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Starved for attention yet striving for greatness
Written by:Michelle Jondreau
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Nearly 500 nonprofit leaders did something a little out of the ordinary last week: they gathered together to take action on some of the biggest challenges facing the sector. From all across the country they convened for the National Summit for the Charitable and Nonprofit Sector to share ideas on maximizing the sector's contributions to Canada and the world over the next decade.
A daunting task indeed, but not without merit; more than anything the Summit acted like a springboard in getting participants talking over some tough questions. And perhaps none were more difficult to discuss than those surrounding the story of the sector's impact - one of the four priority areas for action identified through Imagine Canada's National Engagement Strategy and co-led by Marcel Lauziére (Imagine Canada), Caroline Riseboro (World Vision Canada) and Lee Rose (CharityVillage®, MESH and Ten Oaks Project).
So why the focus on improving how the sector demonstrates its impact? Perhaps it's because the nonprofit sector often behaves like the middle child in the family. Typically a passive player within the tedium of family dynamics, the middle child is neither as suave as the eldest or as cute as the youngest. Starved for attention yet striving for greatness. Often overlooked but never underused. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Yet what's more upsetting is the middle child's uncanny ability to let others speak for them. To take the easy road and let others tell stories, unchecked until the consequences are incredibly difficult to reverse.
Now back to the nonprofit sector, where the symptoms of middle-child syndrome run rampant. Instead of taking charge of its own destiny, the co-leads argued that the sector has been complacent in standing back and letting others fill that role. Content to stand by as media, funders and donors hold it accountable to principles that don't define the great work that charities and nonprofits accomplish. As a result, there has been a crescendo of public outcry demanding greater transparency that looks to scrutinize overhead costs and condemn executive-level salaries. All because the sector has waited too long to discover its collective voice, guilty of commiserating about 'doing something' rather than actually taking the lead.
Perhaps the toughest part to swallow is that this is by no means a new challenge; the nonprofit sector has been struggling to find unison in the story of its impact for decades. The nature of the sector often leads to individuals and organizations working in silos so that cooperation in defining measurable impact is difficult. This was the crux of the matter when two years ago Imagine Canada launched a series of Community Conversations and Provincial Forums as part of its National Engagement Strategy. Feedback from these conversations led to the development of four priority areas of action that were then fleshed out in greater detail at the summit.
Before delving into the highlights of the summit, it is necessary to crunch some numbers that show how big of a player the sector is to the Canadian economy. More than two million Canadians earn a living while working at a charity or nonprofit. Overall these employees contribute more than $106 billion or 7.1% of our country's gross domestic product each year. Paid employees in the sector outnumber the total combined workforces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. They also outnumber employees in the country's entire construction and hospitality industries combined.
While knowing the numbers is crucial, the sector should never be seen from this perspective alone. The key is to capture the heart and soul of the sector, which is always a bigger challenge. Yet the National Summit provided an environment in which passionate individuals brought to bear the many ways in which the sector touches people's lives.
"We provide safe havens for women and children, we work to decrease poverty, we build greener communities. Investing in us [nonprofit sector] means we can help keep you healthy," said consultant Barbara Grantham.
This kind of asset-based messaging is what people working in the sector should first start to believe, then communicate on a broad scale. People that rely on a variety of services will start to grasp the influence the sector has on communities across the country and around the world. However despite the vital work that the sector does and continues to do, it has come under fire recently for budgeting too much cost to overhead and higher-level salaries.
"If we want to tackle the big issue of our society like poverty, illness, homelessness and at risk youth, we have to invest…and that means recruiting and retaining people who are skilled to be able to tackle these issues. You get what you pay for, if you want to pay people next to nothing or depend solely on volunteers, then it gets to be very difficult for them to prioritize and become experts," said Riseboro.
Greater accountability and transparency are critical for all nonprofits, yet the public should not consider those values as the only measure of the sector's impact. After all, other sectors struggle with the same issues, it's time to stop apologizing for not being perfect. That's not to say the sector does not need to focus on building up its image, there is a high level of professionalism and commitment owed to the people who rely on nonprofits. Both Riseboro and Grantham summed it up nicely:
"We need to start with ourselves internally, if we don't align our messages then there's no way we can start putting them out there if we're not of the same accord. One of the examples I'm going to give…is the principle of branding. A lot of people think it's the look and feel of the organization and that's good practice in terms of developing a really strong brand and the ones that survive realize that brand actually starts with the organization itself. You have to have all of the staff and all of the employees living out the brand and when they do that it actually starts to permeate in external messages," said Riseboro.
Grantham took the point a step further and reminded her fellow participants that the conversation needs to shift to focus on the benefits to communities and not the needs of organizations. In essence, sector services are worthy of investment and communicating about that is essential. "Organizations don't have needs. Communities have needs and we're here to fulfill those needs," she said.
Mid-way through the working sessions, participants identified a strong desire to tackle the issue in two parallel streams:
Tactical communications:
This stream would focus on providing organizations with resources and materials to help them respond more nimbly to requests for information or questions about transparency and accountability. This could include:
Developing a series of Frequently Asked Questions and responses that organizations could use to appropriately reframe questions from the media, funders or other stakeholders, especially on the subjects of transparency, accountability, administrative expenses and staff costs.
Identifying and leveraging sector champions who are knowledgeable enough to respond on the more contentious issues to the media and other external groups.
Creating a network to develop and share key communications points across the sector.
Aspirational narrative development:
This stream would be more strategic in its approach and work to shift the conversation around Canada's charities and nonprofits and their impact — using an asset and strengths based approach, including:
Creating a framework for action and engaging people from across the sector to continue to develop and implement this new narrative for the sector.
Identifying actions that could be taken by individuals and organizations at a local, regional or national level — with the intent of implementing them and scaling up the impact over time.
The challenge now lies in moving beyond the ideas generated at the Summit into action. At the end of the working session, participants were invited to commit to actions that they would take upon returning to their organizations — whether they be internal, local, regional or national in scope — with a promise from the co-leads to compile the commitments and hold participants to their commitments.
In the meantime, small changes can be to reclaim the nonprofit sector's niche in the hearts and minds of Canadians. Crafting positive messages that an organization can put into practice internally is an excellent start. Using the right language on an internal and day-to-day basis will surely filter through to communications externally as well. Time for the passive middle child to take a stand and recover the narrative, it's long overdue.
Michelle Jondreau is a communications professional based in Ottawa. She currently works at the HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector. She has a background in journalism and also writes for a parenting magazine as well contributing articles for nonprofit publications. She loves her tea (green please!) and settling in for the evening with a classic novel.
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An ambitious exhibition at London's Wellcome Collection highlights the long and complex relationship between design and public health. Titled Living with Buildings, the show explores more than 150 years of thinking about how the built environment impacts social well-being. Ranging across eras and topics from Garden City idealism and 1930s modernist hospitals and health centers to 1960s high-rise housing projects, this beautiful and thought-provoking exhibition reveals how design in the built environment has the potential to be a powerful agent of change, both of healing and of harm.
The broad overview is illustrated by a wealth of period artifacts, artworks, and historical documents, beginning with Charles Booth's powerful cartographic depictions of London's Victorian-era slums, which first identified the connections between poverty, illness, and poor-quality housing. Other highlights include original architectural drawings by Erno Goldfinger, Berthold Lubetkin, Le Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto, all of whom designed pioneering public housing and health centers during the 1930s. Architectural sketches, renderings, and pieces of custom-designed furniture are displayed alongside photographs and video essays by artists including Rachel Whiteread, Andreas Gursky, and Martha Rosler that document the challenges of preserving and maintaining egalitarian social services in the face of declining public and governmental support. A last section of Living With Buildings is dedicated to high-profile, health-conscious contemporary architecture, showcasing the healing environments of Maggie's Centres cancer support charity, and a portable hospital intended for use in disaster relief situations, designed and engineered by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Buro Happold.
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Massive Star Is So Big It Gives Birth to a Tiny Twin
By Stephanie Pappas 2018-12-18T11:29:09Z
An artist's impression of the disc of dust and gas surrounding the massive protostar MM 1a, with its companion MM 1b forming in the outer regions.
(Image: © J. D. Ilee, University of Leeds)
A close-up look at the birth of a star has revealed a surprise: Not one new stellar body, but two.
In 2017, scientists using a new array of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert were observing a massive young star named MM 1a in an active star-forming region of the galaxy more than 10,000 light-years away. As they analyzed the data, they realized that MM 1a was accompanied by a second, fainter object, which they dubbed MM 1b. This, they found, was the first star's smaller sibling, formed from the spray of dust and gases it holds in its gravitational pull. In a solar system like Earth's, this "disc" can coalesce into planets.
"In this case, the star and disc we have observed is so massive that, rather than witnessing a planet forming in the disc, we are seeing another star being born," astronomy research fellow John Ilee of the University of Leeds in England, who led the study, said in a statement. [6 Weird Facts About Gravity]
A mismatched pair
Ilee and his team made their observations using an array of 66 telescopes in the high-altitude Chilean desert known as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). By coordinating this array, scientists can detect far-flung objects as if they had an impossibly large optical telescope 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) wide.
MM 1a is huge, with 40 times the mass of the sun. Its twin, MM 1b, is a relative pipsqueak, less than half the mass of the sun. That size differential is unusual in binary stars, Ilee said.
"Many older massive stars are found with nearby companions," he said. "But binary stars are often very equal in mass, and so likely formed together as siblings. Finding a young binary system with a mass ratio of 80:1 is very unusual, and suggests an entirely different formation process for both objects."
Stars making stars
Stars condense from massive discs of dust and gases that gradually pull together their own gravity. As they coalesce, they begin to spin, and leftover dust and gas begins to orbit them.
In small stars like the sun, Ilee said, this disc of leftover dust and gas can start clumping into planets that then orbit the parent star. MM 1a's huge size, though, meant that a second star could form rather than a planet. It's one of the first times such a phenomenon has been observed, the researchers reported Dec. 14 in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
MM 1b could possibly have its own disc of space debris, which could theoretically coalesce into planets, the researchers said. But the clock is ticking for the protostar system, Ilee said. Massive stars like MM 1a last only about a million years before exploding into supernovas, he said. When that happens, the whole area will be kaput.
"While MM 1b may have the potential to form its own planetary system in the future, it won't be around for long," Ilee said.
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Why Are Civilians Still Being Killed in the CAR?
Monday, July 17, 2017 - 12:42
In this article Al-Jazeera speaks to the head of the UN peacekeeping mission about plans to bring security to conflict-hit Central African Republic.
The World's Most Dangerous U.N. Mission
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 12:46
Since World War II, U.N. peacekeepers have been dispatched to 69 conflicts — civil wars, border disputes and failed states. But now they are confronting an unsettling new threat: al-Qaeda.
Canada Sending Police to Colombia to Help With Peacekeeping
Canada will contribute up to 10 police officers to the international effort to demobilize guerilla groups and monitor the ceasefire in Colombia, CBC News has learned.Some of the officers are expected to be under the United Nations flag, while others would be part of a bilateral deployment, working directly with the South American country's national police force.
The U.S. Military is Quietly Influencing African Peacekeeping Missions. Here's How
Last year, the UN deployed more than 100,000 uniformed peacekeepers to African countries, twice as many as the decade before. The U.S. pays for more than a quarter of this mission's $7.87 billion budget, and recently the commanding general of U.S. Army Africa said he would continue growing partnerships and exercises across the vast continent.
Kenya Withdraws First Batch of Troops from U.N. South Sudan Mission
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 08:24
The first batch of Kenyan troops who had served in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan arrived home on Wednesday, after Nairobi ordered them to withdraw in response to the sacking of the Kenyan commander of the UNMISS force.
Burkina Faso to Withdraw Darfur Peacekeepers by July
Burkina Faso has notified the United Nations that it will withdraw soldiers deployed as peacekeepers in Sudan's troubled Darfur region by July next year, the foreign minister said late on Friday.The West African nation, which has a battalion of 850 soldiers serving in the nearly 14,000 troop strong U.N.-African Union hybrid mission, has suffered a series of deadly attacks at home amid a rise in Islamist militant violence.
Kenya Withdraws Troops from UN Mission in South Sudan
Kenya has said it is withdrawing its troops from the United Nations mission in South Sudan, a day after Ban Ki-moon sacked the Kenyan commander of peacekeeping forces in the country for failing to protect civilians. Kenya has more than 1,000 troops deployed in South Sudan.
Kenya Accuses United Nations of Scapegoating
The inquiry investigating the response of UN peacekeepers to at attack on the Terrain Hotel Compound in Juba in July, found that a lack of leadership on the part of key senior mission personnel culminated in a chaotic and ineffective response to the violence. In response, Nairobi said it would withdraw its over 1000 troops from the mission and disengage from the peace process in South Sudan.
Kenya Pulling UN Peacekeepers from South Sudan in Protest
Kenya is pulling out its 1,000 troops deployed to South Sudan as part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission and stopping future deployments after the U.N. secretary-general fired the force's Kenyan commander, the foreign affairs ministry said Wednesday.


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Building a better team – on Mars
Contact(s): Steve Kozlowski Psychology office: (517) 353-8924 stevekoz@msu.edu, Andy Henion Media Communications office: (517) 355-3294 cell: (517) 281-6949 Andy.Henion@cabs.msu.edu
Sometime in the next quarter-century, NASA plans to send the first humans to Mars, a mission that will push the boundaries of teamwork for a handful of astronauts who will spend as long as three years together in a tiny capsule.
A Michigan State University project, now wrapping up its third year, aims to arm the crew with innovative devices to monitor interactions and provide instant feedback when conflict or other issues with team cohesion arise.
NASA recently awarded the project $1.2 million for another three years, bringing the total funding from the space agency to $2.5 million.
"We're developing a measurement system that captures the dynamics of team effectiveness in real time and then supplies that information back to the team members so they can use it to maintain their effectiveness," said Steve Kozlowski, lead investigator on the project and professor of psychology.
Each astronaut would get a device, or badge, which could end up being the size of a smart phone. The badge measures a number of activities including heart rate, motion, vocalization and face time between crew members. It could tell, for example, if a team member gets loud or turns away from a conversation abruptly – actions that, when done repeatedly, could signal a problem.
The badges are in development. A rudimentary version has proved effective in a lab setting and will now be measured in the field.
Kozlowski said the research team is collecting daily, "diary-type" information from scientific teams serving in isolated and extreme conditions similar to what astronauts encounter, including Antarctica. That information will help researchers develop a coherent picture of team functioning as they develop the badges.
Ideally, Kozlowski said, the badge would be capable of identifying an issue and relaying that information immediately to the NASA crew member, the crew leader or the entire team.
"It's really about giving the team tools that it can use to monitor its own psychosocial health – in other words, 'how are we doing?' – and if there any threats to that psychosocial health, offer early warnings so it can be dealt with it before it becomes a big problem," Kozlowski said.
Kozlowski's co-investigators include Subir Biswas, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Chu-Hsiang Chang, assistant professor of psychology.
The same round of NASA funding includes a separate grant of $1.2 million for MSU kinesiology professor Deborah Feltz and colleagues to focus on exercise in space.
Michigan State University psychology professor Steve Kozlowski is leading a NASA-funded project to provide astronauts with innovative devices to improve teamwork. Photo by G.L. Kohuth
Steve Kozlowski, psychology professor at Michigan State University, hopes to help the first astronaut team that heads to Mars to work together better as a team. His research is funded by NASA. Photo by G.L. Kohuth
Steve Kozlowski, Michigan State University professor of psychology, is helping NASA develop better teamwork practices for its astronauts. Photo by G.L. Kohuth
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Manhattan College Students Demand Environmental Action
By The Quadrangle on September 25, 2019
by NICOLE FITZSIMMONS & KELLY KENNEDY, Staff Writers
On Friday, Sept. 20, millions of people all over the globe gathered to take a stand for the climate crisis. Here in New York City, thousands of individuals met in Foley Square to strike against the lack of political action for the current global climate crisis, including many Manhattan College students. These students took to the streets of NYC to represent Manhattan College in the demand for action and change regarding the issue that has the potential to seriously damage not only the future of our planet but for the future of everyone living on it.
Campus Ministry and Social Action is an organization on campus that provides opportunities for students to engage in social justice and community service events such as the climate strike, while also practicing the Lasallian values with respect to all religious traditions. Coordinator Jacquie Martin, and Assistant Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships Kathleen Von Euw, both work in CMSA and work to help send students to programs around the city to learn about social justice and to immerse themselves in community service programs such as L.O.V.E. trips.
Last week, the organization sent students to the climate strike in NYC to demand action. On the Wednesday before the strike, students gathered in Kelly Commons to create signs and express their thoughts and aggravation with the lack of action regarding this issue creatively.
"Climate change is a really big issue that is pressing right now, so it was something we knew that students would be interested in. We wanted to support them in doing that. And, it's so connected to so many of the other social injustice issues that we talk about in our general programs, especially immigration and racial justice," said Martin.
The climate strike was one of many protests that CMSA has taken students to, including the Women's March last January. Their goal is to give students the opportunity to tap into all of the opportunities that New York City has to offer.
Martin said, "We are trying to help them [students] make that connection, to make things more accessible."
Donya Quhshi, CMSA Graduate Assistant, helped spark the idea for the students to organize themselves in attending the strike.
"As an organized group, participating in this strike is important to us because we recognize our roles in inciting a change and our power in numbers. It is our future that is at stake, and we are willing to march out of our classes and workplaces to let our politicians know that we want climate action now," said Quhshi. "I am most excited to see our youth marching for a better future, and to see them so passionate about climate justice and being leaders is inspiring."
Dozens of students from MC felt similarly and are participating in the strike. Senior mechanical engineering major Tomo Dugan was one of many students to join CMSA in the protest. His goals to pursue careers in renewable energy and green building have been inspired by what he has learned about climate change and the opinions that grew out of them.
"This is definitely an issue that we can't wait on, definitely not anymore. I really wanted to participate in this strike because its a way to bring everyone who has a strong opinion about climate change in once place and demand change from our government officials and the companies that we interact with" said Dugan.
Something exciting that many Manhattan College students looked forward to was the appearance of climate change's rising icon, Greta Thunberg. The sixteen-year-old from Sweden is one of the rising voices in the fight against climate change.
Quhshi said, "I am also looking forward to hearing Greta Thunberg speak, she represents today's youth and their fight to hold politicians accountable for their negligence of the climate crisis." The importance of the current generation's potential influence on politics is greatly represented by Thunberg.
Following the climate strike, students all share the same wish: legislative action. While this is not an easy wish to grant considering today's political climate, the student's attending the strike hope for the MC community to do their part in attempting to slow down, and eventually end climate change.
While students wait for the government to take action, they can all do their part to help the planet. Dugan offered some examples of easy on-campus changes that college students can make for the cause. He suggested "eating less meat and less dairy, using cold water while you wash your clothes, and recycling and composting."
To inflict change on a much bigger scale, he said, "We can demand change from officials where we see fit and then also support those officials who are carrying out our beliefs." Being in a community where the representatives support totally different ends of the climate change spectrum, it is problematic for the constituent's beliefs to not be fully represented.
"Statistics and polls say that the majority of Americans, around 70 percent, understand that climate change is a big deal."
He continued.
"It is a problem when a majority of Americans believe one thing and the people who are supposed to represent us do something completely different." This is what the climate strike wished to take on head-first.
Students interested in participating in more events with CMSA can stop by their office in Kelly Commons to get involved. If students are interested in organizing local activist efforts, CSMA is always open to hearing new ideas.
"Our doors are always open and they can come by and find out more either in the Social Action Suite or at Cornerstone in Miguel 209," said Von Euw.
"Manhattan College students have always been passionate about social justice and have strongly advocated for social change, especially in the Bronx Community. We have the resources and we have leaders right here on our campus, so there's no doubt that we can incite change even on a wider scale" said Quhshi.
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The number system that we are mostly familiar with is a decimal number system. The decimal number system has a base of ten which implies that there are ten numbers by the help of which we can represent any number of the decimal family. The numbers are from 0 to 9. Representation is such as (15)10 the base 10 is written as suffix or radix. If it is not written then by default we must understand that it is a decimal number by default.
On the other hand, binary number invented by Gottfried Leibniz in 1679 has a base of two. "Bi" means two so from there we can say that the base of the binary system is 2. That is, only two numbers are sufficient to represent a number in binary format. The numbers which are used in binary number system are 0 and 1.
Now a question may arise, why do we need binary number? We have decimal number system which is familiar to all of us and most of the persons do not understand binary. The answer is that any programmable device or a processor can work in two modes either high or low. Here, high denotes the supply is connected to that point and low denotes that the point is grounded or is at a state of zero volts. This is called positive logic and in other logic system the reverse is taken which is known as negative logic system.
Also, we can say that a high means that it performs some function or work and low indicates that it has not performed any work. The reverse may also be true if we take negative logic system. So, from the above description we can say that it is much easier and convenient to use binary number system in the computer instead of decimal and also conversion will be required in order that the output result which is given in binary form should be converted to decimal for the sake of the user.
This can also be done in the same way, however after the decimal point the number should be multiplied with 2-1, 2-2 etc.
Divide the number by 2 and take only the remainder, if division is completed than take only the remainder which gives the binary number.
After the dash (-) remainder is written.
Since, we are not getting the integer value after successive multiplication, we can approximate the value to be (.111110….)2.
In case of a negative number we can go for 2's complement representation of a signed number.
1's complement = 1111 0110.
Adding 1 we get = 11110111 which is the 2's complement representation of (-9).


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Toronto subject to native land claim
Jun 10, 2006 | 2006 Toronto Star Columns
Indians say 1787 land surrender was invalid
Government will bail us out with our own money
So you think you have good title to your home in Toronto?
When I wrote about the legal implications of the Caledonia native land dispute in this column two weeks ago, I wondered in print "what would have happened if the Haldimand grant had been for an area of 10 km on each side of Toronto's Don River instead of the Grand River, and if a group of protestors blockaded the Don Valley Parkway in violation of a court order?"
It turns out that a huge portion of the City of Toronto is in fact subject to a valid native land claim, which affects the title to millions of Toronto properties. I was reminded of this claim when I received an email from Stanley Dantowitz, a law clerk at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto.
"An aboriginal land claim in the present city of Toronto (and to the north and east of it) is not as remote a possibility as some may believe," Dantowitz wrote.
He referred me to the website of the federal Indian Claims Commission (http://www.indianclaims.ca) where I obtained and read the 42-page report on the Toronto Purchase Claim made by the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation. (http://www.indianclaims.ca/pdf/Mississauga_English.pdf or http://aaron.ca/columns/Mississauga_English.pdf ).
The report was issued by commissioner Daniel J. Bellegarde in June 2003 and makes fascinating reading.
In the 1780s, the British colonial authorities in this area became interested in a tract of land on the north shore of Lake Ontario, which included the "Carrying Place" of Toronto. A meeting was eventually held in 1787 between Sir John Johnson, the chief superintendent of Indian affairs, and three native chiefs.
The parties concluded the meeting by signing an Indian surrender of lands "on the north side of Lake Ontario." The surrender document was essentially a blank signed deed of Indian land in favour of the Crown, and the intention was that the dimensions would be inserted in the deed when the land was later surveyed.
A year later, British surveyors arrived and ran into a dispute with a local Mississauga chief who claimed that the natives had not sold any land east of the Don River.
The British officials then began to have serious doubts about the validity of the 1787 Toronto Purchase surrender, and in 1805 an attempt was made to rectify it.
That year, a new Toronto Purchase agreement was signed. Although it was portrayed as a simple affirmation of the 1787 transaction, the record shows that the boundaries were much larger than those intended by the British to be in the earlier deed.
The Indian chiefs who signed it received the magnificent sum of 10 shillings in total for their co-operation in signing over 392 square miles of land.
In 1998, the Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation filed a land claim alleging that the government in 1805 failed to inform them that the 1787 surrender was invalid.
They also assert that the second surrender in 1805, intended by the government to ratify the 1787 purchase and validate the surrender, included more land than was originally agreed to by the First Nation in the 1787 surrender.
The 1805 surrender, for example, included the Toronto Islands, which the First Nation claims were explicitly excluded from the 1787 surrender. The First Nation also claims that they never accepted the boundaries laid out under the 1805 surrender.
In 2002, Robert Nault, then minister of Indian Affairs, informed the chief of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation that the Canadian government accepted that the circumstances surrounding the 1805 surrender constituted a breach of a lawful obligation of the government.
The basis of the decision was that the agreement between the Indians and the Crown had not been fulfilled.
Since 2003, negotiators have been trying to agree on what constitutes fair cash compensation for the losses to the First Nation as a result of the 1805 Toronto Purchase.
A government statement at the time announced that the current ownership of that land is not in question and is not at issue in the claim.
Fortunately, no one is blockading the Don Valley Parkway over the 1805 land surrender. Court orders are not being violated and everyone is behaving civilly. Ultimately, it seems that blame will fall where it should at the hands of the government.
Too bad the Caledonia natives couldn't settle their land claim in the same way.
Now it seems that those of us who own property in Toronto don't really have good title to it, but the government is going to bail us out with our own money.
I wonder how much all of Toronto is worth, from the Don River to the Etobicoke Creek? Maybe the British should pay the claim, since they created the problem in the first place.
Bob Aaron is a Toronto real estate lawyer. He can be reached by email at bob@aaron.ca, phone 416-364-9366 or fax 416-364-3818.
Visit the Toronto Star column archives at https://www.aaron.ca/columns for articles on this and other topics or his main webpage at www.aaron.ca.


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And then activate the lever for each gate.
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Discussion in 'Map Factory' started by Prestige, Jan 31, 2013.
a koth map named kolf that takes elements frmo process last, sloth, and cano.
The wells connect right? Also, I don't know if the sightlines are blocked properly. A few more shipping containers on each stack might help with that.
could just stack the crates so they're vertical.
That was bad and I apologize.
Uh. Constructive criticism? The.. The stacked containers look nice, I guess. Yeah. That'll do.
After examining your pictures again, I've realized there's a bit of inconsistency. Is that a fake tree? Because normal trees have roots, and I don't see any in your picture, or even a place for any.
LeSwordfish will probably tell you that you don't have enough crates!
Put in some more! No seriously, put in some more!
I leave this topic disappointed.
also is there a way i can kinda make the tree make sense w/ there being a cave or something maybe underneath? or maybe some kind of long cyndrical cover that i dont really want anyone to be able to jump on that makes sense other than a tree?
Make yourself a tree cutout, similar to the cows we have.
Nah, trees over caves makes perfect sense. That well, however, makes me think you don't understand some important things about water physics.
it's a magic well or a sunken-in-the-ground rain barrel that looks like a well.
is there a way i can kinda make the tree make sense ?
It has already turned into an icon of your map!
Make the roof of the cave thicker and then get Heyo to model you a network of roots that match the tree and wind in and out of the roof and walls of the cave. Or something.
But it HAS to be Heyo. No one else can do this for you.


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BC Parks policies further the colonial interests of forestry, mining and commerce – it's time for them to listen to the recommendations of conservation scientists
by Loys Maingon
Thirty-four years ago, the "Friends of Strathcona" staged their 1988-1989 protest against the expansion of the Cream Silver Mine in Strathcona Park. The mine would have obliterated Cream Lake and most of the Thelwood Creek and Price Creek watersheds. Now, few visitors to Strathcona Park, and even fewer British Columbians, are aware that were it not for that historically important protest, BC's oldest and largest park would now be a maze of clearcuts and mining claims.
Both BC Parks and the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change were duly indicted in Dr. Peter Larkin's landmark report, Restoring the Balance, from the Strathcona Park Advisory Committee in 1988. The report paints BC Parks as a compliant arm of the Ministries of Forests and Mines, all-too-willing to trade parts of the park for forestry and mining permits, for money and window-dressing.
Under both provincial Liberals and NDP, BC Parks has had a dubious history of protecting the interests of commerce over wilderness. Larkin's report showed that BC Parks merely implemented recreational policies of the government of the day to distract the public from the depredations of the mining and forestry industries.
The 1988 protest was the formative ground for Clayoquot Sound. As such, the environmentalists, not BC Parks, saved Strathcona Park. They were ultimately responsible for the restoration of some of the park's integrity and all the additions in the 1990s to the park, including the Clayoquot Biosphere reserve.
To date, only about 40% of Larkin's recommendations are implemented. The buffers around the park which he recommended, including Jessie Lake, Pearl Lake, Forbush and Willemar Lakes, were excluded and now stand in continuous clearcuts that border the park. Control of access to the edges of the park and proposed public campsites that were promised in 1993 remains with the forest companies.
Commercial tourism
The park is back under threats that started when the government gave exclusive rights to park usage to the Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge, an expensive dude ranch with glamping. In 2014, Bill 4 allowed transmission lines and pipelines through the park, and it was never repealed by the NDP. The commercialization that Larkin excoriated has now been subtly re-introduced by BC Parks, with little response from the environmental community.
Concerns about commercial tourism that began in 2008 with the Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge now find private property at Moat lake which was supposed to be only for grandfathered family use, helicoptering in clients to the Moat Lake Retreat. The private park operator which replaced park staff for trail and campsite maintenance, has been given a permit to run a business in the park, renting canoes and kayaks on Buttle lake – conservation impacts on sensitive declining shorebird populations be damned. In 2021, unknown to the public, the mine's new owner, Myra Falls Mines, was given an expansion permit. It is the thin edge of a very disturbing wedge, excluding public interests in wilderness.
While BC Parks has been erecting expensive signs reassuring the public that it is "inclusive," its policies and actions are decidedly "exclusive."
BC Parks has further commercialized the park by requiring that all campsites be reserved in advance. As research on reservation systems in the US National Parks shows, these systems discriminate against lower income demographics, and favour urban white campers with higher than median household incomes.
Exclusion from Living Lab
While BC Parks has been erecting expensive signs reassuring the public that it is "inclusive," its policies and actions are decidedly "exclusive." Nowhere is this truer than when it comes to scientific research. BC Parks' notorious reputation for obstructing research permits is even more explicit in the overtly discriminatory eligibility criteria for its flagship: "Living Lab for Climate Change and Conservation Program." Eligibility is limited and exclusive: "Lead applicants must be professors who hold a current teaching or research position with a public post-secondary institution in BC. Adjunct professors are not eligible for Living Lab funding."
This raises a number of red flags. First, it is a clear case of "ageism." Retired professors, no matter how well-qualified, are excluded. It also excludes some of the leading climate researchers in BC such as Dr. Richard Hebda (retired adjunct professor).
Second, BC has a large pool of environmentalists who are adjunct professors and professionals. The eligibility criterion favours age and privilege over merit.
Third, this policy runs completely against the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which stress the urgent need to move away from exclusionary top-down approaches and engage local communities if humanity is ever to stand a chance to address climate change. That is a far cry from BC Parks' belief that parachuting university professors in the summer into local communities will somehow solve climate change. That approach simply perpetuates the socially discriminatory notion that science is something that is done only at universities in urban environments. This is socially divisive and only serves to feed climate denialism. To solve the climate and biodiversity crises we need to connect people with science at a local level focused on including local resources and knowledge. That begins by recognizing the work of scientists working away from universities in rural localities.
Species inventory and discovery
The Friends of Strathcona understood early on that there is a need not only to reactively protest politically and advocate legally for the park, but also to proactively provide nature education and inventory Strathcona Provincial Park's species. That became even more urgent when in 2001 Gordon Campbell closed down the remnants of BC Parks' naturalist programs. In 1995, Betty Brooks and Steve Smith led the drive to set up the Strathcona Wilderness Institute (SWI) to liaise with BC Parks and provide park information, education and research.
Since 2018, SWI has launched six non-invasive and unpermitted research projects, without any financial support other than federal Canada Summer Jobs to pay one to two students yearly. These projects listed by starting year are:
Fungi of Strathcona Park (2018),
Bryophytes of Strathcona Park (2019)
SWI Data Collection Site (2020)
Student Research Transects (2020)
Lichens of Strathcona Park (2020)
Strathcona Park Climate Change Lakes Project (2021)
The data for these projects is compiled in the publicly-available iNaturalist site "SWI Data Collection." BC Parks incorporates this information in the BC Parks project run by Dr. Brian Starzomski (UVic) and Dr. John Reynolds (SFU). As Dr. Starzomski has publicly stated, the work of SWI has made Strathcona Provincial Park "the best inventoried park in BC, heads and shoulders over all other parks."
Indeed, SWI has documented over 2,000 species in the park. It has quadrupled the number of known species of mosses, liverworts, lichens and freshwater algae in the park, and increased the known numbers of floral and faunal species recorded on Vancouver Island. It has increased the number of rare and red-listed species, and even discovered one mushroom, one or two new lichens and one moss new to science, as well as extremely rare species new to the Americas.
What matters here is that SWI with this local volunteer citizen science vindicates and consolidates the political achievements of the environmental community. While BC Parks gave an expansion permit to Myra Falls Mine, SWI discovered a hitherto unknown population of Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis (Oldgrowth Specklebelly) at the minesite. That alone vindicates the 64 arrests of 1988-89. Who in their right mind allows a mine to operate in old growth, and worse, gives an expansion permit at a time when the United Nations calls for the preservation of biodiversity, because as Antonio Guterres eloquently put it: "The future of humanity depends on it"?
Then there was the discovery of an extremely rare algae, Cosmarium woronichinii, a new species to America, on the same road that would have been built to destroy Cream lake. It would never have been found had the road been built.
So why might one care? That discovery tells a story that British Columbians are unaware of. The Forest and Ranges Practices Act does not require that forestry operations determine what species might be at risk from logging operations. We have no idea what species, or how many species, we daily eradicate, and may have lost in BC since colonization started the pillage we call prosperity.
Every park needs a locally-based institute to raise the bar, collect public data and communicate with local communities. That might disturb the government's cozy relationship with business. If SWI found four species new to science in mid-elevation old growth of moderate productivity, and quadrupled the numbers of known species across various phyla locally, that is not just an acknowledgement of the huge knowledge gaps underlying our ecological and economic assumptions. It raises the spectre of the loss of thousands of species across BC on which, we are told, the future of humanity depends.
When BC Parks promotes discriminatory policies that exclude local community-based research, it cannot claim to be inclusive. Its policies further the same short-sightedness that sustained the colonial interests of forestry, mining and commerce before the Larkin report. A hierarchical shake-up may be needed to save our parks, again, and increase BC's conservation lands to 50% as recommended by conservation scientists.
Loys Maingon PhD is a retired biologist, who dedicates this piece in memoriam to Ron Hatch (1939-2021), fellow arrestee and trusted friend.
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Michael Gove's anti-Balkan Brexit propaganda
I recently received a pro-Brexit pamphlet through my door that argues I should vote for Britain to leave the EU because of the danger that further EU expansion into the Balkans will result in more immigrants from the Balkans coming over (see image, above).
This echoes an article Michael Gove published in the Daily Mail some weeks ago:
The Albanian Option. It sounds like a John le Carré novel. You imagine a story with political intrigue, huge sums of money going astray, criminality and double-dealing. And you'd be right. But the Albanian Option isn't holiday reading fiction — it's diplomatic fact. Albania is on course to join the European Union — alongside four other countries, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. The already unwieldy group of 28 is due to become a throng of 33. And Britain isn't just backing this move. We're paying for it. Every week we send £350 million to the EU. And now millions of your hard-earned taxes are being directed to these five prospective members. Between now and 2020 the United Kingdom will pay almost £2 billion to help these nations prepare for membership of the EU — that's more than we will spend on the NHS Cancer Drugs Fund over the same period. This bounty will be our greatest gift to Albania since the comic talent of the late Sir Norman Wisdom, that country's improbable national hero, lit up the dark days of Stalinist dictatorship. Indeed, I wonder if the Albanian people are now convinced that Britain's Foreign Office is full of Norman Wisdom characters, lovable chumps whose generosity and good-heartedness make them easily gulled into accepting all sorts of bad advice. How else could they explain their good fortune in being on the receiving end of a £2 billion Balkan bonanza?
As Justice Secretary, I am well aware that there are around 10,000 foreign criminals in our jails — and one in 20 of those is Albanian. Of all the prisoners in our jails who come from European countries, 10 per cent come from Albania — yet Albania comprises less than half of one per cent of the overall population of Europe.
Those prisoners currently cost the British taxpayer almost £18 million a year to keep in custody. And that's before Albanian citizens even have the right to move to the UK! The Home Secretary knows the problem is very far from diminishing. Already this year we've seen 20 gangsters from Albania convicted of running a brutal drugs ring in Manchester.
Of course, as the Home Secretary rightly noted, Albania is not the only accession country with an organised crime problem. Albania's neighbour on the Adriatic Sea, Montenegro, has a breathtakingly beautiful coastline and romantic interior. It also, unfortunately, has mafia gangs, a reputation as a centre for money-laundering and a record for narcotics trafficking. The prime minister, Milo Djukanovic, has been a leader of the country almost continuously for the past 30 years. He started as a Communist apparatchik and friend of the murderous Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. But today he is a fan of the European Union and chummy with EU power brokers.
Has everyone got that ? Albanians and Montenegrins are basically all criminals and we need to leave the EU to stop them flooding into our country and swamping it. Huge, China-sized countries that they are. Gove's exploitation of stereotypes of Albanians and Montegrins as criminals echoes the sort of propaganda popular among the supporters of Slobodan Milosevic and his successors, who first attempted to destroy the Albanian people of Kosovo as a group, then to deny their state international recognition. Note that Gove does not distinguish between Albanian criminals and Albanian people in general. Consider this sentence: 'I wonder if the Albanian people are now convinced that Britain's Foreign Office is full of Norman Wisdom characters, lovable chumps whose generosity and good-heartedness make them easily gulled into accepting all sorts of bad advice. How else could they explain their good fortune in being on the receiving end of a £2 billion Balkan bonanza?' He is concerned that 'the Albanian people', not just Albanian criminals, might consider British officials to be 'chumps'.
Albania has been one of Britain's staunchest allies over the past two decades. Its troops have fought alongside ours, sustaining casualties in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Gove is, of course, a neoconservative who strongly supported the US-led intervention in Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein. While the Albanian troops were shedding their blood in support of the unpopular intervention in Iraq, while other British allies refused to step forward, Gove did not say at the time 'Go home; we don't want you on our side as you're a bunch of criminals and scroungers.' No, he waited until the Brexit campaign cynically to stab them in the back. Though it is not inconceivable that he launched his anti-Albanian tirade in a fit of pique after his suggestion that the UK could form part of a 'free-trade zone' of countries outside the EU, along with Albania, was trashed by the Albanian prime minister, Edi Rama.
His portrayal of Montenegro's Djukanovic as a 'friend of the murderous Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic' is another exercise in cynicism, given that Djukanovic has been a longstanding ally of the West who, as Montenegro's president, visited Tony Blair in London during the Kosovo War in 1999 to declare his opposition to Milosevic's policy – at considerable personal risk, given Montenegro was then under the military control of Belgrade's forces.
Gove was, until 2011, a trustee of the neoconservative Henry Jackson Society, whose policy at the time was to support the expansion of the EU to include the Western Balkan countries and Turkey. According to its manifesto, The British Moment, published in 2006 and currently selling on Amazon for as little as 29p, 'The EU should contemplate expanding to include Turkey, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia.'
Gove did not express any dissent from this policy at the time. He thus subscribed to a political vision that was outward-looking, seeking to combat totalitarianism and human-rights abuses, and promote Western liberal-democratic values across the world, and that sought to embrace Albania, Montenegro, Turkey and other Balkan states as allies in this project. He has now done a 180-degree turn, and subscribes to a political vision that is inward-looking and isolationist; the counterpart of Donald Trump's call for a wall to be built against Mexican immigrants. Instead of seeking to export our positive values, Gove wants to keep the outside world out. No longer allies, Balkan states in Gove's eyes are now threats; sources of immigrants who will come over, import crime with them, steal our jobs and scrounge off our taxpayers. The tension in neoconservatism was always present between its positive, optimistic, liberal-interventionist tendency that perceived a world inhabited by sisters and brothers in need of solidarity and freedom, and its regressive, pessimistic, Islamophobic and anti-immigration tendency that perceived a world inhabited by hordes of unredeemable economic migrants and jihadis. Orcs, one might say. Gove's definite defection to the second tendency is a powerful indication of the movement's degeneration.
What a disgraceful, miserable political evolution Gove has undergone. A powerful European union of democratic states including all the countries of the Western Balkans and, one day, a fully democratic Turkey is one we Brits should be proud to be part of.
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FABREGAS: "We just want to win it (the Premier League). The sooner, the better."
Many people forget that the only silverware Cesc Fabregas won at Arsenal during the eight years he spent in North London was the FA Cup a...
Cesc Fabregas, Latest, Premier League
https://www.chelseadaft.org/2015/04/fabregas-we-just-want-to-win-it-premier.html
Many people forget that the only silverware Cesc Fabregas won at Arsenal during the eight years he spent in North London was the FA Cup and Charity Shield. With Chelsea, he can set his sights on winning the Premier League for the first time and he hopes it happens quickly.
Speaking after the massive win against Manchester United at the weekend, Fabregas said:
"We just want to win it [the Premier League]. The sooner, the better.
We want to give satisfaction to the supporters. It's been five years for them without winning the Premier League title; for me it's been 27 years so I'd love to win it as soon as possible."
He has had his critics of late but it's important to point out that Cesc Fabregas along with Diego Costa have taken Chelsea to another level this season. Granted, of late his performances have not been to the high standards he has set earlier in the season but you still cannot fault his work rate and influence on the ball.
I honestly believed that he was part of the famous "Invincible" Arsenal team but obviously not so it;s about time (27 years as he says) that he won it and what better way to do that, than to be at Chelsea!
At times, I still have a double-take moment whenever I see him playing for us because to have been able to convince him to come back to the Premier League to Chelsea was a masterstroke.
I'm with Fabregas here. I just hope that we can beat Arsenal on Sunday meaning one more win at Leicester hands us the title.


Sean Lineen wants Rory Kerr to bounce back from his World Cup disappointment by playing a blinder against Ulster tomorrow night.
Sean Lineen has urged Rory Kerr to bounce back from his shock Rugby World Cup snub by turning on the style against Ulster.
Sean reckons the Rory has the chance to prove Geech wrong in his side's Celtic League clash with Ulster tomorrow night. "He is pretty dejected and angry that he is not going to be involved in the World Cup and that is understandable," Lineen revealed after the squad arrived in Belfast.
"We'll see what frame of mind he's in. But it is down to him to get back on the horse. He has come off it and this will really test his mettle. But with the way we are playing, he has got a good chance to get the ball in his hands and show exactly what he is capable of.
"He played well for us at full-back in our victory over Cardiff last week. He was very busy and did a lot of good stuff and really got involved.
"I am disappointed for Rory. I would have thought the hard grounds Scotland are going to be playing on in Australia would have been perfect for him. However, the team, too, has to get behind him and help him get through this. He has suffered a few setbacks in the last couple of years and needs their support."
The Glasgow coaching team feel tomorrow's game will be a tougher outing than the opener at Hughenden last Friday. Sean stressed: "The boys were very disciplined against Cardiff and did well. But we saw tapes of Ulster's game last week against the Ospreys and know they are a difficult proposition."
Ulster will be without their five Irish World Cup players for Friday's game. Scrum-half Neil Doak, lock Gary Longwell, fly-half David Humphreys, centre Jonny Bell and prop Simon Best are all unavailable.


Around this time last year, I wrote a piece called "Shia LaBeouf Stars In Performance Making Fun of Himself, Is Still a Joke." I still think it's a funny headline, but it was mean-spirited and so was the article. Within an hour of publishing, I had a direct message from LaBeouf's art collaborator, Luke Turner, who was offended by it. Specifically, he was offended by my assertion that Shia should stay out of the "art world." Why would I say that? Why would I tell anyone to not make art? And for god's sake there are way worse people in the art world than Shia LaBeouf (my assertion, not his). I explained that I was asked to write that piece by my editor because it's news, and I resented the fact that I had to write about bad work just because a celebrity was involved. That resentment fed into the piece. I'm here to say that I was wrong.
project that he has been working on in collaboration with LaBeouf and Nastja Säde Rönkkö. He asked me to keep an open mind and try to see that they are working with the subject of "empathy, affect, and the humanity of the networks." I think that's true, and they're actually doing a damn good job at it.
The act of rolling one's eyes was practically invented for LaBeouf's work, especially out of context. But you can say that about all art, and when someone writes about it, they have a responsibility to discern when the eyeroll is justified. With #allmymovies, LaBeouf and his collaborators have arranged for all of the actor's films to be played in reverse chronological order at the Angelika Film Center in New York. LaBeouf is there, 24 hours a day, watching them, and anyone willing to sit through the line is welcome to join him for free. If you can't go in person there's a NewHive livestream from a camera pointed directly at Shia's face. This is the 11th work the collective has done under the project title, The Campaign Book, the eighth to be titled with a hashtag, and once again it's about "empathy, affect, and the humanity of the networks." Especially empathy.
I didn't really hate the works before, I just hated the attention they were getting—attention that better work would never get. I saw it as stunt art by a bored actor playing artist. When he announced that he "wasn't famous anymore" with the enigmatic quote, "when the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea," I saw it as petulant hostility towards journalists and an obvious bid for publicity. But when I read reports from his performance #iamsorry, in which LaBeouf wore a bag on his head, with the words "i am not famous anymore" written on it, it actually sounded kind of moving. Several journalists went there with the intention of gleefully making fun of weirdo Shia and came away feeling shaken. Empathetic, even. Writing for the Daily Beast, Andrew Romano said, "I actually felt something real. Something strange and complex. Something like sympathy." Like he was a human being underneath that bag.
You know, "celebrities are people too," and the smartest of them don't complain about the difficult parts of the gig because, yes, they have a pile of money to fall back on. The worst of them are petulant (here's looking at you Robert DeNiro). But I don't think what LaBeouf is doing here is actually a request to be thought of as human. He wants to collaborate. That's hard for a celebrity to accomplish because people will turn it into their own moment. They'll insist on a selfie and will laugh at a joke that no one else is laughing at, and they'll implicitly refuse to make a new work together because, look, a celebrity. The strategy that's being implemented is to make space for others to turn it into their own thing while using simple gestures. "Come run with me, talk to me while I wear a heart monitor, watch one of my movies with me (it's as weird for me as it is for you)." This is actually very clever, and it's about as close as a celebrity can get to intimacy with the public at large.
In which LaBeouf commissioned a plane to sky write #startcreating over Los Angeles and set up a Tumblr to collect the subsequent Instagram photos from the public.
In which LaBeouf collaborated with 36 undergrads at Central Saint Martins in London for their 2015 degree show. He invited each student to provide a short-text introducing their work and he read the text aloud in front of a green screen. Viral bonanza ensued over an energetic "Do it!" speech.
In which LaBeouf broadcast his heartbeat online for six days while attending the SXSW festival and encouraged people to talk to him and monitor how their interaction affected his heartbeat.
In which LaBeouf read a love letter to Sia while presenting at the Grammys.
In which LaBeouf brought a journalist into the process of the interview for Dazed, and gave an in-depth account of being assaulted during #iamsorry.
In which LaBeouf invited the public to join him in running laps around the Stedelijk Museum.
In which LaBeouf invited the public to join him in skipping rope.
In which LaBeouf wore a bag on his head, on which was written "i am not famous anymore," and sat inside a gallery at a table littered with items referencing his career. He invited the public to come and do or say whatever they wanted while he sat in silence.
In which LaBeouf, well, ok, this one's some vague theoretical frameworks that would have to be taken one by one. It's a manifesto, you know?
sidekick to freakin' Indiana Jones) taking stock of what he's done in reverse order before our eyes. He is doing that, extremely cringe-worthy act of "activating a space," and he's doing it well. I intentionally never look back at my Facebook or Twitter; it's just too intense. Anyone else might look at it and shrug, but I remember how dumb, or loud, or selfish I was. If you're a successful actor, you have a solid, viewable record of so many moments in life that no one will perceive the way you do. Outside of the sleep deprivation, I'm sure it's slightly excruciating for him to watch himself grow up in reverse; to relive this moment on set, see that different person and his crush on that person, to think "Man, shouldn't have done that movie" or "People didn't understand how awesome that was." And then it all concludes at a time when you didn't even make decisions for yourself. Just a kid. He is "activating the space" with "this is where I am, literally right here, and this is where I've been, up there, and, if you'd like, join me in reflecting on both." On the livestream, he laughs, cries, shakes his head, shrugs and sleeps and no one really knows what's going through his head but people love it.
The reaction online has been shockingly positive. Film critic, David Ehrlich called it a work of genius, tweets from the public are almost uniformly positive, friends on Facebook have taken to the project as warmly as Bob Ross being rebroadcast on Twitch. That is to say, very warmly. That warmth is present in the lobby of the Angelika—where I'm sitting right now—and people are just incredibly happy to be taking part, even if it means waiting for hours. When someone leaves, they applaud; when Shia exits for the bathroom, they cheer. Online, people are taking screengrabs from the livestream and making all sorts of random associations. A friend of mine set up a stream of the audio from the films so that you could hear what LaBeouf hears while you watch him. At the time of writing this, there are 700 people listening, and commenters have synced up Netflix to go along with it. When all's said and done, you can expect countless memes and remixes just like the "Just Do It" videos from the #introductions project.
I don't just think this piece is good, I genuinely love it. It's one of the best artworks in recent memory. When I wrote negative things about LaBeouf, Turner and Rönkkö's work, I accused it of being "look-at-me" tripe. I told him to stay out of the art world, and that was wrong. I hope he and his collaborators make lots of art. So to make it up to them, here I am apologizing in a piece that kind of says "look at me, apologizing." Possibly, I'm just a seagull following a trawler, because I think sardines will be thrown into the sea. #IAMSORRY. I now empathize.
Rhett Jones is the Culture Editor of Hopes and Fears.


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Q: How can I compile sqlite for WinRT / ARM? I've successfully compiled my WinRT version of SQLite for x86 as described by Tim Heuer.
However, I am still struggling how to compile the dll for WinRT on ARM CPUs. I've run nmake with the Visual Studio ARM command prompt, but that just gives me the following error:
 C:\sqlite>nmake -f makefile.msc sqlite3.dll FOR_WINRT=1 OPTS=/DWINAPI_FAMILY=WIN
API_PARTITION_APP

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 11.00.50522.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        cl.exe -W3 -DNDEBUG -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
 -O2 -Zi /DEBUG -Femkkeywordhash.exe  -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3=1 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_RTR
EE=1 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA=1 -DSQLITE_MAX_TRIGGER_DEPTH=100 /DWINAPI_F
AMILY=WINAPI_PARTITION_APP .\tool\mkkeywordhash.c
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 17.00.50522.1 for ARM

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

mkkeywordhash.c

Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 11.00.50522.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

/machine:arm
/debug
/out:mkkeywordhash.exe
mkkeywordhash.obj
        .\mkkeywordhash.exe > keywordhash.h
This version of C:\sqlite\mkkeywordhash.exe is not compatible with the version o
f Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information and then cont
act the software publisher.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '.\mkkeywordhash.exe' : return code '0x1'
Stop.

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Adrian

A: I finally managed to make this work:

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*Compiled the x86 dll as described here:
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2012/05/20/using-sqlite-in-metro-style-app.aspx

*Deleted only the sqlite3* files and the sqlitelib (many thanks to Banthar and Tim Heuer for the hint)

*Compiled the ARM dll from the ARM VS command prompt with this command:
nmake -f makefile.msc sqlite3.dll FOR_WINRT=1 OPTS=/DWINAPI_FAMILY=WINAPI_PARTITION_APP

A: You can also get the binaries pre-compiled via this project:
https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net/tree/master/lib/metro

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