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2 edition of Phase Identification in the U-si System. found in the catalog.
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Series Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. AECL -- 3517
Contributions Berthiaume, L.C.
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Last February, John Ensign, an eight-year member of Solon-based MRI Software's leadership team, was promoted to president and chief legal officer, a move that added global client support, finance and accounting to his previous management responsibilities overseeing the company's human resources, legal, facilities and M&A operations.
That's a lot for anyone's plate.
For Ensign, it came at a time, as MRI put it when announcing his promotion, when the company was "growing faster than in any other period of its history, having nearly doubled in size through six acquisitions on three continents during the latter part of 2017."
And it hasn't stopped.
The company, which provides software applications focused on the residential and commercial real estate industry, has continued to be an aggressive buyer, keeping Ensign and other executives quite busy. Most recently, on Nov. 7, it announced the acquisition of TCAM Asset Management, a Boston company that provides asset management and consulting services to 1,600 properties and 176,000 apartment units across 48 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. That marked its 11th acquisition in 14 months.
In October, it bought Pasadena, Texas-based IPM Software, a provider of similar services focused on the affordable housing industry. That deal was preceded by the summer acquisitions of CML Software, a Reading, England-based provider of residential agency, block management and build-to-rent services for the United Kingdom market, and South African property software provider PropSys. The PropSys deal was MRI's fifth acquisition in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) region since September 2017; Ensign, upon his promotion, was given overall responsibility for that region, which MRI characterized as being "key to the company's future growth."
In late-2017, MRI Software embarked on a $5.5 million reconfiguration of its headquarters at 28925 Fountain Parkway in Solon that has doubled the amount of office space available, to about 200,000 square feet. It expects to grow to about 600 people from a staff that, at the time the expansion was announced, stood at about 405.

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Koo went on to detail some unique use cases for VR, such as showing plans for a building by letting users see the building as it would be once constructed. Acrophobia treatment also came up; a VR rig could simulate a progression from low to high altitudes, possibly easing the fears of somebody who's not fond of heights. Back in December, the Gear VR even got a rudimentary web browser. With all of these use cases, including the common benchmarks of multimedia and gaming, containing VR efforts to the smartphone world is starting to look like the wrong move. According to Koo, "If the opportunity presents itself, we may expand it to other areas, besides just increasing smartphone competitiveness."
There were no details on what the future may hold for Samsung's VR efforts at this time; more information is set to come during Samsung's Unpacked event next week at MWC in Barcelona. Samsung's future efforts are very unlikely to exclude the Gear VR entirely, perhaps even building on it. Speculation has run wild within the industry and even among consumers, especially with the emergence of the Gear 360 VR camera. Samsung has chosen to confirm nothing just yet, opting instead to keep consumers and the industry waiting for Unpacked with bated breath.


The U.S. market's Volvo wagon drought will soon come to an end, as the Swedish automaker has announced the V60 sports wagon will arrive stateside by early 2014. The model has been offered in other markets alongside its platform-mate, the S60, since the 2011 model-year, and until now, the V60 has remained off-limits for U.S. wagon shoppers.
The announcement was made at the 2013 New York auto show, where a V60 R-Design made its world debut. Volvo says pricing and U.S.-market specifications will be announced at a later date, but you can likely expect to see the same turbo five- and six-cylinders found in the S60 range. The V60's interior space is configurable, with 40/20/40 split folding rear seats. We expect the V60 to do battle with the Acura TSX wagon as well as lower-trim BMW 328i wagons.


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This weekend I'm going to be having an all day Christmas Movie Marathon with an old friend (called Christmaspalooza, an annual tradition) & while thinking about what movies we might want to watch I decided to post about my favorite Christmas movies. There's no way we'll watch these, since we only watch bad Christmas Romances, but I'll watch of all of these at some point in December.
The Holiday – This is by far my favorite Christmas movie. All the main characters are fantastic and the supporting characters are perfect. Who doesn't want to swap houses with a stranger and then fall in love in a foreign country?
Dear Santa – I have no idea how I found this movie, but watching it is an annual tradition. It has all the things – spoiled little rich girl, single dad that runs a food kitchen, adorable little girl, scheming girlfriend, an ensemble of wise friends. It just makes me happy.
Desk Set – A friend of mine introduced me to this movie and I LOVE IT. It's about a man trying to install an enormous computer (the movie was made in 1957) for reference questions in a broadcasting company's library and the sassy librarian who gives him trouble. It has Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and I can't believe I made it to adulthood without seeing it.
Bad Santa – This is the guiltiest of guilty pleasures for me. I have no defense.
Elf – How is this movie 15 years old? I can't believe it's been a staple in the Christmas movie lineup for that long.
The Santa Clause – I've been watching this since I was a little one and I will never stop.
A Christmas Prince – I enjoy this movie against my will, and I will be watching the sequel this weekend.
It's a Wonderful Life – Classic. Who doesn't love It's a Wonderful Life?
All the classic animated Christmas movies from the 60s/70s (Frosty the Snowman, The Little Drummer Boy, Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer…you know the ones). – Unlike the others in this list, I actually haven't seen these in a few years and I'm sure they're very 'of the time' but they will always be special to me.
Let me know if I'm missing any on your favorites list!
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"There are some simple steps the Legislature could take that would bolster trust not only among the lawmakers, but between themselves and the public." Photo by Amber Helsel.
On March 29, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves gaveled out the legislative session as head of the Senate for what will be the last time—unless the governor calls a special session later this year. Unfortunately, Reeves did so with a cloud over his head.
The day before, he and others in his party's leadership secretly slipped $2 million for private-school vouchers into an unrelated funding bill. Lawmakers had already made it clear earlier in the session that they would not support an expansion of the voucher program, so leadership did not tell them about the changes before asking them to vote for it just minutes later. That resulted in an angry backlash from legislators in both parties.
I have paid enough attention to the Legislature in the past to know underhanded tactics are nothing new. As a reporter covering our state's lawmakers for the first time, though, I was still surprised by how brazen the double-crossing could be—especially when mixed in with the bipartisan geniality that so often characterizes lawmakers' interactions with one another.
There are some simple steps the Legislature could take that would bolster trust not only among the lawmakers, but also between themselves and the public.
First, leadership could make sure to give lawmakers ample time to read legislation before asking them to vote on it. Voters expect that their representatives will take the time to read bills before they vote on them, but that is impossible when leadership dumps dozens of bills on them all at once and asks them to vote minutes later.
That same standard should apply to committee meetings, where small groups of legislators review bills and decide whether or not to introduce them to the full House or Senate. It offers them an opportunity to discuss and identify any issues with the bills and to iron out the details. Right now, though, committee members often walk into meetings with no idea which bills their committees will take up.
"(Lawmakers) are constantly caught off guard by legislation they've never seen before but are asked to vote on in minutes," Rep. Jeramey Anderson, D-Moss Point, told the Sun Herald in 2018, explaining that the current system allows leadership to "fast-track" bills.
It disadvantages not only committee members, but also journalists, activists and citizens who are trying to follow relevant legislation, making dissent harder and keeping critical eyes away as leadership works to shepherd bills through.
In January, Anderson introduced a resolution that would have required leadership to post the agenda for House committee meetings 24 hours ahead of time. At the time, he told the Sun Herald that he doubted legislators would even consider it. Sure enough, it died in the House Rules committee.
A lawmaking body that believes in open and honest government could take other obvious steps to let in sunlight. While the Legislature does offer constituents the opportunity to watch House and Senate floor proceedings through a webcast feature on its website, the technology is decades old and cumbersome; potential viewers must install additional software such as Windows Media Player to stream a small, noisy feed. When the feed ends, there is no way to play it back, though Mississippi College does archive the recordings online.
While the introduction of that antiquated technology may have been a revelation in the early 2000s, it no longer makes sense to rely on it in a time when anyone can whip out their phone and broadcast live around the world within seconds. The House and Senate could set up Facebook pages and use them to broadcast floor sessions. That would allow constituents the opportunity to speak their mind in real time, and for the automatic archiving of videos.
The introduction of modern live-casting would be a welcome change as we move into the third decade of the millennium next year. Maybe the Legislature could even start using Facebook Live to broadcast public committee hearings. But maybe I'm a little too hopeful.
State reporter Ashton Pittman is from Hattiesburg, Miss. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied journalism and political science.


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Top 5 Movie Introductions
So I went to the movies and saw Get Smart tonight with my friend Anna and I have to say that it was pretty darn good. I laughed through most of the movie and really enjoyed it. One of the best parts of the movie though was its introduction. They paid a little tribute to the TV series on which it was based, but it was obvious from that point on that the movie was not going to try and be the TV series. Rather it was forging its own path. And you know what? That was cool.
It got me thinking though, what makes for a good movie introduction? These days the credits are either are completely bypassed, or they are shown during the opening portion of the movie. You seldom see the Superman type opening credits where the names of people are listed and put to music. The norm is either what you see in Prince Caspian where the protagonist is riding away from people trying to kill him while all the names of the flashing up on the screen, or what you see in Star Trek: Nemesis where the Producer, Director and name of the film are shown and then the movie starts straight away with no actors or contributors even mentioned.
So, in answer to the question of what makes a good movie introduction, I have to say that the introduction needs to make you excited for the film ahead. In fact, it's more than being simply excited; you need to be pumped up beyond belief. By the time the movie's opening is finished, the anticipation should have reached boiling point and you know that there is nothing, repeat NOTHING that will get in the way of you watching the rest of the movie. It needs to be more than just a shorter version of the closing credits. It needs to be more than just an opening to the film. It should be an event. So, without further delay, here are my choices for the best 5 movie introductions.
5: Star Wars – Episode 4: A New Hope
What an unbelievable introduction this film has. I haven't met a single person that doesn't get fired up by the opening to the first Star Wars film. I went and saw it at the movies when it was re-released in the late 1990s and from the first moment that the words "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…" appear on the screen, you could feel everyone in the cinema collectively hold their breath. Then out of nothing, a massive jarring note of a 120 piece orchestra smashes the silence with the words 'Star Wars' in 727654 sized font flying through the screen.
Then, you top that off with the Corvette being chased by the largest ship in the history of cinema (we're ignoring Spaceball 1 from Spaceballs here folks) followed by an intergalactic battle and the first appearance of Darth Vader (One of the greatest movie villains of all time with James Earl Jones' gravity defying voice); movie openings were altered forever by that introduction. It was ground breaking, it was exciting, and it's stood the test of time. Put it this way, it's the antithesis of the opening to Crossroads. When you turn on Crossroads and you see the words "Britney Spears starring in…" you not only lose the will to watch the movie, you basically lose the will to live. Star Wars is the total opposite. Once that opening note strikes, you're glued to your chair.
4: Superman 2 – The Richard Donner Cut
Now, I should warn you that there are two versions of Superman 2 in existence. This is the version that was only recently released by Warner Brothers. I'll spare you the politics behind why they released it but here's what makes it awesome. I had been waiting to see this movie for about 15 years. I'd heard only rumours about what it would be like, and the rumours got me pretty darn excited. By the time it was announced that the movie was going to be released on DVD, I pre-ordered it 6 months in advance. Ok, maybe that says more about how sad I am rather than how good the movie is, but let's just move on.
The movie starts with a recap of the first Superman film inter-cut with the journey of the three super-villains to Earth. The music is cranking, the action is fast, Superman is in top form, and there is not a single sight of a cellophane S on Superman's chest. The last shot of the introduction is General Zod flying toward Earth yelling 'FREE!" Quite frankly, my television spontaneously spitting $100 notes at me would have been less exciting than that.
Maybe it's just because I'm one of the biggest Superman fans on the planet, but this introduction is spectacular. As soon as Terence Stamp (thankfully not in drag) yells that word, any hopes you had for doing a load of washing or ironing are completely derailed. Trust me, it's happened before.
3: Top Gun
Put it this way, as soon as you hear the first few synthesizer notes of DangerZone by Kenny Loggins, your heart rate increases and you instinctively look to the skies ready for an F-14 Tomcat to fly past you at Mach 3. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Top Gun! I never get tired of this introduction. I think on the basis of this film alone, I could be convinced to join the Navy as a Naval Aviator… apart from the whole colour blindness thing though… that could be a bit messy… yes…
The introduction to this film is fast and furious. The music is blaring louder than a Rage Against the Machine concert and the sight of numerous jets landing and taking off from an aircraft carrier totally gives you the chills. I'm not a Navy man, in fact I have very little time for the Navy (sorry Jimbo, Loz and Dan) but for the duration of this intro, I become the Navy's biggest fan. Not only that, but I become massively fired up.
There's a reason that JB HiFi uses this film 9 times out of 10 to demonstrate the capability of their super screen TVs and surround sound systems. As soon as you hear those notes and the roar of the plane's engines, everyone in the store is stuck watching the rest of the intro to Top Gun. They just can't help it. Good times.
2: Transformers: (The 2007 film)
Why are you not surprised? Frankly, the start to this movie is awesome. I saw it last year on opening night with a bunch of mates in Brisbane. We decided since this was going to be without a doubt one of the top 10 greatest moments of our lives, we should do it in style. So we went Gold Class which was a magnificent decision. Huge chairs, having beer, dinner and coffee brought out – however it was the movie's beginning that made it a monumental event.
The screen was pitch black and then all you hear is Optimus Prime's voice saying the words "Before time, there was… the cube". Now, aside from the scientific improbabilities of that sentence, and the fact his tenses are completely messed up, it has to be one of the best opening movie lines of all time.
As a child who grew up with the Transformers cartoon series, I can still recognise Optimus' voice anywhere. In the middle of a crowded party, if someone was to play an Optimus Prime sound byte, my ears would pick up and within 3 seconds I would've nudged someone near me and said "Did you just hear Optimus' voice???"
This was the perfect beginning. Add that to the grandiose music that built with a massive horn section while watching this huge cube float through space before hurtling towards Earth – it was gold. However, if this wasn't enough, the introduction also included a helicopter Decepticon transforming and taking out a massive US Army base. Not just taking it out – but totally ripping it to shreds. Booyah!
1: Rocky III
I almost don't have words to describe the introduction to this movie… but I'll do my best to paint the picture for you. Rocky Balboa has just won the biggest fight of his life in amazingly dramatic fashion. As soon as the last few seconds of the fight from the previous film are shown, the opening bars of Eye of the Tiger kick into gear. I believe I can say without fear of contradiction that there is no other song in the world that guarantees to get you as pumped up as Eye of the Tiger.
For the next 2 and a half minutes, you see Rocky beating challenger after challenger, winning endorsements, appearing on ads – he seems invincible. All the while a slightly disgruntled and mohwaked man is watching him in blazing fury, finally storming out of one of Rocky's fights. The scene then changes to show that a new contender has emerged. None other than Mr T himself. Watching Mr T in full Mohawk, bling and boxing gear not only smashes the unintentional comedy scale, but it gets you even more fired up. He looks mean. He looks scary. He looks as though he's never even seen a Snickers bar. The song finishes with Mr T (which by the way, is his legal name) standing over another defeated opponent in the boxing ring yelling "I want Balboa!" while Rocky's coach looks on in sheer terror. You know it!
There isn't a better movie introduction out there. I defy Hollywood to ever come up with a better one than Rocky 3. No matter what you're doing at the time, if you see the intro to Rocky III, you're sitting and watching the rest of the movie – no questions asked. For example, take a girl from the local primary school who has spent all morning playing with her Barbie dolls, sit her down on your couch, fix her a tall glass of chocolate milk, and make her watch the opening to Rocky 3. By the end of the introduction, I'd be willing to bet that she'd have some boxing gloves out, she'd release some sort of primal animal scream (similar to Stallone's entire dialogue in the film) and be ready to beat the crap out of you.
It is without a doubt the best movie introduction of all time.
And if you don't agree with me, let me watch the intro to Rocky III… then we can talk.
Anne Hathaway looked seriously
good in the new Get Smart film.
Crossroads is officially one of the
worst movies of all time.
Thankfully Terence Stamp didn't
dress up in drag in Superman 2
Top Gun always makes me want
to be a naval aviator
Megan Fox was just one reason why Transformers was such an awesome movie
Rocky 3 has the best
introduction of all time


If he survives to the end, agreed!
He's like stain the hero killer he uses his body and weapons to kill and his quirk to assist.
I didn't know that Lydia knew slap boxing.
Does Adam live in a house?
lol ok, thank you. I don't know I'm writing a post right now maybe.
Edit: is there a range tho?
WOW you know my oc I'm VERY impressed and greatful you actually took the time to do that and respect it, Thank you buddy.


Hey! I'm Sann-Remy, Web Engineer.
Here I was, the W3café event took place in the conference center of Microsoft France on June 29, 2012. I admit this post comes a bit late but interesting things were discussed during this event. The main subject was: Mobile applications build with HTML5.
During this Friday afternoon, there were 2 different talks including "Internet Explorer 10 and development with HTML5 on Windows 8" and "Mozilla and the Mobile Web: from Firefox for Android to Boot to Gecko". Between both talks, we had to choose a workshop: I took the "Creation of a Mobile Web app based on HTML5" introduced by a W3C member, Dominique Hazael-Massieux.
Internet Explorer 10 for autumn 2012, what's new?
Internet Explorer 10 will be only supported on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The release date is scheduled for October/November 2012, it will come out along with Windows 8. A good point is that updates will come more frequently for public users. Let's see what IE10 has inside!
Desktop mode: the classic mode, it supports all plugins. This doesn't differ from classic browsers and the user experience is very similar to IE9.
Metro Windows 8-style UI mode: it enables the browser inside the desktop. The bad point is that it does not support plug-ins but partially Flash and Silverlight. This mode allows Windows 8 users to improve their experiences with other Metro Windows 8-style UI apps.
Windows 8 integrates a JS Framework for Metro Windows 8-style UI app developments called WinJS: UI, transitions, events, and other set of controls like a date picker, a list, a rating component, etc.
IE10 now supports the CSS3 Grids, Regions and Exclusions including the wrap-flow property. This makes mobile and Web integrations easier thank to the flexible page layout. Here is a good demo of what regions are (resize your window).
For me, the biggest improvement is the support of WebSockets and WebWorkers. We can wonder why they took so much time, and the answer is that they wanted to be sure that the specs are finalized.
Web game developers should be glad with the hardware acceleration support, that's a big step for anyone who develop with WebGL. Moreover, all CSS3 transitions are handled by the hardware acceleration.
For tablets and mobiles, touch events are now supported. Actually, finger touch, pen, and mouse events became generic pointer events. Microsoft has gathered those events to not compromise mouse events: they called it MSPointer events. However, this topic has been discussed, because some Apple's patents have been disclosed, and subsequently it has caused a break in the W3C's specs.
To ensure the compatibility of old Web sites, the quirks mode is implemented until IE9. The consequence is that when the DOCTYPE is not defined, some markup are not supported: For example, in the quirks mode, the <canvas> is not supported. IE10 finally drops the quirks mode for standards and almost standards modes. You will find more details on how the rendering works on this page.
To put it in a nutshell, Microsoft has done a lot of improvements for its browser with a many HTML5 features support, especially for game developers. On the one hand, IE10 may regain the market against Chrome and Firefox. On the other hand, we didn't see any performance benchmark to compare the real place of IE10 between its current competitors.
Developing a mobile Web application needs another approach than a classic Web application development. Many parameters have to be considered like different interactions including user experiences. Screen sizes, resolutions, network latencies, CPU (and obviously, batteries), OS versions, phone brands have to be taken in consideration... At the opposite of a desktop, a mobile device is more personal and social: the relation between its owner is stronger.
Native applications don't make users interconnected: You can not share a view with others (by sharing an URL). Moreover, it depends on OS versions and stores that provide the app whereas Web applications keep users safe: personal data are isolated from applications, like address books, phone numbers. And over all, no installation is needed and it gives easier access: get the URL by a QR code. For instance, a mall which provides its map via a Web app is more encouraging for the user to get it than to download it from a store, then to accept the terms of service, to install it and to use it finally.
However, there are inconveniences to design a Web app: as Dominique Hazael-Massieux told us, the screen size depends on phone models but now, we can find the same screen size (or almost) but different resolutions. That is what Apple has introduced with their mobile device products. Here is a good explanation of the problem written by Peter-Paul Koch, who entitled it: "A pixel is not a pixel is not a pixel". An mentioned solution is to use the viewport meta tag but this is not a standard yet.
On a mobile device, inputs are usually small. The typing is slower and longer than on a PC keyboard. The W3C is up to normalize the speech input, but for this moment, only the webkit-based can use this feature with the x-webkit-speech attribute. Many other attributes is coming up to help the mobile user such as tel, email, date, url, etc. You can find the whole list of these new input controls.
Minify every static files: JS, CSS to save bits and to get a faster execution.
Minimize images into CSS sprites to avoid many connections.
Check the EXIF of photos, sometime they are useless.
Be careful with JS libraries, they are heavy and sometime they are not fully used.
Build CSS files into a single.
Control cookies: they are sent at every HTTP request to the same domain name.
To limit network connections, let the client do the more but keep in mind that the CPU and the memory cost a lot for the battery.
He also talked about the WebRTC: Real-Time Communication. WebRTC has the aim to make traditional desktop application such as P2P, voice calling into Web applications.
This picture above relates the show case of an augmented reality application using WebGL and WebRTC technologies.
The last part was for Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe. He introduced Boot to Gecko (B2G) and the Mozilla Marketplace which wants to be more a open store than existing ones. B2G also wants to be a new OS for mobile device and to use 100% Web apps. Mozilla wish to extend all sensors to Web APIs, so that, every apps could handle them directly from HTML5. Its architecture is composed of a Linux kernel, Gecko and Web apps.
At the end, he showed us a demonstration of a WebGL application which runs on B2G on a Samsung Galaxy S II. It was pretty stunning!


The 2018, 21st Annual Tri-Cities Unity Auction with a TWIST is a celebration of unity within the Faith Community of St. Mary's Catholic School, St. Mary's Parish and St. Patrick/St. Anthony Parish.
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Modern Mastery: Hafu Matsumoto's Bamboo
By FRANCES BRENT | June 22, 2017
In 1933 the avant-garde German architect Bruno Taut traveled through Japan and saw examples of contemporary bamboo weaving. In his writings, he mentioned two masters of the craft: Tanabe Chikuunsai and Rokansai Iizuka, noting that Rokansai's work was "modern." Taut had designed the pineapple-shaped glass pavilion for the 1914 Werkbund exhibition in Cologne with the idea that a building could demonstrate the geometries of nature. It is intriguing to think he felt a kinship to an artist of woven basketry from a culture and a country so far away from his own. Like Taut, Rokansai was experimenting with the imaginative possibilities of a traditional material while honoring the organic design of nature. In his lifetime, he achieved outstanding proficiency with both the aristocratic as well as the less formal styles of bamboo weaving, but he became famous for a new technique of flattening and bending bamboo to produce the effect of what is known as wabi-sabi, beauty in imperfection.
Noshitake bamboo basket Sakimori (Soldier), 2017. Courtesy Ippodo Gallery.
Hafu Matsumoto, whose work is currently on view at the Ippodo Gallery through July 7, is a disciple of Rokansai's son Shokansai Iizuka. He came to apprentice with Shokansai in 1972 when he was twenty years old but he has said, "My teacher is always in my head, always giving me a push to be better." The work on display represents all three styles of bamboo art, ranging from a Sashiami Mayfly decoration box with intricate embroidered plaiting to the more irregular white bamboo flower basket woven with free style hexagonal plaiting and finished with a wrapped handle.
Sashiami Mayfly decoration box, 2017. Courtesy Ippodo Gallery.
Bamboo Exposed: Mastery in Modernity of Hafu Matsumoto, however, is centered around his striking Noshitake series: baskets and vases constructed from wide, curved strips of bamboo that are given shape through a process of splitting the stalk, chiseling and shaving it, then soaking it in boiling water. When the thinned-out bamboo has softened, the artist, wearing gloves for protection, pushes and pulls and ties it into a shape that is a product of both the artist's and the material's intentions. To the Western eye, the result demonstrates a freedom of form and simplicity that appears totally modern. In some of the pieces, like Angu (Temporary Palace) which folds into an elegant open box, the bamboo has been gently coaxed into a subtle, unpretentious, but bold design. As the title suggests, the piece can be thought of architecturally with slivers of space showing through the unattached walls.
'Fuhaku' God of Wind, 2017. Courtesy Ippodo Gallery.
Other pieces graphically demonstrate Matsumoto's physical struggle and excruciating sensitivity to the challenges presented by his material's vitality and its resistance (it's interesting to note he has studied martial arts his entire life; first kendo, which he began as a child, and more recently laido, the art of opening and closing a Japanese sword). One of these masterful pieces, Sakimori (Soldier), stands vertically with assurance, almost two feet high, and the band of twisted and knotted bamboo seems to be exploring the essence of space in buckles and loops like abstract or even minimalist sculpture. Fuhaku (the God of Wind) is a more horizontal, cloud-like piece that brings to mind a bundle of tumbleweed.
Noshitake bamboo flower vase Angu (Temporary Palace), 2017. Courtesy Ippodo Gallery.
But there's a difference between Western aesthetics and the philosophy of Take (bamboo)-Kôgei (craft) which is the foundation of Matsumoto's art. As he put it, "When I make something and I have a form in front of me, I think of it as ninety percent there, and it's important that it remains ninety percent. To continue to drive, that is what makes it a piece." His objects are always premised on use and his baskets are never intended to be merely beautiful objects. Rather they ask to be opened up, to have flowers placed inside, to be touched, experienced with all of the senses. For Matsumoto, the work exists in a continuum that begins with his relationship to nature and honors the ongoing tension and spirit of the material that guides him. In this way, the art is not about modern abstraction but about the path of his struggle and his acceptance of incompleteness and impermanence.
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1880: Brahms, Rott & Bruckner
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Simon Rattle
Royal Festival Hall. 22 April 2016
Brahms: Tragic Overture; Hans Rott: Scherzo (Symphony in E); Bruckner: Symphony No.6.
Having helped to sort out the early music world over the past 30 years, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is now turning its hand to the high Romantics. Hot on the heels of their 14 April RFH performance of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony (reviewed here), they now turn their hands to Bruckner and his rarely performed 6th Symphony, with Sir Simon Rattle. Their programme was built around the year 1880, and compared the music of three works composed in that year by three very different composers, one almost completely unknown.
The evening started, slightly unfortunately, with the Tragic Overture of Brahms, the bête noire of Bruckner and Hans Rott (pictured), and several others of a progressive ilk, such as Mahler. Unfortunate, because of the effect that Brahms' withering comments on Hans Rott's First Symphony had on the young composer. The unfortunate Rott (1858-84) was a student contemporary of Mahler and Hugo Wolf at the Vienna Conservatory, and studied organ with Bruckner, who saw him as his 'favourite pupil'. Although Rott hadn't impressed a conservatory competition panel with a piano reduction of the first movement, he went on to expand it into a four movement symphony. For reasons unknown, and certainly ill-advised, the then 22 year-old Rott showed the score to Brahms, an enemy of anything musically progressive, and of Bruckner and the Vienna conservatory. Brahms advised the already vulnerable young man to 'give up composing', leading to a possibly hallucinatory incident that resulted in him being committed to an asylum, where he died of tuberculosis, aged just 26, following several suicide attempts.
Mahler declared Rott's symphony a work of 'genius', and Hans Rott the 'founder of the new symphony' and the two of them as 'two fruits from the same tree'. But Rott's symphony was never performed in his lifetime, or indeed at all for some 100 years after his death. I hope the OAE perform the entire symphony one day but, on this occasion, we only heard the extraordinary Scherzo. A helter-skelter kaleidoscope of musical ideas and snatches if Austrian life, it needed constant reminding that this was composed before Mahler's symphonies, who later drew heavily on Rott's imaginative original. Rott's imaginative orchestrations and huge range of solo moments made it seem like we were wandering around a musical country fete overhearing the entire range of musical sounds and dances emanating from the various demonstrations. Rattle, the OAE and the audience loved every moment.
After that moment of sheer delight came Bruckner's often overlooked Sixth Symphony, performed in the world premiere of a new edition by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs. Despite there apparently being 'a mass of previously misunderstood or overlooked details' that were addressed in the new edition, Simon Rattle conducted entirely from memory. As with Rott's Scherzo, this is something of a kaleidoscope of ideas, many based on short and simple melodic motifs, for example the little six-note twirling passage near the start. Although there are the typical Bruckner hallmarks of long crescendos and crashing brass interventions, this is far from the musical style of the fourth 'Romantic' symphony. And the unique sound of the period instruments and period playing style of the OAE did much to accent the uniqueness of this work, aided by Simon Rattles attention both to detail and to the wider span of the music. There is a special bond between Rattle and the OAE spanning the entire 30 years of the OAE's existence, and it showed.
This fascinating concert was recorded by BBC Radio 3 for later broadcast.
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In a letter to Thomas Prince of Boston dated in September of 1730, the Rev. William Russell, pastor of Middletown's First Church, wrote that among the neighboring Wangunk there was a family of healers noted for their skill in curing…
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I'm an independent journalist who's driven to tell stories that matter, and to equip people with information they want and need. I'm full of ideas, thrive on interviewing and listening to people, and seek creative ways to engage audiences.
I specialize in covering food & justice, and have considerable investigative and freelance experience. I recently served as the managing editor and food writer at Triad City Beat, a weekly newspaper I co-founded in February 2014. I'd previously been the associate editor and staff writer at independent newspaper YES! Weekly for three years.
As a freelancer, I've tackled a wide array of styles and roles, including working as a researcher for this front-page New York Times article about racial bias in police traffic stops and searches. I've written for Bon Appétit, Teen Vogue, VICE, Healthyish, Newsday, Edible Brooklyn, Splinter News, Munchies, AM New York, October, Creative Loafing Atlanta, and Scalawag magazine, among others.
I'm also the digital & social content developer for the Center for Creative Leadership, a global nonprofit with 12 locations worldwide. In 2016, I graduated from the certificate program at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies with a focus on audio. I also hold an undergraduate history degree from Guilford College, where I minored in community & justice studies.
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Ruby Duke taught herself how to butcher the pigs she and her husband raised on their family farm. You can find their pork at some of the city's most revered restaurants, but you can also snag her sausages at two of New York's greenmarkets! More in my latest piece for Edible Manhattan. 📷: @asphotonyc
🎊 HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎊 to my guiding light, my home, my reason. I've got a lot more to say about you and your big heart, but I should probably save it for my vows 😳 May we all be a little more like you, Kacie! 💖
Probably our first & last time at a pool in New York City, so we made it count! 🍟🥤


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Family members said Alonza Gunn was found dead just 100 yards from the fast food restaurant.
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"It's difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously I
had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because
one is more interested in looking at things, examining them and making a
representation of them, more interested in the visual world than other people
are. When I was eleven, the only art you saw in a town like Bradford was the
art of painting posters and signs. This was how one made one's living as an
artist, I thought."(1)
Hockney attended the School of Art in Bradford and later the Royal College of
Art in London. In his second year at the Bradford school, he sent a painting he
had made of his father to a local exhibition. He went to the opening (they had
free tea and sandwiches) and was "amazed" when a man offered him ten
pounds for the painting. He checked with his father, since the canvas was his,
who said, "sure you can always do another." It was a sign of things
to come. Hockney seems never to have suffered the "struggling,
unrecognized" fate of so many other famous artists.
Unlike others who painted mainly women, Hockney, for the most part, painted
men. It was at the Royal College that he felt comfortable enough with the
people around him to come out and be openly homosexual. After winning a prize
of what was to him a fortune of 100 pounds, he left Britain for New York partly
because of an attraction to men he had seen in American publications. He
continued to paint and sell paintings while living in New York. Much later, in
Los Angeles, he met a 19-year old art student, Peter Schlesinger, with whom
Hockney had his only long-term relationship and who appears in many of his
works.
Hockney taught at several prestigious universities in the United States until
he decided to "retire" from teaching. He is well known for his LA
paintings with their bright light, often depicting the ubiquitous California
swimming pool, frequently with men, swimming in them. He has also dabbled extensively
in photography. Hockney now has homes in at least three cities, i.e. London,
Paris and Los Angeles. He has traveled and painted in several other countries
including Egypt and Europe.
Hockney presently comes across as an eccentric, with his dyed thatch blond
hair, his striped shirts and polka dot bow ties. The other instantly noticeable
feature is his (still strong) Yorkshire accent. While he has at times been
accused of creating an image to draw attention to himself, thus helping to
create his success, Hockney certainly could have abandoned this persona after
achieving success had it not been genuine. David Hockney is the most successful
British artist of the 20th and, so far, of the 21st
century. He has been the subject of many interviews, a feature film, called Bigger
Splash and has sold works of art for millions of dollars.


TT Pro League leaders, Central F.C. will be hoping for some big support from the Central community on Saturday, when a win against St Ann's' Rangers at Ato Boldon Stadium will see the California based team retain the top spot.
Sancho, who was on a tour of local schools to promote the game, with former Caroni legend, Devonish Paul, added "If we truly want to see the revival of football as a spectator sport, I think everyone agrees that we have to play close to our communities and encourage them to come to games.
Sancho and Paul were mobbed when they visited Couva West Secondary school, where they distributed tickets for the game. They then moved on to Couva East Secondary, Waterloo Primary School, Chaguanas Secondary School, Preysal High School, California Govt Primary School and Union Claxton Bay Secondary. "We also distributed tickets to Presentation College, Chaguanas.
At this stage of our development, it's vital to get young people involved in watching football. Kids these days have so many distractions and, of course, they can sit at home and watch Barcelona or Chelsea. But there is no other buzz in the world like sitting in a packed stadium watching your team play live.
At the last game vs T&TEC, Rhea Thomas was the lucky winner of a Hershey's hamper supplied by Universal. "We're hoping more Central businesses will come on board and support their local team" said Toussaint.
Operations Manager Kevin Harrison said that despite scheduling congestion, both the Pro League and the management at Ato Boldon have been very keen to see The Sharks play in the Central region. "It's so difficult with so many organisations fighting for usage of just 4 stadiums.
The Graham Rix led Sharks will be hoping for a 3 point springboard from Saturday's game to maintain the teams momentum into their Tuesday night rearranged clash against W.Connection.
Central F.C. Vs St Anns Rangers 5pm Saturday 3rd November Ato Boldon Stadium followed by T&TEC vs Caledonia AIA at 7pm Admission $30.


The Canadian International Organ Competition is a charitable organization that makes meaningful contributions to society by the creation and promotion of organ music, and by educational activities that allow the public to better appreciate the pipe organ and its rich heritage. Every month of October, the CIOC puts on a festival. Every three years, the festival hosts an international competition with jury members from North-America and Europe. 2014 is a competition year: we are very excited to host one of the most important organ competitions in the world, in one of the capitals of the pipe organ.
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American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred Spaces
Louis P. Nelson
Indiana University Press, 2006 - 280 pages
This volume examines a diverse set of spaces and buildings seen through the lens of popular practice and belief to shed light on the complexities of sacred space in America. Contributors explore how dedication sermons document shifting understandings of the meetinghouse in early 19th-century Connecticut; the changes in evangelical church architecture during the same century and what that tells us about evangelical religious life; the impact of contemporary issues on Catholic church architecture; the impact of globalization on the construction of traditional sacred spaces; the urban practice of Jewish space; nature worship and Central Park in New York; the mezuzah and domestic sacred space; and, finally, the spiritual aspects of African American yard art.
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An Architecture of Immanence: Architecture for Worship and Ministry Today
Mark A. Torgerson
À propos de l'auteur (2006)
Louis P. Nelson is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia. He is author of Pulpits, Piety, and Power: Anglican Architecture and Material Culture in Colonial South Carolina (forthcoming).
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American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred Spaces, Louis P. Nelson
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New Apple Health Records API may make a PHR app easier
Apple's decision to open its Health Records API to developers could jump-start the market for truly personalized healthcare applications. But experts warned the announcement is just the first step in a lengthy process of electronic and personal health record integration, and significant challenges — from privacy issues to interoperability — remain.
At a time of rising consumer demand for increased control of and access to personal health records (PHR), Apple is the first major player to offer an open API. And this is just the latest of the company's moves into the health IT space. For some, this step could be a game changer.
Wolfram Kerl, CTO at Munich-based Smartpatient, was an early user of Apple's new Health Records API in the company's MyTherapy medication management PHR app.
"Until today, healthcare IT and health apps have been largely separate worlds, only talking to each other in proprietary environments," Kerl explained in an email. "With the introduction of Health Records early this year, Apple started connecting iPhones to clinical systems using the FHIR [Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources] industry standard. Now, by opening the API, developers for the first time can implement patient use cases with electronic health records, while getting access to a potentially huge installed base."
Go custom or go home
This means developers now have the opportunity to easily create a customized PHR app, which is a big departure from the one-size-fits-all strategy in use today, said John Moore, founder and managing partner of Chilmark Research, based in Boston.
With Apple doing all the legwork to connect the different hospitals, we can focus our developers on the patient's user experience.
Wolfram KerlCTO at Smartpatient
"The open API is going to enable a longitudinal patient record, and that creates an opportunity for precision medicine using digital tools," Moore said. "When you have an opportunity to look at individual records and know social determinants and a number of other factors, I think the applications can use that record to help guide you to a much richer experience, and one that's personalized to your individual health situation."
To look at it from a slightly different perspective, consumers want to interact with their health data as easily as they shop online. The new API could help give a PHR app that retail feel, Kerl said. "With Apple doing all the legwork to connect the different hospitals, we can focus our developers on the patient's user experience."
But will a personalized PHR app be sufficiently secure? Apple's announcement indicated the company won't access or store personal health data shared with any apps created from the Health Record API. Instead, sensitive information will remain on an individual's iPhone. That's no guarantee an application is HIPAA-compliant, however.
Apple offers the potential to personalize health apps using the new Health Records API.
"In the wake of Facebook data concerns, consumers and developers alike need to be cautious and put safeguards in place when it comes to consumer data," warned Arielle Trzcinski, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. "There's really sensitive information in there. People need to proceed with caution."
Proceed with caution toward PHR apps and perhaps a good dose of patience, Kerl advised. This is just a small step toward solving the massive interoperability issues in the healthcare world.
"Healthcare IT is full of interoperability problems. And, so far, the Health Records API just gets data from the hospital to the patient," he said. "The next frontier is the patient using this data with other providers, too. So, while the Health Records API does nothing to directly solve interoperability problems, it does provide a significant incentive for the healthcare industry to commit to FHIR and tackle the obstacles that still remain."
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Apple iOS 12 USB Restricted Mode to foil thieves, law enforcement
A security feature that had popped up in beta versions of Apple's iOS software appears to be coming in earnest as part of iOS 12, and it will protect devices against anyone trying to unlock them via USB.
USB Restricted Mode is described in the iOS 12 settings as the option to enable or deny the ability to "unlock [an] iPhone to allow USB accessories to connect when it has been more than an hour since your iPhone was locked." In practice, this means a device will require a passcode unlock in order to connect any Lightning-to-USB accessory after the one-hour time limit has passed.
Apple didn't mention USB Restricted Mode during the keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, but developers saw it in the iOS 12 preview, which was released that same day. The setting is on by default and covers any type of security on an iOS device — Touch ID, Face ID and passcode.
Experts noted USB Restricted Mode will protect users' data if a device is stolen, but it will also deny law enforcement from using unlocking services from companies like GrayKey and Cellebrite — the latter of which was rumored to have helped the FBI unlock the San Bernardino, Calif., shooter's iPhone.
Earlier tests of USB Restricted Mode had allowed for a one-week time limit, spurring GrayKey to reportedly alert customers of this feature when it surfaced in the iOS 11.3 beta, according to internal email messages obtained by Motherboard. A one-hour time limit could effectively make it impossible for customers to get the device to a company like GrayKey in time to gain brute-force access.
Rusty Carter, vice president of product management at Arxan, based in San Francisco, said USB Restricted Mode "is really about increasing the security of the device."
If the device is vulnerable to brute-force attacks via wired connection, other security features, like being able to wipe the device after 10 unsuccessful authentication attempts, are rendered useless.
Rusty Cartervice president of product management at Arxan
"If the device is vulnerable to brute-force attacks via wired connection, other security features, like being able to wipe the device after 10 unsuccessful authentication attempts, are rendered useless … they are effectively a false sense of security," Carter wrote via email. "Effectively, any data is vulnerable, unless the individual app developer has done the right thing both to secure and encrypt user data and require more than stored credentials or identity to access the data with their app, which is rarely the case today."
John Callahan, CTO of Veridium, based in Quincy, Mass., said, as a developer, his initial reaction to USB Restricted Mode was, "Great, now I'll have to unlock the phone every time I go to debug a mobile app with Xcode." But he later realized it could have protected a lot of stolen devices if it had been implemented in an earlier version of iOS.
"USB Restricted Mode in iOS 12 a big win for users, because we are keeping more personally identifiable information on our mobile devices, including healthcare, identification and biometric data. Our phones have become our digital wallets, and we expect a maximum level of privacy and convenience," Callahan wrote via email. "Android devices, ironically seen as less secure, have long required unlocking when connected in USB Debug mode. In many ways, Apple is playing catch-up with respect to physical device security."
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iMac Pro: Worth the Upgrade for Photo and Video Editing?
We pit Apple's new workstation against its older and less powerful siblings to see how much more juice it packs for creative tasks.
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Apple High Sierra patch undone by macOS update
A critical patch for a vulnerability in Apple's macOS High Sierra may not be properly applied if a user also updates the system software.
The vulnerability, which was made public on Nov. 28, could allow a malicious user to bypass authentication dialogs and even potentially acquire root system privileges. Apple released the High Sierra patch the following day, but users have reported the patch being undone depending on system updates that were applied.
According many users on Twitter — and first reported by Wired — if the Apple system was running macOS 10.13.0 and not the newer 10.13.1 version, the High Sierra patch would be undone after the system update was applied. Additionally, re-installing the High Sierra patch after the system update would require a reboot to properly apply the fix, but users were not getting the notification that a restart was necessary.
Apple has since updated its patch notes to include these issues: "If you recently updated from macOS High Sierra 10.13 to 10.13.1, reboot your Mac to make sure the Security Update is applied properly."
MacLemon, a Mac sysadmin and independent security researcher, said the system update downgrading the High Sierra patch shouldn't be surprising.
It's part of Apple growing carelessness for the Mac in general.
MacLemona Mac sysadmin and independent security researcher
"It's mostly expected that an older updated installed over a newer system downgrades components. The failure here is that Apple doesn't show the Security Update 2017-001 again after reinstalling 10.13.1," MacLemon told SearchSecurity via Twitter Direct Message. "It's part of Apple growing carelessness for the Mac in general. Since they changed the development process to release on time instead of when done Mac OS X/OS X/macOS quality and stability has been in steady decline. Banana software shipped green that ripens at the customer."
Because of the confusion surrounding the High Sierra patch and the macOS update, users may not know if the patch was applied properly and whether or not they are protected against the root password flaw, as Marc Rogers, head of SecOps for DefCon and head of infosec for Cloudflare, said on Twitter.
Well done @apple By not incrementing patch numbers to hide the fact you messed up first root bug patch and now messing up that patch we have no way of telling who is impacted and who isn't other than manual checks. https://t.co/CecU4AhUjJ #innovation
— Marc Rogers (@marcwrogers)
Experts suggested checking for software updates and ensuring systems have been rebooted.
Root passwords and the High Sierra patch
When the High Sierra root flaw was first announced, an early suggestion from experts was to create a password for the root user. However, MacLemon noted this could cause security issues as well.
For those who hastily set a root password to mitigate the macOS High Sierra root login security issue:
You'll forget to turn off that bad root password once the issue is fixed and you have installed a patch.
Many Macs will have weak root passwords for years to come.#onlyApple
— MacLemon (@MacLemon)
Additionally, Adam Nichols, principal of software security at Grimm, said creating this password would not be a full fix anyway.
Fun fact: manually disabling the root account once it was enabled by the recent MacOS auth bug mitigated the bug on the login screen, but it did not mitigate it via VNC. In other words VNC would keep re-enableing the account while the login screen would not. Patch fixed that too
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Serious macOS flaw in High Sierra allows attackers to login as root
A security issue in Apple's macOS High Sierra could allow an attacker to bypass any authentication dialog and even sign in as a root user.
The macOS flaw gained visibility after Lemi Orhan Ergin, agile software craftsman at payment platform vendor Iyzico, based in Istanbul, Turkey, tweeted about it Tuesday. Ergin asked Apple on Twitter if it was aware of an authentication bypass issue in its desktop operating system that could allow anyone with physical access to a target system to "login as 'root' with empty password after clicking on login button several times."
However, it wasn't the first time the issue was brought up. Ergin said in a Medium post that the infrastructure team at his company brought the macOS flaw to his attention on Nov. 23rd and there have been Apple Developer Forum posts about the issue as far back as Nov. 13th.
Tim Erlin, vice president of product management and strategy at Tripwire, criticized Ergin for his tweet.
"Failing to follow responsible disclosure guidelines puts everyone at greater risk," Erlin told SearchSecurity. "Public disclosure like this, especially with a major vulnerability, ensures the widest possible distribution of the information among malicious attackers, and instills a sense of urgency to attack before a patch is available."
Xavier Mertins, security consultant for SANS Internet Storm Center, said in an alert a "quick fix" would be to create a password for the root user.
Apple has released a patch for the macOS flaw Wednesday and said the issue was due to "a logic error [that] existed in the validation of credentials. This was addressed with improved credential validation."
Potential other vectors
Will Dormann, senior vulnerability analyst at CERT, found the macOS flaw could be remotely exploitable if Apple's Remote Desktop system is enabled, and "that gives full interactive remote root access to a system, without requiring a password."
Apple "Remote Management" also has the same exposure. If "Control" is enabled, that gives full interactive remote root access to a system, without requiring a password. pic.twitter.com/q6hN0gwaNf
— Will Dormann (@wdormann)
Additionally, Thomas Reed, a recognized Mac evangelist at Malwarebytes, found this latest macOS flaw "works with any authentication dialog in High Sierra."
"On a Unix system, such as macOS, there is one user to rule them all. The root user is given the power to change anything on the system. There are some exceptions to that on recent versions of macOS, but even so, the root user is the single most powerful user with more control over the system than any other," Reed wrote in a blog post. "Being able to authenticate as the root user without a password is serious, but unfortunately, the problem gets worse. After this has bug has been triggered, it turns out you can do anything as root on the first try, without a password."
Reed added that while this macOS flaw could allow someone to login to a system locally or remotely if Remote Desktop is turned on, and be able to "do whatever they want, including accessing your files, installing spyware, you name it," there is a way to protect data.
"If you have your Mac's hard drive encrypted with FileVault, this will prevent the attacker from having a persistent backdoor," Reed wrote. "In order to log in, the attacker would have to know the password that will unlock FileVault. Not even the all-powerful root user can access an encrypted FileVault drive without the password."
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CIOs, ask not what Apple's iPhone X can do today, but what comes next
Initial reviews are in on Apple's iPhone X — new features dissected, the disappearance of the home button judged. The question: Will this week's big event in Cupertino, Calif., change anything for CIOs?
Does Apple's new Bionic Chip with Neural Engine alter how application development teams think about mobile apps? Will the iPhone X's ARKit, also available on a select number of other iOS devices, take augmented reality mainstream? Will Face ID — the black eye it got for flubbing its big debut notwithstanding — make facial recognition technology ubiquitous?
That depends on whom CIOs turn to for insight. Think of Apple's iPhone X as a Rorschach test of our hopes, fears and cynicism about the future.
On-chip AI, Face ID
For Forrester Research analyst Brandon Purcell, Apple's new augmented reality (AR) capability ranks behind the real game changer for CIOs in Tuesday's news: "The biggest piece is this neural engine, which actually sits on the device itself," said Purcell, who covers artificial intelligence (AI) for the research company.
"It's a big deal because it allows artificial neural networks, which are the reason for all the hype around AI today, to run on the phone," he said.
Neural networks are sophisticated and computationally intensive algorithms that "you had to call to the cloud" in order to use in an app, he said. Combined with Apple's Core ML framework for machine learning — a capability Apple downplayed Tuesday — "the neural engine and the ability to process neural networks on an iPhone, I think, is going to completely revolutionize apps."
A CIO's app development team will be able to incorporate machine learning into apps on the iPhone without worrying about performance degradation. And going forward? Well, he advised businesses start training now for the next level of customer engagement powered by AI: conversational computing. "CIOs should be thinking about how they can help their business stakeholders provide conversational experiences with their brands," he said.
For example, the chatbots many banks deploy now to field simple queries from customers, when powered by embedded AI, will soon be seen by customers as trusted personal assistants — indeed, as able to give personalized advice on how best to save money or pay back a college loan as a banker in an actual branch.
This kind of conversational computing, as Purcell called it, requires that CIOs understand how to harness massive amounts of unstructured data and use machine learning — in the cloud and on the "edge," as Apple is doing with its new device.
"We'll see some stumbles there, of course. It takes a while to perfect these things; you need to train them on data, and that means there are going to be some bad customer experiences that will probably be well-publicized," he said. "But this is where banking is going and where all businesses are going."
He predicted Apple's Face ID feature, enabled by the neural engine, will also prove to be transformative. "Given the ubiquity of iPhones, this is going to become a ubiquitous feature and is eventually going to bring about universal acceptance of facial recognition."
CIOs must begin now to figure out how to use facial recognition as a tool for employees and customers, he said — and how they are going to store this incredibly sensitive data.
Apple Watch, the ARKit effect
Jonathan Reichental, CIO of the Palo Alto city government and a leader in urban tech, watched the whole presentation this week. He said he believes the new Apple Watch may have a bigger impact on the enterprise than the iPhone X. "I think the cellular addition to the smartwatch was one of the more profound things that happened," he said. He expects a wave of innovation will emerge from users having computer power and the internet on their wrists.
"It's a little ugly now — I wouldn't get it," he said, referring to the current design, "but I do think that now that they have figured out how to miniaturize all the technology, you're going to see better designs in the future."
He said he also believes Apple's mainstreaming of augmented reality is a "big deal." He cited the demo of IKEA's iPhone X augmented reality app that allows customers to picture items from its catalog in their homes. "Up until now, augmented reality has been a bit of a tease," Reichental said.
The AR technology displayed by IKEA marks a new era. When the sofa projected into your living room no longer wobbles, but sits just where you put it, or the shoes you select from a virtual catalog really look like they're on your feet, customers will start to trust the technology. That changes not only how retail works, but how reality is perceived, he said.
Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen said he expects the ARKit will raise awareness and the "overall tide of the augmented reality market," precisely because of Apple's ability to make tech easy, fun and compelling for users.
"ARKit brings that acknowledgement of AR to the industry. On top of that, you're going to have the largest base for AR — all these iPhone users," he said.
Apple, true to form, did not invent the technology; the company may even have ceded ground in AR over the past year to Amazon and Google, Nguyen said, but the Apple imprimatur remains powerful. "Apple tells you what's cool and when it's cool."
Reichental, for one, was taken aback by the reaction of many colleagues to Apple's news this week. "I am surprised by how many were down on it — 'I don't see anything interesting; it's sort of boring.' 'Wow,' I was thinking, 'are you so immune to the incredible brilliance of what's been done?'"
The new Apple campus and gorgeous Steve Jobs Theater were something to marvel at, he said, and the presentation — with stunning video — not to be taken for granted.
"My view is that Tuesday was everything that is great about American innovation and design — just beautiful," said Reichental, a native of Ireland.
Does Apple's iPhone X represent the type of radical change ushered in by the debut of the iPhone a decade ago? Perhaps not, he said, but it's early to say.
"I remember that presentation 10 years ago like it was yesterday. I think we were pretty happy then that Apple finally had a viable phone," he recalled. The company had been working with Motorola on the RAZR, "and it wasn't very good." The inaugural iPhone was a different matter — very cool and the touch feature, in particular, representing a "pretty dramatic" change.
But it wasn't until the company decided to open up its app ecosystem that it became clear that the iPhone would change the world, creating new businesses, billions of dollars in economic value and, of course, bringing enterprises and enterprise computing onto the phone. "There is not a mature enterprise vendor that doesn't have a mobile app version of its solution."
Seeing the future
It's one of those things, for a lot of us, that it's only when we see the application of the tech that we realize how profound it is. But up until that time, we can't quite grasp it.
Jonathan ReichentalCIO for the city of Palo Alto
The lack of enthusiasm for this week's events on the part of some naysayers, Reichental chalks up to a lack of imagination. "It's one of those things, for a lot of us, that it's only when we see the application of the tech that we realize how profound it is. But up until that time, we can't quite grasp it," he said.
A failure of imagination can be a career-killer for IT exes, Reichental said. Certainly, it's not easy to foresee the implications of emerging technology for enterprise IT, consumer tech especially. CIOs must evaluate the applicability of Apple's iPhone X in between everything else they have to deal with. But the people who design these phones are thinking day in and day out about what these devices can do, and it behooves CIOs to remember that.
Analyst Johna Till Johnson, of Nemertes Research, came away from this week's news seeing Apple's iPhone X is "useful as a visionary tool" for reimagining the endpoint.
"You can pack so much computing power into these devices that they're really not a phone anymore," she said. "If you're smart, you take the device as a vision of the future and recognize that's the direction we're going in."
CIO news roundup for week of Sept. 11
Here's what else happened outside the bubble of Apple's iPhone X:
Equifax to be hit with first state lawsuit. Equifax shares plunged 15% Wednesday after Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced plans to file a lawsuit against the credit-reporting company. The lawsuit will claim that Equifax didn't maintain proper safeguards to protect consumer data, violating the state's consumer protection and data privacy laws. "In all of our years investigating data breaches, this may be the most brazen failure to protect consumer data we have ever seen. My office is acting as quickly as possible to hold Equifax accountable for the risks that millions of consumers now face," Healey said in a statement. So far, over 50 class-action lawsuits have been filed against Equifax as a result of the data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of 143 million customers.
Microsoft unveils new cloud security service. Microsoft announced Thursday it has teamed up with chipmaker Intel to offer a new cloud computing service dubbed Azure Confidential Compute. The new Microsoft Azure service is focused on ensuring data security in the cloud by encrypting data while in use. "This means that data can be processed in the cloud with the assurance that it is always under customer control," Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said in a blog post. With confidential computing, customer information is placed in a virtual enclave that prevents anyone but the customer from accessing the data, Microsoft touted.
Samsung's $300 million autonomous driving fund. The electronics giant has unveiled the Samsung Automotive Innovation Fund created to support the development of connected cars and autonomous vehicle technologies. Samsung also announced the establishment of a new strategic business unit focusing on developing autonomous and advanced driver-assistance systems. The new unit was established by Harman, a company that Samsung acquired in March. "The Autonomous/ADAS Strategic Business Unit and automotive fund reflect the company's commitment to the values of open innovation and collaboration," Young Sohn, president and chief strategy officer of Samsung and chairman of the board at Harman, said in a statement. The news comes just two weeks after Samsung received approval to test self-driving cars on California roads.
Assistant site editor Mekhala Roy contributed to this week's Searchlight news roundup.
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