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Amnesty International has gathered credible evidence that detainees in Turkey are being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, in official and unofficial detention centres in the country.
The organization is calling for independent monitors to be given immediate access to detainees in all facilities in the wake of the coup attempt, which include police headquarters, sports centres and courthouses. More than 10,000 people have been detained since the failed coup.
Amnesty International has credible reports that Turkish police in Ankara and Istanbul are holding detainees in stress positions for up to 48 hours, denying them food, water and medical treatment, and verbally abusing and threatening them. In the worst cases some have been subjected to severe beatings and torture, including rape.
"Reports of abuse including beatings and rape in detention are extremely alarming, especially given the scale of detentions that we have seen in the past week. The grim details that we have documented are just a snapshot of the abuses that might be happening in places of detention," said Amnesty International's Europe director John Dalhuisen.
"It is absolutely imperative that the Turkish authorities halt these abhorrent practices and allow international monitors to visit all these detainees in the places they are being held."
Detainees are being arbitrarily held, including in informal places of detention. They have been denied access to lawyers and family members and have not been properly informed of the charges against them, undermining their right to a fair trial.
On Saturday the Turkish government issued its first decree under new powers authorised by its declaration of a state of emergency. The decree dramatically increases the amount of time detainees can be held without being charged from four to 30 days. The change risks exposing detainees to further torture and other ill-treatment. The decree also provides for officials to observe or even record meetings between pre-trial detainees and lawyers, and detainees are restricted in who they can choose to represent them, further undermining the right to a fair trial.
Torture and other ill-treatment
Amnesty International spoke to lawyers, doctors and a person on duty in a detention facility about the conditions detainees were being held in.
The organization heard multiple reports of detainees being held in unofficial locations such as sports centres and a stable. Some detainees, including at least three judges, were held in the corridors of courthouses.
All of the interviewees wished to remain anonymous for security reasons. The organization heard extremely alarming accounts of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees, particularly at the Ankara Police Headquarters sports hall, Ankara Başkent sports hall and the riding club stables there.
According to these accounts, police held detainees in stress positions, denied them food, water and medical treatment, verbally abused and threatened them and subjected them to beatings and torture, including rape and sexual assault.
Two lawyers in Ankara working on behalf of detainees told Amnesty International that detainees said they witnessed senior military officers in detention being raped with a truncheon or finger by police officers.
A person on duty at the Ankara Police Headquarters sports hall saw a detainee with severe wounds consistent with having been beaten, including a large swelling on his head. The detainee could not stand up or focus his eyes and he eventually lost consciousness. While in some cases detainees were afforded limited medical assistance, police refused to allow this detainee essential medical treatment despite his severe injuries. The interviewee heard one police doctor on duty say: "Let him die. We will say he came to us dead."
The same interviewee said 650-800 male soldiers were being held in the Ankara police headquarters sports hall. At least 300 of the detainees showed signs of having been beaten. Some detainees had visible bruises, cuts, or broken bones. Around 40 were so badly injured they could not walk. Two were unable to stand. One woman who was also detained in a separate facility there had bruising on her face and torso.
The interviewee also heard police officers make statements indicating that they were responsible for the beatings, and that detainees were being beaten so that "they would talk".
In general, it appears that the worst treatment in detention was reserved for higher-ranking military officers.
Many of the detainees in the sports hall and other facilities were handcuffed behind their backs with plastic zip-ties and forced to kneel for hours. Interviewees reported that zip-ties were often fastened too tight and left wounds on the arms of detainees. In some cases detainees were also blindfolded throughout their detention.
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Lawyers described how people were brought before prosecutors for interrogation with their shirts covered in blood.
Interviewees also said that based on what detainees told them police deprived them of food for up to three days and water for up to two days.
One lawyer working at the Caglayan Courthouse in Istanbul said that some of the detainees she saw there were in extreme emotional distress, with one detainee attempting to throw himself out of a sixth story window and another repeatedly slamming his head against the wall.
"Despite chilling images and videos of torture that have been widely broadcast across the country, the government has remained conspicuously silent on the abuse. Failing to condemn ill-treatment or torture in these circumstances is tantamount to condoning it," said John Dalhuisen.
Arbitrary detention and absence of due process
Amnesty International interviewed more than 10 lawyers in both Ankara and Istanbul who gave information about the conditions of their clients' confinement. The lawyers represented up to 18 detainees each. The vast majority of clients were low ranking military personnel, including many conscripts. Some were judges, prosecutors, police, and other civil servants. Detainees were primarily men and were as young as 20.
The accounts of lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, were strikingly similar.
All the lawyers said that in the majority of the cases detainees were held pre-charge for four or more days by the police. With very few exceptions, their clients were being held incommunicado throughout this period and had not been able to inform their families of where they were or what was happening to them.
They were also not able to phone a lawyer and in most cases did not see their lawyers until shortly before being brought to court or being interrogated by prosecutors. One lawyer told Amnesty International that when she finally saw her clients, "[They] gave me the contact information [for their families] so I could call them. The families knew nothing. They were happy to hear their sons were alive."
Amnesty International spoke with a relative of a high-ranking military official who was detained in Ankara. He said that family members were able to speak with the detained relative on his mobile phone on Saturday 16 July before it was confiscated by the police, but that the family has had no information about his fate or whereabouts since then. Family members made several trips to detention centres in Ankara but were consistently told the detainee was not there. The detainee has also had no access to a lawyer. Such treatment amounts to enforced disappearance which in itself is a crime under international law. This practice places detainees outside the protection of the law and cuts them off from the outside world, putting them at very high risk of torture or even extrajudicial execution.
The lawyers told Amnesty International that in most cases neither they nor their clients were informed of the specific charges against them, either in a charge sheet or in court, making it difficult to prepare a defence. Soldiers who had been detained were brought to court in groups as large as 20 and 25 people. One lawyer described trying to defend his client in the current environment as "trying to find something with the lights off".
Only one of the detainees represented by lawyers who spoke to Amnesty International was able to choose her own lawyer. According to the other interviewees, private lawyers were not allowed to represent detainees, who were all assigned bar association legal aid lawyers. The detainees' access to their lawyers was also limited. Lawyers told Amnesty International that after the hearings they were not allowed to speak to their clients who were remanded in pre-trial detention.
"These are grave violations of the right to a fair trial which is enshrined in both Turkey's national law and international law," said John Dalhuisen.
"Turkey is understandably concerned with public security at the moment, but no circumstances can ever justify torture and other ill-treatment or arbitrary detention. The climate in Turkey right now is one of fear and shock. The government must steer the country on the path to respect for rights and law, not engage in retribution."
Information provided to Amnesty International by lawyers reflected that many detainees were being held arbitrarily. In the vast majority of cases, they said that no evidence establishing reasonable suspicion of criminal behaviour was presented against their clients during the charge hearings; and the hearing did not establish that there were permissible reasons for detention pending trial.
Instead, lawyers explained that judges ordered detained soldiers to be placed in pre-trial detention if they left their barracks the evening of the coup, regardless of the reason. In one case, a detainee who appeared before the court was not asked a single question by the judge at her hearing.
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We all love the big, the grand, the spectacular, the showy & splashy, the memorable…
But that it about 3% of life? The other 97% of life is none of that.
The other 97% is the daily, routine, little, small, unmemorable but absolutely essential stuff that makes life worth living.
Mothers, in all sorts of situations and settings, spend most of their days (the 97%) living faithfully, which is called a hidden life. As I recently read this quote, it hit me – this is what moms do.
If there is a growing goodness in our lives, it is because others showed up to do the "unhistoric stuff of daily life."
If things are "not so ill as they might have been," it is because others showed up, faithfully, day after day to do good things.
We won't remember most of that hidden, faithful, unhistoric, daily stuff that was done, so we would have a pretty good life. Our memory will fail us, the busyness of life will distract us, the difficulties of life may distort both sight and memory…
But here we are. And we are here because of the faithful love and service of others.
Our mothers – they are the others.
Tomorrow is Mother's Day. And it is a time to remember… to appreciate… and to value… and perhaps for all of us to realize – there are others who depend on us to faithfully live the hidden life for their sake.
And whether they remember to say thank-you, whether they visit our final resting place (or not), that is not why we faithfully live the hidden life. We do it because that is what LOVE DOES.
Moms everywhere – thanks for doing what LOVE DOES.
We would not be who we are without you.
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After 42 years of dictatorial rule, a civil war, and an interim government, a newly elected coalition government is assuming power in Libya. The National Transitional Council will dissolve and the freely elected General National Congress will begin governing at 11pm on Wednesday night.
The only entity that won a plurality, the National Forces Alliance, is itself a coalition of 58 political parties, who stood together for the July elections, but are not guaranteed to stay united. 120 of the 200 member legislative assembly are independents belonging to no political parties.
President of the American-Libyan Council Fadel Lamen said the structure of the new government sets it on a course for paralysis. The real challenge now is for Libyans to mitigate that paralysis so that the important work of piecing back together their country can continue, he said.
But the new government is assuming power at a fragile and violent time. After gun fighting and an explosion occurred in Tripoli on Saturday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) came under attack on Sunday morning in Misrata.
"The security issue will be on the top of the agenda for the new General National Congress," said Lamen, "How successful they will be is another story."
The recent attacks on the ICRC were a particularly poignant sign of the security deterioration because they were a direct attack on the residence of foreign nationals.
At 6:45 in the morning, attackers pummeled the ICRC residence while ICRC staffers were asleep inside. They assaulted the building with heavy weaponry for over fifteen minutes.
The ICRC office had been the focus of a number of attacks over the past months in Misrata but this is the first time attackers targeted a staff residence.
"That's why we are appalled," said Soaade Messoudi, ICRC Communication Coordinator for Libya, speaking from Tripoli.
Messoudi said the ICRC will not leave Misrata, but will temporarily suspend their operations in Misrata and Benghazi. Their Tripoli office will remain open.
She pointed out that other foreign organizations in Libya, such as the United Nations, have come under attack in Benghazi and elsewhere.
Messoudi said in a country so long isolated from much of the world, there is important outreach that needs to be undertaken by international bodies to explain their presence in Libya. "We need to invest in explaining better the mandate of the ICRC in Libya," she said.
A stronger communication effort by the ICRC is necessary to achieve this understanding, she said.
"We have been focusing on delivering aid, support, and assistance," Messoudi said. "Now we need to step up the outreach and dialogue."
However constructive the approach the ICRC takes in the wake of these events, their absence will still be felt in Misrata and Benghazi. One of the main ICRC projects since the revolution has been support and assistance for the tracing of missing persons at the national level.
Another focuses on the pernicious problem of explosive remnants of war (ERW), especially around Sirte. The ICRC defines ERW as "unexploded weapons such as artillery shells, mortars, grenades, bombs and rockets, left behind after an armed conflict."
Both of these ICRC initiatives will be on hold during the ICRC Misrata and Benghazi suspensions.
The attacks on the ICRC residence were condemned by officials, but condemnation of militant attacks has not been the norm in the new Libya. "The problem is the government officials are so afraid that they, or their family will be killed," said Lamen. "That's why you don't see any public condemnation."
A report released on Thursday by Harvard University's International Human Rights Clinic and the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict detailed the prevalence of weapons in Libya. "[The country] is awash in weapons, ranging from bullets and mortars to torpedoes and surface-to-air missiles," it said.
The responsibility to remove these weapons belongs to the Libyan government, but according to the recent Harvard report, international NGOs have been doing the bulk of the work on weapons removal.
The militias operating largely with impunity in Libya are the country's biggest security threat and are carrying out assassinations throughout the country. According to Lamen, they may be the result of a tactical alliance between members of the old regime and groups such as the Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya, the Libyan Islamic Fight Group, whose own revolution was violently put down by Qaddafi in the mid-nineties.
The newly elected General National Congress is necessary to confront the militia threat, Lamen said. "They have the legitimacy now," he said. "They just need to confront these militias to stabilize the country. The only way they can do that is if they can successfully appeal to the people."


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This is THE funniest post in the history of Bravado communities katy huff . We used to do something similar at Meltwater, where we'd try to quote a minimum of 5 direct quotes from American Psycho into each demo. The record was 11 in a 45 minute call, which ended with the rep saying "Sorry I gotta run, I've got lunch with Cliff Huxtable at the Four ... See more
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Notorious tells the inarguably compelling story of Christopher Wallace, a mountain of a man who gained worldwide success as rapper Notorious B.I.G. when he was barely out of his teens, and was dead by the time he was 24. He was shot to death in a drive-by hit that seemed the logical extension of the lifestyle he represented, even if it wasn't the lifestyle that he was living.
That dichotomy is one of the more fascinating elements of his life, and one that goes back to his childhood; he was raised by a loving single mother and attended good schools, but was drawn to the danger (and rewards) of slinging drugs. His relationships with women were similarly complicated--he was abandoned by his father and raised by a strong, independent woman, but after his success made him desirable to the opposite sex, he frequently treated the women in his life as objects and all but abandoned his own first child.
The unfortunate news is that the complex psychology of Christopher Wallace barely gets lip service in Notorious, which abandons depth in favor of the standard, paint-by-numbers beats of the musical biopic. The music is infectious and the performances are skillful, but the screenplay and direction are so predictable that the film feels like it was assembled from a Mad Libs book.
Rapper Jamal Woolard (in his screen debut) plays "Biggie" from age 17 on (Wallace's own son, Christopher Jordan Wallace, plays him as a young boy), capably embodying his charisma and presence, even if his voice is a little higher-pitched than Biggie's. Some of his best moments come in the portrayal of his close relationship with mother Voletta (Angela Bassett); their scenes are mostly grounded and believable, though poor Bassett gets saddled with the lion's share of the corniest dialogue. In spite of her positive influence, Christopher can't resist the urge to make some paper selling crack on the corner; he first sees writing and performing rhymes as a hobby, a diversion, rather than a source of honest income. That said, he clearly has a gift, and an early scene where he takes on a neighborhood rhyming rival transcends its inevitability (is it legal to make a hip-hop movie that doesn't have at least one "battle" scene?) and serves as an effective illustration of how unique and comparatively sophisticated his style was. It's a rare moment where director George Tillman Jr. and screenwriters Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker show instead of tell, letting us see Biggie finding his voice and glimpsing his future instead of saying he did so in another of the script's clumsy voice-overs.
Christopher eventually gets popped and does some time, spending much of his incarceration sharpening his lyrical skills, and when he makes it out, a demo tape ends up the hands of Sean "Puffy" Combs, played by Derek Luke in a passable if uninspired performance. Luke doesn't look a bit like Combs (though he does have his odd dancing down pat), but more distressingly, the role is just dull as toast; Combs is credited as an executive producer on the project, but that's no excuse for to turn his character into a blandly supportive saint, mouthing inane inspirational slogans like some sort of a hip-hop Leo Buscalia.
Combs is on his way out at Uptown Records, but promises Biggie that he'll be an anchor act for his new label. On the way to that moment, Biggie and his street-hustling partner get popped on a weapons charge; a powerful scene follows, wherein the buddy takes the fall for Biggie's gun so that his boy can stay out of jail and follow up on his music opportunities. That's about the last moment of real surprise in the second act, as the rapper's rise to fame is accompanied by the expected indulgences and vices--in this case, the large man's love for the fairer sex, at first in the guise of neighborhood girl-turned-performer Lil' Kim (well-played by Naturi Naughton, who nails Kim's sexiness, fragility, and vocal quality) and then with singer Faith Evans (Antonique Smith), who he marries and promptly fools around on while he's out on the road. Smith and Woolard have nice chemistry, but we've seen all of these scenes (and heard these lines--"I don't even know who you are anymore!") a thousand times before. That said, I liked how the screenplay works Kim and Evans' song performances into the fabric of their love triangle storyline.
If the script follows a too tried-and-true formula with regards to Biggie's rise to the top and excesses of success, it does manage to get a storytelling charge by tracking the splintering of his friendship with Tupac (Anthony Mackie) and how it escalated into the East Coast/West Coast beef that, either directly or indirectly, led to both of their demises. That's a story we haven't seen before (aside from in Nick Broomfield's excellent Biggie and Tupac), and it is a fascinating one, lending some much-needed momentum to the third act--though we probably could have done with at least one or two fewer scenes of Biggie getting his life back on track right before his untimely death (the fact that he ties up every single loose end feels too damned nice and neat to be entirely convincing).
Tillman's direction is pretty pedestrian--some of the individual shots are stylish, but the assembly of the scenes and the overall narrative lacks any real punch or surprise. The concert scenes have a nice energy, however, and Woolard is a real find, easily carrying the entire film on his broad shoulders. It's a shame he didn't have a less predictable picture to carry. It may just be that all musical biographies are bound to follow the same playbook (unless they're an oddball mindfuck like I'm Not There), but that's not enough of a reason for Notorious to hammer its clichés as hard as it does.
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Notorious is being released in a two-disc edition for Blu, with the film and special features on a 50GB Blu-ray disc and a digital copy for portable devices on the second dic. Two versions of the film are offered: the theatrical cut (which runs about 123 minutes) and the "extended director's cut" (clocking in about six minutes longer).
The film's 2.35:1 images are brought to vivid 1080p life via the MPEG-4 AVC codec. The bright colors of the Brooklyn streets pop from the frame, while the darkness and shadows of the clubs and concerts are deep and full. Skin tones are natural and grain levels are appropriate. Overall, a very solid transfer.
The English 5.1 DTS-HD MA lossless mix is also top-notch. The surround channels are active throughout, particularly in studio, club, and street scenes, while dialogue and effects are crystal clear. But the highlight of this track, as it should be in a hip-hop movie, is the low end. The heavy bass of Biggie's tracks give the subwoofer a workout, and the combination of the deep, rumbling bass and the crowd cheers in the rear speakers make the concert scenes particularly immersive.
Subtitles are available in English, French, and Spanish.
The healthy selection of bonus features start off with a pair of Audio Commentaries supplementing only the theatrical cut of the movie. The first is with director George Tillman, Jr., screenwriters Reggie Rock Blythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker, and editor Dirk Westervelt. It's a fairly informative and interesting track, with plenty of discussion of the filmmaking process and the choices made at the screenwriting stage. The second track focuses on the film's relationship to the real story by offering commentary by Voletta Wallace and Biggie's managers Wayne Barrow and Mark Pitts (all three are producers on the film as well). There's not exactly a wealth of penetrating information here, but it is a good-natured conversation and it's always nice to hear from Ms. Wallace, who remains a fascinating figure.
"Behind the Scenes: The Making of Notorious" (27:22) is a detailed look at the creation of the picture, from the extensive casting process to the involvement of Biggie's family and friends to the on-set operations (down to the props and costumes). "I've Got A Story To Tell: The Lyrics of Biggie Smalls" (9:32) focuses his music and personality, interspersing clips of the film with testimonials from friends and enthusiasts. "Notorious Thugs: Casting The Film" (9:06) covers, via interviews and audition footage, the casting of the supporting players with the input of many of the people they portrayed. "Biggie Boot Camp" (6:49), narrated by director Tillman, shows the extensive process of training the actors (particularly first-timer Woolard) to inhabit their iconic roles. Much of the featurette material can also be accessed during the film, via the picture-in-picture "BonusView: Life After Death- Making Notorious" feature.
"Anatomy of a B.I.G. Performance" (5:15) is one of the stronger featurettes, detailing the shooting of the concert scenes, with comparison footage of real performances. "Party & Bullshit" (3:44) is an uncut view of one of those performances--it's in rough shape (complete with tape glitches), but it's pretty remarkable nonetheless. "The B.I.G. Three-Sixty" is a viewer-controlled virtual tour of the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, where Biggie was murdered, with the option of brief video clips explaining various points on the scene. It's a pretty morbid inclusion, but an interesting one. Ten Deleted Scenes follow (12:16 total), though some are merely extended versions or minor transition scenes; the filmmakers also apparently experimented with a parallel timeline of the night of Biggie's death (intercut with the main narrative) but wisely booted it.
Finally, a bonus for BD-Live viewers: "The Music," a feature which offers up song credits and trivia during the film and allows viewers to create playlists of the songs heard there, which can then be purchased through iTunes. It's a fairly clever use of BD-Live technology for this music-heavy film.
Final Thoughts:
There's no question that Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace's story is a compelling one, a kind of hip-hop Horatio Alger tale of a young man who made it big by telling the kind of stories that he knew from firsthand experience. But Notorious suffers from the familiarity of the story's broad strokes; it feels assembled from spare parts, squandering the opportunity to weave a real and complex narrative in favor of the usual rags-to-riches, mo-money-mo-problems template. The Blu-ray's technical presentation is high-caliber, some of the performances are inspired, and the music is energetic, but we ultimately don't learn much about Christopher Wallace here that we didn't already know from his songs.
Jason lives in New York. He holds an MA in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU.
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Review: Francis Bacon And Henry Moore Together In Terror And Beauty
Cate Kustanczy
Apr 4, 2014 in
- The work of two wildly different artists is paired for a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. While it's ambitious, Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty disappoints with a false sense of connection between the artists.
"Art and life are made up of conflicts" — Moore's insightful quote greets visitors along the hallway into the exhibition. It's a perfect encapsulation of Terror and Beauty, though it also unwittingly underlines its problems and pitfalls. As the release for the exhibition notes, Henry Moore (1898-1986) and Francis Bacon (1909-1992) "were neither friends nor collaborators," something worth keeping in mind as one wanders this large exhibition, on now through July 20.
Comprised of over 100 objects (including paintings, sketches, and sculptures), the works are accompanied by the photography of Bill Brandt, whose shots of a Blitz-damaged London and its weary inhabitants forms a base from which guest curator (and associate professor of art history at York University) Dan Adler's layout emerges. Moore and Bacon were
previously paired
at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum last fall. Indeed, Terror and Beauty has been organized by the AGO in conjunction with the Ashmolean, and includes pieces from an impressive array of international houses including the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Britain, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
The works are organized into tidy themes: Bodies, Crucifixions, Popes, Vulnerability and Resilience. This thematic imposition places the artists and their works — frequently abstract, definitely different — into neat, easily-digestible boxes. Layout is key, with individuals works meant to be connected with (or to) another one nearby. Quotes from each artist dot the gallery walls; Bacon's thinking of crucifixion, for instance, as "a magnificent armature on which you can hang all types of feeling and sensation" works as an apt (if unfortunate) metaphor for the ideas and themes that have been hung onto these two artists, and as ties that supposedly bind.
Much of what is meant to bind these works together is the curator's idea of a shared wartime England experience, and how the two exhibit some communal, creative expression related to survival and hardship. The problem with this assumption is that it is a false construct; each artist had wildly different world views shaped by personal experience and individual personality. Each had a separate set of experiences and ideas related to war. Henry Moore and Francis Bacon were different in both quantifiable and qualifiable ways, not specifically connected to the second world war. Grouping them together places their creative output within a false narrative construct which distracts from the overall greater whole. Bacon had a peripatetic childhood (and later, a highly mobile adult life), punctuated by frequently torturous personal relationships; he also had a fraught connection with his father, largely connected to Bacon's being a very out gay man, and a series of intense love affairs. He didn't enjoy a lot of formal instruction in painting, and was prone to destroying or painting over earlier works. Moore, on the other hand, remained based in England, enjoyed a long-term marriage, fought in the First World War (until an injury he sustained in 1917), and became a teacher who enjoyed a solid family life. He was commissioned to do large-scale public art projects later in life, including the famous "
UNESCO Reclining Figure
" in the late 1950s.
Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1951. Plaster cast, L: 228.5 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Courtesy Craig Boyko, AGO © The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS / SODRAC (2013) www.henry-moore.org
© The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS / SODRAC (2013)
Terror and Beauty serves to underline some interesting, if entirely accidental, complementary aesthetics. Moore's ennobled, hopeful sculptures, along with his own abstract paintings and deft sketches lend softness to the rough, occasionally acrid masculinity of Bacon's work, and there is a similar sense of movement, proportion, even color, betrayed in certain creative choices. Bacon's paintings possess a kind of rounded voluptuousness (
Seated Figure
from 1962 for instance), the sensuous and the violent living in equal measure within the twisted, pink-grey world of his imagining; Moore's deliberately distorted features echo the surreal nature of Bacon's work, his monumental
Seated Woman, Thin Neck
(1961) a strangely delicate expression of feminine grace. Such works have a conversation, however awkward it may be.
However, the "Popes" section of the exhibition brings home of the essentially different natures of each artist. Bacon's studio was an infamously crammed, chaotic space (it's been
at Dublin's Hugh Lane Gallery), and his paintings, thusly presented, offer a similar sense of delicious claustrophobia. Thus the "Popes" inhabits a wonderfully intimate corner of the exhibit's second room (located nowhere near the "Crucifixion" section, mysteriously), and features some of Bacon's breathtaking,
portraits, including
Study for Portrait VI
(1953). Bacon's furiously alive work sings here — or maybe stings is more appropriate; these are portraits shot through with menace and foreboding, done with moody black backgrounds and bullet-like color. They are entrancing, violent, and thoroughly exciting. Displaying these works in a close setting lends them an appropriate claustrophobia and secrecy, as if we're a part of a very twisted, very nefarious papal meeting. One is thankful Bacon's work can sing its own nasty tune without the presence of Moore's considerably different, more humanistic energies.
Francis Bacon, Second Version of Triptych, 1944 / 1988. Oil and alkyds on canvas. Each panel 198 x 147.5 cm (each panel), Tate Modern, London. © Estate of Francis Bacon / SODRAC (2013)
© Estate of Francis Bacon / SODRAC (2013)
And that's the essential problem: rather than add to our understanding or appreciation of each individual artist's merits and output, this exhibition attempts to impose one that simply isn't there. The art of Bacon and Moore is reduced to handy time frames and imposed themes that don't illuminate the men or their work. For instance, Bacon's sexuality is referenced but never explored; the traumatic passing of his lover George Dyer is mentioned only in passing; there is short shrift given to
the role photography and film in his inspiration
(and for the triptychs in particular). Margaret Thatcher
called him
"that man who paints those dreadful pictures." It's vital viewers know and understand such details in order to get a full picture of Francis Bacon as an artist wholly within his own right, as an artist far larger than the era in which he lived, and as a man far larger than his country or citizenship. To reduce him (and Moore) to a specific time and place is to do a grievous disservice.
The exhibition's final room reveals most clearly two artists whose works are essentially at odds. Bacon's immense
from 1987, features varying (frequently gory) motifs relating to matadors, Lorca, and wounds, stretches across one wall; nearby Moore's
Working Model for Standing Figure: Knife Edge
(1961) sits, its rough edges pointing out. Even Bacon's arrows on the left panel of his work, pointing at open wounds, isn't as self-evident as such placement. Similarly, Bacon's portrait of his (final) lover, John Edwards (from 1988), is a poignant, powerful work, betraying traces of a surprising degree of tenderness, though the placement of Moore's touching
Falling Warrior
(1956-57) and
Warrior With Shield
(1953-54) offers no illumination, only frustration.
Henry Moore, Falling Warrior, 1956-57. Bronze, 65 x 154 x 85 cm. Tate Modern, London © The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS / SODRAC (2013) www.henry-moore.org
© The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS / SODRAC (2013)
Perhaps a good way to take this room in, as with all the pieces in Terror and Beauty, is to look at one artist's work first, then the other's. If you find yourself drawing lines between works, that's fine, but don't be lead on by the connections laid out for you, ones frequently ephemeral and reductive. Find your own path. You may make the
Holzer-esque conclusion
that "contradiction equals balance," which is, perhaps, the best thing one could take away here. There is terror, and there is beauty, and very frequently, they meet; occasionally they produce something incredible. But sometimes they are better separate, and that's just as it should be.
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The fifth season of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" resumes Sunday at 8:30 p.m., a return worth noting if only because the Fox comedy is one of the few reliable sources of good-natured comedic relief on the broadcast schedule.
Veteran sitcoms like "Nine-Nine" are necessary pressure valves releasing the stress internalized by absorbing endless news born of chaos and a dire level of uncertainty about the future. And the writing on Dan Goor and Michael Schur's series dependably clicks along in a way that's comforting without succumbing to dullness. Like Schur's other comedy "The Good Place," "Nine-Nine" skillfully tosses in twists that resolve sensibly and without violating the zany appeal of the scenario.
The agreeability of "Nine-Nine" is so potent, in fact, that one of this season's most significant contributions to culture may have escaped mainstream notice when it first aired in December. Mind you, the revelation that Stephanie Beatriz's character Detective Rosa Diaz is bisexual made headlines, and major outlets covered the event, hooked to the series' 99th episode, by featuring interviews with the actress who, like her character, is bisexual.
But rather, it's the specific manner of her coming out that matters. In the episode called "Game Night," currently streaming on Hulu, Rosa stands up at the precinct's morning run-down and tells her co-workers there's something she'd like to say. "I'm a pretty private person, so this is kinda hard for me, but here we go." She takes a deep breath and says, "I'm bisexual. All right. I will now field one minute and zero seconds of questions pertaining to this. Go."
The questions that followed ranged from the predictable to the stupid, and people who haven't seen this show might roll their eyes at the contrivance of coming out during a team meeting at work. Given the freewheeling and aggressively affectionate nature the 99th workplace, it makes sense.
None of that matters as much as fact that the writers scripted the term "bisexual" into Rosa's dialogue instead of, say, having her show up with a woman and imply their relationship, perhaps leading her co-workers to guess at her orientation. Many other series would handle Rosa's sexuality thusly. "Nine-Nine" simply laid it out and moved along.
We've long passed the era when gay and lesbian characters occupying prominent roles on TV series could be deemed remarkable. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" provides a prime example of this in the precinct's Captain Ray Holt (Andre Braugher), who is more remarkable for his pathological fastidiousness and adherence to etiquette than the fact that he is a gay man who is a respected officer on New York City's police force. Sunday's episode, in fact, spins around Ray's over-the-top protection of his husband Kevin (Marc Evan Jackson), who he believes is being targeted by a mobster.
The sitcom's portrayal of Ray and Kevin's sublimely matched devotion to etiquette and propriety provides a bottomless well of material, enough to the point that their romantic bond, while obvious, is never the main event. The writers' conscientious approach to the series as a whole allows Ray and Kevin to simply be as they are, which is sufficient.
But broadcast TV is only at the beginning of processing how to thoughtfully and honorably portray orientations and identities that do not fall into one category or another. Rosa's revelation is important because it leaves no room for equivocation. It's as key as, for example, when Asia Kate Dillon's non-binary character Taylor on "Billions" specified that their pronouns are "they" and "their." Or when HBO's "Here and Now" depicted a conversation in which Muslim teenager Navid (Marwan Salama) identifies as gender fluid.
Premium cable has a long history of exploring sexual orientation and identities, with varying degrees of success. Characters on broadcast who may not neatly fit into codified boxes are still not as typical as one would like them to be. Yet, they are appearing with more frequency; NBC's "Rise," for example, quietly introduces the story of a transgender student taking his first steps in living publicly as a boy, and the writers handle it with care and sincerity. He is becoming what he is meant to be, instead of being introduced as already fully within his identity. That's fertile territory to explore, and it would be wonderful if other series took inspiration from it.
Sunday, meanwhile, gives us a chance to appreciate anew "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and its confident, jaunty embrace of all the qualities that make the cops in the 99 unique and lovable. A person might even be tempted to characterize it as enlightened — or better, to use that trendy colloquialism that means the same thing. But then I remembered Holt's immediate response to Rosa's truth-sharing.
"I must say, this is going considerably better than when I came out to my colleagues," he tells her. "They were not, as the kids say, awake."
When Andy Samberg's Jake Peralta asks, "Did you mean 'woke'?" Holt replies, "I did mean 'woke,' but it's grammatically incoherent."


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Theresa May's support for LGBT people was called into question at an election hustings in which parties laid out their policies regarding equality issues.
Justine Greening, secretary of state for education, was representing the Conservatives at the event organised by Stonewall, Pink News, and Pride in London on Tuesday evening.
Greening revealed she was in a same-sex relationship in June last year, making her the first openly gay woman to serve in a Conservative cabinet.
She began by listing Conservative policies on LGBT issues, passed while Theresa May was home secretary, as evidence of the prime minister's awareness of the issues.
"Under this government, since 2010, we passed the same-sex marriage act. Who did that? Actually it was Theresa May as home secretary," said Greening. "We've also toughened up on areas like reporting hate crimes. Since 2013, the police have had to gather and collate stats on LGBT-focused hate crime and then publish it. Who did that? Actually it was Theresa May."
She also cited the introduction of the so-called Turing's Law – posthumous pardons for people who received convictions for homosexual acts – which was introduced this year as evidence of May's commitment to righting wrongs against LGBT people.
"This is a prime minister who has inequality, including inequality against LGBT plus people, at the heart of everything that drives her as a person," said Greening.
However, Liberal Democrat peer Lord Brian Paddick took Greening to task on May's record. He disputed Greening's claim that the Conservatives had been pushing for the introduction of gay marriage, saying that within the Coalition government the energy behind that policy had come from the Liberal Democrats, in particular Lynne Featherstone, former MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, now Baroness Featherstone.
"The thing I can't let past though, it was Lynne Featherstone, a Liberal Democrat MP who championed same-sex marriage in the Coalition, and who got it through with David Cameron's support," said Paddick.
"And I would urge people to look at Theresa May's voting record on LGBT issues," he continued, to loud applause from the audience.
Greening disagreed, saying May had been the "unsung hero" of the legislation, but Paddick continued: "All I would say to you is look at Theresa May's voting record on LGBT issues, look at Tim Farron's voting record on LGBT issues and you will see who is the true champion of LGBT issues of the party leaders."
In 2010, Theresa May distanced herself from her voting record on LGBT issues, including voting against gay adoption in 2002 and voting against the repeal of Section 28, which banned councils from "promoting" homosexuality, in 2000.
Paddick also criticised an announcement in March that the Conservatives would introduce compulsory sex and relationship education in schools, with provisions that allow faith schools to teach this subject in line with the beliefs of the school.
"I had confirmation from a Conservative minister in the House of Lords that for example, if a faith school, according to the tenets of their faith, did not agree with same sex marriage they could say that it is wrong," said Paddick. "Now, if that is the attitude of this government to compulsory sex and relationship education we're in trouble.
"What it appears the Conservatives did was compromised with the faith schools in order to get it through," he said.
There was agreement from the representative of all parties present on a range of issues, including the need for more protection of the rights of LGBT people around the world and the need for concerted action to tackle hate crimes against LGBT people.
Sarah Champion, Labour candidate for Rotherham, spoke out against the treatment of LGBT asylum seekers who come to Britain, saying she was "very, very ashamed" at the refoulement of gay asylum seekers, who she said were sometimes "deported back to countries where they will be murdered". She added that UK refugee policies were "particularly vile toward trans people".
One audience member raised concerns about legal protections after Brexit, particularly if the Human Rights Act were to be scrapped, which Greening addressed.
"Quite simply, we are 100% committed to protecting all existing rights however the legal framework changes in relation to leaving the European Union, that's absolutely vital," she said. "Already many of them are already enshrined in the Equalities Act, but we will make sure we have no backwards steps in relation to this area."


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Another fascinating talk just for us! It's Emilie Wapnick's Ted Talk called, Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling. Yes, just YES!
"Oh, where to begin. I debated just putting a link to Elizabeth Gilbert's Wikipedia page, and saying 'here are our resources, Variety Seekers,' but instead I'll name a few of her top creations that seem to resonate so deeply with our kind. For starters there is her book Big Magic, which is required reading for creatives. Then there are her Ted Talks (Talk 1 and Talk 2), both about creativity and both incredible." -Jessica
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
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How to Create a Digg Widget For Your Blog and Why
Digg is a home of top most news/stories being liked and posted there by its users. Top stories are original news with potential to give us something new and interesting which can start a huge buzz around the globe. If a post is submitted there, its a free choice for everybody; Anybody can vote it and cause it to emerge at the surface in this river or drown it by burying it. Now what about displaying some top news stories from Digg at your blog, which will be related to your niche. It will interest your users a lot because you are giving them something interesting to explore related to what they are searching and that's already a top story.
You can easily display the latest top Digg news on your site by adding a Digg Widget, with many choices for what to show and how it's displayed. When news is updated on Digg, it will automatically be displayed on your site, in the format that you choose.
Customize your Widget and then copy and paste the appropriate code to your site. It is really that simple.
- Choose a theme (blue, black, grey, unstyled)
- Choose what to show (popular stories from which category or which user or which site)
- Customize display options (width and height of the widget, border, title content or description also, link target)
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- It can bring traffic towards your website
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Create a Digg Widget for your Blog/Website
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Awake & Embrace Infinite Blissfulness
The Kundalini, the serpent power or mystic fire, is the primordial energy or Shakti that lies dormant or sleeping in the Muladhara Chakra, that is located at the end of the spinal chord. It is also known as the serpentine/annular power on account of serpentine form. It is an electric fiery occult power, with great pristine force which underlies all organic and inorganic matter. Basically, it is the inherent spiritual energy system in the body. It consists of seven main centers or chakras & three main channels namely – the Sun (Right channel or Pingalaa naadi), Moon (Left channel or Idaa naadi) and Central Channel (Sushumnaa naadi) and innumerable ducts and ductile.
Kundalini is the cosmic force in the individual body. In reality it has no form, hence highly of subtle nature unlike physical forces like electricity, magnetism, centripetal/centrifugal forces. It is the coiled-up, sleeping Divine Shakti that lies dormant in all beings. All of us have great potential as the vibrancy of this energy is such, though lying dormant at the bottom of the spine in the root chakra (Muladhar) and through rigorous religious practices, yoga, meditation, pranayam, & community service kundalini rises upwards.
Tri Shaktipat is the foundation stepping stone for every human being. It's liberates you from ignorance, ignites spirituality and awakens the Kundalini shakti (serpent energy). After you have been awakened you are automatically taken on the chosen spritiual path guided by the Supreme Divine Energy (Adhya Shakti).
Tri Shaktipat encompasses Tri Shakti Energy, which is made up of three unique energies – Goddess Maa Pratyangira's Ugra (Ferocious) Energy, God Sharabheswar Shiv's Merciful energy and Goddess Maa Jagadambe's Liberation energy. Break down of "Tri Shaktipat" in Sanskrit is – word "Tri" means "three", word "Shakti" means "Energy" and word "pat" means "path". So Tri Shaktipat literally means "path towards three energies". Furthermore it means merging towards the Divine Suprerme energy with the help of these particular three energies.
Rise of Kundalini-Shakti improves inner well-being, strengthens self-confidence, motivates positive outlook, relieves stress & guides you towards self-realization. Let's your Kundalini-Shakti (serpent power) be awaken with which you will be able to embrace infinite happiness by tapping into unconditional flow of Divine love – Awake & Embrace Infinite Blissfulness.
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