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	Context "When correct input is provided" {
        $testInput = ConvertTo-SecureString 'Pa$$w0rd' -AsPlainText -Force
        $actual = ConvertTo-UnicodePassword $testInput
		$expected = "UABhACQAJAB3ADAAcgBkAA=="

        It "should return the correct base64 string" {
            $actual | Should BeExactly $expected
        }
    }
	Context "When the IsUnattendPassword switch is present" {
        $testInput = ConvertTo-SecureString 'Pa$$w0rd' -AsPlainText -Force
        $actual = ConvertTo-UnicodePassword $testInput -IsUnattendPassword
		$expected = "UABhACQAJAB3ADAAcgBkAEEAZABtAGkAbgBpAHMAdAByAGEAdABvAHIAUABhAHMAcwB3AG8AcgBkAA=="

        It "should return the correct encrypted base64 string" {
            $actual | Should BeExactly $expected
        }
    }
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Dicht Bij (Thinking about the Work of Lawrence Weiner for the Exhibition as It Came to Be)
Lawrence Weiner came to the Netherlands in the early 1960s, and the inspiring character of the Dutch art scene made him return in 1970 to stay here in some way until today. Back then Amsterdam was one of the productive "point[s] of unrest" in the world as he called it. The city, with its particular lifestyle and internationality (epitomized in the field of art, as he recalled, by a scene active around Art & Project and the Stedelijk Museum's history-making exhibitions), led Weiner to make it his part-time home, next to New York. Having since lived "with one foot in the new world and one foot in the old," today the Netherlands "offers intense fruitful relationships, both within and without the art world." In the intervening decades, the art world—"much as what happened worldwide," in the artist's words, "went from an aspirational, at times charmingly naive hope to involve itself with the entire world to the advent of an extremely paternalistic nationalism that seems to have dampened the initial enthusiasm. It went from a post-Galilean world that was aware that it revolved around the sun, to that of a pre-Galilean concept of a world revolving only around itself…"[1] Both in and beyond the field of art, the turning point causing this shift could be perhaps detected in the widespread resignation many feel today about the end game of neoliberal capitalism; resignation disguised as self-congratulatory indulgence and self-styled hegemony, certainly in the so-called West after its (default) victory over the alternative political construction of communism in Europe. It is a condition in which competitiveness has taken the place of solidarity and market value has replaced longing for a better world, both efficiently obscuring the horizon of other possibilities of how to relate to each other and to the world itself. In the months leading up to his exhibition, precisely this condition became the main subject of the conversations between Weiner and myself.
Yet, as Weiner has it, "Art ain't about you. Art ain't about me. Art is about we." And if any requirement is to be made of art, it is that "it is public." In other words, that it engages with matters of the political, that is to say, with the space of relationships to others, of collectivity and, indeed, of solidarity. In this worldview, art, at the point of making itself known to the world, necessarily enters into dialogue with the powers that be. Contrary to the diagnosis of resignation mentioned earlier, art—perhaps unlike other fields of human endeavor—is always "a questioning of implementation." Yet why do we waste this potential on things past, on what has been? "Why are we constantly looking at a situation in terms of a previous situation when the function of art is a determination of logic structures and patterns as they exist not in relation to how they have existed?"[2] Thus, Weiner's work is always in and for the present, driven by his dissatisfaction about the configuration of things that he sees before him. For the reason to make art is to dislodge the prevailing consensus in society, and to offer another pattern, an alternative to the structures that define the way we live now—even if this is not necessarily asked of the artist by society, or even if what he or she has to say is uncomfortable for society to hear.
The notion of (western) hegemony is one such unspoken "consensus" that Weiner inevitably challenges through his mode of making art that is about "the relationship of people to objects and of objects to objects in relation to people." His proposition—"Not any longer the West, the East, the North, the South"—dismisses these troubled (geo)political categories as well as the continued exercise of domination to which the so-called West clings in order to preserve its illusory place at the top of the world. In the work presented, he points towards a range of hierarchical conditions: "on the up," "on the above up," "on the below up," and from there, both pictorially and linguistically, he lets a series of drawings unfold in which the dialectic of the hegemonic mass versus its subservient counterpart is disrupted, and through this clash, proclaimed untenable. Weiner invokes the well-known fictive figure of Humpty Dumpty in this construction, which serves the discussion playfully: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, goes the original riddle. Weiner adds: "At the moment of contact the dialectic is no longer viable (Humpty Dumpty…)," and offers the last three lines of the conundrum (replacing the gender of the king from the original to that of a queen): "All the Queen's horses/And all the Queen's men/Couldn't put Humpty together again."
The damage that follows the clash of competing ideologies is made visible by likening their fate to a broken egg (as Humpty Dumpty is typically portrayed after the fall). This damage is evidently irreparable, yet it opens up a field of new possibilities. "Brought forth by the resonance of a dissonance" is a new order of things, that of "Dicht Bij." As artistic imaginary, the Dicht Bij _remains in a field of ambiguity. Somewhat atypically for the artist, no English translation is offered, but for those with knowledge of the Dutch language Weiner presents us with a construction that is not grammatically incorrect per se, yet does not indicate any precise meaning. If it were written as one word, "dichtbij_" would point to that which is "close by." When separated, the two words open up a broad realm of meaning that is undefined and non prescriptive, full of connotations destabilizing sharp divisions (of the world and other), and oscillating between the endless possibilities from "near" to "closed" to "belonging to" to "around" to "next to" to… Avoiding a potential imposition upon the viewer, _Dicht Bij _is presented as an object, a work of art that exists as language—the ultimate Weiner material.
"It's language, from what I see," he says and continues: "My prose is disjointed because I see in terms of nouns. And I see any activity as a noun because I see it as a material process that I understand is art."[3] Like the textual abstractions in this exhibition, Weiner's text works employ a writing style that itself seeks ways of avoiding any authoritarian charge, dismissing the hegemonic inclinations of the surrounding world, and preventing the dictatorial character of both language and world structures from seeping through. This requires setting his own grammatical rules, such as avoiding the use of verbs or altering the usual gender conventions, while assuring that the object is still understandable by way of overlapping with that which is part of the material world in the stream of life.
Language, like any material Weiner works with—stone, steel, wood, water—carries in itself complex information about the environment it originates from. Imprinted in it indirectly are not only the concrete political events we experience in our daily lives, but also the shadows of the compromised human ecology of society at large. Topical political, cultural, and economic events are thus necessarily inscribed in Weiner's work, though it never speaks explicitly about any such things. For if it did, art would do nothing more than duplicate what is so commonplace elsewhere in the society, where "the round-robin of aggressor/victim/aggressor is at this point just a conversational daisy chain."[4]
Art, on the contrary, "at its best attempts to present a reality (a material reality) that when put into any context shows another logic pattern." If such another logic pattern can be registered, and if with it the various modes of relationships might be changed through an encounter with a work of art, however fleeting that might be, the change will resonate throughout society. Indeed it can be that engaging with such a work of art about our world might in the end mean engaging with our world… differently.
[1] Lawrence Weiner, "Art Is About We: A Conversation with Lawrence Weiner," in Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, _for example, _edited by Rosi Braidotti, Charles Esche, and Maria Hlavajova (Utrecht/Zurich: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and JRP|Ringier, 2007), p. 309.
[2] E-mail correspondence with the artist, November 2009.
[3] Lawrence Weiner, interviewed by Phillis Rosenzweig (1990), in Having Been Said, Writings & Interview of Lawrence Weiner 1968–2003, edited by Gerti Fietzek and Gregor Stemmrich (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2004), p. 237.
A text written by Maria Hlavajova on the occasion of the solo exhibition Dicht Bij by Lawrence Weiner, on view at BAK from 24 January till 28 March 2010. For more information regarding the exhibition, as well as a video of a conversation between the artist and Ann Goldstein, see here.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


The Account Manager is responsible for generating revenue by creating and closing customer sales opportunities within their assigned territory. The position also serves as customers' primary point of contact relating to all aspects of the customer relationship including, but not limited to, software implementation and support concerns and needs. Success in this position requires the ability to travel 10% of the time.
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Attend tradeshows and industry conventions.
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Bachelor's Degree in Business or equivalent experience.
Must possess excellent oral, written, product presentation and communication skills.
3+ years of experience with software applications.
MS Office Skills Required: PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel.
Construction industry experience/knowledge a plus.
Demonstrated decision-making and negotiation skills.
Ability to develop and maintain strong business partner relationship.


Drug pricing regulator NPPA has received Rs 672.28 crore fine till date from pharmaceutical companies for overcharging, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.
Since inception, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has issued 1,527 demand notices to companies for overcharging on sales of formulations at prices above the notified ceiling price.
"Demand notices have been issued for an amount of Rs 5,038.72 crore. Amount of the tune of Rs 672.28 crore has been deposited by the companies. An amount of Rs 3,469.91 crore is under litigation," Minister of State for Chemicals Mansukh L Mandaviya said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
NPPA has recovered Rs 294.84 crore during the current financial year till February, he added. The government had recovered Rs 90.17 crore in 2014-15 and Rs 12.36 crore in 2015-16.
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By using an electronic computer, rays were traced through six optical systems used in infrared spectrometers to determine what broadening of the image takes place as a result of geometrical-optical aberrations. The data obtained indicate that Littrow instruments, using either a prism or a grating, form sharp images in a plane behind that of the entrance slit. Czerny-Turner optical arrangements form images in front of the entrance slit plane which are not so sharp as those formed by the Littrow instrument. Comparison of broadening due to geometrical-optical aberrations with that due to diffraction shows that in most cases the former is considerably less. The data presented show graphically the curvature of the image formed.
a All units (except wavelength) in mm.
Contributions of diffraction to broadening of images formed by spectrometer optical systems.


Spectacles is a signed print of a pattern I painted into my watercolor journal of a colorful collection of eyeglasses. I was painting pairs of glasses because every year on March 5th we celebrate the anniversary of the day my dad got his first pair of glasses, and it is a big deal! A good reminder to make your own celebrations, and perfect for anyone who loves eyewear and colorful collections, these spectacles are sure to put a smile on your face and brighten up any room!
Printed on a your choice of either a 9 x 9 inch or a 11 x 11 inch square of your choice of paper. The 9 x 9 inch borderless print fits a standard shadowbox square frame from IKEA, and the 11 x 11 inch print will make it easier to have a mat cut to fit the standard square frame of your choosing.


2007-08: Skated in all 38 games...Was fourth on team in scoring with 32 points, including 11 goals and 21 assists...Finished fourth on the team in goals and third in assists...Recorded his 25th career goal on March 7th against UConn...Tallied his 20th career assist on January 18th at RIT...Recorded seven multi-point games...Had a seven game point-scoring streak from January 26th through February 16th. 2006-07: Played in 30 games for the Pioneers in his rookie season...Tallied 11 points, including four goals and seven assists on the season...Skated in his first career game on October 13th at UMass...Tallied his first career point, goal and assist on October 20th at Canisius...Registered two multi-point games. Before SHU: Played for Notre Dame Hounds of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League...Scored 19 goals and tallied 25 assists in 49 games in 2004-05. Personal: Born on 12/19/86 to Serge and Celine...Has one sister (Marie-Eve)...majoring in business. Father, Serge, played for NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens.


A van driver, who was carrying several journalists covering stories for President Donald Trump, was stopped and detained by Secret Service in Palm Beach, Florida while en-route to the president's golf course.
The driver was pulled over and detained near Trump's Mar-a-Lago club when a handgun was found in his bag during a routine security check on Monday, according to Reuters.
We've had an interesting morning at Mar-a-Lago. While POTUS was getting ready to golf and we were getting swept, our press van driver was found with a personal firearm in his bag. So now our wranglers are driving us -- after a small fender bender in the Mar-a-Lago parking lot.
After being questioned, the driver told security that he forgot to leave the firearm in another vehicle. The suspect is a contractor, not an official White House employee.
Eventful little morning at Mar-a-Lago: Driver of our press van was detained after Secret Service found a gun in his bag. Another driver grazed a parked car in the lot. POTUS is now dropped off at golf course. We are holding at airport.
The journalists were not permitted to enter the compound and their vehicles were commandeered by White House staffers. One of the staffers grazed a Secret Service vehicle, causing minor damage.
Although the suspect was questioned off-site in a tent, he was not placed under arrest.
Monday's incident comes during a very tense debate over gun legislation in Florida, after 17 people were killed at the Parkland High School by 19-year-old mass shooter Nikolas Cruz.
In another incident last November, an angry Florida driver tried to cut Trump's motorcade off with his van while the president was on his way to the same location.


The proliferation of the donor-advised fund (DAF) model of charitable donation has been one of the biggest recent trends in philanthropy. In both news and commentary articles, experts have weighed in on the pros and cons of DAFs including the possible need for more regulation and oversight.
In late November 2018, a U.S. Magistrate Judge from the Northern District of California issued a ruling that Fidelity Charitable, now the biggest donor-advised fund in the nation, surely did not welcome. It is being sued by a couple who donated some $100 million in stock. They allege that, contrary to representations and assurances by Fidelity agents, the DAF liquidated the stock holdings almost immediately. This sale caused the share values to crash and damaged the couple's claim to a hefty charitable deduction.
Fidelity filed a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit but Judge Jacqueline Scott Corle sided with the plaintiffs in this early and critical stage of the litigation. She ruled that the claim has legal merit and that these donors have standing to sue on this matter.
Fidelity Charitable, which opened its doors in 1991 as a 501(c)(3) public charity, has an "independent board of trustees" comprising "dedicated professionals from across the nation who lend their deep expertise to" Fidelity's "mission of growing philanthropy." Notwithstanding this early setback, Fidelity vows to vigorously oppose the lawsuit going forward.
The plaintiffs in Fairbairn v. Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund (N.D. CA, No. 18-cv-04881, 11/28/18) are Emily and Malcolm Fairbairn of San Francisco. They operate Ascend Capital, an investment group that "manages billions of dollars" for clients. According to court pleadings and the ruling on this motion, they faced a "substantial" tax liability for 2017. So the couple researched firms sponsoring donor-advised funds to determine their best course of action for making a hefty charitable gift with a corresponding tax deduction.
Specifically, the Fairbairns wanted to donate 1.9 million shares of a company called Energous. That stock had just leaped 39% after the FCC had approved its key technology. If the Fairburns sold the stock directly, the couple would face a large capital gains tax liability. If they donated it to a DAF, then the couple would have "more money for a fund to fight Lyme disease," a cause of great importance to them.
Based on the representations and assurances of Fidelity agents, Mr. and Mrs. Fairbairn deposited 700,000 shares with Fidelity on December 28, 2017, and 1.2 million more the next day, which was the last trading day of the year. To the dismay of these donors, Fidelity liquidated all 1.9 million of the donated stock in a three-hour window on December 29th. According to the lawsuit allegations, this caused a loss of "tens of millions of dollars" of overall value and wreaked havoc on the Fairbairns' proposed claim for a charitable deduction.
The Fairbairns filed a lawsuit in August 2018, claiming misrepresentation, breach of contract, negligence, and violation of the California Unfair Competition Law. Defendant Fidelity Charitable then filed the motion to dismiss which was the subject of the recent court ruling.
This ruling on Fidelity's Motion to Dismiss is just the first one in what may well turn out to be protracted litigation that should be of interest to the nation's donor-advised funds as well as to their present and prospective donor-clients.


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'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Series In The Works
Back in 2011, Stieg Larsson's novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was turned into a film. That film was highly successful, and the rest of the books in Larsson's series, Millenium were quickly adapted into films as well. Fans around the world went absolutely wild for this thriller/mystery series. Well, now, those fans have reason to rejoice once again. Just recently, it was announced that a series based on the book series and film series of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was in the making over at Amazon.
The book-based TV series, which will be titled The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, will be focused on the life of Lisbeth Salander. It won't be a continuation of the story from the books or the films, but rather it will be set in our modern times and will feature a whole new plotline and setting. The series will also feature entirely new characters as well as some of the old ones. The Millenium book series was originally composed of three novels: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. However, when author Stieg Larrson passed away, fellow Swedish author and journalist David Lagercrantz finished up the series with an additional three books: The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, and The Girl Who Lived Twice.
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In the meantime, neither a lead actress nor a scriptwriter for the series has been confirmed. However, it has been announced that Andy Harries, founder and CEO of Left Bank Pictures, along with Rob Bullock will co-executive produce the series. In the Swedish film series, female protagonist Lisbeth Salander was played by Noomi Rapace, while Tehilla Blad portrayed her as a child. In the 2011 American film adaptation, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara was the lead actress chosen to play Salander, with Claire Foy replacing her in the 2018 sequel film, The Girl in the Spider's Web.


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Creative Citizenship
New ways to connect young people to the world
Creative Citizenship, in partnership with local cultural organisations, is encouraging youth to learn in inspiring environments.
The project explores:
— learning outside of the classroom;
— social inclusion through youth-generated teaching and learning materials; and
— improving digital literacies and social capital of young people through the creative exchange.
Visit the Creative Citizenship website.
RMIT School of Education, Creative Agency, Melbourne Museum, Monash University Centre for Theatre and Performance, MONA Museum, School of Creative Art (UTAS), Creative Exchange Institute, St Dominic's College (Hobart), Drum Theatre
Education, Creativity, User-experience, Museums, Culture, Learning
Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Design and Social Context
School: Education
Networking creative change-makers
Creative Agency is a community of creative makers, academics, industry professionals and organisations committed to arts, education and social change. The Agency is both a virtual and material co-share workspace in and beyond Melbourne's urban centre where creativity finds expression through co-designed research, events and cross-sector partnerships.
Visit the Creative Agency website.
Melbourne Museum, Malthouse Theatre, Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), RMIT School of Education, Centre for Creative and Relational Enquiry (University of Edinburgh), University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
Creativity, Education, Social Change, Arts, Co-design, Co-share, Pedagogy, Creative Practice, Creative Industries, Design, Social Futures, Wellbeing, Workplace
Playable City Melbourne
Making the city a platform for play
Playable cities connect people and place through creative technologies, making the city a platform for play. Playable City Melbourne is a three-year project bringing together an interdisciplinary urban play community.
During Melbourne International Games Week 2019, Playable City Melbourne is calling for a diverse community of designers, game developers, scientists, writers, architects, artists, producers, performers, players, bureaucrats etc to learn more about urban play and join in the conversation. This conference will explore other ways of being in public space, First Peoples connection to place, and more-than-human infrastructure. Playable City Melbourne talks to the city's multi-layered civic identity – as a creative city, technological city, a diverse and multicultural city, knowledge city and liveable city that is growing fast.
Playable City Melbourne website.
ACMI, Watershed, British Council, Melbourne International Games Week, RMIT University, Creative Victoria, Urban Futures ECP, Playable City
Play, Playable Cities, City, Creative, Technology, Digital, Game, Gaming, Urban Play
Changing the stories we tell and listen to
Perspectives shift and networks expand when writers step out of their comfort zone and into unfamiliar cultural spaces where they can connect and share ideas with other writers. Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange (WrICE) program contributes to an Asia-Pacific community of writers in a collaborative way, influencing broader societal perspectives and changing the stories we tell and listen to. It provides a framework for intercultural and intergenerational dialogue — the exchange and furthering of knowledge, creativity, skills and cultural perspectives.
Visit the WrICE website.
non/fictionLab, Melbourne Writers Festival, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, Footscray Community Arts Centre, 100 Story Building, National Library of Vietnam, Ayala Museum, Arts House Singapore, Jakarta Post Writing Center, Indonesia, Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association
Creative Writing, Education, Asia-Pacific, Diversity
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Writing and Publishing
Professor of Creative Writing, Co-Director of the non/fictionLab, Co-Director WrICE
Past, present and cofutures
cohealth@365 brings together interdisciplinary methods and expertise to collect the diverse stories of a community. We co-created and co-designed with the cohealth Collingwood community to capture their stories and hear their voices as core to cohealth's past, present and future. The different research activities included co-creative workshops, researching the archive, digital storytelling, ethnographic research, an interactive community chalkboard, multisensorial design and other creative activities.
This pilot project sought to empower the community by having their vision included as central to cohealth's transition. Through this process, cohealth@365 provides a vehicle for community advocacy across a variety of key stakeholders and sectors.
cohealth community health centre
Cofutures, Digital Storytelling, Community Health, Health, Design, Co-creative Workshops, Ethnography
Distinguished Professor and Director, Design and Creative Practice
School: Enabling Capability Platforms
Senior Research Fellow, Design and Social Context
Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow
School: Design & Social Context
#Failurists
Creative Interdisciplinary Methods
Interests in creative, impactful research methods are growing; best practices of such methods are often discussed both in and out of academic research. The #FAILURISTS Collective initiates interdisciplinary explorations around one of the least talked about subject this in space: Failure.
We explore various tropes around failure – failure not just as a creative opportunity for re-calibrating methods, research questions and external expectations, but also as a way of knowing the world, and; most importantly, failure as a vehicle for critiquing larger issues around the challenges of the academic and political landscape.
RMIT Europe, ELISAVA; Spain, Goldsmiths; University of London; UK, Leiden University; The Netherlands, Aarhus University; Denmark
Creative Methods, Impact, Interdisciplinary Research, Failure
Playful Resistance
Finding creative pathways of knowledge transmission and translation
How can playful resistance as a tactic, strategy, mode of inquiry and creative, critical practice be used to intervene on hybrid reality? Exploring creative methods, theories and practices around what it means to think about the "playful" and "resistance" in an age of big data, AI and automation. The project was designed to create new ways of thinking about play and resistance. As real-world issues don't happen in a discipline — it is important to do interdisciplinary research.
Australian Research Council Discovery 'Games of Being Mobile'
Play, Digital, Hybrid Realities, Ethnography, Games, Creative Methods, Big Data, Interdisciplinary, Playful Resistance
Canadian & Australian Book Industries Conversation
Exploring new collaborative opportunities in publishing
How healthy is the bookselling and publishing industry in Australia? And what are the key reasons for this state of wellbeing (or illness)?
Canadian and Australian Book Industries Conversation (CABIC) brings together leading academics and industry figures to explore themes important to Australian and Canadian authors, illustrators and publishers, including the importance of local content, the book industry policy climate, and regulatory changes and challenges.
RMIT School of Media and Communication, non/fictionLab
Book Industry, Publishing, Collaborative, Policy, Writing, Design & Creative Practice Industries
Machine Learning Applications for Design and the Built Environment
While artificial intelligence (AI) generates real value in many fields, it has seen few design applications. This activity intends to build partnerships with AI experts to implement state of the art machine learning frameworks and cloud computing infrastructure for applications within the design and construction industries. The anticipated outcome are manifold: to position RMIT as a leader in the development of creative applications of AI; to enhance RMIT's innovation capability by combining the spatial reasoning expertise of architects with cutting edge machine learning capabilities; to develop new and far reaching design applications that may include automated 3d model synthesis, search and classification.
This project aims to develop a platform enabling creatives, consultants and contractors to collaborate within mixed reality environments and test the impact of this platform through speculative and applied design build projects.
Architecture and Design, College of Design and Social Context
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Architecture, Mixed Reality
Associate Lecturer, Industry Fellow
Prototyping community engagement in Melbourne's Docklands Precinct
Knowledge Market is a creative hub for sharing ideas. Since its inception in 2016, it has hosted inspirational mentors and facilitators and fostered many new creative projects and partnerships. The Exchange at Knowledge Market is the next phase in the evolution of this innovation space.
The Exchange explores the concept of community and new ways of understanding the shared urban environment through a curated series of public workshops, exhibitions, forums and community events. This year-long living lab is a space created by the community for the community.
Visit the Knowledge Market website.
Lendlease, City of Melbourne, Victoria Harbour, RMIT School of Architecture and Design, RMIT College of Design and Social Context, RMIT School of Media and Communication
Community, City Of Melbourne, Architecture, Design, Social Impact, Knowledge Market, Urban Environment
Program Manager, Design Innovation and Technology
Restorative sound design for urban soundscapes
The project expects to produce innovations in the area of urban soundscape design by using an interdisciplinary approach that combines biophilic design, ambiance theory and sound art installation practices. Investigating new techniques for the creation of sound art installations, it hopes to advance the effectiveness of urban renewal initiatives. This should provide significant benefits, such as improving the quality of life in urban centres by producing restful and restorative places and identifying pathways for the involvement of creative practitioners in the design and management of the built environment.
This project was awarded an ARC DECRA.
Soundscape Design, Sound-art, Urban Design, Creative Cities, Urban Greening, Sound, Design, Art
Collaborative methods to work with people and across inter-sectoral partnerships
Using human relations as method, social practice connects creative practitioners with communities, industries and institutions to address contemporary social issues. This conversation series, podcast, and symposium aims to develop a regional network across art and design to establish RMIT's identity as a leader in social practice pedagogy as well as to develop new industry collaborations across Australia. The series explores; collaboration in urban and regional communities, the potential for risk and harm in engagement, and new social economies in art and design.
School of Art, Field Theory, College of Design and Social Context
Social Practice, Art, Design, Social, Sustainable, Industry
VC Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
School: Art
Care, Media and Ritual
Creative, social and ethnographic interventions in care
New media is increasingly mediating the role of care and ritual around ageing (and dying). For example, in Japan where a large percentage of the population is elderly, the role of care and ritual is being recalibrated. New media and digital mobile technologies are affording families new ways to care-at-a-distance. What does care, media and ritual look like when replicated by new technologies?
We're exploring some of the practices and challenges in thinking through the entanglement of care, media and ritual. Drawing from experts in anthropology, environmental science, digital media, social work and design we explore various scenarios of use (past, present and future) so that we might provide creative, design, social and ethnographic interventions to this real-world problem.
Intel, Keio University Japan
Health, New Media, Care, Wellbeing, Healthcare, Technology, Aging
Conversation as therapy
CaTPin was the finalist for the 2018 DCP Design Challenge.
The Design Challenge was a joint initiative between Telstra and the Design & Creative Practice ECP which sought to tackle the real-world issue: How do we design for Ageing Well Futures?
CaTPin presented the idea of "conversation as therapy'. It aimed to address the issue of loneliness due to a lack of social interaction by developing a discreet, low-cost wearable. Taking the form of a lapel pin or brooch, designed in collaboration with the wearer, the device detects the presence or absence of conversation. It is founded on the premise that loneliness is manifest in a poverty of conversation, hence using the number of words spoken a day as a surrogate marker for social isolation and loneliness.
Bolton Clarke, Telstra (Design Challenge Partner)
Digital Health, Ageing Well, Design, User Engagement, Wearables, Aged Care, Wearable Technologies, Microelectronics
School: Communication Design
Cities as Playgrounds
New models for urban play, civic engagement and sociality
Playgrounds are physical manifestations of how we do urban play and civic engagement and are as such in situ places to play with present and future scenarios. The metaphor of the playground is fertile ground for talking about, and playing with, intergenerational connection in public space. It can be a way of rethinking urban design which puts people and play at the centre.
This creative and interdisciplinary workshop brought together international experts across playable cities artists, game designers, ethnographers, play theorists and designers to consider the possibilities of action research and co-design experiments in and around the Superilla located outside of RMIT Europe as part of Barcelona's Design Week.
We deployed the Superilla as a prompt, invitation, interface and living lab for codesigning for inclusive and playful urban futures.
Visit the ToyBox website.
RMIT Europe, Urban Futures ECP, Elisava University
Games, Design, Playgrounds, Urban Design, Urban Play, Playful Urban Futures
Designing for social futures
How might we live and die well?
We interrogate how we might embed care in all facets of formal and informal, digital and material context to create new pathways towards inclusive and just futures in this rapidly ageing, socially precarious, and digitally networked era.
In 2018, we initiated transdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and co-creative engagements to identify challenges and opportunities for living-and-dying-well-futures beyond traditional medicine and healthcare interventions. The initial engagements included the Designing for Social Futures of Ageing Communities and Places in Japan, and the Rethinking Health: Thick Data for Ageing Well workshop in Barcelona. Building on these, we continue to explore non-disciplinary-bounding tools and methods for research and practice focused on care and wellbeing across the world.
Ritsumeikan University, RMIT Europe
Care, Wellbeing, Health, Ageing, Design, Impact, Social Futures
Games for Change
Designing games for social change
Games for Change takes a play-focused, iteration-based approach to game design. Our first Games for Social Change Workshop saw participants engage in experimental learning and social engagement surrounding a particular topic: ecosystem problems. Young students learnt about game designing and what makes a 'good' game. They considered specific environmental issues and then worked together to design and test a game that would help solve that problem.
Game design involves a creative and iterative process guided by prototyping, playing and testing and then refining. Through our Games for Change Workshops we're making the game design process accessible and actionable for any topic and varying participants.
Clifton Hill Primary School
Games, Design, Environmental, Climate Change, Ecosystem
Interdisciplinary health research
The HASH (Health, Arts, Social sciences and Humanities) Network brings together collaborators from the social sciences, humanities, medicine, arts, and science and technology. It will draw on contributions from a wide range of academic researchers, health practitioners, health service users, and early career researchers. HASH aims to ignite creative connections and collaborations among members.
Visit the HASH Network website.
Digital Ethnography Research Centre
Digital Health, Mental Health And Illness, Neurodiversity, Ageing, Long Term Conditions And Life Limiting Illnesses
ECR Convenor, The HEALTH Network
School: Global, Urban and Social Studies
Convener, The HEALTH Network; Professor
School: Global, Urban & Social Studies
Social Play Tool Kit
Encouraging social play and games literacies in the classroom.
Play is a source of culture, a form of expression, and a creative way of engaging with the world. It is a crucial human ability for adaptation and expression.
In collaboration with our research partners and young people, we have developed a Social Play Tool Kit that encourages social play and game literacies in the classroom. Exploring socially-engaged gameplay and creativity across digital and material contexts, these tools are freely downloadable PDF's for use in a variety of Primary School age learning environments.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL PLAY PROJECT
CLASSROOM CASE STUDY GAME PAMPHLETS
Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, Australian Research Council
Social Games And Play, Games Literacy, Primary School Education, Tool Kit
RMIT Europe Workshop: Creative Methods for Social Mapping
This workshop discusses best practices, provocative elements of, and ideas for the future of creative methods for impactful research. Read more
WrICE Program Partners with Leading Asian Literary Centre
RMIT's Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange Program (WrICE), now in its fifth year, will partner with the Jakarta Post Writing Center in 2018. Read more
DCP Lectures | Dr Anne Galloway
Cosmopolitical Relations & More-Than-Human Design Ethnography
Monday 19 August, 5:30 – 6:30pm
RMIT City Campus, Building 80.10.16 Read more
HDR Opportunity: Dr Anne Galloway Workshop
Practicing More-than-human Design Ethnography Workshop
Dr Anne Galloway, School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Tuesday 20 August 2019, RMIT City Campus Read more
Shortlisted teams announced
In September 2018 the DCP launched its first Design Challenge, the Designing for Ageing Well Challenge. This called for interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative ideas that reimagine the future of digital health, social innovation and ageing well. We are excited to announce our four shortlisted teams and their projects here. Read more
Doing Digital Methods – Workshop Summary
In June 2018, the DCP ECP and Ritsumeikan University (RU) jointly hosted a workshop at Ritsumeikan University (Japan) on interdisciplinary and critical creative methods, within mixed reality contexts, when considering social innovative futures. Read more


Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exits in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. No body grows old merely by a number of years, We grow old by deserting our ideas.
Years may wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart, the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the job of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you've grow old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there's hope you may die young at 80.


What Are You Doing For Mother Earth?
April got off to a chilly start, but dyed-in-the-wool gardeners know there is still plenty to do!
After the long winter, your trees, shrubs, and roses probably need some pruning.


In a dispute over a travel basketball team, the Catoosa County (Ga.) Commission has asked to review the Ringgold Youth Sports Association's financial records.
The commission forced association president Earl Epps to return a key to a county gym last week after parents complained about how he used the facility. The complaint concerned one of Epps' operations, the North Georgia Thunder basketball teams. During a commission meeting Tuesday night, parents on both sides of the dispute bickered.
County Manager Jim Walker said the commission began investigating the association in early April when one of the nonprofit organization's board members complained.
Travis Barbee in his new Catoosa Parks and Rec uniform.
"Do you care to name the board member?" one woman asked from her seat.
When the commissioners did not answer, another woman shouted, "It's a lie!"
Ringgold Youth Sports Association teams participate along with other recreation sports associations in the Catoosa County Youth Basketball League. The Thunder teams, which come from Ringgold, participate in that league. But, Epps said, they also play as a separate travel team during the weekends.
Last week, Parks and Recreation Director Travis Barbee asked for financial records for the sports association and the Thunder. Epps said the association's treasurer is turning over the league's documents, but there are no separate records for the Thunder.
He said coaches for each age group of Thunder teams raise their own funds to travel and participate in weekend tournaments. He does not keep track of that funding in one place.
"There is no organization doing that," he said. "It's a bunch of parents. There are no financials."
Under the gratuities clause of the Georgia Constitution, Walker said, a group can't use a public building without a formal contract with the county. The Ringgold Youth Sports Association has an agreement; Thunder's weekend league does not.
Concerning Thunder players, the commissioners say they are confused. If the teams practice in the Poplar Springs gym on a Wednesday, are they practicing for the sports association or the separate, weekend league?
For the county's purposes, Epps said, the Thunder players should be considered sports association participants during the week, when they use the gym. When they travel on the weekends, they are their own separate, traveling entity.
"The Thunder is under RYSA," Bret Sullivan, one of about 20 parents in attendance Tuesday night, told the commission. "It's not a separate league. If it is, someone please prove to us how that is true."
A couple of parents of former players told the commission the sports association has become too intense. Matt Williams, whose daughter quit the league, said one coach told players not to smile during games. He said his daughter was confronted for playing with another team in a separate organization one night.
"We had a child that loved, lived for basketball," he said. "Suddenly, she would come home from the gym crying, [from] practice crying. We kept asking, 'What's going on? What's going on?' She wanted to quit ball altogether."


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Dismantling of Charlottetown encampment delayed for second day
Jamie Baker's church donated hats, mittens and boots, as well as a furnace, to help people living at the encampment stay warm. (Aaron Adetuyi/CBC - image credit)
Plans to take down the tent encampment at the Charlottetown Event Grounds have been delayed for a second day due to poor weather conditions.
Jamie Baker visited the encampment site throughout the day on Tuesday, waiting for cleanup to begin. He says he tried to get information from authorities about plans to dismantle the site, but had trouble getting details.
"I've been making phone calls and dropping in offices and it was supposed to happen a couple of different times," he said.
"And the latest I heard today was that they were going to start at noon."
Baker's church previously donated a wood furnace to the site to help those staying at the encampment keep warm. He said if the site was going to be dismantled, he wanted to make sure the furnace wasn't thrown out.
"I live nearby, so I thought I'd check because I need a loader or a few people to help me get that furnace back on my truck," he said.
"We'll have to get it back or it'll get bulldozed or lost."
Laura Meader/CBC
Fire officials issued a notice to vacate the encampment last week due to "ongoing fire hazards."
That notice required all personal belongings to be removed by Monday, but plans were delayed due to stormy conditions. Housing Minister Matthew MacKay said Tuesday the encampment will be dismantled as early as Wednesday.
"Everybody's been patient to get us up and going on Park Street, and now that we're there, it's time to move the tent encampment out of there," said MacKay.
MacKay said the few people who were previously sleeping overnight at the encampment are now staying in the emergency shelters units on nearby Park Street.
But MLA Karla Bernard, Opposition critic for social development and housing, said she's been told people are still living at the encampment. She said they tried calling the shelter line to book beds at the Park Street facility, but were turned away because the units were full.
"It's not working for people, and if something bad happens — if someone loses their life over that — who ultimately is responsible?" she said. "We have a lot of work to do as a province."
MacKay said that type of work is already underway.
"We know that Park Street is a Band-Aid fix," he said.
"It's not perfect by no means yet. But it is going to fill the void, for the winter, for what we need it to do until we can get our bigger plan going."
MacKay said he hopes to have a 24/7 shelter operating by next winter to ensure the province is not in the same situation by this time next year.
Last remaining occupants pack up as Charlottetown tent encampment dismantled
Under the watch of two Charlottetown police officers, crews began dismantling a tent encampment at the Charlottetown Events Grounds on Wednesday. The two people still living there packed up and left after a notice to vacate was issued Friday by the Charlottetown Fire Department, which was concerned about ongoing fire hazards. The cleanup was delayed two days due to the weather. Police said there were no incidents. One man, who did not want to do an interview, placed his belongings in totes provi
Flights cancelled in Toronto, dozens of crashes reported as winter storm hits Ontario
TORONTO — A massive snowstorm cut across southern Ontario and parts of the U.S. Wednesday, leading to hundreds of cancelled flights at Canada's largest airport and dozens of crashes across the region. Snowfall warnings were in effect for most of southern and eastern Ontario, with Environment Canada predicting up to 20 centimetres in several regions by Thursday. In Toronto, Pearson International Airport reported that 25 per cent of its departures and 26 per cent of its arrivals were cancelled Wed
Toronto mayor calls for mental health summit between all levels of government
Toronto Mayor John Tory says a meeting between municipalities across the country, involving premiers and the federal government is needed to address a growing "crisis" of mental health and addictions. Matthew Bingley reports.
Alberta premier wants meeting with Trudeau before 'just transition' bill tabled
Alberta's premier has asked to meet the prime minister in advance of anticipated federal legislation guiding a transition away from high-pollution jobs. In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made public on Thursday, Premier Danielle Smith asked for a February meeting to reach a joint agreement on proposed pieces of federal "just transition" legislation. The Liberal government says the bill will lay out a path to help well-paid workers in emissions-intensive industries like oil and gas mov
CALGARY — TotalEnergies EP Canada Ltd. says it is increasing its ownership in the Fort Hills oilsands project by acquiring part of Teck Resources Ltd.'s stake in the mine. Teck announced last year that it would sell its 21.3 per cent stake in Fort Hills to Suncor Energy Inc., the third partner in the project, for about $1 billion. However, TotalEnergies EP Canada says it has exercised its pre-emption right to acquire an additional 6.65 per cent in the project from Teck for $312 million. The deal
Sri Lanka says debt-restructuring talks making progress
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka's Central Bank chief said Wednesday that the country is making good progress in talks with its creditors to obtain financial assurances for debt restructuring, an important step toward finalizing an International Monetary Fund rescue plan. Sri Lanka is bankrupt and has suspended repayment of its $51 billion foreign debt, of which $28 billion must be repaid by 2027. It has reached a preliminary agreement with the IMF for a $2.9 billion rescue pack
Tanks for Ukraine a 'significant' move, says analyst
The contribution of modern tanks to Ukraine's fight against Russia can help Ukraine punch through enemy lines, says Prof. Walter Dorn, a defence studies expert at the Royal Military College of Canada. But the contributions also put pressure on Canada to 'pony up' with its Leopard 2 tanks, says Dorn.


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Today, on World Refugee Day, we recognize the challenges and hardships that refugees face, honor their courage and resilience in the face of overwhelming obstacles, and celebrate their many valuable contributions to our Nation.
But responding to today's unprecedented challenge requires all of us to do more. In September, when world leaders meet for the UN General Assembly, I will convene a Leaders' Summit on Refugees. In advance of that Summit, the United States is urging other governments to contribute more funding for humanitarian aid operations, to grant more refugees the chance to work and attend school, and to provide more resettlement opportunities for refugees who cannot safely go home or remain where they are. We are urging our non-governmental partners, including the private sector, to do more as well.
Even as our aid supports refugees thousands of miles from here, each day, countless Americans do their part to welcome and support refugees as they start life anew in the United States. The millions of refugees who have resettled here through the years have brought similar dreams of a better tomorrow. Each has enriched the diverse mosaic that is America. Their lives and their many accomplishments stand as a clear rebuke to the bigotry and brutality they fled, and serve as a powerful example of the human will to endure, hope, and achieve.
Today, we commemorate the spirit and strength of refugees worldwide and the dedication of those who help them on and after their journeys. Protecting and assisting refugees is a part of our history as a Nation, and we will continue to alleviate the suffering of refugees abroad, and to welcome them here at home, because doing so reflects our American values and our noblest traditions as a Nation, enriches our society, and strengthens our collective security.
"Statement by the President on World Refugee Day (2016)." The White House. The White House, 2016. Web. 20 June 2016.


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Agrilus bartolozzii es una especie de insecto del género Agrilus, familia Buprestidae, orden Coleoptera.

Fue descrita científicamente por Curletti, 2000.

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Insectos descritos en 2000

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Washington state property owners and people with swimming pools are being urged to become part of a defensive initiative to protect trees from invasive beetles.
August is National Tree Check Month, and at least four state agencies are asking tree owners this month to take a 10-minute walk around their property to look for insects that don't belong in our region.
Nationwide, more than a third of all insect invasions are first detected by average people, according to Justin Bush, executive coordinator of the Washington Invasive Species Council. Heading off an invasion before it gets started could save untold millions of dollars worth of trees, as well as the costs of battling a spreading insect invasion.
This is the second year that Washington state agencies are bringing the message home from other states where many longtime tree populations have been decimated by insects, including the citrus longhorned beetle and the emerald ash borer.
This year, state officials also are asking people who own swimming pools and ponds to join in the defensive effort, as some of invasive insects end up in the water and die. A swimming pool owner or maintenance person should take note of any unusual insects found in pool filters or among debris skimmed off the surface of the water, he said. On the East Coast, swimming pool owners are often able to spot invasive beetles even before they show up in traps designed to attract them.
It would be helpful if people would look for invasive insects all year long, Justin said, but August is a good time to place a special emphasis on the effort, because this is the time that most wood-boring insects emerge as adults.
Identifying specific species of beetles is often difficult, Justin acknowledged. The best advice is to take pictures of the insect from several angles and send the photos to the Invasive Species Council, InvasiveSpecies@rco.wa.gov, which will find an expert to identify the bug.
Another reporting method is to download the "WA Invasives" app to send photos and location data straight from your smart phone. See WISC download page. The app also includes photos and information for identifying invasive species.
When emailing, one should include contact information, including a phone number, along with the location of the insect sighting. (An address or cross-street description would be helpful.) Details about the tree species should be included as well.
If you obtain one of the beetles, you should keep it in case an expert wants to inspect the specimen. Another option is to take the beetle to a local office of WSU Extension, which can forward it to appropriate experts.
The citrus longhorned beetle, a close relative of the disastrous Asian longhorned beetle, is a major concern on the West Coast. The beetle can feed on a variety of hardwood trees, including apple, maple, oak, willow, alder and popular. When they emerge, they leave an exit hole about 5/8-inch in diameter in the tree.
In 2001, the citrus longhorned beetle was found in Tukwila, where it arrived in a shipment of bonsai trees. Three beetles were recovered from the bonsai trees but five others were seen flying away. Nearly 1,000 trees were cut and chipped within one-eighth mile from the location site, and another 1,500 trees farther away were treated with insecticide. The last beetle was seen in the fall of 2002, and a quarantine remained in effect until 2006. See U.S. Department of Agriculture website.
Because of heavy shipping from Asian ports, concerns remain high that damaging beetles will be imported to the West Coast, Justin said. Insects could also arrive from infested areas back East, which is the primary route for European gypsy moths brought into Washington state in moving vans. This state's gypsy moth eradication program — including nearly 100 local battles since 1979 (PDF 307 kb) — has kept the damaging moths from establishing a permanent foothold in this state.
Besides the citrus longhorned beetle, officials are concerned that the emerald ash borer could devastate ash trees in this state. The exit holes in ash trees are about a quarter-inch in diameter and have a distinctive "D" shape. Ash trees are common in urban areas, and the beetles apparently have been moving westward as campers bring firewood from eastern areas. The beetle was recently discovered in Boulder, Colo.
State agencies involved in the effort to track down the invasive beetles are the Invasive Species Council, Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources and Washington State University Extension.
Invasive species from San Francisco Bay — known as the most infested waterway in the country — would have an open door for entry into Puget Sound under a bill moving through Congress.
You may have heard this line before. I posted the same warning last summer, when the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act, or VIDA, was attached to the "must-pass" National Defense Authorization Act. (Water Ways, July 16). Opponents fought back and were able to strip VIDA from the bill before final passage.
Now, with Republicans in control of both houses of Congress and an anti-regulatory atmosphere in place, the bill's passage seems more likely this time — to the detriment of Puget Sound, the Great Lakes and other waterways.
If VIDA passes, ships coming up the coast from California will be able to take on infested ballast water in San Francisco Bay and discharge it without treatment into Puget Sound. Invasive species that hitched a ride in the ballast water would have a chance to populate Puget Sound.


Coverage is at the foundation of the Countdown approach. Countdown to 2030 tracks and reports on progress in achieving high, equitable, and sustained coverage for interventions across the continuum of care (from pre-pregnancy, through pregnancy, childbirth, and the early days and years of life) that are proven to reduce mortality and improve health among women, children, and adolescents in order to stimulate action and hold countries and their partners accountable to their Sustainable Development Goal commitments.
The selection of coverage indicators to assess progress requires a systematic approach that captures all population groups through nationally representative data as well as all stages of the RMNCAH and nutrition continuum. Although only a core set of proven indicators are analyzed, the continuum of care framework allows a careful assessment of how well countries are progressing on the delivery of proven interventions and reaching a large portion of their population in need of these interventions.
Through the Coverage Technical Working Group, Countdown to 2030 is working on improving measures of effective coverage, which capture information on the quality of services provided. The working group also stresses the importance of counting the actual number of people in need of services that receive (and do not receive) them to highlight the impact of population changes on health systems.
Countdown's Coverage Technical Working Group aims to ensure that measures of coverage reflect the best available indicators and data, reported in standard and transparent ways across countries and over time. The coverage data used to construct Countdown's reports and profiles can be downloaded here.
In addition to providing analyses for the Countdown Reports and associated Country Profiles, the Coverage Technical Working Group conducts secondary analyses and provides technical support to the regional networks.
Publications (including articles, reports, country profiles and briefs) will be posted on this page as they are published.
To see a list of all the publications completed under Countdown to 2015, please click here.


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China welcomes Solomon's move to ditch ties with Taiwan
Beijing says decision to switch allegiance will bring islands unprecedented development opportunities
Wed, Sep 18, 2019 - 5:50 AM
THE Solomon Islands will have unprecedented development opportunities now that it has ditched ties with Taiwan in favour of China, Beijing said on Tuesday, a major victory for China in its campaign to pressure the self-ruled, democratic island.
The Solomon Islands was the sixth country to switch allegiance to China since President Tsai Ing-wen took office in Taiwan in 2016.
Its decision on Monday dealt her a new blow in her struggle to secure re-election in January amid criticism of her handling of rising tension with Beijing.
Taiwan has condemned China for luring its allies with promises of easy loans and aid, accusations Beijing denies.
Apple's partner Pegatron sets up facility in Vietnam
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying implied Taiwan was the one guilty of practicing dollar diplomacy.
"Of course, for those who are used to buying diplomacy with money, they may not understand that some principles cannot be bought, and that trust cannot be bought," Ms Hua told a daily news briefing.
The Solomon Islands' decision to go with China was in line with the trend of the times, and it would have China's full support, she added.
"We believe that the establishment and development of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, with more than 1.4 billion people and the world's second-largest economy with a bright future, will surely bring unprecedented opportunities for development for the Solomon Islands."
Ms Hua did not directly answer a question on when China would formally establish ties with the Solomons, citing only an old Chinese expression meaning that everything will happen at the right time: "When a melon is ripe, it falls off its stem; and when water flows, a channel is formed."
Taiwan now has formal relations with only 16 countries, many of them small, less-developed nations in Central America and the Pacific, including Belize and Nauru.
China claims Taiwan as its territory and says it has no right to formal ties with any nation.
The Solomon Islands' decision followed a months-long review of the pros and cons of a switch to Beijing, which was offering US$8.5 million in development funds to replace support from Taiwan.
China has in recent years been expanding its influence in the South Pacific, to the concern of the United States and its main ally in the region, Australia.
Taiwan has been losing allies in other parts of the world too.
Burkina Faso, the Dominican Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Panama and El Salvador have cut off ties with Taipei in recent years.
Beijing has stepped up its pressure on Taiwan, including sending regular Chinese bomber patrols around the island, since Ms Tsai took office.
China suspects Ms Tsai of pushing for Taiwan's formal independence, a red line for Beijing. She says she wants to maintain the status quo, but will defend Taiwan's freedom and democracy. REUTERS


Quite frequently, microphones will be used in a theatre application. These mics may be on the actors, or elsewhere. One frustrating aspect of running sound for a show in cases like this is that often the volume level will not be loud enough at times and too loud at other times. This can be due to many factors, most of which involve the actors. This problem can be practically eliminated through the use of a device called a compressor/limiter.
A compressor/limiter reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal. Simply put, it makes quieter things louder, and louder things quieter. Several controls are available, such as attack and release times, threshold levels, and compression ratios. There are two main schools of setting compressor controls; one dictates that some calculations be made, while the other follows the ``fiddle with it until it sounds good'' methodology.
The calculation scheme is rarely used when the compressor is being used on an input such as a microphone. Since compressors/limiters can be placed on the output stages of sound boards, they are often used to protect the speakers and amplifiers from excessive peaks. Setting the compressor such that the sound may not rise above a certain level is fairly easy, and in this sense the compressor is merely acting as a limiter. However, finding the level that won't destroy the speakers isn't necessarily easy, as there are many factors to consider. This is where the calculations can come in. Needless to say, they are beyond the scope of this book. Consult the Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook or a competent audio engineer for more details.
The best way to get a feel for how a compressor works is to hook one up and insert it on a microphone input on a sound board. Adjust the attack, release, threshold and ratio until the sound seems fairly natural. Try moving the microphone closer and farther away while speaking into it. With appropriate settings, the ill-effects of an person speaking quietly at one moment and yelling the next, or moving closer and farther away from the microphone can be reduced.


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When was the first use of broadcast or live performance where singers lip synched?
Since the 80s and 90s a lot of bands and singers performed on film, on stage or on television while lip synching to a pre-recorded performance..
Now I wonder, when and by who was the first use of lip-synching to a recording?
Bonus Points for a detailed description why ist was used (I guess because of television, but maybe I am wrong).
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The quick summary of my lengthy post is this: People have been doing it for as long as they have been able to get away with it.
The answer is that this practice began at the very beginning of the invention of motion pictures with sound, in 1923.
However the Wikipedia article on sound film claims that there were public screenings of films as early as 1914 where a silent film was accompanied by live actors speaking over amplified playback of music from a phonograph.
In virtually every motion picture you have ever seen, if there is a musical performance, the performers are miming playing the instruments and are lip-synching the vocals. This is because of practical and budgetary considerations; it would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming for a film production crew to film a group of musicians performing live on a soundstage. It is much easier and it results in much higher sound quality simply to use a pre-recorded performance.
As far as television, the practice of lip-synching goes back to the widespread popularity of television broadcasts, starting in the 1950s.
As far as live performance, the practice goes back as far as the availability of public address systems and amplification which were adequate to play a recording and make it sound as good in audio quality as what could be achieved with live performance.
I would surmise that the earliest example of a stage performer playing live in concert with a tape-recorded backup was very likely that of guitarist Les Paul circa 1949, shortly after he obtained one of the first mass-produced tape recording machines available in the Western Hemisphere. He certainly used this technique in his duets with singer Mary Ford, from 1948 through the 1950s.
Starting in this same time period, there began a long-established practice in avant-garde classical music called music for tape whereby a composer would construct an elaborate studio recording involving manipulations and transformations of found sounds and electronic elements. In some cases, these compositions were written to be performed by a live acoustic musician on stage, backed by a taped recording. You can find many examples of such compositions with titles like "Sonata for Tape and Piano", "Music for Tape and Flute" and the like.
Lip-synching and miming playing musical instruments on television was made standard practice by the weekly television program American Bandstand in the USA. American Bandstand broadcast from 1952 through 1989. All the bands and artists (many quite famous) that appeared on this show were required to mime and lip-synch performances of their recorded hit records. There were a host of similar television shows in many nations of the world, most notably a show in England called Top of the Pops from 1964 through 2006 -- although it is possible that some of those shows might have permitted some bands to actually perform live from time to time.
The rock bands Pink Floyd and The Who were performing live in concert with the use of some tape-recorded backing tracks on certain songs going back to the late 1960s. They tended to use the tape recordings for parts of arrangements that were elaborately constructed in the recording studio and would have been difficult or impossible to perform live. However, they would not mime or lip-synch to these parts; it was obvious to the audience that certain parts of the arrangement were provided by a tape machine playing back while the other parts were being performed live by the musicians.
Since that time, many musical groups in all styles of music, from classical acoustic chamber groups (the Kronos Quartet for example) to electronic synth-pop have performed along with pre-recorded tracks, either on tape or another recording device, or using electronic music sequencers and MIDI triggering synthesizers, samplers and electronic instruments. It would seem that virtually every band centered around synthesizers has made heavy use of pre-recorded and sequenced backing tracks in live performance, from the first availability of synthesizers that could be used on stage, and that goes back to about 1968. With such bands, it has always been difficult for the audience to figure out what parts are being played by live musicians and what parts are pre-recorded or sequenced.
It is likely that many well-known performing singers surreptitiously used pre-recorded vocals and lip-synched on stage for a long time before it became widely known to the public. The first well-known controversy about this involved the rock band the Electric Light Orchestra, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The most famous case of performers lip-synching on stage (and not acknowledging it to the audience) is of course that of the notorious Milli Vanilli in 1989. This previously multi-million-selling, international superstar act became reviled by the public and the controversy destroyed their careers.
Great answer. I dont meant to include film or musical in my question, but the second half of your answer explained the part i wanted to know (live performances), thank you.
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Gothic Blues Artist Adia Victoria Drops New Single – "South Gotta Change"
By JD Nash September 1, 2020 Updated: September 1, 2020 No Comments2 Mins Read
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Adia Victoria has dropped a new single, "South Gotta Change," executive produced by T Bone Burnett.
Victoria began her musical journey first as a poet, then a singer-songwriter based in Nashville. She doesn't play the blues as a genre, rather using it as a jumping-off point from which she can explore. Her Gothic Blues meets Americana style is both refreshing and haunting.
Victoria has released three EPs and two critically acclaimed albums; Beyond the Bloodhounds in 2016, and last year's Silences. Silences was recorded with Aaron Dessner (The National) at his studio in upstate New York. Throughout the album's 12 tracks, Victoria brings the topics of mental illness, drug addiction, sexism, and all the elements that consume the day-to-day lives of women attempting to make a world of their own.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame presented her with the Holly Prize which recognizes and supports a new "all-in songwriter." She toured the U.S. and Europe on the "Dope Queen Tour" which included a performance on Live From Here with Chris Thile and at Brooklyn's Prospect Park, the Newport Folk Festival, and a performance at Mass MOCA and Boston Calling.
Most recently Adia participated in a panel discussion, "Black Equity in Americana: A Conversation" which was hosted by the Americana Music Association and moderated by Marcus K. Downling. Other participants included musician Kamara Thomas, Rev. Sekou and Louisiana Red Hot Records' Lilli Lewis and Muddy Roots Music Festival's Jason Galaz.
Of "South Gotta Change," Victoria says:
In 2020 I have watched as the world became irreversibly altered. The upheaval Covid-19 caused has allowed for a sacred pause in our daily life.
During this lapse we lost Congressman John Lewis. In the days following his death I pondered the work he accomplished and the work left to us who remain.
'South Gotta Change' is a prayer, an affirmation, and a battle cry all at once. It is a promise to engage in the kind of 'good trouble' John Lewis understood necessary to form a more perfect union.
No other place embodies the American experiment with the precision of the South. It is home to both unspeakable horror and unshakable faith. It is up to us, those who are blessed enough to be Southern, to take up the mantle Brother Lewis left us. As the old saying goes, 'As the South goes, so goes the nation.'
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from oslo_config import cfg

from ironic.common import release_mappings

CONF = cfg.CONF

# This is the version 1 API
BASE_VERSION = 1

# Here goes a short log of changes in every version.
# Refer to doc/source/contributor/webapi-version-history.rst for a detailed
# explanation of what each version contains.
#
# v1.0: corresponds to Juno API, not supported since Kilo
# v1.1: API at the point in time when versioning support was added,
# covers the following commits from Kilo cycle:
#   827db7fe: Add Node.maintenance_reason
#   68eed82b: Add API endpoint to set/unset the node maintenance mode
#   bc973889: Add sync and async support for passthru methods
#   e03f443b: Vendor endpoints to support different HTTP methods
#   e69e5309: Make vendor methods discoverable via the Ironic API
#   edf532db: Add logic to store the config drive passed by Nova
# v1.2: Renamed NOSTATE ("None") to AVAILABLE ("available")
# v1.3: Add node.driver_internal_info
# v1.4: Add MANAGEABLE state
# v1.5: Add logical node names
# v1.6: Add INSPECT* states
# v1.7: Add node.clean_step
# v1.8: Add ability to return a subset of resource fields
# v1.9: Add ability to filter nodes by provision state
# v1.10: Logical node names support RFC 3986 unreserved characters
# v1.11: Nodes appear in ENROLL state by default
# v1.12: Add support for RAID
# v1.13: Add 'abort' verb to CLEANWAIT
# v1.14: Make the following endpoints discoverable via API:
#        1. '/v1/nodes/<uuid>/states'
#        2. '/v1/drivers/<driver-name>/properties'
# v1.15: Add ability to do manual cleaning of nodes
# v1.16: Add ability to filter nodes by driver.
# v1.17: Add 'adopt' verb for ADOPTING active nodes.
# v1.18: Add port.internal_info.
# v1.19: Add port.local_link_connection and port.pxe_enabled.
# v1.20: Add node.network_interface
# v1.21: Add node.resource_class
# v1.22: Ramdisk lookup and heartbeat endpoints.
# v1.23: Add portgroup support.
# v1.24: Add subcontrollers: node.portgroup, portgroup.ports.
#        Add port.portgroup_uuid field.
# v1.25: Add possibility to unset chassis_uuid from node.
# v1.26: Add portgroup.mode and portgroup.properties.
# v1.27: Add soft reboot, soft power off and timeout.
# v1.28: Add vifs subcontroller to node
# v1.29: Add inject nmi.
# v1.30: Add dynamic driver interactions.
# v1.31: Add dynamic interfaces fields to node.
# v1.32: Add volume support.
# v1.33: Add node storage interface
# v1.34: Add physical network field to port.
# v1.35: Add ability to provide configdrive when rebuilding node.
# v1.36: Add Ironic Python Agent version support.
# v1.37: Add node traits.
# v1.38: Add rescue and unrescue provision states
# v1.39: Add inspect wait provision state.
# v1.40: Add bios.properties.
#        Add bios_interface to the node object.
# v1.41: Add inspection abort support.
# v1.42: Expose fault field to node.
# v1.43: Add detail=True flag to all API endpoints
# v1.44: Add node deploy_step field
# v1.45: reset_interfaces parameter to node's PATCH
# v1.46: Add conductor_group to the node object.
# v1.47: Add automated_clean to the node object.
# v1.48: Add protected to the node object.
# v1.49: Add conductor to the node object and /v1/conductors.
# v1.50: Add owner to the node object.
# v1.51: Add description to the node object.
# v1.52: Add allocation API.
# v1.53: Add support for Smart NIC port
# v1.54: Add events support.
# v1.55: Add deploy templates API.
# v1.56: Add support for building configdrives.
# v1.57: Add support for updating an exisiting allocation.
# v1.58: Add support for backfilling allocations.
# v1.59: Add support vendor data in configdrives.
# v1.60: Add owner to the allocation object.
# v1.61: Add retired and retired_reason to the node object.
# v1.62: Add agent_token support for agent communication.
# v1.63: Add support for indicators
# v1.64: Add network_type to port.local_link_connection
# v1.65: Add lessee to the node object.
# v1.66: Add support for node network_data field.
# v1.67: Add support for port_uuid/portgroup_uuid in node vif_attach
# v1.68: Add agent_verify_ca to heartbeat.
# v1.69: Add deploy_steps to provisioning
# v1.70: Add disable_ramdisk to manual cleaning.
# v1.71: Add signifier for Scope based roles.
# v1.72: Add agent_status and agent_status_message to /v1/heartbeat
# v1.73: Add support for deploy and undeploy verbs
# v1.74: Add bios registry to /v1/nodes/{node}/bios/{setting}
# v1.75: Add boot_mode, secure_boot fields to node object.
# v1.76: Add support for changing boot_mode and secure_boot state
# v1.77: Add fields selector to drivers list and driver detail.
# v1.78: Add node history endpoint
# v1.79: Change allocation behaviour to prefer node name match
# v1.80: Marker to represent self service node creation/deletion
MINOR_0_JUNO = 0
MINOR_1_INITIAL_VERSION = 1
MINOR_2_AVAILABLE_STATE = 2
MINOR_3_DRIVER_INTERNAL_INFO = 3
MINOR_4_MANAGEABLE_STATE = 4
MINOR_5_NODE_NAME = 5
MINOR_6_INSPECT_STATE = 6
MINOR_7_NODE_CLEAN = 7
MINOR_8_FETCHING_SUBSET_OF_FIELDS = 8
MINOR_9_PROVISION_STATE_FILTER = 9
MINOR_10_UNRESTRICTED_NODE_NAME = 10
MINOR_11_ENROLL_STATE = 11
MINOR_12_RAID_CONFIG = 12
MINOR_13_ABORT_VERB = 13
MINOR_14_LINKS_NODESTATES_DRIVERPROPERTIES = 14
MINOR_15_MANUAL_CLEAN = 15
MINOR_16_DRIVER_FILTER = 16
MINOR_17_ADOPT_VERB = 17
MINOR_18_PORT_INTERNAL_INFO = 18
MINOR_19_PORT_ADVANCED_NET_FIELDS = 19
MINOR_20_NETWORK_INTERFACE = 20
MINOR_21_RESOURCE_CLASS = 21
MINOR_22_LOOKUP_HEARTBEAT = 22
MINOR_23_PORTGROUPS = 23
MINOR_24_PORTGROUPS_SUBCONTROLLERS = 24
MINOR_25_UNSET_CHASSIS_UUID = 25
MINOR_26_PORTGROUP_MODE_PROPERTIES = 26
MINOR_27_SOFT_POWER_OFF = 27
MINOR_28_VIFS_SUBCONTROLLER = 28
MINOR_29_INJECT_NMI = 29
MINOR_30_DYNAMIC_DRIVERS = 30
MINOR_31_DYNAMIC_INTERFACES = 31
MINOR_32_VOLUME = 32
MINOR_33_STORAGE_INTERFACE = 33
MINOR_34_PORT_PHYSICAL_NETWORK = 34
MINOR_35_REBUILD_CONFIG_DRIVE = 35
MINOR_36_AGENT_VERSION_HEARTBEAT = 36
MINOR_37_NODE_TRAITS = 37
MINOR_38_RESCUE_INTERFACE = 38
MINOR_39_INSPECT_WAIT = 39
MINOR_40_BIOS_INTERFACE = 40
MINOR_41_INSPECTION_ABORT = 41
MINOR_42_FAULT = 42
MINOR_43_ENABLE_DETAIL_QUERY = 43
MINOR_44_NODE_DEPLOY_STEP = 44
MINOR_45_RESET_INTERFACES = 45
MINOR_46_NODE_CONDUCTOR_GROUP = 46
MINOR_47_NODE_AUTOMATED_CLEAN = 47
MINOR_48_NODE_PROTECTED = 48
MINOR_49_CONDUCTORS = 49
MINOR_50_NODE_OWNER = 50
MINOR_51_NODE_DESCRIPTION = 51
MINOR_52_ALLOCATION = 52
MINOR_53_PORT_SMARTNIC = 53
MINOR_54_EVENTS = 54
MINOR_55_DEPLOY_TEMPLATES = 55
MINOR_56_BUILD_CONFIGDRIVE = 56
MINOR_57_ALLOCATION_UPDATE = 57
MINOR_58_ALLOCATION_BACKFILL = 58
MINOR_59_CONFIGDRIVE_VENDOR_DATA = 59
MINOR_60_ALLOCATION_OWNER = 60
MINOR_61_NODE_RETIRED = 61
MINOR_62_AGENT_TOKEN = 62
MINOR_63_INDICATORS = 63
MINOR_64_LOCAL_LINK_CONNECTION_NETWORK_TYPE = 64
MINOR_65_NODE_LESSEE = 65
MINOR_66_NODE_NETWORK_DATA = 66
MINOR_67_NODE_VIF_ATTACH_PORT = 67
MINOR_68_HEARTBEAT_VERIFY_CA = 68
MINOR_69_DEPLOY_STEPS = 69
MINOR_70_CLEAN_DISABLE_RAMDISK = 70
MINOR_71_RBAC_SCOPES = 71
MINOR_72_HEARTBEAT_STATUS = 72
MINOR_73_DEPLOY_UNDEPLOY_VERBS = 73
MINOR_74_BIOS_REGISTRY = 74
MINOR_75_NODE_BOOT_MODE = 75
MINOR_76_NODE_CHANGE_BOOT_MODE = 76
MINOR_77_DRIVER_FIELDS_SELECTOR = 77
MINOR_78_NODE_HISTORY = 78
MINOR_79_ALLOCATION_NODE_NAME = 79
MINOR_80_PROJECT_CREATE_DELETE_NODE = 80

# When adding another version, update:
# - MINOR_MAX_VERSION
# - doc/source/contributor/webapi-version-history.rst with a detailed
#   explanation of what changed in the new version
# - common/release_mappings.py, RELEASE_MAPPING['master']['api']

MINOR_MAX_VERSION = MINOR_80_PROJECT_CREATE_DELETE_NODE

# String representations of the minor and maximum versions
_MIN_VERSION_STRING = '{}.{}'.format(BASE_VERSION, MINOR_1_INITIAL_VERSION)
_MAX_VERSION_STRING = '{}.{}'.format(BASE_VERSION, MINOR_MAX_VERSION)

def min_version_string():
    """Returns the minimum supported API version (as a string)"""
    return _MIN_VERSION_STRING

def max_version_string():
    """Returns the maximum supported API version (as a string).

    If the service is pinned, the maximum API version is the pinned
    version. Otherwise, it is the maximum supported API version.
    """
    release_ver = release_mappings.RELEASE_MAPPING.get(
        CONF.pin_release_version)
    if release_ver:
        return release_ver['api']
    else:
        return _MAX_VERSION_STRING


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Q: Three.js OrbitControls rotating up and down along whole screen attempts to go 360, but limited to 180 In OrbitControls.js There is a function:
function handleMouseMoveRotate( event ) {
    //console.log( 'handleMouseMoveRotate' );

rotateEnd.set( event.clientX, event.clientY );
rotateDelta.subVectors( rotateEnd, rotateStart );

var element = scope.domElement === document ? scope.domElement.body : scope.domElement;

// rotating across whole screen goes 360 degrees around
rotateLeft( 2 * Math.PI * rotateDelta.x / element.clientWidth * scope.rotateSpeed );

// rotating up and down along whole screen attempts to go 360, but limited to 180
rotateUp( 2 * Math.PI * rotateDelta.y / element.clientHeight * scope.rotateSpeed );

rotateStart.copy( rotateEnd );

scope.update();

}
I want to  rotating up and down along whole screen attempts to go 360, but limited to 180.but it can only be used OrbitControls.js.
Any help appreciated!!!!


So I have been debating on posting on here, as all I ever get in return is negativity and only a few appreciators for my unique look into SatAM and how I think majorly outside the box. This has not only been a great asset in how I can completely rebuild the world and its inhabitants while still keeping everything in a SatAM blanket. Every piece of work I have ever done with Sonic has had SatAM in there somewhere. Sometimes to the point of like I said above complete redesign of the world of Mobius, and yet I keep all the qualities of the characters, but give them the means to go further. Now only a few FUSers know of my other project I am working on besides M.O.B.I.U.S. this project is called "Welcome To Mobius" This project I have been building on for the last three months. It started as a collab fanfic concept to sprawl into a very engrossing beast. Each character is complex, and to the point of damn near breathing and intractability. I wanted to make the characters this way as too me... They have always been that way ever since I was a kid wrapped up in my red hand made blanket from my great grandma, on those Saturday mornings. Cowering every time Robuttnik came on screen and was about to do bad things. The show touched in a way that is unexplainable. It didn't feel like a cartoon to me and yet it was.
So to get back on track with this post. I have had a deep and thorough look into the characters and even how they developed in the comics. I have always thought every Sonic character has some sort of depth, but in SatAM's case I will replace depth with Complexity.
So now we get to the reason of this post. I wanted to see who you fellow FUSers find to be in your own way. A deep or complex character. Whether its from SatAM or Archie Sonic, or even SegaSonic. I'm just curious as to who you think is a deep or has the possibility to be complex.
For me its really two characters as they're the ones I connected the most with. And I'll give a deep and complex reason for my two choices later if this post gets some replies, as I think its a post that needs to be discussed.
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I've just finished the "programming" side of my game. All that's left now is creating and adding the graphics and audio. I've used simple sprites with solid colours but with the correct size in each layout. I will just add the graphics to the sprites and everything should be fine.
However, there is one issue I just noticed.
I've created a single sprite for all the floor in my levels....but I want them to have different textures throughout the levels.
Can I make them unique, or make them an entirely new sprite object, without having to delete the old ones, create new ones and manually place them all over the layout?
If it's a sprite object then just add different animation frames and set them in the editor / runtime as required. I can't think of an easy / quick fix if you're talking about a tiled background, though (there are ways to load tiled background images using a url or something like that - I can't remember the details but it was discussed on the forum a while ago).


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WELLAND — As the Métis flag was raised in front of city hall there was a special reason to remember this year.
As they did over the past four years, representatives from the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Niagara Region Métis Council met with Mayor Barry Sharpe and city representatives to raise the flag in honour of Louis Riel Day. The small crowd gathered last Friday, one day ahead of the actual Nov. 16 date of Riel's execution as the leader of the Métis.
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"He stood up,� said Pont, explaining the Métis leader and his provisional government were influential in the establishment of Manitoba as a province, participating in negotiations with the Canadian government in 1870. Those negotiations were supposed to yield dedicated lands for the Métis.
Riel would lead the Métis in open rebellion and eventually be executed for his involvement.
"He ended up losing his life to that cause,� said Pont.
Now, 128 years later, vindication has finally come.
Pont explained this year the Supreme Court finally made a ruling on the Manitoba Métis Federation v. Canada case. In a 6-2 vote the court found that "the Federal Crown failed?to implement the land grant provision set out in s. 31 of the Manitoba Act, 1870 in accordance with the honour of the Crown."
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