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Project 365 - day 292
So, long train of thoughts but bear with me: I didn't take a book this time for my travel. My plane was delayed (once again, EasyJet sucks) so I bought "My shit life so far", by Frankie Boyle. Absolutely incorrect, politically speaking, and fucking hilarious.
He explains in the book he is a bit of a comic fan, and I remembered that one of my friends in Madrid is also into comics. So I thought, why not? And I borrowed from him, "Game Keeper" by Guy Ritchie.
Apart from having read all the Tintin and Asterix books before I was 12, I have never been into comics. But I thought they are a big influence to our current culture and they could influence in a way my photography as well.
Back to Game Keeper, the story is quite gripping, I read it in one go and I was completely blown away by Mukesh Singh's illustrations. The angles, the composition, the colours... all of it is quite a mesmerising cinematic experience
So yes, maybe thanks to another delayed EasyJet flight, comics could be my next hobby... I have already bought V for Vendetta on Amazon, and I'll take it from there.
By the way, I read Frankie Boyle's book in two days as well :) Really recommended.
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On Monday, November 12, at 6 p.m., Washington University Libraries' Department of Special Collections re-launched the Modern Literature Reading Series, which celebrates both the authors in the Modern Literature Collection and those poets and writers influenced by them today.
Similar to the first Modern Literature Reading Series, which ran from 2000 to 2005, the new series will hold one event each semester and feature readers from the student body, the faculty, and/or outside writers. Each reader focuses on one author and reads excerpts from that author’s work or manuscripts that speak to the reader in some way. The readers are also invited to present their own work inspired or influenced by the writer in question.
Renowned poet and WUSTL faculty member Carl Phillips headlined the fall 2012 event, held in Special Collections, on Level 1 of Olin Library. Phillips read and discussed the work of Robert Creeley. Two current WUSTL MFA poets, Catherine Chiodo and Philip Williams, also read, with Chiodo focusing on Donald Finkel and Williams on Robert Duncan.
Joel Minor, curator of manuscripts and modern literature for Special Collections, proposed reviving the Reading Series after talking with Writer-in-Residence Jennifer Kronovet, who mentioned participating in the original incarnation of the Reading Series when she was an MFA student here.
“Jennifer sparked the idea,” Minor says, “and then later graciously agreed to help me get it off the ground again. I am excited by this opportunity to partner with the MFA Writing Program on a regular basis and to help connect generations of poets and writers to audiences through manuscripts.”
Inaugurated in 1964, the Modern Literature Collection at Washington University Libraries was created as an archive of the work of contemporary English and American writers who were considered critically underappreciated and whose reputations might grow further in the years to come. Today, the Collection’s list has grown to more than 175 authors, presses, and journals, with more than 125 of these represented by manuscript materials.
A reception followed the reading. For more information, contact Special Collections at 314-935-5495 or visit library.wustl.edu/units/spec/.
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Panel Discussion “Influencing Change – Donor Climate Finance at Work”
A key event of the Donor Programme was a panel entitled Influencing Change – Donor Climate Finance at Work where we heard about the role donors and the private sector play in shaping the post-Paris environment in the EBRD region.
This focused on the scaling up of the EBRD’s green finance between now and 2020, which will support countries’ ambitions to move to a low-carbon, green growth path.
The Programme also offered an opportunity for donors and the EBRD to discuss the results of their partnership, progress over the past year as well as future challenges and reforms. The Donor Report 2015 was also launched. The day concluded with a donor Assembly of the SEMED Multi-donor Fund, which will include a session on the Bank’s refugee response.
Agenda:
09:00 – 10:30 Panel Discussion “Influencing Change – Donor Climate Finance at Work”
Event Room 3, Level 2, EBRD Headquarters
Open to all.
10:45 – 13:00 Annual Donor Meeting
Boardroom, Level 10, EBRD Headquarters
By invitation only.
14:30 – 15:30 Update on EBRD’s Refugee Response
CSO Meeting Room, Level 2, EBRD Headquarters
Open to all.
15:30 – 17:30 Meeting of The Assembly of Contributors of The Southern And Eastern Mediterranean Multi Donor Account
CSO Meeting Room, Level 2, EBRD Headquarters
By invitation only.
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Hội An is a city of Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam. It is located in Quảng Nam Province and is home to approximately 120,000 inhabitants. It is recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Hội An Ancient Town is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century. Its buildings and its street plan reflect the influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique heritage site.The city possessed the largest harbour in Southeast Asia in the 1st century and was known as Lâm Ấp Phố (Champa City). Between the seventh and 10th centuries, the Cham (people of Champa) controlled the strategic spice trade and with this came tremendous wealth. The former harbour town of the Cham at the estuary of the Thu Bồn River was an important Vietnamese trading centre in the 16th and 17th centuries, where Chinese from various provinces as well as Japanese, Dutch and Indians settled. During this period of the China trade, the town was called Hai Pho (Seaside Town) in Vietnamese. Originally, Hai Pho was a divided town with the Japanese settlement across the "Japanese Bridge" (16th-17th century). The bridge (Chùa cầu) is a unique covered structure built by the Japanese, the only known covered bridge with a Buddhist temple attached to one side.
ETYMOLOGY
Hội An translates as "peaceful meeting place". In English and other European languages, the town was known historically as Faifo. This word is derived from Vietnamese Hội An phố (the town of Hội An), which was shortened to "Hoi-pho", and then to "Faifo".
HISTORY
The early history of Hội An is that of the Cham. These Austronesian-speaking Malayo-Polynesian peoples created the Champa Empire which occupied much of what is now central and lower Vietnam, from Huế to beyond Nha Trang. Various linguistic connections between Cham and the related Jarai language and the Austronesian languages of Indonesia (particularly Acehnese), Malaya, Cambodia and Hainan has been documented. In the early years, Mỹ Sơn was the spiritual capital, Trà Kiệu was the political capital and Hội An was the commercial capital of the Champa Empire - later, by the 14th century, the Cham moved further down towards Nha Trang. The river system was the transportation for goods between the highlands, inland countries of Laos and Thailand and the low lands.In 1535 Portuguese explorer and sea captain António de Faria, coming from Đà Nẵng, tried to establish a major trading center at the port village of Faifo. Hội An was founded as a trading port by the Nguyễn Lord Nguyễn Hoàng sometime around 1595. The Nguyễn lords were far more interested in commercial activity than the Trịnh lords who ruled the north. As a result, Hội An flourished as a trading port and became the most important trade port on the South China Sea. Captain William Adams, the English sailor and confidant of Tokugawa Ieyasu, is known to have made at least one trading mission to Hội An (around 1619). The early Portuguese Jesuits also had one of their two residences at Hội An.
In the 18th century, Hội An was considered by Chinese and Japanese merchants to be the best destination for trading in all of Southeast Asia, even Asia. Japanese believed the heart of all of Asia (the dragon) lay beneath the earth of Hội An. The city also rose to prominence as a powerful and exclusive trade conduit between Europe, China, India, and Japan, especially for the ceramic industry. Shipwreck discoveries have shown that Vietnamese and Asian ceramics were transported from Hội An to as far as Sinai, Egypt.Hội An's importance waned sharply at the end of the 18th century because of the collapse of Nguyễn rule (thanks to the Tây Sơn Rebellion - which was opposed to foreign trade).
Then, with the triumph of Emperor Gia Long, he repaid the French for their aid by giving them exclusive trade rights to the nearby port town of Đà Nẵng. Đà Nẵng became the new center of trade (and later French influence) in central Vietnam while Hội An was a forgotten backwater. Local historians also say that Hội An lost its status as a desirable trade port due to silting up of the river mouth. The result was that Hội An remained almost untouched by the changes to Vietnam over the next 200 years.
Today, the town is a tourist attraction because of its history, traditional architecture and crafts such as textiles and ceramics. Many bars, hotels, and resorts have been constructed both in Hội An and the surrounding area. The port mouth and boats are still used for both fishing and tourism.
WEATHER
Calm mild weather is now limited to the season of May/June - end of August when the seas are calm and wind changes direction and comes from the South. The remainder of the year the weather is intermittent between rain & cold and hot & mild. Popular activities such as visiting offshore Cù lao Chàm islands are only guaranteed to be likely during the short season of end of May to end of August, which is the high season for domestic tourism.
HERITAGE AND TOURISM
In 1999, the old town was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as a well-preserved example of a Southeast Asian trading port of the 15th to 19th centuries, with buildings that display a unique blend of local and foreign influences. According to the UNESCO Impact Report 2008 on Hội An, tourism has bought changes to the area which are not sustainable without mitigation. Due to the increased number of tourists visiting Hoi An a variety of activities are emerging which allow guests to get out of the old quarter and explore by motorbike, bicycle, Kayak or motorboat. The Thu Bon River is still essential to the region more than 500 years after António de Faria first navigated it and it remains an essential form of food production and transport. As such kayak and motorboat rides are becoming an increasingly popular tourist activity.
MUSEUM
The city has four museums highlighting the history of the region. These museums are managed by the Hoi An Center for Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation. Entrance to the museum is permitted with a Hoi An Entrance Ticket.
The Museum of History and Culture, at 13 Nguyen Hue St, was originally a pagoda, built in the 17th century by Minh Huong villagers to worship the Quan An, and is adjacent to the Quan Cong temple. It contains original relics from the Sa Huynh, Champa, Dai Viet and Dai Nam periods, tracing the history of Hoi An's inhabitants from its earliest settlers through to French colonial times.
The Hoi An Folklore Museum, at 33 Nguyen Thai Hoc St, was opened in 2005, and is the largest two-storey wooden building in the old town, at 57m long and 9m wide, with fronts at Nguyen Thai Hoc St and Bach Dang St. On the second floor, there are 490 artifacts, organised into four areas: plastic folk arts, performing folk arts, traditional occupations and artefacts related to the daily life of Hoi An residents.
The Museum of Trade Ceramics is located at 80 Tran Phu St, and was established in 1995, in a restored wooden building, originally built around 1858. The items originating from Persia, China, Thailand, India and other countries are proof of the importance of Hội An as a major trading port in South East Asia.
The Museum of Sa Huỳnh Culture, is located at 149 Tran Phu St. Established in 1994, this museum displays a collection of over 200 artifacts from the Sa Huỳnh culture - considered to be the original settlers on the Hội An site - dating to over 2000 years ago. This museum is considered to be the most unique collection of Sa Huỳnh artefacts in Vietnam.
WIKIPEDIA
No, it wasn't The Phantoms, but 8 years after this 1969 photo was taken, the bassist (pictured here at a Madison High school dance), guitarist Greg Sage & drummer Sam Henry would join together as The Wipers.
Musicologists would later cite the Wipers as a major influence in shaping the sound of Mudhoney, Nirvana, Hole, Greenriver, etc. - certainly, they were a direct link between the Portland punk of the 1970s and the Seattle grunge music of a decade later- and neither Curt Cobain nor Krist Novoselic were shy about heaping praise on both the band and it's individual members.
Listen to the early Wipers albums & then listen to Nirvana. When you listen to Novoselic play, it's the Koupal influence you're hearing. Who ever thought that this smiling gentleman with the striped pants and untied ascot would accomplish all that.
Incidentally, prior to The Wipers, both Koupal & Sage worked together as studio musicians on "Beauregarde", the 1971 self-titled album from the wrestler of the same name.
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Medical Alumni Association Alumni Reunion Weekend Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine 50th Celebration, 50 People of Influence Awards Saturday night June 10, 2023 at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, AL
Figures of Influence: Florence Nightingale and Sir Joseph Bazalgette
The nineteenth century was tumultuous and ripe for reform. Different charismatic figures with varying philosophies and approaches all attempted to conquer the biggest questions of the day relating to health, corruption, urban development, and quality of life. Who was most effective? I argue that while any individual who produced tangible results or implemented mechanisms was more successful than many, those who were most successful were those who used their skills to connect with their communities and use open communication and feedback to produce enduring models. As examples, I compared Florence Nightingale and Sir Jospeh Bazalgette.
Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910, was the daughter of affluent, landed parents who were well connected within the upper-class London community. She was privately educated and, although her parents were often perceived as somewhat ornamental, her mother sometimes hosted well-attended intellectual salons. In her early years Florence was dissatisfied, depressed, and wondered what her role as an upper-class girl was, especially in the lives of the less fortunate. She became spiritual and toured different religious communities where she came across a group of dedicated women at Kaiserwerth am Rhein who cared for the poor and destitute. From this experience she believed that women of any class could be trained to be effective nurses. She then entered the world of hospital administration and earned a reputation as a fierce advocate for hygiene and medical standards, citing her own statistical research of deaths in different environments. She worked as a nurse and administrator during the Crimean War, earning a formidable reputation as a leader, and was later granted a royal commission in London that established a medical cabinet to generate reports in order to reform Army medicine. Eventually a Nightingale fund was established to help endow schools, training programs, and hospital development, although support flitted from group to group and cause to cause as many failed or fell victim to conflicting leadership or ideologies. [1]
Jospeh Bazalgette, 1819-1891, was the only son of a naval officer. He was educated privately and was an apprentice to a civil engineer until he established his own practice in 1842. He worked tirelessly during the railroad boom in the 1840’s, took a brief medical leave, and returned in 1849 to work on the second metropolitan commission of sewers in London. When the main engineer of the project passed away, Bazalgette filled the position. Although the project changed management several times and ultimately ended under the London County Council, Bazalgette and his team developed 1300 miles of sewers, 82 additional miles of intercepting passages, and 4 pumping stations. He is especially remembered for his work on the Albert, Victoria, and Chelsea Embankments along the Thames in relation to this project. After the completion of the sewers he surveyed bridges that the British government had purchased and made public to eliminate tolls. He also was an advocate in Parliament and small committees for bills of public amenities like water supplies and energy because he was concerned that private ventures would overshadow public need. [2]
Nightingale and Bazalgette were both privately educated intellectuals with a desire to improve standardization and efficiency in the public arena. Both threw themselves into their work tirelessly to the point of medical impairment; Nightingale was an invalid and shut in for 20 years after complications arising from an infection and Bazalgette took a medical leave from 1847-1848. Nightingale focused her efforts on public health and reform, especially nursing, and was little less than a dictator of the hospitals she oversaw. She hoped to implement her exact standards on every organization she approached, whether it was nursing school, midwifery, the military health sector, or hospitals themselves. The problem was that she was too stubborn and specific- many institutions fell short of her standards and projects were constantly being abandoned in favor of new ones. It cannot be denied that her reform of nursing had great impact, but her inability to foster a loyal group of followers and those who could execute her strict ideals was her downfall. She tried to be a one-woman army and spread herself very thin. Bazalgette, however, shared his work and ideas with teams of engineers and was constantly consulting and conversing with the established communities of engineers in London. He continued assuming responsibility for his projects long after completion, furthering their development and monitoring their financial and operational statuses. He also formed close ties with other engineers and mentored many aspiring scientists to form enduring connections. [1,2]
Perhaps it was because Nightingale was a woman that she felt she could not share power with anyone else if she wanted the job done right, but she took on so much all at one time. Perhaps it was also that she was trying to enact change in a very dynamic field and her 20 years as an invalid put her out of touch with the latest developments in public health. She was a strong proponent of the miasma theory and as Snow’s water theory became more prevalent I imagine her other philosophies might have suffered in the public eye. Her few contacts to the political world died in the middle of her career and the nineteenth century was not a hospitable place for an aggressive, assertive woman with few allies. Bazalgette was likely the beneficiary of the respect the public had for engineers and by his time many of the principles of physics had been established and vetted; his projects likely seemed more exciting than controversial. He was also given the space to reform the city’s infrastructure by committees, Nightingale had to wrestle her way into the spotlight. Given all of these factors, it is not surprising that Bazalgette was able to provide more meaningful and successful reformation to nineteenth century cities, although it is certainly interesting that it is the name of Florence Nightingale that lives on. One does not hear much about Bazalgette in popular histories and it seems unfortunate that such a dedicated and influential man be unheralded for his achievements.
Sources:
[1] Monica E. Baly, H. C. G. Matthew, ‘Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35241, accessed 15 Feb 2015]
[2] Denis Smith, ‘Bazalgette, Sir Joseph William (1819–1891)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1787, accessed 15 Feb 2015]
Influenced by my time in Hawaii. Based on the naupaka plant, one of my favorites. Printed via Spoonflower
Influenced by and compared to works by the Pre-Raphaelites popular mid-century, Waterhouse's works are later and not strictly related to those by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. However, compare this piece with Ophelia by Millais, also in this album, and one easily finds similarity and comprehends the comparison. Further, lost/unrequited love is a recurring theme in 19th century British art.