"The internet is killing retail. Bookstores are just the first to go." -- quoted in this NYT article. Retail bookstores are in a death row; looks like it's just a matter of time for those to be in the museum. eBooks are partly to blame, but with eBook sales leveling off recently, the remaining affect seems to be online book sales, dominated by, with no surpirse!, Amazon. So, exactly how long retail bookstores are going to survive? Is it going to be "Gradually and then suddenly"? Or could it be just 5 years from now? One might ask: "5 years? no way!!". But imagine the Amazon effect just few years ago; or the Facebook effect in 2008.
To examine this I've got a nice time series dataset from the Census Bureau database. This is a monthly retail sales data (in millions $) from bookstores all across the country. Data are collected monthly as part of Monthly Retail Trade Survey and cover 26 years since 1992. A number of popular forecasting methods are out there but since the data has seasonality, I choose to run the Holt-Winter Exponential Smoothing (HW) -- a popular forecasting method in machine learning field ( I also ran ARIMA, but the results are less definitive).
So what exactly does the forecast tell? The analysis shows that bookstore sales peaked around 2007, but since then the sales are going downhill. The HW forecasting predicts that the bookstores may at best survive another 15-20 years from now due to decline in retail sales. This roughly puts the lifeline around 2040.
Signs are everywhere. Book World is closing it's stores. Barnes & Noble closed 10% of it's stores in just the last 5/6 years and this February it shedded 1800 jobs. This will keep accelerating in the next few years. That said, some bookstores may well survive beyond 2040, but not as traditional stores, rather as antique books stores.
No Brasil, após a chegada da Amazon, duas grandes cadeias de livrarias pediram recuperação judicial... não aguentaram a pressão!!!


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Full text: Nana Addo's speech at the Peace Pact signing
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I am pleased to be part of this event that seeks to highlight the importance of peace in our country as we go to the polls on Monday, 7th December, and I thank the conveners for the invitation to be here and say a few words this morning.
This is the third time I have participated in this ceremony – the first two as Leader of the Opposition, and the third as President of the Republic. On previous occasions, I have held to my part of the peace pact, and, on this third occasion as President of the Republic, I will do the same.
I stand here as the representative of the New Patriotic Party, a political party founded on the strong belief that Ghana is best governed under a constitutional arrangement that guarantees multi-parties. We come from a long tradition that believes in disputes being settled by superior arguments, and not by violence. It has been a long and tortuous journey that has brought this nation finally to this Fourth Republic and the consensus of a multi-party democracy.
We believe in elections, we have always done and we, in the NPP, can safely claim without any fear of contradiction that every improvement that has brought more widespread credibility to our electoral process has been at our instigation. (A younger generation might not even be aware that the use in the electoral process of transparent ballot boxes and photo-ID cards were resisted.)
We believe in an electoral process that is genuinely free and fair, and in which the people can have confidence. We believe in an electoral process in which the losers will feel they have been in a fair fight, and would willingly congratulate the winners, and go back to regroup to seek more persuasive ways to convince the electorate.
It is in the interest of the political parties that there is not only an absence of violence, but that there is no tension, and there is a truly peaceful atmosphere throughout the country. I would like to call on the security agencies to be up and doing in their work, in making make sure that the atmosphere in the country is one conducive for the conduct of a fair and transparent process.
The strictures as to the consequences of the Ayawaso West Wuogon elections maybe an opportunity for all of us to look at this issue. For myself, I do not want to use this platform to engage in controversy, but merely to state that whatever were the acceptable recommendations of the Commission of Enquiry have been faithfully adhered to by the Government. The security services in the Volta Region are there to respond to the well-documented secessionist activities, and not to engage in any imaginary intimidation of the people of the Region.
The best manifesto policies and promises would come to naught if there is no peace. You can assemble the sharpest brains and the greatest workaholics to run a government, if there is no peace, your promises remain promises, and you can even have a combination of the best policies, the brightest and most hardworking and incorruptible people to run the government, if there is no peace, you cannot deliver on your promises.
I would say, therefore, that we the politicians and political parties have the most to lose if there is no peace. I dare say there are some organisations and some individuals whose very existence depend on continuing turmoil in Africa, and African nations being led to believe they would remain poor, dependent and underdeveloped forever.
I do not ask that we behave like the famous three monkeys, and see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil, but I do not think we help our situation very much when all we see is evil, all we hear is evil, and all we speak is evil.
I am not suggesting that we cover up our failings in any way; we are nowhere near where we should be, there is still poverty, young people remain at risk, and the public purse is not as properly guarded as it could be. But there is a lot that we can and should be proud of, and these too should be part of the narrative.
In the immediate matters that concern all of us, I would say we have conducted admirably the electoral process thus far. In the midst of a global pandemic, the Electoral Commission has compiled a credible voters' register. The Special Voting process passed off peacefully, with all political parties happy with the process.
It does not help that a would-be Nreputable media organisation puts out a totally false story that the EC had been caught with illegally printed excess ballots. If we are concerned about peace, such media outlets should be condemned by all. Such deliberate malice heightens tensions and incites passions unnecessarily.
We, in the NPP, want a credible election, conducted in a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere. We are certain we have a track record that will make Ghanaians vote to renew our mandate. Just as it was in 2016, we want this victory to be sweet and incontestable.
I have said that we believe in elections, and I am happy to give my word that we shall accept the verdict of the people of Ghana. Above all, I pledge that the peace, unity and safety of Ghana will be our primary consideration.
May God bless us all, and our homeland Ghana, and make her great and strong.
Nana Addo
Peace Pact
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Analogue Music | The Killers - Pressure Machine
The Killers - Pressure Machine
Artist: The Killers · Written by Mark Geil
When Brandon Flowers sang, "Who's the man? I'm the man," we knew it was satirical, the fun but appropriate tongue-in-cheek declaration from the front man of a band known for bombast and bravado. But we also smiled, because we knew that Flowers was, at least a little bit, singing to the critics who feel morally obligated to include the phrases "overblown" and "grandiose" in every review of a Killers album. You know, the ones who roll their eyes and write, "'Are we dancer?' OMG, that's not even good grammar." (Can we all just get over it, please?)
How surprising, then, for the band to produce an album with the anti-bombast of Pressure Machine. Sure, it's a pandemic album, and Taylor Swift got all low-key with Folklore and Evermore, but what makes Pressure Machine so remarkable is not just the sound, not just the caging of the anthemic tigers named Bowie and Mercury. It's the humanity of the record. Maybe we're not dancer after all.
What makes 'Pressure Machine' so remarkable is not just the sound, not just the caging of the anthemic tigers named Bowie and Mercury. It's the humanity of the record.
In telling the tales of small-town Utah, Flowers connects us to real people with whom we identify, because the struggles they face are invariant to place. This is not the first "small town" record, and it's not the first time Flowers has had Nebraska in his sights instead of Born to Run. Rarely, though, do those rural Americana albums strike such a perceptive balance between the promises and problems of places like Nephi, Utah. And to his credit, rarely has a singer captured these stories as well as Flowers.
Utah is steeped in Mormonism, so it makes sense that Pressure Machine is steeped in spirituality. From the recorded clip of a local resident affirming "higher powers, higher powers," to the protagonist of "The Getting By" who looks up and sees "only sky," the inhabitants of the record embody eternal beliefs and doubts. What they're searching for, though, is more than the existence of Deity; it's the existence of grace.
The title track aims its pressure cooker at the Kingdom of God, and equates the idyllic life of the small town with the sort of "good behavior" that some religions believe will punch your ticket to the hereafter. This is the version of morality that makes the stories of the album so tragic. Here is the suicidal kid who has been shunned by a small town's judgment. Here is the adulterous cop who knows he's rationalizing his sin and the tempted husband sees no blessings in his lonely life. Here is lost innocence and wanderlust and abandoned dreams. The silver-gilt prayers of the small town girl are lost when the hard wind of life dulls the shine. The circumstances and the reactions to them beget judgment, guilt, and sadness. "But my people were told they'd prosper in this land."
But then here is a jailed opioid addict who declares, in the face of all this failure and judgment, "When He pulls my chart, He'll reject my actions but He will know my heart." The dichotomy of a small town's charms and its darkest hidden shadows is as sharp as the dichotomy between the judgment of those shadowlands and the bright charm of grace. Both are found in the album's strongest symbols: the train is damnation, and the horses are the freedom that knows the Heart.
This visit to Nephi, and these microcosmic portraits of its people, are a gift to a struggling world and a roundabout lesson on the virtues of grace.
Some Killers fans won't be crazy about Pressure Machine. I suppose those people are dancer after all. But on the whole, the band has never been so down to Earth. The guitars are back. (I'm still not sure if they let an eager Dave Keuning return or if he finally decided to show up.) The vocals are as good as they've ever been. (I hereby nominate the line "I close my eyes and think of the water" for the Best Vocal Grammy. And oh, my goodness I want a whole album of Brandon Flowers and Phoebe Bridgers duets.) Even a song like "Sleepwalker," with its less interesting mid-tempo soundtrack, is so remarkably sensitive and caring, I want to drive to Utah right now. It's "Dear Prudence" with more heart.
I've always loved it when the Killers go big. Over-the-top lyrics like "lightning fields of love" will always make me smile, and I hope the band doesn't stay low-key forever. But this visit to Nephi, and these microcosmic portraits of its people, are a gift to a struggling world and a roundabout lesson on the virtues of grace.


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Use this guide to match your NI Digital Instrument Models PCI, PXI, PCIe, and PXIe devices with a compatible cable and accessory to meet the needs of your application, replacing or expanding your current configuration, or verifying that existing parts can be used in a different configuration. This guide includes cable and accessory compatibility for NI Digital Waveform Instruments (HSDIO), NI Digital Pattern Instruments, and NI High-Speed Serial Instruments.
Digital Instruments including NI Digital Waveform Instruments (High-Speed Digital I/O), NI Digital Pattern Instruments, and NI High-Speed Serial Instruments generate and acquire high-speed digital waveforms for transmitting data, communicating with devices under test, or testing digital interfaces. These instruments are ideal for semiconductor characterization and production, interfacing to LVDS and TTL digital electronics, and testing the functionality of high-speed serial links.
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Scientists are making "massive" strides towards understanding quantum entanglement, one of the most complicated and promising arenas of physics.
One of the reasons quantum mechanics is hard to understand is because it's so complicated. Objects at the quantum level behave counterintuitively compared to what can be observed at the macro-scale. However, recently, researchers have announced possibly the largest objects yet observed being governed by quantum physics.
According to Erwin Schrödinger, macro-scale objects exhibiting quantum behavior sounds absurd. Schrödinger devised the thought experiment commonly known as "Schrödinger's cat" to highlight how preposterous this particular interpretation of quantum physics is, as in one scenario, an atom having a 50-50 chance of decaying would eventually result in a cat being both alive and dead simultaneously. But since then, experiments have indeed shown particles like electrons and photons existing in multiple states simultaneously.
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But it is possible to meet them, and in April 2018, Nature published a paper detailing the largest objects yet to exhibit quantum entanglement. Entangled objects are somehow connected over a distance, and what happens to one has an immediate effect on the other. Using a carefully applied superconducting electrical circuit, two vibrating circular membranes were made to oscillate so similarly they could be considered in an entangled state. Although these drum-like membranes are just about the width of a human hair, they contain trillions of atoms, making them the largest objects entangled yet. Studying how entanglement might look on a larger scale has applications in many fields of research, from developing super-sensitive measurement techniques to detecting gravitational waves.


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Set up mediation department to deal with animal complaints
Jun 1, 2017, 5:00 am SGT
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I was alarmed to read that pet cats are also picked up by the authorities following complaints by residents (AVA acknowledges it hires contractors to remove cats; May 30).
It is time that the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) reviews its animal management policies and avoids immediately removing animals from the location.
It should work with animal welfare groups such as the Cat Welfare Society to ensure that residents' grievances are addressed.
Perhaps an animal mediation and management department could be set up together with the animal welfare groups. This department would attend to complaints by residents by speaking with them to understand the situation on the ground.
The contact details and licences of these mediators and contractors should be listed in the AVA website.
This is to prevent unauthorised and independent contractors from using unorthodox trapping methods that cause distress to an animal.
Licensed AVA contractors should follow standard operating procedures to contact the mediators and adopt humane methods to trap an animal in the presence of an AVA officer or animal welfare mediator.
A framework must be implemented to determine if a captured animal has an owner. If the animal is a lost pet, it should be temporarily housed to ensure its safety. A centralised lost and found directory is essential, so owners can see if their lost pets are in the pound.
At the same time, pet owners should exercise responsibility and ensure their pet remains indoors, or supervise them when they are outdoors.
Precautions such as ensuring the pet has a pet identification collar and a microchip that is registered in AVA's database will help safeguard the animal's safety.
Having better animal welfare management procedures will boost the standards of animal welfare.
Residents should contact the animal welfare groups or rescuers if they come across a lost animal, and keep a watchful eye on the community animals so all animals are kept safe.
Darren Chan Keng Leong
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 01, 2017, with the headline 'Set up mediation department to deal with animal complaints'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Written by Craig Adams and Clare Prenton
An Alternate Reality Musical. Based on an original idea by Craig Adams and Ian Watson.
The times are politically volatile. Nightwalkers, a like-human species that live by the night, live, segregated, as outcasts beyond the wall of the city. Two peoples are divided by the light. Both sides search for answers. Old tensions are reignited when the murder of the most senior Nightwalker fuels more hatred of their kind. In this proud and seemingly civilised society, the police abandon the streets allowing a right wing organisation – The White Knights of the Sun – to gain popularity via sophisticated social media campaigns.
And in this divided and volatile city, a human boy falls for a girl from the wrong side of the wall. Can love ever survive hate when the police absent themselves, the Church is passive and rioters and looters take to the streets?
LUFU, the daughter of the murdered man seeks to answer the questions as to why her kind are so hated and in doing so collides into a boy from the wrong side of the wall. A dangerous romance begins with the affable TERRY, a trainee priest and wannabe rockstar. His love for her is pure and his increasing lack of faith in the State and his Church fuels this dangerous alliance.
These star crossed lovers were born in the wrong age. Society fails them. And an innocent community is threatened with extinction.
When hate is infectious, love struggles.
Defect is a cautionary tale set in a world we must hope to never see.
Defect has a powerful and memorable contemporary score. Popular songs from the show include the duet "If You Could Know" (recorded by Kerry Ellis and Oliver Tompsett) and "Rush of Life" which has been recorded by Julie Atherton for her 2015 album.
The following tracks were recorded for demo purposes only and feature Kerry Ellis and Oliver Tompsett "If You Could Know" and Jack Shalloo "Fangtastic".
'Rush of Life' from the show also won a competition to be performed in the West End by Broadway performer Natalie Weiss, see the youtube video below..
STATUS OF SHOW Undergoing minor rewrites
LICENSE AVAILABILITY Email wendy@perfectpitchmusicals.com
CAST SIZE 16+ Suits large ensemble


Most documentary filmmakers go out of their way to get their subject on camera. Chad Freidrichs and Paul Fehler actually went out of their way not to. What's more, they didn't just avoid filming the musician who is the subject of "Jandek on Corwood," which will be screened Thursday by the American Cinematheque at its Egyptian Theatre. They avoided even meeting him.
Before a trip to Houston to get a shot of the post office box that serves as the business address for Corwood Industries, the record label that releases Jandek's music, the pair wrote a letter to the subject to warn him.
"We said, 'We'll be at your post office box at such a time and such a date, and if you want to meet us, we won't tape you, but you can come by,' " says Freidrichs. " 'But if you don't want to meet us, stay away.' We go down to shoot, and he's not there."
That will come as no surprise to anyone who knows even the slightest bit about Jandek, one of the odder cult figures in music. Combining a public profile that makes J.D. Salinger look like Britney Spears with music that has limited appeal at best, Jandek's quarter-century career -- using the term loosely -- is the embodiment of obscurity.
If you can find someone who's heard Jandek's music, you'll likely hear that it's either the most haunting or most annoying thing they've ever heard. A typical Jandek recording (and there have been a lot -- 35 albums since 1978) consists of sparely plunked, carelessly tuned acoustic guitar with a man's shaky voice warbling drawn-out, arrhythmic portrayals of isolation and despair, with occasional mood swings into anger, exuberance or pique. Mid-period albums saw him "going electric," while later ones were often spoken-word, but all with the same pervasive sense of desolation.
Album covers generally consist of fuzzy snapshots (the interior or exterior of a house, sometimes a photo of a young man who may or may not be Jandek, staring intensely like an albino Robert Johnson or posing rakishly). On the back, under a plain-type song listing, each album has only the Corwood Industries name and post-office box address.
Jandek, or a man purporting to be Jandek, has given only one interview (in 1985) and the small, but intense, body of fans he has accrued has been left to blind speculation about who this person is and what exactly he's doing.
"Initially we considered doing a 'Hard Copy' thing, knock on his door and confront him and make him say why he's doing what he's doing," Freidrichs says. "But it seemed silly to do that. The reason people are interested in Jandek is the mystery. If you take that mystery out, what's the point of making the movie? We stayed away from any type of biographical material and just go for the mystery. It's almost like his nonpresence in the film, that's his presence."
The film, then, examines the Jandek mystery through those who have become obsessed with it -- a handful of music critics and record collectors who live their lives decidedly off the beaten track. These are people who have dug deeply into floating and discussing Jandek theories, which began germinating with the first Jandek album's release and have proliferated in the Internet age.
A few of the more common ones: Jandek is really a rich industrialist pulling an extended practical joke. Jandek recorded hundreds of hours of music in one mid-'70s burst and has released it according to his own master plan. Jandek is a loner who never leaves his house. The person seen on many album covers is not actually Jandek but may be a deceased brother.
Then there are the "clues" to his life and identity contained in lyrics and on album covers, developed in remarkable detail. Is the woman who suddenly appears singing -- beautifully -- on the 1982 album "Chair Beside a Window" (on a song titled "Nancy Sings") a new girlfriend? Is her name really Nancy? Is the house on some of the covers actually where Jandek lives? Is it even in Houston? Where are those European-looking street scenes on some of the recent albums? Cork, Ireland? Where Jandek went on vacation?
A few details are clarified in the film, one or two in the centerpiece, the playing of an audio-taped 1985 interview by musician-writer John Trubee for a story in Spin. But mostly, "Jandek on Corwood" paints its portrait of the artist through the perceptions of others.
"By far the most interesting things we discovered were the fans' interpretations, how people create the image, given so few clues," Freidrichs says.
The filmmakers were not actually among the ranks of Jandek obsessives before starting this project. Friends since their St. Louis childhoods, they were merely looking for an enticing topic for a documentary.
"Paul was living in L.A. and came across this Jandek guy on the Internet and contacted me," says Freidrichs, who had been working at a local TV station in Columbia, Mo., since graduating from the University of Missouri there. Freidrichs listened to the music "and kind of became a fan." But it was the mystery that really caught him and convinced him that there was a phenomenon worth documenting.
They didn't accomplish the project entirely without communications from Jandek.
"When we initially started thinking about the project, we wrote Corwood asking for rights to use cover art and actual music," Freidrichs says. "He wrote back and said, 'Sure, feel free to use whatever you want,' and sent a whole bunch of CDs. Every now and then we'd write and ask specific questions: What does this song mean? Who is this person? He wasn't forthcoming. Sometimes he sent messages like, 'It's better this way.' "
And while Jandek didn't show up at the post office box, he did make contact soon after.
"We headed to Austin and were at a Mexican restaurant, and he called on the cellphone," says Freidrichs. " 'Wow! I'm talking to Jandek!' "
Even that, though, didn't diminish the mystique.
"It was a pretty mundane conversation," he says. "But it was the exact same voice as on the interview. Tended to have long pauses, which is typical of people who have spoken with him."
Where: Egyptian Theatre, American Cinematheque, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.


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Twitter Now Lets You Use A Third-Party App For 2FA Purposes
By Manny Reyes
Twitter has announced that it is rolling out an expansion to its two-factor authentication feature in the form of a third-party app support that should let you verify your identity upon login on top of the SMS-based confirmation. The third-party app support for two-factor authentication is supposed to provide a more robust security to Twitter users. Twitter introduced support for two-factor authenticator apps in April of this year as part of an effort to cater to users who already subscribed to this kind of apps, and the official release of the third-party app support for two-factor verification adds an extra layer of security to Twitter accounts.
With the latest update, you can now use apps including the LastPass Authenticator, Authy or Google Authenticator mobile solutions to pass through the micro-blogging site's authentication process, which traditionally relies on SMS service to send the confirmation code to your mobile phone number that you can use to prove that you are the real account owner. Keep in mind, however, that the third-party app support for authentication is not meant to replace the existing SMS-based two-factor verification, but instead serves as an additional security measure to help protect your account from unauthorized access. Once you set up your login verification with Twitter, you will need to link a code generator app to your account with the site so that it generates a unique code each time you sign in with Twitter. It's worth pointing out that these third-party authenticator apps work even without an internet connection and regardless of the network carrier.
The third-party app support can be switched on by going to the privacy settings of your account, then heading to the Account tab and security page where you will be required to enter your password to gain further access. Once that step is done, tap on the "Set up" option and then click start. You will then need to confirm your password by entering it for further verification, after which you will see a pop-up window that shows a QR code. Then scan the QR code, which contains a six-digit security key, in order to turn on the third-party app option for two-factor verification instead of the SMS-based authentication, which is enabled by default.
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Strides in Entrepreneurship Education
Eve Gumpel
January 5, 2011 min read
When he was 16 years old, Michael Simmons (now 29) and his friend Calvin Newport were the only students in their high school with a business -- a web development company called Princeton WebSolutions. Next, college student Simmons wrote a book -- The Student Success Manifesto.
That, in turn, led to a variety of speaking engagements, which served as the catalyst for Simmons' most successful business venture, Extreme Entrepreneurship Tours, or EET. The company, founded by Simmons and his wife, Sheena Lindahl, in 2006, is designed to encourage entrepreneurship among young people in high school and college.
"We bring the country's top young entrepreneurs across the country to different college campuses at half-day conferences," Simmons explains. The colleges tend to be campuses that don't yet offer entrepreneurship courses or are just beginning to do so. EET did between 90 and 100 events last year, and the company has even more ambitious plans this year.
The company is now rebranding as Extreme Entrepreneurship Education, with new offerings intended to take participants beyond the initial inspiration provided by the tour.
The company recently added what Simmons calls "a virtual business incubator," which connects students with mentors and coaches, and introduces goals and actions designed to move their business forward. "This is a system to help people overcome their fears and make progress on a day-to-day basis," Simmons says.
There's also a virtual speaker series, featuring interviews with top entrepreneurs, for use in a classroom setting. Ten schools signed up during the initial launch, and more than 100 others have expressed an interest in signing on.
Next up: a Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit at the University of Central Florida on Friday, Feb. 18. Simmons envisions the summit as the entrepreneurial version of the Clinton Global Initiative, which convenes global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.
Participants will include 10 foundations that promote and fund entrepreneurial endeavors, along with corporate and individual philanthropists and successful entrepreneurs. Among the attendees and presenters will be the Coleman Foundation, which supports educational institutions offering entrepreneurship education across the country; Opportunity International, the world's second largest microfinance bank; and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, providing entrepreneurship education to low-income youth. Among top entrepreneurs on board for the conference are Priceline.com founding executive Jeff Hoffman.
Simmons is eager to see what happens when newer organizations, such as Startup Weekend, come face-to-face with older organizations, such as SCORE, which provides volunteer mentors for small-business owners. Startup Weekend bring entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs together for a weekend to find out if startup ideas are viable.
According to Simmons, the summit will fulfill an important need in the field. "Part of the goal is to showcase the most innovative things taking place in the field." The other is to build a bridge linking all the giants in the field. "It's amazing what's come together in the five or six weeks," he says. "It shows how much people want to connect with each other, and how timely this idea is."
Corrections & Amplifications: An earlier version of this post said that Priceline.com founder Jay Walker would be at the conference. He will not be in attendance.
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At 94-Years-Old, Former President Jimmy Carter Still Teaches Sunday School at Georgia Church to Crowds of People Who Line Up to Hear Him
Comments Off on At 94-Years-Old, Former President Jimmy Carter Still Teaches Sunday School at Georgia Church to Crowds of People Who Line Up to Hear Him Posted in africa, asia, Christian, Ellen Sherwood, emory university, George Williams, Guinea worm disease, Habitat for Humanity, health care systems, jimmy carter, latin america, Maranatha Baptist Church, mental health care, nobel peace prize, Presidents Day, Rosalyn Carter, sunday school, The Carter Center foundation, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker
Visitors line up early to squeeze into the small sanctuary of Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.
Headlights piercing the black night, cars arrived one by one, at 1:45 a.m., 2 a.m., 2:11, every few minutes until past dawn, just as they always do when former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church.
On Sunday of Presidents Day weekend, we turned into the parking lot at 2:52 a.m., car No. 20, written on a piece of paper handed over by George Williams, who, as always, is there welcoming each car with a hearty, "Good morning. I'm George. Where y'all from?"
He tugged at his orange Ronald McDonald cap and told us the rules: You can take a cellphone OR a camera inside, no big purses, no knives, no nail clippers. "Thank you for coming."
George, 75, is one of the 20 to 30 members of Maranatha, which split from another Baptist church in town in the 1970s when a black pastor wanted to join the original one, so the story goes.
"I've been knowing Mr. Jimmy since I was this high," George said, bending over to touch his knees. It's "Mr. Jimmy" to those who know him well, President Carter to most others, he said.
Instead of giving $100,000 speeches as many former politicians do, Carter, 94, in remission from cancer, teaches Sunday school. Everyone is welcome, and those who stay for the regular service after Sunday school can have their pictures taken with the Carters. The oldest living American president, Carter usually teaches about twice a month.
My husband, Keith, and I wanted to make sure we'd sit in the main church sanctuary, not in an overflow room with a TV screen, although Carter stops by those too to say hello. Except for church members, friends, Habitat for Humanity volunteers working nearby or VIPs such as U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and U.S. Rep John Lewis, who attended Jan. 20, where you sit depends on when you arrive.
Mingling with a few other early arrivals, there was an instant camaraderie. "We're walking around like it's normal to get to church at 3 a.m.," said Ellen Sherwood, 64, from Madison, Florida. "This has been on my bucket list." She smiled and said, "I just love him. He's amazing."
Not everyone was a fan when Carter was president from 1977 to 1981, but most agree he's an exceptional former president and man. His connection with Habitat for Humanity helped make it a household name. Accomplishments of The Carter Center foundation founded by him and Rosalyn in 1982, and partnered with Emory University, are not as well known.
Among them is helping to practically wipe out Guinea worm disease in Africa and Asia, reducing those afflicted by the parasite in stagnant water from 3.5 million in 1968 to 28 in 2018. The foundation established health care systems in Africa and Latin America, worked to improve mental health care, observed elections in 39 countries and more. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
SOURCE: The Advocate, Millie Ball


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HCRN investigators Wellons, Kestle, Holubkov, Riva Cambrin and Limbrick recently met with the Clinical Trials group at NINDS (NIH). The purpose of the meeting was to discuss plans for a randomized trial on the management of hydrocephalus in premature infants with intraventricular hemorrhage. The PI for the trial will be Dr Jay Wellons, from the Birmingham Alabama center. The HCRN team discussed the study plan with the staff at NINDS and received feedback and suggestions.


HTC MDIA senior Joe Cox's game 'You Must be 18 or Older to Enter' has been selected as part of SXSW Gaming's inaugural Student Showcase.
SXSW Gaming has selected its finalists for the inaugural Student Showcase presented by The Art Institutes, which takes place at the SXSW Gaming Expo from March 16 – 18.
With 50 entries from top students and leading programs from around the world, SXSW Gaming staff tested each and every game to determine which would be present for the first-ever Student Showcase.
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The Student Showcase is one of the newest additions to the Gaming Expo, and we're proud to feature these amazing student projects in this year's showcase.
To find out more about You Must be 18 Years or Older to Enter, click here.
Additional reading: MDIA Student Joe Cox Wins Media Choice Award at IndieCade.


There has been much excitement in the Grady family in the last couple of weeks, as we welcomed no less than FOUR new arrivals to the clan. Yes, four little bundles of loveliness hopped their way into our lives and, in the process, into my dad's garden pond.
I'm talking about frogs, people. FROGS.
This is by way of being a momentous event. The pond was created some years ago, and has been the scene of many a small drama: the disappearing fish which, it transpired, were being eaten by a heron; the sudden and unexpected appearance of fish fry, six of which are growing into a new population to replace the heron victims; the fox barking an alarm when the lining sprang a leak; the Dread Winter of 2010 which was miraculously survived by quite a lot of the inhabitants... But to date, no frogs. Not one. And suddenly there they are, four of them! Maybe it's some kind of froggy bus service thing? They appear to be common frogs but to be fair I'm not that up on my herpetology so they could be any kind, really.
So. Some days later, Mum decided to have a wee peek at Mr Frog, to see how he was getting on with his fishy neighbours. A leap, a splash, a flurry of comedy legs, and a second frog hopped into view. Quite what the two of them were up to before Mum appeared I don't care to speculate, but oh, the excitement. It was like something from a David Attenborough programme. Except not in glorious HD slow motion. Somebody call the BBC!
Here is the second visitor, captured on camera just before a dive into the pond. A chubby little chappie (or possibly chappess) and clearly a bold adventurer, as he was out and about, checking out the neighbourhood, in general defiance of any cats, herons, seagulls or lawnmowers that happened to be lurking in wait. By this stage I was, needless to say, beside myself. I could barely wait to get up there and see the little critters.
'Wow', I thought. 'He's the best yet.' Delightedly, I sent the photos to Froglife, hoping they would be able to identify the type. Imagine my total over-reaction when they responded, saying: 'We don't think that's a UK frog...' Oh. My. God. It's a new species, previously unknown to science and discovered, albeit accidentally, by My Dad. It shall be named after him, Froggius Daddus, and stand as an eternal monument to the excellence of his pond. Or not. Further internet searching suggested this was in fact a Striped Marsh Frog, native to Australia. What the...?? How in the wide, wide world did it get here?
Alert the media! Scramble the Frog Squad! Send in the boffins! And, once again, call the BBC! And then came the phone call. Mum was ringing to inform me that this, in fact, is neither a species new to science nor Frog No. 4. It is, sadly, a photo Dad found on the web. He thought it looked like the little fella from his pond and in sharing it with his family almost sparked an International Incident among the world's herpetologists. Thankfully we discovered the error in time and were able to head off the Scientific Discovery Teams ready to congregate on Glasgow's South Side at that very moment. Phew.
Today's news on the frog front is that Dad, for some reason best known only to himself, decided to spray the surface of the pond with the hose. This, apparently, seriously disgruntled the newly-settled froggy population, all of whom seem now to have disappeared. Silly Dad. I am hoping they are merely hopping mad (ahahahaha) and will return in due course. Please hope with me, because a world where no frogs live in my Dad's pond is, suddenly, a smaller and sadder place to be.
***UPDATE*** There has been a sighting of the alleged 'zebra' frog!
Ahahahaha. No, this is him really. Quite what natural history programmes Dad has been watching I don't know... But still! The frog has returned!!
I am so disappointed that dad didn't actually find that frog in his pond. Dude. Are there any frogs at all? Is he just winding us up?
First Foodie Pen Pal Package!
Post the first - what am I doing here?


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Q: Как вставить отрывок кода из с++ в код python? например эту часть
int main() {
    char **mass = new char *[8];

    for(int i = 0; i<7;i++) {
        mass[i] = new char[20];
        cin >> mass[i];
    }
    for(int i = 0 ; i < 7; i++){
        for(int j = i+1; j < 8; i++)
            if(strcpy(mass[i], mass[j]) > 0){
                char* tmp = mass[i];
                mass[i] = mass[j];
                mass[j] = tmp;
            }
    }
    for(int i = 0; i < 8; i++){
        cout << mass[i] << endl;
    }

        return 0;
}

вставить в код python без открывания отдельного файла с кодом с++ (чтобы все было в одном файле)

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I love all food but lamb has to be one of my favourites. Rather than waiting for the weekend to have a roast I fancied a mid week fix so opted for chops. It worked a treat. I don't think I can eat lamb without rosemary and you can probably see from my posts I also love a sauce, this sauce was easy to make and delicious the redcurrant jelly adds a really nice sweetness, the lemon zest and juice freshens and lifts the gravy. In season at the moment is the January king cabbage, it's amazing. I simple stir fried it to slightly soften it as the flavour is so good.
In a bowl add the rosemary, lemon zest, minced garlic, olive oil and season. Mix to combine. Add in the lamb steaks and rub all over to coat. Cover and put in the fridge for a minimum of 30 minutes.
Heat a frying pan over a medium heat. Add the lamb and any excess oil in the bowl. Cook on both sides for 5-6 minutes then set aside wrapped in foil so the lamb can rest.
In the same pan add the sliced garlic and cook for a minute or until fragrant. Pour in the wine, bring to a boiling simmer and cook for a few minutes so the alcohol burns off. Pour in the stock and redcurrant jelly simmer for a few minutes. Finish off by adding the knob of butter and lemon juice. Season to taste and serve with the lamb. Enjoy.


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In contrast to the above taper down designs, this vase offers a tapering up silhouette. The taper up design is a relatively new, yet, modest approach. The narrowing up has the advantage of holding the bouquet in place forming a tight cluster of arrangements. The slender vases are simple in design but commands attention in its expressive shape. Ideal for florets with medium stems. Colored marbles, river rocks or pebbles can be added to line the bottom of these clear taper down glass vases to compose a colorful bed for any arrangements.
This square vase is the petite version of the taper up vase series, is 7.5" tall with a 2.75" square top and a 4.5" square base. The larger base enhances the stability of the vase and offers a proportionate display for blossoming bouquet.
Glass Dome w/ Wood Base & Stopper H-11.5" Body D-8.5"


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package com.hazelcast.test.mocknetwork;

import com.hazelcast.instance.AddressPicker;
import com.hazelcast.instance.EndpointQualifier;
import com.hazelcast.cluster.Address;

import java.nio.channels.ServerSocketChannel;
import java.util.Map;

import static java.util.Collections.singletonMap;

class StaticAddressPicker implements AddressPicker {

    private final Address thisAddress;

    StaticAddressPicker(Address thisAddress) {
        this.thisAddress = thisAddress;
    }

    public void pickAddress() {
    }

    @Override
    public Address getBindAddress(EndpointQualifier qualifier) {
        return thisAddress;
    }

    @Override
    public Address getPublicAddress(EndpointQualifier qualifier) {
        return thisAddress;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<EndpointQualifier, Address> getPublicAddressMap() {
        return singletonMap(EndpointQualifier.MEMBER, thisAddress);
    }

    @Override
    public ServerSocketChannel getServerSocketChannel(EndpointQualifier qualifier) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<EndpointQualifier, ServerSocketChannel> getServerSocketChannels() {
        return null;
    }

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Minnesota hospital's negligence leaves man 'totally dependent' on others
By Restovich Braun & Associates | 10/25/2016 |
A drop from a hospital table in Minnesota caused an elderly man life-changing injuries, according to a news report.
The intention of going to a hospital or doctor's office in Minnesota is to leave in a better condition. Every day, patients are brought in for care and provided treatment. Unfortunately, some professionals commit devastating mistakes, ranging from surgical errors to delayed diagnoses.
A recent incident during a procedure at a Fergus Falls hospital has upended a man from his home. When situations like this occur, Minnesota law does enable victims of medical negligence to seek relief.
According to WDAZ, the 78-year-old man will now have to live in a nursing home facility. He was living with a caretaker when he went to a hospital for a standard procedure. However, as the hospital staff members were repositioning him on the table, the man fell.
The fall caused nerve damage to the man's hand. He said he went from needing minimal assistance from his caretaker to becoming totally dependent on other people. Though the man was in a wheelchair prior to the incident, he said he now feels helpless. His caretaker said he is "almost like a quadriplegic."
To make matters worse, the man's caretaker is no longer to tend to his needs. Therefore, he will have to leave his home and move into a nursing care facility.
The news report stated that the hospital told the man that he would not suffer a financial burden. The hospital has also issued an apology to him. However, the caretaker said the hospital has not made good on its word. She also said she is prepared to seek legal recourse.
Medical malpractice in Minnesota
In Minnesota, negligent medical professionals and facilities may be held financially responsible for the damages they cause. According to the law, claims seeking relief for medical malpractice must be filed within four years of the date of the incident. Failing to initiate a suit in that timeframe could result in a case dismissal.
In order to recover damages, a plaintiff must be able to demonstrate the following:
That he or she was under the care of the defendant
That the defendant strayed from the duty of care to the patient
That the deviation caused the damages incurred
Through using expert witnesses, such as a physician with a similar background in the same practice area, it is possible to demonstrate what the care should have been.
Regardless of how the negligence was committed, it is essential for someone who suffers harm due to a medical professional to seek recourse. Anyone who has concerns about this topic should speak to a personal injury attorney in Minnesota.


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package godbc

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"runtime"
)

// InvariantSimpleTester is an interface which provides a receiver to
// test the object
type InvariantSimpleTester interface {
	Invariant() bool
}

// InvariantTester is an interface which provides not only an Invariant(),
// but also a receiver to print the structure
type InvariantTester interface {
	InvariantSimpleTester
	String() string
}

// dbc_panic prints to the screen information of the failure followed
// by a call to panic()
func dbc_panic(dbc_func_name string, b bool, message ...interface{}) {
	if !b {

		// Get caller information which is the caller
		// of the caller of this function
		pc, file, line, _ := runtime.Caller(2)
		caller_func_info := runtime.FuncForPC(pc)

		error_string := fmt.Sprintf("%s:\n\r\tfunc (%s) 0x%x\n\r\tFile %s:%d",
			dbc_func_name,
			caller_func_info.Name(),
			pc,
			file,
			line)

		if len(message) > 0 {
			error_string += fmt.Sprintf("\n\r\tInfo: %+v", message)
		}
		err := errors.New(error_string)

		// Finally panic
		panic(err)
	}
}

// Require checks that the preconditions are satisfied before
// executing the function
//
// Example Code
//
// 		func Divide(a, b int) int {
//			godbc.Require(b != 0)
//			return a/b
// 		}
//
func Require(b bool, message ...interface{}) {
	dbc_panic("REQUIRE", b, message...)
}

// Ensure checks the postconditions are satisfied before returning
// to the caller.
//
// Example Code
//
//		type Data struct {
//			a int
//		}
//
// 		func (*d Data) Set(a int) {
//			d.a = a
//			godbc.Ensure(d.a == a)
// 		}
//
func Ensure(b bool, message ...interface{}) {
	dbc_panic("ENSURE", b, message...)
}

// Check provides a simple assert
func Check(b bool, message ...interface{}) {
	dbc_panic("CHECK", b, message...)
}

// InvariantSimple calls the objects Invariant() receiver to test
// the object for correctness.
//
// The caller object must provide an object that supports the
// interface InvariantSimpleTester and does not need to provide
// a String() receiver
func InvariantSimple(obj InvariantSimpleTester, message ...interface{}) {
	dbc_panic("INVARIANT", obj.Invariant(), message...)
}

// Invariant calls the objects Invariant() receiver to test
// the object for correctness.
//
// The caller object must provide an object that supports the
// interface InvariantTester
//
// To see an example, please take a look at the godbc_test.go
func Invariant(obj InvariantTester, message ...interface{}) {
	m := append(message, obj)
	dbc_panic("INVARIANT", obj.Invariant(), m)
}


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Prata is a Brazilian municipality located in the west of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2020 was 28,017, living in a total area of 4,856 km². The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba and to the statistical microregion of Uberlândia. It became a municipality in 1873.

Location
Prata is located at an elevation of 631 meters in the rich region known as the Triângulo Mineiro.  It is southwest of Uberlândia and northwest of Uberaba and is connected to Uberlândia by federal highway BR-497.

The distance to Uberlândia is 74 km; and the distance to Belo Horizonte is 640 km.   Neighboring  municipalities are:   Monte Alegre de Minas(N); Ituiutaba, Campina Verde (W) ; Comendador Gomes, Campo Florido (S); Uberlândia and Veríssimo (E).

Economy
The main economic activities are services, agriculture, and small industries.  The GDP in 2005 was R$261 million, with 112 million from services, 29 million from industry, and 102 million from agriculture.  There were 1,487 rural producers on 327,000 hectares of land.  607 farms had tractors.  The main crops were peanuts, rice, sugarcane, beans, corn, and soybeans (15,000 hectares).  There were 344,000 head of cattle (2006).

Health and education
The social indicators rank it in the top tier of municipalities in the state.
Municipal Human Development Index: 0.769 (2000)
State ranking: 177 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000
National ranking: 1368 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000
Literacy rate: 87%
Life expectancy: 70 (average of males and females)

The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was Poços de Caldas with 0.841, while the lowest was Setubinha with 0.568.  Nationally the highest was São Caetano do Sul in São Paulo with 0.919, while the lowest was Setubinha.  In more recent statistics (considering 5,507 municipalities) Manari in the state of Pernambuco has the lowest rating in the country—0,467—putting it in last place.

There was one hospital with 41 beds in 2005.  Patients with more serious health conditions are taken care of in Uberlândia or Uberaba.

Paleontology

At Prata there were found rock paintings and fossils of the biggest dinosaur found in Brazil which lived 80 million years ago in the region of Serra da Boa Vista, 40 km from the municipal seat.
The dinosaur was called Maxakalisaurus topai and, after popular vote, it is now known as DINOPRATA.
The model of the 13 meter long titanossauro (made in resin) has been on display in the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro since August, 2006.

See also
 List of municipalities in Minas Gerais

References

External links

 Prefeitura de Prata

Municipalities in Minas Gerais

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Safety and security for your growing children is top priority on any car journey – long or short. That's why we've compiled this list of the 22 best car seats for 4 year olds that come highly rated for their protection on road trips and short rides.
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There are so many options when shopping for ride-on toys for 4 year olds. Do you want battery-powered? Foot-to-floor scooters? Or even a unicorn? You're bound to pick a toy that will engage their make-believe skills and provide years of fun.
When searching for robot toys for 4 year olds, one has to remember the variety of robots and associated gifts which, although difficult to retrieve, are brought to you via this simple list. Big or small, this list has them all.


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Translated by Anna Knight
How do you make a class operate like a work of art?1
An Interview with Clovis Maillet
by Marie Bechetoille
☛ Louise Hervé, Clovis Maillet
Nihil dictum quin prius dictum
2018, Performance, Ivry Contemporary art center – Le Crédac. Courtesy of the artists and Ivry Contemporary art center – Le Crédac.
Portrait of C. Maillet by students of the Sans titre, sans genre project, 2019, École supérieure d'art et de design d'Angers, Angers
© S. Bouffandeau
Valentin Messager
Drawing for the poster of the educational project Sans titre sans genre, 2019, École supérieure d'art et de design d'Angers, Angers. Courtesy of the artist and the École supérieure d'art et de design d'Angers
Drawing of the open-air school of Suresnes, Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods archives, Suresnes communal archives
© C. Maillet
Portrait of C. Maillet and L. Hervé, 2019, Cahn Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland. Courtesy of the artists
© L. Charrier
☛ Moilesautresarts (Lila Retif, Cathie Bagory, Beth Gordon)
Citrus maxima xparadisi
Performance, as part of the project Sans titre, sans genre, 2019, École supérieure d'art et de design d'Angers, Angers. Courtesy of the artists and the École supérieure d'art et de design d'Angers
Marie Bechetoille:
Clovis Maillet, you've been working as an artist in a duo with Louise Hervé for around fifteen years and you've shown your work at many institutions in France and abroad, represented by the Galerie Marcelle Alix. You are also a researcher: you've written a thesis on medieval hagiographic kinship, you've done a post-doctorate diploma at the Musée du Quai Branly in 2015–2016, and you regularly publish articles in historical and anthropological journals. You started your duo with Louise Hervé during your studies: Louise was attending the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy and you were studying History and Art History at university, with some classes at Cergy. How did that fuel your artistic practice?
Clovis Maillet:
Nowadays, many artists do tertiary studies. Some collaborate with academic researchers. They're not (exactly) the same methods and above all, it's not the same target. Disciplinary cannibalisms, in order to be fertile and allow emancipatory work on both sides, must first positively consider this very otherness itself. The attraction for university is not recent and dates from at least the 1950s, as Sandra Delacourt's book shows.2 But art schools remain central to the development of future artists. We learn there, through practice, the artist's profession and the design of exhibitions – which is more difficult at university owing to a lack of workshop space. I have my university degrees but no artistic degree whatsoever. The question of the artist-researcher was immediately obvious, because Louise and I only consider art through research methods, which we'd like to be rigorous, based on first-hand sources (archives, historical documents) and drawing on humour as a working tool.
You teach both the History and Theory of Art at the École Supérieure d'Art et Design in Angers (TALM) and Medieval History, first at the Université Paris-Diderot then at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers. How do you work with students at art school? What does this lecturer role bring you?
CM:
I have one foot in each institution. At art school, individual pedagogy, founded on the student's project, allows you to guide them in a very personalised way. At university, you rigorously teach the method of shared, precise, and informed research. They're two sides of the same coin, and the methods are almost opposites. Sometimes I make a transition between these two pedagogies, for instance by supervising a former student from the Angers school this year at master's level at the EHESS, along with Pierre-Olivier Dittmar.
Art school is supposed to be the school of all possibilities, which sometimes tends to be a non-school. The dream is that it be like in News from Nowhere, the utopia of artist William Morris,3 where the children learn by themselves, with the tools made available to them. University is the reproduction of proven tools and seeks to teach intellectual honesty and the requirement of exhaustivity. Personally, I need both to feel balanced, but the two methods do not suit all students equally.
When I start a class, I think of bell hooks4 and Paulo Freire,5 of Donna Haraway,6 Jacotot, and Jacques Rancière.7 I also think of my wonderful history-geo teacher in quatrième at my rural collège,8 and of my first-year literature teacher,9 whose readings of Aeschylus moved me so greatly. There was also the discovery of the German seminar at the EHESS (teaching through research) where the (knight) students sit around a round table, of equal intelligence as the teachers.
The difficulty is that, at university, you become a teacher because you already weren't a very good student at school (and that's my case), with the risk of only being able to address the good students. I'm aware that, for me, the process of education through knowledge worked (I wasn't very at ease in my life and in my body, so disincarnated knowledge suited me). You have to think about the fact that disembodied knowledge suits some individuals who don't always want to think about their body and being, but that it won't suit others who will never adhere to overly clinical ways of thinking. The position of teacher provides agency and power in this domain.
It's not a question of interacting with a group of students in the same way as a social group in which you'd band together through shared affinities and questions, while excluding those who wouldn't have these shared affinities. I don't want to hide my position as speaker but I want teaching to be addressed to the "good" and "bad" students, to the feminists and the others, to the revolutionaries and the conservatives, to different students, who might mobilise the specificities of their knowledges and ability to act. bell hooks wrote: "It is often productive if professors take the first risk, linking confessional narratives to academic discussions so as to show how experience can illuminate and enhance our understanding of academic material. But most professors must practice being vulnerable in the classroom, being wholly present in mind, body, and spirit."10
Is your feminist commitment important within your artistic practice and in your way of teaching? Which pedagogical practices seem interesting to you today? What alternatives exist or could exist outside of art schools?
My habitus is intersectional and antispecist feminism, which infuses both my personal and professional life. Unfortunately, both in society and in schools, transphobic, racist, classist, and ableist systems of oppression exist. I give classes in Art History based on theory in art history and offer students both knowledges about art and ways of thinking about the way knowledges are developed. Thinking about pedagogies can only be collective. With several feminist teachers, we swap our practices, cannibalising each other's methods. We offer shared workshops. We're preparing a manual of intersectional feminist art history.
The pedagogies that interest me stem from autonomous movements and from the history of anarchism. The Paris Commune instigated free co-ed schooling: Louise Michel was a primary school teacher and the École Nouvelle came from self-governing principles.11 More recently, the experiences described by Joan Jordan and Isabelle Frémeaux also changed my perspective regarding the capacity for libertarian autonomy at all ages.12 Today, the communities connected to the ZADs are organising autonomous schools that combine theory, techniques, and art.
Art school is an institution governed by its rules. But pedagogy is research through practise, in perpetual motion, because what you learn by teaching is above all that that you can never do lessons on pedagogy.
Do you have some examples to share of important moments in your development as a teacher that you experienced with the students?
My teaching combines moments of transmission of knowledges and experimental workshops. In the first case, the evaluation is done by the acquisition of knowledges and method, in the second, I do not evaluate the content of the propositions but the involvement in the collective work. Without any prescriptive dimension, I can cite two recent examples that were experienced by the students as very productive, and put me in a situation that was both vulnerable and enthusiastic. In both cases, the pedagogical proposals came directly from student requests.
In March 2019, we were launching a core programme on questions of gender with the Université d'Angers (famous for conserving the Archives du féminisme). The idea was to design a self-organised programme, with a guest, an exhibition, and a programme of performances. First of all, I received some positive reactions, but no student proposals. I was getting worried, the date was approaching, a title arrived (proposed by a student from self-organised pedagogy). Their aspirations tended towards queer theory, so I suggested inviting Sam Bourcier. I sent their documents and introduced them to the author. The worry returned because the exhibition was not taking shape, the students were busy with their end-of-semester reviews. Finally, a collective of variable dimensions sent out a call for participation, sorted the proposal, and self-organised projects were mounted. After a lot of anxiety, I experienced the week like a moment of grace, the students presented performances every evening and some extracurricular activities (lip-sync, drag, make-up…) became artistic mediums that they continue to invest and connect with their other projects. Students from first to fifth year participated and tested installing the exhibition and performances, with extensions into the personal and professional levels.
The second example, during a workshop with my colleagues Vanina Géré (Villa Arson) and Martha Salimbeni (ISBA Besançon). We suggested the design of an "intersectional feminist survival kit". We introduced ourselves, as teachers, as vulnerable to attacks. The first day was excellent, the participation was active and propositions flowed. From the second day onwards, the problems evoked by the group overwhelmed us, we were no longer sure of being able to provide any tools at all to survive in a world full of so much aggression. We rearranged the methods and subdivided the group; the students had spread out and could no longer stand (no more than we could) dwelling on all of this violence again. On the last day, a more modest group worked hard, mobilising its knowledge, constantly seeking to verify all the sources. A gamebook, reporting back on its adventures, is currently being prepared and will be distributed in open source. This type of project is essential, but dangerous – it reveals a lot. These projects are entirely distinct from the exercise/response dimension. These are spaces between human individuals capable of discussion, which are essential and possible within art schools.
Postulating about the "equality of intelligences" like Jacotot13 within a group is essential, even if within it there are people who teach and others who learn. But it is about forcing teachers to leave the comfort of their field of competency and requiring students to be honest about their own knowledge and their desire to learn and do.
Félix Guattari, Chaosmosis, trans. Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis (Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995), 133.
Sandra Delacourt, L'Artiste-chercheur, un rêve américain au prisme de Donald Judd (Paris: B42, 2019).
William Morris, News from Nowhere (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2017) .
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, (New York, London: Routledge, 1994).
Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (London: Bloomsbury Academic; 4th edition, 2018).
Donna Haraway, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" (1988), in A Cyborg Manifesto and Other Essays: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (London: The Socialist Review, 1985).
Jacques Rancière, Le maître ignorant, cinq leçons sur l'émancipation intellectuelle, (Paris: Fayard, 1987).
Collège Joachim du Bellay, Loudun.
Mme. Leroux, Lycée Condorcet, Paris.
bell hooks, "Engaged pedagogy", op. cit., chap. 1.
See for example in France: Célestin Freinet, Les méthodes naturelles dans la pédagogie moderne (Paris: Bourrelier, 1956); Jean-Charles Pettier and Paulette Clad, Pédagogie Germaine Tortel. Un avenir possible pour l'école maternelle (Paris: Fabert, 2012).
Isabelle Frémeaux and John Jordan, Les sentiers de l'utopie (Paris: La Découverte, 2011).
Jacques Rancière, op. cit., p. 77.
On Städelschule, Frankfurt
conversation with Anders Dickson