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Art In Conversation
with Nancy Princenthal
Portrait of Janet Biggs, pencil on paper by Phong Bui.
Breathtakingly beautiful, like all of Janet Biggs's work, A Step on the Sun (2012) is also—again characteristically—a haunting account of several kinds of mortal danger. This wordless, five-screen video projection was mostly shot at a sulfur mine inside an active volcano in East Java, where unsupervised miners labor in unspeakable conditions. As always, Biggs was the principle cameraperson, and assumed some of the same risks her subjects did. We see a lone miner ascend the forbiddingly steep, rocky interior of the crater, bearing more than his body weight in sulfur crystals. Clouds of gas provide a poisonous, intoxicating yellow glow. Bookending the roughly ten-minute loop is footage taken by a camera attached to a weather balloon, along with documentation of the meteorological station the balloon serves: a note of buoyancy, however fragile. Music, a significant element throughout Biggs's work, consists here of a cello composition written and played by William Martina.
Janet Biggs, A Step On the Sun, 2012. (still from the video installation) multi-channel, high definition video installation with sound. Courtesy the artist, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, Analix Forever, Geneva, and CONNERSMITH, Washington, D.C.
Biggs's videos, which she began exhibiting in the early 1990s, have lately taken her to the Taklamakan Desert in China; the Afar Triangle of East Africa; and the Norwegian Arctic. Most recently she has been a resident at a simulation site designed to prepare for manned travel to Mars. Her sensibility evokes Jules Verne and Joseph Conrad, and also such conflict-zone photojournalists as Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, with this difference: Biggs's geography is skewed not just to remote and dangerous areas, but to instability more generally, to places where sand whips up, lakes boil and oceans freeze. She likes going underground, and also diving deep into the mechanisms of consciousness and its vulnerabilities, as in individuals suffering from autism or Alzheimer's. In short, Biggs's subject is anything that could be called shaky ground.
Janet Biggs and Nancy Princenthal met at the Neuberger on October 4 for a public conversation about A Step on the Sun. The following is an edited version of that discussion.
Nancy Princenthal (Rail): One place where we could start is where you started—how did you get to Ijen? How do you make your first contacts, how do you establish relationships, how do you choose the sites where you're going to be doing your work?
Janet Biggs: Sure. I think I first learned that there was an active volcano where people were mining sulfur in East Java, Indonesia from the pages of National Geographic. I was intrigued and then obsessed. I continued researching Kawah Ijen and came across Michael Glawogger's film Workingman's Death (2002)—which is an extraordinary documentary film that presents different segments of unimaginable labor, the mining at Kawah Ijen being one of the segments. I became absolutely committed to going there, but needed to figure out how that would happen. How that happened was a process. Eventually, I found someone online who self-promoted as a guide in the Ijen plateau region. So, I hired this man, Aan, as my guide and translator—having no real idea what that actually meant— and somehow convinced my husband, who occasionally backs me up with a second camera, to join me. We got on a plane. After twenty-six hours, we got off the plane. At the airport I saw someone that I vaguely recognized from a JPEG on Facebook as our guide, got in a van with him, and drove for the next twelve hours—on a road that had no defining traffic lines. Donkeys, ox carts, motorcycles, cars, vans, and big trucks were all going as fast as they possibly could. We arrived at the Kawah Ijen plateau, which is this beautiful, verdant landscape, but still had to figure out how to get inside the volcano, how to meet miners, and how to convince the miners to allow us to film them. I've learned that no matter how much research and preparation goes into a project, as soon my feet hit the ground I realize how little I know or understand about the place where I'm standing. It is impossible to be prepared. One of the first things that shocked me was: it's a really tall volcano, kind of like an isosceles triangle, which means a forty-five-degree angle of ascent. When you finally get to the rim and look down into the volcano there is a brilliant turquoise lake at the base of the caldera. It is stunningly beautiful. The lake is the largest sulfuric acid lake in the world. There are sulfur dioxide fumes billowing up out of it, and the miners move like dancers under the weight of the sulfur they are carrying.
My crew consisted of Aan, Aan's friend Imam (who I was not expecting to hire, but somehow came along in the deal), and my husband Bob. Imam was extraordinary in that he sang through the entire filming process, some of which became part of my soundtrack. Iman had worked as a miner in Ijen for ten years until his lungs completely gave out. He is now able, through his friendship with Aan, to figure out other ways of making a living. Mining in Ijen is the epitome of self-employment, as in: if you can weave a basket, can climb up that volcano, make your way down into an active volcano amidst toxic fumes and unstable footing, fill your basket with more than your body weight in sulfur crystals, and somehow carry that basket back out to a weigh station at the base of the volcano, then you are an Ijen miner.
Rail: We talked earlier about the surprise of the mining operation being self-regulated—there's not a mining company, per se. Miners instead organize themselves, to the extent that there is organization.
Biggs: Which is very minimal, but there is some organization.
Rail: Was that something you knew going in, or was that one of those things that became a point of interest when you got there?
Biggs: It wasn't something I knew going in, but something I needed to grasp quickly to be able to navigate in that area. I knew that the volcano itself was owned by the Ministry of Forestry. I also knew that there was no overarching organization or structure that oversaw the miners. I learned that Indonesia is a culture of consensus. It's a norm that you have to adhere to and I was grateful that Aan skillfully guided me through this process. We met with the military police, we met with the Ministry of Forestry, we also met with students from the University in Surabaya. All these meetings gave me a fuller understanding of the local dynamics, the history of mining in Ijen, and why there is no mechanization in place for extracting the sulfur. I also learned that a culture of consensus means sitting in rooms for hours, having long discussions about why and how access should be granted. Often, these long conversations ultimately ended in a consensus on how much bribery I would pay. I learned the necessity of buying as many loose cigarettes, as much chocolate, and getting as many small bills as possible every morning. This was how I made my way through roadblocks, paying officials, and the miners too. You know, gaining access to places and people around the world is a fascinating art unto itself.
Rail: You learn the language.
Biggs: It's expensive, it's time consuming, and anyone that works in feet-on-the-ground politics or is an activist understands that consensus has its frustrating side, I think.
Rail: Before you identify a place, and when you get there, are you looking for portraits of people, portraits of conditions under which people work, or for a particular landscape? Like, pointy volcanoes, ever more dangerous? [laughs]
Biggs: Well, you know, I just can't turn down a good pointy volcano, it seems. There's something about being at the ends of the earth, in the most romantic sense, that draws me to a location. I love being off the grid. If a satellite phone can't work in a region, I'm happy to be there. I often think of the early explorers, their romantic notions about discovery, and then the reality of what happened when their feet were on the ground. My process often starts with the discovery of some otherworldly, unimaginable landscape. But it's not just the landscape—it's realizing that there are people who can exist, and at times thrive, in these extreme locations, that will make me leave my comfy home in Brooklyn and go. So, when I traveled to Ijen, I had an idea of the visuals because of my research, but I still needed to find an individual miner to become the focus of my project, someone who could be a protagonist equal to the numbingly beautiful landscape. I spent the first day or two going in and out of the volcano, witnessing what was going on, and using a scatter shot approach to filming. At some point I saw Abi [Slamet Hariadi] and had a sense that he might be willing to work with me. Happily, I was right. Not only did he agree to let me film him for the next two weeks, but he embodied qualities that really shaped this project.
Rail: This is the guy who often has a bandana in his mouth, who you see repeatedly in close-ups. Were you drawn to him by his demeanor, and the way he went about the work? Did he collaborate at all on how he was going to be seen?
Biggs: Not initially. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, and I'm an uncovered western woman. While Indonesians have a wide range of commitments and responses to their faith, there still was a lot of distance between us. Aan translated for me and let him know that I planned to pay him for his time. So, at first, it was really just a business agreement—but as the filming progressed I learned that the depth of his humanity was extraordinary. In conditions that were unimaginable, and while carrying more than his body weight in sulfur, he would point out details of the volcano's beauty to make sure I didn't miss anything. Eventually, I grew to know his sense of humor, and at some point, we started having broader conversations. He introduced me to his family and I got to know his history. There were times when all five of us were sleeping on the rim of the volcano, in our gas masks, inside a three-person tent. We all experienced a kind of unexpected intimacy throughout the project—and because of that, we reached a comfort level where Abi became a real collaborator, helped shape the project, and often advised me on specific shots.
Rail: That's been true of your work all along—that you've portrayed relationships with central figures who both directed themselves and are shaped by your vision. Which is, to jump back to the landscape for a moment, what you do with landscape as well—it's an absolutely gorgeous, terrifying, sublime, beautiful landscape to begin with. But it becomes yours because of the way it's edited and installed. I want to get to that in a moment—the installation. But one thing that we were talking about earlier, that I honestly hadn't thought about before, was how your work is situated between a documentary tradition of going to a place and developing relationships with the subjects, diving really deep into the local conditions, which are really quite desperate in this case (and in others), and the art place that your work lives in, which has to do with the landscape tradition in some respects, and also with other artists who are using video. This is a really long way of asking, How do you feel your work to be situated between those two disciplines—documentary film and art?
Biggs: I straddle a lot of different worlds in my life and art. I am dedicated to witnessing, which gives me a kind of kinship with documentary filmmakers. When I travel for a project, my primary role is to see and film as much as I possibly can and to be sure to maintain the dignity of the people that I'm filming. I am an intrusion—I've walked into somebody else's life and world. I'm very aware of that fact. I may have some preconceived notion of content and structure, but I've done enough projects to know that I need to film everything possible, as original ideas often change. My departure from documentary film into what I consider an art project happens when I push myself sideways off a traditional documentary path. It can happen in different ways. Sometimes through encounters with the landscape and its inhabitants, when I realize that the smallest detail or ritualized behavior can be as captivating as a grand story or dramatic vista. Sometimes it's through editing juxtapositions, collaging seemingly disparate elements. There is always a conscious moment where I need to insert myself to eventually be able to remove myself. I try to open it up and allow for a shared authorship with my audience.
Rail: That was going to be my next question. [laughs] Where is the first-person pronoun? Of course, it's all over the place. And it has shifted over the course of your work. Some of your earlier work involved your family and gender issues that don't figure as prominently in this recent project.
Biggs: Where the "I" is, where the first person is in the work, is shifting all the time. Any time I think I understand or am comfortable with my work, then I need to push, make a shift. I'm the outsider walking in. While I'm an artist, I'm also a tourist—I don't deny that role—but I'm also the author of the work, and an absolute control freak. So, there are all these different sides to place and position. I'm a control freak that wants to walk into an environment where there is no infrastructure, where satellite phones don't work—so I have no control. I challenge myself and become off balance specifically to lose track of pronouns. Authorship starts floating about. What does collaboration mean? They all get mixed together.
Rail: One of the places I intended that question to go had to do with this very sticky question of risk. One way you're in all of your work is that you're assuming some of the same hardships and some of the risks that we're watching the subjects face as well. Can you talk a little about risk?
Biggs: I am also a tourist in terms of risk. I'm working in this volcano for only two and a half weeks. Of course, there are some risks from the fumes, of stepping into the sulfuric acid lake, or losing your footing. The sulfuric lake is essentially sitting on a pool of magma. About every ten years or so the magma gets really active and creates a large sulfur dioxide bubble that will burst to the surface of that lake. When this happens, it sucks all the oxygen out of the volcano and kills everyone inside.
You listen and look at the miners for information about current conditions. There are not many volcanologists working in that region so there is minimal data. We had one moment, inside the volcano, when all the miners started really yelling—screaming—which is never a good thing when you're inside a volcano. What was happening was we were having an earthquake inside an active volcano. [audience gasps] The sulfur dioxide fumes are in continuous contact with the walls of the caldera. It's as if they are under constant acid rain. The rocks are very porous and not stable. Climbing in and out of the volcano was a challenge even without an earthquake. Rocks came pelting down. People were injured, but luckily no one was killed.
Again, I was there for a such a short period, this was the miner's daily lives. That being said, I do own my thrill-seeker side. I really like learning new tasks. When I was in the Arctic filming for a couple months, I had to learn how to shoot a high-powered rifle to protect myself from hungry polar bears. I learned how to competently paddle a kayak in arctic waters by joining the New York kayak polo team, which is a full contact sport. I thought my paddling skills would improve faster if someone was aggressively trying to capsize me. There is a performative back-side to my work that's obviously appealing. But I still am very aware that my luck at being born where I was born allows me to look at risk in a very different way than somebody like Abi looks at risk.
Rail: To jump tracks a little, maybe this is a good place to talk about the weather balloon footage that is part of this video.
Biggs: We are back to the idea of what removes my work from documentary filmmaking and places it in the realm of an art project. In this case, I decided to bookend the story of Abi working inside the volcano with images of a weather balloon. When I was in the Arctic, I watched a weather balloon launch. I learned that balloons are launched around the world in synchronized timing to get a global perspective on what's happening in the atmosphere. I thought that that was beautiful. There was this poetry about the launching of all these balloons. They became a metaphor for the absolute persistence of hope that existed in Abi and the other miners. The promise of science and technology to improve human conditions didn't apply, didn't reach this part of the world. It was a way to look at dual existences and what possibility means in different parts of the world. The balloon symbolized transcendence and the beauty of hope, but when a weather balloon goes up in to the atmosphere, the atmosphere thins, the balloon expands, and it ultimately bursts and plummets back to earth.
Rail: And your camera is attached to it!
Biggs: Right. After seeing the launch in the Arctic, I came back and did some research about weather balloon launches. I contacted NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and asked if I could film one of their balloon launches. They were fine with me filming from the ground, but I also wanted to attach my camera to the balloon. NOAA was a little…[laughs] I love hanging out with scientists, but there was a bit of reluctance there. I had heard that students at MIT were having huge success with a certain scale of balloon launch, so I got in touch with students at MIT and asked if I could work with them. They were incredibly generous. They'd been attaching cameras themselves, so we sent up a balloon with a camera attached, and happily found the camera when the balloon came back down. That's the footage at the end of my piece.
Rail: That's a pretty good parable. [laughs] Dead balloon delivering your camera with its live footage back to you. We talked a little bit about the curiosity of a weather balloon being an incredibly primitive kind of instrument for sending this extremely sophisticated technology up to do some very important data gathering. I want also to go back to the title, which you slipped in very quickly a few minutes ago. Do you want to talk about the title?
Biggs: I had recently made a performance piece that included musicians, a Gospel singer, projected video, and a kayak ballet on the East River. The performance was based on my memories of 9/11. I had written lyrics for the singer which included the verse "it's just a step on a cloud." I was referring to the horror of people jumping from the Twin Towers. When I came up with the title A Step On the Sun, I was thinking about those lyrics. Also, the brilliant color of the sulfur made me think of the sun. It took me a while to recognize the title's relationship to the myth of Icarus. It is a kind of inverse of hubris, of possibility and potential.
Rail: And that's what happened to the balloon, right? It went up too high and—
Biggs: —Down it came, yeah.
Rail: You wrote the lyrics for many of the musical compositions that came into earlier work. Do you want to talk about the music and, in general, the acoustic elements of this piece?
Biggs My undergraduate degree was in painting, and my graduate studies were in glass blowing. The thing that connects these materials, that now allows me to work in video, is that my projects are idea-based rather than rooted in a specific medium. I am self-taught in video. When I first started making videos, I was using inherent sound. After some time, I realized that sound could be of equal weight to the images, even the dominant element in a piece. Which, considering that I am the daughter of a composer—you'd think I'd get that earlier.
I often now mix in inherent sounds with artificially made "Foley" sound, and original musical compositions. I see a lot of live music. If there are musicians that I think are extraordinary I will stalk them and beat down their doors until they agree to work with me. And I've been lucky enough to work with some amazing musicians. In this piece I worked with a cellist, Will Martina, who I've worked with now for a number of pieces. He's a really accomplished studio musician who will come into my studio with his cello and just start playing as he watches my video. He's composing and playing what he's sees. I often ask him to shape the musical composition by describing colors, or emotions, but never in musical terms or notes—because I am the daughter of a composer. [Laughs]
Rail: Yes, it's important to have a dialogue with your family. [Laughs]
Biggs: It took me until I was in my forties to ask my father to collaborate on a project. I said I just wanted the simplest piece of music with ascending and descending scales. He agreed, and then there's this long period of silence. I called my mother and I said, "How many times has he recorded it?" And she said, "I think he's on his twentieth version." He finally sent me the piece of music that he had labored over, and because I am his daughter—I bastardized it by re-recording it under water. [Laughs] Lucky for me, we received a very nice review about the sound on that piece.
Rail: What piece was that in?
Biggs: It was a piece called Apraxia.
Rail: So, fairly early on. In A Step on the Sun the music and all of the sound components are really integrated—they take a background relationship to what's going on visually. The nature of the installation steps forward a bit. I know this is not the first time you've shown this work, but it is the first time you've shown it in this configuration. Can you talk a little bit about what the decision-making process was, and what matters about this five-channel presentation, and the way the screens are set up?
Biggs: The first time I exhibited this piece, I placed the projections in a circular shape so that the piece completely surrounded the viewer. I had edited the individual channels very specifically in terms of sound. When a rod hit the sulfur, you would hear it behind you and spin around. I thought that would give the viewer a similar feel to what I experienced inside the caldera. I was always off balance and unsure of what might be behind me. I wanted that kind of experiential situation for the viewer.
There are two reasons why I'm very happy with the installation here at the Neuberger. First, you really need to have a compelling reason to try and spin your viewer around in a room. I talk about sharing authorship, and I talk about a level of participation I'd like from my audience, but the reality is we're all figuring out our space within someone else's work anyway. Trying to spin my audience felt unnecessary. The other reason I changed how this piece is installed here is due to the museum's architecture. When I walked into this dramatic Phillip Johnson building, and looked through the series of doorways that frame upon frame the entryway to the gallery where I would be exhibiting, I thought, "Oh my God, this piece has got to take advantage of every aspect of this incredible view." It was an easy decision to make it a presidium piece, although I was careful to never allow my viewer to see all five screens at once. I still want the viewer to have some level of physical interaction with the work, just in a more modest fashion.
Rail: The installation keeps you moving from one image to the other because they're not strictly synchronized, but there is some overlap. In keeping with the rhythm of the music, there is the visual rhythm of moving through the landscape, up the caldera. There's also the fortuitous thing about this installation, which is the [Romare] Bearden show [in the adjacent gallery]. I know I'm not the only one who's made a connection between your project and his work here.
Biggs: When Helaine [Posner, the exhibition's curator] was visiting my studio she mentioned that the other exhibition on the first floor of the museum was going to be Romare Bearden. I was literally floored. I am so honored to be in the same museum and would never presume to make connections between our work, but I will happily tell you what I love about his work. Bearden's connection to music is just joyful. It's rhythmic, there's this cadence, and sometimes a cacophony that happens in the work that is so compelling and exciting. And I love the filmic quality, the movement that exists in the abstractions as well as the collages. And, of course, his commitment to portraying humanity in its most deep and complicated form—is something I am not alone in being moved by.
Rail: The paintings, especially the landscapes, are such a surprise to see and so interesting in relationship to A Step on the Sun. I have a feeling that lurking somewhere in your work are references to other artists, too.
Biggs: You know, I cannot deny a connection to someone like Caspar David Friedrich, and the romantic notion of the sublime. Edmund Burke's sense of the sublime, which contains both awe and terror —we've talked about destabilization and losing your balance, things that happen when you come in to contact with the sublime. It is so transporting in ways unimaginable, and yet, there is the reciprocal side, which is the terror. I think that both states are essential in life, truthfully.
Along with Friedrich, I find visual connections all over the place—in science, in other artworks—which complicate perspectives. With an artist like Robert Smithson, there is a kind of poetry in altering the Earth which I find beautiful—but it's still altering Earth. We're in the age of the Anthropocene. Our presence, the industrial revolution, and the nuclear age have changed our planet forever. There's a kind of hubris in earthworks, which I do not think is just male. It's seductive to me to have that hubris, to alter the land, alter the earth. But then I'm reminded of my time in the Arctic—which is a landscape that I desired so strongly—when every physical footstep I took was destroying the landscape that I so desired. I think that this is why I look at Earthwork artists often, because of the complicated nature of our existence on the planet.
I would just like to end with a quick spin back to that pronoun question. I've made a lot of work by walking into someone else's life. While I think that the role of a witness is important, I think it is essential that first person narratives and perspectives exist. I am lucky enough to have been able to go to parts of the world from which we in the West don't often get first person perspectives. Their voices are not getting out. My current project has taken me on three trips to the Horn of Africa—in part so I could bring first-person perspectives out. Most recently, I brought video cameras to Yemeni refugees in a camp in Djibouti. Something that felt especially urgent considering our current administration's attempted boarder bans. And then I went to Mars. So, perhaps, we should just end there.
Janet Biggs, A Step On the Sun, 2012. (installation view) multi-channel, high definition video installation with sound. Courtesy the artist, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, Analix Forever, Geneva, and CONNERSMITH, Washington, D.C.
Nancy Princenthal
is a New York-based art writer. She is the author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames & Hudson, 2015) and Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (Thames & Hudson, 2019).
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Somalia: Security Council reauthorizes international naval forces to fight piracy off East Africa
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Ships from the European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) off the coast of Somalia.
The United Nations Security Council today renewed for another year its authorization for international naval forces to join in fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia, stressing that while the threat from Somali pirates has declined, it still remains a matter of "grave concern."
Adopting a unanimous resolution, the 15-member body highlighted the important role played by ships from regional organizations such as the European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Operation (NATO) Ocean Shield, but noted that the primary responsibility lies with the Somalia, a country torn apart by 25 years of strife.
"While noting improvements in Somalia, [the Council] recognizes that piracy exacerbates instability in Somalia by introducing large amounts of illicit cash that fuels additional crime and corruption," the resolution declared, stressing "the need for a comprehensive response to prevent and suppress piracy and tackle its underlying causes by the international community."
It called on States and regional organizations to deploy naval vessels, arms, and military aircraft, and provide logistical support for counter-piracy forces.
At its height piracy off Somalia's coasts netted scores of vessels, from large container ships to small leisure yachts, resulting in hundreds of people being held hostage and millions of dollars being paid in ransom.
Since the UN first authorized international naval intervention in 2008, the rate of seizures has gradually declined. In February this year a mission under the auspices of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) freed four Thai nationals after nearly five years in captivity, the longest held hostage ordeal in the battle against the pirates.
By that time six of the original 24 crew members of the Taiwanese-flagged FV Prantalay 12, who were held on land, died from illness while 14 Myanmar crewmen were released to police in northern Somalia.
In a bid to avoid the impunity that the pirates have enjoyed, today's resolution urged flag, port and coastal States and the home States of piracy victims to cooperate in determining jurisdiction and investigating and prosecuting perpetrators, and proposed the establishment of specialized anti-piracy courts in Somalia with substantial international participation.
It noted "with concern" that the continuing limited capacity to facilitate the custody and prosecution of suspected pirates after their capture has hindered more robust international action and too often has led to pirates being released without facing justice.
It stressed that peace and stability within Somalia, the strengthening of local institutions and economic and social development are essential for the lasting eradication of piracy off Somalia, while also noting that piracy contributes to the instability in the Horn of Africa country.
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Senior United Nations officials have welcomed the release this week of four Thai nationals after nearly five years in captivity, bringing an end to the longest held hostage ordeal in the east African nation thanks to a mission carried by the UN anti-crime agency.

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Aguada may refer to:

Places

Central and South America
 Aguada, Santander, a town and municipality in northeastern Colombia
 Aguada, Montevideo, a neighbourhood of Montevideo, Uruguay
 Aguada, Puerto Rico, a municipality of Puerto Rico
 Aguada de Pasajeros, a municipality and town in Cienfuegos Province, Cuba
 Isla Aguada, a locality in Carmen Municipality, Campeche, Mexico
 La Aguada, Pichilemu, a village in Cardenal Caro Province, Chile
La Aguada y Costa Azul, a village in the Rocha Department, Uruguay

Asia
 Aguada, a district of Placer, Masbate, Philippines
 Fort Aguada, a 17th-century fort in Goa, India
 Castella de Aguada, a fort in Bandra, Mumbai, India

Europe
Aguada de Cima, a civil parish in Águeda, Centro Region, Portugal

Other uses
 Aguada (meteorite), a meteorite which fell in 1930 near Cordoba, Argentina

See also
 Águeda (disambiguation)
 Salinas y Aguada Blanca National Reserve, Peru
 Mossel Bay, South Africa, originally called Aguada de São Brás

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Latin America-related events in Washington this week
7:00pm in Room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on "The Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Budget Request from the Department of Defense."
9:30 in Room G50, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on "Department of Defense Budget Posture."
10:00 in Room 2008, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee on "Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection FY18 Budget Request."
10:00 in Room 219, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on "Review of the FY 2018 State Department Budget Request."
10:00–11:00 at the Council of the Americas: "Economic Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean." (RSVP required).
10:00–12:00 at the Wilson Center: "Labor Law Reform from the Perspective of the Brazilian Labor Court." (RSVP required).
2:30 in Room 192, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Appropriations State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee on "Review of the FY2018 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of State."
3:00–4:30 at the National Endowment for Democracy: "The End of an Era? Bolivia's Evo Morales and the Alternation of Power" (RSVP required).
8:30–4:00 at the Wilson Center: "Fourth Annual "Building a Competitive U.S.-Mexico Border" Conference" (RSVP required).
9:00 in Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on "The FY 2018 Foreign Affairs Budget."
10:30 in Room 192, Dirksen Senate Office Building: Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee on "Review of the FY2018 Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Defense."
2:00 in Room 2359, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Appropriations State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee on "Department of State – Budget."
9:00 in Room 2359, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee on "Department of Defense – Budget."
10:00 in Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building: Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee on "Foreign Military Sales: Process and Policy."
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PARIS – Three years after launching the feminist t-shirts that turned the entire fast-fashion industry into a factory of empowerment messages, Dior returned to power this Tuesday in Paris with a commercial collection that celebrates the great successes of its designer, Maria Grazia Chiuri.
"Sisterhood is Powerful," Sisterhood is Global" and "Sisterhood is Forever," titles from the works of American feminist poet Robin Morgan, became the new silkscreen of basic t-shirts.
As back in 2016 when "We Should All Be Feminists," the title of a manifesto by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wallpapered stores and products at Dior, the emblematic firm falls for the winks of influencers.
The fashion show on Tuesday was attended by Gala Gonzalez, Dulceida, Pelayo, Anne-Laure Mais, Camille Charriere, Bryan Boy, all dressed in Dior designed by Chiuri, her porcelain prints and t-shirts with messages.
On the catwalk, the Italian woman in charge of the brand's design since 2016, turned her attention to the "Teddy Girls," female counterparts of the "Teddy Boys," one of the first British subcultures, which allowed her to review the outlines of the 1950s, where the "New Look," created by Christian Dior in 1947, was key.
This enabled her to come back to large men's jackets, the flounced skirts and the leather jackets in typical English prints such as the two-tone punk square (black and red or black and green) or the tartan that covered suits in wool with a word of honor neckline on polo style sweaters, buttoned up to the neck.
The young Saint Laurent, who had just turned 21 at the time, took the reins of the brand after the sudden death of Dior and rejuvenated the "New Look" inspired by the alternative cultures that populated the big cities, an idea that Chiuri now takes up again.
"The alternative cultures confirm that the simple fact of choosing your clothes gives it a political dimension," says a note distributed to the guests at the parade, which included actress Jennifer Lawrence, models Cara Delevingne and Bar Refaeli and actress Bianca Jagger.
Victoria/Tomas, made up of Victoria Feldman and Tomas Berzins, were also inspired by women to create their collection, although more specifically by Parisian women.
Feldman and Berzins delved into the "vintage" spirit of the capital's shops with wide blouses, men's military coats, mid-leg skirts, and cordoned boots, with a colorful range, rarely seen in Paris, whose citizens are famous – and rightly so – for always wearing dark tones.
Much more minimalist was the Autumn-Winter 2019/2020 line presented by Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga in his Anrealage brand with extra-large volumes and straight shapes.
On the catwalk he showed a knitted layer that is closed only by a button almost 30 centimeters in diameter, or a wool sweater that falls apart to become a dress.


A cover version of Chomber from the M1 soundtrack. A lot of fun to record! Especially since this one's in 7/4 time!
Hey that's badass! You did a great job with the guitars. I also love the build at the one minute mark. You should do more of these if you feel inclined and haven't already!
Windbreaker wrote: Hey that's badass! You did a great job with the guitars. I also love the build at the one minute mark. You should do more of these if you feel inclined and haven't already!
Thanks man! I'm actually currently working to cover the entire soundtrack. I'll be sure to post tracks on here as I finish them.
I am unreasonably excited about this. I love the Marathon soundtrack so much. Craig Hardgrove's 'Leela (acoustic)' was my ringtone for probably a decade, and I actually used to listen to it on a loop for hours.
This cover was fantastic, and I'm really looking forward to any more you produce.
Also the guitar definitely gave it a Halo vibe. I like seeing the music gap there bridged a bit.
FaffyMcFafferson wrote: Thanks man! I'm actually currently working to cover the entire soundtrack. I'll be sure to post tracks on here as I finish them.
Awesome! I agree with Switch - the guitars definitely have a Halo vibe. I enjoyed the panning and such.
I'm seeing them in San Fran in October! A bunch of my maps are named after their songs/albums, "Back to Basom", "The Pod", "Candi [Land]"
You guys are saying Halo, but I'm really thinking more Starcraft 2 Terran music.
Mmmm, do I sense a guitar riffing weapon for the Marathon marine? ROCK ON with this cover.


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Chicago police plan overhaul of gang database amid debate over usefulness
The current database will be updated and regularly audited in light of debate around similar lists in Los Angeles and New York
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CHICAGO — With a high school degree and a steady job, the lifelong West Side resident said he has no interest in gang life.
But he's the son of a former Vice Lord and grew up around members of the gang, a fact that follows him constantly.
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Once in jail for a minor crime, he told jail staff of his connection so he wouldn't wind up housed with a rival. Another time police stopped him while he and his friends were filming a video and took pictures of his ID and tattoos.
And so, fairly or not, the 28-year-old, who asked that his name not be used, is nearly certain he landed in the controversial computerized gang records of the Chicago Police Department.
Interim Superintendent Charlie Beck last month announced the department's intention to build what he says will be an updated, timely and audited gang list that will be more accurate and fair to those who find their way onto it, and give more people a way to have their name deleted. Still, the creation of the new Criminal Enterprise Information System is a move that comes as local and national experts caution that collecting such data in any form is fraught with the potential for overpolicing, racial profiling and distracting officers from more effective ways to reduce crime.
Police departments across the country are struggling to walk back from decades of racially biased practices that swept thousands of African American men into the justice system and damaged trust in neighborhoods. Figuring out what gang labels even mean anymore and what or if the intelligence can help police reduce crime remains tricky at best, experts said.
"I think the question in my mind is: What purpose does the database serve? What is a street gang? What does that mean in today's day and age," said Chicago gang researcher Roberto Aspholm, a professor of social work at Southern Illinois University.
"The undercurrent of that approach is that street gangs are best dealt with via aggressive policing and prosecutions. And that is not a compelling perspective to me. The histories of the last 50 years in our cities have shown that that approach has not proven effective."
Advocates in Beck's home city of Los Angeles are raising some of the loudest alarms, with officers there recently facing discipline for providing false gang information on people they'd stopped.
But Beck, who in his 40 years at the LAPD worked in gang units and later championed partnerships with former gang members to reduce crime, has told the Tribune that while he is committed to a balance between community partnership and enforcement, the city is still suffering from too much violence not to focus on the "small percentage involved in the vast majority of crimes."
"If you are not able to take them out of the system, they will continue to offend. So it really is important to address shootings and homicides with a strong investigative tool," Beck said. "This is not a small problem in Chicago. It is a huge problem."
When the department started releasing information on its gang data nearly two years ago, the problems were immediately obvious.
In a list provided to the Tribune after a Freedom of Information Act request, two gang members were said to be 132 years old, apparent typos, while another was listed as 84. There were 12,000 supposed gang members in the data who were 50 or older.
The racial disparity raised questions as well. African Americans and Hispanics made up 95% of those in the database, which critics and experts said was a result of unfair targeting of predominantly minority neighborhoods on the South and West sides with excessive street stops and arrests.
At hearings on the database held by city of Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson, one older man told of being stopped by police with a grandchild in the car, and the officer, after running his name, asked him if he was still a Black Gangster gang member.
Being included in the gang data has had other real implications for some. One man filed a federal lawsuit contending he was denied a concealed carry license because of his inclusion, which limited his job prospects.
Another was targeted by immigration officers for a raid and detention based on falsely being labeled a gang member by Chicago police. Advocates have said CPD's information being shared with ICE is not an uncommon complaint, though police now promise the new list won't be provided to immigration authorities.
Civil rights attorneys warn of other adverse outcomes — being targeted for enhancements in a prosecution or a harsher sentence because of supposed gang affiliation. Even department leadership has acknowledged the data collection system, based on information gathered from multiple reports, had to be fixed. Beck called it "out of whack."
"I agree there were not enough civil protections," Beck said in his interview with the Tribune last month.
With the creation of the new Criminal Enterprise Information System, police said a thorough review of their gang data will drop the number of people on the list significantly from its current count of 130,000 names.
And the criteria for getting on the list in the first place will become more specific, they said.
People will be added if they make a voluntary self-admission of gang membership that is recorded on a video or audio device, such as an officer's body camera, police said. In addition, a person might be added if two of the following conditions are met: An unrecorded self-admission of gang membership; the wearing of distinctive gang emblems or tattoos; the identification of the person as a gang member by a reliable informant; the use of distinctive gang signs or symbols; being identified as a gang member by another governmental or penal institution; or being arrested, charged or convicted of a crime where gang membership is an element of the offense or is documented in a court record.
In an attempt to reduce the possibility for subjective judgment by officers, the new police order states that the wearing or use of clothing, emblems, and tattoos can't be used together to justify addition to the database absent another variable.
Names submitted for the list will be checked by supervisors and district intelligence officers before being added, police said, and people will be able to find out whether they are on the list and then appeal it. No one will be on the list more than five years, unless they commit another gang-related infraction.
Only officers who are trained on the new procedures will have access to the database, police said.
Still none of the planned reforms swayed the civil right attorneys and activists who remain committed to eradicating the pooling of such data altogether.
"I think there is not enough assurances that there will be the kind of rigor behind these processes," said Sheila Bedi, a professor of law at Northwestern University, who has filed database-related lawsuits against the department. "We don't have information about how police officers are going to be trained, about how supervisors are going to be trained."
Bedi points to what has happened in the Los Angeles Police Department as a "foreshadowing" of what will happen in Chicago.
"The failures of the L.A. gang database foreshadow what is likely to happen here, particularly given the Chicago's long history of falsifying evidence," Bedi said. "We don't have enough in the policy that reflects what proof (of membership) is going to be in the database. Could this all come down to what the officer said?"
Asked about the problems in L.A., Chicago police pointed to the review layers that will be in place to verify the information, but also said any "false reporting" will be taken seriously.
Beck, in his February comments to the Tribune said, despite the criticism, it was his experience in Los Angeles that convinced him that Chicago needed to have a robust gang database.
"I know it works because I have been using it for decades in California, and we were able to reduce crime to historic lows by having accurate, timely evidence," Beck told the Tribune, when he announced Chicago's new Criminal Enterprise Information System.
But the database used by all of California law enforcement, CalGang, has been highly controversial, including in recent months.
In January LAPD Chief Michel Moore announced that several officers in one of the department's specialized crime suppression units were the subject of an investigation for falsifying gang data — information that only came to light after a mother appealed her son having been identified as a gang member.
"Given the serious nature of the alleged misconduct, all involved officers have been assigned to inactive duty or removed from the field," according to a Jan. 7 LAPD statement announcing that several officers were suspected of falsifying field interview cards.
Melanie Ochoa, staff attorney for the ACLU of Southern California, noted other problems that suggest L.A. officers are struggling with documentation. Ochoa pointed to the city's voluntary removal between 2016 and 2018 of nearly 7,500 individuals from its civil gang injunction list after the ACLU and other L.A.-based advocacy groups filed a lawsuit.
"That goes to show you when they have to actually defend designating people as gang members they are not willing to do it," said Ochoa.
Ochoa said she had not read Chicago's new directive, but she would encourage any department considering retaining gang data to ask themselves some difficult questions, including whether they have the "restraint and wherewithal" to not be racially biased as they do so.
Chicago's training around the gang database has yet to be developed. In a statement, officials said it would "address implicit bias and procedural justice" as a way to make sure officers don't rely on things such as race or gender or "culture" to decide someone is in a gang.
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Citywide research released Wednesday gave Philadelphia officials a closer look at homelessness among the city's youth.
According to the 106-page report that was part of a national study, there were at least 569 people ages of 13 and 25 who were counted as being homeless and unaccompanied at the time of a survey conducted on one night in August 2016, the city's Office of Homeless Services said.
Of those counted, 28 percent had been in foster care, the juvenile justice system or both at sometime in their lives.
The research is part of Voices of Youth Count, a national effort to end youth homelessness led by Chapin Hall, a policy research center at the University of Chicago.
Philadelphia was one of 22 U.S. cities selected for the effort, as well as one of five cities where young people who were either currently or formerly homeless were interviewed for the project.
OHS plans to release content from those interviews in the coming months, officials said.
"Our primary goal in participating in the Voices of Youth Count study was to learn more about the needs of this hidden and vulnerable population so that we can accelerate solutions to prevent and end youth homelessness," OHS Director Liz Hersh said in a statement.
OHS officials plan to hold a Nov. 28 forum on the findings with the Philly Homes 4 Youth Coalition, a group of more than 30 public and private agencies working to address homelessness among youth. The event runs from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in the Mayor's Reception Room at City Hall.
The report also found that 70 percent of those counted were African American, 78 percent had graduated high school or received their GED and more than one-third of females were mothers or pregnant at the time, officials said.
A news release hailed the report as the city's most comprehensive report to date on youth homelessness.
The national effort was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as from numerous charitable foundations.


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'Our Kind of Traitor' on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD
!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, DVD, spies and espionage, suspense, SVOD 12/13/202012/13/2020 Sean Axmaker
Our Kind of Traitor (2016), based on the 2010 novel by John le Carré, drops a civilian couple in the midst of international intrigue involving Russian mobsters and British Intelligence. Ewan McGregor is a professor of poetics trying to salvage a petrified romance on a vacation trip in Morocco with his girlfriend Gail (Naomie Harris), a corporate lawyer constantly juggling phone calls and deadlines.
The name of McGregor's character is Perry Makepeace, as symbolic as they come, and when he steps in the middle of a spat between a young woman and a beefy Russian thug he attracts the attention of Dima (Stellan Skarsgård). Dima comes off as one of those boisterous, larger-than-life crime family figures—he invites Chris to knock back a few shots with his crew and later takes him into his lavish palace of a home—and then slips him a message to bring to MI6. He wants to get his family out of the reach of the mob and he's got information to trade. Damian Lewis is the MI6 agent obsessed with stopping the Dima's boss, a ruthless oligarch who retires his former employees permanently, but with corruption in British Intelligence so pervasive he persuades Perry and Gail to continue playing go-between, landing them in the crosshairs of the gangsters from whom Dima is trying to free his wife and gaggle of kids.
This is a simpler thriller than the other 2016 le Carré production, the TV miniseries The Night Manager, and Susanna White, a British TV veteran, matches the smaller scope with quiet, low-key direction, a spare canvas, and a palette of somber colors that leans toward the nocturnal. It's more about the people than the politics, the information a maguffin to drive the defection caper, the thriller a crucible that bond Perry and Gail in a shared commitment to save a family they grow to care for. John le Carré's disillusionment in government intelligence priorities and compromises is handed to Lewis's driven agent while the civilians put a human face on the lives tangled in the spy movie plays and criminal conspiracies. There's no righteous anger here, but there is a spark of hope.
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Q: Many-to-many with composite keys: No unique constraint? In SQLAlchemy I've declared 2 classes with a composite primary key and would like a many-to-many relation between them. This:
class Topic(Base):
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    id = Column(BigInteger, primary_key=True)
    repo = Column(String, primary_key=True)

class Label(Base):
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    repo = Column(String, primary_key=True)
    title = Column(String(25), primary_key=True)

class TopicLabel(Base):
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    topic_repo = Column(String, primary_key=True)
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This results in the following error:
sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (psycopg2.errors.InvalidForeignKey) there is no unique constraint matching given keys for referenced table "label"

[SQL:
CREATE TABLE topic_label (
    topic_id BIGINT NOT NULL,
    topic_repo VARCHAR NOT NULL,
    label_repo VARCHAR NOT NULL,
    label_title VARCHAR NOT NULL,
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]

What am I doing wrong here?

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Wildcat Journey
UArizona welcomes largest, most diverse class
The University of Arizona has enrolled its largest, most diverse and most academically prepared incoming class in history, with approximately 8,900 first-year students starting classes this fall.
Allied health programs to expand workforce in critical areas
Future University of Arizona Health Sciences students will have new health care career opportunities thanks to the Arizona Board of Regents' approval of three new degree programs.
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FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2019, file photo, Denver Broncos wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders (10) runs after a catch against the San Francisco 49ers during an NFL preseason football game in Denver. The 32-year-old speedster revealed this summer that he had surgeries on both ankles in the offseason, one to repair his left Achilles tendon, which he tore in practice last December, and one a month later to fix a severely sprained right ankle, which had bothered him since 2017. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2019, file photo, San Francisco 49ers linebacker LaRoy Reynolds lines up during an NFL preseason football game between the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers, in Denver. The Atlanta Falcons have agreed to a contract with free-agent linebacker LaRoy Reynolds, who played in 15 games with Cincinnati in 2019. The 29-year-old Reynolds has played with five NFL teams, including the 2016-17 seasons with the Falcons, in seven NFL seasons. He is expected to add depth and contribute on special teams. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2019, file photo, Denver Broncos outside linebacker Bradley Chubb looks on during an NFL preseason football game between the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco 49ers in Denver. Many players polled by The Associated Press over the last couple of weeks say they are scared to return to work without a cure or a vaccine for the coronavirus. By and large, however, those same players say they trust the protocols the NFL will have in place by the time practices resume and games return. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)
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Q: HQL Injection/findAll with sorting In my application, the query is being built by appending the first part(where clause) with the second part(order by) using a separate script like QueryBuilder.groovy and hence the order by part is prone to HQL injection which can't be sanitized by using Named Parameters. Therefore, I want to use findAll to retrieve a set of records by passing it a query and sorting and paging parameters separately. I saw an implementation like this:
     domainClass.findAll(query,[namedParams],[max: 10, offset: 5])

When i passed sortColumn and sortDirection as named parameters, sortColumn worked fine but sortDirection didn't work. i need a way to either make sortDirection work as a named parameter or any other way which will combine 'sorting by direction' with the findAll result. Many people have suggested on various forums to just use the parameters directly as part of the query but it is unacceptable for my application as it will expose the query to HQL Injection.
Thanks in advance.
here is an example:
  queryString = "FROM BookCatalog b WHERE b.bookNumber = :bookNumber"

this is passed to the QueryBuilder.groovy where something like this happens:
  sort = "$params.sortColumn $params.sortDirection"
  queryString.order(sort)

  public void sort(String query){
       this.query = this.query+" order by "+query
  }

finally findAll retrieves the list of records:
  def list = findAll(queryString,namedParams,queryParams)

so as the logic just appends the sorting parameters to the query string a potential hacker can do something like this:
  bookCatalogView?offset=2&max=5&sortColumn=1,2,3 **or 1=1**

or
  bookCatalogView?offset=2&max=5&sortColumn=1,2,3;**select * from whatever**

A: Don't concat strings, it's bad practice.
If you want to create complex queries, consider using createCriteria()
SomeDomainClass.createCriteria().list {
    order("propName", "desc")
}

or, if you need more control, in the sessionFactory way:
query = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createCriteria(DomainClass.class)
query.addOrder(Order.asc("someField"))
query.addOrder(Order.desc("someotherField"))


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Home » Lifestyle » Anna Kendrick: I Emailed the Woman My Ex Cheated on Me With
Anna Kendrick: I Emailed the Woman My Ex Cheated on Me With
Reflecting on the past. Anna Kendrick has opened up about the "capital T truth" she learned after discovering a previous partner was allegedly unfaithful.
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"[I] was exposed to [a] year-long text exchange and went, 'Oh, I was right about everything. Oh, OK.' It was actually way worse than I even thought," the Pitch Perfect star, 37, told Dax Shepard during the Monday, January 9, episode of his "Armchair Expert" podcast.
Kendrick — who declined to name her ex-boyfriend in question — had previously confronted him about an alleged affair, which he fervently denied. "He is screaming at me, 'It was passing crush, you're so insecure, I never saw a relationship with this girl, I even told my best friend I never saw a relationship with this girl,'" she told the Parenthood alum, 48.
After discovering the alleged text messages, in which her former beau had apparently told a mystery woman that he wanted to "blow up" his life for her after one week of "f—king you," the Noelle actress confronted her partner again. He further claimed that he didn't know what she was speaking about.
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Kendrick also decided to reach out to the woman that her then-beau had been messaging to loop her into the drama. "I ended up emailing this young woman," she remembered on Monday. "And saying, 'I just think it's fair that you know that I know. I don't put this at your doorstep. You made a mistake, but you're 25. We've all done stupid s—t. I very much lay this at his doorstep."
She added: "I don't know why we would ever be in a room together, but if we were I just kind of need you to know. If I were you I wouldn't want to talk to me, but if you ever wanted to talk I'm more than willing.' To her eternal credit, she was like, 'Yes, can I call you?' We talked on the phone for about an hour and she was just like, 'I'm so embarrassed and I'm so sorry. This was a mistake.'"
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Sunshine Coast Council has unveiled an Australian-first with new website Adventure Sunshine Coast.
Did you know there are 569 kilometres of signed trails across the region and the Sunshine Coast Council maintain 146 kilometres of these?
It is now easier than ever before to plan your next Sunshine Coast adventure with the launch of a new online guide to our great outdoors.
Called Adventure Sunshine Coast, the Australian-first website showcases more than 150 free self-guided walking, cycling, mountain biking, horse riding and canoeing activities for people of all abilities – whether you're a first-timer or experienced adventurer.
Community and Environment portfolio councillor Jenny McKay says Adventure Sunshine Coast is the first trail-finding website of its kind in Australia.
"It's unique because you can search all outdoor recreation activities on one website – whether it's a walk, ride or paddle adventure," she says.
"Simply choose your activity and select the difficulty level to view all your local trails on a map, then browse the descriptions, photos and reviews to take your pick of the land and water trails on offer.
To celebrate the launch of the platform, which is provided and maintained by the council and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, the council will host a series of free guided tours from April 8 to 14.
Bookings are essential and spaces are limited for these exciting free family-friendly events.
To book online, head to adventure.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au.


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Template talk:Olympic Winter Games Host Cities
1 Cosmetics
2 TfD nomination of Template:Olympic Winter Games Host Cities
3 Dynamic template
4 Erzurum
Cosmetics[edit]
I like the template, but I was wondering if we could make it more compact (less white space) and more symmetrical. For example, I think it might make more sense to use the short version of the names, e.g., "Chamonix" and "Oslo" rather than "Chamonix, France" and "Oslo, Norway." Also, the logo and title appear lopsided. --Leifern 16:06, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Take a look now, and see what you think. It's been condensed quite a bit, but the top is still giving me some difficulty. — ArkansasTraveler 16:35, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
I personally feel this template should have the same outlook as the Olympic Summer Games template, especially so each host city get bolded on the respective city article. Someone who'd like to set this into action? :) Erik 12:54, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
TfD nomination of Template:Olympic Winter Games Host Cities[edit]
Template:Olympic Winter Games Host Cities has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Olympic Winter Games Host Cities. Thank you. Flowerparty■ 00:13, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
The result of the debate was keep. See Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 February 23. -Splashtalk 01:26, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
In my opinion, this template's got to go, or atleast be fixed. I was at the Lillehammer (city) page and I tried to get to the Lillehammer Olympics and there wasn't even a link to the games on this template! Further, that's the purpose of Template:Olympic Games. This template is truely unattractive and very big. It definitely needs to be fixed. The summer one too. → J@red talk+ ubx 03:18, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Dynamic template[edit]
To have a more consistent look, I'd prefer the version with the Dynamic navigation box ([1]). Are there any improvements that version could use? Otherwise, I'd reactivate it. -- User:Docu
I, too, like the dynamic box. Make sure that if you change it back, you also make sure the summer host cities template has the dynamic box, too. → J@red 19:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Erzurum[edit]
Why there is the city "Erzurum" (2011) in box? As I know exectly, it isn't an Olimpic city. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Жабыш (talk • contribs) 14:30, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
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Jui-Kun Chen
Education: M.S., Accounting, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Experience: Macronix International Co., Ltd., Operation Center, Executive Director
Jui-Kun Chen is the Vice President of Microelectronics and Memory Solution Group of Macronix International Co., Ltd.
Jui-Kun Chen joined Macronix in 1991. During his career with Macronix, he has been involved in many different aspects of the company's operation, including process engineering, manufacturing, fab management, production control and management. He had rich experience in 8-inch and advanced 12-inch fab operation and had been served as Department Manager, Factory Director, and Executive Director.
Jui-Kun Chen received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from National Tsing Hua University in 1985 and M.S. degree in Accounting from National Taiwan University in 2003. Before joining Macronix, he was with United Microelectronics Corporation and Quasel.
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