VAUDE is a German company. Our primary markets are Germany and its surrounding EU countries. VAUDE distributes its products through retailers, the Internet, franchise stores and its own outlets. Corresponding with retail development in general, Internet product sales are also increasing at VAUDE.
To date, VAUDE has stood on three pillars: the strongest – and the roots of the company - is Mountain Sports. Following this are Bike Sports and Packs 'n Bags. The percentage distribution of these segments has not changed for several years. The distribution of revenue across multiple business segments is intended to give the company stability. In Mountain Sports and Bike Sports we have achieved significant growth rates in recent years. Packs 'n Bags has stagnated or even declined slightly.
With 65 percent of sales, apparel is our largest product group. It has grown disproportionately over the last five years and is now significantly above the EU average for apparel in the outdoor market, which was about 52 percent according to EOG data in 2016.
The second largest product group, backpacks, accounts for 25 percent of our sales. This is also well above the EU average of 8 percent. Backpacks were VAUDE's first product, and are represented in all three market segments in roughly equal proportions. In many countries, VAUDE is still perceived as a backpack brand. About 20 percent of our backpacks are manufactured in Germany at the company headquarters and the numbers are still rising.
It all began with backpacks. And even today, they are in high demand. Nearly 20 percent of VAUDE backpacks are made in Germany.
In 2017, we decided to take on an additional business segment for professional customers from the industry, public authorities and associations. Our intention is to reduce dependency on retail sales and to optimize production at our manufacturing facilities by reducing cyclical production with orders that aren't dependent on seasonal sales. This segment will initially be strongly promoted in German speaking countries. Based on experience gained, it will be extended to other EU countries in 3-5 years.
The target customers in this area are diverse. They include industrial companies of all sizes, from companies that trade on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to local southern German craftsmen's businesses. The customer portfolio also includes public authorities, associations and other public institutions.
The product range is correspondingly broad. It contains garments as well as backpacks of all kinds. Tents, sleeping bags and accessories also play a role. The range includes completely new product developments as well as articles from the collection that are adapted to the needs of the customer.
Products manufactured here in Obereisenbach are also very popular. These products include articles made from post-consumer recycled materials such as the discontinued fabric skins of zeppelins from Friedrichshafen.
For this business field, VAUDE also pays close attention to the application of its strict corporate code, which includes regulations regarding which industrial sectors, authorities and organizations in which countries may be supplied (white-list). Our strict ecological requirements for materials and the high social standards for producers apply here just as in the normal product range production process.
These factors are also issues that are very important for our customers and motivate them to buy VAUDE products.
VAUDE sells over 60 % of its products in Germany, another 30 % in Europe. Following Germany, our Objective-1 countries are Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium. In these countries, the sales percentage of product groups is basically the same as the overall averages at VAUDE. Great Britain, also an Objective-1 country, is strongly represented in backpacks and tents. Apparel plays a disproportionately large role here for a variety of reasons.
In general, we want to expand our export share, with a particular focus on Europe. This is where we see the biggest growth opportunities and the best profitability of resources used. Outside of Europe, we are concentrating on a few major markets in Asia and North America. VAUDE has grown rapidly both in Germany and in Europe in recent years - double digits over many years. We've also achieved strong growth in many European countries. This allowed an increase in market shares and expansion of sales of VAUDE products. Due to the high level of domestic growth, it has been a special challenge to significantly increase the percentage of exports. So though it has remained constant, the level has been higher.
Overall, VAUDE delivers to approximately 50 countries. In Germany, VAUDE works with a team of in-house sales representatives in all 3 market segments and the VAUDE Professional segment. Spain relies on its own sales organization; VAUDE works with permanent employees in the Netherlands. In other EU countries, VAUDE works with agencies, while in non-EU countries it works with distributors. The benefits of agencies are obvious: The entire product range in the country can be offered by the central warehouse in Obereisenbach and shipped directly to the customer. The distributors first buy the goods, then stock them and sell to retailers in each country. This means that the product range is greatly restricted in such countries.
VAUDE delivers exclusively to (specialized) retailers – not directly to consumers. This also applies to the ever-growing online business at vaude.com. Orders here go through a retailer who acts as a shipping partner.
In addition, VAUDE operates a range of VAUDE Franchise Stores. These are also retail partners. The franchisor is VAUDE Franchise GmbH, whose second shareholder (in addition to VAUDE) is also a retailer. VAUDE holds the majority of the shareholders' shares.
The four outlets run by VAUDE are an exception. These stores sell outdated merchandise, sample merchandise, merchandise from leftover fabrics as well as other merchandise stemming from returns from retailers. As such, these outlets are an important part of the VAUDE marketing and service chain. Economical marketing of retail inventories wouldn't be possible without them.
All three market segments can be depicted in these structures. The differences between on and offline sales between the market segments are relatively low. A special feature of the Packs 'n Bags segment is that they are strongly marketed in leather goods stores, especially in Germany.
For the Mountain Sports segment, specialized sports stores play a major role in addition to outdoor recreation stores, In addition, it is clear that there are significant overlaps, especially between the Mountain and Bike segments in terms of sales of the product ranges. This applies to apparel and backpacks.
Notes: 1. "Internet Trade" includes all companies that are expected to make at least 90 percent of their sales online. 2. Many international customers are billed through Germany, but the products are sold abroad. 3. Revenue from license transactions is not included in the presentation. This is included in VAUDE revenues and not as turnover.
The international outdoor market today is characterized by cut-throat competition and strong concentration processes. Many small and medium-sized corporate customers have disappeared in the last few years or have been swallowed by larger companies. This is also reflected in VAUDE's customer structure. The absolute number of corporate customers has not increased over the last 5 years - despite strong growth in sales and market share and the emergence of many online customers.
As a result, a relatively small number of corporate customers account for a large proportion of VAUDE sales. Although A-customers represent only about 10 percent of our total customer count, they are responsible for approximately 70 percent of our revenues. This is a general trend in the market. In particular, the percentage of medium-sized corporate customers is decreasing.


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Iraq Veterans Respond to Wikileaks' Release of War Logs
October 31, 2010 randyshannon	Leave a comment
IVAW responds to Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs
The latest release by Wikileaks of the Iraq War Logs is the largest leak in U.S. history and reveals in extensive detail what Iraq Veterans Against the War has been saying since our founding in 2004. The U.S. has presided over a bloody occupation for seven years where war crimes are a common offense, civilian casualties have been grossly under-reported, and corporate contractors run amok. See our official statement on the Iraq War Logs below.
IVAW Statement on the Iraq War Logs – A Call for Accountability
The recent Wikileaks release–The Iraq War Logs–has shed important light on the high rate of civilian death and widespread atrocities, including torture, that are endemic to the war in Iraq. As veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are outraged that the U.S. government sought to hide this information from the U.S. public, instead presenting a sanitized and deceptive version of war, and we think it is vital for this and further information to get out. Members of IVAW have experienced firsthand the realities of war on the ground, and since our inception we have spoken out about similar atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are asking the U.S. public to join us in calling on our government to end the occupations and bring our brothers and sisters home.
The U.S. government has been claiming for years that they do not keep count of civilian death tolls, yet the recent releases show that they do, in fact, keep count. Between 2004 and 2009, according to these newly disclosed records, at least 109,032 Iraqis died, 66,081 of whom were civilians. The Guardian reports that the Iraq War Logs show that the U.S. military and government gave de facto approval for hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape, and murder by Iraqi soldiers and police officers. These recent revelations, along with the Afghan War Diaries and Collateral Murder footage, weave a picture of wars in which the rules of engagement allow for excessive violence, woven into the fabric of daily life with the U.S. military presence acting as a destabilizing and brutalizing force. The Iraq War Logs, while crucial, are reports produced in real time and themselves may be slanted to minimize the culpability of U.S. forces. Still, they represent an important part of evidence in assessing the reality of the Iraq war, evidence that can only be improved by the further release of documents and information and corroboration by individuals involved. To this end, our members are reviewing both Wikileaks' Afghanistan War Diaries and the Iraq War Logs to identify incidents we were part of and to shed more light on what really happened.
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Call on ABC News to Dump Racist Liar from Election Coverage
Remember Andrew Breitbart? He was the man who used selectively-edited video to paint Shirley Sherrod as a racist, to smear the NAACP, and to accuse the Obama administration of reverse racism. It was all a big, premeditated lie.
Unbelievably, ABC News now plans to have Breitbart participate in their Election Night coverage, despite his history as a deceitful operative who distorts, lies, and race-baits.
ABC's decision is a slap in the face to Shirley Sherrod, to Black America, and to everyone who believes in the value of telling the truth. It's unacceptable. It's why I'm joining ColorOfChange incalling on ABC News and its parent company Disney to drop their plans to include Breitbart now:
http://colorofchange.org/abc/?id=2129-1245241
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PA DEP to Regulate Fracking Wastewater Discharge
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DEP guidelines to challenge natural gas extractors
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_706627.html
By Joe Napsha, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Natural gas exploration and production companies will have a difficult time meeting new standards for limiting pollutants in wastewater dumped in the state's waterways, experts said yesterday.
"That's a real daunting challenge," John W. Ubinger Jr., senior vice president of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, said at an event focusing on the risks and opportunities of developing the state's Marcellus shale natural gas reserves.
About 70 companies are involved in the exploration and production of natural gas in the state's Marcellus shale reserves. Almost 1,100 wells have been drilled since January, and 2,350 permits have been issued in the first nine months of this year, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
In January, the DEP is set to implement standards that will not permit the discharging of any wastewater that contains more than 500 milligrams per liter of total dissolved solids — such as salts and other minerals — into the state's watershed. Water used by natural gas drillers to fracture Marcellus shale formations to release the gas has much higher levels of the dissolved salts as well as other minerals and chemicals used in the process.
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"Let Us March on Ballot Boxes!": Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Appeal to Progressives: Join the Nov. 2nd Battle against Austerity
October 28, 2010 randyshannon	1 Comment
Pittsburgh March for Jobs
by Tina Shannon
Dear Fellow Progressive Democrats,
Do you think it is important to participate in this election?
We progressives are just beginning to find our voice. People are starting to want to hear what we have to say. Here in Beaver County the regular Dems invited us to their Annual Fundraising Banquet even though we bring no significant monetary resources. We were invited to participate in the One Nation coalition of labor, the NAACP & community leaders that took 4 buses to the October 2nd rally in DC. Our public events to discuss important issues are well attended.
To continue building in Beaver County, in the 4th Congressional District, we must use our growing strength to help stop the far-right from taking power in this election. All the races are close. If our effort makes the difference, we can build a stronger progressive movement. If we help the 2 Democratic labor candidates for State Representative get elected then we have a relationship with them as they move into power.
Pat Toomey is to the right of Bush. Toomey & Corbett are test cases for Tea Party politics. We might be disappointed that we haven't made as much progress as we wanted for health care, peace, jobs, and the environment. But we must ask ourselves; do we want to be ruled by the likes of the Tea Party? If we do the work that prevents the Tea Party from gaining ascendancy in our country it may feel like the status quo goes on like usual. But we will have made a tremendous contribution by building the foundation for future progress.
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Pat Toomey – Republican Candidate for US Senator: As Bad As It Gets: Philadelphia Citypaper
66 Reasons NOT to Vote for Pat Toomey
by Jeffrey C. Billman
In any other year, it wouldn't be working. In any other year, Pat Toomey — former derivatives trader, congressman and president of the anti-tax group Club for Growth — wouldn't be getting away with it. In any other year, his long-standing efforts to privatize Social Security, his radical approach to taxes and spending, his courting of fringe politicians, the millions of dollars he spent purging moderates from the Republican Party, his unabashed corporatism and his voting record — which is, statistically speaking, to the right of the late Jesse Helms — would render him unelectable in a state like Pennsylvania.
Last year, in fact, many Republicans thought that the case. In April 2009, William Parker, founder of the Pennsylvania Club for Growth, begged him to bow out of his challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter: "Pat can't win the general election," he wrote in a letter to Republicans. But Toomey pressed on, and not long after Parker wrote that letter, Specter switched parties. Without a serious primary challenge, Toomey was free to reinvent himself: No longer was he a rigid ideologue; instead, he morphed into a "mainstream," "center-right" businessman who simply wants more jobs and less government.
That this rebranding might succeed is a testament to the times in which we live: 2010 is, after all, the year of the Tea Party, of Christine O'Donnell, of Sharron Angle, of Rand Paul. The year in which Glenn Beck's paranoia can draw tens of thousands to the National Mall, and revanchist politicians speak openly of repealing the sacraments of the New Deal. This is the year in which anxiety over the economy has poisoned our relationship with rationality.
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The Barbarians Are at the Gates
Enthusiasm?: I Am Not Interested in Things Getting Worse!
By Bill Fletcher, Jr
There has been a lot of discussion about the apparent enthusiasm gap between Democratic voters and Republican voters. While it is beyond question that the Obama administration has accomplished significant reforms in its first two years, the manner in which these have been accomplished, combined with the fact that they were generally not deep enough, has led many liberal and progressive voters to despair.
So, what should we think as we quickly approach November 2nd? First, there were too many magical expectations of both the Obama administration and most Democrats in Congress. Many of us forgot that while they represented a break with the corrupt Bush era, they were not coming into D.C. with a red flag, a pink flag or a purple flag. They came to stabilize the system in a period of crisis. President Obama chose to surround himself with advisers who either did not want to appear to believe or in fact did not believe that dramatic structural reforms were necessary in order to address the depth of the economic and environmental crises we face. They also believed, for reasons that mystify me, that they could work out a compromise with so-called moderate Republicans.
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Progressives and Labor Can Tip This Election
by Randy Shannon
On Tuesday evening, October 26, Beaver County local union leaders, Democratic Party activists, and Progressive Democrats gathered at the IBEW Local 712 Hall in Vanport, PA to plan a get out the vote effort for the next week. In a close off-year election in which the Republicans are spending $millions, the union turnout at the polls can make the difference between winning or losing union contracts, social security, and healthcare.
Yael Foa, National AFL-CIO senior field representative, is spending two weeks in the area pulling together the union effort and coordinating with Progressive Democrats, the regular Democratic Party and union locals. The Beaver County GOTV effort is led by Chuck Munoz, (602) 738-7878, of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA).
Ms. Foa pointed out that there are approximately 6,400 union households in Beaver County and around 11,400 members who are registered to vote. The AFL-CIO's priority list consists of 7,500 households to contact by phone or in person. Representatives of IBEW locals, Postal Workers, USW, AFSCME, IAM committed to mobilize volunteers for the effort.
Labor Walks will be held on Saturday 9am-4pm, Sunday 1pm-6pm, Monday 9am-7pm, and Tuesday 9m-7pm, October 30 through November 2, Election Day. Volunteers can get assignments and partners at the IBEW Local 712 Hall, 217 Sassafras Lane, Beaver. (See Calendar for more details.)
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Marcellus Shale Fracking Releases Uranium: University of Buffalo
October 26, 2010 randyshannon	9 Comments
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientific and political disputes over drilling Marcellus shale for natural gas have focused primarily on the environmental effects of pumping millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep underground to blast through rocks to release the natural gas.
But University at Buffalo researchers have now found that that process — called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking"– also causes uranium that is naturally trapped inside Marcellus shale to be released, raising additional environmental concerns.
The research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver on Nov. 2. Marcellus shale is a massive rock formation that stretches from New York through Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and which is often described as the nation's largest source of natural gas.
"Marcellus shale naturally traps metals such as uranium and at levels higher than usually found naturally, but lower than manmade contamination levels," says Tracy Bank, PhD, assistant professor of geology in UB's College of Arts and Sciences and lead researcher. "My question was, if they start drilling and pumping millions of gallons of water into these underground rocks, will that force the uranium into the soluble phase and mobilize it? Will uranium then show up in groundwater?"
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Why Finance Capital Is Making You Sick of Voting
What To Do Nov 2?
By Robert Creamer
In the movie version of the story of Watergate — "All the President's Men" – the Nixon administration source who met Bob Woodward in the underground garage to provide him clues — "Deep Throat" — famously tells Woodward to "follow the money." Apparently those lines were never uttered in real life, but it's good advice in politics nonetheless.
The other day, California's Arnold Schwarzenegger – with whom I rarely agree – said something that should be repeated over and over between now and the mid-term elections. Schwarzenegger was referring to oil company financial support for California's Proposition 23 that would shelve the state's four-year-old climate legislation until the state's unemployment rate hits 5.5% when he said:
"Does anyone really believe that these companies, out of the goodness of their black oil hearts, are spending millions and millions of dollars to protect jobs?" He continued. "….It's not about jobs at all, ladies and gentlemen. It's about their ability to pollute and thus protect their profits."
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Awel, has in the past served as the Country Programme Coordinator for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Uganda and South Sudan, and has previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and served on numerous boards.
He is a passionate social entrepreneur who has championed and founded several other projects in support of youth empowerment, such as the Young Achievers Awards, and CEED Concordia/Uganda.
His free time is mostly spent reading on entrepreneurship, leadership and contemporary global politics.


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Since the very beginning the AP manager on a Cisco WLC would never respond to pings. Well that has all changed if you use LAG and a AP manager with 7.x code!
I like how Cisco hides little nuggets in their documentation. It states, in LAG mode, the management and AP manager uses the same base LAG MAC address.
Note With the 7.0 release onwards, the MAC address of the management interface and the AP-manager interface is the same as the base LAG MAC address.
A show ARP on the distribution switch you can see the MAC is identical for both the manager and AP manager.
This was tested on 4402,4404 and 5508 model controllers.
AP manager(s) aren't needed with a 5508.


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Driving simulators in hazard response studies provide safer environments for participants than naturalistic driving studies. Many driving simulator visual cueing systems are comprised of a set of wrap around screens (WASs) that when increased in number and size can enhance the realism of the simulation, creating a driving experience closer to naturalistic driving. This, however, can be costly. Recent designs of head mounted display (HMD) technology are low-cost making them a potential alternative, however, their effect on hazard response results in comparison to WASs is untested. Driver responses were compared between WASs and an HMD during an unanticipated pedestrian crossing. Perception-response times were significantly greater with the HMD, highlighting the importance of understanding the effects display modality may have on results. In contrast, many of the physiological variables did not exhibit significant differences between the display modalities suggesting that HMD specifications may not have a large impact on physiological responses.


TelstraClear is launching its new IP Telephony service, Private Voice, targeting New Zealand's small to medium enterprise (SME) market and has plans to offer a residential solution in coming months .
TelstraClear is launching its new IP Telephony service, Private Voice, targeting New Zealand's small to medium enterprise (SME) market and has plans to offer a residential solution in coming months.
Private Voice, a product based on Broad Works from US industry leader Broad Soft, is an IP Telephony solution rather than a simply Voice over IP (VoIP) system, according to product manager for private voice Chris Hardaker. Private Voice will contain the same service level agreements as TelstraClear's regular business offerings.
"There is no difference, stability wise, between Private Voice and our existing analogue network today."
TelstraClear has long touted the viability of IP Telephony and boasts the country's largest IPT client, the Ministry of Social Policy (MoSP) with its 8000 users.
Private Voice, however, is designed to scale downwards, to target the 90% of New Zealand businesses with fewer than 10 employees.
"Our smallest customer unit at the moment will be four users, however we have plans to extend that all the way to the single user and that of course opens up the residential market."
Private Voice offers full call manager functionality to the desktop PC, individual user's phone or cellphone and can be extended to the user's home phone if required.
Functionality like caller ID, integration with Microsoft Outlook's address book, prioritising of calls, and a voice activated auto attendant, known as AVA, are included in the service which TelstraClear plans to offer for the same price as existing services.
"This is additional functionality for the same price. We will match or beat existing products on the market today."
TelstraClear is conducting a series of customer launches in the next fortnight and will release its pricing schedule then.
Users are able to control their calls and phone systems with the kind of functionality that was previously only available to the larger corporate phone infrastructures. Even users who are working from home or on the road will still be able to access and control their incoming calls using the Internet Explorer based interface.
"Callers won't know where you are or what phone you're answering on, so if you're in your office or in Phoenix, Arizona talking on your hotel phone it won't matter. You maintain all the functionality of the office phone."
The automated voice attendent can be used to centralise a user's various phone lists under the one number. Users are given a single number to call and can then simply state the recipient's name to be connected. TelstraClear has already been using this feature in testing internally and at least two employees are greatly impressed with the results.
"We have Murray McLean and Marie McLean. Phonetically they are almost exactly the same. Our existing telephonists have a 92% success rate but Ava with a little tweaking gets it right 98% of the time. Without the tweaking it had a 95% success rate".
Eventually Ava will allow users to change settings on their phones using voice commands only – a feature that should be released in around three to six months' time.


Smart headphones called "Dash" have called themselves the first wireless ear buds in the world.
The Dash is currently billing itself as the first wireless ear buds to be available anywhere in the globe and these mobile devices depended on meeting their $260,000 Kickstarter funding goal to get there.
This new smart gadget will offer wearers fitness tracking, music, and even communication.
The Dash smart mobile devices have been created by BRAGI, a company based in Munich. They are ear bud style headphones that will provide a range of different wearable technology features and will communicate with smartphones. This, despite the fact that they consist only of two little buds that sit inside the ear. They will not require any wires to connect them to a handset in order to function.
The Dash mobile devices are capable of holding and playing back more than 1,000 music tracks.
The ear buds are fitted with several sensors that allow them to monitor the wearer's movements as well as some of their biorhythms, so that it is possible for the user to be able to gauge how far he or she has traveled, oxygen saturation, heart rate, and even the amount of energy that has been spent through an activity.
Through Bluetooth technology, they can also be wirelessly connected to a smartphone so that the wearer will be able to receive and make cell phone calls without any need for an additional mic. Instead, they use a bone conduction microphone to allow this to be possible. The added benefit of this method is that it will isolate background noise for a higher quality audio communication.
A five-field capacitive sensor makes it possible for the Dash ear buds to be operated by way of touch. This means that everything from accepting and declining a call to changing the volume or accessing additional features can all be accomplished without any fumbling around. This will be especially appealing to athletes and others who are undergoing serious training. It allows them to leave their handsets behind while still taking advantage of many of the features that those mobile devices provide.


Based upon years of stumbling and failed attempts and disappointments in the tumultuous Greater Middle East political struggles (in Afghanistan,Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, the Hamas controlled areas,etc:) where none of the political actors are putting into place anything remotely close to the American model of democracy,the overarching clarion call for U.S. foreign policy decisions should be twofold . First, we must learn to hope that the government that takes over represents the "lesser of evils", no matter how inhuman or shocking the outcome.
In Egypt that meant having the Egyptian military overthrow a radical,intolerant and absolutist Muslim Brotherhood regime even though it had been initially democratically elected.The Islamic fundamental Muslim Brotherhood,who had been receiving U.S. government support,and which the Obama administration mistaking continued to support even after the Egyptian people revolted in mass against it and the Egyptian military rose up to take over as the result of this popular uprising. One must ask why did our government continue to back the Muslim Brotherhood dictator Morsi even after the Egyptian people revolted against such an intolerant and non democratically oriented regime. We still have not been able to answer that question to our satisfaction in my opinion.
Second,we must resist any urge or temptation to supply arms to any side in these conflicts In retrospect, the U/S. policy to supply arms to one of the sides is these conflicts has invariably returned to haunt U.S. interests at another time in history. Good examples are Iraq's war against Iran when the U.S. took sides with Iraq and supplied them the deadliest of weapons to use against Iran.
Again in Afghanistan when the U.S. supplied weapons to the Afghan freedom fighters against the Soviet Union,only to end up having these weapons and those who used them land in the hands of bin Laden,and his al Qaeda terrorists,again to be used against the U.S.
Even now,and during the Benghazi incident in September 2012, the CIA was engaged in a secret operation to transfer American weapons via Turkey to the Syrian rebels,who are now largely dominated by elements of al Qaeda. Witness the recent Qaeda attack in Lebanon against Iran's diplomatic headquarters for Iran's sponsorship of Hezbollah who is taking sides and fighting beside Assad's regime in Syria. In that conflict should the U.S. root for Assad's secular government who uses chemical weapons on its enemies,even when it means collateral deaths to civilians,or for a radical Islamic government dominated by al Qaeda who has pledged to bring death to America and all Americans? What is the "lesser of evils"?


The goal of this project was to create a refillable shampoo bottle. Refillable packaging is a more environmentally conscious way of distributing a product. By making a bottle out of slightly higher quality materials, and giving it a pleasing, more robust look, the bottle is more likely to be retained. Adding simple features to the bottle to improve the user experience will also help ensure the bottle is used for a longer period of time than a disposable bottle.
Shampoo bottles are similarly shaped regardless of brand.
To gain a better perspective on the types of bottles currently on the market, I visited a number of point of purchase stores. From this research, I realized that the shapes of most bottles are very similar. They were largely tall and slender bottles. There was thus an opportunity to create a bottle with a distinctive shape to set my brand apart from others, making it more noticeable and interesting. After exploring different forms, I created a shape that is comfortable to hold, facilitates dispensing shampoo (as the cap is at the bottom of the bottle), and is refillable.
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9/11 panel's air-defense probe grapples with many mysteries
North Jersey | December 5, 2003
By Mike Kelly
As two hijacked jetliners bore down on New York City's World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, two Air Force F-16 jet fighters were practicing bombing runs over an empty stretch of the Pine Barrens near Atlantic City.
The F-16 pilots had no idea of the impending tragedy in Manhattan, just eight minutes away in their supersonic jets.
Why? Why weren't they alerted? And even if they had been told about the hijackings, what could they have done?
The jets weren't armed to shoot down another plane. Their mission was bombing drills. Why?
Those questions and others loom at the heart of an even larger mystery: How could America's elaborate air defense system of satellites, radar, and supersonic fighters be caught so off-guard on Sept. 11? The mystery is now at the center of one of the most secret - and politically explosive - investigations being conducted by the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission.
Led by former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States is analyzing almost every corner of the Sept. 11 tragedy, from skyscraper escape procedures to what the White House knew about terrorist threats and how well the FBI and CIA cooperated. On Monday, the commission plans to hold another public hearing in Washington, this one focusing on homeland security and personal liberty.
But one investigation that has not drawn much attention involves air defenses. This is especially important to New Jersey.
For almost a half-century, the state Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing, based at Atlantic City International Airport in Pomona, had been a key part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. The command runs radar sites and monitors fighter squadrons assigned to protect the United States and Canada from attack, and from unauthorized flights by drug smugglers and undocumented immigrants. Under NORAD procedures that date to the Cold War, two F-16 fighters from the 177th were parked around the clock on the Atlantic City runway. Pilots waited in a nearby building, ready to scramble.
But the 177th's jets were not on alert Sept. 11. A series of Pentagon cutbacks, beginning in 1998, changed the wing's mission from scramble-ready status to dropping bombs on enemy positions. In 2000, after two years of training, the 177th was even sent to Saudi Arabia to fly patrols over southern Iraq as part of Operation Southern Watch.
By Sept. 11, the unit was back in New Jersey - but still training to bomb enemy targets overseas.
A spokeswoman for the 177th confirmed that two of its F-16s were flying unarmed bombing runs that morning over a section of the Pine Barrens designated for military drills. But the F-16 pilots, she said, were unaware that America's air defense system needed them desperately.
"Isn't that something?" asked Lt. Luz Aponte, the 177th's public affairs officer, pointing out the irony of having jet fighters so near to the tragedy but with a mission so far afield.
Soon after two hijacked commercial jetliners slammed into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan, Aponte said, the two F-16s landed and were refitted with air-to-air missiles, then sent aloft. But that happened more than an hour after the trade center attacks.
Such irony - and tragedy - is not lost on the commission.
"We want to know why the jets at Pomona were decommissioned," said John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general now on the commission's Manhattan staff.
An even larger concern is why fighters at other Air Force bases were not scrambled fast enough to protect New York City after the Federal Aviation Administration learned about the hijackings.
"That's a big question," Kean said in a recent interview.
Overshadowed in recent weeks by the much publicized - and also highly political - battle between the commission and the White House over access to intelligence data, the investigation of air-defense flaws could nonetheless become stormy next year, with accusations that the Clinton administration cut too deeply into Pentagon budgets during the 1990s or that the Bush administration reacted too slowly to the looming threat of terrorism.
The commission has rescheduled a hearing to delve into air defense questions, from mid-January to early March, so investigators can have more time to go through records and other information recently received from NORAD and the Federal Aviation Administration in special subpoenas.
NORAD has turned over more than 1,000 documents, some of which contain more than 150 pages, said Lt. Col. Rob Garza, a spokesman.
Garza said the information comes from "bases around the nation" and includes transcripts of radio transmissions between pilots. He would not confirm what information - if any - NORAD provided from the New Jersey's 177th Fighter Wing.
Commission spokesman Al Felzenberg also declined to comment on what - if any - conclusions might be drawn from the information pouring into commission offices in Washington and New York. He said commission staffers were still assessing what they had received from NORAD - and what its effect might be on the overall investigation of air defenses.
But interviews with commission staffers, NORAD officials, and others, as well as checks of some records made public, already point to some intriguing revelations.
NORAD confirmed it had only eight fighters on the East Coast for emergency scrambles on Sept. 11. Throughout Canada and the United States, including Alaska, NORAD had 20 fighters on alert - armed, fueled up, and ready to fly in minutes. Four years earlier, NORAD could count on having 175 jets ready to scramble, including two on the tarmac at Atlantic City's airport.
With the New Jersey Air National Guard's 17 F-16s out of the picture on Sept. 11, the commission is trying to assess why the Pentagon left what seems to be a yawning gap in the midsection of its air defenses on the East Coast - a gap with New York City at the center. Since Sept. 11, the 177th has been back on alert status, with its pilots logging hundreds of hours of patrols above New York City and along the East Coast.
NORAD also has confirmed it was running two mock drills on Sept. 11 at various radar sites and command centers in the United States and Canada, including Air Force bases in upstate New York, Florida, Washington, and Alaska. One drill, Operation Vigilant Guardian, began a week before Sept. 11 and reflected a Cold War mind-set: Participants practiced for an attack across the North Pole by Russian forces.
A NORAD spokesman noted, however, that the drills might have helped the command gear up quickly to respond to the Sept. 11 attacks because its command posts were already staffed.
"It was quite fortuitous," said Maj. Douglas Martin of the Canadian Army and spokesman at NORAD headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo.
"The toughest thing for anyone is that we're using Sept. 12 eyes to dissect Sept. 11," he added. "No one is using Sept. 11 eyes."
Investigators at the Sept. 11 commission confirm they are investigating whether NORAD's attention was drawn in one direction - toward the North Pole - while the hijackings came from an entirely different direction.
"We are pursing this area very, very diligently," said Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate prosecutor who is one of 10 members of Kean's bipartisan commission.
NORAD is not the only target, however.
The commission is also looking into why it took about 20 minutes for civilian air traffic controllers to notify NORAD of the hijackings.
"We are in the process of interviewing pilots," a commission staffer said.
Even after learning of the hijackings, it took six minutes for NORAD to order F-15 fighters into the sky from Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod - the "alert" base nearest to New York. After that, it took another six minutes for the jets to roar down the runway.
Then it took the jets 19 minutes to reach New York, raising this question: Did they fly at full throttle? At a top speed of almost 1,200 mph, an F-15 can reach Manhattan from Cape Cod in less than 12 minutes, NORAD says. Why did it take 19 minutes? By then, it was too late.


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Home > Legal insights > All > Employment Advisory > Human Rights Act – employment claims
Human Rights Act – employment claims
Jonathon Hadley, Partner, Brisbane
The Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) (HRA), which is expected to commence operation on 1 January 2020, will materially influence public sector decision-making in Queensland by limiting the exercise of government power. It is essential for public entities to prepare for the new regime as it will place a magnifying glass over decision making.
This article, part of an ongoing series examining some implications of the HRA for government, looks at employment law impacts of the HRA. The HRA will extend to public sector employment arrangements.
Which human rights are likely to impact employment law?
The HRA establishes 23 categories of human rights. Of these, several may be relevant to the regulation of the employment relationship, in particular:
Right of freedom of expression – a person's right to hold an opinion without interference, which includes the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds.[1]
Right of freedom of thought, conscience religion and belief – a person's right to have a religious belief of their choice and to demonstrate that belief in public or in private without being restrained in a way that limits the freedom to have that belief.[2]
Right of peaceful assembly and freedom of association – every person has the right of peaceful assembly and the right to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and join trade unions.[3]
Right of privacy and reputation – a person's right not to have their privacy, family, home or correspondence unlawfully interfered with and not to have their reputation attacked.[4]
Cultural rights (general) – people with a particular cultural, religious, racial or linguistic background must not be denied the right, in community with others of that background, to enjoy their culture, to declare and practise their religion and to use their language.[5]
Depending on individuals' circumstances, other rights could also be of relevance.
Impact on employment law
Public sector employees claiming breach of the HRA by public entities may complain to the Queensland Human Rights Commission (QHRC) for a conciliated outcome or seek substantive relief.
Conciliation
QHRC is the vehicle for accessible and affordable complaints.[6]
Before QHRC will accept a complaint, it must be satisfied that the complaint was originally made to the public entity and handled in a manner that the aggrieved person considers to be inadequate.[7] QHRC may reject a complaint if it considers the matter to be frivolous, trivial, vexatious, misconceived or lacking in substance.[8]
QHRC may make inquiries and request information,[9] direct parties to attend conciliation[10] and to refer complaints to other entities.[11] Conciliation will not necessarily produce an outcome and does not affect other rights.[12] However, where a complaint is unresolved, QHRC must prepare a report which may include details of action the Commissioner considers the respondent should take to ensure its acts and decisions are compatible with human rights.[13] The report could be the basis of a further report published by the Commissioner from time to time, including an annual report which may name public entities with unresolved complaints.[14]
Substantive relief
The ability to make a claim for relief or remedy under the HRA is predicated on the complainant having the right to make an independent claim relating to the impugned decision.[15]
An increasingly common employment complaint is a claim for adverse action, where an employee asserts prejudice or discrimination as a result of a choice to exercise or not exercise a workplace right. If an applicant submits an adverse action claim to the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission (QIRC), the claim could be piggybacked by claim for relief or remedy (other than damages[16]) under the HRA. The QIRC would then be required to consider, with certain exceptions,[17] whether;
the adverse action was incompatible the applicant's human rights; or
the employer, in taking the adverse action, failed to give proper consideration to human rights.[18]
A claim for human rights relief could also be piggybacked on a claim for breach of employment contract.
While the practical effect of the HRA on public sector employment law in Queensland has not yet been felt, there may be lessons drawn from Victoria's experience with its similar Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Charter). In Victoria there have been a considerable number of cases were an employment action claim has been piggybacked by a supplementary claim under the Charter.[19] The majority of have been rejected for lack of merit.[20]
A matter currently reserved before the High Court (Comcare v Banerji[21]) provides a useful case study not only about potential public sector claims but also possible differences under the new regime.
During Ms Banerji's six year tenure as an employee for the Australian Public Service, she posted over 9000 anonymous tweets which heavily criticised the federal government, the immigration portfolio and her departmental superior. Ms Banerji was dismissed after a workplace investigation determined that she had breached the APS Code of Conduct (relevantly, social media guidelines relating to public comments on government policy) in the Public Service Act 1999 (Cth). Ms Banerji suffered a post-traumatic stress disorder after her dismissal and, ultimately, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal found that the termination was not reasonable administrative action, unacceptably trespassing on the implied freedom of political communication. The matter was removed from the Federal Court to the High Court, in which it has been argued but not determined.
If the High Court finds for Ms Banerji, the human rights implications will be second order issues behind a constitutionally implied freedom. However, one of the issues before the court is whether the AAT wrongly treated the implied freedom as an individual right rather than a limit on legislative power. Had the matter arisen in circumstances where the HRA applied, this would not be an issue; the action clearly would limit a statutory human right and the court would apply a proportionality test to determine whether the department was entitled to limit that right in the circumstances. Ms Banerji's arguments before the court include that, for transparency and accountability reasons, public sector employment necessitates that greater scope be given to freedom of expression than for other employment relationships.
Public entities should take a variety of steps towards comprehension of, and compliance with, the HRA, including:
culture training to assure compliance;
administrative training to handle human rights complaints;
revision of policies (including grievance policies) and codes of conduct for compatibility with human rights; and
consideration of how human rights claims should appropriately and lawfully be managed within the employment contract context.
[1] HRA s 21.
[6] Affected individuals can make complaints about alleged contraventions by public entities to the Human Rights Commissioner – HRA ss 63 and 64. The Commissioner is the rebadged Anti-Discrimination Commissioner. Note that human rights models in Victoria and ACT do not have this complaints mechanism.
[9] HRA s 78
[10] HRA s 79.
[12] HRA s 87
[13] HRA s 88(4)
[17] For example, if the entity could not reasonably have acted differently (such as giving effect to a statutory provision that is not compatible with human rights) (HRA s 58(2)) or an act or decision of a private nature (HRA s 58(3)).
[18] HRA s 58(5).
[19] For example, Kuyken v Chief Commissioner of Police [2015] VSC 204
[20] For example, Sabet v Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria (2008) 20 VR 414, [2008] VSC 346.
[21] Comcare v Banerji (C12/2018)
Jonathon Hadley
Partner, Brisbane
jonathon.hadley@gadens.com


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Dax Shepard Shares The Thrill Of Sobriety While Paying Homage To Mushrooms
Dane RiveraTwitterContributing Writer
If you haven't caught the latest episode of People's Party, then you're missing out on some seriously deep conversation between Talib Kweli and Dax Shepard, in which two longtime friends cover everything from Detroit gentrification to their shared love of Raising Arizona. Near the end of the podcast, Dax discusses his 15 years of sobriety and drops the hard truth that his life would look very different had he not stepped away from cocaine.
"Well," he says, "I wouldn't have a family without sobriety first and foremost. Bell would've never signed up for the old version of me."
He also speaks to how his sobriety has awakened a part of his life he never thought he'd get back — that sheer love of life that feels exclusive to childhood.
"If I could isolate like the reward of sobriety… when I was 12-years-old, I woke up and it was game on. It was fucking party time… everything was on fire, I was thrilled to be on planet Earth. And then I discovered getting fucked up which was awesome for 10 years but that 12-year-old fire, that passion to be alive… I just thought if I could ever get back to the point where when I walk out my door I'm thrilled to go on an adventure with nothing in me but oatmeal? That's the goal, and I can honestly say for about the last seven years, I'm on fire to be alive."
Another thing we really appreciate about the guy is he doesn't make us casual drug-takers and occasional psychedelic warriors feel like shit for wanting to partake.
"I'm the most pro-drugs and alcohol sober person you'd meet," Shepard says. "I don't think anyone should leave planet Earth without doing mushrooms and ecstasy. I hope my children do mushrooms when they get older. I hope they not do cocaine because that, in my experience, will make you not allowed to do all the other things."
That has to be the most empathetic take on drug use from a former addict we've ever heard, but we're not that surprised to hear it from Dax. The dude is just chill, check out how he defends his wife's occasional recreational drug use.
That would be like a diabetic expecting their partner to never eat dessert. Get real! https://t.co/2X6WzhH2cT
— dax shepard (@daxshepard) September 19, 2018
Dax's comments on sobriety begin at the 56-minute mark, but be sure to check out the full interview for more gems as the two friends chop it up.
Topics: #Drugs, #People's Party with Talib KweliTags: dax shepard, DRUGS, People's Party, People's Party with Talib Kweli, sobriety, talib kweli


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Thank you to our Hawkwear Chairs - Jaime Wentzel and Trista Turnbull - for putting in a long day's work selling apparel a the event. I personally enjoyed interacting with those of you who stopped by our table (not so much doing the inventory after and the hauling of totes up a flight of stairs, but it's all for a good cause and some much-needed cardio!) Our PTO is very lucky to have such dedicated volunteers!
If you weren't able to find something to your liking, we are happy to announce our Christmas Pre-Order for SPECIAL Hawkwear! It will only be available online so order now! This special merchandise is NEW- the designs were just created and approved, and we are very excited to see you out and about wearing them with pride and supporting our school! Click here to browse our special items.
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Last order of business - please consider attending our November PTO meeting on Thursday the 15th at the Elementary School in the Teacher's Lounge. Childcare is provided (my oldest was excited after last month's meeting: "Mommy, those boys were cool - they taught us how to make great paper airplanes!" - ahh, the little things that make them happy.) Click here to view the meeting schedule for the year. It's good to know what's going on in your school and to vote on important agenda items... and I do try my best to make it fun.
Thank you all for supporting our PTO. It is through the efforts of many that we are able to help our school and our students!


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Johann David Heinichen (né à Krauschwitz le  et décédé à Dresde le ), est un compositeur et théoricien saxon de musique baroque.

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Heinichen est un élève de Johann Kuhnau, Thomaskantor à Leipzig, où il fait des études de droit. Après cette formation il se rend en Italie où il remporte de nombreux succès avec ses opéras.

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En 1716, il rencontre à Venise le prince Électeur de Saxe qui l'engage le  comme maître de la chapelle du roi de Saxe Auguste II de Pologne où il a pour collègues les compositeurs Johann Adolf Hasse et Jan Dismas Zelenka, les violonistes Francesco Maria Veracini, Johann Georg Pisendel, et le flûtiste Johann Joachim Quantz. Aux deux derniers, il a donné également des leçons de composition.

Œuvres

Sa musique était très populaire, de nombreux concertos, ouvertures, sonates et d'innombrables œuvres de musique sacrée nous sont restées. Plusieurs de ses messes, ainsi que sa dernière œuvre, le Magnificat, suscitent de nos jours l'intérêt du public.

Écrits
 Neu erfundene und Gründliche Anweisung Wie Ein Music-Liebender auff gewisse vortheilhafftige Arth könne Zu vollkommener Erlernung des General-Basses, Entweder Durch eigenen Fleiß selbst gelangen oder durch andere kurz und glücklich dahin angeführet werden dergestalt Daß er so wohl die Kirchen als Theatralischen Sachen insonderheit auch das Accompagnement des Recitativ-Styli wohl verstehe und geschickt zu tractiren wisse. […] Nebst einer Ausführlichen Vorrede. Benjamin Schiller, Hamburg 1711.
 Der General-Bass in der Composition, Oder: Neue und gründliche Anweisung Wie ein Music-Liebender mit besonderm Vortheil, durch die Principia der Composition, nicht allein den General-Bass im Kirchen- Cammer- und Theatralischen Stylô vollkommen, & in altiori Gradu erlernen; sondern auch zu gleicher Zeit in der Composition selbst, wichtige Profectus machen könne. Nebst einer Einleitung Oder Musicalischen Raisonnement von der Music überhaupt, und vielen besondern Materien der heutigen Praxeos. Selbstverlag, Dresden 1728.

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Compositeur de requiem
Théoricien de la musique
Naissance en avril 1683
Naissance à Teuchern
Décès en juillet 1729
Décès à Dresde
Décès à 46 ans

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The Body Observed
Magnum photographers explore the body through images that examine a range of subjects from identity, intimacy, sexuality and ritual, to voyeurism and performance
Herbert List Wrestling boys. At the Baltic Sea, Germany. 1933. © Herbert List | Magnum Photos
The exhibition The Body Observed, opening at the Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts on 23 March, explores how the body has been looked at through the documentary lenses of 14 Magnum photographers, from the 1930s to the present day.
The exhibition is curated by the Sainsbury Centre in collaboration with Magnum Photos in response to the Sainsbury Centre's extraordinary collection of European modern art – focused on the figurative in 20th Century modern art, as well as their significant early ethnographic collection of figurative objects from non-Western nations. Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Francis Bacon, Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti and Amedeo Modigliani are all represented in the collection. A range of works from the Sainsbury Centre's permanent collection will be exhibited alongside the photographic prints in the exhibition.
Werner Bischof "Zebra woman". Zurich. Switzerland. 1942. © Werner Bischof | Magnum Photos
The Body Observed considers the photographic representation of the human body, specifically in relation to the documentary photograph, and reflects upon how photographic representation both mimics and corrupts the tropes of figurative representation defined through the history of art, developing its own language through the medium's unique position between utilitarian function and artistic application. In a multitude of ways, the camera has been used to express the body; to describe or suggest its function and form as well as metaphysical sensations; to gaze upon, objectify and categorize the body; and to view the body as a signifier for broader societal examination or reflection. Works presented in the exhibition explore thematics such as gaze, identity, intimacy, sexuality, voyeurism, ritual, and performance; drawing into focus the social and cultural structures that affect the representation of the human form.
Werner Bischof Nude. "Breast with grid." Zurich, Switzerland. 1941 © Werner Bischof | Magnum Photos
Werner Bischof "Nude back". Zurich, Switzerland. 1941. © Werner Bischof | Magnum Photos
Early studio works by Werner Bischof are an aesthetic ordering of form, as light and shadow falls on anonymous female torsos accentuating and hiding curves and features. After completing his artistic education in Switzerland under prominent members of the avant-garde, Bischof engaged in a search for beauty in pure form, as well as in nature. An interest in abstraction is present throughout Bischof's early work, and here the body is photographed by display and omission, treated for its formal values as aesthetic object.
Custodians of a Desire: Herbert List's Couples at the Beach
Herbert List Michelangelo's Slave, damaged plaster cast. Academy of Arts, Munich, Germany. Winter 1945 / 1946. © Herbert List | Magnum Photos
Herbert List "Amor II". Hammamet, Tunisia. 1934. © Herbert List | Magnum Photos
Photographs by Herbert List, made across Europe and the Mediterranean between 1933-1958, highlight his fascination with both photograph and sculpture, as well as with the interstitial space between the two. In the selection of works shown, the ancient world, is depicted through Classical sculpture in Greece and Germany, which appears to be animated by the myth of the sculptor Pygmalion, wherein he makes a statue so beautiful that he falls in love with it. After begging the goddess Aphrodite to bring him a wife as captivating as his statue, she instead, brings Pygmalion's sculpture to life. Reading List's images through this narrative, and taking into account the time in which they were made, as war raged across Europe, photographs reference the fragility of human form through its mortality. A melancholy runs through the work as we contrast the weathered and ancient sculptures, still standing, against the glistening and rippled torsos of young men, human flesh whilst gazed on in desire, is permeated by impermanence.
Herbert List Young man with laurel over the eyes. Athens. Greece. Circa 1936. © Herbert List | Magnum Photos
This idea of the fragility of form appears again in the late Tim Hetherington's intimate portraits of soldiers asleep on tour in Afghanistan ('Sleeping Soldiers'). The single figures in slumber, curled up on camp beds, bare of uniform, show the men depicted as individuals lost in repose; vulnerable, fallible, essentially human. While the figures are stripped of any exterior roles within a war zone, the war renders the calm bodies all the more exposed in this tender examination of masculinity.
Tim Hetherington Sergeant Elliot Alcantara sleeping. Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. July 2008. © Tim Hetherington | Magnum Photos
In Philippe Halsman's 'Jumpology' series, the body appears to be both subject, and obstacle to be coaxed. His photographs of male and female celebrities often incorporated elements of humor, play and performance. In the early 1950s, Halsman began to ask his subjects to jump for his camera at the conclusion of each sitting. In these uniquely witty and energetic images, the formal pose of the sitter falls away, and the subject loses a degree of control of their image. In each jump, Halsman's subjects are photographed actively inhabiting their body, in all its energy, awkwardness, and imperfection.
Philippe Halsman | Jump Book. French actor and film director Jacques Tati. 1954. © Philippe Halsman | Magnum Photos
Philippe Halsman Actress Audrey Herburn. 1955. © Philippe Halsman | Magnum Photos
With a reputation for creating sensitive depictions of public figures, most notably Marilyn Monroe, in 1959, Eve Arnold was invited to photograph Joan Crawford, one of the few silent film stars who had weathered the advent of 'talkies' to become one of cinemas most lauded stars. A range of vintage prints in the exhibition from this series explore the female body in relation to aging and the cult of celebrity, whereby the female icon is measured by beauty and youth. Arnold focuses on the beauty rituals at Crawford's home that preluded her public appearances, and here we see the work involved in the construction of this body image. Whilst the camera freezes the moment, the body continues to change with time and age.
A Public Image: Joan Crawford
Eve Arnold Joan Crawford, actress (USA), trying to remember her lines during a rehearsal at home. Behind her is Joan as she was in Mildred Pierce. California. 1959. © Eve Arnold | Magnum Photos
Eve Arnold Actress Joan Crawford. Los Angeles, California, USA. 1959. © Eve Arnold | Magnum Photos
Eve Arnold Actress Joan Crawford. Los Angeles, California. USA. 1959. © Eve Arnold | Magnum Photos
Further referencing the cult of the body, Bruce Gilden's dynamic black and white images from Fashion Magazine each portray a performance for the camera. Gilden's confronting style and punchy flash here record a fictional narrative. Models role-play hard-men and gangster's mol's at a Mafia funeral. Gilden frames his figures, and moves around his subjects, close-cropping to focus in on details – a shapely leg, a swinging hip, the female body fetishized and aestheticized bringing to life and adding allure to the clothing. There is also humour in his juxtapositions, a gazelle-like model towering above over an older woman on a sidewalk serves to emphasise the absurd, otherworldly nature of this particular kind of female beauty when encountered amongst the grit and grime of a New York sidewalk.
Bruce Gilden New York City, USA. 2005. © Bruce Gilden | Magnum Photos
Through the work of Susan Meiselas, Bieke Depoorter, Olivia Arthur, and Alessandra Sanguinetti, themes of gender, sexuality, gaze, and identity are explored. Olivia Arthur's 'In Private' shows the body as a site for exploring gender and sexuality in India against the socio-political constraints imposed upon individuals. Arthur initially worked in Mumbai with sitters who identify themselves as being part of the LGBTQI+ community, a community that represents contemporary diversity in relation to sexuality and gender. From this starting point, the photographer expanded the range of subjects to engage with the wider topic of sexuality in all its forms. Capturing intimate exchanges between a couple lost in embrace against lone individuals looking in and out of the frame, gaze is ever present in this work. Denial of privacy and the implications of being seen inhabit the photographs that are installed hanging together in a tight cluster. As a viewer, one peers in from vantage points on these intimate moments, as Arthur questions privacy in a political context whereby one's most intimate moments are under the scrutiny of law.
Olivia Arthur Indian fashion designer James Ferriera at his home in Kotachiwadi. Mumbai. India. 2016. © Olivia Arthur | Magnum Photos
Olivia Arthur Urmi Jadav, a transgender activist. Mumbai. India. 2016. © Olivia Arthur | Magnum Photos
Susan Meiselas' 'Carnival Strippers' is considered an important work both within the history of photography and feminism. In the early 1970s, Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease as part of small town carnivals in the United States. Meiselas records the dynamics of performance, on stage and off, photographing both the subjects' public performance and their private lives. In Meiselas' portraits, the girls formally present themselves to her camera, posing, confronting. Throughout the work, there is an ever-present question about control; are the subjects (the girls) or the onlookers (the 'customers', the carnival barkers) in control? The female body here is neither simply the posed, silent nude or the exposed, naked self. The images of sexualized display are countered by the images made 'behind the curtain'; the girls relaxing, climbing past one another, tidying. The body that is in one moment objectified, is in the next, domestic, ordinary. Work is the dominant theme. In the exhibition, the photographs are accompanied by an audio piece whereby the pomp of the carnival callers and racket of audience excitement is contrasted with the girls matter-of-fact talk about the realities of the job.
Susan Meiselas Shortie. Presque Isle, Maine, USA. 1973. © Susan Meiselas | Magnum Photos
Opening up the dynamic between photographer and subject, and between voyeur and object, is Bieke Depoorter's ongoing work 'Agata'. Agata, a young woman who Depoorter met in a strip bar one night during a moment of disillusion with photography, employs her body as a tool in performance. The two became friends and are recording the ongoing development of their relationship. As Depoorter follows her subject, she who was once a stranger is quickly transformed into a collaborator. Agata tentatively reveals her body to the camera, retreats into the night, lets her body fall softly onto furniture, the poise of performance removed. Integral to the display are Agata's own handwritten reflections on the photographs: "I was creating myself anew for your camera. The everyday Agata behind the scenes. Not the one dancing in a strip club or performing violent acts during the techno parties."
Night Walks with Agata
Bieke Depoorter Agata. Beirut, Lebanon. August 3, 2018. © Bieke Depoorter | Magnum Photos
The two women create a fascinating reflection on the complexities of representation of both people and bodies, dually exploring how Agata perceives and presents herself, and how we as viewers read her through Depoorter's images. Questioning the promise of the photograph, as a mode of delivering both truths and deceptions, Depoorter and Agata seem to ask: as they become closer does this record become truer? Do they portray the 'real Agata', or merely another version of Agata?
Bieke Depoorter Agata. November 4, 2017. Paris. France © Bieke Depoorter | Magnum Photos
Bieke Depoorter Agata. Paris, France. November 4, 2017. © Bieke Depoorter | Magnum Photos
Alessandra Sanguinetti's The Adventures of 'Guille and Belinda' is a study of two girls as they transition from childhood to adulthood. Sanguinetti sought to portray the psychological and physical transformations of these girls as they matured into adults. Referencing an array of images from the Madonna icon to John Everett Millais' classic 'Ophelia', and drawing on a tradition of magical realism, Sanguinetti casts the girls in their own imagined scenarios, capturing them coming to grips with their gender, sexuality and body identity.
Alessandra Sanguinetti Ophelias. Buenos Aires. Argentina. 2001. © Alessandra Sanguinetti | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero has long been documenting the rituals, festivals, and traditions of Spain and Mediterranean Europe. Her monograph, Espana Occulta (Hidden Spain), examines the religious festivals and pilgrimages of the country: individuals and crowds engaging in religious display and offering. The body here is both symbol and sanctuary, it is the physical properties of flesh and blood that house the non-physical entity of spirit. Garcia Rodero documents (amongst others) the Fiestas de Santa Marta de Ribarteme (or the Near Death Festival), in which those who have cheated death in the past year are carried in coffins in procession, making for surreal images of the living masquerading as the dead. In other images, masked figures pause by roadsides, appearing as strange icons or omens. Garcia Rodero's haunting body of work reflects on ceremonial transformation, the sacrificial body, mortality, and belief.
Cristina Garcia Rodero The sleeping soul. Pilgrimage of Nuestra Senora de los Milagros de Saavedra. Galicia, Spain. 1981. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero Heads of wax. Pilgrimage of Santo Cristo de la Agonia de Xende. Galicia, Spain. 1977. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Cristina Garcia Rodero The mystery of the wood. San Pedro de Lincora. Galicia, Spain. 1993. © Cristina Garcia Rodero | Magnum Photos
Alec Soth is a chronicler of people and place, through poetic reflection. Niagara, featured here, explores the famed honeymoon destination on the US-Canadian border. Against the grandeur of the falls themselves, Soth's subjects are lost in their dreams and aspirations; their ideas of how their romantic couplings will grow and transform into interwoven lives. Nudes, bodies honestly depicted with all their imperfections, markings, and various sizes and forms are the signs of the realities of lives lived and lives paired, just as much as the faded motels and the unraveled love letters. We look at the bodies shown to us and examine their physicalities, as if their physical appearance can help us understand their compatibility, their chance at making romance last.
Revisiting Alec Soth's Niagara
Alec Soth Happiness Inn. Canada. 2005. © Alec Soth | Magnum Photos
Alec Soth Jennifer and Terrell. Canada. 2005. © Alec Soth | Magnum Photos
Expression of the living body; of flesh, bodily fluids, sensation is present in the works of both Miguel Rio Branco and Antoine d'Agata, who close the exhibition. Rio Branco's Silent Book, depicts scenes of bodies and spaces at night, exploring contemporary Latin American identity. Physique is emphasized in anonymous bodies, highlighted by artificial light and sweat, the physical exertion of visceral and sensual lone figures are viewed under the provocative veil of the night. Antoine d'Agata's art is one of sensation, an exploration of the living flesh, not static before his lens but moving, convulsing, experiencing, living. Here, d'Agata is in dialogue with Francis Bacon, the six works by the French photographer shown with Francis Bacon's 'Two Figures In A Room'.
Miguel Rio Branco Havana, Cuba. 1994. © Miguel Rio Branco | Magnum Photos
Miguel Rio Branco Training at the "Academia Santa Rosa Boxing Club". © Miguel Rio Branco | Magnum Photos
On Bacon's work, Gilles Deleuze wrote: "The painting is composed like a circus ring, a kind of amphitheater as 'place'. It is a simple technique that consists in isolating the Figure (.…) The important point is they do not consign the Figure an immobility but (….) an exploration of the Figure within the place, or upon itself."
The same could perhaps be said of d'Agata's oeuvre. The works are fluid, with one foot in vice and one in pleasure, the image less a record of performance but a mark made by flesh, sensation, abjection.
Antoine d'Agata Phnom Penh. Cambodia. 2008. © Antoine d'Agata | Magnum Photos
The Body Observed opens at The Sainsbury Centre for Visual arts on March 23. More information here.
Shop a selection of fine prints from this curation on the Magnum shop.
Alec Soth , Alessandra Sanguinetti , Bieke Depoorter , Bruce Gilden , Cristina García Rodero , Eve Arnold , Herbert List , Miguel Rio Branco , Olivia Arthur , Philippe Halsman , Susan Meiselas , The Body , Tim Hetherington , Werner Bischof
- Written by Emily Graham · Mar 14, 2019
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Chicago man shot dead while livestreaming on Facebook
Chicago man being shot dead Livestreamed on Facebook
A 28-year-old man was fatally shot while he was in front of a house with two of his three children and some friends, broadcasting live on Facebook in the North Lawndale neighbourhood on Wednesday night. The video shows the Chicago man talking to the camera with a friend and enjoying the warm weather moments before being gunned down by an unknown assailant.
About 8:45 p.m., Antonio Perkins was found face down with gunshot wounds to the neck and head in a vacant lot in the 1600 block of South Drake, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Caution : contains graphic violence
Perkins was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was declared dead at 9:07 p.m., authorities said.
The video featured Perkins drinking out of a bottle and laughing at a joke someone told. He and the others were not saying very much even though voices of others including a woman and a child can be heard. Six minutes into the video, there are gunshots, and screaming can be heard. Perkins falls on the grass after two shots.
The phone appears to fall to ground as more shots are fired in the city's North Lawndale neighbourhood, while panicked voices can be heard in the background of the clip.
"Oh my God!" one person screams.
Other voices shout: "Call the police! Hurry up!"
"Man somebody call an ambulance, please!"
'Tony! You good, Tony! You good, Tony!'
Another adds: "He [is] bleeding out his mouth and his nose right now."
"Baby, wake up!" says another woman. "Tony, stay breathing! I love you! Tony, baby! Come on! Please!"
Even though the picture went dark for a while, someone obviously picked up the phone and filmed the alleged gunman driving away. The phone was then dropped on the blood-covered grass.
Police are reviewing the video although they are confident that the man in the video was in fact Perkins. According to Chicago police, the shooting was gang-related. The Daily Mail reports police spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, saying Perkins had spent two years in jail for making heroin. He was on a "strategic subjects list" made up of people who are likely gang targets or members of criminal gangs.
However, Perkins' family and friends disagree he was a gang member. "A lot of people loved my son; he was a good person," said his father Daniel Cole.
Perkins had just been promoted at McDonald's. He worked almost every day and Wednesday night was a rare night out. His friends say he was not the target and not a gangbanger.
"Stop judging everybody. Stop judging us like that. His life really did matter," said Tiffany, a friend of the victim.
To make matters worse for this family, Antonio Perkins' brother was also shot to death several years ago. On the night Perkins died, 10 other people were shot in Chicago that day although all of them survived.
No arrests have been made and the Chicago police don't have a suspect in custody right now. The video has been viewed over a million times.