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Alternativa Popolare (AP) è un partito politico italiano, d'ispirazione cristiano democratico fondato il 18 marzo 2017, successore del dissolto Nuovo Centrodestra, che era nella maggioranza parlamentare che sostenne il governo Gentiloni, all'interno del quale esprimeva tre ministri e diversi sottosegretari.

Storia

La fondazione

Tale formazione viene ufficialmente lanciata da Angelino Alfano il 18 marzo 2017 al "Centro Congressi Alibert" di Roma, facendo confluire l'NCD, con l'obiettivo di costruire un'alleanza di centro-destra con Forza Italia, pur essendo in contrasto con la Lega Nord e Fratelli d'Italia, ritenuti "populisti". Sempre Alfano ha anche proposto le elezioni primarie per selezionare il candidato di centro-destra alla Presidenza del Consiglio.

Nei giorni successivi (rispettivamente il 21 e il 29 marzo), i gruppi parlamentari comuni tra Nuovo Centrodestra e Centristi per l'Europa vengono rinominati in "Alternativa Popolare-Centristi per l'Europa-NCD". Al momento della fondazione il partito può contare su 26 deputati, 23 senatori e 1 europarlamentare.

Il partito si presenta per la prima volta agli elettori in occasione delle elezioni amministrative del 2017, in cui Alternativa Popolare, tra i comuni di capoluogo, ha ottenuto il 2,3% ad Asti, il 5,6% a La Spezia, il 4,3% a Monza, il 3,2% a Padova, il 4,9% a Frosinone, il 4,2% a Parma, il 2,1% a Lecce, il 9,1% a Catanzaro e l'1,3% a Taranto, mentre in Campania ottiene complessivamente il 6% dei voti.

L'11 maggio viene nominata la prima segreteria di Alternativa Popolare, formata da Maurizio Lupi, Antonio Gentile, Dore Misuraca e Sergio Pizzolante.

Le prime defezioni
A giugno i deputati Antonino Minardo e Andrea Causin entrano inaspettatamente in Forza Italia, mentre il 28 giugno il deputato Raffaele Calabrò viene nominato rettore dell'Università Campus Bio-medico di Roma, dimettendosi quindi dalla Camera dei Deputati; gli subentra Amedeo Laboccetta (già deputato del PdL nella XVI Legislatura), che aderisce però a Forza Italia.

Il 19 luglio 2017 il ministro per gli affari regionali Enrico Costa rassegna le proprie dimissioni da ministro ed entra nel gruppo misto alla Camera. Il giorno seguente tocca al sottosegretario di Stato al Ministero del lavoro e delle politiche sociali Massimo Cassano, che diversi giorni dopo entra in Forza Italia, mentre il presidente della 6ª Commissione Finanze Maurizio Bernardo lascia AP e aderisce al Partito Democratico.

Negli stessi giorni rientrano in Forza Italia anche il deputato Gianfranco Sammarco e il consigliere regionale del Lazio Giuseppe Cangemi.

Il 26 settembre 2017 Alfano decide di nominare Maurizio Lupi quale coordinatore nazionale del partito.

Regionali siciliane del 2017
Per quanto riguarda le elezioni regionali in Sicilia del 2017 il partito raggiunge un accordo con il Partito Democratico e il centro-sinistra per il sostegno, quale candidato presidente, al rettore dell'Università di Palermo Fabrizio Micari, con Giovanni La Via, europarlamentare della VII Legislatura, suo vice in caso di vittoria.

La decisione di sostenere Micari provoca l'abbandono di tre deputati regionali di AP, che si schierano invece con il candidato unitario del centro-destra Nello Musumeci: Antonino Germanà e Giovanni Lo Sciuto tornano in Forza Italia, mentre Pietro Alongi aderisce all'Unione di Centro. Negli stessi giorni anche il coordinatore regionale nell'isola, Francesco Cascio, rientra in Forza Italia.

Alternativa Popolare si presenta alla competizione unitamente al movimento dei Centristi per l'Europa di Gianpiero D'Alia, costituendo la lista comune Alternativa Popolare-Centristi per Micari.

La lista, nonostante i pronostici, non riesce a superare la soglia di sbarramento regionale del 5%, attestandosi al 4,18%.

La "separazione consensuale"
Il 6 dicembre 2017 il presidente del partito Angelino Alfano annuncia la sua intenzione di non ricandidarsi alle elezioni politiche del 2018. Nei giorni successivi si intensificano gli scontri tra l'ala del partito favorevole al ritorno nel centro-destra (guidata da Maurizio Lupi, Roberto Formigoni e Gabriele Albertini) e quella favorevole a mantenere l'alleanza col centro-sinistra di Matteo Renzi (guidata da Beatrice Lorenzin e Fabrizio Cicchitto).

Il 12 dicembre 2017 la Direzione Nazionale di AP approva all'unanimità una mozione che sancisce la "separazione consensuale" delle due ali del partito: l'ala sinistra mantiene il simbolo e il nome di Alternativa Popolare, mentre l'ala destra riacquista il nome e il simbolo del dissolto Nuovo Centrodestra dando successivamente vita a Noi con l'Italia. Viene però deliberato che i due gruppi parlamentari restino uniti fino allo scioglimento delle Camere.

Il 18 dicembre 2017 la Direzione Nazionale del partito solleva Lupi dalla carica di coordinatore nazionale, sostituendolo col sottosegretario di Stato al Ministero dello sviluppo economico Antonio Gentile.

Elezioni politiche e regionali del 2018

Il 29 dicembre 2017, all'interno della coalizione di centro-sinistra alle elezioni politiche del 2018, Beatrice Lorenzin costituisce la lista Civica Popolare, di cui ne è leader, che riunisce, oltreché Alternativa Popolare, i Centristi per l'Europa di Pier Ferdinando Casini, Unione per il Trentino di Lorenzo Dellai, L'Italia è Popolare di Giuseppe e Ciriaco De Mita e l'Italia dei Valori di Ignazio Messina. I candidati di AP nei collegi uninominali sono 7 alla Camera (i parlamentari uscenti Lorenzin, Mario Dalla Tor, Nico D'Ascola, Sergio Pizzolante, Gabriele Toccafondi e Guido Viceconte, più Angelo Capelli) e 3 al Senato (gli uscenti Gioacchino Alfano, Paolo Alli e Federica Chiavaroli).

Il 31 dicembre 2017 Antonio Gentile si dimette dalla carica di coordinatore di AP e annuncia il suo riavvicinamento a Forza Italia, nonostante questo non si dimette dall'incarico di sottosegretario al Mise.

Alle elezioni regionali in Lombardia del 2018, Alternativa Popolare (sempre in Civica Popolare), dopo aver governato per cinque anni, dapprima come PdL, poi come NCD, con la Presidenza Maroni di centro-destra, per la quale Angelo Capelli è autore della riforma sanitaria, sostiene il candidato di centro-sinistra Giorgio Gori, come da allineamento nazionale. Raffaele Cattaneo e la maggioranza degli esponenti di Lombardia Popolare, ramo lombardo del partito, aderiscono a Noi con l'Italia per supportare Attilio Fontana in continuità con il centro-destra.

Per le elezioni regionali nel Lazio del 2018 viene in un primo momento mantenuta la linea nazionale e Civica Popolare sostiene il Presidente uscente Nicola Zingaretti con il centro-sinistra, nonostante gli ex rappresentanti del predecessore NCD, e prima ancora PdL, fossero stati cinque anni all'opposizione con il centro-destra, come da elezione nel 2013.
Nel gennaio del 2018 Beatrice Lorenzin conferma che, a causa dell'apertura a Liberi e Uguali da parte di Zingaretti, Civica Popolare correrà da sola alle regionali nel Lazio con Jean-Léonard Touadi, ex collaboratore proprio di Zingaretti.

L'11 febbraio 2018 l'europarlamentare Giovanni La Via lascia AP e torna in Forza Italia; così il partito perde la propria rappresentanza al Parlamento europeo.

A seguito di un deludentissimo 0,5% dei voti, Civica Popolare non raggiunge la soglia di sbarramento. Di AP soltanto Beatrice Lorenzin e Gabriele Toccafondi risulteranno eletti nei loro collegi uninominali. Anche le sfide regionali si riveleranno un flop: CP non andrà oltre lo 0,4% in Lombardia e lo 0,2% nel Lazio. In seguito a questi deludenti risultati, Civica Popolare-AP (nome adottato come componente del gruppo misto alla Camera) non corre né alle elezioni regionali in Molise, né a quelle in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Il 27 settembre 2018 la Direzione Nazionale del partito nomina come nuovo presidente Paolo Alli, ex deputato di NCD/AP, sostituendo il dimissionario Angelino Alfano.

Europee del 2019, l'uscita da Civica Popolare e ulteriori defezioni

Alle elezioni regionali in Abruzzo del 2019 AP si presenta inserendo propri candidati (tra cui il consigliere uscente Giorgio D'Ignazio) nella lista di +Europa-Centro Democratico, a sostegno del candidato di centro-sinistra Giovanni Legnini: il modesto risultato della lista, 2,36%, non consente di eleggere alcun consigliere.

In vista delle elezioni europee del 26 maggio AP decide di porre fine all'esperienza di Civica Popolare, ne esce e forma una lista insieme al Popolo della Famiglia di Mario Adinolfi. Valentina Castaldini, già portavoce di AP e consigliere dell'ex ministro Enrico Costa, lascia il partito e viene candidata da Forza Italia nella Circoscrizione Italia nord-orientale.

Il 19 settembre 2019, in seguito alla scissione di Matteo Renzi dal Partito Democratico con il suo Italia Viva, Gabriele Toccafondi e Beatrice Lorenzin lasciano AP; Toccafondi entra nel partito di Renzi mentre Lorenzin si iscrive al PD. AP perde quindi la propria rappresentanza in Parlamento.

Federazione con Popolo Protagonista e ritorno in parlamento
Il 6 maggio 2020 AP riprende la sua rappresentanza in Parlamento, questa volta con l'esclusivo potere di deroga, grazie al patto federativo con Popolo Protagonista di Gianluca Rospi, Michele Nitti e Antonio Zennaro (tutti ex M5S) con la creazione della componente Popolo Protagonista-Alternativa Popolare del Gruppo misto, cui aderisce in seguito anche la deputata Fabiola Bologna. La componente si posiziona nell'area di maggioranza in appoggio esterno al Governo Conte II.

L'accordo tra AP e Popolo Protagonista, esteso in seno al Partito Popolare Europeo anche a Popolari per l'Italia, ha "l'obiettivo condiviso di avviare un nuovo progetto politico: quello di rilanciare il Partito Popolare" e "ritornare a una visione popolare, a una coesione tra politica ed etica per fare in modo che la dignità dell'uomo, del lavoro e dei giovani venga messa di nuovo in primissimo piano".

Alle elezioni regionali in Campania del 2020 in una lista con i Moderati appoggia il Governatore uscente di centro-sinistra Vincenzo De Luca eleggendo un consigliere.

In data 23 settembre 2020 i deputati Michele Nitti e Antonio Zennaro lasciano la componente, che però non cessa grazie alla precedente adesione di Fausto Longo del PSI. In data 5 ottobre 2020 la componente Popolo Protagonista-Alternativa Popolare ha modificato la propria denominazione in Popolo Protagonista-Alternativa Popolare (AP)-Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI).

In data 27 ottobre 2020 la senatrice Tiziana Drago lascia il Movimento 5 Stelle e aderisce al gruppo misto, seguendo le orme di Gianluca Rospi. Il partito torna così ad avere un rappresentante al Senato.

Il 23 dicembre 2020 PP e AP passano all'opposizione del governo in seguito al voto contrario sulla legge di bilancio. Longo del PSI lascerà quindi la componente.

Alleanza con Toti, l'abbandono di Popolo Protagonista e Coraggio Italia
Il deputato di Cambiamo! Giorgio Silli aderisce alla componente del Misto "Popolo Protagonista-Alternativa Popolare (A.P.)" il 10 febbraio 2021. Il passaggio ha l'intento di favorire un percorso che porti all'unione delle componenti in Parlamento di PP-AP e Cambiamo!, cosa che avviene il 16 febbraio con la formazione della loro componente autonoma di 10 deputati.

A marzo 2021, la senatrice Drago lascia il partito e aderisce a Fratelli d'Italia, mentre il 27 maggio 2021, Rospi aderisce al progetto Coraggio Italia di Luigi Brugnaro, abbandonando AP e portando il partito a non avere più nessun rappresentante in parlamento.

XXVII Congresso del PPE
Tra il 31 maggio e il 1º giugno 2022 il partito partecipa al XXVII Congresso del Partito Popolare Europeo a Rotterdam. Successivamente, in data 15 giugno, il presidente del partito Alli nomina coordinatore nazionale del partito Stefano Bandecchi, co-fondatore e dal 2021 Presidente del Consiglio di Amministrazione dell'Università degli Studi "Niccolò Cusano" nonché proprietario della Ternana.

Elezioni politiche del 2022
In vista delle elezioni politiche anticipate del 25 settembre 2022 il segretario Stefano Bandecchi avrebbe dovuto essere candidato in Umbria nel collegio uninominale di Terni in accordo con Italia Viva. Successivamente la candidatura salta per il dissenso mostrato dal capolista Carlo Calenda.

Elezioni regionali e comunali del 2023
Alle elezioni regionali del febbraio 2023 in Lombardia e nel Lazio Alternativa Popolare sostiene i candidati del centro-destra Attilio Fontana e Francesco Rocca con dei propri candidati inseriti nelle due liste civiche.

Nel contempo Bandecchi si candida a sindaco di Terni.

Ideologia
I suoi riferimenti culturali sono innanzitutto riconducibili alle posizioni democristiane ed europeiste espresse dal Partito Popolare Europeo.

Altri temi riguardano il ruolo della famiglia, considerata fondamento della società, l'opposizione all'eutanasia, alla legalizzazione delle droghe leggere, ai matrimoni e alle adozioni omosessuali, una visione garantista della giustizia, la necessità di riduzione delle tasse e del cuneo fiscale nel mercato del lavoro, agevolazioni per gli imprenditori che assumono giovani, la modifica dell'Articolo 18, la rinegoziazione del Fiscal Compact, la riduzione del debito pubblico, la trasparenza dei mercati finanziari, l'approvazione di ulteriori liberalizzazioni di beni e servizi, nonché l'ammodernamento del sistema infrastrutturale.

Sotto la guida di Paolo Alli il partito ha rafforzato la linea filo-atlantista.

Organi interni

Presidente nazionale
 Angelino Alfano (18 marzo 2017 - 27 settembre 2018)
 Paolo Alli (dal 27 settembre 2018)

Coordinatore nazionale
 Maurizio Lupi (26 settembre 2017 - 18 dicembre 2017)
 Antonio Gentile (18 dicembre 2017 - 29 dicembre 2017)
 Beatrice Lorenzin (29 dicembre 2017 - 19 settembre 2019)
 Stefano Bandecchi (dal 15 giugno 2022)

Portavoce nazionale
 Valentina Castaldini (18 marzo 2017 - maggio 2019)

Tesoriere

 Paolo Alli (18 marzo 2017 - 27 settembre 2018)
 Angelo Capelli (dal 27 settembre 2018)

Nelle istituzioni

Camera dei deputati
Gruppo Alternativa Popolare-Centristi per l'Europa-NCD-Noi con l'ItaliaGruppo misto componente Civica Popolare-AP-PSI-Area Civica (CP-A-PS-A)

Senato della Repubblica
Gruppo Alternativa Popolare-Centristi per l'Europa-NCD

Parlamento europeo
Gruppo del Partito Popolare Europeo

Governi
 Governo Gentiloni
 Enrico Costa, Ministro per gli affari regionali con delega alle politiche per la famiglia (fino al 19/07/17)
 Angelino Alfano, ministro per gli affari esteri e cooperazione internazionale
 Beatrice Lorenzin, Ministro della salute

Risultati elettorali

Note

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A union is its members and, although I felt a political novice, I believed it was important our branch was represented as fully as possible. Too often in aspects of politics I feel far away from seemingly capital-centric decision making, one of my highlights of this congress was meeting regional reps and branch colleagues, including from here in the North East, who are instrumental in ensuring we are heard.
Hearing the plans to challenge the common issues in FE institutions was another highlight and gives me hope that the sector is poised for change for the better.
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A small but highly vocal majority at congress had voiced concerns over the GS's decisions during the recent University Pension industrial action. To my untrained eye there seemed to be two major issues involved in this, one was the democratic processes of the union as a whole needed to be considered and updated for which I could see merit, the other, the obvious dislike of the GS personally, which I found distasteful and distressing.
Having a rudimentary knowledge of employment laws from my previous organisation I was shocked that so many people at a union congress seemed to have little respect for their own people. There are clear processes that could be followed in cases of concern regarding the conduct or decision-making of staff, however they had not been followed, in favour of what appeared to be a witch hunt. Had the processes been followed, and then those processes been deemed concerning, then this should have been the issue to debate.
Indeed, even without this particular issue there was a consensus that UCU's democratic processes should be revisited and potentially revised in an agreed Democracy Commission to begin later this year. I was in favour of this as I was appalled that motions could be allowed onto the agenda which were in contravention of the employment rights of our staff. The congress was suspended on three occasions, the third suspension ended events altogether; a frustrating development as there was a whole host of worthy motions left undebated and without resolution, all surrounded by a poisonous cloud of negative social media commentary.
When the third suspension of congress was announced, the reaction from those who had pushed for the motions to be debated was loud and intimidating. In that moment I wondered if I should go home and forget about being involved. However, I then became angry.
How dare that vocal, slight majority at congress (not a majority in membership) act as if they are representative of the membership as a whole? They do not speak for me. Those of us without very strong political leanings are in danger of sleepwalking into being represented by those who have no interest in our views.
I have been worried recently about the rise in prominence of far-right politics; this congress has shown me that I also have concerns about many aspects of political extremism and I now believe that I cannot just ignore it in the hopes it will self-regulate.
I need to be involved. I need to be a part of this union. I need to stand beside people, like me, who work hard and have the right to expect to be treated appropriately by everyone they come into contact with professionally.
We need to continue building this union, and our branch, so that our voices are heard.
Please consider what you could do to be more involved, if only a little, and pass on the message to staff who are not in UCU that we are here.
This union has achieved great things over the last year and continues to go from strength to strength and you are part of it. WE are UCU!


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Q: Proof that algebraically closed fields of characteristic $p$ exist How do you prove that algebraically closed fields of characteristic $p$ exist?
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For a finite field of prime power order $q$, the algebraic closure is a countably infinite field that contains a copy of the field of order $q^n$ for each positive integer $n$ (and is in fact the union of these copies).

Why would the algebraic closure have to be characteristic $p$?

A: This only answers the main question.
Just take a sequence of inclusions:
$$\mathbb F_p\to\mathbb F_{p^2}\to\mathbb F_{p^6}\to\cdots\to \mathbb F_{p^{n!}}\to\cdots$$
Then the direct limit (essentially the union) is algebraically closed and a field.
That's because any polynomial in elements of this field has coefficients contained in one $\mathbb F_{p^{k!}}$. Thus, it splits in $\mathbb F_{p^{d\cdot k!}}$ for some $d$, and then note that $d\cdot k!\mid(dk)!$. So the polynomial splits in $\mathbb F_{p^{(dk)!}}$.

A: Let $F$ be the field of prime power order.  Let $p$ be that prime.  The field $F$ is a subfield of it algebraic closure, which let us call $G$.  your question seems to be: why must $G$ have characteristic $p$?  We could as why $F$ must have characteristic $p$.  And then, supposing $F$ does have characteristic $p$, why must $G$ have characteristic $p$?
Let's answer the second question first: Since $F\subseteq G$, the "$1$" in $F$ is the same as the "$1$" in $G$.  It satisfies $\underbrace{1+\cdots+1}_p= 0$. Since this is the "$1$" in $G$, the field $G$ has characteristic $p$.
Now the first question: If $F$ has $p^n$ elements, why must $F$ have characteristic $p$?  If you know the characteristic is some prime number $r$, then you have $\underbrace{1+\cdots+1}_r=0$, and $\{0, 1, 1+1, 1+1+1, \ldots, \underbrace{1+\cdots+1}_{r-1}\,\}$ is a subgroup of the additive group.  The order of the subgroup divides the order of the whole group, which is $p^n$.  If $p$ and $r$ are prime and $r$ divides $p^n$, then $r=p$.

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Wow! This is awesome! Pls let me know if there's anything I can do to help you. I got burnt when I was only 2 yrs old to 75% of my body. I was also one of the speakers at the Canadian Burn Conference.
Hi Kelly, thank you for your kind words. And I definitely remember you at the conference. I'm not sure if you remember me, but I sent you some pictures of you talking. I do have a particular idea of how you can get involved, and I'll be emailing you shortly about that. However, if you could, just spread the word about the website to as many people as you can so we can spread awareness about resources for burn survivors.
Hi Kelly, no we're not Facebook friends yet, but I'll have to add you because I have high privacy settings for my personal Facebook page. Also congrats on your nomination and good luck on winning – that's amazing, you definitely are a great role model for young women. Also, if you haven't already, please "like" and share the After the Cocoon Facebook page 🙂 (there's a link on this page to it). Thank you again for your support in my project.
Oh cool. I was wondering if that was you or not! Thank you for responding. Are we Facebook friends yet? If not we should be. There's lots of stuff happening on my personal site. One thing I haven't announced yet is that I've been nominated for a Queens Diamond Jubilee medal for all my work with teenagers and self esteem. I'll know in Nov if I win or not. I loved the trailer you did. I'm also coming to Calgary this sun to speak for the Women's Power Afternoon.
What an awesome idea! I am a burn survivor/acid attack survivor from the US. I'd love to help in any way that I can. I will definitely share the website information.
Hi Karli, thank you for the comment and for sharing the website. Please like the Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/afterthecocoon) and if you'd like to contact me, you can message me on the After the Cocoon Facebook page. I look forward to hearing from you!
I am so proud to know you and of what you have created here. I think it is the MOST IMPORTANT AND RELEVANT SOCIAL DOCUMENT I HAVE EVER READ CONCERNING BURN SURVIVORS AND WHAT A TOUGH ROAD THEY ALL TRAVEL. This is not just important here in Canada but I thinks its relevance has no borders. You should be very proud of this and I know everyone who reads it will be touched by what a great message it delivers. Congratualtions again!
Great to hear that this has reached different areas of Canada. Can you please send me an email at afterthecocoon@gmail.com? I look forward to hearing from you!
You have made a beautiful and significant contribution here. I know a number of the survivors portrayed and you have truly captured their spirit and, yes, their sense of humour too. Thankyou, I will continue to follow along.
Hi Greg, thank you for those words. Before I started the project, the thought of it was overwhelming. In retrospect I am incredibly happy with how it has turned out and hope to continue it indefinitely. I am currently brainstorming on ideas of what I'll be doing with the project in the upcoming months. If you have any feedback I'd be happy to hear about it!
Hey there Maria, we met at the Calgary Burn Survivors Conference. Great site, really impressive work. I would love to share this with my audience of the Maritime Medical Marijuana Show. I'll promote this page, and be proud to do it. I guess I'm looking for your permission. Thanks ahead of time.
Hi Chris, that would be great if you could share the website. Thank you for asking and good luck with your show(s)!
Hi, my name is Becky and i am 29 years old. I just want to say how good it's been for me to find your website. I am a mother to 4 children and currently 33 weeks pregnant with my 5th. At 2 years of age i was involved in an accident involving a faulty heating system, resulting in 60% of my body obtaining 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Having been discharged by my consultant at the age of 17 due to not needing anymore skin grafts, i never had any support regarding my scars during any of my pregnancies. Each one has got progressively more difficult to handle, probably due to my skin being more stretched. This particular pregnancy has been hard as i am carrying all out front and am definitely bigger! Because i have no contact with the hospital who dealt with my scars, my doctors are at a loss as to how to help me ease any discomfort, obviously with surgery not being an option whilst pregnant. I have been using Bio-Oil but its not giving me any massive relief. Do you have any ideas on what i could use to help me with the last few weeks?
Hi Maria – I don't know if you remember me (I used to volunteer with UW Peer Support), but I just wanted to commend you for such a beautiful project! All the best and keep being inspiring!


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Installation view: 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times, with work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner.
If you attended the Salon of 1863 in Paris you would remember Manet's Olympia which caused quite a stir. You might also recall Alexandre Cabenal's Birth of Venus if only because it strikes us now as such a dramatic riposte to the Manet. Yet despite its salacious rendering, it troubled no one. There was a lot of good painting in that Salon, but by the following year you would probably have forgotten most of what was in there. The same will be true of the 2019 Venice Biennale. I won't soon forget the paintings of Njideka Akunyili Crosby—which were breathtakingly beautiful and genuinely new formally. She had a mini-retrospective in five large pictures in the central pavilion and then in the Arsenale, which tends to show the younger, more cutting edge work, she had a row of brand new (with one exception), astonishing little portrait heads in which she clearly took another big step both formally and conceptually.
Akunyili Crosby's large paintings in the Giardini layer images from her Nigerian culture (where she lived until her late teens), the remnants of British culture (still evident in Nigeria today), and America (she went to Swarthmore College, the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, and Yale, married a man from Texas, and lives in Los Angeles). Her work is very much about this collision and hybridization of cultures and we viscerally experience with her the dynamic fluidity and arbitrary layering that defines the complexity of the times we live in. The deliberate iconography and highly skilled transfers and rendering in these paintings recall de Kooning's famous "slipping glimpses" of reality; he transferred images from newspapers as in his 1956 Easter Monday in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Akunyili Crosby explained that "I think of myself as a woman, an Ibo woman, a Nigerian, and African, a person of color, an artist, and the fascinating thing is that the layers I add to identify myself changes over time. It just keeps broadening as I move farther out into the world."1 This too is part of what makes Akunyili Crosby's work technically and iconographically new, and so much of our moment.
Everyone loves to criticize every biennale, but the 2019 Venice Biennale is more or less how it's supposed to be. The curator, Ralph Rugoff, from the Hayward Gallery in London, did a good job capturing the Zeitgeist—the complexity and the emphasis across the artworld on political issues, the passion for gender difference, and African/African Diaspora identity. The focus on climate change in so many works and the presence of performance is also evident and the academic "critical theory" language lies just below the surface. Akuyili Crosby refers to theorist Homi Bhabha's idea of "third space or syncretic culture"2 but her work gives us a much more vivid account of the idea than he does; she doesn't really need a citation.
Installation view: 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live In Interesting Times, with work by Zanele Muholi. Photo: Italo Rondinella.
Rugoff curated the Italian Pavilion (the main show in the Giardini) and the Arsenale and they reflect his biases toward discovering the young and the new, especially conceptual work; I was struck by the absence of the groundbreaking new work by established masters like Fred Tomaselli from New York or Chinese painters like Zhang Huan and Zhang Xiaogang. But they are no longer young "disrupters"—to use the ridiculous but current jargon– and we all understand that the Biennale is all about the young and the new. So I don't fault the curator for that. Moreover, the quality was generally high not only in the parts Rugoff curated but in more of the national pavilions than usual. I found the Ghana Pavilion by David Adjaye, particularly beautiful; the room of El Anatsui works was varied and wonderful; John Akomfrah's film was breathtaking. There was a lot of terrific photography too, like the large format photographs by the South African artist and visual activist Zanele Muholi who played with tropes from fashion photography, manipulating her model's hair—a loaded signifier—in the most surprising ways. The Indian street photography of Soham Gupta has particular poignancy.
Among the variety of other pavilions was an engaging, if end-of-the-world dystopian, Bergmanesque film noir by the Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour in the Danish Pavilion (which has nothing to do with Denmark), and Laure Prouvost installed a magical undersea world in the French Pavilion with sea creatures blown from Murano glass (also about climate change). So it's not entirely surprising that the Golden Lion for the Biennale's best pavilion went to the dark horse Lithuanian Pavilion which wasn't an artwork in the usual sense but rather a deeply unsettling opera about climate change. Staged in a warehouse where you look down from a balcony on seaside vacationers lolling about on the beach as if the world weren't coming to a cataclysmic end all around them from climate change (which we know from the libretto). Directed by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė with libretto by Vaiva Grainytė, and music by Lina Lapelytė, the production was an admonition to pay attention. An urgency with particular relevance to Venice which may go under thanks to the McConnell-Trump "Axis" powers.
1. Njideka Akunyili Crosby, interview published by the Tate, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYP8ssD_BM
2. Njideka Akunyili Crosby, interview for the Whitney Museum of American Art, March 21, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPU8W2xBBf4
Jonathan Fineberg
JONATHAN FINEBERG, University Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, writes broadly on modern art and visual thinking. He and David Yager have just launched a radical new Ph.D. program for the University of the Arts focused on creativity as a foundation for doctoral research (www.uarts.edu/phd). Fineberg's newest book is Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain.


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Community remembers Miller County deputy killed in the line of duty
9 months 1 week 2 days ago Saturday, April 20 2019 Apr 20, 2019 Saturday, April 20, 2019 10:15:00 PM CDT April 20, 2019 in News
By: Lanitta Collier, KOMU 8 Reporter and Simone Esters, KOMU 8 Digital Producer
ELDON - A memorial service was held Saturday evening to honor the life of a Miller County Sheriff's deputy who was killed in the line of duty one year ago.
The service, which was held at Eldon Cemetery, included a moment of silence in honor of Deputy Casey Shoemate.
His mother, Betsey Browning, said she's proud of her son.
"In his heart and his soul, he is a hero," she said.
Shoemate, who was 26, was responding to an emergency call when he collided head-on with another vehicle near Eldon. At the time, Shoemate was trying to pass a fire truck responding to an unrelated call, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported.
Browning said she wants people to remember her son's pure heart.
"Casey died doing what he wanted to do," she said. "And Casey would, all over again, human error or not that caused the crash, Casey would all over again do the same thing if he thought he had a snowball's chance to save someone else's life."
The Missouri Law Enforcement Funeral Team presented a check to the family in honor of Shoemate.
Browning said she is thankful for the community's support.
"It's amazing, but I'm not shocked. These people have surrounded and loved my family and taken care of us for the past year or so," she said.
Geoff Jones, Columbia's interim police chief, spoke at the service.


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Alpha Men Assemble: Inside an anti-vax group, where members learn to wage a "war" with the government
A group of tough anti-axxers organize military-style training in preparation for a "war" against the government.
The Alpha Men Assemble threatens to attack the attack centers, schools and police, while volunteers conduct exercises with former members of the armed forces.
A Daily Mail reporter infiltrated the group's preparations in a park in Staffordshire as a crowd of mostly medium and white men prepared for the direct action. Danny Glass, a former royal archer, urged those present to "take it to the Old Testament" and warned that the fight "is not for the faint of heart."
Approximately 100 activists were called upon to "reach out to vaccination centers, schools, principals, universities, councils and directors of public health in each area."
The group, which has more than 7,000 subscribers in the encrypted social media application Telegram, is mocking more moderate protests against vaccines, in which people like Piers Corbyn appear as "standing in the park". The Alpha Men Assemble, on the other hand, aims to offer "pure, unadulterated defiance."
The mail investigation found that:
Army veterans train dozens of volunteers in marching formations and kickboxing to ensure that volunteers are "professionally" ready for direct action;
The organizer – a local man named Paul – guided our reporter through a boxing exercise "would be necessary" during any protests.
He also claimed to have a list of '600 coppers who are criminal pedophiles, run their own brothels, and gather in Masonic lodges';
One exercise instructor said volunteers were fighting a "global war" between the people and their governments;
Alpha men also promote and raise funds for the Sussex Homeschooling Group – whose lecturers include anti-vaxxers and former BNP members – to help children avoid "state indoctrination."
The Alpha Men Assemble was founded only last month, but its numbers have increased since it hosted recruit training in Littlehampton, West Sussex, two weeks ago.
A group of tough anti-axxers organize military-style training in preparation for a "war" against the government. Pictured: Teams practice boxing techniques on a training day at Chase Water Country Park, Staffordshire on Saturday
Approximately 100 activists were called upon to "reach out to vaccination centers, schools, principals, universities, councils and directors of public health in each area." Pictured: The team participates in training exercises during an organized meeting in the park on Saturday
Supporters were pushed by an army veteran named Gary, who wore a green royal Irish regiment takes
Hardcore more than 100 members resisted the rain and cold at Staffordshire's Chasewater Country Park on Saturday morning in hopes of being selected to the group's "first working group."
They were reminded of the risk of infiltration by the press and police through pre-meeting messages warning them "to be careful what you say and to whom you say it." The infiltrators were told they would be "settled."
A police car stood in front of the park entrance as two pairs of police officers watched the events closely, wandering in and out of the activists' scrum and swearing.
With the police overheard, the organizers were happy to emphasize that the group was legal and nonviolent.
It was not until the officers retreated that Glass, dressed in camouflage, curled up to reveal the group's true intentions. "What we're going to do is get as many as we can," he said. "And as soon as we have the numbers, we'll turn it over to the police." But we will do it professionally. "
The 44-year-old Angmering man in West Sussex even suggested that Alpha Men could turn the table against police officers by arresting them for failing to keep their general oath. He couldn't explain what he meant.
Training: More than 100 group members gathered at Chasewater Country Park, Staffordshire to practice their techniques
The morning began with a series of disparate speeches. Paul, the main organizer, tried to answer the claim that the group's name was sexist, arguing that "being Alpha Man is not about how you look … it's about your spine, your inner strength and your heart."
One in about a dozen women present was Sam Goody, who runs a public limited company in Birmingham. "We have to hit the vaccination centers," she shouted. "We have to attack schools, principals, universities, councilors, the police, the director of public health in all areas … none of us are going to strike and none of our families will."
Recent posts on the Alpha Men Assemble's Telegram state that the group does not incite violence or tolerate racism. Other reports tell a different story.
One says, 'I hope you have fire in your stomach. Time for action. No more snooping. "Another reads:" Report to the police … if you spray us with pepper, break us with your battens [sic]'threaten us in any way we defend, the end, just remember this: we surpass you.'
Saturday's training also carried a threatening undertone. Glass began an exercise to show how to break through the police lines.
A piece of the country park was soon crushed in the mud by 40-man mauls, with Glass intervening occasionally to prevent the aggression from overflowing. He then passed it on to another instructor, Gary. With the green beret, the Royal Irish Regiment claimed that he had worked in the army and in the fight against terrorism for 15 years.
Volunteers were told to march in threes and practice maneuvers to create a wall facing down to an imaginary riot police unit. As he barked instructions to his pile of naughty people – who had been instructed to dress from head to toe in black – Gary accepted the figure of "WPC Doris" and waved around the branch like a makeshift baton. He used it to thrash when instructions were not followed.
At times, the proud Alpha Males looked more like Dad's army. "The war we're waging is mentally and physically exhausting," Gary snapped. "And it's a war." It's not a war I'm used to when I enlist in the army, where you have two opposing sides. This is the war that his governments are waging against their people. This is a global war. "
The group of anti-axxers organizes military-style training in preparation for a "war" against the government. Pictured: Danny Glass (left) urged participants to "take it into the old account". Pictured (right): A man known as Gary's exercise instructor
The group exercises then gave way to sparring. One confused instructor – who didn't seem to be told what he was signing up for – picked up pads from the younger members of the group. These thin, fat-haired twenties had previously fought "cultural Marxism," which brainwashed their peers at the university.
The climax was a series of tug-of-war before Glass delivered his closing speech. "Eventually we'll take it to the Old Testament," he shouted. "It's not for the faint of heart, but we'll go and do it." We won't walk without we talking. That's what we have to do. "
He told activists to exchange numbers and make appointments offline, "so that these scumbags couldn't show up" – probably a reference to the police. "We can only say so much in front of them," he added.
That night, the group recorded a video of the all-day training. The montage of marching, punching and digging was set to music with the accompanying message: "We are doing this for the children and their future … together we are more powerful."
Labor security chief Holly Lynch called Mail's revelation "extremely worrying." She added: "Men and women in the front line of the response to this pandemic have made huge sacrifices in the national interest and are real patriots. Those who threaten them are a total disgrace and we should not allow them to get away with it.
"The government must act to reassure the public that this handful of individuals will be quickly held accountable for any illegal actions."
Goody said her words were "taken out of context". She said she called on volunteers to spread information about Covid throughout the community.
When asked for a comment, Glass said, "Do what you want. You do it anyway, and I couldn't give a monkey. "
He later added that the goals of the Alpha Men Assemble "will always be in accordance with the law" and that "the term anti-vaxxer is a disgusting way to categorize people who choose bodily autonomy."
He continued: "On Saturday we had older people around seventy and a wide range of races, which is proof of the community we want to build. The training and exercises we provide are non-combatative and in no way related to extremism.
"Exercises are meant to be a fun and social exercise that supports team building and bonding."
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There are a couple of jewelry stores in Emerald Isle you will enjoy exploring. Insiders know that additional jewelry stores can be found in Atlantic Beach, Morehead City and Beaufort.
There are limited antique stores in Emerald Isle. Locals and visitors know, however, that a short drive over the bridge will get them to a nice selection in Cape Carteret and Swansboro. The adventurous and committed antiques shoppers are likely to be on the road to Beaufort or New Bern as well.
The Crystal Coast has a large number of fine galleries located throughout its many miles, including Day Five and Artisan Gallery on Emerald Isle. Drive slowly and you will discover a delightful array of offerings. Most of the galleries are located in Swansboro, Morehead City, and Beaufort.


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Dr. Greg Sadesky explains the significance of formative assessment for your learning outcomes.
I think it's safe to say that very few people actually enjoy taking tests. That said, tests tied to the topic of this blog may be an exception: Formative Tests. A formative test is one that is built for learning, rather than to determine whether you pass or fail. So, a formative test might provide you information on what areas or topics you seem to have mastered and what others might be fruitful areas for future growth.
In this report, mastery of particular topics is shown by the length and colour of the bars. The length presumably corresponds to the number of questions answered correctly (but could be some other kind of scaled ability estimate), and the colour represents the priority for future study. The graph also shows approximately where the test taker's performance resides relative to some kind of acceptable standard, as implied by the thick black line.
So, on the basis of this report, the test interpretation guidelines might advise the test taker to study the topics shown as red (7 & 8) as the first priority, followed by those in yellow (1, 6, & 2). In a perfect world, instructional content that addresses each area would be available so that the learner could go seamlessly between assessment and instruction. The assessment may even be set up to allow the test taker to see the items they answered incorrectly, and rationales for the correct and incorrect responses.
Validity and reliability matter in formative assessment, too!
I've often been asked why more detailed information on assessment performance can't be provided, for example, at the level of individual competencies or learning objectives. The answer is, because in all probability, not enough items have been asked at that fine level; information that's available about a specific competency wouldn't be reliable and therefore would be prone to overinterpretation.
But beyond a sufficient number of questions, in order for the bars in the graph to be a truthful reflection of a test taker's strengths and weaknesses, the items representing the topic must reflect well the range of the topic. In other words, the formative assessment must be valid and reliable. What does this mean in concrete terms? Validity is often broken down in terms of relevance and representativeness; each item is relevant to the topic it is tied to, and taken together, the set of questions are a good representation of the topic as a whole. Reliability is the requirement that there are enough questions per topic that the judgment of mastery is justified; the conclusion that a test taker needs to study Topics 7 & 8 should be warranted based on test performance across multiple items.
From the above description, I hope it's clear that to get a nuanced picture of student strengths and weaknesses, the results from many test questions need to be considered. If that's true, and many credentialing tests comprise many (100 or more) competencies, how can formative testing help students prepare for these kinds of exams? There are several possible answers to this question.
Answer 1. Take the information you can get. Consider the graph shown in Figure 1, which tells the student that they need to study more for Areas 7 & 8. It may be the case that the student has already mastered parts of Area 8, but the assessment doesn't tell them which part. So, they may just decide to study this area in more detail, knowing that at least they don't have to study Area 3. On the other hand, it may be that within Area 8, it's likely that certain skills and knowledge are mastered before others and therefore a better approach to studying Area 8 is viable …which leads me to Answer 2.
Answer 2. Formative test developers should use construct mapping. A construct map identifies the knowledge and skill components that are associated with mastery of a domain. What's more, those specific components are most often associated with specific levels of mastery within a knowledge domain. In this case, the components are ordered from lower to higher levels of mastery. After the completion of a formative test, the score they've achieved, either at the topic level or overall, can be used to create a description of the skills they have most likely mastered and not, based on the construct map. In this way, detailed accounts of performance can be given without asking so many questions at that level of detail. The implication for the learner is that they can direct their efforts on the topics and sub-topics informed by both their performance and the progression outlined in the construct map, efficiently addressing gaps.
Answer 3. Get adaptive. A more personalized, evidence-based version of Answer 2 capitalizes on the construct map but provides more than just the 'most probable' set of knowledge and skill that the test taker possesses. In this model, based on adaptive testing, a test taker would receive an item of average difficulty according to the construct map. If they answered the question correctly, they would not only be providing evidence that they understand the knowledge or skill to which the question is aimed, but also the pre-requisite, or easier skills on the construct map. The next question might be slightly harder, and a correct answer would again provide evidence for the test taker's mastery of it and easier concepts. When the test reaches a point on the scale where the test taker begins to answer some questions incorrectly, the test engine could ask several more questions based on the set of knowledge and skill at that level in the construct map and stop when a clear picture of what is and is not known, is gained. Like Answer 2, a clear description of student mastery at a fine grain size can be obtained, but in the present case, this description would be based more on targeted data collection and processing and is therefore more personalized.
I hope you find this blog on formative assessment informative! As part of this series on formative assessment, I'll be having a conversation with Dr. Chris Beauchamp about his ideal formative test, and more controversial issues like whether creating test prep products constitutes a threat to impartiality of credentialing organizations. Please sign up to YAS newsletter for more information!


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Posted on July 5, 2016 by Mike Knapp. | People, Thoughts.
We've all had bad days. You know, the ones where we're stressed, grumpy, tired, or carrying extra baggage. As leaders, do we have the luxury of bad days? No, we don't. Our personal self-awareness of these feelings is paramount.
Our crappy mood is like an anchor, weighing us and our team down. It's contagious. That's right, as a leader, our bad days, our energy, and our mood impact our team. Always.
Yet, we're human. And while the ultimate goal is to only be positive and never have bad days, for most of us, we're a long way off from that.
If you don't know you're having a bad day, are you really having a bad day? Definitely.
We can be having a bad day and impacting those around us without even knowing it. Have you ever had a day where everything seems to be a bit harder? Where people are pushing back a little more? Traffic is annoying you more than normal?
There's one thing that all those things have in common – you. Sounds like you could be having a bad day.
This is where self-awareness comes in. When we start to recognize the signs that we're having a bad day, or more specifically, that we're not as positive as normal, we can do something about it.
There's nothing more powerful and disarming than communicating with people when we're not ourselves.
A simple "Sorry guys, I think I'm having bad day today. Please let me know if I'm not being myself" can work wonders, both in terms of having people help you recognize the signs and reducing the impact of your bad day.
I've found that when I'm having a bad day, the act of talking about it (not complaining about it or making excuses), is a great first step in turning the day around.
If nothing is going right. This is definitely a class-A bad day and it needs to be turned around NOW.
Don't try to plug away more and push through it. Unplug, relax, and watch it fade away.
Go for a walk outside. Breathe deeply. Get your heart rate up. Get a coffee from that great place up the street. Smile (even if you're faking it).
Forget about everything that was making the bad day. If it helps, visualize all those bad things going down the toilet, or passing by like clouds on a sunny day.
You'd be surprised how much something as simple as taking a walk can change your day from negative to positive.
Have you ever noticed that you have more bad days when you're tired? You can't underestimate the importance of good sleep. It's when your mind and body recharge.
Eating right can have a massive effect on how you feel, sleep, and your overall health. Find the right diet for you and stick to it. Pro tip: It's probably not available through a drive through or "ready in 2 minutes".
When you know you're having a bad day, put extra effort into your attitude. Smile more. Be extra polite. Fake being in a great mood and a positive state of mind.
You might find that after faking it for a while, you end up actually having a good day!
We each have something that helps us bring balance to our lives and helps us build a stronger, more positive mind. For me, it's meditation. For Bob Murray, another of our partners, it's running. Yours might be yoga, or painting, or paddle boarding, or cycling.
The activity isn't the important part – focus on the feeling it creates. When you're done, you should be calm and relaxed. That calm feeling is what you want to carry through your life.
Practice that feeling often and get to know it really well. As you do, you'll find you can go back to that feeling on demand.
Do these things, watch your bad day disappear, and feel a calm and relaxed take over. Now that's a great trade!
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Co-written by Jay Fung and G.E.M., CoCo Lee's latest single "Broken" was recently released. Alongside the addictive rhythms, CoCo presents this song with her impassioned voice to showcase the constant struggles people face in bad relationships.
The heartfelt, emotional song has become one of the classic break-up ballads. "Broken" depicts a situation where people are stuck in a bad relationship, but still believe that it's better to have loved than never at all. "What I really wish to do is to be that spiritual song when you're down or alone, to be the music that you can listen to that tells your own story and help you make your decisions in life," says CoCo.
The collaboration arose from CoCo and G.E.M.'s encounter at work, when CoCo invited G.E.M. to be her concert guest. CoCo was instantly touched by G.E.M.'s straightforwardness and saw a reflection of the early stages of her career. Their sisterlike relationship led to numerous occasions where G.E.M. would call CoCo in the middle of the night to spill her secrets. When CoCo's birthday came around, G.E.M. decided to compose a song for her as a surprise addition for her new album. Later, she found out that CoCo had already planned to invite her to participate in the production.
Though G.E.M. accepted the invitation quickly, it took a great deal of consideration before submitting the demo. The soul style used in this song wasn't the usual style heard in CoCo's other pieces. To reassure that the tailored song would fit CoCo's style, she submitted a draft to her agent to get a second opinion before developing the song further.
"I loved it right away," says CoCo. "The demo form of the song sounded really gospel, like an R&B type of song. I knew this was the right song and it was going to be something really personal for me."
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In Stan Bowman's first few seasons as GM, there was an aversion to "the big splash." 2010's big move was the now deceased Kim Johnsson. The following season saw Michael Frolik and Chris Campoli come aboard, and neither were anywhere near the hottest items on the board. After that Johnny Oduya was the acquisition, and again he wasn't the big prize at the deadline (though Frolik and Oduya went on to play pretty big roles).
Even in free agency, Stan started out taking the more functional than revolutionary choices, like Montador, Brunnette, Carcillo, and other names that went on to just about nothing for the Hawks.
However, after two first-round exits there was little question Stan was facing just a bit of heat from upstairs. While it didn't immediately result in bigger splashes, the Hawks certainly made it clear to everyone who would listen that they went after Zach Parise in free agency in the summer of 2012. That was certainly the biggest fish Stan had ever chased.