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U.N. souvenir sheet for Macao exhibition features laser-cut stamp designs
Aug 21, 2018, 4 AM
The United Nations Postal Administration's souvenir sheet for Macao 2018, the 35th Asian international stamp exhibition, includes stamps in three different currencies and laser-cut stamp designs.
By Denise McCarty
An upcoming souvenir sheet from the United Nations Postal Administration features the ancient Chinese poem the Ballad of Mulan and also honors a stamp exhibition in Macao.
The sheet will be issued Sept. 21, the opening day of Macao 2018, the 35th Asian international stamp exhibition. The event will run through Sept. 24 at the Macao Venetian Convention and Exhibition Center.
The stamps in the sheet were printed using a special laser-cut technology, according to UNPA. Liechtenstein Post has used similar technology since 2011 for its New Year/Chinese Signs of the Zodiac stamps (Scott 1534).
Preliminary artwork of the U.N. Macao 2018 souvenir sheet is shown above.
The sheet contains three stamps denominated in three different currencies: $1.15 for use from the post office at U.N. headquarters in New York City; 2 francs for use from the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland; and 1.80 for use from the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria.
The designs of the stamps resemble Cantonese opera masks.
Hua Mulan, the heroine of the folk tale of a girl who joins the army in the place of her elderly father, is represented on the 1.80 stamp and in the selvage of the souvenir sheet. According to UNPA, these images were "inspired by the stages of Hua Mulan acted by famous last generation Cantonese opera actresses Madam Lang Yunyu and Guo Fengnv."
The laser-cut design on the $1.15 stamp shows Bao Zheng, also known as Justice Bao. Although much of his life has been fictionalized over the years, Justice Bao was a government official who lived from 999 to 1062.
Guan Yu, represented on the 2fr stamp, was a warrior and general. He is believed to have died around 220. Like Justice Bao, Guan Yu's life inspired legends.
According to UNPA, the three figures on the stamps serve as symbols of justice (Judge Bao), loyalty and righteousness (Guan Yu), and bravery and equality (Hua Mulan).
Cartor Security Printing of Meauce, France, printed the souvenir sheet in a quantity of 18,000. Ye Luying of China designed the sheet.
The story of Hua Mulan's bravery has been retold many times over the centuries, including on postage stamps.
Macao issued a set of stamps April 8, 2016 (Scott 1476-1477), showing scenes from the ancient ballad, as did China on April 30, 2000 (Scott 3021-3020).
Less than a month after the debut of Walt Disney's animated film Mulan in June 1998, The Gambia issued stamps and souvenir sheets featuring the characters (Scott 2043-2048).
The UNPA began issuing souvenir sheets in three different currencies in 2016. The sheets promote stamp exhibitions.
For ordering information, visit the website; email; telephone 800-234-8672; fax 212-963-9854; or write to UNPA, Box 5900, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163-5900.
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Reorganization Complete for East Meadow Board of Education
The Board of Education held the annual reorganization meeting on July 2 with two new trustees being sworn in.
Athletic Accolades Across East Meadow
Spring athletic teams at East Meadow High School and W.T. Clarke High School capped off a rewarding school year for the East Meadow School District's athletic department with various team and individual honors.
The boys track and field team at East Meadow High School matched a sixth straight Conference 2 Championship title during the winter season with the same feat achieved in the spring season. Brandon Love earned All-State honors in the pole vault while Paul Choi, John Meah, Matt Owens, Nabeel Sheikh, Zach Van Houten and Bryan Villafuerta were All-County athletes throughout different events. The girls' spring track team finished second at the conference meet with the 4x800 meter relay team qualifying for the state championship.
Jake Rosenthal led the W.T. Clarke High School boys' spring track and field team by racing to the individual Nassau County Championship in the 200 meter dash and becoming a state qualifier. He also joined David Stewart, Sobin Ouseph and Alex Pereira on the 4x100 meter relay team that ran to a second place finish at the county championships. The W.T. Clarke girls spring track and field team also enjoy a successful season that included the 4x400 meter relay team of Juliana Vanegas, Karina Romero, Marisa Simone and Isabella Deleon qualifying for the county championship and state qualifier.
The East Meadow High School softball team captured its third straight Nassau County and Long Island Championship and went on to compete in the New York State Championship in Glen Falls. Jenna Laird, Julianna Sanzone, Amy Mallah and Amanda Thompson all earned All-County recognitions.
The W.T. Clarke High School baseball team finished the season with 24 wins including the conference and county championships. During the season, the Rams held the top ranking in the county and Long Island in addition to the third spot in the state. Chris Giardino, the Conference 2 MVP, and Brendan Turton were each named All-State selections and head coach Tom Abruscato was named the Conference 2 Coach of the Year.
The two schools combined for 32 All-County awards and 49 All-Conference selections throughout the entire season.
Sharing Literacy in the East Meadow Community
Through careful planning and exceptional creativity, the district has built and installed "Little Free Libraries" at each of the five elementary school buildings.
The initiative was initiated and implemented by District Director of Literacy and Funded Programs, Mr. Frank Lukasik. Additionally, each individual library was constructed by East Meadow students enrolled in the district's carpentry classes which are led by teachers Mr. Scott Stacy, Mr. John Scerbo, Mr. William Burke and Mr. Gregory Greco.
There are more than 75,000 "Little Free Libraries" around the world in 85 countries. East Meadow joins the movement to share books, bring people together and create a community of readers.
The "Little Free Libraries" were installed for everyone in the community to promote literacy through book sharing. The district encourages readers to not only select a book to read, but to also add books to the collections at the elementary schools.
In addition to the installation of the "Little Free Libraries," summer reading challenges have been created to spark excitement for the new resource and build a community of readers. Students are encouraged to visit the libraries, take a picture, post them to social media, tag @emeadowschools and/or the elementary school and use the #emeadowreads in the post.
"The community can help by keeping this collection stocked with good reading material," said Mr. Lukasik. "We hope everyone enjoys this precious gift to our community!"
East Meadow and W.T. Clarke Graduates Set for New Chapter
A picture-perfect day set the stage for a pair of graduation ceremonies in the district on June 23 as East Meadow High School and W.T. Clarke High School gathered on their respective football fields to salute the Class of 2019.
Both classes walked onto their fields to enthusiastic and excited crowds, followed by musical numbers to officially open the ceremonies. At each school, students, school and district leaders offered words of reflection and advice for all gathered in attendance. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kenneth A. Card, Jr., delivered remarks at both ceremonies to congratulate the graduates and wish them well in the years ahead.
"Today concludes a significant and wonderful chapter of your lives," Dr. Card said to the graduates. "And an equally significant chapter is about to begin."
Class presidents, salutatorians and valedictorians from each school addressed their peers with words of encouragement and reflection.
"Let's remember how much East Meadow High School has impacted us," said East Meadow High School president Leila Sayan. "It is now up to us to turn our challenges into achievements."
"Don't be worried about feeling lost in life," W.T. Clarke High School valedictorian Jonathan Melkun told his fellow graduates. "What you need to do is find a motivation, find a reason to keep moving forward. Go forth, chase your dreams, and find your place in the world."
East Meadow High School Principal Richard Howard and W.T. Clarke High School Timothy Voels applauded the accolades achieved by each class that included academic, athletic and community service honors. Each principal noted how the classes set standards of excellence for future graduates.
After the official awarding of diplomas was completed, the students officially transitioned to alumni by moving their tassels to the left and tossing their caps into the air with excitement and elation.
The district congratulates all members of the Class of 2019 and wishes them luck and happiness as they embrace the next step in life.
Rams on the Move from W.T. Clarke
W.T. Clarke High School held a graduation ceremony for the Class of 2019 on June 23. Congratulations to all of the graduates!
A Thankful Community
The district celebrated employee service and student success at the final Board of Education meeting of the school year on June 19.
Prior to the start of the Board of Education meeting, the district honored 12 staff members who are retiring at the end of the year. The retirees were joined by family members and friends, administration, staff and Board trustees for a special reception in their honor. The district thanked Judith Arabian, Jill Artus, Robin Boucher, Susan Byrne, Victor DeLiso, Thomas Feggler, Teresa Fjellstad, Gail Galluci, Janice Oldak, Cherly Safren, Jody Targove and Annemarie Viscuso for providing more than 300 years of combined service to East Meadow.
Also at the meeting, Director of Social Studies and 21st Century Learning, Jim Mendonis, and Director of Literacy and Funded Programs, Frank Lukasik, continued the meeting with a spotlight of W.T. Clarke Middle School students Faith Fuller and Shreejita Satpathy. Faith and Shreejita were presented certificates of excellence after qualifying for the New York State History Day Contest in Cooperstown that was held in April. The two earned the placement through their fourth-place finish at the Long Island History Day event held at Hofstra in March. The duo earned distinction with their Junior Group Documentary project titled, "Frances Oldham Kelsey: The Thalidomide Crisis."
Accolades continued at the Board meeting as Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kenneth A. Card, Jr., presented a plaque of appreciation to PTA Council President Robin Fitzpatrick. Dr. Card thanked Mrs. Fitzpatrick for her dedication, service and contributions to the students and community for the past two years.
Outgoing board members Joseph Parisi and Marcee Rubinstein were then acknowledged by Board President Matthew Melnick for their years of service to the district and community as they completed their terms.
"Congratulations to all of the honorees and retirees recognized tonight," said Dr. Card. "Thank you for your years of dedicated service and commitment to the students and families of the East Meadow School District."
One Final Farewell for East Meadow Seniors
All five elementary schools throughout the district welcomed senior class members from East Meadow High School and W.T. Clarke High School for the district's second annual "Senior Walk Through" on June 19.
The seniors returned to the elementary school they graduated from seven years ago to take one more tour of the building they grew up in before officially moving on from the district. Current elementary school students, staff and administration welcomed the Class of 2019 with cheers, signs and wishes of good luck and encouragement as they embark on their next chapter.
The district would like to thank the principals and staff from both high schools and each of the five elementary schools for continuing the tradition of honoring its graduates.
Excellence Celebrated for Class of 2019
The district celebrated the Class of 2019 Awards Ceremony at both East Meadow High School and W.T. Clarke High School with a ceremony at each building during the week of June 17.
Each school honored recipients of scholarships and awards for their excellence in academics, athletics, music, art, clubs and community service. Among the accolades distributed at both schools was the Superintendent's Award presented by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kenneth A. Card, Jr., to deserving individuals. This year's recipients were Jonathan Melkun and Joel Matthew of W.T. Clarke High School and East Meadow High School's Christian Cang Cuesta.
In addition to honoring the Class of 2019, East Meadow High School also inducted a new member to the Hall of Distinction. Principal Richard Howard welcomed alum Stephen B. Corn, MD, '78. Dr. Corn is the founding editor-in-chief of TheAnswerPage.com. The website is a recognized leader for providing comprehensive education on the endocannabinoid system and medical cannabis, pain medicine and opioid prescribing practices. Dr. Corn and his wife, Meredith Fisher-Corn, MD, have created well over 200 continuing medical education courses in multiple areas of medicine.
The district congratulates all of the honorees from both East Meadow High School and W.T. Clarke High School for their hard work and achievements to this point in their academic careers.
InnoAir Solves JANY
W.T. Clarke High School students and entrepreneurs Shayan Huda, Abishek Ravindan, Makaeel Sheikh and Louis Zaino claimed victory in the final round of the Junior Achievement of New York's 12th Annual High School Business Plan Competition on June 5. They represented the East Meadow School District proudly and achieved first place for their proposed product, InnoAir.
InnoAir is a reusable alternative to inhaler actuators that would offer consumers with asthma a product that reduces the amount of waste caused by single-use plastic actuators. The method creatively addressed this year's theme of sustainable solutions to Americans' dependency on plastic.
"Each member of our group has asthma and struggles with the stigma associated with using an inhaler," said Abishek. "Many of those that suffer from asthma are afraid to use inhalers in front of their peers."
Each member of the team received a cash prize of $1,500 and a trophy for the school. This is the second time in three years that a group from W.T. Clarke was victorious in the final round, with a 2017 win going to the team Simplastic.
JANY is the local affiliate of Junior Achievement USA, the nation's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future and make smart academic and economic choices.
"This process and project helped us gain experience in terms of networking and presenting in front of a group," said Makaeel. Additionally, he said, "This project has helped me grow as a person and helped me pursue my interests."
Fresh 3D Clay
Advanced craft classes at W.T. Clarke High School were fortunate to experience the pilot use of a 3D clay printer this school year under the direction of art teacher James Parisi.
Mr. Parisi introduced the equipment, as well as the Potterware design application for 3D printing of ceramics, earlier this year.
"Potterware is an amazing program that helps to create the perimeters and use a slide bar to create over 1,000 combinations for students to manufacture." Said Mr. Parisi.
The process of creating a piece of art using the 3D printer started with design. Students took 15-20 minutes to map out their plan using the software before attempting to print the creation with the clay-loaded printer.
Five students were able to create pottery with the application. However, only one design, a small vase, successfully printed. It was a learning year for teachers and students for this first-year project. Much of the trial and error included finding the right density of the clay and matching it up with the product being produced. Mr. Parisi expects the printer to produce more projects next year as he and the students continue to learn.
"I am confident that as we continue to navigate the right consistency of the clay, students will be producing extraordinary pieces of art thanks to this printer," Mr. Parisi said. The district is proud to be the only district on Long Island experimenting with this technology and applauds the work of Mr. Parisi and his students.
Gearing for Next Step
Seniors in the district were excited to announce the next steps in their academic and athletics careers by signing National Letters of Intent and Celebratory Letters for their college of choice.
East Meadow High School congratulated a total of 21 students that announced their college decision and athletic choice and W.T. Clarke High School honored 10 students that intend to continue an athletic career in college.
The district congratulates the following students on making their selections:
W.T. Clarke	Gabe Armijo	Dominican College	Lacrosse
East Meadow	Omar Benthami	Molloy College	Track and Field
East Meadow	Eric Bernstein	Towson University	Football
W.T. Clarke	Anthony Caputo	Pace University	Lacrosse
W.T. Clarke Austin Carman	Rhode Island College	Wrestling
East Meadow	James Ciampi	Alvernia University	Ice Hockey
East Meadow	Charlie Cucchiara	Molloy College	Baseball
East Meadow	Julia Cuttone	Baruch College	Softball
East Meadow Rosanna Cuttone	York College	Softball
W.T. Clarke	Anthony Dilluvio	St. Joseph's College	Baseball
East Meadow	Arianna Duhs	Adelphi University	Cheerleading
W.T. Clarke	Briella LaFata	Farmingdale University	Soccer
East Meadow Michael Loeffler	SUNY Morrisville	Football
East Meadow	Taylor Keicher	University of New Haven	Lacrosse
East Meadow	Kayla Leary	Fairfield University	Soccer
W.T. Clarke	Steven Lee	Dominican College	Baseball
W.T. Clarke	Chris Lydon	Concordia University	Baseball
East Meadow	Amy Mallah	Oneonta State	Softball
East Meadow	Christian Marinello	NYIT	Cross Country
East Meadow	Isabel Marsh	Adelphi University	Track and Field
East Meadow	Katherine Marsh	Adelphi University	Track and Field
East Meadow	Tyler McManus	Mitchell College	Lacrosse
East Meadow	Tyler Patterson	Dominican College	Baseball
East Meadow	Meadow Perez	Binghamton University	Swimming
East Meadow	Julian Quaresima	Long Island University	Soccer
W.T. Clarke	Karina Romero	Molloy College	Track and Field
East Meadow	Rachel Rose	Ithaca College	Soccer/Track and Field
East Meadow	Dylan Solenski	Western Connecticut State	Football
W.T. Clarke	Leanna Tallon	Oneonta State	Softball
W.T. Clarke	Brendan Turton	Dominican College	Baseball
East Meadow	Bryan Villafuerte	NYIT	Cross Country
Honoring a Year of Success
The district celebrated the academic successes of its four secondary schools during the District Awards Ceremony at East Meadow High School on June 5.
More than 450 students from East Meadow High School, W.T. Clarke High School, W.T. Clarke Middle School and Woodland Middle School gathered to be honored by district administrators for achievements earned during the 2018-19 school year. Highlighted accomplishments included scholar athlete honors, awards for excellence in academic competitions and various other academic distinctions attained over the past 10 months.
"The evening was an outstanding celebration of the academic achievements of our wonderful students," said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kenneth A. Card, Jr.
Holding the SHIELD
W.T. Clarke High School junior Kaylei Fanfan was recently announced as a recipient of the Nassau County District Attorney's SHIELD Award.
Kaylei was recommended by the faculty and administration of W.T. Clarke in recognition of her exceptional character, virtue and selfless service. The SHIELD award stands for service, honesty, integrity, excellence, leadership and duty.
"We are very proud of Kaylei for earning this tremendous honor," said Principal Timothy Voels.
Thoughtful and Terrific Board Meeting
The Board of Education meeting on May 29 was a full showcase of excellence from staff members and students alike as selfless acts, academic success and musical talents were on display.
The W.T. Clarke High School Saxophone Quartet opened the evening's festivities by performing the Star-Spangled Banner. Following opening remarks from President Matthew Melnick and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kenneth A. Card, Jr., the focus shifted to the honorees.
Bowling Green Elementary School Principal Maria Ciarametaro honored third grade teacher Christine Reiman for her efforts in supporting her student Mahdi Islam as he awaited a heart transplant. Ms. Reiman helped to host a "Super Hero Day" that raised $4,000 combined between the Bowling Green and Meadowbrook Elementary Schools. Additionally, she kept Mahdi involved in classroom activities through webinars and Google Hangouts. Ms. Reiman was presented with a Certificate of Excellence for her endless dedication and devotion.
The selflessness theme continued as Meadowbrook student Emma Vulpi was recognized for supporting the Child Life Program at NYU Winthrop Hospital. Emma decided that instead of receiving birthday gifts this year, she wanted to donate new toys to the hospital program to help those in need. Principal Kelly DiScalfani-O'Brien presented Emma and her parents with a medal and certificate for generously donating $300 worth of toys.
In the area of academic achievement, Director of Social Studies and 21st Century Learning, Jim Mendonis, along with Director of Literacy and Funded Programs, Frank Lukasik, spotlighted academic excellence by honoring middle school students that excelled at the recent Long History Day. W.T. Clarke Middle School students Umme Hani Bootwaia and Mubaraka Ezzi were recognized for receiving the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory sponsored Science History Award. Woodland Middle School's Maya Del Rosario was applauded for her Latin American History Award sponsored by the Long Island Council for the Social Studies.
Next, attendees were treated to two musical selections by the East Meadow High School String Ensemble. The group opened with a rendition of AC/DC's "Back in Black" followed by a medley of Queen songs, all to the delight of many in the audience.
Recognitions concluded with the presentation of Terrific Kids from W.T. Clarke Middle School and Woodland Middle School for the months of April, May and June. These awards are sponsored by the East Meadow Kiwanis Club. Kiwanis Club President Gary Fromowitz, along with Principals Stacy Breslin and James Lethbridge, highlighted sixth, seventh and eighth graders who have exhibited a positive attitude, good character, and responsible citizenship while also being exemplary role models for their peers.
Congratulations to all the night's honorees and presentations, once again demonstrating the great that happens in East Meadow.


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Deion Sanders claims he nearly went Prime Time in 3 pro sports
foxsports Jun 24, 2016 at 11:09a ET
Deion Sanders says he nearly became a Prime Time attraction in three professional sports.
The NFL Hall of Famer, who also played nine seasons in Major League Baseball with the Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants, told SI.com that the NBA also was a very real possibility.
"I was close, I mean really close. This is a breaking story. I was really close to playing for the Atlanta Hawks for one game," Sanders said. "When I was with the Braves (in the early 1990s) … (Stan Kasten) was going to allow me to play in an NBA game so that I could play three professional sports."
At the time, Kasten was the president of both the Braves and the Hawks.
Sadly, however, Sanders never high-stepped onto an NBA court.
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Solving the demographic divide in digital democracy
One of the puzzles in digital engagement, the Big Question if you will, that I've come up against again and again is the question of demographics: that is, how do you include people who aren't online? And on a similar note: how do you ensure that the loudest voices aren't just those who are already most frequently heard?
It's a significant concern – one that's been mused about more than once in my interviews with customers. It's also something that critics of digital democracy and deliberation exercises like to espouse as a reason we should all be doing citizens' assemblies instead. (More of my Thoughts on this.)
To be honest, the short answer is, there isn't an easy answer.
This is mostly because issues with democratic representation extend far beyond the online engagement sphere into the structural inequalities in society itself. Groups that are typically underrepresented in consultation reports are typically underrepresented across the board: people on low incomes, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and so on.
Short of making sweeping structural changes to the way society operates, the issue of representation will always be present within pretty much any democratic function (voting and other in-person processes aren't exempt from these issues).
Another thing to consider is that not all engagements apply to all voices equally: a consultation on new therapies for prostate cancer isn't going to attract a great deal of responses from young female patients.
That is not to say, however, that there aren't things that organisations can do – and are doing – to address the digital and demographic divide.
Over Delib's 20-year history, we've observed many different approaches. Here are some of the ways our customers are tackling the issue.
One thing that critics often forget (or ignore) is that digital engagement doesn't exist in a vacuum: filling in an online survey usually isn't the only method of participation. Organisations can provide paper copies, alternative formats (such as sign language) for those with accessibility considerations, and host in-person/Zoom events for residents to attend.
Police Scotland offer their engagements in BSL and easy-read formats. Read an interview with them about their engagement methodology and how they achieve a good demographic spread
Accessibility & language
A huge barrier to participation for many, especially people who have a different first language and people with learning disabilities, is the language used in engagement. If someone can't understand what they're reading, they can't take part. Using plain language and offering translations means these people can have their say too.
Language is one of many accessibility considerations that can and should be made, alongside factors such as ensuring online platforms are compatible with accessibility software (like screen readers) and that they're operable on mobile devices (most older people and those without broadband use phones/tablets). This is where the platform itself becomes a crucial consideration: if it's not been designed properly it excludes people from participating.
The Independent Review of Autism and Learning Disabilities in the Scottish Mental Health Act was the most accessible review of a law to date
The New Zealand Ministry of Justice offered their 'Review of Adoption Laws in Aotearoa' consultation in eight different languages as well as Braille
Community outreach & promotion
There are a lot of people who want to get involved but don't know how to. We can't expect them to beat a path to our door; we need to reach them.
Jason Kitcat, Executive Director for Corporate Development, Essex County Council
If people can't find a consultation, they can't respond. It's down to the consulting organisation to ensure activities are adequately promoted. In order to get marginalised groups to take part, this involves more than posting on social media: consulting organisations need to get creative.
Whether that's asking community groups to promote it around the neighbourhood, posting letters, or getting staff to go out into nursing homes with iPads, organisations need to take their activity out to the community rather than expecting citizens from all demographics to come to them. At the end of the day, it's the responsibility of the consulting organisation to allocate the resources required to ensure marginalised voices are heard.
That said, there are plenty of ways to boost engagement via social media. (We did a whole webinar on it via Delib Learn.)
NHS England engaged veterans, a hard-to-reach group, by working with community and outreach programmes and charities
Hamilton City Council, NZ, took iPads with a Citizen Space consultation in kiosk mode out into nursing homes
It's a given that there will be, and have been, digital exercises that attract a mostly-white, mostly-male, mostly-middle-aged section of society. Proponents for more representative forms of democracy have argued that this means they're not as valid. But the fact of the matter is that no form of democracy is truly representative.
Voters in elections tend to over-represent old people. Choosing 150 people to represent the voices of 60 million in a citizens' assembly can't accurately reflect the opinions of an entire nation, even if the sample is demographically representative. People who are content with the status quo tend not to speak up, resulting in many democratic exercises skewing negatively. That doesn't mean any of these methods are invalid.
By acknowledging their flaws, we can all put the work into making them better for everyone.
If you'd like to learn more about what Citizen Space can do for your organisation, book a free demo and we'll walk you through it.


Digital signing, versus the traditional "wet" signature, has become increasingly popular in recent years. More and more countries across the globe have endorsed the legal validity of digital signing, enabling businesses to digitize entire workflows and further optimize management processes. Whether you're preparing an employee work agreement, finalizing a new client contract, or submitting an invoice, digital signing can prove beneficial in a number of ways. Here are just three reasons businesses, organizations, and even governments choose digital signing over paper.
Summer Holidays are winding up and we're all slowly making our way back to work. As most of the Suite team make their way into the office, organisation is at the top of our minds. A good portion of our workforce is partially remote during the summer, and we (like all businesses) have a lot to achieve in the first 3 months of the year.
It's been a Suite year!
At the end of 2017, it seemed hard to imagine that 2018 would be bigger and better, and yet it was. It has undoubtedly been our biggest year so far. We exhibited in several new markets, we added 4 new people to our team, our customer base grew once again, and most excitingly, we added some fantastic new products updates to SuiteFiles.
The best bits of the SuiteFiles Chrome Extension.
Are you using our Chrome Extension yet? The brain child of our development team has been the focus of attention lately, as we added some new features and improved the user experience. So today we thought we'd take the time to talk about why it's such a beloved part of our Suite App family!
Our 3 favourite features from our end of year releases!
We've been working on some big things here at SuiteFiles over the past couple of months, and while our major releases are still a few months away, we've got several updates that have just launched or are launching in the next couple of weeks.
Christmas is now less than a month away, so we've put together 5 often overlooked tips to ensure you're well organised this festive season!
Over Christmas we're reducing our support to essential "severity one" issues only plus also not running migrations during this period.
Keen to know more about what we're up to at SuiteFiles? We're looking to raise capital and are attending three conferences around the world in the next five weeks.


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Q: Tuning JVM cloudbees Well, i have a app running on cloudbees, my app need some  extra java memory, this app use (hibernate and spring).
Reading in other post and the cloudbees document, i think the way to change a max and min of memory on JVM is by this way: "bees app:deploy -a account/appId -R JAVA_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx512m  /target/app.ear" but when i do this and try to run the app, throw the next exception
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Incompatible minimum and maximum heap sizes specified
What i´m doing wrong and what can i do to resolve this problem?
On adding, i'm using Jboss and when run "bees app:info" the info is the next:
Application : account/appId Title : account/appId Created : Mon Aug 04 11:49:18 EDT 2014 Status : active URL : ... clusterSize : 1 container : java_small containerType : jboss71 hibernateTimeout: 7200 jvmPermSize : 256 maxMemory : 256 proxyBuffering : false securityMode : PUBLIC
Thanks

A: Well finally i found my error.
I solved this problem paying a account in cloudbees. A free account doesn't allow increment a JVM memory above 256mb. When i try increment this parameter Xms512m, the minimum memory exceed maximum memory

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Please enjoy Chapter 4 from the book 17 Hours to Glory: Extraordinary Stories from the Heart of Triathlon by Mathias Mueller with Timothy Carlson. From the moment the starting gun is fired on Kona's sandy beach at the Ironman® World Championship, triathletes have 17 hours to cross the finish line. It's a feat marking the ultimate achievement in the sport. 17 Hours to Glory is one of only a few books to commemorate this dramatic quest. Seventeen compelling chapters tell stories that allow readers to experience the competition first hand, revealing tremendous athleticism, unbelievable capacity for suffering, and true strength of character.
The greatest Ironman triathlete of all time was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), and raised in Durban, South Africa. "I was a good girl growing up. A very good girl," Paula Newby-Fraser told writer TJ Murphy about her childhood. Her father was a wealthy industrialist who owned a paint factory. Her mother was a university lecturer in psychology and social sciences. Newby-Fraser studied hard, got good grades, and excelled at ballet and swimming.
Her government-controlled all-girls school was strict. "The choices were limited. You did what you were told. You just did," she recalled. At school the girls lined up every week for inspection, shortest to tallest. No talking, no earrings, no makeup. Lengths of skirts and fingernails were checked.
The outlet she found was sports. "Because there were no boys around, we didn't have the social dimension to think about, to take up our energy," she said. "Instead we focused on things like sports." Girls who performed well at games were praised at assemblies and cheered by the crowd. But a career in sports was unthinkable. Proper girls married well or became teachers.
Ever practical, she embraced the discipline of her early schooling and studied social sciences at the University of Natal in Durban. After graduating in 1984, she ditched academic life and embraced the town's active party scene. When a friend said she was getting fat, they started running together and lifting weights. Sparked by her increasing fitness, Newby-Fraser checked out a local triathlon with her boyfriend. Though she thought the challenge was slightly ridiculous, her boyfriend convinced her to give the event a try the following year, and they bought bicycles and began training. Only 8 weeks after buying the bike Newby-Fraser won her first triathlon, setting a new women's record for the course. She also finished 4th among the men, giving a hint of her power to come. Three months later she won the women's division of the South African Triathlon and won a free trip to Hawaii to compete in the famed Ironman Triathlon.
There, in 1985, virtually unknown and relying on raw talent (she had never swum 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles, or run a marathon), she placed 3rd. Moreover, she finished just 5 minutes 42 seconds behind the women's winner, Joanne Ernst. That performance, along with what she had learned in preparation for the race, convinced Newby-Fraser that additional training could give her the tools to win.
When Newby-Fraser returned to South Africa she couldn't shake Encinitas from her mind. "All I could think of was that I had to get back," she said. After talking it over with her parents, she flew back to America with $1,000 in her pocket and moved into an apartment with fellow triathletes Linda Janelli and Maggie Smeal. During those first months she met the man who would become the lasting love of her life, Paul Huddle, an elite triathlete now recognized as one of the best triathlon coaches in the world.
While her victory may have felt anticlimactic, Newby-Fraser's winning time was a clap of thunder announcing the arrival of professional women to the sport. Her 9:49:14 mark broke the previous record by 36 minutes, and she was the first woman to break the Ironman 10-hour mark. Her finish would have won the men's division in the first two Ironman contests and would have placed 2nd to the top man in the 1980 and 1981 events.
In 1987 Newby-Fraser started strong, holding the lead for 21 miles of the marathon, but then faded in the brutal heat. Two-time winner Sylviane Puntous of Canada, Patricia Puntous's twin, was stalking her all day, and New Zealand star Erin Baker, a superb 2:36 marathoner and excellent short- and long-course triathlon star, caught both of them at mile 22. Newby-Fraser was tapped and could not fight back. Puntous, as was her habit in the early years of the sport, walked through the aid stations while the fierce newcomer Baker, shocked at the Canadian's lack of warrior ethic, stormed past to a new record time of 9:35:25, with Puntous 1:32 back. Although she had broken her own 1986 course record by 9 minutes, Newby-Fraser fell to 3rd.
Afterward, Plant wrote, Newby-Fraser realized that winning the Ironman would demand her full attention. For her part, Baker said, "I had to concentrate like hell to get to the finish. I didn't have anything left. I couldn't smile." From that point forward, every woman knew she would have to run every mile of the marathon to prevail.
Newby-Fraser's remarkable Ironman finish in 1988 was the shot heard 'round the world of sport. Rival Erin Baker upped the ante tremendously, topping her year-old record by 23 minutes with a 9:12:14 finish. But Newby-Fraser slaughtered Baker by 11 minutes and her old standard by 34 minutes with a 9:01:01 finish. Indeed, Newby-Fraser appeared to be in a league of her own; her greatest rivals were men. She finished 11th overall, just a breath over 30 minutes behind the men's overall winner, Scott Molina, and along the way she bested a string of certified men's stars, including her boyfriend, Paul Huddle, by 3:45; Greg Welch by 6:13; Jeff Devlin by 9:53; and Peter Kropko by an amazing 20:36.
For all Joan Benoit Samuelson's greatness, she never finished near the top 11 at Boston or in the Olympics. Florence Griffith Joyner would not have qualified for the men's Olympic team. Only Ann Trason, who finished the 1995 Western States 100-mile trail run just 5 minutes behind the men's winner, was in the same area code as Newby-Fraser in women's remarkable push toward equality in endurance sports.
Over the next three editions of Ironman Hawaii, Newby-Fraser racked up similarly impressive results. In 1989 she topped women's runner-up Puntous by 21 minutes. The next year, on a hot day, she proved she was human and lost another duel to Erin Baker, 9:13:42 to 9:20:01. She came back in 1991 to beat Baker by nearly 16 minutes, giving her four wins in six years—a record that many an athlete might happily call a career. Yet all of these performances were but a buildup to one of the most remarkable years recorded by any athlete in triathlon.
Newby-Fraser started her 1992 campaign by winning the three-quarters-Ironman-distance Nice International Triathlon. Two weeks later she won her fourth Ironman Japan in 9:16:13. Just a few days later she told Huddle she felt surprisingly good. As recounted by writer Ken McAlpine, Huddle replied, "Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Indeed, Newby-Fraser thought she could win Ironman Europe at Roth, Germany. Thirteen days later she did, in a then-world-record time of 8:55:00. While even the best triathletes take weeks to recover from the pounding and the energy-sapping dehydration of just one Ironman, Newby-Fraser had just won three Ironman-proportion events in five weeks, recording perhaps the greatest high-intensity stretch in Ironman history.
A mere 13 weeks after the European Ironman, she stepped across the finish line in Kona to take her fifth Ironman Hawaii title, setting an 8:55:28 course record that stood until 2009 and winning the women's title by the biggest margin of the modern era, 26 minutes 12 seconds, the triathlon equivalent of Secretariat's 31-length Belmont Stakes win.
By this time Newby-Fraser, working with superagent Murphy Reinschreiber, had built an empire of sponsorships, appearance fees, and business deals that was estimated by Inside Triathlon to bring in half a million dollars a year. It was peanuts by the standards of pro golf, tennis, and running superstars but groundbreaking in terms of the tiny niche occupied by the still emerging sport of triathlon. And in contrast to the pampered rich of mainstream sports, Newby-Fraser remained modest, utterly approachable, and without a shred of arrogance.
Baker was kicked in the head right at the swim start and fell 5 minutes behind Newby-Fraser's 53:29 swim. On the bike Newby-Fraser set a still-standing record of 4:48:30, topping Baker's bike split by 1:36 and her own bike-split record set the previous year by 8 minutes. On the run, fighting exhaustion and lack of training mileage due to her injured ankle, Newby-Fraser held on grimly for a 3:16:54 marathon, which rewarded her with her second sub-9-hour Ironman and a final 3-2 edge in head-to-head Kona encounters with her not-so-friendly rival Baker.
Lost in the excitement that accompanied the Greg Welch duel with Dave Scott coming back after 40, Newby-Fraser won another predictable dull-from-the-outside, gutsy-from-the-inside race in Hawaii in 1994. With Baker gone forever from Kona, Newby-Fraser's closest challenger was now Karen Smyers, one year wiser about the demands of Ironman.
From the beginning Newby-Fraser's 54:19 swim gave her an unexpectedly large lead over Smyers's 58:22. On the bike Newby-Fraser's 5:02:25 added another 8:30 to her lead. Starting with 12 minutes in hand, Newby-Fraser showed she was hurting with a 3:23:30 run, 18 minutes off her best time. Nevertheless, that subpar performance gave back only 4:37 to runner-up Smyers.
"I don't know why it was such a tough day," Newby-Fraser told Bob Babbitt of Competitor after the race. "I worked hard on the swim, and I had a terrific swim and bike ride. But I paid for it on the run." She felt terrible starting the run and stopped 12 miles into the marathon. "When I got out of town, I stopped at an aid station on the highway and had a talk with myself," she said. "Come on. Get it together. I'm having a hard day. Everyone has a hard day," she told herself.
Then, foreshadowing the next year's race, she said, "It's not fun to have someone like Karen Smyers coming up from behind." With 4 miles to go, Smyers was 7 minutes back. But, talking to herself all the way, Newby-Fraser ended up maintaining the 8-minute lead she had on the bike to take her seventh win.
And yet, of course, she did. At the start of her 1995 season, Newby-Fraser was on form once again with big-margin wins at Wildflower, Ironman Lanzarote, and Ironman Germany. "During the past couple of years it was hard work—not very exciting, but winning was everything," she told Inside Triathlon. "The result was all important. I didn't want to put myself through training and not win." But always seeking to come closer to perfection, she soon found herself flying too close to the sun.
But it wasn't. Inexplicably Newby-Fraser had stopped refueling. In her book Peak Fitness for Women, Newby-Fraser had laid out her winning strategy: "When I am racing, I am constantly checking every technical aspect of my performance. The efficiency of my swim stroke, my rpms during cycling, my leg turnover on the run. My nutritional requirements. I am constantly checking energy levels and monitoring fluid and solid food intake." Yet that was not the case now.
Smyers, headed to a near-record Kona marathon of 3:05:20, was chipping away and had whittled the margin to 3 minutes leaving the Energy Lab. There were 6.5 miles to go. With her half-mile lead, Newby-Fraser thought she had the race under control, but her seamless facade was crumbling, and her nerves were frayed under Smyers's charge. Newby-Fraser blew past the last few aid stations, dancing on the edge of meltdown. A crash into a careless aid-station volunteer with 3 miles to go—she fell hard and popped back up immediately—was another sign that she was running on empty.
With less than a mile left, Newby-Fraser had carefully doled out her energy cards and now held a 1-minute lead. "I knew if I stayed on my feet, I could still win, although it might be cut down to 10 or 15 seconds," she recalled.
Then the improbable became the impossible.
After turning right on Hualalai Road, Newby-Fraser said she was not really conscious of Smyers going by. Smyers said she only saw Newby-Fraser when she turned the corner onto Hualalai. When she saw that she was just 50 yards behind, Smyers accelerated as if she had been hit with a jolt of electricity.
Afterward Mark Allen said, "Now you can see how daring she was all those years, how close to the edge she raced, how much of herself she gave to the race." Indeed, the race revealed, perhaps for the first time, the true measure of Newby-Fraser's intensity and grit. For years Newby-Fraser had been triathlon's Joe DiMaggio—the classic performer who worked relentlessly in training to make it all look effortless on game day. She was so smart and planned so well, that surely many fans thought it was easy. Other competitors may have become beloved icons for stepping over the line and suffering the consequences. But this breakdown was, for Newby-Fraser, an inexplicable exception, and for her fans a telling—and perhaps endearing—one.
But in an interview with Crooks three months after the 1995 Ironman, Newby-Fraser opened a window into what might have been going on in her mind, exploring what roots might lie at the bottom of this mystery.
After 10 years in the United States, Paula Newby-Fraser became a U.S. citizen in July 1996, which, along with her solid relationship with Huddle, seemed to lend some permanence to her idyllic existence in Encinitas. With a few months' distance from her disaster, Newby-Fraser regained equilibrium and a renewed mastery over the emotional and mental side of her sport as she approached Ironman Hawaii 1996.
By this time Newby-Fraser had adopted Buddhist principles and gained peace of mind by, as she described it, "living in the moment." Early in the year she withdrew her declaration of retirement from the sport and vowed to make one more charge on Kona. Nevertheless, she vowed, "I have no expectations" about Hawaii. She didn't want the pressure of being the favorite, and she didn't want to feed the expectations to lead. Instead, she said, "I just want to mix it up with the girls." She had won Kona seven times and did not want to put the weight back on her psyche.
During the year Newby-Fraser won Ironmans in Australia in April and Canada in August despite throwing up and staving off a collapse in Penticton. If she had allowed triathlon success to remain an obsession, she might have fretted over her coming clash with two fast-rising rivals, Karen Smyers and Natascha Badmann. Defending Kona champion Smyers was coming off a rare double, as she had wrapped up 1995 with a win at the ITU short-course World Championship and then, in mid-1996, won the ITU long-course World Championship. She had also become faster in all three sports at the Ironman distance.
Badmann, meanwhile, was a late-blooming Swiss star who had won the prestigious Powerman Zofingen long-distance duathlon world championship with a devastating bike. Badmann and her New Age coach and partner Toni Hasler's philosophy was tied to nature, and their attitude toward her Kona debut mirrored Newby-Fraser's in its deflation of expectations. "I just want to finish it and enjoy it," said Badmann.
Newby-Fraser's attitude adjustment came to the test midway through the 1996 encounter in Kona.
At the Hot Corner in downtown Kona, where runners turn right on Palani Road for the steep uphill to the Queen K, Newby-Fraser had regained the lead from the Swiss rookie and was looking relaxed. She was 45 seconds up on Badmann, whom she had passed 15 minutes before at mile 6. And, in the surprise of the day, she was 4 minutes up on Smyers.
As they approached the hill at mile 24, made famous as the spot where Mark Allen broke away from Dave Scott in their epic 1989 race-long duel, Newby-Fraser stepped up the pace and steadily pulled away to the finish. Her time of 9:06:49 was the sixth-fastest for women on the course. Badmann, obviously suffering from lack of water at the aid stations, struggled in 4.5 minutes behind Newby-Fraser despite having been virtually tied with 2 miles to go. Newby-Fraser's 3:09:45 marathon had closed the deal.
That 1996 race marked the end of Newby-Fraser's Hawaii wins and presaged the beginning, two years later, of Badmann's reign as Kona's queen. It also marked the true winding-down of one of the most impressive records in sports history.
Now, more than a decade after her long good-bye from a fully dedicated professional triathlon career, Newby-Fraser's accomplishments loom over the sport like a comet whose bright aura cannot be dimmed even by the arrival of the sensational Chrissie Wellington. In a professional career that extended from 1986 to 2004, she won 24 Ironman races; the next closest, her friend Heather Fuhr, won 15. Newby-Fraser took the crown jewel at Ironman Hawaii eight times; the next best—Mark Allen, Dave Scott, and Natascha Badmann—have won six each. In 1988 Newby-Fraser's 11th overall finish against the men was labeled "the greatest performance in endurance sports history" by the Los Angeles Times.
On the way she was named "Greatest All Around Female Endurance Athlete in the World" by ABC Sports and the Los Angeles Times and named as one of the top five professional female athletes in the world from 1972 to 1997 by the United States Sports Academy. Sports Illustrated listed her as number 60 among the greatest female athletes of the twentieth century. Until Wellington broke her course record at Kona in 2008, Newby-Fraser held the top six times in the history of Ironman Hawaii. By 1999 she had won 21 of the 26 Ironman races she entered around the globe.
And yet if you simply look at the numbers and the résumé and accepted her apparent invincibility without seeing the human heart and soul behind it, you would be missing the essence of her greatness.
In 1998, when Newby-Fraser crossed the Kona line in 11th place in a humbling 10:03:44, she was bathed in loving applause. "I realized today that people cared about me for who I am and did not care where I finished, only that I was OK and happy," she said.
And just to remind the sport of her prodigious talent, Newby-Fraser had one more impressive result to log at Kona: a 4th-place finish in 2001.


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In Silicon Valley, the home of America's tech giants, office vacancy rates have been ultra-low for many years as demand for space has soared. However, in the fourth quarter of 2020, vacancies rose to 12.7%, up from 9.6% from the previous year. And during the same time, 222,000 square feet of office space became vacant than was filled up. That's the first time in nine years that more space wasn't filled up than vacated. For all of 2020, 1.52 million more square feet was emptied than leased. Just the year before, 2.04 million more square feet was rented than vacated.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably disrupted the office market in 2020," the report said.
Rental prices for the area were not changed much, slipping to $5.17 per square foot a month in the fourth quarter, down from $5.18 a year earlier. Many commercial property holders may be continuing to "wait and see" what will happen with COVID-19 now that the vaccines are on their way to the public.
Among the big players to leave the Silicon Valley lease market were big tech and financial companies like Intuitive Surgical, Micro Focus, and SVB Financial, giving up over 200,000 square feet among the three of them.
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Maurice Ransford (* 3. August 1896 in Terre Haute, Indiana; † 25. August 1968 in San Diego, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Artdirector und Szenenbildner, der drei Mal für den Oscar für das beste Szenenbild nominiert war.

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Ransford absolvierte nach dem Schulbesuch ein Studium der Architektur und war danach als Architekt tätig, ehe er 1940 seine Laufbahn als Szenenbildner in der Filmwirtschaft Hollywoods begann. Während seiner bis 1961 dauernden dortigen Tätigkeit war er durchgehend bei der Filmproduktionsgesellschaft 20th Century Fox tätig und arbeitete dort insbesondere mit Kollegen wie Richard Day und Lyle R. Wheeler zusammen. Seine erste Arbeit als Szenenbildner fand 1940 für die Filmbiografie Treck nach Utah von Henry Hathaway mit Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell und Dean Jagger in der Titelrolle als Brigham Young statt.

Bei der Oscarverleihung 1946 wurde Ransford mit Lyle R. Wheeler und Thomas Little erstmals für einen Oscar für das beste Szenenbild nominiert, und zwar für den Farbfilm Todsünde (Leave Her to Heaven, 1945) von John M. Stahl mit Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde und Jeanne Crain in den Hauptrollen. Eine weitere Nominierung für den Oscar für das beste Szenenbild bekam er mit Lyle R. Wheeler, Thomas Little sowie Paul S. Fox 1948 für den Schwarzweißfilm Eine Welt zu Füßen (The Foxes of Harrow, 1947) von John M. Stahl mit Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara und Richard Haydn.

Seine dritte und letzte Oscarnominierung für das beste Szenenbild erhielt Ransford bei der Oscarverleihung 1954 erneut mit Lyle R. Wheeler sowie mit Stuart A. Reiss für den Schwarzweißfilm Der Untergang der Titanic (Titanic, 1953) von Jean Negulesco mit Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck und Robert Wagner als Hauptdarsteller. Ransford schuf bis zu seinem Eintritt in den Ruhestand 1961 die Szenenbilder für 53 Filme.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1942: The Pied Piper
 1944: Das Rettungsboot (Lifeboat)
 1944: Sweet and Low-Down
 1945: Die tollkühnen Abenteuer des Captain Eddie (Captain Eddie)
 1945: Todsünde (Leave Her to Heaven)
 1947: Eine Welt zu Füßen (The Foxes of Harrow)
 1948: Nachtclub-Lilly (Road House)
 1949: Der Liebesprofessor (Mother Is a Freshman)
 1949: Der Kommandeur (Twelve O'Clock High)
 1950: Unter Geheimbefehl (Panic in the Streets)
 1951: Rommel, der Wüstenfuchs (The Desert Fox)
 1952: Casanova wider Willen (Dreamboat)
 1953: Niagara
 1953: Der Untergang der Titanic (Titanic)
 1953: Gefährliche Überfahrt (Dangerous Crossing)
 1953: Der Hauptmann von Peshawar (King of the Khyber Rifles)
 1954: Die gebrochene Lanze (Broken Lance)
 1954: Die Spinne (Black Widow)
 1955: Ein Mann namens Peter (A Man Called Peter)
 1955: Die linke Hand Gottes (The Left Hand of God)
 1955: Das Mädchen auf der roten Samtschaukel (The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing)
 1955: Gefangene des Stroms (The Bottom of the Bottle)
 1956: 23 Schritte zum Abgrund (23 Paces to Baker Street)
 1956: Fanfaren der Freude (The Best Things in Life Are Free)
 1956: Pulverdampf und heiße Lieder (Love Me Tender)
 1957: Eine Frau, die alles weiß (Desk Set)
 1958: Der lange heiße Sommer (The Long, Hot Summer)
 1958: Kampfflieger (The Hunters)
 1959: Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)
 1959: Über den Gassen von Nizza (The Man Who Understood Women)
 1959: Die Krone des Lebens (Beloved Infidel)
 1960: Von der Terrasse (From the Terrace)

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Speak Nearby, Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir, Theresa Himmer and Emily Weiner
November 1–December 6, 2015
Exhibition Publication (PDF)
Speak Nearby, a collaborative exhibition by Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir, Theresa Himmer and Emily Weiner
Opening reception Sunday, November 1, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Markús Þór Andrésson
Three is company and four is a crowd, as they say. With three variables you have a considerable choice of combinations, and by adding further sets of three the permutations increase exponentially. Equivocality prompts the rendezvous of the artists in the exhibition Speak Nearby, who, through their work, reveal a range of hidden and undisguised triadic elements. Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir, Theresa Himmer and Emily Weiner put the singularity of images and ideas to the test in the space that claims to offer all possibilities, which is art. Introducing distinct methods of appropriation, they playfully draw on established domains such as anthropology, history, physics, semiotics and philosophy. Before taking the artists' individual contributions into further consideration, it might be useful to dwell on the general consensus that meaning is provisional and subject to many interpretations.
An artist who casts all truths into question—manifesting in her artwork limitless readings—must nevertheless do so within a set of finite frameworks. We are all working with the same set of tools, but within different temporal, cultural and political parameters. It shouldn't come as a surprise that those frameworks are often notably limited to the number three. Being trichromatic, the human retina contains three kinds of color receptors that make up all possible formulas for the visible world. Three is furthermore the number of spatial dimensions that humans can perceive. The artist may attempt to suggest potentials over and above the realm of perception, clinging to string theory and beyond, but evidence indicates that there are limits to art as a language. Language itself, despite its seemingly infinite potential, has distinct limits. A dictionary is one kind—just take as an example the English term "three", the Danish "tre" and the Icelandic word "þrír". There are only so many ways in which morphology can stretch one and the same word root. Nevertheless, if we take inventory of what is available, then we can determine what is possible: There are three meanings of the word "buffalo" in English, referring to the animal, the city or the verb. That is why the following sentence reputedly makes sense: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
With the technology of today, it seems perfectly viable (if mind-boggling) that any word, image or idea may be unraveled and expounded upon fully. And if we regard the artist's creative output as a part of this grand project of mapping out all things, shouldn't such a map have emerged some time ago? After all, according to Ernst Gombrich's tradition, art history is at least 40,000 years old. Just a minor part of it, merely a few decades, was invested in the notion of artistic genius and originality. However, the bulk of the story is dedicated to the investigation, repetition, translation and appropriation of pre-existing objects, images or compositional patterns. Up to the present time, we do not seem to have run out of options, even though there have been numerous moments claiming that we have reached the end of art, come to art's logical conclusion, or got stuck in a cycle of blank pastiche—to evoke but a few art-historical doomsday ideas.
However, there is a flaw in the idea of considering reality as a map, parts of which are still uncharted—even though some of us might feel like we are just about getting there. Theoretically, the concept might work if all artistic output was isolated immediately and put in the hands of appropriate authorities without anyone else noticing. We could then complete the task of mapping everything so that we might finally close this chapter and publish the mega-art-dictionary. One could imagine a concise metanarrative, based on a three-act structure: setup, conflict and resolution. Limited and fixed as this may appear, the combination of threefold variables in art still results in a cacophony of meanings. Art may preserve factual content but it is still conditioned by the artist's subjective perspective. And the ensuing message, again, becomes conflicted on the receiving end where viewers attempt a translation of their own. Inextinguishable, artists continue to evoke new readings as they render the familiar strange and new again.
Emily Weiner employs a simple enough methodology, the creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one becomes three in her juxtaposition of two images in one painting. Her work raises the question of what images want from us? Taking into consideration the power of images, the impact they have on our lives and the apparent urgency with which they demand a response from us, Weiner changes the power dynamics by switching from passive consumer to active and creative receiver. Her process reveals an inherent vulnerability behind the image. As she takes it in, lives with it and remolds it in her mind, she breaks its spell and makes it a part of her own vocabulary. Behind Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisathere is a simple triangle, the simplest of all polygons, that appeals to our subconscious desire for simplicity and completeness. Weiner brings the triangle forward, painting it in a pop yellow-pink gradient. Contrasting the massive shape, she alludes to the hands of Mona Lisa with gestural paint strokes at the front, while da Vinci's Italian landscape with its two different perspectives appears in the background. The frame around the painting offers another layer; Painted in the same hues as the triangle, it simultaneously closes and limits the image field, while suggesting a bleeding out beyond the canvas.
Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir presents a composition of elements that each refer to familiar areas outside of art. She clutches at different kinds of research, theory or statements, on which the reality of our world and existence is predicated. These are then subtly manipulated and distorted by way of a commonplace DIY mentality. Not only does the work muddle up the subjects in question, but it also sheds a light on the issue of authority behind any stated truth. Thirdly, a new kind of statement emerges through the process, full of its own magic and enigma. By triangulating a square piece of paper, a dull two-dimensional shape, you are able to create an object that defies the laws of gravity and glides elegantly through the air. While the forces that allow a paper plane to fly are the same that apply to real airplanes, there are definite aerodynamic differences between a paper airplane and the Persian carpet that Gestsdóttir has folded to resemble one. Regardless, there are multiple historical sources behind the legend of the flying carpet. Merged together, these childhood preoccupations remind us of the value of contesting everything that is given, even if for no other reason than the thought experiment's poetic value.
In Theresa Himmer's video, three people appear together in a hot tub enjoying a moment of relaxation. They seem to know each other as their conversation dwells on the subject of mutual friends and neighbors. One of them gets the idea to swim home by traveling from one private swimming pool to the next, all the way to his house, and then sets out on the journey. Inspired by the American short story The Swimmer by John Cheever and its later filmatization from the sixties, Himmer changes setting, language and temporality, from the private villas of suburban America to present-day public pools in Iceland, while preserving the original names of all characters. The outcome is bewildering and humorous, reflecting the challenges involved in any kind of translation or localization. The work is in line with Himmer's previous projects that muse on the subjects of memory, place and identity. She examines the changes that occur by taking a geographic, temporal or physical distance from architecture or other forms of cultural surroundings, and then attempting to revisit them.
Much as the relationship between the artist, her work and the viewer is a simple and uncompromising trinity, when further sets of three creep into the picture, as clearly seems to be the case in Speak Nearby, exponentiation raises the exhibition to the power of limitless possibilities. Celebrating this fact, the artist trinity leaves it to the viewer to decide if the latitude inspires despair or exuberance. There is as little chance that Gestsdóttir's magic carpet will fly as the broken pottery in her photograph will reassemble itself. It is an impossible task to decipher all of Weiner's multilayered images and morph them in one's mind's eye back to their original state (not all of them have Mona Lisa as an ancestor). The swimmer in Himmer's film chooses a perfectly unreasonable way home, but against all odds it is the only way forward for him. It comes down to that: the way forward. Art succumbs to the same rationale as the law of physics, which is about entropy. Disorder always increases, never decreases. Increasing possibilities in the understanding of an image is in fact much more probable than the narrowing down of options, because artists continually choose from a large pool of deconstructed statements over a set of fixed and determined ones. And on these notes it is appropriate(d) to conclude with the fact that the number, three, is the computational ASCII-code for "End of Text."
Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir is an artist heavily influenced by her background in visual anthropology, a field that deals critically with representation and the staging of culture and identity. Through film, sculpture, and installation, she explores the human desire for uniformity and absolute truths, while seeking to expose the impossibility of a true translation between different systems, languages, times, or places. Ragnheiður has exhibited at the Reykjavík Art Museum, The Living Art Museum, and Skaftfell Art Center in Iceland, Göteborgs Konsthall in Sweden, and Franklin Street Works in Connecticut, among other venues. Ragnheiður received an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths College in 2001 and an MFA in Fine Arts from Bard College in 2012.
In her work, which includes photography, single-channel video, and installations in public space, Theresa Himmer uses architectural tropes, pop-cultural elements, and psychoanalytical references to reflect on aspects of place, locational identity, and memory. Through project-based research, she repeatedly seeks to address the various dynamics that produce both built and non-built spaces. Theresa is a 2012 graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study program, New York. She received her MFA in Fine Arts from The School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2011, and her M.Arch. from Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, in 2003. Group exhibitions include Nurture Art, Brooklyn; Young Artist's Biennial, Bucharest; National Gallery of Iceland; and Westfälische Kunstverein in Münster, Germany. She has presented solo projects at Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland, and Art in General, New York.
Emily Weiner is a painter living and working in Brooklyn. She is interested in how symbols move between the collective unconscious and individual perception. Her works juggle icons, geometries, and motifs which have been revived, reshaped, and recoded over time. Emily has exhibited work at harbor/Regina Rex, Sargent's Daughters, and Kravetz Wehby in New York; The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia; and Camac Centre d'Art in Marnay-sur-seine, France. Emily received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 2003 and her MFA in Fine Arts at The School of Visual Arts in 2011.
Design: Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson
Text: Markús Thor Andresson
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