After a very very long drive from Chicago to Omaha, NE the first night and Omaha, NE to Dubois, WY the second day, we finally arrived at a cool little motel not far from the Grand Teton National Park. If you've seen Wild, or read the book, I completely felt like Cheryl - packing all of my items one by one for the first time (of many), and filling up my water reservoir, a little afraid at the final weight of my brand new pack. I was nervous and excited to get the show on a roll! We drove the final 1 hour to Grand Teton National Park, enjoying the view along the way. Before driving to our departure Trail Head (Death Canyon TH) we checked out some of the more touristy spots - Jenny Lake Lodge and the post "Moose". We checked into the Backcountry Office at Jenny Lake Ranger Station - applied for and paid for two nights stay in the park for $25, and picked up our Bear Canister. Things suddenly became very real.
Saturday June 27: Our departure trailhead was down a dirt road (that honestly the Acura should not have been driven down...) lined with day hikers and a few excited backpackers. We found a shady spot to park the car, and started to unpack our goods and get situated. By 1:45pm we were on a small trail, leading to the Death Canyon Trail. I have to be honest - the first mile or so was not so great. My pack was heavy, I was unsure about how it should sit, and it was HOT HOT HOT. I have a history of over-heating to the point of passing out, and also severe heat exhaustion. Needless to say, I knew right away that this would push any all of my previous boundaries. Once on the trail, it was such intense climbing and sooo hot, part of me was ready to call it. But a louder, stronger side of me was saying ... "you seriously have to do this, for Danny, but also for you!" This might sound overly dramatic, but believe me - I was teetering on this edge for the entire first day, all 8 miles of this crazy adventure.
Our first night of camp was at the very far end of the campsite zone. We set up camp near the river, and went out in search of a cooking spot. Because of the risk of bears, we had to cook and leave all things smelly (toothpaste, chapstick, suncreen, etc.) in the bear canister about 200 yards from our camp. We found the perfect stone perch to cook dinner at about 9pm, enjoy the sunset at about 9:30pm, and make the trek back to our camp by 9:55pm. It was a little chilly that first night, so we climbed straight into our mummy sleeping bags and went to sleep - day one - check.
Sunday June 28: Breakfast was back at the cooking spot, at 8am. With all of our things packed and 4 bottles of water filled up and purified, we were ready to make the big climb - the biggest of the day. Much to my surprise, it was much easier today! My pack was sitting in a better place on my hips, I had improved my walking stick rhythm, and I was quickly learning my aerobic strengths and boundaries. I took off in the lead charging up out of the canyon and it felt great! Danny was ecstatic that things were going 10x better already than yesterday.
We hiked along the crest on the "Teton Crest Trail" for about an hour, to Marion Lake. It was beautiful and cold! Icebergs floated in the middle of the lake. We sat and enjoyed lunch at the lake, careful not to lose any items to the thrify marmots! A couple of travelers that we ran into had a run-in with the marmots the night before - chewing up one of the guys' shoe laces and part of his backpack strap. How terrible! They are sort of like a mix between squirrels and raccoons... curious and pushy! Anyway, we left Marion lake without any marmot damage and somehow we came out tick-free. After a typical lunch of hard salami, soft cheese, and multi-grain crackers we continued down the path to the next canyon.
Things got a little dicey here - somewhere along the way I developed my first blister AND we lost track of the trail... Once Danny realized it, I took the opportunity to rest my feet while he ran back to the last sign. We had missed a turn and were already 1/4-mile into the third canyon on the map. It was an additional 2.2 miles if we continued. The idea of back tracking didn't sound appealing, and we were making pretty good time so we decided to change our route.
Once we were back on track and entering the "Lower Granite Canyon" it was starting to get dark and I was definitely running out of steam. The thought of hiking an additional 4 miles did not seem possible, but I was surprised of what I was capable of when it came down to it! We had to get through 3 sections of "Bear Brush" (a name we created to describe regions that seemed like good bear habitat - long thick grass taller that Danny usually near water), find an open campsite, pitch our tent, find a cook spot, and cook dinner all before sun down! Things got pretty intense. Our feet were dragging when we finally came to a site. I stopped to rest, while Danny ran ahead to see if the next one was better. He came back with good news - we could camp right where I landed!!
We did just that. I pitched the tent, while Danny went to find a cooking spot. I didn't think he could top our cooking spot from the night before, but he did! About a 150 yards up the trail we staked out on top of a granite boulder along the river. It was incredible. Danny made dinner while I started painting a watercolor post card. Once again, the calm of the night made the day hike worth it. Just before nightfall we made it back to camp, wiped down in the freezing cold river, and went straight to bed. Day two - in the books.


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Why Corporate Fraud Freaks You Out, Limits to In-Flight Wi-Fi, R&D Tax Credit Extended and More
This issue of Trendlines from the 11/1/08 Issue of CIO Magazine covers Corporate Frauds, In-Flight Wi-Fi, R&D Tax Credit, Social Software and more.
By Steff Gelston
"Shotgun" M&As Put the Heat on IT
Mergers and acquisitions are not usually quick affairs. Just the due diligence process of examining a company's enterprise IT systems—the infrastructure, applications, outsourcing deals and vendor contracts—can take up to a week, according to industry consultants.
But as Wall Street imploded in September, entire deals in financial services have closed over a weekend. Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. JPMorgan Chase buying Washington Mutual. The Wells Fargo purchase of Wachovia.
These so-called "shotgun" M&As are both a testament to Wall Street's dire circumstance and a test of the ability of CIOs and IT staffs to analyze, prioritize and integrate systems in a hurry. "The shotgun marriages are being arranged—and there is no IT due diligence," says Tom Casey, a vice president at Booz & Co.
That type of insight is even more important in financial services, since IT spend typically is 15 percent of overall revenue, according to Casey. "IT is the backbone of how these banks operate," he says, "and you're not going to get these major [M&A] synergies without addressing the IT stuff."
M&As are tricky to get right even in normal times with appropriate due diligence, and many don't return the expected value. According to a 2007 study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) of more than 4,000 completed mergers and acquisitions between 1992 and 2006, 58 percent of deals actually destroyed value for acquirers.
There are several technology-related factors that are key to M&A decision making, according to BCG's Tom Reichert, a partner and managing director. First is post-acquisition synergies. "The synergy value should be 10 percent to 25 percent of the combined technology budgets of the two companies involved," he says. "That is a significant part of the valuation of mergers."
Next is whether there are significant deal breakers—"big security or regulatory issues that the acquirer is getting into in the tech environment that really need to get solved, or big contracts that exist," Reichert says.
Booz's Casey also points to considerations such as selecting the core systems and applications that will enable the combined company to grow, and knowing where the opportunities are to consolidate infrastructure and contracts.
Workforce issues such as layoffs are less troublesome than platform and application discussions. Casey says that power is the issue here. "If I'm an IT person or business owner of [that system], then I lose that, I lose that kind of power position," he says.
The bottom line? CIOs must make do with what they inherit (IT staff, systems, projects) in a merger or acquisition. "Complaining about it," he says, "does you no good."
-Thomas Wailgum
Economy Dings Financing for Software Deals
Enterprise software investments usually involve huge capital outlays. But now that we're living in a world of financial hurt, banks won't dish out credit for such deals as easily as before.
What if your company needs financing help with software or services plans? One option, notes Paula Rosenblum, a managing partner at Retail Systems Research, is to look at software as a service (SaaS) for tech investments. "Over the short term, capital may be hard to come by. SaaS allows a company to buy only the number of transactions and horsepower it needs," she writes in a report. "Nonintrusive optimization technologies can bring rapid ROI by taking sales and order information and spitting out better assortment and pricing plans."
What if you're a software vendor who can't close deals because customers can't get financing? "Enterprise software and service vendors without proper access to credit lines may find themselves unable to close deals with clients shut out from the credit markets," says Ray Wang, a VP and principal analyst at Forrester Research. But there are solutions. He points to a deal between software maker Infor and IBM Global Financing. The deal lets customers go ahead with tech initiatives while spreading up-front payments over time, conserving cash for other investments.
Wang thinks the ability that big vendors such as IBM and others have to provide financing deals to customers is critical, given the economy. "Vendor-led financing initiatives may prove to be the lubricant that keeps tech spending moving forward," he says.
Why Corporate Fraud Freaks You Out (And It Should)
Fraud is a fact of corporate life today, as a recent Kroll Global Fraud Report notes.
The average company's losses to fraud increased by 22 percent since last year, and the average business lost $8.2 million to fraud during the past three years. These sobering statistics are from a recent worldwide survey of 890 senior executives, commissioned by risk consultancy Kroll.
The survey found that information theft, loss or attack is the type of fraud that most worried respondents, with 25 percent feeling highly vulnerable and 47 percent feeling moderately so. And the data shows why: The fastest growing types of fraud are information theft (27 percent) and regulatory and compliance breaches (25 percent).
Yet while senior management seems to be saying they have deep concerns about fraud, they wind up underestimating the exposure their businesses actually face today.
In fact, employees working below the C-suite who are closer to an organization's technology efforts and systems are over one-and-a-half times more likely than those at the corporate level to see their companies as highly vulnerable (31 percent versus 19 percent), according to the report.
"If senior executives are not worried about their vulnerability to information theft, they should check whether their sense of safety is based on a thorough understanding of the security deployed by the company, or ignorance of the full extent of threat," notes the report. "In this case, too little knowledge could be a dangerous thing."
Center to Connect on Social Software
IBM recently announced the opening of the Center for Social Software in a move that it hopes will bring more of its Web 2.0 offerings to the enterprise and allow an exchange of ideas with business, technology and academic communities.
Big Blue's Web 2.0 technologies, such as its Lotus Connections, which includes a blog and social network features, are its fastest growing software product.
"IBM has centered our infrastructure around a bigger investment in social software," says Irene Greif, director of the center in Cambridge, Mass. "We want to work more systematically and take this research and deliver it to customers."
The center will look for the best ways organizations can utilize social software and set policies around its adoption. Greif hopes those who interact with the center will give candid feedback about the company's social software. "We'd like to have people from outside working with us, too," she says.
Initial projects for the center derive from IBM labs including Beehive, an enterprise social network, and Many Eyes, a free Web-based application that allows users to visualize data in Web 2.0 formats, such as tag clouds.
While the center will mostly focus on IBM customers and software, Greif says it may work with other vendors to help provide standards around social software development. "I am expecting to see us step in and take some leadership in that area," she says.
-C.G. Lynch
Use RFID to Track Servers and Laptops
Accurate, well-planned and highly targeted RFID deployments in tandem with IT-driven data-integration plans can deliver substantial benefits, according to a slew of recent surveys and analyst reports.
First, a survey of 186 global organizations by ABI Research found that RFID is being used or evaluated for applications across a swathe of vertical industry sectors. "Virtually every economic sector and industry where data needs to be collected or objects need to be tracked holds the potential for RFID applications," notes ABI Research Director Michael Liard. Organizations are also increasingly using and evaluating RFID systems to improve the tracking of objects, assets, goods and materials within corporate yards and property, on campuses and in open-loop environments, according to ABI.
Another ABI report finds RFID moving into companies' data centers. "IT assets are key infrastructure for any modern business, and IT managers need to be certain that equipment is documented, traceable and secure," notes the report. RFID "can deliver quicker, more detailed and more accurate day-to-day management of these important operational assets."
This is where RFID makes sense—high-value items that need to be tracked. "Managing and auditing this equipment is a serious pain point for IT departments, and automating those applications with RFID can drive clear ROI," states ABI principal analyst Jonathan Collins, in the report. He notes that "the density of valuable equipment within a restricted area limits the cost and increases the efficiency of an RFID deployment."
One last note comes from vendor Odin Technologies. Its IT asset tracking report shows that within the last six months, passive RFID technology delivered increased performance on servers, laptops, blades and other high-value IT assets. For instance, IT staff using RFID tags could inventory a rack of 40 servers in 12 seconds or identify all IT equipment within a typical cubicle five times faster than manual methods, with 100 percent accurate data entry.
Limits to In-Flight Wi-Fi
A Delta Air Lines decision to block "inappropriate" websites from its planned in-flight Wi-Fi service could be the tip of the iceberg for airlines' control of Internet use. Delta, which will offer Wi-Fi on some planes later this year and on its domestic fleet in 2009, has decided to prevent passengers from accessing inappropriate content, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In-flight Wi-Fi is emerging on a few airlines and was launched by American Airlines on a limited basis in August. Both Delta and American will block VoIP, avoiding the uproar over annoying in-flight cell phone calls. But the prospect of passengers surfing the open Web at their seats raises concerns about children and others being subjected to objectionable material, such as online pornography. Delta plans to offer the GoGo service from Aircell, also used by American. Aircell says it will implement content filtering for airlines if asked.
One privacy rights advocate criticized the idea. "I don't think it makes much sense," says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. It won't stop passengers from looking at inappropriate material stored on laptops, he says. It also opens the door to blocking content such as news or political opinions.
Another problem is also likely to come up, says analyst Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates. The thin, cellular-data pipe that passengers will share means airlines may have to throttle back heavy users. One person downloading a movie all through a flight could ruin the access others paid for.
Airlines are likely to guard against this in an automated way. "The flight crew are not going to be IT managers. The policies are going to have to be set and uploaded to the systems," Gold says.
-Stephen Lawson
R&D Tax Credit Extended as Part of Bailout
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend a research and development tax credit to U.S. businesses as part of its approval of a giant bailout of the mortgage industry.
Several tech companies, including Microsoft and Texas Instruments, had called on Congress to extend the tax credit, saying it helps U.S. businesses to invest in R&D and keeps workers in the country. The credit, which would have expired at the end of 2007, will be extended for two years.
"In today's challenging economic environment, R&D is a critical catalyst for American innovation, economic growth and job creation," said the R&D Tax Coalition, a group representing the tech, manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical and other industries, in a statement. "The R&D tax credit motivates U.S.-based companies to keep cutting-edge research projects in the United States while funding high-wage and high-skilled jobs for American R&D workers across diverse industries."
The tax credit can cover up to 20 percent of qualified R&D spending. It has expired 13 times since 1981, despite calls by tech, pharmaceutical and manufacturing groups to make the tax credit permanent. Lawmakers have resisted making it permanent largely because of its price tag of about $7 billion a year. Some critics have called the tax credit a government subsidy for large businesses.
Several tech companies and trade groups also praised Congress for passing the larger bailout bill. Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior vice president and general counsel, said in a statement: "This crisis affects more than just the U.S. financial sector, it affects every corner of the world economy, and today's vote will help reinstill confidence around the globe."
-Grant Gross

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The trio is lead by celebrated flute virtuoso Carina Bruwer who is also widely known for her marathon swimming feats, with the dynamic Ariella Caira enchanting on the electric cello, and ace violinist and composer Luca Hart whose Grappelli-inspired improvisations has audiences in awe. These three Classically trained virtuosos share dozens of awards, degrees and distinctions between them, as well as a passion for the latest beats and pop music trends.
South Africa's #1 instrumental group is celebrating their 10 year anniversary and has announced a Greatest Hits album to mark the occasion.They say times flies when you're having fun. This couldn't be more true for the members of Sterling EQ."The journey with Sterling EQ has been life changing" says Carina Bruwer "and nothing could have prepared us for the success we've achieved.


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Crow's Feet: Can They Be Prevented?
A woman in her late 20s came to visit us for a consultation the other day and asked the aforementioned question. We have also noticed an increasing number of patients who are quite concerned with the appearance of such lines, also known as crow's feet.
Luckily, the appearance of crow's feet can be delayed even if you have genes that pre-dispose you to having them. Regular application of sunscreen to the skin surrounding the eyes is a crucial step because the appearance of crow's feet has mainly to do with prolonged, unprotected sun exposure.
Your facial expression is next on the list of things you can do to delay the development of crow's feet. Generally, a wrinkle is formed every time a muscle contracts underneath the skin. When you squint or frown, a muscle contracts. Therefore, the more you squint, frown, or raise an eyebrow, the greater your chances of ending up with crow's feet. But it's unrealistic to assume a person can consciously avoid these expressions, so an easier way to delay the development of crow's feet is to wear your sunglasses. Why? They stop you from squinting.
And last, but certainly not least, you might want to learn more about Botox. While Botox itself is used in eliminating wrinkles and lines such as crow's feet, a good number of our patients are now scheduling Botox injections as a means of preemptively stopping crow's feet.
Ultimately, what works for you in delaying the appearance of crow's feet may not work for your friend or co-worker. At the Plastic Surgery Group of Rochester, our approach to crow's feet prevention is customized and will be made after a thorough assessment and evaluation.
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In September 2017 GDR CEO Kate Ancketill spoke about the future of e-commerce at Shop.org in LA. Here she reveals her key takeaway from the event, which was attended by thousands of representatives of the world's biggest consumer brands.
This week I spent time with the leading practitioners of digital commerce at Shop.org in LA.
The focus was very much on how to survive and thrive in a situation where a few major online retailers are driving the majority of growth.
Over the course of the conference one word really stood out for me: trust. What does trust mean online? How do you cultivate it, maintain it? Why does it matter?
Given how far the emotional stock of disruptive digital brands such as Uber, Facebook and Google has fallen in recent weeks and months, it's clear that even the most trendy brands and employers can no longer rely on simply being useful and innovative to succeed with consumers. Brands that employ business practices at odds with societal norms and values will ultimately pay some sort of price for them in the end.
All this is especially hard to convey online, and there lies a real challenge for brands.


I was a Girl Scout for 12 years, and the highlights of my summers were always going to Girl Scout camps. As I got older, I attended more science and robotics camps. I was quite sad when I was too old to attend camps anymore, but I had always wanted to be a camp counselor. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to do so with EPGY as a Residential Counselor/Teaching Assistant for an introductory physics camp course for beginning high school students. I did two sessions of 25 kids each, with 3 co-counselors. I discovered that the only thing better than being a camper is being a camp counselor! My daily duties included keeping track of the kids, helping out during lecture, tutoring them in afternoon homework sessions, picking food for snack time, activities like tie-dye and friendship bracelets, playing soccer and volleyball, running house meetings, dealing with miscellaneous problems, and trying to get the kids to go to bed. It was the most fun job I've ever had! I loved teaching the kids, having intellectual conversations with them about college-level math and science, playing with them, and getting to know them. I still keep in touch with some of my campers, and will be life-long friends with some of my co-counselors.


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2020 round-up: Creative Europe video game releases
Creative Europe supports the development of prototypes for narrative-led video games that demonstrate a high level of ambition in terms of innovation, cultural diversity, gameplay, user experience and artistic expression. The aim of the support is to improve the competitiveness of the European video games industry by increasing its capacity to develop works with a high circulation potential, both in the EU and beyond.
10 MEDIA-supported games were released in 2020 (with 2 available to pre-order for 2021), including three from UK developers The Chinese Room, Revolution Software and Wales Interactive.
To see a recap of previous year's releases take a look at our articles for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and 2019.
Journey to New Atlantis
Journey to New Atlantis is a post-apocalyptic adventure game that follows Lana and her friend Marco in their quest to find water for Lana's ill grandfather, in a world almost completely dried up. Lana's grandfather tells them of an oasis city called New Atlantis, and the two children will need to brave sandstorms, roving bands of survivors, and traverse wonderful landscapes that show humankind's effect on the environment. This post-apocalyptic game was developed by Portuguese company BeActive Pruducoes Interactivas and was released in the last week of 2019.
Available on: Steam
Bookbound Brigade (previously called Super Awesome Brigade)
What if all the protagonists of books lost their memory? Venture into their world and beat the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school! Bookbound Brigade is a new take on the established Metroidvania genre where classic stories and well-known characters get the video game treatment and where the player gets to lead a colorful bunch of real and fictional heroes in a quest to battle overwhelming hordes of monsters and bring order back to the literary world. This literary and historical labyrinthine game was developed by Italian company Digital Tales.
Available on: Steam / PS4 / Nintendo Switch
Broken Lines was developed by Danish PortaPlay and is a war-game told from the perspective of the individual soldiers. A game for people who like real-time tactics and strategy games, but are too slow to play them. Give orders to your men, while in pause - and total control. Then see the execution in real-time - sometimes resulting in catastrophic failure.
Available on: Steam / Nintendo Switch
Someday You'll Return
Developed by Czech's CBE Software, Someday You'll Return is a story-driven psychological horror game about a desperate search for a missing daughter deep in the woods where you swore you'd never return, brought to you by the creative duo behind J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars.
Little Orpheus
From UK developer The Chinese Room, the BAFTA-winning team behind Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Dear Esther, this is a side-scrolling adventure game about one comrade's journey to the centre of the Earth. The year is 1962. NASA are trying to put a man on the moon but in a remote corner of Siberia, a Soviet cosmonaut is heading in the other direction. Ivan Ivanovich is dropped into an extinct volcano in his exploration capsule, Little Orpheus, to explore the centre of the earth!
Available on: Apple Arcade
Beyond a Steel Sky (previously called The Enemy Within)
Developed by UK based Revolution Software, Beyond a Steel Sky is a dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller in which engaging puzzles drive a fast-paced narrative set in a dynamic gameworld that responds to – and is subverted by – the player's actions. It was created by Charles Cecil, maker of the Broken Sword series, with art direction by Dave Gibbons, legendary comic book artist behind Watchmen.
Available on: Apple Arcade / Steam
Maid of Sker
Maid of Sker, developed by Wales Interactive, is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from British folklore. Armed with only a defensive sound device, you'll utilise stealth tactics to avoid death amongst a cult of sound-based AI enemies. Set in 1898 and inspired by the haunting Welsh tale of Elisabeth Williams, this is a story of a family empire driven by torture, slavery, piracy and a supernatural mystery that suffocates the grounds of the hotel.
Available on: Steam / Nintendo Switch / Xbox One / PS4
The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos
Developed by French company Artefacts Studio this is a heroic fantasy universe of the Dungeon of Naheulbeuk with an unlikely and clumsy team of heroes in an epic and challenging tactical RPG. Live an adventure filled with humor, surprises and silly encounters!
Available on: Steam / iOS
The Girl of Glass: A Summer Bird's Tale
Developed by Swedish company Markus with Friends, this game brings the story of Kristal as she sets out on her journey to better understand herself and the world around her in a point and click adventure game, featuring turn-based combat and hand-painted environments.
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice
The next multi-platform conquest begins! Publisher Assemble Entertainment and German developer CrazyBunch present the point-and-click adventure Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice, which follows the iconic ladies' man, Larry Laffer, through the Kalau'a archipelago as he searches high and low for his lost love, the delightfully divine Faith.
Available on: Steam / GOG - and from Spring 2021 on: Nintendo Switch / PS4 / Xbox One
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Created by Bloober Team, an indie developer based in Kraków, Poland, The Medium is a third-person psychological horror game that features patented dual-reality gameplay and an original soundtrack co-composed by Arkadiusz Reikowski and Akira Yamaoka.
Scheduled for release on 28 January 2021 on Steam / Xbox Series XlS
Developed by German company Realmforge Studios, Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humour.
Will be available from Spring 2021 on: Nintendo Switch / PC / PS4 / Xbox One
European Commission publishes audiovisual action plan
Second round of Single Project results announced
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Two UK films receive Selective Scheme support


Dom La Nena Debut Record, "Ela," Comes Out January 13, 2013 - Mapanare.us Constantly.Consuming.Culture.
Dom La Nena, born in Brazil, has her debut record, Ela, coming out January 15, 2013. You can check out a single from the record, No Meu Pas, below. You can also check out the video for that track, HERE.
La Nena is a cellist and singer. Her record includes songs in both English and Portuguese. Though born in Brazil she has lived all over—France, Brazil, Argentina. La Nena currently resides in France. Keep eyes open for a tour in 2013.


Twenty-one? That's far too young to be diagnosed with breast cancer, or so Liz thought. This brave young lady opens up about her unbelievable diagnosis! Early detection saves lives, so go on, schedule your annual today!


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Karnataka HC slams Mumbai Police for following Republic COO Priya Mukherjee to Bengaluru to question her, grants her transit bail
Priya Mukherjee attended Mumbai police questioning on 17 and 18 November, went to Bengaluru to meet ailing father on 19 after informing the police, but Mumbai police reached Bengaluru on 20th and asked her to come to a police station in Bengaluru on 21st
In an important development in the TRP manipulation case, the Karnataka High Court today slammed the Mumbai Police for rushing to Bengaluru to question Republic COO Priya Mukherjee. The court made critical statements for Mumbai police while delivering the verdict on Mukherjee's petition seeking protection from arrest, and granted her 20 days of transit bail. The court also noted that neither Mukherjee nor Republic TV was named in the complaint filed in the TRP manipulation case.
The High Court said Mumbai police failed to explain they had rushed to Bengaluru when Priya Mukherjee had already appeared for questioning in Mumbai earlier, and she had visited Bengaluru for a few days after informing Mumbai police. The court accepted that the petitioner's argument that there is reasonable apprehension that the Mumbai Police may arrest her, and hence granted her transit bail while directing her to approach an appropriate court for regular anticipatory bail.
The High Court also ordered that in case she is arrested during this period, she will be released on a bond of Rs 2 lakh and two sureties.
The plea was filed by Republic COO Priya Mukherjee after Mumbai police chased her to Bengaluru to question her, saying that she apprehends that she might be arrested. Mukherjee was issued summons by Mumbai police on November 17 and 18, and her statements were taken from 11.30 am to 5.30 pm in Mumbai. On 19th November, she wrote a letter to Mumbai police informing that she was going to Bengaluru as her father was ill, and informed that she will return in a few days and join the investigation.
On 20th November, she went to Bengaluru and sent another letter to Mumbai police informing that she will return to Mumbai by November 24, and will be available for questioning from that date. But on the same day, i.e., November 20, a team of Mumbai police arrived at Bengaluru, and issued her two notices. In the second notice, she was asked to appear for questioning at the Bannerghatta police station on 21st November. Following this development, she filed the plea with the Karnataka High Court seeking relief from arrest by Mumbai police.
Mumbai police opposed the plea in the court, saying that the petitioner was 'shopping at different courts'. The police alleged that Priya Mukherjee approached Karnataka High Court after she was denied relief by Mumbai High Court. However, the counsel of the Republic COO rejected this claim, saying it was Arnab Goswami who had filed the plea at Mumbai High Court, and she didn't file any plea there.
The main contention of Mumbai police was that the petition was not maintainable, and there was no apprehension of arrest. But the High Court rejected the claim, and noted that courts can consider an application made under section 438.
Bench: There is no dispute on the fact that in the complaint, there is no mention of the Petitioner as well as the Company.
It is not in dispute that the Petitioner had approached Mumbai police on November 17 and 18. Her statements were taken from 11:30 to 5:30, Bench.
— Bar & Bench (@barandbench) November 25, 2020
Noting the circumstances of the case, the High Court said, 'there is no dispute on the fact that in the complaint, there is no mention of the Petitioner as well as the Company,' referring to the complaint filed by Hansa Research in the TRP case which had named India Today, not Republic TV as alleged by Mumbai Police.
The court also noted that Priya Mukherjee had appeared for questioning in Mumbai as per police summons, and left for Bengaluru after informing Mumbai police. The court said that when Mumbai police was asked why they needed to rush to Bengaluru to question her after she sought a short time to visit her father, they had no answer. The High Court further added that the Mumbai Police could not explain why she was summoned to a police station in Bengaluru.
The court also noted that the notice issued to Priya Mukherjee asking her to appear at the Bannerghatta police station didn't state the reason for the same.
Rejecting the contention of Mumbai police, the court said that when personal liberty of a person is under threat the petition can seek relief from courts. The bench of Justice H P Sandesh said that Mumbai Police was misusing the SC judgement in Arnesh Kumar v State of Bihar case, and the court will have to come to the rescue of citizens on such cases.
"Police are not applying their mind whether a cognizable offence is made out or not. Police should satisfy the Court on why they are arresting a person", the court said.
Karnataka High Court


The following interview was conducted while I was a design student at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. One of our class assignments was to interview a favorite living designer. While many of my classmates chose superstar graphic designers such as David Carson, Stefan Sagmeister, and April Greiman, I instantly chose Naomi Yang of Exact Change. Perhaps more commonly known as a musician of Damon & Naomi and Galaxie 500 acclaim, Yang is actually both musician and designer. She is the graphic artist behind all the packaging for Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi, books published by Exact Change, as well as Web sites damonandnaomi.com and exactchange.com.
The interview was subsequently published in Yeti magazine, issue no. 3. Visit Yeti at this link.
JOE CHAPPELL: I've read you were an undergraduate at Harvard. Did you receive formal design training there, or are you primarily a self-taught designer?
NAOMI YANG: I was a visual art major at Harvard; my senior thesis was in painting but I also did projects in photography, industrial design and landscape studies. I took one class in graphic design, but otherwise it was something that I did more outside of school. I designed posters for plays and concerts, and even a logo for the band that Damon and Dean were in (it was with another bass player—this was years before we started Galaxie 500). At that moment in rock history, every band needed a logo!
The summer before I went to Harvard I worked as an apprentice in Milton Glaser's office in New York. In high school I had done a lot of poster design and Milton Glaser was my hero. I spent most of that summer making photostats. It was the only way you could change the size of the type that you ordered from a typesetter—otherwise you had to reorder all new type. The photostat machine was a huge camera-contraption with which you took a photo of the type, altering the percentage of the original, and then developing it inside the machine by sticking your arms through these holes and looking through a little light-safe window. And then, if you changed your mind, and decided you wanted yet a different size of type—you had to make another photostat!
But by the end of the summer they were also letting me do things such as letter spacing, which meant I took a strip of display type and glued it down with rubber cement to a board. And then I had to cut along the top and bottom edges of the type and between each letter, and look at the relationship of each letter to each other and if the spacing was even. If not, I had to slide each letter over a tiny bit until the spacing was perfect—then you made a fresh photostat of it so you had one without the cut lines to paste-up in the final artwork.
So, I guess I had a little formal training in some very old fashioned skills! When I first got a computer and Quark XPress, I was so happy—I couldn't believe how easy it was to change the point size and letter spacing of the type!
JOE: I am familiar with your designs for Exact Change and the packaging of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi albums. What other design jobs have you done? Is there any one project that stands out?
NAOMI: I've done a bunch of freelance work over the years, but I enjoy working on my own projects the most. Although I know part of the job of a graphic designer is to meet the client's needs with fabulous invention, I tend to just be bummed out by a client's needs! I am rarely inspired unless I can just do what I want. That said, many of the jobs I have done are for friends or people who like my work, which is always fun. They tend to let me do whatever I want.
JOE: What is your design philosophy and/or process? How do you work?
JOE: As a publisher of experimental literature, what is your relationship to typography? How do you decide upon a particular typeface for a book?
NAOMI: I love typesetting prose; I enjoy a well-proportioned page so much! I worked in the rare book library at Harvard, in the manuscript department, during graduate school (well, as I was in the process of dropping out of architecture school) and I have a real love for medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The proportions of the type to the margins and the way the letters, printed with metal type, look are just so beautiful—they are wonderful objects.
So I try and create that kind of feel in our offset-printed Mac-typeset books and in our CD packaging. I try to have a luxury to the proportions of the page, a ceremony to the flow of the front matter, and a bit of whimsy in the details, like the running heads and the page numbers. I always hope that the packaging of the book or the CD will be a little world unto itself (not to mention that music will be too).
Choosing fonts is usually just a matter of feel. I love both the old-style fonts with a lot of contrast between thicks and thins and eccentricities, such as Didot or Centaur, while I also love a lot of sans-serif types, such as DIN or Gill. I hate Times Roman and all those types that have no personality!!!
JOE: Who are some of your favorite graphic designers, past or present, and what in particular attracts you to their work?
NAOMI: Well, as I said before, when I was very young Milton Glaser was very important to me. I think that my love for the powerful image resonated with his incredible drawings. With just a few simple lines he could express so much. And his work is always so clever and funny too.
Later, as I discovered post-punk music, the work of (Factory Records designer) Peter Saville was very important to me. Everything about his work always is so elegant; so few elements but chosen so carefully. I always think of Peter Saville's covers and (Joy Division/ New Order musician) Peter Hook's bass lines at the heart of my early thinking about design and music.
Another designer that I have always loved is Bruce Rogers—there's not so much information available about him, but he was a book designer from the early part of the century who did incredibly whimsical and inventive things with type ornaments. He also designed the typeface "Centaur." I have always loved everything I have seen of his, especially his great title pages (if you can find a book called Books and Printing: a Treasury for Typophile by Paul A. Bennett, there is an essay about Bruce Rogers in it with some samples). And also on the list would have to be: Bruce Mau (Zone Books); Louise Fili; and Illiazd (European, worked with the Surrealists—did an amazing book with Max Ernst called Maxmiliana), and the Bauhaus graphic designers. Not to mention a long list of architects, painters, photographers, whose work I love!
JOE: As a musician, does music also influence your visual work? Do you find you approach music and design in a similar fashion, or is the process quite different for each?
NAOMI: I don't think my music necessarily directly influences my visual work or vice versa. They are such different media. But I do think that naturally a lot of the same aesthetic principles are there in both. I am the same person, after all, making all the choices—bad and good! Making something that is beautiful is always my number one desire, and in both making music and art I definitely favor a process of tinkering, stripping down the elements, hopefully leaving just what is lovely and valuable and direct.
JOE: Among fine art circles, and perhaps even art schools, there has often been a disdain for graphic design because of its underlying commercial orientation. What are your thoughts regarding the line separating fine art and graphic design?
NAOMI: I had that question myself for years—but, for me, it was not just about graphic design vs. fine art, but about music vs. fine art too. I had originally wanted to be a painter and when I dropped out of architecture school it was to paint as well as play music. But, as Galaxie 500 was doing so well that I had no time to paint, I felt worried that it wasn't really spending my time making art, it was pop culture, and somehow a much less valuable pursuit than painting. I suffered a lot of anxiety about that as we toured and spent all our time on music—that I was not attending to the real art that I hoped to make. Graphic design certainly posed a similar problem to me. It was fun, like music, not solitary and miserable, like painting, and therefore not as worthy.
But I came to realize, slowly, after G500 broke up, and a lot of thinking about things later, that really everything can be art and everything can be turned into a commodity, so that it's up to you just to choose what you want to do and do it well and with soul. The fine art world CERTAINLY takes commerciality into consideration and, it is certainly true that music and graphic art can be beautiful and moving. So in the end I think it's just about trying to do something real and sincere.
JOE: Do you have any advice in particular for a young designer just starting out?
There is much to learn and continue learning from the knowledge and innovations that surround us every day of our lives and the wisdom imparted by Naomi may just go some way to assisting that process in some way. Hopefully, the interview provided you, the reader with a great deal to think about and mull over without having to resort to strict mind discipline techniques or self regulation in any way. However you mentally process and assimilate what you have just read, remember that you should always trust your own judgement and listen to your hunches!


I recently purchased the new iPhone XS. I've been noticing how my phone will say 3g a lot instead of 4g or LTE in the top right corner. Why am I getting 3g data speeds instead of 4g on a phone that is fully capable of running 4g speeds?
Go to Settings-General and see if there is a profile there and, if there is delete it and restart the phone.
1) turn Airplane Mode on and then off again.
4) Turn off the phone, remove sim, replace it and turn the phone back on again.
If none of these help, make sure there is no carrier settings update available for your phone.
If you still have problems, check the APN settings by dialing *3001#12345#* and then selecting PDP Context Info and then 0.
When I dialed the number the only options were Device Info, LTE, UMTS, AND GSM. I went through each option and there was nothing I could hit that said PDP Context Info.
Make sure "Enable LTE" is turned on for both voice and data.


Verizon Wireless has added another phone to its lineup, the Motorola W315. We first caught up with the W315 earlier this year at CTIA. Design wise the W315 borrows from the PEBL, albeit with an external stub antenna.
Verizon Wireless is selling the W315 for $29.99 with a new 2-year service contract. Another photo of the phone is available below.


Set-up by Karen Lowe, the ballet school caters for children aged from 15 months through graded RAD syllabus classes. We provide a fun but structured introduction to the joys of dance.
Our classes are predominantly located in West London, with venues in Kensington, Chelsea, Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Fulham, Notting Hill, Holland Park and Islington.
Parents are encouraged to participate with their children in the mum's and baby's class, and subsequently to watch their progress as they move through the age-groups. There is a strong emphasis on theatrical performance from Karen's team who are all classically trained ballerinas and teachers who actively perform and demonstrate with the children.
The classes are conducted to a mixture of classical and children's music to help stimulate imagination, develop rhythm and encourage musicality. Exercises and storytelling help the pupils to learn the appropriate steps for their ages in an organised, creative atmosphere. The sessions further encourage balance and co-ordination whilst improving the child's self-confidence.
The Kensington Ballet School's priority is always that the children enjoy and look forward to their classes as an outlet to self-expression through movement and dance whilst providing a disciplined backdrop to participate in a group environment with other children.
A classically trained ballerina and teacher, Karen started dancing at the age of 18 months and subsequently attended the "Nesta Brooking School of Ballet".
She was awarded a Cecchetti scholarship at the age of eleven which enabled her to study with prestigious teachers from the "Royal Ballet School". She then furthered her knowledge at the "Arts Educational Schools", London.
Karen has performed professionally as a solo artiste with various ballet companies in London and Europe, dancing in roles such as the pas de quatre in "Swan Lake" and Clara in "Nutcracker". She has also performed in West End musicals including "Phantom of the Opera" at Her Majesty's Theatre, London playing the role of Meg Giry.
Thereafter she taught at schools such as Newton Prep, Eaton Square and Young England Kindergarten prior to setting up the "Kensington Ballet School". Karen is a fully qualified Royal Academy of Dance teacher having taken the "Professional Dancers' Teaching Diploma" at their Battersea headquarters.


ANSTO announces that a license has been issued by the Therapeutic Goods Administration to produce Lutetium-177 (Lu-177) for use in clinical trials.
Australian investigations and overseas trials have indicated Lutetium-177, combined with various molecules, has potential for the treatment of a variety of cancers, including neuroendocrine tumours. Though considered to be a rare tumour type, neuroendocrine tumours affect around 8000 Australians, with approximately 750 new cases diagnosed each year.
For those patients that may be suitable for this type of treatment, through clinical trials, access has been limited to Lutetium-177 from overseas supply.
This announcement represents the culmination of several years of work to design, construct, validate and obtain approvals for manufacturing this product in Australia.
"What this means is ANSTO now has capacity to produce a reliable supply, for clinicians, of a new investigational product that could lead to potentially-lifesaving cancer treatments," said ANSTO's Manager of Nuclear Business, Shaun Jenkinson.
ANSTO will produce the product through a process that involves irradiating a target material in the OPAL research reactor.
The irradiated material then undergoes a separation, purification and sterilisation process, before being sent to hospitals for administration to patients.
"This builds on our suite of nuclear medicines to diagnose cancer, heart disease or skeletal injuries, and treat thyroid cancer, lymphomas and lung cancer," said the Manager of ANSTO Health, Mark Moore.


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Forest – Emotions
Album Review, Events, M3, Music
Eh, what can I say? We really did turn into a music oriented blog. Meh. And I guess doing reviews besides Touhou and Exit Trance would be a good idea.
A short… well… overture.
Very nice considering I only gave this a listen cause of the cover. Nice vocals and some awesome guitar. Which isn't my usual thing (and yet I've said that in a bajillion albums that are guitar centric). The vocals are really nice. For doujin quality? Hell, this is better than most of what came out this season single wise.
I wasn't nearly as impressed by the vocals but the songs are two different types. Rock and pop. So you can expect different things. Pretty cute but the lackluster vocals sorta ruin it for me.
Muuch nicer. From track three that is. Vocals are back to being of great quality. Song too. I'd have a tough choice if I had to pick between this and track two. Both sound professionally produced, ripped straight from an anime. Which is pretty impressive I'd say.
The song is just… ehhh. How do you say it? It's just generally what I try to avoid in life.
Better than track five, better than track three. The vocals are still not as superb as the different paced counterparts but this one is very catchy. With the quick singing, I can't help but be charmed.
Interesting. I expected something more ballad-like. It is, in a way. But the little drum and guitar thing at the begining tells you it's going to change later on. It does but only for a bit. The piano stands out much better anyways. I think this is real well done. It's slow but has a sort of jazzy feel to it at parts. It can become faster and more emotional in a second. Truly well done, I'd say.
となり
Another slower track but not as entrancing as track seven was. The vocals get some real nice work here. I'd really like to know who exactly did the vocals, I assumed it was atleast two different people but I'm not sure. I was pretty surprised to learn that the guitars were done by someone from Demetori.
たとえば明日世界が終わるなら
Back to the stuff I appear to like more. It's not as strong as the other faster more dramatic tracks because something weird seems to be going on with the vocals. But the song itself really caught my attention.
I was hoping the album would end off on something more exciting (which were the highlight tracks). But this is a nice slow track too. It's still of a very high quality. Maybe you could picture it from an anime too? If only anime inserts or EDs were still like this.
Fang's Rating: 10/10 (I'm dropping tens like it's nothing, lately. There have been atleast four I think (the Alternait one shouldn't count). But I found very little fault with this album and enjoyed it completely.)
This is kind of off topic, but you know what you should do? Add samples of the music on to these posts, like zzeroparticle and lelangir (Anime Instrumentality and lelangir.dotq.org). Your comment on this being a music-oriented blog makes quite a bit of sense; it hadn't clicked until you said it, but now that I'm thinking about it, you really do post a lot about music. And since anime/doujin music is such a great niche that few people cover, it's nice to see someone doing it, but it would probably help if you provided material for us to listen to (unlike providing an episode of anime on YouTube for an episodic post since it's assumed that the person saw the episode, most readers wouldn't remember the individual songs on a soundtrack that clearly, so I think it would be helpful).
Fang-tan
That really does sound like a good idea. It would probably push people to wanting to listen to the album, which is my goal. I still have some albums from M3 I didn't listen to yet so I can try out with one of those. It'll be like a test run.


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Watch Movements Got You Confused? The Snob Has Answers
Watch Snob
However, as you undoubtedly are aware, all things are virtually never equal. A slow-beat watch that is properly adjusted to temperature, isochronism, and positions will out-perform a faster beat watch every time. 36,000 vph has a theoretical advantage but that advantage is minimal enough that it can be drowned out by other effects, and in and of itself is not an indication of a chronometrically superior timepiece.
Forced to choose between the Speedmaster and the El Primero, I would certainly choose the Speedmaster. The El Primero is a very desirable chronograph, of course, with a place in history that can't be gainsaid — but it's not the Moonwatch.
I want to ask your opinion on the reincarnated Rolex Cellini Prince, specifically in gold with a black dial. I admire the watch aesthetically, especially for its display back case (a surprise from the otherwise obdurate brand), but can't get past the model name: an odd conjunction of an artist's name and political treatise of the same vintage (I assume). This isn't the only example I can think of (IWC Da Vinci, Ulysse Nardin Michelangelo, et al.) and it strikes me as an odd thing — especially given the watch's proportions, which a proper Renaissance man would detest.
Perhaps the new Prince, like Cellini, does more for Rolex autobiographically than artistically? I was hoping to get your opinion on this, and more broadly, on whether poorly named watches deter your interest in them. Thank you in advance for your time.
If a bad or clumsy name for a watch were a deal-breaker, very few watches would be sold, and sometimes you find the phenomenon in otherwise quite wonderful watches. Look at the otherwise lovely Audemars Piguet Grande et Petite Sonnerie Repetition Minutes Carillon, Reserve de Sonnerie et Dynamographe — descriptively accurate, yes, but about as musical to the ear as a flushing commode. And though one doesn't expect attunement to subtlety on any level from Hublot, many of the "Bang" watches have names that sound like poorly conceived pornographic novels — as my American friends would say, the jokes write themselves.
So, no, the affixing of Cellini's name to the Prince doesn't bother me in the least. As a matter of fact they are among the most interesting Rolexes, with really well-made movements that are, in terms of design, some of the most clear and coherent expressions of the Franco-Swiss tradition on the market. So much the better for those of you with real taste; in the Cellini Prince, you have a Rolex that you won't see on the wrist of every scruffy-whiskered poseur who thinks NATO straps are the last word in, ah, "cool."
Watches As Status Symbols: The Watch Snob Holds Court
Are Rolexes Becoming Too Common? The Snob Weighs In
The Watch Snob on Sleek Swatches and If Steel Has Finally Run Its Course
Watch Snob Talks Rolex, Patek and AP Sports Watches in Steel
Watch Snob Dissects the In-House Movement


Excellent Press 2006 . large 8vo, minor wrinkling to btm edge of d/w, v v minor indents to rear of d/w o/w VG++/VG+ 515 gms.
Swan Hill 1st 1992 . 8vo, VG++/VG++ 415 gms.
Elliot Rightway Books 2nd edn 1952 . 8vo, v v min bmps + wr to bds, wr, chps, crsing + closed trs to d/w o/w VG+/G+ 265 gms.
A & C Black 1st 1978 . 8vo, glazed pictorial boards F 215 gms.
Countrywise Books 1st 1969 . 8vo, no d/w, sunning to spine o/w VG++ 285 gms.
Ernest benn 1st UK 1978 . 8vo, v v min wr to btm edge of bds, sl crsing + sunning to spine of d/w o/w VG++/VG+ 370 gms.
David & Charles 3rd imp 1981 . 8vo, glazed pictorial boards, v v min bmp to bds, small name to fep o/w VG++ 365 gms.
A & C Black 1st 1950 2nd imp . 8vo, sl wr to base of bds, crsing, wr + trs to d/w plus small areas mssg o/w VG+/G 260 gms.
Swan Hill Press 1st 1990 . 8vo M/F 540 gms.
Pelham Books 1st 1967 . 8vo, no d/w, wr to bds, fep mssg, spine shaken o/w VG+ 575 gms.


I wanted to find out if long term exposure to water of different temperatures would affect different types of seed's germination. This year has proven that the world's weather patterns, and water distribution volumes are everchanging. I wanted to see if sweet corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, and green bean seed germination is altered by long term exposure to water of different temperatures.
I seperated the seeds into groups of five. I placed five seeds into a clear 10 ounce labeled cup, with 8 ounces of purified water. I put the cups in three different temperatures; hot(85 degrees F), room(60 degrees F), and cold(35 degrees F).
The hot was created with a light bulb, the room was done in a windowsill in my house, and the cold was done in my refrigerator. I repeated my tests five times to gain conclusive results.
In the room temperature tests, the sweet corn germinated the most seeds. In the hot temperature tests, the watermelon seeds germinated the most. In the cold temperature tests, the sweet corn again germinated the most seeds.
The cantaloupe and green bean seeds did not germinate well in the hot and cold temperatures. All four seed types germinated well at room temperature.
The different water temperatures did affect the number of seeds that germinated. The cold water had the most adverse effect on each seed type. The hot water almost halted all germination in the cantaloupe seeds.
The long-term exposure to water in general had an adverse effect on every seed type in comparison to the results that were listed on the back of each seed packet. I guess water, and it's temperature can alter seed germination rates.


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Sharma V, Hiller M #. Increased alignment sensitivity improves the usage of genome alignments for comparative gene annotation. Nucleic Acids Res, 45(14) 8369-8377, 2017.
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AFC Urgent Care Walk-in Clinic Memphis is located near you at 5475 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38119. We offer many valuable Walk-in services for our patients at your nearby Walk-in Clinic, AFC/ Memphis.
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This statistic illustrates the perceived changes in the cost of rents or mortgages over the previous six months for Millennials in Great Britain as of 2016. It can be seen that almost one fifth (18 percent) of Millennials stated that the costs of rent or a mortgage had increased at that time.
*Full survey question: "How, if at all, have each of the following varied in the past six months? Cost of rent or mortgage."


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"We live in an environment where there are moving images constantly around us. But in 1897, this was startling and new and completely revolutionary. It was a different way of looking at the world." In 1939, MoMA acquired a treasure of thirty-six reels of 68mm nitrate prints and negatives made in cinema's first years. Everything that survived of the Biograph film company lives on those reels, including a rare bit of moving image footage of Queen Victoria. For the latest edition of How to See, we visited MoMA's film archives in Hamlin, Pennsylvania to learn more about the incredible quality and clarity of this newly discovered nineteenth-century movie, and the efforts archivists make to preserve such irreplaceable snapshots of history. Curator Dave Kehr joins the discussion to help us look at the early film with the same awe-inspired, expanded view of the world of its first audiences. Subscribe for our latest videos, and invitations to live events: http://mo.ma/subscribe Explore our collection online: http://mo.ma/art Plan your visit in-person: http://mo.ma/visit Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: https://moma.org/join
Credits Director: Sean Yetter Editor: Dustin Waldman Cinematographer: Nathan Lynch Colorist: Daniel Orentlicher Original music: Brock Chart Audio Engineer: Brock Babcock Bill Morrison. Decasia. 2002. Courtesy the artist Archival photo of "Biograph Studio, The Bronx" courtesy of Marc Wanamaker/Bison Archives Additional archival footage courtesy of Getty Images and British Pathé Additional music by The Musicbed and De Wolfe Music Special thanks to James Layton, Courtney Holschuh, Nancy Lukacinsky, and Theo Harrison of the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.
The Museum of Modern Art – Published on YouTube May 27, 2019
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Midwest Urban Strategies congratulates Nicole Sherard-Freeman, president and CEO of Detroit Employment Solutions Corp. (DESC), for being highlighted in Crain's Detroit Business as one of the 2018 Notable Women in Nonprofits.
Since she was chosen among 300 national candidates in 2016 to be president and CEO of DESC, Sherard-Freeman has shown expertise in strategy, policy and leadership development. For two years she has been responsible for leading the strategy and operations of the City of Detroit's workforce agency, the lead implementation partner for Detroit at Work and the home of Grow Detroit's Young Talent employment initiative. She is known as an advocate and agent for the city's poverty-reduction strategies.
Midwest Urban Strategies is proud of all of our members and congratulates Nicole on being recognized for her invaluable leadership. In just two short years, Nicole has provided a vision that has helped shape the Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation and we look forward to her instrumental guidance in the future.
Sherard-Freeman serves on the boards of Schoolcraft College Foundation and Detroit Economic Growth Corp., on the advisory board for the University of Michigan – Youth Policy Lab and is co-vice chair the Workforce Intelligence Network.
You can read Crain's Detroit Business report on Nicole Sherard-Freeman here.
president and CEO of Detroit Employment Solutions Corp. (DESC) for being highlighted in Crain's Detroit Business as one of the 2018 Notable Women in Nonprofits.


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The pinnacle of our FIELD collection is one to make you stand out on the shoot. New upgraded with solid brass M&G branded cartridge rivets, truly set off with two panels on the hips of alternating real guinea fowl and pheasant feathers. The feathers are then protected with a specially formulated protection which further secures them for a long lasting finish without taking away their natural beauty.
With the vegetable tanned aniline leather giving a half matt look, and the feathered and stitched edges create a smart look, completed by the full grain nubuck for a luxurious feel.


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From grief to gratitude
Remembering the centennial of the Russian Revolution
October 31, 2018 | God at work in the Church | Volume 22 Issue 21
Maria H. Klassen | Special to Canadian Mennonite
Historian Aileen Friesen speaks to a full house at St. Catharines United Mennonite Church at an event commemorating the centennial of the Russian Revolution. (Photo by Randy Klaassen)
Moments in time can change the course of history. Decisions made in Russia in the years following the Russian Revolution in 1917 changed life for thousands of Mennonite families.
On Oct. 13, 2018, an evening of remembering and thanksgiving took place at St. Catharines United Mennonite Church. Those who took part and those who attended remembered together the years of grief for their forebears in Russia and gave thanks for their lives in Canada a century later.
The idea for this event came from John B. Giesbrecht and, with the help of George Dyck, an evening of history and music was planned. The event was hosted by Randy Klaassen, the church's pastor.
Music for the evening included a mass choir conducted by John Rempel and accompanied by Kathy Rempel, who performed Franz Schubert's "Deutsche Messe." The congregation sang "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" and "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah."
A Russian folk song by soloists Renate Klaassen and Elizabeth Pereira, with pianist Shirley Dick and mandolin player Alan Teichroeb, told the story of a mother sewing a red party dress for her daughter, who doesn't think she'll ever wear it.
In his presentation, "Doors closed, doors opened," Senator Peter Harder said, "Governments sometimes make mistakes . . . and sometimes governments correct mistakes."
In May 1919, the Canadian government sanctioned an order-in-council that Doukhobors, Hutterites and Mennonites would not easily be assimilated into Canada and should be prohibited from entering the country. These groups were undesirable, Harder said, because of their peculiar customs, habits, modes of living and methods of holding property. This order-in-council was rescinded in June 1922, allowing Mennonites to immigrate to Canada. This decision allowed many of the parents and grandparents of those assembled to come to Canada, a decision that changed the course of many lives.
In her talk, "Out of the ashes of revolution, into the promise of Canada," Aileen Friesen, co-director of the Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg and executive director of the Plett Foundation, invited those in attendance to remember the major impact the Russian Revolution made on the course of their Mennonite history.
There were, in fact, two revolutions in 1917, she said. In February, Czar Nicholas II abdicated, which ended the 300-year-old Romanov dynasty. During the reign of the czars, Mennonites lived in thriving communities in the Russian empire, which they had built through their hard work, the good fertile soil and the booming wheat market. They started successful businesses, expanded their educational systems, sent their youth to study further afield, and became involved in politics, becoming mayors of large cities. But life was not all a paradise. There was a land hunger that divided the Mennonites into haves and have-nots, and religious divisions tore families apart.
The second revolution, in October 1917, saw Lenin take leadership of the Russian government. Life changed in the Mennonite villages. The Red Army took money and horses from Mennonite villages. Hostages were taken among Mennonite leaders, and millions of rubles had to be collected to secure their release. Executions took place for past crimes that had been fabricated. Groups of Mennonite men organized and armed themselves in self-defence units, patrolling village streets to protect people and property.
In the summer of 1918, Mennonite villages were caught between the Red and White armies and roving bandits. Villages were burned, families were massacred, and rapes, murders and pillaging was rampant. The full impact of the trauma of civil war was long lasting—no balm could heal these wounds. These were the conditions of 1918.
In 1920, the Red Army was victorious. Desperate for help, the Mennonites reached across their borders and the ocean to their American and Canadian families. The relief kitchens of Mennonite Central Committee, founded in 1921, fed all in need. And the need was great. Not only was the country recovering from the ravages of war, it was also in the midst of a widespread famine and a typhus epidemic. The first train of Mennonite immigrants left the Soviet Union in 1923.
More than 20,000 Mennonites were able to leave before the doors were shut. B.B. Janz, H.H. Ewert, David Toews, A.A. Friesen and Gerhard Enns were instrumental in helping with transportation, lodging, travel credit and so much more.
Today, through the opening of the KGB secret police files in Ukraine, Russian Mennonites are able to retrieve information about many of their families and leaders who remained and disappeared in subsequent years, especially during 1937 and 1938. (See "UWinnipeg Fellowship to crack open KGB archives.")
Donations from this centennial event were collected for the University of Winnipeg's project for the retrieval of KGB victim files and for the ongoing humanitarian work of the Mennonite Centre in Molochansk, Ukraine.
Elaine Fehr
Worship happened
Stephen Kennel
Theology for a climate emergency
Billy Holdeman-Bass
'Re-learning to swim in baptismal waters'
Peter Reimer
An incessant demand
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Silverlight Tools Release Candidate Now Available!
This release gives Silverlight developers an opportunity to upgrade their Silverlight applications from Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to the final version of Silverlight 2 (RTW - release to web) which is due out later this fall.
For more information on updates in the Silverlight 2 runtime, check out ScottGu's blog.
In addition to being compatible with the post-beta version of the runtime, there are some other improvements that developers can look forward to.
Silverlight Tools now supports Visual Web Developer Express 2008 with SP1. This means that all the tools you need to do Silverlight 2 development are FREE!
Installation of Silverlight Tools now merges the offline help documents into Visual Studio. This means no matter where you are doing development, if you have a question on a component of Silverlight Tools, press F1 to launch the Document Explorer to learn more. Or, if you are just interested in reading more about Silverlight, from the Help menu in Visual Studio, choose Contents, and expand the Silverlight 2 SDK section.
And, the updated version of Silverlight tools also includes improvements to the compression of XAP files.
For more tips about updating your Silverlight applications form Beta 2 to the final version, check out Mike Snow's blog. Also, take a look at the ReadMe page for Silverlight developers that has some known issue that you might encounter.
For Blend users out there, check out the release candidate of Expression Blend 2 SP.
The beta and preview versions of Expression Blend (ie, March 2.5 preview or June 2.5 preview) are not compatible with Silverlight Tools RC0 as they contain an older version of the Silverlight SDK. The Blend 2.5 March Preview and Blend 2.5 June preview build Silverlight 2 Beta 2 applications, not Silverlight 2 RTW applications. Blend 2 SP, however, will build Silverlight 2 RTW applications.
If you do install Blend 2 SP and then decide to uninstall it, you will need to re-install the Silverlight 2 SDK by re-running the tools installation.
Cool, however…either the RC of the Blend SP is not up yet, or the server farm it's hosted on has not been fully refreshed, or something.
The link still takes me to the June Preview.


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Home Events BTCC BTCC race winner and youthful prospect Senna Proctor will join forces with...
BTCC race winner and youthful prospect Senna Proctor will join forces with EXCELR8 Motorsport as their first driver announcement for the 2020 Kwik-Fit British Touring Car Championship.
***** BREAKING NEWS DRIVER SIGNING PRESS RELEASE ****
The 21-year-old has been a regular in the UK's premier Touring Car series for three seasons. During that time, he's raced in two different cars and outfits, bringing a range of experience to Excelr8 as the team embark on its new adventure with the Hyundai i30 Fastback N Performance.
Since being founded in 2009, the Excelr8 name has secured 22 motorsport titles and are now looking for success at the highest level of national touring car racing, as they prepare for the team's second season of competition. 2019 saw them secure a top ten finish in the Independent Teams' Championship, helped by overall points finishes from both drivers.
Proctor is the team's first signing to be announced ahead of the new decade, as both parties engage for a new chapter of their racing lives.
Three-time podium finisher Proctor said; "I am incredibly excited to be joining Excelr8 Motorsport and I can't wait to get behind the wheel of the new Hyundai BTCC car.
"When Excelr8 contacted me back in September about the possibility of leading a new car development for them I have to say I was honoured.
"Having met the team at Excelr8 it was clear that they share the same ambitions as me of one day lifting the BTCC crown and with my past experience of FWD we can grow together and make this become a reality over the next few seasons.
"But it's one step at a time and we are under no illusion that there will be a lot of hard work ahead for 2020, it will be as many top 10 finishes and possibly podiums to get the ball rolling.
"I am heading into my fourth season in the BTCC and along with the expertise of Excelr8 Motorsport I think we could be a force to be reckoned with in 2020 and beyond."
The news is equally received at Excelr8, where founder and Team Owner Justina Williams said; "WOW, we are delighted to have attracted Senna to our team, he is proven in BTCC and will now help lead our new Hyundai i30 development. This will ensure that we continue on our journey towards the sharp end of the BTCC grid and in the longer term to be challenging for BTCC titles together."
Team Principal Oli Shepherd followed up; "2019 was a learning year for Excelr8 in BTCC, whereas 2020 is the year where as a team we will show that we are not just in BTCC to make up the numbers. Senna joining the team is a massive step towards this aim and we are certain that his raw speed and his experience in BTCC will be key ingredients in helping us to make this step forward. We are looking forward to working together with Senna to take the fight to the established teams, bring it on!"
The 2020 Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship begins on the 28-29th March at Donington Park for the first time since 2005.
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