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Alan Bulley — Pictures and words
Project 4, Research point: Print and pattern
Two examples of the use of print and pattern come to mind immediately, one on either side of the Atlantic: Burberry's trademark scarf (below left, UK) and the Hudson Bay Company's signature blanket (below right, Canada).
Both patterns are immediately recognizable and both have been imitated. The two companies have worked hard to use the pattern to identify a unique product line that denotes tradition and high-quality, although sometimes with unintended effects. Burberry had to endure years of its pattern being associated with anti-social behaviour ("Burberry versus The Chavs") and Hudson's Bay has been accused of appropriating Indigenous culture ("HBC's 'Colonial Barbie' comes with some baggage"). Both companies have extended the use of their pattern to other items.
The article cited on Greek fashion designer in the course materials does not seem to be available anymore. There is, however, a useful review of her 2011 Spring Ready-to-Wear show in the online edition of Vogue (accessed 22 August 2017).
As Katrantzou works on her creations she "designs in 3-D"—that is, she plans the form, volume and drape of the garment at the same time that she develops the pattern / illustration that will be screen-printed onto the fabric.
"I thought I was going to do a collection about the seventies photographs of Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton: all those women in incredible rooms. But then I started to look at the rooms more, and suddenly, I was putting the rooms on the women instead!"
By this, I think Katrantzou meant that rather than have women serve almost as visual accessories within exotic locations, the locations could serve the women by drawing attention to their own appearance. She achieved this through the design process described above that allowed her to digitally print striking architectural images on to the clothes she created. The clothed woman is the centre of attention, not the backdrop in which she is placed (slideshow of garments in the 2011 collection, accessed 22 August 2017).
Examples from Mary Katrantzou's Spring 2011 collection
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Project 3, Research point 1: Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski's Personnes; image from Traffic Magazine
Analysis by terms / categories:
Art: this is an installation that is meant to be visited in an exhibition space.
Temporary: the installation was in place in Paris for just over a month.
Large scale: the piece is large enough to dominate and overwhelm visitors, which is likely part of the desired effect.
Form: Personnes formed its own shapes, in regular rectangular deposits of clothing.
Immersive and Distant: the installation is large enough to walk around in, but also draws some of its power from the ability to stand back and take in its scale.
Repetition and Shape: the work is laid out as a series of regular rectangles of clothing lying on a concrete floor.
The media release for Personnes described it as "social, religious and humanistic exploration of life, memory and the irreductible individuality of each and every human existence – together with the presence of death, the dehumanisation of the body, chance and destiny. Conceived as a work in sound and vision, Personnes takes up a new theme in Boltanski's work, building on his earlier explorations of the limits of human existence and the vital dimension of memory : the question of fate, and the ineluctability of death. Personnes transforms the entire Nave of the Grand Palais through the creation of a coherent, intensely moving installation conceived as a gigantic animated tableau. Personnes is a one-off, ephemeral work. In accordance with the artist's wishes, the components of the piece will all be recycled at the end of the exhibition."
Without knowing anything about the installation, my first glances at pictures of it reminded me of the large piles of sorted clothes, shoes and eyeglasses confiscated from Jewish victims of the Nazi death camps. The empty (de-personalised) clothes cannot help but speak to us of the absence of the people who once wore them. And the rectangular piles on the floor suggested to me both that the missing people were less important than their clothes and that a rational mind had created the arrangement with deliberate purpose. The use of a crane to move the clothes makes the arrangements even more mechanistic and dehumanised.
The name of the installation—Personnes—is a play on words that reflects the dehumanisation described above: the French word suggests at once the people who would have worn the clothes and their absence ("no ones").
http://vernissage.tv/2010/01/14/christian-boltanski-personnes-monumenta-2010-at-grand-palais-paris-interview-part-1/
http://www.clg-exupery-ermont.ac-versailles.fr/IMG/pdf/fiche_prof_personnes_boltanski.pdf
http://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2010/02/01/monumenta-2010-christian-boltanski.html
In Creative Arts Today, Project 3, Research point Tags Creative Arts Today, Part 5: Textiles, Project 3, Research
Project 3, Research point 4: Wrapped Trees, Kusama, Bouroullec and Straub
Wrapped Trees
Copyright: Wolfgang Volz, ©Christo 1998
Starting on Friday, November 13, 1998, 178 trees were wrapped with 592,015 square feet (55,000 square meters) of woven polyester fabric (used every winter in Japan to protect trees from frost and heavy snow) and 14.3 miles (23 kilometers) of rope. The wrapping was completed on November 22. The trees are located in the park around the Fondation Beyeler and in the adjacent meadow as well as along the creek of Berower Park, northeast of Basel, at the German border. The height of the trees varied between 82 feet (25 meters) and 6.5 feet (2 meters) with a diameter from 47.5 feet (14.5 meters) to 3.3 feet (1 meter). [http://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/wrapped-trees?view=info — consulted 7 August 2017]
The wrapping was removed after a month and the materials recycled. The artists also approached the cities of St. Louis, MO and Paris concerning additional wrapping projects but were denied permission.
After reading the quote again in its proper context on the website (that is, it applies to all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's projects, not just the Wrapped Trees), I can appreciate the focus on the use and properties of textiles rather than on a particular technique. The two use their materials to create and enhance temporarily, large-scale structural forms, some of which exist already and others that are revealed by the application of the textile and its particular properties.
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, Infinity mirrored Room, 1998. Installation. Les Abattoirs, Tolosa
Defining and Forming
Pattern, Colour and Repetition
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Installation view, Bivouac, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
October 7, 2011 - July 30, 2012
Photo © studio Bouroullec
Immersive and Distant
Pattern, Colour and Shape
Marianne Straub
Woven, 1949, British; Straub, Marianne for Helios Ltd. "Brisbane"
Marianne Straub OBE (23 September 1909 – 8 November 1994) was one of the leading commercial designers of textiles in Britain in the period from the 1940s to 1960s. She said her overriding aim was: "to design things which people could afford. ... To remain a handweaver did not seem satisfactory in this age of mass-production." [Wikipedia, consulted 7 August 2017]
Small-scale
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Project 3, Research point 3: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The scale of the Surrounded Islands project is impressive. And although the work appears to be simple in concept (surround 11 islands with "floating pink woven polypropylene fabric") it is clear that an enormous amount of imagination, planning, logistical support and money went into the project.
"The luminous pink color of the shiny fabric was in harmony with the tropical vegetation of the uninhabited verdant islands, the light of the Miami sky and the colors of the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay." This is all true, but the shade of pink also reminded me of the art deco-revival pink that was often associated with Miami in the 1980s. As just one example, the visual design of the TV show Miami Vice (1984–1990) frequently drew on the same palette:
The other item that caught my attention when reading about this installation had to do with the issue of impact on the environment. I wondered about the impact on the bay's wildlife, but did not expect to learn that the local flora and fauna were probably in better shape after the installation than before it. Not only did the artists exercise due diligence with a marine biologist, ornithologists and a mammal expert, but they also removed "some forty tons of varied garbage that included refrigerator doors, tires, kitchen sinks, mattresses and an abandoned boat." My expectations were entirely wrong.
I agree with the assessment of the Surrounded Islands project: it is a temporary, large-scale art installation that defines a series of islands by shape (although the role of striking colour should not be undervalued) and meant to be viewed at a distance.
In Creative Arts Today, Project 3, Research point Tags Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Part 5: Textiles, Creative Arts Today, Miami, Miami Vice, pink
Project 3, Research point 2: architectural uses of textiles
This article contains references to a number of examples of architectural uses of textiles, several of which are shown in images below:
https://www.architonic.com/en/story/susanne-fritz-the-very-fabric-of-architecture-textile-use-in-construction/7000625
Master's thesis on Textile in Architecture by Terhi Kristiina Kuusisto
"Architecture + Textiles = Architextiles"
Elie Tahari Showroom, NYC — Photographer: © Michael Moran
DAR LUZ installation by Lars Meeß-Olsohn and Ali Heshmati in Eindhoven — Photo © Johan Creemers
'Tubaloon' by Snohetta Architects for the Kongsberg jazz festival in Norway — Photo © Snohetta
Swiss pavilion at EXPO Shanghai 2010 with X-TEND steel net by Carl Stahl — Photo © iart interactive ag, photographer: Mark Niederman
Hyparform vertical sails on a Vienna building by Planex
In Creative Arts Today, Project 3, Research point Tags Creative Arts Today, Part 5: Textiles, Architecture, Architextiles, Project 3, Research
Project 3, Research point 1: prep for Assignment 5
In preparation for Assignment 5 on Textiles, I've decided that I'd like to do work on the the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry. The tapestry was completed in Scotland between 2012 and 2014 and then toured the world via installations in countries with a significant population claiming Scottish heritage. The tapestry will be permanently installed in Prestonpans, Scotland. I had the opportunity to see the tapestry and photograph portions of it in Ottawa during the Canadian leg of its tour in January 2017. Assignment 5 will give me the opportunity to dig more deeply into the textile aspect of the work, rather than just the depictions of Scottish emigration and accomplishments.
A few quick shots I took of tapestry panels. These will be edited and cropped for Assignment 5.
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Project 2, Research point 2
What is their craft and how do they approach it in their work?
I have decided to look at the work of Marcela Rosemberg, a glass-fusion artist who lives in Cobourg, Ontario. My family and I met Marcela and had the chance to tour her studio a number of years ago when she lived on Prince Edward Island.
Do they adhere to the ideas of Slow Design? To what extent does this allow them to take risks, experiment and innovate?
I have not been able to find any explicit reference by Marcela to Slow Design, but some of the things she says about her own artistic practice are reminiscent of the movement's commitments and principles. The following passage from the "About" page on her website is a good example:
Beauty, simplicity, elegance and functionality are essential components in Marcela Rosemberg's designs. At her studio, she's always looking for that special blend of colour and texture that leads her to each piece of art she carefully designs. She treats glass as if it were a human being, by respecting it and not pushing it. This allows her to understand its flow, displacement, behavior, and action up to its most intricate inner part… Its core. That is why Marcela always says: "Each time a piece leaves my studio I feel a little bit of my soul is going with it".
I remember very clearly from the studio tour that Marcela is constantly experimenting with combinations of colours and pigments to be used in her fused glass creations, as well as with new forms and purposes for the finished products. She was good enough to show us some of the less successful efforts that she still had on-hand, so it was clear that she was indeed trying new things and taking risks.
Is their story or the story of their work important? Why?
Marcela's story is clearly very important to her and to the artistic identity she has established over the years. As her website explains, "[t]he ocean and her Jewish faith are the main sources of inspiration in her sculptural and functional current work."
Her website goes on to explain how when Marcela left her native Argentina she relocated in Atlantic Canada and that "her colours and designs are still standing strong on the East coast where she created a brand for herself."
Marcela Rosemberg, Dancing Vessel
The importance of her Jewish heritage can be seen in the beautiful pieces that are clearly designed for the Jewish community.
Marcela Rosemberg, Miracle Menorah
Marcela's emphasis on her considered and hand-made approach to her work, as well as the emotional attachment that she has to her pieces will no doubt be a part of her story that is significant to her clientele, both those who are already clients and those who would like to feel that they are buying a unique creation directly from the designer-maker.
Do you value 'craft' and craftsmanship? Why or why not?
Certainly. I get a great deal of pleasure from seeing the work of someone who has perfected their art or craft to a high degree -- I appreciate both the amount of work that has gone into making difficult things look effortless, as well as the finished product itself (whether that is an object or a performance). And this is not a recent thing for me: I remember being fascinated at the age of 12 by the skill of a backhoe operator who was excavating the hole for the pool that was being installed in our backyard. He operated a piece of heavy machinery like it was a surgeon's scalpel, working quickly to remove earth by following a spray-painted line on the grass, never once making a false cut. I thought of that craftsman years later when I read Aristotle's view that virtue is the practised skill of living well.
Is there room for craft in modern society?
No question. Dedication to 'craft' is needed in so many areas of our society, not only in the arts, but also in the world of work more broadly. All work has value if it is approached with an attention to perfection of a craft and the pursuit of excellence. This extends from ensuring that ancient and traditional kinds of 'know-how' are not lost, to reminding us that the mass-produced may have brought us economies of scale but that there is still great value in considered, skillful and sustainable design and making. And this is true both for the maker and for the one who receives the made good. We cannot all be craftspeople in every field and inexpensive consumer goods have their place, but we are all richer when each of us has something in our life that we pursue as a craft, for our benefit and for the benefit of others.
In Project 2, Research point, Creative Arts Today Tags Part 5: Textiles, Society, Craft, Aristotle, Marcela Rosemberg, Research, Project 2, Glass, Fused glass, Creative Arts Today, Virtue
Project 3, Research point: New Topographics
New Topographics: "a term coined by William Jenkins in 1975 to describe a group of American photographers (such as Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz) whose pictures had a similar banal aesthetic, in that they were formal, mostly black and white prints of the urban landscape."
Also the title of the exhibition curated by Jenkins at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (October 1975 to February 1976).
Mitch Epstein, American Power
Many of these colour images have a formal structure. They have not been taken haphazardly but show attention to composition.
The scenery would normally be considered particularly photogenic in terms of classic landscapes, but there is nonetheless a beauty to many of the shots in the series.
Several of the images seem to have been shot from a viewpoint above regular line of sight—ladder? scaffold? pole? The extra height marks a difference from the usual snapshot at eye-level—does it suggest a different way to view the landscape philosophically, as well?
Most images contain a lot of detail and show considerable depth of field—the viewer is invited to take in a broad field of view rather than to concentrate on small points of focus.
The images explore very broadly the theme of 'power' generation and transmission associated with the energy industry in the U.S.
At the same time, the title 'American Power' could be an ironic questioning of the vulnerabilities of the country's political 'power' because of its dependence on fossil fuels and foreign sources, and because of the environmental degradation associated with the energy industry.
Some of the images are interesting as standalone documents, but together they form a narrative with a clear point of view.
Fay Godwin, Our Forbidden Land
"Her love of walking eventually inspired her to pursue landscape photography, often photographing isolated and remote areas of the British landscape and producing many beautiful pastoral scenes as well as contrasting urban landscapes. President of the Ramblers' Association from 1987 to 1990, she was also renowned for her work as an environmentalist, her interest reflected in many of her best-known images that examine the complex relationships and tensions between man and nature." (Fay Godwin Archive)
Much like Epstein's pictures, Godwin's work in this series has been produced with great care.
All of the images have been produced in black and white—was this an aesthetic decision (documentary approach? emphasis on form and texture rather than colour?), was it due to necessity, or was it even a consideration at all?
The black and white approach suggests something more timeless to me than literal colour, but that may be my own bias.
Godwin draws attention to the separation of people in the U.K. from the land around them and to the degradation of the land. The theme is somewhat broader than Epstein's but the two probably share political sympathies.
It's possible that the work of these two photographers and some of the other New Topographers may have an influence on how I look at and photograph landscapes from now on. They point to something real that is happening to the land we share. If all we photograph is carefully framed to be pretty and shown to its best advantage, are our images 'true'? Are they a reflection of reality or do they conceal it? Or both at the same time?
Perhaps that is a good question to chew on: what do I choose not to photograph? And why not?
In Creative Arts Today, Project 3, Research point Tags Creative Arts Today, Part 4: Photography, Project 3, Research, New Topographics, Fay Godwin, Mitch Epstein, Beauty, Landscape, Political
Research point: Documenting a journey
Paul Graham, A1: The Great North Road
http://www.paulgrahamarchive.com/a1.html
Photographer Paul Graham spent two years completing this documentary on the life and landscape of the Great North Road. Throughout 1981 and 1982 he made numerous trips along the A1, crossing and recrossing the length of the nation to record every aspect of life at the verge of this great road. The photographs reproduced in this book build not only into a significant documentary of the A1, but also provide a thread along which we can travel the Great North Road, deep into the nation's heart, and weave a picture of England in the 1980s.
Stephen Shore, American Surfaces
http://stephenshore.net/photographs/seven/index.php?page=1&menu=photographs
In 1972, Stephen Shore left New York City and set out with a friend to Amarillo, Texas. He didn't drive, so his first view of America was framed by the passenger's window frame. He was taken aback by the fact that his experience of life as a New Yorker had very little in common with the character and aspirations of Middle America. Later that year he set out again, this time on his own, with just a driver's licence and a Rollei 35 - a point-and-shoot camera - to explore the country through the eyes of an everyday tourist.
The project was entitled American Surfaces, in reference to the superficial nature of his brief encounters with places and people, and the underlying character of the images that he hoped to capture. Shore photographed relentlessly and returned to New York triumphant, with hundreds of rolls of film spilling from his bags. In order to remain faithful to the conceptual foundations of the project, he followed the lead of most tourists of the time and sent his film to be developed and printed in Kodak's labs in New Jersey.
The result was hundreds and hundreds of exquisitely composed colour pictures, that became the benchmark for documenting our fast-living, consumer-orientated world. The corpus of his work - following on from Walker Evans' and Robert Frank's epic experiences of crossing America - influenced photographers such as Martin Parr and Bernd & Hilla Becher, who in turn introduced a new generation of students to Shore's work.
Alec Soth, Sleeping by the Mississippi
http://alecsoth.com/photography/?page_id=14
Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's "Sleeping by the Mississippi" captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast". Soth's richly descriptive, large-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, "Sleeping by the Mississippi" elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie. "In the book's 46 ruthlessly edited pictures," writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex." Like Robert Frank's classic "The Americans", "Sleeping by the Mississippi" merges a documentary style with poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust.
Robert Frank, The Americans
https://steidl.de/Artists/Robert-Frank-1013194243.html
First published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In eighty-three photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their politicians, and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple, overlooked corners of American life. And it was not just Frank's subject matter—cars, jukeboxes, and even the road itself—that redefined the icons of America; it was also his seemingly intuitive, immediate, off-kilter style, as well as his method of brilliantly linking his photographs together thematically, conceptually, formally, and linguistically, that made The Americans so innovative. More of an ode or a poem than a literal document, the book is as powerful and provocative today as it was fifty-six years ago.
Kevin McElvaney, #Refugeecameras
http://kevin-mcelvaney.com/refugeecameras/
Photographer Kevin McElvaney gave refugees cameras in Izmir, Lesbos, Athens and Idomeni. Of the 15 cameras he distributed, seven were returned and McElvaney displayed the resulting images on his website. The goal for the project was to ensure that refugees were able to describe their trip from their own perspective, rather than from the viewpoint of an outsider who did not share the experience. I found this a very compelling series and wondered how different our documentary and news narratives would look if they were told from within rather than from without.
24 Photography
http://www.24photography.org/about/
This project is organized around a rule of "24 hours. 24 photographers. 24 images. 24 years." Starting in 2004, a collective of 24 then-student photographers documented the first 24 hours of each New Year in multiple locations—in other words, a documented journey through both time and space. Although many of the photographs are taken in the UK a substantial number are not, and the organisation of the project demonstrates that while we share a common calendar there are many other things that we do not share. It is a fascinating visual trip to work through the years and see the points of convergence and divergence.
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Research Point: Dealing with the flood
For me, photography has been a hobby and not something I have used in the context of my work life. I have had pictures published in magazines and sold a few prints, but I use social media daily and regularly post images on several different platforms: Flickr (I've had an account for 12 years), Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and this website. I post pictures to share with friends and family (some publicly, some privately), to document my travels, to illustrate some of the things I write, to learn with other photographers, to keep a record of my own progress and, frankly, because I feel the need to share the things I see.
Some of my pictures are 'social' in nature (friends, family, events), but most have been for my own interest. In that sense, I suppose many of them could be viewed as leaning toward the artistic side, although I have never used that term myself. (A friend did once tell me, however, that she didn't 'get' my pictures but understood that they were 'meant to be artsy-fartsy.' I wasn't sure what she meant at first but gradually realized that, for her, a good photograph usually has family members in it.)
Social media have contributed to the democratization of photography, along with other technologies, particularly the availability of digital cameras and the vastly-improved quality of sensors in mobile phones. I have heard photographers and critics complain about the sheer volume of trivial and poor pictures and am sometimes sympathetic to their concerns (I get tired of seeing pictures of cats, selfies, garish sunsets and cups of coffee), but I don't think that they devalue photography. The cream rises to the top and a remarkable image still stands apart from the pack without the help of photo snobbery.
I suppose this means that I am contributing to the flood and it occasionally occurs to me that the world doesn't really need another mediocre picture. Nevertheless, I get pleasure out of taking, editing and sharing pictures and enjoy seeing the work of others, too. None of us will improve our photographic and artistic skills without practice, so I will continue to make photographs—they may not be the best, but I can see my progress.
In Creative Arts Today, Project 1, Research point Tags Research, Part 4: Photography
Research point: Context and meaning
Notes on John A. Walker, "Context as a Determinant of Photographic Meaning"
Walker distinguishes between 'immanent structure' (immediate, local context) and the broader context outside the frame of an artwork. The frame itself is a form of self-containment or bracketing of meaning and can lead us to ignore the wider context within which a work appears and is understood.
A given work can have multiple contexts. These have different impacts on the connotations of a work but are less likely to affect denotation.
When context changes there is potential for a 'third-effect' meaning created by relationships with items in the surrounding context.
Change of context became particularly important as artworks were less often attached to a specific place. (John Berger makes the same point in "Ways of Seeing," noting that it used to be common for works to be created for, and installed in, specific settings. Often, these were places of worship.) Now, media context is more important than 'architectural setting.'
Walker uses the terms 'circulation' and 'currency' to describe the ebbs and flows in the life of a work as it changes contexts.
The different locations in which Jo Spence's project—Beyond the Family Album, Private Images, Public Conventions—has been seen demonstrate the impact that context has for setting an interpretive frame.
Walker states that if we are going to talk about the "efficacy" of the exhibit we would need to know about the viewers. But which viewers? Spence's 'ideal viewer' or someone else? I don't know how useful this would be as a line of inquiry. If we can't always be sure about the intent of the artist (as though there were just one and the artist herself could articulate it perfectly), and context has an important role in the creation of meaning, why do we think that knowing about the 'viewer' (as though there were just one) is helpful?
Just as context can shape interpretation of a work, so the work can shape interpretation of its context. This is a good point and Walker's example is worth copying here:
If display context can influence the meaning of a photograph, the photograph
can influence the meaning of the context. This reasoning lay behind John X.
Bcrger's comment at a Hayward Gallery evening discussion that the socialist and
feminist photography 'had radicalised the gallery space'. But the influence is twoway:
it could also be argued that the gallery—a High Art cultural institution
serving the interests of the bourgeoisie—had de-radicalised radical photography!
Walker then describes the 'mental context' of the viewer. Much of this seems like basic communications or rhetorical theory: how is the viewer/listener disposed to the work/message? He then spends a few paragraphs pointing out that we are not all just individuals but share common opinions, values and viewpoints. In other words, there must be sufficient commonality between communicator and audience to allow communication to happen.
This seems like a fairly obvious point to me, but it may still need to be made explicit. People regularly claim that advertising has no effect, but it must: commercial enterprises and governments wouldn't pay what they do if advertising had no impact. Perhaps this is a more insidious side of imagery if we are not even aware of its effects.
Walker closes his article with a brief discussion of the frustration that some artists have of losing control of the meaning of their work, given that they cannot always choose the context within which it will be viewed. (Sounds to me to be a bit like having children. We bring them into the world and do our best to raise them well, but we don't own them and we cannot control them. You must accept it.)
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Project 1, Research Point
William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, 1844-1846
Fox Talbot's cameras, collection of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was originally inspired in his experiments by his difficulties in assisted-drawing with a Camera Lucida. Not being able to master the technique involved, he began to consider how he might permanently fix the images on paper produced by a Camera Obscura. Fox Talbot sees both techniques as aids to drawing but hints at how fixed images derived from photographic techniques might have potential beyond 'naturally' recording images. Although he is interested as a scientist in achieving consistent results, he allows room for esthetic concerns:
"These tints, however, might undoubtedly be brought nearer to uniformity, if any great advantage appeared likely to result: but, several persons of taste having been consulted on the point, viz. which tint on the whole deserved a preference, it was found that their opinions offered nothing approaching to unanimity, and therefore, as the process presents us spontaneously with a variety of shades of colour, it was thought best to admit whichever appeared pleasing to the eye, without aiming at an uniformity which is hardly attainable."
— William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, Section ii.
It seems clear to me that photography is both mechanical and creative and I don't see any inherent contradiction in that. Any art—and perhaps any human product—involves the use of tools, materials and processes, some of which may be mechanical and some not. Photography is far from being the objective 'pencil of nature' and some of Fox Talbot's early work already shows an awareness of the role the human operator plays in creating the camera, preparing the paper, mixing the chemicals, timing the exposure and positioning the camera. The camera and its related processes may be more complex than those employed in some arts, but the roles of imagination and human action are no less important.
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Research point—visual communications
[Note: the Oxford Art Online website has not been accessible to OCA students for some weeks while the contract is being renegotiated. The notes below were made before access to the website was closed.]
Whitney Davis, 'Communication theory'
http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T018901
Davis provides a broad outline of communication theory's major concepts and elements. Important distinction to be made between "information" (understanding that can be derived from perception) and "communication" (the intentional delivery of a message). It is interesting to see how authorial intent can pop in and out of discussions in the art world, depending upon which theorist happens to be invoked.
Communication, according to Roman Jakobson's scheme, has six major factors: 'addresser', 'addressee', 'message', 'code', 'context' and 'contact'. Code and context are particularly important, for they describe the interpretive framework within which communication can occur. Too great a gap in code or context between addresser and addressee, and communication will be ineffective or impossible.
Stephen Bann, 'Semiotics'
Term referring to the analysis of signs and their use. Major theorists are Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) and Roland Barthes.
"Saussure has been called 'the father of modern linguistics'. He drew a crucial distinction between the linguistic system and its actual manifestations in speech (between 'langue' and 'parole'). He further distinguished between the referential dimension of language, the 'signified' ('signifié'), and the phonic substance of speech, or visible traces on the page, the 'signifier' ('signifiant')."
Jan Mukarovsky later translated Saussure's linguistic insights into the esthetic realm to distinguish the 'sensuously perceivable "work-thing"' and the 'aesthetic object' existing 'in the consciousness of the whole collectivity'.
Peirce developed a taxonomy of signs to all things and began to classify them by a tripartite division: icon, symbol and index: "the icon relates to its referent by resemblance, the symbol by convention and the index by existential connection."
Penny Sparke, 'Design'
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An Entire Villages Cries for a Teacher- Sumitra
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Villagers of Chamoli district, Uttarakhand crying for Sumitra
In times when it is common place to hear the lament on the deteriorating condition of our education system in general and the government schools in particular, one teacher in a remote village has turned the tables.
Degoli Luha village in Dasholi block, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, went into mourning when the transfer orders of Sumitra the teacher of the only primary school in the village came through. Sumitra had been a teacher for 12 years at the Degoli Luha primary school and in her care the children flowered. Sumitra's dedication was such that she would take special classes for children who were weak in their studies, well beyond the stipulated school hours. There was no compulsion or official decree, only that Sumitra was true to her profession.
Sumitra – A Lady Who Made a Difference
She took the Prime Minister's call for Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan to heart and motivated her students and the villagers to go on a village cleaning drive. A remote village in India, which not much is heard of, had taken the Prime Minister's word very seriously. Again there was no compulsion on Sumitra to go beyond her call of duty. She believed in the national cause for cleanliness and Degoli Luha was her stage.
On 4 August 2015, the entire village had collected to bid their farewell to Sumitra. The children and women would hug Sumitra and cry. Many a men had moist eyes. Sumitra was a veritable institution in the village, something which is becoming increasingly rare in public servants. Here is a teacher who led her children from the front. By example she gave a life lesson to her wards that every job is worth doing well and with utmost dedication.
Not very far from the village is the international border with Tibet. There stand soldiers protecting our today. Come a few kilometres inside and there you find people like Sumitra standing who protect our tomorrow. Salute you Sumitra maam.
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package org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.impl;

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.function.ToLongFunction;

import org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.IOStatistics;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.MeanStatistic;
import org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MutableCounterLong;

import static org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState;

/**
 * Builder of {@link DynamicIOStatistics}.
 *
 * Instantiate through
 * {@link IOStatisticsBinding#dynamicIOStatistics()}.
 */
public class DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder {

  /**
   * the instance being built up. Will be null after the (single)
   * call to {@link #build()}.
   */
  private DynamicIOStatistics instance = new DynamicIOStatistics();

  /**
   * Build the IOStatistics instance.
   * @return an instance.
   * @throws IllegalStateException if the builder has already been built.
   */
  public IOStatistics build() {
    final DynamicIOStatistics stats = activeInstance();
    // stop the builder from working any more.
    instance = null;
    return stats;
  }

  /**
   * Get the statistics instance.
   * @return the instance to build/return
   * @throws IllegalStateException if the builder has already been built.
   */
  private DynamicIOStatistics activeInstance() {
    checkState(instance != null, "Already built");
    return instance;
  }

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   * Add a new evaluator to the counter statistics.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param eval evaluator for the statistic
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withLongFunctionCounter(String key,
      ToLongFunction<String> eval) {
    activeInstance().addCounterFunction(key, eval::applyAsLong);
    return this;
  }

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   * Add a counter statistic to dynamically return the
   * latest value of the source.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param source atomic long counter
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withAtomicLongCounter(String key,
      AtomicLong source) {
    withLongFunctionCounter(key, s -> source.get());
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add a counter statistic to dynamically return the
   * latest value of the source.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param source atomic int counter
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withAtomicIntegerCounter(String key,
      AtomicInteger source) {
    withLongFunctionCounter(key, s -> source.get());
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Build a dynamic counter statistic from a
   * {@link MutableCounterLong}.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param source mutable long counter
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withMutableCounter(String key,
      MutableCounterLong source) {
    withLongFunctionCounter(key, s -> source.value());
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add a new evaluator to the gauge statistics.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param eval evaluator for the statistic
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withLongFunctionGauge(String key,
      ToLongFunction<String> eval) {
    activeInstance().addGaugeFunction(key, eval::applyAsLong);
    return this;
  }

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   * Add a gauge statistic to dynamically return the
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   * @param key key of this statistic
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   * @return the builder.
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  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withAtomicLongGauge(String key,
      AtomicLong source) {
    withLongFunctionGauge(key, s -> source.get());
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add a gauge statistic to dynamically return the
   * latest value of the source.
   * @param key key of this statistic
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   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withAtomicIntegerGauge(String key,
      AtomicInteger source) {
    withLongFunctionGauge(key, s -> source.get());
    return this;
  }

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   * Add a new evaluator to the minimum statistics.
   * @param key key of this statistic
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   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withLongFunctionMinimum(String key,
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   * latest value of the source.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param source atomic long minimum
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withAtomicLongMinimum(String key,
      AtomicLong source) {
    withLongFunctionMinimum(key, s -> source.get());
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add a minimum statistic to dynamically return the
   * latest value of the source.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param source atomic int minimum
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withAtomicIntegerMinimum(String key,
      AtomicInteger source) {
    withLongFunctionMinimum(key, s -> source.get());
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add a new evaluator to the maximum statistics.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param eval evaluator for the statistic
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withLongFunctionMaximum(String key,
      ToLongFunction<String> eval) {
    activeInstance().addMaximumFunction(key, eval::applyAsLong);
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add a maximum statistic to dynamically return the
   * latest value of the source.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param source atomic long maximum
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withAtomicLongMaximum(String key,
      AtomicLong source) {
    withLongFunctionMaximum(key, s -> source.get());
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add a maximum statistic to dynamically return the
   * latest value of the source.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param source atomic int maximum
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withAtomicIntegerMaximum(String key,
      AtomicInteger source) {
    withLongFunctionMaximum(key, s -> source.get());
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add a new evaluator to the mean statistics.
   *
   * This is a function which must return the mean and the sample count.
   * @param key key of this statistic
   * @param eval evaluator for the statistic
   * @return the builder.
   */
  public DynamicIOStatisticsBuilder withMeanStatisticFunction(String key,
      Function<String, MeanStatistic> eval) {
    activeInstance().addMeanStatisticFunction(key, eval);
    return this;
  }

}

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Likewise, Argentina. It is another serial defaulter, and has a huge range of economic challenges, yet last year it managed to issue 100-year bonds. No one seemed bothered by the idea of lending it money until 2118. Crazy? Complacent? Perhaps not. A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research in the US has crunched the numbers on international sovereign bonds from 1815 to 2016. It found that, even when defaults were taken into account, they still performed better than either domestic bonds or equities. It took the data from after the Battle of Waterloo, which is when the market in international debt started in London, and worked out the returns over the next two centuries. If you had put your money into a portfolio of US Treasuries you would have made 4.16% on average.
US equities returned an average of 8.35%. And a portfolio of non-American or British bonds would have returned 6.7% even once the 313 debt restructurings in 91 different countries over that time were taken into account. In simple terms, sovereign debt performed better than domestic debt, and earned comparable returns to equities. More recently, the deal has been even better. Between 1995 and 2016, global sovereign debt returned an average of 9.1%, US equities 7.3%, and US Treasuries just 3.2%. Again, even with defaults taken into account, sovereign debt outperformed.
There are two reasons. First, the markets turn out to be pretty good at pricing in risk. The interest charged for countries where there is a chance the money won't be repaid may not be eye-watering, but it is enough to make up for the potential losses. Second, while there are often problems with sovereign debtors, outright defaults are very rare. Russia repudiated all its debts after he 1917 revolution, but that was the exception. In most cases, there is some form of restructuring. Overall, the losses only amounted to 1.3% of a typical portfolio, and in more recent times that has been getting better as well. Indeed, the only two defaults since 1990 to generate serious losses were Argentina in 2001 and Ecuador in 2008.
We read a lot about how Greece, Italy, Russia or Argentina won't be able to roll over their debts, or might face imminent bankruptcy, or how investors will see crushing losses imposed on them. It is mostly noise. Investors have seen the numbers and the market, as so often, is being completely rational. Lending money to national governments, even when they are fairly ramshackle, is one of the best investments you can make.


An little boy from Corby who has astounded doctors who believed he would die in infanthood is being failed by those responsible for commissioning his care, according to his heartbroken family.
Five-year-old Logan Barton was born in March 2013 with a vanishingly rare chromosome deletion and an extensive list of chronic, potentially fatal, illnesses.
He needs round-the-clock care which his mum Wendy Barton says Corby NHS Clinical Commissioning Group is failing to find for him.
She says that instead of providing him with the care package he is entitled to, a string of delays and errors have occurred, resulting in the CCG threatening to go to court to get an emergency protection order which gives them the power to remove Logan from the care of his family.
Wendy said: "Imagine how it feels that when your little warrior son fights to simply exist every single day that, as his parents, we have to also fight for the services and care he is fully entitled to by law, and do battle with those who fail him so very badly.
"Our already limited time with our precious darling boy is being robbed from us.
When Logan was born in March 2013 his parents believed him to be well. But at five months he had a huge seizure and he stopped breathing.
It was later discovered that Logan has a catastrophic and life limiting form of epilepsy called MPSI, is one of only two people in the world with a rare chromosome deletion, and has a chronic pain condition which leaves him reliant on large doses of daily opioids. He also has lung, kidney, digestive, and bladder problems and is immune-suppressed.
Corby CCG is responsible for meeting Logan's assessed level of need and Wendy says that, for three years, they have failed to meet their obligations.
In 2015, and in every care assessment since then, Logan was shown to need 24/7 nursing care.
The CCG has used its Any Qualified Provider (AQP) list of pre-approved care providers to find three different care providers for Logan since 2015.
But his family says they were approved without family input meaning that they didn't have the skills needed to look after Logan or couldn't provide the number of hours he needed care for.
Wendy said: "Under one of these AQP Providers our little boy suffered more than 40 safeguarding incidents.
Wendy says nurses have been unable to cope with caring for Logan's portacath access (a device under the skin attached to his arteries to give medicine quickly), his intravenous medication, immunotherapy infusions and injections and rescue medications for his seizures.
This resulted in Wendy becoming housebound even when a nurse was on the premises.
A new contractor appointed last December could not meet the required hours, leaving 87 uncovered 12 hour shifts.
They family was then given notice by that provider, but the CCG did not commission another one, despite Wendy putting forward a CQC registered 'good' provider that she had been in contact with for months.
She says that the CCG asked the new provider to take over in June with less than a week's notice.
The provider said they couldn't be ready to take on such a complex case in only a few days.
But on June 5 Wendy says the CCG then threatened them with an Emergency Protection Order (EPO) and made an unannounced visit to their home. An EPO gives authorities the power to take control of parts of a child's welfare and can include removing the child from parents' care.
Then the new provider was lost because of the time delay.
Then in August the CCG said the family's provider didn't meet their due diligence requirements.
The family contests the reasons behind this and are challenging them through their solicitor.
Wendy says she has raised all of her concerns with the CCG, social services, her GP, NHS England, the CQC, the Royal College of Nursing and even the police. All have redirected her back to the CCG.
After the family instructed a solicitor, the CCG also instructed a legal team from London.
Wendy added: "What is just heartbreaking is that we are sleep-deprived, stressed beyond belief with the constant threats of Emergency Protection Orders and the utter lack of any empathy or respect shown to our family.
"These threats to remove a vulnerable child from his home, separate him from his brother and place him into hospital or a hospice is just shameful.
"We would never allow this to happen as it is a huge risk to Logan's health and safety as he is immune suppressed.
In a statement, a Corby CCG spokesman said: "This is a very complex case, and our respect for the confidentiality of all concerned means that we are limited in what we can say. The CCG has worked very hard to ensure an appropriate package of care is in place which supports the family in keeping their child at home, in line with their wishes. This has involved dedicated case workers and NHS-funded around the clock care.
"The requirements of care are so intensive and specialised that few organisations can deliver it. The previous provider of care withdrew as they were unable to deliver care to the child in line with the family's requirements. Since then, the CCG has been working to identify a suitable provider who can meet the family's needs and expectations. That process is ongoing.
After hearing what the CCG had to say, Wendy said that communication has broken down with their dedicated caseworker who will now only communicate via the CCG solicitor. She added that Logan has not received round-the-clock care for the past nine months.
She added: "The CCGs statement has infuriated us. Once again, Corby CCG is attempting to shift the blame of their failings onto the family. The previous provider was commissioned without due diligence to ensure they would be able to deliver Logan's assessed level of care needs.
"This is not a "family requirement" or "preference", this is a statutory obligation for the CCG to deliver an assessed level of care." The family's plight is documented on their Facebook page.


Is your company making full use of your workforce management software's scheduling capabilities?
Santoni's Marketplace & Catering found themselves asking this same question as they contemplated investing in a new time and attendance system. As a specialty market and the seventh largest caterer in Baltimore, employing more than 160 people and being approved in over 73 event venues throughout the state, Santoni's Marketplace & Catering had a desire to continue expanding. To do so, they felt that their time clock system should do more for them than just help with payroll efficiency; they wanted a system that could help them better manage employee schedules and thus, their labor costs and compliance with labor laws.
A good, base scheduling system enables employers to track schedules for individuals or groups of employees, and can support unlimited definitions of shift schedules, patterns, and rotations to account for all of the different scheduling situations within a company. The solution should accommodate any cycle length and schedules should be able to be programmed to be copied or repeated for an indefinite amount of time. Furthermore, scheduling systems should work in conjunction with time and attendance systems to track employee exceptions and leave. Santoni's Marketplace & Catering took this information into account when looking for a complete workforce management solution.
One important factor to consider when planning a company's schedules is resource requirements. Though this may seem like common sense upfront, it can quickly become very complex. In Santoni's Marketplace & Catering's case, they obviously do not need to schedule as many staff for a small event as they would for a large function. However, for each event, the number of employees required before the event to set up, during the event, and after the event can vary by quite a large margin. Moreover, the types of employees needed at each stage of the event can differ as well. Scheduling appropriately can help control of any unnecessary labor costs.
The opposite can also be true; a proper schedule ensures that there are enough resources scheduled to successfully carry out the functions of a business. Companies of all sizes, from those with fewer than a hundred employees to those with thousands of personnel, can run into difficulties with under-scheduling. Without a centralized and easy-to-understand system, it can be difficult to identify resource gaps in company schedules, but a workforce management system can help. A good solution highlights any open shifts during the work day that are not assigned to an employee. Advanced scheduling solutions will notify the appropriate individuals when an open shift occurs (such as when an employee unexpectedly calls in sick) and can even automatically contact employees (by phone, email, or text message) to fill that open shift. Employees can accept or reject the opportunity to work that open shift, and the supervisors and managers of the company are duly notified.
In addition to the number of employees needed, scheduling often must take into account environments where certain certifications or training is required. For example, in a hospital, not just any employee can be called in to fill an open nurse shift. Without keeping separate records of qualifications within the hospital, it would be impossible to remember if the employee that is called in to fill a shift is a registered nurse or a registered dietitian. A centralized workforce management system can keep track of all that information in one location and use that information to drive requirements when looking for employees to fill a schedule. Scheduling solutions can set a period that certifications and qualifications are valid and will remind the employee and employer when they are about to expire. Advanced scheduling solutions will take into account these certifications and will only contact those qualified individuals when attempting to fill open shifts. Scheduling solutions also enable employees to exchange or swap shifts, for situations when the employee knows early enough that they will not be able to work the shift.
However, even with the proper planning and a finalized schedule, issues can still arise if the employee does not remember which shift they are assigned to. Operations that have rotating shifts or non-repeating schedules may run into the problem of employees missing their scheduled shift or showing up for shifts at the wrong time. This is especially common when schedules are in paper format and displayed only in the workplace. Employees may not be close enough to stop by to check the schedule or he/she may believe they can remember their scheduled time.
Workforce management and scheduling solutions can help you avoid this situation. Since the information is all in a centralized location, employees can simply go onto the internet to view their schedules or call into an automated phone system that is updated in real time. Paper timesheets can be confusing and a hassle when employees change shifts. It can be difficult to keep track of the new schedule as well as if the employee obtained the appropriate permission to exchange shifts. Scheduling systems can require a note to be given in order to keep an audit trail of the changes being made to the schedule. Proper levels of authorization are also built into the system. Furthermore, employees can submit time off requests directly from the website or their mobile device and the system tracks whether these requests are approved or denied.
Organizations that do not have a single, centralized location can also encounter problems when attempting to the track time and attendance of their employees. Lifehouse, a Northern California based company, became aware of these scheduling difficulties as their company began to expand. Lifehouse is a non-profit organization that serves the Northern California community by offering special education and community support to individuals with developmental disabilities. The employees of Lifehouse do not work in one location, but are instead assigned to meetings at different locations around the community or even family homes. Trying to schedule employees in each location had proven to be difficult and thus, implementing a time and attendance system with advanced scheduling was a logical choice for Lifehouse. Because the system automatically generates schedules based on resource requirements and tracks the location of each employee, Lifehouse has seen much more efficient scheduling and accurate time tracking.
The information and benefits that come with time and attendance tracking with schedules cannot be understated. When utilizing schedules in conjunction with time tracking, employers are empowered with exception tracking. Workforce management systems now enable employees to clock in and out of work through their smartphones, via native mobile apps or the web browser, or call into an automated phone system if a computer is not present. This enables managers to easily keep track of their employees even when they are working at various locations throughout the day, week, or pay period, and also provide employers with a lot more information. When schedules are utilized in workforce management solutions, the system can track employee absences, tardiness, and when employees are working outside of their scheduled hours. With real-time systems, system users are presented with this information immediately and can therefore make timely decisions. When analyzing company attendance trends, reports can be generated to see which employees are consistently clocking in late, taking extended breaks, or clocking out early (as is often the case on Friday afternoons), the amount of minutes early/late, and the days that these exceptions occur on. Reports can be customized, saved, scheduled to run at defined intervals or on-demand.
A workforce management system can track not only absences and tardiness, but with scheduling capabilities, the system can also assist with controlling overtime, a major cost that all companies look at. When utilizing schedules with time and attendance, employees can be locked out from punching in and out outside of their scheduled shift start and end times. If an employee works, they must be paid; however, a system lock-out enables employers to identify these overtime situations and address them appropriately.
Another benefit to adding a scheduling system is compliance with local, state, and federal labor laws and mandates. Examples include setting up rules regarding the rounding of employee time, tracking employees taking long or short breaks and meals (there are system lock outs to discourage this), and again, the tracking of overtime. Parameter-driven workforce management solutions are flexible and can be programmed to comply with labor laws wherever a company may be located and can adapt, should these laws change in the future.
In conclusion, the addition of a scheduling system can help streamline a company's scheduling by tracking the resources required, the shifts employees are working, employee qualifications and certifications, identifying any lapse in employee coverage, and filling these lapses. Furthermore, when combined with time and attendance, companies are empowered to identify attendance trends, better control labor costs, and comply with labor laws and mandates.
Not all companies' scheduling needs are the same—they can range from extremely simple to incredibly complex. Similarly, not all workforce management scheduling systems are the same—they can range from extremely rudimentary to incredibly powerful. But with all of the benefits a scheduling system provides, identifying the appropriate solution seems to be more a necessity of a successful business, rather than a modest recommendation.


Even though they are generally the first company to complain about environmental legislation and carbon emissions standards, Porsche does seem to be at the cutting edge of fuel economy for the performance market.
Their latest product in this direction is the 2012 Porsche Panamera S Hybrid, a car scheduled to be seen at the Geneva Motor Show which has just been revealed.
The German super sports saloon boasts the same exterior look which isn't exactly attractive and much of the interior is similar but where the Panamera S Hybrid shines is not really to be seen.
The underpinnings of the car have barely been altered but as far as the propulsion is concerned that's a totally different story.
Under the bonnet you will no longer find a V8 engine but a supercharged V6. It measures in at 3.0 liters and delivers the 333 horsepower you actually want when the 47 you get from the electric motor aren't enough.
Whereas the V6 has a gas tank, the electric motor uses a nickel-metal hydride battery and regenerative braking to keep itself going.
In between these two engines and the four wheel drive system of the 2012 Porsche Panamera S Hybrid there's a very impressive eight-speed automatic gearbox.
The whole setup means that if you're ready to dish out just over £86.000 you can get yourself a brand new Porsche Panamera S Hybrid which can manage 41.5 mpg on a combined cycle.


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Gonzaga quarterback Caleb Williams and Damascus junior defensive end Bryan Bresee were named Gatorade State Player of the Year on Friday. Williams received the award for the District of Columbia, Bresee received player of the year honors for Maryland.
Williams is coming off a solid sophomore season where he threw for 2,624 yards and 26 touchdowns, while rushing with 394 yards and 10 touchdowns. Williams, who helped Gonzaga to a 9-3 record, threw the game winning touchdown pass in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship victory over DeMatha. It was Gonzaga's first conference championship in 16 years.
Williams holds offers from Alabama, Florida, Boston College, Maryland, Penn State and others.
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The "Medicare for All" bill that presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders released Wednesday is more likely to be litigated on the campaign trail than in the halls of Congress. And it highlights a rare political divide among Democrats on one of their marquee issues even as the party seeks to appear unified.
Supporters of the Vermont independent are vying with Democrats who prefer to expand and protect the 2010 health care law. Those differences have recently been overshadowed by larger fights between the two parties after the Trump administration broadened its position in a high-profile lawsuit by calling to strike down the entire 2010 law.
But the Sanders bill may become a point of contention in 2020 primaries. It is likely to be the most progressive and one of the most talked-about health care plans on the campaign trail.
Flanked by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a 2020 rival, Sanders compared the movement for Medicare for All to the civil rights and women's movements, vowing that it would end the health care industry's for-profit motives that he says some people pay for with their lives.
"What we are involved in is not just health care legislation. We are involved in a great struggle," he said. "This is a struggle for the heart and soul of who we are as American people."
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Sanders acknowledged in a statement Wednesday that the bill does not have enough support to pass even through reconciliation, a budget procedure that allows the Senate to pass legislation with 51 votes. But he said elected officials and candidates "should do what grass-roots Democrats want them to do."
He called for a return to the "talking filibuster," and noted that the vice president can overrule the Senate parliamentarian to determine what can be passed through reconciliation.
"Once we have — and I believe it will be sooner than later — a Democratic majority who are prepared to vote for Medicare for All in the House and Senate, we will pass it," he said. "I can tell you that a vice president in a Bernie Sanders administration will determine that Medicare for All can pass through the Senate under reconciliation."
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Republicans jumped on Sanders' proposal, warning that it would cause millions of people to lose their employer-sponsored insurance and would raise taxes, possibilities that polling shows are unpopular among voters.
"Self-proclaimed socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing a total government takeover of healthcare that would actually hurt seniors, eliminate private health insurance for 180 million Americans, and cripple our economy and future generations with unprecedented debt," White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. "The Trump Administration is working on realistic solutions to provide Americans with the options and control they want, the affordability they need, the ease they expect, and the quality they deserve, rather than forcing a government takeover of the healthcare system."
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After this integration with Paytm, Zomato will be able to add new users and expand its online food ordering business. At present, Zomato has over 80,000 restaurants across 120 cities . Paytm has a strong user-base in tier 2 and tier 3 cities, where users frequently use Zomato for a wide range of services offered online.
Paytm is making stronger plans to build a solid presence in Tier-II and Tier-III cities and to get a strong foothold in online food delivery via its partnership with Zomato.
E-commerce platform Paytm has partnered with online food delivery aggregator Zomato to help its users to order food through the mobile wallet application. The service has been made live in the Delhi-NCR region and will be phased out in different parts of the country soon.
This follows the trend of aggregators from different markets entering the food delivery segment via partnership or in-house platforms. For example, home-grown cab hailing service Ola Cabs has joined hands with Swiggy to offer online food delivery right from its application. On the other hand, Uber flourished its own dedicated food delivery app Uber Eats around two years back.
Paytm is planning to explore its strong presence in Tier-II and Tier-III cities to get a foothold in online food delivery via its partnership with Zomato. Paytm will bring this offering to its customers in these cities who do not use the Zomato application while exploring and tapping larger user base. The e-wallet platform will use the in-app food delivery option to push its use both online and offline presence in India.
"Our association with Zomato is a valuable addition to our platform in bringing the convenience of ordering food online through our app. It is also an important step towards enhancing the overall offerings to our customers. We will continue to invest our efforts in this direction," Paytm senior vice president Renu Satti said in an interview.
Notably, Paytm's parent company, One97 Communications and Zomato have a common investor in Alibaba. The payment platform is also backed by Softbank and Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, along with others. The food delivery platform has Ant Financial, Sequoia Capital and Singapore sovereign fund Temasek.
"We are excited to be partnering with them to integrate our online food delivery service with their mobile app. This will allow us to reach a much larger user base and add to the overall experience of ordering from Zomato," Mohit Gupta, CEO, food delivery, Zomato, said in a statement.


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I strongly support your editorial entitled, "Stop the bleeding with frivolous lawsuits" which appeared on page 4 of the Oct. 24 edition of the Charlevoix Courier. In addition to the, so far, $50,000 that the Norwood property owners have had to pay in response to the lawsuit against Wayne Wynkoop and his mining operation and the untold amount of money the defendant, Wayne Wynkoop, and the plaintiff's, the Norwood Township Citizens for Health and Safety, have had to spend, the litigation has brought significant disharmony and divisiveness to our village and community.
Instead of mediation, a lawsuit was filed and a circuit court decision rendered to require that Mr. Wynkoop obtain a special use permit from the Norwood Township Planning Commission. That process was followed, and with some personal knowledge, I am aware that the planning commissioners spent many hours and diligently applied special use restrictions to the mining operations in accordance with the township ordinances and facts presented to them. At the October township meeting, the zoning administrator made his report that he had received complaints on noncompliance with the special use permit, however, his investigation indicated that all restrictions were met.
Now, I understand, the plaintiffs have filed another suit and included one or more planning commissioners in it. My fellow friends and neighbors in Norwood Township, I encourage all of us to accept the initial court decision and the subsequent planning commission findings, and for Mr. Wynkoop to restrict his mining operations in accordance to the Special Use Permit. To do otherwise, in addition to the legal expenses that we can not afford, it will build more disharmony and it will discourage, if not eliminate candidates to voluntarily serve on Norwood Township boards and committees, including yours truly.