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RJ Resources
Below is a listing of recommended books, publications, workshops and curricula and websites that will aide in our understanding of race both personally and systemically.
What Does it Mean to be White
Written as an accessible introduction to white identity from an anti-racist framework, What Does It Mean To Be White? is an invaluable resource for members of diversity and anti-racism programs and study groups and students of sociology, psychology, education, and other disciplines.
White Fragility
White fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. UUA discussion guide.
Read more on Robin Diangelo here.
Witnessing Whiteness
Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor relationships with people of color. Questioning the implications our history has for personal lives and social institutions, the book considers political, economic, socio-cultural, and legal histories that shaped the meanings associated with whiteness. Drawing on dialogue with well-known figures within education, race, and multicultural work, the book offers intimate, personal stories of cross-race friendships that address both how a deep understanding of whiteness supports cross-race collaboration and the long-term nature of the work of excising racism from the deep psyche.
Living in the Tension
Spirituality and racial justice should go hand in hand. However, tensions often arise when people try to live out their values. These tensions are most visible when people value either spirituality or advocacy and fail to see their connection. Why do these perceived tensions between spirituality and racial justice matter?
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Belovedis a towering achievement by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.
Centering: Navigating Race, Authenticity, and Power in Ministry
A joint project of the Committee for Antiracism, Anti-oppression, and Multiculturalism of the UUMA and Skinner House Books, Centering is the first book to center the stories, analysis, and insight of Unitarian Universalists of color offering their religious leadership.
The Third Reconstruction
In this memoir of how Rev. Barber and allies as diverse as progressive Christians, union members, and immigration-rights activists came together to build a coalition, he offers a trenchant analysis of race-based inequality and a hopeful message for a nation grappling with persistent racial and economic injustice. Rev. Barber writes movingly—and pragmatically—about how he laid the groundwork for a state-by-state movement that unites black, white, and brown, rich and poor, employed and unemployed, gay and straight, documented and undocumented, religious and secular. Only such a diverse fusion movement, Rev. Barber argues, can heal our nation's wounds and produce public policy that is morally defensible, constitutionally consistent, and economically sane. The Third Reconstructionis both a blueprint for movement building and an inspiring call to action from the twenty-first century's most effective grassroots organizer.
More on the Moral Fusion Coalition inspired by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-Blindness
This book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it."
CSAI – 3 year study on White UNDOING INTERSECTIONAL WHITE SUPREMACY
Racism is fundamental to U.S. social systems. White supremacy culture operates economically, institutionally, politically, and culturally, shaping everyone's chances to live healthy, fulfilling lives. It is also the nation's most toxic export, shaping policies and practices that do profound harm to the Earth and all living things.
White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement by Robin DiAngelo
A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism—i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad—to a structural understanding. A structural understanding recognizes racism as a default system that institutionalizes an unequal distribution of resources and power between white people and people of color. This system is historic, taken for granted, deeply embedded, and it works to the benefit of whites.
WORKSHOPS/CURRICULA
Workshops by Shelly Tolchuk author of Living in the Tension and Witnessing Whiteness (see above for books)
http://shellytochluk.com/living-in-the-tension/workshop-series/
http://witnessingwhiteness.com/workshop-series/
Aisha Hauser
Aisha K. Hauser, MSW, has been a religious educator since 2003. She has served three congregations and was the director of Children and Family Programs at the Unitarian Universalist Association. Currently the Director of Lifelong Learning at East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue, Washington, Aisha received the 2018 Angus H. MacLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education. She is a co-creator with Christina Rivera and Kenny Wiley of Teach-In materials to support UU congregations in understanding and fighting against white supremacy. Aisha is a contributor to the groundbreaking 2017 book, Centering: Navigating Race, Authenticity and Power in Ministry and co-wrote, with Gail Forsyth-Vail, the accompanying study guide.
The White Ally: A meeting place to tackle the issues of racism and inequality in America. We are a platform for open, constructive conversations.
Poor Peoples Campaign: Uniting tens of thousands of people across
the country to challenge the evils of
systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation's distorted morality.
Collective PAC: The Collective PAC is working to fix the challenge of African American underrepresentation in elected seats of power throughout our nation
Posted on 17. August 2021 by Sharon Varosh
The Lakota People's Law Project has put out a call to action to advocate against HR1374, the "Enhancing State Energy Security Planning and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2021" – a bill that has already passed in the House and is heading to the Senate. This bill would worsen the already dangerous and complex dynamics of state-backed and corporate-funded violence against and criminalization of water protectors. More Information
Resources for Dealing with Anti-Asian Racism from Indivisible
Posted on 22. March 2021 by Sharon Varosh
If you are directly impacted by the events in Georgia, this resource from Northwestern University has collected several different resources for fighting xenophobia and anti-Asian racism.
The news this week on the murders in Atlanta has been devastating, enraging. While we're still processing these tragic deaths, we know a few things for certain: These eight individuals weren't murdered because the shooter was having a bad day, or because he had a sex addiction. In the words of Randy Park, whose mother Hyun Jung Grant was killed in the rampage: that's bullshit. These eight individuals were murdered because of a toxic combination of white supremacy, systemic racism, classism, and gender-based violence. Our colleagues, friends, family, group leaders, and movement partners of Asian descent have spent the last year afraid for their lives and the lives of their loved ones as anti-Asian hate crimes across the country rose by more than 150%. And now, they're grappling with the reality of what occurred in Atlanta: a white male shooter went to three different massage studios over the course of an hour and murdered eight people, six of whom were Asian American women. To the many Indivisibles who are not Asian American: it is up to us to offer support and solidarity, to speak out, and to find solutions so that we can collectively stop these traumas from happening again. And that starts with acknowledging the multitude of oppressions that Asian American women face. Asian American women's experiences of racism and sexism are often inextricably linked, the result of centuries of racial exploitation, objectification, and sexualization by men of all races. The events that occurred in Atlanta are not solely about racism or sexism, but rather that these two issues are intertwined. We must speak openly about the history and repercussions of where these issues meet and the role they play in our society today. To say that there's only a singular narrative of racism or misogyny denies Asian women their full personhood. Here are some educational resources that we found helpful and want to share:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta protects the civil rights of the AAPI community in Georgia and the southeast. If you can, consider donating.
Asian American Feminist Collective has a wide range of resources including a zine for supporting Asian American communities during COVID-19, links to mutual aid funds and nonprofits providing support, reading lists, and more.
Red Canary Song provides resources for Asian migrant communities, Asian sex working communities, and the overlap between these two groups. Read their statement on the murder of the Asian American massage workers in Atlanta, and consider donating.
Check out The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee for a comprehensive look on the long and forgotten history of Asian American life.
And if you'd like to take immediate action:
If your representative is one of these 164 Republicans who voted against Rep. Meng's resolution condemning Anti-Asian racism, or one of the 172 Republicans who voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (less than 24-hours after the murders in Atlanta), call them at (202) 224-3121 to let them know you were paying attention and their actions have consequences.
Then, check out and share this resource on anti-Asian violence.
If you're able, split a donation among eight organizations that are fighting to protect and support the AAPI community. Click here to split a donation now.
What's important now is that we continue to support each other through this painful time. Check in on your friends and family, have difficult but open conversations about racism and privilege, and listen to the stories of those most directly impacted.
Facing Race - Environmental Racism
Posted on 12. March 2021 by webmaster
https://youtu.be/qi9M62wjFqM
Listened to This Changes Everything yet?
Posted on 22. February 2021 by webmaster
In the second season of "This Changes Everything," Crosscut takes a deep dive into policing policy, alternatives to policing and the lives at the center of the criminal justice debate. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut and Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
More than six months after George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis and anti-racism protests exploded across the nation in response, Seattle city leaders are still struggling with an existential question: How should we rethink public safety, while keeping our cities safe and eliminating racist practices? This six-part podcast, produced by Sara Bernard and reported by David Kroman, takes a close look at challenges of policing today and whether it's even possible to downsize the police force to add something new and different. Those interested in or just curious about the latest analysis of police reform strategies, whether they believe that real change is possible or not, will want to listen to this comprehensive, deeply reported series, the second season of This Changes Everything.
Episode 1: How reform gave way to 'Defund the Police' in Seattle Episode 2: Cops, mental health crisis calls and conflict over who should help Episode 3: How police end up mishandling mental health crises Episode 4: An Oregon city's decades-old alternative to police Episode 5: Defund, then what? Seattle activists' ideas for police dollars Episode 6: When defunding the police meets Seattle's political reality » All six episodes are available on your podcasting apps now. For behind the scenes material, sign up for our pop-up newsletter.
The Latest Books and Reports Covering Environmental Racism and Justice
The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed again a fundamental truth about the Anthropocene: When disaster strikes, the vulnerable take the hardest punches. Communities of color have suffered much higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and mortality, both because they are disproportionately represented in frontline service positions and because their access to routine healthcare is more limited.
This pattern has long been observed in studies of environmental and climate justice, as the titles in this month's bookshelf show. Vulnerable communities of color face more and more serious exposure to environmental hazards and have more limited access to economic, social, and political remedies. Read more here.
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger, by Julie Sze (University of California Press 2020, 160 pages, $18.95 paperback) A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, by Harriet A. Washington (Little, Brown & Co. 2019/2020, 368 pages, $17.99 paperback)
Katrina: A History, 1915-2015, by Andy Horowitz (Harvard University Press 2020, 296 pages, $35.00) Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement, by Michael Mendez (Yale University Press 2020, 304 pages, $30.00)
Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment, by Lucas Channel (Harvard University Press 2020, 184 pages, $29.95) Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition, by Shalanda H. Baker (Island Press 2021, 224 pages, $32.00 paperback)
The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age, by Francois Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux (The MIT Press 2020, 480 pages, $39.95) Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret, by Catherine Coleman Flowers (New Press 2020, 224 pages, $25.99)
Superfund Underfunded: How Taxpayers Have Been Left with a Toxic Financial Burden, by Jillian Gordner (US PIRG/Environment America 2021, 174 pages, free download available here) Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection, by Brandon Derman (Palgrave Macmillan 2020, 261 pages, $74.99 soft cover)
The 2020 NGO and Foundation Transparency Report, by Staff of Green 2.0 (Diverse Green 2021, 101 pages, free download here) Covering Climate Equitably: A Guide for Journalists, by Erica Priggen Wright, Vanice Dunn, Katie Parrish, and Benjamin Gass (The Solutions Project with Conspire for Good and Provoc 2020, 36 pages, free download available here)
A podcast about defunding the police and rethinking public safety
After George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis last May, anti-racism protests exploded across the nation and presented Seattle city leaders with an existential question they are still trying to answer: How might the city rethink public safety while keeping the city safe and eliminating racist practices?
For the second season of This Changes Everything, host Sara Bernard and reporter David Kroman consider this question as well, taking a close look at the challenges facing city leaders as they contemplate whether it's possible to downsize the police force and create a new public safety regime. Over the course of six episodes, all available now, Bernard and Kroman explore the history of reform in Seattle, delve into the data and personal stories fueling the call for new solutions, and consider the options and the obstacles facing city leaders. Read more here.
Finding Humanity Podcasts
Posted on 28. January 2021 by webmaster
To unpack some of the biggest threats humanity is grappling with today, each episode will draw on the expertise and life experiences of members of The Elders: former Presidents and Prime Ministers, UN officials, Nobel Peace Laureates, freedom fighters, and human rights champions, brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007. From leading nations out of conflict, to defending the human rights of the most vulnerable, this series will explore how we, through our shared humanity, bold advocacy, and collective action, can challenge injustice and promote ethical leadership.
Listen here.
Documenting the Struggle: A Conversation with Filmmaker Stanley Nelson (available online)
Posted on 22. October 2020 by Sharon Varosh
Documenting the Struggle: A Conversation with Filmmaker Stanley Nelson
Recording Available now – go to online link to view.
Conversation with filmmaker Stanley Nelson on his acclaimed Civil Rights films. American Experience and WORLD Channel tonight for a conversation with filmmaker Stanley Nelson and American Experience Executive Producer Cameo George on the ongoing struggle for civil rights in America. The discussion includes clips from three of Nelson's films— The Murder of Emmett Till, Freedom Riders, and Freedom Summer — as well as Q&A from audience.
The Murder of Emmett Till - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/till/
Freedom Riders - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomriders/
Freedom Summer - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomsummer/
I Am a Book Critic. Here's What Is Wrong With "Black Lists" — and What Is Good.
Posted on 02. July 2020 by webmaster
Political and creative false choices dog this country: that books by Black people or about race are for didactic purposes only, separate from the demands of form, poetics, genius, and even delight. And so, as an antidote to all the political falsehoods, consumer pitfalls, and creative lapses that plague so many "Black Lists," I bind a list that is restorative, not draining, one that centers Black excellence and joy. Read more here.
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Nokia, Save the Children collaborate in India to protect children during disasters
Telecom, mapping technologies to help children in India by building resilience in disaster prone areas
New Delhi, India - On the occasion of the Universal Children's Day Nokia today announced to join hands with Save the Children for an important social cause - protecting children in India during disasters. Both parties will build the resilience of children and their communities in India through Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and social protection by providing better communications connectivity with its telecom technologies and navigation with mapping technologies. The program will be implemented starting with states including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.
Click to Tweet: #CSR by @nokia @nokianetworks to protect children in India during disasters #ChildrensDay #NetworksPerform
How technology can help to protect children
DRR and communications technologies linked to mapping help provide
access to right information at the right time
geospatial database to create risk maps
safety maps and plans
alternate routes and safe zones
mobile-based information sharing networks for real time monitoring
better collaboration and coordination
mobile-based triggering mechanisms
mobile-based training and education
Sandeep Girotra, vice president and head of India Region, Nokia Networks, said: "We feel strongly that it's our social responsibility to contribute and protect the children in India pre-, during and post- disasters as they are the nation's future. We are committed toward this, and our advanced telecom and mapping technologies, coupled with the Save the Children's global expertise in DRR and social protection, can build a greater resilience to protect children. We believe this model that aids social protection and resilience can be taken well beyond India."
Thomas Chandy, CEO of Save the Children, said: "We are grateful to Nokia for its generous help to make a huge difference to children of India through innovations in DRR and social protection, especially since the company is an expert in communications and mapping technologies. The company's telecom technologies can spearhead communications connectivity in real time to reduce the risk from disasters, thereby ensuring that children and their communities are safe. We believe this would be a highly innovative partnership with path-breaking use of telecom technologies."
According to Save the Children, due to disasters such as Jammu and Kashmir flood this year, and the Uttarakhand flashflood in 2013, children have severely suffered, as their education, nutrition, safety as well as overall care and protection have been adversely affected. In recent decades, disasters have become multi-fold and weather patterns unprecedented. Due to the threat of environmental risks, the poor are exposed to a range of everyday shocks and stress that lead to reduced coping capacity of households and, eventually, further impoverishment. This situation heightens children's vulnerabilities.
Click here to download a picture of children in India.
Connect with Nokia:
Twitter: @nokia @nokianetworks
Nokia Networks Youtube: unite Channel
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TAGS: Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, disaster, mapping technology, ICT, Nokia, Save the Children
Nokia invests in technologies important in a world where billions of devices are connected. We are focused on three businesses: network infrastructure software, hardware and services, which we offer through Nokia Networks; location intelligence, which we provide through HERE; and advanced technology development and licensing, which we pursue through Nokia Technologies. Each of these businesses is a leader in its respective field. http://company.nokia.com
About Save the Children
In India, Save the Children works across 17 states with a focus on child-centered resilience programming, education, child protection, social protection, health and nutrition and humanitarian response. Besides responding to humanitarian crises by providing immediate and lasting relief, Save the Children works to mitigate the negative impacts of disasters and risks through DRR and social protection Globally, Save the Children, works for children in 120 countries. https://www.savethechildren.in/
Facebook: Save the Children India
Twitter: @stc_india
Subhagata Mukherjee
E-mail: subhagata.mukherjee@nsn.com
Tel. +358 (0) 10 448 4900
Email: press.services@nokia.com
Devendra Tak- National Manager (Media & Communication)
E-mail: d.tak@savethechildren.in

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How I me make to a admin on a Hostingserver ?
@grimspank I have put my steamID in the users.eco, but the server is not more comes online ;( Edit: OKkk .. I have found the fail .. lol .. in the file stand  but if must "" without the  lol So pls make not this  .. lol then crash the server ..
Where is the changelog for the 6.4 Version ?
Aye, they came out with 6.4.1 :) Also, yes, they screw up laws and contracts, joys of being in Alpha. They are working on them.
Look in the new bug reports ;-) Have not found any for the previous versions , since my English is not the best I could have overlooked.
Give a command list for admins ?
6.1 has revamped this and all commands will now be shown with /help, with special ones for admins.


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As a guideline, fees for work recently undertaken have ranged from as little as £575 to £4,500 to develop the required level of compliance for individual organisations needs. 2018 prices for a one site survey typically ranged between £1,175 to £3,750 + VAT; 80% of the surveys have been below £2,400 over the last 3 years. Our fees for 2019 are likely to be much the same.
Our fees may not be the cheapest, and we would expect you to shop around for quotations, but you can be assured that our consultants are highly qualified and experienced and will ensure your compliance with the COSHH regulations.
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As we started work on webOS, all of the applications below are available on this platform. If you've never heard of webOS, don't worry, you're not alone. Billed as a game changer, it quickly faded from public view, which for us was a shame as it had a raft of features that you now take for granted on your phones. Swipe to close? Cards? Yeah, those were originally webOS.
Available on the HP Touchpad. Get things done quicker and better with TaskMasterHD.
Using the original TaskMaster app available on the phones, TaskMasterHD was built from the ground up using the enyo framework. What has been built is a Task Manager app for your Touchpad that will serve your task requirements. Utilising the standard left to right viewing, your tasks can be grouped into lists and filtered, searched, ordered how so see fit. You can even print out lists and individual tasks (as long as you have a printer wirelessly connected to your Touchpad), or even email them.
Available on the Pre. A dedicated TaskMaster application for the phone.
Let's be honest, the original task app on the Pre wasn't the best of apps. Simple would be the best way to describe it. Now, you can keep a better grip on your GTD lists with TaskMaster.
TaskMaster gives you the functionality required for a task app, with simple interactivity to allow you to update status, details with minimal taps of the device.
On the Pre & HP.
Based on the classic board game Othello, Infection is a game for 2-4 players.
Any number of these can be human or computer controlled and there are 2 skill levels for the computer players. Taking it in turns, the object is to eliminate your opponents by infecting their cells to your colour, until there is only one player left or the board is full. Movement is done by selecting any of your cells and splitting to an adjacent cell or jumping 2 spaces. When you land, any adjacent cells will be infected with your colour.
Fully inclusive of computer players.
Ever keep sending the same collection of messages to the same sets of people?
Organise your most common messages and recipient numbers to send them with a few taps of the Pre, with no need to open the keyboard.


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Kandi Enters Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Zhejiang State Grid Electric Vehicle Service Company - Seite 2
Kandi intends to supply 300,000 electric vehicles to various ride-sharing programs, and the two parties will cooperate to offer battery exchange services for these 300,000 vehicles over the next five years. The two parties may expand into new areas of cooperation based on the progress in this collaboration.
Kandi Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Hu Xiaoming commented, "Strategic cooperation with Zhejiang State Grid in the field of battery exchange is a major milestone for Kandi. We will start with battery exchange services for 300,000 compliant vehicles in rideshare programs within a five-year period. This will play a critical role in future collaboration. Launch of this program will play a critical role by driving rapid development of Kandi's business."
About Kandi Technologies Group, Inc.
Kandi Technologies Group, Inc. (KNDI), headquartered in Jinhua Economic Development Zone, Zhejiang Province, is engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and sales of various vehicular products. Kandi conducts its primary business operations through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Zhejiang Kandi Vehicles Co., Ltd. ("Kandi Vehicles") and its subsidiaries including Zhejiang Kandi Smart Battery Swap Technology Co., Ltd, SC Autosports, LLC (d/b/a Kandi America), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Kandi in the United States and Fengsheng Automobile Technology Group Co., Ltd (formerly known as Kandi Electric Vehicles Group Co., Ltd., the "Affiliate Company"). Kandi Vehicles has established itself as one of China's leading manufacturers of pure electric vehicle parts and off-road vehicles.
In 2013, Kandi Vehicles and Geely Group, China's leading automaker, jointly invested in the establishment of the Affiliate Company in order to develop, manufacture and sell pure electric vehicle ("EV") products. Geely Group (including its affiliate) and Kandi Vehicles currently holds 78% and 22% of the equity interests in the Affiliate Company, respectively. The Affiliate Company has established itself as one of the driving forces in the development and the manufacturing of pure EV products in China.
More information about KNDI is available on the Company's corporate website at http://www.kandivehicle.com. The Company routinely posts important information on its website.
This press release contains certain statements that may include "forward-looking statements." All statements other than statements of historical fact included herein are "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects" or similar expressions, involving known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including the risk factors discussed in the Company's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov). All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these risk factors. Other than as required under the applicable securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Edith Head Necklace
Posted in Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor, PEOPLE, Richard Burton, tagged A Place in the Sun, Aaron Frosch, Academy Awards, biographies of actresses, biographies of artists, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, biographies of women designers, Christie's auction of Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor and Christie's, Elizabeth Taylor and Edith Head, Elizabeth Taylor and Monty Clift, Elizabeth Taylor divorce, Elizabeth Taylor jewelry, Elizabeth Taylor's clothes, Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, Elizabeth Taylor's husbands, fashion design, movie fashion, Paramount Pictures, Richard Burton, Taylor-Burton diamond, the golden age of Hollywood on June 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Richard Taylor and Elizabeth Burton. Undated photo
On July 4, 1973, American film actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) issued the following press release:
"I am convinced it would be a good and constructive idea if Richard [Burton] and I separated for a while. Maybe we loved each other too much. I never believed such a thing was possible. But we have been in each other's pockets constantly, never being apart but for matters of life and death, and I believe it has caused a temporary breakdown of communication.
I believe with all my heart that the separation will ultimately bring us back to where we should be – and that's together. I think in a few days' time I shall return to California, because my mother is there, and I have old and true friends there, too." (1)
Leaving Richard at the Long Island estate of his lawyer Aaron Frosch, Elizabeth checked out of her room at the Regency Hotel, Park Avenue, New York and flew to Los Angeles. She had to put distance between herself and Richard's endless drinking, their endless quarreling. She hid from the paparazzi at the Hollywood home of her old and dear friend, Edith Head, the legendary fashion designer for Paramount Pictures. Upon Elizabeth's arrival, "Edie" got out the bottle of Jack Daniels for the two of them to share.
Elizabeth considered Edith to be like a second mother to her. Edith returned the affection. In her Spanish-style home in Coldwater Canyon that she shared with her husband Bill, she had placed a plaque at the bottom of the stairwell that read,
ELIZABETH TAYLOR SLEEPS HERE
Edith Head designed costumes at Paramount Pictures for 43 years. (1952)
Edith Head (1897-1981) had won one of her eight Oscars for best costume design for "A Place in the Sun" (1951) in which Elizabeth played socialite Angela Vickers. Taylor's costumes were so beautiful in that film that they set fashion trends for prom and ball gowns that year. (2)
One evening gown, in particular, was a huge sensation and remains an iconic dress today. It was strapless, to show off Elizabeth's gorgeous shoulders, which Edith considered one of her best assets, with a sweetheart neckline that showed just a trace of virginal décolletage.
An Edith Head sketch of Elizabeth Taylor's white tulle gown in "A Place in the Sun." (1952)
The bodice was highlighted by clusters of tiny fabric violets. Below the nipped in waist, a full skirt erupted in countless yards of white tulle studded with white velvet violets. It was a flattering silhouette for Elizabeth who Edith considered "one of the prettiest human beings I've ever seen."
Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in "A Place in the Sun." (1952)
Eighteen years later, Elizabeth wore another of Edith's designs to the 1970 Academy Awards, at which she presented the Best Picture Award to "Midnight Cowboy." It was a chiffon dress – in violet, to match Elizabeth's famous violet eyes – with a plunging V-neckline. Nestled in Elizabeth's tanned cleavage was the famous 69-carat, pear-shaped Taylor-Burton diamond, a diamond as big as the Ritz that cost well over a million dollars. It was one of many outstanding pieces in the Elizabeth Taylor Jewelry Collection.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor arrive at the 1970 Academy Awards. Burton was nominated for Best Actor in "Anne of a Thousand Days" but did not win.
Elizabeth had a love affair with jewelry. She had long admired one piece that Edith Head often wore, a gold and ivory necklace made up of Victorian opera tokens.
Film costume designer Edith Head wearing her Victorian opera token necklace.
The Edith Head Necklace
In 1981, Edith passed away, leaving her necklace to Elizabeth in her will.
Elizabeth Taylor wears a Victorian opera token necklace of ivory and gold, a gift from her friend Edith Head. Undated photo
I had the opportunity to see the Edith Head Necklace in 2011 at the Christie's auction of Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry collection in New York. It was my favorite piece of all of Elizabeth's jewelry. The necklace was estimated to sell at between $1,500 and $2,000, but it sold for $314,500!
(1) Kashner, Sam and Schoenberger, Nancy. Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010.
(2) Jorgensen, Jay. Edith Head: The Fifty Year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer. New York: Lifetime Media, 2010.
Readers: For more on Elizabeth Taylor, click here. For more on Edith Head, click here.
Picasso's Peace Dove
Posted in ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, & DESIGN, Pablo PIcasso, PEOPLE, tagged "Bullfight and Pigeons", "Guernica", "La Colombe", "Woman With Pigeons", art by picasso, biographies of artists, biographies of women, Child Holding a Dove, cubism, El Palomero, Francoise Gilot, General Franco, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Henri Matisse and doves, José Ruiz Blasco, Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso, Paloma Picasso, Picasso and Bullfights, Picasso and doves, PIcasso and pigeons, PIcasso and the Peace Movement, Picasso's father, PIcasso's peace dove, pictures of picasso and children, Spanish Civil War, Vincent Van Gogh, WWII on September 26, 2011| 29 Comments »
Pigeons gather in a square in Barcelona.
Note: Pigeons and doves form the bird family Columbidae, of which there are 300 species. Ornithologically, there is no simple way to distinguish a pigeon from a dove. Some specialists refer to the smaller species as "doves" and the larger ones as "pigeons," but this is not consistently applied.
Collared doves can be tamed in urban areas, such as these two sweeties being handfed in Poland.
In reference to the works of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, the issue is further muddled. The titles of many of his works include the Spanish word la paloma, which means both "pigeon" and "dove," so we aren't sure which bird he intended to depict, if, indeed, he did intend to create such a distinction.
Finally, Picasso biographers, art curators, and translators have added their own layers of confusion. For example, the painting, "Child Holding a Dove," (National Gallery, London) has been given two different French title translations: "L'Enfant A La Colombe" (Child With the Dove) and "L'Enfant Au Pigeon" (Child With A Pigeon).
Therefore, for the purpose of this article, the terms, "pigeon" and "dove," are used interchangeably, as is common practice, except when otherwise explicitly stated.
Now for our story:
"Picasso in Underwear," photo by David Douglas Duncan, 1957. From the earliest age, the most famous artist of the 20th Century did whatever he wanted, which might include posing in his jockeys on his front doorstep at age 76.
Famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) grew up around pigeons. His father, José Ruiz Blasco, an artist in his own right, bred pigeons (rock doves), which became his favorite subject to paint. Ruiz became known as El Palomero (The Pigeon Fancier). Pablo's father taught him how to paint pigeons. (1)
In Pablo's hometown of Málaga, Spain, pigeons roosted in the sycamore trees in the Plaza de la Merced, where he and his sisters played. While the girls frolicked in the square, Pablo used a stick to make bird drawings in the dirt. (2)
Much to the dismay of his elementary school teachers, Little Pablo, or "Pablito," drew constantly. Every once in a while, he brought a pigeon to class and spent his time sketching it rather than doing his assigned schoolwork.
Pablo used every inch of his drawing paper, covering the page with scenes of his favorite subjects: bullfights and pigeons. (3)
Guided by his father, Picasso received professional art instruction. His talent grew and was recognized. By the age of 15, he was successfully exhibiting his artwork. By 1901, he was splitting his time between Barcelona and Paris, falling increasingly in the company of artists heavily influenced by post-impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh.
That same year, at the age of 20, Picasso had become so respected an artist that he had a Paris show in the Galerie Vollard almost to himself, sharing it with another Basque. At this exhibition, Picasso
sold 15 of his 65 paintings and drawings before the exhibition had even opened." (4)
Through all these changes, however, pigeons still charmed him, as is evident in his sentimental 1901 painting, "Child Holding a Dove" (1901), a piece that ushered in his somber Blue Period.
Pigeons even appeared during his cubist period, as in "Woman With Pigeons" ( 1930).
"Woman With Pigeons," by Pablo Picasso, 1930.
Before 1937, Picasso had not used his art for political expression. It was in that year, though, that he was to create his most famous work. Commissioned by the Spanish Republican government, Picasso created an enormous mural called "Guernica." It was named after a Spanish town in the Basque country that had been firebombed by Nazis, backers of the Nationalist forces of General Franco during the Spanish Civil War (1937-1939).
Guernica, Spain, after the April 26, 1937, aerial bombing by Nazis. It was market day and the quiet village was filled with women and children. There were few men left in Guernica, as most were off fighting in the Spanish Civil War against Franco. The Nazis bombed the town for two hours, slaughtering hundreds of innocents. When the town caught fire, those not burned to death tried to escape the inferno by taking refuge in the outskirts of town. Yet there was no escape, as they found themselves trapped all around by bombed-out bridges and roads. Some of these women and children were gunned down by aerialists. The Nazis supported the rebel forces of General Franco to test out war tactics and weapons. Although there was a military target outside Guernica, a munitions factory, it was left unscathed by the April 1937 bombing. It is believed that the bombing was used to intimidate those in opposition to Franco's impending rule.
After the painting "Guernica" (see below) was exhibited in the Paris International Exhibition (1937), it toured Europe and the U.S., drawing international attention to the Spanish Civil War and the horrors of war.
"Guernica," by Pablo Picasso. (1937)
"Guernica" gained monumental status, becoming a potent anti-war symbol and thrusting Pablo Picasso to the forefront of the Peace Movement. In May of 1940, Hitler invaded France. Throughout WWII, Picasso lived in Nazi-occupied Paris, where he was continually harassed by the Gestapo who were familiar with his anti-Nazi mural.
Picasso continued to paint and draw pigeons and doves. In 1949, author Louis Aragon chose the artist's lithograph, "La Colombe," (The Dove) for the poster commemorating the Peace Conference in Paris. (5)
"La Colombe" (The Dove) by Picasso, 1949
Posters of "La Colombe" were all over Paris when Picasso's daughter was born that April so he named his daughter Paloma (Spanish for dove).
In this 1951 image, Pablo Picasso is shown with 2 of his 4 children, whose mother was Francoise Gilot: Paloma (b. 1949) in his arms and Claude (b. 1947) Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
The model for the famous "peace dove" was one of artist Henri Matisse 's doves.
Henri Matisse in his studio with his doves. Vence, France. 1944. photo by Henri-Cartier Bresson
Matisse and Picasso had known each other since 1904 when they were introduced at the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein, an important collector of art, particularly Matisse's. Matisse and Picasso had a profound influence on one another and their art.
After Matisse died in 1954, Picasso was deeply saddened. He moved his family to a large villa near Cannes in the south of France and painted a series called "Studio" in homage to Matisse. He painted almost a dozen canvases of the same view from his third floor studio window – with the lush background of sky and garden and sea – while, in the foreground, "white doves" (6) nested and played in a dovecote Picasso had built on his terrace. Picasso did not ordinarily paint what he saw; he drew upon his imagination for artistic inspiration. It was his old friend Matisse who drew from nature. Therein lay Picasso's tribute to Matisse.
"The Studio (Pigeons)," by Picasso, 1957, is painted in a style reminiscent of Matisse.
Meanwhile, the "Dove of Peace" Picasso had created for the 1949 Paris Peace Conference had caught on. It had become a symbol for the peace movement, the Communist Party, and other liberal groups. In the years that followed, Picasso agreed to create other peace doves for conferences across Europe.
The modern peace dove is a more whimsical bird than the 1949 original. This proud bird is portrayed in happy flight, bearing numerous bouquets of olive branches and flowers in its wings, beak, and feet.
one of the many versions of Picasso's iconic "Dove of Peace"
(1)"Lines That Kept Moving and Knew No Boundaries," by Smith, Roberta. New York Times, October 7, 2011.
(2) Hart, Tony. Famous Children: Picasso. New York: Barron's Educational Series, 1994.
(3) Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Artists: Masterpieces, Messes (and What the Neighbors Thought). New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995.
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(5) Clark, Hiro. Picasso: In His Words. New York: Welcome Books, 2002.
(6) Douglas, David. Viva Picasso: A Centennial Celebration 1881-1981. Studio, 1980.
What Did Elvis and Diego Rivera Have in Common? (No, Not Frida!)
Posted in Diego Rivera, Elvis, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of Hispanic artists, biographies of singers, Diego Rivera, Diego Rivera had a twin, Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley had a twin, Frida Kahlo, Graceland, Guanajato, Memphis Tennessee, Mexico, the flower carrier by diego rivera, Tupelo Mississippi on February 2, 2010| 2 Comments »
Diego Rivera shown with wife, Frida Kahlo. Frida's mother called them "the Elephant and the Dove."
Elvis Presley at his shiniest
What did Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and rock sensation Elvis Presley have in common?
They both had twin brothers who died.
Diego Rivera and his twin brother Carlos were born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajato, Mexico. Carlos, however, died eighteen months later.
"The Flower Carrier" by Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
On January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, Gladys Presley gave birth to identical twin boys. The first one, Jesse Garon Presley, was stillborn. Thirty-five minutes later, Elvis Aaron (Aron) Presley entered this world. Gladys told Elvis that, as the surviving twin, he had been destined for great things.
READERS: For more posts on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, click here.
Frida Kahlo in a Suit?
Posted in Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Frida Kahlo, frida kahlo art, frida kahlo dressed like a man, Frida Kahlo photographs, Guillermo Kahlo, Mexican art, Mexican folk art, pictures of frida kahlo as a teenager on January 23, 2010| 3 Comments »
"Portrait of My Father," (1951), Mexican artist Frida Kahlo shows us her photographer father Guillermo Kahlo with the tool of his trade – a camera.
From an early age, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) identified with her German-born father, Guillermo Kahlo, a portrait photographer. In her diary, she wrote (in Spanish):
"My childhood was marvelous because, although my father was a sick man [ he had epilepsy], he was an immense example to me of tenderness, of work (photographer and also painter)…."
Frida Kahlo as photographed by her father, Guillermo Kahlo (1872-1941) in 1926 at about age 19. This was taken after Frida's horrific bus accident.
Guillermo Kahlo taught young Frida how to use a camera and how to develop, retouch, and color photographs. He adored Frida and photographed her often. Perhaps this is when Frida developed her obsession for self-portraiture.
Frida Kahlo (l) at about age 19 with her family (c. 1927)
Definitely, by this time, Frida Kahlo had discovered how to seduce the camera. In this 1927 (perhaps 1924?) family photo, Frida appears androgynous, flouting convention by wearing a man's suit and slicking back her hair. She was quite the rebel. Meanwhile, her sisters and mother pose demurely nearby in period flapper attire. Frida, however, has adopted a jaunty pose and an expression that says:
"Don't look at them. Look at me!"
We can't help staring at her. At 19 she is already an exotic creature. Thus began Frida Kahlo's long and celebrated career of using personal dress as theatre.
READERS: For more posts on Frida Kahlo, click here.
Frida Had Polio (Pt. 1)
Posted in Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Childhood Polio, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo had polio, Frida Kahlo photos, Frida Kahlo pictures, Mexican art, Mexico on January 22, 2010| 12 Comments »
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
At the age of six, Frida Kahlo was stricken with polio. It affected her right leg. She spent nine months in bed.
"'It all began with a horrible pain in my right leg from the muscle downward," she remembered. 'They washed my little leg in a small tub with walnut water and small hot towels.'"
Once she was out of bed, her doctor insisted that Frida exercise to build up her weaker leg. Her father got her involved in all kinds of sports, a decidedly male domain in 1914 Mexico. However, Frida played soccer, boxed, wrestled, and became a champion swimmer. (1) She climbed trees, rowed on the lakes of Chapultepec Park, and played ball.
Frida Kahlo is shown at far right, with sister Cristina (l) and best friend Isabel Campos (c). The photo was taken by Frida's father, Guillermo Kahlo, in 1919, when Frida was about 12.
Despite her best efforts, her right leg remained very skinny. To disguise that fact, she wore three or four socks on her thin calf and shoes with a built-up right heel. While some of her friends admired her stamina despite her deformity, other children teased her:
"Frida's childhood friend, the painter Aurora Reyes, says: 'We were quite cruel about her leg. When she was riding her bicycle, we would yell at her, 'Frida, pata de palo!' [Frida, peg leg], and she would respond furiously with lots of curses.'"
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at a demonstration of the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors, May 1, 1929
In this photo, Frida is shown marching in a skirt that hits below the knee – thus exposing her obviously thinner right calf. Not long after this photo was taken, Frida began to wear elaborate, floor-length skirts – to hide her emaciated leg from public view.
Frida Kahlo with pigeons, ca. 1940s by Juan Guzmán.
(1) Herrera, Hayden. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo. New York, Harper, 1983.
Now read: "Frida Kahlo Had Childhood Polio Part 2."
READERS: For even more posts on Frida Kahlo, click here.
Frida Gets Dressed
Posted in Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo clothes, Frida Kahlo fashion, Frida Kahlo hair, Frida Kahlo jewelry, Frida Kahlo photographs, Frida photos, Frida pictures, Nickolas Muray photos of Frida on November 12, 2009| 3 Comments »
Frida Kahlo, New York, 1939, photo by Nicholas Muray. She sits on a white bench, wearing traditional Mexican clothes in the heavily ornamented and embroidered style that became her signature.
"Frida was often heard to say, 'I look like a lot of people and a few things,' as if everything that made up her personal appearance was a matter of chance. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Dressing each day was an almost ceremonial affair during which she would try innumerable combinations of blouses and skirts. Her clothes were always immaculately clean and freshly ironed; she was meticulous about the appearance of her pleated petticoats, pure white and starched. She wore native Mexican costumes long after her sophisticated friends had given up this nationalistic gesture, in part for the long skirts that hid her thin leg [from childhood polio] and orthopedic shoe [from a bus accident]….
Frida selected her jewelry each day with equal care, especially the rings she wore on the fingers of both hands. She meticulously applied her make-up and painted her fingernails, sometimes purple, green, or orange….Only a little over 5′ 2″ tall, she seemed taller bcause of the heightening effect of her long skirts, accentuated even more by her elegantly long neck and her upswept hairdo with bows and flowers arranged on top of her head. Her olive skin was covered with a light fuzz; her upper lip had a pronounced moustache, which she made obvious in her self-portraits. The heavy dark eyebrows that grew together across her forehead she turned into a trademark….
When she was finally finished dressing, she looked "like a princess, like an empress'….Scrupulously clean and heavily perfumed…" (1)
Frida Kahlo smoking, photo by her friend and lover, Nickolas Muray, ca. 1940
Frida was a heavy smoker and is often photographed holding a lit, unfiltered cigarette. She seldom smiled for the camera – with good reason. The few photos that have caught her laughing reveal blackened teeth.
(1) Zamora, Martha. Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990.
Frida Kahlo: An Accidental Artist
Posted in Frida Kahlo, PEOPLE, tagged biographies of artists, biographies of HIspanic women, biographies of sick women, biographies of women, biographies of women artists, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo paints in bed, Frida Kahlo photos, Frida Kahlo's bus accident, Frida Kahlo's New York exhibition 1938, Frida Kahlo's special easel, Julien Levy on November 10, 2009| 17 Comments »
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo as photographed by New York art dealer, Julien Levy (1938)
"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."
To Julien Levy, who prepared Frida Kahlo's 1938 New York art exhibition, Frida wrote (in English):
"I never thought of painting until 1926, when I was in bed on account of an automobile accident. I was bored as hell in bed with a plaster cast (I had a fracture in the spine and several in other places), so I decided to do something. I stoled [sic] from my father some oil paints, and my mother ordered for me a special easel because I couldn't sit down [she means "sit up"], and I started to paint." (1)
Frida Kahlo paints in bed.
(1) Herrera, Hayden. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1983.


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Courgis est une commune française située près de Chablis dans le département de l'Yonne en région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Géographie

Courgis est à 7 km au sud-ouest de Chablis et à environ 17 km à l'est(-sud-est) d'Auxerre. L'entrée-sortie n° 20 de l'autoroute A6, « Auxerre-sud », est sur la commune mitoyenne de Venoy à l'ouest avec deux aires de service autoroute : aire de service de Venoy-Soleil-Levant dans le sens Lyon-Paris et aire de service de Venoy-Grosse-Pierre dans le sens Paris-Lyon. Paris est à 182 km par l'autoroute.

Toute la partie Est de la commune hormis les flancs de coteau exposés au nord, soit approximativement 4 km2 ou 400 hectares, est couverte de vignes (AOC « Chablis »).

Communes limitrophes

Urbanisme

Typologie
Courgis est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction d'Auxerre, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (83,5 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (83,5 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
cultures permanentes (40,7 %), terres arables (38,4 %), forêts (16,5 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (4,4 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Économie

Histoire
De 1285 à 1333, une famille de rang chevaleresque porte le nom de la paroisse. Elle possède des biens à Migé (1285), Villeneuve-Saint-Salves (1315) et Mouffy (1331).

L'église paroissiale a le privilège d'abriter une relique insigne de la chrétienté : une épine de la couronne du Christ. Pendant plusieurs siècles (deuxième moitié du Moyen-Âge) Courgis a appartenu au moins en partie à l'abbaye des Isles d'Auxerre.

Par son importance humaine, Courgis est fortifiée comme tant d'autres bourgs icaunais au . Le , un incendie détruit 42 maisons ; puis un autre incendie le  prend 160 maisons.

La vocation viticole de Courgis lui vaut de fournir des familles d'actifs marchands de vin dont les fils s'établissent à Paris. Immatriculés bourgeois de la capitale, ces hommes peuvent alors faire entrer facilement le vin expédié depuis leur village d'origine.

Parmi les accidents mémorables, il faut signaler :

- le 23 novembre 1613, Pierre Beugnot procureur en la justice d'Auxerre "est mort en revenant dauxerre ne pouvant gangnier la ville a cause de lafluance es neges ne pouvant recognestre le chemin est mor dans la nege entre les bras de Michel Beugnot son filz qui accompagnoit sondit pere",

- le 20 juin 1614, Bounet Matrix "tué fortiutement en tirant de la piere en la periere appelle la periere de Chasteillon",

- le 10 novembre 1614, Jehan Rapine dit Truchon est tué et assassiné en revenant d'AUxerre dans la vallée de Sirangy.

- le 21 décembre 1615, Jehan Perreau tombe durant la nuit dans le puits de la Grande Rue devant la maison d'Edme Guéron, en revenant de la taverne.

La seigneurie de Courgis
La seigneurie de Courgis est dans la mouvance de la seigneurie de Noyers (AY, E 115).

L'écuyer Mile de Courgy donne en gage à Miles sire de Noyers ce qu'il a à Courgis en 1265.

Jean de Saint-Simon est seigneur en 1555 ; Charles de Pasti est baron de Courgis en 1625 ; Jacques Ferrand président en la Chambre des Comptes de Dijon, baron en 1667.

Guerres de Religion

En 1593, Sinadoc Guéron est tué par les hommes de la garnison de Mailly qu'il empêche d'emmener des vaches volées aux habitants. En 1594, Guillaume Desclerce est tué sur la porte du Perier au Loup ou Porte d'En Haut, par les gens du capitaine du Bour qui tentent d'enlever Courgis.

Familles notables
Les Guéron, et les Guyon, issus de Courgis, tirent une certaine fortune du vin. Après s'être installés à Paris au , ils font un retour dans la bourgeoisie de l'Auxerrois au . Les Chapotin, de la paroisse, vont tenir les premières charges de Préhy et d'Irancy. Plus anciennement, la famille Adine s'est rendue à Auxerre au  et sa descendance s'y est élevée socialement.

Politique et administration

Maires

Démographie

Lieux et monuments
 L'église paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption offre une représentation murale du Dit des trois morts et des trois vifs : trois jeunes gentilshommes sont interpellés dans un cimetière par trois morts, qui leur rappellent la brièveté de la vie et l'importance du salut de leur âme. Quatre nouvelles cloches ont été bénies le .

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Restif de la Bretonne y a passé quelques années de son enfance sous la férule de ses deux frères curés. Il a habité dans le presbytère.
 Patrick Gendraud, homme politique français, ancien maire de la commune de Courgis devenu président du conseil général de l'Yonne (89).

Pour approfondir

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de l'Yonne
 Liste des anciennes communes de l'Yonne

Liens externes
 Site officiel de la mairie de Courgis
 Courgis sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

Notes et références

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Bioavailability is 70 to 80% following oral administration.
(6R)-Folinic acid The therapeutic efficacy of Dapsone can be decreased when used in combination with (6R)-Folinic acid.
(6S)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate The therapeutic efficacy of Dapsone can be decreased when used in combination with (6S)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate.
(R)-warfarin The risk or severity of bleeding can be increased when Dapsone is combined with (R)-warfarin.
(S)-Warfarin The risk or severity of bleeding can be increased when Dapsone is combined with (S)-Warfarin.
3,5-diiodothyropropionic acid The metabolism of 3,5-diiodothyropropionic acid can be decreased when combined with Dapsone.
4-hydroxycoumarin The metabolism of 4-hydroxycoumarin can be decreased when combined with Dapsone.
5-androstenedione The metabolism of 5-androstenedione can be decreased when combined with Dapsone.
6-Deoxyerythronolide B The metabolism of Dapsone can be decreased when combined with 6-Deoxyerythronolide B.
6-O-benzylguanine The metabolism of 6-O-benzylguanine can be decreased when combined with Dapsone.
7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin The metabolism of Dapsone can be decreased when combined with 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin.
Weijiard, J.and Messerly, J.P.; U.S. Patent 2,385,899; October 2,1945; assigned to Merck & Co., Inc.
Has very low affinity for the DHPS substrate 6-hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropterin-pyrophosphate, but can bind the inhibitor dapsone. Seems to lack dihydropteroate synthase activity, and does probably not function in folate metabolism (By similarity).
Catalyzes the condensation of para-aminobenzoate (pABA) with 6-hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropterin diphosphate (DHPt-PP) to form 7,8-dihydropteroate, the immediate precursor of folate derivatives.


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The Health 202: Doctors make last-ditch effort to sink GOP health-care bill
By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Paige Winfield Cunningham
THE PROGNOSIS
Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) attends a new conference following party policy lunch meeting. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX)
It's looking increasingly like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) won't restore much of the steep Medicaid funding cuts in Take Two of his health-care bill, which he'll roll out today. That didn't stop the leaders of six top doctors' associations from making a last-ditch plea on Capitol Hill yesterday to convince Republicans to oppose it.
At 9:15 a.m., the group met with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), then Steve Daines (R-Mont.) at 10 am., staff of Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) at 10:45 a.m. and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) at 11:30 a.m. A quick noon break for lunch at the Dirksen Cafeteria, and then they were off to meetings with GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), John Boozman (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Johnny Isakson (Ga.) in the afternoon. The group included presidents of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Physicians, the American Osteopathic Association and the American Psychiatric Association. Together, the associations represent half a million doctors in the United States who deliver primary care for kids and their parents.
Unlike previous efforts to change the U.S. health-care sytem, neither drug companies nor care providers have played a significant role in crafting the GOP push to overhaul Obamacare. Indeed, most of the Senate bill has been written behind closed doors, as I've written, with even key Republican senators lacking knowledge about what's in various drafts. But that doesn't mean that outside stakeholders haven't done what they could to let their views be known.
The providers' push started last November, when then-candidate Donald Trump's win opened a window for Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the groups banded together as one unit to protect the ACA's coverage expansions. At a November meeting of the American Medical Association, the presidents of these groups asked their staff to start plotting.
"We had our first meeting in early December and kind of started mapping through the strategy," AAFP lobbyist Shawn Martin told me.
Since then, the groups have visited Capitol Hill five times to urge House and Senate Republicans not to enact legislation that would overhaul the ACA and dramatically reverse its coverage gains. They don't think the present law is perfect by any means, but they're deeply worried about the Senate health-care bill's deep Medicaid cuts -- that is, what that would mean for the ability of low-income families to receive care – and how the bill provides a pathway for states to opt out of its mandatory essential health benefits.
"We're talking about something that is going to devastate our patients," AAFP President John Meigs told The Health 202 yesterday.
The Congressional battle to overhaul Obamacare is the first time these groups have allied so closely for a specific policy cause. "This is very unusual," Meigs said. "We have worked together in the past, but never this coordinated….our patients are the motivating factor that brought everyone together."
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has said he won't vote for the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act without changes to it. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
--Meigs and his colleagues said they didn't meet with McConnell or anybody on his leadership team -- which has been holding their own heart-to-hearts with moderate senators, trying to convince them to vote for the bill even with the Medicaid cuts intact. Here's what McConnell has told several hesitant senators (including Portman and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.): The bill's deepest Medicaid cuts are far into the future, and they'll never go into effect anyway.
"He's trying to sell the pragmatists like Portman, like Capito on 'the CPI-U will never happen,'" a GOP lobbyist and former Hill staffer told me.
Under the current version of the Senate health-care bill, federal Medicaid spending would drop by 26 percent starting in 2026, pegged to the Urban Consumer Price Index. That's still eight-and-a-half years away -- long past senators' next election. And cutting Medicaid is so unpopular, with so much resistance from the health-care industry, that it's likely Congress would find a way to avoid the cuts when the time comes. After all, that's what Congress did for years by enacting the so-called "Doc Fix" to a Medicare doctors' payment formula.
But that's a big "if" in the minds of medical providers, who fear having any Medicaid cuts written into law. The doctors told me they didn't get any solid promises from the rank-and-file yesterday to oppose the GOP bill. But the senators they met with generally listened and indicated they at least understood their concerns, said Jack Ende, president of the American College of Physicians.
"They didn't all say we're definitely voting 'no,' but I think they listened and realized we have real concerns," Ende said. "I don't think we convinced everybody we talked to, but hopefully they know it will not be an easy vote."
But the doctors also said they were dismayed at some of the things they heard from GOP staffers. One staffer insisted the Senate bill wouldn't lead to cuts to Medicaid or insurance benefits -- even though its federal spending cuts would almost certainly mean that states would roll back their own programs, opening the door to opting insurers out of coverage requirements.
"With some of the aides there were talking points someone created somewhere that really don't fit what went into the bill," said Colleen Kraft, president-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The doctors say dispelling the myths with truth is where their power lies. Toward that end, the associations have also invested in advocacy over the last few months, sending letters to Republicans lawmakers and urging their own members to show up at town hall meetings.
The AAP has had more than 30 op-eds and letters to the editor opposing the Republican health-care bills published in newspapers around the country. The group has also encouraged pediatricians to tape themselves explaining why the GOP bills would be bad for patients, and regularly featured those videos on its Twitter feed.
.@SenBobCasey & @SenToomey, your constituent Dr. Irene Mathieu @gumbo_amando has a message: #KeepKidsCovered. pic.twitter.com/zJXQ7ZgYNi
— Amer Acad Pediatrics (@AmerAcadPeds) July 5, 2017
.@BenSasse & @SenatorFischer your constituent @DrMatthewGibson made a video on why we need to #KeepKidsCovered. pic.twitter.com/0CAKeL1qno
— Amer Acad Pediatrics (@AmerAcadPeds) June 30, 2017
AOA President Boyd Buser said his association has been sending out email blasts to members and providing them with sample letters to send to members of Congress. Pediatricians joined Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) at a roundtable on Monday at Northern Virginia Community College to discuss the effects of repealing Obamacare.
And doctors are far from the only ones agitating against the GOP health-care bills, my colleague Juliet Eilperin and I report.
"Most corners of the U.S. health-care industry have stood steadfastly opposed for months to Republican efforts to revise the Affordable Care Act...in recent weeks, a last gasp of advocacy has come from an even wider range of groups and individuals trying to block the Senate health bill," she writes. "Community hospitals have held information sessions...Patient associations have flown in hundreds of Americans with chronic illnesses to meet with lawmakers and their aides."
It's still unclear whether the opposition efforts will pay off, as McConnell presses toward a vote on the legislation next week. But the fact that the process has dragged out for so long, with so many Republicans waffling on the legislation, could be partly due to pushback from the medical community. President Trump promised to repeal Obamacare his first day in office. Five months later, it's still deeply uncertain whether Republicans will even be able to send him a bill at all.
"I think from a lobbying perspective, the fact that it's July 12 and we're still fighting to protect those gains I think is a positive thing," Martin said. "This was a Day One agenda item."
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AHH, OOF and OUCH
Emily Whitehead was the first child treated with a new type of cancer therapy that uses the patient's own genetically modified immune cells to fight cancer. She has been in remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia for five years. (Photo by Sean Simmers for The Washington Post)
AHH: This is a big deal. An FDA panel has endorsed a first-of-its kind cancer treatment that uses patients' own immune cells to fight the disease. The unanimous recommendation means the agency could approve the new treatment by the end of September, forging an exciting new path in the immunotherapy frontier. The panel concluded that the therapy's benefits for desperately ill children far outweigh its potentially dangerous side effects.The Post's Laurie McGinley reports.
"Novartis, the drugmaker behind the CAR T-cell therapy, is seeking approval to use it for children and young adults whose leukemia doesn't respond to traditional treatments — a group that numbers 600 or so patients a year in this country...If cleared by the FDA, it would be the first gene therapy approved in the United States," Laurie writes. "But unlike traditional gene therapy, the new treatment doesn't replace disease-causing genes with healthy ones. Instead, it uses technology to reprogram immune cells called T cells to target and attack malignancies."
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
OOF: Health insurers have been pretty circumspect about the Senate health-care bill overall, but they're coming out of the woodwork to oppose an amendment offered by Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, saying it would destabilize the individual market where millions of people without employer-sponsored coverage buy their plans, The Post's Carolyn Y. Johnson writes.
The Cruz/Lee amendment, called the "consumer freedom amendment," would allow insurance companies to sell cheap health plans that don't meet the ACA's coverage requirements as long as insurers also agree to sell a plan that does. The idea is that healthy people would be able to buy only the coverage they want. But health insurers are warning that would destabilize the insurance marketplaces, cause premiums to rise unsustainably for people with chronic health conditions and leave fewer and fewer insurers selling plans — all the hallmarks of a death spiral.
"I'm writing to make clear my view on how the 'Consumer Freedom Option' is unworkable as it would undermine preexisting condition protections, increase premiums and destabilize the market," Scott Serota, president of BlueCross BlueShield Association, wrote to Cruz and Lee.
In a document circulating on the Hill, the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans predicted that the generous exchange plans that were compliant with coverage requirements would become a de facto high-risk pool, with higher premiums that would mean mostly sick people would want to enroll. More people would drop out as premiums rose, leaving all but the sickest buying insurance, which would push premiums even higher.
"The individual market faces well-documented challenges to stability, including higher premiums, lower-than-expected enrollment, fewer plan choices, and risk pool problems in certain states and markets," the document says. "It is important that policymakers avoid policies that threaten to further increase uncertainty or threaten stability."
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
OUCH: The White House says the Congressional Budget Office is unreliable. But one thing is definitely unreliable: Its ability to spell English words. A White House video lashing out at the CBO misspelled the word "inaccurately," prompting amusement around the Twittersphere. The point of the video was to argue that the CBO's predictions that the GOP health-care bill would result in 22 million fewer insured Americans can't be trusted.
The Congressional Budget Office's math doesn't add up.
Faulty Numbers = Faulty Results pic.twitter.com/zdf4bZ01ma
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 12, 2017
Many, including Vox's Matt Yglesias, pointed out the spelling errors in the video (which has since been corrected):
Today's White House hit on the CBO's accuracy spells inaccurately two different ways. pic.twitter.com/IrTjyM3RSb
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 12, 2017
From The Post's Abby Phillip:
In desperate need of spell check https://t.co/VX391Q4a6Z
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) July 12, 2017
The video escalates a developing conflict between the CBO, which is a nonpartisan body, and the Republican Party over the basic mathematics underlying the GOP effort to undo the ACA, The Post's Max Ehrenfreund writes.
"Political criticism of the CBO has long been part of the debate in Washington, but the White House's post on Twitter — which resembles a digital advertisement for a political campaign — suggests a broader, concerted effort to sway public opinion against the agency," Max writes. "Independent analysts say that while the CBO is sometimes mistaken, the agency's analyses do not betray any partisan bias, and that any effort to forecast the effects of complex legislation that affects one of the economy's most important sectors is inherently prone to error."
Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director, said in May that the CBO analysts were working on behalf of Democrats. But even some conservative experts feel Mulvaney went too far. Michael Strain, an economist at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said his comments were "really inappropriate, and frankly absurd" in an interview with The Post last month.
"I mean, come on," Strain said at the time. "The work is done with, you know, the utmost integrity. It is nonpartisan, and the analyses are sound and reasonable."
Journalists noted how unprecedented it is for the White House to attack the CBO in this way. From the New York Times's Margot Sanger-Katz:
The White House has produced a video to assail the CBO. https://t.co/OXLVNIrIAU
— Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) July 12, 2017
From USA Today's Paul Singer:
I'm pretty sure this is the first time I have ever seen an attack ad against CBO. https://t.co/ARVQhJWHax
— Paul Singer (@singernews) July 12, 2017
From liberal Center for American Progress's Kate Bahn:
There are a thousand things wrong with the WH attacking the non-partisan CBO. I am appalled and more shocked than I should be. https://t.co/LKlK2ZWnHO
— Kate Bahn (@LipstickEcon) July 12, 2017
The Boston Globe's Victoria McGrane points out that the CBO director Republicans are attacking was chosen by...Republicans:
your semi-regular reminder that the head of the CBO was hand selected by Tom Price, who is now head of HHS https://t.co/XC7CGdHjok
— Victoria McGrane (@vgmac) July 12, 2017
From The Post's Matt O'Brien:
Reminder: the White House is attacking the CBO even though Republicans picked its director https://t.co/xstWg6vvtl
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) July 12, 2017
TRUMP TEMPERATURE
President Donald Trump leaves the White House with First Lady Melania Trump to board Marine One. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
--President Trump put the onus squarely on Senate Republicans yesterday to pass a health-care bill, declaring that he will be "very angry" if the chamber falls short on a long-standing promise of his party. "I am sitting in the Oval Office with a pen in hand, waiting for our senators to give it to me," Trump told televangelist Pat Robertson of CBN News. "It has to get passed. They have to do it. They have to get together and get it done."
If Republicans don't pass it? "I think it would be very bad," Trump said. "I will be very angry about it and a lot of people will be very upset....They've been promising it for years. They've been promising it ever since Obamacare, which is failed. It's a failed experiment. It is totally gone. It's out of business and we have to get this done. Repeal and replace."
As McConnell rolls out a revised version of the bill this morning, conservatives are worried it would not undo the ACA aggressively enough, my colleagues Kelsey Snell, Sean Sullivan and John Wagner report. "Those worries, alongside lingering anxiety among centrist Republicans that the bill is going too far, threatened to leave the rebooted effort short of the votes it will need to pass next week, when McConnell hopes to bring it to a vote. He can only afford two Republican defections," they write.
"As far as I can tell, the new bill is the same as the old bill, except it leaves in place more taxes," Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on a Wednesday conference call with reporters. "I can't support it at this point."
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in the Capitol Building. (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
--It's hard to imagine Paul would vote for any iteration of the health-care measure. He blasted it in a Breitbart op-ed yesterday, writing that "too many Republicans are falling all over themselves to stuff hundreds of billions of taxpayers' dollars into a bill that doesn't repeal Obamacare and feeds Big Insurance a huge bailout."
"The Senate Obamacare bill does not repeal Obamacare. Not even close," Paul wrote. "In fact, the Senate GOP bill codifies and likely expands many aspects of Obamacare."
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also appeared yesterday as a pretty immovable "no" vote, Vox's Dylan Scott tweeted:
so Collins and Paul sound Very Nohttps://t.co/KlLQVIweVrhttps://t.co/Z02FwLn1dX
— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) July 12, 2017
Vice President Pence. (Joshua Gunter/The Plain Dealer via AP)
--As the negotiations continued on Capitol Hill, Vice President Mike Pence visited Paul's home state of Kentucky, one of the states with the most at stake under the Senate bill. Pence joined Republican Gov. Matt Bevin in Lexington for a meeting with Kentuckians who say they have been hurt by the ACA. In a campaign-style speech at a small business, Pence said the revised health-care bill adheres to conservative principles that would deliver more affordable health care with greater choices for consumers, the AP reports.
"I came here today to turn up the heat, because this is the moment," Pence said. "Now is the time. It's time for Congress to step up and repeal and replace Obamacare." Pence also predicted that the Republican repeal-and-replace effort will succeed this summer.
REPRODUCTIVE WARS
The clip on CNN:
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said he wants to take money from Planned Parenthood and food stamps to pay for President Trump's proposed Mexico border wall. King said on CNN he supports the $1.6 billion in funding that the House is considering as a start for building the wall -- but he'd love to add another $5 billion by cutting into Planned Parenthood's Medicaid reimbursements.
"I would find half of a billion dollars of that right out of Planned Parenthood's budget," King said. "And the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements that are being spread out for people that haven't worked in three generations...We've got to put America back to work, this administration will do it."
A few other reads from around the web:
HEALTH ON THE HILL
Senate parliamentarian backs Republicans on health law question
Senate Republicans have won an argument before the parliamentarian that will allow a House-passed health care reconciliation bill to be taken up and amended in the Senate next week without any obstacle, CQ has learned.
Republicans' Obamacare repeal bill would bar some immigrants from buying insurance on the exchanges
Defenders say it prevents "medical tourism" that destabilizes the marketplace. Opponents say it's just another instance of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Kim Soffen
Senate's health bill would make life easier for some small businesses
Some small businesses buy their health plans through trade associations. The GOP health bills would make those cheaper. But that could also make employer-based insurance more expensive for others.
MEDICAL MISSIVES
New CDC chief partnered with Coke in state obesity program
The Georgia program that Brenda Fitzgerald led makes little mention of the problems with sugary soft drinks, putting her at odds with research and many health experts.
Lena H. Sun
INDUSTRY RX
Sessions to unveil health-care fraud crackdown this week
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is poised to announce a major law enforcement action this week targeting health-care fraud, focusing on opioid treatment programs exploiting Obamacare insurance plans, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Don't Assume That Private Insurance Is Better Than Medicaid
A closer look at a notion embraced by conservatives, who are backing big changes to Medicaid.
Protesters stand together outside the office of Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) asking him to work on a health care policy. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
The House Ways and Means committee holds a markup of bill to strengthen Medicare programs and protect taxpayers
The Hill is hosting an event on "The Cost of Caring: Family Caregivers and Tax Reform," featuring Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Rep. Dan Donovan (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.).
The Bipartisan Policy Center holds an event on state flexibility in health care
The American Enterprise Institute is holding an event on Friday on Medicare in the Trump era.
FBI nominee Christopher Wray's confirmation hearing, in 3 minutes:
Christian Broadcasting Network's Pat Robertson asked President Trump whether Russian President Vladimir Putin should be trusted:
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