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COP26 puts portfolio transition at the top of the agenda
The latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released at the end of February, has reinforced the threat posed by global warming.
By mid-century, a rising sea level will leave more than one billion people exposed to much greater risks of flooding, the IPCC found. By 2100, up to US$12.7 trillion of global assets could be exposed to one-in-100-year coastal flooding under the IPCC's "medium" scenario.[1]
The report on the impact of climate change adds further urgency to the global transition away from a carbon-intensive economic model.
Among the many agreements hammered out at the COP26 climate conference in November, world leaders set ambitious targets for methane emissions and moved towards a global exit from thermal coal. Private investors are doing their part: over US$100 trillion of assets are now aligned with the global push to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, a key component of restricting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial times.[2]
This transition towards a more sustainable future will affect every industry. In many cases, moving towards net zero emissions will force companies to radically change their business models. According to the International Energy Agency, only two of 46 energy technologies and sectors are on track to meet its 2050 net zero target.[3]
The urgency of this transition leaves investors with some difficult choices to make. While many carbon-intensive companies are already working towards a more sustainable future, it is too early to predict which businesses will succeed – especially in so-called 'hard-to-abate' sectors such as aviation or heavy industry.
Many shareholders in out-of-favour sectors, such as coal mining, may be tempted to exit their positions before valuations fall further and they become stranded assets. Many of the biggest investors, however, prefer to stay engaged and influence these firms' transition, recognising that a total withdrawal of capital would stop 'brown' companies from going green.
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[3] https://www.iea.org/topics/tracking-clean-energy-progress


"People may very well choose to trade off years of their life, or the possibility of disease or injury, in exchange for the current pleasure, excitement or stress relief they get from food." Jacob Sullum We all know the damaging effect being overweight has on our health. Obesity and excess weight are at the root of many major health issues in the western world. Whilst its easy to preach about the need to exercise more and eat less, if it was that simple wouldn't we be doing more of it?
Hypnotherapy works on many different levels in controlling our weight: It reduces our stress levels so reduces the physiological processes which encourage us to store fat and reduce energy expenditure; It helps us control and change the habits that have in the past ensured we eat more calories than our bodies need to function effectively. It also changes our mindset so we can develop positive habits which encourage a healthier lifestyle whilst changing our perceptions of those things that we may currently find difficult to do, but know would help to shift the excess weight.


Studies presented at the 2009 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium suggest that the class of bone drugs known as bisphosphonates may reduce the risk of breast cancer and may help to maintain bone density in breast cancer patients treated with aromatase inhibitors.
Bisphosphonates are a class of drugs used to prevent and treat osteoporosis and to reduce the risk of bone complications from bone metastases or multiple myeloma. Previous studies have suggested that intravenous bisphosphonates may inhibit breast cancer, but there has been less information about whether oral bisphosphonates affect breast cancer risk. To address this question, researchers evaluated information from the Women's Health Initiative observational study. The results indicated that postmenopausal women who used oral bisphosphonates were 32% less likely than other postmenopausal women to develop breast cancer. The most commonly used oral bisphosphonate was Fosamax® (alendronate). Similar findings were reported in a second study presented at SABCS, which reported a 29% reduction in breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women who used bisphosphonates for more than one year.
A Phase III clinical trial known as Z-FAST (Zometa-Femara Adjuvant Synergy Trial) assessed the effects of the bisphosphonate drug Zometa® (zoledronic acid) among breast cancer patients treated with an aromatase inhibitor. Aromatase inhibitors—a type of hormonal therapy often used in the treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer—can reduce bone density. Study participants in the Z-FAST study received adjuvant (post-surgery) treatment with the aromatase inhibitor Femara® (letrozole). In addition, women were assigned to receive either immediate or delayed treatment with Zometa. Women in the delayed treatment group were given Zometa only if their bone density dropped below a certain point or they experienced a bone fracture. The results indicated that women in the immediate treatment group experienced improvements in bone density, while women in the delayed treatment group experienced loss of bone density. At the lumbar spine, for example, women in the immediate treatment group experienced a 6.2% increase in bone density, while women in the delayed treatment group had a decrease of 2.4%.
The results of these studies expand our understanding of the effects of bisphosphonates.
 Chlebowski R. Oral Bisphosphonate and Breast Cancer: Prospective Results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). Presented at the 32nd CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. December 9-13, 2009. San Antonio, TX. Abstract 21.
 Rennert G. Use of Bisphosphonates and Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer. Presented at the 32ndCTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. December 9-13, 2009. San Antonio, TX. Abstract 27.
 Brufsky A. The Effect of Zoledronic Acid on Aromatase Inhibitor-Associated Bone Loss in Postmenopausal Women with Early Breast Cancer Receiving Adjuvant Letrozole: The Z-FAST Study 5-Year Final Follow-Up. Presented at the 32nd CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. December 9-13, 2009. San Antonio, TX. Abstract 4083.


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Laidback Luke & Digital DJ Tips Team Up To Release New Online Course Teaching DJs To Make Bootlegs, Mashups, And Re-edits
Internationally known DJ and producer Laidback Luke has teamed up with online DJ school Digital DJ Tips to release a brand-new training course, teaching DJs how to make bootlegs, mashups and re-edits of songs to play in their DJ sets.
The course, called "Laidback Luke's Bootlegs, Mashups, & Re-edits", teaches beginners how to make all kinds of edits – exclusive, special versions of songs that big-name DJs typically make before their DJ sets, in order to give them something completely original to play at their gigs.
"Laidback Luke's Bootlegs, Mashups, & Re-edits" follows the successful release last year of "Laidback Luke's Creative DJing Course", also in partnership with Digital DJ Tips. The course was a first for this type of collaboration and its success demanded a follow-up.
"Bootlegs, mashups and re-edits have always been a part of what DJs do, and what I have done, and I have taught many DJs and producers some of the skills in this course privately over the past 20 years," said Laidback Luke.
"However this is the first time I have put all of that knowledge in one place. The team at Digital DJ Tips really pushed me to dig deep into why I do things the way I do, and helped me to structure the learning so it will be of most use to all students, whether complete beginners to DJing and production or people who feel they would benefit from being shown how it is really done by the pros."
Phil Morse, founder, and CEO of Digital DJ Tips, said: "DJs often think that getting started in music production is too hard, and so they don't start! But the truth is that by making your own versions of other people's music, whether simple edits or full-on mashups and bootlegs, you can tap into what you already know as a DJ about what works on the dancefloor, and get started down the road to making your own remixes and tracks."
"We are especially proud to have been able to navigate the current situation with COVID-19 and successfully make this course in 2020, at a time when many DJs have few gigs and so may benefit from the chance to learn skills such as these, that will serve them well when lockdowns finally ease," he added.
"Laidback Luke's' Bootlegs, Mashups & Re-edits" is an online video training course with 41 over-the shoulder lessons conducted by Luke. It contains all the guidance, music and tutor assistance required by students to master these skills.
It is available from 29 September with a 35% saving for the launch week only – normal price $297. More information at http://djtips.co/bootleg.
About Laidback Luke
Laidback Luke is an in-demand DJ and producer, well-known not only for rocking huge festival crowds globally and for his technical skills behind the decks, but also as a producer and remixer. He scored his biggest hit with Steve Angello, remixing the Robin S song, "Show Me Love" which charted at #11 on the UK charts in 2009. He is also the founder of Mixmash Records.
http://www.laidbackluke.com
About Digital DJ Tips
Digital DJ Tips is a DJ school and training website with over 25,000 students in 163 countries. Its founder, Phil Morse, is the author of the best-selling book "Rock The Dancefloor: The proven five-step formula for total DJing success", and has spoken about DJing at industry events including ADE, The BPM Show, and NAMM.
https://www.digitaldjtips.com
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On day two of her journey, Mrs Clinton left her New York home in a mini-van for Iowa and, a few hours into the 1600km trip, the 67-year-old Democrat tweeted a picture of a friendly family at a Pennsylvania petrol station (photo above). On day three, she arrived in the important primary state of Iowa where she was greeted by some fellow travellers, if you'll excuse the pun (photo tweeted below).
She doesn't appear in the 2-minute video until 1.33, letting those ordinary and real Americans, not actors, talk about their aspirations for the future. And there is no Bill Clinton in sight.
Tell me that the Republicans won't use that against Hillary in the campaign if she wins the Democratic nomination, and I will have to beg to differ with you. They will use that as well as Mrs Clinton's denial of the allegations of her husband's affair with Lewinsky the day after he publicly denied it. It's all there in the report by the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, which led to the President's impeachment by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. He was acquitted on both charges by the Senate in 1999.
The Republicans are already bagging Hillary Clinton's use of a personal rather than a government email account while she was Secretary of State, donations from foreign governments, including Australia, to the Clinton Foundation from which she resigned yesterday, links to the recent Iran nuclear agreement, and the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya that led to the death of ambassador Chris Steven and three other Americans when she was secretary. I'm sure there will be more in the months to come.
I wrote at the time: "Julia Gillard is warm, charismatic, funny and engaging, and that doesn't come across on television very often, but when you see her working a room as she did with our studio crew and observers last Sunday morning, you'd think she was a female Bob Hawke – and he is the best I've ever seen. Let Julia Gillard be Julia Gillard and the Labor Party and the country will be a better place as a result." I haven't been up close and personal with Hillary Clinton, but I'm betting she would be "warm, charismatic, funny and engaging," if Team Clinton allows her to be so.
UPDATE: A friend of mine, Ron Javers, a former executive editor of Newsweek, recalls a lunch with editors (including then editor-in-chief of Esquire, Terry McDonell) and publishers convened by Ellen Levine, then editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping Magazine and a rising star at Hearst, who's now editorial director of Hearst Magazines. Ron writes: "After being introduced by Ellen, Hillary rose from her chair and, as she spoke, began moving around the room, speaking without notes, on a wide variety of political and national issues. She was quite knowledgeable and compelling, yet informal, witty and warm. She was not terribly well known in those early days of Bill's candidacy for President, but it is safe to say she charmed that room of hard-boiled, high-powered New York publishing executives and editors. Some of them would be surprised that a few terms later, they would be voting for her as Senator Clinton of New York." This augurs well for the Team Clinton's Likeable Campaign.
But the Republicans will do everything they can to portray Hillary Clinton as tough, mean-spirited, arrogant and a key member of an administration that has failed middle-class Americans. Barack Obama has said she will make an excellent president, but it's unlikely she will be doing much campaigning with him, except in African-American constituencies.
And if former Florida governor Jeb Bush manages to overcome his baggage as a member of a controversial family including two former presidents, then it's possible a Bush and a Clinton will be the main combatants in the 2016 presidential election campaign — déjà vu all over again.
It will be a long and winding road to the White House, with much mud thrown along the way.


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DEATH: 1857 DAHL
BIRTHS: 1808 SAINT~JEAN — 1824 MONTICELLI — 1618 LELY — 1722 TISCHBEIN — 1593 JANSSENS
^Born on 14 October 1808: Simon Saint-Jean, French painter, specialized in still life and flowers, who died on 03 July 1860.
— A student of the �cole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, where in 1826 he won a gold medal for flower painting in the class of Augustin-Alexandre Thierriat (1796-1871), he began his career as a designer for the textile firm of Didier Petit. He first exhibited his flower pieces in 1827 and in the following decade established himself as one of the leading artists and teachers in Lyon, which was renowned for its flower painters. Although he worked mainly in Lyon, he enjoyed the patronage of wealthy collectors in Paris and abroad. Six of his flower and fruit pieces were exhibited in 1851 at the Great Exhibition in London and at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where he won a gold medal, nine of his paintings were shown. Lenders to the Paris exhibition included Napoléon III and the Empress Eug�nie, the French state and the 4th Marquess of Hertford.
— Still Life With Flowers and Wild Raspberries (1845, 122x93cm)
–- S*>#Still Life With Roses (1858, 76x60cm; 800x628pix, 83kb)
— Flowers and Fruit (1848, 90x72cm)
— a different Flowers and Fruit (1853, 44x53cm)
— Flowers and Grapes (1846, 125x102cm)
— Flowers and Grapes by a Window (1844, 124x101cm)
^ Born on 14 October 1824: Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, Marseille painter who died on 29 June 1886. — {Had he lived 100 years earlier, he might have been the favorite painter of Thomas Jefferson.}
— In 1846, after studying at the École d�Art in Marseille, Monticelli left Provence to study in Paris under Paul Delaroche. Although he had been trained to work in a Neo-classical style by his teachers in Marseille, in Paris he admired the Troubadour pictures of such artists as Pierre R�voil and Fleury Richard and the bold colors and rich surface impasto of Delacroix�s oil sketches. He also copied many of the Old Masters in the Louvre.
When Monticelli returned to Marseille in 1847, Émile Loubon [1809�1863], newly appointed director of the École de Dessin in Marseille and a friend of many realist landscape painters in Paris, encouraged him and another local painter, Paul Guigou, to record the landscapes and traditional village scenes of Provence (e.g. Rural Scene)
— His finest masterpieces are dreamlike scenes of courtly revels à la Watteau. With thick swirls of paint he created a poetic, visionary impression, with radiant lights and deep shadows. Monticelli was much admired by van Gogh [30 Mar 1853 – 29 Jul 1890] (who said, "I owe everything to Monticelli, who taught me the chromatics of color." He could also have added that from Monticelli he had learned the technique of thick impasto and the gleaming effects of color half-buried in the matter of paint itself).
Monticelli had more influence on 20th-century art than on the 19th century's. Monticelli studied under Paul Delaroche [1797-1856] in Paris from 1846 to 1848, but was more influenced by the masterpieces his saw in the Louvre, especially those of Rembrandt [15 Jul 1606 – 04 Oct 1669], the Venetians, and, most of all, Watteau [10 Oct 1684 – 18 Jul 1721]. Living his last years in poverty, he painted also circus scenes, portraits, flowers, landscapes.
— F�te champ�tre (1869, 39x60cm)
— Meeting Place of the Hunt (1878, 19x47cm) _ This small panel is perhaps the companion to Fountain in a Park. In both paintings the artist evokes the 18th-century tradition of the 'f�te galante', initiated by Watteau, in which elegant courtiers enjoy themselves in parks and gardens. Monticelli's distinctive painting style, characterized by evident rapidity of execution, thick paint, and blurred forms, was influential in the late 19th century on artists as diverse as C�zanne and Van Gogh.
— Fountain in a Park (1878) _ This painting is possibly a companion piece to the artist's Meeting Place of the Hunt. These imagined figure scenes were a favorite subject for Monticelli throughout his career. In his later years subject matter became subordinated to his colorful, thickly painted style.
— Still Life with White Pitcher
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^ >Died on 14 October 1857: Johan-Christian-Clausen Dahl, Norwegian Romantic painter and collector, active in Germany, born on 24 February 1788. His paintings, imbued with Romantic and patriotic sentiments, had a strong influence on the landscape tradition both in Germany (especially Dresden) and in his native Norway.
— The son of a fisherman, Dahl initially was trained as an artisan painter in his home town of Bergen, Norway (at that time still a part of Denmark). At the Copenhagen Academy, where he studied from 1811 to 1817 under C.A. Lorenzen, he won minor and major silver medals and chose to become a landscape painter. He was enormously influenced by Dutch landscape paintings in Copenhagen collections, particularly by Ruisdael [1629 – 14 Mar 1682 bur.] and Everdingen [1617 – 13 Oct 1678 bur.], and by Eckersberg's studies of nature. He exhibited intermittently at Charlottenborg from 1812 to 1855 and at the World Fair in Paris 1855. In 1818 Dahl traveled via Berlin to Dresden, where he met Caspar David Friedrich [05 Sep 1774 – 07 May 1840].
Dahl spent 1820 and 1821 in Italy, living near the Bay of Naples and then in Rome, where he made friends with Thorvaldsen [13 Nov 1768 – 24 Mar 1844]. He was fascinated by his impressions of the ever-changing landscape in Italy. It was not the classical landscape but the landscape of light and the different morphology between Italy and the North that inspired him to paint, mostly in small format. Dahl soon became the most famous Norwegian artist of his time, and he is often seen as a forerunner of plein air painting. He was a master of vivid sketches from nature, and practiced a more naturalistic painting than Caspar David Friedrich.
He eventually settled in Dresden, and was appointed professor at the city's Art Academy in 1824. However, his mission in life remained the depiction of the Norwegian landscape, then considered a sublime primordial wilderness. He therefore undertook five long study tours from to his homeland, in 1826, 1834, 1839, 1844 and 1850. J.C. Dahl's artistic expression had parallels in the fierce independence felt by Norwegians and, although most of his Norwegian paintings were done from memory, they never lost the spontaneity and intense feeling which tied him so strongly to his country. The fundamental romanticism and drama of Dahl's works was a decisive inspiration for the Danish nationalist romantic landscape painters of the 1830s and 1840s.
— The students of Dahl included Thomas Fearnley [27 Jul 1802 – 16 Jan 1842], Christian Friedrich Gille [20 Mar 1805 – 09 Jul 1899], Albert Emil Kirchner [12 May 1813 – 04 Jun 1885].
— Frederiksborg Castle (1814; 600x906pix, 217kb _ ZOOM to grainy 1400x2115pix, 877kb, not recommended _ much less ZOOM+ to grainier 2261x3415pix, 1766kb)
— Landscape with Torrent (1819; 600x884pix _ ZOOM to 1400x2063pix)
— View of Honefossen (1847; 600x788pix _ ZOOM to 1400x1839pix)
— Wooden Houses in Hjelle in Valdres (1850; 600x972pix _ ZOOM to 1400x2268pix)
–- A Cloud and Landscape Study by Moonlight (1822, 16x19cm; 824x992pix, 59kb)
— Cloud Study, Thunder Clouds over the Palace Tower at Dresden (1825, 21x22cm)
— Evening Landscape with Shepherd (1822)
— Bergfossen Near Tinn (1831, 55x72cm; 585x765pix, 86kb)
— Forest Scene near Engelholm (1814, 77x89cm; 585x682pix, 89kb)
— View of Fortundalen (1836, 199x265cm; 585x771pix, 71kb)
— Hjelle in Valdres (1851, 93x135cm; 550x800pix, 87kb)
— Waterfall at Tvinde near Voss (1830, 82x119cm; 555x800pix, 67kb)
— View of Dresden at Full Moon (1839, 78x130cm)
–- Forest with a Waterfall (101x88cm; 892x762pix, 66kb) _ copy of a landscape by J. Ruisdael _ Ruisdael painted many waterfalls from the late 1650s onwards (example 1; 970x853pix, 131kb — example 2; 790x672pix, 125kb). In the past it had been assumed that he himself must have traveled to Northern Europe where he would have seen this type of landscape. However, no such trip has been recorded and, instead, his paintings were inspired by the Amsterdam landscape painter Allart van Everdingen, who had visited Scandinavia in 1644 and had made a number of drawings of rocky mountainous scenes with torrents and waterfalls.
^ >Born on 14 October 1618: Pieter van der Faes �Peter Lely�, Dutch English Baroque portrait painter known for his Van Dyck~influenced likenesses of the mid~17th~century English aristocracy. He died on 07 December 1680
— Lely was an English painter of Dutch origin. He went to London in 1641 and lived there until his death. He was a portraitist influenced by Van Dyck [22 Mar 1599 – 09 Dec 1641] and became first court painter in 1661. — He studied in Holland at Haarlem, where he became a guild member in 1637. He probably arrived in England in about 1643, and he soon gained the patronage of the court, painting portraits of Charles I [19 Nov 1600 – 30 Jan 1649] and James, duke of York. He was a buyer at the sale of Charles I's picture collection (1649-1653) and in about 1651 petitioned Parliament for the mural decoration of Whitehall. Lely was a connoisseur and was known for his own fine collection of art. He prospered during the Commonwealth and even more during the Restoration, when he produced his finest portraits. In 1661 he received a pension of �200 a year, "as formerly to Van Dyck." He was knighted in 1679.
Lely was the most technically proficient painter in England after the death of Van Dyck. During the Commonwealth he adopted a severe, puritanical style, but his Restoration portraits of women are noted for their subtle coloring, skillful rendering of silk, and the air of sensuous languor with which they invest their subjects - e.g., the portrait series of court ladies entitled The Windsor Beauties (1660s). Simultaneously he painted the portrait series of The Admirals (1666-67) at Greenwich, the best of them rugged and severely masculine characterizations. Lely's late works are marred by stylistic mannerisms and decreasing vitality.
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–- Miss Constance Weston (127x102cm; ; 1177x964pix, 73kb _ .ZOOM to 2448x1928pix, 549kb)
— Two Ladies of the Lake Family (1660, 127x180cm; 702x946pix, 125kb)
— Miss Wharton (1660)
— Margaret Hughes (1673)
— Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England (1660, 49x39cm) _ Portraiture, which was to become the single most brilliant achievement of English painting in the 18th century, was a field dominated in the 17th century by foreign artists who received many commissions from the royal court. The leading exponents of this period were van Dyck and Lely. This portrait of Henrietta Maria [25 Nov 1609 – 10 Sep 1669], the daughter of King Henri IV [13 Dec 1553 – 14 May 1610] of France and Marie de M�dicis [26 Apr 1573 – 03 Jul 1642] is an idealized portrait. In 1660, when her oldest son succeeded to the throne as Charles II [29 May 1630 – 06 Feb 1685] of Great Britain and Ireland, Henrietta Maria she visited England (October 1660) and was granted a pension of £60'000 a year. She paid two further visits to England but was not comfortable there and finally returned to France in 1665. She had married Charles I in 1625, but soon fell out of favor with Parliament and the people because of her support for English Catholics. Later, she tried in vain and with great personal commitment, to help her husband from the Netherlands. After his execution, she entered a French convent and later lived in bitter poverty in Paris. Lely portrays her here as a beautiful and dignified woman in royal dress with an expression of suffering on her lips and a look of aloof mourning in her eyes. This is no longer a Baroque representative portrait, but tends far more in the direction of an individual interpretative portrayal. The nature of her life's journey is hidden by her reserved facial expression.
^ Born on 14 October 1722: Johann Heinrich Tischbein "Kassel Tischbein", German painter specialized in Portraits, who died on 22 August 1789. — Court painter in Kassel, Hesse. — {Did he paint a Kassel castle?}
— Not to be confused with more than twenty other painters of the same family, including his nephews the portraitists Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein "Goethe Tischbein" [15 February 1751 – 26 June 1829] and Johann-Friedrich-August Tischbein "Leipzig Tischbein" [09 March 1750 – 21 June 1812]; and Anton Wilhelm Tischbein [01 March 1730 – 01 November 1804], August Anton Tischbein [09 October 1805 – after 1867]
— Between the early 18th century and the late 19th this family from Hesse produced 28 artists and artisans, a third of them women, who were active throughout Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Johann Heinrich Tischbein [1682�1764], an artisan in Haina, had seven sons:
-- the fifth, Johann Heinrich Tischbein I [the one featured today], was a noted portrait painter in Kassel.
-- the second, Johann Valentin Tischbein [1715�1768], had a son, Friedrich Tischbein, who also established himself as a portrait painter, in Leipzig;
-- the first, Johann Conrad Tischbein [1712�1778], was father to Johann Heinrich Tischbein II [1742�1808], the author of a treatise on engraving, Kurzgefasste Abhandlung �ber die �tz-Kunst (1790) and to Wilhelm Tischbein, who worked in Naples and painted Goethe�s portrait.
The family�s three most famous members are thus known, respectively, as �der Kasseler�, �der Leipziger� and �der Neapolitaner� or �Goethe Tischbein�. Their portrait work contributed to the transition in German art from the Late Baroque and Rococo to Neo-classicism and early naturalism.
Christian Wilhelm Tischbein, an architect as well as a painter, was the son of the fourth of the seven brothers from Haina, while the painter August Anton Tischbein was the grandson of the sixth, Jacob Tischbein [1725�1791].
Die Malerfamilie Tischbein
Die aus Marburg/Weidenhausen stammende Familie Tischbein siedelte 1685 nach Haina, wo Konrad (Curth) Tischbein die Stelle des Hospitalbäckers übernahm. Sein Sohn Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1683-1764) und dessen Ehefrau Susanna Margaretha Hinsing aus Bingen am Rhein (1690-1772) gelten als Stammeltern der Malerfamilie.
Fast alle Kinder waren künstlerisch begabt. Der Überlieferung zufolge soll 1729 beim Besuch der landgräflich-darmstädtischen Regierungskommission ein (Amts-)Rat den zweitältesten der Brüder, Johann Valentin Tischbein, beim Zeichnen entdeckt haben. Der Junge erhielt daraufhin in Frankfurt eine Ausbildung zum Tapetenmaler und wurde zum Begründer der Malerdynastie, indem er auch für die Ausbildung seiner Brüder sorgte.
Besonders bekannt wurde Johann Heinrich Tischbein der Ältere [1722-1789], der als Hofmaler in Kassel wirkte. 1762 wurde er Professor am "Collegium Carolinum" und später an der Kunstakademie in Kassel. Ein Jahr vor seinem Tod besuchte der schon fast erblindete noch einmal Haina und schenkte der Heimatkirche das Altarbild Christus am Ölberg.
Der Sohn seines älteren Bruders, des Hospitalschreiners Johann Konrad Tischbein, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein [1751-1829] wurde als Maler Goethes berühmt, den er auf seiner Italienreise begleitete. Das Geburtshaus des "Goethemalers", ein kleiner Fachwerkbau, ist noch heute in Haina erhalten.
Today's featured Tischbein, Johann Heinrich Tischbein I, was apprenticed to Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Johann Georg von Freese [1701�1775] and to his brother Johann Valentin Tischbein [1715�1768] before receiving training from Carle Vanloo in Paris (1748) and from Giovanni Battista Piazzetta in Venice (1749). He copied the Venetian Masters and visited Rome; he returned to Germany in 1751. The following year he settled permanently in Kassel as court painter to the Landgrave William VIII of Hesse-Kassel. He also served as professor of the Akademie in Kassel from 1762. Among his earliest successes was the Sch�nheitsgalerie for William VIII, a collection of portraits of aristocratic women painted in a conservative Rococo style (1752�1755). The amiable charm of his worldly style and technical virtuosity soon established him among the foremost portrait painters, particularly of women, of the period.
— Hirschhatz in der Karlsaue bei Kassel (1200x1600pix, 398kb)
–- S*>#A Lady Wearing a Blue Dress With an Ermine-Lined Fur Mantle and Holding a Letter in Her Hand (1756, 98x73cm; 500x374pix, 38kb _ S*#>ZOOM to 1445x1080pix, 159kb) _ This portrait was painted when Tischbein had settled as a court painter to the landgrave Wilhem VIII of Hesse-Kassel in Kassel. It shows strong similarities with a portrait of the artist's first wife, Marie Sophie Robert [1726-1759], whom he married in 1756.
— Jupiter and Callisto (1765; 504x600pix, 49kb)
— Kurf�rstin Elisabeth Auguste (1752; 444x362pix, 29kb) _ Das Portr�t mehr privaten Charakters zeigt die Kurf�rstin an einem Spinett, wohl ein zusammengerolltes Notenblatt in der Hand. Au�er einer Perlenreihe in der Frisur tr�gt sie keinen Schmuck, umdie Schultern hat sie einen schwarzen Spitzenschleier gelegt.
— Coriolanus Leaves his Family (1775; 520x341pix, 18kb) _ detail (517x476pix, 21kb)
— Elisabeth von Breitenbach (1765) _ Der �Kasseler Tischbein�, Onkel des ber�hmteren Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (�Goethe-Tischbein�), malte �berwiegend Portr�ts. Hier hat er eine junge Frau in einem sehr privaten Moment �berrascht. Kokett die F��e mit den kleinen spitzen Schuhen �bereinander geschlagen, hat sie sich zum Lesen eines Briefes an einen verschwiegenen Ort zur�ckgezogen. Nun blickt sie mit einem leicht verschmitzten, viel sagenden L�cheln den Betrachter an. Die Anmut der Gestalt entspricht ebenso dem Sch�nheitsideal des Rokoko wie das grausilberne Kleid in seiner schimmernden Stofflichkeit, dessen raschelnde Seide man fast zu h�ren vermag.
–- S*>#Prinzessin Maria, Gemahlin von der Landgraf Friedrich II. von Hessen-Kassel, Tochter von König Georg II. (148x114cm; 774x591pix, 104kb) Three-quarter length, wearing a white dress
^ Born on 14 October 1593: Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, Dutch artist, born in England, who died in 1661.
— Born of Dutch parents who fled to London to escape religious persecution, Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen probably was trained in the northern Netherlands. About 1618 he established himself as a portrait painter in London. His signed or monogrammed portraits number several hundred; he is the first English-born painter known to have made so many.
Anthony van Dyck's dazzling manner influenced him, but Janssens's style remained more straightforward, a somewhat conservative approach that appealed to his patrons in the higher, but not the highest, social circles. Typically, he painted bust-length representations with sitters looking directly out of the picture, giving close attention to accurately renderings of clothing. Janssens also painted miniatures in oil on copper, some of which were reduced copies of larger paintings.
When the English Civil War began in 1643, Janssens moved to the northern Netherlands, where he helped to popularize van Dyck's airy, liquid touch. He stopped first in Middelburg and later in Amsterdam, The Hague, and finally Utrecht. His half-length and three-quarter-length portraits were notable for their elegance and for his characteristically precise rendering of his sitter's features and clothing.
— George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (78x64cm) _ Buckingham [1592 – 23 Aug 1628] was a statesman who exerted a strong influence during the reigns of James I and Charles I. Introduced to James I in 1614, Buckingham became Master of the Horse in 1616, Earl of Buckingham in 1617, Lord High Admiral in 1619, and a Duke in 1624. After a series of disasters brought about by his poor leadership, a bill to impeach him was introduced to Parliament in 1626. He was saved by the then King Charles I and the charges were dismissed, although the Parliament of 1628 again tried to force his dismissal. Though Charles managed to block the dismissal, Buckingham was stabbed to death. Janssens painted several portraits of Buckingham. This one was auctioned at Christie's on 05 Feb 2003.
–- S*>#A Lady (1632, 77x62cm oval; 799x643pix, 77kb)
–- S*>#A Lady in Orange Silk Dress (1657, 75x61cm; 900x706pix, 81kb) half-length, with a green silk shawl.
–- S*>#A Gentleman (1630, 66x50cm oval; 900x739pix, 46kb) half-length, wearing a black tunic, sad-looking, as if regretting not having commissioned a double portrait of himself and his wife, as she kept asking him to do, but he instead told her that he preferred to wait until after the baby's birth and make it a triple portrait; and now that will never be, because she died together with their child to whom she was giving breech birth, for which he blames himself, because in order to save money for the triple portrait, he had called in a novice midwife instead of an experienced gynecologist, and that money will now pay for the portrait of himself alone, and the long sitting gives him time to reflect that the money might have been better spent on a fancier funeral monument to his wife and child, if he had not paid an advance to Janssens, when the artist made a sketch of the pregnant mother's hands. Or it may be that he is just suffering from a toothache.
— Study of a Woman's Hands (1646, 19x30cm) _ Using broadly applied black chalk, Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen suggested deep shadows at the waist, where this young woman folds her soft hands. Subtle highlights pick up the gleam of the pearl strands looped around her wrists and the shimmering highlights on her skin and sleeves. With few strokes, only two colors, and much use of blank paper, Janssens effectively rendered both texture and volume.
Janssens probably learned the technique of drawing hand studies in chalks on blue paper from Anthony van Dyck while both artists were in London. The pinholes along the drawing's outer edge suggest that he attached the sheet of paper to a board or easel as he drew the sitter's hands from life. He made this study in preparation for a half-length portrait painting. Scholars know little about the subject, referred to as "Jefrow Raphune" in the inscription at the bottom of the drawing. She must have been a married woman from the northern Netherlands; it was the custom in that area to wear one's wedding ring on the right index finger, as she does. The two elaborate rings and expensive pearls suggest that she was a relatively wealthy member of the landed gentry.
^ 1995 Bernard Safran, US Canadian Contemporary Realist painter born on 03 June 1924. Husband of painter Adele Safran. Of the artists who were alive after 1936, the Safrans are among the few who produced real art that merits being looked at and is beyond the abilities of elephants, chimpanzees, gorilas, pre-schoolers and other untrained humans.
— Biography with Self Portrait (1967, 64x51cm; 302x243pix, 45kb)
— Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1959, 43x61cm; 761x546pix, 164kb) _ Powell [29 Nov 1908 – 04 Apr 1972] was a US Black public official and pastor who became a prominent liberal legislator and civil-rights leader.
— Deng Xiaoping [22 Aug 1904 – 19 Feb 1997] Top ruler of Communist China from the late 1970s until his death. He abandoned many orthodox Communist doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of the free-enterprise system into the Chinese economy.
— King Hussein of Jordan [14 Nov 1935 – 07 Feb 1999] His reign started in 1953; his policies greatly increased the Jordanian standard of living. After conflict, he ended up making peace with Israel.
— Adolf Eichmann _ Karl Adolf Eichmann [19 Mar 1906 — 31 May 1962] was a prominent German Nazi official who was hanged by the state of Israel for his part in the extermination of Jews during World War II.
— The Aga Khan (Jul 1959, 43x61; 391x280pix, 50kb) _ Karim Al-hussain Shah [13 Dec 1937~] became the Aga Khan IV (49th imam of the Nizari Isma'ilite sect) at the death of his grandfather the Aga Khan III, Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah [02 Nov 1877 – 11 July 1957].
— Mohammad Ayub Khan () _ Mohammad Ayub Khan [14 May 1907 – 19 Apr 1974] was president of Pakistan from his taking power under martial law in 1958 to his resignation on 26 March 1969 amid riots protesting his continued throttling of democracy.
— Patrice Lumumba _ Patrice Hemery Lumumba [02 Jul 1925 – Jan 1961] was an African nationalist leader, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Jun 1960 � Sep 1960). Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a few months later.
— Lord Home (1964, 61x43cm; 382x251pix, 36kb) _ Alec Douglas-Home [02 Jul 1903 – 09 Oct 1995] was British foreign secretary from 1960 to 1963, prime minister from 19 October 1963 to 16 October 1964, and, after the fall of his government, Conservative opposition spokesman on foreign affairs in the House of Commons. He was also foreign secretary from 1970 to 1974.
— Valenti Angelo (1968, 36x31cm; 397x358pix, 74kb) _ Born in Italy, Angelo [23 Jun 1897 – 03 Sep 1982] came in 1905 to the US, where he became an illustrator of books, mostly children's books, some of them written by him, such as Nino (1938) and The Bells of Bleeker Street (1949).
— Betty (1968 drawing, 23x15cm, the artist's daughter at age about 8)
— Adele (1989, 53x41cm, the artist's wife at age 63)
— Medea (with her two sons, whom she would soon murder, all three in modern dress) _ In a play by Euripides, Medea is deserted by her husband Jason (the one of the Golden Fleece) for the daughter of King Creon of Corinth; in revenge, Medea murders Creon, his daughter, and her own two sons by Jason.
— The Fish Store (1970, 46x61cm) _ compare Passerotti's The Fishmonger's Shop (770x1064pix)
— The Old Lady (1970, 61x46cm)
— A Surgeon Working (1982, 94x122cm) _ compare Eakins's The Gross Clinic (1875, 244x198cm)
— Embroidering (1983, 89x84cm; 519x499pix; 56kb)
— Springhill Miners, Ernie Banks and Jim Spence (61x76cm; 387x500pix, 65kb) —(051013)
^ 1917 Nathaniel Hone II, Irish painter born on 26 October 1831. He was a great-grandson of Brindley Hone, who was a brother of Nathaniel Hone I [24 Apr 1718 – 14 Aug 1784]. Nathaniel Hone II studied engineering at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1853 went to Paris to study art, first with Adolphe Yvon, then at Thomas Couture�s atelier, where he was a contemporary of Edouard Manet and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. He copied works in the Louvre, where he especially admired the Venetian masters. In 1857 Hone settled at Barbizon, meeting Jean-Fran�ois Millet, Th�odore Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Henri-Joseph Harpignies. He painted village and forest scenes, at first in the manner of Courbet but then in a broader, lighter style influenced by Corot, with a harmonious use of green tones, as in Banks of the Seine (1866). In the 1860s he lived at Bourron-Marlotte and also visited Brittany and Normandy, painting coastal scenes, often of fishing boats. He exhibited seven works at the Paris Salon (1865�1869) and one at the Royal Academy, London (1869). After a visit to Italy he returned to Ireland in 1872, married and settled at Malahide, Co. Dublin. From 1876 he showed at the Royal Hibernian Academy, where he was elected Academician in 1880 and became Professor of Painting in 1894. In 1892 he visited Greece and Egypt, painting landscapes and archaeological subjects in watercolor and oil. His Irish marine and pastoral subjects, often scenes of cattle under cloudy skies, reveal his mature style, which is characterized by a freedom of manner and breadth of vision. Although Hone was a significant member of the Barbizon school and the greatest Irish landscapist of the late 19th century, his work is virtually unknown outside Ireland.
— Summer Pastures (18x25cm; 320x450pix, 27kb)
^ 1875 Anton van Ysendyck, Belgian painter born on 13 January 1801. He was a student of van Bree. Van Ysendyck won the Prix de Rome in 1823, so that he completed his painter�s studies in Italy. Ysendyck lived in Paris until 1835 after being in Rome. In 1841 he came back in Belgium to take the direction of the Fine Arts Academy in Mons.
— A Girl (age about 5) (1824, 96x80cm; 478x352pix, 139kb) _ detail (902x600pix, 81kb)
^ 1870 Georg Bergmann, German painter born on 06 April 1819. — Relative? of Max Bergmann [1884-1955]?
— Der Erzahler (122x155cm)
^ 1844 Jean Baptiste de Jonghe, Flemish painter and lithographer born on 08 January 1785. He was a student at the Courtrai Academie and then at the Antwerp Academie where, under the direction of Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck [26 Dec 1755 – 18 Jan 1826], he discovered his talent for landscape. In 1812 he received a first prize in Ghent for Approach of a Storm (1812). From then on he assiduously submitted works to all the Salons in the north of France and the Netherlands. Little is known about his travels; he must have been to France, England and Scotland, and probably also Italy. Most of his canvases depict his local landscape, views of Flanders or the Ardennes, and are inspired by the 17th-century Dutch school, elements of which he transformed into a 19th-century language. De Jonghe shared with the 17th-century Brabant landscape painters a predilection for forest scenes, in which he often placed wild and domestic animals and, more rarely, human figures (usually added by Eug�ne Verboeckhoven). His paintings are particularly reminiscent of the works of Jan van Goyen and Jacob van Ruisdael, but they also express a new perception of nature dictated by a concern for objectivity. In such works as Ardennes Landscape each detail is treated with an almost obsessive meticulousness, quite unlike earlier Dutch landscapes, in which leaves, plants and trees are merged together. About 1823 de Jonghe was involved in illustrating a Collection historique des vues principales des Pays-Bas. Half of the lithographs in this collection are by him and reveal in particular his knowledge of Gothic architecture. At the end of his career he produced more markedly romantic canvases, such as View of the Ruins at Villiers-la-Ville (1834). Other notable paintings by de Jonghe include View from the Outskirts of Tournai (1834) and In the Ardennes. Recognized as a specialist in landscape, in 1826 he was appointed to the teaching staff at the Academie in Courtrai. At this time he published, doubtless with his students in mind, his Principes de paysages dessin�s d�apr�s nature et ex�cut�s sur pierre. In 1841 he succeeded Ommeganck as professor at the Academie in Antwerp.
— Porte du Maillet � Huy (1823 color lithograph, 16x22cm; 575x800pix, 80kb) d'apr�s le capitaine Roloff.
— Ruines de Franchimont (1823 color lithograph, 15x21cm; 575x800pix, 75kb) d'apr�s le chevalier de La Barri�re.
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Portrait of Sean Scully, 1991. Photo © Timothy Greenfield‐Sanders.
Sean Scully was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 30, 1945. His family moved to the south of London in 1949, where he apprenticed at a commercial print shop and graphic design studio in high school. Scully attended evening classes at the Central School of Art, London between 1962-1965 before dedicating himself entirely to art studies at the Croydon College of Art, London, which he attended from 1965-1968, and Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, from 1968-1972.
A trip to Morocco in 1969 marked a decisive turning point in his artistic career: Scully was highly inspired by the southern light of Morocco and the stripes used in traditional textiles. These two qualities, a sensitivity to light and a dedication to stripes as a formal technique, would remain central to Scully's paintings throughout his career. In 1972, Scully was awarded the Frank Knox Fellowship to attend Harvard University, where he encountered American Minimalism for the first time. Scully achieved commercial success in London in the early 1970s with his technically virtuosic paintings of brightly colored, hard-edged bands and lines that reveal the influence of Minimalism and Op Art.
Scully relocated to New York City in 1975 for a professorship at Parsons School of Art. His move into a former textile factory in Tribeca prompted a sculptural turn in his work. He repurposed boards found in his studio to create deep stretcher frames painted on the fronts and sides, combining multiple canvases of varying sizes into single pictures. In these paintings his lines became less rigid and his color palette more complex as he layered pigments with looser brushwork, injecting romantic expression into his abstractions. He continued in this mode throughout the 1980s, and received critical acclaim in solo exhibitions in the United States and in Europe by the end of the decade.
Installation view of Sean Scully: Wall of Light at Mnuchin Gallery, February 28 - April 14, 2018. Photography by Tom Powel Imaging.
Scully's desire to create greater emotional associations through architectural vocabulary and harmonized color combinations drives his work. In the late 1980s, Scully began his "Wall of Light" series, an extended meditation on the nature of light, by exploring the immediacy of watercolors. This series grew to include oil paintings in 1998, and it has become one of his largest bodies of work as Scully continues to expand it through the present day.
Scully has been twice shortlisted for the Turner Prize, and his work is in the collection of virtually every major museum around the world, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Art Institute of Chicago; the High Museum, Atlanta; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Tate, London, among others. In 2014, he became the first Western artist to have a career-length retrospective exhibition in China with "Follow the Heart: The Art of Sean Scully 1964-2014" at the Shanghai Himalayas Museum.
Sean Scully currently lives and works in New York, London and Germany.
"The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit...What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends."
- SEAN SCULLY
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La regione di Qikiqtaaluk (Inuktitut: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ), o anche regione di Baffin, (Qikiqtaaluk in Inuktitut indica proprio l'isola di Baffin) è una delle tre regioni amministrative di Nunavut. Consiste dell'isola di Baffin, delle isole Belcher, dell'isola Akimiski, dell'isola Mansel, dell'isola Principe Carlo, dell'isola Bylot, dell'isola Devon, delle isole Cornwallis, dell'isola Bathurst, dell'isola di Nova Zembla, di altre isole inferiori, oltre alla penisola Melville, la parte orientale dell'isola Melville, e la parte settentrionale dell'isola Principe del Galles. Il capoluogo regionale è Iqaluit (6.184 abitanti).

Prima del 1999, la regione esisteva con confini abbastanza simili come Regione di Baffin (Territori del Nord-Ovest).

Comunità
Città
Iqaluit
Hamlets
Arctic Bay
Cape Dorset
Clyde River
Grise Fiord
Hall Beach
Iglulik
Kimmirut
Pangnirtung
Pond Inlet
Qikiqtarjuaq
Resolute
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Aree non-organizzate
Baffin, Unorganized, include:
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Eureka

Aree protette
Auyuittuq National Park
Bowman Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Katannilil
Kekerten
Mallikjuak
Pitsutinu-Tungavik
Qilalukat
Quammaarviit
Rotary Club Day Park
Santuario degli uccelli migratori dell'Isola di Akimiski
Parco nazionale Quttinirpaaq
Parco nazionale Sirmilik
Sylvia Grinnel
Twin Islands Wildlife Sanctuary

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Censimento 2006
Popolazione: 15.765
Evoluzione demografica (2001-2006): +9.7%
Nuclei familiari: 5 103
Area (km²): 1 040 417,90 km²
Densità di popolazione (per km²): 0,015 ab.
Posizione a livello nazionale (popolazione): 248° su 288
Posizione a livello territoriale (popolazione): 1° su 3

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Happy 12th birthday, Facebook – what's next for the world's most powerful tween?
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Facebook turns 12 this week. That's right, 12. I think that makes it a 'tween' in today's parlance. Pfft, it's not even a millennial. That being said, it's one heck of an impressive tween. Darling of the markets, it's THE social network and has swept away all...
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Here's a piece I wrote for Lost Boys, focusing on how to apply best practice for social, across the whole organisation. Social is global and a lot of brands social efforts are expanding rapidly; on multiple social channels, with more and more departments getting...
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Since they were announced last year, it seems that Facebook have gone a little quiet on the Global Brand Page front, though I know a few brands who are jumping on board, and it can be an extremely useful tool if you're an international brand speaking to a global...
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Christine Arsenault first made a splash in the open water swimming world when she swam Lake Ontario August 8-9, 2011 at the age of 34. She swam the 51 kilometres from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Marilyn Bell Park in Toronto in 22 hours and 22 minutes. The start of the swim was rough at the Niagara sand bar with waves up to 3 feet. It soon flattened out but then Christine suffered from nausea and vomiting for lengthy periods. In the last 3 to 4 hours, a strong southeasterly wind brought 4 to 5 foot waves and pouring rain in the last couple of hours. Christine was well trained and maintained a strong stroke and good spirits in the waves and rain. One of the highlights of the swim for Christine was when her daughters Trinity and Michaela accompanied her for the last 100 metres into shore.
Christine is best known for being the matriarch and coach of an open water swimming family:
* Her oldest daughter, Trinity, swam Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in 2014 at 14 years of age. She became the youngest to swim Lake Ontario on the Niagara-on-the-Lake to Marilyn Bell Park route.
* Christine and Trinity became the first parent-child pair to swim Lake Ontario.
* Trinity became the youngest Canadian to swim the English Channel on September 14, 2016.
* Then Christine's younger daughter, Michaela, swam Lake Erie at 14 years, 21 days in 2016 becoming the youngest SSO swimmer ever.
Most recently, Christine is Captain of the R&R, a 39 foot twin engine Flybridge Carver boat. She has piloted many swims across Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with SSO and is noted for maintaining some of the straightest tracks for the swimmers.
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In 2015 Christine managed a group that included her daughters and their team-mates on an epic relay swim in Lake Ontario in 2015 (not SSO sanctioned). The group swimming the lake achieved a World Record for the most kilometres (over 90) swum in a 24 hour period on August 31 - September 1, 2015. The swim raised funds for the charity "Canadian Tire Jumpstart foundation".
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What is the largest reef in the world?
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia as seen from a helicopter.
By Frances Allen
The Great Barrier Reef comprises 2,900 individual reefs, making it the largest coral reef in the world in addition to largest structure on Earth made by living organisms. It lies off the coast of Queensland, located in northeastern Australia. The kaleidoscopic and colorful reef arrangements are so visually vivid that they can be seen from space.
Approximately 500,000 years old, the Great Barrier Reef and has changed structure over time, resulting in the reef we see today. The Australian Institute of Marine Science cites scientific research that outlines the origin of the current reef. Its first formations occurred during the Last Glacial Maximum. A drastic period of environmental change along with a drop in sea levels happened during this time, influencing the formation of the reef.
Geography and Geology
Stretching more than 1,400 miles (2,300 km), the reef would almost reach from Washington D.C. to Denver. Covering approximately 135,000 square miles (345,000 km), it is roughly half the size of Texas, or the equivalent size of Germany.
At its northernmost point, the Great Barrier Reef reaches the Torres Strait and in the south, Fraser Island. The coral is made up of both hard and soft coral types. These corals are made up of many dead materials from older polyps and animals. Think of these are the fossils of the sea.
The Great Barrier Reef is home to a number of animals. Many types of algae and coral polyps make the reef home. There is an interesting symbiotic relationship between the animals and the reef; while porous coral structures provide small animals and algae protection and security from predators, the algae provide limestone to keep reefs healthy and thriving.
Many endangered species make their home here as well. In 2004, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority added protected zones. To be classified as endangered an animal population has to significantly decrease in or around the reef.
The Great Barrier Reef is a very popular eco-tourism spot with approximately 2 million visitors per year. Although the reef is good for the tourist industry, environmentalists are concerned about this level of traffic violating its fragile and unique ecosystem.
Pollution is also a concern. In 2010, a Chinese coal ship leaked a ribbon of oil into the coral nearly two miles long, destroying marine life and water quality. The Great Barrier Reef Coastal Wetlands Protection Program has also been charged with preventing domestic pollution from synthetic pesticides and fertilizers used in the region.
http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/about-the-reef/facts-about-the-great-barrier-reef
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/corals/coral02_zooxanthellae.html
http://www.livescience.com/6290-great-barrier-reef.html
http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/coralfacts.htm
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Door Dash's share is almost 80% higher than the IPO price at the Wall Street launch
Shares of Doordash Inc. rose on the first day of trading on Wednesday after the "kick" company completed one of the biggest initial public offerings of a busy year.
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Its shares traded higher than the upper limit and began trading at 2 182 on Wednesday morning, up 78.2% from their IPO price of 2 102. San Francisco, which began its service in the suburbs of Silicon Valley in 2013, now commands half of the U.S. market for utility-based food delivery, raising at least $ 3 billion to more than $ 32 billion.
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Door Dash secretly filed for a public offering in February, before the corona virus infection closed everything and demand for distribution soared. Several months later, after being one of the biggest beneficiaries of the life and economy dramatically changed by COVID-19, it is the latest company to take advantage of the hot IPO market.
The question now is whether it can continue to grow and sustain its profits. In a CNBC interview on Wednesday morning, Tordash CEO Tony Sue said the company was about to launch.
"We are in one Larger but more intrusive varieties, "Sue said, offering only 10% of restaurant traffic today. The company is also branching out to supply groceries and more.
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This review is for the Economic History discussion list, EH:DISC.
Douglas Irwin has written the history of "free trade"--as an idea and as an economic policy--for our generation. His dominant organizing principle is that the move toward freer trade in economic policy has been against the tide: that there have been lots of reasons over the ages why free trade should not have triumphed as economic policy, and that its triumph to date is somewhat miraculous: akin to a river running uphill.
Free trade as an idea was born in the shadow of mercantilism in early modern Britain. It is not the case that before Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations thinkers rejected the idea of trade: the notion that countries, like individuals, stand to gain from specialization (producing what they make best and most efficiently) and exchange is powerful, fundamental, and obviously true. But before Adam Smith thinkers overwhelmingly believed that imposing delicately-calculated restrictions on international commerce could boost an economy's resources and achieve important non-economic goals as well. For example, even Adam Smith wrote that "defense is more important than opulence."
A moral argument that foreign-produced luxuries were not worth consuming, and that the state should (for the good of those who would buy French fripperies if unrestrained) restrict imports of foreign-produced luxuries.
An unemployment-equilibrium argument that allowing imports to increase would throw people out of work.
A belief that manufacturing should be promoted to enhance economic development--perhaps with some recognition that this argument required that the benefits to society from expanding manufacturing be greater than the profits to the manufacturer.
Non-economic goals: "defense more important than opulence."
Against mercantilism, Adam Smith established a strong presumption in favor of the ecnomic benefits of free trade. David Ricardo nailed the case down with his exposition of "comparative advantage." Ever since trying to construct a coherent intellectual case for trade protection has been like trying to roll Sisyphus's stone up the hill.
Worries about the distributional effects of trade--in which case free trade can boost real national product but erode social welfare if it shifts the distribution of income and wealth in an unfavorable direction.
Worries about the effect of free trade on the terms-of-trade--in which case finely-tuned protectionist measures that erode the total surplus from trade can nevertheless garner a larger surplus for the home country (under the assumption that foreign governments do not retaliate).
Worries about the effect of free trade on high-externality industries--in which case policies that restrict trade might boost external benefits by more than enough to offset the lost gains from trade.
But as Irwin eloquently argues, all these limitations of the case for free trade are fragile. In many cases trade protection is a poor second-best policy, to be avoided because there are other more direct and less costly alternative policies that will produce higher economic welfare. In other cases, close scrutiny reveals that the reasons for rejecting free trade "have foundered under the weight of the manifold qualifications that narrow the range of circumstances under which the argument is valid.... [For example] the strategic use of trade policy to shift rents between countries... hinges critically upon numerous assumptions about competitive behavior and market structure."
Irwin thus concludes--I believe correctly--that arguments for protection are fragile and frail compared with the presumption that free trade is a good thing. To do better than free trade requires an enormous amount of knowledge and policy-making skill on the part of the government, skill that can only make things a little bit better if protectionist policies are properly applied--but could make things a lot worse if misapplied.
Beneficiaries from protection know who they are.
Each beneficiary from protection gains a lot more than each consumer loses.
Beneficiaries from protection can organize easily.
The logic of politics is not the logic of market exchange--but the logic of power exercised, and identifiable favors done for those who can someday return them.
For all these reasons, governments seeking to assemble coalitions of politically powerful élites should be powerfully attracted by individual protectionist proposals. There is a principle that the set of economists is dense in the space of possible policies: for every small number epsilon, for every policy theta, there is someone who can wear a tie, speak with authority on television, and make semi-coherent arguments that some policy that is within epsilon of theta is in fact optimal. When the stakes are large the returns to being a tame politician or a tame intellectual for protectionist interests are large too, and the labor market works well enough that demand calls forth supply--and we have Pat Choate claiming with an apparently straight face that five million American manufacturing jobs are "at risk" if the United States lowers its tariffs on Mexican imports from an average level of 3% to zero.
And it was here that I found myself wishing that Douglas Irwin had written a slightly different book. For I do not believe that the production and reproduction of intellectual arguments proceeds independently of the rest of social life, and I think the links between the strength of protectionist ideas and the potential benefits to those with the wherewithal to fund the creation and distribution of protectionist ideas are very strong and very interesting. But Irwin remains at the level of the intellect. He does not descend to the sociology of ideology at all--and I think that what is a very good book is less than the Platonic Ideal of a history of free trade because of its limited scope.
In addition, there is powerful feedback from the political economy back to the case for free trade. The very strength of the political-economic pressures toward protection generated in a rent-seeking society serves to powerfully reinforce the case for free trade. Douglas Irwin quotes Paul Krugman that the most powerful case for free trade today "'is not the old argument that free trade is optimal because markets are efficient' but rather 'it is a sadder-but-wiser argument for free trade as a rule-of-thumb in a world whose politics are as imperfect as its markets.... to abandon the free-trade principle in pursuit of the gains from sophisticated intervention could therefore open the door to adverse political consequences that would outweigh the potential gains.'"
Irwin concludes his book with a resounding triumphalist sentence: "Yet if the historical experiences described here continue, free trade will remain one of the most durable and robust propositions that economic analysis has to offer for the conduct of economic policy."
The first reason is that the East Asian economies that have grown so impressively in the past two generations have not been committed to free trade. There are arguments that they have been committed to free trade in what matters most for production (if not for consumer welfare): "a free-trade regime for exports and for imports for exporting industries" is the phrase often used. There are arguments that they have been lucky not to have been badly hurt by their deviations from free trade. There are arguments that they have managed to find a set of trade restrictions that actually does promote high-externality activities and rapid growth.
Which is true is unclear.
What is clear is that for the next generation opponents of free trade will say: "Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc. did not adopt free trade--and look how fast they grew." And at the level of economic policymaking and public ideology, this statement has the potential to erode a lot of support for free trade.
The second reason is that arguments for protection today hinge much more on the duties that first world consumers owe third world workers than on the links between protection and first world prosperity. Does the restriction of imports that violate fair labor standards give employers in developing countries the right incentives to improve working conditions and boost social welfare? Or does it just destroy jobs in developing countries--making the life chances of the poor even worse? It is not clear. But consumers in the first world do have moral obligations toward workers in developing countries, and the economic theory of free trade sheds little light on what policies are best in light of these moral obligations.


As I was writing one morning, I found myself wondering when my mother's strong hands had become like my own.
Ever since I fell last autumn and injured my "writing" hand, I have felt a deep gratitude for my hands.
The ability to grasp anything in reach.
The realization to let go and create anew.
My pen gave way to this poem about my mother's hands and what they mean to me. I had the privilege of reading it to her on her birthday this past March.
In honor of my mother and our hands, I share this tribute with you. May you cherish the hands that have strengthened you.
Hands that hold our family together.
Hands that express love and beauty.
Hands that make one feel safe.
Hands that stroke brows to ease worry and pain.
Hands that sew, mend and iron clothes.
Hands that knead dough and bake cookies.
Hands that prune roses and plant flowers.
Hands that write words of encouragement and belief.
Hands that gather wood and build fires.
Hands that rub sore muscles and heal.
Hands that create and wrap gifts.
Hands that have held hope and longing.
Hands that have nestled soft babies and grandsons.
Hands that have wiped tears and caressed cheeks.
Hands that have clutched heartache and loss.
Hands that have flipped burgers, canned and cooked many meals.
Hands that have worked the soil, fed animals and seeded fields.
Hands that have hung IV bags and passed instruments.
Hands that have made beds and pulled up our covers.
Hands that have strewn popcorn and decorated trees.
Hands that have washed, brushed and curled hair.
Hands that have soothed many souls.
Holding unto dreams and faith.
A blessing to behold. The gift of my mother's hands.
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So beautiful! Reminds me of my precious grandmother who passed in 1999. No words can express my Love & Repevt for her! Thank you for your beautiful poem!
Wanda thank you for your acknowledgment on my poem. I will again hold my mother's hands this weekend as I celebrate her birthday.
Absolutely beautiful expression of mothers!!!!
How very nice. Brought tears to my eyes, as I lived my moment. Lately..and since the past few months, ever since my 95yr old Mother took a fall and broke her pelvic bone, adding to her existing broken hips of a few years ago. Therefore, have had priceless, endless moments, sitting by her hospital bed and just cupping my hands over hers…. embracing her love that I recieved from the very hands. Actually these hands were our benefactors of love and everything learnt from this great teacher and guide. Hands now aged and wrinkled, her ninety year old skin so fragile like a parchment of gossamer holding onto its integrity. Ahh MaMa.. how many times have these very hands held my face as you looked every so lovingly into my soul…content, and happy to live the moment. She taught us how to write for Pete's sake…! Love defined itself through her hands…still does…. as she does, reaching out in a bright alert moment…her weak hands stroking my face and beard..a smile only I as a child can feel deep deep inside. Thank you Mom and God Bless.
Now allow us to give you back more than you ever deserve, keeping you safe and comfortable and never short of our loving hands to help you along.
I love you, we love you.
May I use it at my Mothers funeral?


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In my last post about What I Learnt From My First Year in Business Development, I talked about how I was struck by an initial feeling of "being lost" once I had settled back into Nigeria last year – and how my biggest lesson after it all, was about Purpose.
This post, shares some of the most impactful TED talks I watched during my period of disorientation, that helped me to find myself again.
At the top of my list is this talk delivered by Caroline McHugh, CEO of IDology, a movement dedicated to helping individuals and organisations be fully deployed, original versions of themselves.
In it she describes a fascinating framework for thinking about the self, and being yourself. The talk was especially powerful for me because I believe it arrived at an opportune moment – something she calls, an interval of possibility.
In second place, is this talk by Guy Winch, a licenced Psychologist and Author who has been working with individuals, couples and families in his private practice in Manhattan, since 1992.
and most of us have no idea how to manage our psychological health. Having suffered from rejection, loneliness, and a brief manic episode in the past, I could more than relate to everything that he said.
So if you're struggling emotionally, or if you have in the past, this talk is a good introduction on why and how to recover with good Emotional Hygiene.
Third, is "Don't Regret, Regret" by Kathryn Schulz, Pulitzer Prize winning Staff Writer for the New Yorker.
This talk is important for the same reason that the Emotional Hygiene talk above is, but I've included it separately, because I think regret is a special kind of demon with the innate ability to resurrect itself at the slightest provocation. My regret was a long lost friendship. Her talk really helped me to embrace that regret, and stop seeing it as a sign of weakness or failure, but rather as a source of strength.
Having watched any or all of the above videos, it might be tempting to rush in excitement to make changes in our lives, expecting to immediately become a perfect self. This, despite the fact that we know most significant lifestyle changes take time and perseverance.
This talk by Brené Brown, CEO of CourageWorks – an online learning community for individuals and organizations ready for braver living, loving, and leading, is actually one of my favourite TED talks of all time. I shared it for the 1st time on this blog 2 years ago, and since then, I've re-watched it several times.
It serves as a reminder to me, that I can and should ask for help when I need it – since I have found that sharing my struggles in the moment, isn't really my strong point. I've included it in this list, for those of you who may be like me, or who now realise that they need help, to encourage you to seek it.