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Bank of England governor: The SEVEN people tipped to replace Mark Carney
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The Bank of England has started looking for the next Governor as Mark Carney will step down on January 31, 2020. The hunt for the new Governor was announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond on Wednesday. Mr Carney, who oversees the Bank of England's three main policy committees, one of which sets interest rates, has been in the post since July 2013.
Mr Hammond said on Wednesday: "In today's rapidly evolving economy the role of Governor is more important than ever.
"Finding a candidate with the right skills and experience to lead the Bank of England is vital for ensuring the continuing strength of our economy and for maintaining the UK's position as a leading global financial centre."
The role as Governor for the Bank of England offers a remuneration of £480,000 a year.
Candidates must be able to lead a "complex and powerful financial institution."
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Bank of England governor: BoE has started its search for Mark Carney's replacement (Image: GETTY)
Who could be the next governor of Bank of England
Below are the seven candidates tipped to replace Mark Carney. All odds from Betfair.
Andrew Bailey – odds at 8/13
Andrew Bailey is the frontrunner as the race for the Bank of England's next Governor begins.
Mr Bailey is the chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority and a former Bank deputy Governor.
The 60-year-old has been described as the "strongest of the internal candidates" by former Monetary Policy Committee member Andrew Sentance.
Bank of England: Andrew Bailey is currently the favourite to replace Mark Carney as Governor (Image: GETTY)
Raghuram Rajan – odds at 4/1
Raghuram Rajan is seeing the second best odds of becoming Mark Carney's replacement.
Mr Rajan is a former Bank of India governor and a top economist who warned a financial crisis was looming in 2005.
There is one problem, however – Mr Rajan has said he does not want the job.
Bank of England: Raghuram Rajan could be the next Governor (Image: GETTY)
Sir Dave Ramsden – odds at 11/2
Dave Ramsden is also a popular choice among punters being the Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking for the Bank of England.
Mr Ramsden is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, the Financial Policy Committee and the Prudential Regulation Committee as well as the Chair of the RTGS/CHAPS Board.
Jon Cunliffe – odds at 8/1
Sir Jon Cunliffe is the Bank's Deputy Governor for financial stability and is considered the ultimate insider who knows his way around Whitehall.
In the 1990s Mr Cunliffe helped set the Government's interest rate police before Gordon Brown made the Bank of England independent.
Bank of England: Current Governor Mark Carney will step down on January 31, 2020 (Image: GETTY)
Ben Broadbent – odds at 10/1
Ben Broadbent is a former Goldman Sachs banker and is strong on technical point-scoring.
However, Mr Broadbent has not stated he wants the job as the new Governor for the Bank.
Last year the banker caused a political storm after he called the economy "menopausal" – a metaphor he said was for economies that were "past their peak and no longer so potent".
Shriti Vadera – odds at 14/1
Shriti Vadera is the chairwoman of Santander UK.
She arrived in the UK as a child after fleeing Uganda and ended up studying politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University.
Until September 2009, she was a government minister jointly for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Cabinet Office.
Andy Haldane – odds at 16/1
Andy Haldane is the chief economist and the Executive Director of Monetary Analysis and Statistics at the Bank of England.
Having him as Mark Carney's replacement could cause carnage between the two after they clashed over the Bank's policies and the stance on monetary policy Mr Haldane adopted after the Brexit vote.
Dame Minouche Shafik – odds at 16/1
Dame Nemat Talaat Shafik, more commonly known as Minouche Shafik, served as the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 2014 until she resigned in September 2017.
She was responsible for reshaping the Bank's operations and balance sheet, including risk management practices and leading the design and execution of quantitative easing by the MPC.
Born in Egypt she was named "GG2 Woman of the Year" at the 11th Annual GG2 Leadership & Diversity Awards in 2009.
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Ireland has limited shelter against Brexit storm
26 January 2016 By Carol Ryan
Ireland is starting to feel queasy about the prospect of a UK exit from the European Union. Doomsday scenarios predict a 20 percent slowdown in trade between the two countries if Britons vote to go it alone. It could knock the stuffing out of an economy where the central bank reckons GDP grew 6.6 percent last year.
Around 1 billion euros of trade is conducted across the Irish Sea every week, mainly agricultural products, food and financial services. Any new trade barriers or tariffs following a UK exit could lead to Irish GDP per capita losses of up to 2.7 percent, according to Germany's Ifo Institute. That would make it the biggest Brexit loser of all European countries.
The UK is Ireland's second most important trade partner and destination for around 15 percent of total exports, according to Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). That might not sound dramatic, but indigenous companies are much more dependent on the UK than foreign-owned firms, sending 43.5 percent of their exports there.
The movement of people across the Irish Sea is just as intense – the Dublin-London flight route is the busiest air corridor in Europe and the second busiest in the world, according to the Dublin Airport Authority. The UK has long been a safety valve for labour when Ireland's economy periodically gets into trouble. A common travel area between the countries predates EU membership, but it's not clear what would happen after a UK exit.
Dublin doesn't seem hopeful about snaffling displaced foreign direct investment from its neighbour either. An EU exit could dent Britain's 1 trillion pound-plus inward FDI stock. But analysis of foreign investment patterns over the last 10 years suggests any FDI bonanza is likely to be small, the ESRI reckons.
That leaves nabbing London's status as a financial hub. The appeal is obvious – Dublin would be the only English-speaking big city still in the euro zone, and would be a serious option for American investment banks' EU operations. But in order for Dublin to feel comfortable hosting a much larger financial system, it would need the euro zone to complete its banking union via a mutually funded deposit guarantee scheme – unlikely, given German opposition to underwriting other euro zone banking systems. Ireland's best hope is that Brexit doesn't happen.
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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (L) greets Ireland's Taoiseach Enda Kenny at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain January 25, 2016.
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Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny expressed support for the UK staying in the European Union during a speech in London on Jan. 25, saying Ireland and the UK "need each other economically".
Kenny told a CBI conference in London in November that Brexit represents a "major strategic risk for Ireland".
The UK is the second-largest single-country export destination for Irish goods, and the largest for Irish service exports.
Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute estimates a Brexit could reduce bilateral trade flows between Ireland and the UK by 20 percent or more.


Though many throughout the New Republic and the rest of the galaxy find this argument compelling, many more are concerned about inviting Force-users back onto the galactic stage. The tragedy at the Imperial training facility on Carida was caused by Kyp Durron, a Jedi apprentice of Skywalker's. While the Jedi claim the young man was possessed by the spirit of Kun, and is therefore not to blame for his actions, others have condemned Durron as a mass murderer and believe he should be tried for his crimes.
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Posted on December 12, 2012 by Melanie Calvert
"It's a place that devours its inhabitants." Melanie Calvert on Tasmanian Gothic and her novel Freycinet
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Hobart, Tasmania (image from FlickR Commons)
Disconnected from the mainland of Australia and known for its profuse and rugged landscape, Tasmania is a place around which a mythology of sorts has sprung up. There's a sense of its being a closed door, a place into which many of us look on from afar, hearing only snatches of its narrative. It's a place where ghosts thrive.
"Tasmania has a dark, brutal history, from the cruelty of the convict era, to mistreatment of the Aborigines, to more recent times with the truly terrible Port Arthur massacre," says Melanie Calvert, author of the recent novel Freycinet.
"Ever since England's convicts were first sent to 'the ends of the earth', Tasmania has been associated with brutality and cruelty."
This is something she captures when she writes:
The Europeans named the island Van Diemen's Land, and then Tasmania; the name change a futile attempt to shake off its malicious repute. But the names seem apt with their evocation of maniacal demons (anyone who's stood on the West Coast might think they were being assaulted by demonic, torturous wind sprites). Tasmania is extremely capricious, and while it may have a temperate climate, it is a rugged place.
Australia as a whole has been caught up in a narrative of violence and potential treachery, she says: from Azaria Chamberlain to Picnic at Hanging Rock the possibility of the country turning on its human population has been a eerie, constant undercurrent.
"Perhaps this is due to a certain lack of confidence stemming from the fact that our inhabitants in the main were from 'elsewhere'. Like a motherless child they have had to face the elements without any intrinsic knowledge or cultural heritage."
Whatever the cause, the concept of a land that may consume its inhabitants can certainly be applied to Tasmania. She writes in Freycinet:
"Tasmania has long been the site of fatal shipwrecks, and bushfires, heat-waves and floods. As recently as 2001, Tasmania's most popular tourist destination, Cradle Mountain, effectively devoured four people and injured 14 others when a landslide sent a tourist bus hurtling down a ravine. In Tasmania, bridges come crashing down, severe floods break dams and wash whole towns away, scorching bushfires carve hot paths through homes and people."
And the aesthetics of the island fittingly suit this dramatic, dark history.
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"Tasmania has impenetrable bushland and untameable forests. The indigenous creatures look strange and distorted, bizarre and freakishly beautiful; the vegetation sometimes grotesque and gargantuan. The Tasmanian forests evoke uncivilised, prehistoric times, with an environment thought to be similar to that once found on that original ancient landmass, Gondwana."
Moreover, with a third of the island designated National Parkland, much of the state is inaccessible, which only adds to its mysterious appeal.
"The bush is eerie, because there are things there when you hear that rustle; there are snakes and Devils and sometimes evil men."
And yet, as Melanie explores in Freycinet, Tasmania's rugged wildness is blanketed with a strange Englishness, a veneer of what she calls "civilisation and neat safety" that scarcely obscures the disturbing nature at its heart.
Tasmania was strange. First, it had a tamed, English country garden aspect. In Launceston, Julian and I had wandered through manicured gardens, clipped, neat parks, Victorian-era buildings and colonial manors. And then, right in the middle of this English-looking city, it was punched with the gaping chasm of the Cataract Gorge, with its rock cliffs and clefts and wild torrential flooding.
And the rest of Tasmania was the same; all conservative and controlled, English and quaint, then around a corner and bam! Wildness, wilderness, danger, cliffs and horizontal scrub, lakes with no bottoms, wild seas and ice-needle sea-spray and a surprising amount of small but particularly vicious animals.
Melanie mentions a quote from author Nicholas Shakespeare, who describes the island thus: "There is the Tasmanian light, and then, all over the island, there are pockets of extraordinary darkness," (Tasmania, 2004).
Or, as she describes it in Freycinet:
Tasmania has the inglorious distinction of being both hospitably habitable and fiercely uninhabitable, being at once both bland and perilous, as if the whole island is a type of mind-numbing, deathly trap.
Growing up amongst the ghosts of Tasmania
Having grown up in Tasmania, Melanie was raised amongst "ghost tales and tales of the Aboriginal Australians and Tasmanian Tigers who had once been commonplace; tales of ghost cars that appeared then disappeared at night on the Sidling Road, tales of Ghosty Downs who ploughed his wife's dismembered body into the fields of Devil's Halfacre; tales told to me by my sisters in bed at night of a one-wooden-legged man outside our window."
It's possible, she says, that she was raised to find ghost and spooks where others would find none.
"I wanted to write about the things that I find interesting. I wanted to write a story like Picnic at Hanging Rock, and I decided to set it in Freycinet National Park, which has its own haunting triptych of uncanny rocks – the Hazards – hanging ominously over the inhabitants. It would be about some young women who went missing in the wilderness."
It wasn't until some time later that she learnt of the German backpacker, Nancy Grunwaldt, and Italian tourist, Victoria Cafasso; Nancy who had disappeared never to be seen again, and Victoria who was found on a lonely Tasmanian beach, stabbed 40 times. And both, she adds, not far from Freycinet.
"So they too became entwined in the story. I suspect it is my ghost-story-riddled childhood that drew me to these dark narratives, and as Tasmania in the novel became her own character, she fell easily into her threatening and eerie role."
Melanie believes that Tasmania, and particularly Freycinet, is a fabulous backdrop: it's dramatic and colour-filled and glorious.
"And I'm of the Anne of Green Gables school of thought: write about what you know."
The gothic influences in Freycinet
Freycinet fits firmly within the Gothic tradition, with a number of elements that position it so. It features, for example, a subplot that draws on the ballet narrative La Sylphide, as it is at this ballet that Ginny and Julian, the novel's main characters, first meet. The foregrounding of this subplot means that the novel is effectively framed from the outside by a Gothic/Romantic narrative.
"In La Sylphide, James is meant to marry Effie, but becomes obsessed with the beautiful, unattainable Sylph, a forest nymph. James accepts a scarf from a witch, who tells him the scarf will allow him to capture the Sylph. It does so, but the scarf is poisoned and the Sylph dies in James's arms."
In Freycinet, we see something similar, only translated into a modern urban setting.
"Julian takes the part of the brooding James, treating his betrothed, Ginny, in a manner that is nothing short of villainous. Julian's gloomy and often violent temperament proves to be due to his obsession with the beautiful ballerina, Vivienne, now a missing person in the wilderness of Freycinet National Park."
The Gothic backstory is reinforced by a close adherence to Tasmanian history in order to establish an ominous backdrop to match these fictional proceedings.
"The result is a story that melds ghostly apparitions, dream visions, faux-aboriginal myth, doppelgangers and elements of both horror and romance, framed by the realistic-seeming proceedings of a police search and rescue mission."
There are numerous supernatural elements in Freycinet, says Melanie. Her character Ginny is haunted by ghostly, gory visions of two young woman who soon afterwards go missing; she imagines herself floating off into the forest in a strange, red-shoed trance; and when she finds the journal of the missing Ruth, finds that Ruth has a distinctly witch-like persona.
"Evocative of the Gothic, Freycinet also contains the castle-like, imposing Devil Lodge – a sparkling beacon against the dark Hazards – the Hazards themselves whose mere presence frightens Ginny to distraction, and hidden passages carved through forest bushland."
The setting of the Gothic novel is commonly a character in itself, Melanie points out, and in the wild Tasmanian terrain, Ginny finds strange and murderous objects everywhere she looks:
A body here might not be immediately discerned amongst the bulky clumps of jet-black seaweed. Splayed along the beach are several long, blackened hunks of wood. There are murderous weapons everywhere under this fairy floss, soft sky. Nor would the sound of screams be conspicuous here; snatched away by the stealing wind and camouflaged by cracking waves.
However, in her work Melanie has also reinterpreted the landscape of the Gothic and made it her own.
"Rather than the infertile, desolate or bare land of traditional Gothic, Freycinet depicts one of hyper-fertility, one in which the characters are indeed at risk of being consumed by their environment."
Now I too lie down. With my eyes closed I'm struck by the pungent, cinnamon smell of the bush. In the mottled firelight, I reach out, but not towards Julian. I reach away from him, on the other side, out into the shadows. My fingers find cushion-soft moss, knife-edge stones, brittle cracking leaves, damp loamy chocolaty dirt, whip-like ferns, all alive, overly alive, trying to consume and decompose me; to incorporate me into their own fecund, compost-like environment. I grasp a moist handful of the earth, and hold it tightly in my hand, curl my cold fingers around its life, and close my eyes.
"In this passage Ginny almost seems to relish her potential integration into the landscape," she says.
"But at the edges of this fecund realm also lie signs of encroaching decay, rot and sickness; creatures with rotting cancerous growths that evoke the current crisis in the Tasmanian Devil population, and water edged with bile-like pollution."
It is a setting that not only evokes an atmosphere of horror and dread, she says, but that also speaks of the potential deterioration of this world.
"The hints of decay and decrepitude warn of real-life threats to the pristine state and nature of Tasmania."
On unreliable narrators
"Ginny, for reasons revealed later in the novel, is the ultimate unreliable narrator," says Melanie, adding that this unreliability allows a certain freedom for her as an author.
Although there are events in the novel that a reader may question, Melanie is able to get around this issue by the very fact that she is describing not necessarily how things occur, but how Ginny perceives them to occur.
"The narrative is potentially unconstrained by reality or the physical world. For instance, the key to the supernatural elements of the novel lie in Ginny's unreliable narration. In fact the novel itself postulates that the entire story may never have really happened."
And I am left with the distinct impression that this is all a dream, all of it, and I am only an ordinary tourist visiting Freycinet, who has had a curious dream one long, dark night. As if all I have experienced here is only the echoed sliver of a very real and unbearably callous murder, and these visions and thoughts I have had are mere reverberations and splintered echoes of the madness of that abhorrent act.
It's a weird feeling of … unrealness. As if I am a mere figure in a dream, or a character in a painting or a novel, only an imagined, powerless creature myself.
"There is a lot that Ginny has forgotten," says Melanie, "and what she does remember is in a distorted, confused way. The question is even posed as to whether not only her beliefs and thoughts, but perhaps even her entire personality is a mere construct."
Melanie says that discarding or blocking out memories may allow an individual a way of coping with moments of outright horror, grief or disbelief—those moments that push a person beyond the limits of their own comprehension, or quite literally out of their mind.
In Freycinet Ginny has suffered such an event, and because of her questionable relation of events, there is nothing in the novel that can really be believed. Ginny is a fictional character in every sense of the word.
"If a reader senses their narrator is unreliable, their instinct may be to sift through information, to attempt to assess which information is true and which is false. This may serve to draw a reader into a story. They must pay attention, remember past events and judge these against new ones. They are drawn into being the sleuth in the mystery."
Melanie adds that it's essential that readers attempt to read between the lines rather than taking what Ginny says at face value, as there is nothing in the narration that is not intrinsically about Ginny herself.
"The novel in fact revolves around the psychology of the descent into insanity, and it is therefore madness that filtrates and filters this narrative."
On writing a literary thriller
Freycinet, although containing a mystery of sorts, is not a murder mystery novel in the traditional "whodunnit" sense. Rather it's a literary thriller, a genre that Melanie has always enjoyed.
"I've always loved thrillers, particularly psychological thrillers. I love the 1973 horror film Don't Look Now, adapted from the short story by Daphne du Maurier, where a man is haunted by glimpses of what seems to be the ghost of his dead little girl, and is eventually driven to a terrifying madness."
She adores the film for its combination of intrigue, the interesting aspect of the psychological state of the characters, the shock of the ghostlike presence, the supreme backdrop of the haunting labyrinth of Venice, the poignant image of the lost child in the bright red coat, constantly fleeing just beyond the grieving father's reach.
In Freycinet she sought to achieve something similar, although her key goal was to write something that she would like to read herself.
"The novel explores elements that I find interesting: Tasmania, beautiful cinematic scenery, missing person stories, unsolved mysteries, the supernatural, fairy tales, ballet narratives, psychoanalytical theory, the concept of obsession, and the compelling children's tale, The Red Shoes. I never thought of it as an ambitious project so much as an interesting one."
The reception to Freycinet thus far has been very positive, with readers telling Melanie that they've thoroughly enjoyed the novel and would love to see more work from her – a response with which she couldn't be happier.
"I hope that people find Freycinet thought-provoking, interesting, entertaining. I would like it to make Tasmanians appreciate what they have, and to draw people who haven't been lucky enough to go there, to go there. I want to produce a thing of beauty, and have others find it beautiful too, to have their hearts leap a little or fall in love just a little with a beautiful scene or image or idea, to learn something new, or to see the ordinary in an extraordinary way."
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Mencap appoints new director to head up transformation strategy
BusinessPeopleRecruitmentStrategy by Sarah Clarke	on May 28, 2020
Learning disabilities charity Mencap has announced that Mairi Martin will take up a newly-created role as executive director of Transformation from next week.
Martin is currently Leader of Exceptional Service (Cornerstone Central) at Cornerstone – a Scottish charity that offers care and support for adults, children and young people with a disability.
In her new role, starting on June 1, Martin will have overall responsibility for Mencap's transformation agenda.
This will include the development, delivery, evaluation and alignment of a transformational strategy for the charity.
In her seven years at Cornerstone, Martin was responsible for varied business support functions with particular expertise in HR, strategy, and technology.
She led Cornerstone's transformational change programme, overseeing the development and delivery of the Local Cornerstone Strategy. She also spearheaded the implementation of new technology to deliver increased effectiveness.
Commenting on her appointment, Martin said: "I am thrilled to be joining Mencap, having been hugely impressed by their work to drive change for the better for people with a learning disability. As someone who thrives on being part of a great team that transforms organisations, I am excited to have the opportunity to build on that with Mencap and look forward to getting started."
Providing training and consultancy to other UK organisations on transformation change, Martin is an influencer of change in the health and social care sector and regularly supports and speaks at events involving Healthcare Improvement Scotland, the Scottish Government and NHS.
She was responsible for setting up and chairing the Evaluation Working Group, comprised of the Scottish Government, Care Inspectorate, Scottish Social Services Council, Healthcare Improvement Scotland and University of Strathclyde.
She was also previously executive director of Resources of the Riverside Group, a housing and care services organisation, for 13 years.
Edel Harris, chief executive of Mencap, said: "I am so pleased to welcome Mairi to Mencap. Mairi brings a wealth of experience having worked in the social care and housing sectors in both England and Scotland.
"She has been involved in introducing an innovative new model of social care, from design of strategy through to successful implementation, and I look forward to her joining Mencap and helping to lead the work we are doing to improve the lives of the 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK."
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Title 40 → Chapter I → Subchapter C → Part 63 → Subpart FFFFFF
PART 63—NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE CATEGORIES (CONTINUED)
Subpart FFFFFF—National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Secondary Copper Smelting Area Sources
Applicability and Compliance Dates
§63.11153 Am I subject to this subpart?
§63.11154 What are my compliance dates?
Standards and Compliance Requirements
§63.11155 What are the standards and compliance requirements for new sources?
§63.11156 [Reserved]
Other Requirements and Information
§63.11157 What General Provisions apply to this subpart?
§63.11158 What definitions apply to this subpart?
§63.11159 Who implements and enforces this subpart?
Table 1 to Subpart FFFFFF of Part 63—Applicability of General Provisions to Subpart FFFFFF
Source: 72 FR 2952, Jan. 23, 2007, unless otherwise noted.
(a) You are subject to this subpart if you own or operate a new secondary copper smelter that is an area source of hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions.
(b) This subpart applies to each new affected source. The affected source is each secondary copper smelter. Your secondary copper smelter is a new affected source if you commenced constructed or reconstruction of the affected source on or after October 6, 2006.
(c) This subpart does not apply to research and development facilities, as defined in section 112(c)(7) of the CAA.
(d) If you own or operate an area source subject to this subpart, you must obtain a permit under 40 CFR part 70 or 40 CFR part 71.
[72 FR 2952, Jan. 23, 2007, as amended at 72 FR 36367, July 3, 2007]
(a) If you startup a new affected source on or before January 23, 2007, you must achieve compliance with the applicable provisions of this subpart not later than January 23, 2007.
(b) If you startup a new affected source after January 23, 2007, you must achieve compliance with the applicable provisions of this subpart upon startup of your affected source.
(a) You must not discharge to the atmosphere any gases which contain particulate matter (PM) in excess of 0.002 grains per dry standard cubic foot (gr/dscf) from the exhaust vent of any capture system for a smelting furnace, melting furnace, or other vessel that contains molten material and any capture system for the transfer of molten material.
(b) For each smelting furnace, melting furnace, or other vessel that contains molten material, you must install and operate a capture system that collects the gases and fumes from the vessel and from the transfer of molten material and convey the collected gas stream to a control device.
(c) You must prepare and operate at all times according to a written plan for the selection, inspection, and pretreatment of copper scrap to minimize, to the extent practicable, the amount of oil and plastics in the scrap that is charged to the smelting furnace. Your plan must include a training program for scrap inspectors. You must keep records to demonstrate continuous compliance with the requirements of your plan. You must keep a current copy of your pollution prevention plan onsite and available for inspection.
(d) You must install, operate, and maintain a bag leak detection system on all baghouses used to comply with the PM emissions limit in paragraph (a) of this section according to paragraph (d)(1) of this section, prepare and operate by a site-specific monitoring plan according to paragraph (d)(2) of this section, take corrective action according to paragraph (d)(3) of this section, and record information according to paragraph (d)(4) of this section.
(1) Each bag leak detection system must meet the specifications and requirements in paragraphs (d)(1)(i) through (viii) of this section.
(i) The bag leak detection system must be certified by the manufacturer to be capable of detecting PM emissions at concentrations of 1 milligram per actual cubic meter (0.00044 grains per actual cubic foot) or less.
(ii) The bag leak detection system sensor must provide output of relative PM loadings. The owner or operator must continuously record the output from the bag leak detection system using electronic or other means (e.g., using a strip chart recorder or a data logger.)
(iii) The bag leak detection system must be equipped with an alarm system that will sound when the system detects an increase in relative particulate loading over the alarm set point established according to paragraph (d)(1)(iv) of this section, and the alarm must be located such that it can be heard by the appropriate plant personnel.
(iv) In the initial adjustment of the bag leak detection system, you must establish, at a minimum, the baseline output by adjusting the sensitivity (range) and the averaging period of the device, the alarm set points, and the alarm delay time.
(v) Following initial adjustment, you must not adjust the averaging period, alarm set point, or alarm delay time without approval from the Administrator or delegated authority except as provided in paragraph (d)(1)(vi) of this section.
(vi) Once per quarter, you may adjust the sensitivity of the bag leak detection system to account for seasonal effects, including temperature and humidity, according to the procedures identified in the site-specific monitoring plan required by paragraph (d)(2) of this section.
(vii) You must install the bag leak detection sensor downstream of the baghouse and upstream of any wet scrubber.
(viii) Where multiple detectors are required, the system's instrumentation and alarm may be shared among detectors.
(2) You must develop and submit to the Administrator or delegated authority for approval a site-specific monitoring plan for each bag leak detection system. You must operate and maintain the bag leak detection system according to the site-specific monitoring plan at all times. Each monitoring plan must describe the items in paragraphs (d)(2)(i) through (vi) of this section.
(i) Installation of the bag leak detection system;
(ii) Initial and periodic adjustment of the bag leak detection system, including how the alarm set-point will be established;
(iii) Operation of the bag leak detection system, including quality assurance procedures;
(iv) How the bag leak detection system will be maintained, including a routine maintenance schedule and spare parts inventory list;
(v) How the bag leak detection system output will be recorded and stored; and
(vi) Corrective action procedures as specified in paragraph (d)(3) of this section. In approving the site-specific monitoring plan, the Administrator or delegated authority may allow owners and operators more than 3 hours to alleviate a specific condition that causes an alarm if the owner or operator identifies in the monitoring plan this specific condition as one that could lead to an alarm, adequately explains why it is not feasible to alleviate this specific condition within 3 hours of the time the alarm occurs, and demonstrates that the requested time will ensure alleviation of this condition as expeditiously as practicable.
(3) For each bag leak detection system, you must initiate procedures to determine the cause of every alarm within 1 hour of the alarm. Except as provided in paragraph (d)(2)(vi) of this section, you must alleviate the cause of the alarm within 3 hours of the alarm by taking whatever corrective action(s) are necessary. Corrective actions may include, but are not limited to the following:
(i) Inspecting the baghouse for air leaks, torn or broken bags or filter media, or any other condition that may cause an increase in particulate emissions;
(ii) Sealing off defective bags or filter media;
(iii) Replacing defective bags or filter media or otherwise repairing the control device;
(iv) Sealing off a defective baghouse compartment;
(v) Cleaning the bag leak detection system probe or otherwise repairing the bag leak detection system; or
(vi) Shutting down the process producing the particulate emissions.
(4) You must maintain records of the information specified in paragraphs (d)(4)(i) through (iii) of this section for each bag leak detection system.
(i) Records of the bag leak detection system output;
(ii) Records of bag leak detection system adjustments, including the date and time of the adjustment, the initial bag leak detection system settings, and the final bag leak detection system settings; and
(iii) The date and time of all bag leak detection system alarms, the time that procedures to determine the cause of an alarm were initiated, whether procedures were initiated within 1 hour of the alarm, the cause of the alarm, an explanation of the actions taken, the date and time the cause of the alarm was alleviated, and whether the alarm was alleviated within 3 hours of the alarm.
(e) You must conduct a performance test to demonstrate initial compliance with the PM emissions limit within 180 days after startup and report the results in your notification of compliance status. You must conduct each PM test according to §63.7(e)(1) using the test methods and procedures in paragraphs (e)(1) through (5) of this section.
(1) Method 1 or 1A (40 CFR part 60, appendix A) to select sampling port locations and the number of traverse points in each stack or duct. Sampling sites must be located at the outlet of the control device (or at the outlet of the emissions source if no control device is present) prior to any releases to the atmosphere.
(2) Method 2, 2A, 2C, 2D, 2F, or 2G (40 CFR part 60, appendix A) to determine the volumetric flow rate of the stack gas.
(3) Method 3, 3A, or 3B (40 CFR part 60, appendix A) to determine the dry molecular weight of the stack gas. You may use ANSI/ASME PTC 19.10-1981, "Flue and Exhaust Gas Analyses (incorporated by reference—see §63.14) as an alternative to EPA Method 3B.
(4) Method 4 (40 CFR part 60, appendix A) to determine the moisture content of the stack gas.
(5) Method 5 (40 CFR part 60, appendix A) to determine the PM concentration for negative pressure baghouses and Method 5D (40 CFR part 60, appendix A) for positive pressure baghouses. The sampling time and volume for each run must be at least 60 minutes and 0.85 dry standard cubic meters (30 dry standard cubic feet). A minimum of three valid test runs are needed to comprise a PM performance test.
(f) You must conduct subsequent performance tests to demonstrate compliance with the PM emissions limit at least once every 5 years.
(g) If you use a control device other than a baghouse, you must prepare and submit a monitoring plan to the Administrator for approval. Each plan must contain the information in paragraphs (g)(1) through (5) of this section.
(1) A description of the device;
(2) Test results collected in accordance with paragraph (e) of this section verifying the performance of the device for reducing PM to the levels required by this subpart;
(3) Operation and maintenance plan for the control device (including a preventative maintenance schedule consistent with the manufacturer's instructions for routine and long-term maintenance) and continuous monitoring system.
(4) A list of operating parameters that will be monitored to maintain continuous compliance with the applicable emission limits; and
(5) Operating parameter limits based on monitoring data collected during the performance test.
(a) If you own or operate a new affected source, you must comply with the requirements of the General Provisions in 40 CFR part 63, subpart A as specified in Table 1 to this subpart.
(b) Your notification of compliance status required by §63.9(h) must include the following:
(1) The results of the initial performance tests and monitoring data collected during the test.
(2) This certification of compliance, signed by a responsible official, for the work practice standard in §63.1155(b): "This facility complies with the requirement for a capture system for each smelting furnace, melting furnace, or other vessel that contains molten material in accordance with §63.11155(b)."
(3) This certification of compliance, signed by a responsible official, for the work practice standard in §63.11155(c): "This facility complies with the requirement for a written plan for the selection, inspection, and pretreatment of copper scrap in accordance with §63.11155(c)."
(4) This certification of compliance, signed by a responsible official, for the work practice standard in §63.11155(d)(2): "This facility has an approved monitoring plan in accordance with §63.11155(d)(2)."
(5) This certification of compliance, signed by a responsible official, for the work practice standard in §63.11155(g): "This facility has an approved monitoring plan in accordance with §63.11155(g)."
Terms used in this subpart are defined in the CAA, in 40 CFR 63.2, and in this section as follows:
Anode copper means copper that is cast into anodes and refined in an electrolytic process to produce high purity copper.
Capture system means the collection of components used to capture gases and fumes released from one or more emissions points and then convey the captured gas stream to a control device. A capture system may include, but is not limited to, the following components as applicable to a given capture system design: duct intake devices, hoods, enclosures, ductwork, dampers, manifolds, plenums, and fans.
Melting furnace means any furnace, reactor, or other type of vessel that heats solid materials and produces a molten mass of material.
Secondary copper smelter means a facility that processes copper scrap in a blast furnace and converter or that uses another pyrometallurgical purification process to produce anode copper from copper scrap, including low-grade copper scrap. A facility where recycled copper scrap or copper alloy scrap is melted to produce ingots or for direct use in a manufacturing process is not a secondary copper smelter.
Smelting furnace means any furnace, reactor, or other type of vessel in which copper scrap and fluxes are melted to form a molten mass of material containing copper and slag.
Work practice standard means any design, equipment, work practice, or operational standard, or combination thereof.
(a) This subpart can be implemented and enforced by the U.S. EPA, or a delegated authority such as a State, local, or tribal agency. If the U.S. EPA Administrator has delegated authority to a State, local, or tribal agency, then that Agency has the authority to implement and enforce this subpart. You should contact your U.S. EPA Regional Office to find out if this subpart is delegated to a State, local, or tribal agency.
(b) In delegating implementation and enforcement authority of this subpart to a State, local, or tribal agency under 40 CFR part 63, subpart E, the authorities contained in paragraph (c) of this section are retained by the Administrator of the U.S. EPA and are not transferred to the State, local, or tribal agency.
(c) The authorities that will not be delegated to State, local, or tribal agencies are listed in paragraphs (c)(1) through (4) of this section.
(1) Approval of an alternative non-opacity emissions standard under §63.6(g).
(2) Approval of a major change to test methods under §63.7(e)(2)(ii) and (f). A "major change to test method" is defined in §63.90.
(3) Approval of a major change to monitoring under §63.8(f). A "major change to monitoring" is defined in §63.90.
(4) Approval of a major change to recordkeeping/ reporting under §63.10(f). A "major change to recordkeeping/reporting" is defined in §63.90.
As required in §63.11157(a), you must comply with the requirements of the General Provisions (40 CFR part 63, subpart A) as shown in the following table.
Applies to subpart FFFFFF?
63.1(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(4), (a)(6), (a)(10)-(a)(12), (b)(1), (b)(3), (c)(1), (c)(2), (c)(5), (e) Applicability Yes.
63.1(a)(5), (a)(7)-(a)(9), (b)(2), (c)(3), (c)(4), (d) Reserved No.
63.2 Definitions Yes.
63.3 Units and Abbreviations Yes.
63.4 Prohibited Activities and Circumvention Yes.
63.5 Preconstruction Review and Notification Requirements No.
63.6(a), (b)(1)-(b)(5), (b)(7), (c)(1), (c)(2), (c)(5), (e)(3)(i), (e)(3)(iii)-(e)(3)(ix), (f), (g), (i), (j) Compliance with Standards and Maintenance Requirements Yes.
63.6(b)(6), (c)(3), (c)(4), (d), (e)(2), (e)(3)(ii), (h)(3), (h)(5)(iv) Reserved No.
63.6(h)(1)-(h)(4), (h)(5)(i)-(h)(5)(iii), (h)(6)-(h)(9) No Subpart FFFFFF does not include opacity or visible emissions standards.
63.7 Performance Testing Requirements Yes.
63.8(a)(1), (a)(2), (b), (f)(1)-(5) Monitoring Requirements Yes.
63.8(a)(3) Reserved No.
63.8(c), (d), (e), (f)(6), (g) No Subpart FFFFFF does not require a continuous monitoring system.
63.8(a)(4) No Subpart FFFFFF does not require flares.
63.9(a), (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(5), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h)(1)-(h)(3), (h)(5), (h)(6), (i), (j) Notification Requirements Yes.
63.9(b)(3), (h)(4) Reserved No.
63.9(b)(4) No.
63.9(f) No Subpart FFFFFF does not include opacity or visible emissions standards.
63.9(g) No Subpart FFFFFF does not require a continuous monitoring system.
63.10(a), (b)(2)(i)-(b)(2)(v), (b)(2)(xiv), (d)(1), (d)(2), (d)(4), (d)(5), (e)(1), (e)(2), (f) Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements Yes.
63.10(c)(2)-(c)(4), (c)(9) Reserved No.
63.10(b)(2)(vi)-(b)(2)(xiii), (c)(1), (c)(5)-(c)(14), (e)(1)-(e)(2), (e)(4) Subpart FFFFFF does not require a continuous monitoring system.
63.10(d)(3) No Subpart FFFFFF does not include opacity or visible emissions standards.
63.10(e)(3) Yes.
63.11 Control Device Requirements No Subpart FFFFFF does not require flares.
63.12 State Authorities and Delegations Yes.
63.13 Addresses Yes.
63.14 Incorporations by Reference Yes
63.15 Availability of Information and Confidentiality Yes
63.16 Performance Track Provisions Yes.


As part of the resort's series of Delicious Journeys, Eden Roc at Cap Cana will be hosting Chef Roberto Allocca from Relais Blu for an exceptional culinary residency this February, inspired by his restaurant in Capri, Italy. Beginning with "Amore on the Coast", a special Valentine's Day dinner on February 14th at La Palapa by Eden Roc, Chef Roberto Allocca will prepare an exciting five course menu, serving Italian specialties such as Buffalo mozzarella with basil perfume oil and clam and lemon risotto. Allocca will then join Eden Roc at Cap Cana's Chef Gianluca Re Fraschini for "Blu Eden" at Mediterraneo Restaurant on February 17th to showcase the cuisine of his Michelin-starred restaurant, Il Relais Blu. Courses will include roasted lobster with potatoes, artichoke and crustacean sabayon, paccheri with grouper ragù, pumpkin flower, black pepper and roasted orange, and duck magret, lacquered with topinambur and provolone ravioli.
Named Best Chef of Italy in 2011, Roberto Alloca began his early training in some of the best Italian restaurants. In 2013 he became Executive Chef of Relais Blu in Massa Lubrense, located between the coasts of Sorrento and Amalfi where his excellent work led him to achieve his first Michelin Star in 2014. The restaurant was born from the love for the gastronomic culture of the Mediterranean, and Chef Roberto Allocca's passion for the traditional and international cuisine was the key part of Relais Blu to achieve great success. The underlying philosophy of his work is combining local products and enhancing the taste with innovative cooking techniques without forgetting the true tradition. As a result, the majority of the ingredients are natural and grown directly from restaurant's garden, and the excellent quality of his dishes has gained the restaurant many awards in the most prestigious food guides, as well as the coveted Michelin Star.
Other events of Eden Roc at Cap Cana's Delicious Journeys week include "Sapori di Napoli", a Neapolitan flavors cooking class at BLUE Grill + Bar and "Sorrento" a liquor class at the UVA Beach Bar inspired in the traditional Sorrentinian home-made Limoncello, both taking place on February 16th.
The participation at "Amore on the Coast" and "Blu Eden" is subject to a USD 120 price, per person, taxes not included. Wine pairing by the resort's exceptional Sommelier are not included in the event price and will be available at an additional cost of USD 75.00 per person.


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Cover: Afghanistan
By Paula Bronstein, Foreword by Kim Barker, Introduction by Christina Lamb
One of the world's leading female photojournalists presents a powerful photo essay of daily life in war-torn Afghanistan, offering the most complete visual narrative history of this pivotal Middle East country currently in print.
". . . the book is a must-see for anyone with any interest in Afghanistan, the plight of women internationally or photography."
—Kim Barker, New York Times Lens Blog
Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Endowment, Book Forty-Two
228 pages | 11 x 10 | 11 x 10 | 114 color photos |
The Afghan people are standing at a crucial crossroads in history. Can their fragile democratic institutions survive the drawdown of US military support? Will Afghan women and girls be stripped of their modest gains in freedom and opportunity as the West loses interest in their plight? While the media have largely moved on from these stories, Paula Bronstein remains passionately committed to bearing witness to the lives of the Afghan people. In this powerful photo essay, she goes beyond war coverage to reveal the full complexity of daily life in what may be the world's most reported on yet least known country.
Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear presents a photographic portrait of this war-torn country's people across more than a decade. With empathy born of the challenges of being an American female photojournalist working in a conservative Islamic country, Bronstein gives voice to those Afghans, particularly women and children, rendered silent during the violent Taliban regime. She documents everything from the grave trials facing the country—human rights abuses against women, poverty and the aftermath of war, and heroin addiction, among them—to the stirrings of new hope, including elections, girls' education, and work and recreation. Fellow award-winning journalist Christina Lamb describes the gains that Afghan women have made since the overthrow of the Taliban, as well as the daunting obstacles they still face. An eloquent portrait of everyday life, Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear is the most complete visual narrative history of the country currently in print.
International Photography Awards' Professional Editorial Photographer of the Year 2017
Lucie Photo Book Prize Finalist
Foreword (Kim Barker)
Afghan Women (Christina Lamb)
Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear (Paula Bronstein)
Afterword (Paula Bronstein)
Bronstein is one of America's most distinguished female photojournalists and one of the few women internationally who cover war and conflict. Her many honors include the Faber Award of the Overseas Press Club, the National Press Photographer's Association Photographer of the Year award, and multiple wins of Pictures of the Year International (POY-I). She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear is her first book, and it has already been a finalist for three major photography book awards: the CDS/ Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, the European Publishers Award for Photography, and the FotoEvidence Book Award.
Former South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune and now a reporter for the New York Times, Barker is the author of The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which was adapted into the film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, starring Tina Fey.
Currently a foreign-affairs correspondent for the (London) Sunday Times, Lamb has been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times; she has also been awarded the Prix Bayeux, Europe's most prestigious prize for war correspondents, and the British OBE. A best-selling author who has been traveling to Afghanistan since 1987, her most recent book is Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World.
"A collection of photographs that whiplash from beautiful to horrific, a visual compendium of what has happened on the ground during America's longest war . . . the book is a must-see for anyone with any interest in Afghanistan, the plight of women internationally or photography."
New York Times Lens Blog
"Bronstein's collection of photos is impressive . . . It is a feast of imagery that could not have been served at a better moment in history, the protracted conflict having dulled Afghanistan to American sensibilities . . . [She] remains committed to portraying those who might otherwise be forgotten in a seemingly endless conflict. In doing so, her images evoke emotions that are like Afghanistan itself, caught in that space between hope and fear."
"Paula Bronstein's photographs convey the impression that she is fond of, and touched by, the people she decided to photograph. . . . This book is not only remarkable but truly impressive and extraordinary. Paula Bronstein makes one understand because she makes one feel. She created a deeply moving testimony of life."
"The most powerful portrait of Afghanistan I've come across—these are images that you will never forget."
"Far from wrapping herself in the veil of her own consciousness, [Bronstein] unflinchingly confronts the unattractive reality before her and challenges any viewer who might not wish to acknowledge such unpalatable facts."
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"Bronstein has put together one of the richest portraits there is of modern Afghanistan—complicated, conflicted, and contradictory, but always compelling. Just try to put down this book without looking at every image, without feeling each person in your gut, in your heart. It's impossible."
Kim Barker, from the foreword
"I am impressed with Bronstein's sheer determination, grit, sensitivity to her subjects on an intimate level, and ability to give insight into lives we would never know exist. The fact that an American female photojournalist has been embraced in Afghan culture is remarkable. Her images portray the gamut of emotion—an unvarnished reality of urgency, despair, compassion, understanding, and hope."
Renée C. Byer, Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist and coauthor of Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor
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Happy Halloween - Riot, Riot!
Last night's ride was short, but sweet and followed by some beers and other drinks. This morning I was certain that James(on) walked all over my head secretly last night but all was dapper by lunchtime.
Thus, tonight's festivities are non-existent and we'll continue the celebrations tomorrow.


GUEST EDITORS •	Yoav Bergner, New York University (USA) •	Geraldine Gray, Institute of Technology-Blanchardstown (Ireland) •	Charles Lang, Teachers College, Columbia University (USA) AIMS & SCOPE Learning analytics is an interdisciplinary and inclusive field that brings together technologists, psychologists, data scientists, learning scientists, educational domain content experts, and measurement specialists. For all of the strength that comes from such diversity, there are also potential pitfalls when it comes to establishing norms for methodological work. Clow (2013) has described learning analytics as, "a 'jackdaw' field of enquiry, picking up 'shiny' techniques, tools and methodologies… This eclectic approach is both a strength and a weakness: it facilitates rapid development and the ability to build on established practice and findings, but it—to date—lacks a coherent, articulated epistemology of its own." For this special section, we call on researchers to focus critical attention on the methods we choose to use, on how we use them, and on how we interrogate these uses in learning analytics. TOPICS OF INTEREST We imagine two broad classes of papers, those that take a deep dive into particular use cases and others that take a field-level view on how we should think and talk about methodology in learning analytics. Papers in the first category should be distinguished from tutorials and from applied research papers in the degree to which they investigate the methods themselves. Manuscripts should incorporate multiple data sets (possibly supplementing real data with simulated data), multiple variations of methodology within a dataset, or both. Topics may include, but are not limited to: •	demarcating assumptions, limitations, and practical boundaries of applicability, •	exploring quality of fit, sensitivity, consequences of operationalization, etc. •	addressing pitfalls, trade-offs, and consequences of "misuse" •	metrics for model evaluation and for comparison of results where multiple models are used Topics for papers in the second category (field-level) may include, but are not limited to: •	Processes for developing methodological frameworks for learning analytics •	Framing and prioritizing methodological issues for the community •	Community guidelines regarding communication and replicability •	Transferability of methods for different types of data TIMELINE Optional abstract pre-submission (see submission procedures): August 1, 2017 Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2017 Anticipated publication date: Summer, 2018 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Prospective authors are encouraged, though not required, to submit an abstract of at most 300 words to the special issue editors in advance in order to ascertain fit for the special section. The editors will reply to authors of submitted abstracts with feedback within two weeks. Final submissions will take place through JLA's online submission system at http://learning-analytics.info When submitting a paper, select the section "Special Section: Methodological Choices in Learning Analytics". All submissions should follow JLA's standard manuscript guidelines and will undergo peer review. For any additional questions, please contact yoav.bergner@nyu.edu ABOUT THE JOURNAL The Journal of Learning Analytics is peer-reviewed, open-access, and is the official publication of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR).


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How can the budget of SSC Napoli change with a Scudetto victory
Naples football – Among the many currents of thought carried forward by some enlightened minds of ours Naples there was the one according to which Aurelio De Laurentiis wasn't interested in winning a championship because then he would have had to increase the amount of wages and so on. Leaving aside the power that Italian football has in Europe in terms of prestige, a Scudetto is always a Scudetto. If then the president's club should really win it De Laurentiis not only would it create a really important economic induced, but it would also give Italian football a signal of meritocracy because it would reward a healthy club that, in the presence of its rivals, has always respected the economic parameters without constantly resorting to creative finance instruments.
How much is it worth to win a Scudetto in Italy?
To understand how much a scudetto can affect in terms of revenue, cash flow and merchandising, we must first of all remember how resources are redistributed based on the final placings in the season of our Serie A. Whoever becomes Italian Champion pockets the basic 23.4 million. To these must then be added those relating to the market pool. The title of champion of Italy grants an additional income in terms of income from TV rights. LLega di A divides them as follows: 50% in equal parts, 30% based on sporting results and a final share of 20% calculated on audience and spectators at the stadium. The second item is of interest: in 30% of sports results, 12% relate to the outcome of the last championship: for total TV rights (between Italy and abroad, and the sale of the packages is not yet completed) the A sums over one billion, from which to subtract the mutuality. Whoever wins the championship takes home one 20 million.
Playing in the Champions League season as Italian champions means being able to round up the check received from UEFA. The Scudetto brings a greater share of revenues linked to the market pool, i.e. the value of TV rights on the Italian market. 50% of this amount is divided between the four local clubs based on the results in the previous championship: 40% for the first classified, 30% for the second, 20% for the third and 10% for the fourth. Considering a theoretical pie reserved for Italy of 20 million, winning the championship means collecting 8.
Scudetto and contract with the sponsors
Wanting to take Milan as the most recent example to understand the impact of the Scudetto on the entire commercial-merchandisign area, the Rossoneri had a 40% increase in revenues, almost reaching 100 million in addition to those revenues listed above. The SSC Napoli brand is booming worldwide. Between various partnerships, and image men in their countries like Kim and Kvara, the club could paradoxically even surpass the Milan effect of a year ago. More revenues means having more chances to keep a strong team and to buy other important players for a stronger Napoli. The theory that De Laurentiis doesn't want to win because he has to increase his salary afterwards, to paraphrase a cult phrase by Trettré sounds just like the following line: "To me, it seems like bullshit!".
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JONATHAN SHERMAN GREEN, born January 25, 1874 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
HENRY BURCHARD GREEN, born March 4, 1876 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; died in March, 1961.
MARION MERRILL GREEN, born August 18, 1883 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; died January 15, 1930.


You should be glad he's still alive.
Because my home is my castle."
Their chimneys are full of missiles.
The robotpigeon checks the roof.
The neighbours are pissed off.
Another neighbour is constructing submarines.
Worlddomination for me and your cat.
All these things are insured to make you feel quite ill.
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Department of the Air Force (4)
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Released on Nov. 10, 2021
Recent Acquisition Policy Changes Balance Risk and Flexibility, but Actions Needed to Refine Requirements Process
Getting missile defense systems into the field to defend the U.S. and its allies from attacks is a high priority. Traditionally, the Department of Defense allowed more flexibility in acquiring these systems.
Small Business Contracting
Actions Needed to Implement and Monitor DOD's Small Business Strategy
GAO-22-104621
In 2019, Congress directed DOD to develop a strategy to better engage with small businesses and coordinate small business programs across the department. We analyzed trends in DOD contracting. From FY 2011 to 2020, DOD spending on contracts with small businesses increased.
Released on Oct. 1, 2021
Contingency Contracting
DOD Has Taken Steps to Address Commission Recommendations, but Should Better Document Progress and Improve Contract Data [Reissued with revisions on Oct. 1, 2021.]
DOD relies on contractors worldwide to support contingency operations, which can include armed conflicts, humanitarian crises, and more. The Commission on Wartime Contracting made 30 recommendations in 2011 to improve contingency contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
DOD Fraud Risk Management
Actions Needed to Enhance Department-Wide Approach, Focusing on Procurement Fraud Risks
The Department of Defense, which spent about $422 billion on contracts for goods and services in FY 2020, has been the target of contracting-related fraud schemes. For example, one contractor pleaded guilty to defrauding the department by overbilling.


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package com.tencent.qcloud.tlslibrary.service;

/**
 * Created by dgy on 15/8/13.
 */
public class Constants {

    // 自动填写短信验证的相关常量
    public final static String SMS_INBOX_URI = "content://sms/inbox";
    public final static String SMS_LOGIN_SENDER             = "10655020069275";
    public final static String SMS_REGISTER_SENDER          = "10655020051075";
    public final static String PHONEPWD_RESET_SENDER        = "10655020051075";
    public final static String PHONEPWD_REGISTER_SENDER     = "10655020051075";

    public final static int    CHECKCODE_LENGTH = 4;

    // 配置信息
    public final static String TLS_SETTING = "tencent.tls.ui.TLS_SETTING"; // 配置名
    public final static String SETTING_LOGIN_WAY = "tencent.tls.ui.SETTING_LOGIN_WAY"; // Key

    // 定义业务数据键值
    public final static String COUNTRY_CODE = "tencent.tls.ui.COUNTRY_CODE";
    public final static String PHONE_NUMBER = "tencent.tls.ui.PHONE_NUMBER";
    public final static String USERNAME = "tencent.tls.ui.USERNAME";
    public final static String PASSWORD = "tencent.tls.ui.PASSWORD";

    // 登录方式
    public final static String EXTRA_LOGIN_WAY = "com.tencent.tls.LOGIN_WAY";
    public final static int NON_LOGIN = 0;
    public final static int SMS_LOGIN = (1 << 0);
    public final static int QQ_LOGIN = (1 << 1);
    public final static int WX_LOGIN = (1 << 2);
    public final static int USRPWD_LOGIN = (1 << 3);
    public final static int PHONEPWD_LOGIN = (1 << 4);
    public final static int GUEST_LOGIN = (1 << 5);

    // 短信注册的相关常量
    public final static int SMS_REG_REQUEST_CODE = 0;
    public final static String EXTRA_SMS_REG = "com.tencent.tls.SMS_REG";
    public final static int SMS_REG_FAIL = 0;
    public final static int SMS_REG_SUCCESS = 1;
    public final static int SMS_REG_NON = 2;

    // 短信登录的相关常量
    public final static String EXTRA_MOBILE = "com.tencent.tls.MOBILE";
    public final static String EXTRA_SMS_LOGIN = "com.tencent.tls.SMS_LOGIN";
    public final static int SMS_LOGIN_FAIL = 0;
    public final static int SMS_LOGIN_SUCCESS = 1;
    public final static int SMS_LOGIN_NON = 2;

    // QQ相关的常量
    public final static String EXTRA_QQ_LOGIN = "com.tencent.tls.QQ_LOGIN";
    public final static int QQ_LOGIN_FAIL = 0;
    public final static int QQ_LOGIN_SUCCESS = 1;
    public final static int QQ_LOGIN_NON = 2;
    public final static String EXTRA_QQ_OPENID = "com.tencent.tls.QQ_OPENID";
    public final static String EXTRA_QQ_ACCESS_TOKEN = "com.tencent.tls.QQ_ACCESS_TOKEN";

    // 微信相关的常量
    public final static String EXTRA_WX_LOGIN = "com.tencent.tls.WX_LOGIN";
    public final static int WX_LOGIN_FAIL = 0;
    public final static int WX_LOGIN_SUCCESS = 1;
    public final static int WX_LOGIN_NON = 2;
    public final static String EXTRA_WX_OPENID = "com.tencent.tls.WX_OPENID";
    public final static String EXTRA_WX_ACCESS_TOKEN = "com.tencent.tls.WX_ACCESS_TOKEN";

    // 账号密码注册相关常量
    public final static int USRPWD_REG_REQUEST_CODE = 1;
    public final static String EXTRA_USRPWD_REG = "com.tencent.tls.SMS_REG";
    public final static int USRPWD_REG_FAIL = 0;
    public final static int USRPWD_REG_SUCCESS = 1;
    public final static int USRPWD_REG_NON = 2;

    // 账号密码登录的相关常量
    public final static String EXTRA_USRPWD_LOGIN = "com.tencent.tls.USRPWD_LOGIN";
    public final static int USRPWD_LOGIN_FAIL = 0;
    public final static int USRPWD_LOGIN_SUCCESS = 1;
    public final static int USRPWD_LOGIN_NON = 2;

    // 手机密码注册的相关常量
    public final static String EXTRA_PHONEPWD_REG_RST = "com.tencent.tls.PHONEPWD_REG_RST";
    public final static int PHONEPWD_NON = 0;
    public final static int PHONEPWD_REGISTER = 1;
    public final static int PHONEPWD_RESET = 2;
    public final static int PHONEPWD_REG_REQUEST_CODE = 2;

    // 手机密码重置的相关常量
    public final static int PHONEPWD_RESET_REQUEST_CODE = 3;

    // 手机密码登录的相关常量
    public final static String EXTRA_PHONEPWD_LOGIN = "com.tencent.tls.EXTRA_PHONEPWD_LOGIN";
    public final static int PHONEPWD_LOGIN_FAIL = 0;
    public final static int PHONEPWD_LOGIN_SUCCESS = 1;
    public final static int PHONEPWD_LOGIN_NON = 2;

    // 定义登陆成功或失败时跳转的界面(PackageName + ActivityClassName)
    public final static String EXTRA_THIRDAPP_PACKAGE_NAME_SUCC = "com.tencent.tls.THIRDAPP_PACKAGE_NAME_SUCC";
//    public final static String EXTRA_THIRDAPP_CLASS_NAME_SUCC = "com.tencent.tls.THIRDAPP_CLASS_NAME_SUCC";
    public final static String EXTRA_THIRDAPP_CLASS_NAME_SUCC = null;
    public final static String EXTRA_THIRDAPP_PACKAGE_NAME_FAIL = "com.tencent.tls.THIRDAPP_PACKAGE_NAME_FAIL";
    public final static String EXTRA_THIRDAPP_CLASS_NAME_FAIL = "com.tencent.tls.THIRDAPP_CLASS_NAME_FAIL";

    public final static String EXTRA_IMG_CHECKCODE = "com.tencent.tls.EXTRA_IMG_CHECKCODE";

    // 通过<包名,完整类名>的形式指定登录成功或失败时需要跳转的界面
    public static String thirdappPackageNameSucc;
    public static String thirdappClassNameSucc;
    public static String thirdappPackageNameFail;
    public static String thirdappClassNameFail;
}

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HomeUncategorizedEvergreen Stocks: Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Amazon.com, (NASDAQ:AMZN), Netflix, (NASDAQ:NFLX)
Evergreen Stocks: Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Amazon.com, (NASDAQ:AMZN), Netflix, (NASDAQ:NFLX)
September 20, 2020 Travis Garlick Uncategorized Comments Off on Evergreen Stocks: Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Amazon.com, (NASDAQ:AMZN), Netflix, (NASDAQ:NFLX)
Shares of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) dropped -0.25% and closed at $748.40 in the last trading session. The last trading range of the stock ranges between $746.62 and $751.35, after it was discovered that the company is working on integrating chat robots into their future messenger app upgrade. Yes, you read that right! "Chat robots!" according to IR.net
We all know that when it comes to messenger apps, the big dogs in the space today include the likes of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), WhatsApp (also owned by Facebook), and Skype (owned by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) messenger really is not even close to competing. That is until it was found that the company is actually working on a huge upgrade that might just blow them right past their competitors.
That upgrade comes in the form of chat robots — robots which when contacted via Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Messenger will answer your questions, and search the web for you. That's right, your very own robotic personal assistant that can be contacted and questioned via text message. Apparently this project has been run by Google VP of Communications, Nick Fox, and has been under development for over a year.
On the other Alphabet news, Director L John Doerr sold 4,440 shares of Alphabet stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 15th. The net result was for 48 transactions, worth $634.27M. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 3,239 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,431,841.20. Also, SVP David C. Drummond sold 5,290 shares of Alphabet stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, November 12th. This is down from average of 1.97M shares. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Alphabet, Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) now has an ABR 1.21. The stock now trades at $740 (£496). The company is trading 4.54% up its 50-day moving average and 22.78% above its 200-day moving average. The stock has a market capitalization of $512.47 billion and a PE ratio of 31.41. Alphabet has a 12-month low of $486.23 and a 12-month high of $775.96. financialspots Report
Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) declined -0.14% and closed at $662.79 in the last trading session. The last trading range of the stock ranges between $660.60 and $664.68. The company's Market capitalization is $ 311.12B with the total Outstanding Shares of 468.76M.
The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $663.63 and a 200 day moving average price of $547.64. Amazon.com, Inc. has a 52-week low of $285.25 and a 52-week high of $684.82. The firm has a market capitalization of $310.32 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 948.42.
Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) declared that the Fire TV device family has added over 1,000 new apps, channels, and games since September, counting new channels such as NBC, NBC Sports, Watch HGTV, Watch Food Network, Watch Travel Channel, Fox Now, NPR One, GoPro, and more. Amazon Fire TV devices now have over 4,000 channels, apps, and games—the largest selection of any streaming media player.
In addition to great new entertainment channels, Amazon Fire TV has also added popular new games such as Shovel Knight, Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode, Dark Echo, and Olli Olli 2. To take advantage of these great new games, and other favorites such as Final Fantasy III, IV, V, and VI, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic on Amazon Fire TV devices, customers can get the new Fire TV Gaming Edition this week for $114.99 (regularly $139.99).
"Amazon Fire TV is an incredibly fast growing platform and we are thrilled to make Watch HGTV, Watch Food Network, and Watch Travel Channel available to Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick customers," said Henry Ahn, President of Content Distribution & Marketing, Scripps Networks Interactive. "We see a great opportunity to provide the highly engaged Amazon customers with some of their most loved channels."
Shares of Netflix, Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX), ended its last trade with -0.70% loss, and closed at $117.33. The Average Volume of the company is at 3.54M with the Outstanding Shares of 16.96M. The Earnings per Share of the company stands at $0.38.
Netflix Inc. plans to pay its chief executive officer, Reed Hastings, a slightly smaller salary next year and a much larger potential stock option award, according to Bloomberg
Netflix has soared 142 percent this year, contrast with little change for the S&P 500. With its market value surpassing $50 billion, Netflix is now worth more than CBS Corp., Viacom Inc. and AMC Networks Inc. combined. The stock fell 0.7 percent to $117.33 at the close in New York.
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PTI Insights Apr 28, 2020, 3:48 pm
Pope Francis calls for prudence as restrictions ease
Pope Francis is calling for prudence and obedience to government protocols dictating the easing of coronavirus shutdowns to prevent infections from surging again.
Francis made the appeal Tuesday after Italian bishops bitterly complained that the Italian government's reopening schedule contained no provisions for Masses to be resumed.
At the start of his morning Mass Tuesday, Francis said: As we are beginning to have protocols to get out of quarantine, let us pray that the Lord gives his people, all of us, the grace of prudence and obedience to the protocols so that the pandemic doesn't return.
The government announced Sunday that funerals could resume starting May 4, but there was no information on when the faithful could attend Mass.
In a statement, Italian bishops said they cannot accept that the exercise of the freedom of worship is compromised.
The office of Premier Giuseppe Conte's hastily responded that it was working on protocols to allow the resumption of Masses as soon as possible but in conditions of maximum security.
The clash was an unusual public display of tensions between church and state over the virus-imposed curbing of public religious observance, which has been blamed for helping to spread the infection in some parts of the world.
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UK's new post-Brexit simple' points-based visa system opens
Nobel laureate warns of increased trafficking
UN: Pandemic to fan surge in humanitarian needs in 2021
Passengers can carry double check-in baggage in economy class of India-UK flights: British Airways
UK PM warns of New Year lockdown as he defends new tier system
Americans risk traveling over Thanksgiving despite warnings


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Marilyn Manson has unveiled a batch of new U.S. tour dates for this fall. The shows start Oct. 20 and have Manson traveling the West Coast and the South through Nov. 1. The nine dates will include performances in California, Arizona, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. You can check out a full list of the new U.S. shows below.
Manson is not only hitting the U.S on his Hell Not Hallelujah tour, he'll be traveling the world playing countries like Japan, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. He kicks off his solo trek next month playing at two music festival in Japan, then has September off before playing the aforementioned dates in the U.S., followed by his U.K. and European gigs. Tickets for the U.S. dates go on sale Friday, July 24, at 10AM, at this location.
Manson will be keeping himself busy before the October dates. He is currently on The End Times tour with Smashing Pumpkins and recently spoke about the possibility of working on a collaboration with Billy Corgan while they are out on tour together. He has previously revealed that he's working on something unexpected with Korn frontman Jonathan Davis and that he might tour with Twiggy Ramirez next year to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of his groundbreaking album Antichrist Superstar. Manson and the Pumpkins played in New Orleans last night (July 20) and head to Miami tomorrow (July 22).


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Press Play: 'Black-ish' Star Miles Brown Leads Full-Length Movie & Kerry Washington Stars In 'American Son' Trailer
The mystery is high in both movies.
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The young stars on Black-ish continue to shine with projects of their own. Next in line is 14-year-old Miles Brown who plays Jack, one of the youngest twins on the show.
Brown leads his first full-length movie called Boy Genius. The flick tells the story of Emmett, a popular junior in high school who happens to be a very imaginative twelve-year-old child prodigy. After his brother Luke, also a junior and Emmett's closest friend, is accused of being the culprit in a series of thefts in the school, Emmett must find a way to prove his innocence before Luke gets transferred to boarding school. Emmett gets assistance from his sixty-something SAT tutor and crime novelist, Mary. The two of them, along with the help of some oddball friends and a benevolent science teacher, get more than they bargained for when they find out the real criminal might be someone from Mary's past.
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The movie is available via on demand, Amazon Prime and Google Play. You can check out the trailer for yourself below.
Kerry Washington also has a mystery to solve in a much more serious film about race and criminality in America.
Netflix just dropped the first teaser trailer for the movie American Son, which is based off the acclaimed Broadway play of the same name. Kerry Washington reprises her role as Kendra Ellis-Connor, the mother of a missing teenage boy. She desperately tries to put the pieces together in a South Florida police station. Steven Pasquale, Jeremy Joran and Eugene Lee also reprise their roles as additional viewpoints around the main theme of an interracial couple raising a mixed-race son.
You can check out the trailer below, then catch the film when it hits Netflix on November 1.
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Friday rolled around, and Chris & I were discussing where we wanted to go for date night.
Our preferences? Somewhere lowish cost, easy, and of course fun.
Chris suggested we go to Barnes & Noble so we could pick out some entertaining reads, sit, talk and enjoy our evening. Cue me, falling over/gushing/swooning/being a girl/feeling mushy. He had no idea what a pressure point he just hit! I love books, and could not have thought of a more romantic place to spend an evening.
He picked out a book, and so did I. Not exactly similar tastes.
Mine was entirely more entertaining.
The evening progressed with Chris quizzing me on the deeper meaning of The Raven, while I attempted to teach him the importance of dramatic and large accents in a room.
Maybe I'm just trying to justify the 6ft. tall painting that is in my living room.
perfect place for a date! I have that domino book and I love it!


Something tells me this little guy doesn't come included with a new tablet. I feel like he looks down like he's judging your retouching skills. If he sat on my hand while I was working, I probably would be way more motivated as well! I mean, would you want to dissapoint him?
Owl look into getting one soon!
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Electronics Regional Test Laboratory (South), Trivandrum, popularly known as ERTL(South), is one of the Laboratories under STQC Directorate, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, engaged primarily in providing Accredited Calibration and Testing facilities.
It is one of the four ERTL set ups of STQC Directorate, dedicated to serve small and medium-scale Electrical, Electronic and IT industries spread across the country. The Lab was under the administrative control of KELTRON and was taken over by Government of India in March 1988.
ERTL(South) serves the industries located in its operational region, the southern part of India, with an aim of upgrading the overall quality of relevant products.
Various activities of the Laboratory are manned by well qualified, trained and experienced engineers mostly trained in India and abroad in the relevant areas of Technology. Our manpower includes 23 technical and 15 non-technical staff. The highly reliable Testing and Calibration services are availed by organizations like VSSC, KELTRON, C-DAC, Airports Authority, NPCIL, NTPC etc.
The Laboratory is accredited by NABL, for Electro-technical calibration services.
IECEE-CB accreditation for safety testing of Electro-medical equipments as per ISO/IEC-60601 series Standards.
Screening of SMD like LCR of different miniature sizes, discrete devices, digital and linear ICs.
ERTL (South) is the lead laboratory in the country for safety testing of medical electronic equipments and an approved Test Laboratory under IECEE-CB Scheme (CBTL).


Www.digitalplayspace.com - Will Google Home Play Pandora. An animation is defined as an visual shift in a scene with respect to time. The visual shift in the spectacle is not only connected to the change in the position of the object, but also using its own shape, color, transparency, texture and structure. An important thing about animation is that it usually suggests the hand attracted or artificially drawn series of pictures, which contrasts into the movies where actors performances with real-world scenes have been recorded.
Linked to Will Google Home Play Pandora, For those who were being to check with many people what their favourite productions have been little question each individual might have their very own specific lists. You'd probably be surprised for the variety of animated ones that might be bundled. So if who ever mentioned that cartoons are for youths? They can be something which touches the hearts from the younger and previous for possibly gender.
3D Cartoon animation has come up as amongst the most endorsed technologies in the present laptop age. This can be a type of graphic imaging which has taken about 2nd or scale product puppets too as drawings which ended up usually referred to as stop motion animation. Over the many years, there was an ever growing interest in cartoon videos in addition as being the use of 3D cartoon animation while in the media for endorsement of brand name names which has initiated improved plus much more innovative imaging software's available in the market.
Cartoon is quickly becoming an extremely popular career choice for those interested in combining their love for art by using their love for computing. With pictures such as Monsters Inc. and Cars holding the attention of children and adults alike, it's not surprising that animation technicians are becoming popular after. This is certainly similar to Will Google Home Play Pandora.
This short article talks in regards to the change of cartoon and anime, and also the definition of each in numerous types. Anime, generally from Japan, reveals by itself to get a great deal further and very well thought-out in plot and character growth than those of cartoons.


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Q: 'react-native-render-html' do not render  and  as expected on iOS but does on Android I am using 'react-native-render-html' to render html from my admin panel app but on the react native application on my devices text is bold and italic in Android device and is not on iPhone. What could be the reason ?
This is how it looks in Android, first 2 list items are bold and italic respectively
and this is how it looks on iPhone, no bold and no italic
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This is what I get with console.log(story.item.summary)

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Ivelisse Jiménez in a group show at Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
View exhibition / Photo Instagram Art and Culture Center / Hollywood
PRAN / Today, our accepted process of differentiation seems increasingly out of step with how "web searches" are organized — everywhere and everything has been turned into assemblages of diverse characteristics and qualities rather than discrete entities. New York critic and independent curator Saul Ostrow has organized the exhibition "Drawing on Likeness," which includes work by Ivelisse Jiménez (Puerto Rico/USA), Gustavo Prado (Brazil/USA) and Lidija Slavkovic (Serbia/USA). The exhibition consists of work that has been previously fabricated as well as site-specific pieces. The artists will arrive prior to the opening of Drawing on Likeness to use the exhibition space as a site of production. A publication of the exhibition will be available online.
Lidija Slavkovic Domos, 2020 Black marker on paper 7' x 5' x 4"
These artists work in diverse media and genres; Jiménez makes painterly installations of transparent materials, Prado creates multi-media works including photographs, videos and sculptural objects constructed with surveillance mirrors, and Slavkovic makes "cut-drawing" as well as imagistic works, which explore the space between perception and cognition. Seemingly, this would appear as a random mash-up since these artists do not share any singular concept or theme as subject. Yet amidst all their differences the exhibition highlights their affinities, shared structures, conceptual characteristics, and aesthetics amongst their work, which they have morphed.
Gustavo Prado, InDepth, 14 x 33 17, metal and mirrors
About Ivelisse Jiménez
Ivelisse Jiménez has been included in more than 30 exhibitions at major institutions in the US and abroad. Most recently, her work has been shown at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, Puerto Rico (solo), Lehman College Gallery, NY (group), Museo Josefina Camacho de la Nuez UAGM Caguas, Puerto Rico (group) and El Museo del Barrio, NY (group). She has received several awards including: the Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors, First Prize in Painting 7th Arte Leguna, and a recent grant from The Gottlieb Foundation. She was an artist in residence at Oxbow and MassMOCA in 2018. Born in 1966, Ciales, Puerto Rico, Jiménez completed a BA in Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus and a MFA in Studio Arts from New York University. She lives and works in Puerto Rico.
Detail "Folding Plan "Ivelisse Jimenez installation
About Saul Ostrow
Saul Ostrow is an independent critic and curator based in New York. He has been the Editor of the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture published by Routledge, London and Co-Editor of Lusitania Press (1996-2004). Since 1987 he has been the Art Editor for Bomb Magazine. He has curated over 80 exhibitions in the US and abroad. His own writing has appeared in numerous art magazines, journals, catalogues and books in the USA and Europe.
Drawing on Likeness is funded in part by a grant from Funding Arts Broward.
The exhibition through, Sunday March 15, 2020 at Art and Culture Center / Hollywood, 1650 Harrison St. Hollywood, FL 33020 More information: https://artandculturecenter.org/visit