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By Jeremy Dibbell on June 18, 2018
A very busy auction week coming up.
First, a quick survey of the five Aristophil sales this week: on Monday, June 18, Aguttes sells Beaux-arts, ?uvres et correspondances, in 324 lots. Highlights are expected to include an illustrated Van Gogh letter (??250,000-300,000) and a second Van Gogh letter at the same estimated price, and Henri Matisse's 1947 Jazz (??100,000-150,000). Tuesday sees two sales of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, at Drouot (96 lots) and Aguttes (116 lots). In the first, a collection of Paul ?luard's letters to his first wife could sell for ??300,000-400,000, and the manuscript for Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Maudits Soupirs pour une autre Fois (pictured below) is estimated at ??250,000-300,000. At Aguttes, the top-estimated lot is a manuscript of Victor Segalen's Stèles (??100,000-120,000).
Two music sales on Wednesday, June 20: Musique, de Jean-Sébastien Bach à Boulez at Ader (151 lots) and Musique, de Lully à Stravinsky at Aguttes (176 lots). At Ader, anticipated highlights include a manuscript fragment of a Bach cantata and a complete Beethoven signed manuscript (both estimated at ??150,000-200,000). In the final sale of the week, a Mozart youth serenade manuscript could sell for ??120,000-150,000.
Also on Tuesday, Lyon & Turnbull sells Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs, in 432 lots. Richard Bowdler Sharpe's monograph on birds of paradise rates the top estimate, at £15,000-18,000. Quite a few other interesting lots of ornithology and natural history more broadly.
On Wednesday at Bonhams London, Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs, in 296 lots. Henry Popple's twenty-sheet engraved map of North America could fetch £30,000-50,000, a notebook containing drafts of several Edward Thomas poems is estimated at £30,000-40,000, and a particularly fine copy of the first impression of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone rates a £25,000-35,000 estimate.
Dominic Winter Auctioneers sells Printed Books, Maps & Documents on Wednesday, in 535 lots. Items to watch include Bloch's Ichthyologie (the first six parts bound in three volumes), estimated at £15,000-20,000, and an album containing 216 Hogarth etchings and engravings (£5,000-7,000).
A third sale on Wednesday is University Archives' auction of Autographed Documents, Manuscripts, Books & Relics, in 266 lots. As usual with these sales, a fascinating array of notable things, but a large archive from Disraeli's secretary Algernon Turnor is estimated at $40,000-50,000, and a ledger containing records of mail sent and received from Fort Bridger in 1860-1861 could sell for $30,000-40,000.
On Thursday, Swann Galleries sells Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler III, in 229 lots. This catalog is definitely worth a browse for anyone with an interest in the field. Potential top lots include a May 3, 1776 pay order to express rider Jonathan Park and a Thomas Jefferson letter as Secretary of State to the governor of Maryland relating to the Genét affair (both estimated at $20,000-30,000), and a February 26, 1780 letter from George Washington to Nathanael Greene ($15,000-25,000).
Finally, also on Thursday, Dominic Winter Auctioneers holds a Modern Literature & First Editions sale, in 366 lots. This sale includes a number of children's, fine press, and illustrated books, as well as toys, games, and film posters. A first issue of Casino Royale is estimated at £10,000-15,000, and a near-complete run of Matrix could fetch £2,000-3,000.
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It's 21 years since Fusion began in 1997 with an explosion of small groups called Fusion Cells. Students were empowered to lead and the outcome was that small groups with a passion to share Jesus began multiplying in dozens of universities. Students became Christians, were discipled, taught how read the bible, how to pray, and released into leadership.
At 19 years old, I became a Christian at university and found the student small group incredibly formative for solidifying my new faith and understanding the nature of the church as a community on mission. The small groups became the central drive of our role in student mission as we embraced new believers, trained leaders and pursued multiplication.
Church comes in many shapes and sizes, forms and expressions. I personally love them all! The diversity is part of the brilliance of God's creativity and passion for his image to be expressed fully in the earth.
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The companies driving the global revolution in shorter working hours
Morrisons UK set to trial a 4-day workweek
UK supermarket giant Morrisons has announced that it will trial a 4-day workweek at its Bradford corporate HQ, in the north of England. The headquarters will actually be open six days a week, but people will work shifts.
Under the plan, which comes into effect on July 27, the offices will become a six-day operation, including Saturdays. Staff will be phased back into the office from that date.
Speaking exclusively to The Yorkshire Post, Morrisons said the aim was to modernise its ways of working, make the business a more attractive place to work, and support its stores which are also open at the weekend….
Individuals will reduce their weekly hours from 40 to 37.5, working nine instead of eight hours a day over four days plus a six-hour shift one Saturday a month. Pay will not be affected.
So while it's a more modest change than a straight drop to 32-hour weeks, and people will have to work a little on the occasional Saturday, total hours will go down, and people will have more three-day weeks.
A spokesman said: "We've learned a lot during the Covid outbreak but this has been planned for some time. We trialled it last year with some colleagues so it was a planned decision."
They've been thinking about this for some time, apparently: there are news reports from last summer saying that they'd studied 4-day week experiments in Australia.
It's also worth noting that they're not the first supermarket to adjust hours this way: in Korea, the Shinsegae Group implemented a 35-hour plan in 2018, and in Japan 7-Eleven (which is huge) has been offering 4-day weeks for several years.
By askpang|2021-07-26T10:37:29-07:00July 17th, 2020|4-day workweek, Business and work, Companies, UK|Comments Off on Morrisons UK set to trial a 4-day workweek

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