9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother' breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother' belly.
21 Save me from the lion' mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD': and he is the governor among the nations.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this .


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Top stars from real-life motorsport and Esports racing meet in the DNLS powered by VCO
Posted on 17. April 2020 by vcoadmin
Top class starting field in third round of the DNLS powered by VCO.
After great successes in real-life motorsport, Mike Rockenfeller, Bruno Spengler, Dominik Baumann and many others show off their skills in the simulator.
Spotlight on Esports racers Joshua Rogers, Laurin Heinrich and Alex Arana.
Munich – The Digital Nürburgring Endurance Series powered by VCO enters round three on Saturday. Like in the first two rounds, motorsport fans can look forward to a top-class starting field. Stars from real-life and virtual racing will go head to head at the virtual Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Virtual Competition Organisation (VCO) takes a close look at some of those involved including two former DTM champions and an Esports racing high-flyer from Australia.
Mike Rockenfeller is not only one of the most illustrious names on the starting grid of the DNLS powered by VCO, he is also a real Nordschleife expert. At the age of 22, Rockenfeller, who was born in Neuwied – just a few kilometres from the Nürburgring – celebrated an overall win at the 24 Hours Nürburgring. In 2007, just one year later, 'Rocky' made his DTM debut and has remained loyal to the touring car series to this day. In addition to his DTM title win in 2013, he also celebrated victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2010. Rockenfeller proved that he is not only fast in real-life motorsport, but in the simulator as well in the second round of the DNLS powered by VCO. Starting from twelfth on the grid, he and his team-mates Richard Westbrook and Kevin Volk in the Audi R8 LMS of Team Phoenix Racing eSport Green delivered a strong recovery race and were ultimately rewarded with fifth place.
In addition to Mike Rockenfeller, Martin Tomczyk and Timo Scheider, Bruno Spengler was also one of four DTM champions in the starting field for round two of the DNLS powered by VCO. With his title win in 2012, he not only secured his spot in the history books, but also gave BMW the perfect comeback to the touring car series. Spengler has already enjoyed success in Esports racing. At the 'IMSA Sebring SuperSaturday' race, he won on the virtual iconic track with the BMW M8 GTE and then took victory at the second race on the Laguna Seca track. Spengler also showed how fast he is in the simulator in the second DNLS powered by VCO race. Starting from 16th on the grid, he fought his way up the field in the BMW Z4 GT3 together with Esports racing influencer Jimmy Broadbent and Nils Koch into sixth place temporarily. A technical defect saw the trio pushed back down the field during a repair break. Spengler will try again for a top spot in the third round of the DNLS powered by VCO, alongside Nils Koch and Kay Kaschube.
At the Nürburgring-Nordschleife in particular, Dominik Baumann is one of the top experts in international endurance racing. At the age of 27, the Austrian can look back on six 24-hour races at the Nürburgring, and numerous appearances in the VLN on top of that. He enjoyed his greatest success to date in 2016, when he won the Blancpain GT Series title in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of HTP-Motorsport alongside Maxi Buhk. But Baumann has also gained a lot of experience of GT racing in the IMSA series, the IGTC and the ADAC GT Masters. Baumann made his debut in the DNLS powered by VCO in round two alongside Jan Sentkowski. In the #101 Team Heusinkveld Mercedes-AMG GT3, the duo crossed the finish line in 17th place, so there is definitely some room for improvement for the Nordschleife expert in round three.
Joshua Rogers is considered one of the most promising talents in Esports racing – and with good reason. His track record in 2019 alone speaks for itself. Whether in the Porsche Esports Supercup, Porsche Simracing Trophy, ADAC Digital GT500 or in the VRS GT iRacing World Championship, wherever Rogers competed last year, he won. The new season couldn't have got off to a more successful start for the VRS Coanda Simsport Team driver. At the 24 Hours of Daytona on iRacing he repeated his win of last year, and the Australian also topped the podium at the iRacing 12h Bathurst. His win in the second race in the BMW SIM 120 Cup at the 'Sebring International Raceway' saw Rogers and his team-mate at VRS Coanda Simsport, Mitchell deJong, secure their ticket for the finale in Munich.
In the first round of the DNLS powered by VCO, Laurin Heinrich battled alongside Alexander Voß for a podium position for much of the race before the BS+COMPETITION team duo dropped down into ninth place after a late incident. Things ran more smoothly in the second race. After his two team-mates Philipp Eng and Voß put in strong groundwork, Heinrich crossed the finish line in second place with the #189 BMW Z4 GT3. It is not only in virtual racing that Heinrich has enjoyed success – he is no stranger to real-life motorsport having competed in ADAC Formula 4 in 2017. After being accepted onto the Speed Monkeys Campus development programme, he won the Porsche Super Sports Cup title in 2019.
Two races – two podiums. Looking at Alex Arana's appearances to date in the DNLS powered by VCO, it seems only a matter of time before the Spaniard and team-mate Agustin Canapino celebrate their first win for MAHLE RACING TEAM. In the first race in particular, the two Williams eSports drivers were very close to success in their Audi R8 LMS. They were in the lead when an error in the final stage cost them the win. In the second race the duo were embroiled in a gripping duel with the BS+COMPETITION team for second place, and ended up crossing the finish line in third place. It is not only in the DNLS powered by VCO that Arana has been impressive this season. In the iRacing Bathurst 12h, Arana and Canapino in the BMW Z4 GT3 were on on course for the win for much of the race, before they got caught up in an accident through no fault of their own. The pair have also shown that they have what it takes to win at the season opener of the iRacing Nürburgring Endurance Championship, when they got the victory.
Photo Mike Rockenfeller: Copyright Audi
Photo Bruno Spengler: Copyright BMW
Photo Dominik Baumann: Copyright Mercedes
Perfectly regulated: Spotlight on the DNLS rulebook
MAHLE RACING TEAM celebrates first win of the season on the Nordschleife

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Engineers / Joseph Penzien
Educator/Innovator
Career Began
Joseph Penzien
Source: National Academy of Engineering
Contributions to Structural Engineering History in Northern California
Joseph Penzien was born in 1924 in South Dakota, and spent his childhood there, as well as in Idaho. After putting himself through college and graduating from the University of Washington in 1945, he went to go work for the Army Corp of Engineers. He went back to school and received his Sc.D degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950. He began as an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1953, and would remain there until his retirement in 1988. However, retirement did not stop Joe. He moved to Taipei, Taiwan, to consult at the firm Eastern International Engineers, which he had started with local partners in the early 1980's. After a year at this firm, he returned home and with Dr. Wen S. Tseng and launched International Civil Engineering Consultants, a Berkeley firm in which he served as Chairman until 2007.
Together with colleagues Ray Clough and Vitelmo Bertero, Joe developed the teaching and research programs in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering and helped shape the department into the top academic program it is today. His scholarly contributions as well as his engineering analysis and design expertise have received international acclaim.
Joe and Ray established the Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) in the 1960s to conduct the first large-scale shake table tests to understand how structures behaved under realistic earthquake motions. The two professors published the book Dynamics of Structures in 1975, which became the international structural engineering standard for thirty years and the basis of for many of today's building code dynamic analysis provisions.
National Academy of Engineering (1977)
Silver Medal of Paris (1980)
ASCE's Nathan M. Newmark Medal (1983)
Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal (1986)
Berkeley Citation (1988)
EERI's George W. Housner Medal (1993)
California Earthquake Safety Foundation's Alfred E. Alquist Medal (1996)
Ernest F. Howard Award (2000)
EERI's Distinguished Lecture Award (2000)
Legend of Earthquake Engineering (2008)
ASCE Honorary Member
Architectural Institute of Japan Honorary Member
Peruvian Association of Earthquake Engineering Honorary Member
International Association of Earthquake Engineering Honorary Member
EERI Honorary Member
Related Engineer(s)
Robert Joseph Hansen
Ray W. Clough
Vitelmo Bertero
Anil Chopra
Related Organization(s)
Eastern International Engineers
International Civil Engineering Consultants
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Translation Zone(s): A stuttering by Heather Connelly 2016 from hconnelly on Vimeo.
3 minute documentation of a performance by Heather Connelly, score devised and arranged in association with composer and vocalist Soul Zisso and conductor Daniel Galbreath at the Library of Birmingham. The film has been edited by Heather Connelly and Thomas Kilby, who also coordinated and filmed the event with Johrah Al Homied and Kauri Kaukvere. The performer-participants were Lulu Baldreldin (Arabic), Anqi Chen (Mandarin), Chen Chan (Taiwanese), Joanna Delyse Packwood (English) Bruno Grillo (Portugeuse), Maria Kourtesi (Greek), Pan Pan (Shanghainese), Anna Pirvola (Finnish), Rhadika Sharma (Hindi), Chutima Tatanan (Aun) – (Thai), Yume Zhang (Japanese) and Soul Zisso (Hebrew).
This project was funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council Cultural Engagement fund and supported by Birmingham City University, further information can be seen on the Translation Zone(s) 1 page.
*A longer 8 minute version edit is also available on request.


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Commute From Earth To Space Station Just Got Shorter
Published March 29, 2013 at 11:09 AM CDT
U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy gestures before Thursday's launch of the Soyuz from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Three astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station after being the first to try out a new "express" route that slashes their launch-to-docking commute from two days to just six hours.
The crew of the Soyuz capsule, Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and American Chris Cassidy, docked with the ISS late Thursday after blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. En route to the station, they made "only four orbits instead of the usual two-day launch-to-docking mission profile for a Russian spacecraft," NASA says.
Although the expedited trip has been successful twice before with unmanned cargo-carrying Soyuz capsules known as Progress, the mission that docked Thursday is the first manned crew to accomplish the feat. The BBC says the speedy launch-to-docking was accomplished by "using intricate ballistics maneuvers [that] succeeded in cutting out around 30 orbits and 45 hours from the flight time to the ISS."
According to Space.com, the procedure for the shorter flight is basically a compressed version of the longer one.
Not only does this save time for the crew, stuffed as they are in the cramped Soyuz, but since the Russian capsule can fly autonomously in orbit for only about four days, the shorter commute also means more fuel, oxygen and other supplies can be conserved for a possible emergency.


UK restaurants could be forced to take foie gras off the menu following a potential crack down on imports after Brexit, a minister has suggested.
Deliveroo has announced a major expansion drive that will see it open up its platform to restaurants with their own delivery services for the first time.
Harts Group has raised more than double its £750,000 crowdfunding target to open its fourth Barrafina restaurant in London.
Michelin-starred Indian chef Atul Kochhar has had his contract terminated at a Dubai hotel restaurant for posting a tweet claiming that Muslims have "terrorised" Hindus.


Step 5: Search Eternium in the Play Store.
Step 6: Install Eternium and launch the app.
Step 5: Search Eternium (app name) inside the Play Store.
Enter Eternium in the search bar and press on "see" or "go".
Finished! You can now play to Eternium (or use the app Eternium) on your phone and your Android device.
Warning: the game Eternium (or the app) have to be downloaded, si it could takes few seconds to few minutes to download. To know when Eternium is downloaded and installed, go on your home screen of your Android Device and check if the app icon is displayed.
Enter Eternium in the search bar and press on the icon of the app to enter on the app details.
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'The Boss' tops the North American box office with $23.5M
Karen Butler
Actors Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone attend the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills on January 10, 2016. File photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
LOS ANGELES, April 10 (UPI) -- Melissa McCarthy's latest big-screen comedy The Boss is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $23.5 million in receipts this weekend, Rentrak announced Sunday.
The film knocked Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice out of its perch after two weeks at the top.
Batman came in at No. 2 this weekend with $23.4 million, followed by Zootopia at No. 3 with $14.3 million, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 at No. 4 with $6.4 million and Hardcore Henry at No. 5 with $5.1 million.
Rounding out the top tier are Miracles From Heaven at No. 6 with $4.8 million, God's Not Dead 2 at No. 7 with $4.3 million, The Divergent Series: Allegiant at No. 8 with $3.6 million, 10 Cloverfield Lane at No. 9 with $3 million and Eye in the Sky at No. 10 with $2.8 million.
Kensington Palace tweets photos of Prince William and Kate Middleton in India Bruce Springsteen cancels North Carolina concert; congressman calls it a 'bully tactic' 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' wins big at the MTV Movie Awards ITV renews 'Granchester' for a third season
Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love react to Phil Spector's death
Music producer Phil Spector dies while incarcerated
Taylor Swift's 'Evermore' tops U.S. album chart
Celebrities wish Betty White a happy 99th birthday
'Marksman' tops the North American box office with $3.2M
Scenes from 'The Nutcracker/Cracked' in NYC


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Glenn _Greenwald
White House Meeting With Egypt's Tyrant Highlights Key Trump Effect: Unmasking U.S. Policy
April 3 2017, 2:44 p.m.
Egypt's hideous tyrant, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is in the U.S. to visit the White House on Monday and this is how the New York Times's Paul Krugman depicted this event:
Another morning in Trump's America https://t.co/04xgTskZYP
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 2, 2017
Krugman believes — or at least wants his Democratic followers to believe — that supporting and praising savage despotism in Egypt is a new development that only happens in "Trump's America." The Washington Post's neoconservative columnist Jackson Diehl this morning encouraged Post readers to believe in the same fairy tale, complaining in his column about the "ugly scene" of a "love-in" between Trump and "the most repressive dictator in Egypt's modern history."
What neither Krugman nor Diehl ever once mentions — either because they're unaware of it or want to conceal it from their readers — is that the U.S. has been supporting, funding, and arming the Sisi tyranny for years under the Obama administration. In March 2015, as Sisi's human rights abuses intensified, Obama personally told the Egyptian tyrant in a call the good news that he was lifting a ban "on the delivery of F-16 aircraft, Harpoon missiles, and M1A1 tank kits" and — in the words of the White House — "also advised President al-Sisi that he will continue to request an annual $1.3 billion in military assistance for Egypt."
In 2015, the official Twitter account of the U.S. Embassy celebrated the delivery of fighter jets to the Sisi regime and even encouraged people to watch a video of them majestically flying over Cairo:
The US delivered 8 new F16s to the Egy Air Force this week - watch them fly over Cairo! #????_??? https://t.co/5CjJw7xqOh
— US Embassy Cairo (@USEmbassyCairo) July 31, 2015
Prior to Sisi, the U.S. — under Obama and multiple administrations before that — spent decades propping up the most savage tyranny in Egypt in the form of funds and weapons to Hosni Mubarak. Recall Hillary Clinton's 2009 proclamation that "I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family," while Obama ensured that the flow of money and weapons to Mubarak never ceased.
In sum, aggressive support for savage despotism in Egypt is long-standing U.S. policy — not, as Krugman and Diehl want people to believe, some sort of new Trumpian innovation. As Mona Eltahawy put it in the New York Times last week: "Five American administrations, Democratic and Republican, supported the Mubarak regime."
While it's true, as Eltahawy notes, that Sisi had not been invited to the White House until now, the U.S. has hardly been shy about lavishing the tyrant with all forms of support. In 2014, as Sisi was crushing dissent and the state was issuing mass death sentences, Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Cairo to meet Sisi and publicly praised him — the leader of a military coup — for "transitioning to democracy." Indeed, the year earlier, Kerry praised the Sisi-led military coup against Egypt's first elected president, depicting it as an attempt to protect democracy.
Obama himself — beyond sending him weapons and funds — has openly met with Sisi, as the top photograph of the two leaders in 2014 in New York shows. And during the same time, the Clintons met with him as well, producing this photograph:
Photo: Egyptian Presidency/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
What Trump is achieving by opening the White House doors to Sisi is not ushering in a new policy but rather clarifying and illuminating a very old one. This Trumpian effect — unmasking in all its naked ugliness what D.C. mavens prefer to keep hidden — is visible in multiple other areas.
Exactly the same thing happened last week when Trump's secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, announced that the U.S. would no longer condition transfers of arms to the regime in Bahrain on human rights improvements. The outrage over this announcement utterly masked the fact that Obama continued to lavish the same Bahraini regime with all sorts of weapons and other forms of support even as it imprisoned dissidents and violently crushed protests. Just compare the reaction of one Obama speechwriter to Tillerson's announcement to the actual reality of his boss's conduct:
There are, of course, instances where Trump is imposing genuinely new destructive policies, such as his deportation crackdown, increased civilian massacres, and the rollback of vital regulations. But in the case of Egypt and Bahrain, the only new aspect of Trump's conduct is that it's more candid and revealing: rather than deceitfully feign concern for human rights while arming and propping up the world's worst tyrants — as Obama and his predecessors did — Trump is dispensing with the pretense. The reason so many D.C. mavens like Diehl are so upset with Trump isn't because they hate his policies but rather despise his inability and/or unwillingness to prettify what the U.S. does in the world.
One could argue that even the pretense of human rights concerns is preferable to dispensing with it altogether since that at least allows the potential for progress. But nobody who looks at Egypt or Bahrain — to say nothing of Saudi Arabia — could possibly argue with a straight face that the U.S. has succeeded in improving human rights in those countries by strengthening their tyrannies and arming their despots.
The real target of this rhetorical human rights pretense — this propaganda designed to prettify U.S. action — is not the oppressed people living under the thumb of those U.S.-supported dictators but rather Americans themselves. It's all designed to allow U.S. citizens to believe the myth that their country stands for Freedom and Democracy in the world and shuns tyrants like Putin or the Iranian mullahs, even though propping up the planet's most savage dictators has long been, and continues to be, central to U.S. policy. The beloved-in-Washington Henry Kissinger built his career on this mentality and is loved because of it, not despite it.
The destructive effect of this propaganda was perhaps never so visible as it was during the Arab Spring. U.S. media outlets covered the Tahrir Square demonstrations as though the U.S. were on the side of the heroic protesters while barely ever mentioning that the tyrant they were fighting was a close U.S. ally for decades. The tear gas canisters Mubarak used against those protesters literally bore "Made in the USA" logos. But the pretty rhetoric about Freedom and Democracy masked the ugly reality about what the U.S. government had actually been doing in Egypt and so many other countries around the world.
A key asset for U.S. imperialism is the ability of U.S. presidents to put a pretty, pleasant face on heinous actions. Recall the 2010 CIA memo explaining that the key to stopping anti-war sentiment in Europe — particularly growing opposition to the war in Afghanistan — was to exploit Obama's popularity there to make the war seem prettier and more attractive to Europeans.
To see how the propaganda works, just look at this morning's New York Times, which frets in its headline: "In a Shift, Trump Will Move Egypt's Rights Record to the Sidelines." Yet the same New York Times in 2015 made clear that while Obama officials were spouting pretty human rights rhetoric in public about Egypt, the Obama policy was also that Sisi's human rights abuses would not stop U.S. support:
Trump's support for Sisi, a true monster, deserves all the condemnation it gets. But anyone who depicts any of this as something new or aberrational for the U.S. — Krugman: "Another morning in Trump's America" — is either ignorant or dishonest. Embracing the world's worst tyrants is and has long been a key prong of U.S. foreign policy. Trump, through a combination of ineptitude and a willingness to openly endorse authoritarianism, just makes all of this less hidden, less deniable.
And that's the reason so many in Washington — who never met a pro-U.S. dictator they weren't willing to arm and fund — are so upset by all this. Sisi isn't someone you invite over to your house for dinner; he's someone you send money and weapons to in secret after you give your pretty speeches in front of American flags about human rights and freedom. What Trump is violating is not any Washington principles or ethics but Washington propaganda tactics.
Glenn Greenwald[email protected]theintercept.com@ggreenwald


Robert Pattinson as Monte, a volunteer for the experimental space mission.
"High Life" follows a crew of death row inmates who have been cast out into deep space as a part of an alternate energy expedition. At the head of the expedition is Dr. Dibs, played by a very eerie Juliette Binoche, who treats all of the other prisoners as her own personal guinea pigs for her experiment regarding procreation in deep space. At the heart of this tumultuous situation is Monte, played by a very stern but sympathetic Robert Pattinson, a criminal who volunteered to be a part of the experiment who now finds himself struggling to raise his daughter and maintain his sanity in such a hostile, oppressive space.
Denis' deeply psychological and artistic approach to this material has drawn many comparisons to that of Kubrick and "2001," but this is something entirely of her own wildly disturbing creation. Watching this film, it doesn't take long to understand why it drew such visceral reactions. Denis is totally unrestrained and unflinching when it comes to exploring the very violent and psycho-sexual nature of this story. She utilizes sound, lighting and the oppressive tight spaces of the ship to their fullest abilities. It all makes for a unique and frankly terrifying theatrical experience.
While the form and style of this film is immaculate, it's the core of it that makes it shine so tremendously. Denis juxtaposes the intense and brutal nature of the prisoners with the affecting and tender relationship that Monte has with his daughter to paint a beautiful yet simultaneously haunting portrait of the hell that a parent is willing to go through to make sure their children don't have to and so that they can see the best and brightest future possible. It's a theme that is not new to Denis' filmography; one of her more under-the-radar works, "35 Shots of Rum," most notably tackled this unique father-daughter bond, and it has proven very personal for her. Denis has gone on to talk about her important relationship with her father, who raised her in French-colonized West Africa.
As far as genre goes, Denis has never been one to restrict herself to a very specific one. She is actively one of cinema's greatest experimenters and her openness and daring sensibilities make "High Life" one of the most thrilling sensory experiences I've witnessed on a big screen in a while. This is not sci-fi, this is sci-fi subversion at its absolute finest. Next week, Denis will turn 73 years old, but she is showing absolutely no signs of slowing down or taking things easy on her audience. If "High Life" is any indication, she is just going to keep getting bolder with her work and I for one am here for it all the way.


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Dave Matthews Discusses Impact of Art on Relations with Cuba
April 22, 2016 April 22, 2016 by Cuba Journal
Dave Matthews visited Cuba this week and feel in love.
The singer-songwriter was visiting as a part of the US President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. In several different video interviews, the artist expressed hope of improved relations through mutual understanding and artistic collaboration. In one interview Matthews said, "I think that there's a lot that the world can get from this country."
Matthews' children joined him on the trip. He says he allowed them to roam Havana streets alone, "because the responsibility people have to each other here is very rare, and I love it."
William Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, said the trip had proved to him that "we have much to learn from the ways in which [Cuban] museum professionals approach the important work of collecting and preserving Cuban culture and history." He said the NEH will fund a program to send conservators and students to visit Cuba "to enhance and broaden American conservation practices."
For the first time, the US Government will support artistic cultural exchanges between U.S. and Cuban artists, thanks to a commitment by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) made while in Cuba this week. Following three days of artistic events and meetings in Havana, NEA Chairman Jane Chu announced two artist exchange opportunities totaling $100,000. These are among the first awards made by the U.S. government to support artistic and cultural activities with Cuba and Cuban artists and represent a milestone in the journey towards deeper cooperation between the two countries through the common bonds of arts and culture.
Smokey Robinson joined in the love fest during the trip by saying, "I hope this is the beginning of an entire love relationship."
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Allyson Ward, Associate Media Director
What's The Skinny with Cookies?
When looking at the evolution of the cookie and Chrome's announcement to eliminate them by 2022, two questions come to mind as advertisers. The first, how is this going to fundamentally change the way I reach consumers and the second, how in the world am I going to reach the right person, at the right time, with the right message without them? In fact, when I first heard the news, I have to admit that I was a bit cynical about the whole thing, and considered that there was no way that Google wouldn't have something else up its sleeve that benefited its business while leaving competitors to forge their own paths, creating a decentralized system that makes Google stronger. That said, after watching countless webinars and reading dozens of articles, it was time to get off of the singular track that I was on, and look back to the WHY behind the announcement. All roads lead back to the consumer and their perception of data safety.
Data can be wonderful if used correctly. That said, it also raises concerns with consumers around what info businesses actually know about them and how their data is being used. Cue the standards that the ad industry cherishes with partners such as the IAB.
Let's reflect on the differences between a cookie and actual data. While it's easy to understand why a consumer would be concerned around data privacy, it's also important to properly categorize cookies as anonymous and randomized IDs that allows advertisers to follow a consumer's browsing history across the web. What many consumers don't necessarily consider is the quid pro quo relationship that they have with the internet. Of course we're all paying for wifi to allow our devices to go online, but what happens when you get there?
If we consider that nothing in life is free, we can more closely evaluate who is paying for our content consumption on publisher sites and in digital apps. In some cases, it's the consumer when they pay a publisher to access content (likely without ads). However, what's more likely is that the content and apps that being consumed are working off of a freemium model, which is where there is a value exchange to be considered. The exchange for individuals to consume content, games, and social apps all tie back to advertising.
If you're not a part of the marketing world and you're reading through this, you may be thinking to yourself that advertising won't go away, just the cookies and thus I have more control of my data. While true in theory, it could also open up an unexpected can of worms as reaching the consumers advertisers want to talk to becomes more challenging.
If CPMs decrease because advertisers are focusing on less data driven approaches to targeting, publishers may need to provide more ad space on their sites and apps to maintain their revenue numbers and produce consistent content.
To combat this and ensure data is taken into account, consumers may find themselves logging into their browser or websites as they enter so that pubs can ensure advertisers are able to use a new source of data from login information and create a sense of security that they're reaching the right audience.
You may find advertisers taking a step back from spending as many dollars across the open web. If that happens, the next best choice may be walled gardens such as Facebook or Google that can focus on people based targeting. Relying on walled gardens more heavily poses the threat that these large powerhouses could get an even more substantial piece of the ad spend pie.
Testing Alternative Solutions:
After understanding the challenges that lie ahead, it's important to start testing alternative solutions now so that we're better prepared as advertisers as we wait for the display world to figure out what's next.
First Party Data: First party data has always been incredibly important, but it's playing a bigger role now than ever before. The industry is urging advertisers to continue ramping up their data collection so that they already have their most important audiences on hand.
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Friday fauxld: Pennsylvanian plant fossil
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Have a gander at this:
Given that this is a Friday on Mountain Beltway, you might expect to see a fold here, and indeed, there's something wavy and high-contrast running through the center of this sample. But that's no fold. It's a fossil plant! A "reed" of some kind, I guess. You can also see a small fern frond in the lower right.
This is a sample of the Pennsylvanian-aged Allegheny Formation, a coal-bearing unit from the lip of the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia. This is the unit that crops out at the current western terminus of Corridor H. One of the blades of the plant bent (asymmetry suggests dextral kinematics) and split along its fibers, producing little dilational "wrench basins" as the fibers separated, and then the whole thing was buried beneath sand, and the plant fragments became carbon films.
So I guess it is technically folded, but it was folded back when it was still a pliable piece of plant, before lithification, before any tectonic monkey business.
It's spring here in the Appalachian Mountains, and modern plants are growing like gangbusters. Heavy rain like we had this week washes some of their fragments downstream, to be deposited by floodwaters and make the fossils of the future. Perhaps some of them get torqued a bit as they settle, and make a little botanical fauxld from the Holocene. It's a little glimpse of the principle of uniformity.
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Scott Elrick says:
I would hazard a guess that your faux fold is a cordite leaf that was preserved in the process of falling apart.
Here are a few examples for comparison:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/PageMill_Images/image235.gif
http://www.thefossilforum.com/uploads/gallery/album_830/med_gallery_2325_830_79857.jpg
http://www.catnapin.com/Fossil/Plants/Slab_A_-_Cordaites_leaf_small1.jpg
Callan says:
Totally! Thanks for the ID. I've got another really sweet sample from this same site that's clearly Cordaites to share in the weeks to come.
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Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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Career-wise, I thought I did it all but isn't there more? I needed to go global. Thus in the summer of 2012, I hugged my family, danced with my friends, kissed my kitties, packed my bags and moved to the beautiful State of Qatar as soon as the opportunity presented itself. I blame this crazy leap of faith on my eye-opening trip to Egypt right after the revolution of January 25, 2011.
After five years of exploring the challenges and ranting on my adventures across the region, I've officially moved back home. A year on, I'm still trying to pick where I left off as I adapt to the changes all around me.
When I'm not ranting away, you will find me on the move via social media, eating my heart out or laughing hysterically… or all of the above!


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Wilson James Whineray was born on 10 July 1935 at Auckland and educated at Auckland Grammar School, Massey Agricultural College, and Lincoln Agricultural College. He was selected for Wairarapa in 1953 and, in the years since, has represented six provinces, the North and South Islands, the South African and New Zealand Barbarians, and the All Blacks in more than 200 first-class matches. He first represented New Zealand in 1955 when he visited Ceylon with the "Colts" team. In 1957 he was selected for the All Blacks, playing for them in successive seasons until 1965. He captained the Junior All Blacks team which toured Japan in 1958 and has led the All Blacks to victory in tests against Australia, the British Isles, England, France, Ireland, South Africa, and Wales. Whineray set a record of 28 appearances for New Zealand in consecutive test matches. At the close of the 1965 season Whineray announced his retirement from international and interprovincial rugby. In all, between 1957 and 1965, Whineray played 32 tests for New Zealand and captained the All Blacks in 30 of these. His test record is: v. Australia 1957 (2); v. Australia 1958 (3); v. British Isles 1959 (4); v. South Africa 1960 (4); v. France 1961 (3); v. Australia 1962 (5); v. England 1963 (2); v. Ireland 1963 (1); v. Wales 1963 (1); v. England 1964 (1); v. Scotland 1964 (1); v. France 1964 (1); v. South Africa 1965 (4). Whineray has also played for numerous invitation teams including those that took part in the South African Rugby Jubilee celebrations in 1964. His final test appearance on 18 September 1965 was his 234th game in first-class rugby.
Whineray's first-class record in detail is: Wairarapa 3 games; mid-Canterbury 9; Manawatu 7; Canterbury 16; Waikato 7; Auckland 58; New Zealand Barbarians 1; South African Barbarians 1; South African Jubilee Games 3; Centurions 2; Whineray's XV 1; North Island Colts 1; Japan Tour Trial 1; South Island Universities 2; North Island Universities 1; New Zealand Universities 4; Black XV 1; New Zealand Colts 8; New Zealand under-23 9; New Zealand Trials 15; a New Zealand XV 1; South Island 1; North Island 6; New Zealand 76. Total 234.
In November 1965, at a function on behalf of the Murray Halberg Trust for Crippled Children, Whineray received the "Sportsman of the Year" trophy. He was awarded the O.B.E. in 1962.
How to cite this page: 'WHINERAY, Wilson James, O.B.E.', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966.


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An artist manager is the formal representative of a solo performer or group working in the musical entertainment industry. An artist manager is best viewed as a collaborative partner in the ongoing career development of a solo artist or musical group. They organise and confirm show dates and tours, liaise with record companies and production houses, assist with studio planning and, to a certain extent, also function as a lifestyle coach for the artist. This is because artists working in the music industry are subject to pressures 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is the manager's role to support them both personally and professionally, contributing to their positivity and creativity, and realising value in their personal brand as a musical performer. Some artist managers are freelance or have their own management company, whilst others work with record companies or with established management consultants. Small artist management companies often seek work with promising or unknown talents, whilst artists signed to major labels will be assigned an in-house manager with a wealth of experience within the music industry. The aim is to create a bi-lateral partnership where the artist feels that they have permanent support, and so can relinquish the daily issues of having to deal with emotional challenges and organisational concerns to the manager, so that they may focus on making great music.
The possible salary scope on offer ranges from £23,385 to £55,107, according to SalaryQuest.com. This figure is aggregated internationally, although UK candidates would not expect a starting salary of less than £25,000 (based in London, which is where virtually all of these jobs are located). Those figures are based on talent managers working with significant management companies; freelancers can usually expect to earn much less, but are able to scout for new opportunities which can yield further possible development deals for managed artists. This in turn triggers a series of contract bonuses, which can be considerable depending on the freelancer's ability to negotiate at contract commencement. Performance bonuses with major record labels and renowned management houses can be phenomenal, depending on the success of the artist or band.
There are no formal academic requirements for candidates who wish to become self-employed managers or who wish to partner small, independent management firms. However, record companies and internationally-recognised management consultancies require at least a Bachelor's degree in Strategic Talent Management or Global Talent Management. Although most of these courses are available at universities in the US there is also an increasing number offered in the UK with Lancaster University and Bradford University being two of the best-known providers. Candidates should be aware that the completion of these degree courses does not mean they are limited to working in the music industry, as it will also set them up to be considered for the very best jobs in human resource management and strategic enterprise planning with multinational companies.
The place of work is as flexible as the role implies. Standard equipment is a netbook, Blackberry, and a comfortable car with a driver. The work involves a lot of networking events, short-trip travel within the city of work (London, typically, if in the UK) and time spent at various recording facilities, showcases and directorial meetings. It is as glamorous as it is stressful, and the candidate's time management and project management skills are all that they have to keep them sane. As much of the work will be spent in contact with the artist being managed, the dynamic of this personal relationship must be routinely maintained, and problems mitigated or resolved swiftly.
The grass-roots end of talent management begins in the sweaty clubs of major cities. It is here where the budding manager is most likely to encounter up-and-coming acts which lack representation. Such is the desire for bands and performers to "make it big" that they often jump at the first representation offer they receive. This of course means that an inexperienced manger will be managing a band with a very small amount of local credibility in the first instance. Success is the result of hard work and dedication to perseverance on the part of both parties. It is possible for local talent managers to sign up a range of acts to their books, which allows for gig swaps and cross-pollination (in terms of networking opportunities), with the aim of career betterment for all of the artists being managed. Most successful managers will begin working with four or five bands, and switch focus to the one that is most likely to yield major label results after a certain amount of time spent on the club circuit.
Newly-formed independent management firms can enjoy a modicum of success locally, although newcomers usually have to fit the demands around a "real" full-time job until such a point as their reputation and contact network delivers credible avenues of opportunity. For those who do manage to achieve placements with significant labels, the opening role sometimes begins with A&R (Artist & repertoire); this is a poorly-paid scouting position, but candidates who become successful can often progress to become talent managers for signed acts within the label's portfolio.
In the UK (as in the US), there are a countless number of independent talent management organisations, and gauging their effectiveness is difficult for the uninitiated. Most will be open to the approach of unsigned artists until such a time as they pick up a starlet who becomes placed on a major deal. For candidates striving for a placement with a record company, the holy trinity is composed of Sony, EMI and Polydor. They are as unapproachable to the inexperienced as one would expect, and unacquainted managers will experience a "cold shoulder" similar to that with which unsigned artists must also contend.
What made you decide or choose to get into this type of career?
Outside of my love of God, people and the church, I am a huge fan of music (particularly indie rock) and film (comedies and movies that make you think). I enjoy working with young people and their ridiculousness and worshipping God through music or writing! I did things the opposite way round to most, as I began working as a record company executive in Rochester, New York, and then I decided to walk my own path as an independent artist manager because it put me into contact with aspiring young artists who needed my help.
I encounter a lot of people who make Faith music and require assistance in order to progress their careers. I love working with the church because it puts me into contact with young people who have a great desire to succeed. A lot of the work I do now is actually unpaid, but my core business focuses around my blog page which I set up to enable young artists trying to break in to the music industry. I seek to work and partner creative individuals who are prepared to give it their all.
What's the most common enquiry/call-out/request to which you must attend?
Most of the work that my particular agency partakes in is in offering advice in the first instance, and then working with my diverse database of industry contacts in order to further the careers of aspiring musicians.
Do you have any high-profile customers?
The music industry worldwide, especially in America or in Europe, is quite an incestuous affair in the respect that talent managers with labels will often have interests in artists who are "off the books." This can be both a good thing and a negative thing. I would prefer not to name the label I was working for in my earlier career, as I do not feel that is appropriate. I love what I do now; I am happy to be working in the context of supporting energetic youngsters, and in following my own faith and love of God. My career is unique in the respect that I can marry the two quite successfully.
Being able to share in the passion and enthusiasm of young people for faith and for music. When I was working in New York, I found I became a slave to the system, which for much of the time can have you questioning why you got into it in the first place. The money is very good and the social scene is a major reason why many continue to stay, but now I am much happier being independent, with a focus on promoting up-and-coming acts and talented young people.
There is nothing about my work with Tainted Canvas that I dislike, but coming from an executive background and taking that "step back" was a difficult decision at the time. It worked out for me, but some may find that they are not able to disengage from the rabid beast which is the music industry in this current age. The internet music revolution means that money is tight now, and it often changes hands for the wrong reasons, and always to the detriment of the talent. The manger should be able to protect young people from being discriminated against, and also from being taken advantage of.
What advice would you have for some who is considering doing this as a career?
Make sure you are doing it for the right reasons, because that old adage about making a deal with the devil holds more true now than ever.


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It's not the most obvious task to take the green path when renovating, building, or choosing products to buy. Green Space Today is an online magazine and business resource that makes it all easier.
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The mission of this site is to provide an interactive community of professionals in a diverse range of markets and industries. Are you a designer who has been building green already? This site will promote you. Perhaps a you're a citizen who's done something creative and progressive to combat global warming at home? You can get a mention here. It's all in the name of offering contact names, advice, and educational information about sustainability, at the level of the city, the building, the backyard, or the residential room. The community built by this site includes buyers and sellers of green services, products, and spaces.
As company owners Adam Busch and Jeff Breidenbach quote on the website, "the road to success is always under construction." Advertisers and members welcome—it's modern networking at its best.


Earlier this week, Adobe has updated their online color-based community called kuler.
The most impressive addition is kuler's ability to now automatically extract a color theme from a photograph -- you can upload any photo you'd like and choose a "mood" (colorful, bright, muted, etc.). There are some other little tweaks and welcome adjustments, such as a new Random search option.
Holy cow, this is great!
When you first introduced us to MOGO - I thought coincindence here? MoGo = Mordy Golding? So I wondered if this was your creation but I think it is just a coincidence right? Regardless, a great site and I hope to see you add more to it soon. Blatneer, Cohen, LoCasio and Mordy posting there makes for some great viewing and learning.


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Q: Dependency project items are not recognized in Visual Studio I have a solution with 2 projects:

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I have added the class library to the test project's dependencies, and it compiles and runs my tests just fine.
However, within the test project, there are no completions being displayed for items from the library, and the text editor area displays any references in red, as if the symbols are not found.
Naturally, the items in question are all public, and the test project itself works, so this is a VS problem, not a C# or project setup issue.
I'm using VS 2017 15.7.2 and ReSharper Ultimate 2017.1.2.

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Cyclists turn out for Tour de Marco
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A record number of cyclists turned out over the weekend in ideal weather to enjoy the 10th Annual Tour de Marco.
"We had 228 riders representing 17 states, and also a group of 8 from Montreal," (Quebec, Canada) said Tony De Lucia, community relations manager for the organizers, the YMCA of South Collier (Marco).
The tour was originally devised as a way for cyclists to cruise the island and take in the pretty neighborhoods, but some like to use it as a training run on the designated 15- or 30-mile course.
Either way, the Tour complements the Y's mission of healthy living.
Youngest cyclist on the day was nine-year-old Zachary Tomasheski, a Tommie Barfield Elementary student who also likes tennis, soccer and basketball. He said the main attraction for him of cycling is riding with the wind.
Safety was a priority, and Marco police personnel were on hand at key intersections to hold traffic as cyclists sped or eased by.
De Lucia paid tribute to the Y's energetic bunch of unsung hero volunteers for the morning, as well as sponsors the Marco Island Bike Shop and the Marco Bike Path Committee.
"Riders said they're already looking forward to next year's tour," De Lucia said. "It'll be Feb. 21."
Money from the Tour goes towards the Y's children and families scholarship fund, allowing them to participate in programs and camps they might otherwise not be able to afford.
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Aloha Hawaii – 2010 Residency with Hawaii Public Radio
In January, From the Top partnered with Hawaii Public Radio to bring our radio show and education programs to the island of Hawaii. It was the first time a program like ours has been recorded on the Big Island for national broadcast, and we were greeted with open arms and that famous Aloha spirit.
During a whirlwind week, we taped broadcasts in Waimea and Kea'au, and visited five schools and one youth center in four different communities, sharing the performances and experiences of From the Top musicians with nearly 2000 community members of all ages. On the broadcasts, we highlighted four performers and one jazz band from Hawaii and brought eight others from the mainland.
In the lush plantation village of Honoka'a, we were greeted with a special hula welcome by staff and students and met an inspiring music teacher Gary Washburn, whose jazz band was featured on the Waimea broadcast.
In the rainy mountain town of Waimea, a group of middle school students challenged 16-year-old guitarist Daniel Tekunoff to try the ukulele for the first time during a school performance. He gladly accepted and plucked out, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
At the Kamehameha School in Kea'au, 100 middle and high school students attended our sound check and dress rehearsal and beautifully thanked the performers and crew with a traditional mele (chant). Elementary school students were also treated to a special introduction to some of the instruments in the woodwind family by Chicago-based chamber group Trifecta.
In all, it was a wonderful week and we are so grateful to our hosts Hawaii Public Radio and the people of Hawaii Island.
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How To Piss Off a South Dakotan
Laura Ackerwold
Ask us what it's like to live like a "pioneer."
We get that you read Little House on the Prairie as a child, but that doesn't mean our state has failed to progress with the rest of the country. We didn't hitch up the wagon to draw water from the Big Sioux today, nor do we churn our butter by hand. And—believe it or not— we, too, enjoy the luxuries of indoor plumbing. When you ask us questions of this nature, you leave us to decipher whether you have a stale sense of humor or are just completely ignorant.
Pronounce Pierre with a French accent.
The only downside to our small population is that we don't have enough people to broadcast the correct pronunciation of our state capital to the rest of the country. The capital is named after Pierre Chouteau, Jr., an American fur trader. Regardless of it's French origin, South Dakotans pronounce it "Peer". We can hardly bear to hear you revive your 9th grade French skills and pronounce it "pee-AIR" as if you are Monsieur Chouteau himself. Give us a break.
Lead a PETA protest outside of The Cattleman's Club Steakhouse.
We don't agree with animal cruelty. We do, however, agree with a large, tender filet mignon sizzling on our plate. Hundreds of family operated farms and ranches extend across South Dakota to raise cattle, swine, and poultry, and industries like Morrell Meats have been processing meat products for the nation for more than a hundred years. The animal industry is an important part of our economy, and we are always hungry to reap the benefits. So please, take your pickets and tears to another state. We're trying to enjoy our dinner.
Mock our state for having a high concentration of farmland.
"Your state has more cows than people!" scoffs the guy drinking a glass of milk with his pinky in the air. Yeah, we can agree that the idea of "drive your tractor to school" day is a bit corny, but we will not tolerate you looking down on our state for all of its farmers and ranchers—hard working men and women who invest an incredible amount of time, intelligence and sweat to put food onto your table. Valley Queen Cheese processes nearly a billion and a half gallons of milk annually, and one South Dakota farmer raises enough food to feed 155 people for an entire year. It's an important industry that deserves a lot more respect than it gets.
Make us have to suddenly have to wait for something.
We South Dakotans tend to think of ourselves as patient, but the truth is we just don't have to exhibit this virtue often. The quickest way to upset us is to make us wait for something. We get hot under the collar standing in line at Hy-Vee for longer than five minutes, and road rage ensues if we have to sit through two rounds of red lights at the intersection of 41st Street and Louise. We aren't used to waiting—it's a perk of having less than a million people in the state.
Mistake us for being from North Dakota.
"Excuse me…No. I actually said south. I am from SOUTH Dakota." To you it may seem like a simple mix-up, but to us it feels catastrophic. Whether it's Sioux Falls or Fargo, Jackrabbits or Bison, Badlands National Park or Theodore Roosevelt National Park—we'll always want to be associated with the South.
Take it one step further and categorize us as "The Dakotas."
Let's be clear—we haven't been "The Dakotas" since Benjamin Harris signed South Dakota into the union in 1889. There is a distinct, legal separation and we would like it to remain that way.
Encroach on our coveted hunting "hot spots."
South Dakota is teaming with prey and predators, and it's best you don't over step your boundaries. We are constantly searching for the property lines that hide the largest bucks and the counties that yield the most roosters. We spend hours investigating what shorelines along the Missouri River hold hungry walleyes, and this research becomes highly confidential. If you are lucky enough to be invited to hunt or fish in these coveted spots, this is by no means an open invitation to show up again whenever you would like.
Assume life on the prairie is bland and boring.
If your idea of excitement is a bustling metropolis and stimulating crowds, then yes, you will find South Dakota terribly boring. But the reason we love our state is because we are able to look past the endless fields of prairie grass and see all that it has to offer. We know about the secret serenity of the quartzite gorges in the Palisades and the best pine ridges to hike for breathtaking views of The Hills. We aren't interested in littering our starlit sky with glittering skyscrapers. We prefer the vacancy of Interstate 90 to a congested traffic jam. We'll gladly trade you a martini with an olive for a Budlight with a pickle. You can keep your swanky night clubs, we would rather have sawdust bar floors. And we aren't looking for five-star restaurants either—we'd rather invite you over for a cheeseburger and potato salad on our back deck. If you set aside your superficial judgments, we'll show you what life is really like on the prairie.
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