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The Great Camille Paglia!!!
By Guest Pud Whacker, July 21, 2016 in Politics and World Events
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Interests: Music, Art, films.
Lol at what she says about Hillary Clinton
She is so on it. fascinating and brilliant!
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Interests: xanax
EVERYTHANG
A great great great thinker!
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Deist
Extreme Occident
i love her points but i kept thinking she would break out with porky pig's "that's all folks"
billiejean 0
Promise to Try
Cool interview.
Guest Mauro
Oh, this bitter old witch again. She hates Madonna now. I guess that's what happens when M won't give you the time of day no matter how sycophantic you act. Camille will never get over not having been born without a dick. RIP, dear.
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Location: The Crowd Was Tough
Justify My Love
She's a genuine cunt. I love her.
On 7/21/2016 at 10:18 PM, erotica blu said:
i came looking for this thread ...(AND I FINALLY LEARNED HOW TO SEARCH 1,000,000 YEARS LATER!!!) to keep all the camille stuff here instead of madonna section and that made me laugh!!! xo
ok, that Madonna rebuttal Camille did...this had me laughing hard!
'Instead, they got the geriatric novelist Norman Mailer, who knew nothing about Madonna or popular music, with predictably vapid results,' Camille recalled.
shes a riot!
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Gargantuesque
Interests: Busy.
Get Together/Intervention
I really like her interviews and from what I read, some of her thinking on feminism and gay issues/activism! Not so much on almost discarding Madonna after she embraced Kabbalah. Lol
Feel like she's a very tough minded woman and has no time for the privileged feminist activists who come from the upper middle classes. She recognizes that they dominate the media, academia, and the arts. She definitely calls out people who embrace victimhood while behaving like big hypocrites.
Just read the Paglia response now. Have to let it sink in because she really was nasty at Madonna, but at same time well known feminists have been notorious for being bitches toward each other.
Lady Gaga and the death of sex
An erotic breaker of taboos or an asexual copycat? Camille Paglia, America's foremost cultural critic, demolishes an icon
Lady Gaga is the first major star of the digital age. Since her rise, she has remained almost continually on tour. Hence, she is a moving target who has escaped serious scrutiny. She is often pictured tottering down the street in some outlandish get-up and fright wig. Most of what she has said about herself has not been independently corroborated… "Music is a lie", "Art is a lie", "Gaga is a lie", and "I profusely lie" have been among Gaga's pronouncements, but her fans swallow her line whole…
She constantly touts her symbiotic bond with her fans, the "little monsters", who she inspires to "love themselves" as if they are damaged goods in need of her therapeutic repair. "You're a superstar, no matter who you are!" She earnestly tells them from the stage, while their cash ends up in her pockets. She told a magazine with messianic fervour: "I love my fans more than any artist who has ever lived." She claims to have changed the lives of the disabled, thrilled by her jewelled parody crutches in the Paparazzi video.
Although she presents herself as the clarion voice of all the freaks and misfits of life, there is little evidence that she ever was one. Her upbringing was comfortable and eventually affluent, and she attended the same upscale Manhattan private school as Paris and Nicky Hilton. There is a monumental disconnect between Gaga's melodramatic self-portrayal as a lonely, rebellious, marginalised artist and the powerful corporate apparatus that bankrolled her makeover and has steamrollered her songs into heavy rotation on radio stations everywhere.
Lady Gaga is a manufactured personality, and a recent one at that. Photos of Stefani Germanotta just a few years ago show a bubbly brunette with a glowing complexion. The Gaga of world fame, however, with her heavy wigs and giant sunglasses (rudely worn during interviews) looks either simperingly doll-like or ghoulish, without a trace of spontaneity. Every public appearance, even absurdly at airports where most celebrities want to pass incognito, has been lavishly scripted in advance with a flamboyant outfit and bizarre hairdo assembled by an invisible company of elves.
Furthermore, despite showing acres of pallid flesh in the fetish-bondage garb of urban prostitution, Gaga isn't sexy at all – she's like a gangly marionette or plasticised android. How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation? Can it be that Gaga represents the exhausted end of the sexual revolution? In Gaga's manic miming of persona after persona, over-conceptualised and claustrophobic, we may have reached the limit of an era…
Gaga has borrowed so heavily from Madonna (as in her latest video-Alejandro) that it must be asked, at what point does homage become theft? However, the main point is that the young Madonna was on fire. She was indeed the imperious Marlene Dietrich's true heir. For Gaga, sex is mainly decor and surface; she's like a laminated piece of ersatz rococo furniture. Alarmingly, Generation Gaga can't tell the difference. Is it the death of sex? Perhaps the symbolic status that sex had for a century has gone kaput; that blazing trajectory is over…
Gaga seems comet-like, a stimulating burst of novelty, even though she is a ruthless recycler of other people's work. She is the diva of déjà vu. Gaga has glibly appropriated from performers like Cher, Jane Fonda as Barbarella, Gwen Stefani and Pink, as well as from fashion muses like Isabella Blow and Daphne Guinness. Drag queens, whom Gaga professes to admire, are usually far sexier in many of her over-the-top outfits than she is.
Peeping dourly through all that tat is Gaga's limited range of facial expressions. Her videos repeatedly thrust that blank, lugubrious face at the camera and us; it's creepy and coercive. Marlene and Madonna gave the impression, true or false, of being pansexual. Gaga, for all her writhing and posturing, is asexual. Going off to the gym in broad daylight, as Gaga recently did, dressed in a black bustier, fishnet stockings and stiletto heels isn't sexy – it's sexually dysfunctional.
Compare Gaga's insipid songs, with their nursery-rhyme nonsense syllables, to the title and hypnotic refrain of the first Madonna song and video to bring her attention on MTV, Burning Up, with its elemental fire imagery and its then-shocking offer of fellatio. In place of Madonna's valiant life force, what we find in Gaga is a disturbing trend towards mutilation and death…
Gaga is in way over her head with her avant-garde pretensions… She wants to have it both ways – to be hip and avant-garde and yet popular and universal, a practitioner of gung-ho "show biz". Most of her worshippers seem to have had little or no contact with such powerful performers as Tina Turner or Janis Joplin, with their huge personalities and deep wells of passion.
Generation Gaga doesn't identify with powerful vocal styles because their own voices have atrophied: they communicate mutely via a constant stream of atomised, telegraphic text messages. Gaga's flat affect doesn't bother them because they're not attuned to facial expressions.
Gaga's fans are marooned in a global technocracy of fancy gadgets but emotional poverty. Borderlines have been blurred between public and private: reality TV shows multiply, cell phone conversations blare everywhere; secrets are heedlessly blabbed on Facebook and Twitter. Hence, Gaga gratuitously natters on about her vagina…
To read the rest of this explosive profile, including Paglia's debunking of comparisons to Madonna, David Bowie, Elton John and Andy Warhol, and to view a slideshow of photographs, visit the thesundaytimes.co.uk/magazine now
This woman doesn't want ageing women to express themselves as they want. She can stick her opinions up her ass and get a new job.
She seems to attach herself to whatever is popular and give her opinion. "Loose Women" with a degree... So happy Madonna didnt get involved with her in any shape or form. When she talks she sounds as if she is on drugs specifically speed
2 hours ago, MeakMaker said:
She is a social critic.
And that speed is passion in a world of sheepish zombies on anti-depressants.
Defending with passion something wrong doesn't make it positive.
2 hours ago, Pud Whacker said:
Yes Pud I get it but I can also understand why M didn't want to do interviews with her. I think Madonna was kind of scared of her...
1 hour ago, MeakMaker said:
Agreed! 100%. X
ONE OF THE GREATEST INDEPENDENT MINDS WE HAVE EVER KNOWN!!!
NOT for the weak sheep.
@ 18:00 "they lack the power of obsession". I totally agree with her, and I feel I still have that obsession too. I see women the way same way heterosexual males see them too. Try telling that to another woman, most don't get it.
@21:50....I agree, agree, agree....but most women don't know what they're communicating and that's why they're offended at the gawks of men.
@25:20, yes, women must take responsibility. This is what Chrissy Hynde was saying as well. It's about keeping our sexual freedom, and using it any way we please.
Love this, Pud. Thanks for posting. You're right...it's something sheep won't understand. I'm only 30 minutes in...need to finish later.
13 minutes ago, WeboGirl said:
oh yeah, shes absolutely tremendous. in the comments, i have put just a few time markers for future reference. check them out when you have a moment.
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If I ignore her horrible and bitter text in the Daily News 2 weeks ago, I must say that I have always regarded Paglia as a great thinker and analyst of popular culture. They are rare these days.
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There is so much truth in that last video! I have yet to watch the others but I plan to.
Gender reassignment in children IS child abuse.
As Rome fell, so will the West fall, eventually. Totally dead on.
21 hours ago, Pud Whacker said:
I agree with most of what she says
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On 14/12/2016 at 4:01 AM, billiejean said:
She constantly touts her symbiotic bond with her fans, the "little monsters", who she inspires to "love themselves" as if they are damaged goods in need of her therapeutic repair. "You're a superstar, no matter who you are!" She earnestly tells them from the stage, while their cash ends up in her pockets. She told a magazine with messianic fervour: "I love my fans more than any artist who has ever lived."
There is a monumental disconnect between Gaga's melodramatic self-portrayal as a lonely, rebellious, marginalised artist and the powerful corporate apparatus that bankrolled her makeover and has steamrollered her songs into heavy rotation on radio stations everywhere.
Lady Gaga is a manufactured personality, and a recent one at that.
Furthermore, despite showing acres of pallid flesh in the fetish-bondage garb of urban prostitution, Gaga isn't sexy at all – she's like a gangly marionette or plasticised android. How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation? Can it be that Gaga represents the exhausted end of the sexual revolution?
So on point! And this was written 6 years ago...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/camille-paglia-how-age-disgracefully-hollywood-guest-column-960794
Camille Paglia: How to Age Disgracefully in Hollywood (Guest Column)
Madonna played up her sex appeal at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala in May with an outfit featuring duct-taped nipples and strapped-up bare buttocks.
The social critic and academic blames 1960s disruptions of gender roles (and not the entertainment industry) for Madonna's and J. Lo's difficulty letting go of their youth as she chastises them to "stop cannibalizing the young."
In December, at the Billboard Women in Music Awards in New York City, Madonna was given the trophy for Woman of the Year. In a rambling, tearful acceptance speech that ran more than 16 minutes, she claimed to be a victim of "blatant misogyny, sexism, constant bullying and relentless abuse."
It was a startling appropriation of stereotypical feminist rhetoric by a superstar whose major achievement in cultural history was to overthrow the puritanical old guard of second-wave feminism and to liberate the long-silenced pro-sex, pro-beauty wing of feminism, which (thanks to her) swept to victory in the 1990s.
Madonna's opening line at the awards gala was edited out of the shortened official video: "I stand before you as a doormat — oh, I mean a female entertainer." Merciful Minerva! Can there be any woman on Earth less like a doormat than Madonna Louise Ciccone? Madonna sped on with shaky assertions ("There are no rules if you're a boy") and bafflingly portrayed the huge commercial success of her 1992 book, Sex, as a chapter of the Spanish Inquisition, in which she was persecuted as "a whore and a witch."
I was singled out by name as having accused her of "objectifying" herself sexually (prudish feminist jargon that I always have rejected), when in fact I was Madonna's first major defender, celebrating her revival of pagan eroticism and prophesying in a highly controversial 1990 New York Times op-ed that she was "the future of feminism."
But I want to focus here on the charge of ageism that Madonna, now 58, leveled against the entertainment industry and that received heavy, sympathetic coverage in the mainstream media. Her grievances about the treatment of women performers climaxed with this: "And finally, do not age, because to age is a sin. You will be criticized, you will be vilified and you will definitely not be played on the radio."
First of all, lack of radio airplay may indeed hamper new or indie groups, but in this digital age, when songs go viral in a flash, rich and famous performers of Madonna's level fail to get airplay not because of their age, but because their current music no longer is attracting a broad audience. When was the last time Madonna released hit songs of the brilliant quality of her golden era of the 1980s and '90s? Lavish, lucrative touring rather than sustained creative work in the studio has been her priority for decades.
Crawford exhibits "crazed willpower and misery in her facial muscles," says Paglia.
Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, in which her character "has gone bonkers and thinks she's the sexy Salome of her youth."
The truth, if Madonna can dare face it, is that she is having a prolonged midlife crisis like that of many great stars of the past. It is particularly painful for her as a dancer whose disciplined body always was her primary expressive instrument. The agony of the aging star has been an archetypal theme of Hollywood since Dinner at Eight (1933) and the first A Star Is Born (1937), in which John Barrymore and Fredric March played celebrated actors in suicidal decline. But it was Billy Wilder's film noir masterpiece Sunset Boulevard (1950) that first highlighted the special sufferings of the female sex symbol, whose glamorous aura was created and then cruelly withdrawn by a ruthless industry. The aging Norma Desmond, powerfully played by Gloria Swanson, is surrounded by photos and souvenirs from Swanson's own dazzling stardom in the 1920s, when she was an international symbol of high fashion and chic.
From Joan Crawford — the first major studio-era star to hit the humiliating wall of aging — to Marilyn Monroe, who died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose in 1962, aging has been a curse for Hollywood megastars. Dynamically verbal performers such as Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn, who won fame for bold roles as abrasive individualists rather than beauty queens, were able to shift into a richly varied, late-phase career as weathered character actresses — although Davis' signature role would remain the temperamental actress Margo Channing, who is obsessed with aging in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1950 film All About Eve.
Hollywood, from its birth a century ago, has glorified beauty because sex appeal is big box office, attuned to the dreams and desires of the mass audience, both male and female. That the cult of beauty is not based on misogyny is proved by the centrality of beauty to the cultural code of sophisticated gay men from ancient Athens and Renaissance Florence to Oscar Wilde's London and Andy Warhol's New York.
The main problem facing today's aging women is not sexism but the lingering youth cult of the 1960s. Traditional mating patterns have been disrupted: Marriage is postponed by extended education and early career demands. Because of easy divorce, middle-aged women are now competing with younger women for both men and jobs — and thus are resorting to costly interventions to look 20 years younger than they are.
If aging stars want to be taken seriously, they must find or recover a mature persona. Stop cannibalizing the young! Scrambling to stay relevant, Madonna is addicted to pointless provocations like her juvenile Instagrams or her trashy outfit with strapped-up bare buttocks and duct-taped nipples at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala in May. She has forgotten the legacy of her great precursor, Marlene Dietrich, who retained her class and style to the end of her public life.
In her Billboard Awards speech, Madonna oddly cited David Bowie as her "real muse." But Bowie did not cling to his revolutionary, gender-bending Ziggy Stardust in the way that Madonna doggedly regresses to the sassy street urchin of her 1980s debut. Bowie retired Ziggy after a single sensational year and evolved into other personae, such as the suave, enigmatic Thin White Duke. Neither Dietrich nor Bowie would have begun an event as Madonna did after Anderson Cooper handed her the Billboard trophy: "We already had sex with a banana" and (about her microphone) "I always feel better with something hard between my legs."
Two years ago, Jennifer Lopez (then 45) made a similar misstep with her crudely repetitious, faux-porn "Booty" video with Iggy Azalea. At ABC's recent New Year's Rockin' Eve show, Mariah Carey bungled more than her singing: In her needlessly risque nude bodysuit, she looked like a splitting sack of over-ripe cantaloupes.
Lopez (left, with Azalea) in the "Booty" single.
All women performers should study the magnificent precedent of Lena Horne, a fiercely outspoken civil rights activist who maintained total dignity and gorgeous elegance over her 60-plus-year singing career. Today, graceful aging by veteran stars is wonderfully modeled by Jane Fonda, Sharon Stone and Tippi Hedren, as well as the British actresses Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Charlotte Rampling. Lucy Liu, at 48, displays luminous self-possession and impeccable taste.
If any performer can provide a future blueprint for Hollywood aging, it may be that master of social media, Rihanna. No young star since the early Madonna years has such a gift for the camera — via intimate moody Instagrams or paparazzi shots in midnight streets. With her Chris Brown fiasco long receded, Rihanna has become her own studio, designing a profusion of cutting-edge fashions and adroitly shaping her public image as an irresistible combination of affability and mysterious reserve.
Most disappointing about Madonna's speech was her collapse into rote male-bashing, which has escalated in Hollywood and surely will increase its cultural isolation from the national audience. The young Madonna was refreshingly sane in her teasing affection for men. Top movie actresses once projected an emotional depth, composure and adult authority that can only be called womanliness. Ingrid Bergman, Susan Hayward, Elizabeth Taylor, Deborah Kerr and Sophia Loren were no victims: They're strong-willed personalities — onscreen and off. But all of them liked men, and it showed.
Women in or out of Hollywood who dress like girls and erase all signs of aging are disempowering themselves and aggressing into territory that belongs to the young. They are surrendering their right of self-definition to others. Men are not the enemy: They, too, are subject to nature's iron laws. For the sake of its own art, Hollywood needs less sex war, not more.
Paglia's seventh book, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism, will be published by Pantheon in March.
Horne embodied dignified elegance, says Paglia.
Dietrich retained her sophisticated glamour into her mature years, wearing gowns by costume designer Jean Louis at her live shows.
Fonda makes terrific fashion choices.
Stone at 2014's Cannes still looks fabulous.

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There was a crow. At an exceptionally sweltering summer day he was feeling extremely parched. He flew from place to put looking for water, however he couldn't discover it anyplace. He was extremely dismal and disillusioned at not getting a drop of it.
Finally he saw a container of water. He flew down to the container and sat on its edge. When he extended his mouth to extinguish his thirst, he, saw to his extraordinary demoralization, that the water was exactly at the base.
His nose couldn't achieve such a low dimension of water. He even endeavored to topple the container however proved unable. It was unreasonably substantial for him to move.
When he was going to fly in misery, he thought of an arrangement. Abruptly his eyes fell upon a few stones lying close to the container. He traveled to them, got the rocks one by one and dropped them into the container.
Gradually and gradually the dimension of water climbed and came up to the neck. The crow was thrilled to see this. He plunged his snout, extinguished his thirst and took off.
Lesson of the story – Where there is a will there is a way.


I haven't added to The Library for several months and I'm overflowing with books, movies and music to mention. Today I want to talk about one of my favourite books. If you are a creative writer, you must own this book.
It's called The Pocket Muse, written by Monica Wood and published by Writers Digest Books.
I have read many books on writing but this one is the pick of the lot. It distills all the necessary wisdom into bite sized chunks, interspersed with writing prompts, gorgeous pictures and quotations. Wood covers an amazing variety of subjects, from prompts to get your writing started, through dealing with writer's block, to finding an agent. Each new page is a delightful discovery, covered with hilarious and thought-provoking photographs, tasteful use of colour and intriguing designs. Just what Creativity needs to rejuvenate and start sparking again.
Along with the encouragement and eye candy, there is your fair share of "marching orders" regarding procrastination, writing routine and other areas where writers need frequent prompting. But Wood always makes sure she ends with a positive.
If you would like to read excerpts from this book, pop over to Monica Wood's site.
My only complaint is, because the book is full of random snippets, it's difficult to find the point you want a second time. I've spent ages flicking through the book trying to locate a quote or prompt I want to read again, cursing the fact I hadn't put a marker in it – but then I love everything in the book so everything would be marked and I'd still be stuck.
The second volume The Pocket Muse Endless Inspiration is just as good. It contains more of everything that made the first book great, as well as extra information which completes the collection of writing wisdom.
In the immortal words of Goldilocks, these books are 'not too big, not too small. Just right.' If you haven't bought, borrowed or secretly absconded with one yet, get cracking.
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Govt convened NA session on Nov 3
ISLAMABAD: The government has convened a session of the National Assembly on Nov 3, a day before the marchers are scheduled to enter the federal capital. In an apparent move to counter the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) ongoing long march,
President Dr Arif Alvi has summoned the National Assembly to meet at the Parliament House at 4pm on Nov 3 under Article 54(1) of the Constitution, says an official announcement on Monday.
The session will be held only a day before the coalition government led by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is poised to face a potentially major street challenge from PTI, as its march that began from Lahore on Oct 28 is on its way to Islamabad via GT Road.
The party, led by Imran Khan, is demanding immediate general elections in the country. The government, on the other hand, has been firm in its rejection of the PTI's demand and repeatedly stated that the present assembly would complete its constitutional term.
Imran Khan has announced that the marchers would reach Islamabad on Nov 4, but has not disclosed his future plan and the duration of a possible sit-in by his party.
It was only a week ago that the government prorogued the assembly's autumn session, which was marred due to lack of interest by the members as both the speaker and the deputy speaker continued proceedings almost every day without a quorum for which the presence of at least 86 members — one-fourth of the total 342-member house — is required.
Throughout the session, the members, including some of those sitting on the treasury benches and even some ministers, complained about the lack of interest by the members and protested over the absence of cabinet members during the general debate on the devastating floods in the country.


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Marc Jacobs' Newest Campaign Star Is Only 9
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This 9-Year-Old Just Landed A Marc Jacobs Ad Campaign
Liza Darwin
Betty Lowe • Marc Jacobs Fall '15 campaign photographed by David Sims
A photo posted by Marc Jacobs (@marcjacobs) on Jun 26, 2015 at 2:47pm PDT
Over the past several seasons, Marc Jacobs has turned the process of picking campaign stars into an art form. Whether it's Miley Cyrus, Kendall Jenner, or #Instastars on the internet, the designer has proved that the perfect face for each collection is as important as the clothes. But, we've got to hand it to him, even he has outdone himself with his fall 2015 muses. The label has already debuted campaign images starring Willow Smith and Cher, and this weekend it rolled out one more major bet: Betty Lowe.
Wearing a brown turtleneck, neat plaits, and a python-printed maxi-skirt twice her height, the nine-year-old playfully holds court on a tall stool. Jacobs posted the image on Instagram last Friday: "Allow me to introduce Betty Lowe @ocean_bubble photographed by David Sims. In 2009 her sister Daisy Lowe did the MbyMJ campaign..I love these girls, their mom Pearl, and this family!"
This isn't the first time Betty's been in front of the camera. In 2010, a four-year-old Betty modeled for children's label Alex and Alexa along with her older brothers, Alfie and Frankie. Her mother, Pearl Lowe, had told Vogue she wasn't sure if they'd like the shoot: "They're indie kids at heart, and we weren't sure whether they'd be a bit grumpy and not enjoy it. You never really know whether it's the right thing to do, but, they LOVED it — so much so that they're asking, 'When is the next one?'!" Five years later, here it is.
For Betty, according to her Instagram, life after a major fashion campaign hasn't changed much. She's still spending her time taking selfies in the car, putting her name on things, and challenging other nine-year-olds in tug-of-war competitions (with the appropriate string of emojis given the results). Here's wishing her many more years of playtime, even if her fantasy dress-up closet might be filled with the latest Marc Jacobs.
Betty Lowe Marc Jacobs Fall Campaign Announcement
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Shareholder proposals classified as "corporate governance" involve classic corporate-law questions such as shareholder voting rights and board structure. Examples of commonly submitted corporate-governance proposals over the time period covered in the Proxy Monitor database are proposals that would:
Mandate that separate individuals serve as board chairman and chief executive officer;
Adopt majority-voting rules for director elections; and
Authorize shareholders to call for special elections outside the annual meeting process.
Corporate-governance proposals have been more likely to pass shareholder votes than other proposals included in the Proxy Monitor database.
Supporters of voting-rules proposals tend to argue that certain procedural rules can impede shareholder rights. Critics argue that variation in voting rules may be necessary to preserve long-term corporate interests.
Supporters of corporate-governance-structure proposals argue that certain corporate structures help to protect shareholders' interests. Critics assert that one-size-fits-all notions of corporate-governance structure are inappropriate because the preferred governance mechanism (such as the separation of chairman and CEO function) can vary according to industry, company life cycle, or circumstance.
To learn more about corporate governance, please visit our references page.
Voting Rules—Corporate governance proposals involving voting rules encompass measures aimed at changing the voting requirements for the election of directors or for the passage of different types of proposals. Typical proposals include:
"Cumulative Voting" —Proposals calling for cumulative voting would enable shareholders to aggregate their votes for director behind a limited number of candidates, or even a single candidate. In other words, if there are 10 directors up for election, a holder of a single share could cast 10 director votes behind a single individual, rather than voting for 10 separate nominees.
"Majority Vote Standard for Director Elections"—These proposals require that any director must receive a majority of the shares voting to be elected to the board. (Traditionally, directors are elected with only a plurality of votes cast.)
"Simple Majority Voting" —Some proposals apply a majority voting standard to the passage of shareholder proposals, including changes to the companies' by-laws, rather than merely for direction elections. In contrast to majority voting for directors—which raises the voting threshold for shareholders from a plurality standard—these proposals are intended to lower the voting threshold in companies that have supermajority vote requirements for certain types of proposals, such as those that involve a by-law change.
Separation of Chairman and CEO—These proposals require companies to have separate individuals serving in the positions of chairman and chief executive officer; i.e., the chairman of the board of directors would have to be chosen from among the independent directors on the board, and could not be the company's CEO.
Declassify the Board—Some companies, rather than having all directors stand for election each year, have "staggered" boards in which different classes of directors are elected to multiyear terms. Typically, companies with classified boards have three classes, with each class up for election every third year. Proposals to declassify the board would require a shareholder vote for each director annually.
Special Meetings—These proposals seek to grant shareholders of a significant percentage of stock—usually from 10 to 25 percent—and the ability to call special shareholder meetings held in between the annual shareholder meetings. Shareholders are usually permitted to combine their holdings for these purposes. Some of these proposals call upon companies that already have special-meeting voting rules to lower the threshold of stock ownership required to call such meetings, e.g., from 25 to 10 percent.
Written Consent—Like proposals permitting shareholders to call special meetings, these proposals empower shareholder action outside of pre-set annual meetings, but through the "written consent" of a majority of shareholders in lieu of a meeting. The minimum number of shareholders to authorize such actions would typically be the minimum number of those required to vote on a passing proposal in an actual meeting.
Proxy Access—These proposals seek to grant shareholders the right, under certain conditions, to place their own nominees for director on corporate proxy statements.


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Whitmer asks feds if Michigan can buy 100,000 vaccine doses directly from Pfizer
Dave Boucher, Kristen Jordan Shamus and Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press
Michigan is ready to buy 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses directly from the manufacturer, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Monday, a move she says would help the state ramp up its vaccination efforts.
It comes as county health departments and hospital systems say the unpredictable and inadequate supply of COVID-19 vaccines has kept them from getting shots into arms.
The request coincides with the state drastically expanded eligibility for the vaccine against the disease caused by the coronavirus. Although any Michigander 65 and older — along with teachers, police officers and many more first responders — are eligible to receive the vaccine, a litany of challenges at every level of government means it will likely be some time before people seeking an appointment are actually injected.
Whitmer sent a letter to Alex Azar, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, asking for permission to buy the doses from Pfizer. Currently, federal health officials coordinate the delivery and doses to every state in the country.
"This direct purchase will fill a two-week lag in supply and ensure that we can continue to ramp up our vaccination efforts across Michigan. It is also consistent with Operation Warp Speed's commitment to deliver a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine to Americans as quickly as possible," Whitmer said in the letter.
Whitmer specifically asked to buy doses from Pfizer, which has a large manufacturing facility in Michigan.
It's unclear what precedent would be set if the federal government allowed states to individually buy vaccine doses at a time when demand for the vaccine is astronomical.
Whitmer and state health officials argue inconsistent and confusing information from federal officials is causing problems with the rollout of vaccines. However, local health departments say they were caught off guard last week when Whitmer announced the broad vaccine eligibility expansion.
Wayne County reported it didn't get a shipment of vaccines at all last week. On Monday, 2,925 doses arrived though it had requested nearly 5,000. Despite the expanded eligibility rules, Wayne County doesn't have enough of a supply of vaccines to even finish immunizing the thousands of health care workers and emergency medical personnel who are in the first priority group.
Macomb County ordered 50,000 doses of the vaccines. It expects to get 3,900. In Oakland County, 1,950 doses arrived Monday even though it had requested 5,000. Counties request the number of doses each week they believe they have the capacity to administer.
And although hospitals and health systems have said they'll pick up the heavy load of vaccinating the state's senior citizen population, they also are limited by supply.
"We ordered 24,000 doses" for next week, Michigan Medicine spokeswoman Mary Masson said on Monday. "We are scheduled to receive about 4,000 doses, which will be needed for second doses scheduled for this week."
For that reason, the health system had to suspend plans to begin vaccinating its patients ages 65 and older this week.
In a statement, the Ann Arbor-based hospital system affiliated with the University of Michigan said: "We have placed a temporary hold on scheduling new first-dose vaccine appointments. … Based on the quantity of vaccine doses scheduled to arrive, Michigan Medicine will only have enough to complete first-dose appointments already scheduled through Tuesday as well as administer second doses."
The health system reported that it's able to perform as many as 12,000 COVID-19 immunizations a week with the ability to expand to 24,000 per week, but is limited by supply. It is administering more than 90% of the doses it receives within a week of delivery.
"The state of Michigan has not received enough vaccines for the entire state, and Michigan Medicine is getting less vaccine," Masson said. "We hope this situation changes soon and more vaccine supply is sent to Michigan, as we are eager and ready to begin vaccinating our established patients who are 65 and older."
At Beaumont Health, plans were in place to open two new vaccine clinics that could accommodate the thousands of patients ages 65 and older who are newly eligible for coronavirus vaccines this week.
Even though some patients in that Priority 1B group were vaccinated Monday, Beaumont COO Carolyn Wilson said the health system had to put on hold its plans to open those clinics because of an inadequate supply of the vaccines. It only got 6,800 this week.
"The challenge that we're having now is we have first appointments that we want to keep, vaccinating more and more people that are just starting out in the vaccination journey," Wilson said. "And then we also need to be absolutely sure that those that need that second vaccine have that as well."
The health system, she said isn't "getting close" to the number of vaccines it needs to scale up.
"With the state and the federal government I think we're all trying very hard in a pandemic to figure out the logistics and all of that," Wilson said. "There have been some stops and starts but we're proud that we have vaccinated well over 20,000 people so far. We have ramped up where we can ... triple our capacity, and so, we would really appreciate more vaccines, no doubt."
In a news release, Whitmer noted she and several other Democratic governors recently asked Azar's department to release all doses of the vaccine in its possession. The Trump administration had argued it was holding back some doses to ensure those who received the first dose would receive a second in a timely fashion, but states have argued they need these doses and can make sure people get their second shots.
In recent weeks, state and federal health data showed Michigan trailing most other states on a per capita basis when it comes to vaccinating residents. While the state distributed vaccines in its possession, there has been a consistent lag in those doses actually being administered.
In theory, the expanded eligibility policies that went into effect Monday should show an increase in the number of people receiving the vaccine.
Data released Monday morning by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show Michigan is 40th when it comes to administering doses per 100,000 people. The site states 765,900 doses of the vaccine have been distributed in the state, with 222,379 doses administered.
Whitmer and state health officials have repeatedly said the federal data does not tell the whole story. State data updated Monday afternoon shows 829,200 doses shipped as of Sunday and 233,095 doses administered, which is a rate of about 28.1%.
More information on how to set up an appointment to get vaccinated is available at www.michigan.gov/COVIDvaccine — however, many local health departments are working to update the information on the site. There may not be additional information or available appointments yet for some areas.
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President Donald Trump, who is white, on Sunday spoke about the racism scandals in Virginia on behalf of black Americans.
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Bond ETFs: Will Interests Rates Rise in 2013?
By Matt Tucker -- iShares Head of Fixed Income Strategyon December 17, 2012
Indexology®: Misplaced Fears and Real Worries
Bank Loan, Floating Rate ETFs for Rising Interest Rates
Vanguard: Taking the Pulse of Bond ETFs
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When the Federal Reserve met recently, it announced that it would keep the target for its key interest rate near zero until the unemployment rate improves or inflation picks up.
As MarketWatch remarked after the announcement, "Fed policy has now become an open book, as predictable as the tides."
It is true that with these announcements, investors are getting an unprecedented new level of transparency from the Fed. The Fed said it is looking to keep a lid on rates until unemployment, which stands at 7.7%, falls to 6.5% or lower.
This is the first time it has stated an economic target. Since the Fed has a dual mandate for price stability and full employment, it is also watching for inflation to climb up to 2.5% from its current annual rate of 1.8%.
Meanwhile, the Fed is extending its stimulus program, saying it would buy $45 billion in Treasuries and $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities each month.
At this point, the federal funds rate has been close to zero for four years. But as we head into 2013 and investors look to position portfolios, many are asking whether next year might be the year when interest rates begin to rise. After all, the Fed doesn't actually set interest rates; rather it tries to influence them through its monetary policy.
Earlier this year, we identified three major factors that were helping to keep a lid on rates:


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Q: Why does "attr -l ." tell me about an "selinux" attribute that "attr -g selinux ." refuses to read? I'm setting up a Fedora (Core) 24 system from scratch, and ran into this oddness:
> sudo attr -l .
Attribute "selinux" has a 41 byte value for .

> sudo attr -g selinux .
attr_get: No data available
Could not get "selinux" for .

(similar for files other than ".", the current directory, I just used that as an example).
Is this just part of selinux's own security that the tag it assigns a file is unreadable? Or is there something else going on here?
As requested, I ran some additional commands, this time on ".bashrc":
# attr -l .bashrc
Attribute "selinux" has a 37 byte value for .bashrc

# ls -Z .bashrc
unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 .bashrc

# echo "unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0"|wc -c
37

So I guess "unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0" is the value, it's just odd "attr -g selinux" doesn't give it.

A: As others have pointed out it is partially a namespace issue.
the selinux is in the security namespace.
So: sudo attr -S -g selinux .
should get you the value.
It seems that the attr -l path is listing the security as well as the user namespace attributes, but not letting on about the difference.

A: Are you using an XFS filesystem?  It isn't the default on Fedora; did you explicitly arrange that during the installation?
If not, that is probably the reason.  The command attr is for XFS filesystems.  Check the manual page for details.
What exactly is it you want to do?  If you want to see the SELinux context for a file, use ls -Z.  If you want to assign your own user attributes, use the commands getfattr and setfattr.

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Q: Line Chart leaving gaps in data I have a Flex line chart where I allow the user to change the y axis ranges.  When a data point falls outside the ranges, the chart drops the line segments on either side of the out of range point leaving a gap in the data line.
I'm currently using the data function to clamp the values out of range to the y axis min/max, but this displays misleading data.
Is there a way to make it draw the lines to the y axis max/min point, making it look like the line goes off the plot?

A: There is a parameter filterDataValues in LineSeries - set it to "none" and it should do the trick.


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Outdoor Recreation in Bullhead City
The beautiful Colorado River and Lake Mohave, the Black and Newberry Mountains, the striking scenery and warm desert climate offer many opportunities for recreation year-round. Bullhead City offers a long list of recreation programs and operates a community swimming pool. In addition, organized softball, baseball, soccer and football leagues provide a variety of team and individual sports. A trail system is in place with four segments, most in close proximity to the Colorado River, offering hikers a variety of locations for exercise and great views.
Bullhead Community Park
Located along the Colorado River on the west side of Highway 95 toward Bullhead City's northern end, Bullhead Community Park features a large grassy area with a children's playground, horseshoe pits, ball fields, sand volleyball courts, beachfront ramadas with barbecues and a boat launch ramp. A beautiful new, large, covered ramada area is available for special events by reservation. Admission is free, but there is a fee for launch ramp use during the summer season. For information, call the Bullhead City Parks & Recreation Department at (928) 763-0158 or (928) 763-9400.
Ken Fovargue Park and Community Swimming Pool
Located on Trane Road, near the Bullhead City Administration Building, this park features lighted basketball courts and ball fields, a children's playground and the Bullhead City Community Swimming Pool (open from April through mid-September). For information, call the Bullhead City Parks & Recreation Department at (928) 763-0158.
Located on a 300-acre parcel of land along the Colorado River in Bullhead City, Rotary Park features a sports complex with soccer fields, Pop Warner football and brand-new ball fields. The giant park also offers lighted basketball courts, a skate park, beaches, walking trails, ramadas with barbecues, a boat launch ramp, a fishing jetty, a fish cleaning station and the recently opened Bullhead City Dog Park. Admission is free, but there is a fee for launch ramp use during the summer season. The park is located on Riverview Drive, about a mile west of Highway 95. For information, call the Bullhead City Parks & Recreation Department at (928) 763-0158.
Colorado River Heritage Greenway Trails System
This system of improved hiking trails offers several short hikes in various locations throughout Bullhead City and includes the only designated water trail system in the state of Arizona. Four segments of the trail have been completed to date, with trailheads located at Davis Camp, Heritage Park (just south of the Laughlin Bridge), Ken Fovargue Park and Rotary Park. Kayak rentals and tours are available or visitors may bring their own watercraft and launch at Davis Camp, Bullhead Community Park or Rotary Park. Small, non-motorized crafts can be launched at several other locations in the area, as well. For more information on the Heritage Greenway Trails, contact the Bullhead City Parks & Recreation Department at (928) 763-0158.
Big Bend of The Colorado River State Recreation Area
Located on the shore of the Colorado River (Nevada side), south of Laughlin's resort area between Needles Highway and the Colorado River, this Nevada State Park offers camping and day-use facilities, plus a launch ramp, swimming area and lots of sandy beaches with ramadas and barbecues. Hiking, fishing and bird watching are among the many activities offered in the park. For information, call (702) 298-1859.
Fisherman's Access
Located on Casino Drive in Laughlin, along the Colorado River and just south of the Laughlin Bridge, this area offers a green, grassy river walk area perfect for picnicking. There's a boat launch ramp, ample parking and restrooms. Admission and launch ramp use are free.
Nearly 68 miles from end to end, Lake Mohave offers an abundance of coves and natural campsites with some of the best fishing in the Southwest. Located just north of Bullhead City and above Davis Dam, Lake Mohave is part of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Just two miles north of Davis Dam is Katherine Landing. The largest marina on the lake, Katherine Landing was first settled by gold miners and is named for Katherine Mine. It now just runs north of the improved marina area. Visitors will find several amenities including: launch ramps; a marina with hundreds of boat slips and a gas dock; a motel, RV park and campgrounds; a store, restaurant and boat rentals that include everything from personal watercraft to fishing boats and houseboats; and a boat repair shop and dry storage area. For information, call the Katherine Landing Ranger Station at (928) 754-3272 or (928) 754-3030.
Davis Dam
Located in Pyramid Canyon, at the northern end of Bullhead City, Davis Dam created the 68-mile-long Lake Mohave. Named for former director of reclamation, Arthur Powell Davis. This $67 million earth and rock embankment spanning the Colorado River has a concrete spillway, intake structure and power plant. The dam is 200 feet high and was completed in 1953 to control floods and to generate hydroelectric energy. Best viewing of the dam is from Davis Camp in Bullhead City or from River Road in Laughlin. The dam itself is closed to vehicle traffic. For more information, call (928) 754-3682.
Grapevine Canyon
Native American petroglyphs, created by indigenous people an estimated 800 to 1,000 years ago, adorn the walls of this canyon located near Christmas Tree Pass, northwest of Bullhead City. There is a two-mile gravel road leading to the trailhead off Highway 163 about 10 miles west of the Laughlin Bridge. The canyon was named for the grape plants found in the area. A short and somewhat strenuous walk from the parking lot is required to reach the petroglyphs. Ranger-guided hikes are offered regularly. For information, call the Katherine Landing Ranger Station at (928) 754-3272 or (928) 754-3030.
Colorado River Museum
The museum includes replicas of the area landmarks, Native American artifacts and displays of historical items from early settlers to the first slot machines. Located on Highway 95, just north of the Laughlin Bridge at Davis Camp, the museum is operated by the nonprofit Colorado River Historical Society. It is open September through May, Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, call (928) 754-3399.
Davis Camp
Originally built in the 1940s as the housing area for the workers building Davis Dam, this huge Mohave County park stretches along the Colorado River from the foot of Davis Dam south to the Laughlin Bridge. It features beaches with ramadas and barbecues, a boat launch ramp, swim beach and riverfront camping areas. The RV park offers partial and full hook-ups and a laundry facility. For information, call (928) 754-7250.
Arizona Veterans Memorial
A beautiful riverfront park in Bullhead City is the setting for the Arizona Veterans Memorial, dedicated in the memory of more than 3,000 military men and women from the state of Arizona who were killed during wars and armed conflicts over the past 100 years. The largest portion of the memorial overlooks the Colorado River and contains a line of giant flagpoles paralleling a curved wall standing nine feet high and 40 feet wide. Displayed here are bronze plaques engraved with the names of each of the service men and women who died defending our nation. On each side of the memorial wall are giant bronze eagles surrounded by 50 stars representing the 50 states.
The Arizona Veterans Memorial Park also contains a pyramid-shaped stone memorial honoring the U.S.S. Arizona, which was destroyed in the attack on Pearl Harbor that marked America's entry into World War II. The memorial park is open year-round and admission is free. To get there, take State Highway 95 to Riverview Drive. Travel west (towards the Colorado River and past Rotary Park) until the road ends at Riviera Boulevard, about two miles. Turn left onto Riviera Boulevard and continue about 300 yards, where the road terminates into a large parking lot. Follow the signs to enter the memorial park area.
Located in the Black Mountains, southeast of Bullhead City on historic Route 66, Oatman is a Western history buff's dream. Experience an old western gunfight, enjoy the friendly 'wild' burros and browse through the many curio shops, art galleries and stores. Taste the "fixins" at one of the eateries, or wet your whistle at a saloon as you go back in time to the late 1800s, when gold was discovered in the region. Many buildings still exist from that time period, including the Oatman Hotel, built in 1902, and The Glory Hole antique shop, constructed in 1914 as the Oatman Drug Company and Health Club.
Stagecoach rides and off-road tours also are available. The town hosts several events each year, including the Annual Bed Races and Gold Camp Days. To reach Oatman from Bullhead City, take Highway 95 south to Boundary Cone Road. Head east on Boundary Cone Road for about 12 miles and you're there. For more information, call (928) 768-6222.
Havasu National Wildlife Refuge
Established in 1941, the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge protects more than 37,000 acres and 30 river miles (300 miles of shoreline) along the Colorado River. The refuge starts about 15 miles south of Bullhead City at the Topock Marsh and runs south to the mouth of Lake Havasu. Topock Marsh is a huge wetlands area that is home to many species of fish and waterfowl. There are several launch ramp and camping facilities available and fishing is abundant.
Also, inside the refuge is the scenic Topock Gorge, where the Colorado River winds for several miles through canyons of towering, ancient volcanic rocks. The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and can be reached from Courtwright Road in Mohave Valley or via the Topock exit on I-40. For information, call the Havasu National Refuge Office at (760) 326-3853.
For online information and downloadable brochures, go to www.fws.gov/southwest/.
Boat Launching Facilities
Boat launch facilities are available at Davis Camp, Bullhead Community Park, Rotary Park in Bullhead City, Fisherman's Access and Big Bend of the River State Recreation Area in Laughlin. Some launch fees may apply.
The closest launching area on Lake Mohave is at Katherine Landing. Lake Mead National Recreation Area park entrance fee applies and there is a choice of four launching facilities (two paved). For information, contact the Bullhead Area Chamber of Commerce at (928) 754-4121 or visit online at www.bullheadchamber.com.
The terrific climate allows for year-round golf in the Bullhead City area. Currently, there are several golf courses in the area, including 18-hole courses and nine-hole facilities. The variety of holes and pars offers exciting play for golfers of all skill levels.
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On behalf of Law Office of Stephen L. Richards posted in Drunk Driving on Monday, December 15, 2014.
Anyone who has visited a mall at this time of the year likely knows of the chaos that could be encountered. As people across the country shop for holiday gifts, the malls -- and their parking lots -- become more crowded than at any other time of the year. The extra traffic in a parking lot could easily create confusion for a driver in Illinois. Unfortunately, one man now faces a DUI charge after an off-duty police officer claimed that he was driving erratically.
According to reports, an off-duty police officer noticed a vehicle in a mall parking lot around noon one day in December that was being driven erratically. He called on-duty officers who reported to the scene. They claim they found six bottle caps in the man's pocket as well as five empty bottles and one partially full one.
Additionally, they say that a receipt in the car showed that a six-pack of beer had been purchased that morning. The man reportedly refused to take a field sobriety test. He was arrested and taken to jail.
In all criminal cases, including those involving a DUI charge, Illinois prosecutors must provide sufficient evidence to prove that a defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. For example, prosecutors must prove that the receipt that was allegedly found was for the beer in the car as well as prove that the accused was the person who consumed the beer. It is unclear at this time if the officers have actual proof that the man was under the influence of alcohol other than driving that was described as erratic. The man will likely want an experienced attorney who can examine the evidence against him and help him pursue the best possible outcome for his case.
Source: patch.com, "Joliet Man Caught Driving Drunk in Louis Mall Lot Around Noon on a Monday: Police", Joseph Hosey, Dec. 9, 2014
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The two giant video screens at Granville and Robson normally snap and crackle with quick-hitting, colourful ads for companies such as Telus, Fido and WestJet.
But next week, they'll be showing something something completely different: two short films by internationally acclaimed artist Antonia Hirsch.
Non-profit organizations get some access to the screens as part of the agreement to put them up on the side of the building that houses Future Shop and Winners. Normally, the time is allocated to organizations like the Vancouver Symphony: Hirsch'c films are the first art projects to be screened.
The work is called Vox Pop, and deals with the modern phenomenon, the crowd wave at sports games.
Hirsch has been fascinated by the wave for years.
"I found it interesting how it is really exhilarating in a way to be in it and to be participating, but it's also a bit scary," she explained.
One film is a slow pan of a sports stadium, at the same speed of a typical wave. The other shows a lone fan sitting in the stands, doing the wave.
"By isolating this figure, I tried to highlight the kind of oddity of this gesture," she said.
The films will be shown in the middle of the regular ad spots, which she thinks might be quite jarring for passerby.
"It is very slow and uneventful compared to the other stuff that's going up on those boards," she said.
"I don't want to annoy people, but I do want to create a situation where people might stop and go 'Hang on for a second, what is this?' There is this wonderful moment that can happen by throwing something into a known context that's a little different – you start to question what you really know.
Hirsch, 40, was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and has lived in Canada since 1994.
Her works are in the collections of institutions such as the Vancouver Art Gallery, The New York Public Library, the Yale University Collection of Rare Books, The National Art Library a the V&A and the Tate Gallery Library in London, England.
Vox Popwill start running at 12:01 a.m. Monday and run through midnight next Sunday, Oct.26.


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