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SCHUMER STANDS AT GENEVA WINERY CALLS FOR RAPID TURNAROUND FROM USDA FOR DISASTER ASSISTANCE, BOTH FOR BUD VINE DAMAGE; POLAR VORTEX LIKELY DAMAGED OVER HALF OF ALL GRAPE BUDS IN UPSTATE NY
Finger Lakes Vineyards Anticipate Worst Winter Since 2004 Are Beginning to Assess Damage to Buds Vines, But Wont Know Full brExtent Until Spring Then, Wineries Will Need Quick Turnaround in USDA Loans Reimbursements So that Cash is Available To Immediately Buy Juice for Next Years Wine Vintage, Replant Crops For Future YieldsbrbrSchumer Urges USDA to Prepare to Expeditiously Provide Relief to Vineyards With Vine Damage through the Tree Assistance Program in the Farm Bill, Which Provides Reim
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today visited Three Brothers vineyard in Geneva to call on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide swift relief to vineyards who have suffered major crop damage from the extreme cold weather this winter through the Tree Assistance Program (TAP) and be ready to approve a crop disaster declaration so emergency loans can be made available. Following crop losses due to inclement weather and other natural disaster, growers often suffer from cash flow problems that impact their ability to replant quickly and also impact wine production for several years into the future. Schumer explained that the Tree Assistance Program (TAP) was just passed as part of the Farm Bill and can provide reimbursements to growers who suffer extensive damage to the trunks of their grape vines as a result of extreme weather events, such as the Polar Vortexinduced freezing temperatures earlier this winter. Already, as a result of the cold snap, scientists at Cornell are finding damaged buds in test studies, suggesting that over 50% of buds could be damaged this winter, which suggests that vine damage is also highly likely. Schumer also urged the USDA to be prepared to approve a disaster declaration if bud damage is widespread and severe, so that emergency lowinterest loans can be made available to growers who suffer extensive bud damage but not trunk damage.
Upstate New York vineyards are beginning to assess damage now and will know the true extent of the damage in the Spring, at which point they will need a rapid turnaround of cash because growing season will already have begun. Schumer is calling on the USDA to mobilize resources well in advance of the final damage assessment, and to assist farmers and growers in readying the necessary documentation to report losses, so the USDA can have a rapid processing turnaround and deliver quick relief to impacted growers.
"New York is home to hundreds and hundreds of vineyards, from the Rochester Finger Lakes to Long Island and from the North Country to Western New York, and this year there is widespread concern that the extraordinarily cold winter could dramatically reduce their crop and that growers won't have the cash flow to replant damaged vines and purchase alternate juice to continue wine production on schedule. And unfortunately, a complete damage survey of grape vines and buds cannot be completed until the late Spring, when the 2014 growing season is well underway. So, the U.S. Department of Agriculture must be on the ready in two key ways: first, by ensuring that direct reimbursements go out quickly to eligible growers with trunk and vine damage through the Tree Assistance Program that I fought to pass through the Farm Bill; and second, by preparing all resources to expeditiously approve a disaster declaration and assist farmers and growers in the process of reporting losses and damage to buds. So now, with Spring and growing season on the horizon, the USDA needs to marshal its resources - prime the TAP so to speak - and be ready to provide swift relief to these growers," said Schumer.
Jim Trezise, President of the NYS Wine and Grape Foundation said, "This is shaping up to be the worst winter for grapes since 2004 when more than 350 acres of vines had to be replanted, so Senator Schumer's efforts to pass the new farm bill and reauthorize the critical TAP program to provide emergency relief to our vineyards couldn't come at a better time. His efforts to also put USDA on notice now is necessary since we can't know the full extent of damage until this spring or later and we'll need the USDA to respond quickly."
The Polar Vortex brought recordlow temperatures to many areas of Upstate New York, and subsequent warm spells led to drastic variations in temperature. Further, the microclimates that form in the Finger Lakes and Western New York could have caused temperatures to drop even lower than the measured average temperature during that period. The cold snap and the rapid temperature variations could result in major damage to the buds of what will become next year's grape crop. In addition to cold damage, some crop diseases are expected to thrive in the colder temperatures, like crown gall. Scientists at Cornell University have already found significant bud damage in both test and commercial vineyards; in some studies, they found almost 50% of the buds were damaged by the cold. As reported in the Buffalo News, Riesling, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Gris vines are particularly susceptible and growers are bracing for losses of up to 90 percent of some of these prized varieties. Local growers and scientists at Cornell predict that this winter will be the worst for grapes since 2004.
These extremely low weather events typically occur every 10 years, and the last one was in 2004, which caused millions in losses to growers across the Finger Lakes and Western New York. By September of 2004 when Cornell produced its final report based on damage surveys in 2004, the damage toll stood at: 358 acres in need of replanting due to trunk/vine death at a cost of $2,503,272; and over 1,331 tons of wine grapes lost due to bud injury at a cost of $ 5,264,458 which equated to $42.1 million dollars' worth of lost wine production. Trunk damage is the most significant, because it forces the grower to regrow the entire vine, a three to fiveyear setback. While these trunks are hardy and typically withstand cold weather, this year's prolonged cold spell and initial estimates of bud damage do not bode well; experts predict that vines with more than 50% bud damage most likely will also have trunk damage.
The true extent of the damage won't be known until the Spring, when growers begin the process of pruning buds. Schumer, concerned about the damage to Upstate New York vineyards, launched a twopronged plan to help growers in the event of major damages. First, Schumer touted the Tree Assistance Program (TAP), which expired in 2008 and is a provision of the justpassed Farm Bill, which provides reimbursements to eligible vineyards who suffer extensive crop damage. Under the Tree Assistance Program, commercial orchardists, nursery growers or vineyards that lose their trees due to natural disaster are eligible for a 65% reimbursement of the cost of replanting. Orchardists are also eligible for a 50% reimbursement for pruning and removal. The total reimbursements are capped at $125,000 per year and 500 acres. Growers will need to work with their local USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) to prepare the documentation for USDA disaster assistance. The USDA is responsible for approving and distributing such reimbursements.
Growers qualify for this reimbursement if they produce commercial, yearly crops from trees and if the tree mortality is over 15%. A natural disaster refers to drought, fire, freezing flood, plant disease, insect infestation, and other occurrences. The Tree Assistance Program will retroactively cover losses from 2012 and 2013. Schumer said this program could not only help growers recoup losses from 20122013, but should cover most Upstate vineyards moving forward this year. Schumer said these reimbursements are substantial and could mean the difference between a vineyard suffering huge losses and breaking even or turning a profit.
Second, Schumer is urging the USDA to approve a disaster declaration immediately if requested, so that emergency lowinterest loans can be made available to growers who suffer extensive bud damage but not trunk damage. Based on initial estimates, some growers are anticipating the need for a crop disaster declaration request; if approved by the USDA, growers in affected counties would be eligible for lowinterest emergency loans which could help growers survive this year's damages. Schumer underscored the importance of timing, saying growers facing a major loss of their product will need quick turnaround of emergency funds in order to begin replanting and in order to purchase juice from elsewhere, so that they can still produce their 2014 vintage wines. Schumer noted that the Administration has announced additional assistance to farmers in California who suffered an extended drought, and is pushing for the same considerations to be made for Northern growers in the wake of the cold snap. Therefore, Schumer is pressing the USDA to prepare resources in advance to be ready to help eligible vineyards prepare the necessary documentation and get it approved, because a delay in processing could make or break these vineyards' year.
Vineyards are crucial to Upstate New York's economy. There are nearly 900 vineyards in Upstate New York, which support over 6,700 jobs and pump $830 million into the economy. A University of Minnesota poll found that New York wine growers ranked crop disease and crop damage as their single biggest problem, far ahead of labor costs or regulation or capital access. The Tree Assistance Program will ensure that cold weather diseases and other natural disasters will not put New York vineyards out of business.
Three Brothers is at the northern end of Seneca Lake where Cornell has already identified bud damage. Three Brothers in line with Cornell's estimates of up to 50 percent bud damage to many of their Vinifera grape varieties. They currently employ 85 employees on their 30 acre vineyard in Seneca County. Three Brothers began in 2006, on a vineyard originally planted by Cornell in 1982 as an experimental field, so it has the oldest (30 yearold) Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir vines in all of the Finger Lakes. They also grow Reisling, Barberra, and others.
A copy of Senator Schumer's letter to the USDA appears below:
Dear Secretary Vilsack:
I write to bring your attention to a looming situation impacting New York's grape and wine industry caused by this winter's extremely cold temperatures and ask that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) take immediate action to make all necessary resources available in the event of a disaster declaration.
Grape growers and vineyards across many counties in the Finger Lakes and Western New York have already detected evidence of bud damage and potentially vine or trunk injury caused by sustained subzero temperatures and isolated instances of severe temperature swings causing a precipitous drop of over 60 degrees. Initial surveys by Cornell Cooperative Extension and local growers estimate many areas may have already sustained 50% or more bud mortality in many grape varieties. Experts indicate this will be the worst season since 2004 when severe cold temperatures then caused the loss of 358 acres due to trunk and vine injury at a cost of 2,503,272 and a loss of over 1,331 tons of wine grapes due to bud injury at a cost of 5,264,458 which equated to $42.1 million dollars' worth of lost wine production.
Unfortunately, a complete damage survey to assess the need for a USDA disaster declaration cannot be completed until the late spring once the growing season begins, delaying any needed emergency relief for months. Therefore, because the 2014 season will be well underway by that time, I am asking that the USDA take action now to prepare all resources needed to expeditiously determine a disaster declaration and assist farmers and growers in readying the necessary documentation to report losses through the local USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA). Since we anticipate that severe crop and vine losses will be sustained, growers will require the quick action of USDA to approve emergency disaster loans to mitigate the cash flow problems that occur after crops are lost due to inclement weather.
Fortunately, while the Farm Bill includes a reauthorization of the expired Tree Assistance Program (TAP) to provide reimbursement to replant or rehabilitate injured or killed vines, USDA emergency loans may be required to help farmers that sustained bud damage or loss of crop to recover and stay viable for years to come.
New York's wine and grape industry provides a livelihood for many and enriches not only the lives of those people living in the area, but many across the state. The critical part that these farms play in the region's economy simply cannot be stressed enough.
I appreciate your consideration of this important request.


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Jan 23, 2014 06:00 pm Feb 08, 2014 Sydney - Paddington Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery DANIEL BOYD
Untitled, 2013, oil, pastel and archival glue on linen, 153.5 × 118 cm
Sydney - Paddington
DANIEL BOYD
Pineapples in the Pacific
Opening Jan 23, 2014 at 06:00 pm
End date Feb 08, 2014
Daniel Boyd's paintings re-interpret Aboriginal and Australian-European history. He has been exhibiting his work nationally and internationally since 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include 'History is Made at Night', Artspace, Sydney (2013); 'The Transit of Venus', Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney (2012); and 'Up in Smoke Tour', Natural History Museum, London (2012). This is his 4th solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
For the 2014 Sydney Festival Boyd has collaborated with the electronic duo Canyons for '100 Million Nights'. Premiere at the Sydney Opera House on Jan 21.
Boyd has been selected for numerous group exhibitions including 'Future Primitive', Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2013); 'Under the sun: the Kate Challis RAKA Award', at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2013); 'Debil Debil', curated by Marcia Langton, at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (2013); the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (2012); 'Crossing Cultures', Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, USA (2012); and 'One Caption Hides Another', at Bétonsalon, Paris (2011). In 2014 Boyd's work will be included in 'Regarding Picasso: Contemporary Artists' Responses to His Art', at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
Daniel Boyd paintings are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, as well as numerous private collections national
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Jan 18, 2014 06:00 pm Feb 22, 2014 New Delhi Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi - ... Nalini Malani
Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi - Defence)
Nalini Malani
Cassandra's Gift
For more than four decades, committed to the role of the artist as social activist, Malani is unsparing in her condemnation of a cynical nationalism that exploits the beliefs of the masses. She often bases her work on the stories of those that have been ignored, forgotten or marginalised by history.
One of the pioneers of new media art in the Indian context, Malani's work has, given her idealism to reach a wider audience, expanded the dimensions of the pictorial surface into surrounding space through ephemeral wall drawings in combination with erasure performances, theatre, shadow play, multi projection works and video/shadow plays. Malani's intense and committed art reveals her search for the profound certainties of life, of society, of experience-persisting 'evidence', which is encountered and felt.
Speaking on the exhibition, Malani says, "The contents of Cassandra's Gift are concentrated on the possibility that humankind foresees the events of the future - that he/she really 'listens' to what is happening around. Often this listening is (self) blocked and our (over) communication goes in all directions but is not effective. Instead of experiencing the community, the political world and nature as one organism, we live by economic and military principles of divide and rule."
Nalini Malani -
Jan 17, 2014 06:30 pm Apr 21, 2014 Winterthur Kunst Museum Winterthur Gerhard Richter
Strip (927-7), 2012, Digitaler Druck, montiert zwischen Aluminium und Perplex, 210 x 230 cm, © Gerhard Richter, Köln 2013
Kunst Museum Winterthur
Strips and Glass
End date Apr 21, 2014
After the recent retrospectives of Gerhard Richter, the Kunstmuseum Winterthur presents an exhibition conceived in collaboration with the artist with new works coming directly from his Cologne studio, 'Strip' paintings, large-scale lacquer paintings on glass, and two new glass sculptures.
This is not the first time the Kunstmuseum Winterthur has worked with the artist. In 1999, the museum showed a retrospective of his drawings and watercolors, and it is the only Swiss museum to own a larger group of Richter's works, including paintings, two sculptures, and the most extensive collection of works on paper.
Richter's new 'Strip' paintings feature a plethora of extremely fine lines of color; they are not painted by hand but conceived in a complicated process, determined by chance, and then digitally produced with an inkjet printer. A striking new stage in Richter's development, these paintings are irritating and fascinating, with an austerity that can be intimidating. The first 'Strips' were shown in galleries in 2011-2012; now, he has moved on to composed paintings up to ten meters long that are being shown here for the first time.
A parallel exhibition in the Drawings Cabinet of the Museum:
'Gerhard Richter - From Elbe to November: Works on Paper from the Collection'
This cabinet exhibition offers an alternative perspective on Richter's work. Upon the opening of the exhibition 'Strips', Richter donated an extensive set of 35 previously unknown drawings to the Kunstmuseum.
Gerhard Richter -
Jan 16, 2014 06:00 pm Mar 01, 2014 Basel Nicolas Krupp Monica Studer / ...
Departures, 2013, inkjet print, 140 x 280 cm
Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg
'Transit 504' is a genuine Internet project. Like a traffic hub, it is a transit terminal conceived to act as a platform for connecting Internet art projects. From here, various existing and future Studer/van den Berg projects will be gradually added as travel destinations. The 3D architecture of the terminal building will never be completed, and it will change like a building that reflects the needs of its users. In this project, the Internet is a time machine, a device for accessing and distributing. It is not meant to celebrate the latest software achievements but aims at collating disparate scenes of the journey, making use of the narrative structures of a hypertext web.
The presentation on display at Nicolas Krupp Gallery marks the starting point of this disposition. The localities are already arranged; their connectivity, however, must remain a future promise. Like the 'Hotel Vue des Alpes', 'Transit 504' is conceived as a large work in progress on the Internet. As opposed to the 'Hotel Vue des Alpes' group of works, which started in the year 2000, and which features a similar topological structure based on representational images, this does not bring to mind the familiar Alpine idyll. Instead, there is a feeling of ennui that comes over someone who has to stay in the limbo of a waiting zone for endless hours - but lacking the option of a chance encounter with a fellow traveller: The setting is the main act, and not a decoration for social interaction in cyberspace.
[Monica Studer *1960 - Christoph van den Berg *1962] Studer & van den Berg -
Jan 09, 2014 06:30 pm Feb 28, 2014 Mumbai Gallery Maskara Priyanka Choudhary
Gallery Maskara
Priyanka Choudhary
From Titian to today, war and the aftermath of war has always found its way into art and art history. The year 2014 is of particular significance as it is the centenary year of World War 1. It was a moment that forever changed the geo-?political and economic landscape of the 20th century and had a catalytic effect on India's struggle for Independence.
Even though the conflict happened at a time that predates many of the contemporary artists living and working today, its consequence is undeniable. Conflict in one form or another is a harsh reality of the modern age that touches us all.
Artist Priyanka Choudhary reflects and responds to the nature of war; "It's a paradox. The monuments to extreme violence are only too peaceful. They are placid lakes. Blind spots. I threw a small stone to ruffle the surface. I performed there to unearth the anxiety and the real memories concealed therein.
The year 2014 contains a huge cemetery -  a centenary to the First World War, a performance to bring up the dead. My current works are all apparently peaceful, but they reveal their violence on closer examination. The five performances in five major conflict zones in four different continents - at Tlatelolco, Soweto, Ypres, Ground Zero and Jallianwala Bagh - were only apparently peaceful. People gathered around me forgot to smirk. Peace had been disturbed for the better, I hope."
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Curator Abhay Maskara -
Jan 09, 2014 06:00 pm Feb 15, 2014 New York Zach Feuer Gallery Stuart Hawkins
Landscape, 2013, Oil on canvas, 72 x 54 inches / 182.9 x 137.2 cm
Zach Feuer Gallery
Stuart Hawkins
Everyone Knows What It Looks Like
In her most recent work, Stuart Hawkins renders scenes of a homogenized, global norm through her reinterpretation of traditional art historical genres.  Highlighting consumerism as the common denominator, Hawkins underscores, by mode of comparison, critical aspects of the world we live in today.  Landscape, for example, depicts a designer chair in the foreground that appears more organic than the sterile, mountain view and stylized bird in flight beyond.  With these works, Hawkins continues to explore her interest in capturing the desires and perversities that drive a mono-culture world and at the same time, making evident their potential cost.  The different subjects featured in these works not only engage directly with the title of the exhibition, Everyone Knows What It Looks Like, but tease out the implications of its many truths.
Stuart Hawkins was born in 1969 in Norfolk, VA, received a MFA from The School of Visual Arts and currently lives and works in New York.  She has exhibited at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; HIAP, Helsinki; Frye Art Museum, Seattle and The Visual Arts Gallery, New.  This exhibition, Hawkins' fifth at the gallery, was realized with a 2012 Workspace Residency, made possible by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. www.lmcc.net
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Dec 13, 2013 07:00 pm Feb 23, 2014 Innsbruck Galerie im Taxispalais - Galerie ... Dorothee Golz
Schlafzimmer – Versuchsanordnung (Lebensentwurf 2007), 2007
Galerie im Taxispalais - Galerie des Landes Tirol
Dorothee Golz
Schlafzimmer und andere Versuchsanordnungen
Opening Dec 13, 2013 at 07:00 pm
Die retrospektiv angelegte Ausstellung 'Schlafzimmer und andere Versuchsanordnungen' präsentiert seit Ende der 1990er Jahre entstandene Werkgruppen von Dorothee Golz (*1960 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, lebt und arbeitet in Wien).
Golz, die spätestens seit ihrer Teilnahme an der documenta X internationale Aufmerksamkeit erlangte, ist Bildhauerin, arbeitet jedoch gleichwertig in den Medien Zeichnung und Fotografie, die ebenfalls räumlichem Denken verpflichtet sind. Alle drei Werkkomplexe greifen in der Ausstellung, in der auch neueste Zeichnungen zu sehen sind, ineinander.
Galerie im Taxispalais is presenting a retrospective show by artist Dorothee Golz with the exhibition 'Bedrooms and Other Experimental Arrangements'. The exhibition encompasses groups of work produced since the end of the 1990s as well as her most recent works, which are being presented for the first time.
Golz attracted international attention with her participation at documenta X at the latest; a sculptor, she works equally with the media of drawing and photography, which are based to a similar extent in spatial thinking. The exhibition shows central work complexes in which the artist questions the perception and design of internal and external reality in a humorous, ironic and subtle way. Golz translates her often scientific-analytical approach to ideas into a range of plastic and graphic settings.
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Dec 13, 2013 07:00 pm Feb 23, 2014 Innsbruck Galerie im Taxispalais - Galerie ... Alicia Framis
Anti Dog, seit 2002
Alicia Framis
Framis in Progress
Die Ausstellung 'Framis in Progress' ist die erste umfassende Retrospektive von Alicia Framis (*1967 in Barcelona, lebt und arbeitet in Amsterdam) in Österreich.
Internationale Aufmerksamkeit erlangte die Künstlerin durch ihre interaktiven Installationen und interdisziplinären Performances, in denen sie sich mit sozialen und politischen Problemfeldern auseinandersetzt, die für die zeitgenössische, urbane Gesellschaft virulent sind. Statt Missstände abzubilden, entwickelt sie phantasievolle Lösungen, die sie frei zugänglich macht und die zugleich eine hohe ästhetische Qualität besitzen. Für die Ausstellung hat Framis unterschiedliche Plattformen an den Schnittstellen zwischen Kunst, Mode, Architektur und Design konzipiert.
The exhibition 'Framis in Progress' presented by the Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, is the first comprehensive retrospective show of work by Spanish artist Alicia Framis to be seen in Austria.
Framis first attracted international attention with her interdisciplinary performances and interactive installations, in which she investigates the problematic social and political fields virulent in contemporary urban society. Rather than simply depicting the deficits, the artist develops highly imaginative solutions and makes them freely accessible to her viewers; at the same time, these solutions display a highly aesthetic quality. Framis's works examine wishes, longings, fears or dreams, and she plumbs the collective, social constitution of our times.
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Dec 13, 2013 06:00 pm Jan 26, 2014 New York Invisible-Exports Lisa Kirk
End date Jan 26, 2014
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is pleased to present Left Behind, with a special guest performance featuring Marina Abramović as the Grim Reaper, the third solo exhibition of new work by Lisa Kirk.
Lisa Kirk is a multimedia artist working as a visual and critical renegade – re-appropriating, restaging and re-contextualizing imagery, artifacts, and colloquial idioms from a political and social culture built on paradox and contradiction. The contextual foundation from which Kirk builds her work is suffused with power structures, which are themselves laced throughout with collective doubt and institutional suspicion.
In Left Behind, an exhibition of works on paper, sculpture, custom therapeutic elixirs, and installation, Kirk delivers work saturated with our ubiquitous cultural fear of a near-future of near-ruin. Her works on paper depict a petrified rainbow, rusted in a state of imprecise oxidation, a simple geometry ravaged from environmental effects, and an abstraction that suggests the half-life afterlife of eroding abandoned steel – the degradation of environment and atmosphere, at once physical, imagined, and portentous. With her sculptures, rusted-over broken umbrellas abandoned in a storm, she transforms everyday detritus into disaster artifact.
As a final component, starting on January 25 at 13 o'clock, there will be a special 24-hour durational performance featuring Marina Abramović as the Grim Reaper.
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Dec 11, 2013 10:00 am Apr 06, 2014 New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ink Art: Past a ...
Zhang Huan 张洹 (Chinese, b. 1965). Family Tree 家谱, 2001. Nine chromogenic prints; each 21 x 16 1/2 in. (53.3 x 41.9 cm). Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China
Opening Dec 11, 2013 at 10:00 am
The first major exhibition of Chinese contemporary art ever mounted by the Metropolitan, Ink Art explores how contemporary works from a non-Western culture may be displayed in an encyclopedic art museum. Presented in the Museum's permanent galleries for Chinese art, the exhibition features artworks that may best be understood as part of the continuum of China's traditional culture. These works may also be appreciated from the perspective of global art, but by examining them through the lens of Chinese historical artistic paradigms, layers of meaning and cultural significance that might otherwise go unnoticed are revealed. Ultimately, both points of view contribute to a more enriched understanding of these artists' creative processes.
Featuring some seventy works by thirty-five artists in various media—paintings, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints, video, and sculpture—created during the past three decades, the exhibition is organized thematically into four parts: The Written Word, New Landscapes, Abstraction, and Beyond the Brush. Although all of the artists have challenged, subverted, or otherwise transformed their sources through new modes of expression, Ink Art seeks to demonstrate that China's ancient pattern of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models remains a viable creative path.
Jie-chang Yang - Yongliang YANG - Dong SONG - Donling Wang - ShanZhuan WU - Huan ZHANG - Bing Xu - Weiwei AI - Wenda GU - Zhijie QIU - Jian Ren - Dan Liu - Guorui Shi - Danwen XING - Lijun FANG - FuDong YANG - AnXiong Qiu - Yu Zhang - Guo-Qiang CAI - Yong-Ping Huang - Jian-Jun Zhang - Jin WANG - Shaoxiong CHEN - Jianyu DUAN - Hao HONG - Yan HUANG - Huasheng Li - Wei LIU - Shi-hua Qui - Fan SHAO - Xun SUN - Tiande Wang - Fanzhi Zeng - Wang ZHAN - Ming-Chip FUNG -
Curator Maxwell K. Hearn -
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Matthias Jakisch
Wohnhaus Famili ... 1998
Frienassoziatio ... 1999

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Amsterdam may be famous for its canals, avid cyclists and liberal night life, but for three days recently it was the destination for Enactus staff from across Europe to collaborate and improve national programs.
Staff from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Poland, Ireland and the UK met at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Business School to share best practices, create new program materials and develop new project philosophies. The group was also introduced to the brand new Enactus campus awareness and student recruitment campaign, which we all agreed will bring exciting opportunities to extend the great work Enactus does every day.
In true Enactus fashion, after a long first day of meetings we didn't simply stop working. We instead took the evening to view a successful Enactus project! This took the shape of an "Underground Amsterdam" tour by Victor, a recovering drug addict and homeless man. On his rich and colorful tour – made possible through a project of VU University Amsterdam Enactus that gives homeless individuals opportunities as city guides – we learned more about Amsterdam than we thought possible. His story, though difficult, sad and complicated, was also inspiring and heartwarming. He openly thanked the Enactus students for what they had created to enable him to take steps toward escaping homelessness. This gave us further energy throughout the conference to build a better Enactus so that all participating students can go on to change more lives.
In addition to our meetings and tour, we also took this opportunity to work with outside organizations on new entrepreneurial models as well as engaging Dutch alumni on project management. We also trained on the principles of the blue economy based on the book by Gunter A. Pauli. Together we set about constructing new project resources – so keep an eye out for new tools and training event materials to come soon.
These few days proved fantastic for bettering the program and we look forward to implementing the new ideas and working further with our European colleagues. A big thank you to the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Business School for hosting us.


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As delivered by Phillip Taula, Deputy Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations, 16 December 2016.
New Zealand strongly supports the work of UNMISS and we are pleased that the Council was able to reach consensus on the new mandate for UNMISS. That said, we would have preferred to have had a fuller discussion in order to work through the contentious issues. We hope that sufficient time will be provided for discussion at the next renewal.
The Council should continue to closely monitor the suitability of UNMISS's mandate in light of developing circumstances on the ground.
It will be important for the incoming Special Representative of the Secretary-General to make his own assessment of the needs of the Mission with fresh eyes, and to bring this assessment to the Council early next year.
It will also be important for the work of the Task Force headed by Assistant Secretary-General Wane, on the Independent Special Investigation, to be mainstreamed into the future mandate.
In the meantime, we support the Secretary-General's message from his strategic assessment of UNMISS that the mission needs to focus on its most pressing tasks – particularly protection of civilians, and support to the political process.
As a final point, and as this may be our last public statement on a peacekeeping mission before our term ends, I do wish to briefly note New Zealand's efforts to provide new, more meaningful Security Council engagement with Troop Contributing Countries and other key stakeholders through informal triangular consultations.
We encourage Council members to continue these efforts to engage troop contributing countries more productively. We also owe it to our peacekeepers and the people they are mandated to protect, to ensure that they are more consistently provided with clear and realistic mandates as well as the resources, equipment and support to carry them out.
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New 'Ghostbusters' Cast Visits Patients at Boston Hospital
They greeted the patients in full costume.
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This image was posted to the Twitter account of "Ghostbusters" director Paul Feig on July 10, 2015 with the text, "#whoyougonnacall."
— -- Lucky patients at Boston's Tufts Medical Center Saturday were greeted by some special visitors dressed in jump suits and carrying special 'Ghostbusting' gear.
ABC affiliate WCVB reports that the cast of the new "Ghostbusters" reboot –- Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones -- stopped by the hospital in their costumes to visit patients.
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Brooke Hynes, the hospital's vice president of public affairs and communications, said that the cast were a delight. "They were so kind to all the kids and their parents. They took their time in each room visiting children as young as a few months to teens. We cannot thank them enough for the happiness and excitement they created."
The reboot, which is being directed by Paul Feig, had been filming in Boston.


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What makes Narendra Modi such a special leader, how does he win India's heart each time?
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India's prime minister ignites a collective national romance among millions of Indians
Published: August 25, 2020 08:33 Akhilesh Mishra, Special to Gulf News
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A recently conducted mood of the nation survey by India Today, a leading weekly magazine, has found that more than 78% of the people polled rate Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's performance as either outstanding or very good. He scores similarly high in every other parameter used by the surveyors.
This popularity exasperates his opponents at both ends of the spectrum. As the recent rebellion in the Congress against their party leadership highlights, Modi's political opponents are exasperated at their inability to even come to grips with the challenge they face, leave alone put up a decent fight.
Analysts are equally befuddled. Their latest hope was the COVID-19 induced hardships may dent Modi's popularity. With that hope also belied, and all other explanations falling flat, a senior political commentator has floated the time tested, but deeply flawed theory — Modi is popular because of TINA factor (there is no alternative).
This is our time. That we may face hardships on the way, that we may marginally falter sometimes, but if we persist, we can achieve whatever we want. That we can change the course of history. That is the sum total of Modi's appeal. Modi wins because he epitomises the spirit of the ordinary Indian to do extraordinary deeds
- Akhilesh Mishra
What is not answered by such analysts is why should Modi, of all people, coming as he does from a poor family and a socially disadvantaged group, not having gone to elite schools, not having any pre-existing support system in the corridors of power, and not having any godfather but being an entirely self-made man, enjoy TINA factor over a family entrenched into India politics for over 100 years and 5 generations and having ruled India for almost 60 out or 73 years of Independence?
But if TINA is not the reason to explain Modi's popularity, then what is?
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In almost any democratic contest, a leader who exhibits even three to four of these qualities almost invariably wins. But think of Modi and then think of which of these traits do not apply to him? Or do they all apply to him? But even then, is this the sole reason for Modi's popularity.
For most politicians, immediate electoral compulsions drive their public engagements. If it is likely to bring votes, then they latch on to it, with or without conviction and the moment its use is over, they move on. What is Modi's record in this?
The temple run by a prominent Indian politician before 2019 elections come to mind as one counter example. Elections over and him having lost his own family seat and his party routed, the temple run stopped as abruptly as it started.
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Now consider Modi. He has made it a point to spend every Diwali, the festival of lights, among the people he serves. Be it spending it with Gujarat earthquake victims in 2001 or with Indian soldiers more recently, it is a lifelong conviction for him.
Modi's fascination and respect
Modi's fascination and respect, as some of his opponents have cynically alleged, for the Indian soldiers did not start with Balakot air strikes in 2019. He was attending to injured soldiers, way back, during the 1999 Kargil War, much before he assumed any elected office.
Modi's compassion and drive to help in any which way, during a natural calamity did not exhibit itself just for his home state Gujarat, when he heroically turned around the earthquake hit Bhuj in 2001. Just a few months ago, he made it a point to immediately fly down to Odisha and West Bengal even at the peak of COVID-19 lockdown, when these states were recently hit by a severe cyclone.
Whether it be the massive floods in Kashmir in 2014 or the 2013 cloud-burst tragedy in Kedarnath or the recent evacuations of Indians stuck around the world due to COVID-19 induced lockdowns, Modi is always there, before any one else to help.
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As these examples show, his public engagements are not seasonal fads but driven by lifelong beliefs and value systems.
It is said that public memory is notoriously short. On the contrary, for political leaders, it is the collective public memory built over long periods, stretching back to decades, that first propels and then sustains their mass popularity. How does Modi's conduct, over decades, inform the long-term collective memory about him?
Modi is perhaps the most abused Indian politician ever. Yet, he has never lost his composure. He has never turned cynical.
The top names of Indian opposition came together to petition the US government to deny Modi's visa when he was the Gujarat Chief Minister. Any other politician would have justifiably been livid at this craven kowtowing in front of a foreign power.
But Modi did not let this come in the way of either his engagement with the US or the same Indian politicians, in matters of national interest.
Modi's own party colleagues, former Chief Ministers of Gujarat, floated fronts to oppose him either covertly or even overtly. Yet, not once, did Modi ever utter a word against them. Ever. Instead, he would seek their blessings, after every election victory.
Cottage industry of hate
An entire cottage industry sprang to abuse and misuse every legal route available to somehow entrap Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots. One legal route failed, and another front was opened. Yet, not once did Modi ever question, during these long years, the majesty of the legal process or not bow down to the finality of the power of the courts.
This despite every charge that was thrown at him was fake and concocted, as ultimately all courts, including the Supreme Court ruled. Contrast this with actions of others when they get an unfavourable judgement.
Modi comes from an underprivileged caste as well as from a poor family. Yet, not even his worst opponents can accuse him or ever playing any of these cards for his electoral appeal. There are a surfeit of caste-based parties in India, who take the easy route of appealing to the default caste divisions for electoral gains.
Modi has never played that game. In fact, his politics is about the extremely challenging strategy of inspiring people to rise above their default divisions and unite for a cause at one or two levels higher than their divisions.
There is an inherent romanticism in the dedication of generations of ordinary political workers and leaders to the extraordinary cause of nation building. As history has shown, it is the unwavering commitment of such romantics that changes the course of history.
Over three decades of public life and never getting bogged down in a negative agenda but always conducting himself positively is what informs the collective memory of the people about Modi.
Politicians who have held public office for long are ultimately measured by their delivery and not just by their intangible qualities, howsoever good. Politicians get re-elected only if they positively change the 'lived reality' of people.
Mere rhetoric by a person in power cannot work as an alternative to actually lived reality, nor can any opposition rhetoric negate it. How does Modi fare in this?
Modi 2014 could arguably be a verdict of national level hope inspired by the Gujarat model of delivery. But five years down the line, Modi 2019 could not have been even a bigger victory if that hope did not translate into delivery.
Changing millions of lives
Almost 20 million families, who earlier lived more or less under open skies have now a pucca house (cemented, concrete roof house). How can any analyst convince these families that Modi government did not change their lives?
Or indeed what can they tell the 400 million people who are now financially empowered through new bank accounts or the 200 million people who earlier could not get business loans because they were too poor to offer any collaterals, but now get collateral free loans.
Or indeed, who can tell the women of rural India, where toilet coverage was 38% before Modi became PM, but is now 100%, that Modi government has not made a positive impact in their daily lives?
Or who can tell the Indian soldiers, who previously waited for over 40 years for One Rank One Pension (OROP), that Modi government, which delivered on this promise within the first year of its term, benefiting over 2 million soldiers, that Modi government has not delivered?
The fallacy of the commentators and indeed the opponents of Modi in analysing him is that they measure him by the standard politician's yardstick, which is wholly inadequate. Modi is not your standard, run-of-the-mill politician. This is the principal dichotomy that eludes the analysts but not the people.
People see Modi working hard, all day, every day, day-after-day, for the role that they have given him. Just like the people do in their own respective lives. They identify some part of themselves in Modi.
That is why they trust his intentions and believe in his ability. It is a trust earned through the 'tapasya' (dedication) of a lifetime.
The last tweet of Sushma Swaraj, India's former foreign minister, just hours before she died was to thank Prime Minister Modi for fulfilling her lifelong dream of witnessing abrogation of Article 370 in her lifetime.
It was a dream that had animated generations of political activists but it was Modi's persistence and ability that made it finally possible.
Modi ignites that collective national romance among millions of Indians. That this is our time. That we may face hardships on the way, that we may marginally falter sometimes, but if we persist, we can achieve whatever we want.
That we can change the course of history. That is the sum total of Modi's appeal. Modi wins because he epitomises the spirit of the ordinary Indian to do extraordinary deeds.
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Gromady, z gromadzkimi radami narodowymi (GRN) jako organami władzy najniższego stopnia na wsi, funkcjonowały od reformy reorganizującej administrację wiejską przeprowadzonej jesienią 1954 do momentu ich zniesienia z dniem 1 stycznia 1973, tym samym wypierając organizację gminną w latach 1954–1972.

Gromadę Dziedzice z siedzibą GRN w Dziedzicach utworzono 29 lutego 1956 w powiecie myśliborskim w woj. szczecińskim w związku z przeniesieniem siedziby gromady Mostkowo z Mostkowa do Dziedzicc i zmianą nazwy jednostki na gromada Dziedzice.

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Cranial nerve connect the muscles and sense organs of the head and thoracic region directly to the brain.Cranial nerves relay information between the brain and parts of the body, primarily to and from regions of the head and neck. Cranial nerves have paths within and outside the skull.
The paths within the skull are called "intracranial" and the paths outside the skull are called "extracranial".All cranial nerves are paired, which means that they occur on both the right and left sides of the body. The cranial nerves leave the brain via their own individual apertures in the skull.
Twelve Pairs of cranial nerves are I Olfactory (Smell), II Optic (Sight), III Oculomotor (Moves eyelid and eyeball and adjusts the pupil and lens of the eye), IV Trochlear (Moves eyeballs), V Trigeminal (Facial muscles incl. chewing; Facial sensations), VI Abducens (Moves eyeballs), VII Facial (Taste, tears, saliva, facial expressions), VIII Vestibulocochlear (Auditory), IX Glossopharyngeal (Swallowing, saliva, taste), X Vagus (Control of PNS e.g. smooth muscles of GI tract), XI Accessory (Moving head & shoulders, swallowing), XII Hypoglossal (Tongue muscles - speech & swallowing).
The neurons or nerve cells are connected with other nerve cells where the electric nerve impulses are originated, processed, transmitted, and received.
Nerve cell functions include Communication and coordination, Sensory nerves carries the message to brain, allows us to react to a stimulus, conduct electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body, carries messages from other neurons to a cell body.
Nerve cells are classified as Sensory nerve cells, Motor nerve cells, Association nerve cell.
Structural imaging of the brain deals with the structure of the brain and the diagnosis of gross intracranial disease such as tumor, strokes and injury.
Paleoneurobiology is the study of brain evolution by analysis of brain endocasts to determine endocranial traits and volumes. It is a subdivision of neuroscience.
Paleoneurobiology combines techniques from other fields of study including paleontology and archaeology. It reveals specific insight concerning human evolution.
Affective neuroscience examines the emotional responses created by the brain. It combines neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood.
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulates the functions of our internal organs (the viscera) such as the heart, stomach and intestines.
ANS is part of the peripheral nervous system and it also controls some of the muscles within the body. ANS is most important in two situations: In emergencies that cause stress and require us to "fight" or take "flight" (run away) and in non-emergencies that allow us to "rest" and "digest.
ANS is divided into three parts: Sympathetic nervous system, Parasympathetic nervous system and Enteric nervous system.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a diagnostic tool for mapping brain function. It is a promising tool for treating neuropsychiatric conditions.
A non-invasive technique that consists of a magnetic field emanating from a wire coil held outside the head.The magnetic field induces an electrical current in nearby regions of the brain.
Treatment for depression involves delivering repetitive magnetic pulses. Hence called repetitive TMS or rTMS.
Connectome is a detailed map, or "wiring diagram," of the myriad neural connections that make up the brain and nervous system.
Connectome would include the mapping of all neural connections within an organism's nervous system.
It helps researches to understand correlation of human brain physiology with abilities and behaviours.
The production of new, maturing neurons by neural stem and progenitor cells is called neurogenesis.
Rapid neurogenesis occurs in the fetal brain in humans and other animals. It occurs in all species of animals except the porifera(sponges) and placozoans.
During embryonic development, the mammalian central nervous system, brain and spinal cord is derived from the neural tube, which contains neural stem cells that will later generate neurons.
Adult neurogenesis has been shown to occur at low levels compared with development, and in only two regions of the brain: the adult subventricular zone (SVZ) of the striatum and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.


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Wall of Antoninus Pius appears that the second legion, with detachments from the sixth and twentieth legion, and some auxiliaries, erected these vast military works, equally creditable to their skill and perseverance. This wall is called in the popular language of the country, Grime's Dyke, the etymology of which has confounded antiquarians, and puzzled philologists. In British speech, and in the Welsh language of the present day the word 'gryme' signifies strength; but whether the appellation which the wall now receives is derived from such a root seems doubtful. Certain it is, that the absurd fiction of Fordun, Boyce and Buchanan, who derive their name from a supposititious person of the name of Grime and his Scots having broke through this wall, has long been exploded."
Gazeteer of Scotland.
"With respect to the modern name, Graham's Dyke, by which it now goes, we can offer nothing with certainty. Graham is a surname very numerous and of great antiquity in Scotland. A distinct and powerful clan of that name is mentioned, as possessing a considerable territory upon the borders of the two kingdoms, as late as the days of Edward VI. All our historians mention a chief so called, who in the fifth century, broke through this wall, and made dreadful havock amongst the Britons, who were now abandoned by their friends the Romans; and as other conquerors sometimes received names from the countries they had subdued, this renowned warrior is said to have given his to a work which he destroyed. Several of these authors have handed down another transaction, which is as likely to have given a rise to the name Graham's Dyke, though we have never seen it taken notice of by antiquaries in connexion with the subject we are upon. In the reign of Malcolm 2nd, near the end of the tenth century, one Grimus, or Gryme, a relation of the royal family, aspiring to the crown, raised a considerable army to accomplish his design. Malcolm marched at the head of his troops to give him battle. The two armies encamped in view of each other upon opposite sides of the Forth, not far from Stirling. An accommodation of a very singular nature was brought about, without any bloodshed, by the influence of Fothadus, bishop of Saint Andrews, a man highly reputed in both armies, on account of his sanctity. The terms of accommadation, say our authors, were that the kingdom should be divided between Malcolm and Gryme during the life of the latter; that at his death, the whole should be possessed by Malcolm; and that the wall between the Forth and the Clyde should be the boundary of their respective dominions, Malcolm occupying what lay upon the south of that wall and Gryme the northern parts."
Nimmo's History of Stirling.
[Page] 48 Parish of Polmont


When kitties Winter and Twilight Gronsky were brought in to Kingsbrook Animal Hospital by their owners for a routine examination back in 2014, Dr. Cardella noticed a pattern of weight gain. In January of 2014, Winter weighed 14.9 lbs. Twilight, also a domestic shorthair cat, weighed 14.44 lbs in February, 2014. The cat's owners were feeding them a good quality food and measuring out their portions, but they were still too heavy.
Both Dr. Cardella and the cat's parents were concerned that the gain in weight would start to affect the kitty's health negatively. Studies have shown that there is an association between oral health issues and other health issues such as with the heart, kidneys and metabolic systems. Dr. Cardella suggested switching the cat's diet to a prescription food and Winter and Twilight's parents readily agreed. The prescription diet chosen was Hill's Prescription Diet Feline T/d. T/d (Tooth diet) has very large-sized kibble that pet's can't swallow whole. They must chew the kibble to break them up small enough to swallow. Chewing the kibble allows it to scrape plaque and tartar off the teeth. So why did Dr. Cardella choose to prescribe a dental diet when these cats needed to lose weight? T/d has the additional benefit of being low in calories!
Dr. Cardella recommended feeding each cat ¼ cup of T/d twice daily. With their owner's hard work and dedication, we are happy to report that both cats have lost weight! Way to go! In February, 2015 Winter weighed in at 10.85 lbs, and in March, 2015 Twilight weighed 10.98 lbs. Both cats are now at their ideal body weight! Their owners have done an amazing job with their weight loss challenge and report that both cats are much more active and happy now that they've lost weight. Now that both kitties are at their ideal weight, their fed portion size may be adjusted to help them to maintain their perfect physique. It's not an easy task to help pets lose weight, but it leads to a happier, healthier pet. Winter and Twilight are so lucky to have such amazing pet parents.
Total weight lost: 4.05 lbs!
Total weight lost: 3.46 lbs!
Here is Winter now! He is looking svelte as he explores one of our exam rooms.
This entry was posted in diet and tagged Feline Obesity, Frederick MD, Hill's T/D, Kingsbrook Animal Hospital, Prescription diet, Veterinarian, Weight loss in cats on May 12, 2015 by yourfriends.