Climate and the Feeling of [Momentarily] Drier Feet: Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty

As is oft the case, I recovered a newspaper cutting (or ripping) that made my feet feel drier, for several moments at any rate ...

Reading this really gave me a lift, given the ongoing state of world events then and now:

Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty

The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty was signed on 9 November 2023 and entered into force on 28 August 2024.

As part of the Falepili Union treaty, Australia has:

• recognised for the first time in a legally binding treaty, Tuvalu's continuing statehood and sovereignty, notwithstanding the impact of climate-change related sea-level rise
• committed to assist Tuvalu in response to a major natural disaster, health pandemic or military aggression
• created a special visa pathway to support mobility with dignity, which will enable citizens of Tuvalu to come to Australia to live, work and study.

There are also obligations under the Treaty to ensure Australian interests are protected and to facilitate the smooth operation of the migration pathway and increased security cooperation:

• Tuvalu is obliged to ensure its immigration, passport, citizenship and border controls are robust and meet international standards for integrity and security
• Tuvalu will mutually agree with Australia any partnership, arrangement or engagement with any other State or entity on security and defence-related matters in Tuvalu.

Continued ...

My source: Nic Fildes, Migration: Australia offers Tuvalu residents visa to escape climate change. FTWeekend, 11-12 November 2023, p.4.

ERCIM News No. 141 Special theme: "AI for Cultural Heritage"

Dear ERCIM News reader,

The April 2025 issue of ERCIM News (Number 141) is now online! The articles featured in this issue highlight the wide spectrum of applications in the cultural heritage field that benefit from AI, as well as the diverse forms of AI being employed across the sector.

Including:

Who Are You, AI? – Artificial Intelligence as a Potential Metaphysical Humiliation of Humanity. pp.32-33.

By Michael Fleischhacker (University of Applied Sciences Burgenland), 

Igor Ivkić (University of Applied Sciences Burgenland and Lancaster University), and Friedrich Roithmayr (University of Applied Sciences Burgenland) 

'Artificial Intelligence as a potential fourth metaphysical humiliation—questioning human uniqueness in reason, freedom, and moral standing, and unsettling our place in the world after Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud.'

Figure 1: The Three Historical Humiliations of Humanity (Cosmological, Biological, Psychological)

including Al as a potential Fourth Humiliation of Humanity (Metaphysical). p.33.

My source:

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Capital -ism in Hodges' model

The New Nature of Business

'In The New Nature of Business, Luc's son André, now vice-chair of Roche, and co-author Peter Vanham lay out how to bring these parallel tracks together. "The business of business isn't just m of business," they write. "The business of business is to at least preserve and where possible expand the world's human, social, environmental and financial capital." 

 The book makes the familiar case that maximising short-term profit leads to long-term destruction of value. But it also suggests that a "narrow focus on [reducing] carbon emissions" could have dangerous unintended consequences. Those four "capitals" depend on one another, write Hoffmann and Vanham. They call for nothing less than a systemic change to a "sustainable, inclusive form of capitalism, with new principles, and new practices".

The most interesting parts of the book describe Hoffmann's path to the realisation in the early 2000s that the profit- making power of business should be harnessed in the quest for sustainability.' (My emphasis with some re-formatting.)

Hill, A. (2024) The sweeter pill, FTWeekend, Life&Arts, 28-29 September. p.11. 

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HUMAN	ENVIRONMENTAL the new nature
SOCIAL	of business FINANCIAL

Andre Hoffmann, Peter Vanham (2024) The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability. London: Wiley. ISBN: 978-1-394-25754-6

Previously: 'capital' e.g. 'Capital Patient' :: 'Patient capital'.

125 Years: 1899-2024 Free Issues at Liverpool University Press

2024 marks the 125th anniversary of LUP’s formation and we are pleased to bring you a new selection of free to read journal issues to celebrate.

With one complete issue of each journal available to read for free, this collection captures the breadth and scope of the research that our journals publish, and the growth of LUP from its formation in 1899. We hope that you enjoy reading them.

Visit our Free Issues page to read free content Indexing and Archiving.

Issues included this year

THE INDEXER

In this issue, 39.1, Paula Clarke Bain touches on the experience of reading during a pandemic in her review of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, alongside a final article from a series on active eBook indexes. Gord Ripley and Gordon Adshead offer a tour of their online index database, Libris Canadiana, whilst Peter Rooney discusses the creation of an index for the Mueller report, a highly anticipated US government document that was published without an index. Ælfwine Mischler also explains the complexities of indexing Arabic names, and Walter Greulich continues his series about how to create embedded indexes using Word and, Pilar Wyman reports on the project updating indexing standards in the US.

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ARCHIVES

In this issue, 56.1, C.R.J Currie article discusses tenants’ copies of court rolls in England and Wales before 1400 using research in 38 repositories to analyse 176 copies of seigneurial court rolls, whilst Rory MacLellan analyses a new set of First World War diaries for the Mesopotamia campaign. Mathodi Freddie Motsamayi looks at preserving South African community archives in a context of Ubuntu alongside book reviews by Russell E. Martin, J.P. Salley, Christine Jackson, Tracey Logan, Karen Mailley-Watt, and Arike Oke.

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COMMA

In this issue, 2019.1, discusses the remarkable work of Charles Kecskeméti, head of the secretariat of the International Council on Archives (ICA) for 41 years, from 1957 to 1998, alongside Mandy Banton who explores the problems and solutions of shared archival heritage, reporting on the EGSAH panel at the Yaounde Conference. Wang Xiangnyu and Han Jiabao also undertake research on celebrity archives held by provincial archives in China, whilst Joan Boadas i Raset discusses the management of photographic heritage.

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Browse the full collection of free to read issues for 2024 >

Best wishes,
Alice Burns
alice.burns AT liverpool.ac.uk

On behalf of Liverpool University Press

My source:

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK 

Territories of Belief, Community, Nature and Technology i

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The Digital Human BBC Radio 4 Aleks Krotoski	The TERRITORY
The Digital Human 13 June 2022 BBC Radio 4 'Unintended'	The TERRITORY

The Territory Trailer (2022)

Image: The Territory - https://www.enprimeur.ca/photos/english/the-territory/163889/movie-poster/

Endangered - so many things ...

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	Songs of Disappearance
Musics Lost and Found

Musics Lost and Found image:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Musics-Lost-Found-Collectors-Tradition/dp/178327607X

My source:

Lagan, B. Endangered birds on song in album chart, The Times, December 21, 2021, p.43.

Hewett, I. Your mission: to find the most endangered song in the world, Books, The Daily Telegraph, 30 October 2021, p.18.

The Art of Preserving Health - a Poem

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JOHN
ARMSTRONG [1709-1779] The Art of Preserving Health; a Poem Armstrong, John 1744

 

My source: Green Ink Booksellers

Ack. Wellcome Collection

(Incidental - Accidental) Erasure

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Angelina Jolie and Bees	"Do Not Erase"

Angelina Jolie and Bees (and beekeepers) 

https://en.unesco.org/themes/biodiversity/women-for-bees

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/bee-conservation-women-entrepreneurs-angelina-jolie

"Do Not Erase". Amie Wilkinson, of the University of Chicago, at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris. Images courtesy of Jessica Wynne

Jessica Wynne photograph: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/10/mathematicians-chalkboards-by-jessica-wynne/

https://jessicawynne.com/

My sources:
Snapshot, "Do Not Erase" by Jessica Wynne, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 19-20 June, 2021, p.16.

Jolie adds to buzz at UN beekeeping programme, The Times, July 23, 2021, p.37.

"The day a language died"

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Catawba

"This week another language died: Carlos Westez, more widely known as Red Thunder Cloud, the last speaker of the Native American language Catawba, died of a stroke at the age of 76. With him passed away the Catawba language. 

Anyone who wants to hear the war songs, the hunting songs and the religious chants of the Catawba can apply to the Smithsonian Museum, where, back in the Forties, Red Thunder Cloud recorded a series of them for posterity. Some earnest folk might even take the trouble to learn some of them by heart. But Catawba as something that lived and breathed and developed organically is gone for good. Of the creatures alive on the planet, only Red Thunder Cloud's dog, which survived him and understood commands in no other tongue, still presumably has snatches of Catawba rolling around his brain."

 

Popham, P. The day a language died, The Independent, 20th January, 1996, p.15.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Thunder_Cloud

 

ERCIM News No. 126 Special Theme: "Privacy-Preserving Computation"

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ERCIM News No. 126

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The Special Theme of this issue focuses on current research on privacy-preserving computation, coordinated by our guest editors Rudolf Mayer (SBA Research) and Thijs Veugen (TNO and CWI).

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c/o Boccioni - "Empty and Full Abstract of a Head"

"The destruction, in 1927, of a number of plaster and mixed-media sculptures by the Futurist artist Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was a tragic loss for avant-garde art. Of the many ground-breaking sculptures he created between c.1913 and 1915, only a handful remain in existence today. Now, using a combination of vintage photographic material and cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, digital artists Matt Smith and Anders Rådén have recreated four of Boccioni’s destroyed works: a volumetric study of a human face titled Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head, and three of the artist’s iconic striding figures. This ground-breaking display enables modern audiences to ‘see’ these lost masterpieces for the very first time."

https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/boccioni-recreating-the-lost-sculptures

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Umberto Boccioni Study for ‘Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head’, 1912	Matt Smith and Anders Rådén Digital rendering (contour) of Empty and Full Abstracts of a Head

See also:

https://www.ardi.se/ 

https://www.uniqueforms.net/


Art Images:
https://www.widewalls.ch/boccioni-recreated-sculptures-estorick-collection/

Coin:
https://twitter.com/CorriereQ/status/1252646124898398209?s=20

Cuttings, Back to the Futurism, Printmaking Today, 2019, 28: 112, p.6.

ERCIM News No. 80 Special Theme: "Digital Preservation"

Dear ERCIM News Reader,
ERCIM News No. 80 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/
Special Theme: "Digital Preservation"
- coordinated by Ingeborg Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; and Andreas Rauber, Vienna Technical University
- featuring a keynote by Pat Manson, Head of Unit "Cultural Heritage & Technology Enhanced Learning"; European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate-General
Next issue: April 2010 - Special Theme:
"Computational Science/ Scientific Computing: Modelling and Simulation for Research and Industry"
(see call for articles)
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This issue includes:

• The CARA Approach for Long-Term Preservation and Exploitation of Medical Images and Reports by Hanan Bouzid, et al..
• Designing a Trusted Distributed Long-Term Archive for Health Records by Frej Drejhammar
• Providing Web Accessibility for the Visually Impaired by Barbara Leporini, et al..
• ICASE Project: New Challenges in Computer-Based Assessment by Thibaud Latour and Sandrine Sarre.

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