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Midnight sports as youth crime prevention in Brazil
What exactly are adolescents up to in the wee hours between 11pm and 2 am? In four of Brasilia's satellite cities they are playing sports.
The Midnight Sports project resulted from a partnership between the Public Security and Education Offices, implemented in the cities of Planaltina, Gama, Ceilandia and Samambaia, cities that sprang up in the periphery of Brasilia when Brazil's capital was built in the 1960s. Since its first days back in 1999, Midnight Sports has taken close to 538 thousand youths to the playing fields.
Planaltina was the first place elected because of its high gang-related crime indices and a high homicide rate: "We realized that there was basically no infrastructure for leisure and sports for youths and decided to build two centers, each set in the areas of highest gang violence," said Carlo Eduardo Paes, coordinator of Midnight Sports. According to Paes, in the first three months of operation there was a 20% drop in the rate of violent incidents in the community.
The project was conceived once it was noted that the highest proportion of crimes committed in the region took place between 11pm and 2 am.
Community friendly approach by the police is key to efficiency
All youths are free to take part of the project's activities. There is a bus service available as specific times and the transportation is free of charge. The only requirement is that youths go through a police search before going on board, a violence prevention procedure according to Paes that is intended to garantee security for all.
"The police officers who work with us are especially trained to interact with youths. They establish a connection to the community, and become more than mere agents of security, they also become positive role models," said Paes. According to the coordinator the police are trained to always engage in conversation with youths but not to act in a confrontational, information seeking, manner, even during the body searches. "It is important that the presence of the law enforcement, of the state, is felt in these areas as efficient and understanding, making sure, of course that it does not look like it is there as a favor," said Paes.
The project is also predicated on a network of professionals. Security professionals involved include the agents from the Fire Department as well as Civil and Military police. Psychologists and social service workers are also present, providing lectures on health and sexuality as well as counselling on family planning, contraception, prevention of STDs and drug abuse.
Providing care in place of punishment
One of the main guidelines of the Midnight Sports project is to chose inclusion over punishment. "It would be too harsh a punishment to simply expell youths who may get involved in offending from the project. It is our philosophy not to bar them because so often their lives are marked by exclusion. We are informed of who stops going to school through our partnership with the Office of Education. Our professionals follow up with visits to their homes to ask them why they are giving up on their schooling," said Paes.
This aspect is especially crucial to the project, because many of those being served are night-time students from poor communities. "They are invisible to our statistics, and there are very few projects that will track their academic progress, " said Paes.
An independent evaluation of the project was conducted from May to December 2006. 310 youths volunteered to answer questions out of the 500 youths currently enrolled in Midnight Sports. And the results are encouraging: only 13% admitted to having committed offenses during the eight years that the centers have been open.
Community integration with the police is key
Despite its success, Midnight Sports was initially faced with a fair amount of resistance. Local residents' associations found it hard to believe that the centers would not lead to increased police brutality in the area. And neighbours complained of the noise. " We had a series of meetings with local leaders to overcome their scepticism and introduce the project. Nowadays our difficulties are in selecting which communities will host the sports centers from a pool of applicants", said Paes.
Basic for the project's success are a fixed localle, good lighting and the evident presence of law enforcement. Community participation is crucial for the selection of the site of the project. Communities selected must prove they have a security council and that they are open to dialogue. " Community security cannot be imposed top-down by the government, the community must take an active role of its own", said Paes.
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This is a concept that might
This is a concept that might work not only in Brazil, but in other country with high criminality. I don't think there should be any political contradictions here or any financial disputes, it's a thing that need to be done and at the moment it seems to be the optimum solution.
A higher security systems
A higher security systems must be reviewed by law makers of the country. It can have a better effect just by doig this along.
Great Concept
Never heard of it, really. This is indeed a great idea to patrol the crime. Crimes mostly takes place in night time and this concept of midnight game has really distracted the crime group. But it is obvious that people who work in daytime has to rest and sleep during night time. This kind of sport might bring the disturbances to them, in such case community people should re-think about this, either they just want to sleep or want to stay safe too. Anyways i must say this is a great concept to minimize the crimes via sports.
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great idea
Wow, that is a great idea for the youth of Brazil. Instead of getting in bad activities without supervision, they are playing sports and interacting with good role models. I like it that bus transportation is provided as well, and that everything is free. I wish they had more programs like this in our inner city areas. Thanks for sharing!
Looks a Great activity with a great Aim
It sounds well when i read about Police officers that they " become positive role models". Next impressive thought for me is the motto " It is our philosophy not to bar them because so often their lives are marked by exclusion. " . Youth is an age where boys can opt a negetive path if punished. need to handle them carefully. I hope the activity will bring positive effects in the society as a whole.
It's good to see our
It's good to see our neighbors to the South putting a focus on education when it comes to child crime prevention. Getting this kids early, and steering them in the right direction could make all the difference when it comes to making the right decisions in the years to come.
Brazil is going to be changed by this
That is a wonderful plan for Brazil. We instituted a open drug dealer prevention program and we have seen tremendous results in the last year. If it can work in the US then it for sure can work in Brazil.
Wow, that's a great idea for
Wow, that's a great idea for young people in Brazil. Instead of getting in the bath unsupervised activities, they play sports and interact with positive role models. I like bus transportation is provided as well, and everything is free. I wish they had more programs like this in our inner cities. Thank you for sharing!
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Awareness is growing that the best way to reduce cost without harming people is to improve quality. That growing awareness is producing better alignment between clinical forces and managerial leadership.
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First, they encourage continuity and coordination. Accountable care organizations, bundled payments, community-based care transition models, and other initiatives are trying to structure payments in such a way that clinicians are incentivized to cooperate and to anticipate, not just to do more things.
Second, there is more of a focus on quality. There are actually rewards for organizations that do very well, and there are penalties for organizations with high complication or readmission rates. Although these incentives are still early in their development, and metrics and other details remain to be worked out, they all point toward the same idea: The better you do, the more you should get paid; the worse you do, the less you make.
The third change supports innovation. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, in particular, along with other entities, is saying, "Hey, if you've got an idea that might reduce cost and improve outcomes, tell us about it, because we want to support you and we want to learn about that idea and spread it, if it's a good one."
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A. I'm very worried. On the one hand, we can't have coordinated care without better cooperation, so doctors and hospitals, hospitals and home care, and laboratories and others all need to be talking with each other more and working out pathways and strategies for coordination. That's just necessary. You can't do this with smoke signals. You have to talk.
On the other hand, this does open the door for crossing the line and going past collaboration into collusion. The regulatory agencies—the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, the Office of Inspector General, and the Internal Revenue Service— have all been worried about whether this changing framework of care and fostering of cooperation would lead to collusive, anticompetitive behaviors.
I must say that, in some markets, this appears to be happening. Any providers that are taking advantage of the situation and seeking to control or raise prices to get what they can in the short run will only hurt the industry and, in the long run, hurt themselves. It may be tempting—I understand that— but it is short-sighted. I hope that hospital leaders will realize that such an approach would come back to haunt them in the end. The patience of the regulatory agencies is not inexhaustible, and if these behaviors scale up, there will be consequences.
Q. Are we measuring the right things to improve the value of care?
A. We are in measurement adolescence. We need to "have the lights on," so we need metrics to manage care properly and to ensure that new incentives, like global budgets or bundled payments, are not leading to underuse of services. So that's key. Also, we still lack the will to be transparent about costs. There is too much resistance to making true costs and prices known. It will help our country a lot if we get into a new era where prices and costs are well known and transparent and we don't keep them to ourselves.
Beyond that, though, we are now in an era of too much measurement. Hospitals have to report well over 1,000 measures, and not all of them have real substance. What we need is what I call "measurements with heart"—measurements that reflect what we are really after.
I hope we will see the number of metrics decrease, but also, an increase in importance of the metrics we decide to keep, so we will actually be turning the lights on in the right places. That's going to take leadership. It will take new levels of cooperation within the public sector and between the public and the private sectors. I think everyone will breathe a sigh of relief when we end up with fewer, better metrics.
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September 1
1781 - French fleet traps British fleet at Yorktown, VA
1814 - USS Wasp captures HMS Avon
1925 - CDR John Rodgers and crew of 4 in PN-9 run out of fuel on first San Francisco to Hawaii flight. Landing at sea, they rigged a sail and set sail for Hawaii.
1941 - U.S. assumes responsibility for trans-Atlantic convoys from Argentia, Canada to the meridian of Iceland
1942 - Establishment of Air Force, Pacific Fleet, VADM Aubrey W. Fitch, USN
1942 - First Seabee unit to serve in a combat area, 6th Naval Construction Battalion, arrives on Guadalcanal.
1945 - USS Benevolence (AH-13) evacuates civilian internees from 2 internment camps near Tokyo, Japan
September 2
1918 - Navy ships and crews assist earthquake victims of Yokohama and Tokyo, Japan
1940 - Destroyer-for-Bases agreement between U.S. and United Kingdom
1944 - USS Finback (SS-230) rescues Lieutenant (jg) George Bush, USNR (VT-51), shot down while attacking Chichi Jima
1945 - Japan signs surrender documents on board USS Missouri (BB-63) at anchor in Tokyo Bay. FADM Chester W. Nimitz, USN, signs for the U.S. In different ceremonies, Japanese forces on Palau Islands, Truk, and on Pagan Island and Rota in the Marianas surrender.
September 3
1782 - As a token of gratitude for French aid during American Revolution, the U.S. gives America (first ship-of-the-line built by U.S.) to France to replace a French ship lost in Boston.
1783 - Signing of Treaty of Paris ends American Revolution
1885 - First classes at U.S. Naval War College begin
1925 - Crash of rigid airship Shenandoah near Byesville, OH
1943 - American landings on Lae and Salamaua
1944 - First combat employment of a missile guided by radio and television takes place when Navy drone Liberator, controlled by Ensign James M. Simpson in a PV, flew to attack German submarine pens on Helgoland Island.
1945 - Japanese surrender Wake Island in ceremony on board USS Levy (DE-162)
September 4
1804 - USS Intrepid (LT Richard Somers) blew up in failed attack on Tripoli
1941 - German submarine, U-652, attacks USS Greer, which was tracking the submarine southeast of Iceland. Greer is not damaged, but drops depth charges, damaging U-652.
1954 - Icebreakers, USS Burton Island (AGB-1) and USCG Northwind, complete first transit of Northwest passage through McClure Strait.
1954 - P2V from VP-19 shot down by Soviet aircraft near Swatow, China
1960 - USS Bushnell and Penguin begin relief operations in Marathon, FL, after Hurricane Donna.
September 5
1776 - Adoption of first uniforms for Navy officers
1813- USS Enterprise captures HM brig Boxer off Portland, ME
1918 - USS Mount Vernon torpedoed by German submarine off France
1923 - U.S. Asiatic Fleet arrives at Yokohama, Japan, to provide medical assistance and supplies after Kondo Plain earthquake.
1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders Navy to form a Neutrality Patrol to report the presence of foreign warships within 300 miles of eastern United States.
1946 - USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt (CVB-42) and 4 escorts visit Greece to underscore U.S. support for the Greek Government which faced a Communist insurgency.
1990 - USS Acadia (AD-42) departs San Diego for first war-time deployment of male-female crew on combat vessel
September 6
1918 - Sailors fire first of the 5 railroad batteries at Tergnier, a German rail head in the Comeigne Forest. These 14"-50 caliber guns were originally designed for battleships.
1939 - Navy begins formation of Neutrality Patrol for Atlantic Ocean
1940 - First destroyers transferred to Great Britain at Halifax, Nova Scotia, under "Destroyers-for- Bases agreement.
1944 - USS Independence (CVL-22) begins use of specially trained air group for night work. First time that a fully equipped night carrier operates with fast carrier task force.
1945 - U.S. troops begin returning to U.S. when Task Force 11 left Tokyo Bay for U.S.
1953 - Exchange of prisoners of war from Korean War (Operations Big Switch) ends.
1997 - USS Hopper, named for RADM Grace Hopper, commissioned.
September 7
1775 - The first prize, the British supply ship, Unity, was captured by the Continental schoonerHannah.
1776 - David Bushnell attempts to destroy a British Ship of the Line, HMS Asia, in New York harbor with his submarine Turtle.
1942 - First air evacuation of casualties to hospital ships off shore occurs at Guadalcanal.
September 8
1923 - In disaster at Point Honda, California, 7 destroyers run aground through faulty navigation
1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims limited national emergency and increases enlisted strength in the Navy and Marine Corps; also authorizes the recall to active duty of officer, men and nurses on the retired lists of the Navy and Marine Corps
1954 - U.S. signs Manila Treaty forming SEATO
1958 - LT R. H. Tabor, wearing a Navy developed pressure suit, completes 72-hour simulated flight at altitudes as high a 139,000 feet. It was another step in the development of the Navy spacesuit, which NASA accepted in 1959 for use by Mercury astronauts.
September 9
1825 - USS Brandywine sails for France to carry the Marquis de Lafayette home after his year long visit to America.
1841 - First iron ship authorized by Congress
1940 - Navy awards contracts for 210 ships, including 12 carriers and 7 battleships
1943 - Operation Avalanche, Western Naval Task Force under VADM Hewitt, USN, lands Allied forces at Salerno, Italy
1944 - Fifth Fleet carrier aircraft begin air strikes on Japanese shipping and facilities at Mindanao, Philippines
1945 - A "computer bug" is first identified and named by LT Grace Murray Hopper while she was on Navy active duty in 1945. It was found in the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator at Harvard University. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, where it still resides, with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found." They "debugged" the computer, first introducing the term.
September 10
1813 - In Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, flying his "Don't give up the ship" flag, defeats British squadron and says: "We have met the enemy and they are ours..."
1925 - Submarine R-4 rescues crew of PN-9 10 miles from their destination of Hawaii (See also September 1)
September 11
1814 - In Battle of Lake Champlain, Commodore Thomas Macdonough defeats a British Squadron.
1939 - Bear (AG-29) is commissioned by the U.S. Navy for Antarctic operations under command of RADM Richard Byrd, USN (Ret.).
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces order to the Navy to "shoot on sight" vessels threatening U.S. shipping or ships under U.S. escort.
1942 - Pharmacist's Mate First Class Wheeler B. Lipes, USN, performs emergency appendectomy on Seaman First Class Darrell D. Rector, USNR, on board USS Seadragon on patrol in South China Sea.
1943 - Italian Navy surrenders to Allies
1945 - Operation Magic Carpet, the return of troops to the U.S., begins.
2001 - American Flight 77 hijacked by terrorists struck the Pentagon. Casualties include 33 sailors, 6 Department of the Navy civilians, and 3 Navy civilian contractors reported missing, Arlington, VA. Two commercial airliners also struck the World Trade Center in New York City, NY, destroying both towers.
2002 - The "Don't Tread on Me" First Navy Jack is flown by Navy ships marking the first anniversary of the terrorists attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center
September 12
1916 - First demonstration of automatic stabilization and direction gear in aircraft
1944 - 5th Fleet carrier aircraft begin 3-day attack on Japanese shipping and facilities in Visayas, Philippines
1952 - USS Coral Sea (CVB-43) took Marshall Josip Tito for a one-day cruise in the Adriatic Sea where he was shown flight operations.
1961 - Navy task force sails to aid the Galveston area after hurricane Carla hits Texas
1966 - Launch of Gemini 11, piloted by CDR Charles Conrad Jr., USN and LCDR Richard F. Gordon Jr., USN. Their mission lasted 2 days and 23 hours and included 44 orbits at an altitude of 1368.9 km.. Recovery was by HS-3 helicopter from USS Guam (LPH-9)
1967- Operation Coronado V began in Mekong Delta
1992 - Joint Task Force Hawaii activated to provide humanitarian aid after Typhoon Iniki struck Hawaiian Islands
September 13
1814 - British bombardment of Fort McHenry inspires the Star Spangled Banner.
1847 - Marine Brigade leads U.S. forces that storm Chapultepec Castle near Mexico City, inspiring one line of the Marine Hymn
1906 - Sailors and Marines from USS Denver land in Havana at the request of the Cuban government to preserve order during a revolution.
1939 - Navy suspends transfers to the Fleet Reserve after 20 years service and retains men on active duty.
1985 - Commander Middle East Force orders escort of Military Sealift Ships in Persian Gulf because of Iranian seizure of merchant vessels.
September 14
1899 - Gunboat Concord and monitor Monterey capture two insurgent schooners at Aparri, Philippine Islands
1939 - Atlantic Squadron Neutrality Patrol ships deploy
September 15
1944 - Invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands, after several days of intensive carrier aircraft bombing and ship bombardment.
1950 - U.S. forces under VADM Arthur Struble achieve an amphibious landing at Inchon, Korea
1967 - Operation Crimson Tide in Mekong Delta
September 16
1854 - CDR David G. Farragut takes possession of Mare Island, the first U.S. Navy Yard on the Pacific.
1917 - Navy Department authorizes establishment of 16 Naval air stations abroad
1922 - Commander Halsey Powell in USS Edsall became the senior officer directing the evacuation of 250,000 Greek refugees from Turkey after war between Greece and Turkey.
1940 - President Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act, the first peacetime draft.
1958 - USS Grayback fires first operational launch of Regulus II surface to surface guided missile off CA coast; Missile carries first U.S. mail sent by guided missile.
1966 - USS Oriskany helicopters rescue 44-men crew of British merchant ship August Moon near Hong Kong
September 17
1861 - Union landing party from USS Massachusetts takes possession of Ship Island south of New Orleans, LA. This was the headquarters for ADM David Farragut's Gulf Coast Blockading Squadron.
1944 - Navy Task Force lands Army troops on Angaur, Palau Islands supported by Navy carrier aircraft and shore bombardment
September 18
1926 - Navy brings relief aid to Miami, FL, after a severe hurricane.
1936 - Squadron 40-T, based in the Mediterranean, established to protect U.S. interests and citizens around Iberian peninsula throughout the Spanish Civil War.
1941 - U.S. Navy ships escort eastbound British trans-Atlantic convoy for first time (Convoy HX-150). Although the U.S. Navy ships joined HX-150, which left port escorted by British ships on 16th, on night of 17 September, the official escort duty began on 18th.
1947 - National Security Act becomes effective
September 19
1915 - SECNAV Josephus Daniels organizes the Naval Consulting Board to mobilize the scientific resources of U.S. for national defense.
1957 - Bathyscaph Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches record depth of 2 miles
1992 - Joint Task Force Marianas stands down after providing assistance to Guam after Typhoon Omar
September 20
1911 - Navigational instruments first requested for naval aircraft.
1951 - In Operation Summit, the first combat helicopter landing in history, U.S. Marines were landed in Korea.
1981 - USS Mount Hood and Navy helicopters rescue 18 crew members of Philippine Navy frigate, Datu Kalantiaw
September 21
1858 - Sloop Niagara departs Charleston, SC, for Liberia with African slaves rescued from slave ship.
1923 - Asiatic Fleet completes mission of aiding earthquake victims in Japan.
1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to repeal the arms embargo provision of the Neutrality Act.
1944 - Aircraft from 12 carriers commence 2-day attack against Japanese ships and airfields on Luzon, Philippine Islands.
1984 - Mid East Force begins escort of U.S. flagged vessels in Persian Gulf.
September 22
1776 - John Paul Jones in Providence sails into Canso Bay, Nova Scotia, and attacks British fishing fleet.
1943 - U.S. destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at Finschhafen, New Guinea.
1989 - After Hurricane Hugo, Sailors and Marines provide assistance to Charleston, SC, through 10 October.
September 23
1779 - Captain John Paul Jones in Continental Navy frigate Bonhomme Richard captures HMS Serapis.
1931 - LT Alfred Pride pilots Navy's first rotary wing aircraft, XOP-1 autogiro, in landings and takeoffs on board USS Langley while underway.
1944 - Naval Task Group lands Army troops on Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands
1944 - USS West Virginia (BB-48) reaches Pearl Harbor and rejoins the Pacific Fleet, marking the end of the salvage and reconstruction of 18 ships damaged at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
1947 - James Forrestal, former SECNAV, takes office as first Secretary of Defense
1990 - Two Hospital ships (USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort) steam together for first time in Arabian Gulf
September 24
1918 - Ensign David S. Ingalls, USNR, in a Sopwith Camel, shoots down his fifth enemy aircraft, becoming the first U.S. Navy ace while flying with the British Royal Air Force.
1944 - 5th Fleet carrier aircraft attack Japanese in Visayas, Philippines
1960 - First nuclear powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), launched at Newport News, VA
September 25
1941 - In first successful U.S. Navy escort of convoys during World War II, Navy escort turn over HX-150 to British escorts at the Mid-Ocean Meeting Point. All ships reach port safely.
1957 - In project Stratoscope, Office of Naval Research obtains sharp photographs of sun's corona from first balloon-borne telescope camera.
September 26
1781 - French fleet defeats British at Yorktown, VA
1910 - First recorded reference to provision for aviation in Navy Department organization
1918 - USCGC Tampa lost with 118 men, probably by German submarine
1931 - Keel laying at Newport News, VA of USS Ranger (CV-4), first ship designed and constructed as an aircraft carrier
1963 - First steam-eject launch of Polaris missile at sea off Cape Canaveral, FL (now Cape Kennedy) from USS Observation Island (EAG-154)
September 27
1922 - Report on observations of experiments with short wave radio at Anacostia, DC, starts Navy development of radar
1941 - Launch of first Liberty ship, SS Patrick Henry, in Baltimore, MD
1942 - Armed Guard on SS Stephen Hopkins engages German auxiliary cruiser Stier and supply ship Tannenfels. Stephen Hopkins and Stier both sink.
1944 - Special Air Task Force (STAG-1) commences operations with drones, controlled by TBM aircraft, against Japanese in Southwestern Pacific
1950 - First Marine Division captures Seoul, South Korea
September 28
1822 - Sloop-of-war Peacock captures 5 pirate vessels
1850 - Congress outlaws flogging on Navy ships
1923 - Navy aircraft take first and second places in international Schneider Cup Race
1944 - Marines occupy islands in Palaus under cover of naval aircraft and gunfire support.
1964 - First deployment of Polaris A-3 missile on USS Daniel Webster (SSBN 626) from Charleston, SC
September 29
1944 - USS Narwhal (SS-167) evacuates 81 Allied prisoners of war that survived sinking of Japanese Shinyo Maru from Sindangan Bay, Mindanao
1946 -Lockheed P2V Neptune, Truculent Turtle, leaves Perth, Australia on long distance non-stop, non-refueling flight that ends October 1.
1959 - USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) with Helicopter Squadron 6 and other 7th Fleet units begin 6 days of disaster relief to Nagoya, Japan, after Typhoon Vera.
September 30
1800 - U.S. concludes treaty of peace with France, ending Quasi War with France.
1944 - USS Nautilus (SS-168) lands supplies and evacuates some people from Panay, Philipppine Islands.
1946 - U.S. Government announces that U.S. Navy units would be permanently stationed in the Mediterranean to carry out American policy and diplomacy.
1954 - Commissioning at Groton, CT, of USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first nuclear-powered ship
1958 - Marines leave Lebanon.
1959 - Last flight of airshps assigned to the Naval Air Reserve at Lakehurst, NJ takes place
1968 - Battleship New Jersey arrives off Vietnam
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Celebrity chefs do it. So do trendy restaurants and supermarkets. So why shouldn't artists join the movement toward locally sourced ingredients? That, more or less, is the idea behind "Locally Sourced," a smart and occasionally cheeky exhibit at the Craftland boutique in downtown Providence.
Organized by Robert P. Stack, a freelance curator affiliated with the Yellow Peril Gallery in Olneyville, the show surveys about a dozen or so artists, all of whom work with materials that have been scavenged from local sources. Thus, Brooke Goldstein's "Washed Up Collection" features a series of drawings that have been deposited inside cast-off bottles recovered from various locations, including the Seekonk Speedway and AS220.
Other highlights include Jon Laustsen's "Lift/Slump," a sculpture featuring the contents of a "locally-sourced trash bag," and Babs Owens' "Suspend," a series of photos featuring her Rhode Island-born (and therefore "locally sourced") son. (Through Oct. 19 at Craftland, 235 Westminster St., Providence.)


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|Collection of essays published in 1903 by J. Pott & Company. Contributors: Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932; Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928; Kealing, H. T. (Hightower Theodore), 1860-1918; Smith, Wilford H.; Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
- I Industrial Education for the Negro by Booker T. Washington
- II The Talented Tenth by W.E. Burghardt DuBois
- III The Disfranchisement of the Negro by Charles W. Chesnutt
- IV The Negro and the Law by Wilford H. Smith
- V The Characteristics of the Negro People by H.T. Kealing
- VI Representative American Negroes by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Romeo Soft F Floor Lamp
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Design by Philippe Starck, 1998.
Made in Italy by FLOS.
Romeo Soft F is a floor lamp providing diffused light. Acid-etched pressed borosilicate glass internal diffuser. Plissé cloth shade. Gray painted steel stem and die-cast aluminum base and yoke. Injection-molded transparent polycarbonate diffuser support. Comes with dimmer located on the cord.
Material(s): Steel, Aluminum, Glass, Polycarbonate
- Overall: 63"H X 17.7"W
- Shade: 19.7"D
Lamp Type: HALOGEN
Bulbs: 1 X 150W T10 halogen lamp (included)
Listing: CUL
Manufacturer Specifications: Click to download specifications.
Instructions: Click to download instructions.
Model(s): FU610307 FU609207
Born in Paris in 1949, Philippe Starck is one of the most original designers and architects of the last three decades. Having designed furniture, hotels, mega-yachts, lighting and many others throughout his career, Starck has become a fixture in modern design. Not only does Starck create beautifully unconventional designs, he creates a finished product whose main purpose is to function well before anything else.
Philippe Starck has obtained many important acknowledgements, including the Grand Prix National de la Création industrielle and the Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects. In Starck's own words, "subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous... this is how I see my duty as a designer."See other lights/products from Philippe Starck
FLOS Lighting
FLOS was founded in 1962. The very same year they began producing a number of lamps that were to become classics in Italian industrial design. These first lamps were Arco, Relemme, Toio and Taccia all designed by Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni. As a tangible proof of their timeless design and technical excellence, these lamps continue to be produced today.
It all started with cocoon . . .In 1959 Arturo Eisenkeil from Merano, an importer of cocoon — a spray-on plastic coating produced in the United States — was tracking down possible applications for this new material. He joined forces with Dino Gavina and Cesare Cassina and set up a company to produce lighting fixtures. This marked the beginning of the long-standing association in the area of design with the Castiglioni brothers and Tobia Scarpa. The first cocoon lamps ever created were the offspring of this collaboration: Viscontea, Taraxacum and Gatto by the Castiglioni brothers and Fantasma by Scarpa. FLOS moved from Merano to the province of Brescia in 1964: At first to Nave and then to the current premises in Bovezzo. Sergio Gandini became chairman of the company in 1965. In 1974, the company became the owner of Arteluce one of the key Italian companies in the industrial design sector. Gino Sarfatti, an industrialist and designer, is the founder of Arteluce. Several models designed by Sarfatti himself have been incorporated into the product range.
From the very outset, FLOS has been characterized by its high-quality approach to lamp design and production. Many of the numerous lamps designed for the company, first by Achille and Piergiacomo, are undoubtedly some of the best-known and most successful products of industrial design. They have won awards and historical critical accolades, and are included in all the most important collections and design museums around the world.
FLOS' production will continue to be imbued with various design trends that embody their attention to leading-edge research combined with highly-efficient production, sales and communications. In 2002, the company celebrated forty years production of designer lamps.
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