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On Thursday, 8 May 2014, the Red Dot Design Museum Essen is organising the PROUD Forum "Design for societal challenges". Experts from around the world will give insights in new design tools and methods and assess their potential in terms of their productive and social value. During the morning, lectures by renowned keynote speakers introduce current approaches, developments and opportunities in English. In the afternoon, various workshops offer the opportunity to discuss single aspects in more depth. Anyone interested can register as a participant until 2 May 2014 at www.red-dot.de/proudforum. The cost sharing is 30 euros (students: 15 euros) and includes drinks, snacks and lunch.
Nowadays societies are faced with political and economic changes that effect a fundamental transformation of their social structures. Globalisation on the one hand combined with the desire for individualisation on the other, the reimagining of the public sphere with the help of social networks, but also the loss of optimism about progress are just some of the developments that have altered our social structures and behaviours.
As a hybrid discipline, design walks a tightrope between economic success and social responsibility, between creativity and continuity, between technical innovation and human conservatism. How does design react to this social change? What methods and tools does it use in an effort to respond to – or even influence – this realignment of social and economic realities? How can design values be conveyed in a society where the word "design" is applied to almost everything? These and other questions will be discussed during the PROUD Forum "Design for societal challenges" on 8 May 2014 in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen.
Keynote Speaker
During the morning, renowned keynote speakers open the forum with interesting lectures: Among them is Professor Dr Mugendi K. M'Rithaa, Icsid President-Elect and Professor of Industrial Design at the South African Cape Peninsula University of Technology, who will talk about "World Design Capital 2014: co-creation and innovation for societal change in Cape Town". Insights into the changing role of designers will be granted by Prof. Ad van Berlo. The Part-time Professor of Entrepreneurial Design of Intelligent Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology and Founder of VanBerlo will focus on the development of the designers' mission – from giving form to facilitating innovation processes. Moreover, Krister Torssell, CEO of Veryday from Sweden, and Professor Dr Peter Zec, founder and CEO of Red Dot, will give lectures during the PROUD Forum.
Workshop "What is the role of education in design museums?"
During the afternoon session, the participants of the PROUD Forum can choose one of three workshops in order to discuss one special aspect of innovative solutions for societal challenges more intensively. The workshop "What is the role of education in design museums?" will deal with the potential of design museums to offer design education programmes to pedagogic institutions since the basic principles of form giving are not yet incorporated in curriculums for primary and secondary schools in the European Union. Among others, Jukka Savolainen, Director of the Designmuseo in Helsinki (Finland), Prof. Dr. June H. Park, Professor of Design Education at the University of Vechta (Germany) and Sarah Campbell, Head of Schools, Families and Young People at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, will participate in the workshop and share their experiences and expertise with the participants.
Workshop "What is the future of design innovation centers?"
In parallel, another workshop will concentrate on the question "What is the future of design innovation centers?" After explaining the different design innovation hubs within PROUD, a practical test case, named Buda::lab (Fablab Kortrijk) will be illustrated. The future of design innovation centers within Europe will be discussed in the course of a lively debate, among others with guests, such as Rodolfo Baïz, Architect and Fab Lab Manager from Luxembourg, and Joe Lockwood, Deputy Director of the Institute of Design Innovation at The Glasgow School of Art. Which innovation centers are sustainable? How will they look like in the future? And which services will they have to offer?
Workshop "What is the effect of co-design?"
The third workshop of the afternoon session raises the question "What is the effect of co-design?" Since co-design is becoming a common approach to involving people into the design process, in the course of the PROUD project, principles of co-design have been identified and are being developed. Looking to numerous examples, the participants of the workshop will reflect on the complexity, criteria, and impact of co-design. Bas Raijmakers, Design Researcher, Reader at Design Academy Eindhoven and Creative Director at STBY London and Amsterdam, as well as Dr. Leon Cruickshank, Director of Knowledge Exchange – The Creative Exchange and Reader in Design at Lancaster University, will contribute to this workshop.
The forum "Design for societal challenges" is part of the EU project PROUD (People Researchers Organisations Using Design for innovation and co-creation).
About PROUD:
PROUD (People Researchers Organisations Using Design for co-creation and innovation) is a European project with the objective to make Europe a better place by co-designing for all and by all. PROUD brings designers together with public organisations, businesses and user communities to experience the added value of design thinking and design, while working on innovative solutions for today's real world problems. PROUD helps and supports designers to have the right facilities, knowledge and expertise to play this key role in innovating, improving and consolidating Europe.
PROUD Forum "Design for societal challenges"
Thursday, 8 May 2014
9.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.
Red Dot Design Museum Essen
Gelsenkirchener Str. 181
45309 Essen
Further information and registration at www.red-dot.de/proudforum.
The PROUD Forum will be held in English language.
The cost sharing is 30 euros (students: 15 euros) and includes drinks, snacks and lunch.
Press contact:
Marie-Christine Sassenberg
Communications Manager
Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen
Gelsenkirchener Str. 181
45309 Essen
Phone +49 201 30104-43


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UK Venues
Remainder of Venues for UK 2018.
- Saturday October 13th -Frank Morris Spiritualist Centre, 1a York Road West Croydon Cro 3Q7 7:30 pm start
- Thursday 18th October – Sutton Spiritualist Church, St Barnabas Rd, Sutton Surrey. 7:30pm start
- Sunday 21st October- Woking Spiritualist Church, Grove road, Woking Surrey. 6-30pm start.
- Sunday 28th October- Reading Spiritualist Church, Baker Street. Reading, Berks. 6-30pm start.
- Saturday 3rd November- Farnham Spiritualist Church (Fete), Wings Rd, Hale, Surrey, (Hale village hall) 12am-3pm,
- Wednesday 21st November- Walton Spiritualist Church, Walton on Thames, . 7:30pm start.
- Sunday 25th November- Ewell Spiritual Awareness group, Glyn hall, Cheam Rd, Ewell Surrey, 6-30pm start
- Thursday 6th December-Woking Spiritualist Church, Grove Rd, Woking, Surrey. 7;30pm start.

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Entry essays are generally required contained in the application process for accessibility to a course of study in the college, university, graduate and business school. In the classes essay you need to clearly status your reasons for applying for the particular course or to the company, how you think you will benefit and what contribution you will make to the course. Considering that it is such an important the main application process you need to take the utmost care when composing your admission essay for making this both informative in addition to interesting.
When you are composing your admission essay you have to demonstrate your ability to practically arrange your thoughts and manage these coherently in your authoring. Therefore, it is very important that the dissertation reflects your creative side and captures and keeps the attention of the person who is actually reading it.The information that you include in your admission essay has to serve the two purpose of showing you in a very positive light and also delivering details to the selection panel as to why you want to pursue your course that you have applied for.
Before you finish writing a admission essay you should spending some time proofreading and editing every different draft to check that the spelling and grammar you have implemented is correct. This checking process is critical to tighten up your final version, as soon as you are comfortable that the release you have is your best succeed, you are ready to submit this with any other required info.
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Labeling Deloris Plays NYC
February 9, 2005Several Catawba College students and their band, Labeling Deloris, played a gig at Arlene's Grocery in New York City in early January. And, while they relished that experience, it simply left them wanting more performance opportunities and a wider audience for their original music.
Band members include Seniors Jennifer Reiff of Wilmington, vocalist who plays the rhythm guitar, and Jason Rigney of Danville, Va., who plays guitar and keyboard, along with Sophomore Andrew Boudouris of Waynesboro Va., the band's drummer. Jason's older brother, Brad, who lives and works in Danville, plays bass for the group.
"Someone in the audience at Arlene's told us we were lucky to be an out-of-town band playing anywhere in New York City," Jennifer recalled, lamenting that their gig there was only 45 minutes long.
The band, formerly Polyphony, has been together for only a year, but during that short time they've managed to not only play in the Big Apple, but to win the 2004 Battle of the Bands contest, held annually in Jennifer's hometown of Wilmington. The band recently learned that it "made it to the (2005) semi-final round of the Battle of the Bands in Wilmington, N.C." and will play March 3 at The Soapbox in Wilmington.
The group changed its name in an effort to better define their music. "We thought about "For the Sake of Deloris," but we liked the Deloris part best," Andrew explained. "Then, we said, 'We don't even know how to label ourselves,' and ended up with Labeling Deloris."
The band's music incorporates rock, pop, jazz and blues, and Jason noted that they've even added some rhythm and blues elements. "None of us have the same musical tastes," he said, noting that the variety of their music can sometimes work against the band.
"We're not really in a genre where you get noticed and get a record contract," Jason said. "We don't have producers behind us. We are our own creation and we're what we are."
"We're fighting against the knowns," Jennifer added, explaining that it is difficult to get club owners and managers to call back.
"It's really connections," Andrew asserted. "You get one booking and then you get another – it feeds on itself."
Getting additional bookings and greater exposure for the band is an immediate goal, but their current lives as students limit their ability to travel and perform. "Short-term," Jason joked, "we're trying to conquer the Charlotte area. We don't expect our faces on the cover of "Rolling Stone" next week."
Merging their disparate tastes into original music will keep them busy through the spring semester. As music majors, they record their songs in Catawba's recording studio on campus and create demo CDs. "We do all of the business end – the bookings, the creation of the CDs and the labeling of them. And, we do have a lot of pride in the fact that we do it all ourselves," Jason continued.
"We all believe we have a chance and that we're all fairly talented," Jennifer explained, adding that they don't create their original songs "without the collaboration of all of us."
For more info on Labeling Deloris, visit the band's website at www.labelingdeloris.com or hear an excerpt of the band's music that will soon be available at www.catawba.edu/streaming/band.


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Rio Ferdinand announced he is going to become a professional boxer at the age of 38, and he is looking in incredible shape.
The former Manchester United and England defender is training as part of Betfair's Defender To Contender campaign.
Rio will be transforming himself into a boxer with the hope of qualifying for his British Boxing Board of Control (BBBOC) licence before beginning training and competing for a title belt.
He told Betfair:
Boxing is an amazing sport for the mind and the body.
I have always had a passion for it and this challenge is the perfect opportunity to show people what's possible.
It's a challenge I'm not taking lightly, clearly not everyone can become a professional boxer, but with the team of experts Betfair are putting together and the drive I have to succeed, anything is possible.
Ferdinand follows in the footsteps of Curtis Woodhouse, the former Sheffield United striker who turned professional boxer and who later became British light-welterweight champion.
Boxing this morning with @meldeane ?? @TonyBellew @mrdavidhaye @anthonyfjoshua yaaa want some! Let's ave it… heavyweight up for grabs ? pic.twitter.com/6rZvPilN9c
— Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) January 11, 2017
Team GB coach Richie Woodhall has created a training schedule and he will work closely with Rio's personal trainer, Mel Deane, to condition Rio over the coming months.
Richie said:
In all honesty, I think Rio can definitely box as a professional given time. He has natural power in his right hand, is extremely fit and is very enthusiastic to learn which is encouraging.
Style wise he's very raw and I'll have to develop this which will take time but he has all the natural ingredients, height and reach advantages over boxers in his weight division and definitely has potential to win a title in the future.
Stephen Mault, Betfair's brand director, said:
Betfair is dedicated to supporting Rio Ferdinand throughout this ground-breaking sporting transformation.
Rio stood out as the perfect personality to undertake this challenge, as he knows all about the hard work and dedication it takes to succeed. With Rio's sporting pedigree, our support network, and a lot of hard work, we're all confident that Rio can compete for a belt.
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Categories: Openings
Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties celebrated the opening of Greenport Gardens Apartments on July 19 in Hudson.
Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties celebrated the opening of Greenport Gardens Apartments on July 19 in Hudson. The newly constructed two story building includes 66 units, 48 of which are supportive while the rest are reserved for low-income individuals and families. CSD Housing LLC was the co-developer.
The ribbon cutting ceremony included prominent government and private sector partners including Commissioner of the NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Samuel D. Roberts, representing Governor Cuomo.
"Supportive housing projects like the beautiful Greenport Gardens Apartments are vital in helping individuals and families gain better health and stability in their lives," remarked Commissioner Roberts.
Greenport Gardens has 48 supportive housing units, twenty-five of which are reserved for individuals and families with special needs who are unstably housed, ten of which are reserved for high-cost Medicaid users. An additional thirteen units are licensed New York State Office of Mental Health apartments that were relocated to Greenport Gardens.
Greenport Gardens includes outdoor landscaped common areas, an exercise room, as well as computer and multi-purpose rooms open to all tenants. The complex also includes a bike storage area and a tenant storage area in which tenants will have their own locked units. There is also office space designated specifically for support services, which are funded by the Office of Mental Health.
Funding for the project was provided by NYS Office of Mental Health, the NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, the NYS Homes and Community Renewal's Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit allocation and the NYS Energy Research and Development Authority. The building was designed by Re4orm Architecture and Christa Construction, LLC was the contractor on the project.


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Leading Excellence in Classroom Practice
AudiencePrincipal classLearning specialist
Next IntakeNot scheduled
Duration9 months
FeesDET Fully Subsidised
Collaborate with your principal to develop an improvement plan that focuses on sustained improvement in teacher practice and student outcomes.
This course equips you with the knowledge and skills to work with your school community, focusing on sustained improvement in teacher practice and student outcomes.
This is the core course in our learning specialist suite designed to support newly appointed learning specialists to excel in their role.
Designed for learning specialists and principals.
This course runs over 9 months.
Learning specialist participation
You are expected to engage in and contribute to:
- 2 workshop days - one at the beginning, one towards the end
- 6 online learning modules including a virtual workshop, discussions, collaboration and sharing of resources with members of your learning community
- in-school investigations, evidence gathering and context analysis
- ongoing professional discussions and learning with your colleagues and leaders.
Principal participation
You are expected to engage in and contribute to:
- 2 workshop days - one at the beginning, one towards the end
- in-school investigations, evidence gathering and context analysis of the capability building as per the VGSA learning specialists responsibilities.
By participating in this course, you will develop an understanding of:
- the roles and responsibilities of the principal, leadership team and learning specialist to develop and support a high performance learning culture
- your school's internal and external contexts to identify factors that may impede or facilitate school improvement including organisational structures and processes
- how to support interpersonal practices that promote a collaborative, rigorous, and focused approach to improvement
- how to guide a planned and strategic approach to change that will privilege time for developing individual teaching practice to continually deliver high quality teaching and learning
- a school-wide approach that will further support teachers to engage in purposeful professional learning opportunities, sharing and adopting evidence-based practice, collaborating, observing, giving and receiving feedback
- how to use the FISO improvement cycle to drive school improvement and improve student outcomes.
Credits for Bastow professional learning
Charles Sturt University offers subject credits for a range of Bastow professional learning, including Leading Excellence in Classroom Practice.
Subject credits reduce the time commitment and tuition costs for postgraduate study.
For more information, see Recognition of Bastow professional learning.
Fully subsidised for appointed learning specialists in Victorian government schools.
Daniel Mazurkiewicz
Course Coordinator
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It is possible for a tourist to bring nicotine e-liquid in to Australia under the TGA's Traveller exemption policy. Under the exemption tourists need to hold a valid prescription from a doctor in their home country.
Tourists have no restrictions regarding bringing a vape device into the country. Thus, when a tourist arrives in Australia, it is only necessary to follow airline regulations regarding the transportation of the device, batteries, and vape tools.
When going through customs, it will be necessary to complete the "incoming passenger card" you are given, on which you must declare any tobacco or food or nicotine e-liquid you may have on your person, it is not necessary for a tourist to cite their vaping device. However, immigration officers are familiar with these types of devices and should recognize them immediately.
When vaping in Australia, it is best to only use your device in areas where you might otherwise consider smoking to be appropriate. In other words, you might want to step outside to vape, and you wouldn't want to vape on school property or the like. Since many laws consider vaping analogous to smoking when it comes to smoke-free areas, you'll want to be careful where you vape.
As a Schedule 7 substance, liquid nicotine is illegal in Australia. However, under the TGA Personal Importation Scheme, people in Australia are permitted to import a three month supply of liquid nicotine when they have a prescription from a registered medical practitioner (the prescription makes it a Schedule 4 medicine). A doctor may prescribe liquid nicotine for therapeutic purposes, such as the cessation of smoking or not returning to smoking.
While the Australian Department of Health recognizes that liquid nicotine may not be harmless, it nevertheless realizes that vaping is less harmful than smoking and is good public health policy. In the past, misinformation distributed in certain areas claimed that liquid nicotine was still illegal, but these claims were false. Under the TGA Personal Importation Scheme, every citizen in Australia is entitled to importing nicotine liquid in to Australia if they have a proper prescription. Tourists are also able to bring their vaping equipment and supplies with them when they visit Australia.
Read our full guide on – Flying to Australia with Vape Gear & Nicotine E-Liquids


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Fan footage emerges of early reunuion shows
Buffalo Springfield are a week into their first tour in four decades, and the inevitable fan filmed footage is starting to emerge.
Rolling Stone have picked out a few of the few favourites and posted a review of the first show on the tour, which you can read HERE
The band's current set almost entirely consists of Buffalo Springfield material along with a performance of Neil Young staple, 'Rockin In The Free World'.
You can watch performances of 'I Am A Child' and the aforemention 'Free World' below, and there's some "footage" (you can't see the band but you can hear the music pretty well) of the band performing 'Broken Arrow' and 'For What It's Worth'.
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We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.--Andy Barrie
For those of you who don't know who Andy Barrie is, read this. Now you know.
O, Canada!
Today was Canada Day in my house. I had a wonderful phone-o-rama with my beloved friend, Ted Myatt, and read Lee Ann's blog.
And realized (or is it realised?) how many Canadian knitters and Canadian yarn companies have influenced me.
The short list, besides the two aforementioned people:
- Veronik Avery
- Kate Gilbert
- Lucy Neatby
- Sivia Harding
- JoVE
- Barb Brown
- Katherine Matthews
- Lars Rains
- Koigu
- Fleece Artist
- Fiddlesticks Knitting
I know, I've left out just a few. No offense intended and some were omitted on purpose. But those listed are the ones that I appreciate the most. (I'd do links but it's late and I'm lazy, so Google.)
The first Canadian I ever met was at college. She was born in Canada but raised in Brasilia, her father being a Canadian diplomat posted there, and could sing Tommy James and The Shondells' Hanky Panky in Portuguese. What a pisser she was. And it was the first time I heard anyone say "aboot" and "hoose." I was completely gobsmacked. Of course, my skanky New Jersey accent was the butt of her jokes, too.
Some guys I knew from high school fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War, and are still there, Canadian citizens, despite the amnesty. Makes you wonder if it's worth fleeing there now. Such a sane country.
I'm looking forward to seeing my Canadian friends at Rhinebeck. As well as my Aussie friends.
Of the knitting blogs I read, half are Canadian, Australian, and British. Probably because they lack the idiotic flavor that has permeated the American knitting blogs.
Rapunzel Rulez
Or some shit like that. Spinning was about it today. After being invaded this afternoon by daughter Jenn, grandson Ian, and Jenn's boyfriend Norm, I got absolutely no warping done. Eh, so what. I always love seeing Ian, who's never had his picture published solo on the blog. So here he is, the most recent picture I have, taken at Christmas:
He was born the day after my birthday, hence his nickname "Birthday Present." Ian's modus operandi is to run into the house, say "Hi Gram, bye Gram," and then run outside, hopefully with one of cousin Liz's skateboards. If Liz is not at home.
Anyway, I decided to spend my evening spinning the Grape merino/tussah silk. The bobbin never seems to get any fuller. It defies the laws of physics, possibly. I'm sure there's some rocket scientist who reads this blog and will correct me.
I've not been spinning much during the past four months or so. Time to get back to the wheels. After talking to Ted about his dyeing efforts, I'm tempted to fiddle with some of the Bluefaced Leicester I have ageing in the stash.
April's Fool
It's now after midnight, which means that it's April 1. Three more days until Joe's birthday. Twenty-four until my 57th. I could have done another April Fool's post, as I did last year, but I'm rather retarded tonight. It's enough to write this and update the Bizarro Link of the Month.
However, I do have some news to impart.
Two days ago, I received a call from the David Letterman show, asking me to appear on the show next month doing a Stupid Human Trick. I won't spoil the surprise but those who know me can guess what I'll be doing.
Yes, it's rare and handy. And almost superhuman, too. Will I beat the Tiny Diva at her own game? Stay tuned.


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Amy Lyle is an author, comedian, and regular guest on Atlanta and Company.
In this episode, Amy shares her story of how a girl from rural Appalachia is making a place for herself in the world of comedy, and offers valuable insight for others who are ready to chase a dream.
Listen in as she cracks us up and lifts us up with her infectious laugh and hilarious outlook on life all while reminding us how to find the humor in the everyday grind.
Learn more about Amy Lyle here


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Author Archives: Freak-o-litics!
Back-stabbing the common man!
One of the first appeals of Prime Minister Modi to the people of India after introducing demonitization process is to bear the temporary pain for a major gain! While the definition of "temporary pain" was shifted several times over the … Continue reading
Twitter-class Vs Rest of India
Over last few decades, upper-middle class individuals have become an influential voice in setting the agenda for the nation. Be it screaming news hours or prime time shows in mainstream media, it is all catered towards this elite group of … Continue reading
Another "Surgical Strike": PM Modi announces BJP will take only online funds and publish 100% of donor lists
In a stunning move and yet another "Surgical Strike" on root of corruption, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that his party BJP will take only check or online funds and will publish the entire donation lists for last three … Continue reading
Delhi's Odd-Even model: asking the wrong question!
There a lot of debate on whether odd-even formula will work in Delhi but unfortunately, most of them are missing the main point: how did we let the pollution level so severe and what else we can do to reduce … Continue reading
Bihar election results!
Bihar election results in one picture!
BJP's formula!
Hate is BJP's formula to divide our nation and to win elections!
Fighting injustice, one rap at a time!
Unilever, a large multinationalcompany, polluted the lake and waterbodies near their kodaikanal plant by dumping heavily toxic mercury into it. What this young team fighting for justice for the factory workers and the environment is so cool! This video has … Continue reading


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The Cultural Association TAMBÚCA proposes the project "Pescatori di porte": a painting competition designed to decorate the fishermen's gates behind the new Fish Market in Viareggio, Tuscany. The competition announcement will be open in September 2018 and the decorations will be planned for the spring next year.
A permanent exhibition in the open air, a gift to the sea and its keepers.
THEME OF THE COMPETITION: "A portal in the belly of Viareggio"
The Cultural Association TAMBÚCA announces an international art competition for artists, with the aim of redeveloping an area of the port of Viareggio adjacent to the new fish market, to promote and enhance contemporary art. The area in question is that of the sheet metal warehouses of the Cittadella dei Pescatori that lead to the port, specifically the overhead doors of the corrugated metal warehouses. For the year 2019, 7 of 35 gates will be decorated.
The competition includes the selection of 30 finalist artworks that will be exhibited in a historic Villa of Viareggio and 6 winners who will have the opportunity to realize their decoration on the doors of the fishermen's warehouses.
The competition is open to all artists, of all nationalities, from the age of 16 (the participation of under 18 artists is bound to the authorization of those who exercise parental authority).
In particular, the competition is aimed at:
- Artistic High Schools and Fine Arts Academies of the national and international territory.
- Independent artists of any nationality and level.
The fundamental criteria for selection will be quality, research, originality and contemporaneity, the creativity of the artwork proposed and consistency with the proposed theme. There will be no limitations of technique or style, as long as it's a work of painting as faithful as possible to the result of the realization on the sheet metal door. By pictorial work is meant any use or manual intervention with oil, tempera, acrylic, industrial paint, ink, engraving, graphite, watercolor, vinyl, on any type of substrate, even if pre-printed, provided that the elaborate must be reproduced in a faithful way with enamel brush on corrugated metal support (on the site the photographic material of the supports to be decorated). The size of each work must be 50 x 60 cm in horizontal orientation, under penalty of exclusion from the competition.
Artists can apply and present the project in competition no later than February 15, 2019 at 23:59, using the following procedure:
1. Online at www.tambucaversilia.com in the "Competitions" section, following the instructions
2. By e-mail sending all the following documents to the address email@example.com:
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On February 21 2018, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) delivered a judgment on the 'stand-by' time of volunteer firefighters. The Court took an important stand related to the notion of working time and the scope of the working time directive, stating that the 'stand-by' time at home of a volunteer firefighter who is obliged to respond to calls from the employer within a short period must be regarded as 'working time'.
This case was brought to the CJEU by the Brussels Higher Labour Court and concerned the complaint of a volunteer firefighter of the town of Nivelles in Belgium. In view of the remuneration claimed for previous stand-by services, the Labour Court was uncertain whether these services could be considered as 'working time' according to the working time directive.
In previous judgements, the CJEU had already considered 'on-call' services at the working place as 'working time'. Yet the current case referred to a 'stand-by' in which a worker was obliged to stay at home, to be available there to his employer and to be able to reach his place of work within 8 minutes."
Regarding 'stand-by' at home, the CJEU made a distinction between "the obligation to remain physically present at the place determined by the employer and the geographical and temporal constraints resulting from the requirement to reach his place of work within 8 minutes" and the 'stand-by' duty, to "simply be at his employer's disposal inasmuch as it must be possible to contact him."
According to the Court, the concept of 'working time' therefore only applies to the particular situation in which the worker is obliged to spend 'stand-by' time at his home, he/she is available there to his/her employer and where he/she must be able to reach his/her place of work within 8 minutes.
In a first reaction, CESI Secretary General Klaus Heeger welcomed the judgement: "The fact that the CJEU clearly draws the logic consequences of both its case-law and the provisions of the working time directive shows that EU provisions for the protection of workers do not only have decoration purposes, but have strong concrete impacts. To consider, under certain circumstances, 'stand by' time as 'working time' must be seen as a clear steps toward improving working conditions and raising the safety and health protection standards throughout the EU. As trade unions, we must welcome the judgement."
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• 'Stand by' at home with the duty to respond to calls from his employer within 8 minutes must be regarded as 'working time';
• The question of remuneration falls outside the scope of the working time directive (and of the EU) and remains within the Member States´ competence.
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attended the tail-end of the two-day conference on the Augustinian friar Andres de Urdaneta at the Instituto Cervantes recently. Before going into what I said at that last session, let me recount how I came to
On those occasions that I pilgrimaged to the Ilokos, I marveled at the beauty, the durability of those old churches, particularly those architectural jewels in
As Jose Ma. Fons of the Instituto Cervantes later said, "At least, there is one good Spaniard in the novel."
Much as I appreciate the Augustinians, they are not my favorite Spanish order; the Dominicans are, in spite of the criticisms that have been leveled at them. The reason for this is personal — I spent four happy years in the
Pio Andrade was speaking when I arrived. He said that what Rizal wrote about agrarian discontent in Laguna was not true. I flared up immediately and said he had just called Rizal a liar. Onward in his presentation, as he extolled Spanish contributions to the country, I asked if he was apologizing for Spanish colonialism.
For those who were at the conference who heard my remarks and have wondered why I said them at all, let me elaborate.
The logic or primary purpose of colonialism/imperialism is the domination of a powerful country over a weak nation or people. It is exploitation, the plunder of the resources of a country to send to the mother country. Whether the colonizer is ancient Rome, or Spain, the Dutch in the 15th century or much later, the English, the Europeans, or in more recent times the United States and Japan, they are all the same.
They colonize often under several dulcet guises, to spread Christianity and Western Civilization, to give law and order to primitive societies, to make the world "safe for democracy." What for is the
And to repeat, the logic of colonialism is exploitation. It is immoral. No amount of romanticizing it, or apologizing for it as some Filipinos are now doing with Spanish colonialism, can banish the stain, the indelible stigma of colonialism.
For all his sterling qualities as a writer — and he was such a dear old friend — I fault the late Nick Joaquin for being an apologist of Spanish colonialism. We have had strident arguments when he repeated so often that gross statement that "everything good in this country came from
I always reminded him that before
All he had to do was go to the Central Bank to look at the gold collection there, which was found in Surigao; the collection illustrates the scientific and cultural finesse of the earliest Filipinos — although we were not called Filipinos then. At the Newberry Library in
I always silenced him thus: "Don't forget the Spaniards killed Rizal."
The paper of that brilliant scholar, Fernando Zialcita, is one more apology for Spanish colonialism. In his summary, he states, "Christianity did effect meaningful change. It taught that low-status people had dignity in themselves and could not be sold, or even sacrificed, as chattel. It sought to create a community that was broader than just an individual clan. Though social stratification was not abolished, a more humane stratification, one based on ownership of land rather than on ownership of human beings, was introduced."
Had he stopped here, he would have been factual, he would have made his case. But then he concluded: "The challenge for us today is how to move up to a higher level of consciousness where every individual is truly cared for. But this level of consciousness could not have been possible without the transformation of consciousness that the missionaries — despite their flaws — effected during the 17th to 19th centuries."
This is pure speculation. How could he know? Are the Indonesians because they are Muslims, the Vietnamese because they are Buddhists and the Indians because they are Hindus — not colonized by Spanish Catholics — any less imbued with "higher consciousness"?
So why then apologize for Spanish colonialism? Maybe those who do are not just nostalgic about the Spanish past — perhaps they also long for this country to be a Spanish colony again. After all, as a British historian stated, if the Axis powers —
And the Americans?
The poet Robert Frost, the writer Mark Twain and the industrialist Andrew Carnegie were among those who opposed the American invasion of the
As for the Japanese, who in my generation will ever forget their bestiality in World War II? But that, too, we must transcend to realize what we can learn from them.
Ambeth Ocampo said something significant the other week when he was decorated by the French government. He said, "Let us not be prisoners of history."
I would add, "Let us use it instead."
History has its uses. For us who are colonized, it is important that we are freed from it, to use it not to glorify the colonizer, but to remember he was the enemy and could still be — and that from history, we should be able to extract those aspects of it which could bind us, which could lead us to freedom and justice.
The former colonizers and their acolytes certainly would like to romanticize the past for so many reasons, not so much to rewrite history from their point of view, but out of a sense of guilt, for a desire to re-impose their dominance or, if they are still around, their influence or residual power. This is a normal and understandable exercise.
But the colonized should never be party to this resuscitation of their glory which is our bondage and our shame. On every occasion, that they try to, the colonized should reject it, expose it for the fallacies that lie underneath such glowing reminiscence.
The intractable logic of colonialism demands such rejection. Just ask this simple question: All those profits from the galleon trade, those monopolies, to whom did they go? Certainly not to the Indios.
And more than this, the colonizers laid down the structures of oppression, the institutions of coercion which exist to this very day, for colonialism dies hard—it persists in actual forces of domination, of control, of helplessness and apathy in the colonized. And this is perhaps the most enduring and formidable obstacle in the building of a nation — the colonized mind.
Because colonialism is exploitation and therefore immoral, it is impossible to dignify it. It can, of course, be romanticized, and this only selectively, for certainly, the native did profit from colonialism's collateral acolytes — the heroic friars, the Thomasites, the missionary doctors — all have deodorized colonialism to a limited extent.
Capitalism, with its logic of profit, is easy to dignify — the Rockefellers, the Fords have done this with their outstanding philanthropies, and certainly Bill Gates most of all. Too, all those businessmen who practice sincerely "corporate social responsibility" do fulfill capitalism's humanitarian incremental functions.
And most of all, as we have seen in recent times, capitalism has morphed authoritarian regimes into democracies — to wit, South Korea, Taiwan, even Japan. But colonialism? The sooner the colonized writers, intellectuals and leaders recognize its unerring logic, the sooner, too, will they be able to get rid of their colonized minds that have warped their reasoning, their attitudes without their being fully aware these are destroying them and their country as well.
Speculations are worthless just as hindsight is the lowest form of wisdom. It is for this reason that memory is important, why we should always remember so that we will not repeat the mistakes of the past.
If the Americans remembered their loss in the Philippine-American war, they would never have gone to
So, then, if I abhor Spanish colonialism, why do I like visiting
Because I am one of the 90 million citizens called Filipino and Filipinas — how I love that name and all that it evokes, the land and its history, and most of all, the essence of what we are: human beings whose consciousness of nation and that nation's boundaries were created by a colonial power.
Let me be very clear about this. I pay homage to the heroic
We are destined to be free — but that destiny is not up for grabs, nor does it come easily. Often, it is denied us because we deny ourselves the free mind imprisoned in attitudes of our own making, implanted in us by miseducation, by our misunderstanding of history.
And so, to paraphrase that famous Manifesto: Filipinos, sugod! You have nothing to lose but your chains and a nation to gain.
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The Russian effort in Georgia has a powerful ally: hackers. (You were expecting maybe bear cavalry?) Several Georgian state servers, as well as the websites of the Office of the President, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Defense have been hijacked, starting weeks in advance of the outbreak of war. The main government website is still down as of 10 AM today.
The specifics of the cyber-arms race are over my head, but Defensetech has a useful blurb on Russian capacity. It is difficult to fit these developments into conventional frameworks, as the lines between the state and private citizens are extremely blurry. Sixty percent of Russian cyber-crime, from porno to politics, runs through the shadowy Russian Business Network. RBN is essentially a hosting service for criminals. Moscow's line on RBN has not been reassuring: "RBN doesn't exist; well it does, but in England." At one point, it disappeared outright. While formally a non-state organization, many tech and defense bloggers believe RBN is at the very least protected by political allies. Obviously it is near-impossible to conclusively prove such cloak-and-dagger allegations. That said, FSB ties would hardly be surprising.
The best-known cyber-attacks before this came in 2007, when Russian hackers hit Estonian websites to protest the removal of a Soviet-era statue. The Kremlin denied responsibility, and the attacks were eventually attributed to an "online flash mob." The ringleader was caught, and fined $1,600. While the attacks were disruptive, they were small potatoes compared to the political chaos that could result from hacked elections. (Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon.)
This strategypage.com piece delineates three types of cyber-warfare: limited stealth operations (LSO); cyberwar only (CO); and cyberwar in support of conventional war. It isn't clear whether LSOs are "limited" by intent or simply capacity. CO is what happened in Estonia, and is likely to be carried out by non-state actors regarding single issues or targets. The final category, support cyberwar, includes traditional battlefield operations such as disrupting communications. The problem is the expanding definition of "targets" in the modern era, with the actual military increasingly relying on all manner of economic and political support structures. Cyber-warfare doesn't just mean jamming the enemy's radars; it means shutting down their stock exchange.
What we're currently seeing in Georgia is the disruption of state websites by (possibly) private-sector hackers, simultaneous with old-fashioned Russian military operations. Such para-state hackery has the potential to screw up track-1 negotiations. What happens if two heads of state sign a cease-fire, but private citizens in each country continue trashing each other's banks and government websites? What happens if an entity like the RBN ponies up to pay a hacker's fines for working against foreign governments? Who faces charges, and in what jurisdiction?
All that said, time for a caveat: Much of the PANIC PANIC PANIC about the future of cyber-warfare is coming from individuals with a vested professional and financial interest in it. One commenter on Defensetech makes the point: Be wary of "threat" claims from people who make their living defending against those threats. A piece from the Council on Foreign Relations notes disagreements on the threat level from cyber-attacks.
Even if this trend is less dangerous than some claim, there is still reason to be wary. One of the major problems with the fight against terrorism is the lack of clear legal frameworks for it. Who are combatants? How do their rights compare to traditional, uniformed soldiers? When is the state a terrorist actor? Can it be one? Laws on terrorism are being written as we go along, often with horrible outcomes. Cyber-warfare lends itself to similar shell games with its intangible, asymmetrical nature, and the international community would be well advised to get on the question sooner rather than later.


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achel Bernier-Green didn't like math as a child. But her mother used an innovative approach to entice her daughter into the world of numbers: She taught her how to bake. Learning fractions by baking brownies, Bernier-Green not only fell in love with math — she saw her future: "I realized if I could bake treats that I could sell, there might be something in it for me."
Bernier-Green didn't become a baker right away of course, but her early instincts proved prescient. Today the 30-year-old entrepreneur is on her way to enjoying commercial success, plus a dollop of something sweeter. Her new storefront, 'Laine's Bake Shop, will open this fall as part of the restoration of Chicago's once-troubled Pullman Park neighborhood.
Rachel Bernier-Green, founder of 'Laine's Bake ShopGrowing up, my family and I would drive through Pullman to get to church. Nothing was there.
"I'd always hoped I could work to revitalize these South Side communities," Bernier-Green says. "So I'm building my business to make a profit and make an impact at the same time."
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Pullman Park couldn't have asked for a more dedicated champion than Rachel Bernier-Green. She captures the community mission to restore economic prosperity to Pullman Park, along with investments from corporate partners like U.S. Bank. U.S. Bank has helped create 1,100 permanent jobs and is creating 68 units of affordable housing — and has enabled small businesses like Bernier-Green's to thrive.
"I can't think of another situation with the depth of commitment and investment than what we've seen, working with U.S. Bank here at Pullman," says David Doig, president of the Chicago Neighborhood Initiative (CNI). The group was formed in 2010 with direct funding from U.S. Bank to be an independent nonprofit developer that would support neighborhood revitalization efforts. "They have donated land to us, made charitable and philanthropic contributions to us, and provided leadership on various boards."
As Bernier-Green can attest, Pullman Park needed that breadth and depth of commitment. Like many communities in the Midwest, Pullman Park has faced severe economic stress as manufacturing has declined over the last 50 years. Bernier-Green remembers when the area was on the verge of desolation. "Growing up, my family and I would drive through Pullman to get to church," she recalls. "Nothing was there."
That image is a sad contrast to Pullman Park's origins in the late 19th century, when it was developed as an industrial town by the railroad baron George Pullman. Then, Pullman Park stood at the center of the national steel industry. It featured ornate factory buildings overlooking a manmade lake in a park-like setting. At one point the Times of London even dubbed it "the most perfect town in the world."
By the 1960s, though, "the neighborhood was really suffering from disinvestment and depopulation," Doig says. At one point it was even earmarked for demolition. Yet the area always retained a core of loyal community members — scores of people who eventually partnered with Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives to get Pullman Park on the road to economic recovery.
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One of the organization's first projects was the purchase of an abandoned steel factory site that could be used for new development. Next, the group conducted no fewer than 70 meetings with community members in churches, schools, at book clubs and in people's homes, Doig says. People repeatedly asked for more jobs, access to healthy food, affordable housing and indoor and outdoor recreational areas where children could play safely.
Success would require initiatives on multiple fronts, Doig says. "We knew we needed to take a holistic approach."
Another step was to bring in large retail businesses to serve the community and create jobs. U.S. Bank also provided funding for a grocery store to address that crucial community need. But to make the revitalization truly work for the people of Pullman Park, the project needed homegrown businesses — local heroes. Bernier-Green, who was about to make the bold transition from being an accountant to realizing her dream of opening a community-based bake shop in 2015, was an ideal fit.
"Rachel grew up in the neighborhood, she's a local entrepreneur, is really smart and has a lot of energy," Doig says.
Bernier-Green, the oldest of six children and a third-generation South Side resident, had another ace up her sleeve. "My role model when I was younger was Madam C.J. Walker," Bernier-Green says, referring to the African-American entrepreneur and philanthropist. "So my family always knew entrepreneurship was in my future."
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With strong roots and determination to match, Bernier-Green was able to use her accounting background — and culinary gifts — to score an early victory selling baked goods to national food chains. The wrinkle: She didn't have access to a commercial kitchen. To access the rental kitchens she relied on, she says, "My family and I literally had to drive from the South Side to the North or West Sides and haul 50-pound bags of flour and sugar out of cars and into elevators."
The struggle to find space and equipment — and to raise the money those would cost — were Bernier-Green's biggest challenges. She credits Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives with being there every step of the way. "CNI has been able to say, 'O.K. we can provide funding up to this amount, and here are some other organizations that could potentially provide funding as well,'" she says.
The turning point occurred just last year, when Bernier-Green requested a loan from the Community Development Financial Institution, CNI's microfinancing group, and they offered her a space in the Pullman Project. That store will open in the fall, but 'Laine's Bake Shop is already becoming established through pop-up events there that double as marketing and product-testing opportunities, Bernier-Green says.
"We can't even put a dollar amount on how valuable that is," she says. "The pop-ups have allowed us to test our retail concept, so we know what flavors and variety of treats customers want, and if they want espresso coffee drinks or loose leaf tea."
David Doig, president of the Chicago Neighborhood Initiative (CNI)THERE'S A SPIRIT OF OPTIMISM IN THE COMMUNITY. ARE WE DONE? NO. BUT WE ARE ON COURSE.
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Giving Back
Giving Back
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Just as Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives made it possible for Bernier-Green to meet the demands of her growing business, U.S. Bank has allowed that organization to help her as fully as it has. Continuing the virtuous cycle, Bernier-Green is committed to seeing her success flow back into the community.
Her approach is three-pronged: She is hiring within communities that are chronically underemployed, sourcing ingredients from fair-trade suppliers with similar values — and contributing a portion of her proceeds to local nonprofits. "There are a lot of great community organizations doing impactful work here," she says. "Helping this development come to life is very special to me."
Already, change is afoot. Property values are on the rise. Crime has decreased. Employment is up. The quality of neighborhood schools has improved. "There's a spirit of optimism in the community," Doig says. "Are we done? No, but we are on course."
As for 'Laine's Bake Shop: "We are 100 percent committed," Doig says. "We're with Rachel for the long haul."
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KINGS POINT, N.Y. (April 8, 2019) – The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy tennis team dropped its rivalry matchup to Coast Guard at home on Monday afternoon, 9-0. The loss drops the Mariners' record to 4-2, while the Bears improve to an even 5-5.
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"This author knows that the inner kernel of Christian faith is completely independent of his own critical investigations. Christ's supernatural birth, miracles, resurrection and ascension remain eternal truths even as their reality as historical facts may be challenged."1
With these words the nineteenth-century critic David Strauss clearly spelled out a novel approach to the truth of the Bible. Under the influence of an anti-supernatural worldview, Strauss concluded that the Bible could have religious and moral worth even while being factually incorrect. Many people today share this view of biblical truth, but that should not blind us to this view's recent origin.
For 17 centuries Christians, East and West, Catholic and Protestant, agreed that the Bible was the very voice of God and therefore completely true. There have always been skeptics, but with few exceptions, such skepticism came from outside the Christian church—at least, until the eighteenth century.
The assertions of the Bible cannot be rent into the sacred and the secular.
What happened? What prompted so many Christian teachers and leaders to abandon belief in the complete truthfulness of the Bible? In short, the eighteenth century witnessed a tremendous shift of worldview in the Western intellectual tradition. This shift, called the Enlightenment by proponents, influenced many within Christian churches to replace an exclusive reliance on God's authority with a reliance on human reasoning. They argued, in the language of Rudolf Bultmann, that modern men and women will embrace the Christian message only if it is stripped from its setting in "the cosmology of a pre-scientific age," which is a "mythical view of the world."2
Ralph Waldo Emerson explained it this way:
The paramount source of the religious revolution was modern science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the center of the universe . . . . This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of geology . . . . But we presently saw also that the religious nature in man was not affected by these errors in his understanding.3
Emerson, like Strauss and Bultmann, limited biblical authority to the moral and religious domains, entirely excluding the historical and scientific. Modern science, they argued, called into question the cosmological and historical assertions of the Bible. They presumed we could discard those "superstitions" and "myths" but still hold to the spiritual realities witnessed by the Bible.
But the Bible does not segregate its pronouncements on religious and moral matters from statements of cosmology, culture, and geography. History and theology are interdependent throughout the Scriptures. Matthew begins his Gospel with a genealogy tracing Jesus' ancestry back to Abraham; Luke goes back to Adam. The New Testament situates the historical birth of Jesus under the rule of Herod the Great and Caesar Augustus, his death under Pontius Pilate and Tiberius Caesar. John recorded Jesus' controversial claim that He existed before the historical person Abraham. Jesus and Peter compared the second coming to the historical Noahic Flood. Paul tied the future resurrection of Christians both to Jesus' physical resurrection and to God's literal creation of Adam from dust.4
It is impossible to distinguish matters of God and morality from those of fact and history; the Bible sustains no such separation. The assertions of the Bible cannot be rent into the sacred and the secular; they compose one indivisible whole.
The Bible affirms its own truth and authority without limit, including matters of culture and geography along with issues of salvation and ethics. Jesus' statement that "Scripture cannot be broken" (John 10:34–35) embraced the whole Hebrew canon even if His citation was from Psalm 82. We cannot infer that Jesus taught the infallibility of the worship of the Psalms and the wisdom of the Proverbs but not the genealogies of Genesis 10 or the factuality of Gideon's military tactics in Judges 7. Since the Bible is inspired, meaning it is God's speech and God's words (see "Every Word Counts," Answers, July–September 2014, pp. 91–92), it takes on the truthfulness of the God who "never lies" (Titus 1:2). It does not depend on its subject matter; it depends on the character of its divine author, who speaks nothing but truth. Only writings that teach no wrong, that affirm no error, can conceivably be authored by the omniscient, reliable, and truthful God of the Bible.
Discussion Questions . . .
- What do you think motivates people growing up within a Christian church to surrender their belief in the historical and factual truth of the Bible?
- Has anyone pointed out to you a perceived error in the Bible? What was it? How did you respond?
- Can you think of other passages in which the historical and factual truth of the Bible are intertwined with theology?
- In what ways can accusations against the historical factuality of the Bible undermine the truthfulness of the moral and religious statements in the Bible?
- In what ways do accusations against the historical factuality of the Bible impugn the character of God?
- How does truthfulness (or lack thereof) in human speech reflect the character of the human speaker?
- If we accept claims of modern science that contradict clear teaching of the Bible, where are we placing our trust? How should a Christian respond to such claims?


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