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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:50 pm Post subject:
from the archives: "best of" album
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Post subject: When is the best time to learn the forward loop?
isobars says: "I'm not suggesting the OP fugheddaboutit. It really is "only water", so (probably) the worst he can do is ... snap a board. Why after all the experts say this is not going to happen the almighty still insists it is a possibility? Well if we`re including ANYTHING that might happen we should include the caveat that as you land on your butt on your first successful loop it IS possible that a sturgeon may be surfacing nose first at the same time and accidentally butt rape you. Your call whether you still want to try loops. You`ve been warned."
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:04 pm Post subject:
Angry old white people used the N word against a Capital Policeman!
Now that's a really thin blue line!
Location: Berkeley, California
I guess Alabama Mikey missed this. Or it made him feel nostalgic.
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:15 pm Post subject:
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I'm sorry but those insurrectionists do NOT represent my view of this country!
Get the guy who stirred them up!
F*ck Big Fat Lying Loser 45!
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 6:07 pm Post subject:
Nothing personal, you idiots (including the non-blacks who support such total bullshit), but how about a free FUCK YOU, you greedy bastards? You're living in the best environment on the planet to take the bull by the horns LEGITIMATELY and succeed. Do something with that opportunity rather than lying in the streets, blaming and harming and murdering the cops who protect your asses better than they protect mine in many cities, and saying I'm guilty of something my ancestors may have done (I have no idea, because it's totally irrelevant, who or what my ancestors were or did.) Get a freaking job, invent something special, and consider WORKING for life's rewards, just like everybody else had to do.
And even though I was born and raised in rural Alabama in the '40s, '50s and '60s, including finishing high school in Montgomery in 1961, I haven't been back there in decades. In just one year in Montgomery and a trip through it a few years later, I personally saw a nighttime KKK march through a neighborhood, MLK's subsequent march into Montgomery from Selma, and Negroes/colored people (those were the preferred term for them back then) forcing whites off the downtown sidewalks on a daily basis. But Rebel flags? Very rare back then.
But none of that poses the same threat as today's demands such as I reprinted above. BLM now has much more power than either U.S. political party, and that should scare the hell out of every human being within our borders. Far too many gullible, misinformed idiots of all colors actually believe, or just want the cash fallout of, their claims and demands. Stack the violent actions of the criminal, murderous, pillaging, arsonist anarchists like Antifa who simply want to overthrow the government by force on the backs of the legitimate protesters, and our nation could be devastated irreparably if these insane, spineless, liberal mayors and governors are allowed to transform "Protect and Serve" to "Run and Hide", strip our police forces of everything but batons and firearms, leave citizens on their own to defend themselves from violence, then try to take even that capability away from them.
Then there's the most asinine, insane, nation-destroying demand of all, straight from the BLM platform splattered in large, bold print over two full pages of our newspaper recently: WE DEMAND NOT ONLY REPARATIONS BUT FREE EVERYTHING, INCLUDING FREE COLLEGE, FREE FOOD, FREE HOUSING, FREE HEALTHCARE, AND FREE ET.AL.
And while you're at it, stop implying your lives matter more than every non-black's. ALL lives matter, at least until their voluntary, deliberate behavior proves otherwise. (Let's face it: whose life matters and contributes more to society ... the shopkeeper or the piece of garbage who beats the shopkeeper into oblivion and torches his shop for freaking kicks?)
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That is funny. When I was learning forwards my worst injury was a big bruise on my butt. But no sturgeon involved.
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:55 am Post subject:
Nothing to see here, just like Alabama in the 1950's. I think the father and son should be allowed to get damages from the cops and the person who phoned in a false alarm.
Aug. 2, in this image from video. (WOOD-TV)
By Jonathan Edwards
Today at 6:04 a.m. EDT
As a police officer turned Roy Thorne around to cuff his hands behind his back, the 45-year-old father saw the same happening to his 15-year-old son.
Feelings came quickly then to Thorne, who�s Black: rage that his son was being arrested. Humiliation that the teenager had to watch his dad get handcuffed while the whole neighborhood looked on. Confusion about how viewing a house with his real estate agent on a Sunday afternoon could lead to a half-dozen police officers pointing guns at them.
But more than anything: powerlessness. Thorne could do nothing other than obey in a desperate attempt not to die.
�I just felt defeated,� he told The Washington Post. �That�s something you never want your kid to see.�
Thorne and his son were touring a home Sunday with real estate agent Eric Brown, who�s also Black, in Wyoming, Mich., when police suddenly surrounded the house with guns drawn. The officers were responding to a neighbor�s 911 call about a break in. They ordered the three out of the house, handcuffed them and put them in separate vehicles.
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By DeNeen L. Brown
JACKSON, Miss. � Since 2000, there have been at least eight suspected lynchings of Black men and teenagers in Mississippi, according to court records and police reports.
�The last recorded lynching in the United States was in 1981,� said Jill Collen Jefferson, a lawyer and founder of Julian, a civil rights organization named after the late civil rights leader Julian Bond. �But the thing is, lynchings never stopped in the United States. Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped. The evil bastards just stopped taking photographs and passing them around like baseball cards.�
Jefferson was born in Jones County, Miss., which was an epicenter of the Ku Klux Klan�s reign of terror during the civil rights movement. �Coming from Mississippi and seeing stuff intersect, talking about this stuff is like talking about what happened down the road,� said Jefferson, a Harvard Law School graduate who trained as a civil justice investigator with Bond.
In 2017, Jefferson began compiling records of Black people found hanging or mutilated across the country. In 2019, Jefferson began focusing her investigation on Mississippi. In each case she investigated, law enforcement officials ruled the deaths suicides, but the families said the victims had been lynched.
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This Police Department Is So Bad, a Cop Reported It to Black Lives Matter
By September 2020, police officer Robert Black was at his wit's end.
Over his year of service in the department of Millersville, Tennessee, Black had allegedly been subjected to sexual harassment, including from a female officer who used a racist slur while grabbing his genitals. The police chief, whom Black suspected of harboring Ku Klux Klan ties, had allegedly made disparaging comments about Black's biracial son. The assistant police chief was under investigation for allegedly assaulting his wife during a dispute over an alleged affair with a drug suspect. Through it all, management allegedly silenced officers' complaints by instructing them to support the "thin blue line."
"Nobody would listen to what was going on up there," Black told The Daily Beast. "Nobody cared."
So Black made a fake Facebook profile, reached out to Black Lives Matter organizers, and blew the whistle on his department. Days later, he was fired. At least two other officers who allegedly clashed with management departed soon thereafter.
In a new lawsuit, first reported by Nashville's NewsChannel 5, Black and former Millersville Police sergeant Joshua Barnes describe a culture of harassment and intimidation in their former department. Both men cite a pattern of alleged racist behavior from the department's leadership—directed at Barnes because he is Black, and at Black because he is white with a biracial son.
'That Is Evil': Mo
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Aurora Police Department Has 'Pattern Of Racially-Biased Policing' Attorney General Investigation Reveals
An investigation team appointed by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser found the Aurora Police Department has a history of racially biased policing and found Aurora police and fire departments have a pattern of violating federal and state laws.
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Thailand maintained their dominance of the ICC Women's Asia Qualifier 2019 as they defeated UAE by 50 runs, claiming their sixth successive victory to top the seven-team league table on 12 points after the final day of action in Bangkok.
Nepal who beat Kuwait by 30 runs in the morning match finished second on 10 points with five wins from six matches and UAE had to be content with third place on eight points with four wins in six matches. Nepal and UAE had both shown off their considerable skills in this competition but Thailand were worthy champions as they won places at the next two ICC global qualifying competitions. The Land of Smiles still has a chance to reach the next two ICC Women's World Cups in T20 and ODI formats.
Heading into the climax of the ICC Women's Asia Qualifier 2019, all were hoping for an exciting day's cricket with plenty to play for. Hosts Thailand well placed to win the competition, knowing that victory over UAE in the afternoon match would give them a perfect record of six wins out of six. Even if they lost, they enjoyed considerable advantage on net run-rate over UAE who nevertheless still had a mathematical chance of overtaking the Thai team as they had four wins out of five.
Nepal were playing Kuwait in the morning match at AIT. Also starting with four wins out of five, they knew that they would finish in second place if they won their match and UAE lost. The three leading teams could have all finished on 10 points with five wins and one defeat and the champions would be decided on net run-rate. Wins for Nepal and Thailand would make things much more straight-forward at the top of the table with Thailand first, Nepal second and UAE third.
Nepal knew that if they could beat Kuwait by a convincing margin they would have a good chance of finishing second with a healthy record of five wins out of six and complete a highly satisfactory competition for their team. Kuwait were looking for a change of luck having lost all five matches and suffered a number of dispiriting injuries.
Kuwait won the toss and decided to bowl first and spirits soon rose as captain Maryam Omar took a wicket in her first over. Kajal Shrestha was run out for 18 with the score on 29 and Indu Barma was caught at mid-on as Nepal lost three wickets during the Powerplay. Kuwait were in control at the halfway stage with their opponents on 48 for five as Omar took a second wicket and Madeeha Zuberi took a wicket with her first ball. Nary Thapa has impressed with the ball in previous matches but here she made a useful contribution with the bat hitting three consecutive fours.
Kuwait began well in their pursuit of 117 with openers Priyada Murali and Sabreen Zaki sharing a partnership of 23 before Zaki was bowled for 12 by left-arm spinner Nary Thapa, who took her 12th wicket of the tournament to take her to the top of the wicket-taking list. Murali was secure at the crease but captain Maryam Omar looked like a weight had lifted from her shoulders and she began to bat with a new-found freedom.
The score was 42 for one after 10 overs and Kuwait passed fifty with only one wicket down in the 12th over as the top three were all helping to put together a very good batting effort. Rubina Chhetry brought herself back on looking for a wicket but Maryam pulled her away for her third boundary. Kuwait were 62 for one after 14 overs with 55 needed from the last six overs.
Some excitable running between the wickets brought the second wicket as Murali was run out for 14 from 37 balls and Siobhan Gomez was out caught and bowled first ball. Amna Tariq was out stumped as three wickets fell in the same over and Bhandari also took a wicket from the first ball of her next over as Omar was out stumped for 29 from 36 balls as four wickets fell in the space of 13 balls. It had been a brave effort from Kuwait.
Rubina Chhetry came on for the last over and finished her tournament with a hat-trick from the last three balls of the match, as she hit the stumps all three times. Nepal won by 30 runs and moved into second place in the table on ten points from their six matches but their net run-rate was still well behind the other two teams so second place would be the best they could achieve. Kuwait were happy to finish with their best performance of the competition.
In the morning match played at TCG Hong Kong faced Malaysia in was effectively a play-off for fifth and sixth places with both sides winning one out of their first five matches as each team had gained their only victory over Kuwait. Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field first after a delayed start and soon had Malaysia in trouble at 23 for 3 but their innings was revived by a stand of 49 from Mas Elysa and Christina Baret. Malaysia could not press home their advantage in the last four overs and were restricted to 85 for 6 in their 20 overs with Kary Chan taking 3 for 11.
Only one match remained in the competition with the title still needing to be finally decided. Thailand won the toss and chose to bat first against UAE. Thailand's captain Sornnarin Tippoch explained that her team were looking to win the match to complete a clean sweep of victories in this tournament, while UAE's captain Humaira Tasneem stated that her team were treating this match as a final and just wanted to be the first team to beat Thailand.
With the hosts batting first the question of UAE getting ahead of Thailand on net run-rate had become a rather distant prospect. Thailand's openers began confidently and it was a surprise when leading run-scorer in the tournament Naruemol Chaiwai was caught behind off the bowling of Subha Ventakraman. Nattakan Chantam and Nattaya Boochatham were looking to make a major contribution. Thailand were 44 for 1 after 10 overs with Chantam on 23 from 23 balls with three fours.
Boochatham was caught at mid-wicket when she tried to increase the tempo of her innings but Chantam was batting fluently until she was lbw attempting the sweep shot for 35 from 30 balls. Thailand were 60 for 3 with eight overs left but wickets fell regularly as lower-order players came to the crease without having had much time in the middle.
Chanida Sutthiruang made another useful contribution of 22 before being expertly caught and bowled by Esha Oza who had started the match behind the stumps. Thailand kept going and reached the 100 in the 20th over with Sornnarin Tippoch and Onnicha Kampcomphu at the crease. Onnicha celebrated by hitting the second six of the tournament before being stumped off the last ball of the innings. Thailand finished on a useful 107 for eight as Subha Venkataraman had the best figures for UAE who might have still had a chance of winning the match but Thailand had ensured that they could not be overtaken in the table.
UAE's openers Chaya Mughal and Esha Oza made a solid start but the first wicket fell on 13 when Mughal was out stumped off the bowling of Nattaya Boochatham while Oza was well caught at long on by Onnicha Kampchomphu off Sornnarin Tippoch. Chanida Sutthiruang took two wickets in an over to leave UAE struggling on 20 for 4. Worse was to follow as Boochatham claimed her second wicket when she bowled Venkataraman and Sornnarin then claimed the key wicket of Chamani Seneviratne to leave UAE's innings in tatters at 23 for 6 at the halfway stage.
Udeni Dona raised UAE's spirits by hitting the second six of the day but she was seventh out when she was bowled by Ratanaporn Padunglerd and Namita D'souza soon followed as she was run out. Humaira Tasneem was ninth out bowled by Kampchomphu as Thailand closed in on an emphatic victory. The final UAE wicket came through a run out as they were bowled out for 57 in 19.2 overs. Chanida Sutthiruang, Sornnarin Tippoch and Nattaya Boochatham all took two wickets in another highly competent all-round performance but it was Nattakan Chantam who was named player of the match for her innings of 35.
Thailand had won by 50 runs to gain their sixth win of the competition and their 14th consecutive victory in T20 Internationals. Thailand were worthy champions after dominating all the opposing teams and they will now be taking part in the next stage of qualification for ICC Women's World Cups at both T20 and 50-over competitions. Nepal finished as runners-up with five wins out of six and UAE came third in the table with four wins in six matches.
Thailand's Naruemol Chaiwai was named batter of the tournament with 181 runs, while Sornnarin Tippoch won bowler of the tournament with 13 wickets, but player of the tournament was Sita Rana Thapa of Nepal for her consistent performances with both bat and ball.


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The new 7.40 Fortnite patch is due to go live in a few hours from now, and with the publication of the 7.40 patch notes we now know exactly what to expect from it.
First up is a special treat for those who have been busy beavering away at the Overtime Challenges recently released as part of the game's Valentine's Share The Love event.
When that Battle Pass goes live at a yet to be determined date, you'll receive a pair of Season 8 Outfits right away, and there'll be five more to unlock as you level up your pass throughout the season.
Gifting also returns for a limited period of time. If you want to give a friend - or your Valentine - an item you can do so until February 22nd. You'll also be able to send the Hearthstone Glider to someone free of charge until Friday, February 15th at 7pm ET.
Next up, the in-game guns and it looks like a new weapon is coming to town. The Infantry Rifle is described as a precise semi-automatic weapon and will hit the game later on today with the patch. Here's an image of the weapon provided on the official blog post.
Finally, the pace of the Limited Time Mode rotation is being increased. Catch! and Team Rumble are the next in line, and you can read full details of what to expect from these modes by brushing up on the official patch notes linked above.


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5G Networks Set to Provide Coverage to 80 Per Cent of Russia's Population by 2025
Moscow: Russia is set to become a "fast follower" 5G nation on the global stage, with 5G networks forecast to provide coverage to more than 80 per cent of the country's population by 2025, according to a new GSMA study. Russian mobile operators are set to launch commercial 5G networks in 2020 and 5G is expected to grow to account for almost one in five of the country's mobile connections (48 million) by 2025, establishing Russia as the leading 5G market in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Other countries in the region expected to launch 5G services by 2025 include Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Uzbekistan, according to the Mobile Economy: Russia & CIS 2018 report, which was published today at the Mobile 360 Series – Russia & CIS event being held in Moscow.
"Our new study reveals how Russia will lead the CIS region into the 5G era over the coming years, as operators invest in rapidly building out 5G coverage across the country's population, following the launch of the region's first 5G networks in 2020," said Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA. "These new networks have the potential to create digital economies and drive the transformation of industries, but will require a supportive regulatory framework focused on encouraging investment and innovation, for example, by ensuring the timely availability of harmonised spectrum to 5G operators at a suitable price."
Subscriber Growth Slows as 5G Era Nears
The CIS region is one of the most highly penetrated mobile markets in the world, behind only Europe and North America. At the end of 2017, there were 232 million unique mobile subscribers1 in the region, equivalent to 80 per cent of the population. Russia accounted for more than half (128 million) of this total and is the region's most highly penetrated market at 89 per cent.
Given this high level of penetration, subscriber growth in the region over the next few years will be limited, forecast to increase by only 2 percentage points to 82 per cent by 2025. The majority of new subscribers over this period will come from Uzbekistan, the region's third most populous market after Russia and the Ukraine, but one of the least penetrated at 60 per cent.
Meanwhile, 4G has plenty of headroom for growth as the region enters the 5G era. 4G accounted for 16 per cent of connections at the end of 20172, largely driven by Russia, which was one of the first countries in the region to launch 4G in 2012. All three main Russian operators have since launched LTE-Advanced networks, which provide an evolutionary path to 5G. By 2025, 4G is expected to account for more than two-thirds of the region's total connections with 5G accounting for 12 per cent by this point.
The first 5G-based use cases in the region are expected to focus on enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), which will add capacity and higher speeds for mobile internet access, usually in urban hotspots where 5G will be an offload solution to ease network congestion. However, 5G-based Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise solutions will follow soon after. The number of IoT connections in the CIS region is forecast to triple over the next few years, reaching 660 million by 2025, opening up opportunities in areas such as smart cities and smart utilities. Other areas of opportunity for mobile operators in the CIS region include e-commerce, blockchain and investments in the startup ecosystem.
The new report The Mobile Economy: Russia & CIS 2018 is authored by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA, in partnership with the LTE Union. To access the full report and related infographics, please visit: www.gsma.com/mobileeconomy/russia-cis.
The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting more than 750 operators with over 350 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry sectors. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress Shanghai, Mobile World Congress Americas and the Mobile 360 Series of conferences.
Tatyana Korolyova
TKoroleva@prp.ru
Beau Bass
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1 A unique mobile subscriber represents an individual that can account for multiple SIM connections
2 There were 422 million SIM connections in the CIS region in 2017, excluding licensed cellular IoT. It is forecast that SIM connections will increase to 437 million by 2025

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Last Saturday saw Claires Court Junior Boys host the Under 9A and B rugby festival. We were joined by teams from Moulsford, Chesham Prep, St Georges, Gayhurst and Berkhamsted. Both U9A & B teams showed just how far they have come since the start of the season, with some excellent rugby played.
All matches were very competitive and great fun was had by all the pupils involved. Mr Butterfield would like to thank all the staff involved, particularly Mr Barber for organising the event, and the parents who came to support.
The Under 9s had a rest from regular fixtures this week and on Tuesday the year group played internal matches, allowing the staff to see players in different teams.
The U10s travelled to Oratory Prep School this week for what is always a very tough fixture. Whilst the results may not have gone our way on this occasion, all the staff returned to school commenting on the character the boys had shown during the afternoon.
The U11s played in a triangular fixture between Chesham Prep and Gayhurst. Our U11 are currently missing a few key players, due to injury, which made for a tricky afternoon. Whilst we lost a few matches to Chesham Prep, the A and B teams lost by only a single try. However, the D and E teams both recorded good wins. All the teams that played Gayhurst showed great composure and won these matches.


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ExxonMobil's legitimate business interest to Processing the Personal Data, unless such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the Individual, and/or
The Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the Individual is a party, and/or
The Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which ExxonMobil is subject, and/or
The Processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the Individual, and/or
The Individual has given consent to the Processing of his or her Personal Data for one or more specific purposes. When ExxonMobil obtains consent from the Individual to the processing of Personal Data, the consent can be withdrawn at any time for the future.
For more information on the particular data processing activities, the purposes sought and a description of the specific categories of Personal data concerned, please make sure to review the table in Section 4.
ExxonMobil offers the opportunity for the Individuals to object to the Processing of his/her Personal data and will consider such objections carefully where required by law. For more information about your rights in respect of how ExxonMobil processes your Personal Data, please refer to Section 9 and/or contact the ExxonMobil Data Privacy Office via data.privacy.office@exxonmobil.com.
4. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA AND PURPOSES FOR DATA COLLECTION
4.1 Personal Data collected from visitors to the Site
In this table we describe the categories of information that we gather from visitors to the Site, the purpose for which we use the information and the legal basis which justifies each processing operation.
We also track other information about your visit which we use for statistical purposes that help us design and administer the site. Furthermore, if during your visit you personalize the Site, complete an order form, enter a contest, provide survey feedback or submit other information to us, you will, as a result, provide us with Personal Data.
Purpose of Processing Legal basis of Processing Categories of Personal Data How long we keep your Personal Data
To enable the Site to communicate with the visitor's computer or mobile device during Site visits. ExxonMobil's legitimate business interests to improve the relevancy of content provided through the Site, and to ensure the quality of our services during Site visits. IP address (the Internet address assigned to your computer from your Internet Service Provider), device type, domain type, browser type (e.g., Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer), and date and time of day.
See Section 12. Record Retention
To improve and customize your experience on our Site. ExxonMobil's legitimate business interests to improve the relevancy of content provided through the Site, and to ensure the quality of our services during Site visits. Number of visits to the site; which parts of the Site visitors select, analytics to measure and observe user behavior, and device screen size. Contact details (names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers), personalization of the Site, completed order form, contest entry, survey feedback and other information you may provide us.
See the cookie statement on the relevant website.
To provide the products and services you request and to bill you for products and services you request. ExxonMobil Processes the Personal Data in order to conclude, execute, perform and administer the relevant agreement or order with you. Contact details (names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers), personalization of the Site, completed order form, contest entry, survey feedback and other information you may provide us.
To administer requests and feedback from visitors who are not customers or prospective customers. By choosing to provide information to ExxonMobil, you accept that ExxonMobil Processes the Personal data you provided, in accordance with this Privacy Statement and with any relevant notices covering the specific use of the Personal Data. Contact details, content of your request/ feedback and other Personal data you may provide.
To provide you the route to service stations. By registering for routing services through the Site, you agree that we provide relevant route information and Process your Personal Data for this purpose.
If you do not wish us to use the geolocation information for this purposes, you can decline our request to read the geolocation; in that case, some of the services of our Site may not be delivered. By allowing us to use geolocation information, you agree that we provide the information to third parties who assist us in the provision of the services to you through the Site. Geolocation of your computer or mobile device.
To improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to tell you about ExxonMobil, and about our products and services which we think may be of interest to you, including for instance products and services suggested on the basis of weather information associated with the geolocation of your computer or mobile device. ExxonMobil's legitimate business interest to market and promote and improve its products, services, content and advertising.
Geolocation information will be collected only with your prior explicit consent.
By choosing to register through the Site, you accept that we keep you posted on communications from ExxonMobil such as news releases, alerts, RSS feeds and blog posts and that we process the Personal Data you have provided for this purpose. Contact details; geolocation of your computer or mobile device.
For analytics and statistical purposes to help us design and administer the Site and to improve our products and services offering. ExxonMobil's legitimate business interests to improve the relevancy of content provided through the Site, to ensure the quality of our services during Site visits, and to promote and improve its products and services offering. Number of visits to the site; which parts of the Site visitors select, and device screen size.
Any of the personal data referred to in this notice, provided the information is appropriately pseudonomized or anonymized, as required under applicable law.
When ExxonMobil relies on its legitimate interest as a legal basis to Process the Personal Data, ExxonMobil will ensure that its legitimate business interests to pursue the purposes stated in the table above (generally its interest to promote the ExxonMobil products and services), do not disproportionately and adversely impact the visitor's rights and freedoms.
When ExxonMobil relies on the Individual's consent as a legal basis to Process the Personal Data, visitors can withdraw their consent at any time, for the future. Visitors who wish to withdraw their consent, should notify us at data.privacy.office@exxonmobil.com and we will take steps to stop the Processing of your Personal Data as soon as reasonably possible.
We use cookies and other files which we store on your computer or mobile device when you visit the Site, in order to collect one or more of the categories of information listed in the table above. The cookies and files stored on your computer or mobile device facilitates customizing your use of the Site and helps to avoid the need for you to re-enter your details every time you visit it. You can erase or block this information from your computer if you want to. For more information about the cookies and files we place on your computer or mobile device, and how to erase or block them, see the Cookie Statement on the relevant website.
Note that some of the services may not be available if you fail to provide the Personal Data necessary to deliver them.
4.2 Personal data collected from visitors to third party sites.
We use third-party advertising technology to provide ads when you visit sites upon which we advertise. When you access an ad, a "cookie" file will be stored on your computer. This information is used to help manage our on-line advertising. To learn more about the third-party ad-serving technology, cookies, and how to "opt-out" please click here (note: you will be taken to a third-party website).
Furthermore, this Site has links to sites that ExxonMobil does not own, control or maintain. We cannot be responsible for their privacy policies and practices and we make no representations or warranties about the privacy practices of those sites. Similarly, we cannot be responsible for the policies and practices of any site from which you linked to our Site. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of other sites carefully and contact the operator if you have concerns or questions.
5. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD PARTIES
We employ other companies and persons to perform functions on our behalf. They have access to Personal Data needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Communicating via the Internet and sending information, products, and services to you by other means necessarily involves your Personal Data passing through or being handled by third-parties.
For the purpose of the administration of the Site and the Personal Data collected through the Site, ExxonMobil shares your Personal Data with other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including fulfilling orders, deliveries, sending postal mail, and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing card payments and providing customers service. They have access to your Personal Data needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
Before any Personal Data is shared with service providers, we enter into a written agreement which requires them: (1) not to make any unauthorized further disclosures of the Personal Data; (2) to use the Personal Data only for the specified purposes and only according to the instructions received from ExxonMobil; (3) to retain the Personal Data only as long as necessary to carry out these purposes or to protect company interests (e.g. until the end of statute of limitations periods); and (4) to have in place adequate and appropriate security measures.
In some circumstances, for instance if required by law or legal process or in order to defend its rights, ExxonMobil will have to disclose Personal Data to other third parties, including competent authorities.
If Personal Data is shared with a third party or an ExxonMobil affiliate outside the EEA, the conditions regarding data transfers, see Section 6 below, apply in addition to the requirements of this section.
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA
6.1 Transfers between affiliates
The relevant ExxonMobil affiliate who is the Data Controller may transfer some or all of the Personal Data to servers of ExxonMobil located worldwide and will make that Personal Data accessible to other ExxonMobil affiliates, some of which are located in third countries that may not be regarded as providing an adequate level of protection of the Personal Data, in accordance with applicable law.
The transfer of Personal Data from the EEA to recipients located outside the EEA is subject to restrictions. ExxonMobil has taken steps so that Personal Data receives an adequate level of data protection at all ExxonMobil locations. These steps include ExxonMobil affiliates entering into Inter Affiliate Agreements containing the EU "Standard Contractual Clauses".
The EU Standard Contractual Clauses have been approved by the European Commission and relevant European authorities as offering adequate protection for transfers of Personal Data outside the EEA.
6.2 Transfers to third parties
When transferring Personal Data to third parties, ExxonMobil puts in place safeguards to ensure that the third party adequately protects the Personal Data. These safeguards may include, as appropriate: (1.) the EU "Standard Contractual Clauses", (2.) contractual safeguards imposed on the third party which is contracted by ExxonMobil affiliates outside of EEA or Switzerland (so-called onward transfers by the ExxonMobil affiliates outside of EEA or Switzerland), (3.) Privacy Shield certification of the third party (established in the US), and (4.) protections available under local law for the third party established in a country deemed adequate by the EU Commission.
For more information about specific transfer mechanisms used for transfers between affiliates and transfers to third parties, including information on and a copy of any of the existing safeguards implemented by ExxonMobil in order to ensure that Personal Data is Processed within an adequate framework across all ExxonMobil locations, please contact data.privacy.office@exxonmobil.com.
7. ACCURACY OF PERSONAL DATA
ExxonMobil endeavors to keep Personal Data that it collects as accurate, complete and current taking into account the purposes for which it was collected and is being used. ExxonMobil relies on Data Subjects to maintain the accuracy and completeness of the Personal Data and so you should inform ExxonMobil if your personal details change, including the context in which the Personal Data was provided, e.g. in connection with promotion of a specific product or service.
8. SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
ExxonMobil maintains appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, use, and all other unlawful forms of Processing of Personal Data in our possession.
9. RIGHTS TO ACCESS, RECTIFICATION AND ERASURE OF PERSONAL DATA, TO DATA PORTABILITY, TO THE RESTRICTION OF AND OBJECTION TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
Applicable law may give you the right to know how ExxonMobil Processes your Personal Data, and to access your Personal Data held by ExxonMobil. Such rights exist under data privacy laws in EEA. Furthermore in EEA, you also have the right to: have inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data rectified; to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data, under certain circumstances; to object to the Processing operations, having regard to the given circumstances and for reasons related to their particular situation; or to have Personal Data erased when such data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it has been collected, in accordance with applicable law.
In some circumstances, you also have a right to request the portability of your Personal Data, which will allow you to obtain and reuse your Personal Data for your own purposes across different services without hindrance to usability.
For more information about the specific mechanism available in order to exercise the aforementioned rights, please contact the data.privacy.office@exxonmobil.com.
To facilitate our efforts to meet your request, it would be helpful if you could let us know the context in which you initially provided ExxonMobil with your Personal Data, e.g. in connection with promotion of a specific product or service.
10. PROCESSING OF SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA
Certain categories of Personal Data are considered sensitive under data privacy laws and, as such, are subject to a higher level of protection and security. Data privacy law considers as sensitive the following categories of Personal Data: (1) race or ethnic origin; (2) political opinions; (3) religious and philosophical beliefs; (4) trade union membership; (5) sex life or sexual orientation; (6) physical or mental health or conditions; and (7) genetic data and biometric data for the purpose of uniquely defining a natural person.
We kindly ask you to refrain from providing ExxonMobil with any sensitive information of the abovementioned nature, under any circumstance. However, if you do provide such information, ExxonMobil accepts your explicit consent to use that data in accordance with this Privacy Statement or in the ways described at the point where such information is disclosed.
11. AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING
ExxonMobil does not use automated decision-making unless this is (i.) necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the Individual and ExxonMobil and its affiliates, (ii.) permitted or required by law, or (iii.) based on the Individual's explicit consent.
Automated decision-making means a decision that produces legal effects concerning an Individual or significantly affects the Individual and which is based solely on automated Processing (i.e. no human intervention in the process of decision-making) of Personal Data intended to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to the Individual. Moreover, ExxonMobil shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the Individual's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests.
12. RECORDS RETENTION
ExxonMobil retains Personal Data as long as necessary to meet the purposes for which the data was collected, or in order to ensure compliance with applicable law or to protect legitimate company interests (e.g. statute of limitations periods).
13. QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS
ExxonMobil is committed to protecting your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Statement and as required by applicable national laws. If you have any questions about this notice or about ExxonMobil's handling of your Personal Data, or if you would like to request additional information on the Personal Data ExxonMobil holds about you or learn about and exercise your rights with respect to your Personal Data, you can contact:
Data Privacy Office
c/o ExxonMobil Business Support Center Hungary Ltd.
Váci út 81-85
Data.privacy.office@exxonmobil.com
The Data Protection Officer in countries identified in Section 1
You also have a right to lodge a complaint to the data protection supervisory authority in your country.
14. DEFINED TERMS
The term "Data Controller" means the natural or legal person (in the case of ExxonMobil, the relevant ExxonMobil affiliate) which determines the purposes and means of the Processing of Personal Data.
"ExxonMobil" and/or "ExxonMobil affiliates" mean (a) Exxon Mobil Corporation or any parent of Exxon Mobil Corporation, (b) any company or partnership in which Exxon Mobil Corporation or any parent of Exxon Mobil Corporation now or hereafter, directly or indirectly (1) owns or (2) controls, more than fifty per cent (50%) of the ownership interest having the right to vote or appoint its directors or functional equivalents ("Affiliated Company") and (c) any joint venture in which Exxon Mobil Corporations, any parent of Exxon Mobil Corporation or an Affiliated Company has day to day operational control.
By "Processed" or "Processing" we mean any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
The term "Personal Data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ("Data Subject" or "Individual"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
15. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Statement at any time without notice. When we make material changes to this Privacy Statement, we will post the changes on this page and update the revision date at the top of the Privacy Statement. We encourage you to review our Privacy Statement regularly for updates.
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Rampant alcohol abuse fuelling rise in serious and violent crime.
Mongolia is battling with a growing problem of alcohol abuse.
According to the World Health Organisation more than 20 per cent of the country's male population and five per cent of women are dependent on alcohol.
In addition the problem is fuelling a rise in serious and violent crime, nearly three quarters of which is said to be alcohol-related.
The issue has become one of the country's biggest stumbling blocks to economic and social progress.
Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley reports from Ulaan Bataar.


Congratulations to Ojashwi Giri, Shayla Craig, Ellie Acquillano, and Elizabeth Williams (not pictured).
placed 1st in CPR/first aid. The team of Ellie and Ojashwi placed 2nd for community awareness. Good Luck at Nationals!


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More than 100 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. This piece profiles Verónica Villalvazo, who investigates femicide in this climate of fear.
Adela Navarro is the director of, Zeta, one of the only news outlets in Mexico to regularly report on drug trafficking, corruption and organized crime.
PEN is gravely concerned by the pervasive attacks and threats continuously being made against Mexican journalists.
PEN International is deeply concerned about the cases of espionage against journalists, activists and human rights defenders in Mexico.
PEN International is seriously concerned for the safety of Noé Zavaleta, Veracruz state correspondent for the national newsweekly Proceso.
Authorities must strengthen programmes to safeguard the lives of at-risk journalists following the shocking murder of a journalist in Veracruz.
PEN International and PEN Mexico are seriously concerned by the threats received by award-winning journalist and author Héctor de Mauleón.
The Mexican authorities must investigate the fatal shooting of journalist Manuel Torres from Veracruz State on May 14, 2016.
Journalist Francisco Pacheco Beltran was killed on April 25, 2016 when returning to his home in Taxco, Guerrero, around 6:30 am.


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Upon leaving Sarnen, the bunch rides to the north-east in a ride you can easily dub 'route of the Swiss lakes'. There are about 7 lakes along the route today.
Just like departure town Sarnen, the arrival town Heiden is on a lake: the Bodensee. The rolling route has three 2nd category cols and the finish is atop a 3 kilometre climb of 5.6%.
The stage starts at 11:48 (CET) and the finish is expected around 17:05.


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Submission covering letter to Draft Independence Referendum Bill
The SSP submitted a contribution to the Draft Independence Referendum Bill. While the questions were largely technical in nature, we included a covering letter to ensure that our thoughts on a second referendum are clear and unambiguous.
While it is important to review arrangements for the organisation of the next Independence referendum, the Scottish Socialist Party believes that thought needs to be given to the political context of that referendum. The issue of independence is not simply a constitutional question; in which independence is an end in itself. Rather, it should be seen as a means to an end. The purpose of independence is to provide a vehicle for the transformation of society; to create a Scotland radically different from what we have at present. This approach should also inform the next referendum campaign.
Struggles in Society
The SSP believes that the struggle for independence should be linked to wider struggles in society. Eg. If we want rid of nuclear weapons; vote for independence. If we want to abolish the monarchy and live under a republic; vote for independence. If we want to return the railways or the utility companies back to public ownership; vote for independence. If we want Scotland to become a fairer and more equal society; vote for independence. If we want Scotland to be a welcoming place for asylum seekers, refugees or migrants; vote for independence.
The argument needs to be that if you vote for independence it will improve your life and that of your family and community.
Most opinion polls show that – like the last referendum – people from poorer backgrounds living in more deprived communities were more likely to vote Yes than those from more affluent backgrounds. Likewise younger people were more likely to vote Yes than elderly people. This is because the former have less stake in the current system and and are more likely to see the potential with independence. In contrast; elderly people and those from more affluent backgrounds had a greater stake in maintaining the status quo. To win the next referendum we need to engage with young people and those from more deprived backgrounds with the core argument that independence can change their lives while obviously trying to win over other sections of society. The aim should be to win working class people, representing the overwhelming majority in society, to the cause of independence. This should be done with a programme and campaign that addresses their aspirations. If we fail to do this, then the chance of winning the next referendum is greatly diminished.
Barring outliers, opinion polls since the referendum in 2014 have been consistent with 45% saying they would vote Yes and 55% No. This shows that support for independence is remarkably resilient despite the lack of any independence campaign, voter election fatigue and a weakened Scottish economy. If these were the figures going into a new referendum campaign the independence movement would feel confident in winning the final vote in a campaign where momentum would be with the independence movement and facing a fragmented unionist campaign led by the hated Tories.
The Scottish Socialist Party played a significant part in the last referendum campaign and is ready to do the same in the next. The referendum is there to be won and we should go into the campaign with optimism and confidence ready to begin the process of the radical transformation of our country.
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Cover Story–May 2021: RAF goes viral
May 2021 cover story on www.lttds.org
The May 2021 monthly Cover Story 'RAF goes viral' is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org
"RAF / Reduce Art Flights is a campaign imploring that the art world (artists, curators, critics, gallerists, collectors, museum directors, etc.) should diminish its use of aeroplanes. It was initiated by the artist Gustav Metzger (1926–2017) on the occasion of the artist's participation in Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, during which 5,000 leaflets based on a 1942 Royal Air Force poster were distributed."
→ After May 2021 this story will be archived here.
Reduce Art Flights website refreshed, 5 February 2020
dOCUMENTA (13) artists and Latitudes, 24 Aug 2012
Reduce Art Flights leafleting campaign by Gustav Metzger at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 21 Oct 2009
Reduce Art Flights campaign initiative changes URL to www.reduceartflights.lttds.org, 28 Jan 2009
Greenwashing update: RAF / Reduce Art Flights. Gustav Metzger interview, 06 Mar 2008
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Cover Story—September 2020: States of emergency—Lola Lasurt's 'Children's Game'
The September 2020 monthly Cover Story 'States of emergency—Lola Lasurt's 'Children's Game'' is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org
"Lola Lasurt's exhibition 'Joc d'infants' (Children's Game) looks back more than fifty years to the first contemporary art event hosted in the same venue where it is now taking place—until 27 September."
→ After September 2020 this story will be archived here.
Cover Story—August 2020: 'Màquina possible': going viral at Can Balaguer 1 Aug 2020
Cover Story—July 2020: Nino Kvrivishvili's silk roads: Incidents (of Travel), Tbilisi 1 Jul 2020
Cover Story—June 2020: Mataró Chauffeur Service, since 2010 1 June 2020
Cover Story—May 2020: Panama, back through the lens 4 May 2020
Cover Story—March-April 2020: The Bolós Cabinet 3 March 2020
Cover Story—February 2020: Carioca Incidents 3 February 2020
Cover Story—January 2020: Safeguarding Gestures 2 January 2020
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Cover Story—May 2020: Panama, back through the lens
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The May 2020 monthly Cover Story 'Panama, back through the lens' is now up on our homepage: www.lttds.org
April 2020 marked 15 years of Latitudes' curatorial practice. We've long been planning an update and redesign of our website, and with life and work on hold for the last few weeks, we've finally had the time to make it happen. The whole site has now been rebuilt: https://www.lttds.org/
The new widescreen home page features Donna Conlon, Jonathan Harker, and Sandino Scheidegger, the latest episode of 'Incidents (of Travel)', accompanied by Donna's and Jonathan's thoughts on how life has changed in recent weeks in Panama City.
''Panama is a country of many contrasts, bruised by a variety of social, political, and cultural crises", writes curator Sandino Scheidegger in the latest edition of 'Incidents (of Travel)', in which he spent a day in January with the artists Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker. "These tensions grow even stronger in its capital, Panama City, where an impressive skyline rises over an often struggling population below it." Here high on a hill above the urban bustle, Jonathan, Donna, and Sandino clamber along railings and among branches in the Parque Metropolitano near where the duo shot the video 'Capapults (Tapitapultas)' (2012) – a slyly humorous take on military history, national identity, consumerism, and waste."
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Latitudes' 15th anniversary and rebuilt and redesigned website 2 May 2020
Episode #11 of 'Incidents (of Travel)' – Dispatch by Sandino Scheidegger and Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker from Panama City 9 April 2020
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Cover Story—November 2019: 'Fighting fires in Valencia: the 30-year story of the IVAM' 1 November 2019
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Latitudes's 15th anniversary and rebuilt and redesigned website
April marked 15 years of Latitudes's curatorial practice. We've long been planning an update and redesign of our website, and with life and work on hold for the last few weeks, we've finally had the time to make it happen.
The whole site has been rebuilt from the ground up using the Foundation 6 framework. It is now faster, more accessible, and more responsive (it better adapts to whether you're viewing on a mobile, or whatever size screen). Many of the changes are under the hood, although you'll notice the larger type size and improved navigation elements. Most importantly, you can now more easily toggle between languages throughout (Spanish 'ES' and English 'EN'). Many of the images will already look much crisper, especially on retina devices, and we'll gradually be upgrading the rest of the galleries.
Our home page https://www.lttds.org will continue to feature a Cover Story: a monthly focus on a current project, an artwork, artist, or a glimpse from our archive, accompanied by a short caption or narrative. This month the new widescreen image format features Donna Conlon, Jonathan Harker, and Sandino Scheidegger, and the latest episode of 'Incidents (of Travel)', accompanied by Donna's and Jonathan's thoughts on how life has changed in recent weeks in Panama City.
We've eliminated the drop down menu organising our projects by year. Instead the 'Projects' page becomes the main hub where tags enable you to filter by year as well as by categories such as 'Editions', 'Editorial', 'Exhibitions', 'Pedagogy', 'Performance', 'Public Realm', 'Research', 'Residencies', 'Screenings' 'Talks'.
Each individual project page includes a full-width sliding photo gallery, and has clearer access to further photos (from our Flickr), publications, social media archive – accessing posts on twitter or facebook, as well as videos.
Each project now its own 'Archive' section reconfigured as an 'off-canvas' panel which swoops in to show all the relevant press reviews, as well as posts published on Longitudes, a section which cuts across Latitudes' projects and research with news, updates, and reportage going back to 2006.
We have revised the 'About' page and broken it down into three further categories: 'People', 'Activities', 'Press'.
Under 'Activities' there is a submenu listing 'Writing', 'Lectures', 'Pedagogy', 'Awards & Affiliations', 'Juries', 'Residencies', 'Visitor Programmes'. And 'Press' is divided into 'Press Coverage' and 'Latitudes in the Media'.
'Newsletters' is the place to sign-up for our email updates, and continues to archive our past mailings, also offering the possibility of filtering by year.
Latitudes' redesigned portfolio – projects since 2005, 20 Feb 2019
Limited Edition Tote Bags Commemorating Latitudes' 10th Anniversary, 25 May 2015
It's our 10th anniversary! 22 May 2015
Latitudes' re-designed website now online! 25 February 2015
Latitudes' 4th anniversary, 02 Apr 2009
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Reduce Art Flights website refreshed
https://reduceartflights.lttds.org/
The Reduce Art Flights website has had a long-overdue refresh (the first version is from 2008 and originally at reduceartflights.com): it now features a new exhibition history, bibliography and a transcription of the interview with RAF's instigator, the late artist Gustav Metzger (1926–2017).
RAF / Reduce Art Flights is a campaign which upholds that the art world—artists, curators, critics, gallerists, collectors, museum directors, etc.—could or should diminish its use of aeroplanes.
"...it's a nudge in the ribs as it were to remind people there is a problem and let's talk about this problem of endless flights here and there. What particularly annoyed me originally was the statement by the organisers of the [2006] Basel art fair that when it comes to taking the fair to Miami, which was planned, everybody could get a 50% reduction on the aeroplane flight. I thought that is just over the top, pumping up the possibility of aeroplane use. So for me, this has very much to do with a rejection of mass transport through the air of course, and through cars and buses, and also a criticism of the art world where everything is out for maximizing everything and in every direction." — Gustav Metzger
The site is maintained by Latitudes as a resource for the initiative and as a location for future elaborations of its aims.
The website in 2008.
Pages of the exhibition catalogue 'Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities', Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, edited by Latitudes & Ilaria Bonacossa, published by The Bookmakers Ed., Turin, 2008, ISBN: 978-88-95702-01-8.
→ RELATED CONTENT:
'THE LAST MONITOR' AVAILABLE NOW! #5 issue of the 10 Latitudes-edited newspapers for 'The Last Newspaper' exhibition, New Museum 30 October 2010
Reduce Art Flights leafleting campaign by Gustav Metzger at the Serpentine Gallery, London 21 October 2009
Gustav Metzger's RAF / Reduce Art Flights campaign initiative changes URL to www.reduceartflights.lttds.org 28 January 2009
"Greenwashing update: RAF / Reduce Art Flights. Gustav Metzger interview", Latitudes blog post, 6 March 2008
Exhibition 'Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities', Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2008.
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Cover Story–December 2018: "Treasures! exhibitionism! showmanship!"
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The December 2018 Monthly Cover Story "Treasures! exhibitionism! showmanship!" is now up on Latitudes' homepage: www.lttds.org
"A clutch of shows in Vienna (where Latitudes was recently a guest of Art Week) and Amsterdam (which just held its Art Weekend) offer a distinctive take on curatorial liberty and creative exhibition display."
—> After December it will be archived here.
Cover Story—November 2018: "Joan Morey—postmortem judgement reenactment" 1 November 2018
Cover Story–October 2018: "I can't take my eyes off you: Eulàlia Rovira and Adrian Schindler" 1 October 2018
Cover Story–September 2018: Harald Szeemann's travel sculpture, 10 September 2018
Cover Story–August 2018: Askeaton Joyride, 2 August 2018
Cover Story–July 2018: No Burgers for Sale 2 July 2018
Save the date: 13 September, 6–9pm. Latitudes-curated exhibition 'Cream cheese and pretty ribbons!', Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, 21 June 2018
Cover Story—June 2018: Near-Future Artworlds Curatorial Disruption Foresight Group, 4 June 2018
Cover Story – May 2018: Shadowing Roman Ondák, 7 May 2018
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Cover Story – July 2017: "4.543 billion"
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The July 2017 Monthly Cover Story "4.543 billion" is now up on www.lttds.org – after July it will be archived here.
"4.543 billion. The matter of matter recently opened at the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, and features the work of more than thirty artists. Curated by Latitudes, the exhibition looks at histories of art as fragments in geological time. The portentous mood of this gallery hinges on combustion and history violently formed through the fundamental reordering of the relations between humans and the rest of nature." Continue reading
→ Social media archive related to the exhibition.
→ Photo gallery of the exhibition.
Cover Stories' are published on a monthly basis on Latitudes' homepage and feature past, present or forthcoming projects, research, writing, artworks, exhibitions, films, objects or field trips related to our curatorial activities.
Cover Story – June 2017: Month Light–Absent Forms 1 June 2017
Cover Story – May 2017: S is for Shale, or Stuart; W is for Waterfall, or Whipps 1 May 2017
Cover Story – April 2017: Banff Geologic Time 3 April 2017
Cover Story – March 2017: Time travel with Jordan Wolfson 1 March 2017
Cover Story – February 2017: The Dutch Assembly, five years on 1 February 2017
Cover Story – January 2017: How open are open calls? 4 January 2017
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Latitudes' "out of office" 2014–2015 season
It's that end-of-the-season time of the year again. It has become a tradition for Latitudes (see the 2008-9, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012–13, 2013–14 posts) to mark the summer break, not by presenting a written memo of activities or a financial statement, but with a 'behind the scenes' post filled with photos revisiting moments from the year gone by. So here are some glimpses from September 2014 to August 2015.
Slowing down is rather relative this Summer, as at the end of July we embarked on a two-week trip to The Banff Centre in Canada to be Guest Faculty of one of its thematic residencies, 'Blueprint for Happiness' led by British artists Heather & Ivan Morison. At the end of August, we will be in residency at Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco for another two weeks.
Milestones during the first part of 2015 were two-fold: after months of technical tweaking and editorial wrangling, we launched our newly designed website in February and secondly, this Spring Latitudes celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Have a great holiday, más en septiembre!
7 October 2014: Latitudes hosted the second year students of the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London, and took the opportunity of presenting and reflecting on our collaborations with three Catalan artists – Martí Anson, Ignasi Aballí and Francesc Ruiz.
Francesc Ruiz presenting his work to the RCA students.
Trip reporting: We reported from the field including at Madrid's Apertura in September, London's Frieze week in October, David Jablonowski's "Hype Cycle" at Fons Welters during Amsterdam's Art Weekend in November, and from Bordeaux in January, to Bari in May.
Writing: This year Max Andrews has joined frieze as Contributing Editor – where he has been writing since 2004. His writing has been more frequent in recent months as frieze have published reviews on Maria Thereza Alves at CAAC in Sevilla, the group show "What cannot be used is forgotten" at CAPC Bordeaux, a profile of Nicholas Mangan and a review of the Spanish and Latin American Pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Mariana Cánepa Luna also published an interview with Mangan in Mousse Magazine last February.
New website: Our homemade website finally saw the light of day in February. As explained in this post, the website features new elements such as the 'Cover Story' (more on that in the next paragraph), sliding photo galleries, a tidied-up sidebar with a calendar of events, tags to filter projects by 'year' or 'exhibition', etc.
'Cover Story': More writing has emerged through the new monthly section "Cover Story" on our home page (check out the archive of this section):
March 2015: Focused on a single artwork: Wilfredo Prieto's 'Grasa, jabón y plátano' (2006);
April 2015: Revisited a peculiar site: the Connaught Road West flyover, in Hong Kong;
April 2015 Cover Story.
May 2015: Honoured two artistazos: Lawrence Weiner and Sergi Aguilar and a whisky-enhanced chat on the Barcelona shore in October 2008;
June 2015: Visited Ignasi Aballí at his Raval studio.
Summer 2015: Orbited around Australian artist Nicholas Mangan, an artist with whom Latitudes just did an in conversation in the context of his solo exhibition "Ancient Lights" at Chisenhale, London and whose work has been the focus in Max Andrews' Frieze text as well as in Mariana Cánepa Luna's interview in the February-March issue of Mousse Magazine.
Summer 2015 Cover Story (plus the archive here).
26 February, ARCOmadrid: On jury duty visiting the galleries participating in the #Opening section of the art fair, in order to select its best stand. The award was given to Barcelona-based gallery etHALL which presented works by Martin Vitaliti and Sergio Prego.
Spring, celebration time! Later in May we celebrated our 10th anniversary (well, officially it was in April!) launching a series of limited editions in the form of tote bags by four artists that have a special place in our hearts and with whom we have collaborated with in the past: Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942), Haegue Yang (Seoul, 1971), Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona, 1958) and Mariana Castillo Deball (Mexico City, 1975). Below is a glimpse from the making of the tote bags at Print Workers Barcelona, and here's where you can place your order.
Photolith design for the tote bag by Haegue Yang – realised in collaboration with OK-RM.
Silkscreen process of Lawrence Weiner's design. Photo: Print Workers.
Silkscreening Ignasi Aballí's tote. Photo: Print Workers.
Silkscreening Mariana Castillo Deball tote. Photo: Print Workers.
Silkscreening the credit for each bag in the inside pocket. Photo: Print Workers.
Homemade photo studio documenting the totes. Results of the photo shoot here.
9–13 May 2015: After an intense week of Biennale overdose in Venice, we traveled to Bari to join Vessel and MADA's 2015 International Curatorial Retreat as two of its tutors. The week was far from being a retreat, it was more like an "intensive" – though it certainly was a "treat". Highly interesting debates and conversations on-and-off the scheduled activities of lectures and break-out sessions emerged in places such as a cave or in the nearby town Monopoli – no direct link to the property trading board game. Here a report from fellow tutor Dr. Alexandra Ross.
Visiting the market. Photo: Piero Percoco.
Market stall selling tomatoes of all kinds and origins.
Chef Boris Portnoy doing some dinner prep at Doppelgaenger gallery/home.
Due to a fire in Rome's airport, our flight was cancelled and we had to rearrange our travel, spending another day in Bari. We therefore visited (we were in fact their only visitors) the Palazzo dell'Acquedotto Pugliese di Bari, decorated by roman designer Duilio Cambellotti.
A food detour to purchase delightful spicy rucola in the Mercato ex Manifattura Bari, in the Quartiere Libertà.
3–5 June 2015: Max Andrews participated in the annual 'Invest Conference 2015' organised by Stroom den Haag, in The Hague, consisting of "an incentive for the artistic development of recently graduated artists who have received the PRO Invest subsidy in the year before. A group of ten international curators is asked to visit these artists in their studios and meet with the art scene of The Hague."
Above (visiting Machteld Rullens) and following photographs by Myung Feyen. Courtesy Stroom den Haag.
7 July 2015: For our last public event of the year we joined Melbourne artist Nicholas Mangan for an in conversation in the context of his solo show 'Ancient Lights' that opened a few days earlier at Chisenhale Gallery in London. Mint and Lime Films video documented the talk – watch it from Chisenhale's website / Vimeo.
Vinyl listing the exhibition events.
(Above) Photos by Manuela Barczewski.
27 July–7 August 2015: Guest Faculty of the Thematic Residency 'Blueprint for Happiness' at The Banff Centre, Canada. We joined the group in the middle two weeks of the six week programme led by British artists Heather and Ivan Morison.
View of The Banff Centre from our bedroom in Lloyd Hall.
Banff TV announcing Latitudes' talk on 28 July, 4pm.
Blueprint for Happiness' participants.
Views from Latitudes' studio in the Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Building.
Studio visit with "Blueprint for Happiness" participant Vanessa Kwan.
Studio visit with "Blueprint for Happiness" participant Robert Cram.
Inevitable photo of a deer walking around Banff.
Stunning evening sunset over the Bow River after a storm with a double rainbow.
While in Banff, Latitudes led three seminars bringing forward a series of case studies as well as focussing on a number of artists whose practice has dealt with public space in different geographical contexts. We also undertook studio visits with each of the 11 resident artists, and participated in a field trip to Calgary to visit the HQ of art construction company Heavy Industries and the Esker Foundation Contemporary Art Gallery.
(School) Field trip to Calgary to visit Heavy Industries fabricators and the Esker Foundation.
Even though the school bus seats were no longer in scale to our adult bodies, interesting chats happened over the 2 hours of each trajectory.
On Sunday 2 August, Latitudes hosted a closed-door evening film programme screening works by Spanish artist Emilio Moreno, Irish artist Sean Lynch and Australian artist Nicholas Mangan. The three films share a focus on public sculptures, monuments or buildings that have been displaced from their original context.
Flicking through some of the 4,000 artist books at Banff library.
Most of this past months' activity has been invested in preparing for 2015–16 projects: Firstly, 'Compositions' a series of five artistic interventions by six artists active in the Barcelona art scene: David Bestué (Barcelona, 1980. Lives in Barcelona); Dora García (Valladolid, 1965. Lives in Barcelona), Jordi Mitjà (Figueres, 1970. Lives between Lladó and Banyoles); Rasmus Nilausen (Copenhagen, 1980. Lives in Barcelona) & Pere Llobera (Barcelona, 1970. Lives in Barcelona) and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (Barcelona, 1977. Lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), which will take place in the context of the first Barcelona Gallery Weekend (1–4 October 2015).
Façade of Cosme Toda in L'Hospitalet municipality (Barcelona) part of a 1920s factory complex where David Bestué will present his intervention in the context of the first Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 October 2015.
Site visit to the Umbracle with Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.
Secondly, we've been working on the forthcoming solo exhibition of Venezuelan-born, Barcelona-based artist José Antonio Hernández-Díez which will be on view at La Capella MACBA from March 2016. Onwards!
Digging through documentation in MACBA library in preparation for José Antonio Hernández-Díez exhibition.
Latitudes 'Out of office' 2013–14, 31 July 2014;
Latitudes' "out of office" photo album, 2012–2013 season, 31 July 2013;
Latitudes' "out of office" photo album 2011–2012, 31 July 2012;
Latitudes 'out of office' photo album 2010–11 season, 1 August 2011;
Latitudes 'out of office' photo album 2009–10 season, 30 July 2010;
Latitudes' "out of office" photo album 2008-9, 30 July 2009.
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It's our 10th anniversary!
We find it hard to believe, but April 2015 marked our 10th anniversary!
In October last year, we started working on our new website so that it would be ready to mark the decade of our two-person self-organisation. We submerged ourselves in the exercise of looking back and consolidating our physical and digital archives. The last decade has certainly been marked by the transition towards the latter, and hence files and hard drives now hold the most voluminous evidence of our activity, with all manner of USB-sticks and obsolescent CDs (remember those?) having fallen by the wayside.
We devised a plan for what we wanted to improve with a website conceived as a place for reportage as well as a publicly-accessible archive. This process included developing more extensive, and larger-format, photo galleries, cross-referencing to previously "buried" texts, making descriptions more concise, adding a related content section to cross-reference project information with blog posts, and consolidating locations as well as events. After six months of work, and some down-the-rabbit-hole endless weekends with the intricacies of CSS, we had re-edited ten years of our professional life online. Ta-da!
But we also hold on to physical archives and printer matter and they continue to delight! They also bear witness to something of what has been lost. The decline of the post as a means for distributing video (VHS! DVDs!) with the rise of Dropbox, or Vimeo, for example, has meant no more of those sweet hand-written notes that used to accompany artists' packages. Exhibition invitations are frankly a rarity now too, and these are filed alongside various postcards, discarded fragments of artists' work and other amusing ephemera.
Since we commissioned our mail-and-stamp graphic identity from More Associates back in April 2005, we have seeped more-and-more online to document and communicate: our first newsletter (November 2005), our first website, our early blog posts (starting in September 2006!), our Facebook page in early 2009 started with the presentation of Jan Dibbets' filming for Portscapes, our Flickr photo archive (also in 2009, now with nearly 4,000 photos online), followed by our first tweets in 2010, and sporadically YouTube, Issuu, Storify, Soundcloud followed.
Presentation of 7 years of practice as part of the programme "La Sucursal" at Casa del Lago, Mexico City, September 2012. This invitation gave us the opportunity to begin the series 'Incidents of Travel' commissioning artists tours in Mexico and Hong Kong. Photo: Latitudes.
This "ecstasy of communication" as Dieter Roelstraete has ironically put it, a day-to-day reality, has certainly defined our practice and how we have come to produce, document and disseminate our projects. We always stress this rapid digital transition when presenting our practice, as adapting to it has certainly been crucial as a two-person spaceless self-organisation. Not running a regular programme of exhibitions or events has meant we have found the need to communicate the duration of what we are working on while being seemingly offline. Sometimes the standard drop-in question "What are you working on?", is not so straightforward to answer. Back to Roelstraete – "getting organised" could often be the most suitable answer. "Getting organised" for the next project, reflecting on a recently concluded activity, anticipating the one after that, sorting out finances, seeing how we might put together the next research trip, finding it a challenge to find the time to read a book from beginning to end, watching life and work go by in 'likes' and 'retweets' and 'regrams'... Yet far than being nostalgic, this transition has itself given us great food for thought. For example, we dedicated over a year to discussing the consequences of online presence for art practice and curating with colleagues from Hong Kong to Minneapolis in the #OpenCurating interview series.
In 2010 we were awarded the inaugural Curatorial Prize given by the Catalan Gallery Association, recognising our "curatorial work and especially for their involvement in the local context and their efforts to disseminate national art in an international context." Photo: Latitudes.
We are thankful to the many artists and other creative people who have supported us throughout this past decade. Some projects started with innocuous conversations that eventually led to ongoing collaborations and friendships, and we are also grateful to colleagues willing to offer critical feedback and words of encouragement in those moments in which we most needed to regain trust. A huge thanks too to the institutions and organisations for financing our projects.
Very soon more news on a commemorative project we've been cooking up...
Latitudes' 4th anniversary (April 2009)
Newsletter #22 – April 2010
All photos: Latitudes | www.lttds.org (except when noted otherwise in the photo caption).
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Archive of Cover Story (April): "Beneath the Connaught Road West flyover, Hong Kong, 19 January 2013"
This past March we launched our re-designed website, which includes improved features as well as new sections such as "cover story" on our home page: a monthly focus on an artwork, artist, book, site or trip we've experienced in our recent past, accompanied by a short text.
Our April Cover Story titled "Beneath the Connaught Road West flyover, Hong Kong, 19 January 2013" looked back at the first 'Incidents of Travel' tour led by artist Nadim Abbas, part of our month residency at Spring Workshop.
We recommend reading the text while listening to this field recording we made on the very same spot!
Cover Story #1: Wilfredo Prieto's work "Grease, Soap, Banana" (2 April 2015)
New re-designed website now online! (25 February 2015)
Witte de With and Spring Workshop's 'Moderation(s)' publication 'End Note(s)' is out! (5 March 2015).
Nadim Abbas' "Incidents of Travel: Hong Kong" public tour (19 January 2013)
Archive of social media posts related to "Incidents of Travel" tours and photo-documentation.
Interview between Christina Li and Latitudes on 'Incidents of Travel' for Witte de With's 'Witness to Moderation(s)' blog (7 May 2013)
13 field recordings from 'Incidents of Travel: Hong Kong'
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I dedicate this post to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Think about it! If your spouse, sibling, significant other, partner, or comrade dies a slow death from an ObamaCare commissar's mis-diagnosis, you can organize a fun run!
It was a huge shock when we discovered it was terminal.
But throughout it all Suzanne was bright and upbeat.
3) Change the system that contributed to his sister's death.
What would you want your family to choose?