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Coin Street's history of changing power relations23 minute read
One of the foremost accomplishments born out of 'new cultural geography' in the 1980s was the acknowledgement that landscapes were complex phenomenon, and an understanding that to interpret them would require a consideration of how multifaceted components of the social, economic, political, and spatial order interact with the notion of 'power' (Cosgrove 1985) (Duncan 1985) (Cosgrove and Jackson 1987) (Domosh 1989). In this paper I will therefore take the notion of a 'palimpsest' and apply its meaning to Coin Street, which is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, near to Waterloo. I will use the concept of the palimpsest and 'palimpsestuous' thinking to retrace the history of Coin Street and the power relations that operated within the area, which saw it change from a site of working-class primary and secondary labour, to a beacon of post-war regeneration, through to a period of community-led rebellion, and to its current position as a blend of cultural heritage and increasing flows of capital. Coin Street was chosen as a site to research as I believe that when its history is considered in conjunction with the surrounding area of the South Bank, the site acts as a microcosm of past, present, and future issues surrounding urban development and regeneration.
The History and Application of the Palimpsest
The notion of a palimpsest comes from manuscripts that underwent a process of layering and transformation as obsolete information was erased and replaced with new information (Dillon 2005). However, during this process the original manuscript writings could not be fully erased, leaving evidence of former imprints in existence below that of the modern interpretations. Crang (1996: 430) describes this phenomenon as "a landscape on which history inscribes itself as a process of addition, amendment, and perpetual alteration". Whilst the notion of the palimpsest refers to the process by which history and information are layered, this is different to the term 'palimpsestuous', which refers to the structure that is formed as a result of the layering process (Dillon 2005). Understanding palimpsestuous thought is a vital tool for many academics interested in cultural and urban studies, particularly when applied in a spatial context, such as a city, as it allows us to understand our relationship to the space, through past experiences, or if we have no relationship to the space, understand how the space has been presented to us via the media.
Moreover, viewing a physical space through a palimpsestuous lens reinforces the concept of time and landscape as fluid and ever-changing process rather than a static one. Derrida's (1994: xix) concept of structures or palimpsests as an example of "non-contemporaneity with itself of the living present" suggests that the current iteration of text, or 'the present' are only constituted by previous incarnations, 'the past', and remain accessible to the future interpretations of scholars (Dillon 2005), which means that they are not permanent or stationary, but just current paradigms of knowledge and power. This deconstruction of the palimpsest is very useful because it allows us to see the landscape as the result of a wide range of social, economic, and political processes that can then be retraced and reconstructed through the traces of previous formations (Crang 1996) (Domosh 1989). Understanding the palimpsest as the result of previous histories can be very useful to critical scholars in order to reconstruct histories of oppression that previously marginalised groups suffered from. The use of reflexive, post-colonial techniques to expose the suppressed stories of marginalised groups such women, the LGBTQ+ community, people of colour, and the working class gives cultural geographers a valuable understanding of how current social, economic, and political process led to the current representation of the landscape, and what issues need to be addressed if the future trajectory is undesirable. However, critical feminist scholars such as Benstock (1986: 350) argue that the palimpsest is not merely a collection of layered stories, but rather that masculine and feminine texts are encoded and entwined within each other and due to the nature of their cultural production, female experiences are "both indivisible from male experience and different to it".
The first methodological tool will be used to provide a visual record of Coin Street's Palimpsest. This will be a comparison of local maps at distinct points in Coin Street's history. The motivation behind this decision was to use images and maps to mirror the impact that realist-based photographic surveys are used as a "true record" (Hall 2009: 455). This can help to collect, record, and document information from the landscape that more localised and personal accounts of the site might not be able to fully capture (Sanders 2007). I believe this will be a useful research methodology, particularly in understanding how Coin Street developed in the latter part of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century because there is limited academic writing on the subject. Therefore using a comparison of maps may be able to help show how land-use changed and therefore the spatial transformation that may have occurred in this time. However, I am aware that the use of maps and photographs will not elicit much more than speculative analysis regarding the way Coin Street's Palimpsest changed as the images represent a flat and incomplete account of the area. By viewing this methodology through a post-structuralist framework I am aware of the limitations of this method and will therefore not attempt to justify their inclusion as more than an aspect of potential representations, meanings, or symbols (Pink 2001).
More research that will be conducted into the history of Coin Street will be done as a result of a literature review. One of the key insights into Coin Street's history is the political contestation of the site that began in the 1970s during the community-led regeneration of the South Bank. Such contestations led to the formation of the Coin Street Action Group and the Coin Street Community Builders (CSCB) which helped shape the site through the will of the local community. The justification for using a literature review, particularly for this portion of Coin Street's history, is due to the wide and varied academic literature that already exists on the subject such as the works of Brindley (2000) and Baeten (2009). However, in conducting this research it is important to consider the methodological issues that surround the use of such literature. Firstly, this method includes no primary data sources so the analysis and findings that will be conducted as a result of this data will be influenced by the narratives and bias that belong to the authors (Clarke 2004). Furthermore, much of the work surrounding this period exists in the form of contemporary and retrospective articles; thereby not providing a truly 'thick description' (Geertz 1973) of the area as it may not capture the personal meanings or motivations of individuals that were present during this point in Coin Street's history. In this sense, understanding the untold stories of Coin Street's palimpsest is more difficult as without first-hand accounts of what previous generation experienced the information may either be speculative or suffer from the same power and bias towards the opinions of heterosexual, white, male, middle class academics that were likely representative of those linked to the suppression of marginalised group's voices in Coin Street's history (Thomas and Davies 2002) (Jones 2006) (Garg 2012).
As a literature review may only result in a 'thin description' of the site it is beneficial to conduct an ethnography of the area in order to elicit a more valid and accurate contextual understanding of the site current form, creating a 'thick description' (Geertz 1973, Ryle 2009). Theorists such as Crang (2006) have previously suggested that research into spatial landscapes as palimpsest mirror much of Geertz's work with the 'thick description' as there is a desire to look at the nuances and to make the less prominent strands of history to become more visible. Conducting an ethnography is a useful tool in order to try and reduce the gap between the researcher and the subjects and provide a greater context and understanding of the area (Cloke et al 2004). It also helps to tackle issues of positionality held by the researcher as they are not a member of the community surrounding Coin Street and therefore will not have an intimate understanding of the experiences faced by the local community, particularly the instances of local political activism, issues of dispossession within the housing stock, and the way in which the local community has, and is, changing. Therefore, conducting an ethnography of the local area may help the researcher immerse themselves in the local environment and better understand the area (Megoran 2006).
Figure 1 – Coin Street 1896
One of the limitations of a literature review pertaining to the topic of Coin Street as a palimpsest is the lack of academic research focusing on the current iteration of the area, particularly with a focus pointed towards the future trajectory of the space. In order to counter this issue, alongside conducting an ethnography I will also be conducting semi-structured interviews with local residents and members of the community to try and see if power relations have changed since the socially conscious, community-led regeneration of the late 1970s and early 1980s under the CSCB. As I am conducting semi-structured interviews, there will be key areas that questions will be pointed towards, but I feel a valuable insight can be gained by allowing participants to expand on topics that they feel are particularly relevant (Longhusrt 2016). When conducting any semi-structured interview it is important to recognise the impact the relationship between the interviewer and interviewee has on the data. It is misguided to think that the information attained by a semi-structured interview is objective or representative, rather it is a process of interpretation and translation between the respondent and the interviewee (Briggs 1986). Furthermore, as semi-structured interviews are personal accounts of experience, it is important to consider that respondents create meaning in their own interpretations (Gray 2003), which have been formed as a result of their own experience and biases. Much of the positive data associated with semi-structured interviews will therefore rest on how well the interviewer can accurately represent the respondent's voice (Punch 2001). However, one issue that impacts the usefulness of semi-structured interviews is the way in which the respondent perceives the interviewer and their willingness to be open and honest as a result of that perception. According to Denscombe (2007: 184) as a result of the interviewer effect; "in particular the sex, the age, and the ethnic origin of the interviewer have a bearing on the amount of information people are willing to divulge and their honesty about what they reveal". This is an issue that I have to consider alongside my own positionality when conducting this research because I am an outsider to the community and therefore respondents may be less willing to engage with the interview questions, and thereby impacting my ability to interpret and reflect their true feelings and thoughts.
A Working Class Wharf
Figure 2 – Coin Street 1936 – 1952
The maps below (Southwark Council 2011) represent Coin Street in three distinct periods; 1896, the period between 1936 – 1952, and 2016. By using a visual record we can examine the types of land use associated with the area, look at the groups of people that would likely access the area, and see how a shift in production type has changed. First when examining the records from 1896 (Figure 1) and the period between 1936 – 1952 (Figure 2) we can see that a large portion of land use was as wharfs, docks, and timber yards. As a result of this we can ascertain that the large majority of employment would have likely been low paid, working class manual, labour; most likely working at the docks for many men and textile factories for female workers (Philips 2005) (Mare 2008). Furthermore the maps indicate that Coin Street itself would have likely been housing for workers and local residents. Similarly, Coin Street is still a site of housing in the 2016 map (Figure 3) of the area but we can clearly see that the surrounding land-use is one of galleries, concert halls, and government offices; a centre of cultural production in London.
However, what we are unable to gauge from these maps are the social interactions and relationships of local residents with the space and the dynamic power relations at play during the beginning of the 20th Century. The relationship between the largely working-class population and industry leaders or government powers would seem to have a very asymmetrical balance, with workers enduring poor conditions and low wages. However, this space was also a site of contestation and antagonism between the workers and their employees as many strikes and walk-outs took place in the local area in order to demand better wages for their labour (Ballhatchet 1991) (Topham 1996) (Mare 2008).
Furthermore, we are able to understand the space of Coin Street and the surrounding area as one that has been traditionally, fairly or not, associated with crime, dysfunction, and filth for much of its existence in the early 20th Century. These representations of the area are likely a reflection of the attitudes to both women and the working-class community at the time as both are portrayed in a negative light. Mare (2008) points to Booth's (p50) account of a local headmaster's description of the women of the South Bank and Bermondsey described their lives as including "squalid homes, dullness, disgust, drink". Fictional accounts of the area also painted a negative portrayal of Coin Street as a dirty and unclean neighbourhood, for which many a protagonist could only escape by having their horizons broadened by escaping to the countryside (Southgate 2008).
Regeneration and Cultural Renaissance
1951 saw the opening of the Festival of Britain, a government sponsored event designed to promote post-war Britain's achievements to the world in a similar way to what Stockholm had for architecture and design in 1930 (Street 2012) (Richardson 2015). This period represents a very important point in Coin Street's palimpsest as it is part of the process of government-led, property-based, regeneration and a change from manufacturing production to cultural production that occurred as a result of declining dock importance (Newman and Smith 2000). This choice in urban planning also had an effect on the demography of Coin Street and the surrounding neighbourhoods as the promotion of high-culture and the festival's own "radical middle class tone" (Street 2012: 86) (Newman and Smith 2000) sought to change the whole area of the South Bank into a wealthier space of cultural heritage and design.
The Contestation of Coin Street
Another important chapter in Coin Street's history began in the early 1970s and came from the community contestation of plans to develop the area through "the commercial expansion of Central London, through the speculative development of offices and hotels" (Brindley, Rydin and Stoker 1996: 62). The antagonism between the Conservative-led Greater London Council (GLC) and the community came to a head when the GLC encouraged the regeneration of the area by building a number of offices on a mixed-use site around Coin Street, which led to a passionate and mobilised group of community activists campaigning to have their own plans for the area heard (Brindley 2000). This lead to a series of passionate inquiries, which culminated in both the private sector and community-based regeneration plans were granted planning permission in 1982. However, as the property developers found it increasingly difficult to gain permissions to develop the land, from the now Labour GLC who supported the community-based approach to planning, and this eventually led to the developers selling the land back to the GLC, who then sold it to the CSCB at a substantially reduced cost (Tuckett 1988). With the newly acquired 13 acres of Central London land the CSCB began the challenge of a full consultation with local residents before settling on the use of a primary housing cooperative scheme, Mulberry (Brindley, Rydin and Stoker 1996). The case study of the CSCB shows a substantive change in the power relations with regards to housing access and community engagement within urban regeneration but also shows how urban issues become political catalysts as much of the CSCB success was predicated on "a complex set of relationships between local activists, sympathetic professionals, and a radicalised local government agenda in opposition to Thatcherism" (Brindley 2000: 364).
Coin Street: What next?
Figure 4 – The OXO Tower: Perhaps the best visual resource to show the current flux that the CSCB find themselves in. A modern, sleek, luxury development, which is part of a housing cooperative, but increasingly faced with entwining the private sector in its developments.
Perhaps the most interesting and precarious portion of Coin Street's palimpsest will be its current and future trajectory. Legislation brought in by the Major government changed the funding of regeneration budgets from centrally controlled allocations to competitions, which diluted the community voice in regeneration plans as they now had to work with business elites, the local authority, and voluntary sector groups, who were all competing for already reduced funds (Baeten 2009). This move away from community-based planning was also shown in Southwark Council's shift from being a focused on community development to instead promote the cultural production of the area and increase the capital flows to the South Bank (Newman and Smith 2000). These changes further denote the way power relations are always shifting across landscapes such as Coin Street, as there is the potential that CSCB may have to abandon some of its original pledges such as fully engaging the local community in planning decisions and focusing solely on social housing exempt from 'right to buy' schemes (Brindley, Rydin and Stoker 1996) (Business Design 2007). However, the way in which the public spaces surrounding Coin Street are being maintained and managed may be indicative of some positive social changes as one aspect of increased emphasis on cultural production has been a greater number of voices, particularly form underrepresented groups, and an encouragement to discuss the way the space is used (Jones 2016), which ultimately should allow all members of the community to have some input into the future of the space and create a more open community.
Further to this understanding of how Coin Street and the surrounding area has been changed in its previous incarnations, in conjunction with an ethnography, I also conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with 8 participants who self-defined as either local residents now or in the past in order to ascertain what they thought the future of Coin Street was.
A common concern amongst residents was the lack of affordable housing in the area in conjunction with the emergence of multiple luxury unit accommodation being developed privately.
"It's impossible, it's just impossible to live here anymore unless you're on a mega salary and can buy your own place or get one of those new posh flats. Normal people that have been members of the community for years are having to move further and further away to places like Peckham just to stay in London."
This opinion was commonplace amongst respondents as many felt that Coin Street and the surrounding area was becoming increasingly unaffordable, due to the area quickly gentrifying as it was more commonly seen as an extension of Central London rather than a separate and diffused space.
When asked the extent to which the CSCB were still fulfilling their goals of transforming the South Bank through affording housing cooperatives, increased quality of life for local residents, and improving the South Bank, several respondents commented on the improved quality of amenities, particularly public spaces, but felt recent large scale changes acted more as statements than practical
"Homes are the key. There just aren't enough of them. Stuff like the OXO Tower is great to look at and I've heard the flats in there are great but there just aren't enough of
"Back when it started, the Coin Street developments were great but nowadays they're supporting stuff like the Garden Bridge. Why do we even need another bridge? That money could be going towards schools or hospitals."
Finally, when I asked the respondents what they thought the future of Coin Street could become, many seemed disheartened by the current situation and worried that the area they called home could quickly erode.
"I just hope that in 50 years this place isn't just another Covent Garden, full of tourists and shops but no one really lives here."
"You see it happening all over London at the moment, communities are being evicted because it's just too expensive to stay, then all these people 'looking for a good investment' move in and there's no life left."
In this paper I have shown how Coin Street and the surrounding area of the South Bank has transformed multiple times over the last 150 or so years, creating a long history of shifting power relation, contestation, and antagonism between local people, the GLC, and businesses. Moreover, this paper has touched on the way that the production of goods has been tied to class struggle and housing insecurity in the area. The main shift in production from the early part of the 20th Century to Coin Street's recent history has been the move from working-class manual labour employed in primary and secondary employment opportunities, to London's cultural capital and with that a vast increase in interest from the middle-class. Whilst this displacement is a negative impact of urban regeneration and the gentrification that often follows, one positive impact as a result of the regeneration of the neighbourhood has been the increase in accessibility to public space for previously marginalised groups. This further shows the palimpsestuous nature of Coin Street as increasingly there is an opportunity for suppressed voices to be heard. However, perhaps this is not as simple as a layered process of change but the encoded and entwined model of information Benstock (1986) refers to as although marginalised voices are beginning to have access to the public, the history of the site suggests that this wouldn't have happened without the power relations of the past. Furthermore, this paper has also shown the projected future for Coin Street's palimpsest; changes to regeneration funding have forced the CSCB to work with private industry and increasingly omit community voices in order to achieve any regeneration projects. Consequently, becoming a part of the cycle of gentrification and displacement amongst local residents that it sought to stop in its inception.
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2020: Did not compete internationally due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of all meets.
2019: Won gold in duet and team at the Pan American Games and qualified the country to the Olympics in both events…Placed fourth in highlight, sixth in technical duet, seventh in free duet, technical team and free team at the FINA World Championships… Competed in five world series events – Alexandroupoli, Tokyo, Beijing, Greensboro, Quebec City – and the Super Final in Budapest… Helped Canada win the overall world series title.
2018: Swam in the duet with Jacqueline Simoneau…Won four bronze in technical and free duet and team events at the Canadian Open… Earned silver in free team and a bronze in technical team at the Synchro America Open…Placed fifth in free duet and served as alternate to the technical duet at that meet….Also competed at the UANA Pan American Championships with her club Dollard Synchro.
2017: Placed seventh in tech duet, free duet, tech team and free team at the FINA World Championships… Competed in the duet event with Gabriella Brisson at the beginning of the season, but was then paired with Jacqueline Simoneau for the Synchro America Open and Worlds…Won silver in duet at the Synchro America Open and silver in technical team at the Canadian Open.
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When Joseph Gibson received the check following Father's Day dinner at a St. Louis sports bar with his son, he was not anticipating the final listing on the receipt.
Gibson was justifiably furious with the bar's manager and with the waitress who had been serving them. The waitress claimed that it had been a joke with the kitchen staff and that she had meant to delete the expletive, but Gibson did not find the "joke" funny.
According to CNN, Denny Domachowski, the manager of the bar—Friendly's Sports Bar and Grill—the waitress "didn't mean to offend the gentleman and his son. She had a good experience with them as customers. She was just in a hurry and forgot to take that off [the receipt]." Domachowski claims to have reprimanded the waitress, but Gibson has not been satisfied with the bar's efforts to amend the issue, and said that he was hung up on following a phone conversation with Domachowski.


Hiring a Roofer? Do the Research!
Installing a new roof is a major investment, and to make sure the job gets done right you need to find a quality contractor. Just because a contractor claims they can do the work quickly and cheaply doesn't mean they're the best choice. When looking for the right roofing contractor, a few questions and a little investigation will go a long way. Here are a few important questions you should ask before signing on the dotted line.
While you shouldn't write off a roofing contractor just because they're new to the business, knowing that a roofer has been in business for a number of decades is usually a good indicator that they are trusted by their clients.
If you just ask the contractor for a list of references, you may get a cherry-picked list of their most satisfied customers. Instead, ask for the contact information of the contractor's last three clients. The experiences of their recent clients will be a good indicator of what you can expect. Also, you should ask to speak to clients who had their roofs replaced three or more years prior, this will tell you about the long term quality of the work.
A good contractor should have commercial liability insurance to protect their customers from any unexpected events during construction. Ask the contractor to include a certificate of insurance when they submit their proposal and contact the insurance company to make sure the policy is still in force.
What is their scope of work?
What's the contractor's scope of work? It's in your best interest to find a roofing contractor that can offer a variety of roof options. If a contractor has experience with a verity of different roof types, you can be confident that they will suggest the best roof for your home, not just the roof they know how to build.
Does the roofing contractor offer an additional warranty? If so, how long does the warranty apply, and what does it cover? Remember that most reputable contractors offer workmanship guarantees that will cover issues caused by improper installation.
Do they have a maintenance program?
Does the roofing company offer a preventative maintenance program? Regular inspection will extend the life of your roof by allowing you to fix potential issues before they require major renovations.
While some roofing companies will handle the entire project, many depend on subcontractors to perform specific jobs. If the company does use subcontractors, ask for their contact information, certifications, and proof of insurance.
Ask what kind of training the workers go through before they are allowed to work. Are the workers trained in OSHA safety procedures? Do the workers have experience in installing the style of roof you want? You only want skilled and experienced workers on your roof, not just to ensure quality work, but for safety and liability reasons as well.
Is the contractor a safety liability?
Request a copy of the contractor's safety records. A reputable contractor will not have a problem with providing you a copy of their EMR rating as well as recent OSHA logs. A contractor with a history of safety issues is a serious liability and should be avoided.
Your roof will need to pass a number of regional safety codes, and it is likely that compliance inspectors will examine the project at various stages. You need to know that your contractor will have an expert on hand to ensure that all construction is up to code in order to avoid any costly changes.
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During the peak summer months, traditional American roofs can reach temperatures of between 150F and 185F. Having a hot roof means you are throwing money away trying to keep your home cool. Below, we'll take a look at why having a traditional roof is inefficient during hot weather, as well as simple solutions that will keep your home cool all summer long.
Solar reflectance, also known as albedo, is the percentage of the sun's energy that is reflected by a surface. The materials commonly used in roofing today are not very reflective, absorbing 85 to 95 percent of the sun's heat instead of reflecting it back out into space. The most efficient roof materials can reflect more than 65 percent of the sun's energy, meaning your roof only absorbs about 35 percent of the heat.
Although reflectivity is the biggest influence on the temperature of your roof, thermal emittance should also be considered. Some materials, like metal, can get very hot before reaching temperature equilibrium, in other words they have low thermal emittance. Materials like plastic reach temperature equilibrium quickly and can't get very hot and are said to have high thermal emittance. If your roof material is able to hold on to a lot of heat it will shed some of it into your home, making it hotter.
Solar reflectance and thermal emittance together play a big part in your roof's surface temperature. Studies have shown that standard black asphalt roofs, which are not very reflective, can reach temperatures up to 185F. Metal roofs are very reflective, but hold on to a lot of heat and can reach temperatures up to 165F. Researchers have shown that cool roofing systems with both high reflectance and high thermal emittance don't exceed temperatures of 115F.
So what kinds of cool roofing options are available today? If your home currently has a tile roof, you can easily switch to a more reflective alternative tile. Right now, industry standard clay tiles have a reflectivity of between 10 and 30 percent. "Cool colored" tiles are currently available and are produced with special reflective pigments. The ENERGY STAR Roof Products List has recently approved a range of tiles as having a solar reflectance of up to 70 percent. Because a special pigment is used, your tiles can even be traditional dark colors, such as brown and green, although lighter colors will still be more efficient. While these reflective tiles are not widely used as of yet, they can be purchased for nearly the same price as conventional tiles.
Another great option is cool colored metal roof materials. These roofs use a revolutionary infrared reflecting pigment, which gives them a reflectance rating of up to 90 percent! Another reason a cool metal roof is a great option is their durability. For those who already have a traditional metal roof installed, you may have the option of applying a layer of highly reflective and insulating paint, thus optimizing your roof at a fraction of the price of completely replacing it.
Asphalt shingles are by far the most common roofing material on residential homes. The ENERGY STAR Roof Products List has approved of several asphalt shingle styles with reflectance ratings from 40 to 65 percent. While cool colored shingle technology is still in its infancy, there are a number of manufacturers working on shingles with highly reflective surfaces. This new technology will likely become more widely used in the future, but early adopters will most certainly benefit from lower energy bills.
With more efficient options available for nearly every style of building, there is no reason to keep paying high energy bills because of your outdated roof. Contact an expert roofing contractor today to find out how much you can save by making the switch!


Tucked away in the charming lobster fishing town of Stonington, Maine, a group of about 100 students gathered this past week for this year's Wisdom Ingathering, exploring together with Cynthia Gurdjieff's five Obligolnian Strivings in the mornings, and the 8 conversation-starter points that Cynthia recently published in a blog ("Whur We Come From") on the key components of what comprises our Wisdom "lineage" during the afternoon sessions.
Sprinkled throughout our time together was the usual rhythm of teaching, conscious work, and prayer that marks all of our Wisdom work… but this particular gathering carried a unique energetic signature that felt decidedly different. As all mothers can attest to, the signs of a growth spurt are usually evident in the preceding days in an angsty, unusually sensitive child. Suddenly they're waking up at night, tossing from the discomfort of physical change that is often achy… but lack the self-awareness to be able to name what it is that they're sensing.
I've been living this recently with my five-year-old son Rowan. For three nights in a row he woke up, stumbling into my room, restless and uncomfortable… half asleep and unable to communicate clearly except for a moaning jumble of half-words of need. As a mom, I know the routine: I comfort him, give him Tylenol if it's a particularly boisterous achy-moan-stumble-mumble-jumble…but I've seen these rhythms enough to recognize the signs and trust that in a few days his body will rest from the strain of growing and stabilize back into a fallow period.
Looking back on the past year it's clear that our Wisdom community has been in a period of great growth and change and in many ways this Ingathering has carried all the tell-tale markers of growing pains. All week I felt an underlying communal energetic restlessness, a shared heightened sensitivity, and it wasn't until the very end of the week (accompanied by the first sign of blue skies) that I was able to get a glimpse into where and how a particular growth shift may be stretching us.
As we explored the Five Strivings and the 8 components of our Wisdom lineage together, we spent some time exploring the evolutionary shifts from First-Axial Age religions—which carried the huge burden of transitioning from un-differentiated group-think to individual responsibility and agency—to what scholars are calling the dawn of the "Second-Axial Age" in which we're being invited to shift from separate-self or individual-identity to a cosmic whole-self identity, in which the part (and the particular) is identified only in and from the whole in which it is nested.
Heads nodded up and down as this concept was presented, as this is not at all the first we've heard of it. Cynthia began really driving this insight into our shared collective view when we first dug into "The Year of Teilhard" and played with our understanding of "scale" and deep time. From where we sit things can appear chaotic, but as we zoom out we can see the ways that all of this evolutionary "reaching out in the dark" is moving us closer and closer to collectivity and planetary identity. Leaning on the Law of Three, we've worked with re-orienting our typical flight away from conflict, to learning how to hold tension and work with "third force" to serve a shift out of impasse.
Teilhard and Gurdjieff have been forming for us two powerful pillars of teaching, bookending either side of the collective and the individual work with a powerful and inspiring cosmic vision, and the disciplined practical path of what it might take to get us there. As a Wisdom cohort, I must say, we've gotten quite adept at zooming out to this great Teilhardian "cosmic" view-finder and zooming back into a practical Gurdjieffian commitment to the work of transitioning from "individuals" to transformed persons (ones in whom the "whole" resounds). But it strikes me that we are being invited to now hold the cosmic view of collectivity even as we zoom back into the level of where our new growing edges are.
How do we begin to speak of personhood at the collective level? Can we begin to see our Wisdom lineage, and the other lineages with which we share the spiritual ecosystem, not as separated "communities" but instead as so many currents within a greater collectivity binding and moving through our communities? Can we begin to see all our many communities interwoven as co-inherent collaboratives?
Much like Jesus and the early disciples, however, in the flurry of wanting clarity we are just as subject to the heavy-handed do-re-mi feedback loop of the Law of Seven that might tempt us to turn the 8 points into our own stone tablet commandments and frameworks by which we can identify how our lineage is different from that lineage and aren't we glad we're in the right lineage. How absolutely human it is for us to want to jump in and pour concrete on the tree for fear of losing it! And how quickly what's intended to be a living dialogue can be clung to as our teacher's creed instead.
But what if there was something else afoot in Jesus' example beyond just the shaking off of the material forms and sloughing off of human clinging attachment? What if Jesus was pointing the way toward a powerful new roadmap into Second Axial community as the new modality that could carry this new consciousness? Is this not exactly what St. Paul points toward in his luminous vision of spiritual community as "the Body of Christ"—one awakening Body made up of many members, each utterly integral to the whole?
In essence, Jesus is bucking the guru-model and the inevitable dogmatic institutionalization that comes with it. He seems to be saying: Don't make this about me, do your own work! Stand to your own feet in the midst of the cosmos and awaken to the wisdom that can flow through and in you as a collective. That is the icon of Pentecost arriving in flames to the community. The light was no longer about the "one" singular teacher, but in the single-heartedness of the "unified" community.
Beatrice Bruteau describes Jesus as heralding an entirely new communal paradigm which she called "communion paradigm" in contrast to the dominant-paradigm of hierarchy which thrives exclusively on individuality and separateness. And for a while—this communion paradigm worked! But the old grooves were deep and hard to not fall right back into, and eventually our tradition slipped back to the First Axial Age's individual emphasis with all the right and wrong laws, dogma and orthodoxy to distinguish those individuals who were "in" and those who were "out." We slipped right back into the mind that can see only from differentiation, and fell out of the eye of the heart that could perceive our unity at a different level.
Fairly quickly the most our consciousness could hope to grow to was the level of the "individualized and separate community," with the Reformation providing even more myriads of distinct and separate community-identities by which to demonize all the rest. And as Cynthia reminded us: this wasn't "wasted evolutionary time." Perhaps the highly territorial consciousness of the individuated community needed to exist in order to preserve the continuity of transmission in the midst of such a turbulent era.
I want to invite us as a Wisdom collective to think about that a little closer to home.
We are very much at risk (if not already guilty of) replicating the same old individual consciousness at the communal level—with all the fear and territorialism that comes with it—when we think of ourselves as exclusively independent or entirely distinct "Wisdom communities." We are also at risk of "mean-green" when we comfortably settle into accidentally defining Wisdom work as primarily catering to a specific privileged subset of our society by not actively exploring other financial models or locations where this work could take place. Or, likewise, if we fall into the hubris of believing our lineage is somehow better than the other networks and organizations that are holding equally important—albeit distinct—posts, we are also failing to miss the beautiful web of mutuality and reciprocity that we exist in.
Cynthia has brilliantly and intuitively shunned any one monolithic institution to carry her work forward into the world. While the Wisdom Schools serve as the primary stream in which this transformative wisdom can take root and flower, she has wisely created a multiplicity and diversity of communities of Wisdom around the country (and all over the world) to keep us from this very natural temptation to fall into clunkier forms of identification and institutionalization.
Cynthia has also encouraged us to not be so reliant upon her as the teacher, but to grow our own initiatives and find our collective agency to explore what Wisdom can look like in "the age of Pentecost" rather than "the age of discipleship"… i.e., what does this work look like when we leave behind the crutch of requiring the guru-teacher model to lead?
The invitation before us is how we might begin to shift into a greater collectivity of communion-identity that sees how each Wisdom group (be it a small Thomas circle in a tiny town in the Midwest to the bigger "hubs" of this work) is inter-connected and inter-dependent. One step beyond that is to begin to locate ourselves as part of a broader ecology of the evolution of the mystical and contemplative strands of the religious traditions and see this Wisdom lineage as actively inter-abiding in and collaborating with the other lineages that are seeking to animate an evolutionary renewal of spiritual formation.
How might each community of Wisdom identify their concrete contributions and possible needs in a way that creates a system of web-relationships with other organizations?
Where are we blind to our own exclusivity (who are we excluding by the cost and location and format of our schools)?
How might we begin to do Wisdom School differently in a way that minimizes the stress (and temptation to guru-project) on the "one teacher" but rather works to build the Wisdom of the collective through experimenting with more communal conscious work and shared post-holding?
How are we meaningfully—as Wisdom communities—engaging in the practical needs of the communities we are gathering in to meet specific needs and interact with those who are in greatest need or are most excluded by our societies? How might we begin to weave in community service and meaningful relationship building with engagement into the rhythm of our Wisdom Schools?
Cynthia's "8 points" are extremely helpful—they're a powerful work that needed doing and should be distributed and discussed throughout our network. It's clarifying to name the particular streams that have formed and influenced this unique river that we are swimming in. Nevertheless, it would be shortsighted to not point out that all these rivers—while representing unique flavors of lineage trajectories—serve to distribute the divine life-giving water by which the entire ecosystem can thrive on our way down to a shared remembrance of oceanic-oneness and collective-belonging.
Jesus declared that the only distinct differentiation that ought to mark us is the quality of our love. As we continue to deepen into the alchemy of this work that seeks to purify our collective heart, may we also feel and feed the reciprocity of inter-abiding that marks the uniqueness of this precious universe, the very structure of which—in the words of Teilhard—is a network of relationships… or… love.
May we grow to the fullness of the Body of Christ… even as the stretching is uncomfortable, achy, new, strange and unfamiliar. Even if it requires us to ask new questions with hope and an unflinching belief in what might be possible as we continue down this adventure of life together, may we animate the courage to leap from the "mi" to the "fa"… together. Let's allow the rich heritage of our specific lineage to animate the power of where we can move into as one body of many lineages, into the waters of prophetic imagination and divine possibility seeking to manifest uniquely in our time.
Thank you so much for your clarity in connecting all the things! Beautifully done.
With you all the way sister!
Kudos, Brie! You have offered us much to ponder. . .
Thank you for these insights and the train of thinking that pulls us toward a common identity and third force action. Much to consider and continue to reach toward.
Beautiful post. I wasn't there – but I much appreciate this window into the conversation!
Brie, The June Wisdom Ingathering was my first but definitely not my last.
Your comments above ring true with me. Please keep me in the loop. Marty's comments and sharing are also in the vein which could be really helpful going forward. I came away from Stonington seeing a possible place for creating anew a model of Wisdom Circles which I developed over 15 years ago while part of an aging ministry in Virginia but this time right here on the Blue Hill Peninsula across the bridge from Deer Isle /Stonington. Yesterday I began exploring this concept with a fellow parishioner from St. Francis by the Sea, Blue Hill who has been volunteering his time in the upper grades of the local elementary school. He sees so many young people thirsty for meaning, dialogue, and being engaged. Does the Northeast Wisdom community have any ideas?
Thank you, Brie, for that insightful articulation and for those challenging questions. You yourself are a shining example of which you write. While informed by Cynthia's Wisdom work, your own authentic voice rises up from our community to add direction and guidance for this community's unfolding. Let us all add our own voices—in our work and in our lives—to sing the strains of Love in Wisdom's key.
Thank you, Brie, for such clarity riddled with challenge. Tracey and I especially liked your inclusive stance. The idea of bringing the dazzling meal of Wisdom to folks trapped in survival mode. I hope our stream can meet Native Wisdom at least halfway.


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Research has proved that compared to the brains of other species, the human brain is more primed to respond to experience and the environment. Bradd Shore of Emory University emphasizes, in a book on cognition and culture that compared to other species, humans are born with remarkably undeveloped brains - " a curious state of affairs for the brainiest of the primates." Among primates, only the human brain enters the world in such an unfinished state. In humans a great amount of brain development takes place outside the womb, in direct relationship with the external environment.
But experience does not begin at birth. Ultrasound recordings show that the neurons that develop in uterus begin driving an infant's limbs as early as at seven weeks of gestation. Myron A. Hofer of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, concludes that a key function of early fetal activity is to aid the process of constructing the brain, so that from the very start, experience can act on the brain's development.
1. Ensure health, safety and good nutrition. Breast-feed if possible, make sure your child has regular check-ups, and timely immunizations, safety-proof the places where your children play. Whenever traveling use car seats.
2. Develop a warm and a caring relationship with your children. Show them that you care deeply. Help them feel safe and secure.
3. Respond to your each child's clues and cues. Hold them; play with them in a way that lets you follow their lead. Pull back when they seem to have enough stimulation.
4. Recognize that each child is unique. Please remember that from birth each child has a different temperament and every child grows at his/her own pace.
5. Have positive expectations about what children can do and hold onto the belief that every child can succeed.
6. Talk, read and sing to your children. Surround them with language. Maintain an ongoing conversation of what they are doing. Provide reading and writing materials that may include crayons and paper, books, magazines and toys.
7. Encourage a safe exploration and play - Give your children opportunities to move around and explore and play. Be prepared to step in if they are at risk of hurting themselves or others. Allow them to explore relationships. Arrange for your children to play with other children. Help them to solve conflicts on their own.
8. Use discipline to teach. Talk to your children about what they seem to be feeling and teach them words to describe those feelings. Make it clear that you may not like her/his behavior but you love her/him. Explain the rules and consequences.
9. Establish routines. Create routines and rituals for special times like mealtime, naptime and bedtime. Try to be predictable so that your children can count on you.
10. Become involved in childcare and preschool. From time to time especially during transitions, spend time with your children.
11. Limit television. Make sure that your children are watching programs that will teach them things you want them to learn.
12. Take care of yourself. You can best care for your young Children when you are cared for as well.


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Le canton de Fours est une ancienne division administrative française située dans le département de la Nièvre et la région Bourgogne.

Géographie
Ce canton est organisé autour de Fours et est l'un de 6 cantons de l'arrondissement de Château-Chinon (Ville). Son altitude varie de  (Charrin) à  (Ternant) pour une altitude moyenne de .

Histoire

Administration

conseillers généraux de 1833 à 2015

Conseillers d'arrondissement (de 1833 à 1940)

Composition
Le canton de Fours groupait 10 communes et comptait  habitants (population municipale de 2006).

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| Cercy-la-Tour || align="right" | 2 074 || align="right" | 58340 || align="right" | 58046
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| Charrin || align="right" | 639 || align="right" | 58300 || align="right" | 58060
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| Fours || align="right" | 761 || align="right" | 58250 || align="right" | 58118
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| Montambert || align="right" | 134 || align="right" | 58250 || align="right" | 58172
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| La Nocle-Maulaix || align="right" | 294 || align="right" | 58250 || align="right" | 58195
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| Saint-Gratien-Savigny || align="right" | 123 || align="right" | 58340 || align="right" | 58243
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| Saint-Hilaire-Fontaine || align="right" | 191 || align="right" | 58300 || align="right" | 58245
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| Saint-Seine || align="right" | 216 || align="right" | 58250 || align="right" | 58268
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| Ternant || align="right" | 206 || align="right" | 58250 || align="right" | 58289
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| Thaix || align="right" | 62 || align="right" | 58250 || align="right" | 58290
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Démographie

Histogramme de l'évolution démographique depuis 1962 :

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Fours
 Liste des conseillers généraux de la Nièvre
 Arrondissements de la Nièvre
 Cantons de la Nièvre
 Communes de la Nièvre
 Nièvre

Liens externes
Site du Conseil général de la Nièvre
Site du Centre Social du Canton de Fours
 Le canton de Fours sur le site de l'Insee : recensement 1999 et recensement 2006

Bibliographie
 Yves Ducroizet, Robert Pommery (illustrateur),  Le canton de Fours , dans  La Camosine  Les Annales des Pays nivernais, n°154, impr. Guillaudot, Varennes-Vauzelles, 2013, 40.p.

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Fours

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As MAGNA's top executive, Andy oversees annual media negotiation seasons and processes on a global level, ensuring that IPG Mediabrands secures the most advantageous media rates and commercial terms on behalf of and in alignment with each client's unique marketing strategy and objectives. He also spearheads efforts to track, measure and deliver price and global savings commitments to ensure that all media investments are being managed in real time, and performing optimally.
In addition to his investment experience, Andy comes to MAGNA with extensive global media owner and client relationships. He has held a number of senior roles in the media industry, including Global Head of Trading at Omnicom Media Group, where the central team was responsible for over 30 global clients representing nearly €10 billion in media investments. Earlier in his career, Andy joined Mindshare as Broadcast Director and rose to Head of Exchange at the company. The agency recruited him back as Global Head of Trading, Commerce and New Platforms in 2012 after a two-year stint as Global Head of Client Pricing at GroupM.
Innately driven to push boundaries and challenge the status quo, David heads MAGNA's North America business driving investment, intelligence and innovation in his role as President. David has helped to set the vision and remit for MAGNA, which is to use best-in-class marketplace and audience intelligence to decision more quickly and execute with greater precision, efficiency, and effectiveness.
David has been with IPG Mediabrands since 2001, when he launched the digital practice at UM as Interactive Media Director. A year later, he became a Senior Vice President, overseeing all digital media strategy, planning, buying and analysis operations for the agency. In 2006, David was named U.S. Director of Digital Communications. He was promoted in 2011 to Global Digital Officer, and then elevated in 2013 to Chief Investment Officer.
David has been recognized as a "Media All-Star" by Adweek, one of the "Adweek 50" in 2012 and an "Online All-Star" by Media Magazine.
David served as the Chair of the 4A's (American Association of Advertising Agencies) Digital Marketing Committee from 2009-2012, He serves on the IAB Video and Advisory Board, the Global Board of I-COM (International Conference on Media Management) and numerous advisory boards, including Google, AOL, Yahoo, and the Chairman's Advisory Board of the MPA (The Association of Magazine Media).
Outside of work, David enjoys spending time with wife and two daughters. A self-described gadget-guy and fitness fanatic – he can talk for hours about training tips and the latest in high-tech exercise gear.
Dani Benowitz previously served as Executive Vice President, Integrated Investment, where she played a key leadership role in media negotiations on behalf of IPG Mediabrands' clients. She worked closely with UM's investment teams on brands such as Coca-Cola Co., Johnson & Johnson and BMW and with Initiative's on brands like Amazon, Merck and Liberty Mutual. Her new role expands her duties, designating her as the senior-most media negotiator for IPG Mediabrands in the U.S. market. She will also lead MAGNA's Intelligence unit – which produces a suite of studies (ad spending forecasts, media trials and media economy reports) that explore various advertising/marketing trends and challenges – and its Innovation unit, which works to identify, understand, and activate emerging media and tech-enabled solutions.
Dani's career spans nearly 30 years, including stints in TV sales and at agencies including Mindshare, J. Walter Thompson and Grey. She joined IPG in 2003 as a VP, Supervisor at UM and rose through the ranks to become EVP, Managing Partner at the agency. She joined MAGNA as EVP, Integrated Investment in 2016.
Vincent Létang joined MAGNA in July 2011 as EVP, Director of Global Forecasting.
Vincent oversees the organization's market research, forecasting, strategy and advisory services. Among the regular publications of Vincent and his team are the Global Advertising Forecasts (a bi-annual report on advertising spending in 70+ countries, with 5-years forecasts), the Media Economy Report, the quarterly US Advertising Forecasts and the new Programmatic Report. MAGNA has been the reference for monitoring and forecasting US ad market trends for more than 30 years. MAGNA's advertising forecasts are regularly used and quoted by Wall Street financial analysts.
Before joining Screen Digest in 2005, Vincent was a senior consultant in the media practice in BIPE Consulting in Paris for six years. He was in charge of "Ad Barometer," an annual international survey of advertising trends, commissioned by Lagardere, the leading magazine publisher.
Vincent has been invited to speak on industry trends in more than 20 international conferences on media and advertising, and regular panelist at the UBS Global Media Conference in New York. Vincent is frequently interviewed and quoted in the trade press and the financial press including The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, MediaWeek, MediaPost, AdExchanger, Campaign, Horizont, Bloomberg TV, etc.
Vincent holds a master's degree in Economics from Paris Dauphine University and a master's degree in business administration from HEC School of Management, Paris. He's married and a father of two, and lives in New York City.
Brian Hughes leads the Audience Analysis Practice for MAGNA, which is tasked with making sense of consumers' media habits in a fully mediated world. He has been with the IPG family for nearly 18 years, but joined MAGNA when television research for all IPG agencies was consolidated there in 2004. He has since grown with the company, eventually assuming the role of Executive Vice President.
With MAGNA, Brian was an essential contributor in shaping the television and programming analysis operation and later had a major hand in his groups' expansion into emerging media platforms. By integrating these mediums, Brian can deliver a more holistic view of future trends affecting the marketplace. A big believer in efficiency, he has worked hard to improve data processes and yield key insights more quickly. With his commitment to staying ahead of the fads, he has worked closely with his colleagues at the IPG Media Lab to understand consumers' interaction with technology.
Prior to working with MAGNA, Brian joined Initiative's research team in 2000 where his interest shifted to national television. He began in this industry at Telerep, contributing local television insights for client stations.
Brian represents MAGNA at many major conferences and panels including the Media Research Council's Television and Internet Committees and the CIMM Cross-Platform Working Committee. He has a zest for the written word and applies his literary talents to marketing related articles and reports.
Vin Paolozzi is the EVP, Innovation for MAGNA. He is responsible for developing strategic relationships with leading media, data and technology companies that drive solutions for IPG clients. He is also responsible for working with IPG agency leads to analyze client buying practices and recommend strategies that create programmatic and automated solutions.
Vin has over 15 years of experience and is a true thought lead in the digital and automated media space. He has a unique background with extensive knowledge in programmatic and automated media, monetization strategy, sales management and digital operations.
Kathy Doyle serves as EVP, Local Investment at MAGNA. In this newly-created role, Kathy is responsible for the management and coordination of senior investment leads across IPG Mediabrands' portfolio of agencies and driving MAGNA's local go-to-market proposition.
A 24-year veteran within the IPG Mediabrands network, Kathy most recently served as EVP, Managing Partner at UM. In this role, Kathy oversaw all local activity for a full roster of clientele including ALDI, BMW, FCA, Coca-Cola and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Highly regarded and respected throughout the industry, Kathy is affiliated with a multitude of associations such as the 4As, Nielsen and the Television Bureau. She is the recipient of the Truth Well Told Award for her tremendous work in managing the local General Motors business for 10 years and in 2015, was named Working Mother of the Year by She Runs It (formerly Advertising Women of New York). Kathy is also a 2016 recipient of the IRTS Hall of Mentorship Award.
Charles leads a dedicated team of specialists at MAGNA who help analyze our investments through our proprietary tool, MagnifIQ. This is a critical discipline, with the increasing amounts of data and the need for flexibility to adapt to the rapidly changing marketplace. Charles pioneered media auditing and benchmarking in Asia Pacific and Co-Founded the first media audit service in Australia. He has built and successfully transitioned numerous companies in his media analytics & data modeling career.
Brad brings over 20 years of Marketing & Sales experience leading insights, business analysis, strategic & operational planning, and business process development on both the agency and client side of the industry.
Brad joined IPG Mediabrands in February 2015 to lead the MAGNA division in Canada. MAGNA is the strategic media unit responsible for insights, forecasts & negotiation strategy across all media channels on behalf of Mediabrands.
Prior to MAGNA, Brad held various North American Insights leadership positions at AMG (Acosta Mosaic Group), an agency group specializing in Experiential Marketing, Shopper Marketing & In-Store Media. AMG's clients included AB-InBev, Samsung, Microsoft, Walmart, Rogers, and P&G. Prior to AMG, Brad was the Director of Business Insights for Constellation Brands in Canada and prior to that the Director of Marketing Intelligence for InBev/Labatt in North America.
Michelle is an influential global brand marketer who brings well-rounded experience in the areas of strategic direction, business development, operations and marketing to each project she leads. Her current focus is on building the MAGNA brand and business, where her versatility has helped to increase brand value and maximize profitability. She has held executive management roles at IPG's MRM//McCann and one of the world's largest beverage companies, Constellation Brands. Michelle has a passion for making a difference in the industry and community, serving as She Runs It Executive Achievement Committee Co-Chair, John A. Reisenbach Foundation Board of Trustees, Friends of Mount Sinai Board of Directors, and Step Up New York Chapter Board Member.
As Head of MAGNA UK, Richard oversees all media investments across UM and Initiative clients. Working with a team of negotiators across the two agencies he is responsible for devising and implementing the negotiation strategies that will deliver the maximum value to each IPG client.
Prior to taking on the MAGNA role, Richard was Managing Partner, Investment, at UM having worked his way up through the TV buying team. His entry point into media was at ITV, UK's largest TV company.
Richard works and lives in London with his wife and two children.
Manuel joined MAGNA as General Manager in April 2015. In his new role, he will be responsible for promoting and developing the competitive position of MAGNA in the Spanish market, across all media channels.
Manuel has over 15 years of experience in the advertising market, both in business management and negotiation and media buying.
Manuel started his career in the sales department of Mediaset, a leading media group in Spain. Later he became part of the media planning group as head of trading in Barcelona.
Before joining MAGNA, Manuel was the head of trading at Havas Media Group in Spain, where he led the strategic negotiation for the entire group, overseeing a volume of $1billion in media billings.
Manuel graduated in law from the University of Murcia, and later studied an MBA at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid.
Manuel has lived in Madrid, Barcelona and Dublin.
Raffaella has a long track record in negotiating and commercial data analysis.
She is currently responsible for all Mediabrands Italy's online and offline commercial deals and agreements with Media Owners. She is focused on strategic negotiations, deployment of International agreements, intelligence and planning support, as well as the pricing database for market monitoring in pitches.
Previously she was with UM, where she reported directly to the CEO. She was responsible for budget and cost control, defining business revenue models, and recommending new organizational processes and procedures.
Before joining IPG, Raffaella worked at Vodafone Italy, where her main duties included cost analysis, allocation and revision of annual budgets, competitor analysis & monitoring, and forecasting and general accounting.
She has an architecture degree from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Raffaella loves music, theatre and cinema. She is very interested in traveling, sports, cooking and reading.
As Media Business Director and a member of the IPG Mediabrands board, Natália Júlio is the pioneer of the MAGNA role in Portugal. With a long and solid experience in media and communication, she is now leading the development of a broader strategic approach to media partners, on the scope of IPG Mediabrands agencies.
Prior to this challenge, Natália had been the Managing Director of BrandConnection Portugal, the IPG brand she launched in 2001 and conducted as one of the most creative and innovative media agencies in the market. Under her guidance, BrandConnection was awarded several prizes including the Most Efficacy Agency in 2006, several Portugal Effies Awards, annual Creative Club Awards and the Best Media Agency in 2010.
When appointed to launch BrandConnection in the Portuguese market, Natália already had extensive experience in both media and creative agencies. Her first contact with the 'agencies world' was in 1985, in the new media research department at Ogilvy&Mather. After this initial experience, she moved to FCB, where she was the Media Director. Then she had the chance to ingress in Initiative, where she stayed until 2001 as Client Service Director.
Onno has been with MAGNA since 2010. With 15 years of experience in both media sales and buying, he is responsible for all media buying activities in the Netherlands. Before MAGNA, Onno built his career as sales manager at a media vendor - but the opportunity to move to "the other side of the table" was tempting. Within 6 years Onno developed MAGNA from a relatively small buying unit to a impressive buying/planning strategy department encompassing buying, as well as Radio, TV, OOH and Print planning.
Today MAGNA is the number 2 buying group in the Netherlands and facilitates its partner agencies (UM/Initiative/Traffic4U) to implement all their media strategies at the best possible price and quality. Next to that, MAGNA focuses on creating added value to media investments, the realization of (procurement) savings and creating opportunities for innovative media initiatives and their implementation.
Andreas is with MAGNA since 2012 as Managing Partner and responsible for all media buying activities. He has 19 years of experience in media agencies.
After 13 years at GroupM and Mindshare with various experiences in controlling, media planning, TV implementation planning and finally in leading the digital media buying, he is now responsible for all buying and trading related questions for all German UM offices and market lead for MAGNA.
Karla has been a part of IPG Mediabrands since 2012 and leads MAGNA regionally in Latin America. She is the subject matter expert on trading and accountability for all markets within the region with a clear focus on generating value within a competitive, innovative and transparent environment for IPG advertisers.
With vast experience based on media buying and negotiation, Karina studied advertising and leads Magna Argentina. She is focused on generating and delivering value for all IPG Mediabrands clients.
With over 18 years of experience in media and communication, managing clients in different market segments, Gastón has been leading Initiative Peru as managing director. He now takes on the role of Magna director for Peru.
Florencia is an advertising and marketing professional with twelve years of experience and a notable record of success in Argentina and the USA handling multi-national accounts. She has extensive experience in media strategy, planning and buying, account management, regional coordination and investment management.
José Carlos is a professional with more than thirteen years of experience in the media environment. He has a solid knowledge of Latin America, leading performance audit projects and consulting for countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, among others.
Gurpreet leads the strategic investment & trading function for Mediabrands in Asia. He took up the regional lead role for MAGNA in 2012 when MAGNA was being redefined with a new vision, new practices and new global/regional leadership. Since then he has been instrumental in successfully setting up a cohesive network of trading teams across all markets in Asia, significantly improving buying performance of key clients, making significant contribution in improving the agency's programmatic trading offer through key strategic partnerships & achieving a superior trading practice for Mediabrands in Asia.
Prior to his role at MAGNA, Gurpreet was General Manager of Mediabrands Malaysia for 5 years where he was part of the core team which led Malaysia's explosive growth by 3 times in 4 years moving from the No. 8 to No. 2 position in the market. As part of his general management role, he was also leading the trading function for Malaysia & managed some diversified services as well.
Before Mediabrands Malaysia, he was General Manager at FCB Malaysia heading the media department for 2 years. Prior to that, he was heading the FCB Lodestar Media team in Delhi, India.
Throughout his career, Gurpreet has experienced all facets of advertising working across multiple functions in full service & media specialist agencies. This helped him build multiple skills & a holistic perspective in his thinking.
Gurpreet has studied in MICA, India's top communication school after his post-graduation degree in pure sciences.
He lives in Kuala Lumpur with his wife & son but travels the whole world for business & pleasure.
Victor Corones is the Managing Director of MAGNA, Australia and Chief Investment Officer of IPG Mediabrands Australia. He has more than 24 years of media experience and has world-class skills centering on media and consumer trends, negotiation and highly effective media planning and implementation across all channels.
In 2005, Victor joined UM as Investment Director on Unilever overseeing media planning and buying. For three years he delivered outstanding negotiation and buying results, giving him the perfect credentials to be appointed UM's National Investment Director in 2008. This recognition was further cemented within the Mediabrands family when Victor became the MAGNA lead for Australia in April 2011, when he launched the new division and now oversees all key client negotiations across the IPG Mediabrands Australia group of businesses.
Venkatesh currently leads the intelligence practice at MAGNA in India. Venkatesh's responsibilities are to liaise with other South Asian markets to extend the footprint of MAGNA Intelligence. He is also responsible for research procurement and fronts pricing during new business acquisition in the region.
Prior to his current role at MAGNA, he was heading procurement for ITC - one of the largest advertisers for IPG Mediabrands. He was part of senior management and played a critical role in devising procurement strategy for the agency.
Preceding this as Head of CTG at Group M, Venky was accountable for over 40% of the trading in the Southern part of India.
Venky's 28 years of experience across manufacturing, banking & advertising has seasoned him to embrace change, build open & honest relationships and be determined & passionate to do more with less.