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'El Chapo' is created by Silvana Aguirre Zegarra and Carlos Contreras and produced by Daniel Posada. The second season is directed by five talented directors from four countries: Ernesto Contreras (México), Carlos Moreno (Colombia), Hammudi Al-Rahmoun (Spain), Daniel and Diego Vega (Peru). Christian Gabela is the General Manager of Story House Entertainment.
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A lot of businesses think they have a great product or service. Something above and beyond what the competition offers. But when it comes time to put a price on all this awesomeness, they are still cheaper than the competition. This is a particular problem for small, service-oriented businesses that try to compete with larger companies. Often, the service and support is far better. But the business owner fears taking on the larger player and charging the "right" amount. So they try to compete on service and price. This is a recipe for financial and psychological pain.
If you're better, be better, NOT cheaper.
If you believe your offering is worth more than the competition, but you don't know how to ask for it, if you're somehow embarrassed about the price, here's an exercise you can do as a buyer: Go test drive your favorite car– preferably something expensive and Italian, but as long as it's (really) expensive, it doesn't matter. This sounds like fun, so far, right? Then tell the sales man that you love the car but you just can't see paying $X, since it pretty much does what the Kia across the street does for $20K. Ask if they'll match the Kia price. If you don't want to drive any cars, pick a different category.
The point is that no one is going to sell you a brand new Ferrari for $20K. They might laugh, but they will be able to tell you why the Ferrari is different from the Kia, and why, if the Ferrari is really right for you, it's a good deal. And way, if it's not right for you, you should just head on down to the Kia dealer.
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Recently, my sister-in-law had an abscess in her brain, which is devastating and life threatening.
Her friends and family rallied around her and have formed a loving caregiving team.
I decided that as part of my caregiving, I would weave healing and prayer shawls for her and some of her closest friends.
I put approximately 150 inches of warp onto the loom, which is pushing the limit, but there's a reason for that.
I used Caron Simply Soft combined with some tweed weaving thread from my stash for the warp, and the tweed thread for the weft.
I used 2 strands of yarn in each of the slots and holes. I put the tweed yarn only in the holes and the mixture of yarns in the slots.
Pin the folds in place, and sew the center seam. Stitch the ends in place, and steam and press.
I'm so sorry to hear about your sister-in-law, that's just awful.
How do I subscribe to this new blog?
Thank you so much. We are so happy that she is recovering. We feel blessed!
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I'll ask a friend who knows more about wordpress and get back to you, ok?
And if anyone knows how to do it, could they please help us out? Thanks!
The Cricket is a lovely little loom and I am really smitten with it.
I have also parted company with all my large looms, and am a totally committed small loom weaver. The looms are small, but the projects don't need to be!
I see that Tottie is pitching in to help you. How nice.
I pray your s-i-l has a full recovery. Scary indeed.
LOL ! Tottie is oh so helpful!
and thank you so much for your kind good wishes for my beloved SIL – she is recovering, and we are so thrilled!
That looks lovely. I do hope your sister in law recovers soon.
We are thrilled with her progress! She is recovering and that is such a joy!
Thanks so much, Dealonnia. She's doing beautifully now, thank heavens! It takes a couple of days to weave each piece.
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W.B. Allen to Serve as Conservative Thought and Policy Scholar at the University of Colorado
Filed in Appointments, Faculty on February 23, 2018
W.B. Allen has been named a 2018-19 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Conservative Thought and Policy Program began in 2013 as a way to promote intellectual diversity on the Boulder campus. The initiative, which is supported entirely by private funds, seeks highly visible scholars who are deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both. Dr. Allen will teach two courses in the 2018 fall semester and two courses in the spring 2019 semester.
Dr. Allen is professor emeritus of political philosophy at Michigan State University and dean emeritus of Michigan State's James Madison College. Earlier, he served for many years on the faculty at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.
Professor Allen is the author of many books including George Washington: America's First Progressive (Peter Lang International, 2008) and Rethinking Uncle Tom: The Political Thought of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Lexington Books, 2009).
Dr. Allen is a graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University.
Related: Claremont Graduate University • Harvey Mudd College • Michigan State University • Pepperdine University • University of Colorado

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50 Years of Celebrating, and Saving, Artist-Built Environments
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is hosting a yearlong series of exhibitions marking their 50th year celebrating, and saving, art environments.
by Allison Meier August 24, 2017 August 24, 2017
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SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin — Leading up to the 50th anniversary of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC), curator Karen Patterson approached artists, preservationists, collectors, scholars, historians, and folklorists to respond to their collection of artist-built environments. "All I said was come back with 200 words of what do you think needs to be discussed," Patterson told Hyperallergic on a recent visit to the Sheboygan, Wisconsin, museum. In particular, she was interested in what would happen if they took away the labels "outsider artist" or "art environment" from these individual creators, and allowed for broader themes to emerge. The matchmaking of artists with contemporary "responders" was "a way to ground the exhibition series in a multi-vocal way," she explained.
Although Sheboygan is a small city along Lake Michigan, JMKAC has had a major impact in how art environments are approached by museums, and how they can be protected. In the year-long The Road Less Traveled, 15 exhibitions reexamine an artist known for building environments, whether Nek Chand's whimsical Rock Garden of Chandigarh in India constructed with debris from demolished villages, or Eddie Owens Martin's vibrantly painted mandalas and visionary symbols on the structures of Pasaquan, Georgia. A conference at the end of September will further delve into these themes.
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, "untitled (bone chair)" (1965–70), fowl bones, paint, glue, wire, toothpicks (courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center Collection, photo by Rich Maciejewski)
The current Road Less Traveled rotation highlights work by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Mary Nohl, Stella Waitzkin, Emery Blagdon, Loy Bowlin, David Butler, and Fred Smith. A gallery also features photographs by Fred Scruton, who travels the United States to document living artists and their environments. Patterson said Scruton's photographs communicate that this is "still going on": the building of art visions in yards, houses, and disused places.
Each exhibition in the series has its own curation and space, but there are strands of connection, like the home as a place of living with and creating art, and the independence of that practice from art world success. Not all these artists worked in deliberate obscurity, though. Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, whose Milwaukee-based work was the first environment acquired by the Kohler Foundation in 1983, believed in the importance of his art. "He knew what he was doing and had every intent of being a famous artist," Patterson said.
There is some irony that he received that attention posthumously, with his chicken bone thrones in shapes reminiscent of H. R. Giger and his large-scale paintings of intricate towers now popular in exhibitions and with collectors. Nevertheless, Mythologies: Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (previously covered by Edward Gómez for Hyperallergic) questions assumptions about his paintings of nuclear explosions and leafy ceramic vessels. Visitors enter through a representation of his home's exterior, then navigate a sprawling array of multimedia art, spotlighting his knowledge of art history (such as his study of architectural shapes), his concerns about the Cold War era, and his botanical passion, with a greenhouse built into the large JMKAC gallery as a tribute to the one on his property. In different sections of Mythologies, Milwaukee-based artist Michelle Grabner, Brett Littman (executive director of the Drawing Center), photographer Chris Wiley, and Lisa Stone (curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection) respond to these perspectives.
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Installation view of Mythologies: Eugene Von Bruenchenhein + Lisa Stone + Brett Littman + Michelle Grabner at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, "untitled (Marie, double exposure)" (1943-60), gelatin silver print (courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center Collection, photo by Rich Maciejewski)
Patterson also contributed a response to Mythologies, considering Marie, Von Bruenchenhein's wife. She's often overlooked as merely a subject, "but she's everywhere," Patterson said. Marie appears in photographs, frequently nude and posed like a space-age pinup; brushes made with her hair were used to paint the thrones; and she hand-tinted many of the photographs, exposed on their home bathtub. Patterson wanted to show her as a partner in the work, including in a series of photographs on the wall, her shifting poses playing with the camera's gaze. She lived with Von Bruenchenhein in a royal realm, where the crowns were leftover chicken bones and the delicate ceramic vases baked imperfectly in the oven, but together for 40 years, they were a king and queen.
Many of the Road Less Traveled responses are through text and curation, yet stepping from Mythologies into the next gallery immerses visitors in a strange hum. The metallic noise was collected by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (as seen in the video above) from both the baling wire and aluminum foil mobiles in Emery Blagdon's "Healing Machine," reconstructed from rural Nebraska, and modernist designer Harry Bertoia's sounding sculptures, resonant metal towers made from the early 1960s until his death in 1978. An Encounter with Presence: Emery Blagdon + Shannon Stratton has this unlikely pairing facing off across the gallery: the curtains of painted lightbulbs, beer cans, and Christmas lights on Blagdon's side; the elegant sculptures of unadorned metal cylinders by Bertoia, best known for his Diamond chair, on the other. "They were both very much thinking about space, vibrations, and energy," Shannon Stratton, chief curator at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York, states in her response. Stratton recently organized the exhibition on Bertoia's sonic sculptures at MAD.
Blagdon spent 30 years on the "Machine," constantly rearranging its bottles of medicine and metal contraptions to better harness the Earth's energy in order to ease pain. Patterson explained that he built it after losing members of his family to cancer. "He was struck by the hopelessness of how we can't control that," she said. After Blagdon died in 1986, Dan Dryden, a pharmacist who had helped him, preserved "The Healing Machine." In 2004, the Kohler Foundation acquired it.
Sound also figures in The Making of a Dream: Loy Bowlin + Jennifer Joy Jameson, featuring the recently reconstructed, glitter-encrusted home of Loy Bowlin. Formerly in McComb, Mississippi, the home was going to be razed after Bowlin's death in 1995, until it was bought by Houston artist Katy Emde. The Kohler Foundation acquired it in 1998. In the late 1970s, Bowlin made himself into a Glen Campbell-inspired "Original Rhinestone Cowboy," covering his life with gleam and glitz, right to his gem-embedded dentures. Folklorist Jennifer Joy Jameson gathered oral histories about Bowlin. "As a folklorist and documentarian, I knew my response would be less about digging in the archives and more about creating a contemporary collection of oral histories and portraits, and gathering photographs and ephemera sourced from the many Mississippi friends, family, and collaborators who knew 'Rhinestone,' as he is locally referred to," Jameson explains. She discusses more of the process in the video below:
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Installation view of The Making of a Dream: Loy Bowlin + Jennifer Joy Jameson at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
Visitors can listen to these recordings on headphones in the gallery, then walk right into Bowlin's "Beautiful Holy Jewel Home." Ornaments dangle from the ceiling, cutout paper frames photographs of Bowlin and running horses, and everything is doused in glitter, even the TV. His is the only whole environment you can enter in the current rotation, but in Greetings & Salutations & Boo: Mary Nohl + Catherine Morris, you can get close. As previously covered on Hyperallergic, Nohl's Wisconsin house surrounded by concrete heads and giant fish is currently being restored, and is not accessible to the public. Greetings & Salutations & Boo — the title referencing the local superstition about this woman artist being the "Witch of Fox Point" — reconstructs her living room. Visitors can walk along its edges, noticing details in the dense installation of art and furniture, such as a sewn, red fish pillow on a painted chair, or a wire statue of a flying human figure. Catherine Morris, curator for the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, aimed to put Nohl's multidisciplinary work, which ranged from sculpture to painting to graphic novels, in a modernist and feminist context. "She devoted the last fifty years of her life to turning her childhood home into a fantastic yet fragile environment that reflected intense training and a freedom to create," Morris states.
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Installation view of Greetings & Salutations & Boo: Mary Nohl + Catherine Morris at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
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Installation view of Volumes: Stella Waitzkin + Rita Barros at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
Across the museum is Volumes: Stella Waitzkin + Rita Barros. Waitzkin studied with Hans Hoffman and Willem de Kooning in New York City, and later lived in the Chelsea Hotel, deconstructing books to their forms. The "Lost Library" that filled her modest fourth-floor apartment was composed of cast resin books. In Volumes, the wordless tomes are positioned in reconstructions of walls from her apartment. Waitzkin died in 2003, and through the Waitzkin Memorial Trust, JMKAC acquired three wall sections of her environment in 2007. Photographer Rita Barros, who lives in the Chelsea Hotel, has images on view to contextualize how this place was long an art hub, and how that is disappearing.
Whenever possible, JMKAC's goal is to keep an environment in situ. It's Gotta Be in Ya: Fred Smith + Ruth Kohler is the smallest of the exhibitions, with two concrete and glass sculptures — a larger-than-life man and a deer — in the lobby. They represent the 237 sculptures built by Smith, many still at his Wisconsin Concrete Park in Phillips. Following his death in 1976, the restoration of the park was the first major project for the Kohler Foundation. An animated video by Souther Salazar (embedded below) tells the story of this restoration, and how, in turn, Ruth Kohler was led to build up JMKAC's collections on vernacular environments in the time she served as JMKAC director from 1972 to 2016.
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Installation view of It's Gotta Be in Ya: Fred Smith + Ruth Kohler at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
Along with being JMKAC's 50th anniversary, 2017 marks 10 years since Leslie Umberger's influential book Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds was published. Umberger, curator of folk and self-taught art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and formerly senior curator at JMKAC, responds to David Butler's work in one of the smaller galleries. Butler was a New Hope, Louisiana-based artist, who began to build a "yard show" with cut-out sculptures of sea creatures and colorful characters after a work accident in his 60s. The whirligigs and kinetic sculptures in Shelter: David Butler + Leslie Umberger, including a bike festooned in metal shapes, are bordered on two sides by improvisational quilts by African American women, connecting the two intuitive, community-based traditions of Southern black art. "Butler's need to feel like he was truly at home where he was and in full control of his domain was a powerful drive, and so clearly related to a larger sphere of homemaking and artistic nest building," Umberger states. "He was brilliant at what he did, and yet his story is also sobering when it's viewed in terms of race relations in America."
A few of these exhibitions will rotate out in early September, with upcoming focuses on Peter Jodocy, Seymour Rosen, Jesse "Outlaw" Howard, and Charles Smith. More than just celebrating the legacy of JMKAC, the series highlights how there remains much to be explored in these histories. Art created in, or on, the home is often relegated to the margins, labeled directly or indirectly as "outsider." These are not artists who fit neatly under one umbrella, and The Road Less Traveled exhibitions don't argue for that. Instead, they individually celebrate a person's vision, and the untapped ways museums can respond to them.
Fred Smith, Wisconsin Concrete Park (site view, Phillips, Wisconsin) (1948–64) (photo by Robert Tarrell, courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center)
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Installation view of The Making of a Dream: Loy Bowlin + Jennifer Joy Jameson at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center
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David Butler's house and yard (site view, Patterson, Louisiana) (1968–85) (photo by John Geldersma, courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center)
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Installation view of Shelter: David Butler + Leslie Umberger at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
Installation view of Shelter: David Butler at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, "untitled (bone tower)" (1970–80), fowl bones, paint, glue, varnish, 44 x 8 x 6 5/8 inches; "Untitled (bone tower)" (1970–80), fowl bones, paint, glue, wire, seashells, 43 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 7 inches; "Untitled (bone tower)" (1970–80), fowl bones, paint, glue, 54 x 8 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches; "Untitled (bone tower)" (1970–80), fowl bones, paint, varnish, egg shells, 49 3/4 x 9 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. Untitled (bone tower), c. 1970–80; fowl bones, paint, glue, clay, wood; 44 x 6 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center Collection, photo by Rich Maciejewski)
The Road Less Traveled exhibition series continues through March 4, 2018 at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, Wisconsin). Greetings & Salutations & Boo: Mary Nohl + Catherine Morris continues through August 20; Shelter: David Butler + Leslie Umberger continues through September 10; American Sites: Art Environment Photography + Fred Scruton continues through September 10; An Encounter with Presence: Emery Blagdon + Shannon Stratton continues through December 3; It's Gotta Be in Ya: Fred Smith + Ruth Kohler continues through December 31; The Making of a Dream:: Loy Bowlin + Jennifer Joy Jameson continues through December 31; Mythologies: Eugene Von Bruenchenhein + Lisa Stone + Brett Littman + Michelle Grabner is up through January 14, 2018; Volumes: Stella Waitzkin + Rita Barros continues through March 4, 2018;
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Family weeps as TJX hacker gets 20 years in slammer
Nancy Weil
As his parents and sister silently wept, hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the "unparalleled" theft of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major U.S. retailers.
U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris announced the concurrent sentences in two 2008 cases against Gonzalez, 28, a Cuban-American born in Miami, where he lived when the crimes were committed.
According to binding terms of a plea agreement Gonzalez forged with the U.S. Department of Justice, he could have received between 15 years and 25 years for the crimes.
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"I stand before you humbled by these past 24 months," Gonzalez said in court, slightly expanding the time he has been incarcerated since his arrest in May 2008. "I'm guilty not only of exploiting complicated networks, but also of exploiting personal relationships," he said.
He added that he had exploited a relationship with a "government agency," a reference to a previous deal he had related to a separate criminal case in which he agreed to be an informant for the U.S. Secret Service, but provided information from that agency to one of his co-conspirators in the credit-card theft cases.
"I've impacted the lives of millions of individuals and I violated the sanctity of my parents' home," said Gonzalez, who was wearing khaki-colored jail garb and a stylish, closely shorn haircut — quite different from the long locks he sported when he was arrested.
Gonzalez stashed more than a million dollars in a hole in the backyard of his parents' Miami home, although he drew a map for investigators to find the hidden loot and forfeited it and other ill-gotten material goods after he was arrested.
He urged Judge Saris to sentence him on the low end of the agreed-to spectrum, saying he hopes to some day prove to his parents that he loves them as much as they love him and that he wants upon his release to turn his life around.
Gonzalez and co-conspirators hacked into computer systems and stole credit card information from TJX, Office Max, DSW and Dave and Buster's, among other online retail outlets, in one of the largest — if not the largest — cybercrime operations targeting that sort of data thus far.
They used some of the stolen numbers to remove cash from ATM machines and sold many of the other numbers to other criminals, including those in Eastern Europe.
Gonzalez pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in two cases related to those thefts last December and the following day entered a guilty plea in a third case involving hacking into computer networks of Heartland Payment Systems and the Hannaford Supermarkets and 7-Eleven chains, also to steal credit and debit card numbers.
The Heartland hacking was particularly damaging because the company processes transactions for major credit and debit card companies Visa and American Express.
He is scheduled to be sentenced in the third case Friday in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Gonzalez was indicted in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, with the cases eventually moved to the same federal court.
After reviewing the cases following established sentencing guidelines that take into account various factors, including the effects of the crimes, the DOJ sought the maximum agreed to under the plea deal in two cases and 20 years in the other.
Without that agreement in place, sentencing guidelines that consider previous crimes and the severity of these crimes would call for a maximum of life in prison.
However, Judge Saris said that with respect to the two cases in her court, she believes the 20-year sentences are "sufficient" to suit the crimes and also will send a message to would-be cybercriminals, who tend to be young adults, that they could spend much of their youth in prison if they are caught.
Saris was apparently moved by letters written by Gonzalez's loved ones, who described him as "interactive and loved and loving — there is another side to your personality," she said of those accounts. "And yet when you read the [case] transcripts there's this macho glee" about the crimes he was committing, she added.
Furthermore, he "two-times" the Secret Service, "almost like a double agent," she said.
Defense attorney Martin Weinberg argued in court documents and again in court Thursday that Gonzalez should be sentenced to 15 years.
While the government referred to the cases as "identity theft," they were instead thefts of data that did not involve stealing victims' identities to "invade their bank accounts, withdraw money, and ruin their credit," according to a court filing, which Weinberg reiterated Thursday.
Furthermore, Gonzalez "did not hack into government computer systems, he did not crash computer systems by spreading viruses or inundating them with spam, and he did not invade the privacy of individuals' computers to steal such data as passwords to compromise their financial life and invade their personal property," Weinberg wrote in the court document.
The defense had further argued that Gonzalez was a substance-abusing Internet addict with Asperger's syndrome — a form of autism — at the time of his crimes, so he should merit fewer years in prison.
Also, one of the three unrelated cases cited by the DOJ in making its argument for longer sentences — because there should be parity in sentencing similar crimes — was much worse than what Gonzalez did, Weinberg said in the filing.
He added to that in court that some of the most egregious white-collar criminals in recent memory, who stole peoples' pensions and literally ruined lives, have not received sentences as long as 25 years.
At issue Thursday was the thorny subject of determining how many victims there were of Gonzalez's computer thievery. The judge interrupted arguments by the attorneys to ask if there is any way to know financial figures or anything about "individuals" who were harmed.
While the companies and financial institutions that were affected are known, putting actual human faces and dollar amounts on the crimes is not something that may ever be possible, it was agreed.
Indeed, the issue of restitution was set aside for a separate hearing on June 25, to give the DOJ and others involved in the case time to come up with a total figure.
Judge Saris said that she is likely to have to determine an amount of restitution and then leave the rest of the damages companies hope to recover to lawsuits.
Heartland has already agreed to multimillion-dollar settlements with Visa and American Express for damages in the hacking thefts.
Gonzalez forfeited more than $1 million that can be used as restitution, however, "you're never possibly going to be paying all that I'm ordering," said Saris, who levied a $25,000 fine Thursday and deferred remaining issues of restitution until the June hearing.
But the fact that he turned over the stashed money and that he seems remorseful were among the reasons she imposed sentences in the middle of the range, she said, adding that there were other factors she took into account that she could not disclose in the public sentencing hearing because that information is under court seal.
Judge Saris would like to see Gonzalez someday be released from prison and find work so that he can pay back some of what he stole from victims, she said. Along those lines, after he is released, he will be supervised by the court for three years, during which time he will not be allowed to use the Internet.
His use of electronics will be monitored and he will have to undergo drug and alcohol testing. While the DOJ had suggested a prohibition on the use of all electronics, Judge Saris was skeptical of how that could be applied, particularly almost two decades from now. (Gonzalez will get credit for time served.)
"By the time he gets out in 20 years, there may not be landlines," she said, recommending that mobile phones be excluded from the prohibition.
On the other hand, she also has seen hackers she's sentenced show back up in court after they've been released. "I do think there is a chance of recidivism here," she said, noting that such criminals often find the lure irresistible.
In fact, when he addressed the court, Gonzalez said that he was not motivated by greed or other foul intent, but by simple "curiosity" and "my addiction."
Federal prosecutors, however, painted a much different portrait of him. "Albert Gonzalez was motivated by ego, challenge and greed and was proud of the national attention his computer intrusions and data thefts drew," the DOJ said in its sentencing filing.
"They drew that attention because they victimized more people than anyone had ever done before in this country, caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, and shook the public's trust in the security of credit and debit card transactions at some of the country's largest institutions.
"Gonzalez already has been given a second chance. He used that second chance not to straighten out his life, but to provide cover as [he has] committed ever more brash and destructive crimes."
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Babymetal Guitarist Mikio Fujioka Dead at 36
Mikio Fujioka, the celebrated guitarist for Japanese pop-metal group Babymetal's backing Kami Band, passed away last week at the age of 36. According to Fujioka's wife, he fell off of an observation deck while stargazing on December 30 and died on January 5 from sustained injuries.
Fans took to the Japanese artist immediately once he joined Babymetal's Kami Band in 2013, giving him the nickname "Ko-Gami" which means "Small God" in Japanese. Fujioka was also a father of two, a college lecturer, a songwriter, and a guitar textbook author.
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Watch and listen to four Babymetal songs that came alive with Mikio "Ko-Gami" Fujioka's touch.
"Gimme Chocolate!!" (ギミチョコ!!, Gimi Choko!!) is the third song on their 2014 self-titled album. BABYMETAL found their international audience and brought kawaii metal to the mainstream. There's a lot going on in this song — poppy EDM beats, rapid-fire Japanese lyrics about struggling with your body image but also wanting to eat chocolate — but the thrashing guitars, which Fujioka would champion in live performances, tie it all together.
Their second studio album, Metal Resistance, includes "Karate," another one of their international hits. Heavy, chugging riffs turn into a swift arpeggio — it's an insanely catchy nu metal jam.
Babymetal's diverse fanbase, comprising metalheads and poptimists of all ages, is known as "The One." This song is an explosive ode to them.
"Megitsune" is another classic from Babymetal's self-titled and mainstay on their set lists. It kind of sounds like 'Powerpuff Girls Go Electro Metal,' which would've been an amazing episode actually.
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This week's VMworld Barcelona may draw enterprises, but service providers have even more to gain. Virtual network services, like Silver Peak's Agility, can be provisioned in seconds, allowing service providers to rapidly onboard new customers. Coupling Agility with other services gives providers the capacity to deliver innovative, robust revenue generating services — fast.
Our friends over at Zerto, for example, deliver virtualized non-array based replication solutions, or as I like to call it, replication for the workload world. The Zerto Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA) resides on a virtual machine (VM), tapping its I/O stream. Each time the workload writes to its virtual disks, the write command is captured, cloned, and sent to the recovery site.
But the Internet and today's wide area networks (WANs) all suffer from the problems of high latency, packet loss, and bandwidth limitations, which undermine replication performance. So whether service providers want a virtual replication service to protect their own data assets or offer one to their customers, they must address the underlying network problems to maximize service performance and predictability.
Like Zerto, Silver Peak Agility works at the workload level to tackle these problems. There is no complex setup or reconfiguration of the network required. Operational mangers simply right-click on a VM from within the management console, selecting "backup" or "optimize," and instantly that service is enabled.
With Silver Peak and Zerto, service providers can help themselves or their customers protect an order of magnitude more data within their existing recovery point objectives (RPOs) or meet even more stringent RPOs. The replication service is made more predictable and more carrier-grade regardless of whether some user floods the network with BitTorrent, or if the network looses packets or delivers them out-of-order.
3) maximize hardware resources with DRS (Dynamic Resource Scheduling).
Maintenance downtime is avoided by vMotioning Zerto-Silver Peak replication to a new host during maintenance windows or to a different location for follow-the-sun operation.
Bottom line — a combined Silver Peak and Zerto replication service helps with the bottom line. Service providers can protect more of their own data and help customers do the same.
Do you have any examples of this scenario actually being deployed? My understanding is that Zerto has some degree of built-in compression (which I've seen to work quite well). It'd be really interesting to see how well the two work together.
If you don't have anyone already doing it….. I may be in a position to give it a go….
other activity on the network. Silver Peak particularly helpsall applications, including Zerto, to overcome network congestion issues and latency problems, which are more common than you might realize on today's WANs.
reduction can also be seen at times even with Zerto compression enabled.
have someone give you a ping…just let me know.
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Following rumours that it has postponed the General election scheduled for Saturday, February 16th, 2019, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has spoken on the issues.
As journalists keep vigil at the commission's headquarters in Abuja, Rotimi Oyekanmi, the chief press secretary to INEC's chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has informed the newsmen that the commission has taken a decision after a crucial meeting attended by the chairman and 12 national commissioners.
Top officials of the commission had, earlier on, gone into a crucial meeting at its headquarters, following concerns that some electoral materials were destroyed in some states while also, some available electoral materials were yet to get to some other states.
As a result of the crucial meeting, fears were and are still being nursed in some quarters as to the fate of the election as the situation keeps pointing to a possible postponement of the election.
This is following INEC's complaint of some technical constraints it has faced few days to the election which may have affected its preparations for the conduct of the elections.


Originally published Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:20a.m.
Joseph William Nagel, 64 of Gilbert, Ariz., died Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 at his home surrounded by his wife and family.
Born Sept. 13, 1947 in Winslow, Ariz., Joe was the son of Hank and Mary Louis Nagel. Joe grew up in Winslow and attended St. Joseph's School. He moved to Farmington, N.M. as a teen. He graduated from Farmington High School in 1965. Upon graduation he began working as a "roughneck" in the oil and gas industry in the Four Corners area.
He spent several years as a fireman for the Farmington Fire Department and eventually went to work for El Paso Natural Gas Company as a welder then painter. He established Joe Nagel's Liquid Wallpaper and Painting Company in 1976 and was a very successful painting contractor in northern New Mexico throughout '70s and '80s.
After the death of his first wife Dorella Duran Nagel in 1982, he and his son Phil Nagel of Farmington moved to Mesa, Ariz. in 1985. He married Jo Lynn Bailey of Gilbert, Ariz. in 1988 and they eventually established "Haul in all AZ Trucking Company."
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«Нафта́н» (Новополоцкий НПЗ, полное наименование Открытое акционерное общество «Нафтан») — одно из двух белорусских нефтеперерабатывающих предприятий. Завод расположен в промышленной зоне города Новополоцка в 4 км к юго-западу от жилых массивов города.

Является градообразующим для города, строительство завода положило начало в 1958 году строительному посёлку, ставшему в 1963 году городом Новополоцк.

Находится под международными санкциями Евросоюза, США и других стран

История
Строительство завода было начато в 1958 году по распоряжению Совета Министров СССР. Строительство было объявлено всесоюзной ударной стройкой.
Генеральным проектировщиком был институт «Ленгипрогаз», а позже «Ленгипронефтехим».

Основными критериями в выборе строительной площадки были: выгодное географическое положение — близость западных границ (что давало возможность экспорта в страны Западной Европы); необходимость обеспечения нефтепродуктами западных регионов Советского Союза, а также соседство города Полоцка — крупного транспортного узла.

С 1958 года руководил строительством завода и с 1963 года стал его первым директором О. А. Ктаторов.

За ударный труд многие участники стройки были награждены орденами и медалями, а также пятеро стали Героями Социалистического Труда: Павел Денисов, Аркадий Козлов, Анатолий Кремень, Анна Назарова. Именами первостроителя Петра Блохина и первого директора НПЗ Нафтан Олега Ктаторова названы улицы Новополоцка.

9 февраля 1963 года на НПЗ был получен первый бензин. В те годы мощность завода была рассчитана на переработку 6 млн тонн сырой нефти в год.

В 1971 году тогдашний Полоцкий НПЗ был награждён орденом Трудового Красного Знамени за достигнутые успехи в производственной деятельности, а в 1976 году был переименован в Новополоцкий орден Трудового Красного Знамени НПЗ имени XXV Съезда КПСС. В 1981 году завод был реорганизован в производственное объединение «Новополоцкнефтеоргсинтез». В конце 1980-х столкнулся с проблемами гигантских выбросов в атмосферу (101,8 тыс. тонн только нефтеперерабатывающим заводом) и сложностями в строительстве новых установок. Совместно с Новополоцким горкомом Компартии Белоруссии заводоуправление противостояло попыткам бессистемного и непродуманного строительства, предлагая перенести установки за 15 километров от города.

 Постсоветские годы

В 1992 году Новополоцкий горсовет народных депутатов принял решение о переименовании и реорганизации ПО «Новополоцкнефтеоргсинтез» в производственное объединение «Нафтан» (бел. Нафта Наваполацка)

В соответствии с приказом Министерства экономики Республики Беларусь от 28 августа 2002 года № 118 Республиканское унитарное предприятие Новополоцкое производственное объединение «Нафтан» было преобразовано в открытое акционерное общество «Нафтан».

ОАО «Нафтан» и ОАО «Лукойл» в 2006 году организовали совместное предприятие по производству присадок к маслам СООО «ЛЛК-Нафтан».

В 2008 году к «Нафтан» было присоединено находящееся в Новополоцке ОАО «Полимир».

Экспорт нефтепродуктов до 2020 года осуществлялся через ЗАО «Белорусская нефтяная компания» (БНК), соучредителем которой был завод. В 2020 году была зарегистрирована ЗАО «Новая нефтяная компания», которая осенью экспортировала 1,2 млн т мазута производства ОАО «Нафтан». Учредители ЗАО «Новая нефтяная компания» (ННК) не разглашаются; в СМИ называют Алексея Олексина и Николая Воробья в качестве конечных владельцев компаний-учредителей.

Санкции
В 2006 году США ввели санкции в отношении девяти белорусских компаний, в том числе — «Нафтана» за «подрыв демократического процесса». В октябре 2015 года санкции частично сняты. В 2021 году власти США не продлили приостановку санкций после этих компаний в рамках новых санкций после посадки Boeing 737 в Минске.

В декабре 2018 года Управление по контролю над иностранными активами Минфина США обязало американский холдинг Zoltek выплатить 7,77 млн долларов за закупку сырья у «Нафтана», когда тот находился под санкциями.

3 июня 2022 года «Нафтан» попал в санкционный список всех стран Евросоюза:

 ОАО "Нафтан" является основным источником доходов и иностранной валюты для режима Лукашенко. Поэтому "Нафтан" получает выгоду от режима Лукашенко и поддерживает его.
Сотрудники "Нафтан", принимавшие участие в забастовках и мирных протестах после фальсификации президентских выборов в Белоруссии в августе 2020 года, были запуганы и уволены руководством компании. Таким образом, "Нафтан" несет ответственность за репрессии против гражданского общества в Беларуси и поддерживает режим Лукашенко.

Также, в 2022 году, «Нафтан» попал в санкционные списки Канады, Украины и Швейцарии.

Продукция

Около половины продукции завода экспортируется (в 2016 году — 55,6 %) — главным образом в страны Евросоюза. Предприятие обеспечивает нефтепродуктами Республику Беларусь, и направляет их на экспорт.

Спектр выпускаемой продукции составляет более 70 наименований нефтехимической продукции, включая:
 автомобильные бензины (включая АИ-95, АИ-98);
 дизельные топлива различных марок (в том числе дизельные топлива Европейского качества EN 590);
 топлива для реактивных двигателей (РТ);
 котельные топлива;
 масла смазочные широкого ассортимента;
 присадки и пакеты присадок к маслам;
 нефтяные растворители в широком ассортименте;
 нефтяные битумы (строительные, дорожные, кровельные);
 ароматические углеводороды высокой степени чистоты (параксилол, ортоксилол, псевдокумол, бензол);
 серную кислоту
 и другие продукты нефтепереработки и нефтехимии.

В 2015 году предприятия, входящие в структуру ОАО «Нафтан», произвели:
 2852 тыс. т дизтоплива;
 2287 тыс. т мазута;
 887 тыс. т автобензинов;
 355 тыс. т керосинов;
 223 тыс. т битумов;
 196 тыс. т прямогонных бензинов;
 173 тыс. т ароматики;
 123 тыс. т полиэтилена;
 69 тыс. т масел смазочных;
 41 тыс. т волокон нитрон-С и нитрон-Д;
 40 тыс. т акрилонитрила.

См. также
 Мозырский нефтеперерабатывающий завод

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт
 Газета Вестник Нафтана

Нефтеперерабатывающие заводы Белоруссии
Новополоцк
Предприятия нефтяной промышленности СССР
Белнефтехим
Торговые марки Белоруссии
Предприятия Витебской области
Санкции США против Белоруссии
Санкции Канады против Белоруссии
Статьи с эдитнотисом об осторожности при редактировании


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Sweep revenge: Northeastern takes care of Central York in volleyball showdown
Steve Navaroli
When Northeastern teammates Reese Devilbiss and Phillip White left the gym floor at Central York on Thursday, they were feeling significantly better than they did at the close of the 2014 regular season.
Each player recalled the three-set loss to the Panthers a year ago, and each was determined to reverse those fortunes when the two reigning PIAA boys' volleyball champs squared off.
Devilbiss and White combined for 33 kills, as the Bobcats swept Central, 25-22, 25-23, 25-16, and finished as the YAIAA regular season champions with an 11-0 league and 12-0 overall record.
"We were seeking some revenge the whole entire time. This is what we've been working hard for, the offseason, the preseason, throughout the season to accomplish," said Devilbiss, who added two aces, four digs and an assist to his line.
White, a senior, echoed those sentiments.
"Since it's my last year, I am very excited to come in here and go out with a bang, especially after last year (when) they gave it to us," he said. White added two blocks, four aces, four digs and an assist.
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After a pair of close games, Northeastern turned it on in the final set. Devilbiss dove to bring up a dig, the ball went to setter Matt Schaeffer (32 assists), and back to Devilbiss for a back row kill that put the Bobcats up 6-0.
The Panthers took the next point, but White added a kill and followed that with a block for an 8-1 lead. Jason Gardner (11 kills) notched a point for Central, but Jeff Reynolds' kill, a White ace, a violation and a Reynolds block made it 12-2.
After rallying from deficits in the first two games, the Panthers couldn't muster another comeback in this one.
"We came out with 5-6 points off the bat, that's what you want. Then you hold onto that lead if not build upon it, and I thought we did a good job with that," Bobcats coach Matt Wilson said. "We were fortunate to come out on top in those first two, and I thought we could finally breathe a little bit, relax and play hard the third game. I am pretty happy."
Wilson was also pleased to see five different players record kills in the finale.
"If we can get five individuals point scoring for us, that is going to bode well for Northeastern, that's for sure," he said.
Northeastern, which is currently ranked No. 1 in the state in Class AA, went up 16-11, and 19-13 in the middle set, but Central mounted a 10-3 run and took the lead when a Bobcats' serve went long. However, Devilbiss had the answer with a booming kill, then followed a Panthers error with a dink over the block for game point.
Central (10-1, 11-1) coach Brad Livingston was proud with the way his team battled, but acknowledged how good Northeastern is.
"I would've like to win Game 2. I had a feeling we might be able to get to five games, but we didn't play well enough," he said. "(Northeastern) played very well. We've seen them in a couple of tournaments. They are smooth operators."
With cancer patients Marcus Josey (Northeastern) and Peter Falci (Central) serving as team captains, the Bobcats raced out to an 8-2 lead in the opening set. But after three straight Devilbiss points, the Panthers rallied with five straight points, two from Gardner, cutting into the lead, and Central eventually tied the score at 22.
However, as he did all night, Devilbiss notched back-to-back kills, and the set ended when a Panther effort went out of bounds.
Northeastern 3, Central York 0 25-22, 25-23, 25-16 at Central York
Northeastern stats — Matt Schaeffer (1 kill, 1 block, 32 assists), Reese Devilbiss (23 kills, 2 aces, 4 digs, 1 assist), Phillip White (10 kills, 2 blocks, 4 aces, 4 digs, 1 assist), Brandon Arentz (4 kills, 1 block, 5 digs), Matt Thornton (3 kills, 1 block), Jeff Reynolds (4 kills, 1 block), Chris Lee (4 digs, 3 assists).
Central York stats — Landon Shorts (12 kills, 8 digs, 6 assists), Jeremiah Dadeboe (8 kills, 1 dig), Jason Gardner (11 kills, 1 ace, 3 digs, 1 assist), Hayden Wagner (2 blocks, 1 dig), Braden Neal (2 kills, 1 block, 4 digs), Nate Mehl (1 kills, 1 dig), Trevor Holderegger (1 ace, 7 digs, 14 assists), Zach Beam (1 ace), Carter Luckenbaugh (1 dig, 9 assists), Zac Kakos (1 dig).
JV Score — Northeastern def. Central York, 25-20, 25-6.
Rivals for a good cause
When Northeastern and Central York got together to determine the YAIAA regular season boys' volleyball champion on Thursday night, both sides were playing for something even more special.
Northeastern junior Marcus Josey, who is currently undergoing treatment for leukemia, served as the Bobcats' captain. The Panthers had cancer patient Peter Falci doing the same on their bench.
Josey traveled from Hershey Medical Center for the beginning of the match, and Falci, who has completed three of his four scheduled chemotherapy stages, encouraged his school mates all evening.
The two posed for pictures together, each wearing the other's rally shirts, before and after the match, providing plenty of inspiration.
"It's one of the big marquee nights for York County volleyball for the regular season," Bobcats coach Matt Wilson said. "To be able to join forces on a night like tonight for a good cause, you can't get much better than that. It was pretty nice."
The Central York athletic staff collected donations, and $662 was awarded to each family.


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Christine was given the gift of life, she showed us all how it should be lived, and now sadly has had to suddenly give that gift back, on Tuesday 23 January, surrounded by her loving family, following a short fight with cancer, and will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
Family, friends and colleagues were always close to Christine's heart, and those who knew Christine well knew she said what she wanted to say, did what she wanted to do, laughed inappropriately at every chance, and loved who she wanted to love.
Christine is survived by her soulmate husband Paul, beloved sisters Glynis and Margaret, and a much-loved extended family of stepsons, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren.
During a career in nursing, Christine also gained another family who lived, loved, supported and laughed with Christine through all of their shared experiences and Christine truly loved all of those colleagues that became friends, with all her heart.
Christine's funeral service will be held at Rochdale Crematorium on Thursday 1 February at 11:50am.
Floral tributes are most welcome as Christine always took pleasure in receiving flowers.
Please direct your tributes and any queries to Bridgefold Independent Funeral Directors, tel: 01706 639941.


Life of the Party is one of the leading soap makers in the world. It's bases are particularly suited for suspending. The trays in which they are they are packed have a grid on the bottom, serving as a cutting guide.


Firefox is bringing out an OS for phones in the future. This web page explains the design principles and the thought process behind the UI.
Looks good from what I can see but how will it stack up against Android or iOS.
it does not want to compete with Android or iOS. you'll probably never be able to buy such a phone in Europe or North America.
this is an OS intended for emerging markets where Android's license fees are too high to sell a smart phone at a competetive price.
this is why they work together with Telefonica.
looking forward to see the font Spiekermann will do for them.


Mr Romesh Angunawela BM, MD, FRCOphth, FRCS, Cert LRS is a consultant eye surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital where he is a specialist in laser eye surgery, cataract & lens replacement surgery and corneal transplant.
He is Director for corneal training at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Clinical Lead for the Moorfields Lions Eye Bank. He graduated from Southampton Medical School in 1997 and has been a doctor for over 20 years, working in neurosurgery and maxillofacial surgery before specialising in ophthalmic surgery for the last 18 years.
Mr Angunawela was awarded a doctorate (MD) from the University of London for his research under the supervision of Professor John Marshall OBE, a founding father of modern laser eye surgery. He completed his clinical training at St Thomas' Hospital and Moorfields Hospital in London following which he completed two and a half years of specialist fellowship training in cornea and lens surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital and with Professor Donald Tan and Professor Jodhbir Mehta at the Singapore National Eye Centre.
He holds the Certificate in Laser Refractive Surgery (Cert LRS) and Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Romesh Angunawela has appeared in national top 10 surgeon lists for cataract surgery and laser eye surgery in the UK. He has won a multitude of national and international awards and is considered an expert in the fields of cataract and lens surgery, laser eye surgery and corneal transplant surgery.
2011 Best paper Zeiss Laser User Group meeting.
2007 Best video prize. ASCRS San Diego, USA.
Awarded best paper by the United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS) or research into corneal wound healing after laser eye surgery. Best paper in refractive surgery by UKISCRS for comparison of wound healing after LASEK laser surgery and epi-LASIK. He has also published multiple research papers on the early development of the SMILE laser eye surgery technique.
Awarded best paper by the United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS), the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) and the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) for his description of the fish tail technique for complex cataract surgery.
Awarded best paper in refractive surgery by UKISCRS for research paper into corneal collagen crosslinking efficacy with contact lens masking. Mr Angunawela is also one of the first surgeons to perform Avedro Curv topography guided crosslinking.
Romesh is not only an amazing surgeon but also an extremely nice person. He makes you feel so at ease and takes such care in explaining everything and calling you personally after surgery.
Mr Angunawela's team at Moorfields Eye Hospital were awarded the prestigious National Patient Safety Award in 2017 for their work in identifying complications arising from a common combination of medications used after cataract surgery. This triggered a national alert and prevention of harm action. A research paper arising from this work is in publication. The group were shortlisted for the same award in 2018 for their work in managing infection after corneal transplant.
Romesh has published over 50 research papers and 2 book chapters.
As a lecturer to medical students at St George's, University of London, Romesh has received commendations for his teaching. He is also faculty on the University College of London's MSc program in ophthalmology. He teaches regularly on courses as part of the European Society of Cataract Surgeons, including highly rated courses on cataract surgery, DSAEK surgery for Fuchs' dystrophy and complex lens exchange in cataract surgery. He is responsible as Director for the internationally renowned corneal fellowship program at Moorfields Eye Hospital and trains junior eye surgeons each year.
Romesh has travelled to the Nubra Valley to treat people as part of the Himalayan Vision Project, which aims to bring modern health care to these remote communities as part of the Himalayan Health Project. He continues to support the charity.


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