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Want Ammo? Be Prepared For A Background Check
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By Ana B. Ibarra, California Healthline
California has some of the strictest gun laws in the country — and one of the lowest gun death rates. Public health experts believe one leads to the other.
But even with strong laws, 3,184 people died in gun-related incidents in California in 2017, up from 2,942 in 2014, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly half of suicides nationwide are gun-related.
California also has had numerous mass shootings, including the November 2018 attack at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, where a gunman killed 12 people before killing himself. Last Tuesday, a former employee killed two workers and himself at a Morgan Hill Ford dealership.
Even tougher gun control laws took effect Monday. California is the first state in the nation to require anyone buying ammunition to go through a background check at the time of each purchase. Ammunition vendors must also start submitting sales records to the state Department of Justice.
These new rules are part of Proposition 63, a gun-control package approved by voters in 2016. The measure was introduced following the December 2015 shooting at a social services center in San Bernardino, where a husband and wife killed 14 people and injured several others.
Other pieces of the package were previously implemented: Residents and businesses must now report lost or stolen guns, internet sales of ammunition are restricted to licensed vendors, and some felons must give up their guns.
A provision to fully ban the ownership of high-capacity magazines — even ones that people already possess — hasn't been implemented pending litigation.
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Gun control advocates agree that the background check requirement is the key piece of this package.
California, like many other states, already required background checks to purchase firearms.
"But we didn't have that infrastructure for purchasing ammunition," said Dr. Garen Wintemute, an emergency room physician and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California-Davis. "And as we sometimes say, guns don't kill people, bullets do."
The idea is to keep guns and bullets away from those who shouldn't have them and further reduce the rate of gun violence, Wintemute said. That also helps reduce trauma in communities where gunshots are part of the everyday soundtrack, he said.
But some policy watchers say the new rules don't address the black market — a key source of firearms and ammunition for criminals.
"If you can buy a handgun illegally, you can also get ammunition illegally," said Amy Swearer, a senior legal policy analyst with the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. "It also doesn't take into account that some people manufacture their own ammunition."
So how hard will it be to get ammunition if you want it? Here's how the new rule will — and won't — work:
How will the background checks work?
Every time someone purchases ammunition — in any amount — from a licensed retailer, he or she will have to present a California license or identification card. The seller will check a state Department of Justice database to see if the buyer has a legal gun and is not prohibited from possessing firearms. Each eligibility check will cost $1.
The background check for registered gun owners should take only a matter of seconds, said Ari Freilich, a staff attorney with the San Francisco-based Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Does this apply to online sales?
Yes. Online ammo customers must also undergo background checks.
Another provision affecting online purchases took effect earlier this year: Ammunition purchased over the internet must be shipped to a licensed retailer, where the customer must pick it up in person.
Can you buy ammo out of state to get around these requirements?
Proposition 63 requires that residents buying ammunition out of state also have it delivered to a licensed vendor in California, similar to people purchasing bullets online. The law prohibits people from transporting ammunition bought out of state into California.
A first offense will be considered an infraction. A subsequent offense could result in a misdemeanor.
How is California's new background check rule unique?
Four other states — Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey — require individuals to obtain a permit or license after passing a background check that allows them to buy ammunition for a period of time. California is the first to require a background check every time someone buys ammo.
New York adopted a law similar to California's that has not yet been enacted, Freilich said.
What happened to the ban on high-capacity magazines?
Since 2000, California has prohibited residents from buying or selling high-capacity magazines, accessories that allow shooters to fire more bullets without reloading. But people who had them before the ban were allowed to keep them.
Proposition 63 would end this — meaning individuals who already owned high-capacity magazines also would have to get rid of them.
The National Rifle Association's state chapter filed a lawsuit arguing that the Proposition 63 ban on high-capacity magazines violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Earlier this year, a federal judge agreed, but the state is appealing the decision.
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Q: what is the difference between xml code I have been working on webservice and came across thsi:
What is the difference between:
<string xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://companyx.net/" xsi:nil="true"/>
And
<string xmlns="http://companyx.net/">[]</string>
The reason for asking is because I coded (try) a webservice and if I invoke it I get <string xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://companyx.net/" xsi:nil="true"/> and other web service method I look at returns <string xmlns="http://companyx.net/">[]</string> when invoked. I know the second method returns a array of items, and I need to do that to. I want to return a list of contacts.
My web service code:
 <WebMethod()> _
<ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat:=ResponseFormat.Json, UseHttpGet:=True)> _
    Public Function ContactGet(ByVal searchField As String) As String

        Dim objSearch As New ArrayList
        Dim objSearching As New Search
        Dim intResult As Integer

        Try

            intResult = objSearching.SearchByKeyword(searchField, Session("Person"), Session("Office"), Session("Organisation"), _
                                                  Session("Role"), companyx.CXMyProperty.Search.enmSearchType.enmContact, objSearch)

                Dim objContact As New Person
                Dim dt As New DataTable("Contacts")

                Dim col_Name As New DataColumn("Name", GetType(String))
                dt.Columns.Add(col_Name)

                Dim col_Mobile As New DataColumn("Mobile", GetType(String))
                dt.Columns.Add(col_Mobile)

                Dim col_Office As New DataColumn("ContactNum", GetType(String))
                dt.Columns.Add(col_Office)

                Dim col_Category As New DataColumn("Category", GetType(String))
                dt.Columns.Add(col_Category)

                Dim dr As DataRow

                'add new row to datatable
                For Each objSearching In objSearch
                    dr = dt.NewRow()
                    dr("Name") = objContact.FullName
                    dr("Mobile:") = objContact.MobileNumber
                    dr("ContactNum") = objContact.OfficeNumber
                    dr("Category") = objContact.PersonRelationshipType
                    dt.Rows.Add(dr)
                Next

                Dim serializer As New JavaScriptSerializer()
                Dim rows As New List(Of Dictionary(Of String, Object))()
                Dim row As Dictionary(Of String, Object) = Nothing

                'serialize dt row to json output
                For Each drow As DataRow In dt.Rows
                    row = New Dictionary(Of String, Object)()
                    For Each col As DataColumn In dt.Columns
                        row.Add(col.ColumnName, dr(col))
                    Next
                    rows.Add(row)
                Next

                Dim str_json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dt, Formatting.Indented)

                Return str_json
        Catch ex As Exception
            Return Nothing
        End Try
    End Function

Im not sure if I coded the web service correctly. Very new to this.

A: The differences between them are that in one case the string element has an xsi:nil attribute and in the other case it has a "[]" text node child.
These might or might not have similar or identical semantics: you need to ask the folks at companyx.net, who designed this vocabulary.

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Harmon's Histories: Arbor Day a leafy rite of spring in Missoula since 1887
Missoula Current Published: April 26, 2021
Announcement of 1st Arbor Day – Weekly Missoulian May 18, 1887
"The day was perfect. The sunshine took a conspicuous part in the proceedings." The Missoula Brass Band played as "crowds of little ones in spring attire and those of mature years" poured out onto the school yard.
It was Tuesday, May 18, 1887: Missoula's first Arbor Day.
The morning had been spent in special exercises at the school. Students from all grade levels participated in recitals, which appropriately included "Woodsman, Spare that Tree."
Local attorney Walter M. Bickford told the crowd it was particularly fitting "that one day a year be devoted to the planting of trees on which to expend care, to water and watch grow," and if Missoulians would just "take more time to plant trees, we would have the pleasantest town in the West."
He told the youngsters they would learn much that afternoon. When they grew older, he said, they would look
Walter M. Bickford - From "An illustrated History of the State of Montana" by Joaquin Miller
back at the day with pleasure.
Judge George W. Reeves echoed Bickford's remarks, saying: "In a country where there is not sufficient moisture for the trees to to grow without water, care and attention, the planting of trees was a glorious idea – a magnificent monument to the names of departed loved ones."
Some of the happiest moments of his life, said the judge, "were spent under the branches of a stalwart oak, when he and Mrs. Reeves were making agreeable whisperings and thinking thoughts of love."
The school trustees had arranged for each class to have a tree to plant, and that each would be named.
One tree planted that sunny afternoon was named after Frank L. Worden, a town founder. Another was named for Ulysses S. Grant and yet another for Robert E. Lee, whom Judge Reeves termed "second to no man that ever lived, who was compelled to surrender his sword to a man as good as he."
The next trees were named for Grover Cleveland, Henry Ward Beecher and Capt. Christopher P. Higgins.
Then there was the tree simply named "Bertha," to honor Berth Payne, a young student who had died the previous winter.
In the quarter century following the very first Arbor Day on April 10, 1872 in Nebraska City, Nebraska, the tree-planting movement caught on across the country.
1902 Arbor Day Brochure
Montana's Legislature passed "An Act to Encourage Tree-Planting and Arboriculture" on February 28, 1887 and Governor Preston Leslie followed up with a proclamation setting the third Tuesday of May as Montana's annual Arbor Day.
Over time, the date was changed to the final Friday of April. Late May, for much of Montana, proved a little late to be planting trees.
One of the most notable Arbor Day observances in Missoula was held in 1896 when it expanded to include a parade, musical performances, a morning dedication of the new University grounds and afternoon athletic events at Union Park.
The 25th Infantry Band from Fort Missoula led the parade "from Court House square" to the Central School (now MCT) where schoolchildren joined the procession to the University.
Five hundred cottonwood trees were planted on campus, with the school kids helping the sponsoring fraternal groups and business leaders get the job done.
Daily Missoulian May 13, 1896
At 1 o'clock everyone gathered at the courthouse and proceeded to the Athletic Park for bike and foot races, pole vaulting and a baseball game.
This year, Jamie Kirby, the Urban Forestry Coordinator at Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, tells me there are "over 40 Arbor Day Celebrations set to take place around Montana."
She says, given the pandemic, "Kalispell is hosting a large hybrid event, both virtual and live from their park. They have clips from dignitaries like Senator Tester and the state forester Sonya Germann to share live. Several schools and classrooms will participate virtually.
"Dillon hosted a socially distanced tree pruning and care event (and) Whitehall will be having preschoolers make their way to the park, all masked, for a simple tree planting with DNRC."
Kirby notes that Great Falls is celebrating its 40th year of being a Tree City USA, and Missoula has held a virtual 5K Run for the Trees and a live 10K event, with more activities planned in the weeks ahead by the group Trees For Missoula.
Karen Sippy, coordinator of that group, says their educational outreach this year includes "every student at Lowell receiving a clay leaf to make their own. Clay Studio will fire the leaves and SPARK! Arts will create a mural using the leaves."
Kirby says she'll likely spend Arbor Day, this Friday the 30th, in Browning "celebrating with Blackfeet Community College, giving away tree seedlings – an event held mostly outdoors with food, celebration and community."
Jeannette Rankin planting a Montana Fir tree, Arbor Day April 27, 1917.
By the way, in case you're interested, the city of Missoula has an official list of "approved street trees."
No matter where you are this Friday, you can get in the spirit of things by singing the official Arbor Day song – that's right, there is an official Arbor Day song.
It can be found online from a rare 1902 booklet stored at the University of Montana's Archives and Special Collection, at the Mansfield Library:
Arbor Day has come at last; the long expected day.
Now we meet to greet you all; for this is Arbor Day.
Arbor Day has come at last; and we are bright and gay.
All hearts join in happy songs; for this is Arbor Day!
Jim Harmon is a longtime Missoula news broadcaster, now retired, who writes a weekly history column for Missoula Current. You can contact Jim at harmonshistories@gmail.com. His new book, "The Sneakin'est Man That Ever Was," a collection of 46 vignettes of Western Montana history, is now available at harmonshistories.com.
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The Chicago Syndicate: Debra Gauthier's "Bright Lights, Dark Places"
Debra Gauthier's "Bright Lights, Dark Places"
Little could stand in Debra Gauthier's way. A marathon runner, Debra excelled in the Police Academy, garnering respect as one of the few female police officers in Las Vegas. However, through her twenty-one years on the police force, Debra faced discrimination in the male-dominated profession, suffering demotions and unsafe working conditions when other officers would not provide backup. In addition to the disappointment of injustice, she struggled with her sexuality, becoming entrenched in a homosexual lifestyle. After establishing an identity as a respected police officer, Debra was devastated when her career crumbled. Bright Lights, Dark Places thoughtfully expresses the painful reality of combating biased attitudes and the joy that comes from surpassing limitations. Packed with fascinating stories of a vibrant career, from teaching at the academy to pioneering a bicycle patrol, Bright Lights, Dark Places gives you an inside look at the career of one of the first female officers in Las Vegas. You will be encouraged by this powerful story of one woman finding grace to overcome trials.
Debra Gauthier surely is one tough cookie. She went all through the discrimination and survived all those years in the force. It is no easy feat.


In the very first month in which it went on sale in India, the all-new Hyundai Santro has hit the 8,000 mark. Hyundai dispatched 8,535 units of the car to dealerships across the country while Tata put out 7,549 units of the Tiago. You must remember that these are dealer dispatches and not actual sales numbers. However, they do give a fair indication of demand for a particular car.
The Maruti WagonR continues to be the segment's best seller despite being around for so many years in nearly the same form. Maruti Suzuki dispatched 10,535 units of the WagonR this month, and that represents a steep year-on-year decline for the car. A year ago, in October, the WagonR managed over 13,000 units. If this trend continues, it means that the all-new Santro is pulling sales away from the WagonR.
Maruti has its own response lined up already. Early next year, the all-new Maruti WagonR will be launched in India. The new car will get a totally revised design, and is expected to the use the lighter, HEARTECT platform. Mechanically, the new WagonR is expected to be unchanged but the interiors will get a major makeover along with new features added.
The other big selling car in this segment, the Maruti Celerio, did decently in October 2018, with dispatch numbers pegged at 9,260 units. Like the WagonR, the Celerio has also seen a steep dip in year-on-year sales. Last October, the car did about 12,000 units. So, the Celerio may be also be coming under pressure from the all-new Hyundai Santro, and unlike the WagonR, the Celerio is not about to get any major facelift.
Considering that the Hyundai Santro just went on sale from the 23rd of October, we'll have to wait for a couple of months to see where sales stabilize. The initial sales performance of the car has been quite good though. The Tata Tiago can't be written off as it's more powerful and spacious than the Hyundai Santro. And in typical Tata style, it's a lot cheaper than the Santro. While the Tata Tiago's prices start from Rs. 3.51 lakhs, the Hyundai Santro starts from Rs. 3.87 lakhs. The Tiago is also available with a diesel engine, and Tata just launched the Tiago JTP – a very affordably priced high performance version of the hatchback. The battle lines are drawn.


Walanchalee Wattanacharoensil is currently an Assistant Professor in the Tourism and Hospitality Management Division, Mahidol University International College, Thailand. She had years of professional experience in the aviation industry before joining academia and conducted her doctoral studies on airport experience and its connection to the tourism experience at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
She has expanded her academic interests and contributed to research (in different forms of journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings) and consultancy projects relating to destination development, service experience in aviation, travel and tourism contexts. Walanchalee is also now a project lead of the educational quality assurance development of the Tourism and Hospitality Management Division and serves as a research committee for Mahidol University International College, Thailand.


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Why the SFTMA/Muni's "Calvinball" Fast Passes Are A Waste of Time
Posted on February 26, 2010 by gdewar
If you want to see ineffective "Calvinball-like" decision making, one only needs to see the latest decisions by the SFMTA on the prices for monthly "Fast Passes" that were approved today. Let's start by going back to the most recent increase, whereby they decided to raise the cost to:
-$60, if you only wanted to ride the bus, the Metro, the cable car, or an express bus, and
-$70, if you wanted to ride the bus, the Metro, the cable car, an express bus, and BART within the city (the BART fare was previously included in the cost of a Fast Pass).
This "compromise" was designed to give you the illusion that you could "save money" if you didn't think you'd be riding a BART anywhere within city limits. However, several problems came up in the process:
-Many retailers would run out of the $60 passes, so you either had to leave and find another, or pony up the $70, regardless;
-It was recently revealed that Translink users who loaded a Fast Pass on their cards not only were being automatically re-upped at the higher level, but now, many machines downtown (which you must use if you've got a Commuter Card benefit) were not allowing for the $60 option;
-And of course, the inevitable confusion and the hassles at BART gates when people didn't realize what they'd done by picking the $60 pass.
All in all, it was a way to give out the illusion of "opting out" of something you don't use. That really doesn't make any sense, because a transit system is not a buffet which you pick and choose – it's a comprehensive system with different modes of transit that when, properly managed, all work together to create an efficient system.
But then came today's epic FAIL of a vote by an ineffective MTA board led by a former politician from the suburbs. NOW, we have the following system, whereby the cost has been raised to:
-$60, which allows you to only ride the bus, or Metro and;
-$70, which now allows you to ride the bus, the Metro, the cable car, an express bus, and BART within the city, and ride the Express buses. (Otherwise you'll have to pay a $5 premium for the cable car and the Express buses) (source: SFMTA twitter account).
Really? And they're cutting service 10% and making Night Owl service a once an hour joke? REALLY?
The MTA bureaucrats who came up with this plan should be ashamed of themselves. They're essentially raising the price of a useful Muni Pass that used to cost $55 to $70, all the while giving off the illusion that they really only raised the cost of a pass by $5. By removing most of the things we'd been getting (like better service, and being able to use BART and Cable Cars and Express buses), they've made the lower cost pass a useless joke.
The MTA should have been more honest and either raised the cost of the stupid pass to $70 (so they don't have to print multiple kinds of passes and f*ck up Translink) or split the difference and raised it to $65. To do so with these Calvinball like rules, all the while of course subsidizing drivers of private cars, and subsidizing other departments with Muni money that others called shenanigans on, is flat out bullshit.
Don't even get me started on how confusing the tourist options have become. That's a whole other game of Calvinball!
NOTE! Was there a better way to balance the budget without cutting service, and all the other lame-ass ways the MTA chose to go? Yes there was – SPUR took the time the MTA didn't to come up with a better budget which you can read about over here, in PDF format.
Did the MTA even bother to look at it or listen? Hell no! Of course not. That would mean they'd be responsible managers of the Muni system we own. Epic FAIL.
11 Responses to Why the SFTMA/Muni's "Calvinball" Fast Passes Are A Waste of Time
MrEricSir says:
This is from the geniuses that gave us the Culture Bus. What else would you expect but complete incompetence?
I'm starting to more seriously consider the suggested March boycott of Muni after this.
When I first transferred here just a bit back in '06 from Chicago, where the equivalent of what we once knew as a FastPass was $75, I thought that the $45 FastPass was one of the very few actual bargains in this town, but that I'd be willing to pay additional money for better service, which I noticed was exceptionally poor by comparison.
And here we are. In just a few years, I'm paying (as of now) at least 1/3 more, but the service has somehow gotten worse, with the added dick-kick of fewer options. I'm still not sure if I'm going to pay the extra $10 or not, but as a resident of the city–someone who actually used the cable cars as transportation and not just an experience, who lives out on the Avenues and relies on Express buses more often that most–I'm rather chapped that I have to. To put it mildly.
I love it out here, but damn this city is dysfunctional.
And I have to say, I've been a relatively big Carmen Chu fan (she's always been very responsive to emails I've sent) but where has she been in this process? We're in the relative boonies out here, and frankly, I believe we rely on Muni more than a lot of other neighborhoods in the city do, where walking and cycling can often be much more feasible. Beyond that and all the aforementioned, things like slashed Owl Service affect the Avenues, where cab drivers fear to tread, much moreso than other parts of town.
Ach, I need to stop thinking about this and enjoy my Friday night…
murphstahoe says:
A subversive plot by the bike anarchists to force everyone onto bikes!
Ned says:
Great article, Eric.
@MrEricSir, I'm pretty sure the managers at the MTA knew the culture bus would be a flop but the Mayor wanted it, and the MTA does what the Mayor wants.
And the Mayor is not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, and he certainly is not committed to public transit!
Gavin for Lt. Governor!
The higher fare could result in current 16X commuters packing onto the already overcrowded 71L and N Judah lines instead. Fun times ahead!
I love the idea of SFMTA charging other city departments for parking placards via work orders. It's only fair, after all, given how Muni has been ripped off by work orders. And they really do need to make better use of their control of parking revenues.
Looking at the SPUR proposal … Muni spends $5 million a year handling "Where's my bus?" calls?
Maybe they'd save money actually running the busses in a orderly manner.
Something reasonable like a zone-based system would just make too much sense. You know, like the kind they use in places where transit doesn't totally suck?
I just get the feeling that everything needs to be torn to shreds and redone. It's not like the service that they're trying (and failing) to provide is something new. Why does this have to be so hard?
San Francisco already has a zone-based system: if you want to go further than 4 miles from the geographic center of the city, you pay an extra fare. Pretty much how it works in Portland, except here it's a side effect of the city and transit agency boundaries, whereas there it's a formal zone system, but the effects and even the size of the zones are roughly the same. An extra charge for express service might make sense: those routes are more expensive to operate because it's peak service ad tend to be longer routes, and collect less revenue because there's no turnover (each seat is occupied at most once per run, generally), but in SF it's probably not worth it as the purpose of those routes is to take some load off the inner segments of the big local bus lines like the 38 or 71.


As Facebook continues to deal with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data incident, the company is taking its first official steps towards mending bridges with users. Over the next couple of weeks, the social media platform will begin rolling out more streamlined privacy controls and new tools aimed at making it easier to download and delete your data.
Chris Cox, Facebook's Chief Product Officer, told Refinery29 that the changes were in development prior to the past two weeks, during which the Cambridge Analytica story broke. "It's timely given the news over the past couple of weeks but this is a project we've been working on for awhile," Cox said.
However, it wouldn't be surprising if today's announcement came ahead of schedule in response to growing unrest among users, a drop on the stock market, and a trending social hashtag, #DeleteFacebook.
The first main change is a reorganization of the Settings menu on the Facebook app, which consolidates privacy information that was previously spread out over 20 screens onto one. In the image below, the phone on the left shows the current Settings menu, while the one on the right shows the new Settings menu that will roll out: It looks clearer, cleaner, and, overall, more user friendly. There is also a new Privacy Shortcuts menu that will be found under the Bookmarks section of the app, which makes it easier to set controls around the ads you see, your personal information, and your account's security.
However, the most useful new features — and the ones most relevant to the Cambridge Analytica incident — are the ones more directly related to data. A new "Access Your Information" page divides all of the information you've ever shared on Facebook into categories: You'll see everything from your "Groups" and "Photos and Videos" to "Likes and Reactions." Clicking on one of those categories will allow you to see the information you've shared and, if you so choose, delete it.
The second new feature is a major upgrade to Facebook's existing "download your data" page. Once a small footnote buried within user Settings, there is now an entire page devoted to downloading data. Compared to the old system, which required you to download everything you ever shared or posted simultaneously, you'll be able to choose what you want to download. If you only want your photos and videos, you can just select those. The same goes for your list of friends. You'll also be able to select specific date ranges for what you want to download.
"This is the first of many announcements that will be coming that are about the fundamental issue here, which is helping people be in control of their information on Facebook," Cox told Refinery29.
The updated settings and any that are announced in coming months will fall in line with the message Mark Zuckerberg shared on his Facebook page last week: "We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you." A Facebook Newsroom post announcing today's updates also acknowledged the impact of Cambridge Analytica's misuse of user data, noting, "The last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and to help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data."
Whether skeptical users are willing to give Facebook a second chance before downloading their data and signing off for good remains to be seen.


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Монастир бригідок — монастир першого луцького жіночого католицького ордену; пам'ятка архітектури національного значення, розташована на вулиці Кафедральній, 16, в історико-культурному заповіднику "Старий Луцьк" .

Заснування монастирського комплексу

В межах Окольного замку, який мав спільний мур із Верхнім замком у Луцьку, розташовувався палац луцького старости і литовського канцлера Альбрехта Станіслава Радзивілла. Палац був прибудований до південної стіни Окольного замку між вежами Свинюських і Четвертинських . Ще на початку XVII ст. дружина волинського хорунжого Ізабелла Семашко запросила до Луцька орден бригідок. У 1624 році Альбрехт Радзивілл передав луцьким бригідкам свій палац . Він пояснював це так (переклад з польської) :

Луцький конвент Святої Бригіти, підтримуваний королем та Костелом, обдарований фундушами від луцького єпископа Станіслава Лубенського та Папи Урбана VIII , мав достатні кошти для активної діяльності. Подарований палац треба було переобладнати під монастирські приміщення, а також збудувати костел. Спочатку в одній із веж Окольного замку, які з обох боків примикали до палацу, бригідки обладнали каплицю з образом апостола Петра в кайданах . Паралельно з цим відбувалося будівництво костелу. У 1635 році король Владислав IV Ваза надав дозвіл бригідкам зробити хвіртку у замковому мурі до річки Стир. Будівельні роботи були завершені у 1642 році і цим самим засвідчили побудову костелу Святої Бригіти у стилі бароко та переобладнання палацу під келії, в якому зокрема були зроблені вікна із виходом на річку.

Історія діяльності монастиря

При монастирі діяла школа, де навчалися діти шляхтичів та заможних міщан. Так, відомо про панночку Анну Станішевську, батьком якої був луцький ключник і королівський секретар Ян Станішевський. Після його смерті вона успадкувала великі маєтки. Бригідський монаший чин прийняла й Анна Гулевичівна — дочка Єжи Гулевича. Орден бригідок на рівні з іншими орденами та костелами Луцька мав достатню підтримку серед шляхти та простих міщан. Для лобіювання інтересів католицьких монастирів Волині у сенаті та сеймі було достатньо представників із Волині. Так, зокрема й монастир бригідок в Луцьку отримував щедрі пожертви від шляхти у першій половині XVII ст. . У 1644 році монастир отримав дарунок у розмірі 1000 злотих від Маріанни Гулевичівни. До справи підвищення добробуту обителі долучалися і настоятельки монастиря. У 1673 році за активної діяльності настоятельки Теофілії Одинцувної монастир був звільнений від сплати податків.

Крім того, відомі неодноразові судові процеси луцьких бригідок із представниками шляхти за матеріальні ресурси. У 1648 році вони подали до суду на синів Єжи Гулевича Вацлава і Яна, звинувачуючи їх у приховуванні батьківського заповіту, згідно з яким нібито залишались великі пожертви для лікарень та костелів. Проте справа закінчилася виправданням братів, позаяк суд не зміг знайти доказів існування саме такого заповіту. Цікаво, що друга судова справа бригідок проти тих же братів Вацлава і Яна була виграшною. Свого часу брати відмовилися виконати останню волю Маріанни Гулевичівни — зробити пожертву на монастир. Зрештою суд задовольнив позов, і Вацлав з Яном Гулевичі виплатили бригідкам 1000 злотих .

У 1724 році сталася пожежа, яка завдала значної шкоди костелові й монастирю. Проте за підтримки луцького єпископа Стефана Рупневського орден відновив пошкоджені приміщення. На загальноміській пожежі у 1781 році бригідський комплекс знову постраждав від вогню. На численні пожертви костел і монастир були відновлені, але вже реконструйовані у стилі класицизму. Крім цього, під час реконструкції була змурована велика стіна, яка відгороджувала монастир від міста. Певною мірою це пояснювалося тим, що Окольний замок після цієї пожежі перетворився на руїну, відтак територія монастиря вже не була так захищена. Цегла для відбудови використовувалася із власної цегельні.

Ліквідація монастиря

У 1845 році на території бригідського комплексу сталася невелика пожежа. Для її гасіння збіглися міщани, однак їх затримала велика вимурувана ще у 1781 р. стіна. Монахині відмовилися впустити на свою територію людей для гасіння пожежі. В результаті, вогонь розгорівся і перекинувся на інші споруди міста, від чого сталася чи не найбільша пожежа Луцька за всю історію, під час якої постраждало багато будинків, державних установ, а також згоріли всі костели і монастирі острівної частини Луцька. Загальні збитки були оцінені у розмірі 150 000 срібних російських рублів. Компенсацією за збитки місту була конфіскація приміщення монастиря і костелу та всього внутрішнього начиння . Натомість на утримання кожної монахині було призначено 40 рублів щорічно. Це сильно похитнуло становище бригідок. У 1879 році орден бригідок у Луцьку скасовується і останні монашки переводяться в Дубно, а потім у Гродно . Під час ремонту башту костелу було розібрано.

У 1890 році будівлю почали облаштовувати під поліційне управління та в'язницю. Було остаточно збито декор і добудовано третій поверх. Архітектурний комплекс луцьких бригідок назавжди втратив свій вигляд. У бригідських приміщеннях планували відкрити гімназію. Проте її зрештою розмістили у колишніх келіях монастиря бернардинів, а в'язницю, яка мала розташуватися там, утворили саме в бригідському комплексі . Отже, в переобладнаних келіях розмістилася окружна Луцька тюрма, а в костелі — тюремна каплиця.

Трагедія Луцької тюрми у червні 1941 року

У міжвоєнний період у тюрмі, окрім в'язнів, що вчинили кримінальні злочини, знаходилися і політичні в'язні. Такими були люди, які підозрювалися у зв'язках із Організацією українських націоналістів . Після приєднання Волині до СРСР тюрма ще більше рясніла в'язнями різних категорій: колишні священики, члени та підозрювані у членстві в ОУН, лікарі, представники наукового та творчого прошарків суспільства. Масові знищення в'язнів на території Західної України почалися від часу нападу німців на СРСР . Це ж саме відбулося і в Луцькій тюрмі, де 23 червня 1941 року солдатами НКВД було розстріляно близько 2000 осіб .

Тюрма ще діяла до 1960-х років, коли була зачинена. Потім у приміщеннях зробили музичне училище.

Сьогодні

В даний час приміщення переобладнаних келій та костелу певною мірою пустують. Будинок не доглянутий і потребує ремонту. Певну частину споруди займає Замковий Свято-Архангельський чоловічий монастир ПЦУ. Також на території знаходяться кілька приватних фірм.

Архітектура

Внаслідок кількох пожеж та реконструкцій після них, а великою мірою після пожежі 1845 р. та перероблення під тюрму, первинна храмова архітектура була втрачена. Окрім розібрання вежі, збивання декору, приміщення монастиря отримало третій поверх. В інтер'єрі воно має хрестові склепіння, окрім третього поверху. У плані колишній монастир із прибудованим костелом має розміри 70х72 м. Збереглися двоярусні підземелля, які мають вихід до річки .

Головні фундатори

 Альбрехт Станіслав Радзивілл
 єпископ Станіслав Лубенський
 Папа Урбан VIII
 Члени роду Гулевичів
 єпископ Стефан Рупневський
 та інші невідомі шляхтичі

Посилання

Церкви Луцька
Історія Луцька
Жіночі монастирі України
Архітектура класицизму в Луцьку
Волинська єпархія ПЦУ
Монастирі Православної церкви України
засновані в Україні 1642
Культові споруди, побудовані 1642
Місця страт

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Canada Beats Iroquois to Win Gold, USA Takes the Bronze
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 28
Canada's reign continues at the World Lacrosse Indoor Men's World Championship.
Canada would trail briefly in the first quarter, and both times by just a single goal, before pulling way from the Iroquois Nationals to win 19-12 on Saturday night at Langley Events Centre in the gold medal game at the 2019 World Lacrosse Men's Indoor World Championship.
Dane Dobbie had a team-high 10 points, including three goals, while Curtis Dickson scored five times and set up two others. Robert Church also had a big game with four goals and an assist in the victory.
Zed Williams led the Iroquois with five goals and six points. Tehoka Nanticoke scored three times and Randy Staats and Cody Jamieson each had a goal and an assist in the losing cause.
Jamieson was named the most valuable player while Staats and Mark Matthews (Canada) were the forwards named to the All-World Team. Joining them on the team were the United States' Joel White (transition) and Canadians Graeme Hossack and Kyle Rubisch on defence and goaltender Mike Poulin.
The President's team consisted of forwards Robert Raittila (Finland) and Matthew Taylor (Australia), transition player Adrian Balasch (Austria), David Beckmann (Germany) and Markus Mattila (Finland) on defence and Germany's Craig Wende (goaltender).
Championship Bracket
For a fifth straight time at the World Lacrosse Men's Indoor World Championship, the United States captured the bronze medal.
The US built a 10-1 lead at the half and while England would cut into the deficit, they could never fully recover, with the Americans winning 11-8.
Joseph Resetarits led the US with a goal and five assists while Kieran McArdle had a goal and three assists. Connor Kelly, Anthony Kelly and Cody Radziewicz each scored a pair of goals.
Matt Marsh led England with four goals.
Israel dominated in the second and fourth quarters to defeat Finland 14-9 to claim fifth place in the Championship Bracket. Finland, which entered the Championship seeded ninth, exits in sixth place.
Jean-Luc Chetner had a goal and eight points and Kyle Bergman scored three times and set up four others. Daniel Deckelbaum (three goal, two assists) and Isaac Bock (four goals and one assist) both had five-point games.
Brett Kujala (one goal, four assists) and Anssi Kaisalmi (two goals, two assists) had four points apiece for the Finns.
The Czech Republic exited with their same pre-Championship ranking after defeating the Netherlands 12-8 in the seventh/eighth place game. And while the Netherlands may have lost all three games in the Championship Bracket, they did make a significant move up the rankings, going from 17th to eighth.
Trailing by six goals in the third quarter, the Netherlands did cut the lead down to a pair of goals before ultimately losing by four.
Jiri Loskot led the Czechs with a goal and six points while Jakub Lukas (two goals, three assists) and Petr Poupe (five assists) had five-point games apiece. Jiri Kostal finished with a goal and three helpers while Pavel Dosly had three goals and one assist.
Ross Parsons, Joshua Toguri and Hidde Wesseler each had two goals in defeat.
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Placement Bracket
Ten goals in the first half were more than enough as Australia defeated Germany in the ninth/tenth place game.
Matthew Taylor (four goals, three assists) and Tristan Rai (three goals, four assists) had matching seven-point games and Jesse Whinnen and Tim Ratje both set up four goals. Whinnen also scored twice.
Gustav Weber scored once and finished with three points for Germany.
Ireland raced out to a 5-0 lead and never looked back, defeating Serbia 14-9 to determine 11th and 12th place.
Brian Gillis led the Irish attack with a pair of goals and eight points while Luke Coppinger (three goal, three assists) and Conor Kelly (three goals, one assist) both had hat tricks.
Ilija Gajic led Serbia with four goals and five points.
Nine points, including four goals, from Noah Hoselton helped Slovakia hold off Austria 16-13 in the game to determine 13th and 14th place.
Samuel Postma (two goals, four assists), Nick Kapusty (one goal, five assists), Denis Englis (four goals, one assist) and Tomas Jeck (three goals, two assists) also had big games for the Slovakian team.
Klaus Hauer had six goals and nine points to lead Austria.
Six of the teams concluded their play at the Championship on Friday.
Sweden defeated Scotland 18-9 for 15th place, Switzerland edged Hong Kong 16-14 to finish 17th and Mexico defeated Costa Rica 14-11 in the 19th/20th place game.
Following each team's final game, one player or staff member was selected as a recipient for their team's Spirit of Lacrosse Award.
The winners were: Bob Carter (Australia), Rintaro Fujita (Austria), Sean Ferris (Canada), Walter and Flavia Rojas (Costa Rica), Roman Pokorny (Czech Republic), Andy Downing (England), Pentti Pekkonen (Finland), Scott S. Stapleford (Germany), So Ka Ho Godwin (Hong Kong), Jeff Dowling (Ireland), Gewas Schindler (Iroquois Nationals), Andrew Alderman (Israel), Alejandor Trias (Mexico), Arttu Sesselaar (Netherlands), Dylan Cowman (Scotland), Uros Matijasevic (Serbia), Tomas Rydlo (Slovakia), Curt Kinney (Sweden), Marion van Jackowski (Switzerland), Jim Starkey (United States) and Brent McCauley (Officials).
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Carriera
Difensore cresciuto nell'Atalanta, esordisce in prima squadra e in Serie A il 17 maggio 1992 nella sconfitta interna contro il Torino, disputando poi da titolare il campionato di Serie C1 1992-1993 in prestito al Leffe. Nella stagione successiva viene prestato al , neopromosso in Serie B, ma già in novembre viene richiamato a Bergamo, con Tresoldi e Scapolo che compiono il percorso inverso. Nella prima stagione la squadra retrocede in Serie B, e Boselli colleziona altre due presenze nella massima serie; nelle annate successive con la maglia nerazzurra (3 di Serie A e una di Serie B) non trova continuità di impiego a causa di frequenti infortuni, tra cui uno al ginocchio che lo condiziona per due anni.

Nel 1998, dopo la retrocessione degli orobici e in scadenza di contratto, passa al , ma anche in maglia felsinea viene relegato ad un ruolo di rincalzo. Tuttavia fa il suo esordio nelle coppe europee: disputa 5 partite in coppa Intertoto e 7 in Coppa UEFA.

Nell'estate 2000 viene ceduto al  per un miliardo di lire. Con i biancorossi conquista una promozione dalla Serie B alla Serie A, rimanendo poi a Piacenza per le due successive stagioni di Serie A nelle quali vede progressivamente ridursi lo spazio in prima squadra a causa dei consueti problemi fisici.

Svincolatosi al termine della stagione 2002-2003, ha proseguito la carriera dal 2004 con il Fanfulla, squadra della sua città, disputando due stagioni di Serie D. Nel 2006, dopo aver iniziato la stagione ancora con i bianconeri lodigiani, si trasferisce al Brembio, in Eccellenza. Nell'estate del 2008, dopo un'ulteriore stagione al Fanfulla, passa al Sant'Angelo, squadra che milita nel campionato di Promozione.

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Competizioni regionali

Fanfulla: 2004-2005

Competizioni internazionali

Bologna: 1998

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The Association of Play Industries (API), who uncovered the alarming decline in playgrounds in their Nowhere to Play report, has welcomed the £13m government pledge to help improve Britain's parks.
Mark Hardy, Chair of the Association of Play Industries, comments: "We are delighted to see a commitment being made to support outdoor activity and specifically play. It is an important step in the right direction and recognition of the positive impact playgrounds have on millions of children's lives, particularly those in deprived areas.


Online travel booking agencies Expedia and Booking.com have agreed to amend their price clauses in their contracts with accommodation providers, increasing competition and allowing hotels to offer lower fees to consumers who contact them directly.
Most travel agencies or online booking platforms have agreements in place with accommodation providers so that they can pay lower fees to hotels and charge competitive prices to their consumers. If you are running a travel agency or considering setting one up, you should be aware of common practices among booking platforms and a recent agreement that affects price competition in the travel site industry. We explain the ACCC's Agreement below as well as its effects on consumers.
Travel agencies have previously used price and availability parity clauses to guarantee that the booking agency would have the most competitive price – discouraging the consumer from negotiating a lower price directly with the accommodation. Parity clauses also refer to the accommodation provider offering the best availability to the booking agency. Under the contract, accommodation providers would be prohibited from offering lower prices directly to customer or through other channels.
After consumer law watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) investigated this practice, booking agencies like Expedia and Booking.com have agreed to amend the clauses so that now the hotels can still offer lower prices to phone bookings or walk-ins. The amendment will not allow hotels to display cheaper prices on their own website.
The ACCC hopes that this agreement will remove the barriers to price competition by undercutting the significant advantage that booking websites like Wotif.com have against direct providers.
From 1 September 2016, Expedia and Booking.com amended their contracts with Australian accommodation providers. As a result, accommodation providers can now provide rates less than the price of other online travel agents or offline channels (phone or walk-in).
The ACCC sees this is an opportunity for accommodation providers to quote prices according to the needs of their customers and to offer competitive rates – special deals will no longer be limited to online travel sites.
At first glance, this appears to be a step in the right direction to promote price competition. Unfortunately, not everyone feels the same way. Since the ACCC announced the agreement with Expedia and Booking.com, it has faced criticism and backlash from the groups it has tried to help – Accommodation Association of Australia and Tourism Accommodation Australia.
Both groups are frustrated that the details of the agreement have not been revealed to the public, and are of the opinion that the agreement does not go far enough to protect the hotel and accommodation industry.
A particularly contentious point is the fact that while hotels can now offer the same or more competitive prices to phone bookings or walk-ins, the hotel cannot display lower prices on their own website despite more than half of bookings made online.
Tourism Accommodation Australia believes that the agreement will not have as much of an impact as the ACCC claims it will. Their concern is that agencies like Expedia and Booking.com, which are offshore companies who hold about 80% of the online travel agency market in Australia, will be able to set the prices for Australian accommodation, and everyone else will have to fall in line.
As representatives of the Australian accommodation industry, the groups have highlighted the fact that small regional motels are often struggling to stay afloat as it is – let alone having to compete with large companies who control pricing.
As part of their investigation, the ACCC conducted a number of inquiries including through questionnaires from accommodation providers so that they could identify the key issues. It was this investigation that revealed the accommodation industry's concern with the price and availability parity clauses. It is possible, however, the ACCC did not gauge how significant the concerns were. The ACCC is currently consulting Australian accommodation providers about the price parity clauses to obtain a better understanding of the impact that these clauses have.
The agreement with Expedia and Booking.com is certainly a step in the right direction to promote price competition in the travel and accommodation industry. It is, however, not a conclusive step and accommodation providers should get involved if they want to have their voices heard.
Travel agencies should also be aware of the ACCC action in challenging common practices. Until now, it has been standard for travel agencies to include parity clauses in their contracts with accommodation providers. Businesses should check their current contracts to ensure that they are compliant with the latest arrangements as of 1 September 2016.
If you have any questions or need assistance reviewing your agreements, get in touch with our contract lawyers on 1300 544 755.


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LEIGHTON FORD
2018 John R. Mott Award Recipient
Leighton Ford has spent a lifetime traveling the world, sharing Christ's love. But wherever his faith took him, he returned home to the love of his family, and to the institution he has embraced for 50 years, the YMCA of Greater Charlotte. He helped launch the YMCA Community Prayer Breakfast, coached youth basketball and cheered on his two sons, and continues to spread the Y's message with a sweetness that makes him a treasure – and the recipient of the 2018 John R. Mott Award. "Leighton is something, isn't he?" says Jim Morgan, the retired CEO of Krispy Kreme, a Y Trustee and longtime friend of Ford. "He finds the good in everything. He is a positive, optimistic individual who has done so much good all over the world."
Leighton has preached in 40 countries, first with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and for years on his own. He recently published a book of his paintings and poetry, "Places of the Heart," reflecting on his life's journeys. He is married to Jean Ford, a wonderful Bible teacher and Billy's kid sister. In recent years, Leighton has focused on mentoring emerging young leaders around the world and affirming the inclusive spirit that distinguishes the Y: Its doors are open to men and women and Christians and others, lifting up Christ while extending a hand to people of all cultures, class and color.
"The Y is unapologetic but understanding," Leighton says. "It's a place of friendship, fellowship and opportunity for involvement."
With the help of the late Tom Dooley and others, Leighton helped start the Y's prayer breakfast in 1987. He remembers one of his early messages – What is urgent? What is important? – and how it challenged us to reexamine our priorities. The breakfast has grown to become a community staple, typically drawing more than 2,000 attendees.But more than his accomplishments, Leighton's life speaks to us. He has endured a heart attack, prostate cancer and the death of his son, Sandy, in 1981 at the age of 21. Yet Leighton's gentlegrace has carried him through. He is, as his friend Jim Morgan says, "a bright spot."
You might have seen his light shining over the years at the Dowd YMCA. Leighton would work up a sweat on the elliptical machine, then head to the big, round table in the lobby to order that day's special from the cafe, and sit down to talk with the good soul beside him.
That's this year's Mott Award winner, serving the cause of Christ one encounter at a time.


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The solo exhibition combines works from the 1990s with new production the exhibition plays with the way groups develop their ideas in cohesion and tension with the individual. It addresses time in relation to production and the development of creative communities.
On this occasion the new monograph, 'From nineteen ninety A to nineteen ninety D', published by JRP|Ringier, will be launched.
The title of the exhibition refers to Ludwik Fleck and Mary Douglas's investigation of the way a thought style links group members via their shared ideas, how they communicate and the methods they employ. These ideas affect the art's subjectivity and are reflected in a series of new text works.
A central work in the exhibition, 'A broadcast from 1887 on the Subject of our Time', was originally produced in 1996 and involved a "broadcast" directed towards a utopian community. The content of the broadcast is taken from Edward Bellamy's book Looking Backward (1887) - which includes an account of a radio broadcast before the invention of the medium.
Also included in the exhibition is a deployment of the work, 'When Do We Need More Tractors? Five Plans, 1999' - a work where certain specific actions are outlined by the artist for others to fulfill. This work is combined with a new series of Discussion Platforms and a series of short films produced by the artist over the last two years.
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the 2nd solo exhibition at the gallery by New York-based artist Thomas Eggerer.
Thomas Eggerer was born in 1963 and studied at the Art Academy in Munich, Germany before moving to the US in the mid 90s where he eventually became a member of the artist collective Group Material. By the late 1990s his focus returned to painting and he has been exhibiting this work extensively over the last fifteen years.
Using a pictorial language between abstraction and figuration, Thomas Eggerer's paintings are inhabited by anonymous figures that are absorbed in degrees of action or exchange. They are observed from an elevated perspective and choreographed into arenas of colour. Forms of currency such as money, cigarettes or cans of beer are held and gestured towards, suggesting modes of social transaction with intent.
The work 'evokes a contemporary condition of internal splitting or dis-location' as discussed by David Joselit in his essay Time Zones published in Artforum in January 2014. He identifies Eggerer's application of paint using processes of sketching, stuttering, dripping and staining that make his subjects appear at once dismantled and stitched together.
Thomas Eggerer's work has been selected by Ralph Rugoff to be included in the 13th Biennale de Lyon, 'La Vie Moderne', that opens this September 10.
He will participate at 'Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age', Museum Brandhorst, Munich, November 11, 2015 - April 2016.
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Morgan Fisher following on from his screening at the gallery in 2013.
"My father taught me photography in 1955, when I was twelve years old. I made my first movies (they were conventional home movies) with a Brownie 8mm camera in 1956. I believed that photography and film as I found them in the 1950s would last forever.
All of the works in this exhibition were made as photographs or films. I didn't do this to sustain my belief, it was the way I wanted to do things, and they were easy and normal things to do. But in treating some of the works after their original production I have chosen to work digitally because it is simpler."
Morgan Fisher was born in 1942 in Washington, D.C. He studied art history at Harvard College and then film in Los Angeles. He lives and works in Santa Monica, California.
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the sixth solo exhibition by Gillian Wearing at the gallery.
Her new single-screen video work 'We Are Here' sees the artist return to the area in and around Sandwell where she grew up. In the video people from the West Midlands present a series of monologues, speaking as if they have returned from the grave. The concept for 'We Are Here' is taken from American poet Edgar Lee Masters' book Spoon River Anthology (1915). In this book people who lived by Spoon River (that ran close to the poet's hometown) rise up from the grave and talk about their lives, regrets, losses and memories.
'We Are Here' received it's UK premier in Gillian Wearing's solo exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall. The exhibition opened on 17 July and runs until 12 October 2014. Regen Projects, Los Angeles will host the US premiere of the film in a solo Show, 11.12.2014 - 24.012015.
'We Are Here' was made with the assistance of Outset Contemporary Art Fund and the Art Fund with additional support from the artist, Maureen Paley, Shaun Regen and Tanya Bonakdar.
Gillian Wearing has been nominated for The Vincent Award 2014 along with Pierre Huyghe, Manfred Pernice, Willem de Rooij and Anri Sala. The Vincent Award is currently on show at The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands, 05.09. 2014 to 01.02.2015.
Wearing's public sculpture A Real Birmingham Family will be unveiled in Centenary Square, Birmingham, on October 30, 2014.
Identical twin brothers Gert & Uwe Tobias were born in Brasov, Romania, in 1973, in the Transylvanian region. Having moved to Germany in 1985 they studied in Brunswick, and now live and work in a studio complex on the outskirts of Cologne. They paint, sculpt, make traditional woodcuts and collages. They have worked together since 2001 and when in their studio the artists often complete each other's work. Their work is full of strange characters and creatures drawn from eastern European folk art combined with diverse influences, from abstract art of the early 20th century to German post-war painting.
The Tobias brothers' giant woodcuts and wall paintings draw on modernist geometric abstraction; however they combine line, shape, colour and typography with the narrative images and patterns of folk art, using decorative motifs such as flowers, plants, patterns, embroidery and domestic objects. These elements are often placed against a grid or flat painted background to create dramatic and surreal tableaux. There is much reference and quotation in their work from the rich Surrealist period, William Blake, along with symbolist allusion - all connected through their Romanian folk tradition. However, the bold and geometric presentation they employ creates a contemporary context that is unique to them.
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the third solo exhibition by Peter Hujar at the gallery.
Working exclusively in black and white, Hujar vividly documented a New York that has been all but lost to us today.
Hujar was a contemporary and friend of Diane Arbus, and both were admirers of Weegee and shared his dark vision. Regardless of subject matter—from the catacombs in Palermo to abandoned, wrecked cars Hujar is a classicist whose distinctive style echoes further back to historical figures such as Atget and Brassaï. Hujar was a mentor and friend to the artists David Wojnarowicz and Paul Thek. His work would go on to influence the photographers Nan Goldin and Robert Mapplethorpe. His sensibility, concentration, eye for detail, and feel for light and texture enable him to find mystery where none is apparent, beauty in the mundane, and grace in disintegration. All of Hujar's work is imbued with a deep sense of mortality and as he makes visible an awareness of life and death as forever enmeshed, a depth of soul.
Born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1934, Peter Hujar received his first camera in 1947. His works have been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States.
Maureen Paley is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by David Salle at the gallery. Salle lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and is known for the crucial role his work played in the discussions around postmodernism in contemporary art. Taught by John Baldessari in the 70's at UCLA he is considered part of the Pictures Generation whose work was revisited in an exhibition of the same name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2009.
Salle's subject matter and pictorial language stem from his interest and engagement in performance and his exploration into the relations between painting and cinema.
At the center of the new exhibition is a large painting of the American West titled Trappers (2014). The black and white underlying image is a re-painting of a scene by George Caleb Bingham, one of the most popular American painters of the mid 1800s. Bingham's paintings were extremely theatrical and would be set up in tents where admission was charged in order to view them. Although carefully plotted, the composition of Salle' painting is also subject to chance as Salle introduces brightly colored body prints that are made by literally dragging a model across the painting's surface. His aim is always to keep the eye moving across and around the space of the painting and in Trappers the actual movements begin to translate into metaphorical ones.
Maureen Paley is pleased to present Sarah Jones' sixth solo exhibition at the gallery. Following on from the recent publication of her monograph by Violette Editions, Jones' new photographs continue to explore how subjects are measured and transcribed through the large format view camera and flattened in pictorial space. Predicated on the disarming and the vernacular she uses a vocabulary that simultaneously describes as well as documents. In her expanded Cabinet series arrangements of found objects are contained, mirrored and presented as if held in a vitrine.
She has previously used the diptych as a formal device and direct reference to early stereographic photographs in order to present two perspectives of a single form. More recent diptychs consider the act of doubling and the alchemic nature of the photographic process by literally flipping an Image.
7, 14, 21, 28 day walks Cairngorms Scotland, 1985-2013 - Copyright the artist. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London.
Maureen Paley is pleased to present a new exhibition of work by Hamish Fulton, his second at the gallery.
In 1973, after walking over 1000 miles in 47 days from Duncansby Head to Land´s End, Fulton made the decision to "only make art resulting from the experience of individual walks." Since then walking has formed the basis of his practice, materializing in photographs and walk-texts in various forms that result from direct engagement with the environment.
Calls for political justice recur in Fulton´s work, corresponding to his commitment to individual and artistic freedom. As Fulton has stated: "A diversity of art walks can interconnect with a wide range of actions, disciplines, philosophies, environmental issues, the meditative, and politics."
For the past twenty years Fulton has been devising group walks with over thirty walks realised transnationally. In 2011 Fulton undertook Slowalk (In support of Ai Weiwei) a collective action realised at Tate Modern bringing together hundreds of people walking in silent unison.


Stay in your own lane. I've been using this phrase a lot lately. To me it means to nurture and take care of ourselves, pay attention only to opinions that matter and to focus on things that bring us happiness and joy. I try to stay in my own lane.
But what happens when we get sideswiped?
I was cruising along this week when a few insensitive comments, loss of sleep, and thoughts of loved ones that I miss knocked me out of my lane.
I have been able to deal with each of these things in the recent past with a level head and a light heart (or at least I'm trying), but cumulatively they really knocked me off-center.
So how do we get back in our lanes?
As I watched the April snow fall on my beautiful, partially bloomed, very confused Magnolia tree, nature, once again, revealed the answer.
We stay the course and do our best. We deal with each thing that has knocked us out of our desired path the best way we can. And we eventually get back in our lanes.
Each experience makes us uniquely who we are and moves us closer to our authentic selves. Our imperfections are what makes us human, more alike than different, and I think this is the bigger picture.
The flowers on my Magnolia tree may look less than perfect this Spring, but the tree is much more than something beautiful to look at. As I peered into the tree, I smiled at what I saw through the wind-swept branches.
On this cold, snowy Spring morning, my Magnolia tree is the sturdy home which gently cradles a mother dove in her nest. Can you see her?


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Q: Why implementing swap() as non-throwing I do understand why sometimes it is recommended to implement our own swap() function for a given class.
For instance, if we have a class following the pimpl idiom we would likely want to define our own copy constructor, so that it performs a deep copy of the contents of the object passed as an argument instead of the shallow copy that would be performed by the default copy constructor. The same could apply to the copy assignment operator.
Since it seems that std::swap() is implemented in terms of (at least, when it comes to C++03) both the copy constructor and the copy assignment operator. It would be inefficient to perform deep copies of the objects to be swapped, since just a swap of the pointers contained by these objects need to be done.
My question is why we should implement our swap() function as a non-throwing one.
In the case explained above, I assume it is just about semantics: since no new resources are being allocated (i.e.: two existing pointers are just being swapped). It wouldn't make much sense for such a kind of function to throw an exception.
However, there may be other reasons or scenarios I am overlooking in this reasoning.

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My question is why we should implement our swap() function as a non-throwing one

*

*Because swap is completely useless if it might throw.
Consider: you swap two instances, and the operation throws. Now, what state are they in?
The strong guarantee is that there are no side-effects if an exception was thrown, meaning both original objects are left in their original state.
If we can't meet the strong guarantee, we simply can't use swap in many cases, because there's no way to recover usefully from a failure, and there's no point in writing that version of swap at all.

*Because there's no reason for it to throw.
The trivial implementation of swap (now) uses move-assignment and -construction.
There's generally no reason for a move-constructor to throw: it doesn't allocate anything new, it's just re-seating existing data. There's generally no reason for move-assignment to throw (as above), and destructors should never throw - and those are the only operations required.

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I've originally understood the question as "why would you use the throw specifier on the swap function. This answer might be off topic since I doesn't explain why would swap never throw.

I think the best answer is why not ?.
Why would you not specify that a function will never throw when this function as no reason to throw ?
You should always implement function as non-throwing when they have no reason to throw exception: you offer stronger guaranty for your function.
Furthermore, with some meta programming, you can take advantages of functions being non-throwing. Some STL classes use that to have faster member function when the swap/copy/move(C++11) is no-throw. (Actually I'm not sure that they take advantage of a function being no-throw in pre-C++11 code)

A: For some classes such as

a class following the pimpl idiom

we know that the implementation of swap will not need to throw because

It wouldn't make much sense for such a kind of function to throw an exception.

When it doesn't make sense to throw an exception, then it is best not to throw an exception.

There can be other classes such as those that contain complex members without a specialized swap function, but with potentially throwing copy constructor / assignment. For such classes we can not implement swap that never throws.

A: swaping your pImpls can't fail, in a well-formed program. (And the behaviour in an ill formed program doesn't matter). There is nothing to throw


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