On Saturday, June 4, 2005 we were ready to begin our 5-month shakedown cruise before setting out to cross the Atlantic Ocean and circumnavigate the Earth. The weather forecast was not great, but not anything to worry about either. The preparation had been somewhat stressful. There was a long list of projects to complete (install diesel furnace, replace diesel fuel lines, install solar panels, delivery of a new dinghy and preparation of it for our davits, regular maintenance tasks around launching a boat, closing down land-based life, and provisioning the boat with supplies. We seemed to spend as much time on things that were not on the "to-do" list as those that were on the list. There were more trips back to Toronto than we wanted or anticipated. By the time the first of June came, Brian's retirement from IBM (April 1) and Jane's consulting contract conclusion (April 15), were easy compared to the work effort to get Pilgrim ready to sail. We were eager to shed our stresses and set out on our cruise. Although the sky was overcast, there was nothing in the weather forecast to stop us from leaving. We filled up the fuel tanks at 1400 and left Midland with great relief. Since there was no wind, we motored the entire way from Midland to the Bustard Islands. Other than going through a spectacular display of lightening, thunder and a downpour (which had not been predicted in the weather forecast) our trip was routine.
We anchored in Bustard Island Harbour with one other sailboat from Parry Sound. We slept until mid-afternoon; the other boat was gone by then. We had anticipated cold water and weather during June, so were surprised to find the water relatively warm (68 degrees Fahrenheit) and the air very warm; warm enough for a swim.
Tuesday, June 7. Monday's weather was unsettled: some rain, overcast, windy. We spent the day on the boat; reading and doing some basic maintenance tasks, including Jane's first climb up the mizzen mast at anchor in a fairly strong wind.
Tuesday we explored in the dinghy. Brian did some fishing (no bites). Jane found purple lady slippers and many healthy blueberry and strawberry plants, but no evidence of fruit yet.
Wednesday, June 8, 2005. The day dawned blustery and overcast. We had talked about leaving the Bustards, but the wind was strong, around 20 knots. We did not feel like uprooting the anchor. On the other hand, the wind was from the east, and we were traveling west, which is unusual. We decided to leave. We had a marvelous sail for about two hours. Then the wind dropped, and by 1500 we decided to motor-sail the rest of the way to the Lansdowne Channel and our next anchorage, Snug Harbour.
As we passed the northern tip of Badgley Island, we observed how much more of the top of the island has been blasted away, crushed and transported to Midland and from there goes to build houses and other buildings. When we were in Midland, we watched freighter after freighter arrive with its load of Badgley Island limestone (talk about moving a mountain).
We maneuvered our way into Snug Harbour's tricky entrance, made more difficult by the angle of the sun. Shoals seemed to loom up where we did not expect them, and we discovered the next day many of them were optical illusions. There were no other boats in the harbour. We anchored in the middle in 30 feet of water since it is 23 feet deep right to the shore where the bugs are. Bathed below; the water temperature was 61 degrees Fahrenheit.
Thursday, June 9: We did some dinghy exploring and chores, and then moved up the Channel to Covered Portage Cove, one of our favorite anchorages. The weather was warm and humid, with a blue sky overhead and haze on the horizon. There were two sailboats in the cove; during July and August there are often 30-40 boats at anchor. We dropped our hook right next to the spectacular "cliff" of limestone that Jane climbs to get cellular phone service (now called "Telephone Hill") in just 7 feet of water.
I'd like to see them try to move "telephone hill" ... It seems every boat that has ever sailed the North Channel has had a picture taken at this spot. An easy trail up the side gets you to the top … maybe even a bear to greet you. Just remember who else eats blueberries and strawberries and for them it's not just a snack.
This harbour just barely keeps us afloat. The water level is a few inches higher than last year, .019 meters above chart datum. We observed 5 very noisy Ravens on the cliff, and the beaver we have seen before in this spot. The horse flies are annoying, but are not lethal biters. They seem to like blue (our enclosure, our bucket, blue shorts, blue jeans) and buzzing our heads (more like dive bombing until they hit something) when we go out on deck. We have had some mosquitoes, but they have not inundated the boat and us yet. The flies are the main bug problem.
Friday, June 10. The weather was still hot and hazy, quite unsettled. We climbed the cliff (230 feet) and noticed animal droppings. Brian believes they were either a Moose (highly unlikely that a Moose would even try to venture on such terrain) or a Bear. We have observed both Common Mergansers and Canada Geese (some with goslings). Having never seen ducks and geese during July and August in the area, we are surprised every time we see them. During the night there was a spectacular display of lightening and a downpour.
Saturday, June 11. We awoke to the water covered with yellow pollen (from pine trees?), sandfly larvae, and seagulls (hundreds covering the water). We thought the seagulls might have been finding small fish brought up by the rain, but then figured they were eating the larvae since we had spotted no fish.
We spent about 3 hours doing our laundry with our Wonder Washer and wringer. The weather cooperated and did not rain on our drying clothes. We spent the rest of the day exploring in the dinghy and kayak, Brian was again unsuccessful at his game of chance … fishing.
Jane and her sports mobil... now if she would only carry a radio so that Brian could keep tabs on her whereabouts…The kid loves exploring off the beaten track.
Sunday, June 12. We left Covered Portage Cove, motored down the Lansdowne Channel, and then unfurled the Genoa for a gentle sail across Fraser Bay to the entrance to Baie Fine, a fiord with white limestone cliffs studded with green pines. It takes several hours to sail down the entire fiord; we went about a quarter of the way and anchored on the south shore in Marianne Cove. This spot usually has 20 boats anchored in it ... there were 2 powerboats this time but they soon left when they saw us anchor (a sailboat ... well … there goes the neighborhood).
This anchorage is one of the best- protected spots in Baie Fine. This is one of the two guesthouses and is separated from the main cottage. The main channel is seen in the distance. Notice the rain gently falling..
The water temperature was 74 degrees Fahrenheit! Jane pumped up the inflatable kayak and set out to explore the shore of the bay: lots of wild Iris, buttercups, bunchberries, ferns, harebells, columbines and an old beaver house. Pines with roots exposed reaching down rock faces getting a foothold into some earth. A few pines blown over during winter storms so that you could see the bottom of the trunk with attached roots, almost as though looking at the tree up through the rock. No one was in the three cottages on the island that forms the cove. What a spectacular space, especially to inhabit it without other human beings (a very rare event in the summer for the cottage owners – imagine having 50 families set up tents in your backyard with nary a pretty please or thank you).
During dinner two loons swam by within 50 feet of the boat. We were spellbound, stopped eating and just watched them settle into the weedy area of the cove. We felt this was almost like being glued to a TV set with a National Geographic special. The gulls soared overhead. The gentle south breeze occasionally sparked the wind generator into action and cooled down the cockpit. We are grateful for the screens in our cockpit enclosure that allows us to enjoy the breeze and minimize the bugs. There are still flies here, but not as bad as we found in Covered Portage Cove.
Monday, June 13. It is overcast and there is only a slight breeze. It is still very hot and humid. It sprinkles a teaspoon of water then stops, then starts, then stops. We have been working on boat chores. Brian went out for a row in the dinghy and caught a small (too small) bass. He also heard a partridge in the bush (not a pear tree) and we saw a chipmunk. The loons came back into the cove in the early afternoon for an hour or so. While Brian was in the dinghy and I was in the kayak, we heard a rather loud noise from the shore. We are pretty sure it was a black bear that came within smelling range of us, and made a comment as s/he left the area. We have not seen a bear yet on any of our travels in the North Channel, and are quite happy with that state of affairs.
Just before dinner, Brian tried his luck fishing again. A very large bass was lured right to the boat, but refused to bite. S/he just hid right under the boat. Brian comments, "This is an intelligent fish. The birds cannot get it under the boat, the fish is in the cool shade, and knows well enough to avoid the fisherman's lures from above." We had flank steak for dinner, not fish.
After dinner Brian was able to pick up a CBC station on the radio. We listened to the news. Nothing seems to have happened during our 10 days out. The Gomray Commission is still underway and the minority liberal government is still hanging on by its fingernails. It's as though nothing has happened. Or is it? Most of the media pundits carefully craft what we see and hear on "the news." An earthquake or hurricane could have devastated some part of the Earth during these 10 days. It may have been reported for a day or two (at the most) or been shunted off for more saleable news. One of the joys (and perils) of cruising and not keeping up with "the news" is that you can remain blissfully unaware of the both the human horrors and petty political battles that are unfolding.
Tuesday, June 14. The weather is still unsettled, but the sun is powering our solar panels. After breakfast we prepared to leave the cove, motored out the fiord, hoisted our mainsail and unfurled our Genoa in a gentle SE breeze. Our destination was Little Current. We have been out 10 days and have a bag and a half of garbage, a website to update, phone calls to make, banking to do, and davits to have reinforced if we can find a welder who handles stainless steel.
As we cleared a buoy north of Heywood Island and altered course for the tip of Strawberry Island, the wind picked up to 15-17 knots from the South and we took off at 7.5 knots. There is a swing bridge at Little Current that we needed to pass through. It opens on the hour (more of less), and we were going to miss the 1500 bridge by about 10-15 minutes. We continued sailing to the channel that leads to the bridge, then took down our sails and drifted until the 1600 bridge opened. During July and August, the town dock is crowded with boats, sometimes two and three deep. We were amazed to see NO boats on the dock. In the evening, we watched a thunderstorm that has dumped a downpour of rain on us. The weather report does not indicate any high-pressure areas anywhere in the vicinity from Saskatchewan to the East Coast. We do not know how long this warm, humid, unsettled weather will be with us.
The sky has been clouded over for two days now. The wind at a steady 15 knots and rain at random moments. At least the thunderheads have past and we can expect marginal clearing in the next day. Notice the space along the town dock. In July and August there would be boats circling in the channel waiting for a spot to pull in. A spot would start to open up and 15 boats would head for it at full speed ... a game of chicken ... fun to watch ... expensive to participate in.
Wednesday, June 15. The sky is dense with low hanging cloud, rain is still falling at random intervals and the wind is been building all day. The good news of the day ... the welder (Rick) reinforced our davits and they have been reinstalled along with the solar panels and dinghy. We should now be able to use the mizzen without fouling the support bridle (which can now be stowed away). This was envisioned as a voyage of discovery and it has certainly been that and more. A possible fix for the warm spot in the freezer is in the works thanks to a PC cooling fan from Radioshack and some plumbing fitting from the hardware store. The bottom of the freezer is –12 while the centre at the top is a balmy –3 degrees C. The fan will circulated cold air from the bottom to the top … or a least that's the theory. If things work out the way they have to date the whole freezer will be at –3. We will know in the morning. A stern line retriever has also been fashioned out of a broom handle and ceiling hook. Jane has located 2 internet connection sites, one that charges $8.50 for 15 minutes and one that doesn't … we will try our luck in the morning with the second site. After the update we will be heading off to Croker or Fox Islands or perhaps Bell Cove ... it all depends on the wind.


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Q: How to make signals appear in QtDesigner? The PyQt5 docs says

"New signals defined in this way will be automatically added to the
  class's QMetaObject. This means that they will appear in Qt Designer"

How do I make anything appear in QtDesigner if it only knows how to open *.ui files, but not python files?
In my workflow I create ui-file with QtDesigner, then convert it to python using pyuic5.
It is thus a one-way conversion (I then subclass it in another file to avoid my code being overwritten).
How do I make QtDesigner "see" my python code?

A: Qt Designer recognizes 2 types of elements:

*

*The .ui that are the product,

*And the plugins that are the ingredients.
So if you want a widget to be seen in Qt Designer you must create a plugin, if you download the source code in the folder examples/designer/plugins there is an example.
On the other hand there is no converter from .py to .ui since the transformation is not possible in all cases.

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An inside look at Donald Trump's rally in Las Vegas
Enchanted supporters, a curious Democrat and penned in media offer their attention to the man who remains to be beaten.
by Alan Fisher
15 Dec 2015 21:53 GMT
The media are penned in the centre of the room and unable to get to the disturbance [Mike Blake/Reuters]
Las Vegas, United States Donald Trump likes to talk. Or perhaps to be more accurate, he likes people to listen.
For more than an hour, he stood on the stage at a Las Vegas hotel and returned to themes, which have seen him develop a commanding lead in the race to be the Republican presidential nominee.
As they arrived, people spoke glowingly of the billionaire businessman.
"I love him," one woman told me. "He says what other people won't and he will bring change to Washington."
"I started off kinda doubtful," said another man. "But look at the other choices."
"He's the best out there," said a middle-aged man.
'We ain't going to take it'
The music played before a Trump rally wandered a bizarre path - from Adele singing a James Bond theme and Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" to Pavarotti.
He has tried a number of entry songs. But he ran into problems when the artists he selected told him he had to stop, because they simply didn't support anything he said. Now he comes on stage to "Twisted Sister" and "We ain't going to take it".
Trump talks without notes, which means sometimes he wanders through topics which are seemingly unconnected - but he reads his audience and delivers the lines he knows will bring cheers.
In Las Vegas, he brought on a father whose son was "shot dead, killed in the street by an illegal immigrant". As he explains this is why he supports Trump's stand on immigration.
A voice shouts from the crowd: "It shows why we need gun control." The discordant voice is quickly shouted down and hustled from the room by security.
Penned media
The media are penned in the centre of the room and unable to get to the disturbance.
But Trump says the media are only interested in the protesters, ignoring the fact the cameras have been trained on almost all of his utterances for the past five months.
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He says they won't show the size of the "massive crowds" he's attracting, but suggests that there are several thousands in the hall when there are probably about a thousand. He criticises the media, which is an old trick for the Republicans.
One man shouts at me: "You're jerks." He's well-dressed and seems respectable. So I ask if he means I'm a jerk. He looks slightly embarrassed: "Well, maybe not you." I thank him and tell him he's entitled to his opinion.
We try to leave the pen, but a Trump campaign volunteer insists we must stay "because the Secret Service insist", when in reality it's not the sort of image they want tied to the event.
It's not the last disturbance of the evening. There are further shouts of "Dump Trump" and boos and shouts over immigration policy and Trump's plan to ban all Muslims from entering the US "until the leaders sort things out".
One report suggests a Trump supporter during one exchange shouted "Light the m----- ----er on fire", to a protester who was on the ground and was trying to stop security grabbing him.
Trump took it all in his stride. He continued to talk, but people who seemed so energised when they arrived had started to drift away. Trump may have sensed he was losing the room. He reminded people to register to vote, insisted he was going to win and left the stage to applause.
READ MORE: Has Donald Trump's meltdown moment finally come?
I spoke to one man - a Democrat - who came to hear and see what the Trump phenomenon was all about.
"It was fascist, it was hateful and it's a sign of the underlying racism in US politics in 2015," he said.
But others loved the message Trump brought.
"I want America to be like it was, and he can do that," said one man who told me he wanted America to be like it was in the 1950s, even though he is only 47.
And one Latino woman told me: "He tells the truth, people like that and it's why he will be elected."
Donald Trump remains the man the others have to beat.
Alan Fisher
@ alanfisher
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This paper, which was released by Keith Dixon-Roche (one of CalQlata's Contributors) on the 10th of January 2018 explains why classical theory does not apply to electrons in an atom.
Note: All the input data in these calculations has been provided by CalQlata's Constants page.
This paper appears to show that the elliptical orbit predicted by classical theory does not apply to electrons in an atom and therefore disqualifies it for such calculations.
Devise a simple mathematical procedure using classical theory conjointly with Newton's and Coulomb's laws for force attraction/repulsion to describe the behaviour of electrons in an atom for all atomic and shell numbers.
The successful procedure must show it is possible to begin the calculation procedure with any shell and atomic number working though all motion, force and energy characteristics and return to the same shell and atomic numbers.
The levels of accuracy on this page have been set to assist CalQlata in its effort to ensure that the calculations are not approximations.
To this end, Calqlata has confirmed all constants used in these calculations via original formulas and indisputable data where possible.
Every part of every atom (from Z = 1 to Z = 92) has been fully analysed during the generation of the above paper.
The calculations in this paper are based upon classical theory developed by Johannes Robert Rydberg, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb and Isaac Newton.
They reveal a working model of the atom that is currently regarded as an accurate description of the behaviour of the sub-atomic particles in any atom.
The results listed in Tables of Results (below) provide the properties and characteristics of the electrons in the first five shells according to these theories. In reaching these results, all the associated properties for the first 92 elements in the periodic Table were calculated and the results found to be consistent.
Even if the [classical theory] calculations in their current form could be considered valid for an electron at its perigee, it is necessary to apply Newton's laws of motion for the rest of the orbit. But Newton's laws of motion show the electron orbit to be circular as is to be expected from numerous electron-microscope photographs.
It is therefore the conclusion of this paper that, with the exception of electron and proton separation (Tables 7a & 7b) Newton's 'laws of motion' must apply to electron behaviour in an atom (further work).


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The Grocery Revolution: One Year Later
in Grocery & Retail News — Friday, June 15, 2018, 10:00 AM
It was last year at this time that the U.S. grocery industry was revolutionized. Twice.
One year later, has any of it changed the way you shop?
The small-format grocer Lidl opened its first U.S. stores exactly one year ago, June 15th, 2017. And a day later, Amazon surprised the industry by announcing its purchase of Whole Foods Market. Lidl was expected to threaten traditional grocers with its curated selection and low prices, while Amazon was expected to change the way we shop in stores while jump-starting the move toward buying more of our groceries online.
And how are those efforts going? Neither Lidl nor the Amazon-Whole Foods combination can be said to be failures, to be sure. But at the same time, neither has quite revolutionized the industry. At least not yet.
Lidl already operated some 10,000 stores in 27 European countries when it opened its first batch of ten stores in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia last year. With smaller stores and a limited selection of mostly store-brand products, Lidl is often thought of as a somewhat bigger, brighter ALDI, though the company aimed even higher upon its U.S. launch, calling itself "a hybrid similar to Trader Joe's or Harris Teeter".
And many shoppers tended to agree, as early reviews were mostly positive. So Lidl planned as many as 100 new store openings all up and down the East Coast, from Georgia to Pennsylvania, with forays further West beginning in year two.
Instead, its expansion has stalled out at 53 locations. Aside from a single outpost in Georgia, one in Delaware and one in New Jersey, Lidl's footprint remains restricted to North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. New stores are opening at a rate of only one per month so far this year, with the last store opening back on May 24th, and there have been no further announcements of upcoming new store openings just yet. On the contrary, Lidl has been sued at least twice by developers in Texas and North Carolina, who accuse the company of backing out of deals to build new stores there.
One might be tempted, then, to consider Lidl a flop in the making. The company's own CEO called the U.S. launch a "catastrophe", after all.
But a new report gives Lidl a glowing review. Consulting firm Oliver Wyman conducted a survey to mark Lidl's first year, and found that "Lidl is succeeding in unexpected ways with U.S. consumers". Those consumers are "shopping at Lidl more frequently. They are spending more there. And they are very satisfied," the report found.
The report deduces that Americans are not as averse to a limited product selection, nor as loyal to brand names, as commonly thought. "Lidl is effectively tapping into American consumers' changing tastes and preferences," the report concludes, highlighting "the latent consumer demand for a value-for-money, less-is-more format" which is "making it harder for incumbent grocers to compete".
So why isn't Lidl already wildly successful then? The report, along with many Lidl shoppers and even the company itself, agree it's all about location. "Difficulty in reaching stores is cited as the number-one reason for not shopping more often at Lidl," the Oliver Wyman report reads. A magazine report earlier this year faulted Lidl's U.S. advance team for locating stores in out-of-the-way spots, while their Germany-based bosses were "content to look at locations on Google Maps" before approving the sites.
So Lidl's slowing pace of new store openings may turn out to be a temporary lull – it's been taking the time to identify better locations in more populated areas, so until those stores start opening, it may be too soon to write Lidl off.
Meanwhile, there are already plenty of Whole Foods Markets in populated areas, all over the country. But to hear some retail analysts talk about it, store locations wouldn't even matter by now, because Amazon's ownership would mean we'd all be sitting at home, ordering Whole Foods products and having them delivered to our door.
That's possible, of course, but ordering groceries from Whole Foods for home delivery isn't any more commonplace than ordering from anywhere else at this point. Other retail analysts looked at what Amazon has been doing with its cashierless "Amazon Go" stores, and figured that technology would be coming to Whole Foods as well. But that hasn't happened either.
Amazon got a lot of publicity for lowering prices of many popular Whole Foods items, but that hasn't changed the fact that Whole Foods is still a pricey place. And while Amazon did fulfill its promise of replacing Whole Foods' loyalty program with Amazon Prime, so far the perks are relatively modest – Prime members get access to some special sale prices, and get a nice but not mind-blowing additional 10% off promoted items.
For shoppers, then, going to Whole Foods isn't all that much different than it was a year ago. Lest anyone forget, Whole Foods was struggling when Amazon bought it, and not even new owners have been able to turn it into an overnight success story just yet.
So when it comes to these transformative grocery developments one year ago, it's more about what's still to come than what's happened so far. Lidl and Whole Foods still have a lot of promise and potential. But ultimately, whether it takes one year, or ten – it will be up to shoppers to decide whether these retailers will turn out to be as successful and revolutionary as they hope they will be.
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One of the STURGEON - class fast attack submarines, the USS GURNARD was the second ship in the Navy to bear the name. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on April 28, 1995, the USS GURNARD subsequently entered the Navy's Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Wash. Recycling of the submarine was finished on October 15, 1995.


We arrived home two days after Caroline was born. It felt so good to be home and cradling Caroline in my arms. The grandparents cooked everyone dinner and we started to settle into our new routine with our newborn miracle baby.
We have two cats, and their names are Nelson and Booda. Nelson is a little grey cat, weighing about 7 pounds. Booda is a large black cat, weighing about 18 pounds. We did not know how they were going to react to Caroline. Since we didn't think we would be bringing her home, we hadn't tried to prepare them at all.
When we walked in the door, Booda noticed Caroline immediately. His eyes became very wide and he watched from a distance, curious about the new family member but cautious. It took Nelson a few hours to notice Caroline; once she let out a cry he looked around with big eyes, trying to find the source of that strange new sound.
Over time, Nelson grew a soft spot in his heart for Caroline. When I would rock her, Nelson would come sit on my lap to be close to her – something he never did before. Booda played the role of the jealous older sibling. He sulked over the attention he was no longer getting, but I think all the visitors we were having also made him anxious.
With the use of some aluminum foil, we were able to make the cats disinterested in Caroline's bassinet, although Nelson would still try to jump in from time to time. The cats hated that we would lock them out of the room at night, but we couldn't risk them jumping into her bassinet while we slept.
It was rare to be able to get a picture of Caroline and her kitties, but there are a few that we now cherish. Although there were times of jealousy, I think they both loved her. I wish I could have watched them all grow up together.
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When it came to nighttime, we broke all the rules.
Caroline was always a little fussy in the evenings, but eventually she would settle down and go back to sleep. She breathed best on her side and with the bassinet at about a 30 degree angle. We used blankets to prop up the mattress so that she was at a good angle, and rolled blankets beside her so that she couldn't roll to her back or belly. As a newborn she liked to be swaddled in her sturdy fleece swaddle at night, but soon we transitioned to long sleeved footie pajamas at night instead. We'd then place a blanket over her to keep her warm.
I know that none of this is how you're supposed to put an infant to bed, but it worked for Caroline so we went with it. We learned so much from her – she followed her own rules and as we learned what she needed, we adjusted. When you're the mom of a baby with Trisomy 13, the parenting book has to be thrown out the window so that you can find creative ways to best support your child.
I would pull the bassinet up close to me, listen to Caroline breathe, and we would both drift to sleep.
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The Stone Diaries sat next to the cash register on the counter of the local women's bookstore long before there was a buzz surrounding it in the mainstream press.
I loved that little off-sized hardcover and I read it twice through, once and then, immediately, again. She was one of the first authors to make my MRE (Must Read Everything) list and is one of few whose works I have read (in many cases) repeatedly.
All girls like me who were good at school but suffered from miserable girlhoods were sustained for years on end by the resources of the public libraries of this continent.
I very early formed the notion of being a writer, all the while knowing that this was impossible. Writers were like movie stars. Writers were men. […] My real life, as I saw it, was entirely predictable: I would get married, have children and live in a house much like the one I grew up in.
I am watching. My own life will never be enough for me. It is a congenital condition, my only, only disease in an otherwise lucky life. I am a watcher, an outsider whether I like it or not, and I'm stuck with the dangers that go along with it. And the rewards.
People wake up feeling ugly and lonely and weak and they'd just as soon hide out at home, right? But all they have to do is reconnect. Get their hearts restarted. It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.
I stopped assembling; I discovered that I could bury in my writing the greater part of my pain and humiliation.
They love the word 'goodish,' as in goodish sunsets, goodish travel bargains, goodish men.
You touch the other so intimately and your care for him/her is so great that you can actually feel what it is like to be that person. I think that is one of our great longings in life – to be that close to another.
Married! It was another state of being, a state that was sealed like an envelope in its inviolability. The state of marriage was secret and safe, a circle of charmed light beyond the horizon of the easily capsized now.
Sitting upstairs in an old sewing room and making up stories does not always feel like an appropriate occupation for a grown woman.
I always think that the people who read my books and respond to them are people who would be my friends; in fact, I met a woman who said she feels that she is me when she reads my books. It was the nicest thing anyone ever said to me.
The importance of place in Carol Shields' writing is perhaps less immediately evident than that of L.M. Montgomery's passion for Prince Edward Island or Timothy Findley's love of Stone Orchard, but it is significant in its own way.
The population of Winnipeg is six hundred thousand, a fairly large city, with people who tend to stay put. Families overlap with families, neighborhoods with neighborhoods. You can't escape it. Generations interweave so that your mother's friends (Onion Boyle, Muriel Brewmaster, and dozens more) formed a squadron of secondary aunts. You were always running into someone you'd gone to school with or someone whose uncle worked with someone else's father. The tentacles of connection were long, complex, and full of the bitter or amusing ironies that characterize blood families.
I live in someone else's whimsy, a Hansel and Gretel house on a seventeen-foot lot on the south side of Chicago. Little paned casement windows, a fairy-tale door, a sweet round chimney and, on the roof, cedar shakes pretending to be thatch. It's a wonderful roof, a roof that gladdens the eye, peaky and steep and coming down in soft waves over the windows with fake Anne Hathaway fullness.
We live on a steep hill. This is rolling country on the whole, so our rocky perch is a geological anomaly, chosen no doubt because it offered a firm foundation as well as a view. The house is a hundred years old, a simple brick Ontario farmhouse that has been much added on to by its several previous inhabitants, and by us. It has weathered into durable authenticity, withstanding the scorchings and freezings of the Ontario climate.
The towns they pass through are poor, but have seen better days. Sidewalks leading up to lovely old houses have crumbled along their edges, and the houses themselves have started to deteriorate; many are for sale. Dark shaggy cottonwood bend down their branches to meet the graceful pitch of the roofs. Everywhere in these little towns there are boarded-up railway stations, high schools, laundries, cafés, plumbing supply stores, filling stations. And almost everywhere, it seems, the commercial center has shrunk to a single, blinking, all-purpose, twenty-four-hour outlet at the end of town – pathetically, but precisely names: the Mini-Mart, the Superette, the Quik-Stop.
The house they [the Goodwills] live in faced directly on to the lime kilns of Stonewall. It sat at the end of a dirty road, its porch askew. The windows, flecked with yellow ash from the kilns, went unwashed from one year to the next, and the kitchen roof leaked; it had always leaked. In rainy weather the chimney smoked. Bread baked in this house was heavy, uneven, scarce.
And that's when he really knew how cold the wind had got. It puffed his shirt-sleeves up like a couple of balloons, so that all of a sudden he had these huge brand-new muscles. Superman. This it shifted around quick, and there he was with his shirt pressed flat against his arms and chest, puny and shrunk-up. The next minute he was inflated again. Then it all got sucked out. In and out, in and out. The windiest city in the country, in North America. It really was.
The Sloans have even acquired something of the Paris look of indifference and suffering, elbows tucked close to the body, feet sturdily planted, eyes directed inward as though recalling past holidays or rehearsing those to come: Brittany, the Alps, the spicy smell of forests, distances and vistas, here and yet not here, the Gallic knack of being everywhere and nowhere, or possessing everything and nothing.
She was twenty-one when he first saw her, seated rather primly next to him on the Piccadilly Line, heading toward South Kensington. It was midafternoon. Like every other young woman in London, she was dressed from head to toe in a shadowless black, and on her lap sat a leather satchel.
But it was the hedges of England, even more than the trees, that brought him a sense of wonderment. Such shady density, like an artist's soft pencil, working its way across the English terrain. Why hadn't his parents told him about this astonishing thing they'd grown up with?
Turning from the scenery, she observes the human activity around her, and, paragraph by paragraph, she describes the reactions of her fellow tourists. Their multiple presence forms particles through which she can see, as through a prism, the glorious and legendary spectacle of Niagara Falls. Once again she finds her own way out.
There are gaps, as in every life, accidents of silence and misinterpretation and the frantic scrollwork of artifice, but also a seductive randomness that confers truth.
[She] is not quite family, not quite friend, but a presence that hovers between the two. Their investment in each other's lives rests on consideration rather than instinct, on something that has been constructed out of happy accident and allowed to have its way.
I want, I want, I want. I don't actually say these last words; I just bump along on their short, stubbed feet, their little declarative syllables – while buttoning up my coat and making my way home.
One thing was certain. These imagined stories never ended as stories in books did, with telling declarations of arrival: '- and then she realized – ' or 'It came to him suddenly that – ' Instead they ended somewhere on their own descending curvatures, simply run out of fuel or deprived of interest, or, as frequently happened, interrupted by the exigencies of real life and the return to the true and ongoing story that pressed as tightly as clothing against the skin. The street, the hardness of the pavement, the snow turning blue in the fading light.
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping; our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.


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Das Teilnehmerfeld der Einzelkonkurrenz bestand aus 32 Spielern, jenes der Doppelkonkurrenz aus 16 Paaren.

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I want to explore some of the wonderful and inspiring gifts I've received while absorbing art over the years. These gifts have influenced my own art, whether or not they can be clearly seen in the final products I create.
In college I minored in Film Studies. I took classes like Film Criticism, Great Directors, and Screenwriting. I studied screenplays then and still do now. Whenever I see a truly great film, I want to know how they did it, so I go to the source: the script. There you can see how much or how little direction was given. Some screenplays have everything down to the camera movement and others barely have dialogue, opting for more improvisation. You can read most screenplays for free as PDFs for educational purposes. Since we, as writers, are always educating ourselves, it's a beautiful resource.
As far as literature goes, we've gone through a strange shift. Years ago, the only form of storytelling was oral and then the written word. These stories transported readers to different worlds. Sentences were long and books even longer. But now the written word fights for attention among a much busier world, one over-stuffed with information. Storytelling has gone beyond words to incorporate audio and visuals and interaction from the audience in the form of video gaming and will soon become even more immersive with virtual reality. The quality of these forms of storytelling keep getting more and more complex and appealing. Meanwhile, books are still simply words on a page.
This means that every word is more important than ever before. Brevity is vital. We need to be able to tell a compelling story and tell it quickly. We need to stuff every scene, sentence, and word as full of meaning and make them as vivid as possible. This is when I look to screenplays.
Screenwriters know they only have about 120 pages give or take to work with. Every page equals a minute of screentime and they can't waste any of it. Screenwriters, better than anyone, know how to use recurring themes and images to evoke emotional response and make personal connections with the audience. If you want to learn more I suggest you read Save the Cat by Blake Snyder. It's both loved and hated by screenwriters alike, because it shamelessly lays out an exact formula to fit your story into. I have to say, while I think liberties should be taken with this formula, it's not a bad thing to work with.
I think having boundaries to work within actually makes us more creative, not less. When we have unlimited blank pages to work with, we get lazy and just let the story wander off on its own. When we have a tight box to work within, we think harder and find solutions to our problems. We realize certain characters or scenes can actually be combined to be more effective.
Think of your favorite movie: one that leaves you in awe, wishing you could create something as brilliant. Watch it again. Take notes. Read the screenplay. How can you apply those techniques to what you're making?
Screenplays gave me the gift of brevity and I hope I utilize it well in my own works.


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LOS ANGELES — Nearly $100 million in public assistance related to an expansion of the Los Angeles Convention Center and an adjacent JW Marriott hotel at L.A. Live was recommended Dec. 10 by a City Council committee.
Anschutz Entertainment Group, which operates the convention center and owns L.A. Live, has a finance gap of $119.4 million on a $1 billion-plus plan to renovate the convention center and expand the hotel, according to a report from the Office of the Chief Legislative Analyst, which recommended $97.7 million in public assistance to get the project off the ground.
The Budget and Finance Committee recommended moving forward with the plan to provide the assistance, which comes after the Economic Development Committee also gave approval last month. The public finance help would be specifically for the hotel project, according to the report, which it said would be paid through 50 percent of the city's revenue from the project over 25 years that would be generated primarily by transient occupancy taxes paid by hotel visitors.
"I find these deals to be among the most annoying and frustrating things that come before us because I never think that they're talked about right, or honestly," Councilman Mike Bonin said. "On one hand, it's talked about as a horrible giveaway to wealthy corporations, and on the other hand it's talked about as the silver bullet holy grail way to grow and save the economy in Los Angeles, and it's a lot murkier than that. To me, it's one of the countless uncertain rolls of dice that we do to generate revenue to run a big city in an uncertain economy."
According to the city report, which included an independent analysis by Keyser Marston Associates, the project will generate $195.5 million in net present value to the city over 25 years and would be developed through a public-private partnership with AEG and its partners.
Councilman Paul Krekorian, chair of the committee, asked what due diligence had been done to ensure that AEG's stance on the feasibility gap was accurate.
Kevin Engstrom of Keyser said an independent analysis had been done, using three different models.
"The ultimate finding was that the feasibility gap was all within … a range of like $5 to $10 million or maybe a little less for the three different models," Engstrom said.
The project would add at least 190,000 square feet of additional contiguous exhibit space; 55,000 square feet of additional meeting room space; and at least 95,000 square feet of multi-purpose space to the convention center, bringing it to 1.2 billion square feet of space.
The City Council in 2015 approved recommendations to initiate a design competition for the convention center and authorized a $470 million budget for such a project, while the total cost of the JW Marriott addition would be around $693 million, according to the report.
The hotel project would add a new tower with 850 rooms, and help the city reach a stated goal of 8,000 hotel rooms within walking distance of the convention center. The city estimates there will be a total of 7,239 hotel rooms in operation within walking distance in the next few years without the project.
City Controller Ron Galperin said in August that the city needs more transparency and accountability when issuing tax incentives for large-scale real estate developments, in a report that looked at almost $1 billion in incentives granted since 2005.
Galperin recommended that the city revise the scope of evaluations and consultant studies to require a more thorough evaluation of claimed "feasibility gaps," encourage development with fewer public dollars, and require more rigorous analysis of future economic and fiscal benefits.
"Tax incentives can be a useful tool to help spur worthy projects and jobs. But when the city provides financial assistance to any business, it is vital that we ensure total accountability for every cent of taxpayer funds," Galperin said. "It's essential that every deal be maximally transparent and advantageous to taxpayers. That is why we need a clear roadmap to ensure consistency, fairness and value for those we serve."
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Los Angeles has been considered a graffiti mecca since the 1980s, but until now the artists have been predominately male. Nisha Sembi is changing that — one spray-painted mural at a time. Not only has Sembi carved a name for herself among the graffiti community, but she's doing so in a way that channels, preserves, Read More…
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Posted on November 20, 2015 Author Arnold Adler, Staff Writer
SOUTH GATE — Mayors from five area cities took part in a joint news conference at South Gate Park Nov. 17, calling for united action to reduce air pollution along the Long Beach (710) Freeway which passes through their boundaries. A key topic was promoting the use of non-polluting fuels such as compressed natural gas Read More…
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ALT Scotland Policy Board – Sector Strategy Updates
During the ALT Scotland Policy Board meeting, which took place at SQA on the 16th of November 2015, a number of strategic updates were presented by a range of sector agencies including SFC, Jisc Scotland, QAA Scotland, SQA, College Development Network (CDN) and Open Scotland. The following summary of these updates has been approved for circulation to the sector.
Scottish Funding Council
– David Beards, Senior Policy Officer.
SFC is working towards the integration of the QA and outcome agreement processes, and looking to strengthen self-evaluation and integrate different voices in QA processes. SFC believes that QA is in good shape in Scotland and would like to see greater continuity of the existing QA arrangements, however they are waiting to see what happens at UK level as there may be some impact from the TEF and the external examiners review process. QAA Scotland's recent work on assessment and feedback has been particularly beneficial.
SFC will continue supporting and funding Jisc. Funding has been cut by 5% but this has not affected core services. There may be further cuts as SFC are facing a tough public spending review settlement. As funding is reduced it's possible that infrastructure will win out over innovation and projects. With Jisc's new structure it's important that institutions let Jisc know what their priorities are. The majority of Jisc's spending has historically been on supporting the digital infrastructure, with most trafficfrom researchers & research groups. However as people are putting more things in the cloud the network infrastructure is supporting equally learning, research and general institutional operations.
In the context of efficiency gains and spending reviews SFC will seek greater cooperation between national agencies. (In terms of organizational structure, David is now on the research universities side of SFC and has no involvement with teaching, learning and Jisc.)
Scottish Qualifications Authority
– Martyn Ware, Head of Assessment.
Development & Delivery Digital evidence is SQA's guiding theme. SQA is considering the implications of the continuing move amongst its centres from paper to digital evidence over time and for digital to become the default.
SQA have already started to investigate the practicalities of dealing with digital evidence. Can SQA verifiers look at that evidence remotely regardless of where it exists, e.g. Moodle, Mahara? SQA has done a small pilot sample and it looks like this is feasible. There are no overriding barriers; that would prevent verifiers from verifying digital evidence. Along with the benefits for teaching, learning and assessment, reductions in funding play into this agenda, costs savings, reduction in travel costs, increased efficiency. We are starting work with some colleges to develop SQA endorsed templates for use in Moodle and Mahara to encourage staff to use these serves.
Capturing exam responses in digital format is still difficult. As a system we still require students to go into an exam room once a year for their high stakes school leaving exams. We're starting to look at this with the Paper Plus initiative in partnership with BTL. This approach would allow learners to capture exam responses using digital devices rather than paper. Content is uploaded from the device at 30-second intervals, then at the end of the exam a final copy is uploaded and wiped from the device. We hope it will reassure learners and wider stakeholders that we are starting to explore the application of digital technologies to exams. Edinburgh University and others have already done some work in this area. It's a difficult area but one we as a system need to explore; for how much longer is it realistic and valid to expect students to continue filing into exam rooms once a year and writing out their responses with a pen?
We need a pragmatic approach but we also have to be open to new developments. It's not a sudden switch it's a journey. Digital submission can also enable us to assess things that we cannot assess on paper, e.g. submitting working code samples.
QAA Scotland
– Heather Gibson, Enhancement Team.
Like Jisc, QAA Scotland have had a 5% funding cut so we have had to pull back on certain initiatives. SFC have suggested that efficiency must be prioritized over innovation, in our experience they come together. QAA Scotland have lead innovative projects with very little funding and staffing support.
QAA Scotland will be responding to Universities Scotland with reflections on the TEF proposals. Although we recognise the benefits of monitoring, we also feel that it's important to understand why data is being collected and how it will be used. No one gets healthier just by taking their temperature. It's what do you do with the information to improve the learning and teaching process that is important.
In terms of policy it's a movie feast, everything is very dynamic. It's unfortunate that the Scottish Government aren't here, so we could prod them into resurrecting the learner journey work they did. This would give us all a good policy umbrella to work under.
The Focus On Assessment and Feedback project looked at management of e-assessment. There was lots of interest in this project but it was only funded for one year. Funding has now run out but we are still willing to run events and to expand this work into other sectors.
QAA Scotland's main area of work is the student transitions enhancement theme, which is now in its second year. Institutions have a sum of money to focus on student transitions, and they can interpret the theme as they see fit. We are pulling together a visual map of how people deal with transitions and hope to lead people to existing practice that can be helpful to them. Snook have been appointed to undertake this work.
QAA Scotland haven't yet decided what work to commission in the coming year, there is only a small amount of funding available. We're interested in using the digital world creatively and not just replicating existing practice. We're looking at other campuses around the work and how people spread cultures online.
Jisc Scotland
– Jason Miles-Campbell, Head of Jisc Scotland and Jisc Northern Ireland.
Jisc Scotland have to balance Scottish priorities with the national agenda as Jisc are a large UK organisation. There are great efficiencies to be gained from exploiting the UK wide nature of Jisc. We are getting used to being two thirds of the size we used to be. Developments are progressing but some things are not moved on as fast as we'd hoped. It's good we have a new CEO who is graduate of St Andrews and who understands the Scottish context.
Jisc has a strategic contact at each institution who liaises with their Jisc account manager. We have moved away from being seen as an IT organisation, but account managers still tend to get shoved in the direction of institutional IT managers. We are focusing more on technology enhanced learning now.
Key themes:
Getting efficiencies through existing technologies, e.g. Office 365.
Learning analytics is a key engagement theme.
Revising learning spaces and digital classroom, and looking at how we use estate.
Transnational education and supply of resources to learners outwith the UK.
Supporting development of the young work force, and employer engagement.
We have a better view of Scottish institutional projects; there are a lot of assessment projects in Scotland, Accessible by Design is also an important area of activity, along with building digital capability frameworks. We need to get more colleges involved though.
In terms of the open agenda, universities have been more focused on the open access research agenda, rather than open education practice due to research council mandates. The new CEO has got an interest in open badges so we may see some movement on this. Open education practice is not currently emerging through college and university engagement as a priority for Jisc.
Open Scotland, the Scottish Open Education Declaration and OEPS
– Lorna M. Campbell, EDINA Digital Education Manager and OER Liaison.
Learning Teaching and Web Directorate The University of Edinburgh have committed funding to Open Scotland in order to support the OER16 Conference which will be taking place in Scotland for the first time and to promote the Scottish Open Education Declaration.
The Declaration is now available online as a version 1.0 public document. Feedback from institutions suggested that while the Declaration proved to be very useful for raising awareness of open education at senior level within institutions, senior managers were unwilling to be steered by a document in draft format. Many institutions across the sector have already contributed to the Declaration and the 1.0 version is still open for comment.
The Declaration has been forwarded to Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning Angela Constance and her predecessor Mike Russell and although it has met with a positive response, we have not yet been successful at getting traction for open education at Government level.
The OEPS Project have recently suggested using the Declaration as the basis for the development of a concordat which all Scottish HEIs would be encouraged to sign up to. Pete Cannell, OEPS Project Co-director, has suggested that the Concordat might be similar to Athena Swan with perhaps three tiers of commitment. At each level there would be specific commitments that would be designed to develop a growing and sustainable engagement with open education. The Concordat would have it's roots in the Declaration but it would be different in the sense that, whereas the declaration is an open document and should change on an ongoing basis, the Concordat would be fixed for some specified period. OEPS are proposing to look at whether there are international examples that might influence the development of the Concordat, explore how a Concordat could articulate with the Declaration and talk to people around the sector, including the Universities Scotland Learning and Teaching Committee about how such an idea could be implemented.
While the focus on open education practice is to be encouraged, there is a feeling in some quarters that open educational resources have been done and dusted and are rather old hat. This is clearly not the case. There is still a lot of work to be done in this area and there is a strong ethical case to be made that all publicly funded educational content should be openly licensed. Several of the large cultural heritage institutions south of the border are leading the way by releasing their digital collections under open license. Education institutions are rather lagging behind in this regard which is one of the reasons we want to draw the open education community together with the cultural heritage sector through the OER16: Open Culture Conference.
The University of Edinburgh is in the process of formulating institutional policy for open education resources and have developed a vision for OER at the university. The proposed OER vision has three strands:
For the common good – teaching and learning materials exchange to enrich the University and the sector.
Edinburgh at its best – showcasing openly the highest quality learning and teaching.
Edinburgh's treasures – Making available online a significant collection of unique learning materials available openly to Scotland, the UK and the world, promoting health and economic and cultural well-being.
College Development Network
– Joe Wilson, Chief Executive
College senior management teams are looking for advice on communicating at scale across multi campus colleges. They are also looking at effective use of email & other tools for time management. Another priority area is getting better data and dashboards to manage activity across bigger colleges.
CDN are working closely with the OEPS Project to cascade out their outputs across the sector.
Learning technologists in the Scottish FE are now beginning to refocus following regionalization and mergers. Getting Moodle working across multiple college sites is a priority. CDN are investing in CMALT certification through ALT and are looking to support staff development in colleges in Scotland. We're trying to encourage colleges to look at the bigger ALT family in order to help them plug into colleagues in HE.
CDN are progressing access to Jisc collections and going through clearance so we can all have access to Glow. There are actually lots of really useful resources in Glow that will help a lot of schools and colleges to work in partnership.
CDN have hosted the Re:Source open learning object repository. This was a subset of Jorum, so we're now caught up in the Jisc debate regarding what will replace Jorum. We're having monthly calls with the Jisc people who are looking at what comes next. Jisc are building an app store, a content store and an online academy for FE. We're hoping that the content or app store will provide us with a suitable solution that will replace the Re:Source platform and enable us to continue sharing open education resources. However conversations with Jisc collections suggest they are more focused on creating a shop window for selling back high quality content to the sector.
CDN sit on the learner led part of the FELTAG / ETAG work. Jisc are funding a range of activities south of the border; this is where the FE Academy work is coming from. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this. We have already achieved super efficiencies in Scotland; AOC are now facing a 25% cut and regionalization and it will be interesting to see the impact of this on the FELTAG work.
We are actively promoting developments coming out of UfI, e.g. Citizen Maths, and a blended learning MOOC for FE staff.
Next year the standards for FE lecturers are due for review and this will give us real leavers to get digital and open practice embedded in the sector.
We already have free online resource about copyright have embraced OER and Open Badges.
Following regionalization, colleges are back to focusing on what learners want. West College Scotland and City of Glasgow College have done two surveys of what learners expectations of technology usage. 90% of students have smart phones and they now expect to bring their own device. Learners also really do want online blended learning. NE College are leading the charge on BYOD. Clyde College are looking at the Alfresco EduSharing repository to share learning materials regionally. City of Glasgow have opened their new riverside campus and invested in wireless data projectors rather than digital whiteboards across whole centre, which should facilitate new delivery models in classrooms.
70% of modern apprentices spend time in colleges and there is talk of an employers' levee to fund apprenticeships. This may change employers expectations regarding the delivery of learning and may drive online learning etc.
CDN are revitalizing all 32 of their networks, communities and mailing lists. Some are on Jiscmail but we need to look at something that will support communities in this space. Jisc could look at how it could support a social platform for learners.
Posted on November 27, 2015 by lornamcampbell. This entry was posted in Further Education, Higher Education, Policy, Schools, Scottish Open Education Declaration and tagged CDN, Higher Education, jisc, OEPS, OpenEdFeed, QAA Scotland, SFC, sqa. Bookmark the permalink.
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Il megapodio delle Vanuatu, maleo delle Vanuatu o megapodio delle Isole Banks (Megapodius layardi ) è un uccello galliforme della famiglia Megapodiidae.

Descrizione
Questo megapodio misura 42-45 cm.

Distribuzione e habitat
Megapodius layardi è un endemismo delle isole Vanuatu.

Conservazione
La IUCN Red List classifica Megapodius layardi come specie vulnerabile (Vulnerable).

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Megapodiidae
Taxa classificati da Henry Baker Tristram
Fauna oceaniana
Vanuatu


Installation view of "Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s," at Japan Society Gallery, New York, 2019. Photo by Richard Goodbody. Courtesy Japan Society.
Based on scholar and curator Reiko Tomii's comprehensive tome on the same subject, Japan Society Gallery's exhibition "Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s" revisited a spirited moment in the contemporary art scene following World War II. Tomii's in-depth expertise served as the primary guiding hand for the retrospective that looked back at Matsuzawa Yutaka, considered the father of Japanese Conceptualism, and two collectives, GUN (Group Ultra Niigata) and The Play. "Wilderness" at once references the natural world, where these artists performed and set many of their installations, as well as the historical connotation of being "outside of the seat of power," as Tomii states in her book. In this decade of political remaking and postwar recovery, they innovated new forms of conceptual art that challenged societal norms.
search for meaning beyond the physical realm. His foray into parapsychology, the study of the paranormal, led him to formulate his own psychological theory about non-sensory cognitive abilities, such as precognition and clairvoyance. The surrealist series "Psi Works" (circa 1960–63) consists of manipulated objects and collages, like a book with its pages cut out or a portrait of a pilot with his face missing, which he placed in a reception room of his house in Shimo Suwa. A slide projection revealed fisheye images of this Psi Zashiki Room (1969). An even more detailed elaboration on "psi power" can be seen in the 71 text-based works collected into the portfolio The Whole Works (1961–71).
Matsuzawa sought to rethink the institution of art altogether, coming up with the idea for "imaginary exhibitions." A magazine ad for "Independent '64 in the Wilderness" invited participants to "keep your entry in your hand and deliver the formless emission from it (imaginary work) to the exhibition site," the implied delivery method being telepathy or some such supernatural power. Matsuzawa even selected a nearby location, Nanashima Yashima Highland, where the invisible showing was supposed to take place. His disdain for the material world only intensified. A replica of his Banner of Vanishing (Humans, Let's Vanish, Let's Go, Let's Go, Gate, Gate, Anti-Civilization Committee) (1966/2016) succinctly communicates his frustrations with contemporary civilization. He used the banner in a secretly staged performance on the sacred grounds of Mount Misa Shrine in his hometown.
MATSUZAWA YUTAKA, Psi Corpse, 1964, offset lithograph and envelope with stamp, addressed to Takiguchi Shūzō and postmarked Keiō University Art Center, Tokyo, 38.4 × 26 cm. Courtesy the artist and Japan Society, New York.
MATSUZAWA YUTAKA, Invitation to Psi Zashiki Room, 1963, letterpress and envelope with stamp, addressed to Takiguchi Shūzō and postmarked Keiō University Art Center, Tokyo, 35 × 26 cm. Courtesy the artist and Japan Society, New York.
Installation view of MATSUZAWA YUTAKA's Banner of Vanishing (Humans, Let's Vanish, Let's Go, Let's Go, Gate, Gate, Anti-Civilization Committee) (1966/2016, right) at "Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s," Japan Society Gallery, New York, 2019. Photo by Richard Goodbody. Courtesy Japan Society.
GUN, Event to Change the Image of Snow, 1970, compilation of documentary photographs of performance art, dimensions variable. Copyright Hanaga Mitsutoshi. Courtesy Geijutsu Seikatsu-sha.
TADASHI MAEYAMA, Antiwar Flag, silkscreen on fabric, 98 × 48 cm. Courtesy the artist and Japan Society, New York.
MICHIO HORIKAWA, The Shinano River Plan: 11, 1969, from the series "Mail Art by Sending Stones," stone, wire, mail tags, 4.5 × 18 × 8 cm. Courtesy the artist; Matsuzawa Kumiko; and Japan Society, New York.
Around this same time in the 1960s, two collectives formed. Recent graduates Tadashi Maeyama and Michio Horikawa led GUN, ironically named after their origins in a remote, backwater region of Japan. They burned through their financial resources quickly, but not before executing their best-known performance Event to Change the Image of Snow (1970). Driven by the desire to break up Niigata's dreary, six-months-long winter, the group used a pesticide sprayer to blanket the white landscape in bright red, yellow and blue pigment. The beautiful display, which soon disappeared under the falling snow, was thankfully recorded in photographs. After the group disbanded, Maeyama went on to create several politically charged works. A reaction to the conflict in Vietnam, his Antiwar Flag (1970) depicts blood dripping from the red stripes of the American flag into the red circle of Japan's "sun-mark flag." Responding to another era-defining event, Horikawa began his series "Mail Art by Sending Stones" in 1969 following the Apollo 11 moon landing, and even mailed a stone to President Nixon.
THE PLAY, Voyage: Happening in an Egg, 1968, documentary photographs of performance, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artists and Japan Society, New York.
THE PLAY, Current of Contemporary Art, 1969, documentary photographs of performance, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artists and Japan Society, New York.
THE PLAY, Thunder, 1977–86, documentary photographs of performance, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artists and Japan Society, New York.
Based in Osaka, The Play constitutes the second collective. Their quirky efforts included Voyage: Happening in an Egg (1968), launching a large, fiberglass egg into the Pacific with the hopes that the current would carry it to North America. In Current of Contemporary Art (1969), the group rowed from Kyoto to downtown Osaka on a Styrofoam raft shaped like an arrow. The exhibition offered a seating area outlined in the same shape, where viewers could watch footage documenting the performance. The Play continued to devise new works well into the next two decades, and spent ten years attempting to get lightning to strike a 20-meter-tall pyramid they constructed as part of their project Thunder (1977–86).
In the exhibition, the practices of these artists were situated alongside mentions of other notable artists and movements of the time, from Yayoi Kusama to Yves Klein's immaterialism. "Radicalism in the Wilderness" celebrated a unique period not only in Japanese contemporary art but also within a global context.
Mimi Wong is a New York desk editor of ArtAsiaPacific.
"Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s" is on view at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, until June 9, 2019.