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Adelaide Research Network 3-4 June 2005
University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia
Convenor: Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation
Supported by ME/CFS Society of SA, ME/CFS Society of Victoria, ME/CFS Society of NSW, ME/CFS Support Group (WA)
Forum Chair: Professor Kenny De Meirleir,
Professor of Physiology and Medicine
Free University of Brussels Belgium
Forum Imperatives
- To examine the strength of the biological evidence
- To develop consensus for ME/CFS research criteria
- To initiate protocols for post-mortem examination
- To initiate the establishment of a tissue/brain bank
The Adelaide ME/CFS Forum was an informal meeting of researchers and clinicians invited to present their work and to reach consensus on the issues around clinical diagnostic and research criteria for ME/CFS. When tight subject cohorts are identified, then ME/CFS research outcomes will more reliably progress medical knowledge to assist those who suffer with ME/CFS.
US Centers for Disease Control CDC research finds:
- CFS patients are more sick and have far greater consequent disability than patients with chronic obstructive lung disease, cardiac disease, osteoarthritis, and depression;
- $9.1 billion earnings are lost annually in the US due to disability caused by CFS;
- Fewer than 16% of sufferers in the general population are diagnosed and treated for CFS;
- The strongest predictor of the development of post infectious (chronic) fatigue syndrome is the severity of the acute illness at onset. Psychological factors play no role in the development of CFS following infection.
(CDC presentation American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome AACFS Conference October 2004)
ME/CFS has been formally classified by the World Health Organisation WHO as a neurological disorder in the International Classification of Diseases ICD since 1969 (ICD10, G.93.33).
ME/CFS is a broad diagnosis which includes a spectrum of clinical syndromes linked to known infections agents including Ross River virus, Epstein Barr virus, Q fever, Lyme disease, parvovirus B19 and toxic exposures such as organophosphates. These syndromes are characterized by neurological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and myoarthralgic features. Severe forms can present with paresis, seizures, intractable savage headache, and lifethreatening complications. The renaming to chronic fatigue syndrome in 1988, giving misplaced emphasis to "fatigue" trivialises the substantial disability of ME/CFS which can extend to the wheelchair or bed bound, requiring 24 hour care.
Without a diagnostic test to confirm their clinical state, people with ME/CFS are frequently dismissed with a smorgasboard of psychiatric labels, their acute health care needs ignored. Strong evidence including genetic predisposition, persistent infection and immune dysregulation, in the pathogenesis of these complex syndromes is accumulating.
Barriers to clinical care and strategic research development funding
"Sufferers have all been classified under one diffuse CFS heading. To conduct scientifically rigorous research with replicable findings, including clinical trials, it is essential to know exactly what symptoms are to be examined and as a result identify tight subject cohorts. Using the current fairly amorphous definitions of CFS for research studies will not provide outcomes that would reliably progress medical knowledge to assist CFS sufferers." - Professor Judith Whitworth, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Aged Care 1999
Forum participants unanimously agreed
to adopt the Canadian Clinical Criteria for ME/CFS,
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:
Clinical Working Case Definition, Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines A Consensus Document
Access the Canadian Clinical Working Case Definition at National ME/FM Action Network. Overview pp 2-3.
Access Adelaide ME/CFS RESEARCH FORUM REPORT: Index of Reviews and Oral Presentations.
Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation
PO Box 6132 North Sydney 2059 Australia
Phone/Fax +61 2 9958 6285
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I made a promise to myself a week ago that I would do something kind of crazy tonight. In the grand scheme of things, this "something" is not really that crazy, but it's still crazy enough to make me feel like my stomach is made of tiny butterflies. There's a lot of nail-biting going on over here right now.
I may not keep my promise; however, despite the darkness, the night is young.
I keep telling myself that I'm going to go for a run soon, but then I think about how cold it is outside, and how cold it was when I took a walk one night this time last year. A year ago today, actually. The night my grandmother died. A year ago. Today.
My grandparents haven't had the greatest timing when it comes to the whole dying thing. In 2006 my grandfather had his heart attack right before Christmas, and in 2008 my Papou had his heart attack right before my father's birthday. I, like my mother, assumed my grandma would never die, but she did — last year. Three days before Thanksgiving.
Maybe she wanted to make sure no one came over and bothered her.
I admit, I got a good chuckle out of writing that last sentence. It was a little twisted, a little shocking, and a little harsh. Just like Her.
Just like Her.
When I was a kid, that was all I wanted to be — Just like Her. I'm not really sure why. Maybe because she said funny things, like "Goddammit." Or because she made really good grilled cheese sandwiches and always had soda in her house. Or because she used to let me play with shaving cream.
Now that I'm older, I can't help but notice how many ways I already am just like her. Whenever I say or think the words, "To Hell with 'em," I smile and think of grandma. Whenever I make damn sure to have the last word, I smile and think of grandma. Whenever I'm faced with situations that range from somewhat scary to utterly terrifying, I take a deep breath and tell myself, "Think of grandma."
This act is something I like to call harnessing my Inner Polack. As someone who is 1/4 Polish, all thanks to grandma, I'm allowed to say that.
I think my height is also "thanks to grandma." So's my foul mouth. So's my love of donuts.
Good Lord, she was always the first person to tell me when I "looked great" or when I "looked fat." She was also the only person in the world who would offer me meatball sandwiches after I told her I just had lunch. "You can do it just this one day," she'd insist.
Dear God, it was no use telling her what was what — she invented What Was What.
I'm giggling right now as I remember Classic Grandma Moments. I remember sitting on a bench with her at a shopping mall in Downey. I must have been about four-years-old. A woman wearing a gigantic back pack walked by us — she had a funny walk — and a bottle of lotion fell out of her back pack. When my grandma told her she had dropped something, the woman didn't understand. My grandma eventually communicated to the woman what had happened, and after the woman picked up the bottle and walked away, I asked my grandma why the woman walked so funny.
"Well…" said my grandma, in her Rhode Island accent, "she's re-tahted."
I didn't ask her what it meant. I just assumed that everyone who walked funny was re-tahted.
A few years ago, after my grandfather had died and my grandma was practically bed-ridden, my younger brother, Michael, and I went to her condo to say "Happy Thanksgiving." At that point, visiting grandma was pretty hit or miss — I either came out of her condo smiling or sobbing. This time, I'm pleased to report, was somewhat upbeat. The three of us had a good little visit, and somehow the subject of Women vs. Men came up.
Michael said, "You can't trust women. They're devious."
My grandma paused, took a breath, smiled, nodded her head, and said, "Yup."
Michael and I laughed, and then grandma looked Michael right in the eye and said, "Ya think ya smaht, but ya not as smaht as a woman."
Years ago — and I mean many, many years — I thought that the day my grandma died would be the worst day of my life. I knew it was inevitable, but I couldn't help it — the very idea of it was enough to make me tear up.
Then my grandfather died and my grandma had a bad fall and everything changed. My mother worked herself sick trying to do the right thing and grandma just kept getting older. I was away at college and phone calls from home became depressing. Every time I was in town, the phrase "let's go visit grandma" inspired nothing but pain in my heart. The days of grilled cheese sandwiches and shaving cream were over.
Last year, I was standing at the stove stirring a pot of homemade vegetable soup when the phone rang. My mom answered it, and she just said, "Yes, I'll be right over." It was my grandma's caretaker saying there was something wrong. This had happened hundreds of times before. My mom got in the car, and I kept stirring my soup.
Fifteen minutes later I sat down at the kitchen counter with a steaming bowl of my homemade vegetable soup. I heard the garage door open. My mom came in, and she told me that my grandma had choked.
"Grandma didn't make it," she said.
I couldn't believe what I had just heard. After four years of going to visit my grandma One Last Time, she was finally gone. I hadn't seen her since her 94th birthday two months earlier. I cried for a minute, and then my mother had to go back to the condo to deal with…ya know. Everything. As usual.
I finished my soup, and then a friend of mine came by to get me for our nightly walk. I told her what had happened. She put her arms around me, and when I said, "I'm okay," I really meant it.
I'm "okay" tonight, too. The kitchen table is covered with pieces of dried bread that will eventually be made into stuffing. Michael just got home for the Thanksgiving break. It's cold outside, and all I want to do is curl up on the couch with my family. More than ever, I'm thankful that I can do that. People don't stick around forever, even though sometimes it sure feels like they will.
There's no way I'm going for a run, but I think I will do that crazy thing that makes me feel like my stomach is made of tiny butterflies. Time to harness my Inner Polack and say, "Hell with 'em."

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A Global Working Session of the Vital Voices Coalition
A group of 50 exceptional individuals – from government, civil society and the private sector, including Muhammed Yunus, Nobel Prize winning economist and founder the Graamen Bank; Kim Azzarelli, Vice President for Corporate Engagement at Glodman Sachs; Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair for Ernst & Young; Laura Alonso, Argentinian parliamentarian; Melanne Verveer, The U.S. Ambassador for Global Women's Issues; and Emma Bonino, Vice President of the Italian Senate - sat around a table together to discuss the obstacles women face in realizing true equality.
What has worked and what hasn't? What and who has been missing from the debate? How can the obstacles be overcome? Which new players, different approaches and innovative actions can move us forward? In short, what will it take to convince a much larger community of institutions and individuals to see themselves as stakeholders in the achievement of women's empowerment and gender equality? How can we appeal to their self-interest and sense of the common good?
The participants agreed on three main 'roadblocks' to women's empowerment and began to outline some of the steps that must be taken to overcome them and to move the women's agenda forward:
1) The historically inferior status of women, or as Melanne Verveer called it, society's ambivalence about "the worth of a girl". Women are undervalued by legal, social, and cultural institutions and are sometimes considered downright inferior. In many countries sex-selection abortions, female genital mutilation, early marriage, domestic violence, maternal mortality and limited property and inheritance rights are manifestations of the widespread disenfranchisement of women, who are denied rights over their own bodies and a role as actors in society. Cultural or religious extremism is to blame for some of these practices, the group concurred, but the definition of culture was controversial and many asserted it is too often used with a Western frame of reference to highlight negative practices and customs in developing countries, rather than objectively representing any society's collection of beliefs, customs, traditions and behaviors. Culture can and should, however, be a positive tool, especially religious culture. And the links between culture and economics should be underlined. We must think of a new way to use culture and cultural institutions to empower women and to create new messages for society.
2) The lack of political will. Not enough people, especially people of influence, demand that government act to advance the status of women- and they must for governments to enact policies and legislation and commit resources to advance women's rights. How can we make this happen? Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International said, "Change happens when people here, at the base of the pyramid, organize and build a structure. The leadership at the top can make the commitment to make the change happen but they will lack sufficient political will to do so until there is societal acknowledgement in the middle that decides 'we need to change'." We must, thus, widen the base of stakeholders who perceive the empowerment of women to be to their own advantage and to the advantage of society, including men, private sector leaders, religious leaders, young people and the media. The message must be reframed and has to be based on a body of evidence. The media has an important role to play in reframing and the public message. But laws can't do everything, implementation is also a challenge and there we need to strengthen the oversight of our institutions.
3) The need for alternative economic opportunities. Women occupy a disproportionate share of unpaid and uncounted (or unmeasured) work. The lack of access to decent paid work leave too many women on the margins of the economy, often in the informal economy, subject to low pay and unsafe and insecure jobs. Participants agreed that the current economic crisis is an opportunity and a possible starting point for a 'breakthrough': Not only is the economic crisis universal in its reach and urgency, it is also one of the few major areas of concern where the evidence supporting women's positive impact has been building. Research shows that gender equality yields higher economic growth, a healthier and more educated population and less corruption in governance.
In the concluding sessions, the participants' attention turned to the steps that need to be taken to achieve women's empowerment and gender equality. There was a consensus: we need to develop a better language to reframe the issues, to bring in diverse stakeholders, develop sustainable partnerships, build a broader coalition in order to make an evidence-based case for change, and leverage the current economic crisis to make the connections between economic development and women's empowerment. These objectives will serve as the foundation for the creation of the La Pietra Coalition.
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You'll remember Yvonne Coughlan wrote last week, bemoaning the early closing time of so many cafes around the region.
"We are looking for Dunedin cafes where we can enjoy good coffee and conversation without the 'background' music dominating the occasion.
"Our regular has closed — I hope it was not because other people found it too quiet and peaceful!"
Helen has a very good point. The trouble is, most cafes have hard furnishings. There's very few with carpet or wallpaper, so chairs make a lot of noise when they get scraped on the floor, and that "background" (I use the word in an ironic sense) music does not get absorbed by the walls.
If anyone has suggestions of Otago's quietest cafes to visit, please pass them on.
Verging on a battlefield
There's nothing like a nice bit of neighbourhood gentrification.
Gary Corbishley emailed with a cautionary tale from Waverley.
"It was pleasing to see the photo of the verge with the flowers in Larnach Rd. I live in the suburb and pass this on a daily basis.
"I try to keep the verge outside my house looking good, too. Although I haven't planted it out in flowers, I carefully mow the grass, apply fertiliser to it and regularly re-seed it. And it looked good — until THEY arrived.
"They' are a contracting firm that, for a few months last year, turned our street into a replica of the Somme battlefield while they installed fibre-optic cabling for the ultrafast broadband (UFB) project.
"Most have services running under them — water, wastewater, electricity, telecomms etc. So when work is required on these things we just have to grit our teeth and see all our hard work ripped up.
"But is it unreasonable to expect contractors to return the verges to a good condition after they have finished work? I don't think so.
"Yet this firm left the verges in my street in a disgusting state — not level, strewn with stones, full of holes etc.
"Requests to them and then the DCC for remedial work all fell on deaf ears. So I purchased some soil and seed and did the necessary work myself on the verge outside my house. And after a few months it was looking pretty good again.
"Until THEY arrived.
"This time, 'they' are the company contracted to connect properties to the aforementioned fibre-optic cabling. It seems the neighbours wanted UFB and to connect them up meant the verge outside my house had to be ripped open again.
"Again, requests to the DCC to have them send the company back to tidy up its mess were a waste of time.
This time round, I did what I could to tidy up the mess. But I won't be spending my money on it because who knows how long it will be before the next contractor arrives to carve it up.
"These contractors always seem to be in a great rush to get to the next job. It is also obvious that the DCC never checks to see whether these contractors are reinstating the verges properly. So that is one reason, I believe, why so few people make much effort to keep the verges looking as good as the one in Larnach Rd.
"The concept of 'Keep Dunedin Beautiful' seems to have completely escaped this DCC contractor."
Thanks Gary for summing up the utter frustration many residents feel when it comes to contractors and the mess many of them leave behind.
Any other berm problems anyone would like to share?


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Amongst sales people, one of the least popular but most important planning activities is filling out forecast spreadsheets so that production resources can be allocated to meet the demand for different products in each market.
However figures from industry studies show that despite the significant effort and time that goes into creating and then merging together all these separate spreadsheets, the demand that they predict is often very different to what customers actually want.
As a result, production planners tend to mistrust sales forecasts and fall back onto repetitive production schedules, which often means they cannot meet all of the customer demand at the time it is needed. At the same time, inventory management lacks the inputs needed to keep the right products in the right places at the right times.
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text: Three days before this year.s Super Bowl game, 4 leading market research firms (Survey Analytics, BrandScan 360, Beacon Research, and Hemispheres Research) quickly joined forces to create a large scale mobile ethnography of this major social event. Immediately following the half-time break, the 1,200 iPhone owners in the Survey Analytics SurveySwipe consumer mobile panel received a notification with a link to participate in our Super Bowl study and 20% accepted. The short survey included both closed- and open-ended questions, as well as two questions that asked participants to take and submit pictures.


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Part of every person's dream is to own a home. To be able to do this, one can buy through resold homes. Houses of these types are built according to the specifications of the first owner. Everything from the materials used and the design reflects much the taste of its owners. What could get you to buy it is simply sharing your taste in homes.
However, some people would like to have a home that would really reflect them and not just find the idea of other people's homes. As a result, they would rather have their newly built homes.
Having newly built homes allows you to choose your own materials. You can choose based on your design. However, a more practical way to make the selection is to rely on the climate of your region. The reason for this is that its climate has a direct impact on the comfort of your home. When it is very cold outside, you want a house that is warm.
If you have the wrong materials, you may not be able to keep your interior temperature at a desirable level. Thus, your comfort will be changed and you may incur various problems at your address.
The second reason is the longevity of their homes. The type of weather you have can accelerate the wear and tear of a certain material. Using the wrong type can lead to the initial degradation of your homes. As a result, you can incur costly repairs and, for some, they may not be able to enjoy their homes to the fullest. The last thing you want to happen is to pay for expensive repairs before you reach your break even.
The third reason is energy efficiency. No one wants to pay too much for energy use, especially if you have HVAC systems in your home. To be able to meet your heating and cooling needs without paying too much, you need to build a house with good insulation. Know that your building material has a lot to do with this subject.
There are many materials to choose from. You have wood, concrete, stones, clay and many others. China construction material suppliers they have all these materials at very affordable prices and many constructors opt for materials manufactured in China because they can save money.
If you live in hot regions, the materials you should use should have the ability to keep your interiors fresh and allow your home to breathe. The last thing you want to happen is to trap the damp area in your homes causing the build up of moisture that could lead to mold problems. Some building materials that are best for hot climates are wood and clay.
For colder regions, materials with the best insulating properties are great candidates. Some of them are concrete, bricks and stones. These materials are the perfect solution. Concrete has good insulation skills. It is used in combination with other materials as a binder. However, stones are known to be the best. But try to be careful with your selection. To get the best choice, you can seek help from a bricklayer.
There are also unconventional materials used in the construction of houses: glass. Glass can be built as walls, but these materials are not natural insulation. However, you can do something to lessen the absorption of heat or even the dissipation of heat. You can apply e-coating or dye the glass. Others also use accessories such as curtains, blinds and curtains to prevent heat leakage.
Remember, your goal is to make a home durable and comfortable. Try to choose materials by looking at the larger photo. Avoid focusing on design alone, but know the performance of these materials when it is too cold or too hot outside your home.


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I had my first experience of Heathrow's Terminal Five yesterday and received an unusually omen.
I was travelling to Seattle for the Microsoft MVP's global summit and needed to use the shuttle to reach my departure gate. The electronic display showed the following message.
Now I know it wasn't quite true. Since Bill Gates stepped down last year he won't be visiting the summit this time, but it amused me just the same.
Anyway the official kick off is tomorrow so at the moment Seattle is being invaded by even more geeks than usual. More news as it happens :)


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Special Session: Spatial Simulation
Context: data-driven modeling
In the last few years, we have seen an unprecedented boom of interest in collecting behavioral and environmental data. The GI community increasingly takes this as an opportunity to integrate data into spatial simulation workflows. The data revolution is going to extend concepts, technologies and applications of Spatial Simulation beyond traditional boundaries.
Scope of the Session:
Aside from innovative ideas related to data-driven modeling, we invite contributions that advance the state-of-art in spatial simulation modelling, including but not limited to:
- approaches based on cellular automata, agent-based models, individual-based models, microsimulation, or spatial system dynamics,
- applications of spatial simulation models in various domains, including ecology, landscape ecology, conservation biology, population dynamics, social network models, urban geography, pedestrian modelling, or transport modelling,
- hybrid models that integrate multiple modelling methods,
- participatory spatio-temporal modelling,
- dynamic geo-visualisation of simulation results,
- explorative model analysis and validation.
Information: Call for Papers (as pdf-file)
Contributions can either be submitted as full paper, short paper or poster. Any contribution needs to be submitted via the conference submission website until Feb. 1, 2019 and will be subject to double-blind peer review. Authors of accepted full and short papers are invited to present and discuss their papers in the special symposium. For guidelines on submission, please visit http://www.gi-forum.org/journal/aboutjournal > Journal Instructions for Authors. Accepted full and short papers will be published in the Open Access GI_Forum Journal. Publication will be online (see http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/gi_forum). The publication is included in Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. We also invite contributions to a poster session to be held within the symposium. Posters will be published online through the conference website.
Call for Papers is open from October 1, 2018 - February 1, 2019
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Cultural Awareness is one of our most crucial pillars for our fraternity. We make every attempt to showcase diversity not just in our members, but in our programming and our involvement on and off campus.
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Dean Ware experienced the best day of his life on September 28, 2017 when he left Alzheimer's behind and met his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Lawrence Dean Ware was born September 24, 1939 to Lawrence Walter Ware and Ruth Etta Smalley Ware in Pawhuska, Okla.
Dean was a member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 525 for 57 years. He was a journeyman welder – an expert at his craft. Dean built his first house at 23 years old and built two more family homes in later years. He was a true "shade tree fix-it man". Dean could fix anything. As a teenager he rebuilt the engine in his '57 Chevy and did all the family car repairs throughout his years. He showed his love for his family by repairing a squeaky door, a leaking faucet, or a worn out carburetor. He could do it all – easily and well.
Dean learned to love nature as a boy scout. He loved being in the mountains and spent his happiest days on a creek bank catching trout. He loved pocket knives and flashlights. A boy scout is always prepared.
A talented man, a good man, a man who loved the Lord and led his family and others to Jesus. He was a member of the Edmond Church of Christ for 31 years.
Dean is preceded in death by his parents, Lawrence and Ruth Ware, his brother John Benton Ware of Edmond, Okla., and his baby brother Charles Arthur Ware of Wynona, Okla.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Linda Ware of Guthrie, Okla. and his children Patrick and Jamie Smith of Wartburg, Tenn., Kenny and Robin Miller of Amarillo, Texas, David and Karalyn Ware of Dallas, Texas, 11 dearly loved grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. He is also survived by his sisters, Phylis McWherter of Broken Arrow, Okla. and Betty Ware of Edmond, Okla.
Dean has fought the good fight, he has finished the race, he has kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7)
A viewing with family present with be help will be 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, October 1, 2017 at Matthews Funeral home. Graveside services will be 1 p.m. Monday, October 2, 2017 in Claremore, OK.
Source: Edmond Sun, The (OK) – Friday, September 29, 2017


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Ave regina caelorum, Ave Domina angelorum. Salve radix, salve porta, Ex qua mundo lux est orta. Gaude Virgo gloriosa, Super omnes speciosa. Vale O valde decora, Et pro nobis Christum exora. Literal translation: Hail, queen of the heavens, Hail, Lady of the angels. Greet Thee, the Root, Greet Thee, the Door, From whom to the world light is come. Praise the Virgin glorious, Over all beauteous. Be well, o greatly comely, And for us with Christ plead.
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Hi Folks:
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Hard to believe we're into April already after what seemed like a never-ending winter. Things really speed up from here on in and the kids' stress levels tend to climb a bit so time management will be very important.
P1: No homework but please ask your son or daughter what caused the Great Depression and how Canadians were affected by it.
P3: Complete research for Greatest Pharaoh. Our debates begin tomorrow. Students must submit their research and a Chicago style bibliography tomorrow as well.
P4: Unit 2 test is Thursday. If students did not complete the reading in class they should do so tonight. I also distributed the course culminating activity (CCA) for students to think about. The course finishes next Friday, April 11th. Students will present their projects starting next Wednesday. They have 3 days in the library starting this Friday.
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7.05 Small investments in recreation, sport, arts, culture, and parks often yield large economic returns from events, capital development, and ongoing services
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The 2007 Canada Winter Games contributed an estimated $75.2 million to the GDP and generated $176.7 million in economic activity throughout the Yukon.
2008 Arctic Winter Games: Economic Impact Assessment
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The economy-wide economic impacts (benefits) of initial expenditures by the funded arts and cultural organizations are calculated. These organizations spent $155 million on initial expenditures....
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The 2005 FIS World Cup provided considerable economic benefits to the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vernon. The combined expenditures of visitors, event operations, and capital...
The Economic Impact of the 2002 Saskatchewan Winter Games; Humboldt and Region February 17 - 23, 200
The average visitor to the winter games stayed in Humboldt and region 2.8 days and spent $126.57 or an average of $45.20 per day.
2003 Canada Winter Games Economic Impact Assessment
The combined spending of the operations, capital and visitors were estimated to be $38.7 million, which generated a total potential economic activity of $70.4 million in the province. Of this,...
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The direct economic impact of the P.E.I. Sport and Recreation sector is $43.5 million in total expenditures.
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2005 Canada Summer Games; Economic Impact Assessment
Total expenditures as a result of the 2005 Canada Summer Games including combined capital, visitor and operations expenditure were substantial, totalling nearly 59.8 million. The majority of the...
Valuing nature-based recreation in public natural areas of the Apalachicola River region, Florida
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The Value of the Sports Economy in England : Final Report
" In 2000, 400,000 people were estimated to have been employed in sport-related activities in England, just under 2% of all employment. Sport generated £9.8bn in value-added in England, around 1½%...
Sport tourism: Economic, identity and community impacts
"The World Tourism Organization estimates that approximately 10% of the approximately $735 billion in international tourism receipts is sport related. In addition to the economic benefits, sport...
Economic Impact Analysis of the 2002 North American Indigenous Games
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Dawn of a new era: The first Flames games
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Ah yes, I heard the news on my car radio that the Flames were coming to Calgary. It was a Friday and I considered that to be one of those 'where were you ' moments when I heard. I was so pumped. The following September when training camp opened, I dropped into their practice rink in northeast Calgary somewhere, Max Bell perhaps, and my first thought was geez these guys are big! That team for it's time had size. My second thought was who are these guys? Information was hard to come by in those days so I still thought that Paul Henderson (my hockey hero), Gary Unger and Tom Lysiak were still with the team but that was not the case. No matter, it did not take long to embrace this team as my own. I was fortunate enough to see a couple of games at the Corral and while small in capacity, sitting so close to the action was superb! I also remember players from visiting teams tripping over the boards as they changed because the Corral's boards were several inches higher than regulation. That always brought a roar from the crowd...those days of the early Flames bring fond memories...ReplyDelete


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|This month was the sort that Shunt list deserters dream about - a month where no one could talk of anything except Recoil. The impending release of 'Liquid' has Shuntese quaking with ecstasy and desire while lucky European types have been listening to the album and hobnobbing with Mr. Wilder in total abandon.
|Fabe was the first to report hearing 'Liquid', followed by Adrian who sussed out bits at a Depeche Mode party. Henrik met Alan in Stockholm while Marco interviewed him in Germany. Fret not faithful readers, old Mike will have his chance when Uncle Chuck drops by NYC soon.
|Laura heard 'Chrome' on Finnish radio (now how's about some airplay in America, huh?) while Shuntsters rabidly discussed Alan's idea for a Recoil film. KJ wondered what had happened to Top Ten and soon new, tantalizing titbits of information appeared. Marco posted the hilarious Paris Wilder editorial about Mummy and Daddy's New Year's party and Jonathan Ogilvie Dourish had the humorous audacity to question my knowledge regarding Recoil samples. Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Dourish, but I answer to a higher authority, and no, it's not Yahweh.
|Nicole praised Alan and PK, stating that her work on 'Liquid' is the best she's ever done and I'm inclined to believe her. All the septics (myself included) wondered what in the hell was a Lada and why was Alan ashamed to have owned one? Farhan wanted to plug Recoil on 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' which led to some funny and ultimately tiresome commentary from the peanut gallery.
|Alison posted "black box" humour while Micah got all pernickety about the samples from 'Liquid'. Nicole revealed how she writes to music while Ken planned a 'Liquid' release party in Chicago worthy of Super Devoted Fan status! Anton in L.A. received a 'Liquid' promo, hence dashing all my beliefs that God is fair.
PK spoke to the group a bit about Flood, posting later in order to tease American chocolate fans and Nicole alike. KJ told Shuntlettes to be more like Hep and FoxPuppy and others made bizarre assumptions about David Gahan's life. Jenna asked how to be an insomniac (ah, the carefree joys of youth) and LaVey detested Californians.
|FoxPuppy came down with the pox (ok, so not all the moments of youth are carefree) and listed his favourite albums, leading to a discussion of Toad My Wet Rocket...AGAIN. Spoken word divas were discussed, Stephanie played with anagrams and all the Shnurds trainspotted hi-hats. HI-HATS. A roaring debate over hi-hats in various Mode songs ensued. I smiled, remembering that I have a life.
|Speaking of no lives, Ubaldi and Duck then started discussing 'Star Wars' sound samples which lead to the ever relevant theory that if Alan had seen the first 3 movies before 'Phantom Menace', he would have appreciated it better. Other Shnurds agreed. A total non-Shnurd, Hope, used Recoil at her fetish ball, 'Wet'. She then described the events for us in graphic detail. Jenna wondered about the use of spirituals on 'Unsound', Rachel noted Alan's seeming proclivity toward things Virginian and Garth reported a 'Strange Hours' video sighting on MTV!
|In Charliecon news, Ben cancelled his widely anticipated Austin party for reasons as yet undisclosed. KJ announced the Red River Rampage, her second Charliecon but first in the wilderness as a sort of Recoil Retreat. Sign up at http://www.zyworld.com/KJAdan/rrr.htm DJ Objet got into the spirit by announcing a possible North Carolina shindig. Stay here to keep posted on these events and any web addresses with more information.
Of The month goes to Kristina Moodie, who made me smile
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"Geekism is the new black or something, or is that too lastyear.com?"
I wanted to put yet another FoxPuppyism, but it was too racy for Alan's mum.
Keep sitting on your hands and begging your European friends for tapes of their 'Liquid' promos.
|Until next month, you've been tongued by,
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JSCL invites you for cycling experience amidst the wilderness of Dumna Nature Reserve.
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Janus Fouché is a South African digital artist, working in multimedia projects ranging from interactive electronic musical installations, animation, to self-organizing biological systems laser-engraved onto paper.
He is most known as a collaborator, having worked with contemporary artists and composers such as William Kentridge, Blessing Ngobeni, Deborah Bell, Philip Miller, João Orecchia.
He focuses on the digital space as a parallel, abstract, but equally present universe, with its own laws and aesthetics to be constructed, explored, and reflected upon, revealing the underlying systems and relationships of our own experience. Fragments of both worlds are pulled into one-another to create new, unexpected relationships. Organic generative drawings of artificial life, Collages of film and animation meet motion captured puppets and mechanical personifications.
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Sonic Organism I
a living algorithm that exists only as a synthesized sound-scape.
The Organism is a digital generative audio composition, a living algorithm that exists only as a synthesized sound-scape. It has a pulse, interconnected cellular-structure, and decision-making nerve-centre. With sound being a transparent medium, the listener is invited into the creature's physical anatomy while different parts of it are played together - through these cellular connections.
Distant Synth I
A self-made musical instrument: drone machine and atmospheric harmony synth.
The instrument uses a virtual sound-engine (written entirely in Pd, running on a Raspberry PI computer), and hardware interface with patch-points with knobs and switches for parameter control, with musical expression via OSC.
- 4-voice Polyphonic Phase-Aligned Formant Oscillators
- Monophonic 2x Square-waves Detuned Oscillator
- Monophonic tuned-filter noise source with overdive
- 2x ADSR envelope generators
- Oscillator Mixer section
- 2x head tape-style Delay/Feedback section with overdrive
- Resonant High-Pass filter
- Resonant Low-Pass filter
- 2x VCA modules
- Triangle-Wave LFO with slope and frequency
- Square-Wave LFO with slope and frequency at multiples of Triangle LFO
- Boolean-logic chaos LFO A derived from Triangle and Square-Wave LFOs
- Boolean-logic chaos LFO B further mangled waveforms
A visual interpretation of the 1932 Kurt Schwitters sound poem
Turning to the Irrational when the rational falls short,
Debuted at the Performa 17 Biennale in New York.
The performance is a combination of the language-breakdown of the poem, and a collection of new associations and visual interpretations for the viewer to try and make sense of. Non-narrative and associative, looking for a non-Cartesian logic, and playing within that space.
The video is tightly co-ordinated to William's pace, and timed and played as an expressive instrumental layer of the performance.
My credit: Video Designer, Video Performer.
- Performa 17 Biennale New York from 5-6 November 2017
- Studio International article
- Hyper-allergic article
Euclidean Sequencer
A generative video installation commissioned for the 2017 Deep Learning Indaba.
The Euclidean sequencer project illustrates a selection of Computer Science concepts that, through their growing role in our lives, become greater than themselves. Optimization algorithms branch into philosophy once they start influencing our frame of reference, optimizing what we get exposed to. In this case, visually expressing an ancient mathematical system-turned-music-generating machine.
A euclidean sequencer is a mathematical musical generator, that uses subdivisions in a measure as common denominators to equally space notes, and create rhythms. In the paper: The Euclidean Algorithm generates Traditional Musical Rhythms , Godfried Toussant finds that many traditional rhythms from across cultures (West-African, Southern African, Bohemian-European, Middle-eastern, Latin-American) are described by this algorithm. Other non-musical connections to Euclidean sequences have also been made in particle physics and computer science.
Forgetful Trees
Thousands of ants explore the world, leaving a trace of their path for others to follow. A scent-memory.forgetful tree age 3050
A series of drawings, made with a generative algorithm.
Each work starts out as a single tiny dot, and over time, as the ants explore outward, lines are drawn. Once an ant reaches the end of its lifespan and dies, a new one is born at the root of the tree.
It first follows the first scent it can find, and then continues exploring further, in a direction it's most confident about. Over time the scent gets distorted, uncertain, and eventually disappears beneath thousands of fresh traces.
The visual result finds its way somewhere between lightning, roots, and branches. The tree gradually grows, from that first point, to an intricate tangle of branches 20, 000 generations later.five forgetful trees
The works are each printed in the exact same scale. Larger pieces are older trees, while the smallest ones are as few as 1600 generations.Available as Digital Prints, on Felix Schoeller 200gsm
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Group Exhibition Absence of Purpose
A group exhibition of printed generative algorithms, jewellery design, and wood sculptureAn exhibition on the notion of purpose from the perspective of the three artists, using completely differing mediums.
Digital artist Janus Fouché explores the lack of intention behind emergent ecosystems by means of generative algorithms, which are then either burned onto paper by laser light or printed in ink. Puppet artist Mienke Fouché delves into evolution and the lack of purpose to mere existence through her skeletal wood sculptures. Jewellery designer and manufacturer Reinhardt van Zyl investigates abstraction in jewellery as an art form that, in essence, serves no purpose other than being an aesthetically pleasing form of adornment.
- 10 June to 4 July 2017, at Artbox Gallery
Shadow Painting Mechanism
A video-capturing algorithm, that uses frame-on-frame blending techniques to achieve a watercolour painted image.watch The Landscape Painter on vimeo
A playful inversion of the light-painting phenomenon in slow-exposure photography.
this interactive algorithm records the scene, turning video feed into a morphing animation with a slow anti-exposure: where dark colours are blended over time instead of light.
Dancers become silhouettes, movement becomes paint.
Light-sources and lightly coloured objects take minutes to imprint, completely absent at first, and are instantly erased by any darker shape that comes after. The Landscape Painter projected in Fox Street (Instagram)
I recorded two pieces using this algorithm with the dancer Julia Burnham, to be shown in the Black Board Projections video installation. Commissioned by The Centre for the Less Good Idea 2017
Performer: Julia Burnham
- The Centre For The Less Good Idea Johannesburg 1-5 March 2017
Spooky Looking City
An animated painting, for the Black Board Projections film installation.(watch on vimeo)
This short animation was commissioned by, and shown during Season 1 of the Centre for The Less Good Idea.
The painting was done by Johannesburg artist Blessing Ngobeni, and was then digitally cut-up, and animated using motion-capture data of various dancer collaborators during the Season.
The idea was to experiment, and play with the harsh imagery of Blessing's collage work, and the eerily smooth, glitchy, unforgiving data of motion-captured dance. Limbs dislocate, bodies contort and rock, knees twitch, into a gradual animalistic frenzy.
While this chaos plays out, politically charged phrases appear, one over the other, as chapter headings on the back wall:
economical KITCHENS
MIDDLE finger NOSE
guilty as charged
My credit:
Video editor, compositor, and animator
- The Centre For The Less Good Idea Johannesburg 1-5 March 2017
Right Into Her Arms
A film installation is built into a mechanized panel proscenium structure with sliding and rotating panels, programmed to move as characters in the projection.(audience recordings on youtube)
This mechanized multimedia puppet proscenium is a continuation of the Lulu opera project. Drawings from the opera are combined with filmed footage. The music of Webern and Schonberg are combined with 1940's German swing and the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters, forming a collage that moves between nightmare, longing remembrance, and cabaret performances.
The projection surface is broken up with panels of paper and cardboard of different texture and colour.
The film concept is further broken up when the cardboard panels start moving across the stage, turning, shifting, and eventually taking on personalities of their own. They become the protagonists of the piece, lovers that conspire together and end in a dance.
My credit:
Lead video editor on the film elements
Circuitry designer for the mechanical elements
Software designer and engineer for a novel motion playback system to run the panels
motion designer for the choreography to the panel movements
- whitechapel gallery London 21 September 2016 – 15 January 2017
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An abstract minimalist exploration of the stroboscopic effect.(watch on vimeo)
This atonal audio composition and the accompanying visual piece is generated from a series of sawtooth and sine waves, at extremely varying frequencies. These waves are cross-modulated in different ways, using complex chains of Boolean operations to alter the sound.
The role of modulating sound waves is stretched to that of musical sequencer (triggering the musical progression), the tonal, timbral, harmonic as well rhythmic devices.
In the visual piece, lines of white noise are dropped downward at varying speeds. This motion is controlled by the same principles of waveform modulation. The pixels are shifted into drifting changing patterns with Boolean operations based on their relationship to one-another and their position in space.
Once their motion reaches a high enough speed, an optical illusion (stroboscopic effect) is formed where they appear to slow down and change direction- to move upward, or at times horizontally.
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Three electric creatures
Three electric creatures explore a dark digital room.(watch on vimeo)
This is an emergent molecular dynamic algorithm. A collection of simple impersonal rules that bring about unexpected expressive behaviour. A swarm of particles moves through three dimensional space, with very few very simple rules- Particles are attracted to one another (to an extent), and repulsed by one another (to an extent).
The swarm is divided into three groups, and it is this behaviour that both keeps them together, and propels the body of particles forward.
Particles themselves are not visible, but certain individuals within each group are connected with lines, based on distances between them. This connection method creates an unstable electric creature.
There is also an an interaction between the three creatures: Particles from different creatures agitate one-another dramatically, straining their atomic bonds, causing the creatures that share the same space to clash violently.
The rules of motion behaviour are loosely based on differential evolution (a form of computational intelligence) -except that here the metaheursitic is purely based on the particle's spacial relationship with one-another, more closely related to molecular dynamics.. This algorithm is similar to research done into bird flocking and fish school algorithms
I see in particles a digital comparison to atoms in our world. Basic building blocks that are constantly in motion, with basic rules yet infinitely diverse results. I don't tell them what to do- but set in motion the circumstances they need to create something beautiful that I would not be able to achieve otherwise.
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More Sweetly Play the Dance
An 8 screen video piece, a procession of figures over a charcoal landscape.
A Danse Macabre - everyone from priests and politicians to their receptionists, to refugees or the destitute carrying their possessions, pulling trolleys or the dead, the sick, moving toward the same fate.
At the same time they are the unnamed figures casting shadows in Plato's allegory of the cave, the workers and labourers behind the scenes of the story. "If we ever get to heaven, we will be the ones working to make the thunder." There are elements of Medieval dancing to avoid the Plague, and a reference to the Chinese cultural revolution.
My credit: Video editing and construction.
video editing and compositing animation complex project infrastructure motion capture and tracking multi-screen projection(watch on youtube)
- Eye Film Institute Amsterdam from 25 April to 30 August 2015.
- Marian Goodman Gallery London from 11 September to 24 October 2015
- Lichtsicht 5 Bad Rothenfelde from 18 September 2015 to 7 February 2016.
O Sentimental Machine
A 5 screen video installation, projected on surfaces of the Hotel Splendid Palas first floor lobby, on the Büyükada island of Istanbul.
This piece explores the time around Leon Trotsky's exile in Istanbul, and his secretary Evgenia. Behavioural theorists of the time framed organic life as complex mechanical systems, where providing set input parameters will result in a predictable response.
At the same time, advances in technology, with new exciting developments in electronics and industrialization, moved closer to the dream of "perfect machine", arriving at the same point- where machines take on human traits, and become sentimental.(watch on vimeo)
My credit: co- video-editor and -compositor, with Žana Marović.
Control circuitry and software for the sentimental megaphone machine.
I also performed the theremin in the sound track composed by Philip Miller.
Notes Towards a Model Opera
A 3 screen video piece, on the Chinese Cultural revolution and the events surrounding the time throughout the world.
Circumstances around the periphery of the event are examined. The socialist thread is followed from China- the Model operas of Madame Mao, the self-criticisms and widespread socio-economic disruption, to the Paris Commune uprising, to African liberation struggles of the time.
The images are brought together with the socialist anthem The Internationale as the soundtrack to the piece.
My credit: co-video-editor with Žana Marović
video editing and compositing animation multi-screen projection
- The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Beijing from 27 June to 30 August 2015
- Marian Goodman Gallery London from 11 September to 24 October 2015
Return Of The Gods: The Ancient Ones
An interactive musical bronze sculpture installation.(watch on youtube)
Towering larger than life-size bronze sculptures of mystical figures on a journey by Deborah Bell, given life and expanded by an interactive sound composition- in a collaboration between myself, composer Philip Miller and sound engineer Gavan Eckhart.
I created a media player system to play back 5 a channel sound-scape composition by Philip Miller, each track dedicated to- and playing from above each sculpture independently. Each channel is looped separately, creating a constantly shifting and drifting organic composition.
Along with this I put together a sensor network, to sense the presence of a viewer. This proximity is used to directly control each of the five channels' volume separately. An empty room is completely silent. When you step close to a sculpture, the sound starts to gently rise from the figure, drifting to silence only a few moments after you leave. More viewers at a time change the nature of the piece fundamentally but to no less value.
These are not simply samples or sounds being triggered: the composition's structure is given a finely tuned balance between flexibility and choreography, to bring about a deeper experience. This is not interaction as a game, or toy, but in the service of a truly contemplative and subtle emergent piece.
My credit: Interaction design and software.
interaction design sound-installation piece proximity Arduino Puredata
- Everard Read Johannesburg 7 May to 27 June 2015
- Everard Read Cape Town 14 May to 9 June 2015
Untitled (Singer Choir/Chorus)
An interactive kinetic sculpture
image belongs to the Marian Goodman Gallery
Forming part of the Second Hand Reading exhibition, megaphones attached to singer sewing machines each play a voice of an African choir singer, performing a composition composed by Neo Muyanga.
The sculpture has a hand crank, that drives the music as a hand-cranked record-player. One can drive it at any speed or direction, playing the choir fast and high, slow and low, or at a constant pace -in an attempt to keep the wavering tune constant.
There is also a further mechanical element, each megaphone turns in a slow arc while singing, combining mechanical movement and gear systems with digital signal processing and interaction design.
The mechanical sculpture was built by Christoff Wolmarans and Chris-Waldo de Wet.
My credit: Design and construction of the software and circuitry.
interaction algorithm
- The Marian Goodman Gallery London from 17 September to 26 October 2013


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I was tagged by @brookebejeweled and I didn't come back and post my answers like I said I would – so now I'm doing it!
RULES:1. Put your ipod or media player etc.on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
4. Tag 6 friends.
5. Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.
6. Have Fun!
1. If someone asks "Are you okay?", you say?
One Day Like This – The Big Ghana Band
2. How would you describe yourself?
10/10 – Paolo Nutini
3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
I Promise – Stacie Orrico
4. How do you feel today?
Cream With Your Strawberries – Becky Higg
5. What is your life's purpose?
History Maker – Delirious?
6. What is your motto?
Faster – Plain White T's
7. What do your friends think of you?
Over The Rainbow – Eva Cassidy (I don't listen to this any more since it was played at my G-ma's Funeral)
8. What do you think about very often?
Busted – Matchbox 20
9. What is your dream?
Encore/Numb – Jay Z Ft Linkin Park
10. What do you think of your best friend?
James Bond – Scouting For Girls
11. What is your life story?
Fearless – Taylor Swift
12. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Extravagant Worship – Vicky Beeching
13. What do you think when you see the person you like?
Gonna Make You A Star – David Essex
14. What will you dance to at your wedding?
Lean On Me – ACM Gospel Choir (Actually our first dance was to Finally Found by The Honeyz)
15. What is your hobby/interest?
Shout – 10 Things Version
16. Whats your biggest fear?
Shine – Take That
17. What do you want right now?
Bring Me To Life – Evanescence
18. What do you think of your (boy/girl)friend?
Times Like These – Foo Fighters
19. What is your favorite song?
When I Was Lost – Kate Simmonds (It is actually one of my favourites!)
I tag erm @justmargaret, @danni_v_, @FutureMrsGerardWayand anyone else who fancies it


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Ieremiadis Peris
Peris Ieremiadis (1939-2007)
- 2007 Couples, Art Gallery-Café, Voula-Athens
- 2006 St. Georges and other paintings, Astra Gallery, Athens
- 2004 Drawings and sketches, Astra Gallery, Athens
- 2003 Drawings and sketches on the theme "Flowers", Glyfada
- 1998 Paintings and drawings, House of Cyprus, Athens
- 1995 Boats, French Institute, Pireus
- 1993 Astra Gallery, Athens
- 1991 Ioni Gallery, Kifissia, Athens
- 1989 Ioni Gallery, Kifissia, Athens
- 1979 Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens
- 1978 Drawings, Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens
Peris Ieremiadis, 1998, Paintings and drawings, Athens: Indiktos Publications
Peris Ieremiadis, the nobleman of colours
The painter Peris Ieremiadis (1939-2007) was the incarnation of nonchalance and nobility, a 60 year old adolescent, full of life assertion, simplicity, and thirst for painting. He lived simply, discreetly, painted with love and thorough knowledge, and left suddenly last Saturday on his beloved Aegina where he had lived for the past year.
Literary and popular
His painting was like himself, literary and popular, European and Greek, modern and traditional. He made his own colours according to the palette of Polygnotos. For red he preferred the earth of Penteli. He adored the folk icons as well as Matisse, Pikionis as well as Braque, he sketched fishing boats and St. Georges, lemons and fish, olives and grapes, houses with their inside open to be seen. And all that with an eye for colour… what a feeling for colour! His terracotta, his ochre, his carmine and his luminous black are unique.
His parents came from Asia Minor, he spent his childhood years in Africa and Athens. He studied painting in Paris where he lived for 11 years, spent time in Germany and Italy, traveled all over Europe. In 1972 he returned to Athens. He worked for architects' offices as colour consultant as well as publishing houses, and until the end he had the artistic supervision of the periodical Indiktos. He delved into the work of D. Pikionis and G. Chalepas preparing editions and curating exhibitions of their work. In the last thirty years, he exhibited his own work in various galleries and institutions. His last exhibition at Astra Gallery last spring was very successful.
The art of life
His art was the art of life. His graceful accounts, his fascinating insistence, his genious of vision became evident both in company and in his paintings, during the meals with goatmen at his studio as at his 'thick' exhibitions, where behind as apparent nonchalance lay the esthetic care and strict imposition of the colour of the gallery walls. And his compositions? Well digested here are the pictoral tradition of East and West with 20th century modernism, the Hellenistic style with Matisse, Picasso, and the figures of Karagiozis, Cubism and the figures from the book of Saints. A clean, comparative painting mode, on the border between description and decoration, with held-in feeling, with painting triumphant.
The artist and person Peris, noble and good, will be missed from the Greek artistic scene and for all those who knew him. In homage to his old friend, Alexis Kyritsopoulos will assign part of the space of his show to the works of P. Ieremiadis at Astra Gallery which represents both these artists (Astra Gallery, Karyatidon 8, Acropolis). His funeral was held yesterday in Athens.
Nikos G. Xydakis
* Newspaper Kathimerini May 15th 2007
- Website: www.peris-ieremiadis.com


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