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Trump Vows to Cut Burdensome Regulations in Address to Home Builders
Filed in Codes and Regulations, Economics, Leadership	by NAHB Now	on August 11, 2016	• 24 Comments
More than 950 NAHB members and guests listened to the Republican presidential candidate.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump today vowed to cut regulations that are hurting the housing and economic recovery. Speaking before more than 950 NAHB members and guests attending the NAHB Board of Directors Midyear Meeting in Miami, Trump said that over-regulation is costing the economy $2 trillion per year.
"No one other than the energy industry is regulated more than the home building industry," said Trump. "Twenty-five percent of the cost of a home is due to regulation. I think we should get that down to about 2%."
Laying out his plan to create more jobs, lower taxes and reduce burdensome regulations, Trump said: "We will impose a temporary moratorium order on new agency regulations. We'll cancel all illegal and overreaching executive orders signed by President Obama. We will eliminate all regulations that kill jobs. We will remove the bureaucrats that only know how to kill jobs and replace them with experts who know how to create jobs without regulations."
As part of his program to spur job and economic growth, Trump promised a major tax simplification plan to reduce the tax code to three brackets and ensure that all small businesses will be taxed at no more than 15%.
"Everyone's taxes will go down under my plan," said Trump.
Additionally, Trump said he will end corporate inversions and repeal the estate tax, commonly referred to as the death tax.
"I know so many families that have been destroyed by the death tax," he said. "They end up losing their business or have to sell their business. Farmers are hit hard, housing companies are hit hard."
NAHB Remodelers Chair Tim Shigley of Wichita, Kansas, had a message for both parties.
Noting that his father was a home builder, Trump expressed a deep affinity for the industry. "A home builder taught me everything I know," he said. "There is no greater thing you can do. If you can build a home, you can build anything."
More than 11,000 people viewed Trump's address to the NAHB board via a live video feed.
Trump's speech to the NAHB board comes one day after Gene Sperling, a top economic advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, addressed the same group.
"We are very honored to have these national leaders address our members," said NAHB Chairman Ed Brady. "Their presence at our board meeting conveys the important role that the nation's housing industry will play in the upcoming elections and reaffirms that housing must remain a national priority."
NAHB does not endorse presidential candidates.
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Ann M Ellison says:
I can't think of anything I'd be less likely to leave to any business than the right to regulate itself.
I know this isn't what Trump said…but, it amounts to that. He is pandering to anybody that might hand him a vote by throwing the health and safety of the public to the winds.
I have seen what happens when regulations aren't met.
Anthony Mazzucca says:
I agree with you. As a licensed builder, I appreciate codes that keep bad builders out and help us improve our products
Al Zichella says:
Anyone who thinks we are under-regulated needs A PSYCHIATRIC EXAMINATION. Besides, there is a big difference between what you are saying and what he said. He is not advocating for no regulation, just a moratorium, which is perfectly appropriate.
Besides, everything he said is on point, or the Supreme Court of the United States would not be ruling against the EPA, and the Army Corps, as they recently did in the Sackett and Koontz cases.
Right now the agencies we entrusted to preserve clean air and water to have become so powerful, and their transgressions against average Americans and property owners so egregious that the Supreme Court rulings are unanimous, as it was in Sackett.
Further, the incessant tinkering with the building codes, making it more and more costly to build homes is a drag on home ownership, and spawns a code that is interpreted differently in almost every jurisdiction. What was intended to bring clarity to the process is now frequently responsible for only confusion, ideological agendas, and obfuscation by local regulators. When you say you have seen what happens when regulations aren't met. I presume you mean that non-compliant construction gets halted.
Your position frankly is non-sensical. You want more regulation, go into the energy business or medicine. The rest of us will do just fine with what we have or even less.
Right, just how the government regulates itself, that is really working well.
Regulations have little to do with health and safety, its about creating more government jobs at the expense of the private sector.
I"ll give an example. The city of Austin is now requiring all thermostats to be placed at 48″ to accommodate ADA. This makes it nearly impossible to use for the average person without bending over or even getting on a knee. Catering to 1% of the population while hampering the other 99%.
Before this stupid regulation existed the builder would have simply accommodated those who needed the thermostat height adjusted.
I'm 5′ 3″ or 63 inches tall. All the electrical switches in my home are approximately 48″ from the ground. I don't have to bend to reach them and could not reach them if I were on my knees. Moreover, it doesn't cost more or less to place thermostats at that height. Your argument does not hold water.
Michael D. Newsome says:
Ann, I was present for Trump's speech because I wanted to hear and judge his remarks and worthiness for elected leadership for myself – unedited and without coloration by reporting. He said he advocates for a MORATORIUM on new regulations, not a rollback nor an absence. Neither he, NAHB nor their members have expressed a desire for an absence of regulations, which are essential for establishing and insuring the health and safety of our nations housing stock. The regulatory process of vetting proposed regulations thru a thoughtful system of oversight with input by professionals in the engineering, environmental and construction sciences, with a full nod to cost-impact and effectiveness has historically led to safe and AFFORDABLE housing. Our regulatory agencies are increasingly becoming self-perpetuating bureaucracies, unsupervised by our elected leadership. That is unacceptable in any society that takes seriously the charge of housing its citizens.
Tracie Englen says:
Thank you Michael……..very well said. People only hear what they want to hear. The current administration has had 8 years to do the right thing for the building and mortgage industry and look what they have done………Time for a real overhaul.
Judy Smith says:
Thank you Michael, very well said indeed. No one wants the neccessary regulations removed, just the ridiculous new ones stopped.
Scott Sedam says:
He said he would cut the "25% of the cost of homes due to regulations" down to 2%. Uh-huh. That would be one helluva a lot of regulations cutting, meaning cutting more than 95% of what is out there now. Just more pandering BS. So sick of it. Would someone just ask "Exactly what would you cut. Name them." They would not have an answer.
Marty Knezovich says:
Whenever I hear a politician make the comment about too much government regulation, I wish they would state even one regulation that they would end if they could, and why the reasons for enacting that regulation in the first place were or are invalid.
I so agree with you. Politicians need to clarify their statements referencing which regulations are non-essentials and why.
Lisa Moon says:
I would love to know how Mr. Trump gets his figures, and how he plans to reduce regulation cost to 2%. I'd hate to think of the condition of the homes managed with so little regulation… Third world countries come to mind.
David Gasson says:
Marty makes a valid point which is why specifics are so important. Is Mr. Trump speaking of green regulations and requirements? ADA requirements or perhaps environmental. All should be reviewed but to say that you are going to eliminate regulation and roll back to 2% of cost is unrealistic. Also, what about affordability. He builds hotels and high priced condos and while his father did build affordable housing in New York City, Mr. Trump has no experience in that field. His tax plan would make it next to impossible to maintain production and investment in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, which itself is a regulated program. Details and specifics from Mr. Trump's campaign would be helpful.
I agree there has to be regulation but what I believe he is referring to is the way the gov runs with regulation without much thought to impact on costs. USPS comes to mind as an example of how the gov runs things! In our area of the country they police the existing regulations so poorly that all the sub-standard contractors and builders get away with whatever they want anyway!I'm all for eliminating the majority of burdensome regulations that do nothing to promote business or better the quality of our trade!
If we want more of the same then vote for more of the same. As I have stated before, in the seventies my husband had a business deal (real estate) with Trump and it went great. He keeps his word even when things get tough. He shows up and answers questions with out them being previewed before hand and he also has a much better background for our industry then what is in Washington now and has be for the past 8 years. Trump knows the best people for the job and he will appoint the best.
I find it troubling that the NAHB seems to readily back any Republican candidate, especially on my local level. I don't know if this article is an endorsement, but some equal time for opposing candidates would be a breath of fresh air.
NAHB Now says:
NAHB does not endorse presidential candidates. NAHB invited both campaigns to speak at our Midyear meeting so they could provide each candidate's views on home building and the economy. Gene Sperling, top economic advisor to Hillary Clinton, spoke to our members on Wednesday morning, and Donald Trump spoke on Thursday.
Leigh Ann Mauel says:
Where I live the regulations to me are a bunch of red tape that prevent the builders from moving forward with projects! They are not ( in my opinion in place to protect anyone!)
I am sick of what the last 8 years have brought to this country (NOTHING) and ready for a change.
Then perhaps you are voting for changes in Congress, who have refused to work with the Executive branch, only obstruct.
I think you have it backwards. The far left executive branch refuses to compromise with the moderate congress. Obstruction is a good thing when incompetent politicians are running our country into the ground. Leigh Ann is correct that the amount of red tape and regulations are mostly in place to create government jobs, not protect people. If you think this radical administration would do anything positive for the building industry you are delusional.
Great response Grant. Absolutely agree with you.
So, by what measures is our country being "run into the ground" ?? Looks to me like it's been a great time to be a home builder, 1211 thousand starts in 7/16, compared to 478 thousand starts in 04/09. Unemployment is at it's lowest since 2007, the stock market is at all time highs, violent crime rate is at an all time low. Substantiate any claims with some verifiable national statistics. Thanx.
Martin Van Berlo says:
How do you cut back on a building code that is already considered a minimum standard? Perhaps some of those contractors building to a minimum standard need to upgrade their quality.
Harry Crowell says:
Have been building homes for over 60 years over 30,000 of them
I used to sell a -1,300 sq.ft. House for $18,000 with a $3,000 profit.
They had brick fireplace, built in cooking, dishwasher 2baths shake roof 2car garage. They are still standing and reselling for $500,000.
With codes, fergulations they cost a lot more today and not musc different except for all the extra costs created by government
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By Ronit Shah Jul 29, 2012, 7:20pm EDT
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The recent acquisition of starting pitcher Wandy Rodriguez has pushed Kevin Correia out of the Pittsburgh Pirates' starting rotation and into the bullpen, the 31-year-old tells Tom Singer of MLB.com he hopes to be dealt and put into a situation where he can be a starting pitcher rather than a reliever.
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Every several years, there's a wave of articles addressing the question of "whether underwriting matters." The answer is always the same: underwriting not only matters, it is essential to any insurance company that wants to be profitable. The real question we should be asking is what role underwriters will play as automation reshapes the underwriting process.
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As a computer scientist who happens to love insurance, I am in the business of making people more efficient. But, what does that mean? Here is my personal definition: people are most efficient when they are doing work that only people can do. Technology has certainly made underwriters more efficient, and as new technologies become mainstream, efficiency will continue to improve, but I don't think the underwriter will ever become obsolete.
There is a lot of work that underwriters do that computers can and should do. We expect, for example, that underwriters will use a computer-based tool for rating – yes, that includes your trusty spreadsheet. We generally don't have paper underwriting files anymore. We use email and the internet for ad-hoc distribution of information. And there are other areas ripe for automation, including data gathering, data entry, document creation, and email follow-ups.
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While computers can come up with creative ideas, they will never be as good as people at determining how applicable those ideas are in the market. Who will decide which of the myriad of creative options generated by AI will be acceptable to an insured? Who will build the relationships to help customers understand and express needs that they lack the language to describe? Who will anticipate risk based on industry conversations before there is any real data to support it (aka street smarts)? Who will provide design input on the next wave of insurance delivery systems? In each case, it's intangibles like these that will still require a human touch.
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The underwriting role is certainly changing, and technology is playing a big role. Those that embrace this change, adapt to it, and begin to shape it by focusing on the people factor will thrive.
Jason Pamplin has a vast background in the insurance industry, working as the CIO of Thomco Insurance, IT Director at Markel and the Manager of Engineering Services at Vertafore. He is currently the Product Manager for Instec Underwriting. With his deep experience in IT, and vast knowledge of underwriting functions, Jason brings years of industry experience to the team, and is a key player in guiding IT solutions and deploying them. Jason has a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia State University.


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Fewer women run top Australian companies than men named John — or Peter, or David
By Matt Liddy and Catherine Hanrahan Updated Wed 8 Mar 2017, 9:12 AM AEDT
Fewer large Australian companies are run by women than are run by men named John.
Or Peter. Or David.
External Link Chart: Women outnumbered in top roles
Consultant Conrad Liveris gathered the data on CEOs and chairs at Australia's largest 200 companies for the third year running, and released it to coincide with International Women's Day.
"To be a captain of Australian business you are 40 per cent more likely to be named Peter or John than to be female," he said.
"Straight, white, able-bodied men aged 40-69 years, which represents the majority of Australian leadership, are 8.4 per cent of the population."
Wait, are you sitting down?
The number of women in those key leadership positions actually fell in 2017.
There are only nine women CEOs and 10 women chairing boards in the ASX 200.
Mr Liveris calls this "ironic", although that really only applies here in an Alanis Morissette kind of way.
"It seems like we discuss this topic all the time and it is amounting to even fewer women accessing these roles," he said.
External Link Chart: Number of women in leadership fell in 2017
"Such a narrow pool of executive talent does a disservice to organisations, shareholders, the business community and Australia overall," Liveris said.
Even 'female-dominated' industries are male-dominated
Wait, is that even possible?
Yes, turns out it is. And here's what we mean by that.
Even in industries where a large majority of the workforce is female — think health and education — a large majority of CEOs are, wait for it, male.
For example, about three quarters of the health care and education workforces are female, but only a third of the leaders in those fields are women.
And in this case we are not just talking about Australia's 200 biggest companies. This data is slightly older but largely comes from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, so it covers the private sector for those entire industries.
This is a long chart but take a look and see if you can find any industries where women are over-represented in the CEO's office.
External Link CEOs vs women in industry
Nope, we couldn't either.
Is there any good news?
Well, that probably depends on your perspective, but if you take one step down from the CEO level, things do look a little better.
The proportion of women employed as executives is typically much closer to representing their relative numbers in the workforce.
For example, around 40 per cent of executives in the Commonwealth public service are women, relatively close to the 50 per cent level of overall staff numbers.
Women in a tradesman's world
A series about women in occupations that have been traditionally male dominated.
Mining and construction promote women to executive level at almost the same proportion as their female workforce numbers.
Marian Baird, professor of gender and employment relations at the University of Sydney Business School, said the higher proportions of women at executive level was encouraging but only if those women held critical positions.
"We know quite clearly that if you are in [human resources] or communications or public relations, which is where a lot of women are clustered at senior executive level, they are much less likely to become the CEO than if they are in finance or operations.
"They are the two that go through to the next level."
External Link Executives vs women in each industry
Data for the first two charts is drawn from an analysis by economist Conrad Liveris, published in a report titled: To Be Meritorious, Gender Equality At Work In 2017.
CEO and executive numbers for each industry were taken from the Australian Bureau of Statistics gender indicators for 2014-2015 and represent the private sector.
Industry employee numbers for 2015 were taken from the Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data for August 2015 and represent all sectors.
Note that all industries, with the exception of public administration and safety, health care and assistance, education and training, and electricity, gas, water and waste services, all have more than 90 per cent of their employees working in the private sector.
Federal parliamentarian and minister numbers are current, and state and territory parliamentarian numbers were correct at January 2016.
Public service numbers were taken from the Australian Public Sector Commission APS statistics bulletin 2014-15 and are for June 2015. They do not include state and territory public servants.
Executives in the public service are defined as senior executive service managers.
Posted Wed 8 Mar 2017, 6:31 AM AEDT


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"The heart of the people of Europe beats in Greece" with Slavoj Žižek
Discussion, "The heart of the people of Europe beats in Greece". 3. 6. 2012, Athens, Greece
Slavoj Žižek, one of the most prominent contemporary thinkers, Alexis Tsipras, president of the parliamentary group of SYRIZA/EKM and Kostas Douzinas, professor of Philosophy of Law at the of Birkbeck University of London, will talk about the overthrow of the neo-liberal policies which generate the crisis, exacerbate the recession and impose austerity, leading to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. At this point, it would be useful to remind that the Slovenian philosopher has already declared his support for SYRIZA, in an article that was published in London Review of Books, under the title " Save us from the saviours."
Greeks are proud that Slavoi Zizek will be the ambassador of their fight in Europe. As they said, »Solidarity is our weapon«. They said that the solidarity of their weapons, which was also Zizek warned in a speech that Europe must show its solidarity with the Greeks, or it too will fail, as it should be a core value of solidarity in Europe. He also paraphrased Lennon's song "Give Peace A Chance" and said "Give Greece a Chance".
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Leonard pl. Dudan (Leonardo) (Kaštel Kambelovac, 1798. — Split, 2. veljače 1864.), hrvatski pjesnik i političar, potomak splitske plemićke obitelji. Bio je načelnik Splita u više mandata.

Pohađao je nadbiskupsko sjemenište u Splitu, a zatim je studirao književnost i oba prava u Padovi te stekao doktorat. U splitskom Općinskom vijeću bio 1828–30. jedan od prisjednika, 1832–34. načelnik, 1834–37. općinski upravitelj, 1837–40. i 1848–52. načelnik, a 1858. i 1860. vijećnik. Od 1834. do 1840. bio je predsjednik Agrarne komisije u splitskom okrugu i predsjednik Javne dobrotvornosti te 1848. zapovjednik Narodne garde u Splitu.

U prvom mandatnom razdoblju Dalmatinskog sabora 1860–64. zastupnik je u kuriji veleporeznika. Godine 1848. protivio se sjedinjenju Dalmacije s Hrvatskom, a 1861. se također zauzimao u Dalmatinskom saboru za autonomiju Dalmacije.

Bilješke

Vanjske poveznice

 Leonardo Dudan - Hrvatski biografski leksikon

Splitski gradonačelnici

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Should the United States Supreme Court allow the legalization of sports betting nationwide, the state of Mississippi will have its doors open – possibly as soon as the start of the 2018 football season. At least that's the plan for Mississippi sports betting, according the head of the state gaming commission, Allen Godfrey.
In a recent story in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Godfrey promised sports betting "within 45 to 60 days [of a decision], before football season." And if you're wondering how Mississippi can pull that off without passing any legislation during the 2018 session, the answer is simple: sports betting is already legal in Mississippi.
Though the state has done just about nothing with regard to sports betting during the current legislative session, they made it legal, albeit under the radar, in early 2017. The Mississippi legislature passed HB 967 in March of last year. Though the bill focused on fantasy sports, it modified the Gaming Control Act. The end result is that the bill legalizes sports gambling in Mississippi.
Mississippi Will Have a Leg Up When it Comes to Sports Betting. Legislation in Louisiana all But Dead, and Other Border States Aren't Interested.
Because of that, Mississippi is waiting – and chomping at the bit to get sports betting into its more than 30 commercial and tribal casinos, many of which dot the Gulf of Mexico and are easy driving distance from the biggest city in the region – New Orleans.
"It will be just another type of game offered in a legal casino operation," Godfrey told the Clarion-Ledger.
New Jersey's case against the NCAA and major pro sports leagues, Murphy v NCAA, may result in the 1992 federal ban on sports wagering outside Nevada — known as the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act — getting lifted. So far this year, only West Virginia has made sports betting legal. Pennsylvania passed a law in favor of sports betting in 2017. Delaware and Oregon, two states whose then-existing sports wagering offerings were "grandfathered' in under PASPA, are in a similar place as Mississippi, to the extent they may not need additional legislation to offer licenses for full-fledged sports betting.
If Mississippi indeed does open the sports betting doors sooner than later, it will have a big leg up in the Southeast. The only nearby state even discussing sports betting is Louisiana, and the latest bill there didn't get out of the Finance Committee. There has been little to no sports betting conversation in Mississippi's other border states – Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee.


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July 6, 2017 by: Content Team
The system of metes and bounds is one used in real estate to describe land or real property based on the physical features of its geography, as well as directions and distances. These features define the boundaries of a select parcel of land, and they may also include references to adjoining parcels of land and their owners. Once the description is complete, the boundaries of the property may be physically marked on the ground with permanent markers, that is if no suitable natural markers exist. To explore this concept, consider the following metes and bounds definition.
Definition of Metes and Bounds
A system used in real estate to define the physical features and boundaries of a piece of property.
1275-1325 late Middle English
What are Metes and Bounds
Metes and bounds are the limits or boundaries of a piece of property as identified by its natural landmarks. Examples of metes and bounds landmarks include rivers, roads, stakes, or other such natural or manmade markers. Metes and bounds descriptions are typically used whenever land survey areas are irregularly sized and/or shaped, so that the boundaries of the property can be more clearly defined.
A metes and bounds description of a piece of land is referred to as its "legal description," as opposed to being distinguishable by a mere street address or lot number. While the system is still used today, technology has greatly improved upon its associated tools and measurements.
Consider the following example of metes and bounds description, which describes a roughly triangular-shaped piece of property using distance, direction, and compass points, as well as manmade markers that were used to mark out the property for future reference:
"Beginning at a point from which the north quarter corner of Section 4, T. 1 N (township 1 north), R. 70 W (range 70 west) of the 6th PM (the sixth principal meridian, a north–south reference line) in ABC County, Colorado, bears N 45° W 1,320 feet, at which point of beginning an iron stake has been placed; thence south 600 feet to a point also marked by an iron stake; thence N 45° W 700 feet to a large oak tree; thence northeasterly to the point of beginning."
Metes
"Metes" are a piece of property's boundary lines, as determined by measuring its "straight runs." A straight run is the distance between two points. Metes can also be found by determining a plot of land's direction. A property's direction may be as simple as a compass point, or the direction that each point of the property faces. This means that metes can be described as north, south, east, or west.
"Bounds" is a term that is used to describe a property's boundary lines in a more general sense. For instance, a manmade wall, public roadway, or even an existing building can serve as a plot of land's "bounds." Bounds are often used to define bigger pieces of property, such as farms, or political subdivisions, including a town's boundaries. This is because a more detailed definition would otherwise be either too expensive to carry out, or simply unnecessary.
History of Metes and Bounds Use
The history of metes and bounds use came into play back during the days of the original colonies making up the United States. The history of metes and bounds use continues today in those states that were originally part of the Thirteen Colonies – or before 1785 – in areas where land was being allocated, such as Maine, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Vermont. To this day, Texas still primarily uses the metes and bounds system due to the fact that it was an independent republic prior to achieving statehood.
The history of metes and bounds use affects election constituency boundaries today as well, as these are still described using metes and bounds, even in jurisdictions where they are not used in property sales. These jurisdictions typically rely on streets and their intersections to define the boundaries of each electoral district.
Metes and Bounds Survey
The following is an actual example of a metes and bounds survey that was recorded in Superior Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan. The assessor's parcel number is the property's tax identification number.
ASSESSOR'S PARCEL NO: 14-02-620-012
9320 DUCK HARBOR ROAD
PLYMOUTH, MICHIGAN 48170
COM AT E 1/4 POST OF SEC, TH S 1 DEG 05′ E 112.42 FT IN E LINE OF SEC, TH S 66 DEG 08′ W 702.70 FT IN CENT OF HWY FOR PL OF BEG, TH S 14 DEG 06′ E 850.03 FT, TH S 66 DEG 09′ W 244.27 FT, TH N 22 DEG 40′ W 542.46 FT, TH N 66 DEG 09′ E 843.26 FT IN CENT OF HWY TO THE PL OF BEG, SEC 2, T2S-R7E, 3.62 AC.
In addition to the easily identifiable abbreviations that are used in the metes and bounds survey, technology has also made it possible to include more precise images. For instance, metes and bounds surveys are now accompanied by images from MapQuest and GlobeXplorer, both of which can show a more detailed representation of the precise boundaries being discussed.
Metes and Bounds Example Involving a Transfer of Land
An example of metes and bounds problems involved a transfer of land, which had never been properly measured. In 1942, when a piece of land was sold to Byrd Patton, the legal description of that land did not contain metes and bounds. On April 6, 1951, Byrd transferred the land to Ralph Patton. Ralph passed away in 1952, whereupon the land was transferred to Ruth Martin. The legal description at that time had not been updated to include metes and bounds. Instead, the land was consistently described as having a certain number of acres "more or less."
In 1955, Ruth hired a land surveyor, N.S. Westbrook, to survey the land forming the property line between lot 76 and lot 77. Westbrook marked out with iron stakes the boundary lines that he had measured. In 1982, the land was surveyed again, however the boundary lines were significantly different than those that had been drawn during the 1955 survey. Another survey was done in 1994, whereupon it was learned that all three surveys drew different boundary lines for the property. It was therefore impossible to tell which boundary lines were correct.
Martin then decided to bring a lawsuit to quiet title to this particular parcel of land. The jury, upon being given all three property lines on which to decide, ultimately chose the boundary line that was drawn in the 1982 survey.
At trial, Warren L. Storey, Jr., the surveyor who had conducted the 1982 survey, testified that, since the deeds to the property contained no metes and bounds, the property should be measured by calculating its acreage. This was despite the fact that the property contained both manmade and natural physical boundaries. Performing such calculations would, according to Storey, reveal the true dividing line between lots 76 and 77. Ultimately, the jury chose the 1982 survey line.
Martin appealed to the Court of Appeals of Georgia, and in April of 1997, the Court reversed the lower court's decision and remanded the case back to the trial court for the purpose of conducting a new trial. Said the Court:
"Storey admitted that the Westbrook survey of 1955 and the Mitchell survey of 1994 both located and placed monuments where the land lot line between Land Lots 76 and 77 was located on the ground. Storey testified that the land lot line was not the boundary, notwithstanding that the deeds used the land lot line as the boundary between Land Lots 76 and 77. In his opinion, the acreage and the 1931 survey forced the boundary line, and the appellee's deed should have shown that the land lay in both Land Lots 76 and 77, because it was necessary to cross the land lot line to give appellee the exact acreage called for in the deed and to establish the dividing line. The appellee's deed, by assent, did not convey to her a specific acreage but, by its express language, conveyed only a 'tract or parcel' of land with 'more or less' acreage.
Since such opinion is contrary to the law as to the determination of boundary lines by disregarding that each deed located the tract as existing exclusively in one land lot and recognizing the definite boundary as the land lot line, and since Storey admits that the land lot line was correctly determined by the Westbrook survey of 1955 and the Mitchell survey of 1994, then there was no probative evidence to support the jury verdict and judgment decreeing the boundary line as set forth in the verdict. The trial court erred as a matter of law in entering the judgment."
Jurisdiction – The geographical region of authority to enforce justice; the legal authority to hear legal cases and make judgments.
Land Survey – The science of determining the terrestrial positions of points, as well as the distances and angles between them.
Republic – A state in which the power is held by the people and their elected representatives.
Seisin
Tenancy at Sufferance
Constructive Eviction
Quiet Title
Prorated Rent


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Dr. Soomer Appointed UWI Campus Council Chair
VP Digital May 4, 2017 12:03 pm May 4, 2017 0
THE Council of The University of the West Indies (UWI) approved the appointment of Ambassador Dr. June Soomer as the new Chairman of the Open Campus Council at their annual meeting on Thursday, April 27, 2017 in Barbados.
Ambassador Dr. June Soomer
Ambassador Soomer assumes this post after the untimely passing of former Chairman, Sir K. Dwight Venner in December 2016. Ambassador Soomer is charged to formally guide the strategic, financial and administrative affairs of the Open Campus within the University's new strategic direction, regional priorities and global initiatives.
A St. Lucian by nationality, Ambassador Soomer is a historian by training and experience with diverse experiences through her work in the diplomatic, financial and education sectors in the Caribbean and internationally. She currently serves as the Secretary General to the Association of Caribbean States (ACS).
With over 30 years of academic and professional experience functioning at the managerial, operational and technical levels, Ambassador Soomer has developed a solid understanding of contemporary development issues and continues to advocate for equality and equity in sustainable development, especially for the Caribbean region.
Ambassador Dr. June Soomer received her Ph.D. in History from the University of the West Indies in 1994. She was the first female to graduate with a doctorate in History from the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies. Her thesis entitled "An Assessment of the Factors Affecting the Structure and Functioning of The British West Indies Federal Civil Service, 1947-1962", commenced her deep passion for regional integration and has directed her career path.
She served as St. Lucia's Ambassador to OECS and CARICOM with responsibility for Diaspora Affairs from 2008-2015. Since completing her doctorate, she has pursued programmes in Human Resources Management, Organisation Development and Strategic Planning. She also lectured at the University of the West Indies, the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, the University of North Carolina Central and was a visiting lecturer at the University of San Francisco, Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Ambassador Soomer also worked for ten years at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) in the Human Resources Department, the Research Department and the Strategic Policy Unit of the institution.
Over the course of her career, Ambassador Soomer has served her home country of St. Lucia as well, including being the OECS Commissioner for St. Lucia, the Chair of the Technical Working Group on Associate Membership (CARICOM), Head of the Maritime Boundaries Delimitation Team for St. Lucia, a member of the CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors, a member of the Saint Lucia National Reparation Committee, and a member of the St. Lucia Nobel Laureate Committee.
Ambassador Soomer has several publications to her name, including "The Social Pillar of Integration", in Caricom Perspective 1992-1993 issues; "Cricket and the Politics of Integration" in Liberation Cricket: W.I. Cricket Culture; "Perceptions of Risk Factors Related to Cancer, Venereal diseases and AIDS among Barbadian Women" as joint author with Dr.Funmilayo Jones (forthcoming); "Comparison of Non-Governmental Organization's Submissions and Positions on Regional Issues with those included in The Report of the West Indian Commission, Time for Action" for the Caribbean network for Integrated Rural Development, 1992; "Cricket and the Origins of Federation Organization"; An Area of Conquest: Popular Democracy and West Indies Cricket Supremacy for Ian Randle Publishers in 1994 edited by H. Beckles; "The Politics of John Compton: Its Impact on the Political Future of St. Lucia" in a joint paper with Cynthia Barrow Giles in the Bulletin of Eastern Caribbean Affairs for ISER in 1996; "Runaway Slave Women in the Windward Islands" in Slave Women in the Americas, by NC University Press in 1997; The Manipulation of the Production and Reproduction of African Women in the Caribbean during Slavery, in Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 63, Issue 1-4; and "The Magna Carta and the Notion of Rights in Post Slavery, Post-Independence Caribbean Countries", which is a forthcoming publication.
She has also made several academic presentations in the region and globally, dealing with historical, socio-economic and gender-related issues. Some of these include The Magna Carta and the Notion of Rights in Post Slavery, Post-Independence Caribbean Countries at the Magna Carta Lecture Series held in St. Lucia in February 2015; "Stiff-backed Spines:" The Militancy, Defiance and Plain Speaking of Enslaved Women in Saint Lucia and the Caribbean at The UWI Open Campus St. Lucia Open Campus Country Conference in June 2015; and The Relevance of Arthur Lewis to the Contemporary Challenges facing Small Island Developing States, in Durban, South Africa in 2015.
The leadership, staff and students of The UWI Open Campus welcome Ambassador Soomer as their new Campus Council Chairman and wish her much success as she assumes this new position.
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There was one passage in which the central character alleges that fire departments once put fires out. He was derided. He was a fireman, and his job was to start fires--fires of books.
"The Pedestrian" is a short story by author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1951 by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. It is included in the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953).
In this story we encounter Leonard Mead, a citizen of a television-centered world in 2053. In the city, roads have fallen into decay and people only leave their homes during the day, staying home at night to watch TV. It is revealed that Mead enjoys walking through the city during the night, something which no one else does. On one of his usual walks he encounters a robotic police car. It is the only police unit in a city of three million, since the purpose of law enforcement has disappeared with everyone watching TV at night. The police car struggles to understand why Mr. Mead would be out walking for no reason and decides to take him to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies.
It is noticeable that the address of the main character, Leonard Mead, happens to be the address of the house that Bradbury grew up in. This has caused speculation that this short story is actually referring to himself, or is in some related way a message to his home town of Waukegan, Illinois.
In an interview, Bradbury reveals that the inspiration for the story came when he was walking down Wilshire Blvd. in Waukegan IL with a friend. On their walk a police cruiser pulled up asked what they were doing. Bradbury answered "Well, we're putting one foot in front of the other." The policemen didn't appreciate Ray's joke and became suspicious of Bradbury and his friend for walking in an area where there were no pedestrians. After some arguing the policeman told them to go home and to not walk any more. Bradbury said "Yes, sir, I'll never walk again." Using this experience as inspiration he went home and wrote "The Pedestrian". Bradbury also said in this interview that "The Pedestrian" is simply the beginning of Fahrenheit 451.
I have read some of his works like Childhood's End, The Hammer of God, The Fountains of Paradise, etc. I really enjoyed reading it. Some of his best works in my opinion. The Zero Hour is also one which I can't miss out.


What tool would you recommend to quickly check CRCs?
I think the "problem" for the crc failing was the sound-area retags messing up the crc.
Easy fix for retagged mp3's and/or missing sfv/nfo/m3u/covers is to ReScene is with SRRDB .srr files and pyReScene from http://rescene.wikidot.com/downloads.
I just run the command line version of pyReScene, but you can add a GUI to it as well.
opening a command prompt, opening the correct folder and running a RETAG Releasename.srr and it will generate the sfv/m3u/nfo/cover and crc-check + retag the mp3s to match the scene ones.
Using srrdb is the most easy way and I guess the only real problem is when an mp3 player tool changes meta-data inside the mp3 during listening.


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Interviews with Brunonia Barry and the literary consultancy, Bubblecow.
Guest article from Wayne Burrows, editor of Staple Magazine.
Original Fiction: Mark Gartside and L.E. Butler.
Original Poetry: Dave Early, N. A'Yara Stein & Alessio Zanelli.
Article by Shanta Everington on literary consultancies and Jane Turley on reviewing the classics.
Book Reviews: Only Joking by Gabriel Josipovici, Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch and The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan.


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Kate Middleton Just Met the Woman Who Played Her Close Friend in a Lifetime Movie
That woman is Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's wife, Louise Linton.
By Caroline Hallemann
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To most Americans, Louise Linton is the sometimes-controversial wife of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
But to a select few fans of the British royal family, Linton is better known Vanessa Rose Bellows, Kate Middleton's fictionalized bestie in William & Kate, a TV movie about the royals' courtship, which aired on Lifetime right before the Cambridges' wedding in 2011.
This particular royal-related line on Linton's resume makes it all the more interesting that Mnuchin was paired up with the Duchess of Cambridge last night during the procession into the ballroom of Buckingham Palace.
Undoubtedly, the walk gave Kate and the Treasury Secretary plenty of time to talk at length about the film's key plot points and how they line up with the true timeline of Will and Kate's love story.
The Duchess of Cambridge and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin walking in to the state banquet.
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I know—it's almost too much.
But this encounter gets even better. Linton was at the banquet as well, and Kate even shared a moment with her fictionalized TV movie BFF.
According to Hello, before Kate took her seat at the table, "[the Duchess] stopped to greet one guest and shook hands with her."
That one singular guest was Louise Linton.
"The mystery woman who drew Kate's attention has now been revealed as Louise Linton, Mr Mnuchin's wife," Hello reports. It's almost as if they were drawn to one other by the Lifetime cosmic universe. (I refused to entertain the only slightly more rational idea that Kate perhaps just wanted to say hi to the partner of the man who accompanied her.)
Louise has yet to comment on the matter, though she did post a picture of her striking burgundy dress on Instagram, along with a caption about the "beautiful evening."
A post shared by L O U I S E L I N T O N (@louiselinton) on Jun 4, 2019 at 2:04am PDT
"Wonderful to be home in Britain!" she wrote. "An honour to attend the State Dinner at Buckingham Palace. It was a beautiful evening. #statedinner #buckinghampalace."
If you haven't seen Linton's performance in William & Kate yet, you can spot her a few times in the trailer for the film:
It's also available to stream in it's entirety for $3.99 on Amazon Prime, and well worth a watch. Check it out at the link below:
William & Kate
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In order to see where to place the incision and insert the retractor, the surgeon is guided by fluoroscopy. This method displays real-time x-ray images of the patient's spine on a screen throughout the surgery. The surgeon also uses an operating microscope to magnify the view through the retractor.
At the end of the procedure, the tubular retractor is removed and the muscles return to original position. This limits the muscle damage that is more commonly seen in open surgeries.


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Richard G. Allen
Influence of Landsat Revisit Frequency on Time-Integration of Evapotranspiration for Agricultural Water Management
By Ricardo Trezza, Richard G. Allen, Ayse Kilic, Ian Ratcliffe and Masahiro Tasumi
The objective of this study was to explore the improvement in accuracy of estimates for evapotranspiration (ET) over complete growing seasons and monthly periods, when more frequent Landsat imagery is made available. Conversely, we explored the reduction in accuracy in ET estimates when frequency of Landsat imagery was reduced. The study was implemented by conducting a series of METRIC applications for two Landsat WRS path overlap areas, one in southern Idaho (paths 39 and 40) during 2000, and a second one in Nebraska (paths 29 and 30) during 2002, years when two fully functioning satellites, Landsat 5 and Landsat 7, were in orbit. The results indicated that high frequency imagery provided by two satellites covering a WRS path overlap was more able to capture the impacts of rapid crop development and harvest, and evaporation associated by wetting events. That data set simulated a nominal four-day revisit time. Three-simulated 16-day revisit data sets created using a single Landsat series for a single path were unable to produce monthly and growing season ET due to the lack of sufficient number of images to even begin the time-integration process. This emphasizes the need to maintain two Landsat satellites in orbit and the high value of four-day revisit times. Limiting the data set to one path and two satellites (eight-day revisit) underestimated growing season ET accordingly by about 8% on average. Error in monthly ET was relatively high when image availability was limited to that for an eight-day revisit. This is due to the importance of timing of images to identify key inflection points in the ETrF curves and to capture special events such as wetting events from irrigation and rain or from water stress or cuttings, as in the case of forage crops. Results suggest that a four-day revisit time as represented by the full-run (run 1) of our analysis provides robustness in the development of time-integrated ET estimates over months and growing seasons, and is a valuable backstop for mitigation of clouded images over extended periods.
Part of the book: Advanced Evapotranspiration Methods and Applications
Ian Ratcliffe
Ayse Kilic
Homin Kim
Jerry Moorhead
Jagath Kaluarachchi
Youcan Feng
Sirisha Adamala
Ricardo Trezza
Rajan Bhatt
Regional Research Station
Masahiro Tasumi


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The Photographer as Visual Curator
By Andrew Molitor. Molitor is a fellow writer on photography, variously described as iconoclastic, irrelevant, occasionally right. He swears a lot. You can find him at photothunk.blogspot.com
Recently, in an article in The New York Review of Books, Janet Malcolm told the story of how she had included – as a joke – an artless, banal snapshot in her book Diana and Nikon, together with a number of other photographs that had been decreed by the relevant authorities to be Art. It's the photo above, Untitled, 1970 by G. Botsford. Interestingly enough, as time passed, Botsford's photo started turning up here and there as an example of the "snapshot aesthetic", itself a work of Art. Malcolm, via her off-hand joke, had decreed this photograph to be Art, and now people were willing to accept that it is Art in some meaningful sense.
This is the problem when considering photography as Art. Photography is not quite what we imagine it to be. The carefully crafted Fine Print is not, after all, the only pathway to true Art. Sometimes, a photograph can become Art simply because someone – not just anyone of course, but someone with authority within the art community – says it's Art.
We've seen this before. When Marcel Duchamp exhibited a signed urinal as a sculpture entitled Fountain, he was doing the same thing as Ms. Malcolm, whether tongue in cheek we're not sure.
What then is Art, with a capital A? Is it whatever some pointy-headed fellow with a title like "curator" or "Professor of Arty Artness" says is Art? That feels a little thin, a bit like a cheat; you intuitively feel that this can't be right. The opposite end of the spectrum claims that Art requires skill, talent, and labor. Sculptures made out of marble, formed with infinite patience and a deep understanding of the properties of stone, now that's Art!
The latter sort of thinking belongs to people who look at photography with a lifted brow. As noted in the previous post here, it's this thinking that drove much of the Pictorialist movement in the Victorian era, and which drives much of the urge to "post-process" digital photographs today. It can't be any good, the mindset goes, unless it's had a lot of work put into it.
Duchamp's Fountain, and Malcolm's joke, disagree. They say that Art is merely whatever you think is Art.
In my opinion, neither of these positions is correct, although each has a sort of a piece of it, a single section view. Art is whatever creates an Art-like experience. If you l ook at it, and it makes you think, makes you feel, enlarges you as a human being, then it's Art. I would contend that this isn't purely subjective, because usually if it works for you, it probably works for other people as well, unless you're a complete weirdo. The appropriate term here is inter-subjective. The two acts – the first declaring, from a position of authority, that something Is Art and the second working very very hard, with great skill, to make something which you hope is Art – are both acts which can imbue an object with Artness.
When confronted with Michelangelo's David (a product of labor and skill) as well as with Duchamp's Fountain (a product of a simple declaration) we likely experience that sensation of Art. We feel, we think, we expand a little. The category of things that are Art is a bit fuzzy, the edges are not at all well defined. Are raindrops on a rose petal Art? Perhaps not. Is David? Almost certainly.
An object of Art is perhaps as much a subject for meditation as it is anything else, It's not wrong to consider such an object as merely a trigger for a process that occurs inside ourselves. Michelangelo's David or the "willfully bad" snapshot attributed by Malcolm to G. Botsford can serve equally as a focus for meditation, as a trigger for our own internal search.
All this presents something of a problem for the photographer as artist. There's no getting around it, you can take a random snapshot of your own feet and if you can persuade Larry Gagosian to put it up for sale with an immense price tag, it will indeed be Art. Your blurry foot picture can serve as that trigger for thought, it can create an Art-like experience. In that unlikely scenario you personally had nothing much to do with this, it's pretty much all Larry G's work, his authority makes it Art-like. That doesn't make it fake, though, it would, in that situation, really be Art with a capital A. Unfortunately for you, you're probably not going to get Larry on board with your scheme.
The point to hang on to here is that there are many roads to that Art-like experience.
David would probably be pretty intense to look at, even if no art critic had ever mentioned it. The knowledge of stone, the skill with the chisel, the mastery of form were not wasted. The labor was real, and produced real results. The fact that Duchamp could, with a figurative wave of his hand, turn a urinal into a similar experience takes nothing away from Michelangelo. The well, here, does not have finite capacity.
Vast labor and skill, or the mere declaration by authority, both produce Art. By analogy, we can reason that photography's relative ease takes nothing away from either Michelangelo, nor from the photographer. It is not necessary to labor endlessly, either mashing gum bichromate prints with your hands or fiddling around in Photoshop to make your photograph worthy of the name Art. You certainly may do either, and your labor and skill may produce results.
In its very essence, though, as I see it, photography is simply selection. Not to denigrate selection, it is in its own way every bit as worthy as making. In this case, selecting and making are two different activities, which ought to be viewed on an equal footing, neither being a poor cousin to the other.
This bears repeating: the act of photography, that act of selection should be considered as on the same moral plane as the act of creation that typifies a painting, a sculpture. Think of the photographer as a curator of the visual, selecting and interpreting a slice of the real for other's consideration.
This is the essential worry photographers have about whether photography is Art. Contrary to the regularly scheduled articles about how it has just now been settled, Photography has been comfortably ensconced as an Art for over 100 years now, in part due to Duchamp and his urinal. We saw then that selecting something could indeed be viewed as co-equal with making something. Photography being, essentially, selecting, but with an optional and open-ended add-on of making, of creating, fits into this framework perfectly comfortably.
Many photographs are not Art. Looking at them generates no Art-like experience. Mostly, they're not intended to, they're just a document of someone's holiday, someone's lunch, someone's coffee, someone's child or dog.
What makes a photograph into Art? As we now know, Janet Malcolm declaring it to be so seems to do it. Ansel Adams demonstrated that putting a lot of work into prints might do it, producing quite a different Art-like experience. Robert Frank's famous book partakes of a bit of both, being on the one hand a great deal of labor, but on the other hand made up largely of what appear to be snapshots, at least in the sense that they lack the lumbering and meticulous flavor of the Adams pictures.
At the end of the day, in order to be accepted into The Canon, one needs the imprimatur of some authority figure, but let us set that aside for the moment. Suppose we're making Art for a small enough audience, and audience that will accept at least tentatively our own statement as sufficient authority. How then to produce an Art-like experience?
We're unlikely to be able to slip that blurry picture of our own feet past this audience, they expect, demand, more from us generous though they might be. Our authority is not Duchamp's, even with our friends. We are granted, perhaps, a bit of leeway by our friends. Our friends feel a certain openness and generosity, but are not willing to swallow just any old thing.
I think that we do it by selecting carefully, with genuine feeling, with genuine ideas. Ansel Adams, held up as the mighty technician, literally cannot shut up on this theme. It seems that almost every page of his famously technical trilogy repeats that a picture must be a true reflection of an emotional state. Oddly enough, the Zone System people rarely mention this. His pictures are indeed sublime (although, crush the blacks and see what happens).
If we have a real idea, a real feeling, a real something-to-communicate, and we allow our pictures to reflect that, then sometimes our work might just generate an Art-like experience to someone, somewhere. We might "get through" from time to time, and it's that communication – the curation of the visible, and the aesthetic response of the viewer – that creates Art.
This entry was posted in Aesthetics, Philosophy of Photography, street photography and tagged Andrew Molitor, Janet Malcolm, Photography as Art on August 8, 2018 by Leicaphila.
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18 thoughts on "The Photographer as Visual Curator"
Rolf August 8, 2018 at 3:43 pm
The viewer. That we get through to.
So who or what is this mysterious entity? The one looking at his/her snapchat app time-line or the one looking at exhibits at the MoMA? And when? Today, or in 100 years, or when?
Seriously. Which one?
There's your problem. Clearly, not all photos are art. The more photos we take, the more there are for documentation only, as in "Look, I was here" or "Look what I ate" (because I'm too lazy to describe it in a 1000 words or less). Not all photos want nor need to be art. It's like asking: "Is an instruction manual literature?"
For the MoMA visitors: What makes art into Art? Placing something in artistic context (galleries, museums, even workshops) helps the public to recognise artistic gesture / artistic authorship.
What does this even mean? Well, it means someone with a reputation has to use said reputation to declare it Art. A curator (gallerist, …) invests his/her reputation/money to publicise artistic authorship. In other words: Calling something Art that has been produced by someone with an Art (academic) background and then made visible by someone who says: "I believe in the fact that this educated person has artistic intent and has authored a work to express a certain sentiment".
Don't believe me? Look at how so-called "outsider artists" are treated. Ok, there are exceptions – but do you really, really believe that yours truly can, without recognition of one of the Art schools, make it into a gallery, let alone a museum? With my admittedly pretty landscape pictures or innocent pictures of pretty girlies? Surely not in my lifetime. Nor after.
The photographer may well be a visual curator (selecting frame and time slice). But in order to call it Art, it needs some support by Art schools and publicists who believe they can 'level up' by serving market taste. […]uck – now, who's the market???
So who's the final curator?
– The photographer? Nah.
– The Art school? Certainly not.
– The gallery (..) person? Closer, but nope.
– The buyer/viewer? Hah. In the short term, yes, perhaps, you wish.
– History? i.e. the taste of our future? Could be – who knows…
What remains is that beauty and Art remain in the eye of the beholder depending on the time (and respective trends) that they live in.
StephenJ August 9, 2018 at 12:00 am
It is indeed a very small word for something that is so humungous that it defies this kind of analysis. There is always something missing from the snappy diagnosis or sloppy assessment.
I agree that the artist does not in general, conquer the art market without help from people that understand the market and artists.
Mr. Duchamp's pissoir was probably not alone, as an artist he may well have cribbed it from another, and then had the good fortune to sell the idea. The original may have been better, it just didn't get any oxygen and it died.
Then there are billions of different minds on this planet (and that is just the hu-mans) and because of the "joy of sex", every single one of them is different. Everyone sees and feels art differently. I don't suppose two waking ameoba daughters are that interested, and I would guarantee that their responses would be identical.
If I could add a little to the pot here:
Art is the act of producing something that appeals to a group of people, not as something that has any practical use but just for its own sake, and it can be the work of years or moments.
But how does it appeal, why must we look again? Perhaps we don't have any conscious reason. As I understand things, we humans are barely scratching the surface of our brains, perhaps there is something going on in those bits whose function we are unaware of, when we are moved.
Perhaps we have to rationalise it, and in doing so, understand that it doesn't have any utilitarian value. We just accept it for what it is and laugh or be moved.
But anyway, I am almost certainly missing something big here.
Rob Campbell August 9, 2018 at 2:47 am
The problem is that, as I have said before, Jeanloup Sieff was correct: there is no art, only artists.
So-called art and, thus, artists have to have function. Back in the day, they served the church and nobility – in other words, followed the money. Today, that function is still mainly the pursuit of money.
Take La Gioconda: rip it out of the museum and what have you got? A stolen picture on the wall. Strip the hype from an Arbus or a Goldin and would you ever dream of paying good money for one, never mind thinking about hanging it in your room? Personally, I'd pass. Mass popularity is seldom a reliable yardstick for the value of anything.
That's the truth about photography: it's an invaluable (or at least, it used to be!) tool in the grand scheme of selling product or service.
If you aren't in that bracket of photographer, then at best it passes a dull period and allows the outing of thoughts otherwise too nebulous, both to the self – as to the medium of writing – to express. Which may be a manifestation of the artist, regardless of what he actually produces at the end of the adventure. Perhaps what we should be discussing is the difference between a highly developed artist and one just stumbling along, making the best of a limited skill set.
But art, as in the material outcome of expressing something? Since we can't even define it, seems perhaps more logical to retain the word for those who have the mindset that forces them to make things put of wood, stone, paper, iron – of anything at all. Could that perhaps be all that art is, an external expression of a creative bent, of an artistic nature within?
Art schools and photography schools always pumped out more students than there were jobs. On the one hand, the system kept some people employed and, on the other hand, those studying the rituals in a state of sweet illusion for as long as they remained withing the hallowed halls.
What do those students believe after a few years out on the street?
I never was an art student, but what I have come to believe is ever more basic, the older I become; a painting is a painting, a drawing is a drawing; a sculpture is a sculpture. a photograph a photograph. That's it; no further qualification will escape the trap of subjectivity.
Andrew Molitor August 9, 2018 at 7:15 am
Let us suppose for a moment that pulling an Arbus out of a museum and hanging it in a drugstore would take away all its mojo, which is disputable, but let us stipulate that.
So what? It's in a museum. The Arbus, hanging in the museum, does something. It has a certain mojo, a certain power. Not for everyone, maybe not for you, but for a lot of people.
Rob Campbell August 10, 2018 at 4:16 am
So did the pile of bricks in the Tate.
You have to draw up some basic bottom line of acceptibility or you have the elephant dung displayed at yet another time.
If your theory suggests that anything goes, then I simply have to think that you are being silly for its own sake or because you want to incite angry old men. Neither a very laudable project.
Keith Laban August 10, 2018 at 1:42 pm
I don't think a work can be dismissed merely because it's executed in a particular medium. Oils, watercolours, pastel, charcoal, film, brick, elephant dung…the medium is not the defining factor.
To the extent that the medium is the message, then I have to wonder.
Andrew Molitor August 10, 2018 at 12:11 pm
I am doing neither, Rob. But, to be honest, I do not know a clearer way to articulate what I am saying that I did in the original post.
Leicaphila Post author August 10, 2018 at 1:01 pm
To drag an old dead white guy into the argument, Frederick Nietzsche would say both of you are right: To you, Rob, he'd say this: Every noble man is an Artist. On whatever scale he works, he strives to depict the world in a way that captures its resident divinity. To Andrew, he'd say: the nihilism that devolves art into subjective experience will be surpassed by an understanding that everything is a mode of the infinite, and thus art. Of course, Nietzsche is also the guy who claimed he was the actual reincarnation of Dionysus, so take it for what its worth.
Rob Campbell August 10, 2018 at 1:53 pm
Fred, were he to say what you are suggesting that he might, though perhaps no Dionysus, would make for a good Solomon.
Finny August 10, 2018 at 3:24 pm
Oh, my goodness! What a great statement! Even if I try to translate it into my mother tongue and it is the language of Nietzsche, even then I have trouble to understand all this correctly… very great blog! Love it!
It's why we all remain loyal; Tim writes extremely well on subjects dear to our collective heart and illustrates just as well, too.
And even on the occasions when he shakes his head in metaphorical disbelief at some Leica strategies, I always manage to walk away with the quiet conviction that were Daddy Santa to drop a pretty M-something under the Christmas tree (that I don't erect anyomore – maybe I should reconsider?), then I would definitely feel my day had been a good one.
Beauty brings its own reward, and who would deny Leica that beauty with its M bodies?
But I digress: understanding is partly interpretation, so whatever you take from it leaves you better off than you were before you came across the new item. Brain food, then? Perhaps it's our hunger keeps us coming back for more.
Well said! I only can agree with that 😉
Nick August 10, 2018 at 7:08 pm
Labor and skill does not make art but art and crafts which is in a different league.
Of course art exists because there is a market. No market, no recognition of what could be call art. Remember that painters, sculptors, photographers… do not define their production as art, a third party being institutionally recognized as such do.
Marcel Duchamp well understood that and getting rid of the "art and crafts" doxa, took an industrial good (a porcelain urinal), put it out of its usual context (the john) and ask viewers if doing so, they could not consider it differently… At first, this idea was rejected as heresy but finally succeeded and is now certainly considered as the most pioneering piece of art of the 20th century by the arts community. This is the proof that art definition evolves with time.
To be more focused on photography… Of couse, all pictures are not intended to be pieces of art (same thing with painting). But because it is, compared to other media, an extra step toward "reality", it has a special affinity with appearances. And appearances give sense to the world we are living in. When someone cannot "decipher" a picture, one of the first comment is "it does not make sense", meaning that it cannot be appropriated and as such is rejected as not real (remember, real world = appearances = sense). Our host in recent posts, illustrated with some real nice pictures (pieces of art really) as they were clearly requiring an effort to be fully understood. No need to travel far for that, the unexpected is often close to home, the most difficult is to see it (= keep the appearance but remove the sense) . Well done!
Why does Donatello's David not seem as well-known, in the sense of being instantly quotable, as the other David? Was Donatello too "modern" in the execution to fit within some pigeon hole more comfortable to the writers of historical art tomes? I guess critique knows few boundaries…
Andrew Molitor August 12, 2018 at 7:08 am
Donatello is just a turtle, man, albeit one with mutant ninja powers.
I think there is a sort of baked-in idea that if something is Art inside a museum, it ought to still be Art when you take it out of the museum. Which seems sort of reasonable, but begs the question of how far you can take that.
Should a piece read as "Art" in my house? On the street? What about when I am sprinting through the woods fleeing an enraged bear?
Obviously at some point even the most sublime piece is simply not going to create for me anything like an Art-like experience.
I am personally fine with "This thing is Art in a museum, but just trash the moment you take it out the back door". I also would see your point if you claimed "Look, if it doesn't work in any other reasonably contemplative setting like say my home, or a quiet tea shop, well it's bloody well not Art" although I would not agree with you.
My position is built around the idea of the Art-iike experience. A teenaged boy's orgasm functions in practically any context but someone else's might require a very very specific set of circumstances to function at all. If something can give me an Art-like experience only in this one room in this one building, well, so be it. Art-like experience!
But that's not the only way to think about Art, I dare say.
But hey, teenagers thought that the more rapidly the climax arrived, the more potent they were!
In terms of stud farm efficiency, perhaps they had a point (no pun etc.) but in later life, everything tends to prove them mistaken, and far less likely to run into offers to repeat the gig.
As for art and bears – why on Earth would you go down to the woods today, especially bearing a picture?


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UNITED NATIONS, November 8 -- Outside El Fasher in Darfur, UN Humanitarian Coordinator Valerie Amos waited on November 7 to speak with internally displaced people in the Al-Salam IDP camp.
But given the UN's and Security Council members' failure to follow up on Sudan's arrest and harassment in Darfur following the UN Security Council's visit a month ago, Al-Salam leaders reportedly did not meet with Amos. If the UN can't or won't protect witnesses, why would people take the chance to speak with the UN?
Since returning from the Council trip, Inner City Press has repeatedly asked the UN and Security Council members, including this month's president Mark Lyall Grant of the UK, what is being done to investigate and act on the harassment and arrests that followed the visit to Abu Shouk camp on October 8.
Despite the passage of a month, and the request that UN Peacekeeping and its mission in Darfur, UNAMID, led by Ibrahim Gambari, confirm or deny that those arrested after the visit did not meet or plan the meeting with Council members, nothing has been done.
Why wouldn't there be fear?
Inner City Press: The SPLM [Sudan People's Liberation Movement] is saying that… they have come out with an allegation that Southerners who live in the North are being told, in Government medical facilities, are being told they'll only get medical treatment if they vote for unity. I wonder if it's something… it's in the Sudan Tribune and I am assuming elsewhere. I am wondering if that's something… I guess that would be an UNMIS [United Nations Mission in Sudan] issue, or perhaps… whether the UN system is aware of that allegation, what they think of it, if it is true and what they are doing to find out if it is true?
Spokesperson Nesirky: Well, at the very least, if they are reading the Sudan Tribune like you, they will have seen the same reports and I would assume that they are doing so. We will need to check whether they have further information that was not in this Sudan Tribune. But, I don't have that right now.
Spokesperson Nesirky: As I say, let's first establish what they know about it.
"We call on all the CPA parties to take steps to ensure a peaceful and inclusive referenda process, and in the time remaining, the Government of Sudan must demonstrate political will to ensure the credibility of the referendum."
But what about finding out if UNMIS has investigated the report, if it confirmed it, and what it will do about it? Watch this site.


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Super League Jersey: Women's Race Preview
Friday 22nd September 2017
Super League Triathlon will make history this weekend as female athletes race its unique formats for the first time at Super League Jersey.
"Our race on Hamilton Island earlier this year was an exhibition of what was to come. Super League Jersey is formally the first event of the Super League Triathlon season and we are proud to have the world's best athletes male and female on our starting line," says executive chairman and co-founder Chris McCormack.
The first day of racing will feature the Triple Mix, which will test athletes' adaptability to switch-ups to the traditional swim-bike-run order of triathlon and rewards a willingness and ability to go hard from the gun. The Triple Mix has three stages (swim-bike-run, run-bike-swim, bike-swim-run) and pursuit starts in Stage 2 and 3 that will allow athletes to build a lead from Stage 1 and challenge them to hold onto that lead until the final finish line in Stage 3.
The most challenging may be in Stage 2 and Stage 3, as athletes are unaccustomed to swimming after cycling. "Legs will feel very heavy in that swim," says McCormack. "Athletes with good swim mechanics and natural speed can get an edge on the competition here, and if they get a big enough gap and can hold onto it, they can very well win the day."
Rachel Klamer looks out onto St. Ouen's Bay on Jersey Island
(Photo: Ollie Jones for Googsi Creative / The Studio M; click to enlarge)
Two such athletes are Carolina Routier and Lucy Hall, renowned for their prowess in the water. Hall might be the stronger cyclist between the two, but Routier has the better run, a common weakness among fast swimmers. Routier may have the insider's edge; with fiance and training partner Mario Mola having placed overall runner-up on Hamilton Island, they may have rehearsed such scenarios.
"I'm just excited to give it my best. It's something we don't get to do on the regular triathlon circuit and anything can happen," says Routier.
On the second day, the Eliminator will whittle the field down to the best of the best. Only the top 15 finishers in Stage 1 will proceed to Stage 2, and of those only the fastest 10 can race Stage 3. Between each stage, the first athlete across the line will have ten minutes to recover, while succeeding athletes will have less time. The previous day's racing may also play a role in how sprightly the athletes will be.
"The question posed to these athletes is: will they want to expend effort to get to the front and take advantage of a longer rest, or will they just avoid elimination in Stage 1 and 2, conserving the energy to power through to the Stage 3 win?" says McCormack.
In the previous race on Hamilton Island, it was not the veterans Richard Murray or Mario Mola who took the Eliminator win after three stages, but young Jake Birtwhistle who put on a burst of speed in the final 500 metres. From the women's roster, athletes with a mixed relay world championship pedigree may rule this format, such as Kirsten Kasper (2016 - USA) and Charlotte McShane (2017 - Australia). The distances are similar, with the major difference being the multiple stages and the threat of elimination.
"I definitely think I have the run legs to get to the front of the pack," says Kasper, a former collegiate cross-country and track star. "But it really depends on staying close enough to strike out for the win. This field is so deep, it's going to take everything I have."
London Olympic silver medalist Nicola Spirig and world championship bronze medalist Katie Zaferes will have targets on their backs. As Super League Hamilton Island showed, the big names in Olympic triathlon might not be the ones standing triumphant at the end of the day. Will this prove to be the case in Jersey?
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