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Asian Journal of Pain is the official journal of the Korean Neuro-Pain Society, and published twice a year(May 30, October 30). This Journal publishes important papers covering the whole field of pain, including clinical and basic research, patient care, and health care policy. Studies on rare cases and technical notes of special instruments or equipment that might be useful to the field of pain management are also acceptable. Papers, to be accepted, will include original work(clinical and basic research), case reports, technical note, review articles, letters to the editor, etc. Review articles can be published upon specific request by the journal. Authors can publish special drafts with the approval from the editorial board. Case reports should be brief, and avoid an extensive review of the literature.
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World War Z, Saber Interactive's upcoming four-player co-op multiplayer game inspired by the hit blockbuster movie, launches later this year on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC.
Today, get a gruesome taste of horde-killing action with newly unveiled screenshots, along with the game's striking key art.
Outlive the dead through each group of survivors' unique storylines, as they run from and battle massive hordes of zombies powered by Saber's advanced Swarm Engine. Survive a series of heart-pounding co-operative campaigns across a series of international locations, including Moscow, Jerusalem and New York. The relentless swarms act as real crowds, as zombies trip over obstacles, squeeze through tight spaces, and climb on top of each other to reach players no matter where they try to hide.
Stay tuned for even more World War Z info in the coming weeks.


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Now is 'not the time' to reduce funding for the World Health Organization in COVID-19 fight, urges Guterres
"As I said on 8 April, the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dangerous challenges this world has faced in our lifetime. It is above all a human crisis with severe health and socio-economic consequences", he added.
Science, solidarity and smart policies.
These are the key elements of the @UN global response to the #COVID19 pandemic.https://t.co/Bk32sCFvB1
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) April 14, 2020
The UN chief's statement, came as the President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced early on Tuesday evening that he was halting funding for the UN health agency, pending a review of its response to the initial outbreak.
WHO, with thousands of its staff aiding and assisting operations across the world to limit the transmission of the coronavirus, "is on the front lines, supporting Member States and their societies, especially the most vulnerable among them, with guidance, training, equipment and concrete life-saving services", said the Secretary-General.
"It is my belief that the World Health Organization must be supported, as it is absolutely critical to the world's efforts to win the war against COVID-19."
Reiterating the argument which he made last week, the UN chief noted that given the unprecedented nature of COVID-19 and the subsequent global response that was needed to defeat it, "it is possible that the same facts have had different readings by different entities. Once we have finally turned the page on this epidemic, there must be a time to look back fully to understand how such a disease emerged and spread its devastation so quickly across the globe, and how all those involved reacted to the crisis."
The lessons learned will be essential to effectively address similar challenges, as they may arise in the future", Mr. Guterres added. "But now is not that time."
Resources must be maintained
Until then, "it also not the time to reduce the resources for the operations of the World Health Organization or any other humanitarian organization in the fight against the virus."
Mr. Guterres made it clear that unity must prevail, so that the international community can work together, "in solidarity to stop this virus and its shattering consequences."
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Readers can find information and guidance on the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from the UN, World Health Organization and UN agencies here. For daily news updates from UN News, click here.
Ever since the disease emerged in Wuhan, China, and the first case of a pneumonia "of unknown cause" was reported to WHO on 31 December last year, the agency has been working 24/7 to analyze data, provide advice, coordinate with partners, and help countries prepare. The outbreak was declared a Public Heath Emergency of International Concern, a month later.
See our piece here, on five of the key ways that the agency has been leading the global response.
As of Tuesday, there are more than 1.8 million confirmed cases, according to WHO figures, with more than 117,000 confirmed deaths, and 213 countries, areas or territories with cases of the new coronavirus.


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Produced by Ciclo de Conciertos de Música Contemporánea del Teatro San Martín, with support from the French Embassy in Argentina, the Institut Français Argentine and the Alliance Française.
"Cachafaz" is an example that opera is still possible nowadays. Its dramatic-musical text jeopardizes, in an absolutely contemporary way, the genre of opera.
The idea of staging an opera out of the last work of the always controversial Argentinian writer Copi is quite risky and perfectly appropriate at the same time. The original text is written in verse and set in a poor tenement house, with the neighbors acting as choir. The protagonists (Cachafaz -a decadent pimp-, la Raulito -his transvestite lover- and the corrupt policeman) stand completely apart from any traditional opera character, but, at the same time, they are built with great dramatic and musical intensity.
Each year, the Contemporary Music Festival of the Teatro San Martín in Buenos Aires presents the premiere of a contemporary Argentinian chamber opera. In this context, Oscar Strasnoy's Cachafaz was produced in November 2012 for the sixteenth annual festival.
Cachafaz captures opera's potential as a meaningful genre in our own time. The opera is based on the final work of the controversial Argentine author and cartoonist Copi. The protagonists—Cachafaz (a decadent pimp), la Raulito (his transvestite lover), and the corrupt policeman—stand apart from "traditional" opera characters, while at the same time they embody great dramatic and musical intensity.
is an Argentine composer, conductor and pianist. His corpus of music theater works includes twelve stage pieces and countless chamber works that have been performed in festivals and at concert halls across the globe. In 2012, the Présences Festival of Radio France organized a retrospective of his work, which included a series of fourteen concerts held at Théâtre de Châtelet. In addition to Cachafaz, Strasnoy's Argentinian credits include his a capella opera Geschichte at the Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón, and the pocket opera Fabula at the Ciclo de Conciertos de Música Contemporánea. In 2014, his Requiem for a Nun premiered at the Teatro Colón, which also commissioned the piece.
received his degree in Fine Arts from the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Cárcova and a degree in Opera Staging from the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colon. In 2008 his staging of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri for Buenos Aires Lírica at Teatro Avenida became a critical and popular success, and was nominated for best Opera Direction by the Argentine Critics Association. He also won the first prize at the Young Opera Competition of the Teatro Colón. Since then, he has staged more than thirty productions. Maritano also boasts an extensive teaching career in Argentina and abroad. He is a teacher at the Higher Institute of Art of Teatro Colón, as well as an appointed stage director and acting coach at the Opera Estudio in Teatro Argentino de La Plata. Since 2012, he has also served as a guest acting coach at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
was born in Buenos Aires where he studied voice, piano, composition and pedagogy with Ida Terkiel, Catalina Hadis, Horacio Soutric and Mercedes Alicea. He studied voice at the Instituto Superior del Teatro Colón, graduating in 1989. In 1990 he won the First Prize in the Bilbao International Singing Competition. Torres enjoys a busy international career with appearances at opera houses including the Teatro Colón, Opera Bastille, Théâtre de La Monnaie, Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Tokyo Opera City, Jerusalem State Concert Hall, Teatro Municipal de Santiago. He features as Pasquale in the recent EuroArts DVD release of Haydn's Orlando Paladino conducted by René Jacobs.
studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón, where he studied with Ricardo Ortale and Ricardo Donati. He has sung as a soloist at the Teatro Colón, Argentino de la Plata, the Opéra National de Paris (Bastille), the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, and the Grand Theatre of Copenhagen. He has sung leading roles in the national premieres of Cachafaz, Richter, El Matadero, Historia de Mujeres Intensas, and Jackob Lenz y La Libertad Total. He sings bass in the vocal ensemble Cabernet and is a member of the Estudio Coral de Buenos Aires. He has recorded and produced over thirty CDs with major pop and classical artists.
In 1999 González was distinguished by the President of Argentina with the National Grant for Cultural Excellence.
Diapasón Sur was founded in 2003 by Mariano Moruja as a group of vocal soloists for the premiere of the chamber opera Richter (Mario Lorenzo and Esteban Buch) at the Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. The opera was performed abroad later that year at La Villette in Paris. Diapasón Sur's formation is defined specifically for each project, and it is an alternative to the chamber group Grupo Vocal de Difusión, also founded and directed by Maestro Moruja.
studied at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla, specializing in Choral Conducting and Guitar. He also studied at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de La Plata, the Robert Shaw Choral Institute, and with María del Carmen Aguilar, Carlos López Puccio and Víctor Torres. Since 1988 he has served as director of Grupo Vocal de Difusión, with which he has presented world premieres of numerous Argentine composers, as well as premieres of the most important vocal pieces in the contemporary Argentinian repertoire.
In 1995 they received the Best Contemporary Music Performance Prize at the International Marktoberdorf Choir Contest.
Moruja is a teacher at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla, in Buenos Aires' Dramatic Art School and at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the University of La Plata.
Do you understand Cachafaz as a way to attack the traditional and perhaps elitist language of classical opera?
Oscar Strasnoy (OS). I am not losing any sleep with issues related to the traditional, cult, classic, elitist language. I think these are false problems linked to a dialectical-materialist fetishism of another generation. As a composer of musical spectacles (widening the perhaps narrow word "opera"), what worries me is to create a world in which the text and the sonic universe form a coherent whole. The world Copi presents in Cachafaz is a world of impoverished immigrants crammed into a tenement house in Montevideo during the first half of the twentieth century. The music should serve that purpose. In the case of a scenic composition, where text represents at least 50% of the material, the composer must leave aside any notion of purity and intervene on a very simple task: to serve a purpose that transcends him. And he must do this while trying to respect his own style, his personal identity. It is an unstable and dangerous balance, but an interesting one.
Given the marked location that language and stage have in the text, how are the musical genres from the Rio de la Plata referenced in your music?
OS. The references are straightforward and perfectly identifiable. But they are somehow hidden behind the frosted glass of my own musical conception, my personality and my professional deformation.
The text from Copi seems to ironize and redefine elements from Greek tragedy (for instance, the choir of neighbours). Are there in the composition allusions or quotations from other musical eras as well?
OS. Yes, absolutely. The reference to the Greek chorus is obvious and inevitable. Let us not forget that the Greek theater, with its choruses and , was the imaginary and idealized model of the new Florentine Opera in the early seventeenth century. Copi, who was a refined and cultured man, refers to the classical world in his works, particularly in Cachafaz. There are references to the Greek world as well as classical operas, specifically Tosca. The reference to Puccini's verism is evident, and, in addition to the rioplatense winks, I took this into account as well.
"Cachafazis a hilarious chamber opera that combines the Western operatic tradition with Latin American subjects and humour. Some of the incredible situations in the libretto could very well transpire in any of our Latin American countries.


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Musicians in the Studio, Let Them Play
By Tom Kenny. Times have changed, certainly, and few artists today have the luxury to book a high-end studio for more than a week or two.
By Tom Kenny
It's catching on again, this idea of musicians coming together in the studio and recording live, usually with headphones, sometimes not. Looking at each other, listening to each other, nodding to each other and letting each one's playing influence the others. I keep hearing it from engineers across the country, and every time it's said with excitement and enthusiasm. Then we talk about how, of course, this was the only way to make a record back in the beginning. Three to four songs in a day, mixed, cut on vinyl, then driven down to the radio station that night. It really did sometimes happen like that. And today, it's even easier! A couple of downloads, then a couple uploads. Put it on Spotify. Reach out on social media. The song is out!
Okay, probably not studio-to-street in a day, though it's been known to happen. There are still likely to be a few overdubs, and the vocals will come later, but with the full band together, the foundation is there. Take away the click, don't lock to the grid, let the bleed cross over the microphone setup, and sometimes magic happens. Of course, sometimes problems come up that can't be undone later in the mix, but if properly set up, the studio can truly your friend.
Al Schmitt, in talking about his last two projects with Bob Dylan at Capitol, would light up when describing how the band came in, ran down the songs, and just played, like the bands did when Al started out in the 1950s. This time around, ten songs in a week, no headphones, Bob singing in the room. Another week or two to mix. That's it. Al loved it.
Times have changed, certainly, and few artists today have the luxury to book a high-end studio for more than a week or two. Nor is the playing-live approach right for every artist or every project. But when it's possible, and when it's properly planned out and pre-production is productive, a week of recording live in the studio can do wonders for the sound and emotion of a record. This all presumes, it goes without saying, that there's a great song or two to record in the first place.
I was reminded of all this while preparing this month's issue, with its emphasis on Nashville and all the stereotypes that go along with it: songwriters, demos, stellar session players, big-name artists knocking out the songs and moving on. It's an old stereotype, but it got me thinking.
Related: Dave Cobb at Home in Nashville, by Barbara Schultz, May 2, 2018
And then I came across super-hot producer Dave Cobb, interviewed this month by Barbara Schultz and photographed by David McClister in the middle of RCA Studio A, his new Music City recording home. In talking with him about the art direction of the cover, and where he might want to shoot it, he kept coming back to the spacious live room, and how much he appreciated the history of the players and productions that came before him. From Chet Atkins to Ben Folds, with a few more in between. It's a room built for players who want to play, and Dave Cobb seems to be loving it. He usually ends up playing with them.
Related: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Record Years, by Tom Kenny, May 3, 2018
At the same time I was putting together a story on Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, interviewing producer/engineer Ian Schreier, who runs Manifold Recording outside of Raleigh-Durham, N.C. He has a world-class room, built by Michael Tiemann and designed by Wes Lachot to host a 60-piece orchestra or a four-piece rock band, with a series of four booths that open onto the main floor. He has the space, though it's somewhat off the beaten recording path; he's just been seeking that chart-topping talent. He seems to have found it in Shook.
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For the Disarmers' sophomore effort, both artist and producer pitched heavily for the time and money to record it "right," in a high-end studio with the space to let the band come together and find that emotion in the songs. Playing in the room. They got a couple weeks. They prepped, they rehearsed, and they knocked it out. And it is a great-sounding record. Just do a quick Google on "Sarah Shook Years."
None of this is new. And none of it is a formula for making a record. It's just a brief reminder that when great musicians come together, even greater things can happen.
Tags ⋅ Dave Cobb ⋅ Editor's Note ⋅ Ian Schreier ⋅ Manifold Recording ⋅ Michael Tiemann ⋅ recording studio ⋅ Sarah Shook & The Disarmers ⋅ Wes Lachot
January 13, 2020, Fort Wayne, IN – Sweetwater Studios, the recording studio arm of music retailer Sweetwater Sound, has just released exclusive in-the-studio footage of thrash metal architects, Anthrax. The video – shot by famed British music video director Nigel Dick [Ozzy Osborne, Guns n' Roses, Band Aid] – finds the band energetically ripping through classics like 'Madhouse' in Sweetwater Studios' Studio A, intercut with interview footage where the members discuss their shared history and working methods writing some of thrash metal's most iconic riffs. The band partnered Sweetwater Studios and Shure last September to present a Recording Master Class that invited fans and recording enthusiasts into the studio to learn the art of tracking and mixing alongside the metal icons and Producer/Engineer Mark Hornsby. Shure provided all of the microphones used in the sessions, and the band tracked a selection of older and newer material, while sharing their insights and stories with attendees. For more information on Sweetwater Studios, please visit: http://www.sweetwaterstudios.com/ For additional behind-the-scenes videos and exclusive performances from Anthrax, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/user/SweetwaterSound About Sweetwater Studios Sweetwater Studios is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sweetwater Sound, Inc., the largest online music instrument retailer in the country. With three world-class studios designed by Russ Berger and access to a greater diversity of musical equipment and professional audio gear than any other recording studio in the world, Sweetwater Studios is able to accommodate just about any recording, mixing or mastering project, no matter how simple or complex. With renowned staff producer Mark Hornsby at the helm, who has worked on many Grammy-award winning albums, Sweetwater Studios also has an exceptional staff of producers, engineers, session musicians and studio technicians.
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Galwan Clash: Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls all-party meeting on June 19
The all-party meeting will be held at 5 pm on June 19 to discuss situation following the fierce clash between the Indian Army and the Chinese forces.
By IFP Bureau | Updated on: June 17, 2020, 6:19 p.m.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PHOTO PIB)
In the wake of the recent clash between the Indian and Chinese troops at Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on the India-China border that claimed several lives on both sides, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for an all-party meeting at 5 pm on June 19 to discuss situation.
The call for the all-party meeting came on Wednesday few hours after Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi questioned the prime minister's silence on the "violent faceoff" between the two forces that claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers while China suffered 35 casualties as per official sources.
"In order to discuss the situation in the India-China border areas, Prime Minister @narendramodi has called for an all-party meeting at 5 PM on 19th June. Presidents of various political parties would take part in this virtual meeting," the PMO tweeted.
On Tuesday, the Indian Army said in a statement that 20 Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed on Monday night in the biggest ever military confrontation between the two armies since 1975. The Chinese People's Liberation Army reported 35 casualties, sources said, citing US intelligence reports.
India's Defence Minister also tweeted in early in the day: "The Nation will never forget their bravery and sacrifice. My heart goes out to the families of the fallen soldiers ...We are proud of the bravery and courage of India's bravehearts".
Reacting to the situation, the opposition had demanded details of the faceoff from the government. Questioning the prime minister's silence, Rahul Gandhi had said that the country needs to know the truth about the situation.
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Grahamstown's water problems are under control, It is going to be a fantastic festival.
Last week we described Grahamstown's water problems. Ted Pillay, the Acting Municipal Manager for the Makana Municipality explains here how the town's water supply works, and reassures the public, ahead of the National Arts Festival, that the water is clean.
Grahamstown (which is part of the Makana Municiaplity) is arguably one of the oldest towns in the country. In 2019, the 200th year of the Battle of Grahamstown will be commemorated. In 2020, the 200th anniversary of the town will be celebrated.
Grahamstown is the home of Rhodes University, one of the finest tertiary institutions in the country and home to three of the finest private schools. One of these schools is considered to be one of the top 20 schools in the world. Grahamstown is also called the city of saints boasting the most number of churches dating way back from the past. The seat of the High Court in the Eastern Cape is in Grahamstown. It is city steeped in learning, history, tradition and culture. The gallant troops based at 6th SA Infantry in the city and who are part of South Africa's peacekeeping efforts on the continent, exercised their freedom to the city last month.
It is also home of the National Arts Festival. This year will be the 44th edition. "We begin our annual journey to another exciting gathering to celebrate our living heritage and creative impulse as a society at the National Arts Festival," says Jenny Pheiffer, Head of Brand Sponsorships and Events, Standard Bank.
Ayanda Mjekula, the chairperson of the National Arts Festival Board notes, "The festival takes place as we commemorate the centenary of the birth of Albertina Sisulu and Nelson Mandela. We commit this event to their memories and hope that it lives up to the ideals they espoused and two of the core freedoms they embraced: freedom of expression and freedom of speech".
It may be the third largest or fourth largest arts festival in the world and annually festival lovers from many countries descend on Grahamstown and its surroundings (as far as East London, Port Elizabeth and Port Alfred).
There is little doubt that much of the water and sewer infrastructure has aged and needs to be upgraded. The town has seen a steady growth over the last number of years and the movement of people to Grahamstown to seek better opportunities is very real. So what is the municipality doing with the need to maintain and upgrade its infrastructure?
The water supply to Grahamstown is fed by two systems.
In the western part of the city (which embraces the city centre, the more affluent residential areas, Rhodes University etc), the supply comes from the Waainek water treatment works (WTW). This WTW can produce seven megalitres of water per day which is adequate for the current demands in the west. Notwithstanding that, the municipality is currently refurbishing this WTW to avoid water outages in the west which occur from time to time.
Raw water supply is the problem. The water availability in the west which comes primarily from the Settlers Dam is constrained (with its limited catchment area in the Thomas Baines Nature Reserve). Unless another water catchment area is identified, it is highly unlikely for this WTW to be upgraded significantly.
The big challenge is in the eastern part of Grahamstown. Raw water availability here is not the issue as water at the Glen Melville Dam (which is the main supply dam in the east) can be augmented with water from the Orange / Fish River schemes. The current reality is that the James Kleynhans WTW that must treat this raw water, can only produce ten megalitres per day. The demand in the eastern part of Grahamstown is at about 13 megalitres per day.
Has forward planning not been occurring to anticipate the increasing demand over the last couple of years? Could well be! And the town has grown (because of the movement of people into Grahamstown) and family numbers have also grown.
Currently another WTW (with a capacity to treat another ten megalitres of water per day is being constructed adjacent to the current WTW. Work commenced in 2016. This additional capacity therefore will be more than adequate to meet the current demand as well as the future growth in the east.
At this time the water supply in the east is cut every day at about 9pm and restored at about 4am. This allows the reservoirs to be filled overnight. Unfortunately, when the supply is restored in the morning, the first few litres of water are brown in colour as the sludge that settled in the reticulation lines is "pushed out". The only way the water can be clear at all times, is when the water supply is at 24 hours a day without any disruption. The harsh reality is that this additional capacity will only come on line in 2020, when the construction of the new WTW is completed and the plant is commissioned. The Department of Water and Sanitation is funding the project and overseeing its construction.
The water quality is monitored on a weekly basis and the water is currently free from impurities.
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A: When you set a runtime attribute in Interface Builder, what you're actually doing is instructing the Nib loading machinery to call the corresponding setter method on that object during Nib loading. So, if you have a runtime attribute called for example "name" with a string value of "Bob", all that means is that at some point at runtime during Nib loading, the instance's -setName: method will be called with @"Bob" as the argument.
So, to do the same thing at runtime, you just set the property directly, perhaps in your view controller's -viewDidLoad method, or another appropriate place:
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A: Actually figured this out, like I said silly question.
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A: Wanted to provide an updated answer which leverages Swift property wrappers to cleanly attribute UI elements which should be ignored.
Swift 5.1+ Property Wrapper
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I've implemented this solution and confirmed in both the Live View and Events Visualizer that Heap ignores events generated by UI elements attributed with the property wrapper.

A: You need to reference somehow the UIButton in the code (usually by creating an IBOutlet) and then you can access its properties as you would do when you create a button programmatically.
If you want to create the button programmatically for instance:
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December 29, 2010 News » News Etc.
Blown speaker?
By Joshua A. Hughes
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San Antonio's Joe Straus was ushered in as speaker of the Texas House in 2009 thanks to an "Anybody but Craddick" wave of dissatisfaction with former Speaker Tom Craddick. Straus, first elected during a special election in 2005, was seen as a bipartisan leader who could help bridge a difficult divide between Democrats and Republicans created in part by the heavy-handed Midland Republican.
"Collaboration is the key to success in this session," Straus said in his acceptance speech before the start of the 81st Legislature. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Living up to his billing, Strauss gave about half of the committee chairs to Republicans and little less than that to Democrats.
How times have changed. With a new supermajority of conservative Republicans solidly in power, it is that bipartisan spirit that now has Straus in some Republicans' crosshairs.
A speaker for the Texas House of Representatives is chosen at the start of each biennial session of the Legislature. The speaker vote will open the business of the Texas House this session on January 11, 2011. One of the most coveted positions in state government, the speaker makes committee chair appointments and decides what legislation is ultimately brought to the floor for consideration.
Many Republicans believe that, given their party's sweep in November's election, such power sharing should be a thing of the past, and Representatives Ken Paxton of McKinney and Warren Chisum of Pampa, both Republicans, have set their sights on Straus's seat. Their challenges come amidst racist taunts over Straus's Jewish faith. In late November, groups apparently not affiliated with Straus's opponents sent emails claiming "Straus is going down in Jesus's name," while pre-recorded "robo-calls" demanded a "true Christian leader" for speaker.
Both Paxton and Chisum denounced the anti-Semitic remarks, saying that they are concerned with Straus's politics — not his religion.
Previous to this year's elections, Democrats had held 73 seats to the Republicans 76. The November vote put Republicans solidly in charge, with 99 of the 150 seats. However, a few weeks after the election, two Democrats changed parties, giving Republicans more than the necessary 100 votes it takes to approve amendments to the Texas Constitution.
Many Republicans are claiming the victory is a mandate that Texans do not want compromise, but desire a more "pure" conservatism, including a complete break with federal programs like Medicaid and tough anti-immigration legislation (see "Out-Arizona-ing Arizona," Page 12).
Straus did not return calls for comment, and his staffers said that they did not feel like the race was significant enough to address. Chisum, however, was matter-of-fact about his challenge, saying, "I want to be the speaker of the House that the House needs. … a House that's run fair and recognizes what happened in the past election."
Chisum has served in the House since 1989, when he was elected as a Democrat (he changed parties in 1996). He had close ties with the ousted Craddick and lost his chairmanship of the House Committee on Appropriations when Straus took over. "I think that the people are tired of moderate Republicans. They're tired of Republicans who will say one thing and do something else once they get to the Capitol," Chisum said. "I don't think that Joe Straus has been very active in pushing conservative legislation."
In order to gain the Speaker's position, Straus, Chisum, or Paxton need a majority of House support. At one point Straus claimed to have about 120 members pledged to him, including most (if not all) House Democrats. The workaround solution to unseating Straus? Eliminate the Dems from the process by relying on a Republican caucus vote instead. Chisum announced last week that he has the support needed to bring such a vote, possibly to be held on January 5.
"If we don't have a caucus `Straus` will likely win," Paxton told Texas Public Radio recently. "If we can go to a Republican caucus, he loses those 51 votes. And then it's a straight-up Republican vote. And, in that environment, I have a very good chance of winning."
Paxton, who was elected to the Texas House in 2003, has been endorsed by former U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and is the favorite of several Tea Party groups around Texas. He has pledged to balance Texas's budget and push through a constitutional amendment that would limit the state's spending to only covering raises in inflation and population.
Even if Straus wins the race as expected, Chisum and Paxton both feel that the right-of-moderate conservatives will have the electorate behind them for years to come. "I don't think we'll see these people who voted in the last election changing their minds," Chisum said. The biggest elephant in the room is the projected budget shortfall that Texas will face in coming years — roughly $20 billion, according to early estimates. All three of the speaker candidates are lucid about their desire to balance the budget not by raising taxes, but by cutting public services, instead. The popularity of that approach is certain to be a mixed bag for voters at the lower end of the economic ladder — a demographic that has only been growing. •
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COVID Surge: South Bay Hospitals Brace For Rise In Coronavirus Cases, ICU Patients
By Kenny Choi November 24, 2020 at 7:47 pm
Filed Under:Coronavirus, covid surge, COVID-19, hospital capacity, San Jose, Santa Clara County, South Bay
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) — While counties in the Bay Area are generally doing much better than the rest of the state as far as rising COVID-19 cases during the surge, hospital officials are still taking steps in preparation.
Hospitals in Northern California aren't close to crisis levels where there is a shortage of ICU beds, but since no one really knows how long the current case surge will last, health officials are bracing for the worst.
Hospitalizations spiked across California by more than 81 percent over the last 14 days.
"I'm definitely concerned. My parents are in the high-risk category, so I'd be terrified and scared if they got sick," said San Francisco resident Solveig Barnes.
"Hospital systems are stretched. I talk to many hospital leaders everyday to hear how things are going on the ground," said California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly during his Tuesday update on the state's response to the pandemic.
But the numbers aren't as bad in the Bay Area compared to counties like Los Angeles, where even outdoor dining has been shut down.
For example, In Santa Clara County, there are 53 COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit, occupying about 10 percent of the county's ICU beds.
Across California, more than 1,514 COVID patients are hospitalized in ICUs, accounting for more than 41 percent of ICU COVID beds.
But the total number of beds designated for COVID patients can change.
"It sounds more alarming than it is. I'm not saying we don't have a problem, but when we have this denominator, then the numbers look bigger and more impressive compared to what the actual crisis is," said Dr. John Ioannidis, a Stanford School of Medicine Professor of Epidemiology.
"We do know we can bring on additional beds. Not infinitely so, but many more than we have today because of our effort to plan around surge. We have spaces identified with certain facilities that can be brought on," said Ghaly.
"Right now the health system is doing very well, but there may be some hospitals that are more pressed than others," said Ioannidis.
Towards the end of July during the summer coronavirus surge, there were more than 2,200 COVID patients in the ICU in California, still less than the current number of ICU COVID patients across the state.
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How else to explain his late 2014 decision to opt out of his contract with the Bills as new ownership was about to take over, triggering an automatic $4 million dollar kicker to his bank account, even if it meant that he might not be an NFL head coach the next season?
Marrone did interview for the Jets top job but didn't sync with ownership, ending up taking one step back in 2015 being named the Jaguars assistant head coach offense-offensive line coach, before replacing Gus Bradley on an interim basis for the final two games of the 2016 season, and having the interim label dropped last January, a move that now looks brilliant by Jacksonville's flamboyant owner Shahid Khan.
At 9-4 with a huge win at Pittsburgh in October in their pocket, and second overall in the NFL in team defense, the Jags host 4-9 Houston Sunday, next play at 3-10 San Francisco, and finish with a huge game at second place Tennessee (8-5), eyeing not only the division title and the franchise's first postseason appearance since 2007, but the No. 3 seed (or higher) in the AFC and a home playoff game (or even a bye) the first weekend of January.


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Downtown Des Moines water trails plan could generate $104M in tourism dollars in five years
Kim Norvell
Planners of the Greater Des Moines Water Trails project in downtown Des Moines expect to see a return on investment within the first five years, a new study released Wednesday shows.
The project's downtown piece, which includes an adventure park and whitewater rafting, is projected to generate $104.4 million in spending at local restaurants, hotels and stores in five years, according to an economic impact study conducted by Johnson Consulting. That piece will cost about $106 million to build.
"It definitely gives us confidence," said Kristi Knous, tri-chair of Capital Crossroads. "As our consultant said yesterday, 'the weather forecast is bright and sunny; plan the cookout.'"
The new data will be used to seek donations from individuals and businesses. It's information "that many of them would be seeking before they invest," Knous said.
►More:New look at $117 million plan for Des Moines' rivers and streams
The Greater Des Moines Water Trails plan will turn 150 miles of waterways in central Iowa into a recreational amenity. The entire plan will cost about $117 million.
The plan's centerpiece is a series of whitewater features that would replace three dangerous low-head dams along the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers and draw kayakers, paddlers and even surfers to the downtown waters. It also includes out-of-water activities like zip-lining and rock climbing.
The economic impact study focuses solely on the downtown piece since it represents about 91 percent of the project cost, said Gunnar Olson, communications manager with the Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization.
Johnson Consulting estimates it will attract about 158,000 visitors a year, resulting in:
$104.4 million spent on local restaurants, hotels, stores and entertainment venues in five years. About $26 million in spending is expected annually after that.
$8.4 million in new money made by employees who work at the businesses where visitors will spend their money in the first year.
An estimated 151 new jobs in the first year due to growing business. By year five, that number could grow to 202 new jobs.
$7.3 million in tax revenue in the first five years from additional sales tax, hotel/motel tax and excise taxes.
"The tourism potential with this project is just huge," said Greg Edwards, president and CEO of the Greater Des Moines Convention & Visitors Bureau. "All tourism studies tell you people want outdoor adventure."
The Greater Des Moines Water Trails plan also includes items to address water quality in central Iowa's rivers, such as encouraging cities to adopt stream buffer ordinances, finding dedicated state and federal funds for watershed improvements and lobbying for statewide policies for source water protection.
Jennifer Terry, executive director of the Iowa Environmental Council, said an "economic argument" is now being made for water recreation, which will likely result in changing the conversation about water quality.
The economic impact study "bolsters our assertion that there is a business case to be made for clean water. Now, we have a clear and compelling business case to invest in water quality," she said.
"These projects get people on the water and, in order to safely get people in the water, we must now improve the quality of the rivers," Terry said.
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Planners, led by the Great Outdoors Foundation, will launch a capital campaign in the next few months. Results of a fundraising feasibility study to see how much of the project can be paid for with private funds is expected soon. Planners hope to raise about one-third of the cost from donations, Olson said. The rest would be paid for with local, state and federal dollars.
The capital campaign is projected to take 18 months. Preliminary design should also start in the new year.
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Home Sports Men's Track and Field (Indoor) Mumford, Garland heading to NCAA Division III Championships
Men's Track and Field (Indoor)
Joseph Metz
Sophomore Tyler Garland participates in an event earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Rowan Athletics.
Although the regular season ended, senior Shai Mumford and sophomore Tyler Garland are heading into overtime.
The men's indoor track and field duo have qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships this weekend in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mumford has qualified with the 15th best time in the 200 meters and Garland has registered as 20th in the 60 hurdles.
"We're excited about that," head coach Dustin Dimit said. "They worked hard all year and definitely their hard work paid off. We thought that was a good possibility and they performed when they needed to make sure they get to run another week here."
Mumford placed 16th in the 200 meters last year at the event and was nothing but thankful to have the opportunity to head back.
"I feel as though it's a blessing in disguise," Mumford said. "I worked hard day in, day out for it. I feel as though it's a great opportunity to perform at the highest level with other athletes in the nation."
The announcement is bittersweet, as others on the team were unable to qualify for the championships.
"We expect that in the indoor season," Dimit said. "We always have a lot more people qualify for outdoors. We finished the indoor season pretty strong for the majority of the guys, winning the regional title. We weren't supposed to do that, we're kind of an underdog. So the fact that they all came together to win that, we were pretty excited to end the [indoor] season on a good note for the rest of this team."
"It's always going to be a challenge," Mumford said. "We have outdoor to focus on too so it's another opportunity for us to have more athletes on our team compete at the national championships. It's going to take time and we have to be patient."
Mumford expressed that his goal for the season was to stress that both team wins and personal accolades are equally important. He stated that he still wanted to win individually, but also wanted to win as a team.
Dimit feels like his team will be "on the hunt for the team title" during the outdoor season.
As for the championships happening this weekend, both Dimit and Mumford laid out the groundwork as to what they are doing to prepare for such a huge event.
"We've already set up our training so they peak at this time and they're running their fastest," Dimit said. "We saw that at the regional championships, where Tyler won and Shai ran his fastest time of the year. We're just kind of finishing through that whole training plan that we have and we're expecting big things from this weekend."
"I'm just getting mentally prepared, making sure all my muscles are good to go and I'm warming up well," Mumford said.
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Zillow says it's closing home-buying business and cutting 25% of workforce; earnings miss estimates
Richard 'Rich' Barton, co-founder and CEO of Zillow Inc.
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Zillow, the digital real estate company, said on Tuesday that it's exiting its business that buys and flips homes and eliminating 25% of its workforce.
The announcement was attached to Zillow's third-quarter earnings report. The company's revenue and earnings missed analysts' estimates.
"We've determined the unpredictability in forecasting home prices far exceeds what we anticipated," Zillow CEO Rich Barton said in a press release as part of the company's third-quarter earnings report. "Continuing to scale Zillow Offers would result in too much earnings and balance-sheet volatility."
The stock was little changed in extended trading following a 10% plunge during regular market hours. The shares are now down about 10% for the year.
Here are the key numbers from earnings:
Earnings per share: loss of 95 cents adjusted vs. profit of 16 cents per share expected in a Refinitiv survey of analystsRevenue: $1.74 billion vs. $2.01 billion expected by Refinitiv
Revenue in Zillow's Offers business, which competes with Opendoor, climbed to $1.17 billion in the quarter from $185.9 million a year earlier, which was in the middle of the pandemic so transactions had largely dried up. However, the homes segment, which is mostly Offers, lost $421.6 million in the quarter, producing an overall net loss at the company.
Shares of Opendoor rose 6.5% in extended trading. The stock plunged alongside Zillow earlier in the day, dropping 14% at the close.
Zillow launched Offers in December 2019, starting with Southern California markets. The product allowed homeowners to sell their home to Zillow for cash, eliminating a lengthy bidding, sales and closing process while not having to worry about costly repairs before putting it on the market.
"After closing on a home, Zillow will take care of necessary repairs, working with local contractors to complete projects like a fresh coat of paint, servicing HVAC units and other work a typical homeowner would do to get their home ready for sale," Zillow said in a press release at the time.
However, the home-flipping market proved to be a drag for a company that had built its brand on listing homes across the country and helping buyers and sellers connect through a marketplace. The company said on Monday that it would stop buying houses through the end of the year, citing tight labor and supply markets.
"We're operating within a labor- and supply-constrained economy inside a competitive real estate market, especially in the construction, renovation and closing spaces," said Jeremy Wacksman, Zillow's operating chief, in a statement. "We have not been exempt from these market and capacity issues and we now have an operational backlog for renovations and closings."
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NYC Transit Authority v. Local 100 – Grievant: Tony Aiken
LOCAL 100, TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION
For the Authority Baiymusa Kafuara, ESq., Senior Label Director
Tom. Latimer, Esq., Senior Label Director
Arthur Schwartz, Esq , Tony Aiken, Grievant
BEFORE: HOWARD C. EDELMAN; ESQ.; ARBITRATOR
This grievance protests the Authority's action to ban Tony Aiken, an employee who was placed on Union release time from all transit facilities, except 2 Broadway. A hearing was held before me on April 29, 2014 whereupon I closed the record. This Opinion and reissued1 Award follows.
The Union contends Aiken, who is on Union release, should be permitted to go wherever he must in order to fulfill his duties representing Local 100 members. It notes that allegations were raised against him in July 2012 regarding improper sexually based comments to supervisors. Attempts were made by the Authority to discharge Aiken, but they failed, the Union suggests. Hence, it argues, pending the outcome of a disciplinary arbitration, Aiken should be free to service his members at all Authority locations.
Moreover, the Union insists, until August 2013, Aiken was permitted to go where he pleased without restraint. Only after complaint by the President of the supervisors' organization, was Aiken removed from the remaining Authority sites, it notes. Thus, it concludes, the Authority's actions were arbitrary and issued an Award without opinion on or about June 12, 2014. 2By agreement he could not appear at Kingsbridge, where the supervisor in question then worked.
in violation of its right to have those 1.h Union release perform their duties in representing members of the Union business. He continued to do so until August 2013.
Significantly, no incidents regarding misbehavior by Aiken was reported during this period. No allegations of any kind were raised against him. He performed his Union duties without incident, insofar as this record reveals.
I understand the concerns raised by the President of the Supervisors Union in August 2013 about Aiken's appearance on Authority property. It is certainly legitimate to keep Aiken away from anyone involved in the case against him or from the site where the alleged misconduct occurred. However, any other restriction on Aiken's whereabouts would represent a form of "overkill," in light of his untainted activities for about eight months in 2013. Thus, I shall direct the Authority to permit Aiken to appear on its property at all sites, with escorts1 except Kingsbridge and any facility where the complaining witness or others involved3 in the purported misconduct are assigned. It is so ordered.
My earlier Award referred only to the "complaining witness." It is appropriate to expand this to include "others involved in the purported misconduct."
The Authority is directed to permit Tony Aiken to conduct Union business on all of its sites except Kingsbridge and any other facility where Authority employees who were involved in the alleged incident are assigned. The Authority may, in its discretion, provide an escort to Tony Aiken upon entering or leaving its property.
STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NASSAU
I, Howard C. Edelman, Esq., do hereby affirm upon my oath as Arbitrator that I am the individual described in and who executed this instrument, which is my Award.


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by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on July 29, 2015
Oh god, no. It's "New Age Week" over at Everything is Terrible, the collective that mines video kitsch to bring viewers the absolute worst (and best) of cultural detritus. This might actually be the most insane/offensive thing they've ever found. It comes from the cult/public access television producers Unarius Academy of Science. It features members acting out their "unscripted" past lives, which apparently includes more than enough blackface to get this iteration of Unarius's practice banned from TV. [Everything is Terrible]
Due on Friday: Submissions to the 3D Additivist Cookbook. If your interests fall in line with speculative machines, disruptive 3D-print technology, or "The Weird," watch the Additivist Manifesto—or read it—then send in your recipe, whatever form that may take. [Additivist Manifesto]
LaGuardia airport will be demolished and completely rebuilt. The new $4 billion design is a mashup of design concepts from SHoP Architects, Dattner Architects and Present Architecture, who all submitted proposals to replace the troubled airport last year. Construction is supposed to start sometime next year. [Dezeen]
Thomas Friedman, the New York Times Journalist famous for not only supporting the Iraq war but telling the Iraq people to "Suck. On. This." has actually written an informative column about the Middle East conflict. This column is mercifully short on prescriptive advice and offers a very good history lesson of life since 1979, and the roots of extremism in the region. [The New York Times]
If you want to see the male gaze in action today, then by all means, check out this video of Kim Kardashian repping a new energy drink called Hype. It begins with Kim Kardashian dressed as Audrey Hepburn riding a bike. She's all by herself, but somehow falls off (what a silly woman!) and finds herself possibly unconscious, dreaming about wearing a powdered-wig and floor-length gown. It's once we get to this part, the gaze is in full force, showing a close-up of Kardashian's bosom, then a head-to-toe shot, so that we can see all of her. From Laura Mulvey's 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema": "The beauty of the woman as object and the screen space coalesce; she is no longer the bearer of guilt but a perfect product, whose body, stylised and fragmented by close-ups, is the content of the film and the direct recipient of the spectator's look." [Vulture]
Real estate developers are suing the city of Oakland over new legislation that would construction projects to include one percent of their budgets for public art commissions. They claim it violates their 1st Amendment rights. Bay-Area artists are pissed. [KQED]
In a related story, Gabriel Metcalf argues that the Bay Area's "progressive" policies are so anti-development that it has become nearly impossible to create new housing to meet the region's needs. This is especially true of San Francisco, which is no longer a haven for the next generation of leftist thinkers and artists due to its rampant unaffordability. [City Lab]
In other art news from California, a tree fell down outside a children's museum in Pasadena; eight children suffer injuries, including two who were critically injured. [Associated Press]
London's National Gallery has had 50 days of staff walkouts so far this year. An all-out staff protest headed up by the Public and Commercial Services Union will begin on August 17. [Reuters]
Last week, painter Bryan Osburn was violently mugged in Greenpoint, resulting in a fractured jaw. Neighborhood gallery 106 Green is hosting a benefit for Osburn's medical bills. [Observer]
Gawker staff members have been accepting buyouts to leave Gawker as new editorial policies are leaning towards creating a "20-percent nicer" publication. [Capital New York]
Goodbye Animal New York! The 12-year-old publication published its last post yesterday, by Bucky Turco. [Gawker]
This Week's Must-see Art Events: Melon Bra and Digital Nails
It's Video Art Week! Well, not officially, although there will be plenty of top-shelf video art and film to see this week, from the old to the new, from the weird to the weirder.
Tuesday Links: Digital Sweat in Your Exo-Skeleton
Super-Soldier Exoskeleton by Avitus 12
Librarian Xiao Yuan has admitted to stealing over 140 paintings from the collection of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Yuan had been replacing the school's collection of paintings with his own forgeries and selling the originals at auction—a scam that generated roughly $6 million. [ABC News]
Move over Qatari oil moguls! Are movie stars the new blue-chip collectors? Hollywood's top ten collectors collectively own around $4 billion worth of art, about 16 percent of their combined net worth, according to research firm Wealth-X. The tastes of the rich and famous? Leonardo DiCaprio's $10 million collection includes works by Takashi Murakami and Basquiat. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas might have made their respective fortunes from movies full of explosions, but they've spent them on boring-old Norman Rockwells. [CNBC]
Georg Baselitz has withdrawn artwork on loan to museums as part of a protest against Germany's proposed restrictions on international art sales. Under the new legislation, the state could declare artworks over 50-years-old as national treasures and block their export to foreign buyers. This would be great for Germany's museums, but bad news for gallerists and collectors looking to cash out. An eye-roll-inducing letter signed by 300 German dealers compared the proposed regulations to Nazis looting artwork from Jewish collectors. [The New York Times]
David Brooks writes about Dustin Yellin and Pioneer Works in his opinion column for the New York Times. This is a little off his regular beat, which is largely espousing Republican political viewpoints and occasionally talking about books. [The New York Times]
In case you missed "GIFs to Have Sex By," you can now view them all on the Digital Sweat online gallery. [Digital Sweat]
Tommy Craggs and Max Read are resigning from Gawker. Naturally, Gawker's got the scoop. [Gawker]
In today's robot news, exo-skeletons are now becoming a reality. Panasonic, for example, is just months away from marketing an exoskeleton that will help humans carry additional weight. Like a human ant. [MIT Technology Review]
The young-ish organization Triple Canopy, begun in 2007, has already found a home for its archives. NYU's Fales and Special Collection Library will "use its computer storage to make room for the group's files and will continue to add new issues as they roll in," says ARTnews. So Triple Canopy is getting extra hard-drive space? [ARTnews]
Housing activists are protesting Mayor de Blasio's upcoming appearance at the Vatican. De Blasio is set to appear with the Pope to discuss environmental issues and human rights. The group Metro Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) claims this would be an "embarrassment" to Pope Francis, as they hold the DeBlasio administration accountable for unacceptable conditions in the city's deteriorating housing projects. [New York Daily News]
Wednesday Links: Cat Anuses Can be Beautiful, The Onion Can't be Trusted
Tired of gazing upon your cat's unsightly anus? Get Twinkle Tush, the sparkling gemstone that transforms your cat's butt from an eyesore to a glittering spectacle. It costs $5.99. But its value is beyond measure. [Mashable]
It seems absurd to criticize The Onion for a lack of journalistic integrity, but their brand of fake news has always seemed harmless—maybe even well-intentioned, as opposed to the fake news of FOX, for example. But this sponsored post (which reads like The Onion's normal content) is really troubling. It's written from the perspective of an almond that threatens to consume all the world's water, seemingly in reference to the controversy over the crop in drought-stricken California. The problem? It's sponsored by Outback Steakhouse. The issue of almonds farmers' water usage has been used as a smokescreen by the state's beef industry, who are using the nut as a scapegoat during the drought. In reality, the vast majority of California's water has been going to raising feed for livestock, a fact even relatively conservative Bloomberg and Business Insider acknowledge. Outback Steakhouse, not so much. If we can't trust fiction, what can we trust? [The Onion]
The Smithsonian is posting a disclaimer outside its exhibition of the collection of Billy Cosby and his wife Camille, explaining that the show is "fundamentally about the artworks and the artists who created them, not Mr. Cosby." The exhibition has been generating controversy as a museum show (funded by the Cosbys) will presumably increase the value of the alleged rapist's art holdings.[NPR]
A painter in a small town in Iowa got a phone call from the police (at the request of the mayor) asking him to cover up a painting featuring breasts. Of course, the gun in the painting wasn't controversial. [artnet News]
Looking back on 60 years of Documenta, and ahead to its new programming in Athens, a context that's politically loaded as German-Greek relations have grown more complicated during the debt crisis. [Deutsche Welle]
The Council of Concerned Citizens, the right-wing group Charleston shooter Dylann Roof was associated with, launched an insane attack against queer painter Robert Sherer at the height of "the culture wars." Almost twenty years later, Sherer discusses how the ordeal affected his career and practice. [ArtsATL]
After a brief stint at Genius.com the L.A. Times picks up Sasha Frere-Jones as its new culture critic. Prior to working at Genius, Frere-Jones was the music critic for the New Yorker. [L. A. Times]
The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs has selected Tania Bruguera as the MOIA's first artist-in-residence. Appropriately, her work deals with the immigrant experience and is intended to advocate for identification for the undocumented. [Art Fix Daily]
Uh, what? In response to bad reviews for his new play, Neck of the Woods in Manchester artist Douglas Gordon picked up an axe and attacked the new walls of the £25m home venue where the show is being staged. [Manchester Evening News via Artnews]
I'm Making a Boy Band (IMMABB), the k-pop band and art project with no Korean members gets some attention over at Hyperallergic. The band's founder, Bora Kim, a Columbia MFA Student, sits down with Hannah Stamler to talk about the project. [Hyperallergic]
Disapproval of weed smoking is on the rise amongst teenagers. [Jezebel]
Does Texas rot some peoples brains? Jade Helm 15 is an eight week military exercise and it's coming to Texas. This has made some conservatives paranoid that Obama and martial law are imminent, so they are stocking up on ammunition and burying their fire arms. [The New York Times]
It's Amazon Prime Day. The online retailer is promising more deals than black friday. [Amazon]
Tuesday Links: Artists Under Arrest
Shepard Fairey is going to turn himself in to the Detroit police today. There is a warrant out for his arrest over accusations that the artist caused $9,000 worth of graffiti damage to properties in the city while visiting in May to paint a mural. The artist is flying from Los Angeles today and faces a maximum sentence of five years and up to $10,000 in fines. [USA Today]
Joe Gibbons, who robbed a bank in the name of performance art, has been sentenced to one year in prison. [The New York Times]
From the Frieze archives: Jonathan Jones considers "extraordinary" faces in art history—from da Vinci's studies of the deformed, back to ancient Egyptian caricatures, up to Warhol's nose-job paintings. [Frieze]
More on the Smithsonian/Bill Cosby debacle: the museum failed to disclose a $716,000 gift from the Cosbys—a sum that essentially covered the cost of exhibiting their collection. [ARTnews]
Jillian Steinhauer tracks the various protests from the Bronx community against No Longer Empty's exhibition at the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse. We'll give our take on the exhibition later this week, but it's difficult to talk about the art when a sign like this hangs outside the entrance, positioning art as transitional. [Hyperallergic]
Filmmaker Laura Poitras is suing the U.S. government! [The Hill]
The Cuban government finally returned artist Tania Bruguera's passport to her on July 10. [The Art Newspaper]
Perfect timing for Tania Bruguera's stint as the first-ever artist in residence at the New York Office of Immigrant Affairs. [The New York Times]
A very, very thorough interview with Molly Crabapple that tracks her career as an artist and journalist. A must -ead. [The Great Discontent]
Peter Schjeldahl on the antics of the high-end art market: "Sensing that people will one day look back on this era as a freakish episode in cultural history, why not get a head start on viewing it that way? Detach and marvel. Meanwhile, art goes on making meaning for those who are rich only in the desire and leisure to engage with it." [The New Yorker]
Artsy asks if deep budget cuts will stifle Britain's next generation of artists. Short answer: Yes. [Artsy]
In Chicago, a sculpture by Ti-Rock More of Michael Brown's body on the ground is generating controversy. Some claim the depiction of Brown "revictimizes" the 18-year-old who was slain by police last summer. [The Root]
In an interview, Michael Brown's father calls the piece "disgusting." [WGN-TV]
Pre-Party With Fourth of July Dogs
by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on July 2, 2015
It's time for you to leave the office and start pre-partying for the long weekend. To get you in the mood, here are GIFs of Fourth of July dogs. Their patriotism is so strong, their fur sparkles to the tune of "God Bless America." Hopefully you'll attend some parties with dogs invited to them. Parties are way better with dogs. You can play fetch with them. You can tell them to steal your enemy's hot dog. Just don't play fetch with them at a rooftop party. Never play fetch with a dog at a rooftop party.
Thursday Links: Burning Flags, Blowing Up Jeff Koons, Women Appropriate Too
Putting a live cat through an x-ray machine at airport security: not a good idea. It seems this has happened more than once. [NBC Los Angeles]
Adorable wombat. [Facebook Video]
A flag-burning event in Fort Greene turns into what sounds like an opera (if you squint your eyes and imagine everyone singing). A group of protesters planned to burn the Confederate and American flags. They brought grills. Nobody protested the BBQ of the Confederate flag, even though police stood nearby in an unmarked vehicle. Grilling the American flag brought out an angry biker gang. There were crying veterans. And a dog. [Animal]
Salon Media's editorial staff plans to unionize. [Writers Guild of America East]
Talking about affect in video games: " These conflicting sentiments of close affinity and distant helplessness in Angela are perhaps the most nuanced display of political grief that I've seen in any videogame, or indeed contemporary artwork in any medium." [Rhizome]
House museums are restoring historical bedrooms, because if we learned anything from watching MTV's Cribs, "this is where the magic happens." [The New York Times]
Artist Hunter Jonakin has is showing an arcade game "Jeff Koons Must Die!!!" as part of the exhibition Fire and Forget: On Violence in Berlin. Players can blow up balloon dogs. [Art Review]
In memory of the late, great Sturtevant Frieze dug out an in-depth biography piece on the artist who made a name for herself from copying Warhol. [Frieze]
Sotheby's Contemporary Auction in London under performed last night, so there's lots of commentary on that. Via his newsletter, Josh Baer said, "Tonight's sale totaled 130.4 million gbp, the strongest total ever for London with 84% of lots sold. The sale had complicated results that any single market explanation would not suffice for – there were winners and losers. The art market is not monolithic and is case by case – take Bacons tonight – 2 absolute home run sales for 30m gbp from one collection then a BI for 25 million gbp. I'm sure the 2 consignors would describe the art market very differently tonight." [The Baer Faxt]
Marion Maneker from the Art Market Monitor attributes record sale fatigue to the auction's whimpering results and notes that many of the big name art works that did poorly were not well loved. He also quotes the Art Newspaper's Anny Shaw, who observed that the middle market (low hundreds of thousands) did just fine. This is one sale at the end of the season, though. We need to see more to know if these results reflect an increase in strength of the middle market. [Art Market Monitor]
At the Stay in New York conference, the lack of protection for commercial tenants was highlighted as a contributing factor for escalating gentrification. To combat this issue, San Franciscans are proposing a granting program to help "legacy businesses" cope with the city's astronomical rents. [Next City]
Tuesday Links: All You Ever Need to Know to Feel Depressed
by Paddy Johnson Michael Anthony Farley Corinna Kirsch on June 30, 2015
Bot poetry
An essay on bots and poetry that is so good. "These days people are writing poems about fucking on volcanoes. 'We fucked on a volcano.' How does that help? How does it do anything to solve anything?" [n + 1 via The Paris Review]
The Whitney's board of trustees has elected a new president, Richard M. DeMartini, and two new co-chairs, Laurie M. Tisch and Neil G. Bluhm. While Tisch has a background in the nonprofit sector—heading her own fund dedicated to increasing access to art education, economic opportunities, and healthy food—DeMartini and Bluhm are both from the world of finance. Bluhm had served as the board's president since 2008 and is the founder and president of JMB Realty Corporation—a luxury real estate interest that at one point was the largest property developer in the United States. [ARTnews]
More info about the board of trustees, but not from us: "Also militarizing the Baltimore Police Department is Defense Tech ammunitions, sold by Warren Kanders' Safariland Group. A vice chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art's board of trustees, he is a wealthy investor who for the last 20 years has profited from the suppression of civil unrest." [Al Jazeera America]
Thank you, Karen Archey, for bringing up Jackie Wullschlager's recent article in the Financial Times. Writing about the Tate's exhibitions of female modernists like Sonia Delaunay, Barbara Hepworth, and Agnes Martin, Wullschlager concludes: "Yet none delivers the visceral thrill or intellectual charge of a great retrospective, because none of these artists really changed how we see or think. Has a woman artist ever done so? The stories here show that female artists tend to assimilate and adapt radicality pioneered by men." There is absolutely no way that you can prove that female artists have not changed the way we see or think or that they have assimilated and adapted radicality pioneered by men—scientific principles would be welcome in art history—not to mention that plenty of exhibitions have shown the influence of women in art. We don't even know where to start, but let's try Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Sigh. [e-flux conversations]
A pair of paintings featuring the Confederate flag has gone on display at the Laguna Art Museum in Ocean County, California. In reference to the flag's controversy and the wave of racial unrest sweeping the nation, the artist G. Ray Kerciu said, "I thought as an old man, we would be past all this stuff. But we're not. It's a great disappointment to me." [Los Angeles Times]
While Greece's economy is in a tailspin, artnet takes the time to notify us that there is absolutely no news about the troubled country's under-construction Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. [artnet News]
The Great Wall of China is disappearing. By some accounts, almost 30% of the structure has fallen victim to plundering, erosion, and neglect. People are freaking out. [The New York Times]
Hyperallergic's Robin Grearson reviews Stay in New York, Art F City's affordable workspace conference, and calls it a "crucial first step." It's a great summary for those who missed the conference. [Hyperallergic]
Jerry Saltz explains why everyone should be nicer to gallery attendants…with a picture of Marnie from HBO's Girls. [Vulture]
WHOA! For the first time ever, the New York Rent Guidelines Board approved a freeze on one-year leases. There's a couple of caveats to which leases will be affected, but this is historic. [Curbed NY]
Monday Links: Fair Use Isn't a Feminist Issue
Arabelle Sicardi and Tayler Smith, Cheeks (2014), and Zak Arctander's Cheeks (2015).
Photo: Arabelle Sicardi and Tayler Smith/Zak Arctander.
A new exhibition looks back on the history of Black Mountain College. The legendary, unaccredited art school only existed from 1933 to 1957 in the middle of nowhere, but managed to have a lasting impact on art history. [Forbes]
Surprisingly, we agree with Forbes on a variety of issues today. The financial magazine's art contributor Jonathon Keats asks "Is Yoko Ono too Good for MoMA?". Last month, we answered yes. [Forbes]
How many Confederate flags were taken down this weekend? So far, we count two. Bree Newsome took down THE flag in South Carolina. But then someone in Boston put up a confederate flag on a memorial for African-American soldiers, and a woman took it down after an hour. Do what you gotta do. [The Internet and The Boston Globe]
The Milwaukee Art Museum is at the center of a "culture-wars" style controversy that makes us nostalgic for the 80s/early 90s. A portrait of the Pope composed of colored condoms by the artist Niki Johnson is causing quite the scandal. Docents have quit, donors have threatened to withhold funding, and the local bishop is angry. Milwaukee is lucky Giuliani isn't their mayor, or else he'd probably have gotten involved too. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Have you noticed how the past few years have looked and felt an awful lot like a sci-fi movie from several decades ago? Apparently that is not a coincidence. [PRI]
On Twitter, @gregorg called this piece about "Cady Noland Goes Bananas" "offensive, mocking her mental health & artist's desire to not have her work altered/remade w/o consent." IMO, it also calls up some unhealthy stereotypes about women, with references to her being a control freak and having erratic and paranoid behavior. (Corinna) [artnet News]
Then, @gregorg wrote up a response, that, among other things, notes that the image used for the artnet (and Artforum, Art Market, and Courthouse News) piece is incorrect. [Greg.org]
Former BuzzFeed beauty editor and Rookie contributor Arabelle Sicardi and photographer Tayler Smith have had their 2014 photograph, Cheeks, appropriated by artist and student Zak Arctander. The new photograph is considerably altered but Sicardi and Smith are pissed regardless. Sicardi says "we're going to be written out of the authorship in Arctander's Yale MFA gallery exhibition and accompanying New Yorker piece—like many women before us." Oh, please. This isn't a feminist issue. More than enough alterations on this photograph have occurred, but also—nobody's going to remember Arctander's manipulation. This image seems like an outlier in his larger body of work. Let it go. [artnet News]
Keith Haring's largest artwork EVER is now on view at the NOMO SOHO hotel. [Broadway World]
With the Fourth of July right around the corner, have you ever wondered what could make hot dogs better? Curl-A-Dog, an as-seen-on-TV masterpiece, suggests that hot dogs would be better if they were curly. Beware: the video's jingle might worm its way into your brain. [YouTube]
Did blowing in Nintendo cartridges help them work? Probably not. [Mental Floss]
This Week's Must-see Art Events: Bad Boys, Old Computers
And Stay in New York, Art F City's affordable workspace conference at the Queens Museum!


A university student and first time Studiosity user shares her experience with the Writing Feedback service. Reposted from Jennifer Reinhardt's blog, with permission.
With exams around the corner, we've got some tips that will help you squeeze a few more marks out of your test paper.


Stars from around the world headed over to the Shanghai Grand Theater on Saturday for the opening of the 15th Annual Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF).
Among the movies being screened at the fest is the highly anticipated "Shanghai Calling" (紐約客@上海) a romantic comedy centered around expats here in Shanghai. (According to director Daniel Hsia, last night's showing was a "hit").
The Festival ends June 24th. Find SIFF's website here and the complete film schedule here.


The war that has been building over the first two books is set to explode in Crystal Kingdom, and Bryn is caught right in the middle of everything. All she wants is peace for her people, and safety for her friends and family. But is more bloodshed the only way to achieve that?


The website of the Muslim World League has identified two additional Muslim Brotherhood linked members of a newly formed organization sponsored by the League. A previous post has discussed the "Meeting of Muslim Scholars and Thinkers" whose executive board was said to be comprised of "21 Muslim thinkers from all over the world" described as "the highest religious authorities." In addition to the French Muslim Brotherhood leader Ahmed Jaballah, the current report identifies Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric and U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leader Muzammil Siddiqi as members of the board of the new organization. As several previous posts have noted, Dr. Ceric is a member of the European Council for Fatwa and Research headed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi. Dr. Siddiqi has a long history of involvement with Saudi Arabian fundamentalist organizations. According to his ISNA biography, Dr. Siddiqi graduated with a BA in Islamic & Arabic Studies in 1965 from the University of Medina, founded in 1961 known to be staffed by Saudi fundamentalist clerics and members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who had sought asylum in the Kingdom. While completing a doctorate in theology at Harvard, Dr. Siddiqi served as Chairman of the Department of Religious Affairs at the Muslim World League Office to the United Nations and U. S.A. from 1976 to 1980. He has been a past President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and continues to be an important leader of ISNA, an important member of the U.S Muslim Brotherhood.


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