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Why the game industry is still vulnerable to distributed-denial-of-service attacks
on May 14, 2018 |
The game industry has been under attack for a long time. Security professionals have often had to deal with distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks going back years.
It seemed like the problem was solved not so long ago, but then, the vector for attacks changed. With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), hackers were able to get their hands on many more compromised machines, and in turn, they were able to marshal those machines in much larger DDoS attacks. And so, the game companies are finding that they are getting flooded with attacks once again.
Nokia Deepfield helps companies defend themselves against such attacks. I spoke with Craig Labovitz, general manager of Nokia Deepfield, about the game industry's ongoing vulnerability to DDoS attacks. That may not sound like the specialty you'd expect Nokia to have, but Nokia acquired Deepfield back in 2016 to ensure real-time network security and performance.
Here's an edited transcript of our interview. GamesBeat and Akamai will hold a breakfast at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on June 14 to talk about games and security. Contact us through deantak on Twitter if you'd like to attend.
GamesBeat: Tell us about your interest in security and game companies.
Craig Labovitz: I've been doing DDoS for about 20 years now. I was a founder and chief architect at Arbor Networks, one of the first commercially successful DDoS companies. I was with Arbor for 12 years. After we left Arbor, we started Deepfield about five years ago, but our history goes back 25 years doing security, doing DDoS, particularly focused on unusual traffic blocking, traffic floods, things like that.
Deepfield had its start trying to do the next generation of security for both the large cloud guys, the large game guys, and the large carriers. Deepfield was an independent company for about five years. We grew pretty quickly, to cover about 90 percent of North America. We'd just started to enter Europe and Latin America and other parts of the world when we joined Nokia, about a year ago. Since then, we've been able to — Nokia provided additional investment. We've grown our technology, grown the base. Now, we're deployed all over the world, doing both engineering and DDoS security.
GamesBeat: Why has this problem persisted for so many years? It sounds like an almost unsolvable issue in some ways, the fact that people can still do DDoS attacks.
Labovitz: Well, I'd actually say the opposite. When we left our last company, one of the reasons I left is I thought we were done. If you go back to 2011, all the carriers deployed appliances. It's always an arms race between attackers and defenders, whether it's war or security. In 2011, the defenders had the upper hand. Everyone had deployed the tech they bought from Arbor Networks. Generally, while DDoS was a nuisance, it wasn't on the front page.
Back in 2000, when we started Arbor, DDoS was on the evening news. All the major brand names were under attack. 2011, there were still attacks, but most of them were easily mitigated. Technology had advanced to a point where we thought it was basically over. We saw the market declining. There wasn't a lot of growth. It wasn't in the news. Everyone who was going to buy had already bought: 80 or 90 percent of the large cloud and game companies. Then, things started to change, and you get to where we are today, which of course is a very different market.
GamesBeat: 2011 was a big deal in gaming security, because it was the year of the PlayStation Network hack.
Labovitz: Right. That was when things began to change, in that time frame. I left Arbor in 2011, and in the last five or six years, we've seen the resurgence. As far as why things changed, a couple of things have really changed the marketplace to where you're seeing DDoS be such a pain point for our customers and for games, as well as other verticals.
What changed is, number one, the platforms changed, in the sense of we went from compromising PCs in consumer homes to millions of mobile devices. On a regular basis, we're seeing cloud DVRs and other home devices participating in attacks. The number of compromised devices participating in botnets has tilted the balance of DDoS back to favor the attackers.
The second thing is just the bandwidth available. In 2010, I had a megabit, a couple of megabits at home? Now, I have hundreds. Other people have gigabits. You see significant last-mile advances in bandwidth and not just to consumers. We've seen the explosion of cloud servers and VMs, all of which we see being used as part of DDoS today. The firepower in terms of bandwidth has grown dramatically.
Now, we've gone from one device in a home you can compromise to as many as 30 or 40. We're seeing some of these IOT devices participate in DDoS — like webcams. It's gotten much easier for criminals to hijack devices all around the world. These devices aren't connected to just a megabit anymore. Some of them have gigabit bandwidth to the rest of the Internet.
GamesBeat: And that sends a much higher volume of junk requests?
Labovitz: Correct. The number of devices to compromise has grown by a factor of 10 or, in some cases, 100, and the bandwidth to those devices has grown in the same way. All this has really happened since 2010, 2011, where we've seen the balance of DDoS tilt back to the attackers.
GamesBeat: What's been the reaction on the defensive side?
Labovitz: Well, concern. It puts you in a tough position when your attackers grow by 10 or 100 times. It's hard to counter that. That's why DDoS, particularly in the last few years, is making headlines again and becoming more of a challenge.
It's a pretty fundamental shift in the way people are thinking about security. When attacks are occasional, when attacks are small, whether you're a game company or a provider you respond by adding stuff to the network, by adding servers or different security devices. When you get to this scale of attacks, when the attackers are 10 times bigger than any capacity you have, it's no longer a matter of just adding more devices to the network. You have to fundamentally shift how you think about security, particularly with an eye toward things like DDoS.
Above: Here's why game companies need more defense against attacks.
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GamesBeat: What has that shift been like?
Labovitz: Back in the day, I used to have a Palm Pilot. I had an MP3 player. I had five different devices that I carried with me that were all sort of adjunct. Similarly, in networking, you used to have a separate device for every possible function. You had a firewall, a DDoS box, an analysis box, a router, a management box. You tried to scale by scaling up all five or six of these things, and that worked for a good 15 [to] 20 years.
The problem, of course, is your attackers are now so much bigger than you are. It's hard to scale each of those things separately by 10 or 100 times. What you're seeing now across the market is a shift to move away from that Palm Pilot view of the universe and look to have this embedded in the network, embedded in the infrastructure. You can't just add it on as an afterthought.
For years, security was an afterthought. You build your network, your game, or your data center, and then, you added security to it. The real shift today is it needs to be part of how you build it from day one. It needs to be everywhere, ubiquitous, embedded. It needs to scale at the same rate you scale your game servers and your network. That's what we're seeing in the market today.
GamesBeat: If you had to tick off, say, five things game companies have to worry about, where would you put DDoS in that spectrum of security problems?
Labovitz: It's kind of like asking a homeowner how they consider security. If they've never been burglarized, that's the last thing on their list. Someone who's just been broken into or someone who's made the front page of the Wall Street Journal because they just lost five percent off their stock value, they might have a different opinion. Having done DDoS for 20 years, our best sales were the day after. We used to call them the day-after sales. The day after someone made the front page of the Financial Times, those were the easiest sales we ever had. You hear similar stories about home alarm systems.
When we started doing DDoS 20 years ago, we had to convince people they needed DDoS protection. I think the market has largely matured, and people believe they need it. The question is how much. Clearly losing all your game infrastructure for a period of hours or days is catastrophic to the business. In terms of things you worry about, that would probably be near the top of the list. Things that pose an existential threat to a company are good things to worry about.
GamesBeat: As far as where the online game operators are at, are they effectively all outsourcing this function to the likes of Akamai or Amazon? Do they say to the providers, "Hey, if I get attacked, just give me some more compute resources and get me through it?" Or, is there a different mix of infrastructure.
Labovitz: If you look at the game companies, what's been interesting over the last three or four years is they've come to look a lot like network providers. They're starting to not only do DDoS themselves, but they're building their own data centers, laying their own dark fiber, handling more and more as performance becomes a competitive element in games. We see the top five game companies take over more and more of their own infrastructure, down to dark fiber. They're building out their own global networks.
We did see a period of outsourcing, but now, the opposite is happening, as performance and latency and jitter become more important. As scale has grown, the major game operators — certainly in the U.S. and also in other parts of the world — have made big investments in infrastructure.
GamesBeat: We haven't talked much about platforms yet, but are we talking about consoles or PC or even mobile? I know that on mobile now, the fast interaction has been very important for games like Clash Royale or Arena of Glory. These are multiplayer team games. They seem to be very sensitive to latency problems. If they're getting attacked, is that another layer to the problem?
Labovitz: There are definitely attacks there. I think most of the issues we see and hear about from our game customers and carrier customers are more the first-person shooters. We see a ton of — it's just constant. At any given time for some networks, as much as five or 10 percent of traffic is just people with Xboxes or other console games trying to block someone else.
When we talk about DDoS with respect to gaming, there are two types of attacks. One is you're specifically targeting another consumer, trying to knock them off, knock their IP address off. The other is you might have monetary incentives. You might go after one of the main game companies and attack their servers. We see both of those. Less frequent, though they happen on a regular basis, are the attacks against servers. But we do see a constant, never stopping wave of gamers attacking each other for whatever motives.
GamesBeat: In that case, they're going to the trouble of finding a farm to use to attack someone?
Labovitz: I don't know if it's a farm exactly. There are just sites that you can go to, pay $10 or whatever, and get a link. I don't think it's that much trouble. If you have a credit card or Bitcoin, you too can launch a DDoS.
GamesBeat: Now, we're getting to another part of the problem, then, that something like this isn't getting shut down.
Labovitz: No, they're not. It used to be a big deal, to find a machine that [had] a gigabit of bandwidth. Today, you can rent one. We've seen an explosion of bandwidth, an explosion of devices out there, servers and others. Stuff on the edge has grown by 10 or 100 times. You're left with the guys in the middle of the Internet facing — I remember I had a pool growing up, and sometimes, the algae in it would just explode overnight. I think that's how a lot of game companies and carriers feel, facing 10 times the devices with 10 times the bandwidth. You can buy any of it for a few bucks.
GamesBeat: How do you mitigate this?
Labovitz: As I say, we have pretty broad coverage. Our customer base includes a large cross section of the major game companies, as well as providers, in North America. The game companies do two things. We work with them on traffic engineering and visibility. We can detect unusual spikes, unusual shifts in traffic. We also work with devices on the network, particularly — a lot of our focus is not on third-party devices, that Palm Pilot world, but we're working with a lot of the router vendors. Nokia, of course, is a big focus there, but we're also working with other providers that do the plumbing of the Ethernet.
Deepfield's big idea, instead of what we used to do when security was something you added to the network, we've been working with all of these providers to make sure it's built in. Every bit of networking device has the capability to block and to filter. We're working with them to build these blocking capabilities, to build this intelligence in the network, so we can accommodate this huge explosion of devices and bandwidth over the last few years.
GamesBeat: I've written a lot about semiconductor companies like ARM that are trying to build trust networks and physical hardware security for IoT chips. Is any of that helping yet? Or do we have too many unprotected devices already out there?
Labovitz: I've never won my battles against the moles in the backyard, and that's never going to happen on the Internet. We're never going back. Pandora's box is open. Just as an example, do you know what's the most popular domain name on the Internet as far as DNS queries?
GamesBeat: Maybe some kind of movie pirating site?
Labovitz: Nope. It's not Google or Facebook either. The single most popular thing queried on the Internet is time.netgear.com because eight years ago, a bug was introduced into the firmware of routers, where devices would make regular queries well beyond anything they really needed to do to set their time. That bug was fixed long ago, but what's fascinating is that it's still by far the most popular thing queried on the Internet. That speaks to how hard it is, once firmware gets out there — the changes of that getting permanently fixed, it's like a radioactive half-life. We're stuck with it forever.
GamesBeat: As far as game companies go, are they collectively addressing this in some way? Do they have their own security conferences or other signs they're approaching this as a group?
Labovitz: Certainly, there's a very tight security community. It's not very big. All of us know each other and travel in the same circles. There's a lot of collaboration. It's not just the game companies, of course. Whether you're a game company, a financial company, or one of the ISPs, security crosses all of those. There's a lot of interaction as we push on initiatives and share information about the threats we're seeing, as well as working with vendors like Nokia as we work on solutions and try to implement them.
We spend a lot of time talking to different groups and working with different parties. I'm not aware of a specific security organization just for gaming, but certainly, there are a lot of discussions, a lot of engineering meetings. It's a fairly small community, and it works together.
GamesBeat: As far as other problems besides DDoS, what do you see in security that relates to games?
Labovitz: I can only tell you about what we deal with. I read articles about other things, like loot box fraud, but the problems we deal with in the market, what I personally interact with — it's just keeping everything running as this stuff continues to scale. Keeping it running, keeping the latency and performance up. Part of that is blocking DDoS, but it's also just managing the complexity of traffic.
It used to be that whenever you went to Netscape.com, you went to a single server. Today, if you play a game or watch a video, a lot of infrastructure needs to work together from different game servers, different telemetry servers, and content distribution. Power has come at the cost of complexity. Traffic comes from a lot of places. Lots of things go into playing a game. Managing that traffic as it makes its way across the Internet, having the real-time visibility into quality so that as things shift, you can adjust, and, of course, having real-time visibility into DDoS and security. We really help with all of that: just managing stuff, keeping it up and running, and maintaining basic levels of quality in the experience.
GamesBeat: When you do that, are you interacting directly with game companies, or do you work through intermediaries like Amazon or other games-as-a-service vendors?
Labovitz: We do a little bit of both. We do have direct companies we interact with that are game companies.
GamesBeat: Do you have some predictions on this front? It seems like it can only get to be a bigger and bigger problem.
Labovitz: I'm lousy at predicting the future. Like I said, in 2010, I predicted that DDoS was over. I left my previous DDoS company thinking we were done. But I can give you some predictions with that in mind.
I think we're in the early days of IoT. I'm one of those guys who vowed to never have an IoT device at home, and now — well, I don't want to talk about what I have in my home. But if you take my mother, she has a Nest doorbell. She has connected speakers. We're still in the early days of things in the home that have IP addresses. We're also in the early days of bandwidth. The bandwidth predictions we're seeing these days are wild. If you look at 5G, suddenly, we're talking about every phone having huge amounts of bandwidth available in addition to IoT devices.
I don't think we've made the advances we need to in terms of figuring out how to secure servers, how to secure IoT. I don't think we'll win that. There's no magic bullet. We've been trying to win as far as protecting PCs and protecting servers for 30 or 35 years. It hasn't happened yet. It's not likely to happen any time soon. We're seeing new threats even at low levels. The threat will continue to grow.
My main prediction is we need to be able to build this stuff into the network itself. You mentioned ARM and others. We're seeing significant advances in the basic chipsets. Nokia makes our own hardware, so we like to think we're ahead of the curve, but we're seeing even some of what's called merchant silicon, the commodity chips market. They're a little bit behind, but we're seeing a lot of advances in merchant silicon as well.
I have high hopes that if we can build this into the network, if we can make sure the hardware advances continue, and if security isn't an afterthought but really starts to become a part of how we build everything, we can have a chance of improving or at least maintaining the status quo. I don't know if we'll ever win.
GamesBeat: I had a couple of questions about streamers. A few years ago, there was a streamer who became very popular broadcasting on Twitch, and he was followed by a bunch of DDoS attack groups. They had a sort of sparring conversation. He would go play a game, and then, the attackers would take down that game while he was trying to stream and repeat the process every time he started a new game. People would watch this, and the audience got bigger and bigger as the day went on. Every game he tried to play, the attackers took down. Some of these streamers have enormous audiences now, with hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers. I wonder if there's a way they have of protecting themselves now.
Labovitz: That's another big thing. Like I say, there are two types of attacks we see. You have attacks against servers and then attacks against players or even streamers. Previously, I think most of the focus was on the servers, higher up on the network. But we're seeing the volume of malicious traffic — and a lot of that is DDoS — becoming so large that it's a performance win if your provider can automatically block this traffic when it first enters the network. We're starting to see carriers — including probably your provider because we're working with a lot of the U.S. providers — who are trying to add these capabilities for blocking traffic before it ever enters the network.
Going back 5 [to] 10 years, DDoS protection was so expensive that it was just the big banks and a handful of other companies that were purchasing it. Of course, those numbers have come down. You can protect web pages. But the cost of protecting your business traffic or your traffic at home is still prohibitive. Sometimes, that's not even technically available.
What we are seeing, though, is DDoS protection going from something you add to the network to something that is available, that's already in place for every customer. It's just part of the network. We're starting to see the buildout of infrastructure and capability to block DDoS everywhere in the network, and that capability could be available, whether automatically or for a fee, to every home user and every business. We're seeing DDoS go from something available to dozens or hundreds of companies to something that's available to everyone as the problem has become more significant [and] more ubiquitous.
As I say, this has taken a while, but we're finally seeing a convergence of technology and incentives. This stuff is cyclical. Back in 2010, I thought we had won. Then, the world changed on us. In hindsight, the ways it changed are obvious, but hindsight is always obvious. We're starting to see more capabilities built into the network, and that's quite encouraging.
Source: https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/13/why-the-game-industry-is-still-vulnerable-to-distributed-denial-of-service-attacks/view-all/


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Fashion program highlights include a top-rated internship program that offers the opportunity to work at both national and international companies; industry partnerships with Reebok, Brooks Brothers, and Malden Mills, and membership in The Fashion Association of Merchandising and Design (FAMD). FAMD is a student organization that sponsors the program's Annual Spring Fashion Show. Although not required, students are encouraged to take advantage of CMU's Study Abroad program. Past study locations include Hong Kong, London, and Paris.
Established in 1892 as Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute, Central Michigan University (CMU) opened with just 31 students and several rooms above an office in Downtown Mount Pleasant. Today, CMU sits on 235 acres and it is home to 27,000 students at its main campus in Mount Pleasant, online, and at more than 50 locations across North America. The main campus offers more than 200 academic programs across eight colleges.
Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD) offers several notable programs aspiring fashion designers. Options include BFA degrees in Fashion Design, Illustration, and Fine Arts, and Minors in Fashion Design and Design History. Program highlights include access to high-end industry software, a surface design lab, an annual fashion show, and internship opportunities at Abercrombie & Fitch—headquartered in New Albany, Ohio and Victoria's Secret—headquartered in Columbus.
Also on the menu are Study Abroad experiences in Chile, China, England, France, Ireland, Italy, and Scotland, and the opportunity to study in New York. As a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, CCAD offers The New York Studio Residency program (DUMBO Brooklyn, NY). Through the program, students receive studio space, weekly critiques, and access to a variety of enriching seminars.
Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD) was established in 1879. It is home to more than 1,300 students from 40 states and 35 foreign countries. The school sits on a 17-acre campus in Downtown Columbus and offers Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees as well as a notable collection of Minor options, Dual Majors, and Visual Arts Teaching Licensure.
St. Catherine University's School of Business and Professional Studies houses the Department of Apparel, Merchandising, and Design. Offerings for aspiring fashion designers include BS degrees in Apparel Design, Apparel Design & Fashion, and a BS in Family and Consumer Science with a Focus in Textiles/Apparel. Fashion students may also combine any of these degrees with Fashion Merchandising, Small Business/Entrepreneurship or Marketing/Management, if the goal is to run their own business or retail shop.
Fashion program highlights include participation in St. Catherine University's Annual Katwalk Fashion Show, guest speakers, the chance to meet with more than 60 companies each year, and access to the thriving Minneapolis fashion scene. The scene had a hand in helping mold Project Runway contestants Katherine Gerdes, Christopher Straub, Danielle Everine and Ra'mon Lawrence-Coleman. The program also offers Study in London, Paris, New York or Boston. Study Abroad partners include London College of Fashion and Acadia Fashion Institute in Florence.
Established in 1905, St. Catherine University (St. Kate's) is home to more than 5,200 students enrolled in 100 fields of study across three schools including the School of Business and Professional Studies, the Henrietta Schmoll School of Health, and the School of Humanities, Arts and Sciences. The school has 2 campuses—the St. Paul Campus which is 5 miles from Downtown St. Paul and 7 miles from Downtown Minneapolis, and the Minneapolis Campus, which is located in the west bank of the Mississippi River, just east of Downtown. Downtown Minneapolis offers access to shopping, theaters, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, and Fortune 500 companies such as Target and Quest.
The Illinois Institute of Art offers Design, Culinary Art, Media Arts, and Fashion programs. Popular offerings for aspiring fashion designers include a BFA in Fashion Design and the Fashion Retailing Diploma. Fashion program highlights include access to renowned design, art, and shopping centers, membership in student groups such as Fashion Focused and the American Society of Interior Designers, exciting leadership workshops, and an impressive track record in the area of graduate employment.
In 2011, 93.7% of available Fashion Design (BS) graduates were employed in a related field within 6 months of graduation, as well as 100% of Fashion Merchandising (AS) graduates, and 90.4% Fashion Marketing & Management (BS) graduates. Just a few companies that have hired Illinois Institute of Art graduates include BCBG Max Azria, Chicos, Claire's Neiman Marcus, Rag & Bone, Nordstrom, Ralph Lauren, Saks Fifth Avenue, Tip-Top Branding, and White House Black Market.
Established in 1916 as The Commercial Arts School (and known as Ray-Vogue in the 1930s), The Illinois Institute of Art is one of the country's first colleges of applied art and design. It has two locations in Downtown Chicago including the main campus at River North Point, which connects to one of the world's largest design centers—Merchandise Mart, and the Loop campus, which is just steps from the city's high-end shopping hub—The Magnificent Mile.
Missouri State University (MSU) offers several excellent programs for aspiring fashion designers through the College of Business and the College of Arts and Letters. The College of Business-Department of Fashion and Interior Design (FID) offers a BS in Fashion Merchandising and Design, which focuses on both (global) design and business. The College of Arts and Letters-Art + Design Department (MSU A+D) offers BFA degrees in Metals & Jewelry, Illustration, and Photography.
Students planning to launch their own lines, open a boutique or start another fashion business may consider the BS in Management, Entrepreneurship or General Business, a Minor in Management, Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship, Leadership or Operations Management, or a Certificate in Entrepreneurship. However, the BS in Fashion Merchandising and Design is the first stop for most aspiring fashion designers.
Program highlights include the annual MSU Fashion Show at the Springfield Expo Center, which attracts more than 1,000 guests, frequent design and merchandising competitions, Dallas Career Day, Domestic Tours, and "Study Away" experiences in Paris, China (MSU's campus in Dalian), Italy, and Greece. Domestic Tours take place annually. Students (typically 20) visit New York City to explore fashion businesses and interview for internships. Students have explored and interviewed with Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Cotton Incorporated, Kate Spade, and more.
Established in 1905 as Fourth District Normal School, Missouri State University (MSU) opened with a student population of 543 in off-campus facilities. Today, the school sits on a lovely 450-acre main campus and it is home to more than 20,000 students from 40 states and 70 countries. Additional campuses include West Plains, MO, Mountain Grove, MO, and Dalian, China.
Ball State University (BSU) is home to a nationally recognized fashion program. The College of Applied Sciences and Technology-Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Department offers a BS in Apparel Design. This "Immersive Learning" program prepares students to work in all areas of fashion from Design, Pattern Making and Illustration to Textile Design, Fabric and Notions Buying, Sample Making, and more.
Other program highlights include access to The Beeman Historic Costume Collection, which includes more than 3,000 artifacts related to fashion from 1800 to the present, internship opportunities at local, regional, and nationwide companies, and a top-rated Study Abroad program. The program features 300 Study Abroad locations. Just a few include Spain, New Zealand, Japan, and England. Study Abroad experiences are optional, but the FCS Department encourages participation, which will help enhance students' education and career opportunities.
Students looking to take their careers a step further by launching their own lines or starting their own studios or boutiques might consider the MBA with a Concentration in Entrepreneurship, the Bachelor's degree in Entrepreneurial Management, or the Minor in Entrepreneurship. These popular career-enhancing programs are available through the Entrepreneurship Center at the Miller College of Business.
Established in 1918 as the Indiana State Normal School Eastern Division, Ball State University sits on a beautiful 731-acre main campus just 57 miles from Indianapolis—the State Capital and the nation's 12th largest city, and 227 miles from Chicago—the nation's 3rd largest city. Listed among the nation's Top 322 Green Colleges, the BSU campus also includes 400 acres of research property and it is home to a large population of 22,000 students enrolled in well over 250 academic programs across nine colleges.
The School of Arts & Design at Mount Mary University offers several top-notch programs for aspiring fashion designers. Options include a BA in Fashion Design—the first 4-year fashion degree program in the State of Wisconsin, and a Certificate in Fashion Design. Each year, students travel to fashion capitals such as New York and Paris each year to explore textile and apparel museums, attend fabric fairs, and tour design studios, apparel showrooms, and shopping districts.
In Paris, students take classes at the Paris Academy; they meet with European designers and trend forecasters, and participate in the school's Runway Fashion Show. Students also have the opportunity to participate in Mount Mary's annual fashion show, in regional, national, and international competitions, and to show their work at local museums and galleries such as Villa Terrace Museum, Gallery Night & Day, and Harley-Davidson Museum.
Established in 1913, Mount Mary University sits on an 80-acre campus in Metropolitan Milwaukee—just 92 miles from Chicago. The school is home to 1,475 students from across the U.S. and abroad and it offers more than 35 programs through the School of Humanities, the School of Natural & Health Sciences, the School of Social Sciences, Business & Education, and the School of Arts & Design.
The Michigan State University (MSU) College of Arts and Letters-Department of Art, Art History, and Design (AAHD) offers several programs for aspiring fashion designers. Home to 600 students, the Department offers BA and BFA degrees in Apparel & Textile Design and the option to take on a secondary major in Studio Art (Photography) or other major that might enhance students' education and career opportunities.
The Department of AAHD offers internship opportunities at local, regional, and national companies, access to state-of-the-art production facilities and studios, study trips to nearby Chicago, and membership in valuable student clubs such as the MSU Fashion Design Student Association (FDSA). More than 275 Study Abroad programs in more than 60 countries are also on the menu. Popular overseas experiences for fashion students include The Art of Photography: History + Contemporary Practice in the UK, Visual Art in Florence, Italy, Expressive Arts Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies in South Africa, and Ceramics in China.
Established in 1855, Michigan State University (MSU) is one of the world's top research universities. It is home to a large population of 49,300 students from all 50 states and more than 130 countries. The school sits on a 5,200-acre campus just 3 miles from Lansing (the State Capital) and it offers more than 200 academic programs across 19 colleges.
The School of Graduate and Professional Studies at Ursuline College offers a unique program for aspiring fashion designers. The School's BA in Fashion Design offers a F.I.T. Track. What this means is, students have the opportunity to spend their third year of study at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City (FIT), where they will receive an Associate in Applied Science degree (AAS) from FIT upon graduation from Ursuline College.
In addition to the F.I.T. Track, Fashion program highlights include internship opportunities at local, regional, and national companies, and access to the latest technology and facilities including the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Lab, industry-standard pattern drafting tables, Wolf dress forms, and multi-thread sergers. The program prepares students for successful careers as Fashion Designers, Apparel Manufacturers, Illustrators, Fashion Forecasters, Costume Designers, Stylists, and many others.
The Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland founded Ursuline College in 1871. It was one of the first colleges for women in the U.S. and the first in the State of Ohio. Today, Ursuline welcomes male students and a population of around 1,500 students each day. The school sits on a 100-acre campus just 13 miles east of Cleveland, 31 miles from Akron, and less than 125 miles from Pittsburgh. Ursuline College offers more than 40 academic programs across several schools.


Ben van Gelder (alto saxophone); Sam Harris (piano); Rick Rosato (double bass); Craig Weinrib (drums); Peter Schlamb (vibraphone).
In 2007, when he was 18, Ben van Gelder won the Deloitte Jazz Award. After studying at the Amsterdam conservatory, the alto saxophonist and bass clarinetist moved to New York to study at the New School of Jazz. It was there, in 2016, that he recorded the phenomenal album Among Verticals which received great critical acclaim. For that album he let himself be inspired by a painting: a famous work by the Czech artist František Kupka, Mme Kukpa Dans Les Verticales. Van Gelder used it as a metaphor for how he felt in the big city of New York. He composed fourteen connected pieces that arose from a composition assignment. Van Gelder's music expresses what he saw in the painting: mystery, surrealism, melancholy and a story. Van Gelder will be playing with the New Yorkers with whom he recorded the album: pianist Sam Harris, vibraphonist Peter Schlamb, bassist Rick Rosato and drummer Craig Weinrib.


Located in the town of Jackson on the mountainside at Snow King Resort. Love Ridge offers luxurious vacation rentals with the amenities you expect from a premier, full service resort. All units are fully furnished, professionally decorated, air conditioned and feature fireplaces and mountain views. Suites, One, Two and Three bedroom condominiums. Opening in 2009, the Grand View Lodge and Spa with 11,000 sqft Spa, restaurant, fireside lounge and meeting space.
Located in the town of Jackson on the mountainside at Snow King Resort. Love Ridge offers luxurious vacation rentals with the amenities you expect from a premier, full-service resort. All units are fully furnished, professionally decorated, air-conditioned and feature fireplaces and mountain views. Suites, one, two and three bedroom condominiums. Opening in 2009, the Grand View Lodge and Spa with 11,000 sqft Spa, restaurant, fireside lounge and meeting space.


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VIDEO: Cookie Monster Sings 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame' at Chicago Cubs Game
VIDEO: Cookie Monster Sings 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame' at Chicago Cubs Game
Erica Banas // Rock Music Reporter	June 27th, 2019
NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 09: Sesame Street characters pose under a "123 Sesame Street" sign at the "Sesame Street" 40th Anniversary temporary street renaming in Dante Park on November 9, 2009 in New York City.
Cookie Monster led the seventh inning stretch singing of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" at today's Chicago Cubs game, and it's so full of joy that it started to trend on Twitter.
"Today, C is for Cubbies," exclaimed Cookie Monster much to the delight of those in attendance at Wrigley Field.
Cubs Talk on Twitter
The award for most delightful rendition of the 7th Inning Stretch goes to... @MeCookieMonster!!! ???????????? #AuthenticFan https://t.co/l07HLgfik2
Since this moment was trending on Twitter, many users shared the video and reacted accordingly, but this reaction was the best.
Cameron Grant on Twitter
I saw the Cookie Monster Trending and almost had a heart attack. Then I realized he's fictional character that can't die. https://t.co/v4cmRzPXri
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To designate May 1989 as "National Trauma Awareness Month".
02/14/1989 Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.
02/02/1989 Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
S.J.Res.68 A joint resolution to designate the month of May 1989, as "Trauma Awareness Month". Procedurally-related: Identified by House committee House 05/23/1989 Became Public Law No: 101-33.
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Postcode lottery is denying obese patients access to vital treatment
Patients are being denied access to bariatric surgery because intensive weight loss programmes, which are a prerequisite to surgery, are not being commissioned in some areas, the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society warns.
A lack of provision in some parts of the country is leaving obese patients unable to access the vital services they need to control their weight which could potentially put their health at risk.
Last year, NHS England, which is responsible for commissioning bariatric surgery, published a clinical commissioning policy on the specialised management of severe and complex obesity.
The published policy reflects NICE guidance that recommends individuals have tried and exhausted all non-invasive treatment options prior to potentially higher-risk surgical approaches. As part of this, it requires patients to complete support from weight management services (called 'tier 3' support) which helps them to succeed in controlling their diet post-surgery.
Recent Hospital Episodes Statistics data shows there has been a fall of 10% in the number of bariatric surgical procedures being performed between April 2012 and March 2013, even though the most recently available statistics show obesity rates in England continue to rise.
The RCS is concerned that the current problems with commissioning weight management has led to a further fall in the number of bariatric procedures, as these programmes are a prerequisite for referral to bariatric surgery.
Richard Welbourn, President of the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS), said:
'It is concerning that patients are being denied access to treatment due to weight assessment and management clinics not being commissioned. The benefits of bariatric surgery are well-known. It leads to greater body weight loss and higher remission rates of type 2 diabetes than non-surgical treatment of obesity. Poor access to bariatric surgery therefore places some patients at continuing health risk. In the long run this will end up costing the NHS more.'
BOMSS, in conjunction with the College and other partners including the Royal College of Physicians, has produced NICE accredited commissioning guidance for weight assessment and management programmes. The guidance is intended to assist clinical commissioning groups in commissioning these services and reduce variation in access to these clinics across the country. This guidance is due for publication at the beginning of this year.
Professor Norman Williams, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, said:
'To hear that a postcode lottery is emerging in UK weight management provision is deeply worrying. The fact that access to surgery is blocked because of this means the NHS is simply storing up problems for later and compromising patient care. The Royal College of Surgeons and Specialty Associations' commissioning guides give commissioners a clear understanding of what cost- effective quality care should look like. We hope to work with CCGs to reduce this sort of variation and drive up standards of patient care across the UK.'
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Q: Silent the zgrep results on *.gz files I need to silent the results(from zgrep) from getting displayed on the terminal. But when I use -q option on zgrep like this:
zgrep -q file.gz

then zgrep doesn't work.
From the man page of zgrep I was thinking that -q should have worked:
SYNOPSIS
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A: You can make use of the inbuilt return code $? to determine the output. You can also use -q or --silent or --quiet
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Alison Klayman (born 1984) is an American filmmaker and journalist best known for her award-winning 2012 documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.

Life and career
Klayman grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from Brown University in 2006 with a bachelor of arts degree in history. After her studies she went on a five-month trip to China with a college classmate and wound up staying to learn Chinese and work. She has contributed to PBS Frontline, National Public Radio and The New York Times.

After meeting artist Ai Weiwei while filming his exhibit for a local gallery, she started shooting footage for a longer documentary in December 2008. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize and a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award.

Klayman's documentary on Abercrombie & Fitch focused on the store's success and controversies, including its racist and exclusionary practices. White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch was released on Netflix in 2022.

Klayman is Jewish.

Filmography
 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
 The 100 Years Show (2015)
 11/8/16 (2017)
 Take Your Pills (2018)
 The Brink (2019)
 Jagged (2021)
 White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (2022)

Awards and honors

Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Ashland Independent Film Festival
DGA Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Filmmaker Magazine "25 New Faces of Independent Film"
New York Times International List of 20 Directors to Watch
Sundance Film Festival – Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival

References

External links

1984 births
Brown University alumni
American documentary filmmakers
20th-century American Jews
People from Philadelphia
Living people
Filmmakers from Pennsylvania
American women documentary filmmakers
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy alumni
21st-century American Jews

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Temptation is a modern interpretation of one of Christ's trials, as a human being. In Matthew, Luke, and Mark it is written that Christ, after being baptized is led into the desert by the Holy Spirit, where he fasts for forty days and forty nights. It is during this time that he is visited by the devil and tempted three times. The tempter came to him and urged him to change a stone to bread; in a twist of scripture, to fall from the cliff so that angels would have to catch him; and offered all the Kingdoms of the world and their glory, if he falls and worships the devil. It has been stated by religious art critics that what is missing from modern pictures of Christ is that they do not explore Christ as a human being. Temptation in the Desert attempts to not only show one of Christ's trials as a human being but also attempts to show the first epic battle with satan in Christ's physical form. The work shows Christ's ability to defeat the devil while staying heroic and human, never relying on his messianic powers. The piece leaves the viewer confused. At this one moment, we are led to experience the image in an almost hallucinogenic way through the eyes of someone who has not eaten in 40 days, the battle between good and evil, and Christ's prophecy.
The piece must be studied to reveal subtle symbols and concepts. The viewer is asked to step into Christ's vision where he sees that people will look to false sources of power before God. Trees become demons, clouds become the Kingdom of the World, and the rocks in the desert become the people he must die to save. The rose growing out of Christ's chest represents the five wounds suffered during crucifixion, the presence and miracle of God, and the blood of Christian martyrs. The capital building represents our society, to whom we look for our needs to be met, fragile as clouds, weakened by temptation.
Like the rock he holds, Christ knows that without his personal sacrifice, his people will be nothing more than soulless stones.


Our 4-star campsite is delighted to welcome you from the 6 April to the 29 September 2019 to enjoy camping holidays in Morbihan in Southern Brittany.
Within a unique setting and nestled on a campsite with all the mod-cons, enjoy marvellous holidays with family or friends right at the heart of Southern Brittany.
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American Pancake: Mikal Cronin- "Peace of Mind" Official Video- "Drenched in an Elliot Smith-ish ennui"
Mikal Cronin- "Peace of Mind" Official Video- "Drenched in an Elliot Smith-ish ennui"
Mikal Cronin's song Peace of Mind is drenched in an Elliot Smith-ish ennui. The feeling is played out beautifully in the video featuring Mary Timothy of Helium/Wild Flag as a motel maid who finds ways to defiantly push away her own melancholia. Who hasn't felt exactly like this. Tenderly directed by Lara Gallagher.


Dallas, TX -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/03/2018 --Complete Overhead Door Inc. is a renowned name when it comes to offering top quality products and installation services. The company provides sales, installation, and repair of electric openers and garage doors. Complete Overhead Door Inc. has quite a few years of experience in this field and is a family- operated and owned, completely insured and licensed company. The company is often considered as the first and last stop for class commercial and residential truck, garage, and roll-up doors and openers.


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Q: Firewalls preventing product activation I'm looking to implement a basic product activation scheme such that when the program is launched it will contact our server via http to complete the activation.  I'm wondering if it is a big problem (especially with bigger companies or educational organizations) that firewalls will block the outgoing http request and prevent activation.  Any idea how big as issue this may be?

A: In my experience when HTTP traffic is blocked by a hardware firewall then there is more often than not a proxy server which is used to browse the internet. Therefore it is good practice to allow the user to enter proxy and authentication details.
The amount of times I have seen applications fail due to not using a corporate proxy server and therefore being blocked by the firewall astonishes me.

A: there are personal software solutions to purposely block outgoing connections.  Check out little snitch.  This program can set up rules that explicitly block your computer from making connections to certain domains, IP's and / or Ports.  A common use for this program is to stop one's computer from "phoning home" to an activation server.

A: I can't tell you how prevalent this will be, sorry. But I can give you one data point.
In this company Internet access is granted on an as needed basis.  There is one product I have had to support which is wonderful for its purpose and reasonably priced, but I will never approve its purchase again - the licensing is too much of a hassle to be worth it.

A: I'd say that it may not be common, but if any one of your customers is a business it's likely that you will encounter someone who tryes to run your software behind a restricted internet connection or a proxy.  Your software will need to handle this situation, otherwise you will ahve a pissed off customer who cannot use your product, and you will lose the sale for sure.
If you are looking for a third party tool, I've used InstallKey (www.lomacons.com) for product activations.  This thing has functionaility that allows for validating with and without an internet connection.


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Anastacia was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003 and battled the disease again last year. She joins fellow pop artists Kylie Minogue and Olivia Newton John in surviving the disease.
Stupid Little Things is Amazing!


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Metallated group IX and group X phosphinimine complexes.
The focus of this research has been the preparation of late transition metal phosphinimine complexes. The thesis herein describes the synthesis of a series of monomeric Group IX phosphinimine complexes. [RhCOD(o-C 6H4PPh2NR)] (R = 2,6-C6H3(CH 3)2 44, 2,6-C6H3 iPr2 45, 3,5-C6H3(CH 3)2 46 and Ph 47) were prepared via salt metathesis under mild conditions. The analogous complexes [Rh( o-C6H4PPh2NPh)(Ph2PCH 2CH2PPh2)] 52 and [IrCOD( o-C6H4PPh2NPh)] 53 were also readily prepared by similar methods. Reactivity studies were performed on these complexes. Unexpectedly, complexes 46, 47, 52 and 53 underwent oxidative addition of methylene chloride. However, when steric bulk was introduced on the 2,6-positions of the N-phenyl ring (compounds 44 and 45), oxidative addition of CH2Cl2 was not observed. The reaction of Group X transition metals with phosphinimine ligands was also explored. Attempts to coordinate [Li(o-C6H 4PPh2NR)]2·Et2O (R = SiMe 3 61 and tBu 62) to Group X transition metals proved to be unsuccessful due to steric congestion. However, transmetallation did occur when less bulky phosphinimine ligands were used, such as, [Li(o-C6H4PPh2NR)] 2·Et2O (R = Ph 63 and 3,5-C6H 3(CH3)2 66). The Group X phosphinimine complexes described herein, [Ni(o-C6H4PPh 2NR)2] (R = Ph 67 and 3,5-C6H 3(CH3)2 68) and [Pd(o-C 6H4PPh2NPh)2] 69, were bis-ligand type complexes.Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2003 .C46. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-02, page: 0594. Adviser: D. W. Stephan. Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2003.
Chan, Katie Tak-Kwan., "Metallated group IX and group X phosphinimine complexes." (2003). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2714.


Fibrin - n. A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.
Fibrin - n. The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.
Fibrin - n. An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.


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Kung Fu Hustle and Save the Green Planet (review)
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Due East
If you're looking for some real verve at the movies right now, you've gotta head east… waaay east, to a place where if the filmmakers are working within their own traditional framework and structures and dealing with their own hoary clichés and tropes, those building blocks are all at least fresher to those of us weaned on Hollywood flicks and getting tired of seeing the same old thing.
Of course, some clever Western film fans have been into the Asian stuff for years and so won't be as enthralled, perhaps, by the latest offerings from that part of the world to make it to our shores, but let us neophytes enjoy the thrill of discovery. A lot of newcomers to Asian action flicks will likely head to see Kung Fu Hustle, what with it getting a wide American release and all, and they're in for an especial treat, because you don't need to have any interest in martial arts to get an enormous kick out of this one. Hong Kong's Stephen Chow does his Shaolin Soccer brand of goofy insanity one better with this wonderfully demented flick, combining wild cartoon defiance of physics with such unexpected elements as an Old West-style showdown, a Busby Berkeley-esque musical sequence, and outrageous caricatures that bring to mind the satire of Fawlty Towers. It's all completely pointless except as a silly diversion… and that, when you need to check out from the all-too-palpable insanity of the real world at the moment, is a very good thing.
The plot, such as it is, concerns the poor schlubs of Pig Sty Alley, who are too destitute even to attract the interest of any of the gangs who run the rest of Shanghai. (This is supposed to be taking place in the 1930s, but the flick inhabits a pseudo Depression-era movie fantasia world that exists in its own timeless dimension.) But a young wannabe gangster and all-around loser, Sing (Chow), shows up, swaggering around and pretending to be part of the scary Axe Gang, which in turn finally brings the mob down on the citizens of Pig Sty Alley.
As nonsensical as the film really is, it's not worthy spoiling the fun by revealing how the cartoon shakes itself out. But suffice to say that the poor schlubs of Pig Sty Alley turn out not to be as helpless as they'd like us to think they are. Some of them — including the hilariously bitchy Landlady (Qiu Yuen), who's like Sybil Fawlty without the fawning obsequiousness — have hidden talents that would make Bruce Lee and the Roadrunner green with envy.
Save the Green Planet, from Korea, is equally eye-popping and just as breathtaking, but in an entirely different way. Writer/director Jang Jun-Hwan throws elements of movie science fiction, Internet conspiracy theories, murder mysteries, revenge dramas, and misguided romances into a blender and comes up with a highly disturbing, superviolent look at the legacy of human violence throughout history, and where it's leading us: to the destruction of the planet.
Lee Byeong-Gu (Shin Ha-Gyun) is a troubled young man who thinks his old boss — Kang Man-Shik (Baek Yun-Shik), the big cheese at a major chemical corporation — is, well, an alien from the planet Andromeda who's part of a global alien conspiracy to experiment on humans. (Jang was inspired by Internet nutball David Icke, who has similar ideas.) So he kidnaps the "alien," because the Andromedans are going to destroy the earth at the next lunar eclipse, just a few days away, and Byeong-Gu is the only one who can stop it from happening. He is assisted by his girlfriend, Sooni (Hwang Jung-Min), a sad grownup little girl who spends much of her time — when she isn't helping to torture a confession of alienness out of Kang — ironing her Barbie dolls' clothing and isn't really quite sure she believes this alien stuff.
Just when you think you've got a grip on what Planet is, Jang switches gears, while always maintaining an astonishing discipline, as the film morphs from incisive drama to hilariously gory splatter and into an extended parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. But Jang never merely pokes fun at all these genres — all of which have, at their hearts, something to say about the human propensity for nastiness. He wields his film like a saber, slicing through concepts of justification and defense and explanation that these genres have explored in an attempt to figure out why we're so bad so often, and comes to the conclusion that it's all bullshit and we're irredeemable. You don't have to agree with him to find his argument startling and compelling.
viewed at a semipublic screening with an audience of critics and ordinary moviegoers
rated R for sequences of strong stylized action and violence
Save the Green Planet
viewed at home on a small screen
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High Performance Negotiation Skills for Women
Time NOON - 1:30 PM (CST)
Take Your Place at the Table
This workshop examines negotiations in the business world and explores how women and men behave and ultimately perform at the negotiation table, whether in person or virtually. You will explore behavioral differences in initiating negotiations, making opening offers, and settling upon terms. The improvement part of the workshop focuses on:
How women can build confidence in their negotiations
How they can best leverage influence and power in negotiations
How to do this in a way that strengthens and solidifies the business relationship
Workshop topics include:
Men, women and negotiation — separating fact from fiction; leveling the playing field; best practices for enhancing personal and business outcomes at the (virtual) negotiation table
Preparation — how to prepare for negotiations, establish your goals, set an optimal target point, assess your alternatives, develop a BATNA, set a reservation point (walk-away point)
Setting the stage — recognizing negotiation opportunities; "asking" instead of "waiting"
Conducting the negotiation — should you make the first offer?; how to open, what to reveal, what to conceal, separate positions from interests, and how to deal with "backlash"
Win-win negotiation — how to create and develop value-added agreements by creatively working with differences, identify pain points, opportunities, and value drivers, etc.
Increasing your value — how to negotiate from a position of weakness and leverage your position
Improving relationships and trust — how to build trust with business partners; negotiate for the long-term; and protect your reputation
Increase negotiator confidence — examine your negotiation strengths and weaknesses and develop a plan for working on specific areas and increase their confidence at the table
Space is limited. Registration closes at midnight (Central) on Friday, Feb. 19.
An email to access the webinar will be sent to all registrants prior to the presentation. All registrants will receive a link to the recording following the webinar.
$79 USD – member
$179 USD – nonmember
Leigh Thompson, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is the director of the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center, the Leading High Impact Teams Executive program, High Performance Negotiation Skills Executive program and Negotiating in a Virtual World Executive online program, and co-director of the Constructive Collaboration Executive program and the Navigating Work Place Conflict Executive program.


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Randall Amplifiers - американская частная компания, производитель гитарных усилителей, гитарных эффектов, громкоговорителей. Главный офис расположен в штате Иллинойс. Входит в группу компаний . Продукция компании Randall Amplifiers используется такими известными музыкальными группами, как Pantera, Metallica, King's X , Anthrax , Arch Enemy , Fear Factory.

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Randall Amplifiers была основана в 1970 году Доном Рэндаллом (), который всю свою жизнь был энтузиастом по радио- и аудио-усилителям.

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Publication Overview
Ipek Gençsü, Shelagh Whitley, Leo Roberts, Christopher Beaton, Han Chen, Alex Doukas, Anna Geddes, Ivetta Gerasimchuk, Lourdes Sanchez, Anissa Suharsono
2019 ODI
G20 Coal Subsidies: Tracking government support to a fading industry
G20 countries have a critical role to play in leading efforts to combat climate change, as they account for 79 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. In 2009, they committed to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies in the medium term, and since then many have played an important role in driving forward climate action internationally.
A decade on from this commitment, G20 governments continue to provide billions of dollars of support for the production and consumption of fossil fuels, spending at least USD 63.9 billion per year on coal alone, the most polluting fossil fuel. They have also neglected to define or document the full extent of their subsidies.
This research tracks each G20 country's progress in phasing out subsidies to the production and consumption of coal (including coal-fired power), looking at fiscal support, public finance and state-owned enterprise investment. The report summarizes key findings from 18 parallel country briefs, with accompanying data sheets that list all the support identified for each country.
Participating experts
Christopher Beaton
Ivetta Gerasimchuk
Lourdes Sanchez
IISD Global Subsidies Initiative


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Raman's Handmade Relishes - the spicy accompaniments from Strensall
PUBLISHED: 15:46 04 July 2011 | UPDATED: 19:39 20 February 2013
There is nothing quite as tasty as the spicy accompaniments that can make an every-day meal that little bit special, as our food and drink consultant Annie Stirk report Photographs by Andy Bulmer
Geetha Varadan and Priya Raman making relish
Its fair to say that Priya Raman and Geetha Varadan bring a world of flavour to their cookery. From their little kitchen in Strensall, near York, the best friends and business women who have lived in Southern India, the Middle East, America and now the UK bottle the essence of an extraordinary journey of food discovery, bringing the traditional, exotic and contemporary flavours of four countries to their range of Ramans Handmade Relishes.
And it seems that while relish is their game, relish is also in their nature with both women having an unwavering passion for what they do. Having lived together as a family in India (Geetha has been with Priya since she was a baby) the pair continue to live and work together under the same roof, shopping for produce and doing marketing during the day, picking up Priyas two sons from school and doing the usual after-school activities, before chopping vegetables and roasting spices into the night for their next batch of aubergine, butternut squash, beetroot, pepper, dessert apple and carrot and tomato and onion relishes.
We might have a couple of hours sleep but were often cooking and producing until 3.30 in the morning, says Priya. We produce around 90-100 jars per day all cooked in the kitchen at home. We dont use microwave ovens, nothing is frozen or ready-made, no part of the process is rushed or skimped, and there are no short-cuts.
Both women are heavily influenced by their mothers and grandmothers. Priya describes her grandmothers cooking and the wonderful aromas of her childhood avocado raita, Indian pilaf, chick pea pasties, rhubarb and spice chutneys while Geetha, a former payroll manager, says she learned everything from her mother, who was an amazing cook. Geethas family originally lived in Aden, a seaport city in Yemen, where there wasnt much of an Asian population and it made Geetha a very distinctive cook, living in an Arab country, I needed to be inventive, she says.
Geetha is very organised, adds Priya. She has played with numbers all her life and if you want to know the amounts of ingredients for 500 jars she will know exactly how much is needed.
Indeed, the spice blend for all the recipes is a secret and Geetha is the brains behind it, and she knows exactly how much goes into each batch. Her Middle Eastern background also influences many of the relishes; in the aubergine relish, tahini is combined with smoked paprika and nutmeg, for example.
The seed for the relish business came initially from Priya, who wanted to come up with what she described as the perfect ingredient a neat little idea that could spice up cooking, be used as a marinade (they are wonderful stirred into sour cream) or as an accompaniment to meat or fish. For us, delicious accompaniments are more than just a bit on the side they make or break the dish, she says.
She recalls that when she was pregnant she would wander around supermarkets unable to find anything to satisfy her cravings. I started spending more and more time in the kitchen, creating and writing down recipes and memories of food from my childhood. I began selling my first relishes at my sons school fete and they were a great success. The chef there, Tom Kaye, said wow you should go into production and the idea just grew from there.
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Spices for the relishes are sourced from Harrogate and Leicester and Priya has formed a good relationship with the Farmers Cart, an award winning farm shop only a couple of miles away, which provides the vegetables.
Priya and Geetha now supply 15 delis in Yorkshire and Scotland and have completed their first export order for Germany and Austria.
In 2010, the Raman family also won the title of Britains Best Cooking Family on the Hairy Bikers Cook-off on BBC2, beating off competition from more than 200 families across the UK.
Its not everyday that you can claim to have blown away a BBC TV Hairy Biker, says Priya. But they couldnt have been more positive about what we cooked up in the kitchen that day. Our relishes reflect our food journeys, passions and experience, and I hope our mothers and grandmothers would be proud if they could see us today.
Rock n roll and relish
Fresh spices
Sheffield-made Hendersons Relish is one with a rock star profile. Named after Henry Henderson, who began manufacturing his own sauce in the late 19th century, its now one of Yorkshires most famous exports, and its unique aroma and flavour brilliant as a sauce on meat dishes, and for soups and marinades have won many celebrity fans. Sheffield singer songwriter Richard Hawley, guitarist with cult band Pulp, says he cried when he returned home after a long tour and had his first taste of Hendos with sausage, mash and gravy; Peter Stringfellow is said to refuse to eat breakfast without it; while Rick Savage and his band mates from Def Leppard apparently rock all over the world with a bottle of Hendersons in their bags.
Other great Yorkshire relishes to try:
Rosebud Preserves Red Tomato Relish, rich and spicy; no burger or barbecued rib is complete without it. Rosebud Preserves have been making a range of 50 products, including jams, jellies, mustards, chutneys and four different relishes, for more than 20 years at its farm in Healey Masham, Ripon. All products are made by hand in small batches using traditional methods.
01765 689174 rosebudpreserves.co.uk
Womersley Fine Foods Apple and Geranium Jelly, with its florid hint of Turkish Delight, is a peerless addition to marinades for fish and smoked meats. Lavish on a tapas-style spread with Mediterranean pts or add to fragrant rice; even better with ice-cream or sorbet. The late and much loved foodie Martin Parsons and his wife Aline, began creating vinegars, preserves and jellies from produce harvested in their walled garden at Womersley 20 years ago. Martins ability to blend specialist herbs and sumptuous fruits with vinegar and sugar continues to be championed by his son Rupert and the company have won numerous Great Taste awards.
0113 2865 855 www.womersleyfoods.co.uk
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Porters Preserves Peppered Mushroom Relish made with plump oyster mushrooms soaked in honey and cooked with a blend of black pepper and spices, goes fantastically with all cheeses and meats and is particularly good with a bacon butty. Porters is a small business in Knaresborough, which uses home-grown apples and pears and vegetables from local farmers. Everything is handmade and more than 80 per cent of the whole fruit goes into the preserves, with no artificial additives and no preservatives.
07986 731291 porterspreserves.co.uk
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Priya chopping onions for tomato and onion relish
Tomato and onion relish
Raman's handmade relish


This is a slightly different version of our artist Q&A. We wanted to learn more about the production of Pipeline currently on-stage at City Theatre. This play by Dominique Morisseau is a breathtaking endeavor, exploring the school-to-prison pipeline through the story on one young man and his mother.
When I learned that 1Hood Media Academy had scored the performance, I asked if I could talk with them rather than our traditional approach of talking with playwrights and actors. Tye Clark, Director of PR and Creative Enrichment, graciously answered some of our general questions about 1Hood Media and performer Brittney Chantele then tackled questions about her work on the score.
The show runs through November 18 at City Theatre on the South Side. Every performance of PIPELINE will be followed by a 10 minute conversation. And don't forget that City Theatre has a range of pay what you want options.
What is the 1Hood Media Academy? How does it fit with the other 1Hood projects?
1Hood Media Academy is our core program that offers media literacy and media creation training. For high school aged youth, 1Hood Media Academy works to teach and provides a platform to showcase them.
And what about the 1Hood students? What understanding did they bring to this project and what did they take away? It's hard to speak on everyone's behalf, but I think they had an opportunity to flex a new artistic muscle. Writing this score was a unique experience and required the artists to stretch and really get into the heads of Pipeline's character.
What other projects are they working on? 1Hood has quite a few programs taking place. You can learn all about these programs here. Right now, we are focused on the Artivist Academy Showcase.
How did you get involved with 1Hood Media Academy? Jasiri-X reached out to me after the release of my 2017 album, 'Labels.' I always wanted to be apart of 1Hood – He informed me of the 1Hood Media Academy and I was all for it!
Students in the 1Hood Media Academy composed the score for 'Pipeline.' Please tell us about that process. We met once a week to write, edit, give criticism, (maybe edit again), record, mix & master the songs for the score. It was empowering because we helped each other so much throughout this process. Everyone really put themselves in the play, into the characters, and embodied what this score should sound like.
The play confronts the school-to-prison pipeline as a facet of our society. How well do you think the average Pittsburgh resident understands this phenomenon and how it plays out for our young people and their families? I believe the majority of the people who understand this phenomenon are those who had it directly affect them, a family member, or friend. And they may not know it has a formal label, however, they know the realness of this crisis. As someone who has taught in many of our schools here in Pittsburgh, the signs and symptoms of the school-to-prison pipeline are ever-present. Teachers and other faculty and staff of schools NEED to understand and believe this issue and DO SOMETHING about it.
How do the arts offer all of us a way out from this destruction? The arts can help us see, hear, and understand each other. It can serve as a platform to utilize our voice and free our pain, trauma, suffering, and other feelings. It can serve as healing. I believe healing is the way out of destruction. We need to heal.
How can the community support their work? Following them on all social media platforms, subscribing to notifications for them, liking and sharing their posts about events, coming to events, and making direct donations.
Please tell us about the first LGBTQ person that you knew and what impact they had on your life. The first LGBTQ person I knew was actually someone I made fun of in 8th grade. I was jealous that they had the courage to come-out (or at least be their true selves). I was intimidated, and thus, transmitted those feelings into bullying. Several years ago, I reached out to them to apologize – they accepted my apology and I feel like they wrote it off as just another thing 8th graders go through – but they truly don't understand the impact they had on my life. From learning how to check my ego, to understanding my feelings and articulating them correctly and lovingly, to being courageous and strong – being myself…even if others won't accept me. Thank you.
What is your love song for LGBTQ youth?
Where can readers find you and 1Hood on social media?


The Chattanooga team of the FACC Tennessee branch invites you to join us with the Monthly Reunion Francophone for a networking evening with a crêpes dinner and Beaujolais Nouveau!
Do not miss this exclusive opportunity to expand your international network and unwind while tasting the new harvest of the Beaujolais Nouveau!
No reservation needed, food and drinks will be sold by Adelle's Crêperie.


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Horrible upgrade process
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This has been the worst upgrade process! So I had to pre-order my phone since the Verizon store only received THREE iPhone 6s Plus's within the 5 surrounding stores in my area (Three phones for a population of 1 million people. Seriously why send any?). With the pre-order, I was under a promo for a $200 cash back on my old phone. 18 days later, I received my new phone.
Since I purchased the phone under a promo code that expired 5 days before I actually received the phone (on backorder which is no fault of mine) the promo code is no longer valid and therefore, Verizon did not send me a return label or a way to return my old device for the $200 credit. I had to escalate to the rebate managers to get what was promised to me at purchase! Thank you Verizon! So I am having to pay the $200 upfront and wait a month before Verizon can get it together and send me a box, label, and promo code for a $200 credit (hopefully not a gift card where I have to make additional steps to use it)!
It has been a week of problems upgrading the device and now trying to return my old phone. Seriously reconsidering Verizon and Apple. Although the people at Verizon have been pleasant, the process has been a horrible experience.
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Unfortunately I don't see where you can blame Apple for Verizon not properly handling their own promotion knowing that some devices wouldn't be shipped until after their promo ended. They should have set it up in a way that if you ordered during the promotion dates the rebate would be recognized when your phone was received without all of the red tape. As far as that part of it goes it's all on Verizon
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Cant blame Verizon for Apple not providing enough Iphones is my opinions.
I did not think it was necessary to complain about the iOS problems here on the Verizon site. It has been a rough week mostly due to Apple iOS changes (iTunes and iOS bugs).
We can only go by what you complained about in this post. None of which has anything to do with iOS. You made it seem like everything you originally complained about was something that Apple was responsible for, which they aren't. It's all on Verizon and it is absolutely a legitimate gripe.
As far as iOS issues...there are tons of threads posted by those having issues so it's fine to post about those. Some things people may be able to suggest fixes for. Some are probably bugs you're stuck with until an iOS update that addresses it is released. I've been fairly lucky with iOS updates so far so most of the complaints people seem to have aren't problems I've experienced. Can't say why I've been spared...although I think a lot of iOS update issues come from problems during the transfer. OTA updates seem to get the most problems versus those that do it via iTunes (what I do just because it's been successful). Not saying that only those that do it OTA are the ones with issues but it looks like most that post about issues updated that way.