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Vito Acconci, Light Beams for the Sky of a Transfer Corridor* (SFO)
Vito Acconci's artwork and architecture are based on social interactions between people and the blurring of public and private space. His utopian, biomorphic designs aim to approximate the complexity of living organisms. After initially devoting himself to poetry and writing, he began to produce visual work in 1969, most of which incorporated subversive social comment. In the mid 1980s, he began creating experimental architecture, design and public sculpture, and in 1988 he founded Acconci Studio, an architectural practice with public commissions around the world.
Aphidoidea, The Seed (Castro)
Aphidoidea [Ahh-fi-doe-idea] is a multi-disciplinary art, design, and architecture collective. Led by formally trained architects Jesus Eduardo Magaña, Paulina Bouyer-Magana, Jackie Muñoz, and Andrew Hernandez, the collective creates site-specific art installations that engage the user and enhance the built environment. Their art is a product of the exploration of site, concept, materials, and interactivity, and has evolved from site-specific installations, to include user response and spectator interaction. Their installations employ a variety of materials, ranging from ephemeral to the permanent, and technology based to analogue application.
Shimon Attie and Vale Bruck, Spiral of Gratitude (Mission Bay)
For two decades, Shimon Attie has made art that reflects on the relationship between place, memory and identity. He is particularly concerned with issues of loss, communal trauma and the potential for regeneration. Earlier works used contemporary media to re-animate architectural and public sites with images of their lost histories, exploring how histories of marginalized and forgotten communities may be visually introduced into the physical landscape of the present. In more recent years, Attie has created a number of multiple-channel immersive HD video installations, including a commission by the BBC and Arts Council of Wales to create a 5-channel video installation on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, when the village became 'famous' after having lost nearly all of its children in a manmade avalanche that buried the elementary school. Vale Bruck is a large-scale art installationist and artisan woodworker based out of Eastern Pennsylvania, who has worked on and directed major projects all over the world. Over the course of 4 years, he collaborated with Shimon Attie to concept and subsequently create Spiral of Gratitude.
Constellation (Civic Center)Nayland Blake,
Nayland Blake is one of the most intellectually and aesthetically agile contemporary artists, producing work of incisive clarity as a curator, artist, writer, and teacher since the 1980s. Interracial desire, same-sex love, and racial and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Blake's sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, which reflect his preoccupation with his own racial and sexual identities. He participated in the 1991 Whitney Biennial and the 1993 Venice Biennale, and since 1993, has exhibited his work at Matthew Marks Gallery (NYC/Los Angeles). Most recently, San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presented his one-man exhibition Free!Love!Tool!Box! Blake was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2012; he currently chairs the International Photography Center-Bard MFA program and lives and works in Brooklyn.
Jim Campbell, Ocean Mirror with Fragments (Inner Sunset) and Day for Night (Embarcadero)
Exploring the line between representation and abstraction, Jim Campbell plumbs the human ability to interpret information and "fill in the gaps" necessary to create a complete idea. His exploration of the distinction between the analogue world and its digital representation metaphorically parallels the difference between poetic understanding versus the mathematics of data. While Campbell's works typically use flat grids of evenly spaced LEDs, he has recently begun to "pull apart" two-dimensional imagery, presenting it in a three-dimensional format. A recent outdoor installation, Scattered Light, in New York's Madison Square Park, and a commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Exploded Views (4 Films), exemplify this new direction.
James Carpenter, Four Sculptural Light Reflectors* (SFO)
James Carpenter began exhibiting light-based art works while developing new glass materials at Corning Glass Works from 1972 through 1982. Since establishing James Carpenter Design Associates in 1978, he has been integrating a synthesis of light into building structures. The studio is a collaborative environment, encouraging an exchange of ideas between architects, material and structural engineers, environmental engineers, and fabricators. Carpenter studied with glass sculptor Dale Chihuly, and is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, the American Institute of Architects Honor Award, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Jerry van Eyck, The Wind-Baffles
Seeing Spheres
Spencer Finch, Orion (SFO)
Light and its color are ultimately the subjects that fascinate Finch and those that he returns to again and again—along with the perceptual, physiological, psychological, and linguistic workings that influence how we experience them. Like many artists and thinkers who have inspired him and who turn up in his work—scientists, artists, poets, and philosophers, including Monet, Turner, Newton, Dickinson, Goethe, and Wittgenstein—Finch is continuously celebrating, and grappling with, the beauty and enigmas of light and color. His mix of science and poetry is fitting for a subject that is equally tied to science and art."
Dan Flavin, "monument" for V. Tatlin and untitled (in honor of Leo...) (SFMOMA)
Dan Flavin created light installations (or "situations" as he preferred to call them) utilizing fluorescent light tubing that became icons of Minimalism. After a brief stint at seminary and meteorological training in the military, the artist pursued his studies in the late 1950s at Columbia University and the New School. Flavin began incorporating electric lights into his works in the early 1960s with his breakthrough Icons series. Having hit upon his chosen medium, he abandoned painting altogether, focusing on light works for the remainder of his career. Like the work of his fellow Minimalists, Flavin's art is clean, industrially produced, and serially repeating. Working with prefabricated rather than handcrafted materials allowed him to focus on the light itself and the way in which it transformed, or "sculpted" the exhibition space. His wall- and floor-mounted site-specific fixtures, composed of intersecting and parallel lines of light in conventional colors, flood spaces with their glow. By basing his work as much in radiated light as in the bulbs themselves, Flavin set the stage for much of the experience-oriented installation work that continues today.
Charles Gadeken, Entwined (Golden Gate Park)
Inspired by the objects, structures and processes in the world around us, Charles' art depicts natural objects in fantastic ways and realizes the potential for serendipity in everyday life. Often incorporating and developing technology for various effects — LEDs, flame, hydraulics, and electricity — to increase the visual and physical impact of his work, he seeks to instill a sense of play into the environment.
Cliff Garten, Ethereal Bodies* (Potrero) & Monarch (Mission Bay)
Artist Cliff Garten's artistic approach toward civic sculpture explores the expressive potential of infrastructure. He has completed more than fifty sculptures throughout the U.S. and Canada in collaboration with significant architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering projects. By connecting people to places through sculptural material, social history, and ecology, his civic sculptures locate the latent potential within a public space. While sought after for creating evocative and nuanced site-specific sculptures within the civic realm, Garten also maintains an independent studio practice creating small-scale sculptures and works on paper.
Lisa Gemmiti, San Francisco at Night: Model Art Map (Yerba Buena)
Lisa Gemmiti has dedicated her career to the production and use of physical scale models for a wide variety of purposes serving many industries. Since 1999, Lisa and her Gemmiti Model Art team have contributed to the production of hundreds of design, study and presentation models. Her work has been delivered to 20 different countries and spans the heights of Mount Everest to the intricacies of a single strand of DNA. Lisa has taught Advanced Model Making at Academy of Art University, consulted with industrial design students at California College of the Arts on their thesis projects, and has been a regular presenter to architecture students at Stanford University.
Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn, Language of the Birds* (North Beach) & Caruso's Dream (Central Market)
A multi-disciplinary artist of infinite sculptural jest, Brian Goggin has left his mark on the West Coast with his whimsical and vibrant layering of found objects and chaos-provoking sculptures. He first attracted national attention in 1997 with Defenestration — an NEA-funded, site-specific sculptural mural on a dilapidated building in San Francisco that became an unofficial San Francisco landmark. He has also recently created Speechless for the Lafayette Public Library, CA; Samson for the Sacramento International Airport; Traffic of Ideas for the Seattle Arts Commission, and Herd Morality for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Dorka Keehn is an award-winning public artist and San Francisco Arts Commissioner experienced at managing complex percent-for-art and other art programs that often require the participation of multiple parties with diverse agendas. She works with both established and emerging artists, providing artist support and interface throughout the entire process including design, engineering, public review, permitting and installation. Dorka led the fundraising effort for The Bay Lights by Leo Villareal and sits on the board of ArtCare and the advisory boards of the Black Rock Art Foundation and The Crucible.
Johanna Grawunder, Coding (SFO Airport)
Johanna Grawunder works on a broad range of projects, from large-scale public lighting and color installations, architectural interventions and interiors, to limited-edition furniture and light collections. Recent projects include a new light art collection for Carpenters Workshop Gallery and the exhibition "Alone Together" for Assab One in Milan.Trained as an architect, she was drawn to the medium of light early on and has tried to incorporate architectural principles and scale, non-precious building materials and high technology light research into her designs. Her work is included in many museum's permanent collections, including the High Museum Atlanta, LACMA, CNAP, SFMOMA, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Art Institute Chicago, Denver Art Museum and Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris.
Haddad | Drugan, Bayview Rise (Bayview, Pier 92)
Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan are an artist team whose work is about phenomenology and perception. Their site-specific artwork engages with its context and forms a continuously transforming medium of exchange between systems, ideas, and interventions. The art is often activated by natural phenomena like light and water, and when possible incorporates alternative energy sources and other sustainable practices. Their work has received awards from various agencies including Americans for the Arts, and has been published in Sculpture, Landscape Architecture, Land Forum, Landscape Journal and Arcade.
Jenny Holzer, White Light (SoMa/Yerba Buena)
For more than forty years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Her medium—whether formulated as a T-shirt, a plaque, or an LED sign—is writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters and continuing through her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has combatted ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and courage. Holzer received the Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award in 1996, and the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2011.
HYBYCOZO: Yelena Filipchuk & Serge Beaulieu, Illuminavia (South Beach)
While it seemed in 2014 that most people in the Bay Area were moving toward more digital pursuits, Yelena Filipchuk and Serge Beaulieu felt compelled to switch gears from their tech jobs to make real world objects. Before creating HYBYCOZO, Yelena was at Google and YouTube, where she facilitated partnerships and worked with musicians and artists to enforce their copyright and assure they got paid for their videos to the platform. Serge Beaulieu is a veteran industrial designer, graphic artist and maker. Having spent a decade at numerous design studios, including Yves Behar's Fuseproject, he put aside tech work and industrial design to explore art and sculpture, and the duo haven't looked back. The first of their HYBYCOZO installations debuted at Burning Man 2014, with additional installations at the Islamic Arts Festival in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, San Francisco's Exploratorium and Treasure Island Festival.
Illuminate, Hope Will Never Be Silent (Castro)
Illuminate rallies large groups of people together to create impossible works of public art that, through awe, free humanity's better nature. The highly aspirational mission of changing humanity's future for the better via public art is a reflection of the nonprofit art organization's core beliefs. Illuminate founder Ben Davis is also the visionary behind The Bay Lights, asking in September 2010, "What if the Bay Bridge were a canvas of light?" Two-and-a-half years later, after teaming with internationally renowned artist Leo Villareal, a vast and passionate community came together to fully permit, design, install, fund and celebrate the March 5, 2013 grand lighting of a two-year public installation of the iconic LED light sculpture. ILLUMINATE successfully led the effort to permanently install The Bay Lights, gifted to the State of California on January 30, 2016.
Ned Kahn, Wind Portal* (SFO)
The planet's complex, random perturbations become manifested visually, tactilely and acoustically in Ned Kahn's work. Happening across his work can be a stupefying experience, since typically invisible or unobservable forces are felt as immediate natural effects, and are only later discovered to be artificially constructed. At times, he re-creates environmental conditions in controlled settings, and at other times, he lets nature animate his art. In replicating the forms and forces of nature, his environmental artworks elicit mythic and contemporary associations with elegant simplicity.
Joseph Kosuth, W.F.T. (Civic Center)
Joseph Kosuth typically works in an architectural context. His work can be found in significant historic buildings around the world, including the Louvre in Paris. When conceiving of W.F.T (San Francisco), the artist considered the role the Auditorium has played in San Francisco's history, from its inauguration in 1915 as part of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition to hosting psychedelic rock concerts in the 1960s to the present. The etymological origins of the words provide meaningful and coincidental associations with recent landmark public policy such as the legalization of gay marriage. According to Kosuth, "The essence of this building and the historic plaza of which it is part is what I have tried to address in this public artwork. The basis of this project is language itself. It is a work that is both a reflection on its own construction as well as on the history and culture of its own location."
Dave Lane, Lamp of the Covenant (Yerba Buena)
Considered a visionary artist, Dave Lane is also a highly literate engineer who works for the California Department of Water Resources, maintaining the structural integrity of levees that protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's 98 islands. His artwork consists of monumental steel sculptures accompanied by detailed, text-laced diagrams, drawings and dioramas that, together, lay out a worldview that includes not only imaginary creation myths, but also a host of epistemological, philosophical and religious musings that question, at every turn, the artist's conclusions and the perceptual/sensory apparatus that enabled them. His creations are in the tradition of found sculpture, and explore the vast, human-dwarfing world out beyond the buildings and banalities we erect to protect ourselves from what's always looming over us — the immensity of time, the endlessness of space, the great outdoors on a literally cosmic scale.
Daniel Libeskind, Yud and PaRDeS, (Yerba Buena)
An international figure in architecture and urban design, Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings. Informed by a deep commitment to music, philosophy, literature, and poetry, he aims to create architecture that is resonant, unique and sustainable. In 1989, Studio Libeskind won the international competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin. A series of influential museum commissions followed, including the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Danish Jewish Museum; Royal Ontario Museum; and the Military History Museum, Dresden. In 2003, Studio Libeskind won another historic competition — to create a master plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
MADLAB, Lumina (Yerba Buena)
Founded in 2003 by Petia Morozov and Jose Alcala, MADLAB is an award-winning, internationally published architecture firm noted for its research and innovative design services. The firm's disciplinary core is comprised of architecture, industrial design and urban design, with professional and research influences from the fields of landscape, ecology, art, cognitive sciences, engineering and urban theory. MADLAB's current work includes innovative installations, interventions and ground-breaking works, creating interactive environments that sit between the worlds of architecture, site-specific installation art, and media design.
Merge Conceptual Design, Sky* (SFO)
Comprised of the artist team Franka Diehnelt and Claudia Reisenberger, Merge was founded in 2003 to create site-specific work generated by a research-based narrative approach. Artwork is informed by the space and the stories each individual site generates. Chosen narratives guide each installation to the appropriate medium, scale and placement of the piece, while all pieces strive to invite interaction and an engaging viewer experience. Merge draws on a shared background in architecture and art collaborations, to bring a rich technical background and a unique design sensibility to all projects in Europe and America.
Anna Valentina Murch, Archipelago* (Potrero)
Born in Scotland and raised in London, artist Anna Murch graduated from the University of Leicester with an art degree, and earned a postgraduate degrees at the Royal College of Art in London and the Architectural Association in London, where she did experimental work with light and kinetic projection onto structures. She moved to the Bay Area in 1976 and had a live-work studio at Project Artaud. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley and Mills College, where she became tenured. Long interested in the sounds of water and wind and in the way light reflects, Murch was working on six large public commissions with her husband, environmental artist Doug Hollis, when she died of cancer in March 2014.
Ivan Navarro, THE LADDER (Sun or Moon) (Mid Market)
Ivan Navarro (born in 1972 in Santiago, under the Pinochet dictatorship), uses light as his raw material, turning common objects into electric sculptures and transforming spaces by means of visual interplay. Echoing the minimalist works of Dan Flavin, Navarro's light sculptures subvert the cool detachment of florescent bulbs with their arrangement into recognizable objects. His work is certainly playful, but is also haunted by questions of power, control, and imprisonment. The act of usurping the minimalist aesthetic is an ever-present undercurrent, becoming the pretext for understated political and social criticism. He represented Chile in the 2009 Venice Biennale and one of his earliest shows was at Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco. Navarro's work has garnered international attention, participating in numerous renowned exhibitions across the globe, including at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Navarro is represented by Galerie Templon in Paris, Hyundai Gallery in Seoul, and Luciana Brito Galeria in Sao Paulo. He has lived and worked in New York since 1997.
Jorge Pardo, Untitled Van Ness Avenue Installation (Civic Center)
Jorge Pardo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1963 and studied at the University of Illinois, Chicago and received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Pardo's artwork explores the intersection of contemporary painting, design, sculpture, and architecture. Employing a broad palette of vibrant colors, eclectic patterns, and natural and industrial materials, Pardo's works range from murals to home furnishings to collages to larger-than-life fabrications. He often transforms familiar objects into artworks with multiple meanings and purposes, such as a set of lamps displayed as both sources of illumination and as freestanding sculptures, or a sailboat exhibited as both a utilitarian, seaworthy vessel and as a striking obelisk. Working on small and monumental scales, Pardo also treats entire public spaces as vast canvases. Pardo engages viewers with works that produce great visual delight while questioning distinctions between fine art and design.
Matthew Passmore, Handsignals* (Mission)
A conceptual artist, curator, teacher, and public space advocate operating in a global context, Matthew Passmore is best known as the original founder of the Rebar Art & Design Studio. In 2014, he formed MoreLab, a new creative endeavor focused specifically on public art projects, museum exhibitions and innovative public spaces. Recently completed projects include Urbanauts, an 18-month artist fellowship at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, exhibitions at Make It Louder Beijing, the 2012 Istanbul Design Biennial, and Kaleidoscape, a three-year social sculpture project at the Berkeley Art Museum. Passmore regularly speaks nationally and internationally.
Jim Sanborn, Anima (Mission Bay)
Best known for creating the encrypted sculpture Kryptos at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Jim Sanborn has been building science-based installations for many years. With the help of a retired CIA cryptographer, the artist spent four months devising the Kryptos codes, which he embedded in the curved copper panels of the sculpture – and they have yet to be completely solved. Themes in his work have included, "making the invisible visible," with many sculptures focusing on topics such as the Earth's magnetic fields, the Coriolis effect, secret messages, and mysteries of atomic reactions.The texts he chooses for public projects are heavily researched, and works such as Anima were designed to exude their information slowly, and encourage collaboration among cultures to fully decipher.
Karina Smigla-Bobinski, Kaleidoscope (Embarcadero)
Karina Smigla-Bobinski lives and works as a freelance artist in Munich. She studied art and visual communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland and Munich, Germany. She works as intermedia artist with analogue and digital media and moves between science, intuition, expression and cognition. She produces and collaborates on a range of projects, including kinetic sculptures, interactive installations, and art interventions, featuring mixed reality objects, multimedia physical theatre performances and online projects. Karina's works contain the method of their making. They are direct art, which foregrounds the material, movement through time and impact on results. Her works has been shown in 45 countries on 5 continents at festivals, galleries and museums.
Keith Sonnier, Ceiling Flood* (SFO)
A conceptual artist and sculptor who was an influential part of the Process Art Movement, Keith Sonnier radically reinvented sculpture in the late 1960s. Employing unusual materials never before used, Sonnier, along with his contemporaries Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Eva Hesse, Richard Serra and Barry LeVa, called all previous conceptions of sculpture into question. In 1968, the artist began working with neon, which quickly became a defining element of his work. The linear quality of neon allows Sonnier to draw in space with light and color, while the diffuseness of the light enables his work to interact on various architectural planes.
Eric Staller, Spirogyrate* (SFO)
Well known for his Urban UFO's such as Volkswagen Lightmobile, a 1967 Beetle covered with 1659 computerized light bulbs, Eric Staller is an early practitioner of performance art, light painting and the creation of art cars. In the 1970s, he took to the streets of New York at night to choreograph his long-exposure photography, creating sweeping arcs and tunnels of light by running with sparklers attached to a broomstick—the result is blazing, astonishingly uniform grooves of light piercing the still and darkened streets. An artist-in-residence for 12 years in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, he has created numerous public art installations, including Magic Garden at Twin 21 Plaza, Osaka, Japan.
Studio DRIFT, Franchise Freedom (Embarcadero)
Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta founded DRIFT in 2007. With a multi-disciplinary team of 64, they work on experiential sculptures, installations and performances. DRIFT manifests the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth's underlying mechanisms and to re-establish our connection to it. With both depth and simplicity, DRIFT's works of art illuminate parallels between man-made and natural structures through deconstructive, interactive, and innovative processes. The artists raise fundamental questions about what life is and explore a positive scenario for the future.
Taravat Talepasand, Peace in the Middle East (Yerba Buena)
Taravat Talepasand is an artist, activist, and educator whose labor-intensive interdisciplinary painting practice questions normative cultural behaviors within contemporary power imbalances. As an Iranian-American woman, Talepasand explores the cultural taboos that reflect on gender and political authority. Her approach to figuration reflects the cross-pollination—or lack thereof—in our western society.
Hank Willis Thomas, LOVE OVER RULES (Yerba Buena)
New York-based conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas works primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, and is included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. His collaborative projects include Question Bridge: Black Males, In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth), and For Freedoms, the first artist-run super PAC. Thomas received a BFA in Photography and Africana studies from New York University and a MFA/MA in Photography and Visual Criticism from the California College of Arts.
James Turrell, Three Gems (Golden Gate Park) & Skygarden (Central Market)
For over half a century, James Turrell has worked directly with light and space to create artworks that engage viewers with the limits and wonder of human perception. Turrell often cites the Parable of Plato's Cave to introduce the notion that we are living in a reality of our own creation, subject to our human sensory limitations as well as contextual and cultural norms. This is evident in Turrell's over eighty Skyspaces, chambers with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky. The simple act of witnessing the sky from within a Turrell Skyspace, notably at dawn and dusk, reveals how we internally create the colors we see and thus, our perceived reality.
Leo Villareal, The Bay Lights (Embarcadero) and Buckyball (Exploratorium)
Leo Villareal is known internationally for his light sculptures and site-specific architectural works. His art is part of the permanent collections of prestigious museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Kagawa, Japan. Major site-specific works include Multiverse in the National Gallery of Art's Concourse in Washington D.C. and Hive for the Bleecker Lafayette Street subway station in Manhattan. He is one of the nine leading contemporary artists invited to participate in the current exhibition "Wonder" at Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. through May 8, 2016. Villareal is also one of three artists commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission to create public artwork in conjunction with the Moscone Expansion Project.
Yu-Wen Wu, Lantern Stories (Chinatown)
Yu-Wen Wu is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Boston. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Wu's subjectivity as an immigrant is central to her artwork. Arriving at an early age, her experiences have shaped her work in areas of migration—examining issues of displacement, arrival, assimilation and the shape of identity in a new country. At the crossroads of art, science, politics and social issues, her wide range of projects include large-scale drawings, site-specific video installations, community-engaged practices, and public art. Wu's work has received numerous awards, has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in several private and public collections.
George Zisiadis, Grace Light (Nob Hill)
George Zisiadis is a Berkeley, CA-based artist and designer. Zisiadis' artwork is driven by Sherrie Rabinowitz's idea that artists must create at the same scale which society has the capacity to destroy. A lifelong love of the commons, instilled from growing up in New York City, led Zisiadis to focus on large-scale, site-specific public installations, striving to create spaces of both communal and individual transcendence. Zisiadis' work is conceptually driven, with each project involving different media and cross-disciplinary teams. Gabriel Gold is a San Francisco, CA based music composer, multi-media artist and environmental advocate. A 2019 Artist in Residence at San Francisco's revered Grace Cathedral, Gold has also been a featured artist with MEDIATE Art Group's 2015 Soundwave Biennial. His works have been shown at renowned institutions throughout the world, including the de Young Museum, the California Academy of Sciences, SÍM Gallery (Iceland), and Nordic House (Faroe Islands), with his most recent exhibition, "View Above, Voice Within", a collaborative work with Finnish visual artist Lasse Lecklin, inspired by the glaciers of Iceland, opening at the Turku Kunsthalle (Finland) in February 2019.
* San Francisco's Civic Art Collection encompasses more than 4,000 objects, including historic monuments, murals, paintings, sculptures, installations and other media. The San Francisco Arts Commission oversees this rich and diverse collection, which helps distinguishes the city as an important cultural destination. To learn more visit www.sfartscommission.org.
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Desperation is fearlessness. Desperation is courage. Desperation is resolve. Desperation is playing hooky to finish off university apps.
Desperation comes from many things. It comes from sleeping in, slacking off, fooling around. It comes from the television, the internet, the opera house. It comes from tight deadlines and loose attention spans. This is the first law of desperation: ceteris paribus, time wasted is directly proportional to desperation experienced at 2AM.
A good student is invariably a desperate one. It marks him like disease. Observe his symptoms: high grades, raccoon eyes, caffeine. They are hidden well, but the caffeine gives it away. It is the tell-all. Don't be fooled by a first glance. The absence of Tim Hortons or 7-11 is to be expected. Good students are more careful than that. Look for a thermos or a travel mug—that is where they hide their drug. Pay attention when the owner reaches for another hit. Give a furtive sniff in his direction. Coffee has a distinct, perhaps pungent, odour.
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Why is he so keen to hide his desperation? Authorities do not take kindly to desperation. Parents do not approve of desperation. Stern physics teachers do not approve of desperation. It smacks of inefficiency and poor responsibility. They are always on the hunt for desperation. It is the weakness they seek in their prey. Once they know it is there, the student is lost. They tear at him with sharp words. They lecture him into oblivion. And that is why the good student must hide it. He must substitute his coffee for odourless tea. He must bring his laptop to bed and work under covers. He must caffeinate to keep alert. His cause grows ever more desperate. This is the second law of desperation: like entropy, desperation increases within a closed system.
But the desperate student is not alone. He has twenty-nine equally desperate comrades. Desperation is a symbiotic relationship. Desperation trades rough drafts at two in the morning. Desperation shouts, "Test me and I'll test you!" on the bus. Desperation double-checks answers after a test. Desperation says, "Don't worry, I suck at math too," even if he got the highest mark in AP Calculus. Desperation believes sugary lies.
Desperation is stronger than friendship. Friendship is a bond between people who like each other. Desperation brings everyone together. Being desperate is more relatable than being friendly. As the saying goes, we're all in the same boat.
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The Catskill Regional Medical Center (CRMC) Foundation sent a thank-you letter tos://finance.yahoo.com/news/thompson-education-center-ceo-sherry-233000459.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sherry Li and the Thompson Education Center. The foundation's president, Joan R. Farrow, was thankful that Thompson Education Center sponsored its Annual CRMC Golf Tournament, held at the Villa Roma Golf Course in Callicoon, NY. The Golf Classic is one of Catskill Regional Medical Center's primary fundraising events each year. It allows the Medical Center to continue to advance patient care for the community by providing quality healthcare and state-of-the-art technology. —
As a member of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System (GHVHS), Catskill Regional Medical Center is dedicated to providing the highest quality healthcare to the residents of Sullivan County and neighboring communities. Its main hospital campus is located in Harris and at Grover M. Hermann Hospital in Callicoon. CRMC is the sole community provider of healthcare in Sullivan County and the surrounding 8 counties. CRMC offers the most up-to-date technological methods of diagnosis and treatment.
Ms. Farrow stated "Thompson Education Center's contribution and support will help better serve the healthcare needs of all our patients at CRMC."
For some time, Thompson Education Center participated in various events hosted by Catskill Regional Medical Center Foundation. TEC also sponsored CRMC's annual meeting along with additional fundraising events for healthcare charity projects which as a result provides timely and high-quality medical service.
According to the report from American Nurses Association, America is facing a nursing shortage and the average age of current registered nurses are increasing each year. There will be 1.13 million needed in this job position, which is high in demand.
Thompson Education Center (TEC) is planning to contribute a nursing training center. CRMC currently has the nurse training program and is interested in cooperating with TEC to create a joint nursing training program. The program will develop and train qualified personnel in the field of nursing. Thompson Education Center has signed cooperation agreements with many different universities and colleges that provide Nursing majors in China, planning to offer Nursing Training program, including 2+2 program. They will provide the opportunities for experienced and undergraduate students to continue their professional pursuits and receive the degrees. After graduation, they can provide professional medical service staff for the scarce nursing profession.
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Overcoming Yourself To Show Up Powerfully
Abby El-Asmar is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the digital entrepreneurship and marketing space – including serving as a marketing consultant to local & online businesses. Tune in to hear more about: Overcoming his own fears and insecurities to show up powerfully Validating that You are who you think you are Taking Risk: Freeing up to yourself as a second career Redefining expertise and professional experience What really matters in business is your belief in yourself....
Live Inspired
Leading social scientists tell us that growing up we are a product of our environment. How we were treated and spoke to by our parents, siblings, teachers, classmates, etc. formed our personality and often our sense of self-value or lack of self-value. Laura Staley has faced those struggles for many years before discovering she could take control and live life on her terms. Listen to this intriguing story.
Create Balance in Stressful Times with Conscious Heart Connection
Ilene combines more than 50 years in nursing and 25 years in vibration healing to create a holistic approach to clearing energy blocks and promoting healing. She helps an international clientele of heart-centered individuals and entrepreneurs who struggle with fear,self-sabotaging negative thoughts or behaviors, and self-worth issues to experience inner peace self-confidence, empowerment, and clarity about their soul's purpose. Key Points: All of us have challenges, and how we perceive them...
Fostering a Civil Workplace
The Dan Smolen Podcast is the best at covering the future of work and meaningful work topics and trends. On the podcast, Dan Smolen provides interesting guests and actionable career insight to help you "real-time reimagine" a future of work doing meaningful work. As organizations reintroduce their people to the workplace, they must also reckon with social responsibility. It is one thing for management to express a desire for positive social change. It is quite another to "walk the talk" to...
The "Accessory to Magic" with Kathrin Hutson
Step out of your comfort zone and embrace your magical personal growth journey. Today's returning award-winning international bestselling author is mom & fiction ghostwriter, Kathrin Hutson. Kathrin and I have another fun on a bun conversation about her personal growth journey as a writer, what authors should invest in as they publish their work, and more!!! Key Thing's You'll Learn: The 2 skills that Kat has been learning during the pandemic. Why she decided to try her hand at an urban...
Homecoming from Homer to the Wizard of Oz
Award-winning writer, filmmaker, travel guide, and storyteller Phil Cousineau talks about the joys and challenges of homecoming — the oldest tale in the world, repeated from The Odyssey to The Wizard of Oz. Phil's fascination with other cultures has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh, from Iceland to the Amazon. He's written more than 35 books, including The Hero's Journey, Stoking the Creative Fires, The Art of Pilgrimage, and The Book of Roads. He's also the host of Global Spirit, the...
The Importance of Income in Retirement
Sara Finkelstein is a Registered Social Security Analyst and in this Wiser Women in the Spotlight Interview Series, Sarah answers two very important questions. Questions that people are often confused about, hence make decisions that may not serve them well - When is the best time to collect your Social Security? Where will your income come from in retirement?
Turn Off the Alarm Bells – How to Prioritize Civility in a Divisive World
At the heart of civility is respect. Respect and dignity are essential for psychological safety, especially when others have diverse experiences and viewpoints. Civility is not about complacency or placating. It's not about denying or pushing away strong feelings that can emerge when conflict emerges. It's about temporarily suspending our alarm bells for a period of time so we can do the hard work of "climbing the empathy wall" to better understand the deep stories behind those we see as...
Being Present in the Moment
When you turn your face to the past, you same turning your back to the future. When you are too much into the future, always unsatisfied, you are losing what you have. You have a lot, acknowledge that.
How to Foster Civility in Our Kids
Podcast Host Emily Melious believes that every child is perfectly capable, but sadly, the world doesn't always see it that way. As an Accredited Youth Specialist, Emily works with families to discover and harness their kids' superpowers. Join her as she leads weekly conversations about how to advocate for your child in a one-size-fits-all world. Learn more about Mothers of Misfits and visit Emily's Website. I was honored to be her guest recently, as we discussed a number of important topics....
Change is an Inside Job
After striving for all of the outside, material successes that parents, education, and society signpost in the West such as a big house, money, powerful job role, holidays, etc and only at the age of 39 did I achieve all of that and sit in my apartment feeling hollow empty. At that point I got curious and I have spent the past 5 years learning how to model being free to be which has included acknowledging my adolescent bullying aged 12/13, self-harming, failed first marriage, burning myself...
3 Things to Make You a TOP Achiever This Week
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The Sound of Music: Part 3
In This Episode, Darlene discusses the beauty and history of dance and how it impacts us. The wish to move can alter our mood within a few moments. Key Takeaways: Dance has been around for thousands of years. There are many kinds of dances. You dance free form or formally. The popularity of dance shows is an example of people's interest in dance. Dancing not only can change your mood, but it can help you connect to others as well as deep within you. Dancing can tap into the very essence of...
One Voice, One Journey
International recording artist and recent New Thought Walden Awards honoree Jesse Campbell shares his story of making it on the hit TV show The Voice and his passion for music. Since being on the show, Jesse has traveled to more than two dozen countries, performing, ministering, and giving motivational speeches, and he is working on a YouTube channel for kids.
Traits of Great Business Leaders #7 – Courage
Great business leaders require a certain set of character traits to unleash the potential of the enterprises they lead. In this series of seven posts, I articulate my view of the seven character traits essential for great business leaders. In this post, I describe the trait that energizes and ignites all the others – courage.
Leaders with Heart Start with Caring for Themselves
In this episode, Heather speaks with Mario Harding, Associate Chief Operating Officer at Denver Health, about the origins of his leadership style, leading him to success as a humble leader. Mario relays a story when he was not present for his team during a time when they needed him. He sheds light on important qualities of a leader: vulnerability, being present, taking care of yourself first, balance, putting yourself out there for your team, giving yourself grace, and a strong support...
How to Navigate Your Life Transitions
Taina Jara is Life Transition Coach and her life's mission is to expand the human consciousness on the planet and help people around the world discover and express their life's purpose so that they can make the impact they desire and create the life they love. Her guiding values are truthfulness, faith, and courage. Taina works with visionaries, influencers, and leaders in business, social, spiritual, and artistic areas to help them transition to the next inspiring vision in their life or...
Trust Your Gut
Have you ever made a choice that wasn't good for you? Laura shares a brief honest story of a not good choice she made and ideas to pattern interrupt the part of you that tends to override your body cues that say, "Flag on the Play!" Listen in as you can create an intersection of trusting yourself and using discernment to free yourself of future regrettable decisions and Laura shares how. Laura Staley shares key themes from the book Live Inspired available from online retailers worldwide.
Traits of Great Business Leaders #6 – Humility
In this sixth of a series on the character traits of great business leaders, I identify one that might be surprising, yet is incredibly powerful – humility. Humility is often misunderstood. In this podcast, I describe it and show how it is a powerful leadership trait.
The Sound of Music: Part 2
In This Episode, Darlene discusses: How music taps into the power of you. How music is essential and offers a variety from which we can select. She talks about Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and other musicians who changed the culture. Key Takeaways: No matter their flaws, iconic figures leave their mark. Music continues to offer something for everyone. People leave this earth, but their gifts remain eternally. They have left us with these gifts, which will last us through eternity. DON'T...


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For Women
Let's be more assertive women!
What does it mean to be assertive?
Assertiveness is a behaviour that is self-validating. This behaviour is an interpersonal liaison which is based on mutual content, in which the goal of the parties are to achieve their interest in a way that they won't harm others' feelings and interests. It is worth investing the energy of learning assertive behaviour to have more balanced connections. Assertiveness needs a huge amount of awareness, awareness of our own, old communication patterns, and if needed, conscious rebuilding of these patterns are required.
1. Assertiveness based on win-win solutions in every walk of life.
We need to change for assertive behaviour in both of the cases above. In the first case we are inferior to the others, we suppress our interest with our behaviour. On the other case we are aggressively enforce our will.
2. Operate the principle of equality through cooperation
The base of the assertive behaviour is equality, collaboration and the expressions of feelings, instead of repression of them. The assertive person does not want to win by herself/ himself, she or he wants to have a win-win situation.
Assertiveness for content everyday life
Assertiveness emphasises the quality of the connections in our life. We take notice of another person's reaction, to our gestures and facing them with our own needs.
Being assertive is not a personal trait, it's a decision. We won't have to behave assertively all the time, but after we have learnt it and understood it we can choose to behave like that.
And as we said above, one way of the assertive self expression is using NVC.
Developing females' self validating process – it's available by coaching or by digital courses
- learning assertive behaviour especially designed for females : improving self-consciousness, self-awareness, self confidence, balanced mental hygienical state, self-identity
- At the course we deal with gender roles, reading awareness about our hidden female identity types based on Bolen's types, our communication styles and mirroring our advantages and disadvantages in everyday life and in times of crisis for designing our own developing plan.
- We handle all the female issues: including mothers, singles, home officers and high leaders. We work issues like the balance between home and work, mother role and girlfriend role, single mother role and single female role without kids, etc.
- We will look for female icons in our family and in our life. And we will be looking for our own female idols in history, in science and in art too.
- Methodology we use in trainings:
- Relaxation, assertive, non-violent communication, elements of psychodrama, structural exercises, writing female life story narratives, sharing experiences and reflections.
- Trainings are on occasional basis when there are enough applicants.
About my study on female teachers mental health
The aim of this study is to learn more about the background of the female teacher's mental health state. Specifically, the study examines the connection between female identity, mental health state and professional role.
Another aim is to find a new way of developing professional personality based upon the psychologically valid results.
I believe that the results and developments based on them will serve the interest of the female teachers, the students and the parents at the same time.
Regardless, I trust that the outcomes of the research will give universal lessons to generally improve the psychological well-being of women.


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Resistance museum of Flanders
With this website and the museum the association The House of 40-45 wants to open up a World War Two collection. This collection will show how daily life in Flanders was affected by the invasion, occupation and liberation. These topics are approached and discussed in an objective way. We focus on daily life during the war, the collaboration and especially on the resistance. Our village was named 'Little England' for a reason.
The material objects, and the stories linked to them, are the silent witnesses of an era that should not become forgotten. By giving an authentic picture of Flanders during this period, we will attempt to preserve part of our Flemish heritage. Preserving this heritage is a first step, opening it up is a second, hence this initiative.
We are often asked: why the Second World War? During this period nothing much happened here. While it is true that this war did not bring the scale of destruction that the First World War did, the impact of the Second War should not be underestimated. The War years left their mark on our region as much as on the whole world. The War determined the further course of the 20th Century. Rather than focusing on the complex history of the War itself, we will tell the stories of those who experienced it through their personal testimonies. For them it was a milestone in their lives. Often they made decisive choices that greatly influenced their and our future.
It is the intention that people pause for a moment and consider what living a war, an occupation and oppression meant (and still means). If we can bring this about in our visitors, we will have succeeded.
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Google is bringing Chromebooks to nine new countries over the coming weeks in a move that will swell the total number of nations selling the devices to over twenty.
New Zealand, Norway and Denmark are among the newly anointed locales where consumers will be able to buy Chrome devices, with Belgium and Spain also set to follow suit shortly after.
It's been almost a year since the last glut of territories were announced. Then Chrome users in Sweden, Germany, Australia and Canada were among those welcomed into the portable cloud computing club.
Mountain View's announcement means the total number of countries where Chromebooks are officially sold swells to well over 20. This figure doesn't include countries that offer devices through educational programmes or through imports.
What, Where and When
Precise details on which notebooks will be available in retail and where has been left to Google's national press teams to share.
The Google New Zealand blog, for instance, says that the Acer C720 and C720P and Toshiba Chromebook 13 will be available among the devices available to buy from Dick Smith, JB Hi-Fi and Noel Leeming, as well as online.
The same models will also be available in Norway from Elkjøp and Lefdal , and for Spanish consumers to nab from online retailers like Amazon and Media Markt.
It hasn't yet been mentioned whether the respective countries are eligible for the 100GB Google Drive promotion offered on unboxed devices in other countries. My guess is that where Google Play is accessible the offer will stand.
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This is the second edition of EU Criminal Law, which has become since its publication in 2009 a key point of reference in the field. The second edition is updated and substantially expanded, to take into account the significant growth of EU criminal law as a distinct legal field and the impact of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on European integration in criminal matters. The book offers a holistic and in-depth analysis of the key elements of European integration in criminal matters, including EU powers and competence to criminalise, the evolution of judicial co-operation under the principles of mutual recognition and mutual trust, EU action in the field of criminal procedure including legislation on the rights of the defendant and the victim, the evolving role of European bodies and agencies (such as Europol, Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor's Office) in European criminal law, and the development of EU-wide surveillance and data gathering and exchange mechanisms. Several chapters are devoted to the external dimension of EU action in criminal matters (including transatlantic counter-terrorism cooperation and the impact of Brexit on EU Criminal Law) Throughout the volume, the constitutional and fundamental rights implications of European integration in criminal matters are highlighted. Covering all the key principles of EU law, with clear explanation and rigorous analysis, this will give scholars, students, policy makers and legal practitioners interested in the subject a strong understanding of this fascinating but sometimes complex field.
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Coiled tubing was developed in 1970s and is one of the most important pieces of well intervention equipment in the oil and gas industry. There are several different types of it available in the industry market with several different designs of a coiled tubing unit; however, the components of a coiled tubing unit are very similar. The main differences are performance capabilities and hydraulic power control systems. This article will give an overview of the essential components of a coiled tubing unit. (Read about the history of coiled tubing here – Introduction to Coiled Tubing (CT) in Oil and Gas)
Figure 1 shows the mounted truck coiled tubing unit, which is normally used for the land operation and Figure 2 is the coiled tubing unit used for operating in an offshore environment.


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Ramp-up: building a sound operational base for steep ramp-up
Ramp-up period definition: a term used in economics and business to describe an increase in firm production ahead of anticipated increases in product demand. Ramp up often occurs when a company strikes a deal with a distributor, retailer, or producer, which will substantially increase product demand. A ramp up is typical in early stages of firm or market development.
Innovation-driven companies always hope their technology will be a huge success. Yet when this happens, they can be faced with the equally huge challenge of having to rapidly transform into large-scale industrial producers.
Production ramp-up: where to start?
When it is ramp-up time, there are many things that can be done when – and need to be done – to quickly transform a relatively small venture into a larger operational organization: one that has the infrastructure and business processes capable of world-class, round-the-clock production. But such change is impossible to achieve all at once. How and where do you start? In the long run, that is up to the company to decide.
Ramp-up plan: define, align, prioritize…
Every ramp-up plan will be different, but our process always begins the same: interviewing stakeholders to define, share and align what they see as priorities. We then use our own insights, modeling, and data-crunching expertise to mirror back various scenarios based on possible alternatives. This ensures you clearly grasp all factors and options involved, and can make the most well-informed choices possible when pinpointing the focus areas, which are:
- acceleration
- maximized quality of output
- predictability of deliveries
- reduced costs
We translate your request into an assignment to increase the capability of critical business processes in the areas of logistics, production, and reporting. A multi-disciplinary team of operation management professionals with combined expertise covering all these fields is assembled to create the best ramp-up plan suiting your business.
Increase the absorption and ramp-up time
The speed at which change and improvements can be made at a company during a ramp-up period greatly depends on its ability to absorb and internalize new ways of working. When you first begin delivering your technology, you often go from a lab to a production environment very quickly. Very often, you do not have time to develop competencies and controls which create feedback loops that enable continuous learning and improvement.
The result is a lot of ramp-up time spent on 'firefighting' – which makes it difficult to increase productivity in any way. From the moment collaboration begins, an overall priority is to support you, in increasing the internal level of absorption, and capacities for self-improvement and decrease overall ramp-up time.
Establishing the foundation for production ramp-up
It is clear that effective meeting processes and good management-control systems are required to facilitate better interaction, oversight, and information-flow throughout the organization. We generally first work on solving the most pressing bottleneck supply issues that management constantly have to deal with (e.g. increasing deliveries).
This provides the necessary 'breathing space' to focus on communication, coaching, and structural planning. The results are not only clear definition of dashboards, reporting formats and lagging/leading KPIs. Defining these systems and process also make the organization one that is better aligned and ready to tackle the ramp-up in a more disciplined, systematic way.
Work in the 'now' to take action on the ramp-up plan
A critical factor when trying to make great change happen quickly is to focus only on initiatives required to achieve the immediate goal. Long-term thinking must be put on the back burner. In every field and at every stage of successful steep ramp-up, we ensure there are precise day-to-day action plans that are made as visible as possible to everyone involved. These are supported by close and careful monitoring of KPIs and short-term goals in each of the key focus areas.
- Improving supply chain: We often see that the logistics setup is not very coherent. This makes it difficult to get a good grip on planning cycles – which is a key requirement of world-class production. Together, we develop an optimal supply-chain blueprint and a road map for getting there. A dedicated OpEx dashboard tool can also be produced to aid in demand analysis and track progress in production. The insights this delivers in queue locations, expected lead times, etc. lead to great improvements in inventory and component planning. Most importantly, it adds crucial predictability to your production.
- Stopping the blocks: During production processes, materials can be blocked due to 'red flags' that may originate from the technical, procedural or operational side. On the one hand, it is crucial to solve such issues as soon as possible. On the other hand, when production systems and processes are not highly standardized and mature, such red flags can too often be 'false alarms' that unnecessarily slow or even stop production. We propose to establish a material review board (MRB) to reduce these occurrences and create clarity in handling valid blocked lots quickly and effectively.
- Widening the bottleneck: Equipment determines a facility's output – or bottleneck. And there is a real science to optimizing the equipment's product processing, which increases the capacity of the bottleneck. This has to do with machines, but also with the people involved – how they load, monitor, maintain and offload. We generally implement significant steps in bottleneck management which lead to great improvements in delivery and predictability.
In each of the above-mentioned areas, the goal is to implement not only improvements but also built-in scalability that will enable you to continue growing effectively in the future.
On to the next phase
Even as we focus on achieving the initial phase of the ramp-up period, our team remains alert for opportunities to seed small structural business process improvements in other areas, such as product development and customer relations. This is paving the way for you to reach the next phase of the ramp-up period and gain organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
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Last January, Michel Vauzelle announced that he will not run for re-election in December 2015 as regional president of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
During ORU's Bureau meeting last 19th and 20th of March in Abidjan, the Senegalese Regions Association (ARS) was replaced by the Senegalese Departments Association (ADS) and with that, not only we repositioned ourselves in the African country, but we also lost Aliou Niang, president of ARS and of the Saint Louis Regional Council, as member of our Executive Bureau.
After the elections last Sunday, 29th of March, Alberto João Jardim stepped down –after 37 years- as President of the Autonomous Region of Madeira.
Vauzelle-Niang-Jardim are leaders from a generation of regionalists to whom ORU has much to thank for.
We cannot thank Michel Vauzelle enough for putting his immense political prestige, forged in Chaban-Delmas and Mitterrand's Cabinets, and consummated as minister of the French Republic, at the service of regionalism. In 2007, he was a key player in the foundation of the United Regions Organisation in Marseille. He preceded me as ORU's President, providing the organisation with distinction, influence and discourse. He retires from the regional sphere, but he will continue to fight as congressman in the French National Assembly where, without a doubt, he will continue to influence in favour of intermediate governments and a better governance.
Aliou Niang, ORU's vice-president, has been the presence and the voice of African regionalism in our organisation. Today, ORU is making progress in the African continent with the presence of regions from Ivory Coast, Kenya, and Burkina-Faso… and it will continue o move forward. For years, the Senegalese regions were our only link in the sub-Saharan area and the president of the Saint Louis region "our man" in Africa.
Alberto João Jardim is another political heavyweight who has put his capabilities into regionalism. He was one of the founders, in Marseille, of ORU and he also founded the Assembly of European Regions. Contrary to Vauzelle and Niang, in the last few years he has not been part of our Executive Bureau. However, he has maintained Madeira's presence in ORU with loyalty. We can only regret, perhaps, not having drawn enough on his experience and leadership, at the forefront of a region that opened up the doors to Portugal and to significant insular realities. We will try to correct the mistake with his successor.
If we can say goodbye to these old friends with optimism, not without telling them that we will continue to rely on their advice and help, is because in our pilgrimage around the world we come across new leaders who, in the intermediate governments from all continents, advocate for a new governance. Young women and men who, just like the host of our next Assembly, Susana Díaz, newly re-elected president of Andalucía, add a great deal of vitality to the 21st century regionalism that we are building.


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The term glocal, used to describe global and local actions together, is used in several ways by business today. Many people supporting the local movement, such as local food advocates and those proposing ways to use local business for community building, suggest that some business activities should always consider transportation to the end market, including supplies in the supply chain.
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In an effort to reduce carbon footprint associated with shipping costs, the closer to home a built, manufactured, or grown product can be sold and used, the better. Global communication allows language, culture, news, and other exchanges of human knowledge and expression to be freely shared across cultures.
Maintaining a local business across the supply chain is quite difficult to do, even for artisans and those in the cottage industries, but for many the needed changes that will come with the local movement are worth the extra effort and expense to source goods locally. But for business, the use of glocal also suggests the cultural influences in attempting a new product launch into a global market.
A new startup develops a prototype and finds manufacturing partners that meet needs for productivity, supply, cost, and collaboration. When the product is ready for launch into other markets, local cultures will dictate how a product should be advertised, marketed, presented, and sold, as well as legal and regulatory issues. A piece of wearable tech designed to help women get pregnant by using biomarkers will be marketed differently in Kenya, Japan, and Iceland, for example.
Global and Local = Glocal
Having specialists on board who are attending to anticipated glocal needs for a product launch early in the planning stages is important, but at the time of product launch, local partners will probably need to become involved.
If your new business is planning to have a global reach, begin anticipating glocal needs by identifying local partners in the targeted countries as early as possible and cultivating relationships.
In today's globally interlinked world there are a lot of possibilities to decrease costs. One important cost position are the supply chain costs. You can reduce these costs by reducing the number suppliers, by renegotiating existing contracts, using tender processes and other techniques. However reducing the costs should go in line with reduced risks. Let's have a look at the options in more detail:
1) ABC-Analysis of suppliers
With this method you are dividing your suppliers in different categories: e.g. ranked by highest turnover with your company, ranked by critical suppliers for your company, etc. Then you group all your suppliers according to their group-of companies, so that you have a good picture about which companies are belonging to a certain group of companies. Once you got a good overview about your supplier-structure, you are able to reduce the number of suppliers. Some could be whitelisted and become preferred partners:
Reducing costs: Reducing the number of suppliers in line with your strategic goals will lead to reduced costs.
Reducing risks: A diversified supplier-structure may help to reduce risks, as you wouldn't have to rely on a small number of suppliers.
2) Tender process / Renegotiating
When looking for new suppliers there are several possibilities to find the best bidder. One possibility is to use an online platform and to invite a limited number of suppliers. Then you start several bidding rounds and the best (cheapest) wins. A second possibility is to initiate a normal tender process and have your suppliers send in their offers. Once received you have to evaluate the offers and choose the best one – or start a second negotiation round with the best 2 to 3 bidders. Another possibility is to renegotiate existing contracts and trying to reduce costs,
Reducing Costs: A tender process helps definitely to reduce the costs.
Reducing risks: Risks are avoided if not the cheapest but the best bidder is chosen.
3) Operational cost reductions
You can start with operational, process driven cost reductions in your organisation. These cost reductions are not initiated by the procurement department, but by the operational departments. They are reviewing their processes and be more cost efficient – this will lead to cost reduction by reduced volumes needed.
Reducing costs: Driven by operational departments through reduced volumes.
Reducing risks: as long as not overly eagerly OK.
4) Share the same value – Approach
This rather nonfinancial approach would look at avoiding the risks of your supply chain via making sure that all the companies of your supply chain are following your principles and rules. In the end your suppliers have to accept your values and follow your values. If not, you could be held liable for violations of your principles. Often this could lead to Public Relation issues.
Reducing costs: At the beginning higher cost, but could lead to avoided even higher costs in the future.
Reducing risks: A clear strategy to reduce company risks.
All those four methods lead to reduced costs and often also to reduced risks for your company. In order to achieve these savings the project needs to be managed professionally by your internal department or external consultants. Contact us!
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From the small-town feel of Douglaston and Little Neck to the old-world charm of planned communities such as Sunnyside Gardens and Forest Hills Gardens, Queens has long been a suburb within a city. And nowadays, even in the semi-urban areas with burgeoning immigrant communities, such as Flushing or Jackson Heights, the borough continues to enjoy a low crime rate to rival any Nassau County town, despite containing the geographical heart of New York City. It's a borough where music legends Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis once lived. Now hipsters worship the sun at The Rockaways, and artists flock to Long Island City.
Most Queens neighborhoods ranked highly in DNAinfo.com's Crime & Safety Report, with nine of its 15 neighborhoods ranking in the top 20. That's a far cry from the early 1990s, at the height of the crack epidemic, when the borough racked up nearly 300 murders — three times the amount in 2010 — as well as 17,000 muggings, which breaks down to nearly 50 per day.
Drop in reported rapes, 2009 to 2010
Increase in murders, 2009 to 2010
The exceptions are Jamaica & Hollis, which is ranked 51st of 69 overall, and 59th for violent crimes, with 857 incidents in 2010, and St. Albans & South Jamaica, which is ranked 55th overall, and 51st for violent crimes, with 765 incidents in 2010. Overall crime in the latter neighborhood, however, was down 76 percent in the 17 years since 1993, and violent crime has fallen sharply. The same is true for Jamaica & Hollis, although murder in that area shot up by 36 percent from 2009 to 2010.
Property crimes, especially car thefts, continue to plague the borough. In 2010, car theft ticked up after years of decline, and Queens was home to the most car thefts in the city that year. Even with a drop-off of more than 90 percent since the early 90s, the borough still had 3,502 stolen cars in 2010, more than a third of the city's total.
Queens has become extraordinarily diverse with more than 100 languages spoken and many of its residents foreign-born. With that, however, it has seen its share of hate crimes, including attacks on Sikhs in Richmond Hill and an anti-gay attack in Woodhaven. Howard Beach, which is ranked 23rd in violent crimes and 26th overall, was the site of two infamous racial attacks. In 1986, a black teen was chased into traffic and killed, and in 2005, Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci robbed and beat another black teen with a baseball bat while hurling racial epithets.
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NYF ARCHIVAL HIT: Remember the Last Fight For Muhammad Ali?
The public's thirst for knowledge and information about Muhammad Ali has been a constant for more than 50 years.
It wouldn't vanish now after The Greatest's death on June 3, 2016, at age 74.
Many people would revisit faded newspaper clippings and magazine articles and take books about the boxing legend off their dusty shelves. Much of this rich material, of course, is about his most famous fights against the likes of Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken Norton, among others.
New York-based Irish sports columnist and author Dave Hannigan took a different approach with his book. Please enjoy this archival submission…..
Hannigna, a native of Cork city who has lived in New York since 2000, explained the reason he based his Ali book on a different theme in an Irish Times column.
"If you type Muhammad Ali into Amazon, there are almost 17000 titles about him or in which he is heavily featured," wrote Hannigan, who teaches history at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, New York.
"That's way too many books and given that perhaps a dozen of them are among the finest non-fiction works available, the canon is already rich enough for anybody seeking enlightenment about why he matters. So, in truth, my motivation was way more selfish than spreading the gospel or telling what I think is a fascinating untold story about the dying embers of his career. I also wanted to immerse myself in the world of Ali because, for a writer, there is no more enjoyable place to spend time."
He added: "The boxing, at that point in his career, was the least of his concerns, so you never know where the research will take you. One minute he's in Las Vegas fighting to keep his boxing license, the next he's in London meeting with MPs and promoting 'Freedom Road' an NBC television movie in which he played. He pops up in Portland, Oregon, meeting with a freeze dried food company about initiatives to feed the hungry in the Third World then he's giving a press conference in a Chicago hospital where he namechecks the hunger strikers in the Maze Prison as one of his more recent inspirations in his latest comeback.
"This is the wonderful way of it with Muhammad Ali. The sport is secondary to his place in society. I flicked through the index of the book the other morning. Among the entries are Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Leonid Breshnev, Deng Xiaoping, Muammar Gaddafi, Liam Neeson, Eddie Murphy and Bobby Womack. Only an Ali story could include a cast list that diverse."
Hannigan's new book, "Drama In The Bahamas: Muhammad Ali's Last Fight," focuses on the final chapter of Ali's career in the ring, his Dec. 11, 1981, bout against Trevor Berbick.
His book's release date is Aug. 2.
I recently caught up with Hannigan via email to learn more about this interesting project and the way it all came together. Our interview follows.
Question from Odeven: There have been countless books written about Muhammad Ali over the decades and millions of column inches devoted to him in newspapers and magazines. So what prompted you to pursue this book project at this time? Was this a target, a goal, for many years?
Answer from Hannigan: There are dozens of books about Ali but this is different because it is a snapshot of a long-forgotten moment in his life and contains many stories and details that even devout Ali-watches will not have heard before.
By concentrating on the 12 months leading up to his last fight, I've pieced together a portrait of Muhammad Ali that is far removed from the legend and the icon. Here, he is struggling to find a place to fight, a television network to broadcast the bout, an audience that wants to see him. It offers glimpses of how he was already suffering physically in a way that would define his later decades and also shows how, at the end, he was chewed up and spat out by the sport – just like every other boxer before and after him.
Q) How long were you working on this project from start to finish?
A) I started work on this project in December, 2014 and the final manuscript went to the printers in May, 2016.
Q) Can you cite some of the most published references – books, magazines, newspapers, etc. – and broadcasts and individuals who were key figures for you in getting the stories that stitched the book together? Are there a handful of individuals who were especially instrumental in gathering this material based on interviews with them?
A) I was blessed in terms of the material that was available. Indeed, the impetus to write the book in the first place came after re-reading Hugh Mcllvaney's reportage before and after the fight for The Observer in England. There was so much color in his account that I wanted to know more about the chaos and the circus surrounding this sordid event. That journalists like George Vecsey, Dave Kindred, Allen Abel and Michael Farber covered that week in the Bahamas in forensic detail provided an invaluable road map to me as I tried to recreate the bizarre circumstances of Ali's final fight.
Q) What do you hope the book accomplishes as it becomes a part of the Ali oeuvre just a few weeks after he passed away?
A) This book establishes for once and for all that the medical evidence shows that Muhammad Ali should never have fought Trevor Berbick and forensically details the way in which those involved tried to convince a skeptical media he was okay to fight.
In the light of his subsequent rapid physical decline in the years after, this book chronicles how that final outing may have contributed more to his suffering than was previously envisaged.
As an addendum, the book also tells the story of Berbick's astonishing life from Guantanamo Bay to becoming world champion to going to jail for rape and believing himself to be getting visited by Christ!
Q) Were you able to get to know Berbick, before he died in 2006. If you didn't, can you explain a bit about your research and interviews and pursuit of info about Berbick and those close to him and other observers at that time and in the years thereafter?
A) One of the things that attracted me to the idea of the book was the story of Berbick.
It wasn't just that this was Ali's last fight, it was also the incredible life and terrible death of this other heavyweight champion. I knew nothing about Berbick's early life and navigating the route he took is difficult because of his tendency to exaggerate and give different accounts of his own biography. That was challenging but worth it because even though I think Berbick is worth a full biography of his own, the two chapters I devote to his improbable rise and steep fall in this book are compelling. The fact he went from lacing up gloves for the first time in his late teens in Guantanamo Bay to getting in the ring with Ali and later Mike Tyson is remarkable.
Q) Did you retrace the steps, so to speak, where Muhammad Ali and Berbick were before and during their fight in the Bahamas and elsewhere? Asking that, I refer to doing some background reporting on the scene in Nassau?
A) Unfortunately, my budget didn't extend to getting on the ground in Nassau but I talked to people who were there and who still live there and they again filled in details and offered wonderful color about the event.
Q) How important was it to contrast Ali at the height of his powers with his declining physical skills in 1981 to give this book its appropriate narrative?
A) I think in a way that's the point of the book, to show how far removed he was from the height of his powers. I hope that I paint a picture of a boxer who should have been nowhere near a ring by that point in his life. Aside from the medical stuff I mentioned above, the diminishing of his physical skills was so obvious to those on the scene, especially the veteran reporters who had been trailing him all across the planet for most of two decades.
There's a wonderful line in the book where Ali admits after the fight that the first time he held Berbick in clinch he could feel how hard the younger man's body was next to the soft flab of his own. A small detail that captures everything really.
Q) Did you inform Ali and his family that this project was in the works in recent months/years? Was his family actively involved in this book – interviews, meetings, etc.?
A) No, no contact with the family at all.
Q) How central to the story's narrative were some of Ali's key rivals – Frazier, Ken Norton, George Foreman, etc. – in the years before the last fight?
A) Joe Frazier features in this story in a cameo role because he too returns to the ring at the same time as Ali and his comeback is equally pathetic and sad and just plain wrong. Again, his fight takes place even farther off Broadway than Ali's and he ekes out a draw that should have been a loss. But, Frazier does come out with a great line in the build-up, describing himself and Ali as "two old black brothers trying to come back, must have partied all their money away."
Q) What inspires you to write about boxing and Muhammad Ali in particular?
A) I've been fascinated by Ali since I used to read about him in my Uncle Bobby's Ring magazines.
The only fights I actually remember watching live as a child were the Holmes and the Leon Spinks fights. In 2002 I wrote a book about his fight in Dublin against Al "Blue" Lewis because I wanted to capture the impact he had on Ireland during a crazy week in 1972. I returned to the subject all these years later, at least in part because there is no more fun assignment than spending your nights reading great writers about Ali, watching footage of him and talking to those whose lives he touched. But there's also the sense that he is the most important athlete of the 20th century and one of the most compelling historical figures.
Q) What are your general thoughts about the way the public reacted to his death in June, plus the published recollections and memorials that filled the news pages, websites, airwaves, etc.?
A) I think the reaction worldwide, the outpouring of affection and the general air of collective mourning summed up how he was so much more significant than a boxer. He was a cultural figure of such renown and import.
Q) From the final service, too, how did you react to hearing Lonnie Ali, Billy Crystal, Bill Clinton, among others?
A) I thought the memorial, the funeral and everything about his passing was poignant but also terribly classy. And again, the range of speakers, the diversity of their backgrounds, spoke to the kind of man he had evolved into over his time in the public eye.
Q) At what point in life did you develop a genuine interest in boxing? What was the catalyst?
A) My mother's brothers were amateur boxers and although we were allowed to watch them fight, we were never allowed to get in the ring. So I guess the next best thing is to read and, eventually, decades later, try to write about.
Q) What sparked your interest in writing about boxing? Who are a few of the boxing writers, past and present, you most admire and respect?
A) Like most people who have worked in sports journalism, you read everything and anything in your quest to become better. At a certain point, you realize that some of the finest sportswriting ever has been on boxing so you immerse yourself in that and hope by osmosis that some of the quality seeps into your own work.
Q) Do you have a favorite all-time boxing book? Newspaper article?
A) Thomas Hauser's "Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times" is the definitive work on Ali and is not just my favorite boxing book but one of my favorite books, period. But there are so many others, even in recent years, Dave Kindred's "Sound and Fury," David Remnick's "King of the World" and Mark Kram's "Ghosts of Manila" are all magnificent. My favorite article on boxing might just be Hugh Mcllvaney's report on the Welsh boxer Johnny Owen's demise in Los Angeles in 1980.
Q) If Ali and Berbick fought in 2016, what type of hype before, during and after the bout do you think it would have had because of the social media craze that has transformed the spread of information and reactions with people everywhere?
A) It's almost unimaginable what Muhammad Ali would have been like in the social media age.
We hear now that athletes enjoy the accessibility social media gives them to their fans – they can talk directly to them online. Ali talked directly to them in person. Even in the twilight of his career in this book, he is repeatedly engaging with fans and passersby and journalists in a way that made him unique. And again, this is what makes him different. The fame and adulation he enjoyed worldwide, these were grown organically by him and his actions.
There was no advertising campaign. Nike or Adidas weren't putting him on billboards. This was the result of him being who he was.
Ed Odeven is author of "Going 15 Rounds With Jerry Izenberg: A Collection Of Interviews With The Legendary Columnist"