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Delivering through diversity - Mc Kinsey
Our latest research reinforces the link between diversity and company financial performance—and suggests how organizations can craft better inclusion strategies for a competitive edge.
Awareness of the business case for inclusion and diversity is on the rise. While social justice typically is the initial impetus behind these efforts, companies have increasingly begun to regard inclusion and diversity as a source of competitive advantage, and specifically as a key enabler of growth. Yet progress on diversification initiatives has been slow. And companies are still uncertain about how they can most effectively use diversity and inclusion to support their growth and value-creation goals.
Gender Equality, Gender BiasBrigitte Bellan March 3, 2018 McKinsey, Diversity
Studies show facial recognition software almost works perfectly – if you're a white male - Global News
Recent studies indicate that the face recognition technology used in consumer devices can discriminate based on gender and race.
A new study out of the M.I.T Media lab indicates that when certain face recognition products are shown photos of a white man, the software can correctly guess the gender of the person 99 per cent of the time. However, the study found that for subjects with darker skin, the software made more than 35 per cent more mistakes.
As part of the Gender Shades project 1,270 photos were chosen of individuals from three African countries and three European countries and were evaluated with (AI) products from IBM, Microsoft and Face++-. The photos were classified further by gender and by skin colour before testing them on these products.
The study notes that while each company appears to have a relatively high rate of accuracy overall, of between 87 and 94 per cent, there were noticeable differences in the misidentified images in different groups.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4019123/facial-recognition-software-work-white-male-report/
Bias, Gender Bias, AIBrigitte Bellan February 12, 2018 Global News, MIT Media Lab, Gender Shades
Technology will widen pay gap and hit women hardest – Davos report- Guardian
Research into jobs finds men's dominance in IT and biotech is reversing trend towards equality
The gulf between men and women at work – in both pay and status – is likely to widen unless action is taken to tackle inequality in high-growth sectors such as technology, say researchers at this week's World Economic Forum summit in Davos.
A new WEF report on the future of jobs finds the dominance of men in industries such as information and biotechnology, coupled with the enduring failure of women to rise to the top even in the health and education sectors, is helping to reverse gender equality after years of improvements.
Women in the Workplace, Women in Economy, Gender Gap, Gender EqualityBrigitte Bellan January 31, 2018 Guardian, Inequality, Davos, The Guardian
Kriti Sharma: rendre l'intelligence artificielle plus éthique - Business au Feminin
Vice-présidente Bots et intelligence artificielle chez Sage, Kriti Sharma est une pionnière dans le développement de machines intelligentes capables de fonctionner et de réagir comme des êtres humains pour simplifier les tâches administratives des entreprises. Elle est aussi la créatrice de Pegg, le premier chatbot de comptabilité au monde qui sera sera commercialisé en 2018 en France et désormais adopté dans 135 pays.
L'intelligence artificielle est une des plus grandes révolutions de notre temps pouvant mettre en danger le pouvoir de l'être humain et son travail. Quel est votre point de vue ?
Kriti Sharma: L'intelligence artificielle est comme n'importe quelle autre révolution technologique majeure, elle aura des implications positives comme négatives. Maintenant, il faut être sûr qu'elles sont utilisées à de bonnes fins. Par exemple pour les petites entreprises qui n'ont pas beaucoup d'équipes technologiques, l'intelligence artificielle peut les aider à automatiser un certain nombre de process.
Par ailleurs, la technologie attire une main d'œuvre de plus en plus diversifiée, ce qui n'existait pas auparavant. L'intelligence artificielle peut également s'automatiser elle-même. Avant, créer un software prenait du temps, maintenant, l'IA commence à écrire ses propres codes. Elle peut, dans une certaine mesure, automatiser le travail de l'ingénieur software. Donc nous avons maintenant un besoin de gens aux compétences créatives, plus seulement des ingénieurs mais une combinaison de profils Art et Science. Autrement dit, vous n'avez pas besoin d'être un ingénieur ou un Data scientifique avec un master pour travailler dans l'intelligence artificielle.
Dans « the end of the professions » David Susskind évoque des professions comme les avocats, qui vont être impactées par l'automatisation et l'intelligence artificielle. Ne pensez-vous pas que cela va accroitre les inégalités à l'échelle mondiale ?
Bias, Biased decisions, AI, Bots, ETHICS, Women in TechBrigitte Bellan January 31, 2018 Kriti Sharma, Sage, Business au Feminin, Bots, BIAS, ethics
How Robots Could Make the Gender Pay Gap Even Worse - Fortune
A new report published Thursday suggests that robots could make the gender pay gap even worse, stoking existing fears and uncertainty around the concept of automation.
In a paper titled "Managing automation Employment, inequality and ethics in the digital age," the Institute for Public Policy Research argued that a greater share of jobs that women hold—46.8% versus 40.9% for men—have the technical potential to be automated since female workers are more likely to hold low-skill "automatable" occupations. Paired with women's underrepresentation in high-skill occupations that may be complemented by technology, that means that automation could exacerbate gender inequality.
"Automation," IPPR says, "is more likely to accelerate inequalities of wealth and income than create a future of mass joblessness."
Initially, IPPR says, automation could narrow the gender pay gap since it would displace women from jobs that tend to earn below-average pay. (According to the latest OECD data, the gender wage gap in the U.K. is 17.1%; in the U.S., it's 18.9%.) But that progress would remain only if displaced women re-entered the labor market at around the new average salary for their gender. That's unlikely, IPPR says. Some industries dominated by women (such as retail or child and elderly care) are seeing less investment in productivity-raising technology, perhaps because the current human labor is so cheap.
Bots, Gender Gap, Gender Pay Data, Women in EconomyBrigitte Bellan January 15, 2018 Claire Zillman, Fortune, Automation, Gender Gap
DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman: In 2018, AI will gain a moral compass - Wired
Humanity faces a wide range of challenges that are characterised by extreme complexity, from climate change to feeding and providing healthcare for an ever-expanding global population. Left unchecked, these phenomena have the potential to cause devastation on a previously untold scale. Fortunately, developments in AI could play an innovative role in helping us address these problems.
At the same time, the successful integration of AI technologies into our social and economic world creates its own challenges. They could either help overcome economic inequality or they could worsen it if the benefits are not distributed widely. They could shine a light on damaging human biases and help society address them, or entrench patterns of discrimination and perpetuate them. Getting things right requires serious research into the social consequences of AI and the creation of partnerships to ensure it works for the public good.
Bias, AI, Ethics, Gender Bias, Transparency, Ethical AIBrigitte Bellan January 6, 2018 Deepmind, Mustafa Suleyman, Ai, AI Now, Moral Compass, Bias, Inequality, Wired
Enquête au cœur de l'intelligence artificielle, ses promesses et ses périls - Le Monde
L'être humain est-il menacé par la technologie ? La machine risque-t-elle de le dominer ? Notre dossier spécial pour faire le tri entre fantasmes et réalité.
L'intelligence artificielle (IA) est à la mode. Rien que dans Le Monde et sur Lemonde.fr, le sujet a été évoqué dans 200 articles en 2017, soit presque 15 % de plus qu'en 2016. Il en a été question dans tous les domaines : en économie, en science, et même en politique, puisque le premier ministre, Edouard Philippe, a confié une mission sur la question au député (LRM) mathématicien Cédric Villani, dont les conclusions sont attendues en janvier.
Il reste à savoir ce que cache ce terme. Bien sûr, il y a ces fantastiques percées montrant que des machines surpassent désormais l'homme dans des tâches spécifiques. Dans le secteur de la santé, elles repèrent mieux que les médecins des mélanomes ou des tumeurs du sein sur des images médicales. Dans le transport, elles causent moins d'accidents que des chauffeurs. Sans compter les autres avancées : la reconnaissance vocale, l'art du jeu (poker, go), l'écriture, la peinture ou la musique. En coulisse de ce monde si particulier s'activent les géants du numérique (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu…) ou des start-up désireuses de leur voler la vedette.
AI, Bias, PrejudiceBrigitte Bellan January 1, 2018 Le MONDE, AI, BIAS, CEDRIC VILLANI
AI reveals, injects gender bias in the workplace - BenefitsPro
While lots of people worry about artificial intelligence becoming aware of itself, then running amok and taking over the world, others are using it to uncover gender bias in the workplace. And that's more than a little ironic, since AI actually injects not just gender, but racial bias into its data—and that has real-world consequences.
A Fox News report highlights the research with AI that reveals workplace bias, uncovered by research from Boston-based Palatine Analytics. The firm, which studies workplace issues, "analyzed a trove of data—including employee feedback and surveys, gender and salary information and one-on-one check-ins between managers and employees—using the power of artificial intelligence."
Bias, AI, Gender Bias, RacismBrigitte Bellan December 26, 2017 BenefitsPro, Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Fox News
The world is relying on a flawed psychological test to fight racism - Quartz Media
In 1998, the incoming freshman class at Yale University was shown a psychological test that claimed to reveal and measure unconscious racism. The implications were intensely personal. Even students who insisted they were egalitarian were found to have unconscious prejudices (or "implicit bias" in psychological lingo) that made them behave in small, but accumulatively significant, discriminatory ways. Mahzarin Banaji, one of the psychologists who designed the test and leader of the discussion with Yale's freshmen, remembers the tumult it caused. "It was mayhem," she wrote in a recent email to Quartz. "They were confused, they were irritated, they were thoughtful and challenged, and they formed groups to discuss it."
Finally, psychologists had found a way to crack open people's unconscious, racist minds. This apparently incredible insight has taken the test in question, the Implicit Association Test (IAT), from Yale's freshmen to millions of people worldwide. Referencing the role of implicit bias in perpetuating the gender pay gap or racist police shootings is widely considered woke, while IAT-focused diversity training is now a litmus test for whether an organization is progressive.
This acclaimed and hugely influential test, though, has repeatedly fallen short of basic scientific standards.
Full article: https://qz.com/1144504/the-world-is-relying-on-a-flawed-psychological-test-to-fight-racism/
Academic, Bias, Biased Decisions, Gender Bias, SexismBrigitte Bellan December 22, 2017 Olivia Goldhill, IAT, Yale University, Unconscious Bias
Unconscious Bias Training Isn't the Silver Bullet For a Biased Hiring Process - Elevate Blog
The latest fashion trend with most of my clients is Unconscious Bias Training. While those trainings are interesting and engaging, and may raise awareness about various biases, there's little evidence to their effectiveness in eliminating those. This is well explained in Diversity and Inclusion specialist's Lisa Kepinski's article, Unconscious Bias Awareness Training is Hot, But the Outcome is Not: So What to Do About It?
Lisa outlines two problems with these trainings:
The "So What?" effect: having done the training, leaders and HR professionals alike remain at loss for the next steps that could deliver a sustainable cultural change, and
The training may backfire by encouraging more biased thinking and behaviors (by conditioning the stereotypes). Moreover, "by hearing that others are biased and it's 'natural' to hold stereotypes, we feel less motivated to change biases and stereotypes are strengthened ('follow the herd' bias)."
Bias, Gender Bias, Hiring, TrainingBrigitte Bellan December 22, 2017 Miriam Grobman, Unconscious Bias, Efficacy, Hiring
Artificial intelligence could hardwire sexism into our future. Unless we stop it- WEF Blog
In five years' time, we might travel to the office in driverless cars, let our fridges order groceries for us and have robots in the classroom. Yet, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2017, it will take another 100 years before women and men achieve equality in health, education, economics and politics.
What's more, it's getting worse for economic parity: it will take a staggering 217 years to close the gender gap in the workplace.
How can it be that the world is making great leaps forward in so many areas, especially technology, yet it's falling backwards when it comes to gender equality?
Bias, AI, Biased decisions, Data, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Women in Tech, Women in the WorkplaceBrigitte Bellan December 16, 2017 Alison Kay, EY, WEF
Microsoft Researcher Details The Real-World Dangers Of Algorithm Bias
However quickly artificial intelligence evolves, however steadfastly it becomes embedded in our lives -- in health, law enforcement, sex, etc. -- it can't outpace the biases of its creators, humans. Microsoft Researcher Kate Crawford delivered an incredible keynote speech, titled "The Trouble with Bias" at Spain's Neural Information Processing System Conference on Tuesday.
Bias, Biased decisions, Academic, AI, Gender Bias, PrejudiceBrigitte Bellan December 11, 2017 Gizmodo, Kate Crawford, Bias, Selection Bias, Microsoft
Working for the algorithm Machines will help employers overcome bias - The Economist
Who is best placed to judge a firm's workers? In 2018 employees everywhere will increasingly feel the effects of the rise of "talent analytics", also known as "people analytics", as they go about their daily work. Having been relatively slow compared with other corporate departments in making use of big data, in 2018 human-resources (HR) folk will become its most enthusiastic proponents—with significant implications for who gets hired, what they are paid and whether they are promoted. Employees will have to get used to being (often unwitting) guinea pigs in frequent HR experiments. And wise ones will think ever more carefully about how they express themselves in e-mails and on digital collaborative-working platforms such as Slack.
One reason is the pressure HR executives will face to make workplaces better for women and minority groups. The limitations of established approaches, such as training and awareness programmes, had caused "diversity fatigue" to set in. But it has become a corporate priority again after shocking headlines in 2017 about sexual discrimination and harassment in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, professional sports and big media firms, which reminded the world that bad corporate culture is a serious business risk.
Bias, Biased decisions, Gender Gap, Women in the Workplace, HRBrigitte Bellan December 5, 2017 The Economist, Uncounscious Bias, Blendoor, Indexio, Betterworks, Matthew Bishop
AI tool quantifies power imbalance between female and male characters in Hollywood movies - Technology Breaking News
At first glance, the movie "Frozen" might seem to have two strong female protagonists — Elsa, the elder princess with unruly powers over snow and ice, and her sister, Anna, who spends much of the film on a quest to save their kingdom.
But the two princesses actually exert very different levels of power and control over their own destinies, according to new research from University of Washington computer scientists.
"'Frozen' is an interesting example because Elsa really does make her own decisions and is able to drive her own destiny forward, while Anna consistently fails in trying to rescue her sister and often needs the help of a man," said lead author and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering doctoral student Maarten Sap, whose team also applied the tool to Wikipedia plot summaries of several classic Disney princess movies.
"Anna is actually portrayed with the same low levels of power and agency as Cinderella, which is a movie that came out more than 60 years ago. That's a pretty sad finding," Sap said.
Bias, AI, Sexism, Stereotypes, MoviesBrigitte Bellan December 1, 2017 AI, Hollywood movies, University of Washington, Paul G. Allen, bias, Yejin Choi, Allen School
Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself? New York Times
As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field's researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know — or how they know it.
In September, Michal Kosinski published a study that he feared might end his career. The Economist broke the news first, giving it a self-consciously anodyne title: "Advances in A.I. Are Used to Spot Signs of Sexuality." But the headlines quickly grew more alarmed. By the next day, the Human Rights Campaign and Glaad, formerly known as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, had labeled Kosinski's work "dangerous" and "junk science."
(They claimed it had not been peer reviewed, though it had.) In the next week, the tech-news site The Verge had run an article that, while carefully reported, was nonetheless topped with a scorching headline: "The Invention of A.I. 'Gaydar' Could Be the Start of Something Much Worse."
AI, Data, ethics, TransparencyBrigitte Bellan December 1, 2017 AI, Black Box, Deep Learning, Michal Kosinski
UK employers join forces to improve tech diversity- FT
UK employers join forces to improve tech diversity.
Data on recruitment and pay to be shared in effort to correct gender imbalance.
In London Technology, media, telecoms and professional services employers in the UK have committed to improving the diversity of their IT staff following scandals that have focused attention on the overwhelmingly male proportion of technology professionals. Eighty nine of the country's largest employers of computer developers — with almost 400,000 employees — have signed up to the Tech Talent Charter, which asks businesses to share recruitment and gender pay gap data specifically for their tech staff.
Gender Pay Data, Women in TechBrigitte Bellan November 23, 2017 FT, Tech Talent Charter, Gender Pay Gap Data, London, Tech Diversity
Something really is wrong on the Internet. We should be more worried. The Washington Post
"Something is wrong on the internet," declares trending in tech circles. But the issue isn't Russian ads or Twitter harassers. It's children's videos.
The piece, by tech writer James Bridle, was published on the heels of a report from the New York Times that described disquieting problems with the popular YouTube Kids app. Parents have been handing their children an iPad to watch videos of Peppa Pig or Elsa from "Frozen," only for the supposedly family-friendly platform to offer up some disturbing versions of the same. In clips camouflaged among more benign videos, Peppa drinks bleach instead of naming vegetables. Elsa might appear as a gore-covered zombie or even in a sexually compromising position with Spider-Man.
The phenomenon is alarming, to say the least, and YouTube has said that it's in the process of implementing new filtering methods. But the source of the problem will remain. In fact, it's the site's most important tool — and increasingly, ours.
YouTube suggests search results and "up next" videos using proprietary algorithms: computer programs that, based on a particular set of guidelines and trained on vast sets of user data, determine what content to recommend or to hide from a particular user. They work well enough — the company claims that in the past 30 days, only 0.005 percent of YouTube Kids videos have been flagged as inappropriate. But as these latest reports show, no piece of code is perfect
Ethics, AI, Children, Bias, Biased DecisionsBrigitte Bellan November 16, 2017 Washington Post, Christine Emba, algorithms, you Tube, Machine Learning
Garbage in. Garbage Out. - NEVERTHELESS
One afternoon in Florida in 2014,18-year Brisha Borden was running to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid's bicycle and a silver scooter. Brisha and a friend grabbed the bike and scooter and tried to ride them down the street. Just as the 18-year-old girls were realizing they were too big for the toys, a woman came running after them saying, "That's my kid's stuff." They immediately dropped the stuff and walked away. But it was too late — a neighbor who witnessed the event had already called the police. Brisha and her friend were arrested and charged with burglary and petty theft for the items, valued at a total of $80.
The previous summer, 41-year-old Vernon Prater was picked up for shoplifting $86.35 worth of tools from a nearby Home Depot store. He had already been convicted of several armed robbery charges and had served 5 years in prison. Borden, the 18 year old, had a record too — but for juvenile misdemeanors.
For the the full transcript and podcast:
https://medium.com/nevertheless-podcast/transcript-garbage-in-garbage-out-78b74b08f16e
Bias, AI, Gender Bias, Gender Gap, Women in the WorkplaceBrigitte Bellan November 8, 2017 Joanna Bryson, ProPublica, Nevertheless, Sue Black, Chuin Phang, Pearson, Carissa Romero, Paradigm
The key to closing the gender gap? Putting more women in charge - WEF
While women worldwide are closing the gap in critical areas such as health and education, significant gender inequality persists in the workforce and in politics. Given current rates of change, this year's Global Gender Gap Reportestimates it will be another 217 years before we achieve gender parity.
As part of its workforce gap analysis, the World Economic Forum turned to LinkedIn to better understand the trends in gender equality across the workforce. Thanks to our unique insight into real-time workforce trends, LinkedIn can provide more depth, nuance, and timeliness than the sort of data historically gathered by governments or NGOs. Our data provides insight into the role women leaders play in driving overall economic equity and participation.
Gender Gap, Women in Economy, Women in the Workplace, Gender EqualityBrigitte Bellan November 6, 2017 World Economic Forum, WEF, Gender Parity Gap
Understanding Bias in Algorithmic Design - ASME Demand
In 2016, The Seattle Times uncovered an issue with a popular networking site's search feature. When the investigative reporters entered female names into LinkedIn's search bar, the site asked if they meant to search for similar sounding male names instead — "Stephen Williams" instead of "Stephanie Williams," for example. According to the paper's reporting, however, the trend wouldn't happen in reverse, when a user searched for male names.
Within a week of The Seattle Times article's release, LinkedIn introduced a fix. Spokeswoman Suzi Owens told the paper that the search algorithm had been guided by "relative frequencies of words" from past searches and member profiles, not by gender. Her explanation suggests that LinkedIn's algorithm was not intentionally biased. Nevertheless, using word frequency — a seemingly objective variable — as a key parameter still generated skewed results. That could be because men are more likely to have a common name than American women, according to Social Security data. Thus, building a search function based on frequency criteria alone would more likely increase visibility for Stephens than Stephanies.
Examples like this demonstrate how algorithms can unintentionally reflect and amplify common social biases. Other recent investigations suggest that such incidents are not uncommon. In a more serious case, the investigative news organization ProPublica uncovered a correlation between race and criminal recidivism predictions in so-called "risk assessments" — predictive algorithms that are used by courtrooms to inform terms for bail, sentencing, or parole. The algorithmic predictions for recidivism generated a higher rate of false-negatives for white offenders and a higher rate of false-positives for black offenders, even though overall error rates were roughly the same.
Bias, AI, Stereotypes, EthicsBrigitte Bellan November 5, 2017 Bias, ASME, Algorithmic Design, Seattle Times


You've narrowed your potential insurers to Esurance and The General. But which one should you pick?
The General caters to drivers whom other insurers may classify as "high risk." The company claims to provide affordable premiums, even though insurance for riskier drivers tends to be more expensive. In contrast to other high-risk insurance providers, The General maintains a stellar rating from the Better Business Bureau.
The General specializes in budget-friendly insurance plans for drivers who may be deemed "risky" elsewhere. Conveniently selling directly to customers online, insurance can be approved and put a driver on the road in no time. Esurance, the online insurance company, is making its name known in the car insurance world, offering affordable coverage for just about any of your vehicles. It takes pride in a hassle-free experience, and customers respect its low rates and excellent customer service.
Policy costs depend your personal situation. Visit The General for a quote based on your specific needs. Policy costs depend your personal situation. Visit Esurance for a quote based on your specific needs.
If you have no trouble finding insurance, compare multiple providers. Esurance and The General promise low prices, but it's always worth shopping around.
Both insurers cover about the same number of US states. Esurance covers 43 states, while The General covers 46.
The General is a lightweight in cost reductions, offering a discount only if you pay in full. Esurance, on the other hand, offers a pay-in-full discount as well as promotions like good-student, defensive-driver and good-driver discounts.


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Zara-Thustra war eine deutsche Neo-Klassik-Band der 1980er Jahre.

Größere Aufmerksamkeit gewann Zara-Thustra 1982 mit dem Album Eiskalt, das auf dem Höhepunkt der Neuen Deutschen Welle zwar auch deutsche Texte aufwies, stilistisch aber deutlich von dieser abwich.

Bandgeschichte
Gegründet wurde Zara-Thustra 1982 von den vier Weindorf-Brüdern, Hermann (Tasteninstrumente, Gesang), Berthold (Saxophon, Klarinette), Clemens (Horn, Tasteninstrumente, Gesang) und Alfons (Schlagzeug, Percussion, Gesang), zusammen mit zwei Mitgliedern der Münchner Philharmoniker, Walter Schwarz (Schlagzeug, Percussion, Gesang) und Maximilian Spenger (Tasteninstrumente, Gesang).

Die vier Weindorf-Brüder stammen aus einer sehr musikalischen Familie aus Isny im Allgäu. Ihr Vater war Klarinettist in einer Blaskapelle, zusammen mit ihrer Mutter sangen sie bereits früh Mundartlieder. Begleitet wurden sie dabei ursprünglich vom Dirigenten der Blaskapelle, später dann von Hermann, der beim Dirigenten Akkordeon-Unterricht genommen hatte. Diese Lieder kamen oft bei traditionellen Heimatabenden zur Aufführung, die aus Trachtentanz, meist von Akkordeon, Blasmusik, Heimat-Theaterstücken und Mundartliedern begleitet, bestanden.

Während ihrer Schulzeit wirkten die Brüder in der Isnyer Stadtkapelle bei Umzügen und Festzeltauftritten mit, Hermann Weindorf gründete bereits mit 11 Jahren eine eigene Oberkrainer-Band. Gegen Ende der Schulzeit formierten Berthold und Hermann dann eine Rockband namens Because.

Nach ihrem Abitur studierten alle Brüder zeitversetzt am Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium München: Hermann Weindorf Klavier, Klarinette, Kontrabass; Berthold Weindorf Klarinette und Violine; Clemens Weindorf Klavier und Horn und Alfons Weindorf Klavier und Schlagzeug. Nach bzw. schon während ihres Studiums stiegen sie in das professionelle Musikbusiness ein. Auch die beiden übrigen Mitglieder von Zara-Thustra studierten an diesem Konservatorium: Walter Schwarz Klavier, Schlagzeug und Pauke sowie Maximilian Spenger Klavier und Viola.

Die Idee zu Zara-Thustra beruhte auf der, auch von den Weindorf-Brüdern gegründeten, Formation namens Horizont, die es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hatte, märchenhafte Bilder, Geschichten und Visionen in Musik umzusetzen und zu vertonen. Horizont könnte man als Vorläufer von Zara-Thustra betrachten und existierte von 1975 bis 1978. Von dieser Gruppe gibt es keine Tonträger, es fanden nur Live-Auftritte statt. Die einzige Produktion im Studio war die Vertonung eines Märchens von Fred Weyrich als Textautor mit dem Namen "Traumulus".

Insofern war Zara-Thustra die logische Fortführung dieser Formation, jedoch mit mehr Gewicht auf sinfonischen Elementen. Bevor es allerdings zur Gründung von Zara-Thustra kam, unternahmen die Weindorf-Brüder Hermann, Berthold und Clemens noch einen "Abstecher" in die Musiksparte des Fusion Jazz mit der Gründung von Oktagon (1979–1982).

Wegen zu geringer Kommerzialität lösten die Weindorf-Brüder Oktagon auf und formierten sich noch im gleichen Jahr (1982) zu Zara-Thustra um. Der Bandname ist dem Werk "Also sprach Zarathustra" von Richard Strauss entlehnt. Hermann Weindorf beschreibt die Namensgebung so:

Nach Veröffentlichung des ersten Albums Eiskalt wurde Zara-Thustra durch einen TV-Live-Auftritt im Bayerischen Fernsehen bei Eberhard Schoeners Klassik-Rock-Nacht in der Münchner Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle am 9. Dezember 1982 europaweit bekannt. Der davon erhoffte positive Effekt war trat allerdings lediglich in geringem Maße auf. Weitere TV-Auftritte gab es unter anderem in Joachim Fuchsbergers Auf Los geht's los (12. März 1983), in der Tele-illustrierten (1. Februar 1984), Alfred Bioleks Show Bühne (7. März 1984), Rudi Carrells Die verflixte 7 (12. Oktober 1985) oder Jürgen von der Lippes So isses (12. Juni 1988).

Trotz dieser TV-Auftritte und Titeln mit Hitpotential verfehlte Zara-Thustra einen Einstieg in die offiziellen Hitparaden. Nach dem dritten Album Ritter der neuen Zeit von 1985 trat bis zur Veröffentlichung des vierten Albums Head Over Heels eine Pause von drei Jahren ein, das Projekt Zara-Thustra kam nicht wie erhofft voran. Aus diesem Grund entschied man, sich "breiter aufzustellen" und bessere Vermarktungsmöglichkeiten zu suchen, da auch die Plattenfirma inzwischen mehr Internationalität forderte. Da man in den 1980er-Jahren allgemein der Meinung war, dass dies in deutscher Sprache nicht zu schaffen sei, entschied sich die Band, Pete Waterman, einen erfolgreichen Produzenten aus England, mit an Bord zu holen.

Der Titel Hannibal vom letzten Album Ritter der neuen Zeit wurde in englischer Sprache als Magic Nights neu aufgenommen und 1986 als Single unter dem ebenfalls neuen Bandnamen Zara veröffentlicht. Die Entscheidung, den Bandnamen zu ändern, hing auch damit zusammen, dass man sich mit der neuen Produktion verhältnismäßig stark von der Ursprungskonzeption entfernt hatte. Magic Nights, im Disco-Stil produziert, war überraschend erfolgreich, woraufhin ein ganzes Album mit englischen Texten aufgenommen und 1988 unter dem Titel Head Over Heels veröffentlicht wurde. Neben Hannibal wurden noch weitere Stücke der Vorgänger-Alben auf Englisch neu aufgenommen. Der gewünschte Erfolg stellte sich aber auch damit nicht ein.

Bis Ende 1989 wurden noch drei weitere Singles aus dem Album ausgekoppelt, auch diese verfehlten jedoch die Singlecharts. In den nächsten fünf Jahren wurden noch verschiedene neue Stücke aufgenommen, die aber nie veröffentlicht wurden. 1994 erschien noch die Single Gloria auf dem Markt, die die letzte neue Produktion von Zara-Thustra bzw. Zara war.

Die Einkünfte aus Plattenverkäufen und Auftritten konnten jedoch das finanzielle Überleben der Band nicht sicherstellen. Hierzu kam, dass keine gewinnbringenden Tourneen durchgeführt werden konnten, da der Aufwand hierfür zum damaligen Zeitpunkt zu hoch gewesen wäre.

2015 erschienen ein Best-Of-Album als CD sowie The Maxi Collection (Extended Versions) als Download-Album.

Stil
Das musikalische Konzept von Zara-Thustra ist sowohl für die damaligen 1980er-Jahre als auch für heute als durchweg sehr ungewöhnlich zu beschreiben. Es war weder ein typischer NDW-Stil, noch eine Art Klassikrock bzw. Symphonic Rock oder Third Stream, wenngleich Zara-Thustra Elemente all dieser Richtungen verwendete.

Auch wenn dies der Klang der Musik nicht sofort vermuten lässt, ordnete Hermann Weindorf selbst, der "Mastermind" hinter Zara-Thustra, den Stil seiner Musik dem Genre des Neo-Klassik zu, was sich bei der Betrachtung der harmonischen und melodischen Struktur der Stücke bestätigen lässt. Als Beispiel hierfür kann der Titel Psychopoly des gleichnamigen Albums verwendet werden. In diesem werden in der Strophe typisch romantische Harmonien wie Quartsextakkorde oder harmonische Sprünge, z. B. von e-Moll nach B-Dur mit Grundton F, verwendet. Dies war atypisch für die Popmusik der damaligen Zeit.

Musik

Die Bandbreite der musikalischen Ideen geht bei Zara-Thustra von NDW-angehauchten Stücken (Ausverkauf aus Eiskalt) über Anklänge an das spätromantische Kunstlied (Es fiel ein Traum vom Himmel aus Psychopoly) bis hin zu belcanto-ähnlichen Arien (Der große Plan aus Ritter der neuen Zeit).

Der Begleittext des Booklets zum Best-Of-Album fasst dies gut zusammen:

Die Grund-Philosophie von Zara-Thustra lautete, auf klassisches Gedankengut zurückgreifen, ohne dabei konservativ zu wirken. Aufgrund der musikalischen Ausbildung aller Weindorf-Brüder ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass sich die Musik Zara-Thustras an Richard Wagners chromatischen Melodieverläufen, Carl Maria von Webers Horninstrumentierung und typischen harmonischen Wendungen der Spätromantik orientiert. Dies wird in einen rockigen Rhythmuskontext gestellt und mit NDW-Anleihen klangfarblich an den Musikgeschmack der 1980er-Jahre angepasst. Insbesondere zieht sich die kompositorische Handschrift Hermann Weindorfs, der für fast alle Titel als Komponist verantwortlich zeichnet, wie ein roter Faden durch sämtliche Alben.

Eine Besonderheit der Musik Zara-Thustras ist zudem, dass auf den Einsatz von E- und Bassgitarren verzichtet wird, nicht jedoch auf einen Kontra- oder Synthesizer-Bass. Berthold Weindorf sagt dazu:

Daher kommt bei Zara-Thustra eine große Anzahl an Tasteninstrumenten zur Anwendung, die letztendlich den opulenten, orchestralen Sound ausmachen.

Entstanden sind alle Stücke direkt im Tonstudio. Eine Vorbereitung oder Ausarbeitung des Ideenmaterials im Übungsraum, wie bei vielen anderen Bands üblich, gab es nicht. Die Aufnahmen entwickelten sich zunächst durch ein Sequenzer-Layout als Basis, teilweise auch mit einem Drum-Computer. Dann wurden Bass, Flächen, Piano und Orchester-Elemente live eingespielt, abschließend Soloinstrumente, Chor und Gesang. Ein typisches Beispiel für diese Aufnahmetechnik ist beispielsweise das Stück Jubilate aus dem Album Eiskalt. In diesem Stück ist am Ende ein Solo zu hören, das nach einer E-Gitarre klingt, jedoch tatsächlich von einem Synthesizer gespielt wurde.

Einer der Haupt-Synthesizer von Hermann Weindorf war der PPG Wave 2. Auch zur Unterstützung und Dopplung des Horns, gespielt von seinem Bruder Clemens, wurde der PPG verwendet. Die Flächenklänge wurden mit einem Prophet 5 realisiert, die Bässe mit einem Arp Odyssey bzw. mit einem Roland Juno 60, der auch wegen seiner außergewöhnlichen Stereo-Effekte zum Tragen kam. Mit einem Oberheim OB-4 Synthesizer wurden fast alle Streichinstrumente eingespielt. Um einem Verlust des natürlichen Klangs vorzubeugen, wurde von Hermann Weindorf viel Klavier zu den zahlreichen Synthesizern aufgenommen.

Von Anfang an stand der Band bei allen Produktionen Werner Rygol als Executive Producer zur Seite, der 1980 mit dem Bau eines neuen Aufnahmestudios in München begann, das Ende 1981 in Betrieb genommen wurde. In diesen neuen Weryton Studios sollten zukünftig auch alle Alben von Zara-Thustra entstehen. Werner Rygol und die Mitglieder von Zara-Thustra wurden im Laufe der Jahre zu einer festen Einheit, sodass nicht nur die Werke der Band in diesem Studio aufgenommen wurden, sondern auch zahlreiche weitere nationale und internationale Produktionen, auch unter der Regie der Weindorf-Brüder.

2004 übergab Werner Rygol das Studio komplett in die Hände von Hermann und Berthold Weindorf.

2018 erschien eine Synthiepop-Version von Eiskalt, aufgenommen von Alex Braun (!distain).

Texte

Die Texte von Zara-Thustra sind ebenso außergewöhnlich wie die Musik. Im Wesentlichen greift Hermann Weindorf, der auch für die meisten Texte verantwortlich ist, auf die Lyrik des Romantizismus zurück. Diese sind inhaltlich engagiert und wollen die Ängste und Sehnsüchte der Menschen beschreiben, untermalt von einer großen Melancholie. In Verbindung mit den opulenten Klangbildern ergibt dies eine perfekte Symbiose.

Thematisch erinnern die Texte sehr an Märchen, aber inhaltlich werden viele aktuelle Themen der damaligen Zeit aufgegriffen. Vieles von dem, was in den Stücken gesungen wird, ist in gewisser Art doppeldeutig, was sich allerdings nicht unbedingt beim ersten Hören erschließt. Es wird viel mit abstrakten Bildern gearbeitet, die nicht immer auf Anhieb gleich zugänglich sind.

In Dornröschen aus dem zweiten Album Psychopoly wird die Spindel aus dem Märchen mit der Heroinnadel auf tragisch, poetische Weise verbunden.

Im Titelsong Psychopoly wird, in Anlehnung an den Kampf um Immobilien im Brettspiel Monopoly, ein gleichnamiges Spiel in einem weit entfernten Land geschildert, wo es im Kampf um die Seele als Preis geht.

In Massa Massa, das "afrikanische" Stück auf diesem Album, mit gewaltigem Schlagwerk und afrikanisch angehauchten Rhythmen, wird die Götzenanbetung jeglicher Art kritisiert.

Es gibt aber auch sehr Persönliches auf diesem Album zu hören. Stille ist eine Lobesrede auf die Liebe, allerdings eine sehr tragische. Während der Produktion dieses Albums verlor Hermann Weindorf seine noch junge Frau durch eine unheilbare Krankheit. Sechs Jahre später, 1989, verarbeitete er diesen Verlust in seinem Soloalbum Pax Domini.

Zum Titel des dritten Albums Ritter der neuen Zeit sagt er:

So ist auch das Stück Hannibal dieses Albums zu verstehen:

Als "Fackel in der Düsternis" – so sieht sich Zara-Thustra selbst – konfrontieren sie den Zuhörer auf sanfte, teilweise etwas ironische Art mit der Realität und reflektieren mit ihren Texten sowohl soziale als auch psychische Probleme in märchenverschleierter Ausdrucksform.

Diskografie

Alben
 1982: Eiskalt
 1983: Psychopoly
 1985: Ritter der neuen Zeit
 1988: Head Over Heels (veröffentlicht unter dem Bandnamen Zara)
 2015: The Maxi Collection (Extended Versions)
 2015: Best Of

Kompilationen
 2005: Hitachi EuroBeat Collection
 2008: I Love Disco 80's Vol. 5
 2013: Eurodisco Volume 3

Singles
 1982: Eiskalt / Erntezeit
 1983: Chemiegen / Alpenglühn
 1984: Dornröschen / Halali
 1985: Hannibal / Herz aus Stein
 1986: Magic Nights / Once in the Night
 1986: Magic Nights / Once in the Night (als Maxi-Single)

weitere Veröffentlichungen unter dem Bandnamen Zara
 1987: Head over Heels / Sleeping Beauty
 1987: Head over Heels / Sleeping Beauty (als Maxi-Single)
 1988: Little Lilly / Sunshine, Moon & Stars
 1988: Little Lilly / Sunshine, Moon & Stars (als Maxi-Single)
 1989: Pirates of Love / Open Arms
 1989: Pirates of Love / Open Arms (als Maxi-Single)
 1996: Gloria / Panta Rhei

Literatur
 Döpfner & Garms: Neue deutsche Welle – Kunst oder Mode. Ullstein, Frankfurt a. M. 1984, ISBN 3-548-36505-1, S. 286.

Weblinks

 Zara-Thustra auf mhd-music.de
 Review zu Best Of Zara-Thustra auf musikreviews.de
 Best Of Zara-Thustra bei Sireena Records

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Perceptions of bodies, physical pain, prejudice, religious art and representation. Those are a few of the topics that Claire Cunningham explores in her performances. Coming from a background as a trained classical singer she took up dancing after realizing she didn't really know how to get a job as a musician. Meeting choreographer Jess Curtis made her realize that the way she navigates the world with her crutches had helped her form her own way of moving and a unique physical language. Based in Glasgow, she now works and tours internationally with her own pieces, as well as collaborations. Lisa Carlsson met Cunningham for a talk about crip theory, the beauty of awkwardness and taking responsability for an entire community as a disabled artist.
After your last performance in Stockholm, "Give me a reason to live", you talked about crip theory, let's talk a bit about that.
I haven't read crip theory in itself but I've been introduced to it. I started becoming more aware of different ways of looking at disabilities other than the medical model. The social model became an eye opener for me. Taking the blame away from the body. Seeing that there's nothing inherently wrong with the person, that it is society and environment that disables a person. I gained an understanding at least, of what that is. And it lines up with things that I've become more interested in in my art anyway. The eliptical experience of disability and an interest of cripping things. How you can shift your view on things and a cripping of things out of necessity and a statement as well. I met Carrie Sandahl, an academic in crip theory from Chicago, who studies theatre practises. She talks about crip time, and it was one of those moments of understanding something that I was aware of and was looking at in my work. But I had never heard of the concept before. I've been explaining it to people around me my whole life, the fact that disability also creates a different relationship with time. It was wonderful to hear somebody articulate that and understand that there are manifestations of it outside you in everydays life. My own understanding of crip time is for example how long it takes me to walk somewhere. That's a thing that comes up a lot. People say "It's a five minute walk" and that's not actually useful for me. Your five minutes are not my five minutes and even people who aren't gonna identify as disabled have different five minute walks. The element of terrain affects that and so people that know me know how to explain distance differently. If you visually show me, it's from here to there times two.
It's really interesting that it came from you or that it's things that you've already been thinking about in your own ways. I think that's why I became a feminist, there were things there that I've felt since I was child but never had any words for.
It's part of building yourself together and straighten things out.
You talked earlier about feeling that your body not beeing feminine before, has that changed and why?
It changed and it keeps changing. It's not a word that I have a great deal of kinship with. I'll always struggle with notions of femininity and I think I share that with a lot of people. I've always blamed the struggle on my disablility and I think it's a large part of it. There are things that have been quite damaged by my relationship with disability and questions about gender and feminitiy are smuthered by it. I chose to sort of push the feelings about feminity away to be able to reconcile my identity with disablility. Of course that keep changing as well and it's never really resolved. I think it's something that just now is surfaceing and the two can sort of extract from each other.
As a child and a teenager, being viewed from the lense of disability and particularly being viewed in a medical context most of my childhood suppressed any notions of gender. I felt neutralized by that. And we're all inundated with the media representations of femininity and having this extreme upper body strenght doesn't combine with that image at all. But I've always had this fascination with awkwardness and elegance. These seemingly opposing qualities.
I've worked with Bill Shannon, a disabled artist in the States, and those are things that he looks at in his work. Awkwardness and elegance. That stayed with me and I kind of recognize it in my work. When I first began to work in theatre, I was interviewed by a theatre director and I read a text, a monologue, that says "I can never be elegant, I can never move elegantly but I can sing. So don't look at me, just listen" And it was very much that thing that I couldn't connect the idea that my body could associate with beauty, but I could sing. That was my way of attaining that. I began to work in movement, without realizing that it's the core in my work. The fascination between awkwardness of elegance and the elegance of awkwardness. Something that came up recently, that I became to question a bit, is that I don't experience the abuse that women get daily. I rarely get that. Sometimes, obviously since I am a woman and have a pulse therefore I've experienced harrassment from men. But part of that made me question my experience as a woman since I don't get that. It's a horrific thing to put out there and voice, because does it sound like I want that? Part of identifying as a woman is to be objectified as a woman and since I don't get objectified in that way, is that part of what makes me not feel like a woman? Historically I've been identifying as a neutral being but how much of that is me and how much of it is me responding to how I was being treated by others? Or maybe it's been there for a while but I haven't been voicing that because it's such a horrible thing to say because I don't want that.
That's what we've been taught. But it's so shameful to talk about it. I've just realized that the last year maybe, men don't look at me the way they used to. And i used to hate it but now i miss it. And I felt so ashamed about that. It's not something I can say out loud because I don't agree with it.
It all informs the conversation, you can't just talk about it from one place. And it's not condoning it to point it out that it affects your behaviour when it's there and when it's not there. It's almost like you're a traitor if you talk about it. But it's ok.
What does your process look like?
Every piece has been different, none of them follow the same process. And it's alway terrifying because I thought I worked in a different way. There are some things that i can recognize. Most of the time I need space on my own up 'til a point and then I need to work with others and destroy everything that I've made. And there are certain things that I always need in terms of time and space. There's always the question of where I have become comfortable as an artist. I always want to push out of that and see what the discomfort is, then go in to it. That's why the process always look different. "Give me a reason to live" was the first time I went to much deeper notions of physically exploring a concept. At first, it was like what does that make me feel about my previous work? But that's ok it's just different. This was much more satisfying. Give me a reason to belive was my first peice were I didn't speak and that forced me to work deeper physically.
Is the difference between representing and embodying, is that something within you or is that something that the audience can see and feel as well?
It's more within me, I think. Before the moves was representing something and was more gestural then. The choice to go deeper in to the movements made me understand where more abstract movement comes from and the full potential that movement offer. But it's also the choice to let go of specific meaning and of understanding. People might read things that you don't want them to read into the piece. It was a real fear when I was making it, because I'm showing physical struggle and pain. There's a real difficulty, particularly because my work travel a lot and taking that peice to countries were disabililties are still viewed negatively, and I might enforce that. I don't want make work that doesn't ever reinforce negative stereotypes. But then I just had to think "ok this is the right movement for the piece" and I have to accept that some people will read it that way but I have to believe that the concept as a whole is gonna work in a sense that doesn't do that. It was a risk to do that but I also began to realize that the audience is different people as well and not this anonymus blob. They all arrive with different experiences and different histories and they will see different things in it. It's hard but i have to trust my choices as an artist.
For me as a writer it's difficult to trust the reader and it must be the same way with an audience.
Yes, it's difficult to trust that they won't take a piece of your writing out of context and you have to trust that you put all the checks and balances around it and control like "What is the show and what is the media that goes around it? There's a lot that goes on around disabled artists that has to do with monitoring how you're being portrayed that artists that aren't disabled doesn't have to deal with in the same way. I guess it's also a sense of responsibility that you end up having to take for a wider community sometimes. It works both ways, the worry of being seen to speak for or represent a whole bunch of people that are completely different from you in every single way but also accepting that responsibility when you can and find it appropriate. There's a difference between when people designate you to represent a group of people and when you decide to do it.
It's such a luxury not to have to think about responsibility that seems to be reserved for white straight cis gendered men.
Yes, they rarely have to think about the context in which they work unless somebody points out something that is problematic about their work. Just the act of being on stage is political for me and for some people and in some places. And I always have to think about that. Men don't have to do that. Being a woman as well that brings another level to it. Also, nobody else has to deal with this shit. We are the ones that are left to cover all of those issues and still doing the work that we do. Some people will be angry at you. Nobody wants to exclude people. The exhaustion of that responsibility is not something that other artists have to consider. It's usually left to disabled people to solve. That exhaustion eventuelly wear people down. Explaining what you need, why you need things and why you are the way you are. And eventually people stop doing that and become invisible. That's just the cycle of people being marginalized. You have to meet people were they are. Disabled people are not just gonna turn up. If you suddenly put up a ramp or interperet all your shows in sign language, people aren't magically gonna show up. Becasue they've never been welcome before. It's about belonging and being welcomed. And the fact that people have been made to feel like they belong in those places. So you have to go where they are and invite them. People say that people can come here if they wanted to but why would they if they've never felt safe or welcome before.
Claire Cunningham, Give Me A Reason To Live. Photo: Hugo Glendinn.
Have you ever tried to teach other dancers to dance with crutches?
I've only made one piece that included crutches for other dancers, it was a piece called Twelve.
I've never found a reason that is justifiable to me to put people that don't need them on crutches. I could give crutches to other dancers and teach them movements but that don't interest me at all. It wouldn't have the same integrity of movement because they don't need them. I would never say never, I might do that in the future but I haven't found a reason to yet. But in that piece Twelve there were two dancers who did use crutches and I taught them some of my vocabulary. It was a small part in a much bigger context. I would like to make something for other people that do use crutches because it's a much bigger investment in the object and a different investment in weight and gravity. There's a different understandning of were your core is. I have so many different ways of relating and using my crutches but I've only recently started noticing that other people using their crutches in different ways. Like "Oh that's interesting, I would've never picked up my crutches like that."
I've been taking this apart recently. It started with me reading a paper written by Julia Watts Belser, who's a jewish scholar and crip theorist in the States. She's written an article about queer anomacy. I rembered reading it in a coffee shop and I just started crying because somebody actually wrote down something that I've been feeling for a long time. And now that I'm certainly set with queerness which I wasn't before. The U.K queer scene is strongly related to sexuality and gender and I didn't really relate to that. But when I read Watts Belser I felt that OMG this is what it is! I have this strange relationship to these objects that is so strong and intimate. I recognize that I've begun to talk about my crutches having a liveness. That comes from when I started to dance and I started using contact imporvisation technique. I hade no one to dance with. I was in the studio on my own and I made them in to people. I created a way to work with them through giving and recieving weight. And I look at the way I work with them and a realize that the way I pick them up and handle them in a very different way to other objects. And that is starting to make sense to me. Also, she's talking about the queerness of physicality. So you develop these queer bodies And the question of not feeling feminine, it began to connect to something as well. Some things are starting to make sense to me. Queer anomacy. It's really fascinating to think about. I have colleagues that don't identify as he or she and I've always thought you know "oh that's fine" but I never actually understood it until I started thinking about how I relate to my crutches. There is a sort of theyness to me as well, if that make sense? I'm always one of three, me and the crutches.
I have a new project. Or I started doing this research, I'm not sure about what it's going to be yet. I've started taking short walks with people. So far I've been doing it with people that also identify as disabled. And I've been trying different ways to document these walks, like recording them, I don't know how it will manifest itself. But it's conversations about how we negotiate space and time. In Stockholm I went for a walk with Christine Bylund who's a disabled writer and academic. Many things came up while talking to her. Architecthure is one of her things and as a disabled person, she brought up this really fascinating aspect of it.
She noticed that there's this intersection between were disabled people travel and homeless people live. The ways I have to go to axess places are often places where homeless people sleep. So there's always traces of these people having been there but never at the same time. The elevators and the flat access to buildings that are often in the back of buildings so there's this weird intersection of these to communitites that doesn't generally seem to be connected that are, in fact, unintentionally connect.
I mentioned this to a friend of mine and he was saying that that's exactly what a friend of his, who's a disabled person, experience. She walks down the street and talks to every homeless person she meets because she feels a kindered spirit and connection and with them and the way that they are being looked at or not looked at. It's the same way that people stare at her or try to look away and not aknowledge that she exist because she makes people uncomfortable with the way she moves and looks. Christine also pointed out that quite often the queer communities go to the most inaccessable places, the deepest darkest places, like basements, to create a safe space. That excludes the queerness of disability. For us the most accessible places are the super normative, like Starbucks and chain hotels. So there's such a weird contrast that you are sort of not welcome in those enviroments but thery're the most accessible because of capitalism. And the other spaces are the furthest away places you can find.
Clarie Cunningham, Guide Gods. Photo: Brian Hartley.
It's interesting that you walk and talk since languague and movement is so closely connected. Was that a concsious decision?
We talk differently when we move. It leaves a lot more room for space because you take time to be in your surroundings. You don't have to fill the space with talk. That thing of just keeping quiet and not having someone waiting for them to talk. So people tend to reach deeper. And also the possibility to recognize different paces and things that you do. And how people are behaving to us as we try to move and navigate. And I'm interested in being in that mood of noticing what we notice. And asking do you know that you did this just now, how come you do that? By putting us in an environment where we have to do this. It brings out fascinating conversations.
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Regulators Pave Way for Speedy Next-Generation 5G Networks
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said 5G will help more Americans access high-speed internet
Published July 15, 2016 • Updated on July 15, 2016 at 9:36 am
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to open nearly 11 gigahertz of high-frequency spectrum for the roll out of "5G" mobile, flexible and fixed-use broadband wireless applications and networks.
The move by U.S. regulators makes the United States the first country to set aside an ample amount of airwaves for lightening-fast fifth generation wireless technology.
New 5G networks are expected to provide speeds at least 10 times and maybe 100 times faster than today's 4G networks, the FCC said.
Companies including Verizon and AT&T already were moving closer to adopting 5G.
News from around the country and around the globe
There is a worldwide race to adopt 5G. South Korea and Japan plan to deploy it by the time they host the Olympics, in 2018 and 2020, respectively. The European Commission, South Korea, China and Japan are all working on 5G research efforts.
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Louise Elizabeth Redknapp, professionally known as Louise, is an English singer and media personality. She was a member of Eternal, an R&B girl group which debuted in 1993 with her quadruple-platinum debut studio album Always & Forever. In 1995, Redknapp departed the group for a solo career, in which she released the platinum-selling albums Naked, Woman In Meand Elbow Beach. Because of her solo success, Redknapp has sold over 15 million records in her home country of the United Kingdom... (wikipedia)
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Believe Quotes
Your soulmate doesn't just mean your husband or your boyfriend. I have friends in my life who I believe I was meant to meet and be a part of.
The thought of a spa treatment is lovely, but I'd be lying there having a massage and worrying about how much I had to do. I'm not very good at relaxing!
Amazing Quotes
I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding.
One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.
Biggest Quotes
I wish I was told to look after my teeth when I was younger. My smile is really important to me and one of my biggest assets, so I'm very conscious that I need to keep it in top condition.
Likes Quotes
I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.
My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces.
I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and their confidence is tenfold. Good on them! Natural beauty comes in all different shapes and sizes, but if you think surgery would right something you have a problem with, then why shouldn't you do it?
Anyone Quotes
As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a hut on the beach, and maybe not seeing anyone for days apart from Jamie and the boys.
Admit Quotes
I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark.
Africa Quotes
I'd love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories.
I live my life as healthy and consciously as I can.
What works for me is a little bit of training and sensible eating. You know, the Cameron Diaz's of the world put a lot of effort into it! But you can't have it all - I like going out for dinner with my husband; I like meeting my mates at Starbucks!
Countries Quotes
New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place.
I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you're young, you should enjoy the fact your skin is free from lines and wrinkles rather than overloading it with products.
I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.
Dresses Quotes
Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.
Hair Quotes
There's nothing worse than looking as if you've tried too hard or preened to within an inch of your life. If I'm wearing a strong item like a really beautiful dress, then I'll play down my shoes and accessories and make my hair really natural.
Absolutely Quotes
I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.
I have a good shopping relationship with my mum. She lets me buy, and she spectates. I take advice from her, and I give it, too.
Dads Quotes
The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.
Eternal Quotes
Being in the pop group Eternal gave me the most wonderful opportunity to travel the world, and I have visited some spectacular countries.
Finest Quotes
The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.
It's inevitable: as I get older, I am going to get more wrinkles; it's something you have to accept.
Haunt Quotes
The problem with being in the public eye for a long time is there are 20 years worth of looks to come back and haunt you!
Age Quotes
Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.
There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.
Horrific Quotes
I would be upset if I was on the 'worst dressed'. It would make me think, 'Surely I haven't done anything that horrific - have I?'
Build Quotes
I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.
I don't feel body confident at all! Anything but, actually.
Involved Quotes
I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.
I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else.
I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.
Looks Quotes
I think there is something lovely when a woman looks well.
I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice'. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you.
Our life may look glamorous, but we scream at the kids, and I have to tell Jamie to tidy up if we have guests coming over.
Bad Quotes
My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can't have it.
Flat Quotes
My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.
Fine Quotes
I was on a beach in Hawaii for a video shoot once, and it was incredibly beautiful. It had very fine black sand with a silver sparkle running through it.
There are hundreds and hundreds of women who are married to footballers, and we get to see a very small handful of them. They are all different individuals, and they choose the way they want to live their life or look, and I don't think it is really fair on anyone else to judge.
Casual Quotes
I've always loved Helena Christensen's style because she looks casual and comfortable, while being chic and cool.
I've always been a bad flyer, but I don't let it get in the way of travelling. I love stepping off the plane and feeling the heat and the foreign smell of being somewhere different.
Tend Quotes
I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.
People ask me whether I'd like another child, and it is difficult to answer, as I am so happy with the two I have.
After having your first child, it's a massive shock to the system. I work in an industry where people judge you and the way you look, and you always want to put your best foot forward when you can.
Prefer Quotes
All my friends are girls. I just prefer the company of women.
Dead Quotes
For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring.
Tony Quotes
I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person.
I love fashion, but I do it in a really laid-back way. I'd much rather be underdressed than overdressed.
Beckham Quotes
I own some Victoria Beckham dresses; they make me feel great.
If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you're in the public eye, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when people say things.
I love Pilates - I am a really big believer in it as a practise; I think it's fab.
I love Stella McCartney because she's timeless and classic, and I love Isabel Marant for wearability - you don't need 'an occasion' for her clothes.
I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.
I have quite dark skin, and when I had my son, I suffered quite bad pigmentation; I had dark patches on my face. Everyone said it would go, but it would take a very long time for them to even slightly disappear.
Guess Quotes
I guess the most important thing for us is that the kids work hard and they are grateful for the life they lead - that they know it doesn't come easy.
Elements Quotes
I realised that a lot of women felt the same way I did - they didn't want to wear heavy make-up, but, for whatever reason, there were elements in their skin they want to smooth out or cover.
By the way, you won't put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you?
Became Quotes
I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.
I don't believe in lots of face creams; I think your skin should work for itself. Your natural oils look after your skin, so I just use a simple face wash.
Converse Quotes
The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.
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I didn't make that statistic up, I took it out of this report from the Public Policy Institute of California. I don't know if that group is non-partisan, Republican, Democrat, or something else. However, the data is the data in this case so it's probably worth paying attention to. As we think about the arguments for moving away from a strict focus on requirements that are only necessary if you want to go to a 4-year college, there's some very interesting work out there on ways to rethink the system.
Panelist Rob Atterbury is a champion of "Linked Learning," which is a process that links students' education with their interests and career paths in a more purposeful way than traditional education. That short video I linked is well worth watching to get a sense of what Linked Learning is and how it might be better for San Diego students. This alternative is not about eliminating a college focus per se, but seems instead focused on embracing the ultimate student outcome—a productive career that aligns with a student's interests and aptitudes.
In addition to the video, there is a very detailed report if you want to understand a bit more of the underlying information. Read it here. The report by McKinsey is important, considering that at least one recent article notes more students in the U.S. are turning to career academies rather than the university system. Before we move on, I should take a moment to thank G Squared Computing, the people you call if your IT feels like it's in the stone age or is just not moving fast enough, Erik Bruvold and Stutz Artiano Shinoff & Holtz, a law firm that represents dozens of school and community college districts in California. They all sponsored portions of the debate. I work for the law firm, but they didn't plan to support this before I came up with the topic, truth is they just care about education so I lucked out that they were willing to support an effort to broaden participation in education. Actually, my roundtable of Erik Bruvold, Ben Bosanac of Emissary Relations, Barry Pollard and Scott Lewis of Voice of San Diego had more to do with the topic than I did, but I'm glad it's the one we chose because it's a good one. My hope is to sprinkle some discussion of the "v" word in this conversation along the way (and other reform efforts).
Did you know the United States ranks 27th globally in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education?
Panelist Ed Hidalgo has a deep passion for better aligning students with their natural aptitudes and really encouraging individualized success. This involves using tools that have applicability in business and government like StrengthsFinder, called the Clifton Youth StrengthsExplorer, to help kids better understand themselves and what they are inclined to enjoy doing. Understanding that linking people to the careers that will make them happy is one key to success spills over into Ed's professional life in a significant way. This article demonstrates how Qualcomm has created its own career center, called Career Explorations, to meet this need. Qualcomm is one of very few global companies to put such a major focus on making sure its people can get the most out of their careers. If it is good enough for such a large, successful company, perhaps it is also good enough for rethinking how we get young people into pathways for lifelong success.
In the coming days I will switch the focus to provide compelling reasons to maintain the "A through G" curriculum focus and even take a side trip into the world of Craft Beer to talk about the passion behind Stone World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station and its founders. To read the basic background about the education debate on June 6th, click here. It is free to attend, but you must pre-register here. Want general background on the fun debate format? Click here.


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