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Q: Generate numerical range from Excel or .csv dataset Working with some data sets containing an incomplete list of numbers (ex. 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 22, 23, 24, 28, etc...) contained in a single column.
Hoping to compile them into a collection of hyphenated ranges more similar to 3, 7, 9-12, 17, 22-24, 28, etc...
Inputting location data within an area so data does not need to correlate to any other cells, just need to reduce the total data set from thousands of individual values to hopefully a few hundred numerical ranges
Example data set
Had assumed there would be a simple option for this but not having any luck in Excel or Power BI.
Thanks and all the best,
Trent

A: I'm sure other users will have more elegant answers. If you just need a quick hack, this will do. The first row takes a little special treatment.

Here are the formulas from row 2 going across:
B2: =IF(A2-1=A1,"",A2)
C2: =IF(AND(A2+1=A3,A2-1<>A1),"-","")
D2: =IF(A2+1=A3,"",A2)
E2: =IF(C2="-",INDEX(D2:D$11,MATCH(TRUE,ISNUMBER(D2:D$11),0)),"")*
*This uses an array formula, so you'll need to CtrlShiftEnter after typing it. You'll also change D$11 to reference the bottom row you're using.
F2: =CONCAT(B2,C2,E2)

A: The subs bellow will sort the main column (A, Sheet1), and generate the results in a new column

Option Explicit
Public Sub CreateSets()
    Dim arr As Variant, workCol As Long, workSet As Range
    Dim r As Long, rCount As Long, lastVal As Long, ub As Long
    Set workSet = Sheet1.UsedRange.Columns(1)           '<-- Update Sheet1 and Col
    SortCol workSet             'Sort main column, and add a new column to its right
    arr = workSet.Resize(workSet.Rows.Count, 2)         'Copy the 2 columns to array
    ub = UBound(arr)
    For r = 1 To ub
        If r = ub Then
            arr(r, 2) = arr(r, 1)
            Exit For
        End If
        If arr(r + 1, 1) <> arr(r, 1) Then          'Ignore dupes
            lastVal = arr(r, 1)
            rCount = r
            If rCount < ub Then
                Do
                    If arr(rCount + 1, 1) = arr(rCount, 1) + 1 Then
                        lastVal = arr(rCount + 1, 1)
                        rCount = rCount + 1
                        If rCount = ub Then Exit Do
                    End If
                Loop While arr(rCount + 1, 1) = arr(rCount, 1) + 1
            End If
            arr(r, 2) = arr(r, 1)
            If lastVal <> arr(r, 1) Then            'If a set was found, skip it
                arr(r, 2) = arr(r, 2) & "-" & lastVal
                r = rCount
            End If
        End If
    Next
    workSet.Offset(, 1).NumberFormat = "@"          'Change 2nd column to Text format
    workSet.Resize(workSet.Rows.Count, 2) = arr     'Copy results back to range
End Sub

Private Sub SortCol(ByRef oneColRng As Range)
    Dim ws As Worksheet

    If Not oneColRng Is Nothing Then
        Set ws = oneColRng.Parent
        Application.ScreenUpdating = False
        With ws.Sort
            .SortFields.Clear
            .SortFields.Add Key:=oneColRng.Cells(1, 1), _
                            SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, _
                            Order:=xlAscending
            .SetRange oneColRng
            .Header = xlNo           '<-- Change this to "xlYes" if there are Headers
            .MatchCase = False
            .Orientation = xlTopToBottom
            .SortMethod = xlPinYin
            .Apply
        End With
        With oneColRng.Offset(, 1)
            .Insert Shift:=xlToRight, CopyOrigin:=xlFormatFromLeftOrAbove
            .AutoFit
        End With
        Application.ScreenUpdating = True
    End If
End Sub

A: I would do it withawk something like this:
awk 'NR==1   {b=e=$1; next}         # first line, set begin and end of current range, move to next line
     $1==e+1 {e=$1; next}           # if this line contiguous with previous, update range end and move on
             {print b,e; b=e=$1}    # not contiguous, print last range, start new range
     END     {print b,e}' data.csv

Or, the same but as a one-liner:
awk 'NR==1{b=e=$1;next} $1==e+1{e=$1;next} {print b,e;b=e=$1} END{print b,e}' data.csv

Sample Output
3 3
7 7
9 12
17 17
22 24
28 28
3 3
7 7
9 12
17 17
22 24
28 28

The output can be reformatted to more closely match your needs, or you can run it through awk again:
awk 'NR==1{b=e=$1;next} $1==e+1{e=$1;next} {print b,e;b=e=$1} END{print b,e}' data.csv |
   awk '{x=$1; if($1!=$2)x=x "-" $2;print x}'

Output
3
7
9-12
17
22-24
28

A: If you want to try it with Power Query, you can do this:
Start with your table of values:

Add an index column by clicking the "Add Column" tab, then "Index Column"

Add another column by clicking the "Add Column" tab, then "Custom Column" and typing try if Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]}[Values]) = Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]+1}[Values])-1 then Text.From(Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]}[Values])) else Text.From(Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]}[Values])) & "-" & Text.From(Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]+1}[Values])-1) otherwise Text.From(Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]}[Values])) in the "Custom column formula" box of the window that pops up.

You'll get this:

Here's the query code:
let
Source = Table1,
#"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(Source, "Index", 0, 1),
#"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "NewValues", each
    try
        if Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]}[Values]) = Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]+1}[Values])-1
        then Text.From(Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]}[Values]))
        else Text.From(Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]}[Values])) & "-" & Text.From(Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]+1}[Values])-1)
    otherwise Text.From(Number.From(#"Added Index"{[Index]}[Values])))
in
#"Added Custom1"

I used the Number.From and Text.From to force proper types needed for the use of +, -, and &.


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The Los Angeles Rams have had a very difficult season in 2022, and there it at least some speculation that it could cause coach Sean McVay to once again consider his future.
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Main workers constitute 77.8 percent of the total workers. The remaining are marginal workers. Among the main workers, female workers, are only 23.3 % and 76.7% are male workers. Majority of female workers (87.3 percent) are from rural areas. This is also twice that of male workers, which may be due to their being employed predominantly in activities like cultivation and agricultural labour. In the urban areas, majority of female workers are engaged in Households industry and other work.
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Number of Workers ('000s)
Total workers
Main workers
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Non-workers
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Household industry workers
Other workers
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Total main workers *
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The New York Mets will retire Jerry Koosman's uniform #36 on Saturday in a pre-game ceremony beginning at 6:45 pm prior to the game vs. Washington.
Koosman, who is the winningest left-hander in team history (140 wins), will become the third player to have his number retired by the Mets, joining Tom Seaver (#41) and Mike Piazza (#31). The Mets have also retired #14 for Manager Gil Hodges, #37 for Manager Casey Stengel and #42 across baseball for Jackie Robinson.
"The excitement of playing for the Mets when we won the 1969 World Series was an experience I never thought I'd be able to repeat," said Koosman, who won two games during the '69 World Series vs. Baltimore, including the deciding Game 5. "But retiring my number is another life-changing thrill and honor."
Koosman ranks second in team history in starts (346), complete games (108), innings (2,544.2) and shutouts (26), third in strikeouts (1,799) and sixth in ERA (3.09).
"I'm enormously proud of the time I played in the orange and blue uniform of the Mets," Koosman said. "It was a privilege to play alongside some of the most wonderful and talented teammates for more than 11 years and to hone my craft under Gil Hodges."
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With specific reference to Myron's comments on Black Lives Matter and whatever may have happened in the Fairfax neighbourhood of Los Angeles, the August 5 print edition of the JP&N offered three different accounts of what happened there. I wanted to demonstrate to readers how difficult it is to determine the extent to which it is to know how much anti-Semitism played a part in the vandalism that targeted Jewish businesses.
As is the case with almost every issue, there are different perspectives brought to bear when it comes to Black Lives Matter. But, when news media have been reporting a steady stream of outrageous comments about Jews coming from Black celebrities, including Nick Cannon (who, I admit I had heard of, but didn't really know who he was), a British rapper by the name of Wiley, Ice Cube, and, of course, Louis Farrakhan – among others, it does raise serious concerns how widespread anti-Semitism is among certain elements of the Black community.
Perhaps Myron did generalize too much in his opinion piece about the Black Lives Matter movement which, Lionel Steiman points out in a letter (that appears in the August 5 print edition), can hardly be boiled down to a single, identifiable group, but clearly by calling out a virulently anti-Semitic element that runs through current expressions of Black consciousness, especially when it comes to rap music, many Jews who would certainly identify themselves as liberal – and who are quite sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement, are now standing up to the grossly unfair characterizations of Jews as oppressors of Blacks that are certainly common within certain aspects of Black culture.
Conspiracy theories about the origins of the coronavirus have often included Jews as targets and there is a worrying convergence of hatred toward Jews emanating from both the right and left, often fomented by extremist websites such as 4chan, which seeks to play on long-held suspicions of Jews held by many Blacks.
To say that what happened in Fairfax was a "pogrom" might be inaccurate, but who knows what was going on in the minds of the individuals who were quite ready to paint anti-Semitic slogans on Jewish-owned stores and synagogues in that area of Los Angeles, on top of targeting them for looting and burning?
Yet, I've spoken up several times within this column and in public forums as well to argue that anti-Semitism is not nearly the problem in Winnipeg that it is in other cities – and have been roundly criticized for saying that by certain individuals within our community who want to encourage paranoia among Jews here.
That paranoia even led to the "disinviting" of a speaker by the name of Lex Rofeberg to speak at an event here last year, even though Rofeberg was a rabbinical student. His sin was that he has dared to criticize Israeli government policy on the West Bank.
Also last year activist Linda Sarsour was targeted by the same group of individuals when she was invited to speak here by the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. In fact, had the invitation to Sarsour to appear here not become such a major issue in the media as a result of her being targeted by those self-appointed defenders of our Jewish community, the likelihood is she would have come and gone without raising a peep of interest among the media. As I've noted several times before, other critics of Israel, such as former British MP George Galloway, have appeared here without a scintilla of reporting about their appearances here – other than in this newspaper.
But, at a time when anyone can grab a virtual megaphone on Twitter or some other social media platform – and say the most outrageous things about Jews, we should hardly sit by and shrug those vile remarks off as the prattling of only a few lone extremists.
As the number of Jewish newspapers continues to dwindle, however – something that will undoubtedly turn into a torrent if the pandemic keeps Jewish organizations from resuming their normal patterns of activity, it is even more important for a newspaper such as this to continue to serve as a forum for all points of view.
I've received my share of hateful comments on social media myself– specifically from some of the right wing members of our community who consider me a traitor for daring to suggest that Israeli government policies toward the Palestinians are misguided, so it is that I take it with a grain of salt when leftist members of our community ask me why I allow Myron Love to have a forum within this newspaper. At the same time, I find it ironic that one reader asked me why I published a letter from another reader who took me to task for publishing Myron's piece about Black Lives Matter. You know you're doing something right when you're ticking off individuals on both the left and the right.
I don't necessarily invite controversy, but as anyone who knows me by now (even it it's only through reading this paper), I don't shy away from it either. It would be easy to let this paper follow the route taken by so many other Jewish newspapers, which is to concentrate on reporting on fund raising and stories that wouldn't cause one whit of objection from anyone because they're so vanilla in flavour, but then again, I'd be so bored doing that, I'd probably just fold up shop. (Of course, we do have our share of "vanilla" stories in this paper as well.)


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package org.mengyun.tcctransaction.remoting.netty;

import io.netty.bootstrap.Bootstrap;
import io.netty.channel.Channel;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
import org.apache.commons.pool2.KeyedPooledObjectFactory;
import org.apache.commons.pool2.PooledObject;
import org.apache.commons.pool2.impl.DefaultPooledObject;
import org.mengyun.tcctransaction.remoting.exception.RemotingConnectException;
import org.mengyun.tcctransaction.utils.NetUtils;

import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class NettyPooledFactory implements KeyedPooledObjectFactory<String, Channel> {

    private Bootstrap bootstrap;

    private NettyClientConfig nettyClientConfig;

    private ServerAddressLoader serverAddressLoader;

    public NettyPooledFactory(Bootstrap bootstrap, NettyClientConfig nettyClientConfig, ServerAddressLoader serverAddressLoader) {
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    }

    @Override
    public void passivateObject(String key, PooledObject<Channel> p) throws Exception {

    }
}

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Is he currently in the starting line-up because he's won over the Manager or because of injuries ?
I hope it's the former but i fear it's the latter, personally i think he's still a major contributor to the side (when played as a defensive midfield player), but he seems to be the first to make way when things are going wrong.
I'd like to think that he's in the side on merit and as such,has been given the Captain's armband.
There's no coincidence that since Dannie's been back,the side seem to be "ticking along nicely" too.
It's no surprise that since Bully's come back into the side we've actually began winning games again.
Offers us a lot, just sitting in front of the defensive and still does a great job for the team.
He's also played a part in 11 of 14 league wins this season... shows he adds something to the team.
My favourite ever CTFC player. The flair players tend to get the attention, yet the work Dannie has done is often worth far more.
The team is always better with him in it.
it might be horses for courses his work rate is normally higher than others but he isnt the quickest midfieldwer and at his level thats probably his downside, so as mentioned in this thread he proabbly suits games where we are set up more defensively or coming on as a sub to do that role ideally sat deeep in midfeild or put another way between midfield and back line whther that be 3 or 4 players. With the season now well and truley over as far as going up or down is concerned it might also be on RB's mind to give everyonein the squad a game and he might be thibking of retention of squad/changes etc for next season so not just DB but others im expecting will feature more as the season draws to a close.
We win tomorrow and go 7 points off Tranmere in 6th place with two games in hand, yet our season is apparently over?
Do we get 4 points if we win tomorrow then?
I'd have him in the team against the stronger sides, have said all along that playing with 2 wide players and 2 up front is a bit of a luxury and leaves us outnumbered in m/f.
We look better with DB sitting in front of the back 4 and then 3 m/f's ahead of him and 2 up front.
Last year I thought he would be to slow for the 2nd division. At the start of the season I thought he would be to slow for the first division. Each time he proves me wrong.
But I don't think it was just injury, I think it was Akpan leaving that gave him his opportunity.
I think he has just changed RB's opinion with his performances.
I think the only reason Bulman is in the team is a combination of injuries and Akpan leaving.
Great post. My sentiments entirely. As the Fatman once said "only an idiot would leave Bulman out of the starting eleven"
Well done Dannie, a true Crawley legend.
Can't thank this guy enough for what he's done for the club.
I think that Dannie Bulman is one of the most hardworking players this club has ever had on it's books. I'm sure others will have their own views, but I think the team seems much more settled & confident when DB is on the pitch. I do wonder though if he would be in the side now had Akpan not been sold & had Simpson not been injured? With Simpson possibly due back from injury soon (talk of being fit for the game a week Saturday...?) will RB keep Dannie in the side if results are still positive & keep Simpson benched or will it be the other way around? What would you do if you were RB?
He's not got much choice other than to put Simpson back in. He is the captain, however he may well drop Sparrow instead of Bulman.


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Ab Herbst 2018 zeigen wir im Ehrenhof mehrere großformatige Skulpturen des englischen Bildhauers Anthony Cragg. Mit seiner unverwechselbaren Formsprache versetzt Cragg das Material in Bewegung und schafft Skulpturen, in denen sich Illusionismus und statuarische Monumentalität auf einzigartige Weise mischen.
Eine Kabinettausstellung ergänzt die Präsentation der Skulpturen im Ehrenhof.
The Tony Cragg sculpture exhibition is coming to the outside spaces of the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències thanks to the Hortensia Herrero Foundation. Six sculptures, three of which have been done especially for this exhibition, can be seen until November 4, 2018 throughout the different spaces within the complex. Four of the sculptures are located on the water in the various ponds belonging to the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, and this is something novel as this artist has never before exhibited his work atop a sheet of water. The sculptures are made in various materials such as bronze, steel, and fiberglass. In terms of their size, some of them exceed six meters in height and 4,000 kilograms in weight.
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has unveiled a vast new retrospective titled, 'Tony Cragg: Roots & Stones' (24 October 2017 – 12 January 2018), marking the second time the artist has shown work in Iran.
Galleri Andersson/Sandström is delighted to present a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Tony Cragg, which will be the seventh exhibition by the artist, at the gallery. Cragg is one of the world's most distinguished sculptors and he has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Barnett Newman Foundation Award in 2016, the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award in 2007, he represented Britain in the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988 and was the winner of the Turner Prize the same year. He was also the first contemporary artist who exhibited under the pyramid at the Louvre museum in Paris 2011. In 2016 he was made Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II for his service to the visual arts and Anglo-German relations.
Der britische, in Deutschland lebende Bildhauer und international hoch geschätzte Künstler Tony Cragg (geb. in Liverpool, 1949) präsentiert im Ludwig Museum eine Auswahl seiner neuesten Skulpturen sowie einen Überblick seiner graphischen Arbeiten. Anhand von Skulpturen, Zeichnungen und Aquarellen soll Tony Craggs künstlerischer Weg und Schaffensprozess von der anfänglichen Idee bis zum formvollendeten Objekt aufgezeigt werden.
One of the world's most distinguished contemporary sculptors, the past two years brought several impor tant solo presentations of Cragg's work to Europe including T he Hermitage in St. Petersburg and a major career retrospective, Parts of the World at the Von der Heydt Museum in Germany, in 2016. A comprehensive exhibition was held at the Luxemburg Modern Art Museum, and A Rare Category of Objects, one of the most extensive outdoor exhibitions to date, was shown at Yorkshire Sculptu re Park, Yorkshire UK in 2017.
Die Ausstellung von Tony Cragg in der Villa Schöningen zeigt eine präzise Auswahl von Skulpturen, die in den letzten sechs Jahren entstanden sind, sowie von Zeichnungen und Grafiken der letzten zwanzig Jahre. Die Arbeiten geben einen Einblick in die faszinierende Vielfalt und Dynamik des Werkes dieses international renommierten Künstlers.
Für Tony Cragg ist jedes vorstellbare Material Träger von Sinn, Vorstellungen und Emotionen. So sind im 1. Obergeschoss der Villa Skulpturen aus unterschiedlich behandeltem Holz, gegossener Bonze, mundgeblasenem Muranoglas und poliertem Stahl zu sehen. Trotz der Unterschiedlichkeit im Material, stehen die Skulpturen in enger Wechselbeziehung zueinander, was etwa sehr schön im Zusammenspiel der beiden Arbeiten Woman's Head aus Bronze und Contradiction aus Holz zu sehen ist. Es wird deutlich, dass für den Künstler jede Skulptur eine Weiterentwicklung der ihr vorangehenden ist. Damit schuf Tony Cragg ein enzyklopädisches Gesamtwerk, ein skulpturales Universum. Neben dem großen bildhauerischen Werk ist über die letzten rund dreißig Jahre auch ein beeindruckendes OEuvre an Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik entstanden.
The biggest UK exhibition to date by leading sculptor Tony Cragg opens on 4 March 2017. New sculptures, drawings and works drawn from nearly five decades of Cragg's practice will survey and demonstrate the artist's pioneering and continued mastery of materials in the Underground Gallery and open air.
After more than 20 years, the Polish audience have another opportunity to admire Tony Cragg's art. From June to October 2016, his works were shown at the Polish Sculpture Centre in Orońsko. Now, just several months after the exhibition in Orońsko, Wrocław Contemporary Museum is about to present the oeuvre of Tony Cragg, one of the most well-known sculptors in the world, who represents the power of British sculpture today together with several other artists, such as Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor or Mark Wallinger.
Although Cragg approaches questions of form and material not unlike a traditional sculptor, he firmly believes that any imaginable material can be a carrier of meaning, imagination and emotions. For him, sculpture is a medium turned towards the future, a medium whose potential is far from exhausted. 'The future of sculpture has only just begun', he explains. 'Its potential is greater than ever, and its possibilities are just starting to unfold.' In this conception, art occupies a territory between the organic realm of nature and the functionalistic remit of industrial production. Offering a space of freedom beyond utilitarian needs is therefore what constitutes the explicitly political dimension of his art – or of any art, for that matter – as it allows him to give the material a new form with every new sculpture and express his feelings and emotions in constantly changing ways. 'Sculpture is how material and material forms affect us', says Cragg. Reaching beyond viewers' emotional receptivity, it appeals primarily to their intellectual capacity of analytical perception in order to make sense of what they see.
Sir Tony Cragg (geb. 1949) ist einer der bedeutendsten internationalen Bildhauer der Gegenwart. Der in Wuppertal lebende britische Künstler, bis 2013 Rektor der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf und international vielfach ausgezeichnet, wird ca. 20 Skulpturen der letzten Jahre im architektonisch eindrucksvollen Großen Saal präsentieren. Seine großformatigen Skulpturen aus Metall, Marmor, Holz und neuerdings auch Glas sind u.a. von organischen Naturformen inspiriert und von faszinierender Ästhetik. Im Vordergrund steht das Material als stärkster Ausdrucksträger. In langwierigen Entstehungsprozessen der Formung, Gestaltung und Material- und Oberflächenbehandlung "wachsen" förmlich Skulpturen in den Raum, die einen fast wesenhaften Charakter haben oder in Windungen und Wölbungen an unendlich wachsende Strukturen erinnern.
After almost 20 years the Polish public will again have a chance to admire the works of Tony Cragg – one of the best-known sculptors in the world, who together with several other British artists such as Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor or Mark Wallinger create the power of contemporary English sculpture. His works are found in museums, private collections, in city squares and in famous sculpture parks. Tony Cragg's art was quickly noticed and recognized by art world. It was 1988 that turned to be pivotal when the artist represented Great Britain at the 43rd Biennale in Venice and in the same year received the prestigious Turner Prize in London.
Thematic displays follow the course of the sculptor's multifaceted artistic development, in which the variety of materials used (including plastic, glass, works on paper, bronze, plaster, and stainless steel) plays a significant part. The series of works that examine the relationship between natural and synthetic forms and structures – including his Stack Sculptures, Vessels and Cells, Early Forms, Rational Beings and his earlier wall installations in plastic – form the other main focal point of the show.
The artist, who served as chancellor of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf until 2013, has received many honours, whether it be the Turner Prize, the Praemium Imperiale, or being named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He has had exhibitions at the Louvre in Paris, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Tate Gallery London, but he has been living and working in Wuppertal since the 1970s.
Parallel to the exhibition, large outdoor sculptures are on view at the Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, which Cragg opened in his adopted city, Wuppertal, in 2008. Visits to the Von der Heydt-Museum and to the Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden can be combined for a wonderful day out, providing fascinating insights into the artist's world.
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Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949. He began his education by focusing on technical studies that led him to work in a biochemistry laboratory before embarking on his art studies. He was awarded his M.A. from the Royal College of Art in London in 1977. He has resided in Wuppertal, Germany since 1979, and teaches at Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. Cragg's innovative use of urban and industrial detritus opened up a new territory for sculpture at the same time as dealing with environmental and social concerns in post-industrial Britain. Cragg represented Britain at the XLIII Venice Biennale in 1988 and was awarded the Turner Prize the same year.
In his recent works Cragg has been pushing towards a new abstracted understanding of the figure. For the last years, he has been playing with the notion of compression and expansion in the use of totemic structures where the appearance of the human profile is often a reclusive aspect of the overall structure. He has also taken the figure in an almost futuristic manner and divided it into quadrants at its very core. For example, an abstracted idea of a portrait suddenly becomes four different surfaces creating four types of images all joined at the back by an imaginary spine. He uses a composite structure created from slices of wood, epoxied together in forms that are curved, jagged, sturdy yet rigorous. For his bronzes and stainless steel he has developed a method for casting forms that appear to be liquid or molten. In recent years, he has made mainly sculptures of wood, bronze, stone and mirror-finished stainless steel. The patina of the bronzes ranges from black and brown to yellow and red.
Tony Cragg has also produced a considerable œuvre of drawings and watercolours. The drawings serve him not only to explore new forms, but far beyond that, as a way of realising on paper sculptures which could not be realised with regard to statics and gravity.
The Duomo Cathedral, in its religious, cultural and historical dimension, has always measured itself with the language of evolving culture through the centuries.
A great Contemporary Art event held for the first time on the Terraces of the Duomo of Milan: Tony Cragg, an internationally renowned artist, with his works animated by movements ascending towards the sky, competes with the Spires and the centuries-old history of the Cathedral.
An exhibition like this has never been set up over the Duomo Terraces because of the arduous transport of such big sculptures to an unusual place and inaccessible height settled in the heart of the city. These works of art has been raised up to the Terraces through a crane, in the same way as marble blocks are raised during the activity of the Veneranda Fabbrica working sites.
All of this to make the best of the dialogue between the Duomo and the art languages, bringing Tony Cragg, sculptor of primary importance in the artistic world, to such an important and evocative place in Milan. This work requires sensitivity, great skills and the ability to perceive the deep network of invisible correspondences that rules reality: carving the marble, Tony Cragg wants to build a bridge, a link between apparently far apart dimensions. Only apparently. The marble assimilates the rhythm of time and through the artist's work it is shaped into forms and contours that vibrate to the infinite: the sculpture is movement, pure and tangible, substance that carries a transcendent power without equal.
An event such as Expo wants to give vigour to all the cultural energy that the city can express. Milan must represent itself in all of its cultural dimension looking forward to the future and to the international context: it will be an essential opportunity to experience these skills. The Duomo Cathedral is the summary of these values.
Tony Cragg's sculptures, starting from the installation of Paradosso, inspired by the Madonnina and inaugurated inside the Duomo Cathedral the last 4 November 2014 where will remain during the whole Expo semester, are characterized by shapes aiming to the infinite, where everyone can find its own cultural and artistic dimension as a sign of personal free interpretation.
Everyone visiting the Terraces during the Expo semester will be able to be part of this experience using their own creative freedom.
Tony Craggs praised exhibition Walks of Life recently shown at Madison Square Park in New York in 2014, now moves on to Gothenburg. As part of the Gothenburg International Sculpture Exhibition, organised by the Pilane Heritage Museum in collaboration with the Garden Society of Gothenburg, Craggs monumental bronze sculptures will be on display throughout the summer from 25 April to 25 October 2015.
Organized by the state hermitage museum Berengo studio, curated by Dimitri Ozerkov and Adriano Berengo. 9th May – 22nd November 2015.
Glasstress 2015 Gotika explores how medieval ideas and communication methods have imperceptibly crept into our modern conscience despite our technological advances and how the Gothic concept influences contemporary art.The exhibition concept is by Dr. Dimitri Ozerkov, Director of Hermitage 20/21 and of Contemporary Art Department in the State Hermitage Museum. Dr. Ozerkov will curate Glasstress 2015 Gotika with Adriano Berengo of Berengo Studio.
Die Salzburg Foundation präsentiert drei neue Skulpturen von Anthony Cragg. Nach dem 10-Jahres-Projekt "Walk of Modern Art" folgt nun das auf fünf Jahre angelegte "Kunstprojekt Krauthügel" – mit jährlich jeweils einer temporären Ausstellung für den öffentlichen Raum unterhalb der Festung Hohensalzburg auf 80.000 Quadratmetern Grünfläche.
Der Präsident der Salzburg Foundation, Karl Gollegger, und der künstlerische Leiter Walter Smerling haben in enger Kooperation mit der Erzabtei St. Peter eine entsprechende Vereinbarung für die nächsten fünf Jahre getroffen und sind über die Reaktion des Künstlers Anthony Cragg sehr erfreut. Er hat eigens für Salzburg drei neue Bronzeskulpturen geschaffen. Die Titel: Points of View, Runner und Mixed Feelings.
Am Freitag, dem 6. Juni um 11.00 Uhr wurde die Ausstellung in Anwesenheit des Künstlers durch Karl Gollegger, Walter Smerling, Erzabt Korbinian Birnbacher und Landeshauptmann Wilfried Haslauer eröffnet.


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Our mining companies' responsibility to the Congo: Response from FOTC Canada
The 2002, 2003 and 2008 UN reports from the Panel of Experts on Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth in the Democratic Republic of Congo establish a clear link between the presence of mining companies and the militarization that leads to crimes against humanity in the Congo. Moreover, it is the case that half of the worldwide capital raised for mining and mineral exploration companies is done through the Toronto Stock Exchange.
However, the remedy proposed in this article, voluntary corporate responsibility, is insufficient. To suggest that mining companies can solve the problem without addressing the issue of their very culpability is not helpful. Hence, this is a band aid solution that gives mining companies carte blanche to continue doing harm while pretending to be philanthropists.
As a Congolese, my people need empowerment towards self-reliance for security, social and political capacity building in the Congo within the framework of local institutions. Firstly, a transparent and equitable consultation process with the Congolese for access to their land via a wholesale renegotiation of the current mining contracts that one-sidedly benefit the mining companies.
Secondly, fair-minded United States and Canadian citizens need to pressure their government to enact transparent and mandatory legislative programmes to reign in the mining companies. Liberal MP John McKay's Bill C-300 is a necessary first step.
Finally, Canada should take necessary measures along with the US and the international community to assert diplomatic pressure on Rwanda and Uganda so as to stop the latter's support of militias and military intervention in the Congo. The West must favour a political settlement rather an illusive military solution.
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Bodia Macharia, President
Friends of the Congo, University of Toronto
Email: fotcuoft@gmail.com
Hip-Hop Battle Packs Out Stadium in Goma
Cercle Sportif, the main basketball court in town, was filled with 3,500 people sitting in the bleachers, climbing on the hoops, standing on the walls, all pressing in to see the SKIFF hip-hop dance competition featuring seven groups from Goma.
The event kicked off with a local Taekwondo performance done Congolese style to the music of Lokua Kanza, the famous Congolese rumba and jazz musician. The dance groups followed with local musicians performing in between the dances.
The jury consisted of two professional Congolese dancers from Kinshasa, Lucie Mbuyi and Jolie Madala Ngemi, Ugandan breakdancer Abdoul Kanyinye, and Finnish dancer Anna Muionen. While the jury deliberated their decision, the crowd was entertained by a Michael Jackson dance competition featuring three groups whose moonwalks made one question if these boys were not somehow part of the Jackson family.
The top two groups were announced and danced off in a hip-hop battle both in groups and individually. The crowd voted on the winner by reverberating the stadium with it choice and ultimately the jury agreed; the prize went to the Street Dancers and the runner-up prize went to Lil' Saint. Street Dancers won the chance to perform at Festival Munjansa in Kinshasa and Lil' Saint won the chance to travel performing around the province of North Kivu.
Following the hip-hop battles, the film screening was Goma Focus, highlighting films made by Congolese filmmakers in Goma with actors from Goma. The films featured were Prejudice by Horeb Bulambo and 21 Puce by Modogo Mutembwi. Overall, the day was a success pulling together people from all different walks of life in Goma to show their support for local artists and for peace in the region.
Find out more about SKIFF and the youth of Goma
SKIFF Workshop, Goma, DRC
SKIFF hosted two film and script-writing workshops led by Congolese filmmaker Petna Ndaliko and Kenyan filmmaker and human rights activist, Ndungi Githuku. Githuku and Ndaliko taught the workshop through the lens of the theme of the festival; how can art and film be used as a tool for development and social cohesion?
The students walked through the steps of critiquing a film and the research process in choosing a subject for a film. Ndaliko stressed the importance of Africans taking control of their own image through expression in media and art and creating an alternative way of educating Congolese thorough the mediums of film and literature.
The Congo has never had a functioning education system from colonization to the Mobutu dictatorship to the present day.
"People are not taught to think, they are not taught to ask for their rights, and the system does not give priority to the students. Our emancipation rests in changing the education system shaped by the construction of a critical, new media through films and literature," Ndaliko stated.
Githuku and Ndaliko were impressed with the willingness and the thirst for learning from all the workshop attendees who told the two directors, "You have all this information that we want to know, how can we get access to this?" This is the problem that faces many African countries; especially Congo where it is rare to find relevant text books in schools.
"It is a matter of getting the information to the people in way that is accessible," said Ndaliko, "we need to democratize the media space by increasing access to the internet and to books. We need to create regional and international educational exchanges so that people are connected to the information that will help them."
The students finished by writing their own film synopsis after walking through research exercises. After reading their synopses aloud to the group, one of the students said, "We need more of this. We need space to be creative and people that teach us new ways of doing things."
Click here to find out more about SKIFF.
Vanguard Students Break the Silence


text:
Sarah Palin commends NWO's Alaska Model United Nations
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, do hereby proclaim February 21-23, 2008, as:
Alaska Model United Nations Days
in Alaska, and urge all citizens to acknowledge the outstanding work done by the various student organizations
in order to have peace and harmony in the world.
Dated: February 6, 2008
State of Alaska > Governor > Proclamations > Proclamations Archive
http://gov.state.ak.us/archive-18166.html
WHEREAS, the Alaska Model United Nations has provided important education and international opportunities to Alaska students for 23 years.
WHEREAS, the Alaska Model United Nations serves as a simulation of the United Nations and has, as its purposes, the same high goals:
"To maintain international peace and security…" "To develop friendly relations among nations…" "To achieve international cooperation…"
"To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends."
WHEREAS, the University of Alaska Anchorage, UNA/USA Alaska chapter, the Alaska World Affairs Council, and the Anchorage Consular Corps are cooperating to make this an important international experience available to Alaska's youths.
in Alaska, and urge all citizens to acknowledge the outstanding work done by the various student organizations in order to have peace and harmony in the world.
UNITED NATIONS = NEW WORLD ORDER
The principles of the United Nations are antithetical to the founding principle of unalienable rights endowed by the Creator as contained in the United States Declaration of Independence. The founding principle of the United Nations is that "rights" come from governments, not from God. On the grounds of the United Nations on the east side of Manhattan in New York City, is a monument of a pistol with its barrel tied in a knot:
Photo of anti-gun United Nations monument:
www.christianaction.org.za/firearmnews/2005-01_CriminalsPreferUnarmedVictims.htm
It is interesting that the anti-gun monument outside the United Nations building in New York is of a civilian revolver and not a military AK-47
The United Nations wishes to disarm all peoples and nations, and allow only a United Nations Military Force to have supreme military power, allowing only those national armed forces "required to preserve internal orderand for contributions to a United Nations Peace Force;..."
"Freedom From War - The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World"
DISARMAMENT GOAL AND OBJECTIVES
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/arms/freedom_war.html
This, of course, for those who understand and have a biblical view of the sinful nature of man, is a recipe for global tyranny, which is precisely what the purpose of the United Nations is, established in 1945 at the end of WWII. It was largely a creation of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) established in 1921 after Woodrow Wilson's failed attempt to get the United States to endorse the previous globalist entity, the League of Nations. The CFR is headquartered in New York City.
The United Nations is a clearinghouse for One-World Government, supplemented by the plethora of other world government entities (e.g., the IMF, World Bank, WTO, International Criminal Court, Vatican, ad nauseam).
Sarah Palin's endorsement of Alaska's Model United Nations is consistent with the aims and allegiances of her presidential running mate, Republican Globalist, Pro-Amnesty-for-Illegal-Aliens, CFR-member John "Mc-Amnesty" McCain. The CFR is behind the North American Union (NAU) to further erode the sovereigty of the United States, by an ongoing merger with Canada and Mexico.
This is TREASON.
October 30, 2008 / Revised October 31, 2008
The CFR and the NAU:
The Immigration Amnesty Bill (S.1348) backed by John McCain was all about the North American Union, the merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, promoted by the CFR:
PREMEDITATED MERGER
North American union plan headed to Congress in fall
Powerful think tank prepares report on benefits of integration between U.S., Mexico, Canada
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55830
Building a North American Community
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Task Force Report No. 53
www.cfr.org/publication/8102/
Stop the NORTH AMERICAN UNION
www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/
The EU and the NAU ~ Two Peas in a Pod!
Treason Abounds ~ Gov't Cabal Plots North American Union
Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America
"The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing."
Check out this U.S. Government website: www.spp.gov
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Membership Roster
www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html
Friday, June 01, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com
" [the] Council on Foreign Relations, a main think-tank behind the idea of a North American Union that would eventually dissolve borders between Mexico, Canada and the United States to create one big super-nation..."
www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=42649
"The Definition of Tyranny," The New American (May 15, 1995), by John F. McManus
"Formed in 1921 by Edward Mandell House, President Woodrow Wilson's right-hand man, the CFR's purpose has been undeniably clear from the start: to submerge our nation into a socialist, one-world government."
"Never forget that the CFR was formed to bring about socialism and world government. Its increasing domination over America's affairs amounts to a conspiracy the grip of which must be broken by an informed and alarmed American citizenry. If CFR influence over our federal government isn't soon broken, America will be reduced to a mere province in a socialistic world government where freedom has disappeared and national sovereignty is but a dim memory. And James Madison's worst fear -- tyranny reigning in this land -- will become a reality. The time to expose the CFR and its grip on this land is now."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CFR-TNAart.doc
ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement
Video (2hrs, 19 min)
The New World Order - including CFR, NAU, eugenics, forced global population reduction, Georgia Guidestones
President George H.W. Bush, State of the Union Address,
given at the United States Capitol, on January 29, 1991 :
www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0900156.html
"What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea  a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law." "The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a new world order  where brutality will go unrewarded, and aggression will meet collective resistance."
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 7277
Disarmament Series 5
Freedom From War -
The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World
Office of Public Services
BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
[Note: US / UN Global plan in three stages: STAGE I, STAGE II, STAGE III; excerpt from STAGE III:]
* The disbanding of all national armed forces and the prohibition of their reestablishment in any form whatsoever other than those required to preserve internal order and for contribions to a United Nations Peace force;
* The elimination from national arsenals of all armaments, including all weapons of mass destruction and the means for their delivery, other than those required for a United Nations Peace Force and for maintaining internal order; (cont'd)
THIRD STAGE
During the third stage of the program, the states of the world, building on the experience and confidence gained in successfully implementing the measures of the first two stages, would take final steps toward the goal of a world in which:
* States would retain only those forces, non-nuclear armaments, and establishments required for the purpose of maintaining internal order; they would also support and provide agreed manpower for a U.N. Peace Force.
* The U.N. Peace Force, equipped with agreed types and quantities of armaments, would be fully functioning.
* The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order. All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes.
* The peace-keeping capabilities of the United Nations would be sufficiently strong and the obligations of all states under such arrangements sufficiently far-reaching as to assure peace and the just settlement of differences in a disarmed world.
DECLARATION ON DISARMAMENT
[excerpt, emphases added]
"In Stage III progressive controlled disarmament and continuously developing principles and procedures of international law would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force ..."
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1961 O 609147
This satanic document, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 7277, spells T-R-E-A-S-O-N and T-Y-R-A-N-N-Y for the American people.
"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." Psalm 9:17, KJB
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18 Yeshua Messiah
October 30, 2008 /Revised October 31, 2008
Posted by Anonymous at Thursday, October 30, 2008