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Chased this one for a while thinking it a Monarch when first sighted. Have never seen, noticed, this kind before. North Pond 07/25/13. Thanks M, Laura, Stan for guiding me to one of these two. Each look so much like the other!
Photo caption: Freshman Sam Lemel looks for signs of hops downy mildew during a visit to the hops field at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in Mills River. Lemel and his partner Bryce Spradlin worked this semester to design a rapid test for the pathogen.
The TIME Honors Science Research Course is an intensive, inquiry-based school-day course. Students learn about the process of science as they conduct original scientific research into topics of their own choosing. They are supported by both teacher and scientist mentors as they choose a topic of interest, develop a testable question, design a procedure, collect and analyze data and present their findings.
All Transylvania County Schools high school students (rising 9-12 graders) are eligible to apply for the course. Participants will be chosen through an application process that began in January of 2015, with application deadlines beginning Jan. 30. Course enrollment will be limited. Students will be chosen by an independent selection committee based on their demonstrated interest in science, potential for success in scientific research, and commitment to all components of the course.
Students chosen in 2015 will attend a trip to observe state research competitions in March and a summer field study week prior to the course. The school-day portion of the course will be held during the fall of 2015 in Brevard High School's Science Research Laboratory. Students will enter their work in one or more science competitions during the winter of 2016.
Why apply for the TIME Honors Science Research Course? Students benefit from doing research projects because they see how science applies to their own lives and community. They learn more about the process of science and what scientists do as they act as co-learners with teachers, scientists and other students. They discover new careers in science. While conducting research projects, students develop independence-no one is telling them exactly what to do or how to do it. They learn how to break down a complex, long-term project into manageable pieces, develop a plan of action, and follow it through. As they conclude their projects, students learn how to communicate their results clearly and persuasively to a variety of audiences as they contribute to the bank of scientific knowledge with their findings.
Students who have conducted long-term research projects are more competitive as they apply for college and scholarships. Top colleges want students who can write as well as possess analytical skills, creativity and a multidisciplinary perspective. Most of all they want people with a capacity for continuous innovation. These are skills gained from conducting original research. Doing a science project and participating in a competition can give students the opportunity to meet and spend time with others from around the world who have similar interests while competing for significant scholarships, travel, monetary awards and other prizes.
Current TIME students have recently completed the following research projects: Testing for the presence of estrogen-like compounds In Stevia rebaudiana (Cameron McCathern, Erin Smith and Sam Farrar); Electroantennogram response of Megacopta cribraria to chemical components in its defensive secretion (Abby Williams and Carly Onnink); Evaluation of honeybee health in Transylvania County: An assessment of Varroa destructor and Nosema levels (Ingrid Findlay, Aaron Neumann, and Hannah Lemel); Isolation, identification and screening of local wood rot fungi for the production of lignin-degrading enzymes (Hannah Field and Ryan Holland); Agrobacterium-mediated stable transformation of Coleus X hybridus plants using the floral dip method and B-glucuronidase (GUS) gene as a reporter system (Carver Nichols); Adapting the LAMP assay and culturing methods for hops downy mildew, Pseudoronospora humuli (Sam Lemel and Bryce Spradlin); The effect of antibiotics on the mortality of the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Allison Reece and Lauren DuBreuil); Evaluation of VOC producing Diaporthe species for enzyme production (Joe Roberts, Lauren Tooley and Eliza Witherspoon); Identifica-tion and heavy metal remediation potential of fungi isolated from Duke Energy's 1964 Asheville coal ash pond (Ryulee Park and Aidan Spradlin); and studies on the walnut twig beetle (Pityophthorus juglandis) and its association with Geosmithia morbida (Crista Cali and Sarah Branagan).
Current TIME students would like to thank all who have helped with their research during the year including students, teachers, administration, parents and numerous scientists and community volunteers. Thanks go to 2014 TIME volunteers: Ken Chepenik, Don Wauchope, Paul Sisco, Jeanine Davis, Kelly Gaskill, Laurie Moorhead, Chuck McGrady, Page Lemel, Craig DeBrew, Ervin Kovacs, Chris Cali, Pat Montgomery, Tammy Bellefeuil, Adam DeWitt, Brian Heath, Amy Kinsella, Kelly Oten, Bryan Dubois, David Williams, Cindy Carpenter, Lisa Smith, Eric Caldwell, Jay Case, Andy VonCanon, Dan Harris, Danny Fender, Paul Sisco, Scott Pryor, Rene Timmons, Nancy Knights, Sheila and Marvin Holland, George Logsdon, Ed Burdette, Mary Ann Mickewitz, Crawford and Jeanette Lowe, Allen Frost, Ora Wells, Randy Oliver, Coby Schal, Bart Renner, Harriett Walls, Kaitlin McCreery, Gordon Riedesel, Summer Cortinas, Bruce Roberts, Roger Frisbee and Wes Freund. Special thanks go to Dr. Kent Wilcox and Mary Arnaudin, without whose help, guidance, and actions the class could not have been possible!
Funds for the TIME Science Research Course are provided in part by a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in addition to support from Transylvania County Schools and NC Cooperative Extension. Special thanks go to a growing group of community donors: the American Association of University Women, Pisgah Forest Rotary Club, PharmAgra, The Robertson Foundation, Merrill Well and Pump Company, Environmental Quality Institute, Roger Frisbee, June Litchfield, Peter Chaveas, Steve and Mary Beth Whitmire, Newell and Mary Witherspoon, Ed Buckbee, Kristine and John Candler, NC BioNetwork Labs, Kent Wilcox, Ken Chepenik, Ann Farash and Paul Onnink, Bee Cool Bee Supply and Pat Montgomery.
For more information, to apply for the research course, or to indicate an interest in volunteering or donating to the program, visit time4realscience.org.
© 2015, Transylvania County Schools. All rights reserved.
Logic Vision Collective & Digital Alchemists present The Ritual: Gathering of the Tribes @ Chutes de Sainte Agathe Lotbiniere, Quebec, Canada August 16-19, 2013
Photos by Kyle Rober
The Ritual: The Xperience 2014:
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Links:
The Ritual 2013:
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Logic Vision Collective:
www.logicvisioncollective.com/
www.facebook.com/groups/logicvisionrecs
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"How to I anchor these experiences and solidify these changes when I leave the forest?" And that brings me full circle back to my art practice and the question of the art object. Every festival does this for me, but every once in a while there is a festival space that goes so far to the core of my being, that it transcends everything I held to be true, and everything changes for me. This year The Ritual did that for me. '' J.S ((( )))
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The DIGITAL ALCHEMISTS are proud to present:
THE RITUAL: Gathering of the Tribes 2013. Where the paths of Mysticism, Spirituality & Consciousness meet... Let's Bring Back our Sacred Rituals !
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Every year, a number of festivals are celebrated in the world. These festivals are looked forward to, for many, with a lot of enthusiasm.
Although these festivals, different kinds of rituals are performed (with utmost care), and provide you mystical experiences.
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PROLOGUE :
Focused around a central element, throughout the gathering, there is a sacred container being collectively created and held, in collaboration with the Native peoples who have honored us with the use of their land.
We believe in the healing potential of intentional gatherings.
We have dedicated our lives for facilitating these opportunities for a collective evolution.
Our mission : to create the perfect transformation into Peace, Unity and Global Respect...
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4 days Open-Air Festival
International Music acts
International Deco concept
More info coming soon...
Pono Pono
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Logic Vision Collective est fier de vous présenter :
La Réunion des Tribus 2013
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Chaque année, un certain nombre de festivals sont célébrés dans le monde. Ces réunions sont organisés avec beaucoup de respect et sont attendus, pour beaucoup, avec enthousiasme. Ils sont exécutés avec un soin extrême pour vous offrir une expérience psychedelique mystique unique.
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PROLOGUE :
Autour d'un conteneur sacré est centré un élément, créé et collectivement gardé avec les Peuples autochtones, nous ayant honorés de l'usage de leur terre.
Nous croyons aux guérisons et au potentiel des intentions.
Nous consacrons nos vies à faciliter ces réunions, pour l'évolution collective.
Notre mission : créer une transformation parfaite dans la Paix, l'Union et le Respect Global...
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4 Jours de Festival en Plein-Air
Artistes internationaux
Concept Déco international
Bientôt d'autres nouvelles...
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International Artists:
✔ PSYKOVSKY live! (Osom Music - Russia) - Psychedelia
✔ KASHYYYK live! (Kamino recs - Mexico) - Hitech Psychedelic Trance
✔ INSECTOR live! (Kamino recs - Hungary) - Hitech Psychedelic Trance
✔ ENICHKIN live! (Mind Expension - D-A-R-K recs - Russia) - Psychedelic Trance & Psydub
✔ VENSKER Djset! (Kamino recs - D-A-R-K rec | Mexico) ::: Hitech Psytrance
✔ PRIMORDIAL OOZE live+djset (Anti-shanti recs | D-A-R-K recs- USA) ::: Psytrance
✔ LUNECELL live+djset+Vjset (Occulta recs - USA) ::: Psychedelia
✔ AXIS MUNDI live! (Touch Samadhi - USA) :::: Psychedelic trance
✔ DOG OF TEARS live! (Active Meditation Music - USA) ::: Psychedelic trance
✔ MANIPULATION live! (Kinematic recs - USA)) ::: Psychedelic
✔ BRANDON ADAMS (Bom Shanka Music/Free Radical Recs/SYNC/Dreamcatcher - USA)::: Psychedelic
✔ THE HIPPIE DISCO PROJECT live! (D-A-R-K recs - USA)::: Groovadelic Circuit Bending
✔ RICCO MAZZER (Uroborous recs -Brazil) ::: Darkprog
✔ MISSKEY DJSET! (Arkona Creation - United Kingdom) ::: Psygressive
✔ Z3NKAI Djset! (PSYNON records - Switzerland)::: Psychedelic
✔ HARDKOR NATE live+djset ( Spacecamp Psyfari, Denver USA] ::: Psychedelic Trance
✔ ASCENSION LIVE+DJSET [Chilluminati, Spacecamp Psyfari, Denver USA] ::: Psychedelic Trance
✔ DEFTSPANK live! (D-A-R-K recs - Venezuela)::: Darkpsy
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Local Heros
Live-Acts:
✔ 1,618 live! (Montreal) ::: Progressive Psytrance
✔ ATHERIA live! (Geomagnetic recs - Toronto) ::: Progressive
✔ AURA live! (Aura Music - Montreal) ::: Psydub
✔ DUGONG LIVE ! (FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS) Tom Lemann & Logan Hollow (BELLYOFTHEWHALECTRONICA inc. - Montreal) ::: Tribal Minimalism
✔ DER DENKER live! (Concepto Hypnotico - Montreal)::: Dark Minimal
✔ Dr STRANGEFUNK live! (Werk It Music - St Jerome) ::: Zenonesque
✔ FLORIAN MSK live! (Concepto Hypnotico - Montreal) ::: Dark Minimal
✔ KLOUD NIN9 live! (Glitchy Tonic - Montreal) ::: ProgDark
✔ SOURSWEET live! (Logic Vision recs - Montreal) ::: Psysufi
✔ SPACEY KOALA live! (Logic Vision recs - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ UBER live! (Indy - Montreal) ::: Progressive
✔ VIRTUAL LIGHT live (Prism Code - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ ZENTRIX live! (Digital Mind recs - Montreal) ::: Zenonesque
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DJsets
✔ ALAKAZOO (Logic Vision - Samsara Festival) ::: Darkprog
✔ ALIEN RAINFOREST (Ajnavision recs- Ottawa) ::: Psydub
✔ AKSHOBHYA (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ ANIMA vs NTSHANTI (OuI-R1 - Montreal) ::: Psyprog
✔ BANJANKRI (Organic Family - Toronto) ::: Forest Le Pendu
✔ BENDALA (Space Gathering - Montreal)
✔ CODE-AMA (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Dark Grooves
✔ DIRTY HARRY (St Jerome) ::: Zenonesque
✔ EFFLUX (Montreal) ::: DMTechno
✔ ELVIRA (Osiris Collective - Montreal) ::: Forest Psytrance
✔ FIELD EQUATION (Montreal) ::: Chillstep
✔ G-PI (Techno Agricole - Montreal) ::: Psyprog
✔ JOEL MCDUFF (OUIR1 - Montreal) ::: Progressive
✔ KHALIL (Speakeasy - Montreal) ::: Electroswing Balkan
✔ KOALUNA (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Troglodyte Psytrance
✔ KISS of VENUS (New York) ::: Psychedelic Techno
✔ KRIKKITT (Osiris prods - Montreal) ::: Psydub
✔ MACHINELF (Timewave Productions, Om Reunion Project-Toronto) ::: Progressive Psytrance
✔ MOHINIA (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ MYTHROPHAN (Toronto) ::: Progressive
✔ MYKUL ELF (Organic Family - ToMontrealronto) ::: Psybass
✔ NAAZ djset (D.A.R.K recs - Montreal) ::: psychedelic trance
✔ NAINITA (Logic Vision - Quebec) ::: Forest Psytrance
✔ NIKOCH (Montreal) ::: Native Tribal Trance
✔ NIKOLI Djset (Outer World Prods, Manifesting Magic festival - Ottawa) ::; Progressive
✔ NISMO (Cyberloft - Montreal) ::: Progressive
✔ OBSIDIAN (Logic Vision - Ottawa) ::: Psydub
✔ OGICHIDA (Organic Family - Toronto) ::: Forest
✔ OTKUN djset (kamino recs - Montreal) ::: Forest Hitech
✔ PLAN B (Shakti Collective - Toronto) ::: Psytrance
✔ PRANAPAPA (Logic Vision - Quebec) ::: Ethno Trance
✔ PSYBERTH (Openmind Festival - Can) ::: Psybass
✔ PYROTRICH (Logic Vision - Montreal) ::: Forest Psytrance
✔ RED ELECTRIC EARTH (Love Project - Montreal) ::: Progressive
✔ RON JON (Logic Vision - Ottawa) ::: Psytrance
✔ SABI NON STOP (Tatanka fest - Montreal) ::: Psydub
✔ SARA DOPSTAR (Kosmic Juice, Toronto) ::: Psyprog
✔ SHANGO (Logic Vision - Quebec) ::: Dakrpsy
✔ SPOONANI (Pounjah - Quebec) ::: Drum & Bass
✔ SYNTHETIK (Prism Code - Montreal) ::: Psytrance
✔ TRANSISCO (Om Project - Toronto) ::: Morning Psy
✔ WARRIORS (Big Tooth - Montreal) ::: Deep BASS
✔ XONICA (Logic Vision rec - Toronto) ::: Psychedelic Trance
✔ YGRIEGA (Sourcecode | OUI R1 - Montreal) ::: Psyprog
✔ ZAGA (Cosmic Juice - Toronto) ::: Progressive
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Deco Artists:
✔ WIZART VISIONS (USA) ::: Decoration
WizArt Visions is a visionary art project of New York based artist Olga Klimova and her team dedicated to creating an intense mind-opening visual environment for events.
www.facebook.com/pages/WizArt-Visions/444814318878170
✔ ORGANIC FAMILY (CAN) ::: DECO
✔ CESAR AR (CAN) ::: Visionnary ARt
✔ MYRKO (CAN) ::: Visionnary ARt
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SERVICES
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- Restaurant végétarien et méditerranéen / Vegetarian and mediterranean restaurant
- Kiosque de jus frais & Tchai / Fresh juice stand & Tchai
- Plage et baignade sur le site / Beach and swimming on the site
- Toilettes / WC
- Camping gratuit / Free camping
- Sécurité professionnelle et amicale sur le site / Professionnal and friendly security on the site.
REGLEMENT / REGULATION
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- Respectez l’environnement / Respect the environment
- Aucun objet en verre sur le site / No glass on the site
- Les feux sont interdits / Fires are forbidden
- Baignade interdite la nuit / No swimming at night
- Aucun animal domestique sur le site / Pets are not allowed on the site
- Aucun système de son indépendant ne sera toléré sur le site / Independant sound systems will be not tolerated on the site.
MERCI DE BIEN VOULOIR RESPECTER CES REGLES ! ...
THANK YOU FOR RESPECTING THOSE RULES ! ...
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The INDIAN MARKET !
The Ritual Festival will offer a wide assortment of food/drink, crafts, and other vendors throughout the Festival site.
Le RItuel Festival vous offrira un assortiment très large de restaurants ainsi qu'une variété de kiosques nous proposants des produits d'ici et d'ailleurs
please email us at: theritual.festival@gmail.com
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With open minds and adventurous souls, there will always be sounds to move to and beats to feel.
We hope you are as excited as we are !
Avec l'esprit ouvert et aventureux, il y aura toujours des rythmes pour vous faire bouger et des musiques à ressentir.
Nous espérons que vous êtes aussi enthousiasmés que nous le sommes !
Info Contact : theritual.festival@gmail.com
COLLABORATORS & SPONSORS
Digital-Audio-Records-Kompany
Cybeloft
Kamino records
Tantruum recs
MAIA Brazil records
Osom records
Glitchy Tonic records
Organic FamilyThe DIgital ALchemists
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Timetables
Galactic Portal:
Vendredi / Friday
18:00 XONICA ::: OPENING Ceremony
19:00 Krikkitt djset :: Psychedelic
20:30 Pyrotrich djset ::: Forest Psychedelic Trance
22:00 Mohinia djset ::: Psychedelic
23:30 Shango & Nainita ::: Forest Psy
Samedi / Saturday
01:00 CAUSAI (Vancouver) ::: Psytrance
02:30 PREGAKORE (Portugal) ::: Psychedelic
04:00 VENSKER Djset! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
05:30 AXIS MUNDI live! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
07:00 Virtual Light djset ::: Morning Psy
08:30 HIPPIE DISCO live ! (USA) ::: Morning FUnky
10:00 SPACEY KOALA live :::Funky Psytrance
11:00 MISSKEY djset! (UK) ::: Progressive Trance
12:30 ATHERIA live ! (Toronto) ::: Psytrance
01:30 Dr Strangefunk live! ::: Zenonesque
02:30 Zentrix live!::: Zenonesque
03:30 Ygriega ::: Progressive Trance
05:00 KLOUD Nin9 live! ::: darkprog OTEZUKA (France) :::: Progressive
06:00 RICCO MAZZER live! (Brazil) ::: Zenonesque
07:30 FRACTAL PHONO (USA) ::: Zenonesque
09:00 LUNECELL live! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
10:30 Otkun (Montreal) ::: Psychedelic Moon
Dimanche / Sunday
00:00 KASHYYYK live! (MEXICO) ::: Hitech
03:00 INSECTOR live! (HUNGARY) ::: Hitech
06:00 PRIMORDIAL OOZE live!(USA) ::: Psychedelic
08:30 BRANDON ADAMS (USA) :: Full Power
10:00 MANIPULATION live (USA) ::: Morning
11:30 HARDKOR NATE djset (USA) ::: Psytrance
13:00 ASCENTION liveset (USA) ::: Psytrance
14:00 A.C. LYON live! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
15:30 Dugong live! ::: Dark Tribal Minimalism
17:00 Florian live! ::: Dark Minimal
18:00 Der Denker ::: Dark Minimal
20:00 Anima vs Nt Shanti ::: Psygressive
21:30 Akshobhya ::: Psychedelic
23:00 Plan B ::: Psychedelic
Lundi / Monday
00:30 DEFTSPANK live (Venezuela) ::: Psychedelic
01:30 Ogichida vs Banjankari::: Forest Psytrance
03:00 PSYKOVSKY live ! (Russia)::: Psychedelic
07:30 DOG OF TEARS live! (USA) ::: Psychedelic
09:30 NAAZ ::: Psychedelic
11:00 CODE-AMA ::: Psychedelic
12:30 RONJON ::: Psychedelic
14:00 OTEZUKA ::: Psyprog
16:00 The DIGITAL ALCHEMISTS ::: CLOSING
Dream Catcher Portal
Friday / Vendredi:
08:00 Zaga (Toronto) ::: Dark Minimal
10:00 MAJESTER (British COlumbia) ::
Saturday / Samedi:
00:00 Elvira ::: Hitech
01:30 Koaluna ::: forestpsy
03:00 Play Different live! (Toronto) ::: Psytrance
04:30 Synthetik ::: psytrance
06:00 MACHINE ELF (Toronto) ::: Psy trance
08:00 MYTHROPHAN (Toronto) ::: Progressive Trance
10:00 TRANCISCO (Toronto) ::: Progressive Psytrance
12:00 Glitch (Quebec) :: Progressive
01:30 Red ELectric Earth ::: Progresive
03:00 G-Pi ::: Minimal
04:30 Uber live! ::: Progressive
06:00 Nismo & Franky-Owl::: Progressive
07:30 Alakazoo ::: Psyprog
09:00 SARA DOPSTAR (Toronto) ::: Progressive
11:00 1,618 live! :: Psytech
Sunday / Dimanche
00:30 ZENKAI ::: Psytrance
02h30 SPOONANI vs ZENTRIX ::: Progressive
04:00 FLICKER LIGHT (Brazil) ::: Progressive
05:30 Efflux ::: Minimal
07:00 Dirty Harry ::: Zenonesque
08:30 Joel Mac Duff ::: Progressive
10:30 AURA live! (Portugal) ::: Psybient
12:00 KHALIL ::: Gypsy PsyDub
02:00 KATNIP (British Columbia) ::: Psybreaks
03:30 NIKOLI (Ottawa) ::: Temple Step
05:00 SOURSWEET live!::: IDM
07:00 LUNECELL djset! ::: Temple Step
09:00 OBSIDIAN (Ottawa) ::: Temple Step
Monday / Lundi
00:00 SPOONANI (Quebec) ::: DnB
01:30 Pranapapa ::: Progressive Dub
03:00 Psyberth djset :: Progressive Dub
04:30 KISSofVenus (USA) ::: Minimalism
06:00 RED ELECTRICH ::: Zenonesque
07:30 Transurfer ::: Progressive
09:00 Sabi Non STop ::: Psydub
10:30 Bendala ::: Psybass
12:00 MAYA EFF ::: PsyBass
END OF THE VORTEX _/\_ AHO
PSLA at Fowler students enjoyed a Law Day Career Fair where they learned about career opportunities in the field of law and were able to ask questions of professionals working in the field.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Outlook Forum Student Diversity Program winners talk about the day's events while waiting in Secretary Sonny Perdue conference room where they will ask questions, and discuss various topics about agriculture in Washington, D.C., on February 20, 2018. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Outlook Forum Student Diversity Program is designed to expose 30 select students each year to contemporary agribusiness, future trends, scientific research, and agricultural policy in today's real-world environment. USDAâs Office of the Chief Economist and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture launched the Student Diversity Program a decade ago in 2007. USDA hosts a briefing and discussion of career opportunities featuring agriculture leaders in academia, government, and industry; takes the students on a tour of the Nationâs Capital; and the week-long visit culminates with their participation in the Forum. USDA Student Diversity Program is available at the USDA AOF Student Diversity Program webpage. Forum information is available on the USDA Agriculture Outlook Forum 2017 webpage.
2018 Undergraduate Student Diversity Program Winners:
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Sarah Baskins California State University, Stanislaus HSI
Taylor Boone University of Maryland College Park 1862
Zhane Brown Prairie View A&M University 1890
Nakia Coit University of Maryland Eastern Shore 1890
Nora Faris University of Missouri 1862
Carlos Flores Kansas State University 1862
Vanessa Garcia Polanco University of Rhode Island 1862
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Helena Hollins Langston University 1890
Brandon Jackson University of Maryland Eastern Shore 1890
Jeremy Jolly South Carolina State University 1890
Brittney Langer California State University, Chico HSI
Vivian Maier Fresno State University HSI
James Martin North Carolina A&T State University 1890
Virginia Miller University of Nevada 1862
Rocio Ortiz San Diego State University, Imperial Valley HSI
Deja Perkins Tuskegee University 1890
Matthew Schroepfer South Dakota State University 1862
Bailey Thomas Texas State University HSI
Jessica Vallejo San Diego State University HSI
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Name University University Type
Benjamin Brown University of Missouri 1862
Tiffany Carter Kansas State University 1862
Jabari Hawkins University of Maryland Eastern Shore 1890
Grant Lapke Oklahoma State University 1862
Gregory McNealy Florida A&M University 1890
Luis Rodriguez-Cruz University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez HSI
Timothy Silberg Michigan State University 1862
Arneisha Smallwood North Carolina A&T State University 1890
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All Saints, Gazeley, Suffolk
All Saints at Gazeley, near Newmarket, was the first church that I visited after an international team of scientists conclusively proved that God did not exist. Thus begins the original article about Gazeley parish church that I wrote for the Suffolk Churches site, back in May 2003. At that stage, I had visited more than 600 Suffolk churches, and the site was moving towards a kind of completion. The entries were becoming longer and tending more towards the philosophical. The acquisition of a digital camera meant that I could already see I would need to do the whole lot again, but that would be in the future. For now, I had Norfolk in my sights, and there was an end-of-term feel to what I was writing about Suffolk. I am afraid that All Saints, Gazeley, took the full brunt of it.
The article generated a fair amount of correspondence, as you may imagine. It was discussed on BBC Radio Suffolk. I was questioned rather cautiously about it by someone in the Diocese.
The parish themselves took it rather well. To be honest, I had caught them at a low ebb, and they welcomed the publicity. I had also visited them immediately before a time of great change, when heads had fallen, but loins were about to be girded, and the Church of England was stirring itself again in that lovely village. One of the advantages of visiting every parish church in East Anglia is that you also get to see every parish, of course, and I soon fell in love with these sleepy, fat villages along the Cambridgeshire border. I would move there tomorrow, quite happily.
However, the article still makes the point I was originally trying to make, and the contrast between then and now shows this special place in a light it thoroughly deserves, for this is one of East Anglia's loveliest churches, and deserves all the visitors it can get. Anyway, I thought so then, and I certainly think so now.
Here is what I wrote in 2003: 'All Saints at Gazeley, near Newmarket, was the first church that I visited after an international team of scientists conclusively proved that God did not exist. I was intrigued to know how a wealthy, reasonably large Suffolk village would respond to this challenge. What would they do with their church? I had a theory. I suspected that the old church buildings would continue to find a community use. Small groups of people would still congregate on a Sunday mornings to sing comforting songs and feel good about each other. The churches would still be used by secular couples wanting a fancy wedding, and the local villagers would still want to be buried in the graveyard. But the building would no longer have a Christian use.
It was with some dismay, however, that I arrived in Gazeley to discover that the rot had already set in. The first sign of this was the way in which the large windows facing onto the road had holes the size of small rocks in them. This was disturbing, especially because the east window at Gazeley is one of the most remarkable Decorated windows in East Anglia. The head of the window consists of two elegant overlapping trefoils, but there is no head to the arch, the head itself having cusps. You can see it in the left hand column; Cautley thought it was unique.
I went and tried the door, but of course it was locked. Ever since the announcement of God's non-existence, heads have dropped in the Anglican community, and many of them no longer have the will to welcome strangers and visitors. I went next door to the Rectory. I knocked on the door, rang the bell. Nobody came. Perhaps the Rector had fled town. I had tried phoning several numbers I had taken from the Diocesan website, but nobody had answered. There were keyholders listed in the church porch, but no phone numbers. Gazeley is a fairly large village, and we didn't have a street map, but by driving around (sorry about the carbon monoxide, folks) we tracked some of the houses down. Several cars were on the driveways outside (as I said, this is a wealthy village) but nobody came to the door. Perhaps they had given up in despair. I felt Gazeley's strange torpor beginning to settle on me like snow.
We found the house where the last address was supposed to be. I went to the side door, and eventually someone answered. "Yes?" he was very curt, so I don't know who he was expecting. I, however, was a model of charm and good manners, and explained my mission to see inside Gazeley church, and that I understood he was a keyholder, a churchwarden in fact. His wife came to the kitchen door behind him, to see who it was. I could smell cooking, and I assumed that they were both about to eat, the time being 5pm on a Saturday.
"The church is locked", he said. I agreed that this was the case, and wondered if access was possible. "It was open earlier today, you should have come then", he observed. I concurred that it would have been better, but that we had been visiting other churches, and had only just arrived in Gazeley. He thought for a second. "I'll have to come with you." The man checked that the twenty minutes I had suggested would not deprive him of his tea, and walked with me up to the church. On the way, the man explained how he and his wife had spent the day preparing the church for the harvest festival. I made a mental note that this was another event that had survived the death of God, as would Christmas probably.
We walked across the wide open graveyard, and I looked up at the great ship of Gazeley church. There is no doubt which county you are in; here, the complete rebuilding of the nave with clerestory and aisles was at the start of the 16th century, and as at Blythburgh they didn't get around to rebuilding the tower before the Protestant Reformation intervened. The huge chancel had been built on the eve of the Black Death, and has similarities with the one at Mildenhall. Perhaps a rebuilding was planned, but it never happened. The tower was largely reconstructed in the 19th century.
To my surprise, he took us not to either south or north porch, but to the great west door. This led us beneath the tower and behind the organ, and we stepped into darkness. Daylight was fading, but here it must be always gloomy, among the broom cupboards and stacks of junk. The churchwarden found the light switches, and we walked around the organ into the body of the church.
Back in the days when God still existed, I had been to Gazeley church before. It had been a bright, cold February morning in 1999, and I was cycling from Newmarket to Ipswich. I'd arrived in Gazeley to find the church open, and had thought it lovely. There was a delicate balance between respect for the medieval and the demands of the modern liturgy. It felt at once a house of prayer and a spiritual touchstone to the long generations. However, the slight crimp in all this was that, at the time, the regular Sunday congregation of Gazeley church had been reduced to single figures. The same was true of neighbouring Kentford. The Rector may not have been to blame; he was very energetic in in his pastoral activities in the village, and people still turned up for the big occasions. But I wondered what effect all this had had, and asked the churchwarden.
He was very candid. He told me that they had had a terrible time of it. The electoral roll had fallen to just three people, and this is not a small village. Nobody wanted to come to church any more. He had lived in the village for years, and had seen all this happen. It was only in the last year or so that he felt the church had been turned around by the new Rector (the one I had suspected of leaving town). Now, there were more than twenty of them, and they felt like a proper community again, he said.
I found this interesting. The previous Rector had been a Forward in Faith-supporting Anglo-catholic, and such a tradition was not terribly popular with the suits at Diocesan House. The new Rector had moved the church back towards the mainstream.
I looked around the vast open nave. All Saints is one of the biggest churches in the west of the county, and it must take a good five hundred people to make it feel full. I tried to imagine what it must have been like here, just three in the congregation.
The warden and his wife had tried hard to decorate the church for the harvest festival, and it looked particularly lovely towards the east. The greenery on the tombchest and piscina was very well done. But inevitably the fruit and vegetables were sparse, and there was no disguising the general air of shabbiness and decay underneath the decoration. I felt a bit sorry for the churchwarden, for he had stuck with the place through thick and thin, and clearly loved it. The chancel and central eastern part of the nave were clean and tidy, but all around were the encroaching shadows, and here lurked the dust and dirt.
The higher you looked, the filthier it became. The clerestory windows were coated in grime, and the lower parts cloaked in decades of cobwebs. The medieval cross beams are still in place, but the Victorian roof above is leaky, and areas of damp showed above the high arcades. It seemed unlikely that all this could have happened in the short time since the Geneva declaration of 2007 announced all faith in a Supreme Being to be 'utterly null and void'. Mortlock had commented on the poor condition of the royal arms as long ago as 1988. Could it be that they were in this state when this building was still in use for Christian worship?
Having seen the stone holes in the windows, I was mightily relieved that the Victorians had reset the medieval glass up in the clerestory. This seems a curious thing to have done, since it defeats the purpose of a clerestory, but if they had not done so then we might have lost it. The glass matches the tracery in the north aisle windows, so that is probably where they came from. I had seen them on my previous visit, but could not remember where they were, and when I asked the keyholder he did not seem aware that the church had any medieval glass. Eventually I found it. There are angels, three Saints and some shields, most of which are heraldic but two show the instruments of the passion and the Holy Trinity. I would not be surprised to learn that some of the shields are 19th century, but the figures are all original late 15th or early 16th century. The Saints are an unidentified Bishop, the hacksaw-wielding St Faith and one of my favourites, St Apollonia. She it was who was invoked by medieval people against toothache.
It struck me as I gazed up that many parish churches had much less to lose than Gazeley. At one time, these places were vibrant hubs of spiritual communities, but now they would be left to wither and die. Some would become houses of course, but Gazeley's church is much too big. Some might be kept as examples of our redundant belief systems, but here at Gazeley there would be too much to tidy up and sort out. So All Saints at Gazeley must be considered merely as a treasure house. Here, then, is a guide to why it must survive the 2007 Geneva Declaration.
Firstly, the chancel. Here, the space created by the clearing of clutter makes it at once mysterious and beautiful. Above, the early 16th century waggon roof is Suffolk's best of its kind. Mortlock points out the little angels bearing scrolls, the wheat ears and the vine sprays, and the surviving traces of colour. The low side window on the south side still has its hinges, for here it was that updraught to the rood would have sent the candles flickering in the mystical church of the 14th century. On the south side of the sanctuary is an exquisitely carved arched recess, that doesn't appear to have ever had a door, and may have been a very rare purpose-built Easter sepulchre at the time of the 1330s rebuilding. Opposite is a huge and stunningly beautiful piscina, and beside it are sedilia that end in an arm rest carved in the shape of a beast. It is one of the most significant Decorated moments in Suffolk.
On the floor of the chancel there is a tiny, perfect chalice brass, one of only two surviving in Suffolk. The other is at Rendham. Not far away is the indent of another chalice brass - or perhaps it was for the same one, and the brass has been moved for some reason. There are two chalice indents at Westhall, but nowhere else in Suffolk. Chalice brasses were popular memorials for Priests in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and thus were fair game for reformers. Heigham memorials of the late 16th century are on the walls. Back in the south aisle there is a splendid tombchest in Purbeck marble. It has lost its brasses, but the indents show us where they were, as do other indents in the aisle floors. Some heraldic brass shields survive, and show that Heighams were buried here. Brass inscriptions survive in the nave and the chancel, dating from the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Piled up and decrepit in the south west corner are some extraordinary 14th century benches with pierced tracery backs. Some of them appear to spell out words, Mortlock thought one might say Salaman Sayet. The block of benches to the north appear to have been made using sections of the 15th century rood loft. Further north, the early 17th century benches may appear crude, but were almost certainly the work of the village carpenter.
The 14th century font is a stunning example of the tracery pattern series that appeared in the decades before the Black Death. They may have been intended to spread ideas at that time of great artistic and intellectual flowering before it was so cruelly snatched away. The cover is 17th century.
The place is absolutely glorious, but few people seem to know about it, and fewer seem to care. If it had been clean, tidy and open, Simon Jenkins England's Thousand Best Churches would not have been able to resist it. Should the survival of such a treasure store depend upon the existence of God or the continued practice of the Christian faith? Or might there be other reasons to keep this extraordinary building in something like its present integrity? It needs thousands spent on it, hundreds of thousands, but is this something that we as a nation or culture should consider worth doing? Will it be sufficient to photograph it all and then let it fall, or do we need to rescue this building before it is too late?
Increasingly, it seemed to me that what the parish needed was not condemnation for the state the building was in, but encouragement to put it right. I pointed out several of the features outlined above, but I think the poor man was beginning to register quite what a task he had on his hands, so I fell quiet. I did reassure him that the building really was the responsibility of us all, and not just the Church of England; it was the heart and touchstone of the whole village, and not just of his faith community.
We'd been there for nearly an hour. I took pity, and offered to lock up and return the key to his house. He thought about it for a moment. I guessed he was weighing up whether or not he trusted us to make the church secure, but he just said "you don't need to bring the key back, it's a yale lock. Just let yourself out, and let the door close behind you." And he said goodbye and went home - rather more thoughtfully, I fear, than he had left it.
It was dark. I put out the lights, and stood for a moment in the wide gloom, in the infinite stillness. I listened to the sound of my own breathing. I knew this was the most endangered building I had visited so far on my travels. But I'm determined we won't lose it.'
And that was that. At the end of the original article, I had pointed out that the 2007 Geneva Declaration on the non-existence of God was, of course, entirely fictitious. This was partly to reassure the good people of Gazeley, but also to save confusing any excitable Dawkinsites. Gazeley church was, after all, still in use for Christian worship. I also pointed out that the rest of the article was completely true as things had stood in May 2003. However, over the next few months I received a number of e-mails from people in the parish telling me how the church was being taken to task, tidied up, cleaned out, and, even more important, made accessible. Coming back in May 2008 I was delighted to discover than both the south and north doors were now open, and I stepped out of the sunlight into an interior which positively shouted its welcome to pilgrims and strangers. Perhaps it helped that it was such a beautiful day, for the interior was full of light falling across ancient stone and woodwork. Everything shone with love and care. Quite frankly, it lifted the heart. Perhaps the most moving sight was of the brightly coloured children's table and chairs, which have been given pride of place at the east end of the south aisle, rather than being tucked away under the tower or behind the font. Having once almost lost its congregation altogether, the community at Gazeley now puts its children's corner in a prominent position, where everyone can see it.
The wide open space of the chancel was still one of the loveliest interiors I knew in Suffolk, but now it had something else, a feeling of hope. Great things had happened here. I mentioned it afterwards to a Catholic Priest friend of mine, and he said he hoped I knew I'd seen the power of the Holy Spirit at work. And perhaps that is so. Certainly, the energy and imagination of the people here have been fired by something. I wanted to find someone to ask about it, to find out how things stood now. But there was no one, and so the building spoke for them.
Back outside in the graveyard, the dog daisies clustered and waved their sun-kissed faces in the light breeze. The ancient building must have known many late-May days like this over the centuries, but think of all the changes that it has known inside! The general buffeting of the winds of history still leaves room for local squalls and lightning strikes. All Saints has known these, but for now a blessed calm reigns here. Long may it remain so.
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim answers questions during a press conference with Chile's President, Sebastian Pinera Echenique (right) and Chile's Minister of Finance, Felipe Larraín (left) at the La Moneda Presidential Palace in Santiago, Chile on July 4, 2013. Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank.
A tiatr by Francis de Tuem released on 27.3.16 Easter Sunday
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Xavier Gomes
LA TURCHIA RIDE
Ramize ERER - Mehmet ÇAGÇAG - Tuncay AKGÜN - Güneri IÇOGLU
8 -16 Settembre 2007
Mole Vanvitelliana - Ancona
Gian Mario Spacca Presidente Regione Marche
L’iniziativa Adriatico-Mediterraneo, è un progetto di durata triennale ideato dalla Regione Marche in collaborazione con la Provincia e il Comune di Ancona, per sviluppare un confronto istituzionale e uno scambio culturale “diffuso”, che sottolinei il ruolo di primo piano delle Marche nello stabilire nuovi e profondi legami di pace e sviluppo tra le comunità dell’Adriatico e del Mediterraneo.
Il richiamo a questi mari che, nel corso della Storia, hanno consentito l’incontro, non sempre facile, di differenti culture (cristianesimo cattolico ed ortodosso, islam ed ebraismo), diventa elemento fondamentale e rappresenta il valore identitario dell’Iniziativa. In questo quadro, la mostra “La Turchia ride” rappresenta uno dei momenti più significativi dell’iniziativa Adriatico-Mediterraneo, perché non si tratta di una semplice mostra di fumetti, ma di un efficace strumento per conoscere l’odierna Turchia e per riflettere sulle questioni della modernità, della politica, della tolleranza in un Paese che attualmente vive tra isolamento e integrazione.
La Regione Marche, attraverso la realizzazione di questo evento, dà concretezza al modello di cooperazione internazionale costruito in questi anni, un modello capace di far crescere e sviluppare le comunità locali costruendo concreti percorsi di democrazia contro tentazioni integraliste e nazionaliste che sono sempre portatrici di violenza.
E’ questo un punto centrale del programma di governo della Regione Marche: la cooperazione è lo strumento insostituibile di quella politica di pace a cui la nostra regione è particolarmente chiamata.
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Patrizia Casagrande Esposto Presidente Provincia di Ancona
Carlo Maria Pesaresi Assessore alla Cultura Provincia di Ancona
“Chi fa satira vede sempre più avanti rispetto agli altri”.
Lo dice Mehmet Çagçag, uno dei fondatori e condirettore di LeMan, la rivista di satira più famosa della Turchia, un vero e proprio settimanale di attualità politica completamente a fumetti, i cui personaggi sono ormai punti di riferimento
per tutta la società turca.
Con “La Turchia Ride” ci è offerta l’occasione di ospitare ad Ancona le opere di alcuni suoi autori. È un evento importante, parte integrante e significativa di “Adriatico Mediterraneo Klezmer 2007”, manifestazione ambiziosa e innovativa.
Alla Mole Vanvitelliana, circondati da un mare che deve saper unire popoli e culture, gli autori di LeMan ci aprono gli occhi - e la mente - su un grande Paese che attraversa ora una fase delicata, fatta di grandi cambiamenti sociali e di una controversa candidatura europea, al quale forse ci lega un’immagine carica di troppi luoghi comuni.
La mostra offre molti spunti di riflessione: sul possibile concetto di modernità, sulla politica, sullo scontro religioso e sul conflitto tra uomini e donne. Il quotidiano turco viene letto e desacralizzato, le abitudini comportamentali e politiche messe in discussione.
È lo spazio della libertà quello in cui si muovono gli artisti di LeMan ed è un dovere, ancor prima che un grande piacere, ospitarli nella nostra Provincia.
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Fabio Sturani Sindaco Comune di Ancona
Questo catalogo è un documento importante per gli esperti e per gli appassionati del mondo della satira e del fumetto. “La Turchia ride” è, infatti, una mostra dedicata alla tradizione vignettistica e satirica turca, che, come noto agli esperti, è di grande qualità e ampiezza. E i disegnatori della rivista LeMan, protagonisti in prima persona dell’evento anconetano, sono conosciuti, non solo in patria, come intellettuali liberi e impegnati nella politica e nella società.
Per Ancona, però, questo volume ha una valenza in più: è, e sarà ricordato in futuro, anche come uno dei primi documenti di questo nuovo percorso che, con il festival “adriatico Mediterraneo Klezmer”, che ospita la mostra e che quest’anno è alla sua prima edizione, vuole alimentare il circolo virtuoso di idee, di scambi e di esperienze tra popoli accomunati dallo stesso mare.
L’Amministrazione comunale crede in questa formula, che rispecchia profondamente la natura di Ancona: centro dell’Adriatico e del Mediterraneo, porta dell’Est, punto di passaggio e di compenetrazione di culture e tradizioni diverse.
E la Turchia si pone, in questo contesto, come Paese centrale nell’ottica di allargamento a Oriente dell’Europa, per il quale anche la nostra città e il mare Adriatico sono sempre più strategici.
La nostra ambizione è quella di dar vita a un appuntamento stabile, a un’occasione per approfondire, anno dopo anno, la nostra storia e il nostro presente.
L’auspicio, dunque, è che il lavoro che ha portato a realizzare la mostra e, poi, queste pagine, prosegua nel tempo, contribuendo
a far crescere questa grande e composita comunità del Mediterraneo, le cui frontiere, come afferma lo scrittore Predrag Matvejevic, “non sono né statali, né nazionali”.
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Andrea Nobili Presidente A.M. Adriatico/Mediterraneo
Qualcosa di più di una semplice mostra di fumetti: un modo diverso e originale per tentare di conoscere l’odierna Turchia.
La satira è uno strumento straordinario per riflettere sulle questioni della modernità, della politica, dello scontro religioso e del conflitto tra uomini e donne. In questo caso ci viene offerto un vero e proprio spaccato sociale di un Paese in bilico tra isolamento e integrazione.
Guardando questo vignette si scopre una realtà nascosta all’Occidente. Idee in movimento per una Turchia in grado di tollerare le diversità, senza discriminazioni sessuali, per una Turchia in cui i conservatori islamici non possano costringere la parte di popolazione più moderna a fare ciò che non vuole, per una Turchia in cui ci siano soldi a sufficienza per tutti e più sicurezza per i bambini.
Sappiamo che la miopia dell’Europa rischia di consegnare la Turchia al fondamentalismo islamico. Perché le strade a disposizione di quel Paese sono solo due: da una parte l’aggancio con l’Unione Europea e con quegli ordinamenti liberali che governano le nostre nazioni, dall’altra l’isolamento
nazionalista che precede la vittoria del fondamentalismo.
Quest’ultima ipotesi sarebbe una sconfitta storica. La Turchia, ad oggi, rappresenta una delle poche incarnazioni geopolitiche di quell’Islam moderato e democratico di cui tutti a parole diciamo di avere un gran bisogno.
Nel nostro piccolo abbiamo deciso da che parte stare, credendo nel processo di integrazione europea della Turchia e nella possibilità di una nazione insieme islamica e democratica. Per questo sosteniamo con convinzione l’impegno di chi, anche con disegni e caricature, si batte per la libertà, l’emancipazione sociale e la democrazia.
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Elettra Stamboulis Associazione Culturale MIRADA
Nel nostro immaginario la Turchia è un Paese in cui si portano ostinatamente i baffi, si fuma liberamente il narghilé, la mattina ti sveglia il muezzin e il caffè ha un fondo denso che per noi diventa un problema quando lo beviamo velocemente come un espresso… La Turchia ha però molte facce, molte identità e una storia fatta di molti incontri. Incontri tra culture, lingue, etnie diverse.
Il nostro incontro ha avuto luogo, come spesso accade, in un bazar, quello di Bursa. Vagando tra le bancarelle di piccola oggettistica e spezie ci siamo imbattuti in un venditore di libri usati, una delle nostre passioni, anche se non conosciamo neanche una parola di turco. E oh! Sorpresa! In mezzo a tante copertine decorate, spiccavano moltissimi fumetti. Ma non riviste di fumetti con personaggi tradotti, per bambini o ragazzini che amano l’avventura, come succede da noi. Riviste che si capiva erano per adulti, con scene evidentemente hard: la forza comunicativa del disegno sta proprio in questo. Anche se non capivamo le parole, era chiarissimo qual era l’impostazione generale di queste storie. Parlavano della contemporaneità, della vita di tutti i giorni, satireggiando e ironizzando su tutto, senza paura. Ne abbiamo comprate dieci, costavano 50 centesimi l’una. Il giorno dopo abbiamo scritto alla redazione, dicendo che ci sarebbe piaciuto conoscere gli autori. E così è stato.
Leman è una rivista che esce dal 1985 anni in Turchia ogni settimana: si tratta di un fenomeno editoriale inesplorato in Europa. Nessuno dei nostri amici amanti del fumetto lo conosceva, e questo la dice lunga sulla distanza che ancora ci separa da questo Paese che aspira ad entrare in Europa. Ogni settimana Leman analizza e critica e ironizza quanto avviene a livello politico e sociale nel Paese. L’avventura di Leman ha costituito il seguito della rivista storica Girgir, il cui animatore Oguz Aral è morto 2 anni fa. Questo disegnatore è considerato il maestro sia da Mehmet ÇaGçaG che dall’altro co – fondatore Tuncay Akgün, ma è un maestro un po’ per tutti coloro che hanno spirito critico nel Paese della mezzaluna. Oltre a Leman, il gruppo edita anche libri che raccolgono le strisce dei personaggi fissi della rivista, stampano altre due riviste (una mensile sempre solo a fumetti e un mensile di politica con articoli e foto), gestiscono un café che si trova vicino alla centrale piazza Taksim e hanno anche il tempo di perdere tempo bevendo thé nel locale sotto gli uffici della redazione. A volte penso che siano clonati.
È molto divertente osservare chi legge Leman per strada o sul tram: innanzitutto chi lo compra lo mette bene in vista. È come una sorta di passaporto identitario. Per leggerlo lo spiega davanti a sé come un lenzuolo, così anche i vicini possono dargli un’occhiata. E ovviamente ride. Non con la risata a squarciagola, ma con la risata dell’intelligenza. Inoltre la buona educazione prevede che, se finisce di leggerlo prima di scendere dal mezzo, lo lasci sul sedile, così qualcun altro lo potrà leggere.
Questa pratica di lasciare le copie sulle panchine, nei bar, sugli autobus, è molto comune: tanto che le copie lette sono stimate essere molto di più di quelle vendute. E comunque le copie distribuite sono 100.000, con una media di venduto di 50/60.000 copie. Certo, l’epoca di Girgir che vendeva 500.000 copie è finita, spazzata via dalla velocità di Internet.
Ma è anche vero che questa rivista era molto più soft di Leman, doveva piacere a tutti, e quindi la satira in un certo senso si autocensurava. Inoltre era molto legata all’opposizione alla giunta militare: finita la giunta, sembrava che fosse finita la sua ragion d’essere, mentre Leman è critica non solo contro i fascismi, ma anche verso gli islamici radicali, i taboo, le feudalità, la cultura della conservazione…
L’impianto è molto caricaturista. I personaggi rappresentano una sintesi eccessiva della società turca: il militante lento e sempre a riposo Bekir, il rivoltante tassista Kozalak, non sono altro che macchiette di personaggi effettivamente esistenti. Difatti i nomi dei personaggi a fumetti sono diventati
aggettivi utilizzati in modo popolare per definire un certo modo di essere e di comportarsi.
LeMan è anche una fucina per le nuove leve: l’ultima pagina è sempre dedicata agli autori in erba e alle vignette dei lettori. La redazione riceve proposte anche dai villaggi sperduti dell’Anatolia, e questo è molto importante per comprendere quanto la rivista è trasversale socialmente nel Paese.
Recentemente Tayyip Erdogan, il Primo Ministro turco, ha avviato un azione legale contro il direttore della rivista in cui chiede 26.000 euro di risarcimento per la sua caricatura.
Ma il mondo del disegno turco è ormai allenato al boicottaggio e alle aule dei tribunali: Tuncay è vissuto come fuggitivo per 15 anni, mentre Guneri è stato imprigionato per il suo lavoro. Il potere non ama mai che si rida di lui ed attua le tattiche che meglio conosce per emarginare la critica. Nell’occidente “civilizzato” si usa l’arma della morte commerciale, in Turchia dove l’autoritarismo è più a briglia sciolta, si usa l’arma legale, in Paesi come l’Algeria dove c’era una guerra civile si usava l’estinzione fisica, l’omicidio.
I disegnatori algerini sopravvissuti sono quelli espatriati in Francia.
L’importante è sapere che nel Paese dei muezzin e del caffè turco, c’è chi ancora resiste, usando l’intelligenza e la matita, per raccontare una versione della realtà che non è quella edulcorata dei canali del potere. Scusate se è poco.
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Peronaggi in mostra:
Bezgin Bekir:
Personaggio creato da Tuncay Akgün.
È lento, calmo. È sempre seduto o steso sui cuscini con i suoi gatti e il suo narghilé. È un buontempone, un conforto per chi si sente vinto dalla velocità dei nostri tempi. È anche un attivista politico, ma forse il termine “attivista” è poco adeguato ai suoi tempi lunghi. È un intellettuale, ma questo lo percepiamo non dalle sue parole, ma dalle sue azioni e dalla sua attitudine verso gli eventi.
“Bezgin Bekir” è diventato oggi un aggettivo nel linguaggio parlato per descrivere un certo tipo di persone, quelli che sono molto lenti nel fare le cose, che vogliono cambiare il mondo seduti sul loro sofà.
Daral & Timsah:
Personaggi creati da Mehmet ÇaGçaG.
Anche il nome di questi personaggi è usato come aggettivo nel linguaggio quotidiano.
Daral è il figlio di un padre molto ricco che cerca il senso della vita. Sua madre è morta quando era bambino, l’ha allevato suo padre. Ha un grande buco nell’anima, non può riempirlo, si annoia e non sa cosa fare.
Timsah invece è un fallito, ma per saltare in una classe sociale più alta, vive come un borghese. Non è un intellettuale,
il suo mondo si basa sulle marche, il lusso e il sesso. È un Casanova.
Quando Daral e Timsah si incontrano, anche se non hanno nulla in comune, Daral si lega a Timsah moltissimo. Timsah
è diventato uno dei personaggio più popolari tra i giovani. Nei primi anni di creazione, era un po’ estremo e immaginario.
Ma oggi questo personaggio non è per niente originale, perché milioni di giovani sono di fatto come lui.
Kozalak:
Personaggio creato da Mehmet Çagçag.
È un tassista. È ignorante, rude, volgare ma anche coraggioso e aggressivo. Viene da un villaggio e insiste nel vivere in città seguendo le sue regole. È immorale, ma è molto moralista. Ha una ragazza, ?ehriye che porta il capo coperto dal velo e ha anche un amante travestito, Fethi. Ogni settimana ha un’avventura differente. È uno dei personaggi più divertenti.
Gönül Adami:
Personaggio creato da Güneri Içoglu.
È un vecchio gentleman di Istanbul, un musicista, un “neyzen” (un suonatore di flauto ad ancia). Vive in un vecchio quartiere di Istanbul sul Bosforo, attorniato di vecchie case di legno.. Gönül Adam? e il suo amico francese Jean Pierre litigano sempre su Occidente e Oriente. Getta del simit (pane tondo turco con il sesamo) ai gabbiani mentre viaggio sul Bosforo in vaporetto, aiuta i pescatori vecchio stile, corre al salvataggio se c’è una vecchia casa in legno che va a fuoco...
C’è sempre una lacrima sul suo viso perché non può sopportare i grandi edifici che crescono uno dopo l’altro accanto alle vecchie case.
Anche Gönül Adam è diventato un aggettivo nel linguaggio comune per descrivere le persone che vivono sempre nella nostalgia del fascinoso passato di Istanbul, che cercano i luoghi “veri” e un po’ rattoppati, emozionandosi di fronte a catapecchie e lacerti di passato.
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Autori in mostra:
Ramize Erer è nata nel 1963. Si è diplomata all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Istanbul, ma ha cominciato a realizzare fumetti già dalle Scuole Superiori. Il suo primo fumetto è stato pubblicato sulla più prestigiosa rivista di comics turca ovvero GirGir! e, insieme ad altre fumettiste donne, ha creato una striscia a fumetti chiamata Senza baffi. Il suo personaggio Partner Nadide è stato all’inizio pubblicato sulla rivista, fondata da lei e da altri amici, Hibir, nata dopo che avevano deciso di chiudere GirGir!. Più tardi ha cominciato a disegnare per molte riviste, tra cui la rivista femminista Paravfesi e Leman. Per dieci anni ha disegnato la striscia giornaliera per uno dei principali quotidiani turchi, Radikal. Il titolo della striscia era Dangerous liaisons e veniva disegnato dal lunedì al venerdì, mentre sabato e domenica usciva la striscia chiamata Cattiva ragazza. I libri a fumetti da lei pubblicati includono Senza baffi, Partner Nadide, Dangerous liaisons, Cattiva ragazza e Matrimoni. Quest’ultimo raccoglie una serie di strisce ironiche e disincantate sui matrimoni turchi, laici e non: una sorta di spaccato sociale dell’odierna turchia osservata dal punto di vista della camera da letto.
Ramize Erer è sposata con Tuncay Akgin, anch’egli fumettista e fondatore della rivista Le man. Vivono ad Istanbul
Güneri Içoglu è nato nel 1965. Da bambino, ha cominciato a disegnare fumetti come allievo di Ouz Aral, fondatore della famosa rivista GirGir. Ha lavorato in numerose riviste tra cui Girgir, Firt, Limon, Leman, Lemanyak.
È stato incarcerato nel 1989: uno dei suoi fumetti è stato considerato “un insulto per la tradizione turca” ed è stato condannato a dieci mesi di prigione. Dopo un mese è stato rilasciato grazie ad un’amnistia generale.
Al momento è un disegnatore e scrittore fisso di Leman. In questo periodo il suo personaggio più noto è Gönül Adam? e Dumur. Il suo personaggio
Gönül Adami è un musicista classico turco ed un suonatore di strumenti musicali mistici tradizionali: egli rimpiange tutto ciò che è passato e cerca continuamente nella modernità tracce di retrò. Gli fa da spalla l’amico francese Jean Pierre, che lo prende continuamente in giro per questa sua inguaribile nostalgia.
È di fatto un alter ego dell’autore, che oltre a disegnare, suona e canta anche canzoni tradizionali greche e turche.
Mehmet ÇaGçaG co – fondatore della rivista LeMan, è la vera anima editoriale di questa importante realtà turca. Considerato lui stesso un personaggio della cultura critica della Turchia, segue da vicino tutti i progetti (quattro riviste editate, una serie di libri, un bar caffè a due piani nell’antica Pera…e molte altre cose) senza perdere mai la bussola. Il suo personaggio più famoso è Kozalak: è un tassista ignorante, rude, volgare, tanto da diventare a volte aggressivo. Viene da un villaggio e insiste nel vivere in città seguendo le sue regole. La sua vita è immorale, ma lui al contrario è molto moralista. Difatti ha una ragazza, ?ehriye che porta il capo coperto dal velo e con la quale è molto moralista, ma ha anche un amante travestito, Fethi. Ogni settimana ha un’avventura differente e rappresenta tutto quanto Mehmet non ama nel suo Paese. È ovviamente un personaggio molto divertente.
Tuncay Akgun è uno dei fondatori della rivista Le man. Di carattere schivo, non ama stare sotto i riflettori e continua la sua vita lenta di quartiere frequentando assiduamente il “cafenion”: questo aspetto del suo carattere, si riflette nel suo personaggio più famoso, Bezgin Bekir, che è sempre seduto o steso sui cuscini con i suoi gatti e il suo narghilé. È un buontempone, un conforto per chi si sente vinto dalla velocità dei nostri tempi. È anche un attivista e un intellettuale, elemento che non emerge dalle parole, ma dalle azioni del personaggio. “Bezgin Bekir” è un personaggio paradigmatico, diventato oggi un aggettivo nel linguaggio parlato per descrivere un certo tipo di persone.
Tuncay è stato considerato persona non grata durante gli anni della giunta militare, in cui è vissuto senza passaporto in semi clandestinità.
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LA TURCHIA RIDE
Ramize ERER - Mehmet ÇAGÇAG - Tuncay AKGÜN - Güneri IÇOGLU
8 -16 Settembre 2007 Mole Vanvitelliana - Ancona
Coordinamento organizzativo e progetto a cura di: Elettra Stamboulis e Gianluca Costantini
Collaboratori: Viola Giacometti, Barbara Colombo, Linda Landi, Leonardo Guardigli, Tania Pavirani
Traduzioni: Aylin Attar
Ideazione grafica: Associazione Culturale Mirada
new improved chart to the wallpaper hat.
shows half the hat, cast on 176 stitches. the lower edge stripes is knit as a latvian braid. i did my decreases as sl2k1psso.
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After a long time…
It’s time again for…
The YODA QUESTIONS!
„Your opinion you tell me! “
Who do you like more?
The droids or the clones?
(BTW i've finally got my recharger back ^^)
WeatherGirl was particularly keen to return to the V&A because she wanted to see their temporary exhibit Out of the ordinary: Spectacular craft. There was some very cool work there a number of different (and very diverse) artists, all of whom share a certain obsessive quality and intense level of detail. (It reminded us a lot of Jess Larson's cool work, especially her wonderful girdles.)
I took quite a few photos of the artworks, but (much to my surprise) this may be my favorite. Naomi Filmer focuses on the human body, but taking unusual views or using unusual techniques. This is from a lenticular image where you see this face in different ways as you move around it; I really like the superposition of these two angles.
One of my gorgeous nieces (I'm lucky to have 6). One of her favourite games with her dad is for him to ask her a "really hard question but not so hard". Captured while she was waiting for the "really hard question".
Agriculture Secretary To Vilsack, answers questions for the press at the USDA headquarters in Washington. D.C. on October 25, 2022. Building on the momentum of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, USDA host a ‘Come to the Table’ National Summit on Nutrition Security and Healthcare. The USDA Summit brings together key actors in the healthcare sector to showcase their efforts to advance nutrition security and learn about innovative approaches and best practices. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 42% of American adults – about 100 million people – suffered from obesity before the pandemic began. Nearly three-fourths of American adults are overweight or obese. Roughly one in five children also suffers from obesity. The costs associated with rising rates of obesity- along with diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and cancer – are among the greatest threats to the fiscal future of the United States. USDA and its partners at HHS are taking a whole-of-government approach to tackling this issue. When we reduce diet-related disease, we save money for all Americans through reduced healthcare expenditures at hospitals, healthcare plans, VA clinics, local health clinics, and Medicare/Medicaid while enabling Americans to lead healthier, more productive lives. (USDA photos by Christophe Paul)
Events as they are unfolding in the Dail this afternoon, October 3.
The proceedings can be accessed from this link Dail TV
Below is a copy of the statement released by the Labour Party leader Deputy Pat Rabbitte
HEART OF MATTER IS : ‘WAS AHERN RIGHT TO ACCEPT MONIES?’
It is fair comment that the Opposition has shown restraint in the matter of the Taoiseach accepting money for private use while a serving Minister. However, since Mr Ahern had created a context that sought to explain the Drumcondra monies in terms of his private family affairs, common decency required that opposition politicians should have demonstrated a certain restraint.
And then on Sunday I heard Minister of State, Conor Lenihan, ridicule that restraint. It was, he said, ineffectiveness, not decency, on the part of the Opposition. The suggestion was apparently that the Opposition should cut through the smokescreen to the heart of the matter. To me the heart of the matter is: was Mr Ahern right to do what he did? Is it remotely credible that monies outstanding for 13 years, without any repayment of any kind, can suddenly be called loans? You don’t need to be as bright as Minister Lenihan to know that these transactions, if they happened, were gifts and therefore there are tax implications.
Can we do more than highlight the absolute impropriety of a serving Minister for Finance accepting payment for a nixer outside the State. Never mind the “no law was broken” defence. By any standards it was wrong. What would have happened to a Senior Civil Servant in the Department of Finance if he trousered money for a private encounter in Manchester? He would be sacked. Why is it alright for the Minister but not alright for the civil servant? What does it say about this Government’s standards that not a single Cabinet Minister can bring himself or herself to say what everybody knows: that what happened at Manchester was wrong. You believe in the tooth fairy if you believe that businessmen happen along to a function in a posh hotel to listen to any old Joe Soap talk to them about the Irish economy and then organise an impromptu collection to give him something for himself.
In normal life you get gifts from your friends and you take loans from strangers. Yet Mr Ahern got loans from his friends and gifts from strangers.
Maybe Minister of State Lenihan’s derision of the Opposition is because we didn’t adequately probe behind the discreet veil drawn over the other 50,000 by Mr Ahern when he says enigmatically that he “put back into” his account. “Back into his account from where”? is the questions that must be answered. Where was the 50.000 resting since Mr Ahern didn’t have a bank account? In a sock in the hotpress? If the Taoiseach says this 50.000 was savings I accept that but if he enjoyed a T.D’s salary, a Ministerial salary and the use of a premises bought by friends of Fianna Fail, how can it be portrayed that he was in straitened circumstances?
Why if there were 50.000 in “savings” was it necessary to raise a Bank loan and if a Bank Loan was in place why was it necessary to have a whiparound to replace the Bank Loan ?
An effective Opposition doing its job must ask the Taoiseach: have you evaded tax? Why did you say you paid CGT and gift tax? Why is that relevant here? Are you serious that you had no Bank account while Minister for Finance? Did you have a Bank Account elsewhere on the Island? Or outside the jurisdiction? Or did someone else open one on your behalf? If the whiparound was among friends why is there a cheque in there for 5,000 from NCB stockbrokers? How many times have NCB been retained by the State? How many of the donors were appointed on how many occasions to state boards? Who were the donors in Manchester? What was the function? Are they involved in business in Ireland? Did any of them win state contracts? Is this another loop in the golden circle?
Our new Tanaiste is also impatient with the Opposition. On Thursday he told the House he could scarcely forbear to sit in silence and watch the Opposition squander the opportunity for accountability. Well the Tanaiste had better grow accustomed to sitting in silence. The only question he will be allowed at Cabinet after this debacle is “Bhuil cead agam dul amach?” Mr McDowell sought and got a mandate to ride shotgun on Fianna Fail standards in government. He has comprehensively failed the first test. As he said himself:
“A party that stands for nothing will stand for anything.”
If the Tanaiste can no longer ask questions aloud maybe he would ask himself what Des O’Malley would have said if the Taoiseach of the day admitted receiving money, not for political purposes, but for his private use while a serving Minister?
Forget the orchestrated phone-ins to radio stations, the unscientific polls and the packed television audiences, was it right or wrong to accept money for private use while a serving Minister? You are on the record as saying you did nothing wrong and your Cabinet Ministers without exception have parroted that line. Brian Lenihan alone said it would be unthinkable.
But all the rest Hannafin, O’Donoghue, O’Dea, Dempsey, Ahern, Coughlan, Martin and Cullen can see no wrong. If anything demonstrates why this country needs a change of government it is the media parade of your Ministers, blind to standards, defending the indefensible.
We used to play 20 questions in the car when I was a kid, in those long ago olden days before cars came with TVs in the headrests...the second question was always 'Is it bigger than a bread box'? I'm not sure we even knew what a bread box was, 'cause I don't think we had one... but that phrase keeps popping into my mind nowadays... it's about women and girls and body image, and the struggles we go through... Why can't I stop stressing about my body, and is it too big, or too flabby, or I'm putting the wrong foods in, or I'm not exercising enough, or SHE must be a happy person 'cause she's so damn skinny, and really, truly, who gives a BLEEP if I'm bigger than a bread box!
So this is made in defiance, to be stuck on the fridge when I'm eating well, and when I'm not eating well, and with shoulders squared back, and chin in air I say, "I AM bigger than a bread box!"
it's a magnet for sale at my etsy shop! see profile for details!
long section: Allium root tip
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Captain Rod McNaughton (Boeing Korea) answers questions during the investigative hearing into the crash landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214.
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She was a beauty--a gold 45 goddess for sure! A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
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A laid-back,classic, socal lifestyle shoot!
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All 45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography is shot in the honor of Truth, Beauty, and the Light of Physicist Dr. E's Moving Dimensions Theory's dx4/dt=ic . The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c. Ergo relativity, time, entropy, and entanglement.
All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
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Local Accession Number: 2012.AAP.456
Title: A question of color by F. C. Philips
Date issued: 1890-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 31 x 36 cm.
Summary: Scales are weighing between Cupid and a bag of money.
Genre: Book & magazine posters; Lithographs
Subjects: Cupids; Money
Notes: Title from item.
Date note: Date supplied by cataloger.
Statement of responsibility: Lincoln
Collection: American Art Posters 1890-1920
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Special Thanks to the folks from AltLab in Lisbon for answering all my questions about their 3D printer and for printing the microformats logo.
You can download the file from thingiverse to print these yourself if you have a 3D printer.
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The discussion will address a key question at the heart of the international economic and political landscape: have the benefits of globalization been oversold? Slow global growth and increasing inequality, civil conflict and refugee flows, and the rise of political figures espousing nationalist and protectionist positions pose difficult challenges to global interconnectedness. Panelists will offer fresh perspectives on these emerging issues.
USMA Superintendent, Lt. Gen. Darryl L. Williams, Col. Col. Deborah McDonald, Director of Admissions, Command Sgt. Maj. Jack Love, USMA Senior Enlisted Leader and cadet from the local area speak with candidates at a West Point Admissions brief before the Army vs. University of Texas at San Antonio football game. They answered questions about the admissions process, cadet life and serving in the U.S. Army.
To the Zion Narrows and Wall Street! Sony A7RII Fine Art Zion National Park Autumn Winter Hike! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape Photography!
An important thing to remember is that even though pixel sizes keep getting smaller and smaller, the technology is advancing, so the smaller pixels are more efficient at collecting light. For instance, the Sony A7rII is back-illuminated which allows more photons to hit the sensor. Semiconductor technology is always advancing, so the brilliant engineers are always improving the signal/noise ratio. Far higher pixel counts, as well as better dynamic ranger, are thus not only possible, but the future!
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And all the best on Your Epic Hero's Odyssey!
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View your artistic mission into photography as an epic odyssey of heroic poetry! Take it from Homer in Homer's Odyssey: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. " --Samuel Butler Translation of Homer's Odyssey
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