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SmartCOMM™ for Salesforce - Document Generation & Contract Negotiation
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Enterprise Document Generation & Contract Negotiation for Salesforce
Enterprise communication that scales. SmartCOMM for Salesforce drives efficiency throughout your business by delivering dynamic doc gen that scales to thousands of users with sophisticated templates.
SMART COMMUNICATIONS##SmartCOMM™ FOR SALESFORCE ##SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT####This Agreement is made upon the earlier of the date you clicked a box accessible via login at http://www.salesforce.com and/or our Website indicating Your acceptance of these terms and conditions and or You executed an Order Form ("Effective Date") and it governs Your access to and use of the Services. If you are entering into this Agreement on behalf of a company or other legal entity you represent that you have the authority to bind such entity to this Agreement. If You do not have such authority or agree to these terms and conditions, You may not access or use the Services. You may not access the Services if You are a direct competitor of Ours, (except with Our prior written approval) or for purposes of monitoring their availability, performance or functionality, or for any other competitive purposes. ####1.	Definitions####"Affiliate" any entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control of the subject entity. "Control," for purposes of this definition, means direct or indirect ownership or control of more than 50% of the voting interests of the subject entity.##"Agreement" the above specified version of these terms and conditions available at the Effective Date including Our guidelines, rules, forms or policies including in particular the Usage Policy which are hereby incorporated by reference.##"AppExchange" the online directory of applications that interoperate with the Services, located at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange or at any successor website(s).##"API" Application Programming Interface.##"Charges" Our charges for the provision of the Services including in respect of any Overages as specified on an Order Form as may be revised by Us from time to time.##"Collaborative Page" means a Page which is amended or otherwise modified in a DocBox.## "Confidential Information" all confidential information disclosed by a party ("Disclosing Party") to the other party ("Receiving Party"), whether orally or in writing, that is designated as confidential or that reasonably should be understood to be confidential given the nature of the information. ##"Consultancy Fees" Our charges and expenses for the provision of the Consultancy Services at the rates and or amounts specified in the Order Form. ##"Consultancy Services" the provision by Us of general consultancy services including: project management, delivery, installation, implementation, training; the initial amounts of which required by You and any timeframe for delivery all being as specified in or otherwise referred to in the Order Form;## "DocBox" means a facility allowing collaborative changes to be made to a Collaborative Page.##"Malicious Code" any automatic restraint, viruses, worms, time bombs, trojan horses and other harmful or malicious code, files, scripts, agents or programs that interfere with Our provision of the Services.##"Nonpublic Personal Information" or "NPI" information identifying individuals which We may access or hold in connection with the Services, that either individually or when combined with other information, could be used to derive information specific to a particular individual, such as that individual's identity, social security number, driver's license number, telephone number, credit or debit card number, address, e-mail address, account information, payroll information, financial information, health information, employee identification number, criminal or employment history, place of birth, mother's maiden name, biometric records, or other factors specific to that individual's physical, mental, economic, financial, or cultural identity.##"Order Form" Our documents for placing of orders for Services and or Consultancy Services hereunder, including addenda thereto, that are entered into between You and Us or any of Our Affiliates from time to time, including addenda and supplements thereto. By entering into an Order Form hereunder, an Affiliate agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement as if it were an original party hereto. ##"Our," "Us" or "We" the Smart Communications company listed in Section 13 of this Agreement.##"Overage" the charges at the rates to be specified by Smart Communications or otherwise specified in the Order Form which We may apply if You exceed the parameters of use as also specified in the Order Form.##"Page" each 20 kilo byte unit of data (in any format and whether text or graphic) generated or recorded through the Services.##"Privacy Laws" laws, directives and regulations governing the privacy, confidentiality, processing and transit of NPI.##"Privacy Policy" the policy as displayed on the Website from time to time regarding how We collect and how We use information obtained from visitors to our Website.##"Service(s)" access to the online, web-based software applications known as 'Smart Correspond for Salesforce' (previously known as 'ONE Correspond for Salesforce') provided by Us via Your login link at http://www.salesforce.com and/or our Website, including any associated offline components, that You or Your Affiliates have ordered under one or more Order Forms, but excluding any Third Party Applications.##"Solution" means the particular on line web based Smart Communications product specified in an Order Form;##"Subscription Term" the minimum period specified in the Order Form for which You agree to pay for the Services.##"Support" basic assistance in use of the Services as specified on the Website from time to time.##"Tenancy" means the login facility made available to Customer as part of the Services.##"Third Party Applications" any online applications and offline software products that interoperate with the Services that are not provided by Us, including but not limited to those listed on the AppExchange and those identified as Force.com Labs or by a similar designation.##"Trial Service(s)" services that are ordered by You on a free trial basis and made available by Us online via the customer login link at http://www.salesforce.com and/or other web pages designated by Us, including associated offline components, as described in the User Guide but excluding Third Party Applications.##"Usage Policy" the policy as specified in an Order Form or otherwise displayed on the Website from time to time regarding limits on Our resources available to You when utilising the Services. ##"User Guide" the online user guide for the Services, accessible via login at http://www.salesforce.com, as updated from time to time. ##"Users" individuals who are authorized by You to use the Services, for whom subscriptions to a Service have been ordered, and who have been supplied user identifications and passwords by You (or by Us at Your request). Users may include but are not limited to Your employees, consultants, contractors and agents.##"Website" wwww.smartcommunications.com and/or other domain names we designate from time to time.##"You" "Your" or "Customer" the person, firm, company or other legal entity on behalf of whom you are accepting this Agreement.##"Your Data" all electronic data or information submitted by You to the Service including any document templates created by You in the course of using the Service. ####2.	Trial Services##2.1 If You register via login at http://www.salesforce.com for a free trial, We will make Trial Services available to You free of charge until the earlier of: (i) the end of the free trial period for which You registered; (ii) the start date of any Services ordered by You; or (iii) termination of the Trial Services by Smart Communications at its discretion.##2.2 Any data entered into the Trial Service will be permanently lost even if You purchase a subscription to the same services as those covered by the trial unless you export the data before the end of the trial period.##2.3	The Trial Services are provided "as-is" without any warranty.####3.	Services ##3.1	We shall make the Services available to You on a non-exclusive, non-transferable basis during the Subscription Term. You agree that Your ordering of the Services hereunder are neither contingent on the delivery of any future functionality or features nor dependent on any oral or written public comments made by Us regarding existing or future functionality or features of Our services. Order Forms shall only become legally binding upon Smart Communications once Smart Communications accepts the relevant Order Form by signing the same and issuing a serial number which will allow You to download the software necessary to use the Services. ##3.2.	Unless otherwise specified in the applicable Order Form, (i) Services are priced as User subscriptions and may be accessed by no more than the specified number of Users in conjunction with a single Salesforce.com organisation ID, (ii) Services may only be used for document generation purposes in conjunction with standard services provided to You by Salesforce.com, (iii) additional User subscriptions may be added during the applicable Subscription Term at the same pricing as that for the pre-existing subscriptions thereunder, prorated for the remainder of the Subscription Term in effect at the time the additional User subscriptions are added, and (iv) the added User subscriptions shall terminate on the same date as the pre-existing subscriptions. User subscriptions are for designated Users only and cannot be shared or used by more than one User.##3.3	You acknowledge and agree that if collaborative products are comprised in the Services when You invite Third Parties into a DocBox to collaborate on changes to the Data comprised in a document, if those Third Parties are not Users they will need to accept Smart Communications' standard conditions of use and complete the security requirements in order to access the relevant DocBox.####4.	Use of the Services##4.1	We shall: (i) provide Support at the rates specified in the Order Form, (ii) use all reasonable endeavours to make the Services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for: (a) planned downtime which We shall schedule to the extent practicable during the weekend hours from 9:00 p.m. Friday, through 3:00 a.m. Monday, UK time or (b) any unavailability caused by circumstances beyond Our reasonable control, including without limitation, acts of God, acts of government, floods, fires, earthquakes, civil unrest, acts of terror, strikes or other labour problems (other than those involving Our employees), Internet service provider failures or delays or unavailability of the Salesforce.com platform, (iii) provide the Services only in accordance with laws and governmental regulations applicable to Smart Communications and (iv) maintain appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for protection of the security, confidentiality and integrity of Your Data. We shall not: (a) modify Your Data; (b) disclose Your Data; or (c) access Your Data; except in each case as: (i) may be compelled by law in accordance with Section 8.1; or (ii) expressly permitted in writing by You; or (iii) to provide the Services; or (iv) is necessary to prevent or address Support or other technical issues. You consent to receiving communications from Us regarding the Services and to being included in our social media community for which purposes You permit Us to access Your Data notwithstanding the terms of sub Section (c) above. Please contact Us should you not wish Us to communicate with You in this manner. ##4.2.	You shall: (i) be responsible for Users' compliance with this Agreement, (ii) be responsible for the accuracy, quality and legality of Your Data and of the means by which You acquired Your Data, (iii) use best efforts to prevent unauthorized access to or use of the Services, and notify Us promptly of any such unauthorized access or use, and (iv) use the Services only in accordance with the User Guide and applicable laws and government regulations. You shall not (a) make the Services available to anyone other than Users, (b) sell, resell, rent or lease the Services, (c) use the Services to store or transmit infringing, libellous, or otherwise unlawful or tortious material, or to store or transmit material in violation of third-party privacy rights, (d) use the Services to store or transmit Malicious Code, (e) interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services or third-party data contained therein, (f) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services or their related systems or networks or (g) access the Services for purposes of monitoring their availability, performance or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes.##4.3.	Services are subject to limitations which are referred to in the User Guide, Order Form and Our Usage Policy. We reserve the right to suspend Your access to the Services should such limitations be exceeded and or treat the same as a material breach of this Agreement.####5.	Third Party Applications##5.1.	If You use Third Party Applications with the Services, You accept that those Third Party Applications will, in order to operate with the Services, access Your Data. We shall not be responsible for any disclosure, modification or deletion of Your Data resulting from any such access by Third Party Applications.##5.2	Service features that interoperate with Third Party Applications which includes Salesforce.com depend on the continuing availability of the relevant API for use with the Services. If the providers of the Third Party Applications cease to make the API available on reasonable terms for the Service, We may cease providing such Service features without entitling You to any refund, credit, or other compensation.##5.3	Notwithstanding Section 5.2 and the Subscription Term, You acknowledge that the availability and Your use of the Services is conditional upon You having a valid license to use the relevant Third Party Application supplied by Salesforce.com.####6.	Fees and Payment##6.1	You agree to pay the Charges and Consultancy Fees as specified in all Order Forms issued hereunder. Except as otherwise specified herein or in an Order Form, (i) Charges are based on Services ordered, (ii) payment obligations are non-cancellable and payments are non-refundable, and (iii) the number of User subscriptions purchased cannot be decreased during the relevant Subscription Term stated on the Order Form. Consultancy Fees are due monthly in arrears where Consultancy Services are provided on a time & materials basis and in advance where provided on a fixed price basis. You further agree that if You do not fully utilise any pre-paid Consultancy Services within ninety (90) days of them being ordered You shall not have the right to cancel or obtain any refund in respect thereof, the pre-payment for which shall be retained by Us as additional consideration.##6.2	You will provide Us with valid purchase order or alternative document reasonably acceptable to Us. Charges shall be made annually in advance, or in accordance with any different billing frequency stated in the applicable Order Form. We will invoice You in advance and otherwise in accordance with the relevant Order Form. Unless otherwise stated in the Order Form, payment is due net 30 days from the invoice date ("due date"). You are responsible for maintaining complete and accurate billing and contact information in respect of the Services and or Consultancy Services. ##6.3	If any payments are not received by Us by the due date, then at Our discretion, We may: (i) charge You interest on the overdue amount, payable immediately on demand at the rate of 1.5% of the outstanding balance per month, or the maximum rate permitted by law, whichever is lower, from the date such payment was due until the date paid, accruing on a daily basis and compounded quarterly and/or (ii) advance the due date in respect of any renewals of the Subscription Term and/or (iii) accelerate the payment of Charges due over Subscription Term so that all such obligations become immediately due and payable, and/or (iv) suspend Services and or Consultancy Services until such amounts are paid in full.##6.4	Charges and or Consultancy Fees do not include any taxes, levies, duties or similar governmental assessments of any nature, including but not limited to value-added, sales, use or withholding taxes, assessable by any local, state, provincial, federal or foreign jurisdiction (collectively, "Taxes"). You are responsible for paying all Taxes associated with Your ordering and use of the Services and or Consultancy Services. If We have the legal obligation to pay or collect Taxes for which You are responsible under this Section, the appropriate amount will be itemised in our invoice and shall be paid by You, unless You provide Us with a valid tax exemption certificate authorized by the appropriate taxing authority.####7.	Intellectual Property Rights##7.1	Subject to the limited rights expressly granted hereunder, We reserve all rights, title and interest in and to the Services, including all related intellectual property rights and will have and maintain ownership of all copyrightable works and other intellectual property rights created or produced by Us while performing the Consultancy Services. No rights are granted to You other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement. You shall not: (i) permit any third party to access the Services except as permitted in the Agreement, (ii) create derivate works based on the Services, (iii) copy, frame or mirror any part or content of the Services, other than copying or framing on Your own intranets or otherwise for Your own internal business purposes, (iv) reverse engineer the Services (except to the extent permitted by law), or (v) access the Services in order to build a competitive product or service, or copy any features, functions or graphics of the Services.##7.2	We acknowledge that You own all rights, title and interest in and to all of Your Data. You grant Us permission to copy Your Data to enable us to fulfil Our obligations under this Agreement. You shall have sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability, appropriateness, and intellectual property ownership or right to use of all of Your Data and the consequences arising from Your failure to meet such responsibilities and We shall not be responsible or liable for the deletion, correction, destruction, damage, loss or failure to store any of Your Data.####8.	Confidentiality and Privacy##8.1	We agree that Your Confidential Information shall include Your Data and You agree that Our Confidential Information shall include the Services and that Confidential Information of each party shall include the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as well as business and marketing plans, technology and technical information, product plans and designs, and business processes disclosed by the Disclosing Party. However, Confidential Information shall not include any information that is trivial or obvious, in the public domain, already known by the Receiving Party, or is required to be disclosed by law or any securities exchange or regulatory or governmental body.##8.2	Receiving Party agrees on behalf of itself and its Affiliates that it may only disclose the Confidential Information which it receives from the Disclosing Party to such of its officers, employees, contractors and agents as need to know for purposes consistent with this Agreement. Receiving Party shall ensure that such officers, employees, contractors and agents are bound by equivalent obligations in respect of the Confidential Information to those set out in this Agreement and shall use its best endeavours to ensure that they abide by such obligations. Receiving Party shall be fully responsible for any unauthorised disclosure or use of the Confidential Information by such officers, employees, contractors and agents.##8.3	You agree that You are primarily responsible for and will comply with all requirements regarding the collection, use, processing, storage, protection, disclosure, transfer and destruction of NPI. To the extent that We access or hold NPI in connection with the Services, You acknowledges that We do not incur any liability or obligation with respect to NPI under the Privacy Laws or have any responsibility to You beyond that stated in Section 8.2 above or generally under Our Privacy Policy.####9.	Warranties and Disclaimers##9.1	We warrant that: (i) We have full right, title and power to enter into this Agreement, (ii) the Services will operate substantially in accordance with the User Guide, and (iii) We will exercise reasonable skill and care when providing the Consultancy Services; subject to each of the foregoing, all conditions, warranties, terms and undertakings, express or implied, statutory or otherwise in respect of the Services and or Consultancy Services and the performance by Us of Our obligations hereunder, including any warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. In the event of a breach of the express warranties contained in this Section 9 Your exclusive remedy shall be the prompt correction of the breach by the provision of Support although We do not warrant that We will be able to rectify any defects in the Services, nor that any defect which does not materially affect Your use of the Services will be corrected. ####10.	Indemnification##10.1	We shall defend You against any claim, demand, suit, or proceeding ("Claim") made or brought against You by a third party alleging that the use of the Services as permitted hereunder infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of a third party, and shall indemnify You for any damages finally awarded against, and for reasonable attorney's fees incurred by, You in connection with any such Claim; provided, that (i) You promptly give Us written notice of the Claim; (ii) You give Us sole control of the defence and settlement of the Claim; (iii) You do not prejudice Our defense of the Claim (iv) the Claim does not arise as a result of modifications and/or improvements to the Service introduced or made by You and (v) You provide to Us all reasonable assistance, at Our expense.##10.2	You shall defend Us against any Claim made or brought against Us by a third party alleging that Your Data, or Your use of the Services in violation of this Agreement, infringes or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of a third party or violates applicable law, and shall indemnify Us for any damages finally awarded against, and for reasonable attorney's fees incurred by, Us in connection with any such Claim; provided, that (i) We promptly give You written notice of the Claim; (ii) We give You sole control of the defence and settlement of the Claim; (iii) We do not prejudice Your defense of the Claim (iv) the Claim does not arise as a result of modifications and/or improvements to the Service introduced or made by Us and (v) We provide to You all reasonable assistance, at Your expense.##10.3	This Section 10 states the indemnifying party's sole liability to, and the indemnified party's exclusive remedy against, the other party for any type of Claim described in this Section.####11.	Limitation of Liability##11.1	Neither party's aggregate liability arising hereunder, whether in contract, tort or under any other theory of liability, shall exceed the lesser of the total Charges paid by You in the 12 months preceding the incident or £100,000. The foregoing shall not limit your payment obligations under Section 6.##11.2	In no event shall either party have any liability to the other party for any lost profits or revenues or for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages however caused, whether in contract, tort or under any other theory of liability, and whether or not the party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The foregoing disclaimer shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.####12.	Term and Termination##12.1	User subscriptions purchased by You under this Agreement commence on the start date specified in the applicable Order Form and continue for the relevant Subscription Term. All User subscriptions shall automatically renew for subsequent consecutive one year periods, unless either party gives the other notice of non-renewal at least 60 days before the end of the relevant Subscription Term. The per-unit pricing during any such renewal term shall be the same as that during the prior term unless We have given You written notice of a pricing increase at least 60 days before the end of such prior term, in which case the pricing increase shall be effective upon renewal and thereafter.##12.2	Either party may terminate this Agreement for cause: (i) upon 30 days written notice to the other party of a material breach if such breach remains unremedied at the expiration of such period, or (ii) if the other party becomes the subject of a petition in bankruptcy or any other proceedings relating to insolvency, receivership, liquidation or assignment for the benefit of creditors.##12.3	Any termination of this Agreement shall be without prejudice to any other rights or remedies either party may be entitled to hereunder or at law or in equity and shall not affect any accrued rights or liabilities of either party nor the coming into or continuance in force of any provision hereof which is expressly or by implication intended to come into or continue in force on or after such termination. You acknowledges that it shall not under any circumstances be entitled to a refund of Charges.##12.4	Upon expiry of the Subscription Term or earlier termination of this Agreement, You shall, cease to be entitled to use the Services and We shall have no obligation to maintain or forward any of Your Data and We shall, unless legally prohibited, delete all of Your Data in Our systems or otherwise in Our possession or under Our control.####13.	Contracting Parties, Law, Jurisdiction and Notice##13.1	Who You are contracting with under this Agreement, who You should direct notices to under this Agreement, what law will apply in any lawsuit arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, and which courts can adjudicate any such lawsuit, depend on where You are domiciled as follows:####If You are domiciled in: ##United States of America or Canada##You are contracting with: SmartComms, LLC. ##Notices should be addressed to: 250 Commercial Street Suite 4006 The Waumbec Mill Building Manchester NH 03101 USA ##The governing law is: Virginia and##The courts having exclusive jurisdiction are: United States federal law controlling Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.####If You are domiciled in: ##A Country in Asia or the Pacific region##You are contracting with: SmartComms Pty Ltd.##Notices should be addressed to: Level 18.02 175 Pitt Street Sydney NSW, 2000 New South Wales, Australia New South Wales.##The governing law is: New South Wales and##The courts having exclusive jurisdiction are: The Courts of New South Wales####If You are domiciled in: ##A Country in Europe, the Middle East or Africa or a Country outside of the above##You are contracting with: SmartComms SC Limited ##Notices should be addressed to: Catalyst House, 720 Centennial Court, Centennial Park, Elstree Hertfordshire, WD6 3SY##The governing law is: England.##The courts having exclusive jurisdiction are: The Courts of England.####13.2	Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, any notice or other communication sent or given with respect to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sent or given by (i) personal delivery; (ii) overnight courier; (iii) telefacsimile; or (iv) first class or recorded delivery mail. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, however, any notice or other communication sent or given with respect to a breach of this Agreement shall be sent or given by personal delivery or first class or recorded delivery mail. Such notices as are: (a) personally delivered shall be deemed to be given when they are delivered; (b) sent by overnight courier shall be deemed to be given on the date on which the sender designates them for delivery; (c) sent by telefacsimile shall be deemed to be given on the date on which the sender sends them; and (d) sent by recorded delivery mail shall be deemed to be given on the date of signature evidencing receipt. ####14.	Miscellaneous##14.1	This Agreement, including all documents incorporated by reference, such as the Order Form, is the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement and this Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof. No modification of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and such writing is either signed or accepted electronically by authorised representatives of the parties. ##14.2	The failure of either party at any time to require performance of the other of any provision of this Agreement shall in no way affect its right thereafter to require performance of the other of such provision, nor shall such failure be held to be a waiver of any succeeding breach of such provision or a waiver of such provision itself..##14.3	If an ambiguity or question of intent arises with respect to any provision of this Agreement, this Agreement will be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties and no presumption or burden of proof will arise favouring or disfavouring either party by virtue of authorship of any of the provisions of this Agreement.##14.4	You may not assign any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement, whether by operation of law or otherwise, without Our prior written consent (not to be unreasonably withheld). We may at any time assign, transfer, charge, sub-contract or deal in any other manner with all or any of Our rights or obligations under this Agreement.##14.5	No person who is not a party to this Agreement (including any employee, officer, agent, representative or subcontractor of either party) shall have the right to enforce any term of this Agreement without the express prior agreement in writing of the parties.##14.6	If any provision of this Agreement or any part of any such provision is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision or part (as the case may be) shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability, without rendering invalid or unenforceable or otherwise prejudicing or affecting the remainder of such provision or any other provision of this Agreement.##14.7	Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 shall survive expiration or termination of this Agreement.##14.8	Customer agrees to be a reference site for Smart Communications and carry out the following activities:##14.8.1	Smart Communications may display the name and logo of the Customer on its website identifying them as a customer of Smart Communications. ##14.8.2	Within thirty (30) days of the Effective Date of this Agreement Smart Communications may issue a contract win press release.##14.8.3	Co-operate in the production of a case study that Smart Communications may use as part of its promotional materials.##14.8.4	Participate in the production of a video interview regarding the implementation, use and benefits of the Services which Smart Communications may use as part of its promotional materials.##14.8.5	Speak to prospective Smart Communications customers about the use & benefits of the Services (via telephone and/or a site visit).####Edition September 2017
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Lorena Mae "Rennie" Shumate, 82, of Pinellas Park, FL passed away Wednesday, January 20, after a brief illness while a patient at Mease Dunedin Hospital with her son at her side. Rennie was born in Lexington, KY to William & Eva Mae Comley and resided in the Northern Kentucky area until she moved to Pinellas Park in early 1970. She owned and operated a mobile catering business for 40+ years and enjoyed her retirement up to her death. She is survived by her son Michael (Paula) and granddaughter Lauren. Rennie will be laid to rest in a private ceremony, at the request of the family, at Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Petersburg beside her mother, Eva Mae Comley, who preceded her in death. In light of Rennie's love of animals her family would be honored to have donations made to the SPCA Tampa Bay, 9099 130th Avenue N, Largo, FL 33773 or Save the Animal Foundation, 4011 Red Bank Road, Cincinnati, OH 45227.
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You asked: Is there a flag that represents Africa?
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The Pan-African flag—also known as the Afro-American flag, Black Liberation flag, UNIA flag and various other names—is a tri-color flag consisting of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black and green.
Africa is a continent, not a country, so it does not have its own flag.
Black: for the people whose existence as a nation, though not a nation-state, is affirmed by the existence of the flag; Green: the abundant and vibrant natural wealth of Africa, the Motherland. Since its existence, a number of African nations have adopted the colors as a symbol of sovereignty and unity.
Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North Africa, administered by Morocco. The African Union is a political union of 54 African states.
The National Flags of the African States.
African Union Logo
Although the meaning of the individual colors used in a country's flag may differ from country to country; the countries of the flags that make use of the Pan-African colors have similar meaning with green representing the unique nature of the continent having good land for agriculture, red representing the blood, and …
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South Africa. Image: instagram.com, @anitavanmikhulu. …
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Kenya. Kenya's flag has been in use since 1963 and could easily pass as the most beautiful flag in Africa. At the centre of the flag is a shield in front of two crossed spears. These are embedded in a horizontal tricolour of black, red, white, and green.
On of the most interesting things in africa are the color meanings. Black: power, evil, death, mystery. Grey: security, authority, maturity, stability. Purple: royalty, luxury, wisdom, passion. Yellow: joy, energy, warmth.
red: the blood that unites all people of Black African ancestry, and shed for liberation; black: black people whose existence as a nation, though not a nation-state, is affirmed by the existence of the flag; and. green: the abundant natural wealth of Africa.
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The Black Star of Africa is a black five-pointed star (★) symbolizing Africa in general and Ghana in particular. … The black star became a symbol of Pan-Africanism and anti-colonialism. Described as the "Lodestar of African Freedom", the black star was used in 1957 by Theodosia Okoh in the design of the Flag of Ghana.
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In a twist that would have probably surprised and amused the ladies who founded the Hillside Club in the late 19th century, one of Berkeley's oldest institutions has become the city's hippest new venue.
Launched in the mid-1890s by a group of women who wanted to preserve the natural beauty of the Berkeley hills, the club has taken on many roles over the past century, serving as a social hub, dance hall and community theater for original dramatic productions. By the time it marked its centenary, however, the club was adrift, with a dwindling membership and little sense of purpose.
Under the guidance of high-tech avatar Jeff Ubois, who became president of the Hillside Club in June, the membership has doubled and the handsome, unassuming building on Cedar Street has become a lively center for conferences, discussions on high-tech topics, film presentations, dance, and most visibly, musical performances.
With percussionist Bryan Bowman doing the booking, the Hillside Club is now a vital outpost for musicians seeking an intimate concert setting, with expert technical direction by veteran sound engineer Bruce Koball.
"If you go back to the club's origins, it was part of the Arts and Crafts movement, promoting authentically produced local culture, and we're trying to make that fly again," Ubois said. "Local culture has an authenticity that you don't necessarily get in mass-produced culture. Local is the new organic, and we're providing a platform for people who are productive or creative in film, social thought, and music so they can reach out to a wider audience. I've been astounded at the quality of artists that Bryan has brought it."
Bowman and Koball started presenting music at the club in January with the Nepalese bansuri player Manose. The eclectic programming has ranged from master Tuvan throat singers and Balkan vocal ensembles to the classical duo of German violinist Iris Stone and Swiss pianist Eva-Maria Zimmermann.
On Saturday, the club presents its most adventurous program yet with a concert co-produced by Phillip Greenlief's Evander Music. The triple bill includes a solo percussion recital by improviser Billy Mintz, and a set by the Los Angeles duo of spoken-word artist Dorothea Grossman and trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, who have honed a kinetic call-and-response performance style.
The evening's headliner is the improvisational trio Fragments, featuring New York City jazz pianist Roberta Piket, Canadian violinist Eric Clark and Oakland reed player Scott Hill. Drawing on jazz and new classical music, the trio has developed a highly interactive style that balances improvisation with loose compositional structures.
In another booking coup, jazz pianist Frank Martin, who has toured and recorded artists such as Stevie Wonder, Sting, Patti Austin, Herbie Hancock and John McLaughlin, performs with his trio on Dec. 2.
"The room has beautiful sound, it's just great for acoustic music," says Koball."We've got a Steinway piano, and I bring my portable 24-track deck to record every concert for the artists who are willing."
"The focus is on jazz, early music and ethnic music," says Bowman, who connected with the Hillside Club after he had to end his long-running house-concert series in the Oakland hills. "We don't have a budget to promote concerts, so we're looking for artists with followings, and mailing lists. The quality of the room is a huge factor, there are numerous clubs but how many provide a quality experience for both performers and the audience?"
Built in 1906, the original Hillside Club was designed by architect Bernard Maybeck, who was also a member. Destroyed in the great Berkeley hills fire of 1923, the club was redesigned by Maybeck's partner John White and rebuilt that year. In its first decades, membership was limited to Berkeley residents.
"The majority of members lived very close," says Wilson Flick, a Hillside Club member since the early 1970s who served as the institution's historian. "This was before street lights. People walked to the club carrying lanterns, so they weren't going to go far to see an event. The notion of people living in Oakland and El Cerrito coming to the club wouldn't have occurred to them in 1906."
In the 1950s, the club relaxed the residence requirements, and began attracting members from across the East Bay and even San Francisco. By the time Flick joined in the early '70s, the club had undergone several major changes already, although the traditional Christmas pageant was still a major event, and for many years he wrote an original production for each holiday season.
By the time North Berkeley resident Ubois happened by the Hillside Club building three years ago, the pageant tradition had ended and there was widespread talk about shutting down the club. Ubois credits the presidents before him, Herb Hadley and John Govers, with keeping the institution afloat and helping pave the way for a renaissance.
"It was created at a time when television didn't exist, and people had to make their own entertainment," Ubois said. "All those things have changed. When I got there, there had been discussions about whether it was better to just close the doors. Membership dwindled to 60 something. It's hard to draw new people in when membership is sinking."
The building still blends into the residential neighborhood so effectively that many people walking past don't realize it's there. But now that new audiences are being introduced to the club by film screenings, discussions and performances, the club is starting to fill a void in the community. Rather than mourn the passing of the old ways, Hillside Club members seem to appreciate that it has found a new role.
"If a club doesn't evolve it's doomed," Flick says. "There once were a number of these kinds of social clubs in the East Bay and all over America, and most faded away. They didn't meet the needs, they didn't change."
The Hillside Club is at 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley. (510) 652-7914; www.hillsideclub.org.


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NYC Chinese Cultural Events and Art Exhibitions: June 22 – 28, 2018
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This week: A documentary about Hawaii's Chinese population; Taiwanese films and plays relating to LGBTQ themes; Cantopop karaoke with a live band; talks about collecting objects that reflect US-Sino relations, poetry of Chinese detainees at Angel Island; a film by a Singaporean Chinese; Asian American International Film Festival's Launch Party; Yangtze Repertory Theatre's timely commentary on the American empire in Romulus the Great; basketball meets the Cultural Revolution in the well-reviewed play, The Great Leap; solo exhibition by the creator of the Marry Me for Chinese Citizenship tote bag; and more…
June 29 – Think!Chinatown's Summer Moon Party
June 29 – July 15 – New York Asian Film Festival
June 30 – The Either Touch of Scarlet concert
July 7 – Taiwanese Waves music festival with Soft Lipa, Sheng Xiang, and Elephant Gym
July 13 – MOCA Music + Mic Night
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Step 1) Let everyone know you are GOING to the "Summer Moon Party – Think!Chinatown Benefit Party" on the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/111634899680479/
Step 2) Finish this sentence in a post on the event page. "I love Chinatown because…" and tag a friend you want to bring to the party!
Prize for best post: VIP tickets for you and your friend to the T!C Summer Moon Party
Winner will be announced Fri, June 22 before midnight.
Our weekly listing includes open calls and other opportunities for artists, filmmakers, and others involved with Chinese culture in this intro section.
1) MOCA Music + Mic Night – Musicians and comedians are invited to perform at the Museum of Chinese in America's second showcase of local talent on July 13. To share your original work, sing or play covers, and/or try out new acts in stand-up comedy, email MOCAmic@mocanyc.org. Provide your name, email & phone number, performance link, and a short summary about yourself / your group. Submission is first come, first served.
2) Lotus Lee Foundation Travel Fellowship – Through the Travel Fellowship, Lotus Lee Foundation hopes to stimulate an in-depth discussion on the future development of the theater and performing arts industry. The fellowship aim to encourage students and young professionals to exam this topic from different perspectives including business model, the market expands, art & technology integration, investment, cross-cultural communication, etc.
The fellowship will provide its recipients an opportunity to explore the theater industry in Shanghai, China; to broaden their experience and knowledge on the cultural exchange; to deepen their insights on the future of international performing arts field.
Submission deadline: August 28, 2018
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'Lick It" is one of the four fun physical-digital interface games at the carnival-style Chewing Monster at 184 Allen Street in the LES from June 14 – 24, 2018. Created by Chewing Theory (@chewingtheory) in collaboration with Cloud Gallery (@cloudgallerynyc), the brand's initial project explores intercultural, intergroup, intermedia, and "interspecies" communication in the post-human era from within the imagined context of an "organic monster farm," where a mother monster called "Chewy" with self-regenerative ability indwells and produces cognition-enhancing edibles from the visitor's input of digitalized human behavioral and emotional data. The exhibition brings together innovative ideas from the worlds of art, design, digital programming, gaming, and dining, showcasing to visitors an alluring world of intense visual, cerebral, and sensory pleasures. _ #chewingmonster #chewingtheory #carnival #carnivalgame #digitalgame #game #arcadegame #chineseartist #interactive #icecream #chinesecreatives
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1) Pushing Hands 《推手》– Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee made his directorial debut in this drama about Mr. Chu, a widowed tai-chi master, who moves from Beijing to New York to reunite with his son. Lee captures the struggles that come with adjusting to a new life and a new culture.
Dir. Ang Lee
1991, Taiwan, 105 min.
Mandarin with English subtitles
Friday, June 22, 8 PM
Columbus Park, Mulberry Street &, Baxter Street
2) Light of the Century : Panel Discussion on Ink Art and Science (no link) – A panel discussion organized by Xu Yufu, director of the Tianbao Art Center in Taiwan explores the idea of how science can be applied to art.
Panelists include:
Zhuang Qingguang (Professor of Taiwan University – Taiwan)
Zhang Zhaohui (Internationally renowned contemporary artist – Beijing)
Robert C. Morgan (art critic, art historian – United States)
Richard Vine (senior editor of Art in America)
Richard Wain (senior editor, American Art)
Zhang Pingjie (art critic, independent curator – Shanghai)
Moderator: Jiang Qigu (Director, Asian Art Museum, Chicago – United States)
在這科學與藝術都高速發展的21世紀,全球掀起一股探究科學與藝術新關係的熱潮,科技業受到藝術的啟發,大量地引入藝術元素,藝術家則大量運用新科技媒材,並邀請科學家共同創作,對於新媒體的運用亦達到極致。
在這股熱潮中,臺灣天寶藝術中心負責人 許玉富發出邀請,集結頂尖科學家運用科學方程式組成一把密鑰,希望讓人們能夠走進高端藝術的殿堂。
今年2月23日天寶藝術中心在臺灣舉辦-世紀之光-科學與藝術論談,邀請科學界泰斗,台灣大學教授 莊晴光博士以其研究光波40年的專業,解構水墨畫家 張朝輝的畫作。在他的闡述中,五彩繽紛的蝴蝶在顯微鏡下是黑白的,以此對照黑白的水墨畫,經過週期結構的變化及光波的折射後是否也是五彩繽紛。進而探討張朝暉作品中隱藏著來自大自然的週期結構的改變,並期待從張朝暉黑白作品中看到五彩繽紛的色彩。這樣的創舉引來正反雙方的不同看法,正方說:這給藝術家及藝評家一個新空間及新方向,反方則説科學家的觀點不可代表藝術的本質。
於是許玉富策畫在藝術之都紐約舉辦發佈會,特別邀請羅勃特 摩根(藝術史學家)理察德.瓦恩(藝術雜誌主編),蔣奇谷(艺加哥亞洲藝術舘舘長)及張平杰(藝術史學家)四位國際知名藝術評論家與主講者莊晴光博士對談,這將是一場以科學評論藝術的精彩好戲。知名當代水墨藝術家 藝評界稱為「世紀之光」的張朝暉,以藝術創作者的身份談論其創作經歷過程,並攜來多幅光系列代表作,展現黑白水墨畫的魅力。
Saturday, June 23, 10:30 AM
Bennett Media Studio, 723 Washington Street
3) Zheng Junli, His Life and Works – Zheng Junli (1911-1969) was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and rose to prominence in the golden age of the Chinese Cinema. His films, The Spring River Flows East and Crows and Sparrows are widely considered classics of the Chinese cinema. Mr. Zheng Dali, son of Zheng Junli and himself a movie director, will discuss his father's life and works with illustrations of rare photos and clips from his father's films.
The lecture will be conducted in Chinese with no interpretation.
Saturday, June 23, 3 PM
China Institute
4) Across the Span: Taiwanese in the United States – A concert of all Taiwanese music, written and rearranged by Taiwanese composers.
Taiwan Center Association, 137-44 Northern Blvd, Flushing
5) WOW 2 Year Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser – Join for an evening of festivities in celebration of the W.O.W. Project's 2 Year Anniversary! Drawing inspiration from a year of growth and regeneration, the evening will include:
W.O.W. Artist Market (ft. Chinatown Art Brigade 唐人街藝術隊/ 唐人街艺术队, Christal Sih, Clara Lu, Emily Mock, Jia Sung, Vincent Chong and W.O.W.'s very own limited edition designs by Juliet Philips!)
Performances (ft. Clara Lu, Ja Wangpasuk, Judy Lei, Margaret Yuen, Reonda, and more)
Food & Drink from Chinatown local businesses: Oriental Garden Restaurant, Kopitiam and Lucky King Bakery
DCTV, 87 Lafayette Street
6) Gone with the Wind – A first-time Chinese opera adaptation of the novel Gone with the Wind by American writer Margaret Mitchell from the Tong Xiao Ling Chinese Opera Ensemble
Sunday, June 24, 2 PM
Schimmel Center, 3 Spruce Street
7) Finding Sandalwood Mountain – The film profiles the lives of many people that you may have heard about in Hawaii history. People like Chun Ah Fong, Sun Yat Sen and Senator Hiram Fong. But more importantly, the film reveals the unique aspects of Hawaii's Chinese population and how they literally changed both Hawaii and China.
View the trailer: http://www.sandalwoodfilm.com/trailer.php
21 Pell Street
8) Have Sword, Will Travel #7: Vengeance of a Snow Girl 《冰天俠女》/ Lady Snowblood – Lo Wei's rarely screened Vengeance of a Snow Girl, a hard-hitting and strangely poignant tale of a frostbitten swordswoman out to avenge her parents is widely considered to be his masterpiece, is part of a double feature with the classic Lady Snowblood.
Quad Cinema, 34 W 13th Street
9) Shirkers – In 1992, Sandi Tan was a film-obsessed teenage punk when she and her two best friends made a New Wave-inspired movie, shot guerrilla style on the streets of Singapore. Then Georges, her enigmatic American mentor, absconded with the footage, never to be seen again. Twenty-five years later, Tan revisits the episode, interweaving the newly rediscovered footage with her search for answers: Who was Georges? And what drove him to steal her art? Working in a charmingly lo-fi, handmade-collage style, Tan turns the central mystery of her life into a captivating essay on friendship, cinephilia, and the dashed dreams of youth.
Followed by Q&A with Director Sandi Tan
IndieWire says the film "has the handmade delicacy of a scrapbook come to life"
Monday, June 25, 7 PM
BAM, 30 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn
10) Pride Voices: New Plays from Taiwan with leading contemporary playwrights Li-Ying Chien and Pao-Chang Tsai – The evening will feature excerpted readings from The Possible Memoirs of a Traitor by Li-Ying Chien (directed by Knud Adams) and Solo Date by Pao-Chang Tsai (directed and performed by Tsai; dramaturgy by Soriya Chum). Followed by a panel discussion with the playwrights Li-Ying Chien and Pao-Chang Tsai, director Knud Adams, dramaturg Soriya Chum, James Wilson (Professor of Theatre, The Graduate Center), Yu-Yun Hsieh (Comparative Literature scholar, The Graduate Center), and Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li (Director). Moderated by Frank Hentschker.
Through their plays and stage works Chien and Tsai have reinvigorated the Taiwanese theatre-scape. Blending new media, real-life event, and various performative techniques, their highly political and engaged works give voice to an emerging cultural movement in Taiwan. As established queer artists, their creative processes and cultural productions also shed light on the struggles and achievements of the LGBTQ community in Taiwan and Asia today.
Based on a comprehensive field study of the LGBTQ movement, HIV/AIDS medical treatment, and family and religious issues in Taiwanese society, Li-Ying Chien's The Possible Memoirs of a Traitor (2017) uncovers stories from a Taipei gay shelter in the 90's. Pao-Chang Tsai's Solo Date (2016) takes place in the 2030's. Using traditional Taiwanese ritual and AI technology, a man reaches back in time in search of his deceased lover. But after hacking the lover's computer and reading their messages, new truths come to light.
Co-curated by Yu Chien Liu (Martin E. Segal Theatre Center) and Chi-Ping Yen (Taipei Cultural Center in New York), with support from Ministry of Culture, Taiwan and Taipei Cultural Center in New York.
Tuesday, June 26, 6:30 PM
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 365 5th Avenue
11) AAIFF 41 Launch Party – The 41st Asian American International Film Festival, the nation's longest-running film festival dedicated to Asian American programming, reveals its line-up and premieres the official festival trailer.
Tuesday, June 26, 7 PM
Fat Buddha, 212 Avenue A
12) Artist Talk: Heman Chong: Ifs, Ands, or Buts – On the occasion of the SI Reading Room installation, Legal Books (Shanghai), join for a talk by Heman Chong.
Chong writes: "This lecture begins with a work that I didn't make (it was an accident) and ends with a performance involving sentences I didn't write (other artists did). In between, I would like to discuss a number of things that have passed through my eyes, hands and mind to become a substantial part of what most people consider a part of my work; novels, bookshops, libraries, trees, calendars, postcards, words, stories, situations, exhibitions, time, texts, magazines, conferences, memories, translations, rumors, relationships, resistance, speech, secrets, distributions, bridges."
Swiss Institute, 38 St Marks Place
13) Alifu, the Prince/ss 《 阿莉芙》– Alifu, a 25 year-old Paiwan boy, struggles between his dream of getting a sex change operation and inheriting as the chief of the Paiwan tribe. And stories of Sherry, a transgender drag queen bar owner, and Chris, a government worker and drag queen performer. Bamboo Chen won Best Supporting Actor, and the film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 54th Golden Horse Festival.
Director Yu-lin Wang will be in attendance for a conversation with Professor Ronald Gregg, Film and Media Studies, School of the Arts, Columbia University.
Review by The Hollywood Reporter
Wednesday, June 27, 7 PM
The LGBTQ Center, 208 W. 13th Street
14) Yung Wing, Madame Chiang, and Pan Am: Diary of a Collector – Items documenting the Chinese experience in America of athletes, officials, entertainers – and above all – students such as Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission will be unveiled alongside Sino-American treasures from milestone events such as President Richard Nixon's 1972 trip to China.
Mr. Delbyck will share how he prioritizes and discerns what to collect from this critical period in U.S.-China relations and answer: How does one collect? How does one determine value?
Followed by a moderated Q&A where Mr. Delbyck might just reveal the first 5 items he would grab should he need to evacuate his office and quickly!
Museum of Chinese in America
15) Looking For? 《你找什麼?》– Director Tung-yen Chou journeyed across the world, visiting and interviewing 60 men living in 7 cities, revealing their experiences of love, lust, and lost as gay people in modern times.
Chou will be in attendance for a conversation with Professor Ronald Gregg, Film and Media Studies, School of the Arts, Columbia University.
Read a review at Bakchormeeboy.
Thursday, June 28, 7 PM
Taiwan Academy, 1 E. 42nd Street
16) Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island – Bay Area poet and writer Jeffrey Thomas Leong shares his mesmerizing new book, Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island.
The first new translation in almost 40 years, Wild Geese Sorrow takes readers through the deep anger, sorrow, and loneliness felt by the Chinese immigrant detainees at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate the detainee experience, the poems tell of arrival, long detentions, medical exams, political outrage, and for some, deportation. Readers will learn about a critical period of American immigrant history, so essential to our contemporary policy debates.
City Lore Gallery 2, 56 E 1st Street
17) Golden Canton Pop Night – Who is your favorite Canton Pop Star? Beyond? Jacky Cheung? Miriam Yeung? Let CARA Vision bring you back to the golden era of Canton Pop and revisit those classic tunes.
CARA Vision presents "Golden Canton Pop Night" featuring Simon Yu's experienced band, timeless Canton tunes will be performed. Audiences will be invited to be under the spotlight and sing with the live band.
Cara Vision, Room 709, 134 W. 29th Street
ONGOING FILMS, SHOWS, AND EVENTS
1)The Great Leap – San Francisco, spring 1989. Manford Lum, locally renowned on the sidewalk basketball courts of Chinatown, talks his way onto a college team, just before they travel to Beijing for a "friendship" game. When they arrive, China is in the throes of the post-Cultural Revolution era, and Manford must juggle international politics and his own personal history. Inspired by events from her father's life and (short-lived) basketball career, playwright Lauren Yee (The Hatmaker's Wife) makes her Atlantic debut with this tender and fearless new play.
Review by The New York Times
May 23 – June 24
Atlantic Theater Company
2) Romulus the Great – Yangtze Repertory Theater presents this play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Set in a fictional Roman Empire, emperor Romulus the Great chose not to be "great." Facing the increasing peril of the Germanic invasion and the demise of the Empire, Romulus prefers to stay at home breeding chickens. Is his refusal of responsibility to govern stupidity? Or does he have other plans?
Scene from 'Romulus the Great' Courtesy of Yangtze Repertory Theatre
June 7 – 23
TBG Mainstage Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 3F
3) Lobster Cop 《龙虾刑警 》– Four police officers open up a lobster restaurant as a cover in order to catch a notorious drug dealer, only to find their secret recipe is more popular than they expect. When they get caught up in their new business venture, they find a bigger conspiracy at work.
Group Shows, Local Artists, and Other Art Events:
Lulu Meng is part of Tailbone at 47 Canal on view through June 29.
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Opening and Newly Listed:
1) Li Shuang: If Only the Cloud Knows (Sleep Center, 6/24 – 7/8) – On the snowy Valentine's Day in 2015, artist Li Shuang wandered around New York City's Times Square for six hours, bearing a huge sign that read: "Marry Me For Chinese Citizenship". She later printed the slogan on tote bags, with which every carrier becomes a disseminator, propagating the statement to far corners of the world. Li's playful yet incisive gesture questioned issues such as immigration system, identity, and discrimination. This interactive project marked the beginning of her cross-disciplinary and experimental artistic practice.
Li Shuang's first solo exhibition in New York "If Only The Cloud Knows" features the artist's five major works created since 2014, including: If Only The Cloud Knows, a multi-media interactive piece which examines the relationship between digital data and private memory; T, a video work developed from gender-based observations; Marry Me For Chinese Citizenship, an on-going social intervention project that probes into the public sphere.
Emerged during the age of Internet and globalization, Li's works revealed the unvoiced pain embedded in both personal crisis and collective dilemma. Her practice, while being critical and provocative, also embodies a sense of poetic spontaneity. Through active observation and scholarly analysis, Li investigates diverse social subjects such as technical innovation, mass media, cultural identity, and gender studies. As she relocates frequently around the globe, Li is able to form a series of multi-perspective yet universal narrative that speaks to the shared anxieties of the Millennial generation.
The exhibition is in itself a site of public experiment as well: visitors are allowed to access the artist's private database, and are given the freedom to alter or delete anything. Through this immediate participation, we seek to interpret the gravity born by the "cloud".
Curated by Qiu Yun and Qiao Feifan
Opening reception: June 24, 6 – 9 PM
Li Shuang – 'T', four channel video, 2017-18. ©Li Shuang
2) Heman Chong & Ken Liu: Legal Books (Shanghai) (Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art New York, 6/23 – 8/19) – An exhibition and bookshop by Heman Chong and Ken Liu. This marks the inaugural library exhibition in SI's Library and Reading Room at Swiss Institute's new home at 38 St Marks Pl, in the heart of the East Village.
Legal Bookshop (Shanghai) is a selection of books relating to the legal system in China. For this project, originally conceived as part of Heman Chong's 2016 solo exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, the artist invited and hired Ken Liu, who works as a lawyer, translator, programmer and speculative fiction writer, to make a personal selection of books that informs Liu's understanding of the law in China.
Via email, Chong wrote: "I would like you to select books that are readily available in bookshops in Shanghai that touch on the idea of the law; including both fiction and nonfiction books. They can be textbooks that law students use for their studies, books that lawyers use for reference, copies of the legal acts, novels where characters get entangled with the law, books that touch on the history of the law, maybe even books on scientific laws. I want you to interpret the idea of 'the law' when you think about this list." Liu's resultant selection of books is available to browse and purchase at Swiss Institute.
Though some of the choices may seem obvious, such as Laws and Regulations of the People's Republic of China in Common Use, and The Comprehensive Explanations on the Laws of the People's Republic of China, in addition to books that introduce the idea of laws and their histories in China and other countries, others are more idiosyncratic, for example: a chess manual; a book that touches on prosody in poetry; a book on programming algorithms and game development; a book on urban planning; a guide for LEGO builders; a book on principles of physics and laws of nature; a book on the governance of a nation and rules of economic development; a book on social norms and etiquette; and a book on philosophy enquiries concerning human society. A full list of books is readily available upon request.
Together, as literature and as objects, these various books describe a collection of limits, rules and systems whilst offering a glimpse of a cultural imaginary.
Heman Chong envisions the bookshop as an open-ended platform, which he has consistently utilized within his practice. Other bookshops include: LEM1 (2012), a collection of 3000 science fiction and fantasy books sold for 1£ at Rossi & Rossi Gallery in London; LEM2 (2016), a nomadic curbside retrospective of the Polish science fiction writer, Stanisław Lem at the 20th Sydney Biennale; and Because, The Night (2017), a nocturnal bookshop that is installed in 72-13, a major theatre venue in Singapore that is open only between 10 PM – 4 AM.
Image: Courtesy of the artist and Rockbund Art Museum
3) Hyobin Kwon: Blue and White Impressions II (7 E. 14th Street, 6/14 – 7/9) – To create traditional blue and white pieces, ceramists painted designs on white porcelain bodies, using writing brushes with cobalt as a coloring material. They then applied a transparent glaze to the bodies and fired the pieces at high temperatures, which allowed the blue and white decoration to come into being. During Kwon's doctorate course, she studied methods for researching the blue and white porcelain of China and Korea. She looked at the divisions of historical periods of blue and white porcelain and how the styles related to the paintings of the same period; analyzed the works of art and the creators; analyzed the process of creating the works of art; analyzed the collectors of the ceramics; and looked at its practical use.
Drawing from historical documents, records and pictures of cultural relics, Kwon's paintings analyze the art and history of blue and white porcelain in China and Korea. Through comparisons of China and Korea's blue and white porcelain, she distinguishes differences between the two countries' aesthetic consciousnesses and artistic characteristics, and other relevant questions.
Kwon advocates for the blending of the traditional arts of ceramics and painting, especially the combination of blue and white porcelain and freehand brushwork painting, in the hope of making the space for development of blue and white porcelain even more varied.
In this solo exhibition, Kwon will exhibit carefully selected blue and white masterworks that she has studied, and pieces that she has created, over the period of 10 years. Paintings and ceramics will be presented together.
Hao Liang – Portraits and Wonders (Gagosian, 5/8 – 6/23)
Chen Dongfan: Nevermore (昨夜星辰昨夜风) (Fou Gallery, 4/14 – 6/24)
Chewing Theory – Chewing Monster (Red Brick Space, 198 Allen Street, 6/14 – 6/24)
The Fuck Off Generation Chinese Avant Garde in the Post-Mao Era, Part 2 (Ethan Cohen, 5/10 – ??)
Monica Cook & Ye Qin Zhu: Accumulations (Postmasters, 5/19 – 6/30)
Mu Pan: Bright Moon Shines on the RiverPing Zheng (Joshua Liner Gallery, 6/7 – 7/6)
Ping Zheng (Gallery 456, 6/8 – 7/6)
The Mississippi Delta Chinese (Pearl River Mart Gallery, 5/18 – 7/7)
James Chan – Where Are You Really From? (384 Broadway, 6/6 – 7/7 (extended))
Li Shuang: If Only the Cloud Knows (Sleep Center, 6/24 – 7/8)
Hyobin Kwon: Blue and White Impressions II (7 E. 14th Street 6/14 – 7/9)
Current shows:
Visit the exhibition calendar for details on the current shows listed below. Check the museum's or gallery's website for hours of operation.
The Sentinels (The Geary, 5/31 – 7/14)
Outside the Palace of Heavenly Purity (bitforms gallery, 6/7 – 7/22)
Spirited Creatures: Animal Representations in Chinese Silk and Lacquer (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10/21/17 – 7/22/18)
Mel Chin: All Over the Place (Queens Museum, 4/8 – 8/12)
SPF (Special Special, 5/30 – 8/26) – Current exhibition: Lu Zhang and her Boat Date social experiment from It Takes Ten Years Practice to Be on the Same Boat
Fu Xiaotong – Proliferation (Chambers Fine Art, 6/7 – 8/18)
Heman Chong & Ken Liu: Legal Books (Shanghai) (Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art New York, 6/23 – 8/19)
Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan (MoMA PS1, 4/15 – 9/3)
Chinese Medicine in America: Converging Ideas, People, and Practices (Museum of Chinese in America, 4/26 – 9/9)
On the Shelves of Kam Wah Chung & Co.: General Store and Apothecary in John Day, Oregon(Museum of Chinese in America, 4/26 – 9/9)
Kang Muxiang – Rebirth (5/17 – 9/15, Garment District Plazas, Broadway btwn 41st and 36th Streets)
Cecile Chong – El Dorado / The New 49ers (Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 5/12 – 10/14)
One Hand Clapping (Guggenheim Museum, 5/4 – 10/21)
Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 8/26/17 – 1/9/19)
Lead image: A rock in NE Taiwan that, according to a local tour guide, someone wanted to pay hundreds of thousands of Taiwan dollars for. Photo by Andrew Shiue
NYC Chinese Cultural Events and Art Exhibitions: June 15 - June 21, 2018
NYC Chinese Cultural Events and Art Exhibitions: July 6 - 12, 2018


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Vintage is new again...
What do you think of when something is described as vintage? Do you think of a certain decor, rotary-dial phones, or the Campbell's Soup kids? Maybe you think of a style of clothing...granny-chic is becoming very popular these days. If you are like my father, you think of a wine made from grapes that were grown and harvested in a single specified year.
For me, when I hear the term vintage, I think about old classic movies and yellowed postcards from days when everyone's handwriting seemed to look the same. I also think of tools like old-fashioned sewing machines and typewriters. Regardless of your vision, what is old always seems to be new again to someone -- probably the reason my sister and I love to shop antique stores for old vintage items that we can repurpose into something new.
And this is probably why when I saw the vintage inspired paper lines from Bo Bunny and Prima, I knew I wanted to make an album with them. Images of post marks, old clocks, railroad tickets, and brittle yellow newspaper remind me of slower, quieter times when handmade items were the way it was done. I would love to see someone's vintage photos preserved in this little album ....
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The WTO cited new trade measures targeting exports from "large economies," a clear allusion to U.S. tensions with key trading partners.
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Battle of the Hamm's
Beer Snob | February 26th, 2020
At the end of November, The Aquarium was slated to host an illustrious event called "Battle of the Hamm's." However, in a turn of events that seems all too familiar this winter, inclement weather got in the way. "Much like many winter months the snow got the best of us that day," said Ryan Hoffart, longtime booker in the Fargo-Moorhead area who as of last summer took over booking and overall directing of the Aquarium. The night did not end up going to waste, though.
"Some of the bands still wanted to play and the night was still a great time." Fortunately, that was not the last to be heard of Battle of the Hamm's, as a new date was lined up near the end of February. "I'm super thankful that it could get rescheduled as a whole," said Hoffart.
What is Battle of the Hamm's? "The general concept is a battle of the bands between ten artists, but each performer's entry fee is a 30 pack of delightful Hamm's beer," said Hoffart. Each artist will perform and then the winner will be voted on by the crowd. The winner will win the illustrious Hamm's championship belt and 300 cans of Hamm's beer." So what are the origins of this contest of champions?
Therein lies a tale. In the early 2000s, Chris Lindstrom and Chris Moore came up with the idea. Both were involved in the local music scene at the time. In the eighteen years he lived in Fargo, Lindstrom played in We $ell 2 Minors, North to Emerson, What Kingswood Needs, and KumnCyde before eventually moving to Oxford, Ohio. Lindstrom gives the brunt of the credit for Battle's creation to Moore, who was his former college roommate.
"We were living together when he came up with it," said Lindstrom. It really started because it was just a reason for a bunch of friends to play a show together. I think at the first one we had like ten bands? And it was Hamm's beer because it was just a play on words, and we knew it was cheap. Plus it's just funny. That's a big part of it, too. Dumb senses of humor. The idea of a band receiving 300 cans of Hamm's beer as a prize is hilarious. And usually that just means that whatever band wins has a party that night with a shitload of free beer." Lindstrom played in Battle of the Hamm's each of the four times it has occurred: once in We $ell 2 Minors, twice in North to Emerson (which won once), and once in What Kingswood Needs.
After that, the Battle stopped for several years. "Chris Moore moved away, the scene in Fargo/Moorhead seemed to change where it seemed tough to pull it together with different bands and different genres and shit," said Lindstrom. "But we'd talked about it for a while, and then one summer I was like, 'F*ck it. I'm going to see if I can pull it off.' And I ended up giving all the proceeds to the Rape and Abuse Crisis Center."
"It's been almost five years since the last one happened," said Hoffart, "and hopefully if Lindstrom is alright with it at the very least Fargo will keep doing it bi-annually. The event is too fun to go another five years without it."
This incarnation of Battle of the Hamms sees local hardcore favorites Swing Low returning to defend their title. The rest of the lineup is one of the most diverse that the Aquarium has had in some time, according to Hoffart, featuring a range from hardcore punk to blues to metal. The lineup includes: the aforementioned Swing Low, Pass the Flask (punk), Stovepipes (blues), Jantzonia (rap), Bottle Wound (punk), Disappear Forever (indie/shoegaze), Walker Rider (alt country), Wastelord, Shrug (newer indie), and Widow (new death metal).
Besides a diverse lineup of local musicians and a hell of a lot of Hamm's beer, the Aquarium will have door prizes of random Hamm's swag available to attendees and specials on Hamm's pounders. It is bound to be a night of partying, fun, and music. And, depending on how well this one goes off, it sounds like there is hope for more in the future. "I'm glad Ryan is doing another one," said Lindstrom. "And it was never about winning. It was just about getting together with your friends and playing music. And I hope it continues as that."
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#2 Gonzaga vs. BYU: Live stream info, game preview, picks and predictions & more
#2 Gonzaga hosts BYU in a West Coast conference matchup on Thursday, January 13th.
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The BYU Cougars hit the road to take on the No. 2 Gonzaga Bulldogs in a game that highlights the talent in the West Coast Conference. Tipoff from McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington is set for 11:00 p.m. ET with the game airing on ESPN2.
The Cougars (14-3, 2-0 WCC) are on a four-game win streak, but none of them will mean as much as getting a dub against Gonzaga. In their most recent game against Saint Mary's, they won 52-43 which was their lowest scoring output of the season. Senior guard Alex Barcello struggled to find his shot from three-point range, but over their last few games, he has been regularly leading the team in scoring and assists.
The Bulldogs (12-2, 1-0 WCC) have the shot at taking over the No. 1 spot in College Basketball if they can string some wins together with Texas Tech giving Baylor their first loss of the season earlier this week. The Bulldogs have won four straight and their closest game over their most recent three have been a 30-point win over North Alabama. Most recently though, they beat Pepperdine, 117-83 and they were led in scoring by junior forward Anton Watson who had 19 points which made four straight games for him having double-digit points.
How to watch BYU vs. Gonzaga
When: Thursday, January 13th, 11:00 p.m. ET
Where: McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane, WA
Where to live stream online: WatchESPN, ESPN app
Live updates and stats: At DraftKings Sportsbook
Spread: Gonzaga -13.5
Gonzaga -13.5, Under 153
I think Gonzaga continues to run over teams like they have been on their recent stretch, but I am worried that their defense will be too much for the Cougars. They are coming off a horrible shooting performance and I know this is a new day, but I don't think that they can make up THAT much ground. Even with Gonzaga likely scoring 80, I like the under here.


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Death Metal—The Music Genre You've Been Missing Out On
Please, for the love of God, stop requesting Mo Bamba
by Christian Decker
You thought I was done with shoving metal down all your throats, but you were mistaken. I know what you're thinking, how could death metal possibly reach a mainstream audience. Cannibal Corpse isn't exactly radio friendly and their song titles and imagery turn some people off almost immediately. But the thing is, the more progressive elements of the death metal scene can transcend these negative stereotypes. So what if the songs are long? The musicianship and quality of sound are unparalleled.
I first got the idea for writing this article while listening to the album "Citadel", by progressive death metal outfit, Ne Obilviscaris. Let me just tell you, this is transcendent music. Only three of the songs on the album have actual lyrics, but my god they pack a punch. The beautiful clean vocals mixed in with the ever-present death growling, makes for an astounding juxtaposition. The guitar work is amazing; with clear inspiration from classical composers and in the aching sorrowful minor key that makes such an amazing compliment for this kind of music. Did I mention that all their songs have violin solos? Let me tell you, listening to the violin play a beautiful minor solo and then listening to the guitar play the same thing is just mind-blowing. Don't even get me started on "Urn," their latest album.
Earlier last year, progressive death metal group Rivers of Nihil released what I think was possibly the best album of 2018, bar none. The band uses painful growling vocals with some intermingled cleans in many of the songs, along with more minor guitar riffs to create this atmosphere of fall and winter that feels so melancholic, but amazingly heavy at the same time. The guys somehow even managed to put saxophone solos in some of the songs and it somehow fits perfectly.
The talent and practice that it takes to make such masterpieces like that, is not easily found. I know it's very easy for the music industry to make cookie-cutter acts that have a very simple and digestible formula, but I think it has really destroyed music as a whole, at least in the public eye. I'm sorry, but if you think "Mo Bamba" is a good song, you have a shit taste in music, you don't have to like metal to admit it's bad.
What disappoints me is that too often now, record companies and award shows, even the public at large, refuse to acknowledge the artists who work disgustingly hard at their craft, because they can't recognize different forms of art. Honestly, most people I've talked to literally just cannot deal with the growling, that's about it. These same people can go to an art museum and admire a fucking Jackson Pollock "painting." Indie snobs look down upon it because all the lyrical themes aren't about smoking after sex and the artist knows more than three chords.
However, I digress; most of these criticisms lie with the harsher sounding death metal, and often-black metal subcategories. My point is that that bands like Be'lakor, Insomnium -the bands I mentioned before- and others have the potential to be greatly appreciated if people can get past eh vocals, which honestly are still impressive. I mean Ulcerate, is literally just one guy doing all the instruments, it's frankly criminal that he's in the dark while the freaking Chainsmokers are performing at the Grammy's with a mini ass keyboard. I'm not asking people to abandon other genres of music, but just to give more of an appreciation to the talents of artists not in their niche.
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Q: Re-read environment of parent process in python I've written a little Python (2.7.2+) module (called TWProcessing) that can be described as an improvised batch manager. The way it works is that I pass it a long list of commands that it will then run in parallel, but limiting the total number of simultaneous processes. That way, if I have 500 commands I would like to run, it will loop through all of them, but only running X of them at a time so as to not overwhelm the machine. The value of X can be easily set when declaring an instance of this batch manager (the class is called TWBatchManager) :
batch = TWProcessing.TWBatchManager(MaxJobs=X)

I then add a list of jobs to this object in a very straightforward manner :
batch.Queue.append(/CMD goes here/)

Where Queue is a list of commands that the batch manager will run. When the queue has been filled, I then call Run() which loops through all the commands, only running X at a time :
batch.Run()

So far, everything works fine. Now what I'd like to do is be able to change the value of X (i.e. the maximum number of processes running at once) dynamically i.e. while the processes are still running. My old way of doing this was rather straightforward. I had a file called MAXJOBS that the class would know to look at, and, if it existed, it would check it regularly to see if the desired value has changed. Now I'd like to try something a bit more elegant. I would like to be able to write something along the lines of export MAXJOBS=newX in the bash shell that launched the script containing the batch manager, and have the batch manager realize that this is now the value of X it should be using. Obviously os.environ['MAXJOBS'] is not what I'm looking for, because this is a dictionary that is loaded on startup. os.getenv('MAXJOBS') doesn't cut it either, because the export will only affect child processes that the shell will spawn from then on. So what I need is a way to get back to the environment of the parent process that launched my python script. I know os.ppid will give me the parent pid, but I have no idea how to get from there to the parent environment. I've poked around the interwebz to see if there was a way in which the parent shell could modify the child process environment, and I've found that people tend to insist I not try anything like that, lest I be prepared to do some of the ugliest things one can possibly do with a computer.
Any ideas on how to pull this off? Granted my "read from a standard text file" idea is not so ugly, but I'm new to Python and am therefore trying to challenge myself to do things in an elegant and clean manner to learn as much as I can. Thanks in advance for your help.

A: For me it looks that you are asking for inter-process communication between a bash script and a python program.
I'm not completely sure about all your requirements, but it might be a candidate for a FIFO (named pipe):
1) make the fifo:
mkfifo batch_control

2) Start the python - server, which reads from the fifo.  (Note: the following is only a minimalistic example; you must adapt things:
while True:
    fd = file("batch_control", "r")
    for cmd in fd:
        print("New command [%s]" % cmd[:-1])
    fd.close()

3) From the bash script you can than 'send' things to the python server by echo-ing strings into the fifo:
$ echo "newsize 800" >batch_control
$ echo "newjob /bin/ps" >batch_control

The output of the python server is:
New command [newsize 800]
New command [newjob /bin/ps]

Hope this helps.

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Olešnický pivovar stával na náměstí Míru v Olešnici, v okrese Blansko, v těsné blízkosti kostela sv. Vavřince.

Historie
Budova zaniklého olešnického pivovaru byla vystavěna okolo roku 1500. Na její výstavbu si měšťané museli půjčit peníze od vrchnosti, která jim posléze část dluhu odpustila – udělal tak v roce 1540 Jan z Pernštejna a na Helfenštejně. V roce 1827 budovu poničil požár, ale podařilo se ji opravit a výroba piva zde mohla pokračovat nadále. K jejímu zastavení došlo v roce 1882. Následně jej jako sklad využíval zdejší hasičský sbor a to až do výstavby hasičské zbrojnice v roce 1957. Za třicetileté války mělo dojít pod olešnickým náměstím k vybudování soustavy prostor a chodeb, jejichž součást byly i pivovarské sklepy. O demolici pivovaru se začalo uvažovat již na počátku 20. století. V roce 1913 tomu ještě dokázali zabránit právovárečníci, v roce 1943 zase památkový úřad v Brně. V roce 1993 však bylo definitivně rozhodnuto o demolici, která byla provedena v následujícím roce. Na místě měla vyrůst budova spořitelny, ale k tomu nedošlo. Místo je od roku 1998 parkově upraveno a doplněno o kašnu.

V prostorách bývalé ledárny je dnes umístěno Muzeum strašidel a postav pověstí Olešnicka.

Zajímavosti
 Historií pivovaru se zabývá publikace Filipa Vrány s názvem Pivovar v Olešnici, která vyšla v roce 2010.

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Olešnice
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