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The Four Senses performances with a symphony orchestra were a translation of sound into light, colour, and smell.
The 'Four Senses' 1999,2002 concerts were to engage and reframe perception of music and to play with subjective experiences and simulated synesthesia. Each sensory element was constructed from information relating to the other elements. The associations and correspondences of the elements made by the audience was according to their own individual and personal experiences.
The investigations include perception, misinterpretation, fictional translations and the sensory worlds of the blind/deaf: of hearing, of breathing in, and of visualizing music.
The Four Senses 2002 were a collaboration between Raewyn Turner (NZ) and Tony Brooks(UK).
Tony Brooks utilised sensors, software and projectors to create an interactive system capturing movement from the orchestra and translating it into painting with coloured light. In this way the orchestra conductor was able to "paint" the scene through his gestures within an interactive space. Similarly orchestra members, dancers and a special signing choir for the deaf images were blended into the backdrop in real-time such that their velocity of movement affected the color of image generation and collage composition.
Raewyn Turner interpreted the sound to colour and smell using the correspondences that she made between sound/silence and light/dark. The translations involved intuitive drawing, charts, measurements, referral to the seasonal time of harvest of aromatic plants, and an equation which produces a selection of plants from which to choose smell pitch.
The performances were an improvisation and a real - time translation of sound and the gestures of making that sound, into light and colour, and multiple layers of smell. The light collage thus created was a play of interaction between live video feeds and sensors, and coloured light pre-programmed to an interpretation of sound, each affecting the other in a dynamic visual loop.
The 2002 performances, the second series of concerts, were with the Aotea Youth Symphony Orchestra and included mixed ability dance group Touch Compass, a deaf signing choir Hhands and sight impaired vocalist Caitlin Smith. There were tactile cushions and balloons available in the auditorium for those with hearing disability.
available. At a meeting of parents this week we heard from the caregivers of the gratifying response that their very handicapped charges made to this fantastic sensory experience. Delight was the common reaction, it seems, and also a stillness that they rarely show that indicated they were receiving the stimuli."


Four years ago, nearly 105,000 people signed a petition launched by the WOW Campaign that called on the government to carry out a cumulative impact assessment (CIA) of the cuts.
That petition led to a debate in February 2014, the first time disabled people had secured a debate in the main chamber of the House of Commons on an agenda they had chosen themselves.
The WOW (War On Welfare) Campaign has been largely dormant for more than two years, but key figures now believe the time is right for a relaunch and a second WOW debate.
Activists are working to secure cross-party backing for another debate that would call on ministers to defend their refusal to calculate the overall impact of their cuts on disabled people.
This time, WOW is hoping to secure a debate through a request from supportive MPs to the backbench business committee, rather than through a petition to parliament.
Initial support has already come, they say, from Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell – who led the WOW debate in 2014 – Green MP Caroline Lucas, and Kate Green, Labour's former shadow minister for disabled people, as well as SNP and Liberal Democrat MPs.
Green said she was "still at the stage of investigating possibilities", including "discussing exactly what a debate would cover, for example would it be just on benefit cuts or wider, given the comprehensively damning assessment from the UN since the original petition".
But she said she was hoping to draw together "a number of colleagues to apply for a backbench business debate" and was now working with others to build cross-party support "as that would strengthen any application".
As part of their campaigning push, WOW campaigners are planning a new website that will highlight the stories of disabled people impacted by eight years of austerity cuts.
Michelle Maher, one of the earliest members of the WOW Campaign, said: "The CIA is what we have been fighting for forever, because they don't want the figure out there, they have never wanted the figure out there.
WOW campaigners point out that the list of respected organisations that have called for such an assessment continues to grow.
It includes the UN committee on the rights of persons with disabilities, the government's own social security advice body, and peers on the House of Lords Equality Act 2010 and disability committee.
And the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published a report in March which calculated its own cumulative impact assessment of all the tax, national insurance, social security and minimum wage reforms introduced between May 2010 and January 2018.
EHRC's report calculated that some disabled lone parents would eventually lose more than 30 per cent of their income – more than £11,000 a year – due to eight years of cuts.


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Q: Is there any reason why the moduli and axion fields are not observable in string theory? One of the biggest criticisms put forth by the common skeptics of string theory is that we don't observe the moduli and axion fields that the theory predicts, and so we have to hide these fields so the theory doesn't conflict with observation. But, is there any reason WHY these fields are unobservable in string theory?
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I am often asked what it takes to become a writer or "How can I do what you do?" The answer is not complicated. Anyone can write. Even if you were never a contestant for your eighth grade spelling bee, there is spell check. It is a marvelous invention. All of us have access to a dictionary, a thesaurus and a myriad of books and articles on how to write. The following are some tips to get you started.
Pay attention to what you tell yourself, in your sleep. I often think that I have written a bestseller, on the nights, when I do not get up and write down my thoughts. I keep a pad of paper by my bed. When I get that eureka moment, in my sleep, I get up and jot it down. Some nights, I go right back to sleep. Other nights, I can�t wait to put my thoughts on paper and am off and running.
The early riser gets the article written. I am often awake before anyone else in my household. In the quiet of the early morning, ideas for articles or often the entire article, will come to me. Of course, this can play havoc with a social life. If I don�t retire at a reasonable hour, I am an irritable writer.
Read. There is no one person that is an authority on everything. What you don�t know, find out. Read everything pertaining to your field of interest that you can get your hands on. If you want to be a writer of fiction, read what you love. My interest and love, is a search for balance in life and helping others to achieve it. I try to read, talk and breathe balance. If we recognize that we are all a part of this human race, why not love it?
Talk and listen to others. I try and engage others in conversation as much as possible, in the grocery store, the mall, the post office, etc. Yes. I am one of those annoyingly interested people. I am interested in everything and will talk to you about anything. I also listen. By listening, which is also a part of the conversational gambit, I learn about others interests, needs and loves. Writers, write best, when they write what they know.
Writers, write. This is probably the most important part of writing. It separates the ones that want to be writers from the ones that succeed. If you feel that you have something important to say, put it on paper. It doesn�t matter if your initial draft is intelligible. That is what the re-write is for, to hone your thoughts.
Take an interest in life. Successful writers write about topics that inform, entertain, uplift or in some way fill the needs which we, as a human race, carry in our minds and hearts. When I began writing, I read a quote from Erma Bombeck, a humorist, syndicated columnist and successful author for many years. She said," Not a day goes by that I don�t hear from aspiring writers who have questions. "What if I fail?" ("What if you succeed?")." If you want to be a writer, begin today. Sit down and put pencil to paper or fingers to keyboard. I wish you much success.
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sue saunders
Preston and Who?
19 magazine, alkasura, jane wealands, kiki byrne, laverne preston, marc bolan, rod stewart, sue saunders
When you collect and devour as many vintage magazines as I do, there are a few important life lessons you begin to realise. The first is that regardless of what they may say, all photos now are airbrushed. You can tell this because all photos in vintage magazines are not airbrushed. People have blemishes and bumps, you either re-shot the entire editorial or you put it in, warts and all. The second is that people's major life problems and desires are no different now to how they were then. There might be a little more of a whiff of old-fashioned values, but, ultimately, people just want a rewarding job, sizzling sex life and somewhere nice to live.
A more interesting and less generic lesson is this: Not everyone who has a large magazine feature about them and their talent is guaranteed any level of success. Surely most people are somewhat susceptible to that green-eyed monster, when they see a rival (or, worse, someone they've never heard of) featured heavily in a magazine article about 'up and coming' talents or 'renowned authorities'. You wish nothing but success for fellow human beings, naturally, but you may wonder why you have been overlooked or fear you have missed some vital step on the road to becoming a major player in your chosen field.
But the number of magazines I read, which feature 'up and coming' new fashion designers who even I have never heard of (me, boutique-geek, not the foggiest….), is astonishing. This particular article from 19 Magazine is one of the most striking. The incredible photo, the incredible clothes, the fact that they are the main feature in an article which also covers Wendy Dagworthy. Tell me, who on earth has ever heard of Preston and Saunders? I've googled, and googled. Unless I'm missing something, there's nary a trace of them anywhere.
Laverne Preston wears a hand-sprayed and beaded jacket with print designed by Jane Wealands. Sue Saunders in her hand-sprayed Egyptian printed kimono.
Which is a shame. Clearly they had talent. But what happened to them? Where are the Preston and Saunders clothes? Why is this the only reference in any magazine I've ever seen?
I must admit, I'm really hoping that either will google themselves and find me. I really want to know what happened to them! I also think this is a very good quote, and remains an important point to make in 2011.
"There is no reason why we can't do hand embroidery just because we're living in 1974"
19 Magazine. May, 1974. Photo by Graham Hughes.
Leading Ladies with Designs on You
Laverne Preston and Sue Saunders have just formed Preston & Saunders with no capital at all. They've been offered backing, but it's a case of once bitten, twice shy.
Of the designers we interviewed, we found that Laverne had the most 'experiences'.
"l've lost thousands of pounds . . . people I've done collections for that have made a fortune out of me, and, of course, names! I've made two companies complete, you know, names, and earned very little money out of it for myself.
So we decided to eliminate such people. That's why we really don't want backing, a few thousands, yes, but not real backing. Once you get that, you make a name for the company, you get masses of Press, you get a story for them—and then, that's it. "I had four years at art college, a year in Paris making tea, before I became a designer for Maggy Rouff under an architect called Serge Matta. This had the biggest influence ever on my designing because he was so pure and I was very into architects, anyway.
"Then I went to Kiki Byrne, Young Jaeger, Consortium, C&A Modes and, finally, Maudie Moon, which was great fun. I then decided to give up the whole rag trade, buy antiques, study embroidery, etc. I tra- velled all over England looking at different handicrafts.
"After this, I worked again for another company and was nearly had up for assault—I blackened an eye—so I left, called Sue and said, `Why don't we get together. because I can't keep blackening people's eyes', and that was it."
Sue Saunders has had gentler experiences. She spent eight years at art colleges, start- ing in the provinces and end· ing up at The Royal College of Art. then she taught silk-screen printing in the graphics department of East Ham College of Technology for two years, and freelanced.
"I started up the printing studio with a company called Luckies, which used to do pop furniture. It went bust so I got out of that. Then I met Jane Wealands, whom I was with at college, and we set up OK. Textiles, which was just short runs of our designs, We could not get them into production as nobody wanted to buy that sort of thing. We started off wanting to do furnishing fabric, but it ended up with most of our designs being used for things like men's shirting.
"We did lovely stuff for Johnson & Johnson and Alkasura, and have done jackets for Rod Stewart and Marc Bolan and people like that. It was at that time that I met Laverne. "Jane wanted to go into graphics and I was left on my own. I wanted to do something worthwhile and design for an end product. I had no control over the things I sold – what they were used for.
"They were usually men's things and I thought it would be nice to do things for ladies for a change. It also gave me an outlet for my sprayed fabrics, which are hand··sprayed with spray guns, as well as printed. I would much rather do one-off things than produce yards and yards of fabric.
"I can do any print I want, but I do change things for Laverne if it doesn't fit the pattern of the garment. The kimono I'm wearing (it had a beautiful Egyptian print) was done for my boyfriend, Jeffrey Mitchell. He's just got a new band called Hollywood, and I guess we'll be doing things for them. It's nice to do special things for people. This is specially for Jeffrey, because he's into Egyptian things and so am I."
Did she think that art colleges helped one to get jobs in a practical sense?
"No, I don't think they do. They are good in that they give you some time to be able to learn certain things and be able to experiment. One can't do that once out of college and into a set-up like ours. College gave me the opportunity to do mad, inflatable things which I wouldn't be interested in doing now. I've got it out of my system. I think students should spend a month a year working for a commercial company and then go back to reassess their thinking."
Preston. & Saunders will be a fairly expensive label to start with. They have done a range to sell exclusively at Elle shops, and all the garments will be a mixture of tamber beading, hand embroidery and hand-padded flowers in relief on velvet.
Laverne adds: "The more money we earn, the more staff we can employ, and the prices will come down. I don't want to use factories. All they want to do is shove through an order for 800 garments at a time. "There are masses of women at home who have children and can't go out to work because of them, and this gives them a chance to do something interesting.
"There is no reason why we can't do hand embroidery just because we're living in 1974. I always wear antique clothes and love anything with embroidery or texture. One of the reasons I went into this is because the really beautiful antique clothes are completely out-priced."
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New Zealand. Land of beauty, mystery and more coach tours than you can shear a sheep at, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Sir Peter Jackson Ltd, and rented out to a) The Chinese Water Company Inc (North Island) and b) British 20 somethings from Croydon and Swindon (South Island: Queenstown and surrounds). The People Who Used To Own It of course Never Did, as they, the Maoris, arrived from PolyKneesia, and anyone with more than one knee who says otherwise hasn't a leg to stand on. In fact "Key-Wee" (literally "small door unlocking implement") was so believed by the Maori People as belonging to the original Hobbits, who occupied homes of greatly reduced size years earlier.
Awesome (Not awesome but generally OK, fair enough, reasonable I suppose).
Travel here is via Coach Tours, as there are only 2 trains running on an every other day basis (quite true). My bearded frustrated racing driver cousin JBT, after outpacing 3 Porsches and a Terrahawk Missile on several spiral mountain highways, joined me for Six Days of Scenic Splendour (© Frodo Films 2001-2016). We soon encountered severe cases of Bus Driver's Exploding Mouth, which is like a stomach upset except The Running Commentary mustn't force you to charge to the onboard loo, as "That place is not rickameendud".
This common disease was introduced to NZ in 1853, along with, we were regularly informed, 437 kinds of tree, and regular Earthquakes (sadly), which has resulted in an increased population of rabbits and possums (Latin: Possa), now usefully provided as target practice for lorries, skin traders and my cousin.
Our Train audio guide regularly moved into Angela Rippon English (google it) along the lines of: The Kikilakahunapuhe, or literally "Supermarket Trolley", was introduced in 1868, which has resulted in an increase in the vole population. "Literally" is the most important word in her armoury. For instance,"Te Cochay weelee Gaia tutukaka lamalama dingdong", literally, "every bus driver tour guide has extreme verbal diarrhoea that hails from the mountains".
One does have to admire however the endless and precise descriptions of said mountains, lakes, trees, birds, golf courses, Hobbit Locations (© Frodo Filanthropism 2001-2016), squashed possums, leaves, streams, waterfalls, pie shops, Mrs Jones' Original Manuka Honey Products Emporium and Maorimibilia (© Interim Productions 2017) and thus all must follow these with intense periods of Fridge Magnet Purchase and Export (© Morrrrrdorrrrrrr Magnetic Enterprises 2001-2017).
Fortunately for JBT and I, Beauty Overload Inoculations were introduced in 1869, allowing us to gaze continually in genuine awe, while leaving the locals to spend their time wearing black socks in sandals, say Mittel instead of mettle, and get very angry at the opposition at the beginning of games of rugby.
Finally, the 21st century has given rise to Advanced Ring Burn, whereby tours arranged by Sir Peter Jackson (© Tourist Trappes 2001-2016) to popular destinations such as Elodor's Rim, Hobbiton Shoppe, and Rotorua Whiff are so plentiful that a new refrigerator industry has emerged as locations for the abundance of fridge magnets alone.
Suffice to say, The Most Beautiful Country on Earth delivers spectacularly whilst providing excellent career opportunities in Tour Narration, Tattoo Training and Roadkill Collection. (As Dame Edna would have said: "Goodbye, POSSUMS").
So it's Farewell to NZ and my most beloved Family and Friends here. Missing you already. Will leave to return to The Pacific Ocean for the Next Instalment of Betwixt The Interim 4: Return to Blighty, Trump Trump Trump. No tornadoes please.


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Islam and Pluralism (14 Aug 2008 NewAgeIslam.Com)
Saudi man kills daughter for converting to Christianity
By Mariam Al Hakeem
Riyadh: A Saudi man working with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recently killed his daughter for converting to Christianity.
According to sources close to the victim, the religious police member had cut the tongue of the girl and burned her to death following a heated debate on religion.
The death of the girl sent shockwaves and websites where the victim used to write with various nick names have allocated special space to mourn her, while some others closed temporarily in protest.
According to the Saudi Al Ukhdoud news website, the victim wrote an article on the blog of which she was a member under the nickname "Rania" a few days before her murder.
She wrote that her life became an ordeal after her family members grew suspicious about her after a religious discussion with them.
She said that her brother found some Christian articles written by her as well as a cross sign on her computer screen. Since then he started to insult her and blamed the internet for pushing her to change her religion.
The "Free Copts" website published a message which it received from a friend of the victim, revealing that the killer is in police custody and that he is being investigated for an honour related crime.
Saudi religious scholars have frequently warned against the dangers of Christian internet websites and satellite TV channels which attract Muslim youngsters to change their religion.
They decreed that watching these channels or browsing these websites which call for conversion to Christianity by various means is against the teachings of Islam.
Source: gulfnews.com
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam-and-pluralism/saudi-man-kills-daughter-for-converting-to-christianity/d/539
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How fortunate we are, in the city of Kingston, (Victoria, Australia) to have someone like Julia Reichstein to support and nurture local writers. Via her Author for All Seasons events at the Mentone Public Library , she not only showcases local writers, but also supportive organisations such as the Mordialloc Writers Group.
This group meets every second Tuesday to workshop work in progress and has seen both my novels in their raw form.
For over twenty years, creative writing teacher and author, Mairi Neil has been the founder and mainstay of the group. Her editing expertise is legendary. Through her tireless efforts many local writers have had their stories published in the eight anthologies produced. I count myself fortunate to be amongst them.
I was delighted to be with her and members of the group to showcase our latest anthology of essays, Kingston Our City.
Julia also invited me to give an author talk on Saturday, 26th November 2016 and has sent out fabulous flyers showcasing my book cover for my latest novel to be published this year by MadeGlobal Publishing.com. Another Victorian author Wendy J Dunn has had her third historical novel Falling Pomegranate Seeds published by MadeGlobal in 2016.
Something Missing is about Diane, a naive young married woman who knows that there must be more to life than hairdressing and mothering and needs to discover what it is. When she meets in outback Australia, an older, 'educated' American she is attracted by Maggie's self confidence and broad literary and general knowledge. Diane instigates a pen-pal relationship in the desire to absorb wisdom from Maggie and her knowledge of the world. Something Missing is a story about growing up, growing old, of love, lies and reconciliation.
Below is the flyer she has sent out for me.
Glenice will be talking about the process involved in publishing Pickle to Pie (Ilura Press) and her latest novel, Something Missing by MadeGlobal Publishing.com.
With people like Julia, Mairi Neil and the Mordialloc Writers Group writing is no longer a solitary occupation. It is a shared experience with like minded people who care.
we are lucky to have Julia and her author voice series and also you as a local author.
hope all is well and you have a great weekend.
What time is it, Glenice?
Lovely to see you here, Lisa. I had to double check but it is 11am Sat 26th Nov at the Mentone Library. xxxxx. I think it finishes about 12.30 if I allow time for questions. There are sure to be some concerning how to get your work published.
Congratulations for this wonderful day.
I wish I could be there in body.
Looking forward to reading SOMETHING MISSING.
I know exactly how that feels. You have my full emahtpy. Did you like garlic before all that? I remember liking pumpkin pie as a kid, but now even the thought of it makes me queasy.


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Changes afoot at TBWA
The agency has hired Darrin Patey as its new lead technologist and promoted two others to leadership positions amid a shift in global focus.
TBWA\Canada has three new leaders in its Toronto office as president Jay Bertram refocuses his efforts on strengthening the agency's Canadian operations.
In Toronto, the agency has hired Darrin Patey (pictured) as its lead creative technologist. Patey joins after eight years at fellow Omnicom agency Proximity, where he first met Mark Pileggi, who at the time was working at BBDO Toronto as VP account director and then hired as TBWA\Toronto's director of digital and operations in January. Pileggi brought Patey to the attention of Bertram and ECD Allen Oke, and together will be filling the hole left by Troy Forster, who left his post as director of creative technology for marketing startup Horizon Studios in January.
Patey will work across clients, but more importantly, he will focus on new business, says Bertram, adding that Patey will help bring digital solutions to some of the agency's growing clients. "He is a digital adult. He finds ways to communicate complex issues in a simple way for clients and gives them a great degree of confidence and trust that he'll be able to do what he says he'll do."
While at BBDO Proximity, Patey worked on tech and digital solutions on campaigns for Lay's, Doritos and Rogers.
The agency also announced a pair of promotions. On the creative side, ACD and art director Susie Lee has been promoted to creative director of design, running the agency's design work, overseeing its staff of five designers and working closely with CDs Gerald Kugler and Rodger Eyre.
"Susie has proven herself over the last couple of years as one of the best designers in the city," Bertram says, crediting her for some of the agency's recent award wins, including a Gold and five Silvers at the Bessies. "It was natural for Allen [Oke] to promote her to head of design."
Calvin Daniels has also been promoted from group brand director to head of client services. While Daniels will continue to lead TBWA's Nissan business, his new role will seem him assist Bertram in the day-to-day operations of the agency.
"People who know me know that I'm good at a few things and not so good at a lot of things. Calvin is very good at a lot of things and will be a great complement to me," Bertram says. "Initially, he is going to help drive all of the account people, but he is part of the leadership team now and helping set the direction for the agency."
Daniels joined TBWA in 2012, having previously been managing partner at One Group and EVP, managing director at BBDO's now-defunct Windsor office.
Last week, TBWA\Worldwide announced a number of executive changes as it moved to a global client market structure, moving away from the previous, rigid regional structure and instead having its core markets report directly into global. Bertram had previously been overseeing the operations of the Latin American offices in addition to Canada for the last three years, but these changes allow him to devote his focus entirely to the agency's Canadian operations in Toronto and Montreal.
"My mandate is to get the Canadian operation up and moving stronger," Bertram says. "For the last three years, I haven't been able to give it as much time as I can. It's very hard to have ten plates spinning at once. If you can focus on one thing, you make more impact, so in that way, it's beneficial. And I haven't been this excited about our agency's potential and what we're doing since 1991."
The changes also saw Omnicom-owned agency Juniper Park, which had at one point been reporting to BBDO, be brought under the ownership of TBWA\Worldwide, maintaining its independence, structure and leadership under president Jill Nykoliation but reporting to TBWA\Worldwide president and CEO Troy Ruhanen. Bertram says a big part of that move was Juniper Park using its experience working with Miller Light to assist TBWA\Chiat\Day win that account in the U.S., and it made sense to bring that agency under the TBWA banner, staying separate but providing assistance where it can.
Calvin Daniels, Darrin Patey, Jay Bertram, Jill Nykoliation, Juniper Park, Mark Pileggi, Susie Lee, TBWA, TBWA Canada, TBWA toronto, TBWA/Toronto, TBWA\Canada
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for those who make long ppt presentations that nobody reads.
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Q: ReactJS Bootstrap Modal on Top I have a modal with some tables, clicking on a row will open another modal which i was hoping to be on top, but the "modal-body" seems to display some info of the first modal!
Any help would be great! Thanks!

I´m able to scroll the tables from the modal below
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A: How did i fix it
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Kerala HC junks plea to remove PM's photo from Covid vaccine certificates
By IANS
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging the picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Covid vaccine certificates and imposed a fine of Rs one lakh on the petitioner.
Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan said: "This is a frivolous petition filed with ulterior motives and I have a strong doubt that there is political agenda also to petitioner. According to me, this is a publicity oriented litigation. Therefore, this is a fit case that is to be dismissed with a heavy cost," said the judge.
The petitioner argued that a vaccination certificate was his private space and he has certain rights over it.
He argued that since he had paid for his vaccination, the state has no right to claim the credit by inserting a photograph of the Prime Minister in the certificate issued to him.
Incidentally, when this petition came up early this month, the judge asked the petitioner why he was ashamed of having Modi's photo on the vaccination certificates and had pointed out that he was wasting judicial time.
(The story has been published via a syndicated feed)
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केरल में एक ईसाई महिला ने लगाया पति पर इस्लाम में जबरन मतांतरण का आरोप
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See These Twins Kick Around in the Womb in Detailed MRI Video
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Researchers use MRI video to view detailed development of the different experience twins have in the womb. (Image: Marisa Taylor-Clarke, Robert Steiner MR Unit/Imperial College via New Scientist)
It's not the first time twins have been filmed before inside the womb. It is the first time they can be seen in such detail, given the film was made using images taken from MRI.
New Scientist states that magnetic resonance imaging takes photos of "thin slices of the body" repetitively and "stitches them together" to create such a detailed video:
"A lot of the so-called videos in the womb are very processed, so they do a lot of reconstructing and computer work afterwards. These are the raw images that are acquired immediately," says Marisa Taylor-Clarke of theRobert Steiner MR Unit at Imperial College London, who recorded the images.
See how clear the images and movement of the twins are for yourself:
New Scientist states Taylor-Clarke is using this technique to study a fairly common complication among twins where their blood supply becomes connected. As you can see in the video, one of the twins is clearly larger, as it is receiving more of the blood supply.
Taylor-Clarke, more specifically, is researching the consequences of the operation performed to stop the shared blood supply.
Taylor-Clarke's research is still ongoing, but beyond the main objective of the project, it is also revealing so much more that could be used to predict complications before birth and about twin development in general. The research has already begun to show that even though they are genetically identical and in the same environment, they have different experiences while in the womb that can impact their development.


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The Transcendent and the Perverse: Sexuality in Apollo's Song and MW
By: Malia | December 18, 2019 | 0 Comments
CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, misogyny, queerphobia, and bestiality; minor nudity; brief mentions of antisemitism and beastiality.
SPOILERS for MW and Apollo's Song.
As the "Walt Disney" of anime and manga, Tezuka Osamu is a name that any fan of either medium immediately recognizes. Similar to Disney's reputation, Tezuka is best known for his adorably pleasant art style and family-friendly works, especially in the US where only a fraction of his bibliography is officially available in English. This wholesome image persists today, even though Tezuka himself had tried to distance himself from it.
In the 1960s, a manga genre called "gekiga" emerged. The term translates to "dramatic pictures" and was intended as a contrast to manga, or "whimsical pictures." It was a movement of manga artists pushing back against the more "childish" and "silly" perception of manga which Tezuka had pioneered. With attention and popularity shifting towards this kind of manga that tackled more mature subjects, such as explicit violence and sexuality, Tezuka put forth his own gekiga.
As with his previous works, he still included his trademark progressive ideals, from themes of environmentalism to anti-discrimination, but in gekiga they were molded to more adult material. His gekiga show some artistic experimentation, but also dig further into his conservative ideas about gender and sexuality, which were more ignorable in titles aimed at wider audiences, like Princess Knight and Black Jack. Two stories in particular, Apollo's Song and MW, hammer in how much of his work was steeped in heteronormativity and homophobia.
Inevitable Heteronormativity in Apollo's Song
Apollo's Song was serialized in 1970 and follows Shogo Kaishi, a disaffected youth who's been sent to a psychiatric facility for his violent attacks against animals. He specifically targets affectionate pairs of animals, as Shogo detests the concept of love due to his own unloving upbringing by a single mother.
While undergoing electroshock therapy, he has visions of a goddess sentencing him to tragically fall in love over and over again. This kickstarts a series of dreamy, melodramatic vignettes strung along by an overarching narrative about Shogo experiencing the pain and joy of romantic love.
Throughout these vignettes, even when two characters are viciously hostile towards each other, they always eventually fall in love. For example, the first vision is extremely jarring, with Shogo as a Nazi soldier and his love interest as a Jewish girl on her way to a concentration camp. By the end, they die in a field together, mutually swearing their love for each other. Each of Shogo's other visions have a similar arc of romantic tragedy that ends in mutual suffering.
Note: Images are from a "flopped" edition and read left-to-right.
Tezuka touches on other subjects such as war, technology, and abuse, but its thematic core is exploring heterosexuality as a primal aspect of humanity and nature. The narration extrapolates on biological reproduction as the spiritual foundation for humankind, declaring: "It is the mark of love, truth, and sincerity between man and woman, male and female. […] As long as the world exists, men, women, and the children they bear will repeat this endless drama."
To hammer home this central theme, in another vision, Shogo is an oppressed human under the rule of his love interest, a ruling "synthian" queen. The synthian craves to understand human love, specifically cisgender, heterosexual sex. She eventually modifies her body to have human genitalia after Shogo remarks that, from his viewpoint as a human, she can't truly experience love without it.
In the end, the visions blur with reality after Shogo commits suicide in the real world over the death of a woman he fell in love with, but his soul is still condemned to suffer through tragic experiences of love again and again until the end of humankind itself. Despite this never-ending cycle of momentary bliss and final agony, heterosexuality is put on a pedestal. It is the stuff of reality and legend; the past and the future; the body and the soul.
Tezuka draws a world where modern society may throw up all kinds of obstacles, but heterosexuality is our basic nature. It's inevitable and vital, no matter how painful. Here, heterosexuality is more than mundanely normal, it's transcendent beyond logic and life.
Degenerate Queerness in MW
MW, running from 1976 to 1978, is a much more different work, a pulpy political thriller that follows two men: Iawao Garai and Michio Yuki. Yuki is an amoral serial killer who torments the families of powerful politicians. Garai is a repentant Catholic priest who listens to Yuki's confessions of brutality but refuses to turn him into the police. Their lives are entwined thanks to a government conspiracy and a tangled sexual relationship.
Yuki is the archetypal Evil, Degenerate Queer. He's completely androgynous, easily presenting himself as a handsome man or a beautiful woman. He crossdresses primarily for his murder and kidnapping plots, imitating the various women he's killed. Yuki has sex with both men and women, but mostly to further his schemes.
Yuki embodies the homophobic and transphobic stereotype of queer men as dangerous, perverted imitators of women. There is a deep dread directed at the contradictions of a man who plays a woman so easily, who is so cruelly calculating and yet indiscriminate in his sexuality.
This is especially clear when his femininity is contrasted with a cis woman whose femininity, including her romantic love for Garai, is framed as innocent and natural. Yuki's sexualized androgyny is not simply strange, but a literal weapon in his arsenal, akin to the drugs he uses to torture and kill women during sex.
Alongside that, there's a subplot in which Yuki assaults the woman who's in love with Garai, eventually pushing her to experience Stockholm Syndrome for Yuki instead. It's implied that Garai and this woman could have become a "normal," loving, heterosexual couple if not for Yuki. And if this framing of his androgyny and murders as inseparable traits wasn't enough, there's even a couple moments of implied bestiality with his pet dog to really hammer in that he's totally amoral.
Later in the manga, it's revealed that Garai and Yuki share a past as the sole survivors of an accident involving a lethal gas weapon, the eponymous MW, that poisoned an entire island military base. Yuki was not only affected by the leak as a young child, but also sexually assaulted by a teenage Garai.
These flashbacks mean to explain the current state of Yuki's violent depravity, Garai's immense guilt, and their ongoing relationship. As adults, the two men frequently engage in consensual sex, but Yuki is the one who always initiates; in contrast, Garai is conflicted and often describes the encounters as sinful.
Yuki cites Garai's assault on the island as the origin for his attraction to men, framing it as a sexual awakening. His queerness is a pathology that's inextricably tied to the MW leak. There's some sympathy for Yuki, whose mind was irrevocably warped by sexual trauma and poison, but it's more for the concept of a ruined child than Yuki specifically.
In addition, it's the tired stereotype of queerness being caused by sexual abuse—that being queer must be linked to some deep trauma that makes a person "diverge" from a "normal" life of heterosexuality. It's in this that it becomes clear that Tezuka has little care for the specifics of what it means to be LGBTQ+, instead wanting to play around with "queerness" as a broad trove of edgy storytelling toys.
Though Garai's inability to go against Yuki is shrouded under his Catholic guilt, it can also be interpreted as part of Garai's queerness, enabled by Yuki. Garai becomes an enabler in turn, even assisting in some of Yuki's crimes. While he regrets assaulting Yuki, Garai's rationale for the past rape and their current sexual relationship boil down to feeling "temptation" for Yuki's femininity, whether as a child or an adult. In essence, Garai is dragged down by Yuki's seductive queerness, whether it's in sex or crime.
Yuki is the ultimate corruptive force of heterosexual monogamy, as well as the nuclear family, killing the children of powerful men involved in the MW incident. However, erasing any remaining sympathy, Yuki clarifies that he's not really out for revenge but actually intent on releasing more MW before he himself dies from the gas's long-term effects, inducing a worldwide apocalypse. Yuki may be a victim of crooked politics that allowed the MW leak, but he's also a dangerous consequence himself.
While Tezuka does take a moment to showcase a lesbian couple as loving and not predatory, it doesn't balance out against the weight that male queerness is given in MW as a menace to society. Much of the horror relies on male queerness as not simply effeminate or odd, but truly scandalous and deviant. In creating a personification of anxieties around Cold War nuclear armament, Tezuka also posits queerness as just as monstrously devastating.
A Flawed Body of Work
Between Apollo's Song and MW, it's difficult to come away without concluding that Tezuka's ideal future just didn't include LGBTQ+ people. Each work on its own might allow for a more generous interpretation of basic ignorance, but together they paint an uneasy picture.
While he posits that gay people are stigmatized unfairly as a sexual minority, they are evidently queer for a reason; any deviation from cisheterosexuality is deviance in itself. Men's sexuality in particular can only healthily exist in certain parameters, or else it's misguided and perilous. Apollo's Song sees a boy who rejects heterosexuality as rejecting a divine truth, while MW sees two men's queerness as indicative of modern societal ruin.
Overall, Apollo's Song and MW may be most valuable as examples of Tezuka's complexity as an artist. Gekiga was a movement of manga by artists who wanted to explore more nuanced, compelling ideas in both visuals and themes. However, while the art in Apollo's Song and MW is stunning at moments, their regressive politics ultimately stunt their thematic maturity.
For manga so steeped in complications of gender and sexuality, there is a fundamental shallowness to exalting heterosexuality in the light and resigning queerness to the dark. While Apollo's Song and MW contain historical insight into Tezuka's artistic experimentation, the two stories show some deep creative limitations.
Tezuka is famous as an artist who sincerely imbued his work with politics. Even when he didn't have all the answers, there's often a strong sense of justice, imploring his fans to be critical of the powerful and empathetic towards the vulnerable. These ideals of social justice go hand-in-hand with his Disney-esque image and stature, evoking an almost godly figure of universal progressivism.
However, even Tezuka himself wanted to be understood as a more complicated artist than that. Not only should he be understood as a storyteller for adults, but also as a deeply flawed one. Sometimes creative shortcomings can be fascinating or well-intended, but they are still shortcomings.
Tezuka is only a single person, but his legacy looms large, making it even more important to discuss his work honestly. By doing so, not only can we have richer discussions about his work, but also shape his legacy to be more human.
Editor's Note: This article was edited after publication to update the header image, include additional content warnings, and add a note about the manga pages reading left-to-right.
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Gossec's Messe des Morts – Concert Reflections
Posted on May 8, 2019 by SingOn Editor
On Sunday, 5 May, the Choir presented its first subscription concert of the 2019 season, the Australian premiere of the Messe des Morts (Requiem) of the little-known François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829).
The initiative for the choice of this work came from the Choir's Immediate Past President, Jackie Rotenstein (sop), who had heard and been impressed by it during researches into less well-known composers. This turned out to be an inspired choice, as Christopher Bowen, the choristers and, importantly, the Great Hall audience were all much taken by Gossec's music, despite never having heard it before and in many cases not having heard the composer's name at all.
Throughout, Gossec conveys a strong impression of knowing what he wants to do and a sure-footed sense of how to do it. He is technically accomplished and produces some brilliant fugues that stretch the capacity of the Choir. The influence of the Mannheim school makes itself felt in some of the soprano arias, which could almost be by Mozart. Gossec's love of spectacular sound effects is strongly on show, not least in the dramatic timpani solo, which opens the work, and later in the Berlioz-like off-stage wind band, which comes into its own in the Tuba Mirum.
An additional pleasure the Choir had from doing the work was the experience of using the French pronunciation of Latin (le Latin Gallican), as taught to us by our resident French linguist, Annette Lemercier (sop). An audience member told me that she could identify some of the sounds of this in the performance, so Annette's work paid off..
An excellent quartet of soloists joined us for the concert – Anita Kyle (soprano), Keara Donohoe (alto), Matthew Reardon (tenor) and Christopher Richardson (baritone) – and sang outstandingly. The smallish orchestra was led by Alastair Duff Forbes as Concertmaster and included such regular players of ours as Heather Burnley and Inge Courtney- Haentjes (violin), Michelle Urquhart (viola), John Benz (cello), Paul Laszlo (double bass), Bronwen Needham (flute), the legendary John Cran (bassoon), Graham Nichols (horn), Melanie McLoughlin and David Pye (trumpet), Michael Wyborn (trombone) and Steve Machamer (timpani), who went to town on the opening solo mentioned above.
Perhaps put off by the unpredictable weather, the Great Hall audience was down in numbers. but included our admired Patron, Professor the Hon. Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO, whose support for and interest in the Choir are so appreciated, Joan Carden AO OBE, who continues to give her name and time to the Joan Carden Award, the singing competition organized by the Choir, and distinguished baritone, Geoffrey Chard AM, who has acted as a judge of the Award on a number of occasions. New President, Ken Dray, made a short, warm welcoming speech before the start of the work and hosted a post-concert reception in the University Senate Room for VIPs, soloists etc.
The audience loved Gossec's Requiem and, from the risers, one could feel their attention and interest gripped to the end. The applause was generous and sustained and the comments afterwards enthusiastic. There was a feeling that this composer and work represent a real find. We will await with interest the results of Greg Ghavalas's recording, to see how far we might be able to spread the results of our find. At all events, we can feel gratified that our 2019 concert season has kicked off on a very positive note.
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Inge Courtney-Haentjes says:
Wonderful description of a wonderful concert!
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Q: OpenGL Stencil Buffer, how well supported are they?
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*How commonly supported is the Stencil Buffer right now by hardware in OpenGL?

*Is it better/worse supported than shaders?

*If the hardware doesn't support it, will it be emulated in software?
I haven't been able to find any hard data on the subject unfortunately... I want to assume that since stenciling is an old technology, it'd have ubiquitous support.  However, being an old technology, it could just as easily be getting phased out of newer GPU hardware in favour of fragment shaders.
In my scenario, I'd be using an 8-bit stencil buffer in combination with a 24-bit depth buffer, used with VBOs (if that affects anything).  If I use the stencil buffer, it won't be possible for those without stencil support to be able to play the game I'm making, thus the worry.  If they can at least emulate the stenciling effect in software, while it wouldn't be ideal, it would be enough to put my fears to rest.

A: Stencil buffers are still in the OpenGL 4.4 spec. They're described in section 9.1 and stencil tests are section 17.3.5.
You're guaranteed stencil buffers. Whether they're done on the GPU or in software is an implementation detail. Any machine that can run the version of OpenGL you're targeting should be able to handle stencil testing on the CPU without breaking a sweat.

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How commonly supported is the Stencil Buffer right now by hardware in OpenGL?

Stencil buffers have been commonly supported by GPU since ancient times.

Is it better/worse supported than shaders?

"Is it colder than outside at night?" Yeah, that question makes about as much sense. Stencil buffers server a completely different purpose than shaders.

If the hardware doesn't support it, will it be emulated in software?

Yes, but not in a desireable way: The whole render pipeline will drop back to pure software rendering. The stencil test is implemented by hardwired functionality and can not be emulated by a "drop-in" software that only implements the stencil test while the rest was implemented differently. It simply doesn't work that way.
Luckily every GPU you'll encounter in the wild does support stencil tests. So this is of no concern whatsoever.


Shimabuku, Something that Floats / Something that Sinks, 2010. Two aluminum tubs, water, two tomatoes, two limes, two pedestals, two water streamers pedestals, 30 x 80 x 80 cm / tubs 19 x 60 cm 11.8 x 31.5 x 31.5 inches / 7.5 x 23.6 inches ed. 4 of 5 + 2 ap. Courtesy of the artist; Zero, Milan; and kaufmann repetto, Milan/New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- kaufmann repetto is presenting The BFG, a group exhibition comprised of works by Robert Breer, Franco Mazzucchelli, Shimabuku, and Franz Erhard Walther. The exhibition is titled after Roald Dahl's 1982 novel of the same name, an acronym for 'The Big Friendly Giant'. The artists within the exhibition work in ways that distort and contradict conventions of the monumental, be it through sheer physicality or by evoking a sense of wonder through shifts in everyday perspectives and phenomena.
Rather than imposing a static, monolithic presence, the works on view deny durability and identification with a concrete form and position. Instead, these works relate to the environment as they adapt to it, instilling a sense of familiarity that transforms the viewer's relationship with the site itself.
The works on view within The BFG subvert authoritarian themes of control and conditioning by offering viewers opportunities of engagement and participation, whereby an awareness of not fitting in serves as reminder to appreciate, embrace and consider even the most improbable of everyday encounters.
Robert Breer (b. 1926, Detroit, MI - 2011, Tucson, AZ) was an experimental filmmaker and artist who worked in a multidisciplinary manner utilizing painting, sculpture, and installation-based practices. Both his films and his sculptures disrupted the concepts of linear narratives in art-making and ideas about figure-ground relationships. His mechanized Floats are considered to have tested these conventions of fixed sculptural works and their relationships to the laws of space. Breer was interested in the ways in which these works behaved independently to outside control; when prohibited of navigating in one direction, the works redirect themselves in the opposite. Retrospectives and solo exhibitions of Breer's works have been held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; CAPC, Bordeaux; and Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; among others. A Float by Robert Breer is currently installed within MoMA's sculpture garden.
Franco Mazzucchelli (b. 1939, Milan, IT) lives and works in Milan. Since the 1970's, Mazzucchelli has been creating inflatable sculptures, like the one on view, typically with the intentions to place and abandon the works in public, outdoor environments. These unannounced works would shift the familiarities with the given site by various passersby; often calling to attention and into action the intervention of various societal roles - the police may destroy the piece, while children may play upon it; others may take them away, stray from their typical paths in avoidance of the strange and potentially threatening object, while others may simply marvel it. What typically remains thereafter, in the sculpture's absence, are photographs and videos captured by the artist, serving as evidence of the altered, inhabited environment, as it once was and as it is now. Mazzucchelli's works have been included in historical exhibitions including the 15th Milan Triennale (1973), the 37th Venice Biennale (1976) and the 11th Rome Quadrennial (1986). Earlier this year (2018), the Museo del Novecento, Milan, presented an exhibition of Mazzucchelli's works conceived between the mid 1960's and the end of the 1970's. Mazzucchelli was professor of Techniques of Sculpture at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
Lübeck, DE; Whitechapel Gallery, London; CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, FR; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; and Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery; among others. Recently his work has been included within the 57th Venice Biennial (2017) and the Okayama Art Summit curated by Liam Gillick (2016). His work is a part of numerous public collections, such as the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; FRAC Ile de France, Paris; FRAC Corse, Corte, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Noveau Musee National de Monaco, Monaco; and Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland. (2017) and the Okayama Art Summit curated by Liam Gillick (2016). His work is a part of numerous public collections, such as the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; FRAC Ile de France, Paris; FRAC Corse, Corte, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Noveau Musee National de Monaco, Monaco; and Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland.
Franz Erhard Walther (b. 1939, Fulda, DE) lives and works in Fulda. His canvas-based works that incorporate the activation by the viewer's own perceptions and physical body were devised as a means to "leave art history and discover new materials". These works are presented in two modes, Lagerform/Storage Situations or Handlungsform/Action Situations. In Storage Situations, the work is packed away, embodying the shape of its potential, while viewers are encouraged to formulate their ideas about the piece through looking and envisioning the possibilities of its form. In Action Situations, the works exist as fragments until the viewer's own body is incorporated. When the artwork is completed via the involvement of the human figure, it remains in a fragmentary form for the viewer experiencing the artwork, as the image of the work's completeness can only be conceived via imagination. Major solo exhibitions and retrospectives of Walther's work have been held at Dia Art Foundation, Dia:Beacon, New York; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid; The Power Plant, Toronto; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, FR; Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the The Museum of Modern Art, New York; among many others. His works have been included in numerous biennials and institutional exhibitions such as the 57th Venice Biennale, Arsenale; Manifesta 11, Zürich; La Biennale di Venezzia, When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/ Venice 2013, Fondazione Prada, Venice; 30th Bienal de Sao Paolo; and Documenta 5, 6, 7, and 8, Kassel; among many others. From 1971 though 2005 he held a chair at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (class for sculpture).


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Russian model Alina Lobacheva was called "the lost sister of the Kardashian and Jenner"
21-year-old Russian model Alina Lobacheva already has half a million Instagram followers - and this is only the beginning. A few days ago babe with a small waist and curves attracted the attention of the Western media, which called her "the lost sister of the Kardashian and Jenner."
Alina Lobacheva boasts of her appetizing forms and small waist
Pictures of a young Russian model Alina Lobacheva appeared on the pages of the Western media. Reporters compared the girl with the Kardashian and Jenner sisters and concluded that the brunette could be their cousin!
Alina boasts of her magnificent figure: a small waist, curvaceous and long shapely legs.
Lobacheva clearly knows her best angles and with each published photo makes male hearts beat faster. The girls like the taste and style of the model: judging by the numerous pictures, Alina chooses such brands as Valentino, Dior and Herve Leger.
By the way, recently it was reported by Russian media that Alina Lobacheva will take part in the popular reality show "Dom-2". Due to this we have found out about her a little more: Alina was born and grew up in Krasnodar, where she lives now. She is studying at the Plekhanov University of Economics. She is a person with an active civil position, likes to read and go to the cinema.


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Each year Philadelphia Flower Show exhibitors, representing the best talents in the floral and landscaping fields, create full-scale displays that delight more than a quarter million visitors. Many of these exhibitors have spent decades perfecting their craft, which often includes forcing a great variety of plants into bloom in time for the Show. Exhibitors spend an average of 18 months preparing their displays. With only nine days to show off their talents, each company or organization must pull out all stops to be considered the very best. Please join PLNA in congratulating these fellow members on their award achievements from the 2014 Philadelphia Flower Show!
Three generations of Wyeths have captured the unique land, water, fields, and native plant environs that have been the inspiration for a distinguished Brandywine River Valley culture. The native sycamore trees, painted and captured by the Wyeth family, give shade to woodland ferns, flowers, and gurgling streams that come together to form the iconic Brandywine River. This is a perfect metaphor for the current community working together to preserve a sustainable future in the fields and forests of the Brandywine River Valley. This exhibition is inspired by the collection of Wyeth art at the Brandywine River Museum of Art.
A stroll through "Avant-Garden" will transport you into Marsden Hartley's painting, Flower Abstraction, hanging in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Experience bold, brightly colored forms as well as overlapping and appealing planes represented in this painting. Brilliant colors and jagged lines burst out of the garden, or is it the painting, spilling across the vibrant border? After experiencing the "Avant-Garden," walk across Broad Street to PAFA and see the inspiration, Flower Abstraction. Garden imitates art, or does art imitate garden?
Rogue roots split and cover a cracked concrete walk lying beneath vines that drip, droop, and drape over kinked cables that connect faraway and nearby, and lamps that pour light on walls pierced by pipes. Retreat! There, into the stone belly; held within the arms of trees; before the fire; beneath the stars. Look beyond the tangle and artificial depictions of nature. Retrace the trail that leads to the land of our forebears. Sear the soil to stimulate new shoots of native leaves. Mend the Earth to clear the running waters. Help life begin, again.
Nature Deficit Disorder is a widening gap or disconnect between people, particularly children, and the outdoors, which is resulting in a decrease in physical and emotional health and well-being. This exhibit is intended to bring awareness, hope, and strategies to the millions of children that suffer from this deficit. In a collaborative partnership, DelVal is engaging the 1,400 students and their teachers from the New Hope-Solebury School District to contribute a part of themselves to the exhibit. Children from kindergarten through 12th grade were asked to answer, through art, the question, "What is nature?" The intention is to encourage a strong connection between children and our natural world while educating exhibit visitors about Nature Deficit Disorder, its consequences, and possible remedies through the eyes of children.


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"Consider the fig tree and all the other trees. When their buds burst open, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near; in the same way, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near." Lk 21 29-30
Paying attention to nature is a simple path to insight and reflection. Jesus often invites us into the mystery of God's ways in this manner. Today it is the fig tree. Tomorrow it may be the farmer sowing his seed or the power of the sea in a storm. Unfortunately, in a society as frantic as ours and as fascinated with technology, we often fail to appreciate the wonders of nature all around us, but we can change. For instance, we might consider intentionally shutting down our computers, cell phones, and Ipads for half an hour a day, and take a slow walk. While it might be difficult to begin and stay faithful to a practice like this, eventually our bodies and spirits will yearn for the "breaks", the quiet times and the rest.
Life unfolds in patterned ways and cannot be rushed. It takes nine months for a child to be born. It often takes five years for an apple tree to produce fruit and those of us getting older know that we are very different people at 60 than we were at 20. The task for the Christian is to continue to enter life as it comes, not rushing or pushing, but accepting life on its terms, and attending to God's presence at every stage of life.
Today, wherever you are, pause for a few moments, breathe deeply and look around you.
What can help you not rush?
"Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night?" Lk 18:7
Persistence in prayer is an important Christian virtue. Jesus reminds us of this more than once, and the widow who pesters the local judge to help her attain justice is only the most dramatic example of this. In St Matthew's Gospel Jesus tells his disciples to "Watch and pray always, lest you enter into temptation," and (26:41) St Paul echoes Jesus' call to pray always in first Thessalonians. "Rejoice always, pray continually, and give thanks in all circumstances."
Getting in the habit of saying the Jesus prayer, Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner helps many. Others, especially those helped by 12 step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous use the serenity prayer often. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Repeating both or either of these prayers regularly will help any well-intentioned believer create a space in their lives for God to be God which is, after all is said, the purpose of all prayer.
Today, choose a simple prayer and repeat it throughout the day.
What is your favorite prayer?
St Frances Xavier Cabrini
"Stand erect and raise your heads because you redemption is at hand." Lk 21:28
Two things marked the early life of Mother Cabrini. She was frail and sickly as a child and only four of her 10 siblings survived adolescence, but neither situation shuttered her imagination. When her father would read to his children about the great men and women who left their homelands to go around the world as missionaries, Frances dreamed of joining them. Frances' faith was bigger than her weakness.
Faithful to her parents until their death, Frances helped them on their farm and went to school, but soon after their death she began to explore a religious vocation. Rejected at first because of her poor health, Frances persevered and soon the local bishop asked her to found a new congregation of religious women. Sure that Frances' efforts would benefit the local church, the bishop was excited by Frances' new congregation, but Frances had bigger ideas. Soon after making vows, she added the name Xavier to Frances, after the famous Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, and went to Rome to establish a convent. Soon after, still hoping to go the Orient as a missionary, Frances was asked to help Italian immigrants in the United States. Resistant, she asked the Pope Leo XIII for help in discernment, and the Pope assured her that she should go West to the United States, and from this point her life exploded with activity and zeal.
St Frances Xavier Cabrini was a brilliant organizer and administrator. She founded 68 missions and, though she hated ocean travel, crossing the Atlantic more than thirty times. Her work took her to New York, South America, Chicago and New Orleans, and all of this with failing health. A woman of our times, Frances Xavier continues to inspire women and men of the 21st century with passion and zeal.
Today, pray for the young to accept the call to discipleship.
To whom do you listen for advice and encouragement?
St Josaphat
"First, he must suffer greatly and be rejected by this generation." Lk 17:25
How we respond under pressure is often the measure of our faith and courage. St Josaphat, a 17th century martyr, reminds us of this. Committed, as a bishop, to the cause of trying to heal the Great Schism, of reuniting Rome and Constantinople, he first reformed both the local church to which he was assigned and his own life. Though some thought he was too demanding that people live simple lives, his personal witness to frugality and honesty convinced many of his cause, but not all.
Josaphat was killed by a mob, certain that one of their number had been abused and imprisoned by those committed to reconciliation with Rome. After his martyrdom, he as thrown into a nearby river along with a dog that had tried to protect him, but it was the Jewish people who should be held up as faithful to the Torah in defense of Josaphat. When Josaphat and his servants were being beaten and killed, Jews rushed into the courtyard of the bishop and rescued many, and it was Jews who mourned his passing. Because they recognized his goodness before God, the Jews refused to be intimidated or drawn into a fight not of their making while many Catholics for whom Josaphat died hid in fear of their lives.
Today, stand up for someone whose name is being dragged through the mud.
What are your biggest challenges to live faith despite the cost?
St Martin of Tours
"The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our Faith.'" Lk 17:5
Faith, though a great and free gift, is fragile. Frequently, especially when we are moving along in life confidently and without too much effort, we forget how central God and God's love for us is to our everyday life. When we remember to pray, we pray too quickly or by rote, and everything becomes more important than our spiritual lives. We rush to get things done, don't even see friends and family in need, and find ourselves focusing on others faults rather than their good qualities. Although there are dozens of reminders along the way, we fail to see them and without realizing it, our faith wavers.
While none of us wants to be tested, neither can we deny that the challenges we face strengthen us. When a parent falls ill, a friend struggles with mental illness or old friends divorce after many years of marriage, we pause and wonder. What is happening within and around us? What ought to be our faith response? When we have been walking at God's pace, attending to God's way in our lives, the responses come naturally and simply. Pray. Be with hurting friends and family as companions. Don't instruct. But when we have taken faith for granted, we find ourselves muddled, overly upset, angry and confused. What should we do? Pray. Slow down. Listen. Ask for an increase in faith.
Today, take five minutes to sit in God's presence without an agenda
What kinds of situations most test your faith?
St Leo the Great
"When you have done all you have been commanded, say, 'We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.'" Lk 17:10
St Leo the Great, better known to most as the Pope whose eloquence convinced Attila the Hun not to destroy Rome, must have been deeply committed to the service about which St Luke writes. An authentic relationship with Christ can do this. When we enter the mystery of the Jesus as truly God and truly human, his power becomes ours and enables us to live as servants of all in ways we could never imagine.
The conviction that Christ acts in and through us is the foundation of our call to discipleship. When we humbly acknowledge and accept that our own gifts, no matter how many they might be, are inadequate for the work of salvation, everything changes. Not only are we freer when we rely on the Lord for the strength we need to live the Gospel in a powerful way, we are more effective. It is always astounding to meet people whose faith is so deep that they draw us into God's love by the way they speak, act and live. The challenge, of course, is to be one of those people.
St Leo's faith was such that, while on a mission to Gaul, he was elected by the people to be bishop of Rome and Pope. It was everyday people who recognized in Leo the kind of faith they knew was necessary to direct the church at a very turbulent time. Leo not only effectively moved the church to recognize the importance of Rome as the seat of church authority, he did it peacefully, an effort that effectively won for him the title Great.
Today, ask God for the strength to live your baptismal vocation with peace and power.
What believers do you think of as Great?
Dedication of the Laterna Basilica
"Wherever the river flows, every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, and there shall be abundant fish, for wherever this water comes the sea shall be made fresh." Ez 47:9
One of the wonderful images in the Book of Revelation is the flowing river about which Ezekiel also speaks. Watering and washing every bit of land through which it flows, the river helps every thing along its banks to grow strong. Fruit trees will produce large amounts of nourishment for all every month, and every kind of fish will grow strong and multiply in its waters.
The river, of course, is the water of life that flows to all from the restored temple and it will bring new life and hope to all who enter it, which is the point. We must enter the waters of baptism, drown and be raised up again in Christ if we hope to live the Gospel. This is not an easy journey or notion. To die to self so that Christ might live is the heart of the Gospel but is not something we do intuitively. We must learn to die from those who have gone before us in faith, especially the martyrs, and that is where the Lateran Basilica leads us.
St John Lateran is the basilica of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. First among all Rome's church's, it is dedicated to St John the Baptist who lost his head for the sake of Christ and the Gospel, and reminds us that the most fundamental work of the church is to witness to Christ crucified and raised up for the sake of all. John the Baptist never forgot that his mission was to make straight the way of the Lord. Willing to die for this privilege, John the Baptist continues to remind us of our role. When we make the way of the Lord straight people can find their way into the mystery of God's love.
Today, pray for the grace never to forget God's enduring love for all.
What do you most value about the church, the people of God?


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One small step for Oklahoma, one giant leap for the Big 12.
The Sooners are one win away from being the first team in the history of Big 12 football to be crowned the champ four times in a row, and they got here by being extremely good on one side of the ball.
And seriously, it is almost impossible to be hyperbolic when describing this offense.
Headed into the fall, there were questions about how the Sooners would replace Baker Mayfield, thought by many to be the best quarterback in Oklahoma football history. Lincoln Riley even helped maintain that narrative by scoffing at the idea that Kyler – hands down an elite quarterback – was assured of winning the starting gig.
Yet, a little over four months later, the Sooners are poised to four-peat. If they win on Saturday in Jerry World, they'll hoist the trophy playing a style of offense that is phenomenal and a style of defense that is, well, in need of development.
As the numbers show, the Sooners are heads and tails above previous Big 12 Champions when it comes to offensive points per play. The team that comes closest to them – the 2005 Texas Longhorns, a team that had a lot of NFL talent on offense – is still .74 points per play away.
That's the widest margin on this list, by far beating out both the 2017 and 2016 teams that had Baker Mayfield at the helm. If you've seen the 2018 version of Oklahoma, you can't help but notice what these numbers confirm – the Sooners seem incapable of making any kind of play that's not a big play.
Murray is the star of the show, but when you've got wide receivers like Marquise Brown, one of the fastest players in the country, your offense is going to be a threat to pick up yards and points every time.
Something that might also surprise you is that Oklahoma actually doesn't run that many plays per game. When most people think of spread offenses, they think of teams that want to get in as many snaps as possible.
That's not the Sooners, though. Oklahoma has only run 785 plays this season, which is the least amount of plays of all the teams in the Big 12 who've played a full twelve game slate.
That is how dangerous Oklahoma is on offense. On the ground or through the air, they have the potential to score on every play, and they practically do.
If you're a traditionalist who thinks defense wins championships, Oklahoma has a good shot to prove that wrong in Arlington.
In fact, if you look at the points per play given up by past Big 12 title winners, then you notice that giving up more and more points has become the norm for the Sooners. Two of the bottom three – the 2008 and 2017 Sooners – came closer than any of these other teams to playing for a national championship.
Last year's team was an overtime win away from playing Alabama, and the 2008 squad took on Florida for college football's ultimate prize.
There's another reason to think that this Oklahoma team will be the first to win a fourth consecutive Big 12 title. In terms of points per play, the Sooners are overall actually better than they were in 2017. Sure, they're giving up .036 more points, but the offense is so much more improved that Oklahoma's point differential actually went up .038 points per play.
It's hard to believe that these trends will continue in years to come – with Kyler Murray off to play Major League Baseball, the offense would face a major challenge in trying to become even more historically elite. Likewise, Lincoln Riley will likely also spend a good deal of time in the offseason trying to get a new defensive coordinator, so the odds are that the defense begins trending up at some point.
Oklahoma might need to be improved on the defensive side of the ball to contend for the conference title next year, but in 2018, they may not need defense to win a championship.


The study - a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper that sought to determine whether USA cultural preferences have changed across various groups over time - found that there's a 69% chance to correctly predict that a household is "high-income" based on the ownership of the said device. This is correct, two mobile computing devices have become an indicator as to how rich you really are, according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The researchers say that knowing someone owns an iPhone gives them a 69 percent chance to infer correctly that the owner was "high-income". "Across all years in our data, no individual brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone in 2016". Economists found that almost seven out of ten times, a person with an iPhone has a higher income than others. After all, iPhones were only introduced in 2007. In 2004, the second batch of data showed Land O' Lakes Regular butter was the clearest indication you were earning good money. For instance, in 1992, there was a 62.2% chance that if you were using Grey Poupon dijon mustard, you had some cash.
During the debate surrounding the issue, Hunt said it would likely be his "last big job in politics". You will either own or have permission to use anything you provide.
The iPhone is a luxury product that is usually priced higher than competing smartphones. The most recent data was taken in 2016. And it found that in 2016, the previous year it analyzed, there was a 69.1% chance of accurately guessing that a person was wealthy if he or she owned an iPhone. The data included bi-annual questionnaires and information obtained from face-to-face interviews such as household income.
The researchers also used a machine learning algorithm to look at how different groups have had their preferences diverge over time.
"This take-away runs against the popular narrative of the U.S. becoming an increasingly divided society", the researchers write.


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South Korea Unlikely to Prosecute K-pop Celebrities on Gambling Counts
South Korean police spent months investigating gambling allegations — involving Seungri, who was part of a popular K-pop band, and Yang Hyun-suk, himself an ex-K-pop performer who stepped down as controversial CEO of YG Entertainment — but indictments are unlikely, according to multiple recent news reports.
Seungri, the ex-K-pop singer, above, and Yang Hyun-suk may avoid prosecution on gambling charges in South Korea. (Image: AsiaOne)
It appears prosecutors will not follow through with court action following the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) inquiry on the two men for what is described as alleged "habitual gambling" at Las Vegas casinos, Yonhap News Agency said.
Such foreign gaming is likely illegal under South Korean law. Seungri and Yang allegedly gambled separately one or two times a year since 2014.
Between the two, the total they spent at US casinos appears to be around $1 million, Yonhap said. South Korean authorities claim that on one visit to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Yang played high-stakes baccarat for up to 17 hours per day.
Also, during their 84-day investigation authorities did not find evidence to proceed with criminal charges on related counts against the two men. It is unclear what may happen with charges on a few other possible suspects.
Gaming Laws Restrict South Korean Nationals
South Korea has 18 casinos, but it is illegal for South Korean nationals to gamble in all but one, the state-owned Kangwon Land in Gangwon Province. South Korean criminal law also extends to its citizens when they travel out of the nation, so Kangwon Land is the only place they are permitted to gamble in the world.
Kangwon Land recently reported a decrease in revenues and a drop in visitation during 2018. Revenues fell from $1.28 billion to $1.18 billion, while 2.85 million people visited the property, down from 3.12 million the previous year. The casino was recently embroiled in a nepotism scandal, too, that, last January, saw former CEO Choi Hung-jib imprisoned for corruption.
In July, South Korea's gaming regulator reported that revenue for the country's 16 foreigner-only casinos grew to roughly $1.38 billion in 2018, compared to just over $1 billion from the previous year.
South Korean Police Official Charged
Last month, a senior police officer — who may have been associated with Seungri — was arrested on allegations of bribery, obstruction, insider trading and destruction of evidence — which took place at Burning Sun nightclub, according to a UPI report. Seungri was identified as a one-time co-owner of the Seoul club which was located inside of the Le Meridien hotel.
The Korea Herald reported in February that Seungri quit as chief of Yuri Holdings, the alleged holding company of Burning Sun. He also quit as a club co-director in January, the Herald said.
The club was allegedly the scene of the drugging of women patrons — possibly with the date-rape drug GHB — and patrons later sexually assaulting them, UPI adds.
The arrested officer, whose full name was not reported in media accounts, was identified as a senior superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.
He allegedly failed to investigate explicit allegations involving the nightclub. The club was also associated with sex videos allegedly being filmed without the consent of women.
The club was shut down in February shortly after the allegations surfaced. Seungri quit the Big Bang K-pop band in March.
YG Entertainment managed Seungri before his retirement. It is one of South Korea's biggest record labels and talent agencies.