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The 21st release by In The Branches is out now on Bandcamp and coming soon to YouTube & streaming services. … Continue reading…"Expanse Sessions III" by In The Branches out now on Bandcamp
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The first preview of Expanse Sessions III is out now on YouTube. The full album will be released on Bandcamp and YouTube in the coming days as I finalize the
Continue reading… In The Branches – The Missing Piece (Expanse Sessions III, 2022)
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In The Branches featured on Hearts Of Space
"Hidden Life (Winter)" from In The Branches – Hidden Elements was included on this week's Hearts Of Space program, titled "Perseverance". … Continue reading…In The Branches featured on Hearts Of Space
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In The Branches – "Wilderness Time" (2021 Edition) Ecopak CD
Limited to 300 copies. Available exclusively on Bandcamp. Wilderness Time (2021 Edition) by In The Branches
In The Branches – The Rivers of Yellowstone
A new space-guitar lullaby from In The Branches, now with an official music video on YouTube. … Continue reading…In The Branches – The Rivers of Yellowstone
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Flashback: "Evolve" by The Adaptive
"Evolve" was the debut full-length from The Adaptive, an experimental blending of live acoustic instruments, electric guitars, and electronic bass music. … Continue reading…Flashback: "Evolve" by The Adaptive
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In The Branches – "Sweet Vancouver Sun (ft. JT Warren)" + Vancouver, Washington Photo Gallery
In The Branches · Sweet Vancouver Sun (Live with JT Warren, 2017) – Creative Commons, Royalty-Free Download A rare live recording that I always love to come across, buried in
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In The Branches – "Lost and Found" now on YouTube
"Lost and Found" was a return to the minimal side of In The Branches, using only live guitar (plus a loop pedal and hardware effects pedals) as the sole source of sound through the entire hour-long journey. … Continue reading…In The Branches – "Lost and Found" now on YouTube
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"Collected Pieces – Part 1" by In The Branches out now on Bandcamp
Collected Pieces – Part 1, as you may have guessed from the title, is a compilation of In The Branches songs from various parts of the project's catalog. This is perhaps the most versatile In The Branches album since Vivid Memories and Particles Collide. … Continue reading…"Collected Pieces – Part 1" by In The Branches out now on Bandcamp
New Release: In The Branches "Planetary Confinement"
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Planetary Confinement by In The Branches Planetary Confinement is a meditation on nature and a dedication to the wild birds of Oregon. A reminder of all our smaller cohabitants on
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In The Branches – Planetary Confinement (title track) video now on YouTube
My new album, Planetary Confinement, is currently available only to my Bandcamp subscribers. I created a music video for the title track and published it to YouTube last night:
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Recommended Music: Cloudkicker – Unending
With a freshly-rebuilt recording studio and hundreds of live studio recordings to sort through, I'll be down a musically-narcissistic wormhole in no time. Until then, I hunt for inspiration. Enter
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"In The Branches" (Self-Titled) Album Released on All Major Music Platforms
Some time after I released this album on Bandcamp, it was posted on YouTube by the In The Woods channel (no relation to In The Branches, by the way!). I
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In The Branches' debut "Expanse Sessions" just released globally
While "Expanse Sessions" has been available on Bandcamp (and partially on SoundCloud) since late 2015, it has never been on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, etc. until this week. If you can't
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In The Branches has a new self-titled album on the horizon
The psychedelic retro design above might seem like a non-sequitur if you've seen the existing dark and gothic cover artwork for the upcoming (self-titled) In The Branches album, but this
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Out Now: "Songs From The Abyss" from In The Branches and Steven Taylor
Songs From The Abyss by In The Branches Shane Cotee of In The Branches and Steven Taylor of Ghostwire have a history of working together on electronic music. Steven mastered
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In The Branches – "The Second Half of a Memory" official video out on YouTube
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Son-in-law of Tiruttani MLA goes missing.
CHENNAI: The Vadapalani police have launched a search for the DMDK's Tiruttani MLA Arun Subramanian's son-in-law who has been reported missing since Friday last.
Ramesh, the husband of Subramanian's daughter Nithya, had gone to Tiruttani to bring back his wife on Friday, his mother Rajakumari said in her complaint on Monday. She alleged that the MLA had chased away her son and that he could be behind Ramesh's disappearance.
A 'man missing' case was registered and a police team has left for Ramesh's native village of Thittakudi in Cuddalore district. Another team is keeping track of the tower location of his mobile phone. "His phone remains switched off," said an investigating officer.
All police check posts across the state have been informed of the registration number of the car which Ramesh is believed to have taken, he said.
Police are also interrogating Ramesh's relatives and are likely to question MLA Arun Subramanian in this connection.
Based on preliminary investigation, police said Nithya, a doctor, met Ramesh through a social networking site and the couple got married against her father's wishes in 2010. Three months ago, Nithya lodged a complaint with police alleging that Ramesh took her 10 sovereigns of gold jewellery and vanished with her car.
She also said that Ramesh had told her he was an aeronautical engineer but that he turned out to be a high school dropout. He had claimed he owned a few jewellery shops in the city and this, too, turned out to be false, she alleged.
Nithya had been staying with Ramesh and their child in the Vadapalani apartment, bought by her father two years ago. She then vacated the apartment and went to live with her parents in Tiruttani as she was not able to trace Ramesh, Nithya's complaint said.
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Thalaiva release row: Vijay seeks Jaya's help for film's release
With his latest movie "Thalaiva" getting stalled in Tamil Nadu, popular Tamil actor Vijay who plays the lead role in the movie, has sought Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha's intervention in releasing the movie.
"Our Chief Minister has been doing several good works for many people. I seek her intervention for the release of the movie in Tamil Nadu. Till then, I appeal to all my fans to be patient," the actor said in a statement.
Stating that there were reports of pirated VCDs of his movie being circulated, he asked his fans to inform the police on whoever manufactures or distributes the VCDs.
The movie, slated to hit the screens in Tamil Nadu on August 9, was later put off as the producers and theatre owners, refused to screen it over security concerns.
The movie, directed by A Vijay, has Amala Paul as the lead actress.
It was expected to get released in at least 500 screens in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry but ran into trouble with some theatre owners receiving bomb threats from a little known outfit opposed to the film producers 'Vendhar Movies'.
Besides, the film has also been dragged to court with one Karnan, hailing from Tirunelveli, claiming that it was based on the life of his grandfather S S Kandaswamy and his father S K Ramaswamy, who lived in Dharavi in Mumbai.
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Despues de Trujillo / After Trujillo
Despues de Trujillo / After Trujillo is a must-see documentary if you want to learn more about the recent history of the Dominican Republic and understand how the past affects the country in the present day.
Documentary After Trujillo film announcement in English
After Trujillo tells the story of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and his violent dictatorship through the marks he left in the landscape. With a mix of interviews, archival materials, and newly recorded interviews, this documentary helps us to understand the present through events from the past.
Interviews from geographers, historians and architects, to activists, victims, and custodians all come together in this fascinating story. The journey takes us to modern monuments, memorial gardens, and contemporary ruins, passing from the devastating cyclone that destroyed the capital to the monumental projects for reconstruction. We learn how Dominicans handle the legacy of violence after Trujillo.
Documental anuncio de la film Después de Trujillo en Español
Much of the histories in the Después de Trujillo documentary came from the Archivo General de la Nación / General Archive of the Nation, el Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana / Dominican Resistance Memorial Museum, and Centro León.
The film has many interviews and visits many historical places and monuments throughout the country. You will go inside the Casa de Caoba in San Cristobal. Visit the grounds of the Museo Hermanas Mirabal and the other monuments dedicated to the ladies history with the director of the Fundación Hermanas Mirabal. Learn about the art inside the Palacio Consistorial (Colonial Zone). Learn about the Resistance from interviews with Luis De Peña Díaz, the director of the Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana (Colonial Zone). There are many others interviewed and places visited.
The concept of the film originated in December 2014 during the research project Modernity and the Landscape in Latin America: Politics, Aesthetics, Ecology (2014-17) at the University of Zurich. It is based on footage gathered during a month-long trip to the Dominican Republic in 2015.
Despues de Trujillo was finished in November 2016 and presented to the public. The film was shown in many venues throughout the country. It is hoped that people use this documentary as an educational tool. It is free for the public. The site is in English and Spanish and the documentary can also be seen with English subtitles.
*After Trujillo in English
*Despues de Trujillo en Español
Después de Trujillo web site
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This blog post originally appeared in SSRC's Items on April 3, 2018. You can access the original article here.
Youth disconnection—the rate of young people ages 16–24 who are not in school or working—is a strong indicator of a community's collective capabilities and a telling gauge of its residents' access to opportunity. The consequences of youth disconnection reverberate through communities and society as a whole: a labor force with too few skilled workers to fill entry-level jobs, which require greater skill than entry-level jobs a generation ago, much less to compete in today's global economy; greater need for public assistance of all sorts; higher rates of crime and incarceration, which have high personal and societal costs; poor physical and mental health, costly in both human and financial terms; and a heightened risk of poor outcomes for the next generation.
Measure of America's newest report on youth disconnection in America, More than a Million Reasons for Hope,11 shows that in 2016, a total of 11.7 percent of young Americans were disconnected, an improvement from the 2015 rate of 12.3 percent, and a 20 percent decrease from the 2010 peak rate of 14.7 percent, in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Yet 4.6 million young people remain out of work and out of school. This overall improvement is cause for celebration, and underscores the importance of a thriving economy, but a deeper look at the data by race and ethnicity shows concerning trends—particularly the gap between Asians and whites on one hand and Latinos, blacks, and Native Americans on the other—pointing to structural problems in society that economic growth alone cannot solve.
Understanding the dynamics of this population matters. Emerging adulthood—that intense, exciting, and sometimes overwhelming period when our adult selves start to take shape—is a pivotal time in life. For connected young people, it is a time marked by positive firsts: the giddy thrill of hopping behind the wheel of the family car for that first solo spin, the pride of high school graduation, the sense of agency that comes with a first paycheck. Disconnected young people are robbed of these critical and affirming experiences. The limited education, social exclusion, lack of work experience, and minimal professional networks that are part and parcel of disconnection have long-term consequences that snowball through the years, affecting a range of well-being outcomes, from earnings and self-sufficiency to physical and mental health to relationship quality and family formation.
If disconnection rates are on a steady decline as the economy has expanded since 2010, isn't that enough to suggest the trend will continue, and demonstrate that more and more young people are on their way to achievement? As we'll explore further, there are a number of reasons to believe that depending on economic growth alone will not fully address the remaining gaps between racial and ethnic groups. Deep structural barriers to equitable advancement have existed for generations—particularly for blacks and Native Americans in the US—including the historical and continued discriminatory policies and practices present in the health and criminal justice systems as well as in the labor and housing markets. This structural racism pervades institutions and policies that in turn reinforce discriminatory beliefs and the distribution of resources. Acknowledging the ways in which the de jure racism of the past continues to cast its shadow into the present and developing programs that address racism explicitly will be needed to improve outcomes for young people of color. We are doubtful that economic growth alone will overcome these structural barriers for three reasons.
First, we've been studying youth disconnection since 2012 and the racial gap has been apparent nationally for all years of data we've analyzed, as well as in nearly every region, state, metro area, and county for which we have sufficient data to calculate it by race and ethnicity. Dividing the country regionally, blacks are faring best in the Northeast, with a 16.8 percent youth disconnection rate, which is still significantly higher than the region where whites are most disconnected (the South, at 11.2 percent). There are glimmers of hope where gaps have narrowed for some—for instance, Latinos have made the most progress in closing the gaps (from 18.5 percent in 2010 to 13.7 percent now)—but the disparities remain obvious and damaging.
Second, black, Latino, and Native American young people are particularly disadvantaged in ways that exacerbate their potential for disconnection.
• Poverty. Youth disconnection is strongly associated with poverty. Young people growing up in poverty face a range of challenges, such as residential segregation, poor-quality schools, inadequate transportation, worse health outcomes, greater exposure to neighborhood crime and violence, and more adverse childhood events. These challenges make it more difficult to thrive in school and create barriers to employment (for example, criminal histories, lack of academic accreditation). For certain groups, such as disconnected young women who are black as well as disconnected young women who trace their heritage to the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the poverty rate approaches 50 percent.
• Incarceration. Incarceration has a known disproportionate impact on black communities and families. Compared to 4.5 percent of disconnected white young people, 12 percent of disconnected black youth live in institutionalized group quarters. Breaking it down further, nearly a fifth of disconnected black boys and young men are institutionalized, compared to only 7 percent of white boys and young men. Another factor to acknowledge is the impact of parents' incarceration in black youth's family stability and structure.
• Parenthood. Nearly one-third (31.2 percent) of disconnected Latinas are mothers. When connected, Latinas are less likely to be mothers than black and Native American girls, but once disconnected, they are by far the most likely.
• Education. Staying connected to school appears to be a disproportionate challenge for Latino youth. Previous MOA research2 found that Latino young men were as likely as white and more likely than black young men to be employed, but less likely than either to be enrolled in school. A third of disconnected Latino males did not complete high school—the highest rate of any group of disconnected young people. Among disconnected girls, Latinas are the most likely to have dropped out of high school (29 percent), followed closely by Native American girls and young women (28.5 percent).
Lastly, black young men face particularly high rates of youth disconnection, regardless of family income. Our study launched on the same day as the most recent research from Raj Chetty et al. on the black-white gap in upward mobility, Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective.
American Indian and black children have much higher rates of downward mobility than other groups. Black children born to parents in the top income quintile are almost as likely to fall to the bottom quintile as they are to remain in the top quintile. By contrast, white children born in the top quintile are nearly five times as likely to stay there as they are to fall to the bottom.
We found similar racial and income divides last year in our report Promising Gains, Persistent Gaps. Even at the highest income levels, the racial differences between disconnection rates hold firm—i.e., rich minority youth are still more likely to be disconnected than rich white youth. In fact, white youth living at the poverty line are as likely to be disconnected as black youth living in households with incomes four times the poverty line and Native American youth in households with income five times the poverty line.
In Measure of America's 2015 report, Zeroing In on Place and Race, we found that the more racial segregation that exists in a metro area, the higher the level of youth disconnection for blacks and the lower the rates for whites. In other words, concentrated residential segregation by race and ethnicity within major metropolitan areas has very negative impacts for black teenagers and young adults, who are more likely than whites to live in low-income neighborhoods with historically under-resourced schools and transit systems, less access to employment, and weaker social networks. White youth in these metro areas, on the other hand, are more likely to enjoy the benefits of their families' own larger incomes, as well as broader neighborhood advantages—good schools, convenient transport to jobs, a rich array of extracurricular activities, and proximity to other adults with valuable contacts and connections.
The study by Chetty et al. also speaks to the previously mentioned incarceration rates of black boys and men as well as the gender gap in achievement outcomes among black young people. One example is black women's higher college attendance rates compared to white males, conditional on parental income. Our research corroborates these gender differences within the black population, and this difference is apparent as early as the 16–24 age range. The gap in youth disconnection rates between men and women is largest for black youth. Nationally the rate is 5.9 percentage points higher for black men than black women. In the Philadelphia metro area, the male-female gap is nearly 10 percentage points.
The racial and ethnic gaps in youth disconnection rates today are testaments to the historical truth of discriminatory practices in the United States, as well as mechanisms by which inequality is perpetuated in the here and now. Policies that aim to improve outcomes for youth and reconnect them to mainstream society will need to address the roots of disconnection cultivated years earlier.
Underfunded schools have left too many young people unprepared for today's job market and without the adult guidance and support they need to succeed. Public transportation that skirts around rather than serves low-income communities makes it logistically and financially hard to reach educational, training, and employment opportunities. Residential segregation by race and ethnicity as well as by education and income—the legacy of discriminatory laws and policies—means that too many young people are growing up in neighborhoods weighed down by concentrated, multigenerational poverty, where adults also struggle with connection to work and school, where exposure to violence limits human flourishing, and where youth disconnection is so entrenched as to be normative. And the disproportionate institutionalization of youth of color continues apace at a time when overall incarceration is declining, creating yet another set of barriers.
Solutions are needed that cross these previously fractured systems—schools, criminal justice, banks and lending, philanthropy—and there are excellent local organizations showing that doing so works. It's also crucial to include youth in their own solutions and engage them in the conversation to create change. The participation of young people in recent workshops and discussions Measure of America has been involved in has revealed often-overlooked issues around trust and transparency. Data can be our guide, helping organizations working to address the problems facing youth to effect real, lasting improvements. We imagine a day where national economic growth lifts everyone up collectively, but know that much work lies ahead.
1 More than a Million Reasons for Hope analyzes youth disconnection in the United States by more than race and gender, revealing important disparities—and developments—geographically. Accompanying the full report is an interactive data tool, where users can explore the data with maps and visualizations.
2 See Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps, One in Seven: Ranking Youth Disconnection in the 25 Largest Metro Areas (2012); Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps, Halve the Gap by 2030: Youth Disconnection in America's Cities ( 2013); Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps, Zeroing In on Place and Race (2015); Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps, Promising Gains, Persistent Gaps (2017).
This blog post originally appeared in SSRC's Items on March 20, 2018, and is part of a series of reflections on A Portrait of LA County. You can access the original article here.
We first want to give our sincere thanks to Jennifer Lee, Pedro Noguera, and Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Terry Allen for taking the time to provide commentary on Measure of America's recent report, A Portrait of Los Angeles County. We are grateful that these leading thinkers were willing to engage with the report and share their views about it. Their reviews come at an ideal time; we are nearing the final stretch of our next report, A Portrait of New York City, and they will see some of their suggestions reflected in it.
Before addressing the three reflections, we want to summarize the conceptual basis for Measure of America. We started Measure of America in 2007 (now a program of the Social Science Research Council) to champion in the United States an idea, human development, that is well-known internationally and has broadened the way in which we understand, measure, and track people's well-being. This concept incorporates strictly economic metrics, like GDP, but also measures other things—besides money—that expand our choices, opportunities, and freedoms. Over the last decade, we've produced several national, state, and local reports, a suite of online tools, and work in the area of youth disconnection. We've done quite a bit of work in California over the years, producing two volumes of A Portrait of California (published in 2011 and 2014), as well as human development reports on Sonoma and Marin Counties. This report, A Portrait of LA County, builds on its predecessors and uses the same human development approach and methodology.
The concept of human development puts people at the center of analysis and considers how political, social, environmental, and economic forces interact to shape the range of choices open to us. It is the process of enlarging people's freedoms and opportunities and improving their well-being, which is expanded or constrained by the things we do and by conditions and institutions around us, from our family situations to our neighborhoods. At its heart, human development is about what regular people can do and be in their lives. The idea draws heavily on the work of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, using his capabilities approach as a conceptual framework. MOA's American Human Development Index (and UN Human Development Index upon which it is based) measures just three basic human development areas: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge, and a decent standard of living.1 People the world over generally see these areas as the three key building blocks of well-being and access to opportunity.
A Portrait of Los Angeles County seeks to explore these questions on human development in the nation's most populous county, and is the result of a collaboration between Measure of America and over eighty representatives from foundations, governmental, and nongovernmental institutions.2 In addition, the project had the financial support of the LA County Quality and Productivity Commission. It was the first time we had worked with such a large collection of stakeholders on a report of this nature, and the report's content and focus on timely LA issues was immeasurably enhanced by their inputs.
Scores for the 106 cities and unincorporated areas of LA County ranged from a high of 9.43 in San Marino to a low of just 2.44 in Florence-Graham. This seven-point difference is larger than the range among the country's 435 congressional districts. A resident of San Marino can expect to live an average eight-and-a-half years longer than a resident of Florence-Graham. Following the same pattern, a San Marino resident is sixteen times as likely to hold a bachelor's degree, as well as have a median income of $77,948 compared to a Florence-Graham resident (with a median income of $18,405).
One innovative feature of the report is the "Five Los Angeles Counties" framing. The Five Los Angeles Counties were created by grouping cities and places not by geography or by the standard categorization of income, but by their scores on the 10-point American Human Development Index scale. Grouping communities according to their American Human Development Index score highlights striking differences between the different LA Counties, but also provides a useful tool for looking at what neighborhoods and cities separated by distance have in common.
Turning to the commentaries, Jennifer Lee's book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox, was central to our understanding of educational outcomes among Asian Americans and Latinos in Los Angeles County and informs our current work for A Portrait of New York City. Lee elegantly answers the question of why Asian American children, even those of poor immigrant parents, have better educational outcomes than Latino children of immigrants in Los Angeles by drawing our attention to their wildly divergent starting positions on the educational ladder. The 1965 immigration reforms brought an influx of well-educated Asian immigrants to LA. This social capital (highly educated parents) combined with institutions and practices (like after-school and weekend learning and test-prep centers) positioned second-generation children to succeed in school, even if their parents had low incomes due to language barriers or difficulties transferring their home-country educational credentials to the United States. There was tremendous interest among our partners in data calculations and analysis about Asian subgroups with a view to looking beneath the broad Asian racial category at the strikingly different well-being outcomes within it. Using disaggregated data obtained from the California Department of Public Health and the US Census Bureau, our analysis of the ten largest subgroups revealed that Indians have the highest HD Index score (9.10) and Cambodians the lowest (5.17).
Pedro Noguera raised some concerns in his response about insufficient attention to the connections across boundaries in Los Angeles County, both geographic (between high- and low-scoring areas of the county) and sectoral (between transportation, housing, and education). One of the great strengths of the human development approach and index is a holistic framing that encourages us to look at issues in the interconnected ways in which people experience them rather than as siloed problems requiring separate solutions, and so we were surprised that this did not come out clearly in his reading. We strongly agree that both communities and sectors are interconnected, that the road to a better future runs through a deeper understanding of our shared challenges and shared fates, and that convincing "Glittering" and "Elite Enclave LA" to care about and invest in "Precarious" and "Struggling LA" is imperative to everyone's well-being in the long run. We share Noguera's view that, left unchecked, the county will "find itself on an unsustainable path if many of the economic and social trends identified in the report are not addressed." We would argue that LA is already firmly on, and rather far down, that path, in fact. However, as Noguera argues, we could have made these points more forcefully and will be more explicit about them in the future.
One example of how we hope the Human Development Index will be used is the commentary of Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Terry Allen, who pair it with other data as a way to connect issues and explain the "why" behind the index score. They gathered additional data, research, and analysis on incarceration rates, trends, and policing in LA County, creating a new category, "Caged LA," and combined their data with that on "Precarious LA" and "Struggling LA." We are incorporating the question of incarceration and who shoulders its costs into the "Five New Yorks" framing that will be part of the upcoming A Portrait of NYC. The greater New York results are similar to the LA results, with incarceration a normalized experience in the neighborhoods of "Precarious New York" and for all practical purposes utterly absent from life in "Gilded New York" (the East Coast equivalent of "Glittering LA"). Overall, these rich commentaries remind us that while the Human Development Index score shines a light on where a community or demographic group falls on the well-being continuum, it is only the start rather than the end of the conversation.
1 The index combines a small set of indicators—life expectancy, educational degree attainment and enrollment, and median personal earnings—into a single number that falls on a scale from zero to ten, ten being the top score. We then disaggregate the population by geography and by demographic group.
2 Measure of America collaborated with fourteen local philanthropic foundations, the Southern California Grantmakers, and three Los Angeles County departments: the Office of Child Protection, the Department of Children and Family Services, and the Department of Public Health.
This blog post originally appeared in SSRC's Items on February 20, 2018, and is part of a series of reflections on A Portrait of LA County. You can access the original article here.
Key measures of well-being and equity in Los Angeles County that are not included in the report are those related to policing and incarceration. Since the 1960s, mass incarceration has emerged as a common feature of urban life and has functioned as an impediment to racial equity across the United States. As legal scholar Michelle Alexander describes it, mass incarceration is the "New Jim Crow," the institutional basis for a new caste system that disproportionately impacts Blacks, Latinx, and impoverished urban communities.
The size of the Los Angeles County Jail system is sustained by significant public investments. In fact, public safety, namely policing and incarceration, is the single-largest net expense for both the city and county of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County allocates 42 percent of its net spending to public protection. Similarly, the City of Los Angeles commits 56 percent of the city budget to public safety. Together, the city and the county spend nearly $5.5 billion annually on public safety. In other words, local authorities have made policing and incarceration their top priorities for public investment, making the inequities of the New Jim Crow central to any measure of life and well-being in Los Angeles and key to any effort to "narrow the gaps between groups" across the region.
Since 2012, residents of Caged LA have collectively spent at least 2,984 years in jail with 2.3 days marking the median period of individual confinement. For many, jail time means extreme emotional stress, family strain, health challenges, and a loss in wages. Had the Portrait incorporated data on incarceration in LA County, it could have highlighted how incarceration exacerbates the crises faced by residents of Precarious and Struggling LA. It should come as no surprise that the areas in LA with the lowest HD Index scores and highest unemployment and youth disconnection rates—young people ages 16–26 who are neither working nor in school—are part of Caged LA. In fact, the two populations (Black and Latinx) who are disproportionately impacted by incarceration in LA County have the lowest median personal earnings, with Latinx residents earning the least ($22,600). Mass incarceration depresses community life, reduces earning power, and impairs access to opportunities.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez is a professor of history and African American studies at UCLA. She is also the interim director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. One of the nation's leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of the award-winning book, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol, and City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles. Currently, Lytle Hernandez is the research lead for the Million Dollar Hoods project, which maps how much is spent on incarceration per neighborhood in Los Angeles County.
Terry Allen is a doctoral student at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. He is also the Director of People & Culture at FOREFRONT, a nonprofit that focuses on innovative, long-term sustainability projects for undeveloped communities.
This blog post originally appeared in SSRC's Items on February 6, 2018, and is part of a series of reflections on A Portrait of LA County. You can access the original article here.
The recent report, A Portrait of LA County, from the Social Science Research Council's Measure of America program, provides a clear, if also somewhat disturbing, characterization of life in one of America's most populous metropolitan areas. The report reveals stunning differences in quality of life that are highly correlated with geography as well as race/ethnicity and the socioeconomic composition of communities. Utilizing the "Human Development Index" as its barometer, the report shows that in critical areas such as health, education, and income, gross inequities limit access to opportunity for many residents of the county and contribute to the persistence of deeply entrenched social and economic disparities. The report also suggests that the fragmentation of the region has created five distinct subregions that face very different prospects and challenges.
While in many respects, separations based on social and geographic boundaries are real and measurable, the recent fires in Bel-Air provide a pointed reminder of how connected we are nonetheless. Though Bel-Air has the highest Human Development Index score in the county at 9.51, homeless people are also known to live in the community in unregulated dwellings. In fact, investigators learned that the fire had been caused by a homeless encampment. The subsequent destruction of over seven hundred homes reminds us homelessness is not a problem that is limited to certain communities.
About the author: Pedro Noguera is a distinguished professor of education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. His research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional, and global contexts. He is the author of twelve books.
This blog post originally appeared in SSRC's Items on January 23, 2018, and is part of a series of reflections on A Portrait of LA County. You can access the original article here.
Americans rely on status markers like our college degrees, jobs, cars, homes, zip codes, and (if you live in Los Angeles) area codes to measure success. We also like to believe that those who are successful earned it through hard work, smarts, and grit. After all, this is what we learned from the American Dream, and it is how we justify why some people and groups are more successful than others.
Take education, for example. In Los Angeles, Asians graduate from college at higher rates than all groups, including Whites. More than half (51 percent) of Asians in LA have at least a college degree compared to 48 percent of whites, 26 percent of blacks, and 12 percent of Latinos. Most of us are no longer surprised by findings like these. We hear and read about the exceptional educational outcomes of Asian Americans when colleges and universities—especially Ivy Leagues—release their latest admissions figures.
Asian Americans make up more than one-fifth of the entering classes in Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia yet are only 6 percent of the country's population. In prestigious public universities like the University of California, Berkeley, they comprise more than 40 percent of the student body. These figures would be unremarkable if Asian American students uniformly hailed from high socioeconomic backgrounds, but this is not the case. Even the children of Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees whose parents have less than a high school education graduate from college at nearly the same rate as their middle-class peers, pointing to a vexing Asian American achievement paradox.
Unable to explain the achievement paradox, pundits and commentators of varying political persuasions point to Asian culture: there must be something essential about Asian culture that drives such extraordinary educational outcomes. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof devoted a Sunday column to the so-called "The Asian Advantage." He even cited our book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox, but in the end, Kristof concluded that Asian American academic achievement can be explained by "East Asia's long Confucian emphasis on education," "hard work, strong families and passion for education." How else could the daughter of poorly educated Chinese factory workers raised in an impoverished neighborhood buck the odds and graduate from Harvard?
As compelling as this narrative may be, it misses the mark. The cultural roots of Asian success are much less plausible when disaggregating the category of "Asian." Drawing on Measure of America's report, A Portrait of Los Angeles County, examining differences among and within Asian ethnic groups complicates the stereotypical view of Asian American educational success in two key ways.
First, not all Asian groups—even those who share a Confucian orientation—boast high levels of education. For example, while 72 percent of Indians, 53 percent of Koreans, and 49 percent of Chinese in LA have earned a bachelor's degree or higher, the corresponding figures for Vietnamese and Cambodians is 30 percent and 18 percent, respectively. Moreover, about one-third of Vietnamese (30 percent) and Cambodians (36 percent) and nearly one-fifth of Chinese (18 percent) do not have a high school diploma. Disaggregating data highlights the enormously diverse outcomes among Asian Americans, who are often studied as a monolith.
Second, international comparisons are useful points of reference. If culture can explain the high achievement of some Asian groups, then we should expect these groups to excel in the greater United States and abroad, but this is not the case. While Koreans in the United States exhibit high educational outcomes, Koreans in Japan fare poorly. Moreover, unlike second-generation Chinese in the United States, their counterparts in Spain exhibit the lowest educational aspirations and expectations of all groups, as Alejandro Portes and his colleagues have shown with their research. Despite the disconfirming evidence, culturally essentialist explanations that point to Asian culture and values thrive in popular discourse.
In our book, The Asian American Achievement Paradox, Min Zhou and I tackle this argument head on, and assert that there is nothing essential about Asian culture or values that promote exceptional academic outcomes. Rather, the cultural manifestations of Asian American achievement have legal and structural roots—namely the change in US immigration law in 1965 that altered the socioeconomic profiles of Asian immigrants. Privileging those with high levels of education and skills, the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 ushered in a stream of highly educated, highly skilled immigrants from Asia.
The change in immigration law explains why contemporary Asian immigrants are, on average, highly educated and highly selected. For example, 51 percent of US Chinese immigrants have a college degree compared to only 4 percent of adults in China, meaning that Chinese immigrants in the United States are more than 12 times as likely to have graduated from college as their non-migrant counterparts. In addition, they are more highly educated than the general US population, 28 percent of whom are college-educated. We refer to this dual positive immigrant selectivity as hyper-selectivity, and as figure 1 shows, we find similar patterns for Korean immigrants in the United States. While Vietnamese immigrants are less likely to have graduated from college than the US mean, they are still positively selected compared to their non-migrant counterparts.
Hyper-selectivity has both direct and spillover effects. First, hyper-selected immigrants import class-specific cultural frames, institutions, and mindsets from their countries of origin, including a strict success frame. The frame not only spells out a clear definition of success, but it also lays out a clear pathway to achieve it.
Second, the success frame is supported by supplementary education programs that hyper-selected immigrants import from their countries of origin and recreate in the United States. Chinese, Korean, and Indian immigrants come armed with the human capital and economic resources to create ethnic institutions like after-school academies, tutoring services, and SAT prep courses for their children that boost academic outcomes.
Third, because hyper-selected immigrant groups recreate these ethnic institutions in a range of price points—some of which are freely available in ethnic churches, temples, and community centers—they reach the children of working-class coethnics. Thus, supplementary education (which is typically reserved for affluent and middle-class children) becomes available to the children of factory workers, waiters, manicurists, and taxi drivers.
Here, working-class children and parents learn about the importance of enrolling in Advanced Placement and Honors classes, when to begin preparing for the SAT exam (which some children begin in seventh grade so that they are fully prepared to take the exam in the eleventh grade), and how to navigate the complex college admissions process. These are the spillover effects of hyper-selectivity that help to explain how the daughter of Chinese factory workers who have only a sixth-grade education and do not speak English makes it into Harvard. This is not to deny the hard work, smarts, and grit on the part of students who make it to college, but, rather, a reminder that not all those who work hard, are smart, and demonstrate grit have the same chance of making it.
Whenever I give public lectures on Asian American achievement, I often get questions about why Latinos do not form ethnic institutions like Asians. People point to ethnic institutions like after-school programs, and wonder why Latinos—and specifically Mexicans—fail to follow suit. To address this point, I explain that unlike Chinese immigrants, Mexican immigrants are hypo-selected: they are less likely to have graduated from college than their non-migrant counterparts and less likely to be college-educated than the US mean. Only 5 percent of Mexican immigrants have graduated from college, compared to 17 percent of Mexico's adult population and 28 percent of the US population. This dual negative selectivity is what we refer to as hypo-selectivity. In figure 2, we show how the hypo-selectivity of Mexican immigration compares to the hyper-selectivity of Chinese immigration.
As hypo-selected immigrants, Mexicans lack the resources to build the ethnic institutions that would assuage their children's disadvantaged starting point, including, in some cases, their parents' undocumented legal status.
Comparing Latinos to Asians points to yet another problem with the way we measure success. When we compare groups to each other, we overlook the remarkable progress that the children of Mexican immigrants in LA have made. Our research shows that in just one generation, they double the high school graduation rates of their parents, double the college graduation rates of their fathers, and triple that of their mothers.
This is also the case of Latinos in LA more generally, as Measure of America's report reveals. While Latinos in LA have the lowest educational outcomes of all groups, when we disaggregate the data by nativity, we find significant differences between Latino immigrants and those born in the United States. More than half of Latino immigrants (55 percent) have not graduated from high school, and only 7 percent have graduated from college. US-born Latinos in LA look remarkably different: they are nearly three times as likely to graduate from high school and more than two and a half times as likely to graduate from college as Latino immigrants. The educational mobility of Latinos in LA is astounding, but this point is completely lost when we compare Latinos to Asians.
Many Americans work hard, are smart, and exhibit grit in spades. In spite of this, Americans will not graduate from college at the same rates because we begin the race at different points on the starting line. Moreover, some Americans get extra boosts during the race to help them speed across the finish line. So before we measure someone's success by their diplomas, jobs, or zip codes, let's first ask about the diplomas, jobs, and zip codes that came before them.
About the author: Jennifer Lee is a professor of sociology at Columbia University and has published award-winning books and articles about immigration, the new second generation, education, intermarriage, multiracial identification, and race relations.
This blog post originally appeared in LA Counts on August 22, 2017. You can access the original article here.
The world quickly adopted the HD Index as the gold standard for quantifying development. Many countries made the HD Index an official measurement of well-being; others began publishing their own annual national human development reports. One notable exception was the United States. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, the concept of "development" had been typically regarded as exclusive to developingcountries, irrelevant to our developed nation, and progress in the United States had been defined largely in purely economic terms, with GDP per capita as one of the most common yardsticks. This, however, would soon begin to change.
This blog post originally appeared in SSRC's Parameters on July 26, 2017. You can access the original article here.
This piece is part of Parameters' Data Stories series, and reads well in conversation with Ken Prewitt's explanation of the Census crisis.
To say that it has been a bad year for government data is an understatement. With the 2020 decennial census around the corner, the Census Bureau finds itself underfunded and without a leader after its director stepped down earlier this year. The decennial census is the most consequential survey exercise in the country; from determining how billions of federal dollars are distributed to dictating congressional representation, the impact of the census cannot be overstated. As the Census Bureau nears a crisis, it is more important than ever to remember why high-quality government data matter for Americans.
Inveterate innovator Benjamin Franklin once quipped, "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." That adage holds true today—without doing the work to learn about the world, there is little we can do to change it. The need for actionable data is important enough to be enshrined in our Constitution, within the provision that established the United States Census. Unlike censuses in other countries, which were meant to tax or conscript, the United States Census was the first one designed to empower; it was—and still is—the basis of representation in Congress and ultimately government spending.
Publicly available data are tremendously valuable and empowering. To give an example close to home, without these data, our organization, Measure of America—a project of the Social Science Research Council— would not have the raw materials necessary for our calculations of life expectancy at birth, youth disconnection, and many other vital measures of the lives of ordinary Americans.
These calculations, in turn, provide the public health workforce, community organizations, youth training programs, and philanthropies with important statistics to inform their work. We learned, for example, that California's Latinos, on average, outlive whites in the state by 3.6 years. In the Baltimore metro area, Asian Americans outlive African Americans in the same city by an average of 17 years (90.5 years vs. 73.4 years). We learned that, though fewer young people are disconnected from school and work today than were before the peak of the Great Recession, about one in four young people ages 16 to 24 who are Native American or live in the rural South are still disconnected.
The hallmark of our work, and a product of openly available data, is a measure of well-being and access to opportunity in American communities called the American Human Development Index. It is based on the time-tested index used by the United Nations each year to measure development in every country. This index connects three basic areas of life—health, education, and standard of living—on one scale, allowing well-being comparisons between places and groups.
For health, our American Human Development Index requires life expectancy at birth, a basic summary measure of survival. Using mortality and population data from an agreement with the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we have calculated life expectancy at birth for every US state, congressional district, major metro area, and for the major racial and ethnic groups in each of these geographies.
These data have been cited in theLancet, the American Journal of Public Health, and over forty other journal articles as well as twenty-six books since we began in 2008. They are the benchmark used by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for international comparisons and have been used by state and local health departments across the country. Illinois has used them to study their aging population, New Orleans to map domestic violence, amongst many others. In short, there is tremendous demand for these data as a basis for research, policy, advocacy, and local actions to build healthier communities. And without the costly investment of public agencies in data collection, these next steps would not be possible.
As we discuss what we should invest in as a nation, let's keep in mind that government data is not a luxury; it is a public good and a necessity. Our jobs, and those of many other researchers (from hedge fund analysts and geologists to historians and cancer geneticists), are dependent on the government to collect and make data available that no other organization has the capacity to produce. Without it, we would know much less about the world we live in—and what we can do to improve it.


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The chief content officer of MediaWorks has resigned.
Andrew Szusterman announced his departure from the company on Monday morning, bringing his 17-year stint at the company to an end.
First hired as a radio programme director in 2002, Szusterman went on to create the iconic C4 Music Television Network.
In 2008 he was made associate director of programming for Three (then known as TV3), and is credited with moving the channel into locally-produced reality television with series such as New Zealand's Next Top Model and X-Factor New Zealand.
He moved into the role of group programme director for MediaWorks Radio in 2011, introducing popular network The Sound as well as Si and Gary's MORE FM breakfast show.
He has worked as chief content officer since 2014, and is credited with pushing local content such as Married At First Sight NZ and Dancing with the Stars NZ, as well as original comedies Mean Mums and Golden Boy.
Mediaworks CEO Michael Anderson says Szusterman has been an "outstanding executive and leader" who has delivered stellar results for Three and MediaWorks Radio.
"I would like to thank him for his incredible contribution to MediaWorks over 17 years for which he should be very proud. He will be hugely missed and I wish him all the very best."
Szusterman says he's been lucky to lead an "amazing team of talented people" during his time in both television and radio.
"MediaWorks is such a special business, its people have so much passion for it, it's rare and at times unexplainable as to why and that's what I'll miss the most.
"But for now, it's time to see what life outside MediaWorks is like, and I'm truly excited by that."
He will leave his role in October. MediaWorks will announce his replacement in the coming weeks.


It was a steady start to the week yesterday with most markets remaining in familiar ranges, Equities had experienced a mixed day until the US session when they spiked along with investor confidence as US and Canadian representatives at last announced a trade deal to replace Nafta, now to be known as the US Mexico Canada Agreement. The Loonie continued its recent drive to the topside with the UsdCad hitting fresh levels under 1.2800, the best level for the Cad in over four months against the greenback and expectations moved even higher for a rate hike from the BOC this month. Also helping with the bid tone to the Cad was another surge higher in the Oil price with WTI topping $75/b and Brent nearly up to $85/b.
Asian stock markets are set to open on the front foot after the rally in the US and investors will be watching closely to see if there is another move to the topside in risk appetite. With China on holiday for the week, the markets will be looking closely at the Australian and Japanese opens for a continuation of the trend. Australian markets were closed yesterday for the Labour Day holiday but the focus for most investors will stay down under after the open as the latest RBA rate announcement is due this afternoon. Once again markets are not expecting any rate change from the bank and analysts will be looking closely at the statement for any changes in sentiment, especially with regard to housing data with fears starting to grow of a real correction in that sector. Anything along those lines would push rate hike expectations even further down the track and put pressure on the Aussie dollar.
It's quiet in terms of fundamental data releases for the rest of Asian day and the focus will swing to the UK for the latest Construction PMI data at the start of the London day. Moving into the US session and we're due to hear from both FOMC member Randle Quarles and Fed Chair Jerome Powell today which could have some significant market impact whilst Kiwi traders in particular will be watching the latest GDT Price Index data release.


Welcome to the final Parent Council newsletter of the school year. Although I'm sure that you are now all focussed on the end of term, I thought it would be good to look back over the year and update you on some of the Parent Council's activities. We are also looking for a new member to join us after the summer break – if you want to find out more or think you may be interested in getting involved then please do get in touch.
Wishing you all a happy (and hopefully sunny) summer!
We have recently welcomed Carol Cook as our Community Representative and are very much looking forward to working with her. Carol runs Pencaitland's Post office. Sadly, we will be losing Jane Scott as her daughter Molly graduates from P7 shortly. I would like to thank her for her valuable contribution over the last few years – she will be missed!
Our AGM was held on the 11th June and you can read our full annual report here [PDF].
Welcomed Fiona Macartney into her post as Deputy Head, following negotiations with East Lothian Council over redeployment. East Lothian Council have invited PPS PC to contribute to a Policy on Redeployment – this is still an outstanding issue.
Consulted you about your views on Homework through on-line surveys, questionnaires and focus groups. We had a fantastic response and your input helped draft a new Homework Policy. This was reviewed by the Parent Council and will be in use from the start of the new school year.
Contributed to the school's internal audit. This gave the Parent Council another opportunity to be involved in staff discussions as to the school's progress and development.
Hosted a second Grandparents Day in partnership with the school. The technology theme for the event tied in with the school's Curriculum for Excellence priorities.
Acquired external funding for the new Sound System, which was successfully used outdoors for the Spring Fayre and on stage for the P7 show. We are very grateful to LEADER funding for their £1,500 contribution and also the PTA who generously matched this amount. We would also like to thank Scott Macdonald and David Jack who donated their time and skills to design and install the new system.
Attended regional and national meetings and events, enabling us to exchange ideas with other parents and schools. It allows us to keep an ear to the ground and also represent PPS parents outside school.
Traffic in the village is a concern for many parents. The Community Council sought recommendations from East Lothian Council's Transport department about a number of these issues including car speeding. The Council has suggested a new roundabout, narrowing the main road by widening the pavements and moving the 30mph speed signs further out at both ends of the village. The Community Council is very keen to hear the views of parents and carers on these measures.
You can read the outline draught proposals here .
We have now created a Facebook page which is aimed at all parents in Pencaitland and surrounding areas (rather than being limited to PPS). Take a look and read more about what it's intended to do here.
You can also keep in touch with the activities of the Parent Council through the school's Blog, Twitter and by e-mail.
We would like to thank everyone for their support and commitment to the PTA fundraisers over the course of the year. The Spring Fayre raised £1,650 and we are already busy spending the money! Our total fundraising effort for this year has come to over £11,000 and this, alongside the grants awarded to the school which totalled another £11,000, has kept us very busy! It has only been possible because so many fantastic people simply offer up their time to make the events a success. We would like to send you an extra big THANK YOU for your support, it's really appreciated.
Below is an outline of PTA fundraising totals and spending totals for the year. We are still in progress with the work on the lower school library area and 10 out of the required 15 Netbooks for p7 have been funded.
Our next challenge is to raise money for the fantastically popular school playground play area and we will be concentrating on this next term.
Once again I would like to remind you that the PTA French club will continue to run next term for P1 to P7 at a cost of £3 per session, if your child is interested in coming along on Mondays after school please contact PPSPTA1@gmail.com.
Coming up in September we will have the annual general meeting, where there will be a proper account of our years' activities and a glass of wine. If you are interested in hearing about the antics of the PTA, or would like to join the team for the coming academic year, then please let us know or just come along on the night (date to be confirmed). Everyone welcome!
For more details please contact Charlotte at PPSPTA1@gmail.com. Joining the PTA is a lovely way of getting to know the school and indeed the whole village!
Hope you have a relaxing holiday!


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The Oakland Raiders play in the National Football League (NFL) in the American Football Conference (AFC). The Raiders formed in 1960 and joined the NFL in the AFL–NFL merger of 1970. The Raiders plan to remain in Oakland through 2018 and will relocate to Las Vegas in 2019 or 20 depending on the completion of a new stadium. A very successful and winning culture the Raiders play to rabid fans are known as the "Silver and Black" and have always played with an edge. They have made the playoffs 22 times with 3 Super Bowl victories.
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Condensation and aggregation of solar corundum and corundum-hibonite grains
T. M. Nakamura, N. Sugiura, M. Kimura, A. Miyazaki, A. N. Krot
Forty-three corundum grains (1-11 μm in size) and 5 corundum-hibonite grains with corundum overgrown by hibonite (4-7 μm in size), were found in the matrix of the mineralogically pristine, ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite Acfer 094 by using cathodoluminescence imaging. Some of the corundum and corundum-hibonite grains occur as aggregates of 2 to 6 grains having similar sizes. The oxygen isotopic compositions of some of the corundum-bearing grains suggest their solar nebula origin. 26Al-26Mg systematics of one corundum grain showed the canonical initial 26Al/27Al ratio, also suggesting a solar nebula origin. Quantitative evaluation of condensation and accretion processes made based on the homogeneous nucleation of corundum, diffusion-controlled hibonite formation, collisions of grains in the nebula, and critical velocity for sticking, indicates that, in contrast to the hibonite-bearing aggregates of corundum grains, the hibonite-free corundum aggregates could not have formed in the slowly cooling nebular region with solar composition. We suggest instead that such aggregates formed near the protosun, either in a region that stayed above the condensation temperature of hibonite for a long time or in a chemically fractionated, Ca-depleted region, and were subsequently physically removed from this hot region, e.g., by disk wind.
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Nakamura, T. M., Sugiura, N., Kimura, M., Miyazaki, A., & Krot, A. N. (2007). Condensation and aggregation of solar corundum and corundum-hibonite grains. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 42(7-8), 1249-1265. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00572.x
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Nakamura, TM, Sugiura, N, Kimura, M, Miyazaki, A & Krot, AN 2007, 'Condensation and aggregation of solar corundum and corundum-hibonite grains', Meteoritics and Planetary Science, vol. 42, no. 7-8, pp. 1249-1265. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00572.x
Nakamura TM, Sugiura N, Kimura M, Miyazaki A, Krot AN. Condensation and aggregation of solar corundum and corundum-hibonite grains. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 2007;42(7-8):1249-1265. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00572.x
Nakamura, T. M. ; Sugiura, N. ; Kimura, M. ; Miyazaki, A. ; Krot, A. N. / Condensation and aggregation of solar corundum and corundum-hibonite grains. In: Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 2007 ; Vol. 42, No. 7-8. pp. 1249-1265.
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Iraq – Informal Sites Assessment (April - June 2022)
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This report provides a detailed overview of the conditions faced by internally displaced persons (IDP) and returnee families residing in informal sites at the time of data collection of the Integrated Location Assessment 7 (ILA 7, April–June 2022). The ILA informal sites assessment was conducted in two parts. First, the location, population and shelter type of all informal sites were collected nationwide. Second, if the informal site had 15 or more families, a full assessment of the location was conducted, designed in partnership with the Cluster members of the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG). In this report, data attrib uted to 'fully assessed sites' refer only to sites with 15 or more families.
As of June 2022, ILA 7 recorded a total of 401 informal sites. IDP families were present in 376 informal sites and returnee families were present in 27 sites. Dahuk governorate contains 35 per cent of the informal sites nationwide (142 sites), with Ninewa and Salah al-Din accounting for a further 18 per cent and 13 per cent, respectively (74 and 52 sites). Overall, 14,366 families were recorded as residing in informal sites in ILA 7 (13,245 IDP families and 1,121 returnee families). The largest share of this population is in Anbar governorate (27%), followed by Dahuk (21%) and Salah al-Din (15%).
In the period between ILA 6 and ILA 7, 35 per cent of fully assessed informal sites witnessed new arrivals (67 sites). Among the sites recording new arrivals, roughly one fifth (21%) involved arrivals from camps (14 sites). Camp arrivals were most common in the districts of Falluja in Anbar governorate, Al-Ba'aj in Ninewa governorate and Samarra in Salah al-Din governorate.
The share of sites in which the majority of families are unable to meet basic needs increased between the ILA 6 and ILA 7 assessments, from 81 per cent to 87 per cent (176 to 167 sites). Despite the vulnerability of those residing in informal sites, only 30 per cent of fully assessed informal sites received assistance in the past three months, predominantly from humanitarian organizations (84%) and charities within the area of residence (61%).
Most IDPs in 83 per cent of informal sites intend to stay in their current location in the short term (153 sites). Of the 4 per cent of informal sites where most IDP families intend to return in the six months following the assessment (seven sites), 57 per cent of them are in Baiji district (four sites). If they were to receive the assistance necessary to return, most or all families would return in 17 per cent of sites (30 sites). These figures indicate a decline in short-term return intentions compared to ILA 6, when 9 per cent of fully assessed sites reported intentions to return and 45 per cent expressed a willingness to do so with assistance. On the other hand, the share of fully assessed sites where families were undecided or did not know their short-term intentions increased compared to ILA 6 (13% vs. 6%, respectively). In the long term, only 13 per cent of sites (24) reported an intention to return, down from the 18 per cent share reported in ILA 6. This intention was most common in Kirkuk, Baiji and Samarra districts.
The report concludes that families residing in informal sites face significant economic challenges impacting their ability to meet basic needs. Greater assistance and livelihoods programming are thus critical to support these groups. Additionally, the concerns surrounding water quality and waste collection highlighted in this assessment call for increased water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programming in informal sites. Despite the challenges of living in these sites, most fami lies intend to remain in the short term and remain undecided about their intentions in the long term, which points to a need for greater durable solutions programming. More broadly, further assessments and monitoring of informal sites should be conducted to better understand conditions and emerging trends.
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Charles Avery
b. 1973, Oban (UK)
Lives and works in London (UK)
Charles Avery b. 1973, Oban (UK)
Untitled (Hunter Going Away From: Signifying Left: Blue Sky and Dark Clouds), 2022
Acrylic and gesso on linen
120 x 80 cm | 47 1/4 x 31 1/2 in
Untitled (Square Circle), 2021
300 x 600 x 300 cm | 118 1/8 x 236 1/4 x 118 1/8 in
Untitled (Hunter Coming Towards: Signifying Right: Pink Sky), 2022
Untitled (Hunter Coming Towards: Signifying Left: Sun Through Clouds), 2022
Untitled (Design for the Square Circle, Henge), 2021
Pencil, acrylic and ink on 2200 micron archival mount board
Unframed: 122 x 163 cm | 48 1/8 x 64 1/8 in
Framed: 125.7 x 167 x 5.1 cm | 49 1/2 x 65 3/4 x 2 in
Untitled (Hunter Going Away From: Signifying Right: Blue Sky), 2022
Untitled (Eel fishing beneath the bridge (Era of the Pentagon), 2021
Pencil, acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
240 x 420 cm | 94 1/2 x 165 3/8 in (image size)
280 x 460 cm | 110 1/4 x 181 1/8 in (with linen)
Untitled (Seated Woman on Phone with Posters Behind), 2021
Acrylic on linen
Untitled (Boys fishing beneath bridge with pink sky), 2021
Pencil, acrylic and ink on paper mounted on linen
210 x 312 cm | 82 5/8 x 122 7/8 in (with linen)
Charles Avery has dedicated himself to a singular world-building project through the depiction of an imaginary island. Titled The Islanders, this project describes the formation of Avery's extensive fiction through drawings, writing, objects, architecture, and design.
The Island at the center of Avery's constructed world is located among an archipelago of innumerable constituents. The gateway to the Island is the town of Onomatopoeia, a highly-textured metropolis that bears the hallmarks of an evolving urban landscape. Once the stepping off point for the pioneers who first came, the town experienced rapid transormation from a colonial outpost, to boom town, bustling metropolis, depression-ravaged slum, and finally a regenerated city of culture and tourist destination. The culture and fabric of the Island continue to evolve, further illuminated with each successive work.
The spirit of Avery's imaginary Island is highly engaged with the disciplines and currency of mathematics, philosophy, economics, and anthropology, and he takes inspiration broadly from literature and comedy. Key elements from his drawings are rendered in physical form in his sculptures and installations. As Avery has said, the Island is "a gymnasium for the imagination and an earnest attempt to align the experience of the viewer with that of the artist."
Charles Avery (b. 1973 in Oban, UK) lives and works in London and on the Island of Mull (UK). Selected and recent solo exhibitions include, The Hunter returns / goes away from, GRIMM, Amsterdam, (NL) in 2022; Zoo, Hat, Bridge, Tree: Architectural Propositions of Onomatopoeia, Vistamarestudio, Milan (IT); a wall, a bridge, an arch, a hat, a side- show, a square circle, a group of friends, and two one-armed snakes, GRIMM, New York, NY (US) in 2021; The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) in 2020; The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) in 2019.
Selected group exhibitons include: GLASSTRESS: Venetian Glass Today, Millesgården Museum, Lidingö (SE); Cubitt 30th Birthday Fundraising Exhibition, Victoria Miro, London (UK); Planet B. Climate Change and the New Sublime, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Palazzo Bollani, Venice, (IT); We, on the Rising Wave, Busan Biennale 2022, Busan (SK); The Hunter's return, Paradys, Arcadia, curated by Hans den Hartog Jager, Triennial of Friesland, Oranjewoud (NL); Le Voci della Sera, Vistamarestudio, Milan, (IT); Art is the Antidote, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL) in 2022; The City & The City & The City, curated by Tom Morton, Frestonian Gallery, London (UK); Other.Worldly, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL) in 2020.
His work is part of numerous collections including, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); Arts Council England Collection, London (UK); The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA), London (UK); Deutsche Bank Collection, THE EKARD COLLECTION, Frankfurt am Main (DE); FRAC Île de France, Paris (FR); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL); National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (UK) and Tate Modern, London (UK), among others.
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The Hunter returns / goes away from 12 May - 25 Jun 2022 GRIMM Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam (NL)
Charles Avery: The Hunter's return
Friesland Triennial, Paradys, curated by Hans den Hartog Jager 8 May - 14 Aug 2022 Other locations
a wall, a bridge, an arch, a hat, a side-show, a square circle, a group of friends, and two one-armed snakes 6 May - 19 Jun 2021 GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US)
54 White Street | Inaugural exhibition
GRIMM's new gallery in Tribeca 20 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US)
Join us in March 2021 for the grand opening of GRIMM's new space in Tribeca at 54 White Street. For more further information, please email info@grimmgallery.com
The Taile of the One-Armed Snake 29 Feb - 25 Apr 2020 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations
Away in the Hill
Group Exhibition 27 Jun - 2 Aug 2019 GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US)
Auto fictions – Contemporary drawing 17 Nov 2018 - 24 Feb 2019 Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (DE), Other locations
Pop-up GRIMM Brussels
Group Exhibition 18 Apr - 5 May 2018 Ravensteinstraat 44, Brussels (BE), Other locations
These Waters 29 Oct 2017 - 7 Jan 2018 GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US)
Plurivers 14 Oct 2017 - 14 Jan 2018 La Panacée Centre d'art Contemporain, Montpellier (FR), Other locations
Solo exhibition 25 Nov 2016 - 7 Jan 2017 GRIMM Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam (NL)
What's the Matter with Idealism? 14 Feb - 7 Jun 2015 GEM, Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague (NL), Other locations
What's so great about Happiness? The people and things from Onomatopoeia 6 Sep - 11 Oct 2014 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations
Huidige Zaken
Group Exhibition 5 Jun - 1 Oct 2014 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations
New Works from The Islanders Project (Concerning The Qoro-Qoros, The Jadindagadendar and The Eternal Dialectic) 12 Apr - 1 Jun 2012 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations
Recent British Sculpture
Group Exhibition, curated by Tom Morton 27 Nov 2010 - 23 Jan 2011 Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations
Charles Avery: 'Kunst maak je niet om je mening te ventileren' (in Dutch)
Toef Jaeger, NRC, May 18, 2022
Leading artists donate works to 100 NHS staff respite rooms across five hospitals in east London
Mark Westall, FAD Magazine, June 11, 2020
#100NHSROOMS
Vital Arts, June 10, 2020
Het universum van Charles Avery is vreemd en klopt toch (in Dutch)
Anna van Leeuwen, de Volkskrant, March 26, 2020
Lavinia Greenlaw meets Charles Avery
BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4, March 11, 2020
Art reviews: NOW at the SNGMA | Charles Avery at the Ingleby Gallery
Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman, June 20, 2019
ART NEWS:Oct.04
Editors, Dream Machine Art News, October 4, 2018
Scottish art to once again be exhibited at Venice Biennale
Phil Miller, The Herald, April 5, 2018
citzenM cinema x Art Rotterdam 2018
Art Rotterdam, Youtube, January 30, 2018
Artist Charles Avery Talks To Artlyst About The ArtBus Project
Editors , Artlyst, August 27, 2017
Rebecca Partridge, Berlin Art Link, March 28, 2017
MUST DO: Charles Avery at DRAF
Stephen Emms, Kentishtowner, March 23, 2017
Charles Avery among the Islanders
Laura Allsop, Apollo, February 2, 2017
Critic's Picks: Pilar Corrias, Charles Avery
Valerie Mindlin, Artforum, January 13, 2017
Karen Wright, The Independent, November 5, 2015
Step Inside "The Island," Charles Avery's Fictional Parallel to Life on Earth
Karen Kedmey, Artsy, August 25, 2015
Charles Avery: the artist who created a complete island world to make his art on
Nancy Durrant, The Times, UK, August 3, 2015
Charles Avery, Lauren Gault & Allison Gibbs, John Walter: this week's new exhibitions
Robert Clark & Skye Sherwin, The Guardian, July 24, 2015
Charles Avery, on show in Edinburgh
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, July 17, 2015
Charles Avery's Bizarre Sculptures Put Emphasis on Design
Nastia Voynovskaya, Hi Fructose, September 30, 2014
Elena Bordignon, Vogue Italy, November 16, 2010
The Hunt for Meaning
Fleur Jongepier, De Filosoof, April 1, 2009
Charles Avery: Back to The Island
Ed Krćma, Art in America, January 1, 2009
Another country: Artist Charles Avery discusses the Island
The Scotsman, November 26, 2008
Artist of the week no 7: Charles Avery
Jessica Lack, The Guardian, September 17, 2008
Graphic notes from a small Island
Laura Cumming, The Guardian, September 6, 2008
Onomatopoeia: Its people and surroundings
Charles Avery Texts: Charles Avery, Robin Mackay and Gilda Williams
Design: Sebastiaan Brandsen and Paul Cleary, 2016 Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Frame Publishers, Amsterdam (NL)
Dimensions: 235 x 315 mm | 9.3 x 12.4 in Read more
Onomatopoeia: The Port
Charles Avery 2010 Hardcover, 80 pages
Publisher: Walther König/Koenig Books
Dimensions: 31.8 x 23.5 cm | 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 in Read more
The Islanders: An Introduction
Charles Avery Authors: Nicolas Bourriaud, Edited by Ziba de Weck Ardalan, 2008 Hardcover, 164 pages
Publisher: Parasol unit / König Books, London (UK)
Dimensions: 310 x 235 mm | 12.2 x 9.3 in Read more
BBC 4: Only Artists with Charles Avery
Conversation between two creatives April 1, 2020
The writer Lavinia Greenlaw meets the artist Charles Avery
Charles Avery in group exhibition 'NOW' at Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art (Modern One)
Charles Avery June 1, 2019
NOW is the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's dynamic three-year series of contemporary art exhibitions. The fifth instalment in the series centred on a...
Charles Avery – Solo exhibition "The Gates of Onomatopoeia" at Ingleby Gallery
Charles Avery April 26, 2019
Charles Avery's exhibition; The Gates of Onomatopoeia, includes several new drawings and a large sculpture. 27 April - 13 July 2019 Exhibition opening Friday 26...
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