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The languages of the Congress are Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Abstracts for free papers and themed sessions should be sent by March 10, 2017 to:
The surname of the author should serve as the file's label in MS Word compatible format (E.g.: Carvallo.doc). Only one contribution by each participant will be accepted.
The proposal should include a title clearly defining the topic; name and institutional affiliation of the author; abstract in English of no more than 300 words describing the theme and purpose of the paper as well as its theoretical framework; and a brief bibliography supporting the proposal. A CV not exceeding 200 words and contact information (e-mail address) should complete the proposal.
For themed sessions, the coordinator should submit an abstract not exceeding 400 words summarizing the issues to be discussed and a brief CV of ach presenter in a single document.
Authors will be notified by e-mail of the outcome of their abstract submission no later than April 20, 2017. Final versions of papers should not exceed 3000 words, including examples, illustrations, notes, and references. Free papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Themed sessions can follow other formats and should not exceed a total of two hours.
Registration to the Congress is U$ 50 USD, with reduced fees of U$ 40 US for ARLAC/IMS members, and U$ 30 USD for students. Registration can be paid in US dollars or the Brazilian reais equivalent in at the time of registration. No pre-registration will be available.
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Salmon Fishing Scotland. Salmon fishing on the River Tay, Perthshire, Scotland, offer a good variety of Guided Salmon Fly Fishing and Spinning for Atlantic Salmon during spring, summer and autumn months. Quality Salmon Flies and Salmon Tackle. Bob White Scottish Ghillie and G.Loomis Pro Guide. Quality flies available from www.salmonfliesscotland.co.uk
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Salmon Fishing Scotland August 2008.
A Grilse with 2 larger brown trout all caught on Flying C's
Peter Thomas on the Stanley side of Horsey with his girlfriend and Geordie having just landed a small grilse on a flying c.
David Boothroyde with the dogs on the bank in Horsey on the Pitlochrie beat of the Tay at Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland.
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Always best to remove these beastly browns.
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nice to see such high quality browns from the tay. I assume they are pretty large given they are next to a salmon and as such are likely to be cannibals preying on small fish? Probably best to have them out of the river as they will eat parr etc.
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Alexandra Spaulding
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Alexandra Spaulding (formerly von Halkein, Thorpe and Foley), affectionately known by family and friends as Alex, is a fictional character on CBS's daytime drama Guiding Light.
|Alexandra Spaulding
|Guiding Light character
|Portrayed by
|1984–99, 2002–09
|First appearance
|February 10, 1984
|Last appearance
|September 18, 2009
|Created by
|Pam Long
Richard Culliton
|Introduced by
|Final, regular
|Other names
|Alexandra Von Halkein
Alexandra Thorpe
Alexandra Foley
|Business Consultant
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Spaulding Enterprises
|Traveling in Europe with Fletcher Reade
Beverlee McKinsey was the first actress to play the role, which she did from February 10, 1984, to August 21, 1992.[1] McKinsey made the character one of the most memorable women on daytime television and although she loved her family, "her voice dripped venom when she addressed her enemies." [2] Lydia Bruce (Maggie Powers, "The Doctors") played the role of Alexandra for a couple of days in the fall of 1984 after the death of McKinsey's husband, Berkeley Harris. After an extensive search for a permanent replacement, Marj Dusay, who had played the ruthless matriarch/businessman Myrna Clegg on Capitol, was hired and portrayed the character from September 23, 1993, to March 11, 1997, from November 20, 1998, to January 21, 1999, and finally from December 26, 2002, until the final episode on September 18, 2009. She received an Emmy Nomination for the role in 1995. Legendary film and television actress Joan Collins, best known for her role as Alexis Colby on the primetime soap Dynasty, guest starred in the role for three months from September 23, 2002, to December 23, 2002, having originally signed for six. Collins' portrayal brought a large amount of press and attention to the show as her incarnation of the character was known as "your typical rich bitch." [3] Collins was even reported to have re-written her lines to accommodate the large amount of dialogue she needed to learn and grueling work schedule.[4]
I always loved the storylines where they let her be a little absurd and show her power. I was so in favor of seeing a woman of my age show power, intelligence and also the gift of tongue and cheek and the gift of not being perfect. I love seeing women like that and how they battle to stay strong. I loved it when they put her in the big boy battles and as well as the vulnerability of love and the missing of love and standing by your family. Alex has been great to play. Soaps are fantastic to give you the human side. You roll around in time as the character evolves.— Marj Dusay, Guiding Light: Finale Interviews
Brief Character HistoryEdit
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After a difficult childhood, throughout which she and her brother, Alan, alternated between feuding and supporting one another against their domineering father, Brandon, the young Alexandra ran away from her family wealth to gallivant across Europe in a series of relationships with poor musicians before marrying a baron, divorcing him and finally arriving in Springfield. She soon became a close ally of Phillip Spaulding and made it her life's duty to destroy her brother Alan Spaulding's plots. This included the 'Dreaming Death' conspiracy, for which she turned him in to the FBI. He vanished soon after and she used her influence to help bring her friends and lovers into the company.
Over the years, she's searched out many of the relatives she believed she lost, including a sister, Victoria, with whom she offered to share the family fortune. More important was her reunion with wayward son Lujack, who she eventually won over despite his misgivings. She supported him in his endeavors, although sadly he would die in an explosion. Her life got more complicated when her supposedly dead brother reappeared looking for revenge of his own. She fled to San Rios where she was kidnapped by rebels before being rescued and returned to Springfield. Her complicated love/hate relationship with Alan would endure for the rest of his life, with them alternately defending and confiding in one another and battling one another for control of the family company.
She began a romance with H.B. Lewis before a plane crash left her on a desert island, with Fletcher Reade and a mysterious man who turned out to be Roger Thorpe. Surprisingly, she married Roger soon after returning, but the marriage was doomed and she publicly humiliated him before subjecting him to blackmail. More surprisingly, she discovered Lujack's twin, Nick McHenry, and pulled him into the family, but alienated him with her continuing meddling in his life and in his marriage to Mindy Lewis, Roger's former mistress. Over time, they came to trust one another as she tried to help him with a career. She eventually came around to accept his relationship with Mindy and encouraged him to fight for her. But Mindy was tired of the intrigue and divorced him before leaving town. When Alan returned in 1994 after being released from prison, Alexandra fought with him over control, but they eventually came to an understanding. When she discovered that Roger had manipulated her into giving Alan back his assets, she pretended to seduce him so Holly would break up with him. Her plan backfired when Holly ended up in Fletcher's arms and ended up marrying him. Alexandra attended the wedding and was amused when Roger showed up and created a scene. When Nick fell in love with Susan Bates, who was HIV positive, Alexandra was supportive of the relationship. Alexandra's days in Springfield came to a brief end in early 1997 after it was revealed that she knew the secret that Alan's supposed daughter, Amanda Wexler, was really their sister, having been fathered by Brandon. Alexandra came back for Philip and Harley's wedding in 1998 but didn't stay for long. Tired of endless corporate intrigue, she left for Europe with Nick and his wife Susan after discovering that Alan was hiding the nefarious Annie Dutton in the Spaulding attic.
She would return several years later, after Alan had a heart attack and the company was in turmoil. She pushed him out and tried to keep the bottle on Gus' parentage as long as possible. When it came out, desperate to hold onto the power she had left, she drugged Alan and tried to drive him mad. He went one better and managed to trick her into a confession of her crimes, not least of which was the stalking and covert harassment of Reva Shayne. He pushed her out of company leadership and into pharmaceuticals. There, she got involved with illegal trading and the sinister Antimonius drug ring. Alan, to her surprise, tried to save her from prosecution, but when Frank Cooper would not relent, she tried to frame him. This backfired, destroying her relationship with Frank's father Buzz Cooper and she ended up in jail only to be freed by her brother just as Phillip was 'murdered'. The siblings continued their fighting, if in a somewhat more low-key fashion, while she blackmailed him for his role in Phillip's death. Her testimony eventually freed Harley Cooper and almost jailed Alan. Subsequently, she played a more minor role, mostly as a help to Alan-Michael and a much needed balance to her brother. She had one final major storyline when Alexandra suddenly married her much younger chauffeur as an effort of keeping him in the country and committed several crimes in order to keep him out of the arms of the much younger Marina Cooper. During the last year of the show, Alexandra became a sounding board of advice to her back-from-the-dead nephew, Philip, his daughter Lizzie and various friends and family members who forgave her for her past schemes.
In the Guiding Light finale, Alexandra mourned the sudden death of her brother Alan and left Springfield to travel around Europe with Fletcher Reade, promising to return for an upcoming family wedding.
- ^ Fox, Margalit (May 9, 2008). "Beverlee McKinsey, 72, Actress in Decades of Soap Operas, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ^ Maloney, Michael (Mar 24, 2011). "The 15 Most Memorable Female Soap Opera Characters Ever". Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ^ CAVALLO, JO (2002-07-17). "Joan Collins to Play Nasty Again". People. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ^ Fox, Margalit (September 23, 2002). "Joan Collins: No Daytime Dynasty Reunion". Fox News.com. Retrieved 27 December 2012.


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A POLICEMAN accused of indecently assaulting a vulnerable woman prisoner in a police station told a court he was sexually abused as a child.
Pc Jan Platts says he was attacked when he was a member of a youth football team when he was 13.
The event, he told Warrington Crown Court, has haunted him over the years.
The 48-year-old custody officer at Longsight police station, Manchester, is accused of a series of sexual encounters with the woman, 27, who was being held overnight on her way to starting a 12-month sentence at Styal prison for theft.
She has told the court that he forced her to strip and parade herself, then to perform a sex act on him and was finally indecently assaulted by him.
He claims that it was he who was the victim of a sexual assault when he took a cup of tea to her cell.
DNA tests have shown that sexual contact did take place between the married father of a six-year-old son and the heroin addicted, mentally unstable woman.
Within minutes of her leaving the police station on her way to jail, she complained to a Group 4 security officer and detectives were called in.
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The constable insisted he merely showed her kindness, giving her cigarettes and taking her for walks in the exercise yard.
He claimed she said to him: "You've been very kind to me" and suddenly unzipped his trousers and performed a sex act for three or four seconds.
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Round 16, 1960
Melbourne vs Hawthorn
Saturday 13 August
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 24,646
Hawthorn win by 9 points
Goalkickers: Frank Adams 2, Hassa Mann 2, Ian Ridley 2, Ron Barassi 1, Robert B Johnson 1, Ray Nilsson 1
Melbourne had already assured themselves of a top four position courtesy of a three game gap and sizeable percentage advantage over third place, but they had not yet wrapped up the minor premiership and were shocked by Hawthorn, clinging on to hopes of sneaking into fourth place.
The loss not only ended their 11 game winning streak in 1960, but it was their first loss at the MCG in a home and away game since Round 15, 1957 - also against the Hawks.
Hawthorn had a better record at the MCG than most teams, and they won the day with fierce play and superior pace. They jumped the Demons in the first quarter and held on despite kicking just two points in the final term. Melbourne got no closer than nine points. It might have been different if they hadn't hit the post three times, but they were the second best side all day.
Much of Hawthorn's advantage came from their rovers sharking the many taps won by Demon ruckmen Bob Johnson and Terry Gleeson. Positional changes in the last quarter which put Laurie Mithen and John Lord onto the ball contributed to the belated comeback.
Despite the loss Essendon's defeat on the same day meant that the game between the two sides the last round would be almost meaningless because the Demons had a two game break, a significantly higher percentage and a winnable game against Richmond in Round 17.
Tassie Johnson, Mithen and Beckwith were best.
Bob Johnson was suspended for two matches after being reported for obscene language towards umpire Nunn in the fourth quarter. He denied using an "obscene expression", but the tribunal held that he not only did that but aggravated the offence by calling the umpire a "foul name".
Hawthorn 10.12 d. Melbourne 7.11
Goals - Crompton 3, Milner 2, Turner 1, Rowarth 1
Best - Strachov, Crompton, Leslie
Under 19s
Melbourne 13.5 d. Hawthorn 5.12
Goals - Groom 5, Anderson 3, Leahy 2, Edwards 1, Ingwersen 1, Petty 1
Best - Leahy, Weidlich, Predl
Age - 15/08/1960
Age - 17/08/1960
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IDENSITAT + Consorcio de Museos de la Comunitat Valenciana
2018 - 2019
IDENSITAT and the CONSORCI DE MUSEUS DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA presents Transversal Aesthetics / Leisure Ecosystems, a programme developed in the cities of Valencia, Castelló and Alicante. The project is a collaboration with Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània in Valencia, el Museo de Belles Arts de Castelló, and Las Cigarreras Cultural Center in Alacant. The programme includes three artistic residences, selected by an open call, educational activities, in collaboration with universities, and the articulation of a local node linked to the activation of the artistic projects and educational actions. The whole project takes place between 2018 and 2019.
- Introduction
- Themes
- Methodology
- Work Context
- Selected Projects
- Educational Activities
- Call for projects
Transversal Aesthetics is a platform for experimentation with art, education and social space. A place of confluence between artistic practices as a space for critical research; educational activities as a space for the production of content, interaction and the transfer of learning; and the urban context as a space of connection between specific themes of work and a specific active social space surrounding it. A platform in medium-sized urban spaces, as generators of social, cultural and environmental spaces at the boundaries between rural and urban. The project is based upon the cross-disciplinary dimension of art, in order to connect experiences to activities which impact upon singular elements, based upon common themes and strategies, shared among various participating agents and bodies.
The project aims to study Leisure as a driver and generator of specific themes in the regions chosen, based on the concept of leisure as a generator of activities, landscapes, aesthetics and relational spaces. Leisure and its social role form part of a highly integrated and deeply-rooted system of geography, economics and everyday life within these regions, configuring spaces in which usage based upon leisure and free-time activities is increasing. These leisure-related settings create models of landscape, of social relationship and of connection with or rejection of their surroundings, from which arise their own aesthetics, modifying the uses and dynamics which are configured around them. The new visions proposed around this ecosystem will be promoted on the basis of artistic practices, in association with social organisations and spaces for educational action.
The project works in a triangular relationship between the Local Node or participant group, participants associated with Educational Activities, and the temporary Artistic Residencies.
These three strands – node, activities and residency - may cross over, or they may work in unison, or they may coexist in parallel.
The Local Nodes may comprise a number of agents, organisations or individuals interested in participating, or which are associated with social, artistic or research contexts on the theme. Prior to the development of the Artistic Project, the nodes may vary, or may increase in their development. The artist or collective must propose a project on the proposed theme, involving the node, and must add their own agents to the network, which may be more or less involved, depending upon their role within the project's framework. The Educational Activities follow their own dynamics and develop the theme within their educational programme. Both the Local Nodes and the Educational Actions will be started in advance by Idensitat and the Consorcio de Museos de la Comunidad Valenciana, inviting local groups and individuals from the context who work with artistic practices, social activities and educational spaces related to urban issues, free time, and leisure culture.
Projects selected in the open call must apply the above methodology during the temporary residencies.
Leisure activity arises from the transformation of systems of production and processes of work, and generates energetic forms of consumption in which to invest free time, to shape public spaces, and to modify both the uses and the social relationships which are established as a result of leisure activities. Medium-sized cities near coastal areas enjoy an inherent geo-climatic quality which turns them into mass-tourism destinations where activities, architectures and leisure areas pop up in response to public desires, and the need to consume free time. Together with tradition, popular culture, people, gastronomy, but also concrete policies, urban planning or urban models, these elements amalgamate and contribute to processes of urban transition, with leisure, in this case, as an activating agent and a case study.
In relation to people, leisure forms part of multiple realities, of everyday existences, of quality of life, but also of precariousness, and resistance derived from an industry model which does not generate sustainability, but which is sustained, in many cases, by major events, or by seasonal activities, of use only in summer. Leisure in these contexts also forms part of multiple fictions, understood as idealised visions of urban models, and connected to desires, utopias, revolutions or symbolism. This parallax between reality and fiction which meets in leisure is also constructed from a reaction/relationship to the workplace, since activities related to leisure and consumption which take place there may be understood perfectly as productive practices. In fact, it is often from leisure that the most significant production takes place on social and personal levels, establishing, in many cases, a direct link between productive labour and the consumption of free time. On the other hand, leisure also interferes with the everyday fact of living in a particular place, bringing daily life into contact with the both positive and negative consequences which arise from leisure activities.
Leisure-related settings in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante have generated their own aesthetic universe and their own landscape, configuring a certain geographical vision, and forming part of aesthetic references for several generations. Themed parks, overexposure and thematisation of urban spaces in sports venues or major events, models of tourism based upon the summer season... the kinds of settings in which fictional realities are related, in many ways, to the settings of social realities.
The project will focus on the cultural ecosystems of these three cities in relation to leisure, and aims to deploy projects and processes connected to the city and its everyday life, dealing with Leisure as a specific theme applied to topics, aesthetics, landscapes, zones and spaces for research specific to each context. A model of leisure and the city considered through artistic practices, in association with social organisations and university research spaces. In this sense, the specific work setting in each city (Valencia, Castellón, Alicante) is defined by each project, which must be developed taking into account the agents involved in the Local Node, the Educational Actions, and the theme of Leisure.
Si els peixos parlaren del tardeo. Ona Beneït, Pedro Granero, David Vegada and Carles Pastor
Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras
October - december 2018
The project deals with the "tardeo", early evening leisure-time spent in bars and terraces which has become popular recently in Alicante, based upon the artistic and discursive potential of the Aquarium located in Alicante's Plaza Nueva, closed due to its unsustainability, and the deaths of dozens of fish.
nārang: genealogía de un souvenir / ideadestroyingmuros
Museu de Belles Arts de Castelló
January – March 2019
the project "nārang: genealogia de un souvenir / nārang: genealogy of a souvenir" tackles an analysis of the souvenir as an exotic object from the valencian region, in this case castellón, which overlaps the spheres of commerce, the tourist industry and leisure culture.
A cuatro Patas / Nyamnyam
January – March 2019
Before eating, we build a table; before speaking, we build a table; before celebrating, we build a table; in order to get to know each other, we build a table. The project works in the idea of the table as a vehicular element and as a way of creating a myriad of situations sparing time.
The Educational Activities is a part of the project ECOSYSTEMS OF LEISURE, and the results will be presented along with the rest of the activities proposed by the project. They will take place between September 2018 and May 2019, based upon a series of collaborations with different fields of university education and research.
The project will work alongside the Area of Architectural Projects at the Universidad de Alicante, Escuela Politécnica Superior de Alicante. The liaison officer is Ester Gisbert Alemany, a researcher in tourist zones as part of Architectural Projects and Social Anthropology (Universidad de Alicante / University of Aberdeen), and the researches Andrés Silanes, Juan Antonio Sánchez and María José Marcos. Each lecturer in architecture who joins the project will study an element related to Leisure, which will be then be shared among the contributors.
Degree in Videogame Design, and Master's Degree course in Psychopedagogy, University Jaume I.
In Castellón, the project will work in collaboration with the Degree in Videogame Design, Universitat Jaume I, creating a video game among some subject-areas in parallel.
The concept of Leisure will be approached from an educational point of view, thanks to a collaboration with the Master's Degree corse in Psychopedagogy. They will approach the subject of leisure from a public space perspective, working outside the classroom in non-formal spaces, in urban territories, neighbourhoods and cultural centres, considering the figure of the educational psychologist as an agitator and a facilitator in educational issues.
Work with the Master's degree course in Artistic Production, and the degree course in Fine Arts, at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia's Fine Arts Faculty.
Workshop by Idensitat, consisting of an exploration of the urban space which responds to several leisure-related elements, and based upon this field work, the Idensitat workshop will take its subject matter. The teachers Mijo Miquel and Mau Monleón will work in different subjects in the topic of Leisure.
IDENSITAT and CONSORCIO DE MUSEOS DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA are offering a residency to an artist or collective to develop a project within the social contexts of the cities of Valencia, Castellón and Alicante, in collaboration with Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporána, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras de Alicante and Museu de Belles Arts of Castellón. The residencies will last for a maximum period of two months between September 2018 and March 2019, and their aim is to carry out a site-specific project within the framework of the process promoted by IDENSITAT on the subject of Leisure Ecosystems.
Open Call to select three projects to be carried out from the respective artists residences in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante. The residency and the project to be developed must take as the focus of interest the cultural ecosystem of these three cities in relation to leisure. It is proposed to deploy projects and processes related to the city and everyday life, which may use Leisure as a specific theme applied to topics, aesthetics, landscapes, zones and research spaces specific to each context. A model of leisure and the city for wider consideration, making use of artistic practices in relation to social organisations and university research spaces.
The proposed cities (Valencia, Castellón and Alicante), or a particular district in each city, must frame the work of research and projection from which to deal with everyday leisure culture-related issues.
The call is aimed at artists or groups of artists, with an interest in the proposed social contexts, and in the proposed theme. Applicants must have some fluency in Spanish or Valencian. A project will be selected for each city.
The selected proposal will be granted 2.300 euros as fees, 400 euros for travel aid. And a maximum of 1,600 euros will be available for production. Accommodation will be paid by the organisation. Fees will be paid in two installments, 60% at the beginning of the residency, and 40% before it is finalised. Production costs will be agreed according to the project.
Proposals should be sent in digital format using the specific form, filling in each of the fields, and attached in a single document using PDF format (maximum 8 gigabytes), which must include:
- Proposal / pre-project: a written document defining the basic lines of the project (3-4 pages), indicating a methodology of work which takes into account the elements indicated above, and in which context the applicant proposes to work (the organisation reserves the right to suggest modifications to the proposed contexts ).
- A maximum of 10 images of previous work and/or related to the proposal, to facilitate understanding of the project.
- CVs of all project members, specifying one representative in the case of a group application, or an individual CV, in the case of individual application.
- A covering letter expressing interest in participating in the call.
- Contact details (name, telephone, e-mail and postal address) .
The open call will start on the 21th May, and will end on the 15th July, 2018. The results of the open call will be published in second half July, 2018.
The jury of the call will be formed by Jose Luis Perez Pont (Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana), Maribel Domènech (artist, doctor in Fine Arts and Professor of Sculpture at the Polytechnic University of Valencia), Daniel García Andújar (visual artist) and members of Idensitat team (Ramon Parramon, Irati Irulegui and Roser Colomar).
The residencies will last for a maximum period of two months between September 2018 and March 2019. Dates for each residency. The dates could be modificated according to the selected projects and driving organizations:
- Castellón: from 17th September to 18th November 2018.
- Alicante: from 1st October to 2nd December 2018.
- Valencia: from 15th January to 17th March 2019.
The spaces available for the presentation of results and the celebration of project-related activities will be: Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporánea in Valencia, the Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras in Alicante, and the Museu de Belles Arts de Castelló.
The selected works will be the property of the artist(s). IDENSITAT and the CONSORCIO DE MUSEOS DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA, as the promotional organisations behind ESTÉTICAS TRANSVERSALES - ECOSISTEMAS DEL OCIO, may reproduce and distribute, by means of on-line publications or in paper format, the whole or part of the programme, always citing the respective authorships. IDENSITAT and the CONSORCIO DE MUSEOS DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA will archive all documentation generated as part of this open call.
Trasnversal Aesthetics acts as a HUB for projects linked to small and medium cities, and their cultural venues as well. Peripheral Ecosystems is the common theme deployed in 2017 and proposed by IDENSITAT and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Huarte; a suite of proposed activities, tending towards work based upon environment-related art. To do this, a call was opened for the selection of an artistic residency in the context of the Arga River. The selected project was "Cuando tu materia deviene desborde" - "When your material spills over" by the artist Francisco Navarrete Sitja In 2017, three other projects have been carried out in the cities of Manresa, Mataró and Vilanova i la Geltrú in Barcelona, under the common theme of how each city relates to the transformation of work spaces. Transversal Aesthetics collaborates with Museu Comarcal de Manresa, MAC Mataró Art Contemporani and Centre d'Art Contemporani La Sala (Vilanova i la Geltrú).
With the support of Cultura Resident de la Direcció General de Cultura i Patrimoni de la Generalitat Valenciana througout Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana.


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The elections may be over, but the politics of security in the process will persist unabated. The latest volley in the controversy over the potential for fraud by way of insecure electronic voting machines comes in the form of a lawsuit filed in Ohio by Green Party candidate Bob Fitrakis which alleges that the software provided by contractor Election Systems & Software (ES&S) contains a backdoor which can be exploited to alter vote counts. The suit, filed Monday afternoon, unsuccessfully sought to compel the courts to issue an order to allow only the use of paper ballots in Tuesday's election.
"ES&S has installed a 'back door' into such hardware and software that enables persons who are not under the supervision and control of defendant Husted, and who are not under the supervision and control of Ohio's boards of elections, to access the recording and tabulation of votes," the lawsuit states.
Key to Fitrakis' concerns is the fact that the contract to provide the state with electronic voting systems was not subject to an open bidding process and the technology supplied by ES&S was never scrutinized by the state's technology review board, as is required under existing laws. Fitrakis also claims that on October 31, a series of untested patches to the software were implemented, raising concerns over the security of the systems.
"There is an imminent risk that persons who are not under the supervision and control of defendant Husted, and who are not under the supervision and control of Ohio's boards of elections, will use the ES&S 'back door' to access the recording and tabulation of votes cast by Ohio voters in the General Election on November 6, 2012 using facilities not under the control of defendant Husted or Ohio's boards of elections," the complaint filed by attorneys for Fitrakis alleges.
Fitrakis publicly stated that the court heard testimony from an expert with nearly four decades of service with the National Security Agency who confirmed that the use of untested software creates potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited to manipulate the vote count, and Fitrakis pointed to problems with an electronic voting machine in Pennsylvania captured on video as being evidence of weaknesses in these types of automated systems.
"It would be a very significant problem, in more than one way, if election software is buggy," security expert and attorney Rebecca Herold told Security Bistro. "The best way to address the charges would be for the Ohio officials to simply provide documentation that would validate all audits and tests the software had prior to use, and also to validate whether or not patches were actually applied. If such un-tampered documentation does not exist, then they should have an independent and objective third party investigate, do the necessary testing and see if they find any problems and can duplicate the claim that votes were being reassigned as in the provided video."
Representatives for the plaintiff, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted, refuted Fitrakis' claims of any impropriety or vulnerabilities in the software, and assert that the suit was brought in part to undermine citizen' confidence in the use of electronic voting machines.
Fitrakis had also made headlines last month with allegations that Taggart Romney, son of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, held equity in a company called Hart Intercivic which supplied some of the voting machines used in parts of Ohio. An investigation by watchdog group Factcheck.org was unable to confirm Romney had any direct investments in the company, but found he did have investments in other ventures held by the firm HIG Capital, owner of Hart Intercivic.
"In addition to validating the security of the actual software, the other issue that should be looked into is whether or not a relative of a presidential contender has a vested interest in the voting machines and software," Herold said. "Certainly such a situation would present a conflict of interest, and would cast clouds of doubt over any subsequent result (such as in this situation). Why introduce any more controversy into the voting process? Simply prohibit the use of any voting systems and machinery for which one of the candidate's family or team has a vested interest."
This is not the first time the security of electronic voting systems in Ohio has been challenged in court. Filings in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell lawsuit stemming from an unexpected and dramatic shift in the vote count during the 2004 presidential election alleged manipulation by way of a "Man in the Middle" (MitM) type exploit. The suit said tampering may have occurred during the process of transferring the Ohio vote count on election night from one technology vendor to another.
MitM attacks are defined as malicious actors exploiting vulnerabilities in order to insert themselves between digital systems attempting to communicate with one another, allowing attackers potentially alter data. Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory were able to successfully demonstrate an MitM attack on several brands of voting machines that were used in nearly two-dozen states this election cycle, adding fuel to the fire.
Herold notes that with the expected increase in the use of electronic voting devices, proper testing of systems and transparency in the process of certification will help to dispel concerns over vote count manipulation in the future.
"Having voting machine hardware and code tests performed by an objective, approved third party to certify adequate and appropriate security should be part of the voter system certification process. To start doing so now would help to quash these ongoing and legitimate concerns before we get to our next major election," Herold said.
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On Sunday me, my flatmate Gergu and his father hired a car and did some sightseeing.
Next stop was the Neolithic passage graves of Knowth, with hundreds of beautifully decorated stones. Knowth has more than a 3rd of the total number of megalithic art works in the whole of western Europe, and it was well worth seeing, even if it just looks like humps of earth from a distance.
After Knowth we drove through some storybook Irish villages, with coloured houses and, of course, lots of traditional looking pubs and the odd fish and chip shop with nackers slouching outside. We walked through Kells (origin of the book of Kells)- a really pretty town- and drove past some similarly quaint looking places.
We dropped Gergu's father off in the tiny town of Glenlough, right on the Northern Ireland border, where he will work on a farm, and headed back to Dublin.


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The Lay Pastor program is designed to help members across the Rocky Mountain Conference to have the tools and knowledge to be able to be more effective as they minister to their community, help to grow a healthy and active local church, and to support their local pastor. Each time we meet we will have a theological focus as well as a ministry based focus.
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Fall Creek Lake�s water level will be very, very low this winter.
So low, in fact, that the only water might be in the drainage�s original streambed.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to lower the reservoir�s water level to about 680 feet above sea level, much lower than the normal winter level of about 728 feet above sea level, from later this month through mid-January.
Each fall and early winter, the corps drops water levels at most of its Willamette Valley dams. That makes room behind the dams to control the late-winter and early spring flows that could cause flooding.
But the extra 48-foot drop is being done to facilitate juvenile Chinook salmon in their quest to get to the Pacific Ocean.
Corps spokesman Scott Clemans said the move will allow juvenile salmon to pass from upstream of the dam through the dam�s regulating outlet, which is about 670 feet above sea level. Clemans said the juvenile salmon tend to stay in the top 30 to 40 feet of water depth, and as a result the lower water level will encourage them to find the outlet and move downstream.
The 728-foot level has been the norm, but the water level was lowered to 714 feet in the winters of 2007 through 2009, and to 690 feet in 2010, resulting in an increased number of juvenile salmon passing through the regulating outlet.
�We have a lot of historical evidence that this drawdown is a good method of improving juvenile passage,� said Greg Taylor, a fish biologist with the corps� Willamette Valley operations.
�From 1968 to 1977, the reservoir elevation was lowered to the streambed and we saw annual returns of 1,000 to 4,500 spring Chinook, versus 90 to 500 fish when water levels were kept higher,� he said.
Taylor said this year he expects about 10,000 fish to make it through the dam outlet, which is about normal.
The reverse journey for salmon returning from the ocean and heading to their spawning grounds upstream of Fall Creek Lake is a bit trickier.
Fall Creek Dam does not have a fish ladder that fish can swim up and thus bypass the dam.
Instead, after the adult salmon reach the base of the dam, they are collected and trucked past the dam to spawning sites further up the river, Taylor said.
The salmon that reach the spawning areas in that fashion typically are three to five years of age, and that�s the end of their life cycle, he said.
The corps said the lower water level will result in increased cloudiness of the water due to suspended particles, but that the implementation and expected effects of the drawdown have been approved by the National Marine Fisheries Service and by Oregon�s departments of Environmental Quality and Fish & Wildlife.
The corps also said the reservoir will be closed to all boating during the drawdown to protect the public from hazards around the dam, and that it will restore Fall Creek Lake to normal winter water levels by Feb. 1 as part of the gradual refilling for summer.


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* Swiss to vote on measures to curb exec. pay on March 3
* Novartis has faced criticism in past over salaries
* Jimenez pay down 16 pct at 13.2 mln Sfr (Adds details, background)
ZURICH, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Novartis cut pay for Chief Executive Joe Jimenez by 16 percent last year ahead of a referendum which could force companies to accept any limits shareholders place on executive rewards.
The Swiss will vote on March 3 on whether to give shareholders the world's first binding say on executive pay and ban practices like big payouts for new hires and departing managers.
The first blue-chip pay disclosure this year will prompt questions about pay at other Swiss companies as the issue comes to the fore in the run-up to the vote.
Ethos, an influential group that makes recommendations to shareholders, called earlier this week for CEOs' variable pay to be limited to three times fixed pay, and for the variable pay of other executives to be no more than two times fixed pay.
Jimenez - who was the highest paid executive on the Swiss bourse in 2011, earning 15.7 million Swiss francs ($16.89 million) - has vocally opposed the measures, saying they could damage the drugmaker's competitiveness.
"It would be very difficult for me (...) to hire an outside talent to come into Novartis to be an executive committee member because any offer I make would be contingent on shareholder approval," Jimenez told reporters on a conference call on Wednesday.
"To me that would put Novartis or any Swiss company at a significant disadvantage to attract talent into this company."
Novartis has long been a lightning rod for criticism of executive pay in Switzerland. Chairman and former CEO Daniel Vasella came under fire for his $20 million pay package in 2006.
The drugmaker will hold its annual general meeting on Feb. 22, just over a week before the Swiss head to the ballot box on the issue, which taps into public ire over lavish bonuses for managers despite flagging profits and share prices.
If voters reject the proposals, more limited measures to increase shareholder influence on pay which are backed by powerful business lobby Economiesuisse will come into force.
Novartis said in its fourth-quarter results statement that the board of directors would propose changes to the compensation system for the CEO and other members of the executive committee as of Jan. 1, 2014.
"This will be welcomed by shareholders as the company is often seen as paying disproportionately to performance," said Berenberg analyst Alistair Campbell.
In its 2012 annual report, Novartis said Jimenez would take home a total of 13.2 million Swiss francs ($14.20 million) in 2012, including cash, bonus, pension and other benefits.
It also reduced the salary of departing chairman Daniel Vasella by 3 percent to 13.1 million francs for 2012 from 13.5 million francs the prior year. ($1=0.9296 Swiss francs) (Reporting By Caroline Copley and Katharina Bart; Editing by Helen Massy-Beresford)


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A foreign correspondent based in London, Katrin Bennhold has written about everything from the migrant crisis in Calais and Scotland's independence movement to trigger-happy fox snipers. She has a front-page article in Tuesday's paper about three well-educated teenage girls who left their childhood home in Bethnal Green in East London for Syria, where they joined forces with ISIS. She talked with Times Insider about her reporting.
Q. Is the story of the Bethnal Green girls anomalous or part of larger ISIS recruiting efforts?
A. It is a very representative case study of the way ISIS has made recruiting women and girls a strategic objective.
ISIS is not just a terrorist group; it aspires to become a state and a state needs women — it needs wives and mothers who can indoctrinate the next generation. It also needs female teachers and doctors if it wants its women to be taught and treated only by women. This is something the Western national security apparatus is only just beginning to get its head around. The women who go to Syria are not just naïve, brainwashed would-be jihadi brides, many of them are educated, smart and more studious than the men. They go into this with open eyes and constitute as much of a potential risk for the West as the guys. But they barely ever feature in most aspects of counterterrorism.
Q. How did you start reporting this story?
A. I heard about the girls on the news after they went missing, like everyone else.
They weren't the first teenagers to have left Britain for Syria, but somehow the security camera images of these three normal looking schoolgirls passing security at the airport on their way to Turkey struck a chord. They became synonymous with this new troubling phenomenon of girls and women abandoning the West and choosing life under the so-called caliphate.
The story raised a compelling question: Why would three high-achieving girls trade their London lives for life in a war zone where women aren't allowed to leave the house unaccompanied?
Q. How did the girls' families respond to questions from The New York Times?
A. When we first started reporting the story, my colleague Mona el-Naggar from the video desk and I spent two weeks hanging out in the neighborhood, trying to chat to girls and boys roughly the same age as the girls; eventually we got a tip about where their families lived and we tracked down details about one of the girl's brother.
Then it was a matter of knocking on doors and asking for interviews by phone, text and even Instagram. None of this seemed to work. But one day, outside Khadiza's apartment, where once again our knock went unanswered, Mona had the right intuition: She left the family a handwritten note.
When we returned the next day and identified ourselves over the interphone, one of Khadiza's sisters opened the door. We had a short but friendly interaction and she gave us contact information for the family lawyer. He was hostile at first, but after we sent him some samples of previous work and explained what kind of story and video we wanted to do, he arranged for us to meet the family. That's how it started.
In terms of establishing trust, it helps to be a woman interested in the experiences of Muslim women — and it certainly helps if at least one of you (Mona in our case) identifies as a Muslim herself.
Q. Do members of the girls' community consider the story a fluke or do they see it as a menace that threatens big numbers of neighborhood children?
A. There are some conspiracy theories floating around; that the girls were kidnapped by the C.I.A. or MI6 to give Muslims a bad name or to infiltrate ISIS.
But mostly, this case has put a community that is already on the defensive even more on edge.
It has created this unsettling sense of insecurity and fear of a sort of invisible enemy within.
Q. Does it seem odd that the girls who are the subject of your piece reportedly married soon after they arrived in Syria?
A. No, that seems to be very much standard procedure. Single women tend to be housed in female-only hostels when they first arrive. They usually receive some self-defense training and ideological training and are then given a choice of potential husbands who speak the same language (many Britons for example have reportedly been paired up with Swedes). It rarely takes much longer than a few weeks to be married.
Q. Do teenage girls play a particular role in ISIS' plans?
A. They are trophies in the battle of idea: Western girls choosing the caliphate over the West — that's a coup for ISIS and helps with further recruitment.
The 15- to 17-year age range is also significant as this is the ideal marriage age for women, according to the semiofficial women's manifesto published earlier this year.
ISIS knows that Western jihadis want Western wives who speak their language and have similar backgrounds, so recruiting teenage girls also helps with recruiting fighters. The bottom line is that recruiting girls and women seems to be part of ISIS' core strategy.
Q. Can you say a bit more about the girl-to-girl recruitment strategies, gendered imagery and iconic memes that play a role in ISIS' efforts to recruit young women and that you mention in your story?
A. In contrast to groups like Al Qaeda, ISIS has decentralized its messaging and propaganda and allows followers to be quite independent on social media, even though there is plenty of self-censorship going on. (When a widowed woman in ISIS territory complains about the lack of support she's getting, for example, her complaints are likely to be drowned out by multiple comments saying how well widows are treated.)
Western girls in ISIS territory tweet about going shopping on the souk or sharing a takeaway meal with "sisters," giving the impression that they're doing what they would have been doing back home, only Syrian-style.
Then there are messages of empowerment: The head scarf comes up quite a lot. Many women tweet about how covering themselves stops men from looking at them as a sexual object. Some Western girls specialize in online recruitment and provide advice to others tempted to follow them to Syria.
Q. You mention a jihadi girl-power subculture. What is it? How is it manifest? What's the aim?
A. I first heard that term from Sasha Havlicek of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. It captured one of the most striking things we discovered: that going to a place where women have to wear veils and need escorts outside the home, could feel liberating and empowering to some girls, at least until they get there.
This is partly because the limitations and frustrations the girls experience in the West are hard for non-Muslims to understand. And it's due, in part, to the effectiveness of ISIS propaganda.
These girls are smart, they often perform better at school than the boys and yet they are subject to very conservative social norms at home and in their community. They don't feel that they benefit from Western freedoms and opportunities. Rather, they feel let down by Western society and by Western feminists who look at the hijab as a symbol of oppression.
Q. Do you plan to develop the story further?
A. I'd love to explore how the West might counter the narrative ISIS is offering young Western Muslim women in a more targeted and gender-specific way.


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Last evening I came out with a list of great things I myself and probably many baseball fans would like to accomplish in their life time for baseball.
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By Leah S. Poniatowski, J.D.
A state appellate court in Florida misapplied the abuse of discretion standard when reviewing a jury award for noneconomic damages granted to an adult child of a smoker who died from lung cancer attributed to her cigarette smoking, the Florida high court determined. Additionally, the appellate court also improperly applied a damages cap as there was no legal precedent to support imposing that limitation and, thus, the state high court quashed the appellate decision and remanded for reinstatement of the award (Odom v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., September 20, 2018, Pariente, B.).
After a smoker died from lung cancer, her daughter brought claims for strict liability, negligence, fraud by concealment, and conspiracy to commit fraud by concealment against RJR in Florida state court, alleging that her mother's death was caused by her addiction to cigarettes. In the first phase of the trial, the jury determined that the smoker was a member of the Engle class and then found for the daughter, awarding her $6 million in compensatory damages, reduced to $4.5 million after deciding that the smoker was 25 percent at fault. It also concluded that punitive damages were justified. After the second phase of the trial, which was about the proper amount of punitive damages to be awarded, the jury awarded the daughter $14 million in punitive damages. The trial court denied RJR's post-trial motions to set aside the verdict, for a new trial, and for remittitur of the compensatory award, and entered judgment for $18.5 million against the tobacco company. RJR appealed.
Appellate decision. The appellate court vacated both awards on the ground that the compensatory damages award was excessive compared to other awards in comparable cases (see Products Liability Law Daily'sDecember 1, 2016 analysis). Courts have distinguished between compensatory damages awards to spouses and to adult children, the appellate court explained. Florida courts have ruled that regardless of the strength of the emotional bond between an adult child and his or her decedent parent, an adult child who lives independent of the parent during the parent's smoking-related illness and death is not entitled to a multi-million dollar compensatory damages award, with one court finding a $400,000 award to be "generous." Based on this line of precedent, the $6 million award awarded to the daughter in this case for the loss of her mother was excessive. The appellate court noted that the daughter was financially independent of her mother, the daughter was married with her own children, and the mother had been living with her long-time partner. The Supreme Court of Florida granted review of the appellate court's determination of the noneconomic damages award.
Remittitur review error. The state high court explained that the abuse of discretion standard the appellate court applied when reviewing the trial court's denial of the motion for remittitur had been misapplied. Governing case precedent holds that appellate courts "must fully recognize the superior vantage point of the trial judge and should apply the 'reasonableness' test to determine whether the trial judge abused his discretion." According to Florida law, adult children of decedents may claim noneconomic damages under the wrongful death statute when there is no surviving spouse, and there is no statutory requirement that the adult child be financially dependent on the decedent. With respect to damages awards, trial courts are obligated to determine whether an award is excessive and, if so, the court may award a remittitur. The Florida statute governing remittitur provides factors to be considered, and the state high court has acknowledged that there is a value, however limited, to reviewing awards in similar cases. Ultimately, the determination of damages is resolved by the jury, using their "enlightened conscience" as tempered by the caution not to be influenced by sympathy or prejudice. In order for an award to be found excessive it must "shock the judicial conscience," for which there was no direct precedent, but an award for punitive damages in an Engle progeny case that exceed the plaintiff's request was held not to be shocking.
In the case at bar, the state high court concluded that the appellate court misapplied the abuse of discretion standard because there was no discussion or even an acknowledgement of the trial court's analysis of the remittitur denial, which the high court observed was well-reasoned. Further, the appellate court did not consider any of the remittitur statute factors or uncover any passion in the jury's verdict. Finally, the appellate court relied upon four appellate decisions, two of which the trial court had concluded were distinguishable, without considering state high court precedent; thus, the appellate court's review fell below what the abuse of discretion standard required.
Damages cap error. The state high court also held that the appellate court's creation of a bright-line damages cap in the circumstances of the case at bar was not supported by legislation or by high court precedent. The case law upon which the appellate court relied when establishing the cap did not support the appellate court's actions, the high court stated. The state legislature has never imposed a cap for wrongful death noneconomic damages or required any other conditions to be eligible for those damages. The state high court also observed that the remittitur statutes did not include "type of relationship" as a factor to consider whether an award is excessive. The high court also emphasized that courts "must resist the urge" to find an award excessive simply because it exceeds what the court considered the jury should allow.
In the case at bar, the jury learned of the closeness of the daughter to her mother, the anguish both suffered as a result of the cancer diagnosis, the support the daughter provided in the three years of treatment until her mother's death, and how the death has impacted the daughter. Evidence was also presented that the mother had a life expectancy of another 24.5 years. Further, RJR did not suggest an amount or range of damages to the jury, choosing to leave it to the "good judgment and common sense" of the jury, after the daughter had advocated a $5 million award. The state high court noted the difficulty for parties like RJR who do not present any values to later challenge a jury award. Because the trial court's remittitur denial was based on undisputed evidence of the relationship between the daughter and her mother and RJR did not proffer anything to suggest the jury acted out of passion or prejudice, the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it denied RJR's motion for remittitur. Moreover, multimillion awards for noneconomic damages for financially independent adult children are supported by law. Therefore, the appellate court's ruling was quashed and the matter remanded to reinstate the final judgment, in addition to attorney fees awarded to the daughter.
This case is No. SC17-563.
Attorneys: Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes (Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, PA) for Gwendolyn E. Odom. William L. Durham II (King & Spalding LLP) for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Companies: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
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