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The Flame That Will Not Die (Italian: Fiamma che non si spegne) is a 1949 Italian war drama film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and starring Gino Cervi, María Denis and Leonardo Cortese. It is based on the story of Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer who died to save others being executed by the Germans during the Second World War.

It was made at Cinecittà Studios. The film's sets were designed by Ottavio Scotti.

Cast
 Gino Cervi as Luigi Manfredi
 María Denis as Maria
 Leonardo Cortese as Giuseppe Manfredi
 Luigi Tosi as Giovanni
 Carlo Campanini as Il zio di Maria
 Danielle Benson as Caterina
 Diana Benucci
 Siro Angeli
 Lorena Berg
 Nando Bruno
 Tino Buazzelli
 Vittorio Cottafavi
 Maurizio Di Nardo
 Giovanni Lovatelli
 Fulvia Mammi as Norina
 Carlo Mariotti
 Arnaldo Mochetti
 Diego Muni
 Dina Romano
 Gian Paolo Rosmino
 Gustavo Serena
 Barbara Vassarotti
 Gaio Visconti

References

Bibliography
 Guido Bonsaver & Robert Gordon. Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-century Italy. European Humanities Research Centre, 2005.

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1940s war drama films
Italian war drama films
1949 films
1940s Italian-language films
Films directed by Vittorio Cottafavi
Italian black-and-white films
1949 drama films
Films scored by Alessandro Cicognini
Italian World War II films
World War II films based on actual events
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Q: Sprite animation Android Studio
I created a game in AndroidStudio, where you can move right and left through the buttons. Now I would like to add an animation. I have this image:
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How do I change the animation when I click the left button and then stop it when no touch the button?
Is there a guide? Thanks for all.

A: First of all you have to create a xml and place the images. You have 6 frames in the sprite, you have to cut it making 6 images. Create a xml (e.g. run_animation.xml) and reference the images in there. For example like this:
<animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run_0001" android:duration="50"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run_0002" android:duration="50"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run_0003" android:duration="50"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run_0004" android:duration="50"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run_0005" android:duration="50"/>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/run_0006" android:duration="50"/>
</animation-list>

If you don't want to loop the animation, you can use this in the xml: android:oneshot="true"
For example:
<animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:oneshot="true">
Java:
runAnimation.setImageResource(R.drawable.run_animation);
AnimationDrawable idleAnimation = (AnimationDrawable)runAnimation.getDrawable();
idleAnimation.start();

In order to run the animation using a button, place the Java code above in the button click listener. For example:
btnRight.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        // run animation
        runAnimation.setImageResource(R.drawable.run_animation);
        AnimationDrawable idleAnimation = (AnimationDrawable)runAnimation.getDrawable();
        idleAnimation.start();
    }
});

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Nolwenn Leroyová, vlastním jménem Nolwenn Le Magueresse (výslovnost [nolwɛn ləʁwa], * 28. září 1982 Saint-Renan) je francouzská zpěvačka pop music, spolupracující se skladatelem a producentem Laurentem Voulzym.

Jejím otcem je bývalý prvoligový fotbalista Jean-Luc Le Magueresse. Od jedenácti let se učila klasickému zpěvu a hře na klavír a housle, díky školnímu výměnnému pobytu v USA ovládá plynně angličtinu. Studovala mezinárodní právo na Université Clermont-Auvergne, po vítězství v televizní soutěži Star Academy v roce 2002 se stala profesionální zpěvačkou. Její debutové album bylo v čele žebříčku Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique a stalo se dvojnásobnou platinovou deskou. Největší úspěch zaznamenala s albem Bretonne, na němž zpívá bretaňské lidové písně, které překročilo hranici milionu prodaných kusů. Třikrát získala NRJ Music Award a byla v roce 2012 nominována na cenu Victoires de la Musique v kategorii zpěvaček. V roce 2015 ji časopis Le Journal du Dimanche zařadil na seznam padesáti nejpopulárnějších francouzských celebrit. Vedle zpěvu se věnuje také natáčení reklam a filmovému dabingu.

Jejím životním partnerem je tenista Arnaud Clément, v roce 2017 se jim narodil syn Marin. Byla po ní pojmenována planetka 353232 Nolwenn. Je členkou dobročinné organizace Les Enfoirés, ve volném čase se věnuje jízdě na koni.

Diskografie

Studiová Alba
 2003: Nolwenn
 2005: Histoires naturelles
 2009: Le Cheshire Cat et moi
 2010: Bretonne
 2012: Ô filles de l'eau
 2017: Gemme
 2018: Folk
 2021: La Cavale

Živá alba
 2007: Histoires Naturelles Tour
 2014: Ô Tour de l'eau

Singly
 2003: "Cassé"
 2003: "Une femme cachée"
 2003: "Suivre une étoile"
 2004: "Inévitablement"
 2005: "Nolwenn Ohwo !"
 2006: "Histoire Naturelle"
 2006: "Mon ange"
 2006: "J'aimais tant l'aimer"
 2007: "Reste encore"
 2009: "Faut-il, faut-il pas ?"
 2010: "Mná na h-Éireann (Women of Ireland)"
 2010: "La Jument de Michao"
 2011: "Tri Martolod"
 2011: "Brest"
 2011: "Moonlight Shadow"
 2012: "Juste Pour Me Souvenir"
 2013: "Sixième Continent"
 2017: "Gemme"
 2017: "Trace ton chemin"
 2021: "Brésil, Finistère"
 2021: "Loin"

Reference

Externí odkazy

 http://nolwennleroy.com/

Francouzské zpěvačky
Narození v roce 1982
Narození 28. září
Narození v Bretani
Žijící lidé
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When a soldier is injured and treated overseas, the cost for families to be at the bedside of their loved ones can be prohibitive for most.
But, this obstacle has been shattered with the help of the Fisher House Foundation, an organization that the faculty and staff of Barton Community College have been supporting over the last decade.
The Fisher House Foundation uses its housing facilities, which are located close to hospitals around the world, for servicemen and women to provide temporary lodging at no cost until the soldier is in a stable state of recovery. The fund also helps cover travel costs for family members of injured soldiers.
The Fisher House in Landstuhl, Germany has been chosen as a focus for the Barton fundraising efforts. The medical center that is located in this city is one of the military's only major medical centers overseas, so the Fisher House was strategically constructed in Landstuhl as well.
In addition, donations may also be used to provide basic-needs items to soldiers at the medical centers. Often times, these soldiers arrive with little more than the clothes they were wearing when injured because emergency evacuation situations provide little time for preparation or packing.
"The last thing people are thinking about in an emergency situation, especially in a foreign theatre is grabbing someone's personal items," said Barton fund chairperson Janet Balk. "It's important to realize there is a delay between when someone is critically injured and when their unit can box up their stuff or their family can get them these basic-needs items."
Balk, who is Barton's College Programs, eCompanion and Hybrid Coordinator at the Fort Riley campus, said the integrity of the Fisher House Foundation is second to none.
"This organization is terrific," she said. "In this day and age we tend to be a bit skeptical because certain organizations have had scandals, or have tremendously high overhead or, for example, they pay their national spokesperson an extremely high salary and that equates to sometimes less than 50 percent of every dollar actually being used to help someone. Through the Fisher House Foundation, 85 percent of every dollar goes directly to helping people."
Barton Community College has collected and donated more than $16,700 to the Fisher House Foundation at Landstuhl, Germany in one decade with $2,700 being generated in 2012.
Balk said this is a great opportunity for people to give back to our nation's servicemen and women.
"This is a way to help people that have an immediate need," she said. "I think it gives people a way to be able to show their appreciation and contribute as civilians, by doing something more than saying 'Thank you for your service.'"
The faculty, staff and administration at Barton would greatly appreciate your help in supporting this cause. Please send your tax deductible donation to:
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Three men were to be instrumental in transforming a medieval walled city of 3,000 people into an elegant Georgian City with a population of 30,000.
Richard 'Beau' Nash (1674-1762)
Richard Nash was born in South Wales in 1674 and educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He served as a Guards Officer and studied law at the Inner Temple in London, but opted for a career as a gambler. Nash was the power behind gaming dens in Tunbridge Wells and came to Bath in 1703 as an aide de camp to the Master of Ceremonies, Captain Webster. The young Richard Nash took his place when the Captain was killed in a duel.
He set about changing the social behaviour of the citizens, creating a strict code of etiquette which became the norm for all walks of life, and made the city a pleasanter and safer place. He became the "Arbiter of Elegance" and was known as the "King of Bath", becoming one of the most influential men in the social history of England.
He lived with his mistress, Juliana Popjoy, in a fine house, which is now the Theatre Royal in Sawclose and maintained his luxurious mode of living by gambling until gaming was outlawed in 1745. Nash died a pauper but was buried in Bath Abbey.
John Wood (1704-1754)
John Wood the Elder was an architect whose vision of building the "Rome of the North" gave Bath its architectural gems.
Wood studied Palladio, a 16th Century Italian architect, and created the buildings of Bath with symmetry, balance and proportion. As a 22-year-old working in the city in 1726/7 he was commissioned by the Duke of Chandos to rebuild part of St Johns Court Hospital. Wood seized the opportunity to realise his vision and, for the first time local stone was used to create a unified street as he designed a number of houses to look like one, in the classical Greek/Roman style.
There are three main creations that exemplify Wood's vision: Queen's Square (1729-39), the King's Circus (1754-67) and the Royal Crescent (1767-74). Wood the Elder laid the foundation stones of the Circus, but died in 1754. His son, John Wood the Younger, completed the project. The Circus incorporates three classical styles of architecture: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. The carved frieze of 158 Metopes represent the arts and the sciences, while the 138 masks and 108 acorns crown the roof line to commemorate the legend of Bath.
Ralph Allen (1693-1764)
Born in Cornwall, Ralph Allen came to Bath aged 17. He joined the postal service. By 19 he was sub-Post Master and made his fortune as a Post Master when he re-organized and developed the national service. Being a man of enterprise, Allen invested his money in the stone quarries of Bath and was able to supply John Wood with the material crucial to the design of the city.
Known as the "Benevolent Man", Allen was made an Honorary Freeman in 1725. He became Mayor in 1742 and was the MP for Bath between 1757-64.
Thanks to Nash, Wood and Allen, Bath grew in wealth and popularity, becoming known as the finest city in Europe, epitomizing the height of style and fashion. In 1738 they founded one of the first hospitals outside London. It provided treatments using the hot springs and became known as 'The Royal Mineral Water Hospital'. Now 'The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases', it is stil 'The Min' to Bathonians. The first physician was Dr William Oliver and the foundation stone was laid by William Pulteney.
The Pulteneys, one of the richest families in England, owned land on the eastern side of the river. In 1770 they employed the Scottish architect Robert Adam to design Pulteney Bridge to connect the Bathwick estate with the city. Based on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, with shops on either side, it was completed in 1774 and unique in England at that time. The Pulteney estate continued to expand with the building of the main thoroughfare, Great Pulteney Street, in 1788. The culmination of this project came in 1796 with the building now known as the Holburne Museum.
The original Guildhall, designed by the classical architect Inigo Jones 1626-27, was demolished. In 1776 the City Surveyor, Thomas Baldwin, designed and built what is now the central section of the Guildhall. This includes the Banqueting Room, elaborately decorated in the Adam style.
Bath suffered a drop in popularity as the French Revolutionary Wars began. Banks and builders went bankrupt and construction halted. The city became less fashionable as society began to favour the salt water of the sea to the mineral water of Bath.
However, during the 18th and 19th Centuries, as a cultural centre the city still attracted a wide variety of the rich and famous. This included writers Jane Austen, Oliver Goldsmith and Charles Dickens; artist Thomas Gainsborough; poets William Wordsworth, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Walter Savage Landor; and actors David Garrick and Sara Siddons. Bath also attracted Lord Nelson, Josiah Wedgwood, William Pitt, Lord Clive (later Governor of Bengal in India) and the explorer and missionary Dr David Livingstone.
In 1805, nine days before the Battle of Trafalgar, the Theatre Royal was opened. This was the City's fourth since 1705. The original entrance on the north side of the theatre was adorned with the Royal Coat of Arms. The railings around the lawn are replicas of the seamen's pikes used at the time of Lord Nelson's death and placed there in his memory.
The Kennet and Avon Canal was opened in 1810, connecting the River Thames with the Severn Estuary. It was mainly used for the transportation of coal and other merchandise.
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Shania Twain Is Engaged Again After A Really Rotten Divorce
By Ellie DeLano
Shania Twain is engaged to (of all people) the husband of the woman that her husband was having an affair with. Wow. I cannot even imagine, but I suppose they had something in common to begin with, and built on that foundation. More power to her, if she's truly happy. I just feel like that's…well, weird.
My Soon-To-Be-Ex, Peter, is involved with a coworker, and she is a married woman herself. Now that they're moving on with each other, I really cannot imagine reaching out to or being reached out to by this other woman's husband. Maybe if he needed some corroboration of their trysting dates for legal purposes, or something, but other than that…no. Just….no. That would be entirely too weird for me.
And building a relationship from a start like that? I suppose there's something to be said for the comraderie of a shared painful event, but to turn that into romance is a lot harder than it looks.
Maybe that's the long and short of it for me. A new relationship, after coming off of a shared lifetime and the demise of all that was, would be a lot of work. Add in somebody who would remind me of that daily, and that's a whole lot of work. I'm just too tired for excess drama at this point in my life.
I do wish the best for Shania, though. As hard as my divorce is, at least it's not splashed across the front page of a newspaper. She deserves some love and a peaceful life.
What do you think? Could you marry the spouse of the person your ex cheated on you with? Or is that too much to deal with?
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Was talking on the phone on my front porch. noticed an object as far away as the smallest stars moving east. it stopped, hovered in place, then let out an explosion or bright light. it then disappeared. i went inside got my wife and after spending five or less minutes looking it re-appeared briefly moving backwards in a northeasterly manner. it was solid and had no blinking lights other than the explosion or light emission. it seemed to be moving slow because of the distance but it was covering vast distances in the sky after its re-appearance.


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Montana State University Billings is a comprehensive public four-year higher education institution located in Montana's largest population center, whose faculty is actively engaged in teaching, research, creative endeavors and public service. MSU Billings is unique in that it is one of a select few higher education institutions that also boasts an embedded two-year community college. The University opened in 1927 and was established to prepare teachers for elementary schools in eastern Montana. MSU Billings has grown, with the city of Billings and Yellowstone County, into the major urban comprehensive higher education center of south central and eastern Montana. The University campus consists of four colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Education and the College of Allied Health Professions. Seven miles west of the University campus sits City College at MSU Billings, which serves the comprehensive two-year mission of the university.
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The SAM Full-time Bachelor's Degree model tracks a group of students who started a bachelor's degree program at Montana State University-Billings in the Fall of 2012. The students' progress toward a degree is reported within 4, 5, and 6 years. The same group of students is included in the results for every year.
Students who started at and graduated from Montana State University-Billings are represented by the darker purple bar with the solid black bar underneath (). (This section of the chart Within 6 Years is approximately the same as the federal graduation rate, but it may differ slightly for each institution.)
Students who started at Montana State University-Billings and then transferred to and graduated from another institution are represented by the lighter purple bar with the white stripe underneath ()
Students who started at and are still enrolled at Montana State University-Billings are represented by the darker aqua bar with two white stripes underneath ().
Students who started at Montana State University-Billings and then transferred to and are still enrolled at another institution are represented by the lighter aqua bar with the bottom white stripe ().
Montana State University-Billings | Bachelor's Seeking Model - First-Time Full-Time
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY-BILLINGS IN FALL 2012 BY SUMMER 2018
Bachelor's degree from Montana State University-Billings 0% 0% 0% 12% 24% 28%
+ Associate and/or Certificate degree from Montana State University-Billings 0% 1% 3% 3% 4% 4%
= Total Graduated from Montana State University-Billings 0% 1% 3% 15% 28% 32%
Enrolled at Montana State University-Billings 95% 65% 44% 27% 11% 7%
Enrolled at another 4-year institution 0% 10% 15% 14% 10% 5%
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The SAM Associate's Degree / Certificate model tracks a group of students who started an associate degree program or certificate program at Montana State University-Billings in the Fall of 2012. The students' progress toward a degree or certificate is reported within 6 years.
Students who started at and graduated from Montana State University-Billings are represented by the purple bar with the solid black bar underneath ().
Students who started at and are still enrolled at Montana State University-Billings are represented by the aqua bar with two white stripes underneath ().
Students who started at Montana State University-Billings and transferred to another institution prior to earning a degree or certificate are represented by the orange bar with the large white stripe underneath (). These students may have graduated or still be enrolled at another institution.
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Background: a security guard in the lobby of a building during a night shift. A CCTV camera caught the ghostly moving image and the guards reaction. He told his friends, and they did not believe him. So he went and replayed the video of the security feed on a monitor, and using his cell phone he recorded a video from the monitor. This was uploaded very recently. Here it is: Security guard spots ghost, the camera footage backs up his claim.


I love halva, so. This is the recipe I got on the Internet. Very delicate, delicious croissants! Prepare not troublesome, I recommend to try!
In the original recipe is 2 times more ingredients, I divided them in half. You can do more, then you get more bagels. Egg mix with salt.
Warm milk. Melt the butter. Pour the milk and butter to the egg mixture.
Mix flour with baking powder, sift to the liquid part. Knead the dough is not very steep. Place in a warm place for 2 hours.
After 2 hours, divide the dough into 2 parts. Sprinkle the work surface 1/3 Cup sugar, roll the dough into a circle (get 2 circle).
Divide the dough into 8 segments.
Put a teaspoon of filling on a wide edge and roll towards the narrow end. To give the croissants come in 15 minutes. Bake at 180 degrees, 15-20 minutes, until Golden.
It turns out very tasty, delicate croissants!


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Goan Village Demands Scrapping of Tourism Project on Agricultural Tenanted Land
Anamika GodeLand Conflict Watch
Azossim
Residents of Azossim village in Goa and the St. Mateus Tenants Association, a citizens' group that manages, protects and represents tenants and tenanted land in Azossim village, are opposing a proposed tourism project on 12,185 square metres of agricultural tenanted land in Sy No. 36/1A of the village (In Goa, plots of land for official purposes are identified by a unique survey number). Construction of the project commenced around August 2018. This took the village residents by surprise as the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Act, 1991, prohibits the sale and use of tenanted land for any purpose other than agriculture and accords the highest legal protection to this type of land in the state. But it is now being subject to fraudulent proceedings and sale deeds by the tourism sector for development projects. The Eco Tourism Project is a resort that will offer cottages built on raised platforms in the middle of a large pond. The plot proposed for this is classified as khazan land (agricultural land close to tidal water bodies). Goa has a special system of agriculture where the khazan land, through an intricate system of traditional canals, get filled with water during high tide. The flow of water is controlled by a contraption called a sluice gate to let the water in and out. This mechanism makes it easier to cultivate paddy and has been used by farmers in Goa for many generations, which is why the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification of 2011 recognised khazan land as a special category, classifying it as a NoDevelopment Zone and offering it protection in the state. In the case of Azossim village, RTIs filed by the Tenants Association reveal fraudulent sale deeds and mutation of land records of the tenanted land in the past, besides permission granted to the project under a new Agro Eco Tourism Policy initiated by the state government. Members of the Association allege that the project proponent, Rajesh Ashok Khaunte, being an influential businessman and the brother of the then revenue minister, has facilitated such illegalities. The Association, along with the Goa Foundation, an environmental nonprofit, approached the High Court of Bombay at Goa in February 2019 to challenge the project on multiple grounds, namely, violation of the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Act, 1991, and the CRZ Notification, 2011. The PIL by the two groups seeks the quashing of the development permissions and rehabilitation of the fields upon which construction has commenced. A cemented pond, covering half the field, and some other structures have already been built. The PIL demands the removal of these so that the land is fit for cultivation. The PIL also demands the restoration of the tenancy status of the land. During the sale of this land to Khaunte, fraudulent proceedings were initiated by him to remove the existence of tenancy. So the current official land records do not recognise the land as tenanted land. The PIL explains the fraud through which the mutation was done. According to an order on March 6, 2019, the High Court of Bombay at Goa, while recording the statement of the project proponent that no construction would be carried out in khazan land, ordered a halt to all developmentrelated activity. The PIL is now at the final stage of hearing.
Goa Town and Country Planning Department, Village Panchayat of Azossim and Mandur, Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority, Mamlatdar of Tiswadi (authority responsible for agricultural tenanted land)
Goa Foundation
Rajesh Ashok Khaunte
Land-record discrepancies
In Court
High Court of Bombay at Goa


I am completely new and sometimes totally lost in my attempt to get some games to run on the system. I am hoping to run PSX, PS 2, Atari 800 and Neogeo but it seems like they will not work without the bios on the retrostone. Can someone here teach me step by step where and how should I install/copy the bios to?
Connect via Ethernet. There's a folder for BIOS images and ROM images. There are a few tutorials on this very forum, if you look.
I did checked every page before requesting for an ELI5 but there was no bios tutorial in this forum.
The closest I can find is this one (viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1749) which is a tutorial on adding roms not bios.
The process for adding BIOS images is identical to that for ROMs, you just put them in the... BIOS folder?


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Just B. Polo (NYC hip-hop artist) "There Is a Hell" (Hear here) (Just B. Polo, Jan. 16)
Nikol (best female rock artist at the 2015 Carolina Music Awards) "Bittersweet" (first single: "Goin' Down"; Hear here) (Nikol)
Daniel Amedee (New Orleans folk-rock singer-songwriter) "Everything Will Change" (five-song EP; Hear here) (Daniel Amedee, Feb. 2)
DJ Movex (from Ukraine) "Medusa (Original Mix)" (five-song EP; Hear here) (DJ Movex, Jan. 25)
Ionic Construct (EDM artist based in Colorado Springs) "Alien Transmissions" (22 tracks; Hear here) (iM Electronic, Feb. 1)
Johnny Stanec (singer-songwriter from Youngstown, Ohio) "Farewell, Sadness" (first single: "The Sky Is Falling"; Hear here) (Forgotten, Feb. 2)
Leah Brooke "Royal Jelly" (Hear here) (Lucky Tooth)
Damon & Matthews (rock duo from Brandy Station, Va.) "We Go Kartin'" (Hear here) (Isle Royale, March 4)
GrooveShine (Santa Barbara funk-reggae band) "New Moon" (Hear here) (GrooveShine, Jan. 5)
Katelyn McCarter (Christian pop singer from Petersburg, Va.) "Chasing the Wind" (five-song EP; Hear here) (Katelyn McCarter, Jan. 5)
Some Velvet Morning (British alt-rock trio) "Damocles" (new single; Hear here; see album below) (Some Velvet Morning)
Jenny Bracey (U.K. singer-songwriter) "Just Accept It" (Hear here) (Jenny Bracey)
Galaxy Skytree (Australian EDM artist) "Think About Me" (Hear here) (Galaxy Skytree, Dec. 31)
Link&Chain (Jamaica, N.Y., reggae group) "Fix the Roof" (Hear here) (Link&Chain Music, Dec. 30)
Some Velvet Morning (British alt-rock trio) "Allies" (MP3; Hear here) (Some Velvet Morning, Dec. 30)
DJ Alberto Conde (Madrid electronic artist) "Pendergas" (two-song EP; Hear here) (DJ Alberto Conde, Dec. 27)
Eddie Bars (hip-hop artist from Brighton, Mass.) "My Word" (Hear here) (O.G.M.A)
Ordinary People (Portland, Ore., electronica artist) "No Longer Human" (Hear here) (Ordinary People)
Symbiotech (aka pianist-instrumentalist Stephanie Dilk) "Gods in the Chrysalis" (Hear here) (Symbiotech, Dec. 22)
Tanyé SøL (Oklahoma City-based R&B singer) "Dolomite" (Hear here) (Tanyé SøL, Dec. 24)
The Infinite Eights (Lutz, Fla.-based alt-rock band) "Unfound EP" (six-song EP; Hear here) (The Infinite Eights)
Staren Black (Phoenix metal band) "City of the Dead" (producer: Ralph Patlan; Hear here) (Staren Black)
Joel Tuttle (Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist) "Giant Steps" (Hear here) (Joel Tuttle, Dec. 19)
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Shared bicycles are parked near a propaganda billboard showing Chinese President Xi Jinping along a street in Beijing. March 2, 2018.
A Q&A with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is going to school to study the Chinese president.
Mao Zedong once insisted that "the people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history." Then again, he's also the guy who said that poverty is good, a world war is nothing to fuss about, and that reading books can be a bad thing. In other words, take him with a large grain of MSG.
One person who seems to be doing exactly that is Xi Jinping, the president -- and now, likely president for life -- of Mao's China. This week, his puppet Communist Party Central Committee looked poised to abolish the 10-year term limit on his job, which is a strong hint that Xi thinks the individual can be a pretty effective motive force on history all by his lonesome. And if you want to disagree, he has a remorseless "anticorruption" task force to persuade you otherwise.
So, what does the enthronement of Emperor Xi mean for China, the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region? For enlightenment, I decided to talk to somebody who's not only an expert on all things China, but also has sat across the table from Xi as an equal: former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
Tobin Harshaw: So, it's obviously not typical for a former world leader to go back to school. Can you tell me why you decided to get an Oxford degree, and why you thought studying Xi's China in that way was something you needed to do?
Kevin Rudd: Well, I've been a student of China now for 40 years, since I first started studying Chinese language and history and politics at the Australian National University at the end of the Cultural Revolution. But with the rise of Xi Jinping, there is something about China's current rise which makes it fundamentally important to understand his particular worldview.
What do I mean by that? It's that China is an authoritarian political system. We know that. Xi Jinping brings an extraordinary level of personal political power to what is already an authoritarian system. And as I've been predicting for some time, he's going to be a leader for a very long time into the future. And that's now been confirmed by recent constitutional changes. Therefore, understanding his own particular view of the role of the party, the role of the country within the region, and what China seeks to do in the world at large, I think now demands quite concrete and detailed studies. So, that's why I've gone back to school and why I'm doing the primary research on Xi Jinping's worldview.
TH: And, in a nutshell, can you tell us what exactly that view is? And maybe how it differs from the view of Deng Xiaoping and the intermediary presidents they've had since the 1980s?
KR: Well, if I could answer your question in a nutshell I wouldn't be spending three years doing the research, then writing it up and maybe turning it into a book. But let me try to give you a haiku, to mix our East Asian metaphors, about how we best get a take on Xi Jinping's worldview probably in three points. For 35 years or more now, there's been a trend in China. These politics initiated by Deng are meant to normalize the functions of the Chinese state, as opposed to the party always dominating the state. Xi Jinping has turned that trend around, and we now see an assertion or re-assertion of the party's absolute power. That's the first point.
I think the second trend that clearly emerges is that Xi Jinping's view is that the party and only the party, and only under his leadership, can hold China together as it undergoes this greater transition into becoming a global great power. And, in the course of the next decade, become the largest economy in the world. Therefore, he sees his leadership in the party as being central to that.
And then third, I think it's this: We see, also, the reassertion of the importance of ideology within the country. There is less space for domestic political dissent over which way China is going domestically or internationally. There's now more of a predisposition to have a central party line. These are big changes from the past. And finally, to sum up the question on China's view of itself in the world, we've been told for a long, long time that Deng Xiaoping's action was this: "Hide your strength, bide your time, never take the lead." Xi Jinping in his last five years turned that on its head, and now we see consciously and deliberately a more overtly activist Chinese foreign policy and security policy and international economic policy in the world at large. All these things are new.
TH: So, you said earlier in the week, and then you repeated now, that you weren't surprised by this power move on term limits. Is that last point why you saw it coming?
KR: Well, the ability of Xi Jinping to consolidate personal and political power has been there for all of us to see since the events of 2012-13, when he emerged as general secretary of the party and president of the country. This involved considerable internal struggle at the time around forces connected with Bo Xilai, then party secretary in Chongqing and perhaps the only other previous senior Chinese Communist Party political family to offer one of its own as the next and future leader. So, he's been in the power-consolidation business from the get-go.
As for his current constitutional changes: the abolition of term limits and, most critically, the entrenchment of what's called Xi Jinping Thought into the Chinese Constitution, and more broadly, the new institutional arrangements which consolidate party and political power at the center. These are reflective very much of what he set out to do five years ago.
TH: Can you very briefly describe what Xi Jinping Thought is?
KR: Xi Jinping Thought is less a body of ideological concepts than an assertion that he has parallel political status to Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. That's his core political point.
If we were to delve deeply into the publications for which Xi is responsible and ask how does that differ from Marxism, Leninism, Mao and Deng thought; or how does it differ from Jiang Zemin's theory of what is arcanely called The Three Represents (how you bring entrepreneurs into the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party) or Hu Jintao's Theory of Scientific Development (which was about how you incorporate sustainability into the framework of China's economic development), there will not be anything that's fundamentally incompatible. It is a statement primarily of his personal political authority early in his political career.
TH: We are under the impression that Xi's very popular in China right now. There are, I'm sure, many Chinese old enough to remember the chaos that ensued at the end of Mao's reign, and we're often told that younger Chinese want some sort of new freedoms or additional liberties. Do you think there'll be any shift in public opinion against him for this term-limit move? Or do you think he has entrenched himself as the nation's father sufficiently?
KR: Well, China's political system, which is an authoritarian structure and unapologetically so, does not permit organized dissent. And also, the strength and power and authority of its security apparatus are organized in a way that dissent is simply not possible at any scale. I think Xi Jinping will be very conscious, however, that by abolishing a term limit on the presidency, which was inserted into the Chinese Constitution in 1982 after the Cultural Revolution, that that will attract a lot of comment, criticism and attention from across the ranks of the party itself. But it's unlikely that these will become manifest in any political challenge at this stage toward his continuing political authority.
TH: But by that you mean there's going to be more ruffled feathers inside the party elites than with the public at large?
KR: The party at large will have a view that this is Xi Jinping -- he's the leader. And there's a Chinese four-character phrase which says, "Bow your head and listen to the organs." As for the public, and the public will have a range of different views, but in the large part, they are concerned about their standard of living, their ability to get a job, whether air pollution is under control, or that they have a good and positive life compared with what they had before.
But, in intellectual circles and in certain private-sector entrepreneurial circles, questions will be raised about whether this has a significance broader than term limits itself. In other words, does it signal a bigger turn to the left in Chinese politics in respect to the economy? That I think will be the question alive in Chinese domestic politics as discussed below the surface in this period.
TH: And by "the left" in this context, you mean greater government control?
KR: Well, "left" in the Chinese vernacular means greater party control over the organs of the state and greater party control over the ability to have dissenting views within the framework of the Chinese Communist Party on the country's future. "The left" within the economy means a repudiation or, shall I say, backsliding on the market basic and the micro reforms that were introduced by Deng in the period since 1978. Or, more recently, a backsliding of what was announced as China's market-based reforms, phase two, in the party's reform document of 2013.
TH: So Bloomberg View has as a columnist James Stavridis, the former four-star admiral who was the supreme allied commander of NATO forces, and he wrote a long column on the pluses and minuses of this latest decision, for China and the U.S. One thing he predicted was that if we have an "Emperor Xi," that this will give China some short-term, asymmetric advantages vis-a-vis the U.S. For example, it's an assuredness of consistency of policy, as opposed to democracies which change leaders and change policies and kind of whipsaw back and forth. Also, in China, the same people who are planning the ambitious strategic plans today can carry them out over the decades ahead. Do you agree with that? And what does it mean for the rest of the Pacific Rim?
KR: I think when we look at the relative advantage and/or disadvantage that China's political system and Xi's current role within it has, I think it's a question of short- and long-term considerations. In the shorter term, the argument is correct that China has absolute political control at the center; that it has a clear policy direction about where it wishes to head on the economy; and in its relations with neighboring states -- all 14 of them -- its wider approach to the Asia-Pacific region and China's increasing role in the institutions of global governance. That's true. However, in the longer term there is always an inherent question about the trade-off in the stability of the political system.
In the West, for all of our faults, we have a system of not just checks and balances but bi-regular elections, an automatic process of political stabilizers that is a self-correcting system within a peaceful framework. For China, what has bedeviled it in most of its post-1949 history, has been the instabilities that arise from leadership transition. We saw some of this in 2012-13 and the subsequent purges. We've certainly seen it in the events of the late 1980s with the purge of first of Hu Yaobang and then Zhao Ziyang. And then of course we saw in the purges of the Maoists in the period after 1976 and again in 1978.
TH: Jim Stavridis calls democracy a "safety valve" in times of stress. Inevitably, things are going to go wrong in China. The economy can't keep chugging along at 7 percent to 10 percent growth forever. How do you feel, over the long run, a virtual dictatorship is vulnerable to downturns like that?
KR: John Maynard Keynes famously reminded us all that, "In the long run, we're all dead." So, it hangs on a definition of what the long run is. I think the Chinese political system, at present, is a strong authoritarian system with no obvious signs of large-scale internal dissent within the leadership elites. And, secondly, from the public at large, no particular interest to returning in the mass protests we saw in the events of 1989. We see that over the next five years. We see that possibly beyond that as well.
But here's the caveat: With China's continuing economic reforms it creates its own what the Chinese would describe as "contradictions." Within its own system that gives rise to a middle class, it gives rise to people who have a range of experiences and economic autonomies, which they never had before. And then people who begin to think much more independently. And that number continues to grow. But what point does it reach a critical mass whereby the pre-existing political system is challenged? That's impossible to tell. But they're the two sets of dynamics at work.
TH: Let's jump quickly to China's neighbors, of which you were one for quite a long time. How do you think the region as a whole, and Australia specifically, should react to the prospect of a new Chinese dictator?
KR: For regional states around China and across the Asia-Pacific region including Australia, this is not the sound of one hand clapping. That is, the analysis will always be on "What is China doing?" And secondly, what is the U.S. doing, and its closest allies? And therefore, all countries in the region have their eyes fixed in both directions at once. I think it's fair to say that when the region looks at U.S. policy today there is a general scratching of the head as to whether this administration or the U.S. for the long term will remain comprehensively engaged in security and economic terms across East Asia.
You have a president who is avowedly protectionist. He has turned his back on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which brought together 12 open liberal economies across East Asia led by Japan. And he has raised question marks about the long-term validity of security relationships with some of America's traditional allies in the region as well. If I was to give it a phrase, it's a feeling of strategic uncertainty. And the problem with that is if you feel uncertain about whether America's going to be there in force in the future, then people tend to make other adjustments towards other emerging powers in the region.
That leads to the other half of the equation, the second hand clapping. And that is China. And what we've already seen across Southeast Asia, I think, is a range of countries already beginning to make a number of accommodations towards the Chinese leadership.
TH: As in the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte.
KR: Exactly. And we see it in certain other countries as well. But underpinning this dynamic is one core unassailable fact: that China has become the indispensable economic power across East Asia. It is the No. 1 trading partner, I think, now of every country across East Asia, and the U.S. is lucky to make it into the top 5 or 10. And where the economy goes, ultimately, so goes political influence and so goes foreign policy influence and so goes security policy influence as well. What I sense is a slow and steady strategic drift across the wider East Asian region and slowly in Beijing's direction.
TH: Last month I interviewed the Australian foreign-policy mandarin Hugh White, whose recent article proposing that the U.S. has already lost the battle for the Pacific has caused quite a kerfuffle everywhere. Do you have an equally dire prognosis right now? Do you think that the U.S. has already been defeated?
KR: Hugh White is a headline hound and will always be in pursuit of the strongest, most strident position possible in order to get run. He's become Beijing's darling and Washington's nemesis. Now there's an element of truth in the slow sense of strategic drift Hugh describes, but to conclude that the U.S. "has lost the battle for the Pacific" is designed, as I said, to provide color, movement and drama around his particular proposition.
Furthermore, it's empirically incorrect. It doesn't deal with the question of what the U.S. in a post-Trump world will do in the Asia-Pacific region. Will America embrace a further version of Hillary Clinton's vigorous regional engagement? Or will Trump's isolationism infect the rest of the Republican Party and, in turn, infect the Democratic Party and point it in a direction of a more isolationist America into the future? That's an open question, not a closed question.
TH: Okay then. So, another thing that's gotten a lot of attention here is Graham Allison's book on the Thucydides trap, which postulates that a rising power like China and an established one like the U.S. are on an unavoidable road to conflict. Do you buy into that theory? And do you see Xi's positioning himself as a dictator to make major conflict more or less likely?
KR: Often the problem with Western analyses of what China is doing or, more broadly, what's unfolding in the China-U.S. relationship, is too binary. It's either this or that. And the truth is, in international politics, it's usually an ungodly cocktail of several factors and several ways of explaining the reality. But I think Graham Allison has added enormously to the clarity of the international debate on U.S.-China relations by putting Thucydides' trap into contemporary terms. And his hypothesis is not that war between China and United States is inevitable but that history, in the 16 case studies he's looked at over the last 500 years, would cause us to be cautious about what happens when a rising power challenges an established power and that challenge gets to a certain threshold.
But there's another trap in the literature, as well, of which we need to be equally mindful. Graham Allison's colleague at Harvard, Joe Nye, has written eloquently of what he describes as the "Kindleberger Trap," referring to what happened in international relations in the 1920s and '30s. After the First World War, Britain was globally exhausted with the economy depleted because of the effort involved in the war. But the United States, rather than stepping into the breach, because of the American Congress's reaction to Woodrow Wilson's internationalism, decided to embark upon 20 years of isolationism.
What did we end up with? A strategic vacuum globally with no one quite certain who was going to fill that vacuum. And as a result, we saw the rise of German Fascism, Italian Fascism and Japanese Fascism. Now the Kindleberger Trap is about what happens if no one occupies the position of underpinning an international rules-based system. So, my argument is that we see elements of both Thucydides and Kindleberger at work in what's happening now in the China-U.S. relationship across the Asia-Pacific region and, more broadly, globally.
TH: And nothing's written in stone?
KR: Not since the Ten Commandments, and very few of the Ten Commandments were fun.
TH: All right. Last question: Unlike most other Oxford students, you've actually shaken hands with the world leader that you're studying. What did you make of Xi, the man?
KR: Over the years I've probably spent five, six, seven hours in conversation with Xi Jinping either directly on the telephone or in smaller groups. What do I make of him personally? I think he's a person of extraordinary intellect in the sense that he is well read in terms of his own country's history but also in international history. He comes to the position with a well-defined worldview, which is the subject of my particular study at Oxford at present. But secondly, he's a guy of extraordinary self-confidence. This is a fellow who never uses briefing notes in his discussion. He is confident enough to range across any subject that you lay on the table. And therefore, he's the sort of political personality with whom -- assuming the U.S. president has a comprehensive and integrated worldview -- you can productively deal.
For Academic Citation: Harshaw, Tobin."Emperor Xi's China Is Done Biding Its Time." Bloomberg Opinion, March 3, 2018.


Apparently, the messy work environment can help you be creative. But what if your to-do list is long and you are short on time to complete those tasks? Easy access to necessary equipment and documents will probably boost your mood and productivity.
So, today, I'm going to talk about how to declutter your office. If you're familiar with the Kon Mari method, it's similar to that except it's specific to a home office.
Walk around your office and look for garbage and recyclables. You may be surprised at the amount of trash you have—Empty cardboard boxes, plastic shopping bags, ancient receipts beneath the desk, old software, bookkeeping records that are more than seven years old, etc. Getting rid of them will instantly clear and open up some space.
Next, pick up items that belong to elsewhere such as dirty dishes or carpentry tools and return them to their natural habitat. Don't worry about washing or organizing these items until you've finished decluttering your office.
The goal is to remove anything from your office that isn't work-related. Not only are they unnecessary, but these items are most likely making you less productive by being a dust trap and a source of stress.
Walk around your office again, but this time look for items that you haven't used in a year and remove them from your office. (But do keep what you're required by the law.) Can you donate or sell some of them?
Can I work without it?
So now you have in your office stuff you use regularly. But, do you really need all of the stuff? Can you get rid of some if you updated your working style?
For example, if you decide to go digital and get rid of the most of the paper product in your office, you can get rid of your bookshelves, the file cabinet, the shredder, the printer and so on. Think of the way you can declutter your work processes and see if that leads to getting rid of even more physical clutter in your office.
Does my workspace make me happy?
Last but not least, it helps to have a nice environment to work in. If you love your office, great! If you're not crazy about some aspects of our work environment, can you change it? Is your office too small for your needs? Can you get a smaller desk to work on? Get a big mirror to make the room look less cramped? Do you crave more natural light? Is it possible to move your office elsewhere in the house where it is brighter and airy? Or make your laptop your mobile office and work anywhere in the house, at a cafe, or at a co-working space?
I love working in my "office." It's just a dedicated corner of my bedroom. The bedroom contains only the necessities like a bed, two side drawers also used as side tables, a dog bed and of course my desk. Since we don't have enough stuff to create clutter, space is perpetually organized without effort (except for my unmade bed; I never make my bed.) It's important to me to work in a clutter-free space. It's what makes me happy and a better worker.
So figure out what elements in your office are working and not working, and think of a way to increase the former and decrease the latter.


Thomas Duffield - News- Alex Stapleton from Magnum agency.
Alex Stapleton from Magnum agency.
We were lucky enough to have a talk and a portfolio review with Alex Stapleton who is currently working in London with the legendary Magnum agency.
Photo courtesy of BA photo Huddersfield 2016.
Alex was very articulate with regards to photography and has developed some real skills in her career. Alex offered some excellent opinions on the classes work, including my own current project.
We discussed my prototype photobook and how to best incorporate text into the book in a benificial manner. The text is there to relay the nature of the photoraphs rather than to anchor a fixed meaning.


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Growth of the 'new middle class' can drive B-brand growth in emerging markets
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The emergence of a "new middle class" is an important economic phenomenon in many emerging markets, with prominent examples being Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Turkey. In this process, a substantial mass of low-income households experience upward socio-economic mobility reflected in higher incomes. As a result, they begin to consume goods and services that they could not previously afford. Demand by these "new consumers" may potentially provide an engine of growth for the global economy.
One might expect the established consumer brands to be the primary beneficiaries from this expansion in consumer demand. Nonetheless, in many emerging markets we observe the rapid growth of a fringe of small producers, sometimes referred to as "B-brands," whose competitive strategy focuses on low prices rather than on extensive advertising and branding efforts. Such brands also tend to operate locally, tailoring their marketing to the characteristics of a relatively small geographic area.
In a research paper published in the July 2015 volume of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, two economists suggest that, rather than benefiting the established brands, the emergence of a new middle class can serve as a catalyst to B-brand growth in emerging markets. The paper's co-authors are Dr. Alon Eizenberg of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Department of Economics, and Dr. Alberto Salvo of the National University of Singapore's Department of Economics.
The researchers analyze an intriguing test case: the Brazilian market for carbonated soft drinks ("soda"). They studied the evolution of this market from December 1996 through March 2003, a period that saw both a substantial expansion of demand stemming from the emergence of a "new middle class," and a staggering growth of a competitive fringe of soda producers.
Brazil's large soda market has been traditionally dominated by a duopoly of "premium" soda sellers: the Coca-Cola Company, and Ambev, which sells several popular brands including Pepsi. These premium sellers faced increasing competitive pressure from hundreds of regionally focused B-brands, whose combined volume share doubled from 20 percent to 40 percent between 1996 and 1999.
Rising income of Brazilian low-income households led Coca-Cola to cut its prices by 20 percent
In response, Coca-Cola abruptly cut prices in 1999 across its brands by over 20 percent, with Ambev quickly following. This put an end to the growth in the fringe's market share, although the fringe continued to command a substantial share of the market.
Analyzing data that tracks socio-economic mobility as well as market shares and prices in regional markets over the studied period, the authors conclude that demand by emerging middle class consumers is more elastic than that of the established middle class. For example, raising the price of Coke by 1 percent lowers its demand among established affluent and newly affluent households by 1.4 and 3.3 percent, respectively (conditional on recent consumption of premium soda).
The analysis also reveals persistence in preferences, implying that a current choice to consume generic soda substantially increases the probability of consuming it again in the future. The emergence of a new middle class can therefore be interpreted as the arrival into the market of millions of new consumers who are "up for grabs" in the sense that they have not yet formed a persistent tendency to consume premium brands.
This may have aided generic firms in making inroads into this new consumer segment, and may have also provided a strong incentive for Coca-Cola to cut prices with the goal of defending its future market position. Indeed, the authors show that this move can be viewed as optimal if Coca-Cola considers both medium-run profits and the protection of future market shares as strategic variables.
An emerging middle class can, therefore, provide fertile ground to B-brand growth for many consumer goods markets in the developing world. The insights revealed by this study may be important to global companies that consider entering emerging markets with the goal of tapping into the increased purchasing power implied by this important socioeconomic transformation.
Dov Smith
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Spring is right around the corner and we're getting excited!! Come see what's going on here at Lou Lou Girls this Spring!
Spring time is one of my busiest times of the year! With school having only one term left and the students getting cabin fever, I am going crazy! The warm weather finally decided to show up which is amazing! Being the softball coach at my favorite high school everything is just getting crazy up in the Reese household. Things that I realized when I started thinking about what to write for this post is that we have a lot going on and a lot of changes are about to happen to our little family. We have a baby on the way and Matt is about to graduate in Chemical Engineering! Which means, new job, kid and possibly (hopefully) a new house! There have been a lot of things running through my mind.
First, softball season is going on right now and it's super exciting. Last weekend we were in St. George in the warm weather with the best group of girls I could ask for. We had a blast especially in our last game that went 10 innings! The baby could feel my excitement and he kept kicking and rolling around. The days are long and warm but worth every second.
Second, we had our gender reveal recently and I did it with my softball team. Matt couldn't wait and told me I could do whatever I want for the reveal! Here is some pictures of that!
Third, with everything going on we are trying to keep our house in order. The thing that I have found that helps keep our sanity is planning meals on Friday night and making a shopping list and then buying everything Saturday and getting ready for Sunday. I feel hectic right now and I feel like I'm just keeping my head above water right now!


Photography at the JSMA began in 1965 with an acquisition of prints by American photographer Edward Weston. Work by Wynn Bullock, Paul Caponigro, Imogen Cunningham, Brett Weston and Minor White soon followed. Since then the collection has grown in depth and diversity. Historical photographic processes are represented by vernacular tintypes and daguerreotypes as well as 19th century cliché-verre by French artist Corot. SX-70 Polaroid prints by Andy Warhol and chlorophyll photographs by Binh Danh offer a range of portraiture distinctly marking their place in time. Work by Bill Brandt, Brassai and Frederick Evans connect the collection to modern Europe. New acquisitions by photographers Elsa Mora, Taitiana Parcero, Yu Hang and Yang Yongliang extend the collection's reach into contemporary Latin America and Asia.
In October 2005, the Portland Art Museum unveiled the region's largest permanent exhibition space dedicated to photography within a museum. Located on the mezzanine floor of the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, this 2,200–square–foot gallery is home to a rotating display of photographs from the Museum's permanent collection. The collection ranges from 1850s daguerreotypes to contemporary inkjet prints and spans the history of the medium as fine art in the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically highlighting 20th–century photography in Oregon.
Established early in the Museum's history, the photography holdings then consisted of only a few works. With the addition of a permanent curator of photography in the early 1980s, the collection began to rapidly expand. Today, there are approximately 5,000 works in the collection, which is part of the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts. The majority of images were acquired as gifts, so in a very real sense the collection is a product of the Museum's community. These images reflect the varied photographic interests of hundreds of individuals whose efforts and gifts have helped shape the collection.
One of the earliest acquisitions was a complete 20–volume set of Edward Sheriff Curtis's masterwork, The North American Indian. In 1942, the Works Progress Administration of the Federal Art Projects placed a large collection of Minor White's photographs of Portland on permanent loan. Over the past 20 years, the Museum has also accepted gifts from various donors of more than 50 postwar photographs by White.
The Museum has placed particular emphasis on the acquisition of images that chronicle photography in Oregon and the West, adding to work by Group f/64 organizers Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham, and tracing a decade-by–decade profile of photographic accomplishments by both acknowledged masters and the under–recognized. Of particular note are in–depth holdings of work by Myra Wiggins, Lily White, and Sarah Ladd, associate members of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo–Secession Movement, who lived and worked in Salem and Portland at the turn of the 20th century, as well as a rich selection of images reflecting the life work of Al Monner and Todd Walker.
The collection also includes works by noted contemporary photographers, including Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, and Carrie Mae Weems, Robert Adams, Elliot Erwitt, Dianne Kornberg, and Joel Sternfeld.


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Lindsay Turner is the author of Songs & Ballads (Prelude, 2018). Her translations from the French include Ryoko Sekiguchi's adagio ma non troppo (Les Figues, 2018), and Stéphane Bouquet's The Next Loves (Nightboat, forthcoming 2019). She lives in Greenville, South Carolina, where she teaches English and Creative Writing at Furman University starting in the fall of 2018.
Songs & Ballads felt really different from anything I'd written before. The biggest difference between older poems and the poems in Songs & Ballads is in form: around the summer of 2014 I started playing around with quatrains and off-rhymes and crazy repeating patterns I made up for some of the poems, and I couldn't stop. (I thought this was over when I finished the book, but I don't think it's out of my system yet.) I don't know if my first book has changed my life. I feel more certain of myself as a poet—even if I never write anything else starting tomorrow, I will have written a book, and that feels solid and good. Also I feel like the slate has been cleared, or the thicket of work I had to write before writing the book has been cleared, and I can start over for the next one.
I started writing poetry as a kid growing up in Tennessee before I knew that people actually wrote poetry, and before I read any poetry—so it's hard for me to say how I ended up with poetry. I took a poetry workshop my first year in college, and everything absolutely clicked: I realized I wasn't the only person who wanted to read and write in this bizarre way. I've thought about writing fiction or non-fiction, and even tried, but I find it hard to sustain longer projects (even longer poems)—and impossible to believe in plot.
Sometimes a poem takes a while to build up and then comes out in a rush. Sometimes it just comes out in a rush. Sometimes it's a struggle and a lot of tinkering and deleting and re-doing, although these are the poems I often end up throwing out. I'm always taking notes, but they don't always make it into poems.
This also varies for me. Sometimes a poem begins from a line or two, or sometimes an image. Sometimes—as with Songs & Ballads—it begins with a form or a shape. For Songs & Ballads, I saw the shapes of the poems as boxes to be filled in before I wrote some of them. As far as book structure: most of the time I half-close my eyes and cringe and try not to think about it until I've got about a book's worth of material. I still don't think I know how to write a whole book.
My work—especially the work in Songs & Ballads—is meant to be read out loud, and I love reading it. Plus I can never tell if a poem is finished until I read it out loud in front of someone who's listening.
I write with the theoretical concerns I live with: what in the world is happening right now? Has it always been happening? How do the things I do and see and feel every day, in a medium-sized upstate South Carolina town, have something to do with global inequality, massive expulsions of populations from the places they live, climate change and attendant catastrophe, police brutality, the violence of gender at different levels, structural racism? How and where to end that list? To echo you, what are the current questions, and how do you live and write while asking them? I don't have many answers.
The writer definitely has a role in larger culture—I mean, the writer is such a constitutive part of larger culture. But I don't think writers are very good at saying what it is, much less what it should be. I guess, just: keep writing.
I haven't done much work with outside editors for my poems. I have a few friends who are wonderful at giving suggestions. For prose and criticism, working with outside editors has been amazing: I think good, thoughtful, thorough editing can be a remarkable act of intellectual generosity.
My first poetry teacher insisted that a poem be rooted in the real, concrete world. When things are going terribly wrong in a poem, I go back to that.
Translating is relatively new for me: I was always intrigued by the idea of doing it, but I never thought I could. When I first started translating, it was because I could hear certain texts in English as I read them in French. It turns out that I really love translating, especially poetry, because it sends me back to the part of writing that's a fundamental, material engagement with words and sounds. It reminds me that writing is a material process. It's a little addictive, because at the end of the workday you've got a poem, and you feel like you wrote it! But you didn't have to have any of the ideas behind it. Sometimes I worry that translating's just a very productive form of procrastination. But that's not fair, because I do think it's crucial that the writers I'm working with are available in English, and I'm excited for an Anglophone audience to encounter them. Besides, I can't write good poems as often as I'd like to, so translating probably saves me from churning out a bunch of really awful work.
It's terrible: I don't have a writing routine or even a typical day. For about two weeks a year I can't sleep and write from 3-5 in the morning. That's great but can't last. More normally, I have to get things like emails and errands done in the morning. I like to go for a walk or run or something in the middle of the day. Afternoons are my best writing time, at least for prose things and translation, and then evenings and nights are reading or poems. But this changes when I'm teaching or when I'm really into what I'm doing (or under pressure to finish). And when I start writing a poem I can usually work on it wherever, whenever. When I'm writing poems is the only time I ever lose track of time—like, the whole morning is gone and all I've done is fix a line.
All I know how to do is take the dog for a walk, and wait it out.
Cut grass and hot parking lot—summer in the American southeast.
I used to think all you had to do to be a poet was read a lot of "great" books, but now I think that's wrong. This is a relief, because looking at things that are not books and doing things that are not reading have secretly always been more generative for me than reading (although I read a lot, and like it). It's hard for me to write without lots to look at: I love the mountains where I grew up, which are the same mountains I live near now, and I'm grateful to live in a neighborhood with gorgeous old trees and some hawks and owls. I wrote a lot of Songs & Ballads living on the west coast of Ireland, and it's the only time I've had the ocean there to write about. Movies help when my eyes get too bored. Poets like Alice Notley and Bernadette Mayer have been so important for me lately: they're models of writing from the center of real, worried, messy life—not museum life or library life or constant pared-down heightened-beauty life.
I want to travel to all the places I haven't been, perfectly curate a minimalist closet of clothes I totally love, and write the next book.
Travel agent (budget travel for creative types). Translator of wine labels. Geographer. I liked waiting tables but I wasn't very good at it.
I often think I should be doing something else. But I'm miserable when I'm not writing, and there's probably nothing I could do that would fix that.
Chelsea Minnis's Poemland. Also Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989. A new documentary by Wang Bing called Madame Fang.
I like working on bunches of things at once, so that when something stalls I can pick up something else. Right now I'm finishing up two translation projects (Stéphane Bouquet's Vie Commune, a wonderful multi-genre book [that needs a home], and a book of philosophy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne's Postcolonial Bergson, out soon with Fordham UP) and digging into a third (Liliane Giraudon's Love Is Colder Than the Lake, co-translating with Sarah Riggs). I'm picking at a book of prose poems, Essays on Waiting, which is basically finished. I'm reading for and thinking about an essay I want to write on Barbara Johnson's essay "Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" and race and reproductive justice. I'm making up syllabi for the workshops I'm teaching in the fall. My partner, Walt Hunter, and I are writing a chapbook called Wasted Empty Space. I'm working on poems for a next poetry collection, which might or might not be called Accomplice.


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It's safe to assume NBA executives and head coaches won't be jostling for position at the front doors of any former Kansas basketball players before the stroke of midnight Friday night, when it officially becomes July 1 and the league's anticipated free agency period commences. But some of the biggest names in recent KU history will hit the open market this summer.
To get a sense of the demand — or lack there of — for the Jayhawks looking to sign new contracts, peruse Matt Moore's list at CBSSports.com of the top 60 available free agents. You won't find a single former Kansas player.
Still, six one-time KU stars whose college successes paved the way to lucrative careers in basketball figure to either re-up with their current employers or find new niches with other organizations as they ink new deals. Here's a rundown of the available Jayhawks.
Every time former KU All-American Thomas Robinson joins a different NBA team, it's easy to think the change of scenery and/or playing for a new staff will help him achieve the breakout season that has eluded him since Sacramento made him the No. 5 overall pick in the 2012 draft. Five seasons and six teams into his career, though, the 6-foot-10 power forward has yet to emerge as a consistent contributor.
It took until September, just before training camps opened, for Robinson to sign with the Lakers in 2016, and some uncertainty likely awaits the explosively athletic 26-year-old again. After averaging 5.0 points and 4.6 rebounds in 11.7 minutes (48 appearances) for L.A., Robinson said following his end-of-season exit interview with Lakers brass they neither told him they wanted to re-sign him nor that they didn't.
What he did learn, however, from Lakers president Magic Johnson, general manager Rob Pelinka and coach Luke Walton was that Robinson, in his fifth season, began to pick up on the smaller nuances of the game. The free agent big said he used to overlook such details, and heard from Lakers brass those areas should be his focus this offseason.
Which team that will be next season remains to be seen.
After four seasons of toiling with the Kings, Ben McLemore's days in Sacramento are all but officially through. The organization declined to extend a qualifying offer to the shooting guard, making him an unrestricted free agent, capable of reaching terms with the franchise of his choice without the fear of the Kings having the right to match an offer and retain his services.
McLemore played a career-low 19.3 minutes a game this past season, when he averaged 8.1 points and shot 43 percent from the field (38.2 percent on 3-pointers).
At 24, the 6-foot-5 guard remains young and athletic enough for teams to take interest in him as a backup guard. The Kings' poor reputation within the league means some decision-makers will give McLemore a pass on proven shortcomings with the plan to stimulate his career.
Another career NBA backup from KU, center Jeff Withey spent the past two seasons in a limited role for Utah. The 7-footer appeared in 51 games for the Jazz both years, but Withey only played 8.5 minutes a night in 2016-17, averaging 2.9 points and 2.4 rebounds.
Nonetheless, Withey recently told the Journal-World he's open to re-signing with Utah, where he would continue to make cameo appearances, playing behind Rudy Gobert and Derrick Favors.
The 27-year-old big man likely would take on similar playing time for another franchise, should he sign elsewhere.
Looking to join up with a team to become a 10-year veteran in the league, Brandon Rush, who turns 32 in July, is in the latter stages of his career.
Even so, Rush is coming off a season in which he played 21.9 minutes a game for Minnesota — his highest average since the 2011-12 season — putting up 4.2 points and 2.1 rebounds.
That doesn't mean the Timberwolves will bring Rush back as a bench wing capable of defending and knocking down an occasional 3-pointer (44-for-114 in his ninth year). The team already made a big offseason splash by trading for all-star Jimmy Butler, and free agency provides Minnesota with a chance to bring in another major contributor. In order to facilitate the cap space, though, role players such as Rush likely won't be re-signed.
With 13 NBA seasons behind him, veteran power forward Nick Collison won't play much in Year 14, but the longtime Oklahoma City reserve plans to stick around for at least another season.
Considering Collison's days with the franchise date back to before the Thunder relocated from Seattle, it would be strange to see him in another NBA uniform. The 6-foot-10 big who will turn 37 before the start of next season indicated following his OKC exit interview a couple months back he had a strong enough relationship with the front office that they should be honest with each other about their expectations once negotiations begin.
Mario Chalmers missed the entire 2016-17 season as he rehabbed a torn Achilles tendon in his right foot. But the former KU star is only a little over a year removed from averaging 10.8 points a game for Memphis.
Back in Lawrence earlier this month to play with and against current and former Kansas players, Chalmers said he felt close to returning to the NBA this past spring as a late-season signing.
Any number of teams in search of a veteran guard would put a healthy Chalmers on their lists of possible targets. Now 31, the combo guard who made a name for himself with Miami and LeBron James, should resurface next season.
He said he'd be open to taking on a starting or reserve role, and will be searching for the best overall opportunity.
I think Ben is the guy who is likely to get the best deal. He's still only 24 years old. And I just saw a quote on twitter about how every coaching staff he played for in Sacramento praised his work ethic. He just needs to land somewhere that has a stable coaching situation. In Sacramento, he had what -- four head coaches in his four seasons?
I think Nick will simply sign a vet min deal with the Thunder. They love him and he doesn't seem interested in going anywhere. Given that he's about to 37, it's not like he would have a big role on any team. If he wanted to chase a ring, he could see if GS or Cle had interest, but I think GS is more focused on trying to sign heir own FAs, if they can. Don't know about the Cavs.
I wouldn't be surprised if B-Rush ended up back on Minnesota. He isn't likely to find a bigger role on another team. And even with Butler, the T-Wolves could use more vet leadership. It depends on whether the T-Wolves can land a bigger name. FAs should have interest in playing with Butler, Towns & Wiggins, but Thibs' reputation as a coach who can push his players too hard could keep them away.
I just saw on ESPN that there is going too many more supply than demand for PGs than expected this offseason, because teams that needed a PG either drafted one (or, in the Kings' case, 2) or traded for one. There are a lot of PGs on the FA market, so it might take Chalmers awhile to land somewhere. Especially because not too many players completely recover from torn achilles tendons, so there's a lot of uncertainty there.
Withey should be able to land a smallish contract as a 3rd center. He would have been better off if he had been born 10-20 years earler, though, given his game would've fit better into the style of play in the 1980s and 1990s more than it does in today's game. Still, you'd think some team would sign him as a rim protecting backup big (assuming his legal problems with his ex have been resolved, anyway).
T-Rob might want to think about looking overseas. He's been on six teams in fve years and he's never been able to stick anywhere, despite putting up some decent numbers when he actually gets some playing time. He's only 26. Maybe if he went overseas for 2 years and developed the areas of his game he's been told to work on, he could improve enough to stir up more interest. He's only be 28 if he did that...still young enough to get interest from NBA teams. If he tried to hook on with another NBA team now, I have a feeling it would be the same old same old ...bouncing from team to team and languishing on the bench.
Add another name to the list. The Lakers waived Tarik Black today (Saturday). Looks like they did so just to save a little bit of money, as his contract was just about to get guaranteed.
I don't think Tarik will have much trouble landing another NBA job though.Teams always need backup bigs who play with great effort and know how to rebound the ball.


A major initiative of AMF is the starting of AMF Training Camps for para-athletes in Cycling, Swimming, Cricket and Badminton from this year onwards. Besides Aditya Mehta himself, who will train aspiring para-athletes in cycling; senior para-athletes Bholanath Dalui and Srinivas Naidu will train amputees for swimming and Girish Sharma will train amputees in badminton. AMF CAMP 2015 is starting this month – April 2015, with 3 para amputees Dharmana Shanmukha Rao from Hyderabad, Rakesh Banik from Assam and Harshit from Pune. Their lodging and basic requirements is taken care of by AMF. AMF will conduct such camps at regular intervals of two months, at Hyderabad.


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