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Christie's Asian Art Week Totals $43.7 Million
Christie's Asian Art Week New York achieved a total of $43,701,125 with 84% sold by lot and 147% hammer above the low estimate. There was global participation with bidders from 38 countries across five continents. During the week seven records were achieved and seven lots exceeded $1M across all sales.
The top lot of Asian Art Week New York was Jehangir Sabavala, "The Embarkation" from South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art which sold for $1,590,000 and achieved a new world auction record for the artist.
Additional notable results included a woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, "The Great Wave," which achieved $687,500; two massive parcel-gilt bronze figures of deities from the Late Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century, which realized $1,158,000; a large bronze figure of Shri Devi which sold for $387,500; and Rabindranath Tagore, "Untitled (Couple)," which sold for $637,500 against a low estimate of $120,000 and achieved a new world auction record for the artist.
"Christie's experienced team and truly global network brought in buyers from across the world to our New York sales. The results of this week demonstrate the resilience of the Asian art market, and continued strength particularly in key areas such as Japanese prints, Chinese sculpture, furniture and porcelain, as well as property from institutional collections, all of which contributed to exceptional sell-through rates."
Tina Zonars, Co-Chairman of Asian Art, Christie's
Deepanjana Klein, International Head of Classical and Contemporary Indian and South Asian Art, remarks: "The results this Asia Week has been extremely encouraging with great works coming from private collections achieving great prices. Collectors from across the world actively participated in both the Classical and Modern and Contemporary art sales and we are seeing a healthy cross-over between these two categories, which is a logical and welcome development for our field."
ASIAN ART WEEK | LIVE AUCTION OVERVIEW
Important Japanese Art
TOTAL: $8,537,000
85% SOLD BY LOT | 195% HAMMER ABOVE LOW ESTIMATE
AN IRON ARTICULATED SCULPTURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST (SHACHI)
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED TOTO JU MYOCHIN SHIKIBU (SOSUKE)
PRICE REALIZED: $625,000
Christie's sale of Important Japanese Art achieved a total of $8,537,000 with 85% sold by lot and 195% hammer above the low estimate. There was global participation with registered bidders from 23 countries.
The top lots of the sale were Katsushika Hokusai's Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) which totaled $687,500, above the estimate of $150,000-200,000; an iron articulated sculpture of a mythical beast (Shachi) from the Edo period (18th century), signed Toto Ju Myochin Shikibu (Sosuke), which sold for $625,000, above the estimate of $120,000-170,000; and Katsushika Hokusai's Sanka hakuu (Storm below the summit) [Black Fuji] which achieved $550,000.
South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art
BHUPEN KHAKHAR (1934-2004)
UNTITLED (TREE IN A WALLED GARDEN)
SEVEN NEW ARTIST AUCTION RECORDS ESTABLISHED
The sale of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art achieved a total of $7,827,500 and was 85% sold by lot. Seven new world auction records were achieved for Rabindranath Tagore, Jehangir Sabavala, Akkitham Narayanan, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Mansur Rahi, Askari Mian Irani, and Nasreen Mohamedi (for a photograph by the artist).
The top lot of the sale was Jehangir Sabavala's The Embarkation, which sold for $1,590,000, above the estimate of $300,000-500,000, establishing an auction record. Other notable results included Bhupen Khakhar's Untitled (Tree In A Walled Garden), which totaled $990,000, and Rabindranath Tagore's Untitled (Couple) which achieved $637,500, also setting a new auction record.
Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art
52% OF LOTS SOLD ABOVE HIGH ESTIMATE
A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF SHRI DEVI
SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, VIJAYANAGARA PERIOD, 15TH CENTURY
Christie's sale of Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Works of Art achieved a total of $2,699,000.
The top lot of the sale was a large bronze figure of Shri Devi, South India, Tamil Nadu, Vijayanagara period, 15th century which totaled $387,500. Other highlights include a rare Lamdre Lineage painting of two Sakya Masters which sold for $350,000, and a Large Gray Schist Figure of a Bodhisattva from the ancient region of Gandhara, 3rd-4th Century CE, which achieved $275,000, above an estimate of $60,000-80,000.
Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
TOTAL: $24,637,625
TWO MASSIVE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE
FIGURES OF DEITIES
LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
PRICE REALIZED: $1,158,000
The two-day live sale of Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art achieved a total of $24,637,625 and was 87% sold by lot, 93% sold by value, and 169% hammer above the low estimate.
The top lot of the sale was Two Massive Parcel-Gilt Bronze Figures of Deities Late Ming Dynasty, 16th-17th Century, which totaled $1,158,000, above the estimate of $300,000-500,000. Other notable results include a superb and Very Rare Silver 'Animals' Bowl, Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), which sold for $1,110,000, and a massive Huanghuali Trestle-Leg Table, Late Qing Dynasty, which realized $1,110,000, far exceeding the estimate of $80,000-120,000.
ASIAN ART WEEK| ONLINE SALES
14-28 September 2021 | Online
TOTAL: $994,125
121% HAMMER ABOVE LOW ESTIMATE
TWO LARGE SILK PAINTINGS OF IMMORTALS
WITH ATTENDANTS
CHINA, LATE MING-QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
PRICE REALIZED: $75,000
The online-only sale Asia! totaled $994,125, led by silk paintings from the India House Club Collection, New York, including two large silk paintings of immortals with attendants from the late Ming-Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th Century, which sold for $75,000, and two large silk paintings of Buddha from late Ming-Qing Dynasty, 17th-18th Century, which sold for $75,000.
Additional strong results were achieved for a square Huanghuali table, which sold for $68,750, and a large silk Kesi Daoist immortals 'birthday' panel, which achieved $40,000.
From Artist to Woodblock: Japanese Prints Online
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)
Awa, naruto no fuha (wind and waves at naruto, awa province)
From Artist to Woodblock: Japanese Prints Online totaled $688,750 and achieved 142% hammer above the low estimate. The top lot of the sale was Utagawa Hiroshige's Awa, Naruto no fuha (Wind and waves at Naruto, Awa Province), which achieved $23,750, surpassing its high estimate of $2,000.
Other notable results from the sale include Ito Shinsui's Haru (Spring), which sold for $22,500, against a high estimate of $4,000, and Kitagawa Utamaro's Shinateru from the house of Okamotoya, which realized $17,500, against a high estimate of $10,000.
Tags: Akkitham Narayanan, Anwar Jalal Shemza, ART, asia, Asian Art, Askari Mian Irani, AUCTION, Bhupen Khakhar, BUDDHA, Chinese art, Christies, contemporary art, Deepanjana Klein, himalayan art, himalayas, India, Indian Art, Japanese art, Jehangir Sabavala, Katsushika Hokusai, Mansur Rahi, Modern Art, Nasreen Mohamedi, NEW YORK, Rabindranath Tagore, Sale, Shri Devi, Tina Zonars, Utagawa Hiroshige
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MYSTIC GUARDIAN is a tribal amulet that features a stunning Ice Age Horse tooth fossil pendant with charm dangles of antiqued buffalo teeth. The Ice Age Horse tooth fossil was discovered in the Suwannee River. This is a rock hard molar from a horse that roamed North America during the last Ice Age over 10,000 years ago. My concept was to create ornately beaded necklaces that recall more ancient times where gemstones were worn as amulets of protection, strength and power. MYSTIC GUARDIAN showcases the fossil specimen with rustic African Carnelian beads. The necklace has long black leather ties and is also complimented with copper wire and dark oxidized findings. MYSTIC GUARDIAN feels substantial and is reflective of Warrior Spirit!
Leather ties measures 23 inches long.
BUFFALO TOTEM equals Prayer and Abundance. Those who have a Buffalo totem must walk a sacred path, honoring every walk of life. You will achieve nothing without the aid of the Great Spirit and you must be humble enough to ask for assistance and then be grateful for those gifts. A Buffalo totem will seek to help you establish a deep connection to Mother Earth and it will ask you to help the endangered species of our planet. He will bring you strength of character and an independent spirit.


Descriptions of this film focus on the blank-faced young married couple in crisis, visiting the fishing town where he grew up, debating whether they should stay together. But the couple seems to appear in about one third of the movie. The rest is about the town itself and its residents – daily fishing, problems with the law and health board, a teenage couple who want to start dating, a jousting competition in the river. Since most of the movie defies plot summary, the married couple gets more attention than they maybe deserve.
He says something like "you change your mind so much, I'm always a day or two behind." And I'm so glad I never finished watching this with Katy (she made it about 20 minutes in), because most of their conversation is about their failing relationship, whether or not they're in love and should break up. Katy will take this personally and think I'm trying to ask these questions indirectly myself. Also any movie containing any sadness makes her sad. Best to stick with Hello, Dolly!
Resnais-style camera moves (he was the film's editor – the same year he made Toute la memoire du monde), some highly posed, French-poetic shots of the couple, which are all the more arresting against the reality of the small fishing village. But Varda doesn't shoot it like reality. The sea, the clotheslines and nets, the shacks and neighborhood cats all look like an expensive set, arranged for the pleasure of her camera. An unbelievably accomplished debut.
Of the two actors, Silvia Monfort was in a couple movies with Jean Gabin, also a Robert Bresson movie I've never heard of, and Philippe Noiret was the uncle of Zazie dans le metro, also in Topaz and Coup de Torchon.
I like documentaries with twist endings. There's a shocker at the end of artist Ydessa's gallery display of thousands of framed photographs of people holding teddy bears: a bare-walled third room containing only a mannequin of Hitler, kneeling as if in prayer. Ydessa's parents were holocaust survivors, and some of their family members didn't survive – the exhibit is dedicated to them. I didn't warm up to Ydessa very much, but I like the layout of her exhibit, the photos themselves and the film.
Nice Varda-esque touch: Ydessa says she's created a fiction that looks like documentary: that everybody is happy and has a teddy bear. "Reality and fiction – I'm somewhere in between." And of course in her montage of photos from the exhibit, Varda sneaks in a photo of herself as a child.
I think the title is real-estate shorthand for "seven bedrooms, kitchen and bath." Shot in a former hospice during an exhibition created by Louis Bec, who played the older father. So I'm not sure which of the visual ideas came from Bec and which from Varda, but it's a remarkable little film. Unseen realtor is showing this property to unseen doctor, the doctor moves in, starts a (large) family which grows up fast. They go through a couple maids and their oldest daughter gets a boyfriend and rebels against her father. Older yet, and the father has died. The rooms go from bare to slightly dressed to crazy – the bathroom totally covered in feathers at one point. Characters speak through each other, repeating phrases like in Marienbad.
A celebration of the Cinematheque and its front steps, intercutting with famous film scenes set upon steps. Some semi-re-enactments – I liked the buggy tossed down the steps, Potemkin-style, and the mildly concerned man at the bottom who leaned over to check that nobody was inside.


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The Gambian government set to evict citizens to give land to European claimant
Richard Kwame Krah
The Gambian government is in the process of evicting its citizens from a piece of land located in Tranquil just to release same land to a European who is claiming ownership.
According to The Fatu Network a local news media, the claimant (name withheld) made an earlier attempt to take over the land during the days of the Gambia's former President Yahya Jammeh, stating that he secured the land decades ago for Agricultural purposes.
The then President offered an alternative land to prevent the eviction of the residents who spent millions of dollars developing the land. Reports have it that, the claimant refused the offer and insisted on taking same land he bought many years back; a request Yahya Jammeh failed to grant.
The claimant reportedly left the Gambia to Europe after failing to secure the land; he has, through an agent in the Gambia pursued same case after a change of government, and is currently in the process of taking the land.
As it stands now, the police have been deployed to forcefully evict the residents (about 22 homes) so the land can be given to him; according to the residents who are natives of the Gambia, they have spent a lot of resources to purchase and develop the land and are not willing to leave.
Some of the residents stated during an interview that, the Gambia is their home country and they will not allow any foreigner to take away their property. A resident stated that it is unacceptable to have a Gambian evicting a fellow Gambian "based on some white man's story." Watch the interview below:
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Wole Soyinka: Nigerian Govt Should Punish Religious Leaders Who Defy Order Against Public Gathering
The much-celebrated Nigerian Nobelist and author, Wole Soyinka has strongly criticized the Central Government of
Ubuntu: Eto'o backs Drogba to condemn Colonist French Doctors
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Namibia rejects Germany's 'inadequate' reparations offer
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China calls racial discrimination in the U.S. a social ill, Urges the government to end it
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Revisiting impactful statements made by the freedom fighters, Pan-Africanist and revolutionaries.
$1.1 Billion Deal: Nigerian Billionaire acquires shares of Shell, Total and ENI
French tycoon dragged before court over $160M corruption deal in Guinea
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Friday Feature: Maeghan's Journey!
By CRTEFLadmin / blog, Costa Rica TEFL Graduates, Uncategorized
Meet Maeghan! Maeghan is originally from Canada but moved to Costa Rica to attend TEFL. She has always been interested in traveling and thought that teaching abroad would be a great way to do so. Keep reading to learn more about Maeghan's journey!
Maeghan chose CRTEFL because of amazing reviews online and she thought it would be a good excuse to travel Costa Rica. She felt that CRTEFL would give her the freedom of teaching abroad while being able to support herself financially.
Maeghan is now working at a private school in Santa Ana (near San Jose) where she teaches Math and Science in English to grade 4 students. She plans to stay for at least 2 years, if not longer. She's really embracing the Pura Vida lifestyle! Her favourite part of teaching is when she gets random hugs throughout the day from thankful students. She also loves to see their faces light up when they are able to connect new concepts to old ones.
Who doesn't love to see people learn while having fun?
Maeghan and her CRTEFL peers zip lining in Samara!
For Maeghan, the most important thing that TEFL teaches is how to interact with students as a teacher and how to feel comfortable being in charge of a classroom setting. She still uses the skills that she learned in Costa Rica TEFL daily at her new job. Lesson planning, classroom flexibility, and making learning fun are just a few of those skills.
While training to be an English teacher, her best experiences were the interactions with the local EFL students. She also enjoyed bonding with her classmates and reviewing at the end of the course in preparation for the exam. Maeghan explains, "we had a lot of fun reviewing and playing games and it really took the stress out of the final exam."
When asked about what advice she would give to people considering getting a TEFL certificate with Costa Rica TEFL, Maeghan says, "Do it! It's absolutely worth it. Not only was the program a wonderful experience in itself but teaching is also such a rewarding experience. Not to mention, the certification doesn't expire, so you will always have a way to make a little money on the side."
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Henry Grenville (ur. 1717, zm. 1784) – brytyjski dyplomata.

Grenville urodził się w rodzinie polityków. Jeden z jego starszych braci był nosił tytuł hrabiego (earla) Temple. A jego bratanek George Grenville był kanclerzem w rządzie, którym kierował William Pitt, 1. hrabia Chatham, a potem (w latach 1763-1765) premierem.

Henry Grenville był gubernatorem Barbados od roku 1746 i brytyjskim ambasadorem w Turcji w latach 1762-1765, w czasach gdy panował w niej sułtan Mustafa III.

Do Anglii powrócił w 1765 by zostać komisarzem ceł (Commissioner of Customs). Potem osiedlił się w Bath, gdzie zmarł w 1784.

Mężem jego córki Louisy został Charles Stanhope, 3. hrabia Stanhope.

Bibliografia
 Turkey: Its History and Progress - the journals and correspondence of Sir James Porter - London, Hurst and Blackett, 1854
 Alfred Wood, A History of the Levant Company

Linki zewnętrzne
 http://www.thepeerage.com/p1251.htm#i12503
 http://www.thepeerage.com/index_ambassador.htm

Brytyjscy politycy
Urodzeni w 1717
Zmarli w 1784
Ambasadorowie Wielkiej Brytanii w Turcji
Brytyjscy parlamentarzyści 1754–1761
Brytyjscy parlamentarzyści 1768–1774

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About the Chorus
Stanford Symphonic Chorus
First rehearsal: Leoš Janáček Mša glagolskaja (Glagolitic Mass)
7:30pm Campbell Recital Hall; registration starts at 6:30pm
Symphonic Chorus Performance: Leoš Janáček Mša glagolskaja (Glagolitic Mass) with Stanford Symphony Orchestra
7:30pm Bing Concert Hall
The Stanford Symphonic Chorus is a group of approximately 180 students, faculty, staff, and members of the community led by Director of Music and Conductor Stephen Sano. The Chorus generally performs three works a year, one each academic quarter. Each performance typically features a large choral work, and includes other choral or instrumental pieces. See our Performances page for information about past performances.
Due to the current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stanford Symphonic Chorus remains on hiatus through at least the Fall quarter of 2020. The return of the Symphonic Chorus to regular activity will depend on (i) the progression of the virus, (ii) progress and availability of an effective vaccine, and (iii) when non-Stanford students/faculty/staff are allowed to physically return to the core academic area of campus. We anxiously look forward to the time that we can return to singing together again and celebrate the choral art! For additional information, please contact the Director,
Stephen M. Sano: sano/AT/stanford/DOT/-e-d-u-/
Winter 2020 Concert
Performances at Stanford University's Bing Concert Hall on Friday, March 6th and Saturday, March 7th
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Home Blog When It Comes to Public Services, Perception is Rarely a Sufficient Description...
When It Comes to Public Services, Perception is Rarely a Sufficient Description of Reality
Perception is a complicated foundation upon which to build public policy. In a recent Gallup poll, 71% of respondents declared that the American healthcare system was either in "crisis" or had "major problems." In the same poll, when asked to rate the quality of one's own healthcare, 76% of Americans declared those experiences to be either "excellent" or "good." Despite decades of political maelstrom over healthcare reform, these two measures are unchanged since the late 1990s.
Humans are inconsistent in their perceptions of even the simplest of political phenomena, and that unreliability is exacerbated when presented with the extraordinary complexities of public systems. That's why, when making judgments about how to improve, tweak, or outright reform the healthcare system, we rely on factors that have nothing to do with perception, but involve results: quality of care, health outcomes, outcomes per cost unit, and other measures that aspire to impose modest guardrails on a difficult-to-standardize endeavor. While healthcare battles rage on, the field has moved past the idea that the practice of medical care is too subjective to be measured. Despite arguments that healthcare is too much of an "art" to invite scientific measurement, the public and policymakers insist on measuring outcomes to justify the multi-trillion-dollar annual expenditure that characterizes our and ethically correct public commitment to public health.
For over a century, our country has made a similar moral commitment to financing and mandating public education. The debate over how to measure that commitment remains slippery. That's why it's baffling that prominent commentators continue to question the use of objective data in education. Here's Jack Schneider, an education historian, writing in The Atlantic about how the public perceives education:
Asked to assign letter grades to their children's schools, the vast majority of parents—generally around 70 percent—issue As and Bs … When asked to rate the nation's schools, however, respondents are far less sanguine. Reflecting on public schools in general, a similar share of respondents—roughly 70 percent—confer a C or D … The biggest factor shaping the perception divide, however, may be data … What evidence exists to suggest that data is the problem? One piece comes from the Kappan poll. In 2002, the year NCLB was signed into law, 60 percent of respondents gave the nation's public schools a C or a D grade. Thirteen years later, that figure was up to 69 percent. Yet school performance did not change markedly during that time. In fact, scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress—a nationally representative assessment of student learning—generally held constant or rose slightly during that period.
Schneider's reasoning is circular; he argues that the public has wrongheaded perceptions about public education because of a series of tests, and that we know their perceptions to be wrong because of … a different series of tests. What Schneider eventually gets around to arguing is that we should trust the perceptions of the people closest to schools, rather than objective external evaluations. He also argues that "out-of-school factors like family and neighborhood account for roughly 60 percent of the variance in student test scores; teachers, by contrast—the largest in-school influence—account for only about 10 percent."
To accept Schneider's argument is to acquiesce to two undesirable ideas. The first is that schools don't matter that much when accounting for social outcomes, which is the conclusion that his last point suggests. Here again, healthcare offers a useful comparison. Healthcare research demonstrates that the "social determinants" of health – in other words, everything outside of the healthcare system – can account for up to 90% of the variance on critical healthcare outcomes, while medical care itself accounts for only 10-30% of outcomes. In other words, teachers alone account for the same magnitude of educational outcomes as the entire healthcare system appears to contribute to health outcomes. To discount test scores as a useful metric would be like dismissing health outcomes as a useful measure of physician performance.
The second wrongheaded conclusion Schneider derives from the "perceptions obviate test scores" argument is that the current outcomes of the education system are mostly tolerable. Schneider, in his final paragraphs, rejects an interventionist approach to education policy, which sounds great, if you happen to be a family who enjoys high quality public schooling. I went to a great suburban public school system in New Jersey for the entirety of my own primary and secondary education. That experience colored my perception of schools for decades. Even if most other Americans shared that positive experience, that "perception" does nothing for the African-American child on Chicago's south side whose school is closing after decades of neglect. Similarly, my suburban-white-kid perspective has zero effect on improving a school that serves mostly Latino students from immigrant families in East Los Angeles. Public education policy ought to exist to protect the most vulnerable people in the system. The perceptions of the majority shouldn't prevent us from hearing from the people who are getting screwed by reality.
Schneider is right about some things. He's right that how we measure schools ought to be more nuanced, and that our current testing regimes are far from perfect. But the last thing education policy needs is to revert to the idea that our feelings should supersede objectivity. That's the sort of world in which fake news gets traction, and sincerely articulated untruths can never be debunked. It's a world in which families and children without access to power continue to suffer in failing public institutions, because their wealthier peers with degrees from selective colleges are "mostly satisfied" with their own public schools.
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Businessman, 29, beat up his partner in a drunken rage after a booze-fuelled rugby club initiation
James Hume choked Stephanie Teague in bust-up sparked after a woman approached her saying she had a fling with him
Carl Stroud
9:10, 8 Dec 2017
Updated: 3:43, 9 Dec 2017
A BUSINESSMAN beat up the mother of his two children in a drunken rage after he downed six glasses of port in a rugby club initiation ceremony.
James Hume, 29, grabbed Stephanie Teague by the throat and choked her when she asked him why a woman had approached her earlier in a bar claiming to have had fling with him.
Businessman James Hume beat up his partner Stephanie Teague after downing port in a ruby club initiationCredit: Cavendish Press
Police were called to the couple's luxury five-bed home last week after Stephanie, 28, fled the house telling Hume: "Do you want to show our children what you do to their mum?"
The privately-educated company director who runs a business renting inflatable pubs was arrested and later admitted: "I am ashamed of what I did.''
It emerged he had kicked Stephanie's thigh during another bust-up just days earlier.
Magistrates in Stockport were told the the couple who had had been in a relationship since their late teens, had two children, aged six and one, but split up in August.
Victim Stephanie Teague is a mother of two children with James HumeCredit: Cavendish Press
Hume grabbed Stephanie by the throat and choked herCredit: Cavendish Press
The bust-up was sparked after a woman approached Stephanie in a bar to claim she had bedded HumeCredit: Cavendish Press
It is thought despite the break-up the pair continued living under the same roof in the village of Henbury, Cheshire in the hope of ''trying to work it out".
Prosecutor Miss Tess Kenyon told how the pair had gone to a bar together on the evening of December 3.
While there a woman had approached Stephanie to say that she had been sleeping with James.
Stephanie then walked home and James followed.
Following the attack Stephanie fled the house telling Hume: 'Do you want to show our children what you do to their mum?'Credit: Cavendish Press
Hume, who kicked Stephanie days earlier admitted: 'I am ashamed of what I did'Credit: Cavendish Press
Privately-educated Hume runs a business renting inflatable pubsCredit: Cavendish Press
When back at home the assault occurred. In a statement Stephanie said: "I just knew he was going to hit me, this is how he reacts with things."
Kenyon continued: "He grabbed her by the throat and began squeezing and she couldn't breathe. She said to him: 'I hope you tell your children all about mum and what you've done to me'.
"He hit her in the face two times."
Hume accepted causing Stephanie's injuries but initially claimed it was self defence.
The couple had been in a relationship since their late teens but split up in AugustCredit: Cavendish Press
Hume accepted causing Stephanie's injuries but initially claimed it was self defenceCredit: Cavendish Press
Hume's lawyer, Shirley Fitton, said in mitigation: "This was a very volatile relationship.
"He accepts his guilt. He was highly intoxicated and can't remember what happened. He is of previous good character."
Hume told the hearing: "At the weekend I started at a new rugby club and part of the initiation was to drink six shots of port.
"We were playing drinking games, something I don't do, and I don't even remember getting to the bar at 9pm. We started drinking at 4pm so it was a long time, and in a situation that I'm not used to.
"I am very ashamed about what I did."
After admitting common assault magistrates ordered Hume to complete a two year community order plus 150 hours unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay £170 court costs.
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Kitchenware: unlikely muse for public art
Published March 4, 2015 January 24, 2017 AuthorContributed
Propel weighs in at 880 kg and is 3. 2 metres in diameter.
Donna Marcus of the Queensland College of Art, the creative behind some of the State's most recognised public artworks, has taken her love of aluminium kitchenware to new heights, creating a 3.2m public art piece for the Gladstone Regional Council.
Propel brings together aluminium, the kitchen and the aeronautical, in a throwback to Lord Beaverbrook's WW2 'Saucepans to Spitfire' campaign, taking its geometry from a 'Bucky Ball' named after Buckminster-Fuller who first pioneered the sphere.
The piece will be unveiled in Brisbane this week before it leaves for its new home at the Gladstone Airport.
Donna explains that Fuller is "one of the greatest theorists and advocates of the necessity of interconnecting global and domestic forms, concerns and practices in everyday life".
"His famous slogan, 'doing the most with the least' has always resonated with me and has translated to my practice of bringing memories of past uses for common items to a new context," she says.
It is this view that led the self-described "sheet-metalworker's daughter" to use the well-remembered classic star pattern of the humble kitchen colander.
Donna during a residency in the Greene Street Studio; Photo by Sardi Klein.
The pattern she says, also allows for internal lighting to radiate through the perforations, while the shapes make reference to the age-old use of the stars as nautical navigational aids.
To fabricate the intricate large-scale piece, Donna enlisted the services of Mike Mooney of Stainless Aesthetics, who she collaborated with for her Steam project in Brisbane Square in 2006 and the award-winning True North, a Lend Lease project in Mackay in 2012.
"This project has afforded me another opportunity to work with an extraordinary fabricator and craftsman," she says.
A new landmark for the town
Curator Jo Duke, of Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, played a significant role in securing Propel for the area, along with then outgoing Gallery Director Pamela Whitlock, and says it was a goal to enhance the local artistic community while also preserving the town's character.
"In an industrial town whose livelihood is underpinned by aluminium, Propel resonates on so many levels," she says.
"The Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum has had a long and valuable relationship with Dr Donna Marcus, including the purchase of one of her early aluminium installation works, Flat Dome, 2000, which is permanently installed in the Gallery and Museum's atrium space.
"Now to have this wonderful sculpture greet all as they travel to and from Gladstone is such a joy and I have no doubt this work will become one of our most favourite landmarks."
The piece at the Stainless Aesthetics Warehouse during fabrication
Donna's previous work has also been included in several national sculpture exhibitions including The McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey and Award; The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize; and The National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia.
She has held several exhibitions in both public and private galleries in Australia and overseas, and her work is held in many public and private collections both here and abroad. In the public art space, Donna has collaborated most notably with Denton Corker Marshall on the project Steam installed in Brisbane Square in 2006.
Propel is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland's art+place former public art program, Gladstone Regional Council, Queensland Alumina Limited and Griffith University.
Media Contact: Lauren Marino, 0418 799 544, [email protected]
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Hillary Clinton went there and linked the Republican Party to Donald Trump's birtherism as the already reeling GOP was delivered a new devastating blow by the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested that President Obama is on the side of the terrorists. Now, just think about this for a second. Even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for President of the United States. And I have to ask, will responsible Republican leaders stand up to their presumptive nominee, or will they stand by his accusation about our president? Now, I am sure they'd rather avoid that question altogether, but history will remember what we do in this moment.
What Donald Trump is saying is shameful. It is disrespectful to the people who were killed and wounded and their families. And it is yet more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief.
Of course, he is the leader of the birther movement which spread the lie that President Obama wasn't born in the United States. I guess he had to be reminded that Hawaii is part of the United States.
This is a man who claimed that a distinguished federal judge, born and raised in Indiana can't do his job because of his "Mexican heritage." I guess he has to be reminded that Indiana is in in the United States.
So maybe, we should be surprised. But it was one thing when he was a reality TV personality raising his arms and yelling you're fired. It is another thing altogether when he is the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president.
Americans, we don't need conspiracy theories and pathological self-congratulations. We leadership, concrete plans, and common sense.
The birthers remain wildly unpopular. The mere mention of birtherism strikes and image of crazed conspiracy theorists to the general electorate. Throughout her remarks, former Sec. Clinton was on a mission to join the Republican Party and Trump's extremism at the hip.
Trump's birtherism is the ten-ton mega bomb of the 2016 presidential campaign. In the Republican primary his history of racism towards President Obama was an asset, but in the general election, Trump's birther history is going to cost him with voters in swing states all over the country.
Clinton is painting Republicans into a corner.
They will either have to run away from their nominee, or face a potentially crushing defeat in November. An already reeling Republican Party has been dealt a crippling body blow as Hillary Clinton has signaled that Trump's birtherism is on the table.


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Two Young Actors and Two Adult Actors Required for Drama Student Short Film
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The plot focuses on a young teenager named Alex who is having to put up with his parents not being supportive and just focusing on their own issues. As a result Alex must be more of a parent then an older brother to his young sister Becky who like him has not been supported by her parents.
Auditions will be hosted in Filmbase in the Dublin City Centre from 9:30am to 1:30pm on the 3rd of March.
The film will begin shooting on the 11th of March and will be a three full day shoot.
Lead Role: Alex
Alex is an 18 year old teenager who is in his final year of school but is not having any support from his parents due to their constant arguments with each other. As a result Alex is forced to be more of parent then a brother to his younger sister Becky.
Most screen time will be shared with a 7 to 9 year old girl. No previous acting experience is required but the candidate must be prepared to work with a young girl.
Males, aged 17 to 22 from Dublin Region, Ireland
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Supporting Role: Becky
Becky is the youngest of the family and like her brother Alex she feels isolated from her parents because of their constant arguing. Becky confides in her brother for support whenever she feels down and as a result forms a close bond with him.
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Torm Alexandra Boarding 162nm South Cotonou
Livestock Carrier Runs Into Trouble Off Western Australia
gCaptian Reports that It seems like livestock shipping has dodged another black eye
A livestock carrier that had run into trouble and was listing has made safely it to port in Western Australian easing fears of another livestock carrier disaster. Only this time there were no animals on board.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has confirmed that the Marshall Islands-flagged MV Barkly Pearl arrived at the Port of Geraldton after the ship sustained damage to its bow.
The AMSA was alerted to incident Monday night when the ship was approximately 120 kilometers north of Geraldton. AMSA sent its Challenger search and rescue jet to fly over the vessel and it was able to confirm damage to the starboard side of the vessel, which was listing to port.
A screenshot of video taken of the MV Barkly Pearl listing to port, November 3, 2020. Photo courtesy AMSA
AMSA General Manager of Response Mark Morrow said there were significant concerns for
the integrity of the vessel and its ability to safely reach Indonesia, its planned destination.
"We held concerns about the integrity of the vessel and the potential for environmental issues" said AMSA General Manager of Response Mark Morrow. "As a result, AMSA issued a Direction for the vessel to make its way to safety in the Port of Geraldton."
AIS ship tracking data shows the ship departed Freemantle, Western Australia, located a little over 250 miles to the south. No animals were loaded on board.
The incident comes exactly two months after the sinking of the livestock carrier Gulf Livestock 1 during a typhoon off the coast of Japan in early September. There were only 2 survivors, while 41 crew members and nearly 6,000 cattle lost their lives in the accident. The incident prompted authorities in New Zealand to crack down on livestock carrier shipping, which included suspending live exports as shipping companies implemented new safety measures and pending a review of the trade.
Below is some video of the MV Barkly Pearl during by the AMSA flyover: