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Ex-negotiator: China may be signaling it's going hard-line — but it still wants a trade deal
Former top White House trade negotiator Clete Willems
China may have just signaled it's going more hard-line on trade, but it could actually be a good thing, former top White House trade negotiator Clete Willems, told CNBC on Wednesday.
Beijing added a new member to its negotiating team last week: Commerce Minister Zhong Shan, who's seen by many officials in Washington as a hard-liner. It could be a sign that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is standing firm on trade, analysts say.
The Chinese minister was present at last month's G20 summit. He also participated in a phone conversation with US trade representatives last week.
By adding Zhong to the negotiating team, it shows that Xi is trying to win over the hard-liners, said Willems, who left his role as deputy director of the National Economic Council (NEC) in March.
"China has now elevated its commerce minister Zhong Shan and made him a part of the core negotiating team along with (Vice Premier) Liu He. A lot of people are nervous — he's seen as a hard-liner," Willems told CNBC's 'Squawk Box'.
But he's not overly concerned.
"I actually think it's a good thing because what it shows is that President Xi is trying to get buy-in from both the hard-line within China and the reformers, which is going to be necessary ingredients for a deal," Willems said.
"President Xi is only going to be able to get a deal if the hard-liners are bought in," he added.
Flexibility needed
Willems has served as the lead trade negotiator for the US at summits like the G7 and G20, and also participated in trade talks in Washington and Beijing. He was a right-hand man to NEC Director Larry Kudlow on trade with China.
According to Willems, the Chinese team did try to 'show flexibility' during the talks, but things turned around after they returned to Beijing.
"What ended up happening is that when Liu He brought the deal back to President Xi and to the entire political class in China, there was a bit of a rebellion from hard-liners who didn't think the deal was good from China's standpoint," Willems said.
"So there's going to need to be flexibility, but I think China has shown they're willing to put these things on the table," added Willems, who's now a partner at international law firm Akin Gump.
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that there's still a long way to go to reach a deal with China. He also threatened to slap tariffs on another $325 billion of Chinese goods.
But Willems told CNBC that a deal will ultimately be reached.
"My inclination is that we will get a deal, I think that a lot of really good work was done. I think it's in both sides' interest to harvest that work," he said.
"I think China's economy — whether or not they want to admit it — is in a little bit of a difficult situation, and it's in their interest to get a deal."
The prolonged trade battle seems to be taking a toll on the Chinese economy. Data on Monday showed its economic growth slowed to 6.2 percent in the second quarter — the weakest rate in at least 27 years.
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There are several retreats that support social change offered at Oregon State: Racial Aikido, Multiracial Aikido, International Student Social Justice Retreat, and Examining White Identity in a Multicultural World. As a partnership between Community Engagement & Leadership (CEL), Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS), Diversity & Cultural Engagement (DCE), Office of Institutional Diversity, and University Housing & Dining Services (UHDS), these weekend long retreats promote a campus dialogue about race and racism. Each of the retreats engage in the active exploration of the concept of race and how race influences our lived experiences and interactions.
Racial Aikido Retreat
Racial Aikido explores the experiences of Students of Color (SOC) at OSU and beyond. Our focus for the 2021 experience is on community-building, the recognition of identity and racism, and response and replenishment to these realities. Our goal is to build a supportive network to learn and thrive at OSU and beyond.
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Multiracial Aikido (MRA) is founded on the principles and history of the Racial Aikido retreat. MRA explores systems of racial oppression and centers experiences of multiracial, multiethnic, transracial, and mixed heritage individuals.
We offer a supportive learning environment for participants to unpack racial and ethnic identity through storytelling and to build a community of peers and mentors who support their growth. We hope that by the end of the retreat participants will have found commonality in their various experiences and identify tools to navigate, heal, and make meaning as racialized beings in a U.S. context.
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The International Students' Social Justice Retreat was launched at OSU in February 2016 in the spirit of initiating dialogue on issues of diversity, ethnicity, race, and nationality in the U.S., this retreat helps international students understand the socio-historical American narrative on race and ethnicity, and provides international students with skills to manage and disrupt discrimination based on their perceived identities.
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Enjoyable little app for basic photo enhancements.
XnRetro is the little sibling of the more comprehensive XnView. The app is pretty much hassle-free and user-friendly, but it offers limited tools. XnRetro is an okay photo companion for users who need all the essential features that make a photography app usable, from processing to sharing, without sophistications and convoluted controls.
Open photos in other apps.
XnRetro is a very straightforward app with basic features for simple and quick photo enhancements. It comes with a reasonable collection of retro looking filters and frames ready to use. It includes several light textures (leaks, bokeh, and other effects) with adjustable opacity, vignette styles, and the possibility to add grain and to edit brightness, contrast and saturation of images. Edited photos can be posted to Facebook and Twitter, can be uploaded to Dropbox or can be sent via email, also as PDF files. Moreover, photos can be opened in other apps for further editing.
Unfortunately, the app doesn't allow full resolution saving (the maximum I managed to save is 1536 x 1560); apparently, from the in-app settings you can select an option for exporting original sized images to the device's photo library, but I couldn't get it to work. Even with its limitations, XnRetro does a bit of everything average users will need for their pictures. Casual shooters and people willing to share photos after applying slight modifications, attractive retro looking filters, and fancy borders will definitely have fun with this app.
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public class JournalTraceTest extends DataFileGeneratorTestSupport {

   public static final JournalTraceTest SINGLETON = new JournalTraceTest();

   public Object createObject() throws Exception {
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Professional > Technical > Luncheons > January 23rd, 2013
Post-earthquake seismic reflection survey, Christchurch, New Zealand, with some new insights into faults
Dr. Don Lawton
Dept.of Geoscience, U of C
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 – 10:30 AM MST
On September 4, 2010, an earthquake struck the Christchurch region in New Zealand. The Mw 7.1 quake was centered about 40 km west of the city of Christchurch and caused significant damage but no loss of life. A key manifestation of the earthquake was a fault (Greendale Fault) that ruptured to the ground surface with a maximum dextral displacement of 5.1 m and a vertical displacement of 1.5 m, upthrown to the south. On February 22, 2011, a Mw 6.2 aftershock struck with a shallow hypocenter very close to Christchurch. This earthquake resulted in the loss of 182 lives and devastating damage (|$23B) to the city infrastructure. Since September, 2010, the region has experienced over 10,500 aftershocks, with 42 of these being greater than 5M.
Approximately 45 line-km of high-fold reflection seismic data were recorded in and around Christchurch following the February 22, 2011 aftershock. The goal of the seismic program was to map previously unknown shallow faults in and around the city for hazard assessment and to assist in the post-earthquake recovery effort. Reflection seismic data were collected along six 2D lines, two of which were within the Christchurch metropolitan area and four were in rural areas west of the city. Recording conditions were challenging within the city, but good quality images were obtained along all of the seismic lines, with events interpretable to a depth of approximately 1.5 km. Numerous faults were imaged along the lines and these were interpreted in two groups - older faults that showed clear offsets in deep (> 1 km) reflections and younger faults that showed displacement in shallow reflections. Some faults in the latter group were interpreted to be directly associated with hypocentres of the earthquake and aftershocks.
Don Lawton is a Professor of Geophysics and Chair in Exploration Geophysics in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary. His research interests include acquisition, processing and interpretation of multicomponent seismic data, seismic anisotropy, integrated geophysical and geological studies in complex geological settings, and geological storage of CO2. He is an Associate Director of the Consortium for Research in Elastic Wave Exploration Seismology (CREWES) and is Theme Lead in Secure Carbon Storage for Carbon Management Canada, a Network of Centres of Excellence. In 2011 he led a team from the University of Calgary and CREWES to New Zealand for seismic imaging below the City of Christchurch following a devastating earthquake there. He is a past Editor of the Canadian Journal of Exploration Geophysics, and was a recipient of a Meritorious Service Award from the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG) in 1996 and the CSEG Medal in 2000. He is a member of SEG, AAPG, EAGE, CSEG, CSPG, ASEG, and APEGA.


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Ingrédients
Le tonjiru est préparé  en faisant cuire de fines tranches de porc et des légumes  dans du dashi, que l'on assaisonne en y dissolvant du miso.

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Une autre version du plat était servie dans les stations de ski de la préfecture de Niigata sous le nom de sukii-jiru (litt. « soupe de ski »).

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Read Next Former Straitjacket Fits Guitarist Andrew Brough Has Passed Away
July 6, 2016 1:50PM
Inside Neil Young's Nature-Themed Opus
After a divorce, he's back in L.A. with a new band and a new love. But he's still got plenty to be pissed off about.
By Patrick Doyle
You can hear him from the hallway. Neil Young is kicked back on a couch in the centre of his suite at New York's Carlyle Hotel one recent morning, stabbing away at the strings of his acoustic guitar. His wet hair is combed back and he's wearing a T-shirt that says "Earth," with jeans and sandals. He places his beat-up 1940s Martin – previous owner: Hank Williams – next to him on the couch. "Sit down, make yourself at home," he says. Just then, his Samsung phone rings; the ringtone is his own voice shouting "Hello?!" He picks up – a wrong number. "I'll just turn it off, that'll solve it."
Young is in the middle of a quick New York trip, and, as is typical for him, his schedule is ever-shifting. He just decided to do a sketch on The Tonight Show, forcing his team to cancel several interviews today. In front of Young are lyrics to the comedy bit, a song called "Two Neil Youngs Sitting on a Tree Stump," sent to him by Jimmy Fallon. Young doesn't like singing his own name, so he's been tweaking the words with help from his manager, Elliot Roberts. "You're gonna get a credit on this one," Young says to Roberts with a smile.
Roberts, 73, has worked with Young since the late Sixties, and the two still speak several times a day. "I've never seen him happier," Roberts says. That's a recent development, however. In the past few years, several of Young's close pals died, including longtime film collaborator Larry Johnson and guitarist Ben Keith – losses that Young took hard. Then, in 2014, he parted ways with Pegi Young, his wife of 36 years, and moved out of Broken Arrow Ranch, the property in Redwood City, California, he had since 1970. "I got a divorce, and I gave my wife the ranch," he says matter-of-factly. (His son Ben, who has cerebral palsy, still lives at the ranch: "All his support systems are there.")
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Young is dating actress Daryl Hannah, who said a big hello as she stepped into the hotel elevator just now. The couple live in L.A., putting Young in the city "for the first time since Zuma." The move has allowed Young to reconnect with several old friends. "I was so remote for so long," he says. "All my old friends are now just a few miles away." One is Stephen Stills, who's been making music with Young lately. Stills and other friends, including Graham Nash and the members of Crazy Horse, celebrated Young's 70th birthday in November at L.A.'s Roxy. "Daryl put together a great party," Young says. "I felt really loved."
Hannah has helped Young focus on his health, with an organic diet, regular Pilates and a lot of walking. "I like to listen to the animals," he says. "I like to track the beauty of what's going on. I enjoy being with the plants and stuff." Young aimed to capture that beauty on Earth, a new live album featuring his most environmentally conscious songs, from "After the Gold Rush" to tracks from last year's The Monsanto Years, on which he attacked the agrochemical giant as a jumping-off point to sound the alarm on the planet's decline. Young spent months enhancing Earth with animal and nature sounds – bees, roosters, crashing waves – that he recorded himself near his house. "There's a lot going on in the world that isn't all lovey-dovey and cool beach songs," he says. "I've done all of that." A week after Earth's release, Young put out a new version of Human Highway, a 1982 film comedy that he co-directed, about a nuclear disaster that ends the world.
"I arrived in L.A. and joined Buffalo Springfield in 1966," Young continues. "Since then, we've lost 90 percent of the fish we eat from the ocean. There's only 10 percent of them left, and there's three times as many of us." He shakes his head. "It's math."
Even for Young, the past decade has been full of left turns. He finally agreed to a Buffalo Springfield reunion tour in 2011, but canceled it after seven shows because he was disappointed with their playing, according to a representative for Young. He's ramped up his output, releasing theme albums like Fork in the Road, a love letter to his custom electric Lincoln Continental, and A Letter Home, cut in a 1947 recording booth at Third Man Records in Nashville. "This is the age where you should have freedom to do whatever you want and put it out."
"They're much better players than I am," Young says of his Promise of the Real bandmates. Jay Blakesberg
The only problem, according to Young, is getting that music heard. His music is not available on streaming services aside from Tidal, which supports high-quality audio. He spent several years developing his high-resolution Pono music player, which has struggled to catch on. "Technology has done a disservice to music," he says. "I think there's a place for rebel radio, with special receivers, where jocks play what they want: vinyl, new stuff, old stuff, and it's all analog. Because there's no variety. It's all, like, GMO music."
But Young has plowed ahead anyway. "Just because everything else is broken doesn't mean I have to be broken," he says. On Earth, he's backed by Promise of the Real, a band featuring Willie Nelson's sons Lukas, 27, and Micah, 26. Young first played with them at Farm Aid in 2014, and they have been with him since. They usually join Young onstage after his acoustic set, and roadies in hazmat suits pretend to spray the stage with chemicals. "They have no fear," says Young, who loves the three-guitar attack he forms with the Nelsons. "They're much better players than I am. Lukas is like a gunslinger, and Micah is very ethereal and spaced. So they're completely different, and I'm somewhere in between." Where Crazy Horse attack Young's songs with a garage-y simplicity, Promise of the Real add virtuosity and youthful energy. They grew up on Young's songs (their band name is inspired by a lyric from "Walk On"), and they've learned more than 100 of them, playing three-hour sets including rarities like 1974's "Vampire Blues." "I've always wanted to do this, but no one has ever been able to follow it," Young says.
Recording The Monsanto Years, Young and the band drank lots of Amazonian yerba maté tea and smoked homegrown pot in the studio. "He seems like he's 25," says Micah. "He gets deeper with age. And danker."
After he wraps his current tour in October, Young will continue work on Archives II, the follow-up to 2009's Archives, which collected unreleased material up to 1972. Young says the project will include Dume, an album of songs from the Zuma era, and Hitchhiker, an acoustic LP from the mid-Seventies. The major holdup has been developing technology for presenting the ambitious project: "We're gonna have a website that's, like, 60 years of music in chronological order, with links so you can look at my archives and play the music off the high-res source at the same time." So what's it like to reflect on all he's accomplished over the years? "I don't," he says. "I need to take a break and go to the bathroom."
In October, Young and Promise of the Real will play California's Desert Trip, with Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, the Who, the Rolling Stones and Roger Waters. "I was amazed that I was asked to be in it," Young says. But don't expect him to cater to the audience with a set full of hits. "I don't give a shit," he says. "I don't care what people want to hear – that's not why I'm playing. I'm not an entertainer in the classic sense. I play what I feel like playing, and I hope the people like it."
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All US politicians should be pro-sex education in post-Roe world
By Teresa Blackmon On Jul 2, 2022
I'm not here to take a stance on abortion. Debates are raging on both sides, but it doesn't change the fact our Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, and now millions of women in more than a dozen states who previously had access to abortion soon no longer will.
Now that we've got here, the question is: how we can minimize the number of women who experience unwanted pregnancy in the first place — particularly in states where access to abortion is now restricted? It's a utilitarian question of harm reduction, and the glaring answer is sexual education.
Although concrete statistics are difficult to come by, it is estimated that about half of women who get abortions are using no form of birth control whatsoever at the time of conception, and a further 41 percent are doing so inconsistently. This status quo — where birth control usage is lax and one in five pregnancies is terminated — needs to change.
This past week the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade leaving the abortion issue to individual states.
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It's also an indictment of our education system. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than half of high schools and less than a fifth of middle schools cover the 20 recommended components of sexual education. And, according to surveys of students, the situation is only getting worse. The share of girls who say they received information about where to get birth control before they had sex for the first time has fallen from 87 percent to 64 percent since 1995.
It shouldn't come as a surprise, then, that America experiences higher rates of teen pregnancy than most other developed nations. Comprehensive sexual education is associated with a lower risk of teen pregnancy — and lifelong empowerment to take control of one's reproductive destiny.
America experiences higher rates of teen pregnancy than most other developed nations. Sexual education has been shown to lower these rates.
Much of this comes down to state and local legislation. Today, only 30 states and the District of Columbia mandate sexual education, just 22 require that instruction be medically and factually accurate, and a mere 19 require that methods of contraception be covered at all.
Ironically, many of the states now restricting access to abortion either don't require sexual education or stress abstinence in their instruction. That must change. More than half of American teens will engage in intercourse by the time they graduate. Human beings have sex, and pretending otherwise is foolish. Teaching them to do so responsibly is the only realistic path forward.
Education must be used to change the status quo where one in five pregnancies are terminated.
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Every single US lawmaker — and particularly every pro-life lawmaker — should be proposing bills to shore-up sexual education in schools. Empowering the post-Roe generation to engage in responsible sex is the least we can do, and legislators would find it's a vote winner, too. A whopping 89 percent of likely voters say sex education is important in middle school, and an overwhelming 98 percent think it's important in high school.
Now that abortion is no longer legal in many states, we should encourage teenagers to avoid getting pregnant — by teaching them about contraception via sexual education in school.
Meanwhile, American parents should also be demanding better reproductive education for their kids. In many areas, sexual education policy falls to local school boards. Just as hordes of concerned parents recently protested the politicization of their kid's curricula at school board meetings, they should call for comprehensive sexual education from their local officials now, too.
The bottom line: sex education is more important than ever in a post-Roe world. We must empower the next generation of women with the knowledge to help them take charge of their reproductive freedom.
Rikki Schlott is a 22-year-old student, journalist and activist.
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The University of Ibadan (UI) Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka has met with student leaders across the faculties on June 5, 2018 where he declared that he was not against student unionism, but he would not allow the students to overstay in school in the name of unionism while their mates in private universities graduate on record time.
The student representatives including Hall Chairmen and Secretaries, Faculty Presidents as well as other interested students met with the ice chancellor at the Senate Chamber to raise various issues with the management as solutions and suggestions were proffered.
The vice chancellor, who was meeting the broad spectrum of student representatives for the first time after the suspension of unionism, remarked that he had always wanted a forum where he could regularly get students' input into the running of the university.
The vice chancellor explained the management's positions on some of the contentious issues when the forum became more lively as student representatives began to engaged him on various matters of interest including the restoration of student union.
"I want you to convince me on what you are missing with the suspension of unionism by the Senate. Your primary reason of coming to this university is to get a degree. It is our responsibility to ensure that you achieve that goal and move on to become successful in life. I am not against unionism, but you will agree with me that this thing has been counterproductive." Prof. Olayinka said.
"Do you know how much of time we have lost to needless crises occasioned by unionisms of various nature? I think we should reason over the one we have control over and be realistic. During Prof. Falase and Prof. Bamiro's tenure, student union was suspended for 10 years. I don't think those students who passed through UI during that period are inferior in any way! Please, let us think about how you can get your degree on time because I know that union Presidency is not a degree", he stated.
Prof. Olayinka announced, on water and other municipal services that the university had hired a contractor to rehabilitate and dig more boreholes in order to ensure that water flows in all the hostels and toilets.
A student from Queen Idia hall attested to the improved availability of light and water, therefore commending the Management for the relentless effort to ensure that the learning environment is conducive.
The Vice Chancellor summoned the Director of Information Technology and Media Services (ITeMs), Mrs. Abiodun Alao who explained the issue of identity card that contrary to insinuation that the Cards were not smart ones, "the fact that the chips were not feasible didn't make the cards ordinary", adding that students will soon begin to see the functionality of the card when the second phase of the project is launched very soon.
She stated that the money being paid for the identity card each session was for revalidation and not that the university was cheating the students by repeated payment for the same product.
On the money being charged on unionism when the union has been suspended, the vice chancellor asked the Bursar to refund the money, urging the students to write to the student affairs on any matter of interest, just as he freely gave out his e-mail address and phone number to the students.
The Dean of student affairs, Prof. Ajuwape in his own words also attested that the vice chancellor had approved purchase of various needs towards making water available all the time through water tankers.
Present at the meeting are the Vice chancellor, Professor Idowu Olayinka, Deputy Vice Chancellor (academic), Prof. Adeyinka Aderinto, the Registrar, Mrs. Olubunmi Faluyi, University Bursar, Dr. Micheal Alatise, Dean of Student Affairs, Prof. A.T.P. Ajuwape and his Deputy, Prof. A. Abiona, hall and faculty student leaders.


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Melt the butter over a medium heat and add the flour, stirring constantly. Gradually pour in the chicken stock stirring to avoid lumps. Continue stirring until a thickish sauce consistency is achieved.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Add the butter and rub through the flour until a breadcrumb appearance is reached. Add the cold water gradually and incorporate until a soft dough consistency is formed. Turn out and knead on a floured surface until smooth.
Line a 22cm pie dish with half the prepared pastry. Trim the pastry around the edges of the tin. Add the pie filling, push down well and cover with remaining pastry (or you may prefer to use puff pastry for the top). Tuck edges into the side of pie tin to neatly seal the top. Brush with beaten egg, sprinkle with cornmeal and make 2-3 small cuts in top of pastry to allow steam to escape.
Bake in preheated 190C oven for 30 minutes, or until pastry is cooked through and filling is hot. Serves 6.


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Sound workshop with Michel K. Tsagli and Alioune Mbow
November 9th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ ALLIANCE FRANCAIS
CNIFF's master class picks one of the essential elements of film; sound, for this year's workshop. The acclaimed sound engineers Michel K. Tsagli and Alioune Mbow will be giving a workshop for sound technicians and editors on the fundamental elements of sound.
Michel K. Tsagli was born in 1968 in Dakar (Senegal). He left his native Senegal at age 15 to join his family in France. Tsagli graduated school in Paris where he studied computer engineering. But soon after he made a drastic move pursuing a music career. For ten years Tsagli played guitar in both Paris and than New York where he moved permanently in 1992. In New York he enrolled into NYU and studied sound production. Tsagli worked on various projects including documentaries, commercials, feature films, reality television and fashion. Among Tsagli's film projects are feature film entitled "The Athlete", the life story of the Ethiopian born Olympic marathon champion Abebe Bikila. (filmed in Ethiopia ) as well as a documentary " Ghana 50th Independence " shot on locations in Ghana and Togo, a film that explored Marcus Garvey's influence on Ghana's first elected president, Kwame Krumah. One of Tsagli's recent projects TEY (directed by the prominent French/Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis) is a critically acclaimed production which participated in competition at Berlinale 2012 and since then won numerous awards. Besides the professional base in NY Tsagli also co-founded CINEGAL FILMS in his native Dakar (Senegal), the company which specializes in sound production, music scores, sound design and is successfully migrating between American, European and African film industries. Michel Tsagli work have been featured on Lifetime, HBO, VH1, Speed Channel and Canal +.
In addition to his native Wolof, Tsagli is fluent in English and French.
Alioune Mbow has worked on various productions as a sound engineer, assistant sound engineer and boom operator. His most recent project, TEY (directed by the prominent French/Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis) is a critically acclaimed production which participated in competition at Berlinale 2012 and since then won numerous awards. Amongst many other feature length, short films and documentaries, he has also worked on Kenu (Le Canon), Relentless, Ramata, Teranga Blues and Ezra (2007), which was the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars.
He has worked in several countries in Africa and Europe for BBC Television, France 2, BTBF and TV5.
Distribution: co-production workshop with Alla Verlotsky
November 8th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ EMPRESS TAITU HOTEL
Founder and president of the New York based programming and distribution company Alla Verlotsky will share her vast experience in distribution and co-production supported with best international practices.
Alla Verlotsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She moved to the United States in 1991. After working as the freelance curator in 1999 she created Seagull Films, New York based company that provides quality programming and distribution for art, independent and innovative cinema, both classic and contemporary. Ms. Verlotsky holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the Moscow State University, and a bachelor's degree in Central Asian and African film study from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography, VGIK. In addition to her work at Seagull Films Ms. Verlotsky was a curator of the NY Jewish Film Festival, NY Jewish Sephardic Film Festival.
Ms. Verlotsky was an associate producer for Russian Ark, the award-winning film by internationally acclaimed director Alexander Sokurov and is currently producing a feature documentary "Red Fantasies" by the Academy Award Winning Special Effects Artists Robert Skotak. She serves as the advisor to numerous international film initiatives & film festivals and is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, English.
www.seagullfilms.com
Film Critique Round Table with Donald Dewale Omope
November 8th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
We are pleased to announce the special film critique round table with Donald Dewale Omope. The workshop focuses on the fundamental elements of film critique plus the use of new media in African cinema.
Don Dewale Omope is a Film Critic and Editor of the popular African film publication, African Screens Magazine. A ground breaking and unique magazine of its kind, African screens celebrates the African sense of self through cinema. It fills a gap in the market for a rich discourse that brings together a plurality of views, contextualizing African films. With the use of articles, video interviews, photography as well as great design, African Screens brings a different approach to experiencing the African cinematic experience online. Prior to working as a film critic, Don worked in television for many years and still currently does as a producer/Director. Trained at the BBC, Don went on to work as Africa producer for Sir David Frost at Aljazeera News, Don left to set up his own production company Boombox television and produced the award wining television show Afrika Rising, which air in 47 African countries. Don was subsequently appointed as an arts columnist for Nigeria's largest circulating newspaper the National Mirror in recognition of his depth of thought and analysis of African popular art. Following his deep interests in narratives and visual aesthetics Don is an avid photographer. His pictures have been published in over 15 countries and he was short listed for the International Photo Africa awards in 2010. Don's images are celebrated for its strong narratives and profound impact and his works have been published in some of the biggest newspapers in the world. Don is a member of the British Film Institute's committee on African cinema and speaks regularly at numerous international events on African films. Don has worked as a critic and member of award jury at many African film festivals around the world. Don graduated with a first class degree in film and television production from Westminster University, and was awarded the AHRC scholarship to pursue a Masters degree in Art journalism at Goldsmith College. www.donomope.com
Script writing workshop with Dwayne Johnson-Cochran
We are pleased to announce the script writing workshop with Dwayne Johnson-Cochran.
Dwayne Johnson-Cochran is a director, writer, producer, educator and journalist living in Los Angeles. He has written and is producing 'THE BOOK OF THE YEAR', Angela Bassett's directorial debut to be co-produced by Bassett Vance Productions and T.D. Jakes in 2012; wrote and will direct 'BIBI' to be produced by three-time Oscar-nominated director Sergei Bodrov (MONGOL) in 2012 and co-wrote 'MARIA' with Sergei Bodrov, to be produced by AR FILMSin 2012.
Mr. Johnson-Cochran wrote, directed and produced 'SIDE BY SIDE', a film about the dynamic 50/50 Group of Sierra Leone, West Africa executive produced by former Secretary of State Madeline K. Albright. In postproduction are the documentaries 'THE STORY OF A VILLAGE' about a small village in Kona, a small district in Sierra Leone, West Africa starring actress/producer Regina King; BE KNOWN, a film on Chicago jazz innovator Kahil El Zabar. His feature film LOVE AND ACTION IN CHICAGO (currently in rotation on HBO) features Kathleen Turner, Courtney B.Vance, Jason Alexander, Regina King and Ed Asner. 'MY TRIBE IS LOST,' a film script sold to Steven Spielberg is in development at DreamWorks. Mr. Johnson-Cochran co-created the television series MINOR ADJUSTMENTS for NBC and was a staff writer on the series ANGEL STREET, produced by John Wells for CBS.Mr. Johnson-Cochran also wrote FREDERICK DOUGLASS, a teleplay for TurnerNetwork Television andSLAM THE NIGHT, a teleplay for Fox Television Movies.
Born in Chicago, Mr. Johnson-Cochran earned a B.S. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Master's Program for filmmaking, is active in many community and civic-based organizations. A lover of music, tennis, baseball and cycling, Johnson-Cochran returns to Chicago often to make films and see family and friends.
Masterclass on Documentary Filmmaking with Henry Corra
November 10th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ ALLIANCE FRANCAIS
An award winning documentary filmmaker, veteran of independent American cinema, Henry Corra's mentorship gets an international spin. He has just completed a series of very successful masterclasses given to art and film students in Russia called "LIVING CINEMA: I am a performance artist trapped in the body of a documentary filmmaker." Using illustrations of his work, he opens up lively and inspiring discussions about process, motive, method, the importance of not knowing, failing beautifully, necessary crisis, taking EVERYTHING personally, and creating a permission bubble for yourself as a working artist. We are excited to offer this masterclass at the Colours of the Nile IFF 2012.
Henry Corra is a New York City-based documentary filmmaker. His work is influenced by cinéma vérité filmmakers David and Albert Maysles (Salesman, Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter) whom he collaborated with from 1981-1994. Since 1994, Corra has had a thriving production company. He draws on the talents of some of New York's most innovative and original filmmakers, editors, artists, musicians and designers.
Corra's films (such as George, Same Sex America, Frames) have been exhibited worldwide in theatrical venues in New York City, San Francisco, Paris and Berlin and in broadcast venues including HBO, Showtime, LOGO, CBS, PBS, VH1, ARTE andChannel 4. His works have also been exhibited in museum and cultural venues including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Louvre (Paris) and the National Gallery of Art(Washington, DC), as well as the Pacific Film Archives in San Francisco.
He's created episodic TV projects (such as "True Life: I'm Ex-Amish") for broadcasters including MTV, VH1, Bravo and the Sundance Channel and he's been singled out as one of their foremost directors of ʻreal-people' commercials in America, creating compelling broadcast/web content for brands as diverse as Mercedes Benz, Mastercard & Wal-mart. Corra's latest feature documentary, The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan, supported by the Sundance Institute and co-produced by NY based Louverture Films (Black Power Mixtape, Bamako), had its World Premiere at Silverdocs in June 2010. Michael Atkinson of The Boston Phoenix wrote, "An investigative doc brimming with cultural resonance and historical savvy, Henry Corra's film has a hold of a pungent story – that of the titular black Texan fella who vanished in Vietnam 40 years ago."
Currently Corra is finishing Farewell to Hollywood, expected to premiere Spring 2013.
Production workshop with François d'Artemare
November 9th: 9:30AM-12:00PM - @ ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE
We are pleased to announce the production workshop with François d'Artmare.
François d'Artemare established the Portuguese film company Filmes do Tejo in 1996, presenting a library of more then 70 titles, such as ARENA, by João Salaviza - Palme d'Or for Short Film and films by Manoel de Oliveira and Flora Gomes. In 2001 he established Les Films de l'Après-Midi in Paris and coproduced films from all over the world, like Snow by Aida Begić and The Hero by Zeze Gamboa (World Cinema Dramatic Jury Prize at Sundance FF).
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All workshops are free of charge! Please note that participants are expected to cover their travel expenses including their stay in Addis Ababa. The festival will facilitate booking of accommodations and provide transportation in Addis Ababa. We are also happy to write a letter of recommendation to you to apply for funding from relevant institutions in your country.
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Bananas are finicky creatures. Our experience in the Ross household is that bananas go from green to brown practically overnight. We received a banana holder for Christmas, which helps somewhat with the rapid bruising and over-ripening, but I still find myself with brown bananas by the end of each week.
Does anyone else have this situation going on in their kitchen?
Tired of baking the exact same banana bread week after week, I did some investigating and found these delicious recipes!
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2. Mix the buttermilk, egg, butter and bananas in another bowl.
3. Mix the wet and dry ingredients making sure to not over mix.
4. Heat a pan and melt a touch of butter in it.
We Santa Feans have been so blessed this season (knock on wood) to not have any fires in our area of the National Forest. We've had more rain and moisture this year than previous years, and the wilderness is so lush and green right now, with wild flowers in bloom and colorful, tiny butterflies fluttering about. I took Kua on a run up to Puerto Nambe yesterday, a clearing in the woods on the way to Santa Fe Baldy. It was such a beautiful day!
I've been a little MIA lately. I just got back from a week-long vacation to the East Coast, where I soaked up some sun at Virginia Beach, laughed with my mom and sister over Sangria and Chardonnay, and read a whole stack of good books. I love the landscape, mountains, and (non-humid) weather in Santa Fe, but I yearn for water! It was so wonderful to spend a whole vacation enjoying the Atlantic Ocean, the Charles River and bays in Boston, and the Saco River in New Hampshire.
My mom, sister and I enjoy paddle boarding in Rudee's Inlet. We tried some paddle board-style yoga, which is way more challenging than it looks!
In Boston, my sister and I spent a morning at Walden Pond. It was so perfect! I recently re-read Thoreau's book, and it was amazing to see the real place. We visited the foundation of Thoreau's house, and enjoyed a run around the lake and swimming in the warm water.
Happy Independence Day! I have many fond memories of 4th of Julys past -- watching fireworks from my deck, listening to the Mraz Bros band play music at Grand View Lodge, walking in parades with my cheerleading squad, running the local 5 mile race with my mom, and hanging out with my fellow drum corps friends after a full day of marching parades when I was in Blue Stars.
Working in a hospital, 4th of July is just another Friday (although with a slightly higher rate of Trauma Stats), so I didn't get to golf and day drink like the rest of my household, but I am looking forward to grilling at a friend's house tonight!


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Ares was the god of war, and son of Zeus and Hera. He represented the raw violence and untamed acts that occured in wartime, in contrast to Athena, who was a symbol of tactical strategy and military planning.
He was disliked by both his parents. Whenever Ares appeared in a myth, he was depicted as a violent personality, who faced humiliation through his defeats more than once. In the Iliad, it is mentioned that Zeus hated him more than anyone else; Ares was also on the losing side of the Trojan War, favouring the Trojans. He was the lover of his sister, Aphrodite, who was married to Hephaestus. When the latter found out about the affair, he devised a plan and managed to humiliate both of them. The union of Ares and Aphrodite resulted in the birth of eight children, including Eros, god of love.
There were few temples attributed to Ares in Ancient Greece. Sacrifices would usually be made to him when an army would march to war; Spartans would make sacrifices to Enyalius, another lesser god and son of Ares and Enyo. However, the name was also used as a byname for Ares.
When Ares went to war, he was followed by his companions, Deimos (terror) and Phobos (fear), who were the product of his union with Aphrodite. Eris, goddess of discord and sister of Deimos and Phobos, often accompanied them in war.
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On April 15, 2005, the Hagley Museum and Library will sponsor a symposium on utopian visions at world's fairs and international expositions. These mammoth festivals have been sites for many groups and individuals to present utopian perspectives on the modern world. Inventors, reformers, manufacturers, private associations, and governments have used the facilities and publicity of the fairs to present their responses to contemporary problems, promising new visions for human experience and expanded opportunities for enjoying life. We invite papers that discuss the use of material culture, especially technology and consumer goods, to exhibit and represent utopian visions, as well as proposals concerning ideas that were introduced at the fairs for promoting scientific, industrial and human development. Proposals may focus on any World's Fair held in North America, beginning with the Centennial Exposition of 1876. The symposium is being held in conjunction with an exhibition at Hagley on world's fairs and international expositions. Proposals are due by November 1, 2004 and should be sent to Dr. Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library, PO Box 3630, Wilmington DE 19807, email [email protected], fax 302-655-3188. Support may be available for travel to the conference by presenters.


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According to the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), one of the key components of a school counseling program is the delivery of structured lessons that are designed to provide all students with the knowledge, attitudes and skills appropriate for their developmental level.
This school-based mental health program focuses on prevention through education by teaching students to identify symptoms of depression, suicidality, and self-injury in themselves and their peers. The curriculum is aimed to teach students that suicide is not a normal response to stress, but rather a preventable tragedy that often occurs as a result of untreated depression.
View a video that teaches them to recognize signs of depression and suicide in themselves and others.
Complete a screening tool to assess for signs of depression. The screening tool is not meant to be diagnostic but aimed to indicate the presence of symptoms consistent with depression.
Learn an easy-to-remember acronym, ACT(Acknowledge, Care, Tell). Students are taught certain steps to take if they encounter a situation that requires help from a trusted adult.


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Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 Launched at the Palace Museum with Magnetic Sliding-screen
Oct 25, 2018, 17:50pm 2018/10/25 17:54:12 Gabriel Li
Xiaomi officially launched its new flagship phone— the Mi MiX 3 at the Forbidden City in Beijing on Oct. 25. The total shipment was expected to reach 100 million by the end of October, completing the phone's annual goal of 2018 in advance.
The phone echoed "the combination of tech and art", theme of the launch event, with selling points such as magnetic sliding-screen, flagship dual-lens cameras and the ceramic bodies.
Xiaomi MI MIX 3 "the combination of tech and art" (Source: Xiaomi )
Mi MIX 3 achieves a screen-to-body ratio of 93.4 percent, one step further compared with the "three-side bezel-less" screen of Mi MIX 2. The magnet is made up of neodymium, with a life expectancy of over 300,000 times.
SEE ALSO: Xiaomi Released Full-screen Mix 2 for at least 3,299 yuan
MIX 3 Smartphone has a screen-to-body ratio of 93.4 percent
It is equipped with a 12Mp + 12M rear-facing and 24MP+2MP front-facing dual-lens cameras, which largely elevate its selfie-taking capabilities. Its rear camera supports optical zoom and four-axis Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), and is capable of 960fps slow-motion video. On the whole, its phototaking capabilities score an alarming 108 in the DxO ratings, which ranks the third in the world.
MI MIX3 rear cameras
In terms of industrial design, Mi MIX 3 comes in Onyx Black, Jade Green and Sapphire Blue, with a unique Palace Museum edition. The special edition is jointly designed by Xiaomi and the Palace Museum, which is known as the largest treasure house for ancient artworks. The special edition also has a pattern of an ancient mythical beast on its back.
Xiaomi MIX3 in Onyx Black
Xiaomi MIX 3 in Jade Green
Xiaomi MIX 3 in Sapphire Blue
Xiaomi Mix 3 Special Edition
The phone has four storage options, 6GB RAM + 128GB storage: 3299 yuan ($474.87); 8GB RAM + 128GB storage 3599 yuan ($517.93); 8GB RAM + 256GB storage: 3999 yuan ($575.50). The Palace Museum edition comes with 10GB RAM and 256GB storage, and is priced at 4999 yuan ($719.41).
Xiaomi MIX3 for sale price
The phone will be up for pre-sale starting from 6 p.m. tonight, and will be officially on sales both offline and online starting from November. 1. The Palace Museum edition is expected to come by the end of November.
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Redmi Note 5: a 1000 yuan full-screen smartphone with AI camera
Xiaomi held 12 conferences last year and released 10 mobile phones, each accompanied by heated discussion.
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Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Debut: 6.9-Inch Screen with 5,400mAh Battery
Xiaomi's Mi Max 3 (model no. M1804E4T), will be released at Xiaomi's next launch event after attaining its network license from Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
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Xiaomi Confirms the Launch Date of "Big" Mi Max 3, Expected to be Priced at $255
Xiaomi said it will launch its Mi Max 3 on July 19, and the new phone will have "big screen and bigger battery."
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Xiaomi's Mi 8 Explorer Edition Available For Purchase Soon
Full phone specifications of Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer were unveiled on the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently.


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Afrojack & Imanbek – Hey Baby (feat. Gia Koka)
By Pol Torà
Dutch living legend Afrojack has teamed up with the young upcoming Kazakh DJ and producer Imanbek to present their brand new track together 'Hey Baby', which also features vocals from Polish singer Gia Koka. It is available now on all platforms via Sony Music's One Seven Music and Effective Records.
Afrojack has been always been kind to support and team up with the new generation of artists that are rapidly making a name for themselves in the scene. From collaborating on 'Turn Up The Speakers' with a back then super young and fast-rising Martin Garrix to becoming the CEO of his own talent agency LDH Europe. Now, Afrojack decided to collaborate with Inmanbek, a 19-year-old producer from Kazakhstan that gained recognition this year after dropping a massive remix for SAINt JHN's track 'Roses' that went viral and ranked up the charts from all over the world, amassing a staggering amount of almost 870 million only in Spotify streams.
'Hey Baby' follows up Imanbek's signature sound on the drop complemented by Afrojack's energetic catchy vibes that result once again in a brutal club-friendly radio hit. Gia's vocals give that commercial soft sound accompanying and singing along on top of the drop as well as being used as vocal chops to add some movement. This is yet another great track that adds up to Afrojack's previous releases like 'Hot', '1234', 'Hydra' and 'All Night' among many others.
Listen to Afrojack & Imanbek new track 'Hey Baby' (feat. Gia Koka) below:
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About the Author / Pol Torà
Born and raised in Barcelona (Spain), Pol's passion for dance music has brought him to London (UK), where he combines his role at We Rave You with his job as Account Manager at Festicket. Favourite genres: Emotional progressive house, future bass and electro pop.


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Two killed, over 60 hurt as cops, protesters clash in Kotkapura
Two men were killed and more than 60 injured in clashes between police and Sikh protesters in Kotkapura on Wednesday over the recent desecration of a 'bir' of Guru Granth Sahib.
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An injured policeman during the protests following desecration of a 'bir'.(Sanjeev Kumar/HT Photo)
Later in the day, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal ordered a judicial inquiry by a high court judge to probe the desecration incident and its aftermath, besides assuring Punjabis that exemplary punishment would be awarded to perpetrators of the "dastardly act". Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal announced Rs 1-crore reward to any person giving information leading to the arrest of those who committed the act of sacrilege.
The protesters, led by fringe radical outfits, are demanding the arrest of those responsible for tearing off more than 100 pages of the Guru Granth Sahib at Bargari village, 15km from Kotkapura in Faridkot district, on Monday. These pages were torn allegedly from a 'bir' that was stolen from a nearby village, Burj Jawahar Singh Wala, in June.
The protests come amid the uproar over the recent pardon granted by the Akal Takht to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, with former Takht Damdama Sahib jathedar Balwant Singh Nandgarh suggesting the alleged involvement of dera followers in the desecration. The dera, however, has categorically denied any role in the incident and also condemned it.
On Wednesday morning, police opened fire at protesters at Behbal Kalan village, 10km from Faridkot, in which Kishan Singh, 45, of nearby Niami Wala village and Gurjit Singh, 20, of nearby Sarawan village were killed.
Earlier in the day, 62 persons, including 35 policemen, were injured in a bloody clash between cops and Sikh protesters in Kotkapura town. The police used lathis and water cannons to disperse protesters, even as the latter attacked cops with kirpans and torched police vehicles. The police were able to control the situation after the two-hour-long clash that also left Bathinda inspector general of police (IGP) Jitendra Jain injured.
Stir spreads
Starting from Bargari village on Monday, the protest has spread to Kotkapura, Moga and Faridkot in the past two days following mobilisation through audio and video messages on the social media and announcements in village gurdwaras. Several roads leading to Bathinda and Faridkot have been blocked by protesters who are sitting on roads outside villages.
On Tuesday, a violent clash between cops and protesters at Buttar Kalan village in Moga district had left 19 people injured.
The Sant Samaj has called for a bandh in Malwa districts (Faridkot, Moga, Fazilka, Ferozepur, Muktsar, Bathinda and Barnala) on Thursday over the desecration and its fallout.
"The desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji is a deep-rooted conspiracy aimed at inciting communal tension and destabilising the hard-won peace in Punjab. I humbly urge all of you to maintain restraint in this hour of crisis."
- Parkash Singh Badal, Punjab chief minister
"CM Parkash Singh Badal has virtually lost control over things and the state is drifting towards anarchy. Badal should better quit if he is not able to maintain control over things."
-Capt Amarinder Singh, Congress deputy leader in LS
"The situation at Kotkapura was not handled in a professional manner by the police. There was no need for using force to disperse people who were protesting in a peaceful manner."
-Giani Gurbachan Singh, Akal Takht jathedar
"We strongly condemn the desecration of Guru Granth Sahib. Those who have done it are sinners of the highest order."
-Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, Dera Sacha Sauda chief


This weekend's weather has left us not wanting to leave bed. So naturally, this week's Monday Pins post is all about cozy, coastal bedrooms. Get those pin buttons ready because we've gathered five pin worthy photos that deserve to be posted on your boards! If you missed your opportunity to stay in bed all weekend we hope these pins will help.
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Let's start the week with the right vibes. That's right, we're talking coastal vibes. We've gathered a few photos that will ease you into this week's madness and help you enjoy the rest of your Monday. Each picture we've grabbed should transport you into a coastal haven that is worthy of pinning and sharing on your Pinterest boards. So get those pin buttons ready ladies and gentlemen, because we've got a few pinable photos that we want to share with you. Scroll down, enjoy and get ready for the rest of this week.
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If you flip your way through the latest issue of Country Living you'll spot the Noir Venice Bed! This bed frame has a simple shape and design. It comes with a built in headboard and also has four, tall posts. These posts help fill the vertical space in the room and give it a full look. If you're interested in bringing the Noir Venice Bed into your bedroom you can shop for it here!
Spring brings us good weather, lots of sun and beautiful flowers. We're not the only ones that want that sunshine! Flowers are in full force during the spring season and provide us another accessory to decorate our homes with. They can literally bring life into your home this spring with all their bright pedal colors and lush green leaves. Take advantage of them and use them to bring a fresh smell into the bedroom or as something fun to dress up the kitchen counters with.
If you're looking to bring some flowers into the home this spring you're going to need a vase or two. This is where we get to have even more fun. There are so many different vase options that come in every shape and size imaginable! It makes hunting down the perfect one so exciting! You can make a statement with a large vase that plays home to a beautiful arrangement of flowers or go with small vase that hosts a few lovely flowers. The combinations are endless and up to your imagination! So get creative with your arrangements and really bring spring into your home!
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Moncler collections at Milan Fashion Week, Milan – Italy
Simone Rocha and Craig Green were among designers tasked with redesigning Moncler's signature down jacket for its new Genius project, launched at this year's Milan Fashion Week. On the opening night of the city's fashion week, 20 February 2018, the clothing brand Moncler invited visitors to a huge Milanese hangar. Rooms inside were each dedicated to one of eight collections making up the Moncler's Genius initiative, which is described by the brand as a "hub of exceptional minds operating in unison while simultaneously cultivating their singularity". Moncler tasked each of the eight collaborators, which included London-based designers Simone Rocha and Craig Green, with reinterpreting its down jacket.
They were instructed to keep its function in mind, ensuring that the design would still perform as a warm coat. "Each project has the classic Moncler down jacket as the main playground, stands on its own, and all of them unanimously converging on the item," said the brand. "Keeping function at the core and approaching the duvet as an object, unique experiments ensue." Each collaboration came with a corresponding number and mission statement. The first collection, named Moncler 1, saw Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli design with the "pure essence" of Moncler in mind.
Doing so, he stripped back the duvet jacket – creating minimal garments in elongated silhouettes, which he based on his previous couture collections. Moncler 2 looked to the brand's heritage. Described as a "homage to its year of birth", the Moncler 1952 garments are based on the brand's classic designs – but in bold colours with enlarged logos. Moncler 3 was based on Grenoble – a city at the front of the French Alps where Moncler began. While made from mix-and-match printed fabrics, the coats are designed as technical wear for mountain climbing and trekking.
To create the fourth collection, Moncler teamed up with fashion designer Simone Rocha, who created voluminous silhouettes based on photographs of Victorian climbers in petticoats. Menswear designer Craig Green was behind Moncler 5. The designer aimed to abstract the body through his collection, which he created in monochrome fabrics. Black fabric was also used exclusively by designer Kei Ninomiya, who transformed the brand's down jacket into a series of modular elements to create Moncler 6. Hiroshi Fujiwara's Moncler 7 looked to streetwear subcultures, while Los Angeles label Palm Angels emblazoned Moncler 8 with bold lettering.
By creating these eight diffusion collections, Moncler hopes to better-appeal to the "uniqueness of the consumer". "Letting creativity run riot strengthens the uniqueness of Moncler," said the brand. "It allows the product to speak by itself as it takes different shapes according to the concept of each project." "The uniqueness of all the projects mirrors the uniqueness of the consumers."
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/02/22/moncler-genius-project-craig-green-simone-rocha-milan-fashion-week/
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Great Students Inspire: Thomas Hardy Exam Resource
Posted on May 14, 2014	by Kate O'Connor
A class of fifth formers at the King's School Canterbury (the alma mater of Christopher Marlowe) were preparing for their GCSE exam, and decided there was no need to keep their close analysis of Thomas Hardy close to their chests.
At thedimofdawn.com (a title taken from a line in Hardy's poem "At the Word Farewell"), they have put together a Creative Commons website that provides insight and analysis about most of the Thomas Hardy poems covered by the exam syllabus, along with additional biographical titbits and themes. The hope is that other students will join in the discussion, and that the website will become a repository for debate about and analysis of the poems by students from around the world who want to express their ideas and help other students to revise.
Poems analysed include:
At The Word "Farewell"
Drummer Hodge
During Wind and Rain
I Look Into My Glass
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
No Buyers: A Street Scene
The Convergence of the Twain
The Darkling Thrush
The Going
The Pine Planters
Visitors also can vote on their favourite of the Hardy poems covered by the syllabus.
Please feel free to visit thedimofdawn.com and join in the discussion!
For other great Hardy resources, check out the Thomas Hardy Society's commentaries on poems for students or the Great Writers Inspire Hardy author page.
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Brave New Worlds before Huxley and Orwell
Posted on August 28, 2013	by summerinspire
In this guest blog, Dr Oliver Tearle, a lecturer at the University of Loughborough and founder of the Interesting Literature blog (also on Twitter @InterestingLit), examines the history of dystopian literature.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun 'dystopia' (defined as 'an imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible') first turns up in print in 1952, and 'dystopian' (in the word's most common sense, namely 'of or pertaining to a dystopia') not until a decade later. But the first citation for the word 'dystopian' in the sense of 'one who advocates or describes a dystopia' comes from a speech made in the House of Commons by the Victorian philosopher, John Stuart Mill in 1868. 'Dystopian', then, was a Victorian coinage. But recently the noun 'dystopia' has been traced back to 1747 where it is spelled 'dustopia' but is used in clear contrast to 'utopia'. In short, the whole history of dystopias and the dystopian is still being unravelled and explored. This is particularly true of dystopian literature.
Dystopian fiction has perhaps never been more popular than it is today. In the last decade books and films such as The Hunger Games, The Road, and V for Vendetta have enjoyed huge success, while twentieth-century classics like Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and The Handmaid's Tale are regularly set as GCSE and A-Level texts in UK schools. Based on this, it would be easy to think that the subgenre of dystopian fiction was less than a century old. But as the word's complex history reveals, dystopia had entered literature long before Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were writing.
Dystopias are the opposite of utopias – if utopian fiction imagines the best possible world, then dystopian fiction presents us with the worst-case scenario. All literary utopias can be traced back to 1516 and Thomas More's work of that name, which coined the word 'utopia' as a Greek pun meaning both 'good place' (eu-topos) and 'no place' (u-topos). But it was in the nineteenth century that utopian literature arose as a popular literary form for novelists. Perhaps inevitably, not everyone embraced the optimism which utopian fiction promised: could you build an ideal world, as set out by More in his Utopia? Thus arose dystopian fiction as an alternative – and, to its adherents and practitioners, an altogether more realistic – branch of speculative literature.
Commentators sometimes simplify this development by saying that, whilst the nineteenth century was dominated by utopian visions of a better future, the twentieth century replaced these overly optimistic will-o'-the-wisps with dystopian versions of a society in the grip of state control and curtailment of individual freedoms. But this is too simple. Although it's true that the later nineteenth century gave rise to bestselling utopian classics such as Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888), which predicted garden city planning and credit cards, and William Morris's News from Nowhere(1890), there was a chorus of more pessimistic voices being raised by this time. One such voice belonged to Ignatius Donnelly, an American writer whose novel Caesar's Column, published the same year as Morris's utopian romance, sold 250,000 copies. And Morris's novel itself was in part a response to such dystopian, or partly dystopian, works as Richard Jefferies' After London (1885) and Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1872).
Indeed, Erewhon was an important development in speculative fiction. It appeared the same year as a landmark in realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch, and although Erewhon is a work of fantasy rather than realism, the two novels actually share a number of key themes: scientific and technological progress; attitudes to banking and finance; and the role of religion in society. And, like Middlemarch, Butler's novel weighs up both sides of the issues he discusses and seldom passes explicit judgments on them. Although this novel is often described as utopian fiction, Butler gently satirises every aspect of the utopian world he describes, a world which the narrator accesses after travelling into the outback in New Zealand. In this world – called Erewhon, which is almost 'nowhere' (as in utopia, or no-place) backwards – machines have been abolished because they were evolving too quickly and, the Erewhonian people feared, would one day supersede human beings as the dominant force in the world. Although Erewhon is not an out-and-out dystopian novel, others which followed it offered a more starkly negative view of human progress.
It has been claimed that dystopian fiction properly began with Jack London's 1908 novel The Iron Heel, and that it only really rose up towards the middle of the twentieth century with such works as Brave New World and 1984. But the genre had a rich life prior to this, encompassing not only Erewhon but novels such as Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period (1882), Walter Besant's The Revolt of Man (1882), and Margaret Oliphant's short story 'The Land of Darkness' (1887), which is set in a hell modelled on Dante's Infernobut very much shaped by nineteenth-century developments in technology, industry, and urbanisation. Orwell acknowledged the influence of such earlier works as Erewhon and The Iron Heel on his own work, while Oliphant's story has been described as being closer to Orwell than to Dante.
Perhaps the most curious of all the nineteenth-century forerunners to the modern dystopian novel is that by Anthony Trollope (caricature, left). Published in 1882, the year of his death, The Fixed Period is set in the year 1980 on the fictional island republic of Britannula. The narrator, the unsubtly named John Neverbend, is president of the island and is trying to pass a bill which will enforce compulsory euthanasia for everyone upon reaching the age of 67. David Lodge recently championed this neglected novel in a piece for The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/14/david-lodge-rereading-anthony-trollope.
In fact, novelists better known for writing more realist works of fiction often contributed to this burgeoning genre. E. M. Forster, celebrated for novels like Howards End and A Passage to India, wrote a short story in 1909 titled 'The Machine Stops', set in a dystopian future world in which technology has become the all-powerful force in society, as Butler in Erewhon feared it would. This bleak cautionary tale predicts such modern phenomena as the internet, videoconferencing, and instant messaging. It is a work of fiction but, like Orwell's 1984, also carries the ring of prophecy.
At its core, dystopian fiction engages with some of the key cultural, moral, and scientific questions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, many of which we are still asking today: the role of science in the modern world, the moral responsibility we have when developing science and technology, attitudes to euthanasia, humanity's responsibility for the environment, the distribution of wealth, and the role of religion in a secular society. Dystopian works written over a hundred years ago show our own society reflected back to us – we see our world eerily foreshadowed, and already being warned against.
I've recently become interested in recovering this lost, or at least semi-forgotten, tradition, in an attempt to redress the common assumption that dystopian fiction only really began in the early to mid-twentieth century. This endeavour goes hand-in-hand with another online enterprise, my blog Interesting Literature: A Library of Literary Interestingness, which I founded in 2012 as an attempt to find – and communicate – the obscure and neglected aspects of literary history. And dystopian fiction abounds in such assumptions and misconceptions which belie the more interesting complexity of the genre's formation: for instance, the terms 'thought crime' and 'thought police', both made popular by George Orwell in 1984, actually predated his novel and are first found in books from 1934 about Japanese politics. What Orwell set down in the late 1940s was already in the air before, but to a greater and more specific degree than we had perhaps realised. As ever, other writers had got there first. But the most important thing to address about dystopian literature is the little-known and little-studied prehistory of the genre, a prehistory that involves classic Victorian realist novelists such as Trollope and George Eliot, science-fiction pioneers like H. G. Wells, and important twentieth-century writers such as E. M. Forster. And although they are often bleak warnings about a future society, the society we have inherited, they are nevertheless a joy to discover, and to read.
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For the (Literary) Detective in you!
So it's Monday again and everyone needs a little lift! So we thought we would offer you a light-hearted challenge to kick start your week… who famously praised Shakespeare's work in the passage below? Extra brownie points for those who can name the text that it originates from too. Good luck!
If you too agree with the quote above and are looking for your dose of Shakespeare this month, then check out 'Henry VI: Three Plays' soon to be performed at the Oxford Playhouse by the Globe Theatre on Tour. Also, exciting news for subscribers of our recent podcast series, 'Challenging the Canon': we will soon be adding an interview with Professor Tiffany Stern on 'Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre?' Watch this space!
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A Medieval Mystery: Who Was the Pearl-poet?
In this guest blog, Hannah Ryley, an Oxford DPhil student, explores the anonymity of authorship in the Middle Ages.
In the British Library there is a medieval manuscript with the shelfmark Cotton Nero A.x. Dull though this shelfmark may sound, this manuscript is at the heart of a mysterious case of unknown authorship of four Middle English poems. The manuscript itself as a whole is very interesting and you can freely browse some digital images, of twelve colourfully illustrated pages, and try to decipher the handwritten texts it contains, here: http://gawain.ucalgary.ca/ Moreover, we can learn a great deal from this particular case about the difficulties surrounding the identification of authors in the medieval period more broadly, as we will shortly see.
Within this manuscript are found the poems Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, and, perhaps most well-known today – largely thanks to a popular modern-language version of the story by Simon Armitage – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.[1] Although the manuscript was physically handwritten by a scribe, and decorated by an illustrator (known as a 'limner' in the Middle Ages), both of whom were probably professionals hired for the task, neither of these people are likely to have been the author of the poems. However, because of similarities in dialect, style, and theme it is thought that a single author – distinct from the scribe or illustrator – was responsible for composing all four poems.
Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness are all narrative poems concerned with moral questions and religious doctrine. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a romance, in which Sir Gawain, a loyal knight of King Arthur's court, takes up the challenge of a beheading game suggested by a stranger, the Green Knight. All four poems can be interpreted as being deeply involved with discussions about Christianity, although there are many other themes and symbols at play in the poems. Stylistically, the use of alliteration and alliterative verse form links these poems, with the poet also using the 'bob and wheel' in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The bob and wheel is an ingenious poetic device; the 'bob' is a short line that links the 'wheel' (a rhyming refrain) to the main alliterative verse. If these poems were indeed written by one person, the author wrote in the late fourteenth-century in Middle English, and the dialect of the four works has been more specifically associated with the North-West Midlands.[2]
Although this poet is without a doubt a 'great writer you should know', what is tricky is that he (or perhaps even she) has never been fully identified. Anniina Jokinen plainly states: "Nothing conclusive is known of the author's identity or biography."[3] This is quite typical of many medieval authors, about whom records simply have not survived, or where they have survived, are often incomplete or ambiguous. As a result, scholars have often debated – and occasionally conjectured wildly – about the real individuals who may have written various seminal works of medieval English literature. A number of names have been put forward as the authors of the four poems found in Cotton Nero A.x, including 'Hugo Massey', 'John Massey', and 'Richard Newton'. However, none of these proposed authors have ever been widely accepted.[4] Yet this mysterious, unsolved case of obscure authorship is not unique; we still do not know the full biographical details of many other authors of medieval literary masterpieces. We will have to be content to refer to this magnificent writer as simply the 'Pearl-poet' or the 'Gawain-poet', as he has come to be known, and let his poetry speak for itself.
[1] Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, (Faber & Faber, 2009).
[2] H. N. Duggan, 'Meter, Stanza, Vocabulary, Dialect' in A Companion to the Gawain-Poet, Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson, eds., (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp.221-243 (at 240-242).
[3] Anniina Jokinen, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Luminarium, 28 Jan 2010, accessed 9 Aug 2013, <http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gawainintro.htm>
[4] Malcolm Andrew, 'Theories of Authorship' in A Companion to the Gawain-Poet, Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson, eds., (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp.23-34 (28-31).
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Get Wilde
Posted on August 9, 2013	by summerinspire
Bored on your commute home? You're in fine company. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde wrote, "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." You can actually read Wilde's Life and Confessions as a free eBook here, and see how sensational he really was, or if he was just living by his maxim: "Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art." But if your eyes are already tired and strained, you can court controversy by listening to a great podcast by Sophie Duncan on Wilde's women.
In other news, our new site is going live very very soon! We've given it a whole new face, updated all the researchers and authors, and catalogued hundreds of new resources. Make sure you check in soon: follow us on Twitter or Facebook to get more frequent updates.
We've also added some stellar content, already available on Oxford University's Podcasting site: the new mini-series, "Challenging the Canon", is now available to download or stream. It's been really popular so far (which is why it's first on the homepage!)… and did we mention, like all our other resources, it's free? If you've ever wanted to satisfy your inner 11-year-old and ask, "yes, but why is Dickens worth studying?" or "why is Shakespeare such a big deal?" then try listening to the answers of academic experts who have devoted their careers to exploring a Great Writer.
Speaking of great writers, we're all about Shakespeare in Oxford. If you didn't manage to get your fix with Oxford Shakespeare Company's The Merry Wives of Windsor, then check out OUDS's production of The Comedy of Errors at the University Church – finishing tomorrow!
Finally, launch yourself into the breach this September with Creation Theatre's Henry V, in the dramatic setting of the Oxford Castle. Now, away, you mouldy rogue, away! (2 Henry IV (2.4.117))
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A Magical Summer in Rhyme
Posted on July 17, 2013	by swilkin26
Make the most of the wonderful weather we have been having recently by going on the Oxford Poetry Walk! Enjoy a 70 minute tour around the city with a selection of literary favourites such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and Oscar Wilde to act as your companions. If you are more of a theatre buff then check out the Globe Theatre on Tour's production of 'The Taming of the Shrew' currently being shown at the Bodleian Old Schools Quadrangle. If that doesn't give you your literary fix then there is the Oxford Shakespeare Company's adaptation of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' hosted in the atmospheric gardens of Wadham College.
In other walks of literary life, things seems to be getting all rather supernatural. This week Potter mastermind J.K Rowling was revealed as using the pen name Robert Galbraith to publicise her new crime novel 'The Cuckoo's Calling'. To add to the excitement, it came out that this newsworthy detail was uncovered by one of our very own professors here at Oxford, Professor Peter Millican.
Additionally, the Bodleian Library's enchanting exhibition 'Magical Books' is well underway showcasing works from the legends of Children's' Fantasy literature e.g. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien.
For more interesting titbits of literary news, follow Great Writers Inspire on Twitter and Facebook.
Jane in July!
Posted on July 12, 2013	by summerinspire
To round off our week of Austen, we thought we'd let you know about the Oxford Theatre Guild's production of Pride and Prejudice, on tonight at Trinity College! All the Oxford Janeites out there should get down to Trinity's velvety lawns for 7.30pm. Here's a sneak peak: In other Austen news, the Guardian's John Mullen challenged Oxford's Dr. Paula Byrne by calling Austen's style "unflinchingly satirical" (if you missed the Telegraph's original article, you can read it here). What do you think? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/jul/11/jane-austen-fiction-not-anaesthetic
If you're still unsure, you can listen to Professor Kathryn Sutherland talk a bit more about Austen on one of the University's free podcasts! http://writersinspire.org/author/jane-austen
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College Board President and CEO David Coleman and "Bloomberg EDU" Host and Executive Producer Jane Stoddard Williams at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival.
When it comes to the state of student testing in the US, College Board President and CEO David Coleman said, "We are building an iron wall of inequality today into the next century." At the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival, Coleman, whose organization develops and administers standardized tests, such as the SAT, PSAT, and Advanced Placement exams, is also the architect of the hotly debated Common Core. He discussed testing students as a measure of college preparedness, the issues of inequality and discrimination in the classroom, and the state of the US public education system.
Read below for highlights from Coleman's conversation with "Bloomberg EDU" Host and Executive Producer Jane Stoddard Williams.
In the clip above, Coleman explains how he's addressing criticisms that high-priced college test prep courses lead to unfair test results for those who cannot afford it. "People who defend assessment always like to say it finds diamonds in the rough, but guess what, it doesn't alone," he said.
"When we worry, perhaps rightly, that assessment can discriminate, let's remember that there's another thing that we know ... that can discriminate more, which is adults," he said. In the clip above, Coleman describes an example of what happened when one school district stopped relying on teacher recommendations for determining which students would take Advanced Placement (AP) courses and exams, and instead relied on high PSAT data.
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