Since 1877 the SPAB has campaigned tirelessly for the protection of old buildings and for the conservation of our shared built heritage. SPAB founders William Morris and Philip Webb's initial focus was on opposing the damage being inflicted by destructive restorations of the Vicorian era and promoting instead an approach of 'conservative repair' in a time when old buildings were routinely demolished or partially destroyed to suit current tastes.
We continue to build on our long history through our casework and national campaigns, always promoting the value and good sense of caring for the fabric of old buildings. All our campaigns are underpinned by our 1877 Manifesto and the more recent SPAB Approach - a simple, practical message of maintenance, repair and sustainability.
The SPAB Approach to building conservation is about understanding, care and conservative repair. It is a simple message of sustainability.
The SPAB Campaign Toolkit is designed to give local communities the information they need to work confidently within the planning system.
Creating a network of informed volunteer groups to look after places of worship.
A five-year project aimed at helping volunteers care for and better understand historic places of worship.
SPAB's annual campaign for better building maintenance.


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Алан Джозеф Паттерсон (, 19 января 1941, Крайстчёрч, Новая Зеландия) — новозеландский хоккеист (хоккей на траве), защитник.

Биография
Алан Паттерсон родился 19 января 1941 года в новозеландском городе Крайстчёрч.

Играл в хоккей на траве за «Хай Скул Олд Бойз Бёрнсайд» из Крайстчёрча.

В 1964 году вошёл в состав сборной Новой Зеландии по хоккею на траве на Олимпийских играх в Токио, поделившей 13-14-е места. Играл на позиции защитника, провёл 6 матчей, забил 2 мяча (по одному в ворота сборных Австралии и Южной Родезии).

В 1968 году вошёл в состав сборной Новой Зеландии по хоккею на траве на Олимпийских играх в Мехико, занявшей 7-е место. Играл на позиции защитника, провёл 9 матчей, мячей не забивал.

В 1972 году вошёл в состав сборной Новой Зеландии по хоккею на траве на Олимпийских играх в Мюнхене, занявшей 9-е место. Играл на позиции защитника, провёл 8 матчей, мячей не забивал.

Примечания

Хоккеисты на траве Новой Зеландии
Хоккеисты на траве на летних Олимпийских играх 1964 года
Хоккеисты на траве на летних Олимпийских играх 1968 года
Хоккеисты на траве на летних Олимпийских играх 1972 года

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Enjoying the last light of the evening at Durdle Door along the Jurassic Coast. I wanted to avoid using a long shutter speed to retain the interesting tones in the sea. I placed Durdle Door in the upper left of the frame so that I could balance with the colourful sky.


Subfreezing temperatures can easily freeze water pipes and cause them to break. Eventually, the pipes will thaw either because the temperature warms up a little or you have placed a space heater in the area where the pipes have become frozen. Once the water starts to run, you may find that ice in a pipe has broken it. You'll have to shut the water off again until you can get a plumber over to fix the pipe.
If you constantly find moisture around your toilet, you probably have a leaky toilet on your hands. Check out some of the most common reasons your toilet is leaking and what you can do to fix them. 1. Your Wax Ring Needs to Be Replaced The wax ring seals the connection between your toilet and its drain; it also prevents the formation of mold around the drain and the accumulation of bacteria.
Although not always the case, a noisy water heater can be a sign that there's a problem. While improper maintenance and the age of the heater often are at the root of the problem, it helps to know why water heaters make different noises, as well as when you may need a plumber's help to fix what's wrong. High Water Pressure If your water heater makes a high-pitched noise, it's not something to ignore as the water pressure inside the tank may be too high.
Before the winter weather arrives, you need to prepare your HVAC system to handle the increased demand on it. Unfortunately, some homeowners fails to take the proper steps and they end up paying more in energy costs and repairs. To help ensure your system is ready to take on the cold weather, here are some preparation tips to use. Get a Home Energy Audit A home energy audit conducted by your HVAC technician can help you pinpoint ways that your system is potentially wasting energy.
A backflow can occur for a few reasons. It's the kind of problem many homeowners fear. Understanding a little about how backflows work can help you mitigate the possibility of one occurring in your home. A Backflow Is Not a Backup The first thing you need to understand is that a backflow is wholly different from a common drain or sewer backup. A backup comes from a clog. You can usually tell if you have a backup if water drains slowly or not at all.
Whether it's tackling a stubborn clog, or installing a new supply line, certain plumbing tasks are well within the abilities of the average homeowner. Yet to ensure a lasting, effective result, it is important that you arm yourself with some helpful tips. If you would like to improve your arsenal of home plumbing skills, read on. Throw away old supply lines when replacing a plumbing fixture. Installing a new plumbing fixture is always an exciting prospect, since it can easily rejuvenate the aesthetics of a bathroom or kitchen.
When a flood occurs, the danger from it is not limited to just your home. Your business could also be at risk. Therefore, it is important that you take steps now to protect your business from flooding. Here are some ways you can. Assess Your Risk The first step in protecting your business from a flood is learning what your risk level is. Once you know, you can take the necessary protective actions.


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Lik Sam Chan, Ph.D.
digital platforms | gender and sexuality | culture
DEAR network
Methods workshops
Queer Cultures in Digital Asia (10 December, 2021 @ CUHK online)
Digital media have transformed the cultures and practices of LGBTQ+ communities worldwide. Sexual minorities explore and express their identities, look for belonging and build communities, seek multiple types of intimate relationships, and undertake collective action on and through both old and new digital media. Extensive research has been conducted to examine the influences and implications of digital and social media platforms, such as Grindr, Her, Reddit, Tumblr, and more, on the social, political, and personal lives of sexual minorities. Meanwhile, digital media also facilitates the flourishing of subcultures that challenge normative conceptions of gender and sexuality and promote creative forms of gender expression through online literature, video production, and other forms of fandom (e.g. slash/yaoi/Boys' Love/Girls' Love communities). While increasing attention has been paid to new and digital media in Asia (Cabañes & Uy-Tioco, 2020; Dasgupta, 2017; Yue & Zubillaga-Pow, 2012), most contemporary studies of digital queer cultures still focus on North American and European contexts.
Inspired by Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (Berry, Martin, Yue, & Spigel, 2003), this full day symposium aims to foster a critical interrogation of the intersection between queerness and Digital Asia. Digital Asia has been a topic for many previous articles, edited collections, and conferences (e.g., 2018 Digital Asia event at QUT and Baulch, Flew, and Li, 2019; 2019 Digital Asia conference organized by NIAS and Lund University). Being the continent with the most Internet users in terms of absolute numbers, Asia has a range of diverse digital infrastructures. While China's digital media ecology operates as an entirely closed system, in other countries like India, a wide array of both Western and local digital media is available. Hence, in previous works on Digital Asia, issues covered have related primarily to infrastructures, governance, commerce, smart cities, nationalism, and so on. Voices from and about queer communities are underrepresented in this conversation. We understand "queer" as "definitional indeterminacy" (Jagose, 1996, p. 1). Queerness taps into a zone of possibilities regarding our sex, sexuality, gender, and intimacy. Asia also provides a complicated context for the development and survival of queer communities as social norms and laws regarding homosexuality and transgenderism vary across regions. There are regions where governments are taking measures to grant some rights to sexual minorities (e.g., Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage in 2019; Pakistan recognized transgender as a separate gender category in 2017); there are also places where homosexuality is still considered illegal (e.g., Iran, Singapore) or is not legally protected from discrimination (e.g., Hong Kong).
As Chen (2010) advocates, "using the idea of Asia as an imaginary anchoring point, societies in Asia can become each other's points of reference" (p. 212). This symposium takes "Asia as method" as a foundation to provincialize Euro-American knowledge production. This critical vision of Asia has also been taken up in two special issues related to the intersection of transgender studies and Asia studies (Martin & Ho, 2006; Chiang, Henry, & Leung, 2018). In this symposium, we extend this approach to focus on the digital, giving equal significance to the triple concepts of "digital," "Asia," and "queer." We welcome contributions that empirically examine queer digital cultures, platforms, practices, and communities from one Asian region or compare these across several Asian territories. We expect interdisciplinary contributions from the fields of media and cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, regional studies, and related disciplines from the humanities and social sciences.
Broad themes might include, but are not limited to:
Politics of queer digital cultures
Digital intimacies
Digital circulation and/or economy of queer content
Intersections of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and more in digital cultures
Online activism
Emerging digital practices and communities
Queer digital health and wellbeing
Submission Process and Key Dates
Please submit paper proposals to digitalqueerasia@gmail.com by 30 June, 2021. Proposals should include an abstract of 250–400 words along with a brief bio of no more than 100 words. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 16 July, 2021. Draft papers (3000–4000 words) of accepted presentations are to be submitted by 17 November, 2021 for sharing and discussion among symposium participants. We are planning for a face-to-face symposium in Hong Kong on 10 December, 2021. Modest subsidies will be provided to symposium participants to cover airfare; two-night's accommodation and meals on the day of the symposium will be provided. The symposium will convert to an online event as required in line with COVID-19 health and safety considerations or should travel restrictions remain in place.
Following the symposium, presenters will be invited to submit full-length papers to be considered for publication as part of a themed collection. We are approaching major international media and/or cultural studies journals with a proposal for a special issue on the symposium theme.
Lik Sam Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Elija Cassidy (QUT Digital Media Research Centre)
Jia Tan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Baulch, E., Flew, T., & Li, N. L. (2019). The shifting institutional bases of digital Asia studies: Communication, culture, and governance in Asia-Introduction. International Journal of Communication, 13, 4579-4585. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/10994/2800
Berry, C., Martin, F., Yue, A., & Spigel, L. (Eds.). (2003). Mobile cultures: New media in queer Asia. Duke University Press.
Cabañes, J. V. A., & Uy-Tioco, C. S. (2020). Mobile media and social intimacies in Asia: Reconfiguring local ties and enacting global relationships. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Chen, K. H. (2010). Asia as method: Toward deimperialization. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Chiang, H., Henry, T. A., & Leung, H. H. S. (2018). Trans-in-Asia, Asia-in-Trans: An Introduction. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 5(3), 298–310.
Dasgupta, R. K. (2017). Digital queer cultures in India: Politics, intimacies and belonging. London, UK: Routledge.
Jagose, A. (1996). Queer theory: An introduction. New York, NY: NYU Press.
Martin, F., & Ho, J. (2006). Editorial introduction: Trans/Asia, trans/gender. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 7(2), 185–187.
Yue, A., & Zubillaga-Pow, J. (Eds.). (2012). Queer Singapore: Illiberal citizenship and mediated cultures. Hong Kong, China: Hong Kong University Press.
Improvement on Competitiveness in Hiring New Faculties Fund, CUHK
The School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK
The Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research, CUHK
The Centre for Cultural Studies, CUHK

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Q: Android App crashes when trying to go to a new Intent I'm trying to build an app to get from the Item of a list to another screen with the intent, however it keeps crashing.
As soon as I press the List item and try to go to the new Activity, the app crashes.
MAIN_ACTIVITY.JAVA
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
   String url = "http://www.[mydomain].com/wordpress/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/?per_page=99&fields=id,title";
   List<Object> list;
   Gson gson;
   ProgressDialog progressDialog;
   ListView postList;
   Map<String,Object> mapPost;
   Map<String,Object> mapTitle;
   int postID;
   String postTitle[];

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    postList = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.postList);
    progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
    progressDialog.setMessage("Loading...");
    progressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
    progressDialog.show();

    StringRequest request = new StringRequest(Request.Method.GET, url, new Response.Listener<String>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(String s) {
            gson = new Gson();
            list = (List) gson.fromJson(s, List.class);
            postTitle = new String[list.size()];

            for(int i=0;i<list.size();++i){
                mapPost = (Map<String,Object>)list.get(i);
                mapTitle = (Map<String, Object>) mapPost.get("title");
                postTitle[i] = (String) mapTitle.get("rendered");
            }

            postList.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(MainActivity.this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,postTitle));
            progressDialog.dismiss();
        }
    }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
        @Override
        public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError volleyError) {
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Some error occurred", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    });

    RequestQueue rQueue = Volley.newRequestQueue(MainActivity.this);
    rQueue.add(request);

    postList.setOnItemClickListener(
            new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
            mapPost = (Map<String,Object>)list.get(position);
            postID = ((Double)mapPost.get("id")).intValue();
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Position: " + list.get(position) + ", ID: " + postID, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

            **THE PROBLEM LIES HERE! It crashes when I click on the list item, to go to the content...**
            Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Post.class);
            intent.putExtra("id", "" +
            startActivity(intent);
        }

    });
}

}

A: **THE PROBLEM LIES HERE! It crashes when I click on the list item, to go to the content...**
    Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Post.class); // use MainActivity.this
    intent.putExtra("id", yourId); // seems typo
    startActivity(intent);

Please also check the AndroidManifest.xml.
Activity "Post" should be declared there.
<activity android:name=".Post" />

A: Check Post Activity declare in manifest file
  Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, Post.class);
  startActivity(intent);

A: Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Post.class);
            intent.putExtra("id", "" +   // **INCOMPLETE**
            startActivity(intent);

//Declare Activity in Manifest

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Big data basically refers to large sets of data which are analyzed by use of various algorithms to help people make decisions and also pick trends. Big data does exist in large businesses and corporations, like chain stores and the banking industry which have data streaming in every second from website logs, social media, or other external sources. While there is no option for them other than handling the big data and working with it, small businesses have only a small amount of data to deal with. This important link will provide more information on how experts can help you deal with data to make various decisions. So how can small businesses benefit from big data concepts?
Have you ever wondered how the big companies manage to make smart decisions concerning their target market? If you did not know, they use analytic data results to learn about the market and decide on what to provide or not. As a small business, you cannot afford to ignore the use of data if you need progress. Whether you choose to use Google Analytics or any other tool, being data-oriented will help in making smart decisions.
The market is the backbone of every business and one ought to take care when approaching the market. Big data focuses on keeping customer information like preferences and the common products they use. As such, the system will help in analyzing this data and provides reports to the business owners and managers. If you own a small business, then you need to be data-oriented when it comes to understanding the market. Understand how people react to the product in terms of numbers, and based on that analysis, decide whether you need to improve it or change completely.
The old ways of visiting your competitor's shops posing as customers or relying on hearsay are no longer applicable as far as keeping your rivals in check is concerned. Today, people are innovative enough to have various activities that tell you everything you need to know about the competition. Whether you choose to use social media data, Google trends or any other data, you can easily gather this from the comfort of your desk. Big data is indeed informative when it comes to these resources. However, one will need resources no matter how small the business is.
Do you wonder why it is crucial to understand trends? People tend to buy with trends determined by economic status, fashion and the general way the world is changing. Big data can help you monitor patterns and general response to the product you have put on the market. More so, one can use the same information to predict what the market will look like in the near future.
Staff determines the success of a business to a great extent and data can help you get the best. Human resources related data is usually available from different channels. It includes the productivity data, absenteeism and much more which helps a manager or small business owner make the right staffing decisions.


Brainwashed - Vanessa Rossetto, "Fashion Tape"
The artwork and title of this new tape captures the vibe that Vanessa Rossetto conjures up early on rather well: a sort of 1980s damaged mélange of consumerism and high art that is as visceral and to the point as it is conceptually high-minded. What follows is a complex mix of electronic composition, treated field recordings, and who knows what else, making for a wonderfully nuanced, extremely compelling cassette of equally beautiful and abrasive sounds.
The title and artwork are most closely tied to the opening piece, the 11+ minute "Sample Sale." An array of stuttering musical loops full of schmaltzy electronics best resembles an ancient tape of mall musak in its final state of decay, as what could be fragments of shoppers conversing are peppered throughout. Within all of this Rossetto tastefully places layers of static and additional field recordings with various levels of processing. Disorienting loops eventually relent to a unrecognizable bed of noise, before finally concluding on passages of found sound and a far off television droning away.
The other lengthy work that concludes Fashion Tape, "Measurement" (with Matthew Revert) has all of the complexity of "Sample Sale," but structurally is more focused, and less collage-like overall. Rossetto delivers spoken word mostly of the piece's title, as Revert adds in strange passages of repeated and recited numbers via a disconnected, monotone voice. Behind this there are lush cello-like passages that underscore the piece, adding a bit of melancholic beauty to the otherwise clinical spoken parts. However, she chooses to throw in some power tool recordings to blow up the composition's more melodic tendencies; a drastic misdirection that I found quite enjoyable.
The shorter pieces between these two larger bookending works also do an exemplary job at capturing the varieties of sound Rossetto has been working with since her earliest releases. "Memphis Milano" is a basic, but well crafted short piece of buzzing nasal electronics. Structurally it is not overly complex, but she does a great job at keeping it varied via ever changing volume shifts and dynamics. "Fake Cheese" features more use of field recordings, multilayered and with treated pitches done just enough to make the sounds feel unsettling and unnatural. By the end she pushes the piece into dark ambient territory and with the addition of sinister whispers and overdriven digital noise, it builds into a bleak conclusion. "Radiant Green" stands out via frequent use of some southern sounding gentleman discussing how he is seeing colors, as Rossetto weaves in layers of strange processing and random sounds. The final moments build to an amazingly aggressive volume shift that is reminiscent of (and likely as dangerous to speakers as) Whitehouse's "Torture Chamber."
Rosetto's exceptional ability at reworking field recordings and utilizing unspecific, but fascinating electronics run through this entire tape. There is a joyous disregard for genre boundaries and styles here as well, as within the same piece I felt the use of intentionally abrasive, chaotic passages as well as precisely focused works that are as compositionally tight as any formally trained academic is likely to produce. It is a weird, but unquestionably wonderful journey from beginning to end.


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Paste Magazine: Maryland Is Doing its Best to Destroy its Craft Beer Industry For Good This Month
Back in April of 2017, we wrote about how Maryland had just finished attempting to screw the state's craft brewers via a new piece of legislation known as House Bill 1283. Introduced in secret and hidden from the state's brewers until it had already passed the House of Delegates, the bill was amended in the state Senate thanks to a last-ditch effort by craft beer activists. These amendments managed to alter its affects from "devastating" to merely "complicated and imbalanced." On one hand, HB 1283 gave breweries something they wanted—the ability to sell more beer to the public directly from their taprooms. But on the other hand, it introduced a patently unfair "grandfathering" system, in which already existing breweries would be held to one legal standard in terms of hours of operation, but new breweries would be punished with reduced hours of operation for their audacity in wanting to open a new small business.
Why did this happen? Well, in a single sentence: It happened because state legislators were more interested in courting big business than serving their local breweries. Specifically, it happened to make Maryland the most attractive possible home for Diageo's destination Guinness brewery, despite the fact that Diageo as a company has largely sided with the craft brewers against the state of Maryland. That's right: Even though Diageo isn't asking Maryland legislators to screw over the state's craft brewers on their behalf, they've elected to do so anyway, while crafting legislation that exempts the Guinness brewery (and no one else) from additional regulation.
Enter, HB 518 and HB 1052—dueling house bills that will determine the future of the state's brewing industry, both of which will be heard by Maryland's House Economic Matters Committee on Feb. 23. One (HB 518) is supported by the state's craft brewers (and apparently Diageo as well), and is aimed at loosening restrictions on beer sales, and modernizing the state's beer laws to be similar to other states that have made craft beer into a major tourism driver. The other bill, HB 1052, is supported by the state's most powerful alcohol distributorships, and the lobbying/campaign contribution power they wield. This is perhaps a relevant time to point out a few of the corruption scandals that have wracked Maryland's legislative body in the last few years.
"HB1052 would inflict actual harm on a majority of the brewing industry," said Kevin Atticks, executive director of the Brewers Association of Maryland, in an interview with Baltimore Magazine. "Rather than wasting our time and energy debating a tone-deaf, mal-intentioned attempt to distract from real conversations aimed to grow our manufacturing industry, we're focusing on our legitimate, reasonable, reform efforts."
Let's compare the contents of the two bills via direct bullet points. HB 518, favored by the craft brewers, would do the following:
- Remove all limits on beer production, taproom sales and take-home sales;
- Repeal the "buy-back" provision that requires brewers to purchase their beer from distributors at a marked-up cost if they exceed the 2,000-barrel limit on taproom sales;
- Lift unnecessary restrictions for take-home sales;
- Let local jurisdictions set guidelines for taproom operating hours;
- Allow smaller brewers to self-distribute;
- Remove restrictions on contract brewing that inhibits start-up businesses.
Meanwhile, HB 1052, which Diageo/Guinness directly says they do not support, would do the following:
- Reduce the amount of annual taproom sales allowed from 2,000 to only 500 barrels, with the sole exception of Guinness (because this is clearly fair);
- Directly prohibit contract brewing of any kind;
- Restrict sample sizes at all breweries to only "three ounces per style or brand."
In a supreme act of irony, the introduction of HB 1052 came right after Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared this month"FeBREWary" in the state, a month for "Maryland Craft Beer Lovers."
The below blockquote is from Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, a champion of HB 518, who said in a Facebook post that HB 1052 would "for all intents and purposes, destroy the craft brewing industry in the State of Maryland." This is a man who has been attacked by paid shills for his support of the local craft beer industry, and responded with one of the most devastating rebuttal letters that I have ever read on any subject. I highly recommend reading it, if only to understand how the clout of Big Beer has been put to use against elected officials in positions such as Franchot's. Says the comptroller:
"As bad as House Bill 1283 was, House Bill 1052 is so much worse. It would send the message, once and for all, that our state's government is hostile to our current and future craft brewers, and indifferent to the jobs, economic growth and neighborhood reinvestment they provide. One of Maryland's great breweries – UNION Craft Brewing – has already stated publicly that this bill could jeopardize its future here in Maryland."
After reading that comment, I reached out to UNION Craft Brewing's co-owner, Jon Zerivitz, to discuss the two bills. As a leader of one of the state's best-liked craft brewers, makers of cult beers such as Double Duckpin DIPA, he's been shepherding his company through a major, multimillion dollar expansion, which includes dedicating two-thirds of the space in their new brewery building to a mixed-use manufacturing space that will be called the "Union Collective." That space will be host to an array of other small businesses, including an ice cream manufacturer, a distillery, a coffee roaster, a hot sauce maker and a climbing gym, but the passage of HB 1052 would put all of those things into immediate jeopardy, forcing the brewery to buy its own beer back from distributors after the first 500 barrels sold out of its new 7,000 square foot taproom.
"It makes me feel sad, to feel disillusioned, to question our choice to start up here in the state at all," Zerivitz said to Paste. "I feel like we do nothing but bring a better quality of life to Baltimore. Just to get our local politicians to visit us here is difficult enough, but to listen to us is apparently much harder. All the manufacturing had left Baltimore, and here we are trying to bring it back. We could have just invested in ourselves and built a beautiful brewery, but instead we chose to buy a 155,000 square foot warehouse in the heart of Baltimore and bring in all these other Baltimore manufacturers. We just wanted to give a little bit of that craft beer community love to some other small businesses, rather than watching them move to the outskirts of the city. To have our local government stand in the way of that kind of progress is really sad to me."
Zerivitz doesn't blame Guinness, saying that Diageo has been caught in a conflict between breweries and representatives. He says many of the Guinness brewers have visited and toured the facilities at Union, making clear a desire to become part of the local craft beer scene. He simply says that he "just asks them to tell the powers that be to throw some of that lobbyist weight they wield behind Maryland's craft breweries, so hopefully they do."
So, who is actually behind HB 1052, which would reduce the amount of beer that breweries are allowed to sell in their taproom by a gaudy 75 percent? That would be Democratic delegates Dereck Davis and Talmadge Branch, who co-sponsored the bill. Also reportedly proponents of the bill, and outspoken critics of Comptroller Franchot: Senate President Thomas V. "Mike" Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch—both of whom just so happen to have family members who own liquor stores or alcohol distributorships. In particular, comments from Dereck Davis on HB 1052 are downright insulting to Maryland craft breweries, claiming that his bill set to dismantle their rights is something he's doing because they asked for it. In an interview with Washington's Top News, he said the following, first speaking about the passage of HB 1283 in 2017:
"The comptroller as well as others in the craft beer industry … complained vociferously, quite honestly, about what they thought were harmful effects that the passage of that legislation would do on their industry," Davis said. "All House Bill 1052 does is repeal what we did last year. What they quite frankly told us was a negative. We left the provisions in as it related to [Guinness owner] Diageo in Baltimore County, because they were the real reasons why we did the bill [last year]."
This is an absolutely stunning "go f*** yourself" aimed at not only the entire Maryland craft brewing industry, but also at the voter base, which along with local media, has given strong support to Franchot's proposed policies—which I remind you, would simply be bringing Maryland in line with other states that have built successful craft beer-based tourism industries. In the blockquote above, Davis purposefully misunderstands and mischaracterizes craft brewers' objections to HB 1283 in 2017, even as he prepares to strip them of their current legal rights with HB 1052, somehow claiming that they want to have the amount of beer they can sell reduced. He doesn't even acknowledge the existence of HB 518, which would have the opposite effect of his own legislation, and goes before the House Economic Matters Committee on the same freaking day, Feb. 23. Folks, this is what it sounds like when a local government lawmaker wants to strangle an emerging industry.
Case in point: Look up the publicly searchable campaign contributions received by Davis, and what do you find? Well, you find a tie for the largest contribution in the last two years between a number of donors—and my, oh my, there's a lot of "beverages" involved here. On the first page alone, we have individual donations of $2,700 from two different people at Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits, plus $2,700 from Horizon Beverage Co. and another $2,700 from Beltway Fine Wine & Spirits. The next page has two more $2,700 contributions from alcohol distributors or retailers. The page after that has a couple more. And so on. It's there for anyone to look up. Amazing how stances on legislation tend to synch up with campaign contributions, isn't it?
Nice of them to put the alcohol industry stuff right near the top, so you don't have to look far. Click to zoom.
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December 4, 2014 | Finance, Politics, World
December 4, 2014 – Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed visiting South African President Jacob Zuma as China's "good friend", months after the latter's government refused the Dalai Lama a visa.
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China is South Africa's single largest trading partner, while South Africa is China's largest trading partner on the continent. South Africa joined the BRICS bloc of developing economies with Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2011.
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During Zuma's visit, China announced the signing of a series of agreements, including a memorandum of understanding on nuclear energy cooperation between China National Nuclear Corporation and the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation.
China said that the two sides agreed a five-to-10 year strategic programme on cooperation, as well as to improve bilateral cooperation in trade and investment between China's ministry of commerce and South Africa's department of trade and industry.
Detailed terms of the agreements were not immediately available.
South Africa said last month it had signed a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with China, calling the deal a "preparatory phase for a possible utilisation of Chinese nuclear technology". The deal followed similar agreements with Russia and France.
South Africa, which has one nuclear plant, is plagued by electricity blackouts and is seeking to reduce its heavy reliance on coal-fired power stations. Electricity constraints have been blamed for limiting economic growth and productivity.
Zuma earlier held talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, with Li congratulating Zuma on his re-election in May as South Africa's president.
"You have always attached high importance to South Africa's relations with China and you have made unrelenting efforts to grow China-South Africa relations," Li said. "We have always appreciated our interaction between China and South Africa. I must say that we feel very much at home," Zuma responded.
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"The problem here is that this issue, like so many others in Washington, are being relegated to partisan politics," she said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union."
Negotiations between the White House and Democratic leaders have stalled, but President Donald Trump put the ball back in Democrats' court on Saturday when he announced an offer that would include his $5.7 billion request to fund a steel barrier along parts of the southern border in return for temporary protections for immigrants with temporary protected status and who came to the U.S. as children.
Democrats have roundly rejected the proposal, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling any wall funding a "nonstarter" and criticizing the offer's lack of permanent relief on the issue of TPS and Dreamers.
Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday said that Trump's proposal is not the administration's final offer and that there could be room to negotiate, but he also said it was disappointing that Democrats had refused the offer outright.
Both Democrats and Republicans have "completely hardened their positions and are unwilling to come together and work out the differences," she said, pointing out it's not an isolated problem.
While recent public polling has pinned most of the blame for the shutdown on Trump and the GOP, that could shift if the public agrees with Pence that the White House's offer is a "good faith compromise" that Democrats refuse to consider.
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8 Ways to Show Israelis You Care, Purim Style
Tags: Causes, Purim, Holidays
By Israel Forever
Purim is a special time in the Jewish calendar. It is a is time of celebration, joy, costumes and for some drinking too much. But it is also about the mitzvah of giving to others, giving back and increasing joy for our fellow Jew.
The mitzvah of giving mishloach manot derives from the Book of Esther. It is meant to ensure that everyone has enough food for the Purim feast held later in the day, and to increase love and friendship among Jews as a counter to Haman's assertion that the Jewish people are characterized by strife and disunity.
So today, thousands of years later, we still want to unify as Jews all over the world, and show Israelis we care. For Purim, Israel Forever would like to share with you, ways of giving a mishloach manot that can benefit the people of Israel, give back, and serve as a unique way of sharing our love, happiness and future together.
According to the Rambam: "gifts for the poor deserve more attention than the festive meal & gifts for friends because there is no greater, richer happiness than bringing joy to the hearts of needy people, orphans, widows and proselytes."
Not just about sweet treats, these baskets are full of strength, unity and charity!
Check out this year's featured favorite ways of giving Mishloach Manot for Purim.
1. YAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT: Bring Purim Joy to Orphans and Widows This Year
Organization: Yad Ezra V'Shulamit addresses the needs of impoverished families, regardless of religious affiliation, ethnicity, age, and location of residence.We distribute 3,000 food baskets every week, and 15,000 more during holiday seasons.The children who attend Yad Ezra V'Shulamit Children's Centers are provided with a nutritious meal, academic tutoring, and an enriching social environment.
Mishloach Manot: Purim is hard for poor children. It's painful to watch their friends have fun with bags full of treats, while they just wish for a simple meal at home to fill their empty stomachs. Yad Ezra V'Shulamit provides needy families with a food basket filled with groceries including grape juice, chicken, challah, fruits and vegetables. Help us to ensure no child in Israel is hungry on Purim.
This year, Yad Ezra is organizing a special Purim for widows and orphans. Your donation will ensure these families experience true Purim joy with Mishloach Manot, a banquet, food vouchers, and more. You can also choose to give your donation as Matanot Le'Evyonim, to be distributed as cash to needy individuals on Purim itself.
2. AMERICAN ZIONIST MOVEMENT: Mishloach Manot to Corona Frontline Workers and Soldiers throughout Israel
Organization: The American Zionist Movement (AZM) is comprised of 27 national Jewish Zionist organizations and works across a broad ideological, political and religious spectrum linking the American Jewish community together in support of Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people. For nearly 30 years the "Purim Connection" program of the American Zionist Movement (AZM) has helped maintain our personal ties to the people and land of Israel by providing Mishloach Manot packages to those living in Eretz Yisrael.
Mishloach Manot: This year AZM's Purim Connection is providing Mishloach Manot to frontline responders to the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel. This will bring some holiday joy and, in a small way, thank them for their service maintaining the health and wellbeing of all Israelis. The packages will be distributed by our partners in Israel, to both healthcare workers and to soldiers in the IDF Homefront Command and other units protecting the country. Please show your thanks for these guardians of Israel, carrying on an important tradition and fulfilling an important mitzvah.
A single Purim basket costs $18. We hope you will consider a gift of at least $180, so we can provide as many as possible. Every contribution will help a frontline worker and soldier to feel supported by the Diaspora.
3. TORAT REVA: Supporting elderly people in Jerusalem.
Organization: Torat Reva Yerushalayim provides Torah study groups for the elderly residents of southern Jerusalem in nursing homes, senior centers and assisted living communities. Along with their classes, they publish a weekly Dvar Torah available on the web or via email called Parsha Points, have special events in the Jerusalem area and offer a unique Bat-Mitzvah Program for women of all ages.
Mishloach Manot: Torat Reva Yerushalayim will hand deliver packages to the neglected elderly of Jerusalem, for many the only gifts they will receive. The packages will include healthy snacks, gifts and Purim treats. The goal: to prepare at least 300 packages, and bring them to six different nursing homes!
A donation of $18 covers one package, $180 covers packages for an entire floor of a nursing home. And for $54, you can send a Mishloach Manot basket to soldiers protecting Jerusalem.
4. LEKET ISRAEL: Support needy families by salvaging unused food.
Organization: Founded in 2003, Leket Israel serves as the country's largest food bank and food rescue network actively working to alleviate the problem of nutritional insecurity among Israel's diverse population. Statistics reveal that a quarter of Israel's 7.7 million citizens (1.9 million people) are living in poverty; among them are some 850,000 hungry children. Leket Israel serves all population groups at-risk in Israel regardless of gender, ethnic background, or religion.
Mishloach Manot: This Purim, help Leket Israel salvage food for Israel's poor and send Purim greetings. With the Purim joy clearly marked in what they call their, "funny looking fruit," they want you to know that besides a good laugh you can rescue these nutritious items and give them back to those that need it here in Israel. For just $1 you can save 10 pounds of food - all you have to do is give.
Leket is also selling printed and e-cards for Purim, that you can send to and share with your loved ones while helping their amazing cause
5. YAD ELIEZER: Providing primary economic and social service programs to at risk families.
Organization: Yad Eliezer began in 1980, in the kitchen of the Weisel family of Jerusalem. They prepared a food basket for a neighbor who could not feed her children. Soon, they were delivering monthly food baskets to hungry families. Yad Eliezer has now grown to encompass nineteen primary economic and social service programs that impact tens of thousands of individuals. Yad Eliezer is one of Israel's Largest Poverty Relief Agencies whose mandate is to help families cope with financial difficulties and empower them to break the cycle of poverty and achieve self-sufficiency. We Make a Difference. So Can You.
Mishloach Manot: Purim is fast approaching and most families are making plans for sumptuous meals. Yet in Israel, thousands will open their refrigerators on Purim to find the shelves empty just like on every other day. Yad Eliezer believes that every Jew deserves to celebrate Purim with joy. You can buy mishloach manot cards online starting from just $3, while helping bring a proper Purim seudah to families throughout Israel..
6. THE ZDAKA CENTER: Supporting local Jewish causes through Matanot L'evyonim.
Organization: Zdaka Center is exclusively online Tzedakah web site. We offer the opportunity to contribute to important Jewish causes and charities in Israel from the comfort of your own home.
Matanot l'Evyonim: This year, Zdaka center will be distributing the Matanot l'Evyonim (gifts to the poor) to needy families out of Jerusalem on Purim and in Jerusalem on Shushan Purim (as Jerusalem uniquely celebrates Shushan Purim) so any donation, no matter what the size, would be greatly appreciated. A generous donation of $18 will sponsor one decent Purim meal.
7. AV ISRAEL: Providing services and support for hearing impaired children.
Organisation: Established in 1994, AV Israel is one of the leading organisation in Israel supporting babies and children with hearing loss. Located all over the country AV Israel provides a range of hearing and speech services to support children and their families.
Mishloach Manot: Purchase Purim cards, digital or printed, from AV Israel to give to your friends and family. The money raised will go towards increasing AV Israel services and you will be helping spread the message about this incredible organization.
Please note: AV Israel's site is in Hebrew.
8. PANTRY PACKERS: Supporting families living in poverty.
Organization: Pantry Packers® is the food distribution arm of Tzedakah Central/Colel Chabad the oldest continuously operating network of social services in Israel – established in 1788. Every month Pantry Packers® delivers crates containing all the necessary foods and household maintenance supplies to Israel's poorest families and senior citizens.
Every recipient is screened and selected on a non-discriminatory basis by the social services departments of local municipalities without regard to gender, ethnic background, or degree of religious observance. Pantry Packers® maintains a packing plant in Jerusalem where visitors and tourists may partner in its efforts by helping pack food staples which are then included in the Pantry Packers crates.
Matanot Le'Evyonim: Pantry Packers makes sure that needy families and senior citizens get the food they need, whether by delivery or at one of their 22 soup kitchens across Israel. Your donation will enable some of Israel's poorest to eat a nutritional meal.
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President Obama identifies as black. Of course, biologically speaking, he has as much genetic reason to identify as white; his mother was white and his father was black. But no one, including the President, would call him white. Why? Part of the multifaceted reason is the "one drop rule." An old ante-bellum law, the rule goes, if 1/32 of your ancestry is black, you too are black.
Dr. Blay breaks down "black" and shows us the many physical shades and ethnic identifies being "black" encompasses. And she's just looking at the phenotype. She hasn't even started in on the cultural, ethnic and religious differences that exist in the black race. In the excerpts linked above, there are people who identify as Muslim, Jamaican, Cape Verdean, Black and African American.
Why does this matter to lawyers? As Education Associate for the Commission on Professionalism, I review and approve professional responsibility CLE courses offered in Illinois, including those related to diversity. I have yet to review a presentation that recognizes the differences among blacks. Diversity presentations readily identify the differences between blacks and whites, but in the eyes of law firm diversity, blacks are a unilateral group of persons identified by a single characteristic – the color of their skin.
It's understandable why law firms, and corporate America on a whole, cannot devote their finite diversity resources to breaking down the differences within racial groups. However, when we consolidate a vast number of people under a single header, we can fail to appreciate the varied perspectives their unique backgrounds provide. I'm one of those West Indian blacks that Verna Myers refers to in her book, and because of my Indian, Chinese, European and African ancestry, and my West Indian childhood, I have had a different "black" experience than many of my African-American colleagues.
As necessary as it is to continue doing diversity programming, it is equally necessary to realize that not all black attorneys share the same history, arise out of the same circumstances, or face the same diversity and inclusion challenges. No, we can't go into detail on all the difficulties every individual black lawyer faces in a law firm. However, we should recognize in our diversity programming that there are many, many, many different shades subsumed under the color "black" just as there are under any skin color. We should endeavor therefore to move diversity programs from the lectern to the table, a table where every individual shares in the dialogue of inclusion. So let's take Dr. Blay's work one step further. In our diversity programs, let's not simply label people and place them into pre-determined groups. Rather, let's open up our own numerous group identities for discussion and together learn how lawyers of every color define themselves.
More people need to simply realize that by embracing the racist-'One-Drop Rule' (and / or by using 'One-Droppist' terms such as that of "Light-Skinned Black") … what they are actually doing is …'spitting in the face' of the Black-race (and, thus, of their Black-ancestors).
Someone seriously needs to try to explain to some people that … TO embrace the racist-'One-Drop Rule' IN REALITY means TO support and uphold the false idea of a (blood-based) "Black-Inferiority".


Valley Soup is a microfunding dinner inspired by both the original Detroit Soup and the former Warren Soup and Youngstown Soup events. In conjunction with Giving Tuesday (a global day of giving the Tuesday after Thanksgiving), the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley is putting on this event to spark and fund innovative projects that will benefit the Mahoning Valley.
Congratulations, to Allison Smith from Shepherd of All God's Children on winning the inaugural Valley Soup!
From the four organizations that pitched their projects on #GivingTuesday, Allison received the most votes from attendees and took home the $620 collected at the door and an additional $1000 grant from the Community Foundation. Allison will use the money from Valley Soup to make comfort blankets for children going into foster care, and we look forward to hearing about the progress of her project at future Soup events!
ABC Diamond Girls, LitYoungstown and YSUscape were the other presenters of the evening.
Check out our Facebook photo album to see more from the inaugural event. Thank you to Sarah J. Lowry and Phil Kidd for capturing some of the evening's memorable moments.
How Does Valley Soup Work?
Valley Soup 2018 is over, but below is how the event works. We'll be posting information here about future Soup events, so be sure to check back in 2019!
Attendees pay $5.00 at the door and receive a ballot. There are no tickets or advanced reservations.
Everyone listens to four (4) presentations, limited to four (4) minutes each.
Guests have the opportunity to ask questions of each presenter for two (2) minutes.
After the presentations, everyone eats soup, salad, and bread (included in the $5.00 entry fee), while socializing and discussing the four (4) proposals.
During dinner, each attendee votes on their favorite presentation.
Volunteers tally the votes and the evening's winner gets the cash collected at the door to carry out their project.
The winning presenter receives all of the proceeds collected the evening of the event, as well as any outside matching dollars secured before Valley Soup, to carry out their project. If you can't attend, but want to help fund a creative initiative in your community, consider making a contribution to the event! Any money raised outside of the event entrance fees will be used for event costs or else will go to the winning presenter for their project.
Want to contribute to the winning presenter's initiative and help make the Mahoning Valley a better place?
Interested in helping with the event, need more information, or have questions about submitting an application? Contact us at any time.


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Q: Completions for directory paths don't work in command args Example: https://github.com/wadewegner/zsh-completions/blob/master/src/_sfdx
I've noticed that completions for the directory stop working. For example, before using the above completion, you could type sfdx force:command -d and then use TAB to target a directory. However, after installing the completion, when you hit TAB after -d it doesn't try to autocomplete directories; instead, it only looks to the args defined in _sfdx for completions.
Is this something wrong with zsh-completions or the _sfdx completion? Could it be a misconfigured .zshrc file?
Thanks!


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Dan Andriano
Photo: Matt Skiba
Dan Andriano (born June 27, 1977 in Elgin, Illinois) is the bassist and co–vocalist (alongside vocalist/guitarist Matt Skiba and drummer Derek Grant) for the punk band Alkaline Trio. Formerly the bassist for the ska–punk band Slapstick and singer/bassist for Tuesday, Andriano joined the band after original bassist Rob Doran left in late 1997. For Your Lungs Only, a four–song E.P., was the first release to feature Andriano on bass. Andriano would begin writing songs with Alkaline Trio beginning with the band's first L.P., Goddamnit.
Of Peace, Quiet, and Monsters [7-inch]
European Vacation [7-inch]
Mike Felumlee/Dan Andriano
Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio)
Dan Andriano (Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room/Alkaline Trio)
Dave Hause announces Birthday Party Show
Dan Andriano and Matt Pryor stream new 7-inch
Matt Pryor and Dan Andriano: "Cecilia" (Simon & Garfunkel cover)
Matt Pryor/Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room (US)
The Falcon announce 'Gather Up The Chaps' and new flexi 7-inch
Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room: 'Party Adjacent'
Dan Andriano: "Enemies"
Dan Andriano / Jeff Rosenstock / Pet Symmetry (US)
Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room plan second LP
Where's the Band? (CA/AZ)


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He continued to suffer from asthma and allergy problems. nature, and with ourselves. Life is complex, and I often think photography is similarly complicated. His photographs emphasize the redemptive beauty of nature in the face of humans' widespread and unremitting use of the land. "News – Robert Adams Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters – Matthew Marks Gallery", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Adams_(photographer)&oldid=980045333, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. He was an active Boy Scout,[1] and was also active with the Methodist church that his family attended. 1937) has been photographing the American landscape for almost 50 years. Organized by Yale University Art Gallery, featuring Robert Adams's master set of photographs. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, his many books include: From the Missouri West (1980), Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of … . Then in 1947 they moved to Madison, Wisconsin for five years, where he contracted polio at age 12 in 1949 in his back, left arm, and hand but was able to recover. Robert Adams is a major figure in New Topographics movement known for his photographs of the modern American West.
Yale University Art Gallery. Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. [3], Adams enrolled in the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1955, and attended it for his first year, but decided to transfer the next year to the University of Redlands in California where he received his B.A. Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile? They moved to Colorado partly because of the chronic bronchial problems that he suffered from in Madison, New Jersey around age 5 as an attempt to help alleviate those problems.
1937) has been photographing the American landscape for almost 50 years. Are there scenes in life, Robert Adams, born in 1937, came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. They moved one last time, in 1952, to Wheat Ridge, Colorado,[1] a suburb of Denver, when his father secured a job in Denver. Adams was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1994 and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in 2009. He also enjoyed playing baseball in open fields and working with his father on carpentry projects. His work has been widely exhibited both in Europe and the United States. Photographer with original prints for sale as corporate, office, gallery or home wall art, and photographer for hire. [3][4], During his childhood, Adams often accompanied his father on walks and hikes through the woods[1] on Sunday afternoons. Adams also learned to like reading. What he has photographed constantly – in varying shades of grey – is what has been lost and what remains" and that "his work's other great subtext" is silence.[1]. 1982: Peer Award from The Friends of Photography, San Francisco. [. Robert Adams (b.
See more ideas about Robert adams photography, Robert, Photography. Robert Adams (b. Robert and Kerstin spent their first few summers together in Oregon along the coast, where they took long walks on the beach and spent their evenings reading. Apr 10, 2020 - Explore KᗩIᒪYᑎ ᖇEᗪᗪ's board "Robert Adams photography", followed by 2830 people on Pinterest. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975. The artist's retrospective exhibition, The Place We Live, a Retrospective Selection of Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut contained over 300 prints, and has traveled to the following institutions: the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, and the Jeu de Paume. [1] He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award. [3] He met John Szarkowski, the curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, on a trip to New York City in 1969.
Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, traces Adams's 45-year engagement with the evolving landscape of the American West. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Southern California and received his PhD in English in 1965. of the American West, finding there a fragile beauty that endures despite our troubled relationship with [1][2] His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s[1] through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975.
It's made of life. [5], Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said "his subject has been the American west: its vastness, its sparse beauty and its ecological fragility. [5] In 1966, he began to teach only part-time to have more time to photograph. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, … Photographer, Wins $61,000 Hasselblad Award. In 1989 the Philadelphia Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Adams's work, and in 1997 his photographs were included in Documenta 10. [3], In 1960 while at Redlands, he met and married Kerstin Mornestam, a Swedish native, who shared the same interest in the arts and nature. His refined black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West of the past four decades, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. Adams' work is held in the following public collections: For other persons named Robert Adams, see, New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, "Robert Adams: a photographer with a profound sense of place", "Exhibition – Robert Adams – Matthew Marks Gallery", "Landscape with Path: Nebraska State Highway 2 – High Line Art", "Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs", "Robert Adams: the photographer who roved the prairies for 45 years", "Robert Adams – The Place We Live – Exhibitions – Explore – Fotomuseum Winterthur", "Portland Art Museum acquires important collection of Robert Adams photographs", "Whitney Museum of American Art: Robert Adams: Motel", "Amon Carter Museum Announces Major Photography Acquisitions", "Robert Adams: Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration", Shaping a Legacy for the National Gallery, "Online Collections Database: Robert Adams", "Robert Adams – Beauty in Photography – Photography Book – Aperture Foundation". In 1963, Adams bought a 35 mm camera and began to take pictures mostly of nature and architecture. This site provides an introduction to Adams's body of work, which can be further explored through his He and his father made several raft trips through Dinosaur National Monument, and during his adolescent years he worked at boys' camps at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
His photographs emphasize the redemptive beauty of nature in the face of humans' widespread and unremitting use of the land. .] [3] While finishing his dissertation, he began to photograph in 1964. This page was last edited on 24 September 2020, at 08:35. Are there affirmable days or places in our deteriorating world? Robert Hickman Adams was born on May 8, 1937 in Orange, New Jersey to Lois Hickman Adams and Ross Adams. He and his sister began visiting Denver Art Museum. 1980: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Robert Adams. 523 West 24 Street New York 10011 212 243 0200.
Is there a basis for joy or serenity, 1978: Photographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. [3], In 1963 they moved back to Colorado, and Adams began teaching English at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. even if felt only occasionally?
He learned photographic technique from Myron Wood, a professional photographer who lived in Colorado. 1995: Spectrum International Prize for Photography from the Foundation of Lower Saxony. Robert Adams, U.S. Robert Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1937. right now, for which we might conceivably be thankful? Robert Adams (b.1937) is best known for his series of photographs that investigates urban encroachment into the landscape of the American West.
His photographs are distinguished not only by their economy and lucidity, but Art21: Talk about the connections between your work and your life. also by their mixture of grief and hope. books, a touring retrospective exhibition, and the master sets of the photographer's work held at the Adams: The nature of photography is to engage life. in English in 1959.
2020/09/07 - Pinterest で Renta Sugawara さんのボード「Robert Adams / Photography」を見てみましょう。。「写真, 胎動, 写真家」のアイデアをもっと見てみましょう。 He also took trips on pack horses and went mountain climbing. At least it seems so, to me. [1] In 1940 the family moved to Madison, New Jersey where his younger sister Carolyn was born. [3] In 1970, he began working as a full-time photographer.
He soon read complete sets of Camera Work and Aperture at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. In much of his work, Adams balances a sense of hope for Nature's persistence against despair with man's destruction of … In 1955, he hunted for the last time.
The museum later bought four of his prints.
Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West.
For over four decades Robert Adams has photographed the changing landscape
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Building trust in AVs can start with the user interface
Waymo uses screens to tell passengers what the self-driving vehicle is doing, such as yielding to pedestrians.
When it comes to the design of autonomous vehicles, experts say one area that remains wide open for exploration is the shape and form of the interior.
A central focus of current research is the user experience, specifically the type and amount of information an autonomous vehicle should provide to the rider.
"It's become very clear through student work that occupants of an AV feel much safer and will maintain trust over time if there is some visibility into what the machine is thinking," said Todd Masilko, an instructor at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, Calif.
"There's a whole new set of interface conventions that we have not figured out yet."
That's why Volvo Trucks, which is working on autonomous platooning of semi trucks, involves customers and drivers as it develops and validates its user interface, said Johan Larsson, director of autonomous solutions for Volvo Trucks North America.
Bringing drivers and fleet managers into the development of advanced driver assistance systems has been critical in making it easy to understand what the system can automate as well as its limitations, he said.
"The system should aid the driver with clear information on the surroundings," he said. "We learn what messages are important to drivers by listening to their input and experiences during testing."
Currently, Volvo's communications to drivers focus on big events, such as changes to speed and distance between vehicles.
"We've added a specific display in the trucks' dashboards to deliver information to the drivers on when to engage platooning, the health status of the platooning and when to disengage platooning," Larsson said.
'Look-up moments'
In Phoenix, Waymo has been gathering real-world information on its AVs since April 2017. Riders give feedback after every trip, and for the most part, they say riding in an AV is like riding in a car with a human driver.
Autonomous vehicles have traveled far in 10 years, but speed bumps remain
But there are times where something feels different, said Ryan Powell, Waymo's head of design and user experience. It's these "look-up moments" that tell Waymo when something needs more work.
"If someone is down in their phone and they look up and have a question about what the car is doing, we try to be there for the rider in terms of providing that level of information," he said. "We have a passenger screen in the car and we're trying to be very transparent about what the car can see and what its intent is."
Exploration, interaction
It's also the job of autonomous vehicle designers and engineers to prepare for situations the automotive industry hasn't yet fully explored.
Masilko and his students at the ArtCenter College of Design are exploring the field of interaction design.
"We get asked over and over again what interaction design is. It's basically, in a nutshell, the design of the human experience of connected or digital services."
ArtCenter students learn by making prototypes and models, and testing them with people, Masilko said.
"It's really important in interaction design, if you're designing some kind of complicated user experience, to do your best research but then make it and try it and learn from it," he said.
Masilko has taught a half-dozen classes over the last few years on the user experience in autonomous vehicles, including some that have been hosted by auto makers concerned with what happens to their brand or driving experience when AVs are introduced.
Honda, for instance, which has a long-standing relationship with the ArtCenter, asked the school to help imagine what it will mean to no longer be a company focused on driving, Masilko said.
But the most fascinating example, he said, involved Didi Chuxing Technology Co., known informally as the Uber of China.
Didi sponsored a project that challenged Masilko's students to propose a specific problem and design a vehicle to solve it.
Some students studied how autonomous ride-share vehicles could, in the case of an emergency, switch modes and get their occupants to a hospital by cutting through traffic. Others decided to investigate what it would take for parents of elementary school students to let an autonomous vehicle take their children to and from school every day.
"By getting really specific about it, the students came up with a service that connects the family and the school," he said. "They would never have come up with this if they didn't really think deeply about actual, complicated, hard-to-figure-out human needs."
Waymo's Powell said today's AVs can be thought of like a Razr flip phone from 15 years ago.
It was a reliable device that allowed you to talk and send messages, but it was supplanted by smartphones that can do so much more. And now we can't imagine our lives without them. "We're now at a similar point with (AVs) where it is early days, but I think in the not-too-distant future, it'll feel like something that's mainstream," he said.


I can't believe, it's been 2 years and my number of student now officially; 400th. I have more than 400 but these are all counted based on certificate I gave out. I remember the first workshop I had two years ago, the number not as many as now, I am making every possible publicity, looking at venue, kind of nervous if everything might went wrong. The riding since day one is the most precious journey I've experienced.
I've changed the workshop flow a bit different, try to accommodate based on limited time I had but for the same focus, reason and mission.
I met many wonderful enthusiastic people, with many character, build up a friendship even a networking, something that I can never imagine could happen to me. And I do meet with people, that looking at the skill as an opportunity too.... I had to focus on my intention and ignore some negative side of it, not much but sometimes can be quite irritating. I enjoy every single moment and every student I had met have a very soft spot in my heart.
I may not live that much long in this earth. I am now passing on the skill from encouragement of my Guru, Larry, spreading the skill of love. He left the legacy for me to continue and I will do exactly the same, my own version, my own way but he will always there to inspire me. It's been I year and 20 days since he was gone... I am sure he was really proud of me, and he peeping in sometimes to make sure I am alright.
Kind of a very emotional post this time..LOL:) blame it to hormone, but sincerely, I won't trade the experience of the past 2 years with anything.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I'm really proud to say that I am one the the 400 fortunate people to learn from you :) You are a teacher with a big heart!
Syam thanks for the lovely session yesterday. I must admitt that it was among a very warm friendly workshop that i ever had..looking forward for the next workshop..:) hv a gud day then!


Unlike most women who stereotypically love to shop, I detest shopping, which is why I was surprised to find myself recently visiting not one, not two but three shopping malls within days of each other.
Unfortunately, as a current resident of Dubai, visiting malls is difficult to avoid. In Dubai, shopping malls are not only a place for a little retail therapy, they are a way of life. With a wide selection of restaurants, cafés and entertainment facilities including cinemas, Olympic sized ice rinks, ski slopes and indoor theme parks, shopping malls in Dubai offer something for everyone.
Spacious, modern and fully air-conditioned, Dubai malls truly are a shopper's paradise. Not only popular for shopping, dining and hanging out, Dubai shopping malls provide a welcome escape from the city's soaring temperatures, especially during the hot summer months. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that Dubai is considered one of the world's leading retail destinations.
With so many malls to choose from, as a visitor or someone new to Dubai, it can be difficult to know where to start. Having had an opportunity to visit a number of Dubai's popular shopping malls during my relatively short time living here I share with you my reviews for what I consider to be the best shopping malls in Dubai.
No visit to Dubai would be complete without a visit to The Dubai Mall, it is not only one of the world's largest shopping malls it is also one of Dubai's ultimate tourist attractions.
Located in Downtown Dubai, the Dubai Mall is home of the infamous Dubai Fountains. It features 1,200 retail outlets, over 200 food and beverage outlets, aquarium and underwater zoo, indoor theme park, 22-screen cinema, an Olympic-sized ice rink and adjoining 5-star hotel.
As impressive as it is the Dubai Mall is not for the faint hearted, it's huge and overwhelming. You can literally spend hours walking around it and still not see all it has to offer. To find out more visit www.thedubaimall.com.


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Have you ever been to a factory where they make perfume? It's an amazing process that bring together technology and natural aromatic sources and fragrances to create new blends and scents to delight you. Many of these factories, especially the generations-old places in France even allow you to create your own concoction. It's a marvelous experience and one you could relive by trying to create special fragrances when you get home.
It isn't difficult to make your own perfumes. You need just a few special tools: patience, a great nose, and time. The raw ingredients can be found in your backyard or from your local herbalist. Start with plants.
Plants are the original source of oils used to make perfume and make-up. Even the unassuming seed can be used by grinding it. The rest of the plant except for the roots maybe are also sources for essential oils and compounds. Try going to the grocer and looking for an orange with a leaf in it. Tear a piece of the leaf and take a whiff. The aroma can be invigorating and refreshing. You can do the same with the orange zest, orange oil, and from the fruit itself.
Aside from flowers, the bark of a tree like cinnamon evokes images of holidays and cappuccino or apple pie. It can be used to create a special fragrance to suit your personality. If you find the scent of cinnamon appealing you might be interested to know that aside from reminding us of home cooking, it can also represent renewal. Another trivia about cinnamon is that if you dream of it, it's a sign that you need to add some zest in your life by doing something out of the ordinary.
There are so many plants, fruits, seeds, herbs, tree bark, stone, and musk that provide us with natural scents and fragrances far better and safer than any synthetic source.