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A sampling of military literary offerings on shelves, or hitting them soon.
A wounded SEAL's shame becomes a salvation. A fired Marine officer says the numbers point to a Corps problem. And an Army veteran's first novel works well at war.
Here is a roundup of 15 reviews presented in order of reading value and satisfaction. You'll see books about the heavy cruiser Indianapolis, weapons that can't weep, the Unknown Soldier's pallbearers, what it's like to be shot by the Taliban, surviving capture in Syria, and a Marine veteran's third thriller. (Prices are from the publishers; you may find better deals online.)
Plus: A heads-up about 26 other new titles.
Touching the Dragon: And Other Techniques for Surviving Life's Wars by James Hatch and Christian D'Andrea, Knopf, 336 pages, $29.
Just when you think you cannot bear to read another memoir by another SEAL, an irresistible one — a book, not a SEAL— surfaces.
The former senior chief and dog handler likes "smashing Stigma" and thinks "rah-rah books about the Navy's Action Man crews sometimes cheat the reader of something: The dark places, the brokenness." He dives into both in engaging ways — anecdotal and antidotal —that make you smile and might inspire you.
He decries "the video-game-ification of war." He and his co-author take you on the real "Speeding Train" of special operations, including a team effort to find the missing soldier Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan. ("We were close.")
He is severely injured, is embarrassed when he screams in pain, and during recovery languishes in a "coffin of condemnation" that is part of his "regimen of feeling sorry for myself." You'll get these points on their first mention.
But "shame that stays a secret will kill you," and he confronts his truth. By using cognitive behavioral therapy, he "keeps at bay" the dragon of discontent that torments him, and he discovers that trauma is universal.
"Life is combat. For most of us." Including dogs. He's especially fond of "hair missile" Spike, who dies after "I failed to protect him," and he founds Spikes K9 Fund. Unfortunately, several pages about the nonprofit's work interrupt the narrative flow and might work better as an epilogue.
His human heroes include the fellow SEAL he calls Fly Fisherman, a guy who shows "disproportionate commitment" to Hatch's health, and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
"I was shot in the leg. Gabby was shot in the head" and is "a machine of positivity and strength. She was the anti-me."
Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines are Trained by Kate Germano with Kelly Kennedy, Prometheus, 288 pages, $18.
The retired lieutenant colonel validates her "wholehearted Marine-ness" and indicts her Corps' reluctance to make all recruits meet similar standards, mainly because her commanders (Germano names names) "wanted women to serve only in support roles."
In her role as commander of female training at Parris Island, "I was showing that [women] could" meet Corps expectations in "marksmanship, physical fitness, and leadership" — while the Corps "put together a study to show that they could not. This is why I was fired" in 2015.
This retired Marine's book says the Corps has a history of gender bias
The fired commander of the Corps' only female recruit training battalion defends her leadership.
By Todd South
And this is why, in his chapter, husband Joe Plenzler (also a retired Marine lieutenant colonel) says the Corps "started leaking information to the press" — regarding Germano's dismissal — "in a complete violation of their own release-of-information policies."
Germano and co-author Kennedy (an Army veteran and former Military Times staffer) bluntly vindicate the career Marine who naively believes that "if the women within my command were strong they would be safe" from sexism — and worse. The numbers are timely and telling during the #MeToo era. Germano says 32,000 male recruits are — separately — trained annually, compared with 3,200 women.
"It is staggering to consider how much talent the Marine Corps misses out on each year."
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the 50-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic, Simon and Schuster, 544 pages, $28 (release date: July 10).
Another history of the sinking in World War II takes a wide berth at launch, describing the heavy cruiser Indianapolis as a "grand but svelte" ship "born from soil as American as the men who sailed her."
Vincent, the Navy veteran who "collaborated" with Sarah Palin on "Going Rogue," and Vladic, who directed "USS Indianapolis: The Legacy" (2015) and has been interviewing survivors for two decades, invite you to "roll the film backward" and "watch her rise."
She does, thanks to less-grandiose descriptions of the sad yet infuriating story.
Men — boys as young as 17 — drift five nights while enduring attacks by sharks and each other. Of the 1,196 souls aboard ship, "three of every four men" die.
There are details about top-secret cargo — uranium for the Enola Gay — and about cowardly admirals "blaming each other in secret while the court-martial of Captain McVay was going in public." Especially poignant is the fact that Charles McVay kills himself in 1968 but is posthumously exonerated in 2000 — 55 years after the plunge.
The Navy withholds news about the July attack by Japanese torpedoes until V-J Day, when "the joyous news of the Japanese surrender would render the Indianapolis disaster a comparative footnote" to the public … but not to the survivors and, later, journalist Richard Newcomb and other historians.
The book's "Final Log Entry" is from the Philippine Sea, where a remote video camera shows the wreckage 18,000 feet below the surface in 2017. Watching the evidence, a survivor recounts "holding dying shipmates in his arms in the very same water."
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre, Norton, 448 pages, $28.
The defense analyst is "not a technologist" but he could play one on TV, given his reader-friendly and conversational handling of a formidable topic: Smart weapons can't weep.
From a clever title (remember the "Army of One" slogan?) to the simple diagrams that almost make up for the uninspired jacket art, and for references to "Terminator," "Jeopardy!" and Disney's "Fantasia," his book fulfills its promise: To "guide you on a journey through the rapidly evolving world of next-generation robotic weapons."
The arms are revolutionary, and "the trend of creeping automation that began with Gatling's gun will continue." Scharre carries an M249 squad automatic weapon as a Ranger, leads the group that drafts the Defense Department's autonomous-weapons policy in 2012, and is a fellow at the Center for New American Security.
He interviews experts in every aspect, including ethics, of the challenges that efficient but irresponsible combat machines introduce. Could someone "leverage commercially available drones to make a do-it-yourself autonomous weapon?" Yes. "I was terrified by what I found."
You might be scared when you are reminded that even though reputable nations sign rules of engagement (there's a seven-page table of the status of banned weapons), some non-states — a group such as ISIS, let's say — are outside those expectations. Disappointingly, the author gives the rogue-state problem little ink.
But there's other stuff to worry about. "If autonomous weapons are the kind of thing that keep you up at night, militarized advance AI (artificial intelligence) is pure nightmare fuel."
The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and WWI's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home by Patrick K. O'Donnell, Atlantic Monthly, 288 pages, $27.
Transpose the billing in the subtitle. The history is mainly about the little-known doughboy Body Bearers for the entombed anonymous soldier.
In telling the combat experiences of the eight men — from the Army (including a Native American), Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Artillery Corps — the historian recaps the war (much of which is not exactly unknown), including "hideous losses" at Belleau Wood. His research is a respectful recognition of the lives and sacrifices of the bearers, including two Medal of Honor recipients, selected by Army Gen. John J. Pershing for duty at Arlington Cemetery in 1921.
O'Donnell's effort is exemplary except for repeated references, four pages apart, to 128 American deaths among the sinking of the Lusitania … and its "12,000" dead. (Google it.) Try to overlook the editing glitch and dwell instead on the battlegrounds. There you'll see the hell below what the author terms "America's greatest memorial."
Beyond the Beach: The Allied War Against France by Stephen A. Bourque, Naval Institute, 376 pages $35.
Collateral damage from aerial bombing is not just a contemporary matter and not always acknowledged.
A sympathetic Army veteran surveys the devastation of German-occupied France during World War II and says that "its scale, nature and effects are almost unknown in the English-speaking world."
Official reports do not always reflect reality. One example is the destruction of Nantes, which "receives only a passing comment, with no details, in the Air Force's official history of the conflict."
Early in 1944, "if you lived near a French rail yard or factory, near a harbor or along the coast in Pas-de-Calais, you lived under the constant threat of Allied bombardment" as the "Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces dropped more bombs on occupied France than on Germany."
Bourque says "civilian deaths were part of the human sacrifice that contributed to the Allied victory on June 6."
Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist's Story of War, Trauma, Love and Loss by Carmen Gentile, Skyhorse, 240 pages, $25.
An intrepid freelancer bares his aspirations and asininities in his memoir, in which self-deprecation and self-indulgence are peppered with ribaldry.
War in eastern Afghanistan is "one long slog through the mountains after another, up and down, day after day" — until he shoots video near Combat Outpost Pirtle-King and turns to find what his subjects are looking at: A rocket's green glare "screaming right for me," hitting "me square in the face."
But he sees the bright side. "This little incident is just the kick in the ass I need to quit smoking cigarettes," and besides, "I'll just rock an eye patch."
Instead, recovery's "perpetual negation," including unsurprisingly unlucky female relationships, perpetuate his "ability to recognize my problem and a penchant for ignoring that recognition."
An assignment takes him back to scene of the blinding launch on his third return visit to the mountains, where he finds that reporting is rehabilitating. "Oddly, only in Afghanistan am I able to really laugh again."
The Dawn Prayer (Or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison): A Memoir by Matthew Schrier, BenBella, 312 pages, $25.
Al-Qaida's branch in Syria, al-Nusra Front, holds the freelance photojournalist captive for seven months in 2013. This is a blow-by-blow of isolation, starvation, filth, bugs and other torture forms.
That the book is a not an obituary written by somebody else is testament to the writer's savvy and mettle toward his captors and toward his roommate assignment, a fellow but ugly American.
You are there, but you must endure near-deprivation of context — about the terrorists or the territory, about whether editors care that he is not transmitting photographs, about whether his feeling "betrayed by the FBI's handling of my case" is justified. How does the FBI typically handle such cases?
A cover blurb calls this "one of the most terrifying and suspenseful books I've ever read," a comment that makes your reviewer think the blurb-er read a different book. The jacket also says "Matthew has devoted himself to working with the US Military" to "educate American troops about survival after capture by extremists." Pray the training does not include force-reading.
Coffin Corner Boys: One Bomber, Ten Men, and Their Incredible Escape from Nazi Occupied France by Carole Engle Avriett with Capt. George W. Starks, Regnery, 360 pages, $29.
Their B-17's vulnerable formation spot is called the coffin corner because "you were most likely to have your ass shot down from there" — and when their plane is shot during its first mission, the men jump. Thanks to French citizens, some men arduously and dangerously get out. No thanks to the Germans, two get sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Based on interviews with pilot Starks and families of other crew members, the book employs an oral-history format that mostly allows the men of the 92nd Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force to speak in first person, a form that provides tone in otherwise ordinary writing, similar to the next book.
No Forgotten Fronts: From Classrooms to Combat by Lisa K. Shapiro, Naval Institute, 392 pages, $30.
A professor wants San Diego State College (now University) friends to stay in touch while they're overseas during World War II. However, in 1942, a Facebook group is not an option.
Instead, Dr. Lauren Post asks students to send mail. They do, and monthly he prints their correspondence. Within two years The Aztec News Letter reaches "800 men overseas," 2,000 service members in the U.S. and 500 students on campus. By war's end, the Post office collects 4,500 letters.
Readers then and now relive the routine and the wrenching: A pilot in North Africa in 1943 hopes "this war will wipe out racial and political boundaries, uniting the world in an intelligent peace," and two months later the lieutenant who sang in "The Desert Song" on campus dies.
This is a collection of excerpts from those published excerpts. "The simple, beautiful, profound prose" conveys "for me the meaning of war," Shapiro writes, and she is correct. Did other schools produce similar publications? She doesn't say.
Struggle Well: Thriving in the Aftermath of Trauma by Ken Falke and Josh Goldberg, Lioncrest, 217 pages, $16.
Navy veteran Falke and civilian Goldberg personally deal with the subject, and their book is a framework of their efforts at the nonprofit Boulder Crest Institute, which Falke founded.
"Everyone struggles, and everyone can learn to struggle well." If their suggestion sounds like a contradiction, recall Samuel Beckett's admonition to "fail better" next time.
"We're not mental health experts," the pair says, but "we've seen through our work the transformative success of what a program like ours does for somebody" — in their count, "thousands" of participants.
They write affirmatively about spiritual wellness that "is not religious" and strives for balance, about how to turn stress into strength — with tips that might be useful even if you never visit the Virginia or Arizona facilities.
Conquer Anything: A Green Beret's Guide to Building Your A-Team by Greg Stube with Frank Miniter, Post Hill Press, 208 pages, $26.
The former Army Special Forces medical sergeant ("only a certain kind of dude will be a pecker checker") later "the Green Beret's [sic] first official spokesperson" veers into memoir and management: "The secret to execution is defining and assigning actionable goals to the right people."
He cites Citizens United's fighting "the campaign-finance restrictions that muzzled their free speech near elections," philosopher Ayn Rand, then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry, musician Pharrell ("Happy") Williams, and there's a blurb from National Rifle Association president Oliver North, a former Marine.
The 23-year soldier says that until he was injured in Afghanistan, "the warrior persona" defined him. Now, "I want men to embrace the feminine virtues that have made their lives whole and which have been the centerpiece of our culture." After all, "a mother makes a place a home."
A father can too, some might add.
Cherry by Nico Walker, Knopf, 336 pages, $27 (Aug. 14 release date).
The debut novel by an Army medic and veteran of "more than 250 missions" in Iraq might be the year's only prominent fiction by an author serving "an 11-year sentence for bank robbery."
His status, noted by the publisher, will likely intrigue some reviewers and readers. Publisher's Weekly terms the work a "fictionalized account of the author's exceptional life."
Yet the civilian life of the author's unnamed narrator ends is routine: Day after day of drugs and sex and robbing banks for money to buy more drugs and more time for more sex. Paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw, the protagonist wonders "if youth wasn't wasted on me," and he leaves little doubt.
Adulthood is no better. At 25, he doesn't "understand what it is that people do. It's as if all this were built on nothing," on indifference, including "enlisting in the Army because I'd been saying I would."
In the military, everything is "all make-believe" and "the drill sergeants were just pretending to be drill sergeants. We were pretending to be soldiers. The Army was pretending to be the Army."
Active duty means having to listen to "the Toby Keith song" at Army ceremonies and in bars and having to endure PT. "Most of us could do push-ups. And were the outcomes of all the wars decided by push-ups and idle talk, America might never lose." Fort Hood is "bleak, a new kind of desert, engineered to induce fatalism in the young. It worked like a charm."
His advice? "Don't ever join."
However, war is where the novel works best. Combat compels the soldier opportunity to stand up for something, finally, to interact with passion. He talks a lieutenant out of a disastrous decision potentially affecting his brothers, who are "just the help, glorified scarecrows; just there to look busy, up the road and down the road, expensive as f[--k], dumber than shit."
The latter expletive in that sentence is the narrator's go-to word: Dumber than it. Somebody isn't it. "I'm not trying to start any" of it. Talking "s---" about whatever. These examples are from one page, and other pages are full of it. His vocabulary limit, perhaps induced by there being "nothing better than to be young and on heroin," becomes a listless list, and that's a challenge for a reader and an author. Inner euphoria does not translate into outer eloquence or character development.
Still, "Cherry" is worth picking up, an imaginative work that shows Walker's potential to ripen.
Field of Valor: A Thriller by Matthew Betley, Bestler, 400 pages, $26.
The mission continues for former Force Reconnaissance Marine Logan West.
This time he performs "reckless brave acts of heroism" with his newly organized team of four, including a strong female. (Let's hope she is being groomed to star in her own thriller in a genre full of manly men).
The commander in chief asks Team West to "put a stop to the mess" created by insurgents inside a global, corporate-backed entity that rules the world from under the conference table. (The premise is a staple in current mili-thrillers.)
What if the courageous quartet needs to break a law or two in the process of saving in America? No problem. The president already signed pardons for any potential crimes — an offer that seems like today's news.
Betley knows the thriller formula, and the situations from Quantico to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's suburban branch are exciting, and occasionally wry.
A TV station's helicopter hovers to cover an attack on a highway, and on the ground a Secret Service agent discovers that the aircraft actually contains bad guys in journalists' clothing.
"It's a fake news helicopter," he ascertains. The line is worth the price of the book.
Permanent Change of Station by Lisa Stice, Middle West, 96 pages, $12.
Mary Cassatt's 1878 painting of a girl and dog and the Marines' 2017 photograph of a Humvee in "the Middle East" share the cover and the author's mind in the second collection by a Marine spouse and mother.
Her everyday epiphanies are about parenthood, pets and perseverance "while Daddy patrols/someone else's night." The titular poem asks why assignments are called "permanent" when they are not. Stice concedes that any move makes us "permanently changed."
Readers of Sun Tzu, Shel Silverstein and others might see how the pieces borrow (and credit) their words. And some of the 60 short observations go to the dogs. Honest.
Here's the 11-word "New Trick": "Wave bye-bye./The dog raises a shaky paw/receives a treat."
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NOTED, NOT REVIEWED: FICTION
Anatomy of a Miracle: The True Story of a Paralyzed Veteran, a Mississippi Convenience Store, a Vatican Investigation, and the Spectacular Perils of Grace by Jonathan Miles, Hogarth, 368 pages, $27.
Fake nuance: An Army veteran who is disabled in Afghanistan gets out of his wheelchair — in a novel that is not a "true" story.
Reaper: Ghost Target — A Sniper Novel by Nicholas Irving with A.J. Tata, St. Martin's, 336 pages, $27.
Former Ranger and memoirist ("The Reaper," "The Way of the Reaper") Irving, nickname "Reaper," sticks to his word. "Reaper" Harwood stars in this thriller written with former general and thrillerist Tata.
The Secret to Southern Charm by Kristy Woodson Harvey, Gallery, 400 pages, $16.
In the second Peachtree Bluff Series novel, a mother goes on after her Army husband is declared missing. The author credits the aforementioned, busy Tata for "talking me through some of the finer points of military life."
Tom Clancy's Op-Center for Honor by Jeff Rovin, St. Martin's, 352 pages, $17.
The deceased novelist's imitable style lives on in this thriller about Cold War missiles resurfacing in Russia, part of a series "created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik" but written by a — not in — third person.
The Moscow Offensive by Dale Brown, Morrow, 448 pages, $29.
Russians infiltrate the U.S. of an "inept" female commander in chief. Enter the Iron Wolf Squadron and its Cybernetic Infantry Devices — "12-foot-tall humanoid combat robots." A thriller by a former Air Force captain.
Boston Burning by Eric D. Salin, Amazon Digital, 370 pages, $3.
The Vietnam-veteran Marine and university professor pits an international terrorist against an Army veteran in an FBI counterterrorism unit; "neither will follow the rules" in this cheap thriller.
Civil War Two by Randall Collins, Maren Ink, two volumes, 412 pages and 326 pages, $16 each.
The subtitle of the two-part novel is "America Elects a President Determined to Restore Religion to Public Life, and The Nation Splits." There's a war between religious and secular states. Avoid the conflict.
Check Canopy by Jack Welsh, Outskirts, 158 pages, $14.
In this autobiographical novel, a retired Army colonel with a transplanted kidney recounts the career of Frank, an Army colonel with kidney disease. The lesson: After you jump, check your canopy.
NOTED, NOT REVIEWED: NONFICTION
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence by James R. Clapper with Trey Brown, Viking, 432 pages, $30.
The Obama-era National Intelligence director — earlier he went from Marine reservist to Air Force lieutenant general — and his former speechwriter offer a look at his career and at collusion. … Uh, the Russians are coming.
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies by Michael V. Hayden, Penguin, 304 pages, $28.
Uh, they're already here: The former four-star Air Force general, CIA head and National Security Agency director offers his perspective on what and who — including a commander in chief — threatens national security.
Strategy Strikes Back: How 'Star Wars' Explains Modern Military Conflict edited by Max Brooks, John Amble, ML Cavanaugh and Jaym Gates, Potomac, 272 pages, $30.
Combine a witty title and jacket typography with 30 "top military and strategic experts" and you'll find a galaxy of analyses about the "balance, care and empathy to achieve the strategic advantage we need."
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By Dan Ward
You'll Never Walk by Andy Grant with Phil Reade, deCoubertin, 308 pages, $20.
His tattoo says "You'll never walk alone." Until Afghanistan, when the Royal Marine loses a leg rather than hobble on it. Surgery severs the word "alone" — but Grant becomes "the fastest one-legged man in the world."
Global Security Cultures by Mary Kaldor, Polity, 224 pages, $23.
The London professor asks why "politicians think that war is the answer to terror when military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mali, Somalia and elsewhere has made things worse? Good question.
On War and Writing by Samuel Hynes, Chicago, 224 pages, $22.
A Princeton literature professor who was a Marine pilot in World War II collects his essays and reviews about the way veterans and civilians express their feelings about war.
Women at War: Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Vera Hildebrand, Naval Institute, 344 pages, $30.
Survivors of a female regiment considered a "radical military innovation" in 1943 describe combat against British rule in India.
1918: Winning the War, Losing the War edited by Matthias Strohn, Osprey, 304 pages, $28.
"Some of the best historians from around the world," including three Americans (two former Army officers), analyze the main players' last year in the conflict.
Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldworthy, Basic, 192 pages, $25.
A professor from Wales takes some of the mystery out of the great wall in this study of the people who utilized the barrier, "a place where barbarism began." Or ended, maybe.
Cashing In on Cyberpower: How Interdependent Actors Seek Economic Outcomes in Digital World by Mark T. Peters II, Potomac, 280 pages, $42.
How leaders use cyber tools influentially, according to an Air Force intelligence officer.
The War Against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army During the Great Depression by Jerome Tuccille, Potomac, 264 pages, $33.
In "one of the sorriest chapters in American history," veterans — called "protestors" when "protesters" is correct — demonstrate for a benefit detractors say is a "giveaway" the country cannot afford.
Sgt. Rodney M. Davis: The Making of a Hero by John D. Hollis, Hugo House, 218 pages, $18.
A nephew-in-law eulogizes the Medal of Honor recipient's bravery in segregated Georgia and in Vietnam, where the African-American Marine saves his comrades by smothering a grenade in 1967.
Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 During the Vietnam War by Peter Fey, Potomac, 440 pages, $33.
The aircraft carrier's three deployments in "the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder" — from a retired Navy commander.
A Tiger Among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam's Shau Valley by Bennie G. Adkins and Katie Lamar Jackson, DaCapo, 224 pages, $27.
Forty-eight years after his 1966 bravery, the retired Army command sergeant major receives a Medal of Honor. In this memoir, he grows up in Oklahoma and grows courage in combat.
NOTED, NOT REVIEWED: MORE SELF-HELP
Out of Uniform: Your Guide to a Successful Military-to-Civilian Career Transition by Tom Wolfe, Potomac, 296 pages, $25.
The second edition of coaching tips from a Naval Academy graduate and "expert in the field."
Victory: Seven Revolutionary Strategies for Entrepreneurs to Launch Your Business, Elevate Your Impact and Transform Your Life by Larry Broughton, Bandera, 236 pages, $20.
The former Army staff sergeant, now CEO of his eponymous hotels, has a new version of his 2011 book.
Taking Back Your Life: Transition from Military to Civilian Life by Thomas E. Whittingslow, CreateSpace, 150 pages, $13.
The former Marine and soldier, an octogenarian, interviews veterans and he offers guidance with help from a clinical social worker.
The Momentum of Hope: Personal Stories of Moral Injury by Volunteers of America, 196 pages, $25.
A dozen military veterans are among 30 people who share their experiences and consciences in this collection of essays produced by the faith-based nonprofit.
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Drawn in the first week of this year – a nice way of beginning with something new, is to end something else first. I don't know, if I'll continue this series anytime or not – if I do so, then in the far future, but not now. Currently I have plans for another (some sort of follow-up) series while working on a large commission-project.
"Dancing at the border, singing in silence – only smoke is my companion.
The twilight of my existence, surreality and reality – overlapping.
In the midst, I refuse the truth of the artefact, as it is not my own.
I refuse being part of the machine – and yet I am…how can I be not?
Destroying the artefact, honesty can be such a pain – and yet a relief.
how horrifying and abstractly beautiful at the same time.
How powerful, how shiningly bright and how awfully shocking.
The border of realities, how thin it can be. How easy to oversee.
when reality is so subjective and insanity knocks at the halfway open door.
A blurring of images and a blending of impressions, reassembling the norms.
I keep dancing in the smoke of the machine, holding broken pieces of the artefact.
Thousands of silent whispers in my head, while the clock keeps ticking.
My heart lies in the mists of twilight, the border where reality and surreality meet.
Castles in fog are my shelter, while I am a mutation of myself.
I walk alone, echoes in the smoke accompany me. Disguise opened wide.
A million voices inside my dreams. But are they dreams? Aren't they real?
Can you see beyond the haze, can you see me? Can you see me now?
I am the mutant of reality and surreality. I am the mind – my mind.
There is no reality expect the one contained within us.
Our reality only exists in our mind.


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Galit has been into baking recently and made these Almond Cookies. She nick named them "Hedgehogs" because of the spiky look. Beware, not the spines, but the taste … they are very more-isa.
Galit wanted something Kosher for Passover and asked Karine Vigaelles for advice. Karine suggested "Minis Financiers À La Noix De Coco" off her site, but substituting almond powder for flour. A great success. Very moist and light; a delightful contrast to common fare at passover.
Sandy was married to an Israeli of Egyptian origin and learnt how to cook Sofrito from his family. Serve with Egyptian Rice.
Robert and Marie sometimes serve up a very tender shoulder of beef for big family lunches.
Marie served this to me late one night. It was left over from a meal the previous day. But it was so good I asked her to make it again. The fresh version was just as good.
Michal made this for us when we were on holiday in Cornwall together. Very tasty.
This is a dish from central Asia which Galit translated from Hebrew and I served up to friends. Rather good I think and has become a staple dish for Rosh Hashanah. The rice and chicken provide the substance and the pomegranate provides the zing. Serves 4-6.


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GHIS Web Design Student Portfolio - É.A.D.
Links to my Projects completed during the course. Click on the pictures to view the web page/site.
I made the Project 1 website about the buses. The CIE was founded in 1945 until break up in 1987. The low-floor buses delivered to Dublin Bus between 2000 and 2009 and serve the rich routes. The poor routes use the high-floor buses between 2000 and 2012. Few new low-floor buses were removed from the poor routes and put on the rich routes and never return to the poor routes again. Between 2012 and 2013, more new low-floor buses delivered to Dublin Bus. The governments, news and newspapers said that the new low-floor buses are needed for all poor routes only because all rich routes have existed low-floor buses. Dublin Bus had 1038 low-floor buses but now has 920 because 3 lost in the accidents and 115 unlawfully transferred to other activities.
I made the Project 2 website the history of the route 29A where I live in Kilbarrack. Kilbarrack is the part of the poor routes what CIE Dublin Bus provide the 17A and 29A in 1970. The governments put the new low-floor buses to the poor routes only after the high floor buses left service with Dublin Bus in 2012. The rich routes have existed 00-reg to 09-reg low-floor buses and they stole the 12-reg and 132-reg low-floor buses from the poor routes and never give back to the poor routes. Kilbarrck has current Dart train service.
In mid 2014, Dublin Bus's 859 2-axle low-floor buses will be grounded on most rich routes and 70 3-axle low-floor buses will serve the poor routes with 65 more 3-axle low-floor buses shortly.
I created the Portfolio website exams what the company want them. I chose the gold colour for the clients who want the best colour. I put three selection boxes on the Home page. I put four photos into the Portfolio page. I decide to keep the HTML and CSS sheets safe for next website projects.


David is the CEO/Co-Founder of Datapath, an IT managed services and cloud provider located in Modesto, California. David has helped to lead Datapath to six straight years on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies List (2011-2016) and also named SBA Small Business Person of the Year in 2014 for Northern California. He is a technology expert and bona fide "people person." David grew up in the Central Valley and moved to Santa Cruz for college where he earned a degree from Bethany University.
He spent the early years of his career in finance and technology startups. David is an evangelist for the Central Valley at large, and believes the future generations can be raised up to improve the community in which we live and work. He currently serves on boards for the Stanislaus-Merced Angel Investors, and Opportunity Stanislaus (formerly Stanislaus Business Alliance).
David also serves as the City Champion for Lemonade Day Modesto, and is the founder and chair for the One Table Community Dinner in downtown Modesto.


A module that instantiates a OpenRAVE kitchen with ASIBOT environment. No force control has been implemented. Further reference at Code Documentation: jmc_rave. [Modules_-_Standard_v0.2#Joint_Motion_Controllers Link to RCGv02 command format].


A group of users created a campaign called "Faceblock" for users to boycott Facebook on the day of Mark Zuckerberg's senate hearing, arguing that the site's users deserve better. On Tuesday, among those who questioned him was Illinois Democratic Sen.
Earlier this past week, Zuckerberg put in 10 hrs testifying before Congressional committees regarding the problem. Today, either they or data brokers scrape information from your social media for "lead generation".
Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now!", a daily worldwide TV/radio news hour airing on more than 1,400 stations.
Zuckerberg answered this with "I understand where that concern is coming from because Facebook and the tech industry are located in Silicon Valley, which is an extremely left-leaning place. I think it is time to ask whether Facebook may have moved too fast and broken too many things". The recent most Facebook scandal involves a quiz app snooping personal data of over 80 million FB users without their consent. As a result, digital goods like a subscription to apps like Facebook, Messenger and Snapchat don't enjoy the premium we lend out to things we can touch and feel. "I was a little taken aback by this".
Throughout the hearing, Zuckerberg's demeanor vacillated between calm and frustrated as lawmakers challenged the 33-year-old billionaire on a host of issues. This data trove gives Facebook unparalleled commercial power and, as is becoming increasingly clear, the ability to influence significant events, including national elections. Representative Joe Barton, Republican of Texas, meanwhile, pressed Zuckerberg on claims of bias against conservatives in the way his company handles content uploaded by its users. He asked Zuckerberg a series of questions about what information the company can collect on its 2 billion users and use for advertising, including whether the social network can pinpoint that a person who posts on Facebook from his work computer in the morning is the same person who uploads a photo to his Facebook smartphone app at night.
"The creepy hollowness of Mark Zuckerberg's eyes haunts me".
About 895,603 shares traded. (NASDAQ: CHRW ) has risen 18.88% since April 16, 2017 and is uptrending. Robinson Worldwide, Inc . (NASDAQ:ULTA)'s stock has been 6.25% and -22.17% for the last 12 months.
She said users should be especially careful when sharing on Facebook, even if they've changed Facebook settings to make their accounts as private as possible. However, as more is revealed about the misuse of Facebook's services by Cambridge Analytica, it would seem as if a users personal data has been passed on if a friend on the social network has previously used the app.
"You're directing people who don't even have a Facebook page to sign up for a page to reach their data, " Luján said. More than a million people in each of the UK, Philippines and Indonesia, as well as 310,000 Australian Facebook users, may have also had their personal information harvested.
If Congress wants to regulate Facebook, following the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation model, which states that every user has the right to be informed of where their information is going and that data has the right to be erased upon request of a user, could be a step in the right direction.
Facebook isn't exactly overt about this, but it doesn't hide the fact either.
Facebook raised the number of those affected by a data leak to 87 million users, from the previous estimate of 50 million, Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer said in a statement.
Criminals no longer wait to see if your newspaper delivery has built up on your front doorstep before they target you for burglary.
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The Average Earnings Estimate for the Current Fiscal quarter is $0.59 per share, according to consensus of 24 analysts . Approximately 5.9% of the shares of the company are short sold. 162 funds opened positions while 508 raised stakes.
It improved, as 56 investors sold MDLZ shares while 388 reduced holdings. 107 funds acquired stakes and 338 increased stakes. Mondelez International, Inc . registered $1.03 billion net activity with 2 insider buys and 3 sales since February 16, 2018.
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The stock decreased 0.26% or $0.1 during the last trading session, reaching $38.19. 1,712,994 shares of the stock traded hands. The firm has a market cap of $11,855.37, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.31, a P/E/G ratio of 1.02 and a beta of 0.98.
They can not compete against the low-priced Chinese products, while its defence industry has limited buyers due to its high price. We have a half-trillion dollar trade deficit with China . "Citizens please feel at ease", the statement said.
The justices didn't comment Monday in letting stand the convictions and 14-year prison term the 61-year-old is serving. Blagojevich went to prison without hard proof that he took campaign cash in exchange for official actions.
The team was still not been granted safe passage on Monday, CNN quoted British envoy to the OPCW, Peter Wilson, as saying. The Russians say 71 missiles were shot down by Syrian systems. "What did take place was the staged thing".
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The story for MI, however, has been a thrilling, yet disappointing one as all their matches went down till the last over. But their gamble is paying off pretty well, as Kishan has scored 93 runs in 3 games, with two scores of 40 or more.
Last season we finished sixth and this season we are going to finish, hopefully, second, ' he told Sky Sports . Don't say City won the title because United did not win, it is not fair on them", he said.
Shortly thereafter, scientists began to get enough data to hypothesize that many of those planets might be habitable. GEORGE RICKER: The most exciting things we've learned from Kepler has been that planets are extremely common.
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Le cimetière de la Porte Notre-Dame est un des cimetières de Cambrai, dans le département du Nord, en France. Il était auparavant nommé cimetière Saint-Géry.

Description

Le cimetière est situé au nord de la gare de Cambrai-Ville, ce qui lui a valu d'être bombardé pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il comprend  ; sa superficie est de .

Sépultures remarquables

La commune de Cambrai signale les sépultures remarquables par un petit panneau vert.

Notes et références

Annexes

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From the Mainland to the Homeland to New bands, Grammy Nominated Artists "Chembo" Corniel & William Cepeda Introduce a Double Dose of Culture.
WHO/WHAT: The thunderous power of drum beats and dance steps centuries old will resound throughout the newly renovated halls of the City College Center for the Arts connecting the Harlem community to a diverse display of African derived Puerto Rican music from the roots of its ancestors.
Master percussionist and Grammy Award nominee Wilson "Chembo" Corniel mixes Latin with jazz and Boricua bomba beats and patterns as his quintet is joined by folkloric scion and Grammy nominated trombonist, William Cepeda for an evening of homage to the Island's descendants. Topped by a collective of young bloods of the Afro-Rican Bronx "Bomba" Collective, Nelson Matthew Gonzalez and his Redobles de Cultura connect the past with the future in this not to be missed musically creative celebration of Island descendants.
His drums have taken Wilson "Chembo" Corniel, Jr. from the streets of his native Red Hook in Brooklyn to around the world alongside artists the likes of Tito Puente, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Grady Tate to name just a few. A mild-mannered, soft-spoken, humble soul his giant sound is considered among the most versatile and hart-hitting of percussionists. After studying in both East Harlem and Cuba, Chembo instructs students at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, has an instructional DVD, "An Introduction to Hand Percussion: Volume I – Congas," and is endorsed by Latin Percussion instruments, Remo drum heads, Vic Firth Sticks and Sabian cymbals. He's toured the world and his music can be heard over the "Cosby Show" and Nickelodeon's hit children's show, "Dora the Explorer." His 2009 CD, "Things I Wanted To Do," received a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album described as "A sprinkling of be-bop, a touch of swing with a dollop of bomba, rumba, tango and danzón topped with 'un chin' de charanga." His latest 2016 recording is "Land Of The Descendants" with invited guests Kat Gang (vocals) and James Zollar (trumpet).
Trombonist, arranger, and composer William Cepeda is a scion of Puerto Rico's premier and world-renowned cultural gate-keepers of the Islands Afro-Boricua roots music, the Cepeda family considered an institution providing dance and drum workshops alongside rousing performances and presentations. Cepeda's own Afro-Rican Jazz Group revolutionized Latin music in 1992 with an innovative blend of world music, progressive jazz and traditional Boricua roots fused with classical compositions. He's traveled worldwide performing alongside Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, Tito Puente and Paquito D'Rivera. He's served as both composer and artist-in-residence at a number of distinguished institutions and was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music in 2013.
The concert opens with a double dose of culture from young Bronx torch-bearers of this Boricua roots music from enslaved Africans that provided both solace, healing and resistance on the Island. Redobles de Cultura (RDCNYC) is a collective of top New York City-based Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba practitioners: Julia Gutie?rrez-Rivera, Nicky "Caja Dura" Laboy, Nelson Matthew González and Nina Rodriguez are the proud members of today's generation of bomberos, cultural artists and educators. An amalgamation of several notable bomba and plena ensembles including Los Pleneros de la 21 and more, each member was weaned on the cultural and traditional practices of Puerto Rico and other Afro-Caribbean genres from a very early age. This first generation "DiaspoRicans" proudly continues the work of their parents and ancestors to celebrate and transmit the richness of the Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Boricua expressions with communities worldwide.


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Q: Dependency injection for java 8 default interface methods I have an interface that defines a setter/getter using java 8 default methods, but I am getting an error when attempting to wire it up in Spring. I really want to avoid using abstract class and I don't want to duplicate the code. Here is what I am doing:
public interface MyProcessor
{
  public static final WeakHashMap<Function1D, Integer> paramMap = new WeakHashMap<>();

  default void setParam(int param)
  {
        paramMap.put(this, param);
  }

  default int getParam()
  {
      return paramMap.get(this);
  }

  default double doSomthingWithParam(double x)
  {
          return doSomething() * getParam();
  }

  double doSomething();
 }

public class MyProcessorImp extends SomeClass implements MyProcessor
{
    double doSomething() {....}
 }

  <bean class="....MyProcessorImp"> <property name="param" value="3"/></bean>

Bean property 'param' is not writable or has an invalid setter method.

A: In my own projects, I get the implementor to supply me with the dependency supplied by spring's DI container.
Reworking the code above, this would look like this:
public interface MyProcessor {

  // get the implementor to get the hash map
  WeakHashMap<Function1D, Integer> getParamMap();

  default double doSomthingWithParam(double x) {
    return doSomething() * getParam();
  }

  // uses the implementor's getParamMap() to get params
  default int getParam() {
    return getParamMap().get(this);
  }

  double doSomething();
}

public class MyProcessorImp extends SomeClass implements MyProcessor {

  final WeakHashMap<Function1D, Integer> paramMap = new WeakHashMap<>();

  void setParam(int param) {
    paramMap.put(this, param);
  }

  @Override WeakHashMap<Function1D, Integer> getParamMap() {
    return paramMap;
  }

  @Override double doSomething() {
    // elided
  }
}

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Toyota MR2 Mk1 1989 (Yellow) - Photograph printed on Aluminium 210x148mm - Ideal Present
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Toyota MR2 Mk1 1989 (Yellow) - Photograph printed on Aluminium 210x148mm -
Aluminium Plaque 148 x 210mm with hanging cord - Printed by sublimation
PHOTOGRAPH - This car belongs to one of my son in laws who supplied the photo. I have manipulated the original colour of White to Yellow for an extra choice.
HISTORY - The Toyota MR2 was a two seater mid engined sports car that was manufactured from 1984 to 2007 going through three distinct generations with small improvements made on a yearly basis. The first generation was designated W10 and manufactured from 1984 to 1989 although this particular was registered in 1990. It was originally launched with a 1500cc engine this was changed to a 1600cc in a 1986 and a supercharged version was available in the United States. The suspension was deigned in conjunction with Lotus and it had a 0-60 of 8.5 triumphing over the then competition of the Fiat x1/9 and the Pontiac Fiero
ALUMINIUM PLAQUE
Overall size 148 X 210mm with hanging cord - I printed this on white faced aluminium using the sublimation process which gives a long lasting finish.


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SHOTGUN 7
Shotgun 7 was awarded to Grace Herbert with work developed during the program on display in the exhibition, Increase Productivity at the CAT Gallery from 16 March – 21 April, 2019. Linda Dement and Helen Hughes provided supporting texts.
Ambition is a lifestyle. Generate industrious wellbeing. Redefine your personal fulfillment through abundant success. Create your life's work in your work life and be faithful to your own brand. Become part of the greater we.
Take 3 minutes out of your schedule today to gain unlimited productivity, open out creative capacity and build meaningful prosperity. Bod Pod™, the Gold Standard in Body Composition Analysis, can evaluate your current state of personal growth, recommend a course of action and, with repeat sessions, track the attainment of goals.
Productivity is authenticity is wellbeing is quantifiable.
Linda Dement - excerpt
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Grace Herbert's exhibition Increase Productivity brings together two symbolic regimes of self-improvement: the first is that of contemporary corporate culture, represented by that most ubiquitous object of postfordism, the communal hot desk; and the second is that of the personal fitness and well-being industry, here represented by a Bod Pod – an air-tight, human-scaled, fibreglass chamber that, using the principle of air displacement, calculates the user's body–fat ratio with extreme precision. Both the hot desk and the Bod Pod are installed within adjoining transparent but nevertheless walled-in mobile office spaces, each 3 x 3 metres wide, which the artist has constructed inside the gallery. They are lit with the same cool, flat light of fluros, which gives both objects and spaces a uniform palette. Yet where the communal hot desk connotes sociality, the Bod Pod (which, with the help of cyberfeminist artist Linda Dement, has been made over into an atmospheric meditation cubicle fitted out with a customised voice-over and pensive soundtrack) encourages deep, personal introspection. How, we are therefore compelled by to ask, are we to understand the hot desk and the Bod Pod's relation to one another? Where the hot desk allows one to work on whatever, wherever, whenever, and thereby become a more competitive producer, the Bod Pod allows one to understand one's body and its specific nutritional needs in order to reach peak physical (or in the case of this exhibition, peak emotional and psychological) fitness. Their combination in the gallery thus reads as a portrait of the shifting economies of productivity and efficiency under late capitalism, of the total bleed between work and leisure, one's self and one's job – with the mobile office operating at the level of the social, and the Bod Pod at the level of the individual.
Helen Hughes - excerpt
Read full Helen Hughes SHOTGUN 7 essay
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IMAGES: Grace Herbert, what are you waiting for?, 2019. Photos Remi Chauvin.
The 6th edition of Shotgun was awarded to Nadège Philippe-Janon and Robert O'Connor who undertook individually tailored programs to initiate industry access, stimulate critical engagement and facilitate the development of new work. The following essays are by each artist's mentor - Nadège Philippe-Janon, Mock Sun by Helen Hughes and Robert O'Connor, Cartographer of the Peripheral Or The détournement of Rob O'Connor by Ashley Crawford.
Nadège Philippe-Janon
Mock Sun
Mock suns—or sun dogs—are a perceptual phenomenon caused by the combination of sunlight, ice crystals and their refraction at the vantage point of the viewer. They are a natural accident whereby the viewer sees the Earth's sun multiplied in a horizontal band across the sky—with a mock sun flanking the actual sun at either side. With the sun now in triplicate, one's regular environment all of a sudden appears otherworldly—like a planet orbited by multiple moons. Perhaps it is for this reason that science-fiction writer and art critic Mark von Schlegell titled his 2005 book Sundogz (part of his System Series), which is set somewhere in the future amongst the moons of Uranus. For von Schlegell knows that the one of the highest achievements of art and science fiction alike is to alter our perception of the world around us, and render its everyday truths a little wobbly.
Hobart-based artist Nadège Philippe-Janon's work pivots around the exploration of both everyday and more mysterious natural phenomena, which she often seeks to approximate in experiments using projected light and scavenged items that she has stored in her studio. Past works have featured video-mapped projections that have simulated eclipses, the otherworldly glow of phosphorescent jellyfish, and networks of sunlight across rippled water. These immersive environments often feature an absorptive soundtrack and, coupled with moving light, choreograph viewers' attention by directing it, and their bodies, around the exhibition space.
Read Helen Hughes full SHOTGUN 6 essay
IMAGES : Nadège Philippe-Janon from the exhibition Mock Sun, 2017. Photos Peter Angus Robinson and Lucy Parakhina.
Robert O'Connor
Cartographer of the Peripheral
The détournement of Rob O'Connor
"What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?"
"About six inches to the mile,"
"Only six inches!" exclaimed Mein Herr. "We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country on the scale of a mile to the mile!"
– Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.
Cartographer, archeologist, explorer, scavenger, sociologist and resurrectionist. Rob O'Connor is all of these things. His work, like the artist himself, exudes a restless energy and a palpable curiosity. He is fascinated by maps, even when they are composed of detritus, both found and formed by O'Connor himself. He notes that cities are full of unseen histories – sites of trauma, humour, accident, neglect – and he is driven to make these visible. That which many would deride as 'rubbish' are grist to O'Connor's mill. One is reminded of William Gibson's mantra in his novel Burning Chrome: "...the street finds its own uses for things."
O'Connor takes to the street wherever he is, from Queens in NYC to Santiago to Melbourne. But in this body of work he takes to Hobart in all its claustrophobic and retroactive wonder. Hobart is besieged by isolation, a small city on an island-state, its denizens form even smaller social and cultural cliques with their own codes and linguistics. O'Connor, like an eccentric private detective in a strange neon-noir mystery, combs the streets seeking clues to some labyrinthine underworld revolving around Brisbane Street where he both lives and works. He is clearly convinced that part of the clue revolves around the Brisbane Hotel, the home of punk rock in Hobart and, as he says, a true time-warp/stuck-in-the-80s pub replete with sticky carpet and an array of potential health problems.
Ashley Crawford - excerpt
Read full Ashley Crawford SHOTGUN 6 Robert O'Connor essay
IMAGES : Robert O'Connor from the exhibition A rag or a rip, 2017. Photos Peter Angus Robinson and Jack Bett.
SHOTGUN 2014
Shotgun 2014 marked five years of the project. It was a timely point to reflect on the evolution of the program. It was also the first time that six artists were invited to participate in the one edition: Ross Byers, Dean Chatwin, David Hawley, Jason James, Tom O'Hern and Nicola Smith. In 2014 there was no exhibition associated with Shotgun and resources were directed towards a 'stepped-up' industry access program, out of which the thought-provoking texts by Jasmin Stephens, Hannah Mathews and Quentin Sprague were generated.
Review Process | Process Review
Shotgun - with its connotations of assuming a stance, taking aim and hitting a target – now has a five-year history. As this year's participating artists and mentors have met, a process of reckoning has begun that could ideally continue for years to come. The cumulative workings of its mix of introductions, broader discussions and exhibition activities has been the subject of many conversations.
I was keen to be involved because I felt that aspects of my experience in Western Australia and Southeast Asia might be pertinent to the Tasmanian scene. Tasmania, which is shaped by the intensity of its island and colonial character, is unlike the Indian Rim, yet artists situated in all these places are working in contexts that are less visible to the art world's institutions and markets. In such situations, greater weight is given to notions of geography and locality when accounting for artists' practices. This tendency is often capitalised on in order to marshall arguments for the arts but should also be strenuously interrogated. With less infrastructure, there is added incentive for artists to create their own Shotgun program.
Jasmin Stephens – excerpt
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In for the long haul: the necessity for community amongst artists
There is a lot of expectation these days. In the arts it seems to be growing. There is an expectation that one will study, exhibit, get a grant, undertake a residency, be written about, one will sell. These are all points of achievement facilitated/structured by the dollar – mostly by government, sometimes patrons, often by the individual artist themselves. The quality of practice counts too, but too often it relies on how it is couched in an application, artist statement or press release.
The expectation of a career trajectory that encompasses these milestones seems to have become the norm, especially for younger artists. Once these achievements could be seen documented over a life-long practice, today they seem to be achieved at an accelerated rate that leaves me wondering what happens next. With so much emphasise placed on the 'new' and 'emerging' what are the realistic expectations for artists between this developmental period and the long stretch to 'established'?
Hannah Mathews – excerpt
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How to be current
I recently read that we have reached 'peak Twitter'. This happened quietly one day; whomever or whatever is tasked with tracking these kinds of things noticed that what had until that moment been generally on the rise was now generally on the downturn. Regardless of the fact that the social publishing platform had collectively brought us closer to our celebrities and politicians, provided a means for the mundane to be shared and carried the urgency of events like the Arab Spring into the international consciousness, the number of tweets tipped, for the first time, back towards earth and began a slow downwards arc. As the article put it, 'Twitter is entering its twilight.' Perhaps in half a decade, likely sooner, the platform will be a thing of the past. (1)
This shouldn't be surprising. After all, the primacy of one thing will always eventually give over to the primacy of another. But it does seem that the pattern that the interplay between currency and obsolescence sketches has become ever tighter and more intricate as things rise and fall in faster succession. Admittedly this patterning grants the surface of our world a more interesting texture, but it also makes it harder to access what lies beneath.
Quentin Sprague – excerpt
(1) Admittedly the numbers still astound. At the time of writing 466,594,678 tweets had been sent in the last 24 hours, increasing at a rate of roughly 7,000 per second.
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IMAGES: Ross Byers, Mnemonics, 2014. Cardboard. Photo Dierdre Pearce | Dean Chatwin, Building Relations (series), 2014. Video production still. Photo courtesy of the artist | David Hawley, Turn, 2013. Vinyl on clear PVC. Photo John Bodin | Jason James, Galla Placidia, 2013. Light. Photo freandhannah.com | Tom O'Hern, The grrreat disappointment (detail), 2014. Acrylic on canvas. Photo courtesy of the artist | Nicola Smith. Antoine Bertrand as Rodger II, 2013. Watercolour on paper. Photo Jack Bett | Shotgun 2014 publication launch, silhouettes of Shotgun artists, CAT Gallery. Photos Pip Stafford.
Shotgun 2013 was awarded to Mary Scott with work produced during the program presented in the exhibition, Black Powder at the CAT Gallery from 19 – 24 November, 2013. In this edition of Shotgun two essays were commissioned: Slow burning but incendiary… by Jackie Dunn and Mary Scott: Black Powder by Jacqueline Millner.
Slow burning but incendiary…
Pain has an element of blank
It doesn't explain everything, it doesn't explain nothing, it explains some things
Post-election 2013, waiting for our new government to be sworn in and I'm listening to Julia Gillard's biographer call her subject defiant and fatalistic as she exhorted those in parliament to 'take their best shot' at her before a leadership ballot last year. 'Defiance' and 'fatalism': could there be a better twofold characterisation of the work of Mary Scott? Could there be a more important moment for us to think on the relevance of the feminist project to the lived experiences of Australian women?
Creator of intense dramas and claustrophobic domestic tableaux, Scott is the mistress of the anxious moment. Gender proscriptions and normative prohibitions; problematised erotics and sublimated traumas; the opaque complexity of emotions: these are her subjects, realised in works that describe direct embodied protests.
Scott's is an expanded autobiographical practice that uses the self not solipsistically, but intuitively so as to reaffirm the centrality of the body – specifically but not exclusively, the female body – to political and social discourses. In her latest investigation, Black Powder, Scott brings a new tone: a note of urgency. Black powder: fuelled by charcoal, highly combustible but frustratingly slow-burning.
Jackie Dunn - excerpt
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Mary Scott: Black Powder
In this ambitious installation, Mary Scott has experimented her way to an unsettling new take on some familiar themes around the body and its relationship to power. These intensely worked surfaces — marked and rubbed and erased — bear the traces of Scott's own body over time, as she sifts through the cultural image bank and reinvests it with material presence. Significantly, Scott has focused her inquiry on the human face and gesture. That conceptual focus is complemented by her formal decisions that create a powerful dialogue between figure and frame, darkness and light: the faces appear and disappear, tightly bounded at one moment, exceeding their confines at another. Even when the images overflow the edges of the paper, they maintain their formal and, by extension, their psychological tension. Constrained to the point of contortion, it is in the very exertion of self-control that the faces threaten to disintegrate. Yet in the process of disintegration there potentially emerges another face — another surface, another interface between world and subject, another ground for encounter as symbolized by the dense charcoal wall Scott has placed at the installation's entrance.
Jacqueline Millner - excerpt
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IMAGES: Mary Scott, Black Powder, installation 2013. Charcoal and pastel on paper and on walls. Photos Peter Angus Robinson
Lucienne Rickard and Joel Crosswell were awarded Shotgun 2012. Rickard's obsessive and physically demanding drawings were presented in the CAT Gallery (15 September – 7 October, 2012) alongside Croswell's totemic sculptures that incorporate straw, wood, cloth, modeling clay, resins and found objects. In her essay Between Two Deaths, Vikki McInnes provides insights into the work that each artist developed during the Shotgun program.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. (2)
Vikki McInnes - excerpt
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IMAGES: Lucienne Rickard, I thought I had paid for everything, suite of work, install documentation 2012 | Joel Crosswell, Carnival of Souls, suite of work, install documentation 2012. Photos Peter Angus Robinson
Over an 8 month period the Shotgun 2011 artists Amanda Davies and Andrew Harper participated in an intensive program of industry access and critical engagement. The program culminated in exhibitions in the CAT gallery: Amanda Davies Purge and Andrew Harper Hieronymus, both presented from 29 October - 27 November 2011. Sarah Miller developed an insightful essay on each artists work.
Signalling through the Flames (1) :
The art of Amanda Davies and Andrew Harper
In the age of rationalization, of the ideal of calculation and of generalized rationality of the market, it falls to the [artists] to deal with the extremes of affect by means of an aesthetics of risk, extremes which always also contain the possibility of offending by breaking taboos (Lehmann 2006: 187).
In the archives of the small provincial city of Hobart in Tasmania lies an account of an astonishing historic occurrence (2). Two artists – a woman and a man – each barely known to the other, are invited to participate in Shotgun, an early career artist exhibition and professional development opportunity.
At first glance, it seems these artists have little in common. Amanda Davis is a painter living in a rural idyll on the Tasman Peninsula, while Andrew Harper is a performance artist and experimental filmmaker, inhabiting an inner city suburb of Hobart. They create work that is clearly differentiated: painting and performance, object and action, image and spoken word, and yet despite these obvious differences, what becomes increasingly evident are the affinities between these artists and their distinct and distinctive bodies of work.
These may be described in terms of visceral and emotional intensity, art-making as a profoundly embodied experience, an interest in a religious, or perhaps less contentiously, a spiritual condition of heightened awareness, a DIY aesthetic, and a strong sense of theatricality, which following Artaud, may be characterised as, '…that momentary pointlessness which drives them to useless acts without immediate profit' (1977, p.15). This may be understood as a kind of excess, referencing an ethical extreme, a moral edge that demands our attention, speaking to the means by which pleasure and pain, joy and despair, humour and disgust are drawn or etched into the surface of life and art.
The externalisation of inner landscapes, an unsettling of the viewer's perception, the shout of rage, tension - and its physical expression or evocation - the body as a site of meaning. I did not anticipate these artists in proximity.
Sarah Miller - excerpt
(1) The title is borrowed from Antonin Artaud (1958) in 'The Theater and Culture', the preface to The Theater and its Double as quoted in Lehmann, H T (2006), and Fuchs E (1996).
(2) With apologies to Antonin Artaud, (1977) 'Theatre and the Plague'.
IMAGES: Amanda Davies, from the series Purge, 2011. Photos courtesy of the artist | Andrew Harper, Hieronymus, 2011. Video stills.
Shotgun 2010 was the first edition of the project. Three early-career artists were selected for the program that involved commissioned texts on each artists practice - Scot Cotterell by Craig Judd, Sara Maher Breathing Infinity by Biljana Jancic and Cath Robinson by Seán Kelly.
Scot Cotterell
We are all acted upon by the media. Our bodies are constantly assaulted by photographic imagery. We learn to love and indeed desire the chaotic intersections of High and Low culture forms. An extraordinary statistic is that on May 18 2010 some 24 hours per minute of video material was uploaded onto the website You Tube. This piece of minor arcana is a perfect way to illustrate the almost pathological obsession to document every aspect of contemporary life. It also demands questions about who is the audience for this material and how do they make sense of this vast mountain of unmediated visual data. Can we make sense? Information overload is de rigueur this century. In this virtual world there is no such thing as a unitary engagement, everything is polyvalent mutable. Network theory, spurred by the growth of the World Wide Web is now the Queen of Science, unlocking new knowledge across an array of disciplines. Miniaturization while intriguing continues to distance us from new technologies. This is a small glimpse of the rich vein of material, the terrain that Scot Cotterell mines.
Craig Judd - excerpt
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IMAGES: Scot Cotterell, 20 Deaths that are(nt) mine, install documentation 2010. Photos Jan Dallas and Chris Wilson
Sara Maher Breathing Infinity
Our consciousness sets us the task of contemplating the immensity both around and inside ourselves. Sara Maher collapses these disparate spaces within her practice, both the agoraphobia induced by the vastness of uninhibited, ancient landscapes as well as the claustrophobia incurred by the build up of memories, emotions and ideas within. These dual spaces come to coexist in her art where they ultimately serve as shadows of her experiences. Maher does not seek to represent the sources of anxieties but rather filters them through one another in order to produce a complex set of relations between the self and the world which the French phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard termed 'intimate immensity'. (1)
There are incalculable ways to attempt to locate our consciousness within the vastness of experience. One approach, the one most commonly taken, is via processes that aim to demystify the infinity of these spaces by documenting, measuring and framing. Another is to challenge oneself to dwell in immensity and revel in the unbounded possibility it offers the dreamer. Maher confronts immensity through her practice both by seeking out the affect of mysterious, remote places in which she undertakes residency programs and through confronting her inner world within the shelter of her studio/ house/ cave.
Biljana Jancic - excerpt
(1) Gaston Bachelard (Trans. by Maria Jolas), Poetics of Space, Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusettes, 1994, p183-210
Read full SHOTGUN 2010 Sara Maher essay
IMAGES: Sara Maher, Whiteout (Lake St Clair), 2010, Infrasound (Lake St Clair), 2010 and exhibition install views. Photos Peter Angus Robinson.
Cath Robinson
A significant amount of Cath Robinson's work involves the interaction between the development and the delivery of (articulated) thoughts - in fact it focuses specifically on the 'spaces' between verbal expressions and maps the traces of sound which glue spoken thoughts together. The sounds made when pausing to generate or refine a thought prior to expression are in themselves expressive. She denotes this as 'Um' - a common sound expression indicating that thinking is in process, (in Ireland this sound is 'Em').
A prolonged exposure to Robinson's work heightens awareness of the significance of the unconscious cues which we constantly project and receive in conversation, akin in some ways to the enormous significance of body language, both of which are sent and responded to at the instinctual level, but are no less significant for that.
Seán Kelly - excerpt
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IMAGES: Cath Robinson, Thought Noise Resonator, 2010. Photos Peter Angus Robinson.


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Polish national holiday of the Constitution of May 3, . The first democratic European constitution and the second in the world.
Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 (Polish: Konstytucja Trzeciego Maja) was adopted as a "Government Act" (Polish: Ustawa rządowa) on that date by the Sejm (parliament) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Historian Norman Davies calls it "the first constitution of its type in Europe"
The May 3rd Constitution was designed to redress long-standing political defects of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and its traditional system of "Golden Liberty" conveying disproportionate rights and privileges to the nobility. The Constitution introduced political equality between townspeople and nobility (szlachta) and placed the peasants under the protection of the government, thus mitigating the worst abuses of serfdom. The Constitution abolished pernicious parliamentary institutions such as the liberum veto, which at one time had put the sejm at the mercy of any deputy who might choose, or be bribed by an interest or foreign power, to undo legislation passed by that sejm. The Constitution sought to supplant the existing anarchy fostered by some of the country's magnates with a more democratic constitutional monarchy.
The Constitution was created by Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski, Stanisław Małachowski, Hugo Kołłątaj, Ignacy Potocki, Stanisław Staszic, Scipione Piattoli and others.
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