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145_3 | The international award ceremonies were held in different locations.
The fifteenth annual ceremony of the Gold Mercury International Award in 1975 was held in the Gothic Room of the Brussels City Hall.
Moscow hosted the 20th conference in 1980, where more than 120 foreign companies participated.
More than one hundred Soviet firms, organizations, statesmen and public figures were given Gold Mercury International Awards at this event.
The 21st International Conference of the Golden Mercury International Association (GMIA) was held in Sofia, Bulgaria at the end of September 1981.
Lorenzo Galo was Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the GMIA at the time.
A conference was held in Karachi on 7 April 1982.
Another awards ceremony was held in Ethiopia in 1982.
This was the first time this event had been held in an African country.
The 1984 ceremony took place in Beijing on 14 April 1984.
Award winners |
145_4 | UNESCO was awarded the 1978 Gold Mercury International Award and Diploma for its efforts to promote development and international co-operation.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman and Founder of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization was given also an award in 1978, presented by Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of Bahrain.
Delfa Associates was given Italy's annual Gold Mercury International Award for 1978 at a special ceremony in Mexico.
The Amersham, UK refrigeration company was recognized for their contribution to promoting and fostering international cooperation in their field. |
145_5 | In October 1980 the award was presented to Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev for an "outstanding contribution to strengthening peace and developing international cooperation".
The Russian firm TMP won an award that year.
Textilimpex was another award winner at the 20th conference in Moscow.
The Afghan National Petroleum Institute also received a Gold Mercury prize in Moscow.
The institute's president attributed the honor to "untiring efforts and hard work of workers, technicians, engineers and all toiling employees of Afghan National Petroleum Institute and disinterested cooperations of friendly country of USSR." |
145_6 | Edward Seaga, Prime Minister of Jamaica (1980–89), received the Gold Mercury International Award in Venezuela in 1981.
The Mexican conductor Enrique Bátiz Campbell was the first Latin American artist to receive the award.
On 29 September 1981 in Sofia, Bulgaria the United Nations Industrial Development Organization was given an "Ad Honorem" award for contributing to development of international relations and strengthening world peace.
The Latvian Shipping Company was given a 1981 Gold Mercury International Award for developing shipping, harbor economy and cooperation in strengthening contacts with foreign countries. |
145_7 | In 1982 an award was given in Karachi to the Korea Trade Promotion Corporation (KOTRA) for its participation in expanding global economic participation.
At the same event the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce was given the Gold Mercury International Award ad honorem for encouraging international trade.
The Pakistani President General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq received the Gold Mercury international award for peace and cooperation from G. Lorenzo Galo, the Secretary-General of the Gold Mercury International Association. Galo praised Zia's contributions to international peace and cooperation.
The Pakistan Yearbook noted that Pakistan was the first non-western government to be given the award, due to its support of "the Islamic teachings of universal love, peace, brotherhood and welfare and prosperity of the entire mankind."
Rear Admiral Abdul Waheed Bhombal received an "ad-honorarium" Gold Mercury International Award on behalf of the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation. |
145_8 | Aga Khan IV also received an "Ad Personam" award at this ceremony. |
145_9 | The 22nd Gold Mercury Awards were given to the Ethiopian Athletics Federation, and Ydnekatchew Tessema. Tessima was President of the Confederation of African Football and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Ethiopia.
The archaeologist J. Desmond Clark, one of the early pioneers in Africa of systematic fieldwork, was given an individual award in 1982.
Anthropologists Francis Clark Howell, Donald Johanson and Tim D. White also received awards,
Clark, Johansen and White were present at the ceremony.
The Ethiopian Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was awarded a Gold Mercury Ad Persona Award.
The sculptor Tadesse Belaineh Habtemariam also received an Ad-Personam award in Addis Ababa.
Erte Tekle is another Ethiopian artist who received an award that year.
Thomas R. Odhiambo, founder of the African Academy of Sciences, was given an award.
McKinley Conway also won an award in Addis Ababa. |
145_10 | The International Center for Promotion of Enterprises (ICPE) was a recipient in recognition of the work it had done to support African countries.
The International Livestock Center for Africa received two awards. |
145_11 | Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, a senior official in the Indian government and founder of the Sahaja Yoga movement, received an Ad Personam award in 1984.
James P. Grant, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund, was given the Gold Mercury International Award in 1984 by International Organization for Co-operation.
The Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang was awarded the Gold Mercury International Peace Emblem in 1984.
In 1984 Lorenz Maria Gallo, secretary-general of Gold Mercury International, also presented a medal to Wang Pinqing, who promised to continue to try to expand trade, economic cooperation and friendship between China and other countries.
In 1985 EFE, the Spanish news agency, received an award for "increasing contribution to knowledge and cooperation among the people of Latin origin" at the Special Conference for the Peace and International Cooperation that was organized by the International Organization for Cooperation (IOC) and held at Brazzaville. |
145_12 | That year Rajsoomer Lallah of Mauritius received an ad personam award for contribution to development and human rights law. |
145_13 | Later history |
145_14 | In the late 1990s Gold Mercury International relocated to London.
As of 2004 the organization had an annual budget of about US$1 million and a staff of 25 people.
Leaders who have received the award include US Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan and King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia received the 2004 Gold Mercury International award for "Peace, Cooperation and Solidarity".
Kerry Kennedy, founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, received the award for Humanitarian Action in 2006.
In 2007 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, received the award for Peace and Global Security.
Colombian President Álvaro Uribe received the Peace and Security award in 2009.
The award was presented in Bogotá by Juan Míguel Villar, president of the Spanish Obrascón Huarte Lain construction group, which is active in Colombia.
Since 2008, Gold Mercury International has been a participant in the United Nations Global Compact. |
145_15 | In June 2013 Pietro Sebastini, Italian Ambassador to Spain, presented the founder, Eduardo De Santis, the medal of the Orden de Commendatore on behalf of Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy. |
145_16 | In 1990 Eduardo De Santis, an original founder of Gold Mercury, set up Twelve Stars Corporate Vision Strategists, a consultancy specializing in marketing design.
The name is derived from the European Union flag. By 1996 the company had 50 employees, with a design studio in London.
In 1998 Twelve Stars launched Captain Euro, a cartoon superhero used to promote the euro currency.
With this character the consultancy tried to create an attractive superhero representing the EU's global leadership in democracy.
Nicolas De Santis, son of Eduardo De Santis, held senior positions in Twelve Stars, beenz.com and Opodo, an online travel agency.
In a 2010 interview Nicolas De Santis said Corporate Vision Strategists used the intellectual framework developed by Gold Mercury. |
145_17 | In February 2012 it was announced that Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan had joined the Gold Mercury International advisory board.
A 2012 brochure showed Eduardo De Santis as Chairman of Gold Mercury International and Nicolas De Santis as President and Secretary General.
Álvaro Uribe Vélez and Kerry Kennedy were both members of the 36-person Award Nomination and Selection Committee.
Other members of Gold Mercury International as of 2013 included Enrique Barón Crespo, past president of the European Parliament.
In 2014 it was reported that Gold Mercury, now headed by Nicolas De Santis and Enrique Barón Crespo, had launched the Brand EU initiative to improve the brand of the European Union and thus strengthen the union.
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International awards
Awards established in 1961
1961 establishments in Italy |
146_0 | Iseltwald is a village and municipality on the southern shore of Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. Politically, the municipality is located in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district of the canton of Bern.
History
Iseltwald is first mentioned in 1146 as Iseltwalt. |
146_1 | During the Middle Ages, a castle was built on the peninsula near the village for the Lords of Matten. In 1146, King Conrad III gave Interlaken Abbey one quarter of the village. Over the following years, the Abbey attempted to expand their power in the village. After the Swiss Confederation gained de facto independence from the House of Habsburg, the Abbey remained a strong supporter of the Austrian dynasty. The Abbey launched several raids into Unterwalden to support Habsburg ambitions. In response, in 1342, troops from Unterwalden attacked and burned Iseltwald. A few years later, in 1348-49, the village unsuccessfully rebelled against the Abbey. In 1528, the city of Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and began imposing it on the Bernese Oberland. Iseltwald joined many other villages and the Abbey in an unsuccessful rebellion against the new faith. After Bern imposed its will on the Oberland, they secularized the Abbey and annexed all the Abbey lands. |
146_2 | Since 1948 it has been part of the large parish of Gsteig bei Interlaken in Gsteigwiler.
The traditional local economy relied on fish from Lake Brienz, farming in the valleys and seasonal alpine herding and farming in the alpine meadows. A glass blowing factory opened between 1680 and 1696 and operated until 1715. Beginning in 1871, tourists began coming across the lake on steam ships. However, there was only one large road into the village until 1988. Today the local economy is based on tourism, agriculture, fishing and timber harvesting.
Geography
The village of Iseltwalt lies on a delta at the south bank of Lake Brienz. It is from Interlaken, the road mostly running along Lake Brienz. Besides the village of Iseltwald, the municipality includes the hamlets of Furen, Sengg and Isch, as well as a number of scattered farm houses. |
146_3 | The municipality's area also includes a large area of mountainside along the south shore of the lake, of which the lower areas are heavily wooded. These slopes extend up to the summit of the Faulhorn mountain, at an altitude of .
Iseltwald has an area of . Of this area, or 31.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 47.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 18.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 42.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 4.6% is pastures and 26.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 7.9% is unproductive vegetation and 10.3% is too rocky for vegetation. |
146_4 | On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Interlaken, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or an Ibex passant per pale Sable and Argent.
Demographics
Iseltwald has a population () of . , 10.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 6.1%. Migration accounted for 12.4%, while births and deaths accounted for -4.1%.
Most of the population () speaks German (422 or 97.2%) as their first language, French is the second most common (3 or 0.7%) and Italian is the third (3 or 0.7%). |
146_5 | , the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. The population was made up of 198 Swiss men (45.5% of the population) and 18 (4.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 193 Swiss women (44.4%) and 26 (6.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 183 or about 42.2% were born in Iseltwald and lived there in 2000. There were 129 or 29.7% who were born in the same canton, while 81 or 18.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 33 or 7.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 18.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 22.5%.
, there were 180 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 208 married individuals, 30 widows or widowers and 16 individuals who are divorced. |
146_6 | , there were 66 households that consist of only one person and 7 households with five or more people. , a total of 177 apartments (52.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 135 apartments (39.7%) were seasonally occupied and 28 apartments (8.2%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 110.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.23%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Sights
The entire village of Iseltwald is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party (SVP) which received 42.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) (25%), the Social Democratic Party (SP) (11.9%) and the Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland (EDU) (4.9%). In the federal election, a total of 140 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.3%.
Economy |
146_7 | , Iseltwald had an unemployment rate of 1.49%. , there were a total of 222 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 26 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 19 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 8 businesses in this sector. 177 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 16 businesses in this sector. There were 210 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.8% of the workforce. |
146_8 | there were a total of 187 full-time equivalent jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 14, of which 12 were in agriculture and 2 were in fishing or fisheries. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 17 of which 9 or (52.9%) were in manufacturing and 8 (47.1%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 156. In the tertiary sector; 61 or 39.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.3% were in the information industry, 6 or 3.8% were in education and 81 or 51.9% were in health care.
, there were 42 workers who commuted into the municipality and 101 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 7.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 44.3% used a private car. |
146_9 | Religion
From the , 38 or 8.8% were Roman Catholic, while 318 or 73.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 54 individuals (or about 12.44% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist. 40 (or about 9.22% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 8 individuals (or about 1.84% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Iseltwald about 174 or (40.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 35 or (8.1%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 35 who completed tertiary schooling, 54.3% were Swiss men, 40.0% were Swiss women. |
146_10 | The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 36 students attending classes in Iseltwald. There was one kindergarten class with a total of 6 students in the municipality. Of the kindergarten students, 33.3% have a different mother language than the classroom language. The municipality had one primary class and 26 students. Of the primary students, 11.5% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 19.2% have a different mother language than the classroom language. During the same year, there was one lower secondary class with a total of 4 students. |
146_11 | , there were 8 students from Iseltwald who attended schools outside the municipality.
Transport
For a long time, the only access to the village was through a small regional road or by ferry. Since the building of the A8 motorway in 1988, the village has its own junction.
PostBus Switzerland bus service 103 connects Iseltwald to Interlaken on an hourly basis, serving both Interlaken West and Interlaken Ost stations. In summer, the village is also served by BLS AG shipping services, which operate on Lake Brienz serving various points between Interlaken Ost and Brienz.
Tourism
Iseltwald is a popular destination for backpackers and skiers in the Jungfraujoch region. The village has a host of backpacker hostels and Bed and Breakfasts.
References
Municipalities of the canton of Bern
Populated places on Lake Brienz |
147_0 | Ivy Ma (Ma King Chu; ; born 1973) is a Hong Kong visual artist specializing in mixed media works. Her works were featured in the Hong Kong Art Biennial in 2005 and the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards in 2012. She was the winner of the Young Artist Award category of the 2012 Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards. She was one of the fifteen artists included in the online Artshare exhibition entitled Resistance dedicated to Hong Kong artists, curated by art writer Caroline Ha Thuc. Recipients of the FCO Chevening University of Leeds Scholarship from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council, she participated in various artist-in-residence programs and international artist workshops in Bangladesh, Finland, Åland, and the USA from 2005 to 2009. Her works are in the collection of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and is part of the Hong Kong Legislative Council Complex Art Acquisition Project commissioned by the Hong Kong |
147_1 | Legislative Council Commission. |
147_2 | Early life and education
Ivy Ma was born in Hong Kong in 1973. Her academic training was originally in information science. She received a BA in Information Systems from the City University of Hong Kong in 1996. After working as a programmer and software engineer for some years, she began to study painting in 1999 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) / The Art School, Hong Kong Arts Centre in Hong Kong and earned a BFA (Painting) in 2001. She was awarded a scholarship by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council to study for one year at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, where she obtained a MA in Feminist Theory and Practice in Visual Art in 2002. |
147_3 | Career
Ma served as the Project Coordinator / Manager of 1a space, Hong Kong from 2003 to 2005. She was the curator of the exhibitions If Hong Kong, A Woman / Traveller and Schema: a Traveller's approach at 1a space and the Artist Commune in Hong Kong in 2005, two exhibitions which are part of the Bilateral Cultural Exchange Project organized by University of Leeds and 1a space, Hong Kong, showcasing artworks by eight female artists from Hong Kong. She curated the exhibition In Details at agnès b.’s LIBRAIRE GALERIE, Hong Kong in 2010, in which she is also one of the participating artist.
She taught at the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity in Hong Kong from 2006 to 2007. She was a part-time lecturer at the Hong Kong Art School from 2004 to 2016, and has assumed the position of full-time Lecturer since September 2016. She is course instructor of Associate Degree of Arts in Visual Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA), Hong Kong Baptist University since 2015. |
147_4 | Selected works and exhibitions
2001 to 2003: Transmigration of Materials
Initially working in the media of painting and sculpture during her study at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Ivy Ma already shown her interest in exploring the marginality of different media and materials in her early works by using everyday materials like hairpins, thread, wood, cotton, dolls, fresh meat, and candies. She called the process "transmigration of materials".
Shown in the group exhibition entitled Wo-Man at the Old Ladies House in Macau in 2001, Room of Memories (2001) is an installation work consisted of a giant thought bubble composed of hundreds of old-fashioned women's hairpins suspended above a broken chair in a comic-strip narrative. |
147_5 | Remember How to Throb (2002) is an installation consisting of three works presented in the Graduation Exhibition at the University of Leeds where Ma studied with a scholarship by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In Remember How to Play (2002), domestic objects such as soft toys, cushions, hair were inserted inside foam and were dotted throughout the exhibition space. Combining video projection and wire, Remember How to Draw (2002) showed the artist’s impulsive reactions to her childhood experience of drawing with fingers. |
147_6 | 2003 to 2009: On-site works and overseas residencies
While Room of Memories (2001) already touches on memory and history of a site, Far Away, So Close (2003) installed at the Kadoorie Farm Botanic Garden in Hong Kong in the exhibition entitled Dream Garden was one of Ma's earliest site-specific works. She collected trees collapsed during the typhoon. The tree trunks were sawn into columns and mirrors were attached to the cross-section of the trunks. Images of the sky and other trees were reflected at various angles.
From 2005 to 2009, Ivy Ma participated in a series of artist residencies and workshops in Bangladesh, Europe and the USA. Several on-site works were realized during this period. |
147_7 | As in Remember How to Play and Remember How to Draw (2002), childhood memories plays an important part in A Fairy Tale (2005), a work made during the residency at the Britto International Artists’ Workshop at the Nikera Kori Center in Bangladesh. The work includes a fabricated scaled-down version of a merry-go-round, and candies in silk handkerchief. As mentioned in the artist's notes, "It is about children’s dreams, runs in the air of the playground then settles down in a room…a solitude. It is also about a person watching children play in a playground (as in the lyrics of the Rolling Stones song As Tears Go By), from morning to noon...This was indeed a group work and included the owner of the playground…the blacksmith who made the playground ride, his helper and the children I met in the village who gave me inspiration in thinking about the play in one’s childhood." Collaborated with Abdullah Syed (Pakistan), another participant in the workshop, Always land (2005) is an on-site |
147_8 | work using net made with plastic thread and falling leaves. |
147_9 | Perception of Phenomenal Soundlessness (2006) is an on-site work produced outdoors during her residency at the Cable Factory in Helsinki, Finland. Performative acts were carried out while Ma wandered in the frosty landscape. She dragged an empty suitcase with broken wheels to the lakeside, filled it with her own curled up, unclothed body and photographed herself; she gathered tree sticks from grave land and rearranged them on the ice; and she stuffed ice into a man-shaped cloth doll and hanged it on a tree. Images and documentation of the work were presented in the exhibition entitled Stained, the eclipsed pattern at Uma-g Gallery, Hong Kong in 2006. |
147_10 | The Wayward Cloud (2006) follows a similar methodology. Originally an on-site work created when Ma lived in Wan Chai on the Hong Kong Island, It is about the view seen looks back at the seer, an idea already explored in Far Away, So Close (2003). In the artist's word, "I loved to look from my window and see many old buildings. Then I wanted to search for the view that looked back at my home, so I went to the opposite building, and asked the owner if I could pay her a little bit for permission to got to the top and see back to my home." A photograph depicting a naked figure holding a cotton wool cloud on a rooftop and another photograph of the rooftop without the figure taken at the scene were included in the exhibition Perhaps, Solitude at the studio of the late Jerry Kwan, teacher of Ivy Ma in Fotan in 2007. |
147_11 | In Another Land (2008) is an installation piece created during her residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, using pebbles collected from Rodeo Beach nearby and cotton thread from a closed-down factory in Oakland.
2010 to 2015: Found images and drawing-interventions |
147_12 | Starting in 2010 Ivy Ma began focusing on found images, both stills taken from specific films and photographs found in history museums, for an ongoing series of what she calls "drawing-interventions" where she actively erases and draws into and over the existing image.
In the exhibitions In Details (2010) at agnès b.’s LIBRAIRE GALERIE, Hong Kong, Gazes (2011) at Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, and Still Lifes and Waves (2011) at the Hong Kong Film Archive, Ma presented cinematic drawings created by magnifying and printing out film stills of objects, plants and fragments of the mise-en-scène in classic films such as Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story and A Story of Floating Weeds, Yoshimitsu Morita's And Then, Fei Mu's Spring in a small town. Then she draws directly on the prints in various subtle ways. |
147_13 | In the exhibition Numbers Standing Still (2012) at Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, the source materials are historical images instead of film stills. Re-photographing images of tragedies such as the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing in Walking Towards (2012), the occupation of Nanjing by Japanese soldiers in Hand 001 / 002 / 003 (2012), and the mass killing by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in Cambodia/Tuol sleng Genocide Museum/Numbers Standing Still (2012), she erased large portion of the images and then overlapped them with pigments.
Ma shifted her focus to people in the exhibition Someone (2014) at the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio, Hong Kong. Source materials range from people in the artist's family photographs, to strangers in found photographs and antique photographs, to faces and bodies of people in historical images of war and disaster. |
147_14 | Works presented in the exhibition Last Year (2015) at Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong represents an important development in Ma's drawing-interventions which she has been developed for the past 5 years. It is the first time Ma has taken current events as the subject. "I am trying to see how a present moment will very soon be a past moment and understand what this means...I'm always fascinated by the distance between the present and the past, as well as how history is archived and presented to us in the now," Ma talked about the works in an interview with the South China Morning Post. As the title suggests, the series includes 40 black and white mixed-media portraits based on images of protesters Ma taken with a smartphone during the Occupy protest in Hong Kong in 2014.
Full list of exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2021
Think of Wind, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong
2020
Poems, days, death, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
2018
As Time Folds, Art and Culture Outreach, Hong Kong |
147_15 | 2015
Last Year, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
2014
Someone, Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio, Hong Kong
2012
Numbers Standing Still, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2011
Still Lifes and Waves, Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme V, Hong Kong Film Archive and Commercial Press Book Shop, Hong Kong
Gazes, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2010
Hardly Entered, Already Gone, YY9 Gallery, Hong Kong
2009
Deer Running, Gifu Municipal Culture Center, Gifu, Japan
Domestic Nature, Brandt Gallery, Cleveland, USA
2007
Perhaps, Solitude, Loft 21, Fotanian Studio Open 2007, Hong Kong
2001
Nothing At All, The Art School Learning Centre Gallery, Hong Kong
Group exhibitions
2021
Residual Heat, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
2020 |
147_16 | Now Showing, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
XX: An Exhibition Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong Art School, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Drawing as the Core, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Lee Shau Kee Communication & Visual Arts Building, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
The spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
2018 |
147_17 | Social Transformation, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Collections of Tom, Debbie and Harry, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
The Crossing, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
What Has Been, Will Be Lost Until We Find It, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2017
Ink Asia Art Fair 2017, The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Deep Silence – Hong Kong Art School Alumni Network Exhibition 2017, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
(An)other-Half: Being a Wife/Mother and the Practices of the Self, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
ArtTravellers Exhibition Series I: Decoding Exotic Lands, Art Promotion Office, Hong Kong
2016
Islands’ Narrative: Literature X Visual Art, 1a space, Hong Kong
as the leaves fall, Grey and Green Ping Pong Collaboration Art Project, 1a space, Hong Kong
Art Basel HK 2016, The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2015
Recollections, Mur Nomade, Hong Kong |
147_18 | Ceramic Show by Non-ceramic Artists, 1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
Painting On and On 6: Gaze of Sins, Koo Ming Kown Gallery, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
2014
Resistance, Online Exhibition on Artshare
2013
Art Basel HK 2013, The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Painting On and On 4: Intertextuality, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Transformation & 8th Anniversary Show, YY9 Gallery, Hong Kong
2012
Running on the Sidelines – Hong Kong New Media Art Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
The Chronicle of Disappearance, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
樓住生活, Blue House, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Post-Straight: Contemporary Hong Kong Photography, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
Why Do Trees Grow Till the End?, Gallery EXIT - SOUTHSITE, Hong Kong
2011
Rediscover Photography, China Pingyao International Photography Festival 2011, Pingyao, China
2010 |
147_19 | Exhibiting Experiments. Experimenting Exhibitions, Wrong Place, JCCAC, Hong Kong
City Flâneur: Social Documentary Photography, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
In Details, agnès b.’s LIBRAIRE GALERIE, Hong Kong
Memory Clothed Here – A Performance, Woofer Ten, Shanghai Street Art Space, Hong Kong
2009
Intersection, Pao Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Imaging Hong Kong, Hong Kong Central Library / Edge Gallery, Hong Kong
2008
Women’s Work, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong
Art Container Project, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
2007
The Preview of New West Kowloon Exhibition Venue, C&G Artpartment, Hong Kong
October Contemporary 2007, 1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
A Separate Domain, Hui Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
STABLE- the balance of power, Para/Site (part of Fotanian 2007 Open studios), Hong Kong
2006
Between the Observer and the Observed, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China |
147_20 | Second Skin, 3 Boxes, Hong Kong
Media Art Show, Vasl International Artists’ Collective, Pakistan
2005 Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Stained, the eclipsed pattern, Uma-g Gallery, Hong Kong
2005
Pre-Work, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
Curiosities, Para/Site, Hong Kong
Re:wanchi, HKAIR International Artists’ Workshop, Hong Kong
Britto International Artists’ Workshop, NikeraKori Center, Nungola, Bora, Bangladesh
Cattle - Can All the Tenants Laugh Efficiently, Artist Commune, Hong Kong
2004
Dream Garden, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong
2003
Meat, 1a space, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong
Linkage, Calypso, Hong Kong
2002
Articulation, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2001
Wo-Man, Female Artists Installation, Old Ladies House, Macau
Girls’ Thing, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2000
BAFA 2000 Exhibition, Faculty Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia |
147_21 | International Artist Workshops / Artist-in-Residence
2008–2009
Location One, New York City, USA
2008
The Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2007
The Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence, Kökar, Åland
2006
HIAP (Helsinki International Artist Program), Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
2005
HKAIR (International Artists’ Workshop), Hong Kong
Britto International Artists’ Workshop, Nikera Kori Center, Nungola, Bora, Bangladesh
Awards
2012
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award, Young Artists Award, Hong Kong Museum of Art
2007
Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship, Asian Cultural Council
2001–2002
Hong Kong Arts Development Council – FCO Chevening University of Leeds Scholarship
Publications
Ivy Ma: This Room Is Not Still | Selected Works, 2000-2012
References
External links
Official website: http://www.ivyma.net
Personal blog: http://perhapsolitude.blogspot.hk
Hong Kong women artists
Hong Kong artists
1973 births
Living people |
148_0 | Spruce Mountain, in eastern West Virginia, USA, is the highest ridge of the Allegheny Mountains. The "whale-backed" ridge extends for only about , from northeast to southwest, but several of its peaks exceed in elevation. The summit, Spruce Knob (4863 ft; 1482 m), is celebrated as the highest point in the state as well as the range, which covers parts of four states.
Geography
Spruce Mountain lies mostly within the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, a U.S. National Recreation Area (NRA) located within the Monongahela National Forest (MNF) in Pendleton County. It extends from the vicinity of Onego in the north to near Cherry Grove in the south. Brushy Run separates Timber Ridge — a spur of the main mountain — to the east. The ridgelines of Spruce Mountain and Timber Ridge continue to the north of US Route 33 as Hoffman Ridge and Smith Mountain, respectively. To the south (south of West Virginia 28) the line continues as Big Mountain. |
148_1 | Prominent peaks of Spruce Mountain, north to south, are Horse Rock (4536 ft; 1383 m), Spruce Mountain Peak (4586 ft; 1398 m), Picea Benchmark (4613 ft; 1406 m), and Spruce Knob itself. Spruce Knob is the highest point in the eastern United States between the Adirondacks of New York and Mount Rogers (part of the Blue Ridge Mountains) in southern Virginia. |
148_2 | The summit of Spruce Knob has a definite alpine feel, much more so than most other mountains of the southern Appalachians. The upper few hundred feet are covered in a dense spruce forest, a relic boreal forest environment similar to those found in northern New England and Canada. The summit is accessible both via trails and a paved Forest Service road, and is crowned with a stone lookout tower amid a mixture of boulder fields, meadows and trees. A handicap-accessible nature trail half a mile (0.8 km) long circles the topmost part of the mountain. High west winds near the summit have gnarled the spruce there like Krummholz, flagged with limbs only on their leeward (eastward) side. |
148_3 | As is typical in the southern Appalachians, the highest point on a ridge is frequently referred to as a knob or dome. Spruce Knob is the highest point along a ridge known as the Allegheny Front. Dropping steeply to the east, it offers views of the Germany Valley and North Fork Mountain; to the west is the Allegheny Plateau. It also is the highest point in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Geology |
148_4 | Like the rest of this part of the Appalachian Mountains, Spruce Knob began to form with the breakup of Pangea I between 570 and 500 mya. The African Plate separated from the North American Plate opening the Proto-Atlantic Ocean. The North American Plate stretched and thinned, allowing it to backfill with a shallow inland sea. About 50 million years later, with the Taconic Orogeny, the two plates reversed course and began to move towards each other. Mid-ocean subduction created a volcanic arc (now known as the Blue Ridge Mountains) which eventually collided with the North American Plate. The arc fused onto the continent and the land to the west was uplifted. |
148_5 | The accumulation of shells and other hard parts of marine organisms (made of CaCO3, calcium carbonate) at the bottom of the shallow inland sea cemented into a layer of Greenbrier Limestone. The shallow inland sea began to retreat with the uplift. This caused fine grains of mud and silt to settle out and lithify into a layer of Mauch Chunk Shale on top of the Greenbrier Limestone. As the Blue Ridge eroded, rivers carried sediment down to the low-lying areas that formed a layer of Pottsville Conglomerate on top of the shale. The large boulders on the summit are remnants of this layer, and outcrops of both Mauch Chunk Shale and Greenbrier Limestone can be found lower on the mountain. |
148_6 | When the North American and African Plates finally collided around 250 mya, it caused a massive uplift that folded and faulted these layers of sedimentary rock. Spruce Knob was originally in the bottom (syncline) of one of these folds, but over time cracks in the Pottsville Conglomerate in the higher elevations allowed it to erode quickly, and the softer layers of shale and limestone were quick to follow. This left Spruce Knob as the highest point in the landscape. Spruce Knob (Spruce Mountain) is the westernmost extent of this intense folding and faulting. To the west, the Allegheny Plateau is composed of more gently sloping hills and dendritic drainages. |
148_7 | Climate
Spruce Knob's climate can be classified as cold continental or highland. Summers are cool and often damp, with thunderstorms common both in spring and summer. Winters are cold and snowy, with an average of around of annual snowfall leaving the summit access road often impassible between October and April. Blizzard conditions can develop in minutes behind cold frontal passages and last days with upslope snowfall continuing with northwest winds, making travel on the mountain dangerous during the colder months. This mountain can receive high winds year-round; red spruce deformed by constant exposure to strong westerly winds are scattered across its rocky ridges.
Ecology |
148_8 | Flora
As with almost the entirety of the MNF, most of the original Spruce Mountain upland forest was completely denuded by logging around the turn of the 20th century and now consists of second- or third-growth forest. (The only documented exception to this on the Mountain is the North Spruce Mountain Old Growth Site. |
148_9 | ) The present second-growth forest of Spruce Mountain is characterized by a dominance of sugar maple (Acer saccharum), American beech (Fagus grandifolia), and yellow birch (Betula lutea). Other characteristic species of the mixed mesophytic forest region are also present: tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera), basswood (Tilia heterophylla, T.floridana, T. neglecta), chestnut (Castanea dentata), yellow buckeye (Aesculus flava), red oak (Quercus borealis), white oak (Q. alba), and eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). The upper reaches of Spruce Mountain also include areas termed northern hardwood and northern evergreen forest types. The former is typified by red oak, white ash (Fraxinus americana), basswood (Tilia spp.), red maple (Acer rubrum), and cherry (Prunus spp.). The latter is dominated by the Mountain's eponymous red spruce (Picea rubens). While not extending above the timberline, the stunted tree growth high on this windy mountaintop is relatively open. |
148_10 | The summit was named for the spruce trees which grow there. Red spruce (Picea rubens) is the most common tree species on the summit. The lower altitudes are populated by oak, hickory, birch, beech and maple
Fauna
Bald eagles, hawks and peregrine falcons have been seen on the mountain. Mammals such as black bear, white-tailed deer, weasel, porcupine, skunk and rabbit are also found. The important presence of ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) on the Mountain has been acknowledged by the establishment of the Spruce Mountain Grouse Management Area by the MNF
Recreation
Spruce Knob is within the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, which in turn is part of Monongahela National Forest. Established in 1965, it was the first National Recreation Area designated by the U.S. Forest Service and includes more than . |
148_11 | There are over of hiking trails around the mountain and a small lake well stocked with trout on the west side of the mountain. Two campgrounds are also on the mountain.
Hiking trails — Huckleberry Trail, Lumberjack Trail, Spruce Mountain Trail — extend the length of the ridge. There are over 75 miles (121 km) of trails around the Mountain and a small 25 acre (10 ha) lake well stocked with trout on the west side. There are also two campgrounds on the Mountain; the larger (43 sites) is nearest the lake.
Access
Paved access is from U.S. Route 33/West Virginia Route 28 about south of Riverton. Briery Gap Road (County Route 33/4), Forest Road 112 and Forest Road 104 have been reconstructed and paved to provide a hard-surfaced road to the summit.
Forest Roads 104 and 112 are not maintained in the winter. Impassable conditions can be expected any time from mid-October to mid-April. |
148_12 | See also
List of mountains of the Alleghenies
List of mountain peaks of North America
List of mountain peaks of the United States
List of mountains of West Virginia
List of U.S. states by elevation
References
Citations
Other sources
Core, Earl L. (1928), "Ecological Studies on Spruce Mountain", Proc. W.Va. Acad. Sci. 2:36-39.
Core, Earl L. (1929), "The Plant Ecology of Spruce Mountain, West Virginia", Ecology, 10:1-13.
Robison, William C. (1960), “Spruce Knob Revisited: A Half-Century of Vegetation Change”, Castanea, Vol. 25, No. 1 (March issue), pp 53–61.
External links
Spruce Mountain page at Peakbagger.com
Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area
Monongahela National Forest: Spruce Knob
Ridges of West Virginia
Landforms of Pendleton County, West Virginia
Allegheny Mountains
Monongahela National Forest
Protected areas of Pendleton County, West Virginia |
149_0 | Saugus is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. The population was 28,619 at the 2020 census. Saugus is known as the site of the first integrated iron works in North America.
History
Native Americans inhabited the area around Saugus for thousands of years prior to the arrival of European settlers in the 1620s. At the time of European arrival, the Naumkeag, also known as Pawtucket, under the leadership of Montowampate were based near present day Saugus and controlled land extending from what is now Boston to the Merrimack River. English settlers took the name Sagus or Saugus from the Pawtucket word for "outlet," and used the term to refer to the Saugus River and the region that includes the present day cities and towns of Swampscott, Nahant, Lynn, Lynnfield, Reading, North Reading and Wakefield) which were later renamed Lin or Lynn in 1637, after King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. |
149_1 | In 1646, the Saugus Iron Works, then called Hammersmith, began operations. It was the first integrated iron works in North America as well as one of the most technologically advanced in the world. The Iron Works produced over one ton of iron a day, but was not financially successful. It closed around 1670.
In September 1687, Major Samuel Appleton was said to have given a speech from a rocky cliff near the Iron Works denouncing the tyranny of Colonial Governor Sir Edmund Andros. The place where he is said to have delivered the speech became known as Appleton's Pulpit.
Nearly 100 men from Saugus fought in the American Revolutionary War. Saugus' preacher, Parson Joseph Roby, worked to strengthen the spirit of independence in Saugus and was instrumental in seeing that Saugus sent a large contingent to fight in the war.
The nineteenth century ice industry began in Saugus when in 1804 Frederic Tudor cut ice from a pond on the family farm and shipped it to Martinique. |
149_2 | In 1805 the Newburyport Turnpike (now U.S. 1) was built. About four miles of this road was built in Saugus. At first the turnpike was considered a mistake, as it was built over hills and swamps and grass soon grew over the road bed. From 1840 to 1846, the tolls were discontinued and it became a public highway. The invention of the automobile resulted in an increase of traffic on the Turnpike. In 1933 the road was widened and an overpass was added to separate the traffic on Route 1 and Main Street. In the 1950s new businesses began moving to Route 1. Today the businesses along Route 1 generate millions in dollars for Saugus.
The Lynn territory was shortened beginning in 1814 with the incorporation of Lynnfield. On February 17, 1815, present-day Saugus was officially incorporated as a town. The first town meeting was held on March 13, 1815, in the parish church. At the time of its incorporation, Saugus' population was 784. Its main industry was agriculture. |
149_3 | During the Industrial Revolution, many new industries moved to Saugus. Shoes and woolen goods were made in Saugus Center, and tobacco was manufactured in Cliftondale and East Saugus.
Saugus' first post office was established in 1832 in East Saugus. In 1858 two more were established – one in Saugus Center and one in Cliftondale. Now only the Cliftondale post office remains in Saugus. |
149_4 | The first town hall was built in 1837. It was built with $2,000 of the United States revenue surplus distributed by President Andrew Jackson. It is currently an American Legion hall. In 1875, the town built its second and current town hall on Central Street. The construction of the town hall put Saugus in a $50,000 debt. For this and other reasons the neighborhood of East Saugus sought to be set off from Saugus and annexed to the city of Lynn. East Saugus was unable to get a bill in both houses of the state legislature, and the issue was dropped after the town appropriated $5,000 for the laying of water pipes through East Saugus.
Passenger trains ran through Saugus from 1853 to 1958 on the Saugus Branch Railroad. There were three Saugus Branch stations in Saugus (Saugus Center, Cliftondale, and Pleasant Hills) and two just outside the town's borders in Lynn (East Saugus) and Revere (Franklin Park). |
149_5 | During the American Civil War, 155 Saugonians enlisted in the Union Army, and eight others enlisted in the Union Navy. Saugus native Gustavus Fox served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the war. The , a Union Navy monitor named after the town, was launched in December 1863. Following the war Henry E. Hone donated a large granite monument to the town of Saugus. The monument, which was designed by Melzar Hunt Mosman and cost $10,000 to build, contains the names of all of the men from Saugus who served during the Civil War on bronze tablets. Above the tablets are two bronze statues, one of a soldier and one of a sailor. It is topped by a granite statue of woman wearing a helmet with an eagle on the top and holding a shield in her right hand, which serves as an allegorical representation of the United States. The monument was erected in the rotary at Saugus Center in 1875. |
149_6 | Following the Civil War, the Cliftondale section of Saugus became a major producer of tobacco, as many of the southern tobacco plantations had been destroyed. Waitt & Bond became a major producer of cigars and the snuff factory in East Saugus was the nation's largest producer of that product.
From 1859 to 1905, Saugus was home to the Franklin Park harness racing track. also known as the Old Saugus Race Track or Saugus Race Course. It closed in 1905 after local citizens complained about the questionable patrons that the racetrack attracted. In 1911 the racetrack became an airfield. In 1912, the property was purchased by the General Aviation Corporation who named it Atwood Park in honor of their most famous pilot, Harry Atwood. The airfield saw the first airmail delivery in New England on May 30, 1912. Pioneer aviators Ruth Bancroft Law and Lincoln J. Beachey flew at Saugus. The airport closed in the 1920s. |
149_7 | On October 8, 1900, George E. Bailey was murdered at Breakheart Hill Farm in Saugus. His legs and torso would be found nine days later in Floating Bridge Pond in Lynn. His head and arms were found there the next day. After a highly publicized investigation and trial, John C. Best was found guilty of murder. He was executed on September 9, 1902.
In 1934, Breakheart Hill Forest, a private hunting retreat located in North Saugus, was purchased by the Metropolitan District Commission for use as a state park. Shortly after purchasing Breakheart, the MDC turned the land over to the Civilian Conservation Corps, which built roads and trails, planted trees, and restored two dams on the property. In 1936, Breakheart Reservation was opened to the public. |
149_8 | Following a June 2, 1947, referendum, the town adopted a Plan E form of government. Saugus became the first town in Massachusetts to accept this form of government. On February 16, 1948, James Shurtleff was unanimously chosen by the Board of Selectmen to become the first Town Manager of Saugus.
In 1948, archaeologist Roland W. Robbins began excavating the site of the Saugus Iron Works, which had become hidden by underbrush since its closure. Based on the archeological evidence gathered by Robbins as well as historical documents and conjecture, the First Iron Works Association, with funding from the American Iron and Steel Institute, reconstructed the Saugus Iron Works. The Saugus Iron Works was opened on September 18, 1954, and operated as a private museum from 1954 until April 5, 1968, when it was renamed the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site and became part of the National Park Service system. |
149_9 | Saugus is home to the oldest barber shop in the United States. The 112-year-old George's Barber Shop is located in the Cliftondale section of Saugus.
In the 1970s, the town, led by Town Manager Francis Moorehouse, attempted to transform the area around Route 107 by having an oil refinery and a garbage incineration plant built. Although the refinery plans fell through in October 1975, the incineration plant was completed. It would become the first commercially successful incineration plant in the U.S. and is still in operation today.
In 1989, the attempted murder of Frank Salemme (infamous criminal associate of Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi) by Angelo Mercurio took place in Saugus. |
149_10 | During the 1990s and 2000s, the town's Capital Improvement Plan, designed by Edward J. Collins, Jr., resulted in the construction of the new public safety building, senior center, library and public works facility. The Saugus Town Hall and the Stackpole Field clubhouse were renovated. In 2001, Town Manager Steven Angelo was able to secure federal funds to dredge the Saugus River, a project that had lingered since the 1960s.
The Saugus American Little League team represented New England in the 2003 Little League World Series. The team finished the tournament in 4th place. Its come-from-behind victory over Richmond, Texas in the tournament's quarterfinals was nominated for the Best Game ESPY Award. |
149_11 | Geography and transportation
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 8.53%, is water. The town lies just inland from Massachusetts Bay, divided from the ocean by the Point of Pines neighborhood of Revere. The southern end of town is dominated by Rumney Marsh, which lies along the Pines River, a tributary of the Saugus River. The Saugus River flows through town, and is fed by several brooks. There are several ponds within town, including parts of Birch Pond, Hawkes Pond and Walden Pond. Part of the Lynn Woods Reservation, and most of the Breakheart Reservation and Rumney Marsh Reservation lie within town. |
149_12 | Saugus is divided into several neighborhood villages, including Saugus Center, East Saugus, North Saugus, Pleasant Hills, Lynnhurst, Oaklandvale, Hammersmith Village, Golden Hills, Blacksmith Village, Bristow and Cliftondale. Of these, the majority of the town's population resides in Lynnhurst, Pleasant Hills, Cliftondale, East Saugus and Saugus Center; Oaklandvale and North Saugus are much less densely populated. The town lies at the southern end of Essex County (though it is not the southernmost town in the county; Nahant extends just south of the town). The town is bordered by Lynnfield to the north, Lynn to the east, Revere (in Suffolk County) to the south, and Melrose and Wakefield to the west, in Middlesex County. The town also shares a common point with the city of Malden, where it also meets Melrose and Revere. Saugus lies southwest of Salem, northeast of Boston, southwest of Cape Ann and south of the New Hampshire state line. |
149_13 | U.S. Route 1 passes through town as a high-speed divided six-lane highway, with five exits throughout town. This stretch of Route 1, though not a full controlled access highway (it is lined with a major shopping district, including the Square One Mall), is the main commuter route out of Boston for the North Shore region, heading towards the interchange of Interstate 95 and Massachusetts Route 128 in Lynnfield, effectively serving as a practical extension of I-95 into Boston. Route 1 through Saugus was once known for its abundance of kitschy roadside commercial architecture, including the 68-foot neon cactus of the Hilltop Steak House, though since the 2000s some of these landmarks have been demolished or fallen into disrepair. The route is also shared by a 3/4-mile long concurrency with Route 129, which passes through North Saugus before joining Route 1 to head northward into Lynnfield. Route 99 terminates at Route 1 as well, in the southern end of town. Route 107 passes through |
149_14 | the town as the Salem Turnpike through the Rumney Marsh, crossing the Saugus River into Lynn over the Fox Hill Bridge. |
149_15 | The Newburyport/Rockport Line of the MBTA Commuter Rail passes through the southeast corner of Saugus, but does not have a station in Saugus. The town is served by several MBTA bus routes. The nearest airport is Boston's Logan International Airport.
Demographics
As of the census of 2010, there were 26,628 people, 10,318 households, and 7,144 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,373.7 people per square mile (916.5/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 91.9% White, 4.0% Hispanic or Latino, 2.7% Asian, 2.1% Black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.0% Pacific Islander, 1.6% from other races, and 1.6% from two or more races. |
149_16 | There were 10,318 households, out of which 17.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.0% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 30.8% were non-families. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.09.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 4.5% under the age of 5, 5.2% from 5 to 9, 5.7% from 10 to 14, 5.9% from 15 to 19, 5.6% from 20 to 24, 5.6% from 25 to 29, 5.5% from 30 to 34, 6.4% from 35 to 39, 7.3% from 40 to 44, 8.1% from 45 to 49, 8.4% from 50 to 54, 7.5% from 55 to 59, 6.9% from 60 to 64, 4.9% from 65 to 69, 3.8% from 70 to 74, 3.6% from 75 to 79, 2.9% from 80 to 84, and 2.3% who were 85 years of age or older. The median age was 43.9 years. |
149_17 | The median income for a household in the town was $85,301, and the median income for a family was $95,782. Males had a median income of $53,219 versus $42,783 for females. The per capita income for the town was $25,524. About 3.1% of families and 4.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.5% of those under age 18 and 7.2% of those age 65 or over.
Government
Since 1947 Saugus has had a Plan E form of government, which is a combination of representative town meeting and Town Manager. Saugus was the first town in Massachusetts to accept this form of government. This plan included a Single transferable vote voting system, but this was abandoned in 1950.
Elections for all seats on the Board of Selectmen, School Committee, Town Meeting, and Housing Authority are held biennially in odd-numbered years.
Town manager |
149_18 | The Town Manager serves as the chief administrative manager and chief fiscal officer of Saugus, Massachusetts. He or she is appointed by the Board of Selectmen.
Board of Selectmen
The Board of Selectmen consists of five at-large members. The Board serves as the chief policy makers of the Town. Selectmen are ineligible to hold any other town office.
School committee
The School Committee consists of five at-large members. School Committee members are ineligible to hold any other town office.
Town Meeting
Saugus representative town meeting consists of 50 members; five for each of the town's ten precincts. The annual town meeting is held on the first Monday in May. At the first town meeting after each election of town meeting members, a moderator of all town meetings shall be elected by the body. The moderator must be a town meeting member.
Education
It is served by the Saugus Public Schools, which operates Saugus Middle-High School. |
149_19 | Emergency Services
The Town of Saugus is protected by the 52 paid, professional firefighters of the Town of Saugus Fire Department (SFD). The Saugus Fire Department currently operates out of 2 firehouses, running 2 engine companies and 1 ladder company with Engine 1 near Cliftondale Square. And Engine 3 and Ladder 1 near Saugus center (Monument Square). SFD is commanded by Chief Michael Newbury, a Deputy chief and a "group" Captain per shift.
Media
Saugus Community Television or SCTV is a Public-access television station that provides local television programing to the community.
SCTV broadcasts to Saugus Comcast cable subscribers on channel 8 (public-access), channel 9 (government), and channel 22 (educational).
Saugus is home to two newspapers, the Saugus Advertiser and the Saugus Advocate. Saugus is also covered by The Daily Item of Lynn. |
149_20 | Since 1950, the transmitter for WROL has been located off of the Salem Turnpike in Saugus. It was previously used by WHDH from 1934 to 1948.
Points of interest
Appleton's Pulpit
Belden Bly Bridge
Boardman House
Breakheart Reservation
Camp Nihan
Kowloon Restaurant
Prankers Pond
Rumney Marsh Reservation
Saugus Middle-High School
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
Saugus River
Saugus Town Hall
Square One Mall
Notable people
Movies and television shows filmed in Saugus
American Playhouse episode "Three Sovereigns for Sarah" (1985)
The Joneses (2009)
Food Paradise episodes "Steak Paradise" (2008) and "Donut Paradise" (2008)
Furry Vengeance (2010)
Mark of the Dog Rose (2012)
Grown Ups 2 (2013) filmed at Stackpole Field
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References
External links
Town of Saugus official website
Populated coastal places in Massachusetts
Populated places established in 1629
1629 establishments in Massachusetts
1629 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies |
150_0 | Bloodshy & Avant are a Swedish songwriting and production duo consisting of Christian "Bloodshy" Karlsson and Pontus "Avant" Winnberg. They have worked with many prominent artists, including Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Ms. Dynamite, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, Kelis, Girls' Generation, Christina Milian, Sky Ferreira, Hikaru Utada and BoA. In addition to their production work, Karlsson and Winnberg are also members of the synth-pop group Miike Snow, alongside lead vocalist Andrew Wyatt.
Career
Original songs and production
Bloodshy and Avant scored their first success working with American singer/songwriter Christina Milian for her début album. The collaboration resulted in two hit singles, "AM to PM," and "When You Look at Me," both of which hit number three on the UK Singles Chart. |
150_1 | They were then commissioned to work with UK hip-hop singer/rapper, Ms. Dynamite and BRIT Award-winning English pop group Sugababes. The collaboration with Ms. Dynamite resulted in several tracks which appeared on her début album, A Little Deeper, including her hit début single, "It Takes More". They also produced tracks for her 2005 second release, Judgement Days. |
150_2 | Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced two songs which appeared on Britney Spears' 2003 album In the Zone: the hit single, "Toxic", that merited a Grammy award; and "Showdown". They also produced all the three new songs on her 2004 Greatest Hits: My Prerogative album and the theme song for Britney & Kevin: Chaotic series. They subsequently worked with Spears on her fifth studio album, Blackout, for which they collaborated with Spears on four songs: the hit single, "Piece of Me", "Radar", "Freakshow" and "Toy Soldier"; and again on her 2008 follow-up album Circus, for which they produced the songs "Unusual You", "Phonography" and "Trouble", the latter two appeared only as bonus tracks. Bloodshy alone co-produced two songs for Britney Spears' 7th studio album Femme Fatale, "How I Roll" and "Trip to Your Heart".
The duo co-wrote and co-produced two tracks with Madonna, "How High" and "Like It or Not", for her 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor album. |
150_3 | In 2007, for Kylie Minogue's 10th studio album X, Bloodshy and Avant co-wrote and produced "Speakerphone", "Nu-di-ty" and "Cherry Bomb", the latter appeared only on CD singles.
In 2008, Bloodshy and Avant produced few songs for BoA's English début BoA.
A year later they produced "Chocolate Love" for South Korean girl groups Girls' Generation and f(x).
In 2010 Bloodshy signed Sky Ferreira and produced songs like "One", "17" and "Haters Anonymous"
Remixes and other projects
Bloodshy & Avant have also gained fame by remixes. They have remixed songs from Britney Spears (Songs they also wrote and produced the originals of) including a remix for "Piece of Me" which charted number one on the US Billboard Hot Club Play chart. Also other remixes for "Toxic" and "Me Against the Music" have topped the US Billboard charts. |
150_4 | Outside of being Bloodshy and Avant, Christian and Pontus are in a band together with Andrew Wyatt called Miike Snow. They also run a label called Ändersson with signed artists and musicians including Little Majorette, Sky Ferreira and Meadow (a project with their friends Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello. They are also working on the music for a videogame with EA Games/Dice to be released in 2010.
Winnberg is a member of a band called Amason together with Gustav Ejstes, Idiot Wind (Amanda Bergman Mattson), Nils Törnqvist and Petter Winnberg.
Karlsson and Linus Eklöw comprise the band Galantis. Wyatt and Winnberg were among 13 founding members of Swedish artist collective and record label INGRID.
Studio Robotberget
Bloodshy and Avant own a studio based in a 150-year-old fire station in the middle of Söder, Stockholm.
Studio Gear & Recording Equipment |
150_5 | Roland System
Korg MS-20
Korg VC-10 Vocoder
Yamaha CP80
Ondes Martenot
Theremin by Leon Theremin
Viggen Debutant
Wurlitzer
August Hoffman Piano
RCA BA25
Gates Sta-Level
Chandler LTD1, LTD2, TG1, TG2
SSL Bus Compressor
API 1608
LM Ericsson Preamps
EMT 240
AKG BX20
Roland Space Echo
AKG C12
AKG C24
Neumann M49
Neumann SM2
Coles 4038
Awards
ASCAP Award for Most Performed Song - "Toxic" - 2005
ASCAP Award - "Toxic" - 2004
Grammy Award - Best Dance Recording - "Toxic" - 2005
Ivor Novello Award - Performing Right Society (PRS) Most Performed Work - "Toxic" - 2005
Swedish Government - Music Export Award 2007
SMFF Award - 2006
Discography
2020
From Jamie Lynn Spears and Chantel Jeffries's Follow Me (Zoey 101) - Single
"Follow Me (Zoey 101)" - written and produced by Bloodshy & Avant
From Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated Side B
"Let's Sort the Whole Thing Out" - written and produced by Avant
"Now I Don't Hate California After All" - written and produced by Avant |
150_6 | 2019
From Carly Rae Jepsen's Dedicated
"For Sure" - written and produced by Avant
2016
MishCatt - EP (produced by Avant)
From Miike Snow's iii
"My Trigger"
"The Heart of Me"
"Genghis Khan"
"Heart Is Full"
"For U" (featuring Charli XCX)
"I Feel the Weight"
"Back of the Car"
"Lonely Life"
"Over and Over"
"Longshot (7 Nights)"
2015
David Guetta
"Bang My Head" - written by Christian Bloodshy Karlsson
Hilary Duff
"Sparks" - produced by Bloodshy
2014
Charli XCX
"Die Tonight" - written by Avant
2013
Katy Perry
"Love Me" - produced by Bloodshy
2012
From Miike Snow's Happy to You
"Enter the Joker's Lair"
"The Wave"
"Devil's Work"
"Vase"
God Help This Divorce"
"Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)"
"Pretender"
"Archipelago"
"Black Tin Box" (featuring Lykke Li)
"Paddling Out" |
150_7 | 2011
From Depeche Mode's Remixes 81-11
"Tora Tora Tora" Karlsson & Winnberg remix
"When the body speaks" Karlsson & Winnberg remix
From Sky Ferreira's As If!
"Haters Anonymous"
"108"
"One"
From Britney Spears' Femme Fatale
"How I Roll" produced by Bloodshy
"Trip to Your Heart" produced by Bloodshy
2010
"Sabali" Amadou & Mariam - Miike Snow remix
From Miike Snow's Miike Snow Deluxe Version
"The Rabbit"
"Silvia" (Robotberget Remix)
From Dangerous Muse's Take Control
"Homewrecker"
"I Want It All"
2009
From Miike Snow's Miike Snow
"Animal"
"Burial"
"Silvia"
"Song for No One"
"Black & Blue"
"Sans Soleil"
"A Horse Is Not a Home"
"Cult Logic"
"Plastic Jungle"
"In Search Of"
"Faker"
"Billie Holiday" (bonus track)
From f(x)'s Chocolate Love
"Chocolate Love (Electronic Pop Version)"
From Girls' Generation's Chocolate Love
"Chocolate Love (Retro Pop Version)"
From BoA's Best & USA
"Universe"
From BoA's BoA
"Did Ya"
"Touched"
2008
From Lisa's Got that Fever
"Leave" |
150_8 | From Maroon 5's Call and Response: The Remix Album
"Little of Your Time"
From Britney Spears' Circus
"Unusual You"
"Phonography"
"Trouble" (iTunes pre-order bonus track)
From Crystal Kay's Namida no Saki ni (涙のさきに; Beyond the Tears)
"Dream World" (SOIDOG MIX) Remixed with Jonback
"Namida no Saki ni (涙のさきに; Beyond the Tears)" (SOIDOG MIX) Remixed with Jonback"
From Crystal Kay's Color Change!
"It's a Crime"
From Sean Garrett's Turbo 919
"Turbo 919"
From Leon Jean Marie's Bent out of shape
"You Must Know"
"Bring It On"
"Fair"
"East End Blues"
"Jumpin Off the Block"
Spiss - "My Slang"
2007
From Britney Spears' Blackout
"Piece of Me" (UK #2, US #18) 3 time VMA winner
"Radar" (co-produced by The Clutch) (US #88, SWE #8)
"Freakshow"
"Toy Soldier"
"Piece of Me" (Böz o Lö remix) (US club play #1)
"Radar" (Bloodshy & Avant remix)
From Jennifer Lopez's Brave
"Brave"
"Brave" (Bloodshy radio edit)
From Jordin Sparks' Jordin Sparks
"See My Side"
"Shy Boy"
"Young and in Love" |
150_9 | From Kevin Michael
"We All Want the Same Thing" featuring Lupe Fiasco
"Hoodbuzzin"
"Lollipop" (unreleased)
From Kylie Minogue's X
"Nu-di-ty"
"Speakerphone"
"Cherry Bomb" b-side to "Wow" and "In My Arms" single
From the soundtrack Music and Lyrics: Music from the Motion Picture
"Haley Bennett - Buddha's Delight"
2006
From Belinda's Utopia
"Good... Good"
From Kelis' Kelis Was Here
"Fire" featuring Spragga Benz
From Natalie's Everything New
"Dance With Me"
From Zoey 101: Music Mix''
"Follow Me" Instrumental version featured on soundtrack
2005
From Britney Spears' Someday (I Will Understand) - CD Single and Britney & Kevin: Chaotic (EP)
"Chaotic"
"Mona Lisa"
From Brooke Valentine's Chain Letter
"Blah-Blah-Blah" featuring Ol Dirty Bastard
"American Girl"
"Thrill of the Chase"
From Madonna's Confessions on a Dancefloor
"How High"
"Like It or Not"
From Rob Thomas' ...Something to Be
"This Is How a Heart Breaks"
From Utada's Exodus
"You Make Me Want to Be a Man" (remix) |
150_10 | 2004
From Britney Spears' Greatest Hits: My Prerogative
"My Prerogative" (UK #3)
"Do Somethin'" (UK #6, US #100)
"I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)"
From Christina Milian's It's About Time
"I Need More"
From Ms. Dynamite's Judgement Days
"Not Today" (#7 UK)
"Shavaar" (#7 UK)
2003
From Britney Spears' In the Zone
"Toxic" (UK #1, US #9) Grammy award winner
"Showdown"
"Me Against the Music" (Bloodshy & Avant's Chix mix) (US club play #1)
"Me Against the Music" (featuring Madonna) (Bloodshy & Avant “Dubbie Style” remix)
"Toxic" (Bloodshy & Avant's Intoxicated remix) (US club play #1)
"Take Off" (unreleased)
"Look Who's Talking Now" (unreleased)
From Rachel Stevens' Funky Dory
"Sweet Dreams My LA Ex" (UK #2)
"Glide"
From Billy Crawford's Ride
"The Way She Rocks My World" (bonus track)
From Ruby Amanfu's Sugah
"Some of That Marley"
From Lene Nystrøm's Play With Me
"Up in Smoke" |
150_11 | 2002
From Christina Milian's Christina Milian
"AM to PM" (#3 UK, #27 US)
"When You Look at Me" (#3 UK)
"You Make Me Laugh"
"Got to Have You"
"Last Call"
"Snooze You Lose"
From Ms. Dynamite's A Little Deeper
"It Takes More" (Bloodshy Main mix) - (#7 UK)
"Brother"
"Put Him Out" - (A Little Deeper) (#28 UK)
"Krazy Krush"
"Get Up, Stand Up"
From Sugababes' Angels with Dirty Faces
"Supernatural"
From Samantha Mumba's The Collection
"I'm Right Here"
2001
Infinite Mass - "She's a Freak"
Infinite Mass - "People Talk"
Ultra Nate - "Get It Up"
Ultra Nate - "I Ain't Looking for Nothing"
Amanda - "You Don't Stand A Chance"
Amanda - "Call Me"
Amanda - "Crush On You"
Stella Soleil - "Let's Just Go to Bed"
Vitamin C - "Busted"
Vitamin C- "I Can't Say No"
References
External links
Swedish songwriters
Swedish composers
Grammy Award winners
Miike Snow members |
151_0 | The Salmon Protocol is a message exchange protocol running over HTTP designed to decentralize commentary and annotations made against newsfeed articles such as blog posts. It allows a single discussion thread to be established between the article's origin and any feed reader or "aggregator" which is subscribing to the content. Put simply, that if an article appeared on 3 sites: A (the source), B and C (the aggregates), that members of all 3 sites could see and contribute to a single thread of conversation regardless of site they were viewing from.
Example
The origin supplies a Salmon end point – a URL in the metadata of an RSS/Atom (standard) feed. An aggregating site makes a note of the end point.
<link rel="salmon" href="http://example.org/salmon-endpoint"/>
If a member of the aggregator makes a comment, the aggregator will construct a comment for the benefit of the origin. |
151_1 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<id>tag:example.com,2009:cmt-0.44775718</id>
<author><name>[email protected]</name><uri>[email protected]</uri></author>
<thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'
ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893591374313312737.post-3861663258538857954'>
tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-893591374313312737.post-3861663258538857954
</thr:in-reply-to>
<content>Salmon swim upstream!</content>
<title>Salmon swim upstream!</title>
<updated>2009-12-18T20:04:03Z</updated>
</entry>
The comment will be base64 encoded, digitally signed, placed in an envelope and POSTed back to the origin via the endpoint.
POST /salmon-endpoint HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
Content-Type: application/atom+xml |
151_2 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<me:env xmlns:me="http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/magic-env">
<me:data type='application/atom+xml'>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 |
151_3 | </me:data>
<me:encoding>base64url</me:encoding>
<me:alg>RSA-SHA256</me:alg>
<me:sig>
EvGSD2vi8qYcveHnb-rrlok07qnCXjn8YSeCDDXlbhILSabgvNsPpbe76up8w63i2f
WHvLKJzeGLKfyHg8ZomQ
</me:sig>
</me:env> |
151_4 | The comment is then made available by the origin in its original feed so subscriber aggregators may refresh their view of the conversation. The protocol provides security so that each aggregator and each member is uniquely identified so that the upstream could employ measures to ban or filter out rogue sites or members if so desired.
Applications
Federated social networks such as GNU Social and Diaspora use Salmon as defined in the OStatus specification to coordinate discussion between members belonging to different servers. A member of one server can publish an article which is disseminated to other users over the network via Salmon who in turn can comment back in a similar fashion.
See also
RSS
AtomPub
Publish Subscribe
OStatus (mentions OStatus users, not specifically Salmon protocol use)
External links
Salmon Protocol - The homepage and technical information regarding the protocol
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
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