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"Chlöe Charlotte Swarbrick (born 26 June 1994) is a New Zealand politician and entrepreneur. Following a high-profile but unsuccessful run for the 2016 Auckland mayoral election, she became a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, standing in the 2017 New Zealand general election and was elected as a member of the New Zealand Parliament at the age of 23. In the 2020 election, Swarbrick was elected as the Member of Parliament for Auckland Central, becoming the second Green Party MP to win an electorate seat in the history of the party. Swarbrick is Green Party Spokesperson for Mental Health, Drug Law Reform, Education, Arts and Heritage, Tertiary Education, Small Business, Broadcasting, Youth and Local Government. Early life Swarbrick was born in Auckland in 1994, and went to Epsom Girls' Grammar School. Her parents separated when she was young and she lived with her mother in the UK for six months and then with her father for 18 months in Papua New Guinea. She said her father taught her how to formulate an argument when she was practising her first speech at age seven. During high school she spent a week at a time with each parent. She entered the University of Auckland at age 17, and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. She says she did not want to be a lawyer but wanted to know "how our system runs... I had to go to law school to learn about the Treaty of Waitangi." Career In 2012, Swarbrick opened her first business, a New Zealand-made fashion label called The Lucid Collective, with Alex Bartley Catt. Around the same time, she began working in the newsroom at the student radio station 95bFM as a news writer and news reader, before becoming a producer and eventually host of The Wire. In April 2016, she resigned from her position as a regular host. In 2014, Swarbrick wrote her first piece for What's Good magazine. She became editor, and an owner. Later that year, The Lucid Collective held a New Zealand Fashion Week side-show at the Gow Langsford Gallery and participated in the "Youthquake" exhibition at the New Zealand Fashion Museum. The label went on to be stocked across Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, before Swarbrick and Bartley Catt closed the business. Swarbrick launched The Goods, an offshoot of What's Good, in late 2015. The project opened a pop-up store in St Kevin's Arcade on Karangahape Road. Swarbrick won a New Zealander of the Year Local Hero Award. In 2016, Swarbrick and Bartley Catt started a digital consultancy and artist management agency called TIPS. The pair also opened a cafe and gallery, Olly, now listed permanently closed, next to the Crystal Palace theatre in Mount Eden. In May 2019, Swarbrick received the Jane Goodall Trailblazer Award. The award recognises individuals who have demonstrated dedication to the prosperity of animals, people, or the planet through their work. In 2020, Swarbrick was named to Fortune magazine's '40 Under 40' listing under the "Government and Politics" category. In August 2020, a short documentary film named Ok Chlöe was released about the background of Swarbrick and her political career. Political career Swarbrick ran in the 2016 Auckland mayoral election, coming in third place, with 29,098 votes—almost 160,000 votes behind the winner, Phil Goff."Chloe Swarbrick 'hoped for better'", Newshub, NZ, 8 October 2016. Retrieved on 7 January 2017. In 2016 as a mayoral candidate, she gave a speech at a human blockade (organised by Auckland Peace Action) that briefly interrupted a New Zealand Defence Industry Association Forum. Swarbrick said she entered the mayoral race as a form of protest after interviewing “uninspiring” potential candidates while working as a journalist for bFM and discovering that only 34% of the electorate had voted at the previous mayoral election.The Art of Coffee and Politics, Verve Swarbrick gained significant media attention largely due to her age. After losing the mayoral race, she joined the Green Party. Soon after joining the Green Party, Swarbrick announced she would challenge sitting Green MP Denise Roche as the party's candidate in the Auckland Central electorate for the 2017 general election. Her challenge was unsuccessful, as the local branch selected Denise Roche to stand in the seat again. Swarbrick was selected instead to stand for the Maungakiekie electorate, and placed 7th on the party list. She is the youngest politician to enter Parliament in New Zealand since Marilyn Waring in 1975. =Parliamentary career= Election access After the 2017 general election, Swarbrick lodged the Election Access Fund Bill (a member's bill originally drafted by Mojo Mathers) in the members ballot and in February 2018 this bill was drawn from the ballot. This piece of legislation aims to "establish an Election Access Fund to be administered by the Electoral Commission and used by any disabled candidate to cover disability-related costs of standing in a general election, by not-for-profit bodies to cover costs of making election education events and materials accessible, and by registered political parties to support access needs of any members to allow them to participate within the party." The Bill passed its first reading in May 2018 with unanimous support. It passed its second reading in December 2019, and its third reading in March 2020. The unanimous passing of the Bill is particularly significant, as it is the first Green Party Bill to achieve this. Drug reform Swarbrick also inherited the Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis and Other Matters) Amendment Bill from fellow Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter. Swarbrick gained endorsements from former Prime Minister Helen Clark and Grey Power for this piece of legislation. This Bill was however voted down in January 2018. Swarbrick has since negotiated changes to David Clark's Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Act including the inclusion of local native strains of cannabis in New Zealand and a guarantee that the medicinal cannabis regulations this bill empowers be made public and functioning within a year. She is also a staunch campaigner for the legalisation of recreational cannabis. Swarbrick took on the Green Party's Drug Law Reform portfolio in January 2018. In response to New Zealand's synthetics crisis and more than 50 associated deaths, Swarbrick launched a campaign for an end to the criminalisation of drug users and addicts. Within the government's Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill, Swarbrick negotiated a formalisation of police discretion that requires police 'should not' prosecute unless it is in the public interest and the user would benefit from a therapeutic approach. During 2018, Swarbrick worked with other MPs across parliament to form a Cross-Party Group on Drug Harm Reduction, she repeatedly called on the New Zealand National Party to join this group. In response to a call from National MP Matt Doocey for cross party work on mental health, Swarbrick proposed creating a group merging the Cross-Party Group on Drug Harm Reduction and a mental health group, in August 2019, this group, the Cross- Party Group on Mental Health and Addictions was launched, with members from every party in Parliament. From the starting point of a parliament disagreeing on how to implement medicinal cannabis, Swarbrick has worked to establish a progressive medicinal cannabis regulatory regime. The regime allows local cannabis strains to be registered in New Zealand, and removes barriers to legal and high-value careers for people with former cannabis convictions. In 2018, Swarbrick launched the political podcast 'Authorised By' with Kiri Allan. Mental health Swarbrick fought to secure and retain security for community mental health services. In particular, she obtained extensions to funding for Te Whare Mahana Trust in Golden Bay and Te Kuwatawata in the Gisborne region. Swarbrick also worked to establish and expand the Piki pilot programme, which provides young people aged 18–25 with free mental health support. Climate emergency In May 2019 Swarbrick attempted to obtain unanimous leave to pass a motion to declare a climate change emergency. This was unsuccessful due to the National Party's opposition to it. Fossil fuel divestment Swarbrick has advocated for a mandate requiring public funds to divest from fossil fuels. She secured a public briefing into ACC, which has nearly $1 billion invested into fossil fuels. Swarbrick has publicly challenged the Minister of Finance to use his discretion under the Crown Entities Act to ensure public entities do the right thing and take "action to prevent a climate crisis". Her Member's Bill which directs the Government to shift away from fossil fuel investment, currently sits in the ballot. "OK boomer" In November 2019 Swarbrick responded to then opposition spokesperson for climate change, Todd Muller with the phrase "OK boomer" after he interrupted her speech on climate change. Swarbrick was commenting on the Zero Carbon bill, which aims to reduce net carbon emissions in New Zealand to zero by 2050, when she used the phrase. Although there was little reaction to her comment in Parliament, her two-word throwaway remark became a talking point in media around the world.The world is obsessed with Chlöe Swarbrick's 'OK, boomer' jibe, Stuff, 9 November 2019 Writing in The Guardian, she said: "My 'OK boomer' comment in parliament was off-the-cuff, albeit symbolic of the collective exhaustion of multiple generations." Education work During New Zealand's COVID-19 response, the government released a tertiary support package. This package was considered unhelpful by students and student associations. In addition, several university halls of residence continued to charge students who left their accommodation during the nation-wide lockdown, to isolate elsewhere. Swarbrick maintained her support of students and called for universities to "do the right thing" and stop these charges. Her attention to the issue has seen some universities delay these charges. Other universities have completely waived fees for unused accommodation. Swarbrick's advocacy on behalf of students exposed a deeply underregulated sector. Swarbrick worked to obtain cross-party support to launch an Inquiry into student accommodation. Submissions for this opened on 4 June 2020. 2020 general election During the 2020 New Zealand general election, Swarbrick contested and won the Auckland Central electorate, which had previously been held by retiring National MP Nikki Kaye. Based on preliminary results, Swarbrick won Auckland Central with 9,060 votes, with Labour's Helen White coming second at 8,568 and National's Emma Mellow coming third at 7,566. She becomes the second Green MP to have won an electorate in 21 years after former Greens Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons won Coromandel in 1999. Personal life On the topic of her sexuality, Swarbrick has said she "likes people", refusing to give a label. She says she did not come out of the closet because she was never in the closet, echoing sentiment from a conversation she had with Scottish MP Mhairi Black. In January 2020 it was reported that Swarbrick had been engaged to Nadine Walker for several months, but that they had remained private about their relationship. Swarbrick has referred to herself as queer in the past. OK Chlöe OK Chlöe Poster OK Chlöe is a short documentary film directed by Charlotte Evans and produced by Letisha Tate-Dunning. The film premiered online as part of the seventh season of "Loading Docs". The documentary is about the political career of Swarbrick. The title "OK Chlöe" is based on the saying "OK Boomer", which is a phrase that Swarbrick said during a parliamentary speech in reply to a heckle from a National Party MP. The reply became viral.The film is about the full story of Swarbrick as she goes into details about both her personal life and professional life as a politician. She talks about her work in legalising cannabis leading into the 2020 New Zealand cannabis referendum. It talks about how she feels being in the New Zealand Parliament, saying "Parliament is a toxic culture that chews people up and spits them out. You become inhuman and disconnected from the people you purport to represent." The film also talks about her background, from her personal life with her being adopted, struggles with mental health and coming out as bisexual, to her running for Auckland Mayor. After the release of the documentary, John Campbell questioned Chloe on some of the statements said on the documentary. References External links * Official website Excerpt of Chlöe Swarbrick's Maiden Speech to Parliament 1994 births Living people 21st-century New Zealand politicians 21st-century New Zealand women politicians Candidates in the 2017 New Zealand general election Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand MPs LGBT members of the Parliament of New Zealand LGBT women New Zealand cannabis activists New Zealand list MPs New Zealand women in politics People educated at Epsom Girls' Grammar School People from Auckland University of Auckland alumni Women members of the New Zealand House of Representatives Candidates in the 2020 New Zealand general election Fortune 40 Under 40 recipients New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates "
"Adolf Kosárek; portrait sketch by Viktor Barvitius Adolf Kosárek (6 January 1830, Herálec – 29 October 1859, Prague) was a Czech landscape painter in the Realist style. Biography His parents were employed as servants by the Trauttmannsdorff family. From an early age, he displayed an interest in art, but his father wanted him to enter the civil service. After completing his primary education, he worked as a clerk until his drawings were noticed by Archbishop Schwarzenberg, who arranged for him to take the entrance exams at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.Brief biography from the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie @ WikiSource. He was accepted and studied there with the landscape painter, Max Haushofer. Later, he took a study trip to the Bavarian Alps, financed with money from the sales of his paintings. In 1856, he paid a working visit to Rügen, on the Baltic.Biographical notes @ the Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon. Eventually, he settled in the district of Prague known as Malá Strana and opened a studio. He also married his landlady's daughter, Františka; a seamstress. Shortly after the birth of their first child, he died of tuberculosis, aged only twenty-nine. A painting by Josef Mánes (Švadlenka) shows Františka when she learned of his illness, while sewing her wedding dress. Selected paintings Bezděz Castle Image:Kosarek - Horska krajina.jpgMountain Scenery File:Adolf Kosárek - Lonely Landscape (Peasants´ Wedding) - Google Art Project.jpgLonely Landscape Snowy Night References Further reading * Eva Reitharová: Adolf Kosárek, Mala Galerie #32, Odeon, 1984 * Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová et al., Adolf Kosárek, 1830–1859, (exhibition catalog) National Gallery, Prague, 1990 External links *Švadlenka @ Wikimedia Commons *Adolf Kosárek @ abART 1830 births 1859 deaths 19th-century Czech painters 19th-century male artists 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Landscape painters People from Havlíčkův Brod District Czech male painters "
"Alexandra Petri (, born March 15, 1988) is an American humorist and newspaper columnist. In 2010, she became the youngest person to have a column in The Washington Post. Petri runs the ComPost blog on the paper's website, on which she formerly worked with Dana Milbank. In 2017, a piece of satire she wrote about president Donald Trump was miscategorized as news and included in one of the White House's daily press briefings. She was recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018. Biography =Early life and education= Petri grew up in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., the only child of Wisconsin congressman Tom Petri and nonprofit executive Anne D. Neal, and attended the National Cathedral School. In high school she wrote plays for a competition at Arena Stage; three of hers were chosen for performance. She would also perform standup comedy. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a degree in English, concentrating in classics, in 2010; while there she joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, worked with the Hasty Pudding Club, and wrote for the Internet comedy series On Harvard Time and for the Harvard Crimson. Her college roommate was Megan Amram. She was a summer intern at The Washington Post prior to receiving a job with the paper. She is also a member of a playwrights' collective in Washington, D.C., called The Welders. =Career= Her book of essays A Field Guide to Awkward Silences was published in 2015. She has appeared on Jeopardy!, won prizes in the O. Henry Pun-Off, and performed at an international whistling competition. Her play The Campsite Rule, a sex comedy whose title is derived from an idea taken from Dan Savage, was premiered at the Capital Fringe Festival in 2013. In December 2015, Petri created the parody Twitter account "Emo Kylo Ren", which envisioned the Star Wars: The Force Awakens character Kylo Ren as an angsty teenager obsessed with Darth Vader. The account went viral after being retweeted by Hot Topic and receiving attention from media outlets such as USA Today and People Magazine, soon gaining more followers than Hot Topic. During the 8th Shorty Awards in 2016, the account won the award for best parody account. Petri revealed that she created this parody account in an interview with Syfy published on January 25, 2018. Of her writing, Petri has said, "My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far no one has." Writers and comedians she has listed as influences include James Thurber, Dave Barry, Mitch Hedberg, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and William Shakespeare. She made her comic book debut by writing the one-shot She-Hulk Annual #1, released on August 28, 2019. Personal life In June 2018, Petri married Stephen Stromberg, an editorial writer at the Washington Post. Works * A field guide to awkward silences, New York New American Library, 2016. * Nothing is wrong and here is why : essays, New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. References External links *Alexandra Petri's page on The Washington Post *Emo Kylo Ren parody Twitter account Living people 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American essayists 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American women writers American columnists American comics writers American humorists American women dramatists and playwrights American women essayists Female comics writers Journalists from Washington, D.C. The Harvard Crimson people The Washington Post journalists American women columnists Women humorists Writers from Washington, D.C. National Cathedral School alumni 1988 births Jeopardy! contestants Shorty Award winners "