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Freddy Griffiths : A Slippery Slope
Freddy Griffiths
Freddy Griffiths is an artist working with and around photography, using the photographic image to further non-hierarchical methodologies in contemporary art and everyday scenarios. His ongoing exploration has resulted in the formation of a photographic archive. For this opportunity Freddy made a short film using still images from his archive. The film deals with the economic fallout of Covid-19, focussing on perceived notions of a populous 'addicted to furlough', as coined by a leak from Whitehall to The Times.
A Slippery Slope
by Freddy Griffiths
Artist Statement here
This film is an exploration of what it means to be 'at work'. Specifically, what we consider to be gainful employment, versus work in service of our own personal endeavours. This dichotomy has been sharply thrown into focus during the Coronavirus pandemic. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has resulted in many employees being furloughed from their jobs. This previously unimaginable reality has produced diverse responses across the political spectrum. The idea of workers being paid to stay at home and 'do nothing' causes particular consternation in sections of the right-wing press.
Almost predictably in May of 2020 during the UK wide lockdown, anonymous government sources floated the concept of a public 'addicted to furlough'. Although these statements were publicly refuted by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak, it did fuel a sense that workers should feel tacitly guilty about their furloughed status.
The narrative presented throughout this film contains a multiplicity of realities. It is based on interviews conducted with furloughed workers during the summer of 2020. Many are rightly worried that they will be made redundant when the scheme ends on October 31st. A few were actively concerned that speaking to me would affect their future prospects of continued employment.
I should also add, that of all those I interviewed, I was struck by their desire to be involved in constructive work of some kind during their time spent on furlough. Whether that involved self-directed study or simply self-care manifested through the completion of a creative task. Almost nobody described hours on the sofa, at least not out of choice. Many sought out creativity often lacking during their day to day employment, but also experienced a subtle anxiety during lockdown difficult to fully throw off.
Our narrator makes reference to 'that big photographic art project', which presumably he has been working on in the recent past. But then remarks that during his time on furlough: 'I found myself increasingly unable to think creatively about almost anything'. Perhaps we are giving to much credence too the most mundane of factors within the equation of creativity? Possessing free time alone isn't enough.
With these factors in mind I invite you to consider the voice you hear throughout this film as representative of a plurality of experience. But also, a voice that provides anonymity to those that I have spoken to.
Film Transcript here
Today my employer called to inform me that I wouldn't be needed at work for the coming months. Apparently due to the Coronavirus pandemic it was possible for me to stay at home and for the UK government to pay my salary.
Whilst I expected to be possibly made redundant sometime in the future, I didn't expect that the government would offer any financial support to workers such as myself. I'd been led to believe that the Conservative party was ideologically opposed to this type of assistance, believing it to be a slippery slope toward further state intervention.
I feel safe in telling you that I found my job manifestly miserable almost entirely. I'd managed to cultivate a thin vale of pleasantness at work, mainly so as to save my colleagues from being subjected to my frequent bouts of nihilistic bleakness.
I've survived the last few years by consistently feigning busyness, combined with hours of essentially hiding from my colleagues. Luckily the labyrinthine layout of my workplace has secured the success of this strategy. There are a number of remote desks where I can work on my personal endeavours in peace.
I always make sure that I compete a small number of tasks and present them with great fanfare so as to demonstrate my competency amongst my colleagues. I pride myself on managing to avoid taking on any extra duties despite my reputation as a diligent worker.
I've been wondering if my recent furloughing represents an end to my finely constructed existence at work.
I live in a small bedsit flat with no outdoor space. Although, since February of this year I've had access to an allotment not far from my flat. As far as I can tell I'm permitted to tend to the allotment during lockdown. I spent an hour reading the guidelines on gov.co.uk but couldn't really come up with a definitive answer.
I began to substitute wage labour for rigorous toil in the service of weed removal. I hoped it might be possible to cultivate a reliable food source from the allotment and also banish thoughts of my latent employment to the far reaches of my mind.
My ultimate aim was to avoid returning work at all. To make this happen, I would need a source of food.
I am however an inexperienced gardener.
After a few weeks I started to get regular phone calls from my employer. I tried to answer these calls as infrequently as possible. Although I did deduce that not all the company's employees were furloughed. In fact, it seemed as though my job was being completed by one of my colleagues.
Throughout my incessant weeding I frequently unearthed buried objects. I began to arrange these around the allotment. I wondered if these objects might have been used as an alternative fertilizer by a previous resident.
One day a friend telephoned and remarked that my being furloughed was a "wonderful opportunity to finally get on and finish that big photographic art project you've been working on".
Whilst I didn't necessarily disagree with this sentiment, I found myself increasingly unable to think creatively about almost anything. Indeed, the only activity that could with any reliability distract from the bleakness of my flat was weeding at the allotment.
I unearthed increasing quantities of mainly photographic ephemera from the ground of the allotment. I arranged these items haphazardly around the allotment and subsequently my flat.
I saw hardly any relationship between these found objects.
On the 1st of September my employed called and informed me that I would be made redundant in one month's time. I was told that "the market was looking increasingly dire for our industry".
I decided to collate my buried haul around my newly planted raised beds. I thought perhaps that these items could act as devotional objects for my newly planted seeds.
I used the remaining days of my furlough to catalogue these objects together with the progress of the growing seeds. Luckily a few days previously I had unearthed a fairly modern camera in a particularly brambled corner of the allotment.
My employer called again towards the end of October. I was offered a few days freelance work essentially performing the tasks from my old job.
I was advised that the tasks required of me could be done "working from home". This sounded agreeable to me, so I set up a workstation in another corner of the allotment.
Since these freelance hours would not be sufficient to pay my rent, I gave notice on my flat.
I began construction of a shed on the allotment that I thought would provide ample shelter. It would have the added benefit of a small window, allowing me to observe the progress of my seeds more consistently in the future.
I've felt a certain relief at seeing the first seedlings poking through the soil. It's taken my mind off a growing sense of guiltiness on my part.
Although I know that my guilt is somewhat manufactured by my sadistic interest in the right-wing print media. I can't help but wonder if people are judging me when I exchange fleeting eye contact with passing drivers on my daily walk to the allotment.
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Freddy Griffiths is an artist based in Nottingham. He works with and around photography, using the photographic image to further non-hierarchical methodologies in contemporary art and everyday scenarios. His ongoing exploration has resulted in the formation of a photographic archive.
Recent international investigations in the last two years have centred around questions of photographic materiality and the finite nature of natural resources. Walking or cycling as a primary mode of transport has defined the making of photographs during these excursions. Griffiths is keen to embrace contradictory and ambiguous ways of working for future presentations of his archive. Democratising the editing process through audience participation is something of particular concern currently.
www.freddygriffiths.com
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Written by Jo Barrett
Artisan and wallpaper designer and maker Deborah Bowness are both well positioned in leading the way to ensure home décor products are unique and sustainably sourced.
As individuals and communities become increasingly conscious of reducing the use of plastic and opt for a more waste-free lifestyle, there is also growing consideration around where home décor items such as fabrics, furnishings, and flooring and wall coverings are produced and if the supply chain fits fair trading practices.
After 40 years of experience in the luxury flooring and interior finishes market, Artisan authentically continues the practice of only sourcing product that is sustainably produced.
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A world-renowned wallpaper designer, Deborah has won several awards for her designs and her work is held in print collections in institutions. These include, London's Victoria & Albert Museum, New York's Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and the Wallpaper Museum in Germany.
Deborah graduated from Leeds College of Art & Design in 1997 with a BA(Hons) in surface pattern and textile design, then went on to the Royal College of Art in 1999. Since then, Deborah has been designing, making and exhibiting wallpaper. She lives and works in St Leonards-on-Sea, on the South Coast of England where she has set up a room for printing wallpapers which are then dispatched to clients worldwide.
Traditionally, wallpaper design has been focussed around repeat patterns. But with Deborah's work she has taken this notion and turned it upside down and inside out, introducing a new perspective by applying her art to the design process.
Deborah has made it her business to offer a unique product for people who want a more idiosyncratic home decor.
Unafraid of breaking convention and challenging traditional concepts around wallpaper design and wallpapering applications, Deborah has produced a broad range of individual, non-repeat pattern wallpaper designs. Some of her wallpaper designs have evolved from assignments she undertook at art school and others have come from commissioned projects.
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"My intention is for the work to interact quietly and playfully with objects and furniture, but not dominate the surrounding environment."
Deborah says, "All my work uses montages of photographs that I have taken myself and these are made into miniature or life size prints or cut outs. Some of my wallpaper hangings are limited edition collage artworks. There are only 29 printed of each collage and they come with specific hanging instructions."
Deborah was commissioned to create an alternative Christmas tree for the modernist arts centre, De La Warr Pavillion, located on England's south coast. This commission was the inspiration behind her environmentally friendly wallpaper Christmas tree product, 'Tree for Life, not just for Christmas'.
"I created a paper Christmas tree forest," says Deborah. "The rationale behind the installation takes an ecological premise. Approximately six and a half million Christmas trees a year are bought across the UK, many of which are imported from Demark, France and Belgium."
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"In keeping with the theme of recycling and sustainability, my 'Ready-Mades' project, is a curated collection of redesigned, found, vintage wallpapers and is a small attempt to consider the 'stuff' we produce and the beginning of a wider reflection upon our 'treadmill of accumulation'."
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VI. Extraordinary Cortes adopts the Jacobin Constitution
On September 24, 1810, the Extraordinary Cortes assembled on the Island of Leon; on February 20, 1811, they removed their sittings thence to Cadiz; on March 19, 1812, they promulgated the new Constitution; and on September 20, 1813, they closed their sittings, three years from the period of their opening.
The circumstances under which this Congress met are without parallel in history. While no legislative body had ever before gathered its members from such various parts of the globe, or pretended to control such immense territories in Europe, America and Asia, such a diversity of races and such a complexity of interests — nearly the whole of Spain was occupied by the French, and the Congress itself, actually cut off from Spain by hostile armies, and relegated to a small neck of land, had to legislate in the sight of a surrounding and besieging army. From the remote angle of the Isla Gaditana they undertook to lay the foundation of a new Spain, as their forefathers had done from the mountains of Covadonga and Sobrarbe. How are we to account for the curious phenomenon of the Constitution of 1812, afterward branded by the crowned heads of Europe, assembled at Verona, as the most incendiary invention of Jacobinism, having sprung up from the head of old monastic and absolutionist Spain at the very epoch when she seemed totally absorbed in waging a holy war against the Revolution? How, on the other hand, are we to account for the sudden disappearance of this same Constitution, vanishing like a shadow — like "la sombra de un sueño,"' say the Spanish historians — when brought into contact with a living Bourbon? If the birth of that Constitution is a riddle, its death is no less so. To solve the enigma, we propose to commence with a short review of this same Constitution of 1812, which the Spaniards tried again to realize at two subsequent epochs, first during the period from 1820-23, and then in 1836.
The Constitution of 1812 consists of 384 articles and comprehends the following 10 divisions: 1. On the Spanish nation and the Spaniards. 2. On the territory of Spain; its religion, government, and on Spanish citizens. 3. On the Cortes. 4. On the King. 5. On the tribunals and administration of justice in civil and criminal 'matters. 6. On the interior government of the provinces and communes. 7. On the taxes. 8. On the national military forces. 9. On public education. 10. On the observance of the Constitution, and mode of proceeding to make alterations therein.
Proceeding from the principle that
"the sovereignty resides essentially in the nation, to which, therefore, alone belongs exclusively the right of establishing fundamental laws,"
the Constitution, nevertheless, proclaims a division of powers, according to which:
"the legislative power is placed in the Cortes jointly with the King;" "the execution of the laws is confided to the King," "the application of the laws in civil and criminal affairs belongs exclusively to the tribunals, neither the Cortes nor the King being in any case empowered to exercise judicial authority, advocate pending cases, or command the revisal of concluded judgment."
The basis of the national representation is mere population, one deputy for every 70,000 souls. The Cortes consists of one house, viz: the commons, the election of the deputies being by universal suffrage. The elective franchise is enjoyed by all Spaniards, with the exception of menial servants, bankrupts and criminals. After the year 1830, no citizen can enjoy this right who cannot read and write. The election is, however, indirect, having to pass through the three degrees of parochial, district and provincial elections. There is no defined property qualification for a deputy. It is true that according to Art. 92, "it is necessary, in order to be eligible as a deputy to the Cortes, to possess a proportionate annual income, proceeding from real personal property," but Art. 93 suspends the preceding article, until the Cortes in their future meetings declare the period to have arrived in which it shall take effect. The King has neither the right to dissolve nor prorogue the Cortes, who annually meet at the capital on the first of March, without being convoked, and sit at least three months consecutively.
A new Cortes is elected every second year, and no deputy can sit in two Cortes consecutively; i.e., one can only be re-elected after an intervening Cortes of two years. No deputy can ask or accept rewards, pensions, or honors from the King. The secretaries of state, the councillors of state, and those fulfilling offices of the royal household, are ineligible as deputies to the Cortes. No public officer employed by Government shall be elected deputy to the Cortes from the province in which he discharges his trust. To indemnify the deputies for their expenses, the respective provinces shall contribute such daily allowances as the Cortes, in the second year of every general deputation, shall point out for the deputation that is to succeed it. The Cortes cannot deliberate in the presence of the King. In those cases where the ministers have any communication to make to the Cortes in the name of the King, they may attend the debates when, and in such manner as, the Cortes may think fit, and may speak therein, but they cannot be present at a vote. The King, the Prince of Asturias, and the Regents have to swear to the Constitution before the Cortes, who determine any question of fact or right that may occur in the order of the succession to the Crown, and elect a Regency if necessary. The Cortes are to approve, previous to ratification, all treaties of offensive alliances, or of subsidies and commerce, to permit or refuse the admission of foreign troops into the kingdom, to decree the creation and suppression of offices in the tribunals established by the Constitution, and also the creation or abolition of public offices; to determine every year, at the recommendation of the King, the land and sea forces in peace and in war, to issue ordinances to the army, the fleet, and the national militia, in all their branches; to fix the expenses of the public administration; to establish annually the taxes, to take property on loan, in cases of necessity, upon the credit of the public funds, to decide on all matters respecting money, weights and measures; to establish a general plan of public education, to protect the political liberty of the press, to render real and effective the responsibility of the ministers, etc. The King enjoys only a suspensive veto, which he may exercise during two consecutive sessions, but if the same project of new law should be proposed a third time, and approved by the Cortes of the following year, the King is understood to have given his assent, and has actually to give it. Before the Cortes terminate a session, they appoint a permanent committee, consisting of seven of their members, sitting in the capital until the meeting of the next Cortes, endowed with powers to watch over the strict observance of the Constitution and administration of the laws; reporting to the next Cortes any infraction it may have observed, and empowered to convoke an extraordinary Cortes in critical times. The King cannot quit the kingdom without the consent of the Cortes. He requires the consent of the Cortes for contracting a marriage. The Cortes fix the annual revenue of the King's household.
The only Privy Council of the King is the Council of State, in which the ministers have no seat, and which consists of forty persons, four ecclesiastics, four grandees of Spain, and the rest formed by distinguished administrators, all of them chosen by the King from a list of one hundred and twenty persons' nominated by the Cortes; but no actual deputy can be a councilor, and no councilor can accept offices, honors, or employment from the King. The councilors of state cannot be removed without sufficient reasons, proved before the Supreme Court of justice. The Cortes fix the salary of these councilors whose opinion the King will hear upon all important matters, and who nominate the candidates for ecclesiastical and judicial places. In the sections respecting the judicature, all the old consejos are abolished, a new organization of tribunals is introduced, a Supreme Court of Justice is established to try the ministers when impeached, to take cognizance of all cases of dismissal and suspension from office of councilors of state, and the officers of courts of justice, etc. Without proof that reconciliation has been attempted, no law-suit can be commenced. Torture, compulsion, confiscation of property are suppressed. All exceptional tribunals are abolished but the military and ecclesiastic, against the decisions of which appeals to the Supreme Court are however permitted.
For the interior government of towns and communes (communes, where they do not exist, to be formed from districts with a population of 1,000 souls), Ayuntamientos shall be formed of one or more magistrates, aldermen and public councilors, to be presided over by the political chief (corregidor) and to be chosen by general election. No public officer actually employed and appointed by the King can be eligible as a magistrate, alderman or public councilor. The municipal employments shall be public duty, from which no person can be exempt without lawful reason. The municipal corporations shall discharge all their duties under the inspection of the provincial deputation.
The political government of the provinces shall be placed in the governor (jefe politico) appointed by the King. This governor is connected with a deputation, over which he presides, and which is elected by the districts when assembled for the general election of the members for a new Cortes. These provincial deputations consist of seven members, assisted by a secretary paid by the Cortes. These deputations shall hold sessions for ninety days at most in every year. From the powers and duties assigned to them, they may be considered as permanent committees of the Cortes. All members of the Ayuntamientos and provincial deputations, in entering office, swear fidelity to the Constitution. With regard to the taxes, all Spaniards are bound, without any distinction whatever, to contribute, in proportion to their means, to the expenses of the State. All custom-houses shall be suppressed, except in the seaports and on the frontier. All Spaniards are likewise bound to military service, and, beside the standing army, there shall be formed corps of national militia in each province, consisting of the inhabitants of the same, in proportion to its population and circumstances. Lastly, the Constitution of 1812 cannot be altered, augmented, or corrected in any of its details, until eight years have elapsed after its having been carried into practice.
When the Cortes drew up this new plan of the Spanish State, they were of course aware that such a modern political Constitution would be altogether incompatible with the old social system, and consequently, they promulgated a series of decrees, with a view to organic changes in civil society. Thus they abolished the Inquisition. They suppressed the seignorial jurisdictions; with their exclusive, prohibitive, and privative feudal privileges, i.e., those of the chase, fishery, forests, mills, etc., excepting such as had been acquired on an onerous title, and which were to be reimbursed. They abolished the tithes throughout the monarchy, suspended the nominations to all ecclesiastic prebends not necessary for the performance of divine service, and took steps for the suppression of the monasteries and the sequestration of their property.
They intended to transform the immense wastelands, royal domains and commons of Spain into private property, by selling one half of them for the extinction of the public debt, distributing another part by lot as a patriotic remuneration for the disbanded soldiers of the war of independence and granting a third part, gratuitously, and also by lot, to the poor peasantry who should desire to possess but not be able to buy them. They allowed the inclosure of pastures and other real property, formerly forbidden. They repealed the absurd laws which prevented pastures from being converted into arable land or arable land converted into pasture, and generally freed agriculture from the old arbitrary and ridiculous rules. They revoked all feudal laws with respect to farming contracts, and the law according to which the successor of an entailed estate was not obliged to confirm the leases granted by his predecessor, the leases expiring with him who had granted them. They abolished the voto de Santiago, under which name was understood an ancient tribute of a certain measure of the best bread and the best wine to be paid by the laborers of certain provinces principally for the maintenance of the Archbishop and Chapter of Santiago. They decreed the introduction of a large progressive tax, etc.
It being one of their principal aims to hold possession of the American colonies, which had already begun to revolt, they acknowledged the full political equality of the American and European Spaniards, proclaimed a general amnesty without any exception, issued decrees against the oppression weighing upon the original natives of America and Asia, cancelled the mitas, the repartimientos, etc., abolished the monopoly of quicksilver, and took the lead of Europe in suppressing the slave-trade.
The Constitution of 1812 has been accused on the one hand — for instance, by Ferdinand VII himself (see his decree of May 4, 1814) — of being a mere imitation of the French Constitution of 1791 transplanted on the Spanish soil by visionaries, regardless of the historical traditions of Spain. On the other hand, it has been contended — for instance, by the Abbé de Pradt (De la Révolution actuelle de 1'Espagne) — that the Cortes unreasonably clung to antiquated formulas, borrowed from the ancient fueros, and belonging to feudal times, when the royal authority was checked by the exorbitant privileges of the grandees.
The truth is that the Constitution of 1812 is a reproduction of the ancient fueros, but read in the light of the French Revolution, and adapted to the wants of modern society. The right of insurrection, for instance, is generally regarded as one of the boldest innovations of the Jacobin Constitution of 1793, but you meet this same right in the ancient Fueros of Sobrarbe, where it is called the Privilegio de la Union. You find it also in the ancient Constitution of Castile. According to the Fueros of Sobrarbe, the King cannot make peace nor declare war, nor conclude treaties, without the previous consent of the Cortes. The Permanent Committee, consisting of seven members of the Cortes, who are to watch over the strict observance of the Constitution during the prorogation of the legislative body, was of old established in Aragon, and was introduced into Castile at the time when the principal Cortes of the monarchy were united in one single body. To the period of the French invasion a similar institution still existed in the kingdom of Navarre. Touching the formation of a State Council from a list of 120 persons presented to the King by the Cortes and paid by them — this singular creation of the Constitution of 1812 was suggested by the remembrance of the fatal influence exercised by the camarillas at all epochs of the Spanish monarchy. The State Council was intended to supersede the camarilla. Besides, there existed analogous institutions in the past. At the time of Ferdinand IV, for instance, the King was always surrounded by twelve commoners, designated by the cities of Castile, to serve as his privy councilors; and, in 1419, the delegates of the cities complained that their commissioners were no longer admitted into the King's Council. The exclusion of the highest functionaries and the members of the King's household from the Cortes, as well as the prohibition to the deputies to accept honors or offices on the part of the King, seems, at first view, to be borrowed from the Constitution of 1791, and naturally to flow from the modern division of powers, sanctioned by the Constitution of 1812. But, in fact, we meet not only in the ancient Constitution of Castile with precedents, but we know that the people, at different times, rose and assassinated the deputies who had accepted honors or offices from the Crown. As to the right of the Cortes to appoint regencies in case of minority, it had continually been exercised by the ancient Cortes of Castile during the long minorities of the fourteenth century.
It is true that the Cadiz Cortes deprived the King of the power he had always exercised of convoking, dissolving, or proroguing the Cortes; but as the Cortes had fallen into disuse by the very manner in which the Kings improved their privileges, there was nothing more evident than the necessity of cancelling it. The alleged facts may suffice to show that the anxious limitation of the royal power — the most striking feature of the Constitution of 1812 — otherwise fully explained by the recent and revolting souvenirs of Godoy's contemptible despotism, derived its origin from the ancient Fueros of Spain. The Cadiz Cortes but transferred the control from the privileged estates to the national representation. How much the Spanish kings stood in awe of the ancient Fueros may be seen from the fact that when a new collection of the Spanish laws had become necessary, in 1805, a royal ordinance ordered the removal from it of all the remains of feudalism contained in the last collection of laws, and belonging to a time when the weakness of the monarchy forced the kings to enter with their vassals into compromises derogatory to the sovereign power.
If the election of the deputies by general suffrage was an innovation, it must not be forgotten that the Cortes of 1812 were themselves elected by general suffrage, that all the juntas had been elected by it; that a limitation of it would, therefore, have been an infraction of a right already conquered by the people; and, lastly, that a property qualification, at a time when almost all the real property of Spain was locked up in mortmain, would have excluded the greater part of the population.
The meeting of the representatives in one single house was by no means copied from the French Constitution of 1791, as the morose English Tories will have it. Our readers know already that since Charles I (the Emperor Charles V) the aristocracy and the clergy had lost their seats in the Cortes of Castile. But even at the time when the Cortes were divided into brazos (arms, branches), representing the different estates, they assembled in one single hall, separated only by their seats, and voting in common. From the provinces, in which alone the Cortes still possessed real power at the epoch of the French invasion, Navarre continued the old custom of convoking the Cortes by estates; but in the Vascongadas the altogether democratic assemblies admitted not even the clergy. Besides, if the clergy and aristocracy had saved their obnoxious privileges, they had long since ceased to form independent political bodies, the existence of which constituted the basis of the composition of the ancient Cortes.
The separation of the judiciary from the executive power, decreed by the Cadiz Cortes, was demanded as early as the eighteenth century, by the most enlightened statesmen of Spain; and the general odium which the Consejo Real, from the beginning of the revolution, had concentrated upon itself, made the necessity of reducing the tribunals to their proper sphere of action universally felt.
The section of the Constitution which refers to the municipal government of the communes, is a genuine Spanish offspring, as we have shown in a former article. The Cortes only re-established the old municipal system, while they stripped off its medieval character. As to the provincial deputations, invested with the same powers for the internal government of the provinces as the ayuntamientos for the administration of the communes, the Cortes modelled them in imitation of similar institutions still existing at the time of the invasion in Navarre, Biscay and Asturias. In abolishing the exemptions from the military service, the Cortes sanctioned only what had become the general practice during the war of independence. The abolition of the Inquisition was also but the sanction of a fact, as the Holy Office, although re-established by the Central junta, had not dared to resume its functions, its holy members being content with pocketing their salaries, and prudently waiting for better times. As to the suppression of feudal abuses, the Cortes went not even the length of the reforms insisted upon in the famous memorial of Jovellanos, presented in 1795 to the Consejo Real in the name of the economical society of Madrid. The ministers of the enlightened despotism of the latter part of the eighteenth century, Floridablanca and Campomanes, had already begun to take steps in this direction. Besides, it must not be forgotten that simultaneously with the Cortes, there sat a French Government at Madrid, which, in all the provinces overrun by the armies of Napoleon, had swept away from the soil all monastic and feudal institutions, and introduced the modern system of administration. The Bonapartist papers denounced the insurrection as entirely produced by the artifices and bribes of England, assisted by the monks and the Inquisition. How far the rivalry with the intruding government must have exercised a salutary influence upon the decisions of the Cortes, may be inferred from the fact that the Central Junta itself, in its decree dated September, 1809, wherein the convocation of the Cortes is announced, addressed the Spaniards in the following terms:
"Our detractors say that we are fighting to defend old abuses and the inveterate vices of our corrupted government. Let them know that your struggle is for the happiness as well as the independence of your country; that you will not depend henceforward on the uncertain will or the various temper of a single man," etc.
On the other hand, we may trace in the Constitution of 1812 symptoms not to be mistaken of a compromise entered into between the liberal ideas of the eighteenth century and the dark traditions of priestcraft. It suffices to quote Art. 12, according to which
"the religion of the Spanish nation is and shall be perpetually Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman, the only true religion. The nation protects it by wise and just laws, and prohibits the exercise of any other whatever";
or Art. 173, ordering the King to take, on his accession to the throne, the following oath before the Cortes:
"by the grace of God and the Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, King of Spain, I swear by the Almighty and the Holy Evangelists, that I will defend and preserve the Catholic, Roman, and Apostolic religion, without tolerating any other in the kingdom."
On a closer analysis, then, of the Constitution of 1812, we arrive at the conclusion that, so far from being a servile copy of the French Constitution of 1791, it was a genuine and original offspring of Spanish intellectual life, regenerating the ancient and national institutions, introducing the measures of reform loudly demanded by the most celebrated authors and statesmen of the eighteenth century, making inevitable concessions to popular prejudice.
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Revolutionary Spain: Karl Marx
I. Survey of the Revolutionary History of Spain prior to the 19th Century
II. Expulsion of the Bonapartes and Restoration of the Spanish Crown
III. The Dissensions between the Provincial Juntas
IV. The Royal Council (Consejo Real) and the Inquisition (Santo Oficio)
V. Guerilla Warfare
VII. The Disappointment of the Masses
VIII. The Revolution of 1820
IX. The Approaching Storm


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Grieving during the holidays is natural. Major holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year's, or other occasions such as the date of a birthday or anniversary or Mother's Day/Father's Day, can be especially stressful for those who have lost someone and may be facing the first major holiday.
At a time when everyone is supposed to be happy and enjoying themselves, the bereaved can feel sad, lonely and depressed.
With the holiday season just around the corner, many people are busy thinking about shopping for gifts for their loved ones. The holiday season is also a time to be charitable and to have an impact on your local community as a whole. With Giving Tuesday, you can be a part of a global movement to celebrate the charitable season.
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This is a blog on science, creativity, the environment, health, fiction, and other various landscapes of my thoughts.
First, thank you for your excellent blog – I discovered it yesterday and have been reading non-stop.
I work in government pesticide regulation and constantly find myself having to communicate science over social/political opinion. I work with the public (users, distributors, and manufacturers) and not on the scientific evaluation side of things, so it's important that I am well-read, accurate, and unbiased. As I start out on my journey to read more primary literature, I'm wondering if you could give me some advice on sorting good science from junk science. I have read articles on this, but feel like there is more to know. What are some key indicators that the design is flawed, etc.? It might even make for a great blog post.
My fear is that, in taking on a specific subject (for example, neonicotinoids and bees) that there are far more studies/articles than I could ever read. How can I be sure I've read the most important and relevant ones? Any guidance you could provide would be much appreciated.


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Helmet's 1990 release on Amphetamine Reptile was a monumental debut, but by that time band leader Paige Hamilton had keenly honed his sonic guitar craft in New York noise metal act Band of Susans. During his tenure there, Hamilton had experimented with a rock sound stripped of its blues roots and devoid of anything remotely funky. Strap It On was pure Ubermensch metal, machine tooled in its precision, a paragon of robotic self-control. Though it didn't rely at all on drum machine beats or synthetic guitar, Helmet's music sounded industrial in its own way. It won the band enough recognition to secure a major-label spot for their second release, Meantime. Though that album was far more melodic (symptomatic of the general trajectory of the band), it recaptures at times the white-knuckle intensity of their first. After another couple of records -- none hailed as much as their first two -- Helmet parted ways in an unamicable split brought on by pressure and personality differences. Hamilton retreated to L.A. from New York and did some guitar playing for David Bowie, while drummer John Staneir joined the post-rock supergroup Battles. After years of resisting, Hamilton brought in new sidemen and revived the Helmet moniker in 2004 to record Size Matters for Interscope. In 2006 the band jumped to Warcon Records, a label closely tied to the Warped Tour, and that summer headlined the tour and released their seventh album, Monochrome. Chad Driscoll
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Helmet's 1990 release on Amphetamine Reptile was a monumental debut, but by that time band leader Paige Hamilton had keenly honed his sonic guitar craft in New York noise metal act Band of Susans. During his tenure there, Hamilton had experimented with a rock sound stripped of its blues roots and devoid of anything remotely funky. Strap It On was pure Ubermensch metal, machine tooled in its precision, a paragon of robotic self-control. Though it didn't rely at all on drum machine beats or synthetic guitar, Helmet's music sounded industrial in its own way. It won the band enough recognition to secure a major-label spot for their second release, Meantime. Though that album was far more melodic (symptomatic of the general trajectory of the band), it recaptures at times the white-knuckle intensity of their first. After another couple of records -- none hailed as much as their first two -- Helmet parted ways in an unamicable split brought on by pressure and personality differences. Hamilton retreated to L.A. from New York and did some guitar playing for David Bowie, while drummer John Staneir joined the post-rock supergroup Battles. After years of resisting, Hamilton brought in new sidemen and revived the Helmet moniker in 2004 to record Size Matters for Interscope. In 2006 the band jumped to Warcon Records, a label closely tied to the Warped Tour, and that summer headlined the tour and released their seventh album, Monochrome.
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Ruben Vardanyan appointed Artsakh's Minister of State
President of the Artsakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan has signed a decree, releasing Artak Beglaryan from the position of the Minister of State. Ruben Vardanyan will replace him on the post.
According to another decree, an amendment has been made to the decree "On Coordination of the Activities of Ministers by the Minister of State of the Artsakh Republic," according to which the Minister of State will coordinate the activities of the following ministers:
1) Minister of Healthcare
2) Minister of Justice
3) Minister of Foreign Affairs
4) Minister of Agriculture
5) Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports
6) Minister of Social Development and Migration
7) Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure
8) Minister of Municipal Engineering
9) Minister of Finance and Economy.
Pursuant to another decree of the President signed on the same day, changes and amendments have been made to the decree "On Establishing the Procedure for Organizing the Activities of the Artsakh Republic Government and Other State Administration Bodies," according to which the Minister of State is also assigned the functions of coordinating the activities of the heads of the following state administration bodies of the Artsakh Republic:
• Head of the State Supervision Service,
• Chairman of the Cadaster and State Property Management Committee,
• Chairman of the Committee on Material Damages,
• Chairman of the State Revenue Committee,
• Chairman of the Management Committee of State Inspectorates,
• Chairman of the Water Committee.


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by Blaise Tassone November 24, 2018
written by Blaise Tassone November 24, 2018
Tank Girl celebrated its 30th anniversary this October. The genius of the Tank Girl comic lay in its simplicity. Sometimes less is more, and in the case of Tank Girl, featuring stories about a girl (later called Rebecca Buck) who lived in a tank, the minimalist approach was used to perfection.
Taking as its setting a post-Apocalyptic scenario, the original Tank Girl stories took place in a futuristic Australia rife with mutant Kangaroos and mafia gangs (think: the Mad Max films as directed by David Lynch). The comic, combining the above setting with tales of the futuristic rebel girl was born when musicians/comic creators Jamie Hewlitt and Alan Martin came up with their quirky heroine and set out to use her as a mouthpiece for cultural satire.
Some concepts just work in fiction and Tank Girl managed to simultaneously exemplify various popular genres. Of those genres, the books excelled at the use of: Punk Rock minimalism, survivalist adventure tales, subversive black humor and an outsider motif topped off with a satirical war/action genre veneer.
Inspired partly by alternative and underground comics of the 1980s, like Love and Rockets, Tank Girl was experimental in both its look (artist Jamie Hewlitt would often draw collage-like and expansive montage panels), as well as its story-telling approach (with writer Alan Martin frequently bypassing the development of anything approaching a linear plot).
Tank Girl, although first and foremost a product of the 1980s, frequently rises above its sardonic social critiques to say something about the human condition. Although set in a surrealistic future Australia, the book was actually the product of two very English creators both inspired by the use of the underground comics medium as a platform for social criticism. In the case of the Tank Girl comic, Hewlitt and Martin were commenting on the British Cultural scene of Margaret Thatcher's Britain, however when we take into account that the explicitly subversive message and how the humorous criticism of authority contained throughout the comic can be appreciated by any reader of comic books, it becomes apparent that -within the pages of Tank Girl – the stage was set early on for a classic.
The only way to truly appreciate the experience of the Tank Girl comics, however, is to read them.
Deadline Magazine #1 (October 1988) – First Full Appearance of Tank Girl
Reading the adventures of Tank Girl is easy enough, since her comics can be found in reprinted anthology editions. If you're a fan and want to collect her original appearances however, things can start to get expensive. At the time the Tank Girl comics were first produced in the UK, Deadline Magazine, published by Cardrest Limited, was a counter-culture voice and so it seemed the perfect venue for the first appearance of Tank Girl. Three copies of this magazine can be found on the CGC census and of those an 8.5 sold for $900.00 in March of 2018. 8.5 is also the highest recorded grade of this book. If you like Tank Girl, this British magazine is definitely worth looking out for.
Tank Girl #1 [Darkhorse Comics] (May 1991) – American Debut of Tank Girl
Tank Girl was turned into a movie in 1995. Directed by Rachel Talalay and starring Lori Petty, the movie is still beloved by many fans of the comic, but was a financial flop and, after its initial release, criticized by some for trying to take the cult favorite comic in a more mainstream direction. Before the movie's release, Tank Girl and other characters from the comic, such as her crazy companions: Sub Girl, Jet Girl and Booga: Tank Girl's Mutant Kangaroo boyfriend, were introduced to a wider American audience with the release of these color reprints of the Deadline stories. Four issues worth of stories were published by Darkhorse comics, but issue #1 is the most valuable. With a FMV of $500.00 in certified 9.8 grade, this comic is much better represented on the CGC census with 79 graded copies and 19 of them 9.8. Best returns have been on 9.2 at positive 91.6% roi after six sales over the last two years and currently having a FMV of $120.00..
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I've been collecting and reading comics for almost as long as I can remember. I have a special affinity for Silver and Bronze Age Marvel and DC. Currently living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Love/hate my articles? Want to discuss comics, and comic or pop culture? Write to me at blaise@valzorex.com
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Welcome to our second plenary session of the 2015 WTO Public Forum.
As you know, our topic for this session is "Making trade work for business".
At our session this morning I outlined to you — in a broad sense — how the activities of the World Trade Organization have helped trade to work better across a number of areas.
Our debate highlighted that when trade is accompanied by the right policies, it can have a transformative effect.
It can help to attract investment, create jobs, and provide better access to technologies.
And this is something the private sector knows all about.
The rules we deal with at the WTO bear directly on businesses' ability to connect to global trade flows.
When trade is working well — or not so well — businesses are the first ones to feel the effects.
Already today we have talked a lot about jobs, growth and development. All of these concerns have a common thread — and that is: business.
They are the job creators. They are the wealth creators. Any positive effect of trade is transmitted by them.
So the private sector voice is crucial in this debate — and we are pleased to give you this platform.
I think at the WTO we have taken some concrete steps to make trade work for businesses — big, medium, small and micro — in both developed and developing economies.
Our work here is all about lowering barriers, improving connectivity, and raising capabilities.
We aim to provide people with the tools and the skills they need to join trade flows and benefit from them.
That's what the WTO's Aid for Trade initiative is all about.
Research has found that one dollar invested in Aid for Trade results in nearly 8 dollars of exports from developing countries in general. And in the poorest countries, that one dollar becomes 20 dollars.
So this is important work.
Another big step was the Bali Package.
Bali was a historic moment for the WTO. And the support of the business community was vital in making it happen.
A range of significant outcomes were achieved there. They included outcomes in agriculture, food security, and issues that are a priority for the least-developed countries.
They also included the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
The business community is well aware of the problems caused by high costs and long delays at the border — and the barriers to trade that they represent.
These barriers can often mean the difference between being able to compete internationally or not.
So the Trade Facilitation Agreement aims to lower, or remove, these barriers. The Agreement is essentially about streamlining and simplifying customs procedures to cut the cost of trade.
It could reduce the cost of trade by up to 15% and by doing so, it is estimated that it could boost global exports by around 1 trillion dollars per annum.
These reforms will bring a higher level of predictability to customs processes, making it easier for businesses — especially the smaller enterprises — to join global value chains.
Another recent success which will support business growth is the plan to expand the Information Technology Agreement.
This will eliminate tariffs on some 200 IT products whose trade is valued at 1.3 trillion dollars per year, or around 7% of total global trade today.
The immediate impact of this will be significant. And, more than that, the secondary effects will also be very important. IT products are a key input to many production processes. So this expanded agreement could have a big impact on lowering production costs and creating jobs.
And I hope that we can maintain this momentum.
An Environmental Goods Agreement is also in the pipeline. Again this tackles a very important, emerging sector — so the economic impacts could be very positive.
And although these sectoral agreements are at this stage being conducted by groups of members, their benefits extend to the whole membership.
We must advance the broader range of our negotiating work as well, especially as we look ahead to our 10th Ministerial Conference in Nairobi.
Members are constantly seeking to reform trade rules to make them fairer, more sustainable and more enabling for businesses around the world.
With this in mind, I think there are two issues which I would like to highlight.
One is making sure that the trading system works for SMEs.
These businesses are the backbone of many economies. In fact, they employ over 60% of the private sector workforce around the world.
Yet they suffer more from administrative burdens than large enterprises, particularly in developing countries.
Of course the bigger corporates can find ways to overcome obstacles and still access markets in a competitive way. But high trade costs and low connectivity exclude SMEs from markets altogether.
So lifting these burdens and facilitating their access to global markets could have big benefits. In fact, when SMEs connect to global value chains the benefits often go to sectors of the economy that can be most marginalized.
Implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement is vital in this effort, so work on this front is key.
Another important issue is trade finance.
Up to 80% of global trade is supported by some sort of financing or credit insurance.
However, since the 2008 crisis the supply of credit has not yet returned to normal levels, especially in developing countries.
Also, in many cases, the domestic financial system is less than adequate. This means there are some big financing gaps, particularly in Africa and Asia.
The estimate for the value of unmet demand for trade finance in Africa is between 110 and 120 billion dollars.
In Asia, the unmet demand for trade finance is estimated at over one trillion dollars.
This means that all too often, opportunities for growth and development are missed.
Businesses are deprived the fuel they need to grow.
By bridging this gap we could unleash the trading potential of many thousands of individuals and small businesses — because those are the ones who find it hardest to access trade finance.
We want to work with business to deliver all of this. And clearly there is a lot of work to do.
This morning we published our updated trade forecasts.
For 2015 we now expect trade growth of 2.8%, down from the previous figure of 3.3%.
For 2016, it has been revised to 3.9%, slightly down from the previous estimate of 4%.
And, significantly, these figures are compared against a 20 year average of 5% growth.
In light of this, we can't lose our focus. We need to ensure trade keeps playing its role to support growth.
In recent years the WTO has shown that it can deliver agreements with real economic impact.
Now we need the support of the business community to move ahead once again. The record shows that when we join forces — private sector and governments in the WTO — we can achieve a great deal.
So, I think we have much to talk about — and again, we have a fantastic panel.
And Evelyn Nguleka, President of the World Farmers' Organization.
We have a very wide range of interesting perspectives here — and I'm sure our debate will be very engaging.
So thank you for joining us. I look forward to our discussion.
Now, let's get started. Over to you Lerato.


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iZombie: Dying of Self-Inflicted Wounds
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Look, it's really hard to get passionate about just okay stuff. With great stuff, you can tell people "WATCH THIS NOW OR YOU'LL MISS OUT ON THE GREATEST THING EVER!", and with bad stuff you can tell people "DON'T EVER READ THIS EVER OR YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN WILL BE WEEPING TEARS OF BLOOD THEIR ENTIRE LIVES!", but with just okay stuff you're just like "Yeah, I played it. It was fine." Which brings us to iZombie.
Yeah, I watched it. It was fine. Until this season, at least. Then it took a nosedive from "marginally watchable" to "marginally unwatchable".
What do you say when something kinda meh goes bad? "YOU RUINED MY CHILDHOOD!" is waaaaaaaay too hyperbolic (even for me): you can't work up a really good sense of betrayal at losing something that hasn't been around that long, and wasn't all that good to begin with. When the truly mediocre takes a nosedive, all you can say is "OK, guess I'll watch something else then." (Which just takes all the fun out of hyperbolically ranting about it.)
So what killed the zombie show? Something something clever metaphor Mozambique Drill: "Two to the chest, face gets the rest."
Shot One: Disappearing up its own anus. iZombie began as a pretty formulaic Police Procedural (what my generation used to call "cop shows" or "mysteries") with an interesting hook: the main character was a zombie. Not a classic voodoo zombie, nor yet a Romero shambling zombie, nor even a modern fast zombie, but that hyper-modern strain I call lucid zombies. Lucid zombies keep their mind and personality, and usually gain some funky superpowers, but ceaselessly crave human flesh. (They're like IRS employees that way.)
When the iZombie herself eats the brains of crime victims, she gets flashbacks to their life before they died, which are clues to help her and her partner solve the crimes. Plus, her personality changes to match that of the victims, meaning one week she was a gambling addict, the next a Mr. Rogers style (but also philandering) schoolteacher, and the next an adrenaline junkie extreme sports enthusiast. Neat little hook, made for a neat little show, and so long as the show stuck to the Police Procedural formula of "one case per episode, case being usually solved this episode", the show worked.
This season, however, the show got lost in a long-running metaplot about zombie military mercenaries and who actually killed a dominatrix and whether the zombie running for mayor needed to be stopped or helped and a bunch of other interminable crap nobody cared about. Basically, the show dropped most of the mysteries, and what mysteries it did let on the air were never solved. For a Police Procedural, this is a death knell.
Now, none of this is to say the show is entirely bad. It still manages to impress: the Dungeons & Dragons show was pretty good, but even that episode (a high point of the season) cheated you out of solving the mystery. The case was just kinda shuffled off screen, "Russian hackers", and was never mentioned again. Disappointing.
Shot Two: Hollywood hates humans. It never fails: give a monster some human emotions and relatability, and Hollywood will take their side every time. It happened with vampires, it happened with The Planet of the Apes, and it happened with iZombie.
Yes, the main character is an iZombie who you're supposed to empathize with, but that was fine. So long as she was (almost) the only one. But when I'm expected to empathize with countless numbers of flesh-eating freaks, and all of the characters who don't are made purposefully repellent, it begins to grate. ESPECIALLY when the zombie conspiracy theorists turn out to be right, not just morally but factually: zombies were real, they had infested city power structures, and the zombies were planning something big and evil. Spending the entire season making the anti-zombie forces look like total losers was a massive error. Even if you wanted them to be villains, have them be scary and competent villains, not losers.
Shot Three: Insulting your audience. It wasn't just that the zombie-hunters were made repellent, it's HOW they were made repellent that added insult to injury. According to the show, the poor, helpless victim zombies infesting Seattle were being picked on (and occasionally picked off) by stupid unwashed racist gun-nut Southerner right-wing government-distrusting conspiracy theorists (with a secret base in the basement of a local gun range) who only wanted to kill the poor, innocent, highly infectious brain-eating monsters slowly spreading through the population of Seattle eating the brains of the recently-dead and still-living alike.
The bastards.
It is a manifestly stupid idea—to which Hollywood is nonetheless wholly addicted—to insult, demean, and sneer at your audience. Right Wing people watch TV too. Shocking, but true.
You know who ISN'T watching TV? iZombie fans. Since its debut season, the number of viewers has dropped by half. Almost a million people just walked away from the show.
The CW—iZombie's parent network—has renewed the show for a fourth season, but if the numbers don't pick up, it'll probably be the show's last. Which is sad, because it had some promise. It could have been pretty good.
As it is, the zombie show is dying of self-inflicted wounds, and right now I can't even feel bad about that. It was fine, and then it wasn't, and (as with The Walking Dead and Z Nation) now it's time to move on.
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JD Cowan says:
Just about all of CW's series have fallen off a cliff this season. There must be something in the water over there.
Rigel Kent says:
That "something in the water" is the poison of SJW Convergence. Lead would be less damaging.
Which CW series were on the cliff to start with?
Anthony M says:
I thought season 1 of the Flash was flawed-but-fun before going absolutely off the rails.
(You're going to bring up the messed up romance shit and the weird stuff with his dad, and you will be right, but there was a lot of fun stuff there too.)
Season 2 was bad.
Flash teased at being not terrible while it kept presenting Caitlin as a legitimate love interest for Barry. The characters and actors had more chemistry in those first couple episodes than the rest of the cast and series combined. Of course, being the CW, the writers had to put a stop to it, ASAP.
Vlad James says:
That was my thought. Every CW series I've had the misfortune to watch has been absolutely dire from the first episode. Sometimes, I couldn't even suffer through the entirety of the premiere.
Jasyn Jones says:
Supernatural. Great for the first 5 seasons.
I got hooked up to mid season 3. It's not great by any means, but I like the lead and the way they play with the personality shifts can be really amusing.
I did, however, start to catch these problems as well. Call it X-Men disease.
Also, that's my one thing with PotA. The trailers for the new one look really good, but I really need to wonder if it's worrh watching another "Humans are bad, m'kay?" screed for the special effects.
This is such bullshit. Oh no, the zombie show had an overarching story that adds more than the repetitive cop storyline. Boo-freaking-hoo. Use your brain cells every once in a while. This season was just as good as the others.
Seriously, what is with the fanboys of these shows coming out of the woodwork for these reviews?
Trimegistus says:
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
It's pretty obvious that he can't stand the idea that going full far-left retard was a bad thing. From the attempt at "broflake" to the insult to your intelligence, he's only just short of one blatant tell per sentence.
There's a huge problem for those trying to cash in on zombie and apocalypse themes, and that is that more than the average split of their audience is right wing, gun or defence fans, or survivalist leaning according to research from a zombie webcomic).
Jr..lamp says:
I agree and not to give away the ending but it wasn't the white trash racist people that actually killed the zombies if you do your research or even watch the very last episode you'll see it wasn't them
I did watch the whole series. I didn't mention that because it doesn't change anything about the article, and I didn't want to spoil the show for those who hadn't gotten that far. (I alluded to it in my comments about the evil zombie conspiracy. Hoped people who'd watched it would understand the allusion.)
It was still stupid, and arrogant, and insulted a large portion of their audience.
I agree and not to give away the ending but it wasn't the white trash racist people that actually killed the zombies if you do your research or even watch the very last episode you'll see it wasn't them… I eagerly await the next season….
Dan Wolfgang says:
I remember reading the first volume of the comic the show is based off of, and liking it well enough. Couldn't stand watching even five minutes of the show though.
While I still enjoyed it through the 3rd season, it became clear with the end of season 2 that it was going to become, for better or worse, a radically different show with a radically different story and approach to the narrative.
Its biggest strength was some great scenery chewing character actors who had a ton of fun with the premise, but season 3 saw a lot of them become much less likable. I don't expect it to last beyond its 4th season.
It's a tragedy Blaine isn't played by Walton Goggins.
Blaine's always been one of my favorite parts of the show, but what they did with him through season 3 was a bit weird to say the least.
That's another reason I wanted to see Goggins play him. In "Justified" his character of Boyd goes through a few different stages in his personality, and I think Goggins could have played amnesiac/good Blaine better than the current actor did.
But I love David Anders for the part. He's got the pretty-boy sociopath down and always fun to watch.
For any of its other faults, the casting of iZombie is perfect. There's nothing I would change.
David Anders is a perfectly good actor, but Goggins is one of my favorite actors working right now, and one of the most underappreciated.
(Actress playing Liv is a babe, though.)
PerezHBD says:
Irony is show creator Rob Thomas is one of the least PC guys in Hollwyood. Made an entire episode his fantastic comedy series Party Down centered around a college Young Republicans Convention without a single "Republican" joke. In Veronica Mars, the cool young liberal teacher that the kids all loved who was "wrongly" accused of sleeping with his students really did end up being guilty in the end. The homosexual mayor was revealed to be a pedophile.
NARoberts says:
Huh, I didn't stick with VM past the first season-and-a-half. Maybe I should watch the rest sometime.
I watched the whole thing, including the crowd-funded series finale. Pretty good, for the most part.
I noticed one very weird thing – up to mid-season 3 where I am, there has not been a single gay character. Not even background.
Nowadays this is VERY unusual, especially for a CW comic book show.
Right wing geeky fanboys are mad..because this show became too complex for them..boo hoo hoo..
Truth is telling us off boys, I guess we gotta pack up and go home now…
Fans of zombie and apocalypse themes are more right wing than average, boo hoo. Piss them off and you lose 2/3 of your audience, boo hoo.
truth is the epitome of a sissy pajama boy, a blithering idiot who thinks he's intelligent, AND an example of how lame and predictable leftists are with their insults.
Congrats on the trifecta!
Mr shue says:
I think you have a valid point. I didn't like some of the stuff they went with. But it is definitely a show that has a concept you have never seen give it time it will unwrap.p.s. liv and major needs to get back together and i think they will when they are cured.
Stop shitting on the show it's awesome
How dare he! There ought to be a law against criticizing CW shows!
GLEEMAN says:
See alot of HATING, but no one here can do better! So WATCH IT or don't, or make something better ,since you know so much, or likely just keyboard warriors
My dear Sir, you are in the wrong place if you want "Do it better" folks. It's sort of why we're all here.
micha says:
good one (agreed)
Here's to another "headuperass" critic.
Terri Hudson says:
I love cw shows. I think I zombie is great. Arrow is the very best. But the Originals is my very favorite. I could binge watch them all. I hope they're all around for a long time
George Haefner says:
Writers of the izombe series ought to find a job, because they are the blame. I like izombie. Get it right please!
Rusty says:
If you don't like it, stop watching and stop whining.
I have imagination says:
IZombie is a great show and its good the writers are changing it up. If was the same thing every episode: liv eats a brain to solve a case… Well that gets boring. I hope they renew it for another season so its not left on a cliffhanger. Most of the CW shows are good and their good at keeping things interesting
Jonathan mills says:
I think they should include izombie in a crossover with arrow, the flash and supergirl and legends of tomorrow. For a zombie apocalypse in the D.C. Universe.
The CW doesn't have any great shows. All of their shows are decent time killers that show how far the bar has been lowered.
That being said, the work the actors put into it, I (almost) never feel like their phoning it in, which for me, makes their respective shows better.
I think iZombie should have run three seasons (not through 3 yet, but seems the writers are running out of ideas for Liv). It's not the kind of show that can run very long on the given premise.
I am impressed with how well the CW fans monitor the internet for the latest mention of their favorite shows.
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Just hours before the release of Battlefield V: Chapter 1 Overture, Dice found a critical issue with the update and decided they'll be delaying the new content. The delay shouldn't take long though and the update should arrive this week.
Players will have to wait a little bit more for the first major Battlefield V content update. Battlefield V: Chapter 1 Overture was scheduled to release on 4 December 2018 but the developer Dice decided to delay it after discovering a critical issue with the patch.
Dice said they would rather sit on the updates for for a bit more than run risk of causing more serious issues downstream. Judging by their message, the delay shouldn't be a long one and more information will be available today, or as soon as Dice have something worth noting.
We didn't get any specific details about the exact nature of the issue but it doesn't look great for Battlefield V. The game's sales don't seem to be particularly stellar while those who ended up buying it aren't quite ecstatic over the live service model.
Additionally, Dice and EA did something pretty darn bizarre on the Battlefield V launch event in Sweden. An image surfaced on Reddit which shows negative quotes from fans about the historical inaccuracy of the game and inclusion of female characters with prosthetic limbs. We're not really sure why they thought it a good idea to push this issue further while the game is still struggling for relevance but we guess they know best.
Battlefield V: Chapter 1 Overture update brings a new single-player story dubbed "The Last Tiger". It's a story about a disillusioned crew of a Tiger Tank whose faltering resolve is apparently the main theme of the story.
The new update will also bring multiplayer content. Panzerstorm map will set the stage for more tank battles with support for up to 17 vehicles on the map. Tank and aircraft decorations are also coming, as well as the Practice Range, where players can test weapons and improve their skills.


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Yachting News » Business » Sebastiano Fanizza Joins Nautor's Swan
Sebastiano Fanizza Joins Nautor's Swan
Posted: 1st Feb 2016 | Written By: Nautor Swan
2016 is Nautor's Swan's 50th anniversary and will be an extraordinary year for the company, packed with new developments and plans for the future.
In the words of Leonardo Ferragamo, Group Executive Chairman of Nautor's Swan, "This anniversary is the perfect moment to look at our future taking inspiration from our glorious heritage and its core values, that are still fundamental to our company and our way of doing business".
Recently Nautor's Swan has implemented a strategic plan to develop a number of new models and strengthen its presence worldwide. Leader in the superyacht market, the company has grown its line of Maxi yachts introducing the new Swan 95 (the first of the series has already been sold, with the launch planned for this autumn) and the amazing Swan 115, the first of which has been delivered, with three others on order. Moreover, the Swan 130 project will soon create a new flagship for the Swan Line.
In the meantime, Swan is back in the medium size range with completely new products, both in the fast cruising and racing families: the introduction of the Swan 54 for bluewater cruising, the one-design ClubSwan 50 for racing and the new Swan 78 (under 24 m) concept all confirm the versatility, efficiency, cutting-edge technology and design of the Finnish company.
With this premise, the brand's global strategy plan for 2016 will focus on strengthening its sales and marketing by developing its sales network worldwide. This will be achieved with the support of Regional Directors for each market: the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Americas and Asia.
A new corporate structure is currently being developed for the US, together with a long term investment plan.
Leonardo Ferragamo recently announced the appointment of Sebastiano Fanizza as Commercial and Business Development Director. Mr Fanizza's role will be to manage and develop new strategies for the company.
Sebastiano Fanizza brings a wealth of experience to Nautor's Swan from his successful career in international yacht sales, having worked in the yachting industry as Sales Director for Europe and Apac over the last decade and as service manager before. "During my childhood," declares Sebastiano Fanizza "I used to sail with my grandfather and I was always fascinated by the sea: I was born 300 meters from the beach. When we were sailing and we saw Swans they always attracted our attention, and represented a dream. Working for Nautor's Swan today is , in a way, that dream come true. I am proud to be part of the future of this company that is launching in the market several new fascinating and real quality Swans".
ClubSwan, created to develop the Swan Owner's experience and to offer services, opportunities and privileges to them and their friends, is one of the key departments. Ettore Mattiello, ClubSwan Director together with Claudia Tosi, Racing Office Manager and the new comer Sara Torrini, Club Swan Secretary are working on 2016 exclusive events and partnerships for ClubSwan members.
Important improvements have also been implemented in Nautor's Swan Customer Care and Brokerage, both key assets for the company. Strategic management is operated by the Customer Care Manager Robert Holm, based at the Yard in Finland.
The office in Palma de Mallorca in the Mediterranean, guarantees a perfect solution for all customer requirements including superyacht refits. Another office in Long Island Sound deals with the US market. On the Brokerage front, a complete network has been implemented to offer the best and most cost-effective services. Managed by Jeremy Peek, who has a long experience in the sailing industry, the company can assist Owners in finding, selling and improving the value of their Swans.
The beautiful Marina of Scarlino remains the "House of Swan" where all the Owners and their yachts can find assistance. The yard is equipped to provide service to the highest of standards, covering a total area of 9500 sqm and offering the most qualified care. Moreover Marina di Scarlino with its Resort Baia Scarlino, managed by Fabrizio Gaggio, Marina di Scarlino's CEO, offers magnificent suites arranged around the harbour, with its idyllic surroundings, numerous leisure activities and professional service.


Quince & Apple is a Madison gem. It is a fairly new company, and completely fabulous.
Founded, managed and staffed by two people (Clare and Matt) with a creative vision and obvious love of food, Quince & Apple creates small batch artisan preserves in their kitchen in the Madison Enterprise Center. I was lucky enough to get a tour of their kitchen and to talk with Clare and Matt. How did I score such an exciting trip? I accompanied REAP Farm to School director, Lisa Jacobson, to talk about Quince & Apple becoming a part of this year's Homegrown Holiday Fundraiser.
First things first. The Madison Enterprise Center (as I discovered on this visit) is "a business incubator on the vibrant near east side" of Madison. Tenants find spaces with affordable rent and can use them for 3-5 years. The Enterprise Center aims to help new or expanding businesses (they must be for profit in order to qualify for the space) grow, which in turn will create more local jobs. In this case, the Enterprise Center is also supporting local food systems, since Quince & Apple sources many of their ingredients from the surrounding areas. It seems like a pretty great arrangement, and two of my other favorite foodie businesses in Madison (Potter's Crackers and Just Coffee) also started out in this space.
The Homegrown Holiday Fundraiser is one of REAP Food Group's many programs. It is a school based fundraiser, like the wrapping paper, candy bar or light bulb sales I'm sure many of you are familiar with. The important difference is that everything in the REAP Farm to School fundraiser is locally produced. Schools that participate in the fundraiser sell local products to raise money for their schools. Local popcorn, local cookbooks, local cheese (well, duh- this is Wisconsin), locally produced soaps… the list of available products is too long to include here. Some schools use the money to fund their Fresh Snack programs, school gardens, etc, while others use the money they raise in other ways. It's a win for schools, and a win for local producers. I love a good win-win! We're revamping the product list for this year's fundraiser, and Quince & Apple might become our new preserve offering. Exciting!
As I mentioned before, Quince & Apple sources many of their ingredients from Wisconsin. The preserve we're considering for the fundraiser is the Pear with Honey and Ginger spread (pictured above). The apples that are included in this recipe are all from Wisconsin, as are the pears (the pears come from a man who has a mini orchard in his backyard!). The honey is also from right here in Wisco. It is absolutely delicious and I feel all warm and fuzzy inside whenever I eat it.
One thing that drew me to Quince & Apple back when they first appeared on the shelves at the Willy Street Co-op is their unusual flavor combinations. I'm a raspberry jam fan to my core, but was intrigued by Fig and Black tea preserves, Shallot Confit with Red Wine, and Orange Marmalade with Lemons. Matt and Clare also produce seasonal flavors, like this year's Strawberry Rosemary. I also just really liked the aesthetics of their label, and the serving/pairing suggestions they discuss on the back.
It was a pleasure to meet Matt & Clare. Matt had worked in a number of Madison's higher end restaurants, but wanted to find a different outlet for his culinary passion. He and Clare conceived of Quince & Apple, and create all of these sumptuous concoctions in their small space. They say that new offerings are created one sample batch at a time, going through tons of tasting and fine tuning before finally being released to the public. That dedication to quality certainly shows. Thank you, Clare and Matt, for the tour, the samples and for considering being a part of REAP's Homegrown Holiday Fundraiser!
Pear with Honey and Ginger, freshly jarred. I took home one of these bottles, and it was HOT!
Looooooove all these photos! Especially the one of Clare and Matt in the kitchen. I totally want to take their photo — they look so cute! Love that you are blogging so often. And it's so good!!
Heels in the kitchen? Oh my, my feet hurt just thinking about it!
As I have 2 bushels of pears ripening in the back room, I'm intrigued by the pear honey ginger jam. They didn't give you the recipe, by any chance? Ach, never mind. Don't mean to bother you… I'll go research it myself.


Born in 1955 in France, Patrick Zachmann started as a freelance photographer in 1976, before joining Magnum in 1985. He became a full member in 1990. Patrick has dedicated himself to long-term projects on cultural identity, memory and immigration. In 1982, he documentedthe Neapolitan police and mafia - the Camorra - resulting in the publication of a book. In 1987, after seven years on a personal project about Jewish identity, Zachmann published his second book, "Inquest on Identity or a Jew in search of his memory". In 1989 he received the prestigious Niepce Award.He has published a dozen of books and directed several documentary films.
Among his rich body of work Zachmann chose to have his 30 years of documentary photography on China exhibited in a retrospective at the Paris museum of photography (La MEP) and published in a Xavier Barral book titled "So Long, China". From the 1982 reportage on cinema studio in Beijing and Shanghai to 2015 his latest project called "China too fast", Patrick reveals his deep knowledge of the social landscape and the impact of the high speed development on the "trans-generational" issue. He has focused especially on the Chinese diaspora (Wenzhou, Taishan and their connection with France and the USA), and the migrant workers (Min Gong). He also covered Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Sichuan Earthquake, the vanishing Hutong of Beijing and the Linong of Shanghai, the Shanghai World Expo, and the minorities in Yunnan.


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Identity creates opportunities for Latino youth to believe in themselves and realize their highest potential. Through its Padres Latinos Conectados program, Identity is expanding Latino civic engagement through the creation of a formal, culturally and linguistically competent leadership-training program that includes a parent leadership network and opportunities to increase Latino parent involvement in issues that are critical to their children's academic success. Identity envisions a just and equitable society that nurtures all youth and is enriched by their contributions.
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What are 'PUP' detections, are they threats and should they be removed?
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