Real Estates

From 18 February to 28 March 2015 Real Estates was a project coordinated by art collective Fugitive Images opening at PEER as a social, discursive and imaginative space around issues of housing and spatial justice in East London through a constantly changing series of exhibitions, screenings, discussions, readings and workshops. ‘This project arrives at the end of a seven-year series of collaborative works with our neighbours of the Haggerston Estate. Our work came from within the community, with whom we cultivated other spaces to gather, share and campaign before the estate was demolished. Our neighbourhoods and communities are facing even greater threats from new developments and policies that separate and stratify us. But there are also many that have resisted these forces. In these six-weeks we invite in other communities, speakers and artists related to the housing crisis in London. The project will act as a platform for campaign groups and engaged makers to bring their important work into a different space, to share with us a glimpse of their own long-term projects on key sites. The gallery will host works that connect us, that illuminate, that bring pain to the surface, that inspire tenderness, that reject terrifying social injustices and restore ethical imperatives. The events programme brings together discussions around eviction, displacement and homelessness and their expression through an art that is committed to being made public and shared. This is not for profit, there nothing for sale and all events will be free.’ Fugitive Images Fugitive Images are Andrea Luka Zimmerman and David Roberts, a collaborative cultural activist producing agency, with a particular interest in, and commitment to, the social organisation of urban space. The exhibition was an opportunity to extend this collaboration to other communities, campaigners and artists who have made it their life’s work to make visible the impacts of eviction, displacement and homelessness on everyday lives. These rooms hosted works and events that connect us, that illuminate, that bring pain to the surface, that inspire tenderness, that voice solidarity. Together we hope to develop a deeper understanding and find strategies to resist terrifying social injustices and restore ethical imperatives. Exhibiting work from: Fugitive Images (Andrea Luka Zimmerman and David Roberts), Tom Hunter, James Mackinnon, Bekki Perriman, Moyra Peralta, Cardboard Citizens, DIG Collective (William Bock, Alberto Duman, Sophie Mason and Mark Morgan), Focus E15 Campaign, Smart Urhoife, UEL Unit 10. Contributions from: Owen Jones, Hackney Digs, Pau Faus, Pau Faus, Silvia Gonzáles-Laá, Xavi Andreu, Aysen Denis, John Smith, Jane Rendell, Beverley Robinson, Aysen Dennis, Richard Baxter, Caterina Sartori, Brandon LaBelle, John Rogers, Jeremy Till, Barry Watts, Ken Loach, Kerry Simmons, Dave Sinclair, Lesley Woodburn, Sarah Kwei, Dave Smith, Paul Heron, Felicity Downing, Adrian Jackson, Marcia Farquhar, David Madden, Lisa McKenzie, Tom Gann, Alberto Duman, Louise Sayarer, Eva Vikstrom, Tom Cordell, Kate Macintosh, Paul Watt, Melissa Butcher, Jon Fitzmaurice, Fuel Poverty Action, Tawanda Nyabango, Jasmin Parsons, Geraldine Dening, Alison Balance, Patrick Langley, Morgan Quaintance, Rab Harling, Sue Lukes, Advisory Service for Squatters, Green and Black Cross, Legal Defence and Monitoring Group, Sweets Way Estate, HASL, Unite Communities, Our West Hendon, Guinness, Skills Network, Radial Housing Network, Dorothy Allan-Pickard, Rastko Novakovic, Steven Ball, Kate Belgrave, Jason Parkinson, Julian Samboma, LCAP, Sibyl Trigg, John Murray, Elisabeth Blanchet, Jane Hearn, Andre Anderson, Raze, Predz UK, Kayden Bell, Jade Snyper, Nathaniel Telemaque, Municipal Dreams, Guillaume Meigneux, Stephen Watts, Lorna Forrester, Elam Forrester, Alison Marchant, Gillian McIver, Emer Mary Morris, Cathy Ward, Nela Milic. --- Programme overview Each week PEER will host a rolling exhibition programme, events and screenings featuring a number of strands. from 7pm – Openings and socials 2-5pm – Class Room, workshops and lectures for students and the public from 6.30pm – Focus, film screenings, talks, readings and actions from 6.30pm – Film screenings 2-5pm – Homeworks – Public talks from key figures/campaigns on housing All of the events are FREE, but it is strongly advised to arrive at least 10 minutes prior to the start time as space is limited and seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Weekly Programme: 18 February 7pm, Owen Jones, author, campaigner and Guardian columnist will launch the Real Estates project. Week One 18 to 21 February This week expands on the Estate project by Fugitive Images, featuring material generated from their long-term engage- ment on the Haggerston Estate in collaboration with residents and local practitioners. Key events include an evening with filmmaker John Smith including screenings of Hackney Marshes and Blight, UEL Unit 10 students will hold a seminar on their design and engagement with the Nightingale Estate and talks from the information, support and campaign group Hackney Digs. Week Two 25 to 28 February This week features a large-scale model of the Holly Street Estate (demolished in 2001), a photographic sculpture concieved and designed by artists James Mackinnon and Tom Hunter. Hunter will also exhibiting photographs of Holly Street residents (1997) and his film A Palace for Us (2010). Events include workshops with sound artist Brandon LaBelle and architectural theoretician Jane Rendell, and a talk by architect and Head of Central Saint Martins, Jeremy Till. Film- maker and writer John Rogers (Trews Reports/Drift Report) surveys his ongoing series of videos highlighting housing cam- paigns around London including the New Era Estate, West Hendon, and Save Soho. Week Three 4 to 7 March This week is themed around homelessness. Bekki Perriman’s The Doorways Project explores homeless culture through photography and sound, inviting visitors to pay attention to the intimate, sometimes humorous, often disturbing and mostly ignored stories of homeless people. This will be accompanied by photographs by Moyra Peralta and work from Cardboard Citizens which has been making theatre with homeless people for over 20 years, for homeless and non-home- less audiences. Cardboard Citizens is informed and inspired by Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, using the arts to provoke debate and rehearse actions. Events include a screening of Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home and talks by performance artist Marcia Farquhar and campaigners Lesley Woodburn and Barry Watt. Week Four 11 to 14 March This week is curated by DIG Collective, formed of William Bock, Alberto Duman, Sophie Mason and Mark Morgan, who came together to interrogate demolition and redevelopment, ritual and nature in Hackney Central. Week Five 18 to 21 March This week is run by Focus E15 Campaign, continuing to build their movement that demands SOCIAL HOUSING, NOT SOCIAL CLEANSING. The week will be a melting pot of ideas and events, exhibiting visual materials and films about their campaign, hosting an eviction resistance workshop, open mic night, discussions and socials. Week Six 25 to 28 March The final week will feature an expanded enquiry from Fugitive Images, including politics and high fashion expressed in the Ghana Must Go bags made by Estate fashion designer Smart Urhiofe. Events include a panel discussion by and on Women, Home and Activism with Lorna & Elam Forrester, Gillian McIver, Lesley Woodburn, Emer Mary Morris, Alison Marchant, Cathy Ward,Aysen Dennis, Nela Milic, and Andrea Luka Zimmerman; a screening of Guillaume Meigneux’s HLM – (Slightly Modfied Housing); readings from poet Stephen Watts; and an evening with the Authors of the Estate project contributors – Andre Anderson, Raze, Predz UK, Kayden Bell, Jade Snyper, Nathaniel Telemaque. PEER, LUX, Restless Futures, CSM. Fugitive Images are Andrea Luka Zimmerman and David Roberts, a collaborative cultural activist producing agency, with a particular interest in, and commitment to, the social organisation of urban space

Misreporting Fundraising: How do Nonprofit Organizations Account for Telemarketing Campaigns?

The purpose of this study is to examine the frequency, determinants and implications of misreporting fundraising activities. We compare state telemarketing campaign reports with the associated information from nonprofits annual Form 990 filings to directly test nonprofits revenue and expense recognition policies. Our study indicates that smaller nonprofits, and those with less accounting sophistication, are more likely to inappropriately report telemarketing costs as a component of net revenues rather than as expenses. In addition, less monitored firms are more likely to report telemarketing campaign revenues net of expenses. Additionally, among those firms that do report telemarketing costs as expenses, we find that smaller firms, and those with relatively less officer compensation, are more likely to allocate telemarketing expenses to non-fundraising expense categories.This publication is Hauser Center Working Paper No. 37. The Hauser Center Working Paper Series was launched during the summer of 2000. The Series enables the Hauser Center to share with a broad audience important works-in-progress written by Hauser Center scholars and researchers

Ceci N\u27est Pas un David

It is a peculiar fact that almost every piece of artwork ever created has attached to it a piece of text.\u27 Originally, at least, most works are given a title for the purpose of referring to what it is. Later, this body of text begins to grow as critical work is written and attached to it by the use of the title. A consequence of this is that text connected to a piece of artwork becomes significant to the piece itself and can even be reinterpreted and critiqued as though it were part of the original work. For example, there is a chunk of marble that, at the time of this writing, is positioned inside of the Florence\u27s Accademia Art Gallery; it is very beautiful, for it was carved into the shape of a man, though immensely tall, by an expert artist.\u27 However, it is not until specific words are attached to this marble that it becomes recognizable, specifically, when the artist is named as Michelangelo Buonarroti and the work is named David (Figure 1 ). These words become signifiers that are attached to and interact with the piece itself. 3 This fact functions as the most immediate channel into the art world for aspects of Reception Theory and later, deconstructionist literary theory, such as the kind put forth by French theorist Jacques Derrida.\u27 For deconstructive purposes, it becomes useful to focus on a specific signifier for an in depth analysis; a good place to start is with the most important piece of text attached to this statue, and that is its name, David. By taking this word and the narrative that it implies, at least two distinct binaries can be analyzed. These are the relationship between David and Goliath, with tl1e emphasis being on Goliath and the relationship between perfection and imperfection, which interrogates the culture in which the piece was created. Through the method of deconstruction, the traditional interpretations of Michelangelo\u27s David can be argued as incomplete and often meaningless, largely due to the effects of ethnocentrism

Using Archival Data Sources to Conduct Nonprofit Accounting Research

Research in nonprofit accounting is steadily increasing as more data is available. In an effort to broaden the awareness of the data sources and ensure the quality of nonprofit research, we discuss archival data sources available to nonprofit researchers, data issues, and potential resolutions to those problems. Overall, our paper should raise awareness of data sources in the nonprofit area, increase production, and enhance the quality of nonprofit research

Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas’ Freedom Colonies

"To validate that a place exists or is worthy of listing as a significant cultural resource, it is the fundamental practice of planning and preservation professionals to establish measurable, documented facts: determining population levels, boundaries, building types, and recorded historic activities and events. Gwen Bluiett is a Jasper County resident who lives in a freedom colony called Magnolia Springs. Here, she leads a tour of a freedom colony known as Clear Creek Community. She is pointing to and recalling her time attending the church when it was active and the settlement was populated. White accounts of African American history are steeped in such enumerations. Whether it is the counting of African Americans by age, cotton production, spatial concentration, or slave auction block value, black use value has been incorporated into land-use practice and the country’s political economy. Before and after emancipation, racialization of landscapes has overshadowed culturally relevant kinship types and forms of land ownership. Hortense Spillers describes the ambiguity in the accounting of Africans as cargo on the way to the new world disconnected from their groups of origin, gender roles, naming conventions, or the manner in which they constructed kinship ties. Captive, enumerated black people would be bundled and stacked in ship hulls, bred in plantation cabins, then cordoned off and penned into redlined zoning districts with racial covenants. Enumeration, accounting and categorization of people and places, are agents of abstraction. Because these forms of data and associated analysis are thought to be objective, questioning their underlying assumptions is discouraged. Kinkeepers disrupt this accounting approach by articulating connections between people and place as they maintain family relationships via various activities, such as planning family rituals or reunions, coordinating family caregiving, or serving as a repository of family kinship and medical information.

Count the Outside Children! Kinkeeping as Preservation Practice Among Descendants of Texas’ Freedom Colonies

"To validate that a place exists or is worthy of listing as a significant cultural resource, it is the fundamental practice of planning and preservation professionals to establish measurable, documented facts: determining population levels, boundaries, building types, and recorded historic activities and events. Gwen Bluiett is a Jasper County resident who lives in a freedom colony called Magnolia Springs. Here, she leads a tour of a freedom colony known as Clear Creek Community. She is pointing to and recalling her time attending the church when it was active and the settlement was populated. White accounts of African American history are steeped in such enumerations. Whether it is the counting of African Americans by age, cotton production, spatial concentration, or slave auction block value, black use value has been incorporated into land-use practice and the country’s political economy. Before and after emancipation, racialization of landscapes has overshadowed culturally relevant kinship types and forms of land ownership. Hortense Spillers describes the ambiguity in the accounting of Africans as cargo on the way to the new world disconnected from their groups of origin, gender roles, naming conventions, or the manner in which they constructed kinship ties. Captive, enumerated black people would be bundled and stacked in ship hulls, bred in plantation cabins, then cordoned off and penned into redlined zoning districts with racial covenants. Enumeration, accounting and categorization of people and places, are agents of abstraction. Because these forms of data and associated analysis are thought to be objective, questioning their underlying assumptions is discouraged. Kinkeepers disrupt this accounting approach by articulating connections between people and place as they maintain family relationships via various activities, such as planning family rituals or reunions, coordinating family caregiving, or serving as a repository of family kinship and medical information.

Building a semantically annotated corpus of clinical texts

In this paper, we describe the construction of a semantically annotated corpus of clinical texts for use in the development and evaluation of systems for automatically extracting clinically significant information from the textual component of patient records. The paper details the sampling of textual material from a collection of 20,000 cancer patient records, the development of a semantic annotation scheme, the annotation methodology, the distribution of annotations in the final corpus, and the use of the corpus for development of an adaptive information extraction system. The resulting corpus is the most richly semantically annotated resource for clinical text processing built to date, whose value has been demonstrated through its use in developing an effective information extraction system. The detailed presentation of our corpus construction and annotation methodology will be of value to others seeking to build high-quality semantically annotated corpora in biomedical domains

TX Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements & Cemeteries

The technical report describes grant activities for activities taking place 2019-2021.“The Texas Freedom Colonies Project's Plan to Preserve Endangered Historic Black Settlements& Cemeteries” (the Grant) funded through the Trust provided $50,000 to support engagement, mobile cemetery identification and assessment in partnership with descendant communities, and an overall strategic and technical plan to coordinate our online and offline engagement better. We partnered with Newton and Jasper County community descendants active in local preservation from Dixie Community and another community in which a homestead is a National Register site, Shankleville. The grant emerges from The Project team's desire to support local descendants’ efforts to organize other nascent preservation efforts in the region related to cemetery preservation. This executive summary provides an overview of grant-funded activities. Two documents describe the scope, aims, and goals achieved, “the strategic plan and technical report,” and “field testing report.” 1. The strategic plan and technical report intended to guide web portal platform building, and field data collection infrastructure development includes appendices. Primarily authored by vendor: Root Cause Research Center and subcontractors 2. Field testing report: A guidebook, A cemetery mobile assessment tool and registry entries (https://www.thetexasfreedomcoloniesproject.com/cemetery-registry), and evidence of field testing, and lessons learned from descendants This summary reviews the project’s purpose and scope, core audiences, process, findings and conclusions from our contractors, and our Team research processes.The National Trust for Historic Preservation, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, Mellon Foundatio

A chromatin modifying enzyme, SDG8, is involved in morphological, gene expression, and epigenetic responses to mechanical stimulation

Thigmomorphogenesis is viewed as being a response process of acclimation to short repetitive bursts of mechanical stimulation or touch. The underlying molecular mechanisms that coordinate changes in how touch signals lead to long-term morphological changes are enigmatic. Touch responsive gene expression is rapid and transient, and no transcription factor or DNA regulatory motif has been reported that could confer a genome wide mechanical stimulus. We report here on a chromatin modifying enzyme, SDG8/ASHH2, which can regulate the expression of many touch responsive genes identified in Arabidopsis. SDG8 is required for the permissive expression of touch induced genes; and the loss of function of sdg8 perturbs the maximum levels of induction on selected touch gene targets. SDG8 is required to maintain permissive H3K4 trimethylation marks surrounding the Arabidopsis touch-inducible gene TOUCH 3 (TCH3), which encodes a calmodulin-like protein (CML12). The gene neighboring was also slightly down regulated, revealing a new target for SDG8 mediated chromatin modification. Finally, sdg8 mutants show perturbed morphological response to wind-agitated mechanical stimuli, implicating an epigenetic memory-forming process in the acclimation response of thigmomorphogenesis