How Does Divorce Impact Children? What factors make divorce stressful?
If you ask any adult how their parents' divorce affected them as children, you'll get a sad story, even if it has been many years.
It is difficult for children of all ages when their family changes. Occasionally, when the level of conflict has been high, the divorce can come as a relief. More often, though, divorce is experienced by children as extremely stressful, with lots of powerful emotions swirling around in a confusing way.
There are many factors which make divorce stressful for children.
Their parents are distracted by their own pain and the difficult decisions they need to make. This means that sometimes kids aren't getting the attention they need.
Children always assume that when their parent is feeling strongly it's because they screwed up in some way. So, in addition to feeling sad, often kids feel vaguely guilty.
Hearing their parents argue is scary for children, especially when they hear or sense that these arguments are about them.
Often children feel that they are being asked to choose sides. This puts them in an impossible position. They can't choose! They love both parents.
With every change comes worry about an unknown future. Because children don't have adult perspective and can't really understand what's going to happen until it actually happens, even small changes can be scary. And, with divorce, often there are big changes, like moves, changing schools, having two homes and having to schlep things back and forth, etc. All of these adjustments are challenging!
Kids form an idea about who they are based on very simple things: I'm a boy or a girl, I live in this neighborhood, I play soccer, I have a family with a mommy and a daddy and a sibling. With divorce, this definition of self can get thrown out the window. Many kids experience this change in their family as meaning that they have to change their idea about who they are. This is hard! And scary.
Young children have very simple ideas about relationships and how they work. Divorce creates more complex families. This can be really confusing for kids to understand.
Sometimes parents make the mistake of confiding in their children. This is uncomfortable for kids. They don't know how to comfort their parent…and it's not their job.
Collaborative coaches are specially trained mental health professionals who are experts at helping parents to stay calm. They know what children need and can guide parents toward making wise decisions.
When there are concerns about the children, sometimes a Child Specialist can be called in. This neutral professional interviews the children and can give them a voice in the divorce process.
Win/win negotiation with trained collaborative lawyers means that both parents end up with a plan that really works for them. This means that the decisions will "stick," eliminating the potential for conflict in the future.
One of the best side-benefits of collaborative divorce is that parents can learn "business-like" communication skills which will help them to solve problems together as they continue as co-parents going forward.
Children learn by example, and when they see their parents solving problems with respect, dignity and integrity, it sets an example for them to follow.
If you have questions about how a collaborative divorce will help minimize the impact of the divorce on your children, contact us at our Collaborative Practice California for more information.


Author Salama, Ashraf M. A., author.
Title Demystifying Doha : on architecture and urbanism in an emerging city / by Ashraf Salama and Florian Wiedmann.
Physical description xxiv, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Contents note continued: Outlook: Invigorating the Quality of Urban Life in Doha -- Notes -- 7.The Challenges of Sustainable Urbanism and the Future of Doha -- The Impact of Current Construction Boom on Urban Morphologies -- The Economic Consequences of Contemporary Urbanism -- The Potential Environmental Hazards -- The Impact on Society -- Three Main Challenges for Establishing Sustainability -- Outlook:Toward Sustainable Urbanism in Doha -- Notes -- 8.Conclusion: Introducing an Analytical Framework for Emerging Doha -- A Theoretical Discourse on Space Production in Cities -- The Production of Urban Qualities -- Analytical Framework for Investigating the Production of Urban Qualities -- Outlook:The Future of Urban Qualities in Doha -- Notes.
Other author Wiedmann, Florian, author.
Subject Architecture -- Qatar -- Dawḥah.
Urbanization -- Qatar -- Dawḥah.
City planning -- Qatar -- Dawḥah.
Dawḥah (Qatar) -- Social conditions.


Learn Lambdas, Streams , new Date APIs, Optionals and Parallel programming in Java 8 by coding it.
Learn the new Java 8 Features by coding it. This is a pure coding course and you will get a complete understanding of all the Java 8 features by coding it.
Why Should I take this course ?
This course will help the Java developers to build their knowledge on the new Java 8 features.
All the new features such as Lambdas, Streams , Optionals, Functional Interfaces and Parallel Programming will be explained via code.
This course will give you the confidence on implementing new Java 8 features in real Java projects.
By the end of this course you will have a complete understanding of new Java 8 functional features.
This section explains about what will be covered in this course.
This section covers Why Java 8 is important?.
This section explains about difference between Imperative Programming and Declarative Programming.
This section covers the installation of Java and IntelliJ in Mac and Windows.
This section covers the Why Lambda is needed , Lambdas Syntax and How to implement Lambdas ?
Implement the Runnable interface using Lambdas.
Implement the Comparator interface using Lambdas.
This section covers the new Functional Interfaces that got introduced as part of Java 8.
This section covers the new Method Reference and the Constructor Reference.
How Method Reference simplifies the code.
How to use Method reference along with Lambdas.
How to use Constructor Reference to create new objects.
This section covers the local variable and how it should used in Lambdas.
Definition of Effectively Final scope of a variable.
This section covers the Streams API which is one of the important feature that got introduced as part of Java8.
How the Stream API Works Internally ?
How Collections are different from Streams ?
How to debug a Stream ?
This section covers different Streams API operations that can be used in Streams to achieve an objective.
Map, Filter and Reduce pattern.
Explanation of Stream operations that are Short Circuit operations.
This section covers different Streams API factory method that can be used to create Streams.
This section covers the Introduction to Numeric Streams which can be used to perform some numeric related operations.
This section covers different way to collect the data from the Streams Pipeline.
This section covers how to perform the Parallel processing using Streams.
How Parallel Programming makes use of the processors in your machine to perform concurrency operations?
How Parallel Programming works internally ?
How to check the performance between the sequential and parallel programming ?
Scenarios when not to use parallel programming.
This section covers What is Optional and the benefits of Optional.
How Optional can help you avoid Null Pointer exception.
This section covers new Date/Time Libraries such as LocalDate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime.
How to create/edit the LocalDate,LocalTime and LocalDateTime instances using different approaches.
How to find the difference between the LocalDate, LocalTime and LocalDateTime using Period, Duration.
How to represent the time in the Machine Readable Format using Instant.
How to use the TimeZone using the ZonedDateTime.
How to Format the Date using the DateTimeFormatter.
By the end of this course you will have a complete understanding of all the Java 8 features and implement it in real Java projects.
Complete understanding of Lambdas, Streams , Optional via code.
Learn to build complex Streams Pipeline.
Learn the new Date/Time Libraries in Java 8.
Learn to use Method Reference , Constructor reference syntax.
Learn and understand Parallel Programming with the Streams.
Student will be able to upgrade their Java knowledge with the new Functional Features.
This course will be continuously updated.
37 Lab Stream Operation – min() using reduce function.


This past year, I decided to implement a project in my 9th grade Algebra 1 class using Agile. The project was designed to give my students a better understanding of something rather practical in life: the best way to purchase a car.
Students agreed to form a formal group alliance and hold themselves accountable for their actions during the project. This alliance took into account group members' strengths and weakness, so tasks could be assigned accordingly. The students also used the Agile Learning Canvas to organize their goals and visually keep track of their work. They even signed a contract, creating accountability for the success of the project for all members.
Each group was then given a set of specific car purchasing scenarios; factors such as the number of family members involved, their financial health, and negatives such as bad credit, etc. They were also given a worksheet and each page had questions on it outlining the pros and cons of purchasing a used or new car or leasing one.
Then, the fun part began! Students began searching for cars to buy within their groups. Because the groups of students were chosen by their teacher, some had a difficult time accepting the fact that they were not necessarily working with their friends on the project.
What they did not realize then was that the PEOPLE in their group were not as important as the WORK the group could accomplish together.
Groups were soon realizing that most of the cars they wanted to purchase were too expensive. This required them to rethink their strategies. We had daily check-ins as a class to go over things and to field any questions anyone had. Before long, it was time for final presentations!
Each group's presentation was formatted in a way that showed the audience multiple possibilities for each method of purchasing a car. One group worked very well together and their information was accurate and well organized. The second group happened to be the group that had never worked together before, but surprisingly they also did very well.. The car they selected was reasonable for their fictional family's circumstances and situation. The last group had more trouble than the other two because each time we held class, several of their members were absent. Because of this, they were at a severe disadvantage and did not end up choosing an appropriate car.
Overall, my students and I felt that using Agile in the classroom to help groups organize a project like this one ended up being very successful. The process engaged my students, improved organization, and allowed them to visually lay out responsibilities, tasks, and levels of completion as the project moved along. Moreso, having student leaders lead them through the Agile process was beneficial to both the leaders and the rest of the class. The student leaders gained a better understanding of the Agile process, while also gaining experience presenting and teaching. And, my students were able to relate to the way their peers presented the Agile method. I plan to continue to use Agile in my classroom and look forward to coaching my fellow teachers on how to implement it in theirs.
Very productive project with real world application and value.
It is so exciting to hear about the success of Agile and Scrum in the classroom, and in a math class, even better! We are so grateful for the continued support of The Scrum Alliance and John Miller with Agile Classrooms.
Keep up the great work Mrs. Algarin, I can't wait to see what you and your students come up with this year!


PLEASE NOTE that this trip is cancelled from lack of numbers. The Court Barn Museum focusses on the talented designers and craftspeople who worked in Chipping Campden and the north Cotswolds in the Arts and Crafts tradition. The visit will start with a short talk about the Guild of Handicraft which settled there in the early 1900s, followed by the opportunity to look around what has been called 'surely the most delightful small museum in England'. After that there is an optional guided walk looking at the architecture of the High Street. There are plenty of places for tea.
Talk and visit to the Museum: £ 7.50; including the guided walk £12.00.
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Latics v. Cardiff City, Sky Bet Championship, Saturday 22 April, 3.00pm.
Cardiff City adult tickets, £22 in advance.
"We need your help again" - Graham Barrow on Cardiff.
Latics fans are being urged to come and support the boys once again in their must-win clash against Cardiff City this coming Saturday 22 April at the DW Stadium.
Graham Barrow and his team know that nothing but the three points will suffice in the quest to stay alive in the Sky Bet Championship survival race and the interim manager has issued a heartfelt plea to all the supporters: "We need your backing again, let's make it three in a row at the DW Stadium and keep believing together.
"We've done it before so let's give it everything once more on and off the pitch to get the win we need."
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You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 best cartoons that got cancelled.
For this list, we're looking at those animated series' that were good by all accounts, but were cancelled before their time and/or just ended unceremoniously. While we may have enjoyed them, the networks didn't seem as keen on keeping them around.
It was a high school secretly run by the government, and its students were the clones of JFK, Gandhi, Cleopatra, Joan of Arc and Abe Lincoln. Not to mention, the principal was also a mad scientist named "Cinnamon." Suffice it to say, "Clone High" did lotsa things right in its one season on the air, which included casting the acting talents of Will Forte and Nicole Sullivan. Unfortunately, it didn't catch on with audiences like it did with critics, and it was quietly given the boot.
Like "Clone High," "Invader Zim" was also a hit with critics, but kids and tweens at the time weren't feeling it. That doesn't mean the show, which featured a diminutive alien aggressor trying – and failing miserably – to take over Earth, wasn't good; in fact, it was great – it even won an Emmy. Creatively drawn and with imaginative writing, "Zim" had a host of fun characters and interesting plots that just didn't translate into ratings. It did, however, translate into post-cancellation cult popularity.
It's an admittedly darker take on the animated Batman franchise, with an aging and embittered Bruce Wayne taking a backseat to his younger counterpart. But with its sharp animation and clever storylines, it had teeth. It was an innovative spin on an already established series, and it could have worked. Unfortunately, it didn't, and despite its award wins, "Batman Beyond" ran for only three seasons before being dropped by the network.
Created by George Lucas himself, this spin-off of the "Star Wars" saga was a hit with audiences and was critically well-received – unlike its movie equivalent. Then just like that, it was gone. The show expanded on the prequel universe, following Anakin Skywalker's exploits before his big turn. The show, while popular, was cancelled in the aftermath of a corporate merger, which was a big blow that left many devoted viewers shaking their heads – that is, until the unaired episodes popped up on Netflix.
If you were thinking that a show devoted to teenage superheroes would be filled with some mega-drama, then you'd be right. "Teen Titans" featured excellently nuanced writing and themes, a fluid animation style, and some fun stories. But none of this was enough to keep the show on the air, and fans were devastated to learn of its cancellation, leading to a following that remains devoted to this day. Sometimes, it's not you; it's them.
It was a gothic gem that didn't get to shine for all that long. "Gargoyles" was delightfully dark and occasionally comical, and for the show's fans, it was just an all-around cool cartoon. It skewed a little bit older in terms of themes, but it also generated a die-hard fan base that still exists today. Too bad that wasn't enough to keep the show afloat after three drama-filled seasons.
Much like "Teen Titans," this show follows the lives of a bunch of teenaged versions of the superheroes we know and love, who are struggling to navigate the world of crime fighting and the issues that come with being a teen. But despite an Emmy win, the axe fell on this series after two seasons, leaving a major plot point unresolved and fans feeling cheated and abandoned – even with all the related "Justice League" series that followed.
It was easily one of the coolest animated shows to come from the Cartoon Network. The series featured stylized animation inspired by the likes of Akira Kurosawa, which worked in conjunction with slick writing and an ever-developing storyline. It was a critical success, winning multiple Primetime Emmys and Annie awards, as well as a dedicated fan base. But in spite of the accolades, the series was cancelled abruptly, with an unresolved storyline and the promise of a movie in the works.
Set in the distant future, the show centers on a cryogenically frozen delivery boy, his elderly distant nephew, and his delivery crew pals. Although it was created by the man behind "The Simpsons," Matt Groening, the show still couldn't catch a break, and it was bounced from time slot to time slot before being quietly dropped. Comedy Central then picked up the syndicated series with some new episodes, before it was cancelled for a second time. Time will tell if the Planet Express crew will manage a third life.
The show, centered on an American family in Rhode Island, was initially introduced after the Super Bowl to decent ratings. Then it was bounced around to different days and different times, leading "Family Guy" to struggle to find its footing. It was promptly cancelled. But re-run success and impressive DVD sales made Fox execs soon recognize the error of their ways, and that's when they brought Peter, Lois, Chris, Meg, Stewie, Brian and the rest of Quahog back from the dead.
Do you agree with our list? What is your favorite cartoon that was cancelled? For more entertaining Top 10s published every day, be sure to subscribe to WatchMojo.com.


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DeroGold Association Introduces Floating Recyclable Islands to Save the World
Just launched on Indiegogo, this remarkable new project was created to overcome the problems of trash and housing at the same time.
Bonita Springs, FL – The DeroGold Association is a worldwide community and cryptocurrency effort dedicated to restoring balance in our environment by providing a better and safer way of living on this planet through improved methods of recycling. With a team that was assembled from all over the world, the group has set up an Indiegogo page in order to raise funds for their latest project: Floating Recyclable Islands Can Save The World.
The project involves using everyday garbage such as glass, plastic bottles, styrofoam and more to build carbon-negative, self –sustaining islands that would float on the ocean. Every island built would result in toxic waste being taken out of the environment, and dangerous greenhouse gases taken out of the atmosphere.
The visionary behind the DeroGold project, Mitchel Deynzer, says that he and his team want to see a world where no-one is left homeless due to climate change:
"We want to change people's attitude towards garbage and recyclables," says Deynzer. "Floating recyclable islands can save the world by solving our trash problems and housing problems at the same time."
The Indiegogo campaign was set up to raise funds for filming, transportation, construction and materials, with materials requiring the largest allocation of funds by far. 90% of the raw materials needed would cost nothing, and would be collected through recycling drives, but the necessary pre-fabricated materials would cost money which the team doesn't have.
The creation of the first floating island will be chronicled in a documentary film – an important step, according to Deynzer:
"We want to document every detail by recording what we do and how we do it. It's crucial that we share the process with everyone, so that people all over the world can start creating islands."
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/embed/BtFvgWyqVbM
The team would welcome financial contributions of any size in order for them to get started on this world-changing project. But they are also asking people to help in other ways, by sharing the Indiegogo page or YouTube video on social media, talking to people and spreading the word, and volunteering to help with recycling drives.
"The future of our planet is at stake. If our video were to go viral on YouTube, that would be a huge step forward for us. We appreciate anything you can do to help."
For more information, visit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/floating-recyclable-islands-can-save-the-world
Company Name: DeroGold Association
Contact Person: Mitchel Deynzer
Phone: 1-239-628-9742 (Text Preferred)
Website: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/floating-recyclable-islands-can-save-the-world

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Satu Mering, PhD, Docent | Experimentica Ltd.
Director Laboratory of Animal Research. Location: Headquarters, Kuopio, Finland.
Dr. Mering has over 20 years' experience in the area of laboratory animal science, especially animal welfare. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Zoology from the University of Eastern Finland.
Dr. Mering has broad regulatory expertise and serves as member on both the National Experimental Animal Board and the National Committee of the Council on the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific or Educational purposes. She has an excellent track-record in educating and training scientists at all levels in the use and care of laboratory animals. Dr. Mering will continue to serve as Chairperson of the Finnish Laboratory Animal Science Association (FinLAS).
Q1: Satu, tell us something about yourself.
Satu: I'm married with three children – 1 boy and 2 girls. I live with my family right here in Kuopio, Finland, where I also spent most of my career.
Q2: What do you like most working at Experimentica?
Satu: It's a small team, but all are great people and experts in vision and animal research. I spent most of my career at the University of Eastern Finland, where for the past 10 years I led the Laboratory Animal Centre.
Here at Experimentica I found a great opportunity to establish a state-of-the-art animal facility from scratch. Implementing the latest knowledge and technology allows me to concentrate more on animal welfare, rather than administrative things and paperwork.
Q3: What are you passionate about at your work?
Satu: I am really passionate about animal welfare. I believe the highest standards for animal well-being are always reflected in the study results.
Unfortunately, many people underestimate the influence of animal welfare has on experimental variability and reproducibility, but good animal science starts with animal welfare.
Mering S, Jolkkonen J. Proper housing conditions in experimental stroke studies-special emphasis on environmental enrichment. Front Neurosci. 2015 Jan 4;9:106.
Kasanen IH, Inhilä KJ, Nevalainen JI, Väisänen SB, Mertanen AM, Mering SM, et al. A novel dietary restriction method for group-housed rats: weight gain and clinical chemistry characterization. Lab Anim. 2009 Apr 3;43(2):138–48.
Kasanen IH, Inhilä KJ, Vainio OM, Kiviniemi VV, Hau J, Scheinin M, Mering SM, Nevalinen TO. The diet board: welfare impacts of a novel method of dietary restriction in laboratory rats. Lab Anim. 2009 Jul 3;43(3):215–23.
Kaliste EK, Mering SM, Huuskonen HK. Environmental modification and agonistic behavior in NIH/S male mice: nesting material enhances fighting but shelters prevent it. Comp Med. 2006 Jun 4;56(3):202–8.
Mering S, Kaliste-Korhonen E, Nevalainen T. Estimates of appropriate number of rats: interaction with housing environment. Lab Anim. 2001 Jan 1;35(1):80–90.


I read this story about a 2-year-old boy who was bitten by a rattlesnake in Idyllwild this past weekend. He was airlifted to the hospital and injected with antivenom. He made a full recovery. We had rattlesnakes on the property on which I grew up. They were all over the place. I'd find one and freeze in place. I'd yell for my dad, and in one swoop, he'd slice through it with a shovel, sometimes splitting it open to reveal a bird's egg, or a whole mouse, slimy and undigested. I was scared of bees (still am), but I wasn't really worried about rattlesnakes for some reason. I stayed away from piles of rocks and wood and dense weeds. I listened for rattling. I'll tell you this much, though. If I had been bitten as a 2-year-old, I would have likely died. We didn't have health insurance. My parents would surely have tried to drive me to the hospital, which was far away. There wouldn't have been a helicopter ride. We didn't have the resources.
Cody lived because his parents had resources. His mother is a nurse who knew what he needed and how to get it to him. Cody had access to a helicopter and a hospital and doctors and medicine. And if he didn't have access to those things, Cody would have died. The prayers had nothing to do with it.
Last year, a "snake pastor" died at the age of 44. Guess how? And guess how his father died (at the age of 39)?
While this thinking is well-intentioned, there are plenty of people who die every day because they don't have resources. Rather than thanking god, feeling special, and moving on, why not thank the people who worked really hard to save this boy's life, and then look around and see what we can do to make it so that others have the same resources they need to survive? It is arrogant to believe that a man in space saved this boy. Because that also means this Space Man chooses to overlook all of the rest. Why would anyone want to be a part of anything like that?
And I have to tell a client this week that there is no housing lottery THIS YEAR in her county. It's early May! Resources certainly are what keeps people afloat. I count my simple blessings like lights and heat everyday. You speak truth in this post. Thank you.
Thank you. And I'm sorry you have to break that tough news.


1st Plant seedbeds and start flower gardens. Plant tomatoes, beans, peppers, corn, cotton, and other above ground crops on these most fruitful days.
2nd-5th A barren period. Favorable for killing plant pests, cultivating, or taking a short vacation.
6th-8th Favorable time for sowing hay, fodder crops, and grains. Plant flowers. Excellent time for planting corn, beans, peppers, and other above ground crops.
9th-10th Plant seedbeds. First day is excellent for planting above ground crops, and planting leafy vegetables. Second day is a good day for transplanting. Second day is also when to plant carrots, beets, onions, turnips, and other root crops. Also good for leafy vegetables.
11th-13th Seeds planted now will do poorly and yield little.
14th-15th Plant late beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, and other root crops.
16th-17th Kill plant pests on these barren days.
18th-20th Fine for vine crops. Set strawberry plants. Good days for transplanting. Favorable time for planting late root crops.
21st-22nd Poor planting. Fine for cultivating or spraying.
23rd-24th Good days for transplanting. Root crops that can be planted now will yield well.
25th-26th Any seed planted now will tend to rot.
27th-28th Plant seedbeds and flower gardens. Most favorable for corn, cotton, okra, beans, peppers, eggplant, and other above ground crops.
29th-31st A barren period. Favorable for killing plant pests, cultivating, or taking a short vacation.


Welcome to the Gonzaga University School of Business Administration (GUSBA). This page contains information about the GUSBA for incoming students.
As a new student your academic advisor is critical to your success. You should try to meet with her/him as soon as possible.
Once you establish a relationship with your advisor you should work at maintaining it.
If you have any thoughts or plans regarding study abroad, double majors, minors, and/or taking courses at other institutions please let your advisor know as soon as possible.
Your graduation requirements are spelled out in the appropriate University catalogue. Please make a note of which catalogue applies to you. Generally speaking the catalogue that is in effect your first semester on campus is the catalogue that will be used to determine your graduation requirements. A new edition is published every year and there is a chance that requirements differ across catalogues.
Almost all of your business classes will be held in the Jepson Center.
There are classrooms on the first floor and in the basement.
Our three computer labs are in the basement.
Our Office of Academic Advising is in the basement.
The second floor is home to faculty offices, administrative offices, meeting rooms, and the Graduate School of Business.
Here are maps of the basement, the first floor and the second floor.
While there is no mandated computer/operating system/software package you should know that the GUSBA standard is a Windows-based system. This is especially true in BUSN 111.
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There is no GUSBA policy on the use of technology in the classroom by students. Individual professors will vary in how they manage the use of laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc.
Blackboard is the classroom management system currently used by Gonzaga University. Professors vary in how they use this resource. Please note that Blackboard works best with a Firefox browser.
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This week will be remarkable for love related matters. Love and romance will be all over the air during the entire time. Your continuous efforts will keep your beloved appeased. Try to hold onto this as your relationship will become more stable and blissful in the upcoming time. This week will be rewarding for married natives too and has good news in store for you if you are taking a step towards family planning. The blessings of this good news will be showered upon your relationship and it will grow blissfully.


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Barbara Kopple
Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple takes us behind the scenes of her own life and how she became hooked on narrative and documentary filmmaking.
Kopple opens by talking about being grateful that documentaries are moving into the mainstream, with audiences appreciating these "real-life, nonfiction films." She then tells about her journey to becoming a filmmaker, which started while she was studying political science in college and, instead of writing a paper, decided to make a short film showcasing people who'd had lobotomies. "My professor was outraged," she said. "I got a D….but I was hooked." Kopple goes on to discuss her process making several films, including Winter Soldier, Harlan County, USA, American Dream, Fallen Champ: the Untold Story of Mike Tyson, Century of Women, Wild Man Blues, and My Generation. She emphasizes her desire to portray people in truthful ways—to delve deeper than the headlines and expose her audiences to new perspectives that they would never see otherwise.
Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker. A director and producer of narrative films and documentaries, her most recent project is the documentary Running from Crazy, which examines the personal journey of writer, model and actress Mariel Hemingway, the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, as she strives for a greater understanding of her complex family history. Barbara has received several awards, including the Human Rights Watch Film Festival Irene Diamond Award, National Society of Film Critics Award, the SilverDocs/Charles Guggenheim Award, , the White House Project's EPIC Award, the International Documentary Association Career Achievement Award and the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. In 2010, Barbara received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from American University. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Director's Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and actively participates in organizations that address social issues and support independent filmmaking. (source: www.cabincreekfilms.com)
I had parents who did everything, and still do, everything they could for me, and gave me a real sense of self so I could take risks. And I decided that I really wanted to do films that were so far from what I understood and what I knew to sort of bring me closer and make me able to communicate."
"What was the most important thing for me, really, was to go beyond the headlines, and go beyond the tabloids, and really find out who this kid is, and what he's about, in a way that nobody else could. And something that I really like to do is to look under a blanket where you're not supposed to see, and pull things out, and that's what I tried to do in the Mike Tyson piece."


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GRID Alternatives to install solar for 500 Los Angeles families
The non-profit will also train 500 LA residents in solar installation.
July 1, 2016 Christian Roselund
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at the announcement
On Thursday Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and non-profit GRID Alternatives announced a pledge under which the local chapter of GRID will install solar on the homes of 500 low-income families over the next two years, as well as training 500 new solar workers.
The 500 installations will add up to 1.6 MW of new solar capacity in the city, and GRID estimates that it will also save up to $15 million in utility bills for the families over the useful life of the PV systems.
The announcement took place at the home of a single mother in South Los Angeles where GRID Alternatives of Greater Los Angeles (GLA) is installing a PV system at no cost, which it estimates will reduce her utility cost by 80%. Her system and other PV systems which GRID Alternatives installs, are funded by proceeds from California's cap-and-trade greenhouse gas regulation program.
GRID GLA has installed more than 1,100 PV systems across the region to date, including over 100 in the City of Los Angeles, and will be funded by the state to supply PV systems to more than 2,900 families in low-income communities through mid-2018. The organization also receives funding from private individuals and through other means.
Along the way the non-profit has provided nearly 71,000 hours of workforce training to nearly 3,500 individuals, and states that it has helped to place more than 220 local workers with jobs in the solar industry.
Los Angeles currently has the most solar installed of any U.S. city, at 215 MW of capacity.
Christian Roselund
Christian Roselund served as US editor at pv magazine from 2014 to 2019. Prior to this he covered global solar policy, markets and technology for Solar Server, and has written about renewable energy for CleanTechnica, German Energy Transition, Truthout, The Guardian (UK), and IEEE Spectrum.
More articles from Christian Roselund


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Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2016
UC Irvine survey finds concussions prevalent in water polo
"These numbers suggest that playing water polo carries a significant risk of concussion," said Dr. Steven L. Small, professor and chair of neurology at UCI and co-researcher on the survey. "Our results speak to the need for systematic concussion reporting in water polo. Particularly important is reporting for individuals at the college level, who have the highest prevalence of concussion."
The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2016
High-tech tools show promise for stroke recovery
One system, developed by Steven Cramer, a University of California, Irvine, professor, and his team, integrates low-cost electronic videogame plug-ins, such as a Nintendo Wii remote-controlled gun. Users' movements control the games, with remote supervision by a therapist.
National Post, June 25, 2016
Fault lines of EU exposed: Leave vote shows cracks all over the European Union
The factors driving that discontent are economic, political and sometimes inchoate. The refugee crisis and the lingering hangover from the 2008 financial collapse have both played significant roles. But so too has the EU's own unshakeable image as a faceless, meddling bureaucracy, said Jeffrey Kopstein, a professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. "Somehow it's been sold as a project that's distant and non-democratic," he said. Kopstein thinks that image is mostly myth.
Faced with harsh election rhetoric, Muslims and Latinos break bread in Orange County
Louis DeSipio, a political science professor at UC Irvine specializing in ethnic politics, said different ethnic and racial groups have long banded together at times when they feel discriminated against by the government, society or both. … "This is something that goes back decades for people who feel excluded or who realize that shared interests can create something more meaningful," DeSipio said. "Would they have been as successful working individually? Probably not."
CNBC, June 27, 2016
Trump's policies will not cause 'lengthy recession': Economist
"The Moody's report is a partisan document that fundamentally lacks credibility," Peter Navarro, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, wrote in a response to the Moody's paper. "It is based on flawed assumptions that the authors admit 'are our own,' and these assumptions grossly misrepresent the Trump campaign's policy statements on the economy, trade, tax reform, and immigration."
Orange County Register, June 24, 2016
Check out this year's recipients of Irvine business awards
Nonprofit of the Year (UC Irvine) – The university, celebrating its 50th anniversary, has succeeded in the $1 billion fundraising campaign to support its research, teaching and public service for the future.
Previously "In the News"


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White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin speaks at a pride flag raising ceremony Monday.
Rainbow flag flies in White Rock
City recognizes pride week at flag-raising ceremony July 25
Matthew Hoekstra
Mayor Wayne Baldwin welcomed the symbol of the pride movement Monday, when a small crowd watched as the rainbow flag was raised over White Rock City Hall.
"We've been doing this for two years now and we're perhaps a little behind the curve in that respect, but we are doing it," Baldwin told a small crowd gathered on the city hall lawn. "It's something that demonstrates the inclusiveness of our community, something we're very proud of."
An idea originating with the White Rock Business Improvement Association, the flag-raising ceremony coincides with Vancouver Pride Week and its Sunday parade in downtown Vancouver.
The flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride and the struggle for equality. Baldwin said he's looking forward to the day when raising the flag is no longer considered necessary.
"Until we get to that stage, we'll be doing this. We will be reminding people that we are inclusive and that this is something that's very important to us."
Rev. Neil Gray of the Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity in White Rock said Monday same-sex couples will soon be allowed to marry in his church. The Anglican Church of Canada recently voted to change church law to allow same-sex unions.
"Diversity is something to be honoured and treasured and celebrated and upheld," he said. "No life is expendable or less important than anybody else's."
White Rock BIA president Ernie Klassen thanked White Rock's residents and civic politicians for recognizing the symbol.
"We are proud to live in a society and community we can call home," Klassen said.
Two more shot in Whalley
New tax predicted to slow local real estate market


Reaping benefits: Sales of Indian cotton are expected to go up.
New Delhi: India's cotton trade will enjoy a windfall in the new season as the country's exporters anticipate a longer queue of overseas buyers because of supply shortfalls in other leading producing nations.
With the US expecting a fall in cotton sowings, traders said India would see increased sales of cotton to China and South-East Asian nations in the year ending September 2008.
And this would help Indian exporters sell its expected record output in the new season at prices about 10% higher than last year.
"Indian cotton will benefit from high prices," said Avinash Raheja, an analyst with Commtrendz Research.
Cotton hit highs near $1.20 (Rs47.64) per lb in the mid-1990s and some analysts said prices could touch $1 in this bull run as market players expect it to be the next commodity to catch fire.
On Tuesday, the open-outcry December cotton contract in New York slipped 0.15 cent to settle at 66.08 cents per lb, trading between 65.15 and 66.43 cents. "First we had a rally in corn, now it's in soybeans and wheat, and possibly cotton would become the next hot commodity," Raheja said.
Analysts said cotton would also also find support as prices of polyster were high because of surging crude oil prices.
Cotton in domestic Indian markets is quoted at 21,000 rupees per candy, or 356 kg, up 7% from the same time last year, traders said.
In the new crop season starting in October, India's cotton output is forecast to hit a record 31 million bales, up almost 11% from 28 million bales in the current season, said Kishorilal Jhunjhunwala, president of the East India Cotton Association.
But domestic consumption in the new season is to grow only 1.5 million bales, from this year's 23.5 million bales, according to the state-run Cotton Corporation of India. This would allow the country to sell more overseas.
Traders said India's cotton exports would grow nearly 20% next season, from 5.5 million bales, with higher use of cotton by mills in Asia. But an 11% rise in the value of the rupee against the dollar this year would slice profits.
Analysts said China's cotton import needs in 2008 would grow to 3.5 million tonnes (mt) from 3.2 mt. This would give India an opportunity to meet the additional demand given a smaller US crop and relatively lower freight from the South Asian nation. In addition to supplying to China, India sells cotton to Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Global cotton output is forecast to drop to 25.4 mt from 26 mt a year earlier, the International Cotton Advisory Committee said this month.
World consumption of 27 mt will outstrip supply by 1.6 mt and 75% of the demand, or a record 20.3 mt, will come from Asian cotton mills, it said.
"Our cotton prices will remain high irrespective of a record domestic crop," said Prerna Desai, an analyst with Man Financial. India achieved a jump in cotton yields following approval for commercial cultivation of cotton hybrids in 2002.


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2018 Fall Cohort
Erin Gralton
Erin Gralton was a sophomore Business Administration major with an option in Accounting and a minor in Social Justice and Leadership at the time of participation. On campus, Erin is part of the co-ed community service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, a tutor at Seacoast Reads, part of Alternative Spring Break, on the Executive Board for Best Buddies as the Treasurer, and is a Fellow for CSIE. While in Boston, she interned with Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC). The company's goal is to promote equitable development and equal opportunity in Jamaica Plain and adjacent neighborhoods through affordable housing, organizing and economic opportunity initiatives that improve the lives of low- and moderate-income people and create a better community for all.
View Erin's presentation from the showcase.
Riley Kenney
Riley Kenney was a senior Anthropology major, with a minor in Business Administration at the time of participation. On campus, Riley enjoys and participates in the Anthropology Club and the Socratic Society and was named to the Dean's List in the fall of 2018. In the summer of 2018, he interned through our Social Innovation Internship with the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, which manages more than 1,800 funds created by generous individuals, families and businesses, and awards nearly $40 million in grants and scholarships every year and works to maximize the power of their giving, support great work happening in our communities, and lead and collaborate on high-impact initiatives. He also conducted anthropological fieldwork research through the Anthropology Department. While in Boston, Riley interned with Strategies for Youth, a policy and training organization dedicated to improving police/youth interactions through community engagement, police training, outreach programs for youth, and proactive use of multi-disciplinary approaches to problem solve and build relationships between police and youth.
View Riley's presentation from the showcase.
Samuel Marquis
Samuel Marquis was a junior Psychology major at the time of participation. On campus, Sam has been a Resident Assistant and a Fellow for NH Listens, which is a civic engagement initiative of the Carsey School of Public Policy. He also was a member of the Psychology club. While in Boston, he interned at Lena Park Community Development Corporation. He identified community resources and built collaborative relationships with community agencies. In addition, he collected/inputted community engagement data and represented Lena Park at community meetings and events. Sam also put together a monthly resident newsletter and assisted with planning community events.
View Sam's presentation from the showcase.
Maria Rollinson
Maria Rollinson was a sophomore Art History major at the time of participation. On campus Maria is a member of MOSAICO, Nala (the support group for women of color), Elite dance group, Connect, and the McNair Program. While in Boston, she is interned with the 826 Boston Writers Room. The 826 Boston Writers Room focuses on providing in school writing support as well as holding after school activities and clubs.
View Maria's presentation from the showcase.
Mackenzie Lafond
Mackenzie Lafond was a sophomore Psychology major at the time of participation. She was very excited to expand her horizons through experience and hard work and looked forward to taking advantage of the opportunities available through Semester in the City. She interned with Empowering People for Inclusive Communities (EPIC), whose mission is to prepare young people with disabilities to be actively engaged community leaders through education, leadership development and community service.
View Mackenzie's presentation from the showcase.
Caitlin Durnbaugh
Caitlin Durnbaugh was a sophomore dual majoring in Human Development & Family Studies and Spanish at the time of participation. On campus, she is the student assistant for New Hampshire Military kids, a nonprofit that supports military connected youth and their families. Her passion for social justice and cultural awareness has led her to be involved in the Black Student Union and Buddies Without Borders, a club that encourages cultural exchange by pairing international students with American students. While in Boston, she interned at 826 Boston (Egleston Center), a nonprofit youth writing and publishing organization that empowers traditionally underserved students ages 6-18 to find their voices, tell their stories, and gain communication skills to succeed in school and in life.
View Caitlin's presentation from the showcase.


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Artificial Ecology: Ian Cheng on the Strange Art of Simulating Life, and the Conceptual Merits of Pokémon Go
By Dylan Kerr
Ian Cheng. Image courtesy of the artist
There's a dog waiting to play with you at the 2016 Liverpool Biennial. It's a Shiba Inu, the Japanese dog breed briefly made famous through the "doge" meme of 2013, and it just can't wait to show you around. There's a catch, though: the dog, like the doge, is a digital beast, viewable only through the Google Tango tablet more commonly used for 3D mapping and augmented reality experiments. It's a part of Ian Cheng's piece Emissary Forks For You, the latest iteration of the artist's weird world of interactive and artificial lifeforms.
With reference points ranging from his education in cognitive science, a yearlong stint at George Lucas's visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic, and his work under era-defining artists including Pierre HuygheandPaul Chan, Cheng's simulations are less about the wonders of emerging technologies than about the potential for these tools to realize new ways of relating to our own strange, chaotic, and contingent existence. For an art world still struggling to make sense of virtual realities, his efforts stick out as particularly refined examples of the affective possibilites of the digital medium.
Cheng first made a splash with simulations like his 2013 piece Entropy Wrangler, a digital realm populated by a swirling, morphing mixture of creatures, figures, and inanimate objects each programmed with their own set of behaviors. These aren't simply scripted 3D videos: after coding the component parts, Cheng presses start and lets the piece develop as it will in a kind of additive, pseudo-evolutionary process that can (and usually does) lead to strange and unforeseen results over the course of its infinite duration. The artwork becomes an emergent ecosystem arising from these loose predetermined guidelines, like a set of Sol LeWitt instructions that create a world instead of lines on a wall.
In more recent works, Cheng introduces goal-oriented behavior into his digital avatars to create simulations with more direct emotional acuity. In both Emissary in the Squat of Gods and Emissary Forks at Perfection, the titular emissary characters (a shaman and a Shiba, respectively) attempt to guide their simpler counterparts through a shifting landscape. Each reset of the simulations produces a new journey through the world, complete with its own set of ever-changing micro-dramas.
Now Cheng is going a step further, replacing digital avatars with human viewers in Emissary Forks For You in pieces at the Liverpool Biennial and the Migros Museum. It's a reversal of the normative pet-master dynamic, placing the digital canine in the position of power as kind of an emotional exercise Cheng has likened to a "neurological gym."
In this interview with Artspace's Dylan Kerr, Cheng muses on the vulgarity of new technologies (including Pokémon Go), the similarities between dogs and artificial intelligence, and how his series of simulations are "more a phylum than a franchise."
Throughout your work, there's a recurring theme of beings—specifically AI-based entities—existing and changing beyond our control. Where does this fascination come from?
I have fond memories of going to beaches in California to look at tide pools. You see all of these ambiguous things—not quite creatures, not quite plants—all living in this little community. It's a bit like Finding Nemo, but without the cute fish. I always wondered about the lives of these kinds of things, especially when they start to wander away under their own agency. I'm an only child and didn't grow up with any pets, so I'm cursed with this craving for the lives of others.
What's the advantage of using digital simulation to explore this craving?
I'm trying to find ambiguity in the artificial. By artificially simulating something, I can start from a premise that is very fantastical, almost like what you'd see in Miyazaki films or the Sims. I can start from a world or lore that I've invented, or invent a fantastical lifecycle of a creature, and the formal properties of simulation play out that reality with a realist's rigor, true to its nature. It's like when fiction writers get to that sweet spot where they say the story begins to write itself. A simulation takes an arbitrary premise and writes itself, showing me consequences I couldn't anticipate. I'm then free to take on the role of behavior trainer for my artificial life forms.
Still from Bad Corgi, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist and the Serpentine Galleries, UK
Let's talk about dogs. Between your Serpentine-commissioned app Bad Corgi and Emissary Forks For You at the Liverpool Biennial, they've become something of a recurring motif in your work. What's so interesting to you about these canines?
It's because my pet corgi Mars has totally infected my life! The Shiba character comes from the work Emissary Forks at Perfection. It's a simulation set in the future about an advanced talking dog chaperoning a 21st century human. For me, the dog is a way to talk about artificial intelligence with the generosity we apply to pets. It's the opposite of the popular notion that AI is and should be an omniscient super brain oracle. The reality of AI, at least right now, is that it is more akin to dogs who are very fallible, not good at anything really, but can learn to learn. I think it is a more apt and generous perspective for growing up around AI growing up.
In contrast to your earlier works like Entropy Wrangler, your "Emissary" series feature characters programmed with certain goals, if not ends. Why the shift to this more narrative mode?
The earlier simulations like Entropy Wrangler were like the Big Bang—some initial physics conditions that erupt into chaos. Around 2015, I began to see that the simulations, and the processes of entropy and evolution that they exhibited, were inherently meaningless—like nature itself. This was no longer satisfying to me. I felt I needed a counteracting force to entropy and evolution, something very deterministic, and so I started to give certain characters in the simulations a storyline that they had to follow, where previously a basic reactive AI would have governed them.
In Emissary in the Squat of Gods, [shown at the Hirshhorn Museum earlier this year and discussed in an earlier interview with the curator Gianni Jetzer] the emissary character has narrative goals she tries to accomplish in spite of the other agents in the simulation who are much more reactive, who have no long-term goals. They often get in her way, try to recruit her into other activities, try to set her off her narrative course. I really wanted a situation where those two forces—meaningless dynamic simulation and meaningful deterministic story—could collide and sculpt each other.
I think of narrative as a technology—stories are our emotional scaffolding for making meaning out of meaningless reality. On one hand, the universe is meaningless. OK. On the other hand, we are creatures of narrative and need stories to give ourselves situational awareness, a sense of meaning. On the other-other hand, we painfully thrive on moments in our lives when our life script is interrupted by a meaningless accident or circumstance that forces us out of our comforting stories. These moments are when we are forced to invent another story, another script, and expand our portfolio of narratives for dealing with the unknown. I'm trying to use the simulations to hold these metaphysical primitives together.
I hate that art is given the burden of having to be meaningful. I think this is a misunderstanding. Maybe the real purpose of art is to wrestle with the relationship between meaning and meaninglessness and how they transform each other.
Section of Entropy Wrangler, 2013, from Ian Cheng's Vimeo page
Your simulations have been compared to fish tanks or gardens—enclosed areas where observers watch a kind of self-generated drama unfold outside their control. More recent work seems to want to include human participants as well, either as users or participants. How do you deal with human interaction in your work? What possibilities or behaviors does this augmented reality allow for?
The work at Migros Museum and Liverpool Biennial features the Shiba character, as well as the basic AI that governs Shiba, on Google Tango tablets. The Shiba commands you to follow it, and the viewer can physically walk or chase the virtual Shiba. The tablet functions as a portal to do this. Over time, you kind of become Shiba's pet. I found that the relationship to this AI is much deeper because your communication with Shiba involves your own physical movement. Your body really begins to believe in the operative reality of this virtual dog AI.
The most exciting part of your work, to me, is the idea of infinity it embodies—over an endless time scale, it can come up with things you never planned for. In creating these various simulations, what's the strangest emergent property or event you've encountered?
One time in Emissary in the Squat of Gods, a child character dragged a dead body to an open area and started to pee on it. Other characters nearby saw this, stopped what they were doing, walked over, and started peeing on the dead body too. This dominoed into a mob effect where more and more of the simulated community gathered to pee on this dead body. It was a really magical moment.
Still from Emissary in the Squat of Gods, 2015. Courtesy of the artist, Pilar Corrias, Standard (Oslo)
When we last spoke in 2013, you said that you wanted your art to become something like Angry Birds or Star Wars—an overarching world realized in series. Now, between your apps and simulations, it seems like you're on your way. How do you think about building a franchise as an artist?
I don't care about franchising. What I meant was the notion of creating a living, ongoing world, where individual artworks become journeys through that world. This can be extended to creating a mind or an AI character like Shiba Emissary, who has enough agency where it can be cast into different projects, different contexts. I can expect Shiba to react to its new condition with its repertoire of ability, knowledge, desire, and thoughts in an improvisatory way. For me, creating something "alive" in this sense, whether a world or a mind, becomes a portal that keeps on giving.
It's like how my pet corgi Mars continues to fascinate me every day, even though he's so predictable. I'm more interested in watching Mars roll around in his sleep than in re-watching a movie. Mars is self-generating a million stories a minute. For me, the idea of creating and training a life form excites me much more than making a static form. Static forms are vital for exploring and embedding arguments, or feelings we wish to bottle and revisit. But life forms are vital for compressing the experience of how things change, grow, or stay steadfast in their behavior, how parts affect wholes, how systemic causation unfolds. With artificial life forms, we can play with compressing these dynamics even more, to timescales that are legible to human perception. This is the kind of weirding that I'm trying to build on—it's more a phylum than a franchise.
You've said, "It's very hard for art to change the material world, but I think it can effectively change people's minds, refactoring their relationship to that world." Morality is subtle but recurring theme in your work—the parameters you set for your digital creations can be read as a kind of moral code. What's the role of morality in an artwork? Does art have a kind of moral imperative, in your mind?
There's a Peter Drucker saying, "Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things." I think the role of morality in art, if anything, is to err more on the side of doing the right things. Which is to say, to try to identify the noisy, ambiguous territories that our mental models don't cover and attempt to devise forms to help us navigate in there. The question of what is sacred about human nature is a very noisy, ambiguous territory. It's a frontier without answers that we are all caught in, which is scary, but rich with formal opportunities. Other industries can worry about doing things right, refining existing forms and models.
Still from Emissary Forks At Perfection, 2015-2016. Courtesty of the artist, Pilar Corrias, Standard (Oslo)
There's a certain echoing between some of your ideas and those of contemporary philosophical movements like Object Oriented Ontology or speculative realism—what do you make of these schools of thought?
I appreciate the dimension of new materialism that asks us to be modest about our place in the universe and humble about phenomena occurring outside of human perception. But I still think we are slaves to our neural programming. 90% of the day we make do on our habits, feelings, and sense of human timescale. Look at how we're all reacting to the current election. Are we not still so human? If thinking about the inner life of lichen is the emotional scaffolding we need to game ourselves out of ourselves, great, let's do it. But I personally find this speculation not emotionally coherent enough to fundamentally refactor my way of being.
I'm more excited about ideas around reconditioning our neurology to be more comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty. It's self-help heuristic blogs and weird fiction. It's about creating portals and interfaces that begin from our limited humanness and guide us out to a way of becoming alien to ourselves. Emotional coherence goes as long a way to sustaining alien thought as formalized argumentation, if not more. A philosopher's job is to be like an operating system designer, mostly responsible to other OS designer conflicts, whereas an artist's job is to be like an interface designer. An artist has to play emissary between truth models and the messy spectrum of human neurobiology. I think some contemporary philosophy is asking the question: how do we game ourselves out of ourselves? I guess I'm asking that question from a more felt angle.
You've said before that the digital simulations are only a means to the end of what you call "composing with behavior." What does that mean to you?
I'm most excited about composing with soft things—as in software, as opposed to hardware. A body is a hard thing. Behavior is a soft thing. The cognition that produces the behavior is a soft thing. It's the stuff that controls and animates the hard material world.
I'm terrible with physical material and too impatient. For me, simulations are a forgiving, easy, cheap, low energy, high variety, high abundance way to compose behaviors. I feel the freedom to play with behavior within the abundance and ease that the form of a simulation offers, like the way the abundance of paper and ink once allowed for playing with narrative worlds to flourish. It's far easier for my imagination to go wild in software than in hardware.
Emissary Forks For You (2016) in action. Courtesy of the artist, Pilar Corrias, Migros Museum
What kinds of emergent technologies have you most excited for their possibilities as an art medium?
Genetics, AI—so many things. If I was a six-year-old right now I'd be so excited to be alive. Imagine becoming a teenager in an era where you're printing a burrito, injecting a plague shot to feel the tickle of death, doing outside the womb births, learning you have nine genetic parents, sending AI to repair your relationship with your sister, telling mom and dad their fears are irrelevant. The future is going to be so vulgar compared to now.
At the same time, the dark side of all this isn't really our social hang-ups. It's the paradoxical condition that you can be simultaneously awash in interesting technology and also be economically poor. There's an expectation that technology should raise all ships. I believe it is overall. We're not worried about being a bear's dinner anymore. But the felt experience is that it's creating a deeper sense of winners and losers.
Tech insults our human prejudice on what is valuable, what counts as work, what is human. This rate of change on our lives doesn't look to be slowing down. The art world itself can't begin to reconcile this. But oddly, practicing what it feels like to face the changing void, and being okay with its indeterminacy, is something that art really allows for.
Augmented or mixed reality is rapidly entering the mainstream, perhaps most notably with the release of the cultural phenomena that is Pokémon Go. As corporations and pop culture embrace these technologies, what role do you see artists like yourself having to play in how they are implemented and played with?
I've only begun to grapple with this in the Migros and Liverpool tablet works. I'm intrigued by mixed reality's potential to make known physical locations really ambiguous again. I think of kids swarming the Westboro Baptist Church just to find a rare Pokémon, without caring what that site means to other people. It turns physical places into deposit points where different strata of social reality can be easily layered in playful and arbitrary ways. It also makes us more aware that we're already awash in arbitrary virtual realities. The consensual beliefs that sustain a church are no less virtual than those of an exhibition space or those of Pokémon Go. There's something very vulgar about Pokémon Go, and I think that's great.
Viewers in the Migros Museum interacting with Emissary Forks for You, 2016. Courtesy of the artist, Pilar Corrias, Migros Museum
What do you mean by vulgar in this context?
All of these little changes in our technological landscape recondition what we think of as sacred or profane. There's a Douglas Adam line—the technology you're born into is like nature to you, anything that gets invented before you're 30 is exciting and you can make a living off of, and the technology invented after 30 is against the natural order and marks the end of civilization. The vulgarity I'm referring to is to do with our changing relationship to technology relative to our generation and age. Ultimately, I think it's to do with how much ambiguity a human can tolerate. My parents can tolerate far less ambiguity than I could as a child, and now I'm 32 and I'm attempting to game myself into tolerating as much ambiguity as a 12-year-old.
Do you think the increased ability to tolerate ambiguity is a product of rapid technological advancement?
I think tolerating indeterminacy is a vital ability to cultivate in our era. We see right now that the fear of the unknown, of change, is fertile ground for tribalism and cartoonish violence to fester. Perhaps one day this quirk in human nature won't be holding us back, but right now, it's something that I personally want to work on, or find prosthetics to help me develop.
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Lifetime October 20, 1958
Portrayed Aragorn II in:
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American actor Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (born 1958) played Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film series. He was a last-minute replacement for Stuart Townsend, as director Peter Jackson did not believe Townsend looked old enough to play the part convincingly. Mortensen was considering turning down the part, but his son, who loved the books, encouraged him to take the role. His son, Henry Mortenson, also appears as a child of Rohan in The Two Towers and as a soldier extra in The Return of the King.
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"There were plenty of reasons not to go. I didn't feel I could do a good job and I didn't want to be away from my son for that length of time. But my son was familiar with the books, he talked about them with his school friends and he knew about the character of Aragorn. He said, 'Oh, that's pretty cool. You should try that."
― Viggo Mortensen, Empire Magazine Australia
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2002 - PFCS Award, Best Acting Ensemble, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2003 - OFCS Award, Best Ensemble, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 - PFCS Award, Best Acting Ensemble, Peter Jackson's The Two Towers
2004 - Critics' Choice Award, Best Acting Ensemble, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 - NBR Award, Best Acting by an Ensemble, Peter Jackson's The Return of the King
2004 - SAG Award, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Peter Jackson's The Return of the King
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2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Visual Companion
"Foreword"
Viggo Mortensen at Wikipedia
Viggo Mortensen at IMDb
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Ferdynand Pawłowski (ur. 21 grudnia 1894 w Żbikowicach, zm. 23 sierpnia 1987 w Krakowie) – żołnierz Legionów Polskich i kapitan lekarz Wojska Polskiego. Uczestnik I wojny światowej i wojny polsko-bolszewickiej. Kawaler Orderu Virtuti Militari.

Życiorys
Urodził się w rodzinie Marcina i Reginy z d. Głąbek. Absolwent gimnazjum w Nowym Sączu i student medycyny Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Członek różnych organizacji niepodległościowych. Od 1 sierpnia 1914 ochotnik w Legionach Polskich, w składzie patrolu sanitarnego 1 batalionu, 1 i 3 kompanii 1 pułku piechoty Legionów Polskich. 1 listopada 1916 został mianowany chorążym sanitarnym.

"W ratowaniu rannych na polu walki wyróżniał się na całym szlaku I B. Leg. Pol. Pod Kostiuchnówką został ranny w lewe ramię, pozostawał jednak w szeregach". Za tę postawę został odznaczony Orderem Virtuti Militari.

Podczas wojny polsko-bolszewickiej początkowo w składzie 1 pułku strzelców podhalańskich, a następnie 3 pułku strzelców podhalańskich.

Zwolniony z wojska 20 grudnia 1920, dokończył następnie przerwane wcześniej studia medyczne. Od 1923 pracował w Krakowie, następnie w Czarnym Dunajcu, gdzie pełnił też funkcję wójta. Od 1936 lekarz w Krynicy. 8 stycznia 1924 został zatwierdzony w stopniu kapitana ze starszeństwem z 1 czerwca 1919 i 8. lokatą w korpusie oficerów rezerwowych sanitarnych, podlekarzy. Był wówczas przydzielony w rezerwie do 5 Batalionu Sanitarnego w Krakowie. Po ukończeniu studiów został przesunięty, w tym samym stopniu i starszeństwie, do grupy lekarzy.

Podczas okupacji niemieckiej działał w ZWZ i Armii Krajowej w Krakowie. Po zakończeniu wojny pracował nadal jako lekarz w Krakowie gdzie zmarł w 1987. Został pochowany na cmentarzu Rakowickim.

Życie prywatne
Żonaty od 1942 z Janiną z d. Bartynowska. Mieli dwoje dzieci: Jana (ur. 1944) i Krystynę (ur. 1945)

Ordery i odznaczenia
 Krzyż Srebrny Orderu Wojskowego Virtuti Militari nr 1599 – 17 maja 1921
 Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
 Krzyż Niepodległości
 Krzyż Walecznych
 Złoty Krzyż Zasługi

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Kapitanowie lekarze II Rzeczypospolitej
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Srebrnym Orderu Virtuti Militari (II Rzeczpospolita)
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Walecznych (II Rzeczpospolita)
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Niepodległości
Odznaczeni Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi (II Rzeczpospolita)
Oficerowie sanitarni Legionów Polskich 1914–1918
Pochowani na Cmentarzu Rakowickim w Krakowie
Polacy – oficerowie armii austro-węgierskiej
Uczestnicy wojny polsko-bolszewickiej (strona polska)
Urodzeni w 1894
Zmarli w 1987
Żołnierze Armii Krajowej
Żołnierze I Brygady Legionów Polskich
Oficerowie 3 Pułku Strzelców Podhalańskich
Oficerowie 5 Batalionu Sanitarnego

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As a corporate "undertaker" for a mergers and acquisitions firm in New York, Carol MacLean travels from factory to factor, firing blue-collar workers who remind her of her father and the kids she grew up with. She hates her job. But Carol has been biding her time: her boss has promised that one day, after she has paid her dues, Carol will get to run a company instead of having to bury it.
To save the town and herself, Carol becomes determined to rescue the factory she's under orders to shut down. With the help of the townspeople and a roughly charming local fisherman, and by the force of her own resolve, Carol throws herself into transforming the company – but is soon faced with increasingly difficult decisions. Must she choose between the job she has always wanted and everything else?
Beauty explores the way in which one woman will risk everything – her savings, her reputation, and even a chance at love – in pursuit of her dreams.
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It was out of bounds for Carol to tell herself that she hurt when she closed places down and fired people, but she did, and it felt as if all of the closings and firings had piled up on top of her. One more, and she'd be out from underneath them. Instead of an undertaker she'd be a CEO. All right, she'd be a back-door CEO in some pocket-size outfit, nothing the equity partners at Baxter Blume could ever dream of wanting, but Carol had always dreamed of it.
When she reached in her pants pocket to turn on her cell, it vibrated. Baxter. Neither Baxter nor Blume nor any of the rest of them ever went near a plant floor with bad news. They would not have admitted it, but Carol could tell they were frightened of the workingmen they put out of work. Carol came from workingmen and wasn't frightened. After coming up as a parts salesman for the Best Motor Company, she had what had once seemed like the best job she'd ever get, as the lowest of Baxter Blume's executives.
Baxter's joke was to ask how many bodyguards she needed each time she told men their jobs were history. Was it a five-bodyguard event? Five was the high. She played along because, behind the joke, Carol believed Baxter respected what she did, delivering the news, and then the slog of disposal that came afterward. Not that there really were bodyguards today or most days, though in a few places she had gotten people to watch her car for the duration.


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Bell Bottom (2021)
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Bell Bottom (2021) is about an Indian RAW agent and team rescuing a hijacked plane, starring Akshay Kumar and Vaani Kapoor. Though it was an action story with patriotic rhetoric, I liked the way it tries, not succeeding always, to stay far from superhero-like narratives. The film was fast-paced with little historic lessons and repetitive explanations. The screenplay had drawbacks, but it was entertaining and manages to get our 'Ripe' rating. It is available on Amazon Prime Video.
It is 1984, and an Indian Airlines flight IC 691 gets hijacked and Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi, calls her core team (now known as the National Security Council) comprising of senior ministers and intelligence agency heads. Surprisingly, an under-cover RAW agent, with the codename Bell Bottom (Akshay Kumar), an expert on all the past hijacking events, gets called to the meeting. Based on his assessment, Mrs Gandhi entrusts Bell Bottom to lead a covert operation to rescue the passengers and capture the hijackers. Did they succeed or were the demands by the terrorists met like in the previous instances, forms the story.
Whenever I hear news of aeroplane hijacking, the scary images of Indian Airlines 814 being parked in the scorching heat of Kandahar Airport tarmac surrounded by fighters with automatic rifles in 1999 comes to my mind. The film focuses on the prior decades (the 1970s and 1980s), we see painful statistics (though not factual, indicative) of the several hijackings of Indian planes in that period, all masterminded by the Pakistani establishment – Wikipedia has a whole section dedicated to these and the pattern is unmistakable. After the horrific 9/11 incident, thanks to the coordinated efforts by governments around the world, the skies are a lot safer now – of course, Airports security is not an isolated issue, it is impacted by the prevailing geopolitics in the region. I appreciate the makers of the film for covering this period, not familiar to the present generation.
The casting and the period costumes were okay, Vaani Kapoor comes out beautiful in the songs, but Akshay Kumar appears older for the role and Lara Dutta was not matching the mental image we have of Mrs Indira Gandhi. Kollywood actor Thalaivasal Vijay gets an important role as Foreign Minister which he plays well.
Overall, Director Ranjit M Tewari keeps you engaged and I liked the crisp running time of 120 minutes.
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