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Welcome to nabtrade's wrap up of Federal Budget 2019. I'm Gemma Dale, nabtrade's Director of SMSF and Investor Behaviour.
This year's Budget is unique in its timing, and also in the fact that it has been released immediately before the announcement of the next Federal election. Voters should be aware that all of the proposals in this Budget need to be passed into law before they become effective, and since the Parliament will shortly be dissolved, and the current Federal Government may not be returned to power, there is far less certainty about the likely impact of some of these measures than there has been in prior years.
This year's Budget centrepiece is a series of tax measures, clearly targeting individuals and eligible small and medium sized businesses.
Let's have a look at individuals first. The Low and Middle Income Tax Offset will increase from a maximum of $530 to $1,080 per annum. The base rate of this offset will also be increased, and if legislated, this will be effective from the current financial year.
The amount of offset you're entitled to will vary depending on your income. It's important to note that this offset is paid in a lump sum after you submit your tax return, not on a pay as you go basis, so the impact will be felt after 1 July. It should be noted that the Opposition have previously indicated they will support tax measures aimed at mid and lower income Australians, so the Government would like to pass these through the Parliament prior to the election, with the support of the Opposition. There are only a couple of sitting days in which this could occur though, so you will want to wait for confirmation.
In terms of detail, the Low and Middle income offset will be available for the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 income years.
Individuals with taxable incomes up to $37,000 will have their tax reduced by up to $255. This will increase incrementally for those earning between $37,000 and $48,000. The maximum offset of $1,080 will be available to taxpayers with taxable incomes between $48,000 and $90,000. The offset then gradually reduces to zero at a taxable income of $126,000. There is a calculator available if you'd like to understand what the likely impact is on your personal income.
From 1 July 2024, it is proposed that the 32.5 percent tax bracket will be reduced to 30 percent. Together with the already legislated removal of the 37% tax bracket from 1 July 2024, it's estimated that this will mean 94% of taxpayers will have a marginal tax rate of no more than 30% from the 24/25 financial year.
The existing instant asset write off regime will be increased and expanded. If passed, this will apply from Budget night through to 30 June 2020.
An upfront immediate deduction will be available to eligible businesses, for assets costing less than $30,000 (this is up from the previous threshold of $20,000 and the proposed threshold of $25,000).
Small businesses with an aggregated annual turnover of <$10m are already eligible for the immediate deduction. This measure, if passed, will apply to businesses with aggregated annual turnover of up to $50m, and it's worth noting, applies to each asset purchased, not to one single asset per business.
There have been a couple of proposed amendments to superannuation this year -very quiet relative to previous years, which many investors will be pleased about.
The two significant proposals from this Budget relate to the ability to contribute for those over age 65. Currently you need to meet the work test if you want to contribute to super between age 65 and 75, which means you need to have worked at least 40 hours over a consecutive 30 day period each year.
The age at which the work test requirement kicks in will be raised to age 67. This effectively gives you an additional 2 years to contribute to super, even if you're no longer working. These contributions will still be assessed against the current contributions caps, which haven't changed, despite some speculation. These caps are $25,000 per annum for pre tax contributions, and $100,000 for after tax contributions. You can currently bring forward up to 3 years worth of post tax contributions or $300,000, in a single year, if you're less than 65 at the beginning of the financial year – this will also be available to those aged under 67 with these new measures. These measures, if passed, will apply from 1 July 2020.
The obvious benefit of these changes, if they're passed, is that they allow people to contribute to their superannuation for longer. If you have less than $1.6m in super, this could allow you to boost your super, remembering that super remains a very attractive environment for tax purposes, with retirees paying no tax on income or earnings in the pension phase of their super.
Finally, spouse contributions will be able to be made for a spouse aged under 75. Currently this is only available if the spouse you're contributing for is under age 70. Your spouse does need to meet the work test to receive the contribution if they're over 65 currently or over 67 from 1 July next year if that change gets legislated, but depending on their income, you may also be eligible to receive a tax offset of up to $540. There are a few eligibility rules worth checking to ensure you should be using this one; these are detailed on the ATO website.
And finally, if you were eligible for certain social security payments on Budget night, you will receive a one off Energy Assistance Payment.
This is a payment of either $75 for a single person, or $62.50 for each member of a couple, which will be received by those eligible to receive Age Pension, Disability Support Pension, Carer Payment, Parenting Payment, and certain Dept of Veterans Affairs payments. This measure has support from the Opposition and is likely to be passed before Parliament is dissolved; it will be paid automatically by the Department of Human Services from June 2019.
Well that's a wrap for this year's Federal Budget. You'll no doubt receive many reminders in the coming weeks that the Federal election is just around the corner and these measures must be passed, either by the existing Government or after the election in order for them to take effect.


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Georg Müller-Jürgens, actually Georg Müller (4 May 1883 – 28 October 1971) was a German lawyer, mayor of Jever and member of the Oberkirchenrat (Upper Church Council).

Life
Georg Müller was born in Dresden. He was the son of Georg Gottfried Müller, a secondary school teacher and headmaster, and Auguste Jürgens, who came from Jever. Since 1935 he was called Müller-Jürgens.

He studied law, received his doctorate in law and was mayor of the town of Jever from 1919 to 1935. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP. On 25 February 1935 he was elected full-time legal member of the Upper Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg and held this office until 9 June 1945, when he was dismissed at his own request with "pension-like alliance payments" due to his NSDAP membership.

He spent much of his life researching and publishing articles about the Vasa Sacra of the Oldenburger Land and of East Frisia.

Works
 The Weser-Ems Area. Schulze, Oldenburg 1932
 (Ed.): The Weser-Ems region. The Northwest Mark of the German Reich. Schulze, Oldenburg 1933.
 People in the Weser-Ems Region. In: Race. Monatsschrift für den Nordischen Gedanken 9, 1942, Issue 1.
 Vasa sacra. Altarpiece in East Frisia (= Treatises and Lectures on the History of East Frisia 36). Publisher East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1960
 Vasa sacra Oldenburgica. Volume 1. Holzberg, Oldenburg 1968.

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Mayors of places in Lower Saxony
People from Jever
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1971 deaths

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Francis the Hypocrite Condemns Insulting Speech
From the man who believes the biggest problems facing our world today are not the decline of Christendom, the flooding of the world with vice, or the abortion holocaust, but instead the unemployment of the youth and the loneliness of the elderly, now comes yet another gem of Jesuit wisdom. At his Sunday Angelus address on September 7, 2014, the Argentinian apostate-claiming-to-be Pope, Jorge Bergoglio, said the following on the topic of fraternal correction:
An attitude of gentleness, prudence, humility, and attention against those who have committed a crime, avoiding that words can hurt and kill the brother … When I make an unfair criticism, when I "curse" a brother with my tongue, this is killing the reputation of the other! … [Fraternal correction] also helps us – us – to free ourselves from anger or resentment which only hurt: that bitterness of the heart that brings anger and resentment, and that lead us to insult and attack. But it is very bad to see this come out of the mouth of a Christian as an insult or an attack! It's bad! Got it? No insults! Insulting is not Christian! ("Pope" Francis as quoted by Macro Tosatti in "Francis: 'Insulting is not Christian! Even words kill'", Vatican Insider, Sep. 7, 2014)
Several things need to be noted here. First, the hypocrisy of Francis' words is staggering. You may recall that since his election, Francis has constantly used his sermons and addresses to hurl insults at people — usually at good Catholics or those trying to be such — so much so that "Fr." Tim Finigan dreamed up the justification that Francis was just being very traditional and "reviving papal invective" (nice try, Mr. Finigan!). Francis didn't even shy away from using what he called an "Apostolic Exhortation" (the infamous and heretical Evangelii Gaudium) for his uncalled-for overblown rhetoric. Such impressive phrases as "sourpusses" and "self-absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelagians" now grace the pages of an official "papal" document. Indeed, one Novus Ordo blogger couldn't take it any more and decided to engage in some satire by publishing Pope Francis' Little Book of Insults. The Bergoglian jibes have been so numerous that even the secular press started noticing, one writer calling Francis an "insult comic" and "the vicar of snark". So, for Francis to now rail against insults as "not Christian" is the pot calling the kettle black — it is the height of hypocrisy. Second, of course our speech must at all times be charitable, it is true. However, it must be charitable according to the standards of Catholic morality, not Francis' humanist "church of nice" standards. When we have to engage in fraternal correction — that is, telling a fellow-Catholic that he is doing something sinful — then of course we typically ought to do it with kindness, showing that we are trying to help him, for the sake of his soul. However, there are times when kindness simply will not work — it will not accomplish the intended end, either from experience or because it is obvious that kindness would be totally out of place and not appropriate for the situation. For example, if a Catholic — a real, traditional Catholic — were to express his support for so-called "gay rights", it would be silly to approach him with kindness about it, because it is clear that he knows better. Instead, he ought to be rebukedfor this wickedness, and sometimes such a rebuke is greatly and efficaciously aided by the use of an insult. Such an insult would still be considered as meeting the demands of charity because charity isn't "being nice"; rather, it is the love of one's neighbor for God's sake, and love of our neighbor (friend or foe) means we desire him to attain eternal beatitude in Heaven. No, we're not making this up. Let's review some basic Catholic morality on this topic of insults. The technical moral term for this is "contumely":
Contumely consists in unjustly dishonoring another person in his presence and thus showing one's contempt for him… Dishonoring another may be done by words, deeds or omissions… The gravity of the sin of contumely is determined by the words, actions or omissions employed and especially by the dignity of the person dishonored. Some expressions used among the less educated may be only banter, and, therefore, no sin; whereas among the more cultured people they would imply a grave affront. (Fr. Heribert Jone, Moral Theology [1961], n. 378)
Did you notice the key word here? Fr. Jone states that the sin of contumely is committed when "unjustly dishonoring another person in his presence". But clearly there are times when it is just to do so, in fact, when the offender has already dishonored himself by his wicked act. Don't believe it? Then consider these rather insulting words used by our holy Lord Jesus Christ against the Pharisees:
O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. (Mt 12:34) You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. (Jn 8:44) Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves. Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor. Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, is a debtor. Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it: And whosoever shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it: And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness. Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men' s bones, and of all filthiness. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just, and say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar. (Mt 23:15-35)
These holy words of our Blessed Lord are not "nice." They are not kind. They are, in fact, quite insulting. Yet, our Lord is Charity itself, the every essence of Love. Here we have a perfect example of the just dishonoring of someone in his presence, the just use of insulting language, aimed at the betterment of that person's life, to the good of his soul and his eternal destiny. Our Lord did not hate the Pharisees, He loved them — with a true, genuine, and perfect love, not with the "niceness" demanded by our politically correct but wicked world. Let's be clear about it: A loose, unbridled tongue is very dangerous. Sins of the tongue have landed many a soul in hell, without doubt, and the sin of contumely is generally a mortal sin, unless the unjust insult is merely slight (see Jone, Moral Theology, n. 378). Our Blessed Lord Himself said as much: "…whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment… And whosoever shall say, Thou Fool, shall be in danger of hell fire" (Mt 5:22). And yet this is the same Lord who hurled strong epithets of rebuke and contempt at the Pharisees because they deserved it and needed to hear it, and so did the people around them. The lesson to be learned here is simply this: Not all insults are wrong. Charity is not "being nice," at least not necessarily. In order to be truly charitable, one must sometimes be very unkind, just like a parent must sometimes spank his child and punish him, not out of malice or through a lack of charity, but precisely from a motive of genuine love and seeking the child's ultimate happiness. (The same goes for humility. Reproving another is often an act of humility, not of pride.) As usual, then, Francis has it all wrong. His teaching that "insults aren't Christian" is false — though in his case, it is also amusingly hypocritical. True, a Christian ought to watch what he says and take great care to show as much kindness as possible, but not all insults are wrong. Francis knows this (he certainly practices it!), and his failure to point this out, especially in the context of fraternal correction, once more distorts the true teaching of Christ and thus misleads souls. We live in a world where this is "niceness" in abundance, but very little charity. Francis has just done his part to ensure that it will continue to be this way. Bergoglio's Angelus address also included, of course, the obligatory semiweekly denunciation of gossip. Novus Ordos must be relieved to know that their "Pope" has the spiritual prowess to quickly identify what really ails this world, and what they have no other pastor to warn them against: uncharitable speech, judging, lack of dialogue, and gossip. Impressive! Being a 1960's-educated Jesuit, Jorge Bergoglio is the perfect embodiment of everything that is wrong with the Novus Ordo Sect. If a Freemason-Modernist-Naturalist-Sillonist-Indifferentist nincompoop hell-bent on destroying the last few well-meaning and pious "Catholic" souls in the Vatican II Church were to claim the papacy, just what would he be doing differently from Francis? Image source: shutterstock.com License: paid
Francis the Hypocrite preaches against Insults
Do as I say, not as I do…
An attitude of gentleness, prudence, humility, and attention against those who have committed a crime, avoiding that words can hurt and kill the brother … When I make an unfair criticism, when I "curse" a brother with my tongue, this is killing the reputation of the other! … [Fraternal correction] also helps us – us – to free ourselves from anger or resentment which only hurt: that bitterness of the heart that brings anger and resentment, and that lead us to insult and attack. But it is very bad to see this come out of the mouth of a Christian as an insult or an attack! It's bad! Got it? No insults! Insulting is not Christian!
("Pope" Francis as quoted by Macro Tosatti in "Francis: 'Insulting is not Christian! Even words kill'", Vatican Insider, Sep. 7, 2014)
Several things need to be noted here.
First, the hypocrisy of Francis' words is staggering. You may recall that since his election, Francis has constantly used his sermons and addresses to hurl insults at people — usually at good Catholics or those trying to be such — so much so that "Fr." Tim Finigan dreamed up the justification that Francis was just being very traditional and "reviving papal invective" (nice try, Mr. Finigan!).
Francis didn't even shy away from using what he called an "Apostolic Exhortation" (the infamous and heretical Evangelii Gaudium) for his uncalled-for overblown rhetoric. Such impressive phrases as "sourpusses" and "self-absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelagians" now grace the pages of an official "papal" document. Indeed, one Novus Ordo blogger couldn't take it any more and decided to engage in some satire by publishing Pope Francis' Little Book of Insults. The Bergoglian jibes have been so numerous that even the secular press started noticing, one writer calling Francis an "insult comic" and "the vicar of snark".
So, for Francis to now rail against insults as "not Christian" is the pot calling the kettle black — it is the height of hypocrisy.
Second, of course our speech must at all times be charitable, it is true. However, it must be charitable according to the standards of Catholic morality, not Francis' humanist "church of nice" standards. When we have to engage in fraternal correction — that is, telling a fellow-Catholic that he is doing something sinful — then of course we typically ought to do it with kindness, showing that we are trying to help him, for the sake of his soul.
However, there are times when kindness simply will not work — it will not accomplish the intended end, either from experience or because it is obvious that kindness would be totally out of place and not appropriate for the situation. For example, if a Catholic — a real, traditional Catholic — were to express his support for so-called "gay rights", it would be silly to approach him with kindness about it, because it is clear that he knows better. Instead, he ought to be rebukedfor this wickedness, and sometimes such a rebuke is greatly and efficaciously aided by the use of an insult. Such an insult would still be considered as meeting the demands of charity because charity isn't "being nice"; rather, it is the love of one's neighbor for God's sake, and love of our neighbor (friend or foe) means we desire him to attain eternal beatitude in Heaven.
No, we're not making this up. Let's review some basic Catholic morality on this topic of insults. The technical moral term for this is "contumely":
Contumely consists in unjustly dishonoring another person in his presence and thus showing one's contempt for him… Dishonoring another may be done by words, deeds or omissions… The gravity of the sin of contumely is determined by the words, actions or omissions employed and especially by the dignity of the person dishonored. Some expressions used among the less educated may be only banter, and, therefore, no sin; whereas among the more cultured people they would imply a grave affront.
(Fr. Heribert Jone, Moral Theology [1961], n. 378)
Did you notice the key word here? Fr. Jone states that the sin of contumely is committed when "unjustly dishonoring another person in his presence". But clearly there are times when it is just to do so, in fact, when the offender has already dishonored himself by his wicked act.
Don't believe it? Then consider these rather insulting words used by our holy Lord Jesus Christ against the Pharisees:
O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do.
(Jn 8:44)
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.
Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor. Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, is a debtor. Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:
And whosoever shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it: And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.
Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men' s bones, and of all filthiness. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just, and say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.
(Mt 23:15-35)
These holy words of our Blessed Lord are not "nice." They are not kind. They are, in fact, quite insulting. Yet, our Lord is Charity itself, the every essence of Love. Here we have a perfect example of the just dishonoring of someone in his presence, the just use of insulting language, aimed at the betterment of that person's life, to the good of his soul and his eternal destiny. Our Lord did not hate the Pharisees, He loved them — with a true, genuine, and perfect love, not with the "niceness" demanded by our politically correct but wicked world.
Let's be clear about it: A loose, unbridled tongue is very dangerous. Sins of the tongue have landed many a soul in hell, without doubt, and the sin of contumely is generally a mortal sin, unless the unjust insult is merely slight (see Jone, Moral Theology, n. 378). Our Blessed Lord Himself said as much: "…whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment… And whosoever shall say, Thou Fool, shall be in danger of hell fire" (Mt 5:22). And yet this is the same Lord who hurled strong epithets of rebuke and contempt at the Pharisees because they deserved it and needed to hear it, and so did the people around them.
The lesson to be learned here is simply this: Not all insults are wrong. Charity is not "being nice," at least not necessarily. In order to be truly charitable, one must sometimes be very unkind, just like a parent must sometimes spank his child and punish him, not out of malice or through a lack of charity, but precisely from a motive of genuine love and seeking the child's ultimate happiness. (The same goes for humility. Reproving another is often an act of humility, not of pride.)
As usual, then, Francis has it all wrong. His teaching that "insults aren't Christian" is false — though in his case, it is also amusingly hypocritical. True, a Christian ought to watch what he says and take great care to show as much kindness as possible, but not all insults are wrong. Francis knows this (he certainly practices it!), and his failure to point this out, especially in the context of fraternal correction, once more distorts the true teaching of Christ and thus misleads souls.
We live in a world where this is "niceness" in abundance, but very little charity. Francis has just done his part to ensure that it will continue to be this way.
Bergoglio's Angelus address also included, of course, the obligatory semiweekly denunciation of gossip. Novus Ordos must be relieved to know that their "Pope" has the spiritual prowess to quickly identify what really ails this world, and what they have no other pastor to warn them against: uncharitable speech, judging, lack of dialogue, and gossip. Impressive!
Being a 1960's-educated Jesuit, Jorge Bergoglio is the perfect embodiment of everything that is wrong with the Novus Ordo Sect. If a Freemason-Modernist-Naturalist-Sillonist-Indifferentist nincompoop hell-bent on destroying the last few well-meaning and pious "Catholic" souls in the Vatican II Church were to claim the papacy, just what would he be doing differently from Francis?
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DART Pours First Concrete for Silver Line Rail Project
DART said it anticipates beginning revenue service in early 2023
Published December 16, 2020 • Updated on December 16, 2020 at 1:45 pm
Dallas Area Rapid Transit is celebrating the first official pour of concrete for the future Silver Line Regional Rail with a ceremony on Wednesday.
The ceremony took place at the intersection of Preston Road and the Keller Springs Road in Dallas.
The 26-mile Silver Line Regional Rail Project is under construction between DFW Airport, Grapevine, Coppell, Dallas, Carrollton, Addison, Richardson and Plano, and it includes 10 new stations.
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When completed, the $1.2 billion Silver Line will connect with the Trinity Metro TEXRail commuter rail line at DFW North station, providing access to Downtown Fort Worth, Grapevine, and various other Tarrant County locales.
The line will also connect with the Denton County Transportation Authority A-train commuter rail line, providing access to various Denton County locales, and DART's Green Line, providing access to Dallas Love Field and Downtown Dallas via Downtown Carrollton station.
DART said it anticipates beginning revenue service in early 2023.
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TV Pilot
Crime movies
'As Seen on TV'
San Francisco International (film)
San Francisco International
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William Read Woodfield
Allan Balter
John Orland
Frank Price
Universal Television
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Clu Gulager
Beth Brickell
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For the MST3K episode, see MST3K 614 - San Francisco International.
San Francisco International is a 1970 made-for-TV movie that was the pilot episode for an ongoing series. The series was produced, but did not include all of the same cast.
A laid-back "made-for-TV hippie".
In this TV-movie, the people who run a large metropolitan airport handle several crises. Jim Conrad is the general security manager of the airport and he doesn't play by anyone's rules. He stages a phony crisis aboard an airplane full of congressmen in order to demonstrate the need for a new runway. Conrad's colleague Bob Hatten is the head of security for San Mateo County.
The two men face several challenges during the course of a day. They must stop the theft of a shipment of newly-printed currency from an airplane, and secure the safety of the pilot's wife, who has been abducted to ensure his cooperation in delaying the plane's take-off.
Subplots include a teenage boy with no flight experience who takes to the air in a stolen Ercoupe because his parents are getting a divorce, and a case of mistaken identity between an uptight bookkeeper and a hippie.
Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad
Clu Gulager as Bob Hatten
Beth Brickell as Katie Barrett
Van Johnson as Lester Scott
David Hartman as Ross Edwards
Tab Hunter as Stayczek
Frank Gerstle as Congressman
The movie was developed as a pilot for the TV series San Francisco International Airport and aired as a TV-movie on September 29, 1970 before the TV series made its debut as part of NBC's wheel series Four in One around a month later.
The TV-movie and show's ratings are unknown, but the series was cancelled after six episodes.
When the show went to series, Pernell Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges, who later played a similar (though comedic) role in the movie Airplane!. [1]
Actor Russ Conway, who played Reverend Snow in The Screaming Skull, briefly appears as the airline mechanic who looks at the "mushy nose wheel". He would also appear in two episodes of the TV series.
Both Van Johnson and Tab Hunter had been known as heartthrobs in their younger days, Johnson during the 1940s and Hunter during the 1950s.
As noted above, Pernell Roberts was replaced for the short-lived TV series based on this movie by Lloyd Bridges. Roberts would later replace Wayne Rogers in the role of Trapper John McIntyre from M*A*S*H in the TV series Trapper John MD. Rogers was cited in Experiment #410 as being the actor who often replaced other actors in their former roles. This would seem to place Lloyd Bridges at the top of a very specific food chain.
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Serving packages for multiple distribitions from a single PPA
August 03, 2015 at 02:21 PM | categories: pyxie, vivid, arduino, python, trusty, actors, ubuntu, iotoy, dfuprogrammer, kamaelia | View Comments
So, I created a PPA for my home projects - either things I've written, or things I use. ( link to launchpad ) Anyway, I use Ubuntu 14.04LTS, primarily for stability, but making things available for more recent versions of Ubuntu tends to make sense.
To cut a long story short, the way you can make packages available for later distributions is to copy the packages into those distributions. Obviously that will work better for packages that are effectively source packages (pure python ones) rather than binary packages.
The process is almost trivial:
Go to your PPA, specifically the detail for your packages.
Hit copy and select the packages you want to copy into a later ubuntu distribution
Select the distribution you wish to copy them to (eg Vivid for 15.04, etc)
Then tell it to copy then over the packages.
And that's pretty much it.
As a result, you can now get the following packages for 14.04.02LTS and 15.04 from my PPA:
pyxie - A "Little Python" to C++ compiler. Very much a WIP. Supports Arduino as a target platform. (WIP)
arduino-iotoy - IOToy interfaces for running on arduino (STABLE)
python-iotoy - Python library for working with IOToy devices - local and remote - and publishing on the network. (STABLE)
guild - My new Actor library. (Pun: An Actor's Guild) (STABLE)
guild.kamaelia - when "done" will contain a collection of components that were useful in Kamaelia, but suitable for use with Guild (WIP)
Older libraries there:
axon - Kamaelia's core concurrency library (STABLE)
kamaelia - Kamaelia - a collection of components that operate concurrently (STABLE)
rfidtag - A wrapper around TikiTag/TouchaTag tags. (Has a binary element, unknown as to whether will work on 15.04 - let me know?!) (STABLE)
waypoint - A tool for allowing opt-in tracking at events - for example to allow people to pick up a personalised programmer after the event. (STABLE)
Libraries/tools by others that I use:
behave - Library I use for BDD
dfu-programmer - Tool I use for flashing bare Atmel 32U4 chips. It does alot more though.
parse - used by behave
parse-type - used by behave
Found this from this helpful post on stack overflow http://askubuntu.com/questions/30145/ppa-packaging-having-versions-of-packages-for-multiple-distros
Hello Microbit
March 28, 2015 at 07:38 PM | categories: C, microbit, arduino, BBC R&D, blockly, work, BBC, C++, microcontrollers, python, full stack., full stack.D, webdevelopment, mbed, kidscoding | View Comments
So, a fluffy tech-lite blog on this. I've written a more comprehensive one, but I have to save that for another time. Anyway, I can't let this go without posting something on my personal blog. For me, I'll be relatively brief. (Much of this a copy and paste from the official BBC pages, the rest however is personal opinion etc)
Please note though, this is my personal blog. It doesn't represent BBC opinion or anyone else's opinion.
Just over 2 weeks ago, the BBC announced a small device currently nicknamed the BBC Micro Bit. At the launch event, they demonstrated a prototype device:
The official description of it is this:
BBC launches flagship UK-wide initiative to inspire a new generation with digital technology
The Micro Bit
A major BBC project, developed in pioneering partnership with over 25
organisations, will give a personal coding device free to every child in year 7 across the country - 1 million devices in total.
Still in development and nicknamed the Micro Bit,* it aims to give children an exciting and engaging introduction to coding, help them realise their early potential and, ultimately, put a new generation back in control of technology. It will be distributed nationwide from autumn 2015.
... The Micro Bit will be a small, wearable device with an LED display that children can programme in a number of ways. It will be a standalone,
entry-level coding device that allows children to pick it up, plug it into a computer and start creating with it immediately.
the Micro Bit can even connect and communicate with these other devices, including Arduino, Galileo, Kano and Raspberry Pi, as well as other Micro Bits. This helps a child's natural learning progression and gives them
even more ways of expressing their creativity.
Early feedback from teachers has shown that it encourages independent learning, gives pupils a strong sense of achievement, and can inspire those who are not usually interested in computers to be creative with it.
For me, the key points about the prototype:
Targetted at children, and their support networks (teachers, parents etc). This is reflected throughout the system. It doesn't underestimate them though. (I work with cubs and scouts in my spare time, and I know they're much willing to try than adults - which means they can often achive more IMO. Especially at scout age)
Small programmable fun device, instant feedback, with lots of expansion capability with a gentle gradual curve.
Web based interfaces for coding, as well as offline interfaces
Graphical, python or C++ code running on the device
Designed to work well with other things and hook into larger eco-systems where there's lots of users.
(That's all public information, but for me those are really the key points)
Aside from the obvious -- why did the announcement excite me? Simple: While it wasn't my vision - it was Howard Baker's and Jo Claessen's, I implemented that Microbit prototype and system from scratch. While an earlier iteration had been built and used at events, I was asked to build a prototype we could test in schools and to take to partners to take to scale. (I couldn't work from that earlier iteration, but rather worked from the source - Howard and Jo. It was a harder route, but rewarding)
For those who recognise a similarity between this and Dresscode which I blogged about last summer, the similarities you see are co-incidental. (I was clearly on the same wavelength :-) ) While Microbit was in a early stage pre-prototype phase there, I hadn't seen it.
My thinking behind Dresscode though, was part of the reason I jumped at the chance to help out. It also mean though that some aspects I had a head start on though, and in particular, the IOToy and Guild toolsets I developed previously as part of some IOT work in R&D came in handy in building the prototype.(That and the fact I've used the arduino toolset a fair amount before)
Anyway, as I say, while I can't say much about the project, but it was probably the most intense development project I've worked on. Designing & building the hardware from scratch, through to small scale production manufacture in 3 months, concurrent with building the entire software stack to go with it - compilation toolchains, UIs and so on, AND concurrent with that was the development of detailed documentation and specs for partners to build upon. Intense.
In the last month of core development I was joined by 2 colleagues in R&D (Matt Brooks and Paul Golds) who took my spike implementations of web subsystems and fleshed them out and made them work the way Howard and Jo wanted, and the prototype hardware sanity checked and tweaked slightly by Lawrence Archard. There was still a month of development after that, so it was probably the most intense 4 months of development I've ever done. Well worth it though.
(Regarding names, project names change a lot. While I was building our device in even that short 3 months, it got renamed several times, and since! Don't read too much into names :-) Also, while it does fit anywhere else, it was Fiona Iglesias who was the project manager at the time who asked me if I could do this, and showed a great leap of faith and trust when I said "yes" :-) Balancing the agile process I needed to use against the BBC being very process driven (by necessity) was a thankless task!
Finally some closing things. On the day of the launch I posted a couple of photos in my twitter feed, which I'll repeat here.
The first was my way of going "yay". Note the smiley bit :-)
So, look what I made! http://t.co/OTCn14YN7s Earlier revs were built on my kitchen table :-) pic.twitter.com/2k9a2UBOZh
— Michael (@sparks_rd) March 12, 2015
The second related to an earlier iteration:
Earlier iteration: pic.twitter.com/bmQ2G7KK2t
Anyway, exciting times.
What happens next? Dunno - I'm not one of the 25 partners :-)
The prototype is very careful about what technologies it uses under the hood, but then that's because I've got a long history of talking and writing about about why the BBC uses, improves and originates open source. I've not done so recently because I think that argument was won some time ago. The other reason is because actually leaving the door open to release as open source is part of my job spec.
What comes next depends on partners and BBC vagaries. Teach a child to code though, and they won't ever be constrained by a particular product's license, because they can build their own.
Anyway, the design does allow them to change the implementation to suit practicalities. I think Howard and Jo's vision however is in safe hands.
Once again, for anyone who missed it at the top though, this is a personal blog, from a personal viewpoint, and does not in anyway reflect BBC opinion (unless coincidentally :).
I just had to write something to go "Yay!" :-)
Ubuntu PPA Packages of sparkslabs projects
March 01, 2015 at 05:43 PM | categories: trusty, arduino, python, actors, ubuntu, iotoy, dfuprogrammer, kamaelia | View Comments
I've been meaning to do this for a long while now, but finally gotten around to it. I've set up an Ubuntu PPA for the respositories I have on github. The aim of this is to simplify sharing things with others.
My target distribution is Ubunty 14.04.1LTS
In order to install any of the packages under Ubuntu, you first add my new PPA, and update and install using apt-get.
ie Add my PPA to your machine:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sparkslabs/packages
Then do an update:
You can the install any of things I've packaged up as follows:
Guild: sudo apt-get install guild
The arduino libraries for IOToy: sudo apt-get install arduino-iotoy
Python IOToy libraries: sudo apt-get install python-iotoy
dfu-programmer: sudo apt-get install dfu-programmer
The nascent Kamaelia compatibility layer for Guild: sudo apt-get install python-guild-kamaelia
Python RFID Tag Reader Module: sudo apt-get install python-rfidtag
Waypoint (used the RFID tag reader to enable opt-in tracking round a venue): sudo apt-get install python-waypoint
Axon: sudo apt-get install python-axon
Kamaelia: sudo apt-get install python-kamaelia
Mainly for my convenience, but will also make install docs for my projects simpler :-)
Connected Studio - Coding For Teens, Building the Dresscode
July 23, 2014 at 03:13 AM | categories: wearables, arduino, programming, iot, BBC, kidscoding | View Comments
At a connected studio Build Studio last week, I along with 2 others in Team Dresscode prototyped tools for an proposition based around wearable tech. We worked through the issues of building a programmable garment, a programmable accessory, and a web app designed for teaching the basic of programming garments and accessories in a portable fashion.
We achieved most of what we set out to achieve, and the garment (as basic as it was) and accessory (again very basic) had a certain "I want one" effect of a number of people, with the web app lowering the barrier to producing behaviours. It was a very hectic couple of days, but as a result of the two days it's now MUCH clear as to how to make this attractive to real teenagers, rather than theoretical ones - which is a bonus.
Probably the most worthwhile thing I've done at work at the BBC in fact and definitely this year - beyond sending a recommendation to people in strategy last summer regarding coding.
The rest of this post covers the background, what we built, why we built it and an overview of how.
NOTE Just because I work in BBC R&D does NOT mean this idea is something the BBC will work on or take on. It does NOT mean that the BBC approves or disapproves of this idea. It just means that I work there, and this was an idea that's been pitched. Obviously I believe in the idea and would like it to go through, but I don't get to decide what I do at work, so we'll see what happens.
The only way I can guarantee it will go through is if I do it myself - so it's well worth noting that this work isn't endorsed by the BBC - I "just" work there
Connected What?
So, connected studio - what is that then?
Connected Studio is a new approach to delivering innovation across BBC Future Media. We're looking for digital agencies, technology start-ups and individual designers and developers (including BBC staff) who want to submit and develop ideas for innovative features and formats.
Note that this process is open to both BBC staff and external. It's a funded programme that seeks to find good ideas worth developing, and providing seed funding to test the ideas and potentially take forward to service. People can arrive in teams or form teams at the studio.
Connected Why?
And what was the focus for this connected studio?
Inspiring young people to realise their creative potential through technology
We want to inspire Britain's next generation of storytellers, problem solvers and entrepreneurs to get involved with technology and unlock the enormous creative potential it offers
The challenge in this brief is to create an appealing digital experience with a coding component for teenagers aged 13-16
Your challenge is to make sure we inspire not just teenagers in general, but teenage girls aged 13-16 in particular ** Ideally, we're looking for ideas that appeal to both boys and girls, however, we're particularly keen to see ideas that appeal to girls.
The early stages involve a idea development day - called a Creative Studio. At this stage people either arrive with a team and some ideas and work them up in more detail on the day, or arrive with an idea they have the core of and are looking for people to help them work up the idea, or people simply interested in finding an idea they think is worth working on.
That results in a number of pitches for potential services/events/etc the BBC could take forward. Out of these a number are taken forward to a Build Studio.
What happened on the way to the Build Studio?
So, that's the background. I signed up for the studio because I was interested in joining a team and interested in working with people outside our department - with a grounding either in BBC editorial and/or an external agency's viewpoint. I also had the core of an idea with me - which I'll explain first.
A meeting the previous week an attendee asked the question "If the stereotype of boys is that they're interested in sports, what's the stereotype for girls?". The answer raised by another person there was "fashion". Now, if you're a lady reading this who says "don't be so sexist, I'm not interested in fashion", please bear in mind I don't like sports - things like the commonwealth games, olympics, world cup, etc all leave me cold. Also please bear in mind the person asking the question was a lady herself, and the answer came from another lady at the meeting.
Anyway, true or false, that idea mulled with me over the weekend - with me wondering "what's the biggest possible draw I can think of regarding fashion?". Now the closest I get to fashion is watching Zoolander, so I'm hardly a world authority. Even I know about London Fashion week.
So, the idea I took with me to the creative studio was essentially wearable tech at london fashion week. I'd fleshed out the idea in my head more like this:
The BBC hosts an event at London Fashion week regarding wearable tech - with the theme of costumes for TV - which widens it beyond traditional fashion to props and so on. So you can have the light up suits and dresses but also props like wristbands, shoes, animatronic parrots, and so on. (Steampunk pirate?)
Anyone and everyone can attend, BUT the catch is they must have created a piece of wearable tech to take to the event - if they do however, they can take their friends with them, and one of them - either themselves or their friends can wear it down the catwalk.
To support this, you could have a handful of TV programmes and trails leading up to this, a web app for designing and simulating garments/etc of your choice, tutorials for how to build garments, and in particular allow transferable skills between the web app to creating programmable garments. So the TV drives you to the web, which drives you to building something, which drives you to an event, which drives you onto TV.
Now at the creative studio, there's essentially a "I've got this kind of idea" wall first thing in the morning - where if you've got an idea you can stand in front of those interested in joining a team and describe the idea- and then say what sort of skills/etc that you're after.
In my case I described the above idea, and said that I was primarily looking for people with an editorial or business oriented perspective. After all, while the above sounds good to me, I was never a teenage girl, and lets face it I was in the geeky non-cool demographic when I was a teenage boy :-) First person who joined me was Emily who has worked on various events at the BBC, primarily in non-techie areas including Radio 1's Big Weekend, Ben from a digital Agency and Tom from Nesta - a great mix of people. Thus formed Team Mix.
Team Mix's refined idea
We worked the idea through the day - with every element up for grabs and reshaping. The idea of being limited to London Fashion week was changed to be the wider set of possibilities - after all the BBC does lots of events from real physical ones like Radio 1 Big Weekend, through glastonbury, the proms, Bang goes the theory, through to event TV including things like The Voice.
After a session with a member of the target audience, we realised that while the idea was neat, for a teenager asking them to build something for a catwalk is actually asking an awful lot. Yes, while showing off, and finding your own identity is a big thing, not losing face, and not doing something to lower your status is a real risk. "I couldn't make that". As a result, we realised that this could be sidestepped by whatever the event was being changed to "this is a collection of your favourite stars wearing these programmable outfits and you get to decide what and how those clothes behave". However, on the upside this made the web element much clearer and better connected.
It left the accessories part slightly less connected, but still the obvious starting point for building wearable tech. This left the idea therefore as a 3 component piece:
Celebs with outfits that are programmable - a trend that seems to be happening anyway, and these would be worn at some interesting/cool event - to be decided in conjunction with a group running interesting/cool events :-)
A website for creating behvaiours via simple programming - allowing people to store and share their behaviours - the idea being that they control the outfits the celebs will wear.
Tutorials for building wearable tech accessories - which are designed to be programmed using the same behaviours as the celeb outfits - making the skills transferable.
So the idea was pitched at the creative studio - and ours got through to the Build Studio stage.
Taking wearable tech to the Build Studio
Out of the 20-30 ideas pitched, it was one of 9 to get through to the build studio. However, another team had ideas related primarily to Digital Wrist Bands, and our team - Team Mix - was asked to join with theirs - Team DWB - resulting the really non-sexy name Team Mix/DWB. That mean 8 teams at the studio. One of the teams didn't show, meaning 7 builds.
It transpired that out of the two teams, only myself and Emily could make it to the build studio - so we chatted to Ben and Tom about what they'd like to see achieved, and also to those on Team DWB. The core of their idea was complementary to our accessories idea so we decided to focus that part of our build on wristbands.
So, what was our ambition for the Build Studio? The ambition was pretty much to do a proof of concept across the board, and to describe the audience benefits in clearer, concrete terms. Again, there was the opportunity to bounce the ideas off a couple of teenagers.
We had help from the connected studio team in seeking assistance from other parts of FM, and after a call across all of BBC R&D, various groups in FM across the north and south we had a volunteer called Tom who was a work placement trainee.
I also ran our aspiration for the build studio via Paul Golds at work, and asked him if he wanted to be involved, and in particular what would be useful, and while he couldn't make it to the Build Studio, he did provide us we simple controllable web object.
What we built at the Build Studio
So the 3 of us set out to build the following over the 2 days of the build studio:
A wearable tech garment, which mirrors a web app, and in particular has a collection of programmable lights.
A web app for allowing a user to enter a simple program to control a representation of a web garment, with increasing levels of complexity. The app demonstrated implicit repetition, as well as sequence and selection.
A bracelet made of thermoplastic with programmable behaviours controlling lights on the device, perhaps incuding feedback/control using an LDR.
And that's precisely what we built.
The wearable garment was built as follows:
LEDs were sewn in strips - 8 at a time - onto felt. Conductive thread then looped through and tied on as positive and negative rails - like you would with a breadboard. Then attached underneath the garment so that the lights shone through.
The microcontroller for the garment was a Dagu Mini - which is a simple £10 device which is also REALLY simple to hook up to batteries and bluetooth. I've used this for building sumobots with/for cubs too. It's able to take a bit of bashing.
For each strip, the positive "rail" was connected to a different pin directly on the microcontroller - not necessarily the best solution, but works quite well for this controller.
Code for this was really simple/trivial - simple strobing of the strips. The real system would be more complex. In particular this is the sort of code in pastebin
However, the "real" garment would use something like this iotoy library for control - to allow it to be controlled by bluetooth and also by an IOT stack.
The web app is a simple client side affair only, and uses a small simple DSL for specifying behaviours. This is then transformed into a JSON data structure for evaluation. This uses jquery, bootstrap, and Paul's awesome little web controllable light up dress. You can see this prototype on my website.
http://sparkslabs.com/wearables/dress/designer/design.html
Again, bear in mind that this is a very simple thing, and the result of a 1 - 1.5 day hack by a work placement trainee - treat it nicely :-) The fact it generates a JSON data structure internally which could be uploaded/shared is as much the point as the fact it has 3 micro-tutorials around sequencing, control and selection.
The bracelet was created as follows:
Thermoplastic was used at the wristband body - about 5-10g. This is plastic that melts in hot water (above 60 degrees), and becomes very malleable.
A number of LEDs and and LDR
The LEDs connected to the 3 digital pins, A0 and A1, with A2 connected between an LDR and 10K resistor.
A DF Robot Beetle - which is a tiny (and cheap ~£4.50) Arduino Leonaro clone - though it's the size of a 10p piece, and only has (easy) access to 6 pins.
This was MUCH more fiddly than expected, and there's lots of ways of avoiding that issue. In the end the bracelet was electricly sound, though having access to a soldering iron (or rather a place where soldering could take place) would've been handy. We remarked several times that building the bracelet would've been easier at home multiple times - which I think is a positive statement really.
Again the cost part was very simple, and due to time constraints no behaviour of the LDR was implemented. On the upside, it does show how simple these things can be - http://pastebin.com/FzQqGSTv - again howvever, if the microcontroller was tweaked, you could use bluetooth and use something like the iotoy library above - allowing really rich interaction with other devices.
In fact we had a fair amount of this working before the meet the teenagers session. As a result we had concrete things to talk about with the teenagers, who warmed up when we point out the website and devices were the result of just a few hours work.
The feedback we had was really useful and great. This also meant that while physical and tech building continued on the second day, more time could be spent on the business case and audience benefit than might have otherwise - though never as much as you'd like.
Feedback we had was:
Make it chunky!
Can you make it velcro-able - so we can attach it to bags, clothing etc as well. ** It also made it more possible to add to things like belt buckles, jackets, hats etc.
Can you have these devices controllable / communicating?
Can you make the web app an Android/iOS app?
Can you add in more sensors?
Can it be repurposed?
Call the project DressCode - this is one of those things that is a moment of genius, and so obvious and so appropriate in hindsight.
This instantly solved a problem we had in terms of keeping wristband small and elegant - chunky makes everything alot simpler. Velcro was a good idea, but a but late in our build studio to start over. The idea of controlling and communicating is right up the angle we wanted to pursue (IOT type activities using the iotoy library) but didn't have time for in a 1 - 1.5 day hack.
The idea of having a downloadable app was one that we hadn't considered, but fits right in with the system - after all this would be able to directly interact with a bluetooth wristband, and the communications stack is already written. Having more sensors was obvious, and repurposing made sense if we switched to something using velcro.
It was a really useful session as you can imagine.
The Pitch :: Dress Code
So we carried though to the pitch - DressCode - Fashion of the Tech Generation. (After all, a generation now will be learning how to code behaviours of some kind - so this is a fun application of the skills they'll be learning)
We said in the creative pitch what we'd allow you to do, and said we were allowing you to do just that - as you can see from what our core aspects were vs our prototypes.
Some key aspects of making this work would be the development of kit forms for tech bands which could then be made and sold by 3rd parties and partner - assuming they meet a certain spec.
The ideas behind the pitch included self-expression - the ability to look like the group or different from the group - the ability to share behaviours, to be part of something larger for the coding to be a means of creating behaviours for something but also that it leads naturally into coding for other devices - such as indicator bands or gloves for cyclists, shoes for runners, bottom up fund raising as happens with loom bands, and as a starting project for learning about coding - with a strong/fun inspiration piece involving TV - from headlining glastonbury through to a light up suit for Lenny Henry for comic relief - where each red nose is a seperate pixel to be controlled.
We described the user journey from the TV to the webapp to the techband and back to events and the TV show.
Pitching doesn't come naturally to me - the more outgoing you are in such situations the more likely your idea gains currency with others. Emily led our pitch and I though did a sterling job.
Competition however was very fierce. If our idea doesn't go through, it won't be because it's a bad pitch or a bad idea, it'll just because a different pitch is thought to be stronger/more appropriate for various reasons.
Hindsight is great. It's the stuff you think of after the time you needed it. In particular, one thing we were ask to do - and I think we kinda addressed it - at the build studio was to deal with the link between the techbands and the online web app and TV show. The way we dealt with it there was to decide to make available the same DSL to both wristbands (or blinkenbands as I nicknamed the code) and garments. ie to allow the same behaviour online or on a garment to control a blinkenband and so on.
That's pretty good, but there was a better, simpler solution staring us in the face all along :
The felt strips we sewed LEDs onto then wired up with conductive thread, were pretty simple to make. Even sewing in the Beetle would've been pretty simple.
Putting velcro onto those would've been simple - meaning each piece of felt could be a blinkenband. Also each blinkenband could be attached inside a garment (as each strip was), allowing at once both more complex behaviours but also a much cleaer link between the wristbands and the garments.
Also, attaching bands inside a pre-existing garment also drastically reduced the risk element for teenagers in building a garment - if it didn't look good, you still had wristbands. If it DID work, you gain more kudos. Furthermore, if you did this there's an incentive to make more than one wristband with two side effects - firstly it encourages more experimentation and play - the best way to learn but also leads to people potentially selling them to each other, secondly it encourages people to make more than one - since once they've done one, if they do more they could make an outfit that's all their own.
Also, if you did this, you have an activity that while a little pricey (about £10 each all in) it IS the sort of activity a Guides group would do - especially at camp (assuming a pre-programmed microcontroller ) in part because it's a group that tend to do more crafts type activities and would actually find the light useful in this situation. While people have ... "isn't that rather 19th century" ... views of things like Guides/Scouts, they do both cover the target demographic, and out of the two, it seems more likely to get Guides happily making felt/fabric programmable blinkenbands than Scouts - based on who the two sets attract.
For me, it's this final thought that made me think that this would definitely be a good starting point - since it seems a realistic way of connecting with the demographic. (Ironically - getting leaders on board in groups would perhaps be harder work!)
All in all, an interesting and useful couple of days, leaving me with some clear ideas of how to take things forward - with or without support from connected studio - which I think makes this a double win. Obviously getting 6-8 weeks to work on this for a pilot would be preferable to trying to cram it into my own time, but to me the Build Studio definitely proved the concept.
As mentioned an actual real world example of this would have to:
Identify a realistic event
Make the audience benefit clearer, figure out a marketing strategy
Build a better/more concrete garment - I started unpicking my jacket, but didn't have time to pixelise it...
Build a better web app - close the loop to controlling the garment, linking to users
A downloadable app - which links to the online account for spreading behaviours to a device.
Better tutorials, and kits for building tech bands.
All in all a great and productive couple of days.
Next up, building robots for the BBC academy to teach basics of coding to BBC Staff (though I suspect they'd like tech bands too :-), but that's another day.
Later edit
(27th August)
Well, this is a later edit, and a shame to mention this, but Dresscode did not make it through the Connected Studio to Pilot. That's the nature of competitive pitching though, which is both sad, and awesome because it means a better idea did go through.
Regarding Dresscode itself, the Connected Studio team also said the following:
With regards to continuing your work on this independently, the idea is your IP and as it did not get taken to pilot the BBC doesn't retain any IP on Dress Code. The only caveat is that the idea cannot be pitched at another Connected Studio event. However, the Connected Studio modus operandi does not replace BBC commissioning, so feel free to progress the idea this way. We must add that if choosing the BBC commissioning route, it's up to you to talk to your line manager about this before any steps are taken.
So while Dresscode as a Connected Studio thing is no more, it could be something I could do independently later. We'll see.


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Des élections municipales partielles ont lieu en 2019 en France.

Cette liste concerne uniquement les communes de plus de  habitants au  janvier 2019 (populations légales 2016).

Bilan

Élections

Montholon (Yonne)

 Maire sortant : William Lemaire (LR)
 Maire élu : Jean-Marie Valnet (SE)

 Contexte : Décès du maire sortant.

Saint-André-de-l'Eure (Eure)

 Maire sortant : Serge Masson (FG)
 Maire élu : Franck Bernard  (DVG)

 Contexte : Décès du maire sortant.

Vernouillet (Yvelines)

 Maire sortant : Pascal Collado (UDI)
 Maire réélu : Pascal Collado (UDI)

 Contexte : Démission de plus de la moitié des membres du conseil municipal

Verrières-le-Buisson (Essonne)

 Maire sortant : Thomas Joly (DVD)
 Maire élu : François-Guy Trébulle (DVD)

 Contexte : Décès du maire

Notes et références

Voir aussi

2019
municipales


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Unique Groom Gift Ideas From Bride | Wedding Gifts For Groom, Parents, Bridesmaids, & Flowrr Girls | Heartfelt & Practical Gift Ideas
Logan Lynn Spain
Wedding Gifts For Groom, Parents, Bridesmaids, & Flowrr Girls | Heartfelt & Practical Gift Ideas
Hey, guys, and welcome back to my channel. So for today's video. I am so excited because today I'm going to be going over the gifts that I got all the people that are a part of our wedding. So, um, I am going to be going over the gifts that we got our parents as well as what. I got my bridesmaids. Even though we're technically not having bridesmaids anymore. I did already buy them their gifts, and so I am going to still be giving them to them. Um, because they did help me out with the bridal shower and all of that good stuff, and they still, you know, we're part of the kind of wedding experience, and then I am going to be showing you the gift that I had intended to get one of our flower girls, and I will be talking about the gift that, um, I was going to get our other flower girl, and then I'll also be talking about the gifts that I got my videographer as well as photographer, so let's go ahead and jump right on into it. All right, so first things first, I'm gonna start with my parents, so I'm filming this video. Um, two weeks before our wedding. So this video is probably a little bit premature, because as you'll see, I have a couple things that aren't completely finished yet. Um, and then one thing that I don't even have in my possession yet. Um, my mom is still working on it, but I wanted to go ahead and film this and get it out of the way and I'll just insert pictures and everything. Um, so that way I have it. It's on my computer. I can get it edited, and then I can add the pictures at a later point in time because I have a ton of videos to film for you. Guys that are wedding related, and it is taking like forever. And so I was like this is one that I can hurry up. Get out of the way and we'll be good to go. Please ignore some pieces of these hair like some of my natural hair is doing. It's own thing. Today I, uh, did not. I slept on it. Super strange, and then I did not, like, straighten it to kind of blend it out, so this whole, uh, extension thing, long hair, It's a little learning curve for me. I've had short hair for so long. Now that it's I don't know, long hair. It's very, very strange to me anyway. Let's jump in. I'm going to show you guys My parent's gifts first. Um, so I will say that. I knew what I wanted to get my parents for forever like the moment I saw this literally years and years and years and years and years ago. I knew that this both of these. Well, actually all of the items. I knew that this was something that I wanted to get them. Um, just because I am someone who I try to think of one practical gifts as well as like, and I just put like a lot of time and effort into picking out the gifts that I get for people. And so when I saw this, I was like when I saw all of these things. I knew that I wanted to get them for them, but the very first thing. Is this picture frame? So it says mom and dad today is not only a celebration of our love, but of your love as well. We have seen you share moments of incredible happiness and also lean on each other in difficult times. It is your lasting bond. That is the foundation for us to build upon and a source of strength for us to learn from and then, um, in this little picture frame. It says it says Jeff and Patsy, June 26 1992 Which is my parent's wedding anniversary and then obviously their names and then on this side, it says Brandon and Logan December 5th, 2020 So it is a picture frame where their wedding photo goes on this side. And then our wedding photo goes on this side. I still have yet to print off their wedding photo. I'm so mad at myself. Um, I literally like strategically. Got the photo like took a picture of it like took a picture of a picture. Um, because I have no idea how to scan and upload that like. I don't know how to do that. So I took a picture of a picture. It looked awesome. I went in and used like an app to make it even more like clear like a clear image. Um, awesome, and then I deleted it off my phone because I am dumb, so I have to go do the exact same thing again. So I apologize that you guys can't see their wedding photo in here, but that is something that I'm going to be doing tomorrow, but this is the first thing that I saw, um, literally years ago on Etsy and I was like I want this like for them. Um, and then they have like multiple like sayings, and then you can choose like what you want like the backdrop to look like I chose like the, Uh, it's like a fake wooden. Look, It's not actually like a wood. It kind of feels honestly like contact paper, but I thought it was so cute, and it goes with my parent's home decor so had to get that for them. Because I think it's so cute. I think it's such a special way to like, remember their wedding day as well as yours. I think it's so cute. Um, and I love that, okay, so then, um. I got each of my parents Two like Littler gifts. So let me open up this one real quick. So the very first thing I got my mom. Um, it's in this little cute wall box, so my mom. If you guys did not know is my matron of honor. I have known for ever that. I wanted my mom to be a chair of honor. She is my absolute best friend, and I could not imagine having anyone else as my matron of honor. So what, I got her, Of course, the string came out, but what I got her was. This this super cute matron of honor ornament. Oh, also, I will have every single item that I mentioned today linked it down the description box down below. So that way you guys can check it out. Purchase it all that good stuff. But I got this really, really cute Matron of honor. Um, ornament, my mom. Um, gets my brother and I a Christmas morning every single year based on like something that happened that year as well as like, my grandma gets us ornaments And then my mom and all of her, uh, sisters. They all like pastor ornaments, so Christmas ornaments are something very special that we like get each other every year, so I thought that was absolutely perfect and it is like a glass. I obviously went with, like, a little bit more like a Christmas theme, and it just says Matron of honor 2020 and I thought it was so stinking, cute, and I actually just got this off of Amazon, okay, and then the other thing I got her, which again I knew that this is something that I wanted to get both of my parents. So this is a hanky and these words right here. It says grandpa loves you, but it's actually in my grandpa's handwriting. So my mom's dad. It's in his handwriting, And I had the hardest time like choosing what I wanted to be like written on this because I could have chose like his signature or I could have chose. Um, I had, like a drawing that he had drawn for me, but I thought it was so special that it said Grandpa loves you. Um, and I was like I could take off the grandpa part, but I was like no. I think that that's really, really cute, and even though it's not technically her, grandpa, but I think it's I don't know. I think it's so cute, and I think it means some like it means. I don't know, it means a lot. I think it's really cute and I am going to get myself. This made as well. Um, just because I absolutely love that, but I knew I wanted to get both my parents A hanky with their, um, dad's handwriting on there. So, um, and it means so much because my grandpa has both of my grandpas have passed. So my mom's dad as well as my dad's dad and so my dad looks like this, And this is in his dad's handwriting, and it says love Bucky, Which is what they called him. Um, and it was so cool because my aunt so my dad's sister. She was able to find a picture where he had signed it, that said. Like love, Bucky! It was his high school. Uh, like yearbook photo and so so special. I absolutely love love love that, and she did such an amazing job making those, and I got both of those from Etsy. And then the other thing that I got my dad. Um, so a little back story for this gift. My grandpa, so my mom's dad on my parent's wedding day, He gave my dad a half dollar and there's a whole story behind it. He had given my dad a half dollar and on their wedding day. My dad has carried it in his pocket every single day since every single day, so literally, they got married in 1992 and he has carried it in his pocket every day. So so I thought it would be really special to get him a coin to, so I got this one from Etsy and what I had written on. It is on the front side. It says I'm so lucky to call you my dad. I love you with a heart. Hopefully you can see it and like you can write whatever you want on it. So this is what I chose to write on it and then on the back, it says forever, your little girl Logan, with another heart hope. You guys can see that, but, um, that those are the words that I chose. There wasn't like multiple like phrases. You could choose from like you could write whatever you wanted on there, and that's what I chose, but I think it's so freaking cute and special and sweet and I absolutely love it. Um, okay, so that is what I got. My parents real quickly. I'll show you what we got Brandon's. Mom, um, so this is one of the items that is not completely finished and it is, And when I say I cannot completely finish. We haven't even started it yet, because we're the worst, but what I thought about doing Brandon had like such a hard time thinking about what he wanted to get his mom, and so we had a couple different ideas. Um, so I came up with this. What I thought we could do because I had looked online and what you could do is like you get photo frames with like the, um, like your mother son, dance song like etched into it, but I was like you know what no, this is gonna be so much more meaningful. I got this picture frame from Walmart and what I'm gonna have. Brandon do is I'm going to have him write out the lyrics in his handwriting on the white part for their mother-son dance song their mother-son mother-son dance their mother-son song. You guys know what I'm talking about, but he's gonna write out the lyrics on there and then. I think what I'm gonna do is just put like a picture, just like a picture of them like from whenever he was like a kid whenever we like, give it to her, but obviously whenever we get our wedding photos back, we will give her a photo of them actually dancing for their mother-son dance. And then what Brandon had a really really good idea of doing is first. We are going to take his mom and his stepdad out to dinner one night anyway, next part. So then what I had gotten all of my bridesmaids, my aunt's. Um, my future mother-in-law. My mom, just everybody that was going to be here at my house the morning of our wedding whenever we were getting ready. Um, I already bought these way ahead of time. I had gotten everyone a set of pajamas so literally, like 14 people. I got them pajamas and they're all matching. They looked like the this. They're just the buffalo plaid, and then I got myself the white and black version, Because you know the bride, and then I also got them a pair of Santa socks because I thought it would be so cute for us all to wear them. Whenever we were getting ready, I'm still going to wear mine, and I'm sure my mom will still wear hers whenever we go to Colorado, but I thought it would be so cute, but you know, Kovi'd ruined our big wedding, so whatever whatever, and I'm still going to give it to the to everybody and I did during my Bachelorette party, I went ahead and gave, um, my aunts as well as, um, the girls oop, the girls that were at my Bachelorette party. I went ahead and gave it to them there. Um, but just because I wanted us all to match on like the day of our wedding, and we had intended to take a really cute photo for the Bachelorette party. But, you know, we drank a little too much So and then the other gift that I got. Um, my bridesmaids, which I still. I am gonna give this to them. Um, so if you are? If you were one of my bridesmaids, uh, go ahead and like skip forward a little bit, So you guys don't see what you're getting, but I wanted to think of something so practical, and I was like you know what you know. What's practical, you know what they could use on the day of and just for the rest of their life. An eyeshadow palette. So, um, last year? Yes, before we even got engaged. I found these on Macy's. I believe, and you could literally get two Anastasia palettes for forty nine dollars. Australia Palettes are like 42 to 45 dollars a piece. So I got two for 49 that's insane. The only thing is they like, don't come in like their own box because they look like this, but that is so cute. I have no idea if they are bringing these back this year, but I know that I think Sephora carried them. Macy's carried them, and then one other place also carried them but literally such an amazing deal so it came with two different Anastasia palettes. The first one is the modern renaissance, and then the second one is the soft glam. And so I bought two of these sets. So I was because I only had, um, like four bridesmaids, and I had a matron of honor and I was already getting my mom something different. Um, and honestly, I really don't think that she would use an eyeshadow palette. But, um, so I'm just going to give each of them. One of these bad boys. So I thought that that would be like such a good gift because you're literally one. It's so inexpensive if you buy like that set, and it's so dang practical like you're gonna use an eyeshadow palette the day of and then you're also going to use it in the future just on a day-to-day basis. So I thought that was so cute. Um, and then the next thing, the thing that I got my photographer. Is this cup right here? Isn't it so cute? It's just like a little mug. A little camera blends mug. I thought it was adorable. Just a little something, something to say. Thank you and then the gift that we got our videographer, which I will insert a picture somewhere here. Um, but I had my mom make her a mug just like a white mug. Um, I'll show you mine. Real quick, hold on, okay. Sorry about that. Um, so I had my mom. Make my videographer A mug like this, so my videographer and I both obviously love the office so much. So I had my mom make a world's best videographer mug. It's going to be so cute. My mom has it. She already did it, but, um, I just haven't gotten it from her yet, but it's going to be really, really cute and adorable, so I'm out of breath from just getting up real quickly. I'll show you this before I show you guys the things that I got Brandon. Um, yeah, cause. I completely forgot to mention that. I was doing that, but one of the things that I was going to get. Um, our little flower girl, Which I'm just gonna give this to her for Christmas now. Um, was a little digital camera. I thought it was so cute. I think it's such a good idea, too. Because now like she could have went around. Sorry, I have my hair in my lipstick. Um, she could have went around like the wedding and just taken out her own little pictures, and it would have been like, so cute, adorable. Uh, so I feel like that's such a good idea for, like a gift for your flower girl like so cute like adorable, and I feel like this is better than like the little instax camera because I feel like she'd like, take a bunch of those pictures and then just lose all the photos, especially like at the wedding. So I thought that this would be perfect for it, and then I also got her like an SD card to go with it, but like I said, I'm just gonna give that to her for Christmas. Um, now, and then the gift that I had intended to get our other flower girl who is younger. I was going to get her like a play makeup. Set it wasn't real makeup. It was just like fake makeup, but I thought it would be so cute and adorable for her to be playing with her fake little makeup set while all of the bridesmaids and like my mom and everybody was getting ready and doing their own makeup for the wedding. I thought it would have been so stinking, cute and adorable. Oh, and I also want to mention real quick too. I also got Tinsley a pair of matching pajamas. That matches this. So you guys will see that because we are definitely going to be taking photos on the morning of as we're getting ready, and Tinsley will be in her pajamas. She will, um, and I also got Tinsley like a cute little Santa toy, and then if you watched my vlogs, then you've seen like the little champagne toys so cute and adorable that she can be playing with all right, real quickly. What I got, Brandon? So the very first thing I got him a Dundee. Yes, isn't it just the cutest little thing you've ever seen? So I got him the best husband world, so I got him the best husband award, of course, because he's just the best husband. I already know he's gonna be the best husband before we even get married, but I thought that this was so cute and adorable and, um, I will, of course, link the website down below. You could have gotten these from like Amazon and stuff, but I wanted one that actually looked like a real Dundee from the office, so that's what I did because the ones from Amazon like, weren't that cute, Um, and then if you have watched some of my vlogs, then you know that I actually got Brandon. Um, Philadelphia Eagles tickets at the Philadelphia Stadium for rent row. And, of course, the Eagles did not do a fans this year so they did give me a voucher so instead of giving me a hundred percent, they actually gave me like a hundred and ten percent, so I actually ended up like making money, but it's in like the form of a voucher and I went through vivid seats so now I just have like a vivid seats voucher that I can actually technically use on anything, but we are just going to go to a Philadelphia Eagles game in the future and that way we'll be able to actually like, you know, once Covid settles down, and it's like actually safe to fly and travel and all of that stuff we will actually be able to, um, go to the actual stadium and everything like that. Um, because we hadn't also intended to like, hit up like the New York. The New York we had intended to hit up New York as well as like Scranton, Pennsylvania. Um, and just like, hang out in Philadelphia and stuff and just kind of make like a long weekend out of it, so because I've never been to New York or any of those places and so we're gonna make like a whole weekend out of it. Um, I ended up obviously telling him about it once they once, they said. No, no fans. Um, so whenever we do go in the future, we will make like a long weekend out of it, but like I said, okay, voucher. Moving on. Well not moving on yet. One thing I am a little salty about no way in heck. Am I gonna be able to ever afford front row tickets again? That was solely because of Govid. Um, because the tickets were so much cheaper than what they normally are. So I am a little bit upset about that. No way in the history of the world. Will I be able to afford front row tickets again? But I digress. Whatever, um, so then, the other thing I got him. Which is, um, something I've been working on for quite a long time. Basically what I did just to kind of give you guys like a short little version. Um, so one thing. I had this for my bridal shower so that everybody that came in could leave him like fun, little notes and everything like that. And then just throughout the year I wrote down. Um, just like different things that happened that, like, you know, made me smile and just different things like that and just like things that I love about him. And then I also went in and I put like little post-i't notes, and if you guys have ever seen like the Pinterest, um, like gift like boyfriend ideas, where you like, go through and give them like cards that say like open. When you're happy open when you're sad, open. When you miss me, blah blah. I went through and I did that to this Bible as well and I just put like poster notes in it and stuff. So that way he can open it and see all of those. Um, meaningful things and I don't know. I thought it was just like such a meaningful like gift. I don't know, I think it'll be something that he cherishes forever, and that way it can also be glad like our family Bible as well so that is all. I have to show you guys. I believe, um. I don't think I left anything out. Hopefully, hopefully not, um, we hadn't bought anything for like Brandon's groomsman or anything like that. So no clue what we would have gotten them. Um, I don't know, I can't even begin to guess that was something that, uh, Brandon wanted to like. Leave up to him! I was thinking watches. He didn't like that idea. So whatever, but, um, that is it for this video. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it and you kind of got like some ideas for gifts for your own wedding or even just like gifts for Christmas because you could 100 and get these for Christmas, but thank you guys so much for watching. Please, please, please subscribe if you haven't already, and I will see them next one. Bye, guys!


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O Método Delphi (ou Técnica Delphi) é baseado no princípio que as previsões por um grupo estruturado de especialistas são mais precisas se comparadas às provenientes de grupos não estruturados ou individuais. Cada elemento é assim isolado da influência direta dos restantes (tal característica é uma das principais do Método e é conhecida como antiprotagonismo). Como não ocorre a presença física dos participantes numa reunião, este método pode ser usado quando os elementos do grupo se encontram distantes geograficamente. Apresenta, contudo, alguns inconvenientes, entre os quais o maior consumo de tempo na tomada de uma decisão e a perda dos benefícios associados ao intercâmbio não mediado de ideias proporcionado por outros métodos.
A técnica pode ser adaptada para uso em encontros presenciais, sendo então denominada de mini-Delphi ou Estimate-Talk-Estimate (ETE). O Método Delphi tem sido largamente utilizado para previsões empresariais e tem certas vantagens sobre outras abordagens de previsões estruturadas em mercados preditivos (que baseiam-se fundamentalmente em dados e comportamentos históricos).
A Técnica é frequentemente citada em manuais de gerenciamento de riscos de projetos.

Técnica de Delphi em gerenciamento de projetos:

Trata-se de uma técnica que pode ser usada para obter consenso a respeito dos riscos de um projeto. Note que a técnica de Delphi pode ser usada para obter qualquer tipo de consenso entre pessoas. Não é uma técnica apenas para identificação de riscos.

O Método Delphi para a tomada de decisão é caracterizado pelas seguintes fases:

1- Identificação do problema, construção do questionário e apresentação dele a cada um dos elementos do grupo;

2- Resposta ao questionário de forma anônima e independente por cada um dos elementos do grupo;

3- Compilação das respostas e sua distribuição pelos membros do grupo acompanhadas do questionário revisto;

4- Resposta ao novo questionário da mesma forma descrita na fase 2, isto é, de forma anônima e independente;

5- Repetição das terceira e quarta fases até se atingir uma solução de consenso.

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George Condo has been a singular voice in American and European art for almost three decades. Born in 1957 in New Hampshire, he studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. In 1980 he arrived in New York, where he quickly became part of the burgeoning East Village art scene. Exhibiting at the Pat Hearn Gallery along with painters such as Mary Heilmann and Philip Taaffe, and becoming close friends with artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Condo developed a unique painting style, employing the virtuoso draftsmanship and paint handling of the old masters to depict subject matter that sprang largely from his imagination. In the context of early 1980s New York, Condo's paintings—which he called "fake old masters"—displayed a provocative untimeliness. While many artists at the time borrowed specific imagery from historical sources, Condo instead adopted the styles, techniques, and methods of earlier painters and applied them to subjects distinctly his own.
Over the next two decades, he went on to explore an astonishing variety of aesthetic territories, from Mannerist ornamentalism to Picasso-esque Cubism, drawing from Diego Velázquez to Looney Tunes. Possessed of an enormous memory bank of art historical references, Condo synthesized these past pictorial languages and motifs to create, as he put it, "composites of various psychological states painted in different ways." Condo is exceptionally prolific and has produced an enormous body of work since the beginning of the 1980s. The bulk of it has been portraiture, not of living individuals but of invented characters. Many early portraits, while often fantastical, evoke complex and precarious mental states.
Over the past decade, Condo has introduced a range of distinctly contemporary types: figures that despite their apparently commonplace social roles seem to belong to the furthest extremes of the human psyche. In paintings like these, which in his words, "reflect the madness of everyday life," meticulous attention to naturalistic detail is coupled with elements of the grotesque and the absurd. "George Condo: Mental States" presents what the artist has called a "conceptual survey" of work over the past thirty years. Divided into four sections, each of which examines a particular theme or genre central to his work, the exhibition reveals his tragicomic vision. It demonstrates that no matter how varied his artistic language or strategy, Condo's paintings and sculptures create a singular view—dystopic, humorous, empathetic, and critical—of our post-humanist age.
This exhibition is organized by the Hayward Gallery, London and New Museum, New York.
"George Condo: Mental States" is made possible through the generous lead support of Laura and Stafford Broumand, Steven and Alexandra Cohen, Nathalie and Charles de Gunzburg, Lise and Michael Evans, Danielle and David Ganek, Panos Karpidas, Pauline Karpidas, Liz and Eric Lefkofsky, The Lisa and Steven Tananbaum Family Foundation, the Ringier Collection, and Allison and Neil Rubler. Additional support provided by The Broad Art Foundation. Special thanks to Per Skarstedt, Monika Sprüth, and Philomene Magers for their ongoing cooperation and support.


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