The final keynote announced for next month's Leading Through Excellence summit is the latest high-profile hire in the world of Buckeyes sports who's off to an auspicious start.
The Ohio State University Center for Operational Excellence is thrilled to announce Buckeye Men's Basketball Head Coach Chris Holtmann will serve as the morning keynote on the final day of the April 10-12 summit. He joins fellow keynote speakers Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power of Habit; Karen Martin, author of Clarity First; and Bradley Staats, a researcher and author of the forthcoming Never Stop Learning.
Coach Holtmann's keynote slot last year featured a visit from Buckeye Football Head Coach Urban Meyer.
The announcement comes just weeks after Holtmann clinched Big Ten Coach of the Year honors in his first season with the Buckeyes, who are 24-8 overall and 15-3 in the Big Ten. Holtmann, who's won Coach of the Year three times now in three different leagues, coached the Buckeyes to a 9-0 run out of the gate in Big Ten play. That's the first time that's happened for seven or more games in nearly a century, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Check out his full bio on COE's summit website.
In his keynote, Coach Holtmann will be sharing career and leadership insights – and some thoughts on the season – as well as taking questions from the audience.
The four featured Leading Through Excellence keynotes are among more than 40 sessions offered at the summit, which is more than 80% booked a little more than a month out. The dynamic mix of workshops, tours, breakout sessions, networking events and keynotes is COE's signature annual event, which is open to the general public as well as employees of member companies.
Have a story of transformational change at your organization you'd like to share? Have research-based insights that can help business professionals develop their leadership or problem-solving skills?
The Ohio State University Center for Operational Excellence is accepting proposals for breakout sessions at its 2018 Leading Through Excellence summit, set for April 10-12 at the Fawcett Center on Ohio State's campus. For attendees, the 25 breakout sessions to be offered at the event – spread across April 11 and 12 in five 60- and 75-minute blocks of five concurrent sessions – allow them to customize their summit experience to choose the topics that fit their interests and best align with their personal and organizational goals. For presenters, the sessions offer the chance to share best practices and make connections with hundreds of business leaders.
While COE will still be recruiting a number of breakout presenters outside this process, between five and 10 sessions will be drawn from submitted proposals. All session presenters receive complimentary admission to the summit.
Presentation proposals will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis, and all those who submit proposals will be notified of their status by Jan. 15, 2018, at the latest.
Miss this year's Leading Through Excellence summit or looking to revisit it?
Cal Poly Prof. Eric Olsen, who hosted a workshop and breakout at this year's summit and is featured on the "Manufacturing Tomorrow" podcast.
and Mark Reich, COO of the Lean Enterprise Institute, who hosted a breakout session on hoshin planning.
You can check out the first round of the podcast interviews, featuring Dunston and Browning, here, while round two – with Olsen and Reich – can be found here.
COE regularly partners with OMI to bring speakers to Manufacturing Tomorrow. Past COE collaborations have resulted in podcasts interviewing Goodyear's Norbert Majerus, COE Executive Director Peg Pennington, Snap-On Inc. CEO Nick Pinchuk and more.
The full Manufacturing Tomorrow podcast archive is available on iTunes.
In just 10 weeks, 400 process excellence leaders from around the country are gathering at the Fawcett Center in Columbus, Ohio, for the Center for Operational Excellence's fifth-annual Leading Through Excellence summit, a wide-ranging deep dive into problem-solving and leadership insights featuring two-dozen speakers.
We're 70% booked. Registrations are coming in at a record pace that could lead to a full sell-out before April 1. If you're considering returning to the summit or joining us for the first time, now's your opportunity to guarantee your spot and have the best access to available Tuesday workshops and tours.
Early bird pricing ends Feb. 13. Right now, all member and non-member registrations to the summit are automatically discounted by 5%, while groups of five or more that register trigger an additional 5% discount. On Feb. 14, one of those price breaks will vanish, leaving only the group discount on the table. Gather your team now and sign up before then to ensure the best pricing.
Most breakout sessions are up for view. Leading Through Excellence offers five breakout session windows across April 12-13, with four options during each session. Of the 20 total options, 15 full abstracts are now posted on our website, with the remaining five set to debut by Friday, Feb. 10. Take a look now at what's being offered and some of the organizations featured, including Cleveland Clinic, Bose, LeanOhio, IBM, LeanCor and FedEx.
Another keynote will be announced next Friday. Right now, we're thrilled to feature Mindset Digital CEO and organizational communication expert Debra Jasper and The Alliance co-author Chris Yeh as keynotes for Leading Through Excellence. If you're joining us for the Feb. 10 seminar via live-streaming or in person, you'll be the first to hear our latest keynote announcement, which we'll be posting on our website and via social media later that day.
Workshops and tours are filling up… Even with a record 15 workshop and tour offerings on Tuesday, April 11, some sessions are beginning to fill up. The all-day "Business Storytelling for Leaders" workshop hosted by ThedaCare has reached capacity along with the morning "Aligning Improvement with What's Important" strategy workshop hosted by lean expert Beau Keyte. In the afternoon, tours to Anheuser-Busch InBev and Fuse by Cardinal Health – 2016 offerings back by popular demand – have booked up, as has a tour of BMW Financial Services.
…but many are still available. The upside? Another 10 tour and workshop offerings – including a newly added afternoon session of Keyte's "Aligning Improvements" session – are still up for grabs. That includes an all-day lean office-focused tour of the Cleveland Clinic's massive Revenue Cycle Management area, a morning crash course in data analysis, a zombie-themed afternoon Six Sigma workshop, a trip to Honeywell Aerospace, and more.
We're going digital. Leading Through Excellence is debuting an official app for this year's summit that includes all information on sessions and keynotes, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and more. Attendees also will have the opportunity to connect with others via messaging, rate sessions, and submit Q&A electronically. The summit app will roll out a month before the summit, giving you a chance to explore what it has to offer and make the most of it across the event's three days.
Hotel deadlines are approaching. Coming in from out of town? Bringing a group? There's still time to take advantage of specially reserved hotel blocks at two venues near the Fawcett Center: The Hilton Garden Inn and Staybridge Suites OSU. Hilton Garden Inn's block pricing is available through March 10, while a newly added block at Staybridge must be booked by March 25. Rooms in the summit block have sold out each year in advance of the deadline, so head to our lodging/travel page to make your reservations.
Our summit schedule has changed – for your convenience. To better accommodate travel schedules on the summit's final day, Thursday, April 13, Leading Through Excellence will kick off at 8 a.m. and conclude with a 12:30 p.m. lunch following closing keynote Chris Yeh.
Thursday's early start is worth it. A very special guest will take the stage at 8 a.m. on the summit's final day – and you won't want to miss it. Intrigued? We'll be making the announcement in the March summit preview edition of our Current State e-newsletter and on this blog.
Ready to register? Click here or check out event details on our official site.
The core principles at the heart of Dan Markovitz' latest book, Building the Fit Organization, are the very essence of lean thinking. Just don't expect to see the word "lean" past the introduction. Or, for that matter, any references to a certain automaker, its namesake production system, or a litany of Japanese words.
Building the Fit Organization, which the author breaks down in an exclusive half-day workshop as part of COE's Leading Through Excellence summit on April 12, is Markovitz' response to a disconnect he sees in how we communicate lean concepts and leadership principles to our people. We recently spoke to Markovitz about what that disconnect is – and how first book since his Shingo Prize-winning A Factory of One tackles it.
COE: There are a ton of books on lean out there. What inspired you to write this one?
Dan Markovitz: Over the years I've seen a lot of really smart people work with companies trying to improve operational performance by driving a lean transformation – and yet the number of companies that actually succeeded is vanishingly small. This book is an exploration, my attempt to explain one of the root causes of this and rectify it.
COE: So what is that root cause?
DM: We're asking people to think about their work differently, yet we make it unnecessarily difficult for them to accept it. I see a lot of people using the language of Toyota, literally using Japanese, telling people working in a bank or a hospital how Toyota builds cars. Their very first response is to lean back in their chairs, cross their arms, and say, "We don't make cars." The leader, consultant, or improvement professional then has a huge uphill battle to explain that they're not trying to turn them into factory workers. Then, after a week, a month, or six months, people may start to get it. If we could speak to them using analogies and metaphors that make sense to them, all the sudden we don't have to go uphill.
COE: You're definitely not letting consultants such as yourself off the hook here.
COE: You went with a physical fitness metaphor for your book. Why?
DM: Fitness works for me – I used to be a competitive runner and a running coach. You could just as easily use a metaphor of music or writing, all kinds of things. I believe that if we're a little more creative about the way we tell the story, the way we present the ideas, it'll be a whole lot easier for us to sell the ideas and get people to embrace and implement them.
COE: You also made the very conscious decision to leave tools out of your book. What led to that?
DM: Oftentimes, we lead with tools and we end up losing people. The tools that people learn – 5S, for instance – often are designed to solve specific problems. Who knows what your specific problem is? With this book, rather than talking about tools, I wanted to talk about principles. It's important that people grasp the fundamental concepts and understand how to become better, fitter organizations before messing around with tools.
COE: What do you see as the audience for your book and, by extension, your workshop on April 12?
DM: Certainly both are for people who are relatively new to the idea of continuous improvement but might be intimidated by the all the Toyota, 5S, kanban, water spider talk. The second audience, though, is companies who have started lean or some continuous improvement program and seen it stall out. This is a way for them to reintroduce it in a fashion that would be more accessible. I also think this would be really valuable for leaders in an organization. The principles I talk about really need to be lived and embodied by leadership. If a leader's not committed to a fit organization, it's not going to take hold.
Learn more about Dan's session, and others being offered at Leading Through Excellence, on the official event website.
The good news? COE's fourth-annual Leading Through Excellence summit is less than three months away, and you still have more than two weeks to save up to 15% on registration.
The bad news? Seats are selling fast – we're already half-booked – and some tours and workshops are either full or approaching sell-out.
Nearly Sold Out: Limited seating remains for the Tuesday afternoon Anheuser-Busch InBev tour. Another tour offered Tuesday afternoon, to Cardinal Health's Fuse software development operation, has a scant few slots remaining.
Gaining Steam: Planning on taking part in our marquee workshop for this year's summit, The Pit Crew Experience? A number of seats already are pre-booked, while additional tickets are selling quickly. We expect this option to sell out by late February. Another tour gaining popularity among registrations is the trip to longtime COE member Abbott Nutrition, whose massive Columbus operation employs thousands in the region.
These are only a handful of the day-one options at Leading Through Excellence; capacity remains for a number of morning workshops and afternoon tours.
Be sure to check out the full summit site for details on our featured keynote speakers, our still-growing roster of breakout session hosts, and discount pricing.
At least one workshop at this April's Leading Through Excellence summit is a must-have on your wish list.
PIT was founded in 2000 and has since hosted hundreds of companies for training.
The Center for Operational Excellence this spring is partnering with Mooresville, N.C.-based Performance Instruction & Training (PIT), a hotbed for training pit crew athletes worldwide. Not only will PIT leader Ben Cook be kicking off the second day of the summit on Wednesday, April 13, but PIT will be running a limited-capacity hands-on workshop on Tuesday, April 12.
Available as a workshop Tuesday afternoon is "The Pit Crew Experience," which draws on the high-stakes world of pro-racing pit crews to explore the lean concepts we can apply at our organizations. Much in the spirit of the pit crew changeover itself, though, this workshop is hands-on and fast-paced: After a brief presentation on the "think inside the box" concepts PIT uses to teach its athletes, participants will be plunged into a multi-round tire-changing competition that puts those concepts immediately to work.
This is an unprecedented opportunity to experience the best-in-class lean training offered by PIT, which began operations in 2000 and has trained more than 500 athletes along with more than 200 businesses. In Mooresville, also known as Race City, USA, its campus encompasses 5.5 acres and 32,000 square feet.
Though a highlight of the upcoming summit, "The Pit Crew Experience" is one of 11 workshops and tours being offered on the first day of the summit, which runs April 12-14. Head to our official site for more details.
With registration for the Center for Operational Excellence's fourth-annual Leading Through Excellence summit set to open next month, we've unveiled the featured keynote line-up for the April 2016 event.
Leading Through Excellence will take place April 12-14 in Columbus, Ohio, and feature its signature mix of plant tours, industry and researcher-led breakout sessions, and dynamic keynote speakers. Registration opens Monday, Dec. 7, with a 15% discount in effect until Jan. 1, 2016.
Ben Cook, program director, Performance Instruction and Training (PIT) – Cook, who kicks off Leading Through Excellence on Wednesday, April 13, is a leader at PIT, the award-winning corporate and pit crew training operation in North Carolina that draws pit athletes from around the world. A veteran of the racing world, Cook works with organizations to absorb and strengthen the team-building concepts crucial to the high-octane realm of the pro-racing pit crew: Communication, handoffs, and a culture of accountability.
Cook's organization will be at Leading Through Excellence next year on the summit's first day, April 12, to host an exclusive, half-day pit-crew experience workshop that allows attendees to hone those skills in an actual pit-stop setting!
Francesca Gino, professor of business administration, Harvard Business School; author, Sidetracked – Gino is a researcher and author whose work has been featured in The Economist, the New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and others. Her research focuses on on judgment and decision-making, negotiation, ethics, motivation, productivity, and creativity. Her book, Sidetracked, looks at how decisions in work and life get derailed and how we can stick to the plan.
Gino has received research awards from the National Science Foundation and the Academy of Management. In addition to teaching, she advises firms and not-for-profit organizations in the areas of negotiation, decision-making, and organizational behavior.
Todd Henry, author, The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Louder Than Words – Henry, whose keynote closes the summit April 14, regularly works with companies on how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and he speaks internationally on creativity, productivity, leadership, and passion for work.
At next year's summit, Henry will be drawing on his two latest books. In 2013's Die Empty, he identifies the forces that cause even the brightest, most skilled people to become stagnant in their life and career, and introduces practices that help them build a body of work they can be proud of. In this year's Louder Than Words, he teaches how to build a body of work that creates value and resonates inside and outside your organization.
Billy Taylor, director, Commercial, Off-Highway, and Support Manufacturing, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. – Taylor is a respected, motivating and natural visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse experience in all phases of operations management. He took on the role of Director of Commercial, Off-Highway, and Support Manufacturing, North America, at Goodyear this year, after serving as Director of North American Commercial Manufacturing. Past roles at Goodyear include plant director and plant manager.
Taylor is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt business leader with a proven track record of accelerating revenue growth through strategic and tactical development and implementation of operational excellence systems and people engagement processes. He has his MBA from Baker University and a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Prairie View A&M University.


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Carlos Rodiles (Málaga, 3 mei 1975) is een professioneel golfer uit Spanje.

Amateur
Als amateur won Rodiles in 1994 het 'Tournament of the Americas'. Hij studeerde vervolgens aan de Universiteit van Florida en speelde golf in het team van de universiteit.

Professional
In 1997 werd Rodiles professional. Het jaar daarop kwalificeerde hij zich via de Tourschool voor de Europese PGA Tour van 1999. Daar eindigde hij niet hoog genoeg om zijn spelerskaart te behouden, dus in 2000 speelde hij op de Europese Challenge Tour. Daar haalde hij drie tweede plaatsen en eindigde hij op de derde plaats van de rangorde waardoor hij terug naar de Europese Tour promoveerde.

Vanaf 2001 speelde hij weer op de Europese Tour, zijn beste positie op de Order of Merit was de 24ste plaats eind 2003. Eind 2006 moest hij weer terug naar de Tourschool. Dit keer won hij de 'Final Stage'. Eind 2008 moest hij weer naar de Tourschool, en haalde de Final Stage niet, dus in 2009 was hij weer op de Challenge Tour. In 2010 zit hij in categorie 11 voor de Europese Tour. Dat geeft hem weinig speelkansen, dus hij zal ook veel op de Challenge Tour spelen.

Gewonnen
 2006: Tourschool Finale op San Roque

Externe links
 Website European Tour: profiel

Spaans golfer

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Ask a Birther: Are You Convinced by Ted Cruz's Birth Certificate?
Ted Cruz is trying to nip Cruz birtherism in the bud by releasing his birth certificate and renouncing his Canadian citizenship. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, so he is an American citizen. But that is not good enough for some birthers.
Elspeth Reeve
Ted Cruz is trying to nip Cruz birtherism in the bud by releasing his birth certificate and renouncing his Canadian citizenship — though the de-Canadaization process could take up to eight months. Cruz was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, so he is an American citizen. But that is not good enough for some birthers. The GOP's winking not-quite-embrace of birther movement and the nativism it represents is not without consequence. At the core of birtherism is the sense that an outsider has infiltrated the nation and clawed his way to illegitimate power in order to serve foreign interests. For a party that is worried about its standing with Latino voters, it's not a good look.
But don't take our word for it. Orly Taitz, long known as the Birther Queen, wove these two issues together seamlessly when we spoke to her about Cruz. Some people in Congress, Taitz said, are "pushing this huge amnesty" bill, which would offer a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants that she says will cost Americans jobs. "They're saying, 'Trust us, we'll check E-Verify,'" Taitz says, "but they're failing to address the issue that Obama failed E-Verify."
Cruz is one of the most famous Latino Republicans in public office, and unlike fellow Latino Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, he hasn't infuriated the conservative base by supporting a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Even so, Cruz has to deal with suspicion from conservative voters that he's disqualified to be president because of where his dad was born.
"With Ted Cruz we have similar issues as we do have with Barack Obama," Taitz told us. She's focused on two problems: verifying the documents, and dual citizenship. Even if you believe President Obama's birth certificate and Social Security number are genuine — Taitz does not — you still haven't settled the problem of dual citizenship, she says. Obama's father wasn't an American citizen, therefore, she claims, Obama was also a British citizen at birth, and a Kenyan citizen at age 2. "There has been no decision by a court about whether someone who was a dual citizen at birth, and has split allegiance, is eligible" to be president, Taitz says. And that goes for Ted Cruz. Renounce his Canadian citizenship? So what? "How did he gain his American citizenship? He wasn't born in the United States of America… He inherited his citizenship from his mother. But at the same time his father was a citizen of Cuba."
Further, she asks, "If you renounce your foreign citizenship, is it enough?" She floats the idea of a Muslim Brotherhood member born in the U.S. with dual citizenship in a place like Iraq, who traveled to Iraq for some time and then came back the U.S. and renounced his Iraqi citizenship. Would that be good enough?
Ed Tower, a reader who had emailed The Atlantic Wire about Obama's birth certificate, had other concerns when we asked him about Cruz:
Not unusual to be born in a foreign country and have dual citizenship as my self, my daughter, Senator McCain etc etc. but to not realize and only denounce it when it becomes public knowledge seems disingenuous or display of ignorance. I would now move to investigate if he took advantage of Canadian banking laws.
Update 5:58p.m.: Reader Nick Walsh also responded:
My own personal opinion is that Cruz should not be taken seriously. I am forever baffled how these clowns create controversy in an effort to get themselves talked about. He does not qualify to be president in my opinion. The fathers of the constitution made that pretty clear in the language of the time. It is only sleeze-bag lawyers of today that want to make an issue of it.
When we spoke to Taitz, she sounded frustrated. She's annoyed that some reporters have referred to her as a dentist with a hint of derision. ("I'm a licensed dentist and a licensed attorney," Taitz said. "When people read about eligibility, they're not coming for dental work.") And it's not just the press that doesn't take birthers seriously. "Congress said 'it's not up to us,'" she complains, while the courts said it's up to Congress. State court said go to federal court, federal court said go to state court.
Indeed, those frustrations came through with other birthers I spoke to. Some sensed that implicit in my question was the suggestion that their attention to the birth certificate issue did not stem from a sincere concern about constitutional law, but something else. They did not like this. Reader Larry Johnson said:
I see that you still have your head squarely placed up your ass. So the issue is what? Ted Cruz released his birth certificate with no hesistancy? I'm not a Cruz supporter, but his conduct in this matter stands in stark contrast to what Obama did.
Cruz's status as a "natural born" American was and is a valid question. Unlike you, I don't pull my punches depending upon the political affiliation of the subject. You do.
Mickey Mathis, another reader, was especially upset:
Disgusting piece of human feces. You will lie, cheat, smear, intimidate, everything, to protect that illegal Marxist thug you helped put in the Oval Office to destroy this country from the inside. It is so laughable that you sewer slime have to already smear Cruz. So funny. Crawl back in the sewer you crawled out.
Mathis emailed a couple hours later to say:
I would say something else to you to, you piece of scum. At least Senator Cruz has a valid birth certificate, something your illegal thug can't even produce.
Pete Philips, another reader, felt The Atlantic Wire should have investigated Obama's background, not Cruz's:
Did Cruz seal ALL his college papers, did Cruz seal EVERYTHING about his life including which passport was used to exit the USA to go to Kenya or Pakistan, did Cruz Assume the Social Security Number of a deceased guy, did Cruz assume a SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER from a state where he NEVER lived, did Cruz have a grandmother who worked for the US Social Security Department, did Cruz have some identity during his school years where fellow students actually remember him as a class mate, did Cruz actually have a girlfriend or two during his schooling years? Did Cruz immediately release his birth certificate instead of holding off for a few years to then release one that is shrouded in doubt? No I had no doubt about Cruz's citizenship, what I have a doubt about is your inability to do honest investigative reporting or your desire to even do so! I'm sure you have YOUR DOUBTS because he isn't a liberal like you perhaps.
I surveyed chatrooms and comment sections for discussions of Cruz's release. Some thought it was plainly obvious Cruz is a citizen. Others were skeptical. But many were simply ambivalent — worried the Constitution might be subverted, but happy it might be subverted for the right person. "It's not like anyone in Washington is going to force Obama to obey the law, so why make a good man like Cruz obey it," one commenter said on Free Republic. "America is doomed anyway." And here's a comment on TheRightScoop.com, which is not a birther site.
As much of a constitutional conservative as I am, in my opinion, we are at war. At war with the communist left that wants to dilute and destroy America. Rarely do those involved in war play by the rules - that does not mean we should disregard our Constitution, but if we are to take back this country and save it, we need to bend the rules a bit - use the left's weapons against them and hijack their narrative. You see, Cruz is the perfect candidate. The left had no choice BUT to deem him eligible because not deeming him eligible would mean that Obama is not eligible either - classic Catch-22.
You cannot attack Ted Cruz because of eligibilty - because you'd be a phony birther (by their own logic). You cannot attack Ted Cruz because he's Hispanic, that would make you a racist.
Over the last few years, many Republicans have flirted with birtherism — that is, the legalities of eligibilty for being president — without embracing the claim that President Obama was born in Kenya. By March 2011, 11 state legislatures were considering birther bills, which required more proof that presidential candidates were citizens. In August 2012, Mitt Romney joked, "No one asked to see my birth certificate." (This was not actually true. As The Atlantic Wire reported, there was a small contingent of Romney birth certificate skeptics since his father was born in Mexico.) Romney embraced Donald Trump, who fake-ran for president on the birther platform in 2011. Though the Republican National Committee tried to keep Trump out of its 2012 convention by giving him an award somewhere else, the RNC didn't repudiate him. Trump was a major draw at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March. He's a regular political pundit on Fox and Friends.
And Republicans haven't quite figured out how to deal with their birther voters at town halls. Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin was accused of supporting birtherism when he answered a question from a self-described "Birther Princess" earlier this month. (Mullin's staff said he is not a birther.) In Texas, Rep. Blake Farenthold suggested to a birther constituent that he sympathizes with her cause, but it's a lost one. "I think unfortunately the horse is already out of the barn on this, on the whole birth certificate issue," Farenthold said. "The original Congress when his eligibility came up should have looked into it and they didn't. I'm not sure how we fix it."
Elspeth Reeve is the former politics editor for The Wire.


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12 Monkeys S01 E06: The Red Forest
Time travel, we have learned, is not an exact science. There are paradoxes within paradoxes that can throw a monkey wrench, no pun intended, into the works. On last week's episode of "12 Monkeys," Cassie was kidnapped by Pallid Man and Cole was splintered to an alternate universe where West 7 had control of the facility. We may need to slow our time travel dance routine tonight. Try not to be erased.
The question remains, if the virus was destroyed in that fire then why wasn't Cole erased? We might have to slow our time travel dance down to a fox trot to find out that answer, but what we do know is that Cassie might be more important to Cole's future than finding the virus. Cole's splintering back to an alternate future, proves this. What happened to Cassie after she was kidnapped? Cole is in a future where the West 7 is in charge of the facility and the room where all the time travel goes on is now being used for laundry. Jones doesn't recognize Cole, and she doesn't know who Cassie is, but she sure as hell recognizes the needle marks on his arm. A quick blood test proves that Cole's blood is in constant flux a sign of splintering. Jones asks Cole what he did wrong to change his future.
If Cassie was killed, then this could explain the rift. Jones says that the virus breaks out in 2015 instead of 2016 and that the group responsible is Operation Troy and not the Army of the 12 Monkeys. The newspaper article shows that Cassie was murdered in the year 2015. Somehow her murder caused the virus to be released that year in Chechnya. Cole is upset. He has feelings for Cassie.
Cole asks an important question that so far has never been answered. Why did Leland Goines tell Cole that they med in 1987? Jones reply about Jinn and casualty loops left me more confused. Cole has to go back and save Cassie, but he needs permission from the head of West 7.
Ramse
People, I think, are like ghosts. If you're a nice person in life, you'll be just as nice in death and the same with people in alternate times. Ramse in this reality is in charge of West 7, but that's okay because Ramse is cool in any reality. Whitley is still a pain in the butt. He shoots Jones, but Cole is able to make it back to 2015 by way of Party Store.
The character of Ramse played by Kirk Acevedo is so important to this story. Ramse is a man of proverbs, but Cole respects him and listens to him. It's Ramse who worries about the effects of splintering on Cole and, it is Ramse who keeps Cole centered. Ramse is more like a brother to Cole and that is why he knows Cole is in love with a certain Dr. Railly.
This episode gives us more insight on the character of Aaron Marker played by Noah Bean. So far, he's been played as an uptight pencil pushing bean counter who works for Senator Royce, but tonight we learn there is more to the man. When Cole explains the mishap in time, Aaron tells Cole that he's no Marty McFly. What a great tribute to Michael J Fox and his role in the Back to the Future trilogy. You have to love the writing in this show. The importance of Operation Troy and it's connection to the virus, has Aaron joining Cole's team.
I never expected them to play Aaron as a klutz, but they did and it made him more human, more likable. His handing of the gun is a comical break from the seriousness of the show. His heart is in the right place. He wants to save Cassie. We have to give Aaron a lot of credit. How would you react if someone told you that they were from the future and, there was two of them running around? Loved when Aaron played good cop to Cole's bad to get one of Pallid Man's men to talk. Cole may have found a sidekick.
Striking Woman
Cassie gets to meet the mouthpiece for The Witness. The woman known only on the credits as "Striking Woman" is played by Alisen Down. Okie dokey so now we list people by description. Pallid Man and Striking Woman argue over what to do with Cassie, but Cassie is given a drug that takes her take on a ride with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Not quite, but it is one hell of a hallucinatory ride where she's told to look for the red forest. The Witness is there and he's wearing a plague gas mask.
There was a lot going on with this episode. Time can be changed, but not always the way you planned. There are coincidences and there are paradoxes and right now this whole time travel splintering that Cole is doing is slowing killing him. He knows it and so does Jones. It's a great thing that Ramse is there to cover his back.
Pallid Man was shot, but that guy is like a tick, I don't think he's dead. Let me rephrase this, I hope he's not dead, but I'm hoping they give actress Alisen Down a better handle than "Striking Woman" if she's going to be a regular on the show. We were only given a glimpse of the digital terrorist, Adam Wexler (Ari Millen) so I'm hoping to learn more about his part in all of this. Ari Millen played Prolethean Mark on Orphan Black, another great science fiction show.
Tonight's episode was written by Christopher Monfette who worked on the Hellraiser comics franchise for Boom! Studios and, it's because of the excellent writers on this show along with the fine acting done by the series stars Aaron Stanford and Amanda Schull that "12 Monkeys" is such a big hit.
See you next week for another time travel dance and please don't erase yourselves.
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I would rather go for the numeric one. if I dive, i prefer to see numbers rather than dots, feel more secure. it takes guessing out of the way if i am in trouble under water. by the way why do you need a 1000m water resistance watch?
i will take it with number.


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Q: Passing user privileges from PHP/Apache to a Perl script I am a fairly new PHP coder. I have an Apache server running PHP 4.3.9 on which I am trying to bang up a small tool for our internal users. The tool is structured in the following way:
PHP code ---calls---> Perl script ---accesses---> File on a protected file system
When you open up the .php page in the browser, authentication is automatic. It is taken care of in the background by, I believe, LDAP. $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"] & $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_PW"] get populated automatically and correctly.
If I run a whoami in my PHP code, then I see the user as 'apache'. So the Perl script is called in the context and with the privileges of user 'apache'. These privileges are used to access the file on the protected file system. 'apache' doesn't have the required privileges to access this file & the Perl script fails. If I SSH to this server and run the Perl script directly on the shell, it works without any problems because it runs under my user privileges.
What I want to do is to run the Perl script with the privileges of the already authenticated user. I can probably figure out a way to just pass $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"] & $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_PW"] to the Perl script as an argument and the use it to access the file. I was wondering if there is a better way to do it.
Any recommendations? Thanks in advance!

A: There's lots of ways to do this - the trick is doing it securely.
Ultimately the Perl script has to run with a different uid than the webserver. You've not said whether it's practical to change the code of the perl script. Possible solutions are:
1) amend the Perl script to run as a daemon, allowing socket connections to invoke from your PHP code - since you want to run it potentially as multiple users then it would need to run as root and know how to authenticate the credentials sent to it.
2) configure sudo on the system to allow the webserver uid to run the Perl script as a different user and prompt for authentication
3) configure [x]inetd to listen on a specific port and run the script as the desired uid when your PHP code connects - again this needs to start as root, validate the credentials and setuid() but doesn't need to run as a daemon.
4) use the ssh extensions in PHP to create a ssh connection to localhost as the desired user and run the script
(I don't see how invoking it via crontab provides for privilege seperation).

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Tag: Edward Soja
In 2015 I visited Hanoi and the mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh. Because I had visited Beijing and the mausoleum of Mao, I had an idea of what to expect. The procedure in Ho Chi Minh mausoleum was indeed set in a very similar setting. This review, however, will not focus on the mausoleum, but instead on the enormous building located next to it. Namely, a museum dedicated to Ho Chi Minh in its entirety. The building in its grandiosity did not remind me of any museum I had visited before, and deviated from all conceptions I had of what a museum should look like. The spatial experience inside made me challenge my conception of "normal" and enter a socially controlled normalization of an "other" space I wasn't accustomed to. Reflecting on Edward Soja's and Michel Foucault's take on museums as heterotopias (spaces that contain several different layers of spaces and slices of time), I also found that I had arrived at a "crossroads of space and time". Continue reading "Lost inside the "brain" of Ho Chi Minh"
Patrik Hettula
From a personal point of view, what inspired me to read more about global history was an early exposure to spatial theories, deconstructionism and the notion that the world is made out of a web on which vibrations may resonate across the whole globe.
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Holger Weiss
Inspired by space
About a year ago my colleagues and I decided to establish the Global History Laboratory. It was at a point when I had reached a crossroads in my own attempt to locate and position myself as a global historian. I had witnessed the expansion of global history as a vibrant and exciting perspective during the last decades. For me as an Africa(n) historian it was a rather typical step to take – several of my mentors, colleagues and friends belonged to the forerunners in the field and were leading advocates of challenging methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism. Questions, such as analysing global flows, networks or connections and their local articulations, opened hitherto closed spaces. Africa became part of the global story of human kind and 'the global' emerged as a complex factor that had to be defined and analysed. Was it only one of the new buzzwords that had been created, fluid and amorphous without any clear substance, or was there something more in it? What, then, was this 'something'? Continue reading "Holger Weiss"


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Title: China: Between the Two Koreas, 1984-1989
Authors: 劉德海
Liou, To-hai
Contributors: 外交系
Keywords: Social sciences;Korea
Abstract: China's policy toward the Korean peninsula has shifted from a one-Korea policy to a de facto two-Korea policy. Beijing's constant policy is recognition of Pyongyang as the sole legitimate regime on the peninsula. What Beijing has changed is to acknowledge the existence of the Seoul regime and to inaugurate Sino-South Korean unofficial ties. The main thrust of this research is to examine China's relations with South Korea and North Korea during the period between 1984 and 1989 and to identify the national interests which made Beijing leaders shift their Korea policy. The hypothesis of this study is: China's economic priority is the determining factor and changes in the international environment in East Asia are a contributing factor which made China incrementally shift policy toward the Korean peninsula.The decision to adopt the policy of "revitalizing the economy internally and implementing the open door policy externally" in the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Chinese Communist Party Central Committee in 1978 resulted in revolutionary changes in Chinese foreign policy. These changes resulted from new foreign policy orientations, namely, pragmatism, the growing magnitude of economic elements, open door policy, and entente diplomacy. These new orientations were able to be applied to the Korean case when changes in the Northeast Asian international milieu provided chances in the early 1980s. These changes were the growing positive Sino-Soviet relations, the emergence of South Korea as an economic power, the improvement of Soviet-North Korean relations, and the failure of North Korean diplomacy.Through empirical studies of Chinese foreign behavior and official media, the hypothesis is proven valid. In the early 1980s, China evidently changed its Korean policy priority from strategic interests to political interests with a desire for a peaceful international environment. The growing unofficial Beijing-Seoul contacts show that China desires to pursue its economic interests in South Korea but under the premise of not jeopardizing its relations with North Korea. This line will not change until North Korea is willing to accept cross-recognition.
Relation: PhD Dessertation, University of Arizona, 1991
Data Type: book/chapter
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Egypt's armed forces have used internationally outlawed cluster bombs, made in the United States, in operations aimed at crushing Islamic extremists in northern Sinai, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
The use of such weapons, if confirmed, would not only contravene the treaty banning their use, signed by a majority of countries, but may also violate United States laws regarding recipients of American military aid, like Egypt.
Amnesty International said an analysis of an official Feb. 21 video released by the Egyptian military, trumpeting the triumphs of its northern Sinai crackdown on militants, showed one of the weapons, which can kill and maim indiscriminately.
Amnesty said the video showed the weapon to be "untampered with and in good condition despite its age," with an identifying number clearly visible. "This suggests that the submunition has been deployed in recent operations," Amnesty said in a news release.
"This new video confirms our worst fears, that the Egyptian armed forces are using cluster bombs in North Sinai," the group said.
While there have been other suggestions that Egyptian forces are using cluster munitions in the Sinai campaign, the video was proof, said Raed Jarrar, Amnesty's advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa.
"This is like the smoking gun, because it's very obvious that these munitions were dropped from a fighter jet," he said in a telephone interview.
Mr. Jarrar suggested that the video, released by the Egyptian military spokesman's office, had inadvertently betrayed, to knowledgeable viewers, what they were really seeing.
"The Egyptian government is so deep in its own lies and propaganda, they have lost track of their own lies," Mr. Jarrar said.
Cluster munitions encompass an array of rockets, bombs, missiles and artillery projectiles that scatter smaller weapons, called submunitions, over a wide area. They can hit civilians far from intended targets. Roughly 20 percent fail to properly detonate upon impact, leaving unexploded bomblets that can kill civilians even years later.
Egypt, like other Middle East countries, has not signed the treaty banning cluster munitions. While the United States has not signed the treaty either, it pledged in 2008 to restrict their use.
Department of Defense documentation obtained by Human Rights Watch and cited in their cluster munition surveyshows that Egypt possessed 1,300 Rockeye cluster bombs, containing 321,000 Mk-118 submunitions, as of 2007.
Stephen Goose, director of Human Rights Watch's arms division, said he had not yet been able to discuss with Amnesty its assessment of the video. But he said that any use of cluster bombs "by Egypt or any other fighting force is appalling" and should be condemned.
Sinai's Islamic extremists, who are largely confined to the peninsula's northern half, have killed hundreds of Egyptian security officers since the military ousted the country's first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013.
Despite several campaigns aimed at "eradicating" the insurgency, the Egyptian authorities have failed to regain full control over the area. The military's latest operation, which began on Feb. 9, has left at least 82 militants dead and more than 1,800 imprisoned, according to state media.
Security and humanitarian concerns loom over these military efforts both in Egypt and internationally, as human rights advocates and local tribal leaders accuse the military of using scorched-earth tactics that are killing civilians, and radicalizing youths as a result.
The Egyptian government vehemently denies these allegations, but it has refused to lift the news media blackout it imposed on northern Sinai since the unrest began.
Even American officials, legally obliged to ensure that American weapons given as military aid to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's government are not being used to violate human rights, have often been denied access.
Tribal leaders in the northern and central parts of the peninsula and human rights advocates say the local population is suffering from shortages of food, electricity and medicine. The authorities also frequently cut off the internet and cell service, and they have shut down schools and universities.


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French painter
Emaux de Longwy
GALLERY SONGE
His work
His first non-academic works were in ink inspired by the post-war industrial world: an urgent call for an ecological, ethical way to re-inspire society. The treatment was hard, the atmosphere bleak but with a perspective suggesting in each work a possible escape from the drear. JCB played with cartoon and satire as a career, but loyalty towards his young family led him towards the teaching profession.
After his studies in Paris and a stay in Provence, JCB retreated to his native Burgundy where he leaned towards studies of ascetics and found a bond with nature: he painted watercolours charged with the sepia & grey moods of the Morvan, the hidden colours of the earth, the forgotten hills seen only by the sky.
Then came a third period where he began painting in oil.
Starting in a watercolour style which quickly became enlivened by the use of strong colour, he created "figurative paintings which oscillated between the classic inherited from his fine arts studies and (…) an Impressionist tendency which approached the abstract universe (…) a permanent search for the idea of appeasement ." (Jim Gassmann "L'Essentiel des Pays de Savoie" N°13, Oct '05, p63)
Passionate about spirituality and religion, persuaded that there are many different approaches towards the same reality, he painted Roman & Himalayan architecture and the sages in contemplation, but overall he searched deeply for the means to express the interior experience of his profound beliefs.
He found it's expression inscribed in the nature that he worked tirelessly to represent, meditating daily and transforming work into ritual.
Landscapes of vineyards, exuberant bouquets, luminous Provences and sober seascapes were the preferred subjects by which JCB searched to transmit the vigour and the balance that he continues to perceive living in nature and interacting with the surrounding world.
Invited to travel west, Jean-Claude Bligny discovered in 2014 a so-far inexpected aspect of cities: peace and light dwell unsuspected in the heart of their nights. The painter undertook an urban pilgrimage in search of that perception of rare moments in city life: silence on the deserted stage of business and urgency, light breathing though coloured streets, sharp vertical rhythms sailing on fluid haze after the rain.
EARLY YEARS AND TRAINING
JCB was born in Burgundy in the Saône & Loire region. Top-student at the Ecole Normale in Macon from 1964 to 1967, he studied simultaneously at the Fine Arts school there in Macon. In 1967 he went to Nice to study under the direction of Fontanarosa, Brayer, Belmondo & Carzou.
In 1968, he became full-time student at the Fine Arts School in Macon before starting in 1969 his studies at 'Claude Bernard' the Ecole Normale Supériure d'Arts Plastiques in Paris. There he specialised in Anatomy, Perspective, Decoration & History of Art. At the same time he also designed material samples for Lanvin, Dior & Cacharel.
1972: History of Art at the Sorbonne. Sketch workshops at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris then he achieved the Capes d'Arts Plastiques in 1973.
In 1974 he moved to Montelimar to take up the post of Art Teacher at the Lycée. During this time he met some French Buddhists who were looking for a site to set up a Tibetan Monastery. He suggested that they directed their search towards the Saône & Loire where Kalou Rimpoche, a great Tibetan Lama, set up the Kaguy Ling congregation at La Boulaye, a peaceful hamlet near Toulon-sur-Arroux. JCB followed and moved into the area with the purchase and setting up of his studio 'Le Bateau Ivre' at neighbouring St Eugène, another peaceful hamlet.
From 1975 he painted regularly while teaching art in the Saône & Loire. This was the era of his first personal exhibitions:
1977: the Cultural Centre Pablo Nuruda in Epinac.
1978: at the gallery in Châteauneuf, which was presided over by the famous Burgundian writer Henri Vincenot.
1979 : Montceau-les-Mines.
1981 : Bourg-en-Bresse.
1982: Charolles.
In 1983 he participated in the creation of the 'Galerie Songe' in Montceau-les-Mines, Saône & Loire with Nicole Sogno. Exhibiton with the illustrators Lemoine and Claverie.
External exhibitions continued with group exhibitions: at Cluny at the Ecuries de St Hugues. 1984: The Buddhist Temple at Kagu Ling with Carzou, Laporte, Durrell and the photographer Cartier-Bresson.
1985: Avignon and in Paris at the gallery Peinture Fraîche with Nicole Sogno.
1986: Kagu Ling with Dusseau and MacAvoy.
1988: Paris – an exhibition organised by the Reader's Digest, presided over by Simone Veil.
1989: The Autumn Salon at the Grand Palais.
Personal exhibitions were at the Lutrin Gallery in Autun and in Bourg-en-Bresse in 1986; Gallery Val-de-Saône in Tournus in 1987; Couches in 1988; Galerie Lamartine in Chalon-sur-Saône. Savigny-les-Beaune at the Château there and at its Cultural Centre.
In 1987 he created the décor and costumes for the amateur theatre company Golmus for 'La Moschetta' and 'Les Pépins de Clafoutis'. Then he designed the décor for 'Don Quixote' and 'Midsummer's Night Dream' in 1990.
In 1988 he won the Young French Painter Grand Prix. The Yvon Gattaz Fondation acquired a painting. Then in 1990 he won the First Prize in the Grand Prix de France des Arts Plastiques. Also he won the Silver Medal at the Académie Internationale de Lutèce.
The Galerie Songe evolved and became a permanent window on his new creations. Both French and foreign gallery owners and other dealers made contact with him to exhibit his works in their own galleries.
The 1990s brought JCB's work to the general public with group and individual exhibitions:
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1990: Autumn Salon at the Grand Palais in Paris.
1992: "Un siècle de création lithographique en France" at the Atelier Mourlot along with Buffet, Brasilier, Cathelin, Jansem, Manessier, Mühl, Matisse, Chagall, Picasso and Braque.
1992: Galerie Dazy in Auxerre with Hilaire.
1993: A very busy year with many exhibitions: Galerie Dazy in Dijon with Blanc-Brude; Demonstration of lithography and engraving; Group exhibition with Tobiasse, Weisbuch, Toffoli and Brayer; "Peinture & Poésie" at Karma Ling near Chambéry with the writer Sylvie Fabre as part of the festival "Art & Spiritualité"; Galerie de Pharo in Marseille; Guest of Honour at the 41st Salon d'Autumne de l'Atelier de Beaune.
1994: Galerie Chabanian Le Baron in Bastia with Laporte and d'Izarny; International Art Fair in Geneva.
1996 & 1997: International Art Fair in Geneva.
He attracted the attention of a wider public and his presence grew in other countries:
From 1992: Travelling exhibition circulating in the United States and in Europe.
1995: Galerie Chabanian Le Baron in the Isle of Reunion; Bhutan; Germany.
1996: Galerie Christianne Vallé de Clermont Ferrand in Japan; St Denis in the Isle of Reunion. Exhibition organised by R. Bohan in Abidjan
1997, 1998 & 1999: again at the Galerie Océane in the Isle of Reunion.
1999: European Gallery in Boston, United States.
Elsewhere he signed posters and front covers: for the show "Le Lac"; at the bicentenary of Lamartine in 1990; "L'Ete Bleu" 1991.
1992: He was the subject of "La Forme du Vide" a film by Eric Nivot.
Also in 1992 an 8m by 3m mural was commisioned for the Chapelle des Ursulines in Autun, presented by the historian Canon Denis Grivot. This was added to six years later by other large paintings on the theme of peace and unity between the religious traditions.
1993: Leader of the course "Peinture & Méditation" at Kagu Ling; a number of visits to Provence following in the footsteps of Cézanne at Aix-en-Provence and Digne; Paintings of lavender fields in Valensol and Banon.
1994: Creation of ceramics in collaboration with the Atelier Azulejo in Digoin. First book of his works was published by Chabanian/Art Print.
1997: First appearance in the annual reference Akoun; Study and painting trip to Tibet.
1998: Second book of his works published by J-P Barthélemy at S.P.E. in Paris; Prize from the European Foundation; Prize from the Fédération Nationale de la Culture Française.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
1990: Macon; Galerie Songe in Montceau-les-Mines; Galerie du Lutrin and the Hotel des Ursulines in Autun; "La Peinture dans l'Autoc' Art" Cluny.
1991: Galerie Impression and the Galerie Hautecoeur in Paris; Cluny; Kagu Ling; Galerie Barthélémy in Besançon; Galerie Dazy in Tournus.
1992: Galerie Lamartine in Chalon-sur-Saône; Galerie du Lutrin and the Hotel des Ursulines in Autun; Galerie Dazy in Dijon and in Beaune.
1993: Kagu Ling – in the presence of the Minister of Bhutan, Benjé Kempo Rimpotché and the President of the Association France-Bhoutan, Robert Dompnier; Galeries Chabanian Du Baron in Annecy, Val d'Isère, Megève ans Courchevel; Epinac.
1994: Digoin; Galerie Barthélémy in Besançon; Château de Saint-Amand near Cosne-sur-Loire; Abbaye de Chirens near Grenoble; Lucy in the Nièvre.
1995: Galerie Marbach at Mulhouse; Kagu Ling.
1996: Galerie Le Chevalet d'Eon in Salon de Provence; Summer exhibition at Uzès; Uchon in Burgundy; Galerie Marbach at Mulhouse.
1997: Galerie des Ducs in Beaune; Galerie Le Chevalet d'Eon in Salon de Provence; Galerie d'Art du Château de la Verrerie in Le Creusot; Exhibition at the business 'Boiron' in Lyon; Galerie Chabanian-le-Baron in Honfleur; Galerie l'Art du Cadre in Tournus; Created his Virtual Gallery on the internet; Galerie du Chapitre in Autun; Galerie Raugraff in Nancy; Galerie Victor Hugo in Saintes.
1998: Galerie du Chapitre in Autun; Galerie Raugraff in Nancy; Galerie Victor Hugo in Saintes; Galerie Chabanian-le-Baron in Annecy; Galerie Epreuve d'Artiste in La Baule; Galerie Daudet near Toulouse; Galerie Barthélémy at Besançon.
1999: Château de la Bertrandière near St. Etienne; Le Breuil; Galerie Le Chevalet d'Eon in Salon de Provence.
The following years were marked by a deepening interest in his preferred painting themes: Flowers & Bouquets, Burgundy, Brittany and Provence. He discovered the beauty and light of Venice. He also travelled widely exploring the East by making several trips to Tibet, India, Nepal and he visited Boutan for the second time in 2000.
Press coverage appeared in 'L'Univers des Arts', 'Art Actualité Magazine', 'Samsara'…
His fame was confirmed and so spread to other countries where his followers there bought his work during their trips to France and had the paintings shipped back home. 2003: Exhibition in the USA. 2004: 'Festival d'Art Contemporain Franco-Japonais' in Cannes.
In 2009 JCB started working with the prestigious 'Les Emaux de Longwy' to create a new collection of decorative porcelaine with the theme 'Chemin de Lumière en Bourgogne'. This was followed in 2010 by a new collection entitles 'Bouquets d'Eternité'.
Since the beginning of the 21st century JCB has been a constant presence in exhibitions all over France:
Château Landon in 2000, Joël Dupuis in Le Touquet, 2001 and in Hardelot 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014. Vent des Cimes in Grenoble. 2000, 2003, 2005, 2009. Le Biblion, in Toulouse, 2001. Victor Hugo, in Saintes, every xecond year from 2001 to 2016 and in Sarlat, Church of Marcillac in 2003 and 2006. Chabanian, in Annecy, 2001, 2002, 2003.
Laure Le Baron. in Saint Paul de Vence 2001, 2002, 2003. Marbach, in Mulhouse, 2002. Marciano, in Saint Mandé 2001, in Barbizon, 2001, 2002, à Paris 2002, 2003, 2008, 2015, à La Baule every year from 2002 to 2010, in Honfleur, 2002, 2003. Galerie Cimaise, in Besançon and Fabien Mathieu, in Toulouse in 2003. Le Chevalet d'Eon in Salon de Provence, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2012. Galerie Chabanian-Perbet in Annecy with the CIC on the theme « Lac d'Annecy », 2005. Le Château de la Bertrandière in l'Etrat near St Etienne in 2006, 2011 and 2015. Galerie Raugraff, in Nancy, every second year from 2001 to 2016.
Other new galleries have exhibited his work among which are the 'Galerie Wilson' in Dijon; 'Galerie Terre de Contraste' in Dinard; 'Château de Santenay'; 'Galerie Graal' and 'Galerie BO' in Clermont-Ferrand; 'Galerie Art Sud, Marie Joulia' in Espalion where he was guest of honour.
In April 2010 several canvases were placed in the 'Espace Muséographique de Bernicourt' at Roost-Warendin, part of the Ruckehusch collection. In 2011 his work was exhibited in Beyrouth by the 'Fine Art Gallery of Geneva'. The national museum 'Prieuré de Charolles' held a retrospective dedicated to JCB during the Summer of 2013 and acquired one of his paintings.
Of special mention in 2013 is JCB's own gallery, the 'Galerie Songe' in Montceau-les-Mines which celebrated its 30th anniversary with a noteworthy exhibition in the Summer as well as the annual end-of-year exhibition.
2014 is a turning point towards a new period: an exploration of city lights, shining life in the midst of darkness and hard shapes.
2015-2017 Several study journeys are made to Europe (United Kingdom and Italy) and America (Canada and th US.)
In 2017, he is honor guest at the international Salon d'Automne de Lunéville and a new book is published by Editions du Léopard d'Or.
More exhibitions and travels follow up till today. The workshop is a continuous source of creation.
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When we say independent art organizations, one of the main concepts is, of course, "independence". What does independence mean to you? As an art formation, what do you feel like you are dependent on, and what do you think you need to look out?
Özge Ersoy: Speaking of initiatives, I think that the word "independence" is over-emphasized. We use terms such as independence or alternative to separate those initiatives from museums, institutions, galleries. So, what does this contrast mean? If you ask me, how the initiatives standing on their own feet such as m-est.org produce, and what kind of needs they represent are more significant. None of us is that much independent. We are dependent on many people with whom we are in close contact. Most of those people are initiatives with similar virtues and productions. For example, when m-est.org organized a public program, the first group that opened its place to us was 5533 in IMÇ. When we wanted to plan a talk or performance recently, our host was the poşe in Kadıköy. Moreover, there are interviews and texts on m-est.org on/by those who run other initiatives that we feel close to us or the artists who work with those initiatives. It is more appealing to me to think about sustainability, diversity and different interest/care economies of such solidarities.
Merve Ünsal: As Özge mentioned, when we talk about "independence", we should endeavour to narrate what we are trying to explain more clearly. For instance, when we were working on Yay-Pop together with Onagöre, we preferred to say "small scale" instead of "independent" publishing. Perhaps the scale is not the right term, but we have to make an effort to explain that somehow we are tied to and dependent on many things at the same time. For example, when I think about m-est.org, it received grants from a foundation and an association. We established a relationship with this foundation and association during the grant period, and these relations continue. Besides, me and Özge, who work most actively in the context of m-est.org, are in contact with many different institutions and initiatives. As long as we are tied to those, I think it would not be right to define m-est.org as an independent. For this reason, I believe it is significant to examine the relationship we establish unconsciously between bond, dependency, and commitment.
What do collectivity and organization mean to you?
M: I have never thought of m-est.org in the context of collectivity and organization. I guess that it was not a primary question for me how a publication or an artist-oriented initiative interested in the publication could work collectively. But in general, my opinion about collectivity in art is that the collectives can maintain if every member can be flexible, prepare to sacrifice from the production, and care about giving a room. When I think about the organization, I believe that we should establish a cooperative as artists (and cultural producers), as soon as possible. We can even form a union, how nice it would be.
Ö: I prefer to reply to this question through our collaboration and friendship with Merve, rather than collectivity and organization. We have been close friends with Merve for more than ten years. We have sustained m-est.org through the joy of our friendship, thinking, and producing together. Such connections have a significant role in discourse production. The important thing in friendship is not sharing the same ideas (our way of asking questions, thinking and writing are very different from each other) but having the common references and experiences. That enables the most sincere -and sometimes the most ruthless- criticisms and continuous discussions. It provides intensity or depth in creating discourse.
The connection we bring into with artists and authors who contributed to m-est.org is a continuation of our friendship with Merve. We are interested in publishing articles or contributions that can be read as the continuation of our conversations around the dining table. In this sense, we are quite different from other periodical publications in terms of content and momentum. The alternative economy we have established is also a part of this. As Merve mentioned, we have received only two funds since 2011 and transferred almost all of them to the authors and contributing artists. We do not have a financial income when we do not receive a fund, so we cannot pay honoraria to our authors. Instead, we cook for our contributors to our houses and host them. Sharing a meal that you cook is a way of nurturing a friendship or deepening ongoing friendships. In other words, we are based on a different economy of interest/care.
Why did you choose to establish or take part in an independent organization?
Ö: Merve's art practice and my curatorial practice continue around or separate from m-est.org. In other words, m-est.org is not an initiative that we spare our full-time. Up to the present, I have tried to improve my practice by growing together with institutions, developing ideas about the potentials and limits of institutions, thinking about the relationships between institutions and audiences, contemplating the point where institutions can/cannot be a party.
Besides those questions, I needed to create a small-scale field with continuity but not necessarily growing up, that tries to be at peace with the slowness, where urges can be spoken frequently and friendship, companionship can lead a new practice. Moreover, improving it together with Merve.
M: m-est.org was a need for me, too. Perhaps it was a luxury, but it was a need. Thinking together through a publication based in Turkey, trying to form a transparent frame for productions by paying attention to publication and text makes me feel very well. I believe that something good for myself can provide the same for others. The archive potential of the online publication was also crucial to me and still has that importance. Even if we have changed, everything we have done continues to exist there, and we continue to add more without stopping.
How many people does your team consist of, and how are the division of labour and job definitions?
M: We are two people. Although we have honorary members with whom we are constantly in dialogue, at the end of the day, we think together with Özge about m-est.org. I believe there is a distribution of duties. I am more like an executive, and I believe Özge is the conscience of m-est.org most of the time. I ask Özge the questions that I do not want to hear the answers.
The organizations arise from the individual desires and needs as well as the needs of the art environment. Therefore, the wishes and opinions of individuals become a significant factor in the structure of an organization. How much did your organization depend on the individuals part in and how did you balance between these two?
Ö: m-est.org is the product of our personal needs and curiosities. Since the content is based on intellectual friendships, it develops according to the articles that we read, the works that we look at, and the people we meet. As we share the ideas, the questions we ask improve, get deeper and turn into content. As an example of this, the series "Vasiyetimdir" arose from a conversation between Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Merve and me. In this series hosted by m-est.org, we asked artists what should remain of the artistic works after their passing. We started by thinking that the answers will give significant clues about their productions, practices, and emergencies today. Esen Karol's one-line "There shall be no typos in my death notice." request/demand; Erdem Taşdelen's montage that he collected the "let go" phrases from popular songs; a screenshot that shows the folder containing Ayşe Ermen's entire digital archive; the statement of Bager Akbay that declared all the artworks he produced and all the codes, documents, and dialogues used in the production process belong to the public domain ("To create, my mind has to set me free."); an artist who prefers to remain anonymous, sharing the copyright page of their book distributing with a license of royalty-free culture are the first examples come to my mind.
Recently, we have tried to ask the question of how the needs of art producers in Istanbul are changing beyond our needs. With this question, we made it a priority to discuss how artists, curators, and writers can come together and how to form intellectual and artistic discourses rather than online content. As a response to this question, we invited four people -artist Morgan Wong, curator Aslı Seven, author Orit Gat, and artist Srajana Kaikini and author Ben Eastham- who predominantly use writing in their works, to our one-year "temporary residency program".
M: I am not sure if there is a balance! About requirements, although it seems selfish, I think that if I need something, others also need that. But I guess it is necessary to think over and over again that m-est.org is nine years old and in this period, both mine and Özge's practice have evolved. How independent of m-est.org's practice could be from us or how evolved it, I question this. I think we have to question this.
Do you have close contact with other independent organizations? What kind of collaborations do you have?
(We mentioned them above.)
What kind of collaborations do you think the independent organizations can have and do?
M: Shared resource! It would be great to gather resources such as a venue, invoices, servers, and so on in a pool that we can share or transfer.
How do you provide your economic sustainability?
M: We do not have economic sustainability. By trying to maintain our own sustainability and practices, we support m-est.org. In an ideal world, all the effort that is made in m-est.org has a financial return, and it has a system that sustains itself. I have no idea how we can achieve this except grants.
We are curious about your opinion on the future of independent initiatives. What do you think about this subject, and do you have any concerns?
Ö: As long as friendships, common concerns and urges last, initiatives would last, too. BAS, founded by Banu Cennetoğlu, is an initiative I learned a lot from. BAS is an initiative that makes exhibitions and produces artist books when there is an urgency. Besides, it goes into hibernation whenever it is necessary, and it sometimes turns into a studio for three different artists while also having monthly meetings and discussions. And at the same time, it always thinks about transformation. While thinking about the future of m-est.org and other initiatives, I am thinking of flexibility and the ability to transform according to emergencies we learned from BAS.
M: The emphasis on independence worries me.
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