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In the midst of these growing demands to cancel CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court against the cancellation of CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021.
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CBSE Class 12 Board Exam Cancellation News: There has been a lot of hue and cry across the country for cancellation of the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021 because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country. In the midst of these growing demands to cancel CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court against the cancellation of CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021.
According to a DNA report, Tony Joseph, a teacher from Kerala has filed a PIL in the Supreme Court against the cancellation of the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021. In his petition, he cited that the cancellation of the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021 will be unfair for the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021 students. The petition said, "Class 12 exam is an integral part of the life of a student and important for admission to higher educational institutions…."
Notably, till now, there has been no announcement on the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021. It was expected that a decision on the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021 might be announced after Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank-chaired meeting with School Education Secretaries of all the states and union territories on May 17, 2021. However, no announcement on the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021 was made.
In this context, the students have also voiced their demands for the cancellation of the board exams on social media. Several Class 12 Board Exam 2021 candidates have taken to Twitter and are using the hashtag #saveboardstudents with the intent of getting the class 12 board exams cancelled. In the tweets, students are urging the authorities to cancel the Class 12 Board Exam 2021. Some have also suggested to evaluate them through a criteria similar to the one used for CBSE Class 10 Board Exam 2021 students.
It is interesting to note that while Tony Joseph filed a PIL against the cancellation of the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021, last week advocate Mamta Sharma filed a petition on the apex court seeking the cancellation of CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021 as well was the Class 12 board exams conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE). The plea had suggested that the CBSE and CISCE should assess the Class 12 students through an 'objective methodology' within a specified timeframe.
On the other hand, Joseph claimed that the results on the basis of internal assessment will be "unfair" because in the 2021-22 academic year, "hardly any teacher had seen the students physically."
The CBSE is yet to make an announcement on the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021. Last month when the board postponed the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021, it stated that decision on the CBSE Class 12 Board Exam 2021 will be taken after a thorough review of the COVID-19 situation in the country on June 1, 2021. At present, everyone is eagerly waiting for the decision by CBSE.
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Intel experimental prototype and plans for teraflop programmable processors
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Intel Corp. Tuesday (Sept. 26) revealed the first details of its terascale research silicon program, including the development of the world's first programmable processor said to deliver 1 trillion floating point operations per second (Tflops/s).
Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.) also tipped an SRAM and a silicon laser chip, as part of its ongoing research into terascale technology. One of the first prototypes chips in Intel's program is the Tflops/s processor. Containing 80 simple cores and operating at 3.1 GHz, the goal of this experimental chip is to test interconnect strategies for moving terabytes of data from core to core and between cores and memory, according to Intel.
Unlike existing chip designs where hundreds of millions of transistors are arranged, this chip's design consists of 80 tiles laid out in an 8- by 10-block array, according to Intel.
"When combined with our recent breakthroughs in silicon photonics, these experimental chips address the three major requirements for terascale computing — Tflops/s of performance, terabytes-per-second of memory bandwidth, and terabits-per-second of I/O capacity," Rattner said in a statement. "While any commercial application of these technologies is years away, it is an exciting first step in bringing tera-scale performance to PCs and servers."
From CNET, Intel pledges 80 cores in five years for commercial chips
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Abstract for TR-89
Bioassay of o-Anisidine Hydrochloride for Possible Carcinogenicity
Chemical Formula: C7H9NO.ClH
Synonyms/Common Names: 2-methoxyaniline; Fast Red BB Base
Report Date: 1978
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o-Anisidine is used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, one method being the diazotization of o-anisidine and coupling with other aromatic amines or phenols to yield a large number of the azo dyes.
A bioassay of o-anisidine hydrochloride for possible carcinogenicity was conducted by administering the test chemical in feed to Fischer 344 rats and B6C3F1 mice.
Groups of 55 rats of each sex and 55 mice of each sex were administered o-anisidine hydrochloride at one of the following doses, either 5,000 or 10,000 ppm for rats and either 2,500 or 5,000 ppm for mice, for 103 weeks, then observed for 1 or 2 additional weeks. Controls consisted of groups of 55 untreated rats of each sex and 55 untreated mice of each sex. All surviving rats were killed at 103-107 weeks, and all surviving mice at 104 or 105 weeks.
Mean body weights of the dosed male and female rats and mice were lower than those of the corresponding controls throughout the bioassay. Bloody exudates and stained fur in the urogenital area were noted in many dosed animals. Sufficient numbers of animals were at risk in the mice, but not in the rats, for development of late-appearing tumors; however, survival in the rats was 80% or more at week 52.
Transitional-cell carcinomas or papillomas of the urinary bladder occurred at statistically significant incidences (P<0.001) in the low- and high-dose groups of rats (males: controls 0/51, low-dose 52/54, high-dose 52/52; females: controls 0/49, low-dose 1/51, high-dose 22/50); the incidences also had significant dose-related trends (P<0.001) in both species. These lesions were observed as early as week 36 in female rats, week 40 in male rats, and week 45 in male mice. Transitional-cell carcinomas of the pelvis of the kidney occurred with a significant dose-related trend (P=0.005) in the male rats, and the incidence in the high-dose group was significantly higher (P=0.006) than that in the control group (controls 0/53, low-dose 3/55, high-dose 7/53); all rats having this tumor also has a transitional-cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Only one animal in the control groups of rats or mice had any tumor of the urinary system (a transitional-cell papilloma of the pelvis of the kidney in a male mouse).
Follicular-cell tumors of the thyroid (carcinomas, cystadenocarcinomas, adenomas, cystadenomas, and papillary cystadenomas) occurred at statistically significant incidences (P< 0.005) in low- and high-dose groups of male rats (controls 0/53, low-dose 7/40, high-dose 6/40); the incidences also had a dose-related trend (P=0.009). These tumors did not occur at significant incidences in dosed groups of female rats.
It is concluded that under the conditions of this bioassay, o-anisidine hydrochloride was carcinogenic for Fischer 344 rats and B6C3F1 mice, inducing transitional-cell carcinomas or papillomas of the bladder in both rats and mice and in both sexes of each species, transitional-cell carcinomas of the pelvis of the kidney in male rats, and follicular-cell tumors of the thyroid in male rats.
Note: The CAS number on the final version of this Bioassay report was erroneously listed as 134-29-0.
o-Anisidine hydrochloride: Target Organs and Levels of Evidence for TR-089
Levels of Evidence of Carcinogenicity: o-Anisidine Hydrochloride
Sex Species
Male Rats: Positive
Female Rats: Positive
Male Mice: Positive
Female Mice: Positive
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Interactive: A Chicanx Artist's Point of View
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Samanta Helou Hernandez is a freelance multimedia journalist covering food, culture, music, and Latinx issues. Her work has been featured in publications such as LA Weekly, Mitú, and Remezcla among others. You can find her work at samantahelou.com.
Take a closer look at the Chicano art on view at the "Bridges in a Time of Walls: Mexican/Chicano Art from Los Angeles to Mexico"
Chicano art was born out of struggle. During the socio-political movements of the 60s and 70s, artists of Mexican heritage living in the United States created visual expressions to comment on police brutality, racism and inequalities in education, among other issues.
There's no single definition of Chicano/Mexican-American art; much like there is no single definition of American art. Through the decades, Chicano and Mexican-American artists have responded to their environment in unique ways, whether it be avant-garde performance art, neon sculpture, or elaborate cardboard structures. The variety of expressions and experiences of these artists across time, is telling of a Chicano/Mexican-American identity that is as diverse as their work. Ultimately, Chicano/Mexican-American art should be recognized as part of the American art canon.
A current exhibition in Mexico City titled "Bridges in a Time of Walls: Chicano/Mexican-American Art from L.A. to Mexico" uses the AltaMed Health Service's unique art collection to introduce Mexicans to Chicano and Mexican-American art across generations and artistic practices, and in the process, creating a much needed conversation about the experiences of those en el otro lado (on the other side of the border).
We spoke to four artists in this exhibition — two who began their practice in the 70s and two whose work came to prominence in the last 10 years — about their journeys, identities and artistic practices.
Patssi Valdez
Patssi Valdez is a prolific multimedia artist whose practice began in the 1970s with the Avant-garde Chicano performance group, ASCO. The work of ASCO directly commented on pressing issues of the time like racism, police brutality, and inequalities faced by their predominantly Mexican-American community. Patssi's evolution as a solo artist includes collage, photography, sculpture, film and her beloved medium: painting. Her photographic and collage work of the 80s showcased Latinos glammed up and highly decorated as way to comment on the lack of positive representation in mainstream media. Today, she focuses on creating what she calls "narrative paintings" that are often surrealist in nature but tell stories that are imbued with her Mexican culture and the inspiration she finds in objects and the energies of her environment.
During the Asco years, I remember even when I was in the group, it's three men and one woman right. So at our openings, somebody would come up to me go, "Is that your boyfriend?" They always thought one of the men in the group was my boyfriend or I was an art groupie. And I'd say, "No, I created that" "You created that? You're kidding!" I'm like, "No that's my work there." Why couldn't a woman who wore lipstick and eyeliner create something interesting?
The reason I became an artist in the first place is because I found my voice through art because as a young woman and especially a woman who maybe wears makeup and sort of dolls themselves up, people don't really listen to you. They just look at you. They don't really care what you have to say. Through art making I found my voice. I'm an artist because I found freedom there.
Well, I've come full circle. I came from looking outside myself and dealing with political issues. And then at one point, I started to look inside, looking at myself actually. That's when I started these interiors because they became a metaphor for myself.
I can be inspired by the smallest things sometimes. I mean even going into this Mexican bakery in East L.A. It sounds ridiculous, but just to see all those old glass cabinets with wood and the scent in that room. If I had my way I could knock on the door and say, "Could I please come in here with my easel so I could capture the essence of this space?"
I'm inspired by things like that. I mean they enter my being and I just need to find a way to capture that and share that with others.
I can't even imagine not doing art. I think that's what I was put here to do. It's actually in the DNA of my family. They just weren't able to practice it like I was. My aunt could have been a designer. My other aunt was an easel painter part time.
I always say it shows me I didn't choose it, but eventually I did choose it because I did resent it for a little while. I'm like why do I have to care about any of this stuff?! I just want to be normal and regular. Why do I care about the political things that are going on in my neighborhood?
So I sort of had battled with that for a while and then eventually I made peace with it and then accepted it. And I was not turning back.
Ana Serrano
Born in South Central but raised in Downey, Ana Serrano works primarily with cardboard which she turns into built environments informed by her observations of Latino neighborhoods, travels to Mexico and childhood experiences. By placing these imaginary yet familiar structures in the white box of a gallery, Serrano celebrates Latinx culture and its resistance against Eurocentric aesthetic ideals.
Ana Serrano | Samanta Helou Hernandez
Ana Serrano's "Cartonlandia" 2008 | Samanta Helou Hernandez
Learn more about what it means to be Chicano.
I grew up in South Central up until I was nine and then I moved to Downey, California.
That drastic change, was always very obvious to me. The houses were different, you had lawns, you didn't have fences. So I think it really stemmed from that experience that I just became very aware of the built environment since I was little.
The cardboard pieces and all the pieces I make are never recreations of the actual places out in the real world. I'm really just taking all of my memories of the built environment and creating this new space but it always is very familiar. People look at the pieces and will comment like, "Oh, I know where that building is at" and I'm like, "Well, it's not even a real building." But it's so familiar to people when all of these things come together. When the shape of the building, the color of the building, the type of fencing, the type of landscaping come together, then it's so familiar that they think that they've seen this out in the real world.
There's beauty and there's a lot more to these spaces rather than just like the superficial and the aesthetics.
One of the pieces is a craftsman that has been stuccoed over, then there is a pool in the front yard and it's like a kiddie pool, plastic pool which you know is an indication of like a socioeconomic status.
First of all, the type of pool it is and also the fact that it's the front yard like Latinos use front yards as like social spaces. Where a white American want to use it as a social space. The front yard is always to be kept immaculate. And it's like a symbol of like class right? But in Latino neighborhoods the front yard is just an extension of your home. And it's a social space and they're able to use it and really utilize it in any way.
When I see these spaces that Latinos use however they want to use it or however they're used to using it back in their homeland, I see that as a form of resistance and as a form of resisting assimilation which I think is important. We shouldn't always have to live up to this American ideal. We can live in that country and still keep our identity.
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As part of the group Asco, Harry Gamboa Jr. worked alongside Patssi Valdez where they staged performances they dubbed the "No Movie Movies." These stills, photographed by Gamboa Jr., were from films that were never actually made as a way to show the lack of Chicanos in Hollywood. Today, Gamboa Jr. is a prolific multimedia artist, professor, and writer. He's known for staging what he calls "Foto Novelas" where groups of artists tell stories imbued with social commentary that he then photographs and turns into comic strip-like publications.
Harry Gamboa Jr. | Samanta Helou Hernandez
The Gores (Whittier Blvd. + Axe), 1974 from ASCO era (Harry Gamboa Jr., GRONK, Willie Heron and Patssi Valdez) | Harry Gamboa Jr.
I guess I'm referred to often as a conceptual artist, but I always remind everyone that I'm Chicano also.
Princeton University a couple years ago were the first to ever refer to me as an American artist.
I had to live 60 years before someone accepted me as an American artist even though I was born alongside the Hollywood freeway.
I'm always insistent that I'm recognized as being Chicano so the idea is that the term Chicano has to be accepted as being American in the first place.
I'm perfectly at home in Los Angeles. My grandfather and great-grandfather were born here in Mexico City and I'm perfectly at home here, but I'm perfectly at home in Europe also.
Within all the chaos, artists are the ones that are able to point out and maybe manifest some of the beauty that exists between the various unfortunate accidents or the shadows and bring it all towards the light.
I was in an exhibition here at the Museo Carrillo Gil way back in the 70s.
These fliers, which was a series called "The Young Boy in the 50s," and it was sort of a characterization, a narrative of a young boy. He was conducting guerilla warfare against the INS and other people who were involved in harming other Mexican and Chicano children, and in the end he was very successful in freeing them from capture. It actually generated a lot of dialogue about the specific subject of deportations at the time
Because of the art market in the United States, and because the way the system is designed in the United States, they will be more welcoming of Mexicans from Mexico than they would be Chicanos because Chicanos represent the group that resisted against the power structure and they're too close. And of course it's a thing about class. They're not about to allow people that they perceive to be from the lower class to be ingrained into what other people would call the higher class. You will get representation of high class Mexicans in top spots but you simply won't see too many Chicanos in there.
I think Chicano is a very important terminology. The way I've always interpreted it and the way I continue to push it, is to be a diamond, to cut through anything and to not be able to be broken and we are a result of intense pressure and heat but the result is perfection. And at the same time diamonds are the most common element in the universe so at the same time we're unique but we're very much what's been here the whole time.
Patrick Martinez
Patrick Martinez is a Filipino-Mexican-American artist from Los Angeles known for his neon work that flips the script on typical signage to include socio-political phrases. Drawing inspiration from hip hop, graffiti, and Los Angeles's diverse neighborhoods, Martinez's work celebrates working class culture and comments on the social issues faced by people of color in America.
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Patrick Martinez's "America is for Dreamers" 2016-2017 | Samanta Helou Hernandez
The neon is just another form of sculpture for me but it's a contemporary sculpture in the sense that it's just around me, it's representing the time that we're living in. It's just something you'd see in the liquor store front or market front, people advertising. Small mom and pop stores advertising business, their business.
When I when I started the neon stuff I wanted the aesthetic to look like you can take it off of the museum wall or the gallery wall and put it into a liquor store. I wanted that directness. I wanted it to be familiar to people
With the work that I'm doing now, first and foremost it represents the times that we're living in. That's what I want to do when I have a show or I'm included in a museum exhibition is represent that.
You know people go to museums shows a lot and they feel kind of excluded and not represented and I feel like I want to do that represent people that are not seen.
I identify with being American. Growing up with so many different people around me different nationalities and that's how it happened. I didn't grow up in Mexico, I didn't grow up in the Philippines, I don't speak Spanish, I don't speak Tagalog, but I can relate you know to some of the narratives.
In L.A., we're driving everywhere because everything is left to right, not up and down like New York. I'm in the car a lot you know, there's is so much, different pockets to L.A. I feel like that's what it is with me, I have different pockets to me and I can access those.
Top Image: "Bridges in Time of Walls" exhibition | Samanta Helou Hernandez
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Clarion Gaming, MIGS co-organiser, have been running Open Space meetings since 2016 twice annually in London and Las Vegas and the format has proven very powerful in getting a diverse group of industry professional to brainstorm a number of key topics in a relatively short period of time. We are now bringing this format to MiGS and inviting operator members of The Executive Network to participate.
Curious about how it works? Watch the video below.
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However, in version 20 (Oct 2018 release) the aspect ratio remains locked whether or not the Maintain Aspect Ratio box is clicked. Only using the shift key (new behaviour) seems to work.
Reported in Adobe Photoshop forums by Win 10 users.
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Collecting the Ephemeral
Lina Lapelyte
Masquerade for Two
In Masquerade for two artist Lina Lapelyte devises a new work for two female performers with low voices along with a high-voiced male countertenor to continue and develop her ongoing investigation into the gender of voice. Assembled on a spinning platform, the singers are slowly rotated – like objects for viewing – so that their continuously produced tones merge into one. With Masquerade for two Lapelyte rethinks her previous work, hunky bluff (2014), within which arias of Handel, Vivaldi and J.C. Bach – songs originally designed for the unnaturally arrested development of male castrato singers – were lowered in pitch, rearranged and deconstructed and twisted to fit female performers with low voices. Re-animated and twisted around again, Masquerade for two creates a processual and sculptural arrangement that further unsettles the gender normativity of this traditional live art form
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Extract from Tenants By Substitution, a flat rental support. Eva Barto (ongoing).
Eva Barto's show at Gallery Lejeune was up for a bit more than a week. One could miss the effective presence of the show, as it was dedicated only to a specific frame which was qualified as the attorney. Qualified in this way, the viewer faces the strategy of a character in haste, a master in digging for legal loopholes. An implicitly time obsessed figure, from which his visible surroundings witnesses a surely corrupt ambition. A rumor is spread during the show, and the inventory of objects is meant to be released later, on demand.
Joe Namy
stones, gods, people
stones gods people was a one-off performance at Gallery Lejeune
stones gods people is framed through the fragments of sound, a score, an opera. Only in opera can the voice expand to the point of dissolving the significance of the words—desire and annihilation in a single tone. This intimate performance looks at what happens when this desire is unable to complete its transition, when it enters a frozen space, stuck between meaning, communication and sound.
Beginning where Chris Marker's 1953 film "Statues Also Die" leaves off, one of the first films to critique colonialism through speculative art history, describing museums as mausoleums – full of statues which, ripped from their context, have lost significance and meaning. stones gods people applies this critical framework to today's world where words, buildings and laws can be rendered frozen amidst emotional, political and economic breakdowns; from public memorials to uninhabited investment properties, athletes buckling under pressure or an audience enraptured by a chilling voice.
For stones gods people at Gallery Lejeune, Joe Namy collaborated with vocalist Alya Al-Sultani to present an expanded version of his score. The piece was originally written for a performance that was to take place in Beirut's Garden of Forgiveness but was never allowed due to political entanglement surrounding the park, it has since been performed at Istanbul's Salt Galata and the HKW of Berlin.
Gallery Lejeune's 2017/18 programme is supported by Arts Council England.
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Grace Schwindt
Tiffany Vase
Tiffany Vase, Grace Schwindt, installation shot, 2017.
Plain, unglazed porcelain vases sit on polished plinths. Though otherwise carefully thrown, their tops are squashed and bent around the edges. Made to resemble a remembered description of a specific Tiffany Vase, they are reimagined replicas of a prized family heirloom. Caught in a constant frozen moment of near collapse they are fictional versions of the only object that survived a family's turbulent past. An object passed on from one generation to the next to become a lone symbol of the proof of previous generations existence.
Based on an interview with a German immigrant who lives in New York and whose family story is marked by loss, Schwindt's Tiffany Vases utilises a sculptural interpretation of that interview to explore the space between reality and the reliability of memory that depends on the objects that surround us or that which relies on our own activities and the telling of stories.
Through her work, Schwindt investigates the meaning and location of live-ness in performances and sculptures. Live-ness, here is enacted both by the actor and the observer. Installed in the small space of Gallery Lejeune, it refers both to the living and mutable memory of the interviewee rendered in porcelain and, now, to they ways in which walking around that memory as sculpture exacerbates the delicacy of its' meaning. Schwindt envisions multiple and intertwined relations between performer, observer and object, etc like an actor that takes on different roles and positions through time.
Tiffany Vase follows Dinner, a unique event at Gallery Lejeune – an evening of food interwoven with live interventions of text, language and sound by Schwindt with opera singer Lisa Cassidy. Commissioned for Gallery Lejeune, the work unfolded over the evening exploring the relationship between language and the physical; seeing what would happen to communication and meaning if language and the voice were firstly separated from each other and then came together again.
The event was reviewed in frieze.com by Amy Sherlock: "… At Dinner was, on a micro-level, an experiment in community building – of the kind that happens all the time in daily life… Here, though, Schwindt's intervention made me acutely sensitive of the extent to which we invariably perform ourselves socially, according to cultural norms of which we may or may not always be aware."
At Dinner
Grace Schwindt - At Dinner - performed by Lisa Cassidy, 2016
At Dinner, a unique event at Gallery Lejeune – an evening of food interwoven with live interventions of text, language and sound by Grace with opera singer Lisa Cassidy.
Commissioned for Gallery Lejeune, the work develops Grace's interest in voice as a material, a thing in itself. Unfolding over the evening, the work explores the relationship between language and the physical, language and the emotional and sees what can happen if language and the voice are firstly separated from each other and then again come together.
William Hunt
You're Gonna Pay For It Now. Now You're Gonna Pay For It
5th March -
William Hunt - You're Gonna Pay For It Now. Now You're Gonna Pay For It, 2016
A soundscape plays throughout the flat – snatches of sound come from different rooms; quotes and field recordings making a drum roll as you are ushered along the length of the corridor.
The gallery is dark – a large curtain masking off the outside world. Packed up like a parachute, an automobile airbag is fixed to the wall, at head height with red and black wires hanging down from to a car battery and a switch. This switch is a cable release, a weatherman's remote, a suicide bomber's trigger. Two photographic lights are positioned either side waiting to create a blinding flash.
Hunt primes his face with paint and, standing at a carefully calculated distance away, he thumbs the switch, simultaneously triggering the airbag, the camera and flash. Striking Hunt in the face the air bag is at once a custard pie and the printing plate, an auto(sic) portrait.
Waiting in the dark, as the image hits the photographic film, it is burnt onto your retina and the exhibition is made.
20th January -
Emma Hart - Car Crash. Installation shot at Gallery Lejeune, 2016
Meeting in a pub, a cafe or a restaurant, Emma Hart asked people about car crashes they had been in. If they used objects in front of them to describe the crash, she took a photograph. The resulting work, Car Crash, records these re-enactments which transform the tabletop into a series of carefully choreographed scenes. The landscapes of cutlery, condiments and personal items become a collection of still lives, cradling the violence and chaos of road traffic collisions.
Presented as digital prints for the first time at Gallery Lejeune, Car Crash blurs the found and the made and forcefully combines ordinary objects with extraordinary events. Setting out to close the gap between representation and experience and re-discover the 'real', the images produced propel the viewer beyond that of a passive observer and force a situation that needs to be scrutinised, ripped open to reveal the physicality, emotion and trauma that photographs might ordinarily screen off.
Elsewhere in the space, ceramics provide a different way to work behind images and expose raw feeling. In the works white fists extend, bodiless, directly from the wall, they form hugging, bracing and crying gestures. Close to human scale, these arms appear as squeezed out tubes, deflated, over- worked and exhausted. Fraught and emotionally frozen, they physically exhibit an inner trauma and once again attempt, in the artist's words, "to get the insides on to the outside… to offer a situation where outward appearances are eaten away by inner doubts."
Tracks and Lines
8th October -
Joe Moran - Singular, performed at Gallery Lejeune, 2015
Joe Moran is a choreographer, dancer and Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation. Tracks and Lines marks a new departure for Moran, presenting for the first time his drawings along with a newly commissioned sound piece.
Through simple line drawings, instructional maps and scores, figurative gestures and utilising a variety of material – ball-point-pen, graphite, crayon, felt-tip, pastel, charcoal and graphite, Tracks and Lines explores Moran's ongoing drawing processes and the multiple ways in which it informs his choreography. Each different element builds to develop a powerfully and tightly balanced tension between abstraction and human presence.
In particular, the exhibition develops the highly specific choreographic directives of Moran's dance work Singular into a set of line drawings and a new sound piece. Singular (2011) is a durational performance installation for two dancers whereby highly specific procedures complicate and problematise performers' subjectivities and their negotiation of a conceptual and perceptual puzzle: the possibility of a single consciousness embodied in more than one form.
It is the same thought, the same feeling, the same idea, the same intention; it is the same thing. It may look the same – and at times it will. It may not look the same. But it is the same thing.
Letting go of initiating, letting go of following. Letting go of making choices to simply allow the same thing to occur simultaneously…
…the same thought, the same feeling, the same idea, the same intention occurring simultaneously.
The exhibition, Tracks and Lines, invites the audience to approach destabilising representation through a series of diagrammatic and perceptual propositions overlaid with audio instructions, heard as both a potential invitation to activate the space and a poetic description of movement.
Tracks and Lines allows the complex set of ideas embodied in Moran's work to mutate across form and conceptual boundaries towards a set of performance directions for the audience themselves.
Joe Moran is a choreographer, dancer and Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation, through which his performance and curatorial work is produced. Moran's work has been presented in theatres, galleries and public spaces in the UK and internationally gaining recognition for its ambition, complexity and intelligence.
Singular has been presented at David Roberts Art Foundation (Frieze, 2014) and Nottingham Contemporary (2014), and was also incorporated into A Setup, his collaboration with the sculptor Eva Rothschild at the ICA in London (June 2015), as part of both inaugural Block Universe festival and fig-2 programme.
Other works include The Modulated Body (2013) commissioned by Ordovas for Movement & Gravity, Bacon and Rodin exhibition, and The Place Prize (2013). Dance4 Associate Artist, Sadler's Wells Summer University participant (2015-2019) and Affiliate Artist with C-DaRE (Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University), Joe works extensively in the visual arts and is a guest artist at a number of institutions, currently at The Place and the Royal Opera House.
Read State22's article on Collecting Performance, featuring Tracks and Lines at Gallery Lejeune, HERE.
Florence Peake
Hall of the Swell
Florence Peake - Hall of the Swell at Gallery Lejeune, installation shot
Created for Gallery Lejeune, Hall of the Swell is a contemporary fresco; a history painting on holographic paper depicting a past performance, Swell the thickening Surface of. Through the unique painted environment, Peake retells the durational realisation of her performance as a single narrative and in doing so conjures a shimmering and previously impossible version of the work.
On a recent trip to Palazzo Colonna in Rome, Peake was inspired by the elaborate and rich frescos – images of Gods and Goddesses, Angels and Heroes through whom history is dramatised, and myth re-animated. Within Hall of the Swell, the performers are carved out from a painted surface to expose a shifting underside as an active component, a holographic allegory. For Peake, this combination reveals the intense baroque inner sense of performing.
Through Hall of the Swell, we witness Swell the thickening surface of anachronistically; duets originally performed over a three-month period are seen simultaneously and, as in the Palazzo, events both real, imagined and historically separated are captured and suspended.
Swell the thickening surface of was originally performed at the Hayward Gallery, London as part of the Mirror City exhibition, 2014.
Read the transcript of Florence Peake and Jonah Westerman in Conversation at Gallery Lejeune HERE
Read And So It Goes review of Hall of the Swell at Gallery Lejeune HERE
Orbit my O O my, originally a section from the performance Shift Construct was developed with musician Desmond Byrne for a performance in the basement of Gallery Lejeune, 28 May 2015. Dancers – Katye Coe and Rosalie Walhfrid.


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Selected popular Barney Kessel song of Tuesday, January 21 2020 is "A Foggy Day".
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Live at the Jazz Mill 1954 (Live)
The Poll Winners + the Poll Winners Ride Again (feat. Ray Brown and Shelly Manne)
Contemporary Latin Rhythms! + Breakfast at Tiffany's (Bonus Track Version)
Carmen's Cool
Let There Be Love
To Swing or Not to Swing (Bonus Track Version)
Hub Caps and Tail Lights
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Barney's Blues, Vol. 1
Plays The American Songbook
Jazz Guitar Essentials
The Barney Kessel Sound
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Some Like It Hot (fea. Art Pepper) [Bonus Track Version] [feat. Art Pepper]
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Related Information for Barney Kessel
One of the finest guitarists to emerge after the death of Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was a reliable bop soloist throughout his career. He played with a big band fronted by Chico Marx (1943), was fortunate enough to appear in the classic jazz short Jammin' the Blues (1944) and then worked with the big bands of Charlie Barnet (1944-45) and Artie Shaw (1945); he also recorded with Shaw's Gramercy Five. Kessel became a busy studio musician in Los Angeles but was always in demand for jazz records. He toured with the Oscar Peterson Trio for one year (1952-53) and then, starting in 1953, led an impressive series of records for Contemporary that lasted until 1961 (including several with Ray Br... read more


This week, I won a brand new Android telephone within the mail. I got rid of its plastic wrapping, opened the highest, unfurled the hastily-placed display screen protector and became it on. After I booted it up, I logged in with my Google account, restored from a backup of my Pixel three, and waited for the 80 or so apps I incessantly use to revive some or all in their person knowledge.
That is my regimen for buying a brand new telephone, and it lets in me to rise up and working, due to Google Cloud Backup, in about 30 mins. It is a tantalizing and pleasant style of automation, however its usefulness is simplest as excellent, and as enticing, because the apps on my telephone.
Android has a messaging app abundance, however it is incessantly an excessive amount of of a excellent factor.
With messaging being the quintessential smartphone enjoy, and with the definition of 'social networking' increasing to incorporate feeds like YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, or even Fortnite, speaking on a smartphone is incessantly disjointed and irritating.
Everybody has a most well-liked approach of speaking, and whilst the possession of many of those equipment has consolidated through the years — taking a look at you, Fb — the decisions themselves have proliferated.
On Android telephones, the messaging conundrum is not any secret, and Google's carried out not anything to assist the issue via apparently liberating, or editing, its flagship messaging device each and every few months. Allo, good-bye.
The maelstrom of selection is exacerbated via geographic divisions; WhatsApp is common in a lot of Europe and South The us, whilst WeChat is most well-liked in China, Kakao in South Korea and Line in Japan. Fb Messenger has a huge integrated target audience of Fb customers however it is typically regarded as the trail of least resistance, relatively than the most well liked choice, for its masses of hundreds of thousands of customers. After which there may be iMessage, which is the default messaging platform (and broadly regarded as a social community) on Apple-built units, however its dominance does not prolong past North The us.
Nonetheless, iPhone customers love iMessage, and their causes for amity don't seem to be sudden: its seamless integration with common textual content messages signifies that you do not wish to open a separate app. As soon as Apple's servers discover whether or not a recipient — by way of telephone quantity or e mail cope with — is a part of the iMessage database, it switches the bubbles from inexperienced to blue.
Google's attempted to compete with iMessage, immediately and not directly, for years. Hangouts and Allo fizzled as client merchandise, so it is labored with the GSMA — the criteria frame and service advocacy staff — to enforce RCS Univeral Profile throughout numerous units. Heralded because the Nice Messaging Unifier, RCS builds on conventional SMS in the similar texting app that ships together with your telephone.
Whilst presently it is restricted to a couple of apps and carriers, the eventual function is for each and every telephone on each and every service to natively reinforce RCS and make one thing like iMessage for Android useless.
With the exception of for something: end-to-end encryption. The Verge's Dieter Bohn argued previous this yr that there is a "ethical case for iMessage on Android," noting that whilst there is not a lot of a trade case for Apple to convey iMessage to Android, there may be one who appeals to the larger excellent.
Each and every time I pay attention Tim Prepare dinner discuss privateness as a human proper, I consider the most important factor his corporate may do to assist be sure that privateness: unfold the facility for other folks to have conversations which can be secure from executive snooping internationally. And the most important, maximum impactful method Apple may do this is to free up iMessage on Android.
RCS brings lots of the options we take as a right in just about each and every messenger — reinforce for longer conversations, high quality photographs and video, scalable staff chats, record transfers, and quite a bit extra — to the Android person's local SMS app. Very similar to iMessage, as soon as two units "shake fingers," all of those options kick in robotically. In follow, the enjoy is relatively very similar to iMessage, with one necessary distinction: RCS does no longer reinforce end-to-end encryption.
Products and services like iMessage, WhatsApp, Sign, and with some tweaks, Telegram and Fb Messenger, encrypt communications between the sender and receiver, so there is no risk of interception or surveillance. Whilst governments are increasingly more decrying the usage of encryption as they try to save you terrorism, it is noticed as in a similar way indispensable for shoppers taking a look to deal with a semblance of regulate over their on-line privateness.
And whilst WhatsApp is larger than iMessage, Fb's encroaching overbearance over the carrier, and its inevitable back-end integration with Messenger and Instagram, have given lots of its customers pause. Different choices, like Sign, are extra extensible however harder to make use of, and prefer WhatsApp do not sync throughout more than one units.
Which brings us again to iMessage. A small however vocal set of other folks proceed to argue that Apple must convey iMessage to Android. As contemporary as six months in the past, the perception would had been absurd — the corporate's price range did not warrant this sort of entreaty to the opposite facet. However in recent years, with the iPhone teach slowing and the corporate increasingly more striking its center of attention on services and products earnings, there may be a controversy to be made that sufficient Android customers subscribing to iMessage at $five or $10 per thirty days would make the funding profitable. Or Apple would package deal it into a much broader iCloud subscription, which might most likely enable you to justify the fee.
Or, even higher, it could be loose, a carrier that Apple sees as including price to its general emblem relatively than, as it's as of late, a lock-in mechanism for iPhones. If it have been loose and to be had to all Android customers, iMessage may perform as a Trojan Horse into Apple's different cross-platform services and products — Apple Song, Texture, and possibly its drawing close TV carrier, which is all however a lock for Samsung, LG, and Vizio televisions already.
The theory of Apple shoring its services and products earnings thru an iMessage subscription is not likely however extra conceivable than it is ever been.
Then there may be the opposite facet of the argument: would Android customers even need an iMessage that is simply an app-based choice to WhatsApp and numerous different siloed choices? A lot of iMessage's attraction is that you just do not have to consider it — it simply works. Additionally it is pre-installed on each and every iPhone on the planet. That is a very giant integrated target audience for Apple, despite the fact that its customers make a selection to not obtain a unmarried app. On Android, on the other hand, it could be but any other app to hunt out, obtain, signal into, and arrange.
So I put the query to Twitter and located a minute quantity of reinforce for the theory — no longer sudden given the target audience, however nonetheless, the virulence of the reaction was once sudden.
As in such a lot of spaces, Android customers are awash in choices for communique equipment however the consensus I am seeing is that it is an excessive amount of of a excellent factor. An legit iMessage app for Android may make the most of Apple's backend to sync throughout units, as iPhones, iPads, and Macs do as of late. It might additionally loose the blue bubble from the confines of the iPhone.
How treasured that growth can be to the common Android person, and whether or not Apple may flip it right into a viable facet trade, is still noticed. The larger query, a minimum of in my thoughts, is whether or not Google cares sufficient about privateness and safety to forestall depending on 3rd events to construct encrypted approach of communique. It is aware of that a completely built-in resolution like RCS is a formidable and audacious unifier, however with out encryption, it is simply any other mediocre choice in a sea of competition.


Lonely Asian Pear tree seeking single partridge for a short term commitment.
LOL!! SECOND funniest blog post ever - the first being 'Inigo Montoya.' Man, if this is your wit as a lymie, I'd better stand back when you're recovered!!


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Google lost some of its search marketshare while Yahoo made gains. The unusual loss for Google in search comes from Mozilla's decision to make Yahoo the default in the latest version of its Firefox browser. The image above shows a Yahoo search result page for actress Jennifer Lawrence.
Bloomberg reports that Google's U.S. search marketshare fell to 75.2% from 79.3% according to data from StatCounter. Meanwhile, Yahoo's marketshare increased from 7.4% to 10.4%. Bing is in second place with 12.5%.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced last year that it has started a 5-year partnership with Mozilla to make Yahoo the default search engine on Firefox. Yahoo is the default on the Firefox 34 browser. Firefox 34 is the latest version of the Firefox browser and is currently available for download from mozilla.org. Users can switch away from the default browser but many users tend to keep things the way they are.
The gains are great for Yahoo but it may need another deal to boost its marketshare much higher. Firefox only has about a 12% share of U.S. users. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is considering dropping Google as the default provider for its Safari browser so there is another opportunity for Yahoo at least with mobile users.


The disposal of a used car within one year after acquisition is taxable according to § 23 paragraph 1 clause 1 No. 2 EStG (Income Tax Act). The law registers, differently than former versions of the Income Tax Act, all assets in the private fortune. In this case, a used car is, as a physical object, a thing and there an asset.


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Rapimento – atto di criminalità che porta via una persona contro la sua volontà, che in diritto penale può far parte della condotta di vari reati:
 Sequestro di persona
 Sequestro di persona a scopo di estorsione
 Sottrazione di minorenne
 Rapimento (Rapture) – film del 1965 diretto da John Guillermin
 Rapimento (Kidnapped) – film del 1987 diretto da Howard Avedis
Rapimento (Rapture) – romanzo del 2002 di Susan Minot

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Kazuo Miyagawa: Japan's Greatest Cinematographer
Zatoichi and The Chest of Gold (1964) Kazuo Miyagawa: Japan's Greatest Cinematographer
With ZATOICHI AND THE CHEST OF GOLD running as part of the Kazuo Miyagawa: Japan's Greatest Cinematographer at both The Japan Society and MOMA I'm reposting the review from when we did a month of Zatoichi films
Against a black background the sixth film in the series opens with a kick ass title sequence that has the blind Ichi taking on a series of rogues who attack him. It sets the mood and draws us into the story.
This time out Zatoichi has returned to a town for the first time in two years. He's returned to the village in order to pay respects at the grave of a man he killed on his last visit. Arriving during a celebration to mark the end of a drought he is at first welcomed and then is severely beaten by the people in the town who think he's stolen their tax payment. Deciding to do the right thing he sets off to try and track down the real culprits.
A twisty turny film that plays closer to some of the earlier films in the series with good guys and bad guys not so clearly defined. The film is also much darker and somber than the last few titles with the treachery and mechaniations of the bad guys taking a heavy cost. The film has a kind of noirish feel but with Zatoichi and sword play in the mix.
While the plot keeps things interesting it's the series of wonderful set pieces that really hold our attention. As I said at the top the film begins with a great title sequence, this is followed by a an extended night time battle in the middle of the film, one that has Zatoichi fighting with a man on his back,; the gambling sequences where Ichi wagers whether he can cut a coin in half, and there is the final confrontation that actually has the normally invincible Zatoichi ending up bloodied. Perhaps he's mortal after all.
A very solid entry in the series
ZATOICHI AND THE CHEST OF GOLD is screening as part of Kazuo Miyagawa: Japan's Greatest Cinematographer which is being co-presented by The Japan Society and The Museum of Modern Art. Click on the links in names of each location for show times, tickets and more information
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Construction businesses targeted in new dust inspections
Published 6 June 2019
Firms across Great Britain are to be targeted in a new series of inspections focusing on dust control by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), it has been announced today.
Over the next few weeks, HSE will be concentrating on industries such as construction, woodworking and food manufacturing where occupational lung diseases, including in some cases occupational cancers, are more common.
Inspectors will be visiting businesses across the country from June 10 to see what measures have been put in place to protect workers' lungs from the likes of asbestos, silica, wood and flour dust. They will be looking for evidence of businesses and their workers knowing the risks, planning their work and using the right controls. Where necessary, HSE will use enforcement to make sure people are protected.
HSE's chief medical officer, Professor David Fishwick, said: "Exposure to asbestos, silica, wood, flour and other dust can have life-changing consequences.
"Each year work-related lung diseases linked to past exposures are estimated to kill 12,000 workers across Great Britain. In many cases these diseases take a long time to develop after exposure, so the damage done may not be immediately obvious. Others, such as occupational asthma and acute silicosis, can occur more quickly.
"These conditions can and do have a significant impact on both the individuals affected and those closest to them, so it is imperative that workers take the necessary precautions to protect their lungs."
Sarah Jardine, HSE's chief inspector of construction, said: "We are carrying out this series of inspections to ensure businesses are fulfilling their legal duties to protect workers from harm. This includes controlling the levels of dust in workplaces.
"We want to ensure employers and their workers are aware of the risks associated with any task that produces dust. Such work needs to be properly planned and use the right controls, such as water suppression, extraction and masks.
"The bottom line is we want everyone, workers and their employers, to be protected from harm and ill health so they can go home healthy to their families."
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Fatal accidents in construction sector at lowest ever levels Construction businesses targeted in new dust inspections Online course launched to beat construction-related occupational cancers


Take this quiz: Is your CEO really committed to customers?
This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of "I Love You More Than My Dog." See more like this post on her blog.
Most Chief Executive Officers outwardly commit to customer loyalty, customer focus, and just plain improving things for their customers. It's getting them to drive the company to do something about it that's the challenge. A number of telltale signs determine pretty quickly whether a company is serious about the job or not — beginning with the CEO and leadership and cascades all the way through the ranks of the company.
Specific leadership actions occur in companies that have taken the commitment past lip service. Understanding customer issues and what drives customer loyalty become the stuff of everyday conversations. The issues are trended and understood and talked about. Building customer experiences and relationships is considered the true work of the organization — not something layered on the "real" work of achieving quarterly sales goals.
Chief Executive Officers that drive this work understand that it's the inspiration, leadership, and organizational change that are the sticking points in making progress.
A CEO leader on a customer mission takes responsibility for driving value for customers and improving the customer experience. This is not something jobbed out to someone else to do. Although they will need a lieutenant to help drive the work (because they have an entire company to run after all), the CEO is an engaged and active participant.
1. Does your CEO clearly articulate what he/she wants the company to become for customers and constantly reinforce and drive the company in that direction?
2. Is there a commitment for organizational transformation, not some one-off tactics and silver bullets?
Because these leaders recognize that this is organizational transformation, they grasp completely that it will not happen with a public proclamation and a great kick-off memo (sad, but true — how many of us have received those?). It's understood that they need an executive level partner to bring the transformation about.
The point about making the customer champion an officer is not an insignificant one. When the customer effort is considered a strategic priority, the work simply needs to reside at that elevated level. An officer level caliber leader is needed to drive the action and the company will take their cue about the work's importance from the title in the organization box.
3. Has the CEO layered this work onto someone's already over-full plate, or is there recognition that this is a critical job for the organization that requires an immense time commitment?
4. Has the CEO ensured that the customer champion is an officer of the company with the full support and engagement of the CEO, leaders, and the organization?
This is a huge sticking point for the work. CEO's who get this demand regular accountability for the sole purpose of identifying and tracking progress with the customer agenda. The metrics and performance requirements are clear. Regular accountability means, for example: trending and tracking customer complaints by category and setting metrics for improvement. Regular accountability means that customer losses are understood and accounted for and explained. Regular accountability takes the key customer interaction points down to operational metrics which the CEO tracks as fervently as the number of products sold — because in those moments experiences are made or broken.
5. Does your CEO actively hold people accountable for customer performance? Is there clarity in what's expected, and does the organization practice discipline around identifying what should be measured and managed?
6. Are forums for accountability regularly scheduled and enforced as a key strategic meeting for the success of the company?
Committed CEO's provide the necessary political air cover to drive the work ahead. They bring around the non-believers of the customer effort. Because this work traverses across the organization, the CEO steps in when necessary to course-correct and drives the action when it stalls. These CEO's don't sweep the naturally competing silo priorities under the rug. They are acknowledged and the gnarly work is done to determine where the agreements must be made, where the compromises must be set, and where the new lines of accountability must be established.
7. Does your CEO commit time and resources to be a solid partnership with the customer leader?
8. Does your CEO play an active role in understanding and participating in the rigor of aligning the company when necessary?
This work is not for the mild-hearted or the quarterly inclined. Everyone needs to understand that becoming a 'customer' company is a multiyear endeavor. They can't bail in the first year because the results don't come as simply and cleanly as seeing response rates on a marketing campaign, tracking sales goals, or the number of hits on your website. The CEO must personally have the belief and commitment that this is the right course.
9. Is your CEO committed to the timeline required (in the neighborhood of five years), and are they willing to suspend the usual short-term expectations of immediate results to have patience for the customer work to take hold and yield results?
10. Will they sustain the patience inside the corporation and with the board to stay the course so that results can be achieved?
The corporate 'nay-sayers' will be quick to voice that this work has been tried before and failed. But committed CEOs have grasped all that and factored it in. And since it's all been considered, there is a clear plan — an achievable plan that is laid out before the organization. A reality-based roadmap is established, funded, followed, and followed up on.
11. Are the stages, expectations, and processes to drive the work identified realistically and planned so people understand the roadmap, where it is leading, and why it is set forth?
12. Have the resources been applied so that the roadmap is grounded in the reality of what the company can achieve and fund?


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"This meeting had everything! It was so fantastic to be invited to be the Sports Med support to the Oregon University track team – especially with such talented athletes…. and to be a part of the Oregon Ducks team for both Ed and Johnny's first sub 4 minute mile was just increadible"
— Dan Giordano
The field in the Wanamaker Mile was sensational, and the race ended up sensationally, too. Ten of the 12 men runners in the race turned in sub-4 minute mile performances, including Chris O'Hare (3:55.35) who became the 100th person to post a sub-4 minute mile at The Armory. Matthew Centrowitz, the 2012 Wanamaker mile winner, regained the title with a winning time of 3:51.35. Eight time champion Bernard Lagat returned after a four yaer absence at the games to finish in fourth place but smashed the Masters World Record by over 3 seconds with a time of 3:54.91. Edward Cheserek and Johnny Gregorek capped a stellar day for the Men of Oregon. After a dominating performance by teammates Eric Jenkins and Will Geoghegan in the 3k in the first distance race of the night, Cheserek and Gregorek closed the meet for the Ducks by both notching their first sub-4:00s. After running aggressively early, Cheserek said coach Andy Powell told him to drop back a little bit and he ran with the chase pack for most of the race, looking back repeatedly to check on Gregorek.
"It's so reassuring to have Dan with the team for such an exciting track meet. He is a first class resource to have on hand to prepare the athletes to go out and achieve their amazing results"
— Coach Andy Powell
A race like this can be difficult for a guy that has never broken 4:00 before (Gregorek's previous best was 4:01.65), as it's tempting to get excited and not realize how fast you're running in a field of this quality. But Gregorek played it well (coming through in 1:58.68 toward the back of the chase pack) and had the fitness to hang on and finish with a big pb of 3:57.47 (Cheserek was 8th in 3:56.43, the second-fastest time in the NCAA this year). Both agreed that it was special to accomplish the sub-4 feat at the Armory, as this was Gregorek's home track for the past four years at Columbia while Cheserek raced here several times as a high schooler in New Jersey.
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I can't think of another summer movie this year that says FUN like Bad Moms does and that is exactly how the Bad Moms press junket in LA was – SUPER FUN! Between screening the film interviewing the cast, and indulging in a lot of pampering and playtime, it was a whirlwind 24 hours. Our interviews included Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate, Kathryn Hahn and Annie Mumolo, as well as Producer Suzanne Todd and writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore – who also wrote The Hangover.
The event started out with a bang with the screening of Bad Moms. We started the evening with some pre-show photo-ops and video-ops outside the theater and along the red carpet. We also enjoyed food and drink – some more than others!
Once the lights in the theater dimmed we had a BIG surprise – a visit from the cast themselves and a live concert by Flo Rida! Everyone was up and out of their seats dancing. (To be honest I became a fan of Flo Rida from hearing his music in Zumba classes and the love took off from there. This surprise concert was seriously FUN!
Then it was time for the movie itself and I just have to say it was AWESOME! It has been a while since I laughed that hard and the movie totally surpassed my expectations. Besides all of the laughs there were touching moments and a message that I'm sure all moms (and non-moms) can relate to. I can't wait to watch it again with my sister!
The following day, we headed to the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills for press day. We again had some fun photo ops and enjoyed food and drinks. Suja Juice teamed up with Bad Moms for the day and I think I am now totally addicted to their Lemon Love juice with a touch of cayenne pepper. SO GOOD!
Oh, and the pampering!! We had our hair and makeup done by professional stylists and I even had a pedicure at Ciel Spa at SLS Beverly Hills. Massage therapists from Zeel were also on hand for massages.
The real focus of the day, our interviews, included Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate, Kathryn Hahn and Annie Mumolo, as well as Producer Suzanne Todd and writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.
Next up was producer Suzanne Todd and writers Scott Moore and Jon Lucas. This was my second time in two months interviewing Suzanne Todd and she is an amazing woman who has been making movies for 30 years, which isn't easy in a Hollywood still dominated by men. She was attracted to this project because of the incredibly funny script written by Scott Moore and Jon Lucas, who also wrote The Hangover. She said, "You can't believe was written by two guys because it's so accurate. Credit to both of their wives, who I've gotten to know and are amazing people." Scott and Jon reiterated that the movie works because so much of it is based on situations they have witnessed their wives experiencing.
My husband usually doesn't get jealous about my interviews, but I think he was feeling a few tinges when he knew I would be meeting Christina Applegate since he grew up with her on "Married with Children" and has always been a big fan. I personally think she is AMAZING in Bad Moms. You really get to hate her character, Gwendolyn, and I think it takes a lot of talent to be so hated!
Bad Moms is in theaters July 29th. Order your tickets now and make a plan for Girls Night Out or get Grandma to babysit and take your husband – he'll enjoy it too!
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That sounds like it was a fantastic junket! I love reading about those press junkets, and that cast? Fun!
I am really excited for this movie. I am pretty sure every mom can relate.
I really like Suja juice, too! It sounds like you had a good time and this sounds like a fun movie.
What a fun experience! I will need to get some girlfriends together to go see this movie together.
I have a whole group of friends who can't wait for this to come out. Girls night out!
Sounds like this is going to be a great movie, Bad Moms the name says humor in itself. Will have to try to watch it.
I love when a movie surpasses expectations. This does sound like a fun event, and I can't wait to see the movie.
LOL, I am looking forward to this movie. It sounds hilarious! The event must've been fun!
What a great opportunity! I can't wait to see the movie.
Oh, wow! What a great opportunity for you to have them for an interview! I can't wait to see this movie with my girlfriends!
Sounds like you had a blast! So cool you got to meet the Bad Moms cast too!
I'll add this to my sassy ladies list of movies and shows! I've always been an admirer of the cast here and it's wonderful to have them all in one pot!
This looks like it was such a fun time! I cannot wait to see the movie!!
Sounds like loads of fun. My friends and I are going to see this for sure!
This looks hilarious and oh my gosh that top photo of your post is AWESOME!!! How cool you got to meet the cast, that's so amazing!
Of all the press trips I have seen, this looks like the most fun. I bet you just had a blast on this one!
I am SOOO excited to see this. I love The Hangover, but this sounds like one I could relate to even more. It's going to be a great one for a girls' night out.
I can't wait to see this movie. I will invite my girlfriends who are fellow moms so we can enjoy this movie together.
Looks like a really fun time! I am excited to see this movie!
How cool to get to go to this Bad Moms Press Junket and this movie looks like a lot of fun to see in the theater. I like Mila Kunis in this movie.
This is so cool. I can't wait to see the movie Bad Moms. I really like Mila Kunis.
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By athletes, for athletes: Foundation partnerships demonstrate Arete's game-changing potential
Arete is built by athletes for athletes, so it goes without saying that feedback from athletes around Australia has been crucial to the development of our new mobile app.
As part of the testing and refining process, Arete has partnered with four amazing foundation partners over the last couple of months to provide their athletes with early access to the Arete app.
Brisbane Strikers, Ringwood Cricket Club, DF Football and Essendon Royals Soccer Club were all chosen to participate in the app's development as foundation partners because of their noteworthy commitment to the mental health and wellbeing of their athletes.
Since launching a beta version of the app in June, Arete has been accessed by over 200 athletes who have engaged in over 10,000 conversations with the app's Artificial Intelligence-powered Wellbeing Coach.
We caught up with some of the athletes trialling out the app to see how they have found the experience of engaging with their mental wellbeing on an ongoing basis.
Zoe Schaffner a senior women's player with the Essendon Royals, said her almost daily interactions with Arete and her Wellbeing Coach had afforded her a greater sense of self-awareness.
"It has brought my attention to my mood and energy levels. These are definitely things we should be aware of and the app has helped me to track these."
"It has made me realise that my mental wellbeing is something that I can actively work on. It has also made me think that I should continue to dedicate time to my mental wellbeing in order to perform at my best."
Zoe struggled to name just one thing she loved about using the app but said her favourite aspects were chatting to her Wellbeing Coach and taking on the challenges.
Zoe Schaffner in action with the Royals
"My favourite things on the app - I couldn't decide on one - would have to be 'chatting' to the virtual coach.
"At first I thought it was weird, but hey, it's 2020. The conversation is usually interesting, informative and includes GIFs.
"The second thing would be the various challenges and access to multimodal resources.
"They can definitely teach you or remind you of things about yourself which makes you feel like you're bettering yourself as a person."
Up-and-coming Brisbane Strikers player Jacob Toohey-Falck said that using Arete had provided him with some interesting insights about his own mentality and delivered a better understanding of his own mental health and the facts that influence it.
"The app has been useful for getting me back into a positive headspace, thereby helping me take action into my mental health," he said.
"I found that I am very reliant on success and that without consistency I feel lethargic and unmotivated.
"I now understand that my mental health changes all the time and that I can quite quickly balance it by being mindful of my emotions."
Jacob Toohey-Falk has learned a lot about himself while using Arete
William Abbriano from DF Football said he had been using the app every day.
"I am more relaxed [since using Arete] and I like how it's been checking on me," he said.
William Abbriano in full-flight
Beyond these responses, Arete has received countless messages from those granted early access to the app, with some of the exceptional feedback highlighted below.
"The app has helped heaps with my physical and mental health issues … it gave me time to just let everything out and breath," one user wrote.
Another user of Arete said they had, "struggled with handling losses," but Arete had helped to provide, "motivation and inspiration," they said.
"I even kicked a goal against the top team in one of our matches and we won 2-1."
Another user wrote in to let us know that Arete had helped them overcome mental hurdles.
"Using the app has helped me to overcome hurdles in my mindset and it has allowed me to develop further mentally as an athlete," they wrote.
"I highly recommend Arete to anyone wanting to take their mental game to the next level."
Perhaps the most telling review came from one user who said he was glad to see a tool focussed specifically on the mental wellbeing of athletes.
"The mental side of the game isn't talked anywhere near as much as the physical but is definitely just as, if not more important," he said.
Arete is grateful to all the athletes at our foundation partners for their ongoing support and feedback and we look forward to being able to share a release date very soon.
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Roku 4 Delivers 4K for UHD
October 6, 2015 ROKU, Set Top Box, smartphone, StreamingAndroid, IOS, Roku, smartphone, streaming, TV, UHDAndrew
Apple, Amazon and Google have all recently announced their refreshed streaming TV media players and today market leader Roku has responded with the latest iteration in the Roku series, the Roku 4. In a happy numbering coincidence, the Roku 4 will deliver UHD 4K content for the latest ultra high definition TVs. As you'd expect given the relative rarity of UHD TVs and content, the Roku 4 will work well with normal HD TVs too.
Key features of the new Roku include a quad core processor to drive 4K streaming at 60 Hz. HDCP2 2.2 is supported and there's optical audio out for the AV amplifier. For connectivity, there's a gig network port along with 11ac MIMO Wi-Fi.
The Roku 4 will run Roku OS 7, the latest update to the streaming OS which boosts previous features, particularly the Roku Feed and it now allows owners to track films, TV shows, actors and directors to receive automatic notifications about pricing and availability. In a response to a much requested feature, OS 7 can now work with wireless networks where login credentials are required.
At launch, there's a handful of 4K channels including Netflix, M-Go, Amazon Instant Video, ToonGoogles, Vudu and You Tube, though there will be some variation depending on geographic region.
The Roku remote control has the previously-seen voice search and a headphone jack, but new to this version is the remote finder, which will help owners find the remote when it's stuck down the back of the sofa. It's worth buying for this feature alone!
The Roku mobile app for Android and iOS has been updated too, offering full device control including playing photos, videos and music on TV from the smartphone. A big bonus for me is "pinch to zoom" on photos which will bring out the detail from the snaps. The new app offers other Roku features such as Search, Feed, Remote Control and Play on Roku.
The new Roku 4 goes on pre-order today at roku.com for US$129.99 with delivery later in October. Pricing for other countries has not been announced yet.
If you are already a Roku owner, OS 7 will roll out to current-generation Roku players in the U.S., Canada and the UK, and Roku TVs in the US and Canada through a software update beginning in mid-October and is expected to be completed in November.
Roku Heads To 4K at CES
January 5, 2015 ces, ROKU, Set Top Box, Streaming, TV4K, ces, Haier, HiSense, insignia, Media Player, Roku, streaming, TCL, TVAndrew
Arguably the market leader in the media streaming market, Roku hasn't been resting on its laurels. At this year's CES, Roku has announced a raft of news reinforcing its platform's position for both Roku TV and the move to 4K transmission.
After announcing Roku TV at last year's CES, 2014 has seen Roku TV available on both TCL and Hisense TVs available from major retailers like Walmart and Best Buy. For 2015, TCL is going to release 12 models over the year with Roku TV built-in, which is good news from one of the fastest growing brands in the US.
Extending the availability of Roku TV, two new partners have been unveiled – Haier and Insignia. Insignia TVs with Roku will be on sale in the spring exclusively in Best Buy, with Haier models arriving in the summer. For non-US readers, Insignia is a Best Buy brand.
The Haier Roku TV 4 Series Smart LED TVs will be available in sizes ranging from 32″ to 65″. The 40″ to 65″ models will come with Full HD resolution and a Sound Chamber that produces enhanced sound quality, with superior dampening, improved mid-range response, cleaner and deeper bass, as well as overall richer sound texture.
The Roku TV OS has been named a 2015 CES Innovation Awards Honoree in the Software and Mobile Apps category and TCL Roku TV will be displayed in the Innovation Showcase located at CES Tech West, Booth #75545. The new Insignia Roku TV models will be shown tonight at Pepcom's Digital Experience media event.
Finally, and this is the kind of news the geeks have been waiting for, Roku has announced the availability of a Roku TV 4K reference design for Roku TV manufacturing partners. TCL is the initial partner working to deliver a Roku TV 4K model in the future and Roku is working with Netflix to provide 4K content for streaming on the Roku platform.
"As one of the first streaming services to offer 4K Ultra HD content to our customers, it's important for Netflix to work closely with partners like Roku to give consumers more streaming options," said Neil Hunt, chief product officer of Netflix. "We look forward to bringing Netflix 4K Ultra HD content to Roku customers."
While there's no news on a new flagship Roku box, I think we can assume that there will be a Roku 4K in the not too distant future. Fingers crossed.
Roku Gets YouTube
December 18, 2013 google, ROKU, Set Top Box, smartphone, tablet, TV, video, YouTubegoogle, Roku, set top box, streaming, TV, video, YouTubeAndrew
Perhaps unsurprisingly given Google's now somewhat defunct plans for GoogleTV, YouTube has been one of the glaring omissions from the Roku platform. But not any longer. Roku has announced that a YouTube channel is now available on the Roku 3 in USA, Canada, UK and the Republic of Ireland. Older Rokus will be getting the channel next year, though the exact timing is unclear. For non-Roku owners, a channel is roughly equivalent to an app on other platforms.
The YouTube channel supports full 1080p HD and the press release suggests that subscriptions will carry over from other platforms so that your favourites can easily be seen on the Roku. The new channel also features "Send to TV", which after pairing, lets you send a YouTube video from your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the Roku.
As a Roku 2 XS owner, I'm delighted but will have to wait a bit longer until I get the YouTube channel on my device (unless Santa has a surprise for me). Sadly, it will be one less reason to turn on my Nintendo Wii, especially with the HD support on the Roku.
Hulu Plus Now on Chromecast
October 2, 2013 Chrome OS, Set Top Box750 channels, Android, Apple TV, Chromecast, HDMI, ios app, RokuJ Powers
huluplus on Chromecast
This morning, Hulu Plus updated their website to include Chromecast support. With an update of the App, you can now watch your hulu subscription on the big screen.
Chromecast is Google's answer to over the top television. For $35, you can plug into your HDMI outlet and use your phone as the remote. With the introduction, you could only send Netflix movies, Google Play content or Youtube videos to the big screen. With the addition of Hulu plus, the Chromecast is starting to feel more useful.
Chromecast has a long way to go from say Roku – with over 750 channels to their arsenal. On the way are apps from Vimeo, Vevo, Twitch.tv and more. Also coming up is extended support for Netflix with iOS apps.
My Assessment of Chromecast
It does make things easier since I don't have to look for a remote to call up a show. I did notice the quality – at 1080p, Chromecast projects darker on the TV screen. Roku and Apple TV are brighter and more vibrant.
Also, if you are using your phone for something else (like talking on the phone), switching to remote mode is tougher. Good thing others can control the screen with their smartphones…
Roku Updates Interface Adds Grid Menu, Better Search
May 15, 2013 OTT, Set Top BoxJ Powers
Roku Grid Interface
When I was as SXSW, I was excited to find that Roku was changing the interface to a Grid view. In interviewing Roku, I was told the interface would be rolled out to older players but had to wait. Well now the wait is over.
Roku rolled out their new interface to certain older Roku boxes. If you own a Roku LD, HD, XS or MHL Streaming Stick, you will be able to update the software and utilize the new interface.
CES Interview: Roku Streaming Stick
CES Interview (TPN.TV): 3M MHL Projector with Roku
How to Update to the new Roku Interface
This is a manual update – on your Roku, go to your settings and navigate to the update section. You will have to agree to update to the new grid view, then watch as the software downloads, installs and reboots. After the familiar bouncing Roku logo, the new grid interface appears.
Features of the Roku Grid Menu
The biggest feature is your channels are now on a grid rather than a straight line. You can reorganize your titles for easier navigation. The search option and the channel store are both now on the left navigation menu. This makes for easier discovery of new channels and searching for content on your Roku device.
Speaking of the search option, you will be able to search for videos, movies and TV shows right from the interface. Roku will let you know where you can watch the videos and how much it might cost (if any).
Little Black Box brings XBMC to the set-top box market
April 29, 2013 Set Top Box, TVset top box, TV, XBMCAlan
XBMC has long been a darling of the HTPC crowd, bringing a free and open source alternative to Windows Media Center. Now a Dutch company wants to bring the platform to a set-top box. Known as "The Little Black Box", the device has just become available for pre-order.
The box will contain 1GB of memory, 4GB of Flash storage (800MB for the system, 3.2GB for XBMC) and a Meson3 single core processor capable of running at 1Ghz but clocked at 800Mhz.
The box is available now for €99.99 and according to the site "The first batch will be in limited numbers. As that limited amount needs to be divided between the different distribution channel, availability will most likely become sparse very fast". The company is accepting pre-orders world-wide.
Should Amazon build a set-top box?
April 24, 2013 amazon, Set Top Box, TVamazon, set top box, TVAlan
Today, rumors are circulating around the web regarding Amazon. It is nothing new — the online retail giant has long been subject to such babble. Rumors of an Amazon phone still appear on a regular basis. Thanks to the success of the Kindle Fire, everyone seems to expect a handset to be the logical follow-up.
Today's rumor is different though — there is no phone involved, but instead a set-top box. While I have no real interest in moving from a Nexus phone to a Kindle one, a living room device intrigues me.
I am a recent convert to Google TV and I love the platform. But I am also a Prime subscriber. I replaced Netflix with the Amazon service sometime back because it is not only a bit cheaper, but offers more upside with, not only the streaming video, but also free two-day shipping and a Kindle lending library.
Prime for Google TV has been greatly improved recently, with the app now being native, as opposed to opening a browser window. Thus I imagine an Amazon set-top box to bring Prime to the forefront and make it the focus of the device. And that does not feel like a bad thing.
If the device were Kindle Fire-like, in that it ran a version of Android customized for the big screen, then this could compete with the likes of Roku and Google TV in today's growing environment of cord-cutters. Xbox may remain the front runner, but the power and financial backing of Amazon could present a real competitor in the market, and that would be good for all consumers.


Moshe, Netanel and Rafi, congratulations on the big win and another great season. Who are your role models and why?
Moshe Keiser: My parents because they inspire me every day to work harder and always encourage me to do my best.
Netanel Benloulou: My parents and coaches, because they teach me both on and off the court and encourage me.
Rafi Suss: My parents because I learn things from both of them every day.
Moshe Keiser: Lawrence Taylor, because he was a very dominant player and changed the way football is played.
Netanel Benloulou: Lebron James, because he is an all around player and entertaining to watch. I learn how to be a better player from him.
Rafi Suss: Luka Doncic, because his style of play is unique and he is a humble player.
Moshe Keiser: Listening to lots of Hebrew music before the game.
Netanel Benloulou: I stretch and practice layups and jump shots.
Rafi Suss: Eat lots of food, blast Jewish music and play the ukulele.
Moshe Keiser: Watching my older brother pitch for TABC in the championship game.
Netanel Benloulou: Playing for Bergen Broncos in third grade. It was my first time playing competitively and we won the championship.
Rafi Suss: Basement mini basketball and football.
Moshe Keiser: When there was 30 seconds left on the clock, but I thought there was one second so I chucked up a half court shot and it went in.
Netanel Benloulou: When my Bergen Broncos team scored over 100 points! We had four players against a younger team with five players.
Rafi Suss: Scoring on the wrong basket in an MGBL game in fourth grade.
Moshe Keiser: The best thing about being a Sportstar is that my friends and I get to be appreciated for what we do on and off the court.
Netanel Benloulou: Best thing about being a sports star is getting recognized with my best friends for doing what we love to do.
Rafi Suss: Getting to share this with two of my teammates and friends.


A key theme that emerged was that 2017 is shaping to be one of the most dynamic years for global markets with navigating and looking further into the future a necessity to capture opportunities in the current climate.
The conference focused on six global Megatrend investment themes consisting of three overarching Megatrends pillars: multi-polar world, demographics and sustainability. Dovetailing this, panel discussions delved into the demands of urbanization on infrastructure, the rampant impact of technology on all aspects of professional and personal lives, and longevity against the backdrop of an aging population.
Overall, participants gained valuable insights on what these key developments and Megatrend themes meant in practical terms to investors as well as benefitted from the insights shared by 24 internationally known speakers in their respective fields.


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