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Making Sense of the Acquittal in Kate Steinle's Case: Why Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Equating Immigrants with Criminals Must Stop
By: Cyrus D. Mehta, ABIL Lawyer
The Insightful Immigration Blog
Kate Steinle's death was a senseless tragedy. On July 1, 2015, as she was walking along San Francisco's Pier 14, a gun goes off and cuts her life short. She died in her father's arms.
The accused, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who had been deported five times before, and each time, has illegally come back into the United States. He was charged with murder and manslaughter, but the jury recently acquitted him of the charges. His acquittal has inflamed President Trump who calls the verdict a travesty of justice. He uses the acquittal as another reason to build the wall. If Mr. Garcia Zarate did not cross the border illegally, Kate would still be alive today, Trump and his supporters argue.
But Mr. Garcia Zarate's immigration status was not relevant. In the criminal justice system, the twelve jurors were asked to look at the facts and deliberated hard for six days. The key issue was whether the defendant intentionally killed the victim? Immigration status was not part of the jury's deliberations and should not have been, however much Trump and his supporters may insist. Evidence was presented in the trial that the bullet had ricocheted before killing Ms. Steinle. The jury determined that Mr. Garcia Zarate did not intentionally kill her. Mr. Garcia Zarate was nevertheless convicted for felony possession of a weapon and will face prison time. After he completes his sentence, Mr. Garcia Zarate will presumably be deported to Mexico for the sixth time.
In order to have a fair criminal trial, which the United States ensures for all defendants, immigration status should never be relevant and thus not admissible evidence. The only question in court was whether the defendant intentionally fired the gun. As the facts were presented, Mr. Garcia Zarate, a homeless immigrant living in the country illegally, unwrapped a cloth object under a bench on a San Francisco pier. Inside the cloth was a gun that had been stolen days before. During the presidential campaign, Trump exploited Kate's unfortunate death to conflate immigrants with criminals, foment hate, inspire a mass deportation program and to catapult him into the presidency. Trump continues to rage and exploit Ms. Steinle's unfortunate death to further his anti-immigration policies. He says this in a recent tweet:
The Kate Steinle killer came back and back over the weakly protected Obama border, always committing crimes and being violent, and yet this info was not used in court. His exoneration is a complete travesty of justice. BUILD THE WALL!
Mr. Garcia Zarate may have been an undocumented person who illegally crossed the border many times. But that fact would not have changed the outcome as Mr. Garcia Zarate's border crossings in violation of law were not the proximate cause of Ms. Steinle's death. If Mr. Garcia Zarate had not picked up the gun at that fateful moment, and if another homeless person born in the United States picked up the same gun, Ms. Steinle may have still been killed. The fact that a person may have crossed the border illegally does not make them a criminal with a tendency to commit even more crimes in the United States. The criminal justice system can fairly deal with people accused of crimes, whether they may be immigrants or US citizens.
To be clear, Mr. Garcia Zarate is no model immigrant. He is not a Dreamer or a STEM graduate. Still, he got a fair trial in our criminal justice system even though he was unable to afford fancy lawyers. Most immigrants, however, are hardworking and honest, trying to make better lives for themselves, while also benefiting the United States. They are also valiantly trying to legalize their status in an immigration system that urgently needs an upgrade. Indeed, a Cato Institute report establishes that immigrants, even undocumented immigrants, commit lesser crimes than native Americans. It is irresponsible to use this tragic incident to scapegoat all immigrants or to drum up support for mass deportations of millions of people. It would also not be in keeping with Ms. Steinle's memory if her death results in hate and misery fomented by white nationalist groups.
Ms. Steinle's death was also used as a basis for the Trump administration to oppose sanctuary jurisdictions. Mr. Garcia Zarate had completed a nearly four-year federal prison sentence for illegally reentering the country. He was turned over to San Francisco law enforcement officials because of an outstanding warrant for a marijuana-related charge that was immediately dismissed. Local officials released him, despite a request from federal authorities to keep him in custody because of his immigration status, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Steinle's family. The Trump administration issued an executive order in January 2017 to articulate its broadened enforcement policy against undocumented immigrants, which among other things sought to block federal funds from "sanctuary jurisdictions."
The January executive order stated, "Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate Federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States. These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our Republic." The executive order said, among other things, that the policy of the executive branch is to "[e]nsure that jurisdictions that fail to comply with applicable Federal law do not receive Federal funds, except as mandated by law." The order further said that the Secretary of Homeland Security has the authority to designate a jurisdiction as a sanctuary jurisdiction, and that the Attorney General can take "appropriate enforcement action" against any entity that "has in effect a statute, policy, or practice that prevents or hinders the enforcement of Federal law."
Following lawsuits by the counties of San Francisco and Santa Clara, California, federal district Judge William H. Orrick ruled against a provision of the Trump administration's executive order issued in January 2017 to block federal funds from "sanctuary jurisdictions." The counties challenging the executive order argued that the relevant provision of the Trump executive order violated the separation of powers doctrine in the Constitution because it improperly sought to wield congressional spending powers. The counties said it was so overbroad and coercive that even if the President had spending powers, the executive order would clearly exceed them and violate the Tenth Amendment's prohibition against commandeering local jurisdictions. Further, the counties argued that the provision was so vague that it violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and was void for vagueness. And because it sought to deprive local jurisdictions of congressionally allocated funds without any notice or opportunity to be heard, it violated the procedural due process requirements of the Fifth Amendment.
The federal government responded that the counties could not demonstrate that the executive order's sanctuary provision was invalid under all circumstances. It also claimed, among other things, that the provision was consistent with the Constitution's separation of powers and did not apply to funding in which the county might have a constitutionally protectable interest.
The court noted that the provision in question, by its plain language, attempted to reach all federal grants. The rest of the executive order was broader still, the court noted, addressing all federal funding. And if there was any doubt about the scope of the executive order, the court observed, the President and Attorney General "erased it with their public comments." The court noted that the President has called the order "a weapon" to use against jurisdictions that disagree with his preferred policies of immigration enforcement, and his press secretary reiterated that the President intends to ensure that "counties and other institutions that remain sanctuary cites don't get federal government funding in compliance with the executive order." The Attorney General has warned that jurisdictions that do not comply would suffer "withholding grants, termination of grants, and disbarment or ineligibility for future grants," and the "claw back" of any funds previously awarded, the court noted.
The court said that the Constitution vests spending powers in Congress, not the President, so the executive order "cannot constitutionally place new conditions on federal funds." Further, the court noted, the Tenth Amendment "requires that conditions on federal funds be unambiguous and timely made; that they bear some relation to the funds at issue; and that they not be unduly coercive." Federal funding that bears no meaningful relationship to immigration enforcement "cannot be threatened merely because a jurisdiction chooses an immigration enforcement strategy of which the President disapproves," the court said. Because the executive order violates the separation of powers doctrine and deprives the counties of their Tenth and Fifth Amendment rights, the court granted the counties' motions for summary judgment and permanently enjoined the defunding and enforcement provisions of the executive order.
Despite the injunction, and following the acquittal verdict in the Stienle case, anti-immigrant rhetoric equating immigrants with criminals continues to intensify as the Administration ramps up its deportation force, doubles down on cruel deportation tactics, and attacks policies put in place by local police and sheriffs to keep their communities safe. The hateful rhetoric must stop. Entangling local law enforcement with deportations undermines trust and safety. Local law enforcement has repeatedly come out in favor of so-called "sanctuary" policies, not the least because honoring detainers issued by ICE has led to counties being liable when courts have found that a person's constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment were abridged when someone was detained without a judicial warrant or court order. When immigrants come to view their local police and sheriffs with distrust because they fear deportation, it encourages criminals to prey upon victims and witnesses alike. Victims of domestic and other violence choose to suffer in silence rather than seek assistance; key witnesses of crime refuse to come forward out of fear that they themselves will be treated as a criminal; and a climate of fear grips entire neighborhoods. Regardless of the passions generated in the Steinle case, cities and localities need to make pragmatic, rational choices about how to best make and keep their city/locality safe. The decision to disentangle local policing from immigration enforcement promotes community trust and the federal government should not interfere with this local policy making. Indeed, such a disentanglement will be more effective in preventing crime.
America has been a nation of immigrants since its inception over 240 years ago, while it has been just over a year since ugly anti-immigration sentiment has been unleashed through Trump's rise. Over these two centuries, there has also been a recognition that those who are accused of crimes face a fair trial in the United States regardless of where they come from or their immigration status. It is hoped that these bedrock principles grounded in the nation's history and character will withstand the xenophobic stirrings of the moment.

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Installment plans are no longer confined to big-ticket purchases like cars, smartphones, home furnishings and apartments. If you're falling short on your budget and you really have to travel, you might want to check out one UAE airline's new payment scheme.
UAE-based carrier Etihad Airways announced on Wednesday that it is now allowing passengers to pay their tickets on an instalment basis, so that they can go ahead with their travel plans even when their household finances are tight.
The offer can be availed of by residents in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt who book their flights directly through the airline's website.
Etihad is said to be the first in the region to offer a fully automated online instalment scheme after partnering with online payment service provider PayFort.
The new initiative is intended to help low-to-medium income individuals and families by spreading the cost of their air ticket over a period of, say, three months or even five years.
"We understand travel can be a significant expense, especially for families and those on a tight budget, so this new initiative is a great way for people to book and enjoy their travel without having to worry about paying in one large sum," said Justin Warby, Etihad Airways vice president for digital strategy and innovation.
Eligibility for payment plans will depend on the customer's bank, and the instalments can be paid within three to 60 months, with 17 participating banks.
Warby said instalment plans are also a great way for people to afford premium travel by securing seats or cabins in Business Class, First Class, or even in The Residence.


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Behind the Scenes At the American Gut Project Lab
This is part 3 of a 4 part series by Katherine H. Courage. It's a good description of what goes on at a lab that does state of the art genetic analysis of microbes making up the human microbiome (the community of microbes that are part of us). These analyses (especially of fecal samples) are done for the American Gut Project which anyone can participate in (go to americangut.org for more information about this crowd-sourced project). From NPR News:
Behind The Scenes At The Lab That Fingerprints Microbiomes
The gut microbiome may soon reveal important answers to questions about our health. But those answers aren't yet easy to spot or quick to obtain.The week after I mailed off my family's microbial samples to be analyzed for the American Gut Project, I followed them down the road from my home to the University of Colorado, Boulder. They — and I — came to a massive, futuristic science complex there. Daniel McDonald, a doctoral student studying quantitative biology and computer science, greeted me and brought me up to the workspace, where rows of researchers worked on computers outside of a small lab room.
Inside the lab, where the sealed samples were received, a lone technician sorted through new arrivals, snipping off intentionally fouled swab heads. Each sample kit contains two cotton swabs. One swab head goes directly to the freezers for safe keeping (in case the first sample doesn't provide clear results or for the near future, when sequencing technology is better). The other gets dissolved in a solution so its contents can be carefully analyzed for genetic traces of microbes.
Just down the hall is one of the lab's boxed-in robots, charged with loading samples into individual wells on a tray that will later get fed through the sequencers. The task might seem mundane for such a high-tech tool, but the bot works much faster and more accurately than a human lab helper can.
Still, this is where some of the work can be slow going. The team must wait for hundreds of fecal, oral or skin samples to process together. A single sample could go through the full analysis process in a week, but it would cost thousands of dollars, Rob Knight, a co-founder of the project, estimates, rather than the $99 members of the study pay. For the project to be cost-effective for participants, the research team must wait to collect large groups of samples and analyze them together.
This robot in the Knight lab can handle many samples simultaneously. To avoid contamination, the lab only processes the same kind of samples at the same time together (fecal with fecal, skin with skin and pet with pet). Credit: Katherine Harmon Courage for NPR
Most of the human microbiome is uncharted territory because many of the microbes that live in our guts can't be grown easily in the lab. Oxygen is toxic to them. Using the tools of genetics to probe the human microbiome has already uncovered many new species, each of which has a full genome of its own.
We're still far from getting quick full genomes from each of the inhabitants. Instead, scientists rely on microbes' telltale 16S gene, a marker that helps identify bacteria from one another. Finding the base pairs —the As, Cs, Ts and Gs — for this gene can help scientists sort out which species are present.This is where a nifty machine that performs PCR (polymerase chain reaction) comes in. It makes thousands of copies of the genetic material so that the pattern in the genetic code is easier for the sequencers to find.
These sequencers are located on a lower floor of the building in a room that smells a bit like a photography darkroom. Here, each tray of samples takes about 20 hours to process. On a nearby screen, I see a readout of bright genetic points against a dark background, which looks more like a telescopic image of a night sky than the code to microbial life from someone's stomach.
Deciphering this code is just the first step in understanding what is going on in the jungle of your gut. Like many things in biology, it is not just the organisms present — plants, animals or bacteria — but how these organisms interact that is important.
The dynamics among the characters make a play — not just the cast.For instance, research has shown that many of us are walking around with E. coli in our guts but show no ill effects. In much the same way that weeds or hungry insects might not harm a thriving field or forest but could wreak havoc on an unbalanced ecosystem, we depend on a healthful mix of good microbes to keep the bad ones from taking over.
And to see what our intestinal forests are composed of, we need more than just a few points of genetic data. So after the sequencer spits out the genetic code it has assembled, the data needs to get turned back into intelligible (or at least semi-intelligible) patterns.
To do this, our microbial code gets run through a supercomputer nicknamed Compy, which hums safely in the building's basement beyond two sets of doors and a sticky, dust-collecting floor mat. When I meet her, Compy is busy crunching away on base pairs with her 1,000 processors...The research group is testing using new software to analyze and display these many layers of information.
Published on December 18, 2014 March 29, 2018 Categories human microbiome, microbesTags 16S gene, American Gut project, gut microbiome
Nourishing your biome for (hopefully) better health
In case you missed it, Michael Pollan wrote an article about the human microbiome (the community of microbes that live within us) that was published May 15, 2013. Much of the article was about how the modern western diet may not be good for the human microbiome and how we can eat for better gut health. From the NY Times:
Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
As part of a new citizen-science initiative called the American Gut project, the lab sequenced my microbiome — that is, the genes not of "me," exactly, but of the several hundred microbial species with whom I share this body. These bacteria, which number around 100 trillion, are living (and dying) right now on the surface of my skin, on my tongue and deep in the coils of my intestines, where the largest contingent of them will be found, a pound or two of microbes together forming a vast, largely uncharted interior wilderness that scientists are just beginning to map.
Few of the scientists I interviewed had much doubt that the Western diet was altering our gut microbiome in troubling ways. Some, like Blaser, are concerned about the antimicrobials we're ingesting with our meals; others with the sterility of processed food. Most agreed that the lack of fiber in the Western diet was deleterious to the microbiome, and still others voiced concerns about the additives in processed foods, few of which have ever been studied for their specific effects on the microbiota.
So I gave up asking scientists for recommendations and began asking them instead how, in light of what they've learned about the microbiome, they have changed their own diets and lifestyles. Most of them have made changes. They were slower to take, or give their children, antibiotics. (I should emphasize that in no way is this an argument for the rejection of antibiotics when they are medically called for.) Some spoke of relaxing the sanitary regime in their homes, encouraging their children to play outside in the dirt and with animals — deliberately increasing their exposure to the great patina. Many researchers told me they had eliminated or cut back on processed foods, either because of its lack of fiber or out of concern about additives. In general they seemed to place less faith in probiotics (which few of them used) than in prebiotics — foods likely to encourage the growth of "good bacteria" already present. Several, including Justin Sonnenburg, said they had added fermented foods to their diet: yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut. These foods can contain large numbers of probiotic bacteria, like L. plantarum and bifidobacteria, and while most probiotic bacteria don't appear to take up permanent residence in the gut, there is evidence that they might leave their mark on the community, sometimes by changing the gene expression of the permanent residents — in effect turning on or off metabolic pathways within the cell — and sometimes by stimulating or calming the immune response.
...something a gastroenterologist at the University of Pittsburgh told me. "The big problem with the Western diet," Stephen O'Keefe said, "is that it doesn't feed the gut, only the upper G I. All the food has been processed to be readily absorbed, leaving nothing for the lower G I. But it turns out that one of the keys to health is fermentation in the large intestine." And the key to feeding the fermentation in the large intestine is giving it lots of plants with their various types of fiber, including resistant starch (found in bananas, oats, beans); soluble fiber (in onions and other root vegetables, nuts); and insoluble fiber (in whole grains, especially bran, and avocados).
With our diet of swiftly absorbed sugars and fats, we're eating for one and depriving the trillion of the food they like best: complex carbohydrates and fermentable plant fibers. The byproduct of fermentation is the short-chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier and help prevent inflammation. And there are studies suggesting that simply adding plants to a fast-food diet will mitigate its inflammatory effect.
...I began to see how you might begin to shop and cook with the microbiome in mind, the better to feed the fermentation in our guts. The less a food is processed, the more of it that gets safely through the gastrointestinal tract and into the eager clutches of the microbiota. Al dente pasta, for example, feeds the bugs better than soft pasta does; steel-cut oats better than rolled; raw or lightly cooked vegetables offer the bugs more to chomp on than overcooked, etc. This is at once a very old and a very new way of thinking about food: it suggests that all calories are not created equal and that the structure of a food and how it is prepared may matter as much as its nutrient composition.
Published on December 2, 2013 November 14, 2016 Categories healthy living, human microbiome, microbes, nutrition, probioticsTags American Gut project, bacteria, fermentation, prebiotics


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Tesla Electric Semi Truck : Everything you need to know
A revolution is rolling in fast!
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The Tesla electric semi truck which needs no gas, has an autopilot, runs for 500 miles on a 30 min charge, blastproof windshield, luxury interiors and will go 0-60 in 5 seconds.
Elon Musk unveiled his latest project to the world at the Tesla press event – he rolled up to the stage in a Tesla electric semi-truck. Musk hinted at the semi in summer, and he's been hyping it up on Twitter all week, assuring that the reveal would "blow your mind right out of your skull and into an alternate dimension."
Tesla Semi Truck unveil to be webcast live on Thursday at 8pm! This will blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate dimension. Just need to find my portal gun ...
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2017
The Tesla electric semi-truck is the latest addition to Musk's vision for an electric-everything world, where homes, cars, and now trucks, are all powered by clean energy.
What is this electric truck?
For starters, it's a semi-truck. Instead of a diesel tank & engine, it has a battery. It's automatic with no combustion engine, so it should need less maintenance than a normal truck, theoretically.
"I have no idea how to drive a semi-truck and I can drive this thing,"
– Elon Musk.
Comparing it to your regular semi-trucks, Musk said: "We designed the Tesla semi to be more like a bullet". The Tesla semi-truck has a 500-mile (800 km) range and can go from 0 to 60 MPH in 5 seconds, and 20 seconds while carrying a full load of 80,000 pounds. He did not reveal the truck's price yet but claimed it would cost almost 20 percent less per mile than a standard diesel truck. The production of the truck will start in 2019.
What about the interiors & luxury of the truck?
As is with any kind of Tesla and their focus towards design, the interior of the truck is damn nice. The inner cab has a full standing room with the driver's seat positioned in the center, which is supposed to provide better visibility flanked on both sides by touch screens that aid navigation and blind-spot monitoring.
"But if you're going to make a product, make it beautiful. Even if it doesn't affect sales, I want it to be beautiful," he said when Rolling Stone magazine quoted the seating as being "a driver-comfort feature".
But the truck's interior isn't only about driver's comfort. The truck comes equipped with tracking functionalities useful to a fleet manager for monitoring, scheduling, and routing.
Report: PepsiCo pre-orders 100 units of the Tesla semi-truck
Tesla's self-driving tech. Is it in there?
Of course. The truck obviously isn't totally autonomous, but it includes Tesla's Enhanced Autopilot system, which comes with automatic emergency braking and lane detection & departure warnings along with a couple of automated safety features – Exterior cameras to help reduce blind spots and object detection, sensors that detect instability and adjust wheels individually to prevent jackknifing.
"Jackknifing is impossible. But the worst nightmare is gone with this truck," said Musk.
'What about.. nuclear explosion proofing?'
Lord of all things Elon Musk boasted about the truck's reliability and durability by guaranteeing that the Tesla electric semi-truck will not break down for a million miles. Better yet, it will anticipate its maintenance cycle and inform you beforehand. On top of that, he added: "the armored glass will even withstand the force from a thermonuclear explosion" while hailing the durability of the windshield.
Testing a tow hitch against standard truck glass vs. Tesla armor glass pic.twitter.com/UoDkBs6OUD
— Tesla (@Tesla) November 17, 2017
Will we see the Supercharger network expand?
Musk boasts that the semi will have a range of 500 miles after 30 mins of charging meaning that by the time the driver is done with his break, the truck will be ready to go. No waiting for the truck to charge.
But the biggest consumer question hanging over this launch announcement is how an entire fleet of thousands of new electric trucks would charge. This is considering Tesla currently has over 2,000 Supercharger stations across the country which currently has to support just the Model S, not a huge fleet of semi-trucks nationwide.
Thankfully, Tesla is currently working to expand its Supercharger network, so hopefully, there will be enough stations to accommodate the trucks by the time they roll out on the streets.
A Tesla Model 3 was driven in peak winter from LA to New York in 50 hours!
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Welcome to Mawdesley & Neighbouring Villages U3A.
Whether you were looking for something specific or just exploring the internet, now that you have found this page we hope you will linger and explore the rest of the site. Take your time, the U3A is about relaxing, enjoying and frequently learning, in the company of friendly, like minded people of a certain age. We are all retired or semi-retired and like to be described as mature, experienced adults with a huge vitality and zest for life. One new member described us as a 'youth club for grown ups' and that, we hope you agree, creates an exciting image.
When you explore a little further you will find a huge variety of groups, activities, trips and events to suit all tastes. If you do not find what you are interested in then, join us and start a new group; you will very soon meet other people with a similar passion. The U3A is essentially a self-help organisation, flourishing through the willingness of individuals to lead groups and provide opportunities.
Joining is very easy. Every Wednesday morning, between 10.15 a.m. and 11.45 a.m., we hold a Community Morning at the Mawdesley Village Hall, Mawdesley, Lancashire L40 2QT where you can find details of all the groups and meet many of the leaders. Tea or coffee is available for a small fee and, in a pleasant, social atmosphere, you will have the opportunity to talk to some of the 800+ members. As there is a designated 'Welcome Table' for new or recently joined members there is no need to feel uncomfortable about being alone. You can sit and have a drink and a chat with the Welcome Team and/or other new members. This table can also be used by members who are on their own and feel they need the company of a friendly face.
When you arrive for the first time you will be introduced to someone on the Welcome Desk who will explain how we are organised and answer any questions you may have. We will not ask for your £10 membership fee until you are sure you wish to join us.
If you want to try a taster session at one of the groups, we can arrange that. Once you become a member you can join as many groups as you wish. Most groups make a small charge to cover the room hire and refreshments.
Details of how to find us are on the attached link.
If you would like to know more about the U3A then you could visit the National U3A web site using the link or contact us by e-mail.


If you ask that one single, crucial element which changed everything about the digital ecosystem in India last year, it was Jio.
The smashing entry of Jio and the way it disrupted mobile Internet is a case study to understand how aggressive businesses can transform an entire country. Jio's dirt cheap plans enabled more and more Indians to use and embrace the Internet, and the facts prove that.
As per Google's report in April, 90% of new Internet users are non-English speaking Indians, and the primary reason for this major transformation was the way Internet spread out across the length and breadth of India, courtesy Jio.
Free Internet and almost free 4G handsets enabled mass inclusion of previously disconnected Indians into the online world, and this has changed everything.
Overall, Internet penetration massively increased, as mobile broadband plans became cheaper and this is the reason that 730 million Indians would be online by 2020, even as e-commerce market will zoom to $34 billion.
Digital Marketing, whose base is the Internet and the way business happens on the Internet received a tremendous boost due to this explosion of new users, and this is the reason our Digital Marketing predictions for 2018 focuses on three important aspects: mobile, video and content.
However, along with these three, AI, automation and hold your breath, Blockchain became an important ingredient of Digital Marketing, even as Big Data become more mature, and Predictive Analytics became the hottest buzzword.
Without much ado, here are our 7 digital marketing predictions, which every entrepreneur – whether he/she is into online business or offline, should be aware of.
If you are selling a product, service or an idea in India or anywhere in the world, then ignoring mobile would be the biggest blunder of 2018.
2017 is a landmark year for mobile users, as India officially beat the US in terms of mobile handsets shipped, thereby becoming World's 2nd largest user base of mobiles, only after China. In the third quarter of 2017, 40 million handsets were bought in India, a phenomenal record which showcases the importance and relevance of mobiles today.
While India beat the US in Android usage last year, we again beat America in Facebook users count, as India became Facebook's largest user base, anywhere in the world.
As a direct result, consumption of content and media on mobile increased, mobile advertisements witnessed massive growth, and mobile slowly, but gradually became the cornerstone of digital marketing, for any business.
In fact, by 2021, mobile advertising will account for 62% of overall digital ad spend, as it grew by 87% last year.
In short, you simply cannot ignore mobile now. Especially in 2018.
As a result of massive Internet penetration across all segments of the society, consumption of videos has witnessed an all-time high, across all niches. New Internet users are ditching their televisions faster than we imagine.
Video constitute 60% of overall mobile internet consumption in India, as approximate 4GB is the amount of data which an average mobile user is consuming in India, every month.
Almost 20,000 million hours of videos were watched on Facebook and Youtube last year, as 11 hours per month of video viewing has become the average.
In terms of video marketing, live video is the right now one of the most effective channels for brands and advertisers, as everyone is still trying to decode recipe for using videos as an effective marketing tool.
In short, focus rigorously on videos in 2018, as the moving frames on our tiny smartphone screens seep deeper into our psyche.
Out of 3.7 billion Internet users globally, 2.7 billion are using Social Media. As if, the virtual world of social media has become a real world in itself, wherein users are spending more and more time. Compared to 4 hours on TV, Indians are now spending 28 hours on mobile, and more specifically social media apps.
If we talk about India, then we are the 5th largest user base of app usage, as close to 150 minutes are spent on apps per day, by a typical Indian user. And, social media is the category where maximum time is spent.
2018 will witness a new form of social media marketing, called the Marketing of the Moment, wherein brands and advertisers will closely follow the user behaviour on a social media app/portal and label every step of his 'lifecycle' on the platform.
Combining big data into the whole matrix, social media will become even more robust, and even more attractive platform for marketing. Note here, we are not talking about advertisements per se, but a whole integrated approach to social media marketing, which includes personalization, segmentation and optimization of 'attention'.
In terms of SEO, the voice is the new buzzword, which will see a phenomenal growth rate in 2018. 40% of all adults who are online, will do at least one voice search per day; and as per Google's own data, voice search has increased by 35 times since 2008, as 20% of all searches done on Google are now voice based.
With Google becoming even smarter, RankBrain has already become the third most important factor in SEO, as user experience becomes the pillar of search results on Google.
2018 is expected to witness a rejuvenated, and reformed SEO based on the users' experience on a web properly, and fuelled by high-quality content and powered by quality backlinks.
In short, focus on SEO because SEO is here to impact your bottom line.
The talks of email being dead has been going on for several years now, with no success. There will be around 2.9 billion email users next year, and out of them, 1 billion would be Gmail users.
Segmented, targeted emails still have an open rate of 14%, which can excite any marketer for any niche.
The usage of automation for emails will witness an all time increase in 2018, as more and more businesses will understand the fact that emails are still considered as a serious medium of communication, and despite social media apps and gaming apps consuming most of our times, emails will have a special place in the overall communication chain.
Spams are the biggest threat to email marketing, and companies like Google and Apple (which has 34% share in email clients, globally) will formulate special strategies to handle this menace.
Real-time, cross-channel personalization via email, social media and websites has already become the talk of the town.
No doubt paid ads witnessed a new low in 2017, as some of the largest digital companies decided to act against it. Apple announced their new feature to stop retargeting and remarketing advertisements even as Google Chrome decided to include a pre-installed ad-blocker on their browser.
But, paid advertisements have been the backbone of Internet and content creators, and 2018 will witness a new form, a new way to show advertisements, without interrupting the user experience. In a way, advertisers will devise a way to circumvent ad-blocking technology, as some of the largest ad-block providers are themselves becoming a business to extract money from genuine advertisers.
Facebook Advertisement business in India grew by 43%, while Google's ad business is booming with 87% of their revenuescoming from Google Adwords.
The course of paid advertisement market will see a revolution in terms of delivery of ads, and understanding of the users' behaviour for showing relevant, useful ads.
In short, paid advertisements will continue to grow, albeit in a new avatar, in a new form.
2017 be remembered for the stunning rise in the value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and the technology behind that: blockchain would become the force to reckon with in digital marketing as well.
As digital marketing becomes more cross-platform and more direct (thanks to Social Media), advertisers and marketers will find blockchain as an able technological platform to make the process even better.
If we talk about services industry in digital marketing, then blockchain can disrupt the equations by providing more transparency between the client and the agency; inducing more trust and providing more options for optimally utilizing the data.
IBM and Walmart have already partnered to use blockchain to optimize the supply-chain and to understand the end-users even better.
2018 shall be the dawn of blockchain usage in digital marketing, and the start has already been done.
Some reports indicated that influencer marketing is almost dead, as brands are not able to find the ROI for such initiatives. This is far, far from the truth.
In fact, 2018 will witness a new form of 'micro-influencers', who have hyperactive on social media platforms, and command a niche, dedicated tribe of followers. Due to the rise and growth of social media, mobile internet users and videos, more and more influencers would be born, and force the brands to take notice of them.
However, instead of being mere social media broadcasters, influencers will become the catalyst for engagement, branding and sales for the brands.
We predict that influencer marketing will actually become mainstream in 2018.
Artificial Intelligence, combined with Big Data will actually form the base, the foundation of digital marketing campaigns in 2018. Automation will take over the mundane activities, for which no creative inputs are required, and this will allow the humans to think more rationally and to devise better content.
Personalization and deep targeting will become stronger due to automated tools, as machine learning will seep deeperinto the overall campaign management activities and help us to understand the customer even better.
Overall, digital marketing and Internet usage is all set to create new, exciting opportunities in 2018, as brands, businesses and advertisers discover the true potential of this medium for bringing in more sales, more traffic and more customers.
Did we miss any predictions? Do let us know by commenting right here!


Kite necklet was made for the Fringe Festival exhibition 'The Land of Bluemond'. Based on a story written by Lauren Byleveld. Photographed on a light table. Made from clear quartz, stained glass, sterling silver on silk thread.


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EJS welcomes Kelly McCreary, Michael Harris to our Board of Directors
Posted byKeith Kamisugi April 21, 2015 Posted inAnnouncements
Mona Tawatao, Chair of the Equal Justice Society Board of Directors, Eva Paterson, and everyone here at EJS welcome Kelly McCreary and Michael Harris as new board members. Learn more about them below.
"Transforming race consciousness through the arts is a key part our mission at EJS," said Eva Paterson, President of the Equal Justice Society. "We were searching for a professional artist to join our board and discovered Kelly through board Vice Chair Priscilla Ocen. Kelly's background in connecting the arts to the community will be a tremendous asset to us."
"Michael and I used to work together at the Lawyers' Committee and we most recently worked together on a historic implicit bias-related settlement with the Antioch (Calif.) school district," said Eva. "With our expanding legal work on discrimination against Black and Brown students, Michael's subject matter expertise will help guide us to even more success taking down the school-to-prison pipeline."
Kelly McCreary portrays Dr. Maggie Pierce in ABC's hit series, "Grey's Anatomy." A native of Milwaukee, Wis., she began her professional acting career upon graduation from Barnard College. She has appeared on stages throughout the country and New York City, as well as in commercials, television and film.
Kelly has had the opportunity to live out her artistic mission of giving voice to unheard stories of unseen peoples throughout her career, including such productions as the Kennedy Center National Tour of "Color Me Dark," Dominique Morriseau's "Follow Me to Nellie's," Broadway's "Passing Strange," and "Caroline, or Change" at Centerstage in Baltimore.
Kelly is an associate member of IAMA Theater in Los Angeles; a founding member of Jaradoa Theater, a company committed to community outreach in New York City; and an associate artist with The Civilians, a theater company that creates new work based on creative investigation into vital questions of the present.
Michael Harris is a Senior Attorney in Juvenile Justice at the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL). At NCYL, Michael has worked on reducing racial disparities in statewide juvenile corrections systems, and he has worked on cases that challenge the "school-to-prison pipeline" in Texas and California.
Additionally Michael works on litigation to address implicit bias, and he has delivered presentations to local and national gatherings on the role implicit bias plays in decision-making within the juvenile justice system.
Before joining NCYL, Michael served as Deputy Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute in San Francisco, working to reform juvenile justice systems. Michael has worked in California, and Washington to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system using a collaborative process to affect systemic reform. Prior to Michael's work at the Burns Institute, he was a Staff Attorney and Assistant Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco where he worked on a broad range of civil rights cases.
Antioch School Officials Agree to Groundbreaking Collaboration to Address NAACP East County Branch Complaint of Civil Rights Violations in Schools
AB 86 would mandate independent investigation of police shootings in California


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Biografia

Lemonnier fu il primo allievo di Jean-Baptiste Descamps alla Scuola regionale di Belle Arti di Rouen, sua città natale, e quindi di Vien, dove ebbe per compagni e amici Vincent e David.

Di bell'aspetto, dotato di un ingegno naturale e portatore di raccomandazioni eccellenti, venne subito ammesso nei migliori salotti della capitale, soprattutto in quello di Marie-Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, che lo prese in simpatia.

Nel 1772, espose Les Enfants de Niobe tués par Apollon et Diane, opera con cui partecipò al prix de Rome. Soggiornò quindi a Roma dal 1774 al 1784. Nella patria delle arti, Lemonnier trovò subito accoglienza presso la casa del poeta e diplomatico cardinale de Bernis e si dedicò con entusiasmo allo studio dei capolavori dei grandi maestri, da cui attinse ispirazione nel disegno e nella composizione, che furono poi distintivi del suo talento.
Di ritorno in Francia, Lemonnier tornò nella sua città natale, dove dipinse, per la cappella del Seminario di Saint-Vivien, uno dei suoi migliori quadri, La peste di Milano. Nel 1786, durante il passaggio di Luigi XVI a Rouen, di ritorno da Cherbourg, Lemonnier fu incaricato di dipingere un quadro il cui soggetto era la presentazione al monarca dei membri della Camera di Commercio di quella città. Poco dopo, realizzò per la stessa istituzione, un grande dipinto allegorico che rappresenta il genio del commercio e la scoperta dell'America.

Nel 1789, Lemonnier venne invitato a far parte della Reale Accademia di Pittura e Scultura realizzando la Mort d'Antoine come opera per l'insediamento. Al momento della Rivoluzione, Lemonnier venne chiamato a far parte della commissione per i monumenti e, nel 1794, ottenne il titolo di pittore del gabinetto della Scuola di medicina. Amico di Roland, Lemonnier ricevette, in data 4 dicembre 1792, un alloggio al Louvre dal ministro che lo ammise alla Commissione delle arti, dove rese grandi servizi. A Rouen, fu incaricato, insieme al suo connazionale Charles Le Carpentier, di impegnarsi nella ricerca e fare una scelta dei dipinti provenienti dalle istituzioni religiose soppresse, allo scopo di evitare la distruzione. Dopo aver operato con grande zelo in questa missione critica di prendersi cura delle opere d'arte, il Museo di Belle Arti di Rouen poté entrare in possesso di molti dei migliori quadri che egli era riuscito a raccogliere.

Nel 1810, Lemonnier divenne direttore della manifattura dei Gobelins, posto che conservò fino al 1816. Fu anche uno dei maggiori fautori della fondazione del Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen.

Il dipinto più noto di Lemonnier è senza dubbio Une Soirée chez madame Geoffrin, realizzato nel 1812 per l'imperatrice Joséphine. Questo dipinto esposto al Museo dei Castelli di Malmaison e Bois-Preau è una ricostruzione immaginaria del salotto di Marie-Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin raffiguranti, tra gli altri, il ministro Choiseul, Fontenelle, Montesquieu Diderot e Marmontel che guardano la padrona di casa, sotto un busto Voltaire e l'attore Lekain mentre legge un pezzo da L'Orphelin de la Chine.

I quadri principali di questo artista il cui talento si distingue per il gusto della composizione, la nobiltà dell'espressione data ai personaggi e da un'armonia di colori e di prospettiva, sono, oltre a quelli già menzionati: La Mission des apôtres; Jésus-Christ appelant à lui les petits enfants; Jésus-Christ au milieu des docteurs de la loi, realizzato per le orsoline di Rouen; Portrait de l'abbé Joly, docteur en Sorbonne; Présentation de la Sainte Vierge au Temple; la Fortune, su ispirazione da Guido Reni.

Dello stesso artista sono da ricordare: una Adoration des Mages, la Résurrection de Tabithe, Adieux d'Ulysse et de Pénélope; Cléombrote, roi de Sparte; una Sainte Cécile d'après le Dominiquin; les Ambassadeurs romains envoyés à l'aréopage d'Athènes pour demander les lois de Solon, François I recevant la Sainte Famille de Raphaël; Louis XIV inaugurant la statue de Milon de Crotone, acquistato dal principe Eugène de Beauharnais per la galleria di Monaco di Baviera; Portrait de M. d'Herbouville.

Lemonnier ebbe un figlio, André-Hippolyte Lemonnier, uomo di lettere, che scrisse, tra le altre cose, sul padre, Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de A.-C.-G. Lemonnier. Un ritratto di Lemonnier si trova nella collezione della Biblioteca di Rouen.

Opere

Dipinti
 Bélisaire, museo des Augustins di Tolosa;
 François I recevant dans la salle des Suisses à Fontainebleau la grande sainte famille de Raphaël, musée des beaux-arts de Rouen;
 Jésus appelant à lui les petits enfants, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Jésus au milieu des docteurs, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 La Mission des apôtres, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 La Peste de Milan, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Schizzo della testa dell'angelo sterminatore da La Peste de Milan, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Paysanne de Frascati, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen ;
 Portrait de l'abbé Joly, docteur en Sorbonne, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Portrait de Monsieur d'Herbouville, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Présentation de la Vierge au Temple, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Un Grec albanais, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Vue de Saint-Cloud en automne, opera scomparsa;
 Ycarrius, Ulysse et Pénélope, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 La Fortune, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Portrait de François I, localizzazione sconosciuta;
 Cléombrote ; dit aussi l'amour conjugal, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 La Mort d'Antoine, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Louis XIV assistant, dans le parc de Versailles, à l'inauguration de la statue de Milon de Crotone par Puget, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen;
 Lecture de la tragédie de l'Orphelin de la Chine de Voltaire dans le salon de Madame Geoffrin, musée de Rueil-Malmaison;
 Première Lecture chez Madame Geoffrin de l'Orphelin de la Chine, en 1755, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

Disegni

 Aigle dans une couronne feuillée, draperie, étude de décoration, museo del Louvre;
 Allégorie de la Prudence, museo del Louvre;
 Allégorie, museo del Louvre;
 Ange de l'Annonciation, et angelots, museo del Louvre;
 Ange portant une couronne, et têtes, museo del Louvre;
 Ange, tête et autre figure, museo del Louvre;
 Colonne historiée, devant un monument antique, museo del Louvre;
 Double portrait de Le Coulteulx de Canteleu et Dupont, échevins de la ville de Rouen, museo di Blérancourt;
 Deux Femmes drapées, en mouvement, et motifs décoratifs, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Figures allégoriques, sur des nuages, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Figures, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Hommes drapés à l'antique, Étude d'après un bas-relief, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Hommes nus, d'après un bas-relief antique, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Paysages antiques, et scène antique, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Putti, et une main tenant une balance, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Putti, soutenant quelque chose, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Romains, Étude d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Romains, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Études d'un bœuf conduit en sacrifice, d'après un bas-relief antique, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Études d'une petite statue dans une niche, et visage, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Études de femmes drapées, et étude de façade, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Études de statue d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Études de statues antiques, museo del Louvre;
 Deux Études de statues, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Diverses Études d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Diverses Études d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Domestique apportant un plateau, museo del Louvre;
 Emblèmes romains, et silhouettes, museo del Louvre;
 Enfant nu, de dos, angelot, et coque d'un navire pour une décoration, museo del Louvre;
 Enfant nu, proues de galères, et tête de cheval, museo del Louvre;
 Étendards et cuirasse antiques, museo del Louvre;
 Étude architecturale, et silhouette drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Étude d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Étude d'après un bas-relief romain, museo del Louvre;
 Étude d'après une statue, nu antique, homme barbu, sur des nuages, museo del Louvre;
 Étude d'homme barbu, sur des nuages, et motif décoratif, museo del Louvre;
 Étude d'un fronton en arc de cercle, et tête d'homme portant un turban, museo del Louvre;
 Étude d'un monument antique, museo del Louvre;
 Étude d'une statue antique, museo del Louvre;
 Étude d'une statue d'homme dans une niche, en contre-plongée, museo del Louvre;
 Étude d'une statue d'homme drapé, dans une niche, museo del Louvre;
 Étude de statue, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Études, museo del Louvre;
 Études : têtes, figure, écoinçon, loge, faisceau et hache de licteur, sceaux, museo del Louvre;
 Études d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Études de chevaux, museo del Louvre;
 Études de monuments antiques, museo del Louvre;
 Études de statues antiques, museo del Louvre;
 Études de têtes de lions, de coques de vaisseaux, d'une caryatide, museo del Louvre;
 Femme agenouillée, de dos, tournée vers la droite, museo del Louvre;
 Femme armée, assise, museo del Louvre;
 Femme assise sur des nuages, museo del Louvre;
 Femme assise, de face, museo del Louvre;
 Femme assise, drapée, tenant une tablette, museo del Louvre;
 Femme assise, drapée, tournée vers la gauche, museo del Louvre;
 Femme assise, sur des nuages, et tête de femme drapée, museo del Louvre ;
 Femme assise, sur des nuées, tenant une tablette, museo del Louvre;
 Femme assise, tenant une colombe, museo del Louvre;
 Femme auréolée, s'avançant vers la droite, et visage, de profil, museo del Louvre;
 Femme avec trois enfants (La Charité ?), museo del Louvre;
 Femme avec une licorne, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée à l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée, et angelots, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée, et trois études d'une statue égyptienne, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée, tête de cheval, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée, Étude d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Femme debout, drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Femme drapée sur des nuées, tenant un serpent, museo del Louvre;
 Femme drapée, assise dans un écoinçon, museo del Louvre;
 Femme drapée, assise, entourée de putti, museo del Louvre;
 Femme drapée, assise, museo del Louvre;
 Femme drapée, assise, museo del Louvre;
 Femme drapée, le pied sur un lion, museo del Louvre;
 Femme drapée, mains jointes, museo del Louvre;
 Femme drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Femme en buste avec deux enfants, et femme drapée, en contre-plongée, museo del Louvre;
 Femme nue, de dos, assise sur des nuées, et moine volant, museo del Louvre;
 Femme tournée, vers la gauche, et figure ailée, museo del Louvre;
 Figure ailée tenant des trophées, museo del Louvre;
 Figure ailée, volant, museo del Louvre;
 Figure ailée, museo del Louvre;
 Figure casquée, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Figure conduisant un taureau, Étude d'après un bas-relief antique, museo del Louvre;
 Figure debout, drapée, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Figure drapée à l'antique, debout, putto et objet, museo del Louvre;
 Figure drapée, et putto sur des nuées, museo del Louvre;
 Figure drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Figure laurée, museo del Louvre;
 Figure tenant une croix, museo del Louvre;
 Figure volante, tête de lion, proue de galère, museo del Louvre;
 Figure volante, museo del Louvre;
 Figures drapées, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Figures drapées, de face, ou de profil, museo del Louvre;
 Figures nues sur des nuées, museo del Louvre;
 Figures, museo del Louvre;
 Figures, museo del Louvre;
 Guerrier debout, Étude d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Guerrière assise, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Homme assis sur un trône, et motifs décoratifs, museo del Louvre;
 Homme assis, drapé, d'après l'antique, et jambes d'hommes en marche, museo del Louvre;
 Homme assis, enchaîné, et torse, museo del Louvre;
 Homme barbu, sur des nuées, et plafond à caissons, museo del Louvre;
 Homme debout, drapé, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Homme drapé, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Homme drapé, tourné vers la gauche, et silhouette de cheval, museo del Louvre;
 Homme nu, assis sur des nuages, museo del Louvre;
 Homme nu, assise, de face, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Homme nu, barbu, sur des nuages, museo del Louvre;
 Homme nu, de face, figure drapée et Étude d'ornements architecturaux, museo del Louvre;
 Homme tenant une biche attachée, pour un sacrifice, et tête, museo del Louvre;
 Jupiter, museo del Louvre;
 Louis XVI recevant les hommages des échevins de Rouen, museo di Blérancourt;
 La Char d'Apollon, Étude d'après une composition plafonnante, museo del Louvre;
 Le Christ sur des nuées, museo del Louvre;
 Licteur, d'après un bas-relief antique, museo del Louvre;
 Minerve, museo del Louvre;
 Motifs décoratifs, chérubins, figure ailée, museo del Louvre;
 Nombreuses études d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Le Coulteulx de Canteleu, échevin de la ville de Rouen, museo di Blérancourt;
 Premiere esquisse pour le tableau de la chambre de commerce de Rouen, museo di Blérancourt;
 Palais italien, museo del Louvre;
 Palmier, museo del Louvre;
 Personnage drapé, museo del Louvre;
 Personnage à demi nu, assis, et statue de lion entourant un médaillon, museo del Louvre;
 Personnages drapés, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Personnages près de deux arbres, Étude d'après un bas-relief antique, museo del Louvre;
 Petit putto se retournant, museo del Louvre;
 Prisonniers, et soldat portant un fardeau, museo del Louvre;
 Putti, chérubins, figure drapée, villas antiques, museo del Louvre;
 Putti, seau de pierre, proue d'une galère, museo del Louvre;
 Putti, étude architecturale et vase, museo del Louvre;
 Putti, museo del Louvre;
 Putto ailé, figure volant, et buste d'un personnage, museo del Louvre;
 Putto parmi des fleurs et des fruits, museo del Louvre;
 Putto, et femme drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Putto, museo del Louvre;
 Roi en armure, s'avançant, de face, museo del Louvre;
 Seconde esquisse pour le tableau de la chambre de commerce de Rouen, museo di Blérancourt;
 Saint Joseph portant l'Enfant, museo del Louvre;
 Saint en adoration, museo del Louvre;
 Saint, museo del Louvre;
 Sainte Barbe, museo del Louvre;
 Sainte sur des nuages, vase, et silhouette, museo del Louvre;
 Sainte sur des nuages, museo del Louvre;
 Sainte sur des nuées, museo del Louvre;
 Silhouette drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Soldat romain, tourné vers la gauche, Étude d'après un bas-relief antique, museo del Louvre;
 Soldats romains, d'après l'antique, et femme tournée vers la gauche, museo del Louvre;
 Soldats romains, Étude d'après un bas-relief antique, museo del Louvre;
 Statue d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Statue d'homme debout, drapé, museo del Louvre;
 Statue d'homme drapé, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Statue d'homme drapé, dans une niche, vu en contre-plongée, museo del Louvre;
 Statue d'homme drapé, dans une niche, museo del Louvre;
 Statue d'homme drapée, de dos, museo del Louvre;
 Statue d'homme nu, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Statue d'une femme, levant le bras, d'après l'antique, et visages, museo del Louvre;
 Statue d'une martyre, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de Jupiter assis, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de Jupiter, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de Scipion l'Africain, dans une niche, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de Valerius Publicola, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme debout, tenant un serpent, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme drapée à l'antique, reprise d'une main, et tête, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme drapée, d'après l'antique, et autres études, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme drapée, d'après l'antique, et visage, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme drapée, d'après l'antique, et reprise du visage, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme drapée, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme drapée, portant une épée, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de femme, debout, drapée, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de guerrier antique, et petit visage, museo del Louvre;
 Statue, d'après l'antique, et homme drapé s'avançant vers la droite, museo del Louvre;
 Statue, d'après l'antique, museo del Louvre;
 Statue de guerrier, et tête de bœuf, museo del Louvre;
 Statues animales sur des piédestaux, museo del Louvre;
 Tour en construction dans un paysage, museo del Louvre;
 Trois Égyptiens, museo del Louvre;
 Trophées, museo del Louvre;
 Tête, museo del Louvre;
 Têtes, museo del Louvre;

Pitture
 Vaisseau romain, Étude d'après un bas-relief antique, museo del Louvre;
 Visage, museo del Louvre;
 Vue d'un bâtiment, museo del Louvre;
 Haut de tentes militaires, statue d'homme antique, de profil, et décoration, museo del Louvre.

Bibliografia
 Nicétas Périaux, Histoire sommaire et chronologique de la ville de Rouen, de ses monuments, de ses institutions, de ses personnages célèbres, etc. jusqu'à la fin du XVIII siecle, Rouen, Lanctin & Métérie, 1874
 Théodore-Éloi Lebreton, Biographie rouennaise, Rouen, Le Brument, 1865, p. 239-41
 Christine Le Bozec, Lemonnier, un peintre en Révolution, Ed. Publications de l'université de Rouen, 2000, ISBN 2-87775-292-5

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 A. C. G. Lemonnier in base Joconde

Vincitori del Prix de Rome

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A couple excluded from the hotels and guest-houses of their home town, and later forced to flee as refugees from state persecution. A child who is excluded from his community and eventually from life itself, dying in solidarity with all who suffered the shame of crucifixion. The best way to celebrate Christmas, therefore, is to reflect on- and repent of – the way we exclude other people and other voices from intruding on our comfortable existence.
I think today, Christmas Eve, especially of my Palestinian Christian brethren. They are caught in a vulnerable position between, on the one hand, an aggressive Israeli settler movement and an equally aggressive Islamist militancy, on the other. Rarely, if ever, are their voices heard in mainstream secular news media.
The Great Annual Examen Reflecting BACK on the past 12 months and anticipating the NEXT 12 months by Stephen W. Smith 400 years ago, Ignatius of Loyola crafted a genius way of prayer. His method helped a person reflect back upon their day and their life in terms of how one experienced God. He developed a prayer called, The Daily Examen. It is both a challenging and comforting way to trace the movement of God in one's life. After having spent a solid year in study, reflection and prayer using Ignatius' method of prayer, I've come to the conclusion that Ignatius was a genius. I only wish now that I had known about this decades earlier. Never before, had anyone in the history of the church, shared such a bold new way of spending time with God, ourselves and our own hearts. This Great Annual Examen is based on Ignatius' way of reflection and prayer.
I assured her that they did and that such has always been part of being human and having bodies. . .
Did you realize there are three stories of Jesus' birth in the New Testament? There's Matthew's and there's Luke's and there's . . . John's. No not the John of the Fourth Gospel but John the Seer of book of Revelation fame!
I think that's right. But I think it is of more general applicability. These five statements are essentially the message of Ecclesiastes. What life "under the sun," apart from God, is and feels like. We do our best to fight against these realities but mostly end up screwing ourselves and others up in the process. And then we die.
Living with God doesn't mean life won't feel like this. That's life in a fallen world. God and his covenantal relationship to us is all that keeps our heads on straight and our heart centered where they need to be. And strengthens us to find our significance and security in relation to God rather than the myriads of other ways we try to find it.
A boy sits on the porch with his grandpa and dog. The dog sees a white rabbit race across the yard and takes after it howling like crazy off through the woods. Other dogs in the neighborhood hear the first dog and chase after it as it chases the rabbit. After a time, the other dogs drop the chase one and by one. Only the first dog is left. "Why is our day the only one left still chasing the rabbit, Grandpa?" "Boy," Grandpa replied,"once a dog has seen a white rabbit he never stops chasing. Those other dogs only heard our dog chasing the white rabbit. And they'll stop chasing him pretty quick."
Our chance to newly chase or renew the chase of our White Rabbit comes again this Christmas. Do what you need to with that chance.
It has become traditional this time of year for some clergyperson or theologian to confidently declare that "modern" people can no longer believe in such a thing as the virginal conception (virgin birth) of Jesus. It goes against the way we know things work.
The virginal conception does seem preposterous. But, it always has. It's not like people in the past had no idea how babies get made. I expect Joaquim and Anne found it preposterous when their daughter first tried to explain her pregnancy. I don't believe virginal conception glibly. I've had and will have my reservations, questions, and doubts about this and other aspects of the Christian Creed. But, I figure once you believe in something as preposterous as resurrection or that God loves you and desires communion with you; you're in for a pound, you might as well toss in the penny.
This last Sunday of Advent this year falls on Christmas Eve. In addition to the Annunciation story (Lk.1:26-38) and Mary's Magnificat (Lk.1:46b-55), 2 Sam.7 and Psa.89 narrate and extol God's covenant with David. Rich stuff, yes? But it may be Paul's great doxology at the end of his letter to the Romans that aligns best with overlap of the fourth Sunday of Advent and Christmas Eve.
Many families have a tradition of opening one present on Christmas Eve as a foretaste of the gift-giving to follow the next day. I want to liken Paul's Roman's doxology in this week's reading as that present we may open early on Christmas Eve. In it Paul praises God and the one whom he has sent to fulfill all his purposes.
Jesus is again in the temple. Chief priests, scribes, and elders accost him. These are the very folks Jesus predicted who would put him to death (8:31). Jesus is facing his executioners! Their question is more of an attempt to gather evidence in advance of his trial. It's a kind of verbal cat and mouse.
"Where you get the authority to do all that you do? We readers know the answer but Jesus withholds it instead answering their questions with one of his own. In truth, this is his way of answering their question without saying so in so many words. Jesus' authority has been a prevalent theme for Mark and here he brings it to a climax. He has authority over Israel.
Jesus answers: "Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin? Answer me" (v.30). His demand for an answer indicates his authority. The logic here is clear.
All around this troubled globe, we're seeing the rise of a phenomenon as strange as an ice-storm in a desert: the regressive revolution.
We're used, you and I in the West, and especially in the US, where our creation myth glorifies one triumphantly, to seeing revolutions as the wheel of human progress only ever turning forwards. But revolutions, more precisely understood, can go either way: the wheel can move backwards, too. Backwards revolutions, luckily, are rarer in the sweep of human history, and if they weren't, then you and I would probably be stuck in caves, bonded to our plows. Hence, we've come to only see revolution as only positive things which enshrine democracy, rights, equality, and so on—like the French Revolution, the American Revolution, etcetera.
Evangelism, under the sway of the 16th century's emphasis on the individual person's (sinner) relation to God (judge and forgiver), saw people as needing to know they were miserable sinners in God's sight and that they ought to avail themselves of his gracious forgiveness. Evangelism calibrated to this theology sought, then, to find others' weaknesses and sins and bring them the good news of the gospel (as they understand it).
As long as the sense of guilt before God was strong in our culture, this approach seemed effective. I say seemed, because whenever we met someone for who life was going well, were decent people, successful, good marriage, children doing well, etc. we discovered our gospel has little to say to them. And as the sense of guilt before God ceased to be potent culture reality the gospel was speaking a language fewer and fewer people could or wanted to understand.
This week's readings are full of expectation, anticipation, and the sighting of buds and blooms of nearness. Appropriate texts for this Sunday in Advent, I think. We're zeroing in on the figure of the Messiah. Last week we talked about the kind of waiting required of us, that paradoxical "waiting that hastens the Day of the Lord." This week we look at waiting itself.
We live between God's acts in the past and what he will do in our future. Psa.126 captures this perfectly. The first three verses celebrate the Lord's past actions for his people; the last three anticipate his actions in restoring their fortunes.
Hope you're hungry. Mark's serving up another sandwich. One story split in two and another inserted between those two parts. Each story helps interpret the other.
Speaking of hunger, Jesus is hungry on the way from Bethany. He sees a fig tree and inspects it for fruit, and is disappointed to find none, even though it is not the season for it. So he curses it. What's up with that? Is Jesus ignorant? Petulant and demanding? Neither, I suspect.
and they hunt each other with nets.


Why do we meditate? It's a question raised in a recent column by Bruce Davis. The answer he received from Buddhist teacher James Baraz was, "Wow!" If you want to know what he meant, I encourage you to read the piece. I just want to use it as a leaping-off point for reflecting on why meditation is a part of my life.
I started meditating in my mid-20s when I was testing a calling to the priesthood. That testing had three parts: prayer, study, and action. I was praying for God to reveal the path I should take; I was studying what it meant to be a priest and spiritual guide; and I was getting first-hand experience with the work of a priest by accompanying my parish's curate as he visited the sick and the shut-ins every Saturday. I did this for a year and, though I ultimately declined to accept the calling, the experience changed my life in many ways – not the least of which was starting my meditation practice.
As part of my studies, I began reading Thomas Merton, and subsequently Bede Griffiths and Basil Pennington, and was introduced to Eastern religious and spiritual practices. I learned to meditate and incorporated it into my Christian spirituality and I have been meditating ever since, more than 20 years later. Those books and initial meditation practice were a launching pad for a much deeper exploration of meditation, mindfulness, and Eastern religion that ultimately led me to become a Buddhist.
So, to answer the question why I meditate, I would have to say, "Because I need to." It is as integral a part of my daily life as eating, as essential to starting my morning as getting dressed. Without meditation, I would hunger, and I would feel naked and unprepared to experience life. At least, that's what I think I would feel like without meditation because, to be frank, I'm not sure I could truly imagine my life without meditation.
Meditation grounds me. Meditation clears away the detritus left by my emotions and thoughts. Meditation calms me. Meditation gives me the strength to handle stress and anxiety without crumpling into a fetal position. Meditation balances me. Meditation enables me to live mindfully and happily.
So you tell me: Why do you meditate?


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COAI urges DoT to cut 5G base prices by 60-70%
The government is expected to auction 5G airwaves in April-May 2022, but prices have remained a contentious point.
Reliance Jio had earlier said it is ready to be a global 5G vendor and stressed on how 5G will impact agriculture, education, healthcare and the telco is working to bring in the technology in these areas.
The Cellular Operators' Association of India which represents the private telcos -Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi) - has asked the telecom department to reduce base prices of 5G airwaves by more than half, if it wants a successful auction.
"The telcos via COAI have said unless airwave prices are not dropped by 60-70%, then 5G auctions won't be successful. The three telcos will participate better if prices are lowered," said a senior executive of one of the private telcos. The letter was sent a week ago.
COAI did not respond to ET's queries at the time of publishing this story. The government is expected to auction 5G airwaves in April-May 2022, but prices have remained a contentious point.
Lowering the base price of 5G spectrum is critical to the success of the auctions, industry executives and experts said.
Vi's managing director, Ravinder Takkar in a recent analyst call cautioned that if the base rates for 5G spectrum are not brought down, there will once again be no takers for those airwaves.
The current base price of Rs 492 crore for a unit of 5G spectrum in the 3.3-3.6 GHz band has been deemed too expensive by all three private players. At suggested price, it is the most expensive in the world, with rates in countries like Italy, US, Korea and UK far lower.
Meanwhile, the three rivals are in the midst of testing 5G use cases on government allotted spectrum.Last week, Airtel became the first telco to test 5G technology in the 700Mhz band, while Vi demonstrated use cases of 5G trials.
Reliance Jio had earlier said it is ready to be a global 5G vendor and stressed on how 5G will impact agriculture, education, healthcare and the telco is working to bring in the technology in these areas. It is conducting large scale 5G trials using its own 5G stack and is testing various use cases.
To be sure, all the bands being currently used for 4G could be used for offering 5G services in future. But currently India has earmarked the 3300-3600 MHz band for the next generation services.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sent a reference to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) seeking fresh prices of the 3300-3600 MHz band, as well as for newer bands which could be used for 5G in future. The Trai has since asked the DoT to chalk out a roadmap on available bands and their usage. On receiving a reply, Trai will come out with a consultation paper soon on the upcoming auction, which would cover which bands, their pricing as well as the quantity of airwaves to be sold in the next sale.
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Watchdog Urges Georgia to Stop Evicting Refugees
People walking in the Tserovani refugee settlement located just outside Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, on Friday.	David Mdzinarishvili
TBILISI — Rights watchdog Amnesty International urged Georgia on Friday to halt the forced eviction of refugees from the capital, warning that for many the policy amounted to fresh displacement.
The evictions, which began in mid-2010, are the latest attempt to tackle a massive refugee problem stemming from conflicts in the early 1990s in the rebel Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and again in 2008 when Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war.
Though mainly relocated to better-quality apartments, many of those evicted say they were given little prior notice and face building a new life in the countryside, cut off from support networks built up over almost two decades and the means to earn a living.
"In their drive to empty temporary housing shelters in the capital and provide displaced people with durable housing, the Georgian authorities have ignored essential protections for those evicted and estranged many from established support networks and livelihoods," said Natalia Nozadze, Amnesty International's Georgia researcher.
"The authorities have added to their sense of insecurity by evicting them without adequate consultation, notice or access to legal remedies."
The watchdog's report warned that the evictions were in violation of Georgia's obligations under international human rights law.
Georgia's ministry for refugees could not be reached for comment.
The government has in the past denied being heavy-handed, saying all refugees were warned in advance and have been offered better-quality homes.
Under President Mikheil Saakashvili, it has won plaudits for developing a national strategy to cope with the more than 200,000 people displaced from their homes by war.
But rights groups argue that the eviction of refugees from old hospitals, barracks and printing houses in Tbilisi — their homes for almost two decades — has been poorly handled, sparking protests.
The United Nations refugee agency last year expressed concern over the transparency of the refugee relocation process and the lack of information.
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Government officials have been insisting that the economy will perk up, but economists say that optimism may have been premature.


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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge won't spend Christmas with the Queen
Instead the Cambridges will spend the day in Norfolk
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will spend Christmas in Norfolk. (Image: Getty Images)
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have confirmed they will not be spending Christmas Day with The Queen.
Instead the couple, along with children George, Charlotte and Louis, will travel to Norfolk to spend time with members of the Middleton family.
A Kensington Palace spokesman confirmed the news to the PA news agency tonight but did not reveal which members of the Middleton family would be in attendance.
The news came after a Clarence House spokesman confirmed Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will be with The Queen on Christmas Day - her first since the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Queen will this year be staying at Windsor rather than travelling to Sandringham.
The monarch took the decision to remain at Windsor as a "precautionary" measure following rising Covid-19 case numbers.
Last year, the Queen and Philip also spent the Christmas period at Windsor.
The head of state normally hosts her family at Sandringham in Norfolk over the holidays, and they are watched by crowds as they attend church on December 25.
The news follows the Queen's cancellation of her traditional pre-Christmas lunch with her extended family, which had been scheduled for Tuesday.
She has spent much of this year at Windsor Castle, where she and Philip remained after Christmas as they shielded throughout the lockdowns.
The 95-year-old monarch lost the duke, her husband of more than 73 years, on April 9, with his funeral held within the castle's confines during coronavirus restrictions.
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Refinements to the simultaneous anterior-posterior approach to the thoracolumbar spine
Lissa Peeling, Evan Frangou, Stephen Hentschel, Ziya L. Gokaslan, Daryl R. Fourney
The treatment of complex thoracolumbar disorders occasionally requires combined anterior and posterior approaches. Traditionally, these are either sequentially staged to occur during the same anesthesia procedure or alternatively performed on separate days. A less common option is the simultaneous anterior-posterior approach. The authors discuss the rationale for this approach in selected cases and illustrate a number of modifications to previous descriptions of the procedure. By slightly altering the incision, the risk of wound breakdown and infection has been reduced. The use of newly available positioning devices has allowed easy incorporation of fluoroscopy to guide the placement of spinal instrumentation. The authors have also expanded the use of the approach beyond the original oncological indications to include trauma and infection.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine
https://doi.org/10.3171/2009.11.SPINE09309
Combined approach
Peeling, L., Frangou, E., Hentschel, S., Gokaslan, Z. L., & Fourney, D. R. (2010). Refinements to the simultaneous anterior-posterior approach to the thoracolumbar spine. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, 12(5), 456-461. https://doi.org/10.3171/2009.11.SPINE09309
Refinements to the simultaneous anterior-posterior approach to the thoracolumbar spine. / Peeling, Lissa; Frangou, Evan; Hentschel, Stephen; Gokaslan, Ziya L.; Fourney, Daryl R.
In: Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, Vol. 12, No. 5, 05.2010, p. 456-461.
Peeling, L, Frangou, E, Hentschel, S, Gokaslan, ZL & Fourney, DR 2010, 'Refinements to the simultaneous anterior-posterior approach to the thoracolumbar spine', Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 456-461. https://doi.org/10.3171/2009.11.SPINE09309
Peeling L, Frangou E, Hentschel S, Gokaslan ZL, Fourney DR. Refinements to the simultaneous anterior-posterior approach to the thoracolumbar spine. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. 2010 May;12(5):456-461. https://doi.org/10.3171/2009.11.SPINE09309
Peeling, Lissa ; Frangou, Evan ; Hentschel, Stephen ; Gokaslan, Ziya L. ; Fourney, Daryl R. / Refinements to the simultaneous anterior-posterior approach to the thoracolumbar spine. In: Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. 2010 ; Vol. 12, No. 5. pp. 456-461.
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