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Nazca, wonders in the desert
Seven hours to the south of Lima we'll find a city embedded in the Nazca desert, an enigmatic place that is home of wonderful buildings of a town that knew how to make this place their home despite the weather.
You can get to this place in two different ways: By plane from Lima, on a trip that will take you around half an hour and by bus from Lima city crossing beautiful places with breathtaking landscapes.
Nazca, wonders in the desert was last modified: November 23rd, 2016 by Pirwa
Travel to the Ica Region of Peru for Penguins, Sandboarding & the Nazca Lines
June 2, 2015 Pirwa
For a desert, the coastal region of Ica in Peru certainly has a lot to offer, including Humboldt penguin colonies, mummies, pyramid temples, the Nazca Lines, sandboarding around Huacachina Oasis, pisco distilleries, and Afro-Peruvian criollo music and food. Learn which activities in the Ica Region are most popular, how to get there, and what traditional dishes to eat while you're there…
Travel to the Ica Region of Peru for Penguins, Sandboarding & the Nazca Lines was last modified: June 2nd, 2015 by Pirwa
Nazca Tourism Week (& María Reiche's Birthday) Is Coming!
Maria Reiche's birthday is coming up, this May 15th. She's the famed Lady of the Desert, who devoted the majority of her life to the study and protection of the mysterious Nazca Lines. In celebration of this, the city of Nazca holds its tourism week around the same time, with celebrations beginning around 10 days in advance, May 5th, and lasting until the 15th. We don't have the specific program yet, but will hopefully have the full event list, dates and times soon!
After the fall of the Ceremonial City Cahuachi around 400AD due to a series of natural disasters that foresaw the fall of their civilization, the center of Nazca civilization was based in the area on which today's city of Nazca sits. The civilization is known above all for the enigmatic Nazca Lines which cover miles of the desert floor in geometric shapes and pictures of animals and people and can only be fully seen from the sky. Their purpose is still debated, although the most popular theories contend that they were the world´s largest astronomical calendar designed to correlate with celestial movements, please the gods, and remind them of the need to provide for the crops and harvests. The most recent theories now suggest that they were also used as ceremonial pathways for the same reason.
Tips on the Nazca Lines
Remember that most tours do not include the Air Tax, which at the moment is S/.25.00 (soles).
Flights are short, but you can also book a longer flight that also includes the nearby Palpa Lines.
Earlier flights are better for increased visibility. (Flights run from 7am – 4pm.)
Some people choose to take motion sickness pills in advance, since the pilots tilt and turn as much as possible to ensure that everyone gets good views of the ground.
(Click for info on Flights over the Nazca Lines.)
Getting to Nazca
Nazca is located about 400km south of Lima. If you're only going to go see the Nazca Lines, try a one or two night trip departing from Lima, although a couple nights extra would allow you the opportunity to visit the Cantayoc Aqueducts, Chauchilla Cemetery, or the ruins of Cahuachi.
A view of the Pirwa Nazca Patio!
A direct bus takes about 9 hours, although you can split the trip up if you were planning on visiting Paracas Bay to see the Ballestas Islands, or Huacachina Oasis for some sandboarding, as companies such as Cruz del Sur make stops in both Ica and Paracas. You can do overnight buses or during the daytime. If you've stopped in Ica to visit Huacachina, small buses known as colectivos leave frequently for Nazca, the 2-3hr trip costs S/.12.00 (soles).
Overnight buses from Cuzco will take you 14 hours, and from Arequipa 9 hours, although trip times are very approximate, depending on the weather, road conditions, etc. Expect prices to range from S/.60.00-S/.180.00 (soles), and vary during high and low tourist seasons.
When looking for a place to stay, we hope that you'll give Pirwa Nazca Backpackers a try! Not sure? Click here for an independent review of Pirwa Nazca from another travel blog….
What to Do in Nazca Aside From the Lines…
A visit to the Museo Arqueológico Antonini on Avenida la Cultura will give you priceless insight into the Nazca people, teaching about the archeological sites and the Nazca Lines, the system of aqueducts that they created, the detailed polychrome ceramics for which they are famed, their mummies and their skilled textile work.
The Cantayoc Aqueducts is an impressive underground irrigation system unlike any you've seen, that managed to bring life to this arid landscape. After a thousand years, some are still in use today! (Tour Info on the Cantayoc Aqueducts)
At Chauchilla Cemetery you can observe incredibly well-preserved mummies and artifacts including deformed skulls and 'trophy heads' more than a thousand years old. (Tour Info on Chauchilla Cemetery)
The Cahuachi Archeological Site 20min from Nazca was once a ceremonial and pilgrimage center, the Nazca's most important city. Stop by to see the adobe pyramids and temples, which are still being excavated to this day.
Nazca Tourism Week (& María Reiche's Birthday) Is Coming! was last modified: April 25th, 2012 by Pirwa
Backpacking Peru: Top Activities in Nazca!
February 23, 2012 Pirwa
Named after the Nazca Civilization which rose to prominence in this area, travelers to Nazca, Peru can explore the ruins, mummies, and famous marks this great civilization left upon the desert floor before they disappeared into mystery. While the town itself may seem sleepy at first glance, you'll be pleasantly surprised to discover that it is also a popular stop for those interested in more extreme pastimes like sandboarding and dunebuggying!
A look at Pirwa Nazca Backpackers!
What are our top recommendations for your stay in Nazca?…..
#5 The Cantalloc Aqueducts
Thousands of years ago the Nazca developed an extensive system of subterranean aqueducts to provie year-round access to water in the arid desert unlike any found elsewhere. More than 30 of these channels of have not only survived seismic activity but actually remain in use by farmers! The best-preserved channels are in the higher Nazca Valley's Cantayo zone. You'll find the channels lined with riverocks and manholes with descending spiral paths to be both beautiful and fascinating.
Check an Itinerary for the Cantalloc Aqueducts .
#4 Chauchillas Cemetery
Gain valuable insight into the Nazca culture by visiting the remarkably well-preserved mummies of the ancient necropolis of Chauchillas. These bodies still retain hair and soft tissue such as skin after a thousand years. You'll see trophy heads and head jars as well. Tours to Chauchillas generally include a demonstration of artisan gold mining and the traditional method of producing the beautiful polychrome ceramics for which the Nazca were famed.
Check an Itinerary for Chauchillas Cemetery .
#3 Dunebuggies!
Exploring the Usaca Desert in dunebuggies brings off-roading fun to your trip. Despite their small size, these can go pretty fast, hitting and jumping dunes for some desert thrills. Many tours stop for guided visits at the abandoned adobe city of Cahuachi, once the religious center of the Nazca, and Estaquería, the Place of the Stakes, where it is believed mummies were painted in a dark resin and put out to dry.
Check an Itinerary for Dunebuggying in the Usaca Desert.
#2 Sandboarding
The most popular options for sandboarding are Cerro Blanco (White Hill), once considered a deity known as Yuraq Orjo. It's reputed to be the world's largest sand dune, reaching 2,087m above sea level in the Nazca Valley. One can practice on smaller dunes around the peak before taking the big leap! Another popular spot for adrenaline-seekers wishing to try sandboarding is the beautiful Huacachina Oasis, along its surrounding dunes.
Check an Itinerary for Sandboarding Huacachina Oasis .
#1 Nazca Lines
Of course any list on activities in Nazca must culminate with the world-famous and enigmatic Nazca lines, whose original purpose and method of construction still incite debate. Tours include an introductory video and then half hour flight in light aircraft, from where you'll be able to see the animal figures and geometric shapes which sprawl over miles of the desert floor, so large that they can only be seen from the sky. Among other figures, you'll be able to spot the monkey, lizards, spider, dogs, hummingbirds, the condor, and plants and flowers.
Check an Itinerary for a Flight Over the Nazca Lines.
All About Pirwa Nazca Backpackers!
Pirwa Nazca Backpackers located only a few blocks from Nazca's Main Square, just 5 minutes from the bus terminal and 10 minutes from the airport. You'll be able to take advantage of the sunny climate in the outdoor patio, where you can throw a barbecue and relax in the hammocks. After a day of exploration, you can retire to a comfortable bed in a room with private bath (whether private room or shared dormitory) with 24/7 hot water access. You'll find that Fernando and the rest of the Pirwa Nazca family are eager to help travelers feel comfortable and to assist with trip planning, be it transport, guided excursions, or lodging reservations in other cities. We hope you'll come visit us in Nazca during your trip through Peru!
Backpacking Peru: Top Activities in Nazca! was last modified: February 23rd, 2012 by Pirwa


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Do any of you store your kick-spring autos CLOSED?
Hey guys. I've been collecting automatic knives for over thirty years, but I'm a noob when it comes to Italian classics. I've read what seems like hundreds of discussions/debates on storing autos over the years, and I think it's safe to say that a knife with a properly designed and heat-treated spring can be stored in the closed position indefinitely without any issues.
OTOH, there seems to be some legitimate debate about storing these Italian autos closed because of the spring pressure applied to the sear and liners over time. If I understand the situation correctly, long term closed storage can potentially lead to premature sear wear and tip peaking, particularly when the knife is over-sprung and the soft brass liners are on the thin side.
Problem is, storing these long stilettos open is rapidly consuming all of my display real estate, but the peace of mind that comes with open storage prevails. Do any of you store these knives closed? And have you noticed any deleterious long term effects as a result?
Re: Do any of you store your kick-spring autos CLOSED?
Usually open. Most people say store it in open position. I would not store closed for extended time, like years.
I store my knives closed but I don't have high dollar knives.
I store many of mine closed. It makes no difference.
The rumor that storing Italian autos closed will damage the sears or liners is false. I have seen the insides of thousands of these knives. The only thing that causes blade peek is wear.
Bill DeShivs wrote: I store many of mine closed. It makes no difference.
Bill, what conditions warrant storing some of your autos open?
I've read that sear wear can be partially mitigated by holding the button down as you close the knife. Would you concur?
I only store some open because they display better that way.
I have hundreds of rare autos stored closed.
You are correct about holding the button. It partially mitigates sear wear.
I have never seen a factory recommendation to store autos closed.
Springs break while BEING COMPRESSED, not after-as a rule.
Been storing mine closed for decades with no problems.
There are two camps on this one issue. Some of us store open the other l group store their knive closed. Apparently it makes no difference just a personal preference.
Open and closed for me as space is limited.
Thanks for all the responses, guys. I'm gonna leave the knives in my display case open for now, but the case is filled to capacity. As I acquire new knives, I'll go ahead a close one at a time to accommodate the new guy until they're all closed and the case is once again full, thus perpetuating the endless cycle of knife and death. This strategy has served me well for storing custom, Microtech, and other misc. autos, and it seems that these nifty Italian jobs are, for all practical purposes, no different.
Open for display other than that closed. I've had no problems breaking springs and some of my knives have been closed for over a year.
OH NO! It's the eternal question that refuses to fu*king DIE!
Open is my personal choice, but I also trust Bill DeShiv's assertions that it matters not, at least during MY lifetime. That said, I prefer to err on the side of caution, as I lack the skills and tools necessary to be fussing with leaf-spring replacements. I think Bill probably leaves his stuff buried in a hole in the ground, as he can fix most anything. Just speaking his name scares rust to death!
I actually emailed Frank Beltrame about this, and got (hopefully) a dictated response through Sara; it seems he recommends open storage to reduce wear, but the most consistent thing in our back-and-forth email chain was a concern about having a safe place to store them open, and that if there's a lack of said safe place to keep them this way, just keep 'em shut.
Most wear happens as the metal is compressed, but as a rule metal under strain will eventually weaken and fail - aka metal fatigue. The spring is not/has never really ever been my main concern, however: The sear and button assembly are made of far thinner parts, parts from metal that is rarely (if ever) specified - think about it, when's the last time someone gave you the composition of their button / trigger assemblies? I fear that this will give long, long before the spring on a good knife ever would. It is for this reason that I will always keep older autos open, namely pre-bans and transitional, and make sure I've got a place to keep them as such.


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The Arts Are in Crisis. Here's How Biden Can Help.
by Lightlynews.com · On January 13, 2021 · In Arts/Design
What is artwork's operate? What does artwork do for an individual, a rustic?
Scholars, economists, revolutionaries maintain debating, however one excellent reply has held now for two,500 years. The operate of artwork, Aristotle instructed us, is catharsis. You go to the theater, you take heed to a symphony, you take a look at a portray, you watch a ballet. You snigger, you cry. You really feel pity, concern. You see in others' lives a mirrored image of your individual. And the catharsis comes: a cleaning, a readability, a sense of aid and understanding that you simply carry with you out of the theater or the live performance corridor. Art, music, drama — here's a level price recalling in a pandemic — are devices of psychic and social well being.
Not since 1945 has the United States required catharsis prefer it does in 2021. The coronavirus pandemic is probably the most common trauma to befall the nation since World War II, its ravages compounded by a political nightmare that culminated, final week, in an precise assault on democratic rule. The final 12 months's mortal toll, its social isolation and its civic disintegration have introduced this nation to the brink. Yet simply when Americans want them most, our artists and humanities establishments are confronting a disaster that will endure lengthy after infections abate.
Professional artistic artists are going through unemployment at charges effectively above the nationwide common — greater than 52 % of actors and 55 % of dancers have been out of labor within the third quarter of the 12 months, at a time when the nationwide unemployment price was eight.5 %. In California, the humanities and leisure fields generated a larger proportion of unemployment claims than even the hospitality sector. Several hundred impartial music venues have closed; artwork galleries and dance firms have shuttered. And in my very own life, I've listened to painters and performers weep over canceled reveals and excursions, salivate over extra beneficiant authorities assist in Europe or Asia, and ask themselves whether or not 2021 is the 12 months to desert their careers.
Beyond worth in its personal proper, tradition can be an trade sector accounting for greater than four.5 % of this nation's gross home product, based on the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.Credit…Invisible Creature
"Hell, they've acquired to eat identical to different individuals," stated Harry Hopkins, the primary supervisor of the Works Progress Administration, when an official in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration queried whether or not artists merited federal employment. Art, music, dance and theater are social items, but in addition particular person professions — ones extra endangered than at any time because the 1930s, and going through lasting harm even because the pandemic abates.
The results of this cultural despair will probably be excruciating, and never just for the symphony not written, the dance not choreographed, the sculpture not forged, the musical not staged. Beyond worth in its personal proper, tradition can be an trade sector accounting for greater than four.5 % of this nation's gross home product, based on the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Other leaders have seen: of their New Year addresses, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, singled out tradition as a sector in financial peril, whereas Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany stated that "freelancers and artists concern for his or her livelihood." But till final month, when the outgoing U.S. president belatedly signed a stimulus package deal with focused arts aid bundled inside, this authorities had barely acknowledged the disaster that Covid-19 has posed to tradition. Nor have non-public philanthropists crammed the hole; whereas some massive foundations have stepped up their disbursements, whole giving to North American arts organizations has slackened by 14 % on common.
As President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. prepares to take workplace subsequent week, and begins to flesh out his proposals to assist the nation get better, he and his cupboard have the prospect — the duty — to supply a brand new settlement for American tradition. Mr. Biden had deliberate an "F.D.R.-size" presidency, and, with the Democrats' recapture of the Senate, such heft appears extra viable than it did after Election Day.What can the brand new administration do for tradition in disaster? What examples ought to they draw from in American historical past, and present worldwide apply? How ought to Washington method tradition coverage with state and native authorities, with nonprofits, and with the leisure trade? Does the U.S. authorities want a "Dr. Fauci of tradition," because the Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks known as for final month — or perhaps a full-bore Department of Culture, with a cabinet-level secretary?
As a senator and as vice chairman, Mr. Biden repeatedly backed authorities assist for the humanities. The nation he'll now lead, because the pandemic wanes and because the economic system recovers, goes to require main social catharsis — and he wants to make sure that the humanities are nonetheless there to supply it.
1 Reach for a brand new New Deal.
2 Knit a greater security web.
3 Does tradition want a cupboard seat?
Reach for a brand new New Deal.
The Biden marketing campaign promised that America might "construct again higher," and all through 2020 the president-elect extolled F.D.R.'s New Deal as a blueprint for American renewal. For the administration to point out that type of Rooseveltian resolve — and, with management of the Senate, it nearly can — it's going to must put hundreds of thousands of Americans on the federal payroll: amongst them artists, musicians and actors, tasked to revive a battered nation.
Arshile Gorky at work on "Activities on the Field," his 1936 mural challenge for Newark Airport sponsored by the W.P.A, which underwrote 2,500-odd murals along with sculpture, portray, posters and ads.Credit…Eisman, through The Arshile Gorky Foundation/Artists Rights Society, New York
The Works Progress Administration was a latecomer to Roosevelt's financial restoration plans, begun in 1935 as a part of the so-called second New Deal. Federal Project Number One, as its cultural division was identified, accounted for under about one-half of 1 % of the W.P.A.'s price range — but it surely endures as its most seen legacy, particularly within the murals that adorn the nation's publish places of work, courthouses, college buildings and even prisons. And it ought to supply the Biden administration a blueprint for a brand new, federal cultural works challenge, which treats artists, musicians and writers as important staff, and sees tradition as a linchpin of financial restoration.
Today cultural advocates like to supply a roll name of American artists employed by the W.P.A. as proof of its necessity: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Louise Nevelson, Norman Lewis, Alice Neel, Jacob Lawrence, Philip Guston. The applications, notably, supplied Black artists extra public assist than at any time within the 20th century. Charles White's mural "Five Great American Negroes," now within the assortment of Howard University, was a W.P.A. fee.
But the majority of the two,500-odd murals this system underwrote, plus piles of sculpture, portray, posters and ads, got here from artists who by no means achieved fame. Most have been beneath 40. Most favored folksy, realist scenes of American life. And most labored in locations that America's tradition trade habitually ignores: for instance, Bonners Ferry, Idaho (pop. 2,543), the place the artist Fletcher Martin adorned the courthouse with bas-reliefs of native loggers and miners.
Zora Neale Hurston, far left, throughout a recording expedition in 1935 for the Federal Writers' Project. The interviews Ms. Hurston did for the challenge would profoundly affect her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."Credit…Alan Lomax, through Library of Congress
Visual artwork was the biggest of the 4 (later, 5) cultural divisions, however different branches have been simply as very important. Ralph Ellison, John Cheever and Saul Bellow labored for the Federal Writers' Project, compiling life tales of American staff; the interviews Zora Neale Hurston did for the challenge would profoundly affect her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God." The Federal Theater Project put out-of-work actors and writers on phases removed from Broadway, the place audiences noticed free performs about Dust Bowl farmers or tenement dwellers referred to as "residing newspapers."
Unlike at present, when grantmaking establishments routinely require artists to justify their work earlier than they make it, the W.P.A. applications didn't mandate a method; all the federal government required was an engagement with an American theme, no strident politics, and no nudity. If just a few of this system's murals have stood the take a look at of time, akin to Gorky's bulbous compositions initially at Newark Airport, there's a motive that Pollock, Krasner and different figures of the postwar avant-garde turned so totally from the socially engaged initiatives of their youth. More than a good bit of the artwork produced beneath W.P.A. applications was boosterish, conservative, forgettable.
But creative high quality was not the principal level — as a result of these have been works applications, not cultural grants, awarded on the idea of want reasonably than advantage. (Another New Deal program, run by the Treasury, had a smaller and extra selective roster of artists.) A brand new W.P.A.-style program, likewise, shouldn't be regarded as authorities assist for "the humanities" — that lightning rod of price range negotiations 12 months after 12 months. Nor ought to or not it's handled in the identical method as, say, New York's Percent for Art, which requires city-funded development to put aside cash for public artwork works.
A brand new W.P.A. is, because the identify signifies, an emergency work scheme, whose motivation is financial stimulus. Artists shouldn't must show their "social influence," shouldn't must get a dozen stakeholders to log out on each notice or brush stroke. They ought to display what their forebears did within the 1930s — that they're skilled artists and so they want work.
"The Cradle Will Rock," a play written by Marc Blitzstein and directed by Orson Welles, was a part of the Federal Theater Project meant to place unemployed actors and writers to work.Credit…Library of Congress
Such a program may be particularly beneficial in America's rural areas and in economically imperiled areas: the elements of the nation the place Mr. Biden did worst electorally, and whose assist for President Trump got here partly from a legit grievance that cultural elites regarded down on them. (That Idaho courthouse lies in a county the place Mr. Trump beat Mr. Biden by greater than 4 votes to 1.) Embedding unemployed artists nationwide, and tasking them to concentrate on native populations and native circumstances,ought to likewise animate any Biden administration cultural works program.
The administration must also carry artists on board for infrastructure initiatives, particularly as Mr. Biden's authorities pursues an formidable local weather technique that can require nationwide transformations. Europe already has plans for this. Since the autumn Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has been speaking up a "New European Bauhaus," which is able to carry artists and designers into the E.U.'s inexperienced growth program to "give our systemic change its personal distinct aesthetic — to match type with sustainability." Including artists right here might assist the Biden administration construct public assist because the nation begins, we hope, a decades-long program of inexperienced reconstruction.
A ultimate place to spice up assist for tradition is the Department of State. Cultural diplomacy has shrunk significantly because the days of the Cold War, when the division despatched Dizzy Gillespie to Yugoslavia, Martha Graham to Southeast Asia, Louis Armstrong to Congo, and the New York Philharmonic to Moscow. ("Music prices a lot much less and produces so significantly better a outcome than any propaganda or weaponry," stated its conductor, Leonard Bernstein.) Antony Blinken, nominated for Secretary of State, might present the nation each a diplomatic and an financial fillip by bolstering the company's diminished Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs, which the Trump administration tried to eradicate completely. In Akron or Accra, American artists have work to do.
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In the previous, unemployment insurance coverage was obtainable solely to these "employed" within the first place — and artists hardly ever have been. A violinist furloughed from a full-time orchestra job might get unemployment, however not a gigging saxophonist whose nightclubs have been shuttered. A receptionist laid off from a expertise company certified, however not the actors the company represents.
That modified in March, when the earlier Congress handed the primary coronavirus stimulus package deal. It included a program known as Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, which, for the primary time expanded unemployment eligibility to impartial contractors and freelance staff. In their ranks are hundreds of thousands of actors, writers, artists, musicians and dancers, who're three and a half occasions extra probably than the typical American to be self-employed, based on a 2019 report from the National Endowment for the Arts. (Where do you assume the identify "gig economic system" got here from, in spite of everything? From the music trade, the place artists first cobbled collectively an revenue from stage to stage.)
Like so many music venues, Elsewhere in Bushwick, Brooklyn, needed to quickly shut due to coronavirus restrictions. Federal assist for venues lastly got here by way of in December with the Save Our Stages Act.Credit…George Etheredge for The New York Times
A singer who certified for pandemic help didn't simply get unemployment from her residence state. She was additionally eligible for a similar $600-a-week federal complement as others receiving unemployment: a vital lifeline, although one which expired in July. (There have been two smaller dietary supplements since then. The present $300-a-week enhance, bundled into the December stimulus package deal, expires in mid-March, lengthy earlier than phases are anticipated to reopen.) For all its shortcomings, this system has established a precedent that the Biden administration should construct upon: that artists, like different gig staff, are full individuals within the nationwide economic system — and have to be taken care of as such.
So probably the most rapid measure the brand new administration can take to stanch the humanities disaster is solely to get cash into artists' pockets — by pushing Congress to broaden and enhance unemployment advantages for them and different impartial contractors and gig staff. Congress additionally must clean out discrepancies in pandemic help, together with the best way it severely undercompensates jobless help to artists with slightly salaried work on the facet, akin to an actor with a one-day-a-week desk job.
If this system establishes that actors, musicians and dancers are true staff, how will we maintain them working? Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary nominee, and Marty Walsh, the Boston mayornominated to steer the Labor Department, can reply this query by supporting adjustments to the tax code and to unemployment rights, with each financial and cultural advantages.
One mannequin comes from France, the place performers, technicians and different staff in theater, dance, motion pictures and tv can qualify for a particular artists' unemployment program, referred to as intermittence, which incorporates maternity depart, retirement and different advantages.It permits performers to rehearse and prepare reasonably than wait tables, which makes an enormous contribution to the standard of French opera, dance and theater. But extra essentially, it acknowledges that musicians and dancers and the like will not be really self-employed. They are professionals, in a socially mandatory trade with an unusual financial group. They have to be paid, taxed and insured as such if they're to thrive.
Ms. Yellen and the brand new Congress additionally have to disburse extra funds to maintain different arts professionals on the payroll. Bundled into the December stimulus package deal was the Save Our Stages Act, which earmarked $15 billion for small-business grants to music venues, film theaters and the like. The grants (initially, 45 % of a theater or membership's 2019 revenue) are a incredible begin — but it surely's a Band-Aid once we want a full-scale tourniquet. Berlin's nightclubs and different for-profit cultural venues have been eligible for 80 % grants.
And given each the sluggish rollout of the vaccine and the continued want for social distancing, venues for the performing arts will probably be among the many final public locations to reopen. Congress ought due to this fact to bundle a second spherical of Save Our Stages emergency funding with a measure additionally drawn from the German bailout: money for pandemic-appropriate infrastructural enhancements, from new air flow programs to digital distribution instruments. I used to love a grimy disco; now I need gleaming HVAC.
Does tradition want a cupboard seat?
Compared with Canada, Australia and most of Europe, the U.S. has comparatively few cultural establishments funded by way of federal appropriations. The memorials on the National Mall are erected virtually completely with non-public money; the Kennedy Center earns most of its revenue from donations and ticket gross sales. Even the Smithsonian Institution is a public-private partnership; its most up-to-date Congressional disbursement of $1 billion a 12 months accounts for 62 % of its annual price range. At the Venice Biennale, the place nations mount exhibitions in a type of Olympics of up to date artwork, the United States is among the few individuals whose authorities doesn't pay for the present.
Now some emboldened liberals have been dreaming, as they did when Barack Obama took workplace, that Mr. Biden would possibly set up a cabinet-level Department of Culture — the primary new division since George W. Bush established the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. Such a division would possibly soak up the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (all impartial federal businesses), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (a nonprofit), in addition to elements of the State, Interior, and Education Departments.
I get the impulse! Artsy Americans have lengthy been jealous of Europe's government-funded theaters and opera homes — and as cultural establishments have shed jobs during the last 12 months, it's straightforward to envy public establishments overseas. Our personal museums, symphonies and ballet firms are financed principally by way of philanthropy, whereas our movie, tv and music industries are pushed by the revenue motive. There is, in consequence, hardly a big sufficient federal tradition price range to advantage a division. And as I don't see a robust argument to nationalize the Metropolitan Museum of Art or Carnegie Hall, a federal tradition division dangers, a minimum of proper now, being extra bureaucratic than useful.
Nor are we so lengthy gone from the (first?) tradition wars, of the 1980s and early 1990s, when meager federal assist for artists and performers grew to become a flash level in a a lot bigger political battle. Senator Jesse Helms and Republican colleagues fulminated in opposition to the photographers Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe, after which in opposition to performers referred to as the N.E.A. Four — and acquired on the books a decency take a look at for federal arts grants, barring assist for artwork with homosexual and feminist themes. (Later the N.E.A.'s price range was slashed, and particular person artists' grants have been eradicated.) That historical past is one good motive for the Biden administration to — a minimum of at first — help artists on financial and infrastructural grounds, reasonably than as particular person grants for "deserving" artists.
And in nations in democratic decline — a class which, after final week's siege, I wrestle to not embody the United States — tradition ministries have currently change into devices of political wrath. In Poland, ruled by the right-wing Law and Justice social gathering, the tradition minister has fired or refused to reappoint quite a few museum administrators; final 12 months he put in a far-right fellow traveler as the top of Warsaw's main up to date artwork heart. The Hungarian authorities has used its funding guidelines to manage what seems on theater phases; in Brazil, the final tradition minister parroted the rhetoric of Joseph Goebbels.
A Department of Culture, beneath a future American presidency, could possibly be as antagonistic to tradition because the outgoing administration's Environmental Protection Agency has been to defending the atmosphere. Honestly, have the Culture Department boosters forgotten that President Trump promulgated a single type of classical structure for all federal buildings? That type of directive would have doomed designs like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's federal constructing in Chicago, or David Adjaye's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Giving the federal authorities extra dominion over tradition might have, for instance, doomed designs like these of David Adjaye for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.Credit…Lexey Swall for The New York Times
American arts establishments ought not to surrender their independence for crumbs. For now, particularly because the pandemic subsides, the extra pressing process is to encourage a richer cultural providing on the native stage. A nimbler and extra practicable answer to try this is with a White House Office for Culture, akin to the National Economic Council or the Domestic Policy Council, that might analysis and coordinate arts coverage throughout the federal authorities.
An arts heart inside the manager workplace of the president — led, why not, by a "Dr. Fauci of tradition" — could possibly be sharper and swifter than a full division. This staff might assist Treasury create cultural tax coverage, advise the Education Department on music instruction, liaise with Congress on arts stimulus. Importantly, it might be certain that stimulus funds for states and municipalities, whose budgets have been pitted by shutdown-induced tax shortfalls, shore up and ultimately strengthen native arts organizations. ("Almost nobody has been damage extra by Covid than our artists," stated Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York this week, when he introduced a public-private partnership supporting the state's arts organizations.)
The new administration must also re-establish the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, whose members resigned en masse in 2017 after Mr. Trump's response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. (The artists who resigned included the director George C. Wolfe, the writer Jhumpa Lahiri, the actor Kal Penn and the architect Thom Mayne.) To use a metaphor I detest however politicians appear to love, this committee needs to be the sizzle to the steak that's the Office for Culture. Any transformation this huge wants a gross sales pitch; well-known actors, writers and musicians needs to be the pitchmen, linking Broadway and Hollywood to the city library and the varsity theater.
During final 12 months's marketing campaign, Mr. Biden had a phrase he invoked with virtually musical regularity: the election, he all the time stated, was a "battle for the soul of America." As a chunk of political rhetoric, it may need been only a platitude. How can I deny, although, that the near-sacking of the Capitol — in every week when, for the primary time, the each day loss of life toll from Covid-19 reached an unendurable four,000 Americans — signifies that the United States has undergone, these final years, a type of soul-death? And in case you have been treating a affected person whose soul had curdled, what kind of drugs would possibly you prescribe?
I've all the time been cautious of arguments about artwork's "necessity." But a soul-sick nation is just not more likely to get better if it loses basic elements of its humanity. Without actors and dancers and musicians and artists, a society will certainly have misplaced one thing mandatory — for these residents, these staff, are the technicians of a social catharsis that can't come quickly sufficient. A respiratory virus and an riot have, in their very own methods, taken the nation's breath away. Artists, if they're nonetheless with us within the years forward, can train us to exhale.
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New York City is one of the hottest (both literally and figuratively) summer vacation spots, but whether you're visiting the Big Apple or if you live here, there are tons of "cool" destinations and activities to keep you occupied. Check out Inhabitat's 10 summery things to do and places to go to beat the heat in NYC.1. Need to escape the urban heat island effect? Take a day trip to the surreal Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Valley. This sprawling outdoor museum boasts over 100 contemporary sculptures on rolling (and significantly cooler) green hills.
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8. Get out of the blazing sun and pop into the new Omonia Cafe in Astoria, Queens! This sustainably-built sweet spot is the perfect place to have a quick iced coffee before heading back out to see the sights.
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Get organized. Create a record-keeping system: organize key documents and create a medical file (key family history and your medical history of diagnoses, surgeries, medications, as well as current providers and status of treatment).
Be legal. Know the key legal documents you need for healthcare decision making and estate planning and keep your documents/plan up-to-date.
Talk about it. It's all too rare that families talk about death or illness, which only makes an already emotional situation more difficult. Would your loved ones have any idea what you might want if something happens? Have you offered any direction about where/how you'd prefer to receive care or how you'd want (or not) your money spent?
We've long been advocates for family eldercare planning, sharing tips for families to be better prepared for elder caregiving with NBC news and offering care consultations so that families can discuss concerns with an expert before a crisis.
When facing a change or challenge, be comfortable with your options/information. In a crisis, everything is rushed. Sometimes you can slow down the process or get outside help to speed past your learning curve. Be an advocate for yourself or your loved one and ensure you've received the information you need and the time to make the decision.
For example, we have written numerous articles about hospital readmissions, which sometime stem from gaps in the discharge planning process such as communication and follow-up care. We offer tips and discharge planning checklists for families, but most importantly, we urge you to be comfortable with the process or have an advocate by your side to assist.
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Friendship And Grief Drive The Strong And Surprising 'Dead To Me'
By Linda Holmes
Published May 4, 2019 at 10:00 AM EDT
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Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate star as fast friends in Netflix's new comedy-drama Dead to Me.
The new Netflix show Dead To Meis very good. Beyond that, it's a hard show to review. It's hard to even discuss what kindof show it is without spoiling things that you should get to discover for yourself. But let's try, because it's an enormously interesting and rewarding watch.
Christina Applegate plays Jen, a mother of two whose husband has recently died in a hit and run. Jen is awash in grief and anger — the first time we see her, she's accepting a casserole from a sympathetic neighbor while brutally volleying back the woman's clumsy attempt at kind words. She tries out a support group for the bereaved, but when she gets there, she's instantly uncomfortable until, as you always hope will happen in these situations, she meets one person she can talk to. Judy (Linda Cardellini) manages to crack a little joke, and recognizes Jen from Jen's real estate advertising.
Judy is entirely too eager and earnest for Jen's darker and more reserved tastes in people — she wants to hug Jen almost upon meeting, which Jen rebuffs. But it turns out that Judy's story is similar to Jen's: her fiance died two months ago, and she doesn't know what to do with herself. And before Jen knows it, Judy is growing on her. Their friendship grows out of the fact that they both can't sleep, can't talk about anything else, can't get past the things that haunt them. Jen even confides in Judy about her freelance investigation of her husband's death, which involves writing down the license numbers of cars with dents in their front ends. (Judy, like any good friend watching someone tilt at a windmill: "Okaaaaay.")
Is this going to be a galpal bonding show, like Grace & Frankie? Will they fall in love? Will Jen enlist Judy to help her solve the mystery? How, exactly, does James Marsten, playing a hilariously obnoxious and arrogant weasel, fit into this story? Let's not answer too many of these questions.
Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini are both actresses who are never unwelcome, in any project, at any time. They both enliven practically everything they appear in, and this is my favorite thing I've ever seen from both of them. Applegate is so, so good here as Jen: angry and vulnerable and intelligent, clever and sometimes foolish. Cardellini's Judy is initially more of a mystery, and it spoils very little to say that by the end of the first episode, Jen has learned some things about Judy that she didn't know. But that is only the beginning of the complicating and re-complicating of the story.
Dead to Meis often very, very funny — but it's also rooted in profound emotion that makes everything matter. It invests in the friendship between Jen and Judy at the same time it makes that friendship feel loaded and unpredictable. The pacing is very good, doling out plot developments at the right speed.
There are times when the most helpful, accurate, non-spoiler review is something along these lines, and so I leave you with it: I binged this sucker almost as soon as the screeners came in, and I didn't do much else until I finished all ten episodes. It's a good one.
Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.
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Theth to Valbona-more than just an ordinary hike (1/2)
Two villages, one mountain pass, three backpacks – an everlasting adventure!
Four students from Germany, studying sustainable Tourism at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, doing an internship at EliteTravel Group in Elbasan, Albania, got four months to explore the country, culture, and mentality.
A few words about us: there is the lovely, quite crazy Nina, who loves drinking wine, the always relaxed, calm Gonzalo (a.k.a King Goni), a skater-guy from Chile, the warm-hearted and open-minded Simon, an experienced hiker, and last but not least the sweet, dreamy Pia, who can talk quite a lot.
Would you have guessed that the Albanian language in the North and in the South differ extremely, so that Albanians themselves do not understand each other?!
Even Elite Travel Group has to deal with that language barrier. Since they cannot properly understand each other on the phone, our two lovable colleagues Doret (also called Redi) and Erjon had to meet the Guesthouse owners in Theth to arrange the bookings for the upcoming season. Lucky us, because of that we could join them and combine it with a three days trip – Theth, hike to Valbona, take the ferry from Fierza to Koman, to Shkodra by bus and heading back to Elbasan. Goni had already been in Theth once, so it was just the other three of us.
But in case we would get in a delicate situation – we always kept in mind: what would King Goni do?
Our description of our journey is split into two parts: the ride to Theth and our personal impressions there, and the actual hike from Theth to Valbona as well as our way back by taking the ferry.
Our journey started in Elbasan early in the morning when Redi and Erjon picked us up. Due to the Eid Celebration Day which caused a lot of traffic, we got stuck right after Tirana for at least three hours. Even with the typical Albanian adventurous and risky driving style of Redi we were not able to move faster.
Passing through Shkodra with a quick glance at the Rozafa Castle we went on without any further problems.
Right before the road to Theth changes to a dirt road, we stopped at a restaurant, called Buni i Bajraktarit, with an insane view of the surrounding mountains. While the temperatures dropped down to pleasant 27 degrees, we decided to have some real Albanian dishes, which were outstandingly tasty – and not to forget: Rakia – always self-made, always with a glass of water. and usually the preferred drink of all Albanian men.
We continued our ride. Due to the narrow road, we had the choice of either drive close to the roadside (a few times with a nice view down the abyss) or go back to let the oncoming cars pass. The bumpy road was an adventure itself, Pia hit her head at least three times and Nina was jumping up and down till she was almost sitting on Pia's lap.
After a stop for some refreshing spring water, Pia switched seats with the driver Erjon and it was now on her to get us safely to Theth. The road condition was not the problem but rather to reach the pedals and see the road at the same time.
But guess what?! We still made it safe to Theth, even with short Pia behind the wheel.
Due to our late arrival in Theth we immediately started a short hike to the Grunas Waterfall which seemed like good preparation for our actual hike the next day.
Once we got to the waterfall, an impressing natural picture of water running down over the edge of a steep mountain into a pool of clear blue water, which was in straightforward words, or like Nina would put it, cold as hell.
But brave Simon went into the water as if he would take a bath in a hot tub. He is just, let's say, special.
At our hike back we stopped at a bridge, Erjon calls it lovingly "making out spot". While Simon went back to the waterfall for a refreshing swim the others went on until we had to cross a river. Since we are on an adventure we surely did not want to take the easy way by walking over a big water pipe. Instead, the self-styled double trouble team, Nina and Pia, tried to conquer the torrential river by walking through the…as mentioned before, cold as hell water.
So, guess, did we make it to the other side with dry clothes?
Indeed, we did. Pia almost fell into the water because of the stream, but in the end, just her shoes dipped into the ice-cold water for a second, an accidental quality control of her new shoes and the result: waterproof.
By a drink at Kulla e Ngujimit, we enjoyed the cold, fresh breeze and waited for Redi and Erjon to fetch us.
Starved from the little adventures we had a very delicious dinner at the Bujtina Polia Guesthouse. We got the most delicious potato soup, Nina is still dreaming of it. Besides the further meals like tomatoes with feta, chicken wings and potato wedges that we had…and you can probably guess – Rakia for drinks!
While enjoying one Raki after another, the kind owner of the guesthouse told us a few stories and anecdotes. In fact, the church in Theth was a hospital in the 60s, when Albania, as the first atheistic country, forbade any religion. Also a quite interesting fact:
If you spill Raki, put water on top! Otherwise, it will get you bad luck.
Good night for now and to be continued…
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Theatre Links
Resources From Across The Globe
January 12, 2020 Justin Cash
Theatre of the Absurd
The Theatre of the Absurd is a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. Their work expressed the belief that human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down. Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence.
Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay "Theatre of the Absurd." He related these plays based on a broad theme of the Absurd, similar to the way Albert Camus uses the term in his 1942 essay, "The Myth of Sisyphus". The Absurd in these plays takes the form of man's reaction to a world apparently without meaning, and/or man as a puppet controlled or menaced by invisible outside forces. Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the "well-made play".
Playwrights commonly associated with the Theatre of the Absurd include Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal, Václav Havel and Edward Albee.
Christopher Scott Wyatt Worthwhile website exploring existentialism and philosophers of the movement.
Glossary A short glossary of some existential terms.
Guardian Unlimited Books Article titled 'Godotmania' by English theatre director. Explores the reaction Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot had when it first arrived in the early 1950's and the profound impact it has since had on world theatre.
Jean-Paul Sartre Sartre's work "Existentialism is a Humanism".
Jean-Paul Sartre Work by Sartre entitled "Marxism and Existentialism".
Notable Quotes Quotes on Absurdism from a variety of sources.
Raya Dunayevskaya Work entitled "Jean-Paul Sartre: Outsider Looking In".
Saint Anselm College University lecturer's talk on existentialism.
Tanweer Akram Comprehensive essay on existentialism.
University of Colorado Albert Camus' explanation of 'The Myth of Sisyphus' which defined the futility of human existence and influenced the Absurdist movement.
University of Glasgow Detailed essay on Theatre of the Absurd by University lecturer discussing this movement's effect on both Eastern and Western societies.
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We view space from a matter-centric viewpoint. For us space is the distance between two material points. It seems that when there are no material points the concept of space will be entirely different. Without matter, space feels like some sort of vague awareness.
Maybe it is awareness itself that appears as space through the filter of matter.
It is the disturbance in space that spreads with alternating electric and magnetic characteristics. It brings about consciousness of what is there by appearing as light.
Maybe it is pure consciousness itself that appears as light through the filter of matter.
The electromagnetic characteristics come together as a field. The interplay among frequencies produces various gradients within that field. Here we see electromagnetic characteristics being knitted together into various shapes.
Maybe it is consciousness shaping itself that appears as electromagnetic field through the filter of matter.
That makes awareness compare to undisturbed space, and consciousness compare to electromagnetic field (disturbed space). Time enters into the picture when space is disturbed. We may compare time to the desire that disturbs awareness to generate consciousness.
The disturbed space spreads out as electromagnetic wave. It may be said that light is simply the spreading of pure consciousness at a universal level.
Space may then be viewed as the "fabric" of this universe. The essence of space is awareness.
Time then shapes the universe out of the "fabric" of space. The essence of time is desire.


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French President: Refugee status for Liberals
By Dave Gilbert
French President Emmanuel Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron is offering refuge to American liberals upset at President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
In a video posted to Twitter, speaking in English, Macron said:
"I wish to tell the United States: France believes in you. The world believes in you. I know that you are a great nation. I know your history, our common history."
"To all scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, responsible citizens who were disappointed by the decision of the president of the United States, I want to say that they will find in France a second homeland. I call them: Come and work here, with us, to work together on concrete solutions for our climate, our environment. I can assure you, France will not give up the fight."
Macron also posted a picture to Twitter, with the words "Make Our Planet Great Again" on a green and blue background. Click here for more links to the posting.
Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte. She's 64. He's 39.
Macron is a 39-year-old liberal who worked in mergers and acquisitions for the Rothschild investment bank in Paris and as economy minister to French Socialist Party President François Hollande before rebranding himself as an "outsider" last year and launching a campaign for president.
He defeated populist National Front leader Marine Le Pen in May to become the youngest-ever president of France.
"If you're wondering how to get into France, you can either be a Syrian [jihadi] or an American climate scientist," newspaper columnist and talk radio guest host Mark Steyn said on "The Rush Limbaugh Show" on Friday afternoon, before noting that France would likely require more paperwork from the American climate scientist than from the jihadi.
And as for President Trump himself, The Washington Post reported Friday that Trump's irritation with Macron's disrespecting him at their first meeting may have, in fact, helped seal his decision on withdrawal from the Paris accord.
President Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron engage in white knuckle handshake upon first meeting.
At an earlier private meeting between Macron and Trump, the two had shaken hands, with both gripping tightly and grimacing for the cameras, in what some media organizations interpreted as an alpha male showdown.
In what was likely the best, or probably the most memorable, line from the president's energetic address from the Rose Garden on Thursday, in which he laid out a strong case for exiting the Paris agreement, President Trump said: "I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris."
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