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King Tutankhamun @ Charles Wright
By Michael Hodges
In Installation, Sculpture
"King Tutankhamun: 'Wonderful Things' from the Pharaoh's Tomb" at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History" through August 22, 2022.
Installation image of "King Tutankhamun: 'Wonderful Things' from the Pharaoh's Tomb" at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. All images courtesy of DAR, unless noted.
Detroiters asked for it, so 100 years after British archeologist Howard Carter discovered his tomb, King Tut and his fabulous furniture are back at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History with "King Tutankhamun: 'Wonderful Things' from the Pharaoh's Tomb." It's a glittering show it'd be silly to miss.
Comprised of 130 meticulously recreated artifacts that took over 10 years to make (the real deals from the Cairo Museum only toured in 1976), "Wonderful Things" was a big hit for the Wright in 2008, and museum officials admit there's been sustained clamor ever since to bring it back. (The quote in the title, by the way, was Carter's gasping response when asked what he saw when he first peered through a drilled hole into the tomb.)
One conclusion you won't be able to escape — those ancient Egyptians, and here we're talking the 18thDynasty when Tut ruled, sure were nuts about their gold. It's hard to find an artifact here that isn't gilded, and each and every one pops against the Wright's color-saturated walls.
"Golden Funeary Mask of Tutankhamun," 18th Dynasty, Cairo Museum, courtesy of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
So it's easy to understand Carter's astonishment when he got that first glimpse: "As my eyes grew accustomed to the light," he would write, "details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold—everywhere the glint of gold." Among items on display that he discovered, you'll find Tut's iconic gold mummy case, his throne, child's chair, a statuette of Tut throwing a harpoon, an embalming couch, bed, jewelry, the dazzling royal mummy itself and the astonishing, and super-famous, funeary mask — probably the one image that almost everyone around the world remembers.
Tut is called the boy-king for good reason – he ascended to the throne when he was just 9, and died about a decade later, probably of malaria and complications from the inbreeding typical of Egyptian royals. (His wife was his half-sister, daughter of Nefertiti.)
But we're lucky any of this treasure was ever found. Back in 1922, Carter had been searching for Tut's underground tomb in the Valley of the Kings for years, with nothing to show for his pains. Just as the British earl funding the research was about to pull the plug, the archeologist decided to excavate the ground between the tombs of Ramesses II and Ramesses VI. Carter wasn't holding his breath. The vacant plot showed some evidence of workers' huts that might have been erected during the construction of one of the nearby crypts, and it seemed unlikely they'd be allowed to camp out on top of a pharaoh.
"Relief of a Noble Couple at a Banquet," 18th Dynasty, Louvre Museum
All the same, Carter's men began digging and eventually discovered a stairway, gateway to the extravagant tomb. As Steve Martin put it on "Saturday Night Live," King Tut's "condo made o' stone-a" consisted of four rooms – an antechamber, which had been ransacked, and the untouched annex, burial chamber and treasury, where some of the most remarkable finds were located, beyond.
Interestingly, at the start of the excavation – after workers dug down to where the stairway ended at a door marked with symbols of a royal necropolis – Carter had them fill the entire thing back in and posted guards. He wanted to get his patron, the fifth earl of Carnarvon, to Egypt before he pushed into the tomb itself that November, and wasn't going to take any chances that vandals might discover the tomb before then.
For its part, "Wonderful Things" is loosely divided into five sections covering ancient Egypt, the archeological discovery, the "private" pharaoh, the "public" pharaoh, and the royal burial. Dominating the center of the first gallery is the "Golden Canopic Shrine and Tutelary Goddesses," a tall, lavishly gilded chest mounted on a sledge that held the embalmed viscera of the young king. Surrounding it are four gilt goddesses, each responsible for safeguarding a different internal organ – the liver, lungs, stomach and intestines.
The "Shrine" didn't make the trip from Egypt to the U.S. in 1976 (amusingly, all artifacts were transported by the U.S. Navy). So if you're at all chagrined about looking at replicas rather than the original, bear in mind that you wouldn't have found the "Shrine" or the casket with its embalmed Tut in the original 1976 show.
"Golden Canopic Shrine and Tutelary Goddesses," 18th Dynasty, Cairo Museum
There's no denying the shrine is a striking monument, but it gets a lot of competition from the reconstruction of Tut's "Golden State Chariot," which would make any kid look tooling around town look cool, as well as the gilt, open casket containing a recreation of Tut's withered, embalmed, and very black body. (Note to parents – little boys will love this one.) All the artifacts in the show, by the way, were created by artisans using the same techniques as the ancients as far as they could. Intriguingly, the coffin – which in real life was solid gold — was first sculpted in foam, then covered with polyurethane and painted.
As it happens, the Egyptian embalming process blackened the skin. But it still raises the old question as to whether Tut resembled contemporary Egyptians or south-of-the-Sahara Africans. One of the reasons the Wright was interested in a Tut exhibit 13 years ago, said Patrina Chatman, curator of collections and exhibitions, is because emerging research suggests the boy-king did not have the light skin we associate with the Arab world.
Noting that some statues, like "The Guardian," are ebony black, Chatman said, "The point is that ancient Egyptians were not the ones we see in the movies, but members of a dark race," adding that Tut and his family had Nubian blood mixed with the Egyptian.
Royal Mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun," 18th Dynasty, Valley of the Kings Tomb 62.
Truth be told, King Tut – who ruled from 1333 BCE to 1323 BCE – was not a particularly important pharaoh as these things go, no matter what the boy-king himself might have thought. That said, he had no way of knowing that his would be the most-famous tomb ever discovered — one in which vandals only made it into the first chamber, and not to the greatest treasures beyond. A bit like Imelda Marcos and her shoes, King Tut would become a worldwide symbol and legend based almost entirely on his accessories. Lucky boy.
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will host "King Tutankhamun: 'Wonderful Things' from the Pharaoh's Tomb" through Aug. 22, 2022.
Per(Sister) and Free Your Mind @ MSU Broad
By Jonathan Rinck
In Installation, Mixed Media, Paintings, Photography, Sculpture
Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of the United States installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Zoe Kissel/MSU Broad. Per(Sister) is a traveling exhibition developed by the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The United States is home to the world's most incarcerated population, with 2.2 million individuals held within its prison system. Over the past 40 years, the incarceration rate for women has increased by over 800%. Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of the United States is a socially-driven exhibition that harnesses the arts to raise awareness of the particular challenges women face during and after incarceration, with attention given to exploring some of the underlying societal conditions that have helped drive forward incarceration rates in the first place.
This exhibit was arranged by the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University in Louisiana, and paired 30 current and formerly incarcerated women (referred throughout the exhibit as "PerSisters") with artists who listened to their stories and translated their experiences into artistic form. At the time of the show's creation, Louisiana was the incarceration capital of the world, with over 1,000 incarcerates per 100,000 inhabitants, compared with 600 per 100,000 in Russia, and 118 per 100,000 in China. Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum now hosts this traveling exhibit. Underscoring the relevance of the show across state lines, the Broad complements the show with the adjacent exhibition Free Your Mind, which addresses incarceration specifically in Michigan. Together, both shows encourage us to view these individuals with empathy and dignity.
The works of art (ranging from photography, painting, site-specific installation, fabric art, sculpture, and even music) are eclectic, reflecting the individual experiences they represent. One wall prominently displays large black and white portraits of all 30 PerSisters featured in the exhibition, sympathetically photographed by Allison Beondé; visitors can hear these women in their own words at stations equipped with electronic devices and headphones, and printed excerpts from their interviews accompany many of works in the show, so their voices and faces are always present.
While each work of art in Per(Sister) responds to an individual's personal experience, many of these works also address broader issues regarding the prison system more generally. Epaul Julien's portrait of Dolita Wilhike conscientiously recalls images of the iconic political activist Angela Davis. But in the background is a prominent American flag which, up close, is revealed to be a collage of historic images of enslaved African Americans, including the familiar schematic rendering of the notorious Brookes slave ship. We also see the script of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolishes slavery "except as punishment for a crime," a constitutional loophole that effectively allows institutional slavery to persist in the form of the prison industrial complex. Artist Amy Elkins confronts the leasing of convicts for unpaid labor in the garment industry in particular with her site-specific wallpaper which mimics textile art, its floral imagery stitched together with the colors used for prisoners' uniforms.
One of the most compelling stories in the exhibit is that of Bobbie Jean Johnson, imprisoned for 40 years for a murder she denied committing. She was released in 2018 with the help of the Innocence Project, which provided compelling evidence in support of Johnson's testimony that her confession was coerced by an officer who was asphyxiating her with a plastic bag. Making the point that in the American justice system a confession is regarded as the "queen of criminal evidence," artist Rontherin Ratliff created a large sculpture of a queen, which, in the game of chess, is the most powerful piece. But confessions are problematic, as several high-profile cases amply demonstrate– the now-exonerated "Central Park Five" come to mind.
Caption: Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana, installation view at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, 2019. Per(Sister) is a traveling exhibition developed by the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Plenty of didactic text and informational graphic-illustrations guide viewers through the root causes of female incarceration, the impact of incarceration on mothers, the physical and mental impact of incarceration, and specific challenges women face upon re-entering society. Some specific issues addressed include the lack of access to proper healthcare, as many jails and prisons are not equipped to provide basic prenatal and postpartum care to female inmates. The show also addresses the impact of incarceration on families; nearly 80% of female incarcerates are mothers, the majority of whom are the sole caregivers to their children.
In an adjacent gallery space, the exhibition Free Your Mind complements Per(Sister) with a specific focus on incarceration in Michigan. While Michigan has fewer incarcerated individuals than other states, it leads the way in punitive sentencing, with its 33,000 inmates serving more time on average than those of any other state. This exhibition addresses four themes: the length of sentencing, the impact of incarceration on women, the impact of incarceration on youth, and the impact of COVID-19. All the works in this single-gallery space come from incarcerated individuals who have exhibited with the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan.
Even allowing that these works were created by individuals with no formal training in art, the technical skill in some of these works is, by all standards, astonishing. Daniel Valentine's pencil drawing of a hand holding a rose, The Scarlet Fancy, is rendered with such realism that it looks like a photograph, even when viewed from just a few inches. Sarah Yien's small charcoal drawing I Need to Breathe, showing a body struggling to break through some sort of translucent tarp, also seems photographic, but evokes the blurred photorealism we might expect from the paintings of Gerhard Richter.
Suffragette City is a deceptively playful and visually flamboyant approach to social criticism. In this colorful watercolor and pen & ink panorama which vaguely resembles the busy pages of a Where's Waldo book, artist Rik McDonough populates a zany cityscape with humorous, thinly veiled allegories of the social and political forces behind mass incarceration. We see armies of pawns scurrying about a dystopian cityscape, and close inspection reveals that many of the buildings in this city are rows of books, all calculatedly chosen titles (Les Misérables, Animal Farm, and 1984, for example).
Incarceration rates among women in Michigan have risen over the past ten years even as the overall statewide prison population has decreased, and much of Free Your Mind features work by women artists. Samantha Bachynski's Rose Trellis Dream Wedding Dress, a life-sized crocheted wedding dress, is particularly evocative. As quoted in the show, Bachynski movingly says of the dress, "It's a beautiful piece of art and I'm so proud of it, but I know I'm not going to get to do the two things I wanted to in my life: get married or be a mom. So I want someone else to feel absolutely beautiful wearing it and experience what I'm not going to experience….It's not a complete end. I still have a life in here. It's not the life I wanted, but it's the life I have made for myself."
Samantha Bachynski, Rose Trellis Dream Wedding Dress, 2019. Courtesy of the Prison Creative Arts Project, University of Michigan.
Although these are both art shows, they're information-heavy, and visitors should expect to read their way through much of these two exhibits. The accompanying booklet to Per(Sister) is a generous 126 pages long and is really an exhibition catalog replete with introductory essays, biographies of the participants, a brief timeline of the American prison system, and a glossary of terms. It's perhaps cliche to describe an exhibition as thought-provoking, but the content of these shows really does have a way of getting inside one's head, only to keep resurfacing as time passes. Together, Per(Sister) and Free Your Mind serve to amplify the voices of a population which, though sizable, remains largely invisible, and they emphatically make the point that individuals shouldn't forfeit their humanity once they enter the carceral system.
Per(Sister) and Free Your Mind are both on view at the Michigan State University Broad Art Museum through December 12, 2021.
Design Highlights and American Perspectives @ GRAM
In Ceramic, Design, Furniture, Installation, Mixed Media, Paintings, Sculpture
Design Highlights from the Permanent Collection, installation photo.
Grand Rapids is home to some of the Midwest's finest contributions to applied art and design, particularly in the furniture industry, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum holds a muscular collection of applied arts, much of which comprises the exhibition Design Highlights from the Permanent Collection. This is a show which brings together work from 20th Century megastars, but also artists and designers who remain completely unknown. Filling the GRAM's first-floor gallery suite, all these works stand as examples of how artists have sought to bring beauty into everyday life.
The works in this show represent a synthesis of decoration and function, and the distinction between the two is frequently blurred. It's a point emphatically made by the inclusion of a ceramic plate, some vases, and a set of cups designed by Picasso for Madoura Pottery in France, all adorned with whimsical vignettes rendered in the artist's abstract style.
Some of these works explore design for its own sake. There are several lithographs in which Alexander Calder simply plays with basic abstract arrangements of shape, form, and color. And an iridescent, blow-molded acrylic wall-hanging by Gisela Colon is similarly non-functional, but in its luminescence and simplicity speaks to the potentiality of design alone to capture the viewer's interest even in the absence of conventional subject matter.
Ovoid Glo-Pod (Iridescent Lilac), Gisela Colon, 2016. Design Highlights from the Permanent Collection, installation photo
But the overwhelming majority of works here exemplify functional design, ranging from furniture, cutlery, advertising, household appliances, and electronics. A display case housing personal electronic devices underscore the rapidity of the evolution of technological design. An ensemble comprising several 1950s-era radios, an AM/FM Walkman, a cassette player, a TV, and some cameras is now collectively obsolete, rendered so by the advent of the smartphone.
Grand Rapids is famous in the Midwest for its contributions to furniture design, and visitors to the GRAM can count on several iconic examples of 20th-century furniture always being on display. These often articulate the point that, like technology, furniture design can also substantially shift and evolve over a relatively short time. Here, there are some pieces by Gustav Stickley, Ray Eames, and Charles Eames. Certainly, the most visually striking pieces are the zainy, sculptural chairs produced by the Westnofa Workshop which manage to re-define the notion of what a chair even is.
Similarly blurring the distinction between the beautiful and the functional, a concurrent exhibition features 80 works on loan from the collection of the American Folk Art Museum. This large exhibit fills most of the GRAM's spacious second-floor gallery suite. By its nature, folk art is eclectic and perhaps hard to define, but these works collectively make the point that folk art has the capacity to be punchy, pertinent, and socially engaged.
American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection, installation image courtesy of the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum comprises a varied assortment of media, and amplifies voices that have been traditionally absent from museum spaces. One of the most moving examples is a ceramic vase by David Drake, an enslaved African American who created an estimated 40,000 works of pottery in his lifetime, invariably signing them "Dave" and often inscribing witty rhyming couplets on their surfaces. His signature features prominently on the side of the vase, asserting his personhood and creative agency in triumphant defiance of the dehumanizing institution of slavery.
David Drake (c.1800–c. 1870).Jug,1853.Alkaline-glazed stoneware,14 1/2 x 12 x 11 1/2 inches.CollectionAmerican Folk Art Museum, New York, Gift of Sally and Paul Hawkins, 1999.18.1.Photo by JohnParnell.
Harnessing an entirely different media, the Grover Cleveland Quilt similarly amplifies a disenfranchised voice, the patches of the quilt declaring its anonymous creator's support for Grover Cleveland's candidacy approximately forty years before the vote was extended to women. Created almost exactly a century later, Jessie Telfair's Freedom Quilt is a monument to the hard-fought rights secured during the Civil Rights Movement.
Jessie B. Telfair (1913–1986)Freedom Quilt,1983.Cotton,with pencil,74 x 68inches.CollectionofAmerican Folk ArtMuseum, New York,Gift of Judith Alexander in loving memory of her sister, Rebecca Alexander, 2004.9.1.Photo by Gavin Ashworth, New York.
Work by immigrants to America features prominently in the show. A visual centerpiece of the exhibit is Mariano Ariti'sArchitectural Palace, a model for a hypothetical museum celebrating human innovation. An Italian immigrant to the United States, he envisioned this colossal structure to stand in Washington D.C., and if realized, the building would have been as tall as Dubai's Burj Khalifa. Its ambitious scale speaks to the artist's optimistic vision of the nation's capabilities.
Born to a family of immigrants in the Bronx, Ralph Fasanella's Workers Holiday portrays the city's working-class masses headed to Coney Island as a momentary escape from the daily grind, and indirectly speaks to his impassioned interest in worker's rights. Not incidentally, just a few feet away from Fasanella's painting is an original wooden carousel horse, itself a form of handcrafted folk-art, from the merry-go-round at Coney Island amusement park.
This is an ambitious pair of exhibitions, given that they bring together an eclectic assortment of art and design which we might not conventionally think of as museum art. As different in form and content as both of these exhibits are, together they bring together non-traditional media which assertively makes the point that visual culture isn't simply the stuff of sterile and hushed museums and galleries, but that craft and design can frequently burst into real-world, real-life spaces.
Design Highlights from the Permanent Collection runs through August 14, 2021, and American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum runs through August 28, 2021.
Art + Labor & The Long Goodbye @ MSU Broad
In Installation, Photography, Printmaking, Video
24/7: Art + Labor Around the Clock installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Aaron Word/MSU Broad.
COVID-19 had a dramatic impact on how we work; even as we return to normalcy, it remains unclear if the workplace will ever fully return to how things were in pre-pandemic years. An intimate, single-gallery exhibit at the MSU Broad offers an ensemble of works which explore labor as depicted in art, with a particular focus placed on the ambiguity between domestic vs. work spaces. Anyone who has worked from home this past year will immediately relate to the contents of 24/7: Art + Labor Around the Clock.
This is a show which brings together an eclectic ensemble of photography and works on paper which span just over a hundred years. Together, these works speak to the notion of work beyond the boundaries of the 9 to 5 workday. COVID forced many of us to work from home, but for many people in certain lines of work this was historically the normative experience. A trio of anonymous photographs shows workers in telecommunications, textile, and agriculture, all industries which once were performed principally in domestic settings (telephone operators once had switchboards in their homes, for example, so they could be on call day and night).
The Hidden World Collection, (Picture of women working at a telephone switchboard). MSU purchase, Eli and Edythe Broad Fund for the Acquisition of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Two works approach this theme with tongue-in-cheek humor. In a wry parody of the classic children's book Goodnight Moon, Krithika Varagur and Eric Macomber give us Good Night Zoom; its imagery, color palette, and style echoes that of the original classic, but now our beloved rabbit protagonist is wishing goodnight to the things which have become fixtures of our pandemic-era lives ("Goodnight screens," for example). Also approaching the subject with humor is the animated film El Empleo (The Employee) by Santiago Grasso and Patricio Plaza, in which there's no boundary between work and domestic spaces, and humans are paid to perform the roles of functional, inanimate objects. The redundant, joyless lives of the film's characters echo the pulverizing tedium of the fictional worlds envisioned in the absurdist plays of Samuel Beckett.
El Empleo (The Employee), Santiago Grasso and Patricio Plaza, 2008.
Some of these works are visually mesmerizing, such as Michael Kenna's moody, backlit photographs of Dearborn's Ford Rouge Complex, which manage to turn the factory into something that verges on the sublime and the surreal. Together, these images seem to suggest that this complex is a living, breathing behemoth that never truly shuts down.
Michael Kenna, The Rouge, Study #1, 1992. MSU purchase, partially funded by an anonymous donor.
Jenny Kendler: The Long Goodbye installation view at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2021. Photo: Eat Pomegranate Photography.
Concurrent with (but unrelated to) 24/7: Art + Work Around the Clock, a second gallery space explores the human impact on the planet's biodiversity. The Long Goodbye is a considered ensemble of sculptural work by multimedia artist Jenny Kendler, who tactfully integrates the media she uses with the message she delivers. Although inhabiting a comparatively small space, the visual impact of this exhibit is striking.
Nearly filling the length of one of the gallery walls is Whale Bells, a collaborative project by Kendler and glass artist Andrew Bearnot. This is an ensemble of two dozen functional glass bells. The ropes for each bell incorporate traditional sailor's knots, and the clappers are actual fossilized ear bones from Miocene-epoch rorqual whales, the ancestors of today's humpback. Kendler makes the point that 5-20 million years ago, these now-extinct whales, equipped with the ability to create music, were once very likely the most culturally advanced entities on earth. Here, the bones that once allowed these whales to perceive sound are now employed as the literal instruments which project sound. The environmental commentary here is understated, but the installation invites us to consider that today's humpback whale was once an endangered species before it became the center of one of the first international environmental campaigns (Save the Whales) in the 1970s. Through this installation's use of sound, we're also reminded that in recent years noise pollution caused by human commercial activity in the ocean (tand he oil industry in particular) has had a detrimental effect on whales' migration patterns and mating activity.
The literal centerpiece of this exhibition space is Amber Archive, a circular table on which are displayed approximately 130 fragments from different plant and animal species which are vulnerable to extinction as the direct result of human activity. Each specimen is individually encased in a glowing orb of amber resin. These include (among many other things) fragments of bird feathers, whale baleen, and snakeskin. This installation is visually striking, but it also serves as a sort of DNA time-capsule, not unlike the world's seed-vaults which aim to preserve and protect Earth's biodiversity.
Each of these two exhibits nicely supplement the Broad's current lead exhibitions. Interstates of Mind, with its focus on Michigan's automotive industry, certainly parallels much of the content of Art + Labor, particularly Michael Kenna's photographic series on the Rouge automotive plant. And Kendler's work certainly underscores Seeds of Resistance in her emphasis on preserving biodiversity. Taken together, this quartet of exhibitions prompts us to consider the relationship between industry and the environment, and how our commercial pursuits have lasting ecological consequences.
24/7: Art + Work Around the Clock is on view through August 22.
The Long Goodbye is one view through June 27, 2021 at the East Lansing Broad Museum.
Photography @ Scarab Club
By Dennis Nawrocki
In Installation, Photography
50th Annual Photography Exhibition at the Scarab Club
Installation view, 50th Annual Scarab Club Photography Exhibition, Installation photo by Christopher Gene, all other photos courtesy of Scarab Club
A striking and expansive display of photographic sensibilities, currently on view in the 50th Annual Scarab Club Photography Exhibition, continues a long-standing tradition of welcoming and introducing current photographic practice. Juried by Ralph Jones, Detroit photographer, documentarian, educator, mentor, and exhibiting artist, this "unthemed" show (as per the Club's Call for Entry application) is visually vibrant and emotionally rich. The spacious installation of the submissions of 38 artists enhances a diverse array of figurative and abstract images, formats both commandingly large and gem-like in scale, and bold, colorful pictures in tandem with austerely black and white compositions.
Technically, Matthew Raupp's Detroit Photo Series (2020) might be termed a relief, projecting as it does some three inches plus from the wall. His compendium of 192 colorful, miniature views of buildings (2 x 2" each) represent sharply focused, frontal images of structures drawn from the precincts of Detroit. Each is individually mounted on a 2 " wood cube imbuing them with the weight and heft of a three-dimensional structure. Fronts of houses, storefronts, banks, churches, and fire stations in various states of repair–intact, rehabbed, repurposed, or derelict– attest to the adaptability and resiliency of The D. Additionally, an iPhone mounted dead center zooms through the entire ensemble of facades, offering an alternative, fast-paced scan (so 21st century) through Raupp's personal land bank.
Matthew Raupp, Detroit Photo Series, 48 x 48 x 3," Wood blocks, photographic prints, iPhone
Detail, Matthew Raupp, Detroit Photo Series
Two vertical compositions, rather like exclamation points, punctuate one wall, making the most of the slender height of the format. In Kate Gowman's five feet tall Scrapyard Fire (2012), no flames are in sight. Instead, a hazy atmosphere pervades the scene. The smoggy smoke of the fire, some distance away, merges with the gray, shapeshifting clouds and gracefully listing tree trunks, while two men quietly inhabit the crisply detailed foreground, one perched atop a wrecked car and the other standing nearby, while gazing toward the unseen fire. Aesthetically, the subtle tonalist merging of gray hues belies the alarming import of Gowman's title. In contrast, Vincent Cervantez's poignant The Unveiling (2021), a three feet tall still life of a white bridal(?) veil sprawled on a bed of brown, parched leaves, evokes loss, accidental or deliberate, perhaps a dream forsook, or even a violent encounter. Discarded objects and litter–masks, plastic bags and containers, whippets, and etc.–pervade the culture. Here, rather affectingly, an eddy of wind lifts the veil and threatens to whisk it out of sight.
Kate Gowman, Scrapyard Fire, 60 x 36," Fine art print on Hahnemuhle paper
Vincent Cervantez, The Unveiling, 36 x 24," Digital print
Affirmation rules as well in the Scarab Club's 50th anniversary show. Tom Stoye's Leap of Farith (2016) presents a silhouetted figure, legs spread wide (the print is 32" broad), head skimming the top of the frame, bounding through a spray of water. Its lithe, explosive energy swiftly transports the viewer aloft and across the expanse of paper. The small, square, quiescent People in a Pandemic (2020), by Anne Knight Weber, however, features four clustered, stationary figures (one adult and three children) on a vast beach as avatars of the endemic isolation of a pandemic. Sans a frame, water, wet sand, reflections, and azure sky shimmer and float free of the gallery wall heightening the glassy stasis of the scene.
Tom Stoye, Leap of Faith, 21 x 32," Photographic print
Anne Knight Weber, People in a Pandemic, 11 x 11," Photograph, acrylic glass
Other photographers focus upon the uneasy balance and oft tense interaction between figuration and abstraction. An emphatic zig zaging line rivets the view of Jerry Basierbe's Steel Breakwater #3–Point Betsie, MI (2019), while in Hats(2016) by David Clements a swirling orange oval governs the foreground. In the former, the dark, zig zagging line of the breakwater thrusts the viewer into the silky, placid waters of Lake Michigan, a coastal locale frequented by the artist. It's a harsh, slicing armature that connotes something of the blunt force of industrialization. In the latter, Clements presents a vignette drawn from his ongoing series documenting African American church services. Here, the elliptical orange confection up front instantly captures the viewer's eye before noting another woman, also attired in a matching, eye-catching hat and coat, seated in the next pew forward.
Jerry Basierbe, Steel Breakwater #3–Point Betsie, MI, 18 x 18," Digital photographic print
David Clements, Hats, 14 x 16," Photograph
One of the smallest works in the exhibition also touches on fashion. Teresa Petersen's Fashion for Women and Children (2018), a mere 3 x 3," presents a fenced off storefront featuring pink and blue pastel raiment for women and children. Like Raupp, Basierbe, Clements, and others, she too scours particular locales for definitive subjects. Alas, here the fashions on parade are imprisoned behind a metal grate, teasingly short-circuiting a window shopper's desires.
Teresa Petersen, Fashion for Women and Children, 3 x 3," Photograph
Small, medium, or large, splendidly hued or chastely black and white, figurative or abstract, these singular examples may indeed spur a desire to encounter more of the photographs on display. And that is exactly what this golden anniversary exhibition at the Scarab Club proffers: all 38 selections remain on view through June 26, 2021.
The Scarab Club is located at 217 Farnsworth St. across the street from the Detroit Institute of Arts.


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Nearly 400 flight attendants swear by this $24 jumpsuit
January 17, 2020 | Last updated April 10, 2020
By: Claire Gillespie
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The jumpsuit trend has been around for years now, and it isn't showing any sign of abating. And while it may take a while to find the perfect jumpsuit — the one that washes well, doesn't need to be ironed and is super comfy and stylish — once you've got it, you'll never want to wear anything else.
Just ask the flight attendants of the world. Thanks to these world-travelers, one particular jumpsuit has caught our eye.
And it's not a designer buy; it costs $23.99 from Amazon. It has an off-the-shoulder style and an elasticated waist — and it even has pockets.
PRETTYGARDEN Off-Shoulder Stretchy Jumpsuit
According to The Strategist, almost 400 flight attendants own the so-called "traveling jumpsuit," since it was first featured in a post in a private Facebook group. The group's moderator Jennifer Nors believes jumpsuit fever really began in early August when one flight attendant included it in a post about her latest Amazon purchases.
"Then, out of nowhere, someone else posted they got the same one, and from there our entire group blew up," Nors told The Strategist. "The more people posted pictures, the more people requested the link to buy."
Soon, the basic black jumpsuit took over the Facebook group, with flight attendants sharing pictures of themselves wearing the garment everywhere from the beach to a sports game.
By September, demand was so great that the jumpsuit was on back-order, and some people had to wait several weeks for delivery, The Strategist reports. Clearly, some were worried it wouldn't come back into stock, and ordered several.
Flight attendants aside, Amazon customers are going crazy for this jumpsuit — which is also available in brown, navy, wine red, green and dark green, if black doesn't do it for you.
"This jumpsuit is so versatile!" wrote one reviewer. "It is so comfortable and feels like I have my pajamas on!"
"So happy I ordered this!" wrote another. "Quality of both material and workmanship is great — it's so flattering!"
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The largest city nearest to Barmby Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire is Leeds, which is 44 km km away.
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Q: Efficient Way to Query GA and Output Multiple Months to Google Sheet I'm wondering if anyone could give me tips or example code on how to query and output multiple months worth of data to a Google Sheet. For example, I'd like to create a table that lists all of the eventLables and the totalEvents for each during the last 3 months.

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External Links   6      8      15
Get Directions   6      2       3

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Canada's Double Portion from North Battleford, Saskatchewan is a unique group in many ways. This 5 piece Gospel band is made up of entirely one family including parents Duncan & Debbie Hemmerling and 8 of their 10 children. Juggling homework and musical instruments is a daily routine for the Hemmerling children. They trade in riding the school bus for riding across the country in Canada's Double Portion tour bus for almost half the year.
2018 marks the 36th year of ministry for this veteran group. Originating with Duncan and his three sisters, Canada's Double Portion has crisscrossed the continent from Newfoundland to British Columbia, Georgia to Alaska. Three decades of travel have provided unique experiences like singing on the Grand Ole' Opry stage, backing up Johnny & June Cash at a Cash/Rivers family reunion and performing with many of Gospel music's premier groups at North America's largest events. However, experience has taught this family that the smaller things in life are often the most rewarding!
Canada's Double Portion have been nominated for Group of the Year numerous times and have received multiple awards for Album, Song of the Year and Live Band of the Year in the Gospel Music Association Canada. Tours in 2018 are taking them to events like Southwest Gospel Fest in Phoenix, AZ, "Preacher in the Patch" crusades throughout the North Central U.S., the Canadian Gospel Music Celebration in Red Deer, AB and concerts across the U.S. and Canada. They continue to see children's lives changed through their partnership with Compassion Canada and are heard on the radio airwaves through the 1/2 radio program Foursquare Gospel Tidings.
They are thankful for every opportunity they have to share the Gospel!


In 2018, Mary Ellen Lutey earned a total compensation of $1.2M as Sr. Vice President and Regional Manager at SM Energy Company.
Mary Ellen Lutey's 2018 compensation ranked 5,480th out of 8,692 executive pay records tracked by us this year.
Lutey earned more than 37.0% of all executives tracked by us in 2018.
In the industry group of Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas, Lutey's pay ranked 136th out of 175 executive pay records tracked by us in 2018.
Lutey earned more than 22.3% of executives in this group.
Lutey received $525K in stock awards, which accounts for 43.89% of total compensation.
Lutey also received $1.7K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $263.6K in non-equity incentive plan, $336.2K in salary and $69.6K in other compensation.
For fiscal year 2018, the annual total compensation for Mary Ellen Lutey was $1,196,123 and for the median employee at SM Energy Company was $150,799. The resulting ratio of Mary Ellen Lutey's pay to the pay of median employee was 8 to one.


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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi's VC arm invests in EV charging and service solutions company
by Autocar Pro News Desk , 18 Feb 2019
Alliance Ventures, the strategic venture capital arm of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi announced a new investment in PowerShare, an electric vehicle (EV) charging platform startup based in China.
PowerShare provides an online platform that connects EV drivers, charge point operators and power suppliers to streamline the charging experience. It offers a cloud-based system, enabling suppliers to monitor the demand from vehicles with the supply capacity of the grid and drivers to find available charging stations. Earlier this year, British energy major BP had invested in PowerShare its VC arm.
This investment is the latest addition to the Alliance Ventures portfolio in the field of early-stage development and entrepreneurs working on the next-generation systems for the automotive industry.
Francois Dossa, Alliance global vice-president, Ventures and Open Innovation, said: "PowerShare's expertise fits with the Alliance's objective to maintain our leadership in vehicle electrification. A solid infrastructure network must be established to accelerate the deployment of EV and new mobility services, and we expect Powershare's technology to help make that happen. Additionally, PowerShare's base in China aligns with our strong focus on the market as a strategic hub."
Ethan Zhu, founder and CEO, PowerShare added: "As a technology-based start-up with a focus on electric vehicle charging, PowerShare has accumulated rich experiences in this field through in-depth cooperation with domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers, charging operators and charging pile manufacturers over the past four years. This investment from Alliance Ventures will enable us to go farther and faster in expanding markets, developing core technologies, and exploring new business models in the global e-Mobility business. We look forward to working closely with Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi as PowerShare grows."
The investment in PowerShare follows ten other Alliance Ventures investments, including start-ups based in North America, Europe and China, this the partners says is part of its focus on contributing to the future of mobility.
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Like many towns in central Massachusetts, Douglas is well-watered and home to several carefully preserved areas that have delighted locals for centuries. The large Douglas State Forest comprises part of the town, as well as Wallum Lake, Whitins Reservoir, Badluck Pond, Reservoir Pond and Manchaug Pond.
To complete the town's natural feel, the Breezy Picnic Grounds sit right on Main Street. For almost 60 years, these grounds have drawn visitors from several states who come to enjoy the three 300-foot waterslides, game rooms, snack bar and free parking on the edge of the Whitins Reservoir. The park is open from early June to Labor Day Monday.
If you are hoping to slide into Douglas, you will need to find the best Douglas movers. A "movers Douglas MA" search will produce a list of Douglas local movers but not much to go on. To discern which of the Douglas movers is number 1, you will need to do more research, looking for a Douglas moving company that has happy customers and high ratings from independent organizations.
As you ask around and do your own investigation, you will find that DN Van Lines has scores of thrilled customers (see www.dnvanlines.com for details), an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and a designation as a ProMover from the American Moving and Storage Association.
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We are a keen but small group of cyclists who ride early and hard but safely; bright lights and plenty of reflective clothing. We pride ourselves on being great ambassadors for cycling; obeying road rules and showing courtesy to other road users (cars and cyclists). We leave from the corner of Toorak and Evergreen (formally Bass) in Inverloch. Departure time is normally 5:40am during the week but this changes on weekends and during the holiday periods. Our standard ride is the 40km 'local Loop' but we head out to the hills as often as possible. Weekend rides always finish with a coffee, often with the larger Coastal Crewzers bunch.


India has recorded an alarming spike in swine flu cases this year, with 226 people reported dead.
It has triggered a health alarm with more than 6,700 cases reported across the country.
Most of the cases are reported from the northern Indian states of Rajasthan, Delhi and Haryana.
"Flu outbreaks are cyclic and the numbers go down every alternate year as outbreaks lead to the community developing immunity against infection. Last year, there were fewer than 15,000 cases, so this year we are expecting some increase," said Union health secretary Preeti Sudan.


If the pool equipment is below the water level, set the valve on top of the Filter to WASTE or BACKWASH. Restore the valve to the FILTER position when you have finished.
If the pool equipment is above the water level, set the valve on top of the Filter to WASTE or BACKWASH and turn the filter pump on using the Pool App. Restore the valve to the FILTER position when you have finished.
There are optional products available from Pooled Energy which allow you to automatically add mains water to the pool or else, empty it, using the Pool App for control. You do not need to go to the pool equipment and adjust valves or use a hose to add water.
If you already have an automatic filling/emptying system in the pool it should work with the Pooled Energy system in most cases. Note that these systems typically dilute the chemicals in the pool at a faster rate than pools without them, which results in higher chemical consumption and associated costs.


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Our attitude says a lot about whether or not we are Christians. It's easy to have a Christlike attitude when things are going our way, but what about when things aren't going our way? Sometimes , when things aren't going our way we have an attitude that is quite ugly. We tend to gripe and take it out on everybody else. Remember that the world is watching.
The jailer wanted to how to become a Christian. Paul and Silas said to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. They witnessed to him and to his family. As a result, the jailer ministered to their needs. When you have a Christlike attitude, people want to know more about Jesus. The Bible says in Romans 10:9 that if we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in our heart that God has raised Him from the dead, we will be saved.


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FFmpeg Coup Results in New Team of Maintainers
On Tuesday, a group of developers implemented a coup and took over the FFmpeg project from the current maintainers.
"We, the undersigned, announce that as of today FFmpeg maintainership has been assumed by a new team," Attila Kinali informed the FFmpeg mailing list.
Michael Niedermayer, one of the previous FFmpeg maintainers, was surprised to learn he was no longer part of the project.
"I just wanted to say that I am as surprised as everyone else about what has happened in the last few hours," he said, "and that some developers overtaking official ffmpeg and closing everyone else's write access without any kind of public discussion is kinda nasty."
But Diego Biurrun said they tried to contact Neidermayer.
"We tried to contact almost everyone," Biurrun told Neidermayer, "but did not succeed with all. Not everybody was on IRC, others, like you for example, did not answer the phone or react to SMS messages and/or email."
Biurrun said, "Everybody is welcome and invited to join the community to work on FFmpeg, all past and present and future developers included."
This article was originally published on January 20, 2011


Elizabeth Butler is a nutritional therapist, public speaker, writer and the founder of Body Soul Nutrition. Elizabeth's passion is helping clients to recognise the power they hold over their own health, happiness and life. Her own life experiences coupled with years of working with people facing serious illness allows her to support people using a mixture of wisdom and compassion.
Following a degree in biochemistry, Elizabeth trained in nutritional therapy at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition. She went on to obtain her Master of Nutritional Medicine at the University of Surrey. Elizabeth is a graduate of the Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice course and is a member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT).


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Experimental studies of exotic transitions in high-Z few-electron ions
Sergiy Trotsenko
A novel experimental approach for studying exotic transitions in few-electron high-Z ions was developed. In this approach, few-electron ions with selectively produced single K-shell holes are used for the investigation of the transition modes that follow the decay of the excited ions. The feasibility of the developed approach was confirmed by an experimental study of the production of low-lying excited states in He-like uranium, produced by K-shell ionization of initially Li-like species. It was found that K-shell ionization is a very selective process that leads to the production of only two excited states, namely the 1s2s 21S0 and 1s2s 23S1. This high level of selectivity stays undisturbed by the rearrangement processes. These experimental findings can be explained using perturbation theory and an independent-particle model, and are a result of the very different impact parameter dependencies of K-shell ionization and L- intrashell excitation. The L-shell electron can be assumed to stay passive in the collision, whereas the K-shell electron is ionized. It was stressed that the current result might directly be applied to accurate studies of the two-photon decay in He-like ions. Up to now, the experimental challenge in conventional 2E1 experiments has been the photon-photon coincidence technique, which is required to separate the true 2E1 events from the x-ray background associated with single photon transitions. In contrast, by exploiting K-shell ionization, the spectral distribution of the two-photon decay could be obtained simply by a measurement of the photon emission, using only a single x-ray detector in coincidence with projectile ionization. One further particular advantage arises from the fact that the 1s2p 3P0 state is not populated, and does not contribute to the continuum distribution of the two-photon emission. At high Z, this state also undergoes a two-photon E1M1 decay, which would be indistinguishable from the 2E1 decay of the 1s2s 1S0. The first measurement of the two-photon energy distribution from the decay of 1s2s 1S0 level in He-like tin was performed by adopting the technique developed in this thesis. In this technique, excited He-like heavy ions were formed by K-shell ionization of initially Li-like species in collisions with a low-Z gas target, and x-ray spectra following the decay of the He-like ions were measured in coincidence with the up-charged tin ions. The observed intense production of the 2E1 transitions, and a very high level of selectivity, make this process particularly suited for the study of the two-photon continuum, and thus for a detailed investigation of the structure of high-Z He-like systems. The method allowed for a background-free measurement of the distribution of the two-photon decay (21S0 -> 11S0) in He-like tin. The measured distribution could also be discriminated from that of other He-like ions, and confirmed, for the first time, the fully relativistic calculations. In addition, the feasibility of the method was confirmed by studying another exotic transition, namely the two-electron one-photon transition (TEOP) in Li-like high-Z ions. An experimental investigation of the radiative decay modes of the 1s2s2 state in Li-like heavy ions has been started. In the first dedicated beam time at the ESR, selective population of this state via K-shell ionization of initially Be-like species was achieved. The x-rays produced in this process were measured by a multitude of x-ray detectors, each placed under different observation angles with respect to the ion beam direction. The spectra associated with projectile electron loss consist (in all cases) of one single x-ray transition, which was attributed to the TEOP decay to the 1s2 2p1/2 level, possibly contaminated by the M1 decay to the 1s22s. Thus it was proven that, by adopting the developed approach, one can indeed produce the desired initial state. This makes this method perfectly suited for studies of TEOP transitions in high-Z systems. An extension of this study, by the inclusion of an electron spectrometer, would also allow for measurements of the autoionization channel, which would provide complete information on the various decay modes of the 1s2s2 state.
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Leon C. LaBrecque, CPA, JD, CFA, CFP
Leon LaBrecque is the founder and CEO of LJPR. Under Leon's 26 years of leadership, LJPR has grown to be recognized as one of the top independent investment advisers in the country.
He has a passion for sharing his vast wealth management knowledge with everyone he can. He has authored a number of corporate retirement programs for municipalities and Fortune 500 companies across the country. In 1989, Leon founded the Masters of Science in Finance program while serving as the Department Chair of Finance and Economics at Walsh College.
Leon helped start the Michigan Alpha Project, for which he personally provided $100,000 for Walsh College investment students to invest in an all-Michigan portfolio.
Leon's passion for the outdoors is as strong as his passion for helping people make educated financial decisions. When he's not helping clients or hashing out the next big thing in wealth management, you'll probably find him kayaking one of our great lakes or playing with his three golden retrievers.
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Otherside Brewing was born out of the live music and festival scene in Western Australia and has grown to have its own brewery and other hospitality ventures too.
To support that growth, Otherside is hiring an East Coast-based marketing specialist. Here's what you need to know about the role.
Otherside Brewing Co. is a Fremantle born, WA brewed beer brand that has its heritage strongly grounded in festivals and music. In its short lifetime, Otherside has grown at a phenomenal rate. We have now built our own brewery and are expanding to keep up with demand and as we build market share.
The Otherside brand is part of the Triple-1-Three house, a hospitality and brewing group that has in its stable a wide range of brands and business including venues – Otherside Brewhouse and Freo.Social, Catering and food truck business - Nomads and, of course Otherside Brewing Co. and much more.
The Otherside brand has seriously taken off in WA and is garnering a significant following on the east coast. And, while we currently have sales support on the ground on the East Coast, we are looking to secure a Marketing Specialist to assist in a more strategic approach to our expansion of the brand into the East Coast market.
Provide ongoing marketing and sales support.
In terms of real, proper previous experience, and due the specialised nature of the role, we would expect you to have international sales and marketing experience – ideally within the craft beer / beverage industry. (Cicerone qualifications are an advantage).
You would be both strategic and analytical, be a great problem solver and, because the position is remote to the head office, be motivated, dependable, have great communications capabilities and have a leaning to entrepreneurial, imaginative thinking.
If this connects with you, connect with us and we can send you a more detailed job description. We are offering a salary range between $60,000 and $70,000.
Applications close March 17, 2019.


Benjamins are proud to present this Five Bedroom detached property situated on a corner plot which is offered for sale with no upward chain and is well maintained. Located in the popular village of Cotgrave, the property has gas central heating, a large en-suite bathroom to the master bedroom and a large separate living room/bedroom five. Briefly the accommodation comprises: entrance hall, downstairs WC, lounge, dining room off the lounge, breakfast kitchen, store room, two study rooms, five bedrooms with an en-suite bathroom to the master bedroom and a family bathroom with a separate toilet. Externally, there is a driveway with parking for two cars, integral garage and gardens to the front side and rear. Situated within easy access of the village centre which has a number of facilities including local shops, doctors, leisure centre and conveniently located via the major link roads to the Nottingham City Centre and the surrounding areas.
Stairs leading to the first floor and door leading into the lounge.
With coal effect gas fireplace with stone surround, bay window to the front elevation, T.V point, radiator, ceiling light fitting and two wall mounted light fittings, doors leading to both the dining room and breakfast kitchen.
with tiled floor and doors leading to the downstairs w/c and store cupboard housing the gas central heating boiler.
With a low flush W/C, window to the side elevation.
French doors leading out to the rear garden, ceiling light fitting, radiator with doors also leading to both study rooms and bedroom five.
Window to the rear elevation, radiator, ceiling light fitting.
Window to the side elevation, radiator, ceiling light fitting.
With doors leading to four bedrooms, bathroom and separate w/c.
With built-in wardrobe, window to the front elevation, radiator, ceiling light fitting and door leading to the large en-suite bathroom.
With two velux windows to the rear elevation, bathtub with tiled surround and hot and cold taps, enclosed shower cubicle with electric shower and tiled walls, low flush w/c, pedestal wash hand basin, ceiling light fitting, half cladding walls, bidet, radiator.
Window to the rear elevation, ceiling light fitting, radiator.
Window to the front elevation, ceiling light fitting, radiator.
Obscure window to the rear elevation, pedestal wash hand basin with tiled splashback, chrome heated towel rail, bath with hot and cold taps with tiled surround, airing cupboard containing water tank and emersion heater, ceiling light point and tiled floor.
Window to the side elevation, low flush w/c, tiled floor.
The loft is boarded with shelving on both sides stretching the entire length of the loft which is accessible via a ladder through the trap door and is fully illuminated by two strip lights.
Located on the ground floor as part of the side extension, with a bay window to the front elevation and another window to the side elevation, radiator, ceiling light fitting. This room is currently dressed as a large fifth bedroom but could also be used as a 2nd living room if preferred.
The property is situated on a large corner plot with a front garden mainly laid to lawn. The property benefits from a driveway for two cars leading to an integral garage. There is a side garden area which is currently laid to lawn and enclosed by a low brick wall. The rear garden contains a garden shed and is mainly patio and a stoney area.
The local authority Rushcliffe Borough Council has advised us that the property is in council tax band D, which we are advised, currently incurs a charge of £1,890 (2019/20) Prospective purchasers are advised to confirm this.


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A top UN expert has come up with a new way to save the planet – eat less red meat!
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said people should eat less meat to cut greenhouse gas emissions. With consumption of meat dropping, so will the production. And animal farms are the source of 18 percent of all greenhouse emissions, he said.
"Give up meat for one day (per week) initially, and decrease it from there," he told the Observer newspaper.
Dr Pachauri, who is a vegetarian, said other lifestyle changes can contribute to the effort as well, although he added action by governments is needed for major results.
But British meat producers have criticised the move.
Combating global warming is not the only reason why some experts say meat consumption should be curbed.
In the 'virtual water' concept, where goods are measured according to how much water is spent in their production, meat is among the most 'expensive' things. In takes 15,000 litres of water to produce 1 kilogram of beef as compared to 1,300 litres for 1 kilogram of wheat.
With the reserves of fresh water becoming sparse, people must be more aware of how much virtual water they have for their dinner every day, experts argue.
Surely some mis-steak! Fatty meat keeps you slim?


The group alelsupreme is in is strikingly obvious and I'm surprised no one has pointed it out yet.
if you look up the term "inner circle" in the dictionary, it literally says "alelsupreme"
is alelsupreme the leader of the forum regular cult that i haven't been invited to yet (for obvious reasons)?
I much prefer In Utero (how can you beat going out on "All Apologies"?). Nevermind is a bunch of good rock songs. That's about it. And it changed the face of popular music. But it's not that great.
I find myself listening to In Utero more but I can relate to Nevermind so I often have a hard time choosing between the two.


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Coronosaurus is een geslacht van plantenetende ornithischische dinosauriërs, behorend tot de groep van de Ceratopia, dat tijdens het late Krijt leefde in het gebied van het huidige Noord-Amerika. De enige benoemde soort is Coronosaurus brinkmani.

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Tussen 1996 en 2000 groef Philip Currie dinosauriërbeenderen op bij de Sandhill Creek in Alberta, Canada op de zogenaamde Bone Bed 138-vindplaats. In 2003 werden die gemeld en in 2005 door Michael Ryan en Anthony Russell benoemd als een nieuwe soort van Centrosaurus: Centrosaurus brinkmani. De soortaanduiding eert Donald Brinkman, hoofd onderzoek van het Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. De reden om C. brinkmani bij Centrosaurus onder te brengen was dat deze bij analyses uitviel als de zustersoort van Centrosaurus apertus.

In 2012 echter publiceerde Ryan met David Evans en Kieran Shepherd een onderzoek waarin van een directe verwantschap geen sprake meer was. Deze auteurs schiepen daarom een apart geslacht voor de soort: Coronosaurus. De geslachtsnaam is afgeleid van het Latijnse corona, "kroon", een verwijzing naar het feit dat de vele uitsteeksels op het nekschild deze het aanzien van een kroon geven. De nieuwe combinatienaam voor de typesoort Centrosaurus brinkmani is hiermee Coronosaurus brinkmani.

Het holotype, TMP 2002.68.1, is gevonden in een laag van de Oldmanformatie die dateert uit het late Campanien en ongeveer zesenzeventig miljoen jaar oud is. Het bestaat uit een stuk wandbeen. Talrijke beenderen uit de vindplaats zijn aan de soort toegewezen, voornamelijk wandbeenderen (in totaal honderdtien) en squamosa van het nekschild, van zowel jonge, jongvolwassen als volwassen dieren. Daarnaast zijn fossielen toegewezen uit een tweede vindplaats bij het plaatsje Warner, het Milk River Ridge Bone Bed.

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Coronosaurus is een middelgrote ceratopide. In 2010 schatte Gregory S. Paul de lichaamslengte op vijf meter, het gewicht op twee ton. Volgens Paul heeft Coronosaurus een matig lange en vrij rechte neushoorn, bedoeld om verticaal in de buik van roofsauriërs te steken, zoals Daspletosaurus torosus. De wenkbrauwhoorns zijn klein en steken zijwaarts uit. Het nekschild ligt min of meer horizontaal in het verlengde van de voorkant van schedel en is versierd met kleine uitsteeksels.

In 2012 werd een aantal onderscheidende kenmerken van Coronosaurus bepaald. De beenkernen van de wenkbrauwhoorns van volwassen exemplaren zijn kort maar aan de basis verwijd en steken zijdelings over de oogkas uit. Bij onvolgroeide dieren hebben de wenkbrauwhoorns de vorm van een versmalde piramide waarvan de punt over de bovenste helft wat naar buiten buigt. De beenbalk gevormd door de binnenstukken van de wandbeenderen heeft bovenaan een aantal secundaire verbeningen op de rand die versmelten met het bovenvlak en het achtervlak van het nekschild. Tijdens het groeiproces beginnen deze verbeningen als korte stekels waarna ze later soms aan hun raakvlakken met elkaar vergroeien tot grotere onregelmatige structuren. Ze dragen zo bij het volwassen dier bij aan het eerste epiparietale en maken er het volledige tweede parietale uit. Het derde parietale is variabel van vorm en heeft soms het aanzien van een tongvormige haak en soms van een versmallende stekel, in beide gevallen naar boven en zijwaarts gericht.

Schedel

De schedel van Coronosaurus is slechts fragmentarisch bekend. Het nekschild is breed en hartvormig met zeer grote en bijna ronde openingen, parietaalvensters, in de wandbeenderen. Per zijde heeft het schild op het wandbeen zeven groeikernen, epiparietalia, voor uitsteeksels, die in feite vastgegroeide huidverbeningen, osteodermen, zijn. Nummers vier tot en met zeven (P 4-7) vormen vrij stompe driehoeken met een brede en iets ingesnoerde basis; ze zijn geplaatst op de ronde zijkant van het schild. Nummers een en twee staan naast de middenlijn van het schild in elkaars verlengde in plaats van dat de tweede kern meer naar de zijkant gelegen is zoals bij verwanten. De eerste groeikern (P1) is vrij recht en kort en steekt naar beneden in het parietaalvenster uit; de punt is recht afgesneden. Op de bovenste basis van de eerste groeikern ontspruit de tweede groeikern (P2) als een bosje grassprieten in de vorm van een groot aantal één tot zeven centimeter lange uitsteeksels die naar boven gericht zijn; in feite zou het dus gaan om een meervoudig stelsel van groeikernen die de schildrand van voren en achteren overlappen en pas later versmelten. In bovenaanzicht lijkt het geheel van de tweede en eerste groeikern op een driehoek met de punt naar beneden en iets zijwaarts gericht. De kleine groeikernen zijn soms hol vanbinnen en vaak maar zwak vergroeid met het wandbeen. Een dergelijke structuur is uniek. In 2005 werd nog gedacht dat de kleinere stekels groeikern P2 slechts overgroeiden; later werd duidelijk dat ze daarvan de hele beenmassa uitmaken. De derde groeikern staat op de bovenste bolling van de schildhelft en vormt een lang gekromd uitsteeksel dat de contour van de schildrand vormt en haast de vierde groeikern raakt. Op de basis van de derde groeikern zitten richting de middenlijn ook nog wat korte extra uitsteeksels. Die basis staat door een verdikking duidelijk af van de botwand van de rest van het wandbeen.

De hoorn op de neus is matig hoog met een meestal iets naar achteren gerichte punt. De hoorn wordt gevormd door een vergroeiing van de neusbeenderen; daarnaast is er een extra opliggende beenlaag van het neusbeen die over het onderste derde deel de voorkant en aflopend de zijkant van de neushoorn overgroeit en bovenaan plots ophoudt. De resulterende richel zou de basis kunnen zijn geweest van de hoornschacht. Bij Centrosaurus apertus komt eenzelfde structuur voor, maar deze is lager en is alleen te zien bij oude exemplaren; bij Triceratops bevindt zich op dezelfde positie als richel een groeve voor een aderkanaal dat bij die soort kennelijk de hoornschacht voedde. De neusbeenderen overlappen aan de voorkant de praemaxillae iets wat resulteert in een tweede verhoging vóór de neushoorn.

Boven de oogkassen vormen de voorhoofdsbeenderen een secundair schedeldak dat op de middenlijn echter een fontanel heeft die alleen bij zeer oude dieren sluit. Bij onvolwassen dieren zijn de wenkbrauwhoorns van Coronosaurus langer en stomper dan die van Centrosaurus apertus met een hoogte die tweemaal of meer de basislengte bedraagt; hun spitsen steken zijwaarts en iets naar voren. Op de onderkant van het zijvlak bevindt zich een lichte uitholling. Bij oudere dieren is de bovenkant en onderkant van de wenkbrauwhoorn opgezwollen, maar niet in de zin dat er pneumatisering optreedt: het bot wordt dikker. Tegelijkertijd begint het oppervlak van die kanten diepe naar de punt lopende groeven te tonen. In een volgende fase vallen er putten in het oppervlak en uiteindelijk lijkt de hoorn bijna geheel te eroderen of geabsorbeerd te worden. De groeven en putten zijn een aanwijzing dat niet zozeer de hele hoorn verdween, maar alleen de beenkern die door veel dikkere en plattere hoornlagen werd vervangen, wellicht om te dienen als zijdelings stootwapen bij gevechten binnen de soort. Een aanwijzing hiervoor is dat bij oudere exemplaren de verticale groeven op het bovenvlak op ongeveer een kwart van de hoogte boven het schedeldak beginnen samen te vloeien in een horizontale groeve die verdiept naarmate het exemplaar ouder wordt. Precies op dit punt begint bij oudere exemplaren de bovenkant van de wenkbrauwhoorn meer naar buiten te draaien, een teken dat daar een hoornschacht begon.

Fylogenie
Coronosaurus is door de benoemende auteurs binnen de Ceratopidae in de Centrosaurinae geplaatst als de zustersoort van Styracosaurus.

Het volgende cladogram geeft de positie van Coronosaurus in de stamboom weer:

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