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Home Sequence
A self-organized exhibition taking place in the private homes of Amsterdam-based artists.
James Beckett
Anthea Bush
Martín La Roche Contreras
Silvia Mantellini Faieta
Maartje Fliervoet
Willum Geerts
Seán Hannan
Marc Philip van Kampen
Guy Königstein
Martijn Janssen
Angelo Leonardo
Rody Luton
Wolfgang Messing
Sebastián Díaz Morales
Multiple choice (Dina Danish, Rumiko Hagiwara, Jean-Baptiste Maitre)
Martine Neddam
Anna Orlikowska
Josje Peters
Ronit Porat
Willy Smart
Maartje Smits
Michelle Son
Leonid Tsvetkov
Angeliki Tzortzakaki
Maya Watanabe
Ayako Yoshimura
Ran Zhang
with special guests:
Anna Buyvid
Chris Meighan
Home Sequence is a self-organized exhibition taking place in the private homes of Amsterdam-based artists from 28 - 30 June 2019, with opening on Thursday, 27. June 2019.
During this period artists temporarily transform (their) homes into exhibition spaces. Home Sequence is framed by a series of invitations from artist to artist, who either exhibit together in one home or each in their own homes. As such this expanded group exhibition is imagined to cast an open net that connects a route through the city.
For the second edition of Home Sequence we have asked artists who have participated in 2018 to further invite another artist. In addition we have invited several artists ourselves.
The initial idea for Home Sequence comes from an impulse to instantly make an exhibition. The most immediate way to accomplish this appears to be the use of the spaces we already inhabit.
Home Sequence is a gesture that addresses the politics of space and representation, inverting the role of the artist as guest in public space to that of host in private space. It is simultaneously a withdrawal from public space and a making of one's own space public through an invitation. Home Sequence is an experiment that aims to unsettle the relations between the public and intimate space of dwelling, without knowing where this experiment will lead. We hope that such an exhibition will provide ground for a sort of a neighbourhood to emerge – one that could continue on the basis of an immaterial topography of mutual affinities that might quietly already exist.
Home Sequence is initiated and organized by Sascha Pohle and Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec.
Home Sequence is organized without public funds and is fully funded on the part of the participating artists.
Exhibition Dates: 28 – 30 June 2019
Opening event will take place on Thursday, 27. June 2019 from 19:00 – 21:00.
Performance The matter of mothers and mud by Maartje Smits at 20:00.
The single location of the opening is included in the Places and Schedule document.
Special event:
Performance Software Haikus by Chris Meighan.
Saturday, 29. June 2019 at 20:30.
Talk and finissage:
Presentation of Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennale project and Zine by Anna Buyvid.
Sunday, 30. June 2019 from 19:30 - 22:00.
Places and Schedule:
To receive the list of home addresses and the events schedule please RSVP to the email address: homesequenceadam@gmail.com
We kindly ask you not to circulate this document in order to keep overview of who obtained the list of private addresses of the participating artists. The list will be distributed few days before the opening.
(Invited by Bojan Fajfrić)
(Invited by Sebastián Díaz Morales)
Saturday, 29. and Sunday, 30. June.
Liminal (2019)
In recent years, Peru went through a fierce internal conflict period, which brought nearly 70,000 deaths; perpetrated by the military and two guerrilla groups: Sendero Luminoso and Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru. The narrative officialised by the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission established the beginning of the conflict in 1980 – Sendero Luminoso's declaration of war – and the end on the year 2000 – with the fall of the former president A. Fujimori. While rounded numbers and historical periodization do help to grasp the scope of violence, the official narrativization has also the effect of marking the period as a time of exception – an exception that appears, apparently, resolved. Nevertheless, nineteen years after the official end of the conflict, 16.000 missing people and 6.000 unexhumed mass graves are still waiting to be grieved.
Generally speaking, current exhumations and post-mortem efforts to identify buried victims in mass graves strive to 'restitute' their personhood, to determine the legal death and to confer the family the possibility for grieving. In the Peruvian case where the corpses are reduced to bones, it is both the forensic archaeologist and the forensic anthropologist who 'restore' the victim's identity. During the fieldwork, the forensic archaeologist exhumes and recovers the human remains, which are later taken to the forensic anthropologist for the laboratory analysis and the definitive identification. In between those two interventions, the remains hover in a suspended transitional legal status between "missing person" and the official declaration of its death.
Liminal takes place during that transitional state and responds to the subjects that are in a limbo of legal recognition, on the threshold of the subjecthood, the recognisable and the representable.
Liminal has been produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation and supported by Mondriaan Fonds.
Maya Watanabe is a Peruvian visual artist who works with video installations. Her work has been exhibited at: Maxxi Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Matadero Madrid, Das Fridericianum, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of Lima, Kadist Art Foundation, Kyoto Art Center, La Casa Encendida, among others. She has been featured in festivals like Videobrasil and the Rencontres Internationales, as well as in the Havana Biennial, Asian Art Biennial, 2nd Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra and the Beijing Biennial. In 2018 she received the Han Nefkens Foundation prize. She has also collaborated as a set designer and audio-visual art director for theatre plays performed in Peru, Spain, Austria and Italy. Watanabe holds an MA from the Dutch Art Institute-DAI.
www.mayawatanabe.com
Talk with Dust (2018-19)
The series Talk with Dust, 2018-19 is composed of eight video works. At this occasion two fragments or sequences from the whole series is shown. The sequences in and of themselves do not constitute a straightforward narrative or plot. There is no story, only singular details, movements, shapes and sites that create an atmosphere, a succession of different sensations. Through this fragmented narrative, Talk with Dust intends to explore an idea of the fantastic.
This fantastic is not the one that interrupts the ordinary course of things but rather that which is at once strange and present, at the same time its contradiction and its confirmation. For something to be fantastic, it is not enough to be different from the real: also (and above all) it is necessary to mix inexplicably with the real thing. In more philosophical terms we can say that the fantastic is not the other of the same but its alteration: not the contradiction of the real, but its subversion.
Clement Rosset, El Objeto Singular, Editorial Sexto Piso, 2007
The sequences present both material and mental territories - spaces that function as a mirror upon which an image of our world can surface.
Resume from text: Karen Verschooren
Sebastián Díaz Morales (1975, Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina) is a visual artist working mainly in video and film. In his practice, he shifts time and space to question the way we continuously construct and understand reality. His works simultaneously have a documentary and dreamlike feel to them, which in essence, transports us to another uncanny dimension from which we can observe/scrutinize the world known as our own. Sebastián Díaz Morales's work is part of major permanent collections and has been shown world-wide, a.o. in Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen; Le Fresnoy; CAC Vilnius; Tate Modern; Centre Pompidou; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Ludwig Museum Budapest; 57th Venice Biennial; Bienale São Paulo; Biennale of Sydney; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; MUDAM Luxembourg; and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Sebastián Diáz Morales is represented by gallery carlier | gebauer, Berlin.
www.sebastiandiazmorales.com
(Invited by Alena Alexandrova)
(Invited by Maartje Fliervoet)
Friday, 28. and Saturday, 29. June
This is a presentation in the form of a museum inside an installation, inside an apartment, inside a hat, that intends to share some thoughts on various forms of collecting information on the world surrounding us. Its form may be classified, yet its contents revealed according to chance encounters. It must be emphasised that such a presentation relies on the visitor's attitude to this collection that is personal and empirical, little concerned with the chronological classification and still less with balanced representation.
Maartje Fliervoet has exhibited at A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE Institute de Carton and Wiels CAC in Brussels, Grim museum, Berlin, Lokaal 01 Antwerp, Kunstverein Göttingen and SKOR in Amsterdam. She has held several teaching positions, including a tutorship at the honoursprogramme ART and RESEARCH of the UvA and Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Residencies include Frans Masereel Centrum (2016), Air Berlin Alexanderplatz (2013) and Wiels CAC (2010).
In 2015 she initiated Manifold Books, a space for art and books.
www.maartjefliervoet.nl
manifoldbooks.tumblr.com
Born in Santiago Chile (1988). Lives and works in Amsterdam. Martín La Roche studied Visual Arts at the University of Chile in Santiago and then in 2015 he completed a postgraduate program at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. His work has been shown among others at Die Ecke Arte Contemporani, Barcelona; Manifold Books, De Appel and Akinci in Amsterdam; U10, Belgrade; Galería Gabriela Mistral, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and Die Ecke in Santiago de Chile; Casanova, Sao Paulo; CIAP, Hasselt; Lugar a Dudas, Cali; B32, Maastricht; Palacio Molina, Cartagena, España. Residences include FLAT Station (2015), Calipso Press Cali (2016), Beautiful Distress at Kings County Hospital NY (2019).
In 2017 he started the Musée Légitime, a nomad institution that now has 102 artworks by different artists. In 2018 he started with Dongyoung Lee an artist book platform in Amsterdam called Good Neighbour dedicated to make art with words. Also participates in Ediciones Popolet an artist book publisher born in Santiago de Chile and now also in NY and Amsterdam.
www.martinlaroche.nl
(Invited by Sefer Memişoğlu)
(Invited by Josje Peters)
For Home Sequence Josje Peters and Ran Zhang create a dialogue between imagery repetition and visual registration of memory that overlap and distort private space with imagery space through modeling and sampling in a different home. Josje Peters repeats components and images that are already present in her home but never meant to be made public. By repeating and showing these private elements in another space, they reflect on the thinking process within the private home and how the images we live with relate to our work process. Ran Zhang's cut-outs are stenciled shapes from Josje Peters' works and textured through painting detailed areas of Peters' home by memory. They speak about how the continuity of a space is interrupted and distorted by memory and translated into the surface value of imagery representation.
Josje Peters (NL/CA) researches a state of being in which figures and spaces seem to lose their identity. She articulates certain elements f.e. gestures, by using repetition and way of painting. Her work questions through minimizing the amount of information given within the compositions and the abstract approach towards the anonymous figures and spaces, what it is we actually see. Peters graduated from AKV St. Joost 'S Hertogenbosch. In 2010 and 2011 she was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Peters graduated from AKV St. Joost 'S Hertogenbosch. In 2010 and 2011 she was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
www.josjepeters.com
Ran Zhang (CH/NL) graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and worked in the residency program in Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Her work starts from a pure interest in materials, to looking at the very appearance of the image itself, using painting, drawing, analogue and digital printing to create images in layers that are visually complex and accurately balanced between the minimal recognition of the content and the arrangement of the imagery surface. Her works capture or highlight the duality of formulating methods of image making and researching beyond them: a relation between our comprehension of creating images, and being shaped by them at the same time.
www.ranzh.com
(Invited by Anthea Bush)
My drawings are a development of the stories I tell myself, of fantastic plants and insects and of the worlds they inhabit. My starting point is to dissect the insect or plant in front of me and from there I connect with them and reconstruct an alternative reality. I feel a connection to early botanists, as my drawings are an ongoing process to try to understand what I see by collecting, dissecting, recording and categorizing. The potato is the subject of my recent drawings, although now being seen as plain; this vegetable fed the industrial and agricultural revolutions whilst also taking the blame for the spread of sexual immorality and leprosy.
Anthea Bush (1974 UK) has worked with a wide range of media but now focuses mainly on watercolour on paper. She uses this medium for its unforgiving nature. It has a life of its own, once a mark is made it can't be removed, the only option is to incorporate it. Connected in an abstract way to the natural world, both are evolving and unpredictable.
Anthea graduated from Newcastle University and was a resident at De Ateliers, Amsterdam. She has been an artist-in-resident in Finland (Mustarinda and Atelje Stundars) and in Düsseldorf (Ateliers Höherweg). She has also participated in various international and group exhibitions.
www.antheabush.com
Verdant I — IV (2018)
The word verdant does not just denote the colour green, it refers to 'growing green', to vegetation, and to nature – derived from the French words 'vert' and 'verdure.'
Nature imbues stillness as well as flow - like the waves of wind moving through a verdant green wheat field. Even in a city dwelling, amidst the anxiety of urban life, it can evoke serenity.
Verdant: these four paintings, connect to my interest in exploring transitory zones between nature and culture, between different environments, surfaces and ecologies.
Rody Luton is a British/New Zealand visual artist, based in the Netherlands. Her mostly abstract art work has involved a variety of media forms, including painting, mixed media and photography. Born in England and growing up in New Zealand, she has lived and worked in England, France, Netherlands, Italy and the United States.
She was trained at Bath Academy of Art (UK) and École Nationale d'Art Décoratif (France), and holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Sussex (UK).?Her work has been exhibited internationally. In 2016 Witteveen Art Centre Amsterdam hosted a retrospective exhibition of her work entitled Time Encircled (2016). In Spring 2019 she was artist in residence in Kyushu, Japan.
rodyluton.com
(Invited by Tomo Savić Gecan)
(Invited by Angelo Leonardo)
Friday, 28., Saturday, 29. and Sunday, 30. June.
Season of Mistakes
Conceived by Angelo Leonardo and hosted by Silvia Mantellini Faieta in her Jordan home-studio, Season of Mistakes is a furious looking back framed by the impossibility to imagine the future. An anachronistic loop of "been there before" transformed into a temporary living space. The recurring state of changing houses along with side jobs appears like an alienating movement across the shades of precarity, a continuous self-reflection and vicissitude.
In the context of Home Sequence and as a result of a series of open invitations, the two artists stage a scenographic set, an open platform that works as a pretext for these narratives to emerge. Silvia Mantellini's work interferes in the set questioning the different layers of consciousness that the body has to cross: solitude, trauma, exhaustion. Surrounded by the current rising wave of misogynism spread like a deadly virus at the Colonies, Silvia's daily gestures remain still and silent as a deafening act of resistance.
Angelo Leonardo's research is developed through attempts, quotes and actions to reconstruct his fictional imagery through the lives of contemporary heroes. Leonardo likes to dive in the archival nature of these personalities and appropriate their elements. The endless possibilities of the hypothetical combinations similar to an extended algorithm affirm the complexity of being. At the same time Leonardo's actions can be read as a flux of data: available, democratized, commodified, speculated.
Text by Angeliki Tzortzakaki
Angelo Leonardo was born in 1991, Calascibetta, Sicily. He lives and works between Naples and Palermo, temporary based in Amsterdam. Since 2014 he's co-author of E IL TOPO artist-run magazine based in Milan, since 2015 he's part of Hisn Al-giran, a no-profit that takes care of Villaggio Bizantino an archeological site in Calascibetta. He also exposed for: Pio Monti arte contemporanea, Rome (2017), EnclaveLab, as part of the project "We are all involved in this mess" with the support of Art Department of Goldsmiths, University of London and the Goldsmiths Annual Found, London (2017), and also part of the Stefania Galegati's project "Caffe internazionale" as curator, artist and trainee barman (2015-2018).
http://www.angeloleonardo.com/
http://www.eiltopo.org
http://caffeinternazionale.com/
Angeliki Tzortzakaki (1990) is an independent curator and writer based in Amsterdam. She is part of the collective and artist residency bi- and for 2018-2020 a curatorial fellow of the research programme "A Natural Oasis?" focusing on the Mediterranean area. In Amsterdam she collaborates with Looiersgracht 60.
Silvia Mantellini Faieta, visual artist and performer, born in 1992 in Pescara (Italy) and based in Amsterdam since 2018.
(Invited by Noa Giniger)
(Invited by Guy Königstein)
Facing the Palace
Seemingly idle, an island itself, with its square and somewhat randomly organized, non-transparent windows, the Courthouse of Amsterdam (in Dutch Paleis van Justitie) amounts not much to our daily life, apart from dominating our view.
For the occasion of Home Sequence we take the look (and gaze) toward the Palace on the opposite side of the road as a starting point for an investigation: of our home (and castle), of our past and the way we judge (and live) it, of our work and the question of its local relevance (and timeliness) - a collaborative, multi-medial work setting, embedded in our private palace.
Written or sculpted, photographed or cooked, printed or casted, installed or performed, Guy Königstein's works examine both his ability as an artist, and the capacity of the spectator, to participate in alternative historical, social, institutional and national narration. Königstein holds a Master degree in Applied Arts from the Sandberg institute Amsterdam, and a B.A from the Design Academy Eindhoven.
www.guykoenigstein.com
Ronit Porat works in the medium of photography, and includes archival materials and biographical texts in her installations. She holds a Master degree in Fine Arts from the Chelsea School of Art and Design in London, and a B.A. in Photography and Digital Media from the Hadassah College in Jerusalem, which she completed with distinction.
www.ronitporat.com
(Invited by Sascha Pohle and Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec)
(Invited by Rumiko Hagiwara)
Friday, 28. and Saturday, 29. June.
Multiple Choice presents three multiples that we have either made or commissioned and which all fit perfectly into an A4 sized cardboard box. For Home Sequence we also launch our new multiple: The great rolled food recipes e-cookbook! Come by and contribute to our recipes, and be welcome to munch on some of our signature Multiple Choice rolled food!
Multiple Choice is an artist initiative, meant to be in constant flux, always changing its function. We make multiple things including, but certainly not limited to exhibitions, workshops, think tanks, collections, books and multiples. Anything and anyone can be a member in the Multiple Think Tank including fish and dead writers. Meanwhile, our events are mobile and can take place at any location. Multiple Choice is an artist initiative founded by Dina Danish, Rumiko Hagiwara and Jean-Baptiste Maitre.
http://multiplechoice.xyz/
(Invited by Anna Orlikowska)
1. "S-w-i-t-c-h W-i-s-h". Let's consider the insects in the family Gerridae (insects colloquially known as water striders, water bugs, magic bugs, pond skaters, skaters, skimmers, schaatsenrijders, water scooters, or Jesus bugs). The water strider carries out its life on a surface, as does an erotic novel: all details and no depth. So perhaps better than an erotic novel about the interests of humans would be an erotic novel about water striders. And perhaps better than reading such a novel on land would be to read it on water (or the next best thing, a house boat).
2. "*Uh, uhh, mmm*" is a spatialized, site-specific, performative sound poem, which, as a starting point, takes a drawing from the novel and treats it like a score. "*Uh, uhh, mmm*" is a woman. It zooms in on a page, empties it out, brings it into depth, spreads it into the ceilings, shakes the walls, drops (into the water).
Willy Smart is an American writer and artist whose work proposes expanded modes and objects of reading and recording—stones, insects, ponds, surfaces, hormones, spores, clouds. Willy directs the conceptual record label, Fake Music (fakemusic.org). They have presented visual and performative work in venues including MCA Chicago, Bas Fisher Invitational Miami, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and MÉLANGE Cologne. Publications include a novel forthcoming from Meekling Press, book length-publications with Publication Studio Portland, and essays published by MIEL press, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Dilettante Journal, and others.
willysmart.com
Anna Orlikowska is a Warsaw-born artist working in Amsterdam. Her practice is defined by the concept of "space activation" and involves a variety of media ranging from installation, performance, sculpture, video, drawing, text and sound. She explores the relationship between the ear and the eye and their relatedness to other senses. She received MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her work has been presented in international solo and group exhibitions including Centre for Contemporary Art U-jazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Neuer Kunstverein in Wuppertal, Randy Alexander Gallery in Chicago, Casa do Povo in Sao Paulo. She was an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited and LES Studio Program in New York.
annaorlikowska.nl
Installation in a houseboat possible thanks to the generosity of Michal Sypien and Jurek Owski.
(Invited by James Beckett)
Strange Glow
Strange Glow is a new series of work in progress, primarily an exercise in compacting disparate sources. As assemblage, these pieces can be described as backdrops of architectural reproduction, super-imposed with seemingly random objects and extracts from the news.
The so called "formatore" or plaster casters of the 19th century, used reproduction as a means of study, for the outlining and defining of architectural canon. In a summarisation of western tradition and motif, they later expanded to include the ethnographic, the exotic. Beckett's selection however, is based on the inhabitants themselves, on the social-political implications of these buildings and their surroundings – at times seemingly circumstantial in terms of the architecture itself. This focus on the people, the users, renders the façades more human and grounded, less grandiose perhaps than their great-grandparent plaster casts of the Trocadero in Paris.
A contrasting layer of found objects and extracts from the news, mounted directly on the reproductions, seeks not to unpack, but contrast these architectural examples. In an associative chain, these parts look to create a kind of remote magnetism or odd relation of parts, much like the unlikely occurrence of events in life itself.
Exhibited works:
CNC machined wood, over-printed with UV ink bronze, oil paint.
In the early 1970's, this house was moved from Olkhovchyk village in the east of Donetsk Oblast, to be part of the exhibition titled "The Socialist Village," which presents 20th-century houses from across Ukraine. Since April 2014, the region has been occupied by pro-Russian militants, culminating in the shooting down of Flight MH17 in July of the same year. Internally displaced people of Donetsk have since taken patronage over the building, ensuring its maintenance through volunteer work. A member of the activists group had visited the outdoor museum and seen the dilapidated condition of the house, and had the idea to bring it back to shape.
CHUNNEL + LIGHTBULB LOLLY
CNC machined wood, over-printed with UV ink Cast epoxy, steel, polystyrene mounted laser print.
Reproduction of a door from a late 18th century farmhouse, which was demolished whilst building the Channel Tunnel, the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and the European mainland.
BBC news article, which documents a dangerous online challenge whereby people force a whole light bulb-shaped sweet into their mouth, which then often gets stuck. This can result in choking and even suffocation, as well as potential mechanical injury.
PRAUNHEIM + PERSIAN TURQUOISE
CNC machined wood, over-printed with UV ink mixed products on shelf.
Reproduction of external wall of a former prison, showing children's drawings in chalk. German filmmaker and gay rights activist Rosa von Praunheim was born here, whilst his mother was a prisoner following the 2nd world war.
A selection of products, chosen for their similarity to the colour of Persian turquoise. The precious stone comes from a number of mines in modern day Iran, stones which show a great colour variation. There is evidence that surface mines have been exploited as early as 2100 B.C. In Persia, turquoise was the de facto national stone for millennia, extensively used to decorate objects from turbans to bridles, as well as important buildings such as mosques both inside and out.
CROCHET + POISON
CNC machined wood, glass Newspapers.
Reproduction of entrance to former home of Daina Taimina, a mathematician known for crocheting objects to illustrate hyperbolic space (curvature in 3 dimensional space). The building is in the architectural style of National Romanticism.
A series of newspapers reporting on former Bosnian Croat general Slobodan Praljak's death, following his drinking a phial of poison. This was whilst standing in the dock at a UN tribunal in The Hague, where his war crimes sentence of 20 years had just been upheld. Amongst other things, Praljak was charged with ordering the destruction of Mostar's 16th-century bridge in November 1993, which judges in the first trial had said "caused disproportionate damage to the Muslim civilian population".
Strange Glow is supported by Amsterdams Fond voor de Kunst, FLACC artist residency in Genk Belgium, and Stimulerings Fonds Creatieve Industrie, Rotterdam.
James Beckett (ZA, NL), born in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1977. Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
James Beckett's work in diverse media examines subjects of a historical nature, from the development (and subsequent demise) of European industry, to the more metaphysical aspects of dowsing and voodoo. His constructions favour an obscure and rambling logic, often within a strict formalism reflecting the mechanisms of display. A sometimes-dubious approach to his subject matter entertains the historic as suspended in a state of constant re-interpretation, a portrayal of a world where anomaly and change are fundamentals. With craft-like assembly placing the work uncomfortably between a bourgeois decorative art and a crude social reality, the outcomes explore the peculiarity of human behaviour.
Beckett was resident at the Rijksakademie (2001-2002) after which he won the Prix de Rome for Art in Public Space. Further residencies includes: Wysing, Cambridge; Centre International Des Recollets, Paris; FLACC, Genk. His works are in the public collections of: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Pompidou, Paris (FR) and is represented by galleries Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam; T293, Rome; Markus Lüttgen, Düsseldorf.
Recent shows include: The World is Flat, MCAD, Manila; Witness, 1st Karachi Biennale; Utopia/Dystopia, MAAT, Lisbon; 5th Thessaloniki Biennale; 56th Venice Biennale, Belgian Pavilion. Published Monographs include: TWAAS/Koenig books ; Kehrer Verlag (DE).
Ambiguity and Detachment
The series of paintings continue a distinctive form of dialogue with Western European culture and history.
Currently, people experience everyday images as full-colour slides via computer, smartphone or huge advertisement screens. Inversely, the paintings by Messing are referring to distant memories with blurred details and faded colours; representing space of subjective perception, which possibly could be more significant than common reality.
The artist is researching a refined technique to appropriate the role of a spectator of non-matter.
Wolfgang Messing was artist-in-residence of the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam in 2003-2004.
Messing participated in numerous international exhibitions in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Berlin (Germany), London (UK), Los Angeles (USA), Milan (Italy), Paris (France) St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Tokio (Japan).
MARC PHILIP VAN KEMPEN
(Invited by Leonid Tsvetkov)
Friday, 28. and Sunday, 30. June.
This exhibition focusses on the difference between the way we live with art and the way we relate to art in exhibition spaces. In art spaces we look at the exhibited works within the boundaries of formal criteria based on art history and the way contemporary artists relate to this. In our own homes we tend to select the art we live with on completely different and much more chaotic criteria such as friendship, personal interest, financial capacity, size, holiday destinations, relationships and/or chance. For this exhibition I invite the artists / designers / photographers of whom I have works in my apartment to bring the art and artefacts that they live with from their houses, and form unexpected connections and associations between them.
The exhibited pieces include:
Branches with woodworm engravings, found object, undated.
Celtic bronze horse, ca. 200-100 BC, artist unknown.
Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, etching, 1850, artist unknown.
Dionysos, C-print on aluminum, 2008, Marc van Kempen.
Nose Cup, stoneware, 2017, Daniel Dewar.
Okuma-Machi (Ostrich), C-print on aluminum, 2012, Yasusuke Ota.
Untitled, C-print, 2002, Tom Baas.
Noh-mask, undated.
Toi & Moi & Nous Beux (broken and fixed), Porcelain, 1950, Villeroy & Boch.
Untitled, 5 concrete casts, 2012, Leonid Tsvetkov.
Piece of Rietveld Akademie, concrete iron & plastic, 2018, various artists.
Untitled, C-print on MDF, 2003, Antoinette Nausikäa.
Found object, ceramic, undated.
Monkey Mischief, Franz porcelain, 1980-now.
Spray can, 1970s, Egypt.
Wooden shoe sole, Greece, undated, unknown artisan.
Ceremonial stone axe, neolithic (4000-2351 BC), jadeite, unknown artisan.
Two cups with turtles, Urushi lacquered, Edo period, unknown artist.
Laozi riding an ox, ink on paper, undated, artist unknown.
Untitled, circuit boards plaster, Leonid Tsvetkov.
Untitled, painting on cardboard, 2018 Helder Zedelius.
Two Atoms, screen prints, 2009, Tania Theodorou.
Found object, aluminum casts.
Japanese woodblock print, undated, artist unknown.
Human remains (bones).
Marc Philip van Kempen (b 1979, NL) studied Fine Arts at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and New Media & Film History at the University of Amsterdam. His work encompasses a variety of forms such as hand-tinted photography, life sized handcrafted diorama's and video, and deals with the chaotic relationship between virtual images and their surroundings.
His work has been shown in various group and solo exhibitions among which at the Fries Museum (NL), Nest (NL), Hyeres Photo Festival (F), Cemeti Art House (ID), CB1 gallery (US), and Museum Huis Marseille (NL). He has curated both art shows and concerts of experimental electronical music, such as Après-Garde at Stillpoint, Berlin, and @asecretlocation at Miller, Berlin. van Kempen lives and works in Amsterdam.
www.mpvk.org
For Home Sequence I exhibit a selection of sculptures from an installation I presented in Rome earlier this year titled Transfer. I follow my earlier explorations in Rome of the intersections of history, material culture and consumption by engaging anatomical ex-voto practices. The request for divine intervention by means of a votive offering, an ancient as well as a contemporary ritual, is juxtaposed with the contemporary desire for a constant upgrade of the consumer object – from everyday use technology and electronics to the remaking of the body itself.
The assemblage of these casts draws parallels with iconology of ideograms, texts and code with hidden meaning and purpose, referencing the aspirational and instrumental character of textualized communication. The body is always fluctuating between a fragmented entity and an apparent whole, a phenomenon that is equally applicable to texts. The etymology of the word "metaphor" (from the Greek metapherein, to transfer) is translated into the title of the work.
Leonid Tsvetkov investigates the spaces where contradictions meet. Shifting cultures and disparate ways of living, the ideas of landscape or territory, and the impact of human activity on the earth's surface direct attention toward the blurring intersections of manufactured and existing landscapes and away from specious performances of closure and finitude. His concerns are with how boundaries exist in physical, social, and conceptual terms as well as territory as it relates to nationality and identity. Tsvetkov's own nomadic life has convinced him that landscapes, territories, concepts and perceptions are inherently unstable, despite attempts to assert control and define boundaries in place, time, and memory.
https://leonidtsvetkov.com/
(Invited by Martine Neddam)
Home Sequence opening on Thursday, 27. June at 19:00.
"these are a few of my favourite things…"
Your own house has something comforting and familiar, just like a song you might hum to yourself. It hosts some of your favourite things. They might happen to be works of art, made by others or by yourself, or not even works of art, but just things or objects that you like having around. Things that bring you warmth, just by thinking of them.
I'm inviting Maartje Smits and Michelle Son to show their art in my house, to mingle with the space, shake off the dust, or blow it away with new words or new things.
Martine Neddam is an artist who uses language as raw material. Speech acts, modes of address, words in the public space were always her favourite subjects by which she had several museum and gallery exhibitions and large scale public commissions. Since 1996 she has created virtual characters on the internet who lead an autonomous artistic existence in which the real author remains invisible, Mouchette among others. She has also built several online participatory interfaces.
https://www.neddam.info/
The matter of mothers and mud.
An installation and intimate chatbot performance about motherhood and what happens if a writer or artist creates a baby. This performance will be taking place in the safe space of a spare bedroom. For optimal experience a smartphone is handy but it's no necessity.
Performances on:
Thursday the 27th June at 20:00 - OPENING EVENING
Friday the 28th June at 18:00
Saturday the 29th June at 15:00
Max.15 people per performance.
Maartje Smits is a poet in image and language. She investigates topics like 'girliness' and 'nature' by observing and infiltrating, operating in the limbo between art and literature. Her work consists of films, performances, texts and intimate confessions. Her books of (visual) poetry When you're a girl and How I started a forest in my bathroom were published by publishing house De Harmonie.
www.maartjesmits.nl
like a luminous animal (2019)
"oh, na, na, na"
M's largest room
cathedral height
marmoleum movements
sticks that look like sketches of sticks
"bom bomm!... bom bomm!"
blipped portal
rolling companion
Scripting spaces is an activity that shapes Michelle Son's artistic practice. Her interest in the paradox of language has developed into visual and experiential practices. This forms the structure for multiple media to activate a space, through sound, performance interventions, video, object-making or hybrid writing practices. Other subjects of interest stretch across notions of self-care, suburbia, cinema, flâneury, womanhood, wildness, diaspora and (in)direct communication.
http://www.michelleson.co.za/
(Invited by Seán Hannan)
'Fwd: Home"
The exhibition 'Fwd: Home", as part of Home Sequence 2019 shows works by Willum Geerts, Martijn Janssen and Seán Hannan. The works exhibited use our home technology devices to extend beyond the confines of the domestic dwelling. In a soft and soothing living room to snuggle up on the couch and recharge your battery amid the hustle and bustle of modern day city life, all artworks shown are conspicuously placed. At first glance they read as interior decorations, perhaps bought at a thrift or design store, but also extend their influence beyond the physical into the realm of information consumed, spread and generated online. They are conduits into worlds of hidden information, accessed by the keen eye or aided by the smart devices of its 'visitors'. In a way, the exhibition deliberately remains in a state of being "unshown". So sit back and relax, maybe you'll see an exhibition, maybe not, but something is going on somewhere. Coffee is on the house, of course.
Hannan's work is driven by a never-ending curiosity about the invisible and mysterious. In search of leaked documents, whistleblower testimonies, and conspiracy theories, Hannan roams the domains of computer hackers, political influencers and agitators. The informational gems he finds here are used as source materials for his projects, through which Hannan explores how alternative, speculative sources of information, such as fake news and amateur journalism, affect our emotional well being. His work embraces the infinite, murky stream of online information in all its complexity and intricacy, and creates a world where truth and fiction are now no longer at odds with one another, and where doubt always trumps certainty. Seán Hannan currently lives and works in Amsterdam
www.seanhannan.nl
As multidisciplinary artist Geerts plays through prosaic elements from the everyday with the major themes of our absurd existence. In a poetic, associative and satirical way, his projects question the status quo of our contemporary off- and online world, in which reality is in intimate entanglement with the world of entertainment.
Geerts presents his multidisciplinary work all around the world, in- and ouside the regular art context. Bringing him, amongst others, from the Van Abbemuseum and Kröller- Müller Museum to Nhasan Studios in Hanoi. And from Makan Art Space in Jordan to New York where he attended the LMCC studio program and Art Omi International Artist's Residency. And as lecturer he teaches at the Fine Arts Department at the HKU University of Arts in Utrecht and as guest lecturer regularly at various other universities.
www.willumgeerts.nl
Martijn Janssen's emerging art-practice can be best described as a (re)search in love within the loveless. Fascinated by the many dualities in (human)nature, universal ideas of tenderness and callousness are merged in a diverse arrangement of media and idea's.
Dispite always having been a producer and consumer of art, he has recently given in to his passion for artistic production and now studies as a dog-time student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Martijn Janssen lives and works in Amsterdam.
Places (over the rainbow) #2
HD video with digital prints
For Home Sequence, I am previewing my new video work Places (over the rainbow) #2.
The work features ephemeral and imagined places, which are stage sets of classical ballet pieces, including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and The Nutcracker. The video is composed of still images photographed at the rehearsal hours of the productions at the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. These well-known pieces are presented with décor and partly with the lighting but without performers and music. These representations that are supposed to serve dance and music become then the subject. The order of the set's movements is in accordance with the original script of the pieces, but the length is significantly shortened. Shown together with a few photographs of the site.
Inspired by built environments and their representations, visual artist Ayako Yoshimura uses her own video and photographic images as well as found material of urban landscapes, such as cities, suburbs, parks, museums, zoos, and theaters to present the ideals and paradoxes behind the imagery.
She graduated from Rikkyo University as a Literature major in Tokyo and continued in Fine arts at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Her works have been exhibited among others at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Ecole Regionale des Beaux-arts de Besançon, Besançon; and Gallery Loop, Seoul.
www.ayakoyoshimura.net
(Special guest)
Talk and finissage on Sunday, 30. June at 19:30.
Research exhibition
For several years Anna works with the matter of apartment exhibitions as curator and researcher.
One of the vital parts of this process is Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennale – the project developing a distinct approach to alternative exhibition solutions and independent artistic initiatives.
Artist's studios and apartment galleries as alternative exhibition spaces have rarely been included in popular art history. WASBiennale is not just disclosing undercurrents of contemporary art history to the general public, but foremost creates an opportunity to build parallels with the most recent developments, where again artists and curators are compelled to find alternative ways.
The headline of the first edition of WASBiennale: BE MY GUEST brought the idea of transforming boundaries, showing a decreasing approach of white-cube-based art space and inviting viewers to take a step into the intimate artist's zone. Letting anyone in the artist's studio, as well as inviting someone in your private space is a gesture of high confidence. Showing art in such format, involving the audience in direct dialogue, helping to reduce a gap and provide a new scale of artist/viewer communication.
During the Home Sequence, Anna Buyvid will present the first WASBiennale's zin-catalogue and some of the unique historical material she collected for her PhD thesis. The public talk will bring the story of apartment exhibitions in Eastern Europe and match it to the Western European experience.
Anna Buyvid is an independent curator, researcher and art critic based in Amsterdam.
Anna participated in the Gallerist Programme of de Appel Arts Centre, and currently, she is a PhD candidate of the University of Amsterdam; her research is dedicated to apartment exhibitions and artist-run spaces in Eastern Europe in the period of censorship.
In 2016 Anna, in collaboration with artist Anna Khodorkovskaya, founded Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennale. During the 1st WASBiennale, more than 70 art shows and various art events took place in artist studios, apartment galleries and even private spaces all over the world at the same time. Geography of the 1st WASBiennale includes most European countries, the UK, Russia, USA, Australia and South Korea. The project will continue in autumn 2019 with the second edition of the Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennale.
Saturday 29.June, 20:30.
Software Haikus
Contemporary life is increasingly regulated by software-driven processes. However, few people have a clear understanding of what software is, of how it functions and is structured. The essential problem with the metaphor of the computer 'language' is that software exists in a domain of pure abstraction, with no parallel in physical reality: what is being described is extra-linguistic, because it deals in things that cannot be named. The objective of this performance is to express the inherent poetry of this abstract domain in a visual, auditory, electronic and yet direct way, in a work for both human and machine.
Chris Meighan performs a series of software haikus, short fragments of poetry written in FORTH, a relatively obscure computer programming language that has a peculiar, succinct and intrinsically elegant structure. As these 'haikus' are being performed (by the human performer), a screen displays the visual result of their execution (by the computer performer). In this way, they function simultaneously as agents for the emergence of aesthetic expression, and as a form of expression in themselves.
Chris Meighan (1979) is a visual artist, translator, musician, brewer and computer programmer. He resurrects and repurposes technologies that have become forgotten and obsolete, often for reasons unconnected to their efficacy. He is particularly interested in (re)domesticating large-scale industrial processes as a means for individuals and communities to wrest agency from the all-consuming, all-controlling forces of the modern technological-industrial complex. He has performed and produced installations, spoken-word performances, books and video work throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, both individually and collaboratively. He lives and works in Amsterdam.
www.chrismeighan.com
INITIATED AND ORGANIZED BY
SASCHA POHLE
TAO G. VRHOVEC SAMBOLEC
Sascha Pohle (1972, Düsseldorf) lives and works in Amsterdam and Seoul. He works in the intersection of individual projection and cultural repository. He strolls through anything classified or settled in order to perform fluid forms of home, imagination, history and originality. Through a transfer of media, often crafted, his materials becomes revaluated or imbued with archaeological or anthropological evocations.
Sascha Pohle studied at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Currently he works as an assistant professor for fine art photography at Chung-Ang University, South Korea. Recent exhibition include 2019, Passage, Grzegorzki Shows, Berlin, DE, From Here to There, Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Storage, Seoul, 2018, Glancing into the Sun, Hongcheon Museum, KR. In 2012 he won the Principal Price at the 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE, For Reframing the Artist funded by The Netherlands Film Fund.
www.saschapohle.com
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (SI/NL) is Amsterdam-based artist with a particular focus in sound, new media, real-time interaction, and questions of contemporary mediation in relation to the sense of (bodily) presence. His work consists of spatial and sound installations, events and interventions. He earned his PhD in Artistic Research from Faculty of Fine Art at University in Bergen, Norway. His works have been shown internationally in major museums, project spaces and festivals. In 2017 he took part in Research Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2010 his work was awarded at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz – Austria. Recent presentations include: Social Capital #2 Amsterdam West, organized by TAAK Amsterdam with LIMA media art platform and DNK-days, Exchanges and Misunderstandings - The National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania, Science of Sound - DORDTYART - Dordrecht, NL, Escape - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, HR. Currently he is the recipient of Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Established Artists, The Netherlands.
www.taogvs.org


Treetop Quest is a self-guided activity comprised of treetop obstacles and zip-lines. Our courses range in difficulty from easy to very challenging, so the entire family will have a blast!
Treetop Quest's adventure park will challenge you physically and mentally as you maneuver from tree to tree through obstacles and zip lines. With treetop obstacle courses designed specifically for kids and higher, more challenging, courses ideal for teens and adults, our activity accommodates nearly any adventurer! Courses range from "easy" and closer to the ground to "challenging", reaching heights of about 60 feet. Obstacles include: Tarzan swings, tight ropes, zip lines, and various other challenges.


Chilton Woods State Forest is the first State Forest located on the Northern Neck of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In July of 2000, Mrs. Catherine B. Chilton conveyed the 397-acre tract, known as Chilton Woods, to the Virginia Department of Forestry. Chilton Woods State Forest became the 15th State Forest under the stewardship of the VDOF. It is located in Lancaster County. On Virginia Highway 3, travel east from Warsaw approximately 15-20 miles. After entering Lancaster County, turn left onto Rt. 602 (Field Trial Road) and follow for approximately 1-2 miles. Pass the sign for Chilton Woods State Forest on your right, under the power line right-of-way, and drive into the gravel parking lot on the right.
The property is entirely in forestland of various aged loblolly pine stands, which were nurtured and maintained by the Chilton family for many decades. The VDOF assisted Mr. and Mrs. Chilton when they took possession of the property in 1954. The Chilton family managed Chilton Woods State Forest under the guidance of professional foresters, involving both the VDOF and private consultants. William "Ran" Chilton, who was a heating oil and fuel dealer and president of the Bank of Lancaster, did not cut any timber until it was fully mature and then was quick to reforest the land in pines. But, as much as Mr. Chilton managed the woods for income, he was also drawn by the beauty of the land and its wildlife.
Mr. Chilton died in 1973. His will left the forest to his wife in a lifetime trust with the provision that it be transferred at her death to the state and managed for timber and wildlife. Mrs. Chilton thought better of this and deeded the tract of Lancaster County land to the state to ensure her late husband's wish was fulfilled for the Virginia Department of Forestry to receive it.
Streams in the woods drain into Lancaster Creek and Corrotoman River, both tributaries of the Rappahannock River. The Rappahannock empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
By integrating best management practices on this land, we're ensuring that this forest is helping keep the Chesapeake Bay alive and productive.


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Q: Python Twisted for long data Python coders
I am working with twisted for build a server, which receive 3000 bytes of data on each connection, my issue is that packages are been truncated and stored on database as on  packages pieces,  What I am looking for, is a way to solve this kind of data packages that must be parsed as a one long data.
Line received is not a way, cause this kind of data is sent withuot a delimiter, Then I am thinking on a way of loop, however I am not completely sure of it or how to implement
from twisted.internet.protocol import Factory, Protocol
from twisted.internet import reactor
import binascii
from Datagram import *

class LingServer(Protocol):

    def __init__(self):
        print 'Staring Ling Server'
        pass

    def connectionMade(self):
        try:
            print 'Accepted connection'
        except ValueError:
            print "Oops!  Connection was not started"

    def connectionLost(self, reason):
        print "Connection lost ", reason

    def dataReceived(self, data):
        try:
            print "Data received ", data
            data = binascii.hexlify(data)
            Datagram (header=data[:10], content=data[10:])
            session.commit()

            #self.transport.write(self.decoder.processDatagram(data))
        except ValueError:
            print "Oops!  That was no valid data.  Try again..."

class LingFactory(Factory):

    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def buildProtocol(self, addr):
        return LingServer()

reactor.listenTCP(12345, LingFactory())
reactor.run()

A: TCP is stream-oriented.  See the FAQ entry for this topic.
If you want to buffer up 3000 bytes before processing, see twisted.protocols.stateful.StatefulProtocol.  For example:
class LingServer(StatefulProtocol):
    def getInitialState(self):
        return self.ling, 3000

    def ling(self, data):
        # Process here, len(data) == 3000

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There's a new chick in the mix!
A couple months ago, Jennifer Garner and her family mourned the loss of their beloved pet chicken, Regina George. Now, they've added a new pet to the household! On Tuesday, the 46-year-old actress introduced her Instagram followers to her new chick and shared its adorably hilarious name!
A week ago, Garner shared that she had seven new chicks and had the name rights on one of them. She then asked her followers for suggestions.
"The votes are in and the answer overwhelmingly clear at this house -- please meet our new friend, #Hennifer.  #firsttweet #smallestchick," the Peppermint star wrote alongside a sweet video and a board announcing her pet's silly name.
Hennifer isn't the only new pet. Last week, Garner showed off her spacious green ant farm.
Since she joined Instagram, she has been a sensation. The actress spoke with ET last month where she revealed the secret to her social media prowess.


The first baby to be born in Germany after her embryo was tested for genetic diseases using the controversial PID screening technique saw the light of day on Friday – a healthy girl.
"She is bright-eyed and totally healthy," said Klaus Diedrich, from the University Hospital, Schleswig Holstein in Lübeck, where the baby was born.
Her parents both carry genes which can lead to Desbuquois syndrome, a skeletal deformation which generally leads to babies dying either in the womb or shortly after birth. The couple had already had three still-births, the hospital said in a statement.
The pre-implantation diagnosis (PID) is a technique by which embryos, created in-vitro, are examined genetically to check for certain defects. PID is conducted when there is a high risk of a monogenetic illness – something caused by a defect on a single gene.
Only those embryos shown to be clear of such defects are implanted into the mother. The technique has only been allowed in Germany since last July and is tightly controlled – politicians were divided over whether to permit it, due to fears over eugenics, as well as Catholic-based objections.


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Posted inAuto Racing, Sports
Fort Kent racer hopes Sunday superspeedway race might provide a shot at NASCAR success
by Larry Mahoney October 11, 2019 October 10, 2019
Austin Theriault heads to his garage during a NASCAR Monstetr Energy Cup Series race practice in July 2019 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. Credit: Charles Krupa | AP
Fort Kent's Austin Theriault had a lot of success on superspeedways en route to his ARCA Series championship in 2017, and he hope that will continue on Sunday in the Monster Energy Cup Series.
Theriault's fifth race of the season for Rick Ware Racing comes at 2 p.m. Sunday in the 1000Bulbs.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. On Oct. 20, he will jump into another Ware car, the No. 52, for the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.
Talladega is one of two super speedways in the series, along with Daytona International Speedway. In 2017, Theriault picked up one of his seven ARCA race wins at Daytona and was fourth at Talladega.
"I feel like I've always been pretty good at the super speedways, and I think the statistics show that," the 25-year-old Theriault said.
One of the key dynamics a superspeedway race is how the high likelihood of at least one multi-car crash it can break up the expected hierarchy of racing. With cars bunched up and drafting at more than 200 mph, it doesn't take much for a pileup.
Twenty-one cars were caught up in accidents at the Daytona 500 this season, and 12 more were swallowed up at the earlier Talladega race.
Theriault is driving for an underfunded team and won't have the speed of the big-name teams, but it is not necessarily a big deal at the superspeedways.
"There is usually a lot of attrition in these races, Our game is not the same as the top teams with all of their money and resources," Theriault said. "We want to be in position to pick up scraps at the end of the race and take advantage of other teams' misfortunes. I'll need to stay out of trouble [until then]."
The Florida-based Jacob Companies are the primary sponsor for the No. 51 Ford with Bangor Savings Bank serving as the associate sponsor. Bangor Savings Bank is the primary sponsor for the No. 52 at Kansas.
Theriault's car will feature a patriot paint scheme to honor the late Roger Haynes, who is known for driving Ray's Big Rig with a giant American flag during Talladega Superspeedway pre-race festivities.
In his four previous Monster Energy Cup races this season, he finished 35th at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, 34th at Pocono Raceway and 32nd at Michigan International Speedway and Richmond Raceway.
He last raced Sept. 21 at Richmond.
Tagged: Austin Theriault, Auto racing, local sports

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Charcoal, or gas? There is no question that splits the BBQ community quite like this one – and every true grillmaster knows which side of the debate they come down on!
For traditionalists, gas is cheating – and truly mastering the art of barbecue means embracing fire and smoke cooking on a classic charcoal grill.
When it comes to choosing a charcoal BBQ, there are so many options available. At Keen Gardener, we stock dozens of grills to suit every budget, from simple barrel units and small kettle barbecues, to premium, high performance cooking systems for serious BBQ enthusiasts who demand the very best.
Enter the Kamado Joe. For barbecue masters, keen foodies and those that simply won't compromise on performance – there's nothing like a Kamado Joe.
The Kamado Joe is so much more than just a charcoal grill. It's a modern take on the traditional kamado – a traditional Japanese cooking system that's part grill, part cooker and part smoker.
Kamado Joe has taken the classic concept and transformed it into the pinnacle of modern fire and smoke cooking. It's a range of unashamedly premium, high end ceramic cookers that can do pretty much anything – from grilling and smoke roasting to baking and frying.
You can cook in so many different ways on a Kamado Joe. For steaks, burgers and sausages with that traditional charcoal flavour, to fall off the bone, hot smoked ribs and wings, there's nothing better. You can even use them to cook pizza.
Of course, all this performance comes at a price – but whilst there are significantly cheaper charcoal barbecues available, there are none better!
As you'd expect from a top-end grill, the Kamado Joe is packed with features you won't find on other grills.
The Kamado is a heavy duty bit of kit – with thick ceramic walls designed to provide maximum insulation. This provides fantastic versatility, and enables a huge range of cooking temperatures, from low and slow to extreme sear.
The thick walls don't just keep the heat in the grill – they also keep the moisture in, for beautifully juicy meat, every time.
The patented 'Divide and Conquer' cooking system is amazingly flexible. The half-moon heat deflector means you can split the grill and benefit from multiple heat zones, with both indirect heat and open flame.
In addition, the tiered grates mean no more overcrowding or endless batch cooking. It's double the grilling space, with no compromise on cooking performance.
Kamado Joe is designed to be flexible, with the interchangeable cooking surfaces open up a huge variety of cooking options. In addition to the traditional grill, you'll find soapstone, cast iron griddles and laser cut stainless steel grids. Whatever you want to cook, you can do it on the Kamado Joe – from meat and fish, to veggies, sides and pizza.
The original Kamado Joe is ideal for garden grilling - with enough cooking space to cater for all but the largest gatherings. Features include a heavy duty cast iron cart, precision ventilation dial and slide out ash drawer for easy cleaning.
The Classic II takes the original and makes it better, with the addition of a Kontrol Tower Top Vent for better airflow, airlift hinge and AMP Firebox.
Bigger and better! The Big Joe is ideal for those with larger families and lots of friends. With space enough to cook three full racks of ribs at a time, it's perfect for those who love to entertain.
Take your Joe on the road! The Kamado Joe might be small, but there's no sacrifice on performance. Perfect for smaller families, or for caravan, campervan or camping – it still has enough space inside for a full chicken.
You'll find a full range of Kamado Joe barbecues at Keen Gardener, alongside a fantastic selection of charcoal and gas barbecues from a range of leading brands.
All our barbecues are available at unbeatable prices, and backed up by our lowest price promise. For additional information, call 01789763336 today.


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module Emails
  module Notes
    def note_commit_email(recipient_id, note_id)
      @note = Note.find(note_id)
      @commit = @note.noteable
      @project = @note.project
      @target_url = namespace_project_commit_url(@project.namespace, @project,
                                                 @commit, anchor:
                                                 "note_#{@note.id}")
      mail_answer_thread(@commit,
                         from: sender(@note.author_id),
                         to: recipient(recipient_id),
                         subject: subject("#{@commit.title} (#{@commit.short_id})"))

      SentNotification.record(@commit, recipient_id, reply_key)
    end

    def note_issue_email(recipient_id, note_id)
      @note = Note.find(note_id)
      @issue = @note.noteable
      @project = @note.project
      @target_url = namespace_project_issue_url(@project.namespace, @project,
                                                @issue, anchor:
                                                "note_#{@note.id}")
      mail_answer_thread(@issue,
                         from: sender(@note.author_id),
                         to: recipient(recipient_id),
                         subject: subject("#{@issue.title} (##{@issue.iid})"))

      SentNotification.record(@issue, recipient_id, reply_key)
    end

    def note_merge_request_email(recipient_id, note_id)
      @note = Note.find(note_id)
      @merge_request = @note.noteable
      @project = @note.project
      @target_url = namespace_project_merge_request_url(@project.namespace,
                                                        @project,
                                                        @merge_request, anchor:
                                                        "note_#{@note.id}")
      mail_answer_thread(@merge_request,
                         from: sender(@note.author_id),
                         to: recipient(recipient_id),
                         subject: subject("#{@merge_request.title} (##{@merge_request.iid})"))

      SentNotification.record(@merge_request, recipient_id, reply_key)
    end
  end
end

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Anyone interested in this will likely enjoy Don't Skype & Type! where researchers decoded keystrokes from background audio of Skype conversations. The best part is source code is available. I wonder how many people are applying this to Twitch streamers or YouTube videos (especially any Talks at Google videos) today?
I've been working on a similar tool: https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio (see the 'keytap' tool). Not sure how well it works yet, as I have made tests only with my setup. There is a live page that anyone can experiment with.
This is incredible work. Very well done! Have you posted this to Show HN yet?
Thanks! I haven't posted it yet, as I want to test how reliable is the approach. I know it does not work with non-mechanical keyboards at all (most likely because the key sounds are quiet) and I have tested it only with my mechanical keyboard.
It worked pretty well on my keyboard! Let me know if you'd prefer me to delete the tweet.
Please, don't delete the tweet. Hopefully I can collect feedback. Thanks again!
What kind of keyboard do you have?
Voice is in a way the easy case, because we know the antidote. Constant Bitrate (CBR) mode of an audio codec consumes the same amount of bandwidth regardless of what is transmitted, which is inefficient but secure. As I understand it Signal's voice chat is Opus in CBR mode.
Other scenarios are trickier and may need custom work. For example Encrypted SNI currently requires a host to pick a maximum name length, the encrypted name may be any of those names configured on the host, and is padded to that length so that an adversary can't guess which name from the length.
Because we don't have a general solution, TLS 1.3 defines an zero overhead optional padding, you can add extra bytes of padding to any TLS message but neither TLS itself, nor the HTTPS binding defines a "good" way to use this padding to shield users from analysis of content based on size because there is no general solution known.
I haven't been able to recreate this work from the repos. I emailed them too, about a year ago, with no response.
Have you had any success? If so, would you be willing to share?
It sounded too good to be true, then I found the caveat: a neural net must be trained on a specific keyboard. Still pretty cool, though.
Man, this paper is a classic. I love traffic analysis attacks like this. I did something myself six years back albeit with a somewhat contrived example figuring out what someone is looking at on Google Maps via request and response sizes. Example video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skQNwd9Jij4 and https://ioactive.com/ssl-traffic-analysis-on-google-maps/.
I am speculating that nice traffic analysis attacks can be done on mosh (which is a great tool btw) to, similar to the paper that is in this thread. It's been sort of on my "todo/research" list but haven't been able to sit down for a few days and mess around with it. And I'm sure that QUIC (HTTP/3) will open up some interesting avenues of attack here too.
It should be fairly straightforward to defeat such analysis using ssh compression. Keystrokes and control signals are batched before transmission.
Certainly I've had 'ssh -C' in finger-memory even on LANs for well over a decade.
Sure. But that's why my point was about mosh (https://mosh.org/). It just uses TCP+SSH for the authentication part and then it sets up an encrypted UDP-tunnel on the server-side with the mosh-client then just sending AES-256-GCM packets back and forth over UDP. To the best of my knowledge it doesn't batch anything.
And compression definitely doesn't always help as some of the attacks on TLS were only able to be done because of compression happening before encryption. Hence why we ended up with the HPACK in HTTP/2 to prevent exactly such type of attacks.
If necessary (or maybe in some optional supersecure mode), Mosh can afford to do much more timing variation, or even a "line-at-a-time" mode, since the client can be more aggressive about showing the predictive local echo (with the ability to correct it later) while waiting to send batches of keystrokes and for the server's reply. Or we could just do a CBR mode.
Oh wow, thanks Keith, first of all for mosh! I've been using it daily for several years now. It's been great! Second of all for clarifying and correcting me regarding the algorithm-usage. I don't know where I got it from and I must have just misremembered; it's been a while since I spent a bit of time looking at the source code (and walking away very impressed).
That's really amazing how you can use the intervals between packets to infer passwords like that. I thought I'd seen an attack like this that used tcp timestamps, I didn't know you could do this from the packet arrival times themselves!


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An Asbury Park Victorian Gets a 'Really Fun' Face-Lift
In 2007, after most of the work was complete, they welcomed the arrival of their son, Owen, now 14. A few years later they added a Victorian bulldog, Watson, to the mix. And as they began entertaining more, the 1,800-square-foot house they had lovingly renovated began to feel a little small.
So in 2016, when they saw a listing for a 4,000-square-foot, three-story shingled house from 1891, with a detached 1,200-square-foot guesthouse in back, they decided to buy it, eventually selling their first house. The price of the new house, after a bidding war, was $600,000.
Their new old house had been restored by the previous owners, and much of the original woodwork was intact. The couple liked the historical details, but the interior was a Victorian time capsule — with a floor plan broken up by small, dark rooms — and didn't feel right for their family. That was doubly true for Mr. Berman, whose firm is known for designing clean-lined modernist spaces.
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To renovate it, they planned to preserve as many of the original details as possible, while opening up the house to create a relaxed, convivial atmosphere filled with playful, unexpected finishes. "For us, it was an opportunity to celebrate a lot of the classic details, but give them a face-lift," Mr. Berman said. "We wanted this house to be really fun."
In the front part of the house, they left most of the architecture in tact, but changed its personality with new finishes, fixtures and colors. A ribbon of yellow paint now leads up the front steps, rises up along the front door and wraps back over the porch ceiling. In a games room immediately off the foyer, they bleached the wood floors and added wallpaper resembling wood paneling and a woven-bamboo suspension lamp above a walnut Ping-Pong table with a leather net.
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Q: FontAwesome icon not shown in CSS :after selector in Chrome? This is my HTML:
<hr class="star-light">

This is my CSS:
hr.star-light:after {
    color: #fff;
    background-color: #EF672F;
}

hr.star-light:after, hr.star-primary:after {
    content: "\f005";
    display: inline-block;
    position: relative;
    top: -.8em;
    padding: 0 .25em;
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    font-size: 2em;
}

It shows a hr with a white star in the middle in Firefox, but in Chrome its just a hr, no star is shown.
Any idea what I have to change in order to make it work in Chrome?
Thanks

A: hope this may help you.
Please try below CSS.
hr.star-light:after, hr.star-primary:after {
content: "\f005";
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
top: 0em;  /* changed value from -.8em to 0em */
padding: 0 .25em;
font-family: FontAwesome;
font-size: 2em;
}

Is there any reason to assigned negative value to top property?
Please see codepen example - https://codepen.io/prakashrajotiya/pen/ZEzxKdJ?editors=1100


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Thanks for your support for Anna. She will fight for racial equity in Marin!


About Us... The Marton Hotel & Country Club dates back to the early 1900′s; it was formerly a Victorian House standing impressively in its own grounds. It later became The Captain Cook Private Members Club. The Hotel is one of the best known Hotel's on Teesside and is a popular choice for weddings, conferences, dinners and a wide range of functions including our very popular party nights. Please see our entertainment page for all forthcoming events.
The Hotel is just a few miles from the centre of Middlesbrough and is perfectly located for all major road links. There are numerous places of interest easily accessible from the Hotel including: The Captain Cook Trail, North Yorkshire Moors, 'Heartbeat Country', The Middlesbrough Institute Of Modern Art and historical Whitby to name but a few!
More Information... As well as being a hotel that offers over 50 bedrooms, all with private bathrooms, we also offer a restaurant which caters to all diets and entertainment nights with live music. We can also offer a range of different function rooms available to hire which can be used for weddings and any other function you wish! We are also well known locally for our parties featuring fun performers so why not book a staff Christmas party or a special Christmas night out with us!
It is also a very exciting time here at Marton Hotel & Country Club as we are currently undergoing a refurbishment to update and refresh the rooms and hotel. This means there is definitely no better time to book and come to stay with us!
With over 52 bedrooms available and a full English breakfast included in the overnight package included as standard, why not book online with us today?
We have a selection of single, double, triple, twin, junior and family rooms available each with private en-suite bathroom that come with complimentary toiletries. Rooms are also provided with a hair-dryer and multi-channel televisions. Complimentary Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel. The Marton Hotel & Country Club is ideally located whether you are coming for business or a leisurely stay. Our parties are very well known locally and are the best in town! So we are ideal to book for staff parties or that special Christmas night out. We provide the food, music, entertainment all along with that fantastic atmosphere to make it a night to remember.
We have a range of rooms available to suit every wedding party size whether that be an intimate affair of around 20 quests ranging all the way up to bringing two rooms together for the ultimate larger wedding celebration of up to 700 guests!
We can host almost anything from birthday parties, large corporate occasions and charity events. There is the space in the hotel to cater for the smallest to the largest gatherings in the area. We have different types of party nights. so please do come and call us or visit our website for more information.


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Q: trying to diagnose postscript printing problem on lyx/mactex on macOS Monterey I've been using lyx for many years, mostly on Linux, and on MacOS for a a few years.
On upgrading macOS Big Sur to macOS Monterey 12.0.1 suddenly printing stopped working.
Setup
I'm using the latest Lyx 2.3.6, MacTex 2021, latest firmware and drivers for the Xerox 6510DN printer. The reason I mention the printer is that it is a true postscript printer and has worked without issue on Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD because it doesn't really need a driver.
Error
The postscript errors are of the usual form "ERROR: undefined, OFFENDING COMMAND: ". See image attached for 3 attempted prints. The actual offending command varies.
Attempts to Diagnose / Fix
I've tried to use MacOS Preview to "print to postscript". I reasoned that this is what happens when the document is sent to the printer.
It turns out MacOS Preview itself fails to load these postscript files, the ones it generated itself.
I tried to open the postscript files with TexShop (not Preview) which generates a new PDF. The first page works, but the remainder of the document is not produced, and the second page has a postscript error, eg "ERROR: ioerror, OFFENDING COMMAND: eexec"
I then tried to upgrade the MacTEX packages which I usually don't do because I like to stick with the "frozen and tested" MacTEX distribution. This didn't help.
I then manually installed the Ghostscript 9.55 package as the installed one was older. This didn't help either.
Finally, I took the Lyx generated PDF and from a command prompt used pdf2ps and the ps2pdf which generates a much smaller PDF (2.1MB pdf1.4 compared to 3.9MB pdf1.5). I haven't yet test physical printing with these, but the preview of Preview printing postscript to a file seems ok. The PDF's hyperlinks no longer work, but I can live with this.
One final data point - I went back to my backups to get the Lyx generated PDFs before the MacOS upgrade to Monterey, and under Monterey, they too fail to point.

Update: I can confirm that Adobe Reader on MacOS prints the PDF, as was suggested by a comment elsewhere. Here is the lyx-generated PDF I am mostly testing (PDF).

Question
Any suggestions on what is wrong, and how to fix it? I suspect the cause is Monterey as nothing else changed.

A: MacOS prints by first converting the print job to a pdf file. Then it looks at the printer. If the user has a postscript printer, macOS converts the pdf file to a postscript file and sends that to the printer. The print dialog also allows users to write this postscript file to disk. A bug in Monterey causes macOS to write defective postscript files when the pdf contains certain TeX fonts, including Computer Modern. This has been reported to Apple. Printing to ink jet printers works, and adding the source line \usepackage{lmodern} to convert to Latin Modern fonts often fixes the problem for users.


Owner, driver, crew chief, engine builder; Joe Gaerte has done just about everything in sprint car racing. He joins the guys this week to chat about his new gig at Kyle Larson Racing, working with Carson Macedo, and his racing career. Hear it all this week on Open Red, the official podcast of the World of Outlaws.
"NOS Energy joined the World of Outlaws last season, and we couldn't be prouder to have them expand their involvement and become our title sponsor," said World of Outlaws CEO Brian Carter. "The Greatest Show on Dirt runs the fiercest schedule in all of motorsports, so our drivers, crews and fans need all the horsepower and stamina they can get."
CONCORD, NC — January 16, 2019 — Due to ongoing negotiations regarding the operation of the Calistoga Speedway, the World of Outlaws event on Saturday, March 23, has been removed from the 2019 schedule.
It's Chili Bowl week and who better to have on the show then a 4-time winner? Kevin Swindell chats with the guys this week about racing in Tulsa, his career, and what's next for him and Swindell Speedlab. Hear from him this week on Open Red, the official podcast of the World of Outlaws.


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17 Yr Old Homeschooler Wins Top Youth Prize in Nationwide Short Story Contest
September 29, 2017 September 29, 2017 Brave Enough to Fail Leave a comment
Isabel Adams is a 17 year old young lady from Weare, NH. who's always had a passion for writing, photography, and singing gospel music.
She has proven over and over that dreams are realized through determination and work.
She also has a desire for nursing. She's a homeschool student in her senior year.
But lets talk about her writing. Creating and developing a character that the reader can both relate to and care about is a challenge. Taking the reader on a journey with that character, a journey that is filled with harrowing adventure, a struggle against seemingly insurmountable challenges, a dramatic and satisfying climax, and valuable life lessons for one and all is even more challenging. Doing all that in less than 6,000 words is , well…its really really hard.
Isabel Adams did all that in her short story, Spirit of The Warrior.
That's why she won the $500 top prize in the 17 years and under category of the Brave Enough To Write, short story contest which benefits Brave Enough To Fail Inc. a 501 (C) 3 nonprofit that provides free motivational programs and scholarships to high schools. learn more about Brave Enough to Fail here and Subscribe to our newsletter to get early word on the next contest!
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Maddie Guerrera Gets The Bronze In Nationwide Short Story Contest
Madison "Maddie" Guerrera is a freshman at Faith Preparatory School in New Milford, CT. She enjoys writing, musical theater, 1930's cartoons and photography. She has performed in many different musicals and plays at the local theaters and hopes to one day become and actress on Broadway and a playwright. Her natural curiosity and strong desire to overcome new challenges give Maddie her inspiration when writing.
Madison submitted a fictional autobiographical tale set in the pre-Civil War South. Her "Diary Of Susie Valentine" navigates one of the darkest moments of America's existence with the kind of faith and imagination found only in the heart of a child, and in the pen of a budding novelist. Which is why she placed third the 17 years old and under category of the Brave Enough To Write, short story contest which benefits Brave Enough To Fail Inc. a 501 (C) 3 nonprofit that provides free motivational programs and scholarships to high schools. Learn more about Brave Enough to Fail here and Subscribe to our newsletter to get early word on the next contest!
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David Moore Takes 2nd Nationwide in Short Story Contest
David Moore of St. Charles Missouri is a darn good writer! Let's get that right up front!
In fact, David Moore is such a good writer that he came within one single vote of winning the $1,000 top prize in the 18 years old and over category of the Brave Enough To Write, short story contest which benefits Brave Enough To Fail Inc. a 501 (C) 3 nonprofit that provides free motivational programs and scholarships to high schools. learn more about Brave Enough to Fail here and Subscribe to our newsletter to get early word on the next contest!
"Love, Life, and Bacon" is a really cool story about…well, Love Life and Bacon, but not in the way you think. To say any more would spoil it for you.
Just read it Here! Love_Life_And_Bacon
And by the way, David's personal story is so compelling and inspiring that we posted it in it's entirety below. Read it and be inspired to go after your dream, whatever it is!
My early education was, in the simplest of terms, lacking.
Before I had changed schools, I had been in a less than reputable school closer to the St. Louis area. The school had been so bad that when I had entered the second-grade in my new school I was behind and had to attend a special class that was meant to help me learn to read and write on the same level as the other students in my grade. Through these special education classes, I was able to become a better reader but was never quite able to get on the same level of the other students in my same grade. This was a problem that followed me out of elementary school and led to me being required to attend more special education classes through middle school and into high school.
It was in these classes that I found a passion for writing. We would write little stories which were intended to help us gain a better understanding of how sentences were structured as well as introduce us to new words. Writing these short stories had always been one of my favorite exercises but having as much trouble as I had with reading and writing a career as an author seemed absurd. The short stories I had written were never intended to get me anywhere. They were simply something I did because I liked to do it. In fact, the idea of being a professional writer was so far out of my mind that in my entire academic career I have only ever had one creative writing course that I attended my senior year of high school. The only other writing courses I had ever had were those that came as general credit courses in college. (English comp, Technical writing, etc.) But, even with the idea of being a writer far from my mind I never stopped writing. Short stories and half-finished novels of distant worlds, medieval towns under siege, and many other tales of woe and triumph. They were always for fun and always just for me.
It was many years later while I was working as a marketing designer and listening to the Harry Potter audio book series (for the fourth time) that I found a sudden burning inspiration in me. I felt for some strange and unknowable reason like I could be a writer if I really wanted to. So, I began writing again but with more intent and more passion for being a writer, not just as a hobby. I am now wrapping up the final edits to my first novel, which will be book one of a three to four book series that I hope will be my path to a career as an author.
Having a career as an author isn't just for me. It's something that I hope to be able to show my daughter when she gets older. Something I can hold up and say "Look I followed my dream. I worked for it and it came true." and maybe, if I'm very lucky, I can one day inspire her as much as she inspires me to keep going every day.
By David Moore
Molly Anne Brewer Nabs 3rd in Nationwide Writing Contest
September 23, 2017 September 26, 2017 Brave Enough to Fail 2 Comments
Molly Anne Brewer of Indiana is a new author who enjoys penning stories with fantastical and sometimes macabre twists. She grew up in a small town, the youngest of eight children in a family of musicians, writers, actors, poets and artists. She is currently working on several short story projects and a full length novel entitled 'Collide'. She makes her home in the Midwest, which she shares with her husband, two dogs and two cats.
Molly's short story, entitled "The Library" is, according to one of our judges, reminiscent of an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery for folks over fifty, or an episode of Stranger Things, if you're somewhat younger than that. Either way, it was scary enough to grab third place the 18 years old and over category of the Brave Enough To Write, short story contest which benefits Brave Enough To Fail Inc. a 501 (C) 3 nonprofit that provides free motivational programs and scholarships to high schools. learn more about Brave Enough to Fail here and Subscribe to our newsletter to get early word on the next contest!
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Chris Cassone Takes 4th place in Brave Enough To Write Short Story Contest
Chris Cassone of Patterson New York is a writer of songs, stories, fiction and screenplays.
His Beatles fan fiction, ode to the sun and angst filled days of summer in upstate New York wowed the judges garnered Chris fourth place in the nationwide 18 and over category of the Brave Enough To Write short story contest. the contest was held as a fundraiser for the nonprofit Brave Enough To Fail which provides free motivational programs and scholarships to high schools. learn more about Brave Enough to Fail here and Subscribe to our newsletter to get early word on the next contest!
My Summer with the Beatles
Chris is the composer of 18 songs for "The Brain That Wouldn't Die – The Musical" which premiered this past June in the 1000 seat Charleston Music Hall. Now it is on its way to off-Broadway.
Last year he had his first top ten record, co-writing with old friend Ace Frehley (former KISS founder and guitarist) on his Billboard #9 CD, "Space Invader". This came on the heels of his You Tube hit, "Route 22," about the road from the Bronx to Canada. In 2012 he led the BBQ All Stars on a tour of BBQ festivals with "My Baby Loves BBQ".
Chris started his path as a recording engineer in the late 70's to better document his songs, mentoring with hit maker, Eddie Kramer (Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Frampton) where he learned the art of production and the need for story in the song. He worked with Dr. John, Mercer Ellington and Billy Joel, among many others. Old friend, Chazz Palminteri and director Robert DeNiro, tapped him to record the music for A Bronx Tale in 1992.
His next production, The Cakeman Chronicles, is a one man musical about the intrigue around his family bakery in New York in the 50's and 60's, including his finagling into concerts using sheet cakes.
Ladies Sweep Brave Enough To Write Contest
Sarah Tehuiotoa (Left)of Pahrump Nevada winner of $1,000 in the 18 and older category and Isabel Adams (Right) of Weare New Hampshire winner of $500 in the 17 and under category
Thank you so very much to each and every writer that participated in our very first Brave Enough To Write, short story contest fundraiser. By entering, you are not only following your dream, you are also helping to inspire young people all across America to follow their dreams. So thank you again for supporting our mission to provide free motivational programs and scholarships to high schools. learn more about Brave Enough to Fail here and Subscribe to our newsletter to get early word on the next contest!
#Girlpower was in full effect as two young ladies from opposite ends of the country won the first, Brave Enough to Write, short story contest.
The competition was fierce. A lot of outstanding writers submitted great stories in both categories and our judges really had their work cut out for them. In the end, two stories had just enough of an edge to put their authors over the top.
Sarah Tehuitoa, Winner 18 and over category $1,000
Sarah Tehuitoa is a 21 year old English major who lives in Pahrump Nevada and commutes weekly to classes at University of Las Vegas. She is working her way through college by working at a grocery store. She entered the contest on her 21st birthday. Sarah says,
"All I have ever wanted to be is a writer. It has been my dream ever since I was little and I haven't been able to give it up."
Her short story, "The Sands of Time" is a gritty (pun intended) tale of love, loss, despair, and just maybe a shot at redemption with a dash of magic thrown in as a tantalizing garnish.
Contest judge Ethan Carey, host of the Rock & Roll Morning Show on WRKI I-95FM, says Miss Tehuitoa's writing style reminds him of James Patterson or Daniel Silva.
Read The Sands of Time here The_Sands_of_Time_by_Sarah_Tehuiotoa
Isabel Adams, Winner 17 and under category $500
Isabel Adams is a 17 year old homeschooled student from Weare New Hampshire. She's always had a passion for writing, photography, singing, and gospel music. Isabel is also a former Vice President and lead writer for FYI Teen Magazine. Her story, "Spirit of the Warrior", is a coming-of-age story set in the early American west.
Contest judge Lauren Porosoff, English and writing teacher at the Fieldston School in New York City and author of "Empower Your Students" says Isabel's story has a relatable message about empowerment, perseverance, and bravery along with great imagery reminiscent of young adult adventure stories.
Read Spirit of the Warrior here Spirit of_The_Warrior
Runners up in the 18 and older category
2nd Place: Love, Life, and Bacon by David Moore of Saint Charles, MO.
3rd Place: The Library by Molly Brewer of Mooresville, IN.
4th Place My Summer with the Beatles by Christopher Cassone of Patterson, NY.
Runners up in the 17 and under category
2nd Place: The Story Gets Harder with Every Word by Jessica Rathmann of San Antonio, TX.
3rd Place: Diary of Susie Valentine by Madison Guerrera of New Milford, CT.
4th Place The Escort by Allissa Brianna- Riley Vernon of Lolo, MT.
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An Inspirational Approach to the Achievement Gap
Image September 11, 2017 September 17, 2017 Brave Enough to Fail Leave a comment
Closing the education achievement gap is tough.
New results from the nation's most widely used college admission test highlight in detailed fashion the persistent achievement gaps between students who face disadvantages and those who don't.
Scores from the ACT show that just 9 percent of students in the class of 2017 who came from low-income families, whose parents did not go to college, and who identify as black, Hispanic, American Indian or Pacific Islander are strongly ready for college.
But the readiness rate for students with none of those demographic characteristics was six times as high, 54 percent, according to The Washington Post Thursday September 8th 2017.
There are a lot of great people working very hard to narrow this huge gap from the policy, administrative, and teacher side of the spectrum.
But Wayne Winsley, a middle school history teacher who also happens to be a multiple award-winning motivational speaker is taking a different approach. He is working at the student level, using inspiration and motivation to increase student achievement.
His nonprofit organization Brave Enough To Fail Inc. provides free motivational programs and scholarships to high schools.
Winsley explains why he does it,
"At age 14, I was living in an orphanage in Cleveland Ohio, had failed eighth grade the previous year, and basically given up on school. I was a poor black kid who, the experts would say, had given up on my future and was too set in my ways to be motivated to change. I was destined for one of two places, behind bars or dead.
One day, a friend of mine's dad was disappointed with his report card and began to lecture him. Without intending to, without even realizing that I was in the room, his dad said the words that changed my life forever.
"Always strive for excellence no matter what you do. Excellence will overcome, poverty, prejudice, and adversity every time. Just be excellent at whatever you choose to do."
That simple message motivated me to make the choice that saved my life.
I chose to go back to school and do the absolute best I could. Because of that choice, I didn't wind up behind bars or dead. I know first hand that a message can change a child's life.
That is why I've dedicated the rest of my life to delivering a message of inspiration and motivation to as many young people as possible by providing free motivational programs to high schools."
Natasha Ushomirsky, a policy development director for the Education Trust, a nonprofit that advocates for disadvantaged students, told the Washington Post, "There's a lot of power in communicating the expectation that all students can achieve at high levels,"
Research, by the Dalio Foundation of Connecticut, shows that disengaged students who are re-engaged and motivated during the first two years of high school are nearly twice as likely to graduate than students who remain disengaged. See the report here.
Schools across the nation agree about the power of a positive message and are reaching out to request the program. Currently Brave Enough To Fail has requests for the 2017-2018 school year from schools in thirteen states including Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Washington, and Alaska.
Contact Wayne Winsley wayne@BraveEnoughToFail.org Twitter @WayneWinsley Facebook