'deFENCE' is an interactive conceptual art project for freedom of cohabitation, designed in such a way as to include each beholder personally. In tradition of Marcel Duchamp, the ''two main roles'' of this exhibit are the work itself, and the person watching it. Only here, the subjective role of the beholder is not the only one. They are personally drawn into the exhibit, by way of a mirror. The work represents a house, with its door wide open, inviting and welcoming every visitor. Except, a certain visitor is watching this house over a barbed wire fence. On the other hand, this visitor is being watched from the window of the house. The author's intention was to combine these two persons into one, so that people who had never had the chance to be on the other side of the barbed wire, can benefit in two ways: Firstly, they can see how it is to be looking over a barbed wire into a house inviting you, which you cannot reach. And secondly, they can see themselves passively looking from the house at the person outside the fence, doing nothing to remove this segregation.

The concept of this project is to bring to the attention of people living in the 'free' world that many of the boundaries that segregate others in a 'non free' world, are created by themselves. Or, at least, they do nothing to remove these boundaries. The wish of the author is to help remove all boundaries that separate people and worlds.

''Note:'' 'deFENCE' project was created by Gregor Marković from Serbia, in January 2006. It has been selected to take part at the International Design Biennial in St. Etienne, in 2006.

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name	Vir Sanghvi
birth date	July 05, 1956
birth place	Mumbai
occupation	Journalist, Writer
website	http://www.virsanghvi.com/ }}

Vir Sanghvi ( ) (born 5 July 1956) is an Indian print and television journalist, columnist, and talk show host. Currently, he is an Advisor, at HT Media.

At 23, he was the founder-editor of the ''Bombay'' magazine, before moving on to edit ''Imprint'', and finally editing ''Sunday'' magazine, which he did for over 12 years. He later was appointed editor of the ''Hindustan Times''.

Early life and education

Vir Sanghvi is an Indian editor and also a television celebrity. Currently, he is Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times. Sanghvi was brought up in Bombay (now Mumbai) and London and educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, and Mill Hill School, London. He went on to read politics, philosophy and economics at Brasenose College, Oxford.

His journalistic career began in his gap year before Oxford when he started contributing to India Today. He continued writing for the magazine during his vacations and in 1978, the publishers of India Today asked him to start Bombay, India's first city magazine. At that stage, Sanghvi was 22, making him the youngest editor in the history of Indian journalism. The first issue of Bombay appeared in 1979 and though the magazine was an instant success, heralding the start of India's magazine boom, Sanghvi left it in 1981 to live in London for a year. Awarded a traveling fellowship by the Inlaks Foundation, he visited newspapers in the US and the UK for a project on how the western media looked at India. In 1982, he returned to India as editorial director of Business Press, India's largest publisher of trade magazines. While at Business Press, he revamped and reformatted Imprint, one of India's oldest magazines and turned it into a leading features magazine of the 1980s. In 1986, he was appointed editor of Sunday, a news magazine brought out by the ABP group. By 1989, Sunday had become India's largest-selling weekly news magazine. In 1994, Sanghvi became consulting editor of the ABP group, whose portfolio included -- other than magazines like Sunday and Business world -- the two largest papers in eastern India, The Telegraph in English and Ananda Bazar Patrika in Bengali. In 1999, he became editor of the Hindustan Times, the largest-selling English newspaper in Delhi and, over the next two years, launched new editions in Chandigarh, Calcutta, Ranchi, Bhopal and other north Indian cities. At the end of 2003, Sanghvi was appointed editorial director of HT Media Limited, the holding company of Hindustan Times, and it was in this capacity that he launched the paper's stunningly successful Bombay edition in July 2005. His column, Counterpoint, which he began in Sunday, now appears in the Sunday Hindustan Times, and is possibly the most influential political column in the country. He also writes Pursuits -- a column that appears in the weekend section of Mint, the business paper brought out by HT Media.

These apart, Sanghvi is a foodie, writing the inimitable -- and hugely popular -- Rude Food column in Brunch, Hindustan Times' Sunday magazine. A collection of these columns was published by Penguin in 2004 (Rude Food). The book won the international food world's equivalent of the Oscar -- the Cointreau Award for Best Food Literature Book in the world the following year. Alongside, Sanghvi also won the Best Food Critic award from the Indian Culinary Foundation. He did a television version of Rude Food for the Discovery Travel Living channel called A Matter of Taste which was a huge ratings success in India and South East Asia. His show ''Custom Made for Vir Sanghvi'' on NDTV Goodtimes, where he travels across India, in search of the most luxurious and bespoke ‘Indian’ experiences also received high ratings and is rumored to renew for a second season.

Sanghvi's TV career began in 1994 on Doordarshan, the state-owned broadcaster. Starting 1996, he hosted a number of programmes for the STAR Network. Among his successes are shows like A Question of Answers, Cover Story and Star Talk. In 2006-07, he anchored two shows for NDTV, India's leading English news channel -- Face the Music and One on One. He was briefly the CEO of NewsX Media but resigned in 2008. He has won innumerable TV awards for his presenting skills at many national and international forums including the Asian Television Awards in Singapore. In 1993, Sanghvi was named a Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum in Davos and he is a member of several important advisory bodies attached to the Indian government, including the prestigious National Integration Council. In 2008, he also received the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Journalism Award, at a nationally televised ceremony. His published books include Rude Food, India – Then and Now and Men of Steel (a collection of profiles of India's leading businessmen) which has been translated into 10 other languages and is a huge best-seller. He has also authored a biography of the late Madhavrao Scindia, which was released by Sonia Gandhi in 2009, in Delhi.

Sanghvi has been also involved in the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit - He has chaired the most important sessions at the Summit which include - Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, George Bush, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Julian Assange. He also chairs the popular Bollywood session known as 'In Conversation with Vir Sanghvi' and his guests have included - Ranbir Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, and Farhan Akhtar.

Currently Sanghvi has two shows on the air with "Foodistan" appearing on NDTV Good Times and "Achievers' Club" on Star World.

Nira Radia tapes

In 2010, Sanghvi was connected to the Nira Radia tapes. In the audio tape Sanghvi was heard asking "What kind of story do you want?" It is alleged that he made some points suggested by Radia in his article titled 'Time for some transparency' under Sanghvi's column "Counterpoint". Sanghvi denied all allegations and uploaded the article onto his website for readers to make their own judgement. On 27 November 2010, Sanghvi released a detailed statement in the Hindustan Times, clarifying his role, and also raising the possibility of the tapes being edited. Due to the heightened interest in him Sanghvi temporarily suspended his weekly article "Counterpoint".

In October 2011, Sanghvi wrote an article for the Outlook Magazine (the same magazine that carried the tapes), 'Radia Tapes Weren’t Authentic, They Were Manipulated’ reiterating his stance that the tapes had been manipulated or doctored to cause mischief. He uploaded the article onto his website and provided three independent lab reports from the US and the UK which all found clear evidence of tampering.

In January 2012, The Union Government told the Supreme Court that the Radia tapes broadcast by media organisations were tampered with and the government agencies were not responsible for its leakage. .

Books By Vir Sanghvi

''Men of Steel - India's business leaders in candid conversation with Vir Sanghvi'', Roli Books Pvt Ltd, India (Jan 2007) ISBN 8-17-436474-7

''Rude Food: The Collected Food Writings of Vir Sanghvi'', Penguin Putnam (2004) ISBN 0-14-303139-2

''India Then and Now : Now/Vir Sanghvi. New Delhi, Roli, 2006, 274 p., $120. ISBN 81-7436-397-1.

''26/11:The Attack on Mumbai'', Penguin, 2009, ISBN 9780143067054

''Madhavrao Scindia: A life'', Penguin, 2009, ISBN 9780670082544

Further reading

Vir Sangvi columns Rediff.com

Vir Sangvi columns Mint

Vir Sangvi columns Hindustan Times

Rude Food - The Collected Food Writings of Vir Sanghvi Hindustan Times

Counterpoint Hindustan Times

References

External links

Vir Sanghvi's Website

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name	Joe Duffy
birth name	Joseph Duffy
birth date	January 27, 1956
birth place	Mountjoy Square, Dublin, Ireland
residence	Clontarf, Dublin
nationality	Irish
known for	presenting ''Liveline''
education	Social Work
alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin (TCD)
employer	Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
occupation	Broadcaster
salary	€408,889 a year (2008) €389,314 (2009)
footnotes	}}

Joseph "Joe" Duffy (born 27 January 1956, Mountjoy Square, Dublin) is an Irish broadcaster employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). A Jacob's Award winner, he is the current presenter of ''Liveline'', which is broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1, Monday - Fridays between 13:45 and 15:00.

Duffy has a history as a student activist; he was President of the Union of Students in Ireland (U.S.I.) and was once jailed for an occupation in which he participated. In 2008, he appeared on the RTÉ television series ''Who Do You Think You Are?'', where his family history in the British Army in India was revealed. In 2010, Joe Duffy began hosting a new show on RTÉ One called ''Joe Duffy's Spirit Level''. The show discussed the different religions in the country and the faith of the people in Ireland.

Duffy was named 11th most influential person of 2009 by ''Village''. His autobiography ''Just Joe'' was launched by Gay Byrne in Harry's Bar in October 2011. He is married with triplets and resides in Clontarf, Dublin.

Early life

Duffy was born in Mountjoy Square, Dublin, and brought up in Ballyfermot. He had four siblings, his father was Jimmy and his mother Mabel, Jimmy died aged 58 in 1984, and had problems with alcohol, Duffy described Jimmy as "a small man, nimble on his feet . . . with a rugged round face, button nose and prominent teeth". Joe's brother Aidan was killed in a road accident on the Maynooth Road in 1991 aged 25, with Joe first learning of the "horrific accident" on the news on RTÉ Radio. Joe's brother Brendan was described by him as "crippled, ruined and wrecked by a savage addiction" to sniffing glue which he developed as a teenager.

Duffy went to Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) in 1977 (to study Social Work) and was elected President of Trinity College Students' Union in 1979, becoming President of the Union of Students in Ireland (U.S.I.) four years later. However, he went ahead with the broadcast and did not resign or make any protest on air.

In October 2008 he was proactive as a supporter of Irish pensioners who marched on Leinster House (home of the Oireachtas) to protest at the proposed means testing of their medical cards in the Government Budget. However, earlier that month, he was reportedly censored by the government when he attempted to continually discuss the effects of the global financial crisis on Ireland. This followed on from the outrage caused when Duffy was held responsible by Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, for inciting widespread public fear that Irish citizens were on the verge of losing their savings. Several callers freely spoke of their lack of confidence in the banking system, of how they had withdrawn their money from banks, some of which were identified, and were either carrying it around on their person, or considering keeping it "under the mattress", or burying it in their garden. Lenihan personally rang Cathal Goan, the Director-General of RTÉ, on 18 September 2008 (the date of the show) to express his outrage at the sudden increase in potentially disastrous speculation following the show.

The extent of the Finance Minister's concern first publicly emerged the following morning when he was interviewed by RTÉ's economics editor George Lee. In that interview, Lenihan insisted that deposits were not in any danger and said that people should not be going to banks to shift their deposit accounts "on the basis of unfounded allegations made on radio programmes".

Rival broadcaster TV3 accused Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and Joe Duffy of waging a "dirty tricks" war against them after a late-night game show run by TV3 was berated by callers to ''Liveline'' and saying several times on air that he had been unable to get a representative from the station to reply to callers' concerns. TV3 said a lengthy statement was sent to the ''Liveline'' office almost two hours before the September 2009 show went on air was ignored, despite the fact that it clarified some of the issues. The ''Play TV'' service was discontinued by TV3 in March 2010 after 29 complaints to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), though TV3 said it was because of a decline in viewership.

Journalist Kevin Myers wrote in October 2009, "Throw in some mob-oratory from the national broadcaster's disgraceful 'Liveline', and almost no state institution and no politician is safe from the vengeful, idiot wrath of Madame La Guillotine, or Les Heureuses Tricoteuses."

A common occurrence is a "Funny Friday" version of ''Liveline'', which takes place on Fridays, where Duffy is joined by comedians such as Clint Velour, Brendan Savage, Brush Shiels and Syl Fox.

Earnings

Duffy earned €408,889 in 2008. RTÉ's Director General said there was “no question that by today's standards” the salaries paid to its top presenters last year “were excessive. I have to repeat that they were set at a different time in a different competitive reality where some of this talent might be up for poaching by other organisations and in RTÉ's view at the time, they delivered value for money". Listeners, who contacted RTÉ Radio 1's ''Drivetime'' programme were swift to condemn the salary level, saying it was ironic that programmes like ''Liveline'' – presented by Joe Duffy – were used as a platform for criticising the pay and expenses of Oireachtas members.

Duffy defended his own high wages and those of his fellow RTÉ presenters while appearing on TV3's ''Midweek'' in October 2011, claiming they were agreed “fair and square”. The following month, his 2009 earnings were revealed by RTÉ to have been €389,314. He defended this by saying he considered himself and his ''Liveline'' show "good value" for RTÉ.

Lampooning of Duffy on ''The Savage Eye''

Duffy is frequently lampooned at length on the satirical TV programme ''The Savage Eye''. It portrays him as a fetish garment clad sado-masochist who derives perverse pleasure by urging his call-in radio listeners in a strong working class Dublin accent, to express excesses of degradation and misery as he "empathizes" verbally and plays with his nipple clamps. Duffy has since questioned viewership figures for ''The Savage Eye'' on his daily radio show and had questioned whether it is "blasphemous" on his Sunday afternoon religious affairs TV show ''Spirit Level''.

Personal life

Joe Duffy is married with triplets (two sons and one daughter named Seán, Ronan and Ellen.). He currently resides in Clontarf on Dublin's Northside.

Awards

In 1992, Duffy won a Jacob's Award for his reports on RTÉ Radio 1's ''The Gay Byrne Show''.

References

External links

''Liveline'' at RTÉ Radio 1

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honorific-prefix	The Honourable
name	Paul Theodore Hellyer
honorific-suffix	PC
riding1	Trinity
term start1	1958
term end1	1974
predecessor1	Edward Lockyer
successor1	Aideen Nicholson
riding2	Davenport
term start2	1949
term end2	1957
predecessor2	John Ritchie MacNicol
successor2	Douglas Morton
party	Canadian Action
birth date	August 06, 1923
birth place	Waterford, Ontario
spouse	Ellen Jean Hellyer (deceased)
children	2 sons, 1 daughter
residence	Toronto
profession	Engineer }}

Paul Theodore Hellyer, PC (born 6 August 1923) is a Canadian engineer, politician, writer and commentator who has had a long and varied career. He is the longest serving current member of the Privy Council, just ahead of Prince Philip.

Early life

Hellyer was born and raised on a farm near Waterford, Ontario. Upon completion of high school he studied aeronautical engineering at the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute of Aeronautics in Glendale, California, graduating in 1941. While studying he also obtained a private pilot's licence.

After graduation, Hellyer was employed at Fleet Aircraft in Fort Erie, Ontario, which was then making training craft for the Royal Canadian Air Force as part of Canada's war effort in World War II. He attempted to become an RCAF pilot himself, but was told no more pilots were necessary, after which he joined the Royal Canadian Artillery as a private for the duration of the war.

Hellyer earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1949.

Early political career

First elected as a Liberal in 1949 federal election in the riding of Davenport, he was the youngest person ever elected to that point in the Canadian House of Commons. He served a brief stint as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of National Defence, and made a good impression. He was then named Associate Minister of National Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. This post was short-lived, though, as Hellyer lost his seat when the St. Laurent government lost the 1957 election two months later.

Hellyer returned to parliament in a 1958 by-election in the neighbouring riding of Trinity, and became an effective opposition critic of John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative government.

Cabinet minister and Liberal leadership candidate

When the Liberals returned to power in the 1963 election, Hellyer became Minister of National Defence in the cabinet of Lester B. Pearson. This was the most notable period in Hellyer's political career. As Minister of Defence, he oversaw the drastic and controversial integration and unification of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a single organization, the Canadian Forces.

Hellyer contested the 1968 Liberal leadership election, placing second on the first ballot, but slipped to third on the second and third ballots, and withdrew to support Robert Winters on the fourth ballot, in which Pierre Trudeau won the leadership. He served as Trudeau's Transport Minister, and was Senior Minister in the Cabinet, a position similar to the current position of Deputy Prime Minister.

A political nomad, 1969–1988

In 1969, Hellyer issued a major report on housing and urban renewal in which he advocated incremental reforms rather than new government programs. He called for greater flexibility in Canada's mortgage loan system, and encouraged corporate pension funds to invest more money in housing programs. His approach did not meet with universal acceptance. Some provincial and municipal governments were openly skeptical, and Heward Grafftey, a left-leaning Progressive Conservative with an interest in housing, called for a more radical approach. Hellyer believed that both the Progressive Conservative and Liberal parties were embracing globalization, and that the New Democratic Party was no longer able to provide a credible alternative. CAP also embraced Hellyer's proposals for monetary reform: that the government should become more involved in the direction of the economy by gradually reducing the creation of private money and increasing the creation of public money from the current ratio of 5% public / 95% private back to 50% public and 50% private.

His party remained a little-noticed minor party, and Hellyer lost bids for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1997 and 2000 elections.

Following the 2000 election, and a resurgence for the New Democratic Party, Hellyer approached NDP leadership to discuss the possibility of merging the two parties into 'One Big Party'. This process was furthered by the passage of a unanimous motion at the CAP's convention in 2003.

In early 2004, after several extensions of the merger deadline, the NDP rejected Hellyer's merger proposal which would have required the NDP to change its name. Hellyer resigned as CAP leader, but remains a member of the party. Rumours that he might run for the NDP in the 2004 election proved to be unfounded.

Peace in space and UFO advocacy

On 3 June 1967, Hellyer flew in by helicopter to officially inaugurate an Unidentified flying object landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta. The town had built the landing pad as its Canadian Centennial celebration project, and as a symbol of keeping space free from human warfare. The sign beside the pad reads:

"The area under the World's First UFO Landing Pad was designated international by the Town of St. Paul as a symbol of our faith that mankind will maintain the outer universe free from national wars and strife. That future travel in space will be safe for all intergalactic beings, all visitors from earth or otherwise are welcome to this territory and to the Town of St. Paul.

Throughout his life, Hellyer has been opposed to the weaponization of space. He supports the Space Preservation Treaty to ban space weapons.

In early September 2005, Hellyer made headlines by publicly announcing that he believed in UFOs. On 25 September 2005, he was an invited speaker at an exopolitics conference in Toronto, where he told the audience that he had seen a UFO one night with his late wife and some friends. He said that, although he had discounted the experience at the time, he had kept an open mind to it. He said that he started taking the issue much more seriously after watching ABC's Peter Jennings' UFO special in February 2005.

Watching Jennings' UFO special prompted Hellyer to finally read U.S. Army Colonel Philip J. Corso's book ''The Day After Roswell'', about the Roswell UFO Incident, which had been sitting on his shelf for some time. Hellyer told the Toronto audience that he later spoke to a retired U.S. Air Force general, who confirmed the accuracy of the information in the book. In November 2005, he accused U.S. President George W. Bush of plotting an "Intergalactic War". The former defence minister told an audience at the University of Toronto:

"The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning...The Bush Administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

Hellyer told the audience that in December 2004, he had enjoyed reading and had endorsed a book by Alfred Webre entitled "Exopolitics - Politics, Government and Law in the Universe". He ended his 30 minute historical talk with a standing ovation by stating:

"To turn us in the direction of re-unification with the rest of creation the author is proposing a “Decade of Contact” – an “era of openness, public hearings, publicly funded research, and education about extraterrestrial reality”."

In 2007, the ''Ottawa Citizen'' reported that Hellyer is demanding that world governments disclose alien technology that could be used to solve the problem of climate change:

"I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation...that could be a way to save our planet...We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough."

In 2010, Hellyer accused Stephen Hawking of spreading misinformation about threats from aliens. Hawking has warned humanity against contacting aliens. According to Hawking, if human beings tried to contact aliens, they could invade us and take away our most important resources. Hawking had also said that though most extraterrestrial life could be only in the form of small animals, there could also be "nomads, looking to conquer and colonize" other planets. Hellyer told the Canadian Press that

"the reality is that they (aliens) have been visiting earth for decades and probably millennia and have contributed considerably to our knowledge."

Blaming Hawking for scaring mankind about aliens, he said, "He (Hawking) is indulging in some pretty scary talk there that I would have hoped would not come from someone with such an established stature."

Writings, and personal life

Hellyer has written several books on Canada and globalization, including ''One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent'', in which he promoted the merger of the CAP, NDP and various left-wing activists to save Canada from the effects of globalization, and possible annexation by the United States.

He was an early investor in the ''Toronto Sun'', and for a time a columnist for the newspaper.

Paul Hellyer currently resides in Toronto. He has three children and five grandchildren.

Books

''Agenda, a Plan for Action'' (1971)

''Exit Inflation'' (1981)

''Jobs for All: Capitalism on Trial'' (1984)

''Damn the Torpedoes'' (1990)

''Funny Money: A common sense alternative to mainline economics'' (1994)

''Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: The Economics of Hope for Generation X'' (1996)

''Evil Empire : Globalization's Darker Side'' (1997)

''Stop: Think'' (1999)

''Goodbye Canada'' (2001)

''One Big Party: To Keep Canada Independent'' (2003)

''A Miracle in Waiting'' (2010), update of ''Surviving the Global Financial Crisis''

''Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species'' (2010)

References

External links

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