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The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Piero del Pollaiuolo
A pale, clean-shaven young man, naked but for a loincloth, is bound to a tree. He gazes towards heaven, seemingly unaffected by the four arrows which pierce his upper body. This Saint Sebastian, a Roman soldier who secretly converted to Christianity and was executed for his faith.
This altarpiece was painted in the mid-1470s by two brothers, Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo, for the Pucci family chapel in Florence. The chapel was very large, so the altarpiece needed to clear even from a distance.
The artists used this large scale to show off their talent for perspective and for geometrical structure. The monumental figures of Sebastian and his tormentors make a giant triangle in the foreground, with the archers' arms and legs pressing up against the sides of the painting. Behind them the winding river draws our eyes into the blue distance.
A pale, clean-shaven young man, naked but for a loincloth, is bound to a tree. He gazes towards heaven, seemingly unaffected by the arrows which pierce his body.
This is Saint Sebastian, a Roman soldier who secretly converted to Christianity. When his faith was discovered, he was executed. He miraculously survived being shot by arrows, so was beaten to death. Sebastian was an enormously popular 'plague saint'. Plague repeatedly ravaged central Italy in the fifteenth century, and the wounds of the arrows were thought to be like the swellings it caused.
This painting was made in the mid-1470s by two brothers, Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo, for the private chapel of the banker and oligarch Antonio Pucci, the Oratory of Saint Sebastian next to the courtyard of Santissima Annunciata. A relic – an arm bone believed to be Sebastian's – was kept on the altar in front of the painting.
The location had a direct impact on the scale of the picture which, at just under three metres high and over two metres wide, was an exceptional size for a private chapel. The Pucci chapel was very large – it even had its own entrance from the street – and the altarpiece needed to be clear from over 16 metres away. It was designed to make an impact at a distance, although it would only have been on view on special occasions. Unlike medieval polyptychs, which had many panels, the format of this painting – it is a pala, with a single large pictorial space – and its scale allowed the artists to show off their talent at linear perspective and the important artistic concept of disegno. The monumental figures of Sebastian and his tormentors make a giant triangle in the foreground, with the archers' arms and legs pressing up against the sides of the painting. Behind them the winding river draws our eyes into the blue distance.
The Medici were the ruling family of Florence, and Antonio Pucci was one of Lorenzo de' Medici's right-hand men. As such, he was keen to imitate the opulence and modernity of the art the Medici themselves funded. The painting's mix of classical and Christian imagery was typical of the Florentine fascination with works all'antica, which the Medici promoted. Behind Sebastian's martyrdom, knights on horseback gaze up in horror at the saint. Although they are in contemporary armour they are meant to be Roman soldiers. One carries a red banner with the initials SPQR, which stand for senatus populusque romanus ('the senate and people of Rome'). On the left is a crumbling triumphal arch, perhaps symbolising the pagan culture which Christianity had conquered, decorated with roundels showing the Pucci emblem – the head of a Moor, or black African, in profile. On its sides we see previous episodes of Sebastian's life: a battle below, and his trial before the emperor above.
It's very difficult to work out which brother painted what. The muscular archers around Sebastian – they seem to be frozen in motion – are probably by Antonio: their solidity and strength recall his paintings of the Labours of Hercules in the Medici palace (known from copies). The archers are arranged in pairs and have three basic poses, and are pivoted so that we see them from different angles; Antonio, who was a sculptor, might have made statuettes to use as models. He was, like Andrea Mantegna, intensely interested in anatomical exactness and in showing the human figure in dramatic, dynamic poses. Surviving drawings by him include a Saint Sebastian (Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf) and an archer (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) which are related to this altarpiece. The figure of Saint Sebastian forms a vivid contrast to these straining, grimacing, unshaven archers. This is partly meant to emphasise the difference between him and them, but his soft, long-limbed body with its clumsily articulated hips and oddly flexible legs, is also closer to Piero's style.
The idea for the panoramic landscape with its meandering river in a wide valley came from the Pistoia Santa Trinità Altarpiece and ultimately from Netherlandish painting. But the Pollaiuolos used oil paint rather than the tempera, which was usual for Italian painting at the time. This allowed them to achieve the delicate changes in tone and gradual blending of the colours fading to the blue hills on the horizon. A similar landscape appears in Piero's Apollo and Daphne.
Look closely and you can see everyday life going on oblivious to the martyrdom: boats on the river, a party of people making their way along the road on the bank, scattered farms. There's a walled city – clearly Florence, with the outlines of Brunelleschi's dome and Giotto's campanile dimly visible – in the distance. The whole scene has been transposed from classical Rome to the valley of the Arno. For Christian viewers at the time, the saints lived in the here and now, as well as in heaven.
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about 1432 - 1498; about 1441 - before 1496
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The Intesa Sanpaolo Group is one of the top banking groups in Europe, with a market capitalisation of 47.0 billion euro. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Turino, Italy.
Intesa Sanpaolo is the leader in Italy in all business areas (retail, corporate, and wealth management). The Group offers its services to 13.5 million customers through a network of approximately 4,700 branches well distributed throughout the country with market shares no lower than 12% in most Italian regions.
Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A engages in the provision of financial products and banking services. It operates through the following segments: Banca dei Territori, Corporate and Investment Banking, International Subsidiary Banks, Private Banking, Asset Management, Insurance, and Corporate Centre.
Company Sustainability Activity
Intesa Sanpaolo starts it is aware of having a significant impact on the social and environmental context in which it carries out its business thus chooses to act not only on the basis of profit but also with the aim of creating long-term value for the Bank, its employees, customers, community and the environment.
Such awareness generates adherence to important international initiatives, such as the United Nations Global Compact and the Equator Principles.
Intesa Sanpaolo Group is one of the few European financial groups to have joined all the main United Nations initiatives concerning the financial sector in the field of sustainability, which are part of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (UN Sustainable Development Goals).
COVID-19 relief:
€100m to strengthen the National Health System through the Civil Protection Department throughout Italy, and in particular in the most affected areas of Bergamo and Brescia. 16 hospitals and 3 COVID-19 Emergency Centres benefitted from the donation with the creation of 36 new hospital wards and 500 hospital beds mainly in Intensive and Sub-Intensive Care Units.
€10m to support families in financial and social difficulty due to the COVID-19 crisis, of which €5m was donated to the Ricominciamo Insieme project of the Diocese of Bergamo and €5m donated to the Diocese of Brescia.
€6m in donations from the CEO (€1m) and top management's 2019 variable compensation, to strengthen healthcare initiatives, with additional voluntary donations from ISP People and Board of Directors.
€3.5m donated through ForFunding – the ISP crowdfunding platform – to support Civil Protection Department initiatives related to the COVID-19 emergency.
€1m allocated from the ISP Charity Fund to boost COVID-19 scientific research
€350k donated to Associazione Nazionale Alpini to accelerate the construction of a field hospital in Bergamo.
Sustainability indices, rankings and awards:
Included in the DJSI World and DJSI Europe, based on an annual assessment carried out by SAM with a best-in-class criterion among companies with the largest market capitalisation.
In February 2021, Intesa Sanpaolo received the S&P Global Sustainability Award – Bronze Class.
Intesa Sanpaolo is included in 3 indices of the FTSE4Good Index Series, based on the ESG rating, assigned by FTSE Russell which exclusively uses the public information of over 7,200 companies in 47 different financial markets.
Intesa Sanpaolo, thanks to the AAA rating assigned solely to 2% of companies in the banking sector under review, is included in several families of indices including MSCI ESG Leaders Indexes and MSCI Low Carbon Indexes.
In 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo was included in the Leadership Band, obtaining an A- rating
Intesa Sanpaolo is included in the Euronext Vigeo Europe 120 and the Euronext Vigeo Eurozone 120.
Included in the 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index.
Included in the Refinitiv 2020 Top 100 Diversity & Inclusion Index.
In January 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo was included in the SDG2000, a list that identifies the 2,000 companies belonging to 7 key sectors which, worldwide, have the potential to influence the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2030.
Intesa Sanpaolo is the first European bank in terms of relations with financial analysts and institutional investors and in terms of ESG aspects.
Domestic and International Initiatives, Partnerships and Strategies for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
Global Compact – A UN initiative that promotes corporate social responsibility through the adoption of ten fundamental principles relating to human rights, labour rights, the environment and combating corruption.
Women's Empowerment Principles – WEPs Principles promoted by the UN that define guidelines for companies aimed at promoting gender equality and women's professional development in the workplace.
UNEP Finance Initiative – The UN Environmental Programme that promotes dialogue among financial institutions on economic performance, environmental protection and sustainable development.
UNEP Finance Initiative – Principles for Sustainable Insurance – programme for the insurance industry, with the aim of addressing the risks and opportunities related to environmental, social and governance issues.
Equator Principles – Guidelines for social and environmental risk assessment and management in projects, based on criteria recommended by the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank organisation.
CDP – Independent non-profit organisation which provides companies and countries with a global system of information on climate change.
Forum for Sustainable Finance – Multi-stakeholder association with the objective of spreading the culture and supporting the development of sustainable finance. It is the Italian representative of the EuroSIF (European Sustainable Investment Forum).
Retention, enhancement, diversity and inclusion of employees:
Compared with the total population, the breakdown by category and gender remains constant.
Representing 28.6% of all female employees in the Group, the number of female managers (executives and middle managers) as a proportion of all managers, rose slightly compared with last year to 40%.
At Group level, the female/male salary ratio in 2020 remained in line with that of 2019.
Education and spread of financial culture
For adult audiences the MDR Web TV was launched, a programme of live and on-demand digital events that reached a total of about 41,001 people between April and December.
MDR PLAY LAB: the video tutorial series for parents and teachers to perform distance-learning educational workshops on savings and sustainability.
New educational format called "Legonomia" to learn the basics of financial education through LEGO.
Online participation at the TIME4CHILD festival.
AES Quiz: edu-quiz series on the history of money, which involved about 300 middle school pupils competing through the Kahoot application.
Digital live show "Scelte Insostenibili" (Unsustainable choices).
Digital Festival "Il mio posto nel mondo" (My place in the world) with Lavazza and the Next Level Association.
In 2020, the Intesa Sanpaolo Group continued to strengthen its leadership in sustainable investments, with an overall market share of 22.8%.
With 18 new products, the Group reached a total of 57 open-ended sustainable and responsible funds (72 if we also consider the Pramerica products, 10 of which were launched in 2020) with assets of 18.4 billion euro (24.6 billion with UBI Banca) and net inflows of 8.3 billion euro (over 9 billion with UBI Banca).
Fideuram Asset Management SGR has subscribed to the Italian Stewardship Principles for the exercise of management and voting rights in listed companies" promoted by Assogestioni.
Management of potential risks and impacts related to climate change:
Climate change risks are divided into "physical risks", associated with the physical impact of climate events, and "transition risks" arising from the process of adjustment to an economy based on low carbon emissions, associated with the changes in public policies, technology and consumer choices.
In October 2018, Intesa Sanpaolo decided to support the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and make a voluntary commitment to publishing a transparent report on the risks and opportunities linked to climate change.
To support the Steering Committee in its task of identifying and prioritising ESG initiatives on the basis of strategic relevance, in 2020, an ESG Control Room, overseen by the Chief Financial Officer and the Head of the Strategic Support Head Office Department, was set up with the aim of helping the Committee in its strategic proposal of ESG issues and coordinating the implementation of the initiatives.
Intesa Sanpaolo actively participates in a series of international initiatives, including the Global Compact, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), the Equator Principles and, since 2019, the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB).
The Bank is able to act as a driver of inclusive and sustainable growth for families, businesses and society thanks to its ability to maintain the resilience of its profitability over time, its growing levels of efficiency, and its capital strength, which is among the highest in the European banking sector.
The Group's anti-corruption management system is certified according to UNI ISO 37001 international standards.
The ISP Group confirmed itself as a leader in sustainable investments in Italy with an overall market share of 22.8% (30.4% including UBI Banca) versus 27.3% in 2019.
The most high-profile operations included the 120 million euro donated to strengthen the national health system.
There was an increase in the number of green and circular loans granted thanks in particular to the launch of Green – Mutuo Domus.
Social Outreach:
Scale-up the "Cibo e Riparo per le persone in difficoltà" (Food and Shelter for disadvantaged people) initiative by allocating funds for 10,000 meals a day, 6,000 dormitory beds a month and 3,000 medicines and clothes a month within 2021.
Intesa Sanpaolo Fund for Impact which will enable the disbursement of loans totalling 1.25 billion euro over the 2018-2021 period to sections of society who find it hard to access credit despite their potential.
1 billion euro of investments in training and learning for employees, with the provision of around 46 million hours of training in the 2018-2021 period.
Talent enhancement International Talent Program will involve 500 resources by 2021.
Renewable Energy/Climate Action:
An increase in the use of renewable energy sources, from 76% at the end of 2012 to 81% by the end of 2022.
The Climate Change Action Plan, Intesa Sanpaolo's Multi-Year Environmental Sustainability Plan, envisages a reduction of 37% in CO2 emissions in the 2012-2022 period
New, high social impact loans increased tenfold to € 37.2 billion
The leading lender to the social economy: more than € 470 million to the non-profit sector
Sustainable Investment/Technology
Market leader in sustainable investments: SRI market share in Italy of ~23% (30.4% with UBI) in terms of assets under management.
Leader in terms of its digital offering: ranked among the leaders in Europe in terms of mobile app functionality, 10.3 million multichannel customers, 60% of assets digitised, sales of over 2 million products using digital channels.
Acceleration of the environmental transition: over € 2.5 billion in financing for the Green and Circular Economy; significant reduction of 13.1% in the Group's CO2 emissions compared to 2019 – down approximately 60% since 2008.
Doubled the monetary contribution for health, social and culture to the community to € 184 million compared to € 86 million in 2019.
In January 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo undertook to make available a programme for the disbursement of € 50 billion euro in Italy to the European Green Deal over the next few years.
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Regulation (EU) 910/2014 eIDAS
UNI ISO 45001:2018
UN SDGs Compliance
Approximately € 470 million euro was granted to support social enterprises and the third sector.
Approximately € 16 million euro to support over 750 projects carried out by non-profit organisations.
Approximately € 85 million euro was granted for microcredit or anti-usury projects, in Italy and abroad.
Intesa Sanpaolo Programme for disadvantaged people, which has been allowed between 2018-2020, has provided 16.1 million meals, more than 994,000 beds, around 228,000 medicines and 178,000 items of clothing to be offered.
SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing
€ 100 million euro donated to strengthen the National Health Service via the Civil Protection Department.
€ 350,000 euro to the National Association of Alpine Regiments to accelerate the construction of a field hospital in Bergamo.
As part of the Generation project, 102,409 doctors and nursing staff participated in the training programmes on management of emergencies connected with COVID-19.
€ 1 million euro allocated by the Charity Fund to support scientific research on COVID-19.
Free extension of ISP health insurance to cover COVID-19.
Voluntary flu and pneumococcal vaccine campaign for Group employees (17,493 flu vaccines and 7,575 pneumococcal vaccines administered).
Launch of specific initiatives for the well-being of Group employees, such as Consultation and Support, a service that provides free psychological support, and Carelab, an integrated system of content and tools focused on diets, exercise, energy and emotional well-being.
Health and safety training: 159,677 hours provided to 33,279 workers in 2020.
Approximately 12 million hours of training were provided to their people.
With "per Merito", the first unsecured credit line dedicated to all university students residing in Italy who study in Italian and foreign universities: in 2020, 6,446 students received funding and approximately 51,5 million euro was granted.
Giovani e Lavoro programme, created in collaboration with Generation Italy, a job orientation project involving over 1,400 companies and training 1,500 young people.
Mamma@work: new subsidised loan to support working mothers financially following maternity.
Creation of a specific Diversity & Inclusion Operating Committee to align, discuss and share D&I initiatives with all structures.
Extended to more than 1,200 managers, the Diversity & Inclusion objective into the assessment system, that accounts for 10% of the total evaluation.
Support for female entrepreneurship with Business Gemma.
Disbursement of approximately 1.985 million euro to the green economy.
The proceeds of the 500 million Green Bond issued in 2017, 60.5% of which being allocated to photovoltaic power, 13.3% to wind power, 9.3% to hydroelectric power, 15.1% to bioenergy and 1.8% to energy efficiency, financed 76 projects with an annual saving of more than 460,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Zero-emission electricity amounted to 84.3% of total consumption.
Approximately 87 billion euro in new medium/long-term loans was disbursed.
Agreements were signed with the Trade Unions for the pay-out of the Variable Result Bonus (VRB).
Development of internal talents through the International Talent Program (310 Talent in 2020).
The Renaissance Programme consists of grants and impact loans to help micro businesses and start-ups in specific communities get back on their feet and develop their business models following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Flexible work extended to more than 65,500 people.
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
About 85% of products are available on multi-channel platforms.
Supporting production and innovation, Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center has developed start-up enhancement programs (1,400 start-ups analyzed, activated 8 acceleration programs out of 155 of these, presented to potential investors). Through Nova+ funding, 28 innovation projects for more than 30 million euros have been financed.
The projects to encourage the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities and people diagnosed with autism or autism spectrum disorder, continued.
The commitment to the issue of dyslexia continued: in December 2018 Intesa Sanpaolo was the first bank in Italy to be certified Dyslexia Friendly.
Support to households affected by natural disasters and emergencies through payment suspension programmes for mortgages on affected properties totalling 0.5 billion euro and subsidised loans amounting to over 163 million euro.
Promotion of culture for social cohesion: the project for the fourth Gallerie d'Italia venue was presented in Turin in January, the Bank accelerated the production of online content on the Gallerie d'Italia website and social channels.
Circular Economy development: have allocated a credit fund of up to 5 billion euros for the period 2018-2021 (subsequently increased to 6 billion euro following the acquisition of the UBI Group), aimed at companies that adopt the circular model in innovative ways, giving them the best conditions of access to credit. The criteria for investing in Circular Economy were defined together with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. At the end of 2020, the platform provided € 1.5 billion euro.
Launched in collaboration with Fondazione Cariplo, the Circular Economy Lab with the goal of supporting and assisting the transformation of the Italian economic system, accelerating the transition to the Circular Economy.
In December 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo published the first report on the use of the proceeds from the 750 million euro Green Bond issued in 2019 and focused on the Circular Economy, fully allocated during the first year, with annual savings of over 255,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions, corresponding to 341 tonnes per million euro.
Environment and Climate Change: all the actions carried out in 2020, in line with the Environmental Plan, confirm the Group's commitment to reducing its environmental footprint. In 2019, Scope1 + Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 13.1% thanks also to the reduction in the use of the company's business premises
Following the integration of UBI in the Group, the Climate Change Action Plan was updated in 2020 with the revision of the 2012 baseline. In addition, with regard to renewable energy, a new goal of purchasing 89% of electricity from renewable sources by 2022 was established.
In 2020 electricity consumption from renewable sources already amounted to 88%.
SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
In May 2019, Intesa Sanpaolo was among the first banks in Europe to receive the certificate of compliance of its anti-bribery management system with UNI ISO 37001 international standards.
In 2020, training to prevent corruption and money laundering involved 74,511 employees for a total of approximately 361,000 hours provided.
Intesa Sanpaolo has an impressive history and has set out clearly defined and achievable short-term goals for the future. Some longer-term goals would have given the bank more points.
They strongly commit to the UN SDGs and outline their practices explicitly on their website. They have a number of certifications to reinforce their work as well as relevant awards and listings.
Moreover, the group is invested in community projects, and is supportive of its employee inclusion and wellbeing.
Despite its clear commitment to sustainability, Intesa Sanpaolo has invested $13.708 B in the fossil fuel industry since 2016. Although Intesa Sanpaolo decreased its investments from 2018 to 2019, it increased investment in 2020.
For these reasons, the bank has been awarded a C on the Impakter Index.
Analyst Outlook: Neutral
Although the work is highly impressive, Intesa Sanpaolo does not explicitly highlight their loans to companies dealing in things such as the oil, water, or gas industries.
Intesa Sanpaolo continues to be an accelerator for the growth of Italy's real economy.
The Bank is a leading lender to the social economy: more than € 470 million to the non-profit sector – € 522 million with UBI – (€ 205 million in 2019).
In January 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo was included in the SDG2000, a list that identifies the 2,000 companies belonging to 7 key sectors which, worldwide, have the potential to influence the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev
Key ballet dancers of the Bolshoi Theatre, Natalya Osipova and her husband Ivan Vasiliev, have decided to leave their current work place for the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. According to the dancers words, their were seeking for the creative freedom, which they were unable to gain in the Bolshoi.
"We want dancing as much as possible. It doesn't matter what the scene's size is. What matters is what can be performed on it, and how", the Bolshoi's principal dancer Ivan Vasiliev said.
"The main reason of my leaving is the lack of repertoire. Everything that could be performed, is performed. We don't want to lock ourselves into two or three so-called 'signature roles', we want to dance more, especially new choreography.", prima ballerina Natalya Osipova said.
The Mikhailovsky Theatre signed five-year contracts with the dancers, after 18 months of talks. They plan to make their first performance at the new stage on December 1, 2011. All the same, Osipova and Vasiliev have promised to fulfill their commitments to the Bolshoi Theatre. In particular, they will perform in "The Nutcracker", "L'Arlésienne" and some other ballets.
Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, the athletic and unconventional pair, have taken the ballet world by storm since Osipova's Convent Garden debut as Kitri in "Don Quixote" and Vasiliev's arrival at the Bolshoi, where he has demonstrated a phenomenal ability to jump and soar. The couple have danced leading roles in "Giselle," "La Bayadere" and "Romeo and Juliet" performances. They also have a lot of the most prestigiousawards and titles of the world dance scene.
However, the Bolshoi's General Director, Anatoly Iksanov suggests the main reason behind the dancers' resignation concerns their salaries and has nothing to do with creativity.
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Greg Reihman is Lehigh University's Vice Provost for Library and Technology Services.
As Vice Provost, Greg provides strategic, budgetary, and organizational leadership of Lehigh's Library and Technology Services (an organization that includes Lehigh's Libraries, Technology Services, and the CITL). In this role, he has been involved in innovative library space renovations; strategic planning and implementation; organizational development; budgetary planning; assessment, accreditation, student success initiatives, and the collaborative development of strategies for research computing, digital scholarship support, classroom planning, and online learning.
Greg also teaches in the Philosophy Department. At Lehigh, he has taught first-year seminars, Introduction to Philosophy/Philosophical Questions, Philosophy East and West, Philosophy of Technology, Eastern Philosophy, Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Hegel and Nietzsche), Philosophy of Film, Philosophy of Education, the Technology Research and Communication (TRAC) Writing Fellows Seminar, and South Mountain College Seminar and Investigation courses.
Greg graduated from Yale University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, with distinction in the major. After teaching English in China from 1993-4, he earned his Master's Degree (1995) and then his Doctorate (2001) in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, with his dissertation earning the departmental nomination for the university's Outstanding Dissertation award and his teaching recognized by the Departmental Award for Teaching Excellence. From 1998 to 2004 he worked at Stanford University, teaching in and helping to administer the Introduction to the Humanities Program.
In 2004-5 Greg was a Mellon Faculty Research Fellow at the The University of Pennsylvania's Humanities Forum, where he worked on a comparative study of dream arguments in Western and Chinese philosophical traditions. His philosophical research interests include the history of modern philosophy, 19th-century philosophy, classical Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, and philosophies of technology and education.
From 2013-2022 he was the Director of the Director of the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. In that role, he worked together with other faculty and staff to foster excellence in teaching and learning. The CITL includes the following areas: Faculty Development, Instructional Technology, Writing Across the Curriculum, Digital Scholarship, Research Computing, Distance Education & Online Operations, Learning Space Technology and Design. Greg has offered professional development workshops on a wide range of topics, including effective mentorship, active learning, project-based learning, fundamentals of effective teaching, teacher development for graduate students, inclusive teaching, effective integration of instructional technology, conducting classroom observations, digital humanities, principles of effective lecturing, and facilitating great discussions.
At Lehigh, he has also played a key role in several Strategic Planning and Middle States Accreditation processes. He is the co-captain of the "Lehigh User Experience" Strategic Planning Working Group and has been a leader in many of Lehigh's teaching and learning initiatives, serving on the Steering Committee of the Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative, advisory board of the Creative Inquiry/Mountaintop Program, chairing the Online Learning Advisory Committee, started a Writing Across the Curriculum program, leading a project on Innovations in Teaching Large Lecture Courses, co-facilitating faculty seminars on Diversity and Social Justice and Global Citizenship, contributing to the development and implementation of South Mountain College, and serving as point person and pilot tester in explorations of new educational technology such as the integration of digital audio, podcasting, wikis, blogs, discussion boards, virtual realities, and project-based collaborative learning.
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I am a big fan of Spotify and because I have the free account, I always click on the ad when the offer for 30 minutes of free music comes up for watching. I am so glad I did.
The ad for Tullamore D.E.W. Irish whiskey is hauntingly beautiful and touching while still being uplifting. It made me first want to run out and figure out who was doing the soundtrack. Turns out is a band called Tullamore Celtic Band. In my search for the artist however, I discovered a whole backstory to the commercial that is fascinating.
The commercial, created by a boutique New York ad firm, Opperman Weiss, first appeared a year ago and clocked in at 3 minutes! It created a buzz in the advertising world and following the Spotify plays, it has been getting even more attention. The Colbert Report ran a 30-second version of the ad in their series finale and it is slotted to appear all over in prime time soon.
I don't drink and the product doesn't interest me in the least… the art however is great. It just goes to show that if you step out of the box and create something beautiful, it will get noticed.
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CO.AS.IT. confirms educational partnership with Italian National Tourist Board
By coasitadmin May 3, 2021 July 27th, 2021 No Comments
Following an extensive search for an education partnership, the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT) has selected CO.AS.IT. Sydney to offer online Italian language lessons as part of a new module of their Travel to Italy Academy.
The academy is an online training course that provides travel agents with the knowledge and confidence to sell and upsell unforgettable trips to Italy.
Manager of ENIT Australia & New Zealand, Emanuele Attanasio, said the course gives agents the opportunity to extend their knowledge and expertise and obtain an "Italy Specialist" certificate upon its completion.
The announcement comes after ENIT launched a competition earlier this year, giving 50 travel agents the chance to learn Italian for free as part of the course.
The competition was open to agents across Australia and New Zealand and ENIT received hundreds of entries from those eager to improve their Italian language skills.
"This is a great initiative by ENIT, to encourage travel agents to upskill during these difficult times," CO.AS.IT.'s general manager, Thomas Camporeale, said.
"It is a great pleasure to be selected by ENIT, on behalf of the Italian government, to facilitate the delivery of this fantastic course, which promotes both Italy and the Italian language."
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It's finally starting to feel like the first few days of spring have arrived. I couldn't be happier that the weather is warming up! It truly inspires me. But one of the only downfalls about the arrival of spring is that along with it comes allergy season. Cue the sneezing, itching, and coughing. Although spring is quite literally in the air, there is no reason you shouldn't be outdoors enjoying every minute of it. So, with the help of our LaurenConrad.com nutritionist , today I am sharing three natural ways to survive spring allergy season.
1. Eat the right stuff.
I find that turning to diet is usually the answer to solving a lot of health problems in life. For example, my fiancé William gets allergies during the spring season. He has found that avoiding dairy products all together helps a ton with his congestion. also recommends eating omega-3 rich fatty fish (salmon, sardines and mackerel), olive oil, walnuts, flax seeds, dark leafy greens, ginger, turmeric, tomatoes, garlic, berries, and green tea. These foods are all anti-inflammatory, so they will help relieve allergies.
2. Add a little honey.
Eating local honey has also shown to help relieve seasonal allergies. Local honey works the same way as a vaccine: When bees create honey, some of the pollen from flowers they have pollinated rubs off from the bees and into the honey. Therefore, eating local honey is essentially introducing your body to the pollen it is allergic to. The idea is that over time, your body will get used to these allergens and grow immune to them. I add local honey to my smoothies, on top of frozen yogurt, or with fresh berries. I even eat it plain on days when I'm running out the door and I can feel allergies coming on. Just don't add it into piping hot tea—the heat will kill off all the good enzymes that act as antihistamines.
3. Use a natural sinus rinse.
When allergies create congestion or—even worse—sinus infections, the best think you can do for relief is rinsing out your sinuses. You can go to the store and buy a , which actually works like magic. Or, you can make your own at-home sinus rinse. It will flush out all the allergens and leave you feeling clean and clear. Simply mix natural salt and a pinch of baking soda into purified water. Pour the mixture into a , a , or a glass that has a pouring spout. Tip your head to one side and pour the mixture through one nostril until it comes out the other. It doesn't sound pretty, but I guarantee your sinuses will thank you.
I hope these tips help you to enjoy the spring weather…flowers, pollen and all!
Do you have any tips for surviving spring allergy season?
Leave your tips in the comments below. I'd love to read them!


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TES Meet People at TES Logistics Technology Research Institute Designing the Future of Logistics
The technology, engineering, systems, and solutions (TES) Logistics Technology Research Institute that leads the evolution of logistics paradigm provides the best logistics service by identifying the trends based on advanced technology and by designing the logistics platform. Meet the stars of TES Logistics Technology Research Institute who maximize the efficiency of logistics operations and design the future of logistics based on automation, unmanned systems, and big data using cutting-edge technology.
Kyung-Hoon Kim at the TES Logistics Technology Research Institute, Driving Logistics Innovations based on Robotics, AI and Data
Director Kyung-Hoon Kim at TES Logistics Technology Research Institute is a frontline striker at CJ Logistics, leading the logistics technology innovations. He is one of the top robot experts in Korea who has received a doctor's degree in mobile robots from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), one of Korea's leading universities for science and technology. At TES Logistics Technology Research Institute, Kim is in charge of the development of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and robots that integrate AI and big data.
Stressing the stereotype that the logistics industry involves a lot of physical labor is prejudice, Kim pointed towards robotics where technological development is taking place most actively in the logistics industry.
AMRs can move around the logistics center freely and are already used widely in convergence fulfillment centers at CJ Logistics. Kim said that they are planning to deploy about 170 autonomous delivery robots like AMRs and AGVs by the end of this year.
Automated loading and unloading are also underway. Their goal is to first improve efficiency through the use of semi-automatic tools and adopting a new conveyer belt;
second, to achieve complete automation by developing robotic arms based on AI and robot control technology; and third, to develop wearable robotics for on-site workers.
There is a paradigm shift in the logistics industry, from a labor and experience-intensive industry to a more digital-intensive industry for the logistics industry to make way for more advanced and complex technology encompassing almost all areas, from extensive automation, AI, and big data. In order to adapt to the changing logistics paradigm and lead innovations, TES Logistics Technology Research Institute set up core TES technologies and the master plan for achieving the core technologies.
"We identified the technology level and situations in Korea and abroad to select our core technologies. They can be conceptualized as automation, intelligence, and optimization, and we will make efforts to accelerate the speed of technological development and commercialization.
Director Kim plans to double the size of the research institute by 2023 by continuously recruiting the best talent in AI, big data, and logistics IT system to secure core TES technologies and capabilities that far exceed the competition. He also expressed his willingness to build a corporate culture in which people can deliver outstanding results through system and support such as offering equal opportunities, rewards based on performance, and education system that support individual growth.
Lowering Work Intensity and Speeding up Logistics with Autonomous Delivery Robots!
Chuljoo Yoon of the TES Logistics Technology Research Institute
Seventy percent of work in the logistics center where you find, sort, and pack ordered merchandizes is performed while on the move. Logistics work involves a lot of labor with on-site workers walking as much as 20km a day. This is why autonomous delivery robots are an effective solution that lowers labor intensity and increases work speed. As the heart of logistics service has shifted to fulfillment, the robots are becoming more important than ever as they become an integrated logistics service that takes over tasks like product storage, sorting, packing, delivery, and stock management.
Yoon, the Managing Director of the Future Technology Team at TES Logistics Technology Research Institute, researches and develops robots for logistics efficiency. He is primarily responsible for AGVs that travel along a fixed route, AMR, and picking support robots.
We plan to place over 100 AGVs that move multiple layers of racks in fulfillment centers. Robots that deliver other racks, from which workers have taken out products and sorted them, and transfer the racks to the packing lines, are a technology developed first by CJ Logistics.
Yoon also explained about his plans for introducing AMRs and how he plans to use them. AMRs are robots that move autonomously according to the given situation using embedded maps, cameras, and sensors like LiDAR. The pilot-run AMRs queue in the area designated for products ordered. They then scan the products and put them in baskets attached to the AMRs. AMRs automatically inspect them and carry them to the packing area. The introduction of AMRs will reduce the work intensity of workers and are expected to lower human errors from manual work.
I have high expectations on collaborative robots that help with picking jobs by either waiting for workers or following them around. If we apply robot arm technology, that will mark the beginning of full automation of our logistics centers.
We are not too far away from advanced logistics meaning robots carry boxes and racks and work 24 hours around the clock. Yoon is working to realize a fast and safe collaboration between human workers and AMRs.
Lowering Accelerating Logistics Innovation with Cutting-edge Technology-based consulting
Keechan Nahm of Consulting Team at TES Logistics Technology Research Institute
At TES Logistics Technology Research Institute, Park researches AMRs that automatically deliver products to workers, AGVs, and piece picking robots (robot arms that take individual products and move them to conveyer belts or boxes automatically). Logistics automation technology using robots is an advanced future technology that seeks innovation in the logistics sector. The technology that can handle a lot of heavy loads quickly in logistics centers is transforming logistics.
Digital twins researched and developed in the TES Logistics Technology Research Institute are tested in logistics centers that need to adopt them in their production sites in affiliate companies. We could concentrate on doing this research because we were able to communicate closely with people at the site and apply new technologies immediately.
The logistics industry is evolving into digital logistics driven by technology and data. To that end, the industry has a variety of tasks ahead, including automation using robot technology, and 24h operation optimization based on AI and big data.
Please look forward to the remarkable performance of the research trio at the TES Logistics Technology Research Institute who are designing the future of logistics based on differentiated capabilities and cutting-edge technologies.
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Demography in the Balance
Is Native population growth on the prairies a positive or negative thing?
Warren Cariou
Canada's west is booming in a way that has not been seen in at least a generation, and there is every indication that this shift in economic clout will be with us for a number of years to come. It may even be true that the balance of political power is changing from east to west on a long-term basis, as more and more people move to Alberta, British Columbia and now even Saskatchewan in search of jobs and business opportunities. Stephen Harper entered the Prime Minister's Office under the motto "The West Wants In," and it seems that he and his supporters have gotten their wish, at least for the time being. But now that the West is indeed "in," it is time to look more closely at who is still being left out in the cold: the region's growing population of aboriginal people.
It is well established that the birth rate of Native people in Canada has far exceeded that of the general population in recent years, and despite the fact that Native people on average die much younger than other Canadians, their numbers have still been increasing dramatically since the middle of the 20th century. For example, census data indicate that from 1996 to 2001, the Native population of Canada grew by 22 percent, which was nearly seven times the growth rate of the general populaion. In 2001, one third of the Native population was under the age of 14, compared to 19 percent of the general population. Data on aboriginal populations in the 2006 census have not yet been released, but there are several indications that this trend of growing Native population has increased and will continue to increase in the coming years. This demographic change is much more visible in the West, where the majority of Native people already live. While the other Canadian provinces have Native populations ranging from 1 percent to 5 percent, Saskatchewan's and Manitoba's are each at about 14 percent, with demographers predicting that these two provinces will see the most dramatic gains in coming years.
A visit to virtually any Native community in the West will show one of the most noticeable realities behind the statistics: there are many children on reserves and in non-status Native communities these days. Schools are often overflowing. Opportunities for sports, recreation and extracurricular education are difficult to come by. Yet in my experience, the children in Native communities in the West are a wonderfully energetic and imaginative group, as full of potential and ingenuity as any group of children I have seen anywhere in the world. At the same time, the threat of despair lurks not too far in the background for many Canadian Native children, as the recent epidemic of suicides among them has shown.
Another visible aspect of this demographic change in western Canada is the increasing urbanization of Native people. Almost half of the nation's aboriginal people live in cities, and geographer Evelyn Peters has shown that the cities of Saskatchewan and Manitoba have particularly distinct Native neighbourhoods. Winnipeg's north end is a very good example of this: a neighbourhood that was once racialized as Jewish, or as an immigrant zone, has now become identified as an aboriginal space. In the north end, there are now funeral homes that cater to Native families, there are shops where one can buy moccasins and dream catchers, and there are various social service and healthcare agencies that focus on Native issues. There is a great deal of poverty, but there are also many urban Native people who are proud to be taking part in what is clearly a cultural renaissance there. Native artists, musicians and writers have been gathering in Winnipeg for many years now, and the result is an extraordinarily vital arts scene.
Still, the increasing visibility of the city's Native population provokes ambivalent reactions. Since I moved to Winnipeg in 2000, I have heard several people refer to the city as "the biggest Indian reserve in the world." Some have said this with pride; others have said it with an edge of fear.
At the same time as Western Canada's Native population is growing, the latest census reports indicate that the average birth rate in Canada has fallen to a historic, and perhaps unsustainable, low. Commentators immediately saw this as a dire warning sign, an indication that Canada's current economic prosperity is at risk if we are not able to find some way of encouraging our citizens to have children. In this context, it might seem that the increase in our Native population, especially in the West, would be regarded as positive news. But Native population trends are, in fact, consistently represented as a problem, not a solution. I have repeatedly heard the sentiment (expressed somewhat obliquely by politicians and more blatantly by individuals in conversation) that a growing aboriginal population in the West will mean an increase in social problems, poverty and dependence.
This fear has been manifested in the reaction to a series of demographic projections that predict when the Native populations of Manitoba and Saskatchewan will reach a certain threshold—usually 30 percent. A 2004 Government of Saskatchewan document projected that the aboriginal population of that province will reach 33 percent by 2045.1 Soon after, a Government of Manitoba publication predicted that Manitoba's Native population will be 19 percent by 2026.2 Both of these projections provoked a flurry of media comments and public discussions, many of which consisted largely of hand wringing and catastrophizing about the future viability of these provinces.
The prospect that Native people will constitute such a large and growing block of citizens certainly has political implications for Manitoba and Saskatchewan, but it seems that the economic and psychological implications are the ones that are foremost in non-Native people's minds. In fact, this population-based anxiety bears a very strong resemblance to the phenomenon of "white flight," which has been observed in North American cities since the 1950s. In white flight, the perception that the "other" community has reached a particular racial threshold triggers the sudden exodus of white people from a neighbourhood. This race-based panic has played a role in much of the urban decay and neglect in North American cities, because the flight of any group of citizens from an area creates an economic vacuum, which can in turn lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy of ruin.
This sense of Malthusian doom is so strong in certain parts of the Canadian West that I have heard several non-Native people suggest that eventually much of the region—even the entire province of Saskatchewan—will have to be "given over" to the Native people in order to appease the apparently unstoppable juggernaut of their population growth. This is clearly the rhetoric of white flight, and its racist underpinnings are obvious. It is also patently ridiculous in light of the West's current economic expansion. As the Native population has grown, the West's prosperity has also grown, but no one seems to pay attention to this correlation. When it comes to representing Native communities' growth, non-Natives generally prefer to focus on the gloom rather than the boom.
I suspect that the real root of this fear is connected to colonial Canada's notion of its own legitimacy. It is ironic that the entire project of colonialism in North America was predicated upon a very different population prediction: a belief that Native peoples of this continent would inevitably die out when they were faced with the putative superiority of European civilization. The fact that North America's Native people are not dying out, then, creates a crisis in western culture's idea of itself. If the Indians are still here, and are even increasing in number, then what does that mean for the legal and moral legitimacy of a colonial culture that has displaced them from their land? I believe this question is behind much of the population panic that has broken out from time to time in the West.
The issue of legitimacy is an important one that needs to be addressed more deeply in Canada, regardless of population trends. However, the crisis mentality about Native populations is itself a big part of the current problem, because it deflects attention away from the real actions that need to be undertaken in order to ensure that our aboriginal people are, in a real sense, allowed into the West. It seems to me that the crisis will only come if Native people are not afforded the opportunities that other Canadians enjoy, and if they are not offered adequate redress for the humiliations and injustices that they have suffered at the hands of colonial governments. If non-Native Canadians do not make these issues a priority, then the increasing Native population will likely demand—either through protest or through electoral politics—that they become a priority. And they will be very well justified in doing so.
The growth of the Native population in the West is only a practical impetus to encourage governments to do what they should always have done: treat Native people with respect and recognize them as part of our regional and national community rather than seeing them as marginal, dwindling "problem" figures who will eventually fade away. This is one reason why I see this population growth as an opportunity—an opportunity to make structural changes in our racially divided society, so that the inequities of the past are not perpetuated into the future. The other reason it is an opportunity is that western Canada needs workers. If aboriginal people can be welcomed as participants in the new economy of the West, then it seems likely that everyone will benefit.
I recently visited the Dene community of La Loche in northwestern Saskatchewan, not far from the massive oil sands developments in Fort McMurray, which now form the epicentre of western Canada's oil boom. Despite this proximity to such enormous wealth, La Loche had remained a remote community because there was no easy way to travel to Fort McMurray. But this was about to change, because a road was being built across the muskeg that would connect the two communities for the first time.
I came to La Loche expecting a place of despair. I had heard stories in the 1970s and '80s about the rampant unemployment there, and the problems with addictions and crime. But what I found when I finally visited the place was something altogether different: a community filled with children. The population statistics for aboriginal communities were given physical presence in the volume of laughter that I heard in the schoolground when I went to give a reading at the school. But what cannot be shown in the statistics is the overwhelming sense of promise, of potential, that this group of children brought to me. As I read my stories about growing up in a place further south, they watched me with wry humour, and they asked all kinds of wonderful and unpredictable questions about how I had come to be who I was.
These were the future citizens of a place I had imagined to be burdened by hopelessness, yet they were overflowing with wonder and energy and community spirit. They all spoke Dene, and they even corrected their teachers' pronunciation of the language at times. They had a pride in their heritage that I had rarely seen in any group of people, at any age. I left the village thinking that someone had done something right in La Loche: the community leaders, and the educators, and possibly even the federal and provincial politicians. Perhaps it is no coincidence that Native candidates have been successful in northern Saskatchewan in several recent elections. The aboriginal population is large enough in the region that Native issues are of paramount importance for any candidate's platform.
I think about La Loche often these days. The road to Fort McMurray was supposed to open last winter, and I wonder what effect it has had on the community. I like to think that those kids will do very well for themselves when they finish school, that they and their community will be given the opportunities that they deserve, and that Fort McMurray will also benefit from the contributions of workers from Native communities in northern Saskatchewan. I like to imagine that the West's new prosperity and the West's increasing Native population will complement each other, and will lead to a new era of cooperation among different cultures in the region. Ieven dare to hope that oil sands companies will listen to their neighbouring Native communities when they express environmental or cultural concerns about the developments.
Perhaps optimism is not entirely realistic under the circumstances, but I am infected by the spirit of those children in La Loche. Anyone who could hear their laughter would feel the same way.
Saskatchewan (2004), "Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis Demographic Data"
http://www.fnmr.gov.sk.ca/html/demographics</a>. The document indicates that all of its data are "derived from the 2001 Statistics Canada Census," but does not cite a particular source for the population projection. ↩
Manitoba (2005), "Manitoba's Aboriginal Community: A 2001 to 2026 Population and Demographic Profile" http://www.gov.mb.ca/ana/publications/2001-2026_population_demographic_profile.pdf</a>. Like the Saskatchewan publication, this one is based on 2001 Census data, but it also contains a caveat that "projections are not forecasts but are based on what would occur if the stated assumptions hold true." ↩
Warren Cariou teaches aboriginal literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba.
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We write in response to the essay "Demography in the Balance" by Warren Cariou (October 2007). Cariou presents both some troubling prospects and some promise for western Canada generally and aboriginal people specifically.
Cariou's essay also demonstrates some misconceptions and biases that in themselves are barriers to his limited definition of complementarity. Finally, Cariou's work while presenting some prospects for aboriginal peoples based on population fails to present a historical context to view population within.
Cariou's essay is timely in that, as he notes, it comes at a time of economic boom in the West and a population boom...
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"The night", seen through the eye of Muslim culture
"The Eye and the Night", the promising exhibition opens Thursday, September 19 at the Institute of Islamic Cultures (ICI), in Paris. "The night, before being a motive, is a real, bodily, sensory experience," says Géraldine Bloch, ...
With "Bouraq", the Tunisian artist Mourad Salem revisits Israel, the visionary and wonderful journey between Mecca and Jerusalem. "The Eye and the Night" at the Institute of Islamic Cultures. Siegfried Forster / RFI
"The Eye and the Night", the promising exhibition opens Thursday, September 19 at the Institute of Islamic Cultures (ICI), in Paris. " The night, before being a motive, is a real experience, bodily, sensorial ", proclaims Géraldine Bloch, the curator of this overview. It features works by eighteen artists from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With their eye as a painter, photographer, sculptor or poet, they clear our minds around night experiences. Interview.
RFI : What is the particularity in this relationship between Islam and the night ?
Géraldine Bloch : We could start with a very simple thing, the female name Leïla. It's one of the first names we hear most often in the Arab world and in other Muslim countries. And Leila means "the night". In France, nobody is called "the night". So, the idea started from there. Then there was the question of the place of the night in the Koran. An absolutely major episode of the Qur'an is the revelation of the divine message to the prophet that came true in an absolutely amazing, wonderful night on a nocturnal and heavenly journey, the Israel . The idea was to anchor the eye and the night in this question: what do we see at night when there is nothing to see?
"I would like to talk to you about fear", a series by the French artist Mouna Saboni, about wounds inflicted on women encountered in Egypt. In the exhibition "The Eye and the Night", at the Institute of Islamic Cultures. © Siegfried Forster / RFI
In what way are the eyes of these artists of Muslim origin exposed here different from the eyes of other artists ?
In the exhibition, there are some artists who have no direct connection with Islam, they are not Muslims, but - as an artist and beyond Islam - all have a special relationship to the night. Then there is a Muslim cultural background on the issue, whether Muslim or not. This importance of the moon in Islam, of what is called "the night of doubts". It is one of the founding nights where every believer is invited to find himself the appearance of the rising crescent moon to know if it is the beginning of Ramadan or the closing of Ramadan.
They are also civilizations where we live at night. The night, before being a motive, is a real experience, body, sensory, synesthesia. It seems to me even stronger in Islam than in other civilizations, because it's really a collective experience.
"Sufic Triptych II" by the Egyptian artist Armen Agop and "It's always night or we would not need light 33 ° 37'90N, 44 ° 31'74E (Ibn Muqla) by the German artist Timo Nasseri in the exhibition "The Eye and the Night" at the Institute of Islamic Cultures. © Siegfried Forster / RFI
East side, we know The Thousand and One Nights , side Western, we know the chiaroscuro of Rembrandt. In Islamic cultures, what is for you the major artistic invention in relation to the night ?
For me, it would be more literary. When one thinks, for example, of poetry and the Arabic language, the semantic field of the night is absolutely incredible, much wider than at home. There is also the example with the video of Anri Sala, Lak Kat (" mother tongue ") , which does not speak of the night, but the way we say [in Wolof, Ed] the word "black" , or how one describes darkness and these visual phenomena of dark and light. So, it's interesting to see how the night is crossed, at any moment, by a political field, a historical field ... I wanted a very physical relationship to things, a little intimate, that we can through this exhibition to remember all those little inner feelings that night creates. From the worst to the best.
In her series "Moongold", the Lebanese artist Stéphanie Saadé captures the moon with her mobile phone and hides and enhances the moon in her images with gold leaves. © Siegfried Forster / RFI
► The Eye and the Night , exhibition at the Institute of Islamic Cultures (ICI), Paris, from September 19, 2019 to February 9, 2020.
► The ICI accompanies the exhibition with a very rich programming exploring the night by crossing the disciplines: concerts, conferences, literature, poetry, cinema, workshops ...
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Q: Why do you name it Spark It! My Way?
I have always been intrigued by how electricity works. I learned electricity and had a practical lab on circuits in high school. I was electrified, in more than one way, by the vast capability of electricity. I also found out that my hometown is suffering from routine blackouts. I particularly hated it when they shut the grid off while I was playing PS2.
SPARK! There goes a fuse in my head, signalling the inception of an idea in my head. I decided to become an Electrical Engineer who can lay down circuits that connect problems with solutions. The phrase My Way serves as a reminder to always be proud of who I am and continuously carve my own path in life.
Q: What are your interests or hobbies?
Read. I have so many books, I tell you. I read Non-Fiction and Fiction. Currently I am reading Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis.
Sing. I am a chorister in Magnificat, Indonesian congregation choir at Bukit Batok Presbyterian Church.
Learn. I love to learn stuff. I am a chronic student of many subjects. I am actively learning German in Duolingo to prepare for grad study in Germany.
You can reach me on Facebook or email me at arga.saragih@gmail.com. Please be mindful on sharing my email address.
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Islamabad: The Pakistani government has initiated a process of seeking extradition of its former ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani on allegations of embezzlement following its failure to get him through Interpol.The Interior Ministry has transferred a 355-page extradition dossier to Pakistan's Foreign Office, which will be sent to the State Department for Haqqani's extradition, Dawn newspaper reported on Saturday citing an official.
Haqqani, who served as ambassador from 2008 to 2011 in US, was removed from office for his alleged role in the "Memogate" issue. The controversy revolved around a memorandum ostensibly seeking help from the Obama administration in the wake of the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden to avert a military takeover in Pakistan.
In January 2018, Chief Justice Saqib Nisar had reopened the Memogate case based on a petition filed in November 2011 by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and several others and demanded that Haqqani be produced before the Supreme Court.
The Federal Investigation Agency registered a case for embezzlement of $2 million against Haqqani in March 2018 relating to his tenure as ambassador, expecting that a criminal charge would result in Interpol acting against Haqqani. Interpol, however, turned down the FIA request to issue arrest warrants for Haqqani, who is now based in Washington.The embezzlement case was now being made the basis for seeking his extradition.
According to the daily, the officials at the Foreign Office, who have been following the case, didn't appear very hopeful about the extradition request. The US, legal experts say, does not extradite in "political cases" and Haqqani's case potentially falls in that category. They said that even if the State Department agrees, the process could entail lengthy court proceedings before the extradition can take place.
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"I'm living in a world that makes too much sense to me."
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of catching Sons of an Illustrious Father live here in Toronto at a small bar known as The Baby G. The trio is comprised of Josh Aubin, Lilah Larson and Ezra Miller and all of them are extremely talented. I had known of Ezra through his various characters on film (Perks of Being a Wallflower, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and the upcoming Justice League film to name a few), but I had no idea that he was in a band with two of his close friends and that they all live and create music together in New York. I was astonished to see that all throughout the show, all three bandmates would rotate instruments without a hitch. Their music is just raw and full of emotion and I'm glad I was able to capture them on camera.
After the show I got the chance to hang around and meet all three members of the band. They were all humble and down to earth. In the pictures below you can see a friend that was with us had challenged all three of them to a thumb war match and all three had taken up the challenge and prevailed.
You can find out more about Sons of an Illustrious Father on their website and I definitely recommend putting on a pair of headphones and giving their record a listen.


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Microsoft and Kenwood Enter Into Broad Patent Licensing Agreement to Foster Innovation and Collaboration
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REDMOND, Wash., and TOKYO — Sept. 24, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. and Kenwood Corp. have signed a patent cross-license agreement to further the development of each company's current and future product lines, which will expand technological innovation and enhance the overall customer and consumer experience.
The agreement, recently signed by representatives of both companies at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., expands the relationship between Kenwood and Microsoft to promote the exchange of information and the incorporation of patented technologies in car navigation systems and other consumer electronics products.
"This agreement is an example of how industry leaders can use intellectual property licensing as a means of collaboration to foster innovation that will benefit the customer, consumer and the overall IT ecosystem," said Horacio Gutierrez, vice president of Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft. "We are proud of the quality of our broad, global patent portfolio and look forward to continuing to work with Kenwood and other industry leaders to develop new and exciting technologies through our licensing program."
"This agreement expands the scope of collaborative relations between the two parties," said Kazuo Ishiguro, vice president of Intellectual Property at Kenwood. "We expect this will accelerate product development by sharing the technologies that Microsoft and Kenwood have developed. It also provides an environment for our customers to utilize the products and services provided by both companies."
While the specific financial terms of the agreement are confidential, the parties indicated that Kenwood is making a cash payment to Microsoft for the license to Microsoft® patents.
Microsoft's Commitment to Licensing Technology
This licensing agreement is another example of the important role intellectual property (IP) plays in ensuring a healthy and vibrant IT ecosystem. Since Microsoft launched its IP licensing program in December 2003, the company has entered into more than 200 licensing agreements and continues to develop programs that make it possible for customers, partners and competitors to access its IP portfolio. The program was developed to open up access to Microsoft's significant research and development investments and its growing, broad patent and IP portfolio. In the past year, Microsoft has entered into similar agreements with Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., LG Electronics, NEC Corp, Nortel Networks, Novell Inc., Samsung and Seiko Epson Corp.
More information about Microsoft's licensing programs is available at http://www.microsoft.com/ip.
About Kenwood
Kenwood, founded in 1946, has been a global leader in the business domains of sound and wireless communication. With 11 domestic and 25 overseas subsidiaries around the world, Kenwood is aiming to become a world-leading company in the field of Mobile & Home Multimedia Systems through efforts to expand and combine its core businesses of car electronics, home electronics and communications equipment under the new corporate vision — "Reaching out to discover, inspire and enhance the enjoyment of life
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Some seriously luscious locks competed for the top prize - by Alex Pierotti
In 2019, the iconic mullet made a much-welcomed return to the streets of Australia. So it was only fitting to kick off this decade by tracking down the finest set of locks in the country.
The NT News, which is famous for it's controversial and conversation-starting headlines, did the hard work for us, running a nation-wide competition to find the best mullet from down under.
The winner? Diesel Mechanic Ash Garden from Humpty Doo ( yup, that's the actual name of the town) who received 15.4 per cent of the votes.
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But Gardner admits he had a slight advantage due to his job.
"Being a diesel fitter (my hair) loves getting bathed in oil and grease," he told NT News.
"When I'm not at work it spends most of its time oily."
He also explains that instead of being inspired by the stars of the '80s, it was really a cost-cutting measure.
"It mainly started because I cut my own hair and couldn't reach the back."
While most hairstyles are just a phase, the mullet might just stick around for some time yet.
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Alex Pierotti is the Digital Content Editor for Men's Health Australia, with experience reporting on health, fitness and sport. With a Journalism degree from UNSW under his belt, he got his start working in TV, working on the live broadcast of the Intrust Super Shute Shield on 7TWO before making the switch to print and digital at Pacific Magazines.


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Maduro - let your people Eat! Venezuela in Crisis
Scavenging for food in trash. Kidnapping for random money to afford toilet paper. Venezuela is about to blow
Venezuelan holding a sign that reads (in Spanish) " I don't want to live anymore in fear"
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Would you believe it if I told you that Venezuela was one of the richest countries in Latin America? Hard to believe with the current flow of images that flash in front of us like fireworks concerning malnourished infants and citizens savaging for food. But the truth is Venezuela is rich – it has the world's largest deposits of oil in the world. But the issue is that it's mismanaged, as the country has gone through a downward spiral since the death of former President Hugo Chavez, with the rise of current President Nicolas Maduro to the post. And Maduro has lacked everything that Hugo Chavez was notorious for – mainly charisma and conviction.
Since 2014, inflation has risen rapidly leaving food items such as milk becoming a luxury amenity. People queue for hours in the morning just to be able to buy toilet paper – only to despair that it's already gone by the time they get in.
People are become desperate in Caracas – and angry. Kidnappings for cash are just as rampant as the protests against the government, making Caracas more dangerous than Mogadishu or Karachi.
At present, there isn't much that can be done to help Venezuela, except raise awareness to the humanitarian need that's present. Basic items such as foods and toiletries need to be sent and medicine needs to be secured (as supplies are rapidly depleting). The Venezuelan Government needs to open dialogue with international humanitarian organisation to at least provide the basic care and support to the people during this turbulent times. It's not for the international community to intervene but it is their duty to assist the people where needed as Venezuela's problem is one that needs a Venezuelan answer.
The key issue though is that the government refuses to acknowledge the humanitarian urgency in the country. Representatives of Maduro and his government have come on the air multiple times asserting that the country is fine and that the crises is "blown out of proportion".
They may feel that is the case but the stories from the ground both from my own contacts and colleagues in Venezuela says otherwise. It is time that the government remove itself from its high horse and admit to needing humanitarian assistance for its people. In doing so, it will save face in the midst of lack of confidence (48% of country prefers the opposition party and it's growing, while 50% want the president to do something now to fix the economy) and level the frustrations of the citizens that reduce them to resorting to violence and desperate measures (such as eating from garbage dumps in search of food). More importantly, it will ensure the population lives to see the elections scheduled for next year.
There's an expression in Spanish when you are at the tipping point of your anger and where any small action that annoys you can lead to full boil – "ser como agua para chocolate" (to be like water for chocolate). As servants to the county and the struggling population, it is vital the Venezuelan government permit humanitarian aid to offer vital support for its people for if not, the Venezuelan people will not just boil – they'll explode.
Venezuelan-American Comedian Joanna Hausmann gives a brief (and comical) easy-to-understand overview on the background of the crisis and the current frustrations of the Venezuelan people in this clip.
Venezuela is on the Brink of Collapse and this documentary does justice in explaining what is going on in full detail via Al Jazeera.
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I am still in Asia. I turned on my American phone today and it says that it has a full signal but it is "roaming." Yeah, I guess so! I am tempted to talk on it for a minute just to see what kind of charges I would get.