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Logan Prosper of Waycobah First Nation (Facebook)
Indigenous hockey player buoyed by support after sharing experience with racism
Logan Prosper of Waycobah First Nation said he was taunted with racist comments from opposing players, parents
An Indigenous hockey player from Nova Scotia who shared his experience of racism on the ice says he's been inspired to stick with the sport after an outpouring of support from professionals and peers.
Logan Prosper of Waycobah First Nation said he was taunted with racist comments from opposing players and parents during a game in Cheticamp, N.S., last week.
Prosper said he was hurt and angry after a player told him "all you natives look like turds in your helmets" during the game.
Since sharing his experience, the 16-year-old said he's received hundreds of messages from players telling him to stick with the sport, including former NHL player Cody McCormick.
Players across Canada and some in the U.S. have rallied behind Prosper by posting photos of red tape on their hockey sticks.
He even got a call from former NHL forward Akim Aliu, whose allegations that former Calgary Flames head coach Bill Peters used a racial slur against him led to Peters' resignation and sparked discussions about racism in hockey.
"He inspired me to get my story out," Prosper said. "On the phone call, he told me he looked up to me for speaking out. That really meant a lot to me coming from him."
Hockey Nova Scotia, the province's governing body for amateur hockey, has announced a task force to deal with discrimination in the sport in light of Prosper's experience.
Amy Walsh, executive director of Hockey Nova Scotia, said Wednesday the team will include a human rights lawyer and representatives from the Indigenous, African Nova Scotian and LGBTQ communities.
"At Hockey Nova Scotia, we believe that the rink should be a welcoming place for everyone. We believe that racism and discrimination have no place in our game," Walsh's statement read.
The organization met with the Prosper family Thursday night, and the teen said it felt good to be heard.
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He said he's not looking for disciplinary action, but hopes his story changes attitudes and makes the hockey community a more welcoming place.
"I want them to learn from their mistakes and hopefully change," he said. "It's a healing process for me and the people who have gone through it and a learning process for the people who said this."
Phillip Prosper, a hockey player himself, said he couldn't be more proud of his son.
The family has heard from people who reported similar experiences that didn't lead to any changes, and Phillip said it's surreal to see the organization investigate racism in hockey because of his son's story.
"This went from a negative to a positive tenfold," he said.
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STUTTGART - Porsche plans to establish a series of wholly owned sales centers in major cities around the world, including New York and Tokyo.
The centers are part of a strategy aimed at diversifying Porsche's marketing approach and attracting younger buyers.
The first will open in Stuttgart late next year.
As many as five could be built, though details won't be announced until later this year.
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General Catalog 2014
Organizational Structure of the University
University Regulation and Policies
Dirección de Servicios de Información y Tecnología (DSTI)
Basic Year in Social Sciences
Languages and Socio-Cultural Studies Department
CIDER-Center-for-Interdisciplinary-Development-Studies
CIFE - Research and Educational Formation Center
Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government
General Catalog 2014 > School of Social Sciences > Basic Year in Social Sciences
General Catalog 2015 General Catalog 2014 Catalogo-General-2002
The Basic Year offers students high level, ambitious courses, that enables them to gain knowledge and skills which are necessary for a good performance in their academic life.
Its teaching methodology is designed according to the proposed Objectives, and if possible, students participate actively and critically in the development of the courses. Said courses have professors or monitors capable of leading discussions, giving bibliographical advice and assisting students with their doubts.
Its design seeks for the integration of departments, so that in a balanced way, it serves as a basis for their undergraduate courses. As a result, students from the School have, in the first two semesters, a wide vision of social sciences that enables them to appreciate their own career from different perspectives. The Basic Year allows students to learn about theoretical and methodological problems and core topics within the society studies and open their perspectives to recognize how to best develop their interests and skills. Also, students have better data facts to define their profession and once they have chosen an specific career--or two in the case of double programs-they have a wider and more critical vision of their own discipline. Additionally, this first year becomes an stimuli for students to undergo a double undergraduate program.
A total of twenty seven credits are covered during the first two semesters: four courses during First Semester and five courses during Second Semester, including disciplinary introductions.
Semester Semester II
Introduction 1 Introduction 2
Classical Thinkers (Mandatory) Classical Thinkers II (Electives)
Political Economy Contemporary Theory
History and Philosophy of Science History of Colombia
Course/Career (Foundation)
The Basic Year consists of five areas that aim to cover basic problems and tools for the study of society. Each area offers several courses which makes it possible not only to broaden the election options but to offer courses to students from other schools. All of the programs comply with the demands of greater pedagogical and academic quality and they are studied, evaluated and approved by the Basic Year Committee and the School´s Council.
Area Presentation
Classical Thinkers in Social Sciences
Courses in the area of Thinkers enable students to have direct contact with the works and thoughts of some of the most influential authors within the study of society and individuals. It is important that since the beginning, students read texts of classical authors and do not limit themselves to read comments and interpretations. From the start, students must lose fear and try to come close to the works of thinkers such as Karl Marx, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim or Max Weber, among others. With the professor´s help, students must critically read and understand some of the most influential proposals of social and human sciences. Each course presents two or at the most, three authors.
A wide range of programs and courses are offered within the classical thinkers area, as long as their authors play a fundamental role in the history of social sciences and who are still essential as to address core problems within the study of society.
Courses 2009 I
Courses 2009 II
CISO-1210B Pensadores: Filosofía Política Moderna
Note: Since 2007 II, the course CISO 1200 Thinkers: Weber, Durkheim, Marx, is no longer a CBU course and becomes a mandatory course for all Social Sciences First Semester students.
History and Philosophy of Science
Methodological and epistemological problems in sciences, particularly in human and social sciences, must be part of the basic students education in this School. It is important that the courses in this area enable the students to critically address study methods and objects which are characteristic of social sciences. What type of statements may be called scientific? How are their explanations structured? What factors have and effect on the creation, modification or broadening of a scientific discipline? Are there different types of scientific knowledge? Designed programs enable Basic Year students to get involved in a philosophical and historic reflection about society and the individual´s knowledge, allowing them to reflect upon their foundations and scopes.
Even though the programs in this area must outline core problems of philosophy of science, it is important to bear in mind, that the problem about knowledge and the debates about the nature of scientific knowledge, are no longer a philosophical or epistemological problem solely. That is why it is convenient that these courses include the contributions and perspectives stated by philosophy, history and science sociology
CISO-1403B History and Philosophy of Science
History of Colombia
The courses in the area of History of Colombia must enable the student to learn, from a critical perspective, the historic development of the basic problems of the country, the transformations that have occurred in time and the implications that these changes produce in society. The study of permanences and transformations of the topics that are addressed are at the forefront of a historian´s work, hence in all of social scientists. The main objective of both the area of History of Colombia and Colombian Topics is that since the beginning of their careers, Social Science students have a precise knowledge of their country, its history and main social and cultural characteristics.
Additionally, it enables them to recognize the benefit of academic work and in particular, the relevance that social sciences have to understand the world we live in.
CISO-1500B Modern-day Colombia
Contemporary Theory
In the past decades of the 20th Century, diverse tensions and limitations in paradigms and sides, until then dominant in social sciences, become evident. It is not casual that since the same period, the extended use of the notion of "crisis" becomes frequent in multiple areas of practice of politics and knowledge. In this context, there is a rise of dynamic and diverse aspects of knowledge that seek to identify and present critical contrasts to visions of a "classic modernity", whose horizon is considered exhausted. Courses in this area offer some of the visions and aspects of this new and rich panorama, which constitute crucial fields of contemporary debate. Their contents cover topics such as: Critical theory developments, rise of post-structuralism, studies and genre perspectives, linguistic giro, practice theory, social construction of nature and science representations, crisis of subject´s notions, agency´s theories, political economy, subordinate, post-colonial and post-occidental studies, among others.
CISO-1616B The Frankfurt School
CISO-1622B CISO 1622B
CISO-1626B Contemporaneous theories on social sciences
Since its establishment in 1964, its academic programs seek to educate students who are socially competent according to the needs of the country and of the Latinamerican region; who are able to understand the past and present of human evolution, the behaviour patterns over the years and to identify social and cultural differences and similarities. Likewise, the Department´s programs produce, transmit and disseminate knowledge and generate critical thought so as to recognize the role of cultural and social matters, as well as the education and re-accomodation of communities. This process is developed through a qualitative analysis which articulates micro and macro spheres of social matters in an attempt to explain and account for human diversity.
The Department has a Faculty, who is specialized in violence anthropology, development anthropology, urban anthropology, historical anthropology, archaeo-botanic, archaeozoology, etnopsychiatry, medical anthropology, social-linguistics, etnology, space and nature. These areas are developed by research and laboratory groups who support teaching and research processes within the Department.
The Department offers the longest-serving undergraduate program in the country and 2 graduate programs: Masters Degree Program and Doctorate. Both programs include the following concentration areas: Social anthropology, archaeology and biological anthropology. Each one in its own level, educates researchers who reply to questions regarding contemporary, social-cultural phenomena within the local and regional scope.

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Almaraz est une commune de la province de Cáceres dans la communauté autonome d'Estrémadure en Espagne.

Géographie

La commune se trouve à côté de l'autoroute A-5 qui relie Madrid et Badajoz. Elle est située à  de Madrid et à  de la ville de Cáceres. Le village est entouré au nord-nord-ouest par le réservoir d'Arrocampo-Almaraz, construit pour la réfrigération de la centrale nucléaire d'Almaraz.

Histoire

Almaraz a été le lieu d'une victoire des troupes Napoléonniennes sur les Anglo-Espagnols en 1810.

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Économie

Culture et patrimoine

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Commune dans la province de Cáceres

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15-Jan-2014 Vienna / Austria
Syoss in Austria
Innovative audio tagging
Using the Shazam music identification service, Henkel has become one of the first companies in Austria to harness the product marketing potential of audio tagging.
A new Henkel TV advertising campaign has been launched to increase consumer awareness of the Syoss hair care and colorant product range and boost user engagement with the brand. For this, positive second screen effects – i.e. the simultaneous usage of mobile devices and the TV – are being harnessed to extend the impact of the commercials through the mobile channel.
The key to this innovative approach lies in the new audio tagging technology of the Shazam music identification app. Until now, Shazam's purpose has been to identify music titles. Now it is also possible to use it to identify certain sounds made during these TV commercials. As with scanning QR codes, tagging the TV ads with Shazam enables users to obtain further content such as product descriptions, prize draws, money-saving coupons or videos – all downloaded directly to their mobile device.
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ZICO Law > Resources > Alerts > COVID-19 > Public Companies allowed to Convene Electronic-General Meeting of Shareholders
Public Companies allowed to Convene Electronic-General Meeting of Shareholders
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indonesian Financial Services Authority ("OJK") has extended the deadline for public companies to hold annual shareholders meeting from June to 31 August 2020 at the latest. In light of this, OJK has also expedited issuances of new regulations as a legal ground for public companies to convene General Meeting of Shareholders ("GMS") through the electronic shareholders meeting or e-RUPS system, which allows shareholders to avoid physical attendance during the Large-Scale Social Restriction (Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar/PSSB) period.
Regulations on electronic-general meeting of shareholders
The following are regulations issued by OJK on 21 April 2020 which regulate provisions regarding the convening of GMS electronically:
OJK Regulation No. 15/POJK.04/2020 concerning planning and convening GMS of public companies (rencana dan penyelenggaraan Rapat Umum Pemegang Saham perusahaan terbuka) ("POJK 15/2020").POJK 15/2020 revokes OJK Regulation No.32/POJK.04/2014 (as amended by OJK Regulation No. 10/POJK.04/2017) concerning the same matter which was the main regulation applicable the GMS of public companies. All public companies are required to revise their articles of association accordingly to be in accordance with POJK 15/2020.
OJK Regulation No. 16/POJK.04/2020 concerning implementation of Electronic-General Meeting of Shareholders of public companies (pelaksanaan Rapat Umum Pemegang Saham perusahaan terbuka secara elektronik).
Based on the above regulations, convening GMS electronically, which enables all attendees of the meeting to participate and interact virtually can be done by one of the following ways:
through e-GMS System provided by e-GMS Provider
Electronic-General Meeting Shareholders System (Sistem Penyelenggaraan Rapat Umum Pemegang Saham Secara Elektronik/e-RUPS) ("e-GMS System") is an electronic system or facility used to support the supply of information, implementation and reporting on GMS of public companies. The e-GMS Provider must be a (i) Depository and Settlement Institution appointed by OJK or (ii) other party which shall be an Indonesian legal entity and domiciled in Indonesia, as agreed by OJK.
through system provided by the public companies
Other than using a system by the e-GMS Provider, public companies are also allowed to convene GMS electronically using systems provided by them internally. In such a case, public companies must fulfill the requirements set out under POJK 15/2020, among others, registered as electronic system provider under the relevant authority. In their system, public companies must stipulate the mechanism for registration, appointment and revocation of power of attorney and mechanism for casting and/or changing votes under their standard operating procedures for convening GMS.
E-Proxy
Shareholders of public companies are given alternatives to attend the shareholders meeting electronically by arranging proxies. The granting of proxy by shareholders can be done through e-GMS System provided by e-GMS Provider or other system provided by the public company. The granting of electronic proxy must be done no later than one business day prior to the convening of the GMS. Parties who can be appointed as e-Proxy to shareholders are:
parties who administered sub-securities account or securities of the shareholders;
party provided by public companies; or
party appointed by shareholders.
Members of Board of Directors, Board of Commissioners and employees of public companies are not allowed to act as e-Proxy of shareholders.
In an electronic GMS, e-Voting can be made upon the invitation of GMS until the opening of the relevant agenda to be voted in the GMS. Votes which have been made prior to the GMS may be changed until before the chairman of GMS starts the relevant vote for the specific meeting agenda. Shareholders who have casted their vote electronically prior to the GMS is deemed to have attended the GMS. The confidentiality of the vote casted must be kept and ensured confidential until all votes are counted.
Guidelines to convene electronic GMS
Inform the plan to convene the GMS electronically in the notification of GMS agenda to the OJK, announcement of GMS and calling of GMS.
During the electronic GMS, a physical meeting must be convened and attended by at least (i) chairman of the GMS, one member of the Board of Directors and /or one member of the Board of Commissioners, and capital market supporting professionals who assists in the GMS.
Minutes of electronic GMS must be made in the form of notarial deed by notary registered in OJK without requiring signatures from attendees of GMS.
Other relevant regulation
In conjunction with OJK's regulations on electronic GMS, the Indonesia Central Securities Depository (Kustodian Sentral Efek Indonesia "KSEI") issued its letter No. 4164/DIR/2020 on 3 April 2020 regarding implementation of the KSEI Electronic General Meeting System ("eASY.KSEI") Facility as an Electronic Authorisation Mechanism for General Meeting of Shareholders of Issuers. Here, Issuers refer to public companies which shares are deposited in KSEI's collective custody. KSEI also provides a system called "eASY.KSEI" to enable GMS to be held virtually.
eASY.KSEI has two main features, e-Proxy and e-Voting. E-Proxy is a system which electronically facilitates and integrates the granting of authority by shareholders to the proxy. E-Voting is a system which electronically facilitates the attendance/quorum and voting process during a GMS so the shareholders can participate in the GMS virtually. Again, it is important to note that this platform is designated only for public companies that have shares deposited in KSEI's collective custody.
If you have any questions or require any additional information, please contact Sandro M. Panjaitan or Grace Novia of Roosdiono & Partners (a member of ZICO Law).
This alert is for general information only and is not a substitute for legal advice


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© 2018 by <Decode> Artists Policing Data
THE ARTWORKS
The grid forms an underlying structure in many of the works, sometimes as a way to present data, and sometimes as a collection of individual elements held together by a specific idea, container, or repetitive action. One can define the grid as an arrangement of discrete units of information in any medium that shows a pattern through repetition.
The grid may contain information as diverse as two-dimensional mathematical patterns generated by cellular automata (Wolfram), climate and nature patterns (Gellis, Nalls, Marzec), psychological patterns of exploitation (Nalls, Glow, Marzec), patterns of cultural migration and disappearance (Glow, Elahi, Frick), spiritual self awareness (Pachner, Moorthy), self surveillance and record keeping (Kalina, Elahi, Gellis, Huth), relationship mapping (Frick, Glow), participatory communal collection of memories, fears, or cultural meaning (Marzec, Moorthy, Huth), comparison of information embedded in textile and fashion (Dorosh, Elahi, Glow), word patterns (Huth, Moorthy), time patterns (Elahi, Kalina, Huth, Glow) and information that has lost its original intention and has been up-cycled to the level of art (Dorosh, Huth).
The following is a starting point to note a few of the overlapping themes between the works in the show. It invites viewers to find their own because we are in this data field together, policing and being policed.
Ann Pachner: Repitition
Jayanthi Moorthy: Assumption I
SPIRITUAL DATA
Ann Pachner, Jayanthi Moorthy
Ann Pachner and Jayanthi Moorthy are two artists whose work is an outcome of their spiritual practice. As they tap into the timelessness of the sublime they find various ways in connecting back to the world. The patterning in rings and lines that can be seen in each of their work has been part of human culture long before our digital age. They ponder on similar heuristics of spirituality and data, which are repetition, centrality and connectivity. They delve into the similarities between spirituality and data.
Jayanthi Moorthy proposes that information like the spirit can be continuously transformed from one embodiment to another but is never really destroyed. In her participatory installation, she lets people confront the consequences of excessive sharing that the social media culture encourages and suggests a path of mindful connectivity as a solution. For Ann Pachner meditation and chanting aids observation and the effort to observe is the commonality between spirituality, art and data. Through chanting she dives into deeper dimensions of herself. She is as adept at carving repeated lines on wood as she is creating markings on paper, whether hand drawn or using digital tools on her computer. Color as light enters her work when she uses the computer to emanate a spiritual resonance, exemplified by her digital print in the exhibition.
Hasan Elahi: ERDL+
Noah Kalinga: Everyday
Laurie Frick: Acrylic Friends
DATA AS SELF-SURVEILLANCE
Laurie Frick, Hasan Elahi, Noah Kalina
When we record ourselves we strive to achieve permanency in our existence. Some artists try to preserve human emotion, some try to preserve their physical self through digital recordings and others look at human existence in the context of major issues of the world.
Laurie Frick makes a kind of data sculpture to represent human emotion. She gathers emotional data about the people around her and builds translucent acrylic sculptures with her digital algorithms. Self-tracking is part of her optimistic vision of a future in which data will be used in the quest for personal knowledge. She believes patterns of behavior will become patterned artworks and the mass of data will predict our lives. She ponders on data collection being so one-sided with no outside force policing it. She is a proponent of owning one's own data, "If my data is so valuable, why don't I get to see it?" With her background in high technology, she predicts that data may lead us to a new awareness of our individuality, one that emerges as a beautiful data pattern. Hasan Elahi's work brings home the indifference and power of digital surveillance, and shows how it displaces one from time, space and comfort. In his self surveillance, he makes his daily life public and continuously tracks his points of transit in real-time using images and gathers considerable amounts of date that is shared. His communication records, banking transactions, and transportation logs can be viewed by anyone, including various government agencies who have been confirmed visiting his website. In his art practice, the urgency of information has supplanted the art object as a sanctuary for private contemplation. Noah Kalina started his self portraits of daily self-surveillance as a young photographer in the year 2000. He plans to continue taking them for the remainder of his life. His early recognition of the power of the selfie shows how artists take risks and follow their intuition even before data confirms the importance of their commitment. This ongoing personal/public record of his existence shows how much the history of photography has been shifted by the power of digital tools, especially the cell phone. Each of us has a cell phone camera that gives us a new kind of access to our lives, at a price. Privacy is a lost comfort that only pre-digital generations will ever know. We are becoming a recorded self that may eventually be reduced to data dust!
Daria Dorosh: Datafied
Beatrice Glow: Afghan Poppy
TEXTILE AS DATA
Daria Dorosh, Hasan Elahi, Beatrice Glow
If textile is data, the clothing we wear is a culturally coded information channel.
Artist Daria Dorosh "reads" what we wear in order to find patterns in the social norms we live by. She follows patterns that appears across disciplines such as art, fashion, and digital culture. The Tshirt and jeans, for instance, dominate global fashion concurrently with digital culture. She believes that the power of this pattern in fashion also appears in art as abstraction and narration. In her installation Datafied, she juxtaposes textile neckwear on watercolor structures with digital images of them. She sets up a comparison of data structures that are analog and digital to contemplate the characteristics of these inherently different versions of reality. The social codes embedded in clothing are further explored in her video The Hat, in which she uses the power of the grid to challenge the gender narratives we live by, in which textile is not seen as important data when it is ascribed to women's fashion. Hasan Elahi's digital print ERDL+, is a timeline of thirteen US military uniform camouflage patterns that are displayed side by side to show the transition from analog to digital. The stated purpose of camouflage is to "conceal, disrupt, disguise, and mimic". But applying that data without awareness of context leads to tragedy when a shipmate falls into the sea wearing a sea-colored uniform. Beatrice Glow's Afghan
Poppies (New Silk Road), Spice Route Series, depicts poppies, the active ingredient in morphine, opium and heroin. The seductive beauty of the silk textile print is also a reference to the poppy fields of war torn Afghanistan that feed Western European and North American markets. As a result, the Silk Road is now nicknamed the Heroin Road.
Gayil Nalls: Avon Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson Handgun Decanters_1
Sandy Gellis: Hudson River Seasons.jpg
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AS DATA
Sandy Gellis, Gayil Nalls
Artists have worked with natural elements in the past, primarily as an exploration of material and site. In the culture of big data, artists are addressing the global impact we have had on our habitat, such as climate change, disappearing landscapes, and the loss of flora and fauna.
Sandy Gellis has always been drawn to the basic elements of the earth, especially water. She observes and records natural elements in her prints and sculpture, such as the amount of rainfall that fell on given successive days annually, or the flow of a river and how it changes with the seasons. Her process is to allow the natural world to reveal itself in texture and color. Change occurs on a slow cosmic timescale in her sculptures. But she patiently continues to collect data driven by a constant sense of wonder. Her artistic-scientific process results in an intimate measured artwork that looks like a delicate science experiment. The work of artist/researcher Gayil Nalls engages with the sensory, emotional and psychological properties determined by olfaction. Her work raises questions about the relationship between perfumes, perfume bottles, and politics, as she explores how synthetic fragrances were first deployed on a mass scale. They involve the interplay of data, facts, historical and cultural information. Her mathematical, structured,and aromatic social olfactory sculpture, World Sensorium, comes out of an artistic process that involves extensive data collection of each country's signature plant that represents a cultural olfactory heritage. The sculpture is a single scent based on a survey taken to formulate each nation's population percentages. The natural scents are invested with historical and cultural meaning, with foundations in mythology, religion and anthropologic traditions, and used by each culture for their healing properties. In her Avon Photography Series she shows the commercialization of scent in which America's symbol of freedom, independence and justice are used to mask and market a synthetic product that has been drained of cultural and bioactive value. By decoding the symbols, she situates them in a new aesthetic, social, and philosophical context.
Beatrice Glow: Afghan Poppies
Geof Huth: Third Life
Amelia Marzec: Weather Tower
Amelia Marzec, Beatrice Glow, Geof Huth
Certain kinds of data are not easily mappable due to availability, accuracy, or sudden change and may not be very useful to scientists and researchers. The artist, however, driven by a personal vision, can incorporate fragments of incomplete data into a radical composite work that has meaning. Weather forecasting, for instance, is complex because it involves processing vast amounts of data that is in flux.
Amelia Marzec makes her appearance as a weather scientist who uses performance to alert the public to an uncertain future and asks the community to strengthen ties for when we will need to rely on each other. She built a mobile Weather Tower that contains homemade weather instruments, sensors, and a radio transmitter. She uses it to gather data for a particular microclimate and broadcasts the results with a wry sense of humor, including the predictions of visitors who participate with their own fears and superstitions. Beatrice Glow, an interdisciplinary artist and multi-sensory storyteller, assembles fragments to fight evaporating memory and erasure in the service of public history and art. She borrows from anthropology, ethnography, botany, and archeology and follows the cultural trade routes between Asia, the Americas and Europe. Her artistic range is unlimited as she makes the world her research space and studio. "I have also been tracing environmental degradation, wealth inequality, and the ramifications of colonialism to their roots in the early modern spice trade. From botanical expeditions to militarized landscapes and forgotten tropical paradises, I examine the contemporary resonances of these patterns of exploitation." Unlike a scientist, she roams freely through history, biology, culture, and her imagination, and brings us her findings as art in a variety of beautiful forms. Geof Huth is an artist and visual poet who lives in a world of data in the form of words, information, and databases. Sometimes the words have been handwritten with a quill pen and are crumbling with age, sometimes they are new, made of ice, or written in snow, added to a public spot or a found object. They are ephemeral and at the mercy of time. In his profession as an archivist and records manager, he has seen information systems disintegrate, become fragmented, and lost. Rather than discard fragments of old records that have fallen away from their documents during a century in storage, he bring pieces from various unknowable documents together in his series Third Life, in which they enter into their last iteration as art. As a visual poet working with archives,he does not recreate the past but recontextualizes these discarded pieces of the world to show how the past degrades over time, becomes less knowable and will continue to decay until it is unreadable.
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I have these dreams. My family and I got to Reifel bird sanctuary and join a birding walk. We all learn new things about birds and my good as gold children use their strong spotting skills to point out things other people don't see. We walk most of the trails in the park and we end the day warm and happy.
Reality couldn't be any more different. My kids only tolerate Reifel Bird Sanctuary because they can feed the ducks. I don't dare join a walk because my kids are loud and I don't know enough to justify my camera gear and lack of binoculars. We always walk the same short loop because I know it's the maximum distance Claira can walk before she has to be carried. I keep hoping that each passing season will see more endurance and interest from the kids, but it's likely their interest will further evaporate, not grow so I take what I can get.
Reifel has a great mix of resident birds and migratory surprises. You will always be able to see very tame mallards and wood ducks, but the predators and visitor create anticipation into each new trail walked. This time we were rewarded with some wading birds that aren't long term residences of Vancouver - Greater Yellowlegs.
In the end, the kids did have a good time, especially the picnic lunch at the end. I got to see some birds and added a new species to my life list. We stopped in at the farms on the way home. Everyone was a least a little pleased with the day.
For reasons I don't understand, I don't like running and Nara seems to really like it. Last year in the spring kids were doing laps of the school (Kilometer Club) when we walked to school and she wanted to be part of it. In the fall, we kept a look out for Cross Country and signer her up. I volunteered to take photos because that I something I can do.
The practices are three days a week - Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 8am to 8:45am. The kids arrive, run, stretch, and then generally do an activity like a relay race or a chase/passing exercise. This is a pretty big group - most mornings have 50 kids, the first few had almost 100.
This fall there are three "local" meets (races) and a district meet. Helen and I split the meets - she got two and I got two. My first meet was at Jericho park. There were maybe 50 girls in the Kindergarten/Grade 1 group.
The final meet of the season was at Trout Lake (John Hendry Park). The starting line up for girls kindergarten/grade 1 was about 140 kids. Some starting lines that day had nearly 300 kids. In her race, Nara placed about 42 which is in the upper third of the kids that ran.
This many photos of Nara throws off the Nara/Claira balance. I'm going to have to figure out something to do with Claira that is similarly photo worthy.
Iona Beach Regional Park is really known for birding during the spring and fall migrations and for the birds in the summer. Winter is the usual local suspects and the occasional lost bird. I had some time on a Sunday morning so Nara and I went out for a walk. The people from WildResearch had their mist nets out and Nara was curious about the bird banding. After the band was read (this was a Dark-eyed Junco), the volunteer let Nara release the bird from her hand. Nara through that was pretty cool.
Nara's school does a Halloween fundraising event every year. They decorate the school and run events in the classrooms and gym. The money raised to use to help offset the costs of sending the grad class to Quebec for a language exchange. It's nice to see the other kids out in costumes and support the school even if it is quite small amounts of money.
Claira wore her mermaid costume for about 5 minutes until she decided she didn't like how the "bra" seashell pattern on her chest looked. The she wanted something else. We have fairy stuff around the house (girls) so she went as a ferry and Nara pillaged some of her accessories (kelp scarf and a sea star hair piece).
Nara likes to bike. Claira is having a hard time with the transition to pedals but she loves her strider bike. Nara decided her scooter (kick bike) is an acceptable alternative to riding even if Claira can go faster than her. Dad runs behind. The seawall is starting to get less crowded (more locals only this time of the year) and the slower speeds of non-pedal vehicles means we can ride the seawall without running people over.
To keep it interesting, we do a one way trip from Granville Island to the Cambie Street bridge. There is enough time for Mom to do some shopping (she picked up Dim Sum for lunch today) and I get a bit of exercise so it's a win for everyone!
Halloween fell on a Monday this year and I wasn't feeling well on the weekend so I didn't go to any of the adult parties. On Monday night we left a little late but still got very full baskets of candy.
I'll admit, we trick or treat out of neighborhood. We got to a bunch of houses near city hall where there are lots of kids and lots of decorated houses.
When we got home around 8pm (we stopped and watched some fireworks in the park), we ran into an older girl and her dad coming back from their walk. They started at 6pm around Alma - target dense area they said. She had a pillowcase for candy and it put our kids (who being young I think get a better hand out than some) to shame. Thankfully, our kids haven't figured out how to compare how much candy was brought home.


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Today we have been busy advancing our understanding from Assignment 2 by looking at different journals, web sites and magazines. Initially we had to understand the difference between journals and magazines: "Journals" have been read by peers to approve it before being published so it will have a lengthy list of contributors, "Magazines" are unlikely to have any valid facts and will usually have just one 'editor'.
National Geographic: Inspires people to take care of the world. Displays excellent photographs on various subjects. It's interests include geography, wildlife, science etc.
New Scientist: Great site which involves recent scientific discovery and its industrial, commercial and social consequences in a wide variety of topics. Includes fascinating facts, news, features and stories.
Wired: Recent technology news, articles and blogs. For people who want to know the next upcoming technology. Includes fascinating content and photographs.
We also used the library search engine Cross Search to find books and abstracts associated to our topic brainstormed in the previous assignment. I am looking up the psychology of Sesame Street.
Evans, M. A. (2009) 'Letter names and alphabet book reading by senior kindergartners: An eye movement study', Child Development, vol. 80, iss. 6, pp. 1824-1841.
This study explored the eye movements of twenty 5-year-old children as they read an alphabet book. It was aimed to discover how the letters, words, and pictures in the book were attracting the eye and if printed alphabet interested the children. Results indicated that the print were unsuccessful for getting the kids attention, it took longer to understand them than the pictures. In addition, children who knew the letters began looking around the featured letter – looking at the whole word and its first letter etc. Therefore shows alphabetic books may help not only with letter recognition but word recognition.
Heine, A (2010) 'What the eyes already know: using eye movement measurement to tap into children's implicit numerical magnitude representations', Infant and child development, vol. 19, iss. 2, pp. 175-186.
In this article, Heine uses primary school children's eye movement measurement to examine the growth of basic knowledge about numerical size. The experiment consisted of 2 similar versions of a number estimation task, however one was limited to behavioural measures, and the other to eye-movement.
Linebarger, D. L. (2005) 'Infants' and toddlers' television viewing and language outcomes', American behavioural scientist, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 624.
This study examined the effects of watching television on the development of vocabulary and language among children, over a two year duration from ages 6 to 30 months old. Using hierachical linear modelling techniques and growth charts allowed researchers to observe the relationship between television viewing and the child's vocabulary knowledge and expressive language. The results showed that children viewing television increased their language skills rapidly. Certain programs like Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues and Arthur resulted in greater vocabulary knowledge and higher expressive language scores, however Teletubbies resulted in fewer vocabulary words and smaller expressive language scores. Sesame Street's results related to fewer vocabulary words but more expressive language. The reasons for the differences are discussed in the book. In conclusion, the exposure of television to children can have great impact for their vocabulary knowledge and language skills.
Minton, J. H. (1975) 'The impact of Sesame Street on Readiness', Sociology of Education, vol. 48, iss. 2, pp. 141-151.
This book deals with the first season of Sesame Street, investigating if the show affects the readiness of kindergarten children. Results suggest children from advantaged homes scored higher on the alphabet subtest. However, the test concluded there were no differences between subgroups. Proved that Sesame Street is a great teacher for letter recognition on kindergarten children, nevertheless the results were not consistent.
Reynolds, G. D., Richards, J. E.(2005) 'Familiarization, Attention, and Recognition Memory in Infancy: An Event- Related Potential and Cortical Source Localization Study', Developmental Psychology, vol. 41, iss. 1, pp. 598-615.
This book examines the response of familiarisation, recognition and attention in infants ranging from 4 ½ to 7 ½ months old. The children were either familiarised with 2 stimuli that were used in later tests or shown 2 stimuli which were not used later. The children are shown an episode of Sesame Street to draw out attention or inattention and shown familiar stimuli and novel stimuli. The researchers compared the two groups of children's responses.
Rice, M. L. (1990) 'Words from "Sesame Street": Learning vocabulary while viewing', Development psychology, vol. 26, iss. 3, pp. 421-428.
Rice discusses that the children's programme 'Sesame Street' is well suited for vocabulary development of preschoolers. Five 1-week diaries about the television programme were collected from the children; 1 group were ages 3 to 5 and the other 5 to 7. The group of children aged 3 to 5 benefited more from the programme than the group aged 5 to 7. The outcome indicates that the subject matters and set-up of "Sesame Street" are positively apt for the growth of preschoolers' vocabulary.
Richards, J. E. (1997) 'Effects of attention on infants preference fro briefly exposed visual stimuli in paired-comparison recognition-memory paradigm', Development psychology, vol. 33, iss. 1, pp. 22.
This book explores the effect of attention in babies 3 to 6 month old and their event-related-potentials throughout the recognition of short presented visual stimuli. They were shown the movie Sesame Street that brought forth phases of attention and disinterest. One visual stimuli was familiar to the infants and came up frequently throughout the movie, a second was familiar but came up less frequently, and a series of 14 stimuli were also played less frequently. Results showed that attention helps the brain respond during children's recognition memory and show that changes in development of recognition memory are very similar to the changes in attention.
In our 2nd Seminar we were asked to get into small groups and brainstorm one part of the book The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Our group of 3 focussed on the Stickiness Factor chapter. To begin, we wrote as many ideas and words associated to the chapter, then tried to come up with ideas to solve the problems. For instance, in this chapter, we wrote many problems concerning Sesame Street and how it was not 'sticky' with the kids, then wrote possible solutions like letting the children watch the programme at nursery then after the show let them draw memorable parts and characters. This allows the kids to remember the particular bit chosen better and may make them pay attention more.
Next, we discussed how design could be related to the 'Stickiness Factor'. This took A LONG TIME. We came up with weird things like "textiles relates as they could make inspired costumes from Sesame Street for the kids to wear whilst watching the show". Then we started to get possible ideas that could actually work: create ipods in the shape of sesame street faces and have educational play station games etc.
To finish we made an A2 poster showing where our thinking took us.


Law Web: Whether document would be admissible on basis of recital made in it or on basis of pleadings raised by parties?
Whether document would be admissible on basis of recital made in it or on basis of pleadings raised by parties?
Smt. Rashmi Pandit, learned Deputy Government Advocate for the State, however submitted that admissibility of the document would depend upon the recitals made in the document and not on basis of the pleadings made by one party and denied by the other.
Article 23 of Schedule-IA of the Indian Stamp Act refers to conveyance but with an added explanation it says that whenever there is an agreement to sell immovable property and there is a recital in the document that possession has been delivered to the proposed purchaser then the document would be deemed to be a conveyance and the stamp duty at the rate of 7.5% will have to be paid.
A document would be admissible on basis of the recitals made in the document and not on basis of the pleadings raised by the parties.
R.S. Garg and Prakash Shrivastava, JJ.
The Petitioner/Plaintiff being aggrieved by order dated 27.8.2008 passed in Civil Suit No. 48-A/2007 by the learned XI Additional District Judge, Indore holding the document dated 26.6.2000 (hereinafter referred to 'the Agreement') to be falling under Article 23 of Schedule-IA of the Indian Stamp Act, requiring the Plaintiff to pay the duty and penalty has come to this Court.
The short facts necessary for disposal of the present petition are that the Plaintiff filed a suit for specific performance of the agreement dated 26.6.2000 with a submission that the property in dispute was agreed to be sold for a sum of Rs. 2,75,000/-, out of the said amount Rs. 1,60,000/- was received by the Defendant No. 1 and possession of the property was delivered to the Plaintiff and the fact was mentioned in the said agreement. He prayed for the specific performance of the contract, however, it is to be noted that he did not claim any relief for possession.
The Defendant No. 1 appeared in the suit and submitted that the suit was barred by limitation and that possession was never delivered to the Plaintiff. When the suit agreement was sought to be produced in the evidence, the Defendant raised an objection submitting inter alia that as the delivery of possession is recited in the suit agreement, the Plaintiff should prove before the Court that the document was properly stamped and in case the document: was not properly stamped then the duty which is in the short fall and the penalty ten times be recovered. It was contended before the Court below that the document was admitted by the other side, and therefore, the same was admissible in evidence. However, the learned Court below came to the conclusion that the document ought to have been on stamp worth Rs. 20,625/- and as it was written on stamps worth Rs. 50/- only, the short fall was Rs. 20,575/-. Calculating the penalty on the short fall, the trial Court observed that the Plaintiff would be required to pay a sum of Rs. 2,05,750/- as penalty. The Plaintiff is now before us.
Placing reliance upon a judgment of the learned Single Judge of this Court in the matter of Laxminarayan and Ors. v. Omprakash and Ors. reported in MANU/MP/0770/2008 : 2008 (2) MPLJ 416, learned Counsel for the Petitioner/Plaintiff submitted that assuming the document recites that possession was delivered but the fact is denied by the Defendant and if it is asserted by the Defendant that possession was not delivered then such recital in the document would lose its importance and the document would become admissible in evidence.
Learned Counsel for the Respondent on the other hand submitted that the said judgment would not apply to the facts of the present case.
A document would be admissible on basis of the recitals made in the document and not on basis of the pleadings raised by the parties. In the matter of Laxminarayan (supra), the learned Single Judge with due respect to his authority we don't think that he did look into the legal position but it appears that he was simply swayed away by the argument that as the Defendant was denying the delivery of possession, the endorsement/recital in the document lost all its effect and efficacy.
It would be trite to say that if in a document certain recitals are made then the Court would decide the admissibility of the document on the strength of such recitals and not otherwise. In a given case, if there is an absolute unregistered sale deed and the parties say that the same is not required to be registered then we don't think that the Court would be entitled to admit the document because simply the parties say so. The jurisdiction of the Court flows from Sections 33, 35 and 38 of the Indian Stamp Act and the Court has to decide the question of admissibility. With all humanity at our command we over-rule the judgment in the matter of Laxminarayan (Supra).
Taking into consideration our judgment in the matter of Umesh Kumar v. Rajaram and Anr. decided on 19.1.2009 in Writ Petition No. 3014/2008 we are of the opinion that the Plaintiff would be entitled to make an application to the Court below for referring the document to the Stamp Collector under Section 38(2) of the Indian Stamp Act for deciding the question relating to the duty and penalty.
In so far as the merits of the case are concerned, we are unable to hold that the Court below was unjustified in looking into the recitals made in the document.


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Cyprus a yawn as Belgium plumbs the murky depths
EUROPE'S papers react to the collapse of Cyprus reunification talks with a sort of ho-hum, been-there-done-that attitude. "It has now become almost a tradition for UN secretaries-general to make a concentrated effort every few years to solve the Cyprus conflict – and also for them to fail," yawns Berlin's Die Tageszeitung.
By Craig Winneker
The paper (quite rightly) blames Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash for the development, saying he "lost the support of his people a long time ago".
It concludes: "Most Turkish Cypriots no longer believe in the myth of man-eating Greeks. They are hoping for prosperity and peace under Europe's roof."
The failure of the talks, writes Süddeutsche Zeitung, is bad news for Turkey. "A country which occupies EU territory and refuses to give diplomatic recognition to another EU member – the Republic of Cyprus – can hardly hope to be taken into the EU," it notes.
The UK's Observer takes a look at this weekend's election for the chancellorship of Oxford University. As reported in this paper last month, Chris Patten is among the front-runners for the post. "Patten possesses charisma," writes the paper's bookmaker. "He is lustrous and has the advantage of being slightly more feminine than any of the other candidates. If he had only written a couple of literary-style books, like his predecessor, he'd be a shoo-in (his main opponents, being lawyers, are not expected to have read many books, let alone written them)."
By the way, should we consider it a reflection on the EU that the Observer barely notes that Patten is a
European commissioner? Instead it focuses on his background as the last governor of Hong Kong and as a Tory fixer. It also mentions his "photogenic" daughters.
Patten would undoubtedly be in even more of a hurry to leave Brussels if he read the latest issue of the New
Scientist, which reveals that Belgium's water is among the dirtiest in the world.
The latest UN report on World Water Development puts Belgium last in a ranking of 122 countries on cleanliness of rivers and underground water, sewage treatment and enforcement of anti-pollution laws – lower than India, Jordan and nine African countries.
"Belgium is host to many of the EU's institutions and its bureaucrats are used to castigating member states for their dirty rivers and beaches," the article reports. "But no other member of the EU appears even in the bottom half of the rankings. The next worst, in 57th place, is Germany."
Spa Blue, anyone?
Meanwhile, the Brussels-based website EUobserver.com reports that the Commission has launched its own referendum campaign in Slovakia because it is concerned that Bratislava isn't doing enough to promote a 'yes' vote.
Onno Simons, from the EU's delegation in the country, claims the Slovak government has "mainly been sitting back so far". He adds: "The Slovak government just took some old logo, there is no slogan, there are no regional activities, there is not even an information centre. No contracts with PR companies have been signed yet and people in the administration don't know what tendering is."
Support for EU membership is high in the country, but there is worry that turnout will be low if the government is too blasé about the vote.
Says the Commission's envoy, Eric van der Linden, "The tendency amongst Slovak politicians is to see these reassuring polls and think: 'why worry?'
"I say that people might well just think: 'My neighbour will go and vote, I will go hiking during this nice spring weekend'."
Elsewhere, Dutch daily De Telegraaf reports that police in Rotterdam are advising people not to report crimes, because they just don't have the time to be bothered.
The paper warns in an editorial that this will undermine trust in the rule of law. It says one
Rotterdammer, who told police he'd been robbed at gunpoint, was warned that if he reported the crime, the robber might take revenge. The police advised him to move.
Oh well, at least his water is relatively clean.
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The Lincolnite Person of the Year: Sophie Wells
A serial winner and someone who deserves recognition
Eight-time Paralympic medallist Sophie Wells is The Lincolnite's Person of the Year for 2021. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Lincoln's Sophie Wells is no stranger to success, and in 2021 she shone brightly once again as she captured the imaginations of her county and nation alike at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Sophie was born in Lincoln, and had to face obstacles her whole life. She was born with amniotic band syndrome, a condition which causes her to have little to no feeling in her feet, as well as losing a number of her fingers.
She started riding horses at eight years old, facing her condition head on by wrapping the reins around her hands despite the pain it caused, and Sophie has never let that stunt her progress.
Sophie's burning passion has always been horses. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
She became the first dressage rider ever to compete in an able-bodied and para-dressage team in the same year upon leaving university in 2009 to pursue her career in horse riding full time.
The 31-year-old was already a Lincolnshire hero before 2021 came around, having won six medals in the last two Paralympic Games before Tokyo, three at London 2012 and another three at Rio 2016.
An incredible medal haul for an incredible athlete. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
She has a golden postbox outside the Magna Carta in Lincoln's Cathedral Quarter to mark her success in London nine years ago, and she's shown no sign of stopping since then.
34 medals at 12 consecutive Para Championships, meaning there has not been a continental or global competition where she has failed to win at least one medal since her first appearance in 2007. It is a winning mentality that the vast majority could only dream of.
A tale of hard work and dedication reaping rewards. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Sophie went into Tokyo as more of an underdog, after a positive COVID-19 case almost shelved her Paralympic dream, and an injury to her usual performance horse C Fatal Attraction meant it would be a Games like no other.
Despite all this, with the spirit and determination required to be a multiple world champion in your discipline, Sophie shocked the world all over again.
Sophie and Don Cara M made the country proud in Tokyo this summer. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Along with Natasha Baker and Sir Lee Pearson, she retained the team gold for the third successive Paralympic Games, as well as riding to a phenomenal silver in the individual test grade five, narrowly missing out on gold to her long time rival Michele George of Belgium.
It may sound like another case of new Games same old Sophie, but there were problems facing her in Japan as well as before she flew out to the Paralympics.
A source of pride for Sophie, but the hard work never stops. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Typically speaking during a dressage routine, the music is played from speakers above the arena, but in Tokyo the speakers were on the floor pointing up, something Sophie and her substitute horse Don Cara M had very rarely experienced before.
"Donny did amazing," Sophie told us when we went to visit her at her Harby training base earlier this year. "You're very aware of the potential risk of something going wrong because the level of communication is different with a horse to a human."
Sophie Wells and Don Cara M struck up a fantastic partnership at the Games. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Sophie recalled the heat and humidity of Tokyo, saying it was again a unique experience but one her and Don Cara M took in their stride, alongside the expectation of a nation given her previous victories.
"We always have a target on our backs as Team GB, but given the circumstances of George (C Fatal Attraction) and his injury meaning we needed to use a reserve, as well as testing positive for COVID-19 before leaving for Tokyo, it was nice to be the underdog for a change.
"I'm just a farmer's daughter from Lincoln, you learn to deal with the pressure but it's hard not to get involved in the expectations. We felt we let the country down in London because I didn't win all three golds. I've become more rational as I've got older, so given the circumstances I can be thrilled with the performance."
Sophie Wells, 31, was overcome with emotion when she won the first of her two medals at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. | Photo: imagecomms / Paralympics GB
Her success in Tokyo earned Sophie the seventh and eight Paralympic medals of her glittering career, further solidifying her spot as the most decorated athlete in the history of her home county, Lincolnshire.
Sophie stood out from the rest along with her Team GB compatriots in Tokyo. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Speaking about becoming our Person of the Year, Sophie told The Lincolnite: "I'm honoured and humbled to be awarded The Lincolnite Person of the Year for 2021. 2021 certainly hasn't been a smooth ride which makes it feel even more surreal.
"It's a massive team effort to get horses to the top of their game, as well as myself, so I'm indebted to the team I have around me for the successes but also supporting through the really tough times."
Sophie Wells is Lincolnshire's most decorated Olympian/Paralympian in history. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
On top of her New Year milestones, Sophie Wells has received an OBE for services to Equestrianism in the 2022 New Years Honours list.
This is in addition to the MBE she was awarded in 2013.
Sophie's eyes are now firmly set on Paris 2024, where she hopes to continue her medal rush and potentially make it to double figures for medals in her dazzling career.
As well as this, she has been taking a keen interest in coaching after pursuing a post graduate diploma during lockdown, and hopes to inspire the next generation to reach her heights once she is ready to retire from dressage.
Could there be more of these to come for Sophie? | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
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"Ghetto" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Rowland, featuring vocals by rapper Snoop Dogg. It was written by Durrell "Tank" Babbs, Calvin Broadus, Lonny Bereal and Rowland, and produced by the former for Rowland's second solo album Ms. Kelly (2007). A mid-paced R&B ballad which was originally recorded for her shelved My Story album, "Ghetto" is influenced by the Crunk&B subgenre. Its instrumentation consists essentially of synthesizers and a drum machine rhythm and lyrically, finds Rowland, as the protagonist, singing sensually in her whistle register about becoming attracted to dangerous men.

One of Rowland's favorites on Ms. Kelly, "Ghetto" was released as the album's second single to US radios on August 7, 2007, while "Work" was serviced as the album's second international single. The song performed weakly on the Billboard charts, reaching number nine on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart only, ranking it among Rowland's lowest-selling single to date. An accompanying music video, directed by Andrew Gura, was shot in Los Angeles, California in August 2007. It features cameo appearances from rappers MC Eiht, Kam, and Soopafly and depicts hip hop fashion and ghetto fabulous aesthetics, with Rowland and Snopp Doogg dancing.

Recording
The song is one out of two recordings singer and songwriter Tank and partner Joseph "Lonny" Bereal produced for the album. One of her favorites on the album, Rowland has described "Ghetto" as "about good girls who dig bad boys," adding: "As soon as Tank played it, I knew and recorded it in an hour. [It] is just so laid back and that's why I had to have Snoop [Dogg]." Originally recorded without Snoop Dogg for the delayed 2006 My Story album, it was not until months prior to the Ms. Kelly release, that the rapper was consulted to contribute additional vocals to the track. "He's the King of Cool, so I was honoured when he said yes to do the record. It was like a dream come true," Rowland stated in an interview with Blue & Soul in 2007. "He [just] put his Snoop-a-fied player-isms on the track [...] He just gives it that something. I like it when a song can make you feel good."

Critical reception
"Ghetto" earned generally mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. Sal Cinquemani from Slant felt that "Rowland displays her range on midtempo cut [...] "Ghetto," a slinky track featuring a smooth, sensual vocal from the singer." Spence D. of media website IGN observed that "the high pitched nuances [on Ms. Kelly] continue on "Ghetto," featuring the ubiquitous Snoop Dogg. Rowland adopts a wispy timbre that is sensual in a fleeting way, but the track is again amped up with too much high end sound, making it more cloying than immersive." San Francisco Chronicle remarked that "Ghetto" has "Rowland exploring the increasingly common theme of a good girl falling for a bad boy. Her cotton-candy mezzo tones are easy to digest." Mark Edward Nero from About.com found that "Ghetto" was the worst of the "many weak songs" on Ms. Kelly, concluding that "it's laugh-out-loud ridiculous, particularly with Kelly singing contrived, out-of-character lines." CBS News called the song "sexy and seductive"

Commercial performance
Released in North America only, "Ghetto" went for radio ads in August 2007 and was added by about twenty-eight urban contemporary stations and very few rhythmic contemporary stations. On September 1, 2007, it debuted on the US Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart at number nine which is equivalent to number 109 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. As it neither managed to climb any higher on that particular chart, nor made it to any other official chart, the songs ranks as Rowland's lowest-selling single to date. Although Rowland noted that it was her decision to pick the track as the album's second single, she somewhat regretted to release it retrospectively and opted to have it removed from the international deluxe edition reissue of Ms. Kelly.

Music video
An accompanying music video for "Ghetto" was directed by Andrew Gura and filmed in Los Angeles, California on August 23, 2007. Next to Rowland and Snoop Dogg, rappers MC Eiht, Kam, and Soopafly make cameo appearances in the visual. Production on the video was helmed by Partizan Entertainment, with Melissa Larsen serving as producer. Main camera was operated by Shawn Kim, while editing was overseeen by T. David Binns. Special effect were provided by Laundy. Displaying hip hop fashion and ghetto fabulous aesthetics, the video depicts Rowland and Snoop Dogg dancing and performing in front of different lowriders, intercut by animated solo performances of Rowland. When asked about the conception of the video, Rowland elaborated: "It's ghetto. It's really fly. I feel like everybody has some sort of element of ghetto in them. Think about it. Right? Wouldn't you say so? And everyone knows what the ghetto is."

The video world premiered at the end of the September 10, 2007 episode of BET's television series Access Granted. In his review for Videostatic, editor Craig Belcher wrote: "Rowland gets hoodcentric with this tribute to the rough life with Snoop Dogg as the guest rapper and the object of her lyrical affections. If she was looking to shed her good-girl image [...] this video certainly puts her in a different light. Rowland gyrates as dreamy images of street culture drift behind her, including 24 inch rims, platinum jewelry, golden grills [...] All that's missing is a bag of sunflower seeds and strawberry soda."

Track listings
All tracks written by Tank, Lonny Bereal, Snoop Dogg, and Kelly Rowland.

Notes
  signifies additional producer

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Ms. Kelly.

Lonny Bereal – vocal producer, writing
Snoop Dogg – vocals, writing
Chris Jackson – audio recording
Gelly Kusuma – engineering assistance

Kelly Rowland – vocals, writing
Phil Tan – mixing
Tank – production, writing
Rommel Nino Villanueva – engineering

Charts

Release history

References

External links

2007 singles
Kelly Rowland songs
Snoop Dogg songs
Songs written by Snoop Dogg
Songs written by Kelly Rowland
Songs written by Lonny Bereal
2006 songs
Columbia Records singles
Songs written by Tank (American singer)


When Filmmaker Robert Lundahl began to explore Native American culture in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts in 2010, he did not realize many of the sites to which he would gain unique and unimpeded access might soon be destroyed.
"I'd been interested in the Indigenous history of North America for quite some time, and my previous films had revealed ancient knowledge misunderstood by today's society. When a colleague suggested a visit to the Blythe Intaglios, it opened up a new world of understanding of America's Cultural Treasures, their origins and context", says Lundahl.
The Blythe Intaglios are giant Earth drawings of human forms, geometries, and pictorial representations that embody the world-view of tribal communities and cultures, which have co-evolved with and within desert ecosystems for thousands of years. The concentration of geoglyphs, petroglyphs and other human-made Earth Images, in and around Blythe, California, along the Colorado River is rich and varied.
"A thousand years ago, the Colorado River Valley was lush and green, akin to the Egypt's Valley of the Nile, or Mesopotamia's Tigris and Euphrates. It was a sustaining ecosystem during the global warming period following the last ice age. As a result, there was and is a concentration of Indigenous peoples who make the area home, Lundahl explains. The flood plain remained productive well into the last century, before dams on the river channelized the flow and eliminated the flooding that had supported higher concentrations of birds, game and indigenous agriculture.
Today's tribal people, who still live along the Colorado River, remember. Their oral history traditions, and spiritual connection with the land remain strong today. The threat comes from the construction of large-scale industrial solar energy plants, on, around, and near sites that tribal peoples consider sacred.
The Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT) has staunchly opposed several projects in the Riverside East solar zone.
"Who Are My People?" four years in the making, explores the sites, their spiritual connections, and choices today's society must make regarding energy production and behaviors in another, more modern era of changing climate.
Destroying America's Cultural Treasures is not among those choices, Lundahl insists.
"Who Are My People?" premieres at the Astronomy Arts Theater, in Joshua Tree, California, near Palm Springs, in the evening — under the stars — on Saturday, September 13. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Program begins at 7:30. There will be music, speakers, and food. The filmmaker and Indigenous elders will be present. Donations are accepted and appreciated.
The Astronomy Arts Theater is located at 2601 Sunfair Rd., Joshua Tree, CA 92252.
"Who Are My People?" ©2018 Filmmaker Robert Lundahl, Agence RL | A, LLC All Rights Reserved.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The smartphones and other small machines that used to dominate the annual CES gadget show have been overshadowed in recent years by bigger mobile devices: namely, automobiles.
Auto companies typically save more practical announcements about new cars, trucks and SUVs for the upcoming Detroit auto show.
But major automakers like Toyota, Kia, Hyundai and Ford have a noticeable presence at this week's tech showcase in Las Vegas. CES is a chance for carmakers and suppliers of automotive parts and software to display their wilder and far-out ideas.
— Toyota says it's developing self-driving mini-buses that can serve as bite-sized stores. These vehicles will drive themselves to places where potential buyers can try on clothes or shoes or pick through flea market items. The project is still in the conceptual stage, with testing expected in the 2020s.
— Automotive supplier Bosch wants to help guide drivers to vacant parking spots in as many as 20 U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Miami and Boston. The company says it will be working with automakers on the initiative but didn't say which ones. As cars drive by, they will automatically recognize and measure gaps between parked cars and transmit that data to a digital map.
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CH2M pilots mileage-based fees program for I-95 Corridor Coalition
By Tom Stone on August 9, 2017 Tolling
Multidisciplinary consultancy CH2M is performing the overall project management, planning and technical work for a multi-state project on behalf of the I-95 Corridor Coalition, which will look at mileage-based user fees as one of the alternatives to fuel tax revenues.
The I-95 Corridor Coalition is set to test the design, implementation and acceptance of user-based alternative revenue mechanisms for funding transportation after the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) awarded the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT), on behalf of the Coalition, a Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives grant for the multi-state project along the USA's eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida. Currently being acquired by the Jacobs Engineering Group, CH2M is performing the overall project management, planning and technical work for the project, which will look at mileage-based user fees (MBUF) as one of the alternatives.
The coalition, which includes all the 17 Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and the major toll and turnpike agencies in the region, is focusing its US$1.16m project on three major activities within the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania:
• Education and outreach – developing public outreach materials that explain to the driving public, transportation officials and stakeholders why investing in transportation is important, why the current fuel tax does not provide a long-term and equitable solution, and why exploring a usage fee approach is necessary;
• Planning and analysis of issues – formulating approaches to the estimation of out-of-state mileage, interstate transfer of MBUF funds, interoperability with the toll facilities, the role of department of motor vehicles (DMVs), privacy concerns, and options to promote equitable application of a user fee approach;
• MBUF pilot system – conducting a three-month pilot consisting of approximately 50 vehicles in the two states, which will include an operational concept document, system requirements, selection of one or more vendors to provide hardware and related services, and pilot evaluation.
"The primary source for surface transportation revenues – the pay-at-the-pump fuel tax, which is typically based on a fixed amount per gallon – is not keeping up with the increasing infrastructure and operational needs of the roadway networks, let alone future investment needs," said Dr Patricia Hendren, I-95 Corridor Coalition executive director.
"This is especially true of our region, where the infrastructure is America's oldest and the need for capacity enhancements and continual maintenance and rehabilitation is most acute."
CH2M is already working on MBUF programs in Oregon, Colorado and for the Western Road Usage Charge Consortium.
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Here I go, continuing the small series I started yesterday. As I put it on Facebook, it represents my attempt to decrypt art portrait analysis for non-professionals answering basic questions such as: How do you engage in conversation with a character? How do you infer who he/she is? How much do you love details?
I am often asked why I love art and how I interpret it. Therefore my plan is to start with the classics and, if everything goes well, continue with some contemporary pieces.
This barocco painting is all shades, almost no color. Unfortunately the present reproduction does not convey the entire sense of beauty the original would. It also does not show all the shades since there is dark blue in Lucretia's hair. But let us take a closer look. The center of the painting and the spotlight is not on Lucretia's face, but on her chest. It is a double focus: her white desirable flash with bursting virginal breast and her heart, the spot where she will stub the dagger. She is still wearing a ring on her right hand finger (masked here) although she is completely naked. It may be interpreted as a sign that the suicide is related to the offense brought to her marriage. While the right hand stands very decided on the dagger, the left hand shows grace. It is another example of a simple portrait on a dark background with a very scarce chromatic, except that, when compared to the gentleman we discussed yesterday, in this scene something is happening. And the density of the moment is shown on the characters expression, not on the mere interpretation of a glance.
Unrighteously called Lucretia Borgia, the present work is actually about Lucretia, a legendary figure that attached her name to the founding of the Roman Republic. She was the wife of a Roman consul and, while hosting the Etruscan emperor' son in their home, she was raped by the latter. As a consequence she asked her husband and her father for revenge and committed suicide. It raised awareness among the people of Rome that started to deny privileges to the rich which eventually led to the installation of the Republic. We can infer from the significance of the character that we are in front of a scene of moral sacrifice. However the closed eyes, the open mouth with full lips add lust to the scene.
In spite of the historic truth, I would be prone to asking myself more questions about the passion of the character than about her morality. In my personal interpretation (just do not jump with the psychanalytical term of projective test right away), I see more of a voluptuous woman than a purely moralist one. That is where Cagnacci brings complexity to the character since it opens the gate to much more interpretations. For instance, what if our heroin actually enjoyed lust and death is more of an obligation than of a moral duty? What if Lucretia is more passionate and impulsive than moral as fury (take a look at her eyes) and disgust (her mouth can also be interpreted as such) drive her to perform the supreme gesture? Anyway, what held me in front of this painting for quite a while was the passionate, suffering look on the character face that contrasts with the established, deliberate positioning of the dagger in her hand. What do you see?
Now seriously... There is a lot of sensuality and lust in the barocco painting. I have to find out if society was really that obtuse as we think it was in that period.