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Durlas Eile Eliogarty groups visit to Lebanon
One the first of may 2014 members of the Durlas Eile Eliogarty Memorial Committee Mr. Johnny Wort, President and P.R.O.Mr. Joe Fanning,Vice Chairman, along with Mr. Liam Gaffney North Tipperary United Nations Veterans Associations Post No 18,Mr Guy Jones President of the Irish Lebanese Cultural Foundation ,departed Dublin airport on route to the Lebanon for a nine day tour of Lebanon.
Two of the days attending two ceremonies the first one held in the Youth and culture centre Zouk Mikael, Jounieh on the out skirts of Beirut. The Symposium on Bishop Richard Pocoke 1704-1765 was the Anglican Bishop of Orrory 1756 -65.
Famous for his travels around Europe 1733 -1736 Charting maps and noting invaluable Observations that remained relevant till date.Pocok's near East travels 1737 -42 to Egypt,Gerusalem,Palestine,Lebanon,Syria,Turkey,and Greese were later published in a three volume description of the East ''of 1743 and 1745 and is considered a notable source of information for researchers and historians as an independent objective and accurate resource. Attending on the night His Excellency Mr. Ahmad Diabb.Personal Representative of his Excellency Mr Michel Sleiman President of Lebanon .The Mayor of Zouke Mikael Mr. Nouhad Naufal.Opening remarks Eliane Fersan director of the youth and culture center .Keynote speech His Excellency Georges Siam Honorary Consul of Ireland in Lebanon, A preview of Irish and Lebanese relations. Musical act Dr George Fenning guitar , mandolin and vocals. Guest speaker Mr .Johnny Wort President of the Thurles Memorial Committee, The presence of Lebanon in Ireland. Symposium presentation,Mr Guy Jones President of the Irish Lebanese cultural foundation. Pocoke in Lebanon.Followed by a reception in the main library of Lebaness wine Salmon and Caviar from Kilkenny Cheeses from cooleeney moyne Thurles Co Tipperary kindly sponsored by the Maher family it all went down a treat not a morcel left at the end of the night. Also on display were copys of our book the Historical Walk of Thurles the Tipperary and Kilkenny holiday guidebook 2014 and information brochure on cooleeney cheese.The event was sponsored by Tipperary and Kilkenny Living History Loving Culture.The next morning the 4th of May up early at 5 am for our next ceremony to attend a special mass in St Georges Church Tibnine South Lebanon for the 47 Irish soldiers who died in the service of peace with the United Nations in Lebanon .After mass the priest thanked us for visiting Tibnine and attending mass .He said that the Irish people will be in the hearts of the Lebanese people for their service and kindness over 30 years to Lebanon and her people, God Bless Ireland and her people. Also attending mass were soldiers from Malaysia serving with the U.N in Tibnine .We talked to them about their role as peace keepers in the area and their home land , they said they liked the area but they were looking forward to the day when they will be going home .We took some photos wished them a safe mission and a safe journey home.It was time now to visit the Irish Memorial Garden at the back of St Georges Church to say a prayer for all Irish soldiers who died in the service of peace with the United Nations. Mr. Liam Gaffney and Mr. Johnny Wort laid a wreath at the memorial on behalf of the Durlas Eile Eliogarty Memorial Committee,The Royal Meath branch of O.N.E. The Pierce Mc Can Branch O.N.E. Templemore ,North Tipperary United Nations Veterans Association Post No 18, and the Irish Lebanese cultural foundation. After the short ceremony we were on our way to camp shamrock where we spent two hours chatting taking photos with our boys and girls serving with the United Nation in the Area.We gave them some copys of the Historical Walk of Thurles and Tipperary tour Gide for their library.It was time to be on our way again this time it was back to Tibnine our host Mr. Abdo Habdad and his family for a rest and a harty Lebanese feast. Abdo and his family made us feel at home their home was our home while we were there. After our meal we all sat out and relaxed in Abdos balcony about our tour the people we met how ever one we met made us feel welcome with a hand shake and a smile.The Lebanese people are very much like us in many ways their history and back ground are much like ours .For the future Liam ,Joe and myself wish the country of Lebanan and her people Peace and Stability


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First, after breaking annual records for the number of deportations in a year, President Obama tacked back to his Latino base in June by shielding DREAMers. Now, Mayor Emanuel aims to make Chicago the most immigrant-friendly city in America with a proposed ordinance that would ensure police detain only the undocumented immigrants wanted for serious crimes.
Behold the awe-inspiring adeptness of America's greatest political ninjas.
Obama and Emanuel are students of the Chicago school of political ninjutsu, which, besides preaching the virtues of stealth and evasion, teaches young statesmen the art of striking with force at the right place and at the right time.


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PHP is a useful language, used by many all over the Web. But it has one failing. By its nature, it is not search engine friendly. In fact, it's the exact opposite. But with some clever tweaking, we can make PHP a powerful tool in the quest for search engine dominance.
Proper search engine optimization can make PHP even look like a different script. You could make it look like an HTML file or several HTML files, one for each article on your site.
Speed is a major factor for websites. If a search engine spider follows a link on your site and is forced to wait too long for the server to process the PHP code behind that page, it may ignore your page and move on.
The biggest slowdowns in a PHP script are typically the database and loop code. Try to avoid making any SELECT * calls; instead, name all the columns you want to retrieve. Using SELECT * on a table that contains 10 fields when you only want to use one or two fields is a waste of valuable resources.
To optimize loops, try to use duplicated code instead of loops that don't repeat very many times. Additionally, use as many static values, such as count($array) values, inside the loop as you can, generating their values before they loop once.
{mospagebreak title=Session IDs}
The first issue to deal with is PHP's tendency to add session ID numbers to links.
This is caused by having the "enable-trans-sid" option turned on, and it creates links with an additional, long, nonsense-looking GET variable. In addition to making the links clunky, it gives spiders different URLs with the same content, which makes them less likely to treat the pages individually. They might not even index them at all.
An example of this can be seen here:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=b5dbe844a2c69fadc58614eb9a94b0 ce
Kind of ugly right? Now imagine being a search engine spider and seeing that long number change every time you look at the page. Not a pretty picture.
A quick way to fix this is to disable the trans-id feature, if you have access, in php.ini by setting "session.use_trans_sid" to false. If you don't have access to change php.ini, you can add this line to the .htaccess file in your root directory:
php_flag session.use_trans_sid off
This will make the Session IDs disappear from the URL.
Friendly URLs
A major goal in optimizing your PHP pages for search engines is to make them look and act like static pages. If you have a large site you can use Apache to fake static-looking URLs, or, with a smaller site, you can simply keep your GET variables to a useful minimum. In either case, however, never allow a spider to see links with different URLs to the same content. If the URL is different, the page should be, too.
One of the major problems most webmasters have with getting their dynamic pages to index is URL cleanliness. Since many dynamic pages are created with GET variables, lots of pages have URLs that look like:
Most of the search engines will be able to follow this link, because it has three or fewer GET variables (a good rule of thumb is to keep the number of GET variables passed in the URL to less than three), but any more than three variables will cause you to run into problems. Try using less GET variables, and make them more relevant. Rather that useless id numbers, use titles and other keyword rich bits of text. This is an example of a better URL:
If the page requires more variables, you may want to consider combining the variables by delimiting them with a hyphen or another unused character, and then splitting the variable in the target page.
Next, we'll cover two methods of making your dynamic URLs more friendly. The first is mod_rewrite:
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It's very important that you plan how to rewrite you URLs, because you don't want to go back and change the links over and over again. Once you have a good steady map of how to rewrite your links, you can go ahead and modify a test script to see if everything worked. If your links work properly then you'll be able to move on and modify all existing links. Let's take a look at this example below:
That can turn into:
mod_rewrite URL: http://example.com/articles/21/0.html
Doesn't that look much friendlier?
Once you have planned your URL rewriting, you are ready to set up your .htaccess file, which maps out what to do with each URL. Here's an example of what to put in your .htaccess file. I'll explain how this works below.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*).html /index.php?act=$1&id=$2&page=$3
In the example above we have two lines. The first line RewriteEngine On starts the mod_rewrite engine.
The second line does all the work.
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*).html /index.php?act=$1&id=$2&page=$3
Here you are starting a RewriteRule.
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*).html /index.php?act=$1&id=$2&page=$3
This is the start of a regex that allows you to create wildcards for the URL that your friendly URL. This allows us to use whatever we want between the (.*) and compare them to the second part of this rewrite rule.
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*).html /index.php?act=$1&id=$2&page=$3
This is the final part of the rewrite rule that tells us how to map the friendly URL in part two of the RewriteRule to the actual URL that our script was written for. mod_rewrite will translate part one to part 2 automatically.
This works by using regex. The first (.*) will be $1 and the second (.*) becomes $2 in the translation. You can do this as many times as you want for your URL.
Say for example we had this URL: articles/21/0.html.
We'll be matching up /index.php?act=articles&id=31&page=0 by using mod_rewrite!
Believe it or not, that's all that's really to mod_rewriting!
You can really get carried away with this by adding category titles to some of your rewrite URLs to make them even more search engine friendly. All you have to do is create another regex and don't use that variable in your translation.
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Another way to make dynamic URLs appear static is by using Apache's ForceType method in combination with a PHP command to interpret URLs like: www.example.com/articles/21/0.html as referring to a page called "articles" which is executed as a PHP script. This can be accomplished by inserting a line like this into the .htaccess file in the root of your web documents directory:
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
Now create a file called "articles":
$nav = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
$script = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
$nav = ereg_replace("^$script", "", $nav);
$nav = str_replace(".html", "", $nav);
$vars = explode("/", $nav);
$article = $vars[1];
$page = $vars[2];
It works in a similar way as the mod_rewrite example does, but with a little more work.
One big advantage to using dynamic pages as opposed to static pages is the ability to create content that is constantly changing and updated in real time. You can use the tricks above, combined with RSS feeds from other sites and other automatically "fresh" content to boost your ranks in Google and many other search engines.
Another advantage to using PHP is that you can make simple modifications to many scripts to create relevant page titles. Since this is the most important factor in SEO, special attention should be given to creating title tags that accurately reflect the page's current content. Any HTML templates that are used in PHP pages can be altered to contain this line:


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Key Details on Freeh's Report on MF Global Collapse
The bankruptcy trustee responsible for unwinding MF Global Holdings issued a report today that condemned former CEO Jon S. Corzine and his management team for contributing to the firm's collapse in October 2011.
Many of the report's findings echo those released last year in a separate report from James Giddens, the bankruptcy trustee responsible for unwinding the firm's brokerage unit. Both blamed faulty controls, inadequate treasury and risk systems and negligence by top management for the firm's failure.
Here are some key details from the latest report by Louis J. Freeh:
Corzine, an active trader at the firm, was supposed to be supervised by the company's chief compliance officer. But the oversight mechanism was put in place to make sure he wasn't engaged in insider trading or market manipulation — the officer had no control over the "economic rationale" of the trading decisions, the report said.
During several quarters, Corzine placed European trades at or near the end of the quarter to generate revenue and immediate earnings and paint a rosy picture of the company's financial health. From the report: For example, in the last four days of the quarter ending March 31, 2011, Corzine placed Euro RTM trades worth approximately $2.62 billion. On the last day of that fiscal quarter, March 31, 2011, the Company executed several large Euro RTM trades worth approximately $1.03 billion in order to enable the Company to meet its projected revenue numbers for the quarter.
The report blames Corzine and CFO Henri Steenkamp for failing to address the faulty controls even when they knew they were inadequate. From the report: As early as May 2010, Corzine and Steenkamp knew that MF Global's control architecture was flawed.
Corzine is also blamed for stalling the implementation of a Global Value at Risk (VaR) system, which would have improved the company's ability to measure potential losses due to a stress scenario. The report says he found it "unduly expensive."
Corzine and Steenkamp also come under fire for their attempts to use customer funds to address the broker-dealer's liquidity problems in the summer of 2011.
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TAGS: , STARTUP, STORY, IDEA, SEQUOIA, On-Demand Delivery Service, DOORDASH, FOOD, DELIVERY, NETWORK,
Doordash is a delightful food delivery in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Boston, and Palo Alto, California. DoorDash enables small businesses to provide its customers with local delivery services. Doordash builds an on-demand delivery network for local cities.
What Problem did Doordash founders see ?
When they were thinking about "How to build technology for small business" they happened to meet a small business owner to understand her problems and out of experiments got introduced to a new problem "DELIVERY" and started focussing on it.
How did Doordash test the Hypothesis of their IDEA?
The team spent an afternoon and created a simple experiment with Restaurant delivery and put a quick landing page and stuck up some pdf menus found on internet put their cell number and launched the website named Paloaltodelivery.com. The first customer ordered a Thai Food and learned how the delivery thing works without drivers and algorithms, rest is the below story.
- SQUARE to charge all of Doordash customers
- Google Docs to track the orders
- Apple Find My Friends to track the drivers
Raised $17.3 million Series A round of funding led by Sequoia with some other big VCs participation.
How does DoorDash founders pitch their company ?
"We don't consider ourselves a food-delivery company, but a tech and logistics company that just happens to deal in food," co-founder Stanley Tang says. "We're building out the technology and infrastructure to become a super reliant and efficient delivery network."
Why did Sequoia invest in DoorDash Startup ?
It's the growth and consumer response that led Sequoia to invest in Doordash. Also
- Sequoia got rave reviews from Doordash customers and retailers they serve.
- Customers seem to love DoorDash
- One in six households in the area has ordered from it
- Sequoia sees great opportunity in on-demand delivery space
What are key systems to run Doordash business?
- A Dispatch system that self-learns and adapts to different variables based on driver inventory
- Time of day and expected demand.
- A capacity-planning algorithm to ensure that it has the right number of drivers available at any given time.
- Built Smart technology around restaurant preparation time - so that Drivers don't show up too early or too late.
- Uses driver-routing algorithm for taking the smartest route between shops and a customer's home.
What future Startups should learn from Doordash?
- Test your hypothesis
- Launch Fast
- Do things that don't scale
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Hi, I am in the process of upgrading my rails application to be compatible with rails 2.2.2. All is going well apart from a few remaining issues. My problem is: I am experiencing a test failure with what seems to be related to the "with_output_buffer" method found in "lib/action_view/ helpers/capture_helper.rb" and my use of the "button_to_function" method. The code itself works fine. It is simply the test itself that won't pass due to a NoMethodError exception. Note: I am currently using rspec & rspec-rails (220.127.116.11), although the same problem also exists when tested with the current stable version: 1.1.12. So, given the following helper module: --- module ImagesHelper def hide_images_button content_tag :div, :class => :hide_images_button do button_to_function "Hide Images", :id => :hide_images_button do | page| page[:more_images_button].toggle page[:image_browser].toggle end end end end --- With the accompanying test: --- require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper') describe ImagesHelper do it "should render a hide_images_button" do helper.hide_images_button.should have_tag('div[class=?]', 'hide_images_button') do with_tag('input[id=?][type=?][value=?][onclick^=?]', 'hide_images_button', 'button', 'Hide Images', "$ ("more_images_button").toggle();\n$ ("image_browser").toggle();;") end end end --- I am getting the following failure: --- F 1) NoMethodError in 'ImagesHelper should render a hide_images_button' You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.with_output_buffer /home/oliver/git/greyville/app/helpers/images_helper.rb:4:in `hide_images_button' /home/oliver/git/greyville/app/helpers/images_helper.rb:3:in `hide_images_button' spec/helpers/images_helper_spec.rb:5: Finished in 0.025206 seconds 1 example, 1 failure --- Any bright ideas on how I can fix this issue? Your help would be much appreciated. Regards, Oliver Beddows.
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Gallery News for Shirin Neshat
William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat and Sue Williamson to feature on Kochi-Muziris Biennale
The 4th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale has announced the initial list of participating artists, which includes William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat and Sue Williamson. The exhibition opens on 12 December and in the words of its curator Anita Dube aims to act as a "knowledge laboratory" that encourages "the need to listen, think, and learn with each other, particularly voices from the margins."
Goodman Gallery artists on Basel Unlimited and Film Programme
Candice Breitz's TLDR, Alfredo Jaar's One Hundred times Nguyen and Mikhael Subotzky's (in collaboration with Patrick Waterhouse) Ponte City will be shown at this year's Basel Unlimited, a unique exhibition platform which forms part of the 49th Art Basel fair in Switzerland (14 – 17 June 2018). Curated by Gianni Jetzer, Unlimited transcends the typical format of an art fair by featuring immersive art installations, video projections and large-scale sculptures and paintings. Art Basel also presents a tightly curated film programme, featuring works by Candice Breitz, Kudzanai Chiurai, William Kentridge and Shirin Neshat.
Shirin Neshat and Yinka Shonibare MBE at MAXXI in Rome
Neshat's Illusions and Mirrors video work, from the Dreamers trilogy, and The Invisible Man by Shonibare MBE are featured as part of MAXXI's group exhibition, Eco e Narciso. Portrait and self-portrait from the MAXXI and Le Gallerie Barberini Corsini Collections (18 May – 28 October). With 37 works by 25 artists from the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini and MAXXI collections, the exhibition creates a dialogue between the work of old Masters and contemporary artists on the theme of the portrait and the self-portrait.
Shirin Neshat on major group exhibition at LACMA
Shirin Neshat participates on a group exhibition, In The Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (6 May – 9 September). The exhibition focuses on the continuous and inescapable presence of the past in Iranian society, a notion that reveals itself in art and literature in which long-ago kings and heroes are used in later context as paradigms of virtue or as objects of derision.
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Solo exhibitions
Shirin Neshat / Dreamers / 2016
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
20 August – 14 September 2016
Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of well-known Iranian-born artist and filmmaker, Shirin Neshat. For her first solo exhibition with the gallery she will debut two significant new video installations, Roja (2016) and Sarah (2016), including new photographs from the Roja series. We are thrilled to premier Neshat's first solo exhibition on the African continent.
Roja and Sarah are part of a trilogy of video installations titled Dreamers, which explore the world of women's dreams. The first video in the trilogy, Illusions & Mirrors (2013), premiered at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art as part of the first La Biennale de Montréal in 2014. In many ways, the characters and their dreamy narratives are projections of the artist in which she reflects on some of her own personal nightmares.
Conceptually each of the three video installations revolves around a single female protagonist whose emotional and psychological narratives remain on the border of dream and reality; madness and sanity; and consciousness and sub-consciousness as they each face their own distinct inner anxieties. The visual approach to the creation of this trilogy has been consistent, with each video being shot in black and white, and the artist using simple camera devices to produce surrealistic and dreamy visual effects. Her two new videos consider the unearthly or dreamlike residue that subsists in the aftermath of real events.
"I have been haunted by the power of dreams for years" says Neshat, "I am fascinated by how in a state of dream, the boundaries in between madness and sanity, reality and fiction, conscious and subconscious are blurred and broken" (2016). Dreamers is based on aspects of the artists own dreams. Roja's character and dilemma in many ways resembles hers: the fear of the 'stranger' and the 'strange land,' and desire for a reunion with 'home' with 'mother,' with the 'motherland' that seems welcoming at first but becomes terrifying and demonic in the end. Themes of 'flight' and 'levitation', implying freedom and ecstasy, is a significant aspect of the Roja video that is a recurring theme in Neshat's work.
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York. She has held major solo exhibitions in renowned international museums – such as the Tate, Serpentine, Guggenheim Bilbao, Whitney Museum of American Art. Beginning with her early photographic series Women of Allah (1993-1997), and continuing through her current practice, Neshat has consistently and fluently probed issues of gender, power, displacement, protest, identity, and the space between the personal and the political with a singular and powerful aesthetic. Neshat has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally, and has been the recipient of prestigious prizes including the Silver Lion Award for Best Director in the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009 for her first feature-length film Women Without Men.
Group exhibitions
New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50
Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
4 June – 6 August 2016
In 2016, Goodman Gallery celebrates its 50th anniversary – five decades of forging change through artistic production and dialogue, shaping contemporary art within and beyond the continent. From early June, we will host major exhibitions between our Johannesburg and Cape Town galleries featuring significant work, installations, interventions, performances, a video and talks programmes.
Titled New Revolutions, our programme will include prominent international and African artists – each part of the Goodman Gallery's history, present and future – engaging with the idea of perpetual change, alternative independent movements and the reinvigorating of ideology based upon mutable historical realities. The project as a whole will consider Goodman Gallery's history as an inclusive space, as well as its approach to showing contemporary art that shifts perspectives and engenders social transformation.
New Revolutions recalls the fulcrum of activity into which the gallery was borne 50 years ago: revolutionary fervour, the gradual decolonisation of African countries and radical responses to the status quo. Locally, the gallery maintained a responsibility to show work by South African artists as museums served the agenda of the discriminatory government. By transcending its role as a commercial space Goodman Gallery rose to prominence as a progressive institution. And, while South Africa was deep in the throes of a draconian era, figures within the fight for African independence trail-blazed the struggle against apartheid. This exhibition reflects on how the events in Africa then, still play a part in the conceptual thinking of artists now. And, beyond that, how artists have responded to new forms of economic colonisation, migrancy, as well as radicalised reactions to economic inequality and lingering institutional racism.
By considering how the roles of artists cross into the realm of activism and socially transformative endeavours, New Revolutions explores historical and contemporary tensions and movements that are unfolding in Africa and around the world, through the panorama of contemporary art.
The 2016 anniversary programme highlights Goodman Gallery's ongoing affiliation with artists who explore the power of dissent and the importance of alternative factions and cross-disciplinary collaborations in order to engender change and encourage dialogue. A non-chronological, intergenerational but conceptually linked collection of artworks from the 1960s to the present will focus on the spirit of protest, resistance, and revolution, and the way in which South Africa, and Goodman Gallery in particular, has offered an important platform from which to explore such approaches.
The Artists
On the occasion of its 50th anniversary Goodman Gallery takes pleasure in announcing new partnerships with some of the world's most significant artists – Sonia Gomes (Brazil), Kiluanji Kia Henda (Angola), Shirin Neshat (Iran) – revealing new directions in the gallery's programme. Locally, we announce the representation by Goodman Gallery of Tabita Rezaire and The Brother Moves On. In addition, the exhibition will include work by international artists Kapwani Kiwanga (US) and Jacolby Satterwhite (US).
New Revolutions will provide an opportunity to exhibit those who have worked with the gallery for decades including William Kentridge, David Koloane, Sam Nhlengethwa, David Goldblatt and Tracey Rose, and some of the most influential younger voices in contemporary art including Kudzanai Chiurai, Hasan and Husain Essop, Mikhael Subotzky, Gerald Machona and Haroon Gunn-Salie. The show will also include artists who have been integral in the gallery's transformation over the past decade, including Ghada Amer, Candice Breitz, Alfredo Jaar, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, and Hank Willis Thomas. Performances will be presented by local innovators, Nelisiwe Xaba and The Brother Moves On.
Beyond this, the iconic significance of the gallery, and the historical moment necessitates that certain artists whose ideas and actions impacted on society, and on the course of art history, be included. Artists like Walter Wahl Battis, Cecil Skotnes, Ezrom Legae, Leonard Matsotso and Sydney Khumalo are exhibited as part of our endeavour to show how the regeneration of ideas – and the gallery as a repository of change – is not confined to epochs.
With New Revolutions we invite you to celebrate with Goodman Gallery as we pay homage to artists who have shaped the landscape of contemporary art in Southern Africa. These include artists based on the continent, those of the Diaspora, our northern counterparts who have been distanced from sub-Saharan Africa and those from outside of Africa whose work explores territory such as unequal power structures and socio-political constructs.
New Revolutions is curated by Liza Essers and will take place throughout the month of June at our Johannesburg and Cape Town galleries, and with a special selection of works for Art Basel from 16 June to 19 June.
Born 1957 Qazvin, Iran, lives and works in New York.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Shirin Neshat, Looking for Oum Kulthum, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Shirin Neshat, Dreamers Trilogy, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria
2018 Shirin Neshat, Frauen in Gesellschaft, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria
2017 Videos: Fervor and TurbulentBoca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
2017 Shirin NeshatKunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
2017 Dreamers,Gladstone Gallery, New York
2017 SHIRIN NESHAT. The Home of My Eyes, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
2017 Dreamers, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Shirin NeshatEs Baluard, Palma, Majorca, Spain
2016 Dreamers, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes, Yarat Art Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
2015 Shirin Neshat: Facing History, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
2014 Shirin Neshat: Afterwards, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
2014 Shirin Neshat, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Shirin Neshat, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2014 Shirin Neshat: Our House is on Fire, Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York, USA
2013 Shirin Neshat: Written on the Body, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
2013 Shirin Neshat, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 The Book of Kings, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China
2013 Shirin Neshat, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2012 Games of Desire, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2012 The Book of Kings, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2012 The Book of Kings, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
2011 Women Without Men, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
2011 Shirin Neshat: Soliloquy, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England, UK
2010 Shirin Neshat, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain
2009 Games of Desire, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2009 Games of Desire, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
2009 Women Without Men, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens [traveled to: Kulturhuset, Stockholm]
2009 Shirin Neshat: Turbulent, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Shirin Neshat, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
2008 Shirin Neshat: New Works, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
2008 Women Without Men, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark [traveled to: Gallery Faurschou, Beijing]
2008 Shirin Neshat, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
2007 Shirin Neshat: Zarin, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2006 Shirin Neshat: Secret of the Veil, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
2006 Shirin Neshat, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Shirin Neshat, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2006 Shirin Neshat, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Shirin Neshat – Possessed, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2005 Zarin, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Shirin Neshat, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
2005 Shirin Neshat: La úlitma palabra/Last Word, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon, Spain [traveled to: Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain]
2005 Shirin Neshat: The 6th Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2004 Through the Eyes of Shirin Neshat, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Támaki, New Zealand
2003 Tooba, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
2003 Shirin Neshat, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 Shirin Neshat, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam "Shirin Neshat," Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City "Shirin Neshat," Tensta Konstall, Spanga, Sweden
2002 Shirin Neshat: Rapture, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2002 Shirin Neshat, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
2002 Shirin Neshat, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2002 Shirin Neshat, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2002 Shirin Neshat: Entre Extremos, Centro Cultural Banco di Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2002 Shirin Neshat, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2002 Passage, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2001 Shirin Neshat, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal [traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Miami Art Museum, Miami]
2001 Shirin Neshat, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2001 Shirin Neshat, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, California, USA
2001 Shirin Neshat, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2001 Shirin Neshat, Kanazawa Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
2001 Shirin Neshat, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2000 Shirin Neshat, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2000 Shirin Neshat – Matrix 187: Turbulent, Matrix Gallery, Berkley Art Museum, Berkley, California, USA
2000 Shirin Neshat: Recent Photographic Work, Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy
2000 Shirin Neshat, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2000 Shirin Neshat, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
2000 Concentrations 34: Shirin Neshat, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
2000 Shirin Neshat: Two Installations, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
1999 Shirin Neshat, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
1999 FOCUS: Shirin Neshat, Rapture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
1999 Shirin Neshat: Rapture, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1999 Shirin Neshat: Rapture, D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA
1999 Shirin Neshat: Rapture, Galerie Jerôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
1999 Shirin Neshat, Henie Onstad Kuntstenter, Høvikodden, Norway
1999 Shirin Neshat, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden
1998 Shirin Neshat, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1998 Shirin Neshat: Turbulent, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York, USA
1998 Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
1998 Shirin Neshat, Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1998 ARCO, Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Madrid, Spain
1998 Musei Bagatti Valescchi, Milan, Italy
1997 Shirin Neshat: Photographs/Video Stills, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1997 Shirin Neshat, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1997 Shirin Neshat, Galleria Arte Moderna, Bolgna, Italy
1997 Shirin Neshat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1997 Shirin Neshat, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1996 Shirin Neshat, Centre d'art de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
1996 Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah, Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin, Italy
1996 Shirin Neshat, Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples, Italy
1996 Shirin Neshat, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1995 Shirin Neshat: Photography, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1993 Unveiling, Franklin Furnace, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions
2017 She Who Tells a StoryCanadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada
2017 Lo schermo dell'arte Film Festival 2017Florence, Italy
2017 Aging PrideBelvedere Museum, Vienna
2017 Like a Moth to a FlameFondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2017 COUNT/RECOUNT: Feminist Film and VideoHirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2017 Truth: 24 frames per secondDallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
2017 Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Part 1
MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
2017 I Am YouMCA Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2017 Modes of Behavior Towards People When Affection Plays a Part. Klein Collection_Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
*2017*_SelectedSean Kelly, New York
2017 Beyond the Ban: Contemporary Iranian Art," Center for Human Rights in IranSusan Eley Fine Art, New York
2017 Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami CollectionAga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
2017 Wrong Side of HistoryBullet Space, New York
2017 In Between: Contemporary Iranian Art Part 1 Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
2017 KLM Art CollectionMuseum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, Netherlands
2017 21, 39 Jeddah ArtsSaudi Art Council, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2016 Summer Show, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 New Revolutions: Goodman at 50, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 Looking at the World Around You: Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2016 Seeing|Saying: Images and WordsVan Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
2016 Behind the Curtain. Concealment and Revealation since the RenaissanceMuseum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 She: International Women Artists ExhibitionLong Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
2016 Looking at the World Around You: Contemporary Works from Qatar MuseumsSantander Art Gallery, Madrid
2015 Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
2015 She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA [Traveled to: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg]
2015 Gender in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
2015 Diverse Works: Director's Choice, 1997-2015, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
2015 Looking Women, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
2015 The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critique and Culture, Manifattura dei Tabacchi, Modena, Italy
2015 Us Is Them, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2015 About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2015 Phantom Bodies, The First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2014 The future (looking forward), La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
2014 Manifest Intention. Drawing In All Its Forms, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2014 Time Present. Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2014 The New International, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 Songs of Loss and Songs of Love, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea
2014 Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Lelia Heller Gallery, New York, USA
2014 I Look at Things… Work From the Collection, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 CONFLICT: Art and War, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
2014 Shirin Neshat: Don't Ask Where the Love is Gone, Moscow Photobiennale 2014, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2014 Pionniéres: Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Roni Horn, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Niki De Saint Phalle, CAB Art Center, Brussels
2014 ToledoContemporánea, Centro Cultural San Marcos, Toledo, Spain
2013 My Third Land, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Collection Exhibition II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2013 Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, New York, USA
2013 The Ghost of Architecture: Recent and Promised Gifts, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
2013 SKIN, an artistic atlas, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2013 She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2013 Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
2013 Displaced Visions Emigré Photographers of the 20th Century, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 All You Need is Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2012 OC Collects, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach , USA
2012 Voice of Images, Palazzo Grassi-Françoise Pinault Foundation Pulso Iranioano. Oi Futuro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2012 Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art,_ Exit Art, New York, USA
2012 We the People, Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, USA
2012 The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA
2012 Half the Sky: Visualized, The University of Connecticut, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
2012 Performing for the Camera, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA
2011 Beyond Conventions: Reimagining Human Rights in a Time of Change, Ford Foundation, New York, USA
2011 In The Name of the Artists, American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Bienal Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 TRA. Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
2011 You Are Not Alone, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Big Brother, L'artiste face aux tyrans, Palais des Arts, Dinard, France Morceaux exquis, EDF Foundation, Paris, France
2011 I Know Something About Love, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
2010 Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2010 ARTE Y POLITICA: CONFLICTOS Y DISYUNTIVAS, Museo de Arte de Culiacán, Culiacán, Mexico
2010 Exposure: Photos from the Vault, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
2010 Disquieted, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
2010 Diabolique, Galerie de Universite du Quebec A Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2009 Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2009 BAROCK, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
2009 Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
2009 Brune/Blonde, Cinémathèque françoise, Paris, France
2009 Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2009 Shirin Neshat e Shoja Azari, Noire Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
2009 The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
2009 Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2009 Elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2009 Photographic Power and Violence, Disease, and Death Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2008 Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men, Prospect.1: New Orleans International Biennial, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, USA
2008 Me Ophelia, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Typical: Cliches of Jews and Others, The Jewish Museum of Vienna, Vienna, Austria [travelled to: The Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin Germany; Spertus Museum, Chicago (2009)]
2008 Erranti / Wanderers in Contemporary Video Art, Museo Civico, Commune di Siena, Siena, Italy
2008 Paixóns Privadas, Visións Públicas Collections D.O. Galicia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
2007 Foto.Kunst, Essl Museum, Klosterneuberg, Austria
2007 Passage du temps – Collection François Pinault, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
2007 Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne, Germany
2007 Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
2007 So Close / So Far Away, BE-Part Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem, Belgium Weltempfänger, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2007 After The Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, USA
2007 Border-Crossing Exercises, Galleri Nord Norge, Harstad, Norway
2007 Not for Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
2007 Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2006 Kapital, Kent Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Body Face Soul – The Position of Women from the 16th to 21st Century, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
2006 Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
2006 A Selected State, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
2006 Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
2006 Figure it Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
2006 Without Boundary: 17 Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2005 Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2005 Remapped Realities, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York, USA
2005 Some Stories, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2005 About Beauty, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany
2005 Important, Modern and Contemporary Art, Gary Nader, Miami, USA
2005 Figure It Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
2004 Happy Birthday! Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
2004 D'une image qui ne serait pas semblant, la photographie écrite: 1950-2005, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
2004 Non Toccare La Donna Bianca, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
2004 In Bed, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
2004 From Bonifatius to Beuys, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
2004 Monument to Now, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2004 New Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2004 The Parallel World of Marrakech, Lille 2004, Lille, France
2004 Transculture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2004 Far Near Distance, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany
2004 Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago [traveled to: Villa Manin Center of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy]
2003 Bill Viola and Shirin Neshat, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2003 Safavid, Asia Society, New York, USA
2003 Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2003 Fantasies of the Harem and the New Sherezades, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Elsewhere, Fowler Museum, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2003 The Natural Cosmos, Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2003 Imagining Prometheus, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy
2003 Nouredine Amir, ModeMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
2003 Films of the Iranian Diaspora, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, USA
2003 Armour: The Fortification of Man, Fort Asperen Foundation, Acquoy, The Netherlands
2003 ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2002 Real Life, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
2002 Diversions, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, USA
2002 Synopsis II-Theologies, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2002 Alter Ego, Jean-Gabriel Mitterand Galerie, Paris, France
2002 Recent Acquisitions, Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum of Art, New York, USA
2002 The Beauty of the Evil, Zonnehof, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2002 Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
2002 Picturing Ourselves, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
2002 Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, USA
2002 Visions from America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2002 Iconos Metropolitanos, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 New Art, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2002 Real Life, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England, UK
2001 Ornament and Abstraction: The Dialogue between Non-western, Modern and Contemporary Art, Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
2001 Galerie Faurschou, 1986-2001, Galerie Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001 Fervor, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden
2001 Black + White, Blains Fine Art, London, UK
2001 New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens [Travelled to: Centre for Biennial de Valencia, Spain]
2001 Mona Hatoum – Shirin Neshat, French Institut, Rabbat, Morocco
2001 Croatian Photographic Union, Zagreb, Croatia
2001 Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
2001 The Beauty of the Evil, Armando Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000 Corpo Chimico, Cá di Fra, Milan, Italy
2000 Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, USA
2000 State of the Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2000 Erresitentziak/Resistencias, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain
2000 Turbulent, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh
2000 Sharing Exoticisms, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
2000 La Beauté en Avignon, Avignon, France
2000 Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
2000 12th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2000 Man and Space: 3d, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2000 Outbound: Passages from the 90's, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, USA
2000 Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
2000 Contact: A 90's Journal, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000 THE END: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000, Exit Art, New York, USA
1999 Heaven: An Exhibition That Will Break Your Heart, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England, UK
1999 Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
1999 Shirin Neshat: Rapture/Pipilotti Rist: Sip My Ocean, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
1999 Voiceovers, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1999 Project 70: Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Xu Bing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1999 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1999 My Culture? My Self: Lee Friedlander, Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski, Shirin Neshat, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, USA
1999 48th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1999 Exploding Cinema, Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1999 Unfinished History, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
1999 Video Cultures, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
1999 La Ville, Le Jardin, la Memoire Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
1999 Global Art Rheinland 2000, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany
1999 SITE SANTA FE: Looking For A Place, Santa Fe
1999 Zeitwenden: Ruckblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
1999 Heavenly Figure, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
1998 Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
1998 In The Detail, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
1998 Disidentico: maschile femminile e oltre, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Italy
1998 7th Summer of Photography, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
1998 Mar de Fondo, Sagunto Roman Theatre, Valencia, Spain
1998 Vanessa Beecroft & Shirin Neshat, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
1998 Maschile Femminile e oltre, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Italy
1998 Mostrato, Pescara, Italy
1998 ECHOLOT, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany
1998 Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands
1998 A Noir, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
1998 Interference, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
1998 Genders and Nations: Reflections on Women in Revolution, Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
1998 5th International Istanbul Biennale: On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey
1998 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997, Trade Routes: History and Geography, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998 Unbeschreiblich Weiblich, Fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands
1997 Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Bienniale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997 Unbeschreiblisch Weiblich, Fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands
1997 Fracturing the Gaze, Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
1997 On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties, 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
1997 Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art,_ Roslyn Harbor, New York, USA
1997 Triple X: Contemporary Investigating Arts, International Art Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 Der Rest der Welt, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1997 International Art Festival City of Medellin, Medellin, Colombia
1997 Foto text/text foto, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
1997 Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1997 Le Masque et le Miroir, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
1996 Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
1996 Le Masque et le Miroir, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
1996 Inclusion/Exclusion, Kunstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Austria
1996 Radical Images: Austrian Triennal of Photography 1996, Neue Galerie, New York [traveled to: Kunstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Austria] Kunsthalle Szombathely, Szombathely, Hungary
1996 Interzones, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
1996 Ghostwriter, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
1996 Group Exhibition, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1996 Auf Den Leib, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
1996 Gallery Artists, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996 Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, USA
1996 Anchorage, Video Installation commissioned by Creative Time for Anchorage, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, USA
1995 Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, USA
1995 Orientation, 4th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
1995 Transculture, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama, Japan
1995 Campo '95, Venice Biennial 95, Venice, Italy
1995 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
1995 It's How You Play the Game, Exit Art, New York, USA
1994 Three New Photographers, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1994 Revolving Histories, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
1994 Selection from the Artists File, Artists Space, New York, USA
1994 Labyrinth of Exile: Recent Works by Four Contemporary Iranian Artists, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
1994 Fever, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
1994 Beyond the Borders: Art By Recent Immigrants, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
1993 The Office: History, Fantasy and Irregular Protocols, site-specific installations in an abandoned Wall Street office building, organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York, USA
1992 Fever, Exit Art Gallery, New York [Traveled to Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts, Caracas]
Teaching, Lectureships and Workshop
2017 An Evening with Visual Artist Shirin Neshat, Bovard Auditorium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
2017 Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Awards and Merits
2017 Praemium Imperiale Award, Tokyo
2016 USA Rockefeller Fellow, United States Artists, New York
2014 Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
2009 Silver Lion, 66th Venice Film Festival
2009 Cinema for Peace Special Award, Hessischer Filmpreis, Germany
2008 Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, New York
2008 Cultural Achievement Award, Asia Society, New York
2006 Lillian Gish Prize, New York
2005 Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2003 ZeroOne Award, Universität der Künste, Berlin
2003 Fine Art Prize, Heitland Foundation, Celle, Germany
2002 Infinity Award for Visual Art, International Center for Photography, New York
2000 Grand Prix, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
1999 First International Prize, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1999 Prize for Best Project, ARCO, Madrid
Selected Articles and Reviews
2017 Merray Gerges, Shirin Neshat on Exile and Feminism, Canadian Art Foundation (http://canadianart.ca/features/shirin-neshat/)
2011 OverRuled, PERFORMA 11, 4th Edition of New Visual Art Performance Biennial, Cedar Lake Theater, November 11 – 12, 2011
2003 Logic of the Birds, Ortigia Festival, Syracuse, Sicily, July 25 – 27
2002 Logic of the Birds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, June 20 – 23
2002 Logic of the Birds, Lincoln Center, New York, July 12 – 13
2002 Logic of the Birds, ArtAngel, London, November 7 – 17
2001 Logic of the Birds (Phase One), The Kitchen, New York
2017 Looking for Oum Kulthumdirected by Shirin Neshat, in collaboration with Shoja Azari
2009 Women Without Mendirected by Shirin Neshat, in collaboration with Shoja Azari
Film Festivals
2017 Aida, Producer, Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria
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This documentary is an aesthetic "lens" into the methodologies, processes, and skills that create the work, '36'
Choreographer: Jorge Crecis
Creation Assistant and Rehearsal Director: Nathan Johnston
Music Composition: Vincenzo Lamagna
Dancers: Doria Belanger, Felicity Beveridge, Fionn Cox-Davies, Myrto Grapsa, Nathan Johnston, Eithne Kane, Matt Lackford, KJ Lawson, Jamie Morgans, Rachele Rapisardi, John Ross, Harlan Rust, Piedad Seiquer, Keren Smail
Video Creation: Nadia Adame
Costume Designer and Tailor: Sharon Coleman
Original Lighting Designer: Michael Mannion
Lighting Designer for ROH2 Production: Warren Letton
'36' was an EDge commission in 2010-11 and was re-created for ROH2 with support from London Contemporary Dance School.
In '36', the dancers are a team in a new dance-sport, and they play against a variable compositional structure of time and space.
What happens:
- when the dancers know the choreography by heart, but they do not know what role they will play?
- if each choreographic component includes complicated permutations of twelve numbers?
- if the work also has thirty-six flying props?
- if each team-member has to chose a different role within the team at fixed points?
'36' combines chaos and order, desperation and hope, pain and relief, and concentration and madness but is, above all, an exciting display of real-time problem-solving.


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The Preemptive Strike on Concrete Slab Moisture Problems
The last thing a construction project needs is a powder-keg: a looming deadline. All hands are on deck, but are they on time? If contractors are on time, is the project on budget? Firm answers help to resolve these big questions in all phases and areas of a construction zone.
This also applies to flooring installations on concrete. In fact, the safe installation of a flooring product is based on allowing adequate time for the concrete to dry.
Due to the diversification of floor covering materials and adhesives, compatibility has become paramount. Manufacturers produce moisture specifications necessary for successfully using their products. Before contractors set foot on the property-to-be, all parties can ensure compatibility compliance across the range of products they use. It's amazing how many problems can be resolved by checking the simple things first.
Aside from quality workmanship, many factors contribute to the management of successfully finished flooring installation on concrete. They include weather, ambient relative humidity (RH) changes, flooring grade, and water to cement ratio of the concrete mix, to name a few.
Time is a most influential contributor. Specifically, general contractors (GCs) can check the time allotted for concrete drying upon receipt of project specs. Prior to commencement, GCs can monitor predictions for weather changes that affect RH; changes in RH change concrete drying times. It is crucial for general contractors to keep this in mind as installation approaches. The quicker the building can be fully enclosed and the environmental systems operating, the more conducive it will be for the concrete to dry. However, any successfully finished flooring installation on concrete depends on sufficient time for concrete to dry. Project managers must resist the urge, and pressure, to push that time frame.
If they need to wait for concrete moisture levels to drop, general contractors can arm themselves with the best means of monitoring its progress. Concrete moisture tests have gone high-tech at Wagner Meters. Concrete contractors implant factory-calibrated probes at strategic points in the slab (at 40% depth to meet ASTM F2170 standards when the slab is drying from one side) to measure the slab's RH. Wagner's Rapid RH® features a hand-held meter which produces immediate digital readings. Contractors can cost-effectively survey the moisture conditions across the whole slab until flooring installation decisions have been made.
Imagine a concrete construction project with RH testing built into the many phases of its completion. From the blueprint to the final analysis, flooring installation success depends on timely, accurate RH readings. Only then can all players deliver a flawless end result. Builders who possess an understanding of RH, and how to properly read it, will have the moisture content tools they need.
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Cowmire Hall Cider
We are very proud to stock Cowmire Hall products. The damson gin is already famous & has featured on television with Hugh in River Cottage & more recently on Ade Edmondson's programme, Ade in Britain. Oliver & Vicky Barratt make the gin at their 16th Century Peel Tower in Crosthwaite, Cumbria.
More recently, Simon, Vicky's son & other family members have started to produce a traditional cider at the Hall. Simon sources apples from all over Cumbria; including Sizergh Castle, Muncaster Castle & Levens Hall. The resulting product has been astonishing & very well received - each year has a slightly different flavour due to the varying sugar content in the apples & the outside temperature throughout fermentation. A feature which adds to the product uniqueness.
This year Cowmire produced a Mulled Cider which was also very well received - the spiced cider was delicious & a perfect alternative to mulled wine. Available in 750ml bottles or 5 Litre wholesale packs with branded heater for bars, hotels & restaurants.
We sell the cider in our Windermere & Ambleside Stores in 500ml & 750ml bottles. We also stock on-line the 500ml bottles.
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Serves: 4 persons
medium beets
cup lemon juice
cup extra virgin olive oil
- add beets and 2 litres of cold water and pitch of salt. let them to boil until cook well, then let them cool. slice each beet into thin slices and here you should add drops of lemon juice on your knife to maintain beet's colour.
- slice 1 large white onion into slices . then make layers from beet slices and onion in small bowl mix lemon juice with olive oil and season with salt and pepper then pour this mixture ton salad . use fresh parsley for garnish


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Changes to Broker Targets on: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (NYSE:HPE)
Several other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of HPE. A look at performance overview of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company depicts that Performance (Week) is -0.71 percent while Performance Month is 0.82%. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company on 11/22/2016 reported its EPS as $0.61 with the analysts projecting the EPS of the stock as $0.61. The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 4th.


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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — A deal was reached Wednesday to bring up and store Muni's Central Subway machinery at a vacant theater, bringing much relief to North Beach residents concerned about the project's impacts.
The San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency has agreed to a two-year lease with Joel Campos, the owner the Pagoda Palace. The vacant theater will be demolished and the site will be used to extract an store two tunnel boring machines used to dig out the Central Subway.
KCBS' Chris Filippi Reports:
The SFMTA had initially planned to bring up the large machines on Columbus Avenue near Washington Park—a proposal that alarmed neighbors.
"Now we're doing it just a few hundred feet away, but we're doing it in a way that gets rid of a big chunk of the impact to the community," SFMTA transportation director Ed Reiskin said.
The original plan would have included moving utilities and the construction of a huge "box" which would have required shutting down two lanes on Columbus Avenue over the course of nine months.
The lease will cost $3.15 million for two years. Construction costs, including tearing down the theater, could rise by $6 million.
"It's a relativity small percentage of the project costs," Reiskin said. "The project has pretty considerable contingency in it so we're hopeful we'll still be able to do this within the project budget."
The plan still must be approved by the SFMTA's board.
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sprinklerhead.com has posted a review, with quite a few photos, of the new ipaq 5450 pocket pc. as a pda addict i would love to get my hands on one of these babies, but there is no way in the world i could ever justify spending over us$600 when there are dells and toshibas available with many of the same features for half the cost. the removable battery is a key improvement for me, and hopefully a sign that the ipaq is integrating some of the jornada's strengths. the new ipaq finally includes a vibrating alarm, which many palm os devices have had for quite some time yet was missing on the pocket pcs. it sounds like the bluetooth and wifi management software has made significant improvements, and the wifi range is reported as excellent. do any readers plan on shelling out for this new pocket pc, or will you wait until hp realizes it needs to drop the prices to a competitive level to move these things? thanks to pocket pc thoughts for the link.
user comments 49 comment(s)
|hp? (11:45am est wed dec 11 2002)
thanks to increased competition, hp is now priced out of the market. they're no longer a player, unless they're offering serious discounts at the enterprise level. hp needs to wake up, and fast, if they intend to keep playing in the pda market. – by price conscious
|where to spend (2:45am est thu dec 12 2002)
hp used to be the only one with a clamshell pda. now it seems like it's possible to get the sharp zaurus (in some time) with english software from dynasim.
$699 isn't too bad considered what the hp jornada 728 used to cost. ok, there's no wifi or so but on the other hand any rumors about hp putting out a new clamshell matching the 5450 is just rumors from several months back. – by pacc
|i would buy one if….. (11:13am est thu dec 12 2002)
it seems like the plague of the pocket pc has always being battery life. i had a 3700 and it had appuling battery life. now they have added a phone? when i look at a phone i think about perfomance and features. sure.. it seems to have a load of cool features but is its battery life upto standard?
i suppose my bench mark for such devices it is should last on one charge the minimum of 1 average business day (12 hours) with 20 minutes all calls and a combined 2 hours of pda usage. if it does that i would buy one. – by andyd
|i will get the phone model (8:42pm est fri dec 13 2002)
i have an ipaq 3835, and the 5450 has everything that i wanted in a pda. integrated wireless technology, faster processor, future phone support, more powerful ir for remote capabilities, etc. the only other thing you could ask for is a cf slot and extra battery life, but wait! they have that too if you get their new expansion pack plus! so that only leaves the cost. well i spent $599 on my 3835 almost a year ago, and i would have spent more to get those extra features. and since it works with most existing ipaq accessories, it seems a clear winner over anything else imo. as soon as the phone version comes out i will be looking at getting one. – by ryan
|i got the 5455 (8:42pm est sat dec 14 2002)
same model. awesome. absolutely amazing. screen is fantastic, wifi works great, and….interestingly enough….the cd comes with pocket pc 2002 premium "phone" edition….and if you look under the battery…there is a spot for a sim card….hmmmmm……can this unit be used a a cell phone? – by g-man
|hey g-man tell us more (10:36am est mon dec 16 2002)
give us more details, dude. you have me holding my breath. has pocket pc phone, do you think it can be upgraded or that is for future editions at a higher upgrade price? battery life yet? – by rbright
|ipaq 5600 (11:32am est mon dec 16 2002)
has anyone heard of the 5600 model? what is the difference from the 5400 models?
what is the difference in the 5450 and the 5455? – by rbright
|difference between 5455 and 5450 (12:25am est tue dec 17 2002)
i recently emailed hp to ask about the difference and they only said that technically the two are the same. the 5450 is for the commercial market and the 5455 is for the profesional market. same hardware. – by drussum
|5455 has extra software (11:04am est tue dec 17 2002)
the 5455 has peacemaker software included that the 5450 lacks. – by df
|no phone on ipaq h545x (9:22am est wed dec 18 2002)
the phone will be avalible in the h5600 models that will be out in q2 2003. – by ed
|phone in 56xx, but no wi-fi (11:50am est wed dec 18 2002)
you will have to choose between phone and wi-fi, but both will have bt.
i think the wi-fi with bt is a better setup. however, it won't be long now when the new pocket pc 2004 is released, making the os of this baby obsolete. i would wait until the next os upgrade before plopping down $700 for this baby. – by rb
|bat life is the downfall, unless… (10:25pm est thu dec 19 2002)
i agree it all hinges on the batt life of the unit, unless it can be powered by a portable charger like the ipowerpak (by data-nation). does anyone know if it will work with it? i live with my 3865 and without my ipowerpak it's dead in an hour. before i upgrade that is an important consideration. – by paqman32
|battery used more,,,but you get wireless (9:47pm est fri dec 20 2002)
the screen is very nice and so was the 3955's. they fixed display light not to shine on the sides but only from the back now.
a little heavier than the 3955 as well.
finger print is fun and works great.
battery used faster but that's because i now have wireless, wich works great – by upgraded to 5455
|i've got a 5455 and love it … (11:11pm est fri dec 20 2002)
to add on to rb's comments, i think that the 5455 will be upgradeable to pc2004 operating system. anyone care to confirm or deny that?
the screen is great and the blue tooth connection to the sony erickson phone is seamless. the battery life while surfing on the internet with the bluetooth phone is about 3 hours, from my use. – by alchemist
|i have a 5455 (6:26am est sun dec 22 2002)
ok this thing is great for a palm, no complaints, but i am interested in the white card under the battery and the fact it came with "phone edition" the white card is a protector for a card slot, and there are terminals there…. is it upgradeable to a phone, and if so how soon will it be available, it would make this item an awsome tool. please email me at email@example.com if anyone has any info
adam – by adam
|5450 – some disappointment (8:26pm est sun dec 22 2002)
they removed stuff that was in 3950 – such as pim save of contacts, downgraded to outlook 2000 instead of 3950's 2002. another person tried fingerprint reader – and they authenticated! so much for tight biometric security. battery life dismal. wifi works good. seems like different team of developers did this model and tried unsuccessfully to clone past ipaqs. hope hp provides upgrades soon! – by jack
|difference in models 5450 5455 (3:46pm est wed dec 25 2002)
hows everyone? merry christmas! well i am in the process of purchasing a new ipaq 5400 series but everyone is sold out. i was wondering the difference between 5455 and 5450 because theres a $100 jump between the two. does the 5450 also have a simm card spot like many claim for the 5455. also is there a model more prefered then the other. thanks. – by shaun patel
|5450 (9:59pm est wed dec 25 2002)
where is a good place to buy the 5450? can i buy this from compaq? if so how do i contact them?
– by rick
|to upgraded to 5455 (1:33pm est fri dec 27 2002)
i need 5455 but i don't know any internet site to buy pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaasssseee send me an internet address to buy one.
my email : email@example.com
how much did you get 5455 ipaq pda ? – by jack london
|battery life really bad… (11:55pm est fri dec 27 2002)
this is my first pda and i must say i like most everything except battery life. i use the wi-fi but disable bt but can only manage about 2hrs on teh stock battery along and can add about 45 min using the expansion plus. still pretty weak imo. i would have thought you could get through an 8 hr day pretty ez but boy was i wrong… – by mitch
|ipaq 5455-5600 (4:28am est sat dec 28 2002)
i appriciate your comments but i have not got even ipaq 5455-50 so how can i get one. online or shop buying?
send me messages please. – by london emrah
|ipaq 5600 (12:00pm est sat dec 28 2002)
i believe the 5600 will integrate cellular features for wireless access. suppose to ship sometime 3q 2003.
it seems that integration is the selling point. i'll buy that. – by martin
|phone on the 5455..? (1:58am est mon dec 30 2002)
i just get my 5455, and so far everything its great…! works awsome…!
but im reading about the phone option on it…who knows the thing..?
|qman (5:12am est mon dec 30 2002)
will the "telephone enabled" 5600 be uk available/relevant?
– by charlesa
|ipaq 5455 upgrade (11:31pm est mon dec 30 2002)
i asked tech support about upgrading the os to 2004 and they said it would be upgradeable. – by drussum
|where to buy ipaq 54xx (7:57pm est wed jan 01 2003)
some compusas are currently stocking the ipaq 5455 for $699.99. you can compare pricing and availability from online sources via nextag.com and calibex.com. – by terry
|new hp h5600 gprs gsm is made by http://www.option.com ? (7:12pm est thu jan 02 2003)
new hp h5600 gprs gsm is made by
email@example.com – by compaq.ipaq@tiscali.
|ipaq 5455 with aircard555 and verizon? (3:16pm est fri jan 03 2003)
does anyone know if the ipaq 5455 will work with the sierra wireless aircard555 on verizon's express network? i know that there is a "workaround" for the ipaq 3900 series which is related to the fact that it uses the xscale processor. perhpaps this workaround also works for the 5455?
an even better solution (for high speed internet access) would be a verizon handset that was express network (3g) capable and also supported bluetooth. then the handset could eliminate the bulky expansion pack for the aircard555.
thanks – by jim
|ipaq 5600 (11:54am est sat feb 01 2003)
do any one know when is ipaq 5600 gsm/gprs model comin? – by moiz
|upgraded to 5450 for only 50.00 us (12:26pm est sat feb 08 2003)
comp usa, although not my favorite computer store has a cool pda program…for 99.00 us you get a 2 year carry in replacement policy. i had purchased a casio e200 about 14 mo ago and really loved it, but it died and comp usa no longer carries it so i grabbed a 5450 for next to nothing having a 640.00 credit on the casio….just a thought for you who might want to get a new pda. i sort of figure when the next generation ipaq comes out, i'll jsut take this one in, say it died and grab a new one…. – by joe r.
|power supply for ipaq 5455 (5:23am est mon feb 17 2003)
i am currently thinking of bying an ipaq, but not yet certain. since i am travelling a lot in germany and asia, i would like to know if it comes with a power supply that supports different voltage numbers. thanks for help!
email@example.com – by johannes
|power supply for ipaq 5455 /simm (3:25pm est thu feb 20 2003)
hi. got the new 5450 today. :-))
the power supply is for 50-60hz, 100-240v ac.
but can someone tell me, what the simm card slot is for? is there a phone option?
thanks for help!
email@example.com – by stefan
|love my 5455 (1:12pm est thu mar 06 2003)
i purchased the 5455 in january and have had no problems with it at all and am very pleased with it's performance. easy to connect to my home netgear wireless router and easy to sync to both my work and home pc's. i would like to see more accessories for sale for it though. see lots for the 3000 series and very little for the 5000 series. – by firstname.lastname@example.com
|they're all the same (11:03am est tue mar 11 2003)
the jackets for the 3000 series are totally compatible with the new 5000 series – by every detail
|wrt54g (1:49pm est sun mar 23 2003)
warning, the ipaq 54xx does not work with the linksys wrt54g router/access point at this time (802.11b/802.11g). linksys is supposed to be working on the problem, but no fix yet. – by jeremy
|ipaq 5600 – dumped! (10:30am est wed mar 26 2003)
spoke to hp recently and they have confirmed that the 5600 has been scrapped – citing power issues that were 'not cost-effective' to resolve. in short – you'll need to look at the ipaq gprs wireless pack…
if you want cheap – why not buy from australia!! take a look at for all the ipaq range including the 5450s and gprs sleeves. – by andrew
|dashboard (9:23am est sat mar 29 2003)
anyone know why dashboard won't load on the 5455? any suggestions for a "dashboard-like" replacement? i noticed it waasn't even included in the cd . . . too bad. – by ehelme
|cell phone modems for 545x? (12:10am est sat may 03 2003)
hi! new to this site and just got my ipaq 5455. installed arcpad and contracted a programmer to develop some accessor tools. i like it. i was wondering if anyone has come across cell phone modem for this model. i have seen the phone jack modems for the pocket pcs, but i am more interested in celluar connectivity. – by mcling
|dashboard for 5450 .. is there any? (7:54am est wed jun 04 2003)
is there any dashboard available for ipaq (hp) 5450? i could not install the one i donwloaded recently (4/6/2003). if there is one compatible for 5450 i would like to know .. please!
|cell phone modems (9:44pm est thu jul 31 2003)
have been running my sprintpcs cf2031 for about 6 mths now and love it. anywhere there is a sprint voice signal i can also connect for data. throughput when i first purchased was about 28-45kb/sec with higher bursts possible. today, throughput is typically 40-90kb/sec with higher bursts possible. but, because the technology doesn't support consistent qos, streaming isn't very good at all. but downloading individual files is fine.
tony su
|gsm software (5:34am est fri mar 05 2004)
help!!! somebody answer me please.
this is the question:
can i use my ipac 5450 as an ordinary gsm phone?
please answer me at email@example.com
|simm card slot (10:44am est wed mar 31 2004)
pls tell me, whats is it for – by firstname.lastname@example.com
|gsm / simm card slot (10:14am est sun aug 01 2004)
i want to know if there is a software that let me use it as a cell phone.
firstname.lastname@example.com – by victor silva
|bluetooth manager (1:39pm est thu dec 16 2004)
i have the ipac pocket pc 5455.
i have upgraded the rom, and installed the 256 memory upgrade.
everytime i try to open the bluetooth manager is says not enough memory.
any one have this problem and/or a solution?
– by web1972
|bluetooth manager (1:39pm est thu dec 16 2004)
i have the ipac pocket pc 5455.
i have upgraded the rom, and installed the 256 memory upgrade.
everytime i try to open the bluetooth manager is says not enough memory.
any one have this problem and/or a solution?
– by web1972
|i got big problems. (7:13am est fri nov 18 2005)
running 2002 on an ipaq 5455 it seems to be difficult to align my screen one minute it's fine the next i am 1/2″ underneath. is there any cure for this, would upgrade to 2003 solve this problem? – by rolly
|still no info on that simm slot? (9:08am est mon jan 02 2006)
i have h5455 ipaq
going to install ppc 2003, and still clueless about that simm card slot on the back of the battery.
if you have any info… email@example.com – by ruben
|info on the sim card slot (3:50am est tue mar 21 2006)
i want to know if i can use my hp ipaq 5450 as a cellfone.is there any software available from where i can download which is recommended by hp? nagu
email@example.com – by nagarjuna
|ho (6:02pm est mon jun 05 2006)
ho – by ho


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Add Britney Spears to the Growing List of Stars Who Love Adele
Twirling twirling twirling from the other side.
Drake wants to work with her, Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence hung out with her, and now Britney has made an Instagram of her dancing to Adele. Pretty soon, there won't be a star left who hasn't gone heartbroken and sepia.


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BOSTON – For anyone who's ever been tired of listening to someone drone on and on and on, two Japanese researchers have the answer.
The SpeechJammer, a device that disrupts a person's speech by repeating his or her own voice at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds, was named Thursday as a 2012 winner of the Ig Nobel prize — an award sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for weird and humorous scientific discoveries.
The echo effect of the device is just annoying enough to get someone to sputter and stop.
Actually, the device created by Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada is meant to help public speakers by alerting them if they are speaking too quickly or have taken up more than their allotted time.
"This technology … could also be useful to ensure speakers in a meeting take turns appropriately, when a particular participant continues to speak, depriving others of the opportunity to make their fair contribution," said Kurihara, of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan.
Still, winning an Ig Nobel in acoustics for the device's other more dubious purpose is cool too.
"Winning an Ig Nobel has been my dream as a mad scientist," he said.
As usual, the ersatz Nobels were handed out by real Nobel laureates, including 2007 economics winner Eric Maskin, who was also the prize in the "Win a Date with a Nobel Laureate" contest.
Other winners feted Thursday at Harvard University's opulent Sanders Theatre included Dutch researchers who won the psychology prize for studying why leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower look smaller; four Americans who took the neuroscience prize for demonstrating that sophisticated equipment can detect brain activity in dead fish; a British-American team that won the physics prize for explaining how and why ponytails bounce; and the U.S. General Accountability Office, which won the literature prize for a report about reports.
Rouslan Krechetnikov, an engineering professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, and graduate student Hans Meyer took home the fluid dynamics prize for research into the sloshing that goes on in coffee cup as it's carried.
Like many projects that have won Ig Nobels in the past, it started in a casual conversation based on everyday observations.
Krechetnikov and Meyer were taking a coffee break at a conference last year when they watched as others milled around trying to prevent staining their clothes.
The science of sloshing liquids has been studied before — in rocketry, for example, shifting weight can destabilize a missile or rocket — but no one's ever really studied coffee as it splashes around, Krechetnikov said.
"It is one of those cases where we were interested in explaining the phenomena, but not changing it," he said.
The reason coffee spills?: A person's walking speed, their mental focus and, surprisingly enough, noise.
Are there practical applications? You could design a better coffee cup by using what Krechetnikov calls "a series of annular ring baffles arranged around the inner wall of the container to achieve sloshing suppression," although those solutions are impractical.
"We just wanted to satisfy our curiosity and, given the results, to share what we learned with the scientific community through peer-reviewed literature," he said.
The 22nd annual Ig Nobels ceremony, with the theme "The Universe," featured the usual doses of zaniness, including the traditional launching of hundreds of paper airplanes and the world premiere of an opera entitled "The Intelligent Designer and the Universe," about an insane wealthy man who bequeaths his fortune to have someone design a beautiful dress for the universe.
"Personally, this goes along with my view of science," Krechetnikov said. "There should be a fun side to it."
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Best Offline games to play
Read about the best offline games to play. Also read about gameplay and other informations about these games.
1. Angry Birds
Angry birds are a most famous offline gaming in chrome. You will be well familiar about Angry Birds, right? The story of this game is based on green pigs who stole the eggs of the revenge of birds in which the birds comes back to attack the green pigs. Super and wonderful graphics of angry birds game makes the player more active and can be enjoyed very much without any type of boring. In this game 'Angry Birds' it contains 189 levels and an additional of 21 more levels to play in the resolution of the chrome. "Angry Birds" game is from the developer of Rovio Entertainment Ltd and most of the chrome users has been played this game so far and also I request you to give a try if you had not played it yet. You have to think and apply some tricks to get more stars in each level you play in this game 'Angry Birds'. This game will definitely blow your mind off, as Angry birds are highly addictive and will help you burn out some extremely boring time of yours.
2. Spark chess
Chrome now introduces a new and wonderful offline chess application. As we all know this game there isn't any need to explain this chess game. Spark chess game contains three levels. The first one is the beginners level which is also called as Corley and it is meant for the beginners which is quite easy, then comes an intermediate stage which is for an average player and this level is known as Claire which is not very much difficult and the last is an advanced level which will be known as Boris and this level is a very difficult level which is exclusively meant for advanced or experienced players. As a player the name has been given for each of the three levels. At first when we start this game choose the level which you would like to play and think positively and play with caution to get more score and also to win the game. Go online with multiplayer option. If you want to play with online players, you will need to get username and password which will be given to you during online registration. By enabling this multiplayer feature you can invite other online players or can accept or reject the invites. Full version of this game contains many features like keeping your playing status, analyzing features etc. This game is also one among the best offline game to kill your boring time and slightly addictive too.
3. Sinuous
This is a new, simple and straight game for chrome users. In 'Sinuous' the player must look out for the red spotted dots on the screen to avoid touching it when moving the pointer of your mouse. As you advance to new levels the number of red spotted dots increases also it will become more thicker than the previous level. If you want shield protection or to increase your lives which will help you to stay in the game for long period of time and also to increase the score there is a game boost which is available within the game. As the dots along with other dots that will help you to gain extra lives or to get shield protection. If you have a Google account you can also post your highest score on to the database. Concentration must be given well to keep the mouse pointer more static in this 'Sinuous' game. This game is the simplest game that I have seen, and also this game is highly attractive and mildly addictive.
4. Magic Cube
Another interesting and addictive game for you from chrome is nothing other than Magic Cube. Magic Cube is a wonderful game that has been built exclusively to sharpen your memory. This Magic cube is a Rubik's classic type memory based cube game which does not need any type of description, as you all know about Rubik's cube, in this game the user must make all the 6 faces of the magic cube into same colour. Magic cube game has been designed very much simple by Fupa.com. We can move or turn the magic cube by using the mouse. On playing with this magic cube game users can view top and side views and can see all the 3 faces visible at a time on the screen. The moves made by the user will be noted and also the time is counted according to the play and these things are done in the game itself. The main feature of this game is that this game can be embedded on the website also.
5. Mini Golf
Mini Golf is a beautiful game for chrome from Fupa.com. The users will get a great experience from this pretty offline game, but this game had failed in proving an ultimate pleasure for the users as the game is not exactly as the real golf game. The game is called as Mini Golf because this game is not much like that of the real Golf game, but the main thing is that it is quite similar to the actual golf game. Like actual Golf, this Mini Golf game contains 9 courses to play. As we said earlier that this game is similar to actual golf, the scores are also very much similar to the original game. The ball that is used for playing does not stay on the light and darker grasses which make the game more toughness. This game is not very much challenging and not much hard to play, the main thing or the main problem that makes Mini Golf a boring game for me is that, the grasses which will not allow the ball to stay in a static position which makes this 'Mini Golf' game a little bit hard and difficult to score more. This 'Mini Golf 'game is also enabled to be embedded onto the website.


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The One. He's the entity that Anakin Skywalker was supposed to take the place of to maintain balance in the Force.
I can't stress this enough. Anakin Skywalker is one of the weakest willed Jedi of all time. That's why he could never truly defeat Kenobi. Kenobi was much stronger despite being weaker in the Force. The prequels should have been about Kenobi IMO
Weak willed is a bit much. Anakin was the most human of all Jedi.
His issue was that unlike most Jedi he was not exposed to the potential Jedi life early on.
He grew up as a slave and was greatly emotionally attached to his mother.
He was emotionally driven instead of purging them and detaching himself from them.
His turn to the dark side could have been avoided if the order had been more trusting of him and willing to see past his flaws.
Instead they remained rigid and allowed their enemies to expose their flaws and to exploit his mistrust of them.
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