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## Task
Audit groups report

## This
* The method of report generation
* Audit

## Solution
Suppose we have a method of report generation:

```
public static Отчет СоздатьОтчетПоКлиенту(Клиент клиент)
{
    var report = new Отчет();

    // Create report ...

    return report;
}
```

You need to modify it by adding audit logging groups reports.

First we need to write to the database, the fact of the beginning of report generation, using the method `[AuditWebApi#WriteCustomAuditOperation_2|WriteCustomAuditOperation]`.

The method takes as a parameter an instance of the class `[AuditWebApi#CustomAuditParameters_0|CustomAuditParameters]`. Create it:

```

var auditParams = new CustomAuditParameters
{
    CustomAuditOperation = string.Format(The "create report by client {0} (ID: {1})", клиент.ФИО, клиент.__PrimaryKey),
    ExecutionResult = tExecutionVariant.Unknown,
    OperationTime = DateTime.Now,
    UseDefaultWriteMode = true
};
```

Note that we do not share any object (property `AuditDataObject`), as we actually changes nothing.

Since we don't know the result of the operation of forming the report, we expose ExecutionResult = tExecutionVariant.Unknown

You can now write data to the database audit:

```
 Guid? auditOperationId = AuditService.Current.WriteCustomAuditOperation(auditParams, true);
```

Use the simplest overload `WriteCustomAuditOperation`, DataService are defined as standard for the application.

The result is the ID of the created record in the database audit. Remember it, it will be useful to us later.

Next, you need some way to determine the result of the running operation and update the result in the database using the method `[AuditWebApi#RatifyAuditOperation_3|RatifyAuditOperation]`, use a try-catch-finally:

```

bool correct = true;

try
{
    // Create report ...
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
    // Writable error log ...

    // Store the fact of occurrence of the error
    correct = false;
}
finally
{
    // Update the transaction status in the database in accordance with the results of the report
    AuditService.Current.RatifyAuditOperation(
                    correct ? tExecutionVariant.Executed : tExecutionVariant.Failed,
                    new List<Guid> { auditOperationId.Value },
                    false);
}
```

## Result
Now when I try to create the report in the audit database will be created corresponding record. The status of this operation will depend on the success of its implementation.

### Modified method
```

        public static Отчет СоздатьОтчетПоКлиенту(Клиент клиент)
        {
            // Write the data on the beginning of the operation the report is created in the audit
            var auditParams = new CustomAuditParameters
                {
                    CustomAuditOperation = string.Format(The "create report by client {0} (ID: {1})", клиент.ФИО, клиент.__PrimaryKey),
                    ExecutionResult = tExecutionVariant.Unknown,
                    OperationTime = DateTime.Now,
                    UseDefaultWriteMode = true
                };

            // Writable surgery audit database and remember the ID of the created record
            Guid? auditOperationId = AuditService.Current.WriteCustomAuditOperation(auditParams, true);

            var report = new Отчет();
            bool correct = true;

            try
            {
                // Create report ...
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                // Writable error log ...

                // Store the fact of occurrence of the error
                correct = false;
            }
            finally
            {
                // Update the transaction status in the database in accordance with the results of the report
                AuditService.Current.RatifyAuditOperation(
                    correct ? tExecutionVariant.Executed : tExecutionVariant.Failed,
                    new List<Guid> { auditOperationId.Value },
                    false);
            }

            return report;
        }
```

### Web interface
After trying to create two reports, one of which was successful and the second failed:

The display form of audit records (in part):
![Image](/images/img/page/AuditWebApiExample/AuditWebApiWolv.PNG)

Form view the details of the audit entry:
![Image](/images/img/page/AuditWebApiExample/AuditWebApiE.PNG)

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I had a really nice time in meditation this morning. I enjoyed about an hour of humming, sitting in silence, and then manifesting with love. This time I visualized a life in Colorado. I climbed to the top of a mountain, and saw myself as this beautiful, vibrant, thin, healthy, and happy being with long, lustrous hair flowing in the breeze, much like Pocahontas. Then, I embraced this beautiful man, climbed down the mountain with him. A montage of rich experiences unfolded: meeting our friends for a fruit luck, skiing the soft white slopes, spinning around on our skis, and traveling between a minimalist home in Colorado and one in California. Ah, it would be so nice to ultimately be self-employed as a health coach and writer with the freedom to roam and enjoy myself with steady income streaming in.
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Today's weight is 120.2 pounds, 8.4 pounds down from Day 2. My collar bones are protruding once more. I feel and see that my body is coming back, and this makes me quite happy.
I laid in the sun outside my townhome, and listened to a sun meditation. I feel a lot more grounded now after laying on my towel over the grass with my feet bare. I feel much more connected to the earth and the sun. I moved inside after about 45 minutes or so, as I don't want to burn or overexpose myself. I did sweat a bit, and my armpits are emitting the classic fasting body odor. Good to get it out! It's like my body is taking out the garbage through my pits.
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I felt rather productive, and blogged about my other days of fasting. I took my dogs for a brief walk, and reached out to a friend of mine in Hawaii whom I miss. I even had the energy to vacuum up all the dog hair in my apartment. Success!
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SLAUGHTER Frontman MARK SLAUGHTER To Release 'Halfway There' Solo Album
SLAUGHTER vocalist Mark Slaughter will release his sophomore solo album, "Halfway There", in May worldwide via EMP Label Group, the U.S.-based label of MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson. The follow-up to 2015's independently released "Reflections In A Rear View Mirror" is a stunning return to form for Slaughter, channeling the familiar hard rock sensibility of classic-era SLAUGHTER releases like "Stick It To Ya" and "The Wild Life" on "Hey You" and emotionally charged title track, "Halfway There", with a mature, progressive, metal bent, evidenced on cuts like "Devoted", "Conspiracy" and "Reckless".
Produced and co-mixed by Slaughter with John Cranfield (AFI, Andy Grammer), with art by famed horror/album artist "Mister" Sam Shearon (ROB ZOMBIE, IRON MAIDEN, KISS, Clive Barker), "Halfway There" is slated to be released May 26 in North America by EMP Label Group/Amped, and EMP/SPV in Europe, and May 10 in Japan via EMP Label Group/Universal.
Mark will tour Japan in May with SLAUGHTER, supporting RATT, in conjunction with the Japanese release of the LP, with shows in Nagoya, Osaka, and a performance at the Tokyo Metal Summit on May 14 with RATT, SEBASTIAN BACH, ENUFF Z'NUFF and more.
Not only is "Halfway There" a blistering showcase of Slaughter's seemingly never-ending vocal abilities, but a glowing testament to his perpetually underserved prowess as a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, handling all production, engineering, songwriting, arrangements, guitar, and the bulk of the album's instrumentation himself.
Slaughter says: "My first solo record was kinda getting back on the horse, so to speak. I mean doing everything and recording... I'm taking on a lot more tasks as an engineer/producer/ writer on all this… because I'm doing everything.
"Ultimately, at the end of the day, anybody who is a SLAUGHTER fan will certainly understand that I am a large part of the SLAUGHTER sound and vibe, so, obviously, if you like that, it's in there. It's just that I take a lot more liberties on the solo side that I probably wouldn't do when it's a group effort."
He adds: "The record is basically… I spend a lot of time writing songs and things just grow out of me.. I'll be woken up in the middle of the night from nowhere and the song's just in my head and I just exorcize the demons and there you have it. I guess what it is is an artist makes art. And I've really come to the fact that since we haven't made a SLAUGHTER record in so long, it's one of those things that I still have to make the art. That's what I do. That's what I love to do, and that's what I'll continue to do."
EMP A&R director Thom Hazaert chimes in: "It's been such an incredible honor to put this record together with Mark, who, truly, in my humble opinion, is one of the greatest hard rock singers and songwriters of our generation, and, what a lot of people don't realize, just a phenomenal player as well.
"We spent almost a year going back and forth about the idea of putting the record out together. Obviously, Mark and David (Ellefson) have a great longstanding friendship, so it really was an amazing fit.
"From the first time I heard the working demos of these songs, I knew Mark was working on something very, very special.
"Growing up (and still) a huge SLAUGHTER fan, I think these songs are going to not only resonate with the people who already love Mark and what he does, but carve a niche far beyond."
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"We're extremely proud, and excited to have been able to partner with him on it, and can't wait for the world to hear it."
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Sturgill Simpson Covers John Prine's "Paradise" For Upcoming Tribute Project
It's the second single released from the compilation Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2
by Marcus K. Dowling 4/30/2021
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Following in the footsteps of Brandi Carlile's take on "I Remember Everything," Sturgill Simpson recently released a cover version of John Prine's 1971 single "Paradise" for Oh Boy Records' Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2, expected to be released on Oct. 8.
In a press release, Oh Boy Records representatives noted Simpson's version of "Paradise" was the last song recorded at the Butcher Shoppe recording studio in Nashville, before the studio was demolished. Simpson and David Ferguson—who co-founded the studio with Prine—co-produced the song. The song details coal mining's sad, heart-wrenching impact on both his father and the residents of Paradise, Kentucky—a town located in Prine's family's home area of Muhlenberg County.
"Paradise" is from Prine's self-titled debut album. Simpson joins an impressive collection of other artists who have covered the song, including Dwight Yoakam, the Everly Brothers, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Lynn Anderson and Roy Acuff.
In a November 2020 interview with Stephen Colbert, Simpson discussed his nearly two-decade-long friendship with Prine noting that he first met him while in a mixing session for his 2016 album A Sailor's Guide to Earth and was unaware that the legend was in the room with him. "When I turned around, John was sitting in a chair in these plaid pants, just kind of looking. I had no idea how long he'd been sitting there. I hit vapor lock. I kind of freaked out — you're face-to-face with your hero."
As well, Simpson explained that via Prine's estate, he was bequeathed a Porsche 911 Turbo when the singer-songwriter passed due to complications from COVID-19. Simpson—who already is a father of three—joked that the responsibility of caring for the Porsche is like having a fourth child. "It's bittersweet, but it will be something I treasure for the rest of my life," he said.
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Mars One (and done?)
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MIT team independently assesses the technical feasibility of the proposed Mars One mission.
More than 200,000 people around the world have applied to be the first Mars colonists. Courtesy of Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
In 2012, the "Mars One" project, led by a Dutch nonprofit, announced plans to establish the first human colony on the Red Planet by 2025. The mission would initially send four astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars, where they would spend the rest of their lives building the first permanent human settlement.
It's a bold vision — particularly since Mars One claims that the entire mission can be built upon technologies that already exist. As its website states, establishing humans on Mars would be "the next giant leap for mankind."
But engineers at MIT say the project may have to take a step back, at least to reconsider the mission's technical feasibility.
The MIT researchers developed a detailed settlement-analysis tool to assess the feasibility of the Mars One mission, and found that new technologies will be needed to keep humans alive on Mars.
For example, if all food is obtained from locally grown crops, as Mars One envisions, the vegetation would produce unsafe levels of oxygen, which would set off a series of events that would eventually cause human inhabitants to suffocate. To avoid this scenario, a system to remove excess oxygen would have to be implemented — a technology that has not yet been developed for use in space.
Similarly, the Mars Phoenix lander discovered evidence of ice on the Martian surface in 2008, suggesting that future settlers might be able to melt ice for drinking water — another Mars One goal. But according to the MIT analysis, current technologies designed to "bake" water from soil are not yet ready for deployment, particularly in space.
The team also performed an integrated analysis of spare-parts resupply — how many spare parts would have to be delivered to a Martian colony at each opportunity to keep it going. The researchers found that as the colony grows, spare parts would quickly dominate future deliveries to Mars, making up as much as 62 percent of payloads from Earth.
An artist's rendering of a Mars Lander, which will transport the first settlers to the Martian surface. Courtesy of Mars One
As for the actual voyage to Mars, the team also calculated the number of rockets required to establish the first four settlers and subsequent crews on the planet, as well as the journey's cost.
According to the Mars One plan, six Falcon Heavy rockets would be required to send up initial supplies, before the astronauts' arrival. But the MIT assessment found that number to be "overly optimistic": The team determined that the needed supplies would instead require 15 Falcon Heavy rockets. The transportation cost for this leg of the mission alone, combined with the astronauts' launch, would be $4.5 billion — a cost that would grow with additional crews and supplies to Mars. The researchers say this estimate does not include the cost of developing and purchasing equipment for the mission, which would further increase the overall cost.
Olivier de Weck, an MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems, says the prospect of building a human settlement on Mars is an exciting one. To make this goal a reality, however, will require innovations in a number of technologies and a rigorous systems perspective, he says.
"We're not saying, black and white, Mars One is infeasible," de Weck says. "But we do think it's not really feasible under the assumptions they've made. We're pointing to technologies that could be helpful to invest in with high priority, to move them along the feasibility path."
"One of the great insights we were able to get was just how hard it is to pull this [mission] off," says graduate student Sydney Do. "There are just so many unknowns. And to give anyone confidence that they're going to get there and stay alive — there's still a lot of work that needs to be done."
Do and de Weck presented their analysis this month at the International Astronautical Congress in Toronto. Co-authors include MIT graduate students Koki Ho, Andrew Owens, and Samuel Schreiner.
Simulating a day on Mars
The group took a systems-based approach in analyzing the Mars One mission, first assessing various aspects of the mission's architecture, such as its habitat, life-support systems, spare-parts requirements, and transportation logistics, then looking at how each component contributes to the whole system.
Pictured is an artist's rendering of a series of habitats. Solar panels (in the foreground), would supply the colony's electricity, while a system to extract water from the soil (in the background) would supply drinking water. Courtesy of Bryan Versteeg/Mars One
For the habitat portion, Do simulated the day-to-day life of a Mars colonist. Based on the typical work schedule, activity levels, and metabolic rates of astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), Do estimated that a settler would have to consume about 3,040 calories daily to stay alive and healthy on Mars. He then determined crops that would provide a reasonably balanced diet, including beans, lettuce, peanuts, potatoes, and rice.
Do calculated that producing enough of these crops to sustain astronauts over the long term would require about 200 square meters of growing area, compared with Mars One's estimate of 50 square meters. If, as the project plans, crops are cultivated within the settlers' habitat, Do found that they would produce unsafe levels of oxygen that would exceed fire safety thresholds, requiring continuous introduction of nitrogen to reduce the oxygen level. Over time, this would deplete nitrogen tanks, leaving the habitat without a gas to compensate for leaks.
As the air inside the habitat continued to leak, the total atmospheric pressure would drop, creating an oppressive environment that would suffocate the first settler within an estimated 68 days.
Possible solutions, Do says, might include either developing a technology to extract excess oxygen or isolating the crops in a separate greenhouse. The team even considered using nitrogen extracted from the Martian atmosphere, but found that doing so would require a prohibitively large system. Surprisingly, the cheapest option found was to supply all the food required from Earth.
"We found carrying food is always cheaper than growing it locally," Do says. "On Mars, you need lighting and watering systems, and for lighting, we found it requires 875 LED systems, which fail over time. So you need to provide spare parts for that, making the initial system heavier."
Twisting the knobs
As the team found, spare parts, over time, would substantially inflate the cost of initial and future missions to Mars. Owens, who assessed the resupply of spare parts, based his analysis on reliability data derived from NASA repair logs for given components on the ISS.
"The ISS is based on the idea that if something breaks, you can call home and get a new part quickly," says Owens. "If you want a spare part on Mars, you have to send it when a launch window is open, every 26 months, and then wait 180 days for it to get there. If you could make spares in-situ, that would be a massive savings."
An artist's rendition of an astronaut paving the way for Martian colonization by working from one of Mars' moons. Credit: SSERVI, Dr. Yvonne Pendleton
Owens points to technologies such as 3-D printing, which may enable settlers to manufacture spare parts on Mars. But the technology as it exists today is not advanced enough to reproduce the exact dimensions and functions of many space-rated parts. The MIT analysis found that 3-D printers will have to improve by leaps, or else the entire Mars settlement infrastructure will have to be redesigned so that its parts can be printed with existing technology.
While this analysis may make the Mars One program look daunting, the researchers say the settlement-analysis tool they've developed may help determine the feasibility of various scenarios. For example, rather than sending crews on one-way trips to the planet, what would the overall mission cost be if crews were occasionally replaced?
"Mars One is a pretty radical idea," Schreiner says. "Now we've built a tool that we can play around with, and we can twist some of the knobs to see how the cost and feasibility of the mission changes."
Tracy Gill, a technology strategy manager at NASA, says the tool may be applicable for assessing other missions to Mars, and points to a few scenarios that the group may want to explore using the settlement-analysis tool.
"This [tool] can provide a benefit to mission planners by allowing them to evaluate a larger spectrum of mission architectures with better confidence in their analysis," says Gill, who did not contribute to the research. "Included among those architectures would be options ranging from completely growing all food in situ with bioregenerative systems, to packaging all food products from Earth, to various combination of those two extremes."
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Camp Rising Sun (New York)
"Camp Rising Sun" redirects here. For the camp in Connecticut, see Camp Rising Sun (Connecticut).
The Old House at Camp Rising Sun, Red Hook
Camp Rising Sun is an international, full-scholarship, leadership summer program for students aged 14–16 by the Louis August Jonas Foundation (LAJF), a non-profit organization. Its seven-week program was operated from a boys' facility in Red Hook, New York, and a separate girls' facility in Clinton, New York, about 90 miles (140 km) north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Participants come from all over the world and are chosen by merit. Instead of being asked to pay for tuition, campers are requested to pass along, to someone else, the benefits they gained.
There are alumni organizations in numerous countries with more than 5,000 alumni around the world. Among the Camp Rising Sun alumni are a United Nations Under-Secretary General; a president of Harvard University; a winner of the Intel Science Talent Search; a Foreign Minister of South Korea; two former Israeli ambassadors; an Under Secretary of State in the Carter administration; and folk singer Pete Seeger.
In 1996, a group of Danish and other European alumni founded Camp Rising Sun Europe for young women. Organized and maintained by the George E. Jonas Foundation and the Camp Rising Sun Alumni Association of Denmark, the program was located in Stendis, Region Midtjylland, Denmark.
3 International community
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5 Seeking a Path to Sustainability
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6.1 Notable alumni
Located on 176 acres (71 ha) in upstate New York,[1] including on land once owned by the Livingston family, Camp Rising Sun (CRS) is one of the longest continuously running summer programs in the United States. It was founded just after the stock market crash in 1929[2][3] by philanthropist George E. Jonas with the mission to "develop in promising young people from diverse backgrounds a lifelong commitment to sensitive and responsible leadership for the betterment of their communities and world."[1]
The son of a successful businessman, Jonas grew up in privilege and wealth, but was troubled about the advantages he had in comparison with others.[4] He grew dismayed at the world. Pondering what he could do to bring a measure of stability and peace to the world, he reasoned that hope rested in the youth of the world and he began to consider what might encourage, stimulate and motivate them. He got the idea to start a camp, one that "is interested not merely in the boy, but in the man the boy will become."[2] He set up a foundation, naming it after his father; the foundation runs the camp. For decades, Jonas personally interviewed many prospective campers[3] and he was fondly called by all by his nickname, "Freddie."[2][4]
After World War II, the program was expanded to include youth from every region of the world. In 1947, the first two African American boys were invited to attend[5] and 1989, a girls' program was established. Jonas remained closely associated with the program until the time of his death in 1978.[6]
Goals[edit]
The world desperately needs men of good will, men with vision, men who will not be daunted by heavy odds against them. With understanding adults outside the family circle, a boy can learn to stretch far.[2]
George E. Jonas, Founder
The Louis August Jonas Foundation is guided by the philosophy of the founder. The mission is to "develop in promising young people from diverse backgrounds a lifelong commitment to sensitive and responsible leadership for the betterment of their communities and world."[1] In following Jonas' mission, the camp nurtures leadership skills and the training that comes with practical experience.[7] Each camper gets the chance to be camp leader for one day.[8] Prior to the 2018 Boys' Session, the camper in charge for that day was called the sachem[1]—a word that refers to an Algonquian chief. However, in 2018, the campers decided that this word was unjustly stolen from Native American culture. Thus, they ended the use of the word. As of 2018, the camper(s) in charge for the day are called "Leader(s) of the Day".[1][9] Feedback, both from the staff and peers, is given to further gain from the experience. Staff members, typically graduate students or teachers, provide support.
The goal of the program is that participants would integrate what they learn at Camp Rising Sun into their lives and pass it along to others.[2][10] After the two months of sharing and working together, Jonas wanted campers to return to their communities the benefits they had gained. He said, "We ask that the boys return to life, some day and in some way, the good they have received from it. So, we do ask a price, and its a rather high one."[2]
International community[edit]
The roughly 60 participants each year are students from more than 30 countries who are invited to attend the camp. Most come for just one summer, but each season includes a handful of students who are invited back for a second summer to help carry on the camp's traditions from year to year.[6] Campers from outside the United States had an opportunity to stay with an American family or with US campers or alumni as part of a hosting program before the camp season starts.[2][7]
The selection of participants is highly competitive[3][11] and is based on a candidate's potential leadership ability,[12] intellect (demonstrated academic achievement and ability to think critically), character, and individuality (developed abilities and interests).[13] Camp alumni are generally responsible for selecting new campers from their countries, but in some cases, government officials such as the Minister of Education or an ambassador, do the selecting.[2][14][15]
The program is neither religious nor political, but with campers coming from all over the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa and elsewhere, politics and religion are just two of the many topics that come up for discussion.[2][3][16][9] After two months of exposure to many other nationalities, international issues become personal concerns. One camper after her summer at CRS stated, "It's not just Iran anymore. It's my friend, Sepideh, who lives in Iran," referring to how such an international issue became personal to her.[8]
Camp Rising Sun's reputation was built on the conviction that there is much to be learned through experience and interaction with those from other cultures and nations.[2] Campers help with all aspects of the camp, including meal preparation[16] and maintenance, and work together on intellectual or cultural projects of their own choosing. They also conceive of and carry out landscaping projects to improve the camp, such as building a Finnish sauna or a Japanese rock garden.[2][3] The eight weeks at CRS became a life-transforming experience.[3][9][10][17] Alumni often choose professions of service and stay involved with the camp for decades afterward.
Camp activities[edit]
Jonas said, "Schools give you technical training, but they don't necessarily teach you how to think" and set up his camp to supply that need.[3] Thus, while CRS includes swimming, boating, hiking, ping pong, soccer, basketball, tennis, and other sports, its focus is on providing opportunities for intellectual growth, for development of leadership skills, and appreciation of the value of diversity. The program challenges campers to try new things, but also offers them the option of participating or not, a freedom some have never experienced before.[9] Campers work together in peer-led teams to take care of the daily maintenance needs of the camp. Counselors are skilled in a variety of disciplines from lifesaving to Japanese wrestling to filmmaking.[2][3] There is instruction by staff, visiting alumni, guests, or other students on subjects like international affairs, poetry, theater, microscopes, filmmaking,[3] creative writing, landscaping,[2] history, music, art, drama,[1] philosophy, ethics, and nature. Three weekly newspapers, written and produced by campers, document the comedic, artistic, and overall progress of the camp.
Students work on projects they conceive, plan and manage, both individually and in peer-led groups. There are evening artistic and intellectual programs, most often planned and executed by campers. At the end of July, there is a dramatic or musical production, involving the entire camp community. Each Saturday evening, there is a large campfire, at which campers discuss their different countries and cultures, about global issues, prejudice and hate and hear presentations, sometimes by outside lecturers.[1][2]
There is also time available each day for campers to pursue their own activity, be it sports, the arts, reading, an educational pursuit, swimming in the pool or just talking with other campers. Campers are encouraged to keep a journal and prepare other written material that is kept on file and sent to the camper at his[2] or her twenty-first birthday.
A camper's journal from 2006 offers a glimpse of a typical day at Camp Rising Sun.
After waking up at 8 a.m., I had breakfast, attended morning assembly, and worked in the kitchen during teamwork time. For project time, a few campers and I mapped out a plan for a garden that we hoped to plant on cabin hill. After lunch and rest hour, I went to an instruction called "Words Words Words" where a counselor Amy (Utah) and about seven campers practiced creative writing and poetry.
During free time I went swimming with a bunch of other campers. It was Hester's (Netherlands) birthday, so dinner became a celebration. I received five letters, and since it's camp tradition, I had to sing to receive them. For the evening program we did Scottish dancing. It was a fun-filled day! After tent check at 10 p.m., I stayed awake and talked with Sepideh (Iran), Anissa (New York), Su Bin (Korea) and Annalisa (Utah), the hiking counselor.[8]
Seeking a Path to Sustainability[edit]
Because of the worldwide financial crisis that began in 2007, there was no camp program held in 2009 in the United States and the European program was cancelled for 2010. Since then, the two campuses in upstate New York have resumed summer programs and the organization has undertaken a new strategic plan to ensure the Camp Rising Sun legacy.[18][19]
On September 10, 2014, the LAJF Board outlined its view on financial challenges facing the organization, including the need for a $10 million increase in its endowment in order to meet current and future needs. The LAJF Board made available on the website a presentation from a summit in September 2014 which provided additional details on LAJF's financial condition and the Board's views on potential options for the organization. On October 3, 2014, it was announced that as part of its "New Dawn for Rising Sun" program, that the board had unanimously voted to put up for sale both the Red Hook and Clinton campuses, and to begin the process of securing a new site for an undisclosed new program(s) in order to improve the fiscal health of the organization. In addition to the sale of the two campuses, the LAJF Board announced that the 2015 camp season would consist of two 4 week sessions each for the boys and girls, both of which were to take place at the Clinton campus. The LAJF Board also announced a new $4 million fund raising campaign.[20]
This change in direction from the LAJF Board of Directors led some alumni to voice their concerns. Some alumni organized a group and began a petition, supported by over 400 alumni, seeking to have the current Board reconsider its planned actions and admit that alumni were not given ample opportunity to weigh in on this decision.[21]
On October 20, 2014, the LAJF Board announced that the sale of the Red Hook campus was to be postponed for six months and that they would seek to be better engaged with CRS alumni, including providing for electronic Town Hall meetings and other increased communications on its New Dawn plan.[22]
In mid 2015, after extensive meetings by the Board's Strategic Planning, Building & Grounds and Finance Committees, the LAJF Board agreed to consider the reopening of the Red Hook campus provided certain funds were raised by the alumni, $550,000 of which was needed to be raised by early September, to gain a "formal" commitment to do so. In record time, over 300 individual contributors responded to this call, and the Board declared the first hurdle for reopening Red Hook a success.[23] Subsequent to this successful fundraise LAJF commissioned a survey of the Red Hook sewer system which concluded that needed septic system repairs would far exceed the $550,000 raised by the alumni.
CRS alumni[edit]
CRS campers become members of an international alumni group that are supportive of their evolving interests in college and careers. The LAJF Web site has a College Roster that connects young alumni with older alumni who are attending or have attended a broad range of colleges, universities and professional schools. Many alumni later spoke of their experiences at CRS, such as when writing their college essays.[3][10][24] LAJF also supports a college scholarship program. While the Rising Sun experience is measured in weeks, the effects of the experience continue to develop and to play out over decades.[10]
Alumni organizations for CRS alumni have been created internationally.[25][26][27][28][29]
Notable alumni[edit]
Clifford Alexander, Jr., 1947, former foreign affairs officer on the National Security Council and the first African American U.S. Secretary of the Army
Darren Aronofsky, filmmaker
Eli Attie, writer, television producer, former aide/speechwriter for Al Gore and Bill Clinton
Norberto Barba, filmmaker
David Botstein, biologist and recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Francis F. Chen, 1944, plasma physicist, pioneer of ultra-cold physics
Samuel R. Delany, 1957, author, professor, literary critic, member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
Dick Dolman, 1951, former president, Dutch parliament
Sandi Simcha Dubowski, 1985 and 1986, filmmaker
Greg Giraldo, comedian
Naomi Gleit, Vice President of Product Management for Social Good at Facebook
Ulric Haynes, 1947, former U.S. ambassador to Algeria
Juliane Henningsen, 2001, Greenlandic politician
Anselm Hollo, 1950, Finnish writer
Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, 1962, private secretary to the Queen of England
Robert Jastrow, chief of theoretical division of NASA; founder, Goddard Institute for Space Studies; author
Ji Chaozhu, 1944, former Chinese ambassador to Britain, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, author
Ashok Kamte, Mumbai police commissioner killed in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks
Kai Lee, program officer of science for the Conservation and Science Program of the Packard Foundation
Sidney Lumet, filmmaker
Michael Lunn, 1960, former Danish Minister of Justice, former Minister of Climate and Energy
Joshua Muravchik, 1962, scholar, American Enterprise Institute; public policy analyst
Matthew Nimetz, American diplomat and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs during the Jimmy Carter Administration
Frank Ochberg, psychiatrist, expert in post-traumatic stress disorder
Jeff Orlowski, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, documentary filmmaker
Michael Pressman, 1964, television director and producer
Itamar Rabinovich, 1959, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States; President of Tel Aviv University
Neil Leon Rudenstine, president emeritus, Harvard University
Pete Seeger, folk singer, songwriter
Raymond Wagner, 1937, 1939, film producer, former head of television pilot development Universal Studios, former VP of Production MGM, former head of television commercials Young & Rubicam, New York and Hollywood
James Yannatos, 1943, conductor, San Antonio Symphony; professor of music, Harvard University
Zvi Zeitlin, 1935, concert violinist; Distinguished Professor of Music, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
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^ a b ""Spotlight on Global Organizations: Camp Rising Sun"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-26. , Alpha Vision, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2003). Retrieved June 21, 2010.
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^ a b Holly Harris, "i'm off to red hook", Holly Harris, blog (June 10, 2010). Retrieved June 22, 2010.
^ Testimonials from CRS alumni from the 1950s through the 1990s Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, Louis August Jonas Foundation, official website. Retrieved June 22, 2010.
^ "Sundial" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-15. Louis August Jonas Foundation publication (December 2008). Retrieved June 24, 2010.
^ "A special message from GEJF chairman, Torsten Enemærke" Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine, Camp Rising Sun Europe, official website. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
^ My View From Tent Hill: The Future of CRS and a New Dawn for Rising Sun Retrieved December 24, 2017.
^ Caroline Carey. "Camp Rising Sun to Set?". Hudson Valley News, October 22–28, 2014
^ My View From Tent Hill: New Action Plan for Rising Sun Retrieved December 24, 2017.
^ Berger, Joseph. Shaped by Camp, Alumni Fight to Prevent Its Move. The New York Times, September 7, 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/07/nyregion/shaped-by-camp-alumni-fight-to-prevent-its-move.html?_r=0</ Accessed April 24, 2016
^ 2005: Wes (James W) Johnson Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Presidential Scholars Foundation, official website. Retrieved June 22, 2010
^ "Tervetuloa" Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine Camp Rising Sun Alumni Association of Finland, official website. Retrieved June 21, 2010 (in Finnish)
^ "Üdvözlünk a CRS Magyar Táborozók honlapján!" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine Camp Rising Sun Alumni Association of Hungary, official website. Retrieved June 22, 2010 (in Hungarian)
^ "Strona Stowarzyszenia Polskich Wychowanków Camp Rising Sun" Camp Rising Sun/Poland, recruitment and alumni website. Retrieved June 22, 2010 (in Polish)
^ "CRS Nederland" Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine Camp Rising Sun/Netherlands, recruitment and alumni website. Retrieved June 22, 2010 (in Dutch)
^ "Camp Rising Sun キャンプ・ライジング・サン(CRS)とは" Camp Rising Sun Alumni Association Japan, official website. Retrieved June 22, 2010 (in Japanese)
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Roger Federer's Heartwarming Tribute To Late Coach
Claire Reid
Published 18:49, 28 January 2018 GMT
| Last updated 19:02, 28 January 2018 GMT
Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title at the Australian Open earlier today, and has paid a touching tribute to his late coach for helping make him the awesome player he is today.
Federer's former coach Peter Carter tragically died in a car crash in 2002, leaving the tennis star devastated. He has previously spoken about the massive impact the Aussie coach had on him as well as keeping a close relationship with Carter's parents.
Peter Carter. Credit: News7
Speaking after his win today, he said: "Peter Carter had the biggest impact on me in terms of my technique. That's what so many people talk about.
"When they talk about my effortless style and technique, I guess. I was able to perfect in later in my life, but he [Carter] set the foundation and that's why I'm so happy that his parents were at the finals yesterday and saw me win.
"That really meant a lot to me."
And this isn't the first time Carter's parents have been there to watch their son's former pupil. In fact, Federer makes sure that they're there to see him every time he plays in their country.
Going to sleep well tonight. Thank you to everyone for the love and support. It means more than I could possible describe pic.twitter.com/8t0f38vTLB
- Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) January 28, 2018
According to The Australian, every December Federer emails Pete's parents - Bob and Diana Carter - with flight details, accommodation bookings, a courtesy car and tickets for the Australian Open. How sweet is that?
Speaking to the Australian in 2012, Bob said: "Every year we go at his cost, it's just amazing, plane fares and courtesy cars. He really looks after us.
:trophy:20. :heart: pic.twitter.com/WqUiSo3fd5
"I hope he knows how much we appreciate that. He used to have us there for two weeks, but we were stuffed! It was so tiring we could hardly get home. We just go for the finals now."
The couple also said that the relationship they've built and maintained with Fed has helped them 'a lot'.
Sources: The Australian; ABC
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Our Need for Each Other and Our Need for Our Selves: Muriel Rukeyser on the Root of Strength in Times of Crisis
Elizabeth Alexander on What Poetry Does for the Human Spirit
The Twin Root of Our Confusion and Our Power in Times of Turmoil: Muriel Rukeyser on the Wellspring of Aliveness
Muriel Rukeyser on What Poetry Does for Us, What It Shares with Science, and Why Some People Resist It
"However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole."
One sweltering New York afternoon in my twenties, I was sitting across from a dear friend several decades my senior as I mentioned, with the matter-of-factly, arrogant naiveté of someone who does that sort of thing, that I didn't much care for poetry. Without missing a beat, she began reciting E.E. Cummings in the middle of that bustling Manhattan café. And just like that, everything changed — this was the ignition spark of my ardent love of poetry.
But even though Joseph Brodsky believed that poetry is the key to developing our taste in culture and James Dickey wrote that it "makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world," my reaction that summer Tuesday was far from uncommon — as a society, we seem to harbor a strange resistance to poetry, a stubborn refusal to recognize that it contains what Wordsworth called "the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge."
It's a resistance that "has the qualities of fear." So argues the magnificent Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913–February 12, 1980) in the 1949 classic The Life of Poetry (public library) — a wise and wonderful exploration of all the ways in which we keep ourselves from the gift of an art so elemental yet so transcendent, so infinitely soul-stretching, so capable of Truth.
Rukeyser writes in the foreword:
A way to allow people to feel the meeting of their consciousness and the world, to feel the full value of the meanings of emotions and ideas in their relations with each other, and to understand, in the glimpse of a moment, the freshness of things and their possibilities. . . . There is an art which gives us that way; and it is, in our society, an outcast art.
In this book, I have tried to track down the resistances to poetry, with every kind of "boredom" and "impatience," the name-calling which says that poetry is "intellectual and obscure and confused and sexually suspect." How much of this is true, and how much can be traced to the corruption of consciousness? We can see what these attitudes mean, in impoverishment of the imagination, to audience and to artist, both of whom are deeply affected.
In seeking to "go behind the resistances," Rukeyser considers the parallels between poetry and science:
The relations of poetry are … very close to the relations of science. It is not a matter of using the results of science, but of seeing that there is a meeting-place between all the kinds of imagination. Poetry can provide that meeting-place…
A poem is not its words or its images, any more than a symphony is its notes or a river its drops of water. Poetry depends on the moving relations within itself. It is an art that lives in time, expressing and evoking the moving relation between individual consciousness and the world. The work that a poem does is a transfer of human energy, and I think human energy may be defined as consciousness, the capacity to make change in existing conditions… To accept poetry in these meanings would make it possible for people to use it as an "exercise," an enjoyment of the possibility of dealing with the meanings in the world and in their lives.
It is curious — and curiously assuring — to note that all the reasons Rukeyser considered poetry timely in 1949 ring with double urgency in the context of today:
In this moment we face horizons and conflicts wider than ever before, we want our resources, the ways of strength. We look again to the human wish, its faiths, the means by which the imagination leads us to surpass ourselves.
If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has — the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge — infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.
She returns to poetry's singular role in relation to science and the other arts:
Now, when it is hard to hold for a moment the giant clusters of event and meaning that every day appear, it is time to remember this other kind of knowledge and love, which has forever been a way of reaching complexes of emotion and relationship, the attitude that is like the attitude of science and the other arts today, but with significant and beautiful distinctness from these — the attitude that perhaps might equip our imaginations to deal with our lives — the attitude of poetry.
She offers a necessary definition of the nature and purpose of poetry in a sentiment that Alain de Botton would come to echo more than half a century later in asserting that "art holds out the promise of inner wholeness." Rukeyser writes:
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling, and what is the use of truth?
And yet of all the arts, Rukeyser argues, poetry has been made "the least acceptable" — in large part due to our chronic perplexity in the face of emotions and our clinging to the false divide between emotion and the intellect. In examining the root of our resistance to poetry, a fear that "presents the symptoms of a psychic problem," Rukeyser writes:
A poem does invite, it does require. What does it invite? A poem invites you to feel. More than that: it invites you to respond. And better that that: a poem invites a total response.
This response it total, but it is reached through the emotions. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually — that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too — but the way is through emotion, thorough what we call feeling.
(To grasp this roundabout rousing of the intellect via emotion, one need only consider the original 1943 review of The Little Prince — a children's classic immeasurably poetic in spirit — which captured this beautifully: "The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam. It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it.")
In returning to the various reactionaries who denounce poetry, Rukeyser considers "the roots of communication" in defining poetry:
Poetry is written from these depths; in great poetry you feel a source speaking to another source.
And yet we are cut off from the source early in life. In a sentiment that seems to paraphrase Picasso's famous assertion that "every child is an artist," Rukeyser argues that every child is a poet:
The fear that cuts off poetry is profound: it plunges us deep, far back to the edge of childhood. Beyond that it does not go.
Little children do not have this fear, they trust their emotions. But on the threshold of adolescence the walls are built.
In adults, you know those who put poetry far behind them; not naturally, like children outgrowing toys who forget them (or beat them to pieces), but with a painful shocked awareness that here was something outside their reach.
The same adults, no doubt, sit in cafés and proclaim their disdain for poetry. And that disdain is planted in us as soon as the natural inclination for the poetic is schooled out of us, quite literally — Rukeyser echoes Buckminster Fuller's lament about the specialization of education and revisits the parallels between poetry and science:
Our education is one of specialization. We become experts in some narrow "field." That expertness allows us to deal with the limited problems presented to us; it allows us to face emotional reality, symbolic reality, very little… A first-rate scientist, or a fine prose writer, is able to say "How can I know a good poem? I can tell an honest piece of work in my own field from a phony piece of work, but how can I tell a fine poem from a phony poem?" And what has to be said to such a question is that these are people who cannot trust their emotional reactions, their total reactions.
Our mistrust of the emotions, she argues, is a special kind of insecurity — and yet until we are able to embrace the interconnectedness of all pieces of ourselves, to integrate them with grace, we will remain ruptured by our inner incompleteness. The promise of poetry is ultimately one of integration:
This gathering-together of elements so that they move together according to a newly visible system is becoming evident in all our sciences, and it is natural that it should be present in our writing. Wherever it exists, it gives us a clue as to a possible kind of imagination with which to meet the world. It gives us a clue that may lead to a way to deal with any unity which depends on many elements, all inter-dependent.
The Life of Poetry is a sublime read in its entirety. Complement it with James Dickey on how to enjoy poetry, Edward Hirsch on how to read a poem, and Mary Oliver on the secret of great poetry.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/16/muriel-rukeyser-life-of-poetry/
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by Valerie Thurner August 23, 2021 November 17, 2021
More and more young filmmakers from Kenya are creating "the magic." Despite many economic and political hurdles, the desire to tell stories about the complex realities of a postcolonial African society is unstoppable. Young Kenyan auteur cinema is striving for international screens. In partnership with the Studio Cinema Xenix in Zurich Switzerland I curated the focus program Magical Kenya? — a selection of young Kenyan auteur cinema, short and feature fiction and non-fiction cinema.
Three years ago, RAFIKI (2018) was the first Kenyan film to screen at the Cannes Festival and wowed audiences: the romantic drama received a standing ovation and subsequently traveled around the world, but in Kenya, the film was placed under censorship due to its depiction of lesbian love.
Film still from RAFIKI (2018)
Director Wanuri Kahiu, co-founder of the "Afrobubblegum" movement, is one of many Kenyan creatives striving for international cinema screens. These films are getting global attention and winning awards at international film festivals: for example, the poetic and dark fairy tale KATI KATI (Mbithi Masya, 2016) in Toronto or the political portrait SOFTIE (Sam Soko, 2020) at the Sundance Festival. The time is ripe for a foray into the latest decade of Kenyan cinema, which is cosmopolitan in outlook while Afrocentric in storytelling. Thus, the films in the Magical Kenya? program deal with universal themes such as love, self-determination, death or trauma and, at the same time, very concrete (maybe rather tangible?) Kenyan realities.
Film still from KATI KATI (2016)
Film still from SOFTIE (2020)
Until twenty years ago, voices from Kenya in cinema could be counted on one hand. Moreover, for a long time the East African country was represented exclusively by the colonial view of the region, which became imprinted in the collective consciousness. American entertainment cinema has done its part to consolidate the "white gaze" in the public consciousness: Ever since the 1985 Hollywood hit OUT OF AFRICA, the Oscar-winning biopic about Danish baroness Karen Blixen and her years in the colony, Kenya's savannah and lake landscapes have been popular backdrops for foreign cinematic productions. At the same time, stories from the perspective of Kenyans found their way to the screen only tentatively and only thanks to cheaper formats such as VHS and later digital technologies. These films remained predominantly low-budget for a local market and were extremely rarely intended for an international audience. In Kenya itself, access to Kenyan arthouse cinema remains limited to selective screenings to this day, while cinemas in Nairobi and other cities show mainly U.S. blockbusters.
"Magical Kenya" is a popular slogan that the government tourism agency also uses to promote safaris: unspoiled nature (maybe rather the pristine land?), wild animals and the pre-colonial cultures of the diverse, multi-ethnic country. As a hashtag on social media, #MagicalKenya — often filled with patriotism — is also popular among locals. But the slogan is also used ironically where the social and political abysses open up behind the reductionist facade of travel marketing: the infiltration of state institutions by corrupt private business or NGOs, rampant police violence, the neocolonial exploitation of natural resources, or widespread poverty and unemployment are just as much a reality. And telling stories about this is a major concern of many young filmmakers.
The films in the program Magical Kenya? live from strong contrasts — between city and country, between tradition and modernism. They open up spaces that tell of the discord and contradictions within a society that still suffers from the colonial trauma. But the films also testify to the potential in the diversity of this country and to the possibilities of breaking through barriers in the mind. The settings range from the most remote region in northern Kenya to the chaotic capital of Nairobi. And in the spirit of 'the future is female', in the presented films, often female characters are the epicenters in the films: in OIL & WATER (Anjali Nayar, 2020), a women's group fights an overbearing oil company; in the docu-animation YELLOW FEVER (Ng'endo Mukli, 2012), a girl questions the grotesque ideals of beauty associated with pain that are oriented toward the Wazungu (the white people).
Film still OIL & WATER (2020)
THE LETTER (Maia Lekow and Christopher King, 2019), in turn, is an atmospheric portrait of a matriarch accused of witchcraft by family members who finds an ally in her adult grandson.
Film still from THE LETTER (2019)
The strong female character in the drama SOMETHING NECESSARY (Judy Kibinge, 2013) is fictional, but her story is based on true events and involves many families who have been victims of politically motivated violence. The film is set against the backdrop of the rigged presidential elections of 2007, which led to a wave of violence throughout the country that was unsurpassed in scale and brought the current heads of state before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Director Judy Kibinge has since made a name for herself as a producer, and is the founder of Docubox, the main funding vehicle for documentary film in East Africa.
Film still from SOMETHING NECESSARY (2013)
Docubox has financially supported many films in this selection such as SOFTIE or the lyrical film essay NEW MOON by Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann (2018), which delves into the world of Sufi Islam in the ancient Swahili trading town of Lamu Town, and also the portrait I AM SAMUEL (2020) directed by Peter Murimi in the style of Direct Cinema, in which Samuel's love for his partner Alex means latent danger.
Film still from I AM SAMUEL (2020)
Homophobia is very widespread on the African continent due to various factors, including in Kenya. Existing resentment is fueled in particular by the new evangelical churches and instrumentalized by politicians for populist propaganda. Same-sex love is defamed as "non-African," although it should be remembered that homosexuality was first criminalized by the British colonial administration through draconian laws.
One of the pioneering voices in the fight for the rights of LGBTQI+ people is the collective "The Nest", which is also one of the most successful production sites for independent artists in Kenya. Shot in black and white, the episodic film Stories of Our Lives (2015), directed by Jim Chuchu, provides insights into queer life in Kenya. The film wowed critics worldwide, while this production also remains banned in Kenya. Jim Chuchu's cinematic universe moves radically and imaginatively around searches for identity in a fractured society (WE NEED PRAYERS: THIS ONE WENT TO MARKET, 2017 and TAPI!, 2020). The decision to put their own name behind Stories of Our Lives took a lot of courage for the makers. Coming out means risking rejection and persecution, and it is usually filmmakers, musicians, writers, or academics like the late author Binyavanga Wainaina who dare to take this step and thus become role models.
Who narrates for whom? This question arises again and again in systems of great inequality, and was also a question that has occupied me through the process of research. DREAMS OF ELIBIDI (Kamau Wa Ndung'u and Nick Reding, 2010) lives from a very special charm: because the film weaves documentary passages of real street theater performances into the plot, the film audience sees the reactions of the population to the play and also experiences it through their eyes. Many can identify with the story of an average Kenyan family seeking their fortune in the capital city of Nairobi.
Film still from DREAMS OF ELIBIDI (2010)
The project was funded by an NGO. This corresponds to a reality for many creatives in countries of the South, where there are no governmental cultural funding pots. Financial dependence on foreign funders is a fact of life for Kenyan creatives, which is also reflected in the film industry. The relationships with international funding bodies and producers are decisive factors in whether someone creates a career or not. Some feature films in this selection have been produced by the German One Fine Day Films initiative of director Tom Tykwer, with the declared aim of promoting Kenyan arthouse cinema. Among them are some festival hits: SUPA MODO (Likarion Wainaina, 2018), which tells a drama about a terminally ill girl sensitively but never sentimentally, and KATI KATI by Mbithi Masya, whose theme is also death. The cult factor of this film is provided by the now disbanded popular electro-funk formation Just a Band, of which directors Masya and Jim Chuchu were members.
20Still from SUPA MODO (2018)
Kenyan cinema can by no means be understood as a homogeneous movement; too many different cultures and realities of life are united in this young nation. Without claiming to be exhaustive, this essay was written as an introduction in the Program booklet for Magical Kenya? that will play in the Cinema Xenix in Zurich, Switzerland between 2nd and 15th of September 2021.
The Program, find the overview here, is intended to unite as many different narrative forms and perspectives as possible into a kaleidoscope, so that Kenya can be portrayed in as many different ways and facets as possible.
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Николай Илиев Карамфилов, по-известен като Кольо Карамфилов, е български художник – живописец, график и скулптор. Работи и в жанрове на визуалните изкуства като пърформанс, арт инсталации, фотография и интериорен дизайн.

Биография
Кольо Карамфилов е роден на 7 декември 1963 г. в Пловдив. През 1982 г. завършва сценография в Средното художествено училище в Пловдив. Още като съвсем млад е приет за член на СБХ и печели няколко награди.

През 1989 създава авангардната група "Ръб" и е един от идеолозите на артистичната организация, наред с изкуствоведа Димитър Грозданов, Албена Михайлова, Димитър Митовски, Емил Миразчиев, Моника Роменска, Надя Генова, Румен Жеков.

По-късно през 1995 г. създава група "Диско 95" с друг член на "Ръб", Димитър Митовски. През 2010 г. започва началото на проекта "Мерси" със Стефан Божков.

През 2008 г. създава галерия U.P.A.R.K. в Пловдив.

От 1983 г. до смъртта си през 2014 г. прави над 30 самостоятелни изложби и участва в множество групови изяви в България и чужбина. Негови работи са притежание на множество частни колекции в Българияи чужбина.

Почива на 12 януари 2014 г. в Пловдив.

Семейство
Кольо Карамфилов има два брака: от 1992- 2000  е женен за интериорната  дизайнерка и художничка Ина Дамянова, от която е синът му, младият поет Росен Карамфилов, а през 2009 г. сключва брак с дъщерята на актьора Наум Шопов, Лиза Шопова.

Творчество
Като сценограф Карамфилов е работил с режисьорите Петринел Гочев, Андрей Жолдак (Украйна), Димитър Еленов, Лиза Шопова. В киното е бил художник на филмите "Хълмът на боровинките" на Александър Морфов, "Пазачът на мъртвите" на Илиян Симеонов и "Аве" на Константин Божанов.

Режисьор и сценарист е на филма "Казабланка", с който взима наградата на Jameson за късометражно кино на София Филм Фест 2014 г.

Изложби
По-важни изложби в чужбина са:
 1998 – Български културен център – Москва, Русия,
 1998 – Нигата, Япония,
 2001 – Ашау, Германия
 1998 – Български културен център – Токио, Япония
 2009 – Ашау, Германия,
 2010 – "Дом Витгенщайн", Виена, Австрия,
 2010 – Галерия "Сердика", Варшава, Полша,
 2010 – Български културен център – Париж, Франция.

Посмъртно:
 27.05.2014 – 08.06.2014 – Галерия "Нюанс", София
 13.04.2016 – 23.04.2016 – Изложба "Кольо Карамфилов: Обично", Галерия "Червената точка", София
 20.11.2018 – 10.01.2019 – Галерия "L'union de Paris" – Пловдив
 07.01.2019 – 30.01.2019 – Изложба "Необозримо за Кольо К." – Градска художествена галерия, Пловдив

Награди
По-важни награди:
 1987 – Бронзов медал от III Mеждународно триенале, Варна,
 1989 – Награда "Южна пролет", Хасково,
 1989 – Награда на VIII Mладежка изложба,
 1995 – "Гран при" от Първото международно триенале на графиката,
 1997 – Стипендия "Сите дез Артс", Париж,
 2004 – Награда за изкуство "Пловдив".

Източници

Външни препратки
 Кольо Карамфилов (1963 – 2014), Йово Панчев, в. "Култура", Брой 2 (2751), 17 януари 2014
 www.actualno.com
 bnt.bg
 atrakcia.bg

Български художници
Български сценографи
Български скулптори
Почетни граждани на Пловдив

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Leadership ·Donald Trump
John McCain on President Trump's Russian Connections: 'Lot of Shoes to Drop'
BYMahita Gajanan and TIME
March 12, 2017, 7:00 PM UTC
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 15: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) listens to testimony during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Ending Modern Slavery: Building on Success at Dirksen Senate Office Building on February 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/WireImage)
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Arizona Sen. John McCain said "there's a lot of shoes to drop" regarding more information about President Trump and his team's ties to Russia.
McCain said several aspects related to Trump's connections with Russia needed more questioning during an interview on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.
"There's a lot of aspects with this whole relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin that requires further scrutiny, and so far I don't think the American people have gotten all the answers," McCain told host Jake Tapper. "In fact, I think there's a lot of shoes to drop from this centipede."
A growing number of Trump's associates have been revealed to have contacts with Russian officials. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from investigating ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign after it emerged he had met with the Russian ambassador in 2016 and failed to disclose it during his confirmation hearing. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned from his post after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his contact with the same ambassador.
McCain said the issue "clearly cries out for an investigation," although he cautioned against "judging anyone guilty."
This article originally appeared on TIME.com


Hewlett-Packard says it has sent a formal demand letter to software giant Oracle insisting that it reverse its decision, made in March, to stop building software for Intel's Itanium server chip.
In the letter, which was not released, HP demands that Oracle honor confidential contractual obligations made between them, and return to developing software that works with Intel's server chip, and for which HP is essentially the only significant vendor.
Bill Wohl, HP's chief communications officer, said that HP was making the demand on behalf of its customers who he said have made a significant investment in buying HP servers that use the Itanium chip.
Wohl said that HP and Oracle share roughly 140,000 different customers between them. HP believes that Oracle's decision violates legally binding commitments and that it constitutes an "unlawful attempt to force customers from HP Itanium platforms" to Oracle's own hardware platforms. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems last year.
Oracle's decision touched off a war of words with Intel and HP when it said it would stop supporting Intel's chip, saying it said it saw no future for the business. Intel responded saying that there is indeed a long-term roadmap for more Itanium products. Oracle then said it was only being honest about the situation. Intel and HP have since promised that they remain committed to the Itanium product.
Customers then started a campaign to try and change Oracle's mind, which apparently hasn't worked. Oracle declined comment.
In truth, Oracle is not the only software company to walk away from Itanium. Microsoft and Red Hat both walked away from Itanium last year. Microsoft has said that Windows Server 2008 R2 would be the last operating system to support Itanium. Red Hat dropped its support with the release of Enterprise Linux 6.
Of course, things have a funny way of changing. Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, becoming a hardware competitor to HP in the process. Then CEO Mark Hurd left HP to become co-President at Oracle. And now Ellison's favorite hobby outside of sailing is bashing HP.
And that's only the more recent part of the backstory. There's also the chip itself. Intel and HP first teamed up to develop what became the Itanium chip as far back as the late 1980s. It debuted at the start of the last decade and was controversial from the start.
While Intel created a 64-bit chip that was a significant leap forward for servers, it came with baggage: It wasn't compatible with existing software written for Intel's standard x86 chips, which in those days were the Pentium and Xeon. That meant software had to be written specially to run on Itanium-based servers.
That created a strategic opening for Intel's number two rival Advanced Micro Devices. It created a 64-bit chip that was compatible with existing software. Hardware vendors flocked to it, and during 2005 and 2006 AMD built up enough momentum to take away some of Intel's share of the server market.
After a few years Intel changed course and, beginning in 2004, started putting out its own x86-compatible 64-bit chips. Its Intel64 technology is now a standard across its server, desktop and notebook chips. And it got most of its share of the server market back.
However, Intel is still putting out Itanium chips, though it's really a niche product. It updated the line last year with the Itanium 9300. It also has two future chips in the family still in the pipeline, one codenamed Poulson, the other codenamed Kittson. Few companies buy servers built around Itanium chips, and HP is really the only server vendor to sell them, and since HP doesn't disclose how many it sells, its widely assumed that the number is, relative to mainstream servers, pretty small. Intel said in April that the Itanium ecosystem amounted to about $4 billion in server sales last year.
When it made its decision to end Itanium support Oracle said it believed that Intel would start steering customers away from Itanium and toward its standard server chips, and indeed Intel has been describing its mainstream Xeon server chip as "suitable for any workload in the world," giving Oracle's position at least some basis in logic.
Whatever the case, Oracle is showing no sign of reversing course, which means this matter is probably headed to the courts, and soon.
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Compliance called out in Liberty Tax DOJ settlement
By Kyle Brasseur2019-12-04T20:58:00+00:00
The Department of Justice is requiring Liberty Tax Service to greatly enhance its internal compliance controls as part of a proposed settlement with the tax preparation service provider over allegations of fraud and misconduct.
The Liberty Tax compliance program
Liberty's new tax compliance program "will be pace-setting for the industry," the company claims. Key components of the program include:
Elevation of the head of tax compliance to the executive leadership team of Liberty;
Company training programs developed by attorneys, CPAs, enrolled agents, or experienced tax professionals;
Preparer certification programs;
Requirements for new franchisees to be attorneys, CPAs, enrolled agents, or to have an experienced tax professional in their offices;
Increased oversight and review of tax returns prepared in the Liberty Tax Service system; and
Automated measures to detect certain types of potential errors before returns are filed.
Source: Franchise Group
The DOJ and Franchise Group Intermediate, the national franchisor and owner of Liberty Tax Service stores, have filed a joint motion to resolve the issues alleged in the DOJ's complaint, filed Tuesday with a U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Va. The DOJ wants Liberty to refrain from specific acts, enact enhanced internal compliance controls regarding the detection of false tax returns, and pay for an independent monitor to oversee its compliance with the proposed court order.
In addition, Franchise Group would make monetary payments to the Internal Revenue Service totaling $3 million to be paid in installments over four years.
The DOJ has been investigating Liberty's policies, practices, and procedures regarding its tax return preparation activities. Between 2013 and 2018, the DOJ filed 10 separate civil enforcement actions against Liberty Tax Service franchisees—or their owners, former owners, or managers—alleging common patterns of "concocting fictitious income for customers to claim Earned Income Tax Credits, fabricating expenses to reduce customers' reported income tax liability, claiming improper or false dependents, and falsifying education expenses to claim refundable education tax credits."
"The government claims Liberty failed to maintain adequate controls over tax returns prepared by its franchisees, and failed to take steps to prevent the filing of potentially false or fraudulent returns prepared by franchisees, despite having the capability to do so and despite notice of fraud at some of its franchisee stores," the DOJ states.
The DOJ requests Liberty founder and former CEO John Hewitt be permanently barred from engaging further with the company. Also requested, among requirements laid out by the DOJ, is that Liberty:
Implement enhanced compliance measures, including training programs and additional resources to monitor, detect, and report non-compliance with federal laws and regulations;
Conduct a minimum number of onsite compliance reviews of its stores, test its stores' compliance with tax laws using mystery shoppers, and automatically prevent electronic transmission of tax returns to the IRS that report certain items with a high risk of fraud until the company independently verifies the accuracy of the tax return;
Maintain a whistleblower program to encourage Liberty employees, franchisees, and franchisee employees to report suspected fraudulent activity; and
Engage a U.S.-approved third party to act as an independent monitor to review the company's compliance with the terms of the order, to assess the sufficiency of Liberty's fraud prevention measures, and to report findings to a government official designated by the United States and, if necessary, to the court. The monitor would serve for a period of three years.
Liberty would also be required to appoint a vice president of compliance to report directly to the CEO and must ensure its compliance department is equipped with a proper budget and staff.
The joint motion would resolve the civil action against Franchise Group without factual admissions or findings. In acknowledging the settlement, Franchise Group said it "has spent millions on its tax compliance program and related organizational enhancements" over the past several years.
"Today, we arrive at a new beginning for Liberty Tax Service," said CEO Brent Turner in a news release. "We are pleased to resolve this matter, and with the past in our rear-view, we are laser focused on our future, our franchisees and our customers who place their trust in us. We have created a best-in-class compliance program, and our team is excited and motivated to propel Liberty forward."
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Q: Which model is the best for training oriented bounding boxes for small objects I have a dataset of some small fibrous objects on which I tried with YOLOv5OBB method but the results are not satisfying.
The detection result is poor (P=0.3, R=0.28 for total boxes = 1200 in 120 images).
The boxes are not fit well to the objects and often there are overlapped boxes in different orientation.
The considered fibrous objects include fibrous with less than 3 microns in diameters and longer than 5 microns, therefore I can not use scaling and shearing which change the size of the objects. traslate and mosaic will also damage the results as objects are cut.
Do you have any suggestion how to improve it? hyp parameters or even a different method/model?
Some output examples:
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Hyp parameters:
lr0: 0.00258
lrf: 0.017
momentum: 0.779
weight_decay: 0.00058
warmup_epochs: 1.93
warmup_momentum: 0.443
warmup_bias_lr: 0.059
box: 0.0339
cls: 0.33
cls_pw: 0.825
theta: 0.299
theta_pw: 0.825
obj: 0.632
obj_pw: 1.0
iou_t: 0.2
anchor_t: 3.44
anchors: 2.5
fl_gamma: 0.0
hsv_h: 0.0188
hsv_s: 0.354
hsv_v: 0.35
degrees: 0.03
translate: 0.05
scale: 0.02
shear: 0.0
perspective: 0.0
flipud: 0.7
fliplr: 0.7
mosaic: 0.0
mixup: 0.5
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Lowering costs across the community.
There are many issues that contribute to the high costs of traditional health management. The historical model of reimbursement based on fee for service has proven to be an ineffective means of containing costs and promoting optimal health. But by providing enrollment mechanisms that facilitate prevention, early intervention, and compliance, along with tracking tools that verify positive outcomes, you can turn this equation around to delivering payment based on value. Better overall health logically leads to lower costs to maintain it.
System utilization, of course, is another important issue. That's why CCS helps guide you in resolving the social needs that underlie the use of the ER as a source of primary care – while also helping reduce the rate of hospitalizations, and improving outcomes with the goal of decreasing hospital readmissions. Achieving these goals is critical to containing costs today – and tomorrow.
The recent national focus on healthcare reform and the adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) present an overarching opportunity to change the way healthcare is organized and delivered.
Contact us today to get your community's population on the path to higher quality health more efficiently and economically than ever.