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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Spoon, Deerhunter and The Strange Boys at The Sound Academy in Toronto
Frank YangAs of Monday night, it had been four and a half years since I saw Spoon live and just over four years since I'd been to The Sound Academy (nee The Docks) for a show. One of these streaks I was anxious to break; the other I was not. To be fair, I only missed one of their Toronto shows – a 2008 appearance at the Kool Haus in support of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga – but apparently that was the one where they officially crossed over to "rock star" status. That last time at The Phoenix in November 2005, it felt like a show for Spoon fans – this time, at a room three times the size but just as full, it felt more like the show was simply the place to be that night. That's not intended with any snarkiness, just an observation.
This tour saw the band bringing two others on tour with them – one who surely benefited from being shown off in front of such-sized audiences and another that probably could have packed a respectably-sized room all on their own. The former of these were The Strange Boys, who hailed from Austin, Texas and proudly carried on that city's tradition of psychedelic-garage rock. Granted, they weren't overly trippy, preferring focused pop structures over sprawling jams and weren't above injecting some twang into their sound, but their roots and skill at said stylings were clear. A little more energy or stage presence wouldn't have been unwelcome, but still a solid start to the evening from a band making their first visit to Canada.
Deerhunter, on the other hand, were probably responsible for drawing no small percentage of the audience, if not just for themselves then for tilting the decision of whether to see Spoon in one the city's least-favoured venues into the "yea" column. Though their psychedelic/shoegazing/pop affinities would make them seem the sort of thing I'd really be into, I had not listened to Deerhunter much before and certainly hadn't seen them live. And now I wish I had, because their set was pretty superb – musically, they were far more direct (read: less wall of noise) than I'd expected, but with enough bludgeoning volume and droning excursions to keep it sufficiently trippy and the show itself was livened up with Bradford Cox's space cadet stage banter, an unexpected stage invasion from one of The Black Lips (or perhaps expected considering that before they began the song, Cox dedicated it to his fellow Atlantans) and another guest appearance from Spoon's Britt Daniel, who took over on guitar from Cox while the gangly bandleader engaged in some on-stage shenanigans I couldn't actually see from my angle – see the eye review for specifics. As far as their recorded works go, I've only really spent time with Microcastle – further recommendations are welcome.
I don't, however, need any help getting acquainted with the collected works of Spoon, having followed them attentively since 2001's Girls Can Tell, and if there's a downside to their consistently excellent output over this decade – hell, century – it's that it can cause one to take them for granted a bit. Some have criticized this year's Transference as being less focused than its pop-friendly predecessor Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, I – for reasons I can't quite articulate – prefer it. Both sides of the argument would have been perfectly happy with Monday night's set list, then, as it opened with Transference's sublime closer "Nobody Gets Me But You" and drew heavily from both records – seven tracks from each – while also hitting most of the essential notes from all the other Merge releases, even going as far back as 1997's Soft Effects for the unexpected, "I Could See The Dude".
In total, they ran through an impressive 25 songs over an hour and forty minutes, aptly showcasing the band's unique sound and dynamic. Britt Daniel – he of the scratchy voice and stabby six-string – is front and centre, dancing around the stage in his herky-jerky manner as if pulled uncontrollably by his guitar but the contributions of his bandmates can't be overstated, even if they seem perfectly happy to stay in the background. Eric Harvey's keys provided the melodic underpinnings that allow Daniel's guitar lines to wander while he impossibly tight and just funky enough rhythm section of Jim Eno and Rob Pope were omnipresent on this night – possibly because the Sound Academy's acoustics leaned way towards the bassy. And don't get me started on the sightlines – it's a sad situation when you find yourself pining for the environs of the Kool Haus.
In my comments from that Phoenix show in 2005, I noted that 'I will have to amend my one-line synopsis on Spoon live from "they put on a good show" to "they usually put on a good show, but sometimes they put on a GREAT show". If Monday was a proper indication of how far they've progressed as a live act in the past half-decade, then their work on stage is almost on par with in the studio and I'll have to update my notes to read, "they put on a great show" – no qualifiers.
Westword, NOW, CBC, The Quietus, The Toronto Star, The Chronicle Herald,NPR, The Toronto Sun and The San Francisco Chronicle have feature pieces on Spoon. Spin has excerpted this month's feature piece that puts Britt Daniel in conversation with Ray Davies and New York Magazine talks to him about the art of the set list. Chart, The Globe & Mail and Exclaim have reviews of the show. The Fly profiles The Strange Boys.
Photos: Spoon, Deerhunter, The Strange Boys @ The Sound Academy – March 29, 2010
MP3: Spoon – "The Underdog"
MP3: Spoon – "I Turn My Camera On"
MP3: Spoon – "The Way We Get By"
MP3: Spoon – "This Book Is A Movie"
MP3: Spoon – "Mountain To Sound"
MP3: Spoon – "Chips & Dip"
MP3: Spoon – "Idiot Driver"
MP3: Deerhunter – "Wash Off"
MP3: Deerhunter – "Rainwater Cassette Exchange"
Video: Spoon – "Written In Reverse"
Video: Spoon – "The Underdog"
Video: Spoon – "Don't You Evah"
Video: Spoon – "The Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine"
Video: Spoon – "I Turn My Camera On"
Video: Spoon – "Sister Jack"
Video: Spoon – "Jonathan Fisk"
Video: Spoon – "Small Stakes"
Video: Spoon – "Everything Hits At Once"
Video: Deerhunter – "Agoraphobia"
Video: Deerhunter – "Strange Lights"
Video: The Strange Boys – "Be Brave"
Video: The Strange Boys – "Woe Is You And Me"
The Line Of Best Fit and Montreal Gazette have interviews with Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater; The Gazette has also posted the full transcript of their interview. Shearwater play Lee's Palace tomorrow night, April 1.
Also on the bill for that show are Wye Oak, who played a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR.
Daytrotter is featuring a session with Richard Buckner.
Paste reports that Tift Merritt will release a new record entitled See You On The Moon on June 1. The Fayetteville Observer has an interview with Merritt.
Pitchfork has details on Blitzen Trapper's new album Destroyer Of The Void, due out June 8.
MP3: Blitzen Trapper – "Heaven & Earth"
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco is interviewed by The Miami Herald, Palm Beach Pulse and The Weekender while Le Blogotheque has a Take-Away Show with the band.
The Fly talks to The National frontman Matt Berninger about their new album High Violet, out May 11. They play Massey Hall on June 8 and 9.
LAist and The Dallas Observer chat with Ted Leo, who's released a new video from The Brutalist Bricks. A Toronto show has also finally been announced – Ted and the Pharmacists will be at Lee's Palace on June 26, tickets $15.
Video: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – "The Mighty Sparrow"
Spinner, Prefix and Blurt have features on the Drive-By Truckers, who bring their new album The Big To-Do to Lee's Palace for two nights next week, April 6 and 7.
Their respective members have moved on to new projects for the time being, but that hasn't stopped Monsters Of Folk from releasing a new video from their self-titled album.
Video: Monsters Of Folk – "Dear God"
Crawdaddy profiles John Vanderslice.
NPR is streaming the entirety of Joanna Newsom's concert in Washington DC last week.
Under The Radar talks to School Of Seven Bells' Alejandra Deheza about their new album Disconnect From Desire. She says it will be out this Spring; it now being Spring, I am less confident than her about this point – it will be out this year, though.
Phantogram have released a new video from Eyelid Movies. If you've been having trouble finding in stores in Canada, there's a reason – apparently it's not out here until April 6, their deal with Barsuk not counting north of the 49th? Don't know, but it's worth seeking out wherever you have to go to do it. Playtonic Dialogues has an interview.
Video: Phantogram – "Mouthful Of Diamonds"
Portland atmospheric electronicist Eluvium will be at the Drake on May 22 in support of his new album Similes; tickets $12 in advance.
MP3: Eluvium – "The Motion Makes Me Last"
tUnE-yArDs brings her much-feted (but not really understood by me) debut BiRd-BrAiNs to the Horseshoe on June 13 – tickets $12 in advance. I tried, really I did.
MP3: tUnE-yArDs – "Sunlight"
Video: tUnE-yArDs – "Real Live Flesh"
Blurt, Pitchfork and Paul Westerberg – via The New York Times – eulogize Alex Chilton of Big Star.
Category: Concert Reviews
Tags: Big Star, Blitzen Trapper, Deerhunter, Drive-By Truckers, Eluvium, Joanna Newsom, John Vanderslice, Monsters Of Folk, National, Phantogram, Richard Buckner, School Of Seven Bells, She & Him, Shearwater, Spoon, Strange Boys, Ted Leo, Tift Merritt, tUnE-yArDs, Wilco, Wye Oak
9 Responses.
danieljosef says:
Frank, with regards to tUnE-yArDs, it's all about the live show, I really can't get into her album either. I saw her open for Think About Life at OTT last year, and her set was probably one of my favuorite live shows of the year. She's incredible.
Frank great review of the Spoon show. I had skipped many, many shows at the Sound Academy because I hate the venue so much, but I just couldn't not attend this – Spoon AND Deerhunter! I was sold. They were both incredible, but I am back to avoiding this venue at all costs. It was awful. I can't believe that this place is used so frequently these days. I gave it another chance this time because I hadn't been since they renovated it, but I'll never see another show there.
M.M. says:
re: Deerhunter – i'd say start with Microcastle/Weird Era, then Rainwater Cassette Exchange, then work back to the Fluorescent Grey EP and Cryptograms (and if those last 2 don't do it for you, switch to Atlas Sound instead).
did spoon play "the way we get by"?
Frank Yang says:
yup – second song. It was really a near-perfect set list as far as covering their "hits" or "shoulda been hits". Pure pop.
Luke Andrews says:
It was my first time at the Sound Academy and, aside from the physical location itself, I don't really get all the complaints. For one, I thought the sound quality was very good (for Spoon's set anyway — opening bands never have good sound). Are there other similarly-sized venues that are really that much nicer? It seems to me any big venue is going to have bad sight lines unless it's got seats and a sloped floor, which is a different beast altogether. Also, the beer wasn't a total rip off. Am I missing something?
Really wanted to see Spoon, really don't like the Sound Academy. This time, hate won over love. Good to hear the band was great, so, sorry I missed it, but according to Paul, the venue doesn't seem to have improved much from my last time there (and from the sound of Luke's experience, either he lucked out with a great spot, or is just incredibly easygoing!) And I don't believe there is any other similarly-sized venue in Toronto, except maybe the under-renovation Sony Centre (where I would have gone to see Spoon in a heartbeat). After that, I think it's a big jump to the ACC, with nothing really in between.
Frank, you imply that you weren't loving the venue and its sightlines either, but it looks like you were shooting from the pit, no?
yeah, was shooting from the pit so for the first 3 songs of the set, the sightlines were great. Unfortunately the pit exits to far house left, and the crowd was so thick there was no real way of fighting my way into a better angle. So basically I was at maybe 15-degrees from the face of the stage, pretty poor line of sight. Sound isn't really optimized for that space either, obviously. If they closed that area off so that everyone was directly in line with the stage and maybe raised the stage, it'd be better but they haven't so it's not.
It'll take something pretty awesome to get me back there – Jonsi will probably do it. But will skip The New Pornographers there.
There really is a dearth of venues in this town between ~2000 (Kool Haus) and Ricoh (~6000). SA @ ~3000 is basically it.
So, what, they kick you out of the pit after a few tunes? Shameful!
Yeah, between KoolHaus and the ACC, I'd forgotten about the Ricoh, but it's rarely used — maybe not a favourite of promoters. And the less said about the dismal Arrow Hall, the better.
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Technology and trust: Priorities for a reimagined economy led by technology
Australia can no longer afford to be a follower in the digital and technology sphere. In this report on Public Interest Technology priorities for government, CEDA shows how appointing a Chief Technologist and committing to transparent and independent technology assessments could help Australia become a leading digital nation.
Technology | Innovation May 18, 2021
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has outlined an ambition for Australia to be a "leading digital nation by 2030". The Government has backed this ambition in the recent Federal Budget with a series of initiatives in its Digital Economy Strategy that show it is firmly focussed on this agenda. Australia can no longer afford to be a follower in the digital and technology sphere, and these announcements show the Government is on board.
We must now ensure we make the most of these important initiatives. That includes making sure the public understands and embraces these ambitions, and their expectations are reflected in them. One factor that will be critical to achieving this goal is our ability to demonstrate to the community that technology is in fact making their lives better. What is missing is a focal point and process for addressing community expectations and concerns, and increasing its understanding of our ambitions. In this paper we propose two solutions to achieve these aims.
Drawing on insights from the United States and the United Kingdom, CEDA's Public Interest Technology (PIT) agenda puts trust at the centre of all tech decision making. It promotes actions that strengthen community understanding and trust of the development, adoption and use of technology. This requires buy-in from all sectors, and makes clear that the responsibility for building trust is shared widely.
As Australia takes a far more ambitious approach to data, digital and emerging technologies, government leadership will be fundamental to building the right frameworks to support these goals. This, the first of CEDA's technology priorities papers, therefore focuses on government leadership and priorities.
In 2020, embracing tech and digitisation reshaped how we worked, kept our communities safe and delivered business opportunities that steadied our economic decline at the hands of COVID-19. The pandemic brought a wave of technological adoption at a scale and pace not seen before in Australia, demystified digital technologies for many and brought the benefits of these technologies and the use of data to the fore.
It is now abundantly clear that how well we manage our digital and data opportunities will drive Australia's future prosperity. Making the most of these advances is critically important to the pace and shape of Australia's recovery and longer-term economic and social development.
CEDA considers that Australia's current appetite for digital adoption can build a more dynamic, reimagined and technology-led economy. Achieving this requires strong and consistent leadership on our national aspirations and intent, a demonstrated commitment to building and retaining public trust in technology and data and creating the knowledge and skills to work in ways that foster this trust.
CEDA strongly supports the Federal Government's aspiration to become a "leading digital nation", but there is a lack of clarity around what this means in practice, particularly given the pace of change, the range of initiatives being announced and the need to ensure that community expectations and concerns are reflected in our progress.
A piecemeal approach
Former Federal Minister for Industry, Science, and Technology, the Hon. Karen Andrews, recently observed: "if we continue to embrace innovation, particularly out the other side of this pandemic, then Australia is going to see some incredible economic gains and much-needed jobs will be created"[1].
Since then, the portfolio has again changed hands, with the appointment of the Hon. Christian Porter to replace Minister Andrews. This marks the seventh minister overseeing this portfolio in eight years. Over that period, technology has changed exponentially. This ministerial musical chairs has caused some to suggest the Federal Government views tech-related issues as a low priority, and that tech portfolios have become 'parking lots'.[2]
Even before the 2021 ministerial reshuffle, policy and programs relating to technology were spread across the public sector, with inputs from Departments for Prime Minster and Cabinet; Treasury; Industry, Science, Energy and Resources; Communications, Home Affairs and various agencies including CSIRO, Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), Industry and Innovation and Science Australia, Data and Information Commissioners and many others.
The DTA is a case in point. Having been part of Communications, then the Prime Minister's Department and then Social Services, it is now back to the PM's Department. Hopefully, this marks the beginning of a period of stability and greater coordination across billions of dollars of disparate initiatives and programs. There is cause for optimism, with the recent announcement of plans to develop a whole-of-government architecture to map out existing capabilities and gaps.
There has been a burst of new initiatives announced in the Federal Budget as part of the Government's $1.2 billion Digital Economy Strategy, including: faster depreciation of intangible assets; an overhaul of MyGov; funding for digital skills training; an investment in Australia's Artificial Intelligence (AI) capability; and accelerating the rollout of the Consumer Data Right.
Other budget initiatives, such as the patent box, signal the Government is ready and willing to support risk-taking and innovation. We support the Government's view that by requiring domestic development of new products and technologies, this initiative will boost research and development in Australia.
We will need to be courageous in pushing our digital and tech agenda. We will need clarity around the Government's overall vision, and how this aligns with state and territory approaches. Importantly, more discussion is needed around the role of government in the "stewardship" of emerging technologies, and how this can and should foster community trust.
OECD research has shown that a decline in trust can lead to lower rates of compliance with rules and regulations and can contribute to citizens and businesses becoming more risk-averse, delaying investment and innovations that are essential to building economic dynamism and competitiveness. Put simply, a lack of trust and understanding can be a handbrake on technological progress. Trust is therefore both an input to reform and an outcome of it.[3]
Australia's My Health Record experience is a case in point. Despite the clear benefits of electronic health records, including: patients not having to provide repeat medical histories; the need for fewer expensive diagnostic tests; and greater information available during emergency care, community concerns and uncertainty contributed to a very low "opt-in" rate. Following a series of reviews, the program became opt-out. Despite this change, and a Federal Government investment of close to $2 billion, half of the 23 million records created as a result of the "opt-out" system lie empty, containing no relevant health information.[4] The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) concluded that shared cyber security and privacy risks were not properly considered or managed by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA)[5]. The politicisation of the rollout, reviews and changes also affected businesses and technologists keen to work with the system to develop innovative approaches to health care, and eroded trust in the digital health strategy[6]. The recent Federal Budget included a significant boost in funding for My Health Record. This will hopefully drive improved engagement with the system.
The other side of the coin, of course, is that good governance of technology and data underpins trust and acceptance, through the management of risks and potential harms and a clear focus on beneficial outcomes.
One example of this in practice is the NSW Department of Customer Service, which has delivered effective services through COVID-19, as shown by the high up-take and acceptance of the ServiceNSW app and QR check-in codes. With greater data insights across government and real-time consumer feedback on the COVIDSafe check-in, New South Wales has been able to make data-driven decisions to keep the state open through COVID-19 and develop new digital services at short notice, such as border permits, due to the state's digital maturity and the trust in its digital platform. The scanning of QR codes through this app has also helped speed up contact tracing when outbreaks of COVID-19 have occurred in the state.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants Australia to be a 'leading digital nation by 2030' . What is missing, however, is clarity about what this means, how we get there and how Australia can manage the opportunities and risks of emerging tech while retaining community support. Building and maintaining community trust around data and technology will be critical.
Melinda Cilento CEDA Chief Executive
The tech trust tipping point
In a year when our response to COVID-19 meant digital opportunities were critical to the economy and Australia recorded historic levels of digitisation, trust in the technology sector continued to fall, while trust in other sectors, government, media and non-government organisations grew.[7] This continued a 10-year trend of declining trust in the technology sector (albeit from a relatively high level). In terms of the trust among the Australian community, the tech sector sits in the middle of the industry pack, having once been a high trust sector. Whether this represents a shift to a more realistic level of trust in the sector, or a trend towards distrust – 'the more tech we use the less we trust it' – the prospect of eroding trust and social license presents challenges for policymakers, developers and users of technology alike.
The rapid take-up and use of AI is something of a live and evolving case study. AI can provide insights and efficiencies that benefit many, but there is tremendous complexity and potentially significant adverse consequences when AI is poorly designed or applied. As AI applications become more entwined in our daily lives, it will be important to retain trust, including by lifting awareness and transparency around where and how it is used. Research by the University of Queensland and KPMG from 2020 found just 51 per cent of the public had heard about AI, and most reported a low understanding of how it was used in everyday applications, although the vast majority (86 per cent) wanted to know more about it.[8]
Many ethics frameworks, governance principles and standards have been developed to ensure individual and public interests are articulated, protected and enhanced. While this is welcome, what matters most is how they are implemented and their practical impact. If these commitments do not live up to community expectations, support for data, AI and machine learning could be eroded, and along with it, the significant opportunities they bring.
CEDA's 2020 PIT forum provided some sobering observations on this front. Gradient Institute Chief Executive, Bill Simpson-Young, noted with regard to AI: "It is quite easy for companies who are not being careful about what they are doing to have systems that are not lawful from a discrimination point of view". Similarly, Salesforce Principal of Ethical AI Practice, Yoav Schlesinger, remarked: "Ethical AI as an industry is in its infant stages – we are probably like the securities industry in the mid-1980s". These comments remind us that much is still to be achieved.
Public trust in AI, and data and technology more broadly, will be won or lost based on outcomes, not the promises of ethics principles and frameworks. Given perceptions in Australia that the pace of technological change is too fast, and the government does not understand emerging technologies enough to regulate them effectively, the risk of heavy-handed, reactive and risk-averse regulatory responses to tech missteps or community concerns seems high. If this decline in trust means we fail to seize the immense opportunities before us, we risk falling further behind our international competitors.
CSIRO's Data61 found that through 2000-2018, the rate at which Australia captured the benefits of digitisation through digital capital investments, domestic digital industries, digital exports and multifactor productivity was 34 per cent below its advanced economy peers.[9]
In 2020, research by AlphaBeta for the Office of Innovation and Science Australia showed Australian businesses invest less in research and development than many OECD peers, and expenditure on research and development (BERD) had declined by 30 per cent since its 2008-09 peak.[10]
The 2020 global survey of business competitiveness by the Swiss International Institute for Management Development (IMD) showed Australia continued to worsen on future readiness, with key weaknesses in communications technology and business agility.[11]
[1] https://www.afr.com/technology/covid-19-elevates-innovation-off-the-government-black-list-20200529-p54xuy
[2] https://www.afr.com/technology/porter-appointment-to-tech-ministry-shows-portfolio-is-a-parking-lot-20210330-p57f7w
[3] OECD (2013), "Trust in government, policy effectiveness and the governance agenda", in Government at a Glance 2013, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/gov_glance-2013-6-en.
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/23/my-health-record-almost-2bn-spent-but-half-the-23m-records-created-are-empty
[5] https://www.anao.gov.au/work/performance-audit/implementation-the-my-health-record-system
[6] https://www.afr.com/technology/startup-investors-slam-roll-out-of-my-health-record-20181109-h17pk8
[7] Edelman Trust Barometer, (2021)
[8] The University of Queensland, KPMG (2020) Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Australian Insights 2020.
[9] Data61 (2018), Digital Innovation: Australia $315 Billion opportunity
[10] Alpha Beta, prepared for the Office of Innovation and Science Australia (2020) Australian Business Investment in Innovation: levels, trends, and drivers
[11] https://www.ceda.com.au/ResearchAndPolicies/Research/International-affairs/World-Competitiveness-Yearbook-2020
A new Chief Technologist
Appoint a Chief Technologist to support stronger stewardship of Australia's technology agenda
One key lesson from the COVID-19 experience is the importance of having trusted and respected experts to advise and communicate on complex issues. The nation's Chief Medical Officers and Chief Scientists have brought crucial expertise to policy making and have served as a vital link between governments and the public.
A new national statutory office holder, the Chief Technologist – essentially, Australia's most senior technology expert and advisor – could do likewise for technology. Such a role would establish clear leadership, align our frameworks and more directly communicate Australia's data and technology considerations and decisions to the community.
This objective was an important focus of the Productivity Commission's (PC's) 2017 Data Availability and Use Inquiry, which called for a National Data Custodian to "provide the focus of improved national effort to lift access to and use of data analytics to contemporary standards and objectives".
The Chief Technologist would:
enable a long-term focus on emerging technologies;
guide the development and implementation of digital and tech strategies;
objectively communicate the opportunities, challenges and risks of emerging technologies;
provide counsel and act as a 'reality check' on advice that policy makers may be hearing from other sources; and
align efforts across jurisdictions, and promote greater capability within government to respond to technology issues.
The Chief Technologist must have significant expertise, an understanding of community attitudes, a deep appreciation of the importance of maintaining a social license for technology and data and an ability to enable collaboration, rather than competition, across jurisdictions. In simple terms, the role would clearly demonstrate Australia's commitment to trust in the development and use of technology.
Other nations have sought to establish similar high-level technology stewardship. Since 2009, the United States Federal Chief Technology Officer (CTO) within the Office of Science and Technology Policy, has shaped policy and driven the Government technology agenda forward. In Canada, the CTO provides government-wide vision and strategic leadership in digital integration. The CTO within the Israel Innovation Authority is responsible for assessing requests and proposals submitted to the authority and formulating policy on Israeli companies engaged in R&D. The UK has established a Regulatory Horizons Council, that seeks to ensure regulation keeps up with innovation and enables it to thrive, while ensuring public safety.
A focal point for global engagement
To be a digital leader by 2030, Australia must also aspire to play an important role in global technology and data governance and regulation.
Australia's Consumer Data Right is a world-leading approach to enabling access to and control over one's own information and data. It is just one example of the types of insights Australia can and should bring to the global table.
Continuing to work collaboratively with other nations to advance new ideas and approaches must be a priority. In this context, the Government should consider joining the international Digital Nations collaborative network, which comprises 10 like-minded nations. The Chief Technologist could represent Australia in such international engagement, in addition to being a strong national voice in support of domestic technology and data aspirations.
A new technology assessment process
Creating a transparent and objective technology assessment process can also help to enhance public trust in the use of technologies, and their oversight and regulation.
The Chief Technologist should oversee the establishment of these processes, to provide objective advice on emerging technologies, their potential impacts and related policy implications.
With the complexity and economic significance of emerging technologies increasing, we must change how we govern them. The transparent, independent advice CEDA is calling for would help to increase understanding of critical data and tech issues among policy makers and the wider community.   This is important to build confidence in our ability to govern technology, and broader trust in the adoption and use of data and technology.
Over time, this process could enable engagement with the tech sector at the development stage, and contribute to a greater focus on ex-ante policy or regulatory solutions to risks. Similarly, it could and should evolve to deepen and formalise community engagement and consultation.
Overseas examples of such processes include the European Parliamentary Technology Assessment network, which advises parliaments on the social, economic and environmental impacts of new sciences and technologies. In the United States, there is growing support for the re-establishment of a US Office of Technology Assessment.
Another valuable non-government example is the technology fact sheets produced by the Technology and Public Purpose project at the Harvard Kennedy School. These expert fact sheets provide a plain-language overview of emerging and important technologies – such as 5G, machine-learning, AI deep fakes and blockchain – their potential impacts, and issues policy makers should be considering as they make decisions around procurement, regulation and broader policy settings.
Importantly, CEDA does not believe our proposal requires significant new institutional infrastructure. Rather, it can be achieved through better leveraging existing expertise, coupled with consistency and a greater emphasis on transparency and public engagement.
Following Australia's rapid and impressive period of digitisation in 2020, the opportunities presented by emerging technologies are clear. It is also clear that they will be central to Australia's economic revitalisation. There is, however, an urgent need to build trust with the community as technology spreads to nearly every aspect of our lives. It is incumbent on governments, business, technologists and consumers to share in this responsibility.
Our first next step is to work with stakeholders from industry and government to build awareness of the importance of a PIT approach and agenda, advance our recommendations and advocate for their adoption.
Through its Public Interest Technology agenda, in 2021 CEDA will also:
showcase examples of technology and trust in practice, including "tech for good" and govtech (improved service delivery using technology);
use its convening power and diverse membership base and stakeholder connections to explore ways in which we can increase transparency around the state of play regarding responsible use of technology;
understand and share best practice in the governance and use of AI in practice, making sure that commitments and ethics principles are real and apparent to the broader community;
work with members of our advisory committee and broader membership base to discuss strategies to lift the awareness and understanding of these issues among the tech sector, building on collaborative and multidisciplinary processes already in place in some institutions such as CSIRO, the Australian National University and UTS; and
undertake work on how to build digital literacy and inclusion.
Finally, other areas of CEDA's research and policy program complement this agenda. In particular, CEDA will continue to advocate for changes to Australia's migration system and policies to improve access to the skilled migrants Australia needs in digital, data and tech. If Australia is to realise its full potential through the ongoing uptake of technology, these skills needs will continue to grow.
CEDA has an ongoing program of work aimed at leading a national discussion on how technology can be designed, developed and used with trust in mind. Future work in this area will focus on the role of the tech sector. Read more here.
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The GO is a fitness tracker that measures your heart rate. You can see the heart rate live on the tracker or in the Virtuagym app. Next to the heart rate the GO also measures your steps, burnt calories, distance covered, sleep time and shows incoming call and text notifications.


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phpunit --filter BankAccountTest BankAccountTest ../_files/BankAccountTest.php
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$_SERVER['argv'][1] = '--no-configuration';
$_SERVER['argv'][2] = '--filter';
$_SERVER['argv'][3] = 'BankAccountTest';
$_SERVER['argv'][4] = 'BankAccountTest';
$_SERVER['argv'][5] = __DIR__ . '/../_files/BankAccountTest.php';

require __DIR__ . '/../bootstrap.php';
PHPUnit_TextUI_Command::main();
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PHPUnit %s by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

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Time: %s, Memory: %s

OK (3 tests, 3 assertions)

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Srinagar, June 04: In a bid to end her life, a 20 year old girl hanged herself at her home in Budgam.
A girl (name withheld) resident of Budgam attempted to commit suicide by hanging herself at her home. She was shifted to Public Health Centre Khag for treatment, where from she was shifted to SHMS Hospital, Srinagar for further treatment. Budgam police has registered a case in this regard.


Pursue Doctor of Medicine to get USA Residentship at Affordable Fees?
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Ray Bradbury told some truly amazing stories in his day, and this one is no exception. Imagine a nursery, fully automated, that allows its children to create any virtual environment they desire. What we have this week is based on a short-story originally titled, The World the Children Made. Later it would be edited and titled The Veldt, and would be part of Bradbury's classic short-story collection The Illustrated Man in 1951. What you will hear is an adaption to radio for X Minus One.
Great stories all through the show. I loved the velt!
Yeah, that is a good story. The meaning for today is a bit scary when you look at how our technology is over taking us.


Stop me dead on my track.
Over the horizon, away from my sight.
This is my art for my next song/track.
Beautiful Kit! This is just, wow. I love it.
Thank you my friend. Long time no see. I hope everything is good with you.
You're welcome love!! I'm sorry I've been out of contact. I'm fine. How are you?
Glad to hear that. Im doing well. Life isn't bad. And I started doing songs.
So I've seen!!! You and I have yet to complete our collab. It's my fault though. I've been tirelessly busy. Forgive me. I'm glad you're doing well. It feels good to know that you're up instead of down. You had me worried there for a minute.
You're amazingly talented. I can't wait to see what else you come up with.
This is a breathtaking poem! "Divide me by the night". Such a pleasure to read great poetry!
Great poetry?? That would be overkill. But I appreciate it SPF.
No, it is not am overkill. Those are fabulous lines!
Thank you so much for the lovely comment. Means so much.
Thank you. I hope you could follow me as well. yey!
You have tremendous talent Ankit, both in expression and art. Love this!
Thank you dear Ankit, lovely comment.
Cool one Ankit👍👍 love it. And the art is mysteriously awesome.
Nice one Ankit. Keep it up!!!
You know what?? I did this while I was listening to Lullaby and Collapse the Light into earth.
Thank you so much. The song is almost done.. I'll make it something like Dreamscape.
I did the track, just not happy with my mixing. It sounds horrible. I think I will need to redo that again. That can be so discouraging.
Good luck for the upcoming song!
Oh! NO! Not at all!!! I figured it was a fictional story but it was an effective one! It moved me emotionally….which is pretty rockin!!!
Song long farewell, thats the track.


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Q: Getting data from couchbase lite documents I am new to couchbase lite db. I am using it with ionic v1.
I have created many documents with key parameter as id and name.
I have list of companies and employees associated with each company.
Lets say Company A has 10 of employees and Company B has 5 employees.
Documents are store with two key parameters as id of company and name of employee. Also, as I have given name as second param in key it is in sorted form.
so there are many documents which are with same id and different name.
I wanted to retrieve documents with one specific id lets say 1 . If I fire query it should only give me employees of company 1. Also, it should be in sorted form.
I am trying to use start_key,end_key and prefix match level.but I am not successful in it.
Help will be appreciable.

A: startkey=[1]&endkey=[1,{}]&prefix_match_level=2
is the solution for this.
Hope this will help someone.

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From 1910 to 1939 women's style . saw sleeveless or brief sleeve dresses appear. The actual result was flexible bracelets and bangles worn on the top arm. These arm charms were often adorned with gemstones or diamonds. Out of 1940 to 1949 ALL OF US designers were greatly motivated by the designs from the French house of Van Cleef & Arpels. Bracelets with ribbon of hexagon lines centered on fine gemstones fixed with heavy clasps became very vogue. From 1950 to 1960 daytime observed simpler lines for not only gold bracelets but rings as well. Gold mesh or twisted wire bracelets were very popular. From 1960 to 1970 bracelets became way more versatile and were often placed with gems. Bangles on the other hand became more rigid and were often seen arranged with random diamond positionings.
Usefulresults - : theodore roosevelt: books. Online shopping from a great selection at books store edmund morris's theodore roosevelt trilogy bundle: the rise of theodore roosevelt, theodore rex, and colonel roosevelt. Theodore roosevelt books. Welcome to the website of theodore roosevelt books as a tr collector and a specialist antiquarian bookseller in rooseveltiana, i have the great pleasure and opportunity to gather printed materials, ephemera and imagery of our twenty sixth president. Theodore roosevelt books nonfiction 69 books. Theodore roosevelt books nonfiction books about the 26th president of the united states all votes add books to this list 1: the rise of theodore roosevelt by edmund morris 4 25 avg rating 34,100 ratings score: 1,388, and 14 people voted want to. Books by theodore roosevelt theodore roosevelt. Books by theodore roosevelt a prolific writer from early in his life, theodore roosevelt maintained journals as a boy and wrote speeches, articles, and books as an adult the following is a chronological list of the books he wrote: 1882 the naval war of 1812 1885 hunting trips of a ranchman. Books by theodore roosevelt author of the rough riders. Theodore roosevelt has 601 books on goodreads with 38542 ratings theodore roosevelt's most popular book is the rough riders theodore roosevelt has 601 books on goodreads with 38542 ratings theodore roosevelt's most popular book is the rough riders. Theodore roosevelt books list of books by author. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices we personally assess every book's quality and offer rare, out of print treasures we deliver the joy of reading in 100% recycled packaging with free standard shipping on u s orders over $10. Theodore roosevelt books ebay. Find great deals on ebay for theodore roosevelt books shop with confidence. Theodore roosevelt wikipedia. Theodore roosevelt jr was born on october 27, 1858, at east 20th street in new york city he was the second of four children born to socialite martha stewart "mittie" bulloch and businessman and philanthropist theodore roosevelt sr brother of robert roosevelt and james a roosevelt, all sons of cornelius roosevelt. Theodore roosevelt bibliography wikipedia. This theodore roosevelt bibliography lists the works written by theodore roosevelt roosevelt was a diligent and skilled writer when he lost his fortune in the dakota territory in 1886 and needed to make a living to support his family, he did so for the rest of his life by writing. Theodore roosevelt life, accomplishments & presidency. Theodore roosevelt jr was born on october 27, 1858, in new york city, to theodore "thee" roosevelt sr , of dutch heritage, and martha "mittie" bulloch, a southern belle rumored to have been a.


Your salon price list is an essential tool to inform clients, new or existing, of the services and products on offer at your salon. Place in a protective frame in your window, retail shelves or reception deck. Have printed copies ready to give to passing clients and be sure to place it on your social media page or website.


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Lasting tribute to teen whose bravery united a village
Lasting tribute to Kieran Maxwell whose bravery united a village
By Alexa Fox @echoalexa Reporter (Thirsk & Ripon)
A LASTING tribute has been created for an inspirational youngster whose battle with cancer united his community.
Kieran Maxwell died at the age of 18 following a seven-year battle against Ewings Sarcoma.
A keen athlete and accomplished runner, Kieran carried the Olympic torch and completed a series of sporting challenges and continued to fundraise whilst battling the bone cancer which took his life in June 2017.
Tributes pour in for Kieran
The teenager lived in Heighington and now Darlington Borough Council and a County Durham housing developer have paid tribute to him by naming a new street in the village 'Kieran Maxwell Lane' in his honour.
His mother Nicola Maxwell said: "In the two years since Kieran's passing, we have worked hard to ensure the fundraising he started when he was alive has not diminished.
"Kieran had to live life so quickly and achieved so much but his final wish was to raise enough through the Kieran Maxwell Legacy fund to ensure that what happened to him didn't happen to any other child.
"The Kieran Maxwell Legacy runs a number of charitable events throughout the year to raise funds in his name and we will continue to honour his wishes by improving awareness and raising funds to fight cancer.
"Kieran would be happy to see his efforts remembered today and it gives me great pride to think he is now a part of the history of Heighington, for the new as well as older residents of the village."
Heighington lights up for Kieran
The new street sign was unveiled to Mrs Maxwell by deputy managing director of Homes by Esh, Colin Willetts, who said: "One of the requests that came to Darlington Borough Council for Heighington Meadows was to name it after Kieran following his long and public battle with cancer and we were more than happy to accommodate this.
"With Kieran's family still living in Heighington, it seemed a small but long-lasting tribute to a boy whose athletic abilities and dedication to fundraising was an inspiration to so many.
"We can only hope that with the Maxwell name now even more an intrinsic part of the fabric of the village of Heighington, his efforts will continue to live on through his charitable fund and inspire a new generation facing challenges in their life."
Since Kieran's death, the residents of Heighington have held concerts and lit up the village for Christmas in his memory.


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"So without breaking confidentiality, yes Daredevil, we have a great outline for a very strong character driven take on Mr. Matt Murdock. It will bare no relation to the previous Daredevil movie in any way. We are at early planning stages and have not yet discussed any cast.
Love Deadpool, was never engaged in the (quite fantastic) script, last I heard studio was looking at comedy directors. None of my business.
The Last Voyage of Demeter, Noomi Rapace and Ben Kingsley want to do it, so do I.
The Wolverine, there have been no discussions about this project to date. Interesting to see what will happen with that as the again excellent script by Chris McQuarrie was set largely in Japan."


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2020 | NYC | Curator
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Curator Name: Andrea Bell
Residency Dates: February	- December
Hometown: Denver
Lives & Works: New York
URL: www.instagram.com/andiseesartnyc/
Education: PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Bio / Statement:
When developing my projects, I am an object-oriented art historian and curator, meaning that I like to work very collaboratively with artists and let work that interests me to guide the development of the curatorial theme. To this end, I seek a deep understanding of an artist's production and then work to situated it within wider socio-political and artistic contexts. Although I come from a Westernist background, I am particularly committed to provincializing the western viewpoint, and interrogating it as one of multiple identities rather than as the default. I am interested, therefore, in art in a global context, in alternative systems of making, and especially in institutional critique of the post-Enlightenment inheritance. I believe that a teleological understanding of western society relates to the scientific revolution and to colonialism, and still structures much in our post-Enlightenment world. I am therefore drawn to artists who interrogate this inheritance.
Bell received her PhD from NYU and has held fellowships in both Europe and the United States, including at the Morgan Library and Museum's Drawing Institute and at the Deutsches Forum für kunstgeschichte in Paris. Based in New York City, Andrea teaches Art History and Criticism at Parsons School of Design and writes about contemporary art for Whitehot Magazine.


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Q: Is there a way to make a document image vertical from any position? I have documents like this:

In some cases, the image is rotated to the right, or even upside down.
Document example rotated right:

Document example rotated upside down:

Is there a way to make the image vertical, no matter the starting position?
Expected result:

A: I think you are falling foul of EXIF's ability to store an orientation, which some viewers ignore. The easiest thing to do is use ImageMagick, which is included in most Linux distros and is available for macOS and Windows. Using this command in Terminal, or Command Prompt on Windows, will firstly correct the orientation, then remove the setting so as not to confuse viewers:
magick input.jpg -auto-orient -strip result.jpg

If using, v6 ImageMagick, replace magick with convert.

Failing that, you could iterate through the four possible orientations by rotating the image each time through 90 degrees. At each orientation, run the image through pytesseract and select the orientation that yields most matches with /usr/share/dict/words.txt or whatever it is called on your system. For added fun and performance, make the test into a function and call it in parallel on 4 separate threads - one per orientation.
That might look something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import numpy as np
import pytesseract
import cv2
import re
from textblob import TextBlob

def analyse(im, rotation):
   text = pytesseract.image_to_string(im, config="--psm 4")
   correctedText = TextBlob(text).correct()
   legit = []
   for found in correctedText.split():
      if found in words:
          legit.append(found)
   print(f"Rotation: {rotation}, word count: {len(legit)}, words: {legit}")

# Load dictionary of permissible words
words = set()
with open('/usr/share/dict/words') as f:
    for line in f:
        # Don't add short words like "at", tesseract often finds small, easily matched strings
        if len(line) > 5:
            words.add(line.rstrip())

# Load document
orig = cv2.imread('document.png',cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)
h, w = orig.shape
centre = (w//2, h//2)

# Iterate through orientations

# Original, no rotation
r = 0
cv2.imwrite(f'rotated-{r}.png',orig)
analyse(orig,0)

# 90 degrees
r = 90
rotated = cv2.rotate(orig, cv2.ROTATE_90_CLOCKWISE)
cv2.imwrite(f'rotated-{r}.png',rotated)
analyse(rotated,r)

# 180 degrees
r = 180
rotated = cv2.rotate(orig, cv2.ROTATE_180)
cv2.imwrite(f'rotated-{r}.png',rotated)
analyse(rotated,r)

# 270 degrees
r = 270
rotated = cv2.rotate(orig, cv2.ROTATE_90_COUNTERCLOCKWISE)
cv2.imwrite(f'rotated-{r}.png',rotated)
analyse(rotated,r)

Sample Output
Rotation: 0, word count: 43, words: ['between', 'Secession', 'deserted', 'above', 'noted', 'hereby', 'release', 'other', 'money', 'above', 'together', 'action', 'party', 'against', 'other', 'patty', 'holding', 'depart', 'Canada', 'refund', 'cashier', 'cheque', 'shall', 'their', 'irrevocable', 'author', 'hereby', 'commission', 'regeneration', 'above', 'except', 'hereinbefore', 'shall', 'binding', 'whereof', 'hereunto', 'presence', 'whereof', 'hereunto', 'presence', 'whereof', 'hereunto', 'presence']

Rotation: 90, word count: 0, words: []

Rotation: 180, word count: 10, words: ['saliva', 'sense', 'sleeping', 'anode', 'alone', 'sappy', 'sleeping', 'young', 'sawing', 'Utopian']

Rotation: 270, word count: 0, words: []

As you can see, it found far more words with the first, unrotated image.
Keywords: Python, tesseract, pytesseract, OCR, psm, config, image, image processing, orientation, auto-orient, auto-orientation.

A: Dealing with typical (rectangular) paper sizes and left-to-right directed texts as shown in your examples, the two following assumptions can be made:

*

*Paper height must be always larger than paper width. That is easy to check. If needed, rotate by 90 degrees.

*More text will be found on the left side than on the right side. Therefore, sum pixel values over all rows. The summed value in the left area of the document must be larger than the summed value in the right area. If needed, rotate by 180 degrees.

Here's the code I used:
import cv2
import numpy as np
from skimage import io              # Only needed for web grabbing images; for local images, use cv2.imread(...)

def correct_orientation(img):

    print('\nImage:\n------')

    h, w = img.shape
    if (w > h):
        img = cv2.rotate(img, cv2.ROTATE_90_CLOCKWISE)
        h, w = img.shape
        print('\nRotated 90 degrees')

    summed = np.sum(255-img, axis=0)

    if (np.sum(summed[30:130]) < np.sum(summed[w-130:w-30])):
        img = cv2.rotate(img, cv2.ROTATE_180)
        print('\nRotated 180 degrees')

    return img

correct_1 = io.imread('https://i.imgur.com/Gu8uAp6.jpg', as_gray=True)
rot_90 = io.imread('https://i.imgur.com/o97vu59.jpg', as_gray=True)
rot_180 = io.imread('https://i.imgur.com/XkBNfEb.jpg', as_gray=True)
correct_2 = io.imread('https://i.imgur.com/EvaioRS.jpg', as_gray=True)

images = [correct_orientation(img) for img in [correct_1, rot_90, rot_180, correct_2]]

The output for the given images:
Image:
------

Image:
------

Rotated 90 degrees

Rotated 180 degrees

Image:
------

Rotated 180 degrees

Image:
------

In your images, the documents have additional borders (blue or black). That makes finding the lines' beginning and ending difficult. So, adjusting the manual set values for the left and right area should be adapted in a final solution.
Hope that helps!
EDIT: Forgot the following visualizations. For the correctly oriented document, the summed values over all rows look like this:

See the larger values on the left side, these are the lines' beginnings.
The same for the 180 degree rotated document looks like this:

Again, notice the "artifacts" on the border due to the additional image borders.


As an employee, you will be covered under a performance management system that will measure your individual performance against the Department's organizational goals and objectives. The performance plan covers the time period from October 1 through September 30 of each year.
Your supervisor/manager will consult with you and develop a performance plan that outlines the performance results you will be expected to achieve throughout the year. At the end of the appraisal year (September 30th of each year), you will be evaluated on how well you achieved the results in your individual performance plan.
You may be eligible to receive a performance award based on your rating at the end of the year.


Just weeks after Mario Balotelli signed a "good behaviour" clause as part of his return to AC Milan, the footballer reportedly had his driving licence revoked after being caught speeding near his home in Brescia.
The 25-year-old was allegedly caught breaking the 40km/h speed limit while driving his Lamborghini on via Branze, the Brescia edition of Corriere reported on Monday.
He had reportedly been returning home after a training session and an afternoon with friends.
Balotelli returned to San Siro in late August on a season loan after a lacklustre year with the English club, Liverpool.
He now faces a fine of between €531 and €3,313, in addition to losing his licence for up to one year, Corriere reported.
The incident comes just four months after Balotelli was slapped with a 28-day driving ban and £800 (€1,092) fine after being caught speeding in his Ferrari on a motorway in Merseyside, north-west England.
Determined to prevent the flamboyant Balotelli's wayward antics upon his return to AC Milan, bosses inserted a code of conduct – based on rules applied to those serving in the Italian Air Force - into his contract, Gazzetta dello Sport reported in late August.
The clause reportedly included a ban on attention-grabbing hairstyles, partying and locker-room pranks.
He was also placed on a diet after returning to the club overweight, AC Milan's new coach Sinisa Mihajlovic said on Sunday.


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Casement windows have been around forever, with a look that is familiar and comforting, but can also be elegant and sophisticated. Casement windows are chameleons, blending with a variety of architectural styles. Installing new casement windows can enhance the look of a home, giving it a welcoming, elegant appeal.
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Casement windows also seal better, resulting in less air leakage. This also has to do with the fact that they are hinged on only one side. This allows for the use of highly effective compression seals on four sides as opposed to two, as would be the case with double hung or gliding windows.
They are also very simple, easy to clean and allow easy access to the whole pane, instead of only one half (single hung) with a hard to reach middle part obscured by framing mechanisms.
For a truly low-maintenance option, opt for this style with a vinyl frame. Vinyl frames offer a wide variety of colors, and are very resistant to damage from the elements, including wind. In today's vinyl frames, the color is consistent throughout the frame and won't fade or require repainting as do wood frames.
Casement windows are an excellent choice for any room of the house, from kitchens to bedrooms to dens. However, if the window looks out onto a pathway or well-trafficked area, a casement might not be the best option. Because they open outward, they could create a physical hazard if they conflict with foot traffic.
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Bradford's National Media Museum must change in order to survive, the man in charge of it has said.
Earlier this year it was feared funding cuts would lead to the attraction, run by the Science Museums Group (SMG), having to shut.
SMG director Ian Blatchford said "everyone accepts the museum can't just carry on as it is".
The media museum said it was running a consultation on how things at the venue could be improved.
Speaking to BBC Radio Leeds, Mr Blatchford said: "The museum needs to remember that actually when it was first opened 30 years ago it had a much stronger science programme so for me it's about the quality of exhibitions but really crucially the quality of education.
He added: "Just keeping the museum open is not really a victory for Bradford. It needs to have a bright future if everyone is going to enjoy it."
The Bradford venue was one of three museums in the north of England that were at risk of closure in the summer because of government cuts.
Mr Blatchford had previously said if a 10% rather than a 5% cut in its budget had been announced it would have meant the media museum would not have been "sustainable".
He said that was because it was the venue out of the three which required the greatest attention.
Mr Blatchford said he now believed the museum had the potential to be one of the most successful in the country.
He said work to improve the museum would take about five years and would include physical changes as well as changes to what it offers.
"I think this could be a lot like the parable of the tortoise and the hare that actually Bradford is going to come up on the inside track and surprise everyone and actually be one of the most successful museums in the country."


Just 4 months ago, Tonto Dikeh was gushing about her AWESOME HUSBAND who just bought her a jeep for Christmas, pictured below.
Tonto applauded herself for marrying Olakunle Churchill and prayed that God enriches her baby's daddy dearly for her.
This morning, out of that same mouth, Tonto said her awesome husband gave her STDs and fans called her out for speaking evil about a man that showered her with expensive gifts during the good days.
could say the gifts are not real, considering how excited she was when she received all the expensive gifts and flaunted them on social media, how are they not sure she's lying right now to tarnish his image because of the bitter separation war they are fighting.


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Анатолий Иванович Чобану (; 14 мая 1934, с. Русень, Бессарабия в составе Румынии — 8 апреля 2016, Кишинёв, Молдавия) — советский и молдавский учёный, лингвист, академик Академии наук Молдовы.

Биография

В 1956 г. с отличием окончил историко-филологический факультет Кишиневского государственного университета. В 1960 г. защитил там же кандидатскую диссертацию. В 1973 г. получил степень доктора филологических наук после защиты диссертации в Московском государственном университете имени М.В.Ломоносова.

В 1959 г. был принят на работу в Кишиневский государственный университет:
 1959—1961 гг. — ассистент,
 1952—1976 гг. — доцент,
 1964—1968 гг. — декан,
 1976 г. — профессор филологического факультета,
 1978—2001 гг. — заведующий кафедрой общей и романической лингвистики.

С 2001 г. — заведующий кафедрой румынского языка, общего и романского языкознания Молдавского государственныго университета.

Действительный член Академии наук Молдовы (1992).

Специалист в области синтаксиса, социолингвистику, общей лингвистики. Он являлся автором более 600 публикаций, в том числе восьми монографий, десяти учебников, 14 учебных пособий, двух словарей и около 600 научных статей.

Награды и звания

Награжден орденом Республики.

Источники

https://www.moldpres.md/ru/news/2016/04/11/16002882

Действительные члены Академии наук Молдавии

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President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The US is prepared to incorporate missile defense funds in a new military aid agreement. Photo: White House.
The Obama administration is prepared to incorporate missile defense funds in a new long-term agreement on military aid for Israel, a US official said on Wednesday, accommodating in principle a key request by its ally in the yet-unresolved talks.
Disputes over the scope and fine print of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) have clouded already difficult ties between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama during the latter's final months in office.


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Lady Emma Barrett-Lennard (1832 – 8 June 1916) was a British songwriter and novelist.

She was born Emma Wood in 1832, the daughter of Reverend Sir John Page Wood, 2nd Baronet and novelist Emma Caroline Wood, daughter of Admiral Sampson Michell.  Her siblings included Katharine O'Shea, Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, and novelist Anna Caroline Steele.  In 1853, she married Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 2nd Baronet.  They had five daughters and three sons.

Emma Barrett-Lennard was a prolific songwriter.  "Plymouth Hoe" and the patriotic song "Canadian Guns" were her two most famous works.  She also set a number of literary works to music, including works by her mother and sister, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and others.  She also wrote one novel, Constance Rivers.  Lady Emma Barrett-Lennard died on 8 June 1916.

Bibliography

 Constance Rivers.  3 vol.  London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867.

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Unmanned Spaceflight.com > Earth & Moon > Lunar Exploration > Chang'e program
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Chang'e 5 sample return mission
Thorsten Denk
From: Almeria, SE Spain
A very detailed report about Chang'e-5 Test Vehicle at Spaceflight101.
They call it "Chang'e 5-T1", but I wonder if the "T1" is really official.
With respect to Chang'e-4, I found at nasaspaceflight.com the following post
(« Reply #38 on: 10/16/2014 11:53 PM ») from User "Blackstar":
So I conversed a bit with a reporter about this issue. He says that he has a source who has provided some information on the CE-4 mission (lander/rover) and will be writing an article about that soon.
So maybe we will learn something new soon.
I hope so too.
Maybe (my speculation) they are redesigning the lander now,
taking into account the lessons learned from Chang'e-3.
When finished, then they'll let us know...
dvandorn
From: Minneapolis, MN, USA
"Blackstar" on that forum is a science and aerospace writer/historian named Dwayne Day, who has more connections in the industry than most NASA administrators... He may occasionally pass along rumors (as we all do on occasion), but his rumors are usually more reliable than press releases from the various agencies, universities and aerospace firms.
The best information I've heard is that Chang'e 4 will be not only a revamped version of Yutu, but will also test the sample collection and caching systems. Chang'e 5 will then be the sample return mission. What I've not heard is whether the lander that carries the Chang'e 5 rover will also carry the ascent vehicle that will rendezvous with the orbiter with the Earth return capsule.
If they send separate flights with the rover lander, the ascent vehicle and the Earth return orbiter, the rover will have to be able to make its way to the ascent vehicle to deliver its samples. This would make this a combination LOR/LSR mission architecture -- lunar orbit rendezvous plus lunar surface rendezvous.
I'll be very interested in seeing what they end up doing. If they do it that way, though, they can really do some robust recon and sample return work on the Moon, which will be really interesting to see.
-the other Doug (With my shield, not yet upon it)
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." -Mark Twain
From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E
as fare as I know, CE-5 will not carry a rover. samples are collected by a robotic arm and the lander carries the ascent rocket to put samples in lunar orbit for rendezvous with the Earth return module.
see for ex http://www.spaceflight101.com/uploads/6/4/...306814_orig.jpg
Okay, kewl. A rather less robust geological exploration in re the sample return, then. As with the Soviet Luna sample return spacecraft, your selection of samples is limited to the variety available within reach of an arm attached to the lander. Certainly, this is more robust than, say, the seminal APXS systems flown on Surveyor, which had a variety of targets limited to an area less than a square foot (and that only when improvised operations using Surveyor's digging scoop arm to push the APXS sensor away from the ground directly below its deployment housing -- without that improvisation, Surveyor would have a target selection pre-determined by the single spot over which the APXS sensor was located after landing).
It *is* nice that the Chang'e return scheme, as per the illustration, will be a deep core. Such was returned by the final Luna sample return craft, as well (though perhaps not as deep as the Apollo deep cores). But we're not looking at the kind of exploration flexibility and variety, in terms of returned samples, that you could get by roving around and selecting the most interesting samples (both those that represent the common rocks and soils that define the overall area geologically plus the unique and exotic samples that represent rocks thrown into the area from other geological units far away). Yes, you would need to acquire very small samples of each type of rock you find, but that's the same challenge MSR will be facing in the next couple of decades.
I guess the good news is that China is developing an infrastructure for unmanned lunar exploration that can be exploited in a number of ways in the future. Perhaps after the deep-core sample return process has been proven out, we will see the LSR-style rover-cache-plus-separate-return-vehicle architecture developed to provide a truly robust geological exploration capability. At least, one can hope...
William Pei
New lunar mission to test Chang'e-5 technology
English.news.cn 2014-10-22 13:57:53
• China will launch a new lunar mission this week to test technology likely to be used in Chang'e-5.
• The experimental spacecraft is expected to reach a location near the moon and return to Earth.
• Spacecraft's speed will be slowed down so it can land safely at determined location during process.
BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- China will launch a new lunar mission this week to test technology likely to be used in Chang'e-5, a future lunar probe with the ability to return to Earth.
The experimental spacecraft launched this week is expected to reach a location near the moon and return to Earth, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense on Wednesday.
The test model is currently ready and scheduled to be launched between Friday and Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China, with the whole mission taking about eight days.
"The meteorological condition will meet the requirements for the launch," said Tao Zhongshan, chief engineer of the center.
It is the first time China has conducted a test involving a half-orbit around the moon at a height of 380,000 kilometers before having the craft return to Earth.
The return mission will involve the spacecraft entering, exiting, and re-entering Earth's atmosphere and landing, said the administration.
During this process, the spacecraft's speed will be slowed down so it can land safely at a determined location, a key capability needed for Chang'e-5, which is expected to return from the moon at a velocity of 11.2 kilometers per second, according to the scientists' explanation.
China's advanced Long March-3C carrier rocket will make its debut during the test.
The Chang'e-5 probe, expected to launch in 2017, will be tasked with landing on the moon, collecting samples and returning to Earth.
"Apart from the technology of self-returning to Earth, the probe will make breakthrough in sample collecting, moon surface takeoff, rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit," said Hu Hao, chief designer of the third phase of China's lunar probe project.
China carried out Chang'e-1 and Chang'e-2 missions in 2007 and 2010, respectively.
In December, 2013, Chang'e-3 lunar probe succeeded in soft landing on the moon, with the country's first moon rover on board. The Chang'e-3 mission marked completion of the second phase of China's lunar program, which includes orbiting, landing and returning to Earth.
PS, from other newest report, this test spacecraft will also carry two nanosatellite made by Luxembourg and Denmark, named "4M Radio Beacon" and "Pocket Spaceship PS86X1", will be released near the moon and flyby the moon.
tolis
..and it's off:
http://www.spaceflight101.com/change-5-tes...on-updates.html
interestingly, the mission profile appears similar to that of the soviet zond missions of the late 1960s.
A.Nemo
Before first TCM,CE5T1 take a photo of earth
Looks like a black-and-white picture of Earth that has been tinted blue.
would be interesting to know whether it comes from a proper "2D" camera, i.e. not a pushbroom one like on CE-1 and -2 or from an engineering webcam like those on CE-2
QUOTE (A.Nemo @ Oct 24 2014, 03:57 PM)
We may have a blue moon thou: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon
Astro0
From: Canberra, Australia
"...tinted blue."
More likely just the quality of the monitor it was screen-captured from.
Yeah, possibly a monitor issue. But there are no colors in that image except blue -- not even white. The clouds are just a lighter blue than the rest of the image. If it's a color image, there are no land masses visible and the white clouds have been heavily tinted.
It still looks like a tinted gray-scale image to me, to be honest. I get the feeling that if you just drew the blue channel down to where the clouds are white, the rest of the image would become gray.
perhaps when CE5T1 reentry,there will be a live on cctv 13
I didn't notice it before... the phase of the Moon when CE-5 T1 fies by Tuesday morning will be similar to that of the Luna 3 flyby 55 years ago. so more or less the same portion of the farside will be illuminated
CE-5T1 has taken some photos of moon and earth,very beautiful!
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Q: problems with mvc5 when I run my application why I am giving this error when I try to run
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code html:
@model TornarPagina
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "ABC do ABC ‹ Central de Atendimento";
    ViewBag.Description = "Com problema ou dúvidas, acesse nossa centra de atendimento ABC do ABC, que responderemos todas as suas dúvidas";
    ViewBag.Keywords = "ABC, Notícias, Eventos, Guia Comercial, Região do ABC";
    ViewBag.Author = "Portal do ABC do ABC";
}

Faça do ABCdoABC sua página inicial

Explorer

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Clique no menu Ferramentas, que fica ao lado direito da barra de endereços e está sinalizado com uma imagem de engrenagem. Escolha "Opções da Internet".

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No item Home page, escreva http://www.abcdoabc.com.br e, por fim, clique em "Ok".

Safari

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No navegador da Apple precisa primeiro ir à página principal do ABCdoABC. Depois, basta entrar, pelo menu, na caixa "Preferências" e clicar sobre o botão "Usar a Página Atual

Chrome

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Vá ao menu Ferramentas (lado direito de endereço) e escolha a opção "Configurações"

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Em Inicialização, selecione a opção "abre uma página especíica ou um conjunto de páginas". Em seguida, clique em  "Configurar Páginas".

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Em adicionar uma nova página, digite: "http://www.abcdoabc.com.br". Por fim, clique em "Ok".

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Caso, por padrão, o Chrome não mostre o ícone de casa (Home page), que leva diretamente à página inicial, volte ao menu Ferramentas e clique na opção "configurações". Em Aparência, escolha a opção "Mostrar botão Página Inicial".

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Clique em "Alterar" e selecione "Abrir esta página". Na caixa que abrir, digite: "http://www.abcdoabc.com.br". Por fim, clique em "Ok".

Firefox

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can anyone help me , do not know why is giving this error, the return I assembled a view and html page that calls this controller
thank you

A: Make Sure You Are Using MVC
Firstly, makes sure that you actually have MVC (i.e. System.Web.Mvc) included within your Project (via a NuGet package or manually pulled in).
Check Your Namespaces
Ensure that you have the proper namespaces references within your web.config file that handle MVC and its routing:
<system.web.webPages.razor>
    <host factoryType="System.Web.Mvc.MvcWebRazorHostFactory, System.Web.Mvc, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
    <pages pageBaseType="System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage">
        <namespaces>

            <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
            <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
            <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
            <add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
            <add namespace="YourProject.Namespace" />
        </namespaces>
    </pages>
</system.web.webPages.razor>

Clean and Copy Properly
If things still aren't working, consider the following :

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*Clean your existing solution.

*Ensure that the CopyLocal property is set to True.

A: Can you show us the complete error?
Also, how are you routing the urls? I would start looking under App_Start/RouteConfig.cs. For example if the default route looks something like this {controller}/{action}/{id} the url you are attempting to reach is Home/TornarPagina.
Another trick is to go to your controller in Visual Studio, right click > Go To View(Ctrl+M, Ctrl+G) and that will take you to the view for that controller.
Here is tutorial a link on how to create views with controllers.


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Toledo Blade: Mellencamp Goes Organic On New Album - No Better Than This Review
Toledo Blade By David Yonke
Mellencamp goes organic on new album
Picture John Mellencamp in rumpled jeans and a black T-shirt, cigarette dangling from his lips, strumming a well-worn acoustic guitar on a breezy back porch.
That's not literally how the Indiana rocker recorded his new album, "No Better Than This," but the disc that will be released Tuesday has that simple, earthy, earnest feel of a bygone era.
It's a retro record that is more about honesty in artistry than wistful nostalgia, with Mellencamp thumbing his nose at the digitized, multitracked, processed sounds that fill the 21st century airwaves.
It is, Mellencamp said, the most "rebellious" of all his 25 albums.
"I decided to go just as far away from the popular culture of music as I possibly could and just go back to where it began," he explained, leaning against a tall chair in a hotel room in Windsor, Ont., before performing a concert later that night at Caesars Palace.
In an era when virtually every hit song is recorded with computerized equipment that isolates each instrument and enables post-recording alterations and overdubs, Mellencamp recorded all of his new songs on a 1955 Ampex mono tape recorder using a single vintage RCA ribbon microphone to capture the action.
"There are no overdubs, no echo, there's no anything," he said. "It's just what the room sounded like and it was fun because it was musicians actually playing music, as opposed to building a record or constructing a song."
The 13 songs were written last year in a flurry of creativity, one of those rare periods of inspiration that artists dream of when the floodgates open and verses, choruses, and arrangements flow like a raging river.
"I wrote all those songs in about 10 to 15 days, I don't know. It was just, I'd get up every morning and I'd write. I'd write two or three songs in a day and I let the songs write themselves, as opposed to sometimes when you write songs you try to steer them a way that you would like them to go," Mellencamp said.
"But these songs, I just, they kind of wrote themselves really. I just let them go wherever they wanted to go and that's how they ended up."
What flowed from Mellencamp's muse are gritty, spartan, touching tunes about life, love, and loss as told by a grizzled troubadour who's seen it all.
His gravelly voice, rubbed to a perfect rasp by a million cigarettes, harks back to twangy folk, Southern blues, traditional country, and Memphis rock, echoing the classic sounds of music icons ranging from Robert Johnson and Johnny Cash to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
One of the new disc's most memorable tunes is "Right Behind Me," opening with a haunting violin and a spare, staccato guitar as Mellencamp gives his lyrics a Tom Waits-style grumble and growl.
"I know Jesus, and I know the devil.
They're both inside of me, all the time.
This is ain't no picnic that I'm living.
Just a resting place before it's time to go.
You see, the devil, he thinks he got me.
But he ain't got me ... No."
The first single off "No Better Than This" is the title track, a jangly folk-rocker with a full band romping along at a jaunty pace. Mellencamp must have been coming from a good place, figuratively speaking, when he sings that "you could give me back my youth" or "a fist full of money" or "50 girls waitin' on me," "but it won't get no better than this."
The rock and roll hall of famer explained his recording strategy to The Blade and the Toledo Streets newspaper, which helps the homeless, following up on a 2007 visit by the singer, his wife, and then 12-year-old son Speck to Toledo's Tent City.
Mellencamp said in Windsor that the new disc was recorded last summer while he was trekking across the country with Dylan and Willie Nelson, performing concerts at minor-league baseball stadiums.
He saw the tour as a perfect opportunity to take that 55-year-old Ampex mono tape recorder for a ride.
"It was kind of a leisurely tour, so I thought, well, hell, at the time, let's make the most out of this," he said.
Working with producer T-Bone Burnett, with whom he recorded 2008's "Life Death Love and Freedom," Mellencamp scheduled recording sessions at three American musical meccas.
His wrestling-with-the-devil song "Right Behind Me," for example, was taped in room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, where Delta blues legend Robert Johnson recorded "Terrapane Blues" and "Dust My Broom" more than 70 years ago.
He went to far as to cover over the carpet with a wooden dance floor to recreate the sound of the room from the 1930s, and faced the same corner that Johnson sang into when he recorded.
Mellencamp also visited 706 Union Ave., Memphis — the home of Sun Studios, where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Howlin' Wolf recorded.
Sam Phillips, the late owner of Sun Studios, put black X's on the linoleum floor marking the best spots, acoustically, for the musicians to stand.
"We set up on those X's and put a ribbon mic between them," Burnett said in the album liner notes. "As soon as the band hit the first note, the room came alive."
Mellencamp also recorded at the First African Baptist Church, built in 1775 in Savannah, Ga.
The church floor has diamond-shaped holes that provided air for travelers on the Underground Railroad who were hiding in the basement, Burnett said in a news release. "The church is filled with history. The vibe in the church is profound. … During the sessions, John and Elaine Mellencamp got baptized underneath the altar where we were recording."
Mellencamp entrusted the tapes to Burnett, sending him to Los Angeles with orders to "make them coherent."
"It was absolutely the most fun I've ever had making a record in my life," Mellencamp said. "It was about making music — organic music made by real musicians — that's heartfelt and written from the best place it can come from."


This Month's Issue presents articles from individual authors in the field of ultrasonic testing. Furthermore we continue to provide selected papers of the 2nd Middle East NDT Conference & Exhibition. We'll continue to publish more papers of the 2nd MENDT in future issues.
From DGZfP we received late incoming full-text papers which are not included in the CD-ROM of the International Symposium on Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering NDT-CE 2003, which took place in Berlin 2003 Sep 16-19.
Beginning with this issue all new content of NDT.net will be provided by Google News within less of an hour.
To strengthen its association with GE, the StressTel brand will be repositioned as "StressTel, Part of GE Inspection Technologies.
Four of the papers at ASA meeting address time-reversal acoustics systems that have potential breakthrough applications in medicine, nondestructive testing and land mine detection.
Metals Testing Company (MTC) is now approved to provide Ultrasonic Testing (UT) for Hamilton Sundstrand related parts. The approval includes both immersion and contact based UT.
GE Inspection Technologies and its Krautkramer ultrasonic products is at the front of using phased array technology in high-speed operations.
InVision had purchased YXLON International early last year. In addition, the move further strengthens GE's position in the X-ray radiography industry after having completed its takeover of Agfa NDT earlier this year.


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Participatory urban replanning.
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Street Art as the Art of Action
By Igor Ponosov	/ 18.06.2013	/ Texts
According to popular view, street art evolved from American graffiti. But this is incorrect, except for some forms like street logos (where artists substitute their nicknames with logos), which became popular in Europe in the late 1980's. Long before, there was a completely separate process in France, rooted in different forms of illegal self expression on the street, highlighted during student protests in the 60's and by the Situationist Internationale.
Photo: Brassaï. Paris in the beginning of 1960's.
In the beginning of the 1960's, French documentary photographer Brassaï published his book—the result of 30 years researching writings and drawings found on the streets of Paris; what he called graffiti, a primitive and ephemeral form of art. He shows unconsciously how, at that point, artistic activity was visually similar to petroglyphs.
These rare and localized examples of folk (people's) art became the dominant visual language for the 1968 student revolution in France. And were ideologically close to ideas of Marxists philosophers like Guy-Ernst Debord and Raoul Vaneigem.
Situationist graffiti, late 1960's.
Instead of the provocation and aesthetics of other European movements in XX century, the Situationist's main tactic was direct political action. In 1968, situationist slogans, posters, and pamphlets appeared in Sorbonne, while occupied by students. These ideas became very important for the student movement.
Cities as Playgrounds
Most of the graffiti reflected this rebellious spirit of the protestors. Graffiti demanding the cancellation of work clearly shows situationist influence. Posters, spray painted statements, all this situationist graffiti became a form of poetry on the streets of Paris—rebellious, fair, and ironic.
Situationist methods were obviously a form of political activism, but at the same time they brought aesthetic and artistry to this process. On the edge of serious demands and ironic absurdism, this movement rooted in avant-garde traditions demanded to be more independent and separate from daily life. But, as a result, it stayed elitist and utopian.
Ernest Pignon-Ernest, late 1960's.
Ernest Pignon-Ernest and Gérard Zlotykamien were two of the first street artist of the post-situationist period. Pignon-Ernest placed his first posters on the street in 1970. He worked with social themes and problems of a human existence in the modern world. He often created huge series of so-called dead bodies concerning social problems. In the 1980's he became a very influential figure and an endless source of inspiration to later artists.
Ernest Pignon-Ernest, early 1970's.
Four years before the student revolution, in 1964, Gérard Zlotykamien created his first series of works on the streets. He personally knew Yves Klein, who used spray paint techniques in his late works. Gérard was inspired by this effective and quick way of creating art works on the streets. He created so-called ghost shadows which symbolized the devastation in France as a consequence of World War II. His and Ernest's influence were extremely important to past street artists. As one of the first street artists to use the spray paint technique in the early 1970's, he began to collaborate with Ernest. Working together, they created a small community - the first street artists in Paris.
Gérard Zlotykamien, 1960's.
In parallel to this in New York was evolving a new wave of graffiti that had not reached Europe yet. In 1976, French philosopher Jean Baudrillard argued about it in his work 'Symbolic Exchange and Death.' He called graffiti a symbolic system and pointed out that it was a form of sub-cultural attack on spectators, a coded and aggressive message that inaccessible to understand for people outside this closed community.
Later, when american style graffiti expanded to the Europe it changed the situation; but still the most dominant themes in French street art were against capitalism and of 'liberation' from the bourgeois art system built in the 60-70's.
Blek le Rat, 1980's.
The beginning of the 1980's was a time of punk rock and alternative, underground subcultures. Stencils, spray painting, graffiti, all became useful tools for punk-collectives to spread the word. At the same time, more and more artists inspired by Gérard Zlotykamien and Ernest Pignon-Ernest began to share their messages on the streets of Paris. And in 1984, a new generation of street artists posted their statements, performed, and created drawings: Jérôme Mesnager, Blek Le Rat, Jean Faucheur, Jef Aerosol, Speedy Graphito, Daniel Beaugeste, Rafael Gray, and many others.
Active interventionism in public spaces became a phenomenon of this generation. They joined groups and became even more effective in fighting for the city. This made their statements solid and allowed them to create huge collaborations in the city. Frères Ripoulin, Los Globus, Vive la Peinture, Banlieue Banlieu, and punk-group Bazooka—were some of the most active collectives of that period.
Jérôme Mesnager, 1980's.
Almost all of the active street artist of this time were art schools graduates. They protested against the educational system and the commercialization of art, bringing accessibility and freshness to the art. Their interests became increasingly different from the interests of active actors of the art world. They wanted to speak about energy and freedom while others were more and more interested with prices for art. These differences became a key factor in the 1980's, expressed with searching for new forms, happiness and fun, which was not a part of the boring conventional art-world of these times.
Vive La Peinture, 1985.
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Australian rockers Massive play The Woolpack in Doncaster town centre.
Fans can expect big hair and an even bigger sound when Aussie rockers Massive take to the stage in Doncaster.
The Melbourne-based quartet of frontman Brad Marrs, guitarist Brendan Forward, bassist Mick Quee and drummer Jarrod Medwin are described as "establishing themselves at the forefront of the next wave of hard rock acts".
They are on the road following the release of single Calm Before The Storm, "a big rock tune with powerful riffs overlaid with the unique vocals of Brad" and the title track of their forthcoming album.
Massive play Woolpack Live, Market Place, Doncaster town centre, on Thursday, July 20. Support comes from Black Cat Bones, Tequila Mockingbyrd and The Lost Days.
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Review: "Friends, Right?" - AMWIN
Are they just friends? Or something more? 'Friends, Right?' by AMWIN delves into the fear of confessing love and possibly ruining a friendship as a result. Is the feeling really mutual? If I admit my feelings for them, will they view me the same way? I get it. No one likes rejection. Plus, you don't want the existing friendship to become awkward if the other person isn't ready. "We've been doing it so many times, crossed every but the final line; but we're just friends...right?" AMWIN exposes her heart as she tries to navigate a difficult choice: continue playing along in silence or risk the friendship by speaking on her deepest emotions.
AMWIN beautifully expresses this painful indecision with a tranquil, uplifting melody. "Kissing having fun, but only when we're drunk; nothing in the daylight, 'cus we're just friends, right?" Maybe it will work out! There's a sense of hope brought in as the acoustic guitar brings you much-needed stress relief. Silky-smooth vocals depict AMWIN going with the flow, not wanting to rock the boat of this friendship. The outro is like an introspective phone call, where she musters up the courage to face her fear head-on! While you don't know the outcome of this endeavor, she hints at the benefits of taking risks like this. You never know what will happen, but maybe that's not a bad thing!
Amanda Winberg (AMWIN) is a Swedish pop artist who grew up with a love for music. Fascinated by the distinctive sounds of Missy Elliot and Sinead O' Connor, she forged her own path by building self-confidence around a music career. At 18, she made it onto Swedish Idol and subsequently began defining her hypnotic, yet minimalist pop sound. She's even devised her own videos, which showcase her cinematic prowess. AMWIN is truly a self-starter who isn't afraid to chase her dreams! Go check out her debut EP 'AMWIN in Wonderland' for another glimpse into her fascinating mind!
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