Adam D. Weinberg became the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum in 2003. During his tenure, the Whitney has presented dozens of exhibitions on emerging, mid-career and senior artists, offered award-winning educational programs, experienced exponential growth in the permanent collection and dramatically expanded its performance program. In 2015, the Museum opened its new 220,000-square-foot Renzo Piano-designed building in the Meatpacking District.
From 1999 to 2003, Weinberg was Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy. Prior to that, he was Senior Curator and Curator of the Permanent Collection at the Whitney. In 1991, Weinberg became Artistic and Program Director of the American Center in Paris. He joined the Whitney in 1989 as Director of the Whitney at Equitable Center. Beginning in 1981, Weinberg served as Director of Education and Assistant Curator at the Walker Art Center.
Weinberg has curated exhibitions on artists from Edward Hopper, Richard Pousette-Dart and Isamu Noguchi to Alex Katz, Robert Mangold, Sol Lewitt, and Frank Stella. He has organized thematic exhibitions and public projects with such artists as Christian Boltanski, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Lorna Simpson, and Jessica Stockholder. He has written numerous catalogues, and has been a grant panelist for federal, state, city, and private foundations.
Weinberg serves as a board member of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Storm King Art Center; The American Academy in Rome, Terra Foundation for American Art the Colby College Museum of Art. He holds a BA from Brandeis University and a master's degree from the Visual Studies Workshop, SUNY Buffalo. He has received honorary degrees from Colby College and the Pratt Institute. In 2015 he was awarded the insignia of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.


I was recently looking up other blogs about rituals and thinking about that, particularly concerning coffee or tea, and I heard a story on National Public Radio (NPR) this morning that led me to something beautiful. The story was on Japanese tea in the 15th century, and when I went to their website to see the story, I connected to another story about coffee art.
It seems that latte artists in Japan are becoming more common, and they go beyond creating clover that some baristas do in the U.S.
Part of the reason this art is so beautiful, the story finishes, is that this art is temporary. It is very in line with the Buddhist idea of accepting impermanence, which is something I would like to incorporate more fully into my life. I think one's sense of peace would increase with this acceptance. I think it would increase mindfulness and appreciation of the present moment.
For those who have embraced this idea, what has your experience been?
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Streamlined response
A partnership between the fire and police services in one British Columbia city is improving the response to motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) while freeing up resources.
November 1, 2010 By Len Garis Fraser MacRae
Response duplication has been reduced by 60 per cent under the new partnership between Surrey Fire and RCMP.
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Implemented in 2005, the joint initiative by Surrey Fire Service and Surrey RCMP has reduced response duplication by an average of 60 per cent, by streamlining response protocols and handing over some scene management capacity to fire crews.
One of the main results is that RCMP are no longer attending minor fender benders that used to eat up significant time and resources, while fire crews no longer have to wait for the RCMP to arrive to start clearing the scene.
"We can get multiple MVAs during the day at rush hour, and so the assistance of the fire department has been immeasurable," said Cathie Matthews, manager of Surrey RCMP's operational communications centre.
About 4,000 MVAs occur in Surrey each year, including those involving injuries or fatalities and those involving only property damage.
While the fire service responds to both categories of MVAs, RCMP protocol requires the RCMP to respond to all injury accidents and only those property damage incidents in which there is a suspicion of criminality (impaired driving or assault, for example) or significant traffic control issues.
However, prior to the initiative, Surrey RCMP frequently responded to calls that did not fit these criteria, and often spent 30 to 45 minutes processing the scene.
Because scene management was strictly a police responsibility at the time, the responding fire crews had to wait for police to arrive before taking any action such as requesting tow trucks, clearing the roadway, directing traffic, facilitating the transfer of insurance documents or leaving the scene. In some cases, the crews waited for more than 25 minutes for police to arrive.
This was even the case during minor collisions in which there was clearly no injury or criminal reason for the police to attend. Because many drivers still have the misconception that they must wait for police to arrive to move their vehicles, the resulting traffic tie-ups could be significant.
In 2005, Surrey police and fire representatives sat down to address the inefficiencies caused by the response procedures. The new protocol they developed empowered fire officers to assess and manage the scene of non-injury/property damage MVAs.
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Fire officers arriving first at an MVA are now assigned responsibility for determining if police involvement or attendance is required.
RCMP are still called to MVAs in cases involving an injury or death, a criminal offence, individuals who insist on police attendance, individuals from outside the region, violation of a person's rights, traffic control issues, or an emergency/city vehicle. However, all other incidents can now be managed by fire crews.
When the new protocol was established, training was provided to fire personnel to prepare them for the new responsibilities. The RCMP were initially involved in establishing the training parameters – including scene assessment and preserving evidence – but now MVA scene assessment and management is part of the training Surrey Fire Service provides its members.
The result of the initiative has been more efficient use of fire and police resources, as indicated by Surrey MVA statistics from 2006 to 2009.
RCMP now attend about 40 per cent of all MVAs in Surrey. The reduced attendance is saving the RCMP at least 900 hours a year, and this estimate does not include the time officers had previously spent at MVA scenes conducting interviews and writing reports.
The initiative has also reduced the time fire crews spend responding to MVAs, freeing them up for other priorities.
"If the RCMP aren't needed, we're able to more efficiently clear the scenes – tow trucks can be called, we can push the cars off the road, tell people to exchange information and go on their way," noted Surrey Deputy Fire Chief Jon Caviglia. "It makes sense that we're no longer duplicating services, and it makes sense that those resources can be allocated elsewhere."
RCMP now attend about 40 per cent of all MVAs in Surrey.
Another benefit of the new protocol is that Surrey's MVAs are cleared more quickly and have less impact on the community and other motorists.
"At times, one could expect to have up to five emergency vehicles, including fire, police and ambulance, at a minor motor vehicle incident," said Surrey Deputy Fire Chief Karen Fry. "This partnership not only reduces traffic congestion, it also reduces the carbon footprint in our city."
The initiative was possible because of the strong relationship between Surrey's fire and police departments, and their shared interest in finding innovative ways to improve efficiency and serve the community better.
"It's all about making the right decisions to manage our resources by allocating only the responders required at an emergency incident," Fry said. "Our goal is to provide the best and most efficient response of resources to emergency incidents in the City of Surrey, and this model saves our partner agency – the RCMP – time to respond to more critical incidents."
Matthews noted that the strategic placement of fire department infrastructure throughout the community is another reason it makes sense for fire crews to manage MVAs that don't require RCMP involvement. Some of the RCMP zones cover large areas, which means the closest patrol car may be a considerable distance from an MVA scene.
"The partnership is one that needs to be maintained and developed," Matthews said. "I think the fire department can be of greater assistance to us because of their location and availability. I'd like to see the partnership grow even further."
Similar positive results are predicted if the initiative was to expand to include the ambulance service, which sometimes attends MVAs where its presence is not required. For example, fire officers arriving first at an MVA could cancel the ambulance if it was not needed for treatment or transportation. This would result in a more efficient use of the community's three primary emergency response resources.
At a time when governments are struggling to reduce costs while meeting increasing service demands, this initiative and partnership demonstrates that working together without being constrained by traditional protocols can achieve improved service, more efficient use of resources, and reduced costs and duplication.
Len Garis is the fire chief for the City of Surrey, B. C., and is an adjunct professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley. Fraser MacRae is the chief superintendent, officer in charge, at the RCMP detachment in the City of Surrey, B.C.
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The Sports Car of the Waves.
In the live-out-loud world of express cruisers, the Gran Turismo is in a class by herself. These powerboats feature the kind of styling that makes others say, "She looks fast standing still." And each model is brimming with technology and performance so cruising at speed is one of the great joys you live for.
The Sport Cruiser to Match Your Ambitions.
The new Gran Turismo 50 – the queen of the redesigned Gran Turismo range has arrived. Her elegant profile and full-space main deck provide a new definition to supremely livable interior and exterior space. Her Volvo IPS drive and Air Step® 2 hull deliver ocean-taming performance without wallet-draining expenses. Her cockpit and salon blend seamlessly at the opening of her full-length glazed doors. The quality of materials and design can be seen in her full-beam owner's suite, bathed in natural light and featuring an en-suite shower room. Innovations like Ship Control, a web-based onboard management system, make time aboard a Gran Turismo 50 as smart as it is a satisfying experience.
Length overall 15,78m - 51'9"
Hull length 14,17m - 46'6"
Hull beam 4,38m - 14'4"
Air draft 5,35m - 17'6"
Sporting a new, head-turning design by Nuvolari Lenard, the Gran Turismo 46 features bold, exciting lines with even more room, more performance and more options to experience more fun at sea. These include your choice of a Volvo IPS or a Z-Drive engine, optional full-length glass doors separating the cockpit and salon, plus a choice of two or three-cabin layouts. Interior and exterior spaces are modular to accommodate your onboard needs and feature an abundance of natural light and ventilation. Rich woodwork and accents of titanium, leather, and lacquer create the ultimate atmosphere of comfort for your guests.
Length overall 14,78 m - 48'6"
Hull length 13,5 m - 44'3"
Hull beam 4,15 m - 13'7"
Air draft 4,77 m - 15'8"
Draft 1,15 m - 3'9"
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Designed by Nuvolari Lenard, the Gran Turismo 40 gives a newer, cleaner, edgier face to the sport cruiser. Her flawless proportions and expansive interior and exterior spaces can accommodate up to 11. With our Air Step® hull and choice of three diesel engines, it's easy to combine relaxation and entertainment with speeds up to 38 knots. Interior and exterior spaces complement each other effortlessly. There's an outdoor galley aft and a huge sunbathing area forward. She features two spacious cabins and a head with a separate shower. An electric sunroof above her center console welcomes in the outdoors.
Length overall 12,67 m - 41'7"
Hull length 11,5 m - 37'9"
Hull beam 3,85 m - 12'8"
Air draft 4,15 m - 13'7"
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Understanding tree growth in relation to environmental factors this is my passion! Dendrochronology (tree ring research) sounds like a very specific discipline, but it can be widely applied on trees in temperate, boreal, arctic, and tropical ecosystems and for answering fundamental and applied questions ranging from mechanism of water transport in trees and shrubs to effects of climate change on tree growth and wood quality.
The DendroLab of FEM is my arena to conduct research together with colleagues of various research disciplines and teach students about mechanisms and dynamics in wood formation in response to climate as well as to unravel environmental information (climate, flooding, burial) stored in tree-ring width and wood structure.
Examples of questions we addressed in International as well as student projects are: How Spanish was the Spanish Armanda? (Provenancing of ship timber from Iberian shipwrecks) What is the age of tropical giants and arctic dwarfs shrubs? (Age detection and growth trajectories of tropical tree species and Arctic shrubs). Trojan horses bark beetles invading the Netherlands (dating exit holes made by invasive insects); Pope in trouble no regeneration in Frankincense forests in Ethiopia (Population dynamics of Boswellia papyrifera).


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"disposed" to something and striving over time to become something. It is the latter that is the mark of virtue.
In cultivating compassion as a professional virtue, healers must be willing to be formed by a compassionate community, "confident that they will receive empathic compassion and support from each other as they attend to the sufferings of their patients" (Brody, 1992, p. 267). In this arena, Brody ruefully notes, implicit issues of power have most stood in the way of the profession's reform. The self-imposed image of the physician as a powerful, scientific, objective individual, he says, works against the development of any effective peer support system. But it also cripples the physician's ability to be present to those in pain, which, as Stanley Hauerwas notes (1985), should be the goal of medical training.
For Hauerwas, "the physician's basic pledge is not to cure, but to share through being present to the one in pain" (p. 220). This pledge is difficult to carry out on a day-to-day basis. No individual has the resources to see so much pain without that pain hardening him or her. Pain, as Scarry notes, is destructive of human community; hence the prime directive of the healer to be present to those in pain carries with it an embodied threat to the ability to continue to be a healer. She or he must not only be formed as a healer by a compassionate community, but must also be continually sustained and nurtured by such a community—the kind of community, Hauerwas notes, that the Christian church claims to be.
There is a rich and varied tradition of healing not only within the Christian church but also in virtually every religious tradition. In fact, the role of healer in early societies encompassed not only the people's health but their entire welfare, including their spiritual welfare. The specialization that has accompanied modern civilization, however, makes discussion of the relationship between healing and religious belief problematic in that it is no longer clear who is priest, who is healer, and whose authority should predominate. The relation of medicine to particular religious traditions (Numbers and Amundsen) and the relevance of theological ideas, particularly that of covenant, to medical ethics (May) have opened up areas of fruitful exploration for both medicine and religion. But it may be well to concentrate, as Hauerwas does, not on these theoretical relationships but on the practical relation between communities, between those who practice religion and those who practice healing.
It is in this sense, Hauerwas says, that those who profess to heal need religion—not to provide miracles when there is a failure to cure, not even to supply a foundation for their moral commitments, but rather as a source of the habits and practices necessary to sustain them over the long haul as they care for those in pain. There needs to be a body of people who have learned the skills of presence to keep the world of the ill from becoming a separate world, both for the sake of the ill and for those who care for them. "Only a community that is pledged not to fear the stranger (and illness always makes us a stranger to ourselves and others) can welcome the continued presence of the ill in our midst" (Hauerwas, p. 223).
In the final analysis, healing is a communal action whose goal is the restoration not only of physical and mental wholeness to those who suffer illness but also of their integrity as persons, that is, as beings-in-relation to themselves and to other persons. It is a communal action in two senses: It reaches out to those isolated by illness to reconnect them to the human family; and it is sustainable only within a community that practices compassion as a virtue. The future of the healing professions everywhere depends as much on this nurture as on technical competence and the wise use of material resources. Those who profess to heal must know that no one is fully healed until all are healed.