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Importers snap up cheap U.S. soybeans as China stops buying
Karl Plume
CHICAGOCHICAGO (Reuters) - China's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. soybeans, threatened for weeks and enacted Friday, have driven down prices and triggered a wave of bargain shopping by importers in other countries stocking up on cheap U.S. supplies, according to a Reuters analysis of government data.
Chinese buyers have so far this year accounted for just 17 percent of all advanced purchases of the fall U.S. soybean harvest - down from an average of 60 percent over the past decade, the analysis found. They are instead loading up on Brazilian soybeans, which now sell at a premium of up to $1.50 a bushel as U.S. soybean futures have fallen 17 percent over six weeks to about $8.50, their lowest level in nearly a decade.
The price gap has sparked a run on U.S. soybeans by importers from Mexico to Pakistan to Thailand, according to the analysis of U.S. Agriculture Department data.
Even as China has retreated, all importers' advanced purchases of the next U.S. soybean crop shot up 127 percent through June, at 8 million tonnes, compared to the same period last year, the analysis showed.
The purchases are the latest example of how politics are upending billions of dollars in global trade flows as U.S. President Donald Trump fights a trade war with China.
Beijing imposed tariffs on $34 billion worth of U.S. products on Friday, from soybeans and cotton to automobiles and airplanes, in retaliation for U.S. tariffs enacted the same day on Chinese goods of equal value.
The decline of China's purchases of U.S. soybeans and the jump in those from other countries amount to a collective bet against any swift resolution of the escalating trade war between the world's top two economies.
Even Brazil, the world's top soybean exporter, is prepping for major purchases of U.S. soybeans to feed its domestic processors as it diverts more of its own crops to China at premium prices, according to exporters association Anec. Brazil may import up to 1 million tonnes of U.S. soybeans, with purchases likely ramping up in October, said Anec representative Lucas Trindade.
Brazilian soy bean processors, which turn the crop into cooking oil and animal feed, normally have no need for U.S. soybeans. But soon it may be cheaper for them to import beans grown thousands of miles away in the U.S. Midwest than to buy local crops.
"It seems irrational, but there is a possibility if prices in Chicago (futures) approach the $8 level," said Alessandro Reis, head of origination and logistics at CJ Selecta, a soy processor and trading firm in Brazil.
Grains merchants who dominate the soybean markets - including Archer Daniels Midland Co, Bunge Ltd and Cargill Inc [CARG.UL] - are working to minimize the impact of the sudden drop in Chinese demand by diverting cargoes elsewhere. Bunge Ltd and ADM declined to comment. Cargill did not respond to requests for comment. Representatives of the U.S. Soybean Export Council have been meeting with buyers in Asia and Europe to encourage them to buy U.S. soy, said Jim Sutter, CEO of the U.S. Soybean Export Council. The moves are part of a broader effort launched this spring to raise demand for soy in countries such as Indonesia that normally buy from Brazil. "With the recent price declines that we've seen - wow - soybeans in general are on sale," Sutter said. "Buyers around the world ought to be stocking up."
The advanced purchases data include buyers who did not disclose their identity or location, which at 3.9 million tonnes are about 1 million tonnes above normal. Even if all those purchases came from Chinese buyers, the nation's total share of the advanced crop purchases would be its lowest in 13 years, the Reuters analysis shows.
(For a graphic on China's falling share of U.S. soybean purchases, see: tmsnrt.rs/2N2W5Q0 )
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China buys two-thirds of the world's soybean exports and, historically, more than half of U.S. soybean shipments, worth $12.25 billion last year.
FILE PHOTO: Soybeans fill a trailer at a farm in Buda, Illinois, U.S., July 6, 2018.
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FILE PHOTO: A trailer is filled with soybeans at a farm in Buda, Illinois, U.S., July 6, 2018.
The council has invited more buyers from countries in Europe,the Middle East and North Africa to an annual import-export conference next month.
Surging Brazilian prices are already steering importers in Europe - such as the Netherlands, Spain and Italy - to buy more U.S. shipments. A German soybean trader who declined to be named said U.S. soybeans shipped to north Europe are about $372 to $378 a ton for July and August delivery, well below Brazilian beans at $405 a ton.
"There is big global demand for U.S. soybeans, which I think will continue for the rest of 2018," said the German trader.Mexico has booked nearly 1 million tonnes in advanced purchases of U.S. soybeans - four times more than last year - while Pakistan's 273,000 tonnes in forward purchases are up 44 percent from a year earlier, the USDA data shows. Thailand's record 221,400 tonnes in advance deals are nearly 10 times larger than the average over the prior six years.
No. 3 exporter Argentina has also bought U.S. soy to supplement its own drought-stricken crop. U.S. soybean prices could fall further after the crops are harvested from September through November if Chinese buyers continue to avoid U.S. soybeans.
"Pakistan, Mexico, Bangladesh and a few others have bought, and that's kept values supported," said a U.S. soybean exporter who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to media. "But eventually you'll run out of non-China buyers."
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The purchases could temporarily spare U.S. farmers from some of the pain of Chinese tariffs. "Fortunately, we have seen some sales pick up to other destinations," said Monte Peterson, a soybean farmer in Valley City, North Dakota.
But with farmer margins already razor-thin due to low soybean prices, Chinese demand will be sorely missed this fall, when prices typically enter a seasonal slump, Sutter said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday slashed its export forecast for the next soybean crop and said leftover supplies ahead of the 2019 harvest would be the largest on record due to the trade war with China.The pivotal question for U.S. farmers is how long bargain-shopping nations can fill the void. Chinese grain buyers face the flipside of that dilemma in trying to keep the nation's livestock herds fed without U.S. soybeans.China may have to buy up to 15 million tonnes of U.S. beans at tariff prices - about half of what it buys now, Rabobank, the Dutch financial services firm, predicted in a research note.
"From October to January, they will have to rely on the United States for some of the soybean supplies although volumes could be less," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist with National Australia Bank. "We can't imagine a scenario where China does not need U.S. beans."
(Additional reporting by Mark Weinraub and Tom Polansek in Chicago; Ana Mano in Sao Paulo; Michael Hogan in Hamburg; Valerie Parent in Paris; and Naveen Thukral in Singapore; Editing by Caroline Stauffer and Brian Thevenot)
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Community responds to theft of charity funds
By Meg Olson
An outpouring of community giving will see the Point Roberts Food Bank's coffers swell by thousands of dollars in time for the holidays.
It started when a fire station thief stole almost $1,000 the Point Roberts Firefighters' Association had raised for the food bank during their recent "boot drive." Then someone stole the Bliss Light at Auntie Pam's Country Store. "I was just sick about it," said owner Pamala Sheppard. "Then I heard about the theft at the fire station. I was depressed."
Determined to not let the thieves steal the spirit of Christmas as well, Sheppard decided to recreate the final scene from the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life," in which crowds of townspeople come to the Bailey home with donations, in her store. She posted her plan on Facebook.
"I had $700 pledged and a company ready to match anything we collected before I was out of my pajamas," she said. "Then merchants and families started coming into the store with checks. Everyone I told the story to put $20 in the jar. We raised $2,000 the first day."
Umpqua Bank joined in, giving a $1,000 grant to the firefighters' association to replace the stolen funds and encouraging the community to donate funds and food at the Point Roberts bank. "The holidays can be a particularly challenging time for individuals and families in need of a helping hand, and we were saddened to hear that, due to a recent theft, the community's generous donations weren't going to make it to the Point Roberts Food Bank and the families in need," said branch manager Jane Macdougall. "We believe it's moments like this that can inspire community to come together and are pleased to be help make that possible."
The Giving Tree program, a collaboration between the food bank and Umpqua Bank, has received widespread community support, with every tag for a local child already taken. Donations of toys are still being accepted at the bank.
The firefighters' association isn't giving up their fundraising efforts. Association president Fadi said they would continue with the boot drive throughout December. The boot drives will be at the International Marketplace as weather and fire department activities permit. Association members will be collecting food and cash donations.
"I can't explain what this community has done," said food bank volunteer Henry Rosenthal. "I have never seen anything like this. I think it's magnificent."
Rosenthal said donors have been continuing to contact him, and plans for holiday food packages are going ahead, thanks in part to a spontaneous donation of turkeys by Terry Ritchie. "The number of people who are so giving and wonderful without being asked… how do you even begin to say thank you to all these people?" he said.
In addition to helping the food bank serve local families over the holidays and beyond, the recent flood of donations will put the food bank closer to having its own facility rather than having volunteers spend much of their time running from location to location gathering food that is then distributed from another location.
"It will save us hundreds of hours and give us a place where we can deliver the food the community needs much more effectively," Rosenthal said.
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Q: NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore not working... at all I'm having what seems to be a unique issue. My NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore is simply not working between launches in the simulator. That is, I'm not even talking about iCloud sync or anything like that, I can't get it to pass the simple test below!
var kvs = NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore.defaultStore()
if kvs.synchronize() == true {
  println("kvs synchronised")
}
println(kvs.stringForKey("test"))
println(kvs.setString("WORKED", forKey:"test"))
println(kvs.stringForKey("test"))

Everytime I run my iOS 8 app in the simulator, this prints out the same message.
kvs synchronised
nil

WORKED

Yes, iCloud is configured and enabled in the Entitlements. Yes, even "Key Value Store" is checked. Yes, the Simulator account is setup for iCloud syncing.
It seems that even the local backing SQLite DB is getting clobbered between every run? I'm at a loss.

A: I've read that iCloud does not work at the simulator but it's not official. Nothing is written about it at Apple's documentation.
I'm working at an application where I use simple key/value storage implementation and, for my surprise, it worked once or twice in thousands of tests. It's definitely not reliable.

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William Farley (born 1835, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during an 1863 engagement.

Biography
Born in 1835 in Whitefield, Maine, Farley joined the Navy from Boston, Massachusetts in December 1860.  He served during the Civil War as a boatswain's mate on the . While on the Stono River on December 25, 1863, Marblehead came under fire from Confederate forces at the Battle of Legareville on Johns Island. Farley "animated his men and kept up a rapid and effective fire on the enemy throughout the engagement". The Confederates eventually abandoned their position, leaving a caisson and gun behind. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor four months later on April 16, 1864.

Medal of Honor citation
Farley's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
Served on board the U.S.S. Marblehead off Legareville, Stono River, 25 December 1863, during an engagement with the enemy on John's Island. Behaving in a gallant manner, Farley animated his men and kept up a rapid and effective fire on the enemy throughout the engagement which resulted in the enemy's abandonment of his positions, leaving a caisson and 1 gun behind.

See also

List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A–F

References

External links
Boatswain's Mate William Farley, USN, (Born in 1835)
USS Marblehead (I)
America's Heroes: Medal of Honor recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan

1835 births
Year of death unknown
People from Lincoln County, Maine
People of Maine in the American Civil War
Union Navy sailors
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients
American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor


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The Creators of e.l.f. Cosmetics' Viral Campaign Discuss Finding Success on TikTok
The makeup brand's CMO, the platform's exec and a content producer share tips
Dancer and creator Michael Le, TikTok's Katie Puris and e.l.f. Cosmetics' Kory Marchisotto shared insights on the makeup brand's viral campaign. #AdweekatHome, TikTok, e.l.f.
By Kathryn Lundstrom
Key insight:
Adjusting along the way allowed e.l.f to customize its message to the platform.
Last October, e.l.f. Cosmetics launched its first TikTok campaign as part of a rebranding effort and as a new way to reach its Gen Z audience. The brand worked with agency Movers+Shakers to create an original 15-second song—a first for a brand on the app, according to TikTok.
By the end of the year, dozens of celebrities, TikTok stars and everyday users had participated in the the "Eyes.Lips.Face." campaign, which became the most viral campaign on the platform to date—a title e.l.f. has retained.
The campaign was the jumping off point for a panel that closed out Adweek's Elevate: Creativity and Experiential virtual event today. To gain insight into why that campaign had the success it did, Adweek's creativity and innovation editor, David Griner, spoke with three vital players: content creator Michael Le, who runs his 28.6 million-follower personal account full time and participated in the campaign; e.l.f Cosmetics' chief marketing officer, Kory Marchisotto; and TikTok's managing director of global business marketing Katie Puris.
For brands that want to create a presence on TikTok but are unsure how to approach the platform, the panelists stressed the importance of finding an authentic way to express their brand identity, partnering with the content creators who will reach the right audience and simply spending enough time on the app to get to know the community.
'Understand the community'
Before embarking on a TikTok campaign, Le urged brands to sit and use the app for a while. "It's very important to kind of absorb TikTok yourself," he said.
By spending time on TikTok, it becomes apparent what works for each audience and how users react to different brand approaches, which can help a brand that's new to the platform. Brands shouldn't be afraid to try different things to figure out what sticks, Le added.
"For brands, the first thing really is to understand the community," Puris said. "Be a part of the community. Know that culture happens here on TikTok every single day."
TikTok is also a place where users are their "authentic selves," Puris said, and brands shouldn't be worried about showing a little imperfection or vulnerability in their content.
Start with a blank slate, and learn as you go
After the success of the "Eyes.Lips.Face." campaign, Marchisotto said, one of the lessons e.l.f. took from the experience was the importance of approaching the platform without expectations. "We went in with no preconceived notion; we went in with no fear," she said. "And we also went in with a blank piece of paper."
That allowed the makeup brand to leverage the knowledge and expertise of the team at TikTok and the users they were partnering with to create a campaign that was optimized for the platform's community.
The lack of a roadmap also allowed e.l.f. to adjust the campaign quickly as it realized what was working. "Do more of what's working; do less than what's not working," Marchisotto said. "Have no fear in your ability to adapt. It is a fast-moving platform, but it's fresh. It's new. It's dynamic."
Kathryn Lundstrom
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Assessment of Zinc and Copper Status of Fadama Soils In Borgu Local Government Area, Niger State
Abstract— The status of Zinc (Zn) and Copper (Cu) of fadama soils under cultivation at Borgu Local Government Area, Niger State, Nigeria was studied. Soil samples were purposely collected from three extension blocks, namely; Wawa, Babana and Goffanti. Particle size distribution of the soils showed sandy loam texture. The soils pH were either slightly acidic or neutral with a range between 6.05 and 6.93. The level of Organic Carbon (OC) ranged between low and medium, total nitrogen were rated high, available phosphorus were low while exchangeable cations (Na, K, Ca, Mg) were all rated high. Though soil content of Zn and Cu were very low, values were not significantly (P<0.05) different for all locations. The mean values for Zn ranged between 0.496 and 0.592 mg/kg, while Cu ranged between 0.550 and 0.945 mg/kg. This result implies that soil amendments in the form of organic manure and/or supplement of Zn and Cu would enhance nutrient availability for optimum yields of crops for the resource-poor farmers in the study area.
Keywords— Zinc, Copper, Fadama, soil fertility, Borgu.


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Q: Is there a downside to using -Bsymbolic-functions? I recently discovered the linker option "-Bsymbolic-functions" in GNU ld:
-Bsymbolic
  When creating a shared library, bind references to global symbols to the
  definition within the shared library, if any. Normally, it is possible
  for a program linked against a shared library to override the definition
  within the shared library.

  This option is only meaningful on ELF platforms which support shared libraries.

-Bsymbolic-functions
  When creating a shared library, bind references to global function symbols
  to the definition within the shared library, if any.

  This option is only meaningful on ELF platforms which support shared libraries.

This seems to be the inverse of the GCC option -fvisibility=hidden, in that instead of preventing the export of the referenced function to other shared objects, it prevents library-internal references to that function from being bound to an an exported function of a different shared object. I informed myself that -Bsymbolic-functions will prevent the creation of PLT entries for the functions, which is a nice side effect.

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*But I was wondering whether there is perhaps a finer-grained control over this, like overwriting -Bsymbolic for individual function definitions of a library.

*Should I be aware of any pitfalls of using -Bsymbolic-functions? I plan to only use that, because the -Bsymbolic will break exceptions, I think (it will make it so that references to typeinfo objects are not unified, I think).
Thanks!

A: Well you could say it is a "hardening" option as it ensures your calls to in-library functions surely end up there. But one issue that I found is some projects test-suites.
For example the libvirt test-suite would want to call into the just built libvirt0.so but also mock some of the calls that will be done from there.
Due to -Bsymbolic-functions being used on the build that breaks the test as the original and not the mocked function is called.
Example backtraces
Good case:
#0  virHostCPUGetThreadsPerSubcore (arch=VIR_ARCH_PPC64) at ../../../tests/virhostcpumock.c:30
#1  0x00007ffff7c1e4c4 in virHostCPUGetInfoPopulateLinux (cpuinfo=<optimized out>, arch=VIR_ARCH_PPC64, cpus=0x7fffffffdf38, mhz=<optimized out>, nodes=0x7fffffffdf40, sockets=0x7fffffffdf44, cores=0x7fffffffdf48, threads=0x7fffffffdf4c)
    at ../../../src/util/virhostcpu.c:661
#2  0x0000555555557e6f in linuxTestCompareFiles (outputfile=0x55555558f150 "/build/libvirt-OUKR8i/libvirt-4.10.0/tests/virhostcpudata/linux-ppc64-subcores2.expected", arch=VIR_ARCH_PPC64,·
    cpuinfofile=0x5555555a3f10 "/build/libvirt-OUKR8i/libvirt-4.10.0/tests/virhostcpudata/linux-ppc64-subcores2.cpuinfo") at ../../../tests/virhostcputest.c:44
#3  linuxTestHostCPU (opaque=<optimized out>) at ../../../tests/virhostcputest.c:189
#4  0x000055555555914d in virTestRun (title=0x55555555c0a1 "subcores2", body=0x555555557cc0 <linuxTestHostCPU>, data=0x7fffffffe0c0) at ../../../tests/testutils.c:176
#5  0x000055555555781a in mymain () at ../../../tests/virhostcputest.c:263
#6  0x0000555555559df4 in virTestMain (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe2c8, func=0x5555555577b0 <mymain>) at ../../../tests/testutils.c:1114
#7  0x00007ffff79bb09b in __libc_start_main (main=0x5555555576a0 <main>, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe2c8, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe2b8) at ../csu/libc-start.c:308
#8  0x00005555555576ea in _start () at ../../../tests/virhostcputest.c:278

Bad case:
#0  virHostCPUGetThreadsPerSubcore (arch=arch@entry=VIR_ARCH_PPC64) at ../../../src/util/virhostcpu.c:1119
#1  0x00007ffff7c27e04 in virHostCPUGetInfoPopulateLinux (cpuinfo=<optimized out>, arch=VIR_ARCH_PPC64, cpus=0x7fffffffdea8, mhz=<optimized out>, nodes=0x7fffffffdeb0, sockets=0x7fffffffdeb4, cores=0x7fffffffdeb8, threads=0x7fffffffdebc)
    at ../../../src/util/virhostcpu.c:661
#2  0x0000555555557e6f in linuxTestCompareFiles (outputfile=0x5555555a5c30 "/build/libvirt-4biJ7f/libvirt-4.10.0/tests/virhostcpudata/linux-ppc64-subcores2.expected", arch=VIR_ARCH_PPC64,·
    cpuinfofile=0x55555558fd20 "/build/libvirt-4biJ7f/libvirt-4.10.0/tests/virhostcpudata/linux-ppc64-subcores2.cpuinfo") at ../../../tests/virhostcputest.c:44
#3  linuxTestHostCPU (opaque=<optimized out>) at ../../../tests/virhostcputest.c:189
#4  0x000055555555914d in virTestRun (title=0x55555555c0a1 "subcores2", body=0x555555557cc0 <linuxTestHostCPU>, data=0x7fffffffe030) at ../../../tests/testutils.c:176
#5  0x000055555555781a in mymain () at ../../../tests/virhostcputest.c:263
#6  0x0000555555559df4 in virTestMain (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe238, func=0x5555555577b0 <mymain>) at ../../../tests/testutils.c:1114
#7  0x00007ffff79b009b in __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#8  0x00005555555576ea in _start () at ../../../tests/virhostcputest.c:278

Compare the source for virHostCPUGetThreadsPerSubcore in those two and you will see the difference.
Another case I have seen are:

*

*static variables becoming multiple instances in singularity

*segfaulting tests in sssd

*autofs issues with global variables
Since the original question was about potential drawbacks I thought it is worth to mention those somewhat common category of related issues as well.

A: I recently discussed this this with one of the toolchain experts at SUSE. Here are his remarks:
"-Bsymbolic-functions is a thing from an old world which doesn't
exist anymore.  It completely bypasses everything about what ELF can
provide, including visibility.  When you're using it, everything is bound
locally.  IOW: don't use it :)
Noone should use -Bsymbolic-functions, it's a too big hammer for
most purposes."

How does -Bsymbolic-functions relate to library versioning (--version-script) ?

"-Bsymbolic-functions overrides anything, from linker
scripts, from GCC attributes or anywhere, about symbol visibilities or anything.  It makes everything bind local, always, irrespective of
anything else that you might have added on command lines, or extra files,
or object files.  (And yes, --dynamic-list= was a mis-guided attempt to
fix some of that and make -Bsymbolic* somewhat more friendly). So, yes, it takes precendence over linker script.  It's a big hammer :)
"
"To be extra precise: -Bsymbolic-functions is not quite that same as linker
script global/local, which is probably a reason why people still use it
sometimes.  While -Bsymbolic-functions does bind references to definitions
locally (like local: in linker scripts), it also keeps them exported
(like the global: ones).  In ELF speak that would be somewhat like
PROTECTED visibility.  Unfortunately that can't be expressed in a symbol
version script right now, only via GCCs __attribute__(visibility).  So,
when people try to get the speed advantage of local binding (fewer symbol
lookups at library load time), while still exporting all their functions
from the shared lib, they unfortunately often end up first finding that
-Bsymbolic-functions "does what I want", without realizing that it creates
problems down the line."

A: Answering my own question because I just earned a Tumbleweed badge for it... and I found out subsequently

But I was wondering whether there is perhaps a finer-grained control over this, like overwriting -Bsymbolic for individual function definitions of a library.

Yes, there is the option --dynamic-list which does exactly that

Should I be aware of any pitfalls of using -Bsymbolic-functions? I plan to only use that, because the -Bsymbolic will break exceptions, I think (it will make it so that references to typeinfo objects are not unified, I think).

I looked more into it, and it seems there is no issue. The libstdc++ library apparently does it or at least did consider it and they only had to add --dynamic-list-cpp-new to still have operator new unified (to prevent issues with multiple allocator / deallocators mixing up in a program but I would argue such programs are broken anyway). Ubuntu uses it or used it by default, and it seems it causes conflicts with some packages. But overall it should work nicely I expect.

A: There are cases with side effects. A documented one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfe/+bug/644645
I would also like to figure out more about it, because I have such a case right now.

A: building glibc with -Bsymbolic-functions is not recommended neither. Here is the result I got:
Core was generated by `/home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/elf/ld-linux                                                               .'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x400a3e90 in _int_free ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0x400a3e90 in _int_free ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#1  0x4016b94b in __libc_dlsym ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#2  0x4004c2c7 in __gconv_find_shlib ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#3  0x40042320 in find_derivation ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#4  0x40042889 in __gconv_find_transform ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#5  0x400d6f00 in __wcsmbs_load_conv ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#6  0x400c86f6 in mbrtowc ()
   from /home/lano1106/dev/packages/glibc/repos/core-i686/src/glibc-build/libc.so.6
#7  0x08048914 in ?? ()
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Issue. 7.0
The Art Book Review
Tell Them I Said No
by The Art Book Review
Reviewed By Maia Nichols
In order to detonate an artist, one must realize they are more galactic than any attempt to calcify them. On a patch of sunless turf, someone is maneuvering the institution of art, and all that it hinges on. In Martin Herbert's Tell Them I Said No, gobs-cum-vestigial artworks are flipped upside down, each of them endpoints that annihilate any semblance of obedience.
While the strategy of disappearing is something of arts mainstay, the artists in Herbert's book strut from the baby blue softcover, trailed by a series of issues tabled in contemporary art. These pivot around the Artist—you know the one—the artist who leans back, repulsed by the art establishment, and succeeds in being magnetized. Meanwhile, the Artist, miles away, looks at something else.
On page forty-three, handlers rearrange Charlotte Posenske's Square Tube Series DW (1967) in black-and-white images. Men in suits huddle around industrial objects that split the room, like a runway, or a slide shaped ventilation pipe emerging from a blackened window. A man in long sleeved Lufthansa overalls carries one of the hollow galvanized steel objects over his head, gazing down, with a pipe in his mouth. The men are arranging the figures according to the weather and the number of viewers though each of the iterations of Posenske's Vierkantrohre series bear protruding edges, so they can be bolted together and are open to unlimited configurations, and rendered unsaleable. At the time of this project in 1967, Posenske was already resistant to art's capacity to find solutions for urgent social problems. She eventually moved onto a career in sociology, quitting art altogether in 1968, and refusing to show her work or attend exhibitions.
Herbert asks about how commentators—gallerists, curators, writers, collectors, and all the "others with something to gain," — ask artists to be. Do they indefinitely fall short? Don't cue flighty rhetorics. Across the maneuverings artists' straddles, they surprise us because we find ourselves unprepared for the moonlit differences between their output and their hopes. The disturbance of a pre-storm sky, or accidental splashes, can't fix anything alone.
Herbert has a certain way of staging himself, braced with words, to usher moving targets: "What York builds, despite being a deeply figurative painter, is closer to an abstraction, a scattered archipelago whose glowing islands one wants to bridge." Images are folded into sentences. He fills us up on them, lavishly. "While she studied, she and her husband wrote guiding sentences in pencil on the white headboard of their bed, including one by Goethe." Herbert calls out work that's entirely predictable, reproducible. He is a fan of combinations, brunches, motels, that sort of thing. Lucid critiques are pending. Instead you find your plate full of Herbert's big-hearted prose. It strives with the minimum effort for maximum effect. I found lightness in his language, which left enough faith to go around in those he writes about, maybe too in his readers.
Each essay confronts us in watermarked style. Faced with so much freedom, you make of the book what you want. Art that becomes a balm, bent on addressing urgent political problems, is taxing. Here salves are replaced by registers built on withdrawal more than openings. Herbert treats these artists' lives earnestly. At times, the cup runs over, and though generous, celebrating tricks feels expired. The artists in this book are praised for how they receded from the spotlight and dropped out of the art world, in truth each dropout could only come after the years of getting far enough along to make anyone care that David Hammons, Trisha Donnely, Lutz Bacher, Agnes Martin, Charlotte Posenske and several others, would eventually turn away.
Variants on the essays on Martin and Albert York that were originally published in ArtReview stand out. We sense how these artists managed to shimmy past art's restraints bashfully, to let us celebrate ditching out of shyness as much as revolt. Herbert lends each of these artists' weight, imbuing the globular into pesky tinted smears, blank pages, and abandoned events. We feel the artists put themselves entirely into their work. York's early paintings were slipped into brown paper bags and delivered by hand, later mailed in the same brown paper. One can imagine once the painting is removed, these might be vestigial, teeming with Geist, asking nothing of you, to be recycled. Or take, for instance, Agnes Martin, who wrote that it was only if her mind was empty enough that she could see it. What's behind Martin's horizontal and vertical lines is impossible to peg, but her ability to "couch delight", as Herbert puts it, could only have come from years of self-isolation, schizophrenic episodes, and all that went into her life's experiences.
The slow accretion of an artist's fame is not the story this book tells, but their commitment is implicit in how the artists are presented. Herbert's art picks, like starbursts, stand apart because of their two-step with selflessness, their carelessness for the scene and their trials with the outer world. Parts of them is left behind in their work, as sacrifices that let them appear disguised as nothing, performing for us the limits of art's agency, its freedom.
Citing Lao Tzu's famous epitaph: "a journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step"—Herbert describes the recently deceased Stanley Brouwn, who used the Brouwn cubit, foot, step, to evade the space of art by assuming measurements and distances of his own. He'd suggest you used whatever distance is always on hand, the one in your head.
Without pushing the reader in a certain direction, Herbert's essays combat what art is often built upon: attempting to gain an upper hand for oneself. Withdrawal is curiously generous. In the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Journal, D'Arcangelo's contribution was a blank spread. The reader could remove the pages, and do what they wanted with them, "install the page any place in the viewing space of LAICA, at any time and in anyway [sic] you want". . In a proposal for the Van Abemuseum in Eindhoven, unfinished at the time of his unresolved suicide, he asked that the gallery spaces be left empty so that the public could bring in what they wanted.
In an academic conference in 1987 on the topic of evil, Cady Noland's essay examined how society was built on distrust, a secret game, where psychopathic, single-minded personalities prey on and dominate the meek. Paraphrasing Columbia University professor Ethel Spector, she wrote: "The psychopath shares the societal sanctioned characteristic of the entrepreneurial male". How to square away the boundaries of an artist's freedom in a meeting with narcissists? To delineate records of movement in art, haziness' infinity is useless. Describing Noland Herbert writes: "everything Noland uses, as one might note on a surface level from the steely continuity between barriers and chains and supermarket trolleys, turns out to be part of a totalizing; secretly controlling system, one lacking an outside." If these artists do open space-time, it is parceled out, which allows them control of the reins.
The last essay is about Trisha Donnelly,—the book's title is extracted from an email she wrote, replying months later to refuse an interview with Herbert about her 2014 exhibition at the Serpentine, London. In 2015, her show was up in Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles.
A large rectangular tarp blows up and down silently upon the skylight. Several perforations allow tiny dots of light to pass through. The right edge is the loosely affixed, so light cascades down into the room. It pours intermittently and abruptly echoing according to the wind.
A tilted rectangular projected image of a digital image, content undecipherable. A few rows of black chairs strung together crooning at you from the corner. Speakers on the floor emit lounge tunes, at set times on what feels like hours long loops. Next door, a pencil sketch, another projection. A cloudy blue sky swirls and recedes, contained within the shape of a rectangle with curved edges, positioned so it falls up and back.
In the first room, Donnely's least decipherable work two photographs lurk away from the center of the walls, run towards the corner. The one looks like an outdoor landscape positioned sideways, but the hues leave it unclear. Next to it, a thick black curved mark stretches across another photo.
Viewer bathes in darkness, only intermittently finds relief in flashes of LA sunlight.There is no press release, no show map, no titles. It is hard to write about something that hasn't been written about, calling something not yet born. This leaves room. The strongest efforts are the least obvious ones, that envelope the space.
If these artists share something, it is the need to take refuge in order for them to clear a space for a kind of brawl, on a canvas, in a sidewalk, a shop. The importance of solitude, the remove each of these artists required was one that offers up a chance to find them gone, replaced by objects, bottomless minutes, chronically self-critical. Plumbing a bull's eye is fruitless in this purlieu, no alibis are needed. Tell Them I Said No is an analgesic.
Christopher D'Arcangelo, "LAICA as an Alternative to Museums," Journal of Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (January 1977)
Martin Herbert, Tell Them I said No, Sternberg Press 2016
Agnes Martin "The Untroubled Mind" in Arne Glimcher, Agnes Martin: Paintings, Writings, Remembrances (London: Phaidon Press, 2012) p. 218.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chef-d%27%C5%93uvre_inconnu#/media/File:BalzacUnknownMasterpiece.jpg
http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/charlotte-posenenske
https://frieze.com/article/search-stanley-brouwn
Martin Herbert. Tell Them I said No. Sternberg Press. 2016.
12.20.2017 – the Art Book Review


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Organizational Capacity Review – Strategic Planning, and Business Planning Processes
Manchester Bidwell Corporation, a nonprofit educational organization
The Hill Group's Role
Organizational Capacity Review
Focus Group Facilitation
Completed a capacity review to identify organizational strengths and weaknesses
Engaged internal and external stakeholders to build consensus and enthusiasm for initiatives
Completed a three-year Strategic Plan focusing on five key Strategic Initiatives
Developed a Business Plan for a $10 million endowment campaign. The Business Plan assisted the organization in securing a lead gift from the Heinz Endowments
The Hill Group, Inc., with support from the Heinz Endowments, completed a series of pro- jects to enhance the capacity and sustainability of a Manchester Bidwell Corporation (MBC). MBC is a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit educational organization. Its three major programs in- clude Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Bidwell Training Center, and the National Center for Arts and Technology. Consultants completed this project in three phases, including an or- ganizational capacity review, strategic planning process, and business planning process.
Phase I – Organizational Capacity Review
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At the helm of every library are the wonderful librarians who ensure that each building is a welcoming place with opportunities for learning, wonderment and joy. A happy side-effect of a librarian's job is that they have an incredible depth of knowledge of books and of all the great things happening in their community. We wanted to hear more about what they do…
Jackie Lynam
Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Office, Dublin City Library & Archive, Pearse Street
Tell us a little about your role with Dublin City Libraries and the kind of things that you do.
I've been working in Dublin City Libraries since 1995 in various different roles but for the last eight years I have been working in the Dublin UNESCO City of Literature office, which is based in Dublin City Library and Archive in Pearse Street, Dublin, was designated a City of Literature in 2010 so we are celebrating the tenth anniversary this year. It's a permanent designation and we were the fourth city in the world to be awarded this status. Dublin City Libraries' staff administer the designation. We organise reading campaigns such as Dublin One City One Book and the Citywide Reading Campaign for children, administer the International Dublin Literary Award, and we collaborate with the other Cities of Literature around the world.
What is your favourite part of the job?
My favourite part of the job is organising events for the Citywide Reading Campaign and Dublin One City One Book as well as the once-off events with writers – both Irish and international. I'm missing that real-life connection with readers and writers at the moment. I love the buzz on the day of an event and seeing people connect with the writer and chatting about books afterwards, and reading the gorgeous feedback from children when they meet an author in real-life at their local library during the Citywide Reading Campaign.
Tell us about the library section where you work? What are you most proud of?
I am based in Pearse Street Library – in an office above the public library. I'm lucky to work with a great team and we bounce ideas off each other all the time. There is a lovely atmosphere in the building with staff working in areas such as Finance, Staff, and IT who provide different types of support to us.
At the moment we are working part-time in the office and part-time at home so there are some people that I haven't seen since March. I miss their smiles and banter!
I'm very proud to be part of the Dublin City Libraries team that brings books and literature into the lives of so many people. It's wonderful that get to provide access to books and literary events for free so that everybody can enjoy them, regardless of their wealth. We've organised some amazing events over the years including a special event with Edna O'Brien in the Round Room of the Mansion House during One City One Book in 2019 and Dublin City's tribute to Seamus Heaney in conjunction with Poetry Ireland in 2014.
Who was one of the most inspirational or interesting people you have met in your work with Dublin City Libraries?
I am incredibly lucky in my job that I get to meet fascinating people – some of these are writers, others are event organisers, publicists, journalists, critics, library staff and book lovers. Their passion for reading and books really inspire me.
But if I was to pick one person I would say Elizabeth Day. She took part in our Words on the Street event in 2018 as the British Embassy guest author and after it we had a long chat about friendships, relationships and the Repeal the 8th Referendum. She told me she was selling her wedding dress to fund a podcast series about failure. That podcast series How to Fail with Elizabeth Day was launched a few months later and by this summer had over 10 million downloads. I really admire her for openly sharing her own experiences of IVF, miscarriages and divorce thus encouraging other people to open up about things that haven't worked out for them. I'm constantly recommending her books and podcasts to everyone!
Tell us an interesting fact about your library.
The head from Nelson's Pillar lives in the Reading Room on the second Floor of Dublin City Library and Archive.
What was your favourite book as a child?
I have so many as I was an avid reader. Myself and my sister were regular users of Capel Street Library and the Mobile service in Stoneybatter and my Mam used to buy second-hand copies of Enid Blyton's Famous Five, Malory Towers and Secret Seven series which we used to fight over and then we'd act out the stories in our bedroom. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame was one of my favourite books and also the Run with the Wind Series by Tom McCaughren.
At the moment I am reading There There by Tommy Orange which was shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. It's brilliant. I have been making my way through the shortlist over the last few weeks and finding new writers that I have never read before. I'm also reading Failosophy by Elizabeth Day which is a handbook for when things go wrong, based on interviews from her brilliant How to Fail podcast series.
Which of your books is battered from using again and again?
At the moment my most used book is 100 Poems by Seamus Heaney. My friend Cormac started a reading challenge on Twitter encouraging people to read one poem each day from the collection so I've have been doing it for the last two months. I read each poem aloud three or four times and it's a lovely way to start the day. My oldest book is probably Awareness by Anthony de Mello. My mam bought a copy for me when I was in my twenties because she loved it and knew I would too.
Tell us something about yourself that might surprise us?
I'm a huge fan of The Frames and have loved them since 1991. In 2016 myself and my husband went to New York to see Glen Hansard play in Carnegie Hall. I have made lots of friends through the band from all around the world - including Ireland, Scotland, Australia, Czech Republic and America. Earlier this year I wrote an essay called Glen's Gift which was broadcast on Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio One.
Is there anything else you'd like to share?
My mother left school at 14 to work to help support her nine siblings but she always said that the library was her education. She always says that getting the adult membership card for Charleville Library at 14 years old was the best birthday present she ever got. My parents instilled a love of reading from an early age and I'm so grateful to them for that.
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Gourcuff hints at a move to north London.
Long-term Arsenal target Yoann Gourcuff has admitted that he is ready to leave current side Olympique Lyon in the summer.
The 26-year-old has had a distinctly up-and-down career since being touted as a potential successor to the great Zinedine Zidane as a play-maker in the France national team.
Yet despite impressive spells with Stade Rennes and Bordeaux in Ligue 1, Gourcuff has also flopped after big money moves to both AC Milan and present side Lyon.
However, Gunners manager Arsene Wenger is a fan of the midfielder and hopes of signing the France international have now been given renewed hope.
"If clubs are interested and interesting, I don't close the door on anything at all," Gourcuff told Ouest France.
"The most important thing is to play, but I have to look at the sporting project, whether they count on me, the means that we're given to succeed, and if they have clear ideas which don't change after a defeat.
During the midfielder's career Gourcuff has had £36.4m spent on him in transfer fees, including a whopping £19.4m paid by Lyon to Bordeaux in the summer of 2010 – a year after the club had secured their first Ligue 1 title in 10 years.
Yet the Frenchman has made just 76 appearances in all competitions for Lyon in three years since the move and has become disillusioned with life at the Stade de Gerland.
It seems that now would be the perfect opportunity for Wenger to swoop in and get his man for what would probably be cut-price transfer fee.