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Lemon-Entry just keeps on coming
Posted on May 31, 2013	by barefootonbakerstreet
Maybe it's because I'm a Brit and not used to long-running TV shows, but is there no end to Elementary? It feels like the longest TV series in history. Apologies to readers of last week's blog, I really thought I'd just seen the final episode and blogged accordingly, but actually it was the penultimate episode.
*Spoiler alert*
So, here are my thoughts on the actual season finale. It's back to business as usual as the drama returns to its police-procedural format. Holmes quickly recovers from the shock of Irene Adler turning out to be Moriarty and sets about trapping her. We have the usual murder of the week, Holmes chases after clues, Gregson stands around looking moody and serious, and Watson helps save the day. I actually missed some of the high-drama and emotion of the previous episode. I felt as if this one fell flat after such a build-up.
Once again, the drama was far removed from the original story by Conan Doyle charting the final tussle between Holmes and Moriarty. There was no chase across Europe, no waterfall, and crucially no fake death. And as this is such an integral part of the Sherlock Holmes story, I felt bitterly disappointed that the makers of Elementary ignored this fundamental plot-line.
What they offered us instead was a female Moriarty who was in love with Holmes. Oh, and he does fake a drug overdose to trap her but that's hardly in the same league as faking your own death and disappearing for three years.
This time, Watson was in on the fakery, it was actually her idea. What makes the original so poignant is that poor old Watson is kept in the dark and left to mourn the 'death' of his beloved friend – making his return in The Empty House all the more dramatic. But we have no cliff-hangers here, just a happy ending. Who wants happy when you can have dramatic, tear-jerking emotion like at the end of BBC Sherlock? Who can forget the pain on poor John's face (captured so brilliantly by Martin Freeman) standing beside the grave saying 'Please don't be dead?'
I also think that the creators of Elementary have been a bit lazy in their creation of Moriarty. It's as if making her a woman has used up all their powers of creativity, or perhaps they think that is enough to make Moriarty interesting. Trouble is, it doesn't really matter about what gender Moriarty is, what matters is why. Why does Moriarty turn to crime? What is the background to this enigmatic figure who has become almost as famous as his nemesis but so unexplained in the original works?
I think they have missed a wonderful opportunity to be the first to fill in these blanks. As much as I loved the interpretation of Moriarty in Sherlock, they didn't try to explain his background either. This could have been Elementary's chance to do something really different – far more exciting than simply making Moriarty a woman. What we actually end up with is a bit of a two-dimensional, stereotypical female villain – posh, clever and ultimately undone because she falls in love with her enemy. Not very imaginative really and a lost opportunity in my opinion.
I took up the same challenge in my own novel – how can you re-interpret Moriarty to offer something new to a modern audience? And though I kept him as an aging, male maths professor, I also made him an autistic savant riddled with compulsions. I gave him a childhood and explained his rise from troubled, child-genius to criminal mastermind. This was hard work to do and evolved over several years of throwing around different ideas. Now, I'm not saying what I did was perfect or to everyone's taste, but at least I took the problem head-on and tried to fill in the gaps, using evidence in the canon closely (writing a treatise upon binomial theorem at 21 supporting the child genius idea, and the oscillating head being possible evidence of a compulsion or OCD, for example).
In Elementary, we get a Moriarty who bears no resemblance whatsoever to the Moriarty in the canon. All they've done is use the name. I don't know why they even bothered to do that unless it was just to generate publicity with the gender-switch. She's young, posh, a talented artist who runs a network of assassins and falls in love with Sherlock Holmes, then gets arrested. Original Moriarty is maths professor with a curiously oscillating head famed for writing The Dynamics of an Asteroid who's vast criminal empire finances an extensive web of criminal activities. He admires Holmes but ultimately tries to kill him, giving up his own life in the process.
In summary, yet again Elementary has left me feeling disappointed and has distanced itself too far from the source material. However, I must add that the friendship between Holmes and Watson remains the best part of the series. I read somewhere that it was described as a bromance where one bro is a woman. Sums it up perfectly.
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Jonathan miller says:
I'm a big Holmes fan, the original stories and all I can find by anyone, but your way too critical of a very good attempt at a modern Holmes in America, if the show doesn't suit you stop watching it
For me, there are two ways of watching Elementary. If I just watch it as a whodunit cop-show, I quite enjoy it. The crimes are fairly imaginative and the interaction between the lead characters is strong. I don't hate it and have mentioned in my blogs what I feel are it's strengths – not just the things I don't like. But if I watch it as a Sherlock Holmes drama based on the works of ACD, I get frustrated by their disregard for the source material. I too am a big Holmes fan and also enjoy reading/watching all things Holmes. For this reason I will keep watching and trying to see the good in the show. I just keep feeling let down and can't ignore the bad. However, I happily acknowledge that the friendship between Holmes and Watson is nicely done, the interpretation of Watson has grown on me greatly, the way the show deals with addiction is very good and I think that Miller puts in a good performance. But the creators have 56 amazing stories to work with, and choose to basically ignore them all.
Valerie Schreiner (@valschrein) says:
I am achingly trying to watch the last Elementary…the first I've seen since the pilot…it's painful. When Miller was holding the Vicodin I almost screamed at the telly…no, not House too!…thankfully not. It just doesn't do it pull it off for me.
I've never seen House, though I know I should. It sounds like the sort of high quality, stand-out drama Elementary can only aspire to be.
lukebenjamenkuhns says:
The finale of Elementary if attributed to a smell would be that of wet dog hair. As an American who lives in England I can say that I feel American seasons are far too long. The end up with a good portion of filler episodes that can be quite boring. Re Elementary I was just as critical in my review of this poorly poor episode. Not only did they ruin Moriarty but they ruined Irene Adler in one swift blow. I think the master scheme was incredibly weak (not to mention a scheme we'd seen played out in multiple episodes already) and they could have done something far more interesting with Moriarty and saved Irene Adler for something better too. Elementary's big 'twist' is to make originally female characters men ie Mrs Hudson and male characters women ie Moriarty and Watson. The series appeases the vast amount of American simply because they don't know the text which loosely inspired the series well at all.
I agree – by blending the two characters together (Irene and Moriarty) they have diluted both and taken away their impact. Switching a character's gender is not enough to make them interesting, there has to be more going on than that. I think, overall, they've done a good job of re-interpreting Watson but not Moriarty. And I think you are right Luke, the way someone reacts to Elementary can depend on their knowledge of the original stories – though obviously there are people out there who enjoy both. For me, knowing the original stories makes me all too aware of how far removed Elementary is. I can't just enjoy it in it's own right.
I thought the twist, at the end, a la The Dying Detective, not The Final Problem, was great! I'm a fan of the original series, and I think Elementary has been very good, the best part being Holmes and Watson's friendship. They writers and producers been creative and aren't going to please everyone. How far is too far from the originals. It's a matter of opinion.
Good point – the twist was more Dying Detective than Final Problem but was it worthy of the season finale? Yes, there is a degree of creativity there but I feel they could have done a lot more with Moriarty.

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Q: Ruby - return false unless a value is true in which case return the value If a = false and b = 2 is there a concise way to accomplish this? Using just return a unless b returns 'nil' instead of '2'.
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Will this statement call b twice?
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A: Try this:
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where a is a value you need to return

A: I do not know why you have false stored in the variable a, so I omitted that. As I understand, you want to pass a value to the method checkit, which should return the value if its boolean value is true (which means everything except values nil and false), and otherwise return the value. In that case, just use this:
def checkit(value)
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end

checkit(1)       # => 1
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checkit('value') # => "value"
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A record number of Griffon Vultures in Israel
Good news for Griffon Vultures! The Israel Nature and Parks Authority reported that 206 Griffon Vultures were counted in Israel, which is a record number in recent years.
Griffon Vultures status in Israel
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Eindhoven University of Technology: Mathematician Jim Portegies joins Young Academy
Portegies is an assistant professor and researcher at the Centre for Analysis, Scientific computing and Applications (CASA), where he works on algorithms that mimic how humans learn. "The driving idea behind my work is that the human learning process is governed by a mathematical process. My aim is to uncover and analyze that process," he says. His research group is also working on the development of an artificial mathematics teacher. "Then we will have come full circle," Portegies – who teaches two important first-year mathematics courses – says with a smile.
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В 2002-м Konarka получила лицензию на производство цветосенсибилизированных солнечных батарей.

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A mother is earning in thousands by selling her breast milk to bodybuilders
A mother of two is earning handsome money by selling her breastmilk to bodybuilders. And bodybuilders are ditching steroids to get this breast milk which is best for their body.
Rafaela Lamprou who is a resident of Cyprus gave birth to her Anjelo some months back. But within some days, she realized that she is having excess breast milk. She said
"It was too much – it was taking up all the chest freezer. It was full. I didn't know what to do with it."
She was facing real storage issues and that's when the 24-year-old mother of two thought of donating her milk. She decided to donate her milk to women who were struggling on their own to produce milk. And that's when some men aka bodybuilders approached her.
INSPIRATION : A mother is earning in thousands by selling her breast milk to bodybuilders
She shared
"I then started to get some inquiries from men. It started with men who were interested in bodybuilding. They say it is good for building muscle mass".
"But then I started to get inquiries from men with fetishes."
She was quick to realize that the market for breast milk is quite huge and there are good business opportunities in it. She began selling her two liters of produced milk every day at a rate of 89p per ounce. She has till date sold 500 liters of milk and made 4500 European dollars.
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Now, Lamprou breastfeeds on demand of her male customers. She admits that it's a "Too lucrative" side business.
She further shared
"I started a Facebook group about it and people approach me on there. I have been made to take tests to ensure I don't smoke or drink," Lamprou said.
She is also on
"a website where men can approach me for the milk."
But she admits that she has no idea what men do with her breast milk but that's not even her concern.
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Sports dietician Brain St. Pierre has mentioned that bodybuilders consume breast milk because it is "Nutrient dense and extremely caloric".
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MANILA - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte plans to declare a nationwide public health emergency following confirmation of the country's first community transmission of the disease, the presidential aide said on Saturday.
Earlier in the day, the nation's health officials said the new coronavirus recorded its first case of local transmission, and called for measures to contain its spread.
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Teachers Climate Guide
Teachers Climate Guide supports diverse climate education in schools by addressing climate change from the viewpoint of each subject.
Climate Change and Visual Arts
Climate change affects humans and natural environments today and particularly in the future. Visual arts provide tools to spur social change and process and overcome emotions that come with climate change. Instead of a passive approach, arts encourage us to engage and take action. Therefore, visual arts play a key role in understanding climate change in-depth and creating a climate-friendly world.
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This text consists of the following chapters:
Visual Arts as a Tool for Social Change
– Communication Changes the World
– Observations and New Ideas
– Friendly Handprints
Art and Emotions
Artists and Climate Change
Check the Facts
Sources and additional information
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Art is a diverse tool to promote social change in a smaller or larger scale, practical or abstract manner, through communication, critical thinking and action.
Communication Changes the World
The Finnish National Core Curriculum puts an emphasis on multi-literacy and critical engagement with visual culture. They both are vital to visual arts education and closely linked to climate education. Critical cultural competence is crucial when we try to identify cultural structures deeply embedded in ourselves – our values, thoughts and approaches – which have caused the problems the planet and humankind are currently facing.
Art provides strategies to engage the public and bring up important topics from different angles. This differs from the approach of politics, journalism or non-governmental organizations, which art often complements or questions. Art helps to visualize, define and revive information otherwise hard to comprehend. Visual art can be documentary and bring out human stories and make that which is invisible, visible. It can be a tool to simplify the reality in order to elicit an emotional response from the audience. In addition, it provides a free platform to mix fiction and non-fiction using a broad spectrum of possibilities for artistic expression from subtle communication to direct action, such as making graffiti.
Art is a wide-ranging tool for communication and change and it includes film, photography, posters, cartoons, dance, poetry and performance among others. During the wartime, posters helped to spread political propaganda. Subverts and President Obama's "Hope" campaign are examples of modern influential posters. Also, advertising exploits art to attract consumers' attention. Media literacy is a crucial skill in becoming a critical consumer.
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Observations and New Ideas
Art provides knowledge about wider realities without simply limiting itself to the art world. It can aim, for example, to critically observe certain cultural conventions, make them more obvious, and influence the values and goals of society and education. Art events, art activism and community art offers tools for young people to make a difference at the local level.
Tackling climate change requires a lifestyle change, and artists often have practical solutions regarding this. For a long time, visual arts have been a popular medium to imagine, plan, build and explore alternative futures.
Creativity requires an ability to deal with uncertainty. Art encourages us to embrace the unknown and abandon safe and familiar answers. It has been said that art should give us "tasters" of uncontrollable circumstances i.e. provide a chance to practice such situations in which ordinary solutions don't work. In art, wild and unconventional ideas are welcome. Particularly community art and projects that juxtapose art and science embrace this type of approach.
Design and architecture play a key role in finding hands-on solutions for a sustainable life. Along with engineers, industrial designers have worked to advance wind power technology, create efficient commercial wind turbines, and make public transportation vehicles more appealing. The housing and building industry cause a significant amount of emissions. Architects do important work to design more energy efficient or even energy-producing buildings and enhance the resilience of houses to extreme weather.
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Friendly Handprints
The approach to climate change is often problem-centred: we discuss about the size of our carbon footprint and our negative impact on the planet. Carbon footprint is no doubt a useful tool, but there is another more positive approach: ecological handprint. It describes the good we have done for the world, what we manage to restore and recreate, how much we act, educate and inspire. Instead of problem-driven approaches, the ecological handprint can be used as a conceptual tool in planning a new world.
Another easy way to leave friendly handprints and cultivate empathy is by incorporating daily acts of kindness. Random Acts of Kindness is an American movement dedicated to inspire everyone to practice kindness in order to make the world more peaceful and compassionate by a "critical mass of good deeds".
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Often, the purpose of the creative process is to conceptualize, express and put things into context. Art helps us to absorb abstract, contradictory and complex experiences. Finding the right answers is not as important as finding the right questions and exploring human existence.
Many artists work with emotions, and recognizing and processing them is one of the central goals of visual arts education. Art says something about the artist's inner world, and therefore creativity is the best way to connect with beliefs and emotions. Creating art or discussing existing artworks can help provide a healthy distance from difficult and distressing issues which in turn creates a channel to project and process thoughts and emotions safely without getting overwhelmed and overly distressed.
Climate change tends to trigger strong and negative feelings, such as distress, fear and powerlessness, which are often denied or suppressed. Visual art education can play an important role in learning to understand and process these emotions. It is also a useful tool to identify personal values and improve positive emotional intelligence, which in turn helps to see the big picture of issues like climate justice. The urge for social change can also encourage to come up with fresh, unconventional ideas and plans for a new world.
Art can also increase sensitivity to the environment. Environmental sensitivity is the cultivation of empathy, love and respect for nature based on personal experiences and observations. It often correlates with positive childhood nature experiences boosting physical and emotional wellbeing. Environmental sensitivity is defined as an ability to observe and sense the environment and become aware of what is changing. It is crucial to understand the connection between our actions and climate change. Positive nature experiences and environmental sensitivity are closely linked to cultivating feelings about nature as a pleasant locale.
Many visual artists are participating in climate debates through their work. Here is a list of some of them:
Otto Karvonen's Signs for Changing Climate has custom-made traffic signs that warn about rising sea levels and carbon emissions produced by average Finns.
http://www.ottokarvonen.com/main/index.php/installation/signs-for-changing-climate
Nestori Syrjälä's video Raimo S is the story of a retired secretary of state, Raimo Sailas, played by an actor, who is trying to come to terms with the politics of global warming. Syrjälä also has other works about climate change, such as an installation WINTER, which consists of a large pile of artificial snow constructed in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.
http://nestorisyrjala.com/index.php?task=show_page&page_id=47
In various installations Isaac Cordal's miniature sculptures have addressed climate change directly. One of these interventions is a larger installation called Follow the Leaders that was performed in Berlin in 2011. http://cementeclipses.com/Works/follow-the-leaders/
The public art installation Nuage Vert (Green Cloud) by Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen projected green laser light onto a vapour cloud emitted from the Salmisaari power plant every night for a week in February 2008. This provided a means for communicating energy use in Helsinki. http://www.pixelache.ac/pages/nuage-vert-vihrea-pilvi-e35f94a9-34ee-4523-b189-e75b918dd203
Jill Pelto's watercolour artworks on nature incorporate scientific data and graphs of climate change. http://www.jillpelto.com/gallery/
Bjargey Olafsdottir's giant Red Polar Bear painted on a glacier raises awareness of the threat climate change poses to polar bears. http://www.bjargey.com/
Banksy painted his climate statement on a canal wall in London after the climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/dec/21/banksy-copenhagen-regents-canal
Artists Olaf Eliasson and Minik Thorleif Rosing brought 80 tonnes of ice blocks harvested from a fjord outside Greenland to the Place du Panthéon, where they melted away during the United Nations Climate Change Conference. http://icewatchparis.com/
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Effective climate change education is a combination of facts, skills, values and emotions. Investing time in scientific fact checking in art class is not always necessary, but it's important that teachers have accurate information to avoid reinforcing common but incorrect notions. One way to do this is to collaborate with other subject teachers. It ensures that students will get the facts straight and they can then concentrate on discussing and making art.
Climate change is linked to many other environmental issues. In order to solve them sufficiently, we need to get to the bottom of the problems and find the best solutions. The banning of chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants is helping to save the ozone layer, but it does not help to prevent climate change. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch causes significant harm to wildlife, but it does not have anything to do with climate change.
Although littering is an ever-increasing global problem, which can be partly solved by improving recycling, it does not matter much when it comes to climate change. This is why the Teacher's Climate Guide does not include instructions on recycling installations or trash art. They play their own role in environmental education, but climate change education benefits more from the above mentioned examples of art.
Reducing emissions in households, transport, food and the industrial sectors related to these can solve climate change. The key factors are energy production, public transport, municipal catering and active and caring communities. From the point of view of children and young people, important factors include energy sources used in the home and school, modes of transport to school, work and holidays and food served at home and in school. http://www.co2-raportti.fi/?page=ilmastonmuutos
DESIGN A MASS TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE
The aim is to design a mass transportation vehicle that runs on a fuel other than traditional fossil fuels and has a minimum seating capacity of six. Students come up with a name for their vehicle and design its appearance. The plan should be clear and informative.
In order to do this exercise, students should learn the basics about fossil fuels and the environmental impact of transport. This can be done through an interdisciplinary collaboration between arts and other subjects, or the art teacher can provide the information. It is important to understand what fossil fuels are, how their carbon emissions impact atmosphere and what renewable energy sources exist.
Students will work in groups of two or three. Each group composes and outlines the plan, sketches the design with pencils, and finalizes it with markers on A3 paper. The plan can also include written details on how the vehicle works, if that cannot be expressed by the drawing alone. The project can be integrated into classes on video art or critical analysis of advertisement. Students might want to shoot a video in which they perform as experts introducing their vehicle.
The groups will then introduce their vehicles for discussion in class. Although the vehicles don't have to be realistic, presentations can have elements of realism, and it can be discussed which ideas students found most feasible.
COAL'S FOOTPRINT
Create a charcoal drawing on the climate impacts of coal and its meaning to life. Find facts and inspiration from this video (watch with subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rcGAH2HZlU
TIMELINE OF MY LIFE
Students choose a media and create a timeline of their life extending into the future; for example, 30 years from now. Question how is life in a world with a high-impact climate change.
RESIDENCE OF MY DREAMS
City planning provides settings for our daily life. Ask students to share their visions for a world in which climate change mitigation has been successful.
STORIES OF CLIMATE HEROES
Shoot a video trailer on climate heroes. The characters can be fictional or real activists who are fighting against climate change.
ART AS CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISM
Find artwork or posters about climate change online and have the students choose their favourite piece.
Why did you choose it?
What elements of the artwork make you think of climate change?
Here you can find examples of environmental street art: http://www.boredpanda.com/environmental-street-art-graffiti-climate-change/
CULTIVATING EMPATHY THROUGH CARTOONS
Imagine yourself as an animal, a person or a plant that had to go through rough times because of climate change. Create a cartoon.
SUBVERTISING!
Housing, transport and food are the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions among individuals, a fact mostly ignored in advertising. Therefore it is high time to practice some climate change "subvertising"! Search for images online by using search terms such as "subvertisement+climate change". What familiar brands or advertisements are being paradoxically altered? How do the subvertisements comment on climate change? Create your own subvertisements and set up an exhibition. NB! Subvertisements can also be called adbusters!
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Glacier ice installation 'Ice Watch' at Place du Panthéon, Paris
Artwork by Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing. More information here: icewatchparis.com/
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Lambrigg Wind Farm near Kendal in the Lake District, Cumbria, UK.
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World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment Oxford, UK Oxford Union 27-29 June 2010 The 2nd annual World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment explored the theme of'Low Carbon Mobility: Land, Sea and Air', outlined a vision of sustainable mobility for our world in 2050 and explored the key challenges and critical milestones which are likely along the way. The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment invited 150 participants including global leaders and thinkers from the private sector, government, civil society and academe to dialogue, challenge and collaborate on the question - Is the rapid transition to Low Carbon transportation systems a realistic goal and how does it fit with the broader challenge of sustainable mobility? The Value Web was proud to be invited back to the WFEE for a second year. Our participation involved graphic facilitation for key note speakers and pecha kucha presentations. We also co-facilitated and provided graphics support to the workshops focused on the future of mobility for land, sea and air. The 2010 conference was held in the historic Debating Chamber of The Oxford Union, University of Oxford.
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Johdatus kestävään arkkitehtuuriin (SAFA)
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Kantaa ottava kuva. Yhteiskunnallisen julisteen muodosta ja historiasta (Karpo 2014, löytyy internetistä)
Toiminnalliset menetelmät (ELÄ! Elämän Punaista Lankaa Etsimässä)
http://www.ela.fi/akatemia/toiminnalliset.php
Taideperustaisen tutkimusparadigman muodostuminen (Kallio)
https://wiki.aalto.fi/download/attachments/70792374/kallio.pdf
Our Environmental Handprint. The good We Do (Dixon & Blackburn 2013)
http://www.handprint.in/Our_Envir_Handprint_IEEE_Paper_6-14-13wc.pdf
Random Acts of Kindness. https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/
Taiteen voima. Yhteisötaide. http://yhteisotaide.weebly.com/taiteen-voima.html
Taidekasvatus ympäristöhuolen aikakaudella – avauksia, suuntia, mahdollisuuksia. (Suominen, (toim.), Aalto ARTS Books 2016)
A different tomorrow (Rynard, Artists and Climate Change 2015)
https://artistsandclimatechange.com/2015/12/03/a-different-tomorrow/
The rise of climate-change art (The Guardian 2009)
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/dec/02/climate-change-art-earth-rethink
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James and Paul
by John Painter
The relationship between James and Paul was important for the development of early Christianity; it epitomized the need to preserve the movement's Jewish roots as its membership became predominantly non-Jewish. Though it created tension, the connection with James and Jerusalem was important for Paul; his letters reflect both his theological departure from James and his acceptance of James's and the Jerusalem community's authority. For, unlike Paul, James had firsthand encounters with the earthly Jesus, yet Paul's strong personal experience of the risen Lord shaped his theology and identity as an apostle to the Gentiles.
James is first identified in Mark 6:3 as one of the four brothers of Jesus. After the death of Jesus, it is likely that he was one of the brothers present at prayer with Mary and the Twelve and some other women in Jerusalem (Acts 1:12-14). In the New Testament, James is clearly leader of the Jerusalem church, and both Peter and Paul report to him. In Acts 12:7-17 Peter sends to James news of his release from prison; Paul visits James and the Jerusalem church in Acts 15 and Acts 21. He refers to James as a witness to the risen Jesus (1Cor 15:7) and notes that, when he went up to Jerusalem after his "conversion," the only apostles he saw were Peter and James (Gal 1:18-19). Paul clearly acknowledges James as the first of the three recognized apostolic pillars of the Jerusalem church (Gal 2:1-10, especially Gal 2:9).
In Acts 15 and Acts 21, the tensions between James and Paul seem to arise from their different perspectives: James as leader of the Jerusalem church and concerned with the mission to his own people, the Jews in Judaea, and Paul as a Diaspora Jewish believer concerned with the mission to the Gentiles. The conflicting priorities that arose from their two missions are made explicit by Paul in Gal 2:1-14, especially Gal 2:11-14. Unfortunately, we have no source that gives clear expression to the views of James or Peter on this matter.
The letter of James was likely written by a diaspora Christian Jew after James's death and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Its point of view reflects scattered Jewish followers of Jesus in in the Diaspora, not in Jerusalem. Nor does it mention Paul by name: instead, it confronts the challenge he presents—most seriously in his law-free gospel that emphasizes faith in a way that seems to ignore works, hearing, and believing without doing (Jas 1:22-25, Jas 2:14-26).
In the period following the deaths of James and Paul, their traditions seem to have developed somewhat independently of each other. This may be because Paul's mission to the nations failed to maintain the connection with the Christian Jewish communities associated with James. The second century preserves the memory of James as the first bishop of Jerusalem, but his distinctively Jewish role was obscured because of the destruction of the Jewish Jerusalem church when the Jews were expelled from Jerusalem in 135 C.E. and Christianity was transformed into a predominantly Gentile movement. At the same time, the preserved memory of Paul obscured the sharpness of his emphases on the grace of God, the believer's relationship to the living Christ, and the character of a living faith in which the believer entrusted his or her life to God in the community of faith and for the life of the world.
The Pseudo-Clementine writings of the late fourth century take up and develop the tensions between James and Paul. These writings appear to be based on sources and traditions derived from Christian Jews from Jerusalem who fled to Pella (a city in the Decapolis on the eastern side of the Jordan River) around the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. After the suppression of the second revolt against Rome in 135 C.E., the Jewish Jerusalem church disbanded, possibly again migrating to Pella. Not surprisingly, the tradition in the Pseudo-Clementines portrays Paul as the enemy of James and Christian Judaism. Historically, however, the evidence suggests that though the relationship involved tensions, the two were not enemies.
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John Painter is Foundation Professor of Theology at St. Mark's National Theological Centre, School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Canberra Campus, Australia. His publications include John Witness and Theologian (SPCK, 1975) and The Quest for the Messiah: The History, Literature and Theology of the Johannine Community (T&T Clark and Abingdon, 1993).
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Gramann Joins DHR International as Partner
Global executive search firm DHR International is pleased to announce that Margaret Gramann has joined the firm as Partner and is a member of the Consumer and Retail Practice groups.
Gramann has deep expertise in CPG and retail industries with two decades of public and private company senior level general management and sales operations experience. Prior to joining DHR International, Gramann served as Managing Director of the Consumer and Retail Practice at Harvard Group International.
During her corporate career, Gramann has been responsible for multibillion-dollar P&Ls across several industries. Launching her career in beverages, she held roles of increasing responsibility at Coca-Cola and Pepsi, including SVP and General Manager of Pepsi's $2B Great West Business Unit with 6,000 employees which was one of 6 Business Units in North America. She then led the Pepsi NA field execution and capability agenda prior to segueing into retail as the SVP of National Sales & Customer Experience at $27B Sears and $6B Pulte Group. She was Head of Sales for Avon's $1B flagship N.A. business. Accountable to the CEO and Avon's board, she aligned sales with business strategy to optimize performance. Under her leadership, she ignited the 350,000-person independent direct sales force to reverse years of profit declines.
Gramann holds an MBA in Management from the University of St. Thomas and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Minnesota State University.
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Ares Puts Aspen Dental on The Block
PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Private equity firm Ares Management has put Aspen Dental, a chain of dentistry practices, up for sale, sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
Ares, which made its initial investment in Aspen Dental in 2006, has hired Moelis & Co to auction the business, sources said.
Ares, Moelis and Aspen Dental could not be immediately reached for comment.
Aspen Dental has more than 230 locations in 20 states and plans to add more than 50 locations a year for the next two years, according to its website. Last year, the company handled about 2 million patient visits.
The business is likely to attract interest mostly from other private equity firms, but strategic rivals such as American Dental Partners Inc (ADPI.O) may also take a look, one source said.
American Dental, which has 267 facilities in 19 states, had first-quarter revenue of $71.9 million. American Dental could not be immediately reached for comment. (Reporting by Jessica Hall in Philadelphia and Megan Davies in New York, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)


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Midlands Review - Kobe
By midlandsmovies, Jun 23 2019 02:19PM
Directed by A R Ugas
Kobe is a short crime thriller from West Midlands writer/director/producer AR Ugas, who you may remember from last year's Return of the Ring.
Lead character Kobe (played by Mathias Andre) is a disillusioned and hungry young man. About to graduate University and pushed hard by a father he sees as overbearing, he's seen what happens to those who fail to live up to society's expectations afterwards. In his own words, he wants to work smart and get rich now, not work hard and get rich at 50 – or never.
So when childhood friend Mouse (Dominic Thompson) is released from prison, Kobe jumps at the chance to join him in a life of crime, as they're hired by a mysterious man (Tee Morris) to knock off a warehouse full of cocaine. But when the address changes, the stakes shoot up and Kobe finds some very hard choices ahead indeed...
The film gives us some wonderful dilemmas, which I won't go into in too much detail for fear of spoilers. There are two lines that, to me, embody the best parts of this story. "Lions don't walk with hyenas," Kobe's dad says threateningly to Mouse. And later, not long afterwards, when Mouse cautions Kobe to "go to sleep and don't wake up as the same person you went to sleep as". Kobe sees himself as a class warrior, defying his father's middle-class attitudes in favour of running with Mouse and taking on a life of violent crime.
But Mouse knows the truth of it, and is warning him that Kobe the 3rd-year student might not have what it takes to pull this crime off. Kobe the faceless masked criminal might.
Ugas brings his camera in close and handheld, eschewing glossy shots to bring a gritty low-tech feel to this gritty low-tech story. It's a realistic story told in a no-frills way, which mostly works extremely well.
Some of the scenes felt a little flat and could have used more dynamic editing or movement (Mouse's argument with his now-ex comes to mind), but once the story gets going there's no stopping the flow. The only technical area that could use more attention is the sound; sound design is often the first casualty of a low budget, but it's arguably one of the areas that needs the most attention. Clear, audible dialogue and effective use of soundtrack and sound effects are essential in grabbing and holding an audience's attention and helping them stay immersed. Some of the dialogue towards the beginning is mumbly, and some of the silent scenes would benefit from music to help evoke emotion.
The cast is superb – Andre shines in moments of conflict where he wrestles with his conscience, and Thompson balances cocky chav with wounded victim of the life he leads. He's trapped in his life, a bit more explicitly so as we see towards the end, but Kobe chooses to walk his path. No wonder Mouse seems almost frightened by Kobe's willingness. Tee Morris is another standout, bringing the intensity he had in Climbing Trees and channelling it into the brief but memorable role of a man twisted by anger and hatred.
This is only AR Ugas' second film, with a third in development (with a title like "We Have the President's Daughter" it promises to be a slicker and faster-paced affair). It's clear he has the talent and aptitude to take a tiny budget and deliver an entertaining and moving story. I suspect this is only the beginning of a career to keep an eye on!
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10 of the Best Midlands films to look out for in 2019
By midlandsmovies, May 24 2019 01:11PM
We take a look at some of our hot picks of shorts, thrillers, documentaries, dramas and more from the talented folk of the Midlands region that are due to hit our screens later in 2019. Please do check out all these projects and head to their respective websites for full information on their forthcoming release dates.
Kobe directed by AR Ugas
Kobe is an upcoming short crime thriller film from West Midlands director AR Ugas about a university student who, after his childhood friend is released from prison, decides to enter into a life of crime which culminates in a robbery that goes wrong. Made in Birmingham, the film was shot, produced, directed and edited by Ugas, who had great success with his Tolkien-inspired first film 'The Return of the Ring' (our review here). With a gritty and dynamic aesthetic, the director hopes it's also a lot more personal film than he's ever made before and working on the project are acting leads Mathias Andre and Dominic Thompson. Joining them are Tee Morris, Alexandria Carr, Bola Latunji and many more. With a plan to release the film in the next few months, you can find out more about the film and filmmaker here https://www.facebook.com/ARUGASUK or on Twitter
Red t'Blue directed by Jay Martin
This new 15-minute documentary-short from Sharp Edge Productions will focus on how, and why, the ex-mining town constituency of Mansfield swung from the Labour party, which had held it for a consecutive 94-years, to the Conservative party in the 2017 snap-election. A party which had not claimed the seat since its creation in 1885. Directed and written by Jay Martin (who made his directorial debut with Catharsis - our review), the Nottingham-based filmmaker studied at the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies in September and will interview a wide variety of local representatives including former Labour MP For Mansfield Alan Meale who served as the MP for Mansfield for a consecutive 31 years. Find out more on Facebook and Twitter
Abatement directed by Gary Rogers & Sharni Tapako Brown
Described as a thriller based around trust, lies and life changing events, this West Midlands production comes from Sharni Tapako Brown and Gary Rogers, an award winning cinematographer that has worked on a multitude of projects that include dozens of short films, TV Commercials and music videos. Since starting Country Star Productions with Sharni, one their recent short films 'The Beauty of It' received a nomination for best cinematography at the Midlands Movie Awards. This film tells the story of a group of friends who, whilst out in the woods, encounter a life changing sequence of events that brings into question their trust in each other and themselves. Co-directing and writing is the talented writer, actress and model Sharni Tapako Brown. More info at Facebook and Twitter
Apocalyptic 2077 directed by Marc Hamill
As an independent motion picture production team from Leicester, Roasted Studios specialise in original New-wave British Grindhouse cinema and if you like post-apocalyptic movies such as Mad Max, Book of Eli, Escape From New York and Turbo Kid, then you are sure to get behind Apocalyptic 2077. With heroes & villains, ice pirates, cyberpunks, marauders, skin Traders and zombie nuns(!), the filmmaking team behind The Wrong Floor have promised a mayhem filled thrill ride in the tradition of 80s action classics. Starring Rudolph Barrow and Ryan Flamson, the film already had a successful preview premiere on Sunday 28th April at the Century Cinema in Leicestershire.
More info on Facebook
Poison Ivy directed by Sophie Black
Midlands-based Triskelle Pictures was created back in 2008 as founder Sophie Black (interview here) was completing her degree at the University for the Creative Arts, but after a whole raft of award-winning shorts are about to embark on potentially their most popular and explosive one so far. With a love for the DC Batman villain Poison Ivy, the filmmaker feels as though she has long been underrepresented in film so are producing a fan film that brings the character front and centre. This film is not endorsed by DC in any way - it's simply a passion project by people who adore the subject matter and stars Aislinn De'Ath & Robert Dukes in the lead roles. With successes already gained for their drama Night Owls and fantasy short Songbird, starring The X Factor's Janet Devlin, the film comes later in summer after a passionate post-production period.
Find out more on their official website and their Facebook page
The Nursery Man directed by Anthony Michael Tracy-Winson
Mr. Stitch Films is an independent movie production company founded by Anthony M. Tracy-Winson which specialises in making horror movies and their latest undertaking is The Nursery Man. Beginning production back in February 2018, the film stars Sarah Ellis who plays Marion Kelly, a former paranormal specialist for Dartmoor University who sets out to help tormented mother, Florence Taylor, played by Sarah Wynne Kordas who children have disappeared. With the production now ongoing for many months, filming has taken place around the region by the team who made The Baylock Residence (review here). But despite the long journey, with retakes and re-shoots undertaken, the crew want to make this film the best that Mr. Stitch Films has ever produced. Find out more on Facebook and their official website
Sustain directed by Dave Hastings
Written By Brett Dewsbury and David Hastings, crime thriller/drama Sustain is the new film from Midlands Director David Hastings & Producers Troy Dennison and Keiran Bowers (see our The House of Screaming Death review). Brett Dewsbury himself plays Kieran, a mild-mannered young man whose life is shattered by the death of his close younger step-brother Toby (Joshua Sewell), the victim of a vicious race attack. Confronted with the shocking reality of recent fatal events, Kieran must come to terms with what has happened, carrying on without Toby, the gloating thugs who have walked free from his brother's death. With the film in deep post-production, editor Sam Woodhall has been working closely with Hastings on fine-tuning the now locked visual cut of the film with the picture edging ever closer to its completion for audiences. Check the latest production updates on Facebook
Off Grid directed by Carl Timms
Off Grid is the upcoming production from Dark Matter Films and Bewdley-based Director Carl Timms who shot the short film on location in Worcestershire earlier this summer with a completion date pencilled in for early 2019. This post-apocalyptic, supernatural thriller boasts a stellar cast including James Cosmo, MBE (Game of Thrones, Braveheart, The Outlaw King) as force of nature John Tanner; Alison Steadman (Pride and Prejudice, Gavin & Stacey) as his frail wife, Grace and Marc Baylis (Coronation Street) as the enigmatic 'Stranger'. Bewdley-based director Carl Timms says, "We are delighted with how the filming turned out. We feel honoured to have worked with such a talented cast who brought these characters to life exactly as we hoped". Check out their new teaser for the film which will be released soon. Check out their website at www.darkmatterfilms.co.uk
MacBeth directed by Daryl Chase
The Screen Northants group have secured funding from BBC's Children In Need to produce films working with disadvantaged young people across Northampton and their new version of classic Macbeth sees them working with professional crew to produce the film, which is being shot over 5 weeks in the school summer holidays. Becky Adams, Director of Screen Northants, says, "We are over the moon that BBC Children in Need are supporting us again. And we are looking forward to making a tangible difference to young people's life chances". Various sites across Northampton are being used to create the setting for this gritty, urban retelling of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. Screen Northants are taking the story from ancient Scotland to a contemporary dystopian estate on the fringes of society, pitting estate against estate. Macbeth and the love of his life, Lady Macbeth, make moves to escape the rut they find themselves in. Find out more at www.screennorthants.co.uk
Angel City directed by Duaine Roberts
Written, directed & Produced by Duaine Carma Roberts of Carma Film, Angel City tells the story of sisters whose loyalty is tested when one is accused of attempted murder, which causes past truths to come to light. Since founding CarmaFilm Motion Pictures in 2015, Duaine Carma Roberts has had a vision to change the way film is perceived in both Birmingham and the rest of the UK. With stories focusing on every day struggles and challenges, our short and feature films have garnered attention across the country and success showing in various film festivals. The film stars Adaya Henry, Tamaira Hesson, Georgia Neath, Liam Millard, Chereis Sewell, Ackeem Gibbs and Andre Pierre and comes on the back of Robert's previously successful shorts Dear Josephine (our review) and Graycon (our review). Find out more on Twitter and the Carma Film website
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Midlands Spotlight - KOBE
By midlandsmovies, Mar 23 2019 08:52AM
KOBE is an upcoming short crime thriller film from West Midlands director AR Ugas about a university student who, after his childhood friend is released from prison, decides to enter into a life of crime which culminates in a robbery that goes wrong.
Shot in 5 days in several locations in the Birmingham are, the film was shot, produced, directed and edited by Ugas, who had great success with his Tolkien-inspired first film 'The Return of the Ring'.
AR Ugas explains, "After The Return of the Ring and its success I felt like I was ready to jump into making a feature film. I wrote the script, casted it and was about to start the rehearsal process, but for a variety of reasons and like many other independent projects it failed to launch".
"After that, I decided to go back to the basics and fully develop myself as a one-man team guerilla filmmaker, buying my own camera and editing software and hardware", he added.
The director explains that not only did he make decisions to save time and money in the long run, he also wanted to fully appreciate and understand what it takes to create a film. "Having dipped my toes into shooting and editing myself, I am a lot more confident and comfortable with all sides of filmmaking now".
While 'The Return of the Ring' was very high-concept and flashy, the director felt it lacked an emotional depth - "Everyone saw what happened but not many felt what happened and we watch films not just to see but also to feel".
KOBE will be a lot more gritty and dynamic film and the director hopes it's also a lot more personal too as the film delves into the friendship of an ex-prisoner and a university student, examining their moral compasses and how people change when put in a difficult situation. It also looks at a faltering relationship between a strict out-of-touch father and said student.
Working on the project are the two leads, Mathias Andre (as Kobe) and Dominic Thompson (as Mouse) who also played the hooded wizzard in The Return of the Ring.
Joining them are Tee Morris (Christopher) who recently won an award for 'Best Actor' for the wonderful short film 'Climbing Trees', Alexandria Carr (Serena), Bola Latunji (James), COrey Thompson (Sully) and Summer Carr (Natasha).
With a plan to release the film in the next few motnhs, the production are looking at several platforms for the release and you can find out more about the film and filmaker here https://www.facebook.com/ARUGASUK and check out the two exclusive screengrabs of Dominic Thompson playing 'MOUSE'.
Filed under: Crime, Kobe, AR Ugas, Short Film, West Midlands, Spotlight Archive, Return of the Ring


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Kingdom citizens, covenant partners, and televiewers around the world eagerly awaited the resumption of the LIVE broadcast of Spotlight, one of the television programs of TV evangelist and world-renowned spiritual leader, Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name, Inc.
Spotlight made waves when it aired via Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) in 2018 as the Appointed Son of God answered tough questions about spiritual truths that many from religion and denomination find hard to accept.
The program received a lot of bashing and persecution from non-believers but, at the same time, brought spiritual enlightenment to many, paving the way for more sons and daughters of the Almighty Father to enter His Kingdom nation.
Pastor Apollo Quiboloy often reiterates in his LIVE broadcasts that whether you like it or not, whether you accept it or not — a spiritual truth remains the truth. The message that he is bringing to the world is not of his own making, but it is of the Almighty Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, who called him to deliver the true message of salvation in these last days.
"Through the years, I have experienced a lot of persecution, oppression, and bashing because of this message. But I pray for the souls of those persecutors because it is the Almighty Father's command to love your enemy, pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you, do good to them that hate you. So we do not hate them back. We pray for them." Pastor Apollo said.
"When the judgment of God comes, and the balances are weighed in Heaven, the angel of judgment will come and execute the judgment himself. That is why the Word of God says, Vengeance is mine. I will repay sayeth the Lord." Pastor Apollo added.
True enough, the world watched in awe as Pastor Apollo's words that were spoken LIVE on Spotlight, in response to Vice Ganda's brazen remarks and mockery directed to the Appointed Son of God, came to pass. Considered by many as a fulfilled prophecy, the closure of the giant Filipino media network — ABS CBN — made headlines not only in the Philippines but all over the world.
The COVID 19 pandemic followed thereafter when the Kingdom's houses of worship were desecrated on January 29, 2020, in the United States of America.
After fasting for seven days and seven nights, the Almighty Father revealed to Pastor Apollo — a handwriting on the wall which was written in blood — telling him that judgment is about to come upon those who blasphemed and trodded on His Name.
Spotlight successfully resumed airing last February 16, 2021 (8PM) and was, for the first time, joined by selected Kingdom Administrators LIVE via Zoom.
Before the episode ended, Pastor Apollo Quiboloy thanked all the Kingdom citizens, televiewers, and even the bashers who watched the program and sent in their questions.
Pastor Apollo also stated before wrapping up the episode with a prayer, "It is not our intention to hurt you, to mock you, or to shame you. We only have good intentions for your soul. This program is in service to the Almighty Father, where we lift up His Name and His Words for them to be obeyed, and to put to shame the enemy of our soul — the deceitful Satan Lucifer the devil who uses the Word of God but does not want them to be obeyed."
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