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NBC News anchor Brian Williams apologized for his erroneous account of being aboard a helicopter forced to make an emergency landing after being hit by enemy fire while reporting on the Iraq war in 2003. Williams blames the fallibility of human recall for the error. How can the neuroscience of memory (and false memory) provide insight?
This may seem like old news. Thanks to Will Smith's "neuralizer" blasting away horrific memories of alien attacks in the 1997 movie "Men in Black," and the quest to bury the heartbreak of a broken romance in the 2004 flick "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," the concept of erasing memory has become commonplace. More recently research to relieve PTSD using propranolol and other drugs to quell traumatic memories has edged fiction closer to fact, but the method has produced mixed results. Certainly memories can be obliterated in experimental animals, but the drugs used on lab rats cannot be given to people because of serious side effects and other issues related to the more complex cognitive processing in humans. The fact is, there is no convincing evidence that the memory of specific experience (called declarative memory) can be erased in humans–until now.


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Shep Smith: Journalists are not the enemy of the people
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Shep Smith: Journalists are not the enemy of the people.
White House stops CNN reporter from attending a Rose Garden event.
Shepard Smith shares his thoughts on Fox News Channel.
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[+6] - maporsche - 08/09/2018See Brandon9000....Trumps message is coming through loud and clear.
[+5] - revelette1 - 08/04/2018Bernie Sanders has never referred to any group of people as "enemies." Bernie Sanders had a responsibility to his supporters to express non violence and I believe he did. Moreover, Trump...
[+5] - cicerone imposter - 08/04/2018Trump does not understand his responsibilities as president of this country. Don't expect normal from him. You'll only be disappointed. The next two years are going to seem like eternity.
[+5] - Briancrc - 08/05/2018I don't think Trump's lack of nuance factors in much. Trump apologists have been taught by their "news sources" to treat errors or occasional misinformation as equivalent to planned...
[+5] - neptuneblue - 08/10/2018[quote="livinglava"] Then let me clarify my position: I am more bothered by the bias of the press than I am interested in supporting Trump. I think Trump is used as a rallying point by...
[+5] - glitterbag - 08/21/2018This is getting out of hand and it�s unnecessary. The outrage over �namecalling� seems to exist if someone is called Anglophobic or anti-American.....I think they cancel...
[+4] - glitterbag - 08/03/2018Good on ya, Shep
[+4] - Rummy - 08/03/2018C'mon man! Have you EVER seen a single Press Conference or Briefing where reporters are not shouting out to try and get that last question in? Nope, me neither. Get over yourself. The press is...
[+4] - vikorr - 08/03/2018[quote]She was the only one trying to interrupt the President[/quote]Hardly the definition of a trespasser. [quote]She was the only one being directly told by a secret service agent that he had...
[+4] - cicerone imposter - 08/04/2018Trump claims "fake news," but has never explained why they are fake. Poor man can't handle the truth. The media is democracies friend, not it's enemy like Trump would have us believe....
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President Donald Trump's media attacks raise the risk of violence against journalists, UN experts have warned.
In a statement, David Kaye and Edison Lanza of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights called the attacks "strategic" and said they undermined press freedom and "verifiable facts".
The comments follow hours after Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka distanced herself from her father's attacks.
Mr Trump has repeatedly criticised the media before and during his presidency.
He has declared journalists to be "enemies of the people", drawing condemnation from across the political spectrum.
Earlier on Thursday, his daughter Ivanka broke from her father's remarks - prompting a tweet from Mr Trump in which he attacked "fake news" as the real threat.
This is how dictatorships start. As well as Kim Jong Un, the two leaders Trump shows most respect for are Erdogan and Putin, two leaders who have managed to extend their rule way beyond the legal term when they took office.
glitterbag
@Real Music,
Good on ya, Shep
layman
What a pompous, sanctimonious, self-righteous, self-serving blowhard. The press conference was over. This particular reporter was, as shown there on tape, thanked for her attendance, and repeatedly told the press conference was over. She still just kept shouting asinine questions like "Do you feel Cohen has betrayed you?"
Freedom of the press does not mean freedom to bust into the White House and rudely shout questions after being politely told that it was time (for her and everyone else) to leave. That's simple trespass and disturbance of the peace, not "journalism."
The White House on Thursday defended its decision to bar a CNN correspondent from attending an open press event but contended it had nothing to do with the questions she asked."It had nothing to do with the content of the question," Gidley told reporters.
Gidley said Collins "was told repeatedly to leave the Oval Office." She refused and stayed "despite staff, Secret Service, everyone trying to usher everyone out of the room," Gidley said. "And that can't happen."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-cnn-kaitlan-collins-white-house-20180726-story.html
To hear these self-important "reporters" tell it, the white house has absolutely no right to maintain order or maintain it's own schedule. Only reporters should control those things. They can take over the Oval Office and stay as long as they like, while forcing the President of the United States to cater to them.
They didn't "ban reporters" from anything. They simply disciplined one unruly and rude person for refusing to follow protocol and for violating all standards of common decency.
Deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said Kaitlan Collins was denied access to Trump's Rose Garden event with the European Commission president on Wednesday because of her refusal to leave the Oval Office during a previous availability with the president.
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday said the White House had made clear that other CNN journalists were welcome at the Rose Garden event, just not Collins.
"To be clear, we support a free press and ask that everyone be respectful of the presidency and guests at the White House," she said.
neptuneblue
@layman,
layman wrote:
Well, Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly dodges and deflects questions she doesn't want to answer. She continues to ignore questions in the "daily" briefings and if she does answer a direct question, the answer is incomplete and leaves even more ambiguity. She sticks to a script and if a question is asked that's not on the script, she ignores it. How is that transparency?
Hint: it's not.
@neptuneblue,
What does 'transparency' have to do with anything I said, or anything else involving this whole incident? This was a public meeting by Trump with some kind of foreign official, who is also entitled to respect. Her questions didn't even have anything to do with the nature of the occasion.
Generally both Trump and the foreign dignitary speak at these things, then each answers questions about what they just said, not about how good their wife is in bed or some **** like that.
Transparency is everything. How does that not apply here?
neptuneblue wrote:
How does "transparency" have anything to do with your supposed right to walk into my house and shout at me after I tell you to leave? Does your desire to follow me into my own bathroom because you want "transparency" give you the right to trespass on my property and invade my privacy?
I don't think so! Homey don't play dat.
Did we watch the same video???
Trust me, I'm not following you anywhere, let alone a bathroom. This was a PRESS BRIEFING. Not a private conversation.
You have your answer in a nutshell. Asking questions is disturbance of the peace. How long before printing such questions gets you locked up for sedition.
They've already targeted minorities, LGBT, Black and Hispanic people, now they want to get rid of the free press. They won't want anyone reporting on gerrymandering and illegal ID requirements to stop people exercising their right to vote.
Are you really that ignorant? The press conference had gone on for some time, prior to where this video picks up. Questions from reporters, both foreign and domestic, were asked and answered. The press conference was scheduled to last only so long, not FOREVER.
This reporter was not singled out. EVERYONE was told that the question and answer session had ended. EVERYONE. But that doesn't apply to HER, she thinks. She can defy secret service orders and scream as long as she wants if you ask her.
Nobody in this country has the right to be disruptive and/or to trespass. The press seems to think they have that right, somehow. Fraid not.
Press conferences don't last FOREVER. They end when the question and answer period has concluded. In this case, the willful ignorance of reporter's questions was not transparent nor was it complete. Therefore, answer the question, truthfully and completely, and THEN it's over.
@izzythepush,
1. Trump seems to think that the press is suppose to only give him softball easy questions.
2. Trump seems to think that the press is suppose to praise his every action.
3. Trumps seems to think the press is suppose to kiss his ass and only say good things about him.
4. Trump seems to think the press is never suppose to say anything negative about him.
5. I see why Trump admire other authoritarian leaders.
6. Trump wants to rule as an authoritarian dictator just like them.
vikorr
Such an asinine and irrelevant comparrison:
to walk into my house
-She was invited, while you compare with not being invited
- you compare a public institution with your private dwelling
- you compare an organisation that needs to be accountable for decisions, vs your personal life
and shout at me
- you compare a person a distance away in a noisy room who doesn't have a microphone (so a raised voice is absolutely necessary - you will not hear normal conversation in that mess), to your close quarters, uncrowded, home.
to follow me into my own bathroom
certainly inappropriate, nonsensical comparison:
- she didn't follow, but that's what you want to compare to
- public place by invite, versus private bathroom without invite
Basically almost every phrase and any words were very incorrect for comparison, highlighting ulterior motives, because honest comparison would never phrase things the way you just did. How then can your perspective carry any credibility?
That was the worst of your comparisons, but your other posts also have problems.
I personally think news papers and TV journalism leaves a lot to be desired, particularly in relation to their ethics, and the deceptiveness of their reporting (not that they lie, but that deception easily occurs through omission, and slanted perspective). That said, Trumps attacks on Law Enforcement, and particularly on Journalism, are incredibly harmful to democracy.
@vikorr,
The press conference was over. Period. I can't believe that posters on this forum are just as impudent as reporters.
Wait, I take that back. I can believe it. I see it every day. The same presumptuousness. The same smug arrogance. The same sense of entitlement that a spoiled two year old has. The same total lack of self-respect, let alone respect for others.
Therefore, answer the question, truthfully and completely, and THEN it's over.
That may be the most nonsensical statement I've heard today, and I've heard plenty.
Trump just kept saying, 4 or 5 times, to everyone "Thank you" in a manner which was a clear announcement that time for questions was up.
A secret service agent, standing right next to this bitch, kept telling her, very politely, that it was time to leave (it's their job to enforce order at the white house). She ignored him and just kept shouting irrelevant questions.
If that's what reporters are expected to do, then they are, in fact, "enemies of the people," subject to criminal sanctions.
Everyone in this thread (so far) should get together, form an "occupy the Oval Office" gang, and go for it. See what happens.
So truth isn't your forte.
The only reason you Trumper's feel the media is "The Enemy Of The People" is because they are asking the tough questions and getting no type of affitmative response. You have Sarah, who's job it IS to answer press questions, but dodges and or reads from the script, in response to every tough question.
This President, (i have a hard time using that terminology) feels that every Government Agency, and the Press, should perpetually praise him and bow to his lies and FALSE STATEMENTS, and if they don't, they are The Enemy Of The People".
I've never been so embarrassed to be an American, and or a Republican.....
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A handful of soil: An ecocritical reading of land in Randa Abdel-Fattah's where the streets had a name
Raihanah Mohd Mydin, Hamoud Yahya Ahmed, Ruzy Suliza Hashim
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This article explores how Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979-), a Palestinian-Egyptian Australian diasporic writer, engages with the land as being ecocritically functional in her Palestinian-centred novel Where the Streets Had a Name (2008). The premise of the article is that a fictional representation of the Palestinian struggle for emancipation against occupation can be read for its environmental concerns; in particular, for the representation of the intersections of nature and culture. To this end, the article proposes a tripartite approach in reading politics of environment in the narrative by focusing on the effects of land on mind, body and voice. The analysis is carried out through the lens of ecocriticism and it reveals the symbiotic interconnections between humans and land. The findings reveal that the crisis experienced by the Palestinians in Abdel-Fattah's fiction goes beyond the need to preserve their past as the land has strong implications on their present state of mind, body and voice.
Randa Adel-Fattah
Mohd Mydin, R., Ahmed, H. Y., & Hashim, R. S. (2014). A handful of soil: An ecocritical reading of land in Randa Abdel-Fattah's where the streets had a name. Asiatic, 8(2), 137-148.
A handful of soil : An ecocritical reading of land in Randa Abdel-Fattah's where the streets had a name. / Mohd Mydin, Raihanah; Ahmed, Hamoud Yahya; Hashim, Ruzy Suliza.
In: Asiatic, Vol. 8, No. 2, 01.12.2014, p. 137-148.
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Arcade Emulator MAME Goes Open Source
by Carl Batchelor on May 17, 2015 at 1:06 PM, EDT
Multi-Arcade-Machine-Emulator, otherwise known as MAME, looks like it's finally going open source. According to a tweet by the development team, the program will be making the source code available for commercial use and is asking for contributors to contact them for permission.
Though MAME has always been a bit open source already (You can see that in all the offshoots people have made of the program, like GLMame, CPS2Mame, and StretchMame, which later had their unique additions crammed into the main MAME releases), this movement towards "real" open source just means they are doing something they haven't done until now: Allowing developers to use the program for commercial projects.
The plan seems to be similar to what DOSbox has done. That is to say, copyright holders of old/abandoned arcade games could use MAME to make their titles playable and then legally distribute them over, say, Steam or GOG. This could be huge for classic gaming, since it's possible we may see some of gaming's forgotten treasures come back to life, perhaps with new content or even a sequel if they sell enough.
You can follow the progress of MAME on its Twitter or the official website.
Arcade, emulation, Emulators, MAME
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Carl is both a JRPG fan and a CRPG'er who especially loves European PC games. Even with more than three decades of gaming under his belt, he feels the best of the hobby is yet to come.
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This Blog is about ironic trope – I know WHAT? It's a figure of speech, or a play on words that has persuasive power.
I asked my husband what he thought was meant by the term Flaming June. For him, June is the height of summer.
For me it has a completely different connotation. At the beginning of the month, the dishwasher broke down; I duly sourced another from the internet which was delivered 5 days later, only to find it was the plumbing at fault not the dishwasher itself. However, I now have a nice new and shiny dishwasher!
A week or so later at 5.30 in the morning I jumped in the shower, screamed and leapt back out again. Three visits later, the boiler man, has yet to discover the cause of the problem. However, it turns out that we have an emersion heater that was quickly put into working order by a really good and decent electrician friend for the price of a beer!
Week three and the vacuum cleaner stopped working – phew I wept in relief! That's the third thing. Plus, I hate vacuuming; any housework actually!
Then driving home on Friday to meet the plumber for the fourth time, broke down, called the AA out, to be informed that there was a hole in the clutch pipe. (I am sure there is a technical term). I have yet to discover the 'that's great' response to this piece of fate, especially as the cost is close to £600!
I lost internet connection on Saturday – does that mean only one more financial encumbrance looming. Flaming June!
What do you reckon to Flaming June?


In it's current state I've gotten the sythesizer portion working fairly well. I've taken some code from a source I found online for a polyphonic synth, that to be honest was far too complicated for me to really understand, however I was able to parse it down and edit it to suit my needs. There are some issues with volume that I need to address, perhaps just try a larger speaker, as well as some issues with unintentional pitch modulation that I think is due to wires not being quite insulated and touching since it goes away everytime I jiggle the breadboard.
I'm pleased with how the capacitive touch works, and how responsive it is in general.


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FENDI: Finally a Fashion Brand Gets 'Blackface' Right
April 1, 2019 March 31, 2019 by Corey Andrew
Fendi Spring/Summer 2019 – Ph. Karl Lagerfeld
There have been quite a few embarrassing, racially tinged missteps from fashion brands over the past couple of years. Take for example Prada's big lip monkey figurines and keychains that ignited a social media firestorm in 2018. It began when civil rights attorney, Chinyere Ezie posted to Facebook, a photo she took of the unusual items on display at the Prada boutique in Soho, New York City. To anyone who witnessed them, the representation of Blackface was clear.
Then in just the past few months, Gucci's version of a turtleneck sweater ran afoul when consumers noticed something unsettling about the $895 garment, designed to be pulled up to cover most of the face. It featured a mouth slit opening, accented with big red caricature lips, and again, as with Prada, a representation of Blackface seemed to be deliberate. The public outrage would lead to Gucci and Prada discontinuing both product lines.
If fashion is supposed to be progressive, these two brands failed miserably and managed to insult nearly 48,000,000 African Americans in the process. It marks all too many times I've been dismayed by the use of racially insensitive imagery by major brands, especially given the power, influence, and money within the African American demographic. According to Black Entrepreneur Magazine, that buying power hit 1.3 trillion dollars in 2017.
As such is the case, this makes me all the more appreciative to see models of color – specifically dark-skinned models of African heritage being celebrated respectfully in campaigns. So imagine my elation as I approached the Fendi Boutique recently at Hudson Yards in NYC and saw the bewitching beauty of Sudanese-born model Anok Yai, prominently featured as one of the primary campaign faces, on a larger-than-life marquee at the shop's entrance and throughout.
Of course, there are some black models in fashion campaigns but seemingly the higher end the brand, there is a disparity between these models and their white counterparts. To be safe, many brands often opt for models of racial ambiguity.
Juxtaposed to Gucci and Prada, Fendi is to be commended for its new Spring/Summer 2019 campaign, as it not only celebrates the deeper melanin side of Afrocentric beauty, but it also embraces Felani braids – AKA cornrows, as a legitimate hairstyle, in a high-end fashion campaign. Typically when we see cornrows in TV and film, they are associated with the "thug" look or prisons gangs. Those depictions are pure Hollywood bias – not at all aligned with the real pride of African hair and culture.
For those unaware, cornrows have been a contentious part of African American existence for decades; often misunderstood and deemed as unprofessional by corporate America. Ironically, adding a few cornrows by the hands of natives has become a novelty for white girls and women while on vacation in the Caribbean – an almost obligatory 'souvenir' of their trip.
It's worth noting too that in the 1977 Blake Edward's classic, "10" due to the film's popularity, white women everywhere wanted cornrows to look like the actress Bo Derek who rocked the style in the movie. She even wore them complete with African styled ceramic beads on the ends. Other than that though, seeing cornrows in "mainstream" media or major fashion campaigns is not the norm.
Fendi's 2019 Spring/Summer campaign has changed that. In what was was among the last marketing work created by the legendary Karl Lagerfeld before his death in February, it features the stunning Kaiya Gerber, and Sudanese-born models Adut Akech and Anok Yai. Yai, in my opinion, is the standout, as she shines like a goddess in one of the signature campaign images; her hair elegantly cornrowed back, a fierce direct gaze, an oversized white jacket, legs for miles, clutching two white Fendi handbags.
The campaign, in essence, is simplistic, progressive, diverse and celebratory all at once, representing today's mixed landscape of beauty. Say what you want about Karl Lagerfeld – and there are many opinions, but with this fashion campaign, which he also photographed – he nailed it. His vision speaks volumes about the Fendi brand's global awareness and understanding of the fiscal strength of its ethnic consumer base.
Acknowledgment is powerful.
Adding to the appeal of diversity in the campaign is the true story of how Anok Yai herself got discovered in the fashion world. It was in October 2017 during Howard University's homecoming week when a professional photographer saw her in the crowd and asked to take her picture.
The photo, which he posted to Instagram, went viral quickly gaining over 20,000 "likes," including from the world's top modeling agencies who sent requests to get in contact with the young college student, who had fled to America with her family in the year 2000 as a refugee fleeing the Sudanese genocide.
In so many ways this latest campaign by Fendi represents far more than fashion. From refugee to the world's top runways – for Anok, this campaign is definitive of the American dream come true.
Check Out More Behind The Scenes from Fendi's 2019 Spring/Summer Campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=UBLrGL2s9yU
This piece is an opinion piece by one Contributing Writer for Instinct Magazine and may not reflect the opinion of the magazine or other Contributing Writers.
Tags #AnokYai, #Beauty, #Blackgirlmagic #style, #FashionTrend, #fashionweek, #Fendi, #HowardUniversity, #KaiaGerber, #KarlLagerfeld, #Lagerfeld, #Sudan, Paris
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Население Парижа состоит из множества этнических групп, некоторые из которых (евреи, итальянцы, англичане, фламандцы, немцы) имеют давнюю историю проживания в городе, ещё со времён Средневековья, но большинство других обосновалось в столице Франции в XX веке. Париж поглотил несколько волн иммиграции: немцев, итальянцев и евреев в XIX веке, русских, армян и поляков — в первой половине XX века, испанцев, португальцев, итальянцев, арабов и евреев из Северной Африки, выходцев из Азии и Африки южнее Сахары — во второй половине XX века. Особенно внушительной была волна иммигрантов из Алжира в первой половине 1960-х годов (как этнических французов, так и арабов и евреев).

Из-за особенностей французского законодательства во время переписей населения не задают вопросы об этнической и религиозной принадлежности, а лишь собирают информацию о стране происхождения. Поэтому определить точное, а иногда даже приблизительное число членов той или иной этнической и религиозной группы представляется крайне сложным (статистика ведётся лишь относительно легальных иммигрантов, родившихся за рубежом и получивших французское гражданство, и иностранцев, временно пребывающих на территории Франции по тем или иным причинам; все остальные данные об этнической и религиозной принадлежности носят оценочный характер). Согласно переписи 1999 года 19,4 % всего населения Парижской столичной зоны родилось за пределами французской метрополии (то есть с учётом выходцев из заморских департаментов), а 4,2 % населения были недавними иммигрантами, в основном из Китая и Африки (то есть прибыли во Францию между переписями 1990 и 1999 годов).

По состоянию на 2006 год в Париже насчитывалось 328 тыс. иностранцев (15 % от всего населения) и 436 тыс. иммигратов, доля иммигрантов среди населения Парижа выросла с 18 % в 1999 году до 20 % в 2006 году (с учётом французских заморских департаментов доля иммигрантов составляла 29 %). Каждый десятый иностранец, живший во Франции, обитал в Париже. Среди парижан старше 60 лет иммигранты составляли более 20 % населения (80 тыс. человек). 52 % парижских иммигрантов были женщинами. В Париже представлены выходцы из 110 стран и территорий (среди наиболее распространённых иностранных языков были арабский, испанский, китайский, турецкий, русский и английский, а среди иностранцев и иммигрантов наиболее крупными группами были выходцы из Магриба, стран Африки южнее Сахары и Европы, меньшими — выходцы из Азии и Америки).

Этнические группы

В состав этнических групп Парижа входят люди разных категорий: иммигранты, получившие французское гражданство, нелегальные иммигранты, иностранцы, временно проживающие в стране или ждущие получения гражданства, потомки всех этих категорий, родившиеся уже во Франции и автоматически получившие гражданство, а также французские подданные, чьи давние родственники прибыли в Париж из-за рубежа, и которые хотя бы отчасти смогли сохранить этническую самоиндентификацию. Также существует большая группа горожан, родившихся от межэтнических и межрасовых связей. По состоянию на 2009 год в Париже официально проживало почти 335,5 тыс. иностранцев (которые составляли 15 % всего населения города), в том числе 29,8 % — выходцы из других стран Евросоюза, 8,9 % — из Алжира, 6,3 % — из Марокко, 4,5 % — из Туниса и 1,3 % — из Турции.

Среди европейцев выделяются выходцы из Португалии, Италии, Великобритании, Испании, России, Польши, Румынии, Болгарии, Венгрии, стран бывшей Югославии (сербы, хорваты, боснийцы, албанцы), Украины, Молдовы, среди африканцев — выходцы из Алжира, Марокко, Туниса, Мавритании, Реюньона и стран, расположенных южнее Сахары (Сенегал, Мали, Кот-д'Ивуар, Бенин, Нигерия, Камерун, ДРК, Конго, Ангола, Мадагаскар), среди азиатов — выходцы из Турции (в том числе курды), Ливана, Сирии, Палестины, Армении, Ирана, Вьетнама, Лаоса, Камбоджи, Китая, Шри-Ланки (преимущественно тамилы), Пакистана, Индии и Японии, среди американцев — выходцы из французских заморских департаментов (Гваделупа, Мартиника и Французская Гвиана), США, Канады, Гаити, Гайаны, Аргентины и Чили.

В 1990 году в Париже и Иль-де-Франс проживало 1,81 млн и 9,28 млн французов, 340,5 тыс. и 1,38 млн иностранцев, 44,8 тыс. и 304,8 тыс. португальцев, 43,2 тыс. и 238,9 тыс. алжирцев, 28,3 тыс. и 113,6 тыс. выходцев из Западной Африки, 26,5 тыс. и 155,7 тыс. марокканцев, 26,0 тыс. и 76,0 тыс. тунисцев, 22,4 тыс. и 59,6 тыс. испанцев, 13,9 тыс. и 52,8 тыс. выходцев из Юго-Восточной Азии, 10,8 тыс. и 51,0 тыс. итальянцев, 7,7 тыс. и 40,8 тыс. турок соответственно.

Этнические кварталы
В Париже имеются армянский, африканский, арабский, еврейский, греческий, индийский и азиатский кварталы (Paris, автор Danyel Couet).

В кварталах Шато-Руж, Гутт-д'Ор и Ля-Шапель (XVIII округ) сконцентрированы выходцы из стран Африки южнее Сахары, Антильских островов, Магриба, Южной и Юго-Восточной Азии (пакистанцы, индийцы, бангладешцы, ланкийцы, китайцы) и Португалии, в кварталах Бельвиль (на границе XIX и XX округов) и Коронн (XX округ) — выходцы из Магриба, Французского Индокитая и Китая. В XIII округе сконцентрирована азиатская община Парижа (китайцы, вьетнамцы, камбоджийцы и лаосцы), образовавшая вокруг бульвара Массена, проспектов де Шуази и Иври знаменитый азиатский квартал Парижа (на юге XIII округа также проживает немало выходцев из Африки и Магриба). Евреи проживают в квартале Марэ (на границе III и IV округов), а также в XIX и XX округах. В III округе вокруг улиц Мэр, Вольта, Темпль и Гравилье расположен самый старый китайский квартал Парижа, основанный выходцами из Вэньчжоу. На границе I и II округа, вокруг пересечения улиц Сент-Анн и Пети-Шампс существуют японская и корейская общины (концентрация японских магазинов и ресторанов наблюдается в районе между Оперой и Лувром). Ещё один небольшой японский квартал расположен вдоль улицы Монсье-ле-Принс (квартал Одеон, VI округ).

В X округе от пересечения бульваров Сен-Дени и Страсбургского в сторону Восточного вокзала (между улицами Фобур-Сен-Мартен и Фобур-Сен-Дени) тянутся пакистанский, бангладешский, ланкийский и турецкий кварталы. Вдоль улицы Фобур-Сен-Дени, идущей от Северного вокзала к кварталу Ля-Шапель, расположены кварталы «Маленькая Индия» (или «Маленький Бомбей») и «Маленькая Джаффна» (среди индусов преобладают ланкийские и индийские тамилы). В кварталах Рокетт и Сен-Амбруаз (XI округ), особенно вокруг Rue Popincourt, а также в квартале Републик вокруг Rue Yves-Toudic (X округ) проживают китайская и вьетнамская общины. Выходцы из Ливана сконцентрированны в районе «Бейрут на Сене», который расположен в кварталах Жавель и Грёнель (XV округ). Большие иммигрантские общины расположены также в ближайших пригородах Парижа — департаментах Сен-Сен-Дени, Валь-де-Марн и О-де-Сен (выходцы из Магриба, стран Африки южнее Сахары, Южной Азии, Карибских островов, Португалии).

Среди районов с долей иммигрантов выше среднего выделяются La Goutte d'Or (18-й округ) — 36 %, Fontaine-au-Roi (11-й округ) — 31 %, La Chapelle (18-й округ) — 28 %, Sud (13-й округ) и Amiraux Simplon (18-й округ) — 27 %, с долей иностранцев выше среднего: Belleville-Amandiers (20-й округ) — 23 %.

В январе 2015 года в эфире американского телеканала Fox News эксперт по проблемам терроризма и исламского экстремизма Стивен Эмерсон утверждал, что в Париже и в других городах Франции существуют районы, куда немусульмане стараются не заходить — так называемые «no-go zones». Это утверждение вызвало резкую критику мэра Парижа Анн Идальго и вынудило телеканал принести извинения.

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 Multi-Ethnic France: Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society
 Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance
 Multi-Ethnic Metropolis: Patterns and Policies
 Cities and Labour Immigration: Comparing Policy Responses in Amsterdam, Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv
 Global Neighborhoods: Jewish Quarters in Paris, London, and Berlin
 The Lebanese Diaspora: The Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal, New York, and Paris
 The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas (The Chinese and Chinese Districts In Paris)
 Chinatowns around the World: Gilded Ghetto, Ethnopolis, and Cultural Diaspora
 Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora
 Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars
 Struggling Giants: City-region Governance in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo
 Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia
 Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East: An Encyclopedia
 Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia
 Fields of Fire: An Atlas of Ethnic Conflict
 The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism
 Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe
 Muslim Europe Or Euro-Islam: Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization

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Q: Throwing FaultException from worker thread crashes WCF What I found out was if you throw a FaultException from a new worker thread, it doesnt percolate up to the client but just crashes WCF.
Any solutions???
example:

var thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(
                delegate
                {
                    new Killbot().KillAllHumans(); // Throws a FaultException
                }));

A: The simplest way would be to wrap the call in a try-catch block and log the exception:
var thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(
            delegate
            {
                try
                {
                    new Killbot().KillAllHumans(); // Throws a FaultException
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
                }
            }));

If you want to handle the exception in your main thread you would have to use BeginInvoke and EndInvoke in combination with an AsyncCallback.

A: Personally I would not bother with background threads in a WCF service. A service is effectively a "background worker" anyway. All you need to do is ensure that any blocking calls you make inside the service don't affect other clients. You can do this by changing the concurrency mode:
[ServiceBehavior(ConcurrencyMode = ConcurrencyMode.Multiple)]
class MyServiceClass : IMyServiceContract {
    public void KillAll() {
        new Killbot().KillAllHumans(); // Throws a FaultException
    }
}

When that is set, WCF will call your service methods on multiple threads with no attempt to synchronise them. As long as you write your code with this in mind, you can do all the blocking calls you want.

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[285] New MTSU handcrafted arts exhibit opens tonight with free public reception
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Eric Snyder, 615-898-5653 or eric.snyder@mtsu.edu
MURFREESBORO — A free public reception in the MTSU Department of Art's Todd Art Gallery will open a new exhibit, "Visual Vernacular, Icons and the Handcrafted Book," today, Feb. 18, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Billed as explorations of materials and book forms printed by hand, the exhibit features new Department of Art faculty members Andrew Kosten, Kathy O'Connell and Ashley Hairston representing the art areas of printmaking, book arts and graphic design, respectively.
Also included in the exhibit is the invited work of some of the trio's contemporaries and associates, including Brandon Sanderson, Matt Hopson-Walker and Amos Kennedy.
"Throughout its all-too-often tragic history, humanity has turned to the comical, the bizarre and the extraordinary to maintain a sense of lightheartedness," Kosten said of the new exhibit, noting that art has responded to the "human condition" with "the most challenging and engaging critiques of human behavior."
The "Visual Vernacular, Icons and the Handcrafted Book" exhibit, which also is free and open to the public, runs through Friday, March 22.
O'Connell's "Mixtura" represents the "Handcrafted Book" portion of the exhibit and is a food-inspired international book arts project that includes Taller 72, an independent arts studio in Lima, Peru, and a total of 16 artists through an MTSU Access and Diversity Grant.
The "Mixtura" artists represent a wide diversity of nations, including France, Japan, Romania and South Korea, in addition to Peru and the United States.
Hairston's work from her Masters of Fine Arts thesis, "The Space Between," will also be on display.
She noted that the piece "is a means of translating the personal into public for conceptual action and art. … My work concerns itself with the tension of a personal sense of identity that conflicts with cultural expectations and how that affects and limits personal and relational mobility."
Sanderson, an assistant professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, teaches multiple levels of drawing and all levels of printmaking, including intaglio, lithography and woodcut.
He describes his "Denizens Series (Folly of Post-Literacy)" as etchings that explore human folly with characters that are "absurdly constructed of mechanical and organic elements. Just like many people, they are unaware of an awkward and ill-conceived nature."
Hopson-Walker played in a band after receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kansas City Art Institute, but completed his Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Iowa five years later and has since placed work in collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the University of North Dakota Art Collection in Grand Forks and the Tama Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan.
He currently teaches at the College of the Sequoias and California State University at Fresno.
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I will always have a soft spot for a number of classic Bond/Flash Gordon style supervillain antics, including over-elaborate death traps and the always-classic "Seize them, you fools! They're getting away!"
But this month, I'm going to talk about another cliche that I just can't get enough of: Murderous Hillbillies as villains.
I'm not entirely sure why this tired cliche works for me so much. Ever since the release of John Boorman's "Deliverance" in 1972, there has been a pretty consistent Hollywood usage of backwoods lunatics hunting down and terrorizing unsuspecting city folks, before the tables are turned in a bloody revenge tale.
(And don't worry. That "Deliverance" link isn't to that scene. You know the one I mean.)
This is usually preceded by a lot of unnerving scenes where the hero is humiliated and beaten while chained to a stake in the barn, or forced to fight an alligator or a bear, while one of his tormenters' simple-minded cousins rocks back and forth while giggling.
And danging over all of these scenes, like the Sword of Damocles, is the threat of being eaten or…worse things.
Guh.
This trope has popped up in "the Hills Have Eyes", "the Texas Chainsaw Massacre," H.P. Lovecraft stories like "the Dunwich Horror," and even in a car commerical for the 2003 Saturn Vue.
But my favorite of these was in a recent issue of one of my favorite comic book characters, Jonah Hex.
We've mentioned Hex more than once on the show, but terrible movie adaptations aside, he's a Western anti-hero with a hideous facial scar and a penchance for satisfying violent come-uppance.
Hex is hired by a dying man crawling out of the swamp to rescue his wife and baby from killer "swamp folk" that no one in town wants to talk about.
Naturally, this leads to Hex being ambushed and presented to the rest of the vile Lamont clan by their son, Dean.
"Whatchoo got dere, Dean?"
"Dinnah."
Why does this cliche work so well for me? I can't give you a single answer. I think it's a mixture of my complete uselessness in any sort of outdoors scenario combined with a general cultural "blue state" aversion to the backwoods of the Deep South.
I'm an indoor cat who grew up in the suburbs and my mom voted for Michael Dukakis. There's nothing more alien to me than the villains in these stories.
But really, it's the tension of absolute helplessness and humiliation building and building and building, until finally being released into cathartic vengeance against your captors.
We all want to be Jonah Hex reemerging, dripping, from the swamp, and seeing in our persecutors ' eyes the realization that they've finally fucked with the wrong person.
What is it about that annoying movie cliche? That it takes you out film? Destroys your suspension of disbelief? That you cluck your tongue, sigh, roll your eyes and start checking your watch? Discriminating film fans know what I mean. But, what about the cliche that has the opposite effect?
For me, that is summed up in a single, overlong word: defenestration. That extraordinary verb describes when someone (or something) launches through a window, shattering it into a thousand pieces. And, oh yes, you've seen this cliche thousands of times. Whether it's Indiana Jones fighting on the hood of a Jeep, the Terminator being thrown through a department store window, or Batman crashing down through a skylight to foil Joker, you've seen this shit. Many times.
Call it 80s action film nostalgia, call it a relic of the VHS rental days, call it an overused, cheap practical effect, call it what you will… I call it badass. When the hero is going to get serious with takin' out the trash: defenestrate. When the antihero has to get taken down another peg: defenestrate. When the SWAT team arrives to rescue the hostages in the skyscraper: defenestrate. Of course, my favorite flavor of defenestration is the Hans Gruber: when the final boss gets dispatched through a window from 15-plus stories up. Looking down, birds-eye-view, as the baddie plummets to his end. Of course you're not going to see the pancake mess his body makes on the pavement below, but maybe you'll get the sidekick to look down at the carnage, screw up his face in disgust and deliver a line like, "Oh yeah, he's all over."
Perhaps what I like best about this peculiar practical effect is that in almost every instance, it needs to be filmed in slow motion. If the stunt guy is going to toss himself through sugar glass, you better get every little shard and twinkle in glorious 1000 frames per second. And, of course, the foley artist really gets to earn his pay trying to create a sound from scratch that can approximate the relative size and weight of the window in question. Or, perhaps there's a sound archive with over 9,000 different defenestration impacts. I dunno, but your tedious movie just went up a notch (in my estimation).
Y'know, it may be overused, in fact it may be so overused that when it happens, it doesn't even register in your conscious mind. But, by god, for me at least the action doesn't get hot until somebody goes through a goddamned window. Cost of admission: worth it!
What do you think? Got a favorite cliche? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
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8 thoughts on "Radio vs. the Mailbag: It Never Gets Old"
Paul Caggegi on September 22, 2014 at 9:34 PM said:
I used to hate monologuing: when a particular villain would explain the entire plot of the movie to the hero as a means of grandstanding his power. On occasion it is a hero who monologues. I found such a monologue in "American Hustle" when Christian Bale turns to Bradley Cooper and explains the entire plot: "that's the story you want to go with? The hustler who you hired to hustle the FBI ends up hustling you?" (Or something).
But what made me appreciate the monologue again was re-watching "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" in which Ricardo Montalban provides a full description of the previous three films as he reminds Caesar why he is so important. Only a genius like Montalban could pull off such an obvious trope with Shakespearean aplomb.
Greg Hatcher on September 22, 2014 at 9:56 PM said:
I never get tired of what John Rogers (Leverage, the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle comics, lots of other fun stuff) called "The Evil Speech of Evil." That's where the villain gloatingly explains why he should get to do what he's doing and why it's so awesome.
Ian Fleming excelled at these in his James Bond novels. Sadly, they never really made it to the movies– except for GOLDFINGER. You may recall the moment– it's up on YouTube, here– where Goldfinger is telling the gangsters, "Man has climbed Mount Everest. Traveled to the bottom of the ocean. He has fired rockets at the moon. Split the atom. Achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor… EXCEPT CRIME!!" I love that. In the novels, Doctor No has a marvelous one during the dinner scene, and the all-time winner is Ernst Stavro Blofeld in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, justifying all of his previous efforts as well as the suicide garden he has created in his castle. And when Bond refuses to applaud, Blofeld sighs and says, "…but I can see we have no contact. I cannot reach what serves you for a mind. For your part, you cannot see further than the simple gratification of your last cigarette. So enough of this idle chatter. You have already kept us from our beds far too long. Do you want to be hacked about in a vulgar brawl, or will you offer your neck in honourable fashion?" And then draws his katana to behead him.
Other classics would be Mr. Potter slamming the door on George Bailey in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE– you know, the sneer that ends with "You're worth more dead than alive." Or Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN. Even Gene Hackman's Luthor in the first Superman movie, talking about his plan to make a killing in real estate and then sandbagging the big guy with kryptonite.
That sort of gloating… I really think it should be baked into the DNA of a villain in any kind of crime or adventure movie, and if it's not, you're doing it wrong. Whether it's a Bond villain or one of Mike's inbred hillbillies, the moment where the bad guy is winning and takes a little victory lap… I just LOVE that. It makes the eventual karmic payoff so much sweeter.
Greg Hatcher on September 22, 2014 at 10:34 PM said:
One more classic I'd forgotten– John Shea pays off three years of nasty on LOIS AND CLARK. Fans tend to split on this show but I always liked it, and it certainly was more like my idea of Superman than MAN OF STEEL.
Pól Rua on September 23, 2014 at 12:00 AM said:
Just while we're still on epic villain speeches, I will never stop pestering people to watch the 2008 version of 'Speed Racer'. The villain, Mister Royalton (played to perfection by Roger Allam) gives one of the all-time GREAT villainous expository monologues.
Seriously, even just thinking about it now gives me a chill.
And on paper, it looks like NOTHING. It's mostly a lot of dry talk about stock prices and market manipulation, but the editing and Allam's delivery is just SO magnificent.
And some delightful chap's put it in youtube! Glee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG3rq-M7uMc
Anyway, one odd stereotype which I just can't get enough of is the two-fisted fighting sailor. There's something about fighting pirates in the South China Sea or plying the treacherous trade-routes of the South Sea Islands, avoiding hostile natives and getting into dust-ups in seedy dockside watering holes that I can't resist.
Edo Bosnar on September 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM said:
In comedy, whether live-action or animated, I always find it hilarious when a character slams into a wall or window or whatever (and then often slowly slides down its surface). So even though I generally sympathize with poor old Wile E. Coyote, I always laugh when he crashes into a cliff or whatever.
Don't know why I find this form of physical humor so funny, but those type of scenes never fail to elicit a gut laugh from me, and I never get tired of them. The whole feature can otherwise be really bad and/or painfully unfunny (case in point: "George of the Jungle" starring Brendan Fraser), but I'll still laugh whenever someone slams into a something solid.
Bethany Turner on September 29, 2014 at 12:51 PM said:
I'm not sure this one is so much a cliché as it is a film maker's in-joke, but I love the Wilhelm scream. I first started noticing it in the Star Wars movies as a kid, but I noticed it in other films too over the years. It was a long time before I found out what it was called and where it came from, but for almost every movie I saw with a lot of action it, I'd end up saying, "There's that scream again!" It's got to the point now where I'm disappointed if a film had an opportunity to use it but didn't. It's incredibly versatile for a scream that was originally intended to be a man being eaten by an alligator.
Jeff Nettleton on October 9, 2014 at 11:01 PM said:
I'm quite fond of the "uh-oh" moment, in caper stories; the point where things start to go wrong and the hero (or gang) has to improvise. Sometimes they are played for laughs, sometimes for tension, sometimes they display ingenuity; but, they are always fun.
One of my other favorite moments is something that Terry Pratchett latched onto in his stories: the point where the hero realizes he is going to win and presses home his advantage. Pratchett takes it a step further by having the hero realize he is going to win because he is the hero and that's what heroes do. It's a wonderfully "meta" moment where the hero recognizes his role in the story and lives up to it. One of his best characters for illustrating this is Captain Carrot, of his City Watch novels. He is a polite man, large in stature, but courteous in nature. He has a quiet, humble strength. He can stop the worst villain with a , "Lay down your arms; there's a good chap!" And they do! Some see his rather humble looking sword and then look at the man and realize it is the sword of a hero and you don't mess with heroes.
Kyle on October 16, 2014 at 7:57 PM said:
Can a whole genre be a cliche? I will never turn down an opportunity to watch a movie where the good-natured criminal wants to get out of the game, but has to do just ONE MORE JOB. Heist movies are my catnip.
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Monday February 24, 2020
Australia's Bushfires Completely Blasted Through the Models
As other researchers who contributed to the Nature Climate Change series point out, the unprecedented scale of this season's bushfires, and the drier and warmer conditions that exacerbated them, are beyond normal parameters anyway. "The widespread and prolonged drought conditions over the last two years have caused the entire eastern Australian forest area to dry out to extreme levels, such that all 'natural fire breaks' (e.g. moist gullies, south facing slopes, swamps) have been eliminated and the entire landscape becomes one connected fuel array," wrote Western Sydney University fire scientist Matthias Boer, who penned one of the articles published today, in an email to WIRED.
A study by researchers at the University of New South Wales is currently underway to decipher precisely how climate change affected these recent fires. But this climate and fire scientists can say for sure: Climate change is making droughts more intense and more frequent, and–on smaller time scales–turning Australia's landscapes into tinder. Simply put, drier, hotter, windier weather makes wildfires worse, and dry, hot winds can desiccate a landscape, turning it into pure bushfire fuel.
These altogether crispier conditions lead to an even more destructive fire, which was exactly the case this year. Australia's landscape is dominated by "temperate broadleaf and mixed" forests, themselves dominated by eucalyptus trees. Looking at the last 20 years of satellite data, the median annual percentage of these forests that burned during past fires was 1 percent. This fire season, that figure was 21 percent.
All of that is adding up to another problem for scientists: Studying climate change in general, or its effect on bushfires specifically, is becoming increasingly difficult. University of Queensland conservation scientist James Watson, for instance, studies birds in Western Queensland. "Right now, it's just accepted that we can't do fieldwork in summer anymore out there," he says. "It's too hot, it's too dangerous, you just can't physically do it. Fifteen years ago, we could have done it quite easily."
Watson and Lauren Rickards, who co-leads the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's Climate Change and Resilience research program, wrote in Nature Climate Change about how Australian scientists are grappling with both climate change and the attendant superfires. Ecosystems under long-term observation have burned to the ground, and bushfires have destroyed facilities and vehicles critical to research. Other extreme weather has brought the assault from above, Watson and Rickards note: Last month, a "cataclysmic hailstorm" damaged 65 greenhouses in Canberra, destroying years' worth of experiments. Some of those, devastatingly enough, were testing crops' resilience to climate change.
"As we think about how climate change impacts are ricocheting through society, we're starting to realize that these impacts are ricocheting through research projects and through research institutions," says Rickards. And, she adds, there is "this urgent need for researchers to stop pretending that we're distant witnesses of climate change, that were somehow isolated or immunized observers, and recognize that we are being affected."
Modern science has spent centuries exhaustively cataloging a world that we thought we knew to be fairly consistent–seasons come and go, species migrate, a particular Australian forest burns once every few decades. But scientists now work in a world that is both more perilous and more chaotic. "Your research is going to be severely disrupted if you don't actually recognize the risks posed by extreme climate events, by long term shifts in your research sites, by the pressures that your research participants are under," says Rickards.
We've turned this world into a hothouse, one that's overwhelming the predictive powers of both human and computer. And Australia's conflagrations are but a taste of disasters to come.
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Sexual violence in conflict once again captured the international spotlight earlier this month when gynaecologist, Dr Denis Mukwege, and human rights activist, Nadia Murad, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Responding to sexual violence grew exponentially in importance on international policy agendas over the past decade, with clear implications for operational and programmatic practice across conflict-affected contexts. The adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1820 (2008) – establishing sexual violence as a threat to international peace and security – marked a clear turning point in this regard. While pervasive across many armed conflicts, testimonies of sexual violence documented in eastern DRC were an important focus of such institutional developments. In effect, these experiences became somewhat defining of the nature of the harm, its victims and its perpetrators. Focusing on the 'male perpetrator,' this paper first examines how, why, and with what effect gendered and raced imaginaries became encoded in international peace and security policy. Doing so, it emphasises the role of institutional imperatives and political dynamics in shaping international policy definitions of sexual violence in the Council. Subsequently, exploring efforts to fight impunity for sexual violence in DRC, presentation foregrounds how, and with what effect, this clearly delineated policy definition obscures more complex realities in DRC.
Chloé is completing her PhD in International Development at the University of Oxford where she is researching responses to sexual and gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Drawing on extensive research conducted at the United Headquarters in New York and in DRC between 2013-2017, her dissertation examines the development of internationally-driven responses to sexual violence, including at the level of the UN Security Council, and their operationalisation in DRC.


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'Destructive Macho Power Needs to Be Overthrown': Meet the Next Berlin Biennale's All-Star Team of 'Female Identified' Curators
The four-member curatorial team hails from several South American nations in deep crisis.
Kate Brown, October 30, 2018
The four curators of the next Berlin Biennale, in the official promotional photo supplied to press. Valencia, approx. 1973; Edmonton, approx. 1987; Buenos Aires, 1989; Kinshasa, 1963; (c) Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.
Berlin may be a leading art capital of Europe, but the 2020 edition of the Berlin Biennial will again take a non-European perspective. Following up on South African curator Gabi Ngcobo's classy, compact, and somewhat undefinable exhibition this year titled "We Don't Need Another Hero," the 11th Berlin Biennale promises yet again to share a wide-angle view of contemporary art from farther afield. This time, the curators all hail from South America.
The four-person curatorial team comprises Chilean curator María Berríos, Argentinian curator Renata Cervetto, Brazilian curator Lisette Lagnado, and Valencia-born curator Agustin Pérez Rubio. Little has been revealed about the general topics the four will be working on, or what exactly brings their curatorial visions into alignment beyond their common commitment to a multidisciplinary approach. The group has described themselves in the official statement as an "intergenerational" and "female-identified" team.
"Our team is predominantly female and we think it is OK to take over. As a team, we identify as female because we feel the rule of everything by overconfident-macho voices must end," the curators tell artnet News. "This also in the light of the devastating win of [president-elect Jair] Bolsonaro in Brasil. Destructive macho power needs to be overthrown on a worldwide scale."
Indeed, the selection comes at a time of major change, and in some cases political crisis, in the Southern Hemisphere.
In researcher, art critic, and curator Lagnado's home country of Brazil, where she curated the 27th Bienal de São Paulo in 2006, the president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has been nicknamed "Tropical Trump" for his demeaning remarks against women and minority groups. (He has also threatened to dissolve the ministry of culture and may imperil rebuilding efforts of the National Museum, which was recently destroyed in a massive fire, according to reporting from The Art Newspaper.)
On the Pacific Coast in Chile, president Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has expressed solidarity with the incoming Brazilian president, saying he is "just what Brazil needs," according to Telesur. Berríos, who is from Chile, was a cofounder of the local editorial collective vaticanochico. Together with Lagnado, she curated "Drifts and Derivations. Experiences, journeys and morphologies," an exhibition of work by experimental architectural collectives from Chile at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2010.
In Argentina, meanwhile, where Cervetto recently served as the educational department coordinator at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), the country continues to contend with soaring inflation and a correlated currency in free fall.
Rubio is also the curator for the Chilean Pavilion at the upcoming Venice Biennale (which will feature artist Voluspa Jarpa's project "Altered Views," an examination of gender, race, and power). The curator is known for an interest in feminist themes: while at MALBA, Rubio increased the proportion of female artists in the collection from 17 percent to 46 percent, according to Latin American news site The Bubble.
To what extent the complicated politics currently at play in the region will figure in the exhibition remains to be seen. It's also not the first time a South American curator has taken the helm of the German exhibition. Colombian-Canadian curator Juan A. Gaitán led the eighth chapter in 2008, and one member from Ngcobo's team this year, Thiago de Paula Souza, is a Brazilian-based curator and writer. It is however, notably, the first time that South America will have ever been featured so prominently and with such an international voice.
The selection "absolutely corresponds with the Berlin Biennale being a platform to promote experimental formats and positions independent of the art market and collection interests," Gabriele Horn, the director of the Berlin Biennale, told artnet News in a statement.
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The Minecraft Marketplace kept some of its momentum from launching on Switch and its first Summer Sale. The unified version of Minecraft served up 373,361 downloads across Windows 10, mobile, Xbox, and Switch. While that's nowhere near the 669,795 downloads from July, it's still a big number for a month without a massive sale.
August was a relatively quiet month for Minecraft. The block-building phenomenon's Summer Sale happened in July. Also, the Switch version launched in June. That introduced the Marketplace to an entirely new audience. As a result of the dearth of major events like those, you would expect a big decline. But downloads were only just below June's 396,511.
But Minecraft has a lot going on right now. Target partnered with Microsoft and The Minecraft Team to bring a huge slate of new products to the retailer earlier this month. And this weekend, the global fan festival Minecon Earth is taking place. This is where the game's biggest fanatics get together at Microsoft Stores around the world to celebrate the game. It's also where Microsoft will have big new announcements.
That should keep interest high, and that could translate into Minecraft Marketplace sales.
That's the Marketplace report for the month. Check back in October for more!