A couple of months ago, I completed a longstanding project. My goal was to watch every movie on the list of the top 100 American movies compiled by American Film Institute. I was working with the 2007 version of the list, which updates a 1998 list.
Some of my favorite movies were not on the list, as they were not American. (A movie was deemed "American" if it were financed with American money, even if were otherwise "foreign.") Thus, for example, Truffaut's Day for Night was not on the list, though it may not have made the list anyway. Neither was The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
It is interesting to compare the two lists nearly a decade apart. Certain films moved around on the list, some, both recent and not, were added, and 23 films were dropped. (The Wikipedia article for the first list analyzes differences between the two.) I was surprised that The Birth of a Nation was dropped. For good or ill, it was certainly influential, even though I did not like it. I would like to have seen Doctor Zhivago kept, as well as Fantasia, each of which greatly influenced me personally. My top pick would have been Casablanca, which dropped from second to third place over the decade.
My movie project gave me an excuse to experience some excellent movies I would not have seen otherwise. I now have an increased appreciation of Charlie Chaplin, for example. My concept of the Western was definitely stretched through experiencing Unforgiven and The Wild Bunch. (Watch these at your own risk.) I also saw movies, such as Spartacus, which I should have seen a long time ago.
The movie that was my happiest discovery was F.W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. The movie straddled the silent and sound eras. There is no spoken dialogue—speech is conveyed through title cards—but there is an original synchronized soundtrack containing music and sound effects. (Sunrise used the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system.) The movie succeeds despite its being a silent picture. It is a touching fable of conjugal love and rural vs. urban tensions. Sunrise won several awards at the first Academy Awards ceremony, including Best Unique and Artistic Picture.
If you are at all interest in cinema, consider a project similar to mine. There are many more worthy movies out there, of course, but the AFI list will help you hold your own in cocktail party conversations as long as the topic of recent movies doesn't come up. If you are not much of a movie fan and haven't seen many movies on the list, the project will take a while.
The passage of the Republicans' tax bill is a complete lesson in how not to create new laws. Nothing about the process that resulted in the passing of this bill can be viewed as desirable, reasonable, or moral. Readers of this blog are likely to accept that as self-evident fact, so I won't belabor the point.
About three weeks ago, I suggested that Senators and Representatives should actually read the bills on which they vote. (See A Commonsense Legislative Reform.) In this essay, I want to suggest two additional reforms that, though radical, would likely produce better laws and perhaps even better lawmakers.
Every word in a bill should be formally attributed to a particular legislator.
Moreover, if a single word is changed—often a significant matter—that change should be attributed to someone. Crafting a bill is sometimes a committee effort, but someone needs to take responsibility for the words on paper. In some circumstances, it may be appropriate to ascribe some text to more than one person, but to attribute it to a large number of legislators would militate against the strict accountability this proposal attempts to create. Voters should know when their representatives are responsible for particular provisions.
This reform is especially aimed at making legislators accountable for last-minute changes to a bill done to help special interests. Such small last-minute changes have a way of sneaking under the legislative radar. The reform would, of course, have more general beneficial effects.
In times past, my suggestion might have been impractical. Computers, however, can hyperlink text in various ways to facilitate this reform.
Each individual provision of a bill should be accompanied by (1) a statement of the issue or problem it purports to address and (2) an explanation of how the particular provision is expected to improve the state of affairs described in the aforementioned statement.
This proposed reform is the more important one. Admittedly, it would be onerous to implement, and it would be useless if the rationales demanded were not required at a very low level. One might go even further, making explicit the overall purpose of a bill and requiring that all provisions address the problems and expected outcomes of the bill generally.
The benefits of this reform are legion. As does my first suggested reform, this one improves accountability. Moreover, it encourages debate about the actual mechanics of a provision, as opposed to mere assertions that one provision is "better" or "worse" than another. It is therefore likely to result in better and more transparent legislation and more edifying debate in the halls of Congress. The required expected outcome provides a standard against which the empirical results of the bill-become-law may be measured. This feedback would encourage the repeal of bad or ineffective laws and the improvement of good or effective ones. Documenting the problems being solved and the mechanisms by which legislation attempts to provide solutions would surely slow down the legislative machinery. Given our recent congressional experience, that would seem not to be a bad thing.
Thomas B. Edsall has provided a depressing analysis of the just-passed tax bill in The New York Times. (See "You Cannot Be Too Cynical About the Republican Tax Bill.") In it, he points out that some provisions were inserted for the benefit of particular legislators, but, often, one cannot tell this for sure. Additionally, some provisions of the bill have no obvious rationale, and different parts of the bill may actually operate in different directions. My proposals, particularly the second one, assays to head off such anomalies.
Of course, the bill in question was produced by a totally rogue process, and, if Republicans are allowed to get away with this kind of law-making, our democracy is doomed. We can and must do better.
It was reported yesterday that the Trump administration has banned the use of seven words or phrases by the CDC, namely, "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based," and "science-based." A secret government-wide banned-word list has not been disclosed before now.
The media often act as though "Christian" means "evangelical Christian." When commentary on current affairs is desired from a Christian perspective, it is more likely than not that reporters will call upon someone from a very conservative Protestant denomination to deliver it. It often seems as though the media, mainstream or otherwise, are oblivious to the existence of more traditional Christian perspectives. When was the last time you heard someone interviewed who claimed to be a "liberal Christian"?
This state of affairs has bothered me for a long time, but two related matters set me off today. First, of course, is the Alabama Senate election that takes place tomorrow pitting Democrat Doug Jones against Republican Roy Moore. Moore's strong support among "Christian conservatives" or "white evangelicals" has repeatedly (and properly) been remarked upon. Not much has been heard from Christians who not only do not support Moore but who also reject the sort of Christianity he is known for wearing on his sleeve.
The second thing that upset me today was a discussion on the WAMU program 1A, which is carried by many NPR stations."What Roy Moore Reveals About The Religious Right" was a conversation among host Joshua Johnson and several self-identified evangelicals. The 1-hour discussion never suggested that there are other Christian perspectives that differ quite substantially from those being expressed.
I believe that evangelical Christians have given Christianity a bad name. Not all Christians read the Bible with mindless literalness, consider abortion murder, believe that the poor reap what they deserve, consider homosexuality a grave sin, and support the Republican Party no matter what it supports or what its members do. Somehow, it is difficult to communicate this fact through the media.
An essay on my modest blog will not change the public perception of Christianity, but I can stake out my own position and make it easier for others on the Web to do the same. This led me to create the graphic below. I realize, of course, that one can be a non-evangelical Christian and still be a Republican, but my picture aims to make as sharp a contrast as possible to Christians who seem joined at the hip to the Republican Party.
For the foreseeable future, my new graphic (see below) will appear on my blog in the right margin. Click on the image below for a larger view and feel free to use it elsewhere to proclaim that you are both Christian and a Democrat.
The tax bill nearing passage in the Senate runs to nearly 500 pages and includes text written in nearly indecipherable longhand in the margins. Democratic senators have complained that they have had no time to read the bill. In fact, it is certainly the case that nobody has read the entire bill on which senators are expected to vote.
No legislator should be allowed to vote on a bill unless he or she attests in writing and under oath to having read it all.
This is, I suggest, perfectly reasonable. Unfortunately, since senators and representatives have a tenuous relationship with the truth, it would probably be necessary to give legislators a test administered by a non-partisan third party to assure that their attestations are factual.
Lacking such assurance in the present case, I suspect that many GOP senators will regret their votes when they realize what they have foisted upon the American people.
As I write this, I am waiting to see if there are at least two Republicans in the Senate who will vote against the "tax reform" bill that is a giveaway to the rich and to large corporations. I am not hopeful. Despite the concern of the so-called deficit hawks and the plea for "regular order" from Senator John McCain (who has indicated he will vote for the bill), I expect that the bill will pass in the Senate, perhaps tonight. I pray that it will not, but integrity seems to be in short supply among Republican senators.
It is likely that no senator has read the bill being voted on in its entirety. There have been no hearings where interested parties could express opinions on what should be in a tax bill. There have been no contributions from Democrats. All the independent analyses of the bill say that it will do little to increase GDP and will greatly enlarge the federal deficit. But GOP leaders are marching forward knowing that most voters opposed this bill. The bill is, however, the darling of big Republican donors and the ignorant know-nothings who are Trump's base.
God help us if this execrable bill passes. That would not make it law, but it would move the process along of writing it into law.


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Q: How to store results of a LINQ To SQL query in memory I was wondering how I can pull down a portion of a table using LINQ To SQL into C# memory space. Let's say I have a database with thousands of records and a GUI interface that shows one record at a time.
When the user clicks the next / previous record button on the GUI the LINQ To SQL datacontext has to go and get the next record - this takes time.
What I would like to do is get a small block of records, say the last n records and store them in memory so the next and previous buttons react much faster.
What I have tried is create a new field of type Table <vw_RawData> called Table_RawData where vw_RawData is a table in my database and was created by Visual Studio when building the datacontext. Then I tried to fill it (onLoad) using
this._Table_Rawdata = (Table<vw_RawData>)
from c
in this._Db.vw_RawDatas
where c.Date > DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-1)
select c;

This is compiling OK, but at runtime I get the following error... help??

System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Data.Linq.DataQuery1[vw_RawData]' to type 'System.Data.Linq.Table1[vw_RawData]'.

A: You can easily get block of records using Take and Skip methods:
yourTable.OrderBy(x => x.Date).Skip(5).Take(3)

This will return 3 records starting from record number 6.

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Hi everyone! My name is Jessica and I'm a newbie from Indianapolis. I apologize if I'm writing my introduction in the wrong area, but I wasn't sure where else to put it. On top of that, I always feel weird delving into conversations without a proper intro.
Anyhoo. . .I'm very glad to be here. I've been wanting to join a parenting forum for a while and out of the few I've discovered, this appears to be the best one. I have two wonderful little girls and I love them dearly. I hope to gain some great advice and meet other parents like myself!


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Q: Slack bot timepicker element? Are there any good workarounds to achieve a timepicker via Slack blocks inside a larger form? It looks like I have a few options:
1) Let the user enter in time just via a textbox ("10:00am") - but this is prone to errors and not very user friendly
2) Create select elements for each of hours, minutes, AM/PM and let them just select each - less error prone but still not very user friendly
The biggest problem with #2 is you can't do it in a larger form, you can only do it inside an actions block (if you don't want the select boxes to all be 100% width).  But that doesn't work if your form submits via an option other than the action block button.  So for example, if you submit your form via a view submission action, you can't (I don't think) capture any of the data inside your nested action block. So you're stuck with 100% select boxes, or at least it seems impossible to put two select boxes on the same row inside a view.

A: This is a beta feature but you can use a time picker block.
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{
    "blocks": [
        {
            "type": "section",
            "text": {
                "type": "mrkdwn",
                "text": "Section block with a timepicker"
            },
            "accessory": {
                "type": "timepicker",
                "initial_time": "13:37",
                "placeholder": {
                    "type": "plain_text",
                    "text": "Select time",
                    "emoji": true
                },
                "action_id": "timepicker-action"
            }
        }
    ]
}


WORLD ORDER takes on "BIG BROTHER" in their latest music video, with choreography that was particularly on point, ending with Genki Sudo walking away from the machine.
Thematically, WORLD ORDER is getting more and more cynical, which in a way is quite appropriate honestly. Thought this was one of their better concepts.


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Tilcara – miasto w Argentynie, w prowincji Jujuy, stolica departamentu o tej samej nazwie. Miasto położone jest w  dolinie Quebrada de Humahuaca wpisanej na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO pod numerem 1116.

Według danych szacunkowych na rok 2010 miejscowość liczyła 4 691 mieszkańców.
Ważnym stanowiskiem archeologicznym położonym około kilometra od miasta na wzgórzu w dolinie rzeki Rio Grande jest Pucará de Tilcara. Stanowisko zostało odkryte w 1903 roku, a zrekonstruowane w latach pięćdziesiątych XX wieku.

Przypisy

Miasta w prowincji Jujuy

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Crown Castle to lay off 250, restructure management
Crown Castle International, Houston, is restructuring its U.S. business to "flatten its organizational structure to better align with customer demand,"
Written by Urgent Communications Administrator
Crown Castle International, Houston, is restructuring its U.S. business to "flatten its organizational structure to better align with customer demand," a document filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission reads.
The restructuring streamlines Crown Castle's U.S. business into seven geographic areas with each such area being responsible for the leasing and management of 1,500 towers and providing select services. The document said that Crown Castle expects to reduce its workforce by 250 employees, close some smaller offices and take a restructuring charge of $7 million to $10 million in the fourth quarter of 2002.
The restructuring is expected to reduce annual general and administrative expenses by $11 million to $14 million.
Besides its U.S. businesses, Crown Castle has operations in the United Kingdom and Australia. It reported owning, leasing or managing 15,000 towers and rooftops at the end of 2001, and it reported constructing 1,450 towers during 2001.
Tags: Utility content Critical Infrastructure Enterprise
Microsoft patches 6 zero-day vulnerabilities under active attack

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package bingo.lang.time;

import java.text.AttributedCharacterIterator;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.FieldPosition;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.ParsePosition;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

/**
 * concurrent DateFormat wrapped {@link SimpleDateFormat}.
 *
 */
public class ConcurrentDateFormat extends DateFormat {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1237664759165921526L;

    private SimpleDateFormat format;

    /**
     * Constructs a SimpleDateFormat using the given pattern and the default date format symbols
     * for the default locale, and the parsing is not lenient as default.
     * Note: This constructor may not support all locales.
     * For full coverage, use the factory methods in the {@link DateFormats} class.
     *
     * @param pattern the pattern describing the date and time format
     */
    public ConcurrentDateFormat(String pattern){
        this.format = new SimpleDateFormat(pattern);
        this.format.setLenient(false);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized Object clone() {
        return format.clone();
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized boolean equals(Object obj) {
        return format.equals(obj);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized StringBuffer format(Date date, StringBuffer toAppendTo, FieldPosition fieldPosition) {
        return format.format(date, toAppendTo, fieldPosition);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized Calendar getCalendar() {
        return format.getCalendar();
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized NumberFormat getNumberFormat() {
        return format.getNumberFormat();
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized TimeZone getTimeZone() {
        return format.getTimeZone();
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized int hashCode() {
        return format.hashCode();
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized boolean isLenient() {
        return format.isLenient();
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized Date parse(String source, ParsePosition pos) {
        return format.parse(source, pos);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized Date parse(String source) throws ParseException {
        return format.parse(source);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized Object parseObject(String source, ParsePosition pos) {
        return format.parseObject(source, pos);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized void setCalendar(Calendar newCalendar) {
        format.setCalendar(newCalendar);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized void setLenient(boolean lenient) {
        format.setLenient(lenient);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized void setNumberFormat(NumberFormat newNumberFormat) {
        format.setNumberFormat(newNumberFormat);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized void setTimeZone(TimeZone zone) {
        format.setTimeZone(zone);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized AttributedCharacterIterator formatToCharacterIterator(Object obj) {
        return format.formatToCharacterIterator(obj);
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized Object parseObject(String source) throws ParseException {
        return format.parseObject(source);
    }
}

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We Are Union Campus Network meeting!
We Are Union Campus network is a group of students who are building a movement to get young people involved in their unions and industrial campaigns.
What: Expect good conversations, planning and dinner and some beers/cider/softies.
You will meet other students like you planning our actions for our campus networks. There has never been a time where young workers have been more under attack from penalty rates, from exploitative apprenticeships, sham agreements and zombie awards - but never a time when more young workers at universities have been more engaged!
The We Are Union Campus network we will go get some food and drinks over at the John Curtin bar afterwards.
Call Nadia on 0434 912 556 for any questions.


ANAHEIM – Disney is moving one of its security checkpoints so that Downtown Disney is pulled inside its secured area.
"We are moving the location of our bag-check and metal detectors to the point where guests enter our property through Downtown Disney and the Mickey & Friends parking structure," a Disneyland Resort spokeswoman said.
Guests can already pass from one park to the other without going through a checkpoint.
The checkpoint on the east side of the parks, near the Harbor Boulevard entrance, is not moving for now.
Does this mean the walkway from Mickey and Friends to the park entrances will be closed? How else would they stop someone from coming through there off the street unchecked.
With the change to the old HoB it looks like the walkway will be gone. If you want to walk from M&F you will have to do security then walk to DTD and get checked again by Rainforest and ESPNZone. But it might make it faster to get on the Monorail at DTD.
Silly. ALL for show and a PR feel good measure for the already law abiding citizens. Cast members, vendors not screened, as well as many holes in true security which were cut to save Disney expense.
I'm really glad that Disney is doing this. There have been issues in Downtown Disney in the past. And, it shows that Disney is taking our safety and security seriously. That's why I don't mind the increased number of digital cameras that are put around the parks. It's worth it for the families and kids.


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Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, baron, burggraaf en markies van Sá da Bandeira (Santarém, 26 september 1795 - Lissabon, 6 januari 1876) was een Portugees politicus, staatsman en een beduidende leider van de setembristische beweging. Hij leidde de Historische Partij, maar verliet in 1867 met een aantal aanhangers de partij en stichtte vervolgens de Reformistische Partij. Hij was meermaals minister en tussen 1836 en 1870 vijfmaal premier van Portugal.

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Nadat de setembristen na de Septemberrevolutie van 1836 de macht overgenomen hadden, werd Sá de Bandeira minister van Binnenlandse Zaken. Na korte tijd probeerde koningin Maria II samen met verbonden cartistische politici om de setembristen  uit de regering te dringen. Dit mislukte echter en de koningin kon niet anders dan Sá da Bandeira benoemen tot de nieuwe premier van Portugal. Samen met Manuel da Silva Passos, die in zijn eerste regering minister van Binnenlandse Zaken en Financiën was, probeerde hij om met een reeks van hervormingen Portugal te veranderen. Hij liet onder andere de slavernij afschaffen, wat in Portugal al gebeurd was maar nog niet in de kolonies. Tegen de setembristische regering kwam er veel tegenstand, vooral van de cartisten, die verschillende revoltes organiseerden. In de onderdrukking van deze revoltes speelde hij een belangrijke rol. Zijn eerste premierschap eindigde in 1837 en van 1837 tot 1839 was hij een tweede maal premier.

In 1842 eindigde de machtsperiode van de setembristen door de putsch van António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, die het land tot in 1846 regeerde. De opstand van Maria da Fonta beëindigde in 1846 de heerschappij van Costa Cabral. Vervolgens benoemde koningin Maria II Pedro de Sousa Holstein tot de premier van een gematigd cartistische regering, waarin Sá da Bandeira minister van Oorlog was. Nadat later in 1846 de streng cartistische João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun premier werd, brak er in Portugal een burgeroorlog uit. In Porto kwam er een setembristische tegenregering, waar Sá da Bandeira zich bij aansloot. In 1847 eindigde de burgeroorlog met een zege voor de cartisten en de monarchie, die hulp kregen van troepen uit Spanje en het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Voortaan zou Portugal door de cartisten geregeerd worden.

Het was pas in 1856, nadat koningin Maria II in 1853 overleden was en haar zoon Peter V koning was geworden, dat de regering van de cartisten zou eindigen. Intussen had er zich in Portugal een stabiel tweepartijensysteem gevormd met de Regeneratiepartij, de vroegere cartisten, en de Historische Partij, de vroegere setembristen. In 1856 kwam de Historische Partij voor het eerst aan de macht in een regering onder leiding van Nuno José Severo de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto, de hertog van Loulé.

In Portugal ontwikkelde zich in de jaren 1850 een oligarchisch parlementair systeem. Zowel de politici uit de Regeneratie- als van de Historische Partij stamden vooral uit de grootburgerlijke klasse. Hierdoor was maar een klein deel van de bevolking vertegenwoordigd in het parlement en wisselde de macht tussen beide partijen om de zoveel jaar. Als de ene partij vond dat ze niet meer kon regeren, benoemde de koning iemand van de andere partij tot premier. Voordat de monarchen dit echter deden, ontbonden ze het parlement en verloor de regerende partij meestal haar parlementsmeerderheid. Dit laatste werd soms bekomen door de verkiezingen te manipuleren, wat meestal niet zo erg was omdat er maar één procent van de Portugese bevolking kiesgerechtigd was. Ook probeerden de partijen ervoor te zorgen dat ze ongeveer voor dezelfde tijdsperiode zouden regeren.

In 1865 werd Sá da Bandeira voor de derde maal premier van Portugal, maar bleef echter vijf maanden aan de macht. Vervolgens kwam er een grote coalitie van de Regeneratie- en de Historische Partij onder leiding van Joaquim António de Aguiar, die tot in 1868 aan de macht bleef. Sá da Bandeira was een tegenstander van deze coalitie en verliet daarom met een groep getrouwen de Historische Partij. Hij richtte vervolgens zijn eigen partij op, de Reformistische Partij. Van 1868 tot 1869 was hij voor korte tijd de premier van een regering van de Reformistische Partij.

In 1870 pleegde de 80-jarige João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun een staatsgreep en kwam zo aan de macht. Sá da Bandeira organiseerde de tegenstand hiertegen en na enkele maanden eindigde de regering van Saldanha. Vervolgens werd Sá da Bandeira opnieuw premier. Hij organiseerde nieuwe verkiezingen, waarna hij het premierschap doorgaf aan de onafhankelijke António José de Ávila, die dicht bij de Historische Partij stond.

In 1876 overleed Sá da Bandeira, waarmee er eigenlijk ook een einde kwam aan de door hem opgerichte Reformistische Partij. De partij fuseerde korte tijd later samen met de Historische Partij tot de Progressieve Partij.

Premier van Portugal
Portugees minister


Turkish warplanes and helicopter gunships bombed Kurdish rebel positions along the border with Iraqi Wednesday, according to Turkey's official news agency, hours after a government offical said troops had fired shells across the border.
Several F-16 warplanes loaded with bombs took off from an air base in southeastern city of Diyarbakir, private Dogan news agency and local reporters said.
There were no reports of a large-scale land invasion into Iraq.
Turkish artillery units have been shelling rebel positions as recently as Tuesday night in northern Iraq after a rebel ambush Sunday that killed 12 soldiers near the border, a government official said. He did not say which areas were targeted and refused to give further information. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Turkey delivered a tough message to Iraq and Western allies Tuesday: A cross-border attack on Kurd guerrilla bases is coming unless the U.S.-backed government in the Iraqi north cracks down soon.
"We cannot wait forever," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned during a visit to London, saying his government had no choice but to consider "the military dimension."
As Erdogan's government launched the diplomatic offensive in hopes of avoiding a conflict that could damage its ties with the West as well as Arab states, the looming possibility of a Turkish military drive into one of Iraq's few peaceful regions appeared to be having an impact.
Washington issued its most direct demand yet for anti-rebel measures from Iraqi Kurds who hold effective autonomy over territory where the Turkish Kurd rebels have camps, and Iraq's prime minister ordered the closure of all of the guerrilla movement's offices in Iraq.
Turks have grown skeptical of repeated pledges from the U.S. and Iraq to tackle the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, so Erdogan went to London and his Cabinet ministers spread across the Middle East seeking to turn up the heat on the Americans and Iraqis to act.
Iraq's interior minister attended a meeting in Kuwait of his counterparts from the region Tuesday - a gathering which yielded a joint statement condemning an attack two days earlier on Turkish troops by Kurdish rebels.
The interior ministers of Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Egypt and Iran met to discuss how help stabilize Iraq but ended up also addressing the rising tension on the Turkish and Iraqi borders.
The ministers condemned "all terrorist attacks against the Iraqi people, the Iraqi police... and against the neighboring countries and also condemn the terrorist attack against Turkish troops on October 21," said the meetings final statement, referring to the deaths of 12 soldiers and disappearance of another eight.
Kurdish Iraq is, at the moment, unique. People can go to work without expecting to be blown up on the way. Children can walk to school without fear of being kidnapped. The Kurdish government is even making deals with foreign companies to develop its oil reserves.
Sending their well-armed Peshmerga soldiers to battle either group could lead the region into the same kind of violence that has crippled the rest of Iraq.
Nearly simultaneous bombs struck commuters in a predominantly Shiite area on the southeastern edge of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding two dozens, police and hospital officials said. The two blasts, which occurred about 30 yards apart in Jisr Diyala, were targeting government employees, construction workers and vendors preparing to travel into the capital, according to the officials. Women and children were among the eight killed and 24 wounded.
October is on course to record the second consecutive decline in Iraqi civilian deaths. The current pace of civilian deaths would put October at less than 900. The figure last month was 1,023 and for August, 1,956, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press. The AP tally is compiled from hospital, police and military officials, as well as accounts from reporters and photographers. Insurgent deaths are not included. Other counts differ and some have given higher civilian death tolls.
Sunnis denounced a U.S. helicopter raid on Tuesday in which the military said 11 Iraqis, including five women and one child, were killed in a volatile Sunni area north of Baghdad. Neighbors and relatives of those killed Tuesday said 14 civilians were killed. Maj. Peggy Kageleiry, a U.S. military spokeswoman, said an Apache helicopter opened fire on a group of men observed planting roadside bombs. "The enemy forces ran into a house and took over the structure," she said, adding the attack aircraft continued to fire at the suspected militants as they tried to escape.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday ordered new measures to improve government oversight of private guards who protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq, including extensive cultural awareness training for contractors. The steps, recommended by a review panel she created after last month's deadly Baghdad shooting involving Blackwater USA, also include ways to bring the State Department's rules of engagement into line with those of the military and the organization of "go teams" to investigate incidents in which weapons are discharged.
Meanwhile, the private security firm Blackwater says the deaths of four of its guards in Fallujah, Iraq, three and a-half years ago could not have been avoided.
In a report prepared for the U-S Congress, Blackwater says heavier guns and sturdier trucks would not have saved the team that was brutally killed after being lured by corrupt Iraqi forces into a well-planned ambush.
This conclusion sharply contradicts the findings of a congressional investigation led by House Democrats and a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of the four slain guards.
Blackwater is cast in both as an incompetent, penny-pinching outfit that sent an undermanned and poorly equipped detail through Fallujah, a known insurgent stronghold.


It has been a while since one of Crystal Pite's powerful "homegrown" evening-length productions graced New York City's stages. In addition to various external commissions, Pite makes work with her Vancouver-based company, Kidd Pivot. It was a delight, then, to at least have a bit of a refresher course on this prolific dancemaker's incisive choreographic language by the virtue of three short works presented in March as part of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's season at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's winter season of Crystal Pite's Grace Engine. © Todd Rosenberg Photography 2017.
The evening's first work, A Picture of You Falling, was an appropriate opening act; pieces in this program originally date to the late '00s to early '10s, and this first work eloquently showcased many of the trademark features of Pite's earlier choreographic oeuvre—the rigorously precise, quicksilver movement, lightning-fast changes, dramatic audio-visual landscapes, and fractalized dramaturgy. Enveloped in diffused smoke, and sculptural lighting, the cinematic duet was set to an ominous, noir-like voiceover: an internal monologue of a woman attempting to remember a powerful (but also traumatic) encounter from the past. The choreography reflected a mind feverishly attempting to recall what actually may have happened by assembling and disassembling a vertiginous array of variations on the same event. Of all the works in the program, A Picture…, in my estimation, was the one that found the perfect Pite pitch; rigorously executed by Jacqueline Burnett and Elliot Hammans, the work eschewed easy answers and left the narrative enveloped in a mystery that burrowed itself in the viewer's imagination well after the final blackout.
The ensuing duet, The Other You, presented another take on the Jungian psychology; an invisible puppet-master maneuvers twin-like dancers through an exacting sequence of possible iterations of the same relationship. While the mirroring movement initially felt like an all-too-familiar theatrical trope, Pite's choreography, thankfully, quickly transitioned into a much more ambiguous terrain, blurring the lines between who is manipulating whom, and which one of the two dancers may be the "original" and which one the shadow. Akin to the evening's first piece, Pite invites the ambiguity and indeed favors it over easily explicable binaries. Much like in a Greek tragedy, The Other You questioned the degree to which our own sense of agency falters to external forces.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's winter season of Crystal Pite's A Picture of you falling. © Todd Rosenberg Photography 2017.
Finally, Grace Engine provided Pite with an opportunity to widen her choreographic palate, working with an ensemble instead of focusing on a single relationship (or, I would argue, one's relationship to oneself.) Encased in a repetitive urban-noise soundscape, and dominated by flickering stripe of overhead fluorescent tubes, this work felt like a deep dive into the collective unconscious, dealing with the modern-day existence. The piece's visual imprint read as a heavily sampled, stop-motion video, ebbing and flowing between Pite's DJ'ing of the ensemble at a breakneck speed, and sections of sustained, lyrical movement, or even stillness. While such "rubber band movement" (as I like to call it) was often exhilarating to watch, the ensemble struggled to cohere into a unified whole that I suspect Pite had envisioned. To be clear, there was plenty of talent on display in Hubbard's rendition of Grace Engine (which Pite originally set on the now-defunct Cedar Lake ensemble); it simply did not quite match the rigor of the evening's opening duet.
Overall, I felt that the program was an engaging reminder of an earlier phase of Crystal Pite's oeuvre. The dancemaker's early exploration of choreographic and dramaturgical tools have in recent works given way to highly theatrical spectacles with a significant presence of text—such as her stunning Betroffenheit (which, shockingly, having toured the world over, somehow was never seen here) and the brand new Revisor. New York City presenters, take note: here's hoping we get some of Pite's recent evening-length gems, and soon.
is a founder and artistic co-director of WaxFactory, a New York-based interdisciplinary art group. He is currently completing his first feature film, 416 MINUTES, and regularly writes on the arts for BOMB, London-based Bachtrack, and the Brooklyn Rail.


Try these deep water fighters. The average size on Eagle Lake is about 6 lbs., but fish over 30 have been brought in.
Early spring has the lake trout close to the surface, just trolling and casting the shoreline will bring you success. As summer approaches, Lakers move to deeper, cold water, where vertical jigging, trolling spoons or cowbells are you best. The most fun time of the year in my opinion is in the late fall once the water turns over and the trout come up to spawn.
Stand on shore with an ultra-light and cast. Hold on once you get one, you're in for quite a fight. However you look at it, these are great fish, and great eating (don't worry, these fish taste great, nothing like their Lake Michigan relatives).


Prepare to dip, dive, duck, and dodge at the Town of Cary's annual Dodgeball Tournament at Bond Park Community Center! All proceeds from the event will go toward the Play it Forward Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarships for Parks, Recreation, & Cultural Resources' programs.
Team registration for the 2019 Town of Cary Coed Dodgeball Tournament will be accepted Friday, February 1 through Sunday, March 17. This year, all dodgeball team registration will be accepted through the Team Sideline website. Team fee will be due at the time of registration for Team Managers.
Team Managers will register and pay for the team and invite their players to join the team's roster. Players will receive a "Roster Invitation" by email once the Team Manager has registered the team.
IMPORTANT: Sign-in or create your Team Sideline account with the email address your Team Manager has used to send you the roster invitation.
• All players must be at least 18 years of age.
• All teams must include at least two male and two female players.
• All teams will consist of five to eight players.
• All players must be registered through Team Sideline to participate.
• Teams will need a minimum of five players added to the roster by Monday, March 11.
Teams will have the opportunity to indicate their preference for a Coed-Advanced division or Coed-Recreation division during the registration process. Please note, divisions may be combined as a result of the number of teams registered.
Interested in sponsoring the Dodgeball Tournament? View available sponsorship opportunities.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 tournament!
Please contact Kyle Bacon at (919) 462-2031 or kyle.bacon@townofcary.org if you are interested in participating.


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High school football schedule: Top games of Week 8
Photo: Darryl Web/Special for Arizona Republic
By Logan Newman October 8, 2019 11:49 pm
By Logan Newman | October 8, 2019 11:49 pm
Brophy Prep quarterback Matthew Winter (28) throws a pass in the first half of the Mountain View vs. Brophy Prep game at Phoenix College's Hogan Field in Phoenix Friday, September 20, 2019 (Photo: Nicole Neri/The Republic)
No. 17 Chandler (Arizona) (6-0)
Brophy Prep (Phoenix) (7-0)
When: 10/11, 10 p.m. ET
Tale of the Tape: Last week, Brophy Prep took down then-undefeated Hamilton (Chandler, Ariz.), which boosted the team into the final spot of the Open Division rankings. They 7-0 Broncos will fight to prove they belong in that conversation with a home game against three-time defending champion Chandler, who just posted 84 points against the team they faced in the last two title games. Maybe Brophy, which has only allowed double-digit points in one game this year, can slow down the machine.
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Pseudo Secret Message: Chromium browser support for the console.table command#

A derivitive work of Substack's DOM workshop for CyberWizards, it injects a "Secret Message" that is called
when a specific input value is submitted via input form.

Experiment with Google Chromium support for the console.table command, which logs any supplied data using a tabular layout.

# Future use case:
1. Explores fun use of 'console'
2. Open command line access to browser content, possible? I hope.
3. Node.js module with hooks to - substack's terminal-menu

# Feedback, yes please!

To Do:
Make secretMsg()


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So if you made it to sports car heaven, what would you expect to find? Corvettes of course, Mustangs, fantastic red Ferraris, Porsches with their aircooled boxer engines at the back that are as similar to VW Beetles as men are to apes, Thunderbirds, … the list goes on and on.
So what will you find on this site? Corvettes, Mustangs, Ferraris, Porsches, the cars you'd find in sports car heaven. And there are plenty more makes and models still to come. Our own piece of motor car heaven is still being populated!
The 50's, 60's and early 70's were a classic era in motor cars generally, it was when sports cars came of age and it was before fuel crises, pollution and safety concerns forced a reality check. You'll find plenty of cars from that era on this site.
The late 70's and 80's were lean years but in the 90's mainstream motor manufacturing discovered once more that the sports car could turn a profit. The makers of reliable and rather ordinary mass motoring are once again turning out two seat convertibles and sports coupes. Of course the likes of Porsche and Ferrari never stopped building exciting cars so there are lots of later model classics to come yet.
Classic sports cars didn't appear from nowhere, so you'll find the history of the companies that built these beauties on this site too.
Like all stories, mine initially was inspired by "The What" and continues to be driven by "The Why". The motivation to walk was inspired and powered by these two little words.
"The What" was easy to identify. "The What" is The Problem. At the age of 50, I took stock. I was overweight, unfit and getting older. And……..I had a long medical history. My motivation to walk was health related. Simple. Or so you would think. Motivation to walk is one thing. The inspiration to walk was another story.
For most of my first 40 years, I had been heavily involved in competitive Sport – mainly rugby league, touch football and cricket – firstly as a player, then as a junior coach and official. And, I was fairly successful. I also enjoyed recreational swimming in summer. Motivation to walk or run was easy. I enjoyed what I was doing and it came fairly easy to me.
So, as you can imagine, I was reasonably fit and healthy for most of my youth and early adult life. Unfortunately, a ruptured spleen at age 16 and a string of broken bones and dislocations restricted my progress to a large extent. Despite these annoyances I was able to compete at a medium to high level until the age of 30 when Testicular Cancer caught hold of me.
After surgery, months of tests, chemotherapy and a drop in weight from 65 Kg to 55 Kg it took me around six months to recover both physically and mentally. After 12 months I was back to my normal bodyweight. However, my fitness levels never quite returned as the drugs used to treat the Cancer had left lifelong side effects. But, I must admit that this was infinitely better than the alternative!
The nerve ends in my feet have never fully recovered causing the feet and toes to cramp in cold weather. I also suffer from "pins and needles" on the soles of the feet and around the toes, but……after more than 20 years, I have learned to accept this discomfort. Also, the bones around my mouth and jaw aged and weakened our garage or if you don't have any, you always want more. That's where collectibles come in. They're much more affordable, they don't need maintenance, you can still admire their beauty and they don't take up heaps of space.
So you'll find plenty of posters here. Enjoy them online or hang them in your garage, office, home, or where-ever. And you have to have calendars so you may as well have them with fantastic pictures of your favorite classics.
Enjoy our site, and enjoy your passion. prematurely causing gum disease and a complete loss of teeth 4 to 5 years ago. Thank God for dentures!
Although I found that I could still play my favourite sports Post-Cancer, I learned to accept that the things that I had formerly found easy to do were not quite so easy anymore. By the time I was 40, I was starting to have great difficulty running more than 1Km due to pain in the ankles and shins. My motivation to walk or run deserted me and it was about this time that I gave up…………..
I no longer played any sport, I had stopped coaching, I couldn't run. To make matters worse, I was a smoker with a very high cholesterol count and I was starting to stack on the Kilos. Oh, yes………..and one other thing. I was in the middle of a major business collapse.
So, what did I do? I did what everyone else does. I sunk into a deep, although short lived, depression and followed it up by going on a DIET….mainly to reduce my cholesterol!
Yes. A diet. You know………… the Miracle Cure that solves all problems, gets you back on track without having to exercise, and makes you feel fantastic……. for a few months, anyway. Then you get slack and 1 month later you're back where you started. You know the drill, don't you? We've all been there.
Diets are a short term, and sometimes dangerous, solution. Unless we eat the right foods, get plenty of vitamins and minerals (in the correct balance), drink plenty of clean, fresh water, exercise and don't quit, we are doomed to repeat the same losing cycle over and over again. And that's exactly what I did for ten long years.
By the time I turned 50, I had begun to reassess my entire life. I came to the conclusion that it lacked Balance. I had a good family life and a good job. I had stopped smoking but I needed to eat better and start to exercise. On top of this, I had just been diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis, a disease which causes a reduction in lung capacity and results in shortness of breath. My doctor suggested I exercise or face the consequences. "The What" had been identified. My motivation to walk was clear.
I had not yet explored "The Why". My inspiration to walk was dormant and holding me back. I was yet to discover that the motivation to walk must be coupled with the inspiration to walk to get the car out of the driveway.
Click here to read about "The Why" and how important it is in the whole health and fitness process.


Supermarket Asda has sparked a petrol price war by announcing unleaded and diesel price cuts.
From tomorrow, drivers filling up at its forecourts will pay no more than 126.7p a litre for unleaded, and no more than 133.7p a litre for diesel.
Asda says these prices are the lowest they've been all year.
Morrisons and Tesco meanwhile, will both cut diesel and unleaded prices by up to 2p per litre from tomorrow at the majority of Morrisons sites and at all Tesco sites.
Sainsbury's will cut the price of unleaded and diesel by up to 3p per litre across all of its sites, also from tomorrow.
However, tomorrow's price cuts won't mean these supermarkets' forecourts will be the cheapest for petrol and diesel. To find the lowest prices in your area, use the website Petrolprices.com.
The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol was 131.83p on Sunday, while a litre of diesel would typically set you back 139p, according to Petrolprices.com.


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Axia NetMedia takeover offer a fair one for shareholders, says Paradigm
March 9, 2016 by Nick Waddell
The proposed takeover of Axia NetMedia (TSX:AXX) by Partners Group is a fair one for investors, says Paradigm Capital analyst Kevin Krishnaratne.
This morning, Axia NetMedia announced its board had agreed to a $272-million takeover by private equity firm Partners Group, a figure that equals $4.25 a share, a a 47-per-cent premium to the volume-weighted average trading price of the company's shares over the last 60 trading days.
"We have gone through an exhaustive process aimed at enabling the company to realize the full potential of our businesses in North America and France," said CEO Art Price. "I am extremely proud of what Axia has accomplished and believe that this agreement with Partners Group offers current shareholders a compelling premium and provides Axia the opportunity to more effectively pursue our long-term investment and growth strategy, continue to provide compelling services to our customers, and further enhance our strategic position."
Krishnaratne, who coincidentally had a $4.25 one-year target on Axia NetMedia, says the deal is a fair one for shareholders. He says it means the company will be able to fund multiple opportunities.
"Under Partners Group, Axia will be provided with the necessary funding to execute on its strategy of being a leading infrastructure fibre player in rural markets, specifically in France where it has a 50% equity ownership stake in Covage," says Krishnaratne. "Recall that Covage is currently engaged in several fibre bids of various sizes which represent a total pipeline of 3M+ premises. Management has further estimated that there exists another 40-60 bids in the market over coming years and that most of these builds will be awarded in a 2-3 timeframe. The timing for this acquisition is therefore well aligned with fibre opportunities in sight."
In a research update to clients this morning, Krishnaratne moved his recommendation from "Buy" to "Tender".
Filed Under: Analysts, Wireless Tagged With: axx
About Nick Waddell
Cantech Letter founder and editor Nick Waddell has lived in five Canadian provinces and is proud of his country's often overlooked contributions to the world of science and technology. Waddell takes a regular shift on the Canadian media circuit, making appearances on CTV, CBC and BNN, and contributing to publications such as Canadian Business and Business Insider.


AS negotiations allegedly continue, Manny Pacquiao continues to make the right public noises regarding his on-off-off-on-off-off fight with Floyd Mayweather.
Since Mayweather declared – during a live interview with SHOWTIME last month – he was willing to face Pacquiao the Filipino has insisted there will be no obstacles from him. The American predictably, and deservedly, wants the larger percentage when it comes to the purse.
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Thanks for explaining the process. I will definitely follow your step by step instructions.
Very confusing. I have to apply 7 coats of varnish first then in the last step I need to apply another top coat to protect my painting and the paint can still run? What?


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Too Much Art
Writings on Visual Culture by Mario Naves
First Hand: Stephen Maine
Stephen Maine, P19-0303 (2019), acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40″; courtesy the artist and ODETTA
"How did he do that?" shouldn't be the sole criteria for judging a work of art, but the paintings of Stephen Maine, currently at ODETTA, prompt the question and then stray into thornier territory–about the vagaries of representation; color and its provocations; and, yes, the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. In P19-0303 (2019) we watch as all-over incident dissolves into something resembling a composition. The result is quizzical, heady and allusive.
© 2019 Mario Naves
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Since I last updated and checked in here, a lot has happened. Like, A LOT of snow. Mega, mega snow. It was beautiful and relaxing, but now we're back at it. You've since finished up your Timeline Writing Projects, fine-tuned and turned them in, and now we're off and running in a short fiction unit.
As mentioned in class, I'm quite excited to be changing it up and coaching you up in close reading. So far, you guys are rocking it!
Because it's Friday night and I'm updating from home and I don't have our official unit text packet in front of me, I'll go ahead and link you to what we've covered this week.
This week, you learned a BRAND NEW text analysis strategy called 4-4-2. You took notes on the strategy, and then as a class, we applied it to the song Long Black Veil, which many of you were surprised and delighted by (in a dead lover kind of way anyway).
We also read a lovely, sad, and somewhat mind-bending story by Haruki Murakami called "On seeing the 100 percent perfect girl one beautiful April morning." We, of course, worked together to 442 it, and we shared our very best notices and questions.
We ended our week together by heading to our beautiful media center to search for books you GENUINELY might want to read. Mrs. Fleming pitched some info to you (isn't she delightful?), and we used your STAR scores to set your course. A lot of you walked away pretty excited about your new books!
It was a great week in English 10. Kudos to you all!


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Q: Cannot trigger click for dynamic content generated I have this situation that i need to trigger click on some element from clicking other element. More concretly - i have gallery with thumbnails. When you hover over the thumbnail - the description box covers the whole thumbnail. After that i need to trigger click event on the thumbnail so it can run lightbox. To achieve this i need to do something when i click on the description.
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So the question is: Do you have any idea how i can trigger click event on dynamicaly generated content, by clicking on other element ?

A: I'm not sure this will help because I've never used lightbox, and I can't be sure that there isn't an interaction between lightbox and the JS.
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Basel's new culture hub puts Caribbean artists, Picasso and Klaus Littmann's nature project in the mix
Delayed by coronavirus, the new Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger has opened with the promise of free entry and catalogues for visitors
31st August 2020 15:16 GMT
Minia Biabiany's "Toli Toli" Video installation (2018). Courtesy of the KBH.G cultural foundation
A vast new exhibition space located in the heart of Basel has launched with an ambitious show of works by contemporary Caribbean artists. The new venue will be run by Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (KBH.G cultural foundation), which aims to draw local and international audiences with the offer of free entry, free catalogues and an eclectic programme encompassing Picasso and Swiss eco artist Klaus Littmann.
The new KBH.G venue was due to open in July during the 51st edition of the Art Basel fair but the launch was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The new space is housed in a former factory for fabricating micromotors.
KBH.G was founded by the Swiss philanthropist Sibylle Piermattei Geiger and is named after her paternal grandfather, the pharmaceuticals entrepreneur Hermann Geiger. Sibylle, an artist and stage designer who worked at Cinecittà studios in Rome, died earlier this year.
The running costs of the new Basel venue will be met by the KBH.G culture foundation; the foundation "will produce an elaborate catalogue for each show, which is free of charge for visitors, hence allowing them to take a piece of each exhibition home with them", says a project statement.
An installation view of "One month after being known in that island", with works by Tessa Mars and Ramón Miranda Beltrán.
The opening exhibition, one month after being known in that island (27 August-15 November), dedicated to artists across the Caribbean and in the diaspora, is organised by the Basel-based non-profit Caribbean Art Initiative. Puerto Rico-born Ramón Miranda Beltrán, Haiti-based Guy Régis Jr. and José Morbán of the Dominican Republic are among the 11 artists featured.
The exhibition addresses the legacy of colonialism, focusing for instance on the 1795 Peace of Basel treaties in which the Spanish monarchy ceded more than two-thirds of the Caribbean east of Hispaniola—including the Dominican Republic—to France.
"It's one thing to perceive reality from the perspective of power, but it is quite another to look at the reality of those who have to live with the consequences of that power," say the curators Yina Jiménez Suriel and Pablo Guardiola in a statement.
A rotating programme of temporary shows—up to three annually—will be held in the new space. Future shows include an exhibition of lithographs by Picasso drawn from a Basel-based private collection as well as Klaus Littmann's latest work which will launch next spring, says Raphael Suter, director of KBH.G.
"We plan to show a private collection every other year," Suter says. "Littmann's piece meanwhile is about the relationship between nature and art." In 2019, Littmann planted 300 trees in the Wörthersee Stadium in Klagenfurt in Austria; the follow-up Basel version will be smaller than the Austrian iteration, and held in the centre of the city.
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