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Dr John Wilkinson was born in Durban, South Africa, where he completed BSc and BCom degrees at University of Natal. He later completed an MBA at University of Adelaide and a PhD at University of South Australia (UniSA). He also completed a Graduate Certificate in Education at UniSA.
John was Associate Professor of Marketing and Head of Discipline-Marketing at Australian Institute of Business (AIB) from January 2017 to March 2019. At AIB, the focus of his teaching (and that of his staff within the Marketing discipline) was on a marketing specialisation within an online MBA program. John previously worked at UniSA (until December 2016), holding positions of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Program Director and Associate Head-School of... Read more
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John was Associate Professor of Marketing and Head of Discipline-Marketing at Australian Institute of Business (AIB) from January 2017 to March 2019. At AIB, the focus of his teaching (and that of his staff within the Marketing discipline) was on a marketing specialisation within an online MBA program. John previously worked at UniSA (until December 2016), holding positions of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Program Director and Associate Head-School of Marketing. He also was a Research Associate in the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science. He taught marketing courses in MBA programs in Australia and Malaysia, as well as undergraduate courses in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. He also taught within the Master of Marketing program. At UniSA, he supervised three PhD students whose focus was on business-to-business marketing and channel management.
He has published in a range of Australasian and international journals, contributed to several books, and presented his research at conferences in Australasia, Europe and the United States.
John is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Selling, a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute (and a former South Australian Council member) and a Certified Practising Marketer (CPM), an Associate Member of the Australian Market & Social Research Society, and a member of the Global Sales Science Institute.
John had substantial industry experience prior to joining UniSA, including positions of Product Manager, Industrial Detergents with Unilever South Africa; Manager, Marketing Information & Analysis with Kodak Australasia; Domestic Market Manager, Ingot with Alcoa of Australia; and Marketing & Sales Manager with Monier Castings.
John now undertakes part-time marketing consulting, training and online tutoring.
Dr Wilkinson is a Certified Practising Marketer (CPM) and Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute. He is a former State Council member and Vice President, South Australian branch of the AMI. He also is a member of the Global Sales Science Institute (and current Australian representative and former Vice Chair - Education).
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Master of Business Administration University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Science University of Natal
Bachelor of Commerce University of Natal
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Verdonk, N, Wilkinson, J, Culbert, J, Ristic, R, Pearce, K & Wilkinson, K 2017, 'Toward a model of sparkling wine purchasing preferences', International Journal of Wine Business Research, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 58-73.
Wilkinson, J, Trinh, G, Lee, R & Brown, N 2016, 'Can the negative binomial distribution predict industrial purchases?', Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 543-552.
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Zippel, C, Wilkinson, J & Vogler, T 2013, 'The influence of private labels on retailer cooperation', Australasian Marketing Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 271-277.
Wilkinson, JW 2010, 'Cross-functional Selling Teams - the Loss of Control of the Selling function', Marketing Review St Gallen, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 20-25.
Wilkinson, JW 2009, 'Toward a Comprehensive Framework of Sales Management within Business-to-Business Marketing Organisations', The Marketing Review, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 79-95.
Pentina, I, Bolman, PE & Wilkinson, J 2014, 'Comparing drivers of social media marketing adoption by salespeople in Australia and the USA: a pilot study', International Journal of Information Systems and Management, vol. 1 no. 1-2, pp. 146-165.
Wilkinson, JW 2009, 'Why sales managers should provide more leadership: the relationship between levels of leadership and salesperson performance', Journal of Selling and Major Account Management, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 22-38.
Wilkinson, JW 2008, 'Levels of sales leadership support: an exploratory study', Journal of Selling and Major Account Management, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 8-22.
Zippel, C & Wilkinson, JW 2012, 'Relationship selling strategies to increase cooperation from dominant retail channel partners: findings of an exploratory study', in Werner Soontiens (ed.), 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference - ANZAM, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, pp. 1-17.
Zippel, C, Wilkinson, J & Vogler, T 2012, 'The influence of private labels on cooperation between manufacturers and retailers of fast moving consumer goods in Germany: exploratory research findings', Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, ANZMAC, pp. 1-7.
Bakar, A, Wilkinson, JW & Lee, R 2011, 'An Islamic perspective of internal marketing', Global Islamic Marketing Conference, pp. 1-24.
Veyhl, U, Thoma, A & Wilkinson, J 2011, 'The global account manager as multidimensional leader: skills required to master leadership challenges', 25th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, ANZAM 2011, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, pp. 1-18.
Veyhl, UM, Wilkinson, JW & Borgmeier, A 2011, 'The influence of dual leadership on cross-functional selling team performance: A conceptual analysis and research proposal', in GSSI.
Zippel, C & Wilkinson, JW 2011, 'Relationship selling strategies to increase cooperation from dominant retail channel partners: a conceptual framework', 25th annual Australian and New Zealand academy of management (ANZAM) conference, ANZAM - Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, pp. 1-19.
Veyhl, U & Wilkinson, J 2010, 'Implementation problems with customer relationship management programs: a case study', in B Gurd (ed.), 24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2010), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, pp. 1-14.
Zippel, C & Wilkinson, JW 2010, 'The role of the salesforce in achieving cooperation from dominant channel partners', in Piotr Kwiatek, Dan Weilbaker, Poznan University of Economics, pp. 1-16.
Lim, KST & Wilkinson, JW 2009, 'Business-to-business salespeople's understanding of relationship selling principles', in Dr. Pascal Brassier & Prof. Dan Weilbaker, Group ESC Clermont Graduate School of Management, pp. 1-8.
Wilkinson, JW 2009, 'Sales management issues relating to cross-functional business-to-business selling teams', in Dr. Pascal Brassier & Prof. Dan Weilbaker, Group ESC Clermont Graduate School of Management, pp. 1-7.
Wilkinson, JW 2008, 'Marketing students' attitudes toward selling: Implications for program Development in a declining educational market', in Bill Donaldson and Andrew Turnbull, Aberdeen Business School, pp. 1-7.
Wilkinson, JW 2008, 'Towards a Comprehensive Framework of Sales Management', in Bill Donaldson and Andrew Turnbull, Aberdeen Business School, pp. 1-9.
Other Research Outputs since 2011
Refereed Journal Articles
Mulki, J and Wilkinson, JW (2017): 'Customer-Directed Extra-Role Performance and Emotional Understanding: Effects on Customer Conflict, Felt Stress, Job Performance and Turnover Intentions', Australasian Marketing Journal, 25 (3), 206-214.
Articles in Research Books
Zippel, C; Wilkinson, J and Vogler, T: (2013): 'Relationship selling strategies to increase cooperation from dominant retail channel partners – Findings of an exploratory study'. In G. Hofbauer, A. Pattloch and M. Stumpf (eds.): Marketing in Forschung und Praxis: Jubiläumausgabe zum 40-jährigen Bestehen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Marketing (709-724), uni-edition, Berlin.
'Selling and sales management', in Sharp, B (2017): Marketing: Theory, evidence, practice (2nd ed); Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Vic. (394-435).
'International selling', in Guenzi, P and Geiger, S (eds) (2011): Sales management – A multinational perspective (251-277), Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills.
Refereed conference proceedings
Blockley, C; Wilkinson, J and Shafei, I: 'Sales force change management in response to the emergence of dominant retail chains: A planned Australian case study within the wine industry', in 12th Annual Global Sales Science Institute Conference Proceedings, FHWien der WKW University of Applied Sciences of Management & Communication, Vienna, June 2018.
Dr Wilkinson and colleagues have received the following conference awards since 2011:
Best paper in Track: Sales, Supply Chain Management, Logistics at the Australian & New Zealand Marketing Academy conference, Adelaide, 2012, for: Zippel, Christian; Wilkinson, John and Vogler, Thomas: 'The influence of private labels on cooperation between manufacturers and retailers of fast moving consumer goods in Germany: Exploratory research findings'.
Best paper at the Global Islamic Marketing Conference, Dubai, 2011, for: Bakar, Abou; Wilkinson, John and Lee, Richard: 'An Islamic perspective of internal marketing'.
Technical University Ingolstadt GERMANY
Technical University of Ingolstadt GERMANY
University of Adelaide AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia AUSTRALIA
University of Toledo UNITED STATES
He has made the following industry presentations since 2008:
'Marketing and customer engagement', seminar presented to Canberra Institute of Technology senior staff, September, 2016.
'Are you managing your key clients effectively?', seminar presented to the Asia-Pacific Professional Services Marketing Association (SA), Adelaide, July 2014.
'Effects of inadequate management trainingon sales leadership andsalesperson performance', presented at The Sales Force Effectiveness Training, Coaching and Leadership Forum, Liquid Learning, Sydney, September 2010.
'Personal selling is the forgotten element of marketing communication', presented at a CPM Forum, Australian Marketing Institute, Adelaide, September 2009.
Courses I teach and/or co-ordinate
MARK 2036 UO Retailing (2019)
MARK 1018 UO Marketing Principles: Trading and Exchange (2019)
MARK 2034 UO Marketing Analytics (2020)
MARK 2035 UO Market Research (2019)
Research degree supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Management of retail channel partners by FMCG manufacturers Completed
The role and leadership of functional experts in cross-functional selling centres Completed
Towards a greater understanding of relationship selling Completed
Australian Students
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UniSA respects the Kaurna, Boandik and Barngarla peoples' spiritual relationship with their country.


"Omission" is the title of an essay by the celebrated nonfiction writer John McPhee in this week's New Yorker, and as soon as I saw that I knew I had to read the piece. For me, the key to writing anything that might connect and mean something has always been as much about what you leave out — or take out — as it's ever about what you put in. This is lucky, because I'm much better at leaving and taking stuff out than I am at thinking of clever things to put in.
I've struggled to come up with the simplest way to get young writers going on writing a real story. By "real" I don't mean non-fiction — I mean a piece of fiction that is a story.
This is the summer of Harper Lee, in our house and all over. My wife brought home Go Set a Watchman, Lee's new-published novel that was a very early draft of what became To Kill a Mockingbird, the most-read American novel of all time, along with the Lee biography Mockingbird and a copy of the classic novel itself, even though I'd told her I've already got one. (She wanted her own.) So I pulled out my copy and read To Kill a Mockingbird again, this time paying attention ... to the story.
It's hard to imagine this was over 20 years ago: I was a freelance writer (then as now), and I was pretty beaten-down. I'd spent 10 years on a nonfiction book, a personal story of travel and conversation in Muslim Asia, that had been rejected 75 times and would never be published. In the many rejection letters I had received, some of which were quite thoughtful, one response had stayed with me. I needed to tell a better story.
This seemed good advice, but what to do with it?
A chapter book for kids came out in 1955 about a four-year-old girl, in an unexceptional but caring white family, who wants to make noise, be noticed, and have picture books read to her over and over and over about steam shovels. The third-person novel is told largely from the viewpoint of the girl's dutiful older sister, whose name is Beatrice but whom everyone calls Beezus, and who is constantly being driven crazy by the noisy, creative, impulsive Ramona.
There's a type of story that's really hard to write, and that as a reader I often look for when I don't feel well or I'm struggling — and that's the comic novel. I love Carl Hiassen's riotous eco-morality tales set in Florida, for both YA and adult readers; I've enjoyed a couple of Christopher Moore's contemporary novels, especially Fluke; and, as I'm about to drive from Vermont to New York City to see my agent, I'm overjoyed to have downloaded Dave Barry's new novel Insane City. But the comic novelist I still love most is the late, legendary Englishman P.G. Wodehouse.
Why are we putty in a storyteller's hands?
Jonathan Gottschall, an English professor and writer about evolutionary psychology, asks this in his 2012 book The Storytelling Animal, in the chapter "Ink People Change the World." He has just described how research shows we're influenced, a lot more than we normally realize, by the fictions we absorb — not just by books but by sitcoms, films and so forth.
Story is for a human as water is for a fish — all-encompassing and not quite palpable.
This is from The Storytelling Animal, a relatively new (2012) book by Jonathan Gottschall, an English professor at Washington and Jefferson College, that is thought-sparking on a variety of story-related topics — why and how we dream, how children live so naturally in storyland, and why in the world we are storytelling animals. The survival value of fiction isn't obvious, after all, but it must exist: humans have been immersed in story at all times, all over the world and in all cultures. And still today.
I've been serializing a chapter from my first, never-published book, The Heart of the Bazaar: A Journey into Islamic Asia. In Dubai in early 1981, having left my newspaper job to travel in the Muslim world and write about it, I took passage on the last ocean-going, regularly scheduled passenger ship in the world: the RMS Dwarka, a British vessel that ran from the Persian Gulf to Karachi and Bombay. This is the last of seven segments drawn from the chapter I wrote about traveling on the Dwarka from Dubai to Karachi.
At evening I'm standing by the rail, looking across the water (the Arabian Sea is dark — much deeper than the Gulf), when an old man comes out from the passageway and over to me. He is a workingman, cotton-clad. His face is grizzled, he is almost toothless, he wears a Muslim's lace skullcap. He stops beside me and asks if he can see the book — Venture to the Interior, a book about Africa — that I have in my hand. I say, sure.
The Gulf is light green — the water is not so deep. The first morning at sea is bright, but misty far off. From the promenade deck I can see supertankers in the mist, crossing the horizon in a long irregular line.
They are a brush's bare strokes on a watercolor horizon. Each one is a long, long stretched-out hull, barely visible above the waterline, and a bit of housing at the far back.


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Complexation of protactinium(V) with nitrilotriacetic acid
Verbal Separation Methods, Speciation SEP 2
Ms Coralie LUCHINI (CNRS-IN2P3/CEA)
Protactinium, as a $^{235}U$ decay product, is naturally present in the environment as $^{231}Pa$ isotope (alpha emitter with a half-life of 32,400 years). Over the years, this isotope is accumulated in uranium tailings and stocks of yellow cake. Modelling the behavior of this element in the geosphere requires thermodynamic and structural data relevant to environmental conditions. The present work concerns a study of the complexation of Pa(V) with nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA, $N(CH_2COOH)_3$), a chelating agent that can be regarded as a model for polyaminocarboxylic acids.
Because of the strong tendency of Pa(V) towards hydrolysis and polymerization, speciation studies have been conducted with the element at ultra-trace scale ($C_{Pa} < 10^{-10}M$) [1,2]. A systematic study using liquid-liquid extraction with a β-diketone as extractant has been performed at constant ionic strength and temperature. Under these experimental conditions, the variations of the distribution coefficient of $^{233}Pa(V)$ as a function of NTA and proton concentrations provides information on the stoichiometry of the complexes Pa-NTA in aqueous phase and also on their mean charge (slope method). Results indicate the formation of two successive complexes that are likely to be $PaO(NTA)$ and $PaO(NTA)_{2}^{3-})$. The formation of complexes (1:1) and (1:2) are observed with actinides at oxidation states +3 and +4. In contrast, only (1:1) complexes are formed with actinides +5 and +6. In addition, capillary electrophoresis inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry experiments have been performed with several actinides ($^{239}Pu(IV)$, $^{243}Am(III)$, $^{231}Pa(V)$) at tracer scale. $Pu(IV)$ and $Am(III)$ namely are known to form complexes of charge -2 ( $Pu^{IV}(NTA)_2^{2-}$ ) [3] and -3 ($Am^{III}(NTA)_2^{3-}$) [4]. Comparison of electrophoretic mobility for the complexes $Am(III)$, $Pu(IV)$ and $Pa(V)$ with NTA, confirms the charge -3 for the maximum stoichiometry complex.
The formation constants of $PaO(NTA)$ and $PaO(NTA)_2^{3-}$ have been deduced from solvent extraction experiments. The value obtained for the (1:1) complex is similar to those relative to actinides + 6 whereas the formation constant of the (1:2) complex is close to the ones observed for the actinides at the oxidation state +3. Thus, these results emphasize the distinctive feature of protactinium chemistry as compared to the other actinides.
To complete the results already obtained, a structural study by X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations is currently being processed to determine the coordination geometry and the interatomic distances of the formed complexes. Preliminary results on the structural study performed with the maximum stoichiometry complex will be also presented.
[1] R. Muxart and R. Guillaumont, Protactinium. In Complément au nouveau Traité de Chimie minérale; Masson: Paris, 1974.
[2] D. Trubert, C. Le Naour and C. Jaussaud, J. Solution Chem., 2002, 31, 261.
[3] L. Bonin, D. Guillaumont, A. Jeanson, C. Den Auwer, M. Grigoriev, J.C. Berthet, C. Hennig, A. Scheinost. P. Moisy, Inorg. Chem., 2009, 48, 3943.
[4] A. Moskvin, Radiokhimiya, 1971, 13, 575.
Ms Coralie LUCHINI (CNRS-IN2P3/CEA) Dr Sébastien LEGUAY (CNRS-IN2P3 ) Dr Claire LE NAOUR (CNRS-IN2P3) Dr Jean AUPIAIS (CEA-DAM) Dr Céline CANNES (CNRS-IN2P3) Dr Jérôme ROQUES (CNRS-IN2P3) Prof. Christophe DEN AUWER (Université de Nice Sofia Antipolis, Institut de Chimie de Nice)

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Saudi oil tankers among 4 ships targeted in 'sabotage' attack off U.A.E.
A U.S. official says an American military team's initial assessment is that Iranian or Iranian-backed proxies used explosives to blow large holes in four ships anchored off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates.
The official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said each ship has a 1.5-to-3 metre hole in it, near or just below the water line.
The U.S. military team concluded that the holes were caused by explosive charges.
The U.A.E. asked the U.S. to help investigate the damage to the vessels, which included two Saudi oil tankers. Saudi officials have characterized the incident as sabotage.
A damaged Andrea Victory ship is seen off the Port of Fujairah on the eastern seaboard of U.A.E. (Satish Kumar/Reuters)
The U.A.E. identified the Saudi tankers as the Amjad, a very large crude carrier (VLCC), and a crude tanker called Al Marzoqah, both owned by Saudi shipping firm Bahri. The other two vessels were U.A.E.-flagged fuel bunker barge A. Michel and Norwegian-registered oil products tanker MT Andrea Victory.
Thome Ship Management said its MT Andrea Victory was "struck by an unknown object." Footage seen by Reuters showed a hole in the hull at the waterline with the metal torn open inwards.
The U.S. had warned ships last week that "Iran or its proxies" could be targeting maritime traffic in the region, and the U.S. has moved additional ships and aircraft into the region.
The announcement of the Sunday attack off the coast of the port city of Fujairah came Monday from the kingdom's energy minister, Khalid al-Falih, as the U.S. issued a new warning to sailors.
The U.A.E.'s state news agency said Fujairah port was operating normally. A witness who spoke with Reuters said divers were inspecting damaged ships.
On Twitter, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said: "We condemn the acts of sabotage which targeted commercial and civilian vessels near the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates."
The ministry later put out another tweet, saying it stands in solidarity with the U.A.E.
#STATEMENT | WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES IN ALL MEASURES TAKEN TO SAFEGUARD ITS SECURITY AND INTERESTS 🇸🇦🇦🇪 pic.twitter.com/s2ityYIsTC
—@KSAmofaEN
The U.S. is deploying an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf to counter alleged threats from Tehran.
Shortly after the Saudi announcement, Iran's Foreign Ministry called for further clarification about what exactly happened with the Saudi tankers. The ministry's spokesperson, Abbas Mousavi, was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying there should be more information about the incident.
Al Marzoqah tanker is seen near the port. (Satish Kumar/Reuters)
Mousavi also warned against any "conspiracy orchestrated by ill-wishers" and "adventurism by foreigners" to undermine the maritime region's stability and security.
Rising tensions in region
Tensions have risen in the year since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, restoring American sanctions that have pushed Iran's economy into crisis. Last week, Iran warned it would begin enriching uranium at higher levels in 60 days if world powers failed to negotiate new terms for the deal.
European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels urged the United States and Iran to show restraint Monday amid fears of tensions tipping them easily into armed conflict, while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefed his counterparts on the threats Washington sees emanating from the Islamic republic.
In his statement, al-Falih said the attacks on the two tankers happened at 6 a.m. local time Sunday.
"One of the two vessels was on its way to be loaded with Saudi crude oil from the port of Ras Tanura, to be delivered to Saudi Aramco's customers in the United States. Fortunately, the attack didn't lead to any casualties or oil spill; however, it caused significant damage to the structures of the two vessels."
Khalid al-Falih, Saudi Arabia's energy minister, seen in this photo from March, said the attack didn't cause any casualties or oil spills. (Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)
The kingdom's Foreign Ministry condemned the incident in a statement published on the state-run Saudi Press Agency on Monday as a "criminal act" that threatens the "safety of maritime traffic, which reflects negatively on regional and international peace and security."
Al-Falih also said the attack aimed to undermine the "security of oil supplies to consumers all over the world" and emphasized the "joint responsibility of the international community to protect" the safety of maritime navigation and oil tankers.
'No injuries or fatalities'
A statement Sunday from the U.A.E.'s Foreign Ministry put the ships near the country's territorial waters in the Gulf of Oman, east of the port of Fujairah. It said it was investigating "in co-operation with local and international bodies." It said there were "no injuries or fatalities on board the vessels" and "no spillage of harmful chemicals or fuel."
Fujairah's port is about 140 kilometres south of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a third of all oil at sea is traded. The facility handles oil for bunkering and shipping, as well as general and bulk cargo. It is seen as strategically located, serving shipping routes in the Persian Gulf, the Indian subcontinent and Africa.
A view of the port at Fujairah, which U.A.E.'s state news agency said was operating normally on Monday. (Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images)
The incident came after the U.S. Maritime Administration, a division of the U.S. Transportation Department, warned Thursday that Iran could target commercial sea traffic.
"Since early May, there is an increased possibility that Iran and/or its regional proxies could take action against U.S. and partner interests, including oil production infrastructure, after recently threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz," the warning read. "Iran or its proxies could respond by targeting commercial vessels, including oil tankers, or U.S. military vessels in the Red Sea, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait or the Persian Gulf."
Publicly available satellite images of the area taken Sunday showed no smoke or fire.
It remains unclear if the previous warning from the U.S. Maritime Administration is the same perceived threat that prompted the White House to order the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the region on May 4.
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Recent clipping fixes breaks 'clipped' attribute / setting for StateImagery in Falagard and so it currently has no effect.
As mentioned in #333, the fix made in r2413 breaks the 'clipped' setting such that clipping can not be disabled at the StateImagery level.
The best example of this is when dragging segments of the header for MultiColumnList; the dragged imagery is always clipped to it's original segment area, whereas it should not be clipped at all.
Additional information: The issue is because clipping is now done at the GeometryBuffer level, which has no provision for disabling clipping for parts of the rendered geometry.


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Home News Voice Your Opinion: Aquatic Facility Referendum Question
Voice Your Opinion: Aquatic Facility Referendum Question
Sports & Fitness Council
High River – On October 18, when voting in the Municipal Election, High River residents will have an opportunity to voice their opinions regarding the expansion of the Town's Aquatic facility. At the ballot box, an Aquatic Facility Referendum Question will be provided to residents, asking the following question.
Do you support the Town borrowing up to $15,000,000.00 to expand the existing pool facility?
Residents may select YES or NO.
The results of the referendum are non-binding. They will be used to provide helpful information to incoming Council, by letting them know if there is broad community support to finance and expand the existing aquatic facility.
The expansion of the pool facility has been one of Council's top priorities since January 2020. In 2018 the Town gathered community ideas and came up with a plan to renovate the existing facility. The cost of additional and renovated space would require borrowing $15 million to be paid over 25 years and affect resident taxes.
Details about the proposed renovations and additions can be viewed on the Town's website: highriver.ca/referendum. Watch for more information to be delivered to resident households, with more information about this fall's Municipal Election and the Aquatic Referendum Question.
For more information on this referendum, check out our 2021 Aquatic Referendum page.
Residents Invited to Attend Council Budget Meeting January 16
HIGH RIVER - High River's Town Council will kick off their discussions on the 2023 Municipal Budget with the first budget discussion…
Interim Operating Budget Approved as Council Prepares for 2023 Budget
High River – At their December 12 meeting, High River's Town Council approved an Interim Operating Budget for 2023. The Interim Budget…


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Home Labs and Groups Scappucci Lab Scappucci Lab | Publications
A single hole spin qubit
W. Hendrickx, W. I. L. Lawrie, L. Petit, S. A. Sammak, G. Scappucci, and M. Veldhorst.
ArXiv:1912.10426
Quantum Dot Arrays in Silicon and Germanium
I. L. Lawrie, H. G. J. Eenink, N. W. Hendrickx, J. M. Boter, L. Petit, S. Amitonov, M. Lodari, B. Paquelet-Wutz, C. Volk, S. Phillips, G. Droulers, N. Kalhor, D. Brousse, A. Sammak, L.M.K. Vandersypen, G. Scappucci, and M. Veldhorst.
Multiplexed quantum transport using commercial off-the-shelf CMOS at sub-kelvin temperatures.
P. Wuetz, P.L. Bavdaz, L.A. Yeoh, R. Schouten, H. van der Does, M. Tiggelman, D. Sabbagh, A. Sammak, C.G. Almudever, F. Sebastiano, J.S. Clarke, M. Veldhorst, and G. Scappucci.
Hendrickx, D. Franke, A. Sammak, G. Scappucci, and M. Veldhorst.
Fast two-qubit logic with holes in germanium.
Light effective hole mass in undoped Ge/SiGe quantum wells.
Lodari, A. Tosato, D. Sabbagh, M. Schubert, G. Capellini, A. Sammak, M. Veldhorst, and G. Scappucci.
Physical Review 100, 041304(R) (2019)
Ballistic superconductivity and tunable p-junctions in InSb quantum wells.
T. Ke, C.M. Moehle, F.K. de Vries, C. Thomas, S. Metti, C.R. Guinn, R. Kallaher, M. Lodari, G. Scappucci, T. Wang, R.E. Diaz, G.C. Gardner, M.J. Manfra, and S. Goswami.
Nature Communications 10, 3764 (2019)
Quantum Transport Properties of Industrial 28Si/28SiO₂.
Sabbagh, N. Thomas, J. Torres, R. Pillarisetty, P. Amin, H.C. George, K. Singh, A. Budrevich, M. Robinson, D. Merrill, L. Ross, J. Roberts, L. Lampert, L. Massa, S.V. Amitonov, J.M. Boter, G. Droulers, H.G.J. Eenink, M. van Hezel, D. Donelson, M. Veldhorst, L.M.K. Vandersypen, J.S. Clarke, and G. Scappucci.
Physical Review Applied 12, 014013 (2019).
Rapid gate-based spin read-out in silicon using an on-chip resonator.
Zheng, N. Samkharadze, M.L. Noordam, N. Kalhor, D. Brousse, A. Sammak, G. Scappucci, and L.M.K. Vandersypen.
Nature Nanotechnology 14, 742 (2019).
Ballistic supercurrent discretization and micrometer-long Josephson coupling in germanium.
W. Hendrickx, M.L.V. Tagliaferri, M. Kouwenhoven, R. Li, D.P. Franke, A. Sammak, A. Brinkman, G. Scappucci, and M. Veldhorst.
Physical Review B 99, (2019).
Germanium Quantum-Well Josephson Field-Effect Transistors and Interferometers.
Vigneau, R. Mizokuchi, D.C. Zanuz, X. Huang, S. Tan, R. Maurand, S. Frolov, A. Sammak, G. Scappucci, F. Lefloch, and S.D. Franceschi. Nano Letters 19, 1023 (2019).
Shallow and Undoped Germanium Quantum Wells: A Playground for Spin and Hybrid Quantum Technology.
Sammak, D. Sabbagh, N.W. Hendrickx, M. Lodari, B.P. Wuetz, A. Tosato, L. Yeoh, M. Bollani, M. Virgilio, M.A. Schubert, P. Zaumseil, G. Capellini, M. Veldhorst, and Scappucci.
Advanced Functional Materials 1807613 (2019).
Very Low Temperature Epitaxy of Group-IV Semiconductors for Use in FinFET, Stacked Nanowires and Monolithic 3D Integration.
Porret, A. Hikavyy, J.F.G. Granados, S. Baudot, A. Vohra, B. Kunert, B. Douhard, J. Bogdanowicz, M. Schaekers, D. Kohen, J. Margetis, J. Tolle, L.P.B. Lima, A. Sammak, G. Scappucci, E. Rosseel, R. Langer, and R. Loo.
ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology 8, P392 (2019).
Voltage References for the Ultra-Wide Temperature Range from 4.2K to 300K in 40-nm CMOS.
van Staveren, C. García Almudever, G. Scappucci, M. Veldhorst, M. Babaie, E. Charbon, F. Sebastiano.
ESSCIRC 2019 – IEEE 45th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), 37-40 (2019)
Qubit Device Integration Using Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Technology.
Pillarisetty, N. Thomas, H. George, K. Singh, J. Roberts, L. Lampert, P. Amin, T. Watson, G. Zheng, J. Torres, and others.
Technical Digest-International Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM (2019).
Gate-controlled quantum dots and superconductivity in planar germanium.
W. Hendrickx, D.P. Franke, A. Sammak, M. Kouwenhoven, D.S. D, L.Y. L, R. Li, M.L.V. Tagliaferri, M. Virgilio, G. Capellini, G. Scappucci, and M. Veldhorst.
Nature Communications 2835 (2018).
Strong spin-photon coupling in silicon.
Samkharadze, G. Zheng, N. Kalhor, D. Brousse, A. Sammak, U.C. Mendes, A. Blais, G. Scappucci, and L.M.K. Vandersypen.
Science 359, 1123 (2018).
Porret, A. Hikavyy, J. F. Gomez Granados, S. Baudot, A. Vohra, B. Kunert, B. Douhard, J. Bogdanowicz, M. Schaekers, D. Kohen, J. Margetisc, J Tolle, Luca Lima, Amir Sammak, G. Scappucci, E. Rosseel, R. Langer, and R. Loo.
ECS Transactions 86, 163 (2018).
Photoluminescence of phosphorus atomic layer doped Ge grown on Si.
Yamamoto, L.-W. Nien, G. Capellini, M. Virgilio, I. Costina, M.A. Schubert, W. Seifert, A. Srinivasan, R. Loo, G. Scappucci, D. Sabbagh, A. Hesse, J. Murota, T. Schroeder, and B. Tillack.
Semiconductor Science and Technology 32, 104005 (2017).
Dephasing rates for weak localization and universal conductance fluctuations in two dimensional Si:P and Ge:P δ-layers.
Shamim, S. Mahapatra, G. Scappucci, W.M. Klesse, M.Y. Simmons, and A. Ghosh.
Scientific Reports 7, 46670 (2017).
Quantum computing within the framework of advanced manufacturing
S. Clarke, N. Thomas, J. Roberts, R. Pilliarisetty, Z. Yoscovits, R. Caudillo, H. George, K.J. Singh, D. Michalak, P. Amin, A. Mei, A. Bruno, S. Poletto, J. Boter, G. Droulers, N. Kalhor, N. Samkharadze, J.P. Dehollain, L. Yeoh, A. Sammak, G. Scappucci, M. Veldhorst, L. DiCarlo, and L.M.K. Vandersypen.
2016 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). (2016).
Mapping the electromagnetic field confinement in the gap of germanium nanoantennas with plasma wavelength of 4.5 micrometers.
Calandrini, T. Venanzi, F. Appugliese, M. Badioli, V. Giliberti, L. Baldassarre, P. Biagioni, F.D. Angelis, W.M. Klesse, G. Scappucci, and M. Ortolani.
Applied Physics Letters 109, 121104 (2016).


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Hart-Scott-Rodino Act developments: new filing thresholds, new penalties and new enforcement activities
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
USA January 20 2009
January once again brings news of adjustments to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act filing thresholds for mergers, acquisitions and investments, as well as a steep increase in civil penalties for HSR violations.
These adjustments come hard on the heels of two December HSR enforcement actions resulting in $800,000 in civil penalties. Those actions stem from the failure of two investment funds to make required HSR notifications with respect to "follow on" investments.
HSR Thresholds Increase
The Federal Trade Commission announced new filing thresholds under the HSR Act on January 6, 2009, for the antitrust agencies' premerger review of sizeable transactions. The HSR Act requires companies and investors to notify the FTC and the Department of Justice in advance of certain acquisitions of assets or equity interests. These notifications permit the reviewing agencies to examine the impact of a proposed transaction and to determine whether it might result in a violation of federal antitrust law. A transaction is reportable whether or not it presents antitrust concerns, but only if it meets certain jurisdictional tests. These tests are adjusted annually for changes in Gross National Product. Generally, the "size of parties" test will now be satisfied if at least one party (together with all affiliates under common control) has total assets or annual sales of at least $130.3 million, and another party has total assets or annual sales of at least $13 million. The "size of transaction" test will now be satisfied if the acquiring party will hold assets and voting securities valued at more than $65.2 million as a result of the transaction (not to be confused with "in a single transaction").
These new "size of" thresholds will go into effect on February 12, 2009. The HSR Act also requires notification of certain incremental acquisitions of voting securities above the minimum "size of transaction." These incremental notification thresholds are indexed too, as are certain exemption thresholds. All of the new thresholds (summarized below) will apply to transactions that close on or after February 12, unless the agencies have been notified of the transaction before that date. (See table)
HSR filing fees are based on the size of the transaction being notified. The amounts of the filing fees will not change, but the deal size at which each of the three filing fee tiers becomes applicable will increase as follows: (See table)
Civil Penalties for HSR Act Violations Increase to $16,000 Per Day
The FTC also announced an adjustment in the maximum civil penalties it may impose for violations of the HSR Act, from the $11,000 per day of violation currently in effect to $16,000 per day from February 9, 2009, onward. Civil penalties under the HSR Act were last adjusted in 1996. Because penalties are calculated "per day" of violation, they can add up quickly. A delay in filing of just two months could now result in a $1.0 million fine.
Enforcement: Failure to File in Follow-On Investments
Last month two related investment companies, ESL Partners L.P. and ZAM Holdings L.P., agreed to pay a combined penalty of $800,000 to settle charges that they had increased their stakes in AutoZone, Inc., without first complying with HSR filing obligations. The action should remind companies of the need to report follow-on investments at times and to focus on the size of all holdings in a firm, not just the size of any single additional investment, in determining reportability.
Both ESL Partners and ZAM Holdings held (directly or indirectly) voting securities of AutoZone, Inc., in September and October 2004, when the acquisitions giving rise to these enforcement actions took place. ESL made a filing in 1999 in connection with an earlier acquisition of AutoZone shares, but by the time it made its 2004 investments more than five years had elapsed since the 1999 waiting period had expired, so the 1999 filing no longer covered subsequent acquisitions. ZAM had acquired an interest in AutoZone through the acquisition of interests in another partnership (not reportable at the time), and the subsequent dissolution of that partnership and distribution of the partnership's AutoZone holdings to a controlled affiliate of ZAM (also not a HSR reporting event), and so had never before made any filing with respect to its (indirect) AutoZone holdings.
We stressed above that the "size of transaction" test includes not only the value of the securities to be acquired in a particular transaction (as determined by the HSR rules governing valuation) but also the present value of the acquiror's existing holdings of the target's securities. As of September 1, 2004, ESL and ZAM already held AutoZone voting securities valued at approximately $775 million and $270 million, respectively. ESL made additional purchases of AutoZone stock four times between September 28 and October 14, 2004, and ZAM's affiliate made two additional purchases on October 12 and 14, 2004. All of these purchases were made without first complying with the HSR Act notification requirements.
In January 2005, the FTC contacted ESL and ZAM to inquire about the AutoZone purchases. The complaint filed in this matter does not assert that the parties were relying on the "passive investor" exemption, but it discusses in some detail why that exemption was not available to ESL and ZAM. First, an investment manager for both ESL and ZAM served on the AutoZone board of directors. Such service undermines any claim that the investment is "solely for purpose of investment" (as required by the exemption) because the ESL and ZAM representative participated directly in the formulation and direction of AutoZone's basic business decisions. Second, in the case of ESL, the investment resulted in ESL holding more than 10 percent of AutoZone's voting securities, and the passive investor exemption is only available for holdings of 10 percent or less of an issuer's securities. In any event, both investment firms responded to the FTC's inquiry by promptly filing notification with respect to the acquisitions they had made the previous September and October.
The FTC determined that ESL was in continuous violation of the HSR Act beginning on September 28, 2004, when it made its first follow-on purchase, and ending on February 28, 2005, when its HSR waiting period expired, and it determined that ZAM was in continuous violation from October 12, 2004, (the date of its first follow-on purchase) through the March 2, 2005, expiration of its HSR waiting period. HSR violations are subject to civil penalties of up to $11,000 per day (soon to be $16,000 per day), but the parties were assessed well short of the maximum. Still, their civil penalties ($525,000 in the case of ESL and $275,000 for ZAM) make it unlikely that either party will forget to check with HSR counsel on future investments. The story of ESL and ZAM contains a few useful lessons for investors, acquirors and their counsel:
an HSR filing will not cover subsequent acquisitions that occur more than five years after the waiting period has expired;
follow-on acquisitions of voting securities will be aggregated with earlier acquisitions from the same target (whether or not the earlier acquisitions were exempt); and
the "passive investor" exemption is narrowly construed and should not be relied upon without consultation with HSR counsel.
Investors who take nonvoting convertible securities (or convertible debt) along with their initial acquisition of voting securities should pay close attention to the filing thresholds and filing requirements as they approach their decision to convert, as conversion to voting status will be deemed a follow-on acquisition of voting securities. Those who hold voting securities of an issuer and are considering making one or more follow-on investments may want to seek the advice of HSR counsel to help determine the value of the securities that will be held "as a result of the transaction."
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Q: Re-ordering data in table excluding rows with blank cells in certain columns I have a list of "Tasks" stored in a table with the parts needed to perform the task stored in the columns. I want extract the tasks that require parts and re-order the as shown in the "Parts Required" table. Is this possible to do without the use of scripts?
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|      Task       |  Part 1  | Quantity 1 |   Part 2   | Quantity 2 |
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| Oil Change      | Oil      |         10 | Oil Filter |          1 |
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| Impeller Change | Impeller |          1 |            |            |
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| Oil Change      | Oil        |       10 |
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Becket Adams
President Obama Suggests Right-to-Work Legislation Infringes on Collective Bargaining Rights -- But Is That True?
"What they're really talking about is to give you the right to work for less money."
President Barack Obama on Monday took aim at the right-to-work legislation Gov. Rick Snyder (R-Mich.) and Republican legislators are expected to pass Tuesday, claiming that such laws are more about politics than they are about economics.
"What we shouldn't be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages," the president told an enthralled audience in Redford, Mich. "These so-called right-to-work laws, they don't have anything to do with economics, they have to do with politics."
"What they're really talking about is to give you the right to work for less money," he added.
Like all other right-to-work bills, the bill Gov. Snyder is expected to sign tomorrow protects non-union employees from having to financially support labor unions.
Here's the legal definition of right-to-work: "Right-to-work laws forbid unions and employers to enter into agreements requiring employees to join a union and pay dues and fees to it in order to get or keep a job."
At this point, it is unclear how right-to-work laws would infringe on a union's ability to engage in collective bargaining as President Obama suggests.
Follow Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) on Twitter
Featured image courtesy Getty Images. This story has been updated.


A judge sent former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to prison Friday after Manning refused to testify about leaking sensitive documents to WikiLeaks in front of a grand jury.
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton issued the order sending Manning to prison, The Associated Press reported. Manning rejected providing further testimony, saying no additional statements are necessary following the former analyst's court martial appearance, The AP reported.
Manning "will accept whatever you bring upon me," according to The AP. Manning's lawyers have requested home confinement instead of prison time.
Formerly known as "Bradley," the transgender military analyst ascended into the public limelight after leaking more than 700,000 sensitive documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. Manning was convicted and imprisoned from 2010 to 2017 for violating the Espionage Act.
Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison but was freed after former President Barack Obama commuted Manning's sentence before leaving office. After being released from prison, Manning sought the Democratic Party's nomination for a Senate seat in Maryland.
Manning will remain in prison until the grand jury concludes its investigation or the former analyst agrees to testify, according to The AP.


New thought says licence needed to gather info for maps.
Google, taxi apps and others use personal and crowd-sourced maps.
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Your 2011 Dallas Cowboys: The Five Stages of Grief
Jerry Jones still hasn't gotten past "denial," but everybody else who lives and dies with America's Team is trying to move on.
Jason Cohen
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/your-2011-dallas-cowboys-the-five-stages-of-grief/
Tony Gutierrez | Associated Press
The Texans are in the playoffs. The Giants are in the playoffs. But the Dallas Cowboys, of course, have missed the playoffs now for two straight seasons and have also gone sixteen years without winning the Super Bowl, a record that's particularly grating for Jerry Jones' wealthy and high-expectations franchise. And unlike Rick Perry, the Cowboys can't just show up at the next spot on the schedule and hope to catch a break.
So all a Cowboys fan can really do is grieve, which as pop psychology aficionados (and The Simpsons cultists) know, happens in five stages (as originally outlined by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross).
1. Denial
#FireJerryJones is only a Twitter hashtag; the Cowboys owner has every intention of continuing to be the Cowboys' general manager. The only universe in which Jones could get fired is the one where people mistake stories in the Onion ("Dallas Cowboys Release Jerry Jones") for reality.
"The thing you've got to realize is that when you have an owner that is full time as the owner, then you create a situation where you have as much turnover at GM as you do at coaching level," Jones said in a radio interview with KRLD (as Clarence E. Hill Jr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported). "And I think that just deters from the mix."
In other words, if Jerry Jones the owner wasn't also Jerry Jones the general manager, he'd have to hire and fire the general manager as recklessly and inconsistently as Jerry Jones the general manager has hired and fired coaches.
2. Anger
Writing for ESPNDallas, Ben Rogers of 103.3 FM ESPN's Ben and Skin Show isn't feeling very warm towards head coach Jason Garrett (whom he compares to Matt Damon's character in Good Will Hunting) or defensive coordinator Rob Ryan ("because of his completely unsubstantiated and never-backed-up swagger, we believed").
"The 2011 Dallas Cowboys season died a cold, wet, miserable death (Sunday) in the far-away Meadowlands," Rogers wrote. "But in truth, this franchise has been on life support for a decade and a half. Jerry Jones is the worst GM in football, but he is going nowhere. And because of that, nothing will change."
3. Bargaining
"The team's window of opportunity is closing, and it's just about time to jump through it," writes Jonathan Bales at the Dallas Observer.
Bales thinks that if Garrett and Ryan are willing to adjust and compromise, they'll both improve as coaches next year. Ryan needs to tone down his "Crazytown" aggressive blitzing style, while Garrett needs more of a pass-first offense like the ones in Green Bay, New England, and New Orleans.
"You know, the ones you can stand to watch," Bales wrote.
Michael Corcoran at Culture Map Austin does not share Bales' optimism, lamenting that "Coach Ginger's job is perhaps safest of all, next to the General Manager. Garrett was annointed as coach of the future by Jones, who paid him $3 million a year as offensive coordinator before tapping him to replace Wade Phillips in midseason last year. It's too soon, and Jerry's ego is too big, to admit he made a mistake.
"Who wants to start a class action lawsuit against the Cowboys for stealing so many hours of our time this season?," Corcoran also asked.
Ben Rogers' only kind words—albeit with a tone of utter resignation—were for the Cowboy's much-maligned quarterback:
Perhaps during this quiet time we can spare a special thought and offer our sympathy, our love and our support to Cowboys fans, their families and loved ones — and most importantly, to Tony Romo. You, sir, are not to blame for any of this. This violent, bloody football death falls directly on the head of one Jerry Jones . . .
Rest in peace, 2011 Dallas Cowboys. You will not fool us again in 2012.
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"From Street To Art" (Italy to New York) & Hitnes on a BKLN Roof
June 20, 2014 Artists, Interview
New Gallery Show Opens at Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Ever the melting pot, New Yorkers take it almost for granted that we are going to hear 10 different accents just in the course of our day walking through streets, getting a cab, shopping in a store, going to the theater, attending an art opening. We're always in a midst of a cultural exchange. We often may not realize that the art on our street walls, legal and otherwise, may be the work of a cultural emissary as well, created by artists who hail from almost every country in the world. Such is the magnetic power of this international cultural center that even our graffiti tour guides sometimes need to be interpreters.
One of the countries where BSA has a large and loyal following is Italy and we're excited to be a part of a cultural exchange that opens this evening with Italian graffiti and Street Artists exhibiting for the first time together in a formal gallery show. "From Street to Art", opening today at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, is a survey of this moment in the twenty-teens from the streets of Italy that adds to the voices of cultural exchange in this city that sparked so much of the worldwide graffiti and street art movements over the last fifty years or so.
Using flat color and simplistic stereotypes demarked by clothing styles and associated characteristics of social types, the work of BR1 can evoke emotions and strong opinions on the street and in the gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Organized by Public and Urban Art curator Simone Pallotta, "From Street to Art" continues the thread of sanctioned/unsanctioned artwork and continues his personal and professional route of drawing connections between contemporary art and the dozens of interventions he has overseen in his native country.
"From Street to Art" presents a good caliber of this "contemporary" scene, a collection of artists that reflects the variety one will experience on the street as well. Agostino Iacurci, Aris, BR1, Cyop&Kaf, Dem, Eron, Hitnes, Sten&Lex, Ufo5, and 2501 have each established a voice of their own during this first wave of the new global Street Art explosion.
DEM (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BSA is honored to partner with the organizers and curator to get the word out about the nascent Italian street scene not only for its energy and talent today, but for the historical roots of a painting tradition from the middle ages to the Renaissance to contemporary times; revered for stunning and expansive installations of art upon walls inside and al fresco, private and per il pubblico.
One of the original organizers of the Festival "Memorie Urbane" in Gaeta, curator Pallotta has worked with names you are familiar with from his home country: Blu, Sten & Lex, Escif, Aryz, Agostino Iucurci. While a few of those names are represented in this show, Pallotta hopes to go a step beyond the sizzling "Street Art" zeitgeist of this moment to re-consider the urban context of public work as interpreted by a new generation of artists whose practice is likely to develop into the future, authoring the evolving definition of public art.
By choosing a selection of conceptualists, muralists, illustrators, even social commentators, he presents a good cross section of experimentation and execution in a quiet gallery setting that may indicate where this art form is headed.
As you would expect, the gallery show (shown being unpacked here) is complimented by work out of doors as well and we had the opportunity to see HITNES on a roof in Brooklyn this week.
We also spoke with curator Simone Pallotta, artist BR1, and artist HITNES while he knocked out a wall on a roof in Bushwick .
Agostino Iacursi (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BSA speaks with curator of "From Street To Art", Simone Pallotta:
Brooklyn Street Art: What initially drew your attention to Street Art?
Simone Pallotta: In the 90s I was a graffiti artist and later on I went to university for 8 years to study Art History. I began to pay more attention to what was going on the streets and one day in 2004 I discovered the art of Italian Street Artist BLU. It made such an impression on me that at that moment I made the decision to focus my time and energies in supporting Street Artists and helping them get more exposure.
In the university I had learned about institutional Contemporary Art – and my experience seeing Street Art in situ helped me understand that the real Contemporary Art was happening before my eyes on the streets. This was a Contemporary Art that was not being taught in the classroom at the university.
ERON (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Brooklyn Street Art: What is the attitude of the City of Rome towards Street Art?
Simone Pallotta:If by the City of Rome we mean the city as an institution, dealing with it in all matters of Street Art has become very hard to work with. Because the government changes so often there isn't a state policy in place regarding Street Art so then we are left to work with single individuals in governmental departments that are receptive to Street Art. During the 90s many graffiti artists from all over the world came to Rome to write due to the lack of law enforcement.
From the late 90s to the early 2000s Rome didn't have much Street Art so the laws remained as they were and weren't enforced. In Rome it is relatively easy for Street Artists to put illegal work up but ironically, due to the intense bureaucracy, it is very hard to convince the people in power to authorize legal walls for Street Artists to put art on. Recently however the government has been more open to working with independent cultural organizations and foundations to promote art on legal walls.
Cyop & Kaf (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Brooklyn Street Art: What would you like to communicate to viewers with this exhibition?
Simone Pallotta:I have been involved with Street Art for ten years now and when the opportunity to curate this exhibition was presented to me I wanted to select 10 artists with a strong urban background and attitude. With this exhibition I want to re-direct the focus solely on the merits of the art; the content, the style and the techniques employed to create it, without focusing too much on the street provenance.
2501 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BSA speaks with Street Artist BR1:
Brooklyn Street Art: You address a number of religious themes on your work. Can you talk about the importance of your perspective on religion in your pieces?
BR1: I'm drawn to religious themes mainly by the people who practice religion. It always interest me the lifestyle of people as a direct link with religious dogma. Institutional religions impose many demands on people – from the way they should dress to how they should behave in private and in public. The more that people associate themselves with a specific religion and become a part of that community, they may have little desire to explore life outside their religious bubble.
First I observe the people to be able to understand what are the things in their culture and life that have become religious symbols. In this case the burka is a dress but it is also a symbol. If the practice of an artist is purely social, more than political, it is important to show ideas in one's work. With my work I would like to question the viewer. I don't want to create problems but I'd want to further the discussion to see if people are able to go outside their drawn lines and to engage positively and constructively with the other side.
Brooklyn Street Art: Would you call yourself a feminist?
BR1: Yes. In fact I have been invited by some feminists groups to come and talk about my work.
BR1 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Brooklyn Street Art: Why is it important to you to create work with issues that affect women in our society?
BR1: It is a hard question because when I began drawing I often drew women. In Italy and in many other countries women are not treated equally as men. They are discriminated against in the workplace and in society at large and I want to draw attention to this with my work. Also my work is about helping people understand that they have choices in life.
Brooklyn Street Art: Why are you attracted to put your work on the streets without permission?
BR1: The experience of Street Art is free and that's what I liked about it. When I began doing Street Art I wanted to preserve the free spirit of it. When I first visited NYC I saw a lot of wheat pastes and some stencil work on the streets that were not legally installed. Now the trend is to go big on legal walls. For me placement is very important; art on the streets has to be in context with the surroundings.
Hitnes (photo © Jaime Rojo)
During a hot day this week, BSA also got to speak with participating Street Artist HITNES as he completed a wall on a roof in Brooklyn in conjunction with the show "From Street to Art":
Brooklyn Street Art: How do animals inspire your work?
HITNES: Animals are known forms of nature and like the alphabet you can work with them in any which way you want. I come from a family of biologists (and artists) and since an early age I was inspired by the books that were around me when I was growing up.
Brooklyn Street Art: You started as a graffiti artist. Why did you switch to Street Art?
HITNES: I switched from letters to animals because it was quicker for me to do them.
Brooklyn Street Art: You obviously love color – where does your palette derive from?
HITNES: I was exposed to color with comics and cartoons and I liked them. For me the use of color is very important, it is as important as the form. But at the same time you need to be prepared to work with what you have and to be flexible.
This wall was made possible with the assistance of NYstGallery
"From Street To Art" is a group exhibition of contemporary Italian Street Artists including Agostino Iacursi, Aris, BR1, Cyop & Kaf, Dem, Eron, Hitnes, Sten & Lex, UFO5 and 2501. Curated by Simone Pallotta opening today at the Italian Cultural Institute. Click HERE for further details.
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Kim is a registered instructor of British Combat Association and holds a 2nd dan blackbelt in karate. (Thanks to karate shinboku for use of pic)
While studying for a master's degree at King's College London, Kim picked up a leaflet for a martial arts inspired fitness class. The class was run by karate club, Karate Shinboku Kai, as a way to get people into karate. Kim tried a karate class and was hooked. Five years later, Kim was invited to take her shodan (blackbelt) grading and became a karate instructor at Karate Shinboku Kai. Since then, Kim has regularly taught both karate and self-defence.
Starting out, Kim was immediately drawn to the way martial arts championed resilience, training is designed to make people stronger both physically and mentally. Karate training made Kim aware of how weak people can be, how somebody larger and stronger can be manipulated and overcome by targeting pressure points with well-timed strikes, kicks, and locks. 'It was an instinctual attraction. It opened my eyes to something I had never been aware of, and introduced me to something I instinctively wanted to master.' Kim also trained in judo in additional to karate, to better understand grappling, throws and ground fighting.
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Common Sense Defence classes are focused on realistic attacks and applications; self-defence techniques, strikes, locks, grappling and ground fighting. Kim combines the 'real' side of karate with her judo training. Kim champions women's innate mental and physical strength and concentrates on demonstrating techniques designed for women and mindsets that equip students to deal with what is thrown at them in training and what might be thrown at them in their own lives.
Kim passing 2nd dan grading, with Iain Abernethy.
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The continual (and impossible) goal of self-perfection and improvement in karate-do means there's always something to learn and practise, you will never be 'perfect'. 'Practice' is the answer to any question you ask in training. 'How can I get better at this, how can I be quicker, stronger, hit harder, how can I master my fear?' 'Practice!' There is no easy way out in training and in life, it is a useful thing that karate teaches you and something Kim advocates in Common Sense Defence. There is always something new to learn; always something to strive to get better at.
Kim's desire to empower women came about as her own life changed through her martial arts journey. ' I really enjoy getting beginners to change their thinking and their self- belief that they are more able than they had thought, how to control their bodies to use their full force to defend themselves. Seeing students confidence in themselves improve and their abilities is the most rewarding part of teaching.' Learning self-defence is empowering, informative and inspiring and Kim aims to pass this onto the women who come to the course and champions women's natural, and sometimes untapped, abilities.
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Kim regularly attends karate training and is always striving to test and sharpen techniques. Kim holds belts in judo and practices judo when possible; she is interested in any martial art or sport that has a focus on self-defence and empowerment, particular geared toward female empowerment.
Kim works in the voluntary sector in and is proud be part of the bigger picture, contributing to improving the community. Kim is currently in the progress of developing female self-defence courses with charities as part of their fitness/well-being programmes. If you are a charity and interested in discussing this with Kim, please get in touch at the contact page!
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Throwback Thursday to the stunning Dingle peninsular, Ireland, while visiting relatives in Kerry. My Irish citizenship just came through too! I'm British and Irish now! Eirinn go bragh! ☘😊
Honoured to be a @uksaysnomore ambassador, as part of their two year pilot campaign 'Safe Spaces' in London. Safe Spaces seeks to unite communities to actively take a stand against domestic violence and provides training and resources to recognise and respond to domestic abuse and sexual violence. I hope to help play a role in ending domestic abuse and sexual violence and to support people by signposting them to specialist support. Together we can challenge the myths and misconceptions around these issues and work together to make a real positive change! 💪
Working on combinations on this grey Sunday, enjoying the last weekend of British Summer Time before the clocks go back and we lose an hour of light! Winter is coming! ❄
Tonight's women's self-defence session at @lambethcollege focused on simple, no-frills strikes - palm strike, elbows and knees! Great energy tonight - we will continue working on this next week! 💪
Sweaty? Yes! Sore knuckles? Yes! Stronger than the day before? Yes!! That's how you can tell you've spent a great Thursday evening! Fantastic evening in the dojo with a sensei who always keeps us on our toes and challenges us to always strive to be better! 💪
Great evening teaching a simple, no frills self defence workshop for the @womensinstitute in Russell Square, London. Thanks for having me and keep up the screaming! 💪
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resting for a while
Posted by Paul Militaru on September 29, 2022
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24 comments on "resting for a while"
seaangel4444 on October 3, 2022 at 1:29 am said:
Ah, Maya needed a little break! Bless her! Cher xoxoxo
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photographyartplus on September 30, 2022 at 6:37 pm said:
Beautiful girl, lovely!
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House of Heart on September 29, 2022 at 9:13 pm said:
All that playing wears a pup out ! 🐶🐾🐾❤
Yes true! Thank you so much ❤
House of Heart on September 30, 2022 at 12:19 am said:
Always a joy to see Maya ❤
Paul Militaru on September 30, 2022 at 7:54 am said:
I know, thank you so much Holly ❤
Dayphoto on September 29, 2022 at 6:04 pm said:
It's always nice to see that lovely Mya!
Rovica on September 29, 2022 at 5:29 pm said:
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It seems to me she is guarding while resting 😀
Of course, she is a hunting dog!!! Thank you 🙂
OIKOS™- Art, Books & more on September 29, 2022 at 12:30 pm said:
Beautiful! She is observing her territory; always an eye open. xx Michael
My pleasure, Paul! I have to thank you for all the enjoyment with your photographs. xx Michael
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Low-Life of Elizabethan London
by Deborah Swift
Whilst researching my character Zachary Deane, I researched the late Elizabethan and Jacobean underworld to find out about what sort of ways a penniless person could cheat, lie, steal or embezzle to make a living in 1609. Most of this information comes from a book called The Elizabethan Underworld by Gamini Salgado - a book I highly recommend.
Diogenes Looking for an Honest Man - Caesar Van Everdingen 1652
The Righteous Beggar
The Reformation had cast out many friars and pardoners and made them into itinerant beggars. In the eyes of the law these were now vagrants, but the general population had quite a lot of sympathy for them, as they were seen as former 'holy men.' Impersonating a monk became a lucrative way of begging.
Many soldiers and sailors in the wars against Portugal and Spain had not been properly paid and when the campaign was over were discharged onto the streets. A common begging ruse was to claim you had been with Drake in the expedition against Portugal (1589), and the sympathetic public would donate thinking you were a patriotic sailor. These righteous beggars were called 'rufflers'. There were also what were known as 'upright men', who were discharged soldiers who would knock on your door and demand food, lodgings or money. In the world of the beggar, the 'upright man' was King and carried a truncheon or 'filchman' to enforce his authority over other less brazen beggars. Click on the picture below to see just how much information can be gleaned about beggars just from this one drawing.
'Whipjacks' were men who has supposedly been shipwrecked or lost everything at sea. Men who had really been at sea were given a licence to beg, but these were often counterfeited by unscrupulous beggars, 'these fresh water mariners, their ships were drowned in the plain of Salisbury' (Thomas Harman). Other beggars faked diseases such as epilepsy by chewing soap to make their saliva froth.
Church and Conman
Surprisingly enough, one of the hot-beds of crime at the turn of the 16th century was St Paul's Church (Cathedral as it was later known after its rebuilding). In 1561 one of the bishops complained about the uses it was put to; 'the south alley for popery and usury, the north for simony, and the horse fair in the midst for all kinds of bargains, meetings, brawlings, murders, conspiracies, and the font for the ordinary payment of money.'
Cutpurses and pickpockets or 'nips' and 'foists' abounded, often working in groups or pairs, and attempting to cheat out-of-towners of their money. A common ruse was to faint and then when someone came to help, to cut away their purse. The playhouses as well as the church were fertile grounds for thieves. Cloak-snatchers and handkerchief snatchers were common in the Church and the theatre, as were confidence tricksters known as 'coneycatchers'.
Rigging the Odds
Dice and Cards were the principal games at which you could gamble and cheat. There were no less than fourteen different kinds of rigged dice, including 'fullams' - dice loaded with lead, and 'bristles'with a hair set in one side to stop the dice landing that way up. 'Gourds' were dice hollowed on one side to weight them one way or the other. Of course sleight of hand was necessary to substitute the dice, but this could be learned easily with practice. Rigged outcomes were common at bowling alleys, bear-baiting and anywhere where gambling was undertaken.
Another great source of information about the female cutpurse and cheat can be found in The Roaring Girl - a play by Middleton and Dekker from about 1607, about a woman called Mary Frith, alias Moll Cutpurse, though admittedly she did dress as a man for many of her exploits as can be seen on this pamphlet of the time.
Thanks for reading, hope I haven't given you any ideas! Here are my books, the cutpurse Zachary Deane features in A Divided Inheritance.
Posted by Deborah Swift at 10:45 PM
Labels: A Divided Inheritance, beggar, coneycatcher, cutpurse, Deborah Swift, Elizabethan, gambling, London Underworld, Moll Cutpurse. Middleton and Dekker, St Paul's Chuch, Stuart, thief, Tudor thieves, vagrant
Anita Davison December 3, 2013 at 1:23 AM
A bit of a hackneyed comment from me but that post was truly fascinating Dee - thoroughly enjoyed it and the book is now in my Must have pile!
Deborah Swift December 3, 2013 at 2:20 AM
Hi Anita - it is a great book, and invaluable to get a sense of the sheer numbers of the dispossessed - not just ruffians, but also the genuinely needy, and the lengths that some people would go to just to get fed.
Michele December 3, 2013 at 7:54 AM
Reminds me of the beggars in Slum Dog Millionaire.
tsaddik007 December 3, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Wherein the schmuck director became a genuine millionaire (solely by reason of the writers' clever plot) and the cast members simply returned to their godawful poverty
Jane December 3, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Love this, great fun post. The Roaring Girl - such a fantastic title. I have an odd woman dressed as a man in my Lucy Morgan Elizabethan series, based on exactly that kind of character. I also think there's a lot of mileage for great fiction in the area of gambling cheats. So much dynamic energy about these anecdotes. Thanks for sharing!
Deborah Swift December 3, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Hi Victoria, love the sound of your character - must check that one out.
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