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Common University Data Ontario
Registrar's Report
Cyclical Program Review
Current State of Funds
Meeting monthly, and sometimes more frequently, the Responsible Investment Working Group (RIWG) followed an education, research and consultation process, which included:
Receiving presentations on the university's investment funds and managers;
Reviewing existing university policies and practices related to ESG;
Hearing from legal counsel on the responsibilities of the Board of Governors with respect to investments;
Reviewing reports and articles on responsible investment;
Studying the policies, practices and responses to divestment campaigns at other universities and large pension funds in Canada;
Commissioning research from the university's investment advisors on responsible investment products that might fit the university's portfolio requirements;
Requesting and reviewing research on portfolio impacts of divestment and investing in responsible investment products;
Soliciting feedback through written submissions and oral presentations by community members; and
Discussing the implications and options for Laurier's pension and endowment funds.
See key definitions and concepts related to responsible investment, reference material consulted, and a description of the consultation process.
Other Canadian Universities' Approaches
The RIWG reviewed reports from other Canadian universities that responded to requests for divestment.
The universities reviewed concluded that the primary responsibility of their Boards is to abide by their fiduciary duty to maximize returns within an acceptable level of risk. There was consensus that divestment is not an effective approach to responding to the issue of climate change, and that ESG policies would naturally deselect the companies for which the injurious impacts of their activities outweigh the societal benefits.
Several of the universities committed to engagement strategies that will enable their institution to work with fund managers and other investors. They further proposed to interact with industries and sectors through direct and indirect channels to encourage positive ESG policies, procedures and practices. Some universities have proposed to research or implement endowment funds that are sustainable or fossil-free endowment investment funds. This includes a commitment of seed money to initiate the fund. In most cases, the universities discussed or implemented mechanisms or processes by which universities will receive or consider future petitions or expressions of concern.
The University of British Columbia, University of Toronto and the University of Guelph also emphasized the bigger picture of sustainability and ways in which universities can address climate change through research, education and energy conservation. This emphasis is linked back to their vision, mission and strategic priorities.
Legal Responsibilities Related to Investments
The RIWG met with the university's legal counsel on two separate occasions and also received a written report. Consistent with the advice provided to other Canadian universities, the Board of Governors has the legal obligation to maximize financial returns to the investment funds over the long term within a reasonable risk profile. The Board may consider ESG factors in investment decisions, but not to the detriment of the long-term investment returns to the funds. The Board may also choose to hold securities directly rather than through pooled funds; however, the additional administrative costs and management fees must be weighed against the long-term returns to determine where there will be a negative impact on overall returns. Beyond statutory and common law duties, the Board must also take into account contractual obligations related to the endowments, for example, if there are agreed upon investment targets or asset mixes for those funds. These legal obligations and the potential for legal liability place constraints on options available to the Board to respond to requests for divestment or related alternatives.
Financial Considerations and the University's Fiduciary Duty
As noted in the summary above, the university invests the pension and endowment funds with third-party managers rather than directly, which is the most economical strategy for an investor of Laurier's size. In order for the Board to consider divestment of fossil fuels, it would have to identify pooled fund investments that do not and will not invest in fossil fuels. In order to meet its fiduciary obligations, the Board would need to assure itself that these funds could be expected to achieve the same or better long-term returns as the existing portfolio with a similar risk profile.
Several community members pointed to research that fossil-free funds are producing similar returns to non-fossil-free funds and therefore the university could shift its investments to these fossil-free funds and continue to meet the university's fiduciary obligations. Upon researching fossil-free funds, RIWG found it difficult to conclude that financial performance would not suffer from divestment of fossil fuels. There is a lack of robust, long-term data on fossil-free funds, because many are relatively new. Most of the studies referenced by consultation participants involved companies with strong ESG practices and sustainable investment practises. ESG practices and sustainable investment practises are often correlated with positive returns because they signal well-run companies; however, strong ESG practices and sustainable investment do not always mean divestment has occurred.
Laurier's investment consultant performed a search of the fund universe to identify non-CU200 funds that could possibly replace Laurier's existing pooled funds. Out of a fund universe of 727 funds, the investment consultant was able to identify 15 that fit into Laurier's investment asset classes and were also non-CU200. The investment consultant analyzed these funds based on Laurier's standard risk/return guidelines. These non-CU200 Funds underperformed as compared to Laurier's current funds on a risk and a return perspective. Therefore, RIWG expressed concerns that Laurier would compromise its fiduciary obligations if it replaced Laurier's existing funds with non-CU200 funds. Another and perhaps more significant concern arising from this analysis was the limited number of funds that would meet this criterion (15 of 727). This would raise Laurier's diversification risk level for achieving fund balance.
The RIWG also consulted with many on-campus and industry experts about the financial impacts of divestment1. A number of challenges were raised with the concept, including:
The difficulty of determining where to draw the line, i.e., should the university divest of companies extracting fossil fuels or should this extend to their suppliers, financiers and customers;
The downstream impacts of divestment on companies not intended to be targeted;
The low likelihood that the company from which an investor has divested will be negatively impacted by the divestment;
The difficulty of assessing stranded asset risk on a portfolio taking into account the potential downstream impacts on many different holdings and the uncertainty around timing;
The importance of portfolio diversification and the impact of divestment from an entire sector or choosing funds from a very narrow investment universe (see above); and
Managing responsible investment concerns for a portfolio comprised mainly of pooled funds.
Community Submissions
The RIWG interviewed the authors of the petition and other experts from within and outside the Laurier community; received 47 written submissions; and hosted public consultations at each of Laurier's Waterloo and Brantford campuses with members of the working group in attendance. RIWG heard from faculty, staff, students, alumni and broader community members. The submissions and public consultations were very helpful to the working group and emphasized the importance of this issue to the Laurier community. The RIWG sincerely appreciates the time, effort and passion brought forth by Laurier's community members.
The majority of Laurier community members recognize global warming and the associated effects on climate change as one of the biggest issues facing society today. The information presented in the submissions provides compelling evidence of the effects of burning fossil fuels on our environment, the impact of resource extraction on surrounding lands and inhabitants, the particular harm to Indigenous communities, and the need for society to act to ensure we mitigate these potential effects into the future. Other members of the community suggested other industries that the university's responsible investment policies should contemplate, including the weapons industry, fast fashion and industries known for human rights and other abuses.
Although there was general consensus on issues of importance to community members, there was a diversity of opinion on whether and how to reflect these issues in the investment policies for the pension and endowment fund. There were also many questions and misunderstandings about these funds, pointing to the benefit of providing more transparency and education.
1 The RIWG would like to acknowledge particularly the contributions of Professor William McNally (a member of the Board's Pension Committee), who with the assistance of Professor Brian Smith (a member of the Board's Investment Oversight Sub-Committee) and Associate Professor Fabricio Perez, prepared a research note that addresses several concerns with engaging in a fossil fuel divestment strategy.
Report of the Responsible Investment Working Group (PDF)
Ana Juhik
E: ajuhik@wlu.ca


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The Gothenburg Boat Show (2-10 February) will be the springboard from which Nord West will launch its new 430 Flybridge.
The 430 is based on the hull of the outgoing 430 SportsTop and will act as a replacement for the award-winning 420.
Its sportscruiser underpinnings – plus the fact that it can be specified with either twin sterndrives or IPS – mean that the 430 should be a sprightly performer out on the water with all of the agility and reassurance that Nord West is famous for.
This is the first boat the Nord West has built since it acquired the sailing boat builder Najad and the yard claims that this new shared knowledge has improved the practicality of the 430's interior.
Of course the Nord West hallmarks should all be in place with exquisite woodwork, attention to detail and general build quality plus super-refined cruising thanks to an increased focus on cancelling out noise and vibration.
On board there is a three-cabin layout comprising a double master ensuite in the bow and two similar guest cabins amidships, which share a bathroom.
The flybridge is interesting in that it has three forward-facing bucket seats at the helm, and a main seating/dining area aft with a fabulous folding table. In between the two areas there is a small wet-bar.
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Behind the Candelabra: Cannes Review
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon shine in Steven Soderbergh's fabulous Liberace biopic, which is playing in competition at the festival ahead of its May 26 debut on HBO.
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Behind the Candelabra -- directed by Steven Soderbergh and set to premiere May 26 on HBO -- stars Michael Douglas as the flamboyant piano player and Matt Damon as his much-younger lover Scott Thorson.
Behind the Candelabra is fabulous — so much so that, were it not for the fact that it reveals everything about his private life that he worked so hard to conceal, Liberace himself might well have loved it. The big screen's loss is HBO's gain in what is billed as Steven Soderbergh's farewell to the cinema, at least for the time being. Superbly scripted, brilliantly directed, smart but never smarmy and led by a lead performance by Michael Douglas so good you often forget you're watching an actor rather than the famous character he's playing, this is a rarity, a fully realized biographical drama shot through with real feeling and an abundance of sly humor. It's a winner all around.
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Playing in competition in Cannes despite having been made for HBO, where it will debut in the U.S. on May 26, the film will go out theatrically in some foreign markets, including the U.K. and France. It's got a full-sized movie look in every way, the only difference being that it's far better than most of what plays in cinemas these days.
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The story spans the final decade of Liberace's life, from his meeting young Scott Thorson in 1977 to his death from an AIDS-related illness, which he tried to keep a secret, as he always had his sexual persuasion.
"Oh, they have no idea he's gay," Thorson's buddy informs him when they attend a Liberace show in Las Vegas heavily attended by adoring female fans of a certain age. No matter the performer's outrageous fur coats, sequined garments, bejeweled fingers, immaculately coiffed hair and unbridled swish manner, anyone old enough to remember Liberace's TV show and live appearances can testify to the sincere and unquestioned appeal he held for women in America as well as Britain. It really was another time.
Little did anyone suspect, then, that the handsome young chauffeur who nightly "drove" Liberace onstage in a gaudy Rolls-Royce actually was his bedmate in his celebrated Vegas mansion. The two come together at a fateful backstage meeting: out goes Liberace's "protoge" — another pianist with whom he shares an on-stage duet — and in comes Scott (Matt Damon), a blond and beefy teenager from a succession of foster families. "I promise to stay on my side of the bed," Liberace says upon encouraging him to sleep over, a promise kept until daybreak.
There is a slightly creepy predatory aspect to the behavior of "Lee," as the pianist is known to his friends, in his initial overtures to the kid; he's 58 to Scott's 18 and was, for many years, the best-paid entertainer in show business. But in Douglas' fulsome, wonderfully shaded performance, there is also a sweetness and seemingly genuine concern for the deprived, difficult life his hunky companion has led up to now, as will as an impulse to open up about some of his own trials and private issues (not to mention how he was initiated sexually in his native Wisconsin by a member of the Green Bay Packers).
Insisting at first that he's bisexual (as Lee later notes, there's never any evidence of this), Scott bristles at certain aspects of being a kept boy but offers little resistance to life at Liberace's monument to "palatial kitsch," a modern mansion stuffed with the most expensive gaudiness production designer Howard Cummings and costume designer Ellen Mirojnick can deliver: endless mirrors, chandeliers, marble, chintzy furniture, glittering tuxedos and shining and shimmering objects of all kinds, as well as those key sites of their relationship, the indoor marble Jacuzzi and ample bed.
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After a couple of years, however, Lee persuades Scott to have extensive plastic surgery, including adding a dimple in his chin to make the young man more closely resemble him. This is all supervised by a suspicious Dr. Feelgood-type played by Rob Lowe in a hilariously squint-eyed performance, and Behind the Candelabra must rank as the first film to feature explicit plastic surgery montages to the accompaniment of upbeat, jaunty music, just one of Soderbergh's many inspired touches.
Within another couple of years, Lee's mother (an excellent and essentially unrecognizable Debbie Reynolds) dies, the couple has added heavy cocaine use to their steady champagne diet, Lee develops a porn addiction and soon proposes that he and Scott should be free to see other men. Although he has long stated that he regards Scott as a son he would adopt and inherit his holdings, the writing is very clearly on the wall, leading to Scott's eviction and his retaliatory $113 million palimony suit that brought the entertainer unwanted tabloid notoriety shortly before his death.
LaGravanese's screenplay is outstanding both in its dramatic structure and line-by-line writing, particularly in the intimate scenes that are mainly chatter but glancingly reveal both men's needs and even sexual tastes. He and Soderbergh also know how to darken the mood as gently as one might imperceptibly dial down a light dimmer, which underlines the gradual rather than sudden unraveling of the pair's relationship. And there are moments that are downright hilarious, some of it in a camp way and elsewhere just for the sheer spectacle of such an outlandish lifestyle.
Yes, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton played a couple of old queens in the best-forgotten Staircase in 1969, but to see two major stars like Douglas and Damon go at it physically the way they do here periodically is quite something. And impressive. Having from all appearances bounced back from his serious bout with cancer a couple of years back, Douglas looks great and acts it too in one of the two or three most electric and dialed-in performances he's ever given onscreen. He catches Liberace's humor, self-regard and mocking self-deprecation, work ethic, iron whim, generosity, spitefulness and ultimate aloneness. The actor's accurate and speedy fingering in the piano-playing sequences is also dazzling.
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Far older than the real Scott Thorson but radiating an agelessness that makes the discrepancy a non-issue, Damon is also wonderful, expressing the lack of willpower that allows him go along with his mate's wishes but eventually the festering resentment and rage that builds up as he realizes he's about to be discarded. Both actors, but particularly Damon, look convincingly younger after their characters have had work done; the makeup department deserves major kudos for its work here.
As with Reynolds playing Lee's old Polish-accented mother, you can barely tell it's Dan Aykroyd in the role of the entertainer's longtime attorney and fixer. Scott Bakula is enjoyably relaxed as Scott's old pal from pre-Lee days.
Shot by Soderbergh under his longtime DP moniker Peter Andrews mostly in bright, vivid compositions (he also edited under the name Mary Ann Bernard), the film also benefits from the musical contributions of the late Marvin Hamlisch, in what was presumably his final film work.
Venue: Cannes Film Festival (in competition)
Production: Jerry Weintraub Productions for HBO Films (Airs May 26)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Dan Aykroyd, Scott Bakula, Rob Lowe, Tom Papa, Tom Papa, Paul Reiser, Debbie Reynolds
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Screenwriter: Richard LaGravenese
Producers: Gregory Jacobs, Susan Elkins, Michael Polaire
Executive producer: Jerry Weintraub
Director of photography: Peter Andrews
Production designer: Howard Cummings
Costume designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Editor: Mary Ann Bernard
Music adaptor: Marvin Hamlisch

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在生物和植物学中有个说法叫"成层"现象。讲群落的垂直结构指群落在垂直方面的配置状态的最显著的特征是成层现象,即在垂直方向分成许多层次的现象。 在质量改善里,有个工具叫类比法(Analogy),说的是将一些问题类比生活化。借助这个方法,我把层成现象也类比到供应商管理和企业管理中。There is a terminology in both biology and botany: epidermal stratification . When it comes to the vertical structure of a community, the most significant characteristic of the configuration state of a community in the vertical aspect lies in stratification, a phenomenon that the community is divided into many layers vertically. In terms of quality improvement, one of the tools used is called Analogy, which refers to transferring some problems in management into real-life problems by comparison. Resorting to this method, we can make an analogy between stratification and management of suppliers and enterprises.
控制品质的其中一个环节就是控制公差,这是为什么说将质量嵌入到产品设计当中的原因。公差将直接影响产品的一致性,稳定性,可靠性和功能。公差设计出来比较容易,但是如何将公差控制在一个有限的范围内却是一件困难的事。 One of the steps in controlling quality is to control tolerance. This is why quality should be built in product design. Tolerance will directly influence the consistency, stability, reliability and functions of products. It is easy to design tolerance, yet it is difficult to control the tolerance in a limited range. This is why America cultivated over ten thousands of engineers studying the control in statistical processes to ensure the quality of military products during the 1940s. The aim to control statistical process is to minimize the product defects which exceed the tolerance, and to inform the engineers of the investigation reasons to take precautions via the form of graphic trend in advance before producing defective goods.
好的质量也意味着好的装柜 Good loading is a nonnegligible part of quality.
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在国际采购的课堂上教授分享了一个案例供学生们讨论,据说这个案例在目前国内的采购领域相当普遍,有达七成的公司面临类似的问题或者说困境。In a lesson on International Purchasing, the professor provided a case study for students to discuss. It is said that currently this case study is typical in the field of purchasing in China, with about 70% companies faced with similar problems or dilemmas.
在笔者看来,这是一个典型的执行传统采购的公司里的采购的做法,介于小采购与大采购之间,因为小采购是关注于订单的执行的,而大采购关注于关系的建立和优化,JIMMY的日常工作中还在扮演救火与解决问题的角色,虽然每天很忙碌,但是基本上都是在解决短期的供应问题,还没有将中长期要解决的流程和制度问题放上议程或者说开始实施。As far as I am concerned, this is a traditional practice typically adopted by a purchasing company, falling in between small purchasing and big purchasing. The former focuses on order execution while the latter values relationship establishment and optimization. JIMMY also plays an important role in rescuing emergency and solving problems. Busy as he is every day, most of the issues that he deals with are short-term supplying problems while mid-and-long-term issues of process and regulation remain to be put on the agenda and into effect.


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Singapore, the cleanest city on earth
Things to do in Singapore
Singapore is a country made up of almost one consisting city. Being founded in 1819 the location has made it a forum for many nationalities like Chinese, Malays, Indians and Europeans.
Getting from the airport is not difficult. Like most airports there are shuttle and taxis on standbye to take you to a given destination. A taxi journey cost somewhere between 20-60 Singapore Dollar and takes about 25-30 minutes. Most taxis run on taxameter.
Metro (MRT)
Singapore has an expanded system of metro, MRT, that spans all over the city. It is easy to navigate through the differnt routes. Buy your tickets at given ticket machines and you are on your way.
Getting around the city with bus is almost as easy as riding the MRT and is often cheaper and more efficient than taxi.
On bigger streets the buses has several busstops depending on the routenumber so it might be a good idea to take note of or take a photo of the closest busstop to your accomodation. The names are often hard to pronounce and are short for some street or area.
A busride costs about 1.50 Singapore Dollar per journey. You pay the exact amount (busdrivers do not keep change) in a box at the drivers seat and get a paper ticket from a machine.
The buses are usually double deckers.
Marina Bay sands hotel has become one of Singapores most known and visited attraction because of its architecture by Moshe Safdie and its reknowned infinitypool.
Take the MRT to Bayfront station and you'll have the hotel a few steps away.
The Sky park
Marina Bay sands offers tickets to their famous Skypark where you can get one of the citys best views. Tickets can be purchased at the hotel reception for 23 Singapore Dollars.
Finished in 2008 the Singapore Flyer is now one of Singapore main attractions. The 165 meter ferris wheel dominates the skyline as the second biggest in the world. The ride takes approximately 30 minutes.
If you are looking for a get away from the city hazzle but don't have the time or energy to travel far, then Singpore Gardens by the bay might be a good idea to explore.
It is close o the harbour located just next to Marina Bay sands hotel and Bayfront MRT station.
Stroll around in lush forest or take a walk along the canal promenade that has been built around the gardens. They have approximately 250 types of orchids in their glass dome and you can go and see the waterfall or have a nice lunch.
One of the most popular attractions is to take a walk on the bridge that runs between the Supergrove trees.
Singapore Zoo is famous for its night safari. Check out their website for more information about tickets and current exibitions.
Want to enjoy a day out and some family fun? then Sentosa Island could be the destination for you. Packed with activities for the family and equiped with its own Universal Studios you can enjoy a couple of hours here.
Orchard road is the biggest shopping street in Singapore. Here you have the most upscaled brands like Gucci, Prada and Louis Vuitton but also most shoppingmalls and brands like Abercrombie & Fitch, Forever 21 and H&M.
Get there either with bus or MRT.
If you like hanging with locals and see a bit of culture then head of to "Little India". It is basicly a community where mostly Indian people live. Stroll around the area and do some shopping in the many shops along the streets or dive into the inferno of Mustafa mall.
Eating out here is not hard to manage. There are restaurants and diners all over the place.
Ananda Bavan Vegetarian is a nice little authentic diner to visit if you'd like to enjoy some Samosa or a cooling Mango Lassie. They serve many types of Indian dishes. Keep in mind that this it not a cozy restaurant. It is a "quick eat"-diner.
Easiest access to Little india is by bus or MRT to Little India station.
Singapore has a lot of shopping opportunites. There are a numerous malls spread all over the city with differnt approaches and different target groups. And they stand tall in every corner so you can't really miss them.
One of most popular areas for shopping is Orchard road which is also one of Singapores longest streets. Most malls are also located on Orchard road.
If you are looking for a bargain on shoes, sarongs or basicly anything you could head out to Little India and stroll along the shops there. Busy and lively streets crammed with gadgets and everything in between.
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I am new to application development with React-native. While creating project with the command react-native init appname the index.js file is also created inside the project folder. Today, I have learned that there is a better way than installing android emulator to test react-native projects which is Expo. To create expo projects I need to create react-native project with create-react-native-app appname command. However, the index.js file is not created while creating project with this way. Even though, I manually created the index.js file, it does not work as it should.
One more question: What is aim of App.js and index.js?
As a practical matter, don't touch index.js. Make your top-level modifications in App.js.
You should not need an index.js file in an Expo project. If your Expo project is not working, there is likely another problem that needs to be resolved.
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Questions of representation and ethnicity have been at the forefront of dialogue in Brock University's Department of Dramatic Arts (DART) this year. In a talkback after the department's Mainstage production of Gormenghast in November, a student audience member wondered about the fact that all the lead performers in the show were white, with performers of colour appearing in the voiceless chorus. This led to a searching debate that left many in the department – students, staff, and faculty alike – feeling that the dialogue needed to continue.
Faculty member Gyllian Raby hit on the inspired idea of restaging "On Cultural Power", a famous debate between the now-late American-African playwright August Wilson and the white American academic and critic Robert Brustein about so-called colourblind casting (that is, casting actors who not match the ethnicity of the role). Drawing on a published transcript – down to staged heckles and cheers – The Brustein/Wilson Debate Re-Enacted was staged on March 16, 2017, some twenty years and two months after that historic clash of theatre titans. Professor David Fancy played Brustein, 2006 DART graduate Marcel Stewart played Wilson, and fourth-year student Lena Hall played moderator Anna Deavere Smith.
Four DART students respond here to the event.
Entering the theatre, the atmosphere was light, people were dancing, and David Fancy and Marcel Stewart could be seen at the top of the stairs behind the audience teasing each other in character. I expected the positivity and excitement to immediately be replaced by discomfort and guilt as the debate started, but was pleasantly surprised that comfort on stage and in the audience was maintained. A great deal of this general comfort can be attributed to Lena Hall who, playing Anna Deavere Smith, sustained a light-hearted attitude and positive view on the disagreements. The atmosphere of excitement and community made the gravity in the topics of conversation more accessible for a department that has been apprehensive to start discussions like this in the past.
I didn't know much coming in about the speakers and their viewpoints; I was, however, informed enough to assume that the debate would be a clear landslide in Wilson's favour. I was shocked when Fancy took the floor as Brustein and found myself re-evaluating my preconceived fantasy ending. The snappy, charismatic, and academic retorts made by Brustein were frighteningly convincing. There were moments where Fancy as Brustein would speak so condescendingly that the performance verged on the edge of satirizing the outspoken academic. Stewart's Wilson, on the other hand, spoke colloquially, with an air of familiarity. This method of delivery allowed me to comprehend the arguments on a personal level. Stewart's informal use of language and slower speed of response made the essentialist flaws within Wilson's argument more apparent.
Robert Brustein (David Fancy), Anna Deavere Smith (Lena Hall), and August Wilson (Marcel Stewart). Photo by David Vivian.
The debate ended on a hopeful note from Deavere Smith about commonalities and compromise, suggesting that the answers to the huge questions may lie between the two viewpoints. As these discussions continue in the coming months and years in our department, this idea of compromise and understanding may prove to be essential.
I hope our department, a predominantly white community, will provide more support for events discussing race on stage, and the Euro-centrism of North American theatre – and participate in these discussions without fear. As future theatre makers, actors, teachers, and artists this is the time and place to be having these discussions in such open and inviting events.
Issues of diversity in theatre need to be discussed and acted upon, and it is a topic that should concern everyone. If we set out to make art that is supposed to change the world, we need to make art that is inclusive. As an institution I feel that it is important for DART to show that we care about these issues.
Wilson believes that people of colour should be playing characters of their race on stage, whereas Brustein argues that colour-blind casting is the way to be universal. I agree with Wilson, that the colour of one's skin should not be hidden behind a character: it's visible, and therefore it should be a factor that is discussed. Plays often become about the negative elements that are associated with certain skin colours: plays about diversity often only tackle stereotypical elements of race such as brown people being portrayed as terrorists, or black people being ghettoized. I believe theatre makers need to get past tokenism and make stories that reflect the reality of diverse people.
The debate these two men started twenty years ago is just the beginning of a much larger issue, which needs to be tackled. Discussing it is the first step, and now it's time for changes to begin.
Talkback lead by Shannon Kitchings. Photo by David Vivian.
Going into the performance I expected to see a debate demonstrating the willingness to reach a middle ground about the representation of race in theatre. The re-enactment displayed the complexities of the issue, as there were valid and problematic statements made by both Wilson and Brustein. They explored themes of inclusion versus exclusion, of assimilation, of cultural authenticity as well as of political representation.
This level of ignorance about the ingrained racial bias that is perpetuated through systems of power is a problem that continues to contribute to race representation in theatre today. Wilson's argument for black ownership over black theatre underlines the need for black bodies to gain power over how they are represented. As problematic as Wilson's discourse on gender representation in theatre was (at the original debate) in claiming women should only play female roles, and men should only play male roles, it dismisses cross-gender casting's ability to disrupt culturally perpetuated ideas of gender hierarchies and gender fluidity. Brustein's tendency to jump on those remarks and claim Wilson's views as inconsistent is an intimidation tactic used by Brustein to prove his own points.
What stood out to me the most about this debate was how is showed that theatre has and always will be a politicized art form. Denying the politics embedded in theatre can indicate a level of privilege ignoring those who are on the outside looking in. In terms of the relevance of this debate to casting in Canadian theatre in 2017, I believe that there is still a resistance to acknowledge the hierarchy of white bodies over coloured bodies. When people of colour are not able to gain control over how they are represented, tokenization or misrepresentation can often result. Just as the debate demonstrates, this is a complex issue with no clear answer, but having these conversations and deconstructing them is a start.
When I heard about this re-enactment I immediately thought: it is so easy for a white male to advocate for colourblind casting, and he is up against a black man who is fighting for black theatre and representation of other-than-white bodies on stage — nothing I haven't heard before. It also posed an interesting question: why re-enact something from the past? Why not have an actual debate with arguments about the present? When I learned that the original debate took place in 1997, I realized that we haven't made much progress on these issues. The conversations we've been having lately in DART are proof of how uncomfortable this topic can get — why that is I don't understand. Why isn't theatre, particularly in Canada, more diverse, and why is it taking us so long to get there?
Although some of the language and references made in the re-enactment were not entirely recognizable, the message came through quite clearly. For me, it was easy to agree that, to be against colourblind casting is to promote separatism. If we are striving towards equal opportunities, why can't individuals be onstage without much regard to how light or dark their skin is? Like Brustein argued, souls have no colour. Like Brustein, many do argue that it's up to what the actor brings to the table, not what they look like. But can we really say that these casting methods are being implemented? Can we say that actors in Canada are being given roles based solely on their talent? It is possible that forces of systematic racism, conscious or not, are still at work. I come from a background in which I've never felt the colour of my skin is a hindrance to my work — but I realize there are a lot more issues to factor in here, and that the what underlies this debate goes deeper than just visual representations of bodies on stage.
The talkback itself dealt heavily with the need for not only diverse bodies, but also for diverse stories for actors to tell. Wilson argued that it is not enough for black actors to be cast in roles originally written for white people, and asked why universality is associated with white people and white experiences. But is it still colourblind casting if a character was not assigned a race in the first place? There is a lot more for me to learn about this issue — but some people mentioned in the talkback that they're tired of having this conversation over and over again. Perhaps it is just a fact that not everyone will agree on the ways to challenge the lack of diversity on stage, and right now, the conversations seem to raise more questions than propose solutions.
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Texas Bullet Train Gains Federal Approval
The high-speed train that promises to transport passengers between Dallas and Houston in 90 minutes has been approved by the Federal Railroad Administration according to Texas Central Railroad, the company in charge of the project.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration issued the two key rulings, which provide the regulatory framework and the environmental review for the high-speed train, that Texas official were waiting on to move forward with the project, according to the company. The announcement was first reported by the Houston Chronicle.
Texas Central expects to start construction in the first half of 2021. The federal Surface Transportation Board still must approve the project before construction can begin.
The rulings announced Monday brought cheers from leaders in Dallas and Houston, but criticism from project opponents along the path the train could take to connect the cities.
Although the company had to lay off 28 workers due to the coronavirus-related financial crisis in March, Texas Central Railroad had described the project as "shovel ready" and waiting for the federal government's approval.
According to an article in "The Dallas Morning News," the opposition arises in areas in between the cities. Certainly, these property owners have nothing to be excited about.
Interesting is the concern voiced by many of their fear that people who live in areas near the proposed route will see their property values drop. This is true "consequential" damage similar to having a high voltage power line placed across your backyard. The takings will also most probably cause severance damages to the remainder. Typical severance damage is loss of access.
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Dancing on a Volcano - The Michelet Sisters from 1914 - 1945 by Laila Embelton
Once inseparable, the Michelet sisters were driven apart by war and by the men they married: a German aristocrat who loved his country and a British diplomat working alongside Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms. Laila Embelton describes the extraordinary lives of her mother and aunt in a moving story th at spans two world wars and four continents. ...Show more
The 39-Storey Treehouse (PB) by Andy Griffiths
Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers | Series: Treehouse
Andy and Terry's amazing treehouse has thirteen new levels! They've added a chocolate waterfall you can swim in, a volcano for toasting marshmallows, a bulldozer-battling level, a baby-dinosaur-petting zoo, a not-very-merry merry-go-round, a boxing elephant called the Trunkinator, an X-ray room, a disco with light-up dance floor, the world's scariest roller coaster and a top-secret thirty-ninth level which hasn't even been finished yet! But how can they enjoy all this brilliant stuff when they have to write a book faster they've ever done before? You'll have to read it to find out! The 39-Storey Treehouse is the third book in Andy Griffith's and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic cartoon-style illustrations. ...Show more
Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers | Series: Treehouse | Reading Level: 8+
Come on back to the most amazing treehouse in the world You're probably wondering just how Andy and Terry met. Well, it's a long story, but a pretty exciting one, and it's mostly true Come on up, choose a hammock, and they'll tell you all about it. Andy and Terry's newly expanded treehouse now featur es 13 brand-new storeys, including a dodgem car rink, a skate ramp, a mud-fighting arena, an anti-gravity chamber, and an ice-cream parlor with 78 flavors run by an ice-cream serving robot called Edward Scooperhands. Just keep clear of the Maze of Doom--a maze so complicated that nobody who has gone in has ever come out again. Well, not yet, anyway. ...Show more
Raising Girls by Steve Biddulph
Category: Parenting/Adolescence
Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys was a global phenomenon. The first book in a generation to look at boys' specific needs - parents loved its clarity and warm insights into their sons' inner world. But today, things have changed. There has been a sudden and universal deterioration in girls' mental health, starting in primary school and devastating the teen years. Raising Girls is both a guidebook and a call-to-arms for parents. The five key stages of girlhood are laid out so that you know exactly what matters at which age, and how to build strength and connectedness into your daughter from infancy onwards. Raising Girls is both fierce and tender in its mission. It's a book for parents who love their daughters deeply, whether they are newborns, teenagers, young women - or anywhere in between. At last, there is a clear map of girls' minds that accepts no limitations, narrow roles or selling-out of your daughter's potential or uniqueness. Raising Girls explores how to help your daughter feel secure, become an explorer, get along with others, find her soul, and become a woman. All the hazards are signposted - bullying, eating disorders, body image and depression, social media harms and helps - as are concrete and simple measures for both mums and dads to help raise a daughter to be strong, wise and able to stand up for herself and others. Parenthood is restored to an exciting journey, not one worry after another. Along with his fellow psychologists worldwide, Steve is angry at the exploitation and harm being done to girls today. With Raising Girls, he strives to spark a movement to end the trashing of girlhood and equip parents to deal with the modern world. Raising Girls is powerful, practical and positive, and parents will be strengthened by its message. ...Show more
Jamie's 15 Minute Meals by Jamie Oliver
Category: Chefs & Cooks
15-Minute Mealsis Jamie's simplest and most straightforward book yet. It pushes the concept of fast, everyday food to a new level, without compromising on flavour. It's designed to excite and inspire people to prepare a balanced, nutritional, no-nonsense meal every night of the week.It covers everything from homely British dishes, to Mediterranean family staples as well as Thai, Chinese and Indian-inspired dishes. The layouts are simple and easy to follow, and the punchy titles will grab you as you flick through.It's far and away the most balanced and exciting everyday cookbook on the market - and if you liked 30-Minute Meals, this will knock your socks off. ...Show more
Girt : The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments t hat have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of "felony of sock," and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. It recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coconut in Australia's only military coup. Our nation's beginnings are steeped in the strange, the ridiculous and the frankly bizarre. Girt proudly reclaims these stories for all of us. Not to read it would be un-Australian. Shortlisted, 2014 ABA Nielsen BookData Bookseller's Choice Award, 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2014 Australian Book Industry Awards. 'Girt ... cuts an irreverent swath through the facts, fools, fantasies and frauds that made this country what it is today, hoisting sacred cows on their own petards and otherwise sawing the legs off Lady Macquarie's chair. I was transported.' -Shane Maloney, the Age Best Books of 2013 'Girt is a ripping read... a humorous history that is accessible enough to share with the eight-year-old. Hunt's writing interests span comedy, politics and history, a happy triumvirate when your subject is Australia.' -Stephen Romei in the Australian David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own bios for all the books he has written. David is the author of Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, which won the 2014 Indie Award for non-fiction and was shortlisted in both the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Australian Book Industry Awards. True Girt, the sequel, was published in 2016, as was a book for children, The Nose Pixies. David has a birthmark that looks like Tasmania, only smaller and not as far south. ...Show more
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl oring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by. Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser's ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel--voluntary in her case, enforced in his. With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21st century, they belong wherever they want to and can be--home or away. ...Show more
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: very good
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The #1 New York Times Bestseller On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick 's clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media--as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents--the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter--but is he really a killer? ...Show more
Bill the Bastard: The Story of Australia's Greatest War Horse by Roland Perry
Category: Military
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.
Hard Luck (Diary Of A Wimpy Kid #8) by Jeff Kinney
Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers | Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Ser.
A #1 New York Times BestsellerDiary of a Wimpy Kid SeriesGreg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story? ...Show more
Crossroad (HB) by Mark Donaldson
When Mark Donaldson was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2009, he was the first Australian to receive our highest award for bravery since Keith Payne's medal in 1969. Mark showed extraordinary courage when he rescued an Afghan interpreter under heavy fire during a bloody ambush in Afghanistan. Something ab out Mark's modesty and quiet determination struck a chord with the Australian public, because in 2010 he was voted Young Australian of the Year. Mark's journey to that crucial decision in Afghanistan, where he chose to risk his own life to save another's, is almost as extraordinary as the act itself. He was rebellious child and teenager, even before the death of his father - a Vietnam veteran - when Mark was in his mid-teens. A few years later, Mark's mother was murdered, although her body has never been found. Mark's path could so easily have turned to a life of alcohol abuse, self-destructiveness and petty crime. But Mark pulled himself together and chose a different road - the army. It was his salvation and he found himself a natural soldier, progressing unerringly to the very peak of the Australian military: the SAS. From teenage rebellion to the stark realities of combat in the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan, Mark's book is the frank and compelling story of a man turning his destiny around by sheer determination and strength of mind. ...Show more
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: A\Rebus Novel Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. A thirty-year-old case is being reopened, and Rebus's team from back then is suspected of foul play. With Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer are the past and present about to collide in a shocking and murderous fashion? And does Rebus have anything to hide? His colleagues back then called themselves 'the Saints', and swore a bond on something called 'the Shadow Bible'. But times have changed and the crimes of the past may not stay hidden much longer, especially with a referendum on Scottish independence just around the corner. Who are the saints and who the sinners? And can the one ever become the other? ...Show more
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What was arguably the most successful season in boys' soccer team history was clouded by controversy in a CIF Finals loss March 6. Fiery emotions translated into what CIF determined to be unsportsmanlike conduct by Wolverine players toward referees.
CIF officials approached Athletic Director Terry Elledge, who was on the sidelines with the team, to inform him of complaints regarding players on the Wolverines' bench. When Elledge passed on CIF's request to tone down criticism of officials to players on the bench, tensions escalated.
CIF Commissioner Jim Staunton spoke with Head of Upper School Harry Salamandra and Head of Athletics Audrius Barzdukas over the phone the following Monday, prompting a closed-door meeting between Salamandra, Barzdukas and the team that day after school.
"[Staunton] expressed deep concern with the conduct of our coach, players, and others on our bench," Barzdukas said.
The school asked the team to write a letter of apology for their unsportsmanlike actions on the field to CIF.
The athletic department has prohibited the team from participating in overnight tournaments next season. No other sanctions have been meted out by CIF, and the team will not be forced to forfeit any games next season, Barzdukas said.
Even if the Wolverines won the game and the controversy did not occur, the team would not have qualified for state playoffs, Arroyo said.
Prior to the game, Arroyo spoke to CIF officials, who told him that CIF rules would prohibit another team in Southern Section Division I from advancing to the state round. Arroyo did not think that the emotions of players affected the outcome of the game.
"The game was lost on the field," he said.
Barzdukas attributed the misconduct on the field to a variety of factors that caused frustration, not just among members of the team. He said everyone involved from the school should take responsibility for the controversy.
"Sportsmanship, acting respectfully, honoring game officials, all that stuff really matters," he said.


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Mr. Samuel J. Bergman serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Rolyn Companies, Inc., a disaster recovery and restoration organization, which provides emergency response services to MedStar Health facilities.
Mr. Bergman is currently the Secretary on the Board of the Restoration Industry Association and a former member on the Board of Musical Theater Center in Rockville, MD. Mr. Bergman is also a former First Assistant Chief and lifetime member of the Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad. In 2005 and 2009, Mr. Bergman was awarded the Phoenix Award of Excellence and Innovation in Restoration by the Restoration Industry Association.
Certified by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Mr. Bergman has aided in the restoration of building losses following many major natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Bergman received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He has also attended many seminars on restoration and recovery efforts.


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Google and Facebook pull in one-fifth of global ad revenue as digital duopoly shows no signs of slowing
Google and Facebook attracted one-fifth of global ad spend across all media in 2016, with the digital duopoly showing no signs of slowing down.
Zenith's global ad spend report details the top 30 media owners worldwide each year, and has indicated that between them Facebook and Google captured 20% of international ad expenditure in 2016. Between 2012 to 2016 the study claims that combined the pair drove of 64% of all the growth in the industry.
Alphabet-owned Google is by far the largest media owner in the world, attracting three-times more ad revenue than Facebook, according to Zenith. In total it pulled in a $79.4bn portion of global ad budgets in 2016 against its rival's $26.9bn.
Jonathan Barnard, the head of forecasting at Zenith, said: "Zenith's new ranking demonstrates just how much the internet advertising platforms are setting the pace for global ad spend growth."
The report found that online advertising has overtaken television to become the world's biggest medium, however TV giant Comcast still attracted a hefty portion of global ad spend, placing third in the rankings behind Google and YouTube.
Twitter, meanwhile, has taken the crown for the fastest growing media owner over the past five years, noting an ad revenue increase of 734% between 2012 to 2016.
While the microblogging site has had a tough few years, it appears to be firming up what is stands for and is emerging from the other side in terms of daily user growth and proposition.
Twitter's most recent financial results revealed a dip in revenue, but the platform beat analyst estimates and unveiled a plan to woo advertisers by positioning itself as the "gold standard" for third-part measurement – capitialising on the trust issues that have dogged Google and Facebook in light of recent scandals around transparency and brand safety. The platform has also just inked a deal with Bloomberg to create 24/7 news programme and is mounting a major content push with other partners like BuzzFeed, offering opportunities to attract a bigger slice of global ad spend in the coming year.
Key industry figures such as Sir Martin Sorrell have expressed concern over the duopoly Facebook and Google hold over the industry and their reluctance to categorise themselves as media companies in light of a furore around the spread of fake news within their walls. Speaking to CityAM last week the WPP boss said:
"When you have a duopoly, clients and agencies are looking for alternatives. Unless they acknowledge that they are media companies and not technology companies and therefore have the same responsibilities [as the news industry] for the truthfulness of their content that appears on their pages, until that happens, there could be a problem.
"After they've acknowledged that, and acknowledged a responsibility, I think there's an opportunity they'll continue to grow."


Turkey is once again a great market for the sale of refuge chambers for mines.
In this post we show the provision made for the mines of Divriği, in the province of Sivas - Turkey.
The supply consists of 6 refuge chambers for 8 people, suitable for extreme conditions such as those found in these kind of mineral mines.
In addition, we have taken steps to commissioning through our staff on site and the training of personnel of the mine as well as a thorough and careful maintenance of the units.


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Google Announces Additional Efforts to Fight Piracy
Matt Schruers · October 17, 2014
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In another example of Internet services investing greater resources in protecting content online, Google announced various changes today to search results involving movies and music. Even as News Corp's James Murdoch was complaining that Google was not doing more to fight piracy, the search provider was announcing further actions to fight piracy, detailed at length in its updated "How Google Fights Piracy" report.
New developments include Google's testing of a new ad format to appear directly beneath its search box, which will point users to lawful, authorized platforms for content in the search (assuming, presumably, that there are any). It has also created a new right-hand panel in search results that points to various options as well. The company is also tweaking its algorithm to further downrank sites that receive high numbers of DMCA notices, and further limiting what terms and results might appear in "autocompleted" queries.
Increasing the prominence of lawful, authorized platforms by strategic use of ad space and innovations in displaying results will ensure that legitimate services get increased visibility. These changes should help drive additional sales of lawful content. Changes to the search algorithm are something that rightsholder constituencies have demanded loudly, even though the empirical evidence indicates that general-purpose search isn't a significant tool in the infringer's toolbox.
As I noted last year in a paper about the "search fixation", the percentage of traffic arriving at infringing sites from search engines is relatively low (~15%), and the types of queries that rightsholders tend to complain about (e.g., "free [artist] [track] mp3") are statistically insignificant. Still, what appears in search results gets fetishized because it's easy to conduct an Internet search. This cognitive bias is the 'streetlight effect': we tend to look only where it's easy to look. In short, some changes here should placate noisy demands, even if the data shows that placating those demands is not the solution to the issue.
Increasing the relevance of DMCA notices in returning search queries is not without cost. It increases the effectiveness (and therefore likelihood) of abusive takedown demands. We already see frequent cases of DMCA abuse as things stand today (see, e.g., here, here, here, here, and here); if would-be censors know that their takedown demands may not only suppress the specific content, but also cause the objectionable site's search ranking to fall, the temptation to misuse the DMCA's powerful remedies will increase. This points to the increasingly important role that the DMCA's 'perjury' penalty — Section 512(f) — must now play.
On net, these changes should increase the likelihood that Internet users searching for content online are offered legitimate options, assuming they exist, but they also increase the need for courts to be more strict in applying 512(f).
The Internet enables the free exchange of ideas and content that, in turn, promote creativity, commerce, and innovation. However, a balanced approach to copyright, trademarks, and patents is critical to this creative and entrepreneurial spirit the Internet has fostered. Consequently, it is our belief that the intellectual property system should encourage innovation, while not impeding new business models and open-source developments.


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Photographers on Photographers: The Other Annie Leibovitz by Steve Davis
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Olympia-based photographer Steve Davis won 1st place in the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition Award in 2002 and is the recipient of two Washington Arts Commission/Artist Trust Fellowships. His images have appeared in Harper's and The New York Times Magazine and are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman House, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Musee de la Photographie in Belgium, and the Haggerty Museum at Marquette University. A full-length interview with Steve was published on fototazo on March 1st and can be found here.
The Other Annie Leibovitz
by Steve Davis
As a young teenager in the early 1970's, I was interested in two things besides girls -- photography and rock music. Having a tin ear and proving too lazy to practice, that left me with photography -- a pursuit informed by family snapshot photography, classic Adams type landscapes, and increasingly by images celebrating rock stars, and a hip "counter culture" of which I was painfully ignorant. Most of these images were black and whites from Rolling Stone Magazine.
Annie Leibovitz began honing her craft at Rolling Stone at about that time. Her early photography proved to be exceptionally influential to me. Her images, like her subjects seemed mystical -- ambiguous and incomplete by design. Definitive clarity, obvious and accessible visual statements were more traits of an authoritarian culture, and not of Rolling Stone's or early Leibovitz. Her pictures were grounded in a grammar of grainy 35mm Tri-X, sometimes exposed properly, sometimes not; sometimes in focus, sometimes not so much. (I can still experience the smell of film and fixer whenever I lay eyes on those early pictures, and that alone makes me smile).
Today it seems, the great celebrity photographer-turned-celebrity is hardly known for her early photojournalistic work. Her post 70's color portraiture has easily earned her a place at the 20th Century Great Masters Supper Table, (and I'll take no time in expressing the importance of that work in this article). One might see no need, I guess, to look back too far into the beginnings of her career and her art. No need to review her remarkable series about Nixon's resignation, the Rolling Stones on tour, or Ken Kesey's farm.
The best of her early portraiture is in my opinion, as good as her later, more polished and refined examples. The 1976 Brian Wilson standing on the beach in his bathrobe shows a man walking out of both surf and Bible. The 1970 John Lennon portrait shows a man both regal and common. Mick Jagger standing in a hospital elevator, patient and mystic -- examples of the photographer making pictures inviting contradiction and open-ended interpretations. If there was a clear message or overarching statement to Leibovitz's pre-1980's work, it is that there is no clear message or overarching statement to be had. Mystery and grace go hand in hand with berserk fans, drugged out rock stars and political corruption.
Years ago I attended a workshop by Neal Slavin (famous for his large scale group portraits,) and as it turned out, friend and neighbor to Leibovitz. After speaking briefly about her Vanity Fair style of big business portraiture, he denounced her pre-color photojournalistic brand of photography -- the results of a beginner, not the master she would become. If that wasn't enough, he assured me that Leibovitz herself felt even stronger about the insignificance and amateur nature of those early photographs.
That kind of sucked. One of us was clearly wrong about the strength of that early work. It seemed unlikely that it could be Annie, or even Neal for that matter. What does it mean to base your entire life plan on bad work? Nothing, really. Even Slavin recanted his denouncement on the following day. I realized that none of that really matters. You see what you see.
The last time I picked up a Rolling Stone was January 1981. It had the super famous John and Yoko image on the cover, taken by Leibovitz on the last day of his life. His death was a huge sensation of course -- described in the media as the "day the music died," his elegy was the elegy of an era. In looking through "Annie Leibovitz, 1970-1990" (Harper Collins, 1991) I am struck how this John and Yoko image serves as the line of demarcation between "Nikon Annie" and "Leibovitz Inc." I often wondered what could have gone through her head -- to take the final pictures at such a final point in popular culture. (How would you process that?)
Her later flashier, classier, hyper-real fantasy portraits for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and the advertising industry will eclipse the kind of work I mention here, probably justifiably so. But seeing pictures made by one person, sans directors, makeup artists, stylists, assistants or a script makes me remember why I picked up a camera.
Tags: Annie Leibovitz, Ansel Adams, Neal Slavin, Steve Davis
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Stocks Take a Hit on Trump's Summit Cancellation
By Shoshanna Delventhal
Investors, hit with another wave of uncertainty on Thursday following President Donald Trump's decision to call off a summit with North Korea, sold off U.S. equities as expectations for a market turnaround waned going into the holiday weekend. The summit, scheduled for June 12, was seen as a means to ease tensions between the countries and bring more stability to the Korean Peninsula. (See also: 5 Stocks to Outperform in 2018's Volatile Market.)
On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) Index was hard hit on the news, which broke just 30 minutes before the market open, driving the blue-chip index down nearly 300 points before recouping some of its losses later in the afternoon. The Dow closed down 0.3% on Thursday, while the S&P 500 fell about 0.2% and the Nasdaq declined less than 0.1%.
Geopolitical uncertainty has been a major factor behind a surge of volatility in the market in 2018, bringing an abrupt end to the nine-year bull market on a handful of factors including fears of inflation, rising interest rates and a threat of a trade war. Both the Dow and the S&P 500 are slipping on Friday morning, while the Nasdaq is up 0.2%. The Wall Street Journal, citing money managers, indicated that expectations for a recovery in equities on Friday are low, since trading volumes tend to be light ahead of a holiday weekend.
Uncertainty Drags on Exxon, Chevron
The energy segment was the hardest hit on Thursday's North Korea news, falling 1.7%, mounting earlier losses attributed to a drop in oil prices. U.S. crude for July delivery fell 1.6%, or $1.13 per barrel, to $70.71. Shares of Exxon Mobil Co. (XOM) fell 2.3% to $80.27, while Chevron Co. (CVX) sank 1.6% to $126.61. (See also: Buy These Energy Stocks on Crude Oil Price Surge.)
Also this week, worries of trade tensions jumped on news from the U.S. Commerce Department that the Trump administration was weighing new tariffs on vehicles and auto parts imports. Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Honda Motor Co. (HMC) and Nissan Motor Co. (NSANY) all saw their shares fall on the news.
Bright spots amid a broad slump for most of S&P 500 sectors include lower-risk, higher-dividend stocks in utilities and telecommunications.
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