In Bantry, the summers are cool and partly cloudy; the winters are long, cold, wet, and mostly cloudy; and it is windy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 41°F to 65°F and is rarely below 34°F or above 70°F.
Based on the tourism score, the best time of year to visit Bantry for warm-weather activities is from late June to early September.
The warm season lasts for 3.0 months, from June 15 to September 16, with an average daily high temperature above 62°F. The hottest day of the year is July 27, with an average high of 65°F and low of 56°F.
The cool season lasts for 4.4 months, from November 18 to April 1, with an average daily high temperature below 52°F. The coldest day of the year is February 17, with an average low of 41°F and high of 48°F.
In Bantry, the average percentage of the sky covered by clouds experiences mild seasonal variation over the course of the year.
The clearer part of the year in Bantry begins around March 31 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around October 12. On July 7, the clearest day of the year, the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 50% of the time, and overcast or mostly cloudy 50% of the time.
The cloudier part of the year begins around October 12 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around March 31. On December 24, the cloudiest day of the year, the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy 70% of the time, and clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 30% of the time.
A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. The chance of wet days in Bantry varies throughout the year.
The wetter season lasts 4.5 months, from October 7 to February 23, with a greater than 41% chance of a given day being a wet day. The chance of a wet day peaks at 52% on January 9.
The drier season lasts 7.5 months, from February 23 to October 7. The smallest chance of a wet day is 30% on April 21.
Among wet days, we distinguish between those that experience rain alone, snow alone, or a mixture of the two. Based on this categorization, the most common form of precipitation throughout the year is rain alone, with a peak probability of 52% on January 9.
To show variation within the months and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day of the year. Bantry experiences significant seasonal variation in monthly rainfall.
Rain falls throughout the year in Bantry. The most rain falls during the 31 days centered around January 1, with an average total accumulation of 4.8 inches.
The least rain falls around April 30, with an average total accumulation of 2.3 inches.
The length of the day in Bantry varies extremely over the course of the year. In 2019, the shortest day is December 22, with 7 hours, 48 minutes of daylight; the longest day is June 21, with 16 hours, 40 minutes of daylight.
The earliest sunrise is at 5:18 AM on June 17, and the latest sunrise is 3 hours, 25 minutes later at 8:44 AM on December 30. The earliest sunset is at 4:27 PM on December 13, and the latest sunset is 5 hours, 32 minutes later at 10:00 PM on June 25.
Daylight saving time (DST) is observed in Bantry during 2019, starting in the spring on March 31, lasting 6.9 months, and ending in the fall on October 27.
The perceived humidity level in Bantry, as measured by the percentage of time in which the humidity comfort level is muggy, oppressive, or miserable, does not vary significantly over the course of the year, remaining a virtually constant 0% throughout.
The average hourly wind speed in Bantry experiences significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.
The windier part of the year lasts for 5.4 months, from October 13 to March 25, with average wind speeds of more than 14.7 miles per hour. The windiest day of the year is January 1, with an average hourly wind speed of 17.6 miles per hour.
The calmer time of year lasts for 6.6 months, from March 25 to October 13. The calmest day of the year is July 26, with an average hourly wind speed of 11.8 miles per hour.
The predominant average hourly wind direction in Bantry is from the west throughout the year.
The time of year with warmer water lasts for 2.9 months, from June 30 to September 27, with an average temperature above 58°F. The day of the year with the warmest water is August 6, with an average temperature of 61°F.
The time of year with cooler water lasts for 4.4 months, from December 15 to April 28, with an average temperature below 51°F. The day of the year with the coolest water is March 2, with an average temperature of 48°F.
To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Bantry throughout the year, we compute two travel scores.
The tourism score favors clear, rainless days with perceived temperatures between 65°F and 80°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bantry for general outdoor tourist activities is from late June to early September, with a peak score in the last week of July.
The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with perceived temperatures between 75°F and 90°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bantry for hot-weather activities is from mid July to early August, with a peak score in the last week of July.
Based on growing degree days alone, the first spring blooms in Bantry should appear around May 10, only rarely appearing before April 23 or after May 26.
The brighter period of the year lasts for 3.3 months, from May 4 to August 13, with an average daily incident shortwave energy per square meter above 5.1 kWh. The brightest day of the year is June 12, with an average of 6.2 kWh.
The darker period of the year lasts for 3.9 months, from October 23 to February 21, with an average daily incident shortwave energy per square meter below 1.7 kWh. The darkest day of the year is December 24, with an average of 0.6 kWh.
This report illustrates the typical weather in Bantry, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2016.


For this residential project at Sojitsu, the character ʺResonance / Hibikuʺ was made on a single canvas, which was later designed as the hanging partition wall, tsuri-fusuma. In taking away the element of the frame, and to embed the character into the partition wall, it allows us to interact with the piece in a unique way, which is different from if it were hung on a wall in a conventional frame. This work opens up the idea of treating calligraphy as more than a static art piece on the wall, as to allow function to be a part of it as well.


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The Top 5 Italian Restaurants in Singapore
From traditional Italian meals to incorporating local flavours, here is a list of the best in authentic Italian food
14 Oct 2017, 10:00 AM by: Vanilla Luxury
When it comes to world-famous, beloved cuisines few are more popular than Italian. Sure, we all love a good American burger or some Japanese ramen every now and again, but when it cooks to traditional, elegant dishes nothing can compete with Italian. This is just one of the reasons why Singapore is brimming with all sorts of Italian restaurants, from those that offer the classic pasta dishes to more experimental, modern establishments with bonkers pizza toppings. Alas, not all Italian restaurants in Singapore are created equal and so we thought we'd find the best ones out there for you to try.
1. Pasta Brava
Anyone who wishes to experience a truly authentic, traditional Italian meal in a relaxing atmosphere should head straight to Pasta Brava on Craig Road, Orchard. Though this establishment may be of a moderate size – it sort of feels like you're in a real, Italian mansion – it is so popular that reservations are always necessary. Still, prices are similar to that of other restaurants in the area and there is plenty to choose from. The spaghetti della pescatrice is a particular favourite amongst diners, as it comes in real squid ink sauce. For vegetarians, there's the risotto al funghi porcini made with white wine and parmesan cheese.
2. Jamie's Italian
Known all over the world for incredibly delicious cuisine and marvellous chefs, Jamie's Italian offers an authentic Italian experience rather than just a meal. On the menu you'll find authentic pastas, oven-baked pizzas, a variety of mains and even desserts including the epic chocolate brownie and raspberry rippled pavlova. There are two Jamie's Italian restaurants in Singapore, one in Orchard and another in VivoCity both of which are just some of the many Italian Ristorantes that offer delivery services so you can get your pizza or pasta fix wherever, whenever.
3. Basilico
Situated within the Regent Hotel, Basilico is one of the most highly regarded Italian restaurants in all of Singapore. Not only is this because the food is absolutely delectable, but because the menu there is constantly changing, expanding and evolving. Each meal is delivered to customers in the style of an Italian buffet, with their weekday lunch buffet remaining a favourite amongst customers. Dishes include carpaccio with black truffle and parmesan, beef medallion with Portobello mushrooms and clams in pinot grigio. Needless to say, this isn't your average buffet restaurant.
4. La Strada
Over at the Shaw Centre, La Strada take their Italian cuisine very, very seriously. In fact, their Head Chef Joon is well known to only ever use the finest ingredients available to him, which makes the reasonable pricing even more extraordinary. Plus, while the ingredients may be luxurious, there's a humble charm about how the dining area looks. In fact, we would compare it to home, with wooden tables, striped curtains and little chalkboard featuring the chef's daily specials that is surrounded by photos in frames. Dishes include homemade egg pasta and king crab risotto, both of which are obviously of premium quality.
5. Bella Pasta
Ever since it was founded in 2010, Bella Pasta has continued to achieve success with locals and tourists alike – and not just because they are owned by the famous Bella Pizza chain. What makes Bella Pasta special is that they have managed to keep traditional Italian recipes while also catering to the local palate of Singapore. For instance, there's the scamorza affumicata con prosciutto served with delicious burrata salad, as well as spaghetti alla carbonara which doesn't have any cream at all.
There you have it, five of the best Italian restaurants in all of Singapore from classic to contemporary. Have you ever visited any of these establishments? Or perhaps you favour somewhere better that we haven't included? Let us know.
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"Tenderness" is a good film about Eric Poole who is released from juvenile penitentiary (convicted for murdering his parents) when he reaches the age of 18. Two people are obsessed with this young man and a nice drama develops with thriller and roadmovie elements. Polson does not fill in all the details, so parts of the story have to be filled in by the viewer which in my opinion is a good thing. The atmosphere and the acting are good, the story (based on a novel) original.


Since its inception, the American military has never wavered in the face of a clear threat to our security. They have acted when the world needed them, responding to challenges both immediate and elusive. This charge now extends far from the battlefield. Senior military officials are taking a stand on an issue still seen as contentious among policy makers. They have recognized climate change as a "threat multiplier" which will forever alter the national security landscape. Our service members don't have the luxury of denying the effects of rising global temperatures. They will come into contact with the consequences throughout the coming decades.
At an event hosted by Florida Southern College and co-sponsored by the American Security Project, Lt. Gen. Don Kerrick (retired) and Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy (retired) spoke of the national security implications of climate change. Global peace and stability will be unattainable in a world beset by large refugee populations, rapid spread of disease (to include the expanded reach of tropical diseases), rising sea levels, decreased availability of fresh water and unreliable harvests due to drought and inclement weather.
These conditions are having dramatic effects already. A recent report conducted by Columbia University, discovered that the Syrian civil war has been exacerbated by a substantial population of displaced farmers packed into urban slums. These farmers left their land after four years of historic drought (2006-2010). Spending years in poverty and squalor, this group had little reason to desire peace and every possible motivation for violence and war. When the Arab Spring erupted, the fire quickly engulfed this desperate population which had already been amassed like kindling waiting for a spark. This conflict has displaced millions, many of whom now live in isolated camps with little comfort, in nations that don't know what to do with them.
These migrations, which end in overcrowded slums and refugee camps, create ideal environments for disease, extremism and conflict. To believe that these conditions will abate at our borders is to condemn our nation to willful and ignorant destruction.
Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has referred to climate change as a "threat multiplier". He has stressed the need to plan for the military requirements resulting from climate change which would include increased American military operations for the distribution of humanitarian aid, disaster relief and to intervene in civil unrest. Even on our soil, the National Guard must be prepared to respond in the event of ever more severe weather patterns.
As the effects of rising temperatures aggravate existing conditions, our troops are tasked with carrying out static missions under increasingly dynamic conditions. Failure to recognize climate change as the colossal threat that it is, will ensure that we are unable to supply adequate support to our men and women on the frontlines. This crisis requires American leadership. It is an emergency which is real and has already begun.


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Bulgaria OKs Pipeline Linking Russian Gas to Central Europe
Bulgaria will spend $1.59 billion (1.4 billion euros) to build a new gas link to Turkey to transport Russian gas from the TurkStream pipeline to Europe, bypassing Ukraine to the south.
Bulgarian lawmakers gave the green light to the state gas company Bulgartransgaz to launch tenders to build the new 300-mile (484-km) gas link from its border with Turkey to Serbia by 2020 that will carry mainly Russian natural gas that will carry mainly Russian natural gas, according to Reuters.
TurkStream is part of the Kremlin's plans to bypass Ukraine, currently the main transit route for Russian gas to Europe and strengthen its position in the European market.
Its two lines will each have an annual capacity of 15.75 Bcm. Russian energy giant Gazprom has completed the first line of pipeline to Turkey for local gas consumption.
Gazprom said it was considering booking capacity, which would effectively ensure that the gas Russia plans to send to Europe through its Black Sea pipeline will pass through its land.


BEIJING (China Daily / ANN) - Visual China Group is in trouble. At a time when the country has pledged to strengthen its protection of intellectual property rights, the country's largest stock images provider has been accused of abusing them — and even resorting to blackmail — to make a profit.
VCG sparked an outcry nationwide last week after it claimed to own the copyright to the first-ever image of a black hole, the work of a team of 200 international scientists in the Event Horizon Telescope project. Now the Shenzhen-listed company has been forced to shut down its website to "rectify" its problems.
Over the past 10 years, the company, flaunting the banner of IPR protection, has filed tens of thousands of lawsuits against what it claimed are copyright violators. In 2018 alone, nearly 3,000 such lawsuits were lodged.
And as the number of lawsuits have risen, so too have the company's profits from "image content and services", surging by 44 percent year-on-year for the first three quarters of 2018.
But to conclude from the active legal actions VCG has taken that it is an avid defender of IPR would be totally wrong, not least because many of its copyright claims are invalid, such as those of the Chinese national flag and emblem, as well as the logos of companies such as Xiaomi and Baidu. Ironically, VCG has been able to play thief crying "stop thief" for a long time and get away with it.
For the truth is, VCG has used the lawsuits merely as a tool to expand its customer base. More than 90 percent of the cases were settled outside court, with the image provider reportedly cutting the 10,000 yuan ($1,491) per photo compensation it sought from an alleged violator of its copyright to 300 yuan if the latter agreed to become its contracted user.
That may explain why it has enlarged its customer base so rapidly, by 48 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2018, to reach more than 100,000.
The "malicious" lawsuits the company has filed have caused a huge waste of China's judicial resources, and damaged the interests of the real IPR owners and genuine image users.
The company has apologized and promised to change its ways.
But, that it has been able to thrive by taking advantage of China's IPR protection loopholes speaks of an oversight lapse by the government departments in charge.
The "black hole" that has been exposed in China's IPR protection should compel the market regulators to close the loopholes.


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The Paros Kimolos ferry route connects Cyclades Islands with Cyclades Islands. Currently there is just the 1 ferry company operating this ferry service, Hellenic Seaways. The crossing operates up to 2 times each week with sailing durations from around 4 hours 15 minutes.
Paros Kimolos sailing durations and frequency may vary from season to season so we'd advise doing a live check to get the most up to date information.
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Prices shown represent the average one way price paid by our customers. The most common booking on the Paros Kimolos route is a car and 2 passengers.
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Located in the Cyclades group of islands, the Greek island of Paros lies in the Aegean Sea, to the west of the island of Naxos from which it is separated by a channel that is around 8 km wide. The island is 160 km to the south east of the Port of Piraeus. Historically known for its fine white marble, which gave rise to the term 'Parian' to describe marble or china of similar qualities, the marble mines and quarries have now been abandoned and can be found around the island. Today, the island's principal source of income is derived from tourism. The capital of Paros, Parikia, is a typically beautiful Cycladic village with whitewashed houses and lovely grand neoclassical mansions. Standing atop a hill in the centre of the village is a 13th century Venetian castle which provides glorious views of the town and surrounding area. There is also an important ecclesiastical attraction in the town in the form of the 6th century Church of Panayia Ekatontapyliani, also known as Katapoliani.
The island's port is also in Parikia and hosts both conventional ferries and high speed ferries. Ferries generally depart to Piraeus and to the other islands of the Cyclades.
Kimolos Guide
Kimolos is a Greek island that lies in the Aegean Sea and is part of the Cyclades group of islands and is separated from the island of Milos by the Strait of Kimolos. According to legend, the island takes its name from the island's first resident. During ancient times, the island was called Echinousa, probably after the snake Echidna (viper) which was, and remains, common on the island. Since ancient times the island has been a battlefield between Ancient Athens, the ruler of the island, and Sparta, the ruler of nearby Milos.
Kimolos actually belongs to the Western Cyclades and is connected to nearby islands and the port of Piraeus, Athens, via a year-round ferry service with a catamaran ferry running only during the busy summer tourist season. During the tourist period, the island usually has daily connection to Piraeus and other islands. Also, transport via Milos is possible, because of the frequent connection of the two islands with local ferry services.
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Venezuela Accuses US of Closing Airspace for Presidential Plane
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Venezuela's top diplomat has accused the United States of closing its airspace to the plane of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, complicating his plans to fly to China on Friday.
BUENOS AIRES, September 20 (RIA Novosti) – Venezuela's top diplomat has accused the United States of closing its airspace to the plane of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, complicating his plans to fly to China on Friday.
No comment confirming, denying or explaining the allegation was immediately available from US authorities.
"Ahead of our flight to China, we were informed by the US authorities that our request to fly over US airspace in the Atlantic was rejected," Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said Thursday, according to Venezuelan media. "We condemn it as yet another act of aggression by the North American empire."
Maduro, however, said early Friday on his Twitter feed that he had left for China, on a visit scheduled to end Tuesday. Jaua had earlier said that a new route had been chosen, but gave no details.
"The US won't succeed in disrupting my visit to China," Maduro had reportedly said Thursday, calling the US decision a "serious mistake."
After news of the flight problems surfaced, Venezuela's AVN news agency quoted Maduro as saying that the United States had also been unwilling to issue a visa for Wilmer Barrientos, who heads the presidential administration. Barrientos was to attend a UN General Assembly session in New York set to begin on September 24.
"If I will have to take diplomatic measures against the US government, I will," Maduro was quoted as saying.
Updated with Maduro's comment on Twitter and a mention of the US reaction, plus minor edits throughout.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I spent a free day in New York. The morning after my bookish sightseeing, I woke up bright and early with the incentive of bagels for breakfast. Just outside our building, Times Square was bright but completely deserted at 6 in the morning.
I've been meaning to write for so long, and as always, there's just been so much going on that my writing got pushed to the back burner. In the past few months, a lot has happened, and I couldn't be happier with how my year finished.


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Take South Van Ness Ave/ US 101 to Lombard/US 101, Turn Left.Follow US 101 North, over the Golden Gate Bridge and into Marin.
Travel approximately 15 miles to the CENTRAL SAN RAFAEL exit.
Turn Left on 3rd Street for ½ mile. Turn right on E Street.
Take I-580 toward Richmond/Sacramento. Merge US 101, over the Richmond Bridge.
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Take US 101 South toward San Francisco.
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Queen of the Mountain is a 2005 documentary film about Theresa Goell, a middle-aged woman who, in 1947, left her husband and son to dig beneath the sanctuary of Nemrud Dagh. Goell was fascinated by this shrine to King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, which had been neglected by previous archaeologists.

Queen of the Mountain tells her story through archival footage, family photographs, oral histories, commentary from Goell's friends and her own letters. The New York Times said it offered a "strong, rich narrative with visuals to match."

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Jews of Iran
Pola's March
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My Yiddish Momme McCoy

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John Hopkins University reported early Sunday there are 94.5 million global COVID-19 cases. The United States leads the world in the number of cases with 23.7 million infections, followed by India with 10.5 million and Brazil with 8.4 million.Los Angeles County in California has become the first U.S. county to record 1 million COVID-19 cases. The news of the number of infections is compounded by the confirmation of the appearance in the county of the highly contagious British variant of the coronavirus.Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the county's public health director, said in a statement, "The presence of the U.K. variant in Los Angeles County is troubling, as our health care system is already severely strained with more than 7,500 people currently hospitalized." She added that Los Angeles is also experiencing "hospitalizations and deaths, five-times what we experienced over the summer."Norway is investigating the deaths of more than 25 elderly people who died after receiving Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. The Norwegian Medicines Agency said the affected people already had "serious basic disorders."In southwestern England, people 80 and older have been able to get their vaccination shots to the sound of live organ music in the 800-year-old Salisbury Cathedral. The cathedral's music director chose the works of Bach and Handel to help people relax as they waited.The Australian Open will go ahead as planned, despite the discovery of three coronavirus cases that have put 47 players into quarantine for two weeks, the tennis tournament's director, Craig Tiley, said Saturday.Australia's international borders are closed, but there are exceptions.For the international tennis tournament, players and their coaches flew into the country on 17 charter flights from seven nations. Each of the estimated 1,200 players, coaches, staff members and officials was required to receive a negative coronavirus test before they boarded the planes, which were kept at 25% capacity.However, two positive cases were detected in people who arrived on a flight from Los Angeles and a third case arrived on a flight from Abu Dhabi. Sylvain Bruneau, who coaches Canadian star Bianca Andreescu, said he tested positive after arriving from Abu Dhabi, but the rest of his team has tested negative.Since the pandemic began, Australia has recorded nearly 29,000 cases and just over 900 deaths, according to Hopkins. Just over 800 of those cases occurred in Victoria state during a second wave of the virus. Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, is where the Australian Open is played.Tournament organizers had hoped that charter flights, early arrivals and frequent testing would allow the Open to be played without a hitch.
China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for COVID-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to contain and that it blamed on infected people or goods from abroad.The hospital is one of six with a total of 6,500 rooms being built in Nangong, south of Beijing in Hebei province, the official Xinhua News Agency said.About 650 people are being treated in Nangong and the Hebei provincial capital, Shijiazhuang, Xinhua said. A 3,000-room hospital is under construction in Shijiazhuang.Virus clusters also have been found in Beijing and the provinces of Heilongjiang and Liaoning in the northeast and Sichuan in the southwest.The latest infections spread unusually fast, the National Health Commission said."It is harder to handle," a commission statement said. "Community transmission already has happened when the epidemic is found, so it is difficult to prevent."The commission blamed the latest cases on people or goods arriving from abroad. It blamed "abnormal management" and "inadequate protection of workers" involved in imports but gave no details."They are all imported from abroad. It was caused by entry personnel or contaminated cold chain imported goods," said the statement.The Chinese government has suggested the disease might have originated abroad and publicized what it says is the discovery of the virus on imported food, mostly frozen fish, though foreign scientists are skeptical.Also Saturday, the city government of Beijing said travelers arriving in the Chinese capital from abroad would be required to undergo an additional week of "medical monitoring" after a 14-day quarantine but gave no details.Nationwide, the Health Commission reported 130 new confirmed cases in the 24 hours through midnight Friday. It said 90 of those were in Hebei.On Saturday, the Hebei government reported 32 additional cases since midnight, the Shanghai news outlet The Paper reported.In Shijiazhuang, authorities have finished construction of 1,000 rooms of the planned hospital, state TV said Saturday. Xinhua said all the facilities are to be completed within a week.A similar program of rapid hospital construction was launched by the ruling Communist Party at the start of the outbreak last year in the central China city of Wuhan.More than 10 million people in Shijiazhuang underwent virus tests by late Friday, Xinhua said, citing a deputy mayor, Meng Xianghong. It said 247 locally transmitted cases were found.Meanwhile, researchers sent by the World Health Organization were in Wuhan preparing to investigate the origins of the virus. The team, which arrived Thursday, was under a two-week quarantine but was scheduled to talk with Chinese experts by video link.The team's arrival was held up for months by diplomatic wrangling that prompted a rare public complaint by the head of the WHO.That delay, and the secretive ruling party's orders to scientists not to talk publicly about the disease, have raised questions about whether Beijing might try to block discoveries that would hurt its self-proclaimed status as a leader in the anti-virus battle.
The Australian Open will go ahead as planned, despite the discovery of three coronavirus cases that have put 47 players into quarantine for two weeks, the tennis tournament's director, Craig Tiley, said Saturday.Australia's international borders are closed, but there are exceptions.For the international tennis tournament, players and their coaches flew into the country on 17 charter flights from seven nations. All of the estimated 1,200 players, coaches, staff members and officials were required to receive negative coronavirus tests before boarding their planes, which were kept at 25% capacity.However, two positive cases were detected on a flight from Los Angeles and a third case was found on a flight from Abu Dhabi. Sylvain Bruneau, who coaches Canadian star Bianca Andreescu, said he tested positive after arriving from Abu Dhabi, but the rest of his team has tested negative.Since the pandemic began, Australia has recorded nearly 29,000 cases and just more than 900 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Research Center. Just over 800 of those cases occurred in Victoria state during a second wave of the virus. Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, is where the Australian Open is played.Tournament organizers had hoped that charter flights, early arrivals and frequent testing would allow the Open to be played without a hitch.A health worker receives COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Kolkata, India, Jan. 16, 2021. India started inoculating health workers Saturday in what is likely the world's largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign.Also Saturday, India began its COVID-19 vaccine campaign. Frontline workers were slated to receive the first inoculations.The campaign began after Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a nationally televised speech. India, with 10.5 million cases, is second only to the U.S. in case numbers. It has suffered 152,000 deaths, behind the U.S. and Brazil, according to Johns Hopkins."We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive, and it shows the world our capability," Modi said.2 million markCOVID-19 deaths worldwide exceeded 2 million Friday, according to Johns Hopkins, a year after the coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, China."Behind this terrible number are names and faces, the smile that will now only be a memory, the seat forever empty at the dinner table, the room that echoes with the silence of a loved one," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters Friday.FILE – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talks with reporters in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 17, 2020.Guterres also said the death toll "has been made worse by the absence of a global coordinated effort" and added that "science has succeeded, but solidarity has failed."The United States remains at the top of the COVID case list with the most cases and deaths. Johns Hopkins reported more than 23 million COVID-19 cases in the U.S., with a death toll rapidly approaching 400,000.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Friday that a newly detected and highly contagious variant of the coronavirus might become the dominant strain in the U.S. by March.The variant, first detected in Britain, threatens to exacerbate the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., where daily infection and hospitalization records are commonplace.The CDC said the variant apparently does not cause more severe illness but is more contagious than the current dominant strain.Oregon caseLater Friday, the Oregon Health Authority reported that an individual with "no known travel history" had tested positive for the British variant."As we learn more about this case and the individual who tested positive for this strain, OHA continues to promote effective public health measures, including wearing masks, maintaining 6 feet of physical distance, staying home, washing your hands and avoiding gatherings and travel," the agency said in a statement.Also Friday, some U.S. governors accused the Trump administration of deceiving states about the amount of COVID-19 vaccine they could expect to receive. Government officials said states were misguided in their expectations of vaccine amounts.FILE – Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks during a news conference on COVID-19 vaccine distribution, Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington.U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told NBC News on Friday that the U.S. did not have a reserve stockpile of COVID vaccines as many had believed. However, he said he was confident that there would be enough vaccine produced to provide a second dose for people.As of Friday, the U.S. government said it had distributed over 31 million doses of the vaccine. The CDC said about 12.3 million doses had been administered.Earlier on Friday, Pfizer announced there would be a temporary impact on shipments of its vaccine to European countries in late January to early February caused by changes to its manufacturing processes to boost output.The health ministers of six EU countries — Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — said the Pfizer situation was "unacceptable.""Not only does it impact the planned vaccination schedules, it also decreases the credibility of the vaccination process," they said in a letter to the EU Commission about the vaccine delays.In Brazil, the country's air force flew emergency oxygen supplies Friday to the jungle state of Amazonas, which is facing a surge in the virus. Health authorities in the state said oxygen supplies had run out at some hospitals because of the high numbers of patients.
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In the 10 days since the violent Jan. 6 rampage at the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump's supporters, a fuller picture has emerged about the rioters, with researchers identifying members of more than a dozen extremist groups that took part in the riots.The storming of the Capitol drew extremists that included adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, the far-right group the Proud Boys, militiamen, white supremacists, anti-maskers and diehard Trump supporters, all gathered to stop Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory."There have been any number of groups that the Southern Poverty Law Center normally tracks and monitors as a part of our work addressing hate and extremism," said Lecia Brooks, chief of staff for the SPLC.Brooks shared with VOA the names of more than a dozen extremist groups that she said took part in the riots. Other extremist researchers interviewed by VOA confirmed the list. While designated as hate groups by the SPLC, none of the organizations is considered a domestic terrorist entity, and law enforcement officials have not accused any of them of conspiring to mount an attack on the Capitol.Clues into the rioters' affiliation came from their clothes, signs, flags, banners and other markers, experts say. While some groups sought to disguise their ties, others flaunted their ideological affiliation. A group of Proud Boys in orange hats identified themselves on camera as members of a state chapter. The Three Percenters carried a U.S. Revolution-era American flag."They were operating in plain sight," said Brian Levin, executive director of the center for the study of hate and extremism at California State University.While the presence of the militias and the Proud Boys has attracted the most attention, members of lesser-known groups also joined the rioters.One is the Nationalist Socialist Club, or NSC-131, a recently founded hate group known for disrupting Black Lives Matter protests. Another is No White Guilt, a white nationalist group whose founder has blamed "anti-whiteism" for the spread of the coronavirus in the United States.Levin said that a combination of national groups, smaller state chapters and autonomous regional entities "participated in one way or another in the gathering."Just how many extremist group members took part in the rioting is unclear. While QAnon boasts tens of thousands of adherents, several of the groups identified by the SPLC have far fewer members. The precise number taking part in the riots may never be known.While prosecutors have so far identified about 300 suspects accused of involvement in the riots, with one or two exceptions, they've not tied them to any known extremist groups. Two days after the riots, the FBI arrested Nick Ochs, the founder of the Proud Boys Hawaii, who was among the rioters.Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said law enforcement officials are aware of the ties between the rioters and extremist groups and are seeking to determine the extent to which the attack was a coordinated effort among multiple groups."If you look at social media you could see a lot of affiliation with some of the protest activity, some of the rioting activity, and it runs the whole gamut of different groups, from soup to nuts, A to Z," Sherwin told reporters Friday. "But right now … we're not going to label anything because everything's on the table in terms of extremist groups."Arie Perliger, an extremism researcher and professor at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, said that the extremist groups that took part in the Capitol riots also attended the sometimes-violent protest against state-imposed lockdowns earlier this year."I'm talking about the Boogaloo, I'm talking about the Proud Boys, I'm talking Rise Above Nation," Perliger said. "I think what really brings all these groups together is their perception that Trump was a very effective vehicle to try to disrupt, to dismantle, to undermine the capabilities of the federal government."Among those who stormed the Capitol were participants of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of a counterprotester.One was Tim Gionet, a far-right activist who goes by the online pseudonym "Baked Alaska." Gionet livestreamed a video of himself on DLive from inside the capitol.users on Tim Gionet's, aka Baked Alaska, live stream on DLive are calling to give lawmakers the "rope" and to "hang all the congressmen" on DLive while he's streaming inside the Capitol building. pic.twitter.com/fq9t7KAlfA— hannah gais (@hannahgais) January 6, 2021He was arrested Friday by the FBI in Houston, Texas, and charged with participating in the Capitol riot.Another is Nick Fuentes, an organizer of the Charlottesville rally who attended Trump's speech before the riots but did not enter the building, according to Brooks.Here is a look at some of the groups involved in the Capitol riot.Proud BoysThe Proud Boys describe themselves as a "Western male chauvinist" club.The group came to national attention after Trump, asked during a presidential debate in late October to denounce them, declared, "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by."The Proud Boys' leader, Enrique Tarrio, is a staunch Trump supporter and led the Latinos for Trump group during the campaign.Brooks said the Proud Boys were among the organizers of the Capitol rioting. In the days leading up to the riots, Brooks said, the Proud Boys used social media platforms popular with extremists to telegraph that "this was something that was going to happen, that other extremist groups should be involved in, so they kind of they kept this going."In late December, Tarrio wrote on Parler that the Proud Boys "will turn out in record numbers" on Jan. 6 without their traditional black and yellow uniform.Tarrio was arrested days before the riots and barred from returning to Washington. Two days after the riots, the FBI arrested Nick Ochs, the founder of Proud Boys Hawaii.Oath Keepers and Three PercentersThe Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters are part of a growing anti-government "Patriot" movement known for recruiting members of law enforcement and the military.The Oath Keepers was founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, a former paratrooper and Yale Law School graduate. The oath in the name is a reference to the vow military personnel make to defend the Constitution. The group requires its members to pledge, among other things, not to "disarm the American people," according to the Anti-Defamation League.The Three Percenters, established in 2018, view themselves as the ideological descendants of the purported 3% of Americans that took part in the Revolutionary War.Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said dozens of Oath Keepers took part in the riots, many carrying the group's flag. Rhodes was seen in photographs standing outside the Capitol building.The Oath Keepers took to Telegram and other social media and messaging platforms to urge their followers to show up for the protest, according to Beirich. In an interview after the Nov. 3 election with Alex Jones, a far-right radio show host and conspiracy theorist, Rhodes said "we have men stationed outside D.C. as a nuclear option. In case they attempt to remove the president illegally, we'll step in and stop it."QAnonQAnon is not an organized group but rather a growing conspiracy theory movement that believes Trump is secretly battling a "deep state" cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles that control the world.Trump has repeatedly retweeted messages from accounts that promote QAnon, and more than a dozen Republican candidates running for Congress in the November election have embraced some of its tenets.Beirich said a number of people marching on the Capitol were carrying QAnon signs."QAnon were everywhere," she said. "So it sure seems like a large chunk of the people who stormed the Capitol were members of QAnon."The FBI has identified QAnon as a potential domestic terror threat.
In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial decisions of his predecessor and to address the raging coronavirus pandemic, his incoming chief of staff said Saturday.The opening salvo would herald a 10-day blitz of executive actions as Biden seeks to act swiftly to redirect the country in the wake of Donald Trump's presidency without waiting for Congress.On Wednesday, following his inauguration, Biden will end Trump's restriction on immigration to the U.S. from some Muslim-majority countries; move to rejoin the Paris climate accord; and mandate mask-wearing on federal property and during interstate travel. Those are among roughly a dozen actions Biden will take on his first day in the White House, his incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain, said in a memo to senior staff.Other actions include extending the pause on student loan payments and taking steps to prevent evictions and foreclosures for those struggling during the pandemic."These executive actions will deliver relief to the millions of Americans that are struggling in the face of these crises," Klain said in the memo.Key legislation awaits "Full achievement" of Biden's goals will require Congress to act, Klain said, including passage of the $1.9 trillion virus relief bill the president-elect outlined Thursday. Klain said Biden would also propose a comprehensive immigration reform bill to lawmakers on his first day in office. The next day, Thursday, Klain said Biden would sign orders related to the COVID-19 outbreak aimed at reopening schools and businesses and expanding virus testing. The following day, Friday, will see action on providing economic relief to those suffering the economic costs of the pandemic. In the following week, Klain said, Biden will take actions relating to criminal justice reform, climate change and immigration — including a directive to speed the reuniting of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under Trump's policies. More actions will be added, Klain said, once they clear legal review. Incoming presidents traditionally move swiftly to sign an array of executive actions when they take office. Trump did the same, but he found many of his orders challenged and even rejected by courts.
NASA's Boeing Moon Rocket Ground Test Is Cut Short
All four engines of the core stage of NASA's deep space exploration rocket built by Boeing were ignited for the first time Saturday, but only briefly.Mounted in a test facility at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, the Space Launch System's (SLS) 212-foot-tall core stage roared to life at 4:27 p.m. local time (2227 GMT) for just more than a minute — well short of the roughly four minutes engineers needed to stay on track for the rocket's first launch this November.The engine test, the last leg of NASA's nearly yearlong "Green Run" test campaign, was a vital step for the space agency and its top SLS contractor Boeing before a debut unmanned launch later this year under NASA's Artemis program, the Trump administration's push to return U.S. astronauts to the moon by 2024.It was unclear whether Boeing and NASA would have to repeat the test, a prospect that could push the debut launch into 2022.To simulate internal conditions of a real liftoff, the rocket's four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines ignited for roughly 1 minute and 15 seconds, generating 1.6 million pounds of thrust and consuming 700,000 gallons of propellants on NASA's largest test stand, a massive facility towering 35 stories tall.The expendable super heavy-lift SLS is three years behind schedule and nearly $3 billion over budget. Critics have long argued for NASA to retire the rocket's shuttle-era core technologies, which have launch costs of $1 billion or more per mission, in favor of newer commercial alternatives that promise lower costs.By comparison, it costs as little as $90 million to fly the massive but less powerful Falcon Heavy rocket designed and manufactured by Elon Musk's SpaceX, and some $350 million per launch for United Launch Alliance's legacy Delta IV Heavy.While newer, more reusable rockets from both companies — SpaceX's Starship and United Launch Alliance's Vulcan — promise heavier lift capacity than the Falcon Heavy or Delta IV Heavy potentially at lower cost, SLS backers argue it would take two or more launches on those rockets to launch what the SLS could carry in a single mission.Reuters reported in October that President-elect Joe Biden's space advisers aim to delay Trump's 2024 goal, casting fresh doubts on the long-term fate of SLS just as SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin scramble to bring rival new heavy-lift capacity to market.NASA and Boeing engineers have stayed on a 10-month schedule for the Green Run "despite having significant adversity this year," Boeing's SLS manager John Shannon told reporters this week, citing five tropical storms and a hurricane that hit Stennis, as well as a three-month closure after some engineers tested positive for the coronavirus in March.
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Let me introduce you to my little friend. His name is "Anti Icky Poo" and he is amazing.
It all began with a whiff of something unpleasant that progressed into a certain funk and then grew into a full-on, nasty stink in my home office. Having been down this road before, there was no mistaking it. Yep. Dead mouse in the house. In my office be precise. As the odor became more intense, I tracked it down to a corner between the office and a walk-in closet.* My better half graciously ordered a quart of Anti Icky Poo and I would count the days until it could arrive.
Meanwhile, the power was out in most of the outlets in the office and the overhead light/ceiling fan was also a no-go. So, during the day, we opened the blinds and we jury-rigged the internet so we could get online. The guest bath was also dead and half the switch in the master bath. I will add that the master bath was on the same GFI so, as strange as it sounds, it made sense. Two rooms at opposite ends of the house, both with electrical issues.
Using a hand-held spot light and crawling around in the closet never revealed a mouse carcass. The smell was getting worse and we made a trip to Ingles. Sandalwood brought temporary relief. It also brought a trip down memory lane. The last time I burned sandalwood incense was 1970 something and black light posters were all the rage.
My husband tracked the electrical issue down and we needed someone to crawl under the house. Grace Electric and Roger P. came to the rescue. So now it's a Wednesday morning and I've been smelling sandalwood a-la-mouse and waiting for my bottle of Anti Icky Poo.
Roger and my husband used some cool tools (a tracer) to find the break in the circuit. Roger had been under the house and found no dead mouse.. #disappointed ~ It turned out to be one wire that was run in a crazy location and THAT was the one with a problem. OF COURSE it was! With all the tracking in and out of the house, I didn't get to hug the mail carrier when she dropped off my package. Anti Icky Poo was here!
So, we had to cut a hole in the sheetrock and open the wall. I'll give you three guesses what was behind the wall. Yep. Fried mouse. To be honest, I was hoping for fried and dried, but no, I got chewy and gooey. Fly larvae were also present. I ran to get a zip top bag and using it like a glove, I grabbed that nasty varmint and carried it outside. All three men were backing up. One marine, one Army and one husband, backed away. Roger said he was going to "step outside for some respiratory therapy". I took that to mean he had a smoke. To be honest, I think burning tobacco would smell better.
Mouse was gone and I got to use my new friend. IT WORKS! Anti Icky Poo was introduced in 1989 and uses enzymes to break down decaying organic matter. The label says it can eliminate skunk musk too, so, I guess I'm prepared for anything.
*The mouse turned out to be just a few inches from that corner.


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Samsung Opens Pre-Reserve for The Freestyle, a Portable Projector for Never Ending Entertainment
Posted by: Mahender March 17, 2022 in PR
Gurugram, India – March 17, 2022 – The Freestyle, launched at CES 2022 in January this year, is set to come to India soon. Consumers can pre-reserve The Freestyle on Samsung's official online store between March 18-28, 2022 for INR 2,000 and get INR 4,000 off on final purchase.
Globally, The Freestyle is gaining attention for its host of innovative features. All its functions are designed to truly respond to the modern lifestyle, making it one of the most notable gadgets of 2022!
The Freestyle is a portable projector that weighs just 0.8 kg, compact enough to carry in one hand, and has the ability to project at 180 degrees. The Freestyle also offers smart TV features that are available in Samsung smart TVs along with built in certified OTT applications. Smart connectivity can be enjoyed with mirroring and casting features that are compatible with both Android and iOS mobile devices. In addition, The Freestyle enables to set the ambience with the ambient mode and prism effect using lens cap.
Its 360-degree sound allows customers to enjoy a cinema-quality sound experience no matter where they are.
Following link to avail offers and pre- reserve the freestyle is all set to go live on the 18th March: https://www.samsung.com/in/offer/online/pre-reserve-freestyle4/
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Hi! Welcome! It feels so good to have a desginated website for all my photo sessions. It just didn't feel right to continue adding them to our personal family blog. Babies are so yummy! I have known baby Ruby's mommy for over 14 years. When we moved to Georgia and met her family at church she was just entering high school. Saying that make me feel so old, but most of the time I feel like I just graduated high school myself. Age is just a number right! Baby Ruby has made such a lovely addition to her family and it was evident in our session that she is very adored by her big brother and sister. Welcome sweet girl!
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To celebrate International Orangutan Day on 19th August, our team in Indonesia held activities alongside our Pongo Ranger Community. The activities were in line with our chosen theme of "Being in Harmony with the Environment". The event also introduced International Animal Rescue's (IAR) new Learning Centre , which will function as a place for Conservation and Environmental Education. The Head of Environment and Planning Office and the Chief of Police were among a number of staff from the local authorities who joined in our IOD celebrations.
Before the opening ceremony, some of the local law enforcement officials took a tour of IAR's facilities during which they were educated about our 3R+1M activities (Rescue, Rehabilitation, Release and Monitoring.) They were in awe of our sanctuary and our work.
"At this moment, I declare that I will give full support to IAR and its task to conserve and protect orangutans and their habitat. Thus please do not hesitate to report to us if you have difficulties with an unscrupulous individual," said Police Chief of Ketapang, Mr Yuri Nurhidayat.
Other law enforcement agencies, such as the Indonesian armed forces, also committed to supporting IAR's efforts to the best of their ability."My unit and I represent the Indonesian armed forces and in conjunction with the local police department, will ensure all environmental laws that safeguard the country's natural resources are enforced to the fullest extent whenever necessary," said Lieutenant Colonel Mr Jami'an.
He also expressed his wish that the next IOD event should be even more festive and open to the general public. The total number of visitors to come through the sanctuary gates during the Open Day was approximately 700 people from six neighbouring villages, law enforcement agencies/government officials, students, youth communities and a selection of environmental organisations. The highlight of the event was the presence of ex-orangutan owners.
They came to enlighten us as to why: (i) they took an orangutan as a pet and (ii) they decided to hand over their orangutan to IAR."I hope people who have an orangutan as a pet are willing to give this protected animal to an organisation that's more competent to look after them, like IAR, so they can be returned to their natural habitat," said 37 year old Yudas Hardianto who kept 'Untek' as a pet orangutan for four years when he still worked in a palm plantation company.
Untek was surrendered to IAR in February 2017. Besides holding an open day, IAR also held a drawing and colouring competition for junior school children; a conservation for junior high school and college students, as well as organic farming exhibition and art performances from local schoolchildren and our Pongo Ranger community.
"This event shows that orangutan conservation is in line with society's welfare. This is increasingly important because the orangutan landscape in Ketapang District, which is generally a deep peat forest, is one of the largest orangutan metapopulations in the world with more than 4,000 individuals," said Tantyo Bangun, Chairperson of IAR Indonesia.
Throughout the day there were a lot of examples where conservation of wildlife could support the needs of society through natural and economic management like organic farming, ecotourism and socially sustainable forestry. Youth participation is also very important in introducing environmental issues. Who better to deliver environmental concerns to the youth of today than the youth of today! For this reason, the Pongo Ranger Community's involvement was of paramount importance.
They are from multiple villages and ethnic backgrounds who are active in youth empowerment; local environmental education, captive animal welfare and wildlife conservation issues across Ketapang. It is hoped that, with the involvement of the Pongo Ranger Community in this event, more young people will be motivated to become stewards of their environment.


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Drugs & Diseases > Gastroenterology > Fatty Liver Q&A
What are independent predictors of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)?
Author: Emily Tommolino, MD; Chief Editor: BS Anand, MD more...
Another promising tool is the method Kotronen et al developed for predicting NAFLD, which is based on routinely available clinical and laboratory data. [35] Analysis of 470 subjects in whom liver fat content was measured with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy showed the following to be independent predictors of NAFLD [35] :
Presence of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes
Fasting serum insulin
Fasting serum AST
AST-to-ALT ratio
Validation of the score demonstrated an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.86. [35] The optimal cut-off point of –0.640 predicted increased liver fat content with a sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of 71%.
Other noninvasive commercial tests for fibrosis (eg, FIBROSpect, FibroSURE, and FibroScan) have not yet been proved useful for NASH in Western populations.
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Kate Fletcher, a UK researcher of fashion and sustainability gave a public lecture at Emily Carr University this week. She is a proponent, and analyst, of alternative fashion systems. In particular, she advocates for something she calls "craft of use." Fletcher believes that if we consider the properties of clothing –what we find necessary and beloved, as well as the skills that we need to make, re-make or maintain clothing, as well as the impact of our clothing decisions on others and the environment, we might be able to mitigate the fearsome global impact of the fashion industry.
Her story telling about the clothing trade in the UK (echoed around the middle class world, one assumes) is shocking. Over the last 10 years there has been a 26% reduction in the cost of clothes in the UK. This doesn't mean that people have redirected their saved consumer dollars into other things (education, health, community development, arts & culture??) --instead, they have bought a greater quantity of –lesser quality—clothes! It is estimated that about 2 million tons of clothing are purchased annually in the UK; but only about 1 million tons are discarded. Which leads one to wonder, what kind of hoarders have people become? As one of the oldest industries, second only to food, clothing/fashion has one of the longest supply chains. The environmental and social impact of production is felt all along the way: from the production of the resources needed to make the fibers; to the transport of the materials in and out of textile and clothing processing facilities; to the garments' appearance inside a complicated marketing system; to your closet; and eventually into your garbage bin or into yet another supply chain of clothing recycling processes (thrift stores, and eventually recycling facilities which turn the fibers into other textile products – such as shoddy). The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) estimates that in order to avoid a tripling of resource extraction by 2050, the developed world needs to cut consumption by a factor of 5 – about 80%. Fletcher made a convincing argument for the dire environmental implications of fashion and the urgent need to take on dramatic changes in how we cloth ourselves.
Unfortunately Kate Fletcher's concept of "craft of use" is a complicated proposition that seems hard to pin down to concrete or realizable solutions. But, the outcomes of the concept can be very simple, and very beautiful. Her current research project called Local Wisdom is one such manifestation. It is a growing web archive of the experiences that people already possess for making individual pieces of clothing enduring and endearing. In this project, she asks participants to attend a photo shoot, in which they are asked to discuss and demonstrate the way their craft of use makes their objects more useable. The website is becoming populated with photos and stories that quote people who have modified out-of-shape items; or who share with other wearers wardrobe pieces that only get used 'once in a blue moon'; or who have such commitment to a garment's fit and function that they continually have replicas made each time the item becomes worn out.
By coincidence, the Vancouver-based performance artist, Margaret Dragu – none other than the Mending Aktion persona, just this week completed the video How To Be Old – Chapter 3: get thrifty !!! If you need a few practical "craft of use" lessons that anyone can take up, see Margaret Dragu on Vimeo.
"The Office for Soft Architecture finds the chaos of variation beautiful. We believe that structure or fundament itself, in its inert eternity, has already been adequately documented--the same skeleton repeating itself continuously. We are grateful for these memorial documents. But the chaos of surfaces compells us towards new states of happiness." Lisa Robertson, "Rubus Armeniacus: A Common Architectural Motif in the Temperate Mesophytic Region" in Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office of Soft Architecture.
About a month ago I was sent links to these two, contrasting, motion pictures about blanket projects. Like a curator who has stumbled on contrasting but cohesive artifacts/creations, I wanted to put them side by side in a blog post, to show the depth of meaning that is embedded in projects about blankets.
Next, Yvonne Mullock sent me a link to a blog that she has helped to set up for a group of Fogo Island quilters in Newfoundland - quiltyquilts.blogspot.ca On the blog, I came across this video that Tim Wilson created with the backing of the Shorefast Foundation. The Shorefast Foundation is funding Yvonne's work with the quilters. They aim to create a massive stash of quilts to be used (showcased) on beds of the soon to be opened Fogo Island Inn. This short video gives a taste of the culture that produces the blankets, through a skilled, multi-generational group of women. Even the mummers show up... so it doubles as a holiday greeting.
OLD HANDS: The Quilts of Change and Fogo Islands from Shorefast Foundation on Vimeo.
Last week I was asked by the new Canadian Creative Commons Affiliate to be part of a salon on how artists are using the creative commons. This call sent me straight for the boxes of Mail Art that I accumulating during the final decade of the last millenium. From the top of one of the Renegade Library archive boxes, I found an "Add & Pass On" book that today is a perfect example of how marginalized artists in the 1990s were motivated to work collaboratively and in an international context. They were situating their early "scoial media" in the context of Fluxus and Ray Johnson. They were saying over, and over again: I make art in a social and open context.
Flux, September, 1996 (approx.), various contributors. From the Renegade Library archive (L. Klassen 1998- present).
Artists are amongst the most dedicated to the commons, as they do the most in funding the production of creative works that are freely shared with the public. In terms of the amount spent on promotion of the arts, this pales in comparison to the sheer number of talented artist who support their own practice through working in various capacities and making work "in supplement" to their daily labour in other forms of work. The remarkable commitment of artists and artist collectives is tempered by the extremes of a global art market and the "star making machinery" of certain art schools or programs. Within a creative economy, the work of art is highly ambivalent. On the upper edges, the creative output, cultural products of contemporary art stars might approach the returns on investment (ROIs) of more lucrative creative enterprises, such as the gaming industry; in the main, artists who can not be promoted and marketed as top flight entertainers are paid as artisans or more often than not, end up teaching applied skills. In this way, the ideals of the commons are difficult to separate from the necessities of sustainable creative practice.
Congratulations to Margaret Dragu on winning one of this year's prestigeous Governor-General's Awards in Visual Arts and Media. How great it is to see her long career of gestures and interventions, correspondences, conversations, dances, bike rides, fictions -- in a word, AKTIONS-- recognized by the Canadian art world. Margaret has ammassed a vocabulary of art actions that describe to me a way of integrating creative experiments into a daily life and community. Living on the shoreline of an enormous land, she coreographs her body and the bodies of those around her to describe the conditions that we experience as individuals and as a collective.
Thank you for all of your encouragement, and your inspiration Margaret. And thank you for the mending aktions... sewing with me.
Read more about Margaret Dragu's Governor-General's Award here.