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You'll be responsible for ensuring that FutureLearn is building communities that support learning and build engagement with the platform and drive course enrolment.
You'll ensure that the FutureLearn brand is enhanced by social activities and activity creates brand advocates as well as protecting it from being damaged by community mismanagement and other reputational risks.
Essentially, you will ensure that FutureLearn is the best in the game when it comes to social learning.
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- Oversee and encourage all social activity on the FutureLearn platform.
- Create, implement and develop house rules and community guidelines, plus policies and action plans around managing community issues.
- Create policies and approaches to ensure the protection and inclusion of vulnerable users (e.g. children).
- Manage and maintain the relationship with an external moderation agency.
- Create engagement strategies with other social platforms and oversee and encourage FutureLearn related social interactions on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+ and manage official spaces (e.g. groups, hashtags).
- Work with partners to encourage best practice and good community management both on and off platform, by creating training, handbooks and regularly sharing case studies.
- Make recommendations, champion and support the product team in the development of social features and advise on best practice in areas such as sharing and using the social graphs of our users.
- Support and guide marketing, customer service and business activities that have a social dimension.
- Track, analyse and learn from social analytics in order to improve FutureLearn's social approach both to learning and user engagement.
- Understand, track and learn from the social approaches of our competitors and new ways that social media is being used to support learning.
- Represent the voices of our users at all levels of the business.
You will have...
- Overseen, managed and taken part in digital communities on social platforms.
- Demonstrable experience of hosting, moderation and creating necessary policies and action plans.
- Successfully managed brands in social spaces such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
- Disseminated knowledge and best practice around social media.
- An interest or experience in formal or informal eLearning.
- An interest or experience of digital product development and working within an agile product development process.
The social lead will...
- Live and breathe social media and intimately understand the dominant social platforms, be aware of the niche products and the potential big platforms of the future.
- Have a wealth of knowledge and expertise around managing online communities and be able to provide an anecdote and words of wisdom for all potential scenarios.
- Be passionate about the potential of massive open learning.
- Be empathetic to all groups of users and be know how to guide conversations.
- Be great at telling stories and influencing peoples thinking.
- Be resilient, motivated and proactive and use their initiative.
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Yesterday, Sunday, November 9, the Catalonians held a straw poll, which is a kind of makeshift unofficial referendum on whether or not the majority from the region wants to become independent, as the minority from the region have so arduously desired. It was an act of defiance since the national government and the judicial branch had previously struck down Catalonia's request to call on the will of the people to determine its future. The hope to become a sovereign nation has been alive for decades, and the roots go back centuries, not unlike Scotland's dilemma, but it has come on stronger over the past decade for reasons not easily summarized in so few lines. Now those wanting to break away feel they have the right numbers to put it to the people, but Madrid keeps saying, "Uh, I don't see this referendum thing happening."
While it's understandable that the national government should want to put off the inevitable, the problem is it only aggravates the issue and it doesn't make Spain look very good. The United Kingdom established a peaceful and orderly referendum with the Scots, as did Canada with Quebec, to nationalist movements which failed, by the way. Why can't Spain do the same.
So the pro-independence groups organized its now famous "consulta" and beckoned Catalans from home and abroad to put in their two cents. The answers were short and sweet: "Yes" or "No". They did so in the name of democracy, calling it a show of civil disobedience for a just cause. They even alluded to Martin Luther King Jr. The national government called it a sham.
Finally the numbers came in, with some 2,300,000 voters showing up at the polls, with about 80% demanding independence. The international press has embraced these numbers as indicative of Catalonia's overwhelming support for the initiative, but the stats belie reality. The numbers that showed up only constituted about 35% of all potential voters, and if you remove the nay-sayers, then the independentistas only managed to muster up about 28% of the vote.
If you take into account that the straw poll was promoted heavily by the Catalonian independence movement and it was supposed to their chance to corner the Madrid government into giving up more control to them, in my humble opinion, it didn't do a very good job. About two-thirds of the voters clearly didn't see the necessity to cast a vote, and would have expected a higher turnout from those citizens if they were so adament about seeing secession through. In short, from what I can tell, the numbers are there. I think they are higher then 28%, but probably still a far cry from the needed 51%.
If the Spanish government had any skill with this issue, they would hold a real referendum as soon as possible, while they apparently have the vote on their side. But I don't see that happening either.
Oh well. Time to start the week.]]>
In any event, you are no longer able to just show up at the INEM and get a ticket to stand in line. Now you must make an appointment online. They zap back a very exact time, like 12:47, and then tack on the symbols +/- afterward to indicate, "more or less". That's what I like: approximate precision.
On the way in, I saw this little bit of publicity stamped on the surface of the sidewalk. In English, it reads, "Men's Haircuts, free if you are unemployed".
Was this generosity, solidarity, cynicism, politics, opportunism?
Chances are, it's genuine. There's a phone number and everything. Other hairdressers and barbers around Spain, from Tarragona and Lugo to Ibiza have offered the same over the years to help out those who are living on very limited budgets. That's called the benefit of kindness.
Meanwhile, as the number of unemployed descended 310,400 in the second term this year and Spain is the fastest growing employment nation in the EU, the official rate remains stubbornly at 24.47%, the second highest in the union. Believe it or not, things do appear to be improving; which is maybe why that sign is beginning to look a little faded.
What a shame when you don't even have a chance to sit back and jot down a few words. Forget the photos. Now people just take millions of them and let the retro filters and cropping do the rest. A man once said that if you want to travel, first you must learn to draw, because when you learn to draw, you learn to observe, and when you know how to observe, you are ready for traveling.
Lately, I haven't feel I was ready for anything but collapse at the end of the day, and that's not what I call a demanding skill.
Back in Spain, the summer is going through its motions. They tell me it was a pretty good July for the first couple of weeks, then the heat bore down and now it probably won't let up much for the next six weeks or so. Maybe longer. That's the way it works here. Though if there is a bright side, it probably has to do with the dry air that reigns in these parts of the country. In New England, the humidity can get so god-awful, even 80º F can feel like you are wearing two sweaters.
Today in Madrid we got a bit of a break. It's only 87ºF; they call it pleasant with plenty of sun.
It was pleasant until about an hour ago, then I decided to revert to my newest and closest friend at home, my A.C. It's actually been a fixture in my apartment for over three years. It never worked, and I never bothered to have it fixed, until last summer when I said enough was a enough. The thing was, summer was coming to an end, so I decided to wait until this May.
In America, this appliance, I guess that is what we should call it, has long been commonplace in most homes. And they aren't used sparingly. In public places like grocery stores, it can get so icy that I need to wear a sweatshirt or else an impending bowel movement will invade me somewhere around the cereal section. I never knew why this was, and to my surprise, nor do many professionals. "Why do I want to defecate in a cold super market?" does not get as many results on the search engine as I had envisioned. I can't say what number I had in mind, but I'm sure it is more than one. Apparently my colonic muscles are stimulated by the chilly air in an action called peristalsis, when your intestinal muscles relax and contract in a way that says it's time to make for the bathroom. It's the cool air that triggers that. I began to feel that this reaction was more a personal thing, but I'm sure that it's something people are just too embarrassed to mention.
That said, in Spain, air conditioning in a private home was long considered a luxury and eschewed by many who felt it was unhealthy. By many who smoked and drank regularly, and did little or no exercise. By many who popped antibiotics at the sound of the first sneeze and nourished themselves on fatty pork meat.
Now it is more common, but hardly rampant. In 2008, approximately 35% of Spanish homes enjoyed artificial cooling, and though it is surely higher these days, it's a far cry from what you get on the other side of the Atlantic. In 2011, in the United States, it was estimated that 87% of households have this now basic feature.
So this is actually a fairly recent image of Spain. A Spain of the last ten years, I'd say. It's not an image of progress, but rather one of acceptance.]]>
The logical thing to do when returning is to take the same route from whence we came, just to avoid any unpleasant surprises. This is especially true when you are traveling with kids, because they generally don't appreciate hearing sentences like, "Let me just pull over a second and ask this man where we are."
So, I should have done that, but didn't. I much prefer to go back on an alternate route, just to discover something new. We did; and that was, getting lost in England is easy. Finding your way back is not.
We veered onto the A330 and headed west towards Exeter, generally in the direction of Cornwall. According to my calculations, I would only have to do this for a dozen miles. I was looking for a crossroads that would indicate a turn south towards Dorchester. This never came. It never came because a majority on the panel of experts of the British Road Network felt that kind of information was superfluous, and that mentioning the location of smaller, vastly less important towns was far worthier of mention on a sign than lowly and forgotten Dorchester. So I bypassed my exit at a considerable speed, positive that the route I was looking for was still ahead. After another ten miles of stellar summer English countryside, the very landscapes that inspired Thomas Hardy over and over again, I realized that if I didn't do anything about it I would eventually send our vehicle off a cliff into the Atlantic.
So, I raced off the highway and onto a country road that headed south and hopefully towards a familiar name. The route was so narrow that it allowed for just enough room two vehicles as long as neither of them exceeded the width of a mini. Something must be said for these harrowing experiences, but I usually pay for them at a theme park and with the guarantee I won't die as a result.
We coasted into Shaftesbury, an ancient town whose earliest buildings have all but disappeared from existence. Little has survived from before the 18th Century, making it on paper the kind of town which no one in England would give two hoots about. The name Shaftesbury may not be familiar to most us from abroad, yet anyone who has spent more than five minutes in a bookstore or souvenir shop in Dorset will have undoubtedly come upon its famous Gold Hill, an extremely steep cobbled street lined by traditional thatched-roofed stone houses. It must be the most common photographic image of Dorset. The lane is also famous for being the setting for one of Britain's most beloved commercials of all time, promoting Hovis Bread. It was filmed and launched back in 1972 and directed by none other than a young and then unknown Ridley Scott. The ad shows a boy pushing his bike up the hill with a degree of difficulty to deliver loaves to a neighbor and final customer of the day, who lives at the very top. Reaching the summit is described as being "on top of the world" in the voice-overed mind of the child. The impression is understandable. Beyond the roofs and chimneys, the English countryside explodes in all directions. I know this from the picture, of course, just as anyone who has been to Dorset has.
The commercial is quaint, twee and heartwarming, but I was initially puzzled by its lasting fame. After a few viewings I began to understand and came to the conclusion that it was one of those otherwise insignificant cultural nuggets which for some reason appear at the right time in a society and become lodged permanently in the memories of a whole generation. Or two. Every country has its treasure trove of peculiar icons that seem to mean something only to its residents. They are brief and modest rebellions against globalization.
The Hovis bread commercial is said to have been a hit because it depicted the essence of rural life in England, with a heavy dose of nostalgia to boot. It is fitting they would choose this spot to film it. Dorset still possesses that yesteryear allure that attracts the British tourist in search of that lost and forgotten past of a fondly recalled simpler life. It was become a kind of generic Main Street for the nostalgic. At least, that's the sense I get. I didn't know Gold Hill was there, though I had seen the picture already. That is a blunder in advertising. People didn't associate it with any town in particular.
I was focused on other things, in reality; on what street would take me back to Weymouth and was just happy to see a traffic light because it meant I was in civilization and able to get a better understanding of just how far off course I had gone. Fully confident of my orientation skills but no longer sure of the way I worked them, I fled to a gas station and sought the assistance of the first person I came across, who happened to be a young man of about 20. He was with his mates. He had a slightly unkept, up-to-no-good look, the kind of kid I certainly would have avoided back in the States, now that I think about it, unless I wanted to end up on one of those reality shows about "Unsolved Mysteries".
But the funny thing about the British, from an American's point of view, is that no matter what their appearance may be, it's the goddamn accent of theirs that makes them somehow so appealing and worthy of the fullest trust. They could be holding to your throat and telling you that they are going to take all your money but first sodomize you for an hour, and just because of that charming intonation of theirs, you'd find yourself saying, "Hey, that sounds just fine by me."
Now, I can't say what this kid would be like when the pubs close, but he was surely helpful then. He kindly explained that I was heading in the right the direction and that I was to first pass through Blandford Forum, where I would see signs for Dorchester, i.e., the capital of the county. Blandford is only about from 15 miles from Dorchester, but to my surprise, the disoriented traveler would not be provided with irrefutable proof that he was not lost until he was practically at the edge of town. Oh well; every country has its quirks.
The trip back was taking longer than I had anticipated, but as we struggled to orient ourselves, we did get to enjoy the back roads of rural England. The tree-lined lanes, the thick hedges, the green and golden fields that formed the most attractive patchwork nature and man could jointly produce. Each turn afforded yet another bucolic and ideal setting for yet another Hardy novel. We wove through hill and dale until we glided into a town called Iwerne Minster, which had been was commended in the 2010 for its charm in the Best Kept Villages in Dorset contest, an annual competition run by the Dorset Community Action. This was no gratuitous distinction. All it takes is for a quick look around the countryside for you to realize that the competition is stiff. Just about any hamlet in those parts could out-quaint the vast majority of Spanish communities. They are just that cute. You could almost imagine Mrs. Tiggy-winkle emerging from any of those homes to sweep the front entrance with a nice thick broom full of long bristles.
Iwerne Minster had apparently stood above the rest in this category making me wonder just what it would be like to inhabit like that. It seemed almost unthinkable that a dog could ever poop on its sidewalks; no drunk would puke in its bushes; no lewd sex act ever performed or heinous crime committed inside the walls of its homes. I was sure no habitual human behavior went on in there. Ever.
It was while traversing this town that we drove by a pub called the "Wild Garlic", which I pointed out to the girls because I loved the name. Little did I know that it was a recently started up restaurant and B&B run by a Masterchef winner Mat Follas, a British celebrity I had never heard of before. It had apparently been opened just a few months before, and apparently was closed down just a few months since then. This was a town for hedgehogs and bears donning rain gear, not gastronomic sybarites. Didn't Mr. Follas realize that?
We carved our way through the rest of the county and, without great difficulty but a great deal of patience, managed to return to Weymouth with a sense that he had finally made it to familiar surroundings. The roundabouts. The port with the scores of masts rising into the sky, the families coming back from their dinners at restaurants. The day coming to an end, and the town coming to a close. It comforted us. After just three days, Weymouth had become our new home.]]>
Many people back home ask me how I spend my Easter Sunday and I always tell them the same: In a car, on a highway and with a handful of swear words on hand and a head full of ways I would like to commit violent acts.
It's a reasonable enquiry considering Spain has a big reputation for being such a deeply religious country, with KKK-like brotherhoods parading about scores of towns and cities toting floats depicting anguished images from the passion of Christ. But that occurs days before when everyone commiserates with the suffering of the Savior on the eve of his crucifixion. The part about his coming back to life, the happy-ending resurrection, that triumphant "Hey, he really is the Son of God after all", is overshadowed by the fear of running into one of the worst traveling days of the calendar. It's a kind of Sunday after Thanksgiving to the tenth power.
There was a couple of years there when I took time away from this activity and stayed in Madrid, time off to recover from repeated ordeals. But I finally returned to one of Spain's greatest traditions: Operación Retorno. The photo actually shows traffic heading in the opposite the direction, towards the feared Alicante, but the sense of helplessness it conveys is virtually the same on the way back.
There is really nothing complicated about experiencing this great custom. Just spend a weekend about 500 kilometers away, pack your car, get behind the wheel, and head for the nearest highway that takes you back to Madrid. Then you look for the first traffic jam you can find, pull up at the end of the line and participate.
In the past, returning from a coastal place like Alicante meant the backup usually started a few yards from where my car was parked, some 350 miles from Madrid. It could go on for days. But this time I was regressing from the north, and that made things slightly more tolerable. The electronic panels spanning the road informed the traveler of any impending doom, and on this occasion indicated that we could expect "slow traffic", which I took as a good sign since it suggested we would be home in two hours instead of the usual four or five it might normally take. The traffic adopted the classic worm effect, crunching and stretching out throughout the countryside of Madrid. Every kilometer we advance counted as victory toward a common goal: reaching Fort Living Room before insanity set in.
To say you returned to Madrid on Easter Sunday without considering homicide is a true indicator of just how involved you are in life here. It's a necessary part of your training in Spanish culture. It's like mastering the subjunctive mode in Spanish, or watching from beginning to the final credits of the Eurovision song contest. No one wants to go through with it, and yet everyone should.]]>
I woke this morning to the sound a misty rain blanketing the sky. What a relief! Well, for once we had a Semana Santa without having to pull out the umbrellas every day, and the procession floats didn't have to kick it into high gear to get back to the church. En abril, aguas mil (In April, a thousand waters), that's the saying, the distant relative to "April showers bring May flowers", though "hasta el 40 de mayo, no te quites el sayo" (Until the 40th of May, don't take off your raincoat) hints that the wet weather might be around for a while…and often is. We got a break this time, we really did. All week they had been forecasting that damper cooler weather would be moving into the country and ruining the fun for everyone, but for the most part it just kept getting pushed off and off until about midnight last night, when I came out of the Círculo de Bellas Artes movie theater and felt the sprinkling begin. Bellas Artes is one of the oldest cultural centers in Madrid. It also owns a grandiose old world café with an outdoor section that spills out onto the Calle Alcalá. The inside, is all marbly and might be something you would see in those old fancy hotels. The rest of the building offers small but generally interesting art & photography exhibits, conference rooms, a large ballroom, etc., but the real reason most people come these days is for the chic rooftop bar, which was once just a rooftop, which was once only a rooftop with lookout of the center of Madrid, but now is a happening place for the hip, and not so hip, because I go there from time to time, taking that quality down a notch. Prices are up there with the height of the building, but nothing out of this world, especially for anyone who has travelled to London, Paris or New York.
On this occasion, I was at the movie theater (there is also a regular theater), which I hit from time to time because they usually have decent film cycles featuring different directors or actors or even themes. The best thing about it is that the same movie usually has three or four showings, unlike the filmoteca, meaning you don't normally have to hipcheck some college professor in line to ensure you have a ticket. This month they were featuring the late French director Alain Resnais, who just passed away last month. It was Hiroshima, Mon Amour, his classic innovative film about, love, loss and memory. It wasn't the easiest film to watch, one of the densest 90 minutes of celluloid I have taken in for some time which drags a little, and probably not for everyone, but an intensively beautiful and provocative film, all the same.
Let's not forget these places in Madrid. Let's not forget love. Let's remember we have memories which teach us to forget.]]>
We visited a souvenir shop on the way out, picked out a few postcards we ended up not ever sending, snacked on a soft ice cream cone and then plotted out the next couple of hours. We walked down the pretty streets of Salisbury thinking of where and what to eat. As I salivated as we went by every pub, my daughters suggested Burger King, and since we had made it through the cathedral with my being beheaded, and the Stonehengey-thing still looming, I thought it was a good moment to compromise and allow them to perk up their spirits with some crappy food.
It did the trick. With kids happy and ready for the second half of the day, we explored the town a little more. Salisbury was certainly attractive and pleasant to visit, but perhaps because I was used to medieval heavyweights back in Spain like Toledo, Segovia or Santiago de Compostela, I have to admit I felt a little letdown. I know it's not a fair judgment since the two countries have such contrasting appearances, but I can't help thinking I was expecting more. Oh well, the section around the cathedral was truly awesome.
We went back to the car and headed for the big challenge of the day: the blocks of rocks.
I have to confide that, on one hand, I was very excited about seeing Stonehenge but at the same time terrified of what I would find. I had heard that it had been cut off from the public and only could be viewed from a distance; and that the crowds, oh the crowds, rivaled 5th Avenue on St. Patrick's Day. What kind of cultural experience would I end up impressing on my daughters? Reverting to my teaching techniques, I kept expectations as low as possible to avoid excessive disappointment in the end, and relied heavily on the long-term effects to visit would have.
"I know you may not find this enthralling, but, trust, ten years down the road, you'll be thanking me for it." A decade was a very comfortable margin to snatch a victory from defeat. And, if worst came to worst, at least time would heal that wound. But I had lived similar experiences when I was there age, and even I can tell you that I have come to appreciate such bizarre tidbits of knowledge, like declining Latin words, years after considering homicide when having to study them by force. Learning can be such an odd process.
We departed Salisbury and, after bumping up on my first curb of the trip, a space judgment flaw that afflicts people used to driving on the other side of the road, we coasted north to the final destination of our day.
Stonehenge is located on the famous Salisbury Plain a 300 square mile stretch of open land which has served as the backdrop of many literary tales. Aside from that, it turns out to be a real task trying to ascertain just exactly where the Neolithic monument par excellence is and what or whom it belongs to. Research is no good. If anything, it serves to distance you from the truth.
It appears that Stonehenge is nearby a few different towns, but not technically within the boundaries of any. A kind of no man's land. From my understanding, it is owned by The Crown, which suggests the royal family could pop down there at any time and munch on some cucumber sandwiches while reclining on the blue stones, but in reality it refers to everything that embodies the government (executive, judicial and legislative) of the United Kingdom. In a sense, everything but the monarchy per se, if I have got it right. So, the monument is owned by the country, and managed by the English Heritage, which takes care of many of England's most cherished historical sites. The surrounding land, some 2,000 acres in all, is maintained by yet another conservationist body, the National Trust, which I used to think ran the show when it came to England's heritage, but apparently it's not that easy.
We glided up a long straightaway, leaving soon-to-be new visitors' center to our right and, once on top, made for the makeshift parking lot in what otherwise would be a meadow for sheep. The English Heritage prides itself in making dozens of its properties available to the public for free, but it certainly finds a way of making up for the difference in heavyweights like Stonehenge. Entry costs something like 14 pounds, 9 if you are a child. Then you have a 5 quid fee for parking – unless you were a member of the Heritage or a ticket-holder, neither of which applied to us. You'd think that since they would be having me fork over a handsome sum to see the rocks on the Salisbury Plain, the least they could do was foot the bill for the parking lot.
Enough of the complaining. Despite my fears of masses of multitudes turning the afternoon into something like the New York State Highway on the weekend of Woodstock, to my surprise, the visit, while hardly intimate, was manageable. I was just reeling to get inside. Considering it was early August, it could have been worse.
It was also one of the most international moments of our visit to England that year. Down in Dorset, a foreigner is a Liverpudlian whose mother is from Glasgow. At Stonehenge, English is just one of the dozens of languages filling the air.
The visit takes you through a short subterranean exhibit with murals that prep you for the big moment. Since the big moment was all that I was there for, we passed through rather blithely and headed for the ramp.
There is certainly something liberating about emerging from the time tunnel they guide you through and rising up to the open plain with the family of ancient and noble stones cracking the horizon. The vastness of the open area muted the magnitude of the people speaking there. Stonehenge is hands down the most famous prehistoric site in the West, and to say you've been that close to it, sends a chill up your spine regardless of the multitude surrounding the circle. Say what you will, but I didn't see it as a letdown.
My daughters feigned disinterest at first, claiming that every child under the age of fifteen there was complaining as much as them. "I just heard a boy saying how boring it was."
"He was speaking German. How would you know?"
"You can tell."
"You can, can you?"
There is little mysterious about how to visit the site. You start at one point, something like one o'clock, and go counter clockwise for a full loop until you have observed it from 360 different angles. It may seem simplistic to say, but I can tell you that the changing perspectives are worth it. The weather was typically English fickle climate. The balmy and mostly cloudy skies allowed for persistent changes of light and depth. Not sure if I would ever return, I went for another around, doing my best to tune out the crowds.
The girls ended up loving it; I knew they would. After looping around slowly, we sat down on the grassy prairie, pulled out a couple of packs of Walker's crisps, or chips, as the Americans would say, and gazed at the timeless structure endlessly, the way you do when bewitched by the dancing flames in a fireplace.
The girls enjoyed it, I tell you. And I no longer had to tell them "Ten years from now. Ten years from now." Two thousand years ago had suddenly become now. Ten years into the future had turned into now. Now was all of time encapsulated, beneath the expanse of a bone-white sky and in a silence only broken by distant windy voices and the crunching of brittle chips. Or crisps, as the British say.]]>
First of all, just coming up with an acceptable equivalent in English seems to be a challenge for translators around the world. Go to linguee.com, a well-intended but often errant translating reference service which, instead of computing the word or phrase that you are looking for into another tongue, provides you with a series of previous attempts done by other human translators who have contributed their texts. It is an interesting approach because it can assist you in finding that elusive linguistic transformation you seek, but on more than one occasion, it helps you realize that there are a lot of incompetent experts out there, and reaffirms yourn faith in technology.
Here are some of the jewels the unwary investigator might get duped by: "entryphone telephone" (which is more of a definition than a translation); "little phone" (a half-hearted literal translation, especially since there little "little" about it); "telephone/monitor" (this time a physical description of the modern models); "portable phone" (there is hardly anything portable about this fixed fixture – your 50kg washing machine is easier to remove); and finally "intercom" (which probably stands as the closest relation).
Coming from residential Greenwich, Connecticut, I didn't encounter a telefonillo at all in my youth, aside from a friend's house which was so big one was used to communicate between members of the family. Ironically, one of the few homes I know in that town which actually use one of those systems from the outside gate is my original house, which breaks my heart. It was sadly transformed from a home which was so open that every living creature around for miles, children, dogs and cats, felt free to trespass as they pleased, to a kind of cold and uncharacteristic fortress of sorts. Alas! These things happen I guess.
You just never saw one, even on TV. From the movies I watched, I thought that in New York you either had a doorman do the screening, or lived in one of those neighborhoods where people shouted from the street, "Hey Tony! You home?!"
The telefonillo is a ubiquitous feature of every flat and many independent houses, and in my opinion is that their charm resides in two features: their apparent poor manufacturing and their sketchy reliability.
The first is apparent from the minute you hold the receiver in your hand. So light and airy, it seems to be hollow, and you are tempted to pry it open on one side to check if there is anything inside keeping things in order.
I suppose appearances could be deceiving if it weren't for the fact that so many of these specimens end up working about as pitifully as you would expect them to. Such is the case, that for the most part, I consider these malfunctions to be a standard part of the device's performance. Sort of like the scratchy inaudible speaker system on New York commuter trains.
One thing that almost never fails is the strident buzzing sound that raids the silence of your abode to announce that someone on the street wants to reach you. If your building doesn't have a doorman, more often than not it some poor sod trying to slip into the building to mete out publicity into the mailboxes. You can usually pick up on that because the buzzing is short and it spreads throughout the building, as the brochure deliverer relies on the basic laws of probability.
Picking up the receiver and answering is no guarantee that you will discover who is on the other end, because, as you will be able to see, one of four situations may occur, and they all have an equal chance of becoming a reality:
1) You hear the person downstairs > They can hear you.
2) You cannot hear the person downstairs > They can hear you.
3) You can hear the person downstairs > They cannot hear you.
4) Neither side can hear the other.
As you can see, you have really about a 25% chance of communicating with the voice on the other end. Either that or you end up conversing with neighbor from the flat two floors down who has also picked up.
"Who's this?"
"Who's this?" He replies with the same question because he isn't given to shouting out his name to a total stranger. During this period, the commercial postman is trying to interject and get inside the building. "Can you open me up?" But the others aren't listening. The round of questioning can go on perpetually, until one gives.
"I'm in 5B."
"Well, I'm in 3A. Why can I hear you?" The neighbor is Spanish and after decades of cohabitating with these gadgets you would think he was more familiar with how they normally work; what he should have been asking was how we were able to hear the man from downstairs. "There is something wrong with this thing. We gotta get the maintenance guy in to fix it."
"Can you open me up?"
"No!" cries out the other neighbor. Try later.
I hang up and wash my hands of the matter. The guy with ads will finally coerce someone into letting him in. It never fails. I have mixed feelings about those people. I know they are doing their job, but I just don't like the fact they assume we have to open the door for them. Especially when there is a box outside.
The final obstacle is the button that actually lets you in. I would say that more often than not, it fulfills its purpose, but rarely without an air of mystery, since once you have let go and checked to see if they are inside, there seldom is a reply. Occasionally, you detect a distant echo as if they are calling you from a cave "I'm in!", but generally, silence is the answer. And if you have decided to let in some stranger who claims to be a person only out to stuff mailboxes, you pray their intent was not something more malicious. Thank God Madrid is generally a very safe city.
Some friends of mine prefer the machine-gun method of pressing the button, requiring that I time pushing the door open with the moment. Statistics prove I often need to ring up again. I don't know why they do it that way. Maybe tradition. That makes sense, because many of the traditions that we all hold dear make any sense at all, which eventually constitutes a dear part of their charm.]]>
Everyone once in a while I dabble in a little nationalism-bashing, not because I am wholly against the idea of fighting for independence if that is what the collective feels and believes, nor do I dispute the historical justification for such a credence, or at least the right to defend it. What gets my goat, ever so slightly, is the insistence on manipulating information for the sake of God knows what…because it really makes no sense to me.
Just the other day I was looking up some information about a town outside Madrid called Villarejo de Salvanés, because I was in a café there studying the wildlife there and decided to rummage around the fee encyclopedia to see what it said about the town…in English, which wasn't much, to be honest. My eyes were distracted by the list of other languages that have decided to include entries on the subject. I have become increasingly fascinated by the number of tongues that have joined to the club. Personally I find it a celebration of that facet that sets us apart from so many other objects in this world, but I do get a kick out of how many of these languages actually make the effort to get on the record. Latin appears in many. Esperanto, too. And regional tongues such as Asturian and Aragonese have joined the ranks. I guess this is the ideal way to bring international attention to your otherwise unknown language, and that is fine with me, but it is interesting to study the sometimes subversive forces acting behind them.
Take Catalan, for example, a minor but healthy language in today's world but one with a chip on its shoulder the size of a log. Economic, dictatorial and natural, let's not forget, forces led to the encroachment of Castilian Spanish for many decades, but this Romance tongue, which is a kind of blend of Spanish, French and Oc, I guess, has managed to persevere quite well, thanks.
Enter politics. With Catalan nationalist sentiment continually on the rise, and the possibility of a referendum looming, the people who support this region, its language and culture, go to great lengths to pretend they don't belong to the country they belong to.
So, I slipped over to Catalan to see what they had to say about the town, rather surprised that they had anything to say about it. I looked at the summary on the right and noticed that they referred to the country of Spain as a state. Most of you would not be familiar with the word games that are played in Spain, but the use of the term "state" instead of "country" implies almost a sense of control rather than belonging. At least that is what I used to think, until I realized that the word was used for all political nations. The entry refers to Catalonia as a "país" or "country", due to its cultural and linguistic identity. At least says it is located in Spain. If you skip over to "Barcelona", you notice that it is defined in the entry as a city located in the Iberian Peninsula! Oh, that country thing is not important. The extremes people will go to avoid the facts; and that's considering it is printed in a website which should stick to the facts. Manipulation of information? Absolutely. That happens a lot. That happens a lot, I tell you. Let's pretend it doesn't exist. And if we don't mention it, it won't. God help us!]]>
Galveston, Texas, has always been associated in my mind with catastrophic tropical storms. It's just the way it is. After all, this coastal city of some 50,000 inhabitants was the victim of the worst natural disaster in terms of loss of life that the United States has ever seen. The hurricane that plowed through on September 10, 1900, left behind between 8,000-12,000 deaths. No cyclone has come close to inflicting such a lethal blow on a populace. In fact, it is said that the combined number of victims of all the other tropical storms to affect America (some 300 in all) doesn't even match it. It was that devastating.
One clear factor was the absence of adequate forecasting back then. The residents were not aware of what was to befall them. Foolhardiness played a part too. The weather bureau director of the town, a man by the name of Isaac Clines, just nine years before announced that, what many considered to be an obviously recommendable seawall for the emerging summertime resort town, was entirely unnecessary mainly because strong storms would never make landfall there. So no barrier was erected. Galveston was built on a sandy island whose peak elevation is only nine feet high, yes, that's a whole foot below a basketball hoop, and it's located on the western banks of one of the world's most active tropical storm breeding grounds. So it is safe to say the town was heading for disaster. You could also claim with equal confidence that Clines was in no way suited for the position he held.
I hadn't given much more thought to Galveston until recently when I learned that it was named after a Spanish military commander, Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, who led a brilliant campaign for his country and the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. The soldier really has nothing to do with the town, having died 51 years before it was officially incorporated. But a Spanish explorer in the 1780s decided to honor an early settlement in his name because, it should be noted, around that time, Gálvez was an outright hero in that corner of the world, considered by some to be the savior of the American cause.
Few people have ever given Spain the credit it was due for its contribution to the American Revolution, or the Guerra de Independencia, as the Spanish call it. American history teachers and textbooks key in on Lafayette and the French role, but it can be argued, and quite convincingly too, that Spain's appearance and support was just as vital and, in many ways, more successful than France's, since the latter went bankrupt when the conflict was over on 1783.
The Spanish worked masterfully by entering the war late, sweeping the British in the South when they were already nearly crippled, and emerging from the Treaty of Paris with a handful of recovered territories and renewed prestige. It wouldn't last long, but I guess it good while it lasted.
While at the time a waning world power which had recently taken a licking during the Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War in America), Spain still had the means and the experience to pose a threat to its rivals, and welcomed any opportunity to inflict damage on them. The fact that the same family ruled in both Madrid and neighboring France only served to cement the alliance.
The motive was mainly geopolitical, there is no doubt about that. If not, why else would two monarchies, one especially autocratic, support a revolution bent on ousting a king and forming a republic? Those would have been dangerous ideas to support. But I guess screwing over the British and grabbing some land was far more tempting (as well as shortsighted) than realizing they were putting themselves into danger down the road.
Once war broke out in the colonies, the other European powers made a point of it to supply the insurrectionists with the material and arms necessary to combat their English foes. Eventually the French were persuaded to join the conflict and not long afterwards the Spanish, in June 1779, declared war and got in on the act. Gálvez, who was already actively, though covertly, aiding the American side, was then commissioned with the difficult task of breaking the British control of southern waters and borders. Success would mean a major setback for the British and they knew it.
Gálvez headed an almost motley force of Spanish professionals, American revolutionaries, native American Indians, slaves and other individuals of unknown origins and aims. With an army of fewer than 2,000 troops, he managed to take Baton Rouge, Natchez, Mobile and finally, with the help of much needed reinforcements, laid siege to Pensacola, the most important British stronghold in the region. The English finally capitulated and the south was now free of their presence.
Gálvez carried out one of the most tactically sound campaigns of the war, achieving his objections not so much by brute force, as he lacked the numbers to overwhelm the enemy, but rather by ingeniousness. Students of military operations have nothing but praise for his performance. On top of that, he wasn't one of those sissy members of the Spanish nobility who were granted a high rank based on his family name rather career performance. He earned his place because he fought bravely in a number of wars and was wounded on now fewer than three occasions: once quite seriously while fighting the Apaches, again while in battle in Algiers, and a third time at Pensacola. He was a stud. A real Spanish macho.
The claim that he saved the war for the Americans is an exaggeration because the British were already showing signs of fatigue from their own personal Vietnam. And Parliament had all but lost its patience with the inconclusive results. Win a battle, lose a battle. It didn't matter. The war was going no where. Save for some unforeseen miracle, like Washington and the entire continental army being struck by a meteorite, British defeat was all but a sure thing.
But there is no doubt that Spain played a key role in expediting the outcome. And yet, so little is discussed about the role of the Spanish in liberating of the colonies from the English crown that even students on the subject come upon its story with a degree of surprise. Is it possible that Spain's self-promoting problems go back that far?]]>

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Terry Aris fromTired Ass Ranch raises and trains mules in Southern Alberta.
It all started one innocent spring day on the Tired Ass Ranch many years ago. Friends of ours needed a small horse. Babs was getting older and could not climb on a full sized horse any more. There was a sale in Montana, did we want to go? Us, go to a horse sale….never say no to that. We left the Tired Ass Ranch our Canadian ranch located along the Cowboy Trail and headed for Montana.
We pulled into the sales yard and lo and behold, tied all around the corrals were mules, mules of all shapes, colors and sizes. In due course, Babs found a handsome little white mule that she wanted to take home. Now, being as Babs and Frank had to bring their trailer down anyway, and there would be a little extra room in it, there might be an opportunity for us to get a mule. So with a little more enthusiasm I started looking for a mule to put on the Tired Ass Ranch. I found a nice clean line yearling molly mule that I took a fancy too. My wife Sue admired a sturdy john mule that was even matched for color. What could we do. A pair of mules were headed home to the Tired Ass Ranch to what would rapidly become the Tired Ass Ranch noted for raising and training mules.
Mules are on the Tired Ass Ranch – Training begins
I got these mules home, got to know them, named them after Sue's grandparents that immigrated with mules from Missouri in 1903. Our new mules Francis and Ophia were a great addition to the herd on the Tired Ass Ranch. They needed training and I knew training had to strart with them pretty soon, but in this training I was charting new territory – I had trained quite a few horses, but mules, well you all know the stories! . When we first bought the pair of mules the old ranchhand on the place had told me I would get along fine if I remembered I could tell a horse what to do but I would have to ask a mule. I started working with these fine mules and it wasn't long before I had a few training questions, well I had a lot of training questions about mules. We heard about a fellow, Hugh Trace, in town that had a really neat old mule, so I gave him a call. Hugh said that he wasn't in the breaking business anymore, being that he was over 80, but because he had a soft spot for mules he would maybe think about coming out to take a look. WELL, the next day he was out there before I came home from work, ready to start training these mules. The rest is history. He helped me get those mules driving and in training the mules to ride and drive in more ways than I can remember, giving the Tired Ass Ranch a good start in training a great bunch of mules.
Since then, I have spent a lot of time round pen training and training a good many mules to ride and pack. Training went into a lot of teams of mules for farm work and going into the mountains. I've instructed a lot of clinics for riders and teamsters all over Western Canada working with mules. In the past few years I have been going to Combined Driving Events, and I must say, turning a few heads there. A 4 up team of mules is not a common site in the Combined Driving World particularly when they are taking home some prizes.
Mules and horses have taken us so many places. I have gone down hundreds of hours on mountain trails with a pack string of mules along behind, sat behind many a team of mules as we mowed hay, hauled bales, or just took people for rides. We've raised some great foals, met some amazing people, did some real mule trading and seen many a dream come true when the right mule goes to the right rider or driver.
Now as I get more and more involved in the world of combined driving I'm getting to a whole new level of understanding and mastery in training mules for CDE. I spend a good many hours behind singles, pairs, and teams, training them for events. Last year I had a great time driving a single with my young partner Renaud, then hooking a pair for part of the event, then hooking 4 for another part of the event. This definitely keeps you busy training, both before the events, and during but what great fun it is.
A few years ago, we got a call from the Maieda transportation system in Hong Kong looking for mules to help them on a project building a cable car line from the airport to a Buddha shrine up on a mountain nearby. It seems they were using helicopters for the major material transfer, but wanted mules for both hauling incidentals and of course for the environmental aspects as this system ran through a precious national park. The Tired Ass Ranch was proud to send 6 Canadian mules over to what became a year long project with the mules carrying as much as 33 tonnes a month up and down the mountain. I had the opportunity and privilege to go over for 3 weeks to give handlers and mules an orientation into all the things that were happening including modifying pack equipment to suit job requirements and helping the mules transition from wide open spaces to stables and vet checks.
This year I am starting a youngster that is a perfect match for my pair of Norweigen Fjords and I will have a unicorn hitch of those 3 mules, Renaud will be driving Dolly the mule, then I will drive a single that I am starting now. Renaud's Dad, David will be one very busy man as groom at these events.
As you can see, we do it all with mules here at the Tired Ass Ranch. We have riding mules, packing mules, drive them single, pairs, unicorn and teams of 4. We compete in combined driving events, as well as Western style horse shows. In addition our mules are used for farm chores right here on the Tired Ass Ranch. We also believe in equal opportunity, the same mules that are all shined up and prancing around the dressage ring at a combined driving event, may be hauling hay when they get home. 30 years of training experience leads me to beleive that the more these animals get exposed to, the better it is.
We have so much fun with our animals that we found a way to share our experiences and our enjoyment with similar minded folks that would like a real Canadian Rocky Mountian western experience.
We invite you and your friends and family to spend a day with us behind a good team, take a drive in the hills on the Tired Ass Ranch, or venture further into the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, enjoy a day with the mules then have a picnic around the campfire. Spend the day working with the teams, maybe do a little driving yourself, and generally just have fun.
You may be a little more serious about driving in competions. In that case we have some well trained teams that you can come to the Tired Ass Ranch and drive for a few days on some Combined Driving Facilities, then enter in an Alberta competition and see how you perform.
If you prefer to experience part of our Canadian History , where the land was opened up with horses, you can come to the Tired Ass Ranch and help out with some farm chores. We'll take you to a local working Heritage Museum where you can tour the pioneer machinery, and maybe take up a set a lines behind a team and experince some the tasks that our Western pioneers did to open up this great country. In spring season you may be plowing, cultivating, harrowing, or seeding the land. Later in the summer you could be mowing, raking, baling, hauling or stacking hay. In the fall, what about harvesting, stooking or threshing grain? It is all a matter of timing.
For more great stories of our experiences over the years, and more information on what we have to offer, please check out our Mule Tales and visit our store. Hope to see you soon, Coffee's on.


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Acute HIV InfectionWhat Is Acute HIV Infection? Testing for Acute HIV Infection Risk of Immune Damage Risk of Infecting Others Treating Acute HIV Infection Pros and Cons of Treating Acute HIV Infection The Bottom Line What Is Acute HIV Infection? The amount of HIV in the blood gets very high within a few days or weeks after HIV infection. Some people get a flu-like illness. This first stage of HIV disease is called "acute HIV infection" or "primary HIV...
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Does Acute HIV Infection symptoms last this long?First off I was told I was HIV positive 2 weeks ago, and now waiting for all the baseline test you recommend to come back to find out "the details" of my infection. TB did already come back neg. Doc said I had Acute HIV Infection.My...
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How soon after infection can Acute HIV infection symptoms show up?What is the most likely time for ARS symptoms to occur? I had a low-risk but not zero risk incident and one day later diarrhea, it has gotten mostly better 3 days later but my stomach is still not completely back to normal. I have no other symptoms...
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Betty Ann Adam, The StarPhoenixPublished: Wednesday, April 03, 2013
The number of incarcerated teens in Saskatchewan has fallen so much that units have been closed at three youth detention centres and one will be repurposed to house adult women on remand in Regina.
Since 2000-2001, the number of youth in custody has dropped 45 per cent, to an average daily count of 185 in 2012 compared to 342 in 2000, figures from Saskatchewan Corrections and Policing show.
Twenty-four of the 45 approved beds at Saskatoon's Kilburn Hall were closed before Christmas.
Thirteen of the 39 beds at Yorkton's Orcadia Youth Residence closed early last year, and 12 of the 86 beds at Regina's Paul Dojack Youth Centre are now closed as well.
Renovations are underway to isolate the unused unit at the Dojack facility so that women in custody there will not be able to mix with youths, in accordance with the law. Some women in the southern part of the province are currently remanded at RCMP cells in Regina when travel to the Pine Grove facility near Prince Albert is impractical.
"We do have an empty unit at Paul Dojack Centre because young offender counts have decreased quite a bit over the past several years, so we want to ensure we're efficient in dealing with our infrastructure and that's one way to do it," said Corrections spokeswoman Judy Orthner.
Another unit at Dojack contains six beds sponsored by the Health Ministry as a secure detoxification unit for teens who are not offenders but have been found by a court to need treatment for their own good.
The steady decline in the number of youth held in custody over the past 13 years has occurred even as populations in adult correctional facilities continue to climb.
Recent Statistics Canada figures show 1,588 adults were incarcerated in 2011-12 - a significant increase compared to four years earlier, when there were 1,362.
The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), which came into effect in 2003, is part of the reason fewer teens are behind bars now, said Nick Jones, associate professor of justice studies at the University of Regina.
"Some of the restrictions in the YCJA in respect to the use of custody might have an impact," he said.
For example, under the earlier Young Offenders Act (YOA), a teen could be incarcerated for breaching terms of probation, which is no longer likely to happen.
"Research in Canada and around the world, particularly with regard to youth, demonstrated that harsher punishments, particularly custody, are no more effective than a lot of the community-based sanctions they could have," Jones said.
"The YCJA suggests we focus on rehabilitation and reintegration, and not punishment as an end in and of itself. There are times when punishment and custody are called for, but, as I read the YCJA, that should be used as a last resort, not as a first resort," he said.
"Under the YOA it was actually the reverse."
Incarceration is expensive and intrusive, so "if you can manage the youth in the community, you're probably better off," Jones said.
The YCJA offers police greater discretion to issue warnings rather than forcing them to lay a criminal charge, and there are more community-based interventions. Mediation and sentencing circles can provide victims the satisfaction of addressing the offenders, finding out why they acted as they did, and hearing apologies, as well as the teens' future intentions.


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Adam has toured and performed over 1000 shows and concert series at major festivals, fairs, colleges and venues, as lead guitarist of his band Freesound (www.freesoundspace.com) He has also had the honor of supporting and sharing stages with blues artists Norton Buffalo, Paul Wood, Chris Cain, as well as international reggae artists- Israel Vibrations, Culture, The Itals, Clinton Fearon, Pato Banton, Bambu Station, Mikey Dread.
Adam is currently performing a colorful timeline of acoustic music from the 40's and on. He is utilizing solo guitar looping to cover a wide variety of styles including blues, americana, folk, and classic rock.
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For the full range of videos with Adam as vocalist/ lead guitarist of his band Freesound, then as solo acoustic fingerstyle performer, then again in an explosive duo with Tavana, an impromptu performance of the "Star Spangled Banner", and finally as lead guitarist of Freesound at a major California concert broadcast to 60,000 people, go to the Visuals page See all videos of Adam performing
As a songwriter Adam has written or co-written 7 albums of original music. One of his band's tracks "Sweet Sensi" won a national award in 2007.
Adam Crowe as Sky CrowAdam, showing his amazing diversity, has produced a masterful new cosmic music genre with his latest album "Gypsy Trails" under the guise of Sky Crow at Sky Crow's home website
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According to some new research by psychologists, where you live might help explain your personality. (Or the relationship might run the other way, always a problem with "big" social science studies). But let's not get bogged down in T-scores and Cohen's kappa -- this is a blog post, not a statistics ... More >>
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Kevin Logan, chief U.S. economist at HSBC Securities USA Inc. in New York, says strong economic growth in emerging economies "will keep upward pressure" on energy prices. Logan talks with Bloomberg's Ken Prewitt and Tom Keene on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Surveillance."
Sales at retailers rose less than forecast in January, showing it will be difficult for American consumers to sustain last quarter's pickup in spending without bigger gains in employment.
Depending on which Labor Department survey is used, employment in the U.S. either surged the most in 29 years or grew the least in three months.
The first Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting chaired by Janet Yellen will reduce the Fed's monthly pace of asset purchases by another $10 billion, economists project.
Orders for goods such as computers and machinery rose less than forecast in August, showing a pickup in U.S. business spending will take time to develop.
Companies kept expanding headcounts in January and revisions to previous months' showed even bigger gains as the U.S. job market made further strides.
American employers added more workers to payrolls in October than economists projected as the world's largest economy powered through the federal government shutdown.
European stocks posted their first weekly loss in more than a month as investors debated when the Federal Reserve will scale back momentary stimulus and Chinese manufacturing unexpectedly shrank.
Most U.S. stocks fell after paring early losses for a second day, as investors weighed prospects of economic growth with concern the Federal Reserve will reduce stimulus efforts.
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Welcome to Indiana University's Habitat for Humanity website. Our chapter is dedicated to helping the Bloomington community by providing on-site volunteers as well as organizing various fundraising events throughout the year.
We have all of our mass meetings located in Woodburn 120 for the Fall semester 2014. Mark your calendars for the following dates:
Monday October 6th 7:30PM
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Student volunteers are essential to the sponsorship, construction and maintenance of many homes each year. Working to eliminate substandard housing in the Monroe County area is an initiative that demands time, money and hard work. It is a goal that is imperative to the well-being of Monroe County and humanity as a whole.
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Exhibition Against Klimt. "Nuda Veritas" and her defender Hermann Bahr at the Austrian Theater Museum in Vienna - from 10 May to 26 November 2012
Gustav Klimt's famous and rarely exhibited painting "Nuda Veritas", created in 1899, was bequeathed to the Austrian Theater Museum as part of the estate of the Austrian author, dramatist, and theater and literary critic Hermann Bahr (1863–1934).
The Friedrich Schiller quotation inscribed above "The Naked Truth" is a statement advocating an uncompromising artistic truthfulness, which encapsulates the ethos of the Secession movement. As a close friend of the artist, Bahr had been able to acquired the "Nuda Veritas" at a discounted price. The picture represents the fraught relationships between art, critics, and the general public.
Hermann Bahr played a decisive role in publicizing the Secessionist movement from the outset. In 1902 he responded to the storm of controversy surrounding Klimt's works, and in particular the scandal over the faculty pictures, with his book "Against Klimt", a collection of writings vilifying Klimt and the art world in general.
The exhibition at the Austrian Theater Museum examines the following questions: What inspires Klimt to create his allegories? Which artistic and literary traditions come together in the different elements of this striking image? The exhibition aims to demonstrate how the outrage, criticism and enthusiasm that greeted the Avant Garde movement in Vienna around 1900 set the tone for how the early modernist works were received. It also aims to show how enlightening these controversies can be for our present times.
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Exhibition Art Nouveau in the Netherlands at the Riga Art Nouveau Museum - from 3 July to 23 November 2014
Call for public subscription chandelier decorated with seaweed of L. Majorelle for the Ecole de Nancy Museum – from 20 September 2014 to 4 January 2015
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