talks about ending street homelessness in the territory.
If she had $13 million to spend, she’d use it to help the most vulnerable, she said.
“I would want to spend first on the people who are most disabled, the people who really have such complex disabilities that they become homeless because they are simply not able to fend for themselves,” Graves said.
“They are not able to go back to work, they are past the employment part of their lives. A surprising number of them are older, and it really is for the rest of their lives going to be a full-time job to cope with their disabilities,” she said.
Based on her work with local anti-poverty workers, Graves estimates that there are perhaps 100 people in Whitehorse who are in desperate need of housing, and for whom targeted “affordable” rentals will always remain out of reach.
And while Graves built her career being compassionate towards the most vulnerable, she has a much more pragmatic reason for pushing to help solve their challenges. It’s cheaper than the alternative.
“When we are not meeting their needs, they consume a great deal of services, medical services in particular. When their needs are met, they become very much like the rest of us. The cost savings are shown immediately in the medical system,” she says.
In the Yukon, social assistance pays a living allowance of up to $881 per month for single people, but they often end up spending that money on inadequate motel rooms or even campground plots in the summer. That kind of inefficiency could be stemmed if the territory focused on real solutions for its hardest to house, Graves said.
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The Most Underplayed Healthcare IT Must-Have: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
How Two Days of Paper Record-Keeping Was Enough to Drive a Community Hospital to Search for a Better Business Continuity Solution
By Rob Strechay, Vice President of Product, Zerto
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) strategy is often little thought of until a forcing function—be it natural or man-made—puts a renewed focus on this mission-critical capability. Far too often it is neglected as part of an organization’s larger IT security strategy. Detecting and preventing cyber-attacks and other criminal disasters such as ransomware is one theme that’s risen to the top of IT concerns lately, but ensuring healthcare facilities can confidently maintain data center operations has been at the forefront of our responsibilities for quite some time.
As a company that specializes in BC/DR, we were recently called upon to help out a community hospital that serves over 90,000 patients per year. Several years ago, the hospital’s data center operations sustained nearly $1 million in damages due to storm-induced flooding. This forced clinical staff to work from paper-based records for several days. Though the care facility quickly transitioned back to electronic medical records to ensure uninterrupted patient care, two days of paper revealed just how vulnerable physical infrastructures really are, and the hospital’s IT department made the decision that all critical data and applications need to be digitally accessible all of the time.
After the flood, disaster recovery could no longer be relegated to the hospital IT department’s “nice to have” list. It had to be looked at as a core part of their IT strategy, which includes security and accessibility, and is essential for any healthcare facility let alone a level II trauma center and teaching hospital, which this hospital happens to be.
Operating in the healthcare industry puts greater impetus on the need to ensure business continuity whatever the scenario. Any period of downtime can be potentially life threatening to patients, while potentially violating state and federal regulations. With 90,000 patient visits each year—that’s a lot of liability.
The following key steps were taken to enable the hospital’s IT data center to react to whatever might their way:
Increased the virtualization of the IT environment: 95% of operations were moved to virtual machines (VMs). This first step improved hardware consolidation from 32 server racks down to 13, and also provided operational cost savings by conserving the facility’s space and power consumption. This reduced the physical vulnerability and capital cost exposure the hospital could face in the event of a major disaster.
The next step was to move from a legacy disaster recovery solution to one that was built to work inside the virtualized IT environment that was running all of the hospital’s mission-critical systems. With ransomware on the rise, it’s not just natural disasters on everyone’s minds. This makes for an even stronger case to have the right software in place that seamlessly switches operations to a secondary data center if needed. Zerto is an innovator in hypervisor-based replication and as such, we were able to provide the hospital with not just peace of mind, but the actual ability to seamlessly trigger a failover and continue operations as usual within moments of an outage.
By breaking away from industry tradition that relies on homogenous hardware and software environments, the hyper-visor based replication solution does not require the hospital to greatly increase its storage footprint just to get all critical systems protected. The solution provides continuous replication of data, as opposed to snapshots, which slow down the main data center as they create the replicated data. Replicating data in the hypervisor allowed for uninterrupted access to electronic medical records and other vital systems, whatever the scenario—flood, ransomware hack, or user error.
Finally, an essential step in protecting the hospital’s data center came with a technology that groups applications into “virtual protection groups” (VPGs) which ensures that even if an outage occurs, all hospital applications can be recovered within minutes, with no disruption in patient care.
HIPAA mandates that all data be recoverable, and the upgraded BC/DR solution allows the hospital to easily exceed HIPAA requirements with fast, easy availability of critical data and applications.
These efforts resulted in the following key benefits that all healthcare facilities strive for:
Exceed HIPAA obligations with data loss measured in seconds rather than hours or days, and applications available in minutes rather than hours or days
Protect at the right level – the VM – to ensure recoverability down to even individual files and folders
Achieve no interruption in patient care with multi-VM applications recovered consistently
Easily meet compliance regulations with a recovery report detailing each step in the recovery process and showing its success
Even with the detailed HIPAA business continuity guidelines, many healthcare IT departments are still not completely prepared for when disaster strikes, be it natural, accidental, or criminal. Virtualizing IT, and protecting applications in the virtual environment, gives companies a fail-safe plan to thwart much more than physical disaster.
IT departments of all industries can’t afford to continue relegating business continuity to the nice-to-have list. Virtualized disaster recovery and business continuity solutions should be standard in the “tool kit” of every hospital IT department—well in advance of the worst-case scenario.
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Health experts share tips to cope with depression, loneliness this holiday season
by: Jason Raven
COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) — The holiday season can be a tough time for people with depression and the COVID-19 pandemic is making things even more difficult health experts said.
Monday, the South Carolina Behavioral Health Coalition and the South Carolina AARP held a virtual town-hall to talk about coping with holiday stress during the pandemic.
Doctors with the American Psychological Association said 80% of the people they’ve surveyed reported experiencing stress related to the pandemic. One of the groups they are most concerned about are older adults.
Dr. Lynn Bufka said, “We’re concerned about older adults who may be more isolated. Who may have less experience with using technology to connect with others. Who may be concerned about missing out on opportunities to see children and grandchildren because they are at risk.”
Dr. Bufka and other experts recommend keeping a routine, staying connected to others and getting enough sleep.
Jennifer Butler is the Program Director for the South Carolina Department of Mental Health’s Office of Suicide Prevention. She said they don’t have real-time-data on suicides in South Carolina but know there was an increase in suicides in 2019 compared to 2018.
She said so far this year, suicide attempts have gone up among older South Carolinians according to EMS data. Butler said, “Some of our highest rates for EMS calls have been individuals 75 and older. They’ve had a noticeable increase in calling EMS for self harm thoughts and behaviors.”
Officials said hundreds of South Carolinians have called the SC-HOPES hotline. The hotline was created to assist people who are experiencing new or increased symptoms of mental illness or substance use disorder because of the pandemic. The number for the hotline is 1-844-SC-HOPES (724-6737).
If you or someone you now is going through a crisis call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800)-273-8255.
(NEXSTAR) – Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson posted a photo Thursday from early in his wrestling career when he was "broke as hell."
The Polaroid photo shows The Rock shirtless sporting a fanny pack that his fans may remember from another beloved throwback post, posing with a young fan named Mitchell.
by JILL COLVIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, The Associated Press / Jan 15, 2021
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WHEAT Institute
Expressive Arts Certificate
Darci Adam,
Director, Instructor & Supervisor
MA, MEd, RCAT, CCC, REAT
Sharing the healing power of the arts with students, clients and communities in beautiful, natural settings across the central Canadian shield and plains is a dream come true for Darci Adam, founder and director of WHEAT Institute. Darci is a Registered Art and Expressive Arts Therapist whose private counselling practice is influenced by narrative therapy. She teaches Elementary and Middle Years School Counselling at the University of Winnipeg and is a master’s degree Practicum Supervisor in the Faculty of Eduction at the University of Manitoba. Darci holds Masters' degrees in Drama and Educational Psychology (Counselling) and Diplomas in Education and Art Therapy.
Contact Darci for a free, 30-minute consultation to share your career goals and learn more about WHEAT programs: darci@wheatinstitute.com
Kate Donohue, Lead Teacher, Consultant & Supervisor
Ph.D., REAT
Kate Donohue is one of the Grandmothers of Expressive Arts and is a cofounder of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. Kate shares her knowledge as a licensed psychologist and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist around the world, teaching at many international universities including the Chinese University of Hong Kong; HUST in Wuhan, China; Christ University in Bangalore, India; California Institute of Integral Studies; and Sofia University (formerly the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology) among many more. Kate has spent 35 years studying indigenous and ethnic dance forms, particularly West African and Afro-Cuban Dance. Kate leads Jungian expressive arts cultural journeys to Ghana and India.
Visit Kate's website: http://kate-donohue.com/.
Stephanie Scott, Registrar, Outreach & Practicum Coordinator MA
Stephanie is the Registrar, Outreach & Practicum Coordinator for WHEAT Institute. She has a background in Anthropology and International Development Studies, specifically focusing on children's rights during post-conflict recovery and development. Stephanie also works part-time as the Communications Director for Young Peacebuilders and volunteers as the Regional Representative of Manitoba Council for International Cooperation for War Child Canada. Previous volunteer roles included the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and K.I.D.S. - Kenya Initiative for Development and Sustainability Inc. Stephanie is motivated to grow WHEAT's presence locally, nationally and globally by cultivating relationships with people focused on using art and expressive arts therapy for social change.
Contact Stephanie: outreach@wheatinstitute.com
Karen Wallace, Instructor & Supervisor
M.Ed., BCATR
Karen Wallace was an Art Therapist in the school system in Victoria B.C., and now works privately with people suffering from trauma, mental and emotional issues and living with special needs. She has taught Art Journaling and Mixed Media and shown her own work in galleries in Victoria and the Gulf Islands. In 2004 she moved to Regina SK, where she has a private practice with adults and children, and provides clinical supervision. She also teaches at the University of Regina. She specializes in trauma work, facilitates creativity and art therapy groups and has written books on art therapy. Karen teaches Focusing and Focusing Centered Art Therapy internationally.
Visit Karen’s website: www.islandnet.com/~kwallace/
Dr. Christine Lummis,
Academic Dean,
Instructor & Supervisor
Ph.D, RCAT
Christine is an internationally recognized art therapy instructor and presenter. She has 20 years of clinical experience in body-focused art therapy for people of all ages and also provides therapeutic support for professionals. Christine advocates for increased awareness of art therapy’s value in treatment programs and quality education. Her doctoral research was focused on Body-Mapping, a culturally sensitive trauma intervention based on neurobiology, and looked at multi-cultural responses to her work, done in 18 countries on three continents. Christine holds a Doctorate of Art Therapy and is a program director at the Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy, and Adjunct Instructor at CiiAT and Adler University.
Visit Christine’s website: www.arttherapyservices.ca
Dr. Fyre Jean Graveline, Instructor & Supervisor, Grandmother's Advisory Council
Ph.D, RSW, RCAT
Fyre Jean is a two-spirited, Northern Bush Country Métis from Manitoba, now living on the East Coast. She is a therapist, heARTist, educator, writer, traditional knowledge keeper and community activist. She brings a sense of ceremony and deep respect to her classes. Fyre Jean works and plays daily to understand how arts, culture, spirituality and socio-political realities intersect, and how we can use this to heal, teach and transform across divides of gender identity, race, culture, sexual orientation, age, ability, class and geography. Fyre Jean is devoted to ending all forms of domination, including violence against Mother Earth and among all of our Relatives. She is the author of many published books, articles and poems.
Visit her Facebook here
Maria Riccardi Instructor & Supervisor
M.A., M.Ed., ATR-BC
Maria Riccardi is a registered art therapist, career counsellor and licensed psychotherapist. She collaborates with non-profit organizations and mental health institutions, developing community-based studio art programs for adolescents and adults living with mental and physical health issues, immigration issues and poverty. She has also worked with veterans living with post-traumatic stress disorder, working on trauma prevention and evaluating art processes and products in treatment. Maria is an adjunct professor of art therapy at Concordia University, a part-time professor at l’Université du Québec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue and an academic and art therapy supervisor. Her work with children and families in her Montreal clinic is grounded in the Expressive Therapies Continuum.
PhD, MPS-AT, RCAT
Mary Norton, PhD, RCAT values art making as pathways to serious play, to address challenges, and to imagine possibilities. As a community-based adult educator, Mary integrated arts-based approaches in programs and courses to support learning for all; these experiences drew her to study and practice art therapy. Currently on sabbatical, Mary has been engaged in community and private practice as an art therapist, expressive arts facilitator, and Certified Hakomi Therapist. She is interested in integrating arts based and reflective inquiry to build and share knowledge about art therapy practices.
Lucy Lu,
MA, RCAT, ATR, CCC
Lucy is a Certified Canadian Counsellor, a Registered Canadian Art Therapist, Registered Art Therapist and clinical supervisor for art therapy students and graduates. Lucy has over 10 years of experience working with individuals and families in urban Indigenous and culturally diverse communities. Her areas of specialization for supervision include working with children and adults who have experienced complex trauma, inter-generational trauma, intimate partner violence/family violence, attachment issues, being in care, addictions, anxiety and depression and cultural/inter-generational family dynamics. Lucy works from a feminist, culturally-centred, trauma-informed framework. Her eclectic practice incorporates art therapy, play therapy, movement, sandplay, mindfulness-based practice, solution-focused therapy and trauma intervention.
Adriana Marchione, Instructor & Supervisor
MA, REAT, RSMT
Adriana Marchione is a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist. Adriana is a leader in the creative sphere with over 25 years of experience in the arts as a visual artist, movement educator, Argentine tango dancer, arts curator and filmmaker. She has an MA in psychology and teaches internationally, as well as at the world-renowned Tamalpa Institute in Marin County. She also has an expressive arts practice in San Francisco with a special focus on supporting people who have struggled with addiction, trauma and grief. Adriana works to be a force for creative change in the world through film, writing, teaching and supervision.
Visit Adiana’s website: www.adrianamarchione.com
Marg Janick-Grayston, Instructor
MDiv
Marg Janick-Grayston’s prevailing passion is to engage individuals and small groups in creative processes that connect them with their inner wisdom to spark well-being, clear direction, and integral living. She has worked professionally as a Recreational Therapist, a Spiritual Leader and Retreat Facilitator, a Certified Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator, a Reiki and Quantum Touch Practitioner, and Courage to Lead® facilitator. Presently, Marg provides a service called “Free Flow Wellness” where she accompanies people on a path towards physical, emotional and spiritual well being. In her work, she intuitively draws upon many modalities including energy work, meditation, imagery, expressive arts processes, and spiritual practices.
Victoria McIntosh, Instructor, Grandmother's Advisory Council
Master's Candidate, B.Ed and Production Art (Winnipeg Technical College)
Victoria McIntosh is an artist and teacher. She was born in Ste. Boniface, Winnipeg, and raised on Sagkeeng First Nation, spending her first years at the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School. Victoria’s grandmother was her first art teacher, and she has now explored many different spectrums of art, from simple drawings to precise forms like pyrography (Firework). Her murals hang in Winnipeg and Ontario schools, where she has taught Woodlands style expresson with Storytelling. She has studied graphic design and Fine Arts, and recently completed her BEd. Her artwork has been sold internationally and can be found in private collections all over the world.
Tanja Woloshen, Instructor
BA (Hons), MFA, BEd
Tanja Woloshen is a dance artist and movement specialist who maintains a steady practice of dance and theatre instruction for students of all ages. She graduated with Honours in Theatre from the University of Winnipeg, and has an MFA in Performance Studies from UBC-Okanagan; she was also a sessional instructor at both universities and has received many grants for her dance practice from Manitoba and Winnipeg Arts Councils and UBC-Okanagan. Her recent creation and performance projects include "Encounters Of The Man Kind" at the Gas Station Arts Centre, “Room for the Underdog” at the Alternator Gallery, and "gesturing between utopia" at the Gas Station Arts Centre.
Visit Tanja’s website www.tanjafaylenewoloshen.org/
David Langdon,
RSW, RCAT
David Langdon spent 30 years as the Therapeutic Clown/ Child Life Specialist at Winnipeg Children’s Hospital. Prior to working at the Children's Hospital, David taught acting and clowning. He is a founding member of the Canadian Association of Therapeutic Clowns/ L’Association Canadienne des Clowns Thérapeutiques. His work has been featured in various media, notably the 2006 documentary film “I Clown For You-hoo! /Je clowne pour toa!” In March 2017 David represented Therapeutic Clowns Canada at the Healthcare Clowning International Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal and has led workshops at numerous Canadian therapeutic clowning conferences and events. David is active as a writer and musician.
Linda Manitowabi, Instructor, Grandmother's Advisory Council
BEd, ATDip
Linda Manitowabi is a Cultural and Ojibwe Language teacher and has recently retired as an elementary school teacher. Linda is an Anishnaabe-Kwe from Wikwemikong First Nation. She graduated from Laurentian and Nipissing University, holding a Bachelor of Education. She studied Art Therapy at the University of Western Ontario and uses this modality within healing circles of Indigenous people. For many years she has been learning the traditional teachings and ceremonies of the Ojibwe Midewiwin Society. These teachings and art therapy help her connect Indigenous people with their healing journey. An avid hiker, Linda has also travelled extensively, learning from other Indigenous Nations on her travels.
Tzafi Weinberg, Instructor
Tzafi Weinberg studied art therapy at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, BC, and Doctorate in Art Therapy at Mount Mary University, Milwaukee. She is knowledgeable in the area of attachment and trauma, specifically with Indigenous children and adolescents. She believes that Art therapy can contribute to the reconciliation process with Indigenous people. The creation of art as a personal vehicle of expression, which is common to both Indigenous cultures and the art therapy profession, could be the basis of increasing understanding and building relationships.
Visit Tzafi’s website: http://tzafiweinberg.com
Dr. Di Brandt,
Di Brandt has dedicated her life to poetic expression. She has written numerous acclaimed and award-winning poetry collections, and has founded, chaired and hosted creative writing programs and national literary conferences and festivals. During her career she has collaborated with visual artists, musicians, video artists and dancers. She has taught Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at the Universities of Manitoba; Alberta; Windsor; Brandon and Winnipeg. Di has given literary readings and creative writing workshops across Canada and around the world; and creative writing mentoring, workshops and manuscript consultations. She studied English Literature at the University of Toronto (MA) and University of Manitoba (BA Hons, PhD), and was Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate.
Dr. Lana Whiskeyjack, Instructor, Grandmother's Advisory Council
Lana Whiskeyjack is a treaty interdisciplinary artist from Saddle Lake Cree Nation and has been an assistant professor in the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta since 2017. In the same year, Lana completed her iyiniw pimâtisiwin kiskeyihtamowin doctoral program at University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quill, a former Indian Residential School attended by two generations of her own family. Lana’s ways of thinking and being in her life are grounded in nêhiyaw ceremony, culture and nehiyawewin (Cree language). Currently, she is researching and studying (re)connecting to the spirit of nêhiyawêwin and nêhiyaw gender worldview through arts-based practices and a transformative relational paradigm.
Visit Lana’s website: www.lanawhiskeyjack.ca
Bill Cook,
Master's Candidate
Bill Cook is a fluent Rock Cree speaker who is passionate about teaching, preserving and maintaining the Cree Language for future generations. Bill has been teaching Cree for over 10 years at the nursery, K-12 and university levels and is always creating new ways of delivering the language to students. Outside of teaching, Bill also freelances in Cree interpretation and translation services and enjoys singing, songwriting and performing his original music. He holds a BA in Cree Language studies and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Education EC&I from the University of Regina in his home province of Saskatchewan. Bill hails from Southend, Reindeer Lake.
Follow Bill on Twitter here.
Csilla Przibislawsky,
MA, (C.A.T), RDT, CCC
Csilla is a psychotherapist and drama therapist with over 20 years of professional experience working with children, youths, adults and families who have experienced simple to complex trauma. She has extensive training in Attachment Assessment and Interventions and synthesizes her knowledge of both Attachment and Drama Therapy in her clinical work and in her role as clinical supervisor to other Creative Arts Therapists. Csilla has taught at University of Winnipeg, Université de St. Boniface and the Aulneau Renewal Centre. She is also the Canadian Representative for The North American Drama Therapy Association.
Armand Volkas, Instructor
MFA, MA, RDT/BCT, MFT
Armand Volkas is a Psychotherapist and drama therapist, Artistic Director of the Living Arts Playback Theatre Ensemble and Clinical Director of the Living Arts Counseling Center. Armand directs Healing the Wounds of History, a therapeutic approach using theatre techniques with members of groups with a legacy of violence and historical trauma, working toward social change, reconciliation and intercultural communication. Healing the Wounds of History has received international recognition. Armand is also an Associate Professor in the Counseling Psychology Program at California Institute of Integral Studies and Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University, Sofia University and the Canadian School of Peacebuilding.
Visit Armand’s website: www.healingthewoundsofhistory.org
Tasha Beeds,
Instructor,Grandmother's Advisory Council
Ph.D Candidate
Tasha Beeds is an Indigenous scholar of nêhiyaw, Metis and Barbadian ancestry from the Treaty 6 territory of Saskatchewan. She is a creative artist, poet, community engaged Water/Land activist, Water Walker and Mide-kwe from Minweyweywigaan Lodge of Roseau River First Nations/Wiikwemkoong Unceded Reserve. Her creative and academic work carries messages, which mirror Indigenous ideas of relationality. She asserts that Indigenous ways of knowing and being are surviving, are valued, and need to be shared to help not only Indigenous people, but also all of Creation.
Visit Tasha's Instagram here and Facebook here.
Indigo Adam-Grant, Instructor
BComm
Indigo Adam-Grant is passionate about marketing. She has experience helping practising art therapists create business plans and develop marketing strategies to build thriving practices. Indigo is the Account Manager at Suckerpunch Creative, a marketing and communications agency in Winnipeg, where she manages a creative team and all aspects of client service. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba, and was Co-Op Student of the Year 2015. As a student, Indigo participated and placed in numerous business competitions in Canada and the U.S.
Dr. Kevin wâsakâyâsiw Lewis, Instructor
ipkDoc
Kevin Lewis (wâsakâyâsiw) is from Ministikwan Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. He is an interpreter fluent in all five Cree dialects and is an active oskâpêwis whenever called upon. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of Saskatchewan and developed and leads the Indigenous Language Certificate program. Kevin completed his iyiniw pitmâtisiwin kiskêyihtamowin Doctorate Program (ipkDoc) from the University of Nuhelot’ine Thaiyots’I nistamêyimâkanak Blue Quills in Alberta. His research interests include Indigenous Knowledge systems, Second Language Acquisition Methodologies and Cree Roles in traditional parenting. He works with numerous academic institutions and assists the Canadian government as an interpreter and translator.
Carmen Richardson, Instructor
MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT
Carmen Richardson MSW, RSW, RCAT, REAT is founder and director of the Prairie Institute of Expressive Arts Therapy (PIEAT). Carmen is a Registered Clinical Social Worker, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and Registered Canadian Art Therapist in private practice.
Zoey Roy, Instructor
She is a Cree-Dene Metis sister, daughter, aunty and friend from Northern Saskatchewan. She calls Saskatoon home. She is a poet, educator, author, filmmaker and social entrepreneur based out of Toronto; a Ph.D Candidate at York University; a keeper of a Bachelor of Education from SUNTEP and a Masters of Public Policy from the University of Saskatchewan. She is a passionate about voice, expression, peace and love. She uses art to tell stories and is fascinated with human connection. She is an artist. An empath. A badass. She is Zoey Roy.
Darlene Tataryn Ph.D. is an Expressive Therapist certified by the National Expressive Therapy Association in 1993 prior to the formation of IEATA. She is an ordained Zen Buddhist Priest and weaves Expressive Therapy with traditional and contemplative healing disciplines in practice and therapy and meditation teaching. She has maintained a private practice in Selkirk since 1993 and offers meditation and contemplative movement sessions, workshops and has taught in various locales in North America.
Darlene Tataryn, Instructor
Alana McLeod, Instructor
MA, ExAT, RTC, OEATA
Alana McLeod is an expressive arts and trauma therapist of Nehiyawak, Anishinaabe, Scottish and English decent. She comes from a strong line of women living on the Canadian Shield in Northern Ontario. She has a diploma in expressive arts therapy (EXAT) from The CREATE Institute in Toronto, Ontario and a Masters degree in EXAT, with a minor in psychology from The European Graduate School in, Switzerland. Her trauma training is from the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute ( level 1 and 2). She is committed to expanding her range of skills and has taken a variety of additional training in gender issues within the 2SLGBTQQIA communities, shame, human trafficking, trauma, addiction, grief & bereavement, suicide as well as the arts and Indigenous ways of knowing and being in relation to healing.
Valerey Lavergne, Instructor
RP, BFA, EXAT, CLC, MSLC
Valerey is a member of the Algonquin's of Pikwakanagan First Nation and has been working in the Indigenous communities for the past 26 years. She currently serves as the Vice President on the Ontario Expressive Arts Therapy Association. Valerey has been working for the past two years as the Expressive Arts therapist for the Francine J. Wesley Secondary School in the Kashechewan First Nation, a James Bay Cree Coastal community. Valerey is a Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Life Coach/ Expressive Arts Therapist and workshop facilitator. Valerey graduated with a BFA from Concordia University in Jazz Vocal Studies. She fronted her jazz trio in the early 2000’s and left the music industry to find a life in using the arts as a healing modality. She has several commissioned mural paintings in schools across Toronto. Valerey is currently working on several arts based psycho-educational initiatives for the Indigenous community. Valerey lives in Barrie, Ontario with her husband Alex and their cat Kiki.
Sophie Pheasant, Instructor
Bode'wadmi & Bineshii Dodem, BA
Mina Maajiishkaawin (Move forward) is a guiding principle to Sophie Pheasant’s intentions, whether as an academic, artist, community engagement specialist or mother (3 children). Sophie, of Wiikwemikoong First Nations brings her Anishinaabe belief systems to her teaching and artistic expressions. Raised as a Shiibaashka’igan (Jingle Dress) knowledge keeper, her Indigenous pedagogical approaches uphold the Indigenous knowledge systems that provide the impetus of her work.
Megan Kanerahtenha:wi Whyte, Instructor
Art Educator, B.A. | Art Therapist, M.A., ATPQ
Megan Kanerahtenha:wi Whyte is an artist, art educator and art therapist from Kahnawake. She completed her Master’s Degree at Concordia University in Art Therapy with a focus on addressing First Nations multigenerational trauma through the creative arts. Situating her initial research on the intersections between art materials and Indigenous ways of knowing, Megan continually explores how art making can foster cultural identity and cultural safety. As an art therapist, Megan provides closed art therapy services to First Nations families within the public-school system, private practice and to male Indigenous inmates at a federal correctional institution. As a community-based art therapist, Megan also facilitates grassroots collective art-making initiatives such as group murals, sculptures and pop-up Art Hives that explore mental health, cultural accessibility and social justice.
Jean Tait, Instructor & Supervisor
Grandmother's Advisory Council
Jean Tait has been in private practice since 2008 as Art Can Heal, located in Spruce Grove, Alberta, just West of Edmonton, AB. Jean’s ancestry is Saulteaux (Ojibwe), Scottish and Irish. She is a member of the Berens River First Nation, MB. Prior to training as an art therapist at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute (KATI), Jean exhibited her paintings, based on sacred rock art (petroglyphs and pictographs), for over 20 years in Canada and abroad. Jean works with individual art therapy sessions, group art therapy and workshops, primarily serving women and young women, often including ceremonial approaches paired with art therapy.
Dr. Valerie Mason-John, Instructor
(hon.doc), M.A.
Dr. Valerie (Vimalasara) was one of the lead facilitators who inputted into the creation of Dr Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry year long course. She is an accredited Mindfulness teacher and co-founded Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery MBAR an 8-week course, as well as train the trainer. And co-founded 8 Step Recovery Using The Buddha's Teachings to overcome addiction with meetings in several continents and is also an award-winning book. An award-winning author of 9 books, including editing the first national anthology of African Canadian poets, The Great Black North Contemporary African Canadian poetry, and this year launched her social justice poetics collection of prose and poetry, I Am Still Your Negro, An Homage to James Baldwin, a timely book which speaks to racist deaths of black and brown bodies. She trained in Mime and Physical theatre, Augustus Boal Forum Theatre, and Gabriel Roth Five Rhythms and had several box office sell-out plays and one-woman shows. In the UK she was part of a team of artists who created a program for challenging behavior, and bullying that was delivered in schools, youth offending teams, and with the homeless. She is now training in the Internal Family Systems as taught by Richard Schwartz. She works as an international public speaker - and is a Compassionate Inquiry Facilitator and Practitioner.
Visit her website: www.valeriemason-john.com
Jennifer Buchanan, Instructor
MBA, MTA
Jennifer Buchanan is an award-winning author and clinician. Described as inspirational, engaging, and thought-provoking, Jennifer’s keynotes provide practical strategies, grounded in global research and case studies, that help foster improved well-being within ourselves, our workplaces, and throughout our community.
Jennifer’s company JB Music Therapy has been instrumental in the implementation of hundreds of music therapy programs throughout Canada for almost 30 years and has been thrice nominated for the Community Impact Award by the Chamber of Commerce. Jennifer is the recipient of the two most prestigious Canadian music therapy lifetime service awards: the Franni Award and the Norma Sharpe Award.
Visit her website:
https://www.jbmusictherapy.com/
Jennifer Vivian, Instructor
Jennifer Vivian is an Inuk art therapist who has worked primarily with Indigenous people (with a focus on children) since she graduated with her Masters of Art Therapy from Concordia University in Montreal in 2013. Ms. Vivian is a member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association (with whom she holds her Professional status, professional liability insurance and is currently preparing to work towards her R-CAT). Ms. Vivian developed a new model of art therapy based on the teachings of the Medicine Wheel and uses her model as well as the Seven Sacred Teachings to guide her work, as well as being child centered and trauma informed. Ms. Vivian offers the opportunity to smudge to her clients before sessions. Her model called “Full Circle: Towards an Aboriginal Model of Art therapy” can be found on spectrum: https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/977982/
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She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World (Hardcover)
By Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger (Illustrator)
Chelsea Clinton introduces tiny feminists, mini activists and little kids who are ready to take on the world to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted.
Throughout United States history, there have always been women who have spoken out for what's right, even when they have to fight to be heard. In this book, Chelsea Clinton celebrates thirteen American women who helped shape our country through their tenacity, sometimes through speaking out, sometimes by staying seated, sometimes by captivating an audience. They all certainly persisted.
She Persisted is for everyone who has ever wanted to speak up but has been told to quiet down, for everyone who has ever tried to reach for the stars but was told to sit down, and for everyone who has ever been made to feel unworthy or unimportant or small.
With vivid, compelling art by Alexandra Boiger, this book shows readers that no matter what obstacles may be in their paths, they shouldn't give up on their dreams. Persistence is power.
This book features: Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Clara Lemlich, Nellie Bly, Virginia Apgar, Maria Tallchief, Claudette Colvin, Ruby Bridges, Margaret Chase Smith, Sally Ride, Florence Griffith Joyner, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor—and one special cameo.
Praise for She Persisted:
★ “[A] lovely, moving work of children’s literature [and a] polished introduction to a diverse and accomplished group of women.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Exemplary . . . This well-curated list will show children that women’s voices have made themselves emphatically heard.” —Booklist
“[She Persisted] will remind little girls that they can achieve their goals if they don’t let obstacles get in the way.” —Family Circle
“We can’t wait to grab a copy for some of the awesome kids in our lives . . . and maybe some of the grown-ups, too.” —Bustle
“A message we all need to hear.” —Scary Mommy
“This will be a great read for kids (especially young girls).” —Romper
“We cannot wait for the launch of Smart Girl Chelsea Clinton’s new book to help remind kids everywhere that the fearlessness that characterizes the thirteen women in the book is what has emboldened us to constantly strive for progress and justice.” —Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls
Chelsea Clinton is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World; She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History; She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game; Don't Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe; It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!; Start Now!: You Can Make a Difference; with Hillary Clinton, Grandma's Gardens and Gutsy Women; and, with Devi Sridhar, Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? She is also the Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, where she works on many initiatives, including those that help empower the next generation of leaders. She lives in New York City with her husband, Marc, their children and their dog, Soren. You can follow Chelsea Clinton on Twitter @ChelseaClinton or on Facebook at facebook.com/chelseaclinton.
Alexandra Boiger has illustrated nearly twenty picture books, including the popular Tallulah series by Marilyn Singer and the Max and Marla books, which she also wrote. Originally from Munich, Germany, she now lives outside of San Francisco, California, with her husband, Andrea, daughter, Vanessa, and two cats, Luiso and Winter. You can visit Alexandra Boiger online at alexandraboiger.com.
Publication Date: May 30th, 2017
Maximum Age: 8
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Juvenile Nonfiction / History
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XIAOMI Named Derwent TOP 100 GLOBAL INNOVATORS
Global technology leader Xiaomi (“Xiaomi”, Stock Code: 1810: Hong Kong) has been listed in the Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators for the second straight year as one of the three companies from mainland China on this year’s list, according to the report released by Clarivate Analytics Plc on Wednesday.
The Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators 2020 come from three continents and 14 countries/regions. The United States reclaimed the top spot with 39 organizations, followed by Japan with 32. Xiaomi, Huawei and Tencent are the only three companies from mainland China.
For industry sector representation, the Hardware & Electronics industries lead with 38 organizations, 3 more than last year, followed by Manufacturing & Medical with 16, and Telecoms and Software with 8 each.
Xiaomi’s innovation capacity and forward-looking strategic nimbleness has been consistently recognized. It has made the Fortune Future 50 List for the first time last year and the Forbes Top 100 Digital Companies 2019. In July 2019, the company made the Fortune Global 500 list for the first time became the youngest company on the 2019 list.
Now in its ninth year, Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators utilizes editorially enhanced, authoritative and accurate patent data from Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and Derwent Patent Citations Index (DPCI) to track innovation based on four indicators:
– Volume:The organization must have had at least 100 granted inventions (and more than 500 filed in total) in the past five years.
– Influence: The level of downstream impact by being highly cited externally by other organizations, and measured via the Derwent Patent Citations Index™ over the last five years, excluding citations from themselves.
– Success:A high ratio of success in obtaining patent grants.
– Globalization: The level of investment of a patent applicant in their invention, as tracked via the process of pursuing protection in all four of the key market patent offices of China, Europe, Japan, and the United States.
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(The banana slug isnât one for the table, despite its name. Most slugs are light brown or gray in color, although the famed banana slug of the Pacific Northwest is often a bright yellow. Yes! For perspective, an average-sized banana is 7 to 8 inches. Eggs are clear, oval, or round, and are laid in jelly-like masses. Banana slugs lay a few dozen eggs at a time in moist cracks, crevices, or holes. When the temperature gets to just below zero they will hibernate. Banana slugs have an average lifespan of 1â7 years. Some of them are more yellow or more green, and some sport varying amounts of black spots. Slugs need moisture and they thrive in warm, humid climates. Despite destroying healthy plants, most slugs eat decomposing vegetation, making them a vital part of the ecosystem. The temperature should usually be kept at around 5 o F (10 O C). 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Two sets of feelers adorn the banana slugâs head: one set can sense light and motion, the other senses chemicals and smells. How long do dogs live When you decide to adopt or buy a puppy or an older dog, they become an integral part to your family. You can buy an aquarium online or at a pet store. Plus, watch more videos about hatching and birth. The Pacific banana slug is the second-largest species of terrestrial slug in the world, growing up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in) long, and weights of 115 grams (4.1 ounces). The Banana was named by Augustus Gould in 1851. they might desire to mate with a slug their very very own length. Banana slugs do come in other colors, including greenish-brown, nearly black, and even white. It makes its home among the leaf litter of the cool, moist forests of the Pacific Northwest, feeding on a variety of plants, mosses and fungi. The second largest species of slug in the world, Banana slugs live on the damp forest floors of the Western United States. 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The Latest: Japanese leaders press PM to hasten measures
Posted: Apr 9, 2020 / 01:20 AM EDT / Updated: Apr 10, 2020 / 01:55 AM EDT
A boy cover his face with t-shirt as he receives a free food packet during coronavirus lockdown in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
— Japanese leaders press prime minister to hasten emergency measures.
— South Korea reports 27 new cases, 9th straight day below 100.
— China reports 42 new cases of coronavirus.
— California has first daily decrease in ICU hospitalizations during outbreak.
— British Prime Minister Boris Johnson out of intensive care.
TOKYO — Aichi, home to Toyota Motor Corp. in central Japan, has declared its own state of emergency, saying it cannot wait for a slow-moving decision by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government to add the prefecture to an ongoing emergency declared this week.
Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura said one-third of about 300 new coronavirus cases in the prefecture have been confirmed in the past week as the infection spreads rapidly in the region, making it the fifth-most infected prefecture in the country.
“The situation is critical,” Omura said. “We decided to do everything we can to protect Aichi residents’ lives and health.”
Omura issued a request to all residents to stay home and work remotely until May 6, when the government-issued state of emergency is to end. Omura, however, did not request closures of non-essential businesses and facilities for now.
His announcement came just as Tokyo’s outspoken governor, Yuriko Koike, was to request closures of non-essential businesses and facilities in the city after agreeing with Abe’s government that had asked her to wait two weeks, apparently to avoid impact on the economy.
Earlier on Friday, leaders of Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital, urged Abe to add that prefecture to part of the state of emergency to allow them to issue stricter social-distancing measures. Such actions by local leaders are unusual in Japan and come as Abe faces criticism for slow and lax measures.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that additional state of emergency declarations in Aichi and Kyoto are not immediately planned.
Japan as of midday Friday had 5,246 confirmed coronavirus cases, as well as 712 from a cruise ship, with 99 deaths.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported 27 new cases of the coronavirus, marking its ninth consecutive day below 100, as infections continue to wane in the worst-hit city of Daegu.
Figures released by South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday brought nationwide totals to 10,450 cases and 208 virus-related deaths.
While the country’s caseload has slowed from early March, when it was reporting around 500 new cases per day, KCDC director Jeong Eun-kyeong has raised the possibility of a broader “quiet spread,” pointing to recent transmissions at bars and other leisure facilities that could indicate eased attitudes toward social distancing.
There’s also concern over a steady rise in infections linked to passengers arriving from overseas and at least dozens of cases where patients who had been diagnosed as recovered from COVID-19 test positive for the second time after being released from hospitals.
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Friday urged health authorities to thoroughly investigate the possibility of re-infections, saying the 74 patients who tested positive again so far account for more than 1% of national recoveries.
Health authorities have been cautious about discussing whether people could get re-infected after making a full recovery.
They say the country’s standard RT-PCR tests, designed to amplify the genetic materials of the virus so that even small amounts are detected, may not reliably distinguish between remains of dead virus and infectious particles.
They also say infections could be re-activated after initially fading in patients whose bodies hadn’t fully developed immunity after experiencing mild symptoms.
BEIJING — China on Friday reported 42 new coronavirus cases, 38 of them imported, along with one additional death in the hardest-hit city of Wuhan.
Another 1,169 suspected cases or those who tested positive but were not showing symptoms, were being monitored under isolation. China now has reported a total of 81,907 cases and 3,336 deaths from the virus.
California saw its first daily decrease in intensive care hospitalizations during the coronavirus outbreak, a key indicator of how many health care workers and medical supplies the state needs, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday.
The rate of all virus hospitalizations has slowed this week. Those in the ICU need the highest level of care, and so it was particularly encouraging that the number of patients in those rooms actually dropped 1.9% on Wednesday to 1,132.
The virus can cause severe breathing problems, and ventilators are a key tool in keeping the sickest patients alive.
Newsom has been building the state’s stockpile and earlier this week was confident enough of the supply to send 500 to other states.
California hospitals have more than 11,000 ventilators, and two-thirds aren’t being used, he said.
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care, his office says.
In a statement Thursday, a spokesman at 10 Downing Street said Johnson “has been moved this evening from intensive care back to the ward, where he will receive close monitoring during the early phase of his recovery.”
Johnson has been in intensive care for three days after his symptoms for coronavirus worsened. He tested positive for the virus two weeks ago and at first had only “mild” symptoms.
SEATTLE — The city of Seattle will close its largest and most popular parks this weekend, fearful that sunny weather will draw crowds and expose people to COVID-19.
Mayor Jenny Durkan said Thursday the city will close 15 parks Friday at 11 p.m. through Monday morning. The parks with gates will be locked, and Seattle Parks and Recreation employees will be present.
The city’s more than 400 neighborhood parks will remain open, with social distancing regulations in effect.
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The president and vice president of the Navajo Nation were self-quarantined Thursday after coming into proximity earlier in the week with a first responder who later tested positive for COVID-19.
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer said in a news release that they have been wearing gloves and masks as they visit Navajo communities afflicted by the pandemic and they showed no obvious symptoms of infection. Confirmed coronavirus infections climbed to 558 with 22 related deaths as of Thursday across the sprawling Navajo Nation that overlaps portions of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.
WASHINGTON — Men are not getting tested as much for the coronavirus as women.
Yet, when men do get tested, a higher percentage test positive for the virus.
Dr. Deborah Birx used the numbers to remind men “about the importance of health care” during a briefing Thursday at the White House.
So far, Birx says, 56% of the people tested for COVID-19 are female, and 16% of them tested positive for the virus.
But for men, 23% tested positive.
Birx made a plea for men experiencing symptoms that could be a result of the virus to get tested, saying “we appreciate you engaging in that.”
Birx serves as the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator.
NEW ORLEANS — Warner Thomas, CEO of the New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System, and Ochsner’s chief medical officer, Robert Hart, said they expect antibody testing to be available in a couple of weeks.
“We look forward to being one of the first centers in the country that will be doing antibody testing,” Thomas said during a telephone news conference Thursday.
“Which basically will allow us to test without someone necessarily having symptoms. We’ll be able to tell whether they have or have had COVID-19.”
“That’s going to be a huge benefit,” Hart said. “It’s going to tell us if someone has had the disease in the past and already has immunity to the disease.”
Hart said it’s of major importance given that some never suffer symptoms after being infected.
“We’re having everyone take precautions right now, and there is a subset of people who already had the disease that do not have to be worried about contracting the disease again,” said Hart, although he added the length of time such immunity would last is uncertain.
Such testing will help ease the minds of any Ochsner employees found to have already had the disease as they continue to work with patients, Hart said.
“We’ve been told it may be the middle of the month, a couple of weeks before we have that available,” Hart added later. “That’s going to help us, certainly, as we think about our population and the social distancing, to begin to do other things,” Hart said, while stressing that social distancing must continue for now.
It was not immediately clear how many tests would initially be available.
UNITED NATIONS — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning the U.N. Security Council that the coronavirus pandemic is threatening international peace and security — “potentially leading to an increase in social unrest and violence that would greatly undermine our ability to fight the disease.”
He said that especially pressing risks to global security range from the pandemic hindering efforts to resolve conflicts, to terrorists seeing an opportunity to strike and groups seeing how a bioterrorist attack might unfold.
The U.N. chief spoke at a closed council meeting on COVID-19 — the first by the U.N.’s most powerful body which has made no statement on the pandemic.
Gutteres, whose remarks were released by the U.N. spokesman, said the engagement of the Security Council will be “critical to mitigate the peace and security implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.” He added that “a signal of unity and resolve from the Council would count for a lot at this anxious time.”
But diplomats said the 15 council members could not immediately agree on a statement to the media.
The secretary-general reiterated that the United Nations faces “its gravest test” since the organization was founded 75 years ago and concluded saying: “This is the fight of a generation — and the raison d’être of (the reason for) the United Nations itself.”
Other threats to global peace cited by Guterres were: the erosion of trust in public institutions, economic instability, political tensions from postponing elections or referenda, uncertainty leading parties in some countries to promote further division and turmoil, and the pandemic “triggering or exacerbating various human rights challenges.”
NEW YORK — As New York City deals with a mounting coronavirus death toll and dwindling morgue space, the city has shortened the amount of time it will hold unclaimed remains before they are buried in the city’s public cemetery.
Under the new policy, the medical examiner’s office will keep bodies in storage for just 14 days before they’re buried in the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island.
Normally, about 25 bodies a week are interred on the island, mostly for people whose families can’t afford a funeral, or who go unclaimed by relatives.
In recent days, though, burial operations have increased from one day a week to five days a week, with around 24 burials each day, said Department of Correction spokesman Jason Kersten.
Aerial images taken Thursday by The Associated Press captured workers digging graves on the island, a one-mile, limited-access strip off the Bronx that’s the final resting place for more than a million mostly indigent New Yorkers.
About 40 caskets were lined up for burial on the island on Thursday, and two fresh trenches have been dug in recent days.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. John Bel Edwards said he’s likely to keep Louisiana’s K-12 public schools shuttered for the rest of the school year due to the coronavirus, in response to calls from state education leaders not to reopen them because of public health risks.
Edwards’ school closure order remains in place through the end of April. Louisiana’s top education board, school superintendents and school boards have sent requests to the Democratic governor, asking him to extend the closures through the end of the school year, which runs until the final weeks of May.
UNITED NATIONS — The head of the United Nations children’s agency says 99% of children and young people under the age of 18 — totaling 2.34 billion — live in the 186 countries which have imposed some form of movement restrictions because of the coronavirus pandemic.
And UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement Thursday that according to the agency’s analysis 60% of them — 1.4 billion — live in the 82 countries with a full or partial lockdown because of COVID-19.
She said “not only are children and young people contracting COVID-19, they are also among its most severely impacted victims.”
Fore urged governments at a time of potential global recession to resist the temptation “to deprioritize investment in our future.”
She urged increased investments now in education, child protection, health and nutrition, and water and sanitation.
Fore said UNICEF is launching a global “agenda for action” this week to protect the most vulnerable children from harm.
Its six pillars are: keep children healthy and safe; reach vulnerable children with water, sanitation and hygiene; keep children learning; support families to cover their needs and care for their children; protect children from violence, exploitation and abuse; and protect refugee and migrant children, and those affected by conflict.
UNITED NATIONS — More than 60 U.N. agencies and international organizations are urging governments to take immediate steps to address the unfolding global recession and financial crisis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, especially in the world’s poorest countries.
The United Nations-led Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development said: “Billions of people live in countries teetering on the brink of economic collapse due to the explosive mix of financial shocks fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, heavy debt obligations and declining official development assistance.”
The 207-page report launched Thursday by the task force said before the COVID-19 crisis one in five countries — home to billions of people living in poverty — were likely to see incomes stagnate or decline in 2020 and the pandemic is now likely to affect billions more.
To prevent a debt crisis, the task force called for an immediate suspension of debt payments by the least developed countries and low-income countries that make requests.
The task force, which includes the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, called for urgent action to re-establish financial stability including by providing sufficient liquidity and strengthening the global financial safety net, promoting trade, increasing access to international financing, and expanding public health spending.
MADRID — Spain’s parliament has endorsed a government request to extend by two more weeks the current state of emergency that allows it to enact confinement rules amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Spain has been under lockdown since March 14. The Congress of Deputies voted Thursday in favor of extending it until April 26. It is the second two-week extension.
Strict rules that keep people at home except for shopping for food and medicine, and the shutting down of all non-essential industry have helped Spain reduce its daily rate of contagion growth from more than 20% two weeks ago to around 4%.
With 152,446 infections and 15,238 fatalities, Spain is alongside the United States and Italy as the hardest-hit countries by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told lawmakers he didn’t expect the crisis to end soon.
“I’m sure that in two weeks’ time I’ll have to extend the state of emergency again,” he said.
CHICAGO — The Illinois county that includes Chicago is setting up new places to store bodies in preparation for a likely surge in the number of coronavirus deaths that could overwhelm hospital morgues.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s office said in a news release Thursday that a 66,000-square-foot refrigerated warehouse located 5 miles from the medical examiner’s office would be up and running by the end of the day.
The facility, according to the release, will be able to hold more than 2,000 bodies.
The British government’s two chief advisers on the coronavirus pandemic voiced cautious optimism that the country’s outbreak may be near its peak even as the COVID-19 death toll rose sharply to just shy of 8,000.
In the government’s daily press briefing, chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance noted signs that the rise in new coronavirus cases and the increase in the number of people going into hospital maybe levelling off as a result of the social distancing measures imposed. He also said the transmission of the coronavirus within the community may now be “shrinking.”
And Professor Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical adviser, also noted that the time it takes for the number of people in intensive care to double has got steadily longer over the past couple of weeks, from three days to six or more now and “extending in time.”
However, the number of people dying after testing positive for COVID-19 disease is set to carry on an upward trajectory for a couple of weeks in light of the lags involved, Vallance said.
Government figures earlier showed that the U.K. recorded 881 new coronavirus-related deaths, down from 938 in the previous 24-hour period. In total, 7,978 patients have died in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadians will need to stay at home and practice physical distancing for months as the first wave of cases in the country won’t end until the summer and Canada won’t return to normal until there is vaccine.
Trudeau says a vaccine could take a year or a year and a half. He made the comments as Canada’s top public health officer predicted the coronavirus pandemic could cost at least 4,500 lives and a government agency announced the Canadian economy lost 1,011,000 jobs in March.
Trudeau says the country is in the early stage of the outbreak because the virus came to Canada later and says the first wave won’t reach its peak until late spring. Trudeau calls it the “challenge of our generation.”
UNITED NATIONS — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic is deepening already existing inequalities and is having “devastating social and economic consequences for women and girls” that could reverse limited progress toward gender equality over the past 25 years.
The U.N. chief said in a video message and policy paper that “across every sphere, from health to the economy, security to social protection, the impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated for women and girls simply by virtue of their sex.”
While early data indicates that the mortality rates from COVID-19 may be higher for men, Gutterres said “nearly 60 percent of women around the world work in the informal economy, earning less, saving less, and at greater risk of falling into poverty.”
He said millions of women’s jobs have been lost at the same time that their unpaid work has “increased exponentially” as a result of school closures and children being at home and the increased needs of older people.
BERLIN — Germany’s national disease control center says it plans to conduct a series of blood tests to determine how many people in the country are immune to COVID-19 and how many were infected without knowing it.
Lothar Wieler, the head of the Robert Koch Institute, says starting next week antibody tests will be carried out on blood given by donors around the country. His institute anticipates up to 5,000 samples conducted every 14 days, with results starting in early May.
A second survey will examine blood from about 2,000 people from each of four infection “hot spots” in Germany. And a third will look at a representative sample of some 15.000 people across the country, with results expected in June.
Germany has confirmed more than 113,000 infections, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. More than 2,300 people have died, a death rate lower than many countries.
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, says don’t assume the coronavirus will fade during warm weather.
Fauci told ABC’s “Good Morning America” there’s precedent with other infections like influenza that “when the virus gets warmer that the virus goes down in its ability to replicate, to spread.”
But Fauci added “having said that, one should not assume that we are going to be rescued by a change in the weather. You must assume that the virus will continue to do its thing. If we get some help from the weather, so be it, fine. But I don’t think we need to assume that.”
He was asked about the New York Times story that research indicates the coronavirus that began circulating in New York in mid-February came mainly from Europe, not Asia.
“I think that’s probably correct,” Fauci said. He notes that “Europe became the epicenter pretty quickly after China really exploded with their cases.”
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WYOMING WWII FILM
a Wyoming World War II Documentary
a Wyoming World War II Documentary
My grandpa always said that if something was worth doing, then was worth doing right. That's why I decided to ride my bike across Germany in the middle of the winter to retrace his route as a Prisoner of War during WWII 75 years after he was there. Driving from town to town in the spring to smell the flowers at each stop didn't feel like the right way, but biking long, lonely stretches of frozen rural Germany did.
It all started with a slip of paper. For him, it was a draft card and for me, it was the note that listed all of the camps my grandpa had been marched to during WWII as an American Prisoner of War. It was a story that he never spoke about. Nearly ten years after his death, I found the pieces he left behind, and I couldn't put them down until I knew every detail. The plan was simple: retrace my grandpa's journey as a Prisoner of War through Germany on bicycle in order to meet the side of him that I never met. I guess it sounded a lot more simple when I decided to do it.
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As we go on the journey of making this film, we are constantly looking to broaden our understanding of WWII through personal stories of individual experiences in the war. If you have a personal story or a story someone shared with you, we would love to hear it. Perhaps our stories cross paths at some point?
Mark Pedri
Director/Writer
Mark is a documentary filmmaker and writer from Southwestern Wyoming. His creative process is reminiscent of his equally unique upbringing in Wyoming. Mark’s journey has been guided by the stories he tells, taking him 700 miles through the back roads of his home state on a bike while making a documentary about energy, to Germany and Turkey telling the origin story of Pilates.
Between making films, Mark worked at Sundance Institute in the Episodic department where he focused on helping underrepresented artists hone their craft and develop their own personal stories. Mark holds an MFA in Producing for TV and Film from the University of Southern California and splits his time between Los Angeles and Wyoming, where he seeks to tell the stories of the people off the beaten path.
Carrie McCarthy
Producer/Head Researcher
Carrie McCarthy is a scientist turned producer who got her start working as a scientific film consultant before going on to earn a PhD in Materials Chemistry from the University of Southern California. During her time in academia, Carrie was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to fund her research, which has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences worldwide. Under the shingle of Burning Torch Productions, Carrie and Mark co-produce documentaries, feature-length, and episodic content. Carrie is a hands-on producer who believes that being on the ground in the trenches is the only way to ensure the integrity of the project. She is driven by her endless curiosity to hunt down engaging stories with a unique perspective. She has a critical eye for detail in the true-life stories she develops. Carrie is currently based in Los Angeles, but spends a lot of time traveling wherever the project takes her.
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Randal Kleiser about his own film career and the current Hollywood Zeitgeist
Randal Kleiser, born in 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been an internationally known film director since the release of his first feature, Grease (1978), the most successful movie musical ever made. Other credits include The Blue Lagoon, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Summer Lovers, Flight of the Navigator, White Fang, North Shore, Getting It Right, Lovewrecked and It’s My Party. He attended the University of Southern California, where as a freshman he appeared in George Lucas’s first student film “Freiheit,” (1966); his own award-winning thesis Master’s Thesis film there, “Peege”, not only launched his film making career, but was selected by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Registry in 2007. Kleiser graduated from USC in 1968, after studying under a key mentor, Nina Foch, whose teachings have been influential in his own Master Workshops throughout Europe; he has gone back to his Los Angeles alma mater to teach a graduate course there. A cinematic visionary, Randal Kleiser has been crucial in the development of many innovative digital technologies throughout his extensive directing, screenwriting, and teaching career: These include the first digital morphing in “Flight of The Navigator” (1986), as well as working in 70mm 3D for the Disney Studio’s theme park project “Honey I Shrunk The Audience” which upon followed the success of his 1992 film, “Honey I Blew Up The Kid”. Randal Kleiser is the extraordinary ‘master class’ invitee of the Basler Gassli Film Festival this year, following in the illustrious footsteps of celebrated Robert Crumb, director Terry Zwigoff and the dean of UCLA cinema studies, Howard Suber. Xecutives.net founder and chief interviewer Christian Dueblin caught up with Randal Kleiser before the Festival to ask him a few questions about his own film career, advice he could give to student film makers, and the current Hollywood Zeitgeist.
Xecutives.net: Dear Mr. Kleiser, you’ve just accepted an invitation to be a special guest at the Basler Gässli Film Festival, an event organized by Swiss filmmaker Giacun Caduff, which gives younger filmmakers the extraordinary opportunity to profit from the advice and shared knowledge of film professionals with a broad experience in the film industry. What is it that younger film makers generally want to get from talking with you?
Randal Kleiser: Most young filmmakers want to know how to get started. I always tell them that this is the easiest time to get discovered if you have talent. Just make videos with your cell phone and post them on the Internet. Be daring, be inventive, reveal something about yourself. I recently met a young student from Chapman University in California named Sam Wickert. He has been making short videos all his life and posting them on YouTube where they have had over 30 million views.
Xecutives.net: How do you feel you can help and support them?
Randal Kleiser: Everything I know about directing I learned from my teacher and mentor, actress Nina Foch. Nina taught for 40 years at USC’s film school and was the most popular professor. She appeared in films like The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, American in Paris and Executive Suite. Before she died, George Lucas funded a four hour video of her course. I encourage all filmmakers and actors to check it out as one of the best instructional records of acting and directing. I will be doing a live workshop using her teachings at the Gässli Film Festival. A preview can be found at www.ninafochproject.com.
Xecutives.net: “Film business is a business like producing chocolates.” The celebrated cinema scholar and UCLA film studies professor Howard Suber offered this great insight into Hollywood film business in his interview with me. Terry Zwigoff also said that Hollywood film business has become about “selling a product“ and “it‘s all about profit“. What is it in your opinion that has changed in the film industry since you’ve started to work as a director and producer of highly successful films like “Grease“ or “The Blue Lagoon“?
Randal Kleiser: There are no longer filmmakers running the studios. Corporations have taken over, and the studio heads must report to stockholders. That’s why there are so many sequels and movies based on TV shows or comic books. No one wants to take a chance and lose their job. Back when we made The Blue Lagoon, every studio had turned it down. They said no one will go see a movie with only two people in it. Finally, Frank Price at Columbia gave it a green light. He believed in me, because years earlier he had seen my USC Master’s Thesis Peege. He took a chance on me, and the film was a big hit. Peege is now in the US National Archives in Washington D.C. as an example of American culture. We will be screening it at the Festival.
Randal Kleiser’s Sci-Fi Virtual Reality Drama ‘Defrost’
Xecutives.net: It seems that the film business, along with its products, are a mirror of our society. It has become almost exclusively, with some exceptions, entertainment, and it is produced mainly because it seems that what most people truly want to do is escape. That’s my impression as a film fan. But behind the scenes there are always counter movements. What is it you recognize dealing with the film business in Hollywood?
Randal Kleiser: The public always wants something new and exciting. Three years ago my brother, who is a visual effects supervisor, showed me the Oculus Rift. I was thrilled with the possibility of putting the viewer into the movie. I wanted to make an experience where the viewer had eye contact with the actors and felt they were there and relating to them. That is what became our VR project Defrost. We have found that many people who watch it not only become very involved, but often talk back to the characters and in some cases are moved to tears. (Defrost will also show at the Festival). This new medium is in its infancy and there are many exciting breakthroughs on the horizon. The problem right now is that VR has not yet been monetized. The film business will wait and see how much money comes in before they jump fully into this world.
Xecutives.net: It’s not long ago that Hollywood was very much influenced also by European artists, directors and musicians who contributed a lot to Hollywood’s success. I’m thinking of German artists like Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre, Marlene Dietrich, or musicians such as Friedrich Holländer, great and very gifted personalities. Seeing the change of Hollywood, what do you think remains of those great artists’ work?
Randal Kleiser: I was on the Sony lot last week (formerly MGM Studios) and I noticed a mural that covered an entire building dedicated to Peter Lorre. I thought to myself, if Peter were alive he would be amazed that of all the actors who ever lived, he was chosen to adorn a building on a Hollywood lot. Marlene Dietrich was classic. She appeared with Orson Welles in one of my favorite films, Touch of Evil.
Randal Kleiser: Grease, Set 1968
Xecutives.net: Your 1977 film, “Grease” went on to become the most famous musical ever. It was a huge financial success. How do you explain this blockbuster success and the movie’s legendary status?
Randal Kleiser: Grease was the perfect storm when the right casting met an established Broadway hit. The new music that we added helped a lot, too. Many of the new songs became hits on the radio the summer the movie came out. I’m often amazed that it continues to entertain people of all ages and cultures all over the world. Some of the reasons it has worked is the simple story with characters we can all relate to, the universal drive for love and acceptance, snappy music, and John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Xecutives.net: “Grease” starred John Travolta in the role of Danny Zuko. Travolta was 23 years old back then, and already tasting early renown because of his tour de force role in “Saturday Night Fever”. But back then, nobody could have predicted that this young actor and dancer would become a veritable superstar. You had already worked together with John Travolta in “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble“, 1976. How do you remember your film work together with him, and what was your approach back then to directing musical scenes and dance choreography?
Randal Kleiser: John had never had the lead in a movie before The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. He had been part of an ensemble in a TV comedy, but this was his first time as the star. We got along very well, the movie got a lot of attention and when John was hired to star in Grease, he suggested me as the director. We trusted each other, and had the kind of shorthand that happens when you’ve already worked together. I had never directed a musical before, but when I was a student at USC Film School I worked as an extra on many musicals and got to watch how the directors broke down the numbers and filmed them. My education was on the sets of movies like Camelot, Hello Dolly, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. But the best preparation for directing Grease was being in the background of three Elvis Presley musicals. John based a lot of Danny Zuko on Elvis.
Xecutives.net: You’ve done other great films such as “The Blue Lagoon” and “White Fang”, but also “Summer Lovers“ with Daryl Hannah. All of those movies are different for the audience. What holds those movies together? Is there something in your opinion that influences all your work, or is it as it is in life. often just random and doing whatever you like to do in life?
Randal Kleiser: The theme that runs through all of my movies is how time changes relationships. In The Blue Lagoon the two children grow up not knowing anything about being adults, in Flight of the Navigator the boy experiences a jump in time where everything has changed, in Summer Lovers a summer vacation changes a couple’s dynamic, in Defrost a woman emerges from a cryogenic state to find her family grown and different.
Xecutives.net: You also have been responsible, just as your friend and former housemate George Lucas, for some of the most remarkable technical innovations in cinematic history, such as the first digital morphing in the celebrated science fiction adventure film “The Flight of The Navigator” (1986) as well as being a pioneer working in 3D 70MM in the film you created for the Disney theme parks in 1995, “Honey I Shrank The Audience,” which played for over a decade in Anaheim, Paris, Tokyo and Orlando. Have you always had a penchant for pushing the art of film through technological innovation to new levels?
Randal Kleiser: My interest in cutting edge technology comes both from George and also my brother Jeff Kleiser, who was a pioneer in computer graphics. He worked on the original Tron for Disney and went on to do X-Men, the Spiderman ride in Orlando, and many other films and theme park attractions. He introduced me to reflectance mapping, digital makeup and virtual reality.
Xecutives.net: Also worth mentioning is the Vistarama HD process that you co-created with the Graphics Lab at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. Can you explain how this digital filming and projection process has advanced us beyond similar expansive formats such as Cinerama and IMAX?
Randal Kleiser: Digital technology keeps getting better and better. The resolution is expanding to where we will come to a point, especially in virtual reality, you won’t be able to tell the difference between what is real and what is simulated. My film buff/nerd side has invented a name for the process of the future: SuperTechnaSpectabularamaDimensionScope360.
Xecutives.net: You’ll visit Basel and Switzerland. What is your connection to Switzerland but also to Europe? I understand that you have taught Master Directing Classes for European students at film festivals in Deauville, Sarlat, and Malaga, as well as at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens. Do you find it just as challenging to work with young European film makers as with their American counterparts?
Randal Kleiser: I loved attending the World VR Forum in Crans Montana a few months ago. The Swiss Alps are one of the most spectacular places on Earth, and I’ve skied in several locations in the past. As far as teaching, I find students all over the world speak the same basic language of film. Their approach can be quite different, but I usually end up learning a lot from each group of students I meet. This young generation grew up with digital technology and have mastered it in an amazing way. I find I can pass on what I’ve learned about actors and directing, and they fill me in on all the newest techniques for telling the story.
Xecutives.net: Dear Mr Kleiser, thank you very much for giving your time for this interview. I wish you much success for your film projects and a nice stay in Switzerland!
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A diary of a journey into north Wales
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Published 1816 by Printed for Robert Jennings, by James Moyes in London .
Wales, North -- Description and travel
Other titles Journey into north Wales
Statement By Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Edited with illustrative notes, by R. Duppa, LL.B., barrister at law.
Series Library of English literature -- LEL 12178.
Contributions Duppa, Richard, 1770-1831.
Pagination xvi, 226 p.
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WHAT'S NEXT?: How we travel, where we travel and whether we travel at all will mean tremendous change in the decades ahead.
[New] The global economy could strongly rebound in the second half of 2021 but sectors such as travel, tourism, leisure, and hospitality could take years to reach pre-virus levels.
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