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What Jacinda Must Do
December 12, 2017 August 4, 2018
Murray Horton — longtime activist for Aotearoa
'TINKERING AROUND THE EDGES'
But what's needed is major overhaul !
'She exudes genuine warmth and humanity'
By Murray Horton, political activist and writer since 1969; organiser for the Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC, www.converge.org.nz/abc), ( and also for the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA, www.cafca.org.nz)
I'm going to start by doing something unusual, possibly unique, for me – namely, praising a politician.
Perhaps I'm going soft in my old age but I think Jacinda is just what it says on the tin. She exudes genuine warmth and humanity. She's a fresh face, a breath of fresh air, and any other cliché including the word "fresh".
She's young and has the confidence of youth. I admire her promise of "relentless positivity" and I am pleased to see a national leader bring some different values, ones such as kindness, into the political arena. God knows we need something different, because the other ones certainly haven't been working.
Election won on Jacinda's personality
Labour won this election solely on her personality. Just as John Key and his extremely popular personality had been National's greatest asset (but we all knew that he didn't get to be
Personality 'class' — and personality bypass
a multi-millionaire currency trader by being "nice" or "kind"). When he resigned without warning a year before the election, the writing was on the wall for Bill English who has a charisma bypass. He still very nearly won, though.
Jacinda is a contrast to the forbidding personality of Labour's last PM, Helen Clark. My Dear Old Dad, who voted National for decades
Helen Clark — 'scary'
before going back to Labour in his final years, told me that Helen Clark was the only PM who scared him as much as his old hero, Piggy Muldoon – and that's one of the reasons why he went back to voting Labour.
Because he considered scariness an essential ingredient for being a successful Prime Minister. I'm not sure what he would have made of "relentless positivity" and Mr Speaker cuddling a baby in the House.
Never Renounced Rogernomics
But (there's always a but) I draw a sharp distinction between Jacinda and the Labour Party per se.
I've never had any illusions about Labour and I don't see anything much different with this latest Government. They do have some good policies, such as increasing the minimum wage, giving some long overdue attention and respect to workers and unions, promising to repeal abominations like the John Key/Peter Jackson "Hobbit Law" which gravely disadvantaged New Zealand workers in the interests of delivering megaprofits to Warner Brothers.
Labour — capitalist administrator
It is refreshing to have a Government that recognises that climate change is the issue of the age and must be confronted by measures including massive scale tree planting and revitalising the role of rail in the national transport network. But Labour never has, and never will, confront the fundamental nature of the economic system. It always markets itself as the more attractive administrator of capitalism (although it never actually mentions that word).
It won't face up to what it did in the past. Roger Douglas is quite correct when he says that, despite all the criticism heaped on Rogernomics, no subsequent Government, including Labour, has ever changed any of the various acts that cement it in place.
Labour should finally renounce the policies of Roger Douglas — Labour's author of 'Rogernomics'
All that Labour has ever felt sorry about in relation to Rogernomics is that it proved electoral suicide (meaning that Labour was feeling sorry for itself).
I actually met an old unreconstructed Rogernaut very recently, in a most unexpected encounter in the course of daily life. I'd never met this person before nor had we ever had any contact.
But within a very short time of having first spoken, this former Minister said (out of the blue and apropos of nothing): "I shudder to think what shape this country would be in now if it hadn't been for the 1984-90 Labour government. And I make absolutely no apology for having been part of that". Extraordinary!
'Runs a mile from raising taxes'
Labour even runs a mile from any suggestion of raising taxes or implementing long overdue new taxes like a capital gains one, terrified of alienating voters who had been promised (since cancelled) tax cuts by National.
Labour does not want to alienate the property-owning sector of the middle class that has grown rich on paper by the ridiculous explosion in house values, nor those that have grown rich in reality by profiting from the parasitic false economy of property speculation, an activity that contributes precisely nothing to the economy (not to mention the common good).
TPPA Betrayal
The cardinal sin of Rogernomics was betrayal and, although Jacinda's government has only been in office for a very short while, the betrayals have already started.
I'm talking about the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). In Opposition, Labour came out against it (although pretty feebly and not very convincingly). Nevertheless, it opposed the TPPA, which certainly surprised and pissed off John Key, who had reason to believe there was bipartisan consensus on supporting "free trade".
After all, the 1999-08 Labour government had proclaimed the China Free Trade Agreement as the crowning glory of its foreign policy. And it was that same Government which kicked off the process that morphed into the TPPA. When Labour voted against the TPPA in 2016, it was too much for Phil Goff, who had been the Minister who started that process back in 2008 – he crossed the floor to vote with National.
Don't mention Mike Moore!
But no sooner was Jacinda in office than she and David Parker were jetting off overseas to proclaim NZ's support for the TPPA (which is now minus the US) and to urge less gung ho countries to sign it. Parker actually declared that Labour had always been the "party of free trade" and reminded the country that it had been former Labour PM, Mike Moore, who had gone on to become Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. I would have thought it very unwise for Labour to remind people about Mike Moore in any way, shape or form.
So, having been elected on a platform of opposing the TPPA, Labour blithely turned around and immediately supported it, whilst claiming that it had achieved some "reforms" to it. The reality soon became apparent when it discovered that it couldn't implement even minor election promises like taxing foreign companies that are granted access to NZ water for virtually nothing, bottle it and export it for profit. Why? Because that would not be allowed under the TPPA (or several other "free trade" deals that NZ is already signed up to).
Just like National governments have never seen a war that they don't want to get NZ signed up to, Labour governments have never seen a "free trade" deal that they don't want NZ to join. The common denominator is FOMO – fear of missing out. Missing out on what? The possibility of not being allowed to play with the big kids. It is why NZ needs to be truly independent and non-aligned.
Foreign control — what foreign control?
As for foreign control – the core issue for the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) – Labour deserves praise for tackling aspects of it as a high priority as soon as getting into office. But that is only as it should be, because it is an extremely important issue and one which has ramifications across a whole raft of other issues. Of course, we are pleased that it is banning foreign speculators from buying houses. But, really, this is what our American friends would call nickel and dime stuff.
We also note that real estate agents are saying that the ban is two years too late, that such speculators bolted as soon as the law required that they show a minimal connection to this country, namely by having an IRD number and a local bank account number. Still, better late than never.
It's just a pity that Labour's primary concern seemed to be structuring the thing in such a way that it will allow NZ to sign the TPPA without attracting the wrath of those at the TPPA big kids' table (it did it by avoiding the word "ban" at all, and by declaring all house sales to foreign speculators to involve "sensitive land", which brings them into the purview of our old mates, the Overseas Investment Office [OIO]).
Tightening Up Farmland Sales Rules Welcomed
We're very pleased that the Government announced that, as of December 2017, the rules around foreigners buying NZ farmland have been tightened up. Such buyers will now need OIO permission for all purchases of more than five hectares (previously, that requirement only applied to purchases of sheep and beef farms of more than 7,000 hectares (i.e. more than ten times the average farm size).
It remains to be seen whether the OIO has the resources to handle this much greater workload (and to monitor buyers after approval to see that conditions of purchase are being honoured).
CAFCA meets Eugenie
CAFCA wasted no time in meeting with the new Minister of Land Information, Green MP Eugenie Sage, to discuss this new land sale regime in detail, plus various other aspects of the 2005 Overseas Investment Act (which is the one still in force today). We gave Eugenie a copy of our 58-page submission on that Act (written by Bill Rosenberg, who was then on the CAFCA Committee. Bill is now the Policy Director and Economist for the NZ Council of Trade Unions). It is still extremely relevant today, particularly Bill's detailed recommendations. You can read it on our Website at http://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/community/CAFCA/OIReview/2005/CAFCA%20Submission%20indexed.pdf.
Right at the same time as this new land sale regime was announced, and at the same time as CAFCA was meeting Eugenie, it was announced that US TV host Matt Lauer had become the latest high-profile celebrity to be outed and fired for sexually harassing women. Lauer is a controversial recent foreign buyer of prime NZ rural land, namely Hunter Valley Station on the shores of Lake Hawea. He is controversial here because he has not honoured his promise of continued public access through the property.
Lauer and the OIO
The circumstances surrounding the abrupt termination of his highly lucrative US TV career make him a candidate to be examined by the OIO for "being not of good character", which is one of the few conditions imposed on foreign buyers in the Overseas Investment Act. It only applies to individuals owning or controlling a company; the corporate misdeeds of the company itself are not covered.
That sounds good in theory but CAFCA was able to point out to Eugenie that we have been making "not of good character" complaints for 20 years and not one of them has ever been upheld by the OIO (or its predecessor the Overseas Investment Office [OIC]). Click on this link to our Website http://www.sitelevel.com/query?query=good+character+complaints&crid=0c76d290&B1=SiteLevel+Search and you'll find pages of links to numerous Watchdog articles on the subject over many years.
I can assure you that our complaints are neither "frivolous" or "vexatious". Furthermore, we pointed out to Eugenie that there is no legal obligation on the OIO to respond to such complaints by any deadline (in contrast to the Official Information Act). Our latest such complaint was lodged in December 2016 – as of December 2017 we had received no response (I don't mean "no decision", I do mean "no response"). So, if our complaints are not rejected, they are simply ignored.
The new farmland regime has different criteria for forestry, where the Government says that foreign investment is still necessary. This is a perfect example of Rogernomics coming back to bite Labour in the bum. Jacinda wants NZ to plant a billion trees (one reason is to create a carbon sink as part of the battle against climate change) and the State will play a major role in forestry. This is reinventing the wheel because, until the 1984-90 Rogernomics government (and the 1990-99 National government), NZ had a massive State-owned forestry estate which had been built up over generations.
All gone, flogged off to transnational corporations and other foreign owners as part of the privatisation mania of that era (error, more accurately). In some cases, forests have been ripped out to be replaced by dairy farms (which is a sector also subject to significant ownership and control by foreign agri-business). If that short-sighted ideology had not prevailed, Jacinda would have inherited her billion publicly owned trees on Day One.
There are other shortcomings in the new regime. There is still no provision for the public to make submissions (or any requirement for the OIO to give advance notice of applications from foreign would be buyers). People only find out after the event. Most basically, the powers that be still don't know (and haven't made very much effort to find out) how much land is foreign-owned.
John Key used to say it was no more than 1% of the total. We can safely discard that. Statistics on sales of land to overseas interests are poorly recorded and incomplete. Our best estimate is that in 2011 at least 8.7% of New Zealand farmland including forestry, or 1.3 million hectares, was foreign-owned or controlled and it could have reached 10%. It's a safe bet that the figure will not have gone down in the years since.
What's It Going To Do About TNC Domination?
And this new regime "does not change the rules regarding acquisitions of significant business assets", to quote from the press release announcing it.
But land sales, although they get a lot of attention, only involve tens of millions of dollars. The real guts of any modern economy, the high rollers' lounge of the capitalist casino, is the business sector. That's where the billion-dollar deals are done.
And we've heard nothing from the Government about what, if anything, it plans to do about the transnational corporations (TNCs) that so dominate the NZ economy (apart from the commendable, but comparatively minor, aim of trying to get them to pay their fair share of tax). For example, what does the Government plan to do about the cosy cartel of Australian-owned banks, who suck billions out of the NZ economy every year?
Minister of Land Information Eugenie Sage — 1st to meet CAFCA
But this new regime on farmland sales is a long overdue start, for which the Government deserves credit. And we take heart from the fact that Eugenie is the first Minister of Land Information ever prepared to meet with CAFCA and seek our views on a subject on which we have acquired decades of knowledge and expertise.
What's needed now
What is needed now is a political willingness to consider NZ joining the list of countries which ban foreigners from buying rural land (not just farmland). Or just let them lease land, rather than buy it. If the Government is squeamish about doing this itself, then freeze all sales of rural land sales to foreigners and either set up a commission of inquiry into the subject or put it to a referendum.
There's nothing "radical" about considering a ban on foreigners owning rural land.
None other than John Key said that he didn't want to see New Zealanders become tenants in their own country.
Agriculture, in all its many facets, remains the most important sector of the NZ economy. It is our comparative advantage in the global market, to use the jargon. Land is the basic building block of agriculture; who owns, controls and profits from it is of vital national importance.
The first step has been taken; much more please and quickly.
Examples of the Transnats' policies
On the subject of "significant business assets" and the activities of transnational corporations in this country, let's have a look at a couple of specific examples. What is the Government going to do about South African-owned insurance company Youi, an unrepentant corporate repeat offender? It won the latest (2016) Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand. You can read the damning Judges' Report at http://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/community/CAFCA/pdf/roger-award-2016-judges-report.pdf.
Here's one quote from that: "Needless to say, although the company was successfully prosecuted and fined a token sum last year (2015) , not one of the managers and executives responsible has been prosecuted, the company continues to operate in New Zealand under its Reserve Bank licence, Youi remains a full member of the New Zealand Insurance Council, Hansard records no mention of the scandal in Parliament, television continues to carry the company's deceptive advertising, and the Chief Executive Officer on whose watch it all happened has been promoted".
Bluff smel
Call The Bluff Of NZ's Biggest Bludger
The second specific example is much bigger, older and much more entrenched. What is the Government going to do about the country's biggest bludger, the transnational owners of the Bluff smelter? They have twisted NZ governments, both National and Labour, around their little finger for at least 50 years.
If Jacinda Ardern is serious that climate change is her Government's nuclear free issue, then she will have to confront and face down the smelter's owners.
Do better than the Clark Govt.
And do better than the Clark Labour government which folded when the smelter owners threatened to leave the country if Labour brought in an emissions trading scheme.
Memo to Jacinda – if they threaten to go, hold the door open for them and help them load their suitcases into the airport shuttle. And make sure that they (those recipients of corporate welfare par excellence), and not the NZ taxpayer, foot the bill for cleaning up their mess.
That would involve Labour facing up to the 2003 and 04 indemnities signed by Michael Cullen, Labour's Minister of Finance at the time, accepting that the taxpayer, and not the smelter owners, would be responsible for the cost of cleaning up toxic waste produced by the smelting process. Hands up all those who knew about that.
You'll find the details in the 2013 Roger Award Judges' Reporthttp://canterbury.cyberplace.co.nz/community/CAFCA/publications/Roger/Roger2013.pdf, under the final subheading: "Toxic Waste Liability Dumped On Taxpayers".
That liability was renewed as recently as 2016, by the Key government.
My conclusion is: don't expect this Labour government to even remotely look like it will tackle capitalism. Tickle it, yes – to make it look more attractive and "work better". But tackle it; no.


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Announcing the 2023 NIH Loan Repayment Program Application Cycle and a New LRP Director
Posted August 22, 2022 August 26, 2022
Matthew Lockhart, Director, Division of Loan Repayment, OER, NIH
As we approach September, the next NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP) application cycle is upon us. The Extramural LRP has six subcategories that aim to recruit and retain highly qualified biomedical and behavioral scientists to engage in NIH-mission relevant research.
The next application cycle opens September 1, 2022 and closes November 17, 2022. For those interested in applying, we are also hosting several activities designed to help you prepare a successful application:
NIH Loan Repayment Programs: Supporting the Next Generation of Researchers: August 25, 2022
Twitter Chat: September 8, 2022
LRP Technical Assistance Webinar: October 3, 2022 (meeting coordinates TBD)
Ask Me Anything Session: November 3, 2022 (meeting coordinates TBD)
Each new LRP recipient can receive up to $100,000 to repay qualified educational debt in exchange for a two-year commitment to research. NIH Institutes and Centers have increased their collective funding commitment to the LRPs with more than $90 million in awards in each of the last two program cycles (Table 1). And for those unsure if they should apply, consider that around half of all new LRP applications submitted last FY were funded, which could also be competitively renewed (for a one or two-year period) until all educational debt is repaid.
Table 1: NIH LRP Applications, Awards, and Funding from FY 2013-2022
Fiscal Year Applications Awards Total Funding ($) Success Rate
2013 2,666 1,328 66,747,267 49.8%
During the FY 2022 cycle, 171 scientists applied for the inaugural Research in Emerging Areas Critical to Human Health (REACH) LRP. We made 97 REACH awards totaling $7.2 million. This new subcategory gave 19 different NIH Institutes and Centers the autonomy to fund emerging research areas and target researchers who wouldn't have qualified under the existing LRP subcategories.
Two of the other subcategories, Clinical Research and Pediatric Research, are celebrating their 20th anniversaries this year. In FY 2002, NIH made approximately $26.3 million available across NIH Institutes and Centers to fund the first cohorts. Since then, NIH has repaid over $1.1 billion in cumulative student loan debt through both subcategories.
Before closing, I am also proud to share that Matthew Lockhart, M.B.A., was named the new Director of the Division of Loan Repayment within the NIH Office of Extramural Research earlier this summer. In this role, Matt will provide leadership, coordination, and oversight for the NIH LRPs. He started his NIH career in this office as a student intern, served as its Acting Director, and has seen the office evolve throughout his tenure. Without a doubt, Matt brings a wealth of experience in operating nationwide loan repayment programs and developing, implementing, and handling complicated and high visibility projects.
In his own words, Matt remarked, "I look forward to continuing the rich legacy of facilitating research careers for early-stage scientists. Repaying student debt has proven to be a weighty struggle for many Americans. Our LRPs can set early-stage scientists free from this burden, thus allowing them to focus on building their research careers."
More is to come over the next several months, including the roll out of new portals where awardees and supervisors can access their LRP award information via their eRA Commons account. You can sign up on our listserv to learn more about these activities and other upcoming LRP events when they are announced.
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You Do the Research, NIH Repays Your Student Loans – Apply by November 17
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Millie Hepburn says:
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I'm a tenured faculty person at a non-profit university where we are paid across 12 months for 9-months of work obligations in Fall and Spring semesters, with and have 25% of my formal workload in Fall and Spring allocated to research, with no contractual work obligations in summer. I nevertheless perform an average of 20 or more hours of week of research each week, including throughout the summer weeks. Does this qualify for the LRP guidelines?
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The web of data will succeed *because* it conflates a thing and a web page about the thing.
Experimental results highlight that early publishers of structured eCommerce data benefit more due to structured data being more readily search engine indexable, but the lack of available product ontologies and product master datasheets is impeding the creation of a semantically interlinked eCommerce Web.
This page provides an overview about different access mechanisms to the RDF dataset about the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008) and explains how the dataset can be used within different Semantic Web applications.
Let's assume you have a web application driven by data from an RDF triple store. You generate HTML pages by querying the triple store and inserting the bits and pieces into an HTML template. Now if you add eRDF or RDFa annotations to the HTML template, in a way that reflects the original RDF data, then by definition the annotations completely specify what data you need to populate the page. And the template itself therefore must be sufficient to extract all the required triples from the store. No coding needed!
If foo is another kind of resources (e.g. a person), then you *must* do a 303 redirect to the location where a description of foo is available. You can 303-redirect to different locations based on accept headers. Post-httpRange-14, the only way to serve a description of a non-information resource without a second request is to use hash URIs.
It's a del.icio.us on steroids. The UI is not yet quite streamlined enough for my taste, but it looks usable. It's technologically simple – Jena memory model, file-based persistence – so it should be hackable. Quite cool. I'd use it if it had del.icio.us import (or synchronization, preferably).


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Dr. Tammy Kindel Named 2020 Michael H. Keelan Jr., MD Scholar
Tammy Kindel, MD, PhD, associate professor of surgery and a member of the Cardiovascular Center, has received the 2020 Michael H. Keelan Jr., MD Scholar Award for her project, "How the Microbiome Mediates Changes in Hypertension After Bariatric Surgery." The study will further our understanding of how the gut microbiome can be used to treat high blood pressure and support future manipulation of the gut microbiome to resolve obesity-related hypertension and reduce the mortality risk associated with heart disease and stroke. Manipulation of the gut microbiome can be achieved through surgical intervention, probiotics, or microbial transplants.
This $50,000 competitive award is made possible by the Michael Keelan, Jr. Research Foundation Grant, an endowment managed by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and designated for cardiovascular research in the Medical College of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Center. Over the last four years, the Michael Keelan, Jr. Research Foundation Grant has leveraged over $8.7M in extramural funding for junior and mid-level investigators. The fund, established by the Tendick Family, honors the life and career of Michael H. Keelan, Jr., MD, '60, whose career as a cardiologist spanned several decades. Dr. Keelan has served as a member of the Cardiovascular Center Board.
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Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery leadership transition January 21, 2021
Congratulations to Paula M. Termuhlen, MD, FACS January 21, 2021
Dr. Dave Lal Selected as a "Notable Hero in Health Care" December 15, 2020
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Born 1884 in Switzerland. Trained at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and articled to Guy Dawber 1911. Served in War with Distinction; Lt. Col. appointed Inspector of works for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 25/07/1919 and designed the coloured and gilded gesso memorial tablets placed in French and Belgian Cathedrals. Left Commission 29/02/1920. Later designed Commonwealth Building, Holborn (1939). President of the Town Planning Institute 1950-51. Died 1963.


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Cities of the world come together for biodiversity
Launch of the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook report.
Close to 500 participants, including approximately 220 local government representatives from 47 countries, covering every major region of the world attended the knowledge-packed city and sub-national biodiversity summit, Cities for Life, held in parallel with COP11 on 15 and 16 October in Hyderabad, India.
Participants included 60 city and sub-national leaders (governors, mayors, deputy mayors, and commissioners) as well as representatives of national, international and UN organizations, and experts in the field. With the aim to foster and unite local action for biodiversity, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) collaborated with the government of Andhra Pradesh, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and the Government of India to organize the summit at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre.
The summit took stock of progress since the previous Biodiversity in Cities Summit at the COP10 in Nagoya, Japan, and outlined the latest tools, initiatives and networks, illustrating throughout the value of bringing nature back into cities. At the core of the summit lay a strong and consolidated commitment by local governments, sub-national governments, academia and international organizations to the implementation of biodiversity conservation and management.
Side Event (HICC) – South Asia's Biodiversity and Aichi Targets.
As part of the summit, a draft implementation plan for local and sub-national governments in response to COP decision X/22 and the Plan of Action, will be submitted on behalf of local and sub-national governments to the CBD. Supporting this agreement, Troy Pickard, the Mayor of Joondalup, Australia, emphasised that it is with renewed commitment and heightened ambition that cities of the world are ready and willing to meet the Aichi Targets.
An exciting document inaugurated on the first day of the summit, the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook (CBO) is the first global assessment of its kind investigating the links between urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services, which was prepared in response to the Plan of Action ratified in Nagoya in 2010. Following the launch of the CBO, ICLEI and the CBD signed an MoU to cement their bond and long history of working together, recognizing the significant global benefits of strengthening collaboration towards integrated and coordinated activities in support of biodiversity and ecosystem management at the local level.
HLS Hall – Cities for Life: City and Subnational Governments Biodiversity Summit.
The summit provided a platform for the inauguration of the Biodiversity Exhibition Project, a project spearheaded by Mexico City in collaboration with the CBD and ICLEI which highlighted the role that cities play in ensuring urban biodiversity conservation. The Biodiversity Exhibition Project provided specific case studies on innovative local biodiversity programs, highlighting the need to harness support for local and sub-national government efforts towards local biodiversity conservation.
A landmark programme was launched on day two of the summit: the LAB India programme, which joins a global network of local governments committed to galvanizing local action for biodiversity. Notably, the cities of Hyderabad, Thane, Delhi-NCT, Guntur, Shimla, Anantapur District, Kurunegala, Matale and Varanasi signed the Durban Commitment as the first step towards their commitment towards this programme.
Also introduced at the summite by Kobie Brand, was the Cities in Biodiversity Hotspots Programme, a ten-year global initiative seeking to provide over 250 cities located in and around the 35 biodiversity hotspots of the world with a platform to take action on biodiversity and aid city-to-city learning.
Ecosystem Networking with the 'Aichi Method,' Aichi's Pragmatic Approach to Biodiversity as a Sub-national Government.
The summit closed with local and sub-national governments discussing individual efforts and challenges in leading biodiversity initiatives and coming together for the final session to consolidate the messages of the summit and report the outcomes in the form of the Hyderabad Declaration, with a purpose to reflect a CBD COP draft decision, outlining what the parties are further committing to.
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Home SPORT NEWS Ex-Ajax player, Abdelhak Nouri, wakes from coma after 2yrs plus
Ex-Ajax player, Abdelhak Nouri, wakes from coma after 2yrs plus
Ex-Ajax midfielder, Abdelhak Nouri has woken up from a coma after two years and nine months.
Nouri is currently being treated at home as he seeks to recover from brain damage.
This was disclosed by his brother, Abderrahim Nouri, during an interview with Dutch TV show De Wereld Draait Door.
Nouri has not played football since the incident, but Abderrahim is now saying that the 22-year-old can now sit up and watch football matches with the rest of his family.
"Abdelhak has not been home for a very long time, we take care of him at home now," Abderrahim said.
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"I have to say that since he is at home, he is doing much better than before in the hospital.
"He is aware of where he is, and he is back in a familiar environment with his family.
"He's no longer in a coma. He's just awake.
"He sleeps, he sneezes, eats, burps, but it's not like he gets out of bed.
"He's acutely bedridden and still very dependent on us.
"On his good days, there is a form of communication with him like confirmation with his eyebrows or a smile, but you notice that he can not last very long.
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"We talk to him like he is not sick. We take him into our conversations, and we watch football with him in the living room.
"Then, he watches. You notice that he likes that very much. He often shows emotions. Sometimes he is emotional, but often you see him smiling."
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Family Day Trips in Newcastle
An enjoyable way to experience the beauty of the coast north of Sydney is on a train to Newcastle, the second-largest city in NSW. The journey, via the Central Coast, is less than three hours from Central Station to Newcastle, where there are buses to beaches and other top attractions.
Merewether Beach is one of Australia's National Surfing Reserves and home to the international Surfest surfing competition and festival every summer. The waves helped shape the success of Mark Richards, who was crowned world surfing champion four times.
Check the events calendar when planning your trip. Enjoy daily travel caps and the $2.70 per person Sunday cap using Opal cards on public transport from Sydney to Newcastle and the Hunter, as well as buses on the Central Coast, Newcastle and Hunter, and the Stockton Ferry in Newcastle.
The city also offers heritage tours and Fort Scratchley Historic Site has spectacular views of the harbour and the vast Pacific Ocean. During whale-watching season, Nova Cruises will take you to where humpbacks play in the sparkling blue waters. Other things to do in this vibrant city include the Bathers Way, a spectacular coastal walk, and visits to Newcastle Museum and Newcastle Art Gallery.
You'll find many kid-friendly cafes and restaurants, and if you're planning a weekend escape, there are accommodation options to suit a range of budgets. And you can also travel by train from Newcastle to Maitland in under an hour for a fascinating tour of the historic Maitland Gaol.
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Federal Grand Jury Indicts Husband and Wife in Alleged Mortgage Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO — A man and his wife have been charged in federal court in Chicago with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded financial institutions out of at least $2.5 million.
MARCO LURIGIO, also known as "Demetrio Cardone," and SANDY LURIGIO, also known as "Janette Chavez," owned several Illinois-based companies, including S&G Technologies Inc., O.C. Management Group Inc., Riverview Financial Inc., and Toro Management, Inc. According to the indictment, the Lurigios recruited buyers to fraudulently obtain mortgage loans for properties on Chicago's South Side by making and causing to be made materially false representations in documents submitted to financial institutions. The false representations included documents and statements regarding, among other things, the buyers' employment, income, assets, source of down payment, and intention to occupy the property as a primary residence, the indictment states. In some instances, the Lurigios fraudulently claimed to lenders that the buyers were employed by one of the Lurigios' companies, even though they knew that was untrue, the indictment states. The alleged fraud scheme lasted from 2011 to 2014, the indictment states.
The indictment was returned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. It charges Marco Lurigio, 45, and Sandy Lurigio, 39, both of Downers Grove, Ill., with eight counts of financial institution fraud. Arraignments have not yet been scheduled.
The indictment was announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; and Michael Powell, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General. The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jason Yonan and Alejandro Ortega.
The public is reminded that an indictment is not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Each count of financial institution fraud is punishable by up to 30 years in federal prison. If convicted, the Court must impose a reasonable sentence under federal statutes and the advisory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
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Moves by UK Government on Protocol will make it harder to address issues, says Farry
Stephen Farry Protocol
Moves by the UK Government to make changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol will make it harder to address ongoing issues with its implementation, Alliance MP Stephen Farry has said.
The North Down MP was speaking after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss confirmed the Government would introduce legislation in the coming weeks to set aside aspects of the Protocol, alongside 'parallel' talks with the EU.
"This proposed action is unwanted and unwarranted. Indeed, it may prove to be counterproductive and destructive. Much of the rationale cited by the Government is disingenuous," said Dr Farry.
"The Protocol is the product of Brexit. It reflects the choice made for a hard Brexit, and the resultant need to manage the particular circumstances of Northern Ireland through special arrangements. The Protocol brings some relative opportunities for Northern Ireland but also poses some challenges. Once the UK opted to leave the Customs Union and Single Market, there was inevitably going to be an interface with the EU and therefore some degree of friction.
"The nature and level of checks can be reduced via various mitigations and flexibilities, either working through the Protocol or via building upon the Trade and Co-operation Agreement, through for example a veterinary agreement. All of this involves building trust, especially as solutions involve the EU subcontracting some of its functions to UK authorities.
"Everyone is frustrated at the slow pace of progress over the past 12 months. The EU should display greater flexibility. However the primary fault lies with the belligerent and begrudging approach taken by the UK Government.
"A clear majority of the electorate, MLAs and the business community favour a pragmatic approach. This confrontational approach is clearly at odds with opinion in Northern Ireland which begs the question as to why it is happening?
"The Government's approach will further undermine trust, making it even more difficult to reach breakthroughs. It would also break and undermine international law, while risking a trade war with the EU at a time when the UK economy is weak and vulnerable.
"Any action or even threat of action that takes Northern Ireland out of the Single Market, including disapplying the jurisdiction of the ECJ will undermine our region as an investment location. It would also lead to even greater political instability. The way forward lies in mutual agreement between the UK and EU around legal and sustainable solutions."


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The Return of Protest Music
08/20/2017 R.M. Carlson Non-fiction Leave a comment
I grew up on a diet of protest music. It was the 1960s and 1970s. The Vietnam War. The civil rights movement. Profound social and cultural change in the United States. Kids my age had to decide how they felt about big issues very early in their lives. How do you decide how you feel about war, civil rights, changes in the norms and mores of society when you're not even 18 years of age? We had to do that. Those events shaped us for the rest of our lives. The backdrop of the civil unrest were the protest songs. What's rising again now are protest songs, in all forms, from folk music to hip-hop. America is not going to stand for neo-Nazis to march in our streets. We are going to protest. Loud and proud. Peaceful. Skinheads are not welcome here. Neither is the Klan. Our fathers fought the Nazis. They didn't do that, with many not coming home, for nothing.
The backdrop of the current civil unrest is protest songs – once again. I'm amused when the white supremacists, the neo-Nazis, the separatists are called "patriots." Patriots? They are a group of people who are intolerant and they are exercising their First Amendment rights. I contend that those monsters who our fathers fought in World War II, the Nazis, should not have First Amendment rights. They should not be allowed any rights in the United States. They should be denied all rights like the Fascist pigs they are. If my father were alive, and he watched the Nazis kill his friends on the beaches of Normandy in World War II, he would be one of the counter-protestors. He would vehemently agree with me. The counter-protestors are the patriots.
Bob Dylan wrote some of the most famous of the protest songs in the 1960s. "Blowin' in the Wind." "The Times They Are A'Changin". Those are only two of the most famous of his songs. Another famous protest song of the 1960s was "If I Had a Hammer," performed by Peter, Paul, and Mary. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young were famous for their song, "Ohio." Bob Marley moved beyond folk music to reggae and his "Redemption Song."
John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival did "Fortunate Son," which was a classic working class protest song in the same vein as Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Many of today's protest songs are hip-hop, but pop and folk are emerging. Music is powerful and influenced an entire generation in the 1960s and 1970s. It can influence today's young people as well. The US has a rich tradition of protest music. It can be a powerful part of a counter-protest movement.
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Work and Object is a study of fundamental questions in the metaphysics of art, notably how works relate to the materials that constitute them. Issues about the creation of works, what is essential and inessential to their identity, their distinct kinds of properties, including aesthetic properties, their amenability to interpretation, their style, the conditions under which they can go out of existence, and their relation to perceptually indistinguishable doubles (e.g. forgeries and parodies), are raised and debated. A core theme is that works like paintings, music, literature, sculpture, architecture, films, photographs, multi-media installations, and many more besides, have fundamental features in common, as cultural artefacts, in spite of enormous surface differences. It is their nature as distinct kinds of things, grounded in distinct ontological categories, that is the subject of this enquiry. Although much of the discussion is abstract, based in analytical metaphysics, there are numerous specific applications, including a study of Jean-Paul Sartre's novel La Nausee and recent conceptual art. Some surprising conclusions are derived, about the identity conditions of works and about the difference, often, between what a work seems to be and what it really is.
Peter Lamarque is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. He joined the Department of Philosophy in 2000. Prior to that, he was Ferens Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull and Head of the Philosophy Department between 1995 and 2000. He was a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of Stirling between 1972 and 1995. From 1995 to 2008 he was Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics.


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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2010, file photo, former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson poses for a photo in Fort Worth, Texas. The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., heads into its annual meeting next week facing what one senior leader calls a "horrifying #MeToo moment." A series of sexual misconduct cases within the SBC has prompted its socially conservative, all-male leadership to seek forgiveness for the ill-treatment of women. Illustrating the SBC's predicament, the featured sermon at next week's meeting is scheduled to be delivered by Patterson, the central figure in the most prominent of the troubling #MeToo cases. (Paul Moseley/Star-Telegram via AP, File)
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Billy Graham and the Americanization of religion
Why I thought of Will Herberg and his book Protestant, Catholic, Jew when I heard of the passing of Graham, the famed American evangelist.
March 15, 2018 Russell Shaw The Dispatch 10 Print
Mourners line up Feb. 28 to pay final respects to the Rev. Billy Graham lying in honor in Capitol Rotunda in Washington. (CNS photo/Aaron P. Bernstein, Reuters)
In 1955 a Jewish sociologist named Will Herberg published a book that caused a stir in religious circles. The book's title was Protestant, Catholic, Jew, and its premise was that by the time of the postwar religious boom then going strong in America, the country had become religiously tripartite.
Most people probably took this as welcome affirmation from social science of the toleration and mutual acceptance accompanying religious pluralism that by then were well along in becoming established parts of American life.
That, however, was a simplistic reading of Herberg. His further point, one he by no means welcomed himself, was that Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism in the U.S. had been reduced to expressions of basically the same "great overarching commitment"—a commitment to the American Way of Life. Now, he added, all three were at risk of losing their distinctive religious identities in the great American melting pot.
I thought of Will Herberg and his book when I heard of the passing of Billy Graham, the famed American evangelist who died last month at the age of 99. Graham was a sincere believer and by all accounts an eminently decent man. His personal commitment to Christ and Christianity was transparently evident and highly edifying. Undoubtedly he did a great deal of good.
But along with all the pluses, Billy Graham also was a de facto embodiment of the broad-based, non-dogmatic, undifferentiated version of religion that Herberg, who wrote as Graham's star was on the rise, had in view in warning of the growing assimilation of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews into American secular culture in a process that involved a thinning out of religious identity.
Mainline Protestants had of course been first to travel that particular road, even as evangelicals and fundamentalists were retreating into largely self-imposed cultural isolation following the disaster of the Scopes 'Monkey Trial' trial in 1925. But by the mid-1950s the Catholics, Jews, and, increasingly, popular evangelicals like Graham were catching up with the mainline Protestants while, as Herberg put it, "losing their capacity to resist dissolution in the culture."
Much has changed in the world of American religion since then. The religious boom has long since faded. Other religious bodies, notably including Muslims, have become a presence on the American religious scene. And the number of religiously non-affiliated Americans has risen dramatically.
But one thing hasn't changed. The constant is ongoing cultural assimilation, and the accompanying loss of religious identity, that was and today continues to be a central part of the American religious experience, described by Herberg as "essentially the 'Americanization' of religion in America, and therefore also its thorough-going secularization."
To make his point, Herberg quoted a remark attributed to President Dwight Eisenhower: "Our government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is." To which Herberg added: "And why didn't he care what it was? Because, in his view, as in the view of all normal Americans, they 'all say the same thing.'"
Much was said in praise of Billy Graham after his death, and much that was said was well deserved. But along with praising Graham the individual Christian, one must also express reservations concerning the limitations of the version of culturally assimilated religion he stood for.
Protestants, Catholics, and Jews haven't yet worked out a viable response to the challenge of cultural assimilation in secular America. And Billy Graham, for all his decency and personal commitment, was not much help in doing that.
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Russell Shaw was secretary for public affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference from 1969 to 1987. He is the author of 20 books, including Nothing to Hide and the highly acclaimed American Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall, and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America.
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All are not similarly talented. One person plants, another waters, another harvests. Mr. Graham's calling from God was obviously to call people to Jesus. He did that extremely well. It is for others to be the teachers, and for the individuals to find their way to the Church established by Jesus over 2,000 years ago.
Larry Donlan
While gushing praise for Billy Graham, one should also remember that he was the first to show that millions could be made peddling religion to the masses. He also believed that the murder of pre-born children could be justified in the cases of rape and incest, a demonic political position if ever there was one.
Carl E. Olson
Not sure this piece is "gushing praise". Regardless, it should be noted that Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) often preached to crowds of 10,000 or more, and Billy Sunday (1862-1935) is estimated to have preached to over 100 million people face-to-face, mostly without modern technology/amplification. Graham, of course, looked to both for inspiration, although his own style differed in various ways. Your point about abortion is well taken; it is, alas, a common position for many (but not all) Evangelicals.
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The responsibility of the success or failure of authentic Catholicism in the United States (or anywhere else) rests squarely with the Church leadership.
As goes the Church, so goes the culture – not the other way around.
The state has a stake in making sure those under its power assimilate its ideology to keep it in place. Who can resist the power of the state, and how?
What happened to ecumenism? St. Pope John Paul II encouraged its use. The concern is the conflict between evangelism and ecumenism. How can I honor another's faith if my mission is to convert him?
You misunderstand what ecumenism means from a Catholic perspective, I think. It does not imply ecclesial relativism.
Joe M
A fascinating piece to appear on a Catholic website since all most recent Catholic voices seem as 'assimilation'-oriented as Graham, even given the Church's unique clams to authority. It seems to raise as many questions in my mind as it answers… The impression I get is Graham was so successful that Church leaders felt compelled to keep up.
Inigo
And then there was John Vianney who probably preached to hundreds of thousands without ever playing center field or travelling outside his parish – just on account of his sanctity.
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Through her youth, she herded sheep, worked as a housekeeper, candled eggs on a chicken farm, as a laundress at Ft. Gladys finally ended up working at the home of Tello and Lisa Peterson, where she met Harvey Peterson. They farmed at Opal, in Meade County, living in the sod house on the Harvey Talley ranch.In 1939, they moved to Sturgis for a short time, then to Faith, then returning to Opal. Gladys said she always wished for a house with a lot of bedrooms, so in 1961 they moved to Faith and purchased the West Hotel. ) They ran the hotel for 20 years and farmed north of Faith.The best travels were close to home to Mount Rushmore, Dinosaur Park and Wall Drug, which occurred almost every time the family was together.After retiring, she volunteered at the Senior Center.She was instrumental in opening the Faith Legion Community Hall.
There she served as Treasurer for 24 years, helped with the distribution of commodities, rummage sales, hunter's dinners, and other community events.
In 2013, Gladys moved to Kalispell, MT to live with her daughter, Marilynn. M., Friday, June 1, 2018, at Faith Legion Community Hall. Interment will occur at Bear Butte Cemetery in Sturgis around P. Memorials can be made to Faith Legion Community Hall, Lions Club, or an organization of your choice in Gladys Petersons name.
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For more than twenty years, the Baptist World Alliance has encouraged Baptist congregations around the world to observe Human Rights Day. The date coincides with the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted on December 10, 1948.
As Baptists, we are committing ourselves to the cause of human rights in our communities, countries and around the world through prayer, advocacy and representation; repenting of our complicity in human rights abuses through our negligence or participation; committing to giving voice to the voiceless, hope to the hopeless and brokering peace where peace is lacking.
Our intention is to have the greatest amount of Baptists world-wide observing Human Rights Day as part of their Advent celebration. Please utilize the resources below to shape your own Human Rights Day Worship Service. If your congregation is going to do this, please let our office know so that we can follow up on your worship experience.
We invite you to follow us on Twitter: @TheBWA and/ join our Facebook group: The Baptist World Alliance. There we encourage you to post prayer requests, memories/pictures from past Congress events and receive updates about what the global Baptist family is doing.
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package pl.bajtas.rapidmsgconverter.Service;

import com.auxilii.msgparser.Message;
import com.auxilii.msgparser.MsgParser;
import com.auxilii.msgparser.attachment.Attachment;
import com.auxilii.msgparser.attachment.FileAttachment;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Element;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.tool.xml.ElementList;
import com.itextpdf.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper;
import com.itextpdf.tool.xml.exceptions.RuntimeWorkerException;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.MessageFormat;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by Bajtas on 26.11.2016.
 */
public class ConverterService {
    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(ConverterService.class);

    private MsgParser msgp = new MsgParser();
    private String fromEmail = StringUtils.EMPTY;
    private String fromName = StringUtils.EMPTY;
    private String subject = StringUtils.EMPTY;
    private String bodyHTML = StringUtils.EMPTY;
    private String bodyText = StringUtils.EMPTY;
    private String toEmail = StringUtils.EMPTY;
    private String toName = StringUtils.EMPTY;
    private List<Attachment> atts = null;
    private Document document = new Document();

    public void convertToPdf(String fileSrc) {
        try {
            getData(fileSrc);
            createPdf(fileSrc);
            saveAttachments(fileSrc);
        } catch (IOException | UnsupportedOperationException ex) {
            LOG.error("Error: ", ex);
        }
    }

    private void getData(String fileSrc) throws IOException {
        Message msg = msgp.parseMsg(fileSrc);
        fromEmail = msg.getFromEmail();
        fromEmail = fromEmail.contains("Content_Types") ? StringUtils.EMPTY : fromEmail;
        toEmail = msg.getToEmail();
        toName = msg.getToName();
        bodyText = msg.getBodyText();
        fromName = msg.getFromName();
        subject = msg.getSubject();
        bodyHTML = msg.getConvertedBodyHTML();
        atts = msg.getAttachments();
    }

    private void createPdf(String fileSrc) {
        fileSrc = fileSrc.substring(0, fileSrc.lastIndexOf('.')) + ".pdf";
        try {
            PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(fileSrc));
            document.open();
            document.add(new Paragraph(String.format("From: %s [%s]", fromEmail, fromName == null ? "N/A" : fromName)));
            document.add(new Paragraph(MessageFormat.format("To: {0}", toEmail == null ? toName : toEmail)));
            document.add(new Paragraph("Subject: " + subject));
            if (!parseElements(document)) {
                document.add(new Paragraph("Body text: "));
                document.add(new Paragraph(bodyText));
            }
        } catch (IOException | DocumentException ex) {
            LOG.error("Error: ", ex);
        } finally {
            document.close();
        }
    }

    private boolean parseElements(Document document) {
        boolean ret = true;
        try {
            ElementList list = XMLWorkerHelper.parseToElementList(bodyHTML, null);
            document.add(new Paragraph("Body HTML: "));
            for (Element element : list) {
                document.add(element);
            }
        } catch (RuntimeWorkerException | DocumentException | IOException e) {
            LOG.error("Error: ", e);
            ret = false;
        }

        return ret;
    }

    private void saveAttachments(String fileSrc) throws IOException {
        fileSrc = fileSrc.substring(0, fileSrc.lastIndexOf('.')) + "-att";
        for (int i = 0; i < atts.size(); i++) {
            if (atts.get(i) instanceof FileAttachment) {
                FileAttachment file = (FileAttachment) atts.get(i);
                fileSrc += i + file.getExtension();

                FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(fileSrc);
                out.write(file.getData());
                out.close();
            }
        }
    }
}

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The Millitzer welcomes a conversation between the work of two artists that address questions of material expectation. Tuan Nguyen (b. 1972, Vietnam) and Steph Zimmerman (b. 1990, US) perform similar tasks of masking to different ends. Nguyen's use of pigment, wood and gesso disguise any straightforward notion of process or product in the contexts of painting or sculpture. Zimmerman's objects bear the mark of household fixtures, having apparent functionality, though their use remains quite unclear. With both practices, the presence of shelves, pedestals, walls and mark making provide all the ingredients for conventional understanding, but recognition has been upended by a process of othering materials and their formal applications.
Tuan Nguyen is a painter, sculptor and Director of Education at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. His artwork has been exhibited nationally in venues in Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Seattle, WA and St. Louis. Nguyen received his MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Born in Vietnam and raised in Rockledge, FL, Nguyen currently lives and works in St. Louis.
Steph Zimmerman is an artist living and working in St. Louis. She has a BFA in Digital Media and Photography from Washington University in St. Louis. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has attended residencies at The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, and Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland.