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Through the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, I was able to catch up with Randi Lattimore, Mind Body Director of Midtown Athletic Club in Rochester, New York. Randi has helped cultivate a community of mindfulness and discipline while encouraging members to have fun and center themselves.
As enjoyable as the holidays are for many, they can also be stressful with multiple parties, to-do lists, gift shopping, increasingly high sugar intake, and more. Randi explained the importance of taking care of yourself during these times.
Self-care doesn't only mean facemasks and pedicures, but rather knowing how to de-stress when life gets busy, quieting your mind, and doing what feels good to you throughout the day. By taking care of yourself you're less likely to get sick and more likely to be present with loved ones, be more productive, and more resilient to whatever life throws your way.
Check out more of Randi's helpful tips on how to be present and take care of yourself throughout the season.
Midtown: Out of everything Midtown has to offer, why yoga?
Randi: There are so many reasons I enjoy yoga and the reasons are always changing. Right now, the ability that I have to quiet my mind in yoga and let go of distractions has me craving my yoga practice more than ever. Yoga has this way of siphoning out what is important, and it gives me the time to acknowledge and be grateful for those things. I find that when I am in the present moment, I am more creative, more thoughtful. Yoga helps me manage my energy and mood. It brings me into balance. I love the self-reflection that yoga offers.
Midtown: What are the biggest benefits of staying true to your practice during the holidays?
Randi: In the hectic pace of the holiday season, taking the time for a yoga meditation practice helps us all find grounding and peace. People often stress over the holidays, while yoga can help melt that stress away. Take time to breathe. Our breath and emotions are heavily connected and we can use the breath to control our emotions and stress. A yoga practice is a great space to explore and focus on the true gifts of the season.
Midtown: What keeps you motivated during the holidays (or cold winter) months?
Randi: Knowing that my friends and classmates are waiting for me at the mat is a big motivator in the cold months. Building strong relationships with members and fellow associates and knowing they will be waiting for me helps get me excited to practice.
Midtown: What is a quick tip for anyone feeling stressed during the holidays?
Randi: Create a morning ritual. Even if it's just taking a few minutes to sit, meditate, journal, or enjoy a cup of tea. Taking the time out of your busy schedule for yourself will allow you to become more focused and relaxed throughout the day.
Midtown: What class is your favorite? Why?
Randi: Of course, yoga, but I also love the benefits of barre and Pilates too. When I am regular about my Pilates practice, my body just feels like it is working better. I teach mostly Power Vinyasa in a heated room, but I love all yoga and always feel like I learn something new about the practice and myself in all classes including Gentle and Alignment. Yoga Jam is a class that allows me to be creative and playful on the mat, and right now that feels amazing.
Midtown: What can someone new to yoga expect when coming into the mind body studio for the first time?
Randi: At Midtown we understand that trying anything new can be intimidating, but we're here to help. Yoga teachers love new yogis and enjoy sharing the experience with them. Please arrive 10-15 minutes early, take time to set up your space, and get comfortable. Introduce yourself to the teacher prior to class to let him/her know that this is your first time taking this class, and share any injuries you may be working through. I like to encourage people to sit for a few minutes and stretch or meditate prior to the start of class. It's also a nice time to smile at someone next to you and introduce yourself as yogis love to connect. Finally, remember that yoga is not a competition. "There is no finish line" is the best advice I've ever received. It's called a practice because each day is different, and the journey is what is most important.
Pop into a yoga class and take care of yourself this holiday season.


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CLAREMONT » Claremont has reached a $4.8 million settlement with Golden State Water Co., putting to end its five year feud to take over the local but private water system.
Claremont will pay Golden State Water $2 million by Dec. 31, then $2.8 million in interest over the next 12 years.
In exchange, the water company has agreed to waive the remaining $5.8 million in legal fees it is owed if Claremont does not try and sue again in that time frame.
"This resolution is a new beginning for the community, and we look forward to building and maintaining a strong relationship, recognizing that collaboration is better than conflict for the people of Claremont," according to a joint statement released by Claremont and Golden State Water Co.
Terms of the settlement were announced Tuesday night during the council meeting. The council unanimously voted to authorize City Manager Tony Ramos to sign the agreement.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge's final decision in December 2016 sided with Golden State Water Co., a private concern out of San Dimas. The ruling left Claremont on the hook for the entire bill, including $7.6 million racked up by Golden State Water's legal defense.
That figure, based on 4 percent interest accrued since March, would jump up to $7.8 million by December.
"I think the agreement is very fair. We simply have to admit we lost this case and that's the way it is," said resident Marilee Scaff.
For its part, the city has already spent $6 million since 2012 in its quest to take over local control by eminent domain.
In late January, the city announced it would proceed with an appeal. The council agreed to bring in attorney David Axelrad of Horvitz and Levy, one of California's top appellate specialists. Judge Richard Fruin found it was is in the public's best interest for the system to remain as a private investor-owned utility. Fruin also found serious flaws in Claremont's legal case, saying the city failed to prove why it would need to acquire the billing system by eminent domain.
After reviewing the judge's decision, Axelrad told elected officials the "best possible outcome of an appeal was a partial retrial of the case," according to a news release from Claremont.
Resident Donna Lowe, who was part of Claremont Affordable Water Advocates — the small but vocal group against the takeover — learned about the settlement at Tuesday's meeting. Lowe said she was concerned it would end up being a long, drawn-out legal battle.
Lowe said she felt local control would not solve residents' concerns of increased water rates. Any resident, she said, concerned about water rates should take it up with California Public Utilities Commission.
"The arrogance our city council and city management cost us millions and millions of dollars," she said.
Resident Jim Belna told the council this chapter in Claremont history can't be closed with Tuesday's news of a settlement.
"This is an issue of public integrity, $10 million was lost and it was lost not through good faith, close-call judgments. It was lost in a legal proceeding where the public was never told of the risks," Jim Belna told the council.
Belna asked that the city council waive all attorney-client privilege so that the public record on the issue could be completely open and transparent. He also asked that the city form a committee to review the decision-making process.
"The public needs to know exactly what went wrong here," he said.
Councilman Sam Pedroza disagreed with Belna's assessment.
"We did everything that we could. A lot of lessons learned — a lot of expensive lessons — but today's decision ends this chapter," he said.
Councilman Corey Calaycay said elected officials were following the direction of residents. He cited the Nov. 4, 2014, election in which voters overwhelmingly backed a bond known as Measure W, allowing the city to borrow as much as $135 million to acquire the system.
If voters were opposed to the effort then the measure should have failed, he said. Calaycay also pointed to the general election this past March in which he and mayor Larry Schroeder were up for reelection, months after a judge had sided with Golden State Water.
"I'm proud of the members that I serve with," he said. "We stood tall on this and unfortunately, we are where we are. I do not feel that we did anything wrong, we listened to our citizens and we did have an open process all the way through," he said.
Freeman Allen, a resident and a member of Claremont Friends of Locally Owned Water — Claremont FLOW, lauded the council for their efforts to take over the system.
Up to this point, there had been no shortage of criticism from Claremont residents of the water system operator.
For decades, residents have asked the city to proceed with a takeover, but efforts didn't move forward until several years ago when water rates continued to escalate.
Claremont filed its eminent domain case Dec. 8, 2014. In the 43-page complaint, Claremont details the information about the water system it would acquire from Golden State Water.
Ultimately, in the courtroom, Claremont seemed outmatched against Golden State's legal defense team.
Echoing his colleagues, Schroeder didn't back down from the city's decision to proceed with the eminent domain case.
For Lowe, the question now remains how will the two sides work together going forward.
Nov. 4, 2014: General election in which voters overwhelmingly backed a bond known as Measure W, allowing the city to borrow as much as $135 million to acquire the water system.
Dec. 8, 2014: Claremont filed its eminent domain case. In the 43-page complaint, Claremont details the information about the water system it would acquire from Golden State Water.
June 14, 2016: Opening statements of Claremont's eminent domain case — the first of its kind in the state — of the water public utility property owned by Golden State.
Dec. 9, 2016: Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Fruin found it was is in the public's best interest for the system to remain as a private investor-owned utility.
Dec. 31, 2017: Claremont must pay Golden State Water $2 million as part of the terms of the settlement agreement.
Staff Writer David Allen contributed to this report.


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For those of you fortunate enough to have read my books, this device is already familiar to you. To those of you so benighted as to not have, hang your heads in shame and then build this simple mechanism. It's a conversion of a walkie-talkie to a psionic transmitter unit.
1 walkie-talkie, cheap, 100mw will do nicely.
1 length of posterboard long enough to make a headband around the forehead.
Take the walkie talkie apart and find the points where the speaker/microphone is wired to the amplifier.
Cut a short length of speaker wire and strip the ends.
Wire one end of the wire to the microphone leads.
Drill two holes in the casing of the walkie talkie (carefully) for the two screws.
Insert the screws part way so that the tops are sticking out of the casing.
Wire the other end of the speaker wire to the screws.
Put the walkie-talkie back together.
Make the headband so that it fits over your forehead and put the two brads through next to each other and spread the tines of them on the inside of the headband.
Glue the foil square on the inside of the headband so that it makes contact with the brads.
Strip the insulation off the ends of the speaker wire and spread the wire.
Attach the alligator clips to the wire.
Attach one end of the speaker wire to the screws of the walkie-talkie.
Attach the other end to the brads.
Put on the headband so that the foil square is over your third eye.
Turn on the power of the walkie-talkie, push the transmit button and hold the message you wish to send.


For this elegant ladies necklace I chose 10mm x 8mm faceted Rose Quartz oblong beads.
Alternating with these are 6mm round Rose Quartz beads.
Between each of these semi precious gemstones is a Sterling Silver tube & small glass seed beads.
Around the back of the necklace are more of the 6mm round beads as shown in one of the images.
The length of this necklace is 17.75" & is finished with a Sterling Silver bolt ring clasp & fittings.


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By summer things are filling out fast.
crew attaching branches and red vinyl leaves by hand.
frame for the jungle riverbed at the tree's base.
three Robinson boys, Fritz, Ernst, and Francis.
Great stuff. One of my very earliest DL memories was seeing the Tree House under construction. I was seven!


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If you're paying close attention to IT trends, you've certainly discovered some exciting new job roles that seem out of this world. Even their titles give them a futuristic sound. A career in the IT field is one that already has many exciting positions and opportunities, with better than average pay and great pay rates. But, some of the jobs that might soon become available with the it staffing newark nj are sure to send chills up your spine. Could any of these positions satisfy your career needs?
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Yesterday saw the final of the Rin4' competition in which doctoral students explained their research in four minutes and in front of a non-specialist audience. The winner, Ferran Nadal-Bufí, is a first year PhD student who is researching the proteins present in blood.
Summing up four years of doctoral thesis in just four minutes is no easy task, especially if it is done in front of a jury and in language understandable to all kinds of audience. This is the challenge put to the PhD students at Pompeu Fabra University in the Rin4' (Research in 4 minutes) competition, the third edition of which ended yesterday with the final held on the Ciutadella campus.
Ten finalists, from the 39 participants who took part in the qualifying stages, presented their research in four minutes before a non-specialist audience. Five were from the doctoral programme in Biomedicine, three from the doctoral programme in Information and Communication Technologies, and two of the Translation and Language Sciences programme.
Ferran Nadal-Bufí, a PhD student with the Proteomics and Protein Chemistry Unit of the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS) directed by David Andreu, was chosen as the winner of the first prize of €900 and the special prize granted by the audience of €200. In his presentation "All that blood can tell", he showed great skill for making such a complex subject as blood composition an attractive visual issue.
"For researchers and scientists, frustration is our daily bread: the experiments don't turn out first or even second time, hopefully third time lucky. The recognition I have received today for my work and research gives me great satisfaction", said the winner, who is currently in his first year of his doctoral thesis.
Nadal-Bufí's research hinges around the proteins in the blood. By using a mass spectrometer, researchers can determine all the molecules found in a liquid. This sophisticated device measures the size of the particles according to their mass and electric charge and enables classifying the proteins present in the blood. However, some proteins are very scarce and often are not detected by the mass spectrometer. With his research, Nadal-Bufí aims to find a way to identify all the proteins in the blood. "Our body is home to some 100,000 proteins in total. If we manage to get the list of all of them, we can obtain biomarkers, proteins that are altered in the event of disease".
The second prize, worth €600, went to Mireia Ortega, doctoral student in the Cellular and Systems Neurobiology research group of the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), directed by Mara Dierssen. In her research, Ortega seeks to find out how a drug discovered in green tea and used to treat Down's syndrome works. As she explained in the presentation "How does it do it? A drug that improves memory and learning in people with Down's syndrome", "a few years ago the only important thing in order to be able to market a drug was that it worked. Now we know that it is necessary to understand its mechanism of action in order to prescribe it safely and, insofar as possible, avoid the side effects".
Toni Bassaganyas, of the PhD programme on Translation and Language Sciences, won third prize, worth €300, with the presentation of "Two politicians walk into a bar". His work investigates the variation that exists between language and reality, giving special importance to the interpretation of possessive verbs. "It is difficult to establish the relationship between the different components of a sentence, but also between the reality described in the sentence and the language used", says Bassaganyas, who is currently investigating with the Formal Linguistics research group (GliF), of the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at UPF.
Among other aspects, the jury, composed of Enric Vallduví, vice-rector for Research and Doctoral Studies at Pompeu Fabra University; Carme Martinell, general manager of the Continuing Education Institute Foundation, and Pere Torra, deputy general manager of the Teaching Area of Pompeu Fabra University, assessed the academic significance of the presentations, the clarity of the presentations, and the speakers' capacity and their ability to get across to and captivate the audience in general. The winners of the previous editions, Carlos Toscano (2016) and Cristina Galusca (2014), and the director of the Doctoral School, Núria Sebastián, awarded the prizes. Emma Rodero, professor at the University's Department of Communication participated in the event as the host of the final.
The Rin4' competition is an initiative of Pompeu Fabra University's Doctoral School. With it, UPF seeks to promote the importance of communication skills in the dissemination of science.
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Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and Director
Mr. Green is a co-founder of Lyft and has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since our founding. Prior to co-founding Lyft, Mr. Green created the first car-share program at the University of California, Santa Barbara and served on the Board of the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District. Mr. Green currently serves as a member of the board of directors of eBay Inc., an online marketplace and payments company. Mr. Green holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
President, Co-Founder and Vice Chairman
Mr. Zimmer is a co-founder of Lyft and has served as our President since March 2013, our Vice Chairman since January 2019 and as a member of our board of directors since June 2010, and previously served as our Chief Operating Officer from July 2008 until March 2013. Prior to co-founding Lyft, Mr. Zimmer served as an analyst in real estate finance at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which was a global financial services firm. Mr. Zimmer holds a B.S. in Hotel Administration from Cornell University.
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Mr. Makavy has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer since February 2019, and previously served as our Executive Vice President, Rideshare Technology from December 2017 to February 2019 and our Vice President of Growth from March 2016 to December 2017. From May 2011 to July 2015, Mr. Makavy served as the Director of Product Management at Facebook, Inc., a social network company. Prior to Facebook, Inc., Mr. Makavy co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Snaptu Ltd., a mobile web company. Mr. Makavy holds a B.A. in Computer Science from The Open University and an M.B.A. from London Business School.
Brian Roberts
Mr. Roberts has served as our Chief Financial Officer since November 2014, and previously served as our Senior Vice President, Partnerships and Corporate Development from October 2014 to November 2014. From May 2011 to October 2014, Mr. Roberts served as Senior Vice President in Business Development and Strategy at Walmart Global eCommerce, a division of Walmart Inc., a retail company. Prior to Walmart, Mr. Roberts served as Senior Managing Director at Evercore Inc., an investment banking advisory firm, led the corporate development organizations at Microsoft Corporation, a software company, and Inktomi Corp., a software company, and served as Vice President at Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, an investment banking advisory firm. Mr. Roberts serves as a member of the board of trustees at The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Mr. Roberts holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Kristin Sverchek
General Counsel and Secretary
Ms. Sverchek has served as our General Counsel since November 2012 and as our Secretary since October 2015. From January 2009 to November 2012, Ms. Sverchek served as an Associate and then Partner at Silicon Legal Strategy, P.C., a law firm. From September 2007 to December 2008, Ms. Sverchek served as an Associate at Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, a law firm. Ms. Sverchek holds a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.


The woman drives past the bottle store. She is on the look out for signs of Bob. His steely smile was meant to be looking out across the lights. Bob had told her so, said he'd signed for the shipment from Rotorua. But all she could see was Air-to-There and the outline of the sun behind the island. It made her head hurt. Bob, what's the deal with the signs? I've been looking everywhere. Bob. Mate. Bob. You there? Beryl retraced her steps. Bob had said he would be at the lights. She scans left and right, foot hovering over the brake. Her Honda purrs onward but as the light turns she comes to a smooth standstill. She tries to message Bob, but her phone turns 'no sign' into 'nosing' and she drops the handset. Bob is at the computer, tapping with two fingers: Dear Ken, We're still waiting. Please advise. Bob. Mate. Bob. You there? Yes, Beryl. I'm here. Yes. I hear you. Yes, Beryl. I've pushed the button. They know we're urgent.
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Kirsten Le Harivel is a writer, program manager and poet based on the Kāpiti Coast of New Zealand. Her work has been published in various New Zealand and international journals such as Snorkel, Sport and Hue & Cry. She completed an MA in Creative Writing from the IIML in Wellington in 2013.


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Enhanced IL-4 responses in children with a history of respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis in infancy
P Pala, R Bjarnason, F Sigurbergsson, C Metcalfe, N Sigurs, P J M Openshaw
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Infants who recover from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-induced bronchiolitis are at high risk of developing asthma and recurrent wheezing. It is not known whether severe RSV infection itself causes persistent effects or is a marker of a "wheezy" predisposition. To determine the long-term immunological correlates of infantile bronchiolitis, interleukin (IL)-4 and interferon (IFN)-gamma responses to a panel of antigens were studied in a well-characterised cohort of 7-8-yr-old children with a history of severe RSV bronchiolitis in infancy. Peripheral blood lymphocytes from 37 children who were hospitalised with RSV bronchiolitis in infancy and from 69 age-, sex- and location-matched controls were stimulated in vitro with RSV, house-dust mite, birch and cat antigens. Cellular proliferation, and enzyme-linked immunoSPOT IFN-gamma and IL-4 production were measured. IL-4 producing T-cells responding to RSV and cat antigens were significantly more frequent in exbronchiolitics. Other responses (including the IFN-gamma response to RSV) were equally strong in exbronchiolitics and controls. Respiratory syncytial virus infection primes memory T-cells that make interferon-gamma, but virus and aeroallergen-specific and interleukin-4 producing T-cells are also frequently primed in bronchiolitics. Respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis in infancy may increase the risk of allergic sensitisation by providing a local interleukin-4-rich environment, in which airborne allergens are first encountered.
European Respiratory Journal
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Pala, P., Bjarnason, R., Sigurbergsson, F., Metcalfe, C., Sigurs, N., & Openshaw, P. J. M. (2002). Enhanced IL-4 responses in children with a history of respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis in infancy. European Respiratory Journal, 20(2), 376-82.
Pala, P ; Bjarnason, R ; Sigurbergsson, F et al. / Enhanced IL-4 responses in children with a history of respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis in infancy. In: European Respiratory Journal. 2002 ; Vol. 20, No. 2. pp. 376-82.
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El Criterium de los Abruzzos (oficialmente: Criterium d'Abruzzo) fue una carrera ciclista profesional de un día italiana que se disputaba en la región de los Abruzzos.

Se creó en el 1993 disputándose anualmente hasta su última edición en el 2004. Durante ese tiempo catalogada como carrera de categoría 1.5 (última categoría del profesionalismo), 1.4 y 1.3.

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Long ago as an art student I made a small series of awkward paintings of awkward snapshots at family events. My latest trove of reunion snapshots made me want to pick it up again. Maybe I will, someday.
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Casting a Long Shadow Over Art by Dana Lise Shavin - The Gathering :: The Gathering
Casting a Long Shadow Over Art by Dana Lise Shavin
(This article appeared first in The Chattanooga Free Press, where Dana Shavin is a columnist.)
I love that this year's Gathering theme is about the intersections of personal lives with world events. Of course all of our lives intersect with world events, and if there's one thing I've learned about writing, from books, mentors, friends, other writers, and not least of all The Gathering, it's that any story that doesn't take into consideration the larger world around it is arguably just a vignette.
On this note, this past week I read with interest an article about Nelson Shanks, the renowned portrait painter whose subjects have included the late Princess Diana and Prince Charles, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, Luciano Pavarotti, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, and a group portrait of the four female Supreme Court justices.
It's the Clinton portrait I was reading about. Apparently Shanks's portrait of Clinton, which was commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery in 2001, includes a reference to White House intern Monica Lewinsky's infamous blue dress. According to Shanks, that's what the "shadow" is beneath the fireplace mantle.
Asked about the inclusion of the dress in the painting, Shanks told PEOPLE magazine, "I had to do something to break up that line," referring to what we are to presume would otherwise be empty space. He went on to say that it was also intended as a metaphor for "the shadow the affair cast over the presidency." And that the inclusion of the blue dress in shadow is "…reflective of history and an anecdote that history should respect and know about at the same time."
Clinton's dalliance with Lewinsky was not his finest moment in the White House, to be sure. But what bugged me about this story was the artist's subterfuge, his duplicity, the sneaky way he cast his own shadow over the former president in the name of art and history. (He also left out Clinton's wedding ring). Certainly it can be argued that one role of an artist is to offer commentary on current events; but the role of an artist selected by the president as his official portrait painter, and then commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery to carry out the president's wish, is, I would argue, representation without embellishment or elaboration. One wonders what Shanks might have snuck into Reagan's portrait (allusions to the Iran-Contra affair?) Or Prince Charles and Princess Diana's (the shadowy outline of Camilla Parker Bowles? Murky references to bulimia?).
For many years, my husband and I have made our living as artists. It is a physically challenging, financially unpredictable job but there are a great many perks, one of which is the opportunity to meet other artists whose art we admire, and sometimes to trade work. My husband and I built much of our art collection this way; because we know the people behind so much of what we've collected, it's as if we have decorated our home with friends.
About eight years ago, we met an artist in Dallas whose work we liked, and we offered to trade. We were thrilled when he said yes. We selected a painting of a cityscape, and he selected two of my husband's large photographs. We shook hands enthusiastically. As we turned to leave his booth, cityscape in hand, the artist leaned in and said proudly, "There's a swastika in the under painting."
My husband and I were speechless. The artist went on to say that he put swastikas in all of his under paintings, and that he was particularly delighted when an unsuspecting older Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, purchased one. Need I say that after we told him I was Jewish we returned the cityscape?
That experience in Dallas is what I thought about when I saw the story about Shanks and his devious inclusion of the blue dress in the commissioned portrait of Clinton. Like our Dallas artist's covert swastikas, Shanks's covert dress shadow strikes me as less a lesson in history (as Shanks would have us call it) and more a lesson in cowardice: a man wielding an impotent knife the only way he knows how: secretly, weakly, and ineffectually. The wounding was intended for Clinton. But as an artist—and a human being—who values integrity, I feel a kind of referred pain.
Dana Lise Shavin's book The Body Tourist was published by Little Feather Books last November. She is a past panelist and workshop presenter at The Gathering.


Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18 concludes with Arjuna proposing his wish to understand the purpose of renunciation. Giving up of activities that are based on material desire is what great learned men call the renounced order of life or 'sannyasa'. And giving up the results of all activities is what the wise call renunciation or 'tyaga'. Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance purify even the great souls. These should be performed as a matter of duty without attachment or any expectation of result. According to the Vedanta, there are five causes for the accomplishment of action--the place of action i.e. the body, the performer, the various senses, the many different kinds of endeavour, and ultimately the Supersoul. Whatever the right or wrong action a man performs by body, mind or speech is caused by the five factors. The Lord emphasises what actions lead to the modes of goodness and darkness and the three kinds of happiness by which the conditioned soul enjoys and by which he sometimes comes to an end of all distress. Brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras are distinguished by the qualities born of their own natures in accordance with the material modes. Krishna reiterates how to elevate to the position of self-realisation and enter the kingdom of God. Arjuna declares finally that he is free from doubt and prepared to act according to His instructions.
O mighty-armed Arjuna, according to the Vedanta there are five causes for the accomplishment of all action. Now learn of these from Me.


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On Queerness, Subversion, Autonomy, and Catharsis: B.R. Sanders' Ariah Reinvents the Bildungsroman
Foz Meadows
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Some books are so completely an experience within themselves, so wholly another world—a world that takes up residence beneath your skin, like an inverse tattoo, indelible and sacred—that it's impossible to fully describe their impact. For me, B.R. Sanders' Ariah is such a book. I can tell you I cried three times while reading it, twice in a gasping way where I physically shook; and they were happy tears, too, the kind that spring up when the right words in the right order and context burst in your heart like a comet.
I can tell you that Ariah embodies the true potential of Bildungsroman in terms of the protagonist's journey to adulthood, and that its intelligent, powerful, emotive discussion of gender, sexuality, culture, racism, imperialism, language, family, love, autonomy and personhood, among other things, is evocative of the best aspects of both Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice. That these books have been nominated for, and won, some of the most prestigious awards in the field should, I hope, convey my full meaning: that Ariah deserves a place among them. But none of that tells you how it made me feel.
Ariah, the novel's titular protagonist and narrator, is a Semadran elf living within the Qin empire, a newly industrial power expanding across the world by dint of factory labour and railways. Raised in a small township outside Rabatha, the story begins with Ariah's journey to the city to study magic with his appointed mentor, Dirva, of whom he knows little besides his gifts and name. The culture shock this entails is immediately apparent: suddenly, Ariah is a minority, visibly so, and subject to all the institutional Qin brutality this entails. Yet he is also very much a product of the same repressive culture that the Qin enforce: so much so that, on first meeting Dirva, who is mixed race—as, for that matter, is Ariah himself, though far less obviously, such that he's internalised a mistrust of his own heritage—he hesitates to even speak to him:
"When you're very young and you're different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you. But there was Dirva… His blood was so muddled that my mother's suspicions took root. I didn't answer. It was the strangest thing, but I felt when I saw him that I'd seen him before. I knew I hadn't, but I felt it anyway. It made me trust him less."
Even within the first chapter, the contrast is striking. Only pages earlier, Ariah is horrified at his treatment by the Qin—"I was one of exactly seven elves on that train, and all of us were detained, and all of us were robbed"—yet here, we learn there's also enough of a racial and cultural difference between different types of elves, and enough of an ingrained bigotry about those differences, that the irony passes Ariah by. Though a small example by the standards of the novel, this dissonance nonetheless sets the tone for the trajectory of Ariah's personal growth: the steady erasure of internalised self-hated and small-mindedness in the face of a larger, more complex world than his younger self ever knew existed.
With Dirva, Ariah is set to learn how to manage his joint magical gifts: like his mentor, he's both a mimic and a shaper, the former ability granting a facility with languages as well as spoken impersonations, while the latter is rather more complex. Shapers are empaths, able to read the feelings of strangers. Within Ariah's silver elf culture, they often work as matchmakers, but aren't allowed to marry, the peculiarities of their gift the subject of taboos and secrecy. For the same reason, shapers, and especially untrained shapers—those who, like Ariah, have internalised the need to hide and downplay their possession of the gift, even among their own people—are feared by the Qin, their invasive and misunderstood magic cited as one of the many "justifications" for elvish mistreatment. Ariah, therefore, remains in denial about his gift; as, indeed, he denies many true things about himself in the early sections, having been essentially raised to fear or loathe these integral parts of his identity.
As the novel progresses, however, we come to see Ariah's shaping ability as a metaphor, not only for his sexuality, but his personality as a whole. When Ariah finally does try to learn to control his shaping, the problem he has—which is what ultimately drives him to seek further mentoring in the first place—is an inability to separate himself from those he reads. He becomes subsumed in, consumed by, other people: by their needs, their desires, their magic. He can't build the necessary walls to divide himself from the feelings of others, nor break the usual, simple charms of attraction that are part and parcel of his new environment. His sense of self is utterly diminished, the problem a mirror for his relationship with Semadran culture, whose strictures have crowded out his ability to acknowledge his own desires.
Before all this, however, Ariah's first step towards realising himself begins, not with Dirva's teachings, but with Dirva's family. Called home to the City because his favourite father—his da, rather than his pa, a terminology set to distinguish coparent from sire—is dying, Dirva gives Ariah the choice to accompany him. Though startled by the revelation of Dirva's red elvish family arrangements, Ariah agrees, and so begins, quite literally, the journey of his life.
Written in seven parts and spanning well over a decade, Ariah is at once concise and sprawling, intimate and vast. Sanders writes with exquisite style, in terms of both prose and structure. It's a not infrequent failing of narratives encompassing such a long period that the timeskips often feel abrupt or misplaced, either dragging the reader away from what felt like a consequential moment to an inconsequential one, or else leaping so far ahead that the characters become unrecognisable from one chapter to the next. Ariah has none of these problems: Sanders knows exactly where to cut and where to dig in, and though the progression of Ariah's life feels natural throughout, the symmetry and catharsis of the conclusion is breathtaking.
Throughout the novel, Ariah's repression and consequent fear of being outed, both magically and sexually, is a constant theme. On learning of Dirva's longstanding relationship with a man, Liro—and still newly startled by the prospect of his own romantic feelings for Sorcha, Dirva's younger brother—Ariah has the following fraught exchange with his mentor:
"'I didn't know. And I-I thought… it's strange here because sometimes you're still Semadran and sometimes you aren't. And if it had happened in the Empire, I thought you'd, uh, that you'd disapprove. Or, worse. You'd send me back to Ardijan, and people would know, and I'd be pushed out. Because that's what we do, and that's how we think.'
He looked at me. The brightness of his eyes in that moment was harsh, forbidding. 'No, Ariah, that's how you think.'
'No! No, I mean to say that's how Semadrans think.'
'No, that's how you think. You never stopped to wonder. You never questioned. You took what they told you, and you drank it in. You stand there, you who will never know, and you tell me that's just how Semadrans think. Not all Semadrans are the same, Ariah.'"
At the same time, Ariah is also learns the extent to which language is a reflection of culture, and how being able to speak the former doesn't automatically grant him a true understanding of the latter. He first observes this in the City, on meeting Dirva's extensive family network:
"I was fluent in Athenorkos. I thought that meant I understood what those terms meant. I thought, as I stood outside the door that first evening with Sorcha, that my fluency with the language meant little would surprise me. But everything about these people surprised me."
It's a contradiction also expressed in Ariah's relationship with teaching language to others. On his return to Rabatha from the City, he's given a position teaching Lothic and Athenorkos to largely indifferent, predominantly Qin students—in fact, only one person in his class is elvish, a woman a decade his senior called Shayat. Though their relationship is initially prickly, tempestuous, they steadily wear into friendship through Ariah's provision of private tutorial sessions; but prior to this, it's Shayat alone who criticises his teaching methods, despite the fact that, as an elf in a Qin institution, Ariah has no ability to change how he presents his material:
"'Is this all the classes are to be?' she asked. 'Just lectures?'
'That is how the Qin conduct them, yes.' At least, that is how Dirva conducted his classes, and he had had no complaints as far as I knew.
'What a stupid way to do it. How will you know we've learned anything? How can we learn a language if all you do is explain it to us in Qin?'"
As with so much in this novel, it's a small point hinting at a larger one. Throughout the story, the Qin presence in Ariah's life, and the lives of those around him, is a constant background threat; yet even when their menace is brought to the foreground through acts of institutional violence or corruption, Sanders is always clear to keep the narrative emphasis on how these actions affect and feel to those oppressed, rather than giving a platform to the oppressors. As such, we see the Qin entirely through the eyes of those they've conquered, never on their own terms: they remain, not alien exactly, but impregnable, visible primarily as a system of rules and biases expressed through the actions of individuals. That these actions include police brutality against minorities targeted because of race and sexual orientation only makes the novel more relevant; the Qin are never strawmen, never cartoonish, but brutally, frighteningly, bureaucratically real in their casual dehumanisation of those they deem other, even while employing them.
(Interestingly, this sets Ariah apart from The Goblin Emperor and Ancillary Justice: whereas Addison and Leckie follow uniquely sympathetic outsiders embedded in positions of high authority, thereby addressing how empire can be changed from within by those in power, Sanders focusses exclusively on how empire is subverted, felt and endured by those to whom such power is denied, whether they live within the empire or without its ostensible control.)
And thus, a moment of glorious catharsis in the final third of the book, when Ariah—having been forcibly conscripted to teach Droma to captains in the Qin army, the better to aid their violent, slave-taking expansion into the territory of the gold elves—is able to use the same system Shayat initially chides him for replicating to his own advantage:
"I bided my time, and I taught the captains Droma. They were not very good at it; it's a strange language to someone who only knows Qin. I taught them badly, though, in that way they are used to. Lectures, just lectures. The Butcher sent them out into the grasslands on forays, or brought collected gold slaves to test their language acquisition, and grew more and more frustrated when they remained far from fluent. But I taught the way he had been taught, the way they had all always been taught, which works well for maths and spelling and history and very badly for foreign languages. He begrudgingly saw no fault in me. He demoted captains at such a rate and with such a vengeance that promotion to captaincy was met with condolences."
What makes this such a particularly successful Bildungsroman is the difference between Ariah at the start of the novel and Ariah at the end. As he's narrating from the position of someone looking back on his life, we're given periodic clues that hint at where he ends up, but even so, the transition from one point to the next is extraordinary. On his first visit to the City, Ariah is so terrified of his own sexuality—so closeted and so new to the possibility that anyone could be otherwise—that he thinks of queerneess as deviancy, describing not only Dirva and Sorcha in such terms, but himself, too. But by the end of the book and his time with the gold elves, he happily takes sexual partners regardless of gender; indeed, as Ariah learns early on—but, as with Athernorkos, doesn't fully appreciate until later—in Droma culture, there is no linguistic distinction between male and female:
"It took me some time to parse it, but it became increasingly clear that the Droma did not understand themselves as men or women, but simply as people. The slaves in the city, likely as a means of survival, acknowledged, that we divided ourselves as such, and they must have understood that we divided them that way, too, but in the conversations I overheard they only ever used variations on the word voe—the Droma word for 'person'—to refer to other Droma and themselves… I wanted very much to understand it, but it was elusive and exotic and always just out of my reach. I couldn't help but gender them while listening: that one is a male person who is speaking to a female person, went my thoughts."
Having thus begun as a Semadran imposing his own upbringing on both a foreign language and its speakers, by the time Ariah finally meets the Droma in person, he has evolved considerably:
"I took a very small, very slow step towards the child. I remembered the strangeness of Droma gender. I tried very hard to ignore all the signs of biological sex, to see the child as a person, as voe… The words were easy, but the seeing was hard. It took a very long time before it was natural, and even then it was hard."
It's in these later sections particularly that the comparison to Ancillary Justice comes most clear, as, in keeping with this aspect of Droma language and culture, Sanders uses, not he or she or they, but ve and vis and vim as universal pronouns by which to refer to all the gold elves. Just as with Leckie's Radchaai, the reader is put into the position of having to consider these characters sans our usual concept of gender; but whereas Leckie's default use of the word she encourages us to first assume female rather than male, despite being a deliberate stand-in for an actual gender-neutral pronoun, Sanders encourages us to see further than that. This might, in fact, be the first published novel I've ever read to use alternate pronouns, and it does so in such a way—and at such a point in the story—that the reader's introduction to and acceptance of them mirror's Ariah's own.
Sanders has many strengths as a writer, but arguably their greatest one is their keen understanding of and insight into relationships. The complexities of the bonds between Sorcha and Dirva, Dirva and Ariah, Ariah and Sorcha and Shayat are gorgeously rendered: poignant observations that resonate all the more profoundly for how often they sneak up on you within the general flow of Ariah's narration. Consider this description of his relationship with Sorcha, for instance:
"He was my roots. I woke next to him and knew, with unwavering certainty, that I was more myself when he was there beside me. That with him it was not a matter of getting swept away, or lost: he pulled the slippery, shy me-ness to the surface."
Of a significant conversation with Shayat, he reflects, "It's one of those indelible memories that serves to organise a remembered life," which is one of the most perfect encapsulations of that phenomenon I've ever read. There are many such asides—about grief, about family, about love; so much so that I can't pick out a favourite. Sufficed to say that the relationships in Ariah are complicated and rich, and I loved every minute of it.
Speaking as a queer reader, and given especially my recent wariness around the opening chapters of Seth Dickinson's forthcoming The Traitor Baru Cormorant—my thoughts on which, interestingly enough, were what prompted Sanders to offer me a review copy of Ariah—I feel it important to state that, though this is a novel which discusses oppression and homophobia, both internalised and from external authorities, it isn't a queer tragedy; nor, significantly, is it a story which dwells on abuse. Though there are times, for instance, when Ariah is forced to work for the Qin in ugly capacities, these sections are given in brief, allowing us to understand their impact on him without being forced to endure their tension by proxy.
This is an important distinction to make: though Sanders doesn't shy away from either acknowledging or incorporating brutal realities, a conscious decision is made to render them, not at a remove, which implies emotional detachment, but non-graphically, succinctly. Unlike Baru Cormorant, therefore, Ariah is a novel about oppression written for those who already understand that such evils exist, and who, rather than wanting to wallow in every horrific nuance of this fact, would rather see them overcome, not with violence and retribution, but steadily, personally, through the subversive construction of loves and hopes and families that defy the categorisation of bigots.
As such, the only moment in the book that gave me pause comes during Ariah's shaper training, when the combination of his magical openness and his susceptibility to being charmed leaves him vulnerable to sexual predation. If someone charms him, and if he feels an attraction to them, he becomes physically unable to say no, waking afterwards with few and muddled memories of the encounter. Sometimes he initiates these encounters, but other times, he doesn't, and while the word rape is never used to describe what happens, the hollowness and shame he feels afterwards—coupled with the fact that some people actively seek him out for sex this way—make it feel more applicable than not.
The fact that this isn't described as rape is not, as is sometimes lamentably the case, due to any authorial failure to recognise this as a possibility; indeed, Sanders includes several lucid, powerful discussions of sexual consent, especially between Ariah and Sorcha, where the latter is shown to be scrupulously careful of the former's negative experiences. Rather, it reads as being a consequence of this selfsame desire to acknowledge abuse without dwelling on it, coupled with the fact that Ariah, as narrator, doesn't think to apply the word himself. Which, obviously, is by Sanders' design, and therefore a conscious decision: it struck me as a potentially problematic elision, and yet also an understandable one, given the context of the character, his conflicted relationship with both sexuality and language, and the care otherwise taken to reassure the reader on the issue of consent. Your mileage may vary as to whether or not it bothers you, but in a novel this strong, it's a comparatively small thing, and while I made a note of it, my love and enjoyment of the book remained undiminished.
There's so much more I could say about Ariah—about the fantastic, powerful characterisation of Shayat; about Sorcha's fluid, unashamed expression of gender and sexuality; about the nested complexities of Dirva's relationships with his family and lovers; about the symmetry between Ariah's life and Dirva's, foreshadowed at the outset yet so gorgeously developed,it still took me by surprise—but ultimately, I couldn't do it justice without dissecting the entire novel, spoilers and quotes and all. It's a similar reaction, in fact, to my recent love of Sense8, of which I am a devoted, happily unobjective fan. Ariah is one of the most powerful and personally significant books I've ever read, and while I can't guarantee that such an emotive reaction will be anything near a universal one, I will nonetheless remain firm in my advocacy of it. Ariah is an intelligent, powerful, skilfully written, diverse novel—exactly the kind of thing we need to see more of in SFF—and as such, I have every intention of nominating it for a Hugo Award in 2016.
Foz Meadows is a bipedal mammal with delusions of immortality. As well as being the author of Solace and Grief and The Key to Starveldt, she reviews for A Dribble Of Ink and Strange Horizons, and is a contributing writer for The Huffington Post and Black Gate; her writing has also appeared at The Mary Sue and The Book Smugglers, and in 2013, she was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. She like cheese, geekery, writing, webcomics and general weirdness. Dislikes include Hollywood rom-coms, liquorice and waking up.
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For all its granola posturing, Asheville is certifiably awful at recycling. Oh, the volume's there — Buncombe County sent 600 tons a month to area recycling plants in 2018. But when it comes to quality, we're apparently collectively well-intended dolts.
It happens when you're not sure if something's recyclable — if you can't find that pesky little number on your plastic ICEE top, or aren't 100 percent on what wax paper is made of — but you chuck it in anyway in the hopes that it can be repurposed. Eric Bradford, director of operations for GreenWorks, estimates that curbside services pick up 300 tons of trash mixed in with recycling a month — so, half of the things Asheville recycles aren't actually recyclable. Don't do that, Asheville. That's how entire batches of material get ruined.
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Composting reduces organic material into rich, fertile soil, which is in much higher demand than the inferior plastics Asheville recycling cranks out. It's a forgiving and user-friendly process. You look at your trash, thank it for its service, and ask, "were you ever alive?" If the answer is yes, it's compostable. Paper towel used to mop up chili spill? Compostable. Pizza box with plenty of grease? Compostable. Meat, bones, dairy, coffee grounds? Compostable. It's hard to mess up.
Estimates say composting organic materials could reduce total landfill input by 60 percent. Everything from landscape clippings to paper plates can be rerouted from the landfill to the farm, and it's a great way to reduce food waste if your household's not as keen on leftovers — as my grandmother always said, "We Americans like to chill our trash for a couple days before we throw it away."
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Most municipalities don't offer composting as a public utility, but local companies will do the heavy lifting for you for a nominal fee. (Full disclosure: I've signed up for a composting service that costs about $20 a month. I think of it as my environmental tithe.) Services that collect organic waste right at your door include CompostNow, Compost Asheville and WormaCulture, which offer services with different pickup schedules and prices. Both CompostNow and Danny's Dumpster serve businesses and restaurants.
Asheville resident Ann McLellan uses CompostNow at her Kenilworth residence and was impressed by how dramatically composting reduced her household's environmental impact. "Together with recycling, we have almost no 'regular' garbage go to the landfill," McLellan said.
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Doctors warn of health problems from digital TV transmissions.
Three German medical practitioners have written an open letter to the President of the United States warning of the health risks of radiation from digital TV broadcasts as the country prepares to phase out analogue transmissions.
"The risk associated with terrestrial digital broadcast television transmitters is unacceptable," wrote Drs Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam, Christine Aschermann and Markus Kern.
The doctors refer to health problems that developed within a 20 kilometer radius of two digital TV antennas after they were turned on in Hessian Rhoen, Germany.
They included "constant headaches, pressure in the head, drowsiness, sleep problems, inability to think clearly, forgetfulness, nervous tensions, irritability, tightness in the chest, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, depressive mood, total apathy, loss of empathy, burning skin, inner burning, leg weakness, pain in the limbs, stabbing pain in various organs, weight increase".
In addition to these symptoms, the doctors reported suicide, the disappearance of birds from the area and changes in animal behaviour.
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"In Germany we see strong evidence of a direct temporal association between the start-up of terrestrial digital broadcast television and the occurrence of severe health symptoms," their letter continues.
The German doctors attribute the risks of digital TV to the wide band of frequencies that it covers. "A channel is 7.8 MHz wide."
Australia is set to begin phasing out analogue TV transmissions in Victoria during 2010 and the transition to digital TV will be completed by the end of 2013.
According to Dr Lindsay Martin from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), digital TV operates at similar power to analogue TV.
The difference between the two systems is in how the signal is distributed across the frequency bands. In analogue transmissions most of the power is transmitted on a single frequency with lower-power bands of energy distributed either side of it. However, in digital TV the energy is distributed fairly evenly over a wide band of frequencies.
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ARPANSA's views the health impacts of radiofrequency radiation from digital TV in the same way that it views them from other sources. "Broadcast towers produce weak radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic energy (EME) exposure levels in the everyday environment. The weight of national and international scientific opinion is that there is no substantiated evidence that RF EME emissions associated with living near a broadcast tower poses a health risk." 1
In their letter of 12 February the German doctors requested that President Obama stop the introduction of digital TV scheduled for completion on 17 February. However, there was no indication that the US was listening.
On 13 February, the US Congress implemented a DTV Delay Act which extended the transition period from analogue to digital TV till 12 June. "Congress extended the transition date in order to permit analog service to continue until consumers have had additional time to prepare." 2
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Cotia is een stad en gemeente in de Braziliaanse deelstaat São Paulo. De gemeente telt 182.045 inwoners (schatting 2009).
Ze ligt ten westen van de stad São Paulo aan de rivier Cotia (rio Cotia), een zijrivier van de Tietê.

Geschiedenis
Cotia werd gesticht in 1580 en was in de 17e eeuw betrokken bij de expedities van de Bandeirantes, zoals Antônio Raposo Tavares.
Cotia is een zelfstandige gemeente sinds 2 april 1856.

Aangrenzende gemeenten
De gemeente grenst aan Carapicuíba, Embu, Ibiúna, Itapecerica da Serra, Itapevi, Jandira, Osasco, São Lourenço da Serra, São Paulo, São Roque, Taboão da Serra en Vargem Grande Paulista.

Bezienswaardigheden
Er is ten oosten van het stadscentrum een grote boeddhistische tempel, de Templo Zu Lai, met tuin en school, van de Fo Guang Shan-stroming.

Externe link
  Website van de gemeente Cotia

Gemeente in São Paulo
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"We are letting him down at the moment in terms of the performances we are giving in a 90-minute spell, so we need to be doing more for him.
"It is difficult when things aren't going well but we've got another game coming round in a week's time, we've got to work ourselves on the training pitch and start believing in each other's ability.
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Black Cultural Festival, West Berlin (1986)
The Black Cultural Festival was organised by Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre in March 1986 in West Berlin. It consisted of dance and theatre performances, live music, symposiums, exhibitions, and films. The venues were the Theatermanufaktur am Halleschen Ufer from March 3-16, music – dance – theatre; Hochschule der Künste Berlin on March 11, symposium; Kino Arsenal from March 17-23, film. According to Donald Muldrow Griffith it was the precursor to the "Black International Cinema Berlin" film festival that has run since 1991.
Donald Muldrow Griffith on the Black Cultural Festival 1986 and The Black International Cinema Berlin (October 2020):
"The Black International Cinema Berlin began as a result of the first historical Black Cultural Festival in Europe, produced and directed by Fountainhead® Tanz Théâtre from March 3-23, 1986 in West Berlin, Germany. The contributors were mostly Black artists, filmmakers and intellectuals from Africa and the African Diaspora presenting a spectrum of Black art, Black cinema, Black thinking and life, and through seminars discussing their various political, social and cultural experiences. The festival offered a musical homage based upon the life experience of one of the great tap dancers, Carnell Lyons. Afterwards, the inspiring and exhausting journey led us to think and discuss what aspect of this experience could be continued. So, with the support of the Arsenal Cinema, Erika Gregor and other persons, we decided to continue an aspect of the cultural festival, which developed into Black International Cinema Berlin. The name was adopted from the parent undertaking and so, Black International Cinema Berlin, which was presented during the 3rd week of the Black Cultural Festival was initiated and continued until today, 2020. We thankfully managed to continue our inspiration."
Donald Muldrow Griffith
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"Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history, by the positive or negative influence which it exerts on the evolution of relationships between man and his environment, among men or groups of men within a society, as well an among different societies."
Amilcar Cabral
"National Liberation and Culture"
From March 3rd to the 23rd of 1986 the first Berlin BLACK CULTURAL FESTIVAL will take place, organized and directed by FOUNTAINHEAD DANCE THEATRE. As a group of African and Afro-American artists and intellectuals we have a firm belief that culture is the most essential and dynamic aspect of a peoples identity, human achievement, and ability to contribute to world civilization. We hope, that this festival will serve to demonstrate the fundamental continuities that unite African peoples and will contribute 19 a greater understanding of the cultural achievements of Black people with the german public.
Culture is the sum total of a peoples life style, their values and cumulative collective critical choices in everyday life. This is realized on its highest level as art, because artists are the cultural workers who make the highest synthesis of the entire people. The life style of a people is always a celebration of life rooted in their necessity to survive and prosper against all obstacles. This means that culture is inherently an instrument of liberation by which a nation achieves emancipation, in nature and in society. Black culture is a great achievement as it has enabled African peoples to survive slavery, colonialism and all forms of cultural aggression including forced assimilation.
There is a great historical legacy for our current efforts. Since World War II, beginning with the Fifth Pan-African Conference (Manchester, England 1945) led by W.E.B. DuBois (USA), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) and George Padmore (Trinidad), Black intellectuals from Africa and the USA have organized confererces and festivals to focus on the contributions of Black culture and artisti< achievement. This was continued through the Black Conference of Artists and Writers in Paris, 1956 led by Alioune Diop (Senegal), Frantz Fanon (Martinique) and Richard Wright (USA) and most recently in the World Festivals of Black Culture, first in Dakar, Senegal 1966 and then Lagos, Nigeria (FESTAC) in 1977.
We believe that it is important to have such a conference/festival tradition begin in Berlin as well as it should in every major city of the world. (In this light we salute the 5th World Book Fair/Festival of Black and Third World Peoples being held in London, England at the same time as our festival in Berlin.)
Berlin was the host city of the conference in 1884/85 that consolidated the pattern of colonial rule over Africa and in Germany racism reached its greatest heights as public policy – the denial of not only cultural achievements but also basic humanity of Black people. On the other hand Berlin also has examples of resistance to this colonial/imperial legacy. Berlin is now a world city of great cultural diversity including forms of Black Culture.
We present this festival as Black people for Black people. It demonstrates the necessary element of self-determination in Black people themselves establishing Black culture as identity, achievement and as a contribution to German culture and world civilization. We present this festival for all of Berlin including the guests in this city.
We welcome everyone!
Festival Programme
Source: "Black Cultural Festival, Programme Brochure" (1986) Each One Teach One (EOTO) Archive, Berlin. All images are reproduced by permission of Dr Donald Muldrow Griffith.
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