A new arena rights deal between Scotiabank and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, worth a reported $800 million, will see Toronto's Air Canada Centre get a new name.
For Scotiabank, the attraction was simple.
In a country where hockey is king, having your name up in lights on the home of the Maple Leafs is where you want to be. Especially when the building also houses the Toronto Raptors, has a prime downtown location and is a primo concert venue.
As a result, the Air Canada Centre is becoming Scotiabank Arena next July when a 20-year agreement between Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment and Scotiabank kicks in.
"The reality is hockey is super-important to us," Scotiabank's chief marketing officer John Doig said in an interview. "Over the past 10 years, we've invested a lot of time and effort becoming relevant to consumers who like hockey and are engaged in hockey whether it be at the NHL level all the way down to the grassroots level across the country."
Doig says the naming rights package, when compared to other arena agreements given what they are worth today factoring in escalators, "probably puts our deal second or third on the (North American) list."
David Hopkinson, MLSE's chief commercial officer, called the deal "record-setting."
Air Canada was interested in retaining the naming rights but the cost had apparently spiralled out of its price range. It will remain the official airline partner of both the Maple Leafs and Raptors under an eight-year agreement.
Scotiabank is already a partner with the NHL, branding Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey and Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada. Official banking partner of the Leafs, it had previously built into its contract with the team to have a crack at the arena naming rights if Air Canada did not renew.
The bank's interest was peaked when it became clear that others also were eager.
Scotiabank Arena is not to be confused with Scotiabank Saddledome (Calgary Flames), Scotiabank Centre (QMJHL's Halifax Mooseheads) or Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium (Vancouver Canadians, the Northwest League).
Not to mention Scotiabank Place, which used to be the name of the Ottawa Senators' arena. The Sens' home is now called the Canadian Tire Centre.
Compare that to the home of the Tampa Bay Lightning, which started as the Ice Palace in 1996 before becoming the St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa Bay Times Forum and now the Amalie Arena.
Prior to the ACC, the Leafs had called Maple Leaf Gardens home since 1931 — winning 11 Stanley Cups from 1932 to 1967.
Expect the Scotiabank logo to replace that of Air Canada atop the Bay Street building as well as under the jumbo scoreboard inside.
This deal also includes philanthropic opportunities with the MLSE Foundation, and a digital collaboration between MLSE and the Scotiabank Digital Factory.
The arena is also home to the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League and a bustling stage for music.
"In Canada there is no busier place — and in a very important market for us" said Doig.
Toronto FC, also owned by MLSE, flies the flag of rival bank BMO. The Major League Soccer team wears the BMO name on its jersey and plays at BMO Field.
"Our relationship with BMO, BMO Field and TFC is unaffected by this announcement," said Hopkinson.
Rogers, which owns baseball's Blue Jays, boasts the Rogers Centre (Jays), Rogers Place (Edmonton Oilers) and Rogers Arena (Vancouver Canucks).
Those whose heads are spinning with arena name changes can take solace in the fact that they don't live in Naruto, Japan, where the local venue is named Pocari Sweat Stadium after a sports drink.
South of the border, Louisville has the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville while Phoenix has the Talking Stick Resort Arena.
And raise a glass to English soccer team Witton Albion FC, which used to play at Bargain Booze Stadium, now known as Wincham Park.


What Are the Applications of Data Science in E-Commerce?
Data Science plays a vital role in the success and progress of e-commerce businesses. Just like any other businesses, e-commerce also relies on information collected and provided by customers. This information is critical for increasing profitability of e-commerce business, as this information or data will enlighten the retailer about its customer needs & demands and how the customer is interacting & responding towards its product.
Whenever a customer opens the e-commerce website and click on any item to either know about it or purchase it the information (data) related to that specific click is tracked, catered and stored in the retailer database, which will be sorted and analyzed later by the retailer to extract the productive and crucial information about consumer's behavior. Without Data Science, it would have been impossible for the retailers to learn about what the customer is looking for and when do he/she needs it.
How Is Data Science Helpful for E-Commerce?
Data Science is like a gold mine for the retailers because it provides all the necessary information about the consumer. This information can be used to gain the attention of new customers as well. The data in e-commerce business has been tracked via multiple "Trackable Points" which are associated with customer's mouse clicks or touchpoints such as viewing an item and adding it to cart to make a purchase, clicking an ad or simply ratting a specific product or service. All the useful & productive data is then extracted from this massive data by identifying and using specific patterns. The business strategies, objectives, and achievements are then analyzed and future predictions are made under the light of this information.
Now let's review all these data science applications in detail and learn about how the retailers can benefit from these applications.
Customers are the key players in any business, therefore the focus of the business revolves around the needs and demands of customers. The customers are of 3 types, the new ones, the regular ones aka valuable customers, and the churn customers. Data science aids the retailers with information on all customers.
The valuable customers are the ones who affect the revenue of the business greatly. Hundreds of people visits and checks the e-commerce website in a day and it is necessary to identify the "Valuable/Potential" customers of your business. The retailers can predict and identify their potential customers by using "Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) Modelling". This is a data science approach which not only identifies each potential customer but helps to predict the impact on future revenue. This approach also helps to predict the average future revenue, purchase values, whether an individual remains the customer or not, and how often they are making purchases within a certain time period.
The retailer can also observe the consumer behavior with LTV modelling. All these facts and information improves the marketing strategies of the business.
The new customers are expensive and difficult to acquire. And therefore the e-commerce businesses try to maintain relationships with their existing consumers. To retain the existing customers the business need to consider and put first the needs of customers. A model of data science is implemented as a "Customer Retention Strategy" driven by data, the Churn Model.
This model identifies the reasons why potential customers stop making purchases and using the products/services provided by the retailer. The model calculates & measure the churn risk and probability of individual customers impacting the revenue in a given length of time. With this information, the business can initiate the "Customer Retention Focused" email campaigns and make the customer desire changes in products/services.
Data science is quite valuable for increasing the sales of an e-commerce business. The e-commerce businesses today use "Recommendation Engines" which collects all the information on the products the customers are looking for. The recommendation engines use 'wish lists, recommendations' etc, based on browsing & purchasing activities of customers. These recommendation engines also measure the "Average Orders" of customers. With all this information, data science increase average sales driven by Intelligent Product Recommendations for e-commerce business.
A way to learn about customer behavior for product/services is via "Product Reviews" & "Rating" which contains useful information about the changes which customers want in the product/services. IT is difficult to extract the useful information out of hundreds or thousands of reviews and ratings. But Data science resolves this problem by offering techniques which sort and extracts the information useful for the business automatically. The data scientists use a set of techniques, known as "Natural Language Processing" to scrape out useful information out of hundreds of customer reviews. This technique allows them to learn about the reasons why a certain customer is rating their product from 1 star to 5 stars. This information is then used to improve the product/services by making necessary changes.
Data science uses various techniques to ensure the maximum consumer satisfaction. Data science allows the retailers to learn about the changes which they require to make in their products/services and timely update of features and specifications in their product to retain the positive customer impact on business revenue in a given length of time.
Although the future behavior and impact of consumers on business & revenue is uncertain data science still helps the retailers to predict the possible sales and strategies & preventive measures to retain the potential customer traffic for the business. Summing up all the discussion, data science brings great value to e-commerce business in multiple ways.


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Secured personal loan is actually an ancient form of financing and it dated back before the appearance of modern financial institutions and banks. During those eras, borrowers are allowed to draw specific funds only if they have the proper assets. Current lending policy is also based on this concept and due to its effectiveness, secured personal loans will see no decline. In fact, most borrowers choose the secured type of financing, because it is faster to obtain the loan and the overall interest rate is usually lower, compared to unsecured personal loans. In this case, borrowers often need to choose between various potential lenders; before they are able to get proper financing. However, there are some consequences of using secured personal loans, such as the apprehension that we may lose our home if we fail to repossess it after taking a refinancing.
Unsecured personal loans or personal loans without collateral shouldn't have a direct effect on our asset. However, this is compensated by stricter terms and much higher interest rate. It is obvious that if we want less strict terms and lower interest rates, then we should choose secured personal loans. It means that any loan with collaterals should be easy to repay due to much lower costs. But, it is important to know that some unscrupulous lenders could intentionally encourage consumers to choose secured loans, due to some hidden intentions. There are some degrees of risks associated with secured personal loans. It is important to be aware that secured loans can eventually become bad debt and this will give lenders an opportunity to acquire collaterals.
Nevertheless, we shouldn't have misplaced fears associated with secured personal loans. There are obvious benefits that can help us financially, if we choose and manage secured loans properly. The asset that we use as collateral should be stable enough so that it will be seen as having higher values. Lenders have different degree of leniency and this could be associated with reductions in risks. In secured personal loans, interest rate should be considered as the lowest. Typically, APR ranges between 6 percent and 25 percent. The collateral pledged towards secure loans should allow us to determine the proper APR. Real estate property and home should have the lowest APR. Title to motor vehicles should also allow us get reasonable interest rates.
Because house is immobile and progressively increases in value, it is one of the best collaterals for secured personal loans. Lenders will send an appraiser to define the value of our house, so they can determine the maximum amount that can be lent against it. In general, the maximum value that can be borrowed is always less than the equity of our house. We should have a good deal if it is about 90 percent of the maximum value of our house. The terms of repayment should be flexible enough to suit us and there are various options that we need to consider.


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Playtech is one of the biggest online gaming providers in the online casino world, and it just keeps growing. This week, the company has announced its plans to purchase online slots developer QuickSpin for over $55 million.
The deal will kick off with an initial payment of almost $30 million to Quickspin, when Playtech purchases 100% of the company's shares. The remaining payment will be based on Quickspin's EBITDA in 2017 and 2018. Overall, the deal will be worth six times Quickspin's income before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
Quickspin is a relatively new company in the online casino market – but the firm has been growing very quickly. Over the course of the past few years, Quickspin has developed over 20 games for real-money and play-money online casinos and, in 2015, the company generated profits of over $9 million.
By teaming up with Playtech, Quickspin can look forward to even more growth as its games will be able to reach a wider audience. Playtech has over 100 online casino partners, and Quickspin will certainly benefit from being exposed to even more prestigious operators in the gaming market.
"Quickspin is a fast-growing and leading supplier of the highest quality games to the highest quality operators, strengthening Playtech's position as the leading platform and content provider in the industry," says Mor Weizer, CEO of Playtech. "We look forward to working with the Quickspin team and to see the Quickspin brand continue to flourish within the Playtech family".
This is yet another great acquisition by Playtech, and the company continues to look for new partnerships with leading games developers and operators. It will be interesting to see what the next year brings for Playtech.


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Smoke from wildfire fills Yosemite Valley as officials urge people to 'get out'
Calley Cederlof Sheyanne N Romero
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Tourists, residents and some park employees were asked to leave Tuesday as heavy smoke settled into Yosemite National Park.
Officials announced they will close California 41 before Tunnel View, the road that goes north from Fresno into the heart of the park, at the height of summer tourist season.
Yosemite Superintendent Mike Reynolds said he can count on one hand how many times the park has closed. He called the highway "main artery" into the park, certainly from Southern California.
But as the Ferguson Fire, which began the night of July 13, continues to spread across mountainsides near Yosemite National Park, concern is mounting among officials.
► July 23:3,500 structures at risk as wildfire rages near Yosemite National Park
► July 22:Forest fires near Sequoia, Yosemite national parks grow
► July 18:Hot, dry weather hampers crews battling wildfire near Yosemite
The closure will be between Tunnel View and Chilnualna Falls and will last until Sunday. California 120 will remain open unless the fire pushes more closures.
"That is a crazy thing to manage with 2,000 people here right now," Reynolds said during a public meeting Tuesday morning. "Highway 41 is going to become a very dangerous place."
Tourists can stay overnight but need get out by Wednesday afternoon, he said.
On Tuesday morning, visitors Brad Lyons and Courtney Richard stopped for photos at Tunnel View, the spot where park visitors typically can take in Yosemite Valley and its famous landmarks, including El Capitan and Half Dome.
The pair had traveled from St. Louis and Tulsa to visit the park for the first time, they said.
► July 17:Ferguson Fire roars near Yosemite; some residents ordered to evacuate
► July 16:Yosemite wildfire doubles in size, could 'become a major threat'
As they stood at the edge of Tunnel View, they could hardly make out the far reaching mountains, which they said eerily resembled ghost ships in the distance. What was going to be a three-day visit quickly turned into two as Yosemite Valley filled with smoke and ash.
"When we saw that the visitor's center was closed, we knew it had to be bad," Lyons said. "(Park rangers) told us the air quality inside (the center) was just as bad as outside."
The fire, which started near California 140 east of El Portal, California, has been burning in the Sierra National Forest, causing heavy smoke to fill the park.
Much of the fire is burning in steep, rugged terrain with little to no access roads, firefighters said. Crews from across the USA are helping local firefighters battle the blaze, which has scorched 57 square miles, an area larger than the city of San Francisco.
Mandatory and advisory evacuations are in place in several areas, but no homes have been damaged or destroyed.
Once tourists are evacuated from the park, officials will decide whether employees also should leave.
Firefighters have contained about 25 percent of the blaze.
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There is a method or ratio we can use to do this and it is known as the "Rule of Thirds". There is nothing new about this and designer of many persuasions including artists, photographers and videographers use the rule in their projects. in this post I explain slide design using the rule of thirds.
The basic concept is to place elements in a certain position on the slide in order for the eyes somewhere to move. This is in contrast to placing an element in the centre of the screen which in many cases would be considered static with no where for the eyes to move. We are also placing elements on the slide where it is believed our eyes naturally want to focus when looking at an image.
The first thing we need to do is create some guides on the screen to assist us in placing the elements according. This is done by placing 2 lines horizontally and 2 lines vertically to create 9 equal sections on the screen. On PowerPoint guides can be permanently set up within the software itself. Gavin McMahon from has done the maths on this and the full explanation can be found on his blog here…….
Here at impact presentations we use a simple grid that can be placed on the slide as a guide and to help maintain consistency throughout the entire deck.
Once we have our guides in place we can now place our elements within the areas set up, or to attract the most interest place elements on the lines themselves. To attract the most interest the element or certain parts of it can be placed where the lines intersect or the crosshairs as I call them. Believe it or not these are called Power Points and are believed to be where our eyes naturally wants to focus when looking at an image.
There are many variations on how the rule can be used and we should not be restricted by it. At the end of the day is is just a guide. That being said it is a great guide and will not only attract interest but can also create some consistency when designing our slides.
Below are some examples of how the guides can be used when designing slides for our presentation.
Richard is a professional MC, presentation designer and coach and founder of Impact Presentations.
He is happily married with 3 children and currently lives on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland in Queensland, Australia.
Loves trekking, camping, coffee and generally hanging out with friends and trying new experiences.
Thanks Richard. I was going to ask how you move the slide elements with the grid on top, because my version of PPT doesn't work like that, but then I noticed you're using Keynote!
It's good that you showed diverse examples, and that you said it's not a rule to use at all costs.
You might be interested in this slide makeover I did. I'd be interested to hear your views, and by all means leave a link back to your own blog if you'd like to.
Yes I was using Keynote in that video. I do however design a lot in PowerPoint as that is what a majority of my clients use. To use the grid in PowerPoint I bring the elements to the front and increase the opacity so I can see the grid until I have finished editing.


Cottage Pitchfest is an annual by-invitation event where the L-SPARK Accelerator cohort, and select early-stage companies from our community, pitch their company to invited investors from Canada and the United States as well as to a number of corporate partners.
Attendees will sail through the Thousand Islands area by boat, while enjoying lunch and networking.
This is a private, invitation-only event but you can express your interest here.


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Charting the Divide Between Common and Civil Law
Thomas Lundmark
Offers an in-depth analysis of legal culture in common and civil law countries, including philosophical and methodical aspects
Examines law in Germany, the UK, Sweden, and the U.S., and uses the rich academic tradition of Germany as a benchmark against which other legal systems are measured
Identifies significant variations in the size of the judiciaries and of the role of lay judges and juries in the jurisdictions studied
Provides the reader with an analytical matrix through which to compare the four jurisdictions under study
Explores the contention that lawyers in other jurisdictions "think" differently about the law and offers results of a survey asking this quesion
What does it mean when civil lawyers and common lawyers think differently? In Charting the Divide between Common and Civil Law, Thomas Lundmark provides a comprehensive introduction to the uses, purposes, and approaches to studying civil and common law in a comparative legal framework. Superbly organized and exhaustively written, this volume covers the jurisdictions of Germany, Sweden, England and Wales, and the United States, and includes a discussion of each country's legal issues, structure, and their general rules. Professor Lundmark also explores the discipline of comparative legal studies, rectifying many of the misconceptions and prejudices that cloud our understanding of the divide between the common law and civil law traditions.
Students of international law, comparative law, social philosophy, and legal theory will find this volume a valuable introduction to common and civil law. Lawyers, judges, political scientists, historians, and philosophers will also find this book valuable as a source of reference. Charting the Divide between Common and Civil Law equips readers with the background and tools to think critically about different legal systems and evaluate their future direction.
CHAPTER ONE: The Discipline of Comparative Law
CHAPTER TWO: Comparative Legal Linguistics
CHAPTER THREE: Comparative Jurisprudence
CHAPTER FOUR: Lawyers
CHAPTER FIVE: Judges and Judiciaries
CHAPTER SIX: Lay Judges and Juries
CHAPTER SEVEN: Legal Reasoning
CHAPTER EIGHT: Statutes and their Construction
CHAPTER NINE: Judicial Precedents
Thomas Lundmark is Chair of Common Law and Comparative Legal Theory at the University of Münster, where he lectures on comparative law, jurisprudence, and legal methodology. He studied comparative literature in Uppsala and San Diego before embarking upon the study of law in Berkeley, Freiburg (Fulbright Scholar), and Bonn (Dr jur). After working as a lawyer in California, he served three consecutive years as a Fulbright Senior Professor in Bonn and Rostock. Professor Lundmark has published and lectured widely in German and English.
"Thomas Lundmark rightly challenges taxonomic and static appreciation of 'legal families' in the world and does so in the most effective manner, through detailed and informed appreciation of the institutions of specific jurisdictions. England, Sweden, Germany and the U.S.A. are here dynamically compared with one another in terms of prevailing legal philosophy, legal linguistics, legal actors and legal methods. The treatment is erudite and cosmopolitan, the conclusions irresistible. It is a splendid book." --H. Patrick Glenn, Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, McGill University
"In Charting the Divide Between Common and Civil Law, Thomas Lundmark explains what makes legal systems unique and questions the value of the conventional distinction between 'civil law' and 'common law' systems. He illustrates this through an impressive survey of scholarship, particularly on Germany and the USA, as well as England and Wales and Sweden. He offers a sophisticated picture of legal reasoning that includes the structure of language and jurisprudential traditions, professions, and the interpretation of statutes and precedents. He demonstrates convincingly that such a picture reveals the individuality of legal systems and the need to avoid traditional stereotypes in the classification of legal families." --John Bell, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, UK
"This book is different! It is not about comparison at the level of specific doctrines of private law such as contract or tort law. Instead, it reaches out to the structural level and touches the very core of the different approaches that we can discern between Common Law and Civil Law. Lundmark's book offers new and fascinating deeper insights even to a reader who has been engaged in comparative law from an academic as well as from a practical aspect for decades." --Professor Dr. Ingeborg Schwenzer, LL.M., Basel/Switzerland
Power & Rights in US Constitutional Law
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Wouter Dessein
The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law
Qiao liu
Regulation of the EU Financial Markets
Danny Busch and Guido Ferrarini
Digital Justice
Ethan Katsh and Orna Rabinovich-Einy
Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship
Eric Heinze
The Internal Market as a Legal Concept
Stephen Weatherill
The U.S.-Taiwan-China Relationship in International Law and Policy
Lung-chu Chen
Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law
Kristine Kalanges
Ignorance of Law
Douglas Husak
Tom Bingham and the Transformation of the Law
Mads Andenas and Duncan Fairgrieve
Stefanie Schmahl and Marten Breuer
Fatal Fictions
Alison L. LaCroix, Richard H. McAdams, and Martha C. Nussbaum
The Business of Judging
The late Tom Bingham
Private Regulation and the Internal Market
Mislav Mataija
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Law > European Union Law


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Art History & Criticism
Asian Art: An Anthology
Selected type: Hardcover
Rebecca Brown, Deborah S. Hutton
ISBN: 978-1-405-12240-5 May 2006 Wiley-Blackwell 548 Pages
Starting at just $71.75
Asian Art is the first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary scholarship on Asian art history.
Traces the rich artistic traditions in China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia across time periods, media, cultural contexts, and geography - from the terracotta armies of the First Emperor of Qin to late 20th-century installation art
Covers both imperially commissioned works and popular, vernacular art
Includes an accessible introduction which provides suggestions of thematic connections across the vast array of visual culture and historical time covered
Captures the diversity and depth of Asian art through primary documents - from inscriptions and imperial decrees to writings by artists and travellers - and through examples of the very best scholarship in the field
Features introductory material for each extract, an easy-to-navigate chronological structure, and has been extensively tested by the editors and their colleagues in classrooms.
Rebecca M. Brown is an Independent Scholar of South Asian visual culture from the eighteenth century to the present. She is author of Art for a Modern India, 1947–80 (2007).
Deborah S. Hutton is Assistant Professor of Art History at the College of New Jersey. She is the author of The Art of the Court of Bijapur (2006), winner of the College Art Association Millard Meiss Publishing Grant and the American Institute of Indian Studies Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in Indian Humanities.
Acknowledgments.
Series Editor's Preface.
Part I. Introduction.
Part II. South and Southeast Asia.
Selected Periods and Dates.
1. "Ashokan Edicts," from Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 1: Ainslie T. Embree, editor.
2. Selections from Stories of the Buddha and The Jataka: Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids and W.H.D. Rouse, translators.
3. "The Country of Khotan and the Image Procession" and "The Image Procession," from A Record of the Buddhist Countries: Fa-Hsien [Faxian].
4. "Varaha, the Boar," "Brahma, Vishnu and the Linga of Siva; Mt. Govardhana," "The Origin of the Goddess from the Gods," and "The Death of Mahisha, the Buffalo Demon" from Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas: Cornelia Dimmitt and J.A.B. van Buitenen, editors and translators.
5. Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the Large Relief at Mamallapuram.
Padma Kaimal.
6. Excerpts from Borobudur: Louis Frederic.
7. "Reading Love Imagery on the Indian Temple" from Love in Asian Art and Culture: Vidya Dehejia.
8. Excerpts from Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship.
Eleanor Mannikka.
9. "Akbar riding the elephant Havai " and "Akbar supervising the construction of Fatehpur Sikri" from The Akbar Nama of Abul Fazl: Henry Beveridge, translator.
10. Excerpts from The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India.
Wheeler M. Thackston, translator and editor.
11. Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival: Considerations of the Past in Imperial Mughal Tomb Architecture: Michael Brand.
12. "Timeless Symbols: Royal Portraits from Rajasthan 17th-19th Centuries" from The Idea of Rajasthan: Vishakha Desai.
13. "Indian Images Collected" from Lives of Indian Images: Richard Davis.
14. "Image as Presence," from From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum: Janet Gyatso.
15. Excerpts from Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon: Sandra Cate.
16. "The Artist as Charismatic Individual: Raja Ravi Varma" from Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Partha Mitter.
17. "The "East-West" Opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier" from Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India: Vikramaditya Prakash.
18. "Skyscraper Competition in Asia: New City Images and New City Forms" from Imaging the City: Larry R. Ford.
Part III. East Asia.
19. "The Nine Tripods and Traditional Chinese Concepts of Monumentality" from Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture: Wu Hung.
20. Shang and Zhou Bronze inscriptions, translated by Wu Hung and Deborah Sommer.
21. "A Magic Army for the Emperor" from Ten Thousand Things: Lothar Ledderose.
22. "The Tigress," from Once the Buddha Was A Monkey: Arya Sura's Jatakamala.
Arya Shura.
23. "The Six Laws of Xie He," from Some T'ang and Pre-T'ang Texts on Chinese Painting: William Reynolds Beal Acker, translator and editor.
24. "The Taming of the Shrew: Wang Hsi-chih ([Wang Xizhi], 303-361) and Calligraphic Gentrification in the Seventh Century" from Character and Context in Chinese Calligraphy: Eugene Y. Wang.
25. "Ise Jingu," from Architecture and Authority in Japan: William H. Coaldrake.
26. Proclamation of the Emperor Shomu on the Erection of the Great Buddha Image, from Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1.
27. "Of Nature and Art: Monumental Landscape," from Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th-14th Century: Wen C. Fong.
28. Guo Xi's writings on landscape painting.
Susan Bush and Hsio-Yen, Shih, translators and editors.
29. Jocho's statue of Amida at the Byodo-in and cultural legitimization in late Heian Japan: Samuel C. Morse.
30. "The Oak Tree," from The Tale of Genji: Murasaki Shikibu.
31. The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century: John M. Rosenfield.
32. "Symbolic Virtue and Political Legitimation: Tea and Politics in the Momoyama Period" from The Politics of Reclusion: Kendall H. Brown.
33. "Practices of Vision," from Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China.
Craig Clunas.
34. Excerpts from Chinese Imperial City Planning: Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.
35. Letters from European travelers about the Forbidden City: "A Jesuit in Beijing: Louis Lecomte" and "An English ambassador in Beijing: Aeneas Anderson".
36. "The Conventional Success of Ch'en Shu," from Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting: Marsha Weidner.
37. "Artistic Tradition and the Depiction of Reality: True-View Landscape Painting of the Chosen Dynasty," from Arts of Korea: Yi Song-mi.
38. The Meaning of Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture: Timon Screech.
39. "The Kizaemon Tea-bowl," from The Unknown Craftsman: Soetsu Yanagi.
40. Excerpts from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.
Mao Tse-tung.
41. Icons of Power: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution from Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China: Robert Benewick.
42. "Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Indépendant Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s" from Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky.
Alexandra Munroe.
43. Pseudo-languages: A Conversation with Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, and Jonathan Hay: Simon Leung.
44. "Believing is Seeing: Transforming Orientalism and the Occidental Gaze" from Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art: John Kuo Wei Tchen.
"Asian Art is a rich and very useful sourcebook that combines the voices of original authors and primary texts with some of the most interesting contemporary art historical studies." Richard Vinograd, Stanford University
"The choice of material in this anthology demonstrates why anyone interested in visual culture should carefully consider art produced in Asia. It wisely covers not just well-known traditions but also contemporary art practice." Janice Leoshko, University of Texas at Austin
The first comprehensive anthology of important primary documents and key contemporary scholarship on Asian art history.
Traces the rich artistic traditions in China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia across time periods, media, cultural contexts, and geography - from the terracotta armies of the First Emperor of Qin to late 20th-century installation art.
Covers both imperially commissioned works and popular, vernacular art.
Includes an accessible introduction which provides suggestions of thematic connections across the vast array of visual culture and historical time covered.
Features introductory material for each extract, an easy-to-navigate chronological structure, and has been extensively tested by the editors and their colleagues in classrooms
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AUGUSTO MANGINI P GOSSELIN WORLD TEMPERATURES
P. Gosselin: Mangini's Curves: Leading German Science Magazine Admits Stark Natural Climate Fluctuations Over Last 8000 Years
Tuesday, April 10th 2012, 1:36 AM EDT
Prof. Augusto Mangini of the University of Heidelberg in Germany is an expert for temperature reconstructions using stalactites and stalagmites.
He was allowed to speak a whole 15 minutes at the World Extreme Weather Congress in Hamburg last moth, where he presented some sobering results. These in turn were reported by the print edition of a leading German science news magazine Bild der Wissenschaft.
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne website.
His presentation was called: "Climate Curves in Comparison– Why There Are Such Large Differences".
In the current April 2012 issue of Bild der Wissenschaft, Klaus Jacob has a report "Klima in Kalk" (Climate in Limestone) where he describes the method and climatological relationships of stalactites that Mangini uses. Jacob writes:
[Mangini] has been working with stalactites and stalagmites for 15 years – and has come to an amazing conclusion: The natural climate fluctuations are are greater than what the science has previously assumed. This has consequences for the future, as the fluctuations overlap with the human impacts. Thus the continents will not necessarily always become, rather the trend could take a break, or even a temporary cooling is possible."
Don't you love how the main stream media, after years of being stuck on CO2, are finally waking up to REAL SCIENCE. Jacob continues:
[Using stalactites and stalagmites] Mangini has reconstructed the central European climate over the last 9000 years. Clear to see are the stark ups and downs with differences of about 2°C. […] Already on multiple occasions over the last 8000 years the temperature shot up 1°C within just 200 years. The temperature appears to fluctuate naturally more starkly than what the IPCC shows in its reports […] Mangini's curves now show […] the start of a cooling phase."
Fritz Vahrenholt's and Sebastian Lüning's Die kalte Sonne site writes that Jacob's article addressed some important points, which other German journalists are unfortunately too spineless to write about:
(1) The pre-industrial, post Ice Age period was characterized by natural climate fluctuations without the involvement of CO2.
(2) These natural fluctuations today still play a major role on our climate, which up to now has been played down.
(3) The IPCC models are thus not as perfect as they are often claimed to be.
(4) The warming stop since 2000 could continue, and even bring a modest cooling with it.
(5) Ocean cycles such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) or the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) will suppress the temperatures over the coming decades.
Die kalte Sonne site then expresses some disappointment that Jacob did not mention the likely cause of these past, stark climate fluctuations – cyclic solar activity. Here skeptics will have to be patient with the mainstream media. We cannot expect them to change overnight. Rome, after all, was not built in a day.
Prof. Mangini's presentation coincides with a recently released study that adds yet another straw to the camel's back. The study Holocene climate variability in North-Eastern Italy: potential influence of the NAO and solar activity recorded by speleothem data, authored by Scholz et al (co-authored by Mangini) concludes from the data:
This suggests that climate variability in Northern Italy was influenced by both solar activity and the NAO during the Holocene."
There we are once again: the sun and oceans dominate.
Source Link: notrickszone.com


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Sick Justice
June 11, 2007 Issue
Alberto Gonzales now stands revealed as an unambiguous conspirator against the Constitution--as does his boss.
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The frantic race to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft's bedside on March 10, 2004, sounds more Hollywood than history: Acting AG James Comey's foot-to-the-floor drive to head off then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card; FBI Director Robert Mueller's startling imperative to his agents to defy any attempt by Gonzo and Card to throw Comey out; the sedated and badly ailing Ashcroft rousing himself from his sickbed to defend the Constitution; the resignation threats by Comey and Mueller. As Washington lore, the episode joins Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre and Thaddeus Stevens's being carried on a stretcher to vote in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. And behind all this, the President pushing a wiretap program so blatantly illegal that his own top Justice appointees were threatening to resign.
The histrionics of that night, recounted by Comey to the Senate Judiciary Committee after three years, further erode Alberto Gonzales's already fatally compromised capacity to run the Justice Department. And they expose an internal Administration conflict between hyper-politicized operatives like Card, Gonzales and Karl Rove and Justice professionals like Comey–Bush appointees who nonetheless understood that their oath was to the Constitution. But there is also a risk that the drama of this good guys/bad guys confrontation–with Comey protecting his boss the way Michael Corleone took it on the chin for the Don at that lonely, dark hospital in The Godfather–is obscuring the real story: just how many ways the Bush Administration was finding to break the law, and just how high the chain of complicity ran:
§ According to Comey's testimony, for two years the White House had endorsed still unspecified secret wiretaps by the National Security Agency without a warrant or authorization from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. In other words, for two years the NSA and telephone companies had been committing a federal crime with the full endorsement of the Oval Office.
§ In spring 2004, when Ashcroft, Comey and every other responsible official in the Justice Department had reviewed the program and declared that the taps blatantly violated the surveillance law, Card, Gonzales and Bush himself all indicated their intention to go forward anyhow. In plain English, that is a conspiracy.
§ If Comey's memory is accurate, the President himself called the wife of the critically ill Ashcroft and asked her to let Gonzales and Card visit his bedside. When they arrived they tried to persuade the sedated Ashcroft to approve the illegal taps. But Ashcroft had already signed over his AG authority to Comey, who consequently carried the title Acting Attorney General. As Georgetown University law professor Marty Lederman has noted, this means that Bush, Gonzo and Card were seeking the signature of an Ashcroft "who was not only incapacitated but not even acting in an official capacity." What was the point? Writing in the blog of Yale law professor Jack Balkin, Lederman, a former adviser to the Ashcroft Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, suggests a chilling motive: "Obviously, they did so in order that they could present a
fraudulent
certification, of someone who was not at the time acting as AG, to the NSA and/or to the telecom companies." That is how determined the President was to continue an illegal program. Add fraud to the charge sheet.
§ As recently as February 2006, Gonzales testified in a sworn statement to Congress that there was no substantive dissent within the Justice Department over the warrantless wiretap program. This is not a casual misrepresentation: Had Gonzo told the truth, it would have moved Congress to ask questions. Add perjury to the charge sheet.
And the lies continue. When NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell asked Bush at a press conference whether he ordered Card and Gonzales to the hospital that night, the President changed the subject: "I'm not going to talk about it. It's a very sensitive program." Which program, Mr. President–the wiretaps you had been told were illegal, or the program of strong-arming sedated and sick officials who don't see things your way?
It must be said that John Ashcroft's genuine courage when confronted in the hospital by Card and Gonzales does not absolve him of responsibility for creating the conditions in which illegality flourished. As Bush's first Attorney General, he promoted the climate of secrecy that removed essential checks and balances on the Administration, indulging the Oval Office's contention–backed up by John Yoo's memos on the Geneva Conventions and in Dick Cheney's speeches–that the law is only what the President says it is. And while Comey's and Mueller's resignation threats sounded dramatic, there was no Saturday Night Massacre; Ashcroft, Comey and Mueller did not resign, instead settling on a compromise permitting the illegal program to go ahead with modest modification. Like their foreign-policy equivalents Colin Powell and George Tenet, these Justice officials persisted in the delusion that an Administration addicted to executive unaccountability and secrecy would be better off with themselves in it.
The focus on Gonzales's responsibility in the Ashcroft hospital affair should not be a distraction from the need for an aggressive Congressional investigation of the NSA wiretap program itself–as it existed before the sickbed saga, and as it continues to this day. At the Judiciary Committee hearing senators were understandably reluctant to push Comey on the point, given his cooperation and spectacular revelations. But national security classification and executive privilege do not apply to the grotesquely illegal. It is time for subpoenas and public disclosure.
As we go to press, Gonzales hangs by a thread, with more and more Republicans joining Democrats in calling for his resignation. And a no-confidence vote is pending. The ongoing tale of politically motivated US Attorney firings deepens every week; now it appears that as many as twenty-six of the nation's federal prosecutors may have been reviewed on the grounds of insufficient enthusiasm for the White House agenda. That Gonzales systematically lied to Congress about his knowledge and role in the firings isn't even a question.
What Comey's account makes so devastatingly clear, though, is that Gonzo's lies are just the signature of far deeper rot. Combining the US Attorney scandal and the Comey disclosures, Gonzales stands revealed as an unambiguous conspirator against the Constitution. As does his boss. The President's arrogant dismissal of Comey's shocking testimony implies that, to Bush, even public gestures of conscience are to be treated as state secrets.
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