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Lawrence Okolie vs Krzysztof Glowacki - 3/20/2021

 After a rather messy split with Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing, WBO Cruiserweight champion Lawrence Okolie (18-0, 14 KOs) is back and ready to defend his title. Okolie will face off against New Zealand’s David Light (20-0, 12 KOs) this Saturday (March 25) on an event on BOXXER.

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VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence

Fifteen years ago, David Glowacki was walking in the mountains when he took a sharp fall. When he hit the ground, blood began leaking into his lungs. As he lay there suffocating, Glowacki’s field of perception swelled. He peered down at his own body—and, instead of his typical form, saw that he was made up… (more…)

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Joshua-Usyk undercard: Lawrence Okolie set for first world title defense, Callum Smith returns

Joshua-Usyk undercard: Lawrence Okolie set for first world title defense, Callum Smith returns

25 Aug by Ring TV Details of the supporting cast to Anthony Joshua’s huge IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO Heavyweight World Title showdown with Oleksandr Usyk at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday September 25 have been confirmed. The Heavyweight division’s biggest attraction puts his Unified crown on the line once more against former Undisputed Cruiserweight World Champion and pound-for-pound star Usyk live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK and Ireland and on DAZN in over 170 countries and territories worldwide. WBO Cruiserweight World Champion Lawrence Okolie (16-0, 13 KOs) puts his World Title on the line for the first time against his Mandatory Challenger Dilan Prasovic (15-0, 12 KOs) following his crushing sixth round stoppage of Krzysztof Glowacki at The SSE Arena, Wembley back in March. By winning a World Title in just his sixteenth fight, the unbeaten 28-year-old from Hackney nicknamed ‘The Sauce’ emulated fellow Brits Tony Bellew, David Haye, Enzo Maccarinelli, Johnny Nelson and Carl Thompson who all previously held world crowns in the 200lb class. Montenegro’s Prasovic, a former WBO Cruiserweight Youth World Champion, sits at No.1 in the world with the governing body having won all fifteen of his fights since turning professional in October 2014, with twelve of those wins coming by way of knockout. Former WBA Super-Middleweight World Champion Callum Smith (27-1, 19 KOs) makes his highly anticipated ring return up at Light-Heavyweight against the Dominican Republic’ Lenin Castillo (21-3-1, 16 KOs) after his points loss to Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez out in Texas last December. Manchester Lightweight prospect Campbell Hatton (3-0) continues his education in the professional ranks when he takes on Spain’s Izan Dura (3-7) hot on the back of his comfortable points win over Jakub Laskowski on the first week of Matchroom Fight Camp. ‘The Albanian King’ Florian Marku (8-0-1, 6 KOs) looks to build on his impressive stoppage win over Rylan Charlton on the Avanesyan vs. Kelly undercard in February as he challenges Milan’s Maxim Prodan (19-0-1, 15 KOs) for the IBF International Welterweight Title and unbeaten Chicago Middleweight Christopher Ousley (12-0, 9 KOs) meets Russia’s Khasan Baysangurov (21-1, 11 KOs) for the WBA Intercontinental Title. Adam Smith, Head of Boxing Development for Sky Sports, said: “Joshua vs. Usyk will be an unmissable evening of action, with Lawence Okolie, Callum Smith and Campbell Hatton all featuring on a bumper bill at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, live on Sky Sports Box Office. “We’ve followed Lawrence Okolie’s career since the start and he’ll be determined to light up north London with an explosive defence of his WBO Cruiserweight belt. “Callum Smith is on a collision course with new World Title rivals, having joined the Light-Heavyweight division, and Campbell Hatton continues his journey up the pro ranks with the help of Matthew and Ricky Hatton. “AJ and Usyk then take centre stage as two Olympic gold medallists collide in the capital, in a hugely important World Heavyweight Title clash!” Joseph Markowski, DAZN EVP, said: “This is an action-packed card that will thrill boxing fans around the world. Callum Smith, Lawrence Okolie and Campbell Hatton are household names in their own right and are going to raise the roof at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium before the remarkable main event – featuring two great fighters whose difference in styles, personalities, and journeys will make for the perfect storm. It’s set to be an incredible night of boxing on DAZN across 170+ countries and territories.” Press release issued by Matchroom Boxing. GET THE LATEST ISSUE AT THE RING SHOP (CLICK HERE) or Subscribe

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Promotion Watch ’19: PwC Admits 249 New Partners and Principals

The most prestigiest firm in all the land unveiled its 2019 class of new partners and principals on May 31, and it’s another big one:

I am thrilled to welcome 249 new partners to our @PwCUS family! These leaders have led by example and I'm excited to see what the future holds for them and their teams. https://t.co/LuVupQFNS6 #PwCProud pic.twitter.com/rEeit1jRLW

— Tim Ryan (@Timothy_F_Ryan) May 31, 2019

And it’s probably the biggest crop of new partners and principals in the firm’s history. Except for 2017, the size of each class has grown every year since we started covering partner and principal promotions in 2010: 233 in 2018, 212 in 2017, 226 in 2016 class, 201 in 2015, 180 in 2014, 157 in 2013, 165 in 2012, 136 in 2011, and 83 in 2010.

Here’s a look at PwC’s class of 2019 by the numbers:

131: The number of new partners; there are 118 new principals.

86: The number of new partners and principals in advisory, the most of any service line, followed by 79 in assurance, 78 in tax, and six in internal firm services.

72: The number of new partners and principals who are women, or 29% of the class of 2019.

42: The number of new partners and principals in New York City, the most of any location, followed by 19 in Chicago, 18 in Boston, 15 in Dallas, and 14 in McLean, VA.

9: The number of new partners and principals with the first name of Brian or Bryan.

2: The number of new partners and principals with the last name of González, Kennedy, O’Connor, Schmitt, or Stark.

1: The number of new principals with the last name of Thor.

Here are the 249 new partners and principals in the PwC class of 2019. Congratulations! The first round’s on you:

Partners

Noel Abdur-Rahim, Assurance, Atlanta

Chris Alabi, Assurance, San Jose, CA

Scott Almassy, Assurance, San Jose, CA

Ranan Amster, Assurance, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Meera Banerjee, Advisory, San Francisco

Jamie Barakat, Advisory, Chicago

Shannon Baran, Tax, Los Angeles

Vanessa Salinas Beckstrom, Advisory, Dallas

Michael Bey, Assurance, Florham Park, NJ

Tim Bodner, Assurance, McLean, VA

Brian Boggs, Assurance, Philadelphia

Justin Bono, Tax, Los Angeles

Kevin Brasch, Assurance, Dallas

Nicole Brigati, Tax, Philadelphia

Lisa Brown, Tax, San Jose, CA

Priscilla Bullock, Tax, McLean, VA

Calen Byers, Assurance, New York City

John Charters, Assurance, Boston

Kristan Chesnut, Advisory, Los Angeles

Jackson Chou, Tax, San Jose, CA

Ginny Chow, Assurance, New York City

Tiffany Chu, Tax, San Francisco

Brian Ciszczon, Tax, Washington, DC

Jesse Claypool, Assurance, Toledo, OH

Robyn Conlon, Assurance, Florham Park, NJ

A.J. Conti, Assurance, Philadelphia

John Crossman, Assurance, Atlanta

Eric Cullers, Advisory, Los Angeles

Rajeeb Das, Advisory, Jacksonville, FL

Sarika Davis, Assurance, Atlanta

Michael Devlin, Assurance, Los Angeles

Ghansham Dhanak, Tax, New York City

Jamal Douglas, Assurance, Chicago

Emily Ellis, Assurance, San Jose, CA

Lynsey Eppeneder, Assurance, Dallas

Lee Eslyn, Assurance, Bratislava, Slovakia

Roxanne Fattahi, Assurance, Los Angeles

Christina Figueroa, Tax, Los Angeles

Sam Fishman, Assurance, New York City

William Floyd, Tax, Atlanta

James Gargas, Advisory, Washington, DC

Brian Garvin, Assurance, Philadelphia

Amanda Giordano, Advisory, Philadelphia

David Goldberg, Tax, Charlotte, NC

Jonathan Hatton, Assurance, San Francisco

Edward A. Herald, Tax, New York City

Michael Hernandez, Assurance, Dallas

LeeAnn Hinkle, Tax, Dallas

Sheila Holt, Tax, Minneapolis

Katy Hook, Assurance, Milwaukee

Jason Hyman, Advisory, Atlanta

Carolyn Iacobelli, Tax, Phoenix

Andrew S. Jensen, Tax, Seattle

Doyt Jones, Assurance, New York City

Carrie Jostes, Assurance, St. Louis

Michael Kammann, Tax, Detroit

Chris Kean, Assurance, Florham Park, NJ

Crystal Kennedy, Tax, Boston

Steven Kennedy, Tax, Boston

Christine Annette Kowal, Tax, McLean, VA

Daniel Kraut, Assurance, New York City

Kimberly Krueger, Tax, New York City

Smitha Kumar, Tax, San Jose, CA

Christopher S. LaGrone, Tax, Dallas

Steven Lanza, Advisory, New York City

Heather Lombardo, Assurance, Boston

Andrea C. Lowenberg, Tax, Stamford, CT

David Mack, Tax, New York City

Clint Maddox, Assurance, Charlotte, NC

Stephen Mahadeo, Tax, New York City

Shilpa Manaktala, Assurance, Hartford, CT

Matthew Manza, Tax, San Francisco

Rafael Maya, Assurance, Dallas

Michael McCallion, Assurance, Stamford, CT

Adam McCarty, Assurance, Houston

Pat McGettigan, Assurance, Philadelphia

Maura McKinnon, Tax, Boston

Laura McNeil, Tax, Boston

Sushant Mehta, Tax, New York City

Matthew Michaelangelo, Tax, McLean, VA

Scott G. Migliori, Tax, Boston

Walter D. Moore III, Tax, Detroit

Chris Morgan, Assurance, McLean, VA

Stephanie Morrissey, Assurance, Miami

Seth Nicholson, Advisory, Boston

Yoshi Nomura, Assurance, Minneapolis

Vikram Oak, Assurance, Tokyo

Michael O’Connor, Assurance, San Francisco

Kristine Pappa, Assurance, Florham Park, NJ

Josh Parks, Assurance, Dallas

Justin Partlo, Assurance, Peoria, IL

Amit Patel, Assurance, Atlanta

Robert Pauze, Tax, Boston

Jil Phinicharomna Lee, Assurance, San Diego

Kyle Quigley, Tax, Hartford, CT

Scott Ramage, Assurance, Houston

Ryan J. Rate, Assurance, New York City

Derek Reed, Assurance, New York City

Kevin Richardson, Assurance, New York City

Colleen Roney, Assurance, Stamford, CT

Brian Sabedra, Tax, Buffalo, NY

Travis Salha, Assurance, San Jose, CA

Jennifer Savard, Tax, Boston

Douglas Schmitt, Assurance, Kansas City, MO

Brian Schramm, Assurance, Chicago

Allison Warshaw Shearman, Tax, Florham Park, NJ

Nicholas A. Sirianni, Assurance, Boston

Justin Soares, Tax, Boston

Jon D. Spivey, Assurance, New York City

Matthew Stark, Tax, Chicago

Eric Suplee, Tax, Tampa, FL

Scott Swetz, Tax, Boston

Hayato Takenoshita, Assurance, New York City

Alyona Teeter, Assurance, McLean, VA

James Terry, IFS, Denver

Theresa Thompson, Tax, Los Angeles

Sarah Treese, Tax, Hartford, CT

Ryan Trzasko, Assurance, Jacksonville, FL

Andy Udell, Assurance, McLean, VA

Laura Valestin, Tax, Washington, DC

Sergey Volkov, Advisory, Tokyo

Kristen Wallace, Tax, Raleigh, NC

Jeffrey S. Westerberg, Tax, New York City

Adam Widlak, Tax, Detroit

Britt E. Williamson, Assurance, Portland, OR

Yannie Wong, Tax, San Jose, CA

Yin Yang, Tax, New York City

Sheri York, Assurance, Florham Park, NJ

Stephen Zackrison, Tax, Philadelphia

Brad Zastoupil, Assurance, Minneapolis

Jonathan Zinno, Advisory, New York City

Principals

Doug Allcorn, Assurance, Philadelphia

Amee Appel, Tax, Chicago

Elissa Arkinstall, Advisory, New York City

Shafeeq Banthanavasi, Advisory, San Jose, CA

Luis Beaumier, IFS, Tampa, FL

Scott Berkley, Tax, Denver

Sahil Chander Bhardwaj, Advisory, San Jose, CA

Karim Bibawi, Advisory, Boston

Stephen J. Bochanski, Assurance, Philadelphia

Ian Bonnet, Advisory, Columbia, SC

Thomas Brogan, Tax, Los Angeles

Roslyn Brooks, IFS, Washington, DC

Matthew Cregg Bruce, Advisory, McLean, VA

Christopher Cairns, Tax, New York City

Eric Caliendo, Assurance, Philadelphia

Sowvik Chakrabarty, Advisory, Dallas

Kenneth W. Chan, Advisory, Boston

Michael Chapman, Advisory, San Francisco

Juan José Chávez Bernabé, Tax, Mexico City

Bryan Coleman, Assurance, Oklahoma City

Chris Cook, Advisory, San Diego

Jeffrey Coseo, Advisory, New York City

Ethan Dameron, Advisory, Raleigh, NC

Raffaele De Leonardis, Advisory, Florham Park, NJ

Peter Domanko, Advisory, Chicago

Sebastien Drevet, Tax, New York City

Joseph Dubbs, Advisory, Seattle

Kurt Ewen, Advisory, Chicago

Christopher Farwell, Tax, Chicago

Adam Furst, Tax, McLean, VA

Brandon Gabel, Advisory, Toledo, OH

Srinivasa Gabu, Advisory, Dallas

Mira Gaddy, Tax, New York City

Jade Gentry, Advisory, Atlanta

Gus Giacoman, Advisory, New York City

Kara Gillette, Assurance, New York City

Brett Glowacki, Tax, Philadelphia

Brad Goehle, Advisory, Arlington, VA

Jorge González Gómez, Tax, Monterrey, Mexico

Othoniel Iván González González, Assurance, Monterrey, Mexico

Guadalupe González Vargas, Tax, Mexico City

Matthew Grieco, Advisory, Boston

Joseph Harrington, Assurance, New York City

Michael Hauswirth, Tax, Washington, DC

Mackenzie Heal, Advisory, Hartford, CT

Anika Heard, IFS, New York City

Jessica Heidman, Advisory, Seattle

Giri Hosalli, Advisory, Dallas

Sam Hwang, Tax, New York City

Jeanelle J. Johnson, Assurance, McLean, VA

Noaman Khan, Advisory, Chicago

Langdon King, Assurance, Dallas

Ron Klein, Advisory, New York City

Jennifer Kodat, Assurance, Basel, Switzerland

TJ Kozy, Advisory, Chicago

Brian Krall, Advisory, Detroit

Ken Kryst, Advisory, Philadelphia

Julia Lamm, Advisory, New York City

J.C. Lapierre, IFS, Boston

Yeon Lee, Advisory, New York City

Jimmy Lesko, Assurance, Chicago

Bruno Lopes, Advisory, New York City

Scott MacDonald, Advisory, Detroit

Anup Madampath, Advisory, Austin, TX

Joe Mahimainathan, Tax, Seattle

Derek Manville, Advisory, Atlanta

Erin March, Tax, McLean, VA

Christopher Menyhart, Advisory, Chicago

Gerald Metzger, Advisory, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Pierre Monperrus, Advisory, Chicago

Jesús Roberto Morquecho López, Tax, Mexico City

Sandrine Mottin, Advisory, Phoenix

Valerie Mulrooney, Tax, Chicago

Harish Nalinakshan, Advisory, Washington, DC

Justin O’Connor, Advisory, San Francisco

Walter A. Okpych IV, Advisory, McLean, VA

Chijioke Onyewuchi, Advisory, Chicago

Cesar Orellana, Tax, Miami

Darren Orf, Advisory, Chicago

Ron Otocki, Advisory, Chicago

Kathryn Burg Plaza, Advisory, Philadelphia

Satyen Popat, Advisory, San Jose, CA

Michael Proppe, Advisory, San Jose, CA

Ashish Punjabi, Advisory, Dallas

Nicole Quick, Assurance, Florham Park, NJ

Swaminathan Ramkumar, Tax, McLean, VA

James Randall, IFS, Chicago

Jon-Paul Regit, Advisory, Orlando, FL

José Reyes, Advisory, Hallandale Beach, FL

John Rich, Advisory, Dallas

Barry Rickert, Tax, Stamford, CT

Matthew Ritter, Advisory, Los Angeles

Belinda Rowsell, Tax, New York City

Nikhil Rupani, Assurance, New York City

Bill Schmitt, Advisory, Charlotte, NC

Richard Schweiger, Advisory, Hallandale Beach, FL

Jan Seele, Advisory, New York City

Aaron Shapiro, Advisory, Atlanta

Courtney Showell, Advisory, Atlanta

Evan Siegal, Advisory, New York City

Scott Sikorski, Advisory, Chicago

Scott Singer, Tax, New York City

Akshay Singh, Advisory, Cleveland

Rattan I. Singh, Advisory, Florham Park, NJ

Shannon Smith, Advisory, Kansas City, MO

Gregg Stark, Advisory, Cleveland

Scott M. Stein, Tax, New York City

Scott Strean, Advisory, Atlanta

Niru Suryanarayanan, Advisory, New York City

Lindsey Thor, Tax, New York City

Deepak Tilani, Advisory, Florham Park, NJ

Matthew Tsiaras, Tax, Boston

Brian Updike, Advisory, Dallas

Charles von Althann, Advisory, McLean, VA

Matthew Wilson, Advisory, San Diego

Carrie Wisher, Advisory, Denver

Keri Zader, Assurance, Baltimore

Steven Zaki, Advisory, Florham Park, NJ

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Who Will Write Our History

The best historical films, nonfiction or otherwise, are the ones that immerse us so completely in their time period that we become lost in them. Many directors I admire—such as Michael Haneke, Terry Gilliam and László Nemes—have criticized Steven Spielberg’s 1993 landmark, “Schindler’s List,” for focusing on survivors of the Holocaust rather than the six million who perished. Yet every time I watch the film, I am profoundly shaken by its portrayal of self-righteous evil. The sense of loss is palpable because we are made to share in each victim’s bewilderment as their life reaches a sudden and deplorable end. Janusz Kaminski’s visceral cinematography and John Williams’ restrained score place us directly inside the horror. There are hundreds of wrenching human vignettes weaved within the central narrative, and as in many of the great film epics, they resonate far more than any sequence involving the lead character himself. When I first saw the picture in junior high, I had to walk around in the sunlight for hours afterward, as if to affirm for myself that I was no longer in Auschwitz. 

Roberta Grossman’s latest documentary, “Who Will Write Our History,” has an equally shattering and inspiring story to tell, yet its style continuously holds us at arm’s length. Produced by Nancy Spielberg (sister of Steven), the picture unearths an archive of Jewish experiences under Nazi occupation that serve as perhaps the first precursor to her brother’s own Shoah Foundation. Named “Oyneg Shabes,” translating as “Joy of the Sabbath” to evade suspicion, this secret collection of documents compiles the testimonials of various Jewish citizens forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. The archive was spearheaded by Emanuel Ringelblum, a historian determined to preserve the truth of Jewish identity, thereby combating the hateful misinformation spread by Germans. 

In one jaw-dropping clip of a Nazi-approved propaganda film, a schoolgirl laughs at the lice in her fellow peer’s hair, only to be corrected by her teacher, who insists that the poor student can’t help herself, considering her neighbors are Jewish. The footage then cuts to a shower room, where we see close-ups of Jewish men, who are portrayed as grotesque, disease-carrying beings. Hysteria generated by these sorts of flagrant lies fueled the division of Poland’s capital into three quadrants, separating Germans and Poles from anyone branded with a Star of David. Around 400,000 inhabitants of the ghetto were estimated to have perished prior to its demolition following a heroic uprising in 1943, and only two contributors to the archive survived to see the end of the war.

One of them was Rachela Auerbach, a veteran journalist and critic who wrote extensively on the position of women in society and the double exclusion she experienced as a result of her gender and ethnicity. She’s an enormously fascinating figure worthy of her own film, and there are times when Grossman’s picture threatens to become just that, casting Jowita Budnik as Auerbach opposite Piotr Glowacki as Ringelblum. Yet not only are these reenactments fleeting, they also fall short of portraying their subjects in three dimensions. Just as 2014’s Grossman/Spielberg collaboration, “Above and Beyond,” failed to detail the plight of Palestinian refugees amidst its fist-pumping profile of Israeli pilots, “Who Will Write Our History” never gets under the surface of what makes its courageous archivists tick. 

When Ringelblum asks Auerbach to remain in the ghetto and help in the soup kitchen rather than leave her hellish surroundings to join her family abroad, she agrees and the film moves on. What was it within the woman’s mind and heart that led her to make such a profound sacrifice? Running at an all-too-crisp 90 minutes, the film doesn’t explore its material thoroughly enough to be more than merely illustrative. Just when we’ve adjusted our eyes and ears to the reenactments, Grossman and her editors will jump to infinitely more compelling archival footage that doesn’t come close to gelling with the actors. Top-drawer talent on the order of Joan Allen and Adrien Brody are brought on to read excerpts of Auerbach and Ringelblum’s diaries, respectfully, but the solemnity of their voices clashes conspicuously with the urgency of the visuals. Even more intrusive are the historians—including Samuel Kassow, upon whose book the film is based—tasked with providing annotated context that reassuringly removes us from the immediacy of the atrocities.  

At a time when Nazis, white nationalists and the KKK have been empowered by our own government, the mechanical structure of “Who Will Write Our History” is not only dated, it occasionally exudes the sterility of a museum installation. Not every film can be as extraordinary a feat as Peter Jackson’s WWI doc, “They Shall Not Grow Old,” yet aside from its innovative use of 3D and color to breathe new life into century-old footage, it demonstrated the power in allowing events and those who endured them to speak for themselves, rather than continuously be interrupted by talking heads. So closely did the film acquaint us with its subjects that we felt as if we were interacting with them, laughing at their jokes and wincing at their pain. Grossman’s film will undoubtedly serve as an invaluable teaching tool, but as a work of cinema, it would’ve been much more powerful had it chosen to be either a narrative adaptation or a full-on documentary. 

Among the faces framed in the reenactments, the only one that haunted me was that of Karolina Gruszka, so memorable as the “Lost Girl” in David Lynch’s “Inland Empire,” who has a similarly heartrending reunion in this film. The voice-overs are most effective at conveying the weariness of living under such unthinkable conditions, and Grossman deftly shows at the end how emotions tend to hit us once we’ve reached enough distance from our living nightmares. Allen also channels the frustration that Auerbach voices in her journals, as she finds her exhaustive efforts in the kitchen rendered futile by the overwhelming need. Most potent of all are the testimonials penned by Lejb Goldin (voiced by Jess Kellner), who converses with his empty stomach while observing how the bodies of children in the ghetto have deteriorated to the point where they resemble foxes, dingos and kangaroos. “Our howls are those of jackals,” he writes, “but we are not animals.” 

Regardless of its missteps, Grossman’s film should be seen as a necessary introduction to a multitude of stories warranting greater analysis. As Ringelblum himself notes, “the life of every Jew during the war is a world unto itself,” and how eternally blessed we are that the Oyneg Shabes archive prevented the hell of the Holocaust from silencing their voices. There’s a distinct through line that can be drawn between this film and Grossman’s previous (and superior) feature co-directed by Sophia Sartain, “Seeing Allred,” another story of Jewish heroism currently streamable on Netflix. Yes, the picture occasionally verges into hagiography, yet it’s still a riveting look at the woman—attorney Gloria Allred—who embodied the force of #MeToo decades before the hashtag went viral. Her legacy exemplifies how sharing one’s story can begin to heal the ills of a corrupted society. Taking ahold of one’s narrative is all the more crucial in our current cultural moment, when xenophobia is being upheld by those occupying the White House. Just imagine the archive currently being compiled by those incarcerated along the U.S.-Mexico border. 

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So it turns out that if you dig down about 60 centimetres into the ground near an old paper mill upstream from the Grassy Narrows reserve in northern Ontario and then test the soil samples, they have way more mercury in them than you’d normally expect – as much as 80 times more.

We know this not because experts from Ontario’s environment ministry or any other official body took the time and trouble to explore the site themselves, find the soil samples and have them analyzed.

We know it because a couple of reporters from the Toronto Star, as well as volunteers from an environmental advocacy group called Earthroots, took on the task themselves.

They were looking for potential sources of ongoing mercury contamination in the river system that flows by the old mill – and eventually flows into the territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation. Generations of people there have suffered from dangerously high mercury levels in the water and fish, while governments have dithered and found all sorts of excuses not to act.

This latest episode has all the hallmarks of another government fail. The Star’s Jayme Poisson and David Bruser reported last year about claims by a retired mill worker, Kas Glowacki, that back in 1972 he had been part of a crew that dumped barrels filled with salt and mercury near the mill.

Could that be the source of the ongoing contamination? The environment ministry duly investigated and in November the minister, Glen Murray, said they had concluded that the barrels weren’t there.

End of story? Hardly. The Star reporters and Earthroots volunteers looked in an area identified by Glowacki and brought back soil samples with extremely high levels of mercury. Two leading scientists tell the Star the results are a clear sign of industrial mercury contamination, though not necessarily the existence of a dump. All the more reason, they say, for the government to investigate.

How is it, then, that the province could send experts to the same area and come back with nothing, leading the minister himself to stand up in the legislature and assure Ontarians that there’s nothing to find?

Did they simply not look long enough or hard enough? David Sone of Earthroots says it looks like the government just lacked the will to do a thorough investigation of a problem that, let’s remind ourselves, goes all the way back to the 1960s and has been on the public radar for many decades.

The government now promises to “carefully review” data from the soil samples and “take appropriate investigative action.”

We should certainly hope so. It should not be up to journalists and NGOs to take the initiative on addressing a public health disaster that has been begging for a solution for half a century. The government should finally lead on this issue – not continue to limp behind.

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Daily Download Friday February 28, 2020

Daily Download Friday February 28, 2020

David Versus Goliath

ResiWeek 180: Matt Scott is joined by Jeremy Glowacki, Todd Anthony Puma, Henry Clifford and Ken Bruek talking about Best Buy getting into residential. Ken Bruek starts off talking about how local integrators can stand out against large companies like Best Buy.

Host: Matt Scott Guests:

Jeremy Glowacki  – Residential Tech Today

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Oleksandr Usyk – Tony Bellew. Reliable prediction for the fight 11.11.2018

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Oleksandr Usyk – Tony Bellew. Reliable prediction for the fight 11.11.2018

Oleksandr Usyk (Ukraine)

Record: 15 fights – 15 wins (11 knockouts);

Age: 31 years;

Height: 190 cm;

Weight: 90.7 kg;

Arm span: 198 cm

The absolute world champion in craterface, winner of the first season of the world Boxing super series Alexander Usik will hold the first defense of their titles, and will meet in the ring with star Brit Tony Bellew. To obtain the status of absolute champion of the world, Alexander did, the hard way, steadily purging the whole division – glowacki, hunter, hook, the first and Gassiev. It is the battle with Gassieva has become a measure of superiority Moustache over other boxers in his weight class. It seemed that the path of Ukrainians lies in the super-heavyweight category, but on the horizon appeared the Underwear, have expressed a desire to fight for the belt.

The mustache is extremely technical and fast boxer for his weight class, who throws for the fight astounding number of beats. Yes, the Mustache is not a puncher, but the tonnage of strikes demoralizing opponents, forcing them to make a mistake and take heavy damage during the battle.

Tony Bellew (UK)

Record: 33 fights – 30 wins (20 Ko) – 2 losses – 1 draw;

Age: 35 years;

Height: 191 cm;

Weight: 90.7 kg;

Arm span: 198 cm

The Briton was a good light heavyweight, where his blows fell Chilemba and Miranda, but the Underwear lost then peak Adonis Stevenson in a fight for the title. Turning to the heavy weight, Linen overcame cleverley, bludova, Bakerina, and came for champion fight for the European title against pole Masternak (win by decision). After was already the battle for the world title belt against Ilunga Salines. Having defended the belt in a bout with American B. J. Flores, Belew accepted the challenge with super heavyweight David Haye.

In the confrontation with Haem Underwear were considered the clear underdog, but he proved his strength, peribacteroid compatriot. In that fight Haye was injured hands, on which he blamed his defeat. But, the second duel between these boxers, and all have shown total supremacy bill, which knocked out Haye, sending once the star boxer, the world champion into retirement.

Information before the fight:

Place: arena “Manchester arena” (Manchester, UK).

Date: November 11, 2018 (Sunday).

Let the battle begin: 01:00 (GMT).

Tournament: BOXING fight for the title of absolute world champion for the WBC, WBO, IBF, WBA and The Ring in the 1st-heavy weight.

The odds on the fight Alexander Usik – Tony Bellew

A clear favorite of the battle at the bookmakers is the current holder of the championship belts Oleksandr Usyk, the victory of which is estimated at 1.16. The success of the British quoted for 5.85, while a draw of the match – 29.0. For the full fight, we have quotes of 2.20, and on the early end of the battle – 1.62.

Forecast and rate the fight Alexander Usik – Tony Bellew

Alexander Usik is now seen fresh blood for the world of Boxing, this skillful guy can make some noise in the heavyweight division. In a battle with Tony Bellew Barb will meet with persistent boxer with good timing, which is able to cut down with one blow. But, in our opinion, Murat Gassiev was more difficult opponent for Usyk, the Ukrainian should win.

Rate: victory of Alexander Usik – 1.16.

The Victory Of Alexander Usik 1.16

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Why these towns are trying to save an 'agricultural pest'

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Why these towns are trying to save an 'agricultural pest'

Helen Taylor never considered herself an activist. But in 2015, she learned that an open plot of land in her city of Fort Collins, Colorado was slated for development. 700 prairie dogs called this patch of grass home. “I had been watching and enjoying this colony for many years,” says Taylor, a content manager at a marketing company. “I knew something terrible was going to happen.”

Without any intervention, the prairie dogs would likely have been poisoned or bulldozed, both common and legal practices. So Taylor wrote to the developer, talked to city officials, and started an organization—the Northern Colorado Prairie Dog Advocates—to push for relocating the rodents. She spent roughly a year searching for a suitable site within the city to move them, and wrestled with a complex permitting process. Taylor and a group of volunteers identified the family units within the colony, trapped the animals, and carried them to their new grounds, complete with artificial burrows constructed with plastic tubing. The volunteers made sure the families stayed together, and kept the same neighbors. “We basically are lifting up the colony and placing it intact in a new location,” Taylor says.

Extermination—by farmers, ranchers, developers, and government officials—and habitat loss have wiped prairie dogs from about 98 percent of their historic 368 million acre range. In 11 states from Texas to Montana, prairie dogs once lived in vast underground towns, some teeming with millions of the critters. Since the late 1800s, they’ve been largely treated as a nuisance and poisoned in large-scale eradication efforts. To this day, the U.S. Department of Agriculture considers prairie dogs an “agricultural pest.” In recent decades, whole colonies have perished after catching plague from fleas carrying Yersinia pestis, the same bacterium responsible for the Black Death pandemic, because the rodents have few defenses against the disease.

Saving small, isolated groups of these creatures, like Taylor’s advocacy group did, won’t restore the massive colonies that once thrived in the West. But these smaller patches of city-dwelling prairie dogs could play an important role in raising public consciousness and helping maintain resiliency of larger populations.

Prairie dog at Prairie Dog Town, Abilene, Kansas, 447 miles west of St. Louis, Mo.

After 150 years of poisoning and shooting them, humans are slowly recognizing prairie dogs as more than a pest. The public started to change its perspective in the 1990s, says Ana Davidson, a conservation scientist with Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Around the same time, biologists asserted their status as a “keystone” species that links plants and animals together in a vast grassland food web. Coyotes, badgers, raptors, and black-footed ferrets (a species at the brink of extinction) all eat prairie dogs. Digging burrows also moves the soil around, helping cycle nutrients, which has been linked to healthier, more nutritious grasses for grazers like bison and cattle. And their burrows create habitats for burrowing owls, tiger salamanders, spiders, and insects. All in all, ecologists estimate that more than 150 species interact with prairie dogs in some way. That means these little rodents and their burrows form the foundation of North America’s greater grassland ecosystem—one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world.

Now, in the growing cities of Colorado’s Front Range (an area east of the Rockies that includes Denver) officials are trying to balance the interests of farmers and ranchers with residents newly-enamored of the prairie dog. Since January in the City of Longmont, developers with more than 25 prairie dogs on their property must post the location and number of the animals on the city’s website when planning to build. That gives advocates, including nonprofits and informal volunteer groups, a chance to call around and see if there’s room on city or county public lands or a welcoming private tract to move the rodents. In October 2018, the nearby city of Lafayette enacted an emergency moratorium on killing prairie dogs to buy time as it comes up with a plan of its own. “As the urban population has grown and more people become familiar with prairie dogs, that message of them being a keystone species is something people talk about,” says David Bell, natural resources manager for Longmont’s public works and natural resources department. Prairie dogs have long been a polarizing force, but “on both sides, we’re seeing more interest in how we resolve these issues.” Advocates are increasingly vocal about protection, and those in agriculture tend to argue for pest removal.

In urban areas, where the rodents’ habitat is hemmed in, their numbers can become so dense that their burrowing leads to erosion and loss of native vegetation, says Therese Glowacki, resource management manager with Boulder County. It’s made having to do something to control populations adjacent to people inevitable, though what that something should be is fiercely argued at city and county meetings. “Prairie dogs are kind of a flash point in land use discussions in the West, in Colorado and other places where we have lost most of their habitat,” says Glowacki.

In more rural areas outside cities, the rodents aren’t welcomed either. Prairie dogs dig holes and feed on plants, and thus don’t share the land well with crops. Many ranchers think of them as a nuisance because they compete with cattle by grazing grass. Ranchers also claim the rodent’s burrows can pose a leg-breaking hazard to animals hoofing it around the prairie.

Scientists think that the ranchers’ concerns are exaggerated. Prairie dogs do compete with cows for forage, according to John Hoogland, a University of Maryland behavioral ecologist who has studied prairie dogs for 45 years. “But it’s been vastly overrated, and there are some circumstances where cows prefer to feed on [the land occupied by] prairie dog colonies because the vegetation there is more nutritious.” As for leg-breaking, Hoogland says it’s probably happened at some point, but remains rare. Despite this, beliefs around prairie dogs are deeply ingrained and continue to hold sway with management: In South Dakota, for example, government officials are required to poison a one-mile buffer zone of burrows on public lands adjacent to a property if the landowner complains about the rodents.

The mayor of Prairie Dog Town.

To try to strike a compromise, since 1999 Boulder County has managed prairie dogs under a plan that affirms their unique role in the ecosystem—but also recognizes that, sometimes, they’re simply incompatible with humans. It designates areas for habitat conservation, where it actively protects prairie dogs by doing things like spraying burrows with insecticide to kill plague-spreading fleas. When the rodents do begin to creep onto agricultural lands, officials usually trap them and take them to wildlife recovery centers, where they’re fed to ferrets and hawks. Sending them off to get eaten seems like something straight out of a dark comedy, but black-tailed ferrets are the most endangered mammal in North America, and prairie dogs are their main food source, making the county’s facility a grassland trophic chart in miniature.

Glowacki estimates the acres and location of prairie dog towns in the county each year to see if they’re living where intended—the large, contiguous grassland areas they’ve historically called home. Indeed, their numbers are growing in these natural areas, but there’s also many smaller colonies scattered throughout the county. Managing these habitats is challenging because the animals tend to move into nearby properties, Glowacki says, where they tear up landscaping and gardens. Still, protecting even the small populations is important, because they can help repopulate larger habitats devastated by plague.

Lindsey Sterling Krank, director of the Humane Society’s Prairie Dog Coalition, agrees. “Because these [smaller] colonies are fragmented, maybe they aren’t as susceptible to disease.” The urban colonies are physically isolated from the larger habitats hopping with plague-carrying fleas. These prairie dog islands could also help humans. Even a few acres of open land creates an urban wildlife hotspot. Coyotes, hawks, and badgers move in to prey on the prairie dogs. Having a natural food source also diverts these predators from chasing down neighborhood cats and dogs, Krank says.

The Humane Society and WildEarth Guardians recently released a guide for citizens and local governments looking to create their own conservation plans. Krank gets a lot of calls from Front Range residents worried about impending development on their local prairie dog town, and she hopes the guide will help provide tools for people to assess what options are available. Relocation is an option, but if it’s possible to conserve them in place that might actually be ideal. “There’s not an endless supply of receiving sites,” Krank says.

Prairie dog in hole at Prairie Dog Town.

As cities continue to grow and fill in once-vacant lands, relocations may become more difficult. The City of Boulder is struggling with that now. For years, the city has required that developers try to find relocation sites. Since 2013, they’ve relocated a few hundred animals every year. But now, the city has more prairie dogs than it has room for on the “receiving sites,” says Valerie Matheson, Boulder’s urban wildlife conservation coordinator. Prairie dog towns are covering up to 50 percent of some ranching properties in the city, in what was recently deemed a “crisis” that might require killing them on agricultural lands. When a site goes over 30 percent occupation by prairie dogs, the animals start eating more plants and digging up more soil than the area can sustain, Glowacki says. Even the larger county conservation areas that Glowacki manages are close to capacity, with the highest density of prairie dogs seen in 20 years.

In an ideal scenario, prairie dogs are moved from where they conflict with humans to grasslands where they can play their crucial role in those ecosystems, Davidson says. In New Mexico, she helped efforts to capture prairie dogs around Santa Fe and Albuquerque and move them to the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. But in Colorado, it’s illegal to move prairie dogs across county lines without approval from county agricultural officials, impeding large-scale recovery. “Not being able to do relocation across county lines is political and not based on an ecological reason,” Davidson says.

Hoogland thinks that officials need to focus on creating more large sanctuaries. “I love these animals dearly,” he says. “But I don’t want to see anybody get so obsessed with saving these urban prairie dogs that we miss the bigger picture.”

An urban prairie dog’s value goes beyond its ecological role or potential ability to seed larger populations. “In another sense,” Hoogland says, the animals are “extremely important because this is the only way some people see prairie dogs.” There’s a lot to said for the fuzzy feeling of watching the round, animated creatures stand atop their burrows and call out to each other. Their characteristic yipping—which is why they’re called prairie dogs—is part of one of the most sophisticated animal languages out there. In one analysis, they could even tell their family and neighbors if a tall human wearing blue, or a short human in yellow, was approaching. And, Glowacki adds, “They’re cute!”

Ultimately, advocates believe prairie dogs are worth saving no matter their value to humans or to the grassland food web. Helen Taylor, who started Northern Colorado Prairie Dog Advocates to protect the animals in her own backyard, says, “They still have their own inherent value as communal, smart, interesting animals.” And protecting even small colonies could be an important tool in changing their public image. “Every time we do a relocation we have this amazing opportunity to educate the public and help chip away at these myths that have played such a huge role in people feeling like they can say [prairie dogs] don’t matter.”

Written By Ula Chrobak

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Hoy se reveló la  lista de nominados para las diferentes categorías de los Premios de Cine de la Academia Británica (BAFTA), y la películas mexicana Roma está nominada en 7 categorías.

  La entrega de premios de la 72 edición de los BAFTA se llevará a cabo mañana 10 de febrero en el Reino Unido.

  La cinta The Favourite, dirigida por Yorgos Lanthimos tiene el mayor número de nominaciones con 12.

  Roma es otra de las cintas con mayor número de nominaciones, en 7 categorías distintas: mejor película, mejor película en lengua extranjera, mejor director, guion original, cinematografía, edición y diseño de producción.

  Otras películas como Bohemian Rhapsody, El primer hombre en la luna (First Man) y Nace una estrella (A Star is Born) también obtuvieron 7 nominaciones.

  Otras películas nominadas son: El vicepresidente: más allá del poder (The Vice) cuenta con 6, El infiltrado del KKKlan (BlacKkKlansman) tiene 5, Green Book y Guerra Fría obtuvieron 4 nominaciones.

  Te dejamos la lista completa de películas nominadas en las diversas categorías:

  MEJOR PELÍCULA

  El infiltrado del KKKlan (BlacKkKlansman)

La favorita

Green Book

Roma

Nace una estrella (A Star is Born)

    MEJOR PELÍCULA BRITÁNICA

  Beast

Bohemian Rhapsody

La favorita

McQueen

Stan & Ollie

Nunca estarás a salvo

    MEJOR DEBUT DE UN DIRECTOR, GUIONISTA O PRODUCTOR BRITÁNICO

  Apostasy

Beast

A Cambodian Spring

Pili

Ray & Liz

    MEJOR PELÍCULA DE HABLA NO INGLESA

  Cafarnaúm

Guerra Fría (Cold War)

Dogman

Roma

Un asunto de familia

    MEJOR DOCUMENTAL

  Free Solo

McQueen

RBG

They Shall Not Grow Old

Three Identical Strangers

    MEJOR PELÍCULA DE ANIMACIÓN

  Los Increíbles 2

Isla de perros

Spider-Man: Un nuevo universo

    MEJOR DIRECTOR

  Spike Lee por El infiltrado del KKKlan (BlacKkKlansman)

Pawet Pawlikowski por Guerra Fría (Cold War)

Yorgos Lanthimos por La favorita (The favourite)

Alfonso Cuarón por Roma

Bradley Cooper por Nace una estrella (A Star is Born)

      MEJOR GUION ORIGINAL

  Janusz Glowacki y Pawel Pawlikowski por Guerra Fría (Cold War)

Deborah Davis y Tony McNamara por La favorita (The favourite)

Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly y Nick Vallelonga por Green Book

Alfonso Cuarón por Roma

Adam McKay por El vicepresidente: más allá del poder (The Vice)

    MEJOR GUION ADAPTADO

  Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel y Kevin Willmott por El infiltrado del KKKlan (BlacKkKlansman)

Nicole Holofcener y Jeff Whitty por ¿Podrás perdonarme algún día?

Josh Singer por El primer hombre en la luna (First Man)

Barry Jenkins por El blues de Beale Street

Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters y Eric Roth por Nace una estrella (A Star is Born)

  MEJOR ACTRIZ PRINCIPAL

  Glenn Close por La buena esposa

Lady Gaga por Nace una estrella (A Star is Born)

Melissa McCarthy por ¿Podrás perdonarme algún día?

Olivia Colman por La favorita (The favourite)

Viola Davis por Viudas

  MEJOR ACTOR PRINCIPAL

  Bradley Cooper por Nace una estrella (A Star is Born)

Christian Bale por El vicepresidente: más allá del poder (The Vice)

Rami Malek por Bohemian Rhapsody

Steve Coogan por Stan & Ollie

Viggo Mortensen por Green Book

  MEJOR ACTRIZ DE REPARTO

  Amy Adams por El vicepresidente: más allá del poder (The Vice)

Claire Foy por El primer hombre en la luna (First Man)

Emma Stone por La Favorita

Margot Robbie por María, reina de Escocia

Rachel Weisz por La Favorita

  MEJOR ACTOR DE REPARTO

  Adam Driver por BlacKkKlansman

Mahershala Ali por Green Book

Richard E. Grant por ¿Podrás perdonarme algún día?

Sam Rockwell por Vice

Timothée Chalamet por Beautiful Boy, siempre serás mi hijo

    MEJOR MÚSICA ORIGINAL

  Terence Blanchard por BlacKkKlansman

Nicholas Britell por If Beale Street Could Talk

Alexandre Desplat por Isla de perros

Marc Shaiman por El regreso de Mary Poppins

Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga y Lukas Nelson por Ha nacido una estrella

    MEJOR MONTAJE

  John Ottman por Bohemian Rhapsody

Hank Carwin por Vice

Yorgos Mavropsaridis por La Favorita

Tom Cross por El primer hombre

Alfonso Cuarón y Adam Gough por Roma

    MEJOR DISEÑO DE PRODUCCIÓN

  Stuart Craig y Anna Pinnock por Animales Fantásticos: Los Crímenes de Grindelwald

John Myhre y Gordon Sim por El regreso de Mary Poppins

Fiona Crombie y Alice Felton por La Favorita

Nathan Crowley y Kathy Lucas por El primer hombre

Eugenio Caballero y Bárbara Enríquez por Roma

    MEJOR DISEÑO DE VESTUARIO

  Julian Day por Bohemian Rhapsody

Sandy Powell por El regreso de Mary Poppins

Sandy Powell por La Favorita

Mary Zophres por La balada de Buster Scruggs

Alexandra Byrne por María, reina de Escocia

    MEJOR MAQUILLAJE Y PELUQUERÍA

  Mark Coulier y Jan Sewell por Bohemian Rhapsody

Jenny Shircore por María, reina de Escocia

Nadia Stacey por La Favorita

Mark Coulier y Jeremy Woodhead por Stan & Ollie

TBC por Vice

    MEJOR SONIDO

  John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey y John Warhurst por Bohemian Rhapsody

Mary H. Ellis, Mildred latrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Frank A. Montaño y Jon Taylor por El primer hombre

Gilbert Lake, James H. Mather, Christopher Munro y Mike Prestwood Smith por Misión Imposible: Fallout

Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Procter y Ethan Van der Ryn por Un lugar tranquilo

Steve Morrow, Alan Robert Murray, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich y Dean Zupancic por Ha nacido una estrella

    MEJORES EFECTOS ESPECIALES

  Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Kelly Port y Dan Sudick por Avengers: Infinity War

Ian Hunter, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles y J.D. Schwalm por El primer hombre

Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack y Dan Sudick por Black Panther

Tim Burke, Andy Kind, Christian Manz y David Watkins por Animales Fantásticos: Los Crímenes de Grindelwald

Matthew E. Butler, Grady Cofer, Roger Guyett y David Shirk por Ready Player One

    MEJOR CORTO DE ANIMACIÓN BRITÁNICO

  Elizabeth Hobbs, Abigail Addison y Jelena Popović por I’m Ok

Gary McLeod y Myles McLeod por Marfa

Jonathan Hodgson y Richard Van Den Boom por Roughhouse

    MEJOR CORTOMETRAJE BRITÁNICO

  Alex Lockwood por 73 Cows

Angela Clarke por Bachelor, 38

Ben Clark, Megan Pugh y Paul Taylor por The blue door

Sandhya Suri y Balthazar de Ganay por The Field

Barnaby Blackburn, Sophie Alexander, Edward Speleers y Catherine Slater por Wale

    PREMIO A LA ESTRELLA EMERGENTE

  Barry Keoghan

Cynthia Erivo

Jessie Buckley

Lakeith Stanfield

Letitia Wright

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

Arthur Szyk, “Murder Incorporated: Hirohito, Hitlerhito, Benito” (December 1941), watercolor and gouache on paper, Harlan Crow Library, Dallas, Texas (courtesy New-York Historical Society)

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Charlottesville’s city council voted to shroud its statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in black fabric following the murder of anti-fascist campaigner Heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally. Confederate memorials were recently removed from the University of Texas, Woodlawn Cemetery at West Palm Beach, a public park in Helena, Montana, and various locations throughout New York City. The Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, announced its willingness to take any Confederate memorials removed by “any city or jurisdiction” across the US.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump declined to attend the upcoming annual Kennedy Center Honors in “order to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction,” according to a press statement from the White House. Honorees Carmen de Lavallade and Norman Lear both stated that they planned to boycott the event.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, published a statement in the wake of the deadly clashes at Charlottesville, reiterating the museum’s mission “of bringing history — with all of its pain and its promise — front and center.” “It is not surprising … to find that the dedication of Confederate monuments spiked in two distinct time periods,” Bunch’s statement reads. “The first encompassed the years when states were passing Jim Crow laws disenfranchising African Americans and the second corresponds to the modern civil rights movement. These monuments are symbols that tell us less about the actual Civil War but more about the uncivil peace that followed.”

All 17 private members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigned, condemning Trump’s “support of the hate groups and terrorists who killed and injured fellow Americans in Charlottesville.”

The Village Voice announced that it will end its print publication.

The New-York Historical Society announced an exhibition of over 40 works by illustrator and miniaturist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951). The Polish-Jewish artist is best known for his caricatures of the Nazis and the other Axis power leaders, many of which were commissioned as posters and pamphlets during World War II.

A visitor stepped on a horizontal pigment sculpture by Yves Klein at Theatre of the Void, an exhibition of the artist’s work at the BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts, Belgium. A similar incident took place at Nice’s Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain in April.

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Islamic extremist Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi was held liable for €2.7 million (~$3.2 million) in damages by the International Criminal Court for the destruction of nine centuries-old mausoleums and the Sidi Yahia mosque in Timbuktu — the first such ruling by the court for an act of cultural destruction.

Kassel city councilman Thomas Materner, a member of the far-right party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), threatened to organize protests should the city acquire Olu Oguibe’s Documenta 14 art work, “Das Fremdlinge und Flüchtlinge” (“Monument for Strangers and Refugees”), an obelisk dedicated to refugees. Materner described the sculpture as “degenerate art,” a term used by the Nazis to characterize modernist art.

Cambridge University Press came under intense criticism for complying with a request from China to block access to over 300 articles from The China Quarterly. Access to the articles has since been reinstated according to an announcement by the Quarterly‘s editor, Tim Pringle.

Over 40 Portuguese photographers pledged to reject exhibition opportunities or funding from the Israeli state until the country “complies with international law and respects the human rights of Palestinians.”

The International Foundation for Art Research identified four fake Jackson Pollock paintings, each of which was attributed to the collection of the likely fictitious James Brennerman — an “insane recluse” who supposedly gave his collection away to his servants.

Richard Pearson, a con artist who forged works in the style of Norman Cornish (1919–2014), was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison. Pearson was ordered to pay a nominal sum of £1, a penalty that will increase should he come into possession of any new assets.

Two specialists verified a work by John Constable for the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? program. The show’s co-presenter, art dealer Philip Mould, previously owned the painting — then dismissed as a fake —  but was unable to authenticate the work at the time.

A family damaged an 800-year-old coffin at the Prittlewell Priory Museum in Southend, Essex, after lifting their child over it in order to pose for a photograph. According to the Guardian, the family left the museum without reporting the damage.

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Wifredo Lam, “Pleniluna” (undated), lithograph (courtesy Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU)

Univision Communications Inc. donated 57 artworks by 40 artists from Latin America and the United States to the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum. The gift includes works by Cundo Bermudez, Coqui Calderon, Humberto Calzada, Antonia Guzman, Wifredo Lam, Rafael Soriano, and Fernando De Szyszlo.

The Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation donated $120 million to establish a school of art at the University of Arkansas.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) exceeded its $200,000 fundraising goal to match a challenge grant for the PAMM Fund for African American Art, a fund dedicated to the purchase of contemporary art by African American artists.

The National Gallery in London acquired Bernardo Bellotto’s “The Fortress of Königstein from the North” (ca 1756–58) after an appeal raised £11.7 million (~$15 million) to save it from export.

Bernardo Bellotto, “The Fortress of Königstein from the North” (ca 1756–58), oil on canvas, 132.1 x 236.2 cm (© The National Gallery, London)

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The Baltimore Museum of Art appointed seven new members to its board of trustees: Heidi Berghuis, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Brooke Lierman, David H. Milton, Adam Pendleton, Scott Schelle, and Wilma Bulkin Siegel.

Viviana Bianchi was appointed executive director of the Bronx Council on the Arts.

Ruba Katrib was appointed curator of MoMA PS1.

June Yap was appointed director of curatorial, programs, and publications at the Singapore Art Museum.

Allegra Pesenti was appointed associate director and senior curator of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

Jo Widoff and Lars Bang Larsen were appointed to Moderna Museet’s curatorial team.

The Museum of Modern Art appointed Rob Baker as director of marketing and creative strategy and Leah Dickerman as director of editorial and content strategy.

Jagdip Jagpal will succeed Neha Kirpal as director of the India Art fair.

The Main Museum in Downtown Los Angeles implemented bilingual exhibition labels, materials, and programming in English and Spanish.

Moniker International Art Fair will open its first New York edition in May 2018.

The world’s first Partition Museum opened in Amritsar, India.

The Equal Justice Initiative announced the construction of a museum in Montgomery dedicated to charting slavery, racial terror, segregation, and mass incarceration.

Gallery 1957 opened a second space in Accra, Ghana.

Poster House, an institution dedicated to showcasing posters from around the world, will open at 119 West 23rd Street in New York — the former home of TekServe — late next year. A pop-up exhibition will open at the space on September 20.

Michael Halsband, poster for “Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings” (1985) (courtesy Poster House)

Accolades

Seitu Jones received the 2017 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award.

Obituaries

John Abercrombie (1944–2017), jazz guitarist.

Brian Aldiss (1925–2017), writer. Best known for his science-fiction work such as Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969).

Sonny Burgess (1929–2017), rockabilly singer.

Chiara Fumai (1978–2017), artist.

Janusz Glowacki (1938–2017), playwright.

Karl Otto Götz (1914–2017), artist.

Dick Gregory (1932–2017), satirist and activist.

Leo Hershkowitz (1924–2017), archivist and historian.

Masatoyo Kishi (1924–2017), abstract painter and sculptor.

Jerry Lewis (1926–2017), comedian, actor, and filmmaker.

M.T. Liggett (1930–2017), folk artist.

Ramon Boixados Malé (1927–2017), president of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.

Thomas Meehan (1929–2017), Broadway writer.

Stuart J. Thompson (1955-2017), Broadway producer and manager.

Gordon Williams (1934–2017), writer. Best known for The Siege of Trencher’s Farm (1971) and The Duellists (1977).

Sculptures by M.T. Liggett, Mullinville, Kansas (via Wikipedia)

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