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Covid-19 has reshaped the way actors express themselves and the way audiences experience and receive live performances.

What was thought to go away in a couple weeks, in the months of March and April 2020, an unheard of virus completely disrupted every rehearsal room and live show, which in turn grounded every performer and entertainment company to an unexpected halt.

After the blow of it all, creatives slowly found themselves gravitating towards technology to connect with their audiences, which unexpectedly came through for them in unique, and quite positive and enriching ways.

Whether it was to simply keep human contact alive, read plays together, brainstorm ideas (and once those ideas were sourced and deliberated on, they were executed and presented on the very same platform) for their audiences, family and friends, albeit predominantly from home due to restrictions and national lockdowns globally.

Over a year later, we now see theatres, creatives and performers slowly planning an in-person return this summer and autumn, with social distancing measures in place.

Last week, I was invited to see a first rehearsed reading on stage at Londons Almeida Theatre in Islington, and it was the most exhilarating experience, to say the least. To be in the room again and to take it all in as well as observe others take it all in, was certainly like a recalibrated, cleansed palate experiencing taste for the first time again.

An even more crucial point in the evening was the post-show discussion with the panel of artists and the socially-distanced audience questioning and discussing our humanity, and what the play meant to everyone individually. There were moments and minutes when the entire room just sat in silence taking in what was said. You could sense the unease of certain topics and subject matters, the shuffling of discomfort, as well as some feeling the relief and ease to express how they were digesting what they just had witnessed on stage.

When talking to audiences who have seen shows online this past year, some of the feedback of the digital experience included comments like, "It somehow lacked the eeriness of being in the physical presence of the art for me!".

Others shared, "I felt disconnected at moments because ultimately the screen reminded me it was a virtual experience and I wasn't in the room with the others to feel the tangible things you feel when you're in the room. But I must say in the stage productions that were filmed specifically for online viewers, the camera made me feel welcomed and in the room".

What we now know is that the uncertainty of the past year has changed the way creatives, performers and performance companies approach their craft. What is even more striking is the change in the way we all have had to relate to our audiences.

Take my very first performance of this year in January,Borders and Crossings, written by Nigerian playwright Inua Ellams and directed by Bijan Sheibani for Under The Radar Festival. Produced by the Public Theater New York and the UKs Fuel Theatre, it was technically brought to you through my laptop, the hand delivered ring light, studio and mic setup, in my shared sitting space within my small London flat in the midst of a harsh winter. We were given the freedom to choose our wardrobe and do our own hair and makeup, which was a fun experience in itself, given I got to dress my own character, for once.

My fellow actor, Sope Dirisu, in the Borders and Crossings performance was also in his flat on the other side of London; and yet the audiences around the globe experienced our unique rapport and story-telling, making them feel like they were right there, in the same room with us, sat right next to each other escaping from Eritrea by foot and then managing to get on a lorry through the Sudan desert to Libya, followed by another journey on a boat to Lampedusa, Italy.

If you saw the performance, you would have seen that our characters made new friends on their journey for a better life, friends from Cote dIvoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Syria. They also sadly lost some friends to the sea or as they called it, the blue desert.

Every night, after every performance, we held a live Q&A with audiences that hailed to be tuning in from New York, Medellin, London, Dublin, Glasgow, Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, Asmara, Lagos, Beirut, Dubai, Hanoi, Istanbul, Berlin, Madrid, among many more cities worldwide with such emotionally filled reactions, responses and feedback.

Who would have thought a performer can reach an audience from their home, in fact every continent? Is this what a digital platform can provide for the experience of the performance arts? No one had to book a flight and come to the US to watch our show, they only needed access to the internet with a free Zoom account to connect to the live-stream. How did that feel for the audience member, in place of an in-person attendance?

The overall sentiment appeared to be one of gratitude. Audience members were grateful for access but agreed it did not replace the visceral experience of a live performance.

What about the actor? The creative? The performer? What does it feel like not having their audience there with them in-person? Experiencing and feeling their energy, tics, and reactions?

After speaking with many fellow performers, writers, directors, and producers around the world, it appears that they agree the physical presence of a live show cannot be replaced. Yet it still has somehow provided a sharing of stories as well as a way of continued living with purpose, and making ends meet.

Many artists shared the curiosity of simply wanting to know to what extent new ways of performing will remain - for both performers and audiences - after the pandemic.

What enhanced it even more was artists continuously inspiring and supporting each other.

One wonderful artist I met (just after the second national lockdown was easing up again) was international award-winning, South African rising star Kgole Giggs. His poetic pieces of art really showed me the essence of the adversities we face right now around the world.

The world slowing down has allowed me to reflect more on where I come from in order to understand more where I would love to see myself and work this coming decade, he said.

Our serendipitous meeting happened thanks to Signature African Art gallery, which was exhibiting his work at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair and we are now in the works of putting an original collaboration together towards the end of the year.

One thing artistic directors and producers shared with me is that now a lot of time is saved not having to fly artists in, which additionally meant there were less scheduling conflicts. Many producers I spoke to really like the idea of now being able to extend access to everyone that may not be able to attend a show in-person and can then watch it online and also pay less for a ticket.

Technology is certainly here to stay and evolve. As a result of the global restrictions over the past year, there has been a push to think outside the box and try new things. However, does this new channel have longevity in the years to come?

These new forms of live shows and performances the pandemic has given birth to has allowed audiences to continue to engage with performers; however the majority agree if you can be in the room, go! The adrenaline, anticipation, affection, the community and engagement we all receive from being together in-flesh appears to be irreplaceable.

Either way, what is a performer without its audience? And is not the audience non-existent without the performer?

Hope is perhaps the ultimate resource of what keeps us all going during these strange times.

I leave you with Joy Williams beautiful words expressing the worlds never ending hunger for the performing arts:

Hungry, I come to you

For I know You satisfy

I am empty but I know

Your love does not run dry

So I wait for You

So I wait for You

I'm falling on my knees

Offering all of me

You're all this heart

Is living for

Broken, I run to You

For Your arms are open wide

I am weary but I know

Your touch restores my life.

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How the performing arts discovered a new channel during the pandemic - TRT World

With Greenpeaces 50th anniversary on the horizon, I was asked to host a series of virtual mailbag calls connecting activists across generations and regions. The outpouring of interest and questions from those at Greenpeace today was moving.

While I could not address all the great questions and comments in one article or one call, here is the first batch. These are my thoughts and ideas. Someone else might have different ideas. I make no claim to arriving at complete and definitive answers to these questions.

I was fortunate as a young child to live in natural settings, with rivers, forests, hills, and ocean to explore. However, as a child, I didnt know how vulnerable all this was. Later, I witnessed pristine natural settings obliterated for shopping malls, highways, and parking lots. Rachel Carsons Silent Spring taught me more about the crisis, and in 1969 when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught on fire from pollution, I realized the urgency of the crisis. From Gregory Bateson, Arne Naess, the Taoist writers, and my Indigenous friends, I began to learn a deeper respect for how to think and live the way nature works. I recently wrote about this for Greenpeace.

Sort of. In the 1970s, we set out to create a global ecology movement, which did not exist at the time, and we expected that the movement would expand around the world. In the beginning, I think most of us were more interested in a global movement than in a global organization. We wanted people to rise up everywhere and defend biodiversity and vulnerable ecosystems. Friends of the Earth and other organizations arose at the same time. As Greenpeace offices sprang up all over the world, to maintain clear communications about our work, we had to create a global structure, and thus we created Greenpeace International in Amsterdam in 1979. The movement is strong enough now, that it will continue with or without any single organization. Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion are examples of how the movement evolves. This is more or less what I hoped would happen.

There are many fond memories, and most are linked to the camaraderie of working with people to achieve something larger, more important than ourselves: Sailing on the fish boat in 1975, at night under the stars as if adrift in the universe, playing music, learning maritime skills, the day we found the whalers, the shared euphoria, the shared heartbreak at witnessing the slaughter, the shared satisfaction when our pictures and story circled the globe, and the feeling that we had achieved something significant.

I felt most at risk the first time we actually maneuvered our Zodiacs between the whales and the whalers in 1975. During the previous two years of organizing this campaign, and two months at sea looking for the whaling fleets, I had not thought about the consequences of what we planned. However, once I stood in the bow of the Zodiac, with the whales in front of us and a harpoon boat behind, it occurred to me that if we were hit by one of these 200-pound exploding harpoons, we would be instantly killed. I suddenly felt a chilling tremor of fear, but with no alternative but to stay in place. That remains the most frightening moment of my Greenpeace experience.

I would advise my younger self to pay more attention to the relationships, internal and external, to be more aware of others motivations and intentions. I believe I was sometimes naive and perhaps too tolerant of big egos. I would also advise more modesty in the face of the challenge we set for ourselves. Confidence is helpful, but overconfidence is not. I was unaware of how easily our stated values and visions for an ecological society could be misunderstood and even subverted. I would also advise more boldness and less compromise in certain cases. We often made compromises to appease other factions in society and in the environmental movement. Sometimes those compromises might have been helpful, but in some cases, we may have allowed our message to be blunted.

The 1970s whale campaign was probably the most successful because it achieved two significant goals: It led to the 1982 whaling moratorium and many populations of whales began to recover. We also had the intention that this campaign would help launch an ecology movement, which it did.

One of my favorite campaign actions, however, was our test blockade of a supertanker. In 1981, as we were working in our Vancouver office, Rod Marining read in the newspaper that in three days, an oil tanker was going to enter the Salish Sea between Seattle and Vancouver, loaded with water, as a test to demonstrate how easily an oil tanker could maneuver in these inside waters, promoting an oil port. We were discussing what we might do when our office manager Julie McMaster said casually, You should do a test blockade.

This made us laugh, and we thought: This is perfect! We promptly announced to the media that we were going to do a test blockade of the oil tanker test run. We knew we were onto something when the reporters laughed. We phoned our friend Dennis Feroce, who agreed to pilot his boat, The Meander, to take us to the entrance of Juan de Fuca Strait, where the tanker would have to enter. Three days later, we sat ready in the water with our Zodiacs and a small flotilla of sailboats, as television camera crews flew overhead in helicopters. We stopped the tanker dead in the water, film and photographs went all over the US and Canada, and we got arrested by the US coast guard and taken to jail in Everett, north of Seattle. The media followed us, as we told the police that it was just a test. We made jokes about testing the handcuffs, testing the jail, and the police also laughed. Everyone was on our side. When an officer brought us our meal (fast food burgers), she dropped the bag on the table in the cell and said test this. The entire campaign was hilarious, and the oil port never got built. This is one of my favorite campaigns because we pulled it off in three days, everyone had fun, and the idea came not from a seasoned activist or a campaign committee, but from our unassuming office manager, Julie.

To shift the needle in social action, one has to be creative and do something that is not expected. When environmental groups do what everyone expects them to do, nothing changes. For example, regarding global warming, I would suggest dont do the predictable thing and go to the next climate conference. Flip the script. Boycott the climate conference. Explain why: Because the next conference in Glasgow in October will be the 34th international climate conference since the first one in 1979, and these conferences have achieved nothing significant.

Thirty-four climate conferences in 42 years, and during that time human carbon emissions have doubled. Atmospheric CO2 levels have gone from 337 parts per million (ppm) to 420 ppm; the oceans are choked with acidification, the coral beds are dying, forests are burning, and the worlds politicians are burning jet fuel to twiddle their thumbs at these climate meetings. I would suggest: Stop validating this nonsense. Boycott. Organize the ecology groups to boycott together, and state the reasons. Hold your own separate meetings regionally and on the internet. Denounce the phoney and hollow promises by governments. Go instead to every major seaside city on Earth and paint the future waterline on buildings to depict sea rise after the Antarctic and Greenland ice melts. Give people a new picture, not the failing routine.

The great social movements of history that have actually changed things have been able to find a way to do the unexpected, to blow up the prevailing paradigm, to make people think in new ways.

The pandemic is linked to human overshoot, our occupation of wild habitats, our destruction of biodiversity, our growth and consumption beyond the capacity and limits of the global ecosystems. So, yes, the conditions for the swift transmission of this pandemic are created by human activity. However, nature does not really fight back. Evolution does not appear to have goals or preferences, and does not hold grudges. Nevertheless, pandemics will likely continue to be one consequence of neglecting our ecological crisis.

I dont assume that Greenpeace can or should do everything that needs to be done. I know from experience that people project onto Greenpeace the responsibility for every environmental urgency, an impossible expectation for a single organization. Thus, I think of this question more as What do I wish the environmental movement would do that it isnt doing?

I wish the ecology/environmental movement was more realistic about our real, fundamental crisis: Ecological overshoot and the conditions that create it, namely: unfettered growth. Overshoot is natural. Most successful species overshoot their habitats, a pack of wolves will overshoot the capacity of a watershed, algae will overshoot the capacity of a lake, and we can see in our own gardens how everything grows into its neighbours, tangling and pushing the limits of space and resources. Natural evolution teaches all species how to grow, reproduce, and consume, but evolution does not teach species when to stop, when to restrain itself.

I wish the ecology movement would more directly address the fact that humanity has overshot Earths capacity. Calculated estimates range from about 50% overshoot (Footprint Network) to 100% or more. The significant point is that all pathways out of overshoot for any species anywhere, no exceptions involve contraction: The wolves die back until their game recovers; the algae die back to the limit of available nutrients; plants push back on each other until they reach a new dynamic homeostasis. We make a mistake if we behave as if humanity does not have to also get smaller in numbers and consumption, the two issues we tend to avoid. Government, industry, and even some environmental groups focus on new technologies and a presumed green growth, avoiding the inevitable contraction of human economic activity, numbers, and consumption.

Addressing the frivolous, wasteful consumption of the rich is a good place to start, but not the full story. To actually reverse overshoot, we also need to address the global economic system of capitalism, which requires unrealistic, endless growth; we need to address equitable ways to reverse human population growth (womens rights and accessible contraception); and we need to be realistic about what is required to clean up our technologies. I would like to see the environmental movement be more active and serious about all three of these necessary steps to reversing overshoot.

There is a huge difference between a movement and an organization. The movements for peace, civil rights, womens rights, and others have survived for centuries because they have a robust constituency and clear goals that have not yet been fully achieved. Similarly, the ecology movement will likely endure long into the future.

Organizations, on the other hand, can come and go. Social organizations gain support and prominence because they address an issue that people care about and they appear effective. I say appear because an organization may endure, through reputation and self-promotion, even if it becomes less effective than its supporters believe. For an effective social organization to endure, however, requires a constituency that believes the organization plays an essential role, that the leadership has integrity, and that it can achieve genuine change.

Typically, successful organizations arise because some group of people have a creative idea about how to address a problem about which the public is generally aware. Creativity is essential in the birth and growth of an organization. However, as an organization grows and becomes more structured, it is possible that creativity is stifled rather than encouraged. Maintaining creativity is a key quality of successful organizations. By definition, there is no formula for creativity. Rather than attempt to formalize creativity, successful organizations learn to create the conditions for creativity, to overcome bureaucratic roles, and allow new ideas to flourish at every level of the organization.

This is a popular question these days, I believe because so many of us feel the concern about humanitys future. We meet discouraging obstacles, resistance, subversion, and indifference, so we naturally seek hopefulness. Hope is a good frame of mind, because it opens paths to action, but hope is not a strategy. To solve problems, one must deeply understand the problem, the conditions, and appreciate the larger systems and forces at work. Delusional hope is definitely not helpful.

Humanity exists now in a tremendous bind. The powerful and wealthy have plundered the Earth to enrich a few, while billions live on the edge of starvation. Meanwhile, species diversity plummets, the atmosphere fills with carbon-dioxide, the oceans turn acidic and are choked with plastic, and we face myriad ecological tragedies. I do not find hope in political conferences, governments, corporations, nor in appeals to the general good of humanity. In my experience, most people are decent and fair, but greed, fear, and ignorance can create chaos and harm.

I find hope in nature itself, in the wild world, in the power of life to create new conditions, in the shared learning and co-evolution of all nature. This is where, I believe, humanity has to turn. We are not solving our problems with conferences, technologies, space travel, or economic growth. These delusions create more problems. I believe we have to rejoin the ecological community. We have to become apprentices to nature and learn how the natural world actually endures and survives as a living system. I believe we have to shed our human pride and re-align ourselves with all our relatives, with the systems and processes of the entire natural Earth. Im with the Taoists and certain Indigenous teachers on this: We have to learn to respect our Mother Earth, the source of all life.

Nothing survives alone. We only survive in relationship with the living matrix. That is where I look for hope.

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50 years of Greenpeace: Q&A with Rex Weyler - Greenpeace International

Name: 150 years old.

Age: 150 years old.

Appearance: The new threescore and ten.

What does that mean? Threescore and ten, or 70 years, was the old biblical measure of your allotted time on earth. And 150 is the latest measure.

You mean were all going to live to be 150? No. Its just that 150 is as long as anyone is ever going to live.

Who says? A new study published in Nature Communications, which analysed medical data from hundreds of thousands of volunteers, boiling them down to a single measurement of ageing, the dynamic organism state indicator.

What did they learn? Their findings suggest the human bodys progressive loss of physiological resilience the ability to recover from illness and other stress factors reaches a critical point, resulting in a fundamental or absolute limit of human lifespan somewhere about 150 years.

Thats ridiculous. Did this study include any vampires? Not knowingly. Anyway, this is supposed to be good news. 150 is almost double the current UK life expectancy.

I know, but I assumed that by the time I got to 80, they would have extended it to somewhere between 900 and for ever. Dont fret. A startup is developing treatments that could extend limits on lifespan dramatically.

For everyone? No, for dogs. The startup, operating under the brand name Loyal, is embarking on a study of more than 500 dogs, and hopes to have specific anti-ageing treatments for pets within three years.

Whats the current maximum age for a dog? The oldest verified canine was an australian cattle dog called Bluey, who died at the age of 29 in 1939. More recently, there have been unverified reports of dogs living to 30.

And whats that in human years? 210, give or take.

You mean my dog is going to live longer than I am? Well no, because a dog year is equivalent to seven human years, and even thats an unreliable approximation of

This is an outrage! At this rate my dog will have to pay to have me put down. Focus on the positive a study of canine longevity could ultimately be of benefit to us all. Dogs are one of the best models of human ageing, says Loyals founder, Celine Halioua.

In that case, my dog says he would like to volunteer for trials. What a good boy.

Do say: Stay active, maintain a healthy weight, die anyway.

Dont say: Eat more meat, chase more cars.

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150 years old: how the quest for eternal life found its natural limit - The Guardian

FROM NEWS REPORTS Published 11:27 a.m. ET June 4, 2021

MUNCIE The Muncie Police Department will host a hiring process through July 16.

Applications can be found online at cityofMuncie.com, at the link for the police department, or can be obtained at the Human Resources office on the second floor of Muncie City Hall, 300 N. High St.

The agility test will be held on July 25. Applicants will be notified of the specific time and place of that event.

For information, contact Deputy Police Chief Christopher Deegan at 765-747-4822. ext. 225, or at cdeegan@cityofMuncie.com.

Benefits include a $43,490.84 probationary salary and a $53,586.40 first-class society, additional pay for longevity and educational degrees, 14 paid holiday and a health savings account, according to a release.

HARTFORD CITY Larry Fentz will exhibit his work at the Blackford County Arts Center now throughJuly 15. Fentz's paintings are transparent watercolors. The Muncie artist worked as a professionalairbrush artist and inker for the Garfield comic strip for more than 33 years.

A public reception for Fentz will be 2-4 p.m. Sunday, June 6, at the arts center,107 W. Washington St.

MUNCIE The Muncie Central High School Class of 1970 will have its"50+1-YearReunion: Aug. 13-14.

A casual Friday night gathering will be at 6 p.m. Aug. 13 atElm Street Brewing Co.,519 N. Elm St. No sign-up required.

The class reunion, with a dinner and live music, will be 5:30 p.m.-midnight Aug. 14 at the Delaware County Club. Advance registration is required by July 31; cost is $40 a person with checks payable toMCHS Class of 1970, mailed to P.O.Box 271, Yorktown, Ind. 47396-0271. Information: mchs1970@att.net.

Send brief news items and announcements to news@muncie.gannett.com.

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In a feverishly exciting experiment drawn to a close, a group of researchers from Singapore is digging deep into finding the maximum age of Homo sapiens. Three large researching groups from the US, UK, and Russia are also a part of the study that analyses the pace of aging and other factors that can extend the numbers.

The group of researchers from Singapore-based Biotech company Gero published a conclusion regarding a pace of aging that may effectively set the life span between 120 and 150. To draw results, they took into account changes in blood cell count depending upon the number of steps people took. The health data used was from people living in the UK, USA, and Russia.

According to the researchers, the loss of resilience is the main cause for death in absence of other obvious reasons, like murder, fatal accidents, or deadly diseases. Resilience is the bodys capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. They went on to highlight how the human body has to let resilience fade away only by 120-150 years and not sometime earlier.

If cells repair and organs function on their own easily, not involving with greater pressure and other artificial equipment under the influence of a disaster or other fatalities, a humans lifespan can increase effectively, for the proper functioning and correct capabilities of the organs ensure that the human body continues to work that way for many years.

Like a machine, they get old, but it lies with us to ensure that the senile part comes at a later stage in our life. Ageing in humans exhibits universal features common to complex systems operating on the brink of disintegration, the researchers said in a statement.

The researchers think that to increase our life span, changes need to be made in our resilience factor and the aging process. Otherwise, the change will only be an incremental increase in human longevity. It is with utmost importance we get to note that the longest recorded person to have lived was from France named Jeanne Calment who died at the age of 122.

The researchers discovered that recovery from stress took longer than usual at old age, and noted it with great regret that this recovery delay that rightfully belonged to the senility downed its levels to the younger range. They concluded that the recovery rate of stress is one of the prime factors in aging, and they released a statement that they are working on pushing the recovery rate to a later age, say the 70s and 80s.

As much as it sounds intimidating, how do you think an increase in the aging limit might help us in real, or if its beneficial? Let us know in the comments.

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Hitting A Number Greater Than A Century: Resilience Is The Key - - Woman's Era

The fate of the death-defying Bioscleave House, also known as the Lifespan Expanding Villa, once again hangs in the balance with news that the experimental four-bedroom dwelling in East Hampton, New York, has returned to the market with a listing price of $975,000a bona fide bargain considering the zip code.

As reported by the New York Post, the 1.1-acre property at 113 Springy Hill Road was recently listed by Brown Harris Stevens Hamptons in a move that might invoke a sense of dj vu for those following the recent plight of the experimental abode, originally completed in 2008 for a reported cost of $2 million by avant-garde artists, designers, and authors, Arakawa and Madeline Gins. The home was previously listed in 2018 for $2.5 million and, at the time, came perilously close to facing the wrecking ball at the hands of a local developer who sought to demolish the off-kilter local landmark and replace it with a multimillion-dollar McEstate. As of the spring of 2019, it remained on the market with a steeply reduced asking price of $1,395,000. It was for sale because the owners could reportedly no longer afford to maintain the idiosyncratic home. Failing to find a new buyer, the Bioscleave House was quietly pulled from the market only to reappear at the end of last month.

Cofounders of the Reversible Destiny Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of how architecture can be best deployed to stretch out the human lifespan, Arakawa and Gins, who were also husband and wife in addition to frequent collaborators, designed the Bioscleave House as an inter-active laboratory of everyday life in which every domestic feature is meant to reverse the effects of aging and transform the personal well-being and longevity of its inhabitants according to its (now deceased) designers.

A rubberneck-inducing monument to color-blocking, the riotously hued home, described as the first realized work of procedural architecture, features wonky windows, askew light fixtures, a labyrinthine basement, and nary an interior door. Think of it as a longevity-preoccupied modernist variation of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose or a Hamptons retreat inhabited by the bickering immortality-seekers from Death Becomes Her had they gone full-tilt Dadaist. (Arakawa, born in Japan as ShusakuArakawa, was indeed a protege of Marcel Duchamp.) Essentially, it was designed to keep its occupants quite literally on their toes so that are forced to actively negotiate even the simplest tasks, explains the Reversible Destiny Institute.

As A.J. Artemel wrote in his AN review of The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words,an anthology of writings by Gin published last year:

Gins and Arakawa designed buildings that were intended to help their occupants learn not to die. With wildly uneven and bumpy floors, wild colors, disjointeddangerous?fixtures, and unpredictable changes in scale, these spaces encourage the occupant to continuously pay attention to their surroundings, to extend their personhood into their environment, and to be reaffirmed, personified, by the forces exerted by the off-kilter surfaces in turn. If ones locus of awareness is constantly in motion like a pinball, it can never fall into stasis, non-being, death.

Arakawa and Gins both passed away within a decade of completing the Bioscleave House, a mentally and physically challengingbut potentially mortality-skirtinghabitable work of art initially commissioned by Italian collector Angela Gallmann. Arakawa died in March 2010 followed by Gins in January 2014. Both lost their life savings in Bernie Madoffs Ponzi scheme in late 2008.

The Arakawa and Gins-designed cubist structure is actually an addition to the original structure on the property, a 60s-era A-frame designed by Carl Koch. The two structuresreferred to in the listing as the back and front houseswere fused together by Arakawa and Gins to form a single structure thats own lifespan may prove to be pitifully brief if the right new owner-savior fails to emerge.

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The Bioscleave House promises a protracted lifespan but can't seem to find a protracted owner - The Architect's Newspaper

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A new report sheds light on the human health outcomes related to climate change, focusing specifically on mortality data that coincides with rising temperatures across the globe.

Published Monday in the journal Nature, the study examines mortality data from 732 distinct locations across 43 countries searching for any relation between heat exposure and deaths.

The countries sampled were geographically diverse and included data from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Estonia, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Portugal, South Korea, Iran and South Africa, among others.

Referencing total deaths between select years, ranging from as early as 1991 in some countries datasets to as recent as 2018, scientists cross-referenced heat death rates with levels of warming over time, measured in increases in degrees Celsius.

The results indicate that about 37 percent of heat-related deaths can be attributed to human-caused climate change.

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This amounts tomore than1 in 3 heart deaths.

Our findings support the urgent need for more ambitious mitigation and adaptation strategies to minimize the public health impacts of climate change, the authors wrote.

Risks to heat-related deaths varied widely based on geography. Some countries that were observed to carry a higher risk of mortality from heat exposure include central and western European countries, while smaller estimates of heat-related fatalities were recorded in the Americas and Asia.

Taken together, our findings demonstrate that a substantial proportion of total and heat-related deaths during our study period can be attributed to human-induced climate change, the report concludes. Our findings provide further evidence of the potential benefits of adopting strong mitigation policies to reduce future warming and of enacting adaptation interventions to protect populations from the adverse consequences of heat exposure.

This study adds to the literature linking increases in heat-related deaths to climate change. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyhas tracked heat-related fatalities annually with data going as far back as the late 70s.

While it is difficult to gauge solid increases in heat-related fatalities, heat waves and other hot temperatures usually result in spikes in mortality rates. These deaths tend to have other factors, such as heart attacks and strokes, making it difficult to dissect heat-related deaths from other causes.

Simultaneously, an earlier study conducted by the University College of London found that an estimated 54-percent increase in heat-related deaths among elderly individuals is linked to climate change.

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On Wednesday, President Biden announced the launch of a new initiative to boost vaccination rates across the country, with a notable emphasis on expanding outreach efforts at Black-owned barbershops and beauty salons.

This follows a national initiative to vaccinate 70 percent of U.S. adults by July 4, as Black Americans continue to be the demographic with the lowest vaccination rates, per data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The initiative, titled Shots at the Shop, will work with 1,000 Black-owned barbershops and salons across the country to support vaccination education and further community outreach. The tour will begin throughout June and display educational materials and host vaccinations on-site.

It is being sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Black Coalition Against COVID-19, the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity, and SheaMoisture hair products.

Participating shops will aim to support communities struggling in the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and that are experiencing lower vaccination rates.

The plan is part of a broader agenda, titled the National Month of Action.

National Month of Action will mobilize national organizations, local government leaders, community-based and faith-based partners, businesses, employers, social media influencers, celebrities, athletes, colleges, young people, and thousands of volunteers, the announcement read.

Just 18.9 percent of Black Americans are reported as fully vaccinated, as opposed to 28.3 percent of white Americans and 20.5 percent of Hispanic Americans.

As part of the national average,about 63 percent of all U.S. adults report having been vaccinated at least once.

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On my second visit to The Great Beech, I went with Christina Moresi and Stephanie Robinson, environmental educators with the Wissahickon Environmental Center. Moresi, who has worked at the park for 15 years, shared Lubars belief that the trees lifespan was shortened by people interacting with it. She did not, however, share his outlook. Moresi explained that with stormwater rushing in from the parking lot and visitors disregarding park policies, there wasnt much that could be done to protect the tree. Fencing it off was never an option for her, she stressed.

Moresi wanted people to interact with the tree. She wanted children to hug it. It was a charitable perspective, given all she had seen. She told the story of once finding the proposal PROM? carved into one of the beechs branches. When I first saw that I was like I swear to god I hope she punched him, she said.

When I asked her why more interventions hadnt been put in place, she paused. It really is just a matter of letting nature take its course, she said.

It was May then, and only one of the trees branches held leaves. Moresi admitted that had been a disappointment. However, she was quick to point out that a dying tree, or even a dead one, breeds life.

A dead tree, called a snag, hosts bacteria, fungi, insects, and animals. Woodpeckers peck it, raccoons nest in it, and mushrooms grow up and down its branches. On the dead limbs of The Great Beech, an entire ecosystem is churning.

Nearby, another beech, named Baby Beech, grows.

Baby Beech sprouted up from The Great Beechs extensive roots, and has been called its successor. The little tree is growing taller in a thicket behind The Great Beech, nearly undetectable.

Like their predecessor, the beeches that have sprouted around The Great Beech are not fenced off. Sitting beside them, I watched the birds and insects whirl around the beechs limbs, dead and alive. The branches that once shaded the area have fallen, and plants of all kinds are growing in the new flood of sunlight. The trees decay is a generous one. The Great Beech may have been loved to death. But those who visit it, myself included, learn that we can love the natural world in death as well.

As I sat, hikers ambled by on the trail, all of them stopping for a moment to look. What kind of tree is that? one woman asked me. A European Beech, I said, a tinge of kvell in my voice. I watched as the group craned their necks up, up, up. As they walked away, I heard one say to the others: Wow.

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