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Wednesday 31st August 2016Spy Booth Mural Destroyed in Cheltenham
Graffiti art automatically comes with an inherent kind of risk. Not only is there the fact that the process is generally regarded as illegal, regardless of how beautiful the resulting work is, but there is the risk that the piece itself won't survive. Even fame and recognition doesn't seem to be a guarantee against these dangers, as the famous street artist Banksy discovered recently.
One of his most famous pieces is located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, painted on a the side of a house surrounding a telephone booth. Entitled Spy Booth, it's a critique of the recent revelations of extensive government surveillance and spying that have rocked the world over the last few years.
The choice of location was no accident, as the GCHQ building is nearby, the headquarters of the British government surveillance system. But someone was clearly asleep at the switch when it came time to protect one of Banksy's most famous pieces, for the piece has been removed from its location and destroyed thanks to an unfortunate accident involving an urgent home repair.
Interestingly enough, this isn't the first time Spy Booth has had some trouble. It has suffered numerous vandalism issues, which fortunately were repaired successfully. After the latest danger, the Cheltenham Borough Council decided to grant it retrospective planning consent in 2015, which establishes it as a protected work. In theory, this should make it more difficult to remove - but it can't protect it against accidents.
The council's enforcement manager, Mark Nelson, explains: "We have endeavoured to protect the Banksy as much as possible and to this end the notice required the owner to have due regard for the mural whilst works were being undertaken. We were aware of loose render on that part of the building but the extent and how far it would affect the mural was unknown until work progressed. We would advise anyone against removing any further pieces from the location as this may be classed as a criminal offence."
David Possee, the owner of the house, had reportedly been offered upwards of a million pounds for the artwork, which he declined. Hopefully, this piece can be restored by the council or by Banksy himself, but perhaps it should be regarded as a lesson in the impermanence of the street art medium.
Posted on August 31st 2016 on 10:03pm
Labels: banksy, mural, street art
Tuesday 29th September 2015Dismaland to the Rescue?
You'll no doubt recall our recent post on Banksy's latest installation project, a massive undertaking dubbed 'Dismaland', a riff on the famous American theme park Disneyland. The project ran for five weeks, from August 22 to Sept 26, and sold out it's 4000 available daily tickets every single day that it was in operation, an impressive feat in and of itself. Banksy apparently called the installation 'crap', but if anyone knows how quickly the public eats up his work, it's him.
Now that the installation has run its course, however, there is a new plan in place for the remnants of the installation. It was incredibly large, though nowhere close to the size of the park it's cheekily mocking, and now Banksy finds himself in possession of a huge amount of raw building materials that can easily be repurposed. So what's a politically aware street artist to do?
It turns out that he's willing to put his money where his mouth is, and has decided to dismantle the park and ship all the materials to Calais, France, where a huge number of migrants fleeing strife in the Middle East have congregated. The camp in Calais, known as The Jungle due its incredibly high rate of crime and terrible living conditions, is temporary home to an estimated 5,000 refugees at the moment, and that number is only likely to rise.
The website for the project, dismaland.co.uk, has now been updated with the photo shown above and a brief message, which reads:
"All the timber and fixtures from Dismaland are being sent to the Jungle refugee camp near Calais to build shelters. No online tickets will be available."
It's a strange world we live in, where a mock theme park (a 'bemusement park', as Banksy put it) filled with anarchist training courses selling hacking kits run by a political activist artist is going to do more to help refugees than governments do. Admittedly, governments tend to have more hoops to go through, but that doesn't make the human cost any lower. Here's hoping that others will follow Banksy's good example and try to contribute what they can to alleviate people's suffering. Not that he's the only one helping, of course - many brave and compassionate volunteers around the world are helping every day without getting a whit of credit - but it's nice to see people continuing to step up to the plate.
Labels: banksy, calais, dismaland, refugees
Friday 04th September 2015Welcome to Dismaland
The world just can't get enough Banksy. From fighting over the rights to spraypaint scrawls on walls to outright thefts of public property to million dollar auction prices, Banksy is one of the most well-known disruptive influences in the current art world (whether this is a blessing or a curse depends on which part of the gamut you're in). The satirical lampooning of popular culture and media icons continues in his latest project, a massively scaled installation titled Dismaland Bemusement Park.
Set up in the English coastal town Weston-super-Mare in the south-east part of the country, the grey skies most often seen above the park seem perfectly suited to a grim, bleak mockery of Disneyland, the famous American theme park that refers to itself as 'The Happiest Place on Earth'. The entire place is a monument to the destruction of ersatz happiness: the castle centerpiece of the real Disneyland has been reconstructed and burned down, and the entire place is strewn with the gritty underside of the world - that which we pretend to ignore yet obsess over compulsively, and that which is just downright alarming. Cinderella's coach has crashed into a building and is surrounded by paparazzi, while children are offered advance payroll loans on their allowance.
There's more to the installation than just sending up Disney, however, as there are several galleries contained within the installation itself. Showcasing works from Jenny Holzer, Damien Hirst, and a number of other artists whose pieces were felt to support the underlying premise of the "park", over 50 in total from around the world. Banksy also has several new pieces on display, the most poignant of which is presented as a game, where visitors pilot boats filled with migrants through corpse-riddled waters. Definitely much grimmer than the real deal, it nevertheless sparks much more thought, debate, and dialog. Even the gift shop is more novel, where it's supposedly even possible to pick up a kit designed to hack bus stop billboard displays - no word on the price, however
Tickets to Dismaland are limited to 4000 per day, and cost under $5, meaning that they're likely to be sold out each and every day. It opened on August 22, but it will only be open until September 27, so be sure to get in there while you have the chance. It might not be the happiest place on earth, but it sure is the most interesting for the moment!
Labels: banksy, dismaland, disney, installation
Wednesday 04th March 2015Germany's Last Banksy Defaced
For a long, long time, street art struggled to shake off the public perception that it was nothing more than flagrant vandalism with a coat of paint. With the help of a large and dedicated community, along with more prominent individual artists such as Banksy who have grown into almost household names, street art is finally beginning to be accepted as a legitimate art form, one who may be more true to the emotive and impactful nature of art that much of what is being produced in more traditional art spheres.
Sometimes, however, it's impossible to shake off the reality that vandalism, graffiti and street art all share a common root and may suffer the same ills. This was never more true than last month, when the last surviving piece of street art by Banksy in Germany was defaced by a vandal. The piece, a stencil entitled 'Bomb Hugger', found on a concrete pillar in Hamburg, had actually been protected by a local arts group, the Spiegelberger Foundation, in 2011 to prevent just this sort of casual destruction. A piece of clear plexiglass was riveted around the edges of the work, preventing most of the potential damages, but the clever vandal figured out a way around this - using spray paint. The word 'graffiti' was spray painted thickly just above the upper edge of the plexiglass, so thickly that paint dripped down from the letters and seeped in behind the cover to drip down over the stencil itself
While there is a certain frustrating yet undeniable irony that the vandal spray painted the word 'graffiti', some small voice in the back of the mind wonders if this might not be a stunt by Banksy himself in response to the sudden fame that has found him. Alternatively, now that Banksy pieces are becoming quite valuable to collectors, it's possible that someone is attempted to drive up the value of their own pieces by destroying others that are outside of the traditional protections afforded to most artwork by galleries and their accompanying security staff.
It's hard to tell if it's casual insensitivity, a calculated plot, or who knows what, but inexplicable the Hamburg police department insists that the piece was undamaged by the vandalism, although it appears now that the majority of the blue spraypaint has been removed and the piece has been restored as much as possible.
Posted on March 04th 2015 on 05:00pm
Labels: banksy, street art, vandalism
Friday 03rd October 2014Vandalising Street Art
Street art has some truly messy roots, even by the standards of the art world. Essentially starting out of the graffiti movement (if it can even be called that in its infancy), the works were inherently illegal from the very beginning. An entire subculture was spawned outside of the realms of the supposedly civilized art world, and like all subcultures, it developed its own rules and social taboos. One of them involved the taboo of painting over another's work - provided it was a genuine work of art (by the standards of the subculture). It was still done, of course, but it wasn't merely accepted practice but could be taken slap in the face of the artist whose work was being covered up. However, there grows a kind of interplay between the various artists if they don't know each other, a kind of narrative that is established by their interactions with each other through their works.
Banksy, of course, changed the entire world of street art by becoming a valuable commodity. When street art was treated as a public nuisance, nobody in the dominant culture paid any attention to the squabbles of those they saw as essentially criminals. But once Banksy appeared and captured the hearts, minds and dollar bills of the art-loving public, street art suddenly began to get noticed. A number of thorny and tangled legal issues emerged, such as the ownership of a work created partly using materials owned by someone else (say, the wall of the youth centre we mentioned in our last Banksy article). So when Banksy's latest work, Girl with the Pierced Eardrum, a takeoff on Girl with the Pearl Earring by Vermeer, the art world is in a bit of a dither as to how to respond.
Frank Malt, one of the most noted authorities on street art and street artists in the UK, said "Banksy puts the work up for the public to enjoy but people are exploiting it. People think it's fun to deface Banksy's work because they may get a name for themselves. Girl with the Pierced Eardrum could have been defaced by anyone – it could have been kids wanting a bit of attention."
The interesting thing is that there has yet to be a reaction from Banksy as to how he feels about the supposed defacement. It's not like he can really place any formal objections to how his work is treated, as it is still technically criminal in nature. However, it would change the entire nature of his work if he started creating it for the express purpose of building a dialog or narrative with other artists. How cool would that be?
Posted on October 03rd 2014 on 08:08pm
Labels: banksy, graffiti, street art, vandal
Friday 02nd May 2014A Bit More Banksy
By now, it's almost inevitable that you've heard of the street artist named Banksy. Whether just from reading this blog, or your own personal interest in his work, it's impossible to deny the fact that he has been one of the major driving forces behind the acceptance of street art into the world of high culture. After getting a start 20 years ago in Bristol, UK, Banksy has since graced some of the world's leading art galleries and auction houses with his work, all while maintaining a sly sense of notoriety - though whether or not this can be considered more than a marketing ploy at this point is up for debate.
One of the most interesting consequences of his style of work, however, is the question of ownership. If a kid with a spray can and a stencil creates a piece of work, typically it's either ignored, or eventually removed by a town council's anti-graffiti group. When the artist behind a stenciled piece is an internationally renowned figure, however, people start to sit up and take notice.
But who owns the piece? If Banksy had created his work on canvas he bought, naturally he would be considered the owner by copyright law. But considering that he uses real property that belongs to someone else (and without their consent), does the piece automatically become the property of the owner of the building or structure that acts as canvas?
This question was recently highlighted by a Banksy piece that appeared on the wall of a community centre in Bristol, back where the phenom got his start. The piece, which was apparently titled 'Mobile Lovers', was initially released in an Instagram photo, which fans finally tracked down to the Broad Plain Boys youth centre using digital sleuthing techniques that included Google Street View.
Within a few hours of the piece being properly discovered, however, members of the youth centre had removed it from the wall with a crowbar and set it up inside. While they are allowing anyone free access to view the piece, they are requesting a voluntary donation to help keep the centre up and running.
It will be interesting to see what they plan to do with the piece in the long term, as Banksy originals have been fetching large sums of money at auction houses all over the world - although there may be some complex legal implications if they do attempt to auction the piece.
Posted on May 02nd 2014 on 05:23pm
Labels: auction, banksy, street art
Friday 21st March 2014Inspiration Station: Exit Through the Gift Shop
As we mentioned in our previous post, street has come an incredibly long way towards being accepted, albeit somewhat paradoxically, as part of the mainstream art world. Despite being forged in the underground (often literally - take a look at a New York City subway train next time you happen to be in town), it has recently begun to blossom into psychedelically coloured gallery spaces throughout much of the art world, and even reaching film festivals, as we'll see in Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film.
Click here to watch the trailer on Youtube.
One of the most celebrated art documentaries in recent years, Exit Through the Gift Shop debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 to excellent critical reception. The first feature-length film by the only street artist most people can name, Exit Through the Gift Shop rapidly expanded in fame and prominence. It details the story of a videography-obsessed store owner who happens to be related to an extremely famous street artist who goes by the name 'Space Invader'. Visiting home in France, he films his cousin at work and the work itself, and eventually reaches out to Shepard Fairey, the American street artist, and the two travel across the United States filming a huge variety of work. Eventually, they meet up with Banksy, they put on a show, and all sorts of excellent hijinks ensue that we won't spoil for you here.
The film itself, narrated by Rhys Ifans, is a true joy to watch, and sticks with you for quite some time after the credits roll. Amusingly enough, the real Banksy is slightly less than willing to come right out and say how much of the film (if any) is actually true documentary, or whether the entire thing is actually what's known as a mockumentary (think "This is Spinal Tap"). Considering the sly gutter smirk that barely hides behind every piece of work Banksy has ever done, it's not hard to imagine that the entire film is an elaborate joke being played by an artist who doesn't truly feel - and doesn't want to feel - a part of the more "traditional" artistic community.
The only way to decide for yourself, of course, is to see the film. No matter what you wind up believing (believe that Banksy isn't going to drawn out to say one way or the other), there is something truly inspiring about the types of work that Banksy does, and you may find yourself even more eager than usual to get back into the studio (or the street corner) after you finish watching. Enjoy!
Posted on March 21st 2014 on 11:24pm
Labels: banksy, exit throug the gift shop, graffiti, inspiration, street art


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You don't realize that I am watching you. I am watching all of you. Your sinful deeds are all around you, and I the Lord see them all. You entertain each other with wickedness and lies and many of you are aflame with lust. Yet, as I watch and listen, not one of you cries out to me. You continue to mingle with godless foreigners and you made yourself as worthless as a half baked cake. Are you for me or do you long for the things of this world? Have they filled your heart so much that you no longer desire me? Haven't you read the warnings? My people have become lukewarm.
Do you cowardly cringe when you say the name of my Son Jesus? If you deny Him, He will surely deny you before ME. What sorrow awaits those who desert ME. For I sent My only Beloved Son FOR YOU, Yet you consider it as nothing. My fury is about to be poured out like boiling water from an overturned pot. How much longer shall I call out to you?
My heart weeps for you. If you would only open your eyes and see how much I LOVE YOU. You seek me, but you don't find me. You have looked everywhere but you your sins have weighed you down, you carry them around as ropes tied to you. When will you confess?- for I am an all forgiving God- and Savior. But you don't admit your wrongs. Have you not heard that there is no sacrifice that will cover your deliberate continual sinning? You don't cry out to me with sincere hearts.
I saw the Lord reaching out to those burdened in sin. He is reaching out to so many….will you stop to hear His call? Confess your sins and turn back to Him. He loves you as if you were His only Child. It's almost too amazing to understand.. a Holy God in heaven who knows all about you, He understands you because He made your heart. We are told over and over again that He watches us, He bends down to hear us and He listens to our conversations.
It makes my heart joyful to imagine that our God cares so much for us. I saw a great King bend down from His throne to hear me as I prayed! He has a place in the heavens for each one of us- yes, even YOU! A place in the heavenlies before His throne!
Don't you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. …If you have doubts about whether or not you should eat something, you are sinning if you go ahead and do it. For you are not following your convictions. If you do anything you believe is not right, you are sinning.
DO I REALLY NEED TO REPENT?
Matthew 4:17 From then on Jesus began to preach, "Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.
Psalm 7:12 If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
James 5:16 :Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.
Daniel 9:20 I went on praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people, pleading with the LORD my God for Jerusalem, his holy mountain.
Revelation 16:11and they cursed the God of heaven for their pains and sores. But they did not repent of their evil deeds and turn to God.
Revelation 16:9 Everyone was burned by this blast of heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had control over all these plagues. They did not repent of their sins and turn to God and give him glory.
Revelation 9:21 And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Repent, all of you who forget me, or I will tear you apart, and no one will help you. The sacrifice the Lord desires is a broken spirit.
3- if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. There is only the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God's mercy to us. For we know the one who said,"I will take revenge. I will pay them back."He also said,"The Lord will judge his own people." It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. 33 Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. 34 You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever. So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.
38 And my righteous ones will live by faith.
We all fall short, we all struggle… We have a helper- the Holy Spirit : Letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
22 I love God's law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will. That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you.
Trembling I stand before you, for the world has begun to pull so many from Holiness. Where can it be found? How shall I know it? How can I know all the hidden sins in my heart? Open our eyes to the sin that tries to trip so many of us. Reveal the sins in our heart and forgive us for the ways we have not honored you or your name. Cleanse us Lord and keep us on your path. We desire with all our being to walk with you, protect us from the evil one and lead us along the right pathways. Teach me how to prepare for the coming of the King of Glory. Teach me how to keep the oil always burning. I want to be blameless before you and ready to usher in the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
O Lord, You are Good and your Mercy endures forever. In you I put my hope and in you my soul desires. Make us bold for your names sake, speak through us to save those perishing around us. Forgive us Lord, and thank you for sending us the Savior of the world.
"What sorrow awaits those who have deserted me!


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POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus, presented by the Martens Centre: Big Brexit fortnight — Hof hacked — Interns united
By	Ryan Heath, Harry Cooper and Quentin Ariès
11/11/17, 10:10 AM CET
Updated 11/11/17, 10:12 AM CET
Your weekend guide to what's driving Brussels and Europe
By RYAN HEATH with HARRY COOPER and QUENTIN ARIÈS
BREXIT BLOCKAGE
When is a press conference not a press conference? When EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier starts such an event with "You should not expect from us today, at this stage, announcements or decisions." And so ended another week of non-progress on Brexit. Nevertheless, Barnier did make some news. Asked if he would need "clarifications or concessions" from Britain in the next two weeks in order for talks to move to the next phase in December, he replied: "My answer is yes." David Davis, the U.K. negotiator, did not respond or comment directly on that two-week deadline, though he seemed to smirk at Barnier's response to the question.
Ireland is now digging its veto-wielding heels in over its long-standing insistence that it won't support a Brexit deal that includes a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
Russia's permanent representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, in an article for the Baltic Rim Economies Review, wrote "in the Russian view, the subsequent policies of NATO and EU enlargement, export of democracy and erosion of continent-wide arms regimes have put to rest any hopes for a truly inclusive governance of Europe." Chizhov said that EU sanctions against Russia have rebounded on the union "shredding local jobs and disrupting trade."
Chizhov reminisced about the days in 2012 when EU-Russia trade was at nearly €1 billion per day, and dared to imagine "a future of borderless travel from Lisbon to Vladivostok, with a state of the art continent-wide economy powered by a highly-educated workforce and low-cost fuel."
THE DAILY HOF: HACK, ATTACK, FIGHTBACK, MERCHANDISE
Belgian former Prime Minister, and now European Parliament liberal leader, Guy Verhofstadt had his Twitter account hacked Friday, by a nationalist Turkish hacker group called Ayyildiz Tim. The group said their action was a protest "against the extreme racist attitude of Belgium and the Netherlands against Turkey and Muslims," AD.nl reported. Verhofstadt was back in action with a restored Twitter account a couple of hours later, announcing that he wouldn't let Turkey's authoritarian drift deter him from speaking out.
Verhofstadt has also been under attack from the Hungarian government, which accused him of being a spokesperson of George Soros (a label the Hungarian government throws around a lot these days at political opponents). Government spokesperson Zoltán Kovács wrote an open letter denouncing Verhofstadt, who earlier this week asked European Parliament President Antonio Tajani to take action against a Hungarian government national survey on migration, which critics say is meant to stir up nationalist sentiment.
Meanwhile, Verhofstadt's ALDE party has come up with some new money-spinners they are hawking online. If you've always dreamed of owning an ALDE-branded bicycle bell, or "luxury engraved pen," this is your chance!
EU CONFIDENTIAL PODCAST WITH GREEK OPPOSITION LEADER
This week's episode features Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the head of Greece's New Democracy party and the country's opposition leader in parliament, who outlines big reform plans should he become Greek prime minister, and says his views mean he should be seen as an outsider rather than as a member of a political dynasty.
Listen immediately | Listen offline via Apple Podcasts.
A message from the Martens Centre: Life gives you lemons, we give you ideas (and maybe even win a Kindle). We're 10 years old now and we want to hear your thoughts on how we can continue to grow through the next decade. You can leave your ideas with us right here!
WHO'S UP?
Paddy Cosgrave: The Web Summit CEO successfully took over Lisbon and brought Big Tech face to face with its critics, including EU leaders.
Silvio Berlusconi: He scored a win in regional elections in Sicily, signaling a possible return to power in Italy in next year's national election.
AND WHO'S DOWN?
The British Cabinet: Boris Johnson faces accusations that his sloppiness means a Briton faces more jail time in Iran, Priti Patel's undeclared meetings forced her to quit, and Damian Green is being investigated over allegations — which he denies — that extreme porn was found on his former work computer.
Günther Oettinger: Soundly defeated in his efforts to delay the transition to clean fuel cars.
INTERNS UNITED
Friday November 10 was International Interns Day, and the campaign to ensure people are paid to work in the Brussels bubble continues. Having convinced the European External Action Service to start paying all its interns, the next stop for campaigners is the European Parliament, where around one in 10 MEP interns are unpaid, and the Commission, which takes hundreds of unpaid interns while paying others about €1,000 per month. The European gold standard is, err, not the EU: It's the rival European Free Trade Association, which pays interns up to €2,500 per month.
The European Youth Forum, Brussels Interns NGO and InternsGoPro launched Transparency At Work, a platform that allows young people to rate their work experience online and share their reviews with others: think TripAdvisor for jobs. Watch out stingy and mean bosses: The sunlight is coming!
"We cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI or ignored by it and sidelined, or conceivably destroyed by it."
— Stephen Hawking at Web Summit, Lisbon.
FEUD OF THE WEEK
Boris Johnson vs. Thomson Reuters Foundation: The U.K. foreign secretary isn't known for crossing his t's, but he usually doesn't say things that could be used to imprison Britons. This week, Johnson incorrectly said Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested and jailed in Iran on accusations of spreading propaganda, was in Tehran teaching journalism, causing a furious reaction from her family and her employer, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, who have said she was on a family holiday.
GAMEKEEPER TURNED POACHER
A retired European Union judge is suing his former court to try to force the release of documents that could substantiate damaging allegations of irregular recruitment practices, financial mismanagement and cover-ups.
Franklin Dehousse, from Belgium, is now a vocal critic of the EU General Court he used to sit on and is seeking the release of a slew of internal papers, many of which he had access to while serving as a judge at the court between 2003 and 2016. The information Dehousse wants to make public includes figures detailing the cost of IT projects, and information about the use of chauffeurs by judges while on holiday. Dehousse also wants the court to reveal details of recruitment procedures that led to court insiders allegedly being given jobs that were not advertised publicly.
TAXPAYER-FUNDED SEA BASS SCHEME
Negotiations between the Parliament and the Council are getting underway for next year's budget, with around €62 million set aside for 87 EU-funded "pilot projects," according to an internal Parliament memo seen by Playbook. The list of projects includes plans like: an exchange of media "rising stars" to "speed up innovation and increase cross-border coverage" (€600,000); "Sportue" — the "promotion of European values through sport initiatives at the municipal level" (€500,000); a "control scheme for sea bass recreational catches" (€150,000); and an initiative to subtitle "European cultural TV content across all Europe" (€1,325,000).
BACK PAT FOR PROGRESSIVE DADS
Noor Yafai, returned from maternity leave and promoted to senior EU affairs manager for Shell, chose a good week to come back: She's now leading Shell's EU energy transition and thought leadership just as the Commission attempts to finally wrestle the problem of transport emissions to the ground. But the most important message she has for Brussels is that she'll be job-sharing the 3 a.m. baby night shifts with her husband, European Commission digital diplomat Tjade Stroband. Playbook gives a shout out to dads who share the load equally with working mums, keeping their families shipshape this winter.
SEPARATED AT BIRTH
Kay Bailey Hutchison (U.S. ambassador to NATO) and John Kerry (former U.S. Secretary of State.)
SPANISH MEP CALLS FOR OUTLAWING CATALAN PARTIES
Before Catalonia holds a snap election, independent Spanish MEP Enrique Calvet Chambon found an innovative approach to ensuring independence for the region remains off the cards: outlawing pro-independence parties. In an email to the Spanish judiciary, the MEP called for a "push for the procedure to outlaw" the CUP, ERC and PDeCAT, the three secessionist parties that have driven the independence initiative in recent years.
BY THE NUMBERS — THE PARADISE PAPERS
13,400,000: Documents.
380: Journalists.
96: Media partners.
67: Countries.
GAFFES & LAUGHS
Overheard: "Mr. Barnier, let me tell you that you look better in person than on television." Michel Barnier didn't reject the compliment offered to him as he sipped coffee near the Berlaymont.
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Q: Jquery isn't getting called for an audio button Trying to make a sound clip play when a button is clicked (this button also links back to another page:
how can I:
1) get it to work?  (works with mouseenter but not with .click())
2) cause a 1 second pause for sound to play before link navigates?
here is my relevant jQuery Code:
var beepOne = $("#ding")[0];
$("button[value='reload']")
.click(function() {
beepOne.play();

});

and the HTML:
<audio preload="auto" id="ding">
    <source src="audio/gameover.mp3"></source>
</audio>

<button class="btn" value="reload" id="snd" onClick="parent.location='../'" />Game Over!
Try Again?</button>

Figured it out, looks like my onClick Property through inline Javascript was wrong.  Removing this and adding it to my jQuery Fixed it and allowed me to have the delay like I wanted for the sound to complete before being redirected.  here is my  Completed Code if it helps anyone else:
var beepOne = $("#ding")[0];
$("#snd").click(function() {
beepOne.play();
setTimeout(function(){parent.location='/'},1000);

 });

A: Try this:
var beepOne = $("#ding")[0];
$("#snd").click(function() {
beepOne.play();
 });

If you can edit the HTML then probably modifying the html to
<audio preload="auto" id="ding" src="audio/gameover.mp3" type="audio/ogg"></audio>

might do the trick

A: you should select iD
var beepOne = $("#ding")[0];

$("#snd").click(function() {
$('#ding').get(0).play();
 });

Old stackoverflow thread semiliar to this
How do I play an audio file with jQuery?

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Today is Monday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2013 with 36 to follow.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Saturn. The evening stars are Neptune, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. They include industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1835; pioneer German automobile designer Karl Benz in 1844; social reformer Carrie Nation in 1846; Pope John XXIII in 1881; New York Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio in 1914; Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1915; writer Poul Anderson in 1926; actors Noel Neill (Lois Lane in the "Superman" TV series) (age 93) and Ricardo Montalban, both in 1920, Kathryn Crosby in 1933 (age 80), Ben Stein in 1944 (age 69) and John Larroquette in 1947 (age 66); football Hall of Fame member Joe Gibbs in 1940 (age 73); singer Percy Sledge in 1940 (age 73); John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1960; singer Amy Grant in 1960 (age 53); and actors Billy Burke in 1966 (age 47), Jill Hennessy in 1968 (age 45) and Christina Applegate in 1971 (age 42).
In 1783, more than 6,000 British troops evacuated New York City after signing the peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War.
In 1867, Alfred Nobel received a patent for dynamite.
In 1947, film industry executives announced that 10 directors, producers and actors who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee would be fired or suspended.
In 1952, Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opened in London. It became the world's longest-running play.
In 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in Dallas three days earlier, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1970, renowned Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed suicide after failing to win public support for his often extreme political beliefs.
In 1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered the national highway speed limit cut from 70 mph to 55 mph to save lives and gasoline.
In 1986, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced the resignation of national security adviser John Poindexter and the firing of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North in the aftermath of the secret, illegal Iran arms sale.
In 1987, Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, died in office of a heart attack at age 65.
In 1992, the Czechoslovakian Parliament voted to dissolve the country at the end of the year into separate Czech and Slovak states.
In 1997, Ron Carey, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, resigned amid questions about his management of union funds.
In 2001, hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in Afghanistan near the southern city of Kandahar in the first major entry of U.S. ground troops in that country in the war on terrorism.
In 2002, warrants were issued in Los Angeles for the arrest of two former Roman Catholic priests on molestation charges, some allegations dating to the 1950s.
In 2003, a report by the United Nations and the World Health Organization said the infection and death rates of HIV/AIDS reached an all-time high.
In 2004, nine people, including three federal agents, were found dead at two locations near Mexico's resort town of Cancun, all believed slain by drug traffickers.
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Mawer, D 2009, 'Jazzing a classic: Hylton and Stravinsky's Mavra at the Paris Opéra.', Twentieth-Century Music, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 155-182. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572210000150
Mawer, D. (2009). Jazzing a classic: Hylton and Stravinsky's Mavra at the Paris Opéra. Twentieth-Century Music, 6(2), 155-182. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572210000150
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Intruders killed three members of the Caffey family in a brutal assault. Terry, the father, barely survived and his daughter Erin was believed to be kidnapped. One of those intruders was Charlie Wilkinson, Erin's boyfriend. It was a tragedy of epic proportions. Terry tells his story and how he escaped from the house.
The Caffey's story is featured in the podcast series, A Family Slaughtered For Teen Love – Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil
Less than 24 hours after the murders… Charles Waid, Bobbi Johnson, Charlie Wilkinson, and Erin Caffey were all in custody…all charged with capital murder.
"I intended to kill them because I thought I was in love," Charlie Wilkinson said during his interrogation.
Six days after the murders, Terry was released from the hospital and he moved in with his sister's family. That's when everything that had happened finally started to sink in.
Dr. Phil provides insight into what it must be like to experience the kind of loss Terry has suffered and the stages of grief in episode two of
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Analysis by Dr. Phil.
In episode 3 of A Family Slaughtered for Teen Love, Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil, the intruders claim Erin was the mastermind behind the attack. However, Erin insists she was the victim.
Erin Caffey is now serving two life sentences plus 25 years for plotting the 2008 murders of her mother and two younger brothers, as well as the attempted murder of her father.
In an exclusive interview, Dr. Phil goes behind prison bars as Erin speaks out for the first time about the murder of her family.
Although Erin's already revealed more to Dr. Phil than she's admitted to anyone else before, a lot of questions remain unanswered. Plus, hear from Erin's father, Terry, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds but managed to escape the attack and was the lone survivor.
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Bullying is:
Intentional, aggressive behavior
Imbalance of power
Repeated over time
Physical, verbal intimidation
Cyber harassment
Warning signs that your child may be the victim of bullying:
1. Makes up excuses not to go to school
2. Is often angry, sad or depressed, withdrawn, self-loathing and emotionally erratic
3. Frequently hurt by a particular person or group of people
4. Frequently picked on in the presence of other people
5. Mistakes are turned into a big deal by someone
6. Belongings are often stolen or taken
7. Always being confronted with lies/rumors
How parents encourage bullying in their own children:
Exercise absolute control over child
Threaten the child with spankings or other violence
Attempt to humiliate or embarrass the child as a way to punish them
Rule by fear
Push competition and contest too much
Teach their child that mistakes are unacceptable
Tell their child what to say, do or think
If your child is being picked on by a bully, sit down with him or her and go over this list of Do's and Don'ts to keep them safe:
1. Don't get into a fistfight with a bully or try to retaliate in other ways.
2. Don't believe the insults about you.
3. Don't overestimate how much power a bully has over you.
4. Don't think that bullying will stop if you ignore it.
5. Don't waste time in places online where bullies target you.
6. Don't be afraid to think of new ways to solve the conflict.
7. Don't believe you deserve to be picked on.
8. Do get real about bullying and how it makes you feel.
9. Do get angry, but keep anger under control.
10. Do write down how you feel.
11. Do learn to say and believe good things about yourself.
12. Do speak confidently when telling a bully not to physically touch you.
13. Do work on developing at least one good relationship with a classmate, neighbor and/or older child.
14. Do walk or run away if a bully tries to hurt you.
Adapted from Jay McGraw's book, Jay McGraw's Life Strategies for Dealing with Bullies
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1. A grandiose sense of self-importance where the individual exaggerates achievements and talents and expects to be recognized as superior without relevant accomplishments.
2. A preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love.
3. A belief that he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions.
4. A need for excessive admiration.
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6. Interpersonally exploitative and takes advantage of others to meet his or her own end.
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8. Envy of others or a belief that others are envious of him or her.
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Jürgen Mantell (* 21. März 1944 in Quedlinburg) ist ein deutscher Politiker, Verwaltungsbeamter und Sportfunktionär.

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Mantell, der den Spitznamen "Eddy" trägt, spielte mehr als 30 Jahre lang Hockey im Duisburger Club Raffelberg und in Hamburg beim Harvestehuder THC.

Am 1. April 1998 trat Mantell seinen Dienst als Leiter des Bezirksamtes Eimsbüttel an, nachdem er diesen Posten kommissarisch bereits seit September 1996 ausgeführt hatte. Im Frühjahr 2010 schied der promovierte Jurist als Bezirksamtsleiter aus und ging in den Ruhestand. In seine Amtszeit fielen unter anderem der Verkauf des Wasserturms im Schanzenpark sowie dessen anschließender Umbau.

Im Juni 2014 wurde das SPD-Mitglied Mantell zum Vorsitzenden des Hamburger Sportbundes (HSB) gewählt. Zuvor war er bereits von 2012 bis 2014 HSB-Vizepräsident für Sportinfrastruktur.

Er ist in zweiter Ehe mit der Politikerin Thea Bock verheiratet.

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« Biden's bombs and the forever wars
Boycott Israel? divest from Israel? sanction Israel? »
Is Zionism racist? Should Israel exist?
Kibbutz ceremony, 1951 (Wikipedia Commons)
It isn't possible to understand Zionism without understanding that Jews have a basic, understandable fear of being wiped out.
In medieval times, Christians regarded Jews as Christ-killers.
In modern times, blood-and-soil nationalists regarded Jews as disloyal foreigners.
Both forms of antisemitism were existential threats.
One of the doctrines of Christianity is that Jesus is the prophesied Jewish messiah. The question arises: Why don't the Jews recognize their own messiah?
One easy answer is that Jews must be an exceptionally wicked people. And from there, it is an easy to to saying they must be persecuted, killed or expelled.
In modern times, Jews were allowed out of their ghettos to participate in civic life. But a new question arose. The basis of nationhood was blood and soil—a group of people of the same lineage occupying the same territory.
But Jews are of different lineage, and they have no territory. How do they fit in with modern nationalism? They don't. And from there, it is an easy step to regard all Jews as potential or actual traitors.
This form of antisemitism inspired the Dreyfus case., in which a French Jewish artillery officer was falsely accused of treason. The older form of antisemitism inspired the Beilis case, in which a Russian factory manager was falsely accused of the ritual murder of a Christian child.
Justice eventually prevailed in both cases, but the founders of the Zionist movement believed that Jews needed a homeland of their own—not just as a refuge from antisemitism, but because they were a nation with the same right to a homeland in which they were in the majority..
That was one of the roots of Zionism. The other was a fundamentalist religious nationalism, inspired by Biblical prophecies, that links the Jewish people to their ancient homeland. There are fundamentalist Christian Zionists, based on the same prophecies.
Zionism in its early years was a controversial movement among Jewish people. Jews in western Europe and North America mostly regarded themselves primarily as Americans, Britons, French, Germans and so on who happened to be a different religion than their fellow citizens.
This changed during the Second World War. Hitler's attempted genocide of the Jews was matched by an unwillingness of Allied nations, including the USA, to accept more than a token number of Jewish refugees. The British government did its best to prevent Jewish immigration to Palestine, lest they provoke the Arabs into revolt.
I am old enough to remember the Allied war propaganda during the Second World War. Hitler's antisemitism was not emphasized. Knowledge of the Holocaust was suppressed. I think now that Roosevelt, Churchill and other Allied leaders feared to give credence to Hitler's claim that the war was being fought on behalf of the Jews.
After the war, Europe was filled with "displaced persons" camps. All the DPs had homelands to which they could return, except for the Jews. So a lot of them headed for Israel.
Invading a country and driving out the inhabitants is now regarded as a crime against humanity. But if I had been one of those Jewish DPs, I wouldn't have cared. All I would have cared about was having a place I could call my own.
Of course, if I had been a Palestinian Arab at the time, I wouldn't have cared about the plight of the Jewish refugees. I wouldn't have seen any reason why I should lose everything because of events in Europe.
Supporters of Israel at the time argued that there was just one Jewish nation, and there were 20-some Arab nations. So why couldn't the Palestinian refugees go live in some other Arab nation?
The answer was: For the same reason that the Jewish refugees couldn't all go live in New York. The Arab countries, many of them very poor with high unemployment rates, were even less able to absorb a large number of poor immigrants than the Western nations.
Israel fought a number of wars with surrounding Arab states—the War of Independence in 1948, the Suez campaign (along with Britain and France) in 1956, the Six-Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Members of the Arab League are shown in green. Countries that have waged war against Israel are shown in dark green. Source: WIkipedia.
After the Six-Day War, members of the Arab League issued a declaration of common policy toward Israel – "no recognition, no negotiation and no peace." After Anwar Sadat negotiated a peace treaty with Israel following the Yom Kippur War, Egypt was expelled from the Arab League.
Countries that do not recognize Israeli passports are shown in green. Countries that do not recognize passports with Israeli stamps are shown in dark green. Map may be several years out of date. Source: Wikipedia
One of the Arab League's tactics against Israel was an international boycott, and it may have had a greater impact the present boycott-divest-sanctions movement.
Arab League members refused to do business with any company that did business with Israel. The oil-rich Persian Gulf nations were an important market and this was a serious threat.
I remember in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was speculation here in Rochester, N.Y., as to whether Eastman Kodak Co. and Xerox Corp. complied with the Arab boycott.
There also was talk of punishing companies that complied with the boycott, but how could you tell, other than making business relations with Israel compulsory?
Does Israel have a right to exist?
Does a nation whose government has committed crimes against humanity forfeit its right to exist?
If that is so, then Germany and Japan have no right to exist. Russia and China have no right to exist. The USA has no right to exist. Israel has done nothing that the USA has not done in its long history.
Israel exists. It has the power to maintain its existence.
There's no point in pretending it doesn't or shouldn't, as the U.S. pretended, from 1949 to 1972, that Communist China did not exist.
I don't think it is possible to make Israel cease to exist through boycotts, divestments and sanctions.
Israelis are like white South Africa in that their leaders feel they can survive only by holding another people in subjugation. But they are different in that they are not a small minority in their land, and they may well be able to hold out.
I favor pressure on the Israeli government to withdraw the settlements from the West Bank and to treat its Arab citizens with equal justice.
I favor a winding down of military aid to Israel as part of a winding down of the U.S. military presence in the Middle East.
I am not Jewish. I am not a Zionist. If a Jewish national state did not exist where it is, I would not advocate creating one. But neither do I side with those who want to destroy it.
One of the lessons of history, including the history of Israel and Zionism, is that the formerly oppressed can become oppressors.
Two debates about Zionism
Is a Left Zionism possible? by Susie Linfield for Dissent magazine (2015)
Toward a Post-Zionist Left by Joshua Leifer for Dissent magazine (2015)
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Michael Walzer for Dissent magazine (2019)
Israel-Palestine Today: a Values-Based Approach by Joshua Leifer for Dissent magazine (2019)
Reply to Joshua Leifer by Michael Walzer for Dissent magazine (2019)
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Israel and Palestine, Zionism
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Haven't been there myself but I know people who have.
Apparently so...I never did make it over there; if I didn't have direct line of sight or someone to sherpa me over, I didn't make it. Rock Bottom, The Auld Dubliner were both line of sight. Congregation Ale House I had sherpas, same goes for Queen Mary.
He was very funny. I went to both his shows at the Queen Mary...truly one of my highlights of the event.


I've been mulling over this playlist for quite a while — the first version had so many different songs — but as ever I've edited it down to something I think is more cohesive. But I still just love all the music! Argh, it's so difficult to choose. I do hope you enjoy.
for the summer dusk. for the ache of a feeling half-remembered. for looking back and perhaps finally letting the memories pass on into the night.
I'm actually scheduling this post, so as you read it I will hopefully be having lots of fun learning Spanish (?!?) which is cool. HOPEFULLY. So I might be a bit delayed in commenting. I hope you're all having a good day, wherever you are. I'd love to hear what you thought of this playlist, or any music recs you might have!
I absolutely love melodrama its one of my favorite new albums! I just uploaded a post of a playlist I listen to when I'm down. I really love the songs on there, maybe you will check it out! 🙂 I love your playlist, I followed it on Spotify! I think I found some new favorites! Thank you!
Me too! Ooh I'd love to check that out but I can't seem to find it on your blog? (Sorry if it's obvious. *hides*) Thanks so much, that makes me so happy! 🙂 Did you enjoy any songs in particular?
My blog is http://www.brownhairhazeleyes.wordpress.com. 🙂 I really loved Fools by Lauren Aquilina!
What a gorgeous playlist; I know I'll be listening to it on warm summer nights ahead. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
Oddly Supercut is my least favourite song from Melodrama but I love the album and think every song on it is brilliant so that's not really much of an insult haha.


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Executive Assistant to the Board of Directors
Center Theatre Group Los Angeles (CA), Full Time 2019-03-20 Administration Print
Reports Directly to Director of Institutional Advancement
Work Schedule Full-Time
Status Non-Exempt
Compensation Commensurate with Experience
Department Institutional Advancement
About The CompanyCenter Theatre Group is one of the largest, most influential theatre companies in the country by virtually every measure. Over the past 50 years, we have entertained millions of audience members and produced some of the most important shows of our time, many of which have been World premieres and have gone on to award-winning Broadway runs and beyond. As Center Theatre Group enters our next 50 years, we are uniquely positioned to expand the impact of our work with audiences, community, and artists—while making Los Angeles a global destination for theatre lovers and creators alike.At the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre, Center Theatre Group produces and presents the broadest range of theatrical entertainment in the country, from pre-Broadway musicals to award-winning dramas. Los Angeles artists move seamlessly from the screen to Center Theatre Group stages.Over the past decade, Center Theatre Group has commissioned 65 shows and produced 40 World premieres, making us one of the nation's leading producers of ambitious new works. Center Theatre Group partners nationally and internationally with leading artists and theatres including Lynn Nottage, Rajiv Joseph, and Danai Gurira, and the National, Royal Court, Goodman, and Second Stage Theatres. Our local partnerships include the Block Party program and L.A. Writers' Workshop, which are dedicated to strengthening the Los Angeles theatre ecosystem.Center Theatre Group's robust education and community programs have long embedded us in the rich culture of Los Angeles. Our interactive programs—from community-based art and digital content to donor experiences and pre- and post-show events—reach across generations, demographics, and circumstance. And our educational initiatives are dedicated to creating the city's next generation of audiences and artists.Position SummaryUnder the direction of the Director of Institutional Advancement, the Executive Assistant to the Board of Directors coordinates all activities and communications related to the Board of Directors and plays a central role in ensuring that Board members are educated about Center Theatre Group, engaged in the organization, and have the information and tools they need to be effective in their position.Primary Responsibilities With the Executive Assistant to the Director of Institutional Advancement, Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director, Executive Assistant to the Managing Director, and other appropriate administrators, schedule and manage the comprehensive calendar of Board, Committee, and Special Task Force Meetings as well as special events involving board members, check calendars to ensure limited date conflicts, including conflicts with The Music Center, LA Opera, LA Phil, and LA Master Chorale. Provide administrative support as needed to the Board President, including scheduling and calendar support, drafting of communications, and access to documents and materials the President may require. Plan and execute Board of Director meetings including venue/menu selection and notifying and collecting RSVPs from the board. Work with leadership to prepare Board Meeting Agendas, to draft scripts for verbal reports, and to collect written reports and materials from other departments and distribute accordingly. Take minutes for the Board of Director meetings and submit to the Director of Institutional Advancement, Managing Director, Artistic Director, Board Secretary, and Board President for approval. Working with the Director of Communications, distribute all communication to the Board, including meeting notices, informational reports on Center Theatre Group, and any other correspondence that ensures effective communication with a high level of transparency. Attend and take minutes for the following Board Committee Meetings: Executive, Governance, and select Task Forces. Manage and update the Board website. Notice and collect annual dues from each Board Member. Track and report on Board Giving, theatre attendance, and meeting participation. Distribute, collect, and report on the Board Self-Evaluation Survey. Coordinate and track Board Committee assignments. Track Board Member terms, emeritus members, Board demographics, and any other reports as requested. Track the Board recruitment process, including preparing candidate profiles, and tracking and scheduling lunches and follow-up that is needed. Coordinate and assist in planning the new Board Member "On-Boarding" process, including assigning mentors, monitoring assigned activities for new Board Members, and managing the Orientation Day. Assist the VIP Ticket Desk on handling of all ticketing requests for Board Members. Working with the Managing Director and Board Secretary, ensure By-Laws are kept current and are posted on the Board website. Ensure Board Member contact and other information is current in all appropriate documents and on Tessitura.
Secondary Responsibilities Demonstrates a positive attitude toward Board Members, donors, and fellow staff. Ensures that all printed materials are well written and proofed including but not limited to letters, proposals, invites, mailing lists, reports, agendas, and meeting minutes. Evidence good work habits including but not limited to being on time, following Center Theatre Group workplace policies, arriving prepared for meetings and events, being responsive, and following through on all Board and supervisor requests. Exhibits appropriate phone, email, and in-person etiquette, and responds to phone and email messages in a timely fashion. Exhibits a positive attitude in relation with donors and fellow staff. Works as a team member with the entire Institutional Advancement staff on all department events and activities, working a minimum of 12 events each year. Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Previous Executive Assistant experience, preferably including board support assignments within a nonprofit organization. Previous experience working in an office environment. Computer skills in Microsoft Word and Excel in addition to a strong working knowledge of database systems. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment. Knowledge and passion for the theatre arts. Enthusiasm, dedication, a sense of humor, and a drive to succeed. Flexibility to work evenings, weekends and overtime if and as needed. Must be able to easily travel to, within, and around a variety of locations in Los Angeles, both interior and exterior for meetings, events and other job-related activities. Must be able to effectively and efficiently operate office equipment including telephones, copiers, fax machines, computers, etc. Must be able to lift and carry 20 pounds (i.e. reports, programs, brochures, etc.). Must have own transportation to attend meetings and events off-site. Must have flexibility to work overtime or evenings as needed. Strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
All employees are required to pass a background check.CompensationCompensation is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.Center Theatre Group also offers a comprehensive benefits package including retirement plan options; escalating vacation, paid sick, personal days, and holidays; and health benefits including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, and life and long-term disability insurance. To ApplySell yourself by writing a cover letter that describes why you're the best person for this job. Send resume and cover letter along with salary desired to: CTGjobs@CTGLA.org. Please be sure to include the position title in the subject line of your email. Due to the high volume of submissions received, emails without all of the above information may not be considered.In your cover letter, please indicate how you became aware of this position, e.g., name of website, current employee, via another source.NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. We will contact qualified candidates to set up interviews.Center Theatre Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, color, ancestry, disability, age, national origin, pregnancy, veteran/military status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. Center Theatre Group will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We support, promote, and embrace a diverse workforce.
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