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Journalist Isabel Wilkerson keeps her readers connected to history.
During the summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Wilkerson gave context to swimmer Simone Manuel's historic gold medal by bringing forward the long history of blacks being barred from public pools and beaches — and she did it in a mere 300 words. Likewise, when Clevelanders rejoiced over their first NBA championship, Wilkerson pointed out the triumph rested on LeBron James being a child of the Great Migration. She regularly uses her Facebook page to profile politicians, activists and entertainers whose ascension in popular culture lies in the Great Migration — the mass exodus of six million African-Americans between 1910-1970 from the rural South to all corners of the United States.
"Now, more than ever, we need to know our country's history," Wilkerson, 55, wrote after the presidential election. "Our current divisions are neither new nor surprising and persist because we do not truly know and have not reckoned with what has gone before us."
Who better to shepherd that reckoning than Wilkerson herself? A public intellectual and expert on the Great Migration, she captured these journeys in The Warmth of Other Suns, named one of the best nonfiction books of all-time by the New York Times and winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2011.
So what can the Great Migration teach us about our current political climate? According to Wilkerson, it's all connected. "No adult alive today will live to see a time when the time of enslavement was equal to the time of freedom," she told Krista Tippett, host of the podcast On Being. "And so that shows you that this history is long, and the history is deep."
Since the publication of Warmth seven years ago, Wilkerson has positioned her Facebook page as a font of stories connecting the Great Migration with the headlines of today. Nearly 50,000 people follow these timely posts, which mine her smart commentary on race, politics and current events.
After Minneapolis resident Philando Castile was shot and killed during a traffic stop in July 2016, Wilkerson wrote, "These are times when the wisdom of the ancestors comes to bear." She left readers with a quote from activist Ella Baker: "Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit, a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind."
Wilkerson's dedication to these stories earned her a 2015 National Humanities medal, which she was awarded alongside musician and author James McBride (who also won an Anisfield-Wolf award — for "The Color of Water" in 1997). President Barack Obama singled out Warmth as a "masterpiece," adding that because of her efforts "one of the most important chapters in our history is told in a book any young person can pick up and read."
Over the past seven years, Warmth has made its way around the world, with Wilkerson making stops in Cleveland a regular part of her travels. She will return to the region at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 8 to speak as part of the Arts and Humanities Alive! Festival at Cleveland State University.
We are eager for the next installment.
Additional reporting by Tara Jefferson
When Isabel Wilkerson comes to Cleveland, she sees Alabama.
An authority on the Great Migration—the departure of six million African-Americans from a South lynching them at a rate of one every four days over six decades of the 20th-century—Wilkerson is steeped in the ways of movement. She can pinpoint the families that "left along three beautifully predictable streams: up the East coast, into the Midwest and Far West." She is conversant in the food, folkways and the names of churches that traveled with them.
"I am thrilled to be back in Ohio, one of the receiving stations of the Great Migration, one of the places people dreamt about when dreaming about living their lives in freedom," she said to a gathering celebrating the tenth anniversary of PolicyBridge, a Cleveland think tank on policy that intersects black and brown lives.
After visiting more than 100 universities and speaking on four continents, Wilkerson, 51, delivered pinpoint geography in her remarks: Jesse Owens' family of 11 left Alabama sharecropping for a better life in Cleveland even as Toni Morrison's parents traveled to Lorain from an Alabama where no black child could obtain a library card, where they raised a daughter who remade world literature.
Likewise August Wilson's maternal grandmother walked all the way out of North Carolina into Pennsylvania and Miles Davis' people left Arkansas for Illinois. The parents of Theolonious Monk migrated from North Carolina to New York City, where his mother could earn enough to buy an upright piano. Yet another woman fleeing North Carolina, the widow Alice Coltrane, arrived in Philadelphia in 1943 and bought her son John an alto saxophone that first year.
"All these people were a gift to the world, and thus the Great Migration was a gift to the world," said Wilkerson, who laid down this knowledge in her landmark book, The Warmth of Other Suns, which won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2011. She asked her audience to imagine the generations of creativity squandered to rice and sugar plantations, the God-given talent extinguished in cotton and tobacco fields.
Dressed in an orange suit with turquoise jewelry, Wilkerson began by acknowledging that Anisfield-Wolf prize, and the 15 years it took her to interview 1,200 participants in the migration. She joked that "if this book were a human being it would be in high school and dating—that's how long it took."
Five years after publication, Warmth's heat is undiminished. In May, FX announced that producer Shonda Rhimes would be working on turning the historical narrative into a television series to premiere in the fall, with indie writer Dee Rees working on the script.
"The freedom to be able to decide for oneself what to do with your God-given talents is a very new phenomenon for African-Americans in this country," Wilkerson observed, noting that some audiences have a hard time imagining a time when stepping too slowly off a sidewalk for a white pedestrian could cost a black person his life.
In conversation with Hawaiian high school students—"beautifully removed" from the realities of the segregated South— Wilkerson described for them driving in a region that prohibited black motorists from passing a white one. Students suggested honking or tailgating, indignant at the notion of being stymied behind the wheel. "You had to stay in your place," she reminded them. "This is what it means to be in a caste system."
Randell McShepard, co-founder of PolicyBridge, said reading Wilkerson's book "shook me to the core." Politician Nina Turner called it "riveting, beautiful" and a lesson in "using our two hands, to reach forward and to reach back." David Abbott, executive director of the Gund Foundation, said the great gift of Warmth was "that we see ourselves in the story when we read books like this."
The audience applauded the notion of making Wilkerson's book required reading in high school. And McShepard announced that PolicyBridge was adding a sixth core value—social justice—to its work this year.
For the first time in its 45-year history, Essence magazine will not use a cover model.
Instead, the African-American publication has dedicated its February 2015 issue to "Black Lives Matter," the social justice movement that has ignited in the wake of the killing of unarmed black people by law enforcement.
"Pictures are powerful, but so are words," editor-in-chief Vanessa DeLuca writes in her Letter from the Editor. "After I spoke with the editorial team — with all our souls aching for answers — we knew immediately what we had to do: Tell the story of this tipping point in our history in America. So this February we are focusing our attention on the daring modern-day civil rights movement we are all bearing witness to and making a bold move of our own: a cover blackout."
Instead, the magazine features essays from MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander and Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, which won an Anisfield-Wolf prize in 2011 for nonfiction.
"We must love ourselves even if — and perhaps especially if — others do not," Wilkerson writes. "We must keep our faith even as we work to make our country live up to its creed. And we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors could survive the Middle Passage, we can survive anything."
This issue will be available on newsstands January 9.
With so much negative news spilling out of Chicago each day, we're happy to see at least one bright spot among the tragedies.
Isabel WIlkerson's 2010 work "The Warmth of Other Suns" was named the next selection of the Chicago Public Library's "One Book, One
Chicago" program, announced by Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday.
Of the selection Emanuel said:
"Isabel Wilkerson's book brings to life the stories of African Americans who left their homes in the South in search of a better life. These are the stories of people who helped create the Chicago we know today – and of people continuing to come to our city each day in hopes of finding their dream. Each of us has a story to tell about our family's path to Chicago and how we all helped to make Chicago the most American of American cities."
On her Facebook page, Wilkerson said she was "overjoyed to see the city that drew Richard Wright, Ida Mae Gladney, and millions more, now embrace the story of the Great Migration in such a big way!"
This is but one of the many honors Wilkerson has received for her work over the past few years. It is all well-deserved, as "Warmth" is one of those books that gets better with each read, and one of the few that becomes more and more enjoyable the more people dissect it.
Read more of our coverage of Wilkerson's journey since publication of Warmth in 2010.
As we wrote before, Isabel Wilkerson has been educating her fans on the impact of the Great Migration by posting stories of prominent African Americans to her Facebook page. Recently, she profiled Zora Neale Hurston, one of our favorite writers and one of the literary world's greatest treasures.
We loved what she had to say about Hurston so much that we decided to share it with you here:
On this day, January 7, in 1891 or 1901, beloved author Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Ala., to Rev. John and Lucy Hurston. She grew up in the all-black town of Eatonville, Fla., and went north as a young woman, just as the Great Migration was starting during World War I. She attended what is now Morgan State University and then Howard University, where she got her first story published in the literary magazine, Stylus, and co-founded the student newspaper, the Hilltop, while working odd jobs as a maid and a manicurist.
She went to New York at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, and, in 1928, became the first black student known to graduate Barnard College. There, she majored in English and studied anthropology, but was not permitted to live in the dormitories. As was her way, she never complained. She once famously said: "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
She would become a renowned folklorist and novelist, acclaimed for her 1937 masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God, which some see as drawn from parts of her own life. Five years later, she published an autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road, about her many journeys, but her star faded as she appeared removed from the changing politics of the day. In 1946, she supported the Republican who was opposing Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, the most famous black politician of the era. Powell won reelection by a landslide, and the election seemed a window into the distance between her southern traditionalism and a growing push for equality in the North.
She returned to Florida and, in January 1960, she died in a welfare home in Fort Pierce, Fla., after suffering a stroke. She has grown more legendary in death than even in life after acclaimed novelist Alice Walker went in search of her unmarked grave, erected a headstone in her honor, and helped return her to her rightful place in literary history.
Hurston has inspired generations of writers with her free-spirited wit and imagination and her love of black southern folkways. "I am not tragically colored," she once said. "There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes….No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
In our rush to get to Thanksgiving dinner, we missed the anniversary of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." 2011 winner Isabel Wilkerson reminded us through a post on her Facebook page (she's just FULL of wonderful factoids about African American history), including a rare photo of Samuel L. Jackson (third from left), who starred in the play as Boy Willie.
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It was 25 years ago today, Nov. 23, 1987, that the August Wilson play, The Piano Lesson, made its world premiere, starring Samuel L. Jackson (3rd from left) as Boy Willie, at the Yale Repertory Theatre. The play would win the Pulitzer Prize. In its scenes play out the legacy of slavery and the Great Migration…. Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from Mississippi in 1936 and clashes with his sister, Berniece, who had migrated north.
The conflict is over an upright piano, which held the history and secrets of the family's hardships in the South. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy the land where their ancestors had toiled as slaves and sharecroppers. The sister wants to keep the piano because of the sacrifice at which it had come and the memory it contains.
The playwright August Wilson was a product of the Great Migration — his grandmother walked from Spears, N.C. to Pittsburgh. The play was inspired by a collage called "Piano Lesson" by another child of the Migration, the artist Romare Bearden….
Isabel Wilkerson posted the above photo and the following message on her Facebook page – seems she has a superfan out there!
Deepest gratitude at this special time to every person who has embraced this book and the inspiring message of the Great Migration. Filled with joy for whoever created what is shown in this picture: an edible edition of The Warmth of Other Suns created with love and care by an anonymous fan. This greeted me in my room at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, where I was to speak in the City Arts and Lectures series.
Neither the event organizers nor the hotel said they knew how it got there or who had gone to such trouble to create or commission it. However it got there, this was the work of a professional: a 4×6 piece of white chocolate covered with a filmed copy of the book's cover. Thank you to whoever created this and delivered it to me. There are angels out there! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
A full two years after her acclaimed book, The Warmth of Other Suns, was published, Isabel Wilkerson continues to work hard on the promotion trail, working to raise awareness of the Great Migration and its impact on today's culture. "They changed American culture as we know it," Wilkerson says in this short interview during the 2012 Leimert Park Book Fesitval. "So much of what we think of as American culture is actually the culture of the people who did this (migrated). We're talking about Toni Morrison, who became a Nobel Laureate; we're talking about people like August Wilson, the playwright; Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote The Raisin in the Sun…we're also talking about music. Motown wouldn't have existed at all. Rock 'n' roll, as we know it, would not have existed." Let us know if you've read The Warmth of Other Suns!
Interview with Isabel Wilkerson from Mayborn School of Journalism on Vimeo.
To say there has been immense interest in Isabel Wilkerson's "Warmth of Other Suns" would be an understatement. She recently gave the ending keynote at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference last month, where she noted that she has been on the road promoting the book extensively since it was first released in September 2010. During the wrap-up interview, Wilkerson was asked if we might see her book on the big screen, similar to "The Help." Check out the video above for the answer as well as more on Wilkerson's process, her writing career and more.
During a stop to the Tavis Smiley show on PBS, Isabel Wilkerson described her desire to capture stories of the Great Migration. It was a labor of love—more than a decade of researching, interviewing, writing, and rewriting to accurately capture the stories of African Americans who left the south for more opportunities and a better life in the North.
As Tavis Smiley says, "Everybody's talking about this now. But only because you had the discipline and courage and conviction and commitment to tell this story – a story that is at the very epicenter of what America is."
Have you read the book? What were your thoughts?
Isabel Wilkerson's 2010 masterpiece The Warmth of Other Suns focuses on the Great Migration, scores of Southern African Americans who packed up and left everything they knew behind for a brighter future in the North. With painstaking detail, Wilkerson recounts the lives of four African Americans and their dreams awaiting them in a new place. It was a difficult journey for most, with countless hardships along the way. One of the subjects profiled, Robert Foster, made his way to medical school, becoming a surgeon and later opening his own private practice.
His daughter, Bunny Foster, sat down with Isabel Wilkerson in the research stage of the book to share her memories of her father. In a recent interview, she talked about how the man she remembered is different (in a good way) from the man Isabel portrayed:
"My father could be difficult. He was a perfectionist," Bunny explains. "But Isabel got to what I wasn't really privy to, in spite of being a brilliant surgeon and physician—he was terribly insecure. I remember case after case where he did some incredible surgery on someone who was expected to die and that person lived. The book taught me things I didn't know about my own life," Bunny says. "When I go back and think about the struggles my father had, it saddens me. He made so many hard choices and I had no clue."
She credits Wilkerson's thorough investigative skills with uncovering a well-rounded image of her father, one that she will cherish forever. Read the full article here.
Have you read The Warmth of Other Suns? What did you think about Robert Foster's storyline?
There's nothing like seeing young people get excited about history, something that is typically pretty hard to do. "Warmth of Other Suns" author Isabel Wilkerson found this gem and shared it with all her fans, writing:
Delighted that WARMTH is inspiring young people! A middle school in Milwaukee performed a play based on The Warmth of Other Suns, with lots of heart and just enough production values for someone in the audience to get it on YouTube. Just beautiful!
It's always a question of whether the story will come when a writer sits down to begin a work and for Nicole Krauss, it's always a mystery. In an interview with Interview magazine, she talks about her strengths as a writer:
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover these symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first. I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But, yes, at first it's sometimes like it's like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.
When asked about her writing process for Great House, she admits that this is her favorite part of her job:
On different days I would work on different sections and sometimes I would get really absorbed into one voice and I would write that for some months, come to a close, and then open another back up again. What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers and that's the unique thing that literature provides: To be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.
Read the rest of the interview here, under A Conversation.
"I have to care so much about something if I'm going to sit and write about for a couple of years. There's enough books in the world already, there's no reason to make another one. Unless there's a feeling that's incredibly pressing. That's the reason why you write."
Nicole Krauss sits down in this brief interview with the Sundance Channel to discuss what commonalities exist between her characters and why she, and other writers, feels the pull to write.
Each week, we'll be helping you to get to know our winners better (what a great bunch they are) and highlighting the best of their work, interviews and essays. This week we'll be focusing on Nicole Krauss, 2011 winner for fiction.
Even some of the most celebrated writers of our time struggle with doubt from time to time. How do they know if their work will resonate with readers? Do they aim for writing an award-winning book each time they sit in front of the keyboard or do they just wish for an authentic voice or story to guide them to completion? Nicole Krauss, author of three novels and a National Book Award finalist, wrote an unflinchingly honest essay on her story writing process and whether she ever feels a story will be successful as soon as she starts:
I begin my novels without ideas. I don't have a plot, or themes, or a sense of the book's form. Often I don't even have a specific character in mind. I begin with a single sentence of no great importance; it almost certainly will be thrown away later. To that sentence I add another, and then another. A little riff emerges. If it's going well–and it's hard for me to say exactly what going well means, beyond the writing feeling authentic enough not to require immediate erasure–I'll continue this sort of aimless unspooling. If I'm lucky, as the paragraphs accumulate, a compelling voice will emerge. Though often I will write twenty or thirty pages before I realize that in fact the voice lacks what might be called the "Pinocchio" element: the chance of becoming truly alive and "real."
It's unnerving not to know what I'm writing, or why, or where it will go. Scary, even, as time passes, and more and more work accumulates without an accompanying sense of clarity. A hundred or even two hundred pages in, and I am more lost than ever.I find myself worrying constantly that the work will fail. In my last novel, The History of Love, the potential of that failure became, itself, a theme of the novel–one of the main characters, Leo Gursky, is a failed writer.
Great House is my third novel, and so when I began it I already had some sense of what my writing process would be like. Yet my uncertainty was more acute than ever. The starting points I chose, which I knew would have to converge and cohere, were almost impossibly remote from one another. From out of all the early writing, four voices emerged, each with its own story: an American writer, Nadia, who has been writing for twenty-seven years at a desk she inherited from a Chilean poet who later disappeared; an overbearing Israeli father addressing his estranged son who has returned home after decades abroad; a retired Oxford don, who, in the final years of his wife's life, discovers a secret she kept from him all their marriage; and a young American woman who tells the story of a Hungarian antiques dealer and his two adult children, whom she comes to live with in a darkly magical Victorian house in London. I had four different paths, and all I knew was that 1) I wanted to understand who these people were and what had made them that way, and 2) woven together, their stories could make a solid and intricate whole, that their juxtaposition would reveal patterns, and form a complete architecture–even, or especially, if I couldn't anticipate that architecture. I was building a house–a city–without a blueprint.
Read the rest of the essay here in the essay, On Doubt.
How do we change the face of education worldwide? Is it simply a matter of producing better teachers? Donating money for repairs and renovations of some of the most dilapidated schools? Is it by working more closely with parents? Staff at the Open Society Foundations decided that an conversation on worldwide education had to start with a conversation on culture. They tapped several writers to contribute to the project—Chimamanda Adiche (writing on Nigeria), Aleksander Hemon (on Bosnia), Tahmima Anam (on Bangladesh), Petina Guppah (on Zimbabwe), Nathalie Handal (on Haiti), Rachel Holmes (on Palestine), Nick Laird (on Nepal), Kamila Shamsie (on Pakistan), Hardeep Sing Kholi (on India), and Zukisa Wanner (on South Africa).
Zadie Smith (also an Anisfield-Wolf award winner) wrote the introduction to the series. In the video above, Kamila talks about her initial reactions to the project and what she hopes others will get out of it.
To see the essays in their entirety, visit Guernica magazine's website.
Each Friday we'll be bringing you news about your favorite authors, literature and books in general. Tell us what you think in the comments:
Sweet Blackberry, founded by actress Karyn Parsons, is an educational foundation and production company whose mission is to use the power of storytelling to educate, empower, and inspire kids from all backgrounds. The organization showcases stories of African Americans, immigrants, women or disabled individuals to highlight their courage and accomplishments. This trailer is a behind-the-scenes look at their mission, their process and their goals.
Tri-C student Brian Ivey interviewed Isabel Wilkerson after her February talk on campus. Check out the video and hear about her connection to her work, The Warmth of Other Suns, and why she felt an "urgency" to complete the project.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture has its groundbreaking a few weeks ago, but its website is already ready for visitors. Check out some of the exciting exhibits planned, and follow along with the museum on Facebook.
We find the most fascinating things by following our favorite authors on Facebook and Twitter. 2011 winner Isabel Wilkerson shared this gem with us and we're happy to share it with you.
Wilkerson wrote:
So cool. A composer and a violinist are creating a classical work of music based on "The Warmth of Other Suns." Gratified that the story of the Migration is crossing boundaries and inspiring unexpected art forms. Kudos to Leaha Villarreal and Andie Springer for embracing this book in their work!
Each Friday we'll be bringing you news about your favorite authors, literature and books in general. Check out the first installment and tell us what you think in the comments:
Isabel Wilkerson (2011 winner) was on PBS Newshour to discuss the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian's African-American History Museum. See her part at the 4:00 minute mark.
Our friends over at Book Riot have declared May 8 "Toni Morrison Day" based off the release date of Ms. Morrison's (1998 winner) newest book, Home. One of their writers will be re-reading her entire catalog and will be blogging about the experience.
Paule Marshall (2009 winner) will be doing a reading during the 2012 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, scheduled for May 7-13.
New York has tons of payphones but its residents also have millions of cell phones. To make them more useful, architect John Locke has fashioned these bookshelves to repurpose the structures into free-standing mini libraries.
2011 Anisfield-Wolf winner Kamila Shamsie reflects on the availability of literature through the world's public libraries—and what that means for future generations:
"A couple of years ago, after a reading in Karachi, I told off a young man who was asking me to sign a pirated copy of one of my books. Piracy is destroying publishing in Pakistan, I told him. He said he understood but added that because pirated books are cheaper he could buy more of them. It's not as if Karachi is filled with public libraries, he said."
Shamsie goes on to discuss the rising crisis in London, where 10 percent of all libraries have closed since April 2011. Read the full article here. A commenter on the article added:
"Libraries are important not just for the poor. They work for all of us and not only for books or computers. During this financial crisis we are living in, more people is going to the library to learn something new, to attend a free lecture, to polish his/her resume, to enjoy music from all over the world. Libraries are making everything they can to adapt their services to a new the technology not to mention how they help the new immigrant population. We have the moral obligation to protect, preserve and increase the public libraries."
How often do you visit your town's public library? Do they serve an important purpose in today's society, even as technology expands our access to literature?


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Why did David Bowie write Starman?
By Malcolm Wardle Posted on October 7, 2022
Speaking about the lyrics to William S. Burroughs for Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, Bowie said: "Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a starman, so he writes "Starman", which is the first news of hope that the people have heard.
Who played guitar on Starman?
Who did David Bowie leave his money?
Why did David Bowie throw his guitar?
Who plays guitar for David Bowie?
Who owns the rights to Starman?
Buying David Bowie's song catalog for around $250 million via its Warner Chappell Music division, WMG now owns rights in hundreds of Bowie songs, including evergreen hits like Space Oddity, Changes, Life on Mars?, Ziggy Stardust, Starman, Rebel Rebel and a lot more.
Is Bowie called Starman?
An anthem. So Bowie rushed out one more tune at the last minute. He called it "Starman." "Starman" turned into the fabled Top of the Pops performance of July 6, 1972 – the moment where Bowie truly conquered Britannia.
Genres Rock glam rock
Occupation(s) Musician songwriter arranger producer
Instruments Guitar piano vocals cello violin
Years active 1966–1993
Who inherited David Bowie estate?
David Bowie left half of his estate to his wife, Iman According to Somerset Live, David Bowie left approximately half of his estate — whether it was $230 million or $100 million or something else entirely — to his wife, Somali-American fashion designer, Iman.
What is the message of Starman David Bowie?
Starman is a message of hope, it's something that awaits us, and it's more similar to us than what we can think. At the same time, it's reassuring: it connects with our nature. It's afraid to upset us, so it's delicate, sincere. Starman is what young people feel, the new proposal, their future.
Who got David Bowies money?
The $250 million check was made out to Bowie's estate, which consists of Iman and his two children. Duncan and Lexi will each receive 25%. Iman will receive 50%. That means the supermodel will take home $125 million, and each kid will walk away with $62.5 million.
How good was Bowie at guitar?
Asked if Bowie was a good guitarist, he said: "He was great. He plays some of the rhythm guitar on a lot of the tracks on Blackstar. And a little lead guitar, but he did it at home. He felt intimidated about playing the guitar in the studio.
Let's try Fame." then Bowie proceeded to take his guitar and throw it at the other side of the stage. It is said that Bowie had a cold and he became frustrated that it was affecting his vocals.
What was David Bowie net worth?
David Bowie left the vast majority of his nearly $100 million estate to his wife and two children, according to the singer's will that was filed Friday in New York.
Who owns Bowie's estate?
The estate of the singer, who died in 2016, sold the publishing rights to his back catalogue to Warner Chappell Music (WCM) in a deal reported to be worth $250 million.
Mick Ronson's work with David Bowie in the early 1970s changed the world of popular music forever, and the guitarist's telepathic understanding with the Starman became the bedrock on which such iconic albums as Ziggy Stardust… and Aladdin Sane were laid.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University is among a handful of U.S. universities competing for the next $2 billion contract to run Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's pre-eminent nuclear weapons lab, Purdue President Mitch Daniels confirmed Friday to the Journal & Courier.
Purdue's name and interest in the work at the lab in New Mexico had been floated in industry trade publications recently. But Friday was the first confirmation of the fact from Daniels.
Daniels confirmed that Purdue's bid is a partnership with Bechtel National, a firm that has been part of a private consortium that includes the University of California that has run the Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2006.
"We've submitted a bid. And that's all I know and really all I can say," Daniels said Friday, when asked during a break in a Purdue Trustees meeting held at the Purdue Northwest campus in Westville.
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Bechtel officials declined to confirm or deny the bid previously when asked by the Albuquerque Journal.
The National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-autonomous agency of the Department of Energy that oversees the Los Alamos National Laboratory, has kept bidders on the project under wraps. But proposals to operate the laboratory, starting in October, were due in late 2017.
The Albuquerque Journal reported that at least three other major universities – the University of California, the University of Texas and Texas A&M – have confirmed that they are bidding on the contract. The University of California had run the labs until 2006, dating to the days of the Manhattan Project during World War II. The University of California and Texas A&M are reportedly teaming on a bid, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
The contract is available after the Los Alamos National Security LLC – a consortium picked in 2006 during a competitive process and that includes Bechtel, University of California and companies BWXT and AECOM – received a series of inadequate performance reviews. Those reviews included an evaluation after the discovery that a drum of radioactive waste had been improperly packed with a combustible mix at Los Alamos and had popped open, causing contamination that shut down at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The plant is the nation's only nuclear waste facility.
Daniels declined to say what Purdue's role would be in managing the laboratory or which departments at Purdue would be involved. Daniels said he didn't plan to outline the particulars of Purdue's bid, as the university waits for the National Nuclear Security Administration's decision in the coming months.
But this isn't the first time Purdue has made a bid on this scale.
In 2016 Purdue joined with Lockheed, New Mexico State and New Mexico Tech on a bid to run Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Sandia is one of three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development labs. The contract went to Honeywell.


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import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.assertj.core.test.AlwaysEqualComparator.alwaysEqual;

import org.assertj.core.api.Boolean2DArrayAssert;
import org.assertj.core.api.Boolean2DArrayAssertBaseTest;
import org.assertj.core.test.AlwaysEqualComparator;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

class Boolean2DArrayAssert_usingCustomComparator_Test extends Boolean2DArrayAssertBaseTest {

  private static final AlwaysEqualComparator<boolean[][]> ALWAYS_EQUAL = alwaysEqual();

  @Override
  protected Boolean2DArrayAssert invoke_api_method() {
    return assertions.usingComparator(ALWAYS_EQUAL);
  }

  @Override
  protected void verify_internal_effects() {
    assertThat(getObjects(assertions).getComparator()).isSameAs(ALWAYS_EQUAL);
  }

  @Test
  void should_honor_comparator() {
    assertThat(new boolean[][] {}).usingComparator(ALWAYS_EQUAL)
                                  .isEqualTo(new boolean[][] { { true, false }, { false, true } });
  }

}

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Forums Professions Can we talk about Inscription pls?
Can we talk about Inscription pls?
Two things that absolutely need to be adressed.
1. I have about a trillion Ultramarine Ink that are going nowhere fast. Why give me all this and no use for it?
2. Really? I cant use Sanguicell? REALLY?!
I, honest to god, feel like I must have missed something. Why is my profession completely worthless all of a sudden?


While we're working on our last West Seattle Summer Fest report of the night, a reminder about Sunday – Yes, the West Seattle Farmers' Market IS happening, 10 am-2 pm as always. But since its regular home in the middle of California SW is occupied by street-fair booths, you'll find the market vendors in the WSFM's old spot, the parking lot behind KeyBank – south side of SW Alaska, between 44th SW and the alley west of California SW. P.S. Remember that alhough the market starts at 10 as always, Summer Fest booths don't officially open until 11 am.
COOKING DEMO: Did you get to visit the Seattle Public Library booth with West Seattle-based cookbook author/chef Kim O'Donnel demonstrating a recipe from her book PNW Veg? The recipe was Kohlrabi Slaw, and after getting Kim's explanation of the vegetable's versatility – it's a member of the cabbage/broccoli/cauliflower (brassica) family! – we promptly picked up a beautiful $3 bundle of three purple kohlrabi bulbs elsewhere at the market. If you missed Kim (who's holding a "torpedo onion" in our photo), her book remains available at Click! Design That Fits (4540 California SW; WSB sponsor).
SANTA TROLLEY: With the weather chillier, cloudier, and breezier than last week, it's an even-more-perfect day to take a trolley ride around The Junction!
COAT DRIVE: The Kiwanis Club of West Seattle and WS Christian Church are teamed up with the Junction Association today to collect coats and other warm clothing for the West Seattle Helpline.
Just look for their blue-and-gold tent. And yes, the market WILL be open the next two Sundays!
Haven't made it to the West Seattle Farmers' Market yet today? Here are three reasons to go despite the intermittently blustery weather: Above, as mentioned in the WSB West Seattle Holiday Guide, the Pathfinder K-8 handmade wreaths are back for another year, technically just south of the market on the KeyBank corner at California/Alaska – they raise money for Pathfinder students' outdoor education. (They're scheduled to be back the next two Sundays, too.) Below – Christmas trees!
The 7-11 am drop-in event (with community sponsors including WSB) at Alki Masonic Center (40th/Edmunds in The Junction) on December 2nd is a festive way to start the biggest Saturday of the season – and it's a great family deal because kids under 10 eat free with a paying adult, and Santa's there for photos. If you don't get your ticket from the Kiwanis today, you can also buy online – or, for a bit more, at the door next Saturday.
That's project manager Karimah Edwards at left in the photo above. The "design elements" aren't on the project website yet, but we're told they will be soon. The park site was purchased for $1.4 million in 2012 and "landbanked"; until recently, it was home to temporary Fire Station 32 while the new station was under construction. Almost $2 million for design and development was set aside from the Park District levy; the park is to be designed next year, and built in 2019.
ADDED 2:20 PM: Your next chance to talk about the future park will be at the Junction Neighborhood Organization's upcoming meeting, 6:30 pm September 19th at the Senior Center/Sisson Building (4217 SW Oregon) – Parks' project team is scheduled to be there.
You might already know this, but more than a few people have asked us, so we're publishing this reminder: Even though West Seattle Summer Fest booths have taken over the usual Farmers' Market spots on California between Alaska and Oregon, the market DOES happen tomorrow. Just for this one Sunday a year, you'll find it in the lot where it used to be located – behind KeyBank, Bin 41, Pharmaca, etc. along the south side of SW Alaska, west of California. Hours are the same as every Sunday, 10 am-2 pm.
These two food-and-fun events go together because Pagliacci sponsors the Zucchini 500 – and has, we learned via a bit of searching, for more than 15 years!
Our Summer Fest coverage, meantime, gets going in a few minutes.
If somehow you missed it last week … and/or missed all the advance notice … and/or forgot: Tomorrow is the second week for the West Seattle Farmers' Market in its new location out in the middle of the street on California SW between SW Oregon and SW Alaska. While the market hours are 10 am-2 pm, that one block is off-limits to vehicles 7 am to 4 pm (so don't leave a car parked there overnight!). The debut last week was wildly popular, according to market managers – triple the usual attendance (they actually have people walking the market every half-hour to count – that's what research has shown is the average length of a market visit). One special feature this week: Since it's Father's Day, any dad who stops by the management tent (check the map above) will get a gift, a $2 Market Buck.
P.S. The market's new location is year-round, except, management asked us to remind you, on Summer Fest Sunday (July 12th this year), when it will move back to the 44th/Alaska parking lot just for that one day.
The move has been months in the making, officially – but it's also been a years-long dream for some, with the knowledge that it brings more space for more vendors and more local nonprofits, plus more room for shoppers to roam, and more chances to show off The Junction's bricks-and-mortar businesses to WSFM visitors. More photos to come, but better yet, just go see for yourself!
P.S. Transportation notes – only one bus route is affected, the 22; for vehicle parking, while the market block is off-limits until about 4 pm, the 45-space lot that formerly held the market is open; for bicycle parking, remember the "corral" on the southeast corner of California/Alaska. Also, east-west streets are all open, including Alaska and Oregon themselves.
Photo to share from the street site's debut? Share it! Meantime, again, this is the market's new home, so it'll be back in the street every Sunday – except for July 12th, when it'll be back at the old location in the 44th/Alaska lot since West Seattle Summer Fest will have taken over the street for the weekend.
FLAG DAY HELP THANKS TO POST 160: The death of Don Smathers earlier this year not only brought memories and mourning, but also the question: Who would make sure flags are up in The Junction on key holidays, as Don had done for so many years? Susan Melrose of the West Seattle Junction Association tells WSB that American Legion Post 160 has offered to help, so when you see the flags on Flag Day tomorrow, that's who to thank.
*Prepared hot food will be for sale, for the first time, from vendors including Falafel Salam, Girls Gone BBQ, and Loki (longtime vendor which now gets to bring its sliders and hash). Look for sidewalk-café tables supplied by the Junction Association!
And market management points out that the move will bring shoppers closer than ever to The Junction's year-round bricks-and-mortar restaurants (and retailers!) so you can visit them too while you're there.
WSFM hours are the same, 10 am-2 pm; the market block will be a no-parking zone 7 am-4 pm.
This Sunday, June 14th, is the day – the West Seattle Farmers' Market moves out into California SW between SW Oregon and SW Alaska. Same hours, 10 am-2 pm. But the new location/new layout means more room for vendors and local nonprofits. We asked the WSFM – which is sponsoring WSB this month to help get the word out – to share the map of what you'll see starting this Sunday; see it above (or here, as a PDF, if you can't see the embedded version). Market managers were handing out paper versions of the map last Sunday, but by the time we got to the market in the final half-hour, they were already out!
Meantime, the celebration won't just be within the booths at the market – we know of at least one Junction shop that's planning to tie in to the festivities: Click! Design That Fits, longtime WSB sponsor, 4540 California SW (that's on the same block where you'll find the market), will have special sale items during market hours on Sundays – stop in and look for the signs with "happy, helpful beets." Click! is also changing its hours for summer starting this weekend – 10 am to 7 pm weekdays, 10 am to 5 pm weekends.
P.S. If you are driving to The Junction for the market and/or other shopping on Sundays, please remember the changes – no motor-vehicle parking on the market block 7 am-4 pm, but the 45-space parking lot that used to house the market will be open again.
TOMORROW: Final parking-lot West Seattle Farmers' Market; one week later, on June 14th, it's out into the street!
BRAND-NEW BANNERS: It's magic! Overnight the faded old West Seattle Junction banners disappeared and these new ones materialized.
It was planned, of course, and happened very early this morning (sometime between 1:15 am, which is when we drove through The Junction, wondering if the installation was under way yet, and 9:30 am, when we took these photos).
The colorful series of five designs is meant to inspire neighborhood pride for all of West Seattle. Design elements include the Alki Lighthouse as a symbol of our strong connection to water, the West Seattle Bridge, a salute to history with the streetcars, our weekly farmers market, and The Junction's iconic Walk-All-Ways. We hope the neighborhood enjoys this addition to The Junction.
We're taking it to the street! Join us on this historic day at the beloved West Seattle Farmers Market.
Our first year, in 1999, was the beginning of a neighborhood institution; a place for families and neighbors to connect with local farms and get the freshest, most delicious fruits and vegetables – and many other wonderful farm products and local foods.
This year, in 2015, after much planning and hard work, we're moving the market to the street, where we'll have more room and an improved layout, and can create an even more inviting Sunday morning destination in the heart of the Junction.
The market will be on California between Alaska and Oregon – both of those east-west streets will remain open on market days. Susan Melrose from the West Seattle Junction Association says that merchants are supportive of this – they've been in discussion for months – and that the launch day on June 14th will be "a very festive day" with music in the streets – more details to come.
ADDED WEDNESDAY: In response to some questions in comments – Chris Curtis of the WSFM says the street closure is envisioned as 7 am-4 pm, and reminds us that there will be more parking, since the lot that's currently used will be open to vehicles again. Street-closure costs related to this are being borne by market management, according to WSJA's Melrose.
Sod House Bakery is Evan Radick and Nina Faccone's small bakery project based out of West Seattle. Last fall we realized our dream of many years by starting our own bakery and are building it from the ground up. We just became a vendor at the West Seattle Farmers Market, and hope to be selling all around Seattle this summer season. We make fun, delicious pastries like pop tarts, cookies, hand pies, and mini cakes.
As always, the market is open 10 am-2 pm at 44th/Alaska.
As reported here on Friday, a family friend e-mailed to make sure everyone knew this Central Washington farming family had lost a home in the big Taylor Bridge Fire – but they made it to the market and, since the farm itself was spared, have lots of vegetables to sell. The market continues, as usual, till 2 pm.
The Contigo owners' announcement also mentioned that their food is gluten-free.
BENEFIT ADOPT-A-THON CONTINUES: At Kitty Harbor (3422 Harbor SW), it's the second day of a special offseason cat adopt-a-thon – also a benefit for fire victim Teri Ensley and Furry Faces Foundation, noon-6 pm. "Moto," above, is one of the two-dozen-plus cats who were still awaiting a home by late Saturday afternoon, after more than 30 others were adopted! Here's our Saturday night story.


These names were, I stress, created randomly. I had guessed, and this confirms, that one can quickly generate a range of posed portraits, publicity shots, selfies created on the phone, scanned images from the archive, snapshots, news photos etc (as in my own Portraits). I haven't included any supporting text here, but the range of backgrounds is enormous, for such a small sample – business, academic, sport, broadcasting, 'celebrity', glamour model (try picking that one out!) and (amazingly) serial killer! And, naturally, many are simple social media images with little or no supporting information. Strangely, I also sense some degree of 'pattern', if that's the right word, under each name! If you want to be famous, don't use the name Fiona Kerry, for example – though Chris Lewis might be a promising choice!
Does it help me to contextualise my own Portraits? It is certainly part of my purpose to explore the manner in which the photographic portrait image is used to present identity in the 21st century. Studying the psychoanalytical angle on identity – Lacan, particularly – tells us that the whole formation of our ego/identity is based on the image, and a misread image, at that. This little piece of work demonstrates something of the way in which we present ourselves, visually, to the 'rest of the world' (as loosely defined by the internet!). And, superficially at least, the perceived indexical photograph is at the heart of matters. Yet Photography is going through an uncertain, self-conscious process of navel-gazing – certainly in some quarters – and is perhaps even less 'reliable' than it ever was as a basis for representation (of 'reality', 'truth' etc). My own Portraits hope to demonstrate how easy it is to represent 'identity' through digital photographic processes, yet how unreliable they are at representing something to which we can lend any credence at all.
At another level, many, if not all, of these images, circling the hyper-real world of the internet, are never meant to be anything more than superficial representations anyway. The selfies on social media get changed regularly; the publicity shots of any celebrity are myriad, so take your choice of identity. At which point, these images and the billions of others in the 'soup' from whence they came, might become representative of the fruitless search for the lost 'something' to which we are all, again according to psychoanalytics, condemned. I have already documented that one original drive for these self-portraits (deliberately dropped that word back in) came from a personal observation that nothing had ever happened to me, none of the (supposed) trauma that artists often point to as the source of their inspiration for a particular piece of work, or indeed their whole body of work. And another was the 'disconnect' between the stories in my old Newsbook and the person I seem to be now.
I have, though, resisted – and continue to resist – the idea that these Portraits are about 'me' (beyond the simple notion that there is something of all of us in all of our creative work). They could also, though, be read – rather like the collection above – as a random cross-section of characters from 'today'. Whilst they are masquerade/fiction, they could, because they retain a loose link to 'reality', be interpreted as a commentary on where the 'baby-boomers' are today. Coming almost full-circle, I have always intended that the images themselves would be just 'seductive' enough to tempt the viewer to see some element of 'reality' in there, be it about 'me', themselves, their generation, or friends and family. And we return to the seductive yet unreliable photographic image.
I don't know whether this is getting me closer to resolving matters. It's proving to be a tough journey – perhaps no tougher than I expected but certainly tougher in a different way.
This entry was posted in Portraits, Reflection, Research on October 14, 2014 by standickinson.
I have nine (self) portraits now and, with the exception of 'Old Stan', the drunk, (maybe even that one, too, to an extent) there has been an element of fun about most of them. They have certainly provided some amusement to most people who have seen them. It has never been my intention to avoid that, but it has always been my intention that there would be a serious element, too. I could envisage that, in whatever form they are eventually presented, there would be some images that would puncture the fun, reflecting life, I guess. 'Old Stan' would be one of those; and my next planned portrait could be even more powerful, if I get it right.
I am, though, aware that I can begin to step into sensitive areas. I have already shelved one planned image because it was going to cause concern to some family members – that of the retired teacher accused of indecent assault. Even the fiction was potentially uncomfortable to some family members; and I understand & respect that. I am planning that my next image will be of a stroke victim – 'Granddad Stan', a birthday snap, photographed by his young grandson. More than 150,000 strokes happen every year in the UK – mostly to over 65s (my next birthday). When I was 60 I was (like many) identified as having high cholesterol and have been taking 'statins' since then. That significantly reduces my stroke risk – but it might have happened and does happen to those of my age. It happened (admittedly at a slightly older age) to my Uncle Harry.
This is Harry, with our son, photographed in the summer of 1985. In the photograph, he is about 71 and a more cheerful, gregarious, talkative, active septuagenarian would have been hard to find. Interested in pretty much anything, always teasing, he loved to stay up-to-date, liked to get out and about, and was very involved with, and supportive to me when I was a child. Not long after this photograph, whilst on his way to or from (I can't recall which) Blackpool, by bus, on his own and surrounded by strangers, he had a huge stroke. He lived until around 1994, when he died, aged 80 – but he never went home again, to the cottage where he'd lived all his life (apart from serving in the Merchant Navy); he only ever walked, with assistance, around the care home; and, most devastating, he never spoke or smiled again.
I have told Harry's story to emphasise that I will be producing this next image with serious intent. 'Granddad Stan' will have suffered a stroke within the last twelve months. It will have damaged the left side of his brain, meaning that his right side has been paralysed, his speech has gone, and there is a lack of expression in his face. There is every prospect, with therapy, that he may eventually recover some or all of his faculties, but in the short term, he often feels hopeless and depressed – even on his birthday, with his grandson visiting. It requires a 'performance' from me, as have all the others; I have done my research, but I don't yet know when I'm going to shoot it. This is by way of a statement of (serious) intent, lest anyone get the impression that I am being light-hearted about it.
This entry was posted in Portraits, Reflection, Research on October 7, 2014 by standickinson.
Here is the latest in the (self) portrait series (still haven't fully resolved that!) – Blackpool Stan – and this post records the way that the image has developed to its 'final' form. All of the portraits have gone through varying degrees of planning & preparation and, thinking ahead to assessment, it is probably useful and sensible to record that development process in at least some cases.
The origins of this image go all the way back to October 24th 1955 – or the weekend before that, to be precise. As recorded in his Newsbook (see below), little Stanley, aged 5, was taken on a day trip to Blackpool, riding in a Rolls Royce. Not quite so grand is it may sound, I should stress; we didn't have a car at all! A neighbour and relative ran a wedding car business and had a vintage Roller in which we occasionally got taken out on trips. This is the picture I drew and slightly messy note that I wrote about it the following Monday.
As recorded some time back – here – the old Newsbook supplied part of the initial inspiration for this series of portraits, and this particular entry always seemed to have potential for a response. I imagined a version of me who had been drawn to the bright lights and fun of Blackpool (I grew up 12 miles up the coast); who had left school at 16 and gone to work in the amusement arcades, become a bit of a 'Stan the Man', and eventually built up his own 'empire' of leisure venues (!). The original thought was that I would photograph him with his own Rolls Royce; thus completing the link with the Newsbook.
Back in July, I did some online research as to just what a 'Blackpool entrepreneur' might look like. I knew about the Oystons, estate agents, owners of Blackpool Football Club, and with a slightly 'dodgy' record; and my research turned up photos of them, but it also unearthed some other interesting characters. Here, without going into full details, are some of the images I found.
The 'look' seemed to work but, before going to Blackpool to do the shot, I wanted to have a good idea of how I would frame and set up the composition, as well as researching potential locations via Google Street View. The broad idea was to have the model car in the foreground and, if possible, Blackpool Tower in the background, but I decided to trial a 'set-up' at home first – in the 'studio'. Some experimentation with camera angles etc led to this image.
I needed to get all the 'props' in the frame, leaving space for the Tower, and to be able to operate the shutter release discretely. The car is on a piece of card, on the end of a carrying case for my studio lights, which was useful because I could take the case 'on location', and I am kneeling behind it. The 'thumbs-up' seemed in character and gave me an excuse to bring the wristbands into shot. Any camera reflection in the sunglasses is hidden in the dark shadows.The Street View research for a location wasn't too successful. I knew that there would be somewhere on the Promenade that would work but didn't want to spend ages trundling my 'kit' up and down to find it. I did, though, manage to find some images taken from the North Pier, which had the Tower in the background at what looked as though it would be the right angle. I was, though, a little concerned about the direction of the sun, should it shine (for once!) in Blackpool when I was there.
It did! And I was right! When I arrived mid-morning, it was directly behind the Tower for a shot in the direction I needed. I had a Plan B in mind, which involved a cup of coffee to kill some time and experimentation with a shot from the other direction, with the Tower reflected in the lens of the glasses instead. A lot of trial and error with head and camera angles produced this version.
Switching the set-up around, I then exposed another 20-30 images to get the framing right, to eliminate reflection of the sun onto the lens, and to minimise the reflection of the camera in the lens of the glasses (though that was always going to happen, to a degree). The whole process on the pier took around one and a half hours and I had about sixty images from which to make final selections.
Back home, a review in Lightroom soon edited the numbers down to a handful where the expression, composition, hair (it was inevitably breezy), reflections etc were acceptable – and I did, at one stage, fear that I might need a return visit to get it right. The final image, presented at the beginning of this post, has also had a fair bit of work in Photoshop. There have been separate 'Curves' adjustments to various parts of the image to get the balance of the exposures, contrast etc to a more acceptable level; and the 'Clone' tool has been used to completely remove the reflections of the camera in each of the lenses of the sunglasses. One 'happy accident' is the juxtaposition of the curve of my thumb with its own reflection and then the curve of my hair as it blew in the breeze. The potential 'symbolism' of the Tower and the raised thumb, with the earring I was aware of before the shoot.
So – a lot of work and planning to produce what is intended to look like a fairly casual shot taken by a local photographer for use in the local newspaper! Could it 'work' as a representation of a 'real' Blackpool entrepreneur, alongside the examples I had researched? I think probably 'yes', it could. Does it demonstrate the power of the photographic image to create an illusion of identity and/or the illusory nature of what we think of as 'identity'? Could it 'seduce' the casual viewer to believe in 'Blackpool Stan'? Is it a hyper-real simulation? Am I, also, just a collection of signifiers, like this image of 'Blackpool Stan'?
This entry was posted in Portraits, Research on October 3, 2014 by standickinson.


On the 1st day, we have Jaspal Bindra, Managing Director, Punjabi Kadhai who is all set to address the students.
Mr Jaspal Bindra is presently managing Punjabi Kadhai North Indian Casual Dining Restaurant located at Siliguri, West Bengal which currently stands at no 1 out of 153 Restaurants in Siliguri.
He has completed his Bachelors of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Oxford Brookes University and has also worked with world class brands like Radisson, Marriott and Hilton.
Mr Jalpal's has a strong inclination towards public speaking and he is also an elite member of Siliguri Toastmasters Group.


This sale shall be pursuant to the Section 6 of the Uniform Commercial Code (referred to herein as the "Bulk Sales Law") of the State of ____________.
SELLER shall provide to BUYER a complete and sworn list of creditors, including those who assert claims, but which are disputed by SELLER, even if those claims are groundless or false.
The SELLER shall be under a continuing duty to supplement the list of creditors if there are any changes or new claims asserted, even if the same are groundless or false.
At least _________ days before the closing scheduled herein, the BUYER shall give notice of the transfer, as is provided in the Bulk Sales Law, to all creditors, including those who are listed as disputed. The SELLER shall fully cooperate with BUYER in the mailing of the notices and the provision of information necessary to complying with the provisions of the Bulk Sales Laws.
There are no liens upon the property to be sold by BUYER, and BUYER shall indemnify the SELLER from the claims of any entities to the sold goods.
The risk of loss to the property shall be borne by the SELLER until closing. In the event that 3% (three percent) or less of the value of the goods are lost, at the option of BUYER, the BUYER may either deduct the value of the damaged goods, or may accept an assignment of insurance proceeds, and pay the full contract price.
In the event that more than 3% (three percent) of the value of the property is destroyed, the BUYER shall have the right to rescind this contract, or to close, and to accept an assignment of insurance proceeds.
Each party represents to the other that there are no brokers or agents employed in relation to this agreement.
This contract constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and there are agreements, express or implied, that are not stated herein. This agreement may only be modified by a writing executed by both parties herein.
This review list is provided to inform you about this document in question and assist you in its preparation. A bulk sale has the advantage of not making the buyer potentially liable for debts of the seller. The goods themselves, however, can be attached if any of the seller's creditors have claims against them. For this reason, the buyer should beware of any potential liabilities of this kind and investigate thoroughly the possibility that any such claims may arise. Getting indemnification from the seller is a wise idea; however, the indemnification is only as good as the creditworthiness of the Seller.


As college students return to their brick-and-mortar campuses, Harvard Business School is unveiling a virtual classroom designed to replicate the intimacy of the on campus experience.
The buzz around open online courses - often free and occasionally for credit - is fading. But as tuition prices and student debt soar, online learning continues to grow. One of the largest providers of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, is Harvard and MIT's edX. Some 2.5 million people have signed up for these classes, ranging from the Introduction to Computer Science to The Ancient Greek Hero.
So what do most students get for completing one of these courses? New knowledge and maybe a certificate of completion, but no credit. WGBH's On Campus caught up with a student-researcher who predicts colleges and universities will soon offer some form of credit for MOOCs.
One of the world's most prestigious business schools is going digital. After much anticipation, Harvard Business School is launching its first online learning initiative.
A new survey shows the number of college students taking at least one online course has surpassed 7.1 million. But the report conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group finds the rate of growth in online enrollment has actually slowed in recent years.
Will the new face of college be a computer screen?
WGBH's Kara Miller asked a panel of educational pioneers about the university of the future on this special edition of Innovation Hub, taped at Suffolk University's Modern Theater in downtown Boston.


Future-proofing small farms? – What Could A Farm Be?
Are you a farmer, designer, artist, rural entrepreneur, other professional, or concerned citizen, interested in small farms and their futures? Then this forthcoming open collaborative network and platform is for you. muu-baa will bring together diverse voices that are interested in new modes of production to improve quality of life, offer viable livelihoods, and provide fresh perspectives for the future of farming, rural development and the countryside. The fundamental spirit of the network is to ask, 'Why not?', to be open, exploratory and experimental by developing and testing new ideas, products, services and experiences that will sustain present and future generations.
The network, to be launched in mid-July 2018 will facilitate the hybridization of practices, knowledge, know-how and do-how that can help future-proof our agri-cultural and rural communities. It aims to develop a framework for ideas, experiments and actions, a way forward by developing a series of models based upon concrete, tangible results that demonstrate future possibilities. It wishes to encourage diverse voices, practices, stories and futures.
Raimund Lamprecht, Sabine Marsoner – farmers.
Prof. Kris Krois, visual communications designer and leader of the Masters in Eco-Social Design; Dr. Alvise Mattozzi, sociologist; Andrea Sebastianelli, Anita Ferrone Milone, Laura Heym, Magdalene Vögele – ex- and current Masters students – Faculty of Design & Art, Unibz.


Would you recommend Beatwave to a friend?
This is a fun music app to goof off with. Definitely not for serious musicians though.
pretty neat! I know @jtriest will love this.
Hi Dave here, the developer of Beatwave. Happy to answer any questions !
Hi @djfumberger! What was the inspiration behind Beatwave?


My daughter has begun to string together phrases and short sentences.
She can also sing the alphabet, a feat to which my wife and I take no credit but still garner enormous amounts of pride.
She learned it from an Elmo Speak-and-Spell.


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Magic Johnson backtracks on hugging untraded Lakers
By Dan FeldmanFeb 11, 2019, 1:35 PM EST
Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for DuJour Media
The Lakers didn't trade for Anthony Davis before Thursday's deadline.
The Lakers did have most of their roster – Kyle Kuzma, Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, Ivica Zubac (who got sent to the Clippers in another deal), Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Rajon Rondo, Lance Stephenson and Michael Beasley – named in reports of Los Angeles' offers to the Pelicans.
That appeared to take a toll on the Lakers' chemistry. So, Lakers president Magic Johnson met with the team Sunday.
But his tone before and after differed significantly.
Johnson on Saturday, via Larry Lage of the Associated Press
"It's a part of business, it's a part of being a professional athlete," he said Saturday. "I'm going to hug 'em and tell them that we got to come together and our goal is still in reach, which is to make the playoffs."
Johnson on Sunday, via ESPN:
I'm not that guy. I'm not the guy who, "Ohhhh, I'm going to hold. I'm going to go up and hug guys." I'm not that dude.
Quit making this about thinking these guys are babies, because that's what you're treating them like. They're professionals. All of them. And this is how this league works. They know it. I know it. That's how it goes.
What's worse, your team trying to trade you for a superstar or your boss pledging to hug you then rescinding the offer? Either way, tough times for Lakers players.


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VPN & Proxies
How to Get a Nepali IP Address in 2021: Calling Kathmandu
How to Get a Nepali IP Address
By Sandra Pattison (Assistant Editor)
If you're from Nepal and are traveling or have set up your home elsewhere, then there may be times that you want or need to use internet services that are only available in the country. If that's the case, the only way you're going to get access is by spoofing your location to make it look like you're in Nepal. This guide will help you get an IP address in Nepal.
There are a few reasons why you might want to connect to a server in Nepal. Perhaps you're missing your favorite shows on Prabhu TV or WowTime. Once you're connected to an IP address in Kathmandu or elsewhere in Nepal, you can bypass any geoblocks and catch up on all of your favorite content online. Plus, a Nepali server will grant you access to Netflix Nepal.
Aside from entertainment, you might need to access your Nepali bank, like the Bank of Kathmandu, or other sensitive information online. The problem is that trying to access it from another country can flag up some security issues. Using an IP address in Nepal can help you avoid all of that.
Keep in mind, though, that there are a few risks to getting a Nepal IP address, such as ISPs monitoring customers' activity and some restrictions on freedom of speech. If you plan on traveling to the country, you should read our best VPN for Nepal guide so you make sure you stay safe.
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There are a couple of ways you can get an IP address in Nepal. One way — and the easiest way — is with a proxy. However, just because it's easy doesn't mean it's a good choice. Proxies don't always work, and even when they do, you're not protected because they don't encrypt traffic. You can read our VPN vs proxy vs Tor article for more on that.
The most reliable way to get an IP address in Nepal is by connecting to your internet service through a virtual private network. A VPN will encrypt your connection, which is essential if you're accessing sensitive accounts. Plus, if you choose one of the best VPNs for the job, you'll have a great streaming experience. That said, there are only two VPN services that offer Nepal IP addresses.
Although Nepal doesn't have much coverage when it comes to VPN servers, ExpressVPN has the tools for the job. It has excellent security and privacy, including an automatic kill switch. It's also the fastest VPN on the market and comes with unlimited data. Both of those features have helped it keep the crown in our best VPN for streaming article, too.
It's one of the easiest-to-use VPNs, and it works on almost any device. Pricewise, ExpressVPN isn't wallet-friendly. However, you get a great service for your money, and out of the two listed in this article, it's the best by far (read our ExpressVPN review). Plus, it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so it's easy to cancel ExpressVPN.
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HideMyAss is the only other VPN provider we could find that has a server in Nepal, which isn't surprising because it has one of the largest server networks available in Asia. The service is a far cry from ExpressVPN, though. It has improved over time, but there are still some questionable aspects to the service, such as its privacy policy.
Still, its security is good and its speeds aren't too bad, if a little inconsistent. You get unlimited data, and it can get into some streaming service, including Netflix.
HMA has some impressive features, it is easy to use and it's compatible with most devices. Read our HideMyAss review for more. You could give it a try with the free seven-day trial, and there's a 30-day money-back guarantee, too.
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Whatever your reason for needing an IP address in Nepal, a virtual private network is the best way to get one. They're reliable, easy to use and offer a protected connection if you need to access secure accounts.
There aren't many options for VPN providers with servers in Nepal, but ExpressVPN is your best bet. Your connection will be secure, plus you'll benefit from its fast speeds and ability to get into multiple streaming services. With its 30-day money-back guarantee, there's nothing to lose.
Have you used a VPN to get an IP address in Nepal? Have we missed a service off the list? Let us know in the comment section. As always, thank you for reading.
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Sandra Pattison is from the rolling hills of the United Kingdom where, when she's not enjoying that one day of summer, she researches and writes on online security and censorship around the world. Writer by day, mother morning, noon and night, during her little free time she enjoys photography and likes to be spontaneous, but mostly ends up sipping tea with her pinky out.
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