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Amy Beth Graves - Dec. 29, 2020
Investing in future agricultural employees, leaders
The son of a Hollywood movie producer leaves the West Coast for the East Coast where he graduates from two Ivy League universities, works for a Fortune 500 company and ends up in rural Ohio where he finds his dream job in agriculture.
Sound like a "fish out of water" storyline thrown out during a brainstorming session for a new TV series? Not exactly — this is the real life experience of Eric Bernstein, a Wyandot County Farm Bureau and Young Ag Professionals member who is vice president of operations for Kalmbach Feeds in Upper Sandusky, an Ohio Farm Bureau group member.
"One of the things I realized early in my career that I cared the most about was working in a business that makes something physical, tangible and essential. That it's not just whizbang technology. When I was introduced to Kalmbach Feeds and learned how it was a critical part of the food chain, it appealed to me on a deep level," said Bernstein, who joined the company in 2017 and lives in Delaware County with his wife, Breana, and daughter, Alexandra.
Dan Durheim
This is exactly the type of story that Dan Durheim, Nationwide's associate vice president of sponsor relations, likes to hear and one that he's hoping to hear more of over the next few years. As a member of the Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation board, Durheim is aware of the critical role agriculture plays in the everyday life of Americans. He and other foundation board members have been working to dispel misperceptions and show how agriculture is an economic driver. A major initiative has been the foundation's ExploreAg program, which started in 2018 and is funded by the Fisher Fund for Lifelong Learning. The program brings high school students into labs, fields and factories for hands-on learning about the wide array of careers available in food and agriculture.
The proof is in the data
Bill LaFayette
During a 2019 meeting, the foundation board puzzled over how to capitalize on the fact that agriculture is the backbone of Ohio's economy, accounting for one in eight jobs, and that some of those jobs are high paying, highly skilled and require a college education. They were concerned by projections of a continued shortage of workers in the agricultural industry. Ohio agriculture was hiring but qualified workers weren't showing up. That's when the board decided it needed more data about Ohio's agribusiness sector. The foundation board hired Bill LaFayette, owner of the economics consulting firm Regionomics, to do a deep dive in identifying which agribusiness industries are economic drivers and what the workforce needs are for these industries.
"We wanted to start with the facts," Durheim said. "There's a lot of perceptions out there that hinder someone from seeking a career in agriculture. We needed to figure out how to help people learn there are great opportunities out there and break down those walls of perception. We wanted to start with good data and get to the truth."
The data showed Ohio's agribusiness industries are not only thriving and growing but pay well. The average Ohio wage for agribusiness jobs is 4% higher than those with comparable jobs throughout the economy. And the 10-year need for workers in agribusiness occupations — outside of retail and restaurants — is more than 90,000 and covers a wide array of specialties, including management, business and finance, information technology, engineering, life sciences, law, real estate, healthcare, sales and marketing, maintenance, production and transportation. Educational requirements range from a high school diploma to a doctorate degree.
"The average wage is 4% higher and not only is agriculture good for the community because it keeps us fed, our cars fueled and our energy going but it pays more than comparable jobs," Durheim said. "I work for Nationwide and not everybody thinks of Nationwide as an agricultural employer but we have a lot of great opportunities in agriculture, too. We hire food scientists, agronomists, bankers and financial people and their bend is agriculture."
Agribusiness is hiring
In the study, LaFayette identified at least 30 agribusiness industries as economic drivers in Ohio, meaning they offer stable employment and career growth potential. They included agricultural industries, food manufacturing, wood products, food machinery manufacturing, zoos, botanical gardens and nature parks.
"Agribusiness is so much bigger than most people think," LaFayette said. "Tens of thousands of openings are predicted over the next 10 years, and we want to steer folks to those industries that are growing faster than average and offer more opportunities for advancement. Doing so will help us keep (bright minds) in Ohio."
Now that the foundation board has this data, the next step is to continue finding ways to attract the next generation of agriculture producers, scientists and community leaders who are passionate about the role agriculture plays in Ohioans' daily needs.
"The foundation has positioned itself as a thought leader in terms of careers in agriculture, and it's critical we keep showcasing the potential for agricultural careers and keep supporting innovative programming that gives young people a better understanding that a career in agriculture might be their dream job," said Kelly Burns, executive director of Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation.
Eric, Breana and Alexandra Bernstein
For Bernstein, working at Kalmbach made him realize that not only is agriculture an essential industry, but it matches up with his key values.
"Agriculture at its core goes back to the beginning of civilization because it's what allows us to eat. There's a clear sense of mission and purpose and pride," he said. "Farm Bureau plays a critical role in all of this because through its policies it brings together people in the agricultural community and invests in building vibrant communities that support agriculture. None of this happens by accident – Farm Bureau is a big part in making this all happen."
OHIO FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION PRIORITIES
Training the next generation of agricultural producers, scientists and business and community leaders is a key priority of Ohio Farm Bureau. Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation supports this effort in three ways:
Innovative programming
The ExploreAg program is a partnership between the foundation and Ohio State University Extension and offers four one-week or one-day experiences for high school students free of charge. The students are immersed in hands-on learning about the wide array of careers in agriculture. The camps are held on the campuses of Ohio State University and Central State University.
Youth Pathways Grant for Careers in Agriculture
The foundation awards up to $100,000 annually to organizations that demonstrate innovative ways of introducing/exposing students to careers in agriculture.
For the 2020-21 academic year, the foundation awarded $57,000 in scholarships to students in recognition of their academic effort, community engagement and career interests that link agriculture to community service, education or scientific research.
Scholarships make impact on students pursuing agricultural careers
The Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation annually recognizes students for their academic effort, community engagement and leadership experience through the administration of its scholarship program.
Scholarship applications are available now and eligible students are encouraged to apply. Research shows that there is a need for more than 90,000 workers in agribusiness occupations over the next 10 years, and the foundation is proud to attract and support the next generation of leaders to our industry, such as Olivia Blay of Portage County.
Blay was the 2020 recipient of four Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation scholarships including the Ohio Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association scholarship, the Cindy Hollingshead scholarship, the Jack Fisher scholarship and the Bruce and Carlene Patterson scholarship.
Olivia Blay
Following is a Q & A with Olivia Blay:
Q: What is your career goal after graduating from college?
A: My No. 1 career goal after college is to use my business background at a large agricultural company so that I can bring my passion and profession together. Working for a company that is focused on supporting the agricultural community is my goal because I am so thankful for my background and want to pay it forward to the industry while using my accounting degree. It is my goal to be happy in my professional career while making an impact on something that is meaningful.
Q: How do you see your major helping you to achieve your career goals?
A: I see my major helping me achieve my career goals because it is providing me a solid foundation of business and is giving me a numbers background which I can then apply to a number of different paths throughout my life. Business is incredibly important in our society so having this major will allow me to make an impact no matter where my profession takes me. I can use what I am learning in school and combine it with an agricultural company so that I can do what I enjoy while using my degree.
Q: Where do you see yourself professionally in five years?
A: In five years, I see myself working at a multinational company in the agricultural industry that has many growth opportunities. I envision myself learning and growing a ton during my first five years with the company, and then at that point I will have a goal set to be promoted to a higher-level role. I see myself trying new things and looking for opportunities to see how I can make a difference. There are so many things to learn and after five years in the professional world, I hope to be a leader and mentor.
Amy Beth Graves is a freelance writer from Franklin County.
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In the processor the same register set is used in both the ARM and Thumb states. Sixteen general registers and one or two status registers are accessible at any time. In Privileged modes, alternative mode-specific banked registers become available. Figure 3.3 shows the registers that are available in each mode.
Software normally uses register R13 as a Stack Pointer (SP). The SRS and RFE instructions use Register R13.
Register R14 is used as the subroutine Link Register (LR).
Register R14 receives the return address when a Branch with Link (BL or BLX) instruction is executed.
You can use R14 as a general-purpose register at all other times. The corresponding banked registers R14_svc, R14_irq, R14_fiq, R14_abt, and R14_und similarly hold the return values when interrupts and exceptions are taken, or when BL or BLX instructions are executed within interrupt or exception routines.
in Thumb state this is halfword-aligned.
writing bits [31:28] of the value that was written to R15 to the condition flags in the CPSR, and ignoring bits [27:0] (used for the MRC instruction only).
You must not assume any of these special cases unless it is explicitly stated in the instruction description. Instead, you must treat instructions with register fields equal to R15 as Unpredictable.
For more information, see the ARM Architecture Reference Manual.
In Privileged modes, another register, the Saved Program Status Register (SPSR), is accessible. This contains the condition code flags, status bits, and current mode bits saved as a result of the exception that caused entry to the current mode.
Banked registers have a mode identifier that indicates which mode they relate to. Table 3.1lists these identifiers.
[a] The usr identifier is usually omitted from register names. It is only used in descriptions where the User or System mode register is specifically accessed from another operating mode.
FIQ mode has seven banked registers mapped to R8-R14 (R8_fiq-R14_fiq). As a result, many FIQ handlers do not have to save any registers.
The Supervisor, Abort, IRQ, and Undefined modes each have alternative mode-specific registers mapped to R13 and R14, permitting a private stack pointer and link register for each mode.
Figure 3.3 shows the register set, and those registers that are banked.
For 16-bit Thumb instructions, the high registers, R8-R15, are not part of the standard register set. You can use special variants of the MOV instruction to transfer a value from a low register, in the range R0-R7, to a high register, and from a high register to a low register. The CMP instruction enables you to compare high register values with low register values. The ADD instruction enables you to add high register values to low register values. For more information, see the ARM Architecture Reference Manual.


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Author Peter May started publishing his "Enzo Files" series in the year 2006, when "Extraordinary People" was released. The series mixes thrills, suspense, whodunit, and investigation.
Enzo MacLeod is half Italian and half Scottish, and in his fifties. He used to be one of the top forensic scientists in Scotland. He works in Toulouse as a professor at a university, located in France.
He has had to raise a daughter in France by himself, and has another that he is estranged from while in Scotland. He was widowed while in France, and divorced during his time in Scotland.
After a reckless wager (that was about the power of of forensic science), he is involved in solving some cold cases in France using some of the latest technology. The killers in these cases want to keep their freedom, and are willing to kill more to keep from being exposed and captured. His lifetime in labs is nothing to equip him for the situations that threaten his very life, he finds.
The cases he works benefit from the formidable intellect he has. Often times, however, they are held back due to the lack of tact or patience he has, not to mention the complex emotional life he has and the zero tolerance that he has for French bureaucrats.
"Extraordinary People" is the first novel in the "Enzo Files" series and was released in the year 2006. As if things were not complex enough for Enzo, he quickly finds that he is hunting down solutions for tough cold cases.
In Paris, there is a man looking desperately for some sanctuary and goes right into a church. The very next day, his vanishing makes him famous all over France.
Deep in the City of Light's catacombs, MacLeod finds some creepy clues that were left by a killer on purpose. As he gets closer to solving the case, he finds that he may just end up the next victim for his own trouble.
Readers have found a new series for them to read, not to mention a new lead character that they can fall in love with and root for the entire time. Fans of the novel enjoy the way that Peter May writes; he is able to teach you things but still write an excellent story. Some readers found they could not put the book down, once they had picked it up. Some loved Enzo and the complex relationships that he has with everyone in his life, including his daughters. Some find that they cannot wait until they can read more books from this series.
"The Critic" is the second novel in the "Enzo Files" series and was released in the year 2007. In southwest France, in the wine making part of Gaillac, a horrible crime has been carried out that displays that the killer has a flair for the dramatic. America's most renowned wine critic Gil Petty's body is found in a vineyard, wearing a ceremonial robe of the Order of the Divine Bottle. He is strung up and actually pickled in wine.
Enzo has to find clues in some of Petty's puzzling reviews, these reviews could make or break the reputation of a vineyard. He digs deeper to try and locate motive for this shocker of a crime. Enzo finds that under the veneer of French viticulture, there is a back stabbing community. It is one that is marked by one deadly rivalry, and it is the home to somebody that is ready to stop him to shut down the investigation, even kill him if they have to.
Some felt themselves enjoying this one more than book one in the series. Fans of the novel find that the author does extensive research before releasing writing one of these stories. Some liked the pacing of the mystery in this one, and you get to see things from more characters' perspectives in this one. Not to mention the interesting characters from book one get fleshed out even more in this book. There are quite a few questions to ask during the book, and the ending does a nice job of setting up the next book in the series.
"Blacklight Blue" is the third novel in the "Enzo Files" series and was released in the year 2008. Enzo has to put a halt to his pursuits, both professional and personal, for the moment when he gets diagnosed with a terminal illness. It is worse than even that, though, it looks like someone is trying to ruin his life. Wrecking his credit, threatening both his family and him, and even framing him for a murder.
He has little choice but to fight right back, and hides his family at a safe house and gets right down to working on the case. He is more and more sure that the cold case he has been working is connected to this persecution he has been put through. He tries to put the pieces together before time runs out, so that he can save his loved ones lives. As well as his own.
Some readers felt this held their attention the entire way through, and that it was hard to do anything else put read this to find out what happened next. Fans of the novel find that these books keep getting better with each release. The little twist at the end was an interesting way to end things. Some cannot get enough of Enzo, finding that they wish there were many more books by Peter May starring this excellent character.
"Freeze Frame" is the fourth novel in the "Enzo Files" series and was released in the year 2010. Enzo makes a promise to a man, as he is dying, and it takes him to a study that the guy's heir has been preserving for almost two decades now. The dead guy put some clues in there that were designed to allow the son to figure out the killer's identity. In an ironic twist of fate, the son died right after the dad did.
The case takes him to a small island off of Brittany's coast in France. This is a place that he has to confront the locals' hostility. These people have little desire to get the infamous murder put back in the headlines. This is one of Enzo's toughest cases that he has ever taken on.


A veteran cast of actors from Wabash College and DePauw University come together for the first Wabash Theater production of 2012-2013 season, a play written by comedian Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile.
The play opens Wednesday in Ball Theater with nightly performances at 8 p.m. through Saturday. Tickets are free, but should be reserved through the Box Office.
It's October 1904 in Martin's riotous comedy, when Picasso and Einstein meet in the bar of the Parisian café Lapin Agile.
Both are convinced that they will be the ones who change the course of history — Einstein through his Special Theory of Relativity and Picasso through his art. Along the way, they are challenged by drunks, bartenders, servers, and a surprise guest.
The performances showcase Wabash's most outstanding and seasoned actors, and demonstrate the depth of talent across the College. Starring as Picasso is Raynor Mendoza, while Jake Peacock nails his role as Einstein. They spend the evening in the bar owned by Joe Mount, who plays Freddy and serves up glass after glass to patrons Gaston (played hysterically by James Morey) and Sagot (Chris McCloskey).
Felicia Santiago and Elise Lockwood, actresses from DePauw University, are also outstanding. Santiago plays Germaine, who is the waitress at the Lapin Agile, while Lockwood plays three characters — Suzanne (a blond), The Countess (a red head), and A Female Admirer (a brunette).
Freshman Zachary Canon, whose character Charles Schmendiman thinks his invention of rigid construction materials will change the course of history beyond lesser scientific theories and art, blasts into scene after scene wearing a banana-colored suit with a showman's knack of performance.
Patrick Kvachkoff appears late in a memorable performance as "A Visitor" whose name is never known, but whose presence shakes up the sleepy bar.
"Einstein and Picasso are young men on the verge of the world-shifting ideas that will define both them and the century to come," said Director James Cherry. "They find themselves at a bar, where they debate the meaning of genius, art, science, and love — while contemplating what the future might hold for us all.
James Gross designed the set, Andrea Bear the costumes, and Laura Glover designed the lighting for the production.
Josh Lutton is the stage manager for Picasso at the Lapin Agile and D.J. Young is the assistant to the director.
Tickets can be reserved by email at boxoffice@wabash.edu or by calling 765-361-6411. The box office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. and 90 minutes prior to curtain.


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Unions Announce Referendum To Overturn Board Of Supes' Raise
MARTINEZ (BCN)
Contra Costa County public employees unions have started to gather signatures for a referendum to overturn the county Board of Supervisors' recent decision to give themselves a 33 percent raise, union officials announced today.
With Public Employees Union, Local 1, the county's largest union, leading the charge, union leaders are set this afternoon to notify the county registrar of voters in Martinez of their intent to seek signatures for a referendum to invalidate the salary hike.
Union representatives will need to gather at least 24,000 signatures from registered county voters by January in order for the referendum to succeed, according to Public Employees Union, Local 1 assistant general manager Phil Hu.
If the referendum is successful, the board would have to revisit the pay raise ordinance and would have to seek voter approval in order to pass another salary increase.
The move comes three weeks after the supervisors voted 4-1 to raise their salaries from $97,483 to $129,227 next year amid vocal opposition from county employees unions and other community members.
Supervisor Candace Andersen cast the sole "no" vote on the salary hike, citing the meager raises given to county employee groups in recent years.
"For many years now, our members have been told during bargaining that times are tough, that our tax base isn't the same as other counties, that we're all in it together. Our members have dealt with layoffs, furloughs, takebacks, increased health premiums, increased retirement payments," Hu said.
"Now here comes the initial sign that economic times are starting to get a little better ... and the people that have consistently pled poverty during negotiations now basically run to the front of the line and say, 'Me first,'" Hu said.
He noted that the Board of Supervisors also voted to tie their salaries to those of the county's Superior Court judges, as is the practice in several other Bay Area counties. Under the ordinance passed by the supervisors, the board will receive a raise whenever the judges do.
"What happens then is, it is completely out of sight or out of mind, it no longer comes to public scrutiny," Hu said.
The four supervisors who voted for the raise have said that while raising their own salaries is always a controversial move, the increase is necessary after many years of delaying the issue and will prevent them from having to vote on their own raises in the future.
The board last voted to give themselves a 60 percent raise in 2007 in a move that also incited fierce opposition from county employees' unions.
Ken Westermann, president of the Contra Costa County Deputy Sheriffs Association, said he doesn't begrudge the board their raises, but questions the amount of the increase and the timing.
"We've tried over the last decade to bargain in good faith," Westermann said. "We've seen cut after cut and I've had to go to my members and say, 'They can't afford to give us what we know we deserve.'"
"For me, when the supervisors do this, I have to take a stand. It's a matter of principle," he said.
The supervisors' raise comes as the county continues to shed law enforcement officers and other personnel seeking higher pay in other counties.
More than 40 sheriff's deputies left the county this year for better pay at other agencies, according to Westermann.
Contra Costa County Administrator David Twa (925) 335-1080 or county spokeswoman Betsy Burkhart (925) 313-1183
Contra Costa County DSA President Ken Westermann (925) 228-9710
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Senior Full Stack Engineer (Front End projects initially) at Synthace Ltd. (London, UK)
We're looking for a problem solver with UI frameworks experience and a passion for creating good looking interactions to join our Product Engineering team.
This would suit you if you have a full stack background with a strong interest in front end projects and interfaces.
Good software products are hard to make. They require compassion for impatient users with work to do. They require careful tradeoffs between many features that would all be great to have. They require taking ambiguous, complex problems and turning them into simple, coherent features that make users feel smart and capable.
Synthace's users are scientists in laboratories using robots to do experiments that humans are physically not capable of doing. Our users are working on next generation drugs and treatments to help cure illnesses including Covid-19, cancer, Alzheimer's, and more.
With our software - Antha - our users do biological experiments at a scale that literally has never existed. If we help them succeed, we get to help make the world better in very concrete terms. If that sounds like a problem space that you want to work in, read on!
To explain it further, Antha is effectively a visual IDE for scientists to design biological experiments, run simulations, and control automated robotic lab equipment such as liquid handling machines.
What you'd be doing:
Initially focussing on Front End projects, you'll add value by building the features that enhance the user experience. It's therefore important that you have experience with UI frameworks.
Usability and coherence are our current obsessions. We're making complex science as simple as possible for everyone at every level of technical expertise, including the most reluctant user.
We're looking for someone senior, but 'senior' isn't the number of years on your CV or a title. 'Senior,' to us, is when you have that special mixture of being very good technically, having a constant urge to learn and grow, and being very good at picking the right work to do. 'Senior' is when you can instinctively figure out the critical path between where we are now and where we need to be. 'Senior' is also the person who then rolls up their sleeves and helps get us there.
We're building a full-stack product development team - each member is somewhere on the scale between pure Front End specialist to all round Full Stack engineer.
We hire for potential as much as experience. We are hiring the best and/or the most promising engineers, and culture matters significantly. We are bringing together a group of friendly, open, supportive, focused, and highly competent engineers to create a product that our users will demand more of.
Our team is made up of a mixture of tech industry veterans and mid-level engineers who have shown great promise along with a capability to deliver great work, with experience at companies like Bloomberg, Facebook, Monzo, etc. as well as some other interesting start-ups. (You don't need to work for a big tech company to join us - you just need to have an appreciation for writing well structured code).
We believe deeply that diversity of thought creates better products. Our product team is much more diverse than most teams and we're super keen to continue building on that by supporting and encouraging different perspectives and approaches.
The stack:
For this specific opening we need you to be a master of UI development - Typescript/Javascript, CSS, HTML, etc. If you also know React, great! If you have experience with animation that would also be a bonus, but don't worry if not.
As a team we use TypeScript, React, TypeORM, Postgres, GraphQL, and NodeJS (with a smattering of legacy Golang), but you don't need to know these now - we believe that smart people can learn a new stack easily.
If you don't already work with these technologies but you're keen to, that works for us. We're looking for people with experience building good products first and people who know our specific tech second.
Would you fit?
You can read much more about our culture and what you would be building on our careers, engineering and blog pages:
www.synthace.com/careers www.synthace.com/engineering www.synthace.com/article-types/article/
If you enjoy writing high quality code and believe that understanding the user and delivering the right product is the most important thing to focus on, and if you want to join a team of people united behind a mission of building products that make biology work better for the entire world...
Get in touch! :)
Why work at Synthace:
Work with genuinely extraordinary people
Open, collaborative, and friendly culture
Challenging, groundbreaking and exciting work
Chance to be a part of the 'fourth industrial revolution', helping us to create tools and systems that allow scientists to do things like cure Cancer faster!
Salary: £80k-£110k depending on experience
Other benefits: Equity (stock options), 10% pension, private health, and more! Further details available on our careers site (www.synthace.com/careers)
Location: West London (remote during lockdown, but we hope to be spending 3+ days a week in the office soon) Our diversity gives us strength.
We value the wealth of knowledge, different perspectives and insights that come from having a truly diverse group of amazing colleagues, and an important part of the way we work is based around sharing knowledge with each other.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Any personal data we collect from you as part of the recruitment process will be processed in accordance with the GDPR; please see our Privacy Policy for more information, which can be found at: https://www.synthace.com/privacy-policy/


The company "Złoty Skorpion" manufactures rings of the highest quality based on the latest technologies. We use specially selected raw materials and the best tools so that your rings shine like no others. The production of rings is a complicated process, which requires an unusual eye for quality at each stage. In the company "Złoty Skorpion" we care about each ring individually, developing and improving the production technology and management methods every day.
At the very beginning there is pure gold, which is too soft to become a ring. We add a special hypoallergenic blend improving usability. In this way an alloy is formed and then a pipe.
The pipe is cut into rollers. If the roller is multi-color – the rollers are joined together without solder – diffusion method, called sintering.
The roller prepared in this way goes to the rolling mill, where it gets a size. It is still to early to call it a ring. We can talk about it after machining on the most modern CNC lathes.
We make diamond decorations and stone setting on specialist CNC machines, guaranteeing the precision of workmanship unattainable for the human hand.
Taking care that the rings produced by the company "Złoty Skorpion" have a soul – we hand them over into the hands of the masters of jewelry.
Perfect finish of every plane, attention to every detail requires a human eye and hand. If you order engraving, your rings are decorated using laser technique.
A skillful combination of the latest technology , knowledge and experience of the masters of jewelry makes it possible for the company "Złoty Skorpion" to offer you the product of the highest quality, which is ideally matched to your expectations.


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Press Clipping is the exclusive sponsor of Creative Portfolio – The Best of Adriatic Advertising 2018!
Creative Portfolio 02 will, among other, show who are the creative teams, and who are the advertisers who are raising the standards in creative communication in our region
Creative Portfolio, the first edition of which was released in May this year, is an annual review of the greatest creative achievements in advertising in the Adriatic region in a given year. All works awarded at national and regional festivals are presented in the book: Slovenian Advertising Festival SOF, Effie Serbia, Effie Croatia, Idea X and MIXX (Days of Communication of Croatia), BalCannes, Golden Drum, SEMPL and UEPS Serbia.
The second edition of the Creative Portfolio, due in mid-February 2019, will feature all the works awarded in 2018, which was very fruitful for the advertising industry of the Adriatic region. The book's preparation is coming to a close. The only award ceremony that remains to be held is the UEPS Awards on December 21 in Belgrade, and the creative fairy tale of the Adriatic region for this year will be concluded.
Media Marketing, publisher of the Creative Portfolio, has signed an exclusive sponsorship agreement with Press Clipping from Maribor, which marks its 25th anniversary next year. It is no accident that Press Clipping has decided to support the regional communications industry in this way. Many have noted that the only constant of the Media Marketing portal is the banner of Press Clipping in the top position of our banner column since the portal was launched.
"Press Clipping was the first to accept our mission and vision, and believed that the portal would become what it has been for years now – the most relevant media for the regional advertising industry. In a recent research into the satisfaction of our readers, 29% of respondents noticed that the Press Clipping banner is a constant fixture on our top banner spot. I am grateful to Tatjana Novak and her team for their support to our portal, and their great creativity in designing their banners. When we contacted a couple of potential sponsors for the Creative Portfolio, one of the first to respond was the Press Clipping, and we were very glad for that. There's a certain logic to it. What else is a Creative Portfolio that includes all the award-winning campaigns than a 'clipping' from national and regional festivals," said Ekrem Dupanović, co-author and editor of the Creative Portfolio.
"Anyone who goes through the pages of this year's Creative Portfolio will experience an explosion of inspiration, whether they are a student or a CEO. This year some new agencies entered the book, some of them with more than one project. In the region, several extraordinary socially responsible campaigns were designed to save lives, and there's a large number of those which have exceeded all sales targets of the client. To the pride of the festivals, whose juries this year awarded prizes to the most creative and most effective solutions, and to anyone who participated in their creation in any way, Creative Portfolio 02 will show, among other things, who are the creative teams and who are the advertisers who push the standards when it comes to creativity of communication solutions in our region. Everyone needs to see and know this. And to learn from them," said Asja Dupanović, co-author and executive editor of the Creative Portfolio.
And finally, as icing on the cage, here's what Tatjana Novak, CEO Press Clipping, said of the sponsorship of Creative Portfolio 02:
"I am proud to say that together with my business partners Boštjan Vilčnik, Helena Koščica, Goran Stojanovič and Vladimir Savić, as well as the team of our employees and external associates, we daily influence the key decisions of brands through accurate tracking and analysis of the media content.
2019 will be the year in which we will celebrate the 25th anniversary of our business. As the advertising industry changed from a pen to 3D animation, so have we upgraded our humble scissors over time with cutting-edge IT solutions. Being creative is imperative for success in the advertising industry. Unfortunately, in our day-to-day business, what matters are the facts: key topics turn into graphs of efficiency and activity and, through know-how, into competitive edge and decision-making goals. But that does not mean that we are not creative in our business. We absolutely are.
Press clipping and the advertising industry have a common trait in following media content and analysis of competitiveness, positioning of brands, and stories that are created from ideas that are recognized through marketing messages not only in digital, but across all other elements of promotion.
I wish to congratulate all agencies whose ideas will be presented in this historic book.
I believe that Creative Portfolio 02 will be an inspiration for the future, just as our inspiration were our clients with whom we create new products for new successes.
Press Clipping will always stand alongside the communications industry, to provide it all the support it needs," said Tatjana Novak.
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Diary of a Methuselah #152: Jure Apih handed me the baton of The Cup
Region's Top Ten Campaigns in 2018 were created by: McCann Beograd, McCann Podgorica, Ovation BBDO Begrade, New Moment New Ideas Company Belgrade, Saatchi&Saatchi Belgrade, Pristop, Agency 101 Ljubljana, Luna\TBWA Ljubljana, Communis DDB Belgrade and BBDO Zagreb
Diary of a Methuselah #143: Annual meeting of the Media Marketing team, Outstanding awards enter the Creative Portfolio, Ena Maglić, Ilarija Bašić, Asja's birthday, Tilda Bogdanović and Nino Verber
Diary of a Methuselah #133: Four greatest things that happened to Media Marketing in 2018
Interview with Ekrem Dupanović on Creative Portfolio, Balcannes, and more
Creative Portfolio takes you behind the scenes of the best projects of the BalCannes
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Tenure-track faculty position in experimental nuclear physics
Texas A&M University - College Station
Date Posted Nov. 3, 2020
Title Tenure-track faculty position in experimental nuclear physics
University Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX, United States
Department Physics and Astronomy
Application Deadline open until filled
Position Start Date Aug. 1, 2021
Apply Online Here http://apply.interfolio.com/80603
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Job Categories	 Assistant Professor
Academic Fields	 Physics - Elementary Particles/Nuclear
The Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science, of Texas A&M University invites applications for an assistant professor in experimental low-energy nuclear physics. This is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position with a nine-month academic appointment. The anticipated start date is August 1, 2021.
The position includes joint appointments in the Cyclotron and Nuclear Science Institutes. The successful candidate will establish a vigorous, independent research program that will attract external funding, assume full teaching responsibilities at the graduate and undergraduate levels of physics, and contribute to the service missions of the department. A significant portion of the research program will be based at the Cyclotron Institute and contribute to its thriving research environment.
The Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute, a Department of Energy University Center of Excellence, is jointly supported by the DOE and the State of Texas and is a major technical and educational resource for the state and the nation. The low-energy nuclear physics group pursues research in the areas of nuclear structure, weak interactions and fundamental symmetries, exotic nuclei, nuclear astrophysics, intermediate-energy reaction dynamics, nuclear thermodynamics, the nuclear equation of state, atomic physics, and applied nuclear science. These accelerator-based programs utilize the resources available at the Institute, which includes two cyclotrons – a newly-refurbished K150 and a superconducting K500 – as well as a wide variety of modern experimental equipment.
Texas A&M University is committed to enriching the learning and working environment for all students, researchers, faculty, staff, and visitors by promoting a culture that embraces inclusion, diversity, equity, and accountability. We are committed to diversity in all its forms, and we encourage applications from prospective faculty who can enhance the diversity of backgrounds and ideas in our group.
Information on the Department of Physics and Astronomy is available at http://physics.tamu.edu, and information on the Cyclotron Institute is available at https://cyclotron.tamu.edu. Positions include competitive benefits through Texas A&M; see https://employees.tamu.edu/benefits for details.
The successful candidate must hold an earned PhD or equivalent advanced degree in physics or a related field and have a strong, demonstrated record of original research in low-energy nuclear physics.
All applications must be submitted online through Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/80603. For full consideration, applications should be completed by December 11, 2020. Application review will begin at that time and continue until the position has been filled.
Each applicant should
●	submit a cover letter stating a specific interest in the faculty position in experimental nuclear physics;
●	submit a curriculum vitae, including full publication list;
●	submit a description of future research plans (maximum three pages);
●	submit a teaching statement (maximum one page);
●	submit a statement describing how he/she would promote an environment of diversity and inclusion through his/her activities of education, research, and service at Texas A&M University (maximum 1 page); and
●	arrange to have three letters of recommendation submitted directly through Interfolio.
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Alright, already! I get it, I get it!
All of my wonderful friends, family, and amazing encouragers have been telling me to, 'start a blog'.
Well, I HAVE a blog, but since I've not written anything since February, I can see why people might think I don't have one!
So, I'll face you all and be as real as I am one-to one.
I'm talking about the mirror that makes me take stock in where I am in my life. What have I done to get me here? What am I doing to move myself past this hurdle (or personal pot-hole)? Am I really even trying?
So, for those of you who I haven't been in contact with lately, I have been unemployed for just over a year.
Yeah, I worked seasonally at Costco. I started a perfectly ok job at a local credit union with WONDERFUL people. I was lured away by the prospect of another possibility (more money/career possibilities)...which turned out to be a miserable fit for my personality and skill-set. I'd like to say I got fired, but I really just left before they had the chance. It wasn't my smartest move, but I couldn't bear the reality of another position ending...where it wasn't my fault. So I had to resign/quit/whatever you want to call it. And here I find myself unemployed, again.
So, here I sit, a year after being unceremoniously let go from a job that I really enjoyed (well, enjoyed who I worked with and many things surrounding it...the job was fine, really) without any prospects for gainful employment.
I AM, however, looking at going back to get my Masters degree. (What else am I going to do with my time, right?). Many options, but little income (from me), lately.
This all brings me to my mirrors that I've been avoiding.
The second: Well, I haven't been doing much at all, lately. Lots of wallowing and copious amounts of sleeping in and napping. Neither of these are helpful to my situation or my health. I am sure that my husband is still waiting for that 'burst of energy' that comes when you are about to have a baby. I believe they call it 'nesting' and many people use it to clean house or organize (and re-organize) the house. It didn't happen with either boys nor before the girl came home. He's been waiting almost 15 years for that. This time in our lives would be a great time for it to kick in!
To answer the third question, I need to really go back to my God Mirror and do some praying and read some scripture. If any of you have any to suggest, I'd love to hear it.
I'm not sure how much of this blog will be helpful to others except to show that no matter how fun/funny/well-put together someone may seem on social media...in most cases, it's not that pretty on the insides of their brains. We all have messes to clean up.
Unfortunately, Windex won't do anything to clear up this mirror for me. Only God can. I am also keenly aware that God uses others as his hands and feet. I want to be those hands and feet, but I seem to feel like I need to find my own first.
Blessings to all and thanks for listening to me ramble.
Off to pray and attempt to approach my God Mirror...whether I want to hear what He has to say, or not!
Thank you all for letting me spout off....and I hope to be more upbeat next time!


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Q: how to aggregate multiple tasks into a single python function? I'm working on a dataframe that i have been able to clean by running the following codes in separate cells in jupyter notebook.  However, I need to run these same tasks on several dataframes that are organized exactly the same.  How can i write a function that can execute the tasks 2 through 4 below?
For reference, the date I'm working with is located here.
[1]: df1 = pd.read_csv('202110-divvy-tripdata.csv')

[2]: df1.drop(columns=['start_station_name','start_station_id','end_station_name','end_station_id','start_lat','start_lng','end_lat','end_lng'],inplace=True)

[3]: df1['ride_length'] = pd.to_datetime(df1.ended_at) - pd.to_datetime(df1.started_at)

[4]: df1['day_of_week'] = pd.to_datetime(df1.started_at).dt.day_name()

A: You can define a function in a cell in Jupyter, run this cell and then call the function:
def process_df(df):
    df['ride_length'] = pd.to_datetime(df.ended_at) - pd.to_datetime(df.started_at)
    df['day_of_week'] = pd.to_datetime(df.started_at).dt.day_name()

Call the function with each DataFrame:
df1 = pd.read_csv('data1.csv')
df2 = pd.read_csv('data2.csv')

process_df(df1)
process_df(df2)

According to this answer, both DataFrames will be altered in place and there's no need to return a new object from the function.

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The End (of 2013) Is Nigh
Published December 18, 2013 | By leechaos
So, after a phenomenal year, we are drawing a festive tarpaulin over the temp0rary toy-boxes and catching our breath for a couple of weeks before we start to line up the adventures for 2014. However, December ended up having a couple of auxilary adventures in that were a perfect full-stop to the year.
Firstly, we got back the results of our photo shoot with Sean Gummer, who was an absolute joy to work with, and we couldn't be happier with the end results. Below are some of our favourites.
And then as a perfect end to the year, we played at the Little Wolf Parade end of year party with some brilliant and insping (and occasionally wonderfully crazy!) performance artists. We had planned to do a longform noise exploration, but when we arrived at the venue, we found it was perfect for a more cinematic performance, and by the end of the night, we got the distinct impression that people wanted to get their groove on so we elected to drop some noisy bass. Here's a handful of photos (courtesy of Amy & Kirsty who were brilliant at helping out with the tech on the day) and some footage shot with a camera precariously balanced on the keyboard stand:
We're already excited about 2014, but don't want to count our chickens before they're hatched… however, we are also dreadful teases so we can reveal that we have plans for 2 series' of gigs in unusual locations, and are planning to do some collaborative work with one of our favourite bands on a big exciting project, all of which we hope to share with you in the first third of the year.
And on that note, I'm off to enjoy some Egg Nog and some Die Hard – thanks to everyone we've worked with and who has supported us in 2013, it's been phenomenal. Let's do it all again in 2014, but bigger, brighter and louder!
Lies, damn lies and gigs
Published December 4, 2013 | By leechaos
Yet again, dear reader, I have uttered an untruth. I said that we had completed all live commitments for 2013 with temporary, and then Little Wolf Parade offered us the opportunity to be involved in this:
So, our final gig of 2013 (until further notice) will be in Nottingham on Friday 13th December – this will be a full A/V show and is quite a lengthy set (we're due to be on stage from 8-9.30pm), plus we'll be using some more tech to keep things fresh and seat-of-the-pants and ensure it's another unique show.


These hub centric adapters are used for 5 lug 130mm bolt pattern Porsche hub to fit 5 lug 130mm Porsche factory wheels. CNC machined 6061 T6 billet aluminum. New wheel studs and lug nuts are included. They have a snug fit on vehicle hub. The raised lip centers the following factory wheel perfectly.
They fit the following models with factory hub height no more than 20mm (see the the way to measure in the diagram below). The front hub in some years like model 944, 928,911 stick out further than the rear. You will need to do the measurement to make sure these adapters fit on the front also.


Kelvin had taken a voluntary leave of absence last year after staff members accused him of inappropriate physical contact.
LONDON — Ray Kelvin, the founder and part owner of British high street retailer Ted Baker, has resigned as chief executive officer amid an investigation into allegations of misconduct and inappropriate physical contact with staff.
Kelvin, who had taken a voluntary leave of absence last year, denies all allegations of misconduct. Acting chief executive officer Lindsay Page will continue in this role while David Bernstein will act as executive chairman. Bernstein said he will continue in this position until no later than Nov. 30, 2020, by which time a successor will be appointed.


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Commentary / Japan
Japan can end child marriage at home, and help end it abroad
Aziza, a Syrian refugee and former child bride, tends to her baby in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon on Feb. 2. | THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/HEBA KANSO
by Kanae Doi
Japan looks set to join the global push to end child marriage. It is time for Japan to do much more to help end child marriage not only at home, but around the world.
A proposed revision of the Civil Code would set the minimum marriage age at 18 for both females and males. At present, people must be at least 20 to marry without parental permission; with parental permission males can marry at 18 and females as young as 16. The government-proposed amendment would take effect in 2022.
This step is long overdue. Two decades ago, the Justice Ministry's Legislative Council proposed an updated Civil Code that set the marriage age at 18 for everyone, but it was not adopted. Different marriage ages for females and males are discriminatory and go against Japan's international human rights obligations. And child marriage — under age 18 — is a global epidemic with devastating consequences for girls and their families.
The vast majority of married children — over 80 percent — are girls. Around the world, 12 million girls marry each year. Many of the countries with the highest rates of child marriage are in Africa, South Asia and Latin America, but child marriage is also a problem in the United States, Europe and, yes, though the number is small, in Japan. A Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry population survey found that 1,357 of 630,000 females who submitted marriage registrations in 2015 were 16 and 17.
Child marriages are often coerced or forced. Children have little ability to resist when their families decide they should marry. Families marry off their daughters for a range of reasons, including poverty, discriminatory attitudes toward girls, pressure created by dowry and bride-price systems, insecurity stemming from conflict and disaster, lack of access to education for girls, and stigma related to girls having romantic or sexual relationships outside of marriage.
The harm from child marriage is remarkably similar around the world. Married children are at great risk of dropping out of school, making it more likely that they, and their children, will live in poverty.
Married girls face serious health risks, including from giving birth before their bodies are fully developed, and having closely spaced births. These can include fistula, uterine prolapse, low birth weight, complications in delivery and death. Child marriage is also associated with other health problems, including mental health problems such as depression.
Married girls are also more likely to face domestic violence and less likely to escape it. They are usually expected to have sex whenever their husbands want it, so rape often becomes routine.
These are some of the reasons that under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which went into effect in January 2016, countries around the world, including Japan, agreed to a target of ending all child marriage by 2030. Countries including the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Malawi, Nepal, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden — and a growing number of U.S. states — have recently revised their laws to end or reduce child marriage. Many other countries have developed or are developing national action plans for ending child marriage by 2030.
Japan is joining this important global fight by setting the minimum marriage age at 18. However, as the world's third-largest economy and human rights as a core value, Japan should not stop there.
The Japanese government is a major contributor of international development assistance. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) works in 29 of the 40 countries that UNICEF said in 2017 had the highest child marriage rates, including Niger, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, South Sudan and India.
But JICA has little programming focused on helping to end child marriage, and Japan's foreign minister rarely talks about child marriage. This should change. The Foreign Ministry should make ending child marriage a priority in Japan's foreign policy. JICA should develop a strategy for helping to end child marriage globally, and integrate support for ending child marriage into its country programs around the world.
Japan makes itself a more credible partner in the global fight by ending child marriage at home. Key donor countries such as the U.S. and Britain still need to address child marriage at home before they can fully contribute to the global effort. Japan can help fill the gap.
The government should be proud of its effort to end child marriage at home. It should build on the new law by taking a more active role in the global effort and by supporting reform in the many countries where many girls are losing their future by marrying too young.
Kanae Doi is the Japan director of Human Rights Watch.
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CPR021-Red Alert "Third and Final EP" (White vinyl)
Reissue of the first 7" from '80s Sunderland heroes. Recorded at 'Guardian Studios' (Durham, UK) and originally released in 1980 by Guardian Records 'n' Tapes (own band-label). Just 250 copies were pressed (today it's impossible to find a copy of this original release), wich they sold outside record shops and at gigs. Some years later, in 1994, french label Combat Rock reissue this EP recalled as "Border Guards", this time with a different artwork. Thirty seven years later, Common People Records reissue this fucking brilliant EP, with the same idea that the original artwork, that was issued in 1980, wich also includes a insert with all the lyrics. Four top english Punk tracks, before the band take finally a Oi! line one year later with the "In Britain" demo recording. This EP was released when Steve Smith, Tony Van Frater, Gaz Stuart, Kid Stoker and Mitch were not yet 18 years old. 4 tracks!
It hasn't been that long since Common People Records issued Red Alert's singles collection "The Oi! Singles" on LP for the very first time. With a slightly shorter tracklist than the original CD version on Captain Oi! – the LP version covered the period between 1980 and 1983 – it still contained all crucial Red Alert singles and EP's, including the band's debut – the "Third And Final" E.P. Therefore it might be a bit odd to reissue Red Alert's classic first effort individually as well, but on the other hand – why not? The original 1980 release is selling at a hefty price tag and the reissue by Combat Rock in 1994 – released under the title "Border Guards" – is long out of print as well. All good reasons to give this "Third And Final" E.P. a third – and final? – go. The four tracks, "Third And Final", "Border Guards", "Sell Out" and "District Boredom", still stand their ground nearly 40 years after their initial release. Just clocking over six minutes long, the songs are short, yet powerful and one for one crucial anthems that should be in your collection one way or another! Along with a revision of the original front cover artwork and the limitation of just 100 copies on white vinyl (the remaining 650 copies come on black vinyl), Common People Records made this pressing interesting for both newcomers and collectors, or anyone who didn't own this classic piece of British Oi!-punk history already!
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Border Guards
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Sometimes getting your animal into the hospital isn't an option. Luckily, Northside Veterinary Hospital provides you with an alternative.
– Injured horses or other large animals.
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Pom Pom Strikes Back is a 1986 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Wu Ma and starring Richard Ng and John Shum. It is the fourth and final film in the Pom Pom film series which is a spin-off the Lucky Stars series.

Plot
Police officers Chow (Richard Ng) and Beethoven (John Shum) are close friend who must protect a witness May (May Lo Mei Mei) after she witnesses a gangland murder. Meanwhile Beethoven mistakenly discovers that Chow is dying of cancer and sets out to make his last few months memorable.

Cast
 Richard Ng as officer Ng Ah Chiu
 John Shum as officer Beethoven
 Deannie Yip as Mrs Anna Ng, Ng's wife
 May Lo Mei-Mei as May

References

External links

1980s Cantonese-language films
Hong Kong comedy films
1986 comedy films
1986 films
1980s Hong Kong films

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NYR Calendar
NYR and NYRB
Readings and Talks
Selected by NYR Staff
July 13, 2018, 6 pm—8:30 pm
A Berlin Memorial for Liu Xiaobo
Gethsemane Church, Berlin
On July 13, the one-year anniversary of the day the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo died in custody, writers, scholars, and activists—including the regular New York Review contributor Ian Johnson—will gather at the Gethsemane Church in Berlin to honor his life and work.
Selected by J. Hoberman
May 30, 2018—July 15, 2018
June Films: Fonda, Visconti, Hammer Horror, Putin's Russia, and One-off Documentarists
June brings us retrospectives of Luchino Visconti and Jane Fonda; documentaries by directors best known for their fiction filmmaking; cinema from Putin's Russia; and part one of a long-awaited survey of Hammer horror.
Reviewed in Daily
March 7, 2018—July 15, 2018
'Foujita: Painting in the Roaring Twenties'
Musée Maillol, Paris
Throughout the 1920s in Paris, the painter Tsuguharu Foujita cut an arresting figure: a Japanese modernist as willing to trade on his own foreignness as he was to blend into his Parisian surroundings
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
With Bawden's formal brilliance goes a tender, amused feeling for the value of all life—from the seaside tourists of the 1920s to the war-time soldiers, from the creepy-crawlies of Snails for All, drawn for his children in 1945, to the snarling Tyger! Tyger! of 1974. After seeing all these, who can say that Edward Bawden, this serious if unclassifiable artist, is merely a purveyor of charm?
March 23, 2018—July 22, 2018
'America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper'
A new exhibition at the Ashmolean gives an education in the work produced by the precisionist artists of the 1920s through the 1940s, who used sharp, well-defined lines and striking applications of pigment to master the anxieties and ambivalences associated with modern life.
April 23, 2018—July 22, 2018
'Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985'
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
An exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum gives a sprawling overview of twenty-five intensely productive years in Latin American feminist art, gathering the work of 123 artists from fifteen countries who ranged across video, photography, installation and performance art, painting, film, sculpture, and dance.
July 4, 2018—August 9, 2018
Summer Movies: A Mad Western, a Cinerama Classic, an Ultimate Underground Film, and a Week of Radical Godard
July and August bring us restored prints of Jean-Luc Godard's "The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company," Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," and Dennis Hopper's "The Last Movie," as well as a week of Godard's radical 1970s agitprop and a fourth-of-July marathon screening of Ken Jacobs's epic "Star-Spangled to Death."
Reviewed in the NYR
April 6, 2018—August 12, 2018
'Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions'
The Drawing Center, New York
The show at the Drawing Center, ably curated by Claire Gilman, restrained though it is by the modest size of the space, is a robust sampling of the last thirty-five years of Winters's career.
February 28, 2018—August 27, 2018
'All Too Human: Bacon, Freud, and a Century of Painting Life'
Tate Britain, London
A major exhibition at the Tate illustrates the competing and overlapping streams of painterly obsession in London in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows us how, in their different ways, painters such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, and Paula Rego redefined realism.
February 8, 2018—August 31, 2018
The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki
Museum of Sex, New York
To criticize Araki's photos—naked women pissing into umbrellas at a live sex show, women with flowers stuck into their vaginas, women in schoolgirl uniforms suspended in bondage, and so on—for being pornographic, vulgar, or obscene, is rather to miss the point.
June 28, 2018—September 5, 2018
'Michael Jackson: On the Wall'
National Portrait Gallery, London
"Michael Jackson: On The Wall" gathers together the work of forty-eight disparate artists exploring the legacy of perhaps the most frequently depicted cultural figure in history. The recurring theme throughout is of Michael Jackson as a godlike figure, existent among us though infused with the divine, visible yet unreachable, with the music the cord that connected him to us.
Selected by James Romm
June 8, 2018—September 23, 2018
'Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders'
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York
If you haven't stood face to face with a cephalophore recently, then you may need a trip to the Morgan Library's "Medieval Monsters" exhibition, open until September 23. Artisans of the Middle Ages explored the human condition through disruptions and distortions that were at once terrifying, alien, and wondrous.
June 24, 2018—September 30, 2018
Outliers and American Vanguard Art
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
An outsider artist might as easily be someone whose daily experience—as, say, a black person in the South—has kept that person from having any real contact with the larger culture beyond his or her immediate community. "Outliers and American Vanguard Art" gives us not only a new label—"outliers" instead of "outsiders"—but, more ambitiously, a look at how trained, and progressive, artists have responded to outsider art.
July 6, 2018—September 30, 2018
'Sorry to Bother You'
Lit by California's neon sun and neon signs, flecked with bright colors that bespeak black aesthetics of the 1980s and 1990s—think the hip-hop groups TLC and Salt-N-Peppa, or the Friday movies—Sorry to Bother You has been described as indebted to music videos. But it feels more like a brilliant cartoon to me: dubbed voices, slapstick violence, dumb jokes, over-the-top gestures.
July 3, 2018—October 7, 2018
'Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection'
The Met Breuer, New York
The several dozen drawings of the female nude that Thayer left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art range from some of Gustav Klimt's and Egon Schiele's recklessly erotic studies to a group of Picassos in which the neoclassical line suggests not coolness but banked heat.
June 22, 2018—October 7, 2018
'Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain'
Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
Gathered together in the second room of The Hepworth Wakefield's excellent new show "Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain," in West Yorkshire, is a selection of candid snaps both Miller and Man Ray took during their Cornish adventure. This endlessly fascinating exhibition reveals that Miller was a woman who saw things differently.
July 14, 2018—October 21, 2018
'Emil Nolde: Colour is Life'
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
How can one place this vital, revolutionary Danish-German artist, this great colorist whose paintings are so bold and sensual, yet who often was so virulently anti-Semitic, even joined the Nazi party, yet was subsequently banned as a painter making "degenerate art"?
May 19, 2018—October 28, 2018
'René Magritte: The Fifth Season'
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Together, the sunlit and vache paintings present one of the most enduring mysteries—and the greatest curatorial challenge—of a career devoted to intellectual puzzles, visual gags, and what Magritte described as his "systematic search for disturbing poetic effects."
July 22, 2018—February 18, 2019
'Constantin Brancusi Sculpture'
Few artists encapsulate the story of the early twentieth-century avant garde more alluringly than Constantin Brancusi. Featuring just eleven sculptures, the MoMA exhibition offers an elegantly concise introduction to Brancusi's art.


Schubert - String Quartet No 14 "Death and the Maiden"
K. Penderecki - String Quartet No. 3 "Leaves of an unwritten dairy"
Schubert - String Quartet in a minor "Rosamunde"
Soundtrack of the movie "Cargo"
Janacek - String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters"
Janáček – String Quartet no. 2 "Intimate Letters"
Mozart – String Quartet KV 465 No. 19 in C major "Dissonance"
Mozart - String Quartet in C major K465 "Dissonances"
Janáček – String Quartet no. 1 "Kreutzer Sonate"
Haydn: String Quartet Op 1/1 "The Hunt"
Janacek: String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata"
Haydn - String Quartet op. 76 no. 3 in C major "Emperor"
Haydn - String Quartet op. 76 no. 3 "Emperor"
Schubert - String Quartet no. 13 in a minor D. 804 "Rosamunde"
Penderecki – String Quartet no. 3 "Leaves of an unwritten diary"
Janáček - String Quartet no. 1 "Kreutzer Sonate"
Schubert – String Quartet No. 14 in D minor D.810 "Death and the Maiden"
Janacek – String Quartet n. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata"


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New York City Needs Extra $92 Million for Superstorm Sandy Repairs
Build It Back housing program would use the funds to buy out damaged properties, pay contractors
Build It Back's costs would hit $2.3 billion with the new funds. A Sandy-damaged home on Staten Island in 2016.
Photo: Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street Journal
Katie Honan
@Katie_Honan
katie.honan@wsj.com
Jan. 22, 2020 4:40 pm ET
Build It Back, a delayed and over-budget New York City program that was launched seven years ago to rebuild homes damaged by superstorm Sandy, needs an additional $92 million to cover repairs and other work, the city says.
The city plans to allocate $42 million for the housing program in the coming fiscal year, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio's preliminary budget, which he released last week. The city is also seeking $50 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to the mayor's office.
The program was originally budgeted at $1.7 billion, but the cost has risen over the years. With the additional $92 million, the total cost of the program would hit nearly $2.3 billion.
The extra money would help buy out properties that were damaged by the storm, pay contractors, close construction permits and review open legal issues, according to Amy Peterson, the director of the Mayor's Office for Housing Recovery. The program is still working to complete repairs on roughly 75 homes in Brooklyn and Queens, Ms. Peterson said.
"You identify the need upfront, you get into the program and you realize that if you want to serve the people you want to serve, just how complicated it is to actually build in these communities," she said in an interview about the rising cost.


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