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The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (Le grand méchant Renard et autres contes…)
Posted on June 2, 2018 by carlosdev
On a moonlit night you could see such a sight that you won't believe your eyes…
(2017) Animated Feature (GKIDS) Starring the voices of Kamel Abdessadok, Jules Bienvenu, Guillaume Bouchede, Guillaume Darnault, Jean-Loup Horwitz, Augustin Jahn-Sani, Christophe Lemoine, Elise Noiraud, Boris Rehlinger, Céline Ronté, Magali Rosenzweig, Violette Samama, Antoine Schoumsky, Damien Witecka. Directed by Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert
The thing about animation is that it is truly universal. Once dominated by one country – and essentially one studio – these days, great animation is coming from all around the globe. While Disney continues to be the 1,000 pound gorilla when it comes to animated features, there have nonetheless been some terrific films coming from elsewhere.
This new French animated feature from Benjamin Renner, the guy who gave us Ernest and Celestine, is definitely on the terrific side – for the most part. Three tales are presented here, all involving animals who don't act like you might expect them to. The first involves a stork tasked with delivering babies, but the stork is a lazy sort and fakes an injury to get a passing duck, rabbit and a pig. The three try their best but they aren't really cut out for that kind of work. The second involves a fox who is trying to steal some eggs to eat from a rather violent hen. The fox takes too long to eat them and they hatch. Rather than eat the chicks, he becomes their caregiver – which isn't easy to do with an angry hen and a murderous wolf on the loose. Finally the third tale involves the rabbit, the duck and the pig who believe they've accidentally killed Santa Claus and determine to make sure that the presents are delivered. As in the first tale, that doesn't go well either. Personally, I liked the second tale the most of the three but all three of them are good. They use a stage show framing device which is reasonably clever.
The animation is kind of a throwback, hand-drawn and 2D rather than computer generated 3D. It looks vivid and minimalist and is gorgeous and fun. The humor has a Chuck Jones/Tex Avery influence that is delightful; adults may appreciate it a little more than the kids do, although I think kids will love it too. What is also worth looking out for is the warm, sweet charm that infuses the whole movie; it's perfect rainy day viewing and if you're not already a kid, it may bring you back to your own childhood.
There are a few things on the negative side to consider as well; The subtitles, which are in white, are hard to read whenever the background is white or a lighter color which is a problem. There's been no word as of yet whether GKIDS will release a dubbed version as they did with Ernest & Celestine; I'm betting that they will. The film is clearly meant for younger viewers and some of them may be less proficient at reading and may not do well with subtitles. If a dubbed version had been available, I likely would have given this at least a full point higher rating, maybe even two.
Also unlike E&C the story feels a bit dumbed down in places. I got the sense of being talked down to by the filmmakers, a sense I never got in the previous film's case. That was a bit disconcerting. However, those cases were fairly rare; most of the time I just let the craziness wash over me like a comfortable afternoon in my PJs watching Looney Tunes on the television with a big bowl of Cocoa Puffs in front of me. Now, that is what true happiness is.
Please note that this film is still on the Festival circuit and although it does have a distribution deal with GKIDS, no release date is currently scheduled. You'll just have to keep an eye out for it at your local film festival or animation festival. Also while I did discuss an English dubbed version, no such version currently exists to my knowledge and GKIDS hasn't confirmed that there will ever be one. Just so you know. P.S. I'd also like to give a shout-out to GKIDS who have put together an impressive roster of animated features from around the globe that will appeal to adults as well as kids. If you see their logo on anything, you know it's going to be extremely high quality.
REASONS TO GO: There is a Looney Tunes quality particularly in the first vignette. There is a quality of sweetness throughout.
REASONS TO STAY: The subtitles can be hard to read. The story is on the dumb side.
FAMILY VALUES: There is some mild rude humor.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The middle tale was made up by Renner when he was a child; he eventually turned it into a graphic novel from which the film is adapted.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 6/2/18: Rotten Tomatoes: 100% positive reviews: Metacritic: No score yet.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Zootopia
FINAL RATING: 6.5/10
NEXT: The Guilty
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Q: bluez v5.50 - Cannot connect to Bluetooth earphones on Ubuntu 19.10 I have been running Ubuntu 19.10 for months on my notebook without a problem connecting my Bose Soundsport earphones. However, starting from a few days ago I could not connect the earphones using the default GNOME settings. I turned to using bluetoothctl from bluez v5.50 instead:
[bluetooth]# pair 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31
Attempting to pair with 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 Connected: yes
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 UUIDs: 00000000-deca-fade-deca-deafdecacaff
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 UUIDs: 00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 UUIDs: 00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 UUIDs: 0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 UUIDs: 0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 UUIDs: 0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 UUIDs: 0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 UUIDs: 00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 ServicesResolved: yes
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 Paired: yes
Pairing successful
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 ServicesResolved: no
[CHG] Device 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31 Connected: no

The device seems to be paired but was unable to connect. If I specifically attempt to connect the device, the following happens:
[bluetooth]# connect 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31
Attempting to connect to 4C:87:5D:B7:90:31
[CHG] Device A8:6B:AD:1B:97:2A RSSI: -84
Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed

I already have pulseaudio-module-bluetooth installed. systemctl gave the following errors:
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-03-08 13:18:34 HKT; 1min 15s ago
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
 Main PID: 18813 (bluetoothd)
   Status: "Running"
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 1.8M
   CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
           └─18813 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Mar 08 13:18:34 hwpang-ideapad-s540 systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
Mar 08 13:18:34 hwpang-ideapad-s540 bluetoothd[18813]: Bluetooth daemon 5.50
Mar 08 13:18:34 hwpang-ideapad-s540 systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Mar 08 13:18:34 hwpang-ideapad-s540 bluetoothd[18813]: Starting SDP server
Mar 08 13:18:34 hwpang-ideapad-s540 bluetoothd[18813]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized
Mar 08 13:18:34 hwpang-ideapad-s540 bluetoothd[18813]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.204 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/sbc
Mar 08 13:18:34 hwpang-ideapad-s540 bluetoothd[18813]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.204 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/sbc
Mar 08 13:19:33 hwpang-ideapad-s540 bluetoothd[18813]: Unable to get Headset Voice gateway SDP record: Device or resource busy
Mar 08 13:19:33 hwpang-ideapad-s540 bluetoothd[18813]: connect error: Device or resource busy (16)
Mar 08 13:19:35 hwpang-ideapad-s540 bluetoothd[18813]: connect error: Device or resource busy (16)

Any ideas?

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Would a guarantee that you could get your money back if you lose your job motivate you to buy a season ticket to the Minnesota Timberwolves? Today, Glen Taylor, the owner of the NBA franchise, unveiled his "No-Risk Pledge," which guarantees a refund for unused tickets should season ticket holders lose their jobs in 2009.
He also announced a $5 reduction in most ticket prices.
The Timberwolves are a tough sell. The front office has been relatively incompetent for most of this decade, penalized five years of draft choices for the illegal signing of a marginal player, and allowing Kevin Garnett to slip away to win an NBA championship, and booting most of the first-round picks they've had in the last few years (Kevin Love appears to be a rare exception).
Beyond that, the Timberwolves appear to be placing all of their hopes in a one-month stretch of otherwise uninspiring — sometimes insulting — basketball.
"We are in a rebuilding process with the team, but in January our fans had the opportunity to see firsthand the potential we think this team has. We believe strongly in our core group of players led by Al Jefferson, Randy Foye and Kevin Love, and also believe the future is extremely bright," Taylor said at a news conference today.
He's pointing to the stretch of the season when the Timberwolves won 10 games and lost only 4. It happened immediately after the team fired its head coach. Perhaps it was a sign of the future. Or maybe it was just a fluke. After all, the same players won only 2 of 16 games in December, and were in the process of reverting to form when the team's best player, Al Jefferson, was injured shortly after the January run. The team had lost 5 of its previous 6 games, and although they weren't as lethargic as December, moral victories don't suggest the "bright future" Taylor does.
Meanwhile, Timberwolves fans continue to exercise their own ticket reduction plan. The worst kept secret in town is that you can buy a cheap seat at Target Center, and sneak down to any one of the nice — and empty — seats downstairs.
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Two of the five draft picks forfeited were eventually reinstated.
Right, but the penalty was five years of picks.
So, was it an oversight or obfuscation to not include the actual amount of picks in your post?
Whatever. 3 picks, 5 picks… It was bonehead either way, and helped flush a bunch of seasons (and ticket sales) down the toilet. They can offer all the Randy (Corey) Breuer (Brewer) jerseys and 2-for-1 ticket deals that they want. The best seat in the house is at home on the couch, and then only during the commercials between Antiques Roadshow and The Best of the Joy of Painting w/ Bob Ross on TPT (before it was cut – but that's another NewsCut topic…).
The season ticket prices are beginning cut next year, but the cuts to the offense and defense already are in place.


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Our February edition features Erin Kay Anderson and Marlene Boyette. These yogis have been practicing and teaching throughout communities in Boston for many years, and we are so excited to kick off a new month with them!
The event is hosted at a private location, and the cost to attend is $35 which includes yoga & meditation, brunch, and beverages. Space is limited so purchase tickets early!
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Monday Night LIVESTREAM! (First screened on YouTube, Facebook 8pm 28/06/21)
David Vanc & Ilana Mercer
GOVERNMENT NUMBERS
1. Today was supposed to be Freedom Day. What happened? 2. Batley and Spen by election 3. Jabs for kids
THE LEFT KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT MUSLIMS
PACKHAM IS SUCH A HYPOCRITE
DON'T GO NEAR COWS
THE EU FOCUSES ON THE BIG STUFF
SOME MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS…
by David Vance
May 25, 2015 0	2 mins	7 yrs
As you know, the Northern Ireland "Equality Commission" put its full weight and £30,000 of our taxes behind the gay activist who wanted to take Ashers Bakery to court. But their tenacity seems less than robust in another circumstance…
The Equality Commission has decided not to exert any further pressure to change the name of a Newry playground named after an IRA gunman.
The commission has told the News Letter that it is "disappointed" that Newry and Mourne District Council did not change the name of the playground – named after IRA hunger striker Raymond McCreesh – but that it will not be taking any further action, after seven years of correspondence with the local authority.
So, gay birthday cakes = move heaven and earth to get a legal result, IRA tributes masquerading as a children's playwark, not so much. The truth is that this "Equality Commission" is an Orwellian quango with a very particular political enforcing role that ensures it sustains inequality when it is convenient.

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Big Creek Campground in the Olympic National Forest along Highway 119. It is operated by the U.S. Forest Service.
Skokomish Park at Lake Cushman, formerly known as Camp Cushman, is accessed from Highway 119. Though the Skokomish Tribal Nation owns the park, the boat launch is maintained by Tacoma Power. The launch is open between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.
Staircase Campground in Olympic National Park has 47 campsites, trails and an interpretive center. It is located about 3 miles upstream from Lake Cushman via Staircase Road.
An additional 6 day-use recreation sites are provided along Staircase Road near the northern end of Lake Cushman.
Located a few miles downstream from Lake Cushman is the 150-acre Lake Kokanee. Considered prime fishing territory for catching kokanee and rainbow trout, there is a public boat launch at the south end of the lake near the dam.
To get to the boat launch at Lake Kokanee, take Highway 119 from Hoodsport. Drive about 2.5 miles and turn left onto Potlatch-Cushman Road. Turn right onto Lower Lake Road; the boat launch is located at the bottom of the hill. Parking is available at the launch and across the street.
All internal combustion-powered motorboats on Lake Kokanee are restricted to 7.5-horsepower engines maximum. No personal watercraft are allowed.
Located on the shoreline of Mayfield Lake, Ike Kinswa State Park offers a boat launch, campground and day-use facility. There are also two privately run facilities nearby: Harmony Lakeside RV Park and Lake Mayfield Resort and Marina.
Picnicking and swimming along the west bank of the lake near the project administration building.
Hiking and mountain biking along the 12-mile-long Wynoochee Lake Shore Trail. The trail includes the educational Working Forest Nature Trail beginning at Loop B at Coho Campground.
Campsites at Coho Campground, next to Wynoochee Lake, are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The campground is operated by the U.S. Forest Service and offers 46 sites for tents and trailers, 8 walk-in sites for tents only, a group camp and 3 yurts. The campground includes a boat launch, picnic area and RV dump station near the entrance.
Recorded information about flows on the Wynoochee River and the elevation of Wynoochee Lake are available from our Fishing and Recreation Line at (888) 502-8690 or visit MyTPU.org/lakelevels.
More information about nearby U.S. Forest Service recreational facilities is available from the Olympic National Forest.


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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta now available
Red Hat aims for enterprise OpenStack deployment dominance
IBM adds a fancy scheduler to its OpenStack stack
Is Red Hat locking customers into its version of OpenStack?
InfoWorld Tech Watch
By Serdar Yegulalp, Senior Writer, InfoWorld |
Informed news analysis every weekday
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 boasts cloud tie-ins
Latest version of Red Hat's flagship product includes major OpenStack and Docker support, and many more under-the-hood improvements
It's just about impossible to release a major piece of software these days without having the word "cloud" in the description somewhere. The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 is no exception: There's scarcely a part of the OS that, in Red Hat's view, isn't somehow cloud-centric.
The company describes RHEL 6.5, now in general availability, as "designed for those who build and manage large, complex IT projects, especially enterprises that require an open hybrid cloud."
The biggest and most visible cloud tie-ins for RHEL 6.5 come through support for integration with two major cloud-oriented open source projects: OpenStack and Docker.
The presence of OpenStack shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's followed Red Hat in the past year. The company clearly has ambitions to become the pre-eminent OpenStack distributor, not just by offering a distribution of OpenStack but also by integrating it tightly into RHEL's management and automation frameworks.
Docker might not ring as many bells as OpenStack, but it ought to. It's an open source project that allows any application to be packaged and shipped in a container that can run in most any environment, from bare-metal installations to VMs to -- you guessed it -- OpenStack clusters (via OpenStack Nova). Both Red Hat and the folks behind Docker had previously announced support for Docker would be available in RHEL by the either the end of this year or the beginning of 2014, so it's heartening to see it arrive early.
Other major features in RHEL 6.5 include:
General virtualization enhancements. vCPUs can now be dynamically enabled for disabled for guests, and the KVM hypervisor now supports up to 4TB of memory and can directly integrate with GlusterFS volumes. RHEL also works that much better as a guest in other people's hypervisors (including Microsoft's Hyper-V).
Support for NVMe-based SSDs. NVM Express, or NVMe, provides a standard way for SSDs to attach directly to PCI Express without the legacy limitations of SATA or AHCI. RHEL 6.5 now works directly with NVMe devices, whether they're being used for read/write caching or as a full-blown substitute for conventional mechanical disks.
High-precision network time. Most of the obvious applications for this involve financial transactions, something Red Hat touts on its list of RHEL accomplishments. (Red Hat's JBoss Data Grid package is also being pushed to the same audience.)
OpenSCAP 2.1-certified security tools. The OpenSCAP standard was created to "provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of enterprise systems," including things like automatic patch verification and detection of compromised systems. Suse also uses OpenSCAP, and Red Hat has used earlier iterations of the standard since RHEL 5.7.
Red Hat's talk of RHEL as a cloud solution has been pretty consistent since version 6's release in 2010, back when it was described as "the comprehensive foundation customers need for physical, virtualized, and cloud deployments." The next version of RHEL is likely to expand that foundation into the burgeoning world of ARM-based servers, which Red Hat has been eyeing closely as a new frontier.
This story, "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 boasts cloud tie-ins," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.
Serdar Yegulalp is a senior writer at InfoWorld, focused on machine learning, containerization, devops, the Python ecosystem, and periodic reviews.


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How the Left Abuses Charitable Money in Elections: Capital Research Center
By Paul Greaney
September 20, 2022Fresh Look America
Scott Walter is president of Capital Research Center. He served in the George W. Bush administration as special assistant to the president for domestic policy and was vice president at the Philanthropy Roundtable, editing Philanthropy magazine and producing donor guidebooks on assistance to the poor, school reform, public policy research, and other topics.
At the 2022 National Conservatism Conference, he spoke on the topic "How the Left Abuses Charitable Money in Elections."
NTD sat down with him on the sidelines of the event.
"If you can boost turnout in big cities, the majority—strong majority—of that turnout will be left wing. And voila you have your election victory, that's essentially the way Zuck bucks worked: the money went overwhelmingly to Democratic big cities, now they gave all over the place, but in vastly tinier amounts. So by heavily concentrating that money flow into the big cities, they were guaranteed that they could make a huge boost to the Democratic Party, despite it being of course illegal to do that."


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Some elite schools in the country have been fingered in allegations of illegally collecting exorbitant fees from students under the pretext of carrying out bulk Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, registration for them.
The Board therefore warned candidates, parents and guardians to desist from patronising such schools as JAMB does not do group registration, reminding them that the Federal Government recently slashed JAMB fees from N5000 to N3500 as a way of encouraging them.
"It should be reiterated that the Board does not do group registration as candidates are required to come individually for their registration," JAMB said.
The allegation comes barely five days to the commencement of the 2019 UTME and three weeks after the Board concluded its sale of forms for the exercise.
The Board noted that in their bid to make money, the elite schools engage in several infractions in the name of group registration and other acts inimical to the interest of the candidate and the sanctity of the examination, adding that those kinds of fraudulent registrations end up distorting candidates' data.
It cited the case of one Hillside School in Gwarimpa, Abuja where such a mix-up was reported and the school admitted to have carried out group registration.
Four candidates of the school who wanted to take physics as their UTME subject were affected and rather listed for Igbo as a result of group registration.
JAMB further cited an investigation by Bishop Gabriel Chiakoma Dunia Foundation in Auchi, Edo state, which revealed that several students submitted to the Foundation for JAMB registration were from boarding schools with a centralised organisation structure.
It noted that students affected in the process did not come individually to be registered and the foundation was not aware the students were made to pay far and above the amount stipulated by JAMB.
The exam body further reiterated that UTME was not a school based examination and therefore does not require candidates registering as a group.
"The board therefore urges elite secondary schools and other who indulge in collecting money to register candidates as a group to desist from such acts or face stiff penalties. Henceforth, people who are engaged in unwholesome registration practices would be sanctioned accordingly," JAMB warned.


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Culture November 12, 2017
Hissa Al Dhaheri Frames the Momentous Opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi
by Danna Lorch
Hissa Al Dhaheri, deputy director of Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photographed by Juliet Dunne for Vogue Arabia, November 2017.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi's auditorium program manager, Noor Suwaidi – a painter and curator in her own right – saw her first original work of art at age 23 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC. She says, "I studied art from slides and books. I had tears in my eyes in that gallery. Now I'm 36, and the fact that this is in my own backyard, right by my house, opens up a whole other dimension."
It has taken a decade of behind-the-scenes footwork to prepare for the groundbreaking Louvre Abu Dhabi in Saadiyat Island's Cultural District to finally open its doors to the public on November 11. The museum's presence is intended to solidify Abu Dhabi as a cultural catalyst for the region, and will also give generations of locals and residents the experience of coming face to face with masterpieces – an encounter with the power to change the course of someone's life. Some of the most remarkable members of the Louvre Abu Dhabi's team are Emirati women with impeccable educations and professional backgrounds. These include Suwaidi, as well as assistant curator Alia Zaal Sultan Lootah and registrar Najla Busit, who supervises logistics and installations of priceless works on loan from France. Hissa Al Dhaheri serves as deputy director.
I phone Al Dhaheri for an interview from Boston on the first icy day of fall. I picture her at the other end of the line tethered to a laptop at the close of the workweek, perched cross-legged on her overstuffed floral couch in the family majlis, the place she admits to spending all her spare time of late – that is, when she isn't pulling a frequent all-nighter at the office. Al Dhaheri is a competitive perfectionist who doesn't do anything halfway.
As a girl growing up with five siblings in Al Bateen, she spent years enjoying twice weekly art lessons at the Cultural Foundation of Abu Dhabi, which at that time was the only institution in the emirate that provided educational opportunities in the visual arts to local students. With a surprisingly sarcastic laugh she recounts, "When I enrolled at Zayed University in 2001, I seriously considered becoming an artist. But then I got a B in a studio class and said, that's it, I'm not good enough at making art. I got the reality check early on." It can be considered fortuitous to the future UAE art ecosystem that Al Dhaheri chose to lead her life in a different direction. After closing the studio door for the last time, a winding path ultimately led to her prestigious current appointment.
Photographed by Juliet Dunne for Vogue Arabia, November 2017.
Plans for the 24 000 sqm museum were announced in 2007, when, as the result of a unique agreement between the governments of France and Abu Dhabi, the museum gained rights to retain the Louvre name for 30 years, support from Agence France-Muséums for 15, and 300 works on loan for 10. The Jean Nouvel-designed building is already famous for its steel dome, which is almost as heavy as the Eiffel Tower, and yet allows for ethereal rays of sunlight to penetrate its eight layers of steel and ornate geometric workmanship. The effect is poetically named the "rain of light" for the more than 7 000 stars that constantly shift patterns as the result.
Al Dhaheri divides life into "before LAD" – Louvre Abu Dhabi – and "after LAD." In the more balanced days before the final push towards the opening, Al Dhaheri regularly sped through Abu Dhabi's serene desert on foggy mornings on her bicycle, was at her most relaxed over a heated tennis match, and frequently Instagrammed herself mid-workout, once with the tips of her skis dangling over a terrifyingly steep slope at Baqueira-Beret, a jet-setters' paradise set in Spain's Pyrenees mountain range. Although she describes her style as "sporty," Al Dhaheri is slowly dipping into fashion, too. Her almond-shaped nails are always painted (sometimes subconsciously coordinating with works in the collection) and she is hung up on architectural rings by Emirati designer Maryam Al Omaira as well as Swear's magenta platform sneakers picked up on a trip to her favorite Abu Dhabi boutique, Minbart.
"Portrait of Fayoum," Egypt, 1 800 years old
"He has such powerful eyes and almost makes you question who this person is. It's very deep to think about how this beautiful artwork is actually buried with a mummified body," says Hissa Al Dhaheri
Unlike many of her colleagues, Al Dhaheri – who is the right-hand woman to director Manuel Rabaté and thereby charged with overseeing a massive, invaluable operation – doesn't have a formal background in art history or museum studies. When Al Dhaheri and her 20- and 30-something colleagues were growing up, museum studies wasn't yet available as a university major in the UAE. She doesn't even have typical "gallery girl" stories to share; there is no reminiscing on early family holidays spent traversing Europe's capital cities of art, London, Paris, and Rome. At Zayed University she pursued a double major in social and behavioral sciences and international studies before pursuing a master's degree in Gulf studies at the University of Exeter in the UK. Looking back on that time, she says, "What I was most interested in was understanding how societies are formed and what makes cultures what they are." Her subsequent career has doggedly pursued the answer to this never fully answerable question. And perhaps not coincidentally, as a self-declared universal museum, the Louvre Abu Dhabi is bent on compelling its visitors to pause mid-gallery stroll to generate multiple open-ended responses to this very same puzzle. The exquisite first piece of art acquired for the museum's permanent collection was "Composition with Blue, Red, Yellow, and Black," a classic 1922 painting by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian. The painting once belonged to Yves Saint Laurent, and most likely inspired his iconic A-line dresses in the Mondrian Collection. Ultimately, the museum's permanent collection will contain hundreds of works from prehistoric to contemporary times, each of which, like the Mondrian, is intended to perfectly capture, name, and examine a poignant moment in history. Women are portrayed in the museum's collection in a variety of voices and eras as well, beginning with a rare Bactrian princess statue dating from 4 000 years ago, and important works such as "Ayoucha," an 1843 daguerreotype by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey and the earliest photograph of a veiled woman from the Middle East.
"Composition with blue, red, yellow, and black," by Piet Mondrian, Paris, 1922. "This is very dear to my heart. It is Louvre Abu Dhabi's first acquisition and had a powerful impact in the fashion world, most popularly with Yves Saint Laurent," says Hissa Al Dhaheri
Much like the UAE, which has always thrived as a global crossroads appropriating from multiple cultural influences, the Louvre Abu Dhabi sets out to become the Arab world's first universal museum – a space in which Eastern and Western works will share wall space as though conversing through the 23 permanent galleries resembling a medina settlement, all offset by the cerulean waters of the Arabian Gulf.
After her school days, Al Dhaheri returned home to Abu Dhabi and began teaching at her alma mater. In 2007, the same year that plans for the Louvre Abu Dhabi were announced in the press, she took a group of students for a short course to London. A trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum gave her pause to think. "I remember being there and seeing the students' reactions. Some of them were really enjoying the experience, and others were really not understanding why there was a collection of old stuff in a place at all. It was then that I decided to move from teaching, which was something I dearly loved, into the cultural field."
She quickly secured a role at the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority, or TCA, the department responsible for the capital's ambitious art infrastructure development and implementation, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, and Zayed National Museum, all of which are slated for Saadiyat Cultural District. When she came on board in 2010, Al Dhaheri was outreach officer for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and responsible for managing the preview exhibitions, lectures, and other events meant to give curious French and UAE audiences (not to mention an extremely skeptical international press), a suggestive taste of what would come when the museum opened. Any hesitancy about leaving academia that she might have been holding onto was shed by the time Al Dhaheri was appointed programs manager in 2012. "I believe culture and art have an impact on society – they are what make society," she tells me. "I wanted to be at the center of making this museum relevant to the people of this region." She then quips, almost apologetically, "I hope I won't have offended academics by saying this."
"A young emir studying" by Osman Hamdi Bey, Istanbul, 1878. "Osman's story inspires me, especially since he studied with orientalist painters in Paris. He traveled back to Istanbul where he applied and blended his learnings to create something to reflect his own identity," says Hissa Al Dhaheri
Al Dhaheri rapidly evolved into the local public face of the museum, speaking as its representative first at the Thinkers & Doers Conference held in Paris in 2015 at the Arab World Institute, and then at the New York Times' exclusive Art for Tomorrow forum in Doha, rubbing shoulders with cultural luminaries including eternally provocative Jeff Koons and the late Zaha Hadid. In parallel, her own taste in art grew more sophisticated and she began collecting, initially with a playful figurative work on paper by Picasso's contemporary, pioneering Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, followed by a melancholy abstract portrait by her colleague at TCA Noor Al Suwaidi, and then two of Abraaj Group Art Prize winner Rana Begum's signature "Fold" sculptures, which she had installed on a bedroom wall. During this time, she seemingly unfolded her wings, displaying innate but previously hidden abilities, much like the butterfly Damien Hirst drew for her at a book signing not long ago. As a result, when her role as deputy director was announced last year, it came as little surprise to those who had been observing her rise both in capability and confidence.
Lion bracelet, Iran, 3 000 years old. "This bracelet reminds me of the amazing craftsmanship and use of gold in the early millennia. It also reminds me of the timeless jewelry that older relatives used to wear when I was a little girl," says Hissa Al Dhaheri
Al Dhaheri attributes her sense of patriotic ambition to her father, explaining, "In my father's generation in the 1970s, they were all part of building the nation and took on roles for which they didn't study. They might not have initially known what they were doing but persevered because they believed in building the nation." She draws a connection from here to her international team, made up of locals working shoulder to shoulder with French and other highly skilled expatriates to fulfill a vision imagined by Abu Dhabi's leaders. "Waking up every morning and walking into the office is absolutely beautiful, because we all believe, and it's not only me. Everyone here is working with a passion because they believe in the impact that this project will have on future generations."
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Ruminations on Deflategate
The NFL season appears to be finishing pretty much the way it started – awash in scandal. The season effectively began with a decision by the Commissioner's office to turn a blind eye to evidence that one of the world's best running backs knocked out his fiancée in an elevator. Then, after only one week of action, the eye that wasn't blind was blackened, as the world's very best running back was caught taking a tree branch to his 4-year-old son and pounding the child in the back, on the legs, and in the testicles. That, on top of everything else that was going on in the NFL, was enough to cause me to boycott the sport for most of the season. When I finally returned, I was treated to a comeback for the ages in the week's penultimate season. But nobody is talking about that comeback. It has been overshadowed by yet another scandal. For that is life in today's NFL – no matter how good the action is or how trivial the scandal, the latter will trump the former.
The latest scandal, which is commonly known as "Deflategate," has resulted from the first half of the Patriots-Colts game. When the Patriots were on offense, they were playing with balls that had been deflated, thus making the balls easier to catch. My understanding is that this has been proven. We also know that the Patriots themselves had the ability to deflate the balls that their offense were using – and could do so relatively easily and quickly. What we don't know is who on the Patriots was responsible. You would hardly have to be a cynic to suspect that the league does not truly want to get to the bottom of things until after the Patriots' next game, which is the Super Bowl. In other words, the league may have decided to turn yet another blind eye until the season is over so as to ensure that any punishment will not affect the competitiveness of its showcase event.
Everyone agrees that with or without the deflated balls, New England would have beaten the Colts, who were sleep-walking through the whole game. Yet somehow, this scandal has captivated the attention of the media and the fans to the point where this is the only football story anyone is talking about. How is that possible?
For starters, New England has been caught cheating before – most notably, for using video cameras to spy on an opponent's practices. Also, New England has been the most successful franchise in the 21st century, and people expect slimy acts of cheating from upstarts, not from the blue bloods of the league. Let's face it, this isn't the kind of conduct that the old Boston Brahmans would approve of. But then again, this also doesn't appear to be worth all the attention it's getting. Surely, something else is going on.
Let me offer two explanations. First, everyone who loves football should have realized by now that there is a stench surrounding this league. It has consistently taken a strong stance regarding the color of the socks or sneakers that players wear and the dances that they do in the end zone, but when it comes to off-the-field violence, on-the-field injuries, and in-the-locker-room bullying, it could care less. We fans enjoy watching the sport of football, but the barons of the game drive us crazy. So whenever someone in a position of power gets caught looking like a jerk, we want to lash out at him – not only because we want the sport cleaned up, but also because it's come to the point where we feel kind of guilty for watching it.
Secondly, Deflategate isn't just another NFL scandal; it's an NFL CHEATING scandal. At least subconsciously, that has to remind us of an even larger cheating scandal that has gone virtually unreported for decades: the apparent prevalence around the league of performance-enhancing drugs. We all realize that there have been tremendous advances in nutrition during the past several decades, and that those advances are somewhat responsible for the fact that the biggest and strongest players of the 60s and early-70s physically resemble the smallest and weakest players today. But we also realize that the NFL has done little or nothing over the years to prevent the use of PEDs in its sport. And that, presumably, those drugs are abused at epidemic proportions. They give an extra edge to the players who take them and provide pressure to those who want to live clean, healthy lives but also want to compete on a level playing field.
For me, no spectator sport is anywhere near as fun to watch as football. An incredible combination of speed, power and finesse is on display at virtually every moment of the game. And yet, when it comes to the NFL, what the league does to de-legitimize itself never ceases to amaze me. As was once said about Yassar Arafat, it "never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity." So now, when fans should be looking back at the amazing Packers-Seahawks game and looking ahead at an intriguing Super Bowl, all everyone is talking about is some petty cheating scandal.
Here's my advice: don't worry about the Patriots. Win or lose, we all know what that organization has come to stand for – brains, talent, and a bit of sleaze. Let's concentrate instead on the real cheating scandal. Let's encourage the league to go drug free. Test the players and kick out the cheats. We might find that the players will get smaller, slower, and perhaps even a bit less lethal. Then again, the action on the field will be every bit as competitive as before, and the hospitals and morgues might get a little less crowded.
The New Welfare State
During election season, I'm normally frustrated that virtually all that the media wants to talk about is domestic politics and domestic economic news. Allegedly, Americans only care about their own wallets, and the last things on their minds are the wars going on overseas. That, at least, is how the media rationalizes covering the rest of the world so superficially.
Fortunately, we're not going through an election season – we're about as far away from an election as it gets. So the media can dare to cover world events, and lately we've been getting a major dose of them. Reports about international terrorism have been blanketing the news. We've also seen stories that flow indirectly from such terrorism, such as the reports that Benjamin Netanyahu has taken anti-Semitic violence in France as an opportunity to ask the world's third largest Jewish population to "move to Israel, as early as possible." (Perhaps if he moved out, they might be more tempted to move in.) I should be thrilled that Americans are being forced to pay attention to the other side of the ocean and that we're being reminded that what happens there truly does affect our future here. And yet … every now and then, a domestic story is reported that must force us to stop what we're doing and pay attention to our own garden. Such a story came out yesterday.
Maybe you're heard the news already, but if not, be prepared to get depressed. For the first time in history, most American public school children are recipients of free or reduced meals. Throughout the South and the Southwest, the percentage of free/reduced meal recipients equals or exceeds 50%, and in Mississippi, it exceeds 70%. That means that most American public school children, and the vast majority of Southern public school children, go to school every morning thinking of themselves and their families as either in poverty or close to it. Being on the dole has become the new normal here in America.
The topic of poverty is never far from my thoughts, but I have been reminded of it lately while dealing with the American health care system. Long-term care providers now frequently charge so much money on a monthly basis that most Americans can no longer afford to pay their bills. According to the new game plan, first the patients' assets are completely exhausted, and then the Medicaid payments can kick in. When the patients die, they die penniless and all they give to their "heirs" is air. This is how we respect the dignity of Americans today – by putting them on the dole when they are young and stripping them of all their assets when they are old.
Oh, did I mention that we now have roughly 10 million millionaire households in America? Or that there are well over a million American households with a net worth exceeding $5 million? Both of those numbers are on the rise as well.
So the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting plentiful, and the middle class are getting scared. But all is not lost, America. For at least we still have our sense of humor. In the last week, it has also been reported that a famous politician will return to the public sphere with a mission of fighting poverty. This man, or should I say this chameleon, is none other than the same guy who, while running for the highest office in the land, announced that he would be building a car elevator for one of his many homes (the one in the beach resort of La Jolla, California). That's right, ladies and gentlemen, Mitt Romney is back, and he's coming to give to the poor … if not to take from the rich.
One wonders precisely what Mitt has in mind as a way of helping the free/reduced meal crowd … and I do mean crowd. His last idea was for them to "Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business." Sound advice, to be sure. Maybe they should ask their grandma for the money. Within a few years, grandma would have given all the money away to her nursing home anyway, so she might as well get rid of it while she can and give it to junior so that he can start a business. I hear the residential car-elevator business is booming these days.
Terrorism, Violence, and Conventional Wisdom
Nicholas Kristof, in his Thursday op-ed piece for the New York Times, "Satire, Terrorism and Islam," uttered a statement that seems to summarize what most of the Western world is thinking today: "The great divide is not between faiths. Rather it is between terrorists and moderates, between those who are tolerant and those who 'otherize.'" Kristof then went on to plead, "Let's stand with Charlie Hebdo, for the global outpouring of support has been inspiring. Let's denounce terrorism, oppression and misogyny in the Islamic world – and everywhere else. But let's be careful not to respond to terrorists' intolerance with our own."
Wrap that up in a bow, my friends, for therein lies conventional wisdom. Kristof is making several points. The characteristic virtue of our era is tolerance. The characteristic vice is intolerance-fueled violence. Charlie Hebdo speaks with satire (not violence) so we "stand with it." And we stand with Islam as well as all other races, colors or creeds, because, unlike the "terrorists," we are "tolerant."
Obviously, I cannot disagree entirely with Kristof's comments. Like Kristof, I deeply mourn the deaths of the employees of Charlie Hebdo and all of the others who died in France this week at the hands of religious extremists. Like Kristof, I believe in free speech, including the right of Charlie Hebdo to disseminate its brand of satire. But like most conventional wisdom, Kristof's point was far too simplistic. For one thing, Charlie Hebdo doesn't stand for tolerance. Tolerant people don't depict all Orthodox religious practitioners, let alone the prophets of their faiths, as ugly, sub-human perverts. Tolerant people don't foment polarization and hatred. Conventional wisdom may say "I am Charlie Hebdo," but true wisdom says "Thank God I have better things to read than the smut that Charlie Hebdo publishes."
I also disagree with the idea that the characteristic vice of our times is intolerance-fueled violence. Violence certainly belongs on our short list of vices, but it would be folly to focus exclusively on that violence which is fueled by intolerance. Our problem is violence, period, however it is fueled. And believe me, the violence problem has reached epidemic proportions here in the "tolerant" West, not just in the "intolerant" Middle East.
Conventional wisdom indicates that here in America, we are "tolerant," we are "moderate," and we are peaceful. Well, we may be tolerant, but we are certainly not peaceful. In fact, it is precisely our tolerance that fuels our lust for death … or our willingness to look the other way when other people kill, as long as it's not in the name of "terrorism."
To begin, we are addicted to eating meat, notwithstanding the effects of that addiction on our environment and our own health. We ourselves don't kill for our meat, we have others who kill for us, but our demand is what fuels the number of animal killings. What's more, we are hardly discriminating in the way we take our meat. It's no secret that factory farms don't merely kill animals for our eating pleasure; they place their animals in conditions that can only be described as torture. We are aghast when we read these reports. But we eat the flesh that these farms peddle. In other words, we facilitate and look the other way at the unnecessary killing and torture of animals, and as long as we're not doing the deed (which we define as the killing, not the eating), we can happily view ourselves as non-violent.
We are also addicted to unprotected sex, despite the carnage that flows from such sex. Each year, roughly one million human fetuses are aborted in America. My guess is that most of these abortions come from unprotected, consensual sex. Do we lust for such abortions? Of course not – and that is one reason why we can look at these acts as fundamentally "non-violent." Another reason is that we are obsessed with the debate about whether abortion should be legal. As a result, as long as we believe, as most of us do (myself included), that abortion should be legal, we can absolve ourselves of moral responsibility for having the unprotected sex that so frequently leads to aborting human life forms. Once again, we are burying our heads in the sand about our violence problem.
When we recreate, we go to the movies, watch TV, or play with video games. And what do we enjoy watching? Mass quantities of gratuitous killings. Even the directors and actors we admire the most peddle murder and torture. It's become almost de rigeur. Who doesn't love the Godfather? Who doesn't like Die Hard? Even a movie like Django Unchanged, which to me is just a stupid orgy of violence with no artistic merit, received an 88% rating by critics on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for five Academy Awards. The other day I heard on cable news that the members of Al-Qaeda have derived a lot of enjoyment and inspiration from watching violent Hollywood movies. These movies are shown worldwide, and they de-condition all of us to tolerate the abrupt and involuntary termination of human life. There's that word again: tolerance. Thanks to our entertainment industry and its award-winning stars, we're plenty tolerant when it comes to watching human beings blow each other away with guns and knives. But are we violent? Nah, because the stuff on the screen isn't "real" violence, we tell ourselves, it's only "virtual" violence.
When we elect representatives to serve in Congress, they quickly learn one lesson above all others – don't mess with guns. Here in America, people are gunned down on the city streets every day, and nobody cares (other than the immediate family members of the deceased). It's just something we have come to expect. We also frequently have school shootings, and that does kind of tug at our heartstrings a bit – after all, the Hollywood types who have conditioned our "tolerance" haven't decided to depict kids getting shot in every movie, but only adults. As a result, these school shootings inevitably lead to at least some calls for gun control. Yet even when the gun-control debate forced Congress to debate the issue of whether background checks should be mandatory for gun sales, and even when it became clear that more than nine in ten Americans supported requiring background checks, Congress still voted down that idea. No doubt, our representatives didn't see themselves as having a "violence" problem – they were only standing up for "liberty" and trying to get re-elected.
The truth is that our whole world has become inured to violence. What scares us here in the West isn't all forms of gratuitous violence, but only the type known as "terrorism," by which I mean the taking of innocent life by individuals as a political or religious statement by those who see themselves as fighters for an oppressed people or ideology.
Do I find terrorism disgusting? Absolutely. Do I share Kristof's views that there is a battle afoot between "terrorists" and "moderates" and that we are responsible for embracing moderate Muslims rather than lumping them in with their terrorist co-religionists? Sure, I subscribe to that statement as well. But where Kristof and I part ways is in taking that difference to be the "great divide" on which we should be focusing most of our attention. To me, the great divide is between those who are working for peace in all its forms and those who are perpetrating, or looking the other way at, violence. When you eat tofu instead of chicken, have sex only when protection is available, watch a comedy instead of an "action" movie, vote for Congressmen with bad NRA ratings, and (if I may add another point) work for climate change before it consumes the lives of millions of Africans and others … then you can talk about being on the right side of the "great divide." Until then, we're all just fueling the same fire.
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Crown prince of Abu Dhabi departs Islamabad after day-long visit
Crown prince of Abu Dhabi departs Islamabad after day-long visit /node/1431131/world
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Deputy Supreme Commander of UAE Armed Forces, leaves Islamabad after his one-day long visit to Islamabad on Jan.06, 2019. (Photo courtesy: UAE Embassy Pakistan)
Arab News Pakistan
Government's talks with the UAE on setting up an oil refinery in Pakistan "reached final stage" during visit
Implementation of 40 development and humanitarian projects worth $200mn launched in the country
ISLAMABAD: Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan departed from the capital after his day-long official visit to Pakistan.
Prime Minister Imran Khan received the crown prince at the Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi where an artillery unit honored him with a 21-gun salute, and the PM himself drove his guest to the Prime Minister House.
A Pakistani minister, speaking to Associated Press (AP), says the government's talks with the UAE on setting up an oil refinery in Pakistan "reached their final stage" during the visit of the crown prince.
Pakistan's Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr. Mohammad Faisal said on Sunday: "The crown prince, upon the invitation of Prime Minister Imran Khan, is visiting Pakistan after nearly 12 years."
"This is the third interaction between the leadership of the two countries in less than three months, a testimony to the special nature of brotherly relations with the GCC country," the statement added.
PM Khan, in order to acquire financial assistance to tackle Pakistan's economic crisis, has visited the UAE twice since assuming office in August. In return, the UAE pledged $3billion in balance of payments support and oil supply on deferred payments.
"We are hoping the crown prince's visit will result in Pakistan getting oil on a deferred payment facility, forex assistance to ease balance of payment's difficulties, preferred investment contracts for UAE firms willing to work in Pakistan and cooperation on exchange of information on Pakistani persons holding assets in the UAE," Dr Vaqar Ahmed, an economist who is also the joint executive director of a think-tank named Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), told Arab News.
During PM Khan's visit to the UAE in November, the two countries agreed to chalk out a comprehensive roadmap to accelerate cooperation and partnership in areas specific to the trade, investment, economic development, energy, infrastructure, and agricultural sectors.
PM Khan and Sheikh Mohammed had also decided to hold the next Pakistan-UAE Joint Ministerial Commission, to be co-chaired by the respective Foreign Ministers, in Abu Dhabi, in February next month.
"A new page is being turned between both countries, $3 billion support to new Pakistani government proved to be a lifeline for the incumbent fiscal year," Qamar Cheema, a strategic and political analyst, told Arab News.
"Pakistan needs to develop strategic partnership with the UAE as it's too important to be ignored," Cheema added.
Topics: Pakistan UAE Pakistan-UAE Abu Dhabi
UAE gives the green signal for $200mn projects in Pakistan
Shaikh Mohammad bin Zayed to visit Islamabad on Sunday
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Will give migrants a virtual tour of their childhood towns and homes torn apart by partition of 1947
Sparsh Ahuja and Ameena Malak grew up listening to their grandparents narrate stories of the partition from 1947.
Ahuja's grandfather, Ishar Das Arora, was 7 years old when the Indian subcontinent was divided into two by the British, creating India and Pakistan.
More than 14 million people were displaced at the time, and about one million perished in the fighting that followed.
Arora moved from a Pakistani village, named Bela, to Delhi after living in several refugee camps and escaping the violence.
Meanwhile, Malak's grandfather, Ahmed Rafiq, moved from the Indian city of Hoshiarpur to Pakistan's Lahore.
Now in their 70s, both the grandparents yearn to go back home and see the places where they were born and spent their childhoods.
However, the constant uncertainty in the relationship between India and Pakistan and their old age has made the task of visiting their respective birthplaces extremely difficult.
To fulfill the wishes of their grandparents, and several others who yearn to visit their ancestral homelands, Ahuja and Malak decided to launch Project Dastaan (story).
"What started as an idea for a student project last year at Oxford University became a larger peace-building venture," Ahuja, the director of the project, said.
Project Dastaan is a university-backed virtual reality (VR) peace-building initiative reconnecting displaced survivors of partition with their childhood through bespoke 360-degree digital experiences.
Backed by the South Asia Programme at Oxford, it uses VR headsets to give these migrants, who are often over 80 years old, a virtual tour of their childhood towns and homes. It shows them the people and places they most want to see again by finding the exact locations and memories that the survivors seek to revisit, and recreates them.
"It is a creative effort to start a new kind of conversation based on the direct experience of a now-foreign country in the present, rather than relying upon records and memories from the past," Ahuja told Arab News.
He added that Pakistan-based Khalid Bashir Rai "teared up after his VR experience, and told us we had transported him back" to his childhood.
"At its heart, the project is a poignant commentary on its own absurdity. By taking these refugees back we are trying to highlight the cultural impact of decades of divisive foreign policy and sectarian conflict on the subcontinent. This is a task for policymakers, not university students. In an ideal world, a project like this shouldn't exist," Ahuja said.
Other members of Project Dastaan — Saadia Gardezi and Sam Dalrymple — have a connection with partition, too. Gardezi grew up with partition stories; her grandmother volunteered at refugee camps in Lahore, and her grandfather witnessed terrible violence as a young man.
Dalrymple's grandfather had been a British officer in India during the twilight years of the British Empire. So scarred was he by the partition that he never visited Dalrymple's family in Delhi, even after 30 years of them living there.
"I think Dastaan is ultimately about stripping away the layers of politics and trying to solve a very simple problem: That children forced to leave their homes, have never been able to go back again," Dalrymple told Arab News.
Ahuja added: "The partition projects are a peace offering in the heart of hostility. It is an attempt at creating a wider cultural dialogue between citizens and policymakers of the three countries."
The project aims to reconnect 75 survivors of the partition of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh with their childhood memories, when the subcontinent observes 75 years of partition in 2022.
Project Dastaan is also producing a documentary called "Child of Empire" that will put viewers in the shoes of a 1947 partition migrant, and will be shown at film festivals and museums.
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Marie-France Dubreuil, née le  à Montréal, est une patineuse artistique québécoise. Elle et son partenaire Patrice Lauzon sont les champions canadiens en danse sur glace en 2000 et de 2004 à 2007. Ils sont également double médaillés d'argent aux championnats du monde. Ils patinent ensemble depuis 1995. Le couple de danse est réputé pour la grande difficulté technique de son programme, surtout de ses portés. Après leur carrière sportive,  Marie-France Dubreuil et Patrice Lauzon deviennent entraîneurs. Aujourd'hui, ils comptent dans leur groupe d'athlètes les deux couples qui ont remporté les trois derniers titres aux championnats du monde : Gabriella Papadakis et Guillaume Cizeron (2015 et 2016), ainsi que Tessa Virtue et Scott Moir (2017).

Biographie

Carrière sportive

À leurs premiers Jeux olympiques à Salt Lake City en 2002, ils patinent sur la musique de Madame Butterfly pour leur danse libre. Au commencement de leur programme, un problème au niveau du costume fait en sorte que les patineurs doivent reprendre leur routine. Ils terminent  au combiné.

À leur seconde participation aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2006 à Turin, le couple figure sur la liste des favoris pour remporter une médaille, espoir qui disparaît lors de la danse originale, car les deux patineurs chutent sur le dernier porté, provoquant une contusion majeure à la hanche droite de Marie-France, qui l'empêche de patiner. Ils déclarent forfait avant l'épreuve de la danse libre.

Néanmoins, le couple a marqué l'histoire du patinage artistique canadien et mondial. On a parfois comparé leur style à celui du couple de danseurs Duchesnay.

Reconversion
Le , Marie-France et Patrice annoncent leur retraite de la compétition après avoir passé une saison en sabbatique. Le couple a l'intention de se marier en août et de faire des tournées de spectacles.

Palmarès
Avec trois  partenaires :
 Bruno Yvars (4 saisons : 1988-1992)
 Tomas Morbacher (1 saison : 1994-1995)
 Patrice Lauzon (12 saisons : 1995-2007)

Notes et références

Source
 Internationaux Patinage Canada - Dubreuil et Lauzon s'imposent en danse

Liens externes

Patineuse artistique québécoise
Patineuse artistique canadienne
Patineuse artistique aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2002
Patineuse artistique aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2006
Naissance en août 1974

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Adding (and Managing) Employees
QuickTIPs (and Links) are highlighted in blue.
Permission-based items are highlighted in red.
System navigation is italicized.
During the initial set-up of CurrentTrack® your agency's Employee information was entered and basic Permissions were assigned. Over time, new Employees will be added and existing Employees removed. Their Permissions and Notifications will be refined, and their Personal Information will be updated. The following sections will lead you, and your Employees, step-by-step through these various processes.
ADDING AN EMPLOYEE
To add an Employee, go to Admin — Agency Administration — Add Employee. You may also use the icon at the top of the screen.
NOTE: This option will only appear in the menu if you have Permission to Add Employee.
Simply fill out the dialogue boxes. The Name field must include the Employee's First AND last name (e.g. Dawn Smith). The Login is the name s(he) will use to sign on, and your System Administrator will use to assign Tasks (e.g. Dawn). A good rule of thumb is to use his/her first name. If you'd like CurrentTrack to send the assigned Login details to the Employee, check the box beside Email Login Information to Employee and enter his/her E-mail (Work) address.
TIP: If two Employees have the same first name, use the portion of their e-mail addresses listed before the "@" symbol as their Logins (e.g. JSmith and JDoe).
The Address field of the Add Employee screen should reflect a home address, including street, city, state, and postal code, separated by commas. E-mail (Work) is the Employee's agency e-mail address (e.g. dawn@currenttrack.com) whereas E-mail (Personal) is intended for an outside e-mail account such as the one used at home.
Within the Preferences section of the Employee profile page, enter (and/or select) the following details:
Tracklets — The indicated boxes will appear on the Employee's Dashboard, once submitted. S(he) can then add more Tracklets (if desired). If granting access to either the Team at a Glance or Budget Vs. Actual Tracklet(s), the corresponding Permission(s) box(es) will also need to be checked, at the bottom of the page.
Birthday — This is an optional field that's only viewable to those with Permission to Add or Edit Employee. It does not appear in the Employee Address Book.
Employee Type — Indicate whether s(he) is a Full-Time or Freelance/Contract Employee.
Vacation, Sick/Personal Time — Enter the number of allowed yearly hours for each category. At this time, the figures merely reside within the Employee's profile for reference by the Accounting Manager. In the future, this information will be weighed against the number of recorded hours, for an indicated date span, within a separate report.
Notifications — Select the way(s) in which you'd like the Employee to receive system-generated Messages. When later editing their own personal information, Employees can modify these settings.
TIP: Be sure to include an E-mail (Work) address as it's also referenced when submitting a question, comment or suggestion via .
Time Sheet Exempt — If the Employee is not required to complete a daily Time Sheet, check the box beside Time Sheet Exempt. S(he) will still have the option of entering time, on a daily basis, but will not be reminded of any incomplete, untouched Time Sheets.
Hire Date — Select the applicable date from the calendar box. A future Hire Date of up to 30 days from today's date may be selected.
System Administrator — If the Employee is a CurrentTrack Administrator, check the box beside System Administrator. S(he) will then be granted all Permissions.
When adding a new Employee to CurrentTrack, access privileges (i.e. Permissions) must be assigned. Obviously, not everyone needs access to everything. Copywriters don't generally need to fill out a Dub Information Sheet, for example, but Accounting does need the ability to enter a Purchase Order (P.O.). Permissions can be assigned in one of two ways — via the Add Employee screen or the Manage Permissions interface.
To assign Permissions via the Manage Permissions interface, go to Admin — System Administration — Manage Permissions. Select the Employee name(s), or Employee Group, from the various drop-down menus and click Submit.
If, when adding an Employee, you checked the box beside System Administrator, his/her name will appear at the top of the Permissions table. It will NOT appear within the individually listed Permission boxes. It's understood that a System Administrator has ALL Permissions.
To revoke System Administrator access, go to Admin — Agency Administration — Edit Employees — Full Name — Preferences. Un-check the box beside System Administrator and the Permissions table will appear within the Employee's profile. Check the desired Permission boxes and click Submit.
It's recommended that your Accounting Manager have Permission to access the following features and reports, at minimum: Agency Expense Report, Agency Time Detail, All Open Jobs List, Billing Entry, Billing History, Client Spec Sheet, Financial Report Summary, Purchase Order, QuickBooks Worksheet (if applicable), QuickBooks Worksheet History (if applicable), Time Sheets, Time Summary, Vendors, Work In Progress Report, and [Job] Financial Report.
All Employees should have the following Permissions assigned to them, at minimum: [Add, View] Attachments, [View] Client Contact Report, [View] Clients, [Create] Employee Expense Report, [View] Employee Task List Calendar, [View] Job Description, [Create] Progress Report, and [View] [Tasks] Workback Schedule. In general, Employees can have Permission to [View] various documents (e.g. Media Details, Change Order, Dub Information Sheet, Estimates, and Address Books) and the Documents Folder itself; it's entirely up to you.
"Big picture" reports such as the Completed, Custom, Master, and Working Tasks Lists, and the Team at a Glance Tracklet, are typically used by the Traffic Manager (or System Administrator). The Budget vs. Actual Tracklet, Financial Report Summary, and Working Tasks List are helpful tools for an Account Executive, for example.
EMPLOYEE GROUP(S)
CurrentTrack contains a grouping feature that enables you to easily cc: Employees and assign Tasks. Let's say, for example, you want to cc: the entire Art Department on a Progress Report. Rather than entering each Employee name individually, you could simply click the Employee Group, "Art Department."
To create an Employee Group, go to Administration — System Administration — Manage Employee Groups.
Enter the Name of the Group you'd like to create (e.g. Art Department) and its applicable Employees. If you're creating more than one Group, simply repeat these steps; click Submit. Once an Employee Group has been created, other Employees can easily be added (or removed) via the Add Employee, Edit Employee or Manage Employee Groups screens.
To edit a Group, go to Administration — System Administration — Manage Employee Groups.
To delete a Group, go to Administration — System Administration — Manage Employee Groups — [click] Delete.
An Employee's Login (e.g. Dawn) also serves as his/her Password when logging into CurrentTrack for the first time. Each Employee will need to change it immediately. For security reasons, we recommend all Passwords be six to eight characters long and include letters, numbers and at least one special character (e.g. Elv!s57 or Ch@ro38).
To change your Password, go to Admin — System Administration — Change My Password.
To reset an Employee's Password, on his/her behalf, go to Admin — Agency Administration — Edit Employees — Full Name — Reset Password. Both the Login and Password will be reset to the Login that's been assigned at the top of his/her profile (e.g. Dawn).
When adding an Employee to CurrentTrack, Notifications should be assigned. Obviously, not everyone needs to be alerted when something is entered. Copywriters don't generally need to know about a new Dub Information Sheet, for example, but Accounting does need to know when a Purchase Order (P.O.) has been submitted.
To manage Default Notifications, go to Admin — System Administration — Manage Default Notifications.
If you're a System Administrator, we strongly recommend your name appear beside each item in the list. Otherwise, you won't receive notification when a document is created. You'll only receive Messages regarding documents on which you've been manually copied (cc:). The Notifications you assign in this area will be applied system-wide. In other words, your Accounting Manager will receive Notification of all P.O.s, regardless of the Client under which they're submitted.
If you'd like to further refine Employee Notifications — an Account Executive receives Over Budget Warnings for Clients A, B and X, for example — edit the Clients' Notifications by going to Clients & Jobs — Client — I Want To: Edit Client Notifications. Enter the appropriate name(s) in the Notified column; click Submit. Listed Employees will receive Messages, in addition to Default Employee(s). Remember, Default Employee name(s) are automatically pulled from within the Admin folder (Admin — System Administration — Manage Default Notifications).
EDITING AN EMPLOYEE
To edit an Employee profile, go to Admin — Agency Administration — Edit Employees.
The details found on the Edit Employees screen can be sorted by Full or User Name, Hire Date, Time Sheet Exemption status, and E-mail notification by clicking on the respective column headers. Select the appropriate Employee and make any necessary modifications; click Submit. Upon clicking Submit, an Edit Employee Notice will appear. If you're simply changing Employee contact information or Permissions, for example, click OK. If you wish to replace a former Employee with a new one, click Cancel and set the Status of the existing Employee to Gone; click Submit. Next, create a new Employee profile by going to Admin — Agency Administration — Add Employee. You may also use the icon at the top of the screen.
Attempting to use an existing Employee record for a new Employee by simply overwriting the Name and Login fields will cause errors.
REMOVING AN EMPLOYEE
If an Employee leaves your agency, you'll need to remove him/her from CurrentTrack by going to Admin — Agency Administration — Edit Employees.
Select the Employee from the Full Name column by clicking on his/her name. Next, change Status to Gone and enter the date of departure; click Submit. When an Employee's Status is changed to Gone, the following occurs:
1. You'll be prompted to move any Working Tasks, for which s(he) is Responsible, to another Employee(s). Click OK and choose the Employee(s) on the following screen. If you click Cancel, the Working Tasks will appear at the bottom of the Master Task List, within the Gone Employees section. You can then manually move them by editing the Workback Schedule(s).
2. His/her name will be removed from the Permissions list.
3. His/her name will be removed from the Default and Client-Specific Notifications lists (if applicable).
4. His/her name will be replaced, within all Workback Schedule Templates (if applicable), with the name of the individual who changed the Status field to Gone.
5. His/her name will be removed (if applicable) from the Account Executive and/or Account Coordinator field(s) of all Client Spec Sheets.
6. His/her name will be removed from all Employee Groups (if applicable).
7. His/her Login and Password will be deactivated and s(he) will no longer be able to log in.
All documents that were created by the now Gone Employee, and all Time Sheet entries, will remain intact.
REACTIVATING AN EMPLOYEE
If an Employee returns to your agency, re-activate his/her Login and Password by going to Admin — Agency Administration — Edit Employees.
Choose the Employee from the Full Name column by clicking on his/her name. Change Status to Here and re-assign relevant Permissions (and Notifications); click Submit. His/her Login and Password will be the same as what was previously used.
Once an Employee has been added, advise her/him to log in and further flesh out their respective profile by going to Admin — Employee Information. Basic Employee information — Name, Address, Home and Cell phone numbers, Extension, and Hired date are displayed on the initial screen of the Employee Address Book. Additional details appear within the "i" pop-up boxes located to the right of the Hired column.
TIP: Be sure to include an E-mail (Work) address as it's referenced when submitting a question, comment or suggestion via .
Complete the E-mail (Work) field, and check the box(es) beside, "Notify me at the E-mail (Work) address…" under Preferences, if you'd like to receive system-generated Messages outside of CurrentTrack. If you'd like to receive notification within CurrentTrack of a new Message or Task assignment, check the box(es) beside "Prompt me in CurrentTrack…;" click Submit.
Lastly, upload a .jpg avatar (65 x 65 is ideal) to the Edit Profile field. This image will appear in the top right corner of your screen.
Our Employees bill at a different hourly rate. How can we keep from having a hundred different Work Codes in CurrentTrack, yet still accurately track time?
In order to make the number of Codes less cumbersome, try the following:
1. Determine if there are any common functions among your Employees. Is proofreading $75/hr. regardless of who's reviewing the materials? If so, create one Work Code called Proofreading (P) with a rate of 75.00. All employees can then record their time under (P).
2. Next, determine if any Employees can be grouped together under the same Code and Rate. For example, five Employees do creative work. Three of them bill at $100/hr. Create a Code called Creative A (e.g. CA) with a rate of 100.00. The other two Employees bill at a rate of $75/hr. Create another Code called Creative B (e.g. CB) with a rate of 75.00.
3. Lastly, create individual Work Codes for Employee's whose time doesn't fall into either a common Code or grouping.
How can freelancers be managed in CurrentTrack?
OPTION 1: Add him as a user for the month(s) he'll be working for you. He can then record his own time via his Time Sheet. You can also cc: him on documents, assign him Tasks, etc. When the project concludes, simply change his Status to Gone and he'll no longer be able to access CurrentTrack. In the future, when he works on another project, simply change his Status back to Here and he'll again be able to use the system.
OPTION 2: Add him as a Vendor and enter a Purchase Order (P.O.) for the time he's accumulated (e.g. 10 hours @ 100.00 > $1,000 P.O.). At the end of the year, for example, Manage Purchase Orders and search for his information (i.e. Vendor) to determine precisely how much he was paid over previous months. When assigning Tasks, make an internal Employee Responsible and ask him/her to follow up with the freelancer to make sure the work will be done on time.
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Acleris effractana, the hook-winged tortrix moth, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1799. It has a Holarctic distribution. In Europe, it is found from northern Europe to the northern part of central Europe. It is also present in north-western Russia, Japan, Canada and the northwestern United States.

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