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GHS20m [email protected] celebration waste of money – Sekou

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Sekou Nkrumah21Dr. Sekou Nkrumah is the son of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana

The Diamond Jubilee celebrations estimated to cost the country some GHS20million “is a complete waste of time and money”, former Coordinator of the National Youth Authority, Dr Sekou Nkrumah, has said.

President Nana Akufo-Addo revealed on Thursday February 9 that the celebration of Ghana’s 60th anniversary would cost a total of GHS20million.

He revealed this during the unveiling of the [email protected] celebration on Thursday, February 9 at the Flagstaff House.

The president was quick to add that “corporate Ghana in particular will provide the funds for the anniversary” and that his ambition was to commemorate the anniversary “with a minimum or no burden at all on the national treasury”.

Mr Akufo-Addo had earlier promised a modest celebration during the inauguration of the planning committee.

However, the son of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, who guided Ghana, then Gold Coast, to independence in 1957 and later became its first president, was of the view that the celebration was needless and “we should get serious” with developmental matters instead.

He took to his Facebook wall on Friday February 10 to express his reservations about the anniversary.


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Mid-year budget review comes off today

Business News of Monday, 31 July 2017

Source: citifmonline.com

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta presents Asempa Budget to Parliament

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta is expected to present his midyear budget review and economic planning to Parliament tomorrow, July 31, 2017.

This is in fulfilment of the constitutional mandate requiring the Minister to give an account of the performance of the economy before the commencement of the second half of the year.

Citi Business News understands tomorrow’s presentation will not see a request for an additional budgetary allocation from the House.

This comes despite the almost normal practice where such presentations have been associated with requests for supplementary budgets.

The decision not to seek additional approval for expenditure from the Legislature also comes in the face of caution that the government may miss its budget targets as its first half performance hasn’t been encouraging.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies for instance warned that government will miss its 2017 budget target should it fail to spend in critical sectors of the economy.

The IFS argues that government’s refusal to pay valid arrears and invest in infrastructural development for the first half of this year has impacted heavily on economic growth.

The Executive Director of the IFS, Professor Newman Kusi explains that the cut in some critical expenditure has affected economic performance so far.

“The cuts in expenditure have been affected; those that we actually need such as the capital spending, earmarked funds, payment for goods and services among others. But then again the government has its hands tied at its back because it cannot cut back on wages and salaries, interest payments, etc and these together take a disproportionate share of the revenue that is collected,” he stated.

Some of the key areas that Mr. Ken Ofori Atta is expected to touch on is revenue shortfalls, impact of declining commodity prices on economy, government debt levels as well as progress with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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Posted: 1 September 2016 | Monika Heiming, Executive Director, EIM & Ville Saarinen, Technical Affairs Manager, EIM | No comments yet

With 12 members and two associate members, EIM represents over 50% of the EU’s railway lines and has a key role in developing, operating and maintaining the European railway network. But how will research and innovation shape future maintenance processes? EIM’s Executive Director Monika Heiming and Technical Affairs Manager Ville Saarinen take a look…

EIM, the association of European Rail Infrastructure Managers, promotes the interests and views of rail infrastructure managers in Europe. With 12 members and two associate members, EIM represents over 50% of the EU’s railway lines.

EIM members have a key role in developing, operating and maintaining the European railway network. But how will research and innovation shape future maintenance processes? EIM’s Executive Director Monika Heiming and Technical Affairs Manager Ville Saarinen take a look.

Maintenance with a holistic approach

Rail infrastructure managers have to offer safe, reliable and cost-effective track systems. As part of this mandate, they approach maintenance in a holistic manner, due to its interrelationship with the entire life-cycle of infrastructure management: funding, building, operations, maintenance itself and innovation.

Apart from impacting on their overall asset management, maintenance is also key in the performance of the infrastructure manager to deliver services to its customers. Hence, maintenance is one of the key functions of any infrastructure manager, and it will be amongst the first functions to be innovated and digitalised which is already being addressed in several EU initiatives.

Maintenance in EU legislation

Over 80% of national rail regulations find their origins in Brussels (BE) within the European Commission, or in Valenciennes (FR) as part of the European Railway Agency (ERA). ERA was set up to help create a safe and interoperable single European Railway Area via Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs) and Common Safety Methods (CSM).

Infrastructure managers are involved via their sectoral body EIM (European Rail Infrastructure Managers1) in the preparatory works of these TSIs and CSMs while providing feedback on the experience from implementing them. A well drafted TSI and the accompanying Application Guide lays the foundations for an increase in cross-border traffic and a reduction in operational costs.

EIM provides a platform for its members to exchange experience working with the TSIs and to improve their implementation. The current objectives and focus of EIM’s Technical Working Groups is to improve interoperability throughout the Union by closing the TSI open points with ERA in a cost-effective way. This objective is actively monitored and directed by the EIM Technical Steering Group in terms of EIM’s daily operations.

One of the most relevant TSIs regulating maintenance and construction of track systems is the ‘Infrastructure TSI’, which covers:

  • Items related to track building and maintenance
  • Interfaces with the other subsystems and TSIs
  • Interoperability constituents subject to the EC verification in this subsystem, i.e. the rail, the rail fastening system and track sleepers.

EIM members, via EIM’s Infrastructure Technical Working Group, have actively participated in the drafting of the currently applicable Infrastructure TSI which came into force 1 January 2015, bringing together the two former Infrastructure TSIs for conventional rail (CR) and high-speed (HS).

EIM’s members have also influenced the content and drafting of the Infrastructure TSI Application Guide, published on 14 December 2015. A poor Application Guide could reduce the effectiveness of the TSI and cause a divergence in the national railway systems which should be heading towards interoperability. In addition, in some cases it may lead to unnecessary costs resulting from the execution of works not required in the TSI.

Maintenance trends

Maintenance impacts the entire life-cycle of infrastructure management and it is also one of the largest cost drivers, making up some one third of the railway’s operating costs2 . Hence, mono- and multi-modal benchmarking, innovation and automation, predictive vs corrective or time-based maintenance will gain in importance for infrastructure managers to forecast the optimal time and way for maintenance and renewals. Research and innovation will

Research and innovation will substantially shape current maintenance processes. A few of them include:

EIM is engaged vis-à-vis the European Standardisation Organisations to foster more innovative maintenance. In many countries, EIM members have installed advanced wayside monitoring equipment to monitor the condition of their customer’s rolling stock operating on the network. So far, the identification of individual rolling stock was a time and resource-consuming process and the lack of automation did not allow compiling of effective condition reports. In the future, wheel defect evolutions can be identified to limit track damage and help speed-up corrective measures. The same applies to unbalanced or overweight axle loads impacting the safety of the track.

To address these problems, but also others, EIM is pushing for a standard for the Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) in rail via the CEN process. EIM and the Finnish Transport Agency (FTA) will organise a kick-off meeting on the topic at the end of March 2016 in Brussels under the CEN umbrella.

Ultimately, automation will help the infrastructure managers to develop better deterioration models of their networks, thereby fostering safety and asset management of their tracks.

Maintenance is also crucial in terms of contingency and congestion issues on the network following increased traffic or adverse weather conditions (torrential rainfalls, extreme winter or summer conditions). Both issues are addressed in EIM for rail but also across infrastructure modes.

In fact, being subject to adverse winter conditions, many countries design at least part of their system with a temperature range starting from -40°Celsius to +30°Celsius in the summer. This means, for example, that the tensioning devices of the catenary system are built to accommodate this temperature variance. The neutral temperature of the rails also reflect this by being lower in the Scandinavian region than in Central Europe. This detail showcases the difficulty in delivering a truly harmonised European single railway area.

These issues will have to be addressed from the supplier’s side as well. Their components and systems need to have a more modular and interchangeable design approach helping the infrastructure managers to improve the system’s down-times in the case of disturbances.

EIM’s overall objective is more interoperable components in order to widen the supplier base and offer for its members; new actors, as IT companies have already seized this opportunity.

R&D on EU level (Shift2Rail)

The Shift2Rail (S2R) Joint Undertaking3 brings together the EU and the rail industry via a public-private partnership.

S2R has identified: a) the aging infrastructure; and b) the increase of railway traffic as key challenges for the European railway system.

Furthermore, the existing station and terminals are reaching their maximum capacity in certain areas while the quality of the surroundings do not match customer’s expectations. An increasingly important factor for the attractiveness of the railways is a functioning intermodal approach with a flawless multimodal passenger and freight transport chain.

Until 2025, members of S2R will address these issues. Infrastructure maintenance and innovative construction will be covered in S2R’s innovation program (IP) 3 – Cost Efficient and Reliable High Capacity Infrastructure, also involving members of EIM.

Individual approaches

Individual members of the EIM address maintenance in parallel to the EU initiatives. Several of them have embedded innovative maintenance into their digital strategies, in order to be able to collect large amount of often non-digital data in order to analyse them for modelling and clustering with other functions. These processes are often coupled with investments in fixed assets and devices for automatic monitoring, supervision and data handling.

Over time, applications such as self-alerting switches or interconnected devices related to weather forecasts or automated maintenance planning will develop.

Maintenance is a key function for the life-cycle approach of rail infrastructure managers. It will be amongst the first functions to be innovated and digitalised. EU and individual research and innovation initiatives will foster this process. Overall, maintenance is key for a more resilient, predictive and safe infrastructure, able to host for future traffic growth.

EIM addresses these trends via several activity vectors, both within its organisation but also with several external stakeholders and partners.

  2. Technical Strategy Leadership Group (TLSG): The Future Railway: The Industry’s Rail Technical Strategy 2012

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[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 22, 1996)]
[Pages 54766-54767]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27053]

[Docket 75-96]

Proposed Foreign-Trade Zone--Memphis, Tennessee Application and
Public Hearing

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Memphis International Trade Development Corporation
(a Tennessee not-for-profit corporation), to establish a general-
purpose foreign-trade zone in Memphis, Tennessee, adjacent to the
Memphis Customs port of entry. The application was submitted pursuant
to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C.
81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was
formally filed on October 11, 1996. The applicant is authorized to make
the proposal under Section 7-85-103 of the Tennessee Statutes.
    The proposed zone would be the second general-purpose zone in the
Memphis Customs port of entry area. The existing zone is FTZ 77 at
sites in Memphis, Tennessee (Grantee: City of Memphis, Tennessee, Board
Order 189, 47 FR 16191, 4/15/82).
    The proposed new zone would be located at the Memphis TradeCenter
industrial park (50 acres), U.S. Highway 78 and Tuggle Road, Memphis.
It is owned by CP TradeCenter, Ltd. and will be operated by the Foreign
Trade Zone Operating Company of Texas. The first phase of development
will involve constructing a 268,000 square foot multi-tenant facility.
    The application contains evidence of the need for additional zone
services in the Memphis area. Several firms have indicated an interest
in using zone procedures for warehousing/distribution of such items as
electronics and medical products. Specific manufacturing approvals are
not being sought at this time. Requests would be made to the Board on a
case-by-case basis.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ

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has been designated examiner to investigate the application and report
to the Board.
    As part of the investigation, the Commerce examiner will hold a
public hearing on November 13, 1996, at 9:00 a.m., at the Memphis
Chamber of Commerce, 22 North Front Street, Suite 200, Memphis,
Tennessee 38103.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested
parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period
for their receipt is December 23, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period (to January 6, 1997).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available during this time for public inspection at the following
locations: U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 22
North Front Street, Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38103.
    Office of the Executive Secretary Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716 U.S. Department of Commerce 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
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John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
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Leonardo's portrait of Mona Lisa, probably the most famous painting in the world has been interested by the public for more than 500 years. It has been reproduced and discussed by artists throughout the history. Even historians and scientists (like Sigmund Freud) tried to reveal the identity of the sitter and the time of the painting’s creation. Although the painting is not dated nor signed the author is known, but the time of its creation is a cause of many discussions. There are no final answers, but there are a lot of theories which are mostly based on writings of Vasari and his contemporaries:

Leonardo undertook to execute, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Monna Lisa, his wife; and toiling it for four years, he left it unfinished; and the work is now in collection of King Francis of France, at Fontainebleu. In this head, whoever wished to see how closely art could imitate nature was able to comprehend it with ease; for in it were counterfeited all the minuteness that with subtlety may be painted, seeing that the eyes had that luster and watery sheen which are always seen in life, and around them were all those rosy and pearly tints, as well as the lashes, which can not be represented without the greatest subtlety. The eyebrows, though his having shown the manner in which the hairs spring from the flesh, here more close, there more scanty, and curve according to pores of the skin, could not be more natural. The nose, with its beautiful nostrils, rosy and tender appeared to be alive. The mouth, with its parting, and with its ends united by the red of the lips to the flesh tints of the face, seemed, in truth, to be not colors but flesh. In the pit of the throat, if one gazed upon it intently, could be seen the beating of the pulse. And, indeed, it may be said that it was painted in such a manner as to make every valiant craftsman, whoever he might be, tremble and lose heart. He made also of his device: Mona Lisa being very beautiful, he always employed, while he was painting her portrait, persons to play and sing, and jesters, who might make her remain merry, in order to take away that melancholy which painters are often wont to give the portraits they paint. And in this work of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing, that it was a thing more divine than human to behold; and it was held to be something marvelous, since the reality was not more alive.
(Giorgo Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, G. Du C de Vere, translation by D. Ekserdian, New York, 1996)

Despite its undisputable historical value, Vasari's writing shouldn't be taken too seriously. This is clear when we take a look at his description of Mona Lisa. Vasari speaks about a beautiful sitter, praises her elegant eyelashes and realistically painted eyebrows. If we compare Mona Lisa with other sitters of that time, we can hardly say she is a beauty and Leonardo never painted her eyelashes or eyebrows, so we can assume that Vasari never saw the painting in person or that he was describing another painting.

The only reliable explanation of the 'mysterious Mona' lies within the painting itself. A painting created by a philosopher and an artist like Leonardo is not merely a beautiful image for decorating a 'Medicean saloon', but the painter's statement-his word. Leonardo literally encrypted his view of the world in this painting, its dimensions and image. He was a true master who besides his perfect technique enabled the viewer to read (watch) and understand the painting in layers. This is probably the reason why Mona Lisa and her direct flirting with the viewer remained 'mysterious' despite her popularity. Or to put it in other words - her 'mysterious smile' made her an icon.

Let us leave unsolved the riddle of the expression on Mona Lisa's face, and note the indisputable fact that her smile has exercised no less powerful a fascination on the artist than on all who have looked at it for the last four hundred years. From that date the captivating smile reappears in all his pictures and in those of his pupils. As Leonardo's Mona Lisa is a portrait, we cannot assume that he added on his own account such an expressive feature to her face - a feature that she did not herself possess. The conclusion seems hardly to be avoided that he found this smile in his model and fell so strongly under its spell that from then on he bestowed it on the free creations of his phantasy. This interpretation, which cannot be called far-fetched, is put forward, for example, by Konstantinowa (1907):

'During the long period in which the artist was occupied with the portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo, he had entered into the subtle details of the features on this lady's face with such sympathetic feeling that he transferred its traits - in particular the mysterious smile and the strange gaze - to all the faces that he painted or drew afterwards. The Gioconda's peculiar facial expression can even be perceived in the picture of John the Baptist in the Louvre; but above all it may be clearly recognized in the expression on Mary's face in the Madonna and Child with St. Anne'...
(Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood , Standard edition, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1990)

Mona Lisa has been reappearing in many disguises. Like Orlando, she has changed her sex and identity throughout reproductions, interpretations and reinterpretations by numerous artists. She was a man and a woman, a hooker and a saint, a mother and a mistress, an aristocrat and a peasant...

Leonardo's Mona Lisa can also be understood as an icon of the birth of the modern subject. A subject that is no longer one-dimensional but divided like Durer's angel(s) in Melencolia I. In Melencolia I and in Mona Lisa, the question of sex prevails over the identity of the sitter. It seems as if the artist is trying to tell us on a conscious or a subconscious level that the definition of sex does not lie in a statement that a man is a man and a woman a woman, but that each one of us carries within a mail and a female side.

Whether Mona Lisa is the painter's self portrait, which was discussed by Marcel Duchamp in his interpretation L.H.O.O.Q. will probably never be proved. But we can claim that Leonardo is a brilliant master, who tells us much more through this painting than we may think when we first look at it

If we cast everything else aside, the indisputable fact that Mona Lisa been the audience’s favorite for more than 500 years remains. She doesn’t loose on her value, on the contrary, she again and again arouses new associations and feelings. As the representative of the »classical«, she was the object of hatred for the modernists. An image that should be desacralized (torn, drawn on it, erased ...). Post-modernism has through Warhol put her beside Marilyn Monroe and Mao, the icons of the modern time - the modern saints. Today, she can be even found in the 'notorious art' of today - advertising.

Myth of LISA

According to mythology, Leonardo never finished the painting, but was constantly completing it which is visible on x-ray. Leonardo hasn't separated from it until his death, and it is supposed he took it with him to France where it was later sold to the French king Francis I. In 1550s, Vasari wrote that the painting was owned by the king, but in 1625 it is mentioned by Cassiano Del Pozzo as being one of the art pieces in The Royall French Collection in Fontainebleu.

The name La Joconda was first mentioned in 1525 in a heritage list of the painter Salai, Leonardo's student and heir, who left it to his sisters in Milan. The written record describes a portrait of a lady named La Joconda. If Salai and Vasari are describing the same painting, it is not known how it came from Milan, where it was taken by Salai when he returned to Italy after the death of his teacher, back to France.

There are theories that the painting was originally wider, so both of the columns on the left and on the right side were visible. If we take a look at the direct copy of the Mona Lisa, Raphael's Lady with a Unicorn and his Portrait of a Lady, the theory is confirmed, because the columns are clearly visible on both of them. It is rather unusual for Leonardo to base his composition in a way that the columns are cut off and only a part of the capitals are visible. It is also unusual that somebody would just cut the painting. I doubt that the painting was ever owned by somebody who would cut it just so it would fit a frame. If the painting was originally bigger, it is most probable that the 'vandal' was Leonardo himself. But we can only guess why and when that happened...

...Maybe in the following years (in France, where he was studying architecture?), Leonardo wanted to sign the painting through gematry and because of that he cut it into the desirable width? But because he was also a master of composition he didn't destroy it with the cutting, but it only gained on composition.

It is also possible that it is not named La Gioconda after the real person Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, but after an Italian word giocare (playing) which would present Mona Lisa as a 'merry lady' or an image playing with us. Until now, we have no indisputable evidence about how her name should be written: La Gioconda, La Giocconda, or La Joconda.

It is mentioned in Salai's will that the portrait of the Lady (Quadro de una dona aretata) was named La Joconda (altered to read la Honda). But in his work Vite de piu eccellenti architetti, scultori e pittori, published in 1550 in Florence, Vasari mentions Mona Lisa as a portrait of Francesco del Giocondo's wife Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo or abbreviated - Monna Lise del Giocondo (Monna is abbreviation for Madonna).

The identity of the sitter has been intensively discussed in the last century. The leading role has been besides Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo given to Costanza d'Avalos, Isabella d'Este, Isabela Gualandi and Guilliano de' Medici's mistress Pacifica Brandano. Sigmund Freud suspected the possibility that was Leonardo’s mother Caterina who possessed the mysterious smile:

...It may very well have been that Leonardo was fascinated by Mona Lisa's smile for the reason that it awoke something in him which had for long lain dormant in his mind - probably an old memory. This memory was of sufficient importance for him never to get free of it when it had once been aroused; he was continually forced to give it new expression...

Vasari mentions that 'heads of laughing women' formed the subject of Leonardo's first artistic endeavors.... 'In his youth he made some heads of laughing women out of clay, which were reproduced in plaster, and some children's heads which were as beautiful as if they had been modeled by the hand of a master ...'

Thus we learn that he began his artistic career by portraying two kinds of objects; and these cannot fail to remind us of the two kinds of sexual objects that we have inferred from the analysis of his vulture-phantasy. If the beautiful children's heads were reproductions of his own person as it was in his childhood, then the smiling women are nothing other than repetitions of his mother Caterina, and we begin to suspect the possibility that it was his mother who possessed the mysterious smile - the smile that he had lost and that fascinated him so much when he found it again in the Florentine lady.

(Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood , Standard edition, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1990)

The most intriguing theory is the one ascribing Mona Lisa Leonardo's features. It is interesting that Mona Lisa and Leonardo's Self portrait of an old painter are very similar if we ignore the age difference. What if Leonardo wanted to tease the viewer and show him that what he sees is for not what it really is (or that another person does not see the same thing as himself?), but that his phantasm lies in-between. A man or a woman - what is it that separates one from another - or maybe both?

In Searching of MONA

Leonardo da Vinci wrote some observations in connection to drawing of the figure (portrait) in his literary works:

Never make the head turn the same way as torso, nor the arm and leg move together on the same side. And if the face is turned to the right shoulder, make all the parts lower in the left than on the right; and when you turn the body with the breast outwards, if the head turns to the left side, make the parts on the right side higher than those on the left. (The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, Oxford, 1883)

Mona Lisa was very different from other portraits made until that time, because she was painted sitting down and not as a bust or drawn in profile like Italian painters did. The portrait was larger and included more of the sitter’s body. This invention of Leonardo's influenced the development of a completely new way of portrait drawing which was followed by many until the 19th century.

The other important Leonardo's invention that gives the painting its mysterious character is the so-called sfumato technique. It means painting shadows with subtle shade transitions created with fingers that produced a special hazy effect on the painting.

The third important feature of Mona Lisa is the look of the sitter which is directed at the viewer. This 'trick' has already been used by the northern painters when painting portraits and self portraits. One of the fist portraitist, who painted a sitter looking directly at the viewer was Netherlandish painter Jan Van Eyck. In this way a completely different communication with the beholder is made, for he is directly addressed by the 'image'. The viewer is not merely an observer - as he is with other three-quarter and profile portraits of the northern-Renaissance art until Van Eyck - but becomes a part of the story.

Half-length cutting with stress on almost realistically painted face is typical for the northern portraits in the second quarter of the 15th century (from 1430s on, with Jan Van Eyck and Robert Campin). The cutting slowly becomes bigger and the hands of the sitter which have the same cutting as the face are included. A neutral, monochrome background which emphasizes the expression of the sitter is also very typical for these portraits. In the second half of the 15th century, the portrait opens into landscape in Italy and The Netherlands. Background is represented as a wallpaper or as a window view in front of which the sitter is placed.

Portraits of the Italian painters from the first half of the 15th century have less distinctive features and the person is usually painted from the profile. Such kind of portraits were initially used for the portrait medals, introduced by Pisanello in 1430s. His medal for Cecilia Gonzaga is the first known Renaissance medal to portray a woman. The profile portraits in the paintings were mostly abandoned in the late fifteenth century, although they were still used for special occasions (memorial portraits).

According to Campbel the long standing preference for this view was in part due not only to the long tradition of portraying donors in profile in sacred art and to the influence of classical medals and coins, but also perhaps to the possibility of creating an absolutely faithful likeness of the face by using its shadow profile.
(Italian paintings of the Fifteenth century, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art – Systematic Catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003, pp. 592-593.)

The oldest three-quarter portrait is one of Rudolph IV of Hapsburg from the end of the 14th century (exhibited in the Erbischotliches Dozesanmuseum in Vienna). Since 1520s on, this type of portrait has been frequently used all over northern Europe. In 1450s in Rome, French painter Jean Fouquet depicted Pope Eugene IV as a three-quarter portrait. This painting was probably well known by Italian artists and wealthy patrons of arts.

The oldest Italian three-quarter portrait is Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan by Montegno from 1459. However the sitter appears as a bust and his hands are not included in the picture. The only exception is Portrait of a Man by Andrea della Castagno dated in the middle of the 15th century, which has all the characteristics of the northern three-quarter portrait looking at the viewer. The only difference is in the details of the brush which makes it incomparable to Netherlandish portraits by Campin, Van Eyck or van der Weyden.

Northern and southern painters knew each other through their original works (the Netherlandish painters in the Medicean collection), reproductions circling around and also through traveling (Durer often traveled to Italy, Jacopo de Barbari spent three years in Nuremberg etc.). The three-quarter portrait (look pointed into the beholder and often including arms) which had been through Robert Campin, Jan Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden known in the northern European countries in the first half of the 15th century, appeared in Italy in 1470s with Sandro Botticelli's and Leonardo da Vinci's paintings.

Double (Self?) Portrait

Early Renaissance portraits of women were painted mostly for weddings. Most of them seem to date from the first years of marriage, after which civic laws dictated that women should dress more decently and refrain from wearing jewelry. Lippi's bridal portrait Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement (about 1435-1436) is the first preserved solo portrait in Florentine Renaissance. The painter’s treatment of the motif is highly unusual, since the husband Lorenzo Scolari is painted next to the bride Angiola Sapiti and as a reverse, a mirror image of her.

There are a lot of double portraits, husband and wife or a donator and Madonna, where two portraits contribute to the whole. Van Eyck's Man in a Turban dated in 1433 and Portrait of Margareta van Eyck (probably the painter's wife) dated in 1439 are especially interesting portraits, because they are not compatible in dimensions but are very similar. Some assume that Man in a Turban is the self portrait as it was described in the inventory of Lord Erandel's collection in 1655. The painting is also Van Eyck's first known portrait with the sitter looking at the beholder, which was later on used by Durer and Italian Renaissance painters.

Van Eyck probably signed himself through the image in the mirror in Betrothal of the Arnolfini. Johannes de Eych fuit hic / 1434, meaning Van Eyck was here is written above the mirror where two persons are painted. The man in a red turban could be the author’s self portrait. A figure in a red turban wearing a fur coat is painted in the background in the middle of the canvas in his Virgin of Chancellor Rolin. This type of signature where the author is painted as a commentator on the picture were often used by Renaissance artists. It was applied by Durer in numerous paintings, by Botticelli in Adoration of the Magi (Medici Adoration), by Raphael in School of Athens...

If Man in a Turban is really Van Eyck's self portrait, than it is the first independent self portrait known in the history of painting. Since then, painters often painted themselves in different periods of their lives, with various attributions in various disguises... often as an 'imitation' or a commentary of the most famous (self) portrait - Mona Lisa.

Modernist artists fought against everything old and so Mona Lisa as the representative of 'the Classic' became the object of hatred and despise. In 1919, at the peak of Dadaism, Dadaist artists tried to destroy a lot of 'old things' but most of all, they wanted to change the old patterns of thinking and Mona Lisa was the first victim.

In the year 1919 on the 400th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, Duchamp took a reproduction of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa added in pencil a moustache and gave it the title L.H.O.O.Q., which is pronounced in French: Elle a chaud au cul (She has a hot arse). He later explained the title himself:

…In reference to the Mona Lisa I also added a sentence or initials on the bottom of that reproduction - L.H.O.O.Q. A loose translation of them would be 'there is fire down below'.

(Artur Schwartz, The Complete work of Marcel Duchamp, Thames & Hudson, pp. 476-477)

Duchamp said that by drawing moustache and beard to Mona Lisa, she became a man:

…The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at it the Mona Lisa becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man, it is a real man, and that was my discovery without realizing it at that time.
(Artur Schwartz, The Complete work of Marcel Duchamp, Thames & Hudson, pp. 476-477)

Marchel Duchamp later wrote that the only reason he draw her moustache was to desacralize her. But maybe Duchamp didn't tell us everything and he revealed only the first layer of the image. Rhonda Roland Shearer, a New York sculptor thinks that L.H.O.O.Q. is Duchamp's self portrait. She thought that original was a lithography made by a superimposition of Mona Lisa and Duchamp's portrait.

Regarding to his statement that Mona Lisa is in fact a man, it is certainly interesting that he choose a woman as his alter ego. As an art gesture, he was photographed transformed in Rose Selavy ( pronounced in French as 'Rose is life' ). Photographs were taken by Man Ray in 1921. 'In contrast to an earlier Man Ray portrait of Duchamp dressed as a woman (La Belle Haleine: Eau Voilette (Beautiful Breath: Veil Water), 1921), the seductive gaze and fashionable attire of this Rrose Selavy project the image of a mysterious figure.' (Artur Schwartz)

We will probably never know for sure whether Duchamp revealed Leonardo's disguise and solved the mystery of Mona Lisa. It is certain that Mona Lisa has since the time of its creation been one of the most frequently interpreted works of art and could not be avoided by all famous artists.

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Ramadan Contest: Share Your Traditions and Feed the Hungry with Islamic Relief

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Ramadan is a new beginning, for body and soul alike. Zakat, a charitable pillar of Islam, helps to reinforce the balance between the physical and the spiritual, and can give all cultures and communities a new beginning. In this spirit, Guidance Residential is running a contest on Facebook that will work with Islamic Relief to benefit a family in need.

We want to share our (and your) favorite Ramadan traditions, and we need your help to do that! Here’s how it works:

1. Post a picture of your favorite Ramadan tradition on Facebook
2. Tag @GuidanceResidential and include #RamadanWithGR
3. One or two posts (depending on volume) with the most Likes will win

What’s the prize? Charity! Weekly winners will be named the donor of a Ramadan food package from Islamic Relief worth up to $75. It’s that simple! Starting Monday, May 26th, we hope you’ll join us in sharing the love and the little things that make Ramadan such a special time of year. The more we share our traditions with the world, the more we will receive new and exciting traditions in return.

Ramadan Mubarak!

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Entry is free and open to any individual, contingent upon the use of the #RamadanWithGR hashtag. By participating and submitting/sharing a photo, you thereby authorize Guidance Residential, LLC (GR) to use said photo, your name and likeness, and the likeness of individuals visible in the photo. GR will award 1-2 persons per week, over the course of the month of Ramadan 2017. Chosen entries will be the shared photo with the #RamadanWithGR hashtag which garners the most likes. Weekly winners will be named the donor of a Ramadan food package from Islamic Relief worth up to $75.00 USD. One entry per person per household, multiple entries will result in disqualification. Employees (and their families) of GR and its affiliate companies, are not eligible to enter. Participants must have a valid Facebook account in order to enter. Contest begins May 26, 2017. Prize winners will be notified via Facebook on every Monday for the previous week of Ramadan, with prizes awarded same day. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries. Prizes are non-transferable and there is no cash or other alternative. GR may in its absolute discretion modify, amend, cancel or suspend these terms and conditions.


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When you wear a sheet mask, you accept that you’re going to be looking a little silly as your skin absorbs all of the good stuff imbued in the mask. Why not embrace it and really go for absurdity as your pamper yourself?

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Bad Company

Katharina Born

Three stories, three generations, one family. And in the end it becomes clear: there's nothing deadlier than families. In her debut novel, Born brings a whole century to life, and, at the same time, paints a perceptive portrait of present-day society.

Can both happiness and misfortune be passed down through generations? Can repressed memories resurface decades or even a century later and still have terrible repercussions? Katharina Born tells the story of a family against the backdrop of three era-defining events. The young poet Peter Vahlen and the popular, much-admired Hella von Nesselhahn meet during the student protest movement of 1968. They both come from a rural area in the Rhineland and return there as a couple. Almost forty years later, Vahlen is dead. Hella still lives with her daughter and granddaughter in the villa where Vahlen wrote his great novel Westerwald. One day, young PhD student Andreas Wieland turns up asking to examine Vahlen's literary papers. Hella fears that the ghosts of the past have come to haunt her - for Wieland wants to find out to what extent the now-famous author's work is autobiographical. His research leads him back to the Nazi era and all the way to the nineteenth century, deep into the many entanglements of a family, its self-deceptions, vanities and blind spots. Bad Company is about searching for clues in a family's own home and history. Absorbing and full of irony, it abounds with colourful characters and unforgettable stories.

Katharina Born is a writer of remarkable confidence - well worth discovering. The author was awarded a prize for an excerpt of this novel at the distinguished Ingeborg Bachmann competition. "In her novel, depicting the domestic misery of one family across several generations, Katharina Born explodes the intransigent myth of the Generation of '68 utopia of Nazi exorcism and revolutions of politics, society and sexuality." Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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Der Autor liest

Dr. Klaus Weber

Katharina Born hat ein Buch geschrieben, das historisches und biogtrafisches Material verdichtet, ohne dass die einzelnen Personen in ihrer Geschichte untergehen würden.
Das Lesen war ein großer Genuss – zwei Tage und Nächte mit wenig Schlaf. Ich habe ihr Buch neben die Gedichte ihres Vaters Nicolas Born gestellt. Sie muss sich nicht hinter ihm verstecken…

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The “Next Generation” in Dermal Fillers

Next generation dermal fillers is now available in Hawaii. It received FDA approval in October, 2013. Granted, it took awhile coming to the U.S. market, having been introduced in Europe in 2005. But, it’s here now and it’s revolutionary. Voluma XC was developed by Juvederm, a market leader in cosmetic dermal fillers. Voluma XC has been approved for adding volume to the cheek area. The mid-face area loses fat as we age, making our faces sag. This dermal filler can plump and lift cheeks, temporarily restoring the padding we have lost.

In the past, dermal fillers have been approved to fill the nasolabial lines bracketing the mouth. Those are the lines which run from the nose to the corners of the lips. The gel is used to fill in deep to moderate wrinkles or folds around the mouth and on the forehead. The gel helps to plump up and soften those indentations to give the face a more youthful appearance. The Voluma XC filler rejuvenates the face using a different approach.

Dermal Filler Approved for the Cheek Area

When we are young the fat is distributed evenly and smoothly, padding our cheeks and forehead and giving our face its youthful contours. Unfortunately, as we age this fat padding begins to shift and decrease in volume. Redistribution of the fat causes our skin to sag. Voluma XC adds padding and volume to those sagging areas.

This filler can be used to improve the contour of all aspects of the cheek area. The apex, apple, and hollow of the cheek can all be improved, lifted, and plumped with this dermal filler. Because our cheeks flatten as we age, adding dimension to the face improves our profile.

Dermal Filler Made From a Natural Substance

Voluma XC by Juvederm is a filler with a gel consistency made from hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring substance in the body. It has been used for years in topical creams. It is a highly effective ingredient used in moisturizers and serums, which pulls moisture from the environment. Because hyaluronic acid naturally occurs in the body an allergic reaction is rare. Before hyaluronic acid fillers were developed collagen, silicone, and fat were used to plump up the skin. Some of these products are known to cause allergies. Because collagen is derived from an animal source, it is fairly routine to be tested for a collagen allergy. Because of the rarity of an allergic reaction to hyaluronic acid an allergy test is not required before cosmetic treatment.

Hyaluronic acid is actually a complex sugar which absorbs water like a sponge. It can absorb many times its own weight in water, and this increase in volume makes it the optimal substance to help lift and plump the cheek area. It is a colorless, smooth gel which won’t clump, making it the superior dermal filler.

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colorado careThis November, Colorado voters will have the opportunity to vote on Amendment 69 known as ColoradoCare.  The amendment would create a non-profit state-based insurance option governed by a 21 member board of trustees covering all residents of the state.

ColoradoCare would serve as the primary insurance option to the state’s residents and be supplemental to Medicare, Tricare and Medicaid which would all remain in place.  If adopted, ColoradoCare would replace the state’s current Health Insurance Exchange.  Colorado would seek a waiver from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and repurpose ACA government funding to help pay for Colorado care.

The plan is a comprehensive medical plan covering the items consumers expect: primary care, inpatient care, outpatient care, maternity care, prescription drugs etc. The plan claims that there will be no copays or no deductibles under the plan when an individual goes in for care.

The program will be funded between a shared payroll tax of 3.3% to the employee and 6.7% to employers.  Individuals 65 and above would also be subject to the tax if their retirement income is above $46,000 for individuals and $75,000 for joint filers.  The program plans to be primarily funded via these payroll taxes.

Employers will still have the choice to sponsor a health insurance plan for their employees but they will be subject to the tax regardless.  It’s not likely that many employers will want to pay “twice” for health insurance coverage. The 6.7% payroll tax could be a considerable expense depending on the wages of their workforce.  For some employers it could be less than what they are paying now for health insurance.  For profit companies would also lose the tax deduction they currently receive for sponsoring health insurance.  ColoradoCare, if passed, is expected to increase taxes by 25 billion dollars in Colorado, however ColoradoCare claims the state’s population is currently spending 30 billion on health care and expect this program to save roughly 5 billion dollars a year.

How will these savings materialize?  Insurance cost can be simplified to three categories: administration, stop loss/pooling protection and claims.  ColoradoCare contends that it will decrease all three components.

How? First of all, proponents claim that administrative and claims costs will be reduced based on the collective purchasing power of the state program.  For example, the Board of Trustees will be responsible for ensuring the acquisition of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.  Similar to how other countries purchase pharmaceuticals e.g. Canada or the U.K.  Additional administrative savings will be garnered by eliminating the insurance company networks and the current payment and billing processes that can be administratively burdensome to providers.  In other words, the program would eliminate the insurance carrier as the third party payer freeing up administrative expenses to the hospitals and providers.

ColoradoCare’s website does not mention any kind of insurance protection to be purchased to protect from catastrophic claims so the assumption is that there is none and the cost of insurance will be out of the equation lower costs.

From a claims perspective, it is difficult to determine if Colorado care will somehow impact utilization or lower the unit cost of care.  This is the huge question that remains to be answered. Providers will be reimbursed directly from ColoradoCare and not by an insurance company.  This is a material change to the current system of healthcare purchasing.  ColoradoCare claims that providers will be fully reimbursed as the program realizes it must provide competitive reimbursement rates similar to what they receive now if they want to keep quality physicians in the state.  If prescriptions and medical devices are acquired directly and at a lower costs, this will have a direct impact on claims costs but what about other areas like inpatient/outpatient/mental health?

Regarding utilization, if a participant has open access to providers and no cost share for many services, what mechanisms are in place to prevent the over utilization of medical care?  Other questions arise on how to handle care for a Colorado resident who leaves the state for treatment.

The financing of ColoradoCare leaves a lot of questions unanswered.  Will it reduce costs for all?  The state is bracing for a monumental vote in November.  The rest of the country will be watching the results.

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Anorexia, bulimia increase risk for criminal behavior

August 21, 2017

Women with eating disorders were significantly more likely to commit crimes, particularly theft, according to recent findings.

“Criminality, among other adversities, has been associated with eating disorders,” Shuyang Yao, MSc, of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and colleagues wrote. “As it might add to the psychosocial burden on individuals who are already suffering from the direct effects of eating disorders, it is important to verify the association between eating disorders and criminal behaviors and to understand mechanisms of the associations. However, research on criminality in eating disorders is quite limited.”

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Researchers found a positive association between anorexia nervosa and celiac disease, both before and after celiac diagnosis, in a Swedish nationwide study…
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Indigenous Health Workshop at The People’s Health Assembly

On Sunday 8th of July, Health Poverty Action hosted a workshop at the People’s Health Assembly in Cape Town on indigenous people’s health. Speakers from the aboriginal Alyawarre community in Australia, the San in Namibia, and the Maya in Guatemala ... Read more

Family Planning Summit: An issue which can’t be ignored

Today’s Family Planning Summit is a welcome and overdue opportunity to focus on an aspect of global health that has been neglected for many years. This Cinderella of health services has been the victim of politics, particularly the power of ... Read more

Catching up with Mission Oz

We were lucky enough to catch up with Mission Oz in London this weekend. The group have just completed the first leg of their round the world bike ride which started in Teesside last week. How’s it all going so ... Read more

Health for all now!

Third People’s Health Assembly gathers in Cape Town Over 700 health activists from more than 90 countries are gathered in Cape Town for the Third People’s Health Assembly to analyse challenges in health and to debate solutions to health inequities. ... Read more

‘Slow progress’ towards reduced maternal mortality in MDG Report 2012

The recent progress report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) shows remarkable improvements in eradicating poverty; the number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen in every developing region. Both MDG 1 to halve the number of people living ... Read more

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