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Media Blackout Period?
Maybe they will when the Q4 2012 earnings will be made public. On February 11th 2013. Let's wait and see.
I don't really see that there's even that much to talk about. Certainly people are interested in the business.
However, when it comes to their products, we already know the basic plans for the Model S and X. Everyone would love to hear more about Bluestar, and anything else coming up, but I don't see what Tesla has to gain by talking about them. I don't think it's wise to talk about future products too early.
It's always good to be informed about what is coming in the near future. Because one might just want to delay some decissions regarding which product is best to fit one's needs.
That's what I mean though. The near future is Model X, and we already know the general concept of Bluestar which is a nice, but cheaper, less luxurious sedan. Beyond that, I think we want to know more just to satisfy our own curiosity as enthusiasts, but I think it makes sense for Tesla to focus more on launching and promoting the Model X.
I think Tesla Motors (like any other car company) should have more EV models on offer, so that it becomes more likely people will be attracted to one of the Tesla EV's. The more people buy an EV, the less ICE vehicles will be sold.
it's an open book so far: Model X, Bluestar, New Roadster, Supersportcar... Than Model S Facelift...2017
TM must balance variety with production complexity. Its robots can switch tasks easily, but production parts pipelines have to co-ordinated perfectly to keep everything from snarling up, etc. TM is pacing itself just fine, IMO.
I think more demand is required as well. More reservations will have to follow.
Yes, new variant markets must not simply cannibalize the MS demand. The variants must appeal to new buyers.
I don't think that will happen at a very large scale. Offcourse it will happen occasionally, but that will be far less than 10%.
And you must know that some people already have a Tesla Roadsters, but still decided to have a reservation for a Tesla Model S and/or Tesla Model X.
?? If variants cannot attract new buyers, TM will not produce them.
Offcourse variants will attract new buyers. That's obvious, I think.
Benz, I thnk it will happen, it's just that the path to having a whole range of vehicles like other manufacturers will take years and years. It's a slow pace, but success and experience will help Tesla accelerate the pace of growth exponentially. Tesla is still in the very early stages here.
@ olanmills
That is correct. So, slowly but surely. And that means that adding a new variant too soon is not good for Tesla Motors. OK, I get it.
I think it's going to be "production limited"; design and tooling up and establishing parts supply networks is not trivial. Elon's "one per year" is immensely ambitious.
So, one new model per two year is more likely?
Talking about the blog. That was fast! I wonder if this thread had anything to do with it. (Probably not.)
No, I think Elon/TM will pull it off. But don't expect more than that!
I just want Tesla Motors to be succeed in their mission. And in order to do that, I think that having more models on offer will surely help to succeed in their mission. But I do understand that Tesla Motors have actually just started. They cannot afford to make mistakes. So, slowly but surely is a good strategy for Tesla Motors, I think.


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The League of Quality Superhero Animation plugs "Crisis on Two Earths" at Paley Center
It's an old story. You're a superhero minding your own business and then you bump into someone who looks very familiar but, well, something's just not right. Gee whiz but this person looks a lot like you and is even wearing similar clothes, but then you notice your new acquaintance looks like he or she is made from rocks, uses terrible grammar and does everything the opposite of you. ("Me want to not save world!") Or the newcomer looks like one of your deadliest enemies, but turns out to be no Bizaaro, but as heroic as you are. What's a superhero to do?
It's an old superhero comic story that has yet to find its way into a big-time costumed-hero flicks — but at least it's finally been used in a solidly entertaining and often slyly funny direct-to-DVD animated production. Rated a mild PG-13 for non-deadly "action violence," Warner Home Video's "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths" shows us the fall-out of an alternate universe where the equivalents of our most famed superheros are essentially costumed Mafioso, while a bald guy named Luthor and a joker named the Jester vainly fight the power of organized caped crime.
When the alternate Luthor (Chris Noth) manages a reality jump into the original DC Comics Universe, he enlists the aid of most of the Justice League. And so, Superman (Mark Harmon), Wonder Woman (Vanessa Marshall), and a less than cooperative Batman (William Baldwin), become involved in a desperate quest to free Good Luthor's universe from super-powered criminal domination by the vicious Crime Syndicate and it's Jersey-thug-like leader, Ultraman (Brian Bloom) — and also to stave off the possible destruction of all existence by an off-his-evil meds Dark Knight of the Soul, Owlman (James Woods), and his only slightly more sane GF, Super Woman (Gina Torres).
The 72 minute direct-to-video feature was premiered at both of the coastal outlets of the Paley Center, and I attended the one located on Earth Prime's Beverly Hills. Us members of the local geek press were allowed to commune with members of the cast and crew and, in my case, that started with the extremely busy animation casting and voice director, Andrea Romano. The loquacious performer and voice director, whose work includes everything from "Animaniacs" to "Spongebob Squarepants" and "Ben Ten," is held in as high esteem by super-animation fans as any actor, writer, or director. Her work on DC superhero projects goes back to the early nineties and "Batman: The Animated Series," which revolutionized superhero cartoons with quality writing from creators like Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, animation, and, thanks to her efforts, acting.
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Big Daddy Drew's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo previews the upcoming weekend of the NFL every, well, every Thursday afternoon.
Ho Ho Ho! Welcome to this very special Christmas edition of the Jamboroo. Now, I've made my wishlist, and I think it's in pretty good shape:
• Rope
• Duct Tape
• Gasoline can filled with 89 octane
• Chair
• Car trunk containing Jillian Barberie
• Bic lighter
• Muddy Mudskipper cereal bowl caddy
I gave this list to my mom. At first she was puzzled, but I think I eventually swayed her. Anyway, time to break down the holiday, THROWGASM-STYLE!
All games and other items in the Jamboroo are evaluated for sheer watchability and or awesomeness on a scale of 1 to 5 Throwgasms.
Five Throwgasms
The Nutcracker: I'm gay for the Nutcracker. You can't listen to the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy without thinking of Brady Quinn.
Christmas Day Breakfast: Smoked salmon? Fuck and yes. I could eat 900 lbs of smoked salmon. My blood may already be 50% mercury. You could tattoo temperature gradations on my body and probably get an accurate reading.
Egg Nog: No mention of egg nog would be complete without a little Dave Attell. "I wanna get a little drunk, but I also want pancakes."
Stockings: I like the fact that you don't have to wrap stuff to put in a stocking. The stocking does that job for you. Reaching into a stocking is also like playing the "3 Strikes" game on "The Price Is Right." You never know what you're gonna pull out of there. Could be a watch. Could be a travel bottle of Cuervo. Could be a snake. You just don't know!
Not Showering Until Dinner
Redskins at Vikings: Hey Michelle Tafoya, leave Purple Jesus the fuck alone. Yeah, I saw your Sunday Conversation with him, where you asked him questions like:
"When you were 7, you were playing on the street with your brother. What happened next?"
Gee, why do I think you knew the answer to that question already? Let me rephrase the question for you the way you really wanted to ask it:
"Hey, you saw your brother die right in front of you. Can you relive every horrible detail on camera so I can win a sports Emmy?"
Or this one you asked him right after that:
"Seeing your brother die in front of you, how did that make you feel?"
Oh, I'm sure it made him feel terrific. You whore.
Eagles at Saints: 5 out of 5 conservative white people agree: Brian Westbrook is a hero!
Giants at Bills: Starring Tom Coughlin as the Heat Miser. Did you know the Snow Miser has the exact same hairstyle as Dick Versace?
Texans at Colts
Four Throwgasms
Browns at Bengals: An orgy of fantasy points awaits!
Dolphins at Patriots: This could have been the most unique game in NFL history. What would have been the odds that the best team in NFL history and the worst team in NFL history would exist within the same season? Or that they would reside in the same division? Instead, the Dolphins are now just another forgettably awful team. It's a shame. I live for novelty matchups.
Three Throwgasms
Shopping: I don't mind the first hour of Christmas shopping. It can be fun poking around and looking for shit, especially if they're handing out free food in the Williams Sonoma. And if there's a Chick Fil-A in the mall, then it's automatically a good day. It's after that first hour, when you're ready to leave but have tons of shit left to buy, where it becomes hell on earth. Memo to all mall personnel: You don't have to have the fucking thermostat up that high. I'm dying in here, and I'm sick of carrying my jacket.
Also, a big fuck you to any store that gives me merchandise in a bag that has paper handles. After two hours, that shit starts to dig in like piano wire.
Turkey: I've had my fill of Turkey at Thanksgiving. Do we really need a reprise? Time for ham, or duck, or something else new. Have you tried goose? It's like duck, only bigger. And greasier. I like any food that comes in confit form.
Christmas Cards: I'm at the age now where people send each other Christmas cards, featuring pictures of their kids. It's a subtle way for people to tell you LOOK AT HOW GORGEOUS MY FAMILY IS! WE LIVE WELL! I enjoy coldly analyzing all of their children's physical flaws. "Jeez, that kid got fat!"
NOTE: If you include one of those "family year in review" letters in your Christmas card, you're a douche. I don't care about that whitewater rafting trip you made in August. Fuck your raft.
Broncos at Chargers
Packers at Bears
Two Throwgasms
Steelers at Rams: They're gonna blow it!
Cowboys at Panthers: You stay the fuck away from this game, Jessica Simpson. My league title is on the line. Go give your daddy another backrub.
One Throwgasm
Wrapping: I fucking hate wrapping. Especially if there isn't a table available to wrap on. Wrapping gifts on the floor is like playing Twister for three hours straight. I fuck up wrapping gifts in every conceivable way. I misjudge the width of the box and can't get the paper to meet in the middle. Or, I use too much paper and can't make proper creases on the ends. And ribbon? Holy fuck. Calibrating the right length of ribbon requires an engineering degree. I can't make a curlicue to save my life. When I'm done wrapping a gift, it looks like the gift got into a fight with a cat.
I hate wrapping. I also hate:
The Gift Wrap Counter: Jesus. Will you hurry the fuck up, lady? How fucking hard is it to wrap a book? It's not like I asked you to wrap a hedge trimmer.
Getting the Tree In The Motherfucking Stand
Rain: Rain on Christmas is like getting the flu before your bachelor party.
Mistletoe: I bet Erin Andrews wishes nothing but hateful shit on the creepy asshole who sired this tradition.
Falcons at Cardinals: After blowing up at his o-coordinator last week, Kurt Warner went home and told his wife that Anne Landers was a boring old bitty. He was more animal than man!
Raiders at Jaguars
Chiefs at Lions
Bucs at Niners
Ravens at Seahawks
Jets at Titans
Pregame Song That Makes Me Want To Run Through A Goddamn Brick Wall
"Angry Chair", by Alice in Chains. Nothing says Christmas quite like the soft sounds of "Angry Chair" playing in the living room. Bonus points if you're family has left you and you're suffering from heroin addiction! Poor Layne Staley. You know, if he had blown off his head, he totally would have been more revered.
I have an angry chair in my own home. It has a picture of Sarah Jessica Parker on it. Bitch.
Embarassing Cassingle I Once Owned That Will Not Fire You Up
"Digging In The Dirt," by Peter Gabriel. I blame Peter Gabriel for Bono.
Fantasy Player That Deserves To Die A Slow, Painful Death
Tom Brady. Yes you, Dreamboat! How dare you come along, sweep fantasy owners off their feet with impressive performance after impressive performance, charming them and their friends, and then abandon them right at the exact moment they needed you most? YOU HEARTBREAKER! Fantasy owners don't deserve that kind of shabby treatment, okay? Next year, they're gonna find themselves a more stable QB. And they're not going to ever give you visitation rights to their newborn leagues! Not even during Christmas! Suck on that, you insensitive prick. You're no keeper!
Five Potential Key Injuries
• Tarvaris Jackson (calf)
• Todd Collins (calcification)
• Garrett Wolfe (elfism)
• Troy Williamson (Grandma run over by reindeer)
• Matt Leinart (ornament hook through penis)
This Week's Suicide Pick
Last week's suicide pool pick of Baltimore was incorrect. Thanks for nothing, Matty Stover. Off the board now are Baltimore, Jacksonville, Tennnessee, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, New Orleans, San Diego, Cleveland, Washington, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Green Bay and New England (Record for the year: 10-5). We once again pick a both a suicide pool team and an actual way of committing suicide. This week's pick: Minnesota (What the hell, I've got nothing to lose), and jumping off a bridge.
I don't get the bridge scene in "It's A Wonderful Life." George Bailey is about to kill himself by jumping off the bridge. Then Clarence pretends to be drowning in the water, so George then jumps off the bridge and into the water to save him. Well, shouldn't he have died while doing THAT? Why should intent matter in determining if you survive a bridge jump? Or was George just gonna jump off the bridge so he could then freeze to death in the water? Christ, that sounds horrible. His life must have sucked BALLS.
I love the horrible alternate dimension at the end of the movie, especially the line about what happens to George's wife. After George shakes the shit outta Clarence, he fesses up, "ALL RIGHT! She's an old maid! She never married!" GAH! Oh no! The horrors! She had to live her life as an independent woman! With no man to provide for her! She never got to be barefoot and pregnant while fetching her man more fireside whisky! THE PAIN!!! I'm also a big fan of the mean universe Martini The Bartender:
"Look here! We sell hard drinks for men who wanna get drunk fast."
Goddamn right. Preach on, my man. Too bad the movie got all nicey nice at the end. Oh well. Best to stick to the lost ending.
Favorite skit EVAR.
Gametime Snack Of The Week
Holiday M&M's. Putting holiday M&M's in a candy dish is like throwing free crack down an alley. I am powerless to resist the delicious candy crunch. They even make mint flavored ones, and HOLY FUCK are they good. They've come out with all kinds of new M&M flavors lately: mint, dark, almond, sand, etc. I'm down with all of them. You could put Daulerio's stool inside a candy shell and I'd eat it. And I have!
Every year when I was a kid, my mom would pick up one of those gingerbread house-making kits for my sister and my brother and me to make. She'd also pick up about eight bags of holiday M&M's to decorate. They make excellent garlands at the edge of the roof, or a fabulous doorknob. That gingerbread house would sit on our kitchen table for weeks. And I'd pick off every single M&M on it, until the house was covered in divots marked by faint traces of red and green dye. Not a good-looking gingerbread house. By New Year's, the thing looked the kind of house you'd see on "The Wire."
While we're talking M&M's, I'm extremely disturbed by the current M&M's campaign. I never asked for an M&M that resembles Brad Garrett, and seeing that image does not make me any hungrier.
Gametime Cheap Beer Of The Week
Natty Bo. Ever take a train ride past Baltimore and wonder how that city ended up like that? It's the Natty Bo!
Every year at my old ad agency, there was a gift swap. One year I had nothing to give, so I ran down to a convenience store and grabbed two 40's. One was Olde English. The other was Colt .45. They came in a black plastic bag. I tied the bag in a knot on top, stuck a gift bow on it, and stuck it on the table. When one of the guys at work opened it, he looked immediately at me. I guess this was not surprising behavior on my part. I ended up with a $20 Old Navy gift card. Hooray, carpenter pants!
Sunday Afternoon Movie Of The Week For Ravens Fans
A Christmas Story. I have only one beef with A Christmas Story. and it is this: There's that scene at the end of the movie where Ralphie has gone through all his presents, only to realize that he didn't get the Red Rider BB Gun. But later that night, his dad points out the special "forgotten" gift hidden over in the corner of the room, which of course turns out to be the gun.
I first saw this movie when I was 8 years old. Every year after I saw it, I would spend Christmas Day hoping the EXACT SAME THING would happen to me. That, if I didn't get what I wanted, that my Dad would surprise me with a hidden "bonus gift" after stringing me along for a couple hours. That never fucking happened. Instead, this would happen.
Me: So, is that all?
Dad: Is what all?
Me: Are these all the gifts? Didn't forget anything?
Dad: Uh... no.
Me: Are you SURE?
Dad: What are you, a fucking retard?
I never did get that that miniature sports car I saw on Double Dare, or the skateboard/bike hybrid I saw on "Remote Control" or Kelly Bundy spread-eagled on my bed. God damn that movie for getting my hopes up.
Gratuitous Simpsons Quote
"There's only one fat guy who brings us presents, and his name ain't Santa."
Halftime Masturbation Kit
• For the guys: A festive Lucy Pinder and Jordan. How can Santa compete when he only has one fun bag?
• For the gals: Some dude's package in man's holiday lingerie! I'm guessing this product is a big hit on Christopher Street. Men's lingerie is a very weird and disturbing segment of the fashion industry. I go to Marshall's to buy underwear once in a while, and 90 percent of everything else on the rack consists of hip briefs and thongs. If you're heterosexual and you wear stuff like this, you owe people an explanation.
Blatantly False, ProFootballTalk-Style, Fred Edelstein-esque Rumor Of The Week
WE HEAR... that Donovan McNabb accused Pam Oliver of being a "big, fat liar." And if J. Whyatt Mondeshire needed further proof that Donovan McNabb is an Uncle Tom, the fact that McNabb called Oliver fat and not "Onionazztastic" should help his cause.
Your Motivational Pregame Quote for The Weekend
"Hey jackweed, I get more action in a week than you've had in your entire life. I've got houses in L.A., Paris and Vail. In each one, a 70-inch plasma screen. So I suggest you wipe that stupid smile off your face before I come over there and SMACK it off! You feeling strong, my friend? Call me elf one more time."
-Miles Finch
Enjoy the games, everyone. My very best to you and your family over Christmas. If you travel, I hope your trip is as safe and painless as humanly possible.
PROGRAMMING NOTE: There will be an abbreviated Jamboroo next week due to the fact that I have the week off and will be mainlining Cabernet directly into my system. I'm quite sure you'll live.


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All Eyes on Ubuntu as CES Draws Near
Jan 9, 2012 5:00 AM PT
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious," a very wise man once said, and that's surely as true in the tech world as it is in the rest of life.
Maybe that's why so many have been so intrigued by Canonical's cryptic announcement last week about its plans for this week's CES event.
"Canonical will have a presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas," wrote Canonical blogger John Bernard last Tuesday. "On display will be the latest in Desktop, Cloud and demonstrations on Ubuntu One, plus an exclusive Ubuntu concept design which will be announced during the show."
It is that "exclusive Ubuntu concept design," of course, that has had tongues wagging so enthusiastically in the Linux blogosphere and beyond.
Will it be a tablet? A phone? Something else? Inquiring minds are anxiously waiting to find out.
'Hoping it's Not a Unity-Based Phone'
"Last year, Canonical announced its intention to release a mobile version of Ubuntu by 2014, so I guess that it would not be too surprising if Canonical would show off an Ubuntu phone or tablet," mused Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor.
"I would not get too excited, though -- 'concept design' usually refers to some sort of mock-up," Lim added.
"I'm just hoping it's not a Unity-based phone," Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza offered. "That would really take the cake."
'Less Annoying on a Touch Screen'
If it's a tablet, however, "it had better be a quad-core tegra-based unit," Espinoza added. "I'm looking for something with a working GPS antenna. :)"
Consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack chose to accentuate the positive.
"On the plus side, Unity should be a lot less annoying on a touch screen," he offered.
'You Need Product Engineering'
"Hopefully it won't be about the long-promised 'We'll have Android Apps running on Ubuntu on a tablet,' because that's already been done, on a (US)$59 tablet from DataWind on a hacked linux kernel," noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
"Besides, Canonical doesn't have the engineering chops, or they wouldn't have abandoned it," Hudson added.
"So, what could it be? Stepping back, it's obvious that Canonical was never about engineering," she asserted. "It's always been marketing, hype, generating buzz by trying to get their fingers into the latest trend, and 'oh look -- shiny.' Unfortunately for them, unless you have a practical monopoly like Microsoft enjoyed, you ultimately need product engineering to stand out."
'Sales Will Stink'
Hudson's guess? "Canonical will announce some sort of partnership with a tablet manufacturer running Ubuntu's mobile interface," she said. "If so, 2012 may be the equivalent of the Mayan Apocalyptic Calendar -- the year Canonical is forced to realize that they don't bring anything unique to the table."
Sales will "stink so badly that nobody will be able to ignore the rotting corpse, if it's anything nearly as bad as the ghastly 2007 Walmart Ubuntu PC," Hudson predicted.
"For those who forgot (and really, who wants to be reminded), that ended up with Walmart losing money because of the insane return rates -- and Walmart isn't known for losing money on anything," she pointed out.
'Way Too Little, Far Too Late'
The reality, Hudson concluded, "is that tablets are going to go through the same market evolution as other computing devices -- and consumer electronics in general, for those who remember the VHS vs. Beta wars," she said.
"The cheapest solutions quickly put price pressure on the mid-range devices, then add more features at a lower price point as the technology matures," she explained. "Ultimately they displace all but the high-end market."
Currently, "cheap tablets like the Kindle, Nook, and Datawind -- not iPads -- are setting the price expectations for the masses, so unless Canonical is announcing a sub-$200 tablet that also runs Android apps, it's way too little, far too late, no matter how they try to spin it," Hudson opined.
'There Isn't Any Money to Be Made'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet saw it differently.
Ultimately, Canonical "will get into device building and simply abandon the desktop build to the community," hairyfeet predicted.
"There is a GOOD reason why the big players like Red Hat don't spend any real effort on the desktop, and that's because unless you are MSFT and can get economies of scale or like Apple lock up the high-end boutique market, there isn't any money to be made," he explained.
'I Wish Them All the Luck in the World'
If, however, "Canonical can 'pull an Apple' and control the hardware as well as the software, it may solve a couple of problems Linux has had for years, which is drivers failing on update and OEMs using their junk bins to build Linux boxes to get rid of old crud," hairyfeet suggested.
"Just look at the machines Walmart had a few years back: while everyone else was running dual core they had a REALLY weak Via single core with a pathetic amount of RAM and specs that wouldn't make XP run well," he noted.
"Having a total system from hardware to software could finally give Linux a showcase platform to really give the public a good running Linux device, so I wish them all the luck in the world," hairyfeet concluded.
'Better Suited to Tiny Screens'
"This could mean Canonical is retreating from the desktop a bit," blogger Robert Pogson conceded. "Unity is obviously better suited to tiny screens with fingers than huge monitors and mice."
Either way, "what Android/Linux can do on ARMed gadgets, GNU/Linux can do as well, only faster," Pogson predicted.


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Cindy Sherman, Untitled # 428, 1976/2005, b/w photograph, 19 x 12,7 cm (unframed), 7,5 x 5 inches (unframed), 25,4 x 20,3 cm (framed), 10 x 8 inches (framed), Edition 3/20, MSPM CSH 05680, Courtesy of the artist, Metro Pictures New York and Sprueth Magers Berlin London.
Cloud Illusions I Recall explores the relationship between visual art and cinema. The Irish Museum of Modern Art invited artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Cerith Wyn Evans to exhibit their work and explore concepts of the poetic and imagination that together make up the cinematic experience, thereby investigating the relationships and influence of film.
Through a series of conversations, Gonzalez-Foerster and Wyn Evans explored this influence of the cinematic as a theme for the show, and then expanded the exhibition through selected diverse works from filmmakers, writers and artists. Both artists nuanced selection of installations, video, film, painting, text and events showcases the long-standing legacy of cinema as a source of inspiration for artists since its formation. The exhibition presents a dialogue with cinema that reveals the rich interplay between the two genres.
Cloud Illusions I Recall, which takes its title from Joni Mitchell's 1969 classic song 'Both Sides, Now', offers a unique and wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between art, cinema and the world we inhabit. Cinema has the power to affect our state of mind, with the classic themes on offer such as love, suspense and the melancholic, altering how we perceive the world around us. Cloud Illusions I Recall includes some rare works, not seen for decades, and others created especially for the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibiton features works that span generations and includes some of the most important artists of recent times, such as Marcel Broodthaers, James Coleman, Peter Doig, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Andrey Tarkovsky, along with the Victorian photographer Clementina, Lady Hawarden. Film screenings of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's iconic The Red Shoes, 1948, are also included.
A special work/event has been created for Cloud Illusions I Recall, a choral performance of Samuel Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine, conceived by Cerith Wyn Evans for IMMA, which was performed on the opening night of the exhibition. Gonzalez-Foerster also performed a new work on the opening night based on her ongoing work, M.2062, a fragmented opera that started during the Memory Marathon (2012) at the Serpentine Gallery, London. This continuing performance stands as a moment within a body of work by Gonzalez-Foerster centrally concerned with literature and musical adventures in the spirit of Werner Herzog's epic 1982 film Fitzcarraldo and King Ludwig II of Bavaria's fascination with Wagner.
A fully-illustrated artists' book published by IMMA will accompany the exhibition, including texts by Cerith Wyn Evans and Rachael Thomas. Price €12.00.
IMMA Limited Edition – An exclusive limited edition print has been created by artist Peter Doig for the Irish Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of Cloud Illusions I Recall, and is available from the Museum shop, price €80.00. SOLD OUT
Edition details: Peter Doig, Cloud Illusions I Recall, 2013, Edition of 100, Digital pigment prints on archival Somerset Photo Rag 300gsm, size A1.
There is an extensive talks and events programme accompanying this exhibition which draws on the cinematic impulses of contemporary artists, addressing the cultural potency of cinema's social, psychological and dissemination structures in art, film and everyday life.
Lecture | Cinema fever in the everyday world
Wednesday 17 July, 5.30pm, the North Range, IMMA
This talk gives a historical perspective on the infectious status and relationship of the still, moving and cinematic image in everyday culture. Examining cinema's fever as a mass medium for artists to utilise, this talk explores changing modes of film distribution and reception from popular, mass and viral cultures, to recent waves of film clubs and artists' collectives. Presented by Martin McCabe (Lecturer in Photography, DIT).
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Lecture | Cinema as Art Project
Tuesday 23 July, 5.30pm, the Johnston Suite, IMMA at RHK (Please note new date Tueseday 23 July for this lecture)
Maeve Connolly (writer and Lecturer, IADT) presents a lecture on the cinematic turn in contemporary art practice theorised through reference to a variety of projects. Connolly addresses the attraction of social forms of the cinematic in public art, through reference to exhibition histories and practices associated with the movie theatre and art museum.
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With the beginning of 2012, I find myself in a space that feels very different from years past. My pathway seems less clear or defined, and my soul is generously content with the lack of definition. At the launch of each new year, I choose a word as a gentle guide and focus for the coming months. The word that chose me this year is BE.
While BE is a word that's shown up in numerous previous ways, it was nonetheless the one that kept bubbling to the top of my awareness as year's end approached. It's a provocative word and one that's easily accessorized with other descriptors: Be yourself; Be present; Be still... It is proving to be an interesting challenge and something to be noted on a moment-by-moment basis. Lately I have been somewhat obsessed with the fruition of a long-time dream... the publication of my new book, As I Lay Pondering. I am wordless at how this experience is impacting me, and realize the extreme need to simply BE in it.
There are so many things to be done, learned and experienced in this unveiling. It is not only revealing my words and thoughts to the world, but also offering a whole new way for me to BE.. and even that statement leaves me wordless.
So what can I say? What do I know? Well... What I know this moment—right now—is that I am eternally grateful for the community that has followed and supported this blog (and me) for the past several years. Without you, As I Lay Pondering would not exist. Without you, it would be more difficult for me to BE myself. Thank you for coming to this space where I can simply be me. My hope always is that you leave here feeling a little more you. ☺


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Gammeltoft, Peter; Tarmidi, Lepi T. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: China"s increasing integration with the world economy is met with much anticipation and much anxiety in the Southeast Asian region. In Indonesia, there is intense interest in Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI), not only among academics but also among policy makers, industrialists and the general public. So much more surprising is the fact that no systematic study of Chinese FDI in Indonesia has been undertaken to date. The current paper contributes to filling this gap and analyses the current composition as well as the historical evolution of Chinese FDI in Indonesia. Relying on a survey conducted in 2008 among Chinese invested enterprises supplemented with available official statistics and secondary data, the study finds that Chinese FDI in Indonesia is performed by mixed entities: some are owned by central government, some by regional government and some are private firms. In the case of joint ventures, their local partners are mostly local Chinese, except in the infrastructure, mining and energy sector where their local partners are Indonesian state-owned enterprises. Where the local developmental effects are concerned, a picture emerges where Chinese investments, at this early period of their internationalization, are likely to give rise to a more modest extent of positive spillovers than investor from more economically advanced countries. This stems from the sectors, investment motives and operational strategies of Chinese investors, the heritage of ethnic tension and segmentation of the economic system along ethnic lines in Indonesia, and the likelihood that Chinese MNCs as latecomers are more vertically integrated than their developed-country counterparts. Finally, considering the evolution of Chinese investments in Indonesia over time, investments have evolved from being individual and isolated projects to acquiring more systemic properties. Chinese companies have acquired a broader sectoral presence in Indonesia and Chinese invested companies in e.g. extractive or manufacturing activities can increasingly rely on complementary Chinese investments in logistics, travel, finance etc. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8397
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outline of a research projectGammeltoft, Peter (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6978
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Outward FDI from the BRICS countriesGammeltoft, Peter (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: South Korean and Taiwanese brands have long been household names. Today, however, the names of transnational companies (TNCs) from an increasingly diverse set of emerging and developing economies are regularly making if not the dinner table conversation then at least the headlines of the international business press. This reflects that companies such as Mittal and Tata (India), China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), Haier and Lenovo (PRC), Embraer (Brazil), SAPMiller (South Africa), and Cemex (Mexico) are foraying ever deeper into the international economy and increasingly investing abroad. Even though FDI usually constitutes only a minor part of countries' total capital formation, the relationships between FDI and economic growth, welfare, and industrial upgrading in developing countries have been the object of long and extensive treatment in the literature. However, the literature has overwhelmingly focused on the impact of outward FDI from developed countries into recipient developing countries. Much less analyzed has been the increasingly important phenomenon of outward FDI (OFDI) from the developing countries themselves, be it into developed or into other developing countries. Apart from a few early pioneering studies (Lecraw 1977; Lall 1983; Wells 1983; Agarwal 1985) only few studies have been made so far of outward investment from emerging and developing economies. This is in spite of the fact that the value of outward FDI stock from developing countries reached USD859 billion in 2003, up from USD129 billion in 1990, and has increased 11 times since 1985. A limited number of recent studies do exist, though (e.g. Cai 1999; Lecraw 1993; van Hoesel 1999; Tolentino 1993; Andreff 2003; Chudnovsky and López 2000; Bulatov 1998, Yeung 2000). Furthermore, academic interest in the subject picked up considerably with the publication of UNCTAD's 2006 World Investment Report, which was dedicated to the subject of FDI from developing and transition economies. The report was succeeded by a number of journal special issues (e.g. JIBS 2007, JIM forthcoming, TC forthcoming) and books (e.g. Goldstein 2007; Benito and Narula 2007). This paper takes stock of the mounting trend of outward FDI from emerging economies, with special focus on a group of five countries, which are becoming increasingly economically and politically influential, viz. the 'BRICS' countries. An 'S' is appended here to the conventional acronym of 'BRIC' (Brazil, Russia, India, China) to include the largest economy on the African continent, South Africa. The five BRICS countries produced some USD25 billion of outward FDI flows in 2004, corresponding to some 3 percent of world FDI flows and well over half (61 percent) of total developing country outflows. OFDI from the BRICS countries has grown rapidly over the last few years, while still remaining modest compared to many developed countries. Following a brief discussion of FDI and emerging economies in general the article proceeds to hypothesise that the increase we currently observe in outward investment from emerging and developing economies may constitute a third 'wave' of OFDI, distinct from the two previous waves depicted in the literature, and outlines the contours of such a wave. An empirical analysis OFDI from the BRICS countries follows, conducted at three levels: global (what is the extent, directions, etc. of outward FDI); sectoral (in which sectors is outward FDI significant); and firm level, identifying a small number of particularly interesting TNCs from emerging and developing economies URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6567
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The institutional Embeddedness of Production Systems and the New Partnership for Africa´s Development (NEPAD)Lessond from East AsiaGammeltoft, Peter (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: While still short of being entirely mainstream there does appear to be a growing recognition in both policy circles and academia that economic development is not brought about by autonomous profitmaximising agents interacting anonymously through equilibrium markets.1 Rather, economic development is an inherently disequilibric process involving interactive and institutionally embedded processes in broader systems of firms, governments, research centres, universities, consultants, and other entities. These systems can tap into stocks of global knowledge and technologies, assimilate and adapt it to local circumstances, and create new knowledge or technologies. Such broader production systems are conceptualised in several different ways in the literature, e.g. Lundvall et al.'s 'national innovation systems', Richard Whitley's 'business systems', and Sanjaya Lall's concept of 'industrial technology development'. This paper identifies and outlines four different systemic approaches to economic development. All four approaches have primarily been developed to address nationally based institutional systems in advanced economies. Both the ontological premises and the policy implications of these systemic approaches depart distinctly from the conventional orthodoxy on economic development as articulated in the 'Washington Consensus' and its later derivatives. The article goes on to explore which policy implications the adoption of such a systemic view might have for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6982
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Safety Update
Rebuilt Machinery Opens Up New Concerns About Safety
With the current emphasis on refurbishing and re-use of existing metalforming and fabricating equipment, the need for thorough and detailed safety management takes on an even greater concern. With each equipment upgrade, metalformers must conduct a thorough safety evaluation of the primary equipment and its use in production.
Unfortunately, safety management often takes a back seat to production, and does not become a concern until an incident occurs.
In most cases, manufacturers will need to address the relevant OSHA requirements for safeguarding equipment; go to www.osha.gov for starters, to seek information about stopping times, palm-button locations, point-of-contact guarding, etc. Also, stay up to speed on advances in sensor technology—light curtains, coded proximity switches, safety mats and related products.
The name of the game: Identify all possible hazards in all possible scenarios. Management should include employees most knowledgeable about the equipment and process in safety-brainstorming sessions. Start with a list of the day-to-day uses of each machine or system to capture all uses and functions.
When possible, include outside help in conducting safety reviews. Getting a fresh set of eyes to review a process or machine can help identify hazards that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Press accidents often occur during die setting, a particularly dangerous process because it often requires a combination of power-on and power-off procedures. Requirements related to power-off and locking out the press are very clear. The critical question becomes how to safely set a die once power is restored. All hazards must be eliminated—look for creative uses of fixtures to eliminate the hazards. Regular preventive maintenance also falls into this category.
These items are just a few of the considerations to ensure a safe press shop. As everyone strives to be more competitive, we continue to do more with our existing equipment. Modernization of an older piece of equipment can turn it into a profit center. Complete the process with a thorough safety review on the front end of the project.
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Gabrielle Hamilton can write, there's no doubt about that. Craft infuses her recent bestseller, peppered as it is with references to both body and kitchen fluids.
Still, this writer was reluctant to read the memoir of this reluctant chef.
When a book like Blood, Bones & Butter gets so much advance praise it's hard to believe it can live up to the hype.
Let's review, shall we? There was the excerpt in The New Yorker, a New York Times profile and laudatory reviews from the paper of record by Michiko Kakutani and Frank Bruni, along with glowing accounts in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Of course, the womens' glossies weighed in with pleasure, as did the blogosphere, including the Times (again), 5 Second Rule, and Bay Area Bites.
Top chefs chimed in too: Her book boasts bubbly blurbs from Bourdain, Batali, and Boulud.
Curious to find out what all the fuss was about, this reporter went to hear Hamilton speak at Omnivore Books in March, when she swung through town on book tour, and again last Thursday, when she appeared on stage in conversation with Kim Severson as part of the City Arts & Lecture series. Oh, and in between this reporter devoured her almost 300-page coming-of-age story.
The book is an indisputable page turner, but let's dispose of one major beef up front: The last section — "Butter" — feels rushed and not ready for prime time, in large part because the central concern — the unraveling of her lonely marriage — was not resolved in real time. No matter, the publisher wanted that memoir hitting the shelves pronto and mass marketing waits for no one. (Hamilton said Thursday that she's since addressed the marriage matter — in life and on the page in an epilogue for the paperback edition, available in January.)
Clearly, the woman has a talent with pots and pens. The owner of Prune, a wildly popular little bistro in Manhattan's East Village, (the restaurant's title comes from a childhood nickname), Hamilton recently won a James Beard Award for best New York City chef after receiving nominations for the coveted title three years running. (Though some grumbled that the gal who serves Triscuits and canned sardines at the bar won more for what she represents than what she cooks.) She's written about the chef's life for Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, and Saveur, where her sister Melissa Hamilton was an editor, and appeared in six volumes of Best Food Writing.
Hamilton has worked hard and overcome obstacles to get to the top of her game, in two creative fields no less. She survived a largely feral childhood followed by a drug-fueled, unsupervised adolescence, turned to cooking to find family, home, hope, structure, and salvation and wound up, on a whim, running a restaurant of her own.
She's not interested in glamorizing either pursuit. If anything she has a tendency to martyrdom: Hamilton recounts cleaning human excrement off the restaurant stoop and deposing of a dead rat riddled with maggots found on the back steps. She turns hundreds of eggs on the breakfast line, while major-league pregnant and, later, with babies clinging to her breast.
Her autobiography, a decade in the making, is scribbled on brown paper between services, on subway rides, and while putting those babes to bed. There is never enough time or sleep.
Professionally, Hamilton is a big talent and a huge success. Her personal life, as she reveals in her book, is a bit messier. Estranged from her mother for decades, she identifies as lesbian but ditched the sisterhood for a clandestine affair with an Italian man she ends up marrying. He is the father of her two boys, though from the beginning of their coupling trouble is brewing. For starters, Hamilton seems more in love with his mother and summer visits to the Italian clan's compound than her actual husband.
These personal revelations would seem meaty subjects for seasoned interviewer Kim Severson in her City Arts & Lectures discussion with Hamilton. But Severson — now the New York Times' Atlanta bureau chief who appears to keep her hand in the food beat and her heart in San Francisco — was in a tricky situation. Just days before Hamilton landed in town the New York Post had dropped a bombshell about the celebrity chef's love life.
Of course, who Hamilton sleeps with is really nobody else's business, except that her memoir includes revelations about her adventures in the sack as well as an apron. And Hamilton talks a lot about the value of being honest and authentic in the kitchen and on the page. To top it off, the New York Post item on Hamilton was recycled in the local food media the day before her appearance.
Severson gave a nod to the matter early on in the chat: "I'm going to ask you the question on everyone's minds, [theatrical pause] How do you keep your skin so dewy?" That set the tone for an evening of mostly softballs from Severson, who made a running gag about not being "bitter" that Hamilton's memoir was a better read than her own, Spoon Fed.
The Times staffer did try some shock value, noting the book's unusual intimacy, which a friend described to Severson this way: "I feel like I know every fold in her vagina." But she quickly found herself in the role of comforting colleague, after an earthquake literally shook the subdued Hamilton, who looked like she wanted to bolt from the stage when things started rocking.
A few sips of wine later, however, Hamilton regained her composure and temporarily shut down Severson, as she meandered through her self-described cliched questions. Case in point: "What's the last taste you would want in your mouth before you die?" Surely not the first time Hamilton's fielded that query.
"I thought we were going to have an intelligent conversation about writing and you want to know if I keep lube in my bedside table," Hamilton scolded at one point. Note to Linda Hunt: Not all KQED subscribers may be amused by the repartee between these two, who wondered if any couple, regardless of orientation, can keep sex alive in a long-term relationship — though, it must be said, the crowd at Herbst Theater ate it up.
During the audience Q&A fans gushed about how much they loved Hamilton's book, even if they hadn't finished it, and her restaurant, even if they hadn't eaten there yet. In such an environment, this reporter felt it would have been a hostile act to ask the writer-chef if she cared to comment about the recent allegations in the press. Instead, she opted for the more discreet email follow up to both Hamilton and Severson, neither of whom jumped at the opportunity to explain why the subject wasn't broached on stage.
Hardly surprising. Hamilton made it clear at her book signing at Omnivore that she's selective about what aspects of her private life the public get to know about through her writing. Her mantra: If it's not in there, it's not tellable — readers don't get all of her. Fair enough.
It's this kind of contradiction — the tell-all that keeps secrets — that makes Hamilton such a fascinating creature. She's full of inconsistencies — aren't we all? — only hers are on display for all the world to see and hear. Hamilton often says she loathes being called "a female chef" and yet when TV came calling looking for just such a demographic, she jumped at the chance to take one for the team.
Similarly she thinks the term "food writer" is demeaning; she's simply a chef who is also a scribe and cooking is what allowed her to come to the party. Yet, when asked what readers can expect next from the literary writer she responds: A cookbook.
During the talk Hamilton mentions the moms at her sons' school, who she says look at her disdainfully as she drops off her kids. Her children eat poorly and often in the car on the way to school, she confesses. And yet, one can't help but get the impression that the 45-year-old looks down her nose at them. Severson counters that perhaps the other moms are intimidated or awed by the successful chef with the best-selling memoir but Hamilton dismisses this notion out of hand.
And the Beard Award is silly, Hamilton says, until she wins it, and then it's the most important culinary honor a chef can earn. Thankfully she has a sense of humor about all this flip-flopping.
One gets the sense that Hamilton doesn't give a hoot if you like her, agree with her opinions, or want to read her book. It's what makes her intriguing and may well be an essential part of why she's so talented on the page and in the kitchen. She's just doing her own thing and not seeking anyone else's praise or approval.
During the course of the 90-minute City Arts & Lectures dialogue she laments the fetishization of food (the cult of farmers' markets, home cooks with sous vide machines), discussions of gender issues in restaurant kitchens (snoozeville), and the plethora of social media around food culture. Reading about food online, she says, is like eating at McDonalds. "You end up feeling hungry, undernourished, tired, and full of self loathing."
She's also down on the rise of reality TV cooking shows, even though she's had her own turn in front of the camera. (She slayed Bobby Flay on "Iron Chef"). "It's starting to suck for all of us, since TV isn't about cooking it's about entertaining," says Hamilton. "It's impossible to be quiet or subtle with food on television because actual cooking is really quite dull and repetitive."
Plans for a movie based on the memoir are already in the works, Hamilton told fans Thursday. She jokes she'd like to see Robert Downey Jr. play her.
That seems about right. Hamilton has balls. And a muscularity to her convictions and craft that the actor could convey handsomely. Audiences with a taste for Hamilton's contrarian ways might just go for such gender-bending casting. Stay tuned.
Listen to the conversation between Gabrielle Hamilton and Kim Severson broadcast on KQED Sunday, November 27 at 1 p.m.
This post originally appeared on KQED's Bay Area Bites.
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Born: about 480 in in or near Rome, Byzantine Empire (now Italy)
Died: 524 in Pavia, Gothic Empire (now Italy)
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius came from the family of Anicii who had been Christians for around 100 years. He became an orphan when he was about seven years old when his father, who became consul in 487, died soon afterwards. Boethius was brought up in the house of the aristocratic family of Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus. In fact Symmachus himself had been consul in 485 just before Boethius's father.
Boethius was extremely well educated, being fluent in Greek and very familiar with the works of the Greek philosophers. Although there is no firm evidence to prove that Boethius ever studied in Athens or Alexandria, many historians believe that this must have been the case for him to have achieved a unique level of scholarship among his countrymen.
He married Symmachus's daughter Rusticiana and they had two sons who would follow their father in being appointed to high public office. Boethius served a term as consul in 510 while in 522 his two sons held the office of consul simultaneously.
Education and knowledge were important to Boethius and he used his talents in writing and translating. His understanding of mathematics was rather limited, however, and the text he wrote on arithmetic was of poor quality and although his geometry text has not survived there is little reason to believe that is was any better. Despite this his mathematics texts were the best available and were used for many centuries during a time when mathematical achievement in Europe was at a remarkably low point. Boethius's Arithmetic was based on the work of Nicomachus and, although this gave it a strange character by the mathematical standards of today, it taught medieval scholars about Pythagorean number theory.
Boethius was one of the main sources of material for the quadrivium, an educational course introduced into monasteries consisting of four topics: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and the theory of music. On this last topic Boethius wrote on the relation of music to science, suggesting that the pitch of a note one hears is related to the frequency of sound.
He embarked on an ambitious project to translate and write commentaries on all the works of both Plato and Aristotle. His aim was to show the ways in which these two most important Greek philosophers agreed with each other. It was a project that Boethius was never to finish, in particular he died before he could translate Plato's work and fulfil his aim of harmonising the two philosophies.
He did, however, make Latin translations of Aristotle's Categories and De interpretatione and of Porphyry's Isagoge Ⓣ with two commentaries, which were widely used throughout the Middle Ages. Up to the 12th century his writings and translations were the main works on logic in Europe becoming known collectively as the Logica vetus (meaning the old logic).
Russell says that Boethius stands out as a man of great learning and great zeal, free from superstition and fanaticism. He writes in [14]:-
He would have been remarkable in any age, in the age in which he lived, he is utterly amazing.Boethius became head of all the government and court services under Theodoric, king of Italy and of the Goths. Russell writes in [14]:-
Theodoric employed Boethius to reform the coinage, and to astonish less sophisticated barbarian kings with such devices as sun-dials and water-clocks.Theodoric ruled Italy as essentially an independent monarch although he was the nominal representative of the Byzantine emperor. He had himself proclaimed king at Ravenna in 494 after taking back Italy from Odoacer. Boethius became magister officiorum under Theodoric in about 520. It was about this time that Boethius worked to mend relations between the Church in Rome and the Church in Constantinople which may in the end have been the reasons that he fell from favour.
Justin I in Constantinople was an orthodox Christian whereas Theodoric was an Arian. When the senator Albinus was accused of treason "for having written to the Emperor Justin against the rule of Theodoric" he was defended by Boethius. This led to Boethius himself being charged with treason, and other serious charges were also brought such as the practice of magic and of sacrilege.
Boethius was put in prison and there he wrote his most famous work De consolatione philosophiae. Russell says:-
Theodoric ... believed, rightly or wrongly, that there was a plot involving men in his own government. This led him to imprison and execute his minister, the senator Boethius.Symmachus, Boethius's father-in-law, defended him against the charges but this only led to Symmachus himself being charged. Boethius was sentenced to death, the sentence was ratified by the Senate probably against its will, and it was carried out. Symmachus was also sentenced to death and, when Theodoric himself died in 526 it was widely believed that he had been paid back for his crimes.
The De consolatione philosophiae looked at the [2]:-
... questions of the nature of good and evil, of fortune, chance, or freedom, and of divine foreknowledge. ... in the fifth book, for example, he attempted to resolve the apparent difficulty of reconciling human freedom with the divine foreknowledge, a problem that among Stoic thinkers - though by no means uniquely among them - had been in general currency for a long time.The powerful, yet simple, Platonic theism and morality which shines out of the De consolatione philosophiae made it extremely popular during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Perhaps aware that his aim in translating Plato was not to be fulfilled, Boethius put into his work a Platonic view of knowledge and reality. The work was originally written in Latin but it was later translated into many different languages.
We give an example of a picture of Boethius in his study which is taken from a translation of De consolatione philosophiae into French. The translation was made by Jean de Meun and dedicated to Philip IV of France. This means that the original was produced before Philip's death in 1314. The drawing is taken from a copy made by André Rousseau, a bookseller attached to the University of Bourges, completed on 1 February 1476. There are seven illustrations by the famous artist Jean Colombe, of which "Boethius in his study" appears in the translation of Boethius's original introduction.
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Let them eat dirt
What's happened to Sir David King, surface chemist and the former chief scientific advisor to the Government?
Perhaps something fell on his head.
The man dubbed the "King of Climate Porn" achieved notoriety at the turn of the decade as the architect of the Foot and Mouth holocaust - which unnecessarily slaughtered seven million animals, and cost the country billions of pounds. But King astonished observers by saying something sensible last week - and he promises to do so again tonight.
Speaking at the British Association's* Science Week, King will say that the Greenies' anti-science superstitions are causing unnecessary suffering in Africa. King blames "anti-poverty" campaigners, aid agencies and environmental activists for keeping modern farming techniques and bio-technology out of Africa.
"The suffering within [Africa], I believe, is largely driven by attitudes developed in the West which are somewhat anti-science, anti-technology - attitudes that lead towards organic farming, for example, attitudes that lead against the use of genetic technology for crops that could deal with increased salinity in the water, that can deal with flooding for rice crops, that can deal with drought resistance," King told The Times today.
King wonders why recent productivity revolutions in agriculture, which have been such a success in Asia and India, have not been implemented in Africa on the same scale. He concludes that the blame lies not with Africans, but with Western "do-gooders" who prefer Africans to remain picturesque and dirt poor.
An example he cites is the attempts of eco-campaigners Friends of the Earth to keep drought-resistant crops out of Africa.
He has a point.
"Where once there were ambitions for people in the third world to enjoy Western standards of living, now the voice of the voiceless instead celebrates the primitive lifestyles that the world's poorest people suffer," wrote Ben Pile and Stuart Blackman recently in a scathing critique of the charity Oxfam, called Backwards to the future.
Indeed, and the same middle-class superstitions that endeavour to keep Wi-Fi out of schools are used to justify keeping biotechnology out of Africa.
For example, Friends of the Earth continues to argue that modern seed technologies should not be used to make agriculture easier and more productive for poor farmers - even when this causes more ecological damage than the new technology. FoE's most recent campaign against biotech means that subsistence farmers must continue to use seeds that require more fertiliser than GM varieties, and which need environmentally-destructive tilling.
Whatever it is that motivates these self-styled "Greens", it isn't a concern for the environment. Nor, despite claims to the contrary, is there any valid concern of "over-population". The UN estimates global population growth to peak in the 2040s at 7.87bn, then decline, assuming modest development is permitted to continue. Not only does economic development mean fewer people, but it means less suffering: those fewer people are much happier.
Clearly, we can easily generate enough food to feed everyone on the planet and we have the means to ensure there's less human suffering. Some people want that to happen - and some don't. You'll find many nursing their Malthusian or Eugenics prejudices under the banner of Greenery in the former camp - but it's a refreshing surprise to find King in the latter camp, or at least edging away from the Greens' death cult. ®
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