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Today I thought I’d share with you my dream author panel because Eventbrite (the largest self service ticketing platform that helps people find and plan events and conferences) is currently running a little project where bloggers share their dream author panel. For this, I decided to write this under three different categories. Those categories are: Young Adult Authors, New Adult Authors and Authors I Want to Thank. And, even though this is impossible: book boyfriends.
YOUNG ADULT AUTHORS:
- Renee Adhieh
- Annabel Pitcher
- Jenny Han
- C.C. Hunter
- Keira Cass
I would choose all of these authors simply because I’ve read and loved books by all of them and I would really like to meet them also!
NEW ADULT AUTHORS:
- Caisey Quinn
- Colleen Hoover
- Elle Kennedy
- Abbi Glines
Caisey Quinn, Elle Kennedy and Abbi Glines were chosen because I really love their books (Elle Kennedy I’ve only read one book from but I loved it SO MUCH). Colleen Hoover: really, I’d just like to know where she gets all of her crazy, plot twist ideas from!
Authors I’m Thankful For:
Cathy Cassidy: Cathy Cassidy- I did actually meet when I was younger- was one of the authors who got me into reading. Granted, her books are middle-grade/young teen, but I loved them. I read almost all of them. Short anecdote: When her series The Chocolate Box Girls came out, I pre-planned my reading for all of them. So, I knew there was going to be one book in the series each year. And, my favourite sister, the oldest- Honey, would have her book out last (which was when I turned like thirteen or something and in secondary school.) I planned to buy the books- even though I was too old for them- just for the sake of finishing the series. I never did read any more of them.
Meg Cabot and Ally Carter: It was during the same time that I read these author’s books. They were the only books I would read at the time. I love both authors books so much yet they were so different. But, they introduced me to the world of young adult fiction. For, that, I will always be grateful (even though they have no idea).
Abbi Glines and Tara Brown. These two authors got me into the world of new adult! Both accidentally. I read the Existence trilogy by Abbi Glines- which is young adult- and really wanted to read more of her books so I picked up The Vincent Boys. OH MY GOD. Horror story: I didn’t know the difference between young and new adult. I didn’t even know these categories existed. And I was about thirteen years old maybe when I read this book. Scarred for life. Tara Brown was another NA author I stumbled upon. (I think even after reading The Vincent Boys. I bought the book accidentally and at this point, my kindle was connected to my mom’s credit card and I knew if I cancelled it’d be refunded and I didn’t want that because I didn’t want her to I’d bought it. Then, I felt really bad for wasting her money on it so I decided to read it. Scarred for life x2. This one I think was even worse (sex wise, I mean). But, I now like NA so I guess it’s okay. Sorta. Not really.
My last category is dedicated to my book boyfriends. Those of whom sadly one exist between the pages. But, if they do so happen to wake up one day and talk to me (like in Off the Page by Jodi Picoult) I will welcome them with open arms (after I’ve finished screaming).
The boys on my panel would be:
- Tariq from A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hoseinni. (I have mentioned reasons before as to why, (you can sort of
not reallysee here), but basically, I just love him. If, you don’t know why, here’s a reason:
“I wrote you. Volumes.”
- Jesse from Lost and Found by Nicole Williams. (Also previously mentioned.) He’s a cowboy in the first book I’ve ever read about a cowboy. He was really sweet and polite and I just really liked him.
- Warner from Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi. This, I’m not even going to explain. You either love him or hate him, I obviously loved him.
Khalid from The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Adhieh. I’m not sure whether I should include him or not, hence the reason he’s scratched out. He’s kind of a monster but he’s such a sweet talker that I couldn’t not fall in love with him.
- Colin from Three Years Later by Casey McMillian. I think Colin was my first ever book boyfriend (even though he was not officially titled that yet because I hadn’t heard of the word) so he will always be on this list. I loved the fact that, even after three years (the premise of the book is that they meet, get lost, re-meet basically) he’s still completely ready to commit to her. (This book definitely needs a re-read.)
So, they’re my dream panels! Obviously, my most dream like is the
second last one. But, ya know, girl can dream, right?
Thanks for reading!


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Sony have confirmed that they are to release a newly designed version of the PlayStation 3. The console will be sold as a bundle package with Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception included within the $270 price tag for a 250GB PS3. Sony also plan to release a 500GB version of their ‘new’ PlayStation 3 which will go to market along with Assassins Creed III. The 500GB will be released in October where as the 250GB PS3 package will be available to buy from September 25th in North America.
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funky effect running across the shell. The new PS3 will be available in black and white colour variations.The $269.99 release of the 250GB PS3 bundle will not only feature the Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception game but, will also include a voucher to redeem bonus downloadable content for the Dust 514 title.
For those gamers in PAL regions, the new PS3 packages are a little different. The 500GB PS3 will be the same but, instead of releasing a 250GB version in PAL regions, the ‘equivalent’ PS3 will be instead packaged with 12GB of flash memory on board and with an option to upgrade to an HDD (which will take away the internal 12GB flash memory). The 12GB flash memory PAL model will be available on 27th of September in Australasia at a cost of AU$300 and from 12th of October in Europe priced at €229.

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Almost a year after Alberta Health Services stepped in to help a Calgary long-term care facility, the agency has cancelled its contract to provide assistance.
Staff and residents were informed of the decision via a letter last month.
“After a period of assessment by AHS of the operations at Millrise Seniors’ Village, we have determined it is in the best interest of residents that AHS end the contract with Millrise Seniors Village 3 Limited Partnership, the service provider of the facility,” the Jan. 25 letter read.
AHS took over operations at Millrise last May as per the directions of a ministerial order. Officials made the decision after they had become concerned with the care home’s ability to cope with a COVID-19 outbreak that had sickened 25 residents, 12 staff members and killed four people at the time.
Before the decision was made to take over, family members of residents said the COVID-19 protocols at Millrise were lax.
AHS enlisted the help of AgeCare to provide day-to-day operations and has since said it is “impressed” with the third-party contractor’s work so far. It also said that Millrise will not likely be able to provide proper care to residents at this time, but has pledged to work with the operator over the next six months to ensure a proper transition.
“We are focused each and every day on ensuring you and your family are provided with high quality care and support. There will be no changes to care or services during the six-month transition period.”
‘NO ONE WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE’
News of AHS relinquishing control of the facility has one seniors’ advocacy group concerned that Millrise’s managers haven’t learned the lessons they needed to.
“Millrise was so publicly outed that they were giving less than acceptable care, but they have not made the supreme effort to change because they know there is no accountability in the system,” Ruth Adria, chair of the Elder Advocates of Alberta Society, said in an interview with CTV News.
“When AgeCare leaves, they will just walk away,” she says. “No one will be held accountable (and) there will be inferior care, unacceptable care.
“Life will go on as it did.”
Even though it has given six months’ notice, AHS says it won’t return responsibility of running the site to Millrise until it knows the organization is “fully capable” of caring for its residents. AgeCare is also on board to maintain service for now.
“AgeCare has agreed to continue to provide the same excellent level of care you have been receiving since it assumed operations of Millrise Seniors’ Village,” AHS said. “AgeCare has been instrumental in enhancing the on-site operations and creating an environment where staff are fully supported.”
The province adds it will continue to work with Millrise and update residents, families and staff on all the developments at the long-term care facility.
CTV News has reached out to Retirement Concepts, the parent company of Millrise.
When asked for comment, AHS reiterated comments made in its letter.
The contract officially ends on July 29.


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Islamabad: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is in Pakistan on a two-day official visit, called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday.
During the meeting, the two leaders discussed the devastating flood situations in Pakistan that have so far killed more than 1300 people, including 400 children.
PM Shehbaz highlighted that Pakistan was facing floods of epic proportions, which were a dreadful manifestation of climate-induced natural disasters.
PM Shehbaz outlined the extensive rescue and relief efforts being undertaken by the Government, in collaboration with UN agencies, the international community, and humanitarian organizations, to reach out to the deeply affected over 33 million people across the country.
The Prime Minister appreciated the strong support and advocacy rendered by the Secretary-General for mobilizing international assistance, including for the $160 million UN “Flash Appeal” to fund Pakistan’s Flood Response Plan.
He also lauded the Secretary-General’s forceful messaging highlighting the linkage of these floods with the impacts of climate change.
“Secretary-General’s leadership and timely intervention had helped put the global spotlight on the serious challenges posed by the catastrophic floods,” the Prime Minister said.
The Prime Minister recalled that with less than 1% of global carbon emissions, Pakistan was among those least responsible for global warming. Yet, it was among the top ten countries most severely impacted by climate change.
The premier stressed that, in the spirit of climate justice, Pakistan merited support from the international community, especially the industrialized countries, to respond to this climate calamity and to recover and rebuild with enhanced resilience.
The two leaders also discussed Pakistan’s plans for the phase of rehabilitation of the flood-affected population and reconstruction of areas devastated by floods. He also emphasized Pakistan’s resolve to build resilience against future climate shocks including through various projects on adaptation and mitigation with adequate support from the UN system and other international partners.
Recalling his long association with Pakistan, the Secretary-General conveyed his enormous appreciation for the people of Pakistan. He said he was witness to the resilience of the Pakistani people as well as their generosity in helping their compatriots and in hosting millions of Afghan refugees for decades. He added that he was also deeply moved by the devastation and the humanitarian consequences of the massive floods.
He assured full support and commitment to Pakistan including mobilizing international assistance. The Secretary-General emphasized that it was not merely about solidarity but a question of justice.
“Apart from the massive support required for rehabilitation and reconstruction, the whole issue of climate change needed to be addressed with the kind of urgency, seriousness, and responsibilities that it deserved,” Antonio Guterres said.


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Suleiman and Sowore
Omoyele Sowore, on Monday rejected the offer of assistance by the Pastor of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, who had earlier on the same day elected to stand surety for the activist, who has been in confinement since August 2, when he was arrested by men of the Department of State Services in Lagos.
Suleiman, made the offer, despite his face-off with the publisher of SaharaReporters online newspaper, who had used the platform to assail him during his sex scandal involving the cleric and German-based Nigerian lady, Stephanie Otobo.
Suleiman, had posted his Twitter handle on Monday, saying: “Am really worried that nobody is ready to stand surety for @YeleSowore
..yes he has hurt alot of people,me inclusive. But do we focus on that and let his rot where he is wvwn if he caused it in a situation like this what will christ do?.am ‘considering’ standing bail for him..”
However, Sowore’s legal team, is saying that the issue of bail by the cleric did not arise as a he was not eligible, not being a residence of Abuja, one of the conditions Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja gave on the bail issue.
Inibehe Effiong, one of the lawyers representing the activist, reporters, based on this, Suleiman’s offer could neither be considered nor accepted, adding that aside that both Suleman and Sowore had once had a public altercation, thus there is conflict of interest.
“So, we are turning it down and we are not even considering it. The way the Federal Government politicised the matter, made it difficult for the bail conditions to be met. But we are in the process of perfecting the bail.”


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Facebook announced a beta of its free Analytics for Apps tool that provides cross-platform functionality so developers can track metrics across iOS, Android and Web all in one place.
In announcing a new developer preview of Android Wear 2.0, Google indicated the final release of the OS for smartwatches won't happen until early next year.
In announcing the general availability of the IBM Bluemix Runtime for Swift, the company deemed Apple's young programming language to be "ready for the enterprise."
Who knew that correctly timing push notifications to mobile app users can help developers increase app retention rates and make a lot more money?
Twitter's MoPub announced a new modular software development kit that can reduce the size of mobile apps by letting developers embed code only for specific ad formats they want to use.
Mobile analytics company Kochava announced a free version of its campaign measurement and optimization platform.
The Application Developers Alliance released a report that examines competition in the mobile app ecosystem, including iOS- and Android-specific development challenges.
Google this week blogged about security enhancements in Android 7.0 Nougat on the same day the first security bulletin was issued for the brand-new mobile OS.
Freelance development firm Upwork has showcased "the world's top mobile app development freelancers" on its site, revealing hourly rates ranging from $14 to $70 for coders working in countries around the globe, from Belarus to Sweden to the U.S.
Today Apple is tending to some housekeeping chores in its App Store, cleaning out non-quality apps and providing mobile developers with guidance to keep their wares functional and engaging.
Web developers looking where to concentrate their efforts might be interested in new research that indicates Americans now mostly use smartphones for their online lives.
Mobile developers can now apply for early access to new in-app search functionality for their Android apps.
Another effort to bypass professional mobile app developers has emerged from TerraGo, which announced TerraGo Magic, "a zero-code app platform."
Twitter Inc. announced updated developer tools for Android, some five months after first introducing them for iOS.
Apteligent has launched an enhanced version of its Standard Edition SDK for tracking mobile app metrics, helping developers troubleshoot, prioritize and resolve issues that degrade UX.
Google has been bolstering its non-coding guidance for Android developers who are trying to get their wares noticed on the increasingly crowded Google Play app store.
Amid turbulent times for the Android ecosystem, Google is enticing new developers into its mobile OS fold through free beginner training courses presented via Udacity.
Despite the much-publicized demand for mobile app development in the enterprise, spending for such initiatives remains low, according to a new report from research firm Gartner that parallels the findings of many other studies.
Salesforce today announced it has unified several of its mobile app development resources and combined them with new back-end services for a new initiative called Salesforce App Cloud Mobile.
The many Android OS versions in use -- often cited as an impediment to mobile developers targeting the iOS rival platform -- isn't actually that bad anymore, says a new research report that indicates coders should mostly concern themselves with the KitKat, Lollipop and Marshmallow releases.


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The problem is Daily Kos.
They believed so much that they had to fight against Trump and nothing else and that Clinton was going to be elected anyway that they forgot the plain simple thing that no matter what they do to satisfy the establishment, Democrat or Republican, they will remain alienated in the US.
They have to go back to their own experience, their own existence, their own culture, their own blackness and African-ness and not choose which one of the two white establishments they have to support.
When one of the two establishments choose a black man or woman to run for them, then it is simpler. If they whoose a white man or woman then it is more complicated and Daily Kos does not understand that simple thing.
They should have been critical of Clinton during the primaries to be able to make her get out of her standardized discourse and become maybe more pungent and fleshy for the Blacks, and for the Latinos, and for the young, and for the . . . etc. She was reciting a lesson and she was deeply white and nothing else.
She still is, and unable to understand SHE and SHE ALONE lost the battle. Not because Putin did not like her and the Russians did in fact what everyone does in every election: meddle because canvassing and campaigning is meddling.
Why should the Russians not be allowed to do what everyone else does all over the world, and Americans first of all anywhere they choose to do it. Americans here covers both Democrats and Republicans.
Or maybe Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria is not meddling. And Obama publicly supporting the Remain side of the Brexit referendum was not meddling, was it?

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IRS enforcement efforts raise record revenue
A government report shows audits increased across the board in fiscal year 2006.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As a result of its crackdown efforts, the Internal Revenue Service generated a record $48.7 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2006, up 3 percent from a year earlier, according to a Government Accountability Office financial audit report released this week.
The IRS' enforcement efforts include individual, small business and corporate audits, settlement efforts intended to deter the use of abusive tax shelters, and criminal prosecution.
The GAO found that in fiscal year 2006 there was a:
The IRS has been very public about its desire to close the $345 billion tax gap, the estimated difference between taxes owed and taxes collected.
Eighty-three percent of the gap is due to underreporting of income, the GAO report notes. But the gap didn't result just from citizens and businesses choosing not to report some of their income. The IRS has noted that confusion over how to comply with complex tax laws also contributes to the gap.
According to the latest figures, out of the more than 220 million returns it processes every year, the agency audited 1.2 million tax returns last year. Among those, the audits of taxpayers earning more than $100,000 rose to 221,000, the highest number in 10 years.
"The IRS has and will continue to enforce the law across all sectors, but is focusing on corrosive activities of corporations, high-income taxpayers and other major violators of the tax code," the GAO report noted.
Recently, in a move that drew strong objections from National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, among many others, the IRS began outsourcing some of its collection efforts to private debt collectors.
(Learn more about critics' objections and what you can expect if a private collection agency comes calling to collect back taxes.)
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Manchester City try to include David Alaba in Leroy Sane deal as Bayern Munich make contact. Sane is set to leave after rejecting a new contract.
City are exploring the possibility of including Alaba in the deal, according to the Athletic.
The Austria star, normally a left-back, has been playing in different roles for Bayern this year.
Alaba, 28, has been playing centre-back with Alphonso Davies being switched to left-wing back.
But Bayern don’t want to lose Alaba and could make him see out the final year of his contract before letting him leave for free.
Sane also has one year left on his deal and Bayern don’t want to pay City’s £90m valuation for the winger.
The clubs are currently at a stalemate but City exploring ways to get the deal done suggests talks have restarted.

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The Australian Taxation Office has revealed the tax details of more than 300 of Australia’s richest privately held companies in a new report published on Tuesday.
Of the 321 companies on the list of Australian-owned private companies with an income of $200m or more, 98 paid no tax and 123 companies paid about a third of their taxable income in tax.
The report also revealed that since 2013 more than half of these 321 companies have been subject to some form of ATO engagement about their tax position and resulted in 25% of them having an additional assessment of more than $530m in liabilities.
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting was the country’s largest privately owned taxpayer, paying $466m on a taxable income of $1.5bn in 2015.
In a statement the tax office warned that not paying tax does not equate to tax avoidance and that wealthy Australians made a substantial contribution to the nation’s economy.
“The 321 companies included today reported income tax payable of around $2bn in 2013-14, with an additional $1.6bn reported by their associated entities,” it said.
“As with the December report relating to large public and foreign-owned corporates, there are some taxpayers with nil tax payable for the reporting period. No tax paid does not necessarily mean tax avoidance.”
The Coalition had previously sought to prevent the release of information on the tax details of private companies saying that it could jeopardise the safety of wealthy individuals and possibly lead to kidnappings.
However, a compromise deal between the Coalition and the Greens was reached on the final Senate sitting day of 2015.
The deal allowed the tax office to release information on private companies with revenue of at least $200m, but an estimated 500 to 600 companies continue to be shielded from disclosure because they fall below the threshold.
The ATO had previously revealed that one in five privately held companies with a revenue greater than $100m did not pay any tax in 2014.
Shadow assistant treasurer, Andrew Leigh, said that if Labor’s laws on tax transparency had not been “gutted”, hundreds more large companies would have had their tax data released for public scrutiny.
“Last December, in one of their many dodgy deals, Malcolm Turnbull and Greens leader Richard Di Natale agreed to hike the threshold for private firms from $100 million to $200 million. That change carved out two-thirds of private firms from the transparency rules,” Leigh said.


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Emergence of a new class of castes - Extremely Backward Caste proved that castes will always play a very significant role in our national politics.
Congress led the fight for independence representing diverse castes and communities but this "front" or social coalition came under severe strain in the 1960's.
Its just the equations that may have changed over the years and its time now for the extremely backward castes to take centrestage.
Around 60 years ago, when India turned independent the big fish came from the upper castes. In the next 20 years, the smaller fish the Other Backward Classes or OBCs fought for a larger slice of the pie.
Today, forty years later, the equations have shift again as the EBCs, the poorer OBCs are maneuvered upwards in the country.
The tide is turning slowly but surely with EBCs now getting separate quotas in Bihar, UP, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
The latest addition is Rajasthan where the Gujjars, who have now wrested 5 per cent quota as EBC.
Nitish Kumar Chief Minister Bihar said, "The grammar of Bihar politics is set to change. Those who cannot see the writing on the wall are free to do so. Politics of alliances are over. There has to be development of the most backward castes."
The state government has introduced a 20 per cent reservation for EBCs.
By targeting the EBCs, an estimated 35 per cent of Bihar's population, Nitish is keen to wrest this floating political constituency from Lalu Yadav.
And in a move to isolate both Ram Vilas Paswan and Mayawati, Nitish has also recognised 18 castes of Maha Dalits or Extremely Backward SC's.
Year 1967 marked the ascent of the creamy layer to political power as Jats, Yadavs, Kurmis, Patidars, Koeris, Vanniyars, Vokkaligas backed the formation of 11 non-congress united front governments across north India.
Through the 1970s and 1980s OBC parties the Lok Dal, the Socialist Party, the Dalit Mazdoor Kisan party, the Janata party and the Janata Dal emerged.
In 1978 Charan Singh, a Jat became the first OBC prime minister.
In 1996 Mayawati rode to power as the country's first Dalit CM, backed by both Muslim and non-Muslim EBCs, who had been pushed to the margins by Mulayam Yadav's dominated Samajwadi Party.
In the last four decades caste and region based parties have replaced "national" parties giving rise to fears that "casteism" will dilute the spirit of the nation but the rise of EBC's has shown that caste will remain the key social and political vehicle to fulfill aspirations


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This past week I met up with Debbie of Alterations Unlimited at Solutions Bridal to check out my wedding veil she was altering. From previous posts, here, you can see that I decided to have a designer make my veil to look like one of the fabulous $630 veils I loved at Solutions Bridal (at 1/6 the cost!). Well, that didn’t turn out all so well. Mostly the reason it didn’t turn out well is because I didn’t speak up when I didn’t like the outcome of the veil that was made for me. I have a tendency to do that. I just didn’t want to hurt the designer’s feelings when I didn’t like the cut of the veil. I should have realized then that I paid her good money to make me a veil that I wanted and that I need to get it fixed so it was just the way I imagined.
Soo… last August, when the veil was finished, I just went with it. I tried it on for Mr. Knight and agonized over the cut of the veil for months. What was wrong with the cut you ask? Well I wanted a cut more like this, straight and over the shoulder, like all the past veils I tried on:
And the designer cut the veil with these ‘wings’ I called them, more of a mantilla cut, like this:
Seems like a simple fix, right? Well, since I never spoke up, it wasn’t a simple fix. I later went back to the designer, paid extra money, and had the designer change different things about the veil that I didn’t like. Which was bringing up the price of the veil overall. After my first alteration with the designer and added expense, I decided to just let my veil ‘be’ and that I would see how it looked with my altered dress.
Fast forward several months and here I was trying on my veil, for the first time, with my altered dress at Alterations Unlimited. When Debbie saw the veil she let out a small scream and immediately pin-pointed the cut of the veil as a problem (not to mention the comb was sewed on backwards). She offered to fix my veil for me, and make it the beautiful over-the-shoulder look I wanted, and the comb, for… wait for it… FREE. Umm.. I love her!?
She said it was no problem and it would be a quick fix for her… she is seriously my angel for rescuing me from the heinous-ness of a veil with ‘wings.’
Want to see the final product????? Check it out!
The perfect ‘over the shoulder’ look I wanted! It seriously felt AMAZING to put this veil on. This veil made my week!
image by Debbie on Miss Gator’s iPhone
I guess I was so happy I couldn’t even keep my eyes open! haha. The veil is now PERFECT! Totally up to this little Gator Bride’s standards!
Who knew a veil would cause so much drama?
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Prof Richard Ekins co-authors report on the law of treason
Parliament should update the law on treason, argues a new paper published by the think-tank Policy Exchange. The paper Aiding the Enemy: How and why to restore the law of treason, is co-authored by Associate Professor Richard Ekins along with Tom Tugendhat MP, Khalid Mahmood MP, and barrister and former army officer Patrick Hennessey.
The paper, published in July, opens with a foreword from Lord Judge, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and the paper itself is endorsed by Amber Rudd MP, former Home Secretary, Lord Evans of Weardale, former Director General of the Security Service, Sir Richard Walton, former Commander at New Scotland Yard and Head of the Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) between 2011 and 2016, Sir Stephen Laws KCB QC, former First Parliamentary Counsel and Sir Noel Malcolm FRSL FBA, Senior Research Fellow, All Soul’s College, Oxford.
The authors recommend that:
- Parliament should enact a new offence which would revive the law of treason and recognise that betrayal – treason – is a clear moral wrong.
- This would specify that it is an offence to aid a state or organisation that is attacking the UK or preparing to attack the UK or against which UK forces are engaged in armed conflict.
- This should apply to the actions of anyone in the UK; it should also apply to the actions of British citizens or settled non-citizens anywhere in the world.
- In most cases, people convicted of treason should be sentenced to life imprisonment, a sentence which reflects the gravity of the wrong of betrayal, deters others, and incapacitates the offender.
- At a minimum, Parliament should reform our law to follow Australia and New Zealand and thus make it clear that it is unlawful to aid the enemy either in an international armed conflict or in a non-international armed conflict.
The paper was widely covered in the media at the time, including on the Today Programme. In August Professor Ekins published a short follow-up piece, discussing the paper’s relevance to the case of Lewis Ludlow. He also appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire programme, on BBC2, to discuss the paper’s relevance to the imminent release of Anjem Choudary.
Yesterday, the first day back after Parliamentary recess, the paper was raised by two former minsters in the House of Lords in the course of the debate about the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill.
Former Defence and Northern Ireland Secretary Rt Hon Lord King noted: ‘One interesting suggestion has been promoted by Policy Exchange to meet the challenge of those who are betraying our country and are going out to fight and kill our forces. Australia and New Zealand have already taken action against people who are aiding the enemy by adapting the ancient law of treason to give a penalty of life imprisonment for people in that situation.’
Later in the debate, former Justice Minister Lord Faulks QC added ‘I also commend the recent Policy Exchange publication, Aiding the Enemy: How and why to restore the law of treason. Its authors include two Members of Parliament, one Labour and one Conservative, and it has a foreword by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge. It provides a compelling case for the return to the statute book of a modern law of treason—the 1351 statute is plainly no longer fit for purpose.’


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Spring of 2001 was the last time that I interviewed David Effron. It was time again to interview the artistic director and principal conductor of Brevard Music Center (BMC). When I caught up with him 10 days ago, he looked as relaxed as ever, despite the frenetic pace of his professional schedule. Professor and chair of the conducting department at Indiana University's prestigious School of Music, Effron no sooner completes an academic year of teaching and conducting at IU than he begins an eight-week stint of teaching and conducting at BMC. Next year will be his final year at BMC. He observes that he has not had a single summer to himself since he began teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music right after his graduate studies. From 2008 onward, he plans to sit on his porch during the summers.
In 2001, he was about to begin his fifth season at the Brevard Music Center. Major facilities, both dormitories and performance spaces, had been added since he had begun his direction. He commented on the intelligent cooperation of his board, expressed delight at the faculty and students, and passed favorable judgment on two established program areas: orchestral music and vocal music. For the future, he promised an expansion in the third area, chamber music.
The chamber music program has indeed blossomed dramatically in the intervening five years. Visiting faculty now include William Preucil (concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra) and the three members of the Diaz String Trio, all of whom have appeared this past week in chamber music programs as well as in coaching sessions. A dozen or more top quality chamber music recitals are mounted each summer in the acoustically fine concert hall in the Porter Center at Brevard College. And on the Brevard Music Center campus, more student chamber music than ever is presented, with soloists and small ensembles performing in both Straus Hall and the newer Thomas Hall.
"The chamber music component is great for students because they covet playing that repertoire. It complements and enhances the orchestral program," Effron said, "It has contributed a lot also by attracting a high level of students. In many ways, the center has become more professional without losing its informality and fun."
Taking advantage of the high level of skill in musical performance that is demonstrated by American students these days, Effron likes to challenge them with repertoire. As has been the case for many years, BMC gives the students their first taste of the life of a professional orchestral player, with a new program to be prepared each week.
We shall see whether David Effron sits on the porch summers. Top drawer orchestral educators are in high demand. But whether he rests on his laurels or accepts another summer gig, his 11 years of service here will leave its mark, both through the improved quality of the orchestra program at BMC and by the increase in both quantity and quality of the chamber music education and recitals.
The BMC board has given Effron the green light to plan next season to his taste. He plans to invite back some of his favorite musical collaborators, and to schedule special works for his final season as artistic director. "It is wonderful to be leaving under such good terms and to feel that I have contributed to the forward motion of the organization," he concluded.
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The 2017 sports season has closed with a tennis victory once again for the Talbot Heath and West Hants tennis team who have retained their National tennis title. This competition started with 2500 schools being entered from around the UK and Talbot Heath holds its status as Number 1 Girls Tennis School in the country. The TH girls qualified in the summer term against local schools, which took them through to the knockout stage followed by the November Regional competition at Exeter. The National finals took place in Bolton at the start of December and both the year 7 and 8, and 9 and 10 teams qualified for the event.
The year 7 and 8 team breezed through to the final match on the Sunday vs Queenswood. The girls put up a phenomenal battle but Queenswood triumphed to take the national title with TH coming runners up. The year 9 and 10 team won all their games (12-0) and secured the winning title vs Culford School. Infact, the year 9 and 10 team didn't lose a game throughout the whole process, right from April through to December!
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One of the most beautiful hill stations of South India, Kodaikanal is a city that is part of the Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu. It is situated in the Palani Hills in southern Western Ghats. Kodaikanal which means The Gift of the Forest in Tamil language is also fondly called Princess of Hill stations. This popular place is the most sought after tourist destination for its meadows grasslands , cascading streams and waterfalls.
Budget Hotels in Kodaikanal
There are good budget hotels in Kodaikanal . Some of them are Hotel Sivapriya (Tariff – Rs.1118), Hotel Gurupriya (Tariff – Rs.1,000), Kodai Gate (Tariff – Rs.1033) and Pine Borough Inn (Tariff – Rs.1500).
The official language of Kodaikanal is Tamil The other languages spoken include English.
Events in Kodaikanal
Some of the famous festivals and events in Kodaikanal include Natyanjali Festival (February) and Mother SaletteFestival ( august).
Places to See in Kodaikanal
There are several places of tourist attraction in Kodaikanal. Some of the places include Kurinji Andavar (Murugan) temple( 4kms from bus stand) , Kodaikanal Lake, ( 2 kms from bus stand) Kodaikanal Solar Observatory ( 4kms from bus stand), cauvery-travels (Suicide Point) ( 3.4 kms from bus standi), Silver Cascade Falls, ( 7 kms from BS), Coaker's Walk (1 kms from bus stand)and Kodai Lake (2 kms from bus stand).
How to Get There
The nearest airport from Kodaikanal is the Madurai airport. It is located about 135kms away from the city.
Palani railway station is the nearest junction from Kodaikanal.
Madurai Aarappalayam bustand is the important bus stand for Madurai , Dharmapuri, Hosur, Kodaikanal and Pollachi. There are limited bus services available in Kodaikanal. Some of the best bus operators that offer good experience for passengers include KPN Travels, Sharma Transport and Parveen Travels. Book bus ticket online from the comfort of your home with just a click of a mouse.
Thuvarankurichi, also known as Tovarankurichchi, is a sparsely populated hamlet based in Tamil Nadu state of India. Some of the neighbouring villages of Thuvarankurichi include Puthanatham, and Marungapuri. Dindigul, Madurai and Tiruchirapalli are the nearby cities that are close to Thuvarankurichi.
Places to Stay
Thuvarankurichi is a small village and offers mostly home stays and lodges to the visitors. Marungaapuri which is 7 km north of Thuvarankurichi has some good budget hotels. Some of them include Sangam Hotel(Tariff – Rs. 800), Hotel Meenakshi (Tariff – Rs. 1500) and Jayant Palace Hotel (Tariff – Rs. 800).
The official spoken language of Thuvarankurichi is Tamil.
Some of the festivals and events that are celebrated in Thuvarankurichi include Pongal (January) and Vinayaka Chaturthi (September).
Places of Interest
Some of the places around Thuvarankurichi that attract tourists include Tiruchirapalli (55 km), Madurai (180 km) and Thanjur (121 km).
How to Get There
The nearest airport to Thuvarankurichi is the Civil Airport at Tiruchirapalli. It is located about 64 km away from Nachandupatti.
Thuvarankurichi town does not have its own railway station. The nearest one is at Marungapuri which is approximately 7 km away from the village.
There are daily bus services to, Madurai, Chennai, Tiruchirapalli and Thanjur from Thuvarankurichi. Some of the bus operators that offer good service to passengers include Joy Travels, Kallada Travels and SRM Travels. There are several bus booking portals that provide bus booking online offers from time to time.


text: Katie Harrison is a founder of The Historic Queen Theatre and serves as the Artistic Director. Katie has a large background in Theatre Education, most recently serving as Fort Bend Theatre's Education Director for the past four years. She has been performing in house and on tour with Main Street Theatre For Youth for the past five years, where she got to portray such memorable and exciting characters as Junie B. Jones, Veruca Salt, Beezus Quimby, The Cow from Click Clack Moo, and many more. Since moving to Texas six years ago, Katie has directed many shows, including: Disney's The Jungle Book, High School Musical, High School Musical 2, Disney's Aladdin, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Rules Of Comedy, Babes In Toyland, and Honk Jr. She has also served as Music Director and Sound Designer for many productions. On stage, local audiences may have seen Katie at the Stafford Centre in productions such as Oliver! (Nancy), The Sound Of Music (Maria), My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle), Beauty and The Beast (Enchantress), Annie Get Your Gun (Annie Oakley), and Cinderella (Cinderella). Katie is currently a member of the Musical Group, Prodigy. With Prodigy, she performs for many local benefits and festivals such as the United Way kick off at the Hobby Center and Telfair's International Music Festival. Katie was proud to work Entertainment for Six Flags Astroworld during its final two seasons of life. She served as the Swing for many of the park's shows and the Music Director for The Honeycombs. Before moving to Texas, Katie toured the East Coast with a Musical version of Alice In Wonderland (Alice). She also worked with Horn in The West Outdoor Drama in Boone, NC. Originally from Johnson City, TN, Katie studied Music and Theatre at East Tennessee State University. Some of her favorite shows are: Fort Bend Theatre: Little Women, the Musical (Jo March), Islands ETC: RENT (Maureen), Gypsy (Louise), Nunsense (Sis. Mary Leo), Main Street Youth Theatre: The Taming of The Shrew (Bianca), The Merchant of Venice (Nerissa), GreyWolf Theatre: Hamlet (Horatio), COM: The Spitfire Grill (Percy), Texas Rep: A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum (Panacea), Lone Star College, Cy Fair: A Taffeta Christmas (Kaye), Powderhorn Theatre, NC: Sand Mountain Matchmaking (Rebeccah), The Jungle Book (Kaa), Spoon River Anthologies (Emily Sparks), ETSU: You Cant Take It With You (Essie), The Laramie Project (Various).


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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Albrecht Dürer - An artist whose works still exude mysteries
Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg, 1471-1528) is the most renowned figure in German Renaissance art. His work reflects an era of change, in which he discovered a valid artistic form for a new concept of the world. More than any other contemporary, Dürer combined the painterly tradition of the late Middle Ages in the northern Alpine regions with the influences of the Italian Renaissance as it rediscovered classical art. At the same time, he redefined the social and spiritual role of the artist under the influence of Humanist thought. In this way, Dürer’s work transcended his age and had a major influence on the development of art, particularly German art, until well into the modern era.
Among Dürer’s graphic works are more than one hundred copper-plate engravings and around 330 woodcuts, not to mention hundreds of book illustrations. The Department of Prints and Drawings at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, holds well-preserved examples of nearly all the artist’s graphic production. The exhibition showcases a wide selection of the artist’s masterpieces—most originating from the private collection of the museum’s founder, the Frankfurt banker Johann Friedrich Städel (1728-1816) — providing a global, representative overview of Dürer’s development as an engraver.
Son of a Nuremberg silversmith, Dürer learned the technique of engraving in metal while still a boy. He trained as a painter in the city workshop of Michael Wolgemut, who also designed illustrations for woodcuts for the first editions of books. Sometime around 1495, after his “end-of-studies” trip and his first visit to Italy, Dürer began to make his name in the “new media” — the 15th-century techniques of copper plate engraving and woodcut. More so than drawing or painting, which relied on customer demand, engravings gave Dürer the chance to experiment and develop his own concepts and ideas. His engravings enjoyed huge print runs and were widely distributed, bringing the artist financial rewards and fame throughout Europe.
Some major series of woodcut prints, such as The Apocalypse (1496–98) and part of The Great Passion, made Dürer famous before the turn of the 16th century, a process helped along by his sensational copper engravings, featuring completely new themes and a technique to rival painting. In 1504 he published his engraving Adam and Eve, which, while following the models of classical art, attempts to establish the ideal proportions of the human figure. Dürer’s three “master engravings” The Horseman (The Knight, Death and the Devil), St. Jerome in his Cell, and Melencolia I (Melancholy) take copper-plate engraving to new heights of expression, laying the groundwork in the medium for generations of later artists. After these masterworks, Dürer subsequently experimented with new techniques such as dry point and etching and worked with other artists on major projects involving woodcut for his patron, the Emperor Maximilian I. In later years, Dürer concentrated on his treatises on the theory of proportions and the understanding and graphic representation of nature.
Along with Rembrandt and Goya, Dürer is considered one of the greatest creators of old master prints. He was born and died in Nuremberg, Germany and is best known for his prints, often executed in series, including the Apocalypse (1498) and his two series on the passion of Christ, the Great Passion (1498–1510) and the Little Passion (1510–1511). Dürer's best known individual engravings include Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of the extensive analysis and speculation. His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1497–1498) from the Apocalypse series, the Rhinoceros, and numerous self-portraits. His work reflected the apocalyptic spirit of his time, when famine, plague, and social and religious upheaval were common. He was sympathetic to the reform work of Luther but remained Roman Catholic. At his death, Luther wrote to a friend, "Affection bids us mourn for one who was the best." Dürer probably did not cut his own woodblocks but employed a skilled carver who followed his drawings faithfully.
Dürer was born on May 21, 1471, third child and second son of his parents, who had between 14 and 18 children. His father was a successful goldsmith, originally named Ajtósi, who in 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajtós, near Gyula in Hungary. The German name "Dürer" is derived from the Hungarian, "Ajtósi". Initially, it was "Thürer," meaning doormaker, which is "ajtós" in Hungarian (from "ajtó" meaning door). A door is featured in the coat-of-arms the family acquired. Albrecht Dürer the Elder married Barbara Holper, from a prosperous Nuremberg family, in 1467.
His godfather was Anton Koberger, who left goldsmithing to become a printer and publisher in the year of Dürer's birth. He quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany, eventually owning twenty-four printing-presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad. His most famous publication was the Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493 in German and Latin editions. It contained an unprecedented 1,809 woodcut illustrations (with many repeated uses of the same block) by the Wolgemut workshop. Albrecht Dürer may well have worked on some of these, as the work on the project began while he was with Wolgemut.
It is fortunate Dürer left autobiographical writings and that he became very famous by his mid-20s. Because of this, his life is well documented from a number of sources. After a few years of school, Dürer started to learn the basics of goldsmithing and drawing from his father. Though his father wanted him to continue his training as a goldsmith, he showed such a precocious talent in drawing that he started as an apprentice to Michael Wolgemut at the age of fifteen in 1486. A superb self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint, is dated 1484 (Albertina, Vienna) “when I was a child”, as his later inscription says. Wolgemut was the leading artist in Nuremberg at the time, with a large workshop producing a variety of works of art, in particular woodcuts for books. Nuremberg was a prosperous city, a centre for publishing and many luxury trades. It had strong links with Italy, especially Venice, a relatively short distance across the Alps.
After completing his term of apprenticeship in 1489, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking "wanderjahre" — in effect a gap year — however Dürer was away nearly four years, travelling through Germany, Switzerland, and probably, the Netherlands. To his great regret, he missed meeting Martin Schongauer, the leading engraver of Northern Europe, who had died shortly before Dürer's arrival. He was very hospitably treated by Schongauer's brother, and seems at this time to have acquired some works by Schongauer he is known to have owned. His first painted self-portrait (now in the Louvre) was painted in Strasbourg, probably to be sent back to his fiancé in Nuremberg.
Very soon after his return to Nuremberg, on July 7, 1494, at the age of 23, Dürer was married to Agnes Frey following an arrangement made during his absence. She was the daughter of a prominent brass worker (and amateur harpist) in the city. The nature of his relationship with his wife is unclear, but it would not seem to have been a love-match, and his portraits of her lack warmth. They had no children. Within three months Dürer left for Italy, alone, perhaps stimulated by an outbreak of plague in Nuremberg. He made watercolour sketches as he traveled over the Alps. Some have survived and others may be deduced from accurate landscapes of real places in his later work, for example his engraving Nemesis. These are the first pure landscape studies known in Western art.
In Italy, he went to Venice to study its more advanced artistic world. Through Wolgemut's tutelage, Dürer had learned how to make prints in drypoint and design woodcuts in the German style, based on the works of Martin Schongauer and the Housebook Master. He also would have had access to some Italian works in Germany, but the two visits he made to Italy had an enormous influence on him. He wrote that Giovanni Bellini was the oldest and still the best of the artists in Venice. His drawings and engravings show the influence of others, notably Antonio Pollaiuolo with his interest in the proportions of the body, Mantegna, Lorenzo di Credi and others. Dürer probably visited Padua and Mantua on this trip also.
On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Dürer opened his own workshop (being married was a requirement for this). Over the next five years his style increasingly integrated Italian influences into underlying Northern forms. Dürer lost both of his parents during the next decade. His father died in 1502 and his mother died in 1513. His best works in the first years of the workshop were his woodcut prints, mostly religious, but including secular scenes such as, The Men's Bath-house (c1496). These were larger than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
It is now thought unlikely that Dürer cut any of the woodblocks; this task would have been left for a specialist craftsman. His training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces, and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, however, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters. Dürer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block. Either way his drawing was destroyed during the cutting of the block.
His famous series of sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse are dated 1498. He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints. Around 1503–1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the life of the Virgin, which he did not finish for some years. Neither these, nor the Great Passion, were published as sets until several years later, but prints were sold individually in considerable numbers.
During the same period Dürer trained himself in the difficult art of using the burin to make engravings. Perhaps he had begun learning this skill during his early training with his father. The first few were relatively unambitious, but by 1496 he was able to produce the masterpiece, the Prodigal Son, which Vasari singled out for praise some decades later, noting its Germanic quality. He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably, Nemesis (1502), The Sea Monster (1498), and Saint Eustace (1501), with a highly detailed landscape background and beautiful animals. He made a number of Madonnas, single religious figures, and small scenes with comic peasant figures. Prints are highly portable and these works made Dürer famous throughout the main artistic centres of Europe within a very few years.
The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Dürer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Dürer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him. He was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Dürer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation. A series of extant drawings show Dürer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of, Adam and Eve (1504); showing his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces. This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.
Dürer made large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Praying Hands (1508 Albertina, Vienna), a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece. He also continued to make images in watercolor and bodycolor (usually combined), including a number of exquisite still lives of meadow sections or animals, including his Hare (1502, Albertina, Vienna).
In Italy, he returned to painting, at first producing them on linen. These include portraits and altarpieces, notably, the Paumgartner altarpiece and the Adoration of the Magi. In early 1506, he returned to Venice and stayed there until the spring of 1507. By this time Dürer's engravings had attained great popularity and were being copied. In Venice he was given a valuable commission from the emigrant German community for the church of St. Bartholomew. The picture painted by Dürer was closer to the Italian style — the Adoration of the Virgin, also known as the Feast of Rose Garlands. It was subsequently acquired by the Emperor Rudolf II and taken to Prague. Other paintings Dürer produced in Venice include, The Virgin and Child with the Goldfinch, Christ disputing with the Doctors (supposedly produced in a mere five days), and a number of smaller works.
Despite the regard in which he was held by the Venetians, Dürer was back in Nuremberg by mid-1507. He remained in Germany until 1520. His reputation had spread throughout Europe. He was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists of Europe, and exchanged drawings with Raphael.
The years between his return from Venice and his journey to the Netherlands are divided according to the type of work with which he was principally occupied. The first five years, 1507-1511, are pre-eminently the painting years of his life. He worked with a vast number of preliminary drawings and studies and produced what have been accounted his four best works in painting, Adam and Eve (1507), Virgin with the Iris (1508), the altarpiece the Assumption of the Virgin (1509), and the Adoration of the Trinity by all the Saints (1511). During this period he also completed the two woodcut series, the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin, both published in 1511 together with a second edition of the Apocalypse series.
He complained that painting did not make enough money to justify the time spent, when compared to his prints, and from 1511 to 1514 concentrated on printmaking, in woodcut, and especially, engraving. The major works he produced in this period were the thirty-seven woodcut subjects of the Little Passion, published first in 1511, and a set of 15 small engravings on the same theme in 1512. In 1513 and 1514 he created his three most famous engravings, The Knight, Death, and the Devil (or simply, The Knight, as he called it, 1513), the enigmatic and much analyzed Melencolia I, and St. Jerome in his Study (both 1514).
In Melencolia I appears a fourth-order magic square which is believed to be the first seen in European art. The two numbers in the middle of the bottom row give the date of the engraving, 1514.
In 1515, he created a woodcut of a Rhinoceros which had arrived in Lisbon, from a written description and brief sketch, without ever seeing the animal depicted. Despite being relatively inaccurate (the animal belonged to a now extinct Indian species), the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known, and was still being used in some German school science text-books early last century.
In the years leading to 1520 he produced a wide range of works, including portraits in tempera on linen in 1516, engravings on many subjects, a few experiments in etching on plates of iron, and parts of the Triumphal Arch and the Triumphs of Maximilian which were huge propaganda woodcut projects commissioned by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. He drew marginal decorations for some pages of an edition of the Emperor's printed prayer book. These were quite unknown until facsimiles were published in 1808 as the first book published in lithography. The decorations show a lighter, more fanciful, side to Dürer's art, as well as, his usual superb draftsmanship. He also drew a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian, shortly before his death, in 1519.
In the summer of 1520 Dürer made his fourth, and last, journey. He sought to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him (typically, instructing the city of Nuremberg to pay it), to secure new patronage following the death of Maximilian, and to avoid an outbreak of sickness in Nuremberg. He, his wife, and her maid set out in July for the Netherlands in order to be present at the coronation of the new emperor, Charles V. He journeyed by the Rhine to Cologne, and then to Antwerp, where he was well received and produced numerous drawings in silverpoint, chalk, and charcoal. Besides going to Aachen for the coronation, he made excursions to Cologne, Nijmegens-Hertogenbosch, Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, and Zeeland. In Brussels he saw "the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land" — the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico. Dürer wrote that this treasure trove "was much more beautiful to me than miracles. These things are so precious that they have been valued at 100,000 florins". Dürer appears to have been collecting for his own cabinet of curiosities, and he sent back to Nuremberg various animal horns, a piece of coral, some large fish fins, and a wooden weapon from the East Indies.
He took a large stock of prints with him, and wrote in his diary to whom he gave, exchanged, or sold them, and for how much. This gives rare information on the monetary value placed on old master prints at this time. Unlike paintings, their sale was very rarely documented. He finally returned home in July 1521, having caught an undetermined illness which afflicted him for the rest of his life, and he greatly reduced his rate of work.
Back in Nuremberg, Dürer began work on a series of religious pictures. Many preliminary sketches and studies survive, but no paintings on the grand scale ever were carried out. This was due in part to his declining health, but more because of the time he gave to the preparation of his theoretical works on geometry and perspective, the proportions of men and horses, and fortification. Although having little natural gift for writing, he worked diligently to produce his works.
The consequence of this shift in emphasis was that during the last years of his life, Dürer produced comparatively little as an artist. In painting there was only a portrait of Hieronymus Holtzschuher, a Madonna and Child (1526), a Salvator Mundi (1526), and two panels showing St. John with St. Peter in front and St. Paul with St. Mark in the background. In copper-engraving, Dürer produced only a few portraits, those of the cardinal-elector of Mainz (The Great Cardinal), Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony, and his friends the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer, Philipp Melanchthon, and Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Despite complaining of his lack of formal education, especially in the classical languages, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters, and learned much from his great friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images. He also derived great satisfaction from his friendship and correspondence with Erasmus and other scholars. Dürer succeeded in finishing and producing two books during his lifetime. One on geometry and perspective, The Painter's Manual (more literally, the Instructions on Measurement) was published at Nuremberg in 1525 and it is the first book for adults to be published on mathematics in German. His work on fortification was published in 1527, and his work on human proportion was brought out in four volumes shortly after his death at the age of 56, in 1528.
It is clear from his writings that Dürer was highly sympathetic to Martin Luther, and he may have been influential in the City Council declaring for Luther in 1525. However, he died before religious divisions had hardened into different churches, and may well have regarded himself as a reform-minded Catholic to the end.
Dürer died in Nuremberg at the age of 56.
He left an estate valued at 6,874 florins — a considerable sum. His large house (which he bought from the heirs of Bernard Walther in 1509), where his workshop also was, and where his widow lived until her death in 1537, remains a prominent Nuremberg landmark, and is now a museum.
Dürer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations; especially on printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were mostly in private collections located in only a few cities. His success in spreading his reputation across Europe through prints was undoubtedly an inspiration for major artists such as Raphael, Titian, and Parmigianino, who entered into collaborations with printmakers to distribute their work beyond their local region.
His work in engraving seems to have had an intimidating effect upon his German successors, the Little Masters, who attempted a few large engravings, but continued Dürer's themes in tiny, rather cramped, compositions. The early Lucas van Leiden was the only Northern European engraver to successfully continue to produce large engravings in the first third of the century. The generation of Italian engravers who trained in the shadow of Dürer all either directly copied parts of his landscape backgrounds (Giulio Campagnola and Christofano Robetta), or whole prints (Marcantonio Raimondi and Agostino Veneziano). However, Dürer's influence became less dominant after 1515, when Marcantonio perfected his new engraving style, which in turn, traveled over the Alps to dominate Northern engraving also.
In painting, Dürer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably, only his altarpiece in Venice was to be seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.
His intense and self-dramatizing self-portraits have continued to have a strong influence up to the present, and may be blamed for some of the wilder excesses of artist's self-portraiture, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
He has never fallen from critical favor, and there have been revivals of interest in his works Germany in the Dürer Renaissance of c.1570–1630, in the early nineteenth century, and in German Nationalism from 1870–1945.
He is commemorated on the calendar of the Lutheran Church with other artists on April 6.
A self-portrait of Dürer is used in the George Lucas movie THX 1138 to represent OMM 0910, the "god" worshiped by residents of the underground city.
The crater Dürer on Mercury was named in his honor.
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