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Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Todayâ€™s featured selection, chosen by Midday Show host Cheryl Waters, is
Boy With a Coin by Iron & Wine from the forthcoming album The Shepherd’s Dog on Sub Pop.
Kingdom of the Animals,shows Beam getting comfortable amidst those layers, carrying on the full-band sound of the In the Reins album and the Woman King EP. Beam seems to have an endless supply of undeniable melodies and great lyricism, now with production quality that’s sure to deliver his biggest audience yet for the upcoming record. Though technical difficulties abounded, Iron & Wine performed lots of new material to a rousing audience at this year’s Pitchfork Festival, closing out the set with a much talked about encore performance of Radiohead’s website and MySpace page for streams and information. Here’s a live performance of “The Trapeze Swinger,” a song beam did for the movie In Good Company:


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Announcing the #InstagramCannes Contest Winners
To view all of the contest entries, browse the #InstagramCannes hashtag.
A little over two weeks ago, the Instagram for Business team asked you to show us your best photos for a chance to be featured in our exclusive gallery space at The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
After receiving more than 5,000 contest submissions from all over the world covering a broad spectrum of experiences, we reviewed every single one of your photos. From outstanding photos of movement, life, colors and texture to captured moments of pride and achievement, despair and uncertainty, freedom and adventure, what we saw left us completely inspired.
Our three winners were selected based on the originality, technical execution and subject matter of their submissions. Their photos will be featured in our gallery space and each will receive a Leica C camera and travel kit, courtesy of Leica and Herschel Supply.
Congratulations (félicitations) to the following winners:
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Speaking at the ceremony held in front of the NA building and Hồ Chí Minh Mausoleum, NA Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân congratulated the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) and the Mobile Police Command for the creation of the new combat unit.
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The chairwoman said that the police force and mobile police played an important role in implementing measures to protect national security and preserve social order.
However, with increasingly complex crimes, the mobile police force needed to be improved, she said.
In response, the MoPS and Mobile Police Command established a Mobile Mounted Police Regiment to gradually increase the capacity and combat power of the mobile police force.
Chairwoman Ngân said: “This is a new field and we do not have much experience or skill in training. Facilities and human resources for the force are still limited, but with the determination of the MoPS and the Mobile Police Command, the mobile mounted police team’s training has recorded remarkable initial results.”
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In order to do this, Ngân noted that the MoPS and the Mobile Police Command should perfect legal documents related to organisation and operation, including mounted police, to create a solid legal basis for this force.
Ngân asked the Mobile Mounted Police Regiment to train officers and horses. It should also coordinate with other forces to effectively meet the requirements of a mobile, elite and modern police force.
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It is currently stationed in Bình Sơn Commune, Nông Cống City in the northern province of Thái Nguyên. The training centre has more than 100 horses from two to four years old. Of these, 70 have been trained and the rest were for breeding.
The Mobile Mounted Police Regiment will disperse crowds and arrest criminals, especially in remote mountainous areas. — VNS

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Hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, is a trance-like state where your concentration is put into hyperfocus. This helps you enter a relaxed space to process emotions and be more open to suggestions. The goal is to enable you to gain control over undesired thoughts and behaviors to ultimately improve health outcomes. Hypnosis treatment can help alleviate symptoms of many different conditions.
Hypnosis is conducted with the help of a hypnotherapist, whether in person or online. Heally offers online hypnotherapy sessions, where you can undergo therapy from the comfort of your home.
Hypnotherapy can be particularly effective in treating the following issues and conditions
1. Acute and Chronic Pain
A 2000 meta-analysis concluded that hypnosis offered moderate to major pain relief for many types of pain, including childbirth, burns, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) problems, headaches, and fibromyalgia. Patients with pain from arthritis, cancer, and sickle cell disease have also benefited from hypnosis.
For pain management, hypnosis works by helping you gain more control over the pain you feel, allowing you to cope more effectively, both over the short term and long term.
2. Anxiety Disorders
Relaxation techniques like hypnotherapy can be effective in helping ease anxiety, particularly when that anxiety stems from a chronic health condition or upcoming surgery. It can also help patients suffering from a phobia, which is a type of anxiety disorder.
This therapy works to reduce anxiety by encouraging the body to activate its natural relaxation response in moments of anxiety through the use of a nonverbal cue or phrase. At this cue, your breathing may slow down, your blood pressure may lower, and you may feel a positive sense of well-being in place of fear or anxiety.
3. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Research shows hypnosis can be an effective natural treatment for the pain, constipation, bloating, and diarrhea associated with IBS. It can also help reduce secondary symptoms of IBS, including fatigue, urinary problems, and back pain. In a long-term follow-up of patients who benefited from hypnosis, most remained well and did not require further medication for IBS one to five years later, according to the International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders.
4. Sleep Disorders
In conjunction with proper sleep hygiene to promote rest, hypnotherapy is a promising natural treatment method for a variety of sleep conditions, including insomnia, sleepwalking, parasomnias, sleep terrors, and nightmares. It also includes considerably fewer side effects than many sleeping pills and medications often used to treat these disorders.
If you’re suffering from depression, hypnotherapy may be a natural treatment option to consider in conjunction with other treatments. Because depression makes you feel several emotions, hypnotherapy can be used to reduce or better cope with negative feelings, like stress, anxiety, and sadness, as well as treat negative behaviors that may worsen the depression, such as smoking and poor sleeping habits. For some patients with depression, hypnosis can help enhance the sense of well-being, boost feelings of hopefulness, and lift mood to improve symptoms.

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Wow! New start, New day and New year!
I keep looking at Henny and wondering if he would of made it to 2019 at the shelter. He was so sick and no one knew. He wasn't eating and he just stood in his kennel trembling all over.
I had spent the morning giving treats to hundreds of dogs at the West shelter, moving from kennel to kennel with a few kind words and a quick scratch. I keep my heart tucked away when I go to county because otherwise I'm instantly overwhelmed by despair.
Then I saw a trembling little guy with pleading eyes.. and I stopped dead in my tracks. I looked at his paperwork as I tried to comfort him. His name was simply listed as “unknown”. I had that all too familiar feeling creep over me and I knew I suppose to help Him. But how, I couldn't bring him home as we had another foster already and we were going to be moving in a couple of weeks. I had to leave him.
Trying to push him out of my mind, I continued on and left the shelter when I ran out of treats.
I had to go back on Saturday and I would check on him again. This dog, “unknown” didn't leave my thoughts, but I didn't tell anyone, what was the point… I couldn't think of a way to help him at that point, other than do a Facebook Live and try to share him with the world.
So that's what I did on Saturday, helped a few e-listed dogs get some additional exposure and then I asked if I could do the same with the little white dog, “unknown”
He came into the room, tail tucked and shaking. I started filming and telling people about him and was given the honor of naming him. One of you suggested Hendrix and it just seemed to fit. So Unknown now had a name, he was now Hendrix.
A couple of days later I was all the way across town at a different shelter location. I got down to my last two treats, and a white dog caught my eye. The dog wasn't looking at me, so I wasn't able to see his face, but I saw the trembling little body and again stopped dead.
Suddenly, the little face looked at me and I couldn't believe it, was it Hendrix? How could it be Hendrix…. How could he be here..? I had just seen him two days ago all the way across town. I quickly looked at his paperwork and it said Name: Hendrix. I felt dizzy for a moment and I felt this pull in my chest the way I have in the past when the universe is trying to get my attention.
There were 900 dogs in the county system… what were the odds I'd get down to my last two treats and be standing right in front of this dog again…. in a totally different facility.
But I still couldn't take Hendrix, I had to leave him for the third time – but this time I bent down and held his sweet little face and told him, “I promise, I will be back for you…”
I knew I couldn't foster Henny full time, but I decided I would pull him as a day foster and asked my daughter Carly if he could spend the night with her. That way he could at least get a break and some rest and of course lots of cuddles.
So we went back again, it was pouring rain and we all huddled around and waited in front of Henny's kennel, my mom, who happened to be visiting, and both my girls Carly and Caitie. We filled out the paperwork and took him home and he went right in the shower to get cleaned up.
It was really clear to us as soon as he came home how sick he was. He had the worst upper respiratory infection I have seen and he had some pretty serious parasites. He just wanted to cuddle and sleep.
The overnight visit went by quickly and it was quickly approaching the time to take Henny back to the shelter. I imagined having to re-watch shelter workers having to force him back in his kennel… because it was the only way to get him back in there… then I envisioned his sweet, scared eyes and his body starting to tremble in fear again…. and we decided as a family he would not be going back.
We had to either return Hendrix to the shelter or put him in boarding when Lucy arrived. Some would ask, why would you spend close to $3000 on a dog that doesn't even belong to you. It's valid question, and I hope that our story above explains why, because I feel that's what we were supposed to do.
If you'd like to contribute towards Hendrix expenses – please do so here.
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According to the Alzheimer’s Disease Association, in 2020, 42,000 people died of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, compared to the average over the last five years.
Winston Salem, North Carolina — Wendy Brenner of Winston Salem remembers his mother, Nancy Hailwood, being energetic and disagreeable. Her mother was a psychiatric nurse and also a single mother of three.
“She was a big reader and loved jazz, beaches and dogs,” Brenner said. “She was like a very strong independent person.”
At the age of 78, doctors diagnosed Hailwood with Alzheimer’s disease. As her progressive brain damage worsened, she was transferred to a care facility that was completely dependent on staff and family.
“She was in the facility for a total of three and a half years,” Brenner said. At first, I want to go more every day. I take her out and still take her to church on Sunday. It was really important to her. “
COVID-19 led to the blockade of long-term care facilities and put aside daily direct visits.
“No one really expected how long it would last,” Brenner said.
Brenner could only communicate with her mother for a year by phone, video message, or window visit. She said social isolation accelerated her mother’s cognitive decline, eventually leading to her death in May.
“I called the supervisor, administrator of the nursing home, and I said I couldn’t do this,” Brenner said. “My mother lost 35 pounds. She’s completely different. She’s very stressed, excited and worried. She’s always in a wheelchair. At some point she’s in a wheelchair. I was spinning around a wheelchair unit. That’s all she did. “
Lauren Coleman of WFMY News 2 asked Brenner what was the most difficult part of leaving her mother for months.
“My mother didn’t die of a COVID infection, but she tells people that she died of a pandemic,” Brenner said. “I believe it, my sister believes it. She just passed away because she got so bad that year, and she was alone. So I’m there I was wondering about it, so I feel sick about it. “
according to Alzheimer’s AssociationIn 2020, 42,000 people died of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, compared to the average for the last five years.
Catherine Lambert Western Carolina Branch of the Alzheimer’s Association..
She said the organization’s call volume increased significantly at the start of a pandemic from a caregiver like Brenner.
“Social interaction is the way we connect as humans,” Lambert said. “People living with illnesses such as Facetime, Skype, and video may not understand that they haven’t watched a TV show. They may not understand that this is their loved one. No, and they are just working to communicate. “
Lambert said patients became more vulnerable due to challenges in aging, communal living, and safe hygiene practices.
“What we know rebuttally from the family is that they saw the decline of their loved ones, whether it was the inability to speak, the ability to move, or an increase in excitement. “Lambert said. “
Lambert said the association will continue to work with lawmakers to find ways to keep the population safe from COVID while creating opportunities for responsible interaction.
Signed by Governor Roy Cooper House building 351 Also known as “Clifford’s Law”.
The law requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a protocol for visiting long-term care facilities in an emergency.
Trey Bateman, MD, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.. For the past 20 months, he has been investigating the effects of pandemic-related stress and loneliness on cognitive decline.
“This is a complex story that summarizes the global view of viral pandemics, social policy outcomes, and the treatment of elderly people with dementia over the last 50 or 60 years in the US healthcare system. “Bateman said.
Caregivers like Brenner may have lost quality time with their loved ones due to the blockade of the facility, but want others to find value in human interaction.
“I don’t know where we’re standing in the upcoming pandemic, but if we have to do something like this, I hope they do it differently,” Brenner said. rice field.
This holiday season may be the first time some families have seen a particular loved one in over a year.Throughout the season, the Alzheimer’s Association Free virtual education program We provide tips for making your holiday safe and enjoyable for your family.
How the blockade of COVID-19 affected people living with Alzheimer’s disease
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Children stuck in failing public schools are illegally being denied the right to swiftly transfer to a better school, according to a class-action lawsuit filed yesterday against the city Department of Education.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on behalf of parents, claims the city has wrongly limited the number of transfers in violation of the federal “No Child Left Behind” law.
The law allows kids in schools that fail to meet tough state standards to go to better schools or receive free tutoring.
The city opened the application process for free tutoring yesterday, and over the summer offered about half of the more-than-11,000 students who sought transfers the chance to switch before the start of school.
Citing space limitations, education officials said the other half would be given the option to get out of their sub-par schools mid-year.
“That is unacceptable to us,” said Charlie King, a lawyer for the plaintiffs and a candidate for state attorney general. “Justice delayed is justice denied. Kids have the right to transfer now.”


More than 2,000 people die within six months of rejected benefit claimsJune 9, 2021
Benefit claims 'six times higher' in pandemic says Therese Coffey
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Over 18 months, in excess of 2,100 people had a claim refused and then died within six months, data from the Department for Work and Pensions reveals. The figures do not show how many died of causes linked to their reason for claiming benefits, such as a serious health condition. However, 280 of the total number had applied via a designated fast-track route for terminally ill people.
The charity Marie Curie said it has raised concerns about the DWP’s ability to recognise when a claimant was approaching the end of their life.
The Daily Express’s Compassion For The Dying crusade is backing Marie Curie and the Motor Neurone Disease Association in the fight for fairer access to financial support for terminally ill people.
Mark Jackson, policy manager at Marie Curie, said: “The DWP is clearly having problems identifying people who need their help.
“When somebody is diagnosed with a terminal illness a DWP benefits assessor is not well placed to judge how long they have left to live.”
There were 2,140 claimants who were disallowed at the initial decision stage after registering a claim for benefits between April 2018 and October 2019, and died within six months of that registration. The data, provided in answer to a parliamentary question, did not reveal the reasons why claims were rejected.
Of the total, 280 applied under Special Rules – the pathway for terminally ill people to have their bid fast-tracked.
Terminally ill people can only do this if a doctor or nurse says they are expected to die within six months.
But the charities say many patients with unpredictable conditions cannot meet this criteria and are wasting the precious time they have left struggling to access support.
They are calling for the “sixmonth rule” to be scrapped and for the terminally ill to have claims processed quickly. A Government spokesman said: “Our priority is dealing with people’s claims quickly and compassionately, which we’ve continued to do throughout the pandemic.
“We are working on proposals, including changing the sixmonth rule and raising awareness of the support available.”
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In his first book, Fundamentally Different, David Friedman introduced us to the 8-Step Framework, and the simple, yet groundbreaking concept of the Fundamentals. In his newest work, Culture by Design, he provides us with the complete “how to” manual. With each step building upon the one before it, David shows us how to operationalize culture in a way that’s surprisingly simple and practical. You’ll learn:
- Why “behaviors” are more useful than “values”
- The 3 mistakes most companies make in defining their cultures
- The simple idea that prevents “Flavor of the Month” syndrome
- How to create maximum engagement in your culture
- How to radically change the new employee experience
- The single, biggest way to drive accountability for your culture
Filled with stories and examples from his own leadership career, as well as his work with hundreds of CEOs, David brings a level of credibility and practical wisdom to his writing that stands in stark contrast to the typical academic treatment of culture. Delivered with his legendary logic and easy-to-read style, he makes understanding culture so simple that you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of it all yourself.
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Arts and Ecology*
MFA, MA, PGDip, PGCert
Full time and part time
Starts January 2022
Deadline for applications: 16 August 2021
Rather than a discipline-specific siloed approach, the Arts and Ecology programme engages students in problem-based and place-based learning. Any artist who is attentive in engaging with place will not only research and reveal environmental crisis but will do so in a complex, integrated and subtle fashion; the resultant work will avoid stridency and dogma, but will nevertheless inform, challenge, inspire and disturb in ways that only the arts can.
The MFA Arts and Ecology programme is designed for practitioners with an established practice, for artists working in any art form and for curators and producers. It aims to help these practitioners foster creative projects in the context of the climate crisis and the ecological, social, and ethical challenges we all face. The course takes a metadisciplinary approach and begins with the recognition that the world is alive and we can no longer act upon it as if it is inanimate. Through a series of themed labs utilising the interior and exterior spaces of the Dartington estate it enables students to develop their artwork.
Navigating and debating the varying definitions in this highly contested field, the programme encourages examination of arts and ecology as an academic field of practice. As well as theoretical, academic work, the programme provides an opportunity for arts practitioners to revisit and reshape their work through an ecological lens, supporting a broad range of creative forms and outputs. It encourages students to consider how creative outcomes developed on the programme can be broadcast to wide and diverse audiences. The programme is delivered through a series of practical and critical modules both in residence and through online learning.
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A full-time (1 year) or part-time programme (2 years) with 4 x 30 credit modules and 1 x 60 credit dissertation or major project module. The taught (30 credit) modules are six weeks’ long. Teaching at Dartington is concentrated into two-week periods for each of the first four modules, with supported e-learning and independent learning inbetween.
The course focuses on the development of arts practice in the context of the climate crisis. The course content is suitable for practitioners from any artform or creative discipline, including dancers/choreographers, musicians, story tellers, fine artists, installation artists, sound artists, architects and land artists, and those who see living and being as an art practice.
The MFA option involves a further 60 credits of study resulting in a significant, self initiated public outcome, performance, exhibition or publication. Participants will be drawn from our own MA programmes as well as those from other institutions.
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Deadline for applications: 16 August 2021
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Photocopies MUST be certified by a public notary or solicitor (with contact details provided for them).
Any documents which are not in English MUST be accompanied by a full translation then certified by a public notary or solicitor. All translations must be accompanied by the certificate or transcript in the original language.
Important notes for students requiring a Student Visa
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) will only accept original copies of your documents during the visa application process. We are happy to accept originals, but it is safer to post certified photocopies which meet the above guidelines. Please bring the originals with you to enrolment if offered a place.
UKVI also require a full translation of any documents that are not in English.
Dartington Arts School is licensed under Dartington Trust as a Student Visa Sponsor. To comply with our sponsorship duties, we are required to check other aspects of your application in addition to your academic achievements. We will look at previous studies in the UK and other aspects outlined in UKVI guidance for sponsors. Information you provide on your application form will be passed on to the UKVI once you have been offered a place and Dartington Arts School agrees to sponsor you.
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TERM DATES AND teaching dates
Winter Term: Monday 10 January – Friday 1 April 2022
Spring and Summer Term: Monday 25 April – Friday 22 July 2022
Autumn Term: 12 September-2 December 2022
Deadline for Major Project/Dissertation: 8 December 2022
Contact us for details of part-time programme patterns and deadlines.
Onsite Teaching Dates
10-14 January 2022: Welcome Week (online)
24 January-4 February 2022: Module 1 onsite
7-18 March 2022: Module 2 onsite
9-20 May 2022: Module 3 onsite
13-24 June 2022: Module 4 onsite
programme structure and modules
Modules 1 and 2, and 3, run sequentially during term 1 and 2 with module 4 running concurrently but assessed at the end of term 2 this allows the modules to reflect and respond to each other. Module 5 runs for the whole of term 3 and is the final project for students exiting with an MA. For those wishing to undertake an MFA they will attend for a further 2 terms full time or 1 year part time. Below are draft modules, which are indicative only at this stage, though we hope to confirm more details soon.
Modules 1 and 2 run sequentially in term 1 (January – March) and modules 3 and 4 run sequentially in term 2 (April – June). Module 5 is a double module and runs for the whole of term 3. It is the final project for students exiting with an MA. For those wishing to undertake an MFA they will attend for a further 2 terms full time or 1 year part time.
PGCert students take modules 1 and 2 and must study full-time.
PGDip students take modules 1, 2, 3 and 4 and may study full-time or *part-time (*UK only).
Due to government regulations, we are not currently able to accept part-time international applicants. Part-time UK applicants should note that your study is spread over 2 years rather than concentrated into 1 year, however, when you are studying a module it is a full-time commitment for that period of time.
Module 1: Introduction to Fieldwork
This module enables you to explore place-based and project-based enquiry and methods. You are reaching for a thorough understanding of how everything is connected. The module includes a foundational exploration of histories, theories, and methodologies in the field of arts and ecology. You will look at sites, systems and contexts and consider the relationship between arts and activism.
Module 2: Interdependent Systems
This module involves a deeper enquiry into the topic of interconnected systems (ecological, economic, social) and how they weave together. It moves towards metadisciplinarity and regenerative culture. You will explore how artists work in collaboration across disciplinary boundaries (science, technology, engineering, economics, etc.) to find rich ways of knowing and meaning-making.
Module 3: Beyond Human
This module ranges through contemplation of species, diversity, human consciousness, the more than human, trophic cascades, resilient adaptive systems, ecological balance, symbiosis, the expanded self, interspecies dialogue, the unmarked, ecocide, and empathy. It asks what is human without a notion of separateness. It considers how these enquiries can reflect into changemaking and networked learning.
Module 4: Trajectories
This module provides support for the student’s ongoing creative practice research and development in response to ecological concerns. It provides the foundation for the development of the major project / dissertation module.
Module 5: Major Project/Dissertation
This module supports the student’s growing arts and ecology artwork. Students will devise and negotiate an appropriate and relevant personal project which will enable them to demonstrate their practical, creative, theoretical and reflective practice. Through a process of negotiated project proposal, outcomes will be agreed and can take the form of a 15,000 word dissertation interrogating arts and ecology, or a creative project in the public domain, or a combination of both (50/50). Outputs from the module will evidence the depth of development and synthesis of knowledge from the programme.
Module 6: MFA Professional Project
This module is self-initiated from the outset and prioritises individual research, conducted under supervision with identified tutors and other mentors and external advisors considered essential to the study. MFA students learn from and contribute to the delivery of the module through their interaction with peers, tutors and the wider arts and cultural community. Emphasis is placed upon independence, originality, initiative and enterprise. Teaching and learning will be complimented by the wide range of visiting lecturers (e.g. artists, curators, ecologists, choreographers, directors, philosophers, performers composers, critics, producers, etc), providing the opportunity to discuss work with renowned experts. Students will develop individual opportunities with national and/or international venues, opportunities, agencies, etc., which may also result in working independently or at distance. Culmination of the module is the production of a substantial and resolved creative outcome that will be exhibited / performed / published and assessed in an appropriate public arena.
Alan Boldon, Acting Programme Lead for Arts and Ecology
Alan Boldon is a practising artist and is the Managing Director of the Dartington Trust. His paintings have been exhibited throughout Europe (Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway), Asia (Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Myanmar), US and Canada. He has taught widely in higher education and was formerly Head of the School of Art, Design and Media at the University of Brighton. Previous roles include: Associate Curator and the Head of Research at Arnolfini; Head of Arts and Ecology at Dartington College of Arts; Director of an International Arts Summer School in Luxembourg; Lecturer in Fine Art in Context at the University of the West of England. Alan has taught at and advised higher education institutions throughout the world including work at Trondheim School of Arts, University of New Mexico, Banff Centre for the Arts, LaSalle College of Art and Design, NTU Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Taylor’s University Malaysia, San Francisco College of Art and Design, University of The Fjords, Icelandic Academy of the Arts. He is on the board of MIT Press Leonardo Journal. He has worked with many Arts and Design organisations on strategy including the RSA, TATE, and the Tobacco Factory.
Dr Tracey Warr, Head of Research, Dartington Trust
Dr Tracey Warr is Head of Research and Reader in Poetics of Imagination for Dartington Trust. She is a fiction and non-fiction writer. Her books on contemporary art include The Midden (Garret, 2018), Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture (Routledge, 2015) and The Artist’s Body (Phaidon, 2000). She has published numerous catalogue essays and journal articles on a wide range of contemporary artists. She previously held academic posts at Dartington College of Arts; Oxford Brookes University; Glasgow School of Art; Bauhaus University, Weimar; Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and Surrey Institute of Art and Design. She has 23 years’ experience as an arts academic and has supervised six PhDs to completion. She has undertaken art residencies including Modern Art Oxford; MIT, Cambridge, US; Helsinki International Artists’ Programme, Finland; Maison Daura, Saint Cirq Lapopie, France; Outlandia, Glen Nevis, Scotland and Matadero, Madrid, Spain. She has curated many artists’ projects and residencies, including working with James Turrell, Marina Abramovic, Marcus Coates, London Fieldworks and many more. Her PhD was awarded by University of Plymouth and was entitled The Creative Act: Writing and Curating with Artists. She also holds an MA in Creative Writing (University of Wales Trinity St David’s), MPhil English Language and Literature (Oxford University) and BA (Hons) English Language and Literature (University of Hull). Before starting work as an academic she worked for the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Arts Council of Great Britain; Chatto & Windus Publishers and as an independent, international art curator.
Natasha Rivett-Carnac is Curator of Arts and Ecology at Dartington School of Arts. She has been working in the arts and culture space for 20 years. Natasha began her professional life as a violinist in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) but soon retrained as a curator, gaining her MA in Arts and Cultural Management from Dartington College of Arts in 2006. Her early career was spent in London working with cutting-edge arts organisation Platform London. Platform combines art, activism, education and research. Natasha facilitated the building of an archive of Platform’s work and assisted in delivering C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capitol, Culture at the Arnolfini, Bristol. She has published in academic journals and magazines including Resurgence and worked with The University of Edinburgh’s Dangerous Women Project and Goldsmith University’s Women’s Art Library, and elsewhere.
Her blog series for 1 Million Women, a campaign group of women and girls around the planet, features BBC’s The One Show reporter Lucy Seigle, London International Festival of Theatre founder, Lucy Neil, and others. As a founding producer and later Curator of Narratives at Outrage + Optimism, a weekly podcast co-hosted by Christiana Figuerres, Natasha has been at the forefront of communicating climate change and integrating it with arts and culture. It is the most widely listened to climate change podcast, topping the UK Politics podcast charts twice. It has been selected as the number 10 All-Time Podcasts on the Apple UK Charts, been the number 3 Politics Podcast on Apple Australia Charts and was listed at number 15 of The Guardian Best Podcasts of 2019. Outrage + Optimism was selected as the News & Politics Podcast Honoree in the prestigious 2020 Webby Awards. Natasha is also the coowner of Hallalen, an 8 acre re-wilding project in Devon, UK. Her current writing draws heavily from this project and includes themes around land observation, phenomenology, ecology, and place-based learning. She lives in Devon with her husband, son and daughter.
Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas, Associate Faculty for MFA Arts and Ecology
Urbonas Studio have an interdisciplinary research practice that facilitates exchange amongst diverse nodes of knowledge production and artistic practice in pursuit of projects that transform civic spaces and collective imaginaries. They collaborate with experts in different cultural fields to develop practice-based artistic research models that allow participants—including their students—to pursue works that merge urbanism, new media, social sciences and pedagogy to critically address the transformation of civic space and ecology.
They have exhibited internationally including the São Paulo (twice), Berlin, Moscow (twice), Lyon, Gwangju, Busan, Taipei Biennales, Folkestone Triennial – and Manifesta and Documenta exhibitions – among numerous other international shows, including a solo show at the Venice Biennale and MACBA in Barcelona. Their awards include the Lithuanian National Prize (2007); Best International Artist at the Gwangju Biennale (2006) and best national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007). They are co-founders of the JUTEMPUS interdisciplinary art program (1993), the first independent artist-led initiative in Lithuania.
Their writing on artistic research as a form of intervention into social and political crisis was published in Devices for Action (MACBA, 2008) and Villa Lituania (Sternberg, 2008). Urbonas co-edited Public Space? Lost and Found (MIT Press, 2017) that brings together artists, planners, theorists and art historians in an examination of the complex inter-relations between the creation and uses of public space and the role played by public art. Urbonas’s five-year research project Zooetics explored the potential to connect with the noetics and poetics of non-human life in the context of planetary ecological imbalance. Zooetics concluded in 2018 with a symposium at MIT and opened a new research program focusing on Climate Visions. They curated the Swamp School – a future learning environment at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale 2018. The book Swamps and the New Imagination: On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy published by Sternberg Press and distributed by MIT Press, is forthcoming in 2020.
Gediminas Urbonas is currently Associate Professor at MIT‘s Program in Art, Culture and Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has held teaching positions at NTNU – Norwegian University for Science and Technology (2005-2009), VDU – Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, CAFA – Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, and NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arte in Milano.
Tom Rivett-Carnac, Associate Faculty for MFA Arts and Ecology
Tom Rivett-Carnac is a political lobbyist for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and an author on climate change policy. He was President and Chief Executive of CDP North America, a group working in financial markets for disclosure of climate change related risks and opportunities in listed companies. He represented Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Nairobi in 2006. He was appointed Senior Advisor to Christiana Figueres as Executive Secretary to the Convention, focusing on political strategy towards achieving binding international agreements. He contributed significantly to the Paris Climate Accord of December 2015. He and Christiana Figueres co-wrote The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Manilla Press, 2020). He is director of Unknown Road Ltd. And founding director, with Christiana Figueres of Global Optimism Ltd.
Qualification(s) required for entry to the MA
BA (Honours) Degree: A first degree in an arts, or humanities subject. All applicants will be required to present examples of relevant work. Where the first degree is not arts or humanities-related, a portfolio of work will be required in support of the application or experience that is equivalent and demonstrates interest or track record in related field.
Other non-standard awards or experience: A willingness to engage with the field of Arts & Ecology. Candidates will be considered with prior credited learning and prior experiences subject to interview.*
Interview requirements: All applicants are required to attend an interview, either at the School or online.
*For further information please contact our admissions team
All our low-residency degree programmes are available as online only pathways from June 2021 onwards. Following a year of successful online and hybrid delivery, we have now developed an online distance learning model that allows you to attain your postgraduate qualification even if you are unable to physically travel to Dartington. The online pathway joins existing modes of studying with us, such as the residential pathway (two weeks on site per module) and a hybrid pathway that allows you to combine online and on site learning to suite your circumstances. (Please note that international students taking online only pathways do not need to apply for a Student Visa.)


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It’s official: 2018 was a good year for U.K. movie theaters. Per figures released yesterday by the UK Cinema Association (UKCA), last year’s cinema admissions reached 177,001,481, a 3.7 jump from 2017’s number. The total box office gross for 2018—£1,277,122,327—is about the same as it was in 2018 due to a slight drop in the average ticket price.
Ten films—Avengers: Infinity War, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, Incredibles 2, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Peter Rabbit, Mary Poppins Returns, Deadpool 2, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald—passed the £30 million mark last year, compared to six the year before.
“These fantastic figures for 2018 confirm that the UK cinema sector remains in extraordinary health. The UK public has responded with overwhelming enthusiasm both to the breadth of the film slate and the quality and range of different cinema offers delivered by UKCA members across the country,” said UKCA chief executive Phil Clapp in a statement.


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In honor of the Ohio State versus Michigan college football game this weekend, I thought I’d share 25 of the best O-H-I-O pictures from The Ohio State University. If you’re not familiar with the tradition, Ohio State fans spell out “Ohio” using their arms. It started as a football cheer but has become a tradition for the entire university, with students, alumni and fans taking pictures of the tradition around the globe. The Ohio State University hosts the pictures on their website here.
The first picture on the site and one of the most recognizable from the OSU commercials.
5. “O-H-I-O with Childhood Friends”
Even Winnie the Pooh characters get involved.

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The upcoming 2025 Renault Duster will make its debut soon, here are the 5 key features you should know
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||An Illinois College theatre production aims to give a voice to the homeless community in Jacksonville.
The play is called “The Path to Homelessness.” It features portrayals of homeless people based on interviews with actual individuals staying at the New Directions Warming and Cooling Center at Fayette and State Streets.
This was the final project of a first-year seminar class taught by IC theatre professor Nancy Taylor-Porter. Originally performed at the end of the fall semester last month, the students involved in the show will perform once more later this month.
“We interviewed a population that usually doesn’t get a voice, and we were able to bring their voices to the community and we could validate them, we could learn about them, and we could also educate other people about an issue that I think is often misunderstood,” she says.
Read the rest of the article by Jim McCabe at WLDS.


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People ate rat meat - level 2
Chinese producers have been producing fake meat. They made fox and rat meat look and taste like mutton.
Chinese police had been investigating crimes like this for three months. There were four hundred cases of fake meat. Nine hundred people were arrested. One of the criminals explained how they got foxes from a fox farm and they made the meat look like mutton. Rat meat was also used.
The fake meet that they had sold already made the criminals 1.6 million dollars.
Interesting words: fake (not real), mutton (meat from sheep), arrest (take to a police station).
You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.
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Daniel Radcliffe Will Still Be "Harry Potter"
Fear not "Potter" fans, the Harry Potter you know and love will remain unchanged onscreen, that's for sure.
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I have been diagnosed as having 'Freiburge' or 'Frieburge' disease and I have just had an X-ray.
I have to wait a further week for the result.
Can you give me more information on this condition or let me know where I can find out more about it?
Frieberg's disease is diagnosed on X-ray, when it appears as a flattening of the end part (epiphysis) of the bone, just before and at a joint.
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