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Scenes from RubyFringe, Part 1
by Joey deVilla on July 19, 2008
It's been a while that we've had a slide as controversial as David Heinemeier Hansson's infamous one from the Canada on Rails conference, so I thought I'd make one, and this one's a good deal friendlier too:
Photo by Libin Pan.
Here's the crowd at FAILCamp, the gathering that Hampton Catlin and I hosted, where people shared their stores of personal and professional failure — and sometimes even the lessons learned. This was taken early in FAILCamp; later on, the room was packed quite nicely:
After FAILCamp came the kickoff party at the open space on the upper floor of the Amsterdam Brewing Company. Here's the RubyFringe logo projected against the back wall:
The opening act was Katie Crown, who had a charmingly oddball stand-up routine, which included her taking song suggestions from the audience and turned them into slightly-different version that were in the public domain (for example, she turned Who Let the Dogs Out into Who Released the Canines ) and even invited me to join in with the accordion and help her out. We ended up creating public domain versions of Welcome to the Jungle and Gigantic :
Here's the crowd at the Amsterdam taking in Katie's routine:
The second act were We Take Lovers, who put on a great show with their indie-rock sound. They're shopping around for accordions, so I was pleased to "talk shop" with them.
Today is day one of the conference; tonight we're off to West Queen West to descend on the Drake and Camera!
Tagged as: RubyFringe
RubyFringe Guide: The Unofficial IRC Back Channel
In case you were looking for the IRC back channel for the RubyFringe conference, there's one on irc.freenode.net at #rubyfringe. Check it out, and see you there!
RubyFringe Guide: The Lay of the Land, Part 2
This is article number eight in Joey's Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto, my guide to Accordion City for attendees of the RubyFringe conference, as well as anyone else who's interested in our fair city.
In case you missed them, here are the other articles in this series:
Where Did All the Cigarettes Go?
Getting from the Airport to the Hotel
Boozin' in Accordion City
The Lay of the Land, Part 1
FAILCamp
The Best Damn Cookie in Town
Active Surplus, a.k.a. Hardware Nerdvana
In The Lay of the Land, Part 1 , I covered some areas close to the hotel. In this article, I'm going to go over some of the interesting areas to the west: Chinatown, Kensington Market and Queen Street West.
The interesting neighbourhood that's closest to the Metropolitan Hotel is Chinatown. From the hotel, all you have to do is walk to Dundas Street and hang a left and starting walking westward along Dundas. Things will start out a bit sparse, but as you cross University Avenue, there'll be more to see. Continue westward and the concentration of Chinese restaurants and shops will increase until you reach the corner of Dundas and Spadina, the heart of Chinatown. Chinatown stretches north to about College Street, south to Sullivan, and west to about Denison.
As you might expect, Chinatown is lined with a lot of Chinese restaurants, although you'll also find a lot of Vietnamese places, with a little Thai and Japanese thrown in for good measure. You'll also find a lot of grocery stores with sidewalk stalls carrying fruits and vegetables. There are also some cheap clothes in the mix: if you need some plain T-shirts, there are plenty of places that carry them in many colours, 4 or 5 for a mere $10.
If you find yourself with the late-night munchies, Chinatown is the solution to your problem. A good number of the restaurants cater to the late-night crowd; many close as late as 5 a.m. on the weekends, and at least a couple of the Vietnamese places run 24 hours.
Getting to Kensington Market is easy: just walk west on Dundas from the hotel for about ten minutes and go one block past Spadina, then turn up Kensington. You'll be in Kensington Market, an area that blends alternative and counter-culture stores, traditional food markets, international restaurants and offbeat bars. Here's a map of the area:
If you're looking for stuff that you're not going to find at the mall, this is the place to go.
For more about Kensington Market, see its Wikipedia entry and this Globe and Mail story (with video) of Dr. Richard "Creative Class" Florida paying a visit to the Market.
You can also take a little photo tour of the Market through the slideshow below:
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Check out this map: it shows the way from the hotel to the corner of Queen Street West and University Avenue, followed by a long stretch west. If you've got the time, it's a very interesting walk — about 4 kilometres (two and a half miles) of one of the more interesting streets in the city. Things will start off a little more gentrified and no more edgy than the Hot Topic store in your local mall, but as you progress westward, the stores, bars and restaurants get quirkier, and you'll see the "creative class" types who make Queen West their home. If you don't feel like walking, you can always check out the scenery via streetcar.
Once again, I direct you to Wikipedia for a description of Queen Street West and its OurFaves page for some locals' recommendations.
And There's More!
I haven't yet told you about Little Italy on College West, the Annex, that stretch of Baldwin Street with all the restaurants, the Beach(es), Mink Mile, Greektown, Koreatown, Roncesvalles, High Park and a lot of other places, but I hope that I've given you a good start. If you're at the conference and have any questions about the city, feel free to ask me or any of the other locals — we'll be happy to help!
See you at the conference!
RubyFringe Guide: Active Surplus, a.k.a. Hardware Nerdvana
Welcome to installment number seven of Joey's Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto, my guide to Accordion City for attendees of the RubyFringe conference or for anyone who's wondering about interesting stuff in Toronto.
The previous articles in this series are:
This article will cover Active Surplus, a long-time resident of Queen Street West and a surplus electronics-and-gear store like no other. It's a short walk away from the Metropolitan Hotel and well worth a visit.
If you're a mad scientist, electronic hobbyist, artist, looking to get your stereo hooked up or even getting stuff for your wedding, I recommend taking a look around Active Surplus on a regular basis. A fixture of Queen Street West since my high-school days (the early 1980s!), Active Surplus is a warehouse filled with bins of all sorts of gadgets, gears, cables, adapters, speakers and all sorts of electronic and mechanical stuff that you're just not going to find at Best Buy or Radio Shack, especially at their prices.
Active Surplus is located at 347 Queen Street West — here's a Google Map showing you the way there from the Metropolitan Hotel.
Here's what it looks like once you climb up the stairs leading into the store:
They've got all sorts of cables: audio, video, computer…
…and there are power strips and extension cords aplenty, all going dirt cheap:
They've got a row of interface peripherals — mice, trackpads and keyboards, including this water-resistant flexible USB keyboard:
…and there are all sorts of electric motors and pumps, from those for small aquariums to those for light industrial purposes:
You can unleash your inner security officer with one of these surveillance cameras:
Or perhaps it's your inner meter maid you want to unleash with these assemblies from decomissioned electronic parking meters:
They've got a section of bin devoted to digital camera and card goodies. They've got all kind of card readers going for very low prices:
If RubyFringe turns into that kind of party, you'll know where to buy electric trimmers:
Active Surplus has a good stock of pens, for those of you who like taking notes by hand:
They have a few bins of sunglasses as well as 3-D glasses:
Need to cordon off an area so that you can do CSI-style investigations? They've got police barrier tape:
They have a seemingly endless supply of stickers and adhesive-backed mini-mirrors:
I have no idea what this glass thing was originally for (bedpan?), but I'm sure all of you who listen to jam bands saw this and thought "bong!":
Here's a portable toilet, suitable for camping. I love that they felt it was necessary to say that you're not supposed to try the in the store:
And last but not least, they've got "Baby Legs", which are described as "young padawan parts, thanks to Darth Vader."
Tagged as: Active Surplus, RubyFringe
RubyFringe Guide: Best Damn Cookie in Town
Photo courtesy of SpotlightToronto.com .
This is the sixth installment of Joey's Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto, my guide to Accordion City for attendees of the RubyFringe conference as well as people just curious about this place.
In case you missed the earlier articles in this series, they are…
In this article, I'm going to talk about a little detour you might want to make for an extremely delicious cookie (and other snacks).
If you've ever gone walking around Paris looking for a quick bite to eat, Le Gourmand will give you a sense of deja vu. It's a cafe that doubles as a somewhat pricey mini-grocery that carries gourmet food. They make excellent coffee and hot chocolate (you even get a choice of two of French chocolate mixes), delicious sandwiches, a nice bowl of steel-cut oatmeal with fruit, but most importantly, cookies to die for. Hell, they're cookies to kill for.
The chocolate chip cookie (pictured at the top of this article) is a nice and large, which makes it crispy at the edges and soft and chewy in the center. The dough is rich, flavourful and packed with very good chocolate chips. I might actually keep my bike right by the conference to do a cookie run during the mid-afternoon lull.
If brownies are more your speed, Le Gourmand also has the Nookie Cookie, which is a brownie-like drop cookie dusted in icing sugar. It's enough to make Dr. Atkins spin in his grave, but it's throwing off your low-carb regime for this treat. Pair this with one of their black coffees, and you've got a nice civilised mid-afternoon snack.
The nearest Le Gourmand branch is at 152 Spadina, a little under a block south of Queen Street, not far from the Unspace office. Here's a Google Map showing the way to Le Gourmand from the Metropolitan Hotel.
If you're going to exploring around town beyond the general area of RubyFringe, there's another branch of Le Gourmand at 20 Bloor Street East, just east of Yonge. If you're going to be looking around the Yorkville area of town, be sure to pass by.
RubyFringe Guide: FAILCamp (Friday, July 18 – 4 to 7 p.m. at The Rhino)
Welcome to the fifth installment of Joey's Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto, my guide to Accordion City for attendees of the RubyFringe conference as well as people just curious about this place.
In case you missed the earlier articles in this series, I'll list them here:
In this article, I'm going to cover FAILCamp.
The first event of RubyFringe is the only one that's open to anyone, whether or not they're attending the conference itself. It's FAILCamp, a gathering where we'll share stories about and lessons from failure. It will take place at The Rhino Bar and Grill (1249 Queen Street West, just west of Dufferin) and runs from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.. Once again, you don't have to be a RubyFringe attendee to catch this one. Admission is free, but you'll have to buy your own beer.
Here's a quick description of the event, as written by its originators, Amy "Slash7" Hoy and Thomas "Scriptaculous" Fuchs:
We believe that it's time to give our personal fail some tough love and talk it out over beer!
Join us for a brief, rousing introduction followed by camaraderie, beer, and show-and-tell. We'll present a little about failure through the ages, mining your personal suck, maybe some science, pithy quotes from people you may or may not respect, and share some failure stories of our own.
Then it'll be your turn. If all goes to plan, you may even win in our friendly "race to the bottom" for the most public, most expensive, or most ridiculous Story of Fail.
I believe that the original plan was for Amy and Thomas to host the event as a dry run for a much larger FAILCamp event taking place on the 26th in Philadelphia. Circumstances have arisen and they will be unable to make it to Accordion City this weekend. While this fits with the theme of FAILCamp, it hasn't stopped it — instead, two new hosts have stepped up to fill in for them:
Hampton "HAML" Catlin, who very well might be the best Ruby hacker in town, and
Yours Truly, who very well might be the worst Ruby hacker in town.
Hampton's going to provide a lot of insight and programming know-how to FAILCamp. Me? I'm going to be responsible for innuendo-laden stories of personal and professional failure peppered with gratuitous Zardoz references.
As for the Rhino itself, it is truly pub with a "neighbourhoody" feel. Where many places are content to be mere endpoints in the Anheuser-Busch/Molson-Coors supply chain, the Rhino is what some sociologists call a "third place", a neighbourhood gathering point for all kinds of people, from the locals who've been in the Parkdale area since it was a more rough-and-tumble place to the artsy and musician types who moved into the neighbourhood to the geeks who use it as the venue for the monthly Rails Pub Nites and Ajax Pub Nites. Even though the neighbourhood is gentrifying in a manner similar to New York's Lower East Side or certain parts of Brooklyn, The Rhino has managed to remain pretty much douchebag-free and inexpensive, unlike a number of the other pubs in the area.
The only way in which The Rhino gets fancy is with their beer menu. There are about 200 beers on the menu hailing from a few dozen countries, and they're generally well-stocked and priced in the 5 to 7 dollar per pint/bottle range. Be sure to try the locals: their own lager, as well as Mill Street, Wellington and Creemore Springs.
FAILCamp's Facebook page
Rhino review at Toronto Bits
Rhino review at Martini Boys
Rhino write-up at Toronto Life
Google Map showing the way from the Metropolitan Hotel to The Rhino
Map showing the public transit route from the Metropolitan Hotel to the Rhino
Tagged as: FAILCamp, failure, Hampton Catlin, RubyFringe, The Rhino
by Joey deVilla on July 4, 2008
Welcome to the fourth installment in Joey's Unofficial RubyFringe Guide to Toronto , a series of offbeat articles to acquaint attendees of the upcoming RubyFringe conference with Accordion City.
There've been three articles in the series so far:
When I visit a city that's new to me, I try to get a sense of "the lay of the land". What sort of areas are around where I'm staying? Which zones come alive at what times of the day? If I started walking in this direction, what sort of neighbourhood would I end up in? Where can I see some interesting stuff, and where will I end up running into something I could easily get at home? These are the sorts of questions that I'll try to answer for Toronto in these "Lay of the Land" articles. In this article, I'll look at what's within a couple of blocks of the conference hotel.
What's Near the Conference Hotel?
The map below covers the area that's within about a ten-minute walk of RubyFringe's conference hotel, the Metropolitan Toronto. The Metropolitan is represented by the red marker with the letter "A" (it's very Hester Prynne, isnt it?). I've added some annotations to give you a general idea of the sorts of neighbourhoods that surround the Metropolitan.
A City of Neighbourhoods, A Pocket of Boring
Accordion City can best be described as a city of neighbourhoods put together like a patchwork quilt, each patch having its own character and offerings. This is good news: it makes life pretty interesting for the locals, and it should be doubly so if you're visiting.
There's bad news, I'm afraid: the neighbourhood in which the Metropolitan is located is a pocket of boring. How boring? So boring that this is the most interesting view on the street where the hotel is located:
The curved backside of New City Hall, as seen from a few paces south of the hotel.
Yup, the immediate area is that boring.
It's a zone of nondescript office and hospital buildings surrounding Dundas Street, which used to be downtown Chinatown's main drag back in the 1970s when I was a slip of a lad.
(I say downtown Chinatown because we've got three Chinatowns here. I'll elaborate in a later article.)
Downtown Chinatown moved west towards Spadina Avenue, and the offices rushed in to fill the void. There are still remnants of the old Chinatown that still dot this part of Dundas, but for the real Chinatown action — the restaurants, the shops, the lively street stalls that will gladly sell you a big-ass, smelly-as-ass durian, the "holy crap, Blade Runner came true" Chinatown, you'll have to walk about ten minutes westward.
The Metropolitan Hotel and Chinese Food
Lai Wah Heen Restaurant.
The Metropolitan Hotel is the biggest testament to the fact that the area was once the heart of downtown Chinatown. Most hotels in North America have a primary restaurant that serves your generic "North American" cuisine; the Metropolitan's all about the Chinese food. Their main dining room, Lai Wah Heen, is a Chinese restaurant that serves some very good food — so good that it's one of the few hotel restaurants where you'll see at least as many locals as guests. I've been to a Chinese wedding reception in this hotel and it was some of the best wedding reception food I've tasted. I'm looking forward to the dim sum conference lunch scheduled for Sunday, July 20th.
Across the street from the Metropolitan is a building that looks like a hotel, but missing the hotel markings. That's because it used to be the Colonnade Hotel, which used to be the Chinese hotel until the Metropolitan took over (it's deVilla family tradition to have Chinese food for our wedding rehearsal dinners, and my sister's was there). It's now a University of Toronto student residence.
Just East of the Hotel – Yonge and Dundas: The Seething Pit of the Main Drag
Yonge Street, looking north towards the corner of Yonge and Dundas.
Yonge Street (pronounced "young") is the city's main north-south street; it divides Accordion City into its east and west halves. The corner of Yonge and Dundas — a very short walk east of the Metropolitan — is pretty much in the geographic centre of the downtown core. You should think of it as the local equivalent of New York City's Times Square: major retail shopping, "grey market" electronics stores, billboards and lights, bored teenagers, tourists and pizza, pizza, pizza.
The Eaton Centre, as seen from across the street.
I've been to nerd conferences where I've wished that there was a computer store handy because I needed something like a cable or a USB key. That's not going to be a problem at RubyFringe, as there's both a Best Buy on the southwest corner of Yonge and Dundas and a Future Shop (a Canadian electronics/computer big-box store) on the northeast corner.
(There's a far more interesting electronics store — Active Surplus — not too far from the hotel. I'll cover it in a later article.)
If you go south on Yonge, you'll hit the Eaton Centre, the major downtown shopping mall. It's got the sort of shops you'd expect at a mall; the only surprise for American visitors is that Sears in Canada isn't as ghetto as it is in the U.S. (that's because Sears in Canada took over the Eaton's chain of department stores after they went under).
Interior of the Eaton Centre.
It's tempting to dismiss the Eaton Centre as just another shopping mall, but for a lot of Torontonians, it's also one of the most-used and useful pedestrian routes in town. Spanning the distance between two subway stations on Toronto's busiest line, the mall remains open even after its stores are closed (it closes when the subway closes), making it effectively a covered sidewalk for Yonge Street between Dundas and Queen Streets. (Urban planning nerds should see this article for more.)
Just South of the Hotel: Nathan Phillips Square: Wasn't it Blown Up in Resident Evil 2 ?
Toronto's City Hall.
You may have seen Toronto's City Hall in Resident Evil 2 , or perhaps you caught a glimpse of it in either the original series or Next Generation version of Star Trek . It's architect Viljo Revell's modernist masterpiece and one of the more distinctive features of our city. It's worth the short walk over from the hotel, and if you're into taking pictures, it makes a pretty good subject.
If you walk into City Hall's lobby and turn to the right, you'll see this:
It's a wall mural made of thousands of nails. There's a local tradition: take a penny and drop it into the mural, among the larger nails on the left or right side of the mural. It's descend, pachinko-like, making a musical noise along the way. Here's a video:
Just North of the Hotel: Nothing, Really
Well, I wouldn't say nothing — there are a number of hospital buildings, including some world-class institutions of healing like "Sick Kids" (a.k.a. the Hospital for Sick Children, where Pablum was invented) and the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre.
The atrium at Sick Kids.
If you're an architecture nerd, you might find a visit to the atrium of Sick Kids worth a visit — it's so bright and airy that it's easy to forget that you're in a hospital. Having said that, my guess is that the last place you want to end up during your visit to Toronto is a hospital.
Toronto Bus Terminal.
The other place just north of the hotel is the Toronto Bus Terminal. It's nowhere near as scuzzy as a lot of other big city bus terminals, but the usual parade of off-their-rockers and off-their-meds are often milling about.
Just this evening, while the Ginger Ninja and I were walking past the station, a large woman in a motorized wheelchair started a conversation with us.
"I gotta go to the hospital tomorrow," she said, as she took a sip from her large frappucino. "I got the diabetes."
"Sorry to hear that," we said.
"It's not funny! I'm goin' fuckin' blind from the goddamn diabetes!" She took another sip and poured on the speed, disappearing down the street to stew in her own juices, which I assume are made of high-fructose corn syrup and bad life choices.
There are a couple of conveniences to the north: a Starbucks and a convenience store, both at the corner of Dundas and Elizabeth, a block away from the hotel.
I'll cover what's west of the hotel, which is where things get interesting. For starters, there's this:
OCAD's Sharp Centre Building.


Monster Skull Candle Holder -- $1.99 A Crochet pattern from Julie A Bolduc.
This little monster scull candle holder looks really creepy in the dark with the battery operated tea light candle on! It would make a cute addition to your Halloween table!


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The Buddha of Mount Street: Doug Hayward
Doug Hayward was the 'showbiz tailor', a man who rose from modest surroundings to clothe and befriend stars of the sixties such as Michael Caine, Terence Stamp and Roger Moore.
by Stuart Husband
"A working-class hero is something to be," declared John Lennon in his song of the same name. Doug Hayward didn't make Lennon's suits — that honour fell to the more celebrated sixties Savile Row insurgent Tommy Nutter — but he would surely have concurred with the sentiment. Hayward's distinctive sense of style was shaped by a working-class childhood, when labouring men like his father, who cleaned boilers at the BBC, stood straighter and walked taller when they went out on Friday night in their best, and only, suits. And while Hayward's tailoring establishment in Mount Street would eventually clothe men across the social scale — from friends and fellow upstarts like Michael Caine, Terence Stamp and Terry O'Neill to Sir John Gielgud and lords Lichfield and Weinstock — he never forgot his roots. "He knew what it was like to be dirt-poor," says Audie Charles, the director of Anderson & Sheppard's Haberdashery, who worked with Hayward for 30 years. "For all those guys — Michael, Terry and Doug himself — no matter how famous they got, there was always the feeling that someone was going to tap them on the shoulder and say, 'O.K., you shouldn't be doing this, get back to where you belong'. They all felt like they'd found a lucky ticket. And, in many ways, Doug was at the centre of it all. He epitomised that sixties explosion."
Hayward had grown up in Hayes, on the edge of London; he won a place at Southall Grammar School but decided to leave at 15, to "learn a trade", as one did in the early fifties. "We didn't have a careers master," he later recalled, "but I found a booklet that listed possible occupations. I went down the list and when I got to T for tailor, I thought, 'I don't know any tailors. I can't ever be judged as being a bad or good one, so I'll be a tailor.'"
He served an apprenticeship with Dimitrio Major in Fulham, tailors to the theatrical set; early clients like Peter Sellers and Stamp came via the BBC at nearby Lime Grove, or through Hayward's first wife, Diana, sister-in-law to the film director Basil Dearden. When it came to his own premises, he shunned Savile Row — "he resented the snobbishness and the hierarchy and the condescending manner," Charles says — in favour of a house at 95 Mount Street in Mayfair that Stamp found for him. "Mount Street was like a little village then, in 1967," Charles says. "There was a chemist, fish shop, dry cleaner, post office, and a little hardware store. People would pop in between the bank and the butcher's. It was a kind of social hub."
With its grey flannel walls and profusion of sofas and easy chairs, the Hayward front room, designed by George Ciancimino, was part gent's club, part salon, with Hayward very much presiding; he lived above the shop and would often descend, toast in hand, his Jack Russell capering at his feet, to make people tea. "You'd get such amazing combinations of people in there," Charles says. "Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Michael Parkinson, Johnny Gold and Mark Birley, all nattering together. Alec Guinness sitting with a cup of tea. The racing driver Jackie Stewart alongside a famous heart surgeon, chatting away. One client kept his whisky in the cupboard and would sit with his feet up doing the Times crossword, waiting for someone he could go to lunch with. It was like the social networking of its day."
Hayward became known as the 'showbiz tailor', and his star rose in tandem with his clients, thanks to his fearsome work ethic — he would nip to the Dorchester in his secondhand Mini to fit the likes of Sydney Pollack and Clint Eastwood — and his unstuffy air. "He had a knack of just slotting in, whether he was talking to dukes, earls or builders," says Charles. O'Neill called Hayward the Buddha of Mount Street: "He was someone you were naturally drawn to, very charismatic, and he would do anything for you. He was probably the best-loved man in London." Caine borrowed some of Hayward's vibrant insouciance when playing Alfie. "Doug and Michael shared a dinner suit," Charles says, "because they shared the same measurements, as well as a flat, and more than a few women." Hayward was also the template for Harry Pendel, as described in John le Carré's The Tailor of Panama: "It was in the face that the zest and pleasure of the man were most apparent. An unrepentant innocence shone from his baby blue eyes. His mouth gave out a warm and unobstructed smile. To catch sight of it unexpectedly was to feel a little better."
Then, of course, there were the suits. Hayward was a large-ish man who favoured country checks — James Coburn called him "the Rodin of tweed" — and he would focus on the character-actor likes of Sydney Greenstreet rather than Cary Grant or Fred Astaire. "'Who was his tailor?'," Charles reports Hayward as saying of himself. "'He was a large man who always looked good'."
"Doug didn't want to emphasise the waist on jackets, so they'd be slightly flared at the bottom," says Leslie Haynes, a head cutter at Anderson & Sheppard who worked with Hayward for three decades. "And they had a lower button than most of the other Savile Row tailors had, so they weren't quite as structured, and were lighter and easier to wear. His DB was always a button-one, show-two. They reflected the times, in that things were loosening up, but he was never trendy. He was very specific about what he wanted, and he stuck to his guns. You can spot his suits on Michael Caine in The Italian Job and Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me a mile off."
Charles adds: "He was a brilliant observer, noting how someone acted away from the mirror. You know, whether their shoulders slumped, how they shoved their hands in their pockets, how much their belly came out. It was the uncorrected stuff that Doug addressed, and that's why his cut and silhouette was so flattering." Hayward would stress as much to the tailoring students he later taught at the Royal College of Art: "You can't do anything unless you can cut."
Hayward's social ease meant he was as at home having a Sunday morning kickabout with his impromptu football team, the Mount Street Marchers (football had been his first love, and Bobby Moore was another client), as spending weekends on Mustique with Princess Margaret (he treated the latter, he said, like a "regular bird", crooning word-perfect Noël Coward renditions while she plunked away on the piano). He continued to live in Mount Street until his death in 2008, shortly after being diagnosed with dementia; the shop closed down in 2014. "I think Hayward pretty much died with Doug, because his personality was central to its success," says Charles. "It's like Mark Birley: you went along to experience the aura of the man as much as the things he offered. He was a one-off."
One of Hayward's favourite stories concerned his redoubtable mother, Gladys. Convinced that he was running a brothel or a gambling den out of Mount Street, she kept all the hard cash he funnelled to her in a bunch of ice cream boxes under her bed. After her death, the stash was found, along with a note: "This money is to get Doug out of prison when they finally get him." That they never got Doug Hayward is a tribute to his ability to seize the moment and run with it, and to create a new breed of sartorial hero — working-class or otherwise — in his own snappily whistle-and-fluted image.
Michael Caine and Henry McGee in The Italian Job, 1969. Photo by Paramount/Oakhurst Productio/REX/Shutterstock.
Originally published in Issue 50, February 2017.
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3 reasons West Ham are having a great season
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Currently sat in fourth place within the Premier League and first in Group H of the Europa League competition, West Ham have found themselves enjoying the perfect start to the season, where they are achieving better results than the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.
15 games into the campaign, David Moyes and his men have impressively beaten both Chelsea and Liverpool within the last four weeks, showing their resilience defensively and their qualities going forward. Although they conceded four goals across both fixtures, it is more proof of the potency of the teams in second and third than West Ham's frailty.
West Ham were close to being relegated during the 2019/20 campaign, when Manuel Pellegrini was managing the side with his outdated tactics but was sacked halfway through the season for leading the squad to just five league wins. In came Moyes, who instantly set the foundations on the defensive phase and implemented a way to be productive on the counter, leading to crucial results against teams such as Bournemouth, Southampton, Chelsea and Watford to finish in 16th place.
Despite the West Ham faithful not being convinced with the arrival of the former Manchester United and Everton manager following his previous stint at the club which rsulted in a 29% win percentage over 31 league games, he has proven all the critics wrong as he is making full use out of a talented squad and the board are fully committed towards his project.
We now look into the three key factors leading to the remarkable rise of West Ham so far this season.
Proving himself to be one of the best midfielders within the Premier League and one of the best West Ham players so far this season, Declan Rice has taken his game to the next level on the pitch. The statistics are there to back up how complete he is becoming, with one goal and three assists in 15 league matches, as well as achieving more interceptions (30) and carries into the final third (40) than any other midfielder in the league.
With his ability to dominate the middle of the pitch on his own, he has played a crucial role in helping the side defensively through his knack of winning the ball in the key areas. Indeed, just six teams have conceded fewer goals than the Hammers so far this season.
Constantly being linked to the likes of Chelsea and Manchester United, Rice is valued by the club owners at a whopping £100million+, which leaves the question of whether one of the two Premier League giants are willing to pay a large sum for his qualities or will the 22-year-old push for a big move soon rather than later.
See also Six underrated Premier League players
Kurt Zouma proving his worth
Kurt Zouma, who arrived at West Ham in the summer window for a fee of £25million, is establishing himself as a solid signing for David Moyes' side this season. From showing great leadership skills from the get-go to providing the needed aggression and consistency in the backline, the Frenchman has become a huge addition for West Ham, especially when considering the team were leaking too many goals last season. And following his vital goal in the 3-2 victory over Liverpool, he has instantly become a fan favourite.
Despite the injury issues he has suffered in the past at Chelsea, Zouma is at the age where he will want to be playing on a consistent basis, which made the move in the summer sense for all parties. The 27-year-old has been up against the likes of Diogo Jota, Harry Kane, Kai Havertz and Ollie Watkins and used his intelligence and experience to contain such dangerous attackers.
Impressive away form
It's normal for majority of the teams to pick up most of their points in the home matches. However, it's been a different situation for West Ham this season, who have achieved the same number of wins away from home as they have at the London Stadium.
The side have shown that they can adapt to various circumstances, whether they have to dominate possession through short periods of the game, to siting deep and countering effectively through both Jarrod Bowen and Michail Antonio.
As the team continues to show their qualities on both sides of the pitch, they have notably picked up key victories away to Aston Villa, Everton and Leeds in the league, who normally provide a hostile experience when visiting their stadiums. Also, the squad have managed to forge a strong character about how they get on with their business, which has been shown in the successful season they are having in Europe and by beating both Manchester United and Manchester City in the Carabao Cup.
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Q: Is there a tutorial for coding a GUI without the inaccessible Interface Builder? I am totally blind and want to code for IOS and/or OS X. In Xcode 5.1, accessibility is improved, but the interface builder still seems unaccessible for voiceover users (like me).
With that in mind, is there a tutorial for coding OS X and iPhone apps without using interface builder in Xcode? Alternatively, is there a way to use interface builder with voiceover (without sight)? I would deffinately like to use gui tools if any exist, but if I have to hard code the thing, so be it.
Thank you in advance!

A: My sense of the matter is that you should simply code the interface.
First, autolayout makes this much more sensible than it has been in the past. The "visual" constraint language is really symbolic; made for you.
Second, the binding pane simply won't work for you. Bad design, I guess. But there we are. Use the API.
A number of sighted coders, including Brent Simmons (netnewswire, vesper) scarcely use interface builder. You'll be fine without it.

A: I have not listened to it but give the following podcast a listen. The description states that it covers interface builder basics.
http://maccessibility.net/2013/01/17/the-maccessibility-dev-podcast-1-using-xcode-with-voiceover/

A: You may want to consider RubyMotion as an alternative.
Austin Seraphin talks about using RubyMotion as a blind developer in this talk MP3 with slides here at the #inspect2013 conference. I found the talk through a blog posting that mentioned Austin's amazing presentation.
For pure XCode use, I tried experimenting with PaintCode but it was useless in Voice Over mode. You may find Erica Sadun's book on Auto-Layout useful as she goes into detail on the code-based approach. The iBooks link to the second edition is here.
I am humbled by the effort that people like Austin and yourself put forth to overcome your obstacles and try to remember this whenever I'm irritated by the minor inconveniences in my life and software development. It seems fatuous to say thank you but I'd just like to offer my congratulations on what you've achieved so far.

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The Spadester software is actually pretty impressive, and it looks and feels like the software used in some of the best online poker rooms. The graphics are quite stunning, and we encountered no apparent bugs in the few hours we spent playing at the site. We were also pleased to find that the software downloads fairly quickly even on our less than speedy Internet connection. Of course players with faster broadband Internet will have an easier time downloading, which should get them into the action much more quickly.
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Spadester offers a 100% bonus for all deposits, in addition to a free sign up bonus of $4.
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The customer support staff at Spadester is generally quite competent, and our test questions were answered adequately in a fairly short time. Customer support is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week via email, live chat, and a toll free number.
Spadester is generally able to provide a satisfactory gaming experience mostly on the strength of its games. With spades gaming web sites being in the minority on the Internet, it doesn't rally take much for Spadester to stand out. We would have liked to see more varied and generous bonus offers, and possibly more games added to the lineup. To its credit however, the few games that Spadester offer are of a uniformly high quality, and if spades are all you are after, you can certainly do far worse than to check out the Spadester web site.
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1. When you win you will never see your money! If in doubt just google spadester or spadester scam and you will find posts dating back years from victems.?
2. They sell your Email + Profile to anyone willing to pay.?
3. When u revolt they will use the password u use for the spadester account and use this to try and get into your email and other!! Yes they have done this with me personal, i was dumb enough to use the same password for the spadester account and my email and when i started to make noise about my winnings that never got paid they actualy used my info to hack my yahoo Email and send out dozens of Emails in my name! They also hacked my blog and twitter account via my yahoo Email!
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I am a player on spadester and I had a little problem in the beginning. But once i contacted customer support, I got it all down now. I have payoneer card and I have been paid my first payment this week. I have received 150$ so far. It is not a scam. The site has a few server connection problems sometimes and the cpu ends up playin your hands, not to good lol. But overall I love the site and will stay there. So long Yahoo!
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Besides taking your deposits and not making payouts, they also try to steal your identity. If you already gave them deposits, that is too bad. But don't be fooled into sending them ID. They won't pay you, even after you send ID. Don't get a Payoneer card either, since Payoneer requires ID and they send that info directly to spadester.


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Événements

  mai : bataille de Quiévrain (1793).

 4 mai, France : loi sur le maximum des grains.

 5 mai, France : bataille de Thouars.

 7 mai : bataille de Saint-Colombin.

 8 mai : Charter Acte, loi britannique renouvelant la charte de Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales. La loi interdit aux Indiens employés par la compagnie de toucher un salaire supérieur à 800 roupies.

 12 mai, France : deuxième bataille de Port-Saint-Père.

 13 mai, France : bataille de La Châtaigneraie.

 15 mai : bataille de Palluau.

 16 mai, France : première bataille de Fontenay-le-Comte.

 18 mai, France : commission d'enquête sur la Commune.

 19 mai : victoire espagnole sur la France à la bataille de Mas Deu.

 20 mai, Afghanistan : mort suspecte du deuxième padishah, Timour Shah Durrani. Son fils Zaman Shâh Durrani lui succède sur le trône. Ces demi-frères aînés lui disputent le pouvoir et la guerre civile divise le pays pendant trente ans.

 23 mai : défaite française à la bataille de Famars.

 23 mai au 24 juin : siège de Bellegarde.

 25 mai :
 Assiout : début des explorations de George Browne en Nubie et au Darfour (Soudan actuel) (fin en 1796).
 France : deuxième bataille de Fontenay-le-Comte
 Prise de San Pietro et Sant'Antioco.

 26 mai, France : les Vendéens s'emparent de Fontenay-le-Comte.

 29 mai, France : début du soulèvement de Lyon contre la Convention nationale.

 31 mai et 2 juin, France : des insurrections populaires mettent à l'écart les Girondins. Début de la Convention montagnarde (fin le ). Début des Insurrections fédéralistes.

Naissances

  : Ernst Friedrich Glocker (mort en 1858), minéralogiste, géologue et paléontologue allemand.
 24 mai : Edward Hitchcock (mort en 1864), géologue et paléontologue américain.
 25 mai : William-Henry Blaauw, antiquaire anglais.

Décès

 18 mai : Timour Shâh Durrani, deuxième padishah d'Afghanistan de la dynastie des Durrani, roi du Pendjab, roi de Sind, émir de Khorassan.
 20 mai : Charles Bonnet, biologiste et philosophe suisse (° ).
 23 mai : William Hudson (né en 1734), botaniste anglais.
 28 mai : Anton Friedrich Busching (né en 1724), géographe allemand.

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When Jews are attacked in America's streets, who speaks out?
Antisemitism appeals to unhinged political fanatics across the spectrum — from alt-right trolls to anti-Zionist zealots.
By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated May 25, 2021, 4:03 p.m.
Andrea Wedner (left) and her niece Amy Mallinger, daughter and granddaughter of Rose Mallinger, who was killed in the 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, embrace after placing a rose from their family's garden on a fence outside of an entrance to the synagogue in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, Oct. 27, 2020, to commemorate two years since the shooting that killed Rose Mallinger and 10 other worshipers from three congregations. Wedner was also injured in the shooting.Alexandra Wimley/Associated Press
For the last few years, in the wake of the 2018 Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh, the doors to my Brookline synagogue have been kept locked. Anyone arriving for Sabbath morning services has been allowed to enter only after being approved by the security guard hired to ensure we can pray in safety. But last Saturday, there was an extra layer of protection. A police cruiser was parked directly in front: a warning to anyone who might show up to threaten or commit violence.
Fortunately, there was no antisemitic mayhem in my neighborhood. Jews in other American neighborhoods have not been so lucky. In Brooklyn, N.Y., three men drove to an Orthodox synagogue on Saturday, yelling "F**k the Jews" and "Free Palestine," then began banging on the locked doors as services were getting underway. Forty-five minutes later, police said, the same assailants attacked two Jewish teenagers.
Related: David Shribman: After Tree of Life, this is the way we live now
Earlier in the week, a group of men waving Palestinian flags attacked diners outside a sushi restaurant in a Jewish section of Los Angeles. Someone screaming "Jews should die!" dumped a bag of excrement in front of a synagogue in Hallandale Beach, Fla. Major League Soccer player Luca Lewis reported being threatened by at least six knife-wielding Arab men who demanded to know if he was Jewish. A large rock was hurled through the glass door of Congregation Chaverim in Tucson, whose members include former congresswoman (and assassination attempt survivor) Gabby Giffords. In a heavily Jewish neighborhood near Manhattan's Times Square, men wearing Palestinian scarves flung lit fireworks at pedestrians and severely beat Joseph Borgen, a yarmulke-wearing 29-year-old who was on his way to a pro-Israel rally.
Those were just some of the dozens of antisemitic attacks on Jews and Jewish facilities that have been reported across the country this month. There has also been an explosion of raw anti-Jewish bigotry on social media. "Extreme antisemitic and anti-Zionist content can be found across a wide variety of channels calling for the destruction of the Jewish state," reported the Center on Extremism at the Anti-Defamation League. To mention just one example, the center tallied more than 17,000 Twitter users tweeting the phrase "Hitler was right" between May 7 and May 14.
America is not an antisemitic nation — quite the contrary — but antisemitism in America is indisputably growing worse.
Related: Antisemitism seen in Capitol insurrection raises alarms
Jews constitute just 2 percent of the US population, but they are the victims in more than 60 percent of religion-based hate crimes, according to the FBI's annual Hate Crimes Statistics report. Some of that hatred comes from extremists on the far right, like the neo-Nazis who in 2017 marched in Charlottesville, Va., chanting, "Jews will not replace us," or like the 2019 synagogue shooting in Poway, Calif., when a white supremacist opened fire during Passover, killing a 60-year-old woman and wounding three other worshipers.
Such eruptions of right-wing antisemitism draw wide media coverage and vehement, unstinting condemnation across the board — as they should. So do incendiary comments from hard-right politicians, such as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent despicable comparison of COVID-related mask mandates to Nazi repression in the Holocaust, which congressional Republican leaders denounced Tuesday as "appalling," "reprehensible," and "loony."
Related: Jeff Jacoby: Jew-haters, right and left
But when Jew-hatred comes from the left, or is incited by unhinged progressive diatribes against the Jewish state, such social-justice allyship dries up. Media, political, and corporate voices that have been so passionate and voluble in castigating systemic racism, anti-Asian brutality, and the mistreatment of Black and brown communities have had little or nothing to say as the snakes of Jew-hatred slither out from under anti-Israel boulders. Why? Are they unwilling to say anything that might call attention to the truth that hatred of Israel is all too often indistinguishable from hatred of Jews? Are they wary of undermining the comfortable left-wing myth that antisemitism is a right-wing sickness?
Antisemitism is and always has been an every-wing sickness. It appeals to unhinged political fanatics across the spectrum — from the alt-right trolls who found Donald Trump so fascinating to the anti-Zionist zealots whose loathing for Israel extends to anyone who doesn't share that loathing.
In a Monday tweet, President Biden unequivocally decried the recent spate of antisemitic assaults. But it will take more than one presidential tweet to change what is happening in America. For nearly three centuries, America has been for the Jews a safe harbor without parallel in history. But as every Jew knows, that can change. And when Jewish diners are beaten in the streets, and even locked and guarded synagogues need police protection, it is hard not to wonder if that change is already irrevocable.
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Phil Ticks Off The Miles
Today should have seen a Band of Brothers heading south on one of the planned Festival 2021 events – the London to Paris Cycle ride. Lured in to take part, on the promise of a bucket of Moule and the chance of wearing Lycra, was our Past Provincial Grand Secretary, Phil Rann. Now for those of you who know Phil, DON'T PANIC – he was not intending to cycle on two wheels but instead was one of the nominated support drivers who were to guide the cyclists on their route, and return them to dear old "Blighty" at the end of their mission.
Sadly, the current travel and contact restrictions meant that this event has had to be postponed but Phil set himself a personal target, at the start of Lock-down, to walk the equivalent distance during his daily exercise. Accordingly, armed with a pedometer step counter app, a holiday haircut, and a daily buttered croissant, he started to tick off the miles and has now managed to achieve his goal with over 175 miles walked so far.
Hopefully the cycle ride will be rescheduled for some time in 2021 when we will all get a chance to see Phil sporting his Provincial Lycra gear!
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YOU CAN'T DO THAT WITH WORDS, part 1
Here at the good ol' Illustration Art blog, we have great respect for words. However, every once in a while it's good to remind ourselves that pictures do thing that words cannot.
Lines can be fashioned into letters of the alphabet, or they can be set free to play in the wilder meadows of drawing. If lines are hardened into letters, their function becomes clear and unavoidable: to form words and sentences, marching in straight rows, obeying the commands of their master, punctuation. But when a line is still free and retains its original primordial wildness, it can do countless things in countless ways.
For example, you might use words to convey a message such as "television corrupts youth." But look at how the line of the great Lou Myers plays with the same theme:
You can't do that with words.
Lines that have been civilized into letters and words can never return to their pagan state. Language is rule defined, so it becomes unintelligible as it approaches chaos. But the lovely, wild line of art remains at home in chaos.
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ART IN PENULTIMATE TIMES
Yesterday, the 5th Annual Doomsday Clock Symposium was conducted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. During the Symposium, one of the lecturers shared Harold Edgerton's photographs of the world's first atomic explosion.
Edgerton, an MIT professor, received a top secret contract from the US government to film the first bomb test in the New Mexico desert in 1945, as well as several subsequent tests. He invented the rapatronic (Rapid Action Electronic) camera, with a shutter speed of just two milliseconds, to capture the very instant the nuclear blasts ignited. These ghostly images were taken from seven miles away in the desert to protect the camera from being incinerated:
The beast Extinction, unchained for the first time
Edgerton's photos remind me of Phil Hale's skull paintings:
As nuclear weapons proliferate, it becomes more difficult to run the calculations on the Great Actuarial Table and come up with a happy ending. After all, we can never un-learn the science of how to inflict catastrophic harm. That knowledge can only become more widely disseminated, easier to use and harder to prevent.
The math suggests we're living in penultimate times. What role can art play under such circumstances? Can it raise our consciousness? Humanize our attitude toward nuclear technology? Provide us with solace for what appears to be an inevitable fate?
Art and death have been best friends since the very beginning. Our mortality is one of the greatest inspirations for art. Yet, despite all the effort that generations of artists have spent contemplating individual death, they have never quite figured out how to react to death's ugly big brother, total extinction.
Oh sure, there have been pretenders along the way. The Black Death in Europe had the potential to end the world, and it inspired artists such as Bruegel, Bosch, Chaucer and Defoe.
The Triumph of Death by Bruegel
However, the Black Death ultimately helped to usher in the Renaissance by breaking the grip of a repressive feudal system and an autocratic church, thereby awakening the modern western mind.
As another example, the genocide of World War II was pretty damn impressive. At the end of the war, Picasso (who had painted the slaughter at Guernica a few years earlier) visited the extermination camp at Birkenau where 20th century technology had been employed to massacre over a million people. He walked the camp in stony silence and left oppressed by the inadequacy of art.
The front gate at Birkenau, circa 1945
That night he turned to his friends and muttered, "We had to come here to understand. To think that painters once thought they could paint 'The Massacre of the Innocents.'"
Until now, even the worst slaughters have been redeemed by the possibility that a surviving audience could bear witness to (and perhaps give meaning to) the tragedy. That slender consolation may no longer be available.
Artist Ralston Crawford was commissioned by Fortune Magazine to witness and illustrate one of the first atomic bomb tests in the south Pacific in 1946. Perhaps his senses were damaged by the blast, for he came up with this laughable reaction:
Another artist, Enrico Baj, sensed that the jig was up and urged in his manifesto that traditional painting be demolished and that art be re-invented to respond to the new reality. However, despite the sincerity of his intentions, his art was not up to the challenge.
Today an occasional museum exhibition will work up the nerve to take on this biggest theme of all. Artists such as Isao Hashimoto make their point effectively with hard data, while artists such as Carol Gallagher take a very personal and emotional approach and Jonathan Fetter-Vorm has prepared a graphic novel about the first Trinity explosion. Some of these efforts are more successful than others, but they are all well-intentioned.
The ancient Greeks tragedians understood that even a doomed person retains enough control to elevate his or her fate from mere misery to the dignity of tragedy. That's not much, but if it's the only way to extract salvation from despair, it's important.
THE CHANGING ETIQUETTE OF THEFT
Recently a west coast illustrator was outraged to discover that her art had been used without her permission by a corporation, Cody Foster Inc., for its line of Christmas ornaments. The illustrator complained that the stolen art was "100% mine" and launched a publicity campaign attacking the plagiarism of her work:
However, during her publicity campaign it was discovered that the illustrator herself had "borrowed" someone else's copyrighted work to make her illustrations.
Her double standard is consistent with the highest traditions set by today's master artists. Jeff Koons repeatedly "borrowed" other people's images to create his masterpieces, but when he discovered someone borrowing from him, he became indignant and sued for copyright infringement. Similarly, Andy Warhol shamelessly borrowed images from others, but the Andy Warhol Foundation aggressively pursues anyone who attempts to copy Warhol's copies.
Apparently, the part of the human brain responsible for recognizing irony has atrophied as a result of exposure to contemporary art over the past 50 years.
In the 1960s, Pop artists such as Lichtenstein and Warhol regularly used images by other artists but slept soundly at night believing that, although their images looked nearly identical, the underlying "concept" was different.
Lichtenstein explained why his version (on the right) is not a copy: "What I do is form, whereas the comic strip is not formed in the sense I'm using the word...."
Since the 1960s, the language of borrowing has become more glib, even as borrowing has become more blatant. The Museum of Modern Art sniffs,
The recontextualization of familiar images from television, film and advertising suggests that the meaning of those images might not be intrinsic and unchanging but rather culturally constructed and context specific.
In addition to "recontextualization," borrowing has been justified as repurposing, transformative use, sampling, augmentation, or sometimes just plain old appropriation art.
In such a complex world, no wonder the etiquette of borrowing has become confusing.
There used to be a natural defense against appropriation; art required technical skill, and if you couldn't paint like Caravaggio, you couldn't appropriate his work. But in recent decades the role of technical skill has diminished while the ease of mechanical copying has increased. The barricades against appropriation quickly fell, along with the old moral prejudices against it.
Today information technology indiscriminately captures vast oceans of images; it delivers them to us instantly from anywhere in the world, and empowers the least talented among us to duplicate them, alter them and even animate them in ways that the original artist would never permit. Our attitude toward these pictures has changed because Google Images, Tumblr and Instagram have led many to believe that untethered images buzz around randomly in nature, like subatomic particles. Today we seem to spend more time managing and tweaking pre-existing images than we spend creating important new ones.
In fact, a growing number of artists manage streams of information the way previous generations of artists managed pigment on a palette. Data is becoming the raw stuff of art, and the low challenge for the artist is to manage that data with just a little more taste and style than a search engine or data mining software might manage it.
The etiquette of borrowing will continue its radical transformation and it will be interesting to see where it ends up. But no matter what happens, one universal principle is likely to remain unchanged: it will always be less of a crime for fine artists to steal from "commercial" or "low" artists (such as illustrators, product label designers and comic strip artists). The Museum of Modern Art celebrates this phenomenon as "appropriated images from popular media and culture." Some things just don't change.


Previous research established which initiatives have the greatest influence on equality: Visible and committed leadership, more broadly available flexible working models, removing bias from people processes and normalising an inclusive culture are all key to meaningful progress. Across these actions, leadership drive and engagement are essential (see "Take action, and celebrate progress: Case study"). From the top down, support for gender equality must be openly committed to, communicated about and acted upon (see the Bain Report What stops women from reaching the top? Confronting the tough issues).
So, how engaged are men in gender equality efforts in Australia? Beyond counting attendance at gender equality meetings, measuring engagement is not easy. To benchmark their engagement, Bain asked men about their participation and role in activities that support or enable gender diversity.


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Saudi tech startup incubator Badir wins Mohammed Bin Rashid award
Jeevan Thankappan January 8, 2018, 3:20 pm January 8, 2018
H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, awarded Badir Program for Technology Incubators, one the initiatives launched by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KAUST), Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Award for Young Business Leaders (YBL) in its tenth edition, for the best incubators and accelerators providing entrepreneurship support.
The award was received by Nawaf Al Sahhaf, CEO of Badir Program, at the awards ceremony held today at Dubai World Trade Center. The jury's decision to grant the award to Badir Program was based on the program's achievement of all criteria, including growth performance indicators, creativity and innovation, social responsibility, organisational excellence, achievements and active contributions to support small and medium-sized enterprises and technology startups.
On this occasion, Nawaf Al Sahhaf, CEO of Badir Program for Technology Incubators, commended the Program's winning of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Award, which reflects the program's performance and plans to develop and support technical entrepreneurship and incubators throughout the Kingdom and its success in helping female and male Saudi entrepreneurs transform their technical ideas into successful investment projects, and providing the right environment for the growth of technology startups, by reducing risks and focusing on business development to build a knowledge-based society and economy".
He said: "Since its inception, Badir Program was able to provide its specialised services to more than 200 technology startups. In 2017, the number of technology startups incubated by the program increased to 157, as we plan to support the establishment of 600 new companies that will contribute to the provision of 3,600 jobs for Saudi young men and women, as part of the National Transformation Program 2020 ".
He noted that Badir program most important achievements in 2017 included the establishment and operation of three technology incubators in three Saudi cities, in line with the program's plan to cover nine areas by 2020, the opening and launching of the first business accelerator in Riyadh as well as the support and organisation of more than 65 entrepreneurship events including three events for Demo Day that gathered start-up companies and financing investors.
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SPRINGFIELD – Edward S. Kamuda, who founded the Titanic Historial Society in Indian Orchard, died at his home Sunday after a long illness, the society announced Monday. He was 74 years old.
Kamuda and five others founded the Titanic Historical Society on July 7, 1963 in Indian Orchard.
As president, he watched its membership grow to several thousand people from around the world and the organization became one of the leading organizations for researching the Titanic and documenting the lives of the doomed vessel's passengers and crew.
The Titanic struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, killing 1,517.
"If it weren't for Edward Kamuda, much of the information we have today on Titanic wouldn't exist," says Karen Kamuda, THS vice president and wife of Edward.
The historical society's home office was humbly located in the rear of Henry's Jewerly on Main Street in Indian Orchard. The store is located across the street from the former Park Theater, where as a teen, Kumuda's lifelong interest in the Titanic was first piqued with the 1953 movie "Titanic" starring Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwick.
He began tracking down the remaining survivors and sending them letters. Many would write him back and share their recollections of the voyage and the night of the sinking.
As he told The Republican in a 1993 interview ""I was so lucky I got a hold of them when I did. Most of them are gone now."
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An Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein and a couple of his henchmen to hang for war crimes committed during his regime.
He certainly deserve to die for the sort of atrocities that were routine during his reign.
However, there is one thing about this that bothers me and that no one else seems to have mentioned: the fact that he was never forcefully and fully interrogated by the US, especially on the subject of what happened to Iraq's chemical weapons and WMD's , which, thanks to the New York Times we now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was actively involved in producing.
Instead he was turned over to the Iraqis for a travesty of a trial and will take his secrets to the grave, while becoming a martyr to his followers.
Saddam Hussein's death sentence for crimes against humanity stems from the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims 24 years ago in the village of Dujail during the Iraq/Iran War, after an assasination attempt. Interestingly enough, the present Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's Dawa party claimed responsibility for that 1982 attempt at removing Saddam Hussein from the scene.
Judge Rauf Abdel Rahman ordered Saddam to stand as he read out the verdict. When he refused to do so,the bailiffs moved him from his seat. As the judge began reading the sentence, Mr. Hussein shouted: "Allahu Akbar" and "Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!"
He then denounced the court and the American occupation of Iraq.
Needless to say, Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority was..not pleased.
Immediately after the sentence, violence broke out in Baghdad's Sunni Azamiya district. Defying curfew, thousands of Saddam's supporters took to the streets in his hometown of Tikrit, in the Triangle.
The Islamic Party, Iraq's biggest Sunni Arab party, said that the government should have stopped the sectarian violence in the country before sentencing Saddam.
"The government should have put food on the table of the starving people, stopped all criminal acts, death squads and sped up the national reconciliation before it puts all criminals before and after the fall of (Saddam's) regime on trial."
A senior Sunni Arab memeber of Iraq's parliament who asked not be named for fear of sectarian reprisals was quoted by al-Reuters as saying "This is a political verdict from a political court."
The judge also sentenced to death Barzan Al Tikriti, Mr. Hussein's military intelligence chief, and Awad Hamad Al Bandar, a former chief judge. Taha Yassin Ramadan, vice-president in the deposed government, was awarded life imprisonment.
Three former Baath party officials were sentenced to 15 years, while one of the co-accused was acquitted.
A nine-member appeals panel now automatically reviews the death sentences and the other verdicts.
I'm pretty sure that this verdict is the beginning of the US redeployment in Iraq, outside of the cities, allowing the splintering of the country into its natural divisions.
Hopefully, the US will take advantage of this to ally itself with an independent Kurdistan..something we should have done a long time ago.
Let's just say I'm not going to shed any tears over this. Such a vile little man.
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by Rebecca Kheel - 10/17/19 3:01 PM ET
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Senators are vowing to move forward with sanctions legislation against Turkey despite Vice President Pence's announcement that Ankara has agreed to a cease-fire in Syria.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho), who have each released separate sanctions bills, both said they would continue working on their bills despite the cease-fire.
"We're going to keep working," Graham said in response to questions about his legislative efforts.{mosads}
On his bill, Risch said, "we're going to keep putting one foot in front of the other to move the bill."
"There are other issues obviously than just a cease-fire that need to be addressed," added Risch, saying other issues include security of ISIS prisoners and safety of the Kurds. "This bill will encourage those parties to embrace not only a cease-fire, but an overall settlement in the dispute there."
At a news conference in Ankara following more than five hours of negotiation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Pence said Erdoğan agreed to halt Turkey's offensive in Syria for 120 hours in order to allow Kurdish forces known as the YPG to evacuate. The agreement will also maintain a "permanent cease-fire" once the evacuation is complete.
In exchange, President Trump will lift the sanctions on Turkey he imposed this week and not impose further sanctions, Pence said.
Turkey launched an offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces last week following Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, a move widely seen as giving a green light for Erdoğan to proceed with the long-threatened invasion.
Trump's decision has been condemned across the political spectrum as abandoning the Kurds, who were instrumental in the U.S.-led fight against ISIS. Lawmakers have been scrambling to react, including introducing several sanctions bills.
Graham's bill, introduced with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) would target Turkey's energy sector and military as well as assets of top Turkish officials within U.S. jurisdiction and limit their ability to travel to the United States. It would also require a strategy to prevent an ISIS resurgence and prohibit arms sales to Turkey.
Risch's bill, introduced with his committee's top Democrat, Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.), would require a comprehensive counter-ISIS strategy, mandate a report on potential Turkish war crimes, restrict arms sale to Turkey, sanction senior Turkish officials and require a report on Turkey's participation in NATO, among other things.
While both Risch and Graham said they would continue working on their bills, they said the cease-fire was a positive development.
"I think every American should be happy about that. I think everyone in the world should be happy with that," Risch said. "This is not a development that anyone should call a bad development. It's a development that people should say is a good development. Is it perfect? Probably not, like every other development. But having said that, let's let this play out a bit and see what happens."
Graham said Pence called him to report a "breakthrough" in negotiations.
"I told [Pence] to consider the Congress the cavalry here. We're ready to come and hit Turkey hard if they don't get out of Syria and reset the table," Graham said.
"I don't know the details," Graham added. "I don't trust Erdoğan. I'm going to continue to get co-sponsors, but this sounds positive. We're going to keep working."
Other senators, though, were less enthusiastic about the cease-fire agreement.
"From what I understand, it's not a cease-fire," said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who said he thinks Risch and Menendez's bill is the best way forward. "It is, 'you have a hundred and X number of hours to get out of here before we kill you.' … Other than giving Kurds a chance to leave so they don't get slaughtered, it doesn't sound like it changes any of the other dynamics."
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