Join Laser Technology as we attend the annual Best in the West Drill and Blast Conference on April 27-29, 2011 at the Holiday Inn and Convention Center in Spearfish, South Dakota. Bringing together mining companies, drilling and blasting suppliers and government agencies this conference has grown year by year and now includes over 40 exhibitors. If you are into the mining industry and are in the area, stop by our booth.
Read how Laser Technology laser-based measurement products make mining tasks easier and safer.
For more information on the Best in the West conference go to http://www.npcisee.org/best_in_the_west.htm.
Visit Laser Technology's booth at the 2011 Southwest Electric Distribution Exchange (SWEDE) Conference on April 24 - 27 at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa in Bastrop, Texas. Hosted by Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, this conference will have educational programs and sessions along with exhibits that benefit the utility industry.
For more information on the SWEDE Conference, see http://www.swedeus.org/conference.html.
Read how laser rangefinders by Laser Technology are helping with utilities applications at http://www.lasertech.com/Utilities.aspx.
Thousands of CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011 attendees discovered what Laser Technology's stockpile volume solution was all about for the first time. Within the 2.2 million square feet show floor area, Laser Technology exhibited at booth number S-11522 at the trade show held March 22-26, 2011 and made quite the impression on those who need to keep accurate records of their inventory.
On March 22-26, 2011, CONEXPO-CON/AGG at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV, is the place to be for anyone in the construction industry. The exposition is held once every three years and showcases the latest equipment, technologies, products and services. This five-day event has over 2,000 exhibitors and is chock-full of sessions (over 120 of them!) with topics ranging from site development, equipment manager exams, crane operator certification programs and more. Plus you get the opportunity to see the latest in products and technologies for working in the field. Make sure to swing by and see Laser Technology at Booth# S-11522 so we can show you products such as the TruPulse, our laser rangefinder, which can make on the job tasks such as Crane Measurements a snap.
See more information on 2011 CONEXPO-CON/AGG.
Join Laser Technology as we attend the annual meeting for the Ohio Forestry Association (OFA) on March 18 - 19, 2011 at the Mohican State Park Lodge in Perrysville, Ohio. See more information on the meeting here.
Read how using our laser rangefinders help measure tree heights quickly and easily.
Stop by Laser Technology's booth at the ABCFP's annual forestry conference and & AGM (formally ExpoFor) at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver in Vancouver, BC. Wood is Good is the theme for this year's conference. Hope to see you there. We will show you how the TruPulse 360 and other laser rangefinders are helping make foresters jobs easier and safer. Take a look at how Laser Technology laser rangefinder products measure Tree Heights.
Join Laser Technology at the 73rd annual Oregon Logging Conference, Thursday February 24 to Saturday February 26 in Eugene, Oregon. Held at the Lane County Convention Center and Fairgrounds and packed full of events including educational hand-on training seminars, panel sessions, networking opportunities and the annual log loader competition. Stop by Laser Technology's booth to see how the TruPulse 360 and other LTI laser rangefinder products are helping the forestry industry out in the field.
More information on the Oregon Logging Conference.
Read about Laser Technology products and the Forestry Industry.
Join Laser Technology at the 2011 North American Tree Conference & Trade Show on February 19-22, 2011. This is an annual event held at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center and co-sponsored by the Southern Chapter of ISA and Utility Arborist Association. Check out the event which includes the North American Tree Climbing Championship and this year's keynote speaker is Dr. Kim Coder from the University of Georgia.
More information on the North American Tree Conference & Trade Show.
Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference (SCLC) is holding its 2011 Conference February 10 - 12 at the Redding Convention Center in Redding, California. LTI is looking forward to the Logging Sports Show and this year there will be a Rib Cook Off on Saturday. It's a pretty big show and Laser Technology is going to be there along with over one hundred other exhibitors, wildlife shows, and the Education Auction. It will be a great time for all who attend. Hope to see you there!


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ATP Cup From 'Survival Mode' To World Champions: Inside Canada's ATP Cup Victory
By Andrew Eichenholz
Updated1/9/2022 11:55:00 AM
First it was unclear if Canada could field a team at the ATP Cup. Then it appeared the Canadians would be eliminated from semi-final contention before their third Group C tie. But on Sunday evening, Felix Auger-Aliassime capped a dream week for his country by clinching the third edition of the team event.
"Being so close to being out of the group and then coming out, you're kind of in that survival mode and I think we just carried that all the way through to today," Auger-Aliassime said. "As the week went on I think we played some really good matches and we got more and more belief, but I think the trust and the belief never went away the whole week for everybody on the team."
On 26 December Canada's No. 2 singles player, Denis Shapovalov, announced he had tested positive for Covid-19 and had to quarantine. It was unclear if the 22-year-old would be able to partake in the ATP Cup. Steven Diez was back home awaiting a negative test himself, and he did not arrive in Sydney until 31 December.
Although the Canadians were able to compete, it did not start well. They lost their first four matches and if the United States defeated Great Britain in their third Group C tie, Canada would not have had a chance at reaching the knockout stages. But all the scenarios went in their favour, giving them an opportunity.
"So many things still had to go our way. We needed the teams to all kind of split the ties. It was super tough for us going down 3-0 the first day so we needed [the] U.S. to lose, and they did in a crazy match," Shapovalov said. "[It] just seemed like the pieces were all kind of falling into place."
Once into the last four, Canada faced a tough test against defending champion Russia, led by World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev. Medvedev and Roman Safiullin appeared in control of the deciding doubles early in the second set, but once again the Canadians refused to go away.
After battling through a Match Tie-break to reach the championship tie, the Canadians produced their best performance of the week against Spain. Roberto Bautista Agut and Pablo Carreno Busta are as tough as they come, but Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov had too much firepower and were relentless in pursuit of the crown.
Canadians are champions of the world.
"Really, I hope this inspires kids and people back home in these tough times right now," Auger-Aliassime said. "A lot of provinces have been going down into lockdown again, not going out much. And I hope this just puts a smile on their face and gives them a little bit of support and hope and then inspires a next generation."
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Steven Diez and Brayden Schnur were an enthusiastic presence in Canada's Team Zone throughout the competition. They both gave all the credit to Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov.
"My back's pretty sore from carrying this team the past eight days," Schnur joked. "It's a privilege to be alongside and be team members with these two guys here, and obviously Steven as well. For me it's just a privilege and to see them working so hard, they're getting everything they deserve."
"Being here today with this trophy and this amazing team, I think it's something amazing," Diez said. "I'll be really grateful to these two, they're the present and the future, and they'll probably win this trophy a few more times for sure."
But this run will be remembered as the event in which two childhood friends, Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov, showed their country what is possible. They were once boys with a dream, and now they have brought Canada to the forefront of world tennis.
"I really hope it was able to be seen in Canada, I'm sure it was. And I hope it just gives belief, more belief to everyone there that we are a summer sport country as well. I just hope a lot of kids will start picking up racquets after seeing us competing," Shapovalov said. "It's pretty special, I think, what specifically me and Felix have, playing since we've been little, little children at five or six years old, all the way up to here. Just competing alongside and being able to win titles like this together, it's something truly special."
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Hurricane Sandy, the Colorado floods and wildfires, and covered the aftermath from tornados in Moore and El Reno, Oklahoma. In 2013, she covered extreme weather conditions ranging from the Boston blizzard to the record-breaking heat in Death Valley. In 2016, Zee covered Hurricane Matthew and its path along the east coast.


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Harry Potter Sightings in Oxford
Harry Potter in Oxford
A visit to Oxford will, of course, need to include a visit to some of the Harry Potter Filming sights including the inspiration for the Great Hall seen in all of the Harry Potter films.
JK Rowling's Harry Potter books were not set in Oxford, but many of the old libraries and buildings were ideal sets for the filming including Christ Church, The Bodleian Library and New College. As you walk amongst the students in this Gothic city, you will have glimpses and hopefully feel the magic of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry!
(1) The Great Hall
Movie: All of the Harry Potter Films
Scene: One of the most famous rooms in Oxford became the inspiration for Hogwarts Dining Hall for all of the Harry Potter films. A studio set was created at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire from photographs of the Tudor Great Hall and used for the actual film shoots. You can also walk through a replica at Warner Brother Studio outside of London.
Notes: The hall is still used for meals by students today. I arrived just as lunch was closing and had to wait a bit to get in, and saw some lingering clean-up making it more real than a staged area. The lines for this one are long and you will be in a snake like conveyor belt of people walking around the room… so have those cameras ready. While admiring the Harry Potter inspiration, look around for inspiration and signs of Alice in Wonderland (Hint: Check out the fire-dogs & stained glass windows on the right as you enter)
(2) The Stairway (top)
Movie: The Philosopher's Stone
Scene: Harry, Ron, Hermione and the other 'first years' walk up the grand stairway to Hogwarts to be met by Professor McGonagall under the magnificent gothic vaulted roof. It is here also that the 3 are reunited at the end of the film.
(3) The Stairway (top & bottom)
Movie: Chamber of Secrets.
Scene: (1) Harry and Ron encountering Filch on the staircase when they arrive at Hogwarts (2) When Harry enters Tom Riddle's diary, he first encounters Tom Riddle and the younger Dumbledore on this staircase.
(4) The Cloisters
Scene: Here Hermione shows Harry the trophy his father won as a seeker in Quidditch. The scene was shot just outside the current bookshop
Notes: The cloisters in Christ Church were first built 1000 years ago.
(5) Divinity Hall
Movie: The Philosopher's Stone, Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire
Scenes: (1) The Divinity School was used as the Hogwarts hospital wing in many of the movies. (2) It was also used in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in the scene where Professor McGonagall is teaching the Gryffindor students to dance in preparation for the Yule Ball.
Notes: The ceiling features images of beasts and biblical scenes. Described by experts as a "masterpiece of English Gothic architecture"
(6) Duke Humphries Library
Scene: Harry sneaks into the restricted section in his invisibility cloak looks for clues in Hogwarts library. He is terrified by the monster in the book and then in real life by caretaker Argus Filch. Also later in the movie, Hermione reads about the Sorcerer's Stone to Harry and Ron.
Notes: Duke Humfrey's Library is named after Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, a younger son of Henry IV of England, who donated his collection of 281 manuscripts to the University of Oxford. Oxford built Duke Humfrey's Library as a second story to the Divinity School in order to house his collection in 1450-80. Today, only three of Humfrey's original books remain in the library as the King's Commission under Edward VI (Son of Henry VIII & Jane Seymour) took all of its books. Duke Humphries now has more than 80 miles of bookshelves, making it one of the most complete libraries in the world.
(7) Cloister & Quad
Movie: The Goblet of Fire
Scene: The quad is where Harry warns Cedric about the dragons. Harry then comes face to face with Malfoy sitting in the tree and Malfoy is turned into a ferret in front of our eyes to the annoyance of Professor McGonagall
Notes: New College was the first college in Oxford to be deliberately designed around a main quadrangle
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Agnes Varda, the Belgian-born grande dame of French cinema, made her latest film "Agnes by Varda" to help bid farewell to her viewers, but the 90-year-old doesn't rule out making more movies.
Speaking hours before being awarded the Berlin Film Festival's Berlinale Camera award for lifetime achievement, Varda- director of "La Pointe Courte" (1955) and "Vagabond" (1985) - dismissed attempts to lionise her.
"I'm not a legend, I'm still alive," she exclaimed after the moderator at Wednesday's press conference introduced the "legendary" figure, seen as a founder of the French New Wave, one of the most influential movements in cinema history.
A near-contemporary of giants of similar stature like Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, Varda's career continues to the present day. Asked if "Agnes by Varda" was her final film, she said she might not be able to work until the age of 102.


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Unique Animal Species in Colombia
By Kat Toland
Colombia is the second most bio-diverse country on the planet. Even though it occupies a very small percentage (0.7 percent, the size of Connecticut) of the Earth's surface, 10 percent of the world's species are represented in this Central American country. Between the Andes mountains, Amazonian rainforests, balmy coastline and tropical islands, Colombia has a unique combination of ecosystems, making it home to a large number of indigenous animals that exist nowhere else.
Colombia has the most diverse endemic bird species in the world. There are 1,871 known native types of birds, around 70 of which are unique to Colombia. From condors (the national bird) to toucans, parrots to hummingbirds and warblers, there is a bright and colorful variety in each different type of terrain. A large part of Colombia's tourism industry is based upon birdwatching and accommodating bird enthusiasts from all over the globe. Just a few of the unique birds in Colombia are the violet-crowned woodnymph, the brown-breasted parakeet, the colorful puffleg, the Santa Marta warbler, the white-tipped quetzal and the white-sided flowerpiercer.
Amphibians and Fish
Colombia, with its rich coastal territory and position in the warm tropics, has a very humid climate. It's the second most diverse country in the world in amphibians and fish. Among more than 760 species of amphibians, 208 are endangered. Some of those unique to Colombia include more than 50 types of frogs, including the Atelopus harlequin and golden poison frogs; more than 20 types of salamander, such as the Bolitoglossa and Pandi mushroom salamanders); in excess of 20 toads, including Hernandez's stubfoot and Herveo plump toads; and more than 10 types of caecilian, such as the Thompson's and El Tambo caecilians.
Among the freshwater fish unique to Colombia are the platinum and the yellow acara, the massive arapaima, the ram cichlid, the centrochir and eremophilus catfish, the emperor tetra, the apteronotus magdalenensis knifefish, the yellow hump eartheater and the twinspot triplefin.
The warm temperatures and rich foliage of the tropics in Colombia produce conditions ideal for 115 endemic reptilian species. Colombia is the third most diverse country in the world in reptiles. There are several kinds of turtles, including the Colombian mud and Magdalena River turtles; a multitude of snakes, like the Andean ground and Cope's blind snakes; a variety of geckos, including Colombian leaf-toed and clawed varieties; a plethora of lizards, such as the striped lightbulb and Daniel's largescale lizards; several types of anole, including the blue and huila; many different ameiva, or jungle-runners, including Echternacht's and Dunn's; and a mix of iguanas, such as the Bolivar and Dumeril's whorltails). Reptiles are constantly being discovered throughout the rainforests as a result of their ability to blend into the scenery.
Colombia has more than 450 species of mammals, of which nearly half are endangered due to the destruction of tropical rainforests. It's the fourth most diverse country in the world for mammals; 36 of them are unique to Colombia. They are mostly animals typical of jungle climates, such as four types of shrew, including the Colombian and Medellin small-eared shrews, and five types of bats, including the Colombian and Choco broad-nosed bats. Also unique to Colombia, thanks to dense forestation, are the tree-dwelling sloth (2- and 3-toed), at least 10 kinds of monkeys, including the Colombian woolly and Brumback's night monkey; numerous tamarin, such as the cottontop and white-footed; and the related white-toed capuchin. There are also multiple types of mice, rats and squirrels, armadillos, anteaters and even two types of manatee that are only found in Colombia.
Humboldt Institute for Research on Boilogical Resources: Colombia in the World
Living National Treasures: Colombia
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Conservacion Internacional: Ecosystem Services Provided by Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles
Monga Bay: Freshwater Fish of Colombia
Kat Toland has worked with animals for over 20 years. She's been employed in the pet industry, but more significantly has been involved in all aspects of rescue, working with cats, dogs, horses, even spending time with rescued wolves. She currently volunteers with a group that runs with shelter dogs.
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Mail Metro Media grows market share again in latest ABCs
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The latest ABC figures show that Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday continue to show signs of growth in their respective markets.
The Mail on Sunday has once again achieved its record market share of UK Retail sales at 22.8%, this equates to 11 copies of The Mail on Sunday being sold every second on a Sunday during February! Meanwhile, Metro newspaper continues to be the most circulated newspaper in the UK at 1.43m copies, ahead of The Sun by 64k copies year-on-year
Daily Mail UK retail sales year-on-year were 3% better than the rest of the national newspaper market. Saturday's Daily Mail maintains its position as the UK's highest-selling newspaper on a Saturday, selling 222,000 more copies than closest rival The Sun; a gap that has increased by 6% year-on-year.
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Uma faixa de triângulos (em inglês, "triangle strip") é uma série de triângulos conectados compartilhando vértices, permitindo uma utilização mais eficiente da memória em computação gráfica. Elas são mais eficientes do que vastas listas de triângulos sem indexação, mas, geralmente, igualmente rápidas ou até mais lentas do que listas de triângulos indexados. A razão principal para usar faixas de triângulos é reduzir a quantidade de dados necessária para criar uma série de triângulos. O número de vértices armazenado na memória é reduzido de 3N para N+2, onde N é o número de triângulos a ser desenhado. Isso permite o uso de menos espaço em disco, bem como carregamento mais rápido na memória RAM.

Por exemplo, os quatro triângulos no diagrama, sem usar uma faixa de triângulos, teriam que ser armazenados e interpretados como quatro triângulos: ABC, CBD, CDE, e o FED. No entanto, com a utilização de uma faixa de triângulos, eles podem ser armazenados apenas como uma sequência de vértices ABCDEF. Esta sequência seria então decodificada como um conjunto de triângulos ABC, BCD, CDE e DEF, e, em seguida, todos os triângulos pares (contando a partir de 1) seriam invertidos, resultando nos triângulos originais.

Propriedades e construção
Segue da definição que uma sub-sequência de vértices de uma faixa de triângulos também representa uma faixa de triângulos. No entanto, se esta sub-faixa começar em um vértice par (com contagem de base 1), os triângulos resultantes terão sua orientação alterada. Por exemplo, uma sub-faixa BCDEF representaria os triângulos BCD, DCE, DEF.

Da mesma forma, reverter os vértices de uma faixa resultará no mesmo conjunto de triângulos se a faixa tiver um número par de vértices. (por exemplo, a faixa FEDCBA vai representar os mesmos triângulos FED, ECD, DCB, CAB, que a faixa original). No entanto, se uma faixa que tem um número ímpar de vértices, invertida, ela irá representar triângulos com orientação oposta. Por exemplo, a reversão de uma faixa ABCDE resulta na faixa EDCBA que representa os triângulos ECD, DBC, CBA).

A conversão de uma malha poligonal em uma única longa faixa de triângulos era, até recentemente, impossível. Normalmente, as faixas de triângulos são análogas a um conjunto de loops de arestas e os pólos do modelo são representadas por um leque de triângulos. Ferramentas como Stripe ou FTSG representam modelos como várias faixas. Agrupar um conjunto de faixas de triângulos de forma ideal foi provado ser NP-completo.

Uma faixa pode ser denominada faixa degenerada se contém triângulos de área zero, que o software  ou hardware de  processamento irá descartar. Os triângulos degenerados efetivamente introduzem descontinuidades ou "pulos" na faixa. Por exemplo, a malha no diagrama poderia ser representada como ABCDDFFEDC, o que seria interpretado como triângulos ABC, CBD, CDD, DDF, DFF, FFE, FED e DEC (triângulos degenerados marcados em itálico). Observe como essa faixa primeiro cria dois triângulos a partir da esquerda, e depois reinicia e constrói os outros dois da direita.

Descontinuidades em faixas de triângulos sempre podem ser implementadas reenviando vértices, e muitas APIs suportam esse recurso explicitamente. IRIS GL suporta "swaps" (trocar dois vértices subsequentes em uma faixa), um recurso invocado por algoritmos antigos, como o SGI. Recentemente, OpenGL/DirectX podem processar várias faixas de triângulos sem triângulos degenerados usando o recurso de "Primitive Restart".

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Veja também
 Triângulo
 Leque de triângulos
 Computação gráfica
 Placas gráficas

Computação gráfica
Geometria do triângulo


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All events, things to do today, Tuesday, July 16, 2019 are free unless otherwise noted.
Workshop | Morning Fitness
One hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises. For a breath of fresh air, take your workouts outdoors. Parks are becoming a logical alternative environment for those who want to add variety to their workouts, or who just don't like the gym. And, it's an affordable way to increase physical activity opportunities, because there's nothing special to build. Exercise with a view, in natural sunlight, with green scenery all around bestows health benefits that can't be found indoors. Scientific studies have shown that the pleasure of being outdoors for example gives your brain, psyche, and immune system an extra boost. Led by trained professionals, and suitable for all levels. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water. Every Tuesday and Thursday
New York City, NY; NYC
Workshop | Tai Chi in the Park
A morning class provided by the Tai Chi Chuan Center and led by teachers and students who train at CK Chu Tai Chi under the direction of Master Hyland Harris. Tuesdays and Thursdays, May 7-August 27, 2019
Workshop | Tai Chi Class
Improve your balance, strength, flexibility, and coordination in this Taijiquan class open to beginner and experienced alike. This martial art, created in the 19th century in Beijing, China, is a gentle, non-impact exercise benefiting both body and mind. Practitioners Tina and Juan want you to join them in their practice—northern Wu style. Tuesdays, June 4-September 10, 2019
Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
Workshop | Morning Yoga Outdoors
Stop by the park for a yoga class. Gaiam provides a colorful selection of mats available on a first come, first served basis. If you would like to secure one of the mats, please arrive at least 30 minutes before class begins. Otherwise, feel free to bring your own! Every Tuesday, June 4-August 27, 2019
Workshop | Zumba Jumpstart
A fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of Salsa, Merengue, Hip Hop and more! Enthusiastic Instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new dance steps each week. Bring your friends!
Workshop | Adult Coloring Club
Discover the fun and calming benefits of coloring. Color, relax and enjoy.
Enjoy the sublime pleasure of coloring. Coloring sheets, Crayons, coloring pencils, and reading materials will be provided to participants by the Library.
Lesson | Introduction To Conversational Sign Language
Sessions are structured for hearing adults. Interested participants are encouraged to register for, and attend all sessions. American Sign Language is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.
Workshop | Resume Help
Applying for a job? Update your resume, or even start from scratch. Learn how to craft a resume that will help you land that interview.
Tour | Heart of the Park Tour
Walk straight through the heart of Central Park on this east-to-west tour led by guides. Enjoy a great variety of the scenic, sculptural, and ar chitectural elements the Park has to offer. Visit some of the Park's most famous landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Loeb Boathouse, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, Cherry Hill, The Lake, and Strawberry Fields.
Book Club | Villette: Charlotte Brontë's Most Refined and Deeply Felt Work
Arguably Charlotte Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.
Talk | Artist Talk: Contrasts Between Islam and the West
Shirin Neshat (b. 1957) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects.
Concert | Piano in the Park: Ragtime, Stride, and Jazz
Summertime, and the livin' is easy... so swing on by for toe-tappin' performances by New York's finest, playing ragtime, stride, and jazz to your heart's delight. With: Dan Manjovi, Recording Artist, Performer, Composer
Lesson | Public Speaking
Public speaking is an essential skill in today's workplace and a valuable ability to have to further your endeavors in whatever you're doing. A continuing series held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, this program is led by experienced public speakers in a supportive environment. All materials for this workshop are provided. Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a good speech to a live audience. This type of speech is deliberately structured with three general purposes: to inform, to persuade and to entertain. Public speaking is seen traditionally as part of the art of persuasion.
Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
$10 suggested donation
Workshop | Knitting in the Park
Cast on al fresco with fellow enthusiasts and experts to guide your knits and purls. Swing by for free instruction from Knitty City, New York City's favorite yarn community and store, and knit with fellow enthusiasts. Yarn and needles are provided. Classes are weather permitting. Tuesdays, June 11-August 27, 2019
Film | Bridge to the Sun (1961): Woman Faces Difficulties Because Of Her Husband's Nationality
Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband's government. 113 min. Director: Etienne Périer. Starring Carroll Baker, James Shigeta, James Yagi.
Workshop | Adult Coloring
Coloring is often considered an activity for children, but it can be very beneficial for adults too! Come to this adult coloring club and take some time out of your day to relieve stress and express your creativity. All materials provided.
Workshop | Resume Assistance
Are you having trouble updating your resume? Would you like to have your resume proofread? Get one on one assistance with revising your resume. Please bring a hard copy of your resume or bring a USB flash drive for revision.
Party | Traditional English Afternoon Tea
English-style tea, black tea, Pally's rich tea biscuit will be served. "There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."- Henry James Afternoon tea, that most quintessential of English customs is, perhaps surprisingly, a relatively new tradition. While the custom of drinking tea dates back to the third millennium BC in China and was popularised in England during the 1660s by King Charles II and his wife the Portuguese Infanta Catherine de Braganza, it was not until the mid 19th century that the concept of 'afternoon tea' first appeared. Afternoon tea was introduced in England by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, in the year 1840. The Duchess would become hungry around four o'clock in the afternoon. The evening meal in her household was served fashionably late at eight o'clock, thus leaving a long period of time between lunch and dinner. The Duchess asked that a tray of tea, bread and butter (some time earlier, the Earl of Sandwich had had the idea of putting a filling between two slices of bread) and cake be brought to her room during the late afternoon. This became a habit of hers and she began inviting friends to join her. This pause for tea became a fashionable social event. During the 1880's upper-class and society women would change into long gowns, gloves and hats for their afternoon tea which was usually served in the drawing room between four and five o'clock.
Workshop | Drop-In Chess
Play the popular strategy game while getting pointers and advice from an expert. Chess improves concentration, problem-solving, and strategic planning – plus it's fun. For ages 5 and up (adults welcome).
Concert | Broadway Buskers Concert
Enjoy original music performed by Broadway actors and composers at the Crossroads of the World. 5pm: Stereo Dawn (Will Van Dyke & Chris Dwan) 6pm: The Bones (Alison Luff & Matthew Magnusson)
Workshop | Game Nights in the Park
Weekly Game Nights are the perfect place to learn a new game, challenge yourself with new opponents, swap strategies, and meet like-minded people. Mondays through Fridays, May 1-August 30, 2019 Mondays: Mah Jongg Tuesdays: Word Game Night Wednesdays: Catan Game Night Thursdays: Mah Jongg (3pm-5pm); Beginner Chess (5pm-7pm) Fridays: Learn a New Game Night
Workshop | Community Rowing
Village Community Boathouse provides free, no experience necessary Community Rowing on the Hudson River. After a brief orientation, participants will be split into crews with an experienced coxswain to steer the boat and a mixture of experienced and new rowers. The boats, Whitehall Gigs, are stable, traditional working boats for four rowers and a coxswain. Please note: Rows will last between one and three hours, dependent on weather, tides, and destination. Participants are expected to help launch, retrieve, and clean the boats each session. Community rowing is open to all, although some physical agility is required. The focus of the program is teamwork and recreation in a safe and respectful environment. Each participant must sign a waiver. Life jackets are provided. Expect to be out in the hot sun for several hours - bring water and sunscreen! Tuesdays, June 25-October 29, 2019
Film | The Mule (2018): Crime Drama By And With Clint Eastwood
A 90-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel. 116 min. Director: Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick L. Reyes, Cesar De León. The Mule has grossed $103.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $62.9 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $166.7 million, against a production budget of $50 million.
Film | Us (2019): Doppelgängers Terrorize The Vacation
A family's serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them. 116 min. Director: Jordan Peele. Starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss. Us $254 million worldwide against a budget of $20 million.
Workshop | Beginner Kung Fu
Learn basic basic stances, strikes, and techniques in this introductory martial arts workshop for beginners. Instruction provided by the New York City Chinese Cultural Center. Tuesdays, July 2-August 27, 2019
Screening | Female Composers and the Artwork of the Future
In his 1849 essay "The Artwork of the Future," Richard Wagner prophesied and promoted a new ideal for opera, where music, drama, dance, visuals, technology, and philosophy were synthesised by the master "artist of the future": he/him. Today, women artists are redefining the "what, where, and why" of opera. Join 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid; noted author, playwright/director and poet IONE; International Contemporary Ensemble Artistic Director Ross Karre; and composer and NewMusicBox co-editor Frank J. Oteri, as they confront, affirm, and expand Wagner's "The Artwork of the Future." Enjoy video excerpts of Reid's Prism and Playground, along with the path breaking IONE/Pauline Oliveros creation The Nubian Word for Flowers; A Phantom Opera, plus rarely seen footage from the 1991 premiere of Meredith Monk's Atlas.
Discussion | Site City Future: New York
Site City Future asks: how can the city design for livability while competing in a global economy? In what ways can design support the essential values that make New York a great city? What planning and design policies can promote a more inclusive approach to growth? Site City Future will explore the impacts of future development on both the city's physical character and the well-being of citizens through three lenses: The Site: Connection to Place The City: We Live on an Island The Future: The Role of Design
Tour | Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers
Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky. Guided 75-minute walking tours led by knowledgeable volunteer guides will offer you an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape.
Workshop | Pilates in the Park
Join Melissa Ricci of Base Fitness for a flowing, multi-level Pilates Mat class that will tone and balance your muscles, align your body, strengthen your core, and give you renewed energy. Bring your own mat. Tuesdays, June 4-August 13, 2019
Dancing | Sunset Salsa Dancing
As the sun goes down, the heat goes up at Sunset Salsa with Talia Castro-Pozo, a favorite series. Learn the steps with the experts then show off your new moves. Tuesdays, July 9-August 27, 2019
Workshop | Yoga in the Park
Stretch, breathe, and find your inner peace at evening yoga classes. Bring a mat. Tuesdays, April 30-September 17, 2019
Workshop | Yoga on the Lawn
This yoga class is appropriate for all ages and abilities. Wear comfortable clothing. Bring your own mat and water. Tuesdays, June 4-August 27, 2019
Poetry Reading | 5 Poets Read Their Work
With: P. Scott Cunningham Ysabel Y. Gonzalez Joe Jiménez Orlando Ricardo Menes Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
Reading | For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Hemingway Library Edition
It is one of the foremost classics of war literature in history. Presented by Hemingway's grandson Seán Hemingway, with a personal foreword by the author's son Patrick Hemingway, this new enhanced Library Edition of Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece about an American in the Spanish Civil War features early drafts and supplementary material, including three previously uncollected short stories.
Author Reading | Great Dates with Some Late Greats: Unknown Stories of Famous People
From speed dating with Jane Austen and watching Marilyn Monroe fulfill her life's dream of playing Hamlet on a New York stage to Babe Ruth playing sandlot baseball with a group of New Jersey teenagers, David Finkle brings to life some wonderful, previously unknown stories of over a dozen late "greats."
Book Club | Mrs. Everything: Sisters Finding Themselves
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner is a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters trying to find themselves in a rapidily changing world.
Author Reading | Very Nice: Wickedly Smart Novel
Zigzagging between the rarefied circles of Manhattan investment banking, the achingly self-serious MFA programs of the Midwest, and the private bedrooms of Connecticut, Very Nice is an audacious, addictive, and wickedly smart take on the way we live now. With author Marcy Dermansky.
CFT Deal (comp)
Musical | Romantic musical
Member: $0
Author Reading | Pulitzer Winner Colson Whitehead Reads From His Book The Nickel Boys
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
Play | Coriolanus: Shakespeare's Blistering Drama
The Bard's blistering drama about a general voted into power by a populace hungry for change, and the unraveling that follows. Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan (Proof, Shakespeare In The Park's Troilus and Cressida) directs a modern-day version of this riveting epic of democracy and demagoguery.
Movie in a Park | The Emoji Movie (2017): Animated Adventure (Outdoors)
Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji. Director: Tony Leondis Stars: T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris 86 min. Grab a blanket or towel and come enjoy a movie in the park. Glass bottles and alcoholic beverages are strictly prohibited. You should arrive before 7:30 p.m. to get your spot. Feel free to bring a blanket to sit on.


From October 2007 until May 2008 Te Radar lived in a paddock as part of an ambitious television project entitled Off the Radar.
The show sought to answer whether he could survive by living only off what he could produce.
To the surprise of many, and no doubt the disappointment of some, he did not die.
The experiment explored the actual practicalities of living off the land, and within that, looked at ways to create a lifestyle that was at once survivable, ecologically sustainable, and tolerable.
Off the Radar, screened on TV1 at 7.00pm on Sunday nights became a top-rating TV1 series.
It is now also A BOOK and a popular LIVE SHOW.


Bestselling author of The Railwayman's Wife, Ashley Hay comes to the festival with her newest offering, A Hundred Small Lessons. When Elsie Gormley falls and is forced to leave her home of 62 years, Lucy Kiss and her new family move in, beginning this story of lives intertwined. This is a lyrical novel about two mothers from different generations whose stories converge during one hot, wet Brisbane summer. Join Ashley as she discusses her tale of love and chance encounters.
Light refreshment served from 6pm for a 6:30pm start.


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One of the most gratifying experiences at Hamburg Kennedy is the opportunity to work with interior designers- and we've been privileged to work with some of the best!
Whether it's in the form of photography, painting, sculpture or some other medium, artwork is a great opportunity to incorporate personality and character into any space. Additionally, artwork can prove a great conduit for injecting color and texture into a room or provide a focal point where none exists. Watching the culmination of a beautiful space come together is our passion, and today we feature a few of our favorite interior designers- individuals who's distinct eye and taste we respect and admire.
1. Nathan Jay "Nate" Berkus is an American interior designer, author, TV host and television personality. He runs the Chicago interior design firm Nate Berkus Associates and has been a regularly featured guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, offering design advice to viewers, as well as coordinating surprise make-overs for people's homes. He has released numerous lines of products, and authored several books.
2. Eric Cohler is highly acclaimed for his distinguishing ability to fuse classical and contemporary elements. Dubbed "The Mixmaster" by industry editors, Cohler's interior spaces display layers of unusual texture, color, and verve. His New York firm handles residential and commercial projects throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. In recent years, Cohler has expanded to include product design; Lee Jofa features his distinctive collection of fabrics, furniture, and rugs, and Visual Comfort & Co., carries many of Cohler's original lighting designs.
3. Since 2000, Ellie Cullman has been listed in the definitive "AD 100" Architectural Digest's designated best designers and architects. She was included as well in the AD January 2005 list of "The Deans of American Design," and was the recipient of the "Stars of Design" award at NYC's D&D building in Oct 2009.
4. Alessandra Branca learned at an early age that classical beauty was meant to be intermingled with everyday life, and that the well-lived life takes place not in stiff and serious surroundings, but in artful structures graced with a comfortable elegance and wit. Branca is widely known for fusing chic, old-world craftsmanship with energy and practicality in all she designs. Celebrated for her impeccable style and exceptional use of color, Branca is consistently ranked as one of America's top designers. Her numerous honors and awards include ELLE DECOR's 2011, 2012, and 2013 A List, House Beautiful's Master Class, and more.
5. Vern Yip is an American interior designer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He periodically appeared on TLC's Trading Spaces through its fourth season, and was known for frequently including silk, candles and flowers in the rooms he designed.


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Ghosts and Guards
Posted by curatingthecontemporary February 25, 2015
It is quite astonishing how the relationship to ghosts has changed. In the past the omnipresent and grim fear of ghosts was culturally rooted. Rituals and myths circled around defensive strategies of keeping ghosts as far away as possible. It was commonplace to regard the ghost as a mirror of the dead, haunting the living and asking for attention in some way or another to escape its unbearable fate. A duplex gestalt, victim and perpetrator, intimidating and pitiful at the same time, caught in timeless suffering and therefore haunting the living. Be this as it may, our minds have long forgotten to focus on this angst and ghosts have become less real and needless to say less threatening. What once might have been the smart way to come about, to protect the own space against those demons, is nowadays nothing more than a strange obsession, a leisure-time pursuit, a voyeuristic interest that is envisioned in entertainment products, circling around those moments where we choose to give ourselves the creeps, yet it is not implemented in every day life.
While ghosts, phantoms or demons have been used as cultural instruments, conveying morals in tales and myths, their acknowledgement and instrumental use in academia is rather novel and might reflect the upcoming relationship we have with ghosts.
Ghosts now become integrated as a conceptual metaphor or an analytical tool, meaning they evoke a discourse, a system of producing knowledge about something not associated with the ghostly in the first place. The ghost however transgresses its common depiction as an entity we fear and avoid and becomes a metaphorical tool to explore topics in a new manner considering the shifting position between 'visibility and invisibility, life and death, materiality and immateriality' (del Pilar Blanco & Peren 2013:2). But when does this technique become useful? Examples could be the discussion of matters that are ambiguous yet benefit from not becoming highly defined, questions that need answers typically not found in the common discourse and problems that should be illustrated differently to revive our attention.
Recently I have studied the archive as a concept and found myself trapped between two characteristic poles of the archives: their concreteness on one side and their vagueness on the other. It occurred to me that I might need a new starting point and find a method of seeing the archive once more differently. This article is the beginning of my experiment. To use the ghost as described above and apply its new functionality on my topic seemed especially useful for the archive, a research object, which in recent years has become increasingly prominent and is seen in cultural, historical and artistic discourse through different lenses. Despite its frequent illumination there is no fixed understanding of the archive anymore and after being discussed by big names such as Foucault and Derrida, being worked with by artists like Susan Hiller and The Atlas Group and implemented in discourse in numerous fields, it has been manifested: the archive is relevant but vague, intriguing yet uncertain, past and nevertheless present. This is why the connection of the archive with the ghost as concept is so alluring. It allows new discursive interstices and evokes a new twist to the archive or at least a new language that has not been used before. The experimental part within was that it was not clear what might come out of this endeavour.
In the winter of 2014 I started to think about archives in this way. Not in the usual manner of juxtaposing archival theories, which exist in large numbers. Via an artistic project, I wanted to illustrate the similarities between the archives found in cities and the ghost and deduct a visual experiment on how far their connection is seizable. This resulted in a series of instantaneous photographs of several archives within the cityscapes of Berlin and Amsterdam, my two hometowns. Something I originally did not intend to find was another conceptual metaphor, namely the guard. Guarding, however, is in many ways the main function of archives in the city, and for that reason the guard needed to be part of the equation. The moment I encountered the possibility of the conceptual metaphor, the connecting link between archive, ghost and guard seemed feasible to me in theory. Anyhow, I wanted to explore this connectedness and actually go on a ghost hunt in practice while simultaneously reflecting upon this attempt on paper. For me, the starting point to find the ghost was first of all the city.
In a city, ghosts might take on the form of imprints, traces, monuments or auras communicating the past – whether good or bad – and sustain the life of suppressed narratives, forgotten details or unspoken truths. Between narrow roads of a city as well as in between the lines of the daily press one can find a nation's ghosts, which remain for posterity in order to continue the remembrance of a previous time. The timelessness of the ghost is what makes it still relevant in our fast-moving world of today. A ghost remains undeterred by progressive dynamics and technological developments as it 'contains all times in one, [as] a trinity of time: interwoven, inseparable, unassailable' (Jernsletten 2005:60). Guards, on the other hand, carry the duty to safeguard something that cannot be implemented into the daily discourse but still shall not be forgotten. Guards take on similar shapes as ghosts in institutions, monuments or inscriptions. Their space is assigned and fixed and therefore they prevent the past – just like a prisoner – of streaming into the daily city uncontrolled and everywhere. Metaphorically spoken, they become untouchable, carrying the secret of their power intrinsically and it is this secretiveness that makes them immune to attacks or unwanted interpretations from the outside.
Archives in the city function in similar ways as the ghosts and guards described here. Archives of all kinds, city archives, socio-political along side personal archives warden the past, isolate it through their buildings from the present to safeguard its content for the future. For the regular passerby it is therefore almost impossible to grasp the archives' essence. Comprehending their true meaning is continually postponed since 'if we want to know what [the archive] will have meant, we will only know in the times to come […]' (Derrida 1995:27). Just as it is unfeasible to recognise the contours of the ghost and the power of the guards without engaging with them, the effects of the archive are not to be determined immediately. What else, however, makes the archive ghostly and how does it remind us of the ghost's characteristics?
Ghosts' liminal position between visibility and invisibility highlights the fact that the silhouette of the ghostly is difficult to define and especially hard to see (del Pilar Blanco & Peren 2013:2). Archives possess a similar embodiment, while their buildings within the cityscape might be visible, their content however is in most cases only accessible to the authorised and only comprehensible for the knowledgeable. For this reason archives handle a degree of lucency, describing the intersection between transparency and non-transparency. It makes them not entirely visible as elements of a city's infrastructure – despite their physical presence – as their walls shield their content. Those walls function as the guarding instance, meaning their concrete walls as well as their bureaucratic procedures, their complex contents difficult to grasp and last but their closed entrance doors. The archive, the ghost and the guard are visible but never extensively nor at first sight, they are physically present but never connected to the present alone, they carry the burden of guarding the past as well as a future meaning in one.
In the photographic series 'Ghosts and Guards', I intended to catch the ghostliness and the guarding nature of different archives in the cities of Berlin and Amsterdam. I was especially interested to explore how capable photography would be to create an effect that could represent the intersection of archive, ghost and guard meaning also their shared characteristics of temporality, lucency and tangibility in one. The act of taking photos in its professional sense, namely adjusting the camera to the light situation and using the viewfinder to find the perfect shot appeared not qualified to represent something as elusive as the ghostly. The ghost, after all, does not give the spectator unlimited time to perceive it and usually guards do not allow their photographs to be taken, just as the archive in the cityscape is usually just perceived in the moment by passersby and only from the outside. It is not truly in the hands of the spectator how the ghost is perceived – how much of it is perceived – rendering the spectator in this sense not the one who decides. While the camera will be used as tool to capture something very tangible, namely the outside walls of the archives, the applied method of capturing must include the above-mentioned aspect, namely some degree of uncertainty.
In The Creative Act, Duchamp (1957:1) construes the process of transformation that takes place from the artist's intention to the actual effect of the artwork as an unconscious struggle in which the artwork somehow takes on a life of its own and the artist herself functions merely as medium. Duchamp states that 'In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. His struggle toward the realization is a series of efforts, pains, satisfaction, refusals, decisions, which also cannot and must not be fully self-conscious, at least on the esthetic plane.'. With this Duchamp points towards the degree of uncertainty that was crucial for me while photographing the archive. The ability to confiscate the moment that is needed for this artistic translation is, according to Doane (2002:209) found in instantaneous photography, which captures 'a moment that does not exist', an illusion similar to the one of a ghost. She defines 'the image made possible by instantaneous photography as that which is beyond the limits of human vision, as that which no one has ever seen before.' (209). When using this method it therefore appears that it would diminish the degree of certainty in the process of photographing the archives, something beneficial in this case.
My endeavour resulted in a photographic series circling around four different archives: The political archive, the city archive, the personal archive and the historical archive. First of all these images show buildings, their armour, the stone they are made of, thus their materiality and guarding nature. The chosen point of view – from the outside – emphasises the feeling of inaccessibility and furthermore depicts the position we have when seeing the archive in the daily routine, on our way to work, close to city hubs or in our neighbourhood. Despite the tangibility that is presented in the pictures, the effect that occurred through the instantaneous and the unplanned, often revealing movement of the camera or overexposure to light, brings the archives out of focus, never allowing full recognition. Exposed to this effect and unable to make full sense of what I see, I can only apprehend the focal point partly. The speed represented in the images through the smearing of the object, demonstrates my degree of hastiness and rapidity. While this mirrors how we pass by archives in the city, not taking the time or the energy to interact with them, it furthermore highlights that they cannot be erased entirely, as their traces remain – even if blurry – present and as their walls are tangible and concrete.
The 17 images shown as a series manifest my attempt to represent the unrepresentable. An endeavour that can never be more than an experiment. They try to translate the archives as tangible concepts to the metaphor of the ghost and the guard. If we could capture ghosts in an image they might manifest what has been described above: The temporal, the lucent and the uncertain. In fact, the only thing we could see in a photo of the ghost would be traces of a guard, signs of something keeping us on the outside. The archive is, however, a concept we are familiar with but rarely stand face-to-face with, reflecting on its true meaning in that moment . To capture its meaning time would have to stand still for a moment, as the passerby would need to stand still and look at the building, which is often ignored in the daily routine. If this does not take place, we remain merely viewers, grasping short moments of sight, never unblurring the contours the archives might have in our direct surroundings. But as we know now, relationships do change if we find new tools for perceiving them.
Stadsarchief Amsterdam Vijzelstraat 32, 1017 HL Amsterdam
Stasi-Archive Ruschestrasse 103 10365 Berlin
Personal Archive Giséle van Waterschoot van der Gracht, Herengracht 401, 1017 BP Amsterdam
IISG Archief Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam
Riccarda Hessling
Riccarda Hessling (1986, Germany) is an Artistic Researcher and writer based in Berlin and Amsterdam. In 2012 she graduated in Museology from the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam. Meanwhile she was working as a freelance curatorial assistant at the State Museums Berlin, rethinking and developing a passion for experimental curatorial practices. In Fall 2012 Riccarda decided to combine her fervour for art and research and started a Research Master in Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam from where she will graduate in June 2015. Since then she has developed her theoretical and artistic practice with a strong focus on personal archives, documents of the everyday and the interstices of notebooks and file boxes, which cannot be seen but must be found. Upcoming projects of 2015 will include the finalisation of her collaborative work entitled 'How many Elephants would you die for?' as well as her participation at a group show at the SMBA Gallery in Amsterdam with her work on The Personal An(archive).
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Pilar Blanco, M. & Peeren, E. (2013). 'Introduction: Conceptualising Spectralities', in M Pilar Blanco & E Peeren (eds), The Spectralities Reader: Ghosts and Haunting in Contemporary Cultural Theory, Bloomsbury Academie: New York, pp. 31-36.
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Academic urology is a great and also very enjoyable pastime. When you have made a name for yourself, remember that people listen to you. You owe it to them to maintain the same good and honorable principles that have guided you through your life and speak the truth as you see it, even if some people may not like what you are saying.
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His life was gentle, and the elements
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And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
I have too many positive memories of John to regale you with here," said Roger Kirby, MD, in a tribute to his close friend and colleague, John Michael Fitzpatrick, MCh, FRCSI, who died suddenly on May 14, 2014, at the age of 65. "Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro (he never tired of reminding me that he reached the summit before me), trekking in Nepal, cycling in Sicily, Malawi, and Madagascar—John was always 'up for it'…. Everywhere he went he made friends, took interest in everyone he met, and communicated in his own unique, eloquent, and quintessentially Irish style."
Born on July 15, 1948, Dr. Fitzpatrick became one of Europe's most highly regarded medical opinion leaders. During an interview, he said that one of the factors that had a great influence on his life was being educated by Jesuits during his undergraduate studies at Gonzaga College, Dublin. At Gonzaga, Dr. Fitzpatrick developed his lifelong love of history and literature, especially William Shakespeare.
Following his undergraduate studies, Dr. Fitzpatrick intended to go to Oxford to follow his passion for literature, but a sudden change in plans led to his entering the University College Dublin to study medicine. He did his clinical internship at St. Vincent's Hospital in Dublin, where he was strongly influenced by the head of surgery, Patrick FitzGerald, MD. "He helped me develop an interest in scientific pursuits and showed me that a surgeon could also make a meaningful contribution in the scientific field—another lesson that I never forgot," said Dr. Fitzpatrick.
While doing his residency at St. Vincent's, he decided to become a urologist, largely due to the influence of two mentors, noted urologic surgeons Drs. Frank Duff and Dan Kelly. "They were both superb surgeons and I was able to learn outstanding technique and the beauty of urologic surgery," said Dr. Fitzpatrick.
In 1977, seeing a need to further his education as a surgeon, he moved to the Institute of Urology at St. Peter's Hospital in London. He looked back at his period in London with fondness, remembering all the mentors and friends, especially his boss, John Wickham, MD. "He was my mentor and a close friend. His sense of innovation and his wish to change dogma was something I had not seen before," noted Dr. Fitzpatrick.
Career-Long Interest
After completing his training in London, Dr. Fitzpatrick returned to Dublin in 1981 as a consultant urologist and senior lecturer in Urology in the Meath and St. James's Hospitals and Trinity College Dublin. He maintained a high surgical workload along with laboratory research. While there, a short posting of several months in Mainz, Germany, launched what would become a career-long interest in urologic research.
In 1986, he was appointed Professor of Surgery and consultant urologist in the Mater Hospital and University College Dublin. Although he was gregarious and well liked, his independent spirit and enthusiasm for initiating change would lead to confrontations with more conservative doctors.
"I would recommend for young urologists to have a balanced view about everything, but if you believe in something, you must proceed with it to try to bring it about. Do not let confrontation prevent you from bringing what you believe to be important into reality. There are many reasons why people might try to hinder you, but if you believe something to be right, then run with that idea," said Dr. Fitzpatrick during an interview.
Not one to let confrontation deter him, he remained on as Professor and Chairman for 25 years at the Department of Surgery, Mater Hospital, and the University College in Dublin. He also served as registrar and consultant in various hospitals and universities in Dublin and London.
Dr. Fitzpatrick once described his tenure as Editor-in-Chief of BJU International from 2003 to 2012 in the following way: "There have been many aspects of my career that I have enjoyed and felt fulfilled by, but none more so than leading the BJU International. It has been a post where creativity can be allowed to run riot."
Dr. Fitzpatrick also served as President of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and the Irish Society of Urology. From January 2012 until his death, he was Head of Research for the Irish Cancer Society. Aside form his numerous awards from prominent medical societies, he wrote and coauthored nearly 20 books, more than 90 book chapters, and over 400 scientific and scholarly papers published in international, peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of urologic topics.
Immediately following the announcement of his death, tributes poured in from around the world, such as one from Prokar Dasgupta, MD, who called Dr. Fitzpatrick one of his heroes: "He was on my Professorial interview panel and asked me very tricky questions. Some of them were impossible to answer at the time but now bring a smile to my face. He literally helped me down Mount Etna on an ultra difficult trip to Sicily. Afterwards he showed me a rather embarrassing photograph of me asleep on the slopes of this mountain. I hadn't even realized that I had dozed off."
Dr. Fitzpatrick ended an essay in Legends of Urology with the following passage: "I have one final thing to say. Academic urology is a great and also very enjoyable pastime. When you have made a name for yourself, remember that people listen to you. You owe it to them to maintain the same good and honorable principles that have guided you through your life and speak the truth as you see it, even if some people may not like what you are saying." ■
Editor's Note: Visit a tribute to Professor John Fitzpatrick by Dr. Roger Kirby at www.bjuinternational.com/bjui-blog/professor-john-fitzpatrick-1948-2014.
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majerus wool warhol…skulls and rorschachs
majerus wool warhol…skulls and rorschachs
Michel Majerus, Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool
Curated by Peter Pakesch
This is the second part of "majerus wool warhol...", curated by Peter Pakesch. Entitled skulls and rorschachs, this exhibition features a new selection of works by Michel Majerus (1967–2002), Christopher Wool (b. 1955) and Andy Warhol (1928–1987), juxtaposing the practices of the three artists. This second chapter takes as its points of departure Warhol's use of the skull as a motif and Rorschach tests as a methodology—imagery and strategies that both Wool and Majerus developed and expanded upon in their own visionary practices.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Andy Warhol—seen skeptically by the critical art-viewing public—was considered contemporary society's leading portraitist and commentator. Initially creating portraits of stars such as Jackie Kennedy, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, he would go on to broaden the spectrum of those he portrayed in the following years: world-fame for fifteen minutes—whether it be Mao Tse Tung or the socialites of New York, Turin or Cologne. Reception at the time focused primarily on the artist's use of methods regarded as commercial. Aware of this and of the topics dominating artistic discourse, Warhol countered his mundane portraits with two groups of still lives referencing history and art history: one taking the hammer and sickle as its subject, the other the human skull. The communist symbol, deployed ironically at the height of the Cold War, recalls a contrast similar to that prompted by the juxtaposition of a memento mori and the lives of the rich and famous. With these contradictions, characteristic of Warhol's work, he illuminates disparate recurrent constants that link his oeuvre with Western art as a whole. Majerus employed the skull motif, putting it to the test and probing what it still had to offer within new pictorial contexts, as he always would with his idols' repertoire of imagery. The still life is counteracted, with open, associative forms being subjugated to the simple motif. The pithy qualities of Warhol's Skulls are translated, imbued with new meaning and placed in the kaleidoscope of constantly regenerated electronic images—a reality check by means of traditional painting.
A decade later, Warhol repeatedly turned to abstract painting. As noted by Rosalind Krauss in her 1996 essay "Andy Warhol: Rorschach Paintings," the Rorschach series constitutes a complex commentary on the history of American abstract painting—a tradition that Warhol himself is a part of. With the Rorschach works, whose title is derived from Hermann Rorschach's psychological diagnostic test that sought to reveal personality traits through interpretations of inkblots, Warhol emphasized the medical nature present within them. Warhol considered the Rorschach test to be pathology that should be seen as a metaphor for the human condition. When interpreted as such, Warhol extracts this method of image production from the realm of the formal and abstract and subversively underlays it with meaning, thus integrating it into his own mythological cosmos. Wool radically directs this thought process back to painting, imbuing it with new, existential meaning. From this interaction, a single confrontation yields two subjects: the painter and the viewer.
This exhibition highlights how these Warholian processes were expanded upon by following generations of painters, generations that included Christopher Wool and Michel Majerus, creating a new subjectivism. These methods extend beyond what the images portray and become their own thematic discipline. The possibilities of image creation today, the perpetual media cycle and images' ability to multiply and become ambiguous are integral to these paintings, transcending technique. Majerus and Wool make these qualities visible and legible. Just as Warhol appropriated and redefined vocabulary from classical modernism and the history of American abstract painting, continued engagement with new media and methods would become indispensable for coming generations. The prevalence of reproductive technologies from photography, film, silkscreening to photocopying and the use of digital media serves as testament to the openness of a constantly developing digital world. The compelling natures of these trajectories within American and European painting in recent decades are manifold and are tangible in these works by Michel Majerus, Christopher Wool and Andy Warhol on view.
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