Chelsea are reported with no injuries with their game against Bournemouth ahead.
Lewis Cook and defender Simon Francis, both are out for the season with ACL injuries.
Higuain is expected to start upfront.
Callum Hudson Odoi is expected to get some gametime against Cherries.
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The New Schoolhouse
Building Facilities That Work
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School facilities are the literal foundation for the learning that takes place every day in some 13,000 school districts large and small. Building and maintaining them is a gargantuan financial lift—an estimated $49 billion per year for new schools and major capital projects nationwide, and $46 billion a year for maintenance and operations, according to a 2016 joint report by the 21st Century School Fund, the National Council on Facilities, and the Center for Green Schools.
This Education Week special report is all about the concrete—and equally crucial—topic of school facilities and what it takes to assure that the nation's 56 million schoolchildren have a modern, fully-equipped, well-maintained school to attend, and a place where all that theory and educator experience can be put into practice.
The Nest, a common area at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Va., was conceptualized, designed and built by students.
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School Climate & Safety Showcasing Creativity in School Construction
Michelle R. Davis, November 28, 2017
Karin Bloss, a special education teacher at Discovery Elementary School, in Arlington, Va., catches up on work between periods. Discovery is known as a "green school," with a design premium on energy efficiency and environmental factors.
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School Climate & Safety School Facilities Form a Foundation for Learning
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Education Funding Bond Market Offers 'Green' Option for Building Eco-Friendly Schools
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Solar panels can be seen from classroom windows at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Va.
School Climate & Safety Energy Efficiency Is Built Into the Mission at 'Green Schools'
Lockers are already installed at Memorial High School in Frisco, Texas, due to be finished by fall of 2018. The building is part of an effort by the once-tiny community to keep up with explosive enrollment growth.
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School & District Management School Planners Face Daunting Task in Matching Facilities, Enrollment
Denisa R. Superville, November 28, 2017
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School & District Management High Costs, Wary Taxpayers Make School Projects a Hard Sell
Daarel Burnette II, November 28, 2017
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Things were considerably different ten years ago when Marty opened Widget World. She was the only game in town, and online shopping was still somewhat novel. Since then, a competitor has moved into a nearby shopping center and e-commerce has more than doubled. Marty is under pressure to raise revenue.
Maybe Marty can boost revenue by lowering the prices on her widgets and increasing sales volume. She has several options. Discounting — a temporary price reduction — is a common "revenue management" strategy. She might also consider marking down her widget prices permanently. A customer reward or frequent buyer program is another possibility.
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FORD v. LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Whitney FORD; Rodney Ford, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellee.
Decided: August 23, 2006
Before DOROTHY W. NELSON, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges. Tania L. Whiteleather, Lakewood, CA, for the appellants. Adam J. Newman and Marlon C. Wadlington, Cerritos, CA, for the appellee.
Whitney Ford ("Whitney") and her father, Rodney Ford ("Rodney"), appeal the district court's order dismissing their request pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA"), 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400-1487, for attorneys' fees related to legal services provided by Whitney's mother and Rodney's wife, Tania Whiteleather. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and must address an issue of first impression in this circuit: Is a parent performing legal services for her own child entitled to attorneys' fees pursuant to the IDEA? We hold that attorney-parents are not entitled to attorneys' fees for the representation of their children in IDEA proceedings.1
Whitney is a student in the Long Beach Unified School District (the "School District") suffering from a series of anxiety problems. Whitney also experiences difficulty remembering dates or facts and completing written and mathematics assignments. These problems have constantly and severely affected her performance in school. The instant case arises out of a series of disputes over Whitney's educational needs between Whitney, her father Rodney Ford, and her mother and attorney Tania L. Whiteleather on one side, and the School District on the other.
In 1999, Whitney was placed in a residential treatment center in Utah pursuant to an agreement with the School District regarding her Individualized Education Program ("IEP"). Sometime later, the treatment center suggested that Whitney return to her permanent residence in Southern California.
At an IEP meeting on May 31, 2000, the School District and the Fords agreed to return Whitney to her home. The IEP team also determined that Whitney would receive at-home academic instruction through the School District's "home/ hospital" program, as well as services from Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, an organization offering specialized educational instruction.
Before Whitney began her new program, the School District reversed course. On June 14, 2000, it decided that the agreed-upon services from Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes were unnecessary and determined that Whitney should be returned to the residential treatment center in Utah. The Fords objected, and Rodney filed a due process hearing request, on Whitney's behalf, with the California Special Education Hearing Office ("SEHO"). On August 24, 2000, the SEHO issued an order mandating the enforcement of the agreement reached between the Fords and the School District at Whitney's May 31, 2000, IEP meeting.
The School District challenged the SEHO's decision by filing a motion for a temporary restraining order in state court. The state court granted the School District's motion on November 7, 2000, and ordered that Whitney be returned to the residential treatment facility. The Fords appealed, and the parties reached a settlement agreement on April 17, 2001. That agreement nullified the November 7, 2000, state court order, provided that the School District would fund the services originally promised to Whitney at the May 31, 2000, IEP meeting, and reimbursed the Fords for various costs associated with Whitney's education.
In 2003, after the School District prevented Whitney from enrolling in a local high school, Rodney filed a second due process hearing request with the SEHO.2 The parties eventually entered into a settlement agreement on August 18, 2003. This agreement provided that Whitney would be enrolled at a local high school and would receive math instruction from Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes. The School District also agreed to reimburse the Fords for prior visits to the residential placement center in Utah.
On April 29, 2004, Whitney and Rodney filed a complaint in the district court pursuant to the IDEA, seeking to recover fees related to their settlements with the School District. The School District filed a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, and on June 28, 2004, the district court dismissed the complaint. This timely appeal followed.
We review de novo a district court's dismissal for failure to state a claim pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). See Decker v. Advantage Fund, Ltd., 362 F.3d 593, 595-96 (9th Cir.2004). Therefore, we must ask whether, "assuming all facts and inferences in favor of the nonmoving party, it appears beyond doubt that [Whitney and Rodney] can prove no set of facts to support [their] claims." Libas Ltd. v. Carillo, 329 F.3d 1128, 1130 (9th Cir.2003).
Before reaching the central issue in this case-whether the IDEA authorizes attorneys' fees-we address briefly the School District's argument that the Fords' claim should be dismissed for failure to abide by the claim presentment requirement of the California Tort Claims Act.3 That law poses no obstacle to the Fords' claim for attorneys' fees because-as we have already explained-state claim presentment requirements cannot be applied to federal civil rights actions. See Stanley v. Trustees of the Cal. State Univ., 433 F.3d 1129, 1135 (9th Cir.2006); see also Felder v. Casey, 487 U.S. 131, 140, 108 S.Ct. 2302, 101 L.Ed.2d 123 (1988) (reasoning that "the absence of any notice-of-claim provision is not a deficiency requiring the importation of such statutes into the federal civil rights scheme").
Next, we must determine whether the IDEA authorizes attorneys' fees for attorney-parents.4 We join three other circuits in concluding that it does not. See S.N. ex rel. J.N. v. Pittsford Cent. Sch. Dist., 448 F.3d 601 (2d Cir.2006); Woodside v. Sch. Dist. of Phila. Bd. of Educ., 248 F.3d 129 (3d Cir.2001); Doe v. Bd. of Educ., 165 F.3d 260 (4th Cir.1998).
In interpreting the IDEA, like any other statute, we turn first to its plain meaning. United States v. Stewart, 420 F.3d 1007, 1020 (9th Cir.2005). The version of the IDEA applicable at the time of the district court's decision states that "[i]n any action or proceeding brought under this subsection, the court, in its discretion, may award reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the costs to the parents or guardian of a child or youth with a disability who is the prevailing party." 20 U.S.C. § 1415(e)(4)(B) (2004).5 Whiteleather is an attorney, so applying the plain meaning of the provision, the Fords appear to be entitled to fees.
However, the established interpretation of language similar to that used in § 1415 strongly suggests that the Fords are not entitled to attorneys' fees. In particular, we focus on 42 U.S.C. § 1988,6 a fee-shifting provision "virtually identical" to that before us. See Arlington Cent. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Murphy, 548 U.S. 291, ----, 126 S.Ct. 2455, 2462, 165 L.Ed.2d 526, ---- (2006). In Kay v. Ehrler, 499 U.S. 432, 111 S.Ct. 1435, 113 L.Ed.2d 486 (1991), the Supreme Court determined that the "overriding statutory concern" of § 1988 was to ensure that victims of civil rights violations benefit from "the judgment of an independent third party [to] mak[e] sure that reason, rather than emotion, dictates the proper tactical response to unforeseen developments in the courtroom." Kay, 499 U.S. at 437, 111 S.Ct. 1435 (emphasis added).7 Consequently, the Supreme Court concluded that an attorney appearing pro se was not entitled to fees under § 1988.
We can discern no reason-either in the "intention of Congress ․ [or] in the purpose, history and overall design or context of the statute," Perez-Arellano v. Smith, 279 F.3d 791, 794 (9th Cir.2002)-to interpret the IDEA inconsistently with § 1988. See Doe, 165 F.3d at 264 (noting that "the legislative history indicates that Congress intended courts to interpret [the IDEA] as they have § 1988 and Title VII"); see also Northcross v. Bd. of Educ., 412 U.S. 427, 428, 93 S.Ct. 2201, 37 L.Ed.2d 48 (1973) (stating that similar language in different statutes is a "strong indication" that the statutes are to be interpreted similarly).
Like an attorney appearing pro se, a disabled child represented by his or her parent does not benefit from the judgment of an independent third party. Indeed, "the danger of inadequate representation is as great when an emotionally charged parent represents his minor child as when the parent represents himself." Woodside, 248 F.3d at 131 (citation omitted); see also Doe, 165 F.3d at 263 ("[A]ttorney-parents are generally incapable of exercising sufficient independent judgment on behalf of their children to ensure that 'reason, rather than emotion' will dictate the conduct of the litigation.") (citation omitted). Therefore, we agree with our sister circuits that "the better rule is one which encourages parents to seek independent, emotionally detached counsel for their children's IDEA actions." Woodside, 248 F.3d at 131; see also J.N. v. Pittsford Cent. Sch. Dist., 448 F.3d at 604; Doe, 165 F.3d at 263. Accordingly, the Fords are not entitled to attorneys' fees because Whiteleather, Whitney's legal counsel, is also Whitney's mother.
We recognize that, on some occasions, attorney-parents will provide independent, reasoned representation to their children. Given the underlying results, we can only conclude that Whiteleather "obviously handled h[er] professional responsibilities in this case in a competent manner." Kay, 499 U.S. at 435, 111 S.Ct. 1435. Nevertheless, we are convinced that our rule-which presumes irrefutably that parents and guardians are always unable to provide independent, dispassionate legal advice-will better serve Congress' intentions.
Just as in Kay, awarding attorneys' fees to the Fords would create a disincentive to employ counsel whenever a parent or guardian considered herself competent to litigate on behalf of her child. See Kay, 499 U.S. at 438, 111 S.Ct. 1435. "The statutory policy of furthering the successful prosecution of meritorious claims is better served by a rule that creates an incentive to retain [independent] counsel in every such case." Id.
For the foregoing reasons, the district court's dismissal of this case is
1. Because we conclude that the IDEA does not permit attorney-parents to recover attorneys' fees, we need not address whether the Fords are the "prevailing parties." Additionally, the Supreme Court has recently ruled that prevailing parents may not recover fees for "services rendered by experts in IDEA actions." Arlington Cent. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Murphy, 548 U.S. 291, ----, 126 S.Ct. 2455, 2457, 165 L.Ed.2d 526 (2006). Thus, we need not consider the Fords' claims for expert fees.
2. In order to accommodate the schedule of the School District's counsel, the matter was dismissed without prejudice via an agreement reached on January 5, 2003. Rodney subsequently filed a third due process hearing request.
3. The relevant provision provides that "no suit for money or damages may be brought against a [local] public entity ․ until a written claim therefor has been presented to the public entity․" Cal. Gov't Code § 945.4.
4. The Fords also argue that they are entitled to attorneys' fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988, but that statute does not provide for fees related to a successful IDEA claim. See 42 U.S.C. § 1988.
5. Although the IDEA was amended in 2004, see Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, Pub.L. No. 108-446, 118 Stat. 2647, the amended attorneys' fees provision is identical to the version of the IDEA applicable at the time of the district court's decision. Compare 20 U.S.C. § 1415(e)(4)(B) (2004), with 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(3)(B)(i) (2005) ("In any action or proceeding brought under this section, the court, in its discretion, may award reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the costs ․ to a prevailing party who is the parent of a child with a disability. ․").
6. Section 1988 provides that "the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party ․ a reasonable attorney's fee." 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b).
7. The Supreme Court also focused on the word "attorney", which assumes an agency relationship. Kay, 499 U.S. at 435-36, 111 S.Ct. 1435. Although an attorney-parent acts on behalf of her child, we recognize that the relationship cannot be analogized readily to typical agency relationships. See Restatement (Third) Of Agency § 1.01 cmt. c (noting standard examples: "employer and employee, corporation and officer, client and lawyer, and partnership and general partner"); id. cmt. d(emphasizing that "agency is a consensual relationship ․ requir [ing] that an agent-to-be and a principal-to-be consent to their association with each other").
D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


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What is Ukuthula Trust?
Zimbabwe: The 2018 Elections and their Aftermath
After the coup in November 2017, a central part of the coup leader's strategy was to move beyond the shadow of the coup through an election process that was seen to be peaceful and credible. As the Presidential spokesperson explained it, for ED Mnangagwa and his team July 30 'was not about winning votes qua votes, but about securing re-‐engagement and the myriad benefits flowing therefrom'.1 Thus this 'open for business' mantra was accompanied by selective electoral reforms. These included: The introduction of the BVR voting system; the ensuring of a more peaceful and tolerant electoral environment; and an invitation to a wide range of international observers including the EU, US, SADC, AU, and the Commonwealth to monitor and report on the election. As part of the narrative of international re-‐engagement, national unity and reconciliation that marked his discourse since the coup, Mnangagwa also conducted a series of meetings with minority communities. In June, Chiwenga met with the Asian business community, and In July the Zanu PF President met with the representatives of the white community and invoked the language of reconciliation that Mugabe deployed in the immediate post 1980 period: We should cease to talk about who owns farms in terms of colour.
We should cease talking about that. A farmer-‐black farmer, a white farmer-‐is a Zimbabwean farmer. We should begin to develop a culture among our people to accept that we are one.
The opposition, led by the largest party the MDC Alliance and its young leader Nelson Chamisa, made it clear from early on in its election campaign that there were serious problems in the election process that had not been dealt with. The problem areas included the partisan status of the Zimbabwe Election Commission, the late release of the voter's role, lack of transparency around the printing of the ballot papers, and the lack of equal access to the public media. Moreover Chamisa stated throughout his campaign that his party would not accept any result other than his Presidential victory. In addition to these challenges the opposition was also caught up in the outcome of a bitter succession battle after the death of Morgan Tsvangirai which resulted in yet another split in the MDC. Chamisa's victory over Thoko Khupe in a political battle marred by violence, misogyny and, at the very least, a questionable constitutionality, once again marred the image of the opposition.
Notwithstanding the differences between the two major parties their election manifestos converged around the need for macro-‐economic stabilisation and market-‐based reforms. Both were competing for international financial approval and investment promises.
The full pdf report can be downloaded here.
Old Beginnings
The political context of Zimbabwe and a report on Biometric Voter Registration (BVR): A National and Matabeleland Perspective
Political Context: 2017-‐2018
Introduction: The Trigger of Factional Politics
Poster of General Chiwenga, 18
November celebrations, streets of Harare
November 2017 witnessed tumultuous events in Zimbabwean politics. After months of factional struggles between the Lacoste faction led by then Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, also nicknamed the crocodile, and the Generation 40 (G40) faction around President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace, Mugabe fired Mnangagwa on the 6th November. This followed Mugabe's warning to Mnangagwa two days before when Grace Mugabe was booed at a rally in Bulawayo. The President's wife threatened the embattled Vice President with the call that the 'snake must be hit on the head.' This was the First Lady's decisive move in her bid for the Vice Presidency in the upcoming Zanu PF congress in December 2017.
This most recent factional struggle in Zanu PF follows a long history of violent internal battles within the party, from the years of the liberation struggle in the 1970s around ethnic and ideological questions. A few years prior to his own party exile, Mnangagwa played a central role in the removal of the previous Vice President Joice Mujuru, the wife of a key liberation commander Solomon Mujuru. As Miles Tendi has demonstrated, Mnangagwa, in support of the Mugabe's, with the central involvement of Army Chief Constantine Chiwenga and the machinery of the military intelligence, conspired in the ousting of Joice Mujuru. This event took place after a long factional struggle between the Mujuru and Mnangagwa factions since the 1990s.1 Thus both the Mugabe's succession plan and Mnangagwa's long held Presidential ambitions have been in play for some time. While they have at certain times coincided in their strategic intent, at some point the final confrontation between the two was always on the cards.
The firing of Mnangagwa from the Vice Presidency and his expulsion from Zanu PF, however, had vastly different effects on the Zimbabwean polity. While Joice Mujuru's dismissal and the expulsion of several of her allies caused some disturbance in the ruling party, it was nothing like the turbulence that followed Mnangagwa's removal, and the attempt to arrest General Chiwenga at the airport on his return from China. The statement justifying the decision to fire Mnangagwa, accused the former Vice President of persistently exhibiting 'disloyalty, disrespect, deceitfulness and unreliability', and that he had behaved in a manner 'inconsistent with his official duties'.2
In response Mnangagwa, who fled the country soon after his removal from Government, accused Mugabe of allowing the ruling party to be 'hijacked by novices and external forces' with a track record of 'treachery'. In a manner that gave a clear indication of the intervention that would follow Mnangagwa warned Mugabe:
"I will go nowhere. I will fight tooth and nail against those making a mockery against Zanu PF founding principles. You and your cohorts will instead leave Zanu PF by the will of the people and this we will do in the coming weeks.3"
1 M.B. Tendi, State Intelligence and the Politics of Zimbabwe's Presidential Succession. African Affairs, 2016. DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adis 074.
2 Press Statement: Termination of Employment of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. S.K. Moyo, Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, 6 November 2017.
3 Press Statement-‐Former Hon VP ED. Mnangagwa 8 November 2017.
The Persistent Crisis of the Zimbabwean State
Brian Raftopoulos, Director of Research Solidarity Peace Trust.
Since the 2013 elections the convulsions within the ruling party have intensified to unprecedented levels. In response to this phenomenon there has been a good deal of analytical commentary on these struggles, focusing on the nature and causes of the contestations and centring mainly on the central question of Presidential succession. 1 Common to all the analyses is the challenge of stabilising and democratising the Zimbabwean state by dealing both with the legacies of colonial period and their continuities, as well as their new iterations, in the post-colonial era. This is not a problem peculiar to Zimbabwe, and in different forms continues to haunt the state in post-colonial Africa, as it is forced to contend with the legacies of both structural inequalities and despotic forms of rule. 2
In Zimbabwe this problem has manifested itself in a centralised, authoritarian ruling party that has conflated its operations with that of the state and overseen the erosion of the capacity of state structures to deliver to and protect the broader citizenry. In the rural areas the state has entrenched its power bases through a combination of coercion, a failure to democratise 'traditional' structures and the increasing placement of these under state/party control. Importantly, this consolidation of control in the countryside has also been the result of the delivery of land, with all its attendant problems, through the fast track land reform process. In the urban areas Zanu PF's control over peri-urban land politics is linked to its undermining of the opposition's tenuous control of certain urban local government structures and has furthered the reach of Zanu PF's structures of power and patronage. 3
The Challenges for Zanu PF
These processes were marked by contestations within party and state structures that were accentuated after 2013 by several factors: the belief that the opposition had been decisively defeated; the intra-elite struggles for declining patronage resources and their implications for building and consolidating the support of competing party factions across rural and urban constituencies; and contested views over the path to normalisation with the 'international community' as Mugabe nears the end of his political life.
At the centre of these challenges has been Zanu PF's inability to develop sustainable institutions that can allow the governmental regime to drive a more democratic vision of sovereignty and liberation, and which is also able to embrace the subjectivities of a broad enough range of citizens to create a more consensual, hegemonic and much less coercive form of rule. 4 This project remains elusive in the Zimbabwean polity and has been central to the demands of dissenting voices and political organisations in the country, even when such bodies have displayed similar deficits in their structures and practices.
Within the ruling party, this blockage has resulted in a persistent recourse to a politics of rupture and reconstitution that returns to the logic of authoritarian closure. The repetitive refrains about who speaks the most authentic narrative of the liberation struggle, and consequently who most deserves to be the heir apparent to that legacy, forecloses new questions, even as it reminds the nation of the importance and ongoing resonance of this legacy. One of the leaders of the war veteran's movement Christopher Mutsvangwa recently provided a good example of this kind of injunction when he restated the claim of the war veterans:
I am happy that the revolution is back in the hands of its owners. Those who want to rule this
country must respect war veterans not daydreaming like what the G40 is doing. 5
These claims and the political capital that is attached to them have dominated the rhetorical battles of the ruling party for much of its history, even as the legitimacy crisis of Zanu PF from the late 1990's provided greater urgency and political terror to this command mode of political inscription. The louder and more intense pitch of the demands for affirmation and the selective right to pre-eminence and future leadership speak to the high stakes of survival, as the ruling elite peer into a vista of glaring precariousness. This uncertainty is brought to the attention of the vicarious Zimbabwean public through the daily reports of conspiracy, betrayal and threat that now mark the political language of the 'party of liberation.' As if to ward off the doubt of a future that looks cumulatively foreboding, the harshness of the critiques between former party comrades and the declarations of a certain future, carry the unmistakable marks of a stuttering vision whose stammer is only accentuated by the energy and vitriol of their statements. It comes as little surprise then that Zanu PF ideologue Nathaniel Manheru had already expressed his concern in November 2015 that Zanu PF had reached the point at which it was governing without a 'big, filling idea', and that Zim-Asset could not fill this gap because of its 'staid, dry and formulaic' character.
In attempting to deal with the economic and political constraints that it and the country confront,Zanu PF has adopted three strategies. Firstly, after much intra-party disputations over the interpretation of the policy of Indigenisation, a more pragmatic approach was finally adopted to appease the fears of possible investors. This move was part of a longer term process of moving to 'normalise' relations with Western countries, which increased from the period of the GPA as the EU dropped most of its sanctions measures. Finance Minister Chinamasa has made it clear that Zimbabwe must be restored as a country that 'can pay its debts'. In order to do this, Chinamasa declared that the country financing programme of the international financial institutions must be utilised to finance the major sectors of agriculture, the private sector and parastatal reform, in order to 'build the country's capacity to pay its debts both past and present.' 6The neo-liberal language of this pronouncement clearly won favour with the IMF, who in the March report on the Staff Monitored Programme in Zimbabwe, declared that the authorities had 'met all the quantitative targets and structural benchmarks under the third and final review of the SMP.' 7 This position accords with what appears to be a dominant position within the EU, despite indications of dissent from the US, that for the moment the political strategy on Zimbabwe should centre on pressurising the state through the strictures of the IMF repayment schedule, in the hope that at some later date political liberalisation will follow. It is within this context that the criticisms of Biti's PDP against the British Ambassador should be read. In April, the PDP attacked the Ambassador for what they viewed as the British strategy of placing their hopes on a reformed Zanu PF agenda and 'in support of the incorrigible regime in Zimbabwe.' 8
Secondly, Zanu PF responded to a large MDCT-T demonstration in Harare in April with its own 'Million Man March' in May. The central objectives of the MDC-T demonstration were both to bring attention to the failure of Zanu PF to deliver the promises of its 2013 election manifesto, and to assert the dominance of both Morgan Tsvangirai and his party in the firmament of opposition parties.
MDC-T Demonstration in Harare April 2016
The major thrust of Zanu PF's public action, as a recent paper by the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) points out, was to renew the testimony to and re-inscribe the figure of Mugabe's dominance in both the state and party in the face of the intense factional fights. The ZDI report also correctly observes that this march was largely driven by the Zanu PF youth around the G40, rather than the war veterans. 9 The absence of employment alternatives for youths makes them extremely vulnerable to such mobilisation by various party structures. The posters at the demonstration (see below) focus on the G40 agenda around Grace Mugabe, and therefore the message around the march was not just about Zanu PF on the ascendancy but about which faction was growing into dominance.
However the demonstrations represented something more. They were the beginning of a gambit to 'win' the 2018 elections even before the elections. They represented a politics of electoral numbers through a quantitative assertion of presence on the streets in a country where the election system has been marked by a long and painful history of violence, electoral theft, and the loss of legitimacy. Even Zanu PF knows that given the major questions that will once again be asked about the election system in 2018, it must establish a sufficient public presence to attempt to answer such criticisms.
'Million Man March' in Harare May 2016
The third strategy of the ruling party is to find some immediate response to the accelerating economic problems by once again resorting to printing money through the bond notes. For millions of Zimbabweans, the spectre of the bond note invokes the memories of heightened vulnerability and the daily threat of the erasure of livelihoods. Even as the prospect of another round of hyperinflationary disaster may provide speculative avenues for the few, this will be dwarfed by the daily dread that will constitute the lives of the majority. This paucity of policy alternatives is indicative of the general immobilisation of policy makers in the cauldron of the ruling party's factional struggles.
At an everyday level the effects of the drought and hunger are already apparent. There is a real sense of depression and desperation. The run on the banks has intensified and queues for money are everywhere. As the purchasing power of consumers plunges and people are forced to make desperate decisions about how best to spend the little money they have available, a major battening down of hatches is under way. As businesses contract and the already low level of formal employment declines even further, an environment of general shortages is likely to be pervasive.
Opposition Politics
The opposition parties can take little consolation in the implosions in Zanu PF, for they face major hurdles in attempting to re-assert the presence and hope they once represented. As many analysts and reports have noted in the past, unless there are major reforms to the electoral system in the country, there is little likelihood that the sovereignty of individual votes will be respected. For such changes to occur, a great deal of pressure will have to be built up before 2018, and this can only be done through more effective opposition alliances particularly amongst the major players. In the past such attempts have floundered over issues such as parliamentary positions and personality differences. This should not come as a surprise, for in developing countries where livelihoods outside of the state are so marginal, politics, in an important sense, is about jobs. But more than ever a strategic alliance between opposition parties with clearly set out strategies to demand electoral changes before 2018 is essential.
The importance of Mujuru's People First party in this equation remains an open question. The party has begun to deal with the realities of an oppressive state and its intolerance towards dissent and this will no doubt intensify as the country draws nearer to the 2018 election. It is also unclear whether both Mujuru and Tsvangirai will work together with the other opposition parties to unify their efforts against the ruling party. For such a broad coalition to succeed the inclusion of these two parties will be paramount.
The opposition parties must also face the challenges of mobilising within a social structure now fundamentally defined by generalised informality. 10 The weakening of more formal structures of organisation and civic action amongst the subaltern classes, and the extension of Zanu PF's structures of patronage into these informal spheres demands different forms of engagement. The rapid loss of the possibility of more stable employment and social rights as a central requirement of citizenship has created major challenges in asking the question 'what next' for the general population. Even where, as Ian Scones has pointed out, the growth of small towns as a result of the fast track land reform has provided the 'basis for significant accumulation and wide economic activity', this prospect remains 'fragile, poorly remunerated and operating with poor conditions.' 11 Under these conditions, building more fluid forms of political organisation within more fragile and transient social structures presents a major challenge.
Living in and through Crisis has become the modality through which Zimbabwean politics has come to be practiced and imbibed in daily lived experience. This mode of practice has allowed the ruling party to continuously unsettle the more predictable forms of institutional rule that would open the way to greater democratic accountability, even as it has done so through continued centralisation of key forms of state rule. This will be a difficult legacy to transform but it is challenge that must be confronted.
[1] B.Raftopoulos, Solidarity Peace Trust, Zimbabwean Politics in the Post-2013 Election Period, Africa Spectrum, 49,2,2014, 91-103; Brian Raftopoulos, Zimbabwe's Politics of Despair, Solidarity Peace Trust, 2015; Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, 'Protracted Road to Transition: Dissecting Zimbabwe's Succession Conundrum.' Harare, 2014; D.Matyszak, The Mortal Remains: Succession and the Zanu PF Body Politic, Research and Advocacy Unit and Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum, Harare, 2014; I. Mandaza, The Political Economy of the State in Zimbabwe: The rise and fall of the Securocratic State, in I.Mandaza (ed), Zimbabwe": The Challenges of Democratisation and Economic Recovery, Harare, Sapes Trust, 2016; B.M.Tendi, State Intelligence and the Politics of Zimbabwe's Presidential Succession, African Affairs, 115/450, April 2016, pp 203-224; Zimbabwe Democracy Institute, Contestations and Contradictions in Zanu PF Power Struggles, 2016.
[2] M.Mamdani Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996.
[3] J.Alexander, J.McGregor and B-M Tendi Politics, Patronage and the State in Zimbabwe, Harare, Weaver Press, 2014.
[4] For a further discussion of the idea see C.Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries, Duke University, 2004.
[5] B.Mashaya, 'Mnangagwa primed to take over'. Daily News, 31/05/16.
[6] 'IMF give the Zim Reforms thumbs up,' Herald, 23/0416.
[7] IMF Staff Completes 2016 Article IV Consultation Mission to Zimbabwe and the Third and Final Review of the Staff Monitored Programme. IMF Press Release No 16/96 March 9 2016.
[8] PDP Press Release 21/04/16.
[9] Zimbabwe Democracy Institute, The Zanu PF 'Million Man' March: Mugabe's Game Plan? Harare, 26 May 2016.
[10] For a in depth discussion of this process see Ukuthula Trust/Solidarity Peace Trust, Hoping against hope: Murambatsvina Ten Years on. 2015.
[11] I.Scoones, Small towns and Economic Development: Lessons from Zimbabwe. http://zimbabweland.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/small-towns-and-economic-development-lessons-from-zimbabwe/ (Accessed on 23/05/16).
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Home/News / Cargill becomes exclusive distributor for TREHA™ trehalose in the U.S. and Europe
Cargill becomes exclusive distributor for TREHA™ trehalose in the U.S. and Europe
Distinctive carbohydrate offers a variety of solutions to food technologists
MINNEAPOLIS - Aug. 4, 2014 – Cargill has finalized an agreement with Japan-based Nagase Group to be the exclusive distributor of TREHA™ trehalose for use in foods and supplements throughout the U.S. and Europe. A glucose disaccharide that is about 38 percent as sweet as sucrose, TREHA™ trehalose is a unique ingredient used in everything from cooked proteins to bakery goods and snack items because it serves several functions. TREHA ™ trehalose is manufactured by Hayashibara Co., Ltd., a Nagase Group company in Japan.
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To B2B or Not: Brief on Ecommerce and FDI Policy in India - Experts & Views - Legally India
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As a comparison India is said to be the only one among a list of developed and developing cover letter for family driver position that does not allow FDI in inventory based ecommerce. In the 9 months after this clarification by the Government, Flipkart started the actions necessary to become fully compliant, although there are some things about the holding structure that are unclear.
Answers are expected soon from the government after the commerce and industry ministry received responses from various states on this matter a few days ago. These eight firms are among the 21 online retail portals, primarily dealing with hawking products to customers, which the ED was looking into on orders of the Delhi high court.
The high court issued a notice to Amazon, Flipkart and the Central government the same month, asking them to file a response by 11 November.
This, after the famous corporate restructuring that Flipkart carried out in which included the divesting of WS Retail. The investigation dates back to Apart from that the plea has also claimed that the two e-commerce giants have created several other group companies in the chain to divide discounts and losses.
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Share your comments below. It big fish essay thesis claimed that by creating name lending companies, Amazon and Flipkart buy branded goods in bulk at discounts from manufacturers and render small sellers uncompetitive by a wide margin, thus influencing the prices in violation of the FDI norms.
FEMA: Foreign Exchange Management Act. Every country, including India, exercise some control over the influx of foreign funds in domestic market. In the case. Despite the euphoria of the Flipkart's recent acquisition of Myntra, the ED investigation of FEMA violation and the penalty can cause problems.
FEMA was brought in as the alternative that would govern how foreign investments could play a role in the Indian economy. The image below shows the comparative timelines of the FEMA guidelines being changed to match the changing dynamic of the Indian e-commerce market, and the growth of Flipkart. The companies declined to comment for this story.
Flipkart, set up by two former Amazon. To get around this, most online retail portals have structured themselves as aggregators that act as marketplaces for people to choose and buy products of companies that put up goods for sale through these gateways.
One thing is for sure — the decision by the ED and the outcome to Flipkart will define how other e-commerce companies deal with FDI in the coming years.
Interestingly when Flipkart was incorporated init started out as an inventory-based B2C model that had to be changed to the B2B marketplace model after raising foreign funds in
The ED filed its reply Wednesday saying that it has registered cases against the two companies under FEMA and chief purpose of a cover letter the investigation is under process. B2C on the other hand stands for Business to Consumers where online businesses sell directly to the customers. FDI is prohibited in other e-retail companies that do not manufacture goods.
This could change with the Delhi High Court issuing a notice in the above case to the government the matter is said to be heard by the High Court sometime soon directing them to file their affidavit on the matter.
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Flipkart Guilty Of FEMA Violations, Evidence Found, Cr Showcause Notice Issued
Again, none of these ecommerce companies have ever been found to be violating FDI Policy.
Their primary concern is that e-commerce companies are sample tort essay answers like B2C retailers while enjoying foreign investment that is only legal for B2B enterprises. The petition also said flipkart vs fema case study according to Press Note No 3 series — guidelines issued by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion to regulate FDI in e-commerce — Amazon and Flipkart are not authorized to exercise ownership over the stock and cannot influence price of goods and services that are for sale in the open market.
Related Article: Flipkart Not The Only One, ED Begins Probe Against Several Ecommerce Players "FEMA cases are civil cases to there is no question of criminal Inc42 Staff. Editor and Co-founder @Inc Pooja keeps a close eye on .. How Google Is Using Machine Learning To Predict Floods In India. As per FEMA, if any party has been found guilty of breaking the FDI norms, they can or for foreign investments received by the company (Flipkart in this case).
However, experts say that the maximum penalty that can be imposed for such a violation is three times the foreign investments that are under the scanner, although it is very rare that the maximum penalty cover letter for bank branch manager imposed. The plea, filed through advocate Pranav Sachdeva, has claimed that Amazon and Flipkart have created multiple entities to circumvent the FDI norms and route the hot-selling stock at cheaper rates.
As per section 13 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), , if any person or entity were found to be in contravention of the Act. In fact, as per the FEMA norms, ED can slap a penalty upto three times of the contravention or foreign investment received in this case.
Our View There are three perspectives to be looked at separately. But after ED initiated the investigation several e-commerce players have changed their business model to suit the foreign investment norms in India.
Amazon being clever: However, following an outcry by major etailers sample of house cleaning business plan the supposed lacuna in the FDI norms, they have approached the Reserve Bank of India to plead their flipkart vs fema case study. One, prior to the clarification by the Government in Aprilit can be argued that there was a policy vacuum as far as e-commerce was concerned.
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Ina year after ED's probe began, Flipkart changed its business model allowing buyers and sellers to deal independently on their platform. The other accusation made against these companies is that they do in fact have inventories and do not perform as mere marketplaces.
But the investigation pertains to the period before the switch. However, the Board of WS Retail does not have Rajiv, but three unknown individuals rumoured to be related to the Flipkart founding team unconfirmed.
The direction came after the All India Footwear Manufacturers and Retailers Association AIFMRA — an apex body of local shoe makers and retailers — petitioned the court alleging that many online portals were actually carrying out direct multi-brand retail trade and also received large funds from foreign investors.
Flipkart, Bharti Walmart under ED scanner for violation of FDI norms - Firstpost
The ED is now looking at their books of accounts with a fine-tooth comb to determine whether these eight companies violated foreign direct investment FDI rules by selling products of multiple brands through their portals.
The Enforcement Directorate EDwhich tracks money laundering deals that involve overseas transactions, is "looking at the possibility" to tender a show-cause notice to Flipkart for alleged violation of foreign investment rules.
In this model, ownership of goods and services and the marketplace vests with the same entity. For ThePrint's smart analysis of how the rest of the media is doing its job, no holds barred, go to PluggedIn. After over two years of probe Enforcement Directorate is ready to slap a showcause notice to Flipkart.
Amazon through Cloudtail can therefore dictate pricing among other things and in effect acts like a retailer. Therefore under this model the ecommerce company does not carry out any retail transactions and does not directly sell anything to the customer.
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Indian rules allow FDI in e-commerce only for those companies that manufacture and sell their own products. The direction came after the All India Footwear Manufacturers and Retailers Association AIFMRA — an apex body of local shoe makers and retailers — petitioned the court alleging that many online portals were actually carrying out direct multi-brand retail trade and also received large funds from foreign investors.
The commerce ministry in turn has requested the Enforcement Directorate ED and RBI to look into these companies and examine if they are indeed engaging in retailing activity.
The probe was initiated on the basis of complaints citing that FDI norms in India do not allow FDI in e-commerce especially in business to consumer models.
The petition has contended that according to Press Note 3 ofwhich regulates FDI in e-commerce, entities like Amazon and Flipkart are not to exercise ownership over stock, nor directly or indirectly influence price of goods and services sold on their marketplace.
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Kabbalah Online Meditation & Prayer Jewish Meditation
When I am I
Kabbalah reveals the mystical meaning behind the Mishna.
By Rabbi Yosef Caro; translated and edited by Moshe Miller
From Maggid Meisharim, parashat Ki Tisa, Rabbi Caro's recording of the teachings he heard from his angelic mentor (see his Biography).
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
And if I am for myself, what am I" (Avot 1:14).
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me" means if I do not grasp hold of the "I," namely malchut [which is called in Hebrew "ani"], who will be for me — that is, to which of the supernal sefirot can I dedicate myself?
Malchut represents the authority of G‑d, and dedicating oneself to malchut means accepting upon oneself the Yoke of Heaven. If one does not accept the Yoke of Heaven, what holiness is there in emulating any of the sefirot?
"And if I am for myself, what am I" means when I grasp the "I," malchut, and I take it "for myself," for the lower malchut [malchut of the lowest world, Asiya, namely, the human individual, in this case "myself,"] as it says in the verse, "Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh" [a play on words in that the Hebrew word for "bone" shares the same root as that for "myself"]1 (Gen. 2:23) - then "what [in Hebrew, Mah] am I?" [This can be read as "I am Mah,"] meaning that at that moment I join together the Name Yud-Hei-Vav-Hei expanded to the numerical value of Mah [45] with "ani" ["I"], malchut.
In other words, when I take upon myself the Yoke of Heaven (malchut) and make it part of me, there is revealed upon me the Ineffable Name, whose transcendent, indefinable quality is alluded to in the word "what" — ma'h.
The word used here for "bone," which is indicative of the lower malchut, shares the same root as that of the word "myself" in the mishna cited above and indeed refers to Man.
Rabbi Yosef Caro, 4258-5335 (1488-1575) was born in Spain and fled the Inquisition with his family at the age of 4, settling in Safed, Israel. Author of Shulchan Aruch ("The Prepared Table" - Code of the Jewish Law) a compendium of the laws universally accepted by Jews of the Torah governing a Jew's entire life: personal, social, family, business, and religious, and a mystical work entitled Maggid Mesharim. He was chief rabbi of Biriya, a suburb of Safed, from 1546.
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Record Mideast imports drive global defence market to $65b
Dubai - US, Canada, France and UK main beneficiaries of the spending boom.
By Issac John
Published: Tue 14 Jun 2016, 12:00 AM
Last updated: Tue 14 Jun 2016, 2:00 AM
Fuelled by the Middle East and Southeast Asia, global defence trade reached a record-breaking $65 billion in 2015 as the value of imports by Saudi Arabia and the UAE surpassed the combined cost of military equipment purchased by Western Europe.
The annual Global Defence Trade Report released on Monday by IHS Inc., revealed that with $21.6 billion in deliveries of defence equipment, the Middle East was the largest importing region in 2015. The report predicted that the global defence market would increase to $69 billion in 2016.
"The global defence trade market has never seen an increase as large as the one we saw between 2014 and 2015," said Ben Moores, senior analyst at IHS. "2015 was a record-breaking year." Markets rose $6.6 billion, bringing the value of the global defence market in 2015 to $65 billion.
According to IHS, the largest Middle Eastern importers remain among the largest globally in 2015. Saudi Arabia, the largest defence importer globally, and the UAE imported $11.4 billion (17.5 per cent of the global total) worth of defence systems in 2015, up from $8.6 billion in 2014.
"The combined value of Saudi Arabia and the UAE's defence imports is more than all of Western Europe's defence imports combined," Moores said. Saudi Arabia's imports grew from $6 billion to $9.3 billion; an increase that is three times that of the entire sub-Saharan Africa market. The value of defence imports by the UAE was $2.07 billion in 2015. In 2016, while Saudi imports are estimated to exceed $10 billion, the UAE will record imports bill of $3.06, according to HIS.
After Saudi Arabia, India was the world's second largest defence importer with a value of $4.33 billion in 2015. However, in 2016, India's total import bill will drop to $3.95 billion, HIS data revealed.
"The US, Canada, France and the UK are the main exporters of defence equipment to the Middle East and beneficiaries of this spending boom," Moores said.
The IHS report indicates that US trade flow to the Middle East has been driven by sales of military aircraft and associated mission systems. Canada is the second-largest exporter of defence equipment to the Middle East with $2.7 billion in sales, moving the UK down the table to fourth place, just behind France. Germany and Russia each saw a 25 per cent growth in exports to the region of $1.4 and $1.3 billion, respectively. Russia is likely to increase its trade in the region as post-sanctions Iran begins to replace its exhausted aviation assets.
In 2018, France will move from the third to the second largest global exporter of defence equipment, pushing Russia down the table for the first time in decades.
"France has revived its defence industry and had spectacular back-to-back year of sales," Moores said. "2014 and 2015 were France's best-selling years in decades." France sold $26 billion of defence equipment, $8 billion in 2014 and $18 billion in 2015. In 2016, France secured the record-breaking $38.7 billion Australian submarine order.
This extended run has increased the French 10-year backlog for defence exports from $36.1 billion to $54 billion in 2016. These sales have included Rafale multi-role fighter aircraft, submarines and helicopters. The bulk of the sales went to India, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Qatar, Egypt and the UAE.
Saudi, UAE defence imports more than Europe
> The global defence trade market has never seen an increase as large as the one between 2014 and 2015.
> Saudi Arabia, the largest defence importer globally, and the UAE imported $11.4 billion worth of defence systems.
> The combined value of Saudi Arabia and the UAE's defence imports is more than all of Western Europe's defence imports.
> Global defence market would increase to $69 billion in 2016.
issacjohn@khaleejtimes.com


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Sydney 1997:
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March was a rollar coaster month. Early on we made some changes to the team when the Jackets traded Dalton Prout to the Devils for Kyle Quincey. Then we started playing some amazing shutout games by Bob. He held tight for over 180 minutes and was named the 2nd NHL Star of the Week.
During Game 66 of the season against the Sabres, the Jackets earned their 43rd victory of the season, to tie our franchise season record (set in 2013-14). It was during this game that Zach Werenski also earned his 40th point of the season to break the Blue Jackets record for rookie scoring. The record was formerly held by past Jacket: Rick Nash in 02-03. It took Werenski 8 less games than Nash to achieve this milestone.
By mid March we were playing in a great groove, and we had some extra people to celebrate in the Blue Jackets family beyond just our on ice players.
On March 16th, Jeff Rimer (our play-by-play announcer) was honored before play began for his achievement of calling 2,000 NHL games. Rimer is truly a gem, and I love listening to him and Jody Shelley spar back and forth during games. Fun fact: he was also a childhood friend of CBJ president of hockey operations, John Davidson.
But in addition to our slew of new records (shutouts, single season victories, single season points, home ice wins), the CBJ have also had some injuries pile up. Atkinson was stepped on by Marcus Foligno (Nick's brother) on accident and had to get 17 stitched in his left shoulder. Thankfully there was no nerve damage and he didn't get guillotined. Calvert and Sedlak were out for multiple games because of groin injuries. Murray broke his hand. Anderson, Werenski, and Bjorkstrand were out for a few games each after taking some hard hits on the ice.
Here is the big news though: on March 19th the Jackets clinched their spot in the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
We had been battling hard all season and it was an amazing feeling to clinch our spot so quickly. This is the 3rd time in CBJ history that we have made it to the playoffs. But we have never won a series, so let's aim at breaking that record okay!
However, looking back since the 19th we've had a bad patch, to put it nicely. After a season of wins and a manageable scatter of losses, the Jackets started sliding downhill in a big way.
The end of March and almost entire April was one loss after another. Previously, we hadn't lost more than 3 games in a row. But in the last 2 weeks of play we had racked up 6 consecutive losses and failed to score on 20 Power Play chances. That's a rough way to end such a great year, but luckily it's not over yet!
The Jackets will be playing Pittsburgh on Wednesday, April 12th for Game 1 of their series.
This is our opportunity to take the last few weeks of play and throw it out the window. We are a great team that symbolizes that underdog midwest spirit like none other. Yes we can stumble, and yet we have a long way to go. But we are the Columbus Blue Jackets and we are here to play our game. It has been a pleasure watching and visually chronicling this season's amazing story. Although I hope I end this journey with a data visualization of our Stanley Cup victory, I have enjoyed every step with or without it. Let's go Jackets!


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All Things Considered, I'd Rather Be In Passaic
I guess there's some…irony? justice? synchronicity? between Robert Smithson's non-site works–pieces of far-off locations displaced into a gallery–and twiddling your thumbs at a boring* Smithson symposium in a college auditorium while the last 36 hours of the artist's Floating Island tick by in gorgeous, sunny, autumnal splendor.
Net net: forget the next three sessions of the symposium (maybe they'll be podcast), and get your butt to the river to watch the barges go by.
[*although one potential bombshell was dropped, it went seemingly unnoticed. In answer to the moderator's question about ever rebuilding the Spiral Jetty by allowing new rocks to be piled onto it, the artist's widow and executor Nancy Holt didn't reject the idea.
There's precedent, she said, because Smithson sometimes instructed Holt or other friends go get rocks for his pieces. He didn't privilege the hand of the artist, she said. True, perhaps, but only partly relevant; more to the point is Smithson's own intentions for the effects of entropy on the Jetty, not whether he had to be present to dump the rocks. The other factor is how to deal with increasing touristification of the site, which now gets tour buses and up to 100 visitors/day.]
Author gregPosted on September 24, 2005 Categories art, spiral jetty
Smithson Symposium Saturday 9/24
New York Is Smithson Country this week, what with the Floating Island and the Whitney retrospective and the Smithson Symposium all day Saturday. What symposium, you say? Actually, that's what I said. I had no idea.
Anyway, over four sessions, artists, curators and historians will discuss the Spiral Jetty, Smithson's writings, films, travels, and influence [HUGE, in case you can't make it]. Me, I'm going to hear Nancy Holt and folks talk about the construction and evolution of the Jetty; and Chrissie Iles and Joan Jonas talk about road trips and film.
Schedule and reservation info is in the sidebar at Whitney.org [whitney.org]
Smithson on greg.org [or greg.org on Smithson, actually]
Bonus Smithson: Tyler Green reports from the launch of Floating Island for the LAT
Tote That Barge
Randy Kennedy has an article on the making of Robert Smithson's Floating Island, a tree-filled barge which will chug around lower Manhattan for a week or so:
Smithson's project is just as intimately connected to Central Park, which he regarded, in all its artificial pastorality, as a conceptual artwork of its own. (He revered Frederick Law Olmsted and said that he found him more interesting than Duchamp.) While not nearly as monumental as Smithson's most famous work, "Spiral Jetty," a 1,500-foot-long curlicue of basalt jutting into the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the island – which resembles a rectangular chunk of Central Park, neatly cookie-cuttered out – is a further twist on Smithson's career-long fascination with displacement. This generally meant taking art outdoors and bringing pieces of the land back indoors, into galleries. In the case of "Floating Island," the displacement is all outdoors, an exploration of land and water, urban and rural, real and recreated, center and periphery. As a paean to Central Park, it can be seen as a kind of artificial model of an artificial model of nature.
It's Not Easy Making Art That Floats [nyt]
Even cooler, though, at nytimes.com/robertsmithson, Times makes a raft of its Smithson coverage, dating back to 1982, available (for who knows how long). [greg.org coverage of Smithson, alas, only goes back a couple of years.]
Earth Art Via Satellite
[via land+living]In the wake of Google Maps' release, a few sites have started collecting coordinates and satellite images of various earth art works, including Spiral Jetty, Michael Heizer's Double Negative, James Turrell's Roden Crater, and Walter deMaria's Lightning Field.
Here's my own contribution, a Google Map view of The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. You can see Judd's large concrete sculptures lined up in the field, the twin barrel vaulted warehouses with milled aluminum boxes inside, the arcing row of converted barracks-installations, and the Judd-altered gymnasium on the left.
Looking for Earth Art With Google Maps [petermorse.com.au]
Monumental Land Art [daringdesigns.com]
Chinati Foundation [chinati.org]
Author gregPosted on June 26, 2005 March 12, 2019 Categories art, google, spiral jettyTags walter de maria
Bring The Spiral Jetty Into Your Home!
Do you ever wish you still had those Matisse Cutout posters from freshman year? Well, the good old days are back, my art advertising-loving friend.
BetterWall will sell you an actual, cleaned up, polyvinyl street banner from your favorite museum exhibition–or, if that one's sold out, from some other exhibition you chose to make yourself look sophisticated– that's ready for hanging right in your own home!
They're cheaper than art, but hella more expensive than posters. But if you've got $300-1800 to spend, and you don't want to buy actual art for some reason, BetterWall is for you.
Buy one of 30 Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty banners from the 2004 MoCA retrospective, $549 [betterwall.com, via nyt]
Don't Book That Spiral Jetty Trip Just Yet
Recent record flooding in Utah has raised the water level (elevation, that is) of the Great Salt Lake to a five-year record high of 4,198 feet, enough to submerge the Spiral Jetty and scuttle any art world latecomer's summer pilgrimage plans.
With mountain runoff, the lake is expected to keep rising through July.
Meanwhile, the rest of the artworld is in Venice, which is also sinking. Coincidence? I wonder.
Floods pump life back into lake [sltrib, thanks, dad]
Author gregPosted on June 7, 2005 Categories art, spiral jetty
The Cattle Guards of Box Elder County
So how did there come to be street signs for the Spiral Jetty?
For years, the only way to see Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty was from the air, or in a photograph, or in the artist's own making-of film, which was plenty for 99.9% of art worlders and normals alike.
When the Jetty first re-emerged from the Great Salt Lake in 1994, only a few people knew about it, and even fewer actually took the trouble to drive out and see it. But appetites were whetted, and conceptual art was intersecting with an Easy Rider-meets-Wild, Wild West road trip in just the right slightly adventurous, hip enough way that when it resurfaced again in 2002, visiting the Jetty quickly went from curator-esoteric to art-world-must-see to mainstream.
Continue reading "The Cattle Guards of Box Elder County"
Author gregPosted on September 1, 2004 Categories art, spiral jetty
How to get to Spiral Jetty? It's never been easier.
On the 10-year anniversary of the re-emergence of Spiral Jetty and my first visit, and in keeping with our family tradition of visiting the Jetty whenever we attend a wedding in Salt Lake City, we popped on over Saturday in a rented Camry.
These new signs made finding the Jetty so easy, even Artforum could do it.
Author gregPosted on August 30, 2004 Categories art, spiral jetty
Spiral Jetty: Still Spiral, Not a Jetty
Todd Gibson's posting an extensive first-hand account of his recent visit to the Spiral Jetty, which, because of an ongoing drought, is now completely out of the water.
That's fast. Some friends went in early July, and it still had water around it, although the Jetty itself was entirely walkable. [via bloggy]
Faithful pilgrims of contemporary art will also appreciate Gibson's account of his visit to the Lightning Field. He does get around.
Related: Other Spiral Jetty and Smithson posts on greg.org
Post about a show that included the intriguing backstory of the official photographs of Lightning Field.
The Leonard Riggio Spiral Jetty Visitor's Center, Valet parking to the right
Well, not yet. But after years of drought, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is so visible (and walkable), it's getting so many visitors, the Dia Center is thinking: upgrades. Making the bone-jarring road more accessible; maybe adding some rocks here and there; getting it up out of the water so those pesky salt crystals don't form on it anymore. As Michael Govan, the Dia's director, notes, "The spiral is not as dramatic as when it was first built. The Jetty is being submerged in a sea of salt."
"What we're conceiving is an exciting, interactive, immersive Spiral Jetty experience. It'll be educational, and entertaining. With the lake's salt level where it is right now, you just float. You can't actually immerse. We're talking to some of the governor's economic development folks about fixing that, though. They're in Salt Lake. And IMAX. Can you imagine Smithson's movie in IMAX? Oh, and we gotta fix that fence over there."
Okay, I made that last paragraph up. Basically, all that's happening is, they've surveyed the site, and they realize the Jetty won't survive if 2,000 people walk across it every year. One potential benefit of rebuilding Spiral Jetty: Journalists might stop pretending it's missing.
Related: Dia, the Baedeker for the Contemporary Art Grand Tour [bonus non sequitur: post includes the sole remaining excerpts from Plum Sykes' outline for Bergdorf Blondes]
Update: check out John Perrault's commentary at ArtsJournal In 25-words or less: "I knew Smithson. Smithson was kinda a friend of mine. A reconstituted Jetty, sir, is no Robert Smithson."
Author gregPosted on January 13, 2004 Categories art, spiral jettyTags rsmithson
Great Minds, etc etc
Arnolfo di Cambio et al, Basilica di Santa Croce, 1294-1442 [img via]
As the Artforum.com discussion of Nico Israel's Spiral Jetty travelogue turned from my smug fact-checking to the romanticisation of contemporary art, E.M. Forster's A Room With a View popped into my head. Just as Forster's English followed Baedekers around Italy–from this altarpiece to that fresco, from Firenze to Rome to Venice to Ravenna–a Contemporary Art Grand Tour has taken shape where Artforum pilgrims can demonstrate their faith.
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1982-6 [image via]
In addition to Spiral Jetty, the CAGT includes: The Rothko Chapel; Walter deMaria's Lightning Field; Michael Heizer's Double Negative; Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation; James Turrell's work-in-progress Roden Crater; the Guggenheim Bilbao; and my own heretical favorite, Richard Serra's Afangar.
With Merchant/Ivory's version of ARWAV firmly entrenched in my own movie worldview, I saw a vision of a hipster artist roadtrip remake. Sort of Basquiat meets Thelma & Louise, with Reese Witherspoon as Helena Bonham-Carter, Josh Hartnett as Julian Sands and Daniel Day-Lewis as, well, himself.
ANYWAY, it turns out the fashion world's own Forster, English Vogue-er (and faux twin) Plum Sykes, may beat me to the intersection of Art & Film. Hintmag.com leaked the outline of Sykes' book, Bergdorf Blondes (which just got picked up by Talk/Miramax Books for $625,000, not including movie rights).
The hot narratrix (calls herself "Moi") dates, gets engaged to, and breaks up with the hot it-boy painter "Dan" ("Our heroine consoles herself that there is one thing worse than being disengaged to a person in a GAP ad, and that's being married to someone in a GAP ad.") [NB: Sykes dated, etc. painter/Gap ad star Dam(ian) Loeb.]; receives confidence-boosting advice as she pines for the hot LA filmmaker ("You are not superficial, you just look like you are because you wear a lot of Gucci.") ; and hightails it home to En-ge-land, perchance to marry the Earl-next-door ("after bonking at the SoHo Grand"). Sounds pretty much like my movie idea.
Should I go ahead and develop it? Or would it be like when there were those two Dalai Lama movies out at the same time?
Author gregPosted on October 2, 2002 March 12, 2019 Categories art, making movies, spiral jettyTags walter de maria
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty.avi [1.3Mb], c. 2002
This will be the entry where I write about our trip to the Spiral Jetty and post some amusing pictures thereof. It will be enlightening and insightful, yet not without wry humor. As it reverences the work itself, it will impress you and amaze you (in a quiet way) with our vision, dedication, and lack of condescension, and it will make you want to make the pilgrimage yourself. Ideally, it will ease your decision to keep an eye on me and my own artistic production.
(And by the way, I watched part of Glitter yesterday on HBO7 or whatever. It's not nearly as good bad as I'd been led to believe. It was mostly just bad bad. Although a harshly critical eye could find some painful-to-acknowledge similarities between Mariah Carey's inability to act and my own. I fear this aside will negate any benefit I could have derived from posting further about the Spiral Jetty. Maybe we'd all be better off reading my last entry or the critical comments I made on Artforum's message boards.)
On Robert Smithson, film, and finding the way
The Spiral Jetty is back. Although it was submerged when we checked in July, my college senior sister said it was visible from the hill above it when she took a first date out to see it a couple of weeks ago (talk about a litmus test; it's a 3+ hour drive one way, half on rutty dirt paths.) Sure enough, the SL Tribune has an article about it (Thanks, Artforum.) Read Smithson's own comments on making the Jetty here.
Underwater or not, Geocachers have logged Spiral Jetty; it's not surprising, given its off-the-mapquest.com obscurity, limited-but-not-prohibitive access, and non-mainstream nature. Geocaching would suit Smithson fine, I think:
After a point, measurable steps…descend from logic to the "surd state." The rationality of a grid on a map sinks into what it is supposed to define. Logical purity suddenly finds itself in a bog, and welcomes the unexpected event…The flowing mass of rock and earth of the Spiral Jetty could be trapped by a grid of segments, but the segments would exist only in the mind or on paper. Of course, it is also possible to translate the mental spiral into a three-dimensional succession of measured lengths that would involve areas, volumes, masses, moments, pressures, forces, stresses, and strains; but in the Spiral Jetty the surd takes over and leads one into a world that cannot be expressed by number or rationality.
Geocaching examines the gap between the natural and the rational worlds, too, coming at if from the grid side. Spiral Jetty is locatable in grids, of course, including USGS satellite photos and via latitude/longitude coordinates, translated from GPS orbital data. But for geocachers, getting there is more than half the fun; the rush comes from "mapping" the "distance" between the two worlds.
Back in New York, Smithson sat down with friends to make his film about the Jetty.
Film strips hung from the cutter's rack, bits and pieces of Utah, outtakes overexposed and underexposed, masses of impenetrable material. The sun, the spiral, the salt buried in lengths of footage… And the movie editor bending over such a chaos of "takes" resembles a paleontologist sorting out glimpses of a world not yet together, a land that has yet to come to completion, a span of time unfinished, a spaceless limbo on some spiral reels…[Editor Bob] Fiore pulled lengths of film out of the movieola with the grace of a Neanderthal pulling intestines from a slaughtered mammoth. Outside his 13th Street loft window one expected to see Pleistocene faunas, glacial uplifts, living fossils, and other prehistoric wonders. Like two cavemen we plotted how to get to the Spiral Jetty from New York City.
Smithson uses the road, going forward and backward (in time as well as place) to tie his film together. "The disjunction operating between reality and film drives one into a sense of cosmic rupture. Nevertheless, all the improbabilities would accommodate themselves to my cinematic universe."
When I went to Spiral Jetty in 1994 (it's first reappearance in 24 years), I was overwhelmed by how different experiencing the work in person (glistening salt crystals, cotton candy pink water, and that drive…) was from seeing it in pictures (aerial B&W on the last page of the art history text). Now it seems that that was the point. Mapping the distance between two worlds is what filmmaking's all about.
Author gregPosted on September 1, 2002 Categories art, making movies, spiral jetty


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