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West Ham want two new players
Date: 31st October 2019 at 9:00pm
West Ham will seek to sign two new players in January, according to Football Insider.
It is understood that the Hammers will look to bring in a new defender and reinforcements up front, with Mario Husillos set to lead the search.
The Director of Football is said to be drawing up a list of potential recruits, but has yet to narrow down his pursuit to any specific targets.
The report also suggests that Hammers are looking for players who can make an immediate impact, as opposed to those who might take a lengthy bedding in period.
This will be music to the ears of many West Ham fans. The Hammers haven't started the season badly by any means, but they could use some reinforcement in key areas, and it sounds as if the club are intent on providing just that. The main thing will surely be bringing in another striker. Sebastien Haller has been brilliant so far this term, averaging a Whoscored rating of 7.37 per game, but beyond him, the Irons look woefully understaffed in up top. Albian Ajeti has the potential to be useful, but the Swiss has just 20 minutes of Premier League action his name so far, and is clearly regarded as one for the future. Factor in long term absences for Michail Antonio and Xande Silva, and it's fairly apparent that another body is needed. Signing a striker is always a lot easier said than done, but with enough preparation, the Hammers could pull this one off.

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By Eva-Maria Kolmann
The last few Easters were sad ones for the people of Aleppo. Good Friday was ever present, the light of the resurrection seemed far away. Only last year, Sister Annie Demerjian said to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), "Our children get coffins for Easter." The name Aleppo had become synonymous with death, sorrow and horror.
A NEWLY ORDINATED priest has described returning with the Blessed Sacrament to his home village in northern Iraq after it was finally liberated from Daesh (ISIS) extremists. Father Martin Banni, who as a seminarian in August 2014 fled Karamlesh holding the Blessed Sacrament, reported to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) how he had just gone back to the village in the Nineveh Plains, carrying the Sacred Host.
Fr Philippe Blot, who belongs to the congregation of Paris priests committed to serve in foreign missions, has visited North Korea on several occasions, taking considerable risks. He spoke late last month at an ACN event in Paris.
Coptic Catholic Bishop Kyrillos William of Assiut has called on Christian believers throughout the world to pray for the victims and families of the victims of the suicide bomb attacks on two Coptic Orthodox churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria on Palm Sunday yesterday (9 April), which claimed the lives of at least 44 people and have left a further 120 or more wounded. He added that he himself has received numerous messages from all over the world, following the attacks, promising prayers and sympathy for him and for all the Christians of Egypt. "Prayer is the most important thing we can ask for at this time", he told the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
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Global Financial Innovation Network targets international cooperation on regulating financial disruption
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By Andrew Fawthrop 25 Feb 2019
The Global Financial Innovation etwork is a joint effort by international regulators to ensure innovators in the sector are taking the necessary precautions to protect market integrity
The FCA plans to fix a "dysfunctional" overdrafts market (Credit: FCA)
Despite the excitement of new technologies sweeping across the banking industry, regulators are left with the challenge of reshaping the rules of financial conduct – the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) is one of the latest attempts in that regard.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched GFIN in a bid to improve the way disruptive finance companies are able to scale their products across international markets in line with regulatory requirements.
It is an extension of the FCA's domestic regulatory sandbox – a controlled environment where innovators are able to test their products in a real-world situation while the regulatory requirements of their products are monitored and assessed by the watchdog.
"As regulators, we have to strike the right balance between protecting the market and encouraging innovation," the FCA's head of Innovate Anna Wallace told the Finovate Europe conference in London this month.
"We developed the sandbox in response to that.
"Some business models and technologies were untested, and we didn't know what an appropriate safeguard looked like."
The Global Financial Innovation Network grew from a domestic sandbox
Until recently, the FCA sandbox was restricted to the UK – providing an environment for businesses to test new innovations with real-world consumers in a controlled environment, without formal regulations being implemented across the wider UK market.
Mrs Wallace explained: "Financial services are highly regulated and there are good reasons for that – but it's really costly to get your head around it if there are no precedents.
Anna Wallace, FCA Head of Innovate speaking at Finovate Europe in London
"If you are an innovator and no-one's done what you've done before, if the FCA has never thought about it before, you are in for a world of expensive legal advice and a huge amount of liability in terms of understanding how it affects your business model."
The sandbox grew from this acknowledgment that regulation can prove a significant barrier, preventing innovative companies from reaching the market – with the idea being that if they work alongside regulators during the development process it could benefit all parties.
"We are there to help firms understand how regulation sits on their business and to help nudge at a really early stage the core principles of what we are trying to do to protect consumers and market integrity – and ensure that's a core part of their business model before they get into the market," Mrs Wallace added.
Introduction of the Global Financial Innovation Network
GFIN is a recent extension to the sandbox programme – providing a cross-border version of the original scheme to help financial innovators test how capable their offerings are of scaling internationally.
It is the outcome of a consultation conducted by the FCA last year, with the goal of expanding the scope of the sandbox outside the UK to reflect the international reality of the financial markets.
Three main functions were proposed in the consultation.
First, to act as a network of regulators to collaborate and share experience of innovation in respective markets, including emerging technologies and business models.
Secondly, to provide a forum for joint policy work and discussions; and thirdly, to create an environment where firms can trial cross-border solutions.
The new scheme consists of 29 global regulatory organisations, which will work together to promote innovation across their respective jurisdictions – which include regions in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and Dubai.
They will also share information about the performance of the global sandbox in each region, with the aim of pooling their findings to foster a better environment for innovative finance companies to operate and expand their businesses.
FCA headquarters in London (Credit: FCA)
Mrs Wallace said: "The data revolution is making it easier for firms to move from one market to another, and GFIN is our reflection that we cannot operate in isolation.
"Most start-ups have the aspiration to scale outside of the UK and most financial services at some point will encounter global standards that bite.
"This year there will be tests happening in more than one jurisdiction at a time in financial services, which will be a global first."
What impact has the regulatory sandbox had?
Reflecting on the FCA's efforts to support innovation in financial services since the introduction of the sandbox in 2014, Mrs Wallace said: "As a regulator, we care about the positive effects of competition and for us innovation is a critical part of that.
"Our early findings show that taking part in the sandbox reduces the time it takes to get to market, and innovators are also able to attract investment as a result of being in it.
"It's allowing technology to enter the market at a quicker pace than it might otherwise do – and it's encouraging partnerships, too, which is something we'd hoped for.
"The sandbox is able to make the cause for benefit – which is not something regulators often do – as well as look at the risks and think about how to balance the approach."
But Mrs Wallace touched on the limitations of the sandbox too, noting that it had not been a sweeping success.
"The sandbox didn't encourage innovation evenly across sectors – including areas where we thought financial services could really benefit," she explained.
"And it didn't address the needs of innovators who wanted to span more than one economic market, or help them to scale their business
"It was only able to prove something on a small scale."
This issue of scale and needing to help companies introduce innovation across multiple markets is something the FCA hopes the new global network will be able to address moving forwards.
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Malaga relegated from La Liga after late defeat
They still have five games left to play but Malaga's relegation was confirmed on Thursday after a last-gasp defeat to Levante.
Malaga have been relegated to the Segunda Division after 10 consecutive seasons in La Liga.
The Boquerones suffered the ignominy of becoming the first side from Europe's five major leagues to be relegated this season after falling to a 1-0 defeat at fellow strugglers Levante on Thursday.
Emmanuel Boateng's goal in the third minute of injury time meant that Levante, one place above the drop zone, opened up an unassailable 17-point lead over rock-bottom Malaga, who have amassed just 17 points all season.
It marks the culmination of a torrid season for the club, who sacked head coach Michel in January after a run of four straight games without scoring left their survival hopes in tatters.
Michel was replaced by Jose Gonzalez, but he was unable to inspire a turnaround in fortunes and they have now been relegated to the second tier with five matches remaining.
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See what revamped theatre could look like in multi-million pound plans
Jason Noble, Local Democracy Reporter
Published: 4:32 PM May 8, 2019
A CGI image of how the new Regal Theatre in Stowmarket could look, as part of seven-figure sum plans to extend it. Picture: PURCELL - Credit: Purcell
The first designs for a multi-million pound revamp of the popular Stowmarket Regal Theatre have been revealed – and work could begin later this year.
The Regal Theatre as it looks today. Picture: GREGG BROWN
The project secured a grant of £1.56m from Mid Suffolk District Council last year, which will go towards a major upgrade of the popular facility.
Among the upgrades will be an extension to create two new cinema screens - one with 84 seats and one with 57 - as well as a refurbished main auditorium, improved toilet facilities, disabled access and expanded foyer and cafe.
Stowmarket Town Council, which operates the theatre, also secured a £1m loan from Mid Suffolk District Council and plans to put £650,000 from reserves into the project.
A full planning application has now been submitted, with the first images of the new look space.
The Stowmarket Operatic and Dramatic Society is among the groups to have given backing to the upgrades. PICTURE ANDY ABBOTT - Credit: Archant
David Blackburn, town council clerk, said: "Admissions to the Regal continue to rise and have been close to 70,000 over the past year.
"Therefore, redevelopment of the theatre cannot come too soon.
"Both the town and district councils are working closely to deliver this project and the submission of the planning application marks another important step in the life of the project.
"We will continue to discuss our proposals with the local community who have been very supportive of the project so far.
"A public information event will be held in the town in July 2019 about the project and further details about the event will be released shortly."
If the plans are approved at planning committee, it is anticipated work will start later this year with an estimated construction timeframe of 52 to 65 weeks.
The plans have attracted widespread support, including from the Stowmarket Operatic and Dramatic Society, Stowmarket and District Chamber of Commerce and the Mid Suffolk Disability Forum.
The Stowmarket Society, which also backed the proposals, urged the developers to "be bold in their architectural aspirations for the building rather than seeking to implement a fake replication of buildings around the theatre".
The Regal Theatre is having a million-pound revamp to get two new screens. Picture: GREGG BROWN
The theatre, built in 1936, attracts around 70,000 visitors per year, with the upgrades expected to create 10 to 20 new jobs.


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On the subject of talent retention, every city finds it a challenge to compete with the bright lights of major tech centers like San Francisco or New York. But St. Louis has proven that keeping potential entrepreneurs in the region is as simple as introducing everyone to what the city can do for their business.
"When schools like Wash U, SLU, UMSL and others offer entrepreneurship resources to students and faculty members in their communities… St. Louis as a city reaps the benefits of their talent and energy," Emily Lohse-Busch, Executive Director of Arch Grants said at the Merge Summit. The right level of investment and support can go a long way to retain talented university students in St. Louis when they graduate.
Blake Margraff, CEO, Epharmix.
Healthcare startups Epharmix and Geneoscopy exemplify the St. Louis talent retention ecosystem working exactly as intended. Both companies began at Washington University in St. Louis, received the right support, funding, and mentorship, and have since grown their companies locally.
EQ reached out to the founders to find out what got them first engaged with the St. Louis startup ecosystem – as well as what kept them going.
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For Blake Marggraff, founder and CEO of digital health startup Epharmix, the decision to build the company in St. Louis was made when he started his first company, Betabox, an edtech startup. The first company's relationship with Arch Grants made all the difference when it came to starting his second.
"When I was a student at Washington University in St. Louis, I decided to apply to Arch Grants for Betabox, and was honored and surprised that we received the Arch Grant. At that stage, $50,000 was a pivotal amount of money, but I quickly realized that the community-driven mentorship was the single most valuable contribution that Arch Grants would make to my business."
Blake emphasizes the value of the "weak ties" that programs like Arch Grants create. "Arch Grants has a really solid base of active community participants, folks who span the public and private sides that are drivers of positive change, especially social change. As part of their strategy, Arch Grants builds relationships between its Recipients and people who can be allies now, or allies down the line at a different company.
When Blake decided to transform his healthcare research into a second startup, the network he had built at Betabox turned out to be invaluable.
"When I was focused on education, Arch Grants introduced me to everyone from innovative teachers to the C-suites of local colleges," he says. "Now that I work in digital health, St. Louis continues to be an excellent place to build a business. Arch Grants has spurred innovation across the enterprise software space and attracted a lot of talent to build that network here."
When asked about the value of that network to his business, Blake doesn't hold back.
"The network is everything," Blake explains. "I'm not sure we would still be here if it weren't for the level of time and attention that organizations like Arch Grants put in to making sure we met the right people."
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Life sciences startup Geneoscopy is truly an example of the St. Louis ecosystem working as intended. The medical device company raised $1 million in seed funding from local investors, including Missouri Technology Corporation and Billiken Angel Network. Brother-sister co-founding team Erica and Andrew Barnell attribute their funding success to the strong networks available in St. Louis.
"We spent over a year talking to more than 100 investors around the country," says Andrew Barnell, Geneoscopy's CEO. "We were thrilled to find our funding solution right here in St. Louis."
Erica, Geneoscopy's Chief Science Officer, began researching colorectal screening techniques as an MD/PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. When she and her brother decided to turn her research into a company, Erica enrolled in Sling Health, a biotechnology incubator based at WashU.
"I think we were the third cohort of Sling Health that went through the process, and I was really fortunate to be part of that process," Erica says. "I like the structure of that program because entrepreneurs can come in with any level of expertise. You bring yourself to the game and they give you a problem list and then you develop a company around that."
Erica gives Sling Health credit for allowing students to pursue dreams of entrepreneurship without sacrificing other aspects of their lives.
"Sling Health taught me that you don't have to be "funemployed" to start a company. You don't have to quit school or your job. Through these programs, you can look at the feasibility of developing that product into a company before committing full-time," she explains.
Resources and mentorship across the city have helped the Geneoscopy team shape different aspects of their products. Though the company's ultimate goal is to create minimally invasive colorectal screening options for humans, local mentors helped them realize that their technology had veterinary applications as well.
"Many of the different facilities in St. Louis are interested in different things," said Erica in a recent interview. "We have advisors in the veterinary space through the Global Impact Award, and advisors from WashU and the hospital on the human front. Having everything in the same area allows us to expand our company and de-risk our company by applying it to multiple technologies."
Since its founding in 2015, Geneoscopy has won an Arch Grant, a $50,000 equity-free grant for early-stage startups with one condition: recipients must remain in St. Louis for a year. The company has also received funding from BioGenerator, established a home base in regional innovation hub CORTEX, and has gained recognition through Pipeline, the Midwestern entrepreneurship network.
"Our most recent funding round is only one small part of our St. Louis story," Andrew says. "Geneoscopy's seed funding is the culmination of the city's investment in us."
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January 7, 2019 Jon Froehlich
Well, 2019 is here.
As a kid, I remember when even the year 2000 seemed like an impossible number — so imagine how utterly 2019 doesn't compute (at least to my inner 12-year-old)! Though maybe that quizzical frame of mind as a child makes some sense of how, or why, I have ended up in a field dedicated to the transitory, to impermanence?
At any rate! I've spent the last several days preparing for the Cloud's work this coming year; and part of that has included looking back. It's one of my favorite things to do: to revisit old scripts, archival video, and especially old photos, to see how they strike me now. I still see some spots that make me go "ouch, I would love to go back and try that moment/scene again" — but those are fewer. Mostly now I see amazing feats of collaboration and striving, I see achievements that startle me at their complexity, facility, and expressive power — I find myself saying, "WOW. We did THAT! I want to do MORE of that!"
Here's a collage of images we put together from our productions past: The Whistling Mortician, Europa, All That Dies & Rises, and Dark Eyes. (Plus one pic from a very lively reading we had a year and a half ago: throwing ourselves at Chekhov, Moliere, Ghelderode…never read sitting down!)
Clock-wise from left: Daniel Levitt, Chris Cancel Pomales, Rachel Kodweis, Jon Froehlich, Wei-Yi Lin, Vincent Torres, Eddie Jackson, Jon again, Emily again (with ATD&R ensemble), Wei-Yi again, Blythe de Oliviera Foster, Jon again, Eddie again, Rachel again, Kelsey Rispin, Larissa Jeanniton, Casey Robinson (with ATD&R ensemble), and Emily again, being supported by Rachel, Camber Donahoe, and other ensemble. Plus so many more, not featured!
So, here's to more! We're looking forward to bringing you more of our signature work and play this year — announcements to come when the time is ripe.
Until then, welcome to this 2019; may it be a field of creativity, transformation, and becoming, at scale with our hopes and longings.
-Jon Froehlich (art. dir., CoF)
A Fool's Musings on Life in the Cloud
February 20, 2017 Jon Froehlich
It's that time. Crunch time. Preparing Dark Eyes for performance started nearly a year ago, but now we're in the final stretch. Tasks abound; there are enough little fires cropping up to keep even a seasoned fire-fighter on their toes.
A visual metaphor: the theater-producers tool-kit
And in the midst of all this, as one of the central team working to produce this play, I'm just trying to keep a little perspective. There's no way around the facts: are there seventeen things I should've finished a week ago? Yes. Will most of my day be given to these things, and will I have to live with resolving perhaps only a portion of them? Experience tells me, "Yep, probably".
Always somethin' there to remind me...
But today, unbidden but welcome, a simple thought has returned after some time away: and that is, pretty simply, the 'why'. That is, the time that has come is not "the time to accomplish tasks simply for the sake of accomplishing them", as if they had any intrinsic value of their own. None of these efforts are meant to simply herald themselves. Instead, the purpose beneath all these things—all these exertions, all these reachings-out, all of these increases in public attention ("Hey you! Come and see our show!")—is to bring us closer to a unique moment. In fact, to bring us to what might be the only moment.
It's that time. We are making way for a moment when we will get to be together in a way that borders on the sacred. We push ourselves beyond what we think we're capable of; we wear ourselves down to the nub, hopefully to the negation of our egos, to create a space. A space for you. A space that has never-before been, and will never-again be, in quite the same way—but a space that has every possibility of contributing to the deepest foundations of our common humanity. We will perform; but not for you. Rather, we will perform, so that we might be with you. It's the only reason we do this; not for you alone, not for ourselves alone, but for us. So that we might catch even the smallest glimmer of each other, in the darkness—face to face.
We so hope to see you, there.
Tickets on sale for DARK EYES!
So happy to release the ticketing info for our show, Dark Eyes. The following link will take you to our "storefront" where you can purchase tickets for just $20 each!
www.artful.ly/cloudoffools
We can't wait to see you at Access Theater, from March 2 through the 12th.
Cloud of Fools launches IndieGoGo campaign in support of DARK EYES!
January 18, 2017 Jon Froehlich
The Cloud if thrilled to be launching a crowd-funding campaign in support of our 5th original production, DARK EYES!
Our goal is to raise $7,000 to help pay for space, cast, crew, and essential materials -- and we're looking to our community to help us achieve it.
Click the link or the image below to find out all about campaign, and the many perks you can receive when you contribute:
https://igg.me/at/DarkEyes
Help us make this timely work of art possible!
More to come -- with gratitude and joy.
Love, Cloud of Fools
Supporting 1/8 Theater Company's THE MAIDS!
August 18, 2016 Jon Froehlich
Cloud of Fools is so proud to support our sister-company, One-Eighth! Purveyors of the theatrically absurd and provocative, our friends are on their way to creating their next innovative, explosive, and groundbreaking piece. Support them with us! They're making the fabric of theater in NYC and the world stronger, stranger, and richer!
Full production coming to INTAR, in October...
For complete info and to make contributions, click here! https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/profile?id=9221
Sweating it out with CoF Managing Director, Casey Robinson
July 30, 2016 Jon Froehlich
We're proud to support our Managing Director, Casey Robinson, in his new show SWEAT AND TEARS, now playing at JACK in Brooklyn -- just 2 performances left! He is directed by James Rutherford, the director of our 3rd production, All That Dies and Rises (co-produced with his company). Hope you can make it! https://www.artful.ly/store/events/9368
Casey Robinson in "Sweat and Tears" at Jack, 7/2016
Soo Jin takes Baltimore
June 16, 2016 Jon Froehlich
We're so excited to be back in Baltimore, with Soo Jin Pretty Nail (and More)!
The Fools' last trip to Baltimore Theatre Project was in September 2013, with The Whistling Mortician -- and we've been wanting to come back ever since.
The Whistling Mortican, followed by all his friends, racing to go see Soo Jin Pretty Nail, at Baltimore Theatre Project!
If you have friends in the Baltimore area who like intelligent, creative, genre-defying theater, send them over to Baltimore Theatre Project, while Soo Jin is still in town!
Remaining showtimes are:
Friday Jun 17 8:00 pm *** Saturday Jun 18 2:00 pm *** Saturday Jun 18 8:00 pm *** Sunday Jun 19 3:00 pm
For tickets and complete info, head over to http://www.theatreproject.org/
More to come...!


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Darwin, Owen and the 'London specimen'.
Portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond (1840)
The Archaeopteryx story began in the summer of 1861, two years after the publication of the first edition of Darwin's Origin of Species, when workers in a limestone quarry in Germany discovered the impression of a single 145-million-year-old feather. On August 15, 1861, German paleontologist Hermann von Meyer wrote a letter to the editor of the journal Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie, where he made the first description of the fossil. Later, on September 30, 1861, he wrote a new letter: "I have inspected the feather from Solenhofen closely from all directions, and that I have come to the conclusion that this is a veritable fossilisation in the lithographic stone that fully corresponds with a birds' feather. I heard from Mr. Obergerichtsrath Witte, that the almost complete skeleton of a feather-clad animals had been found in the lithographic stone. It is reported to show many differences with living birds. I will publish a report of the feather I inspected, along with a detailed illustration. As a denomination for the animal I consider Archaeopteryx lithographica to be a fitting name".
The near complete fossil skeleton found in a Langenaltheim quarry near Solnhofen – with clear impressions of wing and tail feathers – was examined by Andreas Wagner, director of the Paleontology Collection of the State of Bavaria in Germany. He reached the conclusion that the fossil was a reptile, and gave it the name Griphosaurus. He wrote: "Darwin and his adherents will probably employ the new discovery as an exceedingly welcome occurrence for the justification of their strange views upon the transformations of animals."
Archaeopteryx lithographica, Archaeopterygidae, Replica of the London specimen; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. From Wikimedia Commons
The fossil was later bought by the British Museum of Natural History in London. Richard Owen, head of the Museum, was the first to describe the fossil and named it Archaeopteryx macrura, arguing that its identity with Meyer's specimen could not be satisfactorily established (Owen 1862a, p. 33 n.). This fossil is also know as the London specimen. Owen, a fervent opponent of the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, was convinced that all animals within each larger systematic group were only variations of a single theme, the 'ideal archetype'.
Hugh Falconer, a Scottish geologist and paleontologist, saw the Archaeopteryx as a valid "transitional" fossil. At that time, he was in a dispute with Owen, and pointed out that Owen's description of the Archaeopteryx had missed some essential elements. On January 3, 1863, he wrote a letter to Darwin about the significance of this fossil: "It is a much more astounding creature—than has entered into the the conception of the describer—who compares it with the Raptores & Passeres & Gallinaceæ, as a round winged (like the last) `Bird of flight.' It actually had at least two long free digits to the fore limb—and those digits bearing claws as long and strong as those on the hind leg. Couple this with the long tail—and other odd things,—which I reserve for a jaw—and you will have the sort of misbegotten-bird-creature—the dawn of an oncoming conception `a la Darwin."
Darwin answered that letter on January 20, 1863, and commented about Owen's mistake: "Has God demented Owen, as a punishment for his crimes, that he should overlook such a point?. "
Richard Owen stands next to the largest of all moa, Dinornis maximus (now D. novaezealandiae). From Wikimedia Commons.
In later editions of The Origin of Species, Darwin mention the Archaeopteryx: "That strange bird, Archaeopteryx, with a long lizardlike tail, bearing a pair of feathers on each joint, and with its wings furnished with two free claws . . . Hardly any recent discovery shows more forcibly than this, how little we as yet know of the former inhabitants of the world."
MEYER v., H. (1861): Archaeopterix lithographica (Vogel-Feder) und Pterodactylus von Solenhofen. Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde. 6: 678-679
Falconer, H. letter of January 3, 1863 to Charles Darwin; The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Vol. 11, edited by F. Furkhardt, DM Porter, S. A Dean, J. R Tophan, and S. Wilmot. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999
OWEN, R. (1863): On the Archaeopteryx of von Meyer, with a description of the fossil remains of a long-tailed species, from the lithographic stone of Solenhofen. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 153: 33-47
Prothero, D. R. Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters. Columbia University Press, New York, 2007.
Peter Wellnhofer, A short history of research on Archaeopteryx and its relationship with dinosaurs, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 343:237-250, doi:10.1144/SP343.14, 2010
Darwin Correspondence Project http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-3899


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Football: Blatter says Bale deal is free market in action
ZURICH, Canton of Zurich - Real Madrid's record outlay of a reported 101 million euros (S$170.25 million, £86 million) for Gareth Bale is a sign of the free market in action, FIFA chief Sepp Blatter said Tuesday.
Pressed on the symbolism of the incredible transfer fee to bring the Welshman from Londoners Tottenham Hotspur to the Spanish capital, Blatter declined to comment directly.
"You'll have to ask Real Madrid," he told reporters at FIFA's headquarters in the Swiss city of Zurich.
The Bale deal, which comes as Spain is locked in the deepest economic crisis in a generation, has been described by Barcelona boss Gerardo Martino as showing "a lack of respect" given the current climate.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, meanwhile, has described it as a "joke".
But Blatter said he was reminded of the debate over Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo's £80 million move from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009.
"At the same time, in Sotheby's in London, there was an auction where they sold a painting of Spanish artist Picasso's Blue Period for 50 million pounds, which at the time was US$100 million," he said.
"At that time I said the man who acquired this painting, he will put it somewhere under closed circuit, because it's dangerous to lose it. But Ronaldo, you'll see at least twice a week in a stadium.
"So is the price high or not high? I think this is the market, and we cannot intervene in this market," he insisted.
Real Madrid are top players on the financial front thanks to deals on TV rights and sponsorship, among other revenue streams, and a global brand in their own right.
The Bale deal is just the latest in a string of "galactico" signings Real president Florentino Perez has made during two spells in charge of the club, in a drive to boost their success on the field and commercial revenue off it.
Auditors Deloitte's latest Money League report showed that Real had become the first football club to generate more than 500 million euros a year, whilst Forbes ranked them as the most valuable sports team in the world last month with an estimated value of US$3.3 billion.
"Many would say the country is poor or indebted, but in football you always find money," said Blatter.
"If a player is the value of that, I doubt. But I cannot stop this market," he added.
But such price tags raise the stakes on the pitch, he noted, saying: "Gareth Bale can prove now that he's better than Ronaldo."


The Australian Light Armoured Vehicle, ASLAV-25, is a wheeled, eight wheel drive (8x8), amphibious vehicle from the Diesel Division, General Motors (DDGM) of Canada. The one pictured above was under evaluation by the Australian Army for about three years. It must have done its stuff, because the design was adopted by the Australian Army. DDGM contracted British Aerospace Australia (BAeA) to fit-out and finish the ASLAV at its South Australia plant. This included air-conditioning and fitting the widest wheels and tyres to suit Australian conditions.
Wheeled armoured vehicles are attractive compared to tracked vehicles because of their reliability, low maintenance costs and ability to transport themselves quickly over long distances.
Propulsion in the water comes from two neatly mounted propellers, one each side. Top speed afloat is a handy 11kph. The turret is perfectly balanced so it can be traversed and the gun fired while in the water.
There is a tiny rudder behind each propeller and it is hard to credit that these are large enough, although they are directly in the propeller flow. In fact the rudders gain considerable assistance from the front four steering road wheels.
2012: "The last two Australian Light Armoured Vehicles (ASLAVs) serving in the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) completed their tour of duty with a range shoot at the Multi National Base - Tarin Kot [Afghanistan] heavy weapons range in November." -- defense.
2018 March 14: The Australian Government selected the 'Boxer CRV' by Rheinmetall (.de) to replace the ASLAV.


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Gonzalo Ariel Gómez (nacido el 23 de febrero de 1998) es un futbolista argentino que juega de delantero para Arsenal de Sarandí.

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Su carrera empezó en Arsenal de Sarandí. Fue suplente durante la temporada Superliga Argentina 2017-18 en los partidos ante Vélez Sarsfield y Chacarita Juniors, logrando su debut profesional en el empate 1 a 1 ante Patronato el 9 de abril de 2018. Tuvo tres apariciones más donde luego Arsenal descendería a la Primera B Nacional.

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 Actualizado el 27 de julio de 2019

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New Build Values Up By 24%
Prices for new build homes across Britain have increased by 24% since December 2021, the recent market data suggests.
New market analysis by new build specialists suggests rising valuers for new builds across the country. In fact, average values spiked by 24% since last Christmas, highlighting the living costs crisis fuelling buyer demand for energy-efficient brand-new properties.
Annual New Build Growth
In December 2021, the average new build in Britain sold at £339k. According to the new data, this figure reached £397k this month, an increase of 17%. The North East saw the most significant annual increase (19%), followed by Wales (18.8%).
The North West, the South West, and Midlands come next, with all areas recording new build price spikes of more than 18%.
At the local authority level, Orkney Islands recorded the most significant spike in new home values since last Christmas. Average prices in the area spiked by almost 24%, hitting £293k.
London New Build Developments
Perhaps surprisingly, London's new homes lagged behind the rest of the UK regarding average price growth. In fact, new builds in the City of Westminster became 4.7% more affordable (prices have actually gone down).
Likewise, new build growth rates in several other London neighbourhoods stayed moderate. For instance, new homes in Camden became just 1.4% more expensive, while Islington recorded a 3.3% increase.
One of the central reasons behind this trend is the already high average prices for new builds in London. In fact, areas like Camden and Westminster are part of the million club, meaning that average values in these areas exceed the £1m threshold. As a result, marginal growth rates are only natural.
Industry Comments
Experts highlight the strong demand for new builds across Britain as such properties offer energy efficiency, favourable buying schemes, and developer incentives. Moreover, new-build buying is much more transparent than the process of buying secondary homes.
In fact, several housebuilders developed their own help-to-buy schemes since the official initiative ended. Specialists also highlight significant growth levels of new builds in The North of England. Prices in this region have a lot of room to grow while demand is also rising.
New Build Homes: Fairview Launches New Save to Buy Scheme
Developer Fairview New Homes launches the new Save-to-Buy scheme for first-time buyers that allows them to move in and pay fixed rent before owning a home.
Top 3 Tips For Buying New Builds In London
We discuss and share the best three tips for current buyers and investors looking for new build homes in London.
New Builds In London 2023: Top 10 New Developments
We gather and explore the most promising new home developments in London set to launch in 2023.
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The New York Times has an interesting interactive map displaying the progression of the latest Southern California wildfires over the course the past week. In addition to the rapid spread of the fires, what's interesting is that this map was generated via satellite imagery. (The map legend states that a fire has been detected by satellite within each 0.5 mile buffer displayed). Unfortunately no further details of the source data are offered.
Thanks Sarah. I was looking for a map of the fires.
The collected NASA MODIS images of the fire can be found here.
Plus the USFS MODIS large fire incident tracker: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/.
From a series of news releases (all text, no pics, alas): UK aerial survey specialist Bluesky has launched a brand new digital map layer accurately modelling the location and extent of trees and their proximity to buildings. Designed as a tool to aid insurance assessors, property developers and Local Authority Planners, ProximiTREE details the exact spatial location and height of individual trees together with the circumference of its canopy. From this information a determination can be made of the root extent and the potential impact on either existing or proposed properties.
They plug this product for its use in avoiding building subsidence, but in fire-prone Cali, we could use it to look at defensible space and risk.
They also provide a range of good downloads, including sample data and software for your enjoyment.
If you love detailed spatial data and/or the bay area, I HIGHLY recommend downloading and exploring the readily available Upland Goals Project Data . Ryan Branciforte introduced it to us last week during his enlightening geolunch presentation about his work with the Bay Area Open Space Council. There is a wealth of data for all interests, including vegetation, animals, environmental features, weather patterns, fire risk, and even camp sites if you want to plan a trip to go look at all the data on the ground.
An interactive map of the wildfires and an update of the status of the firefighting efforts from the New York Times. Check it out.
I came across an interesting interactive image depicting wildfire occurrences across the U.S. -- this one is hosted by the AP news service. I have seen a lot of images like this over the past year or so; maps turned interactive images depicting a wide variety of information, particularly in the climate change arena. I find it interesting because, using the above referenced image as an example, it basically covers the same information that is available via a wildfire webGIS (which, unfortunately, seems to be down right now - maybe that answers my question!) developed by a consortium of federal agencies (GeoMAC). Because the information is so redundant (and comes from the same data sources), it seems, to me, to raise questions about the accessibility of web-based mapping sites -- are they seemingly too complicated, or do they contain too much information that doesn't relate directly to a story? Certainly the image format is easier to deal with from a development standpoint, and can be made pretty a little more easily, and it may just be the news media focus on graphics for particular issues/stories, but I still think it is interesting to see, and to think about how web maps can be made more useful as information resources.


I run a lot. I read a lot. And I listen to Taylor Swift a lot.
I finally had a bad run.
I had a tempo run on my schedule. Warmup, 2k @ tempo pace, 5:00 recovery, 2k @ 10k pace.
I handled the paces, but the effort was A LOT. I struggled. I needed to take a break. I walked the 5:00 recovery.
Bad runs happen. And the reason this one was bad was really obvious. I had run hard the night before with my run crew. I had run hard on the track two days before. Both those runs went well.
You're supposed to take it easy between hard efforts. I didn't. And I paid for it.
At the end of the day, this isn't a big deal. Bad runs happen. The reasons why are easy to understand. The lessons learned should be easy to implement.
I just actually need to take the lessons forward. Learn, grow, get better. Repeat.
After a rocky return from Alberta, I'm in a groove.
There's a few other gym sessions in there and a few more runs, but those are my anchors.
Sometimes my runs are easy, sometimes they are hard. but for the most part, I'm hitting my paces. I'm not missing any workouts. It's coming together. It always feels like I could be doing more, going harder, running faster, but it's a long process. And I need to trust the process.
When my rest days are crammed — morning announcements, evening events — it's easy to not do anything. But on those kinds of days, I'm usually on my feet and completely stressed, so it's not really rest.
This Friday, it was really rest. And it was so hard.
Work was relatively quiet, being a Friday in July. I slept in a bit. Left work at a normal hour. Had no plans in the evening. And I really, really struggled to not go to the gym. To do something. "I'm behind on my weekly strength," I told myself. "You can just foam roll and do PT there," I said.
But I know if I'd gone, I would have done more. So home I stayed. I became angsty, frustrated. Rest is really hard. To sit still, with your thoughts, with your body. To trust the process. To relax.
It's just another thing to work on.
There's a track about a kilometre from my house.
I get up early. Get dressed. Wish I got up earlier so I could have had coffee. Next week, I tell myself. (It won't happen next week either.) Walk to the track. Turn my watch on. Start my warmup.
My friend will come by soon. We'll wave, chat briefly. He'll do his workout, it'll be different than mine.
Round and round and round the track I'll go. Fast, then slow. Fast, then slow. The kms will pile up.
My friend will finish his workout and leave. He'll wave as he heads home.
Two fast guys will show up. They'll hug, stretch and start running.
I'll still go round and round and round. Fast, then slow. Fast, then slow.
I'm running in circles, but I'm running towards something.
We are 12 weeks out from the Chicago Marathon.
I have decided this is when my training really begins.
I've been building to this point all year: coming back from an injury, getting in a routine, getting stronger. Working on my head game. I'm going to the track regularly now. And the gym. I've got more work to do, but I'm getting there. I have no travel plans until Chicago. Work should be relatively chill. The only thing standing between me and success is, well, me.
In 12 weeks, I want to cross that finish line knowing I gave it my all.


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Ілектра Лебл (12 лютого 1999) — грецька плавчиня. Учасниця Чемпіонату світу з водних видів спорту 2017, де в попередніх запливах на дистанції 200 метрів комплексом посіла 30-те місце і не потрапила до півфіналів

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Love Camp 7/DVD
< Love Camp 7
Known DVD releases of Love Camp 7. Click here for BluRay.
Label: Blue Underground
2-Disc Limited Edition
"NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT: We're bringing the pioneering Naziploitation classic LOVE CAMP 7 to Blu-ray & DVD early next year in its complete Uncensored Version. One of the original 'video nasties' banned in the UK, LOVE CAMP 7 will feature a brand-new 4K scan from the recently discovered original camera negative" - label announcement
Audio: English Dolby Digital
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese
Video: 1.66:1 widescreen NTSC
Extras: NAZITHON: DECADENCE AND DESTRUCTION (featurette); Theatrical Trailer; Poster & Still Gallery; BONUS Collectable Booklet featuring "The History of Nazi-Exploitation" by Paolo Zelati
Pre-order: From Amazon.com
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Nervous Costume
By Madame Tlank, 7 October 2015
Marxist / Neoliberal / Philosophy / Literature / Poetry / Class / Gender / Identity / Sexuality / Feminist / Language / Crisis / Debt / Financial Crisis
Image: Loomshuttles / Warpaths, Ines Doujak, 2013
Madame Tlank digresses from and back to Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women, which is many things. A memoir written by someone without a history. A garment made for no-body. A reproduction fin in a great fleet of sharks
Down With Supreme Whateverness: On Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women
a catalogue of whales that is a catalogue
of whale bones inside a catalogue of garments
against women that could never be a novel itself.1
'Who eats in a cage? Or with a caged mouth?' This question leaps in white out of the first two black pages of Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women. In it, the need to eat is shouted out loud. In it, the cage is seen and felt. And it's made clear that in order 'to survive survival', to eat without a cage, it's not enough to shift the cage (from mouth to just around the body, say): it needs to be ripped away. And fangs regrown.
Kafka's Hungerkünstler refused the terms of survival that were laid out for him: he put himself deliberately into a cage, on public display, and refused to eat; the worst for him was to be force-fed once every 40 days; the sheer effort of lifting himself up to have food poured down his throat was already too much, so little interest did he have in survival. And why? Because, as the Hunger Artist confesses just before he perishes, 'I could not find a food that tasted good to me.'2 Because he could see no point in surviving survival. It was all just so much pale grub.3
In Boyer's writing, of course, the cage is no protection from present conditions, it is the present conditions, as embodied for example in garments and literature: 'Literature, like garments, had so often been against so many of us, enforcing and sustaining the hostilities of a world with the unequal distribution of resources and the corresponding unequal distribution of suffering.'4 Survival itself requires assenting to those conditions, eating at least, if with a caged mouth. Refusing this survival means not-writing: not (in writing) (re)producing the conditions that would call such survival 'life'. But accepting this survival also requires not-writing: paid and unpaid work, reproduction, etc. – things necessary for survival produce not-writing too. So that surviving survival, the will to want to live, to write, requires a world turned inside-out. And in Garments Against Women Boyer attempts to 'imagine, foreshadow, call forth or negatively invoke a [writing] incommensurable with Things As They Are.' (MH) It is a labour of love & rage.
But who would publish this book and who, also, would shop for it? And how could it be literature if it is not coyly against literature but sincerely against it, as it is also against ourselves? (p.48)
One version of Things As They Are:
If an animal is inescapably shocked once, then the second time that she is shocked she is dragged across the electrified grid to some non-shocking space, she will be happier than if she isn't dragged across the electrified grid. The next time she is shocked, she will be happier because she will know there is a place that isn't an electrified grid. […] She will go to the shocking condition – 'science' – and there in this condition she will flood with endogenous opioids, along with cortisol and other arousing inner substances. […] how is Capital not an infinite laboratory called 'conditions'? And where is the edge of the electrified grid? (pp.1-2)
Boyer tests these conditions, putting their accidents on the page because others will have to go on doing so. She probes and tests, flinching, letting go and pushing on, up and downward. Made sick by 'the supreme whateverness of upward moving depths'(p.53) – by the 'unconstrained constraints' (p.12), the bullshit choice between happiness or infirmity – she senses what lies between the pages of the closed book ('another veracity that includes conspiracy, corners, shadows, slantwise, evasion, unsayingness, negation, and under-the-beds?'(p.36)) With her mind as the deadpan-logical mouse in this laboratory, Boyer tries to invert and hollow out the conditions, to lift the real from its carefully constructed frame.
Among components of the frame are:
1. The violence underlying everything, or 'how money and bodies meet' (p.9).
2. The need to make money (and to 'Be MONEY like the universe!')*. Transparent accounts and profitable desires.** The aspiring self itself5 and its cheaply bought mutations***.
*'Be MONEY' (p.69): in a hilarious half-page of the section called 'Ma Vie en Bling: A Memoir', Boyer corrects bits of high-serious canonical bluster (Char, Pasternak, Pessoa, Auden) by replacing the words 'poetry', 'art', 'plural', 'inspiration' with 'MONEY'. In the line quoted above, Pessoa originally cried out: 'Be plural […]!' Auden, who thought he was talking about 'inspiration', is discovered by the same method to have said: 'Such an act of judgement, distinguishing between Chance and Providence, deserves, surely, to be called MONEY'. Do try this at home.6
**'Profitable desires' (pp. 34/35): 'It's only necessary to make a transparent account if it's necessary to have accounting, and it's only necessary to have accounting in the service of a profitable outcome. To account in the service of profit is to assume the desirability of profit […] To steal is to behave as a natural extension and reinforcement of a desire that everyone knows is what's real.'
***Cheaply bought mutations: 'as if the smallest bit of drugstore blonde could alter a person's person' (p.6). 'On how many of my hours are gone now because I have had to shop / On how I wish I could shop for hours instead' (p.47) – for hours or for hours? 'On whether it is better to want nothing or steal everything' (p.47).
3. The body: the need to eat, the (impersonal) illness resulting from poverty*, infirmity**, our wants 'made out of what is done to us',7 the subsistence that goes on after power defangs us.
*'Poverty': 'I was too sad to slug in the face. I was stoned and inconsolable. I was a weary rocket engineer looking at the twisted remains of a bad shot-defined astronautics. I wanted to be addendum free'. (p.63)
**'Infirmity': 'I am not a fan of infirmity, though it does supply the opportunity for some relief.' (p.13)
Fangs – we need them!
Literary convention established to make knowing what we needed to impossible8
By continuing to write after having failed to refuse to write, by writing, Boyer wills literature to stop (re)producing these conditions, stop functioning within or creating a frame (as do garments, encasing bodies which might flail their arms uncontrollably) that disguises the violence on which it is built.9
Just one example of Boyer's expert frame-shifting: 'The classic example of a positive contrast is produced by hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. The pain produced is part of the ordered dimension and so the more of it the more you get adapted to. Thus, when you stop you "feel great".' (p.14). And, later in the book: 'Things were great after that. They really got better. I wrote words in great paragraphs. There were great acorns. I had a great toothache. There was the great noise of the great leaving geese.' (p.70).
An impulse to action sings of a semblance [...] The measure [...] congealed [...] things keep no resemblance [...] Like night is like us [...] mentors [...] hardly enter [...] our centers do not [...] our value estranges.
– LZ
Writing (or its product, literature) needs to be wrenched from its place in the given conditions (as literature against women, just as sewing must know its material, re-grounding the garment as use value (as opposed to a form wrenched out of and imposed on women). And: how to make a seam?
Poetry and clothes are made of the same stuff: the history contained in the fabric or language; the hours of labour embodied in that material and its transformation into garment or poetry. The history of those who wrote and sewed the stuff: the present tense of those who read and wore it, those who heard and saw them. Dead labour walking whenever you wear that dress. Each time you recite that poem to protect you in the violent rain you bring forth the zombies.
Writing needs to expose its threads, garments need to bring back their dead bodies.
I kept checking the social fabric for the hole I'd burned. (p.80)
Uprooting the history of the Now entails 'resistance to the present and its versions of the past' (MH). Elsewhere, in a sequence of 'Questions for Poets' published by Mute, Boyer asks, 'What is the direct trial that is today?10 This text is not only a catalogue of questions, it is also a bibliography of the writing that gave rise to the questions, and as such a history of questions.11 The first reference in the first of many footnotes rings out: 'The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today.'(WW).
Poetry is history writing, a history of and in the now, 'everything in the everything' (p.20). And then, after many questions Brecht could not have asked better, comes this: 'Is it all of that and how it is against ourselves? Is it to burst, to ruin / to disrupt our continuity with history? Is it to never have history again? Is it the enclosing of tears?'
A poem is (or can be) a split second, a century, re-written as condensed NOW; a quake in continuity. Can it work into a present-tense nervous system12 the 'actual heaving everything of the human everyone' (p.51)?
I shall be a charming, utterly spherical zero.
– RW
Maybe the little girl's 0s (as described by Rousseau in Emile, the only thing this girl would write and write and write), shaped backward, using a needle, constitute writing towards surviving survival.
Boyer lists some things the girl might have enclosed into her 0s, 'a planet, a ring, a word, a query, a grammar'(p.84). Or maybe the 0 was just a NO:13 endless repetition of a symbol devoid of meaning without a context. Refusing to signify. And drawn backward at that. With a needle (not making garments), not a pen (not writing language). The possible worlds contained in the negation. Rousseau claims the girl stopped writing because she saw herself writing and hated what she looked like (but maybe she just thought that her 0s were too beautiful for this world?). 'Afterwards', he writes, 'she was only persuaded to write again in order to mark what was hers.'14 The refusal failed, the girl adapts but not quite. She never wrote again, only marked what was hers. Her territory. Objects delineate her world. But Boyer sees it otherwise: the girl stops because she is done with her work: 'The little girl in Rousseau needed only to write down her own name now: she had written, already, her revolutionary letters in the code of 0's.'(p.85) Revolutionary letters, decoded in Rousseau's head: an impulse stalled.15 In Boyer's writing: an impulse continued – – – – –
Negative alphabets.
I am nothing and I should be everything.
Mme Tlank: Sie wissen nicht, mit wem Sie reden
Anne Boyer, Garments Against Women, Boise, Idaho: Ahsahta Press, 2015.
Non-AB citations in order of appearance:
MH: Clinical Wasteman
LZ: REDACTED in deference to a litigious filial fiddler. (See, http://www.z-site.net/copyright-notice-by-pz/)
WW: Walt Whitman
RW: Robert Walser
KM: Karl Marx
WCW: William Carlos Williams
ED: Emily Dickinson
WS: Wallace Stevens
MM: Marianne Moore
American canon excerpting by Clinical Wasteman
1 Soiler alert! Certain of Anne Boyer's words and phrases are inverted or displaced in what follows, in a sort of tribute to her own redirecting of other writers. Page numbers otherwise unattributed are from Garments Against Women, longer passages quoted from Boyer's other works are indicated. Quotations from other authors cited are initialed in the main text, decrypted at the end. This quotation p.86.
I urge all readers who haven't done so already to read all of Anne Boyer's writing, a lot of which is available on her blog at http://anneboyer.tumblr.com/ There are also links to other reviews of the book to be found there, which are all very beautiful and intimidated me a lot. Read those, too!
2 Translation from https://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/kafka/hungerartist.htm
3 There are of course many other readings of this story. However, hardly anything has been written on the 'work' and 'pay' aspects of it. This may be forthcoming.
4 See Anne Boyer, Author Statement, Ahsahta Press, 2015, https://ahsahtapress.org/product/boyer-garments/
5 'ASPIRATION (1.) [...] a strictly personal kind of anxious conformism. The aspirational individual [...] expects to compete and win against the rest of her class on a "level playing field" (i.e. everyone doing the same thing), beating her opponents fairly by embracing more eagerly, energetically and obediently whatever rules of the game are transmitted from above.' See Wealth of Negations, Terms and Conditions: Welfare Edition, http://www.wealthofnegations.org/
6 The American poetry canon seemed the obvious place to start, if only because the corresponding English one is not worth the embossed vellum it's bound in.
This is just to say
I have eaten
that was in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
for breakfast
it was delicious,
and so cold
[WCW]
The MONEY passed – identified –
and carried Me away –
[ED]
"Things as they are
Are changed upon the MONEY guitar."
[WS]
I, too, dislike it
7 See Anne Boyer, http://anneboyer.tumblr.com/
9 On the violence built into garments, see the extensive research by Ines Doujak with John Barker for the amazing project 'Loomshuttles / Warpaths': http://www.inesdoujak.net/lswp/
10 See Anne Boyer, 'Questions for Poets', Mute, 2014, http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/questions-poets
11 'Every poem until the revolution comes / is only a list of questions / so mourn for the poet / who must mourn in their verse, their verse.' From another poem by Anne Boyer (title and publication unspecified), which she quotes in an enlightening interview with Amy King which also discusses the title of the book in depth. Straight after the quoted passage, Boyer adds: 'And by "revolution" I mean I don't know.' http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/08/literature-is-against-us-in-conversation-with-anne-boyer/
12 Or in keeping with the more instructive German usage: 'nervous costume', as in 'custom', or 'garments'.
13 'Her first word was NEIN!' Double Negative, Glass Wolf Hides Mechanical Hare, deleted CDR, 2006.
14 'Only stuff is private.' See Hari Kunzru, 'Fill Your Life With Win!', Mute, 2009, http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/fill-your-life-win
15 As for Rousseau: bon pour brûler!
QUESTIONS FOR POETS
Politics / Culture / Poetry / Society / Theory
They Want the Money, So Do We
Politics / Labour Struggles / Commons / Race / Sexuality / Feminist
The Battle of all* Mothers (or: No Unauthorised Reproduction)


The Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology and the Finnish Society for Hymnology and Liturgy hereby invite submissions for the conference "Music and the Sacred". In the conference, the aim is to address the various ways in which music intersects with sacred phenomena, and vice versa. This entails acknowledging the multi-dimensionality of both music and the sacred, and how music becomes sacralised in diverse ways and how the sacred becomes reconceptualised in musical contexts. A crucial point of departure for the conference is to understand the sacred not only as a religious idea but also as a broader conceptual field that, in the words of Gordon Lynch, pertains to "what people collectively experience as absolute, non-contingent realities which present normative claims over the meaning and conduct of social life" (The Sacred in the Modern World, 2012). In music, alongside explicitly religious songs and tunes, clearest examples include national anthems and other national(istic) forms of music, as well as ubiquitous ideas about music's transcendental qualities and effects.
The organisers welcome proposals for individual 20-minute presentations, entire 90-minute sessions and 45-minute lecture-recitals. Alternative presentation formats will be considered. Proposals from Master's students are also welcome.
· an abstract not exceeding 300 words (in case of sessions, please indicate individual topics if appropriate).
The proposals shall be sent preferably in pdf to musicandthesacred@gmail.com no later than 20 April 2018. Letters of confirmation will be sent by 31 May 2018.
The participation fee for the conference is EUR 60 (no concessions). Members of the organising societies are exempt from the fee.
The conference will be honoured with guest lectures by Professor Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago), Professor Hannu Salmi (University of Turku) and Dr. Riitta Rainio (University of Helsinki). The conference is supported financially by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
All correspondence regarding the conference should be directed to musicandthesacred@gmail.com.


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Regarding the story "Crowd hears from Citizens United leader" (The Capital, March 8):
I'm dismayed the Republican Party of Anne Arundel County would associate with the likes of David Bossie, president of Citizens United.
In 2009, the Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission uprooted campaign finance by declaring that corporations have First Amendment rights. The ruling in favor of Citizens United resulted in the undue influence of wealth in politics.
According to The Capital's own article, the Citizens United decision "opened the floodgates to unfettered and anonymous political contributions." The Center for Responsive Politics reported that by 2015 outside spending was 25 times what it was in 2006. It also reported tax-exempt super political action committees spent over $615 million during the 2016 election cycle on the presidential race alone.
What do the American people think about the Citizens United decision? Seventy-eight percent of respondents polled by Bloomberg Politics in 2015 want the Citizens United decision overturned.
Average Republicans and Democrats agree it's a problem. The undue influence of the ultra-rich forces our elected representatives to continuously raise funds and leave the actual governing of our great country to the lobbyists paid by the same few hundred Americans who are funding the super PACS.
It's time for America to be for the people, by the people and of the people once again. If you agree, please write your local, state and federal representatives. We need campaign finance reform, not Citizens United.
Shame on you, Anne Arundel County GOP!
CHRISTINA TEASLEY
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Rea candidacy
As things start gearing up for next year's political races, I am hoping to give the voters more bang for their buck.
I'm John Rea and I'm running for John Sarbanes' 3rd Congressional District seat. I am hoping to replace the Harvard dove, the where's-the-beef guy — as in his No Child Left Inside Act in 2008 — the "I'm accessible if your name is Sarbanes" guy — as shown by the House Finance Bill in 2010 — and the "I have other things to worry about" guy, as evidenced by the lobbyists working for the Trump bill in 2016.
Like maybe there are other things to worry about: infrastructure; a solvent Social Security system; senior issues, as they built this country; having a business-friendly Maryland, a la Gov. Larry Hogan; social services to jump-start those out of work; the environment, after President Donald Trump deploys his oil pipeline; and the conflicts in the Middle East and Korea.
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Sex abuse report
Regarding the digest item "Cumberland man charged with sexually abusing girl" (The Sunday Capital, April 30):
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When a man is murdered, would The Capital run an item stating he "had engaged in his murder sometime between 9 and 9:30 p.m."? If I were mugged one evening while I walked on West Street, would The Capital print a report that I had "engaged in an unacceptable mugging"?
Timothy Jay Getz has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. Why in the world did the writer state that "investigators said the girl told them that she had been engaging in inappropriate sexual acts with Getz since she was 8 years old"?
A child of 8 to 14 years old cannot consent to sexual acts with anyone, let alone a hefty 39-to-45-year-old man such as Mr. Getz. Further, sexual abuse is not so much "sex" as it is violence, and when an adult commits this violence against a child it is especially egregious.
The child would not have engaged with Mr. Getz so that he could commit violence against her. She would not have chosen the abuse. If the charges are true, the girl is the victim who had the courage to speak. Mr. Getz is charged with being the monster who stole the girl's childhood because he chose to indulge himself at her expense.
By printing this, The Capital has made a mistake. either by ignorance or design, and it should be corrected.
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