Based in Tunbridge Wells, a large town in South East England, Create Digital Media normally build apps for clients.
But with Drive, the Kent-based designers and developers have their very first internal project. And it's a beautiful thing.
Drive is being sold as a companion app for drivers, designed to make using your iPhone on the road a much easier and safer endeavor. It's built around four main features: Calls, texts, music and maps.
What Drive does, essentially, is strip out everything that you likely won't need on the road – so your camera, Evernote, and the slew of other apps and features, and gives you what you probably would find yourself using most often.
When you first activate the app, you'll be asked for permission to send you push notifications, and for your current location. Once in, you'll see a very pleasant, and aesthetically pleasing Metro-style interface.
You can opt to make a quick call, send a quick text, play some music or see your current location on the map.
With big buttons, it's easy to opt for your desired feature. And everything is based around swipes, touches and gestures. For calls, you can swipe through your contacts list, and then tap to call. The same applies to texts.
Similarly, if you're looking to play some music, you can swipe left and right to change tracks, and alter the volume by a good old-fashioned two-fingered swipe in a vertical motion.
It's worth stressing here that functionality is minimal – you'll not be able to browse albums or create playlists, the idea is very much that your iPhone will be in some sort of cradle attached to your windscreen (I hope), and you can just lean over and enable your tunes with a couple of taps.
I couldn't quite figure out the order in which it played the music – sometimes it seemed random, others it seemed to play the same artist maybe four or five tracks in a row. This could perhaps do with a little more functionality too, perhaps a 'Shuffle' and a 'Play in order' mode, or something like that.
The one thing I'd also add is that it could do with a bigger 'back' button – the whole thing is geared towards those with minimal time and concentration to spare, so if you're needing to navigate back out of, say, music or maps, it's a little fiddly at the moment to do so.
Also, the icing on the cake for me would be if Drive integrated satnav features. This could be a big undertaking though, as its current mapping is built upon Google Maps, and the Internet giant restricts how its API is used for turn-by-turn direction. However, all may not be lost.
So we could start seeing a lot more features integrated, and it'll be interesting to see how navigation is eventually built in. For me, it would really need to include audio turn-by-turn directions.
However, for a first version Drive is really not a bad app at all, and it's worth noting that it's also compatible with iPads and iPod Touches – so even if you're not driving, you could potentially use this app at home, at work…anywhere that requires easy access to your device's basic features.
So if you're often driven to distraction (pun intended) while fiddling with your iPhone on the road, Drive could be for you. We just hope an Android version launches soon, though no word on that yet.
It's available to download now in most markets, and will set you back $0.99/£0.69/€0.89, or the equivalent local currency where you are.


NYCREC uses blockchain technology to tokenize New York City real estate. This opens up unprecedented opportunities for worldwide accessibility and liquidity in one of the most competitive and desirable real estate markets. NYCREC token holders can enjoy some of the benefits that come with owning real estate, including receiving revenue from the building's cashflow via Ethereum airdrops. The team behind NYCREC has managed over $15 billion in real estate and on Wall Street.


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#endregion Apache License Version 2.0

using System.Collections.Generic;
using Senparc.Weixin.Entities;

namespace Senparc.Weixin.MP.AdvancedAPIs.MerChant
{
    /// <summary>
    /// 添加货架返回结果
    /// </summary>
    public class AddShelfResult : WxJsonResult
    {
        public int shelf_id { get; set; }//货架ID
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// 获取所有货架
    /// </summary>
    public class GetAllShelfResult : WxJsonResult
    {
        public List<ShelfItem> shelves { get; set; }
    }

    public class ShelfItem
    {
        public ShelfInfo shelf_info { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// 货架banner
        /// </summary>
        public string shelf_banner { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// 货架名称
        /// </summary>
        public string shelf_name { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// 货架ID
        /// </summary>
        public int shelf_id { get; set; }
    }

    public class ShelfInfo
    {
        public List<Shelf_ModuleInfo> module_infos { get; set; }
    }

    public class Shelf_ModuleInfo
    {
        public Shelf_GroupInfo group_infos { get; set; }
        public Shelf_Group group_info { get; set; }
        public int eid { get; set; }
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    public class Shelf_GroupInfo
    {
        public List<Shelf_Group> groups { get; set; }
        public string img_background { get; set; }
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    public class Shelf_Group
    {
        public int group_id { get; set; }
        public Shelf_Filter filter { get; set; }
    }

    public class Shelf_Filter
    {
        public int count { get; set; }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// 根据货架ID获取货架信息
    /// </summary>
    public class GetByIdShelfResult : WxJsonResult
    {
        public ShelfInfo shelf_info { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// 货架banner
        /// </summary>
        public string shelf_banner { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// 货架名称
        /// </summary>
        public string shelf_name { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// 货架ID
        /// </summary>
        public int shelf_id { get; set; }
    }
}

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I could have called it wizard, but i'm pretty sure i already have a wizard page.
So this is the one that started all the other fashion model ones or whatever.
this one is based off of a story i wrote a very long time ago, where the narrator drew and stuff and this picture is based off of one of the things that she drew. It's not exactly like what i described in the book but oh well. Its good enough.


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Monica can't stand his crisp white shirts or his staunch views on women. But she can't help counting every freckle on his face and wondering what it would feel like to have him stop talking politics and kiss her. A class debate project forces the unlikely pair to work together, and the political lines are blurred in late-night make-out sessions. But despite their fiery chemistry, Trey's politics threatens to smother their relationship for good.
I broke her heart 10 years ago and left town. She hates me, and rightly so. It doesn't matter that the rest of the country loves me, that I'm a starting quarterback with a multimillion-dollar contract. Because when I look in the mirror, all I see is a failure who was too young - and too afraid - to fight for what I wanted. But I'm not that guy anymore, and all I need is one shot to convince her.
My best friend, Natalie, has been by my side through everything. Leaning on my shoulder, borrowing my sweatshirts…and making my pants too tight when she flashes me that sassy smile that drives me crazy. But she has no idea about that last part. She doesn't have a clue I've felt this way about her for years. Until one night after too many cocktails, we fall into bed together. I'm flirting with my forever…she just doesn't know it yet.
Travis King is the worst kind of a**hole. He taunts me for being a good girl and mocks my high standards. He's cruel, crass, and has enough confidence to last two lifetimes. And I hate him. He's always loved getting under my skin, and one night against my better judgment, I let him in my bed. I've succumbed to his manw**re ways, but that doesn't change a thing. Because the King is about to get played at his own game - and lose.
Life is smooth sailing until these new roomies find themselves stuck between a rock and a very hard place. Because lusting after the one person you shouldn't ever mess around with - your new roommate - is like cardinal rule number one. Get ready for four complete friends-to-lovers rom-com standalones: The Room Mate, The Play Mate, The House Mate, and The Soul Mate.
Honor student, manager at the campus coffee shop, and owner of an impressive sweater collection, Melanie Wilder has it all together. Then John "John Boy" Walden strolls into her life wearing nothing more than an impish grin and all-too-revealing loincloth. Soon make-out sessions replace homework, and lust triumphs over work. And to further crumble her perfect world, an unexpected phone call threatens to take away everything she's worked for. Now as Melanie struggles to pick up the pieces, she realizes that John may be the only one to put her life back together, unless he shatters it first.


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Rebels have taken responsibility for the administration in the first major city to be liberated in Syria. Bashar Assad's troops have answered the provocation with targeted air strikes on schools and hospitals. The regime is pulverizing large parts of the country's infrastructure, including access to fresh drinking water.
Angry older people, unconcerned with decorum, are pushing their way into the room. They shout furiously at the stunned officials sitting behind their desks. The revolution is all very well and good, they say, "but where are our pensions?"
With some difficulty, the man from the justice committee manages to convince them to at least appoint a spokesman, so that they won't all talk at the same time. But they remain adamant. "You are the new government! So it's your responsibility to pay our pensions!"
A tribal leader watches the scene from an armchair on the side. A cleric and an attorney are sitting on a sofa, discussing rules for prisoners. And the new police chief wants to know how he is supposed to get his men back on the street. Although he has 24 new uniforms, there are twice as many police officers, and the police force also lacks ammunition for their service weapons.
The revolutionary council is meeting in a central building called the Serail, where the mayor, the police, the court and the land registry once had their offices, and where the strings of power once came together. Now the building has resumed its former function, except that the roles seem to have been reversed.
What is currently happening in Manbij, once a sleepy provincial city in northern Syria, is the first future-oriented experiment in the midst of horror. While rebels fight regime forces elsewhere in the country, and entire towns are being bombed to pieces, Manbij is the first larger city in Syria to be liberated. Since regime forces withdrew in mid-July, local councils have governed the 150,000 residents of Manbij and the surrounding district, which is home to more than half a million people.
The army had withdrawn from large sections of northern Syria in the spring, but the fact that it simply abandoned an entire city is mainly the result of levelheadedness on both sides. A cunning real estate broker represented the opposition in several months of negotiations with the heads of the all-powerful security forces, and they quietly made a number of deals. The opposition agreed to limit protests to 15 minutes, and in return the security forces pledged not to fire on the protesters. The city also owes its good fortune to its relative isolation, which meant that it eventually became surrounded by areas under rebel control.
"By then it was too late to send troops," the broker, Ibrahim Sallal, says with a smile. "When the regime wanted to begin its war, all roads were already closed." The heads of the security forces and the Shabiha militias pulled out on the morning of July 19, while a group of 51 police officers defected to the rebels.
Manbij was left to its own devices. After four decades of dictatorship, its residents are suddenly faced with the task of running an independent city-state, one in which neither pensions nor survival can be taken for granted anymore.
Since mid-August, the regime in Damascus has been trying to destroy the parts of the country it was unable to hold. The Syrian air force launches daily air strikes against Manbij and other towns in the north. The goal is not so much to attack the rebels as they continually change locations, but rather the targeted destruction of the infrastructure. The strikes are aimed, in particular, at drinking water pipelines, grain silos, hospitals, government buildings and schools. President Bashar Assad's regime can no longer win the war, but it can prevent the other side from winning.
The rebels have little to counter the air strikes, for which the regime is using ordinary training aircraft. Their silhouettes in the sky look like those of World War II dive-bombers, and the attacks are carried out in exactly the same fashion, as the pilots dive sharply until shortly before reaching a target, release their bombs and then pull the planes back up again.
There is no mention of the air strikes on Syrian state television, which describes the regime troops' efforts as a "heroic struggle against the terrorists," whose attacks have allegedly wiped out entire city blocks. The accompanying footage is of the ruins of multistory buildings -- buildings that were in fact destroyed by the air force.
The more horrific the situation gets, the quieter the rest of the world becomes. At least 100 people are dying every day throughout the country, but news programs focus almost exclusively on the fighting in Syria's two biggest cities, Damascus and Aleppo. They make almost no mention of the aerial bombardment of other cities and towns.
Last week, French President François Hollande called for international protection for the "liberated zones" in the north and threatened Damascus, saying: "We will not continue to remain silent." But that is precisely what is happening.
All attempts to mediate have failed, and United States President Barack Obama will not take any military risks before the presidential election in early November -- especially after a wave of violent rage swept through parts of the Islamic world, a mob killed the American ambassador to Libya and more than 20 people died during demonstrations in Pakistan, all because of the trailer of a film being shown on YouTube that derides the Prophet Muhammad.
No one in Manbij has seen the video, because no one can see it. There is no Internet in the city. All electronic connections to the outside world have been severed, and only the local fixed-line telephone network is still in service. But even without having seen the video, no one in Manbij understands the hysteria.
"We aren't criticizing the outrage of our Muslim brothers," says a cleric, "but where are the demonstrations against the bombardment of mosques in Syria?"
Meanwhile, President Assad claims that the situation is already much better than it was a year ago, but adds that it will take a while before government forces finally prevail over the terrorists.
"It's madness," says Anas Sheikhawais, a key figure on the revolutionary council in Manbij and, in civilian life, the owner of a small ceramic tile factory. "We are trying to build a new system, even as the old one continues to bomb us."
Six people died on Sept. 20, when a bomb struck the main square, and a school and the courtyard at police headquarters were hit a few days earlier. Box by box, car by car, court files, marriage certificates and land registry documents are being moved to safety in the countryside, before a bomb strikes the Serail. The same thing was done in a small city farther to the south a few days ago. One of the attorneys on the justice committee calls it "rescuing the country from destruction by the government."
Fuel has to be smuggled into the city, officials are no longer being paid their salaries, and the only reason Manbij has electricity is that it's close to the Euphrates dam, which supplies large parts of Syria with energy. The regime is unlikely to cut off Manbij from the grid, because if it did the rebels could shut down the hydroelectric plant and cripple the power supply to half the country.
The big questions being asked in the West, such as whether al-Qaida has infiltrated the revolution and whether there will be a civil war, are of secondary importance in the Manbij experiment. Instead, the city faces more immediate issues, such as whether the schools will be able to reopen soon, or what to do with the refugees from other areas that have taken refuge there. And if the schools reopen, where will the books come from, now that the central government is no longer supplying them? And what sort of flag should be hoisted so that the air force will stop attacking the schools when they reopen? The new, three-star flag? Too dangerous. The old flag? Out of the question.
The people of Manbij are more concerned about where they will be getting flour for the next month, and whether bread should still be distributed at the central bakeries, after lines of people outside bakeries were attacked several times in Manbij and elsewhere. They are concerned about drinking water, gasoline, elections and the desperate search for money. "We'll be broke in a month," says Sheikh Mohammed Ali, the interim city treasurer.
It's also a question of who is in charge in Manbij. The council? The rebels with the Free Syrian Army (FSA)? And who is authorized to arrest whom?
One morning, an FSA unit picked up three severely abused individuals and their five kidnappers at a farm outside the city.
The kidnappers said: We are also with the FSA, and we have arrested three members of the Shabiha (the regime's notorious militia).
One of the three abused men said that they were merely farmers and had no idea why the others had kidnapped and tortured them.
They have all been locked up in the temporary prison, in the basement of the only hotel in Manbij, until it is clear who actually kidnapped whom. But within hours, a group of armed men from the kidnappers' tribe stormed the city, shooting into the air while men with the local FSA battalion, the "Revolutionaries of Manbij," did the same. Within seconds, shopkeepers closed their roller blinds and people ran for cover. Then the two groups negotiated and things calmed down again -- for the time being.


Prabhas and Shraddha Kapoor's upcoming action-thriller Saaho has secured a 15 August release in India. The film, directed by Sujeeth Reddy, is trilingual (Hindi, Telugu and Tamil) but Mumbai Mirror has found that it will also be dubbed in Japanese.
Mirror writes that Saaho will have a wide release, just a few weeks after it hits Indian cinemas. A source told the publication that Prabhas has a huge fan following in Japan. His role in S S Rajamouli's two-part epic series Baahubali: The Beginning and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion has made him a popular figure among the Japanese. The source said that a local distributor has bought the rights to Saaho. The actor is may also visit the country to promote the film.
V Vamsi Krishna Reddy, who has produced the film alongside T-Series' Bhushan Kumar, also confirmed this development.
Shraddha Kapoor, who will be making her debut in Telegu films with the feature, and is going to play an "important character" from whose perspective the film is going to be narrated, Prabhas said in a report by Gulf News. Saaho also features a bevy of Bollywood actors - Neil Nitin Mukesh, Jackie Shroff, Tinnu Anand, Chunkey Pandey, Mahesh Manjrekar and Mandira Bedi form the evil squad that Prabhas would be seen locking horns with.
The action choreography of the film is being supervised by Kenny Bates, who has already amazed the audience with Hollywood hits like Transformers, Mission Impossible, Rush Hour and Armageddon.


Have you ever worked in a Pizza shop? Now is your chance take orders and use the machines to help give your customers exactly what they ordered!
It doesn't get more delicious then home made pizza. Now that the food is gone there is gonna be a lot of clean up. Burn off some calories by busting grease and mopping that floor.
Pizza maker restaurant is a management game where you can serve your customer who needs pizza. Be careful because there is a lot of person during the weekend.
Cook up hot spicy eats like pizza, hamburgers and fries and top it off a sweet, tasty milkshake! Keep your customers happy and don't lose your reputation or you'll go broke! Play in either career or free play mode!


As we prepare to celebrate love and romance on Valentine's Day, we're pleased to reveal the rankings of the 25 Most Romantic Cities in America 2018.
While diners across the nation are looking for that special meal on Valentine's Day, certain cities prove that they are a step above in providing dining experiences that exude romance from the moment you step inside the restaurant. To identify the ranking of cities where romantic dining is inherently part of the culture, the OpenTable Most Romantic Cities Index was calculated using three variables: the percentage of restaurants rated "romantic" according to OpenTable diner reviews; the percentage of tables seated for two; and the percentage of people who dined out for Valentine's Day in 2017.
The following cities, listed in order, comprise the 25 Most Romantic Cities in America 2018.
For diners still searching for a terrific table for Valentine's Day, we recently released the Top 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America for 2018. And, be sure to enter our #ValenDinesDay giveaway for a chance to win Valentine's Day dinner for two.
Biloxi is number one? Things must have changed radically since the 70s!
Mariano's Restaraunt in Doral is excellent!
Food service and atmosphere all great!
The best server is Mauricio by far, & his service is anazing!
Wmy husband and i started with the goat cheese croquettes and the porkbelly, both were unbelievable and highly recommend.
My husband had aged bone in ribeye-OUTSTANDING and i had the Maryland chicken with onion plantain & cream with corn sauce, can i say"to die for", then we finished with Nutella crepe….need i say more…. we will be back very soon!!
Birmingham, AL has a lot of great restaurants. Oceans is our favorite place for seafood and Perry's is our go to place for steak or pork chop. They both make a celebrating a special occasion extra special.


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Adults, Community, Events, News, Organizations, Politics, U.S.	 July 2, 2018
Democratic National Committee Launches "Seat At The Table" Tour, a New Black Women Outreach Initiative
Two women hold signs reading "Vote Baby Vote" and "Voting is People Power," c. 1970. (Photo by Gabriel Hackett /Getty Images)
by Ashley Alese Edwards via refinery29.com
The Democratic National Committee has launched a new initiative, the Seat At the Table Tour, a Black women outreach tour designed to "rebuild relationships, restore trust, and strengthen infrastructure within communities to champion Democratic values and build towards electoral victories," Refinery29 has learned.
Black women have been the Democratic Party's most reliable voting bloc since the 1990s. Doug Jones' win over Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate special election in December especially highlighted Black women's power; they were largely credited to lifting Jones to victory through on the ground organizing and voter registration efforts.
Despite this, however, the Democratic Party has been criticized for neglecting the needs of Black women and not adequately supporting Black women who are running for office. Many Black women candidates, particularly in Alabama, have been operating with little institutional support, as Refinery29 reported in June.
According to the DNC, the tour, in collaboration with the Congressional Black Caucus and Black women mayors, will consist of listening and training sessions for Black women.
"This is the Democratic Party's opportunity to show that we want more than just Black Women's votes. We also need and want Black Women's input, ideas, and organizing power," Waikinya Clanton, the DNC's director of African American outreach, told Refinery29. "We want to hear from Black Women across this country about what keeps them up at night and what we can do to help fix it. Whether it's training candidates on how to address certain issues, training organizers on how to advocate on issues locally or connecting Black women Democrat. We want to connect and work with Black women to help move this country forward in a real and meaningful way."
The tour officially kicked off June 16 in Brooklyn, where the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, was honored.
According to Black Women In Politics, a database of Black women running for office, there are 603 Black women candidates this year.
"This is our chance to invest in more than just candidates and state parties but opportunity to invest in infrastructure and people who help sustain communities," Clanton said.
Source: https://www.refinery29.com/dnc-seat-at-the-table-black-women-initiative
Filed under: Alabama, Black Women in Politics, black women voters, Congressional Black Caucus, Democratic National Committee, DNC, Doug Jones, Seat At The Table tour, Waikinya Clanton
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2 thoughts on "Democratic National Committee Launches "Seat At The Table" Tour, a New Black Women Outreach Initiative"
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Too little, too late DNC. I have unaffiliated. You lost me in spirit during the run up to the 2016 elections. You lost me, for real, more than a year ago.
#IndependentBlackWoman
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Time to take the most loyal constituents seriously
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This Creepy 17th-Century Baby Portrait Was Found in the Home of an 'Eccentric' English Farmer. It May Fetch $24,000 at Auction
For years, a 17th-century portrait of a child hid on the back of a door in an English cottage that was crammed with antiques, rarely seen even by the eccentric collector who lived there.
Now, following the owner's death, the artwork is set to hit the auction block in London, where it's estimated to fetch £18,000 to £20,000 ($21,500 to $24,000).
That's a lot for an artwork relegated to the back of a door. But if you're wondering why such a valuable piece of art didn't garner a more prominent placement in the Surrey home, well the painting itself may hold the answer: It's creepy as hell.
Hansons, the auction house set to sell the piece on January 28, calls the portrait's subject a "miniature adult." But the phrase "weirdly big baby" may better capture this picture's particular brand of uncanniness.
Painted nearly 400 years ago, it depicts a cherubic toddler decked out in an ankle-length gown and a lace collar. Stiffly upright the child stands next to a table, the proportions of which make her seem at least four-and-a-half feet tall.
"I was surprised to find such a compelling portrait hidden away," said Hansons associate director Chris Kirkham in a statement. "However, I discovered there was a reason for it. The keen collector who acquired it had downsized some years before and brought all of his much-loved antiques with him."
"His collection included several paintings which were hung on much smaller walls than they had originally been intended for," Kirkham went on. "He struggled for display space and this little girl in all her finery got tucked away behind a door. Sadly, the collector passed away and this centuries-old work was forgotten."
It was only by chance that the auction house executive happened to look on the other side of the door, which otherwise remained perpetually propped open. "I just happened to move it and thank goodness I did," he said.
Courtesy of Hansons Auctioneers.
The piece is being commissioned by the collector's daughter, who called her father "an eccentric and a collector of all types of antiques and curios."
"He had a really good eye for unusual objects and art," she said. "It offered him a hobby away from his working life as a farmer."
She noted that she thinks the man "may have purchased the painting at auction many years ago but can't be sure."
In the upper register of the canvas is the artist's name, Adriaen Verkins, and the date it was created, 1626. Hansons suggests that Verkins may have been a Dutch artist whose work—heavily influenced by that of masters like Van Dyck and Rubens—was otherwise lost to time.
The painting will be offered in the company's Fine Art and Antiques Auction on January 28.
"It is remarkable what we find hidden away in homes, often forgotten and, in this case, behind a door," added the auction house's owner, Charles Hanson. "Collectors tend to fill their homes with so many wonderful items over the course of decades, it is easy to lose sight of which ones may be of special significance."
"When you look into this little girl's eyes you are swept back to the early 17th century. Fashions of the time for the rich—the poor were in rags—were showy and laden with ornamentation. Jewelry, lace, and multiple contrasting fabrics displayed wealth. This portrait is a remarkable find. It is like a time capsule offering an insight into the life of a wealthy child."
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Wet Paint: Julian Schnabel Is Having a Baby at 70, Market Goes Gaga for Long-Dead Surrealist, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip
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THE SCHNABEL CLAN GETS SCHNABELIER
Julian Schnabel, perhaps the most famous American artist alive, is about to enter his eighth decade on planet earth. But he's not slowing down—he's had three shows at Pace in the past year, two in New York and one in Palm Beach, and he's the primary force behind a 570-page doorstop of a monograph that's forthcoming from Taschen. (Clasped in a clamshell cover that's the same pepto-pink hue as the Palazzo Chupi, "it's the most generous opportunity to experience Schnabel's art outside of meeting it in person," per Taschen spox.) The tome costs $1,500, and all 1,100 copies produced have been sold. You just can't stop Schnabel.
Julian Schnabel and Louise Kugelberg walk the red carpet during the 76th Venice Film Festival. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
In fact, Wet Paint can reveal there's another big development in Julian world: another little one is about to become part of his illustrious brood. That's right—the 69-year-old is having a daughter, his seventh child, with his wife, the writer and designer Louise Kugelberg.
Sure, it's 2021, and science be praised, Mick Jagger is out here having his eighth kid at 73—but it's worthwhile to note that Julian became a grandfather just a few months ago, when his daughter Stella Schnabel had her first child.
Taschen's new Julian Schnabel book. Photo courtesy Julian Schnabel.
Schnabel baby will be eight years younger than her closest sibling, Shooter Sandhed Julian Schnabel Jr., whom the artist shares with Danish model May Andersen. (That baby shower is a big act to follow: last time the stork came flying in, Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour hosted a bash where Schnabel the Elder unveiled a 20-foot-tall painting of his pregnant paramour.)
Sources say that lucky number seven is due in a few months, meaning things must be busy in New York's more Schnabel-heavy precincts, on West 11th Street in Manhattan and the tip of Long Island in Montauk. All snark aside, the members of the Schnabel family are really some of the nicest people in the game, so this column gives a hearty welcome to the new kid. Mazel to Julien and Louise.
The artist did not comment through Pace.
UNKNOWN FOR DECADES, THEN HOT HOT HOT
Gertrude Abercrombie, Giraffe (1954). Photo courtesy Sotheby's.
Plenty of trend lines emerged from the auctions last week—we've already told you this stuff, but if you happen to have any A-plus works by, say, the Dallas-based self-taught neo-expressionist Jammie Holmes, maybe go call upon your local local art dealer.
But the newest, hottest artist to come out of auction week isn't a young figurative painter. It's Gertrude Abercrombie, a Chicago surrealist who was barely known outside of the Midwest when she died in 1978.
Gertrude Abercrombie. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Since 2018, there's been some market action around Abercrombie bubbling up slowly. The artist had not been shown in New York since the 1950s when Karma, the beloved and expanding art and publishing concern in the East Village, staged an acclaimed survey of her work with curator Dan Nadel.
The accompanying book fleshed out the narrative: Abercrombie was a surrealist who acted as a pivotal member of the Windy City's bebop scene—Dizzy Gillespie was a close friend and muse—and acted as a key source of inspiration to the city's Imagist movement that emerged in the 1960s. The paintings were undeniably gorgeous, but with no market established, prices were in the four figures.
Gertrude Abercrombie show at Karma. Photo courtesy Karma.
But now, with a giant retrospective at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh on the horizon, Amercrombie works have become manna for in-the-know connoisseurs. The demand is such that, when an Abercromie came to auction Wednesday at Sotheby's with a $15,000 high estimate, it hammered at $290,000, or $365,000 with fees.
Sources say that some of the collectors who purchased work by Abercrombie below the $10,000 mark a few years ago are now looking to sell. The sale Wednesday took place in a non-marquee American art sale. Expect the next one to be in a major evening sale—perhaps on the cover of a digital catalogue.
OLD FAIRS, NEW GALLERIES
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Photo courtesy Felix.
A year ago, the experts were saying we could never shake hands again, and the idea of entering an enclosed space was terrifying to most Americans. Fast forward to May 2021, and we have art fairs again. (Vaccines are magic.) While TEFAF may have scotched its much-delayed September edition in Maastricht, in the better-vaxxed purple mountains majesty there will be wet hot American art fairs this summer and fall.
First up is Felix, the Los Angeles fair that opens its doors in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on July 29. It's focusing on galleries with local outlets, and the exhibitors list is a '27 Yankees of La La Land art shops. There's the big guns such as David Kordansky, Gagosian, Blum & Poe, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Francois Ghebaly—all first-time Felix exhibitors—and younger outfits like Chateau Shatto, Matthew Brown Gallery, Chris Sharp Gallery, and Parker Gallery. Plus, there's rumors of a party hosted by a certain art-world gossip column happening that week… consider leaving the Hamptons just this once for some West Coast action.
The new site of Independent. Photo courtesy Independent.
Then, in September, the Independent and Armory Show fairs return to New York. Both are trying out new venues: Cipriani South Street and the Javits Center, respectively. Independent's got some newcomers, too: Spaces such as Vito Schnabel Gallery, Off Paradise, Mrs., Broadway, and The Ranch are all taking part for the first time. Get your art-fair shoes ready.
Last week, all I gave you readers to go on was a picture of a spice rack, the French tarragon and bay leaves bought from that dear departed prince of grocers, Dean & Deluca. And of course, the artist who once possessed this spice rack is Donald Judd, who lived a block away from the original store and was one of its first customers. Giorgio DeLuca was a close friend, and Judd would often send his kids to the palatial SoJo gourmet purveyor with gift certificates in hand.
But the quiz was a tricky one—this iteration of the spice rack is actually at The Block, Judd's former home in Marfa, Texas, and not on Spring Street. The only reader to get that right is the perennial quiz champion, Brussels-based curator Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte—congrats to you, sir! Everyone should read his wonderful article on the artist Kayode Ojo, published this week in Interview magazine.
A few runners up successfully named Judd but picked the wrong house. They are: collector and patron Scott Lorinsky; Sarah Goulet, the owner of Sarah Goulet Communications; and Dan Desmond, executive director of the Blue Rider Group at Morgan Stanley.
Here's this week's quiz. Name the artist who made this work, and the place where it is installed.
Send guesses to [email protected]. Hats are coming for the winners, these things take time, alas!
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The future site of an Aspen pop-up. Photo courtesy Lehmann Maupin.
Lehmann Maupin is opening a pop-up gallery in Aspen alongside Carpenters Workshop, on East Hyman Avenue, right next to the Aspen Art Museum and catty-corner from the Almine Rech space—Rocky Mountain High! … Raymond Sackler has launched an extremely detailed website trying to convince people that his family did not actually have that much to do with the opioid crisis—the site is called Judge For Yourself and, by all means, you should do just that … Ignacio Mattos is putting the finishing touches on his Rockefeller Center cafe, Caffè Lodi, which will be a bakery and prepared food emporium that will also deliver faves from his hit downtown spots Estela and Cafe Altro Paradiso to Christie's specialists and NBC pages …
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Land Disputes Threaten Indigenous Peoples of Rural Brazil
Uirá Garcia
The news began to circulate at the height of the holiday season. On Christmas Day, it emerged that an angry mob in Humaitá, Amazonas, had set fire to offices and equipment belonging to two government institutions: Funai, the National Foundation of the Indian; and Funasa, the National Health Foundation. Cars, boats and motorcycles were destroyed. Two days later, nearly 300 people from the town invaded villages in the Tenharim Marmelos Indigenous Reserve, setting houses alight and destroying the toll booths operated by the Tenharim Indians on a stretch of the Trans-Amazonian Highway that crosses their land. This was the beginning of a series of events which is still underway in the region.
The disturbances are attributed to the disappearance of three local men around a month ago. Humaitá's residents believe that they were murdered in retribution for the death of the Indian chief Ivan Tenharim, who died in an accident with a motorcycle on the 3rd of December. The Tenharim deny any involvement in the disappearances, and the chief's family, who are still in mourning, are perplexed by the accusations and the sudden outbreak of violence. Nobody knows what the denouement to the mystery will be, and the police are still none the wiser. Humaitá's residents insist, however, that those responsible for the disappearances were Tenharim Indians. The fact that the Tenharim community denies any involvement seems to count for nothing.
Reading about this recent case, I couldn't help but recall another ongoing situation which I have been accompanying in my research for several years: the removal of illegal settlements on the Awá Indigenous Reserve in the state of Maranhão, in Brazil's northeast region.
The Awá-Guajá people live thousands of kilometres away from the Tenharim Indians, on the other side of the Amazon. What the two communities have in common is that the violence against them has been encouraged by local elites and by local government in the municipalities where their lands are located. The motive for this violence is clear: there are people who want to develop and exploit the indigenous land. There exists a commonly held and deeply ingrained notion that the indigenous lands are unproductive areas, belonging to primitive, even opportunistic people, who do nothing to contribute to the development of the nation. In Humaitá, the Tenharim people are 'treated like animals', according to Egon Heck, of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI, in its Portuguese acronym).
The Awá-Guajú people are skilled hunters, who have lived for centuries from hunting and gathering. As a result, the recent judicial order to remove illegal settlements from their land has attracted widespread attention in the international press. They have been widely labelled as 'pure Indians', or 'Brazil's last hunter-gatherers.' However, this is an essentialist doctrine that designates some communities as more traditional than others; in other words, a simplification ignoring the plurality of Brazil's indigenous communities, which are scattered across the nation, speak a range of different languages and exhibit a broad range of customs and behaviours.
The growing media interest in the case correlates with increasing hostility on the part of rural elites. The senator Kátia Abreu, president of the National Confederation of Agriculture and Fisheries (CNA), released a statement to the press, rebutting the accusations by the national secretary of Social Articulation of the Secretary General to the President, Paulo Maldos, that the settlers amounted to nothing more than 'marijuana farmers and loggers.' If Maldos's statement is a simplification of the reality in question, this does not make the CNA's superficial criticisms of the evictions any more valid.
The Awá land is indeed an area in which there is much illicit activity, including illegal logging, illegal appropriation of public land and marijuana cultivation. Between 2009 and 2010 the Awá lands suffered the highest level of deforestation in the Amazon, and according to statistics from Funai's General Coordination of Territorial Monitoring, it has the highest rates of deforestation of any area in the nine states in the Amazon basin. Furthermore, many rural workers defined by the CNA as 'poor farmers driven off their lands' are in fact directly linked to a small group of big landowners and fraudsters who sent them there in order to appropriate the land and sell it off as if it were privately owned. This land continued to be sold to poor families until last year, even after the judicial process authorizing their eviction had been finalized.
For some time now, the tension between indigenous peoples and smallholders in the Amazon region has been stoked up in order to further particular interests. This went on under the military dictatorship, when the 'demographic voids' of the Amazon region were offered to whoever was interested in occupying them. It is still going on today, as when the Maranhão branch of the CNA published a statement claiming that the real problem for the smallholders removed from the Awá Indigenous Reserve is the Indians themselves, rather than Brazil's unequal land distribution, and the agricultural estates, monoculture and rural oligarchies which have rendered Maranhão the poorest state in Brazil.
In recent years, we have been hearing the names Tenharim, Jiahui, Awá-Guajá, Guarani-Caiouá and Munduruku not for positive reasons, but for tragic ones, accompanied almost in real time on the news. And while some of these peoples find their lands under attack, others, such as the Guarani people, who live outside the Amazon region, do not even have any land to defend. They possess only their rage.
Uirá Garcia is an anthropologist. He holds a Ph.D in anthropology from the University of São Paulo, and currently works as a professor at the University of Campinas, where he is working on his post-doctorate. He has worked with the Awá-Guajá people since 2006.
The article was translated into English for LAB by Tom Gatehouse. The article was first published (in Portuguese) in O Estado de S. Paulo
The UK-based charity, Survival International, has long campaigned on behalf of the Awá and should be given much of the credit for the judicial decision to evict settlers from their reserve. More information can be found here.
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Just like Lean On, you may have gotten a wee bit tired of turning on your radio to hear Big Sean yell at you. So here's a new spin on the crowd favorite. Liven up any party but pressing play and then watching everyone bond over being able to yell the lyrics.
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William Jack Baumol (Nueva York, 26 de febrero, 1922-4 de mayo de 2017) fue un economista de la Universidad de Nueva York (aunque también profesó en la Universidad de Princeton) que escribió sobre la economía laboral y otros factores económicos. También realizó valiosas contribuciones a la historia del pensamiento económico y a la teoría de la organización industrial y la regulación.

Investigaciones
Entre sus contribuciones más conocidas se encuentran la teoría de los mercados disputables, el modelo de transacciones de Baumol-Tobin, la demanda de dinero, la enfermedad de los costos de Baumol, que analiza los crecientes costos asociados con las industrias de servicios, el modelo de maximización de los ingresos por ventas de Baumol y los impuestos de Pigou. Su investigación sobre economía ambiental reconoció el papel fundamental de las no convexidades en causar fallos en el mercado.

William Baumol también contribuyó a la transformación del campo de las finanzas y publicó contribuciones a las áreas de eficiencia de los mercados de capital, teoría de la cartera y presupuesto de capital.

Espíritu emprendedor
El lugar de las innovaciones disruptivas y los emprendedores innovadores en la teoría económica tradicional (que describe muchos índices basados en la eficiencia que suponen resultados uniformes) presenta dilemas teóricos. Baumol contribuyó enormemente a esta área de la teoría económica. Las Reuniones Anuales de la American Economic Association en 2006 celebraron una sesión especial en su nombre, y en honor a sus muchos años de trabajo en el campo del espíritu empresarial y la innovación, donde se presentaron 12 artículos sobre el espíritu empresarial.

En 2003, Baumol recibió el Premio Global a la Investigación Empresarial "por su esfuerzo persistente para otorgarle al empresario un papel clave en la teoría económica dominante, por sus estudios teóricos y empíricos sobre la naturaleza del espíritu emprendedor y por su análisis. de la importancia de las instituciones y los incentivos para la asignación del espíritu empresarial ".

La revista de noticias británica, The Economist, publicó un artículo sobre William Baumol y su trabajo de toda la vida para desarrollar un lugar en la teoría económica para el empresario (11 de marzo de 2006, pp. 68), gran parte de la cual debe su origen a Joseph Schumpeter. Señalan que la teoría microeconómica tradicional suele tener un lugar para los "precios" y las "empresas", pero no para ese motor (aparentemente) importante de la innovación, el empresario. Baumol ayudó a remediar esta deficiencia: "Gracias a los esfuerzos minuciosos del propio Baumol, los economistas ahora tienen un poco más de espacio para los empresarios en sus teorías".

El libro de William Baumol, The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship es el primer análisis teórico formal del papel de los empresarios innovadores.

Libros de texto
Baumol escribió varios libros de texto en economía, incluido un libro de texto introductorio con Alan Blinder titulado Macroeconomía: Principios y política. Su libro de texto de economía sobre investigación de operaciones fue bien recibido internacionalmente:

   "En los años sesenta y setenta, casi todos los departamentos de economía ofrecieron un curso sobre métodos de investigación de operaciones en economía, y el libro de texto habitual utilizado fue Teoría económica y análisis de operaciones por W. J. Baumol. Una generación entera de estudiantes de economía estaba familiarizada con este libro ..."

Publicaciones

 "Community Indifference", 1946, RES
 "A Community Indifference Map: A construction", 1949, RES.
 "A Formalization of Mr. Harrod's Model", 1949, EJ.
 "The Analogy between Producer and Consumer Equilibrium Analysis", with Helen Makower, 1950, Economica.
 Economic Dynamics, with R. Turvey, 1951.
 "The Transaction Demand for Cash: An inventory-theoretic approach", 1952, QJE.
 "The Classical Monetary Theory: The outcome of the discussion", with G.S. Becker, 1952, Economica.
 Welfare Economics and the Theory of the State, 1952.
 "Firms with Limited Money Capital", 1953, Kyklos.
 Economic Processes and Policies, with L.V. Chandler, 1954.
 "More on the Multiplier Effect of a Balanced Budget", with M.H. Peston, 1955, AER.
 "Acceleration without Magnification", 1956, AER.
 "Variety in Retailing", with E.A. Ide, 1956 Management Science.
 "Speculation, Profitability and Stability", 1957, REStat.
 "Activity Analysis in One Lesson", 1958, AER.
 "On the Theory of Oligopoly", 1958, Economica.
 "Topology of Second Order Linear Difference Equations with Constant Coefficients", 1958, Econometrica.
 "The Cardinal Utility which is Ordinal", 1958, EJ.
 Business Behavior, Value and Growth, 1959.
 "Integer Programming and Pricing", with R.E. Gomory, 1960, Econometrica.
 Economic Theory and Operations Analysis, 1961.
 "What Can Economic Theory Contribute to Managerial Economics?", 1961, AER.
 "Pitfalls in Contracyclical Policies: Some tools and results", 1961, REStat.
 "The Theory of Expansion of the Firm", 1962, AER.
 "Stocks, Flows and Monetary Theory", 1962, QJE.
 "An Expected Gain-Confidence Limit Criterion for Portfolio Selection", 1963, Management Science.
 "Rules of Thumb and Optimally Imperfect Decisions", with R. E. Quandt, 1964, American Economic Review, 54, p. 23–46
 "Decomposition, Pricing for Decentralization and External Economics", with T.Fabian, 1964, Management Science.
 "On the Performing Arts: the anatomy of their economic problems", with W.G. Bowen, 1965, AER.
 "Investment and Discount Rates Under Capital Rationing", with R.E.Quandt, 1965, EJ.
 "Informed Judgement, Rigorous Theory and Public Policy", 1965, Southern EJ.
 The Stock Market and Economic Efficiency, 1965.
 Performing Arts: the economic dilemma, 1966.
 "The Ricardo Effect in Point-Input, Point-Output Case", 1966, Essays in Mathematical Economics in Honor of Oskar Morgenstern.
 "Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: The anatomy of urban crisis", 1967, AER.
 "Calculation of Optimal Product and Retailer Characteristics", 1967, JPE.
 "The Firm's Optimal Debt-Equity Combination and the Cost of Capital", with B.G. Malkiel, 1967, QJE.
 "Error Produced by Linearization in Mathematical Programming", with R. Bushnell, 1967, Econometrica.
 "The Dual of Nonlinear Programming and its Economic Interpretation", with M.L.Balinski, 1968, RES.
 "Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory", 1968, May, American Economic Review
 "On the Social Rate of Discount", 1968, AER.
 "On the Discount Rate for Public Projects", 1969, Analysis and Evaluation of Public Expenditures.
 "Input Choices and Rate-of-Return Regulation: An overview of the discussion", with A.K.Klevorick, 1970, Bell JE.
 "Optimal Departures from Marginal Cost Pricing", with D.F. Bradford, 1970, AER.
 "The Economics of Athenian Drama", 1971, QJE.
 Environmental protection, International Spillovers and Trade, 1971.
 "On the Economics of the Theatre in Renaissance London" with Mary Oates, 1972, Swedish JE.
 "The Dynamics of Urban Problems and its Policy Implications", 1972, in Preston and Corry, editors, Essays in Honor of Lord Robbins.
 "Taxation and the Control of Externalities", 1972, AER.
 "Detrimental Externalities and Non-Convexity of the Production Set", with D.F. Bradford, 1972, Economica.
 "The Transformation of Values: What Marx 'Really' Meant", 1974, JEL.
 The Theory of Environmental Policy, with W.E.Oates, 1975.
 Economics, Environmental Policy and Quality of Life, with W.E.Oates and S.A. Batey Blackman 1979.
 Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure, with J.C. Panzar and R.D. Wilig, 1982
 "Contestable Markets: An Uprising in the Theory of Industry Structure", 1982, "AER".
 Microtheory: Applications and origins, 1986
 Superfairness: Application and theory, with D. Fischer, 1986
 "The Optimal Cash Balance Proposition: Maurice Allais' Priority", with J. Tobin, 1989, JEL
 Productivity and American Leadership: The long view, with S.A. Batey Blackman and E.N. Wolff, 1989.
 Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98(3), pp. 893–921, 1990
 Perfect Markets and Easy Virtue: Business ethics and the invisible hand, with S.A. Batey Blackman, 1992
 Entrepreneurship, Management and the Structure of Profit, 1993.
 The Free Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism, 2002.
 Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, co-authored with Robert Litan and Carl J. Schramm, 2007
 The Cost Disease: Why Computers get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't, 2012 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300198157/cost-disease

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Economistas de Estados Unidos
Economistas neokeynesianos
Miembros de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Estados Unidos
Miembros de la Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Doctores honorarios de la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén
Graduados honorarios de la Universidad de Princeton

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(Revised and Approved by Membership in Dec. 2009)
Established in 2007 as the Arabic Theatre Working Group, ATWG exists to broaden international understanding of the theatre and performance cultures of the 'Arabo- Islamic World.' In 2009, the group voted to retain the appellation 'Arabic' in recognition of the historically unifying role of the Arabic language. This recognition notwithstanding, the group is neither meant to be exclusive nor to promote any nationalist or religion-based agenda. Rather, it seeks to maintain its scholarly mission by holding up its key definitional terms to ongoing critical scrutiny.
Defined in strictly geographical and political terms, the operations of the group cover theatre and performance material from the member states of the League of Arab States and/or the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. However, both the operative adjectives Arab and Islamic should be understood here to demarcate, primarily, a general cultural area of scholarly exploration and negotiation. Investigations of material from the many non-Arab and non-Muslim communities located within the Arab/Muslim world are welcomed by the group. The group equally welcomes material covering the theatre and performance activities of Arab and Muslim 'diasporic' communities.
Subjects can be drawn from all areas of theatre activity as well as from performance work that lies outside the traditional European concept of theatre. Methodological approaches from the fields of (theatre) translation, cultural, and postcolonial studies will doubtless be represented in the work of the group, but all approaches that will provide a better understanding of this large field of studies are welcome.
The membership of the group is open to all paid-up members of the IFTR, regardless of race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or religion. Graduate students and early- career researchers are particularly welcome, as well as practice-based researchers and reflexive practitioners. In exceptional circumstances, and subject to the availability of appropriate translation arrangements, the group may consider accommodating participants who are unable to deliver their papers in English.
The Hazem Azmy IFTR Bursary Award Fund In honour of IFTR's longtime member, Hazem Azmy, who unexpectedly passed away during the July 2018 World Congress in Belgrade, the IFTR established this fund to continue the passionate advocacy of student representation within IFTR for which Hazem is so fondly remembered. Up to five bursary awards can be made each year in his name. These awards will go to graduate students from Band B countries to support their attendance at IFTR's annual conference. Donations are collected via this platform: https://gogetfunding.com/hazem-azmy-iftr-bursary-award-fund/
Co-Conveners:
Marvin Carlson: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Theatre/Faculty-Bios/Marvin-Carlson
Samer Al-Saber: https://profiles.stanford.edu/samer-al-saber?tab=bio
Sarah Youssef : http://anglistik1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sarahyoussef.html
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The Arabic Theatre Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research invites proposals for contributions to its forthcoming meeting at the IFTR annual conference in Stockholm, Sweden from 13 to 17 June 2016. Read more
Call For Papers - Arabic Theatre Working Group
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"The Arabic Theatre Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research invites proposals for contributions to its forthcoming meeting at the IFTR annual conference in Hyderabad, India in July 2015. We are particularly interested in contributions that address the conference theme of 'Theatre and Democracy', a theme naturally congenial to the group's scope of interest. The last three years or so have seen the ATWG addressing many of the same concerns in the context of analyzing the response of Arab theatre and performance practices to the so-called "Arab Spring". Given the fast morphing realities in many parts of the Arab region, the topic remains far from being exhausted; if anything, many of the key terms that appear to have once defined it are now increasingly open to ongoing scrutiny and rethinking." Read more
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The Real Housewives of New York City star Luann de Lesseps thanked fans for supporting her over a year-long probation period in a heartfelt Instagram post on Wednesday. But does she plan on staying sober? The reality star also dishes on her feelings about costar Bethenny Frankel leaving the show.
Bravo fans everywhere are raising a mocktail for Luann after learning she has completed her year-long probation period following her December 2017 arrest. And since viewers watched as Luann struggled with her sobriety on and off the show, the Bravo star took to Instagram to thank her fans for their unwavering support.
In the post, Luann took a photo of a hand-written letter that read, "Hi my friends, I'm happy to say after a long difficult year….I've made it through! I'm humbled and grateful for this life lesson and ready to put the past behind me and move on with my life. Wish me luck! Thank you for your undying support over the years! Love always, Luann"
A post shared by Luann de Lesseps (@countessluann)
Friends and costars of the cabaret singer were quick to comment on the post.
"So proud ????????????????" RHONY costar Ramona Singer wrote in the comments.
Even fellow Bravo star Gretchen Rossi of Real Housewives of Orange County took time to comment on the heartfelt post. "Ahh congrats love! Proud of you! Not easy doing this in the public eye. ❤" the reality star wrote.
While Luann's court-ordered sobriety stint may be over, one big question remains: will the Bravo star continue to live a sober lifestyle?
"I like to say I take it one day at a time because that's, um, you know, that's where I'm at," the "Feeling Jovani" singer admitted in an interview with TMZ on Wednesday. "We never know where we're gonna be and I, you know, I have enjoyed actually being sober, I've gotten to a different place in my life and for the moment, I'm not drinking."
The Bravo star admitted that she struggles with staying sober "like the rest of the world does," but she has learned a lot from the experience.
"I think I paid very dearly for something that I think could have happened to anyone," the New York housewife continued. "I was not in the right state of mind and I should've been put to bed and um, it was an unfortunate turn of events that um, I've had to grapple with."
But even as the Bravo star took a moment to revisit the dark time in her past, she remains positive and wants to move forward with her life. She's very excited to be on her national cabaret tour and wants to stay focused on that for the time being.
In the same interview, Luann was asked what she thought about her costar Bethenny's announcement that she'd no longer be filming with the New York housewives.
While Luann expressed that it's "always sad to lose a cast member," she also admitted that she and Bethenny haven't always had the best of times on the show. "Bethenny and I have had many good times as well as not-so-good times, you know, we've had our ups and downs," she dished.
"I'm the kind of person that chooses to remember the ups and not the downs, uh, it's just the way I roll," added the cabaret star.
And while Luann wishes Bethenny well amid her RHONY exit, she joked, "[Bethenny's] left the show before and she came back so we'll see what happens!"
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