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Carving up Africa - aid donors and agribusiness plot the great seed privatization
Ian Fitzpatrick
Oliver Tickell
The work is hard, but the seed is free - for now! Men and women harvest the Ethiopian staple grain teff in a roadside field between Axum and Adwa in Northern Ethiopia. Photo: Alan via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).
An elite group of aid donors and agribusiness corporations met in London this week to plan the takeover of Africa's seeds, writes Ian Fitzpatrick, replacing traditional seed breeding and saving by small farmers with a corporate model of privatized, 'improved', patented, genetically uniform and hybrid seeds in a profit-driven market.
For Deloitte, Gates Foundation, USAID, DfID and the agrochemical companies, small farmers and their traditional crop varieties are obstructions on the road to corporate domination of Africa's agriculture that must be swept aside.
A secretive conference, co-organised by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), one of the world's largest donors, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) took place in London on Monday this week.
The meeting bears the ludicrously long sobriquet 'Multiple Pathways for Promoting the Commercial and Sustainable Production and Delivery of Early Generation Seed of Food Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa.'
To give it a more succinct description, this was a meeting for free market obsessed 'aid' donors and corporations to discuss how to increase their control of the global seed sector. The list of invited participants reads like a roll call for some of the most renowned actors in the agribusiness world.
Syngenta (the world's third biggest seed and biotechnology company), and its 'greenwashing' relative, the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, made an appearance, as well as the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and donor organisations like the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) and The World Bank.
The invite list is entirely made up of corporations, development agencies and aid donors. Not a single farmer organisation was invited. But then, why invite a farmer organisation when your aim is helping companies sell new seed varieties? Why invite civil society representatives when your aim is to impose a pre-determined profit-driven agenda?
The neoliberal agenda - imposing profit-driven models
Pre-meeting documents show that the central aim of the conference was to share findings of a report by Monitor Deloitte (of which a summary was released to participants) on developing the commercial seed sector in sub-Saharan Africa.
As the conference summary explains, "A next step in this collaboration is the organization of a convening that seeks to share, discuss and vet the results of this study, and identify key implications ...
"Based on a set of representative countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia) and crops (maize, rice, sorghum, cowpea, common beans, cassava and sweet potato), the study provides examples of potential business models that could scale the production and delivery of EGS in a commercially sustainable manner.
"In the case where the public sector still plays a role, the study outlines opportunities for public-private collaboration and increased efficiencies in the sector. Finally, the study concludes by providing generalizable principles and recommendations to help guide key stakeholders as they pursue policies, investments and interventions."
The report recommends that in countries where demand for patented seeds is weaker (that is, where farmers are using their own seed saving networks), public-private partnerships should be developed so that private companies are protected from 'investment risk'.
Forcing farmers to buy seeds every year
It also recommends that that NGOs and aid donors should encourage governments to introduce intellectual property rights for seed breeders and help to persuade farmers to buy commercial, patented seeds rather than relying on their own traditional varieties.
Finally, in line with the broader neoliberal agenda of agribusiness companies across the world, the report suggests that governments should remove regulations (like export restrictions) so that the seed sector is opened up to the global market.
This neoliberal agenda of 'deregulation' (actually regulation for corporate profit) and privatization, currently promoted in almost every sphere of human activity - from food production to health and education - poses a serious threat to food sovereignty and the ability of food producers and consumers to define their own food systems and policies.
The two organisations organising the conference, BMGF and USAID, are two of the main driving forces behind the adoption of commercial, patented seeds among poor farmers in Africa. When seed markets are dominated by a handful of companies selling their patented seeds, farmers' ability to save, exchange and sell their own seed varieties is threatened.
We know that up to 75% of the seed varieties needed to produce our food are currently in the hands of small farmers. We also know that smaller farms are more biodiverse, and therefore more resilient to crop disease and climate change than large plantations.
But despite the incredibly important role that small farmers play in preserving seed varieties and creating resilient food systems, large donors like BMGF, USAID, and DfID (particularly with its support of the New Alliance initiative) seem more interested in supporting big business and promoting policies that make it easier for agribusiness companies to control seed markets.
Challenging corporate agribusiness - food sovereignty and agroecology
In fact, BMGF and USAID's priorities are laid bare in the report. They include increasing the role of large seed companies in the seed sector, together with helping small and medium-sized companies produce their own patented seed varieties.
The entire report makes no mention at all of the essential and continuing role of small farmers in developing and maintaining crop varieties over millennia - the crops that are still providing most of Africa's food today, and embody immensely valuable genetic diversity.
That's because for Deloitte, Gates Foundation, USAID, DfID and the agrochemical companies, small farmers and their traditional crop varieties are obstructions on the road to corporate domination of Africa's agriculture that must be swept aside.
The recent Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology, which was backed by Via Campesina, one of the world's largest social movements with over 250m members, and dozens of other farming and food producing groups, is as clear about the problem:
"The corporate model over-produces food that poisons us, destroys soil fertility, is responsible for the deforestation of rural areas, the contamination of water and the acidification of oceans and killing of fisheries. Essential natural resources have been commodified, and rising production costs are driving us off the land. Farmers' seeds are being stolen and sold back to us at exorbitant prices, bred as varieties that depend on costly, contaminating agrochemicals."
It is also clear about the solution, stating that agroecology, within a food sovereignty framework, offers us a collective path through the current food crisis.
A truly sustainable food system recognises the fundamental contribution that small farmers make to it through their preservation of seed diversity and farmers' own innovation, research and breeding skills.
It also recognises that farming is political and a sustainable farming system requires us to challenge the current power imbalance in the food system and put the control of seeds and other resources into the hands of the estimated two billion small farmers, fisherfolk, peasants and pastoralists that currently feed our world.
Ian Fitzpatrick is a food sovereignty researcher for Global Justice Now, helping to build the case for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa. Prior to this he worked as a freelance environmental researcher for Sustain, Food Ethics Council and the New Economics Foundation, and was the co-founder of a co-operative bakery in Leeds (Leeds Bread Co-op). Ian has an MSc in ethnobotany from the University of Kent, and a DPhil (PhD) in anthropology from the University of Oxford.
Oliver Tickell edits The Ecologist.
This article is an expanded version of one originally published by openDemocracy under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 licence.
Grabbing Africa's seeds: USAID, EU and Gates Foundation back agribusiness seed takeover
Stephen Greenberg
| 23rd March 2015
The latest salvo in the battle over Africa's seed systems has been fired, writes Stephen Greenberg, with the Gates Foundation and USAID playing puppet-masters to Africa's governments - now meeting in Addis Ababa - as they drive forward corporation-friendly seed regulations that exclude and marginalize the small farmers whose seeds and labour feed the continent.
Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization
AFSA
Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing the millions of small cultivators that now feed the continent, and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties. The agencies effecting the transformation are legion - but they are all marching to a single drum.
Coca-Cola is not the solution to hunger in Africa
Miriam Ross
| 22nd September 2014
Coca-Cola is the latest company to join the agricultural 'scramble for Africa', writes Miriam Ross. Backed by £600 million of British aid under the guise of 'food security' and 'nutrition', a vast give-away of Africa's land is under way that will condemn small farmers to landlessness and poverty.
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On Sunday October 6th and Monday Oct 7th, Team Fox members Wendy and Rick Tigner will host their 2nd Annual UCSF Medical Center Celebrity Golf Classic with proceeds benefitting The Michael J Fox Foundation. Building upon the success of their 2012 event, which raised $153,000 for Team Fox, the Tigners and their event committee are eager to continue raising awareness and funds in support of Parkinson's research.
The annual event, held at the Mayacama Club in Santa Rosa, CA begins Sunday at 6:00PM with a cocktail reception followed by their Champions Dinner & Program. The evening will conclude with a VIP after-party at the Mayacama Caves & Clubhouse. On Monday morning, celebrity athletes and guests will enjoy a breakfast followed by the tournament on Mayacama's golf course, which is consistently ranked among Golf Digest's "Top 100 Courses in America".
This year, the event committee is thrilled to offer one lucky winner a grand prize inclusive of a $15,000 gift certificate from Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry, a 4-course gourmet dinner for 6 with Stephen Silver with wines from his private collection and an overnight stay at the Rosewood Sand Hill. Tickets are $100 each and can be acquired by emailing teamfox@michaeljfox.org up until Monday, October 7.


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Support and uphold a working environment that acknowledges, values and sets ethical conduct as a standard;
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Observe and continually ensure the implementation of the standards established herein within the organisation;
Lead the way by their own conduct and encourage others to act in the same way.
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I had a nice week off to spend with my family and friends and I hope you did too. During Thanksgiving weekend I read Eat to Live by Dr. Fuhrman. My husband had read/listened to it multiple times and had been trying to incorporate Dr. Fuhrman's plan for a while. I'm sure it was difficult for him since I had not yet read the book.
If you haven't read Eat to Live I will say that it is a must read, but you may want to spread it out and not read it all in one weekend because it is a lot to take in. I'll share more about what I learned another day.
Breakfast will be a combination of oatmeal, Breakfast Quinoa, fruit, and smoothies. Today's oatmeal contained oats, chia seeds, ground flax, and cranberries.
Lunches should be a big salad but I usually prefer them stuffed in a pita or leftover soup. My soups and salads will be made up of a variety of beans, celery, carrots, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. My kids will eat plenty of PB and almond butter sandwiches.
Snacks will be veggies and hummus, muffins and yogurt parfaits for the boys, smoothies, and fruit with almond butter.
Dinner will be big salads and hearty soups. I also hope to remake and post the recipe for an incredible Mexican Casserole I made a few weeks ago. It was easy and delicious. I'm not a big cauliflower fan but I'm thinking of trying cauliflower rice I've seen on numerous blogs. I'm also craving the flavors in my Enchilada and Taco Soups and I have a big fat avocado that is slowly ripening. I may pair it with Spicy Black Bean Soup.
Most of the meals this week will be quick since they use fresh veggies but I need to make another batch of my Veggie Broth Mix. I got dried mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes to add to the mix like Somer at Vedged Out recommended in the comments. She had made a version and added them with great results. Then Sarah at Gazing In made her version and I just had to expand my base mix and add the mushrooms and tomatoes.
I also plan to make some quinoa this week for a little whole grain variety.
Have you read Eat to Live? If so, do you follow it?
Need to add that book to my reading list. I made the broth mix with Somer's additions and it is delicious! Now a must have in my pantry.
You can borrow my copy! I all ready need to make more stock mix!
After Thanksgiving mine is nearly gone, but think of how many cups of broth! And how many Tetra Packs we've saved!
It sure went quickly, especially with all of that cooking I did for Thanksgiving.
I've been meaning to read it. I try to eat mainly fruits, veggies and grains, with as little dairy as possible. It's tough with a family that's not on board. I'm interested in your Mexican dishes. Yum!
Oh Holly! This book is a slippery slope! I LOVED it. I still do a quart of green smoothie a day and a huge salad for one meal. I think that if I ate that way forever though, I'd feel really deprived. I love grains and bread too much. However, I do think his plan is genius, especially for those who have diseases and truly need to lose lots of weight, I'll swear there isn't a better way to take off the pounds then his plan. Best of luck!
Somer I agree with you! I love my whole grains too! I'm not following Eat to Live to the letter but I'm definitely trying to incorporate his methodology. I love reading new books that inspire me to try harder.
I have read it. I eat a plant-based diet, but I more closely follow the recommendations of Jeff Novick and the Engine 2 diet.
I recently discovered Jeff Novick but have been following Engine 2 for a while. Engine 2 is easy enough for me to follow but whereas Eat to Live is more of a challenge.
I have read it and I follow it as best I can in the real world 😉 I have been basically eating that way for the past 7 years since I read it. A great read for what to feed your kids is Disease Proof your Child also by Joel Fuhrman.
Wow Courtney! Seven years is impressive. I only went plant-based a little over a year ago. 🙂 I really want to read Disease Proof Your Child, it's on my wish list.
I am so excited I found this blog! I have read ETL and Disease Proof Your Child. Dr. Furhman has a book coming out Christmas Eve about reversing Diabetes. This is right on time, my father was just diagnosed with diabetes after going into a diabetic shock. (he did not show early signs of elevated blood sugar) I am also trying to move into a plant centered diet. Glad I found you.
Thank you for stopping by! I'm sorry to hear your father was just diabetes. I hope he will be receptive to your help. I'm excited about the new book, I have some friends with diabetes that I'd like to help but I don't have a great understanding of the diabetes. I read about it and understand but not well enough.


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10 Worst Real Madrid Signings Ever!
Who are the 10 worst Real Madrid signings ever? Which Real Madrid players have been the worst signings? Who are the 10 worst Real Madrid signings ever?
Here we will look at who are the 10 Worst Real Madrid signings ever. The price of the player, their contribution to the team, and their overall play will contribute to their ranking on this list.
There have been a lot of good signings that Real Madrid has made but they have also signed some real flops! Recently Real Madrid have made some pretty bad purchases- Antoine Griezmann and Arturo Vidal come to mind. So here we will look at who the worst Real Madrid signings ever are. Let's find out the Worst Real Madrid signings!
Top 10 Worst Real Madrid Signings
So, here are the 10 Worst Real Madrid signings ever –
10. Walter Samuel
Fabio Capello wanted a dominant centre-half and he sanctioned a €25m deal to go out and sign Walter Samuel. Early on, he looked like an excellent signing but pretty soon the glamour faded. He looked nothing like the performances he put up for AS Roma which earned him the nickname, "The Wall".
"The fact that he did not make a name for himself at Real Madrid still surprises me," Capello admitted. "Perhaps it was the wrong time."
9. Pedro Leon
Jose Mourinho was never impressed by Pedro Leon's work ethic and so, never really could give him a chance to shine. He refused to give the €10m signing a chance and was constantly questioned about it.
"I felt humiliated at Madrid," Pedro Leon said 2011. "I am not aware of doing anything wrong. I did all I could, I was professional, I worked hard."
Mourinho replied to that statement as he said, "You talk of Pedro Leon as if he is Zidane or Maradona or Di Stefano. Last year he was playing for Getafe! I don't have to justify his absence."
8. Kaka
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It is heartbreaking to put Kaka's name here but at a record-breaking deal, he does belong here. One of football's greatest mysteries, Kaka's career was destined for greatness and stardom at the greatest heights. Looking back, one can easily say that he fell short of such lofty expectations and it all came crashing down at Real.
One can understand why the Galacticos broke their transfer record to sign him. At 27, he was unstoppable at AC Milan, winning the Balon d'Or the season prior. After he arrived at Madrid, it all turned upside down. Riddled with injuries and the competiting star power of Cristiano Ronaldo up front meant Kaka could never hit his best stride. He later admitted, "I lost the joy of playing football a bit [in Madrid]."
7. Theo Hernandez
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It took a lot of effort to prize Theo Hernandez out of Atletico Madrid but in the end, it was not worth it. He could replace Marcelo at left-back or even challenge for the position. 13 league appearances later, he was bid farwell. First he joined Real Sociedad on loan and then permanently with AC Milan.
6. Asier Illaramendi
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Asier Illaramendi was snapping up plenty of headlines in Spain playing for Real Sociedad. He clearly was an exciting defensive enforcer in midfield that caught Carlo Ancelotti's eye. As a part of Real Madrid's 2013 spending spree, Illaramendi arrived at Santiago Bernabeu witha price tag of €32 million.
Just two years later, he had to be sold back to Sociedad after two many inconsistent displays under the Italian boss.
5. Elvir Baljic
€26 million in 1999 was a LOT of money! I mean a lot, A LOT! Why on God's name did John Toshack think the Bosnian was of Real Madrid's level, no one knows.
The Galacticos dished out the heavy sum to sign Elvir Baljic from Fenerbahce and instantly came to regret it. A knee injury did not help the forward but when fit, he looked like a second division starter at best. After just one season, everyone could tell where he belongs and was sent back on loan to the Turkish outfit. He later mused, "It doesn't hurt me to see media listing me among Real's biggest flops; I don't see myself that way."
4. Jonathan Woodgate
Jonathan Woodgate is easily one of the worst players Real Madrid ever signed. He was unfortunate to get injured in his debut season, waiting an entire year to make his first appearance. When he did begin his Real Madrid career, it got off to a disastrous start. A red card and an own goal against Athletic Bilbao pretty much summed up the extent of his stay at Santiago Bernabeu.
3. Nuri Sahin
Nuri Sahin was one of the world's best midfield talents at the start of the last decade. At just 17, he made his debut for the Turkish national team. He was breaking out in Jurgen Klopp's young and ruthless Borussia Dortmund side which also fielded stars like Robert Lewandowski, Marco Reus and Mario Gotze.
Real Madrid quickly snapped him up at €10 million believing he could be exactly what Toni Kroos turned out to be. Unfortunately, through several injuries and a mismatch with Jose Mourinho's tactics, Sahin only ever made 4 La Liga appearances for Los Blancos. Following two loan spells overseas, he was sent back to Dortmund.
2. Antonio Cassano
Antonio Cassano is a legend in Italy with 39 caps for his country and his playing years spread around several Serie A clubs. When he was breaking out as a youngster at AS Roma, many viewed him as the playmaker who would tussle with the world's very best.
However, with his off-the-pitch antics and a fallout with then-manager, Fabio Capello meant his Real Madrid career was doomed to fail. A decision was made to ship him back to Italy after just one season as his attitude was heavily criticised by club president, Ramon Calderon at the time.
1. Royston Drenthe
Royston Drenthe's name has popped up as one of the football's biggest flops for years now. And that too for good reason. Blessed with lightning speed along with the touch similar to that of Ronaldinho, the world was at Drenthe's feet when he was at Feyenoord.
Numerous outlets were behind him but it was Real Madrid who won the race in 2007. He cost the club €14 million but never provided a return on that hefty investment. His attitude in training was never tip-top and after several incidents, he could hardly break into the first team. He was even sent out on loan spells to Hercules and Everton to reassess his career but none of it helped.
After Real, he joined Alania Vladikavkaz upon the expiration of his contract in 2012. Now 32, he's playing for Kozakken Boys in the third tier of Dutch football.
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This felt woodland animal is Great the Squirrel. Handmade from felt this cute squirrel makes a fun Christmas ornament, gift or woodland themed party favor.
Greta's been studying meditation to try and get a break from her hectic everyday life in the squirrel race (like the rat race). She works in a large squirrel corporation and spends all day filing paperwork, requisitioning nuts, etc. It is very stressful.
She started off with transcendental meditation, but the mantra repetition was too much like work. Now she's into zen. It is helping her slow down, but now she finds it hard to keep up with squirrel conversation. She's currently looking for local sloth hangouts. She's heard sloths tend to be less high strung than squirrels.


I am quickly finding that probably the hardest part of buying a boat is dealing with all the immediate logistics that arise after the purchase. Getting insurance, registering the boat, finding someone to do some painting (of the stern and bow, since I'm renaming the boat and registering her in a new port), finding someone to help me take the boat out around Langkawi (e.g., to a boatyard for painting), and finding someone with enough experience in the Malacca Straits to help me bring her down to Singapore, have all been tough going. I think I've finally mostly wrapped up the insurance, although it still probably won't be in place for a few more days. The rest of those tasks, though, are all pretty much stalled.
As with most things, there are a lot of dependencies on other people, most of whom, for some reason, aren't all that inclined to move quickly, even though I am proposing to pay them money to perform services. C'est la vie.
I am hoping that in making the trip up to Langkawi this weekend, I'll manage to dig up some leads at the marina that'll help me move along with all this stuff. I definitely want to keep pushing ahead to try to get the boat here sometime in mid-March so I have time to do some work on it here before my lease ends and it's time to move aboard.


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On February 2nd, The City of Dubrovnik, as Lead Beneficiary, organized the Final Conference of the Adriatic IPA CBC 2007-2013 project called EX.PO AUS/0037 – "EXtension of POtentiality of Unesco Adriatic Sites".
First part of the Conference "EXtension of POtentiality of Unesco Adriatic Sites – Sharing the Future Without Borders" was open to the general public, to experts and professionals in the field, and to various institutions dealing in heritage management issues, cultural tourism, energy efficiency, etc.
The Final International Conference gathered all the partners from seven countries across the Adriatic area, both EU and non-EU. Together, they diligently worked over the last 3 years towards the creation of a future where our combined results can be shared in an Adriatic community without borders. Lessons learned – lessons shared.
On February 3rd, the Project Partners met in the renovated complex Lazareti next to the Old Town and discussed the final wrap-up details related to the project, which will officially end on February 29, 2016. As a note, the Lazareti restoration project was chosen for a Poster Exhibition at the OWHC World Congress held in Arequipa, Peru last November 2015.
The above two dates were specifically chosen as they represent the essence of Dubrovnik as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Festivity of Saint Blaise, listed as UNESCO Intangible Heritage in September 2009, has been celebrated annually on February 03rd for already 1,044 years, along with the City of Dubrovnik Day. The year 2016 also marks 1,700 years of honoring the Martyrdom of Saint Blaise. Accordingly, the City of Dubrovnik has designated the year 2016 as the Year of Saint Blaise.


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Assam NRC issue: AGP threatens to pull out of NDA
NEW DELHI, AUG 11 (AGENCIES) | Publish Date: 8/11/2018 12:16:47 PM IST
Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leader and former Assam chief minister Prafulla Mahanta has threatened to pull out of the coalition with BJP in the state if the Citizenship (Amendment) Act was passed by the Centre, a Times of India report stated.
AGP will pull out of BJP-led ruling alliance in Assam if the latter goes ahead with the controversial citizenship bill, Mahanta said in the course of an interview on national TV channel on Saturday. He said the Assamese people will become a minority in their own land if the government decides to pass the bill.
Referring to the 40 lakh names that did not figure in the final draft of the NRC, Mahanta expressed fears that if the bill is passed, Hindu migrants among those 40 lakh will automatically get Indian citizenship.
Maintaining that AGP's protest against the bill as a fight for secularism, Mahanta said, "India is a secular country and citizenship should not be conferred on the basis of religion. No country in the world except Israel allows citizenship on the basis of religion and this cannot be allowed."
Since its introduction in 2016, AGP has been protesting against the Bill which has already invited the anger of various groups in Assam, where the final draft of the NRC, aimed at identifying illegal immigrants, especially from Bangladesh, was released last month. Having won just 14 out of 126 seats in the 2016 election, AGP is a junior partner in the Sonowal government, with three of its MLAs serving as ministers, but the party has already decided to contest the upcoming panchayat elections alone and are yet to take a call on the 2019 parliamentary elections.
But even BJP might find it difficult to win LS seats in 2019 in the state, if the Centre goes ahead with the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, as Assamese people see it as a demographic threat. TOI report also stated that there are fears of the Assamese-versus-Bengali issue re-igniting in the region.
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Responsible physical evidence
Critics of the Book of Mormon point to the lack of physical evidence to corroborate the narrative in the text, but the real problem is choosing among the abundant evidences. Almost no matter where you look in the Americas, scientists are uncovering more and more physical evidence of ancient civilizations that expands our understanding and appreciation of these cultures. These civilizations were more extensive and more sophisticated than previous generations realized.
But that's a topic for another day.
Here, I want to address the challenge of zeal. Advocates of most theories of Book of Mormon geography have a certain degree of zeal or they wouldn't be advocates. Nothing wrong with zeal, per se. You need zeal to accomplish anything. But you can also have excessive zeal, and we want to be cognizant of that so we don't make counterproductive mistakes.
Drawing of Stela 5 from http://www.moroni10.com/lehi_stone.html
At the same time, we don't want to dismiss a proposed setting just because some advocates have emphasized artifacts that turn out not to be what they were once thought to be, or are represented to be. That's just as irrational as relying on the artifacts in the first place.
In the area of Book of Mormon archaeology, probably the best-known mistake is Izapa Stela 5, the so-called "Lehi's Tree of Life" stone. For decades, it was promoted as proof that the Book of Mormon took place in Mesoamerica.
The Church even got involved. An article in the 1985 Ensign evaluates Stela 5 and says, "If this is true—and, again, we must remain cautious and tentative until all the evidence is in—Stela 5 may prove to be the first deciphered artifact from the Nephite civilization."
That's some powerful hype.
Image from the Liahona, July 2010
Stela 5 was again on display in the Liahona magazine in 2010.
There's a replica of Stela 5 on display at the Utah Cultural Center. For years, you could buy replicas at Deseret Book and the BYU bookstore. I've seen them in the homes of many Latter-day Saints. I've seen replicas in offices. Stela 5 has become the emblem of the Mesoamerican theory for many people.
Even the wikipedia article on Stela 5 comments on this:
"Based on parallels with traditions originating in the Old World, a few researchers have linked the stone to theories of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. Mormon theorist M. Wells Jakeman proposed that the image was a representation of a tree of life vision found in the Book of Mormon.[11] Jakeman's theory was popular for a time among Mormons, but found little support from Mormon apologists.[12] Julia Guernsey finds that Jakeman's research "belies an obvious religious agenda that ignored Izapa Stela 5's heritage".[13]"
In fact, I have an article from 2004 titled "Izapa Stela 5: Deception in Stone" by Kathryn Egan that demonstrates the stone has nothing to do with the Book of Mormon, but the myth persisted anyway.
I think it's fair to say now that the link between Stela 5 and the Book of Mormon has been largely abandoned by LDS scholars, including those who otherwise believe the Mesoamerican setting. I attended a seminar last year when this was announced and the audience seemed upset and disappointed. Nevertheless, the connection persists in LDS culture. Just google "Stela 5" and you'll find lots of examples.
Does this example of poor evidence invalidate the Mesoamerican theory? Of course not. We should recognize people make mistakes. Research continues throughout the Americas.
Historical note. The first "proof" artifact from South America was brought to Nauvoo in 1842. These were paper facsimiles taken from a 20-foot long hieroglyphic engraving on a rock in South America. It purported to show Lehi crossing the "large waters" before landing on this continent, as well as their travels and encampments. They were presented to Joseph Smith. If you have never heard about this, it's because Joseph didn't give it any credence. Just like we shouldn't give any credence to physical evidence that doesn't add up.
There is unreliable physical evidence everywhere we look, both because of fakes and because of illusory "correspondences" that we hope will validate our expectations.
I'm hoping we can all work together to support evidence that corroborates the Book of Mormon wherever it is found.
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The Myths of Innovation | CMCrossroads
The Myths of Innovation
Scott Berkun
How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this far. This book shows the way.
In "The Myths of Innovation", bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at innovation history, including the software and Internet Age, to reveal how ideas truly become successful innovations-truths that people can apply to today's challenges. Using dozens of examples from the history of technology, business, and the arts, you'll learn how to convert the knowledge you have into ideas that can change the world.
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Review By: Keith Kautzman
11/09/2009In today's business world, every organization is striving towards innovation, but what exactly does that mean? Many of us have beliefs about innovation, what it is, how it happens, etc. Unfortunately, many of our beliefs are incorrect. In this book, Scott Berkun does an excellent job of telling the reader what innovation is by telling what innovation is not. His well-written message is easy to follow, easy to read, which makes this book difficult to put down.
In the quest to get the reader to understand innovation, Scott Berkun takes the reader through a history of innovation and explains how innovations of the past, or our history lessons about such innovations, cause many of the misconceptions that we have today. For example, the light bulb and telephone were not invented overnight by one person and instantly adopted by the world.
Scott explains the concept of the "Eureka" moment (that moment when an innovative idea supposedly appears in one's mind) and provides scientific and historic evidence as to why such moments do not occur. He explains that innovation does not come from one person working alone, as history often suggests, but from teams of people working extended periods of time. "The Myths of Innovation" explains the hard work needed to overcome the fears people have about innovation, such as being afraid of change or the fear that the innovation will harm them in some way.
The book defines the steps an innovation must go through in order to be adopted by the world and why many "innovative ideas" fail to reach their full potential. Is there an advantage to using this new innovative product? Is it easy to convert from current processes? Is it easy to use and understand? Can I try it out without being fully committed? Can I easily see the results of using this new product? These are the questions a potential user will need to be comfortable with in order to adopt an innovation.
After gaining an understanding of what innovation is not, the reader is presented with rules for coming up with innovative ideas. Berkun explains how to generate ideas, warns the reader about common 'idea killers', and even explains the so often misused brainstorming technique.
"The Myths of Innovation" is a must-read for anyone truly inspiring to be innovative.


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Q: Where Query In One-One RelationShip in EF Repository Pattern Following is my database architecture, three entities:
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Load and Bid : One to Many       -- Load can receive multiple Bids
Order and Bid  : One to One      -- A single bid will be mapped with a order
Order and Load : One to One      -- An order can have only one Bid
As you can see above I don't have ID_Load or ID_Bid properties in the order Entity as EF generate these automatically in the database, so the properties for these two fields are not added in the Order Entity
I am currenlty using Repository pattern with Code First in my project.
Now I want to get the Order information by ID_Load/ID_Bid (as there is a one to one relationship of Bid-Order and Load-Order table)
I don't want to run any SP or Select query in the application, but having issue while doing this.
If I run SQL I will have to write following query:
Select * from Order Where ID_Load = 123
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Select * from Order Where ID_Bid = 123
What is the alternative of this in EF/Repository Patterns in such situations.
Can anyone please help me with this.
Thanks,

A: Get order by Bid ID:
long bidId; // Id of Bid
var order = dbContext.Orders.Single(o => o.Bid.ID_Bid == bidId);

Get order by Load ID:
long loadId; // Id of Load
var order = dbContext.Orders.Single(o => o.Load.ID_Load == loadId);

If Bid and Load are optional for Order, use SingleOrDefault instead of Single. Single will throw an exception if the queried item does not exist, SingleOrDefault will return null.
Alternatively, if you need to load the Bid using its ID anyway:
var bid = dbContext.Bids.Find(bidId);
var order = bid.Order;

This can be optimized by forcing eager loading:
var bid = dbContext.Bids.Include(b => b.Order).SingleOrDefault(b => b.ID_Bid == bidId);
var order = bid.Order;

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Session Description: Aokiniimo is a sacred bath using four medical plants for healing trauma, water, sage, cedar and traditional tobacco. We will describe the Cedar Bath ceremony giving instructions for the use and sacred meaning of each plant by educating the audience in the step by step process to holistic wellness.
Gathering, preserving and ceremonial use of four of seven sacred medicines.
Learn to prepare yourself physically and emotionally for sacred cedar bath.
Learn to smudge entire body properly with sage.
Learn to cleanse yourself deeply in the cedar bath.
Learn to release our first medicine (water) tears of pain into the life giving bath.
Session Description: There is a belief within some indigenous communities that every woman who heals herself, heals all the women who came before her and all the women who come after her. Our ancestry has gifted us with many generational gifts of healing. When we are empowered by rem embering the tools of healing we become healthier. In this session we will talk about the importance of traditional medicine in healing community and healing trauma.
Session Outcomes: This workshop will talk about a multicultural indigenous approach to addressing trauma and healing trauma in different communities. In addition, we will address how all indigenous communities are not the same and how every community needs to be culturally respected. We will also teach about the importance of healing trauma in order for people to recognize their own generational gifts from their culture which will help strengthen their healing path.


This year we are supporting and taking part in The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride to raise funds and awareness for mens health and prostate cancer on behalf of the Movember Foundation.
Prostate cancer affects more men than any other cancer, taking the lives of 307,000 men each year. That number is surpassed by 500,000 men dying from suicide. That's 807,000 men every year. This is a number that must change.
Please reach out and give what you can, and consider joining the Piston Society fundraising team.


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Q: Statistics Software Survey? Does anyone know of research showing the different types of statistical software used?  I'm looking to find out things like what percentage of people use SAS vs. Stata, R, or other packages.  I'm be happy to see references not only for statistics users but users in other science fields that make heavy use of statistics.

A: Number of users is very difficult to determine for free software like R, since there are servers all over the world, so even if one kept track of downloads on one site, the rest would be unknown, and people can share copies around; a single download of R might potentially be used by hundreds of people. One can perhaps get some idea by tracking discussions on various sites or mailing lists, e.g. by looking at volume of questions on Stackoverflow (and various other fora, especially since some programs have dedicated discussion)
Bob Muenchen produces regularly updated measures. At the time of posting the most recent one was October 2015:
http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/
There's also other surveys. For example, David Smith posted about two such surveys in Novenmber 2015, here:
http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/11/new-surveys-show-continued-popularity-of-r.html

A: This site is primarily of concern for users of software for statistical purposes On this site as of today, 2019-01-19, the following package tags have the listed number of followers:
r           19572
Matlab       1158
Python       2253
Mathematica    43
SAS           597
SPSS         1613
Stata        1091
Fortran         5
C++            39
Excel         359
Perl            5
Oracle          8

Any others you can think of, just search the tags for it.

A: The KDNuggets blog does surveys of software used as reported by participating data scientists. Typically, these surveys are annual. Note that the percentages they report are not the same thing as market share of software sales, it's just a proxy for that metric. Moreover, it may or may not reflect the specific languages that interests you.
Here is a link to the results from a recent survey report:

But they have many more trendable polls available. Check on their site.

A: You can find an survey of data-analysis and statistical software in this this article. The result of this survey is shown in this image. Note that it is based on various blogs


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MS treatment trial to compare stem cell transplantation to biologic drugs
Posted: 13 January 2020 | Hannah Balfour (European Pharmaceutical Review) | No comments yet
The BEAT-MS trial aims to compare the experimental autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) therapy to the best available biologic therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS).
A clinical trial, testing autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) against the best available biologic therapies for severe forms of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS), has begun. The trial, sponsored by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), aims to assess whether the potential benefits of AHSCT outweigh the risks, ascertaining if it is a viable therapeutic option.
AHSCT has been proposed by previous studies as a possible treatment for MS. The experimental treatment involves using a mixture of four chemical agents to remove autoimmune cells and then reinfusing some of the patient's own blood-forming stem cells, extracted before treatment, to repopulate the immune system. Immune repopulation theoretically allows the system to reset itself and no longer attack the central nervous system. However, AHSCT has severe side effects, including death.
"AHSCT has the potential to halt the progress of relapsing MS, eliminate the need for a person to take lifelong medication and allow the body to partially regain function. However, we need to be certain that the benefits of this form of treatment outweigh its serious risks," said NIAID Director Dr Anthony Fauci.
The trial, called BEst Available Therapy versus autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant for Multiple Sclerosis (BEAT-MS), is being conducted by the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) in collaboration with the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN), both funded by components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
BEAT-MS will enrol 156 adults aged 18 to 55 years across the US and UK. In the double-blind trial, participants will be randomly assigned to receive either AHSCT or one of the best available high-efficacy biologic drugs. Neurologists will then periodically examine the participants and assess their level of disability over the following six years.
The investigators will:
measure how much time elapses between a participant's assignment to a treatment strategy and MS relapse or death from any cause
investigate the mechanisms of action of the two treatment strategies and compare the developing immune systems of AHSCT recipients with the immunologic features of participants who receive the biologic drugs
compare the effects of the treatments on other measures of disease activity and severity; cost-effectiveness in terms of health care costs and individual productivity; and participants' quality of life.
"We hope that BEAT-MS will clarify the best way to treat people with relapsing MS," concluded trial leader Dr Jeffrey Cohen, director of the Experimental Therapeutics Program in the Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research at the Cleveland Clinic.
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Gaylord Oubrier, né le  à Lyon, est un gymnaste aérobic français.

Il remporte la médaille de bronze en groupe aux Jeux mondiaux de 2005, la médaille d'argent en groupe aux Championnats du monde de gymnastique aérobic 2006, aux Championnats du monde de gymnastique aérobic 2008 et aux Championnats d'Europe de gymnastique aérobic 2009 et la médaille de bronze en groupe aux Championnats du monde de gymnastique aérobic 2010.

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Naissance en juin 1980
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Poll: More blame US government than foreign nations for coronavirus crisis
More than half of Americans blame the federal government for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a higher number than those who said they primarily blamed foreign governments such as China for the disease's spread.
A poll conducted for the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 56 percent of respondents say the U.S. government carries "substantial" responsibility for the state of American COVID-19 outbreak, while just 47 percent said the same about leaders of foreign countries and 39 percent blamed the World Health Organization (WHO).
That comes after months of the Trump administration blaming both China's government and the WHO for the scale of the U.S. outbreak, which has surpassed 7 million cases and more than 209,000 deaths. Top administration officials have claimed for months that the U.S. response was hampered by China's supposed unwillingness to share data with global health experts, as well as the WHO's alleged deference to Chinese authorities.
Blame for foreign countries and the WHO is much more popular among GOP voters, 60 percent of whom said that substantial blame is due for leaders of foreign countries including China, while 55 percent said the same about the WHO. Just 37 percent of Democrats blamed foreign countries for the U.S.'s struggles against the virus, and even less — 27 percent — blamed the WHO.
Critics of the Trump administration's COVID-19 response have pointed to a rise in violence and bigotry suffered by Asian Americans as evidence that the president and other officials' attempts to link the virus to China has resulted in a rise in racial discrimination.
The AP-NORC poll surveyed 1,053 U.S. adults between Sept. 11-14, before President Trump Donald John TrumpQuestions remain unanswered as White House casts upbeat outlook on Trump's COVID-19 fight White House staffers get email saying to stay home if they experience coronavirus symptoms White House says 'appropriate precautions' were taken for Trump's outing to see supporters MORE's own diagnosis of COVID-19 was announced last week. The poll's margin of error is 4.1 percentage points.
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DDAT consists of four talented musicians - Chris Bidtah (vocals), Delbert Anderson (trumpet), Nicholas Lucero (drums) and Mike McCluhan (bass). All touring artists both nationally and internationally - one impromptu group performance at a festival sparked the fire that has burned across the country and is now known as DDAT.
Named by NPR as one of the top 10 bands in the US - DDAT combines hip hop, jazz, funk and soul to their original southwestern feel and genre. Performances by DDAT are known to be full of energy and excitement.
Audiences never know what to expect....dancing, improvisation, audience participation, live painting - sky's the limit at a DDAT show! DDAT creates a unique exciting tie with audiences of all ages who appreciate live performing arts.
Music from the quartet has been heard all over the world with features on National Public Radio (NPR), Sirius XM, Indian Country Today, SAY Magazine, Weekly Alibi and many more. DDAT tours include several West Coast Tours, Canada's Music is Medicine Tour, Aboriginal Music Week Tour in Canada, and Van's Warped Tour - USA.
DDAT recently completed their world premiere of the DDAT Suite - Three DDAT originals arranged for wind symphony. (Please see Arrangements for Concert Band). Their first album "DDAT" will be available in early 2017. DDAT has tours and residencies coming up which will include the US, Columbia, Australia and Hawaii. DDAT will be working with several independent film companies in 2017 and 2018.


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The Common Sense of Contract Formation
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolFollow
David A. Hoffman, Temple University, Beasley School of LawFollow
What parties know and think they know about contract law affects their obligations under the law and their intuitive obligations toward one another. Drawing on a series of new experimental questionnaire studies, this Article makes two contributions.First, it lays out what information and beliefs ordinary individuals have about how to form contracts with one another. We find that the colloquial understanding of contract law is almost entirely focused on formalization rather than actual assent, though the modern doctrine of contract formation takes the opposite stance. The second Part of the Article tries to get at whether this misunderstanding matters. Is it the case that, and when do, beliefs and misunderstandings about the nature of legal rules affect parties' interactions with each other and with the legal system? We find that, indeed, information that a contract has been legally formed has behavioral effects, enhancing parties' commitments to a deal even when there are no associated formal sanctions. However, we also document a series of situations in which misunderstandings have limited practical repercussions, because even parties who believe that legal obligation is about formalities take seriously the moral obligations associated with informal promises and exchanges. We conclude with brief speculations about the implications of these results for consumer contracts.
67 Stan. L. Rev. 1269 (2015)
Wilkinson-Ryan, Tess and Hoffman, David A., "The Common Sense of Contract Formation" (2015). Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law. 837.
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PFC (Pon una Foto en la Calle) es un proyecto socio-cultural ideado y dirigido por el polifacético Juan Carril Márquez, que nació tras la redacción del Manifiesto Homo Ars (8 de noviembre de 2008), con la intención de fomentar un debate sobre el concepto arte y facilitar su accesibilidad real para el conjunto de individuos y colectividades.
En la actualidad se ha convertido en uno de los festivales fotográficos populares más internacionalmente reconocidos.

Precedentes

Manifiesto Homo Ars
El 8 de noviembre de 2008 Juan Carril Márquez redactó el Manifiesto Homo Ars. Sobre la idea de arte y su función, el cual fue sido suscrito por una serie de personalidades del mundo de la cultura, el arte y la educación de diferentes países.
Dicho manifiesto pretendía enfatizar la idea de que la realidad imperante es excesivamente diversa y compleja como para delegarla exclusivamente en manos ajenas. El concepto de sociedad, entendida como un todo unitario, es práctico en términos generales a determinada escala, pero demasiado injusto en ocasiones, ya que se desentiende de un contexto en el que no todos somos iguales. Vivimos en un mismo mundo, pero las circunstancias de la vida, nuestra personalidad, entorno social, expectativas, alcance real a necesidades vitales básicas y superfluas, ideales,..., son heterogéneos, por lo que resulta imposible ser justos utilizando criterios uniformes para el conjunto de personas que puedan integrar la o las sociedades. De ahí la negación respecto a la presunción de que el marco descriptivo es la realidad que afecta de manera conjunta y equitativa a la sociedad como un todo, que la situación socio-económica de cada uno de nosotros viene determinada por este mismo marco y que la única solución posible es la actuación unilateral de estos círculos de poder.<ref>CARRIL MÁRQUEZ, JUAN (2008): Manifiesto Homo Ars. Sobre la idea de arte y su función.</ref> Esta última afirmación es uno de los elementos fundamentales del manifiesto, ya que no solamente es utilizada por estos mismos círculos de poder, sino que nos sirve también a los demás para delegar nuestra responsabilidad, sin ningún tipo de remordimiento.

Y es aquí donde, entendiendo que el arte es un lenguaje independiente del verbal, útil para el desarrollo intelectual y para establecer unos canales de comunicación diferentes al anterior, para con los demás y nosotros mismos, se defendía una idea de arte libre y accesible a cualquier individuo, como instrumento positivo para el mismo y/o para la sociedad en términos cualitativos y no económicos. Dando fin al manifiesto con la idea fundamental de que el arte es para las personas.

 UIFOTO
PFC nació como un proyecto socio-cultural amplio. En un primer momento, Carril Márquez creyó que precisaba de un marco institucional que avalara, tanto éste, como otros proyectos paralelos. Ante un marco social de indefensión por el aislamiento existente entre individuos y también entre colectividades socio-culturales dentro del ámbito de la fotografía, ideó y concretó la UIFOTO (Unión Internacional de Fotógrafos). Su propósito inicial consecuente fue intensificar las relaciones intersectoriales en fotografía, para tratar de paliar la situación de indefensión que, por separado, estaba sufriendo el fotógrafo profesional en la era de la digitalización del sector.
Un año después (ya en 2010) y entendiendo que el Proyecto, concebido como algo de todos y para todos, no podía verse encorsetado dentro de una institución, PFC continuó su andadura de forma independiente.

 El nacimiento
Con este planteamiento, lo defendido no podía quedarse en la simple manifestación de ideas recogidas en un escueto texto, por lo que se decidió implementar un proyecto que diera cabida práctica a esa declaración de buenas intenciones. Es así como nació PFC, celebrándose por primera vez el 18 de mayo de 2009.

 La fecha
PFC nació con la vocación de eliminar esas barreras impositivas que desvinculan al arte de la sociedad, criticando la institucionalización del mismo. Por ello, la fecha escogida tampoco es casual. Carril Márquez entendía que debía ser cuidadosamente escogida simbolizando esa crítica. Eligió el 18 de mayo. Desde 1977, y coordinado por el ICOM (Consejo Internacional de Museos), se celebra el día internacional del museo cada 18 de mayo. El hacer coincidir ambas celebraciones propone la comparación de ambos puntos de vista en cuanto a la idea de lo que es o debe ser arte. PFC es, a la vez, celebración y crítica, pretendiendo:

 Denunciar el aislamiento al que se somete la obra de arte en general, dentro de habitáculos institucionalizados que, en la práctica, generan una distancia física y mental entre el arte y las personas, a la vez que relegan a estos elementos a una condición eminentemente ornamental.

 Paliar la situación anterior, acercando el arte a la sociedad (concepto inverso al tradicionalmente utilizado), a la vez que reducir aquellas trabas que la institucionalización artística somete a todo creador (llámese artista o no) para exponer su obra, posibilitando la exposición individual o colectiva en este acto.

 Abrir un debate sobre el concepto artístico, además de indagar en las necesidades e interrelaciones existentes entre arte y sociedad.

 Y democratizar la privatización de lo artístico a través de la utilización de la fotografía en sus diferentes facetas: artística, informativa y social.

 Países participantes

 Premios
 2013 El Proyecto PFCes declarado de Interés Público Nacional por la Cámara de Diputados (el 2 de octubre de 2013).
 2014 El director del proyecto (Juan Carril Márquez) recibe el Premio Ciutat de Sant Adrià por «su papel como autor, impulsor e ideólogo del proyecto internacional PFC (Pon una Foto en la Calle), por acercar la cultura y el arte a todos, y su trayectoria activista socio-artística».

Ideólo y Coordinador General del proyecto
Juan Carril Márquez
Juan Francisco Carril Márquez, conocido popularmente como Juan Carril (Madrid, 24 de junio de 1974), Community Manager, experto en E-learning, licenciado en Geografía y activista socio-artístico es la persona que dio vida al proyecto Pon una Foto en la Calle.
Biografía
Madrileño de nacimiento, padre gallego y madre extremeña, ha sido en Cataluña donde ha pasado la práctica totalidad de su vida. Poco tiempo después, tras cumplir un año, sus padres cambiaron la residencia familiar, trasladándose a la ciudad barcelonesa de Badalona, donde vivió su infancia y juventud. Es en esta época de su vida en la que, a lomo de su bicicleta, la compañía de su primo Francisco Javier y una pequeña Konica de 35 mm, se fue aficionando al mundo de la fotografía, una de sus pasiones en las que ha trabajado de forma autodidacta, no solamente desde la faceta de retratista, sino también a través de proyectos (como la edición de la Guía Práctica de las Entidades Fotográficas Españolas, un referente en el mundo de la fotografía en su país) que pretendían colectivizar, informar y cohesionar a todo un sector sumido en un rotundo cambio de paradigma.

En 1994 se graduó como técnico de Administración y Gestión, pero fue su inquietud social la que hizo que se matriculara, años después, en la Universidad de Barcelona, licenciándose en Geografía, en su especialidad Social y Humana, en 2001.

Independientemente de su actividad profesional, Juan Carril ha publicado diferentes obras, siendo relevante destacar el papel que ha desempeñado reivindicando un arte fuera de la hermética institución museística (expuesta y denunciada en su obra "La alienación del arte"''), dirigiendo el proyecto socio-cultural Pon una Foto en la Calle, con la intención de fomentar un debate sobre el concepto arte y facilitar su accesibilidad para el conjunto de individuos y colectividades.

Enlaces externos
 Web oficial de PFC (Pon una Foto en la Calle)
 PFC en Facebook
 Juan Carril Márquez (web oficial del Director de PFC)
 Manifiesto Homo Ars en Charge
 UIFOTO (web oficial)

Notas y referencias

Festivales
Fotografía
Organizaciones no gubernamentales
Asociaciones culturales
Fotografía en Argentina
Fotografía en Estados Unidos
Fotografía en España