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Jonah Bokaer, Genie, 2020. © Jonah Bokaer; Courtesy of the artists and signs and symbols, New York.
February 13–March 8, 2020
In the exhibition About An Arabesque, choreographer Jonah Bokaer investigates the socio-political underpinnings of the notion of the "arabesque," a European aesthetic catch-all for a wide swathe of Middle Eastern and North-African decorative gestures. It is also the title of a ballet position. As a dancer of Tunisian origin, Bokaer views it as a unification of visual art and dance and two aspects of his persona. The exhibition is comprised of video clips, prints and sculptural installation: this multi-media approach is expansive, but is it effective in increasing our awareness of the implications of the idea of the arabesque? Is information even the intention of the exhibition, or is it a meditation considering how cultural signifiers can coalesce around misperceptions and shreds of evidence and then be processed through the lens of the artist? The exhibition's installation is casual, almost studio-like in the exposed brick gallery space signs and symbols. Framed works line the walls, and there is a projection at eye level on the white back wall of the single room, lending some sense of regularity. Interrupting this is a flat-screen monitor resting on the floor in the room's left-hand corner, surrounded by rectangular plywood fragments; the piece lends the exhibition its title (single channel color video, 2020). Along the bottom of the floor on the right-hand side of the gallery is the same kind of angular, jutting plywood assemblage, Raft Of The Medusa (2020). These two pieces disrupt the typical rectilinear organizational strategy of the gallery; it is hard to tell what the motivation is behind this injection of chaos. Are these three-dimensional expansions of the imagery meant to represent the at-times inscrutable historical accumulation of meanings around a particular sign?
The Western notion of the arabesque is a loose concept: it is based on the curling, fluid vegetal form/gesture that appears frequently in Islamic architecture, design, and art. The idea of arabesque infuses this form into the overall culture, but it functions primarily as a Western/colonial construction. As an idea, it primarily exists in the eye of the beholder—the European eye—based on vague similarities perceived in the aesthetic choices of the beheld—Middle Eastern and North Africans. Bokaer is of Tunisian ancestry, so he acknowledges the pressure that is exerted on Arab culture by the imposition of foreign interpretations. The serigraphs and prints on plywood address the multicultural history of North Africa. Images of Roman ruins in the region refer to outside occupying presences occupying in Aeneas, Anchises, Ascanius (2020), a serigraph created from a photograph of a sculptural fragment depicting an interlude from the Aeneid. The wooden constructions are imprinted with contemporary diagrams of movements by migrants to and from Europe as well as photographs and text. The disparate references and images in the prints coupled with the videos of dance and performance offer a multi-valent definition or interpretation of arabesque, but like the term itself, the concepts have often taken on their own sets of meaning which bear little relation to each other.
Installation view: Jonah Bokaer: About An Arabesque, signs and symbols, New York, 2020. © Jonah Bokaer; Courtesy of the artists and signs and symbols, New York.
As a dancer and choreographer, Bokaer is familiar with the arabesque as a position in traditional ballet: the dancer stands on one leg with the other lifted at a 90 degree angle and the body thrust in the opposing direction from the leg. In his dance and movement practice, Bokaer choreographs with a focus on surroundings and their interpenetrations with movement and bodily self-awareness; this is balanced with an investigation of specific movements and positions. Bokaer and his dancers utilized both traditional balletic gestures as well as motions that allow limbs to balance and swing based on gravity as well as the momentum of the body in motion. His gestures mutate and expand, and his dancers often test each other in series of repeated movements. In the horizontal, split-screen projection, Neither (two channel color video)(2016), dancers interact with a variety of environments on the lower screen, most outdoors, while the upper half presents the same scenario, absent the performers. Sometimes the dancers move across the landscape—often in arabesque and related movements—but they also crouch, sit, or repeat movements. These vignettes are about waiting, fidgeting, and crowd activity as much as dancers interacting with their surroundings. The second video presented, About An Arabesque (single channel color video) (2020), features a female performer who grimaces, smiles and shifts position. She flirts with the viewer, exuding the seduction and exoticism of the "other" that is the equivocal essence of the arabesque. About an Arabesque is an exercise in comprehending concepts as intractable as the "romantic," "gothic," or "Romanesque," and also fraught with questions of the colonial and classicizing view. Its symptoms can be catalogued, but a cohesive definition is much harder to pin down.
Bokaer worked in the studio of Robert Rauschenberg in Captiva during a fellowship with that artist's foundation in 2019. His prints are Rauschenbergian in their color choice, graininess and obscured imagery. He also had his first career success as a dancer with Merce Cunningham, so there is a strong affinity with the particular postwar avant-garde sensibility of that group of artists. Bokaer's grapeshot approach to encompassing this difficult theme is thus very much in keeping with that artistic lineage of techniques of free association, combined with the artist's utilization of the rigors of traditional balletic movement. One enters About An Arabesque with the confidence of a basic textbook definition of what the arabesque is but leaves substantially less secure, entranced by this nebulous concept.
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William Corwin is a sculptor and journalist from New York.


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Coronavirus outbreak causes decline in China greenhouse gas emissions
March 9, 2020 March 9, 2020 China Desk 10 Views 0 Comments China, coronavirus, decline, emissions, gas, greenhouse, outbreak 9 min read
Experts say greenhouse gas emissions in China, the world's largest current contributor to climate change, are down 25 per cent
Humans have seemed unable to get a handle on climate change, with global emissions of greenhouse gases continuing to grow every year. But a microscopic pathogen, so structurally simple that it does not even have a single cell and is arguably not even alive, may be capable of accomplishing what our political leaders thus far cannot.
Experts say greenhouse gas emissions in China, the world's largest current contributor to climate change, are down 25 per cent in recent weeks as the country conducted a massive societal intervention to stop the spread of the virus. Air pollution is also down, due to decreased driving and less coal burning.
Meanwhile, as the virus enters a second phase, spreading beyond China to other countries, it is dampening global demand for oil and air travel, and threatening overall global economic growth. All of these are strongly linked to greenhouse gas emissions.
While it's too early to say for sure, if these trends continue, the coronavirus could join rare company.
Since the year 1900, greenhouse gas emissions have risen dramatically. During that period, the escalation of emissions has been nearly constant, with 2019 projected to set yet another record high. And when significant declines have happened, it's usually been because of sweeping economic contractions or large-scale geopolitical events such as the fall of the Soviet Union.
When it comes to an emissions decline, "whatever the driver, it will have to be big, and global," says Glen Peters, an expert on carbon emissions at Norway's Centre for International Climate Research and a contributor to the Global Carbon Project.
The last time global emissions fell noticeably was in the wake of the Great Recession, from 2008 to 2009 – when US GDP fell 4.3 per cent, unemployment doubled from 5 to 10 per cent, housing prices crashed and the stock market lost, at the nadir, more than half of its value. But even in that moment of economic and societal trauma, the global emissions decline was fleeting. Emissions started to rise again almost immediately.
Still, if the current emissions contraction that happened first in China spreads around the world, and is sustained, then it might cause a similar impact.
Elizabeth Economy, a China expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, says the nation's emissions have increased every year for the past three until coronavirus paralysed entire regions. "If there is a bright side to the coronavirus," she says, "it is that the drop in industrial production, manufacturing, and automobile use will produce a noticeable drop in CO2 emissions for at least the first two months of the year."
Granted, the bounce back could be rapid if China tries to juice its economy through some type of stimulus once the situation stabilises. South Korea has already enacted roughly $10bn (£7.6bn) in stimulus in the wake of the virus's spread, and Italy is planning an infusion of $8.4bn.
"The reductions are substantial, but they are most certainly only temporary, and there will likely be a rebound effect," says Joanna Lewis, an expert on China's energy sector at Georgetown University. "Once people go back to work and factories restart, they may try to make up for lost time. This could result in a surge in emissions."
Still, the change since the start of the year in the world's most greenhouse-gas-intensive economy has been striking to behold.
Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, found that carbon emissions in China are down at least a quarter over the month of February. He estimates it amounts to a reduction of 200 million tons of carbon dioxide compared with emissions levels in 2019.
Concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, or NO2 – which are produced by cars, trucks and energy-intensive industries – are down about 40 per cent during the same stretch, he found. In addition, small-particle air pollution also has fallen across the country.
Myllyvirta says that while emissions have rebounded a bit over the past week, "it's still very far from normal levels". "Oil demand and demand for things like coal and steel have fallen," he says. "The impact on many of the major industrial sectors is very profound." He says sales of real estate are likely to fall sharply over the first quarter of the year in China. The outbreak will affect construction projects and investment decisions for months to come, all factors that could hinder economic growth and slow down emissions.
The effects seen in China may ripple around the world. The International Air Transport Association recently announced that global January air travel, while still showing growth, saw "the lowest monthly increase since April 2010". And February's figures could be even worse.
United Airlines recently announced plans to cut domestic flights by 10 per cent and international ones by 20 per cent for April and May. It's asking staff to volunteer for unpaid leaves to help adjust for the decline in revenue. Aircraft account for roughly 3 per cent of total US greenhouse gas emissions, so changes here could have a major impact.
"I expect where the coronavirus is going to be hitting is one of the more energy-intensive aspects of the economy, which is travel," says Kenneth Gillingham, a professor of economics at Yale University. "I do expect emissions to decline," Gillingham adds. "Not that I think that that is a particularly good thing in this context because the coronavirus is an absolute tragedy."
Meanwhile, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and the International Energy Agency both recently lowered their forecasts for oil demand in 2020, thanks to coronavirus. On Thursday, Opec proposed cutting production by an additional 1.5 million barrels a day through the end of the year, which would be the biggest cut since the 2008 financial crisis. The OECD, meanwhile, said that in a scenario of broad global spread of the virus, economic growth could only tally 1.5 per cent in 2020, as opposed to a prior prediction of 3 per cent before the outbreak occurred.
That itself is revealing, though, notes Peters from Norway's Centre for International Climate Research. "If global growth goes from 3 per cent to 1.5 per cent, then it is very low by historical standards, but nowhere near as low as negative growth from the financial crisis," Peters says.
From 2008 to 2009, during that seismic economic event, global emissions declined about 1.4 per cent, according to figures from Peters and the Global Carbon Project. That's equivalent to a reduction of about 450 million tons of carbon dioxide. But then growth quickly resumed, and 2018's global emissions, nine years after that downturn in 2009, were 16 per cent higher. That's equivalent to an additional 5 billion tons of CO2 per year.
The Global Carbon Project's data show even larger temporary declines, on a percentage basis, in the past during moments of global upheaval.
Take the Great Depression – the longest-lasting and most severe economic decline affecting the United States and the world since 1900. US unemployment climbed as high as 25 per cent and thousands of banks failed. Global emissions, which were then far lower, dropped 25 per cent from 1929 to 1932 and did not exceed their 1929 levels again until 1937.
There's also evidence of an emissions decline from 1918 to 1919, in the wake of the deadly Spanish flu, the worst pandemic of the modern world – 50 million people around the globe died. At least initially, this looks like a clear case of a biological event, rather than an economic, political or military one, driving down emissions – which shrank by more than 400 million tons of carbon dioxide in just one year.
However, that period came in the immediate wake of the First World War, and it isn't clear that the decline was solely due to the pandemic. Emissions also fell as combatants laid down arms, explains Robbie Andrew, also a researcher at Norway's Centre for International Climate Research. Peace also brought an end to wartime spending and a contraction of the emission-intensive steel and arms industries.
"The years immediately after the First World War are likely to show a combination of effects that overlapped," he says.
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Other episodes of emissions declining or flattening underscore that thus far in history, it has generally required a massive societal or economic upheaval for such a decline to occur. In October 1973, Opec retaliated against the United States for its role in the Arab-Israeli war, imposing an oil embargo. The oil cartel slashed production, quadrupling crude prices, fuelling inflation broadly, squeezing consumers and throwing the world into recession throughout 1974. It was then the deepest four-year downturn since the mid-1940s. And greenhouse gas emissions declined slightly for a few years.
In 1978, another "oil shock", this time stemming from the Iranian Revolution and the drop in its oil output, badly hurt the global economy at the worst possible time. In the face of soaring inflation and the falling value of the dollar, the Federal Reserve slammed on the brakes, raising interest rates as high as 19 per cent in 1981. Inflation eased by the end of 1982. At the time, it was the most severe recession since the Great Depression. Emissions declined for three years and did not exceed their 1979 levels until six years later, in 1985.
In the early 1990s, the world economy suffered from a US slowdown and the collapse of the Soviet Union – leading, once again, to a modest and temporary emissions decline. Myllyvirta says the parallels to past episodes when the world has seen its emissions fall are limited. A pandemic, after all, is hardly a humane, desirable or logical way to count on combating climate change.
"To reduce emissions in a sustained way, you need the world to run in a clean way – and forever," he says. "You can't just lock everyone in their homes and say you shouldn't go to work."
"A complete switch from coal to low-carbon generation – or a modest carbon pricing policy – can provide emissions reduction on the same order of magnitude as a war, recession or pandemic," Gillingham added. "This provides at least a sliver of a reason for optimism."
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"Motherless Brooklyn" (R, 144 min.). With this 1950s period piece, writer-director Edward Norton delivers a richly layered, well-photographed film-noir mystery about a lonely private detective with Tourette's syndrome. As the star, he proves a great actor can make unfortunate choices and deliver an uneven performance. Rating: Three stars.
"The Lighthouse" (R, 108 min.). A drifter (Robert Pattinson) contracts for a monthlong gig on an isolated, storm-swept island as an apprentice for a crabby old lighthouse keeper (Willem Dafoe). The actors are equally brilliant in this visually striking, claustrophobic, black-and-white horror show. Rating: Three and a half stars.
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"Stuber" (R, 93 min.). Much of the credit for this buddy comedy's success goes to the inspired pairing of action star Dave Bautista as a brooding cop and comedian Kumail Nanjiani as his mild-mannered Uber driver. It's a little bit clunky, but the stars click and the action sequences are well-filmed and sometimes brutally funny. Rating: Three stars.
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Trump Homeland Security chief abruptly quits at tense time
by: BEN FOX, Associated Press
FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2020, file photo, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Wolf is resigning Jan. 11, 2021, days after criticizing President Donald Trump. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's acting head of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly resigned Monday, leaving the post ahead of schedule as the nation faces a heightened terrorism threat from extremists seeking to reverse the election.
The announcement by acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf was perplexing. It came less than a week after he pledged to remain in office and just 10 days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Wolf cited a legal challenge to his leadership as a reason for his resignation, but that had surfaced months ago.
"For months we have known Chad Wolf has been serving illegally in his position, so the timing of his resignation from the Department today is questionable," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. "He has chosen to resign during a time of national crisis and when domestic terrorists may be planning additional attacks on our government."
Wolf, who had been serving in an acting capacity since November 2019 and was never confirmed by the Senate, said he was compelled to leave by "recent events," including court rulings that found he could not legally hold the position. He did not specify the other events or cite other factors.
"These events and concerns increasingly serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power," he said in a written message to DHS employees.
The resignation comes a day before Trump is set to visit the U.S.-Mexico border wall, Trump's signature political project and one overseen by DHS.
Wolf's departure followed the abrupt resignation of other Cabinet officials angered by Trump's role in encouraging the mob to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 over his false claims of election fraud.
Wolf condemned the violent attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters, calling it "tragic and sickening." He also said then he would stay on at DHS until the end of the administration to ensure a smooth transition and to help the department stay focused on the threats facing the nation.
It was unclear what prompted him to change course with the nation braced for the potential for more violence ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration. The FBI has warned of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington, D.C
The White House had no immediate comment.
Wolf led DHS as it carried out Trump administration priorities on immigration and law enforcement, prompting criticism that he politicized a department that was created to better protect the nation in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The department was accused during his tenure by a whistleblower of suppressing facts in intelligence reports that Trump might find objectionable, including information about Russian interference in the election and the rising threat posed by white supremacists. Wolf and the department denied the allegations.
The acting secretary defended his tenure in his statement to employees, saying DHS had strengthened border security and successfully launched the cybersecurity agency that helped safeguard the 2020 election.
"I leave knowing that the Department has positioned itself for an orderly and smooth transition to President-elect Biden's DHS team," he wrote. "Welcome them, educate them, and learn from them. They are your leaders for the next four years — a time which undoubtedly will be full of challenges and opportunities to show the American public the value of DHS and why it is worth the investment."
Peter Gaynor, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will serve as acting head of the Department of Homeland Security until the Biden administration takes over.
"Right now, our nation is facing significant challenges and it is our privilege to support the nationwide efforts to fight the pandemic and protect our homeland," Gaynor said in a message to FEMA employees. He announced that his post would be filled by Bob Fenton, the Region 9 administrator for the agency, on an acting basis.
Biden has nominated Alejandro Mayorkas, a former senior DHS official, to lead an agency that carried out Trump administration priorities on immigration and law enforcement and was criticized for becoming politicized as a result.
Trump appointed Wolf acting secretary in November 2019, following the resignation of Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary who took over following the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Wolf had been a chief of staff to Nielsen and an undersecretary in the agency as well as an official at the Transportation Security Administration, a component of DHS. He has also worked as a lobbyist.
Trump had said he liked the "flexibility" of having senior officials in an acting status despite criticism that it keeps people from long-term planning that would give an agency more stability.
The president sent Wolf's nomination to the Senate for confirmation after the Government Accountability Office determined that neither Wolf nor his deputy, Ken Cuccinelli, were legally eligible to run DHS because of a violation of the rules of succession in federal agencies.
That finding has put policy changes under their tenure, especially related to immigration, in potential jeopardy because of legal challenges, including one as recently as Friday in which a federal judge blocked sweeping asylum restrictions imposed by the administration.


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Is the internet fast enough?
1Gbps internet is here- where are the applications utilizing it?
I feel the need, the need for speed.
1Gbps internet is here- where are the applications utilizing it? Internet speed is more than fast enough in developed countries for the vast majority of use cases. The U.S.has a median download speed of 59 Mbps on mobile and 153 Mbps for fixed broadband. The most data-intensive task for most users is video streaming, which requires 15 Mbps. I'm not suggesting 15 Mbps is sufficient, especially for households with multiple people. But the benefit of a speed increase from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps is vastly more meaningful than 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps. In the latter case, most won't be able to tell the difference. Certainly the fatter pipe will allow you to do more of the same with more users faster, but it won't allow you to do anything fundamentally new.
In 2011 Google Fiber selected Kansas City as the first location to receive its 1Gbps internet service. A decade in and we still haven't found a killer use case. Commercial airline travel speed has stalled since Boeing unveiled the 747 in 1969. Turns out seven hours across the Atlantic is fast enough. Do I think internet speed will follow a similar trajectory? No. I am merely pondering out loud how surprising it is that we haven't found a use case. Until now we've always been able to fill the pipe. Now we have headroom. For a hint at how users could possibly fill the 1Gbps pipe, a helpful place to start is looking at the most bandwidth-demanding apps today.
Mighty is a browser that runs in the cloud and streams to your computer. As far as I know, at 80 Mbps, it has the highest bandwidth requirement of any consumer app. This concept isn't new. Virtualization has been around for decades. It allows your computer to offload the heavy lifting to a server. This use case is perfect for gaming, which normally requires high powered hardware. With the likes of Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia's GeForce Now, Google's Stadia, and Amazon Luna, users can game on a lower powered machine because the computationally intensive work is happening in the cloud. Of the three, Geforce Now states the highest minimum required connection of 40Mbps for the highest quality setting. Besides speed, the latency of your internet connection is also extremely important. Latency refers to the time it takes for the data to travel from your machine to the server and back. Latency of 13 ms and below is considered imperceptible to humans. The U.S.has a median internet latency of 33 ms on mobile and 14 ms for fixed broadband. What happens when a critical mass of users have 1Gbps speeds with sub-perceptible latency? Let me propose something.
Everything becomes virtualized. Computing devices offload all of their computation to the cloud and retain the bare minimum of computation power and storage to connect to the cloud. The notion of local files or local apps becomes foreign. Even photos would be instantly sent to the cloud and returned fully processed back to your device in a matter of milliseconds. Something as benign as a swipe gesture would be handled in the cloud — if swiping is still even a thing by then. Devices become cheap because they just become terminals to the real computation which happens in the cloud. Losing a device becomes a non-event, simply sign in to another and everything is there instantly because it was never there at all. In this model, cryptography would play an extremely vital role. The cloud must be able to handle all of your computing needs without being able to snoop.
Or maybe not. Maybe only the applications that really need it become virtualized. And, maybe you don't even know if it's virtualized or not. Adobe's video editing tool Premiere is a great candidate for this. In fact it has already begun. Audio transcriptions are processed in the cloud to create subtitles. The video processing is still done locally because uploading raw video files, processing and editing them in the cloud, and downloading them is just going to be prohibitively long on anything other than a super fast connection. But who knows. Hell, a decade ago at my part-time college gig I wrote a business case for virtualizing all the computers in the classrooms. Even back then I felt like it would be soon before this would be the norm. A decade later and it doesn't feel closer.
Or maybe both cases I've pointed out come true, but one before the other. Or maybe on device computation becomes so good that the cloud becomes less relevant. I doubt it. But who knows. That's the point. That's the beauty of it. Technology is an infinite canvas with all of humanity painting on top of each other and combining ideas. It's a beautiful progressive exercise of human ingenuity- each generation standing on top of the previous passing the paintbrush upward.
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Autodesk is a name that is very well known in the 3D modeling software market. The company has stepped into the 3D printing market with a new open platform called Spark. Autodesk CEO Carl Bass says that Spark will "make it more reliable yet simpler to print 3D models, and easier to control how that model is actually printed."
Autodesk will also unveil its own 3D printer that will serve as a reference implementation for Spark. Bass promises that the 3D printer will set a "new benchmark" for 3D printing. Autodesk plans to promote free licensing of the printer and Spark to manufacturers and other parties.
The 3D printer itself will be able to use range of materials supplied by Autodesk and other firms. Both the Spark open software platform and the 3D printer will be available later this year. It's unclear when exactly the 3D printer will launch and how much it will cost.
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Best Shopping Malls & Plazas in Central Boston Faneuil Hall Marketplace Copley Place - Luxury Shopping Plaza in Back Bay Shops at Prudential Center - Upscale Shopping Mall in Back Bay Assembly Row - OutletShopping 5 Minutes from Downtown Cambridgeside Galleria - Hip Fashion in this Cambridge Mall Biggest, Best, & Most Interesting Suburban Malls Natick Mall - Mammouth Upscale Mall West of Boston Best Discount Shopping Malls in Boston - Wrentham Premium Outlets & Assembly Row Patriot Place - Shopping, Entertainment, & Sports Next to Gillette Stadium Chestnut Hill Mall - Bloomingdale's & More Burlington Mall Boston Insider Tip: Best Ways to Save in Boston Shopping Malls Other Popular Boston Shopping Areas Downtown Crossing Newbury Street / Boylston Street Boylston Street near the Four Seasons Hotel Charles Street in Beacon Hill Harvard Square Boston Shopping Malls - by Location Shopping malls right in the city - no car needed! A few miles away - a car is helpful Can't get there without a car Boston Mall Tips - Know Before You Go Typical Mall Hours Parking at Suburban Malls More Articles about Shopping in Boston Fun Ways to See Boston Need a Boston Hotel or Apartment? Videos
Boston's shopping malls may surpriseyou, especially if you are used to the typical suburban cookie-cutter experience where one mall looks much like another.
Imagine an eclectic mix of shopping and entertainment in a marketplace built almost 300 years ago in the most historic part of the city.
Or a sophisticated shopping plaza with soaringglass skylights at the foot ofBoston's second-tallest skyscraper ... or a village-like collection of top-brand outlet stores overlooking the Mystic River, just 5 minutes by subway from Downtown Boston.
Here is our guide to Boston's unique centrally-located shopping malls and plazas - plus a few special nearby suburban malls as well.
Top photo: Faneuil Marketplace, Boston's most popular outdoor shopping mall near the waterfront
Best Shopping Malls & Plazas in Central Boston
Hop on Boston's subway (the "T") toget these centrally-located shopping malls - or even better, walk.
100+ stores and artisan pushcarts in Boston's festival-like Faneuil Hall Marketplace / Quincy Market occupy 4 historic buildings in the heart of Boston.
But shopping is just the beginning of the fun you can have here.
Faneuil Marketplace's famed street performers entertain crowds every weekend and holiday, and a huge lighted Christmas tree, frequent special events such as the Blink! light and music show during the winter holidays, and more restaurants, food vendors, and pubs than you can count add to why this is Boston's most entertaining mall. More about Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Copley Place - Luxury Shopping Plaza in Back Bay
You'll find Neiman Marcus and 75 boutiques including many internationally known luxury designers in upscale Copley Place in Boston's fashionable Back Bay neighborhood.
Located not far from Newbury Street, Copley Place connects with Prudential Center by a skywalk.
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Shops at Prudential Center - Upscale Shopping Mall in Back Bay
With more than 75 stores and boutiques plus some of the city's best restaurants, Prudential Center is one of the city's most popular upscale shopping malls.
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Located in Back Bay near Newbury Street and Copley Center, Pru Center offers more than just shopping. More about Prudential Center
Assembly Row - OutletShopping 5 Minutes from Downtown
Assembly Row offers Boston's newest outlet shopping, dining, and entertainment center, right on the Mystic River.
You can easily get there in just 5 minutes by subway from North Station or 10 minutes from Downtown Crossing.
Find out how Assembly Row compares with Wrentham Village Outlets.
Cambridgeside Galleria - Hip Fashion in this Cambridge Mall
Maybe it's Cambridgeside Galleria's Cambridge loction near Harvard, MIT, and a huge concentration of biotech firms that accounts for the trendy fashions - noticeably hipper than most other Boston malls.
Located just across the Charles River from central Boston (5 minutes on the Green Line).
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Natick Mall - Mammouth Upscale Mall West of Boston
With over 200 stores ranging from affordable to high-end, the upscale Natick Mall - sometimes called "Natick Collection" - is not just the biggest Boston shopping mall, it's also the largest mall in New England. With 6 anchors - Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Macy's, Lord & Taylor, Sears, and JC Penney . . .
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Best Discount Shopping Malls in Boston - Wrentham Premium Outlets & Assembly Row
Fashionistas, if you love a bargain, you'll want to visit Wrentham Outlets, the only discount shopping mall in the Boston area. Expect to find 25-65% savings on big-name designers - even more when sales are underway.
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Patriot Place - Shopping, Entertainment, & Sports Next to Gillette Stadium
Way more than just a shopping mall, this sports, entertainment, and retail complex 22 miles south of Boston also includes Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots football team and the New England Revolution soccer team.
More about Patriot Place
Chestnut Hill Mall - Bloomingdale's & More
Anchored by Boston's only Bloomingdale's, Chestnut Hill Mall offers an interesting mix of up-scale stores and boutiques just a few miles west of Boston. Pricey, yes . . . but sales here can be awesome!
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Burlington Mall
One of the Boston area's largest malls, the upscale Burlington Mall has 4 anchor stores, a huge stand-alone Crate and Barrel, and almost 200 other stores ranging from affordable to high-end. This popular shopping mall is just north of Boston near Route 128 and is the only Boston mall to double as a movie set (Anyone remember Paul Blart in Mall Cop?).
More about Burlington Mall
Boston Insider Tip: Best Ways to Save in Boston Shopping Malls
Of course a big SALE sign in the window excites shoppers - but if you're visiting Boston from another state in the U.S. or another country, you may find savings on every single item.
For beginners, our sales tax is still only 6.25% - so if you live in a state where sales tax is, say, 8% or a country where you pay VAT of 16%, you get an immediate "discount" of the difference between what you pay at home and what you pay in Boston.
In addition, you'll pay NO sales tax on clothing costing less than $175.
Of course, those SALE signs can also mean big savings - typically 25% - 50%, depending on the season and item.
Where will you find the biggest discounts? Sometimes at the highest priced, most fashion-conscious stores which need to make room for the latest styles.
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Other Popular Boston Shopping Areas
These clusters of boutiques, unique shops, and even large department and specialty stores in in no way resemble malls - but you should know about them because they offer wonderful shopping experiencesand are easy to reach on foot or by subway.
Downtown Crossing is anchored by a huge Macy's, with a large number of top discounters: H&M, TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Eddie Bauer Outlet, DSW Shoes, plus several diamond dealers known to offer top value in engagement rings.
What you may love best about this mostly pedestrian-only shopping area, though, are the unique one-of-a-kind Boston shops along Washington Street and side streets.
Favorites: Brattle Book Shop (9 West Street), Commonwealth Books (9 Spring Lane), small art and artisan galleries tucked in here and there.
Walk over from Faneuil Hall Marketplace (it's just 2-3 blocks away) and enjoy an afternoon of browsing.
Newbury Street / Boylston Street
Famous for high-end designer boutiques.
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In reality, Newbury Street and next-door Boylston Street offer an eclectic mix of top designers plus wonderful homegoods shops (where you might happily spend a small fortune), national brand stores such as Nike, Crate & Barrel, and Anthropologie, Boston's biggest H&M, and other discounters featuring trendier styles than you'll find in more suburban locations.
More about Newbury Street Shopping
Boylston Street near the Four Seasons Hotel
This very small group of very high-end designer boutiques and galleries along Boylston Street next to the Four Seasons is too good to miss if you are into top international fashion. Walk over from Copley Plaza - it's a few blocks, but worth it!
Charles Street in Beacon Hill
Best known for its high concentration of superb antique shops, Charles Street's 6-8 (depending on how you count) stretch of mostly unique shops and boutiques also include an eclectic collection of fashion, gifts, jewelry, and even high-end hardware.
Need an elegant one-of-a-kind brass door knocker or cabinet knobs and pulls?
Head straight to Charles Street! More about what you'll find while shopping on Charles Street
Harvard Square, at the southeastern corner of the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, consists of a cluster of narrow winding streets lined with boutiques, small stores, restaurants, bars, and bookstores.
Although a number of national brands have moved in, you can still find many small, locally owned shops - some of which have done business here for ages.
The comparatively mammouth Harvard Coop carries all sorts of logo items, along with general interest books, music, and art prints, and even includes a small cafe.
Don't miss Cafe Crema for excellent coffee and pastries, and Burdick's for the best hot chocolate on this side of the river.
Take the T (Red Line/Harvard Square) - about a 10 minute trip from Park Station in Downtown Boston.
Boston Shopping Malls - by Location
Shopping malls right in the city - no car needed!
Prudential Center, Copley Place, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, and CambridgeSide Galleria (Cambridge Mall) are city malls - shopping malls that you can easily reach from central Boston on foot or by "T" (that's what we call the subway here).
Stores in Pru Center, Faneuil Marketplace, and CambridgeSide Galleria range from affordable to expensive.
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Most Copley Place stores hit the very expensive mark. Look for the best seasonal sales at the priciest boutiques.
A few miles away - a car is helpful
If you have access to a car during your stay in Boston, you may want to explore Chestnut Hill Mall and the Burlington Mall..
Both are close to Boston - meaning within or just outside of Route 128, the closer of the two highways that circle Boston. In non-rush hour traffic, you can reach all of them within 20 minutes or less (assuming you don't get lost).
Can't get there without a car
For true discount shopping, you'll want visit Wrentham Village Premium Outlets, a fabulous collection of designer discount stores. Especially if you happen to be here when sales or mark-downs are underway, you can save some serious money. No transportation? The easiest way to get to Wrentham Outlets is by luxury bus.
Patriot Place, the shopping / entertainment complex that includes Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, is fun and sports-oriented. With a luxury hotel and spa on site, Patriot Place doubles as a vacation destination.
Further afield (meaning beyond Route 128), but worth the trek if you love to shop and have a car is the Natick Collection mega-mall. However, Burliington Mall boasts many of the same stores - and is much closer to Boston.
Boston Mall Tips - Know Before You Go
Typical Mall Hours
All Boston shopping malls listed on this page are open 7 days a week. Typically, malls open at 9am or 10am and close at 9pm or 10pm on Mondays through Saturdays. Sunday mall hours are typically noon - 5pm or 6pm.
Hours for restaurants and department stores within the malls may differ from mall hours.
Because malls may change their hours based on the season (for example, they may open earlier and close later in November and December to accommodate holiday shoppers) and even the economy or marketing strategies, we do not list their hours on this site.You should confirm their hours on their websites before you go if you think opening or closing hours might be an issue.
Parking at Suburban Malls
Boston suburban shopping malls offer free parking in the parking lots surrounding the mall complex. A few such as Natick Collection offer valet or VIP parking for a fee, but there's also plenty of free parking. At Patriot Place, parking is free for shoppers but you'll pay a fee if you're there for a game.
At Boston shopping malls within the heart of Boston (Copley, Prudential Center, Faneuil Hall Marketplace) and Cambridge (Cambridgeside Galleria), you'll pay - anywhere from a small fee to potentially a lot. Fortunately, you can take the T (Boston's subway) to these shopping areas as an alternative.
Best parking options :
Copley Placeand Prudential Center - Parking is pricey, so make a small purchase to get your ticket validated for cheaper rates. But be warned: stay one minute over the validation time limit, and you're back to paying big $$s
Quincy Market - No on-site garage but plenty of options at nearby Boston parking garages
Cambridgeside Galleria - On-site garage for just a few dollars if you stay a couple of hours or less - although weekends are more expensive
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Originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Elias graduated in 1986 as a Professional Civil Engineer at the age of 21. The following year he achieved great success by starting his first business in the Engineering and Construction industry providing design build project delivery. Along with 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, Elias also studied Business Administration in Brazil in one of the top business schools in the country in 1988.
Two years later Elias started another business in the IT industry seizing the opportunities of a new industry becoming one of the first VAR's ("Value Added Reseller") in the country for networking software solutions for a major world brand starting in Brazil. At that time Elias also became an authorized reseller and service center for key players in the computer industry for servers and workstations. By 1995, when the Internet revolution was in its early stages, Elias was an industry pioneer in Brazil.
In 1996, Elias immigrated to Canada where he was hired as an Internet Division Manager by a major Canadian IT solutions provider. He built the division from the ground-up and provided great value to businesses across Canada (the majority of which had little to no experience with the Internet at that time).
Four years later Elias moved to the United States where he continued to work as an IT consultant. After two more years in the United States Elias then moved back to Brazil where he spent the next 10 years providing engineering consulting services and running a family business.
On the advice of an old friend (and now business partner) John Strasdas, Elias returned to Canada in June 2010 arriving in the heart of the oil sands in Fort McMurray, AB. Elias commenced employment as a professional engineer where he was hired by a leading Canadian Engineering consulting firm and he was deployed to work inside tar sands sites of one of the top Canadian Oil Sands operators.
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The original St. Paul Lutheran Church was once one of Fort Dodge's landmarks. The original building was tragically destroyed by a fire. The new design incorporates historical references within a contemporary worship facility, commemorating the tradition of the past while pointing to a hopeful future. The former church's tall steeple was a city landmark and a new steeple located along one of the city's busiest streets was designed as a respectful memory to the former steeple.
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Preparatory Choir
WAS FOUNDED IN 1989 BY STEPHEN RODDY.
The Chorus involves more than 150 children in grades 2 through 8 by annual audition. In the first year of its existence, the Chorus performed for over 15,000 people in events including the 1990 World Economic Summit and the UNICEF Gala with Audrey Hepburn and Michael Tilson Thomas. The annual audience for the Chorus numbers in the tens of thousands.
Education is the primary purpose of the Chorus. Its goal is to teach children to achieve high artistic standards through choral singing and performance. The Chorus provides the Houston community with a major children's choral group, while celebrating the diversity of Houston's population. Chorus membership encourages personal growth, teamwork, discipline, confidence and self-control.
Members of the Chorus represent all ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Students come from every school district in the Houston area, private schools and home schools.
The Houston Children's Chorus has performed all around the world. Through its 30 year existence, Chorus groups have presented concerts in Russia, England, Scotland, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, China, New Zealand, Mexico and Taiwan. Domestically, HCC has performed several times at Carnegie Hall in New York City and toured a number of states. Most recently, a performance residency was held in New England with concerts in Boston, Maine, New York and the Poconos in Pennsylvania.
The Chorus has performed for the President of the United States more than 28 times, including at the 1992 Republican National Convention and the 2005 Bush/Clinton Tsunami Relief Fund Celebration. Civic performances include the Mayor's Tree Lighting Ceremony, Thanksgiving Day Parades and numerous civic ceremonies for world leaders. The Chorus frequently performs with the Houston Symphony and has been featured in their annual Christmas Pops Concert, Carmina Burana, The Matrix and several performances of The Lord of the Rings. The Houston Masterworks Chorus, Cantare and the Rice University Orchestra and Chorale have all performed with the Chorus in various concerts through the years. Soloists from the Chorus have performed with the Houston Grand Opera, Theater Under the Stars and the Alley Theater. Alumni from the Chorus have been finalists and winners in "American Idol," Metropolitan Opera auditions, Hollywood movies and Broadway musicals.
Celebrities calling upon the Chorus to perform include Celine Dion, The Beach Boys, Lee Greenwood, Tommy Tune, Randy Travis, Marilyn McCoo, Dionne Warwick, Peabo Bryson, Roberta Flack, Shirley Jones, Josh Groban, Larry Gatlin, Susan Graham, Sarah Chang and Maureen McGovern. Memorable performances include the opening gala concerts for the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Houston, recording the BlueBell Ice Cream radio and television commercial and television and singing with Josh Groban at the 2004 Super Bowl.
Fred Bock Music Company of California has printed more than one million copies of the "Houston Children's Chorus Choral Series," a collection of anthems for churches and schools. Several compact discs featuring the Chorus have been produced by the Fred Bock Company.
The Houston Children's Chorus is known throughout Houston and the State of Texas for its diversity in membership and repertoire. The Chorus performs all types of music, from classical to pop – all by memory. The group is constantly in demand for weddings, gala fundraisers, ribbon-cutting ceremonies, church services, corporate events, radio and television commercials, recordings and civic events. It is the goal of the Houston Children's Chorus to make singing accessible to every child in the Houston area regardless of race or economic status.
The affairs of the Houston Children's Chorus are managed by its Board of Directors, comprised of individuals from a cross-section of the community. The Board oversees financial and legal aspects of the Chorus. Stephen Roddy, Founder & Director, conducts all concerts and oversees the artistic aspects of the Houston Children's Chorus.
Excel in local high school choruses and many are accepted at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and into the most prestigious music and music education university programs in the country
Performed on Broadway, appeared in movies, been finalists on American Idol and excelled in Metropolitan Opera competitions and other performances
Performances for former President, George H.W. Bush, and the late First Lady, Barbara Bush; former President, George W. Bush, and First Lady, Laura Bush; and former President, Bill Clinton, and former First Lady and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
Featured in the city-wide celebration of the life of Barbara Bush — telecast nationwide
Regular performances with the Houston Symphony and the Houston Symphony Pops
Performed for Super Bowl Opening Ceremonies (2004)
Performed concerts in New Zealand (1992), Hong Kong (1994), Russia (1997), The Vatican and Italy (1999), England (2000), Japan (2002), Mexico (2002 & 2003), New York's Carnegie Hall (1997, 2005 & 2010), China (2008), Taiwan (2011), Canada (2017)
Thanksgiving Day Parade, Downtown Houston, televised performances with more than 400,000 people in attendance and 16 million on TV throughout the southwestern U.S.
Featured at the World Economic Summit (1990)
Featured at the Republican National Convention (1992)
Commercials for local networks, Blue Bell Ice Cream, Gerber Baby Foods, United Way, SuperCuts
Performed with Broadway touring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Performance for the 1998 World Energy Congress
Performances with Celine Dion, Maureen McGovern, Randy Travis, Beach Boys, Tommy Tune, Lee Greenwood, Dionne Warwick, Reba McEntire, Christopher Cross, Heather Headley, Yolanda Adams, Anna Maria Martinez, Susan Graham, Larry Gatlin and other celebrities for Inaugural ceremonies for Texas Governors and Houston Mayors
Featured in the opening concert of the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (2002)
Featured numerous times at the Mayor's Tree Lighting and Uptown Tree Lighting Ceremony
Summer Residency Programs in Galveston and Mexico
Christmas caroling for the homeless with MLB World Series MVP George Springer — featured on nationwide newscasts
Featured for four years in the international convention and competition for First Robotics
We exist to musically enrich the lives of the children, families and community we serve. The mission of the Chorus is to teach children to achieve multi-cultural understanding through choral singing and performance.
Houston Children's Chorus
Mail: P.O. Box 66567, Houston, TX 77266
Email: info@houstonchildren.org
Copyright © 2019 Houston Children's Chorus. All Rights Reserved.


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LOS ANGELES (KNX1070) - Police hit the jackpot this week with the Golden State Killer's DNA coming up on a genealogy website leading to his capture. But for average folks using those sites, they should be prepared for unwanted news.
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# 76 Vladimir Lisin $20.5B
Random fact: Holds title as an Honorary Metallurgist of Russia.
Lisin is the chairman of Novolipetsk Steel, Russia's largest steelmaker. The publicly traded company produced 15.7 million metric tons of crude steel and had $16.2 billion of revenue in 2021. He also owns Freight One, a rail freight operator in Russia; port facilities operator UCL Port; and shipping company VBTH.
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The majority of Lisin's fortune is derived from his 79.3% stake in Novolipetsk Steel, a publicly traded miner. The Lipetsk, Russia-based company exports steel to Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the US. Lisin owns the shares through Fletcher Group Holdings, a Cyprus-based holding company, according to the company's website as of November 2021 and 2020 annual report. Novolipetsk Steel is Russia's largest steelmaker by tonnage in 2020, according to the World Steel Association's website.
Lisin parlayed dividends collected from Novolipetsk Steel into a $5.5 billion investment in United Cargo Logistics Holding (UCL), a transportation and shipping business. Through UCL, he owns Freight One, a rail freight operator in Russia; UCL Port, which has port facilities; and VBTH, which provides shipping, shipbuilding and tourist cruise services, according to Lisin's press office. The valuation methodology for these companies can be found in the assets notes for each. Country risk discounts have been added where appropriate to capture the effect of western sanctions against Russia.
The value of his cash investments, which is calculated US dollars and not rubles, reflects the cost of acquiring Freight One, as well as an analysis of dividends, insider transactions, taxes and market performance.
Family: Married, 3 children
One of the Russian richest steel tycoons began his career as an electrical fitter in a Siberian coal mine in the mid-1970s. After graduating from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute in 1979, he worked as an engineer in iron and steel plants around Russia. In 1986, he was named deputy chief engineer at the state-run Karaganda mill in North Kazakhstan, the fourth-largest steelmaker in the former Soviet Union, where he began trading metals.
Lisin moved to Moscow in 1992 and started working with businessman Sam Kislin, a Soviet emigrant living in the US, who was a pioneer in private, large-scale metal exports from Russia.
Lisin later joined a group of metals traders called Trans-World Group (TWG). Headed by two brothers, Mikhail and Lev Cherney, TWG soon came to dominate Russia's steel and aluminum export business. When the firm collapsed in 1997, Lisin moved to Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK). He became chairman of NLMK's board of directors in 1998. By 2004, through a series of transactions and using his profits from metals trading, he had acquired about 90 percent of the company from a group of investors and NLMK management.
The company sold shares on the London Stock Exchange in 2005. Lisin tapped the dividends of his NLMK shares to invest in ports, as well as transportation and shipping companies, which he owns today through United Cargo Logistics Holding. He paid more than $5 billion to acquire Freight One, Russia's largest rail car operator in 2011-2012.
Lisin also owns one of the largest shooting-range complexes in Europe. Lisya Nora (Fox Lodge) is 28 miles north of Moscow.
1956 Vladimir Lisin is born in Ivanovo City, Russia.
1975 Starts career as electrical fitter in a Siberian coal mine.
1979 Graduates from Siberian Metallurgical Institute.
1997 Buys initial 13 percent stake in Novolipetsk Steel.
1998 Becomes chairman of Novolipetsk Steel.
2004 Accumulates about 90 percent in NLMK.
2004 Buys iron ore producer Stoylenski GOK and two seaports.
2005 Sells 7 percent stake in NLMK during public offering.
2012 Completes buy of Freight One rail cargo transportation firm for $5.5 billion.


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Cupertino, Calif. – June 4, 2008 – Forescout Technologies, a market leader in clientless network access control (NAC) and policy management solutions for large enterprises, today announced that Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN), a premier academic community hospital and health services provider in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has deployed the CounterACT® family of appliances to mediate access to its health services network.
According to Brian Martin, Information Security Manager for LVHHN: "Our network users – including doctors, nurses, specialists, and visiting guests – were bringing their own, sometimes infected computers into work. Some of these computers weren't compliant with our security policies and needed OS updates, security patches or anti-virus software installed. Others were hospital property that had been used off-site, picked up malware, and began setting off alarms when they reconnected to the Lehigh network. We wanted a way to control these conditions and let users self-correct the problems."
Martin and his colleagues began looking for a network access solution that would also detect and respond to malicious behavior that a simple intrusion detection solution would not pick up. After evaluating solutions from various NAC and infrastructure providers, the organization chose Forescout's CounterACT.
"I was bowled over by the detection capabilities of CounterACT, " said Martin. "That you get a two-in-one intrusion prevention and NAC solution in CounterACT just makes it that much better. Plus, you hear about NAC being tricky and difficult to deploy: that hasn't been the case for us. The deployment was one of our smoothest. It took under a week and is now protecting over 20,000 endpoints."
Today's health enterprises – like Lehigh Valley – face a steady influx of vulnerabilities introduced by guests and employees who are able to bypass physical security and gain network connection inside the perimeter defenses. CounterACT addresses this problem by enforcing network security policies across all managed and unmanaged network devices, including desktops and laptops as well as non-OS devices such as VoIP phones, handhelds and network printers, without the need for a software agent of any kind.
"The Lehigh Valley Health deployment demonstrates, once again, that CounterACT over-delivers on its promise to ease deployment and deliver best-in-class network access control with built-in intrusion prevention, " said Ray Wizbowski, vice president, Forescout. "At Forescout, we continue to exceed our customers ' requirements, helping them buy into a NAC platform and strategy that fits their security requirements today, while giving them a cost-effective policy compliance platform they can rely on in the future."


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'One of a kind' gold model car sells at auction for $75,000
3 Dec 2018, 4:55 p.m.
Photographs courtesy of Sotheby's website. Link available here.
A unique, scale model Ford GT has sold for $75,000 (£58,853.25) at auction with Sotheby's today. The 18-carat replica smashed its initial estimate pricing of $30,000 - $40,000,
According to Sotheby's listing, the gold model weighs 948 dwt approximately. This weight is pennyweight (dwt referring to the Greek 'Denarius') making it the equivalent of 1.474kg. Based on the current spot price, the sale price for 1.4kg of 18 carat gold is around $41,470 (£32,605), though added value was almost inevitable based on the fact that this is a unique collectable.
The model Ford is 7.14 inches by 3.14 inches (1/25 scale) and sports a two-toned finish and functioning parts, including doors, bonnet, and the boot/engine section. Even the tyres, which are plastic, have accurate Ford GT treads. It is said to have been commissioned by a descendent of Sir Henry Ford in 2002 to mark 100 years of Ford production. It was made by Ahee Jewelers of Grosse Point, Michigan.
The Ford GT40 was a hugely popular high-performance car in the 1960s. Its inspiration was British, with major design elements inspired by the Lola Mk6 GT, but it surpassed the Lola and achieved American domination at Le Mans between 1966 and 1969. In honour of these achievements, Ford brought the car back in the mid-2000s and again in 2017.
For the estimated £31,800 ($40,475.52) you could buy a Metalor 1kg gold bar (24 carat) or you could even go for a real full-sized car, like an Audi A5 or a Range Rover Sport, but for the full $75,000 you could hire a famous band for a night, like the Arctic Monkeys, or rent a private Boeing Business Jet for return trip for up to 14 people.


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Death by Overwork: Motivation for Work/Life Balance
Posted by Staff Editor • Jun 8, 2007
The Japanese have a word for death by overwork: Karoshi. A recent survey said 40 percent of all Japanese workers fear that they will actually work themselves to death. Karoshi is not my idea of success. Sure, I talk about "Never Settling for Success," but that's not a prescription for becoming an obsessive or a workaholic. That type of single-mindedness is more likely to lead to burnout than peak performance. Never settling for success simply means that you commit to maximum effort within the hours of your life that you've allotted for pursuing a particular pursuit. And you do that in spite of the 1001 excruciatingly attractive reasons, excuses, distractions and temptations that you can find for doing less. Tip: Focus is a good buzzword. Multi-tasking is a bad one. Computers multi-task, and usually lose efficiency when they do. When people do it, it's usually not multi-tasking at all; it's usually that older cliché, spreading yourself too thin. Tip: During working hours, consider working. Tip: During non-working hours, consider doing something else. Now obviously given the realities of life today, there are likely to be times when you're going to have to work during what you would like to be non-working hours. Sometimes. But you'll never fill the glass unless you can find a way to be comfortable with the amount of your life you're devoting to the job. Then you make those hours as productive as possible. "If I worked as much as others," Stephen Wright said, "I would do as little as they." There's more than a grain of truth to that statement. Fortunately, as a society we're finally beginning to realize that chronic overwork is not a badge of honor, it's a sign that somewhere, something is wrong. Tip: If you find yourself proudly bragging about your hours or your workload, you're probably putting in more time than you should. Tip: Intelligent people don't brag about being overworked. They complain about being overworked. Tip: If you don't have something in your life more worthy of bragging about, find something. "Working hard has always been a measure of success in the office," says Alie Hochchild author of The Time Bind. "Now we've internalized it. So instead of the boss harassing you to work more, we do it to ourselves." The better the manager, the less time it takes him to do his job. A good worker takes care of his health and his sanity, and is as productive as possible during the hours he is working. An astute company values its people and doesn't abuse them or any other asset. Yet on consulting assignments, I keep hearing remarks like, "Around here, if you don't show your face early mornings, late nights and weekends you're not considered committed." I've seen low level managers cowering in their cubicles, pretending to be busy, afraid to leave the office before their boss leaves: no matter how late it gets, no matter how little they're accomplishing. If they do leave first, it's commented on the next day, either by the boss or by their peers. I remember an executive who made a great show of carrying home armloads of work every night. Sometimes he had so much he had to make two trips to the car. After I got to know him, he admitted he never worked on any of it. He just lugged it home at night, then lugged it back the next day. "Don't laugh," he said, patting the pile he was gathering for that night. "I'm considered one of the hardest workers in the office. And it's always a lot easier to influence the guy I'm working for with reputation than with achievement, believe me." Activity vs Productivity The idea (for those of us who sometimes forget) is to get the job done as well and as efficiently as possible. I'm always in favor of letting your results do the talking. And of measuring subordinates by the results they achieve. When I was an employee I wanted to be so good at what I did that I didn't have to worry about trying to impress anybody any other way. That saved me a lot of wasted energy: energy that probably helped improve my productivity. We should never confuse activity with productivity. No matter how many hours someone puts in, no matter how much they appear to be working, the only measurement that really matters is the results. The refreshing news is that, nowadays, among all the people bragging about their long hours, we're also beginning to hear a few executives boasting that they're good enough at what they do to be able to leave at a decent hour, to get more done, and have time to get home and refresh themselves so they can put in another efficient day's work the next day. Tip: Never let your company, your clients, your boss, your boss' boss or anyone else make you feel guilty that you're not a workaholic. Workaholics are people with problems. Do you feel guilty that you're not obsessed by sex (okay, would you feel guilty if you weren't)? Or by chocolate? Do you feel guilty that you don't want to spend your entire life playing golf or loafing, or reading or watching TV? Or that you're not addicted to alcohol or narcotics? Why should you feel guilty that you're too well rounded an individual to want to spend your entire life working? ### Barry Maher writes, speaks and trains on self-improvement, leadership, communications, management and ethical sales. He's the author of "Filling the Glass," cited by Today's Librarian magazine as "[One of The Seven Essential Popular Business Books." Contact him and/or sign up for his newsletter at http://www.barrymaher.com.
Melissa Kennedy • Jul 31, 2013
Thanks so much for sharing. I think we all want to give our best to our jobs, but none of us want to be worked to death. Thanks for the reminder about what's really important, Barry.
Mark A Moment • Sep 9, 2009
Nice article and good inputs, more than efforts there has to be inclination and personal motivation, along with job satisfaction.
Steve Wilson • May 1, 2009
For more on this along with other articles by Barry Maher, you can visit, http://www.barrymaher.com.www.barrymaher.com>