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TSA complaints: Warranted outrage? Or all bark, no bite?
In recent weeks there has been growing vocal anger regarding the Transportation Security Administration's procedures relating to pat downs and the use of full-body scanners. But amid all of the noise, what are the real complaints, and how much of the outrage is simply that - a growing chorus of bandwagon anger.
There certainly has been no shortage of horror stories - a shirtless boy receiving a pat down, a flier had to show her prosthetic breast, a bladder cancer survivor whose urine bag broke during a pat down - and countless other stories of uncomfortable encounters with the TSA.
The coverage of the isolated incidents being reported raises the question of whether they paint a picture that isn't the reality for the vast majority of travelers.
The concerns: Fact vs. fiction
Polls have found a majority of Americans support the scans, though they aren't as supportive of the TSA pat downs.
A CBS News survey showed 81 percent of people polled approve of the use of full-body X-ray machines. A Washington Post/ABC News survey found 64 percent of people supported the use of the machines, while 32 percent were opposed. When it comes to the use of pat downs, respondents were practically split down the middle. However, 37 percent of all Americans said they "feel strongly" that the pat downs are overly intrusive. Still 70 percent of Americans questioned in the Washington Post/ABC News poll said the new TSA rules made no difference in their decision to fly.
Our partners at Time.com, who are taking a look at the TSA procedures, report that the head of the agency John Pistole has said the outcry has partially been fueled by media-fed misperceptions. He said that only a "very small percentage" of the 34 million Americans who have flown since the new procedures took effect have been subjected to the pat downs.
Politico: Go ahead, touch my junk
The TSA even released a list of "myths and facts" about pat downs and other security measures.
No doubt passengers still have some concerns. What about their 4th amendment rights? Are the scanners safe? Do they even work? Can they actually stop terror attacks? How far is too far when it comes to a pat down? What are the medical implications of the procedures? And who exactly should be getting the pat downs?
For some, it's a question of pat down or blown up?
BusinessInsider.com: Sorry, Folks, We'd Rather Be Body-Scanned Than Blown Up In Mid-Air
"It wouldn't be a total oversimplification to boil the issue down to a single question: would you rather get screened or blown up," Time.com's Sora Song wrote. "The new TSA whole-body scanning machines are designed to catch potentially deadly threats — like, say, explosive chemicals in underwear — that metal detectors miss. The end result should be a safer flight. It's a no-brainer."
For all those complaining about the security check hassles, CNN contributor Bob Greene asks, would you rather have no security at all?
"You can walk into any airport, with or without a ticket, and wander unimpeded right up to a boarding gate. You don't have to surreptitiously slip past a security checkpoint, because there are no security checkpoints, " he said. ""If you are carrying a loaded gun in your pocket or underneath your jacket, no one will know. In fact, if you do have a valid ticket, there will be nothing to prevent you from boarding a flight while armed to the teeth with concealed weaponry."
"Would you feel safe? Would you want to live in such a country?," he adds.
"You did, if you were a citizen of the United States before the 1970s."
Why all the hoopla?
The firestorm has only grown as close-up photos of the pat downs grace newspaper and website front pages, while the mockery has only grown on late night talk shows, "Saturday Night Live" and YouTube.
And let's not leave the press out of it. Howard Kurtz, writing for the Daily Beast, agrees in part with Pistole that the media are certainly part of the blame.
"From network newscasts to local TV, from newspaper front pages to a blur of web headlines, it seems untold numbers of women are having their breasts touched and untold numbers of men are feeling the intrusive hands of government guards near their packages," he writes. "Actually, that's far from true."
And when it comes down to it, Kurtz said, part of the media attention is due to how easy the story is to tell - and that it has all the makings of the perfect press story.
"The narrative combines a number of elements: Hassled airline passengers (who can't relate to that?); terrorism concerns; invasion of privacy, and a hint of sexual naughtiness," he said. "But the key here is that every local news outlet in America could send a reporter or a crew to a nearby airport and grab a piece of the action."
Then there's the whole "National Opt-Out Day" issue. It could either, as some organizations suggest, delay flights or completely fizzle out. As Time.com points out, it might just turn into a "More Like Opting Out Of Making Your Flight" scenario?
In reality, we ask: Will this idea turn out to be of "Get Betty White on 'SNL'" Facebook campaign success? Or will people who have likely paid a chunk of money to go visit their families take the time to engage in an act of civil disobedience and disrupt air travel?
Perhaps, it's just (pun-intended) all up in the air for now.
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I travel 50-60 times per year for business and while i prefer the "old" days, I'm under no illusion that the safety of all should be sacrificed for my convenience.
To the media and those feeding the frenzy, stop being so self-centered and move on through the line! The TSA is just doing what they can to keep the planes safe (a part of the story that seems to be frequently overlooked).
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McDuck
So instead you're under the illusion that this will actually increase security? This is just another scam to put money into pockets of buddies of politicians.
JEFF YOU RESTORE MY FAITH IN HUMANITY.--WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY IDEA? SINCE THIS IS A COUNTRY OF FREEDOM OF EVERYTHING FROM A TO Z WITH NO BRAINS IN BETWEEN LET THE AIRLINES OFFER SCAN–FLIGHTS AND NO–SCAN FLIGHTS THEN ALL THE COMPLAINERS CAN BE IN LIKE COMPANY.
Deej
I agree jeff. You said it well. It is about safety.
Sillyness
I wholeheartedly agree with that idea, Leverett. And it should be left up to the airport. They can have 2 or 3 flights a day that are "super-secure" flights and the rest can be flights as we've always had them. There would never be a completely un-secured flight because the gov't has to think of the safety of people on the ground, in buildings, etc, not just on that particular plane. But the AMOUNT of safety you would like on your flight should be left up to you. If you want to get on a plane with 100 other people that have NOT been heavily security checked – then by all means, go right ahead. Me?...I'll be on the flight where everyone was scanned/groped/felt-up/etc.
And for all of those people crying about how it doesn't make use any safer and it's all political, blah blah blah, i say – so what. No matter what the behind-the-scenes reason is for increasing airport security the fact remains that it IS an increase in airport security. So if the gov't or a private company makes a trillion dollars selling these machines and it catches even 1 person trying to smuggle something dangerous onto an airplane, then I say they've earned their trillion dollars.
They only pick random people for the full body scan. And as I witnessed, most of the people who got picked were Women. Men and children could just walk through the regular metal detector, and none of them had through the body scanner.
That raised a question: Why do we, women, have to go through the full body scanner while most men don't? Should everyone be treated the same? Seriously, randomly picking doesn't work. If 1 person gets scanned, all others should also be scanned.
Oh please...because some women got randomly picked at the time you were there, you assume it's all women. Gosh, you're a moron.
Because you have one more place to hide something then men. And it can hide a whole lot
Anyone who thinks young women aren't going to have it worse is forgetting the very recent cases of police officers strip searching young women without probable cause.
Also: from an ABC news producer who was at Newark airport Sunday morning. "The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around," she said. "It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate."
DrFood
I suppose your assessment that women are picked more than men or children is statistically sound, right HN? After all, I'm pretty sure you have all the data to back that up. Tell me now: what was your p value?
MidwestGrrl
We have full body scanners at our regional airport; everyone goes through them unless you opt out. I've flown 4 times since they were installed and it really was no big deal. Didn't hear any complaints the days/times I was there and the lines moved quickly.
The answer as to why women got "randomly" picked more often is simple. There are more men running the checkpoint than there are women.
Perhaps they were interested in seeing if you ladies have plastic explosive surgery performed...
I have noticed that they scan women more than men (and I am a guy). It must only happen when you have a man on the other side of the monitor. I think anything that involves touching an area we teach our children to tell us if they are ever touched their, should be handled by a medical professional. Period. Lets fly safe, but seriously, lets put people with a shred of decency performing the pat downs.
I'm female and I was scanned at an airport in Florida, coulda cared less. Funny though, the random searches done of people's carryon's as planes were boarding were mostly men....
I think the uproar is all nonsense......I guarantee you if one plane goes down because of lax security measures, the whiners will be the first to blame TSA and security. I'm sure these people like "free choices"...right?....choose not to fly....I want to be on a plane that every effort has been made to check for terrorists or morons....whoops....I guess we can't stop the morons.....
Roger in Atlanta
Amen Brother!
Tannim
You're more likely to be on a plane that goes down from a mech than a kook.
And even that is 1 in 2.6 million odds.
IOW, the TSA smurfs are really a huge waste of time and money.
chicagoK
No, we can't stop the news journalists from flying. You just have to tolerate these morons on your flight.
many more effective ways to screen passengers
LOL! So HOW is the magic detector going to detect explosives? It LITERALLY can't tell the difference between a loaded diaper and explosive underwear.
I guess the TSO's fingertips are explosive detectors, they can FEEL the difference between cellulose and PETN, just by the feel of nitrates!
What is REALLY ridiculous is that our airports have tighter security than our military bases in the WAR ZONE!
So, apparently, the US is far more dangerous than the war zone.
We can tell, after all, IED's are going off on the highways, right?
Schools are being blow up because girls go to the same school as boys, right?
Police stations are blowing up too, right?
After all, our airports are MORE dangerous as Afghanistan, as evidenced by the irradiation of travelers or reaching into underwear (not to mention my welcome home from the war zone, via a scrotum squeeze).
What is funny is that the DoD rejected those scanners for human use in the war zone, ONLY TRUCKS get backscatter scanned. So, it's not good enough for the DoD in a war zone, but it's good enough for the TSA.
Meanwhile, we have our fourth amendment shredded.
Nice care you took of my country while I was deployed. Thanks for nothing.
Susanna Wittstock
If a plane goes down, it will be proof positive that these measures were ineffective.
cloudcroftkid1
The head of the TSA needs to be fired........NOW !
drqns
Why should he be fored? Because you don't like him?
Whoa! Obama is the top dog. He approved the TSA actions! The buck stops at the leader, not his appointee who's actions he approved. If you don't like what the TSA is doing, blame the boss. Make him explain it. Clearly, Obama made a mess out of the deployment of the news security measures. But he really hasn't demonstrated any executive leadership skills and tends to make a mess out of most things that he can't solve by going on vacation. The news media flamed the fires as they normally do. Moronic truth terrorists like to exaggerate and sensationalize. I think the TSA should give news journalists full rectal exams as they are the known terrorists, aka truth terrorists.
Anyone else notice that CNN's report never mentions the fact that people are opting out of the scanner for fear that the radiation might cause cancer and they don't believe the U.S. government "experts" who say otherwise. Why hide this fact CNN?
Notice how hard the media is trying to characterize objection to new TSA measures as overblown or unwarranted. If only they had used this tactic in the last election cycle. It's all deliberate manipulation. Ask yourself why the powers that own the news media do not want us to object.
Wanderlust or Bust
This is all being blown out of proportion. So to win the hearts and minds of potential air travelers, TSA is giving away free tickets to the premier of their latest feature film:
http://robustwanderlust.blogspot.com/2010/11/invasion-of-body-scanners.html
We're are like the citizens in pre-war Nazi Germany while the police state grew and took over. If we sit back and let them take all our rights, we deserve the end result, a police state in the US.
What rights are they taking away? Your right to fly? You do not have the right to fly, it is a privledge. Read the Bill of Right, it has no mention of flying. If you don't want to be examined by the TSA, you have the right NOT to FLY!. Plain and simple. If you want to fly, you follow the law and fly.
@Bill there is the Right to Travel Freely and unmolested between the states. There is the right to not be unreasonably searched without probable cause and a warrant.
Bill, you moron, when the Bill of Rigths was written airplanes didn't exist for another 115 years.
An airline ticket is a private business contract between the traveler and theh airline. Therfore teh security obligations fall to the airline, but they, in their failed efforts to cut customer service in favor of profits, abdicated that to the government that subsidizes them woth our tax dollars, and the result is the mess you see here.
Time to dismantle and start over with something different and better.
Tomorrow is gonna be hilarious.
People don't really notice the slow erosion of their rights ,priviledges and protections over the last 3 or 4 decades. Many haven't been around long enough to notice. They don't think a Nazi style police state can happen here because we have these rights but the rights are disappearing. Its Catch 22. As Thomas Jefferson stated (and i paraphrase) "a society that gives up its rights in the name of security gets neither".
jose head
All of this could be avoided if TSA we could get over the idiocy of being politically correct to avoid "profiling." The reality is that we don't need to be searching three year old children, or 90 year old grandmothers. There is a select and distinctive group, identifiable by gender and race, who are most likely going to cause problems. And everyone knows this. The costs involved, incurred strictly because of are just ridiculous.
Once you find a loop-hole (like not searching kids or grandmothers), you pick it to carry something. You people are thinking like nice people. Think like a terrorist bent on killing any way possible.
100% agree
gettincold
That's not exactly sound logic. If you are hell bent on blowing up a plane and you know that if you have a beard and wear a cowboy hat that you are going to be heavily screened, then what do you do? You get your wife – who does not wear a beard or a cowboy hat – to carry the explosives on for you. So while TSA is busy profiling completely innocent people who just happen to look the type, the normal-looking people will waltz right on through with bombs in their pockets. Profiling is a dangerous game to play. Terrorists are mean and evil, but they are by far stupid.
I'm a middle aged hispanci male. I look like a real tough guy and have a common hispanic name which is on the terrorist watch list. I'm also a Social Worker at a community health center. I've been dealing with these pat downs since 9/11. Nobody ever complained when it was the scary guy boarding the plane but now that it happens to everyone else they feel violated and cry like babies. I say relax and shut up. If you want to avoid pat downs drive or take a train.
do they change gloves after each pat? They should...
Its not a body cavity search you dufus.
Actually, Mike.. They put their hands in your pants. They touch pubic hair and genitals. The gloves should be changed.
These scanners are more about corporate lobbying and back room deals than security.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-11-22-scanner-lobby_N.htm
From an old Robin Williams routine...."A five year old getting a pat down by airport security – "Hey, get your hands off me, you're not a priest!""
RdclCntrst
And for those of you you want to get rid of TSA and use private firms for airport security, consider this: The concerns about 4th Amendment rights go out the window when you remove the government from the equation. The 4th Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure BY THE GOVERNMENT. It has nothing to say about some megalithic corporation insisting that you can't get on one of their airplanes until you go through a scanner. Or worse. What would you do if the government suddenly declared no one could get on a plane without being strip-searched? Right. Now what would you do if the companies that OWNED THE AIRPLANES said the same thing? Yeah, I thought so.
You're an idiot. If a private company or firm tried to do this, it would be a CRIME. Not to mention, they'd be sued in civil court into bankruptcy. So the 4th amendment doesn't apply....but we have numerous other laws that do. But the 4th Amendment DOES apply to this. I give this until the Supreme court knocks it down.
Besides, the security checkpoint isn't the weak link anyway, and never was even when we just used metal detectors.
Way overblown. Americans are generally fat, rude, and disgusting. The TSA should be outraged at having to touch these people. Personally, I agree with the procedured (as do most Americans) and we have to do something to increase security.
Wrong question. When you're talking about violating a person's body boundaries, you respect that person's will, not the results of a poll.
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A: The question is slightly confusing, but I will interpret it as such that you want to load the image only when it is on the screen in flutter. And not to load when it is not on the screen. This is usually called lazy-loading.
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Add this into your dependency
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Then import it to your page,
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And then your listview would work like this:
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Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby stops to stick-handle a loose puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo, N.Y., on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010.
Don Heupel
Published January 17, 2011 Updated January 17, 2011
Even though Sidney Crosby is a shoo-in to be chosen Tuesday as one of the captains who will pick the teams for the NHL all-star game, do not be surprised if he declines to participate, even if he recovers from his concussion.
The word filtering out of the Pittsburgh Penguins is that Crosby is an angry young man, angry enough to pull his considerable star presence from one of the league's showcase events because he does not think the NHL is doing enough to protect its players. An NHL source said Crosby is not likely to tell the NHL he is withdrawing from the all-star game to protest the fact neither player who hit him on the head was suspended. However, he could easily decline and cite the need for complete recovery from a mild concussion.
The source said Crosby, who showed up at the all-star game in Montreal two years ago even though he sustained a knee injury and could not play, is not inclined to do any more such favours right now.
At this point, though, it is not known if Crosby, who has not played since he was hit from behind by Tampa Bay Lightning defenceman Victor Hedman, will be healthy enough to participate. His agent, Pat Brisson, said Monday that Crosby is "progressing well but he has to be symptom-free before he resumes any physical activity. He says he feels better but he's not there yet."
With the all-star game less than two weeks away on Jan. 30, it is reasonable to assume the Penguins, who stopped giving daily updates on Crosby's condition last week, would not be distressed if he took a pass. If Crosby elected not to play until Feb. 1 against the New York Rangers, the Penguins' first game after the all-star break, it would be a recovery period of almost four weeks.
Brisson declined to say if he thinks Crosby will skip the all-star game. He did say from the standpoint of the injury "it's all about timing. The game is coming quickly."
The first hit Crosby incurred was in the NHL's Winter Classic on Jan. 1 when he was blindsided by David Steckel of the Washington Capitals. The second was Jan. 6 when Hedman hit him from behind. Neither Steckel nor Hedman was penalized under the new rule on blindside hits to the head, which calls for a major penalty, a game misconduct and an automatic league review for further discipline in the form of fines and suspensions. Steckel did not get a penalty during the game while Hedman received a minor penalty for boarding.
Brisson said he believes Crosby suffered the concussion, which was the first of his career, as a result of the first hit by Steckel. There was some controversy because the Penguins said the concussion came after the second hit, by Hedman. The Penguins were criticized for allowing Crosby to play after the Steckel hit, but Brisson said the only symptom he felt at first was a sore neck. Brisson said both he and Crosby think the Penguins' medical staff handled the situation properly.
"I firmly believe the Steckel hit was what propelled the concussion," Brisson said. "But you didn't have the symptoms [of a concussion]coming out until three or four days later. All he thought he had at first was a sore neck."
While Crosby has not said publicly he is angry enough with the NHL to boycott the all-star game, he did make it clear shortly after the Hedman hit he feels both players should have been suspended. Brisson said Monday the league has to toughen the head-shot rule to include any hit to the head. Neither he nor Crosby were happy that the NHL ruled the Steckel hit was accidental, thus not worthy of a suspension.
"If you accidentally hit someone with your stick and cut them, well, too bad, you get a penalty," Brisson said. "The league needs another step forward [with the head-shots rule]
"If you accidentally hit someone on the head, you should be suspended for a game. It makes it easier on everyone if there is a penalty and a suspension. Players will be more careful."
Brisson, who is one of the most powerful player agents in the NHL as the co-director of Creative Artists Agency's hockey division along with J.P. Barry, plans to lobby for more teeth for the head-shots rule. He wants his fellow agents to join him.
"It is our job to be a voice for the players," he said. "When the Titanic sunk in 1912 there were not enough lifeboats so they changed the rules.
"The brain is the same one players had 45 or 50 years ago but their bodies are much different. They are much bigger and faster. The hits are much harder."
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Biografia
Nacque a Tours, verso il 1415-1420, ma la sua formazione avvenne a Parigi, nell'ambito degli atelier di miniatura. Per tutta la sua carriera alternò la pittura su tavola con opere di miniatura di straordinaria qualità. La scarsità di documentazione rende difficoltosa la ricostruzione del suo percorso biografico, mentre è ormai appurato, almeno nelle principali linee, l'evoluzione stilistica nelle sue opere. Della sua prima attività si conoscono un Ritratto di Carlo VII e la Pietà di Nouans-les-Fontaines in Turenna, che risentono dell'insegnamento di Jan van Eyck e delle sculture di Claus Sluter.

Probabilmente tra il 1445 e il 1447 compì un viaggio in Italia, durante il quale fu fondamentale il soggiorno a Roma, alla corte di Eugenio IV del quale dipinse, forse, un perduto ritratto con due dignitari. Qui conobbe alcuni artisti, tra i quali forse il Filarete e quasi certamente Beato Angelico, ed ebbe modo di apprezzare le opere di Masolino e altri. Ne apprese le recenti formulazioni prospettiche e trasse inoltre, dai resti degli edifici romani, un repertorio classico che impiegò nelle opere successive. L'influenza dell'Angelico è visibile ad esempio nel Libro d'Ore di Étienne Chevalier. Visitò, forse, anche Napoli, sostò a Firenze, dove entrò in contatto con la pittura di Piero della Francesca e di Domenico Veneziano, e Ferrara, dove gli viene attribuito il Ritratto del Buffone Gonella, un nano della corte di Lionello d'Este. Comunque risultano evidenti sia la conoscenza dei monumenti italiani, che compaiono spesso raffigurati nelle sue opere, sia della prospettiva, dei volumi e della razionalità della luce dei pittori italiani.

Tornato in Francia nel 1448, fu attivo alla corte di Carlo VII, del quale dipinse un Ritratto (1448-1450), e poi di Luigi XI, del quale fu pittore ufficiale dal 1475. In Francia lavorò per i più alti funzionari statali, come Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, cancelliere di Francia (Ritratto, 1460 circa), Simon de Varie (Libro d'Ore, 1460 circa) o il tesoriere Etienne Chevalier. Per quest'ultimo miniò un Libro d'Ore oggi al Museo Condé di Chantilly, ma soprattutto dipinse quello che è considerato il suo capolavoro, il Dittico di Melun (1450 circa), commissionato per un altare della cattedrale di Melun, eretto in memoria di Agnès Sorel, amante di Carlo VII e morta nel 1450, di cui il committente era esecutore testamentario. Il dittico, da cui proviene anche il piccolo tondo con l'autoritratto dell'artista ora al Louvre, in cui riesce a conciliare le influenze fiamminghe, evidenziate dal realismo dei personaggi che si muovono in paesaggi di grande respiro, ed italiane, manifestate nel controllo dello spazio e nella definizione dei volumi, in un plasticismo nuovo che influenzerà a lungo l'arte francese.

Tra il 1465 e il 1470 si dedicò ad altri splendidi lavori di miniatura, tra cui le illustrazioni per le Antichità giudaiche di Flavio Giuseppe e per le Grandes chroniques de France.

Tra il 1470 e il 1476 l'interesse dell'artista si orientò verso composizioni più complesse, descriventi movimenti di masse e la narrazione mutò dalla focalizzazione dell'individuo verso un'azione corale di grandi folle.

Morì tra il 1478 e il 1481.

Opere

Ritratto di Carlo VII, 1444-1450 circa, tavola 86×71 cm, Parigi, Louvre
Pietà in Nouans-les-Fontaines, 1444-1450 circa, tavola 146×237 cm, Nouans-les-Fontaines, chiesa parrocchiale
Ritratto del Buffone Gonella, 1446-1448 circa, tavola 24×36 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Ritratto di papa Eugenio IV con due confidenti, 1446 circa, forse su tela, perduto (ne esistono alcune copie e derivazioni): secondo alcuni autori per il suo forte contenuto innovativo nel soggetto, nella composizione e nell'accentuato realismo, potrebbe aver influenzato anche Raffaello nel Ritratto di Leone X e di due suoi familiari.
Legato papale, disegno su carta 19,8×13,5 cm, New York, Metropolitan Museum
Libro d'Ore di Étienne Chevalier, dal 1448, miniatura, diviso tra Chantilly, Museo Condé, Londra, British Library (Add. 37.421), New York, Metropolitan Museum, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Lat 1416), Parigi, Louvre-Departement des Arts graphiques (RF 1679, MI 1093), Parigi, Musée Marmottan, Upton House, Bearsted
Dittico di Melun, 1450 circa, tavola
Etienne Chevalier presentato da santo Stefano (sinistra), 93×85 cm, Berlino, Gemäldegalerie
Madonna col Bambino (destra), 91,8×83,3 cm, Anversa, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
Autoritratto, smalto, Parigi, Louvre
Grandes Chroniques de France (51 miniature, 2 perse), 1450-1460 circa, miniatura 46x35 cm, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France (fr. 6465)
Battaglia di Formigny (attr.), 1453-1455, disegno per arazzi, ms. fr. 22.335, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Cervo alato (attr.), disegno per arazzo 347×380 cm, Rouen, Musée départemental des antiquités
Due miniature Libro d'Ore di Angers (Latin 3211, pagg. 67 e 241, il resto del pittore Jouvenel), 1455 circa, miniatura, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Libro d'Ore di Adelaide di Savoia, 1455-1460, miniatura, Chantilly, Museo Condé
Ritocchi al Libro d'Ore del 1416-1418 del Maestro di Boucicaut, miniatura, Londra, British Library (Add. 16.997)
Libro d'Ore di Simon de Varie, 1455 circa, miniatura, L'Aia, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (ms. 74 G 37 e ms. 74 G 37a) e Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum (ms. 7)
Des cas des Nobles Hommes et Femmes Malheureux di Boccaccio, 1459 circa, miniatura 40x29 cm, Monaco di Baviera, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (cod. gall. 6 352 fogli)
Ritratto di Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, disegno su carta,  Berlino, Kupferstichkabinett
Ritratto di Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, 1460-1465, tavola 96×73 cm, Parigi, Louvre

Libro d'Ore di Jean Robertet, 1460-1465 circa, miniatura, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library (m. 834)
Libro d'Ore dell'Aia, miniatura, L'Aia, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (ms. 74 G 28)
Ritratto di Luigi XI, 1461-1462, tavola 22×15 cm, ubicazione sconosciuta, già a Chateau Saint Roch
Ritratto di Maria d'Agiò, tavola, perduto (una copia a stampa in OA 14, fol. 15, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Monogramma di Laurens Girard (attr.), disegno per vetrata, Parigi, Musée National du Moyen Âge
Libro d'Ore di Carlo di Francia, prima del 1465, miniatura, Parigi, Bibliothèque Mazarine (ms. 473) e New York, The Cloisters (fogli singoli, 58.71 a, b)
Les Antiquités Judaiques di Flavio Giuseppe, 1465 circa, miniatura 43x29 cm, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France (ms. fr. 247 623)
Les Antiquités Judaiques di Flavio Giuseppe, miniatura, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France (fr. 21013)
Statuti dell'Ordine di San Michele, 1469 circa, miniatura, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France (ms. fr. 19819)
SOG. Livio, miniatura, la Sorbona, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France (fr. 20.071 e 20.072)
Storia antica, 1470 circa, miniatura, Amsterdam, Rijksprentencabinet (inv. A 1943) e Parigi, Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques (RF 4.143, 5.271, 29.493 e 29.494)
Libro d'Ore di Anne de Baudricourt, miniatura, Parigi, Bibliothèque nationale de France (lat 3.187)
Libro d'Ore De Veauce, miniatura 247 fol., Amsterdam, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (BPH 74)
Libro d'Ore di Tours, miniatura, ubicazione sconosciuta, già nella Collezione Metcalf (.)
Libro d'Ore del Maine, 1480 circa, miniatura 89 fol., Parigi, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (ms. 417)

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Bibliografia
Pierluigi De Vecchi ed Elda Cerchiari, I tempi dell'arte, volume 2, Bompiani, Milano 1999. ISBN 88-451-7212-0
Stefano Zuffi, Il Quattrocento, Electa, Milano 2004. ISBN 88-370-2315-4
Carlo Ginzburg, Jean Fouquet - Ritratto del buffone Gonella, Franco Cosimo Panini, 1996 ISBN 88-7686-750-3

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This week we've seen a significant ratcheting up in the language and concepts used to defame White people.
Three antiwhite stories came to light, from across countries and disciplines. A national museum in Scotland; a public school in America; and a professional networking site with global reach. Each advancing the language used to vilify us to new levels and all carrying the same message – White supremacy is simply White people existing in White societies.
Curating Discomfort | The Hunterian Blog academicblogs.co.uk
NYC public school asks parents to 'reflect' on their 'whiteness' nypost.com
www.linkedin.com/learning/confronting-racism-with-robin-diangelo-what-you-can-do
LinkedIn, a professional networking site owned by Microsoft, has 760 million registered members across 150 countries. This organisation offers online training, which includes a course on 'Confronting Racism' developed and delivered by Robin DiAngelo, the author of White Fragility. It's understood that Coca-Cola is forcing its employees to complete this antiwhite training.
Extracts from the seven segments of DiAngelo's course, accessed through LinkedIn, are posted below.
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This course portrays White people as inherently 'bad'. The antiwhite concepts are framed in such a way that no White person can exempt themselves from this portrayal. Anything a White person says in their defense, or simply to portray themselves as the person they actually are, is turned against them. DiAngelo uses disagreement with her ideology as evidence of White people's fragility – which she argues is a means Whites use to 'maintain White dominance'.
Short slideshow of Robin DiAngelo describing 'White fragility' :-
When it comes to attitudes towards non Whites, there are no acceptable responses from White people, except to own that Whites are indeed bad. Being Color-Blind (viewing everyone as an individual irrespective of their race) is not a defense, but neither is being Color-Celebrate (seeing races as different and embracing those differences). There is no way out.
Short slideshow recounting how being Color-Blind marks a White person out as a dangerous person :-
Two particular sections of DiAngelo's training course reveal the ratcheting up of antiwhite language and concepts.
The first is that both DiAngelo and Linkedin have no problem with the bold assertion that to be White is to be oppressive, arrogant, certain, defensive and ignorant when it comes to race.
Such a portrayal of an entire race cannot but inspire hatred and resentment against that race, but that is only part of the problem. Being of the White race is a immutable characteristic. DiAngelo is demanding we be less of who we are. Shadows of ourselves. Less White. Less people of European descent. It is dehumanising.
The second is her portrayal of what constitutes 'White supremacy'. What she is describing is White society:
DiAngleo's definition goes way beyond 'White supremacy' as extremism. The term now covers the society we live in, which she erroneously describes as one that holds up Whites as the human ideal, and non whites as a deviation from that ideal.
Short slideshow of DiAngelo describing 'White Supremacy' as 'the society we live in' :-
This is problematic at many levels. Firstly simply based on it's lack of truthfulness. Whites are by no means portrayed as the ideal. They are more often portrayed as the problem.
Further than that, this rhetoric is dangerous as it conflates a wish to see White societies continue and flourish, with terrorism. By so doing it portrays even the most gentle of aspirations as a threat to America and the world:
Somewhat encouraging are individual members of LinkedIn who gave clear feedback on their objections to the training course. With antiwhite indoctrination such as this, the antiwhites run the risk of waking people up to their victimisation of Whites, hopefully as much as they may subsume individuals into their cult.
Extracts from the feedback to LinkedIn regarding the 'Confronting Racism' course :-
The Hunterian, Scotland's oldest public museum created the position of Curator of Discomfort. 'Change cannot happen without discomfort' goes the mantra.
Apart from the Macpherson report which was produced some twenty two years ago, the remaining justification for this role centres round 'White supremacy'.
In the article written by the new curator (extracts posted below), we are referred to the idea that both historically and now the White race is viewed as superior. She goes on to explain that this idea of superiority was created so White people would justify their slavery, genocide, looting and plundering. This White centric view ignores the fact that these abhorrent practices were carried out by all races.
"White supremacy is an economic and cultural system in which white western ideas control the power of the text, the material resources and the ideas of cultural superiority." says the author. In other words 'White supremacy' is White society. It would be natural for Whites to believe their culture is superior for them, that's the nature of culture. Just as Asians could be expected to value and advance their culture, and Arabs and Blacks likewise.
Curating Discomfort | The Hunterian Blog (academicblogs.co.uk)
The question that needs to be asked is why a world minority, White people at about 10% of the worlds population and falling, cannot be allowed a corner of this earth to enjoy their own culture, especially when there are no such objections to Arab culture in the Middle East, Asian culture in Asia or Black culture in Africa.
The principal of New York's East Side Community School, Mark Federman, sent a letter to White parents which included the graphics posted below, telling them they must become "white traitors" and then advocate for full "white abolition." Barnor Hesse, a professor at Northwestern University created the graphics, but the concept itself originates from a Marxist theory called the "pedagogy of the oppressed" created by Paulo Freire.
This is the new language of public education Twitter @realchrisrufo
According to Chritopher Rufo who first reported on this story… "The letter's use of "white abolition" is also troubling. Federman and Hesse claim to want to abolish "whiteness" as a cultural and social construct, but they also use the term to describe an immutable racial essence. As University of New Mexico professor Geoffrey Miller has observed: "Applied to any other group, this would sound like a monstrous euphemism for mass extermination and cultural annihilation."
As with the two previous cases, White supremacy is portrayed in the graphics as the preservation of White society. The goal set for White people being to become a traitor (double-crosser, Judas, snake in the grass, deserter) and then onto a White abolitionist.
East Side Community School is encouraging parents to change American institutions from being based on Western culture to Black, Asian, or Arabic. They are urged to destroy what it is to be White.
This is extreme dehumanisation of White people and their societies, but in this age this is portrayed as acceptable. What is seen as unacceptable is to challenge it.


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An Early November Night's Walk
Once upon a time, I wrote a lot about my walks through the city. Whether they were solo strolls or psychogeographic excursions, I snapped many pictures along the way and summarized the trip in old-fashioned blog posts.
Friends have asked over the years if I would ever return to writing about walks. So I am. If nothing else, going for these strolls takes me away from my work desk.
I think I got a look of approval from Toronto's first mayor from his perch at Queen station (though I swear he also mumbled something about muskets).
Originally I was going to wander along Danforth through Greektown, peering in at the early Christmas displays, such as this one at Kitchen Stuff Plus. Feeling there was more walking in me, I hopped on the subway at Broadview and headed downtown.
It was five minutes to closing time when I entered the Queen Street Bay. This cow didn't seem bothered by the customers scurrying to leave the store. It was also proud to show off their holiday wreath, which at least one cutting board approved of.
Heading into the Bay Adelaide Centre, I had a feeling that I was being watched…
…and they weren't the watcher from the wall.
Is the use of the word "path" intentional, given this is a busy corridor in the PATH system? Is it the path to financial well-being? Consumer satisfaction? Enlightenment?
Given the early Christmas decorations I had seen earlier, "Do You Hear What I Hear?" lodged itself in my brain.
As for seeing what they saw, all I could see was a row of closeups of eyes staring at me. Which, for some people, might be unnerving.
Time to move on to another complex.
Recent wayfinding installed in the PATH not only directs you to nearby attractions and buildings, but lets you know how long it takes to get to your destination.*
*Not valid during lunchtime, especially during inclement weather.
First Canadian Place, like much of the PATH after business hours, takes on a quiet character. The hustle and bustle of bankers and lawyers gives way to the occasional wanderer. It's a great place for reflection while walking.
Heading into the Toronto-Dominion Centre provides one of the last glimpses of the uniform signage that, until the early 2000s, dominated Mies van der Rohe's original design for the shopping level of the complex.
From Shawn Micallef's book Stroll:
The Toronto-Dominion Centre was long an exception to the generic look of much of the PATH. Architect Mies van der Rohe laid out a mausoleum of a mall down there, a place of order, clean lines and polished travertine marble. Even the store signs were uniform: white letters on a black background using a font Mies designed specifically for the TD Centre.
The remaining black elements give the centre more character than its neighbours, making it one of the most atmospheric to stroll after hours. The loud partying sounds from the Duke of Devon felt out of place.
From Patricia McHugh and Alex Bozikovic's book Toronto Architecture: A City Guide:
Also, this is where Mies did the city the dubious favour of pioneering the the underground shopping concourse. The Miesian signage and detailing are now gone from underground, but the PATH system continues to grow, turning office-dwellers into moles and emptying the streets.
One of the most interesting signs points to the King & Bay Chaplaincy, a spiritual retreat whose corridor was under construction. It feels like a necessary amenity for people to cope with the pressure of working in the Financial District.
From the February 2, 2008 Globe and Mail:
Hope comes in the form of a door handily emblazoned HOPE. Inside, Pat Kimeda sits quietly behind the desk of the King-Bay Chaplaincy, an interdenominational Christian chapel tucked below escalators in the TD Tower. Ms. Kimeda says many downtown workers come to deal with relationship issues, others in a daze after being dismissed. "All types of people come, and sometimes the problems are not so different," she says. "Whether it's family or work, often people are dealing with stress for one reason or another."
But is it odd, expecting people to find faith in the heart of the country's biggest financial district? Ms. Kimeda pauses. "It's Bay Street. It's money, money, money," she says. "[But]not every person walking down here is like that. A lot are very, very deep."
Compared to the Toronto-Dominion Centre, walking into Royal Bank Plaza feels like you've entered just another office/shopping complex. It doesn't live up to the promise of the exterior, as described in Toronto Architecture: A City Guide:
Any building in Toronto that makes it look as if the sun is shining on a dreary winter day has a lot going for it. The faceted gold-enriched mirror-glass of Royal Bank's Late-Modern jewel seems to reflect a warm sunny glow no matter what the weather. This is a very showy building all around.
One of the biggest mistakes: closing off public viewing access to Jesus Raphael Soto's ceiling sculpture Suspended Virtual Volume, which can sort of be seen through the front windows.
Also available (for the moment) in Royal Bank Plaza: a vending machine dispensing $8.99 cake slices shipped in from Hoboken.
Given all the great bakeries in the city, I'll pass.
Artwork on the wall next to the cake machine. Aww.
My feet needed to rest, so I headed out of Royal Bank Plaza into a building with more atmosphere…
…but first, the small shopping centre in the Royal York Hotel.
At the barber shop, a fine display of after shaves…
…and shaving products usually spotted at my local Italian grocery store.
A bank of elevators waiting to whisk guests to their rooms for a night of romance, or people attending functions throughout the hotel.
From Andrew Hepburn's The Toronto Guide 1966-67:
The hotel, one of the the most celebrated hotels in the world and the largest in the British Commonwealth, has 1,600 guest rooms and suites and some of the most interesting public rooms in Canada, particularly a series of private dining rooms, each one decorated to suggest the character and history of a Canadian province.
The Royal York's lobby is one of my favourite places to rest in the city. Easing into one of the comfortable chairs sends you into a state of relaxation, along with the classic decor. I'll sit for 15-20 minutes to collect my thoughts, typing into my phone or writing in a notebook ideas to be saved for later.
The constant stream of activity makes it a great people-watching spot. On this night, there were attendees of a black-tie function roaming around, along with young tourism, couples out for a drink, and happy Leafs fans savouring a victory over Vegas.
Musically, a live pianist in Reign restaurant blended with dance music blaring from a speaker somewhere behind my chair.
An abandoned issue of O waiting for the next guests to flip through it.
Feeling recharged, it was time to head across the street…
…into Union Station.
First stop was Luis Jacob's Toronto Biennial of Art exhibit The View from Here. According to the artist statement, the exhibit pairs Jacob's photos with selections from his rare map collection, "representing different yet overlapping narratives of the same places. The tension between these views invites a reconsideration of Toronto's identity and presumed cohesion as a city."
I thought the reflected glow of a nearby TD logo added something to this picture taken in The Junction.
Another TD offering nearby: seating.
I headed into the new York Concourse, but it was packed with Leafs fans waiting for their GO trains home. Back into the Great Hall…
Who wants VIA merchandise?
While waiting for the Leafs fans to disperse, I wandered into Brookfield Place. While Royal Bank Plaza hid its sculpture to add more office space, Brookfield embraces Santiago Calatrava's work in the Allen Lambert Galleria.
From Toronto Architecture: A City Guide:
Inside is a real architectural gift to the city: a galleria and "heritage square" by the Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava. Built to satisfy the city's public art requirement, this bravura arcade of white steel evokes by turns whale bones, an ancient forest, and Victorian engineering feats such as the Eiffel Tower.
Looking down at the food court.
The steel fountain at the centre of Sam Pollock Square.
Near the entrance to the Hockey Hall of Fame is a corner of pucks spanning all levels of hockey…
…including franchises that never played a game, such as the WHA's Miami Screaming Eagles.
The night's final image: a display of fall gourds on the Yonge Street side of Marché Mövenpick.
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Vintage Toronto Ads: Fabulous Cloverdale Mall
Originally published on Torontoist on November 19, 2014.
Globe and Mail, November 15, 1956.
In many ways, Cloverdale Mall fulfils the visions of early shopping-centre designers: a convenient, one-stop destination at the heart of a suburban community. As a 2013 profile of the mall in The Grid observed, "its very ordinariness and prosaic mix of shops is precisely what makes it so valuable to its customers."
What Cloverdale lacks in flashiness it makes up for by serving its neighbourhood. Initiatives such as offering free temporary space for non-profit organizations and a "Heartwalkers" program for health-conscious shoppers demonstrate an awareness of the community's needs.
The mall's efforts have been rewarded, too: in 2007, Cloverdale won the inaugural Social Responsibility Award from the Canadian branch of the International Council of Shopping Centres for its fundraising campaign to build the city's first free-standing residential hospice, the Dorothy Lea Hospice Palliative Care Centre.
There was a tinge of glitz to Cloverdale's opening on November 15, 1956. The original 34-store section of the open-air plaza consisted of two rows of businesses separated by a 30-foot wide walkway. Tile mosaics designed by Joseph Iliu provided storefront decoration—the largest was a seven-by-19-foot panel on the west wall of the Dominion supermarket depicting fish, produce, and a cocktail glass.
Near Dominion stood the plaza's major art installation, a 25-foot high sculpture by Montreal artist Robert Roussil known, depending on the source, as "Figures in Movement" or "Galaxie Humaine." The work was made of British Columbia fir and covered in lead. "I think I have a normal Canadian viewpoint and this sculpture is designed for everybody," Roussil told the Globe and Mail. "Like anything new it won't take long for people to become interested. Whether they accept it or not is another matter."
Businesses at Cloverdale quickly found ways to draw in customers. Major retailers such as Dominion benefitted from Etobicoke's relaxed evening-shopping bylaws. Record store owner Wilf Sayer capitalized on the growing power of teen consumers. He began inviting them to his shop on Tuesday nights for listening sessions and dancing, offering pop on the house.
As the events became more popular, Sayer stopped subsidizing the drinks and moved the dances into the plaza. After 600 people showed up for the July 2, 1957 starlight dance, he turned the event into a biweekly affair. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Sayer encouraged parents to chaperone so they could "see for themselves that it is a wholesome evening of entertainment." While the playlist included Elvis Presley and other early rockers, squares were pleased by the strains of Pat Boone and Andy Williams.
Globe and Mail, July 17, 1960.
The mall gained a major anchor when Montreal-based department store Morgan's opened a branch in August 1960. Globe and Mail advertorial columnist Mary Walpole wrote that the store "has an air of big town sophistication and which we think is a compliment to the people who go a-shopping there … whether it is mother and the carriage crowd in sun dresses and slims or smart suburbanites who might have stepped off the cover of Harper's [Bazaar]." The Morgan's space would later house The Bay, Zellers (which relocated from elsewhere in the mall), and Target.
Etobicoke Gazette, August 5, 1976.
The mall, which was enclosed in 1976, has seen its ups and downs. But local retailers such as Hot Oven Bakery and Taylor Somers clothiers have stayed for decades, enhancing Cloverdale's community-oriented feel and offering the mall some stability. Several other current tenants either have been around since the beginning (LCBO, Scotiabank) or are descended from early businesses (Coles, Metro).
Major retail announcements in Toronto increasingly tend to focus on high-end "prestige" outlets or cheap chic, so it's reassuring that a pretension-free mall such as Cloverdale manages to survive, and to continue serving its community.
Additional material from the November 16, 1956, November 17, 1956, August 3, 1957 and August 19, 1960 editions of the Globe and Mail; the April 29, 2013 edition of The Grid; and the September 26, 2007 edition of the Toronto Star.
Etobicoke Gazette, August 12, 1975.
Author Jamie BradburnPosted on June 8, 2018 June 8, 2018 Categories torontoist, vintage toronto adsTags 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, cloverdale mall, department stores, dominion, etobicoke, malls, mary walpole, morgan's, public art, retail, shopping centres, supermarketsLeave a comment on Vintage Toronto Ads: Fabulous Cloverdale Mall
Ted Rogers Gets a Statue at Rogers Centre
Originally published on Torontoist on June 24, 2013.
You've got to give some credit to Ted Rogers: the late media mogul didn't pretend he was a rabid baseball fanatic. "I have to be careful how I say this," he wrote in his 2008 autobiography Relentless, "but I am not really a sports fan." As he settled into his ownership of the Blue Jays, Rogers found himself "getting more and more interested in sports, from both a business standpoint, in that I mean a branding standpoint, and just as a fan. I go to every one of the Blue Jays home openers and some other games, where I get to meet and shake the hands of a lot of wonderful fans."
On Tuesday, current Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed observed that Rogers would now be able to continue greeting fans, thanks to a bronze statue unveiled during a ceremony outside Rogers Centre before the night's Blue Jays-Dodgers game. Located near Gate 6, beside Bremner Boulevard, the 12-foot bronze monument was sculpted by Siegfried Puchta, whose works include the firefighters' memorial in Queen's Park. It depicts Rogers holding the files that, according to his widow Loretta, he always carried.
While Rogers's business acumen and philanthropic efforts should not be discounted, placing a memorial to him at the home of a team he owned for less than a decade seems slightly off.
The ceremony, which included a performance by The Tenors, a religious blessing, and shout outs to attendees like former Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston, portrayed Rogers as an awe-inspiring visionary. It's true that Rogers restored the team to local ownership when he purchased it from Interbrew in September 2000. But, as Canada.com pointed out over the weekend, a more appropriate place to memorialize Rogers would be at the company's headquarters at Bloor and Ted Rogers Way. A cynic might think the statue's placement was just another branding exercise.
When sporting venues sprout statues, they usually honour athletes who excelled for the home team or made a great historical impact. Honourees who played roles off the field tend to be franchise builders (like Gene Autry in Anaheim and Ewing Kauffman in Kansas City) or beloved broadcasters (like Harry Caray in Chicago and Ernie Harwell in Detroit). By those criteria, if Rogers Centre administrators commission more statues, future subjects could include the likes of day-one employee and current Blue Jays president/CEO Paul Beeston and Hall of Fame broadcaster Tom Cheek. As for which players and managers should be bronzed, we're open to suggestions.
Even so, Rogers's statue offers the possibility of a new tradition for the Blue Jays. During the official photo-op following the ceremony, we noticed one of Rogers's grandsons rubbing the statue's foot. Perhaps, like generations who have shined the foot of the memorial to Timothy Eaton, currently sitting in the Royal Ontario Museum, this kid hoped a little polish would bring good luck. We imagine fans flowing into the park, stopping to give a little rub for a home-team victory, perhaps even uttering Rogers's signature phrase, which is inscribed on the statue's base: "The best is yet to come."
Additional material from Relentless, by Ted Rogers with Robert Brehl (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2008).
Of all the events I covered for Torontoist, this was one of the most absurd. From the religious blessing to musical performances, it felt over-the-top, and not in a good way.
Author Jamie BradburnPosted on May 4, 2018 May 4, 2018 Categories torontoist, urban landscapeTags 2010s, public art, rogers centre, skydome, statues, ted rogers, ted rogers jrLeave a comment on Ted Rogers Gets a Statue at Rogers Centre
Luminato 2012: The Encampment
Pitching Your Tent at The Encampment
Originally published on Torontoist on March 26, 2012.
Fort York during The Encampment. Digital rendering by Thom Sokoloski.
Later this spring, a new tent city will make its home in Toronto. But unlike the Occupy Toronto protest in St. James Park last year, this encampment will have nothing to do with changing the present, and everything to do with celebrating the past. It will help kick off the city's commemoration of the War of 1812 Bicentennial.
Each night from June 8 to June 24, 200 illuminated tents will transform the grounds of Fort York into The Encampment, an art installation designed to tell the stories of civilians who lived through the battles of two centuries ago. Commissioned both to commemorate the War of 1812 and for the Luminato Festival, this piece marks the second time artists Thom Sokoloski and Jenny-Anne McCowan, of Thomas + Guinevere, have created a large-scale tent installation in Toronto. (The first, Confinement of the Intellect, was presented during the inaugural edition of Nuit Blanche in 2006. It was about the history of mental health services.)
For The Encampment, volunteers can apply online before midnight tonight to participate as "creative collaborators" who will build the content within each tent. Those accepted will be given access to an online story bank featuring hundreds of biographies of people who lived in Canada during the war. Each participant will pick a story and design a tent around it. As the call for public participation puts it, "200 civilian stories of love, loss, survival, and patriotism will be explored, as well as those of collaboration, deception, greed and betrayal."
Image from 2006's Confinement of the Intellect. Photo by Ryan Mallard.
The artists hope their civilian collaborators will research their chosen stories as if they were conducting archeological digs. During a preview for prospective participants at Fort York yesterday, Sokoloski suggested that collaborators could look for items emblematic of the tale they are telling. As one example, he suggested that if a shoelace was important in the life of a person who lived at Queen and Jarvis, the participant could scour that area for a shoelace to display.
Starting in April, participants will attend a series of workshops, during which they'll design the installations with guidance from the artists, who are suggesting that the displays incorporate sensory elements like sound or taste. Despite these general guidelines, Sokoloski admitted that "we have no idea how it's all going to end up." He compared the tents to individual stage shows: the tent flaps will be closed until each visitor comes in to experience his or her own opening curtain. The only lighting will be provided by lanterns; in the artists' past installations, this has led to interesting presentation tricks. McCowan mentioned a display about a malaria victim—created as part of a previous installation project similar to The Encampment—where visitors discovered, as their eyes adjusted to the lighting, that the tent was covered in mosquito imagery.
In the coming weeks, all the participants will figure out what works and what doesn't, and will provide feedback to one another. After that, the tents will wait for the public to discover the tales within them.
Review of The Encampment
If you're considering checking out The Encampment, it's best to do so at dusk. As the colours of sunset fade to black and your eyes adjust to the approaching night, rows upon rows of white illuminated tents emerge. Attendees become shadows drifting across the grounds of Fort York, appearing for a moment on one tent before shifting to another.
Housed within the 200 tents are a wide range of interpretations of the lives of those who lived through the War of 1812. The "creative collaborators," who worked under the supervision of artists Thom Sokoloski and Jenny-Anne McCowan, took approaches ranging from straightforward documentation of a person's life to highly symbolic representations of individual war experiences. We were charmed by the creativity displayed in most tents, though we admit some left us scratching our heads over what the artist's point was.
One of the strongest exhibits revolves around William Warren Baldwin, a lawyer whose postwar career saw him become a prominent advocate of responsible government (which his son Robert would see to fruition as co-leader of the Baldwin-Lafontaine government in 1849). Visitors to tent 172 are asked to "please carefully hold up and examine the vintages of Hon. Dr. William Warren Baldwin." A wine rack filled with bottles sits in the middle of the tent. Each is labelled with a quote from Baldwin or a reference to his life, and instead of wine, the bottles are filled with an image printed on a transparency that is literally or symbolically related to the label—for example, a label where Baldwin describes his wife is accompanied by a picture of a key, presumably to her heart. It's a neat effect that tied facts and visuals together well.
Other elements that caught our eye included bloodied sheets marking the demise of American officer Zebulon Pike at the Battle of York (tent 127); a table containing "Paul's To Do List" (Paul Jennings, tent 131); chained shoes and a toy train track symbolizing the Underground Railway activities of African Methodist Episcopal Church founder Richard Allen (tent 93); and sketches of Fort York pasted above a set of walls (military engineer Ralph Henry Bruyeres, tent 120).
The subjects provide a good sampling of the cultural groups involved in the war, from First Nations people to prominent Toronto figures whose family names remain visible on our streets and schools (Baldwin, Jarvis, Ketchum, Strachan, Wood). The creators largely succeed in their goal of treating the installation like an archaeological dig—wandering into each tent reveals a new artifact or tidbit of information, with many elements lying on the grass like newly unearthed objects. We overheard visitors discussing what they had learned in the tents in tones similar to stereotypical movie archaeologists excited about finding an Egyptian treasure.
Don't worry, there's no danger of a mummy's curse or zombified War of 1812 soldier attacking you. Still, if you wander through a quiet section of the installation, you might wonder if the shadows around you are the tent subjects checking their own stories.
Author Jamie BradburnPosted on March 4, 2018 March 4, 2018 Categories torontoistTags 2010s, luminato, public art, the encampmentLeave a comment on Luminato 2012: The Encampment
Vintage Toronto Ads: The Artwork of Royal Bank Plaza
Originally published on Torontoist on January 20, 2009.
artscanada 218/219, February/March 1978.
During the development of Royal Bank Plaza, building designer Boris Zerafa was tasked with commissioning artwork to enhance the complex, especially the atrium. Artists based in locales ranging from Quebec to Italy were contacted and given sketches and scale models of the building to work from, though we wonder if any samples of the gold-plated windows were included.
Today's ad spotlights four of the commissions. Clockwise from top left: Rita Letendre (born 1928) and her abstract painting Irowakan, which, like other murals she produced for display in Toronto, was later destroyed; Foliage, a bronze by sculptor Gio Pomodoro (1930–2002) that was placed outside the building and was the only piece to predate the complex; Jesus Raphael Soto (1923–2005) and Suspended Virtual Volume, his ceiling sculpture consisting of ten thousand aluminium rods; and Mariette Rousseau-Vermette (1926–2006) standing in front of her tapestry, Reflection.
Soto was interviewed about his piece in the same issue of artscanada that this ad appeared in. He discussed the reasoning behind using white and yellow rods:
It is my belief that an art that is investigating pure structure should avoid as much as possible unprogrammable variations of colour. Some variations can be programmed, others can only be dealt with by intuition or simply according to taste. When working on a monumental scale I think you have to avoid gratuitous preferences. You look for relationships in the elements. I could have put many colours in the structure at the bank and it would have worked, but it would be betraying a colourless space. It would mean using the space as a frame instead of integrating with it, which I didn't want. This is why I chose the simplest colours: white, and yellow, which is a close variant of white, and the nylon cable which becomes grey. This is the reason for the sobriety of the sculpture.
Though the atrium space has been reduced over the years, and a good view of Soto's work from the lower retail level is no longer possible, Suspended Virtual Volume merits a recommendation for tourists from Frommer's.
Author Jamie BradburnPosted on October 30, 2017 Categories torontoist, vintage toronto adsTags 1970s, banks, fine art, gio pomodoro, jesus rafael soto, mariette rousseau-vermette, public art, rita letendre, royal bank plaza1 Comment on Vintage Toronto Ads: The Artwork of Royal Bank Plaza
Vintage Toronto Ads: Towering Over Deer Park
Originally published on Torontoist on November 4, 2008.
Bravo, November-December 1982.
How does a company celebrate a century in business? If you're George Weston Limited, you hire a photographer to shoot corporate headquarters at sunrise, just as neighbours in Deer Park get ready to start their day with fine Weston's or Loblaws products.
The 20-storey octagonal Wittington Tower opened in the mid-1970s. Architect Leslie Rebanks won an honourable mention citation from the American Institute of Business Designers in 1976 for the artistic touches that were utilized in the lobby. A relative of the Weston family, Rebanks would work on the Loblaws store design rolled out in the late 1990s and serve on the committee that chose Daniel Libeskind's crystal design for the Royal Ontario Museum.
New for '82 was Sails, sculpted by Gordon Smith from stainless steel. We wonder if plans were ever developed to produce a collectible version for the public as President's Choice Memories of Deer Park Mini Sails.
Author Jamie BradburnPosted on October 25, 2017 October 25, 2017 Categories torontoist, vintage toronto adsTags 1980s, george weston limited, loblaws, office towers, public art, skyscrapers, weston centre, wittington towerLeave a comment on Vintage Toronto Ads: Towering Over Deer Park


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Q: What is inner creator (objectinstance.new) in Java? I came across something like
ArgProcessor argProcessor = runWebApp.new ArgProcessor(options);

This line is from the source of GWT. By digging into Java's grammar I found it to be (".new") inner creator.
But I didn't find any proper documentation about why exactly we need the inner creator.
How does this differ from a normal object/instance creator?

A: It is for creating an object of the inner class type.
for example: look at this
http://www.javabeat.net/tips/124-inner-classes-in-java.html
ie:
class Outer{

  final int z=10;

  class Inner extends HasStatic {
    static final int x = 3;
    static int y = 4;
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Outer outer=new Outer();
    System.out.println(outer.new Inner().y);
  }
}

A: The new keyword in this example is called within the scope of the runWebApp instance.  This means that runWebApp.class contains an inner class called ArgProcessor.  This is the appropriate way to specify you are construction ArgProcessor within runWebApp, and not calling some other top level ArgProcessor class.
Note that the external assignment will have an instance of ArgProcessor, but it will be runWebApp's instance of ArgProcessor, and not some other instance's ArgProcessor instance.  Occasionally, this is done to simulate an old style C++ friend interface between classes; however, there are other reasons why this might be done.  It basically allows a more fine grained approach than the standard public, protected, default, private interfaces available with the actual programming language.

A: An inner class is a class defined in another class. If it is not static, each instance of an inner class has an implicit reference to the instance of the outer class. It can be accessed from within the inner class like this: OuterClass.this.
So, when you instantiate the inner class InnerClass from a non static method of the instance outerObject of the outer class OuterClass, the created instance innerObject has an implicit reference to outerObject. But when you want to do the same from somewhere outside of OuterClass (or from a static method), you have to specify the instance of OuterClass it will reference: you do that by calling new on the instance of the outer class.


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Treason from The Deep State?
Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 28, 2022 by Martin Armstrong
I have received a lot of emails asking why just five days after the New York Post revealed the Hunter Biden laptop story that went all the way to the top involving his father, now President Biden, the former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced on October 19th, 2020, a letter stating that this was a product of Russian disinformation and "hacking." There have been people looking into this pair of Neocons who will say anything to reach their end goal – World War III to wipe Russia off the face of the earth and attempting to investigate what amounts to TREASON. They are insisting on war and were against Trump for he did not want to wage war against Russia. That contributed to the whole RussiaGate nonsense.
It has been clearly established now that both Brennan and Clapper knew the Steel Dossier was fake and created by Hillary. They remained silent propelling the country into wasting millions and creating an image where 70% of Democrats believed that Putin interfered in the 2016 election. Without Putin, Hillary would have won and since Trump was against funding the NeoNazis of Ukraine that John McCain promised in December 2016 even before Trump was sworn in, that was it. He had to be removed to keep the hatred going of the Neocons.
Both of these guys did everything they could to ensure Trump would be removed from office. Why? Because Trump was anti-war the same as John F. Kennedy. The one thing that I was shocked and impressed with about Donald Trump was when I went to dinner at Mara largo in March 2020. He said then that he wanted to pull the troops out of Afghanistan. It was the first time I ever heard ANY head of state express any remorse for those who die in these endless wars.
Trump said he was sick of having to write letters to the parents explaining that their son died for his country with honor. He said that they were fighting there over borders and religion for 1,000s of years – "What difference are we going to make?" That will make those who just hate Trump angry. They listen to all the one-sided propaganda and are incapable of free thought.
Trump discovered that the people in his cabinet were all plants from the establishment. John Bolton never saw a war he did not support. He cared nothing about the boys who die for his Neocon extremes, or of the children whose levels will be forever changed because their father dies for Bolton's Neocon dreams.
Robert McNamara (1916 – 2009) was a leading Neocon during the 1960s who pushed the country into the Vietnam war. He was famous for saying:
I met Robert McNamara back in the '90s. I must say, he was less of a Neocon thirty years later. Before he died in 2009, he wrote a book, which I recommend should be MANDATORY reading for all Neocons. What you think is real is far more dangerous than anything else when you have a settled closed mind. That is the mark of stupidity – not intelligence.
The very thing that destroyed Communism is what they are trying to do with us – end all conversation and accept only what they tell us. It is curiosity that keeps human society advancing. If we are not curious and question our surroundings, we crumble and die. A healthy debate of the issues is vital to our future survival as a society. Shut that down as they are doing right now with government censorship of social media, the end will not be that far behind.
The Deep State is controlled by the Neocons. They cannot sleep at night without an enemy. They NEVER advocate peace – they always want war. Most people believe that JFK was taken out by the CIA because he was against Vietnam. As soon as he was gone, Johnson took us into Vietnam even when the tapes confirm he knew the Vietnamese never attacked us. So much for details. They always need to pretend that they are not the aggressor – it is always the other guy.
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Jorge Masvidal Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Biography & More
Jorge Masvidal (born November 12, 1984) is an American Mixed Martial Artist, Actor, and Social Media Personality from Miami, Florida. Currently, he is participating in the UFC's welterweight division.
According to Wikipedia, the fighter is the current and inaugural UFC BMF Champion. Furthermore, Masvidal also competed for Strikeforce, Shark Fights, Bellator, and World Victory Road.
He is active in this sport since 2003 when he was just 19-years-old. His debut match took place on April 11, 2003, at Fast and Fearless event. Jorge first gained success after defeating Joe Lauzon at Absolute Fighting Championships XII event held on April 30 the same year.
In April 2009, the MMA artist signed by Bellator and defeated Toby Imada at Bellator 5. Furthermore, he entered the Ultimate Fighting Championship with his debut match against Tim Means.
The fight held on April 20, 2013, at UFC on Fox 7. As per the source, Masvidal holds the record for the fastest knockout at 5 seconds in UFC history. he made his pictorial debut with a movie called "Huracán" as Cain Colón in March 2019.
Before Fame, Parents & Education
The MMA Artist's birthday falls on the 12th of November and was born to his parents in 1984 in Miami, Florida, USA. Jorge Masvidal's age is 35 years old, as of 2019. His father "Jorge Masvidal Sr." is originally from Cuba.
He served more than 20 years in prison after he charged with manslaughter and drug trafficking. Jorge's mother belongs to Peruvian ethnicity but her name is not available on the internet.
Due to his dad's influence, the MMA fighter often associated with various street fightings from a young age. As of education, Masvidal attended St. Brendan High School but failed to stay graduate because of his grades.
Soon, he began his training in mixed martial arts. In the initial days of his career, the artist defeated various MMA artists such as Justin Wisniewski, Julian Ortega, Rolando Delgado, Brian Geraghty, and much more.
Real Full Birth Name Jorge Masvidal.
Other names Gamebred.
Profession Mixed Martial Artist, Actor, and Social Media Personality.
Famous for his movie "Huracán".
Date of Birth (DOB), Birthday November 12, 1984.
Birthplace/Hometown Miami, Florida, United States.
Nationality American.
Sexuality (Gay or Lesbian) Straight.
Gender Male.
Ethnicity Cuban-American.
Sun Sign (Zodiac Sign) Scorpio.
House In Florida, United States.
Social Media Account Stats Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gamebredfighter/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gamebredfighter
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gamebredfighter/
Debut Kickboxing: on April 11, 2003 at Fast and Fearless event.
Bellator MMA: in April 2009 at lightweight tournament.
Ultimate Fighting Championship: against Tim Means on April 20, 2013, at UFC on Fox 7.
Movie: Huracán (2019, as Cain Colón).
Team 1. American Top Team.
2. Freestyle Fighting Academy.
3. Phuket Top Team.
Other Appearances 1. Exatlon Estados Unidos.
2. UFC on Fox.
Height (Tall) Feet & Inches: 5' 11".
Biceps Size 16.
Body Measurements (Chest-waist-hips) 43-32-36.
Shoe Size (UK) 9.
Tattoo details? NA.
Eye Color Brown.
Hair Color Brown.
Parents Father: Jorge Masvidal Sr.
Mother: Name not available.
Siblings Unknown.
Famous Relatives Grandparents:
Uncle:
Aunt:
Dating History? Iman Kawa.
Girlfriend Will update.
Wife/Spouse Name None.
Son one son.
Daughter two daughters.
Highest Qualification High School Drop-out.
School St. Brendan High School.
Alma Mater. Not available.
Favorite Celebrities Actor: Mark Wahlberg.
Actress: Scarlett Johansson.
Dream Holiday Destination Australia.
Favorite Color Black.
Love to do Traveling and Working out in the gym.
Favorite Food Italian Cuisine.
Net worth (approx.) $1 million US dollars (As of 2019).
Salary, Income & Earnings --
Some Lesser Known Facts about Jorge Masvidal
On Instagram, the fighter has an amazing fan-following on the platform with more than 1.1 million followers.
He usually uploads pictures related to his daily lifestyle, some glimpses of his professional fight, vacation trips, workout & training session, and much more.
Masvidal faced Eric Reynolds at Bellator 12 and he defeated him in a 160 lb Catchweight round through rear-naked choke submission.
Furthermore, Jorge first moved to the welterweight division in September 2010.
He then fought Paul Daley at Shark Fights 13 in Amarillo, Texas.
His Strikeforce career launched by defeating Billy Evangelista at Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson in early 2011.
Currently, Masvidal represents teams like American Top Team, Freestyle Fighting Academy, and Phuket Top Team.
Jorge Masvidal possesses a muscular build and his height is 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m tall).
He is a fitness freak and often workout in the gym on a regular basis. According to a source, the MMA artist loves to do weight training. He weighs around 171 lbs (78 kgs).
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As of relationship, he dated quite a few girls in the past but never revealed anything about them on the internet.
He even has three children i.e. two daughters and one son from a previous relationship with his ex-girlfriend "Iman Kawa".
Iman and Jorge remained together for more than 10 years.
He bagged the third position in the UFC welterweight rankings as of July 8, 2019.
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David Villa to join former Barcelona team-mate Andres Iniesta at Japanese side Vissel Kobe
The Spain World Cup winners will reunite in the J1 League after Villa announced the end of his MLS career
By Nick Howson
Updated: 30 Nov 2018, 19:19
DAVID VILLA will link-up with former Spain and Barcelona teammate Andres Iniesta at Japanese club Vissel Kobe after leaving the MLS, according to reports.
The 36-year-old will end a four-year spell at New York City at the end of the year.
Lukas Podolski and Andres Iniesta involved in massive brawl after Vissel Kobe concede 108th min equaliser in Japan
But instead of entering retirement, Villa is set to add another chapter to his glittering career.
Sports Four understand the forward will move to the J1 League in time for the 2019 campaign.
As well as reuniting with fellow-World Cup winner Iniesta, Villa will play under fellow-Spaniard Juanma Lillo at the Noevir Stadium Kobe.
Fernando Torres, also a world champion from 2010, is also applying his trade in Japan with Sagan Tosu.
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Villa and Iniesta won a host of honours together, including the 2011 Champions LeagueCredit: EPA
Visel, who are 11th in the J1 League with one game remaining, have one berth remaining for a foreign player.
Teams are only permitted a maximum of five overseas stars with Brazilian Wellington, former Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski, Kim Seung-gyu and Iniesta already signed up.
Despite entering the twilight of his career, Villa showed no signs of slowing down while in the MLS.
In four campaigns in New York he netted 80 goals in 126 appearances and often looked a class above.
Iniesta has agreed aa multi-year deal in JapanCredit: Getty - Contributor
And upon confirming his intention to leave Yankee Stadium, he paid tribute to the club.
The club's first ever signing said: "I can only say thank you, thank you to everybody.
"First, to City Football Group that gave me the opportunity to come here. To NYCFC and MLS for accepting me. To everybody at the Club who helped me day-by-day.
"Thank you to the people in the offices, the people working with the team and the coaches and staff. Thank you to my teammates - without them it would have been impossible to be successful.
Villa scored 80 goals in four years at New York CityCredit: AP:Associated Press
"Thank you to the people working in the media that always gave me the respect and the love.
"Obviously, our fans. I remember the first day I showed the jersey and the supporters were there.
"I would have liked to give the supporters the MLS Cup, but I don't have any doubts that in the next years the club will get it for sure.
"My experience here was amazing. It gave me everything as a soccer player, as a person, and as a family man. I'll always remember this experience with love. My heart is here and I'm an NYCFC supporter forever."
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