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<document xmlns:p="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/pipeline" xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
        xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xxforms="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/xforms"
        xmlns:oxf="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/processors" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:sql="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/sql" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

        <title>Changes in Version 3.5</title>

            <title>Introduction</title>

                Welcome to Orbeon Forms 3.5!

                Orbeon Forms 3.5 features many improvements over Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS) 3.0.1, including
                XForms engine performance enhancements, enhanced browser support, and quality improvements. Orbeon Forms
                3.5 also features a much simplified directory structure that makes it easier to get started with your
                own Orbeon Forms applications.

                This document describes changes made between Orbeon PresentationServer 3.0.1 and Orbeon Forms 3.5.2.

            <title>Changes in Version 3.5.1</title>

                Orbeon Forms 3.5.1 is an update to Orbeon Forms 3.5.

                <title>Noteworthy Changes</title>

                            Support for combined XForms resources. The XForms engine now supports an option to
                            automatically combine CSS and JavaScript resources used by XForms pages. This can lead to page
                            loading time improvements. See the XForms Reference for details.

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Teleflex.

                            Tree and menu memory leaks. The tree and menu controls have been causing significant
                            memory leaks on the browser, especially on in IE. The leaks could be in the order of several
                            MB per page load. If you are using the tree or menu control, you should consider upgrading to
                            3.5.1. See issue #306754.

                            Incorrect XPath evaluation of preceding:: and preceding-sibling::
                            axes. This issue could result in particularly confusing results when using XPath expressions
                            with these axes from XForms. See issue #306836.

                            XSLT memory leak. In certain circumstances, too many objects were stored in the Orbeon
                            Cache when using XSLT. This could cause Orbeon Forms to run out of memory. See issue #306826.

                            XForms Classic memory leaks. In certain circumstances, too many objects were stored in
                            the Orbeon Cache when using XForms Classic. This
                            could cause Orbeon Forms to run out of memory. See issue #306827.

                            Partial support for ev:observer attribute. This attribute, defined by the
                            XML Events specification, allows you to register event handlers by specifying an element
                            identifier, instead of embedding the event handler within that element. This is particularly
                            useful to register event handlers on <xforms:instance> elements, which do not
                            allow you to directly embed XML event handlers. The current support is limited to adding the
                            ev:observer attribute on XForms actions under <xforms:model> with
                            the ev:observer attribute referring to a child <xforms:instance>.
                            See the XForms Reference for details.

                            New xxforms:index() function. The xxforms:index() function
                            behaves like the standard XForms index() function, except that its argument is
                            optional. When the argument is omitted, the function returns the index of the closest enclosing
                            <xforms:repeat> element. See the XForms Reference for details.

                            Attribute Value Templates (AVTs). Support for AVTs is now documented. Support for escaping brackets has been added.
                            See issue #306835.

                            Auto-complete field in repeat. Only the auto-complete initially present when the page was
                            generated used to work in repeat. Now the auto-complete feature also works on auto-complete
                            controls that are added to the page after it is first loaded. See issue #306805.

                            Documentation of submission attribute. The extension attribute xxforms:show-progress="false"
                            of <xforms:submission> is now documented.

                <title>Complete List of Issues Addressed in this Release</title>

                    #306805: Autocomplete doesn't work in repeat

                    #306850: Support XForms 1.1 xforms-insert and xforms-delete context information

                    #306828: XInclude: namespace declared and undeclared on the same element

                    #306849: Using schema id constraints throws exception

                    #306843: xforms:repeat only allows styling selected row up to two levels

                    #306835: Support escaping of { and } in AVTs

                    #306806: Autocomplete doesn't work in dialog

                    #306837: xforms:message/@level is not required in XForms 1.1

                    #306836: Saxon dom4j wrapper incorrectly iterates over preceding-sibling:: and preceding:: axes

                    #306832: xforms:group gets too many events

                    #306829: When item is added, label is not displayed

                    #306827: XForms Classic keeps references to PipelineContext objects

                    #306826: XSLT TransformerURIResolver object keeps references to PipelineContext object

                    #306795: Stack overflow with long URL

                    #306793: MIP for read-only instances should return readonly="true"

                    #306782: Combined resources cache should generate resources upon loading the page

                    #305780: Way to pass the base URL to the client

                    #306268: xforms:select does not update as instance values change

                    #306530: IE: JS error when canceling page unload

                    #306542: xforms:select1 won't dropdown after showing a dialog

                    #306754: Menu and tree causing memory leak on IE

                    #306592: Repeat bug with IE 6

                    #306676: "Could not set the selected property" in IE

                    #305808: Server to send XForms server URL to client when the page is loaded

                    #306708: NPE when enabling XForms instance inspector

                    #306540: Setfocus action does not work for auto-complete field

            <title>Changes in Version 3.5</title>

                Orbeon Forms 3.5 features the following changes:

                <title>Orbeon PresentationServer is now Orbeon Forms</title>

                    The product has been renamed Orbeon Forms. Plase refer to the FAQ entry for more information.

                <title>New Orbeon Forms Tutorial</title>

                    A brand new tutorial is available! It guides you through the Orbeon
                    Forms installation, a simple Hello application, and then shows how to
                    build the Bookcast application, complete with handling of
                    persistence and production of an Atom feed.

                <title>XForms Performance</title>

                            Client-side performance improvements. The client-side event handling has been
                            entirely reworked. Client-side JavaScript performance is now greatly improved and large
                            forms that took seconds to load because of client-side JavaScript now load almost instantly.

                            Server-side performance improvements. New caches have been added to improve
                            server-side performance, including a separate XPath cache and an XForms document cache. In
                            addition, the number of XPath expressions executed as you interact with a form has been
                            reduced.

                            JavaScript and CSS loading. JavaScript and CSS files related to particular XForms
                            controls are loaded only when necessary. In addition, the property
                            oxf.xforms.minimal-resources allows specifying whether "minimal" versions of
                            those resources should be used when possible. See the XForms Reference for details.

                            Read-only and shared instances. XForms instances can be marked as read-only and can
                            be globally shared. See Read-Only XForms
                            Instances and Sharing of Read-Only XForms
                            Instances for details.

                <title>XForms Platform Support</title>

                            Safari and Opera support. Support for Safari 1.3 and above and Opera 8.5 and above in
                            addition to Firefox and Internet Explorer. The main limitation is that the WYSIWYG HTML
                            area does not work on Opera and Safari.

                            The Safari support was kindly sponsored by Object Consulting.

                            Support for Liferay portal. Orbeon Forms, including XForms functionality, is now able
                            to deploy as JSR-168 portlets within Liferay portal (version 4.2.1 is the most recent tried,
                            other versions and other portals may also work), including multiple Orbeon Forms portlets at
                            the same time. For more information, see Liferay Deployment.

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Atkins Transport Systems.

                <title>XForms Printable Formats</title>

                            Read-only mode for forms. A read-only mode is now supported with the
                            xxforms:readonly-appearance attribute. With
                            xxforms:readonly-appearance="static", read-only controls take a static
                            appearance appropriate for read-only rendition of forms in HTML. See Government Forms sample application's View Read-Only option for
                            an example, as well as the Read-Only Mode
                            documentation.

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Esprit.

                            Improved PDF generation. The PDF Template processor has been improved to facilitate
                            the creation of PDF versions of forms based on PDF templates. The processor now supports
                            groups, repetitions, and XPath 2.0. See Government Forms sample
                            application's View PDF option for an example.

                <title>XForms Controls Enhancements</title>

                            Autocomplete control. You enable this on xforms:select1 with the
                            xxforms:autocomplete appearance. See XForms
                            Controls and Google Suggests for examples.

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Mobydoc.

                            WYSIWYG HTML editor control. You enable this on xforms:textarea with the
                            text/html mediatype. See XForms HTML Area for
                            an example.

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Teleflex.

                            Tree control and menu control. You enable this on xforms:select1 and
                            xforms:select (tree only) with the xxforms:tree and
                            xxforms:menu apperances.

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Teleflex.

                            Dialog control. This control allows you to show modal or modeless dialogs.

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Teleflex.

                            Upload control. The upload control now works when submitting instances with
                            replace="instance" or replace="none". From the form user's
                            perspective, this allows uploading files in the background. See XForms Upload for examples.

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Teleflex.

                            Selection controls. Support of hierarchy for single selection controls
                            xforms:select1 when using the minimal and compact
                            appearances. Support for mix-and-match of xforms:item,
                            xforms:itemset and xforms:choices

                            Switch within repeat. Enhanced support of xforms:switch within
                            xforms:repeat.

                            Enhanced xforms:output support. Support for
                            xforms:output in xforms:label, xforms:hint,
                            xforms:help, and xforms:alert. This allow you to dynamically
                            build the value of labels, etc. For example:

                        <xml-source show-namespaces="false">
                            <xforms:trigger>
                                <xforms:label>Dynamic label with a number (<xforms:output value="count(/*/*)"/>) in it!</xforms:label>
                            </xforms:trigger>
                        </xml-source>

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Esprit.

                            HTML and XHTML within xforms:help Support for HTML and literal XHTML
                            within xforms:help and xforms:hint. See the XForms Reference for
                            documentation.

                            This feature was kindly sponsored by Teleflex.

                <title>XForms 1.1 Features</title>

                            Insert and delete actions. Support for the XForms 1.1 context and origin attributes on
                            xforms:insert and xforms:delete.

                            Conditional XForms actions. Support for XForms 1.1 conditional actions with the
                            if (and exf:if) attributes.

                            Repeated XForms actions. Support for XForms 1.1 actions iterations with the
                            while (and exf:while) attributes.

                            New functions. Support for XForms 1.1 digest(), random()
                            and seconds-to-dateTime() functions.

                <title>XForms Submission Enhancements</title>

                            HTTP authentication for instances and submissions.
                            xforms:instance and xforms:submission support the
                            xxforms:username and xxforms:password to supply
                            authorization credentials when using HTTP.

                            AVTs on xforms:submission. Support for attribute value
                            templates (AVT) on xforms:submission action,
                            xxforms:username and xxforms:password attributes.

                            DELETE HTTP method. Support for the XForms 1.1 DELETE
                            HTTP method on xforms:submission.

                            urlencoded-post submission method. Support for the
                            urlencoded-post method is now available. This allows in particular using the
                            HTTP POST method to access APIs such as the Flickr API.

                            XForms 1.1 attributes. Support for xforms:submission's
                            serialize, validate, and relevant attributes.

                <title>XForms Extensions</title>

                            xxforms:instance() extension function. The xxforms:instance()
                            function works like the standard instance() function except that it
                            searches for instances in all the models of the XForms document.

                            exforms:sort() extension function. The exforms:sort() function
                            implements the eXforms proposal's sorting
                            function.

                            xxforms:context() extension function. The xxforms:context() XPath
                            function allows you to obtain the evaluation context for an enclosing
                            xforms:group, xforms:repeat, or xforms:switch.

                            xxforms:evaluate() extension function. The xxforms:serialize() XPath
                            functions allow you to respectively evaluate dynamic XPath expressions and serialize XML
                            documents.

                            xxforms:repeat-current() extension function. The xxforms:repeat-current()
                            XPath function allws you to find the current item of an enclosing
                            xforms:repeat.

                            xxforms:script extension action. A new extension action xxforms:script
                            allows you to call client-side JavaScript code as a result of XForms events.

                            Extension attributes on controls. The following extension attributes on
                            xforms:input and xforms:textarea allow you to control aspects of
                            the underlying HTML controls: xxforms:size, xxforms:maxlenght and
                            xxforms:rows, xxforms:cols. See xforms:input and xforms:textarea.

                <title>XForms Instance Inspector</title>

                    The new Instance Inspector allows you
                    to visualize all the instances of your XForms page.

                <title>New Example Applications Portal</title>

                    In previous versions, the examples portal, which shows the built-in Orbeon Form example, was
                    implemented with a custom JSR-168 container. Example applications ran in as a JSR-168 portlet.
                    Because the portal introduced an indirection and was not particularly optimized, this led to
                    performance issues. In addition, it was not clear to users how they could run examples outside the
                    examples portal.

                    In this version of Orbeon Forms:

                            The Orbeon JSR-168 container is removed. Applications, including all the examples, are now
                            directly displayed without going through the portal. This means that examples now run much
                            faster by default.

                            JSR-168 support is still present (in fact it is much
                            improved), but Orbeon Forms no longer comes with its own portal. Use a portal such as
                            Liferay to deploy Orbeon Forms portlets.

                            The example applications portal layout is simply created in a theme under
                            config/theme-portal.xsl.

                            Example descriptors (example-descriptor.xml) included with each example are
                            now removed. The Orbeon Forms source code viewer no longer uses this file and automatically
                            gathers the list of files for each application.

                <title>Improved Applications Directory Structure</title>

                    The Orbeon Forms resources (found under WEB-INF/resources) are now better organized:

                            A single top-level apps directory contains all the applications deployed within
                            Orbeon Forms. To create your own applications, simply create a subdirectory of the
                            apps directory that contains a Page Flow file (page-flow.xml).
                            Adding or removing applications is is simply a matter of adding or removing directories.

                            The only remaining top-level directory, besides the apps directory, is the
                            config directory, which contains Orbeon Forms configuration files that you can
                            modify according to your needs.

                            The contents of the private ops directory is moved to JAR files:
                            ops-resources-private.jar and ops-resources-public.jar. You should
                            rarely have to modify these resources, unless you are adding functionality to Orbeon Forms
                            or fixing Orbeon Forms bugs.

                                    ops-resources-private.jar contains private Orbeon Forms resources.

                                    ops-resources-public.jar contains public Orbeon Forms resources. This
                                    JAR file can be expanded in order to allow its content to be served directly by a
                                    web server such as Apache.

                    The new directory structure makes it easier to get started with your own Orbeon Forms applications.
                    It also makes upgrading to a new version of Orbeon Forms easier, since the files you are not likely
                    to modify are packaged in JAR files that you simply replace during an upgrade.

                <title>New Government Forms Sample Application</title>

                    Previous versions of Orbeon Forms came with the "BizDoc" and then the "DMV Forms" sample
                    applications. Orbeon Forms 3.5 comes with the Government Forms application,
                    which shows how you can handle complex forms with Orbeon Forms. In particular:

                            Create, save, update, and delete forms persisted in the eXist XML database using a REST
                            API directly from XForms.

                            Perform as-you-type validation and display an always up-to-date error summary.

                            Produce read-only, XML or PDF versions of your forms.

                            Handle internationalization and change language on the fly.

                <title>Other Enhancements</title>

                            XInclude processor. The XInclude processor now
                            supports an extension attribute, xxi:omit-xml-base, which disables producing
                            xml:base attributes upon inclusion. This can be quite useful when performing
                            schema validation on the result, or when xml:base resolution on the result must
                            be performed relative to the URL base of the including document, such as when including an
                            XForms model into an XForms page.

                            New XForms Submission processor. A new XForms
                            Submission processor has been added. It exposes the functionality of
                            <xforms:submission> to XML pipelines and allows you to call REST services
                            from XPL without creating XForms pages.

                            New Execute processor. A new Execute processor has been added. It allows executing
                            external commands and retrieving the command's standard output and standard error.

                            XUpdate processor. The XUpdate processor now supports an extension element,
                            xu:node-set, which allows functions to return node-sets.

                            Delegation processor. When using the delegation processor to call web services, by
                            default the processor throws an exception when the remote service returns a SOAP fault. Now
                            the delegation processor can also be configured to return the SOAP fault document instead
                            of throwing an exception.

                            Portlet preferences processor. Two processors,
                            oxf:portlet-preferences-generator and
                            oxf:portlet-preferences-serializer, allow for reading and writing portlet
                            preferences. See JSR-168 Portlets
                            for more information.

                <title>Library Upgrades</title>

                            Upgrade to the Yahoo! User Interface library
                            as a support library for the client-side part of the XForms engine. Orbeon Forms no longer
                            uses Sarissa.

                            The embedded eXist database has been upgraded to version 1.1.1.

                            The embedded Saxon XSLT, XQuery and XPath engine has been upgraded to version 8.8.

                            Other JAR files have been updated to more recent versions, including dom4j (1.6.1), Jaxen
                            (1.1 beta 9), and ant (1.6.5).

                <title>Bug-Fixes</title>

                    Too many bugs have been fixed to be listed here. You can search for closed bugs on the ObjectWeb
                    Tracker.

                <title>Upgrade Notes</title>

                    Since the Orbeon Forms resources (found under WEB-INF/resources) have been reorganized, you will
                    have to do a few changes when you upgrade from OPS 3.0 or 3.5 M1 to Orbeon Forms 3.5. We suggest the
                    following:

First, backup everything  ;-)

Rename your old resources/ops to resources/ops.bak.

Rename your old resources/config to resources/config.bak.

Copy the new Orbeon Forms resources/config directory to your resources directory.

If you hadn't make any custom changes under the config directory, that should be
                        it. Otherwise, you will need to merge those changes into the new config directory.
                        Note in particular that theme.xsl no longer exist, and is replaced instead by
                        theme-plain.xsl and theme-portal.xsl (referred from epilogue-servlet.xpl).

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Leading multi-store operator of automotive collision repair services in the Southeastern and Southwestern United States.
Brookline was engaged by the shareholders to help the company find a financial partner. The shareholders were seeking a partial liquidity event, but also desired to align with a financial partner that could provide the capital to support an acquisition strategy and provide direction from a board level.
Brookline coordinated a limited process to minimize the burden of a transaction process on shareholders but also deliver premium market valuation and terms for management. Brookline clearly articulated the value proposition of the company's geographic stronghold in a consolidating industry. Brookline identified potential investment partners with significant applicable industry experience that could support the Company's growth plan and drive incremental value for shareholders for a second liquidity event.
The company partnered with a large private equity firm to recapitalize the business to rationalize the company's shareholder base and arrange capital for management's acquisition-focused growth plan. The shareholders achieved a significant liquidity event and continue to own a meaningful portion of the company going forward. Brookline's efforts resulted in the formation of the 5th operating consolidator in the industry.
Follow-Up Note: Since the initial transaction, Brookline has assisted the company and its private equity ownership in creating a new industry consolidator platform with operations in six states and market value over $150 million.


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Cardinals use six-run inning to push past Nationals
Apr 30th 2019 1:40AM
The St Louis Cardinals scored all the runs they needed in the fifth inning of their 6-3 win over the Washington Nationals in MLB.
St Louis were held scoreless through the first four frames, while Washington built an early 3-0 lead on Monday.
But, Harrison Bader hit a home run over the center-field fence and the rest of the scoring followed.
Marcell Ozuna, Jose Martinez and Yadier Molina all recorded at least one RBI and Matt Carpenter came home on a wild pitch to move the Cardinals in front.
Neither team scored again as the Cardinals held on to win.
Michael Wacha earned the win after allowing three runs and four hits while striking out five in five innings of work. Patrick Corbin was charged with the loss.
Bellinger makes history
Los Angeles Dodgers star Cody Bellinger made history as he has the most RBIs ever before May 1 following his team's 3-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants.
Clutch. pic.twitter.com/HGAPHZsW1u
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 30, 2019
Mookie Betts was three for four in the Boston Red Sox's 9-4 win over the Oakland Athletics. He also drove in a run and scored one, as well.
Astros blanked
The Houston Astros were shut down on Monday. Houston went scoreless against the Minnesota Twins in a 1-0 loss. Both Jose Altuve and Yuli Gurriel went 0 for four.
Colorado Rockies lefty Kyle Freeland allowed six hits and five earned runs in the team's 5-1 defeat to the Milwaukee Brewers.
Winker homers for the win
Jesse Winker blasted a home run in the ninth inning to secure the Cincinnati Reds' 5-4 win over the New York Mets.
Da Wink, in da clutch, for da win! #BornToBaseballpic.twitter.com/A9siVohpry
— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) April 30, 2019
Monday's results
St Louis Cardinals 6-3 Washington Nationals
Cincinnati Reds 5-4 New York Mets
Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 Colorado Rockies
Chicago White Sox 5-3 Baltimore Orioles
San Francisco Giants 3-2 Los Angeles Dodgers
Boston Red Sox 9-4 Oakland Athletics
Atlanta Braves 3-1 San Diego Padres
Minnesota Twins 1-0 Houston Astros
Tampa Bay Rays 8-5 Kansas City Royals
Rays at Royals
Tampa Bay are hoping to keep their revived win streak going while Kansas City have struggled. In Tuesday's game, the Rays will start Blake Snell (2-2, 2.54) while the Royals counter with Jakob Junis (2-2, 5.57).
Marcell Ozuna
Matt Carpenter

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I am trying to figure out which trial download to get.
Are the results from the CPU and GPU renderings the same? I have a GTX1060 6GB video card, so GPU should work fine with it, but would CPU rendering produce more photorealistic results?
They are both going to produce photo realistic results but the GPU is mainly used fro very small models, like prototypes of parts like a watch etc. the CPU can handle very large models and because of its grain free capabilities, it will outperform the its GPU counterpart. But that is, if you have a good CPU with 4 cores 8 threads minimum.
My CPU is older but still quite fast (Core i7 2600K over-clocked to 4.3GHz). So should I better go with the CPU version then?
I always thought that GPU rendering is much faster but a bit less photorealistic.
you have the same CPU as I do except mine is not OC and I get much faster results with the CPU. The GPU is faster for small outdoor models or small models with only one or two lights, but it depend on the complexity of the model too and how much reflection materials have.
The CPU version has a grain free rendering mode which in itself outperform the GPU even if it renders somewhat slower, but again, with 8 individual threads, it's fast on your CPU. You can install both if you like and use both. Install the GPU first and rename Raylectron.exe to RaylectrinGPU.exe and then install the CPU version and create another shortcut to Raylectron.exe, Sketchup will use the last one installed by default. So if you want to use the GPU, start Raylectron from Sketchup and then stop the loading process, close it, run the GPU from the shortcut and load the .rof file that was just created.
Thanks. I will just get the CPU version.
The extension is installed within Sketchup, the installer installs it in the same place except you can use the shortcut to it to open already saved .rof files or any .obj files. It also lets you totally uninstall it. As for functionality, they are both identical.
I downloaded Raylectron to try it out. One issue I am having is that objects which are hidden in Sketchup show up in the rendering. How to deal with this?
They should remain hidden unless some other scenes unhide them, in which case, they will not be hidden in Raylectron as it does not hide/unhide objects in scenes. What you can do is create a new Layer in Sketchup and move the object to be hidden in that layer then disable the layer.


Discussion in 'Politics, Religion, Social Issues' started by yg17, May 22, 2012.
And sadly, there are enough racist morons in Arizona who support this crap and will re-elect him.
Not to be outdone by the Arizona secretary of state's recent flirtation with birtherism, Sheriff Joe Arpaio escalated his probe into President Obama's birth certificate this week by dispatching a deputy from his "threats unit" to Hawaii.
Both the Arizona Republic and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported deputy Brian Mackiewcz traveled with Arpaio's volunteer posse member Michael Zullo on Monday to try to get an official confirmation that Hawaii has the president's birth certificate on file.
Earlier this year, the Arizona sheriff fanned the flames of the birther conspiracy theory when he announced that Zullo and other posse members had determined a copy of the birth certificate released last year by the White House was a fraud. More recently, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has said he is following the sheriff's lead and considering keeping the president off the state's ballot in November unless he gets confirmation the document is real.
Both Arpaio and Bennett are Republicans and the latter is co-chairman of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in Arizona. In their efforts, they have essentially caved to pressure from a small but vocal fringe of writers and activists unwilling to believe the president is a natural born citizen of the United States no matter how much evidence they get. The conspiracy theorists say a fake birth certificate would mean Obama is ineligible for the presidency because it would show he was not born a citizen.
Before now, the unit was perhaps best known for its role in a criminal investigation into Arpaio's opponent during the 2004 Republican primary for sheriff. Arpaio's investigators accused the challenger of sexually assaulting his adoptive mother 30 years earlier when he was in his mid-teens. (The challenger later said it was his mother who assaulted him and ended up suing Arpaio.) It's unclear whether Mackiewcz was part of the unit at the time.
He said taxpayers were footing the tab for the airfare and hotel for the investigators, but he hopes the agency will be paid back through private donations. Before now, Arpaio has said the investigation was funded entirely through donations, which are being encouraged by the conspiracy website WorldNetDaily.
Arpaio's volunteer investigator, Zullo, has even gone as far as to link up with WorldNetDaily's top conspiracy theorist, Jerome Corsi, to co-author an e-book about the birther probe. The two men have said they're splitting the profits from sales of the book.
If those private donations don't come through, the taxpayers are stuck with the bill.
We need to give Arizona to Mexico. That will fix their asses.
I could see Arizona's 11 electoral votes being simply rejected should they choose to do this.
Not really; instead all those benighted jokers that moved to Maricopa county over the last two decades will just return to whatever midwest hellhole they're originally from.
Joe Arpaio is the reason the Baja Arizona movement exists. If we could split the state, creating Baja Arizona and Nutterzstan, that would be great. I hate that Tucson gets lumped in with the dimwits from Surprise, Ariz. and the suburban wastelands of Glendale and Scottsdale.


I brought my Instax Wide with me on our road trip to OKC and Dallas to see the entire side of my family. I'm hoping to be able to take a photo of each of them (as well as Brett's side) and then make a flip book for Ruby and Sebastian since they don't see everyone as often as any of us would like. Expect a little DIY in the future!
These are mostly photos I've taken since we've moved into our new home. I wanted a way to document this first Christmas that captured the random memories such as the sick kid dance party we had in our living room the morning before our road trip and the many things Ruby found her way into while we were unpacking. This green wreath was probably made to be a Christmas card holder but I found it at a thrift store and spray painted it green last year and decided to go with photos instead.
We are currently enjoying perfect weather in OKC at my parent's house. Brett and Sebastian are outside playing ball and my mom is soaking in some grandbaby time with Ruby! Can I just say...I'm totally enjoying this little break in mama duty. Couldn't have come at a better time! Check back this evening for our Vintage Here, Vintage There post featuring outerwear!
Love that wreath, what a lucky find!
my instax wide just came in the mail and i am over the moon happy!!!
I have been hinting and hinting for an Instax...we will see if Santa has been listening in 5 days!
I'm totes loving this! Great idea, friend!
that is such a cute idea! I love the colour you painted it :) i'm so glad they've come out with a new type of instant film, I missed the polaroids terribly!
Love this, I hope to find a wreath form that will allow me to do this! It'd also look great as a way to display Christmas cards! Happy Holidays!
Cute display! I got an Instax 25 for Christmas (yes early!) and we've been having fun with it. I'm using it to do my "Journal your Christmas mini" and can't wait to use it on our cross-country roadtrip on our move to California in Feb.!
Been eyeing the Instax or the new Polaroid. I love the new size--makes me want to instantly scrapbook. Not sure if I like pics with the white borders or without that make the pics look like fancy business cards.


Yet despite the small size of this group, their itemized charitable donations accounted for 38.4 percent of all the itemized charitable donations made in the U.S. that year, by taxpayers from all income levels. Most likely, these higher-earning taxpayers will react to lesser income in their pockets by reducing the amount that they donate to nonprofits. If that happens, this reduction on top of the reduction over the last few years will be devastating.
We all want to get out of this downturn in the economy; we all want more jobs created; and we all want our government to come up with a solution to get us moving again. I am hoping that Congress and the president will do the right thing for all of us. I just hope that it is not at the expense of nonprofit organizations that are truly helping those who are in need.
What can be done? Well, the old cliché "contact your congressional representative" probably won't work. Whether they are Democrats, Republicans or independents, most of them are set in their ways and won't budge on anything. What you can do is feed your nonprofits of choice with their lifeblood — donations.
Whether you have a large income or a small income, the next time you have an opportunity to donate to a nonprofit organization, give with a smile — it will come back to you tenfold!
Ron McEvoy is the event and media coordinator for Hospice Partners of the Central Coast in San Luis Obispo.


Brief group overview and relevant pointers for now. A new lab website is under construction.
This is a temporary part of the homepage of the Evolutionary Systems Biology Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It gives a brief overview of group members and some other group info.
Office hours: upon request, please email Laurence Loewe at his wisc address.
SysBio: coordinating work towards an integrated molecular systems biology models of the circadian clock in Drosophila melanogaster.
PopGen: exploring questions on how to estimate diversity, quantify background selection and selective sweeps.
Math: exploring math questions about parameter estimation, optimization, and simulation algorithms.
Evolvix developer: coordinating work towards implementing Evolvix on the more practical side, for those design ideas that are ready to be put in code.
Evolvix system design: exploring how to find, evaluate, and select/reject ideas about how Evolvix as a computational system should be implemented to make it easy to maintain backwards compatibility, semantic stability, efficiency of development, numerical/semantic accuracy, computational speed and excellent usability, without making it impossible to implement.
maximizing semantic and technical accuracy (we also need experts who are competent reviewers with a deep understanding of the semantics of their domain and can accept/reject proposed names as reasonable choices for the semantics to be implemented; let us know if you are interested in such discussions, which can be either one-off or more frequent, as needed).
find words that are easy to understand (if not, undergrads get veto-rights by the lead designer to avoid obfuscating meaning in Evolvix by the jargon, cryptic symbols and historical contingencies that many experts wrongly think are easy).
find words that are judged to be semantically rigorous and not misleading (else experts get veto-rights by the lead designer to keep undergrads from importing semantic confusion into the core of the language).
celebrating once we found words worthy of making it into the language (often after reworking core concepts in ways that experts find intriguing). We had enough surprising successes to justify the time it takes to use this way of translating between the accuracy of math and the intuition of biologists. These meetings do more to break down the dreaded math-bio language barrier than many other approaches; hence it is worth investing in these open-ended discussions.
Are you a student at UW-Madison, a native English speaker, good at explaining things, and interested in watching a scientific paper develop, while simultaneously contributing towards improving the clarity of the presentation? If yes, then you might be interested in trying how it is for you to provide what could be called 'interactive writing support'. While there is no need for you to know anything about science, interactive writing support is an excellent opportunity to learn a lot about about the field that the paper contributes to, or about how some types of scientific papers are written. Interactive writing support is a new idea (as far as we know), which is currently under development in our lab. While this probably doesn't work for everybody, it might be something you would be interested in. Please email Laurence Loewe, if you would like to discuss this.
Our Group is composed of members from a diverse mix of disciplines working on very diverse projects. Here is a brief overview.
project assistant computer science data structures for storing names and sequences in Evolvix.
Please email the Laurence Loewe if you have any questions about the group, would like to visit or think about joining the group.


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They call her the wanderer, and the southern girl with the voice of an angel returns north to help celebrate Independent Venue Week at the Grand, Clitheroe, on Friday, February 1st.
Rozi Plain's new work, What A Boost, constructed over several months, saw her journey across the globe to create her latest album.
She began at the Dentist's Studios in London, then a week in Berlin – before a flying visit to Los Angeles for a day!
"I did this record at a changing time in my life, and I brought back a lot of positive memories during a difficult period for me," said Roz.
Independent Venue Week is a week-long jamboree of small music venues countrywide and a nod to the people that own, run and work in them.
"Emotionally, music is a great release, and when you go to play a new venue, anywhere in the world, it feels like a tribal gathering, a new birth even," added Rozi.
"When you stand on that stage, in front of fifty or five hundred people, it generates a sort of primal energy you can't find anywhere else other than a musical assembly.
"It is really cool to have that shared experience with other people via the conduit of music.
Rozi is no stranger to the Red Rose county, having starred at the popular Cloudspotting music festival, and played bass guitar in the indie band This Is the Kit at a previous visit to the Grand.
"I've lovely memories of the Ribble Valley, including a fantastic curry before our show at the Grand.
"The Grand has created a special vibe in Clitheroe, and that's the great value of an independent venue, to give artists their first experience of playing in front of an audience and fans.
Independent Venue Week, in association with Cloudspotting Music Festival: Rozi Plain, Haiku Salut and Sweeney Astray.


Imagine starting your business and making one of the most effect traffic and lead generation methods on the planet work for without losing any money first. Do you think it's possible?
Solo ads or ezine advertising is a crucial skill for new marketers, because if you do it well, your business will grow very rapidly at a very low cost. Would low costs with high return work for you? Let's get started by looking at how to write solo ads effectively.
Solo ads are very targeted because an email list that is truly good, is targeted to a very specific audience. That's why you really need to qualify your clicks. Since you will be paying for each click, you should be sure of the audience that is clicking.
Solo ads use all the principles of other email, but do it without overdoing it. You want people to click, but you want the right people to click.
So what I am saying is don't try to "force" a click to make your reader see what you have. Doing this will get the wrong people opening your ad, and then immediately abandoning it when they see you really do not have anything they want.
There's more, but these are good ideas. Typically the best combination is to use some form of curiosity combined with a benefit.
Do you see how this literally calls out your target and leaves the targeted reader wondering what's inside he or she must have?
It also tells them there is nothing to buy upfront while igniting the curiosity.
So now your reader is wondering why they must be using them, or they well will try to act smart and justify looking at it to see that they already have what you offer (even though they probably don't).
There isn't a benefit in this subject line, so you might want to adjust for that.
[first name], is your local SEO business doing this?
Do you use any of these in your Local SEO business?
For solo ads, you will generally find that short copy is best. The numbers show this, so don't crazy reinventing the wheel.
Remember, the goal of your Solo email ad is to get the reader to click to your landing page, not to make the sale. You are not emailing sales pages.
This doesn't eliminate further qualifying your reader. You want this final click on your link to be very highly qualified.
I covered this specifically in a previous post. Remember to use the first one or two line to challenge them, or make a big statement, or hit them with a question to drive them to a clear action. Mention something specific about a common problem your reader may be facing.
Next, in a line or two, be an agitator using the problem you'll solve. Remind them of the problem, and then offer a benefit waiting for them when they click the link. Place a second call to action, and another link.
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Virtually every great copy writing genius agrees that PS is something that should not be forgotten.
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I've had problems getting conversions with my solo ads. These points here seem to be everything I violate. Ha… thanks for writing this, Wayne. It's definitely helping me out a lot.
Glad you could use the info on solo ads, Rachelle. Remember, you have to be delivering what people want. Get into their minds and include their hot buttons in your solo ads.


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The louvre welcomes visitors again -
08/07/2020 - France / Paris / Paris - Since its reopening on Monday, July 6, 2020, the Louvre Museum has welcomed visitors sparingly. Visitors must register in advance on the internet and arrive at a specific time slot. 30% of the rooms are not open to the public, all visitors must wear a mask and respect the rules of social distancing in force since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in France.
The louvre welcomes visitors again
Since its reopening on Monday, July 6, 2020, the Louvre Museum has welcomed visitors sparingly. Visitors must register in advance on the internet and arrive at a specific time slot. 30% of the rooms are not open to the public, all visitors must wear a mask and respect the rules of social distancing in force since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in France.
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Re-opening of the Louvre Museum -
06/07/2020 - France / Ile-de-France (region) / Paris - Paris, July 6, 2020. Three and a half months after its closure due to a health crisis, the Louvre Museum reopens its doors to the public... masked.
Re-opening of the Louvre Museum
Olivier Donnars
Paris, July 6, 2020. Three and a half months after its closure due to a health crisis, the Louvre Museum reopens its doors to the public... masked.
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27/01/2020 - France / Paris - With the growing psychosis, Chinese and Asian visitors, at the Louvre in Paris, protect themselves from the Coronavirus with a mask to look at the Mona Lisa.
Coronavirus at the Louvre
Sadak Souici
With the growing psychosis, Chinese and Asian visitors, at the Louvre in Paris, protect themselves from the Coronavirus with a mask to look at the Mona Lisa.


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James Lindsay has been a bookseller for more than a decade. He is also co-owner of Pleasence Records in Toronto, a record label specializing in post-punk, odd-pop and avant-garde sound pieces.He is the author of the poetry collection Our Inland Sea (Wolsak & Wynn).
You can write to James throughout April at writer@openbooktoronto.com
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Poets in Profile: James Lindsay
Toronto book lovers already know James Lindsay as one of the friendly faces behind the counter at indie darling TYPE Books on Queen West, but his own acclaimed poetry has also been appearing in journals and magazines across the country. Now readers can experience James' work in his first full length collection (with one of our favourite titles of the season!), Our Inland Sea (Wolsak & Wynn). The buzz is spreading rapidly, with reviewers and fellow poets praising James' work (Jacob McArthur Mooney endorsed the collection with a critique no less than "James Lindsay can do everything").
James Lindsay's Books
Our Inland Sea
By James Lindsay
From Wolsak & Wynn:
Step Right Up to Our Inland Sea!
Watch in amazement as a funnel cloud picks a fight with a Ferris wheel!
Learn the secrets of wrangling yeti and shooting sasquatch!
Experience thrills and chills as you visit the ghost towns of Ontario and China!
Marvel at the Coney Island Aquarium and the reclaimed Gold Rush Hotel!
With fantastical imagery and attention to detail, these poems pull you into a funhouse world where a prime minister walks you to school and Gordon Lish takes over a poem. You will encounter animals in uniform and realize the Snowpocalypse is not what you think. Read on, and discover all these astonishing phenomena…and many more!
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Submitted by James Lindsay on April 29, 2016 - 7:08am
On Back and Forth
Much like how poetry and fiction can give perspective on inner dialogue—the stuff of conscious thought—and how it works, interviews can be displays of outer thought—the stuff of collaboration and conversation: the bricks and mortar of society. In the best cases what we witness in an interview is an exercise in empathy, two minds tossing language back and forth, trying to get at a point, and working to get at that point together. Whether that goal, that conclusion of thought, is reached is not important, and not why we play audience to the exchange. It's the exchange itself that is significant.
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"We're All Teachers," an Interview With Michael Fraser
Michael Fraser is a high school teacher and author of two collections of poetry, The Serenity of Stone, and, most recently, To Greet Yourself Arriving. If you attended NOW Magazine's Battle of the Bards this year at IFOA, then you had the pleasure of seeing his powerful reading of a selection of poems from his latest collection, a portrait series of significant figures in black history, from Harriet Tubman to Oprah to Basquiat. I wanted to ask him about how he picked these individuals and the relationship between poetry and teaching.
"Obsession Looks Different on Everyone," an Interview With Emma Healey
Emma Healey is the poetry critic for the Globe and Mail. Her book, Begin With the End in Mind, is a witty collection of prose poetry, a sort of Young Urbanist's Guide to being Canadian, a 21st century Lunch Poems. Breezy and conversational, her work is able to touch on national politics and intimate relationships in close motions. I wanted to ask her about poetry criticism and how the Internet has affected it.
James Lindsay: What is it about a book of poetry that draws you to write about it? And how do you start? What's your entry point to writing about poetry?
"I Imagine the Mind Like a Cleared Field," an Interview with Chad Campbell
Chad Campbell's Laws & Locks is an ambitious debut collection of poetry that is part family history and part memoir. Charting the Campbell family's emigration to Canada in 1827 and shifting to the present, Laws & Locks is an unwavering look at mental health, addiction, and the immigrant experience. Using plainspoken, but moving language, Campbell uses long form sequences to paint a complex picture of the wraithlike way past generations of family affect the future. I wanted to ask him about writing habits and what he's been working on recently.
James Lindsay: What kind of music do you listen to when you write and do you think it affects your writing?
"I am Not Not Romantic," an Interview with Andy McGuire
In a 2011 interview with Guernica Magazine, poet Timothy Donnelly, in response to a question about the influences he had just named (Keats and Shelley) and whether he considered his work in the tradition of the Romantics, replied that he though of himself as a "post-romantic." If we take Donnelly's work as an example of what post-romanticism might be, then this is a poetry where the vehicle is the sound and image, is pleasure and liberation, but also something darker as well, something heart broken, watching from the shadows.
"Instead of Throwing up Our Hands . . . We Asked Ourselves Hard Questions," an Interview With Rachel Thompson
Rachel Thompson is author of the poetry collection Galaxy and an editor at Room , Canada's oldest literary journal by and about women. We both attended Simon Fraser University's The Writer's Studio program at the same time, where the very compassionate Miranda Pearson mentored our poetry, and Rachel was one of the first poets I ever met.
Submitted by James Lindsay on April 18, 2016 - 1:49pm
"There are lots of good non-poetry things to assign your time to," an Interview with Jacob McArthur Mooney
Jacob McArthur Mooney is an author of three collections of poetry, an occasional critic, and the current host of the Pivot reading series. His latest, Don't be Interesting, explores the cult of personality and spectacle as ritual at the end of history Don't be Interesting is already one of my favorite books of the year, so I had a few question for Jacob about criticism, spectacle and routine.
"Pop Singing Always Seemed Gay to Me," a Conversation With Derek McCormack
There are no other writers in Canada doing what Derek McCormack does. His books are obsessed with history, music, sex, fashion and horror; each one reinventing itself in a new form. Like Kathy Acker, he legitimizes obscenity and smut, combining them with dark comedy and making it his metaphorical fuel that he smears across the page in a way that is both very funny and very sad at the same time. I first met Derek over a decade ago when we both worked at the now defunct Book City at 501 Bloor Street. He's always been great for recommending new writers, so we had a tête-à-tête about poetry, music and self-deprecation.
"There Will Always Be People Passionate About Music in the Abstract and Imaginative Sense," Slim Twig's Literary Influences
In 2012 my record label, Pleasence Records, co-released Slim Twig's conceptual baroque-rock album, A Hound at the Hem (later reissued on DFA), along with his own label, Calico Corp. String arrangements by Owen Pallett and Slim Twig's fondness of harpsichord give the album a grandiose atmosphere that evokes the orchestration of The Zombies and Serge Gainsbourg.
In The House of Saucer: an interview with Jesse Locke on his upcoming Simply Saucer biography, Heavy Metalloid Music
Jesse Locke is one of the great unsung heroes of Canadian music journalism. Through his years of work as a writer and editor for Weird Canada and AUX he has helped to expose countless bands and artists from across the country. In full disclosure, I am lucky to call him one of my best friends, so I was ecstatic when I heard that the Canadian-music-centric Eternal Cavalier Press had picked up his book, Heavy Metalloid Music, on the legendary Hamilton psychedelic proto-punks Simply Saucer.
"All Music is Coded," an Interview with Jean Marc Ah-Sen
"Somewhere amid the bladdered haze of sleep, I managed to buff a zigzag pathway across two whole floors, faintly resembling my initials—even with the horrors, my subconscious still being raved for acknowledgment."
Submitted by James Lindsay on April 11, 2016 - 10:12am
Music to Work to
I enjoy having a soundtrack while I write, music stimulates me when I lose concentration, but it can't be anything with lyrics. Songs are too distracting. I think there's a part of my mind that innately recognizes that words are being uttered and wants to try to make sense of them. As if I was being spoken to, I need to process the communication and think of a response so as to not be rude. So when I write the music I listen to tends to be on the instrumental and ambient side: background music I don't have to fully commit to, that I can easily stop paying attention to but then settle right back in with when the writing pauses. In no way is this statement against the quality of this music.
Submitted by James Lindsay on April 7, 2016 - 10:32am
On Fallout: an Interview with Michael Lista about "The Shock Absorber"
Please note the views and opinions expressed by writers in the Open Book writer-in-residence program are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect those of Open Book, its staff or contributors
Submitted by James Lindsay on April 6, 2016 - 7:51am
"Poetry Would Blow Up like Beyoncé" An Interview with Robin Richardson
Robin Richardson is a writer, poet and illustrator. She is the author of the poetry collections Grunt of the Minotaur, Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, and Sit How You Want, forthcoming on Véhicule Press. Most recently she founded the Minola Review, an online journal for women, femme-identifying, and non-binary individuals. I remember repeatedly reading her poem "Little Robin Explains Growing Up" (from Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis) when it first appeared in Tin House, struck by its probing imagery ("What does static/ on pink cotton have to do with sleep?") and confident, confessional tone ("I lost his love/ the day I learned to know things on my own").
With Sook-Yin Lee on Selecting the Poets for "Where Have All the Poets Gone?"
It was exciting news when Sook-Yin Lee announced that she had tracked down seminal Canadian Poetry figure and recluse Phyllis Webb for her new documentary Where have all the Poets Gone? The short doc, currently streaming on CBC Books , begins with Lee discovering Webb interviewing bpNichol and bill bissett on the '60s CBC poetry talk show Extension. This prompts her to track Webb down and talk about why she gave up writing poetry. What follows is then Lee's personal exploration of current poetry in Canada and features interviews with Stephen Collis, Samantha Bernstein, Ronnie Clarke, Liz Howard, Vivek Shraya, Lena Suksi, and Elana Wolff.
An Introduction and Disclaimer
Outside of a brief stint at Simon Fraser University's The Writers' Studio program, I have no post-secondary education. My experience with books has been primarily shaped as a bookseller, a job I've had for over a decade now. First as a volunteer at an anarchist bookstore in Vancouver that burned down; then at the now closed Book City in the Annex; and, most recently, at Type Books on Queen Street, which I hope nothing bad happens to.
The views expressed in the Writer-in-Residence blogs are those held by the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Open Book: Toronto.
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2. Two provocative images - The Spear and "Global Players"
2.1 Brett Murray'sThe Spear
2.2 Peter Lenk's "Global Players"
3. Public Reactions
3.1 Reactions toThe Spear
3.2 Reactions to "Global Players"
4. Social Issues in the Discourse on The Spear and "Global Players"
6. Bibliography
The international and interdisciplinary summer course "Transcultural Spaces / Hybrid Selves" at the University of Oldenburg from 3rd until 6th July 2012 dealt, among other things, with questions of race and diversity in South Africa. The picture The Spear by Brett Murray, which caused a scandal in South Africa in May 2012, was discussed in detail. In the course of the discussion among the course participants the question arose whether a similar scandal would be possible in Germany. To be more precise, the students and the lecturers wondered what would happen if German politicians were portrayed with their genitals exposed as is the case with Murray's painting of South African president Jacob Zuma. This seemingly simple question leads to some more in-depth issues of race and gender. As the scandal created by The Spear involved aspects of racial and gender-related discrimination, it would be interesting to find out whether similar debates would erupt in Germany in relation to a provocative portrayal of politicians.
In fact, several portrayals of naked German politicians have been published in recent years. One of them is Peter Lenk's relief "Global Players," which is on display in Bodman- Ludwigshafen. This image shows five high-profile German politicians completely naked and touching each others' genitals. In order to find out whether this piece of art has created a scandal similar to the one caused by The Spear in South Africa, the public discourse on these controversial pieces of art will be compared. In the following, I will analyze opinions and arguments which appear in online blogs and magazines. By making out the main points of criticism regarding The Spear and "Global Players," I will try to come to conclusions concerning underlying social problems in South Africa and Germany. This means that I will try to find out why these pieces of art cause debates or even outrage in certain groups of society and if these bones of contention are the same in South Africa and Germany. I will pursue a case study approach using the method of blog and online article analysis as this procedure is suitable to identify the main lines of arguments in public discourse.
First of all, The Spear by Brett Murray and "Global Players" by Peter Lenk will be described including their origination process and general public reception. Afterwards, the reactions towards each piece of art will be summarized and categorized through an analysis of selected blog and online magazine articles. Next, the results of the analyses will be compared and used to draw conclusions concerning similarities and differences in the public reactions towards the two provocative satirical artworks in South Africa and Germany. In this chapter, a few theoretical concepts relevant to race and gender problems will be considered in order to come to profound conclusions. Finally, a short concluding chapter will summarize the main findings of this paper and make some suggestions for further research in this field of interest.
2.1 Brett Murray's The Spear
In May 2012, a painting by the artist Brett Murray caused a public uproar in South Africa. The painting The Spear shows South African President Jacob Zuma with exposed genitals. Zuma's pose in the painting is assumed to be inspired by a famous poster of communist leader Vladimir Lenin (Govender 2012). The piece of art was part of an exhibition called "Hail to the Thief" in the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. The exhibition was conceptualized to question the moral standards of South Africa's governing party African National Congress (ANC) and to criticize the increase in corruption and bribery in politics (Govender 2012).
Before the painting was exhibited, President Zuma had often been the center of attention due to his comments on polygamy ("Jacob Zuma 'Polygamy'" 2010) and on preventing HIV through showering ("SA's Zuma" 2006). His excessive sex life and rape charges in 2006 made him the target of several satirists and cartoonists and provided the basis for Murray's The Spear. When the exhibition in the Goodman Gallery was opened, the ANC immediately condemned the painting. Zuma's attorneys asked the Goodman Gallery's director Liza Essers to (Murray 2012) take down the artwork, which she rejected ("ANC Serves" 2012). Meanwhile, ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu announced that the ANC would go to court if the painting was not removed from the gallery and the City Press website ("ANC to Go" 2012). The case was dealt with in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on 24th May 2012, but postponed indefinitely after the ANC's lawyer Gcina Malindi had burst into tears and broken down in court. During the court hearing, hundreds of ANC supporters gathered to protest against The Spear (Conway-Smith 2012).
The scandal caused by The Spear brought immense national and international attention to the painting and caused spontaneous reactions by different institutions and agents in South Africa. Because the newspaper City Press refused to remove the painting from its website, the ANC asked its supporters to boycott the paper, which was condemned as an attack on the media by the National Press Club ("Boycott" 2012). At the end of May 2012, City Press editor Ferial Haffajee eventually took the image of The Spear down from the newspaper's website. On 1st August 2012, she admitted that she regrets having given in to the protests ("I Would" 2012). On 22nd May, the painting in the National Gallery was vandalized by two men. Barend la Grange, and Lowie Mabokela entered the gallery and defaced the painting with paint while cameras were running and caught the vandalism on tape (Martin 2012). The arrest of the two men was severely criticized, because Barend la Grange, who is white, was arrested without any violence while the black man Lowie Mabokela was thrown to the ground. After the defacement, the art gallery and the ANC reached a compromise. The ANC promised to stop legal action against the gallery if the painting was not displayed anymore. As a consequence, The Spear was removed from the exhibition and sold to a German buyer for $14,000 ("Jacob Zuma 'The Spear'" 2012). The South African Film and Publication Board has rated the painting 16N, which means that children younger than 16 are not allowed to see the artwork ("Board" 2012).
The painting and its implications were discussed all over South Africa in May 2012 and the following months. The massive media coverage heated up the discussions. Many people condemned the painting as an assault on the black communities in South Africa as the exposed genitals of black President Zuma were regarded reminiscent of Apartheid policies that allowed white people to force blacks to expose their naked bodies in public. As The Spear was created by the white artist Brett Murray from Cape Town black South Africans saw the artwork as a white painter's disrespectful and discriminating attack on their identity. Others disliked the painting simply because it was regarded politically incorrect to portray a naked black South African president.
On 27th August 2012, another painting of Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed went on display in the AVA Gallery in Cape Town. The painting called Umshini Wam by the artist Ayanda Mabulu shows Zuma with his penis hanging out of his clothes ("Another" 2012). The ANC again condemned this painting and called it an "abuse of the arts" (Bauer 2012). Dene Smuts suggests that there is a new genre in South Africa: the Naked Emperor (Smuts 2012). This painting will not play a role in this paper, but a cursory reading of (Mabulu 2012) comments on Umshini Wam on the internet suggests that the reactions towards this new painting are not as strong and heated as those concerning Murray's The Spear.
The sculptures by the German artist Peter Lenk have caused several scandals and debates in recent years. When the relief Ludwigs Erbe (Ludwig's legacy) was installed on the front of the town hall in Bodman-Ludwigshafen in 2008, it caused public uproar, especially in Southern Germany. The relief features several German top managers and high profile politicians in provocative and satirical poses. A part of the artwork is called "Global Players" and shows the German politicians Hans Eichel (former minister of finance), Gerhard Schröder (former chancellor), Angela Merkel (current chancellor), Edmund Stoiber (former Minister-President of Bavaria and chancellor candidate in 2002) and Guido Westerwelle (current foreign minister). These politicians (Lenk 2009) are portrayed completely naked and touching each others' genitals. The artwork's title Ludwigs Erbe refers to Grand Duke Ludwig von Baden who governed the Baden territory in southern Germany for twelve years in the 19th century. The relief suggests that modern times are still like the times of the Grand Duke as politicians and managers are still controlled by money and greed (Fricker 2008).
Being asked about his intentions in this piece of art, Peter Lenk said that he wanted to portray the politicians shortly before their expulsion from Paradise. According to Lenk, everyone knows people are naked in Paradise, so he had to create naked politicians (Mackensen 2008). In different interviews the artist states that he does not see himself has a provocateur. He argues that others (i.e. politicians and managers) cause scandals while he only portrays them (Stiefel, "Skulptur" 2008). He adds: "Die haben Spaß am Koalieren, Konsumieren und Kopulieren" (They enjoy forming coalitions, consuming and copulating) (Stiefel, "Skulptur" 2008). Lenk also states that he wanted to portray what he calls money- grubbers in a manner that would be remembered for a long time. He says that scandals only last for a few days but memorials will still be there in a few years ("Wenn Frau Merkel" 2008). In most statements, the artist calls his sculpture a "group sex relief" (Stiefel, "Skulptur" 2008).
Although the relief on the front of the town hall in Bodman-Ludwigshafen was criticized severely by politicians, managers and ordinary citizens, it became a tourist attraction right after it had been put up. While most visitors regarded the artwork with favor,
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I Corinthians 13:12--Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Welcome to my blog. This is where I muse about biblical truths that I uncover as I flit about my life as a wife, mom, daughter, friend, and natural-born dreamer. I'm fascinated by how things here on earth, both the tangible and intangible, reflect God's nature and glory. I'm convinced that atheists have to work at not believing, because to me, it couldn't be more obvious that HE IS.
I received the Facebook message on April l3, 2017, just a few days after the tragic passing of a much-loved member of my church's youth group. My teenage son was grieving especially hard and struggling to cope with the loss of his friend. The message came from an old college friend who worked for Chris Tomlin's Night of Worship in America Tour that would be coming to Dayton, Ohio a couple days later. He had been looking for friends who lived nearby so he could give some tickets away. When my name appeared on his area search he noticed a post about our heartache and this confirmed that he would offer the tickets to me. The gift of tickets lifted our spirits and was most appreciated by my son because he had requested to go to the concert weeks earlier, but I had declined. Little did I know at that time how much his young spirit would need to worship with the Body of Christ that night.
As the music began to play, we lifted our voices and hands in praise; I think we all felt God's healing balm begin to be poured out on us. Many of the familiar songs took on new significance as we, for the first time, embarked on this unwanted family journey through the valley of the shadow of death.
About half-way through the concert, Chris Tomlin's pastor, Darren Whitehead, spoke about the seven Hebrew words that are translated into the one English word, praise. As a worship leader, I was drawn in and eager to learn more about this thing that Scripture has repeatedly commanded us to do. At one point, Pastor Whitehead said the words, "We've got to move our worry to worship," and I immediately took note. I had a feeling—like one I've had before—that this phrase might well be the hook for a new song. I was filled with anticipation.
The concert closed with songs that I could tell were ministering to my broken-hearted son, including Great Are You Lord, which was the last song my son had played in church with his now deceased friend. They say the Devil is in the details, but how much more is that true of our great God! It was clear we were to be at that concert, both for the moment and what was to come.
A short time after the concert, inspired by the words I had jotted down that night, I wrote the lyrics and the chorus melody to a song that would eventually be called, "Begin to Praise." My co-writer and producer, Felix Weber, later chimed in with a melody for the verses, and together we crafted the bridge. When we were finished, we both sensed that this was a special song and we prayed that God might use it to inspire praise and worship near and far.
On the morning of the recording, I read the familiar 150th Psalm, so I could begin to meditate on the idea of praise. Twelve times I read the directive to PRAISE! At first glance, I thought, someone might wonder just how egotistical our God is—I mean, what kind of God commands praise for themselves? Looking closer, one understands that God's character is perfect and that He is the ultimate servant and therefore He doesn't command praise because His fragile ego needs it, He commands it because He knows it's good for us! He knows that, "praise is the plough that stirs our hardened heart (and that) it reaches deep to break up every part that stands against the very truth of God!" In a sense, praise sets the record on our hearts straight.
May this song inspire you to praise the Lord in every circumstance!
Since becoming a speaker for Stonecroft Ministries in 2012, I have traveled a ton of miles off the beaten path to reach Christian women clubs in small town Ohio and neighboring states. Remarkably, I have never gotten lost. While I'd love to attribute that accomplishment to my keen sense of direction and astute listening skills, all the credit belongs to my trusted driving companion, Samantha. Samantha definitely knows her way around Ohio and is never frazzled by roadblocks or detours. She always has an alternate route in her back pocket that she's able to whip out in the time it takes for her to say, "recalculating." You guessed it, Samantha is my GPS. And I never leave home without her. Samantha has allowed me to give up counting stop signs and keeping my eyes peeled for the alpaca farm on the left that is supposed to cue me to "keep going." Having Samantha along for the ride frees me to enjoy the scenery and think more deeply.
On a recent trip to the Cleveland area I got to thinking how Samantha and God are similar: both are doggedly committed to helping me reach the final destination. Samantha isn't thrown for a loop when I follow my nose four miles to hunt down a Skinny Peppermint Mocha and God isn't wringing his hands when I wander into old patterns for a season. They simply recalculate. They leave it up to me to choose the ups and downs of country roads or cruise the fresh pavement of the interstate. They don't quit working once my odometer reaches a pre-determined number of miles, or my when my steering wheel has performed the precise number of right turns. They are committed to the final destination—whatever it takes!
I just want to let out a huge sigh of relief. I, for one, do not want the pressure of having to do everything right all the time in order to be assured of reaching my destination. Sometimes I get jamming to a song and I drown out Samantha's smooth voice announcing an upcoming turn. Sometimes I get caught up in pride and turn a deaf ear to God's whisper leading me back to the cross. I need both my GPS and my GOD to be unrelenting and willing to say, "recalculating," seventy-times seven, until I finally tune in.
It's interesting, even when I tell people that I have a GPS, well-meaning folks still proceed to give me very specific directions. Some even pull out a paper map and begin tracing the route I should take. While I appreciate the consideration and concern that I not get lost, their efforts are often wasted because I'm not usually listening very closely. I'm perfectly comfortable not knowing in advance every turn I should make. You see, I trust Samantha. She's never failed me yet--well maybe mildly once or twice.
While I wish people would stop giving me directions, I often wish God would unfold a map on my kitchen table and walk me through His recommended route. I think I'd enjoy the scenery more, especially on those back, hilly, roads, if I knew my exit was coming. But, God wants me to trust Him, even more than I trust Samantha. He has truly never failed me. I don't know how He does it but somehow He has always been able to work all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). No one recalculates better than God!