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Legion baseball team finishes 8-10 on season
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During the final week of the regular season, Middletown's American Legion baseball team hosted a pair of doubleheaders.
On Monday, July 1, Post 594 played host to Harrisburg, and on …
Legion baseball team finishes 8-10 on season
During the final week of the regular season, Middletown's American Legion baseball team hosted a pair of doubleheaders.
On Monday, July 1, Post 594 played host to Harrisburg, and on Wednesday, July 3, the Middletown team played Dauphin in a combination of regularly scheduled and makeup games as the teams finished up their schedules.
Middletown finished at 8-10 for the season.
Middletown lost its opener to Harrisburg 2-1, but finished the second one with a 13-9 victory. Post 594 posted a 4-0 shutout victory over Dauphin but dropped the nightcap by a 4-2 score to end the season.
The contests were played at Lower Swatara Township's field in Little Hollywood because of the lights there as the second games each day went on well past sundown.
Harrisburg 2, Middletown 1
Harrisburg scored both of its runs in the top of the first inning, which turned out to be just enough to post the win.
Middletown scored its lone run in the bottom of the third, but could get no more as the hits never came against pitcher Makai Rogers in the five-inning game. Middletown recorded just four hits against Rogers.
In the top of the first inning, Harrisburg took advantage of one hit and four walks issued by starter Garrett Miller. Both runs came via bases-loaded walks as Miller struggled with his control.
Miller settled in after that rough start and ended up with seven strikeouts and no hits after giving up a leadoff single to start the game. The problem was, the Middletown offense could not get going.
Cam Peters got the first hit for Post 594 in the home half of the second inning, but was left stranded. A pair of singles by Justin Yohn and Michael Tuffy to start the bottom of the third inning led to Post 594's lone run of the game, an RBI single by Miller.
In the fourth frame, Marcus Mancini's infield hit with two outs went unrewarded. And in the fifth inning a serious threat following a two-out double down the left field line by Yohn ended with a game-ending strikeout by Rogers that secured the win for Harrisburg,
Middletown 13, Harrisburg 9
The coaches elected to play a full seven-inning game in the second part of the double header, and Harrisburg did its best to try to rally from a 13-6 deficit in the final two innings.
With Middletown scoring two runs in each of the first two stanzas and plating three more in the top of the fourth for a 7-3 lead after Harrisburg collected three runs in the bottom, it appeared as if Post 594 was on its way to a comfortable win.
But Harrisburg would not quit. A three-run fourth kept it close at 7-6 and, even after Middletown went up 13-6 in the top of the fifth, Harrisburg kept fighting. Three more runs in the bottom of the sixth by Harrisburg kept the outcome in doubt. And, after Middletown batters were sat down in order in the top of the seventh, Harrisburg threatened by loading the bases with two outs in the home half to make a tense game even more so. But Matt Schopf struck out Video Tucker looking to end the threat and the game.
In the first inning, David Alcock and Justin Yohn walked ahead of a single by Scott Ash that loaded the bases against Tucker. With no outs, Cam Peters stroked a clean single up the middle to knock in Alcock and Yohn for the 2-0 lead. Tucker got out of the inning via a double play and a pop-out.
Peters sat down Harrisburg in order in the bottom of the first and Post 594 plated two more runs in the top of the second to take a 4-0 lead.
Collin Heffner led off with a base on balls, Alec Merry singled to left with one out and Caden Sweeny also drew a walk to load the bases. With two outs, Yohn doubled in the two runs to pad the Middletown lead.
In the bottom of the second, Peters struck out Brandon Hill with two runners on base to preserve the shutout.
Middletown threatened to add to its lead in the top of the third, but Tucker got out of trouble. Harrisburg scored three runs in the bottom of the third, keyed by two hits, a balk and a pair of walks, to pull within a run, 4-3.
But the Middletown squad responded to the challenge by scoring three more runs in the top of the fourth. With one out, Sweeny and Alcock drew back-to-back walks and then raced home on Yohn's 2-run triple. Yohn was out at home trying to score on Scott Ash's single, but Peters knocked in Ash who had gone to third on a passed ball. The runs gave Middletown a 7-3 lead.
But Harrisburg again rallied in the bottom of the frame, using three hits and an error to collect three runs of their own. The runs again cut the difference to just one, 7-6.
A six-run outburst by the Post 594 offense, however, again gave Middletown some breathing room. With new pitcher Stevie Graves on the hill, both Schopf and Collin Heffner were hit by pitches and Brady Keyser singled to load the bases. A walk to Merry and a single by Tuffy drove in two runs.
With two outs, Ash drew a base on balls to force in Merry for the third run. Three more runs came home when the center fielder lost Peters' high fly ball in the lights. The 13-6 lead held up through the middle of the sixth but was broken when Harrisburg collected another trio of runs in the bottom of the inning. Two runs scored on a double by Tucker and another came on a balk.
Middletown went down in order in the top of the seventh and Harrisburg tried to rally again in the home half. But after Harrisburg loaded the bases with two outs, Schopf struck out Tucker on a called third strike to end it and ice the win.
Middletown 4, Dauphin 0
Scott Ash threw a one-hitter, yielding a single in the bottom of the last inning, and the Middletown offense scored single runs in the first and second innings, plus two in the fourth, in posting the 4-0 win in the first game of the doubleheader Wednesday against Dauphin.
Yohn's two-out single in the first frame drove in pinch runner Alec Merry following Ash's single for the first run. In the second stanza, Tuffy singled to left center with two outs to plate Avery Williams for run No. 2.
In the top of the fourth, Schopf was hit by a pitch with one out, and scored with two outs on Keyser's hit for run No. 3. Keyser, thanks to a pair of Dauphin errors, scored the fourth run.
Ash and the defense took care of the rest of the game and finished the shutout for the win.
Dauphin 4, Middletown 2
With a different lineup for the second game, Middletown could not get much going offensively and Post 594 fell to the Dauphin Rebels 4-2 in the season finale.
Post 594 broke a 0-0 stalemate in the bottom of the second stanza on a two-run homer by Schopf. Facing a 2-1 count, Schopf ripped Sam Sackler's next pitch over the left-field fence for the round tripper. Unfortunately, Sackler and reliever Isaac Myers kept the Middletown team off the scoreboard the rest of the way.
Dauphin scored all four of its runs in the top of the third, using walks, errors and a single hit to plate the scores.
Post 594 got just one hit, a bloop single by Miller with two outs in the fifth, the rest of the way.
The Rebels also had just one hit, a one-out single in the top of the fifth, but the 4-2 lead held up as Dauphin secured the victory.
Legion plays 4 times in 4 days, wins 3
Middletown's American Legion baseball team was forced to play four games in four days in the next-to-last week of the regular season, but came out as winners in three of those contests in a strong display of good baseball.
Following a loss to Hummelstown on Thursday, June 27, Post 594 ran off three straight victories over the next three days to increase its season win total to six, recording wins over Hummelstown, Linglestown and Upper Dauphin prior to the final week of the season.
Hummelstown 12, Middletown 2
On June 27, Hummelstown erased a 2-1 Middletown lead with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth inning and then erupted for nine more in the bottom of the sixth to end the game early due to the 10-run rule.
Matt Schopf's RBI single gave Middletown the early 1-0 lead that stretched to 2-0 before Hummelstown came to bat. Post 265 scored a single run in the bottom of the third to make it a 2-1 game.
But Hummelstown pitchers Ethan Westerberg and Mitchell Kleman held the Middletown batters scoreless the rest of the way and the offense went ahead 3-2 in the home half of the fifth.
While the Middletown offense was limited to four hits (two each by Schopf and Garrett Miller), Hummelstown recorded seven hits. Nick Bennett, Jake Arnold, Kleman, Westerberg, Brayden Rupert and Ryan Gerst drove in runs for the winners.
Middletown 10, Hummelstown 4
Post 594 reversed its fortunes at home June 28 with a 10-4 triumph over visiting Hummelstown.
After jumping out to a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, Post 594 saw that advantage erased as Post 265 tied the score in the top of the fourth frame. But a six-run rally in the home half of the sixth stanza and a shutout in the top of the seventh locked up the victory for the home team.
The uprising was kicked off by an RBI single by Tim Wagner.
Scott Ash, who was also the winning pitcher, had driven in Middletown's first run with a single in the bottom of the first frame. Ash struck out 10 batters and gave up four hits and four runs.
Middletown batters tagged Hummelstown starter Josh Gardner with five hits and six runs over 3 2/3 innings.
Post 265's big fourth inning was keyed by hits from Josh Gardner, Jake Arnold, Westerberg and Dylan Goddard.
Ash and Cam Peters each had a pair of hits to lead the Middletown offense to eight hits overall, and the Post 594 defense played flawlessly without a single error in the game. Michael Tuffy cleanly handled seven chances in the field.
Middletown 13, Linglestown 5
Post 594 recorded its second victory of the season over Linglestown on Saturday, June 29, in a 13-5 triumph on Post 272's home field.
Matt Schopf turned in a big performance, driving in five runs to key the victory. Schopf ripped a grand slam in the first inning as Post 594 exploded for eight runs. Other hits in the first came off the bats of Tim Wagner, Brady Keyser, Scott Ash and Cam Peters.
Schopf's RBI single in the seventh inning capped a 10-hit outing for the winners. Schopf, Ash and Marcus Mancini each had multiple hits for the Middletown squad.
Zach Darcangelo had a pair of hits for Linglestown.
Keyser picked up the pitching victory, going 3 2/3 innings, allowing three runs and four hits while striking out three. Darcangelo took the loss, lasting just one inning and allowing three hits and six runs.
Following the 8-inning first frame, Middletown picked up single runs in the second, third, fifth, sixth and seventh innings. Linglestown scored one run in the first inning and two each in the second and seventh stanzas in the loss.
Middletown 6, Upper Dauphin 3
Continuing its hot streak on Sunday, June 30, Post 594 hosted the team from Elizabethville to take on league leader Upper Dauphin. When it was over, the Middletown team celebrated a huge victory after handing Post 404 just its second loss of the season.
Trailing 3-0 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, Post 594 erupted for six runs in a big turnaround and the defense, with Michael Tuffy on in relief of starter David Alcock, shut out the visitors in the top of the seventh to lock up the victory.
Alcock earned the pitching win with his six innings of work on the hill. He scattered eight hits and three runs while striking out four in the decision.
Hot bats by Middletown led to 11 hits. Mancini, Justin Yohn, Alcock and Wagner each had a pair of hits to lead the attack, and the defense played error-free in the game.
Tuffy's double in the pivotal sixth inning drove in two runs to spark the six-run rally.


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Effective January 2014, unemployment insurance benefits generally will not be paid to a claimant for any week during which he or she receives severance pay.
If the severance payment is made in a lump sum, it will be allocated over the post-termination period based on the claimant's former salary. However, the new law regarding severance pay's effect on unemployment benefits specifically does not apply if the initial severance payment is made more than 30 days following the claimant's termination date.
These changes are applicable to any "dismissal pay," which is defined as "one or more payments made by an employer to an employee due to his or her separation from service of the employer regardless of whether the employer is legally bound by contract, statute or otherwise to make such payments." Dismissal pay does not include post-termination payments for pension, retirement, accrued leave such as vacation or PTO, health insurance, and payments for supplemental unemployment benefits.
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Employers may be able to assist employees by delaying severance pay by 30 days, if administratively feasible. Otherwise, employees will have to wait until the completion of any severance pay in excess of the maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefits before they will be eligible to receive these benefits.
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A determined victory by Ranier in Saturday's Listed Gothic Stakes at Caulfield ended a frustrating sequence of placings and opened the door to better races for the Lonhro colt.
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Ranier also become the 840th winner and the 77th Stakes winner for Lonhro who maintains an enviable record of 72 per cent winners to runners.
Trainer James Cumming is now considering a start in either the G3 Carbine Club Stakes or the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington next month for Ranier.
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Cheryl Prime (born 23rd December 1959 in Salford) appeared on Coronation Street between March and September 1982 as Kathy Barrett, a trainee machinist taken on at Baldwin's Casuals.
She studied drama at the Saturday Club for children, which was run by actor Joe Holroyd, and made her stage debut aged nine in a production of The Corn is Green at the Victoria Theatre. After auditioning for the Arts Educational School in Tring, she won a scholarship aged twelve. Later studying at the Mount View Theatre School in London, she graduated in 1981.
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The Forgotten Fight of Bruce Lee
How to Get iOS 13 to Tell You If Your Headphones Are Too Loud
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal
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Joshua Griffit: Behind All This, No Great Happiness Hides
By Adam Baruch
On Joshua Griffit's attitude to "the surface", on his fascination with the trivial, on his use of "ready-made painterly sentences" – and on his attitude to the misleading, the beautiful, the beautified, the artificial, stylization, mannerism, eclecticism, the model * On the unclosing distance between Griffit's oeuvre and the central currents of contemporary Israeli art * Joshua Griffit: a majority of one in Israeli art.
The title, "Behind All This…", is a paraphrase of a line by Yehuda Amichai. Even if Joshua Griffit's painting has no real affinity to Amichai or to modern Hebrew Poetry in general – except for a certain affinity to Aharon Shabtai that finds expression in the painting Bed which is dedicated to him, "the bed" being a proclaimed physical-intellectual region in Shabtai's verse – I have chosen a title that can misleadingly suggest that Joshua Griffit is as-it-were, and nonetheless, connected with Israeli poetry, etc., etc.
Misleading? Why mislead? Also because Griffit's painting misleads, engages in misleading. The beautiful that misleads. The elegance that misleads. Griffit beautifies the beautiful. He both accentuates it and exaggerates it. Griffit also specializes in walking on the brink of exaggeration. In another second this is already not a remark on cloying sweetness, this is cloying sweetness. But it is a remark on. In another second Griffit is already immersed in exaggeration itself, but no he is not immersed, because he guards himself.
And behind all Joshua Griffit's painted beauty and elegance. No great happiness hides. The painted objects, the painted figures, the composition, the "painted story" – all these, in Griffit's work, are both "they", and something which is not "they". They are something that becomes transformed, As one views it, into an additional something: into an illumination of the brittleness and the fallaciousness of the beautiful, and into a refined ridiculing of representations of abundance, happiness, comfort, nostalgia, design, domestic order, "art". Griffit both builds and undermines the beautified. What is "beautified"? What is made more beautiful that it really is. Artificially beautiful. Something that has been beautified so that it may represent the beautiful, for a brief moment.
For quite a number of years now I have been following Joshua Griffit's work from a semi-distance. I keep his catalogues, go and see his exhibitions, accumulate him in my private memory as an outsider in Israeli are and a fellow-traveler in international art. And for some time I have wanted to be involved in a real exhibition of his through a text that attempts to explicate him, to map him, and to produce a context for him, a context that in not strained.
Griffit touches quite a few visible contexts. Ornamental? Light-fantastic? Erotic-theatrical? Painting which simulated a voyage (all these ships, boats, cars)? Painting which is a "show of objects" (all these garments and accessories)? Painting in praise of eclecticism (the collection of objects and the collection of remarks and the collection of precedents)? Painting in praise of the manneristic gesture (opposite the gesture of the local Lyrical Abstract which for years was the obligatory canon)? Painting that is heaped, abundant in details, decorated like "a Nigger cemetery" (Wallace Stevens' image), to cover the "nothingness" and the "void"? Modern Western fear in face of the "void"? Hyper-Realism, or rather a simulacrum of Hyper-Realism, which still stubbornly insists on persisting? Do the "geometrical" signs, which accompany a considerable portion of the works, potentially indicate to us that the painting is a "model"? Nostalgia for its own sake (all these ornate stickers, souvenirs of fashion and symbols of sweetness)? A slow and meticulous dismantling of the components of kitsch?
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The sum total of Griffit's painting is a prolonged remark on the term "surface". From this stems Griffit's coloring. From this stems the quasi-extroverted and quasi-immediate lexicon of images. From this stems the sense of "design".
From this, too, stem the remarks on the history of are as a reservoir of "ready-made sentences" (an ethics which has become an aesthetics that is always available and exempt). The history of art as formulated by Francis Bacon, Allen Jones, Picasso, Robert Motherwell, Morley, Matisse, De Chirico, Cornell, or a portion of the American Hyper-Realism, and I have not listed all the genealogy.
And if it is fitting to detail and demonstrate this a little, let's do it: Griffit's parakeet echoes the parakeet of the American Joseph Cornell, "the man of the boxes and the ready-mades"; Griffit's sea and ship echo those of Malcolm Morley who, we will recall, arrived at "bad painting" (an American simulacrum of Neo-Expressionism, the '70s); the color/area division in Griffit's Girl echoes Francis Bacon, even if Griffit has made a radical transformation: from the dramatic to the theatrical. And Griffit's cars echo the American Hyper-Realism of the '70s: "the car as it is", the accuracy of the copying expresses 'the idea of the car'". Hyper-Realism, not a painterly response (to American Chrysler) along the abstracting and refining lines of the Englishman Richard Hamilton. Hamilton, in '57, called his painted Chrysler here is a Lush Situation. Hamilton's titles. He borrowed this title from an industrial design magazine. I.e., a Chrysler from industry, and a title from an industrial magazine. I.e., everything is ready-made, but handled by Hamilton.
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I have always thought of Griffit in some connection with an English group (Jones, Blake, Caulfield, Hamilton) that I like a lot, to the point that I have accumulated literature about it, have tried to see group and solo exhibitions by its members, and have even collected a few works by members of this group (prints, small collages), which is not formally a group, but rather a group which I created for myself as a somewhat loose act of cataloguing. And I've always thought of Griffit in connection with the American Joseph Cornell, who squeezed the "mythological" character out of "trivia" and imprisoned the trivial and the mythical in small display boxes. And in the '80s and the '90s, while cruising through are books, catalogues and exhibitions, I marked affinities of style and material between certain non-Israeli artists (Sigmar Polke, David Salle, and here and there Audrey Flack) and certain works by Joshua Griffit. And I will not be wrong if I say that I have never found such affinities between Griffit and any Israeli artist. Thus, and for this reason, Polke, Salle, the English group, and of course Joseph Cornell, are very much presenced in this essay. There is a goof Hamiltonianity present in the background of Joshua Griffit, even though Griffit himself is not "Hamiltonian". A good hamiltonianity? In what sense precisely? In the sense of the very act of contemplating the "surface" that is represented by functional objects (a car), by the painterly-graphic propaganda (a magazine cover) which assists in their distribution and sale, by the injection of eroticism, by means of stylization (the commercialized representation), after the functionality and the efficiency of the object have already been achieved. Griffit's painting, in its essence, is also a constant remark on "stylization", while making use of it and while presenting it as the "surface". By the way, this is also the same "stylization" which is absent from Israeli life, or at least was absent until a decade and a half ago. It was absent also because there was no room for it in this Israeli life, since the early '50s, until a decade and a half ago. I.e., Griffit's painting, Which also deals with "stylization", attests to the prolonged local lack of it, And slightly ridicules its "wild" emergence here in the past decade and a half. What is not "stylized" today? You suddenly can't find even a spoon that isn't "designed".
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I've always imagined Joshua Griffit as a kind of Israeli Joseph Cornell. The American Cornell ("the man of the open/closed boxes"), set out on a journey in the little shops of Manhattan – shops that stock books, postcards, haberdashery, souvenirs, collections, and returned with items (souvenirs) and details that were representative, emotional, symbolizing, signifying, delusive, direct (a photograph, a button, a trinket, a coin, a postcard, a page from a magazine, a pin, a medallion), and with them, in a kind of collage and assemblage, manually, in a kind of retailing approach, using connections and contexts of both sublimity and innocence, of both immediacy and eternality, he built those boxes, which are a kind of small, indulgent, but at the same time horrifying showcases for "America", wherever it be. And Griffit, in my imagination's eyes, was a local boy who sat opposite the history of art, by means of books, magazines, postcards and photographs, and picked out his own "souvenirs", And beside the history of art was faced with the world of industrialized kitsch, the world of publishing and of advertising, of the saccharine representations and the seductive graphics that accompany various consumer products. A "bank of objects-images" like Joseph Cornell's bank of Manhattan shops. And all these – Joshua Griffit re-edited them, without obscuring their character as decorative, extroverted, soft or accumulating a kind of sort of "domestic horror", into his own painting.
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Is Joshua Griffit Joseph-Cornellian? No, not necessarily. Not have I checked this with him. You can be Cornellian without being really versed in Cornell. You absorb Cornell from the air. And so, from the same air, you can, in certain hours of your life as a painter, be in the vicinity of the Englishman Richard Hamilton, one of the founders of English and international Pop-Art. I.e., Hamilton as a cultural irony, as a relation to an "interior", as a relation to the history of synthetic beauty.
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And all these, all Griffit's inspirations and remarks on painting noted above, are only a few out of many. Here and there, you will almost be tempted to connect part of Joshua Griffit's oeuvre with part of the "Bourgeois Realism" (what an irony at the expense of the history of the art world's concepts) of the German Sigmar Polke, and, as in an imagined group exhibition, to hang a particular self-conscious kitsch of Griffit's beside Polke's Lovers II ('65), which too, of course, is self-conscious kitsch to the point of being a remark on kitsch. To the point of being "outside kitsch".
But, as we know, very few Israelis followed Polke's "Bourgeois Realism", which in its original form was "Capitalist Realism", which in its original form, i,e., in its intention, was a bitter, so bitter ridiculing of "Socialist Realism". And we may allow ourselves to assume that Joshua Griffit, too, is not well versed in the history and motives of Polke's texts. But – he knows Polke. Who doesn't know Polke?
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Writing about Joshua Griffit, too, is a kind of cruising. So far, only a few extensive articles have been written about Griffit's art. Dr. Gideon Ofrat have written fine and deep-delving articles about him, and now, with the exhibition at the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, curated by the Museum's director, Meir Ahronson, when you examine the Griffit file in the archives of Israeli art writing, the findings are meager: very little interest in Griffit, in Griffit's kind. And let the truth be said: Griffit's kind is outside the agenda of the "directed" (i.e., the displayed, the accumulated, the distributed) Israeli art. The museums, the leading galleries, the critics and the media, let's say of the past 20 years, do not deal with "this kind". Why?
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And thus, in the absence of an Israeli context for Griffit, writing about him sends you cruising outside. A little in the direction of Sigmar Polke. A lot in the direction of Joseph Cornell. Very much in the direction of "the magic of the trivial". When this magic is interpreted by a real artist (such as Joshua Griffit or the Englishman Blake) entire worlds unfold and spread out from it: art, social criticism, compassion. We will return further on to "the magic of the trivial". In this cruising you will meet "models" of a kind as well: David Salle's Pink Tea-Cup, '95: industrial objects, kitsch, advertising, a kind of collage, a nuance of commercialized eroticism. Salle, we will recall, has been exhibited at the Tel-Aviv Museum. But – Griffit is far from Salle, in most of the formal and emotional senses.
And, all in all, this cruising in Griffit's tracks, which is my own, private thing, brings you back to Joshua Griffit as a "source", with and in spite of all the affinities and echoes, Griffit, who has processed data from the history of art, is a sovereign artistic personality. And Griffit's "fascination with the trivial" (Cornell, Polke, Hamilton, Caulfield, Blake) is Griffit's own.
The "fascination with the trivial" is, in my opinion, a most real characteristic of Griffit's oeuvre. There Griffit's gaze and his hand balance themselves into a single action, make themselves precise.
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What is "trivial", in this context? Traditionally, on the major routes, on the main highways of art, artists have engaged in the heroic, in fantasy, in psychology, in the human condition, in tragedy, in drama, in the desired, be it physical or spiritual. Great subjects, the human spirit. And then, 20th-century Modernism, without ceasing to be Modernism, became attracted – a' la the Englishman Richard Hamilton or the American Joseph Cornell – to products, to banal objects, to movies, to nostalgic photography, to designed accessories (if the design somehow projected "culture"). Became attracted to them, copied them, and placed them in a different, surprising and critical context, in the conservative means of art (painting, printmaking, sculpture). "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" is the name of Hamilton's key work, from '56, which gave Pop-Art its first critical program. This work by Hamilton is small in dimensions: 26 cm. By 25 cm., and it is "quite a few things", among them actualization of the magic of the trivial, which is represented by consumption articles, display for sale, and the creation (within the work itself) of a sense of a deliberately exaggerated commercial space. And Joshua Griffit's trivial is demonstrated by his painting a car, a coat, a cabinet, a package, a coat hanger, ducklings, "flowers", a rocking-horse, a little elephant, a towel, an armchair, a toy ballerina. And in what does Griffit's trivial differ from those of the Englishmen (Caulfield, Blake), or that of the American Joseph Cornell, or from Sigmar Polke's Lovers? Griffit's trivial was conceived and painted in Israel. I.e.,? In a place, in a culture, in a Gestalt, all of which reject the trivial. Reject it completely. Sigmar Polke's Lovers, consciously ornamented and kitschy in its qualities, would have been almost impossible to paint in Israel. Imagine Zaritsky painting "kitsch" in order to make a remark about it. Imagine Danziger doing it. But Joshua Griffit has been working in this domain for years, in this domain of materials and imagery, and has been punished for it by a prolonged ostracism from the center of museum and critical attention. Danziger and Shemi submitted tens of proposals for more monuments as a kind of "Conquest of the Wilderness" – and you, Griffit, offer us the magic of the trivial, the examination of the surface, your journey of objects?!
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And indeed, "the fascination with the trivial", the conscious, well planned fascination, the fascination which has created clear scales for itself, is one of the things, one of the essences, one of the "gazes", which in my opinion has never been absorbed into Israeli art. And if they ever did get close to the center of attention, or were even noticed somewhere, they were immediately rejected by the hegemony. And, as already stated, this Israeli heart did not have room for the "trivial", in the rich sense of the term (as demonstrated above by means of the reference to Caulfield, Blake). This heart had room for the heroic, the nostalgic, the empowering, the involved in the country's life, the political. Not for "this nuanced trivial". And thus, Joshua Griffit, most of his days as an artist, has worked in a cultural environment that is indifferent to his images, that is alienated, and perhaps even a little hostile to his refinement.
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Inspiration, precedents, processing, independence. Joshua Griffit incessantly salutes the history of art. He does not quote, he salutes. I.e., this is not the kind of quotation that is saturated, that takes upon itself all the ethics and the aesthetics of the precedent, or confronts it forcefully, but rather a light salute, evoking associations, ironic, and often even ingenious. For example, Hamilton, in his "Chrysler", both quoted and saluted Marcel Duchamp (and the mechanical-sexual complex), while Griffit already chooses the "Chrysler" of American Hyper-Realism, which isolates the car, cleans it of low appendages, and empowers it.
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From all this it is evident that Joshua Griffit very rarely "salutes" Israeli art. He does not "salute" Zaritsky, Stematsky, Danziger, Shemi, Rubin or Gutman, the history of local nostalgia, or local "design". An outsider boy looking outside. This very non-saluting to the local forms and the local canons and the abovenamed personages is Joshua Griffit's longstanding and reasoned position towards the culture and the art of this Israeli place, towards the hierarchical ranking that has become established here, towards the painterly essence that has taken shape here and become dominant here. Griffit does not respond to Zaritsky, for Griffit has non-Zaritskyan sources of inspiration. And, as already stated (and it's right to repeat and stress this), Joshua Griffit is thus quite lonely in the Israeli art community. He has no local predecessor. He has no local painterly inspiration. And he has no partners here. An Israeli without fellows. Not Tzuba (Zaritsky/Abramson), not The Binding of Isaac (Bezem/Kadishman), not coded ideology (Cohen Gan/Zvi Goldstein), not political (Ruth Schloss/David Reeb), not involved (Avraham Ofek/Jan Rauchwerger). What does he have? Himself.
By the way, in recent years, here and there, you see in Griffit's painting a kind of (expressive or lyrical) abstract "swish". What is this? It is not the beginnings of a migration from the precise to the abstract. It is a "souvenir" which Griffit has borrowed in order to implant it in his painting, to amuse himself. The abstract itself, after its peak, has, in certain senses, been stored in the drawer of trivia, and Griffit, as we've said, is fascinated with trivia.
Adam Baruch 1999
Ran Shechori
The blank canvas is a point of departure for an infinity of approaches, beliefs and ideologies, which bare their teeth at each other with passions of hatred and fanaticism. Griffit is addicted to the old miracle, in which the canvas turns into an illusion, into a quasi reality of old cars, with their volume emphasized, and every gleam of light reflecting from them, each
chance reflection being imprinted in their rotund
bodies. At the same time, not as in conventional photo-realism, he does not let us forget that this is painting. The meticulousness of technique is not intended to deceive the eye and persuade us of the truthfulness of the image, but rather to place the image into a kind of collage which includes brush strokes, millimetric grid paper, cut-out toy figures, or glamorous postcard landscapes.
The tension in which each pictorial image is presented in maximal sharpness, with the full intensity of its colors, t(\kes us into Griffit's very private world, in which childhood memories, like shining scrap-book fragments, Cowboy-and-Indian games, and old cars jostle each other about. This is a nostalgic world,
which has an irony about it, and a complexity of contraries. In spite of the extreme and extensive precision of the details, the rational sense of space is completely distorted -large and small, flat and round, fixed and floating - appear mixed up in it, and without any apparent justification.
The descriptive painter, whose creative energies are nourished by the achievement of a quasi-realistic image on the canvas, whose great thirst is to observe, to fling his investigative gaze from one detail to another, from a chance crease to a tiny protuberance, whose eyes passionately caress limbs - of nature, of the model or the still-life - a painter of this genus
does not disappear, is not exterminated, in the
advancing cycles of artistic abstraction over its periods. Even when the realistic image was totally rejected, realistic figurativism continued to break
through from time to time - distorted in its expressionistic versions, or meticulous and clean in various veristic formulations. The 60s and the 70s re asserted its legitimacy and gave it its place in the
Griffit's cars are an additional chapter in his stubborn march along his own path, which deviates from the prevalent norms in this country. The painted car is not an "existing thing," not something seen or a portion
of some actual reality. It is a photographed image - as
are all his images. It is a game of hide-and-seek, of
the play of light, shade and color on the surface of the photograph, translated to the surfaces of light, shade and color on the canvas. Griffit's alchemy transforms a
real body into light, light into a chemical process, a chemical process into slide-projector light, which is again transformed into surfaces of color, which are light absorbed by the viewer's eyes. The model is the photograph, itself a reflection which creates a reflection.
The enchanting, romantic and elegant beauty of the cars of the past, their images of organic curves, the rounded grille openings and the thigh-like wheel fenders - all these make them into sculptured forms. Their perfect and graceful harmony appears as an actual image on the canvas, as an object of emotional identification and as an aesthetic challenge. This is - for Griffit - an extremely realistic world, which is wholly a reflection, and which aCtually doesn't exist. This is a quasi-real ambience, composed entirely of images, entirely fictional. These are longings for scenes which never were, for people who are not.
Griffit's pictorial world exists in its own right, due to the fictitiousness of its reality and the reality of its fictitiousness. He steps cautiously in the narrow zone between emotionalism and cold intellect. between perfect technical control and deliberate casualness, between sensitive delicacy and blunt vulgarity.
Ran Shechori
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,
context of the period.
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Other than a Royal Wedding, nothing quite excites the British public as much as a new prince or princess. Since the birth of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor at least some of the nation's questions have been answered. We have a name. We have a picture. But who will fulfil the important role of Royal godparents?
According to Paddy Power, the overwhelming favourites are Jessica Mulroney, at 1/14, and Charlie van Staubenzee at 1/7. Mulroney is a stylist celebrated in her native Canada, and a close friend of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. She previously attended the royal couple's wedding, where her sons served as page boys and her daughter as a flower girl.
Charlie van Staubenzee is an English businessman and one of Harry's oldest friends. It is even rumoured that the prince acted as best man at the Staubenzee wedding, albeit secretly.
The Glamour Choices
However, further down the list of candidates the names get a lot more interesting. American television personality, and well-known pal of Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King is quoted at 2/1 to be named as godmother. King is friendly with the royal couple and would prove a popular choice.
Most glamorous of all, though, are George and Amal Clooney, at 6/1. George shares a birthday with Archie, and though he is friends with Harry and Meghan has been keen to distance himself from speculation that he will have an official role in royal life. "You don't want me to be a godparent of anybody," he said, "I'm barely a parent at this point. It's frightening."


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Family History–No Longer A Mystery!
Recently, I have been fascinated by the subject of genealogy. Genealogy is the study of one's family lineage. As I have been learning more about World War II and the Holocaust in both Social Studies class and Hebrew school, I have decided to embark on the journey of dusting off the tangled roots of my family tree. What I have found so far is nothing short of remarkable and truly, truly inspiring.
My great-grandfather was named Arthur. His given name was Aaron (I'm not giving out any last names because a perverted stalker could be reading this and I'm not in the mood to get kidnapped right now), and he was born in Poland. He was one of 9 or 10 children, and he dropped out of school after finishing 8th grade to earn money for his family. His family was living in poverty and starvation, and he never knew his father.
When Aaron was 16, he and his family moved to America because he and his brothers were going to be subject to a 10-15 year draft in the Polish army, and the Polish army would have jumped at the chance to torture young Jewish boys. He arrived at Ellis Island on February 13, 1922, and became a citizen in approximately 1927. His family settled in the Bronx, and, miraculously, were able to get a house. He and his brothers started working almost immediately after getting off the boat. He changed his name to Arthur to sound more "American." He owned a hardware store, and he was a freemason.
On the flip side, my great-grandma Irene came from a very well-off family in Russia. She was one of 9 children, and her parents owned a dry-goods store. Her clothes were made by seamstresses, and her family had a maid and a nanny to look after the children while her parents were at work. When Irene was very young, her two oldest brothers were going to get drafted into the Russian army, so her father and two oldest brothers left Russia for America. When the rest of Irene's family got to America many years later, Irene didn't even recognize her father because they hadn't seen each other in so many years!
My great-grandparents met at a dance social. My great-grandfather was an excellent ballroom dancer, and legend has it that as soon as Grandpa Arthur danced with Grandma Irene for the first time, he vowed to marry her. My dad says that they met at the social, and Grandpa Arthur was so madly in love that he followed Grandma Irene home. My grandma says that there are so many different stories about how her parents met that she doesn't know which one to believe.
The story of how my family came to America is so humbling to me because I have my own everyday struggles, and so does everyone else. My great-grandparents left Europe without looking back, and without knowing what would happen. That took an immense amount of courage, and I know that if my ancestors could leave behind everything they knew to come to a place that they knew nothing about, then I can do anything I set my mind to.
If you are looking for inspiration and grounding in your life, then I highly recommend getting out your old gardening tools and unearthing the roots of your family tree.
Special thanks to Grandma Ansi, Dad, and Ancestry.com!
Felix, the Awkward Interview Boy
Felix is a 14-year-old boy. He loves musicals, especially Les Mis and Assassins, bands such as Mayday Parade, Panic! At The Disco, and Fall Out Boy. He is an avid reader, and he read the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo in 8 days ("It was the Julie Rose translation," adds Felix). His favorite author is Elliott DeLine, and Felix recently got to meet DeLine and get his book signed by DeLine at a poetry slam/book reading. He recently "stage crewed" for his school play, Honk!, and had fun doing it.
I met Felix a couple of years ago on the bus to sleepaway camp. I was immediately intrigued by him because he was wearing a smiley-face tie and reading a book with a shiny cover (the book was Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan). I didn't know anyone else on the bus, so I asked him if I could take the empty seat next to him.
"Sure," the boy said.
"I'm Maisie. What's your name?" I asked.
"I'm Margalit. My life goals are to grow a mustache and to wear an orange tuxedo at my wedding."
Felix wasn't actually born male. At birth, he was assigned female. This means that he is transgender. I sat down with him recently to ask him questions, partly because we are friends and he was at my house for dinner.
Have you ever felt like you were a girl?
What is a girl supposed to feel like? I mean, I used to like fairies and princesses and the color pink, but that was because pink was totally a punk rock color at the time, especially hot pink. That's resorting to stereotypes, though, and I don't want to do that.
Okay, let me rephrase the question. Have you ever physically felt like a girl/expected to go through puberty and become a woman?
Uh, no. These are awkward questions. No offense.
None taken. Do your friends and classmates see you as a boy or a girl?
My friends see me as a boy. I don't know what my classmates see me as, although the fact that you assume there's only two ways of seeing me is making unjust assumptions.
Moving on from the awkward questions, what do you want to do when you grow up?
I intend to have a mohawk, and date many people, and be an activist for various causes, including feminism, LGBT/queer rights, and anti-racism, although I'm white, so I'll have to make sure to let the non-white people take the lead. At some point, I intend to overthrow the government and write a book. Also, I'm gonna be an artist. And, at one point in my life, although maybe not when I'm "grown up," I am going to be The Balladeer in a performance of Assassins.
What kind of artist do you want to be?
A radical one. Maybe a photographer, maybe a painter, maybe as "The Guy Who Writes Slogans on T-Shirts." Just, I wanna do something good for the world, and I want to do something I love, and I want to make money for it, possibly, because it would be good for my life. Money would also be good if I ever go to college, because debt. Though in Canada, I won't have that problem.
So you're moving to Canada?
I'm getting dual citizenship. My dad was born there. And they have free healthcare. So SURGERY!
Speaking of your dad, how are your parents taking the whole transgender thing?
Um, they, uh, they take it. At the beginning, they really wanted me to be a girl and not to tell people because, "You know, you might change your mind. You don't want to make life more difficult for yourself." It was especially hard for my dad, but now, he is strangely better with the pronouns and stuff than my mom. So, people change their minds! Just not me on this one.
Do you think you will ever change your mind?
Well, my life goals might get more practical, but on the gender thing, not particularly. I mean, I might grow up to be a drag queen, because, quite frankly, some of the stuff about femininity is awesome, like eyeliner. Heck, even as a guy, I'm gonna be wearing eyeliner, even though I never did as a girl. But I never was really "a girl." I was just the default option. I mean, I was a kid, and I liked the stuff I liked, and people assumed I was a girl, so I just went along with it. I knew nothing else.
When did you come to the realization that you are a boy?
The summer before 7th grade, which was also the summer I came out of my depression. Sixth grade was horrible because, just, I had friendship problems, and guilt problems, and PUBERTY. It just, I had horrible coping skills. And then, I realized one of the reasons why I was so depressed was because I hated my body. Which was weird because, I was never the type to be insecure. And then, when people started seeing me as a boy, I was actually happy.
Were you comfortable with who you were after you started being seen as a boy?
Well, it wasn't "right away", quite frankly, and since I was at camp, it was only strangers trying to kick me off of the girls' side, so it wasn't really a comfortable situation. And then, I wasn't really seen as a boy when I got back home. And that was just horrible. But when I did start being seen as a boy at home, and I did my research on being transgender and started coming out, and reading Elliott DeLine books, I was comfortable with myself. Oh yeah, and I was very awkward during the entire thing.
Why are you friends with me?
Because you like cupcakes, and I like cupcakes, and you let me read your Harry Potter books and borrow your Harry Potter costumes. And you're nice, I guess. I didn't mean that to seem offensive. I mean, you are nice, and that's one of the best things for someone to be. Also, you let me watch your movies, and I never get to watch movies anywhere else.
Do you do any sports?
I go to the gym, does that count? I mean, I take rock-climbing lessons, but I usually have to skip them to go to rehearsal. I'm an artsy kid. I'm trying to figure out the art of the push-up.
Thanks for letting me interview you for my blog! I'm honored to be your friend.
Why thanks, it is quite an honor being my friend. I am very high-maintenance.
A fun little poem I wrote for school
Hi everyone! I'm soooooooo sorry I haven't posted in forever! I've just been SUPER busy lately with school ): but I wanted to share this poem I wrote with you guys! It's written in a structure called villanelle. The structure of a villanelle is way too complicated for me to explain in a concise way, but if you want to learn what a villanelle is (and maybe try to write your own!), visit http://www.writing-world.com/poetry/villanelle.shtml.
And now, without further ado, my original poem, "Villanelle for a Lost Library Book."
Gosh darn it, I lost my library book!
My parents will have to pay lots of cash now
I will now get locked in a small, cramped nook.
My mom will claw my eyes out with a hook
When I saw the charges, I just said wow
Gosh darn it, I lost my library book!
This is worse than when I lost my chess rook!
Dad, forgive me, I beg and plead with thou
I will now get locked in a small cramped nook.
My mom tells me to take a closer look
How that will help me, I do not know how
Gosh darn it, I lost my library book!
The book was written special for the cook
Of the restaurant called the Big Bow Wow
I will now get locked in a small, cramped nook.
Just then, the ground unexpectedly shook
I collapsed on my face, and I screamed, "OW!"
Gosh darn it, I lost my library book!
I will now get locked in a small, cramped nook.


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How do I prepare my X-Star drone for flight?
Time for the drone's maiden voyage? Here are the steps to get you there.
Set up your X‑Star drone
- Remove the gimbal holder and the warning cards from the motors.
- Match the two propellers with red nuts to the motors with red paint. Match the two propellers with silver/black nuts to the unpainted motors.
NOTE: We recommend wearing protective gloves when installing or removing the propellers.
- Press and hold the power button for two seconds to power up the remote controller.
- Clamp your mobile device into the mobile device holder and adjust the holder angle for the optimum view.
- Make sure the Flight Mode switch on the left side of the remote controller is in the GPS position.
- Press and hold the power button for three seconds to turn on the aircraft. The battery level indicator lights will illuminate and indicate the current battery level.
- Connect to your X‑Star through the app
For the X‑Star Premium
Use your device's USB charging cable to connect your device to the back of the remote. If you don't already have the Starlink app opened, this connection will open the app.
NOTE:When the connection is established between your mobile device and the aircraft, the connection status bar will show as Connected in the Starlink app.
For the X‑Star
Enable Wi‑Fi on your mobile device and connect to your aircraft by selecting X‑Star_XXXXXX from the list of available Wi‑Fi networks. The default Wi‑Fi password is 99999999.
NOTE:When the connection is established between your mobile device and the aircraft, the connection status bar will show as Connected in the Starlink app.
Calibrate the Compass
- Calibrate the compass every time you fly in a new location. In your app, tap the Startbutton, then General Settings > Flight Control Settings > Compass Calibration. Follow the on-screen instructions. You will be informed when the calibration request has been initiated, and the four LEDs on the aircraft will flash yellow light.
NOTE:If the calibration is unsuccessful, the four LEDs on the aircraft will illuminate a solid yellow light. In this case, repeat the above steps to try again.
You can also start the calibration with the remote controller by pressing the Takeoff/Landing button () and the Go Home button () on the remote controller simultaneously for three seconds. Then rotate the drone in the pattern described above to calibrate.
Takeoff and Fly
- There are two ways to start the motors on the X‑Star drones:
- Hold the Motor Start button for three seconds
- Push both command sticks toe-in or toe-out for three seconds.
- Hold the Motor Start button for three seconds
- When the motors start spinning, use one of the following methods to take off the aircraft:
- Hold the Takeoff/Landing button for three seconds
- Push the left command stick upwards (Mode 2).
- Hold the Takeoff/Landing button for three seconds


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Donald Trump: Mizzou protests are 'disgusting'
The two frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination criticized protests at the University of Missouri Thursday, arguing that the university administrators who resigned in the wake of racially charged incidents may have set a harmful precedent by acquiescing to students' demands.
"I think it's disgusting," Donald Trump said in an interview on Fox Business Network.
"I think the two people that resigned are weak, ineffective people," he added, referring to University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe and chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, who both announced on Monday that they would step aside under pressure. "I think that when they resigned, they set something in motion that's gonna be a disaster for the next long period of time."
RELATED: Mizzou turns down professor's resignation
The issue's volatile mix of racial tensions, highly publicized public protests, and debate over political correctness has thrust the school into the political spotlight this week after the university was rocked by renewed charges that school administrators failed to address simmering problems on campus. Those complaints prompted a student's hunger strike and a nationally publicized boycott by players on the school's football team, who demanded that Wolfe step down.
Republican candidate Ben Carson also said Thursday that students at the school were giving in to "infantile behavior."
"We're being a little bit too tolerant, I guess you might say, accepting infantile behavior. I don't care which side it comes from. To say that I have the right to violate your civil rights because you're offending me is un-American," he said on FOX News' "The Kelly File."
"The officials at these places must recognize that and have the moral courage to stand up it. Because if they don't, it will grow, it will exacerbate the situation and we will move much further toward anarchy than anybody can imagine, and much more quickly," he added.
Fellow Republican Carly Fiorina echoed concerns about "political correctness" on college campuses, telling reporters Thursday evening that the phenomenon is "choking candid conversations in this nation."
"One of the things you see going on, on so many college campuses now is kids are taught, you know, if anything offends their sensibilities that they should stand up and say, 'oh don't talk to me that about that.'" she said. "They're called trigger warnings now. This doesn't help our young people prepare for a lifetime in the real world."
Speaking in Iowa, New Jersey Republican Chris Christie blamed the unrest on an atmosphere of "lawlessness" fostered by the president.
"When people think justice is not applied evenly and fairly, they take matters into their own hands," he said during an appearance in Iowa.
Democratic presidential candidates have been generally supportive of the protesters, emphasizing the students' fight to address the racially charged incidents that originally prompted the tensions in Missouri and at other institutions nationwide.
Bernie Sanders said in a tweet that "it's time to address structural racism on college campuses."
And Hillary Clinton retweeted aide Marlon Marshall's message of solidarity with the protesters.


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This week The Golden Boot will be fundraising for the Breast Cancer Care charity.
The cause is close to our hearts and so there will be an abundance of pink popping up all over our store including these very exclusive designs from the German shoe maker Peter Kaiser.
We have three statement shoes – Susa, Herdi and Patu all complimented by a limited edition version of their classic clutch 99313 in glossy pink patent.
We commisioned Peter Kaiser to make 3 of the best selling Peter Kaiser styles in Pink patent. Each beautiful shoe is customised with a pink ribbon on the sole of the shoes. Most importantly £15 from each pair sold will go to the Breast Cancer Reseach Charity.
The limited edition collection consists of 31 pairs of shoes and 4 clutch bags, they will be sold on a first come first serve basis, unfortunatley we are unable to get any more stock.
You can can purchase your pair in store or online
On Saturday 20th October we will be serving Biddenden Vineyards finest and fairy cakes from Fairydust Cupcakes to end the week in style so join us for a worthwhile cause and please visit us in store.
We will also continue our ongoing donation of 50p from the sale of every pair of pink boot shapers to Breast Cancer Awareness.


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Welcome to the first Governor Newsletter of this school year. As governors we want to find the best ways to tell you about our work, and we want to hear from you about the ways we can develop ongoing positive relationships and communication with you all.
With this newsletter you will find a summary annual report of our work last year.
Governor Newsletter 1 Autumn 2018


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Ministry of Tourism and Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) have reached an agreement on Photo Contest to promote Cambodia's tourism sector.
The agreement was signed by Minister of Tourism H.E.Thong Khon and CAA Vice CEO Mr. Lim Kao under the witness of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction H.E. Chea Sophara, at the inauguration ceremony of 2nd Cambodia Travel Mart 2018 at Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre, Phnom Penh yesterday.
Cambodia Angkor Air Photo Contest focuses on wonderful and unprecedented things of Cambodian people and the whole country. The winner will get the cash prize of US$3,600.
Established in 2009, Cambodia Angkor Air, the national flag carrier of Cambodia, was named the best airline in the Kingdom in 2012, 2014 and 2018 by the Ministry of Tourism.
Source: Agency Kampuchea Press


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Understanding Black Wall Street
Understanding Black Wall Street
Black Wall Street has a special place in American history that demonstrated that Black communities and Black-owned businesses could thrive economically. Recent history documents a time when Black men and women were not allowed to own property, faced violence, and many social and economic restrictions, and endured many forms of racial segregation and race-based legislation. Despite this, a sense of community and faith existed and flourished among Black neighborhoods. Black people gave each other a place for community, safety, and economic support. Across the country driven by "Jim Crow" or strict racial segregation, Black communities were thriving economically across the country. Black Wall Street, located in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma was the perfect example of this Black economic empowerment resulting from cooperative economics.
Black Wall Street was a thriving community in Greenwood in the early 1900s. This was a community that had bustling Black-owned businesses, theaters, schools, social health, and a strong distribution of wealth among its middle and upper classes. It is estimated that the community had more than 10,000 African American residents, and most of them were thriving socially and economically. Black Wall Street was the epitome of a self-sustaining economically empowered Black community. Black people supported each other, which allowed for easier access to resources, savings, housing, jobs, education, and health. It is imperative to understand that Black Wall Street was just one of many economically thriving Black communities in the United States.
The residents of Black Wall Street owned their homes and over 40 acres of land was purchased and sold only to Black people to increase homeownership. Today the Black dollar remains in the Black community only a dismal 6 hours, but in Black Wall Street neighborhood it spent months circulating and building wealth for the Black community.
Jim Crow and Black Entrepreneurship
"Jim Crow" laws were first enacted in the 1880s by angry and resentful Southern whites against freed Blacks these laws separated blacks from whites in all aspects of daily life. Favoring whites and repressing Blacks, these laws became an institutionalized form of inequality. In the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states had the legal power to require segregation between blacks and whites. Jim Crow laws existed across the South and in the North and Midwest, segregation became equally entrenched through informal customs and practices.
The Black church, self-help organizations, and men's and women's clubs offered refuge, support, and protection, while the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) provided potential legal assistance. But out of the demeaning, social, political, and economic degradation of Jim Crow arose the opportunity for Blacks to establish their own businesses. The more cut off that black communities became from white communities and the more that white businessmen refused to cater to Black customers, the more possible it became for enterprising Black entrepreneurs to create viable businesses of their own.
Most of these businesses were local, small-scale, and family-run. Many black entrepreneurs followed the tenets of Booker T. Washington, who had established the National Business League in 1900 to promote economic self-help. The Jim Crow Era provided the impetus for a number of Black businesses to grow and flourish, instilling a sense of pride within Black communities, serving as symbols of racial progress, and promising safe places to do business and socialize. The conversation and ideas that flowed freely in black business establishments also helped raise consciousness and establish a sense of solidarity within Black neighborhoods.
When the Civil Rights movement gained momentum offering an end to the indignities and disenfranchisement of Jim Crow, many black entrepreneurs did what they could to support the movement financially. After the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964, and segregation was declared illegal, Black entrepreneurs could take pride in the role they had played in the Civil Rights movement despite the fact that the future viability of their segregated businesses were now in jeopardy.
Situation Analysis
Black communities are the only communities in America where other ethnic groups can set up business and thrive economically. Out of the $1.3 in Black Purchasing power only 2% goes to Black businesses. If middle class Black families, families making $75,000 or more, would increase spending at Black owned business from 2% to 10% Black businesses could create 1 million new jobs. Using our collective economic power to make social change through community capital, crowd investing, banking Black, and supporting Black Businesses.
Nielsen and Essence estimates that Black buying power will reach $1.3 trillion in 2019, yet only 2 percent of that money is spent at black-owned businesses. According to A new report from the Institute of Policy Studies indicates a bleak future for the wealth of Black Americans. Yet Blacks spend less money in black-owned businesses than other racial and ethnic groups spend in businesses owned by members of their groups, including Hispanics and Asians. According to Dr. Amos N. Wilson the longest boycott in history has been the Black communities boycott of Black owned businesses.
African-Americans are 12 percent of the U.S. population and, only 2 percent of SBA loan volume and less than 1 percent of VC funding goes to African-American entrepreneurs. If we want to get entrepreneurial activity going again in Black America, we have to enhance microbusinesses' access to expertise and insights in innovation, management and technical talent, market intelligence, policy and regulatory affairs, business development, and marketing and brand-building.


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In 2016 over 40,000 of the 254,218 shoeboxes donated in Ireland went to Romania and were distributed by our partners there.
Cipi lives in an old military base with his parents. There is no running water there and it was very cold. Temperatures reach freezing for a lot of the winter in Romania and the family and their neighbours have no heating.
When Cipi opened his box he started to cry.
Our partners asked Cipi's friend why he was crying & he told us that they saw a toy on someones TV and he really wanted it, and when he opened his box he found something the same!
Then he took his crayons, cars, and sweets, treating each one like a special treasure.
42,760 of your shoeboxes went to children in need, like Cipi, in Romania!
Read where the other boxes went to here.
What a difference each shoebox makes!
To get involved download or print a leaflet here
Add some gifts. Ideas here!
And drop it off at one of our locations around the country


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Tesla will open a new dealership and service center in West Palm Beach, thanks to a Palm Beach County real estate firm that's bouncing back after a tragedy nearly three years ago.
Earlier this week, Pebb Enterprises became the owner of the empty Gander Mountain store at Interstate 95 and Northlake Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens.
RELATED: Boca Raton investor buys former Gander Mountain in Palm Beach
Pebb also just finished building Tesla's new showroom and service center, at 5544 Okeechobee Blvd., just east of the Turnpike. The next step is interior construction of the electric car dealership, which will be a flagship Tesla location, one of a new breed of standalone Tesla centers being built. (The location will replace a small, out-of-the-way dealership and service center at 4651 Dyer Rd. in West Palm Beach. Tesla also has small showrooms at The Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens and the Town Center mall in Boca Raton.)
MORE: Ohio plane crash: Boca-based Pebb Enterprises on hunt for deals
The West Palm Beach Tesla showroom, combined with other prominent real estate deals, mark a fresh approach for Pebb in more than one way.
In November 2015, a chartered airplane in Akron, Ohio, carrying seven Pebb employees crashed into an apartment building.
READ ALSO: Need a big box? Four of Palm Beach County's biggest vacant stores
Although no one on the ground was injured, everyone aboard the flight perished, including Pebb principals Jared Weiner and Ori Rom.
News of the crash shocked the Palm Beach County real estate community and those who knew the tight-knit family and its business. The National Transportation Safety Board later ruled the two-man flight crew was to blame for the crash.
Pebb is a family business with roots in South Florida that go back 40 years. It was founded by the late Paul Weiner, who named the company using the first letters of his name, his late wife Eleanor's name and the names of his two children, Barbara and Bruce.
At the time of the plane crash, Bruce, also a principal, had handed over day-to-day operations to his sons, Jared and Ian. Their brother-in-law, Rom, handled leasing and property management.
Pebb officials had been looking to invest in the Midwest after the sale of several Palm Beach County properties. Pebb was known as a savvy investor, builder and turn-around firm for neglected buildings.
After the crash, Pebb Enterprises — family and employees — grew even closer and worked to finish existing projects, including a shopping plaza on State Road 7 in Royal Palm Beach. Ian Weiner, a principal and in-house counsel, took over as president and chief executive.
Then, with fresh staff and energy, Pebb decided to sell its Midwest holdings and reinvest the money in new deals.
The company didn't have to search far. South Florida, particularly Palm Beach County, once again looked like the right move.
"The demographics and the growth are here. Plus, it's in our own backyard," said Rob Truett, chief investment officer.
Their most recent plum purchase was the Gander Mountain building. Once home to the outdoors retailer, it's now an empty space on some very valuable land facing Interstate 95.
Truett said Pebb took title to the property by acquiring, and then foreclosing, on the debt.
The 120,000-square-foot building sits on 12 acres with 1,200 feet of frontage on I-95, said Eric Hochman, Pebb's chief development officer. Interest in the site from potential tenants already is strong, Hochman said. He didn't rule out another use, such as an office building, but said ideas still are being weighed.
Pebb's first high-profile local deal was the June acquisition of 1501 Yamato Road in Boca Raton, where security company ADT has its headquarters. Pebb and Chicago-based Tortoise Properties bought the property for $42 million.
While Pebb plans to keep ADT in the space for the time being, Truett said the company has other potential options.
"We're long-term holders, and this property is right down the fairway for us," Truett said. "Over time, it could be redeveloped into something with mixed-use components," such as homes or shops.
Of course, money around the world is chasing deals in Palm Beach County, which continues to attract residents and businesses drawn to its lifestyle, amenities and job opportunities, as well as the absence of a state income tax.
But Hochman, Truett and Weiner acknowledge a slight edge: All in their late 30s, they are old enough to know what they are doing, but still young enough to speak the language of companies seeking to lure millennial customers and tenants.
And, on some level, perhaps everyone is rooting for the aggressive young executives, led by a will to rebound from an unthinkable loss.
Ian Weiner, for one, expressed pride in his firm's accomplishments. "Jared was very inspirational, and we've kept up his spirit," he said. "We haven't missed a beat."
The hard-working Jared told this reporter in a 2012 interview that the secret to success is no secret. "You've got to be aggressive," he said. "You've got to talk to people and be ahead of the game."
Today, Pebb has a new vice president of acquisitions and a new analyst, too, plus employment of more than 20 people — all positive steps toward moving forward, after the difficult times of the past couple of years, Weiner said.
And with its recent deals, including the Tesla showroom, the firm's profile continues to rise.
"We're an ambitious, driven group, but we're a fun group," Hochman said, "And, we're excited about the future."
The Tesla showroom is a former Volvo dealership, which Pebb bought two years ago, demolished and then built new for Tesla. All sales and service will move to this location from a small, hard-to-find Tesla dealership now at 4651 Dyer Blvd. in Riviera Beach.
Truett said the site, the only standalone Tesla dealership in Palm Beach County, will have a 23,000-square-foot sales and service center. The large space will allow Tesla to showcase a range of its clean-energy cars.
The 3.4-acre site will be able to accommodate almost 300 cars, providing plenty of room for inventory of used vehicles and space for customers who want to zip over to the dealership from points north or south of the site, Truett said.
Tesla is keeping mum about the new dealership, for now. A Telsa spokeswoman declined to comment.