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Making space: New exhibition documents role of artist spaces in Bay Area culture
The iconic Mexican muralist Diego Rivera once said, "revolution doesn't need art, nor art need revolution, but rather that the world needs revolutionary art in order to ensure societal revolution."
Though uttered decades ago and in reference to no particular city, those words ring especially true in the Bay Area, whose residents, intellectuals and decision makers have witnessed the important role of the artist and the artist's space as coterie of progress and public expression.
A new exhibition titled "Making a Scene: 50 years of Bay Area Alternative Spaces" is highlighting the roll artist-run, independent, alternative artistic spaces have played in enriching the culture of the Bay Area over the past 50 years. Making a Scene features archival material from approximately 20 individuals/spaces and art installations from more than 30 Bay Area artists.
The exhibit, which has received support with a grant from The National Endowmentfor the Arts, focuses on the diverse artist movements housed in the Bay Area throughout various neighborhoods, and how several of them overlap—despite appearing separate—because they express the unfiltered and unrestrained views of underrepresented minority groups in art.
The display includes art from the Black Panther movement, the feminist movement, the queer rights movement of the 80s, and the active Chicano art initiatives from Galería de la Raza, among others.
Sandra M. Ramirez, a co-curator of the show, attests that the art speaks to current-day Bay Area residents in conjunction with educating audiences.
"This wall space is of a community involved and this art should be moving you and teaching you something about our current reality, of where we've been, and ultimately, of where we are going," Ramirez said.
Melorra Green, main curator of Making a Scene, says she felt the need to gather all of these artistic histories in one gallery space because the shifting demographics of San Francisco are altering the very regions and streets these artistic spaces represented and helped to enrich with diversity.
"San Francisco and the Bay Area is changing so much—almost where it's like a plan to erase all of these [alternative spaces]," Green said. "You go to the Mission now, and you don't know what happened there. There is no evidence of the rich history that defines various diverse neighborhoods and that is why this exhibition is so important to everyone."
Nicole Lucero, a recent college graduate and filmmaker in attendance, said she felt the art presentation was cohesive throughout its plethora of artists and movements.
"I'm amazed by the similarities in all the pieces and how they all had the same purpose of creating change," Lucero said. "Remembering and learning our past history is something all of us have to be consciously seeking and makes us better people in the now."
René Yañez, a co-founder of Galería de la Raza who is often credited for popularizing Día de Los Muertos festivities in the United States, is one of the featured collaborators in Making a Scene.
His contribution to the alternative spaces installation includes historic photographs from the early founding days of the Galería de la Raza, the founding members of the comedy act Culture Clash and the lowrider parade days. Also featured prominently is a death mask of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
"Up until the 70s and second wave feminism, Kahlo's art didn't have the fame and global recognition they have now," Yañez said. "When I was with Galería back then, we did a small show featuring her paintings and also other homages to her from the community. It was one of the first times she was given the tribute not granted from mainstream art institutions and it was possible because of our alternative space."
Yañez said that more than displaying art and creating a communal area of cultural pride, alternative spaces are meant to create dialogue and grapple with reality.
"Alternative spaces are about dealing with identity, gender issues and creating dialogue with different classes and groups," Yañez said. "It's great for the Mission and the city to have a frank discussion of what has happened and where to go from here."
The exhibition runs through Aug. 20. Entry is free during regular gallery hours. SOMArts is located at 934 Brannan St., San Francisco. For more information, call SOMArts at (415) 863-1414

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By: Amelia Solomon (A Toast) –
The Grand Budapest Hotel, set in the 1960's and early 1930's, centers on an extraordinary hotel concierge, M. Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), and his lobby boy mentee, Zero (Tony Revolori). It's told as a story by Mr. Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), the current owner of the once glorious hotel, to a young writer (Jude Law), over a red wine and lamb dinner in the empty hotel dining room. The film, which was both directed and written by Wes Anderson, is like a colorful fairy tale, full of outlandish characters, breath-taking scenery, nail-biting plot twists, and ironic humor throughout. It's whimsical, quirky, and classic Wes Anderson.
M. Gustave H is a well-liked concierge in pre-WWII Budapest, who runs his hotel like a well-oiled machine and at the same time hob knobs with the wealthy aristocratic hotel guests. He takes on a new hire, Zero, and they soon become friends. When one of Gustave's most-loved guests, Madame D. (Tilda Swinton) is unexpectedly murdered, he finds himself as the prime suspect and enlists the help of Zero to clear his name. They dodge irate family members like Dmitri (Adrien Brody) and his hired hit-man Jopling (William Dafoe), encounter the world's most meticulous lawyer, Deputy Kovacs (Jeff Goldblum), make friends with a gang of convicts led by Ludwig (Harvey Keitel), pull favor with the captain of a Fascist police squad, Henckels (Edward Norton), rely on the camaraderie of a secret hotel employee society, led by M. Ivan (Bill Murray), and get assistance from Zero's first love Agatha (Saoirse Ronan), who in this film makes up for her ridiculous turn as a half-human/half-parasite in last year's sci-fi film gone bad, The Host.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel does everything right. It's creative, original, engaging, quick-paced, and witty. There are so many things that work, it's impossible to list them all. But there were three things that stood out, beyond the usual great acting, directing, and writing. The first was the use of so many well-known actors in cameo bits. When involving so many actors, especially from past projects, the potential for it to go wrong and look like you're just showing off how cool you are is high. Case in point: Gary Marshall's Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve films threw celebrities at us ad-nauseam. Although Anderson taps into his list of actors that have supported him in previous films, their on-screen presence is both appealing and fresh. Whether it was Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, or Owen Wilson popping up on-screen, they were met with cheers from the audience. My only complaint is that they weren't utilized more.
Wes Anderson is an artist and his films can be compared to fine art one would find in a world-famous museum. Each scene setting is so colorful and vibrant, that proper credit must be given to Costume Designer Milena Canonero , Production Designer Adam Stockhausen, and Set Decorator Anna Pinnock. Whether it's contrasting the hotel during its heyday in the 1930's, when it was ostentatiously pink, to when it was run down and devoid of travelers in the 1960's, when it screamed burnt orange and bad mod-furniture, to the luscious purple hotel employee uniforms, everything is a feast for the eyes.
Many films are just a retelling of the same story and when Wes Anderson concentrates a heavy portion of The Grand Budapest Hotel around a prison break, it could have resulted in the feeling that, "I've seen this before." But Anderson crafts a compelling and hilarious prison break plan that revolves around pastries from the local bakery, and turns prison break stereotypes upside down. With Harvey Keitel"s character, Ludwig, running the operation, I did get feelings of Pulp Fiction déjà vu, but summoning up The Wolf is a compliment in and of itself.
After a heavy 2013 Oscar season, it's refreshing to see a film early in 2014 capture one of the reasons why many movie connoisseurs go to the theaters, which is to see something spectacular. Yes, movies are designed to entertain us and teach us, but we often forget that they can serve a simpler purpose and just wow us. The Grand Budapest Hotel is not just a film, it's a work of art.
Drinking Game
Take a Drink: every time an actor from a previous Wes Anderson film appears on-screen.
Take a Drink: every time you see a pink box from Mendl's Bakery.
Take a Drink: every time someone gets killed. (Including felines.)
Do a Shot: every time Zero says, "Don't flirt with her."


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Al Bustan Centre & Residence observes Earth Hour
Al Bustan Centre and Residence, the popular hotel apartment among visiting tourists and businessmen in the heart of Dubai, observed Earth Hour, the energy-saving initiative celebrated around the world to encourage businesses, communities and individuals to take simple steps towards reducing the harmful effects of global warming.
Across the United Arab Emirates, 173 organizations, businesses and government offices, 40 schools and major landmarks officially participated in the green initiative, not to mention hundreds of households, switching off their lights in unison to effectively cut down on their electricity consumption. Authorities earlier said that the collective effort is expected to save up to 195 tons of carbon emissions and cut back on 260,000 megawatts of electricity consumption. Dubai was the first Arab city to participate in Earth Hour in 2008 to spread awareness amongst community members on the need and importance of conserving electricity and water.
Staff and guests of Al Bustan Centre and Residence including shopping mall tenants participated in the campaign by switching off unnecessary lights around the property's complex for one hour. They also gathered outside the lobby of the property to hold a candle light ceremony.
Moussa El Hayek, Chief Operating Officer of Al Bustan Centre & Residence said: "Global warming is a serious issue that affects each of us and taking a small step towards bringing positive change will have a huge effect in the long run. We need to show that we care about our planet by observing the occasion and taking energy-friendly measures that will contribute towards a greener Earth. We are very pleased that several of our guests joined the earth hour celebration and showed their support towards this important issue."
The global event also saw other iconic structures such as Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, Petronas Towers, Taiper 101, the Effel Tower, the Great Wall of China, the Burj Khalifa and Burj Al Arab turn their lights off for one hour. Most parts of the UAE were plunged into darkness and iconic landmarks such as the Bur Khalifa and Burj Al Arab were blacked out for one hour on Saturday evening for Earth Hour 2013, the world's largest environmental action on climate change.
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Established in 1997, Al Bustan Centre and Residence has closely witnessed the rise of Dubai as a hub for tourists, and alongside played an eminent role in catering to its guests. It emerged as a favorite destination for tourists, especially the ones on business and carved a name for itself in the MICE Industry. The property earned its great reputation from its loyal customers and good market segments. The reason behind its success is its drive to stay up to date with time and the changing trends of its guests.
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It spotlights upcoming releases that we're excited about!
Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu
June 2nd, 2015
Rachel Walker is devoted to God. She prays every day, attends Calvary Christian Church with her family, helps care for her five younger siblings, dresses modestly, and prepares herself to be a wife and mother who serves the Lord with joy. But Rachel is curious about the world her family has turned away from, and increasingly finds that neither the church nor her homeschool education has the answers she craves. Rachel has always found solace in her beliefs, but now she can't shake the feeling that her devotion might destroy her soul.
Why I can't wait for Devoted:
I was really lucky to read an ARC of Devoted, and I cannot put into words how amazing this book is. Jennifer Mathieu blew me away with The Truth About Alice, but she absolutely outdid herself with Devoted. It's less about religious cults and more about finding yourself in the midst of heartbreaking circumstances. You do not want to miss this book, y'all!
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. . . as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. [Marx, in Tucker 1972:124]
Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels believed that conflict between haves and have-nots was the prime mover of cultural evolution; and it was class struggle, they thought, that soon would usher in a very different kind of society. The productive powers of industrialization, harnessed to a centrally planned economy, would ensure that the merely animal needs of all people were efficiently met. People then would work not out of "mere animal necessity," but in order to fulfill their essential nature. Marx and Engels despised Malthus for his pessimism about improving society; in their view, ideas like his hindered positive social change by making excuses for the status quo.In one of the great ironies of intellectual history, the radicals Marx and Engels found some inspiration in the work of a prosperous American attorney, Lewis Henry Morgan. They particularly liked his emphasis on the importance of technological changes in the human past; they too constructed a set of stages, though it differed somewhat from Morgan's.
When moralists condemn modern society for its "materialism," they usually are referring to love of physical things–cars, clothes, boats, or condominiums. In intellectual history, however, the word "materialism" has a rather different meaning. The materialist perspective is well suggested by a declaration of the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus: "Nothing exists but atoms and the void."
Marx and Engels believed that materialism had both political and scientific implications. Though they considered these deeply intertwined, their subordination of the scientific to the political is clear. "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it" (Marx, in Tucker 1972:109). It remained for the Russian leader V.I. Lenin to reach the extreme conclusion that the scientific search for truth must not be allowed to stand in the way of political revolution. In anthropological theory the main political and scientific developments of materialism sometimes are distinguished respectively as dialectical materialism and cultural materialism. Cultural materialism refuses to subordinate scientific analysis to political agendas (Harris 1979:157-158). Cultural evolutionism has been invigorated by the cultural-materialist attempt to understand culture, and culture change, as reflecting the actual conditions–demographic, environmental, and technological–in which people, as creatures, struggle to survive and reproduce:
Cultural materialism holds that innovations are unlikely to be propagated and amplified if they are functionally incompatible with the existing modes of production and reproduction–more unlikely than in the reverse situation (that is, when there is an initial political and ideological resistance but none in the modes of production and reproduction). [Harris 1979:73]
Or, as Marx wrote in 1859, "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness" (Marx, in Tucker 1972:4).


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I thought it might be good to give bit of a status pdate on Community game as you might have noticed there havent been much progress there lately.
First of all. I will take a complete break from Community Game for the duration of Speedgame. After Speedgame, I will continue with Community Game again.
Lately I have done only quite little programming for Community Game. This is mostly because for most part I have already reached a point where it doesnt make much sense to program forward before we for example have better idea what the graphics will look like.
What the graphics will look like is mainly stuck since we dont have the story done yet. And this due to my understanding none having read the John Bunyans - Holy War - book yet, upon which this game is based upon.
I have been reading that book, but im a bit slow reader and hence have only got about 40 percent of it read yet.
Anyway, after I get that book read, which I think will still take at least a month (could be much mre even) from me, then things will speed up as we can finally figure out what kind of units, graphics etc. are needed for the game. Right now programming it forward would likely result in things being rewrote afterwards and hence doesnt make much sense ad therefore I also havent really hurried in programming the last sensible things to code.


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Nerva and the Adoption Process - Trajan
Trajan's Wars
Hadrian's Last Years
Antoninus Pius
Marcus Aurelius
On the very day of the assassination of Domitian, the
Senate elected the new emperor: the choice fell on Marcus Cocceius Nerva, a senior member of
the Senate who had managed
to successfully hold important offices during the reigns of Nero, of
Vespasian and of Domitian.
Nerva managed to control the reaction of the supporters of Domitian and more in general he promoted a policy of reconciliation among the various factions into which the Roman society was divided. He was aware he needed the support of the army; at the age of 70 and without a military background, Nerva knew he could not obtain it in the battlefield and therefore he chose as his associate Marcus Ulpius Traianus (Trajan), the commander of the Roman legions in southern Germany. He then adopted Trajan as his successor.
This was not a new practice, but for the first time the ruling emperor did not adopt a member of his family, but rather a person chosen for his background and his skills. Trajan did the same and the next two emperors felt obliged to follow this pattern; so Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-161) and Marcus Aurelius (161-180) are collectively known as the adoptive emperors.
They all ruled for approximately twenty years granting stability to the government of the empire; overall it was a period of peace (Pax Romana) and economic development, especially in the provinces where many cities flourished and were able to build new facilities such as aqueducts, fora, libraries, schools and stadiums not inferior to those of Rome.
Another interesting aspect related to the choice of Trajan as the new emperor is the fact that he was born in Spain from a family of Roman origin (and therefore had full citizenship rights). His becoming emperor meant that the accession to the highest position of the empire was no longer restricted to members of the Roman or Italian aristocracy.
In 98 after just two years of reign Nerva died and Trajan became the new emperor. During his military career he had been in several provinces of the empire and had a first hand knowledge of how the decisions taken in Rome were often poorly implemented there and how often they did not meet local needs. He therefore paid special attention to improving the logistics of the empire; he did so by improving roads, ports, aqueducts, markets and by establishing a net of local informatores who reported to him what happened in the provinces.
The improvement of Via Appia at Terracina, a new artificial harbour at Porto, an aqueduct from Bracciano (today known as Acqua Paola), well structured covered markets in Rome are just some of the initiatives taken by Trajan to implement his policies in Rome and its environs. You may wish to see the triumphal arches which were dedicated to him at Ancona and at Benevento.
Basilica Ulpia and behind it Colonna Traiana
Trajan expanded the area of the Roman Fora by levelling to the ground Velia,
a hill between Campidoglio and Quirinale.
The main building of his forum was a large basilica called Ulpia after his family name. The
central section of the building can be seen thanks to the first modern archaeological
excavations in Rome, initiated by the French government at the beginning of the XIXth century
and completed by Pope Pius VII. The basilica was decorated with reliefs celebrating Trajan,
some of which were moved two centuries later to Arco di Costantino.
Trajan's forum was designed by Apollodorus of Damascus, a Greek architect who also built for the emperor a gigantic bridge on the lower Danube and public baths in Rome.
Trajan led the Roman Empire to its maximum extent: his best known military campaigns are related to the Dacian wars, but Trajan made also a serious attempt to expand the empire in the Middle East. He conquered part of today's Kingdom of Jordan including the city of Petra. He then waged war against the Parthians; he defeated them in Armenia and Mesopotamia and in 116 he occupied Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthians located 20 miles south of Baghdad. From there, following the footsteps of Alexander the Great, Trajan reached the shores of the Persian Gulf. But these conquests were ephemeral; a vast rebellion from Mesopotamia spread to other eastern provinces and Trajan had to give up his attempts to further move eastwards; he precipitously returned to Syria where he died in 117.
Modern map showing the Roman Empire at the time of Trajan on the rear wall of
Basilica di Massenzio
Trajan adopted as his successor Publius Aelius Adrianus (Hadrian), another general born in
Spain and who was the proconsul of Syria at the emperor's death. Hadrian realized
that the recent acquisition of Mesopotamia was not defensible and chose to give back to the Parthians
the territories occupied by Trajan in return for a stable peace agreement.
Notwithstanding his military background, Hadrian refrained from new wars and devoted himself to making more effective the administration and in particular the judiciary system; he established that laws and decrees should be reviewed by a body of experts on law to ensure their consistency with other existing regulations.
He extensively visited the various provinces of the empire to show that the emperor was a good pater familias (father of the family) who cared for the wellbeing of his subjects and not a distant despot closeted in the imperial palace.
In one of these tours he recommended to strengthen the northern border of the province of Britannia by building a vallum, a rampart which stretched across the island.
Tempio di Venere e Romolo (or Roma)
In 124 Hadrian, while visiting the province of Bythinia (today's north-west Turkey), fell
in love with Antinous, a teenager of rare beauty. This kind of relationships between a man of a certain
age (Hadrian was then 48 and age patterns were different from those we are accustomed to nowadays) and
a much younger man (Antinous was fourteen) were not unusual in the Greek world and were tolerated
in the Roman one. They usually ended when the younger partner reached adulthood.
In 130 Antinous died by drowning in the Nile; the passion Hadrian had for him had not yet subsided and the emperor's grief was immense; he dedicated his last years to celebrate his lover by naming after him cities, sending statues with his effigy to all corners of the empire and even by dedicating temples and an obelisk to Antinous.
While the love affair had been regarded as a common practice, a sort of usual phase in man's life, the initiatives taken by Hadrian to celebrate Antinous were seen as extravagant and not in line with the traditional composure expected by a Roman emperor.
Hadrian spent his last years in isolation moving from one to the other imperial villas in the environs of Rome and Naples.
In 136 he appointed as his successor Lucius Aelius, a young senator with no military background; the choice has never been fully understood. Lucius Aelius however never became emperor as he died soon after having been chosen by Hadrian. The ailing emperor decided to appoint as his new successor a respected senator, Titus Aurelius Antoninus, on the condition that he in turn would appoint Lucius Verus (son of Lucius Aelius) and Marcus Aurelius (son of his wife's brother) as co-emperors. At the death of Hadrian in 138 the Senate made an attempt to deny the dead emperor the funerary celebrations for which he had built a gigantic mausoleum, but Antoninus insisted on not damaging Hadrian's memory.
The Canopus of Villa Adriana. See more winter views of Villa Adriana
Hadrian showed his interest for architecture by closely following the design of Villa Adriana, a countryside residence near Tivoli where he spent some of his last years. He also rebuilt the Pantheon, although he preferred to retain the old inscription celebrating Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Augustus' son-in-law. In Rome the memory of Hadrian is also associated with Ponte Sant'Angelo, the bridge he built to facilitate the access to his mausoleum. There are monuments built by Hadrian in many other cities of the Roman Empire and in particular in Athens.
Florence - Galleria degli Uffizi: relief depicting a scene of sacrifice; some art historians suggest it was made to celebrate the XXth anniversary of Hadrian's rule and that the shield was painted with an inscription
Antoninus ruled for 23 years: they were almost uneventful years:
he acted as a sort of constitutional monarch, returning to the Senate and to
the other Roman institutions most of their ancient decisional power.
He strengthened the defence of the empire by building in Britain a more advanced vallum on the Firth of Forth and by founding new Roman settlements in southern Germany. He chose to live in a villa he had in Lanuvio, rather than in the more luxurious imperial residences.
He complied with the commitment imposed on him by Hadrian to appoint as his successors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (the former in the meantime had become his son-in-law having married Annia Faustina Minor, Antoninus' daughter).
Tempio di Annia Faustina: detail of the entablature
The Senate gave to Antoninus the appellative (qualifying adjective) of Pius, in recognition
of his lifestyle, so respectful of the traditional Roman family values.
Antoninus, most likely to distance himself from Hadrian's behaviour, emphasized his attachment to these values by erecting several temples dedicated to his deceased wife Annia Faustina Maior and by founding charitable institutions for the assistance of young women, named after her puellae Faustinianae.
He built in the Roman Forum a large temple dedicated to her: its structure was so strong that it resisted all attempts to pull it down; its cipollino columns show the cuts made to place the ropes which were vainly used to cause the collapse of the portico. Antoninus also dedicated a temple to Hadrian, which too has at least partially escaped being pulled down.
Unlike Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus had to
face continuous threats to the stability of the empire.
In 162 the Parthians invaded the eastern Roman provinces of Syria and Armenia;
Lucius Verus led the Roman armies to the counter-attack and in 164 the Romans
occupied again Ctesiphon, the enemy capital and briefly restored their rule over Mesopotamia;
the victory however brought an unexpected and bitter fruit: a pestilence
(now thought to have been a bubonic plague) developed among the Roman legionaries and
they brought it back with them at the end of the campaign; in the following years
the pestilence spread to the whole empire; a famine followed the disease and further weakened
the economy
and reduced the population.
The two emperors had just repelled the Parthians in the east, when a new threat arose in the west; the Marcomanni, a German tribe living in today's Bohemia, in association with other tribes (Quadi, Vandals and Sarmatians) attacked the Roman colonies along the Danube in Germany, Austria and Hungary. They were most likely forced to do this because they were in turn attacked by other tribes coming from Central Asia.
After the death of Lucius Verus in 169, Marcus Aurelius had to bear the full responsibility of defending the empire. Being a man of great culture, he would have preferred to have time for his philosophic studies, but he felt it was his duty to personally lead the many campaigns caused by the increasing pressure on the northern border of the empire.
He died in 180 in Vindobona (today's Vienna) where he was closely following the preparation of yet another campaign against the Marcomanni. Many historians set at his death the beginning of the decadence of the Roman Empire as some of its key causes made their appearance during the reign of Marcus Aurelius: a weakened economy, a substantial reduction in population and the first barbarian invasions, i.e. the irruption in Europe of nomadic peoples from Central Asia.
Bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius in Palazzi del Campidoglio - Musei Capitolini
In 166 the Senate gave Marcus Aurelius the appellative of Pater Patriae and
most likely to celebrate this title a bronze statue of the emperor was erected in his family
villa near today's S. Giovanni in Laterano. In the Middle Ages the
statue was called caballus Constantini (Constantine's horse) and this saved it from being melted, because
Constantine was regarded as the first Christian Roman emperor. In 2006 it was placed in a
covered courtyard inside Musei Capitolini; according to the tradition when the statue
loses its remaining gold leaf, Rome will perish (and with it the world).
Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus erected a column to Antoninus Pius near today's Piazza di Montecitorio; the column is lost, but the fine reliefs at its base are in the Vatican Museums.
The following external links show works of art portraying characters and events
mentioned in this page:
Busts of Nerva and (young) Marcus Aurelius at Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence - it opens in a separate window.
Trajan's Justice by Eugene Delacroix (1840) at Musée des Beaux-Arts - Rouen - it opens in a separate window.
Bust of Hadrian at Museo Nazionale Romano - Rome - it opens in a separate window.
Statue of Antinous at Musei Capitolini - Rome - it opens in a separate window.
Bust of Antoninus Pius at Musei Capitolini - Rome - it opens in a separate window.
Reliefs portraying Marcus Aurelius at Musei Capitolini - Rome - it opens in a separate window.
Marcus Aurelius Distributing Bread to the People by Joseph-Marie Vien (1765).
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II - The Early Republican Period
III - The Romans Meet the Elephants
IV - Expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
V - Pompey and Caesar
VI - Augustus
VII - From Tiberius to Nero
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10.12.24 Scholars Making Christmas Cards – By Nerren Homeres
Christmas time is here and everyone has their own way in sending Christmas greetings to their love ones. For the Streetlight kids, making Christmas cards is a great way for them not only to convey their Christmas greetings but also to express their gratitude to their love ones and to those who has been with them through the years.
One of the Streetlight kids, "M" was inspired with the series of workshops done by our three volunteers Ivar, Trond and Alex, in involving everyone in making the new study center. Being a participant of the workshops she witnessed how a group of people can work together in achieving one goal. She personally observed how the workshop was done and she desires to lead the other scholars in making Christmas Cards for their parents and Streetlight staff through a workshop. She wants the scholars to make staff and their parents feel special this Christmas time through their cards.
With full of enthusiasm, ideas and excitement, "M" made plans on how the workshop can be done and I was pleased as she shared it to me. She made a precise plan in facilitating a workshop and I am glad to give my full support and guidance. To make the workshop organized and fun for the scholars, she spent a week in planning and preparation. "M" was also responsible in buying the materials needed for the activity, she made invitations for the scholars to come and delegate some task to other scholars.
All the invited scholars came to the workshop. Amazingly, the workshop went well! It was a great workshop for a young child and a first timer to lead such group. I was surprised as "M" started talking and encouraging everyone to make a special Christmas card for their parents and to anyone at Streetlight they want to give the card. "M" divided the group into three and she provides each group with materials and instructions. Each scholar shows their own creativity and having fun in making their Christmas cards. They made each card beautiful and special and the cards will be given during the Streetlight Christmas Party as their surprise gift for their parents and to the staff.
Streetlight is proud for "M" as she makes a step in becoming a leader and we are looking forward for more workshops that she will lead in the future. It is our desire to produce leaders among our scholars and we will guide them in their new journey towards good leadership.


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I was recently up at the Samburu National Reserve on a work trip. Our research camp is set on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro which separates The Samburu National Reserve and The Buffalo Springs National Reserve. As you can imagine, this is quite a bush set up, we don't want to totally change the landscape as we are on wild animal territory. It is their home after all and have full rights to be here. The Samburu team are housed in tents and other temporary structures which a visitor would find very unsettling seeing that the wildlife here roam through the camp quite often. More often than not, elephants, some of whom we know by name like Yaeger and Sarara, graze and browse unmoved as people go about their work. I have never gotten used to the dazing effect, watching such a huge animal mind his/her business. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you get to look at them in the eye, and the feeling is indescribable. You have to experience it yourself.
On one of my first visits up North, I was held captive, pleasantly so, by 3 young male elephants who were casually grazing right next to my room. I panicked and called the camp manager who told me to relax, that they would be on their way as soon as they were done. "Elephants don't attack unless provoked," He said. So I sat there, listening to them tug at the grass with their feet and the silent seconds when they would use their trunks to put it into their mouths. I was tempted to open the door and watch them eat, but decided against it. Instead, I took a chair and climbed to reach up one of the windows. I looked outside and at that particular moment, one of the bulls lifted his head and our eyes met! I almost toppled over, but I held on long enough to take in this moving moment…and as fast as it had happened, it was all over. I don't think I will ever forget this, ever! It gave a deeper meaning to my work. Sounds silly, I know.
So, as I was saying, I was up there recently and one particular incident has tugged on my heart since. A young girl, about 5 years old was bitten by a snake on her wrist. She was brought to our camp in the dead of the night so we could drive her to the nearest hospital at Archers post. She didn't last long, hours later, she was dead. I shed a tear, I haven't felt that sad in a long time. I don't know what angered me most; the fact that the parents had waited for hours before taking her to hospital, choosing to use some traditional curative method in preventing the poison from spreading, or that snakes…snakes bite people for no particular reason. I mean, lions would kill you then eat you, because they were hungry. Hippos kill you when you get in between them and the water and so on. But snakes bite or spit on you, then slither away. I don't understand and if I read my Bible in Genesis, they are the devil himself. It makes quite a lot of sense then, that I can't stand them, I hate them and they are my biggest fear when I'm in the bush.
A day later we hear of another kid, this time older, who also dies from a snake bite. That night a small cobra was 'sitting' resting near the dinner table. I am told as I wasn't present, that people just looked at it and continued eating unperturbed. It seemed full, they said. Some suggested that they murder it but the others, mostly the White counterparts (not to sound racist or anything close) said it should be left alone. I inquired, and was told it is one of the deadliest snakes and kills with within minutes if no antidote is available. Later on, one of my colleagues meets a huge snake as he was walking to his tent. It was long gone when he came back seconds later with a group of men to finish it off. A search in the nearest bushes yielded nothing.
When one of our American friends heard what had happened, she was pretty upset. She said we had no right to kill the snakes because we were the trespassers here. That we should let them be. I know she makes sense about the territories and all, but what to do when you find yourself living in the same space with them? Should we wait till a snake bites someone then kill it? Even then, have we any right? I don't know, maybe its my fears talking…but I don't see how a snake can be conserved for future use 😦 Future use to kill? Ah. I know there are snake lovers out there as well as there are elephant lovers and one would argue that no love is greater than the other…actually I would in favour of elephants 😀 them being keystone species and all; but why do snakes exist? Why the can't they sense good intention just like elephants and just leave humans alone? I wish God would just call off this snake curse 😦
I am not blind to the deaths elephants have caused, or the yields they have mercilessly trampled on as they ate to their fill…sigh! I guess I am just confused as to why the world ain't perfect.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Happy Mother's Day (I need to repent a little)
I'm feeling a little different this year. I still haven't sorted out if I feel differently toward Birthmother's Day or not, but I definitely feel differently about myself. And thus the title of this post--I feel I've been terribly prideful.
What I am experiencing now with my own son is so incredibly different than what I experienced with Ian. Yes, I gave birth to Ian, and that is a powerful connection. I love him, and I care about him. But I am realizing all over again, with an entirely new depth, just how different being a birthmother is from being a mother. Not that I thought they were equivalent before, I'm not saying that. I guess I just have a new appreciation for motherhood.
Mother's Day is very special to me this year. I finally get to celebrate it wholly, instead of in a wistful, almost painful manner. It is real to me at last. In a profound way, I feel complete. I am a mother. And it feels like this is what I was always meant to be.
It also makes me incredibly grateful for Ian's [adoptive] mother. I put the [adoptive] in there for clarification, but I'll restate now: I am incredibly grateful for Ian's mother. She is his mother, in this complete way that I am now Joel's mother. I am grateful for the bond that I have with Ian and his family, even more so today than ever before.
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, no matter if you are a birthmother, adoptive mother, a hopeful mother, or any other way you classify yourself. We are all connected by our love of children, and our desperate hopes for their welfare. Today is a day to celebrate that love.
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I am also an adoptee and birthmother. I've had a lovely open adoption for 25 yrs. I've always been a huge advocate for adoption. I've volunteered for years in adoption agencies, my heart always broken for the birthmothers that are in pain. Recently, however, my views have changed. I believe a mother and child should not be separated unless absolutely necessary, This isn't God's plan. It's unnatural. His plan is that a mother is with her child.ReplyDelete
I've enjoyed reading your blog! Thank you for sharing your story!
I love this <3 Thank you so much for sharing. Open adoption is truly a blessing.ReplyDelete
My new book called "Separated Lives" is a true story about the adoption of a baby boy. Years later I take him on a fascinating but uncertain journey to search for his birth parents. It is available from Dorrance Publishing (in Pittsburgh, PA) www.DorranceBookstore.com, Barnes & Noble barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.comReplyDelete
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The Soul of Fine Art: Delve into: art, passion, writing, dharma, zen, character, consciousness, culture, intuition, evolution, and the spirit we call soul.
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Thursday Jun 03, 2010
Taking Back Art
Conscience of the Prince
While the 'what is art' debate continues ad infinitum, its time for individuals (artists and the public) to take back their power and appreciation of art from the incestuous sterile directives of institutionalism, dogma, and the commodities market.
Why? Art isn't an elective in school; art directly mirrors our evolution; and art contains the answers we need to make life on earth a tribute and prayer to the Creator.
Don't doubt me.


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1 response to "Nice iPhone 5 Prank (16 pics)"
- Half Baked Potaotes said...September 27, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Was that not just one prank 5 times? I am pretty stoned so I will admit that I may be mistaken, but through the bong smoke im pretty sure that was just one prank.
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We have just uploaded a new page about a special event that is happening this year, in 2017. This is the bicentenary of the birth of the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'u'lláh (which was in 1817).
For now the page gives a very short overview of the life of Bahá'u'lláh, and a link to the new trailer of a forthcoming film about Bahá'u'lláh.
We will be updating the page with more photos and further details of our local community's activities related to the bicentenary soon! We will also be posting a few news updates on this blog about things we are doing in the run up to the bicentenary, which will take place this October.


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Settlement for a pedestrian who suffered very serious injuries after being struck by a drunk driver in Wayne County, Michigan. Our client suffered a traumatic brain injury, spinal fracture, and arm fracture in the accident. The settlement was for the insurance policy limits.
$100,000 Pedestrian Accident Settlement Against Drunk Driver


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. . . It's often said (including by me) that one of the attractions of shooting film, is that until you actually come to develop a roll, you just never know what pictorial delights may (or may not) be waiting for you.
Well the same thing happened to me yesterday morning, but it wasn't from a roll of film.
Just recently I purchased a new and larger SD card for the Fuji X-E1. Not that there was anything wrong with the old one. It's just that a batch of 32GB Sandisk cards came up for sale on eBay and at a price I couldn't believe, so I bought one.
Now usually I would format the 'old' card ready for whatever use I might find for it, but before doing so I'd take a quick look via the card reader to make sure there was nothing of importance on there.
Well would you believe it, there were 2 photographs taken at the beginning of September 2014 from a short day trip to Keswick, in the Lake District. These pictures were the very last ones I took before my ill-fated trip to Manchester in October.
I'd just plain forgotten about them. 🙂


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Gordon McLendon is a legendary name who dominated radio programming during the Golden Age of Top 40.
The McLendon Stations included power houses like KLIF Dallas and KILT Houston. McLendon was also one of the first to try all news and bring Top 40 to FM.
He loved programming innovation.
I was reminded of a memo given to me by my late friend and mentor Larry Kent a former PD for McLendon at KTSA San Antonio.
It's called "Creating A Sparkling Station". In it, the "Old Scotsman" hammers on lazy Program Directors and lack of creativity at company stations.
The memo appears to have been written around 1970.
No one is mentioned by name, but we can assume they knew who was being singled out. Those that didn't "get it' were probably gone pretty fast.
McLendon describes a 'sparkling station' as one that is: alive, exciting, animated, buoyant, vivid, spirited, fresh, topical, exuding on air and feeling of what's going to happen next, and something continually going on.
He says "it takes work by the Program Director and all concerned — lots of work. And if that work is not a labor of love, rather than a labor of continuing effort, the chances are that the station will sparkle only briefly,"
He explains why Program Directors fail, "the tendency not to want to hurt anyone's feelings." In other words allowing bad copy, commercials and jocks on the air without speaking up.
McLendon is none too kind to the talk show hosts on his stations.
"The average stations talk man sounds like he is trying to conduct a church social and make as many friends as possible. They don't clutter up their minds with a lot of confusing preparation, They plunge right in without a lot of information of the subject which might obscure their views."
He finishes by saying "mostly our call in talk emcees are characterized by their extreme friendliness and courtesy, and also by the almost audible sound of radios being turned off by the thousands."
Well you get the idea. The memo takes just about everyone in programming to task.
McLendon was like many others of his era. He demanded creativity and attention to detail . Most of all he drove the point that topicality was key to a station's ability to sparkle.
Times have changed. Many of the elements he wrote about don't fit today's radio.
Many stations obsess over song rotations and spend too little time on creativity.
The McLendon message still rings. Stations must sparkle. They need to be imaginative and kept fresh. It's not enough to just update the imaging once or twice a year.
It would be unthinkable that a McLendon station or others from that time would not be exciting.
Few stations today sound really excited about what they are doing.
Jocks are all too often left on their own getting no direction about their role on the air.
Everything in McLendon's memo referred to building great content.
Content is key to everything in today's multi-media world. That means on-air, on the web, everywhere.
Radio doesn't sell content. Its sells advertising.
But without content, no one will have a reason to buy advertising.
Without advertising, it's hard to say where radio goes from here.


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Both the Chevy and BOPC ( Buick, Olds, Pontiac, Caddy ) transmissions were 6 bolt housings for most of their production life. The original Chevy housing was 7 bolt and that's why their trans housings have a peak. In fact, most Chevy blocks were manufactured with the top center bolt hole drilled and tapped long after Chevy had changed to a 6 bolt housing.
So how do you tell the difference between the common as dirt Chevy pattern and the far more desirable ( to us ) BOPC housing?
1. Well, the first and most commonly stated visual reference is the Chevy peak versus the BOPC saddle at the top of the bell housing.
2. Also, only the two bolts below the alignment dowels share the same position between the two patterns. This is why a dual-pattern housing has 10 bolts, all the holes above the dowels must be duplicated. A Chevy bell has two bolts on each side aligned vertically with the respective alignment dowel. A BOPC bell only has the bottom bolts aligned vertically with the dowel and the higher bolts are moved inboard.
Interestingly, I've seen a factory dual pattern Manual housing within the last month.
Here's a few code for the Turbo 400s!


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Spare parts inventory management with quantiles (PDF)
In a world where most equipment manufacturers and retailers are operating in fiercely competitive markets, delivering a high service level to the existing customer base is a strategic priority for many companies. However, managing a spare parts inventory efficiently still poses a huge challenge due to size and the erratic nature of demand. This whitepaper discusses the challenges and current state of spare parts planning technology, and introduces quantile forecasting as a disruptive new approach to tackling the problem.
The terminology quantile forecast might sound complicated, and chances are, unless you're deeply versed in statistics, that you've never heard the term before. However, quantile forecasts – without being named that way - are routinely used in retail and manufacturing businesses. For example, defining a reorder point for your inventory is strictly equivalent to producing a quantile forecast over the demand.
Despite radical implications of quantile forecasts for retail and manufacturing, quantiles have received little attention in the market so far. The simplest explanation is that support for quantile forecasts was close to nonexistent in the software industry. However, with Lokad, there is no reason to overlook anymore such a critical piece of technology.
In order to understand why quantile forecasts are of any use for a retailer or a manufacturer, we need to back to why forecasts are required in the first place. Demand forecasts are critical in order to ensure that the right level of resources - such as inventory, staffing or cash - is available at the right time.
However, meeting the demand with the right level of resources is typically a very asymmetric problem: the cost of over-allocating resources (aka over-forecasting) can vastly differ from the cost of under-allocating resources (aka under-forecasting).For example:
Thus, for companies, it is typically not profitable to allocate their resources based on raw mean demand forecasts, as allocating too few resources 50% of the time is a poor trade-off that does not reflect the reality of the business. Hence, companies are purposefully introducing a bias in their resource allocations to reflect the business-specific asymmetry that exists in their trade. Being able to better deal with this asymmetry is exactly what quantile forecasts are about.
Definition: a quantile forecast (τ, λ) where τ (tau) is the target probability and where λ (lambda) is the horizon expressed in days, represent a demand forecast over the next λ days that come with a probability of τ of being higher than the future demand (consequently a probability 1-τ of being lower than the future demand).
Quantile forecasts have been known for decades, however implementing a native quantile forecasting model is frequently, and rightfully, considered as being as a lot more complicated than implementing a mean forecasting model. As a result, the vast majority of forecasting software vendors (*) are only delivering mean forecasts.
(*) As far we know, Lokad has become in March 2012, the first vendor to deliver a native industrial-grade generic quantile forecasting technology. However, among academic circles, research prototypes for quantile regression have been around for decades.
However, as companies do require quantile forecasts, they typically leverage an extrapolation work-around to produce their quantile forecasts. Practically speaking, the approach consists of assuming that the demand follows a normal distribution and to add a corrective safety term. The classical safety stock approach follows this pattern for example.
Extrapolated quantiles are classic (mean) forecasts transformed into quantile forecasts through an extrapolation method. The term is opposed to native quantiles where the statistical model directly produces the quantile. The extrapolation doesn't rely on input data, but rather on a distribution defined a priori. This distribution, usually the normal distribution, tends to be the weakest link of the extrapolation process, as it differs from the reality.
Unfortunately, the extrapolation suffers from serious drawbacks in 3 frequent contexts:
In those situations, we have found that native quantile forecasts tend to outperform of 20% or more the best extrapolated quantile forecasts; the comparison being made by leveraging the respective quantile and classical forecasting technologies of Lokad - knowing that those already tend to outperform the competition.
The assumption that errors associated to forecasts are normally distributed is typically good for quantile targets close to the mean or the median. However, the quality of the approximation degrades as the target percentage increases. For high target percentages, typically all values above 90%, we have found that the extrapolation itself frequently becomes the weakest link of the forecast. In those situations, native quantiles should be favored.
The extrapolation tries to fit a smooth curve over the future demand in order to reflect uncertainty. However, when the demand is intermittent or sparse, there is nothing smooth about the demand: for each period (week, month), the number of units being sold, i.e. the observable demand, is an integer varying between 0 and 5 for example.
Historically, many mean forecasting models have been designed to better apprehend sparse demand; however from the quantile angle, it becomes clear that the more fundamental issue is that no mean forecast can be properly extrapolated into an accurate quantile in case of sparse demand. In contrast, native quantiles can completely fit small-integers patterns of the demand.
When bulk orders are present, the historical demand curve tends to have a rather spiky shape. This shape reflects that a few orders account for a significant percentage of the total demand. However, contrary to the intermittent demand case, a non-zero demand exists all the time. The fundamental issue here is not that the demand goes through integral values; it is that mean forecasts fail at properly projecting those spikes in the future.
Oversimplifying, there are two approaches to deal with spikes:
In both cases, mean forecasts behave poorly: extrapolated quantiles remain too low to capture spikes while in the same time, they are over-estimating the resources to handle non-spike demand. Native quantile forecasts address spikes in a more direct and more accurate manner.
Lokad delivers a fully automated online service that takes time-series as input and returns native quantile forecasts, each quantile matching its horizon and target percentage (respectively lead time and the service level in case of inventory optimization). No extrapolation is required.
The quantile forecasting process requires zero statistical expertise. In practice, most companies will go through our webapp in order to get optimized reorder points; the reorder point being an inventory-specific quantile forecast.
For each time-series, the quantile forecast is just one single data point. Unlike mean forecasts, quantile forecasts are typically not represented as a curve that evolves over time and that extends the historical curve into the future.
Quantile forecasts behave differently statistically-speaking, however fundamental underlying demand patterns remain the same: trend, seasonality, product life-cycle, promotions ... All patterns supported by our classic forecasting technology are also supported by our quantile forecasting technology.
From a mathematical viewpoint, quantile forecasts represent a generalization of the classical notion of forecasts. From a practical viewpoint, quantile forecasts are typically superior (more accurate) for most business situations where risks associated to over and under estimates of the demand are not symmetric.
However, quantile forecasts are also less readable and less intuitive. Hence, classic forecasts remain a fundamental tool for managers to get a more intuitive grasp of the evolution of their business.
We have no plan whatsoever to deprecate classic forecasts. As a matter of fact, most of R&D efforts that we push on our forecasting technology benefit to the two types of forecasts. Quantile forecasting is a chance for us to refine our understanding of the statistical behavior of the demand. Our No1 priority remains to deliver more accurate forecasts.


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By now I'm sure nearly everybody has seen or read the news, but the amount of snow we've accumulated out here in the Pacific Northwest is amazing! In fact, so much snow fell in a 2-week period that many of our local ski areas were closed due to avalanche danger.
Unfortunately, by the time the roads were reopened, the temperatures warmed up and the snow turned into what is famously known as Cascade Cement, so deep and heavy in some places you came to a complete stop in a foot or two regardless of pitch.
Oh well... the good news is the weather has settled down, the groomers have done their thing to smooth out the heavy stuff, and the sun is supposed to be out this weekend!
February 15, 2008
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Wrestling With Rauschenbusch
Evangelicals may be returning to their 19th-century roots in activism, but they still struggle with the "father of the Social Gospel."
By Paul O'Donnell
One hundred years ago, while on sabbatical in Germany, Walter Rauschenbusch wrote and published his book, "Christianity and the Social Crisis." Upon his return, the theologian, Baptist minister and professor of church history at the Rochester Theological Seminary discovered that, in his absence, he had become "the most prominent public intellectual of the young 20th century," as Stephen G. Carter puts it in the just-published centenary edition of the book. Rauschenbusch was ushered off on a national speaking tour. For three years "Christianity and the Social Crisis" sold more copies than any other religious text but the Bible. Its publication, said the great liberal pastor Harry Fosdick, "ushered in a new era in Christian thought and action."
Yet ask ten mainstream Christians today who Rauschenbusch was and you'll get an average of seven shrugs. Changing that ratio is clearly the intent of the centenary re-issue, re-titled Christianity and the Social Crisis of the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church and furnished with companion essays by well-known faith-based types like Carter, Rev. Jim Wallis, and Stanley Hauerwas, and an afterword by the late philosopher Richard Rorty, who was Rauschenbusch's grandson. The editor of the book, Rauschenbusch's great-grandson, is Paul Raushenbush, a chaplain at Princeton University. Full disclosure: I was his editor at Beliefnet some years ago and we remain friends. Coincidentally, the book arrives at a time when the elder Rauschenbusch needs all the friends he can find.
For some years now, American evangelicals—Rauschenbusch's historical nemeses--are looking to revive a tradition of social activism that largely evaporated in the decades after "Christianity and the Social Crisis" appeared. Not long ago, Rick Warren, the mega-church pastor and author of mega-bestseller "The Purpose Driven Life," told a roomful of Washington journalists, "The first trend you need to be aware of is the return of the evangelical movement to its 19th-century roots" in what Warren calls "compassionate activism."
Warren himself has spent the last three years traveling back and forth to Africa, where he's been helping raise awareness and lower occurrence of AIDS. He's met with Bono on African debt. Others in the evangelical camp are attempting to awaken their fellow believers to the threat of global warming, and want to extend the evangelical agenda to helping drug addicts. To a Rauschenbuschian, this may look like the evangelicals are bent on completing his work. In fact, however, they miss no chance to make it clear that their efforts should not be confused with his.
It's easy to see why. "Christianity and the Social Crisis" is a plea to the Christian nation to take up the cause of the working poor, whose desperation Rauschenbusch had seen first hand as a pastor in Hell's Kitchen, on Manhattan's West Side. Rauschenbusch saw his former parishioners as we tend to see them now—as hapless victims of the Capitalist Age. This idea collided with the prevailing Christian approach to helping the poor, which basically amounted to urging them to lead clean, thrifty, and sober lives. Rauschenbusch argued that being virtuous was no longer sufficient. On a listing ship, Rauschenbusch says, personal strength may allow some to cling to the deck. "But if the deck kept on tilting at a steeper angle," he writes, "more still would go." We all had to right the ship—establish the kingdom of equality, economic fairness, and mutual aid that he believed Jesus preached--or eventually we'd all go overboard.
Evangelicals believe Rauschenbusch got things backward, putting social justice above heavenly justice. By locating temptation in society, he disarranged the evangelical view of sin as an individual failing and of salvation by personal conversion. By placing Jesus securely in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets, who, he says urged the community to take responsibility for itself, Rauschenbusch seemed to deny Christ's divinity. By stressing the redemption of a society based on Jesus's ethics, evangelicals charged, Rauschenbusch rejected the mystical redemption of the cross. Putting the kingdom of heaven at the service of the poor, one commentator has said, seemed to "make God a means to an end."
For most of the last century, Rauschenbusch's version of Christianity prevailed. Almost immediately, "Christianity and the Social Crisis" changed how Christians performed social work; his followers provided support for progressive politics and, later, the New Deal. Martin Luther King Jr. named Rauschenbusch as a role model. Church-led efforts—from divestment in South Africa to the homeless movement—bear his mark. Recent studies show the most successful mainline churches are those that devote themselves to community support. If we don't know the "Social Gospel" by name, it is because its aims are nearly identical with what we think of as mainstream American Christianity. "After Rauschenbusch," Stanley Hauerwas writes in his contribution, "there is no Gospel that is not 'The Social Gospel.'"
Against the Social Gospel's advance, even into their strongholds in the South and Midwest, the evangelicals retreated, not only from their 19th century social agenda, but from the political and social life of the nation. In thumbnail histories of the 20th century, the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial banished the evangelical faithful to the desert. But the success of the Social Gospel did as much to send them into the long exile from public life that ended with their alliance with the Republican Party in the 1970s and '80s.
Conservative Christians' mistrust of Rauschenbusch is still fresh. Last May in the Wall Street Journal, Joseph Loconte blasted "Christianity and the Social Crisis" in a piece posing as a review of the centenary edition, calling Rauschenbusch's work "a distraction of the Christian church from its deepest objectives." In announcing evangelicals' re-engagement with the world to the Beltway journalists, Rick Warren was careful to sever any ties to Rauschenbusch, who, he alleged, "basically said we don't need this stuff about Jesus anymore; we don't need the cross; we don't need salvation; we don't need atonement; we just need to redeem the social structures of society and if we do that people will automatically get better. This is basically Marxism in a Christian form." Purpose-driven Warren is probably smarter than his unsubtle observations suggest, realizing perhaps that his own base won't support his social justice efforts if they think Rauschenbusch's thought is behind them.
Even the evangelicals who agreed to write companion essays for the re-issue are careful to temper their praise for Rauschenbusch with cautions about his theories of atonement. In fact, few of them lend Rauschenbusch their unadulterated support. The afterward by Richard Rorty, a fellow traveler of liberal Christianity but an atheist, is a wistful acknowledgment that the events of the 20th century, especially the Holocaust and the mechanistic tyranny of the Soviets, made the inhumane evils of turn-of-the-century Hell's Kitchen seem innocent, and undercut Rauschenbusch's belief in the essential goodness of humanity.
Rauschenbusch, it seems, is still his own best mouthpiece. His inescapably real reporting and utterly pragmatic solutions to poverty seem to anticipate George Orwell, and his rational sympathy for the poor in "Road to Wigan Pier." Like Orwell, Rauschenbusch indicts our snobbery in assuming that we would fare better if faced with the same challenges. His fascination with Jesus as a specifically Jewish mind even lines up with some evangelical thinking today. His anecdotes about failed health-care systems and the immigrant experience could be culled from our own politicians' stump speeches.
Indeed, if Rauschenbusch stepped off that boat from Germany today, he would feel right at home in our America. The Christian world is still split between mainliners comfortably ensconced in material society and evangelicals stressing personal piety as if Christianity were under dire threat. The distance between the top and bottom of the economic strata still troubles us as it did him. And though some may despise the theology behind his vision, and others may call him politically naïve, religious leaders of good conscience are listening to his alarm.
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Welcome to the Careers Portal at St. Joseph's Catholic School. This resource is for all things related to careers!!
Currently, the pace of change is more rapid than at any time in history. Changes in society and work are having a profound effect on traditional patterns of employment. Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) is about helping students to develop the knowledge, confidence and skills they need to make well informed, considered choices and plans. Through this, they will develop career management skills, enabling them to make effective decisions both now and for their futures.
Our CEIAG provision has been awarded the national Career Mark quality standard. We meet the statutory requirements for CEIAG through contracting with an independent careers adviser from Careers Solutions (Wiltshire) Limited. Our programme is developed in line with Careers guidance and inspiration in schools, statutory guidelines from the Department of Education.
There is a well-defined careers programme through key stages 3 and 4 which follows the ACEG framework for careers and work related education, and our students have access to impartial information, advice and guidance. As well as our school staff and careers adviser, we also work with higher education providers, local further education colleges and 6th forms, apprenticeship providers, employers, voluntary sector the local authority and our alumni to support our CEIAG programme.
This site will link you to sources of information and advice and where to get help. Please use the links below for further information.
For further help:
Careers Interviews – students and parents are welcome to book an appointment with our Careers Adviser.
Mrs Glover (Careers Adviser) is in school on Tuesday's and Thursday's and can be contacted on 01722 – 335380 or e-mail our careers administrator Mrs. Fenwick on firstname.lastname@example.com
Mrs Glover offers a drop-in facility at lunchtimes in the Benedict Building between 12.45pm – 1.35pm.
Careers Education
All learners experience a relevant and appropriate careers curriculum which promotes equal opportunities, challenges stereotypes, raises aspirations and encourages learners to reach their full potential. Learners are taught to take responsibility for their futures and encouraged to make full use of the learning opportunities, resources and events made available to them.
Useful Links and Resources
Career Comp@nion – Click here
Career Comp@nion has been designed to help and support both students and parents/carers by providing the most up-to-date, independent and impartial web link gateway to careers information. It acts as a 'one stop shop' to access information about education, apprenticeships, labour market information, special educational needs, job hunting, qualifications, psychometric tests and films about different careers and the resources on this site are extensive.
The site is maintained and updated by a team of professionals working in career guidance, education and information.
Career Comp@nion was awarded the Career Assured – quality mark for careers resources by the Career Development Institute in 2015. St. Joseph's School also updates the site with relevant local information for the benefit of our students.
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Also within the Career Comp@nion site sits e-Clips. e-CLIPS is an easy-to-use online careers resource that provides regularly updated information on over 1,000 jobs and careers. The site also offers advice on topics relating to options at key stages, education and training, employability skills, job seeking and lifestyle choices.
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Careerpilot is a free one-stop website helping 13-19 year olds in the South of England to find out about all of their options. Please follow the link below for further information:
Thank You!
St. Joseph's School could not provide such a comprehensive careers programme without the support of local businesses and the education sector.
The link gives a list of all providers who have supported our students during the past academic year.
SJCS Career Supporters
We would like to say a huge THANK YOU for all their inspiration and encouragement!
Work Experience
Work experience can be a very powerful, life changing experience for pupils. Some go on to gain employment and some realise their ideal career path and progress to being very successful in their chosen field. Others decide that what they thought was their ideal career path no longer lives up to their expectations and are grateful they had the chance to find out before leaving school.


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NAF fear that the information stored in newer cars, can be abused, for example by insurance companies.
If that happens, the technology is being used completely differently than what it was intended for, warns Inspectorate.
According to NRK, the Norwegian Automobile Federation (NAF) found that information on driving style can be resold to an insurance company, which can crank up the price for those who are driving too fast.
– New cars are computers on wheels. They collect much more information than many realize, says communications consultant Nils Sødal in NAF.
Technical director Atle Årnes in the Inspectorate shares the concern.
– If it happens, the information is used entirely for purposes other than those originally intended. We are concerned, he says.
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George MacDonald Saw the Dolphins
The Chronicles of Narnia are all the rage right now, and for good reason. I read the seven books seven times each during my early and mid teens. This past year, I read them each again, and I must say that, children's stories though they seem to be, they were even more delightful to me at 43 years old than they had been when I was 15. Lewis' primary influence and inspiration for writing fairy stories was George MacDonald, who had lived in Scotland a generation prior.
MacDonald's book Phantastes works on the imagination in ways that only a LtK type epistimology can explain. It walks the reader through Faery Land as seen through the eyes of a Victorian-era young man. It's a most peculiar adventure. At times it hardly seems coherent. But it makes sense to your senses, if not always to your logical mind. As you read it, its immediate affect varies from charming to perplexing to aweing to almost embarrassing in a way. (Come to think of it, the Scriptures have much the same effect.) But when you put it down and go to do other things, the images haunt you in ways that make you realize that you've had a profound encounter with something important. It helps you see beyond the veil that modernity has draped over your eyes.
In the closing paragraph of the book, at the point after the primary character has left Faery Land, he describes lying beneath his favorite kind of tree, a beech, and having a brief vision of sorts of a wise old woman he met in his travels. He says:
"I opened my eyes, and, for a moment, almost believed that I saw her face, with its many wrinkles and its young eyes, looking at me from between two hoary branches of the beech overhead. But when I looked more keenly, I saw only twigs and leaves, and the infinite sky, in tiny spots, gazing through between."Looking too keenly caused the vision to vanish. Is it not so often true that an attempt at highly precise observation causes us to miss the meaning of what we're looking at? When looking at the Magic Eye picture, you can see the dolphins only if you relax and look through it. If you examine it with the critical eye of scientific, modern man, all you'll see is a meaningless swirl of dots.
When we meditatively and appreciatively take in the beauty and wonder of the Creation of which we are part, we can hardly miss seeing the hand of our Creator, and rejoicing in His greatness and goodness. But if we see ourselves as above it, and Nature as something apart from us, to be pinned down and dissected, we'll see nothing but twigs and leaves.
The same thing happens all too often with Scripture in the hands of Evangelical interpreters, who are influenced more strongly than we know by Enlightenment assumptions. We get so caught up in the definition of individual Greek words, or in the exact wording of an isolated fragment of Scripture (a.k.a., a "verse"), or in trying to make the Bible into a How-to book for personal success, or in trying to find some 1-to-1 correspondence to current headlines, that we miss the story. The meaning is not in the words. It's in the story. It can't be pinned down too precisely, because it's living, and powerful, and sharper than whatever scapel you try to dissect it with. It dissects you. If you stare too closely at the minutiae, all you'll see is twigs and leaves. If you're lucky.


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Executive chairman Kelvin Thomas is set to give manager Chris Wilder the green light to strengthen the Cobblers squad in the January transfer window.
Town go into Saturday's Sixfields date with Portsmouth (ko 3pm) two points clear at the top of Sky Bet League Two, and six points clear of fourth-placed Pompey.
The are in a fantastic position after a stunning run of form that has seen them lose just one of their past 15 league games.
The squad is clearly in very in good shape as it stands, especially as there is only one player currently out injured in midfielder Paul Corry.
But Thomas is a believer that it is always better to improve things from a position of strength, and he is keen to build on what Wilder and his players have achieved this season to date.
"We have looked at three of the areas of the club that are important to us," said Thomas.
"They are the east stand, recruitment and the training ground, not necessarily in that order.
"We have had a lot of discussions with Chris on all of those areas, and are starting to put some plans in place.
"Recruitment is one of those key areas, and I think we are making progress on that.
"The reality is, and I have learned this, you have to improve when you are on top, and at the moment we are top of the league and, from what I have seen and have been told, deservedly so.
"We now have to improve on that and make sure we are ready to go.
"It is alright being top now after 21 games, but the goal is to be top or in that top three after 46.
"That was important and one of the first things I said to the players and staff, prior to the takeover when they had put the club in a fantastic position.
"We had to make sure nobody said 'we are all safe now, we are getting paid, and everything's great'. That is the case, but we need to make sure we keep the pressure on and we keep pushing as we are less than halfway through the season."


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See here for the Finnish version: Kaikkein epäilyttävin lähde
(I have a bigger thing coming up here, but it's going to take a while yet, and it's about time I posted at least something.)
I have written about critical thinking before. Let us recap: The point of critical thinking is to aim at accepting only credible notions, and to this end, one examines each notion in an objective and aware manner before deciding what to think of it. The worst thing to do would be to accept claims only because one wants to, or to look only for evidence supporting one's claims.
It is not easy to be objective, however, because one's old beliefs and attitudes affect what seems credible and sensible, and one is often blind towards one's worst weaknesses. You may have noticed this while debating with people who disagreed with you. Have you ever felt that they can be really blind to their own bias and error? Continue reading


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Committed to Excellence, Equality and Enjoyment
'School Governors have a vital role to play in helping to improve educational standards…. The governor role is interesting, challenging and worthwhile.'
The Right Hon. Estelle Morris MP, Former Secretary of State for Education and Skills
Welcome to our Website - a message from the Chair of Governors.
On behalf of the governors, I would like to welcome you to our website. We hope that you find the information useful and informative. Please let us know what you think of it, using the 'Contact Us' page. We are very proud of the achievements of both the children and staff at the school - now and over the past years. However, we are not complacent. We want the very best for the children, as it is the least they deserve. We want them to achieve well in all aspects of the curriculum and we want them to enjoy learning. When they leave the school, we want them to go with fond memories of interesting experiences in the school and beyond, on trips and visits to various places of interest.
We also hope that the website and the Managed Learning Environment (MLE) will help to further develop the vital partnership between parents and our school. Our aim is engage children in learning outside of school and parents to gain a better understanding of their children are learning at school.
Colin Adams
Co Chair of Governors
What does a school governor do?
School governors are members of governing bodies, whose purpose is to help provide the best possible education for pupils at the school. Governing bodies are responsible for the strategic management of the school and will make decisions about a wide range of issues.
The core responsibilities involved are:
The governing body is usually split in to a small number of committees, each responsible for one area such as finance or health and safety. These committees will meet separately from the main governing body to discuss relevant issues in more detail. Discussion is then fed back at a full governing body meeting.
Who appoints governors?
There are several different groups responsible for appointing governors, although once appointed all governors essentially perform the same role.
Training, development and support for governors
Training and development is a vital part of becoming an effective governor. It assists governors in dealing with the issues that occur regularly, in keeping up with the many changes taking place in education, and in supporting schools to raise standards.
Who can be a school governor?
Anyone who is eighteen or over, a legal resident of the UK and not disqualified under the School Governance Constitution (England) Regulations is eligible for the role. You do not need to be a parent or have any particular qualifications to become a governor; enthusiasm and a desire to make a difference are the most important qualities a volunteer can have. Governors can also include people from different walks of life who may have business or other skills. Often just by asking straightforward critical questions of the school on behalf of the community they can have as valuable an influence as the education professionals with whom they work. Becoming a governor could be a way of contributing to the school and learning new skills.
If you are interested in becoming a governor or would like to find out more please contact the school on 0208 450 8425.


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To book a Groovybooth please complete the details below.
If the date you have requested is available we will contact you to confirm your booking and take a £100 deposit. Otherwise we will let you know that your date is unavailable.
You will not be charged unless we can confirm your booking with you.
Groovybooth Information and conditions of hire
- The Groovybooth measures 205cm (h) x 200cm (w) x 120 (D) & requires a minimum ceiling height of at least 225cm
- We will arrive approximately 2 hours before your booth start time to setup the groovybooth, unless otherwise agreed
- The Groovybooth is for indoor use only, requires 1 mains power socket and must be on a completely flat & level surface
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- If for any reason (i.e. sickness, accident, car breakdown, equipment failure) we are unable to provide you with a functioning groovybooth We will be happy to extend the Hire Period by a period equal to the duration of the period of time lost. Where it is not possible to extend the Hire Period or where it is not possible to extend the Hire Period for the full duration of the time lost We will arrange to make a refund to You. The value of the refund will be based on the duration of the period of time lost as a proportion to the duration of the original Hire Period detailed on Your Booking Confirmation.
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This motley pack of writers have all sorts of things they bring to the table. These are some of those things. Click on the author's name for an archive of their posts on The Pilgrims' Process.
Adria Britton
Adria is a young writer who enjoys crafting poetry and creative nonfiction. She graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa, and now works part time as a copyeditor. She is known to drink tea frequently, hum often, and go barefoot whenever possible.
David Bunce
David is a Baptist pastor and missionary in Vienna, Austria. Originally from the UK, he now works with Projekt:Gemeinde (Project:Church) as well as being involved in the year-out bible and mission school Project:Vienna and the Austrian Baptist Union's home mission.
Jesse Duley
Jesse is the Worship Pastor at the Kingdom Vineyard in St Andrews on the east coast of Scotland. He's most at home behind a guitar, but is becoming increasingly comfortable behind a lectern. Having recently completed a degree in Theology & Biblical Studies, he's now planning to teach himself Koine Greek. For fun.
Oliver Ip
Oliver lives in Hong Kong where he oversees discipleship at an international church in the heart of the city. He likes whisky, food, life-stories, hospitality, art, humans, pushing the limits of what is socially acceptable in polite company (sorry), science-fiction, fantasy, gin, whisky, God's nature, life coaching, and whisky.
Joanna Leidenhag
Joanna is a PhD student in Systematic Theology at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a candidate for ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church of Scotland (Anglican). In her free time, Joanna loves sport and exercise and is a semi-professional artist (Christian oil paintings).
Carina Lisa
Carina works as a pastoral assistant at Projekt:Gemeinde (Project:Church), a multicultural Baptist church in Vienna, Austria. She also works and studies at the University of Vienna in the faculty of Protestant Theology. She's passionate about theology, social justice, and the practical outworking of church and faith in the 21st Century.


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I've been beating the bushes for backup QB candidates beyond QB-J. T. Barrett, who I think may be of at least some interest to the Seahawks as a replacement for the "troubled" Boykin. Here, I think I might have found a sleeper, small school QB that would --possibly-- fit the mold of an RW clone as well, further research may be needed to say for sure.
QB-Brandon Silvers, Troy, 6-3/219. Career: 48-games 969 completions for 10,684-yds,
71-TD's/29-INT, 64.4% completion % -and- 237 rushes for 415-yds & 16-TD's.
Reportedly has: ""good speed, strong arm, good accuracy, mobile, tough nosed, good instincts, good ball placement, gets ball out quickly, very poised in the pocket with good awareness, good roll out passer and has a good deep ball.""
Sounds quite a bit like RW, has anyone (Troy alums?) seen or heard of him before or know anything about this likely UDFA? See: http://pigskinprospects.com/jasons-earl ... n-silvers/


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Object Number: A-013
Containment Requirements: Medium
Threat Level: Medium
Containment Procedures: A-013 is to be contained within an artificial habitat measuring 25 meters by 25 meters by 5 meters in Site-16's Wildlife Sector.
Description: A-013 is a colony of twenty-three Brachinus (Bombardier Beetle) initially discovered in the Amazon Rainforest. A-013 are genetically identical to the Brachinus, except one difference in the way it defends itself. Instead of spraying 1,4 Benzoquinone, A-013 sprays molten gold. The method by which A-013 produces the gold is unknown. Dissection and similar procedures are prohibited due to the limited number of instances of A-013.
A-013 was initially discovered by an expedition of Coleopterologists1 attempting to track Bombardier Beetles. The Coleopterologists were reported missing, and local authorities went searching for the party. The authorities found the Coleopterologists severely burned and coated in molten gold, none of the Coleopterologists survived. A GEAR task force was called to come in and contain A-013 after the authorities suffered 3 casualties.
Note from Dr. Saint:
So… Currently my division of researchers are trying to figure out a way of making a profit from these money machines. We are currently on our 4th prototype and down a scientist (Peace be with Maverick). At this point, we are really close to making a breakthrough. If this prototype actually works and we can increase the population in the colony, we would be able to use the gold for a great source of funding. Still, all of this is just hopes and dreams, we may not even be able to collect the gold safely. Anyways, I'll keep this updated with our progress.
Note from Dr. Saint:
It seems to work! The newest and hopefully last prototype which is now known as GSE-13 is fully functioning. We managed to collect 50 ml in an hour! If we keep this running constantly we would never need funding again. We also could use it in manufacturing some of our computer parts, instead of having to buy them. All in all, things are looking up. This is Dr. Saint, signing off.
Note from Dr. Saint:
Well fuckety, fuck, fuck! We messed up really bad. We killed almost the entire colony… It turns out they only have a finite amount of the gold. We have 5 specimens left, 2 males and 3 females. Let's hope we are able to bring up their population and make sure not to kill them all off. This is Dr. Saint signing off.
Note from Dr. Saint:
Well, the higher-ups are gonna have my ass after this. They didn't mate, we tried so hard. They just didn't want to I guess. It was looking okay as a male and female showed signs of interest. We all left for the night hoping we'd have progressed in the morning. When we came back we discovered that the 3 of the 5 were crushed, of course, it was the two males and a female. We are still trying to figure out who killed them, we do have some leads but nothing concrete. I am now taking the responsibility of A-013 since there are only two left. This was my mistake and I need to accept that. Once the instances die I will be doing a complete dissection. This is Dr. Saint signing off, possibly for the last time.


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Monday, October 3, 2011
written in prose, by Alain Satié
This is a retitled version of Écrit en prose, which was originally published by Éditions PSI in 1971, & awarded the Anti-Goncourt Prize. Available as a paperback on demand, here. View some sample pages here.
Alain Satié (1944-2011) was one of a younger generation of Lettristes. He was thrilled to see this new edition of his hypergraphic novel being born in 2010.
English version of Alain's site: =>
Here is an introduction to Lettrisme, & ongoing activities, en français, ici.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
100 Scenes in paperback
The abstract graphic novel 100 Scenes by Tim Gaze is now available as a paperback book, printed on demand, at Digital Print Australia. View some sample pages here.
The e-book version of 100 Scenes, published by Transgressor, is available from iBooks & Kindle.
You can watch a slideshow of every page in the book.
A review by Rob Clough of The Comics Journal is here.
Eileen Tabios' review is here.
Analysis by Domingos Isabelinho.
Review (em português) por Pedro Moura.
6 pages from 100 Scenes are reproduced in Tuli&Savu-kirja Tekstitaide (Fire&Smoke, Finnish poetry journal's yearbook for 2012, titled Text Art, including 1 on the front cover.
Review (in Russian/на русском языке) by Gleb Kolomiets in СЛОВА/SLOVA #12, pages 62-63. Google translation into English, without the illustrations.
Review (in Polish/w języku polskim) in Zeszyty Komiksowe #17.
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