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The Devourer and the Devoured: The Intertwined Lives of Poet Annie Vivanti and Prodigy Vivien Chartres, Part 2/4
Here's part 2 of 4 of a long essay on turn-of-the-century violin prodigy Vivien Chartres and her famous author mother Annie Vivanti. Part 1 is here.
One day George and Peggy came to visit them at the boarding-house. And with them they brought Mr. Markowski and his violin.
In the drawing-room after tea Nancy asked the shy and greasy-looking Hungarian to play: and the fiddle was taken tenderly out of its plush-lined case. Markowski was young and shabby, but his violin was old and valuable. Markowski had a dirty handkerchief, but the fiddle had a clean, soft white silk one. Markowski placed a small black velvet cushion on his greasy coat-collar, and raised the violin to it; he adjusted his chin over it, raised his bow, and shut his eyes. Then Markowski was a god.
Do you know the hurrying anguish of Grieg's F dur Sonata? Do you know the spluttering shrieks of laughter of Bazzini's "Ronde des Lutins"? The sobbing of the unwritten Tzigane songs? The pattering of wing-like feet in Ries's "Perpetuum Mobile?"
Little Anne-Marie stood in the middle of the room motionless, pale as linen, as if the music had taken life from her and turned her into a white statuette. Ah, here was the little neoteric statue that Nancy had tried to fix! The child's eyes were vague and fluid, like blue water spilt beneath her lashes; her colourless lips were open.
Nancy watched her. And a strange dull feeling came over her heart, as if someone had laid a heavy stone in it. What was that little figure, blanched, decolourized, transfigured? Was that Anne-Marie? Was that the little silly Anne-Marie, the child that she petted and slapped and put to bed, the child that was so stupid at geography, so brainless at arithmetic?
"Anne-Marie! Anne-Marie! What is it, dear? What are you thinking about?"
Anne-Marie turned wide light eyes on her mother, but her soul was not in them. For the Spirit of Music had descended upon her, and wrapped her round in his fabulous wings – wrapped her, and claimed her, and borne her away on the swell of his sounding wings…
The last long-drawn note ended; then Anne Marie moved. She covered her face with her hands and began to cry.
"Why do you cry, darling – why do you cry?" asked Nancy embracing her.
Anne-Marie's large eyes gazed at Nancy. "For many things – for many things!" she said. And Nancy for the first time felt that her child's spirit stood alone, beyond her reach and out of her keeping.
According to her mother, Vivien Chartres was a strong-willed child who wasn't afraid to speak her mind. She once got into an argument with a little French girl who was boasting of her silk blue coat. Vivien retorted that God had given her a blue silk coat as a consolation for having a "horrid French father." She then ripped out a fistful of the French girl's hair.
She expressed a constant impatience with all things, as many gifted children are apt to do. It was not uncommon for her to suddenly stop in the middle of a walk and tell her mother, "I want to be at home."
"Well, darling, we will go home," Vivanti would answer.
"No, I don't want to go home. I want to be at home. Now directly. Without going."
As Vivanti wrote in The Pall Mall Magazine:
No amount of coaxing, no promise of sweets or toys would pacify her, or cause her to move a step farther. I could not help marvelling at the deep philosophy in the child's apparent unreasonableness: for do we not all of us in all things want to "be" at our wishes' ends, without the intermediate "going" there? But at the moment it was embarrassing, for the child would scream, and sit down on the pavement, causing a crowd to gather, which would look reproachfully at me, and give me heterogenous advice. It was only by playing "horse" with her as far as the nearest cab-stand that I could get her to move at all; and it was most unpleasant for me to have to pretend to canter and trot, and to say "Giddy-up, gee-gee!" with everybody looking on.
On her sixth birthday, Vivanti came into the nursery to wish her daughter a happy birthday and to ask her "if she was a happy little girl that day." Vivanti wrote:
"Oh, no!" she said. "I am not happy. I am very tired of being alive, and always doing the same things. I do not wish I were dead; but I wish I had never begun!"
I was horroruck. I led her into the breakfast-room with a trembling heart, and showed her her presents arrayed on the table. Fortunately she was pleased with them, and was especially delighted with a false beard that her father had put on for the occasion. I had to wear it all through breakfast because it amused her; and she insisted that Mary should wait at table in it that evening, when we had guests for the birthday dinner. I was so shaken by what she had said in the morning that I could refuse her nothing. Mary wore the beard; but was very cross about it, and gave me notice next day.
It was at that memorable dinner that I was to be reminded of the Vocation in a strange and unexpected way…
Aunt Margaret turned the conversation by inquiring about Vivien's presents.
"I have everything I want," said Vivien, "except a bulldog and a violin."
A violin! How strange that she should ask for a violin, suddenly, of her own accord! Everybody said that it clearly denoted great talent and a gift for music; and I determined to buy her one the very next day. I did so: I bought a charming half-size instrument of a bright brown colour, and most excellent in tone, the dealer told me. Of course we did not get the bulldog.
Vivien's auspicious start did not immediately translate into the glittering career her mother was anticipating. According to The Pall Mall Magazine, she used the fiddle as a money box and a depository for bread and milk. As Vivanti remarked, "I…began to doubt as to the Gift and the Calling."
Eventually, however, Vivien's talents began to manifest themselves, although the details are fuzzy. In some accounts (including "The True Story of a Wunderkind"), it is said that an Italian gentleman named Signor Santavicci was Vivien's first teacher; other sources indicate that her first instructor was a player named Luigi Marescalchi from Monaco. In addition, it is unclear when exactly she began her studies. Although Vivanti claims that Vivien began to play between her seventh and eighth birthdays, it is possible she began earlier; Vivanti had a habit of fudging dates. More research is required on the point.
At any rate, a while after she began playing the violin, Vivanti's uncle sent his grand-niece two beautiful dolls, which Vivien adored. She slept with one on either side of her. Vivanti related that one night:
…She called me in an agitated voice. I hurried to her bedside. She had the two dolls huddled in one arm and the other stretched out. "Give me my violin," she said; "give it to me quickly. I dreamt that it was jealous."
"Nonsense, darling!" I said, laughing.
But she was much disturbed, and insisted upon my bringing it to her.
"If it thought that I liked the dolls best, it might be angry, and make ugly voices at me tomorrow."
So she insisted upon sleeping with the violin on one side of her and the dolls on the other.
Thus it was that I noticed that to her mind the violin was a live thing: a rather evil, impish thing, with an uncertain temper – a creature to be appeased and propitiated lest it should make "ugly voices." I thought the idea uncanny. And one day I resolved to tell her a story, such as mothers invent under the inspiration of their children's questioning eyes. And here it is, as I told it to her and to the dolls, all sitting in a row:
"Vivien, dear, in the violin there lives, as you have already guessed, a being – a tiny, beautiful, invisible fairy, whose named is The Spirit of Music. The man who long ago made this violin caught her by her wings as she was flying in the air and shut her up in the violin. A spell was cast over her – "
"What is a spell?" said Vivien.
"An enchantment – a – a kind of net," I said vaguely.
"Butterfly-net?" said Vivien.
"Well, yes. Something of the kind," I answered; "so that her wings were tied, and she could not move, or speak, or see – "
"Or eat," said Vivien.
"And she lies there in the dark waiting for the spell to be broken." Vivien's eyes grew large and resplendent. "Now, do you know how the spell can be broken? How the net – "
"Is it green?" asked Vivien; "and is the stick inside too?"
"What stick?" I said impatiently. "If you keep on interrupting I shall stop telling the story. Now, there is only one way in which the fairy can be released; and that must be" – I took Vivien's small warm hand in mine – "by the hand of a little girl. One day a little girl will come, who will play so beautifully, so perfectly, without one mistake – "
"What shall I have to play?" interrupted Vivien.
"The Paganini Concerto," I said, on the spur of the moment. "And on that day the Fairy Spirit will wake up and shake out her beautiful wings and come forth from the violin to do the little girl's bidding." I read in Vivien's face that she was going to say, 'What is bidding?' so I went on quickly. "She will obey the little girl and fulfil all her wishes. She will turn the violin-bow into a magic wand, and the little girl will work charms with it: make bad people good, and sad people happy, and poor people rich – "
"And order pony-carriages at once? And make Fräulein Muller vanish away?" cried Vivien, intensely excited.
"Everything!" I replied, in order not to spoil the effect of the story. Vivien had already flown to the case, and now she held the fiddle up and turned it in every direction, peering into the sound-holes with anxious eyes. I improved the occasion. "And the more you practise, the sooner will she be visible. Every hour you play loosens a little the bonds that tie her. Scales especially have a very loosening effect," I added.
I confess to feeling some twinges of remorse the next morning, when I heard her practising scales all by herself for a long time. At the end of every scale she looked into the fiddle; and before lunch she came and whispered in my ear, "I think I heard her move!"
These two juxtaposed stories perfectly illustrate the attitude that Vivanti had toward her daughter's talent – at least publicly. She loved it, was fascinated by it, was a little afraid of it, and cared very deeply for it; she was both attracted to, and in a way, repelled by it. As can be shown from her words after the Huberman concert, she was only too aware that it would be discomfitingly easy to use her daughter's talent to break her spirit, and yet she still encouraged its development. Vivanti, ever the dramatist, reveled in the tension.
As with everything Vivanti wrote, the anecdotes in "The True Story of a Wunderkind" need to be taken with a grain of salt; it is impossible to ascertain what exactly about them is true or false. For instance, in another interview from 1905, Vivien herself told a reporter that her father, not her mother, had been the one to tell the story of the fairy. One wonders where exactly Chartres was during all this. In "The True Story of a Wunderkind," he appears only three times – to dismiss Vivanti's gut instinct about her baby's talent, to encourage Vivien not to make an early debut, and to ask (basically) what the hell the two of them were doing auditioning for a teacher in Prague. Were it not for those three mentions of him, readers would be forgiven for assuming Vivanti was a widow or divorcée. Was Chartres really so distant from his wife and daughter? Had Vivanti's relationship with him turned so rocky that she wrote him out of her past? Perhaps it is significant that in The Devourers, Anne-Marie's father is an irresponsible gambler and womanizer who ultimately leaves Nancy and Anne-Marie to fend for themselves. Or maybe Vivanti merely understood that the idea of a girl and her mother fighting alone against the world was much more dramatically appealing than a traditional family unit doing the same.
Thanks to the instruction of her teacher, her mother's encouragement, and her own remarkable innate talent, Vivien soon began to excel in a truly shocking way. A few months after she began playing, she was performing Svendsen's Romance. Around that time Vivien visited her great-uncle, Paul Lindau, in Paris. He was astonished by her progress and suggested that mother and daughter travel to Prague so that Vivien could audition for arguably the greatest violin teacher in Europe, Otakar Ševcík. Being accepted into the Ševcík studio would be no small feat; it would be, in a way, an achievement akin to Annie Vivanti befriending Carducci so many years before. Ševcík's services were in remarkably high demand; over the course of his career, he rejected hundreds of pupils, many older than Vivien. According to Vivanti, after hearing her uncle's suggestion, she took Vivien straight to Prague from Paris, without even telling her husband of her plans. After a dirty, disagreeable trip by train, Vivien decided to wash her violin and bow before her audition so that they might feel fresh and clean before the momentous day. Of course after this treatment the violin could no longer speak. But somehow mother and daughter secured a second instrument on which Vivien auditioned.
Otakar Ševcík was a giant of nineteenth century pedagogy. Born in 1852, this shy, thoughtful, generous man was one of the great instructors of the late Victorian era. His students included some of the greatest violinists of the age: Marie Hall, Jan Kubelík, Erika Morini, and Efram Zimbalist, among others. He had a punishing professional regime: he usually began to teach at seven in the morning, took a break in the afternoon, and then worked late into the night. He expected his select students to be just as committed to their education as he was, and he advised them to practice no less than eight hours a day.
After her audition, Vivien Chartres became one of those select few.
When Vivien was accepted into Ševcík's studio, Vivanti's life became even more intertwined with Vivien's. She no longer had any time to fulfill her own professional promise; she was too busy helping to fulfill her daughter's. She wrote a fictional account of this time in The Devourers:
…She went with Anne-Marie and Fräulein to Prague, where the greatest of all violin-teachers lived, fitting left hands with wonderful technique, and right hands with marvellous pliancy; teaching slim fingers to dance and scamper and skip on four tense strings, and supple wrists to wield a skimming, or control a creeping, bow. And this greatest of teachers took little Anne-Marie to his heart. He also called her the Wunderkind, and set her eager feet, still in their white socks and button shoes, on the steep path that leads up the Hill of Glory.
Nancy unpacked her manuscripts in an apartment in one of the not very wide streets of old Prague; opposite her window was a row of brown and yellow stone houses; she had a table, and pen and ink, and there was nothing to disturb her. True, she could hear Anne-Marie playing the violin two rooms off, but that, of course, was a joy; besides, when all the doors were shut one could hardly hear anything, especially if one tied a scarf or something round one's head, and over one's ears.
So Nancy had no excuse for not working. She told herself so a hundred times a day, as she sat at the table with the scarf round her head, staring at the yellow house opposite…
Besides this ache was the yearn and strain and sorrow of her destiny unfulfilled. For once again the sense of time passing, of life running out of her grasp, bit at her breast like an adder…
The door opened, and Fräulein's head appeared, solemn and sibylline, with tears shining behind her spectacles.
"Nancy, to-day for the first time Anne-Marie is to play Beethoven. Will you come?"
Yes, Nancy would come. She followed Fräulein into the room where Anne-Marie was with the Professor and his assistant.
The Professor did not like to play the piano, so he had brought the assistant with him, who sat at the piano, nodding a large, rough black head in time to the music. Anne-Marie was in front of her stand. The Professor, with his hands behind him, watched her. The Beethoven Romance in F began.
The simple initial melody slid smoothly from under the child's fingers, and was taken up and repeated by the piano. The wilful crescendo of the second phrase worked itself up to the passionate high note, and was coaxed back again into gentleness by the shy and tender trills, as a wrathful man by the call of a child. Martial notes by the piano. The assistant's head bobbed violently, and now Beethoven led Anne-Marie's bow, gently, by tardigrade steps, into the first melody again. Once more, the head at the piano bobbed over his solo. Then on the high F, down came the bow of Anne-Marie, decisive and vehement.
"That's right!" shouted the Professor suddenly. "Fa, mi, sol – play that on the fourth string."
Anne-Marie nodded without stopping. Eight accented notes by the piano, echoed by Anne-Marie.
"That is to sound like a trumpet!" cried the master.
"Yes, yes; I remember," said Anne-Marie.
And now for the third time the melody returned, and Anne-Marie played it softly, as in a dream, with a gruppetto in pianissimo that made the Professor push his hands into his pockets, and the assistant turn his head from the piano to look at her. At the end the slowly ascending scales soared and floated into the distance, and the three last calling notes fell from far away.
No one spoke for a moment; then the Professor went close to the child and said:
"Why did you say, 'I remember' when I told you about the trumpet notes?"
"I don't know," said Anne-Marie, with the vague look she always had after she had played.
"I meant that I understood," said Anne-Marie.
The Professor frowned at her, while his lips worked.
"You said, 'I remember.' And I believe you remember. I believe you are not learning anything new. You are remembering something you have known before."
Fräulein intervened excitedly. "Ach! Herr Professor! I assure you the child has never seen that piece! I have been with her since the first day she überhaupt had the violin, and – "
The Professor waved an impatient hand. He was still looking at Anne-Marie. "Who is it?" and he shook his grey head tremulously. "Whom have we here? Is it Paganini? Or Mozart? I hope it is Mozart."
In the third part, Vivien and her violin take Europe by storm, charming an entire continent. Her mother is there to chronicle every step, both in fiction and non-fiction...


Dramatic Play: Back to Basics – Let's Talk Quality!
Preschool children love to pretend. They pretend to be police officers, fast food workers, moms, dads, even puppies and anyone or anything they have encountered, watched on TV, or read about in a book. Therefore, it is important to fill the dramatic play center with props and materials that allow children to be whoever they want to be.
Give them room. Children play big and need space to let their imagination run wild. By organizing dramatic play materials in a large space, children can easily access and use the materials. Labeling bins and shelves with words and pictures will help children return items during clean up time.
Include a variety of dress-up clothes. This can include costumes and work-related uniforms but should always include some gender specific examples. According to the ECERS-R, "Since children are developing gender-role identity during the preschool years they require concrete examples of dress-ups associated with being men or women." Today we see people wearing clothing representative of both genders. Children should have the opportunity to explore both gender items such as heels, suit coats, vests, skirts, and hats.
Include props and materials that are related to a current theme or a topic the children are interested in. Many people find it helpful to create prop boxes. These boxes include materials organized around a specific theme or topic such as the beach, post office, or flower shop.
Wish lists for families. As we are spring cleaning or reorganizing our homes, so are our families. Be sure to ask them to help by donating items they no longer want or need.
Garage sales and flea markets can not only be fun but cost effective.
Thrift stores are always a great stop for inexpensive dress-up clothes and other props that may be needed.
Local stores and shops are sometimes willing to donate items to our classrooms. Check out your post office, grocery store, flower shop, hair salon; anyplace that may be tossing their gently used items or have an overabundance of supplies they would be willing to share with you.
Now it's time to go out and create or re-create your space. Check out some links below to assist in your planning and gathering, and feel free to post comments on your finds and favorite materials to include in your dramatic play space. You can also send pictures to us that may be used in future posts. Please email us at pqa@pakeys.org. If selected, we will contact you to complete a photo waiver form.


"Self, Good Day.": pen rose eight tea juan.
pen rose eight tea juan.
Remember these cool cats? These are my fabulous freshman roommates.
A few weeks ago, we were able to get all the freshman roommates together for a fabulous evening. It took us so long to plan an evening when we could actually all be there, it was ridiculous.
We all gathered at Kelli and Rob's place (above the mortuary!). All the husbands came and we just sat around and chatted for nearly 3 hours! As we were leaving, I couldn't believe that it had been that long--time had flown by. We literally just sat around and talked and talked and talked. The husbands talked about all the funny things that the wives did and we talked about all the hilarious things that happened freshman year. I'm pretty sure there was an entire half hour dedicated to all the ridiculous things Ricky had done (spill food coloring in the fridge, put a boiling pot of water on the kitchen floor, put the bathroom faucet on backwards, slept in her clothes, the list goes on and on).
Freshman year was such a fun year. I swear, somehow we had time to hang out with each other all the time and school never really seemed to get in the way. We were the best of friends (even if it did take me and Keech a good three months to be able to have a casual conversation with each other--what was up with that?). I never stayed up as late and as often as I did that year. I was having the time of my life.
I hope that we get together again before Rob and Kelli move, but it's still a little weird to think about how we'll all be moving our separate ways sooner than we'd like. It won't be the same as it was or is, and even though that's alright and I know it will be fine, it's still a little sad to think about. Sometimes I super don't want to move past this stage of my life where I can see these girls almost as often as I'd like.
Though I may never be "pregnant smashed" again or pranked with saran wrap on the toilet during a time of need! or attend another pet funeral (RIP Lucy and Maybe and Gupta and Gurkin), I'll still have those hilarious memories. Plus, I can make my own delectables now and I still have one of the hair clips that I stole from Rick, so I can remember her every time I use it, right?
please look at robert lindeman. holy cow, i'm dying.
Congratulations, we have one good picture of all of us...and even then, I'm squatting in the back. Why do photographers always make me squat?!??


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Paul Mason in conversation with Sir David Hare: Has capitalism learned its lesson?
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From his "ringside seat" as economics editor Paul Mason's book Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed is a blow by blow account that begins with the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the bailout package of October 2008, seeking to explain how we got there.
In an updated edition Paul Mason explores the impact of this development on capitalist ideology and politics. We are delighted that Sir David Hare who carried out meticulous research for his play on the financial crisis will be with us to discuss the events of 2008 and seek to make sense of the state of capitalism today.
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WILD OCEAN
The Smithsonian Associates & Earthwatch Institute & Giant Screen Cinema Association
2009 Earthwatch Institute Film Award
An IMAX Film
WILD OCEAN (USA, 2008, 40 min.)
Each year an unbelievable feeding frenzy takes place in the oceans off South Africa as billions of sardines migrate up the Kwazulu-Natal Coast. Wild Ocean captures spectacular breaching whales, feeding sharks, diving gannets, and massive bait balls inside and up close on the giant screen. The migration has provided an annual food source for both life in the sea and the people living along the African shores for countless generations. The film demonstrates how business, government and the local people have joined forces to protect this invaluable ecological resource. This documentary immerses audiences in an epic underwater struggle for survival and reveals the economic and cultural impact the migration has on coastal communities. Directed by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas. Produced by Don Kempf, Steve Kempf and David Marks.
Discussion with Philippe Cousteau Jr., Oceanographer and President and CEO of EarthEcho International, Dr. Clapperton Mavhunga, Earthwatch Scientist and MIT Professor, Edward Wilson, President and CEO of Earthwatch Institute, and Wild Ocean Directors Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas follows screening.
THIS PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT
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Western blot analysis in Hep-G2 cells transfected with control siRNA, target specific siRNA probe #1, using Anti-KRT23 antibody. Remaining relative intensity is presented. Loading control: Anti-PPIB.
Western blot analysis using Anti-KRT23 antibody HPA012050 (A) shows similar pattern to independent antibody HPA016959 (B).


This magnificent rare late series vehicle has only covered 83000 kms from new.
Finished in Dark Oyster with Parchment Leather Interior.
Optional inclusions are Alloy Wheels, Full Walnut Door Inlays, CD Stacker, Picnic Tables.
Would suit the most fastidious buyer.


The president of French Polynesia's assembly, Oscar Temaru, has expressed his support for plans to shoot a film about the 1988 Ouvea hostage massacre in New Caledonia.
21 people, mainly Kanaks, died when French forces intervened to end the hostage crisis.
Mr Temaru issued a statement after it became known that a key politician in Noumea, Pierre Frogier, had written to the French Polynesian government objecting to the film project going ahead outside New Caledonia.
Mr Frogier has said any effort that could undermine New Caledonia's fragile situation needs to be rejected but Mr Temaru says the events in Ouvea should not be forgotten.
The French film director, Mathieu Kassovitz, says because of the sensitivity of the subject, he was asked by New Caledonians to film elsewhere.
The movie will be shot in various locations in French Polynesia.


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Joe Larkin
League 67 14
FAI Cup 8 0
City Cup 7 2
Larkin Joe
Thanks to financial constraints and before September was out, Dundalk manager Liam Tuohy in his second season as manager was forced to downsize—shorthand for saying that anybody on a decent wage was let go. The experienced hands—Mick Millington, Kevin Murray and Maurice Swan—all disappeared and the first team consisted mainly of a bunch of callow youths thrown in at the deep end.
When Newry native Joe Larkin became available after being released by Chelsea, Tuohy grabbed him and sent him on immediately in a new mid-field that consisted of Tommy Connolly, Joe Larkin and Sean Sheehy and they were joined later by the McKeever twins. Between the five of them there was a total of two first team appearances! Even reserve appearances were a scarce commodity among their CVs!!
More first timers continued to get starts but under Liam Tuohy's astute guidance a stunning performance on St Stephen's Day delivered the Leinster Cup to Oriel Park on the back of a final day 5-2 victory over Shamrock Rovers. Joe earned his first club honour after he had contributed two goals to a 5-0 semi-final hammering of Bohemians.
As well as his 10 season goals, complementing Turlough O'Connor's 25 and Paddy Turner's 11, Joe missed just two matches.
In his second season he repeated his 10 goals, again coming third in the goal stakes behind O'Connor and Turner, and again missing only two games.
The highlight of his second season was Dundalk's Shield victory, after an 8-win stroll through the preliminary section on an aggregate 15-2 score line and a semi-final victory over Bohemians.
In the final, a vintage display by Dundalk simply overpowered Drogheda 5-0 and Joe vied with hat-trick hero Paddy Turner for the accolade of man-of-the match.
But there was a bitter end to the season when Dundalk wasted a 2-goal half time lead over Waterford in the Dalymount FAI Cup semi-final, going under by 4-2 thanks to a couple of own goals.
Joe's third club season, 1972-73, was undoubtedly one of the worst in the club's history—Joe was the leading League goalscorer with 5 hits!! According to the Democrat, Joe's goal in a 1-1 draw with league leaders Finn Harps in the middle of December was the first by a Dundalk player—in the 11th game and after 963 minutes!! The two previous goals had been ogs.
It was all so inevitable with a new manager in Fran Brennan, the sale of the team backbone O'Connor, Turner, Sheehy and McConville and a worsening financial situation that brought weekly 'crisis' headlines to the Democrat and out of which the very existence of the club was at issue. In those circumstances on-field matters became secondary to the off-field rescue endeavours and Joe wasn't the only player who found a new berth for the following season.
Surprisingly, after those three seasons with Dundalk he made the decision to turn his back on Senior Soccer and signed for the Newry based Shamrock Rovers competing in the local Carnbane League where he finished his playing career. Since retiring from the game he has managed local junior league team Newry Celtic for a short time.
Two of Joe's sons have played Irish senior league football. Adrian spent time with Newry Town and Portadown, while Conor has played for Glenavon and Newry Town and later with Northern Amateur League club Rathfriland Rangers.
Joe began his career playing in the Newry & District Youth League where his talents were quickly recognised and he signed for Chelsea Youth Academy as an attacking teenage midfielder with an eye for scoring goals. The Chelsea scout who recognised Joe's potential was the former Dundalk player, Warrenpoint native Vincent Gilmore a member of Dundalk's 1958 FAI-winning team.
Joe quickly became established at Stamford Bridge and was made Captain of a very good Chelsea youth team. Just when it appeared that he had a great professional career ahead of him after three excellent seasons with Chelsea Youth, Joe made a surprise decision to return home to Newry from where he had signed for Dundalk.
The Democrat commenting on Joe's role in an early season derby win against neighbours Drogheda: "He again vindicated Tuohy's faith in the Newry youngster … a splendid game … excellent passes … great vision … could do with more bite in his tackling but it's early days for this 18 year-old."
2 Wins: Shield 1971-72; Leinster Cup 1970-71.
1 Runner Up; City Cup 1970-71.


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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
High energy partons serve as hard probes to bulk QCD matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. The motion of such hard probes, determined by the properties of bulk matter, can be theoretically studied by first-principle (pQCD) calculations. The nature of such a medium can be deciphered only by confronting theoretical calculations with experimental data.
Calculations beyond leading order (LO) in pQCD are of great importance to testing the reliability of theoretical studies and hence help improves our understanding of the properties of bulk matter. Significant progress has recently been made on this topic. And I shall only limit myself to a self-contained summary on the leading-logarithmic correction proportional to $\alpha_s \ln^2(L/l_0)$ obtained in a slightly generalized BDMPS-Z formalism\cite{Baier:1998,Zakharov:1996:1997}. Here, $L$ is the length of the QCD medium and $l_0$ is the size of its constituents. Such a correction is universally present in radiative $p_\perp$-broadening\cite{Wu:2011,Liou:Mueller:Wu:2013}, the transport coefficient $\hat{q}$\cite{Blaizot:2014,Iancu:2014} and radiative energy loss\cite{Blaizot:2014,Wu:2014,Arnold:2015}. Let us start with the discussion about the typical and averaged transverse momentum broadening at LO in \cite{Baier:1996,Arnold:2009}.

\section{Radiative $p_\perp$-broadening}

\subsection{Typical $p_\perp$-broadening at LO}\label{sec:typical}

$\hat{q}_R$ is defined as the typical transverse momentum squared per unit length transferred from the medium to a high energy parton in color representation $R$\cite{Baier:1996}. In terms of the gluon distribution $xG$ and the number density $\rho$ of the medium constituents, it can be written in the following form\cite{Baier:1996}
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:qhatDef}
\hat{q}_R\equiv \rho \int dq_\perp^2 q_\perp^2\frac{d\sigma_R}{dq_\perp^2}=\frac{4\pi^2\alpha_s C_R}{N_c^2-1} \rho xG(x,\hat{q}_R L)
\end{eqnarray}
with ${d\sigma_R}/{dq_\perp^2}$ the differential cross section for single scattering.
In a hot quark-gluon plasma (QGP) the gluon distribution in the wave function of each plasma particle is given by $xG_i(x,\hat{q}_R L)= \frac{\alpha_s C_i}{\pi} \ln\left(\frac{\hat{q}_R L}{m_D^2}\right)$ with $i=F$ for (anti-)quarks and $i=A$ for gluons and the (total) number density of each species is $\rho_i = 2 d_i n_i$
 with $d_i$ the dimension of color representation $i$. Here, $m_D$ ($\ll 1/L$) is the Debye mass and, in terms of the phase-space distribution $f^i$
\begin{eqnarray}
 n_i\equiv\int\frac{d^3p}{(2\pi)^3} f^i (1+\epsilon_i f^i)~~\mbox{with $\epsilon_{A/F}=\pm 1$}.
\end{eqnarray}
The following discussions shall be applicable to both cold and hot matter in terms of the corresponding $xG$.

A high-energy parton traversing a medium of length $L$ picks up a typical $p_\perp^2$ equal to $\hat{q}_R L$, in which only the contribution from multiple soft scattering is included\cite{Baier:1996}. This can be easily understood in terms of the mean free path of the high-energy parton (with $q_\perp$ a typical momentum transfer to the medium
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{1}{\lambda_R} \equiv \sigma_R \rho xG \sim \frac{\alpha_s C_R}{q_\perp^2} \rho x G\sim\frac{\hat{q}_R}{q_\perp^2}.
\end{eqnarray}
By comparing $\lambda_R $ with $L$, one can distinguish typical multiple soft scattering with $q_\perp^2\lesssim \hat{q}_R L$ in each individual scattering from rare single hard scattering with $q_\perp^2\gg \hat{q}_R L$\cite{Arnold:2009}. The distribution of transverse momenta of the parton
takes the form
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:Sdef}
\frac{dN}{d^2 p_\perp
=\int\frac{d^2x_\perp}{(2\pi)^2}\underbrace{e^{\rho L\int d^2q_\perp\frac{d\sigma_R}{d^2q_\perp}\left(e^{i{\bf p}_\perp\cdot{\bf x}_\perp}-1\right)}}_{S(x)}.
\end{eqnarray}
Including only typical multiple scattering gives, in the logarithmic approximation,
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:dNdp}
\frac{dN}{d^2p_\perp}\approx\frac{1}{\pi \hat{q}_R L}e^{-\frac{p_\perp^2}{\hat{q}_R L}}.
\end{eqnarray}
And it is modified by rare hard single scattering only at $p_\perp^2 \gg \hat{q}_R L$ in which case one has
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:dNdpss}
\frac{dN}{d^2p_\perp}\approx\rho L \frac{d\sigma_R}{d^2p_\perp}\propto p_\perp^{-4}.
\end{eqnarray}
Quantities such as the average $p_\perp^2$ do receive large corrections from such rare scattering at high energies. However, the distribution $dN/d^2p_\perp$ carries more information
and its shape is mainly characterized by the typical $p_\perp^2$. This motivates us to focus only on multiple soft scattering and typical $p_\perp$-broadening shall be simply denoted by $\langle p_\perp^2\rangle$ in all the following discussions.

\subsection{Double logarithmic correction to $p_\perp$-broadening}

In QCD matter the high-energy parton undergoes multiple scattering and radiates gluons. It hence generates a recoiling transverse momentum. Such a radiative correction to $\langle p_\perp^2 \rangle$ has been studied in \cite{Wu:2011,Liou:Mueller:Wu:2013} using a formalism as an extension of that by BDMPS-Z\cite{Baier:1998,Zakharov:1996:1997}. The complete analytic evaluation of the contribution from one-gluon emission is complicated by the presence of multiple scattering but double logarithmic terms, $\ln^2(L/l_0)$, and single logarithmic terms, $\ln(L/l_0)$, can be evaluated analytically

The radiated gluon and the high-energy parton are in a coherent state within the formation time $t\equiv\frac{2 \omega}{k_\perp^2}$ with $\omega$ the gluon's energy and $k_\perp$ its transverse momentum. The evolution of the coherent pair is governed by a Schr\"{o}dinger-type evolution equation with a potential\cite{Wu:2011}
\begin{eqnarray}
V\approx -\frac{iN_c\hat{q}_R B_\perp^2}{4 C_R}~~\mbox{for $B_\perp^2\simeq\frac{1}{k_\perp^2}\gtrsim \frac{1}{\hat{q}_R L}$}.
\end{eqnarray}
The inverse of $V$ is the typical time scale for the pair of partons to undergo one individual collision and hence referred to as the mean free path of the coherent state
\begin{eqnarray}
\lambda_c\equiv \frac{4 C_R k_\perp^2}{N_c\hat{q}_R}\Rightarrow
\left\{
\begin{array}{ll}
\lambda_c \gtrsim t: & \mbox{single scattering},\\
\lambda_c \lesssim t: & \mbox{multiple scattering}.
\end{array}
\right.
\end{eqnarray}
By taking $\hat{q}_R\simeq\frac{m_D^2}{\lambda_R}$ one can see that $\lambda_c$ becomes larger than that of a single parton $\lambda_R$ when $k_\perp^2\gtrsim N_c m_D^2/(4 C_R)$.

The double logarithmic contribution only comes from a single scattering. As discussed above, the single scattering phase space can be singled out by requiring the formation time of the gluon, radiated inside of the medium, is not larger than the mean free path of the coherent pair, that is,
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:dbRegion}
L\gtrsim \lambda_c\simeq\frac{k_\perp^2}{\hat{q}}\gtrsim t~~\mbox{and}~~L\gtrsim t \gtrsim l_0.
\end{eqnarray}
Within this region, the double logarithmic correction can be easily reproduced from the differential cross section for the emission process in single scattering
\begin{eqnarray}
\left.\frac{ d\sigma_{R\to R g}}{d\omega dk^2_\perp d^2p_{\perp}} =\frac{ \alpha_s N_c }{ \pi^2 }\frac{ q_\perp^2}{\omega k_\perp^2 p_\perp^2} \frac{d \sigma_R}{ d^2q_{\perp}} \right|_{\vec{q}_\perp = \vec{k}_\perp + \vec{p}_{R\perp}}\label{equ:dIsrgdp2}
\end{eqnarray}
with the limits of the integral given by (\ref{eq:dbRegion}). And one has\cite{Liou:Mueller:Wu:2013}
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:pT2rad}
&&\Delta p_\perp^2(L)\equiv\frac{\alpha_s N_c}{\pi}\hat{q}_R L \int_{l_0}^L\frac{dt}{t}\int_{\hat{q}_R t}^{\hat{q}_R L}\frac{dk_\perp^2}{k_\perp^2}\nonumber\\
&&=\hat{q}_R L\Delta(L)~~\mbox{with $\Delta(L)\equiv\frac{\alpha_s N_c}{2\pi}\ln^2\left(\frac{L}{l_0}\right)$}.
\end{eqnarray}
Subleading single logarithmic terms have also been evaluated by crossing different boundaries between different regions in the phase space of the radiated gluon.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{doubleb}
\end{center}
\caption{Schematic illustration of diagrams for leading double logarithmic terms. The blob here denotes a constituent of the medium and $l$ denotes the momentum transfer between the constituent and the high-energy parton (dipole) with $n$ radiated gluons
}\label{fig:doubleb}
\end{figure}

A resummation of leading double logarithmic terms from radiating an arbitrary number of gluons induced by a single scattering can be easily carried out by repeating the calculation in (\ref{eq:pT2rad})\cite{Liou:Mueller:Wu:2013}. Let us start with two-gluon emission. As illustrated in Fig. \ref{fig:doubleb}, the term proportional to $\ln^4(L/l_0)$ comes only from the phase space in which the second gluon is radiated within the formation time of the first one and the transverse momentum of the second gluon is smaller than that of the first one. Accordingly, the next term in the leading double logarithmic series is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\langle p_\perp^2\rangle_2=\left(\frac{\alpha_s N_c}{\pi}\hat{q}_R L\right)^2\int_{l_0}^L\frac{dt_2}{t_2}\int_{\hat{q}_R t_2}^{\hat{q}_R L}\frac{dk_{2\perp}^2}{k_{2\perp}^2}\nonumber\\
&&\times\int_{l_0}^{t_1}\frac{dt_1}{t_1}\int_{\hat{q}_R t_1}^{k_{2\perp}^2}\frac{dk_{1\perp}^2}{k_{1\perp}^2}=\frac{(\hat{q}_RL)^2}{3!2!}[2\Delta(L)]^2.
\end{eqnarray}
By induction, one can show that the leading double logarithmic contribution from $n$-gluon emission is given by
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:pT2n}
\langle p_\perp^2\rangle_n=\frac{(\hat{q}_RL)^n}{(n+1)!n!}[2\Delta(L)]^n
\end{eqnarray}
and hence obtain
\cite{Liou:Mueller:Wu:2013}.
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:pt2}
\langle p_\perp^2 \rangle&=&\hat{q}_R L\left[2\Delta(L)\right]^{-\frac{1}{2}}I_1\left(\left[8\Delta(L)\right]^{\frac{1}{2}}\right).
\end{eqnarray}

The $p_\perp$-broadening in (\ref{eq:pT2rad}) is  the typical $p_\perp^2$ and, after being averaged over the path length, can be taken as an effective (renormalized) $\hat{q}_R$\cite{Blaizot:2014,Iancu:2014}
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:qhatren}
\hat{q}_R^{ren}(L)\approx\hat{q}_R\left[1+\Delta(L)\right].
\end{eqnarray}
Even though the correction includes contributions from radiating gluons with a life time $\sim L$, it can be still taken as a correction to the (local) transport coefficient as a consequence of the property of logarithmic integrations\cite{Blaizot:2014}. Let us only focus on leading double logarithmic terms from radiating $n$ gluons without overlapping formation times. They can be evaluated by repeating the calculation in (\ref{eq:pT2rad}) for each radiated gluon. Specifically, $S(x)$ receives a correction of the form
\begin{eqnarray}
&&{\Delta S_n(x_\perp,L)}=-\frac{\alpha_s N_c}{4\pi n}{\hat{q}_R L  x_\perp^2}\int_{l_0}^Ld\ln t \ln\left(\frac{L}{t}\right)\nonumber\\
&&\times~\Delta S_{n-1}(x_\perp,L-t)
\end{eqnarray}
with
\begin{eqnarray}
\Delta S_{1}(x_\perp,L
\approx-\frac{1}{4} \hat{q}_R L\Delta(L) x_\perp^2 e^{-\frac{1}{4}\hat{q}_R L x_\perp^2}.
\end{eqnarray}
Each gluon has a formation time larger than $l_0$ and hence $\Delta S_{n}(x_\perp,L)$ vanishes if $L\leq n l_0$. This simply indicates that the double logarithmic approximation breaks down when $n\sim L/l_0$. Therefore, we have to restrict ourselves to the case $L\lesssim n l_0$. In this case leading logarithmic approximation applies and one has
\begin{eqnarray}
&&{\Delta S_n(x_\perp,L)}\approx\frac{e^{-\frac{1}{4}\hat{q}_R L x_\perp^2}}{n!}\left(-\frac{1}{4} \Delta p_\perp^2  x_\perp^2\right)^n.
\end{eqnarray}
From this, one can justify the exponentiation of the double logarithmic integral in (\ref{eq:pT2rad})
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:S}
S(x_\perp)=e^{-\frac{1}{4}\hat{q}_R L x_\perp^2}\sum\limits_{n\lesssim L/l_0}\Delta S_n\approx e^{-\frac{1}{4}(\hat{q}_R L+ \Delta p_\perp^2)x_\perp^2},
\end{eqnarray}
if $x_\perp$ satisfies
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:x2Cond}
\frac{(\frac{1}{4} \Delta p_\perp^2x_\perp^2)^{L/l_0}}{(L/l_0)!}< e^{-\frac{1}{4} \Delta p_\perp^2 x_\perp^2}.
\end{eqnarray}
At $L\gg l_0$ it asymptotically gives $x_\perp^2\lesssim \frac{4L}{l_0 \Delta p_\perp^2}\gg\frac{4}{\Delta p_\perp^2}$ and, in this case, plugging (\ref{eq:S}) into (\ref{eq:Sdef}) gives
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{dN}{dp_\perp^2}\approx \frac{e^{-\frac{p_\perp^2}{\hat{q}_R L (1+\Delta(L))}}}{\hat{q}_R L (1+\Delta(L))}.
\end{eqnarray}
This justifies that the leading logarithmic result in (\ref{eq:pT2rad}) is the typical value of $p_\perp^2$.

\section{Radiative parton energy loss}

At high energies, the parton loses its energy mainly due to medium-induced gluon radiation (the LPM effect). Since the formation time of a radiated gluon grows with its energy, the average energy loss within any period of time $t\gtrsim \lambda_R$ is dominated by radiating one gluon with the formation time comparable with $t$. Within $t\simeq {2\omega}/{k_\perp^2}$, the gluon picks up a transverse momentum broadening $k_\perp^2 = \hat{q} t$. Accordingly, one has $t\simeq \sqrt{{2\omega}/{\hat{q}}}$ and the maximum energy that the gluon may carry away is given by $\omega_c(t)=\hat{q} t^2$. From this, one can get parametrically two well-known results: the LPM spectrum\cite{Baier:1998,Zakharov:1996:1997}
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:dIdo}
\omega\frac{dI}{d\omega}\sim \alpha_s N_c \frac{L}{t(\omega)}\sim\alpha_s N_c \sqrt{\frac{\hat{q}L}{\omega}}
\end{eqnarray}
and the average energy loss per unit length
\cite{Baier:1996}
\begin{equation}\label{eq:dept2}
-\frac{dE}{dz} \sim \alpha_s N_c \frac{\omega_c(L)}{L}=\alpha_s N_c \hat{q}L.
\end{equation}
Will these LO results be modified by the radiative correction? The answer is: in double logarithmic accuracy the only thing one needs to do is replace $\hat{q}$ by $\hat{q}^{ren}$ in (\ref{eq:qhatren}), as justified in \cite{Blaizot:2014,Iancu:2014}. This has been further confirmed by a detailed calculation of average energy loss from radiating two and more gluons\cite{Wu:2014} and a more elaborated and careful analysis of two-gluon emission beyond the double logarithmic approximation\cite{Arnold:2015}. In the following I shall only take average energy loss for example to illustrate the underlying physical picture.

The energy loss due to two-gluon emission $\Delta E_2$ is greatly simplified in the double logarithmic region discussed in the previous section. The first gluon with energy $\omega_1$, similar to that in the case with one-gluon emission, typically has a formation time $t_1 \simeq L$, $\omega_1\simeq \hat{q} L^2$ and $k_{1\perp}^2 \simeq {\hat{q} L}$. In the double logarithmic region, the second gluon with energy $\omega_2$ typically has
\begin{equation}
k_{2\perp}^2 \lesssim k_{1\perp}^2,~~\omega_2 \lesssim \omega_1,~~t_2\lesssim \sqrt{\frac{\omega_2}{\hat{q}_A}}\lesssim\sqrt{\frac{\omega_1}{\hat{q}_A}}\simeq t_1.\end{equation}
Therefore, the second gluon plays the same role as that in the calculation of the radiative $p_\perp$-broadening in (\ref{eq:pT2rad}). After integrating out the contribution from the second gluon, we have\cite{Wu:2014}
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:DE2log}
\Delta E_
\approx\frac{\alpha_s N_c}{12}\hat{q}L^2 \Delta(L),
\end{eqnarray}
which has exactly the same prefactor as the LO result (for the parton approaching the medium from outside) in\cite{Baier:1998}, i.e.,
$\Delta E_1 = \frac{\alpha_s N_c}{12} \hat{q} L^2$.

The resummation of the double logarithmic correction in eq. (\ref{eq:DE2log}) can be carried out in exactly the same way as that in the calculation of $\langle p_\perp^2\rangle$. For $(n+1)$-gluon emission, besides the most long-lived gluon, the other $n$ gluons undergoes one single scattering. Using the same orderings in the formation time and transverse momenta of these $n$ gluons that lead to (\ref{eq:pT2n}) gives a contribution of the form
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:DE2logResum}
\Delta E_{n+1}=\frac{\alpha_s N_c}{12}L\frac{\hat{q} L}{n!(n+1)!}\left[\frac{\alpha_s N_c}{\pi}\ln^{2}\frac{L}{l_0}\right]^n.\end{eqnarray}
Therefore, the total energy loss is given by\cite{Wu:2014}
\begin{eqnarray}
\Delta E = \sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty\Delta E_{n+1} = \frac{\alpha_s N_c}{12}L\langle p_\perp^2\rangle
\end{eqnarray}
with $\langle p_\perp^2\rangle$ given by (\ref{eq:pt2}), including all the leading double logarithmic contributions from radiating arbitrary number of gluons.

\section{Discussions}

Our discussions so far have been focused on the medium-induced radiative corrections. Rather, in the above results the limit $\hat{q}\to 0$ has been subtracted out\cite{Baier:1998,Zakharov:1996:1997}. One effect neglected from such a subtraction is the running of the QCD coupling constant. We have also discussed this effect in the radiative correction to $p_\perp^2$ from one-gluon emission and find a factor 2 larger than in the fixed coupling case\cite{Liou:Mueller:Wu:2013}. How the inclusion of the running coupling modifies the evolution of $\hat{q}^{ren}$ has also been discussed in more detail in \cite{Iancu:Trian:2014}.

At the end, I briefly comment on the differences between our double logarithmic radiative correction to $p_\perp^2$ and some previous results beyond LO in \cite{CaronHuot:2008, CasalderreySolana:Wang:2007}. In \cite{CaronHuot:2008}, the NLO ($O(g)$) correction to transverse momentum broadening has been obtained analytically in a hot ($g\ll 1$) quark-gluon plasma using a perturbative-kinetic approach. This result was calculated from the soft contribution to the two-body collisional kernel from soft collisions with $q_\perp\sim gT$. In contrast our result comes from radiation, which is of $O(g^2)$ and would be present at next-next-to-leading order in that approach\cite{Ghiglieri:2015}.

The authors of Ref. \cite{CasalderreySolana:Wang:2007} (see \cite{Kang:2015} for a recent progress) have also calculated the radiative correction to $p_\perp$-broadening in a QGP. The effect of multiple (soft) scattering was not considered in this formalism. As a result, the regime of double logarithmic approximation (Sec.~V) has been extended into $Q^2>k_\perp^2> \mu^2$ and $E/(\hat{q}L)>t> l_0$. This is different from ours in (\ref{eq:dbRegion}) in which the phase space includes only single scattering inside the medium (multiple scattering sets the boundary at $k_\perp^2\simeq\hat{q}t$).
It will be intriguing to see how to formulate multiple scattering in this formalism.

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The World's Wealthiest Family Gets $4 Million Richer Every Hour
The 25 wealthiest dynasties on the planet control $1.4 trillion
From left: Jim Walton, Alice Walton, Jim's wife Lynne McNabb Walton, Rob Walton's wife Melani Lowman Walton and Rob Walton. PHOTOGRAPH: RICK T. WILKING / STRINGER
The numbers are mind-boggling: $70,000 per minute, $4 million per hour, $100 million per day.
That's how quickly the fortune of the Waltons, the clan behind Walmart Inc., has been growing since last year's Bloomberg ranking of the world's richest families.
At that rate, their wealth would've expanded about $23,000 since you began reading this. A new Walmart associate in the U.S. would've made about 6 cents in that time, on the way to an $11 hourly minimum.
Even in this era of extreme wealth and brutal inequality, the contrast is jarring. The heirs of Sam Walton, Walmart's notoriously frugal founder, are amassing wealth on a near-unprecedented scale — and they're hardly alone.
The Walton fortune has swelled by $39 billion, to $191 billion, since topping the June 2018 ranking of the world's richest families.
Other American dynasties are close behind in terms of the assets they've accrued. The Mars family, of candy fame, added $37 billion, bringing its fortune to $127 billion. The Kochs, the industrialists-cum-political-power-players, tacked on $26 billion, to $125 billion.
So it goes around the globe. America's richest 0.1% today control more wealth than at any time since 1929, but their counterparts in Asia and Europe are gaining too. Worldwide, the 25 richest families now control almost $1.4 trillion in wealth, up 24% from last year.
To some critics, such figures are evidence that capitalism needs fixing. Inequality has become an explosive political issue, from Paris to Seattle to Hong Kong. But how to shrink the growing gap between the rich and the poor?
As the tension increases, even some billionaire heirs are backing steps such as wealth taxes.
"If we don't do something like this, what are we doing, just hoarding this wealth in a country that's falling apart at the seams?" Liesel Pritzker Simmons, whose family ranks 17th on the Bloomberg list, said in June. "That's not the America we want to live in."
A notable addition this year: the Saudi royal family.
The House of Saud is worth $100 billion, based on the cumulative payouts royal family members are estimated to have received over the past 50 years from the Royal Diwan, the executive office of the king.
That's a lowball figure. After all, oil giant Saudi Aramco, the linchpin of the Saudi economy, is the world's most profitable company. The kingdom is hoping to take it public at a $2 trillion valuation.
Tallying dynastic dollars isn't an exact science. Fortunes backed by decades and sometimes centuries of assets and dividends can obfuscate the true extent of a family's holdings. The net worth of the Rothschilds or Rockefellers, for instance, is too diffuse to value. Clans whose wealth is currently unverifiable are also absent.
But of those we can track, most are reaping the rewards of ultra-low interest rates, tax cuts, deregulation and innovation. Koch Industries, for instance, has a venture-capital arm. The latest generation of Waltons is establishing its own enterprises. MORE
Author gaianicityPosted on August 11, 2019 Tags inequality, wealthiest dynastiesLeave a comment on The World's Wealthiest Family Gets $4 Million Richer Every Hour
Ontario and drug companies criticize new federal drug-pricing plan but experts say it's a key improvement
Prescription pills are shown in Toronto, Dec. 23, 2017. The federal government says it is making changes that will give a quasi-judicial body the tools to better protect Canadians from excessive drug prices and make patented medicines more affordable. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy
The Ontario government says Ottawa's overhaul of drug-pricing regulations will damage the province's pharmaceutical industry, as the head of an association of drug companies warns that the new framework could have dire consequences for patients.
However, several drug-policy experts say the federal changes will lead to meaningful savings for Canadians and will make the country a world leader in setting drug prices.
On Friday, the federal government revealed its long-awaited changes to the country's patented medicines regulations, which are designed to help reduce the high cost of prescription drugs in Canada. Under the new framework, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) will no longer consider drug prices in the United States or Switzerland, which have some of the world's highest drug prices, when trying to set the maximum prices companies are allowed to charge for prescription medications.
Drug manufacturers will also have to provide the price-setting regulator with the actual cost it charges for drugs in Canada, including any discounts or rebates. Currently, most manufacturers only disclose the list or "sticker" price, which is typically higher than what large insurance plans, such as provinces or private companies, pay. The new requirement on companies to disclose confidential market prices that include all deductions will help the PMPRB set maximum prices based on the actual amounts those companies are charging.
The PMPRB will also have the authority to consider whether a drug's price matches its value to patients. For instance, some drugs may represent a major advance in the treatment of a disease and may have been costly to develop, which could lead the PMPRB to set a higher maximum price.
The changes are scheduled to take effect July 1, 2020, and will apply to all new drugs that come on the market after that date. The regulations will also apply to existing drugs, with a caveat. Drugs that are already on the market won't have to complete the value-for-money equation, but they will have to meet the other new drug-pricing rules.
In a statement, a spokesman for Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said the government is "disappointed" Ottawa moved ahead with changes without further stakeholder consultation. MORE
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All of the trade deals Trudeau has championed and signed CETA TPP NAFTA 2.0 have granted big pharma patent and IP extensions that raise the cost of prescriptions for Canadian by billions He is no friend of the people either
Author gaianicityPosted on August 11, 2019 August 11, 2019 Tags actual drug prices, drug price vs value, Ontario pharmaceutical industry, Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), value-for-money equationLeave a comment on Ontario and drug companies criticize new federal drug-pricing plan but experts say it's a key improvement
Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
Bees, butterflies, and other insects are under attack by the very plants they feed on as U.S. agriculture continues to use chemicals known to kill.
America's agricultural landscape is now 48 times more toxic to honeybees, and likely other insects, than it was 25 years ago, almost entirely due to widespread use of so-called neonicotinoid pesticides, according to a new study published today in the journal PLOS One.
This enormous rise in toxicity matches the sharp declines in bees, butterflies, and other pollinators as well as birds, says co-author Kendra Klein, senior staff scientist at Friends of the Earth US.
"This is the second Silent Spring. Neonics are like a new DDT, except they are a thousand times more toxic to bees than DDT was," Klein says in an interview.
Using a new tool that measures toxicity to honey bees, the length of time a pesticide remains toxic, and the amount used in a year, Klein and researchers from three other institutions determined that the new generation of pesticides has made agriculture far more toxic to insects. Honey bees are used as a proxy for all insects. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does the same thing when requiring toxicity data for pesticide registration purposes, she explained.
The study found that neonics accounted for 92 percent of this increased toxicity. Neonics are not only incredibly toxic to honeybees, they can remain toxic for more than 1,000 days in the environment, said Klein.
"The good news is that we don't need neonics," she says. "We have four decades of research and evidence that agroecological farming methods can grow our food without decimating pollinators."
In 2018, the European Union banned neonicotinoids for field use based on their harm to pollinators. In 2019, Canada also passed restrictions on the use of the most widely used neonicotinoids.
Farms using neonics had 10 times the insect pressure and half the profits compared to those who use regenerative farming methods instead of insecticides according a 2018 study.
Like agroecological farming, regenerative agricultural uses cover crops, no-till and other methods to increase on-farm biodiversity and soil health.
Farmers who are dependent on chemicals are going out of business, said Lundgren, who is also a grain farmer in South Dakota. "It's painful to see when we have tested, scientifically sound solutions. Working with nature is a good business decision," he says.
Author gaianicityPosted on August 11, 2019 August 11, 2019 Tags agroecological farming, Canadian restrictions, EU ban on neonicotinoids, increased toxicity for pollinators, neonics, toxicity over time increasedLeave a comment on Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
Communities sacrificed – Mount Polley five years later
OPINION: Imperial Metals Corp. and the Mt. Polley Mine have shut down operations for an indefinite period.
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We are a community that was sacrificed by a mining company and the B.C. government for the sake of jobs, which after two years no longer exist.
Three hundred and fifty jobs have disappeared in the small Interior communities of Likely and Williams Lake in the Cariboo, and left behind are 25 million cubic metres of mine waste and two 24-inch pipes that deliver an average discharge of up to 29,000 cubic metres per day of mine waste into a once pristine salmon-bearing waterway, Quesnel Lake.
It is now five years since the worst mining disaster in Canadian history and no charges have been laid against the mining company. Not one dollar in penalties has been levied. This doesn't appear to be "normal" practice in other provinces.
Imperial Metals Corp. and the Mount Polley mine have shut down operations for an indefinite period, which is unfortunate for employees, suppliers and the Williams Lake and Likely economies. And yet many outstanding questions and concerns remain about how we ended up where we are now, particularly in regards to what the mine closure means to the once-pristine environment in and around Quesnel Lake.
Despite the promises made by the mine in the 1990s — that there would be no mine-water discharge from the mine site, and particularly into Quesnel Lake — the B.C. government has allowed it to discharge basically untreated mine effluent (at best filtered only) directly into the depths of the west arm of Quesnel Lake — a critical habitat for wild salmon in the Fraser River watershed and a source of drinking water and enjoyment for British Columbians.
The refined and improved copper and aluminum removal system should have been in place before the end of 2017, a deadline ignored by the mine for over two years. Now they are requesting an indefinite extension — no deadline date provided. The Mount Polley mine is out of compliance with the permit, and has had more than a dozen (and growing) non-compliance issues since.
At what point will the B.C. government stop granting this company special treatment?
It is obvious now that the Mount Polley Mine is planning to use the pipeline into Quesnel Lake as part of its indefinite future wastewater treatment system. Where is the B.C. government with its duty to protect the previously pristine waters of Quesnel Lake?
The Concerned Citizens of Quesnel Lake believe that the rationale behind why we vehemently disagreed with the permit approval to discharge mine waste is now being proven, by the simple fact that the mining company has not complied with the permit for over two years. MORE
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Author gaianicityPosted on August 11, 2019 Tags B.C. government, Concerned Citizens of Quesnel Lake, drinking water, ecocide, Fraser Water watershed, Mount Polley Mine, Quesnel Lake sacrifice zone, untreated mine-water discharge, wild salmonLeave a comment on Communities sacrificed – Mount Polley five years later
Trudeau pressed to give update on review of Canada's arms deal with Saudi Arabia
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses supporters during a Liberal Party fundraiser in Surrey, B.C., Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing pressure from civil society groups to update Canadians before the October election on his government's review of a multibillion-dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing pressure from civil society groups to update Canadians before the October election on his government's review of a multibillion-dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
The Liberals launched a review of the $15-billion contract to ship light armoured vehicles to the Middle East kingdom last fall after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey.
The announcement was also made at a time of deep concern over the risk Saudi Arabia could use the weapons in the ongoing war in Yemen, which has been devastating for civilians.
A letter sent this week to Trudeau from a dozen organizations says the public has a right to know the status of the review now that more than nine months have passed since the government first announced the probe.
"No update with respect to the progress of the review has been offered, bringing the sincerity of the effort into question," said the letter, signed by organizations including Amnesty International Canada, Oxfam Canada and Save the Children Canada.
"Canadians are entitled to know the outcome of the government review, and a clear answer with respect to your government's position on the export of LAVs from Canada to Saudi Arabia."
The Liberal government halted all new export permits to the kingdom last fall, sanctioned 17 Saudi nationals and started the review of arms sales to the country amid concerns about a lack of a credible, independent investigation into Khashoggi's killing and Saudi participation in the conflict in neighbouring Yemen.
The letter said any further delays to the review or the government's eventual decision might mean that consequential actions will come too late, especially since Canada has continued to ship the vehicles to Saudi Arabia – including 127 last year alone, according to federal numbers.
Over the six months of 2019, government data show Canada has sold $1.2 billion worth of "tanks and other motorized armoured fighting vehicles (including parts)" to the kingdom.
The co-authors called on the government to suspend the LAV sale, and also spelled out the steps taken to date by other Western countries to stop or suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia, including the United Kingdom.
A British court ruled in June that it was unlawful for the U.K's government to export arms to Saudi Arabia. The British government intends to appeal the ruling, but new sales have been suspended in the interim. MORE
Author gaianicityPosted on August 11, 2019 August 11, 2019 Tags Amnesty International Canada, arms sales, Khashoggi murder, Oxfam Canada, Saudi Arabia, Save the Children Canada, Trudeau government, UK export ban, YemenLeave a comment on Trudeau pressed to give update on review of Canada's arms deal with Saudi Arabia
Benefits agreement asks First Nation to discourage members from hindering B.C. pipeline project
'No municipality would be allowed to sign off on such civil restrictions,' says band member
A man stands at a Coastal GasLink worksite in February 2018. (Chantelle Bellrichard/CBC)
Community members and legal experts are concerned about provisions in a signed benefit agreement between a B.C. First Nation and a pipeline company that asks leadership to dissuade their community members from speaking out against the project.
The specific provision appears in a leaked benefits agreement between Nak'azdli Whut'en, a First Nation located roughly two hours northwest of Prince George, and TC Energy's Coastal GasLink pipeline.
The $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline will transport natural gas along a 670-kilometre route, from northeastern B.C. to a yet-to-be-constructed liquefied natural gas facility on the coast in Kitimat. The pipeline is a key part of a larger $40-billion project being headed up by LNG Canada that aims to open Canada up to the growing global LNG market.
Coastal GasLink often promotes the fact it has signed agreements with the elected leadership of 20 First Nations along the proposed pipeline route as evidence of support for its project.
But the specifics of these individual agreements have been kept out of the public eye.
"We're just in the way — like the spotted owl or the caribou. I have no idea how somebody could put that in writing. No municipality would be allowed to sign off on such civil restrictions."
Among the benefits to Nak'azdli in the leaked agreement are education and training, contracting and employment opportunities, annual legacy payments over the lifetime of the pipeline, and "general project payments" to be paid in three instalments.
But there's also a condition that the band will "take all reasonable actions" to dissuade its members from doing anything that could "impede, hinder, frustrate, delay, stop or interfere with the project, the project's contractors, any authorizations or any approval process." MORE
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Author gaianicityPosted on August 11, 2019 August 11, 2019 Tags Coastal GasLink, jurisdiction over Coastal GasLink, LNG CanadaLeave a comment on Benefits agreement asks First Nation to discourage members from hindering B.C. pipeline project
'This is not Canada': inside the Tsilhqot'in Nation's battle against Taseko Mines
A proposed copper and gold mine has been rejected twice by the federal government for its impacts on Fish Lake, an area considered sacred by the Tsilhqot'in. But B.C.'s mining laws allow the company to move ahead with exploration work anyway. That doesn't square with Tsilhqot'in law and the community says it won't back down
Xeni Gwet'in Chief Jimmy Lulua sits in a pit house built as part of the Xeni Gwet'in traditional village near the shores of Chilko Lake in the Nemiah Valley. Photo: Louis Bockner / The Narwhal
The brand-new, 21-foot Highfield boat, bought by Xeni Gwet'in First Nation to enforce Tsilhqot'in laws on Chilko Lake, docks at the pebble beach on a small island and Chief Jimmy Lulua dives in.
Where the road through the Nemiah Valley in Tsilhqot'in territory ends, Chilko Lake begins. The mountains that rise from its shores offer a stark contrast to the open landscape of the Xeni Gwet'in traditional territory. Photo: Louis Bockner / The Narwhal
A quick dry-off and Lulua is ready to give a history lesson.
"We have always owned this land. Everywhere you look belongs to us. The land is who we are as Tsilhqot'in people. We say we are people of the river, people of the blue water," he said.
"This is not B.C., this is not Canada. The jurisdiction is ours," he said.
Chief Jimmy Lulua of the Xeni Gwet'in was elected in a 2018 landslide victory and is continuing the band's decades-long fight against Taseko Mines' proposed New Prosperity Mine at Fish Lake. Photo: Louis Bockner / The Narwhal
Neither is it the Wild West, Lulua emphasized and, as Tsilhqot'in communities master the complexities of writing laws and generating revenue, they are also figuring out how to control activities in a vast territory that, for the first time in Canadian history, has been legally acknowledged as belonging to Indigenous people who have used the land for thousands of years.
In a precedent-setting 2014 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled that the Tsilhqot'in Nation held Aboriginal title to almost 1,800 kilometres of land in central B.C., southwest of Williams Lake. The title land covers the Nemiah Valley and stretches north into the Brittany Triangle, along the Chilko River and part of Chilko Lake. That means the Tsilhqot'in Nation, made up of six communities including Xeni Gwet'in, has the right to exclusive use and control of the land.
In 2014 the Tsilhqot'in won a 25-year legal battle when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the nation held Aboriginal title to almost 1,800 kilometres of land in central B.C. A larger area has been legally declared as a place where Tsilqot'in have rights to hunt, trap, fish and trade. Taseko Mines' proposed New Prosperity mine is within this larger rights area, and also within an area the Tsilqot'in delcared as a tribal park in 2014. Map: Dezine Studio / The Narwhal
A larger area claimed by the First Nation, including Dasiqox Tribal Park, has been legally declared as Tsilhqot'in rights land, giving the right to hunt, trap, fish and trade. But, it remains a grey area where rules can be unclear.
The rights land includes Fish Lake, known as Teztan Biny, an area of profound cultural and spiritual significance, and ground zero for an almost 30-year fight against Taseko Mines Ltd.. That fight is reigniting as the mining company pushes to conduct extensive explorations while the Tsilhqot'in Nation remains adamant that Taseko equipment will not be allowed into the territory. MORE
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First Nations protest Taseko Mines outside of federal court in Vancouver in 2017. (CBC)
Author gaianicityPosted on August 11, 2019 Tags Fish Lake, Land Title, Taseko Mines Ltd., Tsilhqot'in lawLeave a comment on 'This is not Canada': inside the Tsilhqot'in Nation's battle against Taseko Mines
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My goals for this year are pretty simple. I usually don't try to do anything too sophisticated - I find the more I plan to do, the less I actually accomplish.
My good friend Andy Chung from AngelList recently said that I needed to level up in strategic thinking. And for me, strategic thinking is merely receiving a lot more external data points and putting them together. Kinda like Charlie Munger.
Read long form: - read pretty much long form every day, at night. Around 1.5 hours is the initial goal. Currently my book lists are in Wunderlist - though I may need GoodReads now that there aren't public lists!
Startups, as in life, is a marathon not a sprint. If I take care of hygiene factors like health and sleep, that will enable me add tons to my productivity.


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What is a DAW?
Interested in music and/or audio production but not sure how or where to get started? A DAW is the ideal place to begin when it comes to crafting music, podcasts, audio-visual content and more via your laptop or computer!
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Let's get the obvious bad joke out of the way; no, it's not that thing you walk through. DAW stands for digital audio workstation. This piece of software is installed on your laptop or computer. They let you capture and manipulate audio in a number of different ways.
They're usually used alongside an audio interface, mixing desk, or other bits of external gear. Some are only available on certain operating systems too – whether that's Windows or Mac.
Their origins can be traced back to the late '70s and early '80s. Soundstream are attributed with kickstarting the functionality of the DAW as we know it today; their first digital recorder (introduced in 1977) combined a video display, disk drive and a minicomputer. This was backed-up with basic software.
After further tech innovation and the boom of the personal computer market in the late '80s, faster disk and processing speeds made the DAW even more viable. Digidesign and Macromedia built software from the ground-up that was designed to edit audio samples, while 4-track editors became more common from the early '90s onwards.
Around the same time, Pro Tools, Cubase and other recognised brands introduced their first versions. Fast forward to 1996 and 32-track DAWs were now more accessible than ever. Ever since then, they've gone from strength to strength. It's become the industry standard way of recording and altering audio – used by engineers in professional studios, bedroom producers, beat makers, sound designers, composers and more.
What can you do with a DAW?
Within a DAW, you can record, edit, compose, loop, mix, master and process digital audio. This can be done across many tracks – be it 32, 64, or even hundreds – resulting in a single final product. This could be a song, podcast, or piece of audio-visual content.
You'll also be able to utilise MIDI too. This function lets you play or program notes directly into your DAW though a MIDI controller in the form of virtual instruments. Plugins round out the basic feature set, ensuring you can apply the likes of EQ, compression etc to each part of your production.
Each DAW will offer its own distinct visual design, layout and other unique tools. However, all of the above characteristics are present in the majority.
Which is the best DAW?
This question is all dependant on what you're actually looking to use the DAW for. You should also consider your budget and how you like to work. All of them come with their own set of positives and negatives. Some are favoured in specific sectors within the industry, while others are more geared towards live performance.
We've highlighted the 3 most popular DAWs below and have outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Best for: tracking; audio post-production; recording live bands.
Pro Tools was one of the very first DAWs ever made and has gone on to become one of the most widely adopted bits of audio software. It's regarded as the industry standard for professional music production and audio post-production (in film/TV etc) – offering high-grade recording, composition, editing and mixing functionality. You can use it on both PC and Mac. The fact that it's still being used (even after being introduced in the '90s) should tell you everything.
Its relatively streamlined interface makes it the go-to for tracking and then capturing a bunch of tracks simultaneously. If you're going to be working with a lot of tracks, with a level of complexity in your mix to match, then this is the DAW you should go for. The likes of Rick Rubin, Dr. Dre and other fabled producers all count Pro Tools as an essential part of their respective arsenals.
Alternatively, if you're looking to craft layered sound design for video, then this is the software you're going to want to use. There's a reason why it's the DAW of choice for many audio pros working on the biggest Hollywood blockbusters, Netflix shows and video games. You can use the integrated video engine to easily sync up your effects to match the action happening on screen.
Best for: live performance; production; beat making; creating electronic music; integrating MIDI controllers & keyboards.
Ableton is the best DAW around if you want to make electronic music and incorporate a DAW into live performances. You can use it on both PC and Mac. It offers intuitive sound and music creation tools. Harness a wide range of instruments, tones and effects for varied sonic experimentation. It's the best around for creating new music entirely within a DAW itself.
You can combine and manipulate effects and instruments to create sounds and textures that are completely your own – or tweak settings in real time via the set of 8 macro knobs.
There's even a dedicated 'session view' for live shows. This lets you alter tracks and then individually sample them in real time. Live composition, DJing, backing track looping and more are made both easy and fun.
This all makes Ableton ideal for building patterns, loops, beats, and complete tracks – especially within trap, house, dubstep and other electronic genres. There's a reason why it's used by the likes of Deadmau5 and Skrillex after all.
Best for: all-round production; tracking; composition; integrating MIDI keyboards & controllers.
Logic Pro is only available on Mac. It contains all of the audio effects, software instruments and recording functions needed to build entire songs and sounds from scratch. It's extremely popular among producers. This is partly due to the extensive library of Apple Loops which come with the software.
MIDI is also a lot easier to take advantage of – especially compared to something like Pro Tools. Hook up a controller or keyboard and get creative with the deep selection of integrated virtual instruments.
Composition for audio-visual purposes is a breeze too. You can import a video into the software itself. There's even a music notation section which will enhance the planning of your soundtracks.
The Best of the Rest
Steinberg Cubase: good for composition.
Steinberg Nuendo: good for audio post production.
Reason 11: experiment with high-quality sampled instruments, synthesizers, drum machines and more. Use standalone or within another DAW.
Bitwig Studio: an alternative for sound design, live performance and general recording.
DAW/Recording Software
Ableton Live 11 Suite
Ableton Live 11 Standard
Ableton Live 11 Intro
Pro Tools 12.4 Annual Subscription
Bitwig Studio 4
Steinberg Cubase Artist 11 Retail Edition
Steinberg Cubase Pro 11 Retail Edition
Steinberg Cubase Elements 11 Retail Edition
Steinberg Nuendo 11
What is the Easiest DAW to use?
Again, this will be dependant on your own current experience level, preferred workflow and a willingness to learn. The best way to find out which DAW will be easiest for you to use is to download the free version of each major brands' software first. These free versions don't contain every single option and feature available in the complete programs, but do provide a good entry-point to each piece of software.
Once you've experimented with each – and have found one you like to use – you can then pay to upgrade to the full version with the complete set of features. If you're serious about your music/audio production, you'll outgrow these free offerings relatively quickly.
Here are the free versions that we recommend starting with:
Pro Tools First
Ableton Live 10 Lite
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For several years, I lived in Raleigh. There wasn't much street art. But, I do recall there were some Obama Hope posters pasted under the railroad tracks near where I lived. I was impressed that someone did that and even more impressed how long they lasted there. There was a Fakesy (fake Banksy, not my picture) that I thought was pretty cool, considering there was nothing else like it in town…it has since been buffed. Also, the Raleigh Heart (not my picture) popped up right before I moved and I really liked it since it was new, creative and not something you typically see in Raleigh.
It has been a few years since I was there, and there is a bit more going on now. Sonja Rose, who I found out also did the Raleigh Heart, has been doing these wavy installations with a few dots of spray paint. The blue green curves have been cut with a jigsaw, painted and attached to the wood surrounding a building undergoing renovations. This is definitely not something I was used to seeing in Raleigh.
I also noticed Mathew Curran's work. A few pieces were buffed, so I was quite pleased to find these intricate birds. Learning more about Curran, he is a master of stencil work and precision. Curran mentioned that he is LA, so hopefully I'll spot some more of his work here.
Raleigh is stepping up its street art game.


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Warm weather approach shoe. Breathable and lightweight, it allows you to move with extreme agility on rocky ground.
UPPER In woven fabric. The Gecko Air Flip Wmn upper is constructed from a single piece of woven fabric to create different thicknesses and grades of elasticity in a single shoe.
SOLE Reptilia MG Sole with Vibram® Megagrip compound tread, with shallow grooves and a climbing zone at the toe for maximum sensitivity.