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2018's Animated Feature Composers Strike a Universal Chord
'Tigra & Dazzler,' 'Howard the Duck' Hulu Toons Scrapped
With the checkered flag about to be waved on the 2019 Academy Award race, the list of likelies for the Best Animated Feature category not only contains several of the usual suspects, but has some familiar sounds as well, courtesy of their musical scores. While the nominees have yet to be announced, certain films have risen above the pack as top contenders, both artistically and musically.
Not surprisingly, two big sequels top the sure-bet list: Disney/Pixar's Incredibles 2 and Walt Disney Animation's Ralph Breaks the Internet. Both of their predecessors, 2004's The Incredibles and 2012's Wreck-It Ralph, took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Composer Michael Giacchino, whose jazz-infused score for the first Incredibles was felt by some to have been snubbed in that year's Best Original Score race, has returned for the sequel. This time around, though, Giacchino made a point of not revisiting the past in terms of the music. "I wanted to take a fresh approach," he says. "Brad [Bird] and I knew we were going to use the main theme of course, but I still wanted it to have a different vibe while it stayed in the same vein and character."
Incredibles 2, scored by Michael Giacchino
Giacchino also had the opportunity to create more specific character themes. "I was most excited that I got to write a theme for Elastigirl because she plays a much larger role in the movie this time," he says. "For the first film, Helen's music came under the umbrella of the family's theme. The other really fun part was writing the TV theme song jingles for each of the characters that will show up in the end credits."
Henry Jackman, who scored Wreck-It Ralph, has also returned for Ralph Breaks the Internet. While it might seem easier to score a follow-up film, since the character motifs already exist and can be reused, Jackman points out that the opposite is true. "There's about three-and-a-half minutes of music that is specific to the first movie," he says, "but other than that, it's back to the drawing board to come up with a whole new set of ideas and sound."
Jackman expanded on the melding of traditional orchestra with and electronic music used to underscore the digital characters in Wreck-It Ralph. "The difference is, in the first movie they're in the nostalgic, 8-bit world of sticking a coin in an arcade game," he says. "In Ralph Breaks the Internet, as soon as they get to the Internet it is so much 2018 with a lot of the sounds from more modern synths and plugins. I wanted to use a kind of harmony that doesn't regularly show up in electronic music, a kind of chord that produces the feeling of wonder you might get if you're flying over Hogwarts, except that it's being used with electronics."
A specific example of such sonic melding is a scene in which John Williams' "Imperial March" theme from the Star Wars films dissolves into a Disney Princess theme. While permission to quote Williams' actual theme was not automatically covered under Disney's ownership of Lucasfilm, the licensing effort was made to make the "in-joke" work. "Thankfully, because it's such a huge film, it wasn't such a problem," Jackman says.
Part of His World
Out of all the leading contenders, none features a more familiar character than Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. But its bold graphic look has not only captivated audiences, it informed the musical score, written by Daniel Pemberton. "Coming up with a new, original take on Spider-Man is not an easy thing to do," he admits, "but I was very inspired by the look and feel of the film and wanted to try and get that across in the score. I wanted it to completely feel a part of [lead character] Miles Morales' world."
Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse, scored by Daniel Pemberton
Pemberton says that three elements combined to create the hip-hop flavored score: a standard eighty-piece orchestra, electronics and a scratch turntable. "For a lot of this score we did something very complicated and ambitious," he says. "We recorded a mix of elements — anything from synth to full orchestra — and then did the modern equivalent of outputting them onto vinyl, and re-scratching them into the mix. Then we would edit and remix the track again until we had something I was happy with." To create a driving percussive beat, Pemberton even scratched the sound of an aerosol can being sprayed.
Magical Sounds of Japan
For the leading indie contender, Fox Searchlight's Isle of Dogs, the musical goal was to anchor the sound of the film in the music of Japan, where it is set (a dystopian version of Japan, anyway). "Wes Anderson contacted me a couple years ago and said he had this fantasy of doing a Japanese story where we would use some Japanese instruments," says Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat, whose score for Anderson's first stop-motion animation venture, Fantastic Mr. Fox (2010), was Oscar nominated. "We tried to create a magic imagery of Japan that we fantasize sound-wise." At the heart of the score were taiko drums. "There's an energy, a strength to taikos," he says, "and it's a real adventure for the little boy [the film's protagonist Atari], so the music had to be much stronger than Mr. Fox." Desplat has already been nominated for a 2019 Golden Globe for his Isle of Dogs score.
Isle of Dogs, scored by Alexandre Desplat
Desplat adds that he strives to employ musicians playing real instruments, as opposed to digital or synthesized music, at all times. "Even though there are sometimes electronic elements they are used as instruments for sounds that no real instrument can produce," he says. "I never use fake instruments. I like to conduct because I like to be with the players, to be a musician in front of them and spend time with them."
Ironically, for this year's anime contender — Studio Chizu and GKIDS' Mirai, set in the reality of Japan (albeit with a fanciful story) — composer Masakatsu Takagi initially turned to Latin American music for inspiration! "In the beginning I prepared very different music, a more Brazilian feeling," Takagi says, "but [director Mamoru Hosoda] preferred the musical style of Wolf Children [2012]. Originally I approached the project with a botanical atmosphere, with birds singing and animals howling, but Hosoda-san moved in a new direction that was more family oriented. He wanted to show his own four-year-old son's imagination and his only family's daily living with some reality, so he asked me not to make the music gorgeous."
Mirai, scored by Masakatsu Takagi
Ultimately, Takagi keyed music not simply to the on-screen action and presentation of the characters, but also the hidden metaphor of a sequence. "For the scene in which a junior high school girl shows up in a botanical garden, I thought it was expressing the wide and mellow future hidden inside her, a premonition of growing up, so the score shows that kind of feeling, like taking a shower in Mother Nature," he says, adding that the employment of Renaissance instruments such as the lute and harpsichord provided some scenes with "a more noble feeling."
Songs for Sasquatch
Warner Animation Group and Sony Pictures Imageworks' Smallfoot is one of this year's few American animated films not to have a pre-sold franchise pedigree, making it something of a dark horse. That said, its small feet left big footprints at the box office, which never hurts during award season (just ask DreamWorks, which pulled off a surprise nomination last year for The Boss Baby). Composer Heitor Pereira says that in creating the score he "pushed the threshold of harmony [by using] some odd harmonies and dissonances." He credits director Karey Kirkpatrick, who also wrote songs for the film with his brother Wayne, for allowing him to experiment. "Only later on, when I heard the whole score, I thought, 'Oh, my god, I can't believe they allowed me to do that!'" Pereira says.
Smallfoot, scored by Heitor Pereira
Given the film's Tibetan setting, Pereira included such Chinese instruments as the erhu and also used choral passages. Even more striking were moments when the music simply stops to let the elements take over. "The wind and those Himalayan mountains were part of the sonic landscape, and at times I would say, 'Hey, let's not forget about the geography.' In many places we decided the elements would be the orchestra." Working around the film's dramatic sound effects, on the other hand, proved more of a task. "The challenge is to make the music be heard within the sound effects," Pereira notes. "I wanted to make sure there wasn't a duel between the music and the effects, and be sure that the music didn't get in the way of the dialogue."
Interestingly, globalism seems to have taken over animation scoring this year. Pereira is Brazilian, Desplat is French, Jackman and Pemberton are British, and Takagi is Japanese. Only Giacchino was born in the U.S.A. Maybe that, more than anything, proves that, like animation, music is a universal language.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards will be announced Jan. 22.
Related Topics:2019 Academy Award, 2019 Golden Globe, Academy Award, Alexandre Desplat, Brad Bird, Disney, Fantastic Mr. Fox, featured, Fox Searchlight, Gkids, Heitor Pereira, Henry Jackman, Incredibles, Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, Karey Kirkpatrick, Lucasfilm, Mamoru Hosoda, Masakatsu Takagi, Michael Giacchino, Miles Morales, Mirai, Mr. Fox, Pixar, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Smallfoot, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony PIctures Imageworks, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Star War, Studio Chizu, The Boss Baby, The Incredibles, Walt Disney Animation, Warner Animation Group, Wes Anderson, Wolf Children, Wreck-It Ralph
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Cite as: Sherwood v Michigan Bell Tel Co, unpublished opinion of the Wayne Circuit Court, issued October 28, 1999 (Docket No. 99-914657AE).
CIRCUIT COURT HOLDING: Claimant left employment voluntarily without good cause attributable to employer because he did not apply for a leave of absence even after he received a letter from the employer warning him his employment was about to be terminated. Turning in doctor's notes was not sufficient action to maintain employment.
FACTS: Claimant was injured on the job and was off on a medical LOA from August 1997 to January, 1998, at which time he was assigned to The Toledo office, a 50 mile commute one-way. Claimant was suffering back pain associated with the injury. He provided the employer with doctor's notes limiting his driving distance and time because driving aggravated his back pain. After failing to report to work for several days, the claimant was terminated. He had not applied for a medical leave of absence. Employer had sent the claimant a warning letter (of impending termination) but the claimant ignored it.
DECISION: The claimant is disqualified for voluntary leaving. Circuit court affirmed Board of Review in its reversal of the Referee decision, albeit for different reasons.
RATIONALE: Claimant initiated his separation by failing to report to work and failing to apply for a medical leave of absence to cover his absences. Claimant had valid medical restrictions but failed to demonstrate that they prevented him from reporting to work.


Did you know that getting a new customer can cost up to seven times more than to keep one you already have? You have to devote part of your marketing resources to new consumers to your brand, but also part of the efforts have to focus on loyalty and enhance customer engagement and events. An effective tool is regularly contacting them via email. Sending promotions, discounts, commenting on the latest developments, offering entertainment or informational content, inviting you to download the application of the mark or simply to congratulate you on your anniversary. If you know how to do it properly, avoiding becoming a spammer, you can improve the commitment of your followers and encourage future sales. Here I will teach you five recommendations to develop effective email marketing campaigns and seduce your customers.
Do you think that it is enough to have a list of email addresses? In order to create effective email marketing campaigns you need to collect all possible information from the people behind these emails. You can, once you have obtained all the information possible, organize it according to demographic data (age and gender) in behavioral data (what pages or products typically consume or abandon products in the basket) and purchase data (what they purchased, how often they eat or how much they spend).
By now you know that any campaign without segmenting cannot offer good results. In fact, it is a bit like throwing coins into the air and waiting to see what is going to fall. In the case that concerns us, for effective email marketing campaigns we will need to know whom the people are on our list of contacts that we are involved with.
Ordering the contacts that have been active with our company according to the time factor can easily do this. For example, those who have interacted in the past three months are very involved with your brand, those who have done so in a time ranging from 3 to 9 months are halfway active and those whose last activity was conducted during the last 9 to 18 months are those who are less involved and they can more easily forget about your company.
The latter you'll win back through a special loyalty campaign, since this is exactly the goal of this step: to know what users are more or less involved with your project to launch customized and targeted campaigns to increase engagement.
Up to 3 months from the last activity: Very involved.
In 3-9 months after the last activity: Moderately involved.
From 9-18 months since the last activity: Little or no involvement. Needed for specific strategies for re-engagement.
This step is the most important when it comes to seducing customers through email marketing campaigns. We all like that they treat each person differently. Each person we write to, even if it is a company, knows whom we are talking to. We do not want anyone to feel like a target or a simple thing without much value. Therefore, when designing our email marketing campaigns we go for customization.
But how do you individualize a campaign? First, use the name of your recipient to direct the message only to him with your email. You can add on more content or a subject. Another interesting way to customize the content of an email is using dates. For example, if you know when the birthday of your recipient is, send an offer for that day or praise him. A third option is to develop information using data from your contacts: their tastes, their needs, their concerns and their buying patterns.
Generally, users prefer to read content that is entertaining, fun and with a touch of humor rather than those that are purely informational. This fact can be used to your advantage to make email marketing campaigns to seduce your customers, but not all companies depending on the activity they are engaged in, or of his own philosophy, feel comfortable using this fun factor, which is something that would be dispensable if it is highly recommended.
If is not your case, and you really want to tap into the potential of this strategy, you can start including a photo or funny message. If you wish, you can also try with contests, competitions or sweepstakes. Such resources involve a lot of the users and help us find a connection through which to establish a stronger relationship.
There are people who directly do not see your emails, even the ones who open them. As soon as detected, they send them to the recycle bin and at this point, our only chance is taking us to three key issues: who is the sender of the email, the subject line and the pre-visualization of the content. Before sending an email to the trash, you see these three parts of the same and that is where you have to put all your effort. This is the only opportunity you have to grab attention and also the available space leaves you with very little leeway.
Once you've finally caught the attention of the consumer, which is in the content it should be simple and attractive. It is useful to offer something of great value to stay in the subscription list.
Also a brief (very brief) survey to understand why these customers are no longer involved with the company, so that the following e-mails you send them are highly customized and tailored to their needs, which will work in favor of engagement of this elusive customer and subsequent win back.
Step 1: Enrich your email list. Add all the information you can.
Step 2: Segment your list of having as a measurement tool engagement contacts.
Step 3: Customize your mail using the recipient's name, key dates and information about their tastes and preferences.
Step 4: Enter in your email marketing campaigns mood factor whenever possible and agree with the policy and activity of your company.
Step 5: Recapture users who are no longer involved and are more elusive.
With these tips properly launched, it is impossible that the results you get in your next email marketing campaigns are not positively increased, so we recommend that you implement them as soon as possible and, above all, we encourage you to give us your feedback.
Already implemented any of these steps? Do you think that these recommendations will help you improve your email marketing campaigns?


Customer retention is one of the key benefits and the key goals of loyalty programs today. Since churn results in companies losing customers in almost equal amounts as they gain them, finding ways to retain current customers is an ongoing battle.
The key to any loyalty program's success is its customers. And customer love loyalty programs – a 2017 national survey showed US consumers are holding over 3.8 BILLION customer loyalty memberships. Clearly, customers are open to joining loyalty programs. In order to attract and retain these customers, loyalty program providers need to be active and energetic about promoting their programs.
The effort and time a company puts into building and launching a loyalty platform makes the time after launch seem like smooth sailing. Right?
Not quite! After launch, you'll find there are numerous methods for evaluating your loyalty program and discovering opportunities to fine-tune your processes.
Once you've been operating long enough to gather some data (6 months to 1 year is a good time to start) there are different metrics you can use to gauge the success of your program. One area to focus on is the rewards and redemptions: how are your customers utilizing the platform?


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Damn traffic
By Rishi Singh
The problem of acute traffic congestion in the capital is not new. Moreover, as the numbers of vehicles continue to grow exponentially, getting stuck in the traffic jam for hours, especially during rush hours, is an experience Kathmanduites have been more than accustomed to. As in the previous years, the Traffic Police in the valley have initiated a month-long campaign in a bid to raise awareness about traffic rules to avoid jams, but the exercise has apparently been fruitless for a number of reasons. Though hundreds of traffic and police personnel have been deployed at 82 major intersections in the capital, with instructions for them to regulate the traffic strictly, there has been no perceptible improvement in the capital's chaotic traffic scenario.
The Traffic Police in the capital cite the paucity of resources and poor public awareness about traffic rules for the unruly traffic, but there is more to it. Though the government has installed traffic lights at major intersections in the capital, the public is yet to get used to them. On the other hand, traffic cops, who are inadequately deployed apart from imposing erratic and unreasonable rules to the annoyance of the public, are sometimes strangely lenient in penalising those who flout them, while at other times they are too harsh on drivers. Besides, the government has taken no initiative to widen the narrow streets in the capital to take care of the growth in the number of vehicles. Unless these and other related problems are addressed, regular traffic jams will continue to be a part of the life for valley residents.
EDITORIAL: Fighting virus together

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Q: Alternative to SELECT .. IN (..) I have table with 3 columns: id (of person), city (which person visited) and date (of his visit).
I need to select all people (their ids) which were in city Los Angeles between specific date, who also were in city New York on some other specific date.
Here is an example of the query I run now:
SELECT DISTINCT id
FROM places
WHERE date >= '2011-03-18' AND
      date < '2011-03-19' AND
      city = 'los angeles' AND
      id IN (SELECT DISTINCT id
             FROM places
             WHERE date >= '2011-03-15' AND
                   date < '2011-03-16' AND
                   city = 'chicago'
             GROUP BY id);

Anything I can also?
Is there are any other query I can use? This select is way too slow.

A: Using a join (with an alias) instead of a subquery should perform better:
  SELECT places.id
    FROM places
         JOIN places AS places2 ON places2.id = places.id
     AND places2.date >= '2011-03-15'
     AND places2.date < '2011-03-16'
     AND places2.city = 'chicago'
   WHERE places.date >= '2011-03-18'
     AND places.date < '2011-03-19'
     AND places.city = 'los angeles'
GROUP BY places.id;

A: SELECT id
FROM places AS p1
INNER JOIN AS p2 ON p1.id = p2.id AND p2.date >= '2011-03-15' AND p2.date < '2011-03-19'
   AND p2.city = 'chicago'
WHERE p1.date >= '2011-03-18' AND p1.date < '2011-03-19' AND p1.city = 'los angelis'

A: Try the inner join
SELECT DISTINCT p1.id
FROM places p1
INNER JOIN places p2 ON p1.id = p2.id AND
      p2.date >= '2011-03-18' AND
      p2.date < '2011-03-19' AND
      p2.city = 'los angeles'
WHERE p1.date >= '2011-03-18' AND
      p1.date < '2011-03-19' AND
      p1.city = 'los angeles' AND

Check the indexes on the table and see if you have any on city and date.

A: First you need to make sure that you have the relevant indexes in place. In this case it is probably one index with two columns date and city. After that you can take your query and compare the performance with the queries suggested here. Inner join might be faster than what you already got.
My version works in SQL Server. I might work in other DBMS as well.
select id
from places
where [date] >= '2011-03-18' AND
      [date] < '2011-03-19' AND
      city = 'los angeles'
intersect
select id
from places
where [date] >= '2011-03-15' AND
      [date] < '2011-03-16' AND
      city = 'chicago';

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Зале́щицкий райо́н () — упразднённая административная единица на юге Тернопольской области Украины. Административный центр — город Залещики.

Географическое положение
Зале́щицкий район граничит на севере с Чортковским районом Тернопольской области, на юге — с Заставненским районом Черновицкой области, на юго-западе — с Городенковским районом Ивано-Франковской области, на западе — с Бучачским, на востоке — с Борщёвским районами Тернопольской области.

Площадь — 684 км² (13-е место среди районов).

Основные реки —
Волчков,
Джурин,
Днестр,
Криница,
Луча,
Поросячка,
Серет,
Тупа,
Хромовая.

На реке Джурин расположен самый крупный равнинный водопад Украины — Джуринский (Червоноградский) водопад.

История
Район образован 20 января 1940 года.
До 1944 года на территории района располагался ныне заброшенный город Червоноград.

Демография
Население района составляет 45 541 человек (данные 2019 г.), в том числе в городских условиях проживают 12 367 человек, в сельских — 33 174 человека.

Административное устройство
Район включает в себя:

Местные советы

Населённые пункты

Экономика

Транспорт

Известные люди
 В районе родился Микитин, Ярослав Иванович — Герой Украины.

Ссылки
 Учетная карточка района на сайте Верховной рады Украины
 Сведения на сайте областной администрации

Примечания

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The Archbishop of Church of Uganda, the Most Rev Stanley Ntagali, has condemned the proposed Miss Curvy Uganda beauty pageant that was recently launched by the state minister of tourism Godfrey Kiwanda Suubi.
On Tuesday, Junior Minister of Tourism, Kiwanda launched Miss Curvy Uganda beauty pageant aimed at using Ugandan curvaceous women as a tourism product. The strategy has however attracted criticisms from various sects of society.
According a statement released by the head of the Anglican Church, the tourism marketing strategy undermines the dignity of women and all of what the church has worked for to advance girl-child education and opportunities for women to take their part in contributing fully to their national and family development.
"It is a disgusting display of exploitation and brings shame upon our families and our country. The government is promoting trafficking to increase tourism," he wrote.
Yesterday, Uganda Women's Network (UWONET), an advocacy and lobbying network of national women's NGO's called on Mr. Kiwanda to discard the strategy saying the move undermines women's dignity.
According to minister, the Miss Curvy Uganda beauty pageant has been misinterpreted. He said it is like Miss Uganda pageant that recognizes slender and slim women and Ugandans have always been happy and voting for their favorite participants.
"Tourism starts with people. Uganda is beyond just animals, its people are the biggest tourism product. That's why we have been voted several times as happiest people in the world and most hospitable," Minister Kiwanda said when contacted by this website.


Rarely has an animal captured so much affection.
Traveller, first called Jeff Davis and later Greenbrier, was born in 1857 near Blue Sulphur Springs (now in West Virginia). In 1862, Lee purchased him and renamed him after one of George Washington's horses. This sturdy American saddlebred, sixteen hands high, iron gray with black mane and tail, carried Lee through many of the Civil War's major campaigns, and later on pleasant late afternoon rides into the hillsides around Lexington.
Not long after Lee's death, Traveller stepped on a nail and developed tetanus. He died in the summer of 1871 and was buried in a ravine behind the college. A century later, his skeleton was reburied here. The Virginia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, marked the grave and his stable.
from Letcher Avenue, on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is located next to Lee Chapel on the grounds of Washington and Lee University. Marker is in this post office area: Lexington VA 24450, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Traveller's Grave (here, next to this marker); William Graham (within shouting distance of this marker); Washington and Lee University (within shouting distance of this marker); Cyrus Hall McCormick (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Washington and Lee University (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); John Robinson (about 300 feet away); Morris House (about 300 feet away); Lee-Jackson House (about 400 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Lexington.
Both of these photos are from the Leyburn Library Special Collections.
The marker is located on the campus of Washington and Lee University. Lee Chapel can be seen in the background.
Traveller is buried next to the marker, a few feet from the grave of Gen. Lee.
The marker is located just outside of Lee Chapel. Lee's office is in this building and the Lee family are buried here.
More. Search the internet for General Lee's Beloved Traveller.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on August 23, 2012, by Bill Coughlin of North Arlington, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 562 times since then and 9 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on August 23, 2012, by Bill Coughlin of North Arlington, New Jersey.


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Felix Gebhard ist ein deutscher Musiker und Fotograf.

Zwischen 1994 und 2012 betrieb er die Band Home of the Lame. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

Nach einigen Alben auf Cassette und CD-R erschien 2003 die 4-Track EP Home of the Lame, die mittlerweile restlos vergriffen ist.
2005 erschien das erste reguläre Album Here, of All Places auf dem Label Grand Hotel van Cleef.
Am 3. November 2006 veröffentlichte Felix Gebhard die EP Habitat, auf der fünf akustische Songs enthalten sind. Im Zuge dieser Veröffentlichung ging er für 16 Konzerte mit dem schwedischen Musiker Mats Bengtsson auf Tour, der ihn auf dem Keyboard und dem Akkordeon begleitete.
Bei seinen Konzerten im Jahre 2006 wurde Gebhard hin und wieder von einer Band bestehend aus Alex Böll (E-Bass), Kai Oldenbüttel (Schlagzeug) und Kai Bewersdorf (Gitarre, Keyboard) begleitet. Seit Juli 2007 bestand das Line-up aus Böll (Bass), Ingo Schröder (Gitarre), Christian Hake (Schlagzeug). Seit März 2008 wurde die Band zudem von Marcus Schneider (Keyboard) unterstützt.
Am 1. Februar 2008 erschien mit Sing What You Know das zweite Album der Band, ebenfalls bei Grand Hotel van Cleef.
Am 21. September 2012 erschien Home of the Lames letzte EP The Tree Museum auf dem bandeigenen Label Lametunes.

Gebhard war Mitglied der fiktiven Hansen Band, gegründet zusammen mit Jürgen Vogel, Marcus Wiebusch (Kettcar), Thees Uhlmann (Tomte) und Max Schröder (Olli Schulz und der Hund Marie und Tomte) für den halbdokumentarischen Film Keine Lieder über Liebe.

2009 veröffentlichte er seine erste Solo-EP Exit Felix Gebhard. Mit seit dem Ende von Home of the Lame erschienenen Tonträgern wendet sich Gebhard eher experimentellerer Musik zu.

Seit 2014 ist Gebhard Tour-Keyboarder bei Einstürzende Neubauten.
Im Juli 2021 stellten Muff Potter Gebhard als neuen Gitarristen vor.

Felix Gebhard spielt seit 2021 Gitarre im Industrial-Noise-Projekt "ZAHN" neben Schlagzeuger Nic Stockmann und Bassist Chris Breuer (HEADS.).

Diskografie
Numbfire
 1994: Numbfire / Pressure Flip (Split 7")
 1995: Numbfire (Album)

Home of the Lame
 2003: Home of the Lame (EP)
 2005: Here, of All Places (Album)
 2006: Habitat (EP)
 2008: Sing What You Know (Album)
 2012: The Tree Museum (EP)

Felix Gebhard
 2009: Exit Felix Gebhard (EP)
 2009: Ryan Stratton / Felix Gebhard (Split 7")
 2012: Early in the A.M. (EP)
 2013: Wise Words for Elmore Bubbles (Album)
 2013: Gone for Walks (Album)
 2013: Im Merzbau (Album)
 2016: Limitations (Album)
 2017: Meditations (Album)

Hinterlandt
 2009: All Things Considered (Album)
Zahn
 2021: Zahn (Album)

Weblinks
 Felix Gebhard
 Home of the Lame

 ausführliches Interview mit Felix Gebhard bei fallen-legen.de

Einzelnachweise

Fotograf (20. Jahrhundert)
Fotograf (21. Jahrhundert)
Fotograf (Berlin)
Deutscher
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
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Lining up the Drums...
What began as a casual invitation by a music festival in Germany is now a world drumming phenomenon, ten years running.
Drums United brings together instruments and percussion from South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. The eight drummers — with their kaleidoscope of styles — is kept on beat by Lucas van Merwijk.
"It doesn't matter where you're from, everybody feels the sound of the drums and the rhythms," says van Merwijk in a backstage interview. "It's a very basic, natural thing."
Starting out as a pop and punk drummer — hair dyed black and growing up with the Sex Pistols — van Merwijk then entered the Conservatory of Amsterdam, began learning about jazz, and started playing Latin and Cuban music.
"Dutch culture doesn't have so much drumming, but within the Netherlands there are many other cultures that you can see and hear," says van Merwijk.
This cross-cultural immersion has resulted in van Merwijk creating one of the most unique music ensembles of all time, each pitching in their experiences and sounds into a complete stage extravaganza.
"Everybody's so creative and everybody has so many ideas, there has never been the problem that we run out of inspiration," says van Merwijk.
And the audiences love it. Drums United have toured the world, performing at kids presentations like the Calgary International Children's Festival — where van Merwijk explains the drum types and techniques to the kids — to full-length evening shows. So what differences does van Merwijk see from audience to audience around the globe?
"Funny enough, you could say the more north you go, people are more reserved in letting go," says van Merwijk with a laugh. "And the more south you go — countries with rhythmical backgrounds like Latin America or African countries or Asian countries or Eastern Europe — they connect quicker to us."
Let's get on our feet and prove them wrong, Calgary.


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It's an inexpensive way to help. It's convenient to donate. There are prizes as incentives to participate. And the event is linked to the region's largest fireworks display of the year, a relationship that started before the first regatta.
Edwards went to fireworks' sponsor WEBN, "and they allowed us to be connected," Edwards says. "Simple as that."
Not so simple has been the positive reputation the Freestore Foodbank has built over many years, another reason for the regatta's popularity. It ties with a duck race in Knoxville, Tennessee, for longevity, but the event there drops no more than 40,000 duck each year.
"The Freestore is an elite organization," says Jennifer Lien, a spokeswoman for the Kroger Co., a regatta sponsor from its first year. "It's a great fit for us. We work with the Freestore throughout the year. Hunger relief is our biggest focus."
Local Kroger stores sell regatta ducks in the check-out lines.
"Our (employees) love to sell ducks," Lien says. "They feel like they are making a difference in their community. They know that everything stays right here."
The Freestore has secured other major local corporations as sponsors: Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Honda Dealers, Kemba Credit Union, Church & Dwight Co. Inc. and WKRC-TV (Channel 12).
That sense of community created by the regatta extends to the larger community, says Joe Girandola, director of the master in fine arts program at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning. He has been on faculty there for three years.
"What I have found since coming to Cincinnati is it was built on ingenuity of people of modest means who rise to the occasion to celebrate anything – the worst of times and the best of times," Girandola says. He cited the popularity of Downtown's Oktoberfest street party and Lumenocity, the Cincinnati Symphony Pops concert and light show at Washington Park.
Girandola, as an art professor and professional artist, is known best for his duct-tape drawings for which he uses multi-colored Duck Tape brand tape. So he's a kindred spirit, in a way, of the Rubber Duck Regatta.
"We have made a lot of vessels out of duct tape and other materials to stretch their strength," he says. "I can appreciate all those ducks floating down the river."
Working family relies on food programs as 'bridge'
Nichole Tipton appreciates the floating ducks for a different reason.
Even though her husband works full-time for a countertop manufacturer and installer and has health insurance benefits for himself and his three birth children, Tipton and her birth daughter have public medical cards. She also receives food stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
"It's a great bridge for us," she says.
The family's four children –first-grader Timmy, fifth-grader Lexie, sixth-grader Katie and high school freshman Dalton – all have received Power Pack food bags each Friday for several academic years.
Ninety-two schools in the region participate in the Freestore's Power Pack program, which reaches 4,100 students. Participating schools identify families and children who could benefit. Each pack, which costs $5 to create, contains healthful foods to ensure children receive proper nutrition over the weekend: whole grain cereal, fruit and vegetable juices, applesauce, canned fruit, apple-oatmeal bars and canned pasta meals. The program costs $750,000 a year and is paid for, largely, by proceeds from the Rubber Duck Regatta.
"The kids love them," Tipton says of Power Packs. Timmy received his Power Pack the weekend before Labor Day and shared his food with his siblings. The older three children will begin getting their packs next weekend.
The family has a rent-to-own agreement on their house in Newport. They pay $625 a month and are five years into a 10-year agreement, at which point ownership will be transferred to them.
Despite the food assistance programs and public medical care they receive, Tipton considers her family middle class, not lower-middle class or working poor. She recently completed her GED and is taking college courses online through the University of Phoenix. Tipton says she is working hard to set a positive example for her children about the importance of education. They, in turn, encourage her to do her homework.
The family is typical of families receiving food stamps and other private food assistance. These are not unemployed people – "moochers," as some SNAP critics say – or people who've given up the job search. They are the working poor, their children and the disabled.
SNAP is the only public aid that 85 percent of Ohio's 1.82 million SNAP recipients receive, according to 2013 data. That number is up 57 percent from the pre-recession number of 1.15 million in 2007. Kentucky has experienced a similar increase, up 134 percent from 633,000 to 849,000.
'How can we have so many people in need?'
The national anti-hunger nonprofit Feeding America estimates that up to 300,000 people in the Freestore Foodbank's 20-county service area in Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana are "food insecure" – meaning that their food intake and eating patterns are disrupted by a lack of money or other resources. About 100,000 of them are children.
The United Way of Greater Cincinnati recognizes the need and importance of the work done by the Freestore Foodbank. In its past year of funding, the local United Way allocated $471,960 – one of its largest agency investments – to the Freestore.
Outside of the Power Pack program, the Freestore uses the equation of providing three meals for every dollar raised.
"There is so much need here," says Edwards, 80, who still works part-time as a financial planner and volunteers his time to oversee the regatta. "How can that happen in Cincinnati? How can we have so many people in need?
"That's why we do this. We try to make the regatta better every year. The more ducks we can sell, the more we can expand our programs and provide food to more people." ■
Ducks can be purchased until 2:30 p.m. Sunday, just a half hour before the Rubber Duck Regatta, at www.rubberduckregatta.org.
First prize for the owner of the winning duck is a 2014 Honda Accord Sport, courtesy of Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Honda Dealers, and possibly $1 million if the winner is the "Kemba Million Dollar Duck."
Second prize is $100 a week from Kroger for a year, a total of $5,200. Five additional winners will receive $500 from Kemba Credit Union.


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Per devianza si intende comunemente ogni atto o comportamento (anche solo verbale) di una persona o di un gruppo che collide con la struttura etica o dominante di una collettività e che di conseguenza va incontro a una qualche forma di disapprovazione, condanna o discriminazione. Un atto viene definito deviante non per la natura stessa del comportamento, ma per la risposta che suscita nell'ambiente socioculturale in cui ha luogo.

Il tema è studiato nell'ambito della sociologia della devianza e del mutamento sociale.

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Proprietà e fondamenti
Definiamo devianza ogni atto o comportamento di una persona o più che viola una data norma sociale e che conseguentemente va incontro a una sanzione. La sanzione può essere di due tipi:
 sanzione esterna, inflitta dal sistema istituzionale, può essere a sua volta di diversi tipi (pecuniaria, penale, carceraria) a seconda del reato commesso e della norma violata;
 sanzione interna, che non è altro se non il giudizio della comunità nella quale la norma viene violata o la propria coscienza; talvolta è molto più efficace la paura del giudizio altrui che una sanzione a livello penale per dissuadere qualcuno a deviare a distorcere l'attuale condizione umana che viviamo noi oggi.

La devianza è uno dei campi della sociologia che presenta maggiori difficoltà nella fase di ricerca scientifica, dal momento che i reati ufficiali sono solo una piccola parte dei reati realmente commessi, quindi si avranno solo dati approssimativi e teorici di un fenomeno che non può essere studiato nella sua totalità (per esempio esistono i cosiddetti "reati senza vittima", come la prostituzione o il consumo di stupefacenti o il gioco d'azzardo, di cui non si conoscono con esattezza le statistiche e quindi la ricerca scientifica in questi casi potrà solamente formulare teorie approssimative).

Devianza nel contesto socioculturale
Il sociologo francese Émile Durkheim sostiene che "Non bisogna dire che un atto urta la coscienza comune perché è criminale, ma è criminale perché urta la coscienza comune. Non lo biasimiamo perché è un reato, ma è un reato perché lo biasimiamo".

Tuttavia, bisogna tener conto del fatto che le risposte della collettività a uno stesso atto variano nello spazio e nel tempo: per questo motivo si parla di "relatività" dell'atto deviante rispetto a:
 contesto storico/politico/sociale
 ambito geografico
 situazione.

Si può essere devianti:
 per fini, come la pedofilia
 per mezzi, come la mafia
 per fini e mezzi, come il terrorismo.

In generale, un atto può essere considerato deviante in riferimento al contesto socioculturale in cui ha luogo ovvero può non esserlo in altri contesti nell'ottica di un relativismo etico-culturale e in linea di massima mutare con l'evolversi della società stessa.

Teorie della criminalità

Esistono sette principali teorie, elaborate da studiosi, sociologi ed economisti, che esplicano perché alcune persone tendono a commettere atti devianti.
 Spiegazioni biologiche: tale teoria sostiene che la criminalità è legata a determinate caratteristiche fisiche di un individuo; uno dei primi studiosi di questa teoria, Cesare Lombroso, descrive il "delinquente nato" con una serie di peculiarità (testa piccola, sopracciglia folte ecc.);
 Teoria della tensione: elaborata da Émile Durkheim, spiega come la devianza sia indotta dall'anomia, ovvero la mancanza di norme sociali che regolano e limitano i comportamenti individuali. Merton aggiunge un qualcosa in più alla teoria del sociologo francese: l'anomia riscontrata nei soggetti considerati devianti dipende dagli obiettivi che un soggetto si prefigge e dai mezzi che ha a sua disposizione per perseguirli, sia che questi ultimi siano culturali, che sociali, che economici;
 Teoria del controllo sociale: il maggior esponente di questa particolare teoria è Travis Hirschi. In questo particolare caso non si studia ciò che porta una persona a deviare, ma cosa spinge la maggior parte della società a non farlo e quali sono i controlli a livello sociale che impediscono la violazione di norme. La teoria del controllo sociale si basa sulla capacità delle sanzioni interne ed esterne di impedire alle persone di deviare.
 Teoria della subcultura: Edwin Sutherland esplica come l'isolamento sociale di certi individui costituisca una subcultura criminale con norme e valori differenti rispetto a quelli della società istituzionalizzata. Da tale ambiente ne deriveranno per forza individui devianti, che hanno appreso comportamenti poco consoni alla società tramite la comunicazione con altre persone, che a loro volta porteranno tali deviazioni nella società dalla quale erano stati esiliati.
 Teoria dell'etichettamento: (Howard S. Becker) per capire la devianza bisogna considerare anche l'aspetto della creazione delle norme e la relativa applicazione rispetto ad una certa violazione. Una persona considerata deviata sarà etichettata come tale, di conseguenza tramite la mancata accettazione da parte della società e l'isolamento la reiterazione della devianza sarà ovvia.
 Teoria della scelta razionale: gli esponenti di tale tesi sostengono che la volontà dell'individuo sia determinante: una persona ha la libertà di scegliere se violare o meno la norma.

A diversa devianza corrisponde diversa sanzione. La prima differenziazione da attuare è quella tra sanzioni formali (attuata da gruppi istituzionali specializzati: legge) e sanzioni informali (coscienza personale, giudizio della società). La severità di una sanzione formale o informale sarà corrispondente alla gravità della violazione effettuata; esistono sanzioni formali - come pene pecuniarie, carcerarie, in alcuni paesi vige a tutt'oggi la pena di morte - e pene informali, come l'isolamento dalla società stessa o la più blanda maldicenza dell'individuo.

Devianza e sessualità

All'interno degli aspetti sociali, il concetto di devianza viene utilizzato nella sessualità, spesso indicando così varie forme di perversione sessuale.
Molto cospicui sono gli studi sulla correlazione fra devianza, traumi, autolesionismo, attaccamento e abusi. Dalla letteratura psicologica e psichiatrica si evince come, al di là dei complessi profili psicologici degli interessati e delle motivazioni profonde che li possono condurre alla devianza sessuale, le pratiche di perversione sessuale sono più spesso frequenti in soggetti di tipo borderline. In particolare, l'individuo che sceglie di assoggettarsi a pratiche sessuali devianti, ad esempio di masochismo, risulta mosso da un comportamento psicologico la cui causa emotiva è, a sua volta, il senso di colpa.

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Bibliografia
 Stanley Cohen, «Devianza», Enciclopedia delle scienze sociali, Vol. II (Classe-Diplomazia), Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, 1992, ad vocem
 Ernesto Ugo Savona, «DEVIANZA», Enciclopedia Treccani - VII Appendice (2006)
 Marina D'Amato, «Devianza», Enciclopedia dei ragazzi (2005), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana Treccani
 Marzio Barbagli, Asher Colombo, Ernesto Ugo Savona, Sociologia della devianza. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003
 Alessandro Dal Lago, La produzione della devianza. Teoria sociale e meccanismi di controllo (II ediz). Ombrecorte, Verona, 2001
 Alessandro Dal Lago, Etnometodologia (con P. Giglioli), Il Mulino, Bologna, 1983
 Alessandro Dal Lago, Non persone. L'esclusione dei migranti in una società globale, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1999
 Kai T. Erikson, Streghe, eretici e criminali. Devianza e controllo sociale nel XVII secolo. Carocci, Roma, 2005
 Talcott Parsons, Il sistema sociale, Comunità, Milano, 1965
 Howard Saul Becker, Outsiders. Saggi di sociologia della devianza, Torino, 1987
 Morris Lorenzo Ghezzi, Diversità e Pluralismo, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2005
 Ettore Perrella, Per una clinica delle perversioni, ed. Franco Angeli, 1ª edizione 2000, ISBN 88-464-1910-3
 Antonio Imbasciati, La donna e la bambina. Psicoanalisi della femminilità, ed. Franco Angeli, 2ª edizione 1996, ISBN 88-204-9627-5
 Arnaldo Bagnasco, Marzio Barbagli, Alessandro Cavalli, Corso di sociologia, Il Mulino/Strumenti, 2012.

Voci correlate
 Teorie della devianza
 Sociologia della devianza e del mutamento sociale
 Controllo sociale
 Tecniche di neutralizzazione
 Cause di giustificazione
 Devianza degli immigrati

Collegamenti esterni

Sociologia della devianza
Disturbi psichici
Comportamentismo
Terminologia sociologica


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The Kid is Back – Turbo Kid Game Launches on Kickstarter
Bill October 13, 2021, 1:07 PM October 13, 2021
Turbo Kid, the film, was released in 2015 and quickly garnered a rabid worldwide following, cementing its place as a legitimate cult classic.
Turbo Kid is a post-apocalyptic, BMX-powered, blood-splattered love story that follows the epic journey of an orphaned outcast reluctant to be a hero in the wasteland of an alternate future.
Fans are still waiting for Turbo Kid 2, but they'll soon have a chance to catch up on what The Kid is up to with the launch of the Kickstarter campaign for Turbo Kid the Game.
The game is a post-apocalyptic metroidvania by developer Outerminds in collaboration with the creators of the film RKSS Films, band Le Matos and producer EMA Films.
The game takes place in the distant future of 1997, where The Kid must fend for himself as he crosses the wasteland in search of a friend. Fans of the movie have high hopes about who that friend might be.
In keeping with the movie, the game will feature sprawling and diverse environments, comically over the top gore, a heartwarming story, and cool BMX tricks, all wrapped up in a throwback package. Check out the teaser below for a closer look.
If that looks like a game you'd like to try, head on over to Kickstarter to give them your support. Pledges start at about $25 for a digital version of the game for Switch or PC, but there are several other tiers that add loads of cool swag.
In the first few hours of the campaign, they're already over $20,000 raised, or 50% to their goal.
They say the game will come out sometime in 2022 no matter what, but they've devised some cool features while working on the game that are a bit ambitious for their budget. So they're looking for some "finishing funds" that will hopefully allow them to add these extra features and make an already rad game, even more rad.
And if you've never seen Turbo Kid, here's a quick introduction in the form of a prequel short film / music video that highlights the style and humor of the film, and the amazing soundtrack.
Bill has been a fan of the post-apocalyptic genre for as long as he can remember. Generally known as Mega or MegaDude online, he created several genre sites over the last 15 years, and recently started a new site devoted to classic post-apocalyptic fiction at DEFCON1.net.
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Crypto Long & Short: Bitpanda's Raise Is About More Than Market Infrastructure
The $170 million funding round highlights the explosive growth of crypto as an asset class – and the potential of the European market.
By Noelle Acheson
Mar 21, 2021 at 9:03 p.m. UTCUpdated Sep 14, 2021 at 12:29 p.m. UTC
Noelle Acheson
The pace of startup funding raises in the crypto industry, especially for businesses involved in building or operating crypto market infrastructure, has passed from a gentle canter to what feels like a gallop. I keep note of the raises CoinDesk reports on and did some counting this morning: 14 in January, 24 in February and so far this month – with a week and a half still to go – we're at 32. That's acceleration.
While most funding raises are under $10 million, so far this year there have been four (that I am aware of) that were greater than $100 million. Two of them were this week. One was crypto custodian Fireblocks, which raised $133 million. The other was a $170 million Series B round for a crypto market-infrastructure player that I confess had not been on my radar as much as it probably should have been.
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I'm talking about Bitpanda, a crypto exchange and card issuer headquartered in Vienna that, with this raise, is now valued at $1.2 billion. This makes it one of Europe's largest crypto platforms and Austria's first unicorn ever. Let's take a moment to appreciate that Austria's first unicorn is a crypto company.
This raise is worth looking at a bit more closely in that it embodies some deeper trends that will most likely continue to get noisier as the year progresses.
One is the self-reinforcing impact of crypto price movements. Increasing crypto prices lead to increasing revenue at market-infrastructure providers, which leads to more investment, which develops better on-ramps, which leads to more investors coming into the market, which leads to increasing crypto prices. And so on.
This is evident in the amount raised. For context, Revolut's Series B was roughly one-third the size. What's more, Bitpanda's raise came just six months after a $52 million Series A, when the average time between rounds is 18 months.
Bitpanda has been profitable for four years, according to CEO Eric Demuth, so it doesn't really need the funds. This raise highlights a notable ambition: "to become 'the' investment platform for all of Europe."
But wait, Europe has a slow and fragmented regulatory approach to finance and innovation, right? It doesn't even yet have full capital markets union, so how can there be a pan-European crypto investment platform?
This is the second intriguing development highlighted in the Bitpanda funding round: upcoming European legislation that aims to create a unified approach to crypto industry oversight. This is potentially a very big deal.
Published in September 2020, the European Union's "Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation" (MiCA) aims to implement clear-cut rules and long-term legal certainty in the regulation of crypto assets. As usual in the European Union, however, clear-cut rules are usually anything but, as each member state has some leeway in the interpretation and implementation. And MiCA's text is not yet finalized.
There does seem to be momentum, however, and not just because of the intensifying interest from all types of investors. Just this week the European Securities and Markets Authority issued a reminder about crypto asset risk. The momentum is also propelled by concern over the threat that privately issued cryptocurrencies could pose to financial stability. MiCA would also regulate stablecoins.
MiCA will bring a unified policy to crypto asset services, clarifying the regulatory status of crypto assets and their market-infrastructure providers. What's more, it will enable crypto services in one member country to legally operate in any other.
And crypto asset service providers will be subject to requirements regarding capital needs, insurance coverage and more. This will instill greater institutional confidence in service providers' legality and financial soundness. Greater legal certainty around market development will attract both investors and builders, accelerating the emergence of regulated crypto services.
In terms of institutional investment, the U.S. will continue to dominate the global financial stage. It has the world's largest capital market and the largest funds. But Europe has so far shown itself to be more forward-thinking about the eventual fusion of traditional and crypto markets. A handful of stock exchanges list crypto-backed products. Some are developing entire token ecosystems. Two European crypto asset managers are now listed companies. Traditional banks are offering crypto trading and custody.
What's more, Bitpanda's sights appear to be on more than just being the biggest crypto exchange in Europe. Demuth told TechCrunch this week that the company was "shifting to become a pan-investment platform, not just a crypto broker."
Its Mifid II license gives it scope to eventually trade other types of assets. According to reports, the company will add fractional trading of traditional shares in April. And, given their new war chest, it's unlikely the expansion of offerings will stop there.
Given the investment and regulatory interest in helping platforms like Bitpanda achieve those goals, it could be that Europe is where the merging of traditional and crypto finance takes shape first.
But whether the U.S. or Europe takes the lead in crypto market progress over the next few years really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. What matters is that the progress is accelerating and becoming almost tangible. It's morphing from vague futuristic ideas to real rules guiding real platforms that offer real products to a changing market. And progress in one hemisphere will support development in the other.
It's becoming increasingly apparent that the rapid change in crypto market infrastructure that we've seen over the past year was just the warm-up.
Momentum and gateways
This week, CNBC's report that Morgan Stanley was allowing its financial advisers to put client funds into bitcoin sent ripples through the wealth management industry.
The firm, one of the largest asset managers in the world with over $4 trillion AUM, will give clients access to three bitcoin funds via its platform. Two of these funds are managed by Galaxy Digital, and the third is overseen by FS Investments and NYDIG.
For now, the bitcoin funds are only available to clients with accounts that have been active for at least six months and are worth over $2 million ($5 million for investment firms), and there is a limit of 2.5% of a client's net worth.
Nevertheless, the move is significant for the whole market for the signals it sends:
Clients are demanding bitcoin exposure. We knew this anyway, but here's more proof.
Bitcoin is now officially investment grade. Morgan Stanley's acceptance of bitcoin's liquidity, custody and market integrity is a loud stamp of approval. This signals to financial advisers of all types that this market is worth thinking about with an open mind.
These signals won't just reach investors. They will also reach other investment houses and financial advisers, who will probably scramble to offer similar services rather than be seen as overly conservative in a low-yield market that is pushing investors further along the risk curve.
"There are plenty of things that people want and value highly that have no intrinsic value. How about a painting or a diamond or a bar of gold?" – Howard Marks, in a video interview.
"For speculative investment opportunities to rise to the level of an investable asset class that can play a role in diversified investment portfolios requires transformational progress on both the supply and demand sides. With cryptocurrency, we think that threshold is being reached." – Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, in a report released this week.
"Importantly, small changes in investors' overall perceptions about bitcoin can have a large impact on its price, especially because relatively few bitcoins are in circulation. So, if several pension funds or large asset managers with trillions of dollars decide to allocate a few basis points of their portfolios in a cryptocurrency, it can have a very large impact." – Deutsche Bank Research, in a report released this week.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce gave a speech this week at the British Blockchain Association's conference in which she discussed her view on the regulator's inconsistent reasons for rejecting previous bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications:
"Rather than applying the fairly straightforward standard that we have typically applied in approving other [exchange-traded product] filings –including for precious metals like palladium and platinum – we have insisted on increasingly sophisticated analyses of the relationship between the underlying spot market and the futures market to determine the susceptibility of these markets to fraud and manipulation. Not only is it unclear whether prior non-crypto ETP filings could have passed muster under this more rigorous approach, the ever-shifting goalposts are unfair to innovators who spend ever-increasing amounts of money on attorneys and quantitative experts only to find that they have failed to hit a target that has moved once again."
She also pointed out the SEC stance has heightened risk for retail investors rather than protected them:
"The SEC's reluctance to permit traditional investment vehicles to hold bitcoin or bitcoin futures has contributed to investors seeking more expensive, less convenient or less direct substitutes, but it also has heightened the stakes of any regulatory approval for a mainstream retail product we might one day grant. By waiting we also have magnified the first-approved advantage in the bitcoin ETP or registered fund space. Moreover, because we have comported ourselves like merit regulators, investors might view any approvals as an official blessing by the Commission about the quality of the products we approve. That would be the wrong inference to draw."
Speaking of ETFs, the SEC acknowledged the ETF application submitted by VanEck, formally kicking off its 45-day window to make an initial decision on the proposal. TAKEAWAY: If approved, the ETF would be the first bitcoin ETF in the U.S., and its approval would send a strong signal to the global investment community that the market has "grown up" and now passes the SEC's rigorous (albeit contentious) standards.
First Trust Advisors and SkyBridge Capital, the hedge fund run by Anthony Scaramucci, have filed an S-1 with the SEC for the "First Trust SkyBridge Bitcoin ETF Trust," to trade on NYSE Arca. TAKEAWAY: They join WisdomTree, NYDIG, Valkyrie and VanEck in the queue, with Grayscale (a subsidiary of CoinDesk parent DCG) hiring ETF positions.
Grayscale Investments (a subsidiary of CoinDesk parent DCG) has launched five new trusts based on decentralized application tokens chainlink (LINK), decentraland (MANA), Brave's basic attention token (BAT), filecoin (FIL) and livepeer (LPT). TAKEAWAY: This is a meaningful nudge to institutional investors to look a bit further down the market cap rankings for potential – and the inflows this is likely to produce will send not just funding but also more mainstream attention to innovative platforms and use cases.
Trading platform eToro will become a publicly traded company via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) FinTech Acquisition Corp. V. The combined entity will have an implied equity value of about $10.4 billion, reflecting an implied enterprise value for eToro of about $9.6 billion, according to the company. TAKEAWAY: This adds to the list of crypto market infrastructure companies to go public, boosting our access to financial statements and a better understanding of the business dynamics of the industry.
Kraken could also soon contribute to that list. The crypto exchange, which has been trading since 2011, is reported to be considering a direct stock exchange listing in 2022. TAKEAWAY: Kraken is a key player in the industry, offering not only one of the leading exchanges, but also the first regulated "crypto bank" after receiving a bank charter from the state of Wyoming. While those would be some financial statements I would love to take a look at, it's possible that an eventual listing, should it materialize, would be for only part of the growing company's business lines.
SBI Crypto – a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate SBI Holdings – is opening access to its mining pool for both institutional and retail customers. TAKEAWAY: This is part of what seems like an emerging trend to bring greater liquidity to bitcoin mining as an investment asset, and follows just one week after North American mining firm Foundry (a subsidiary of CoinDesk parent DCG) opened up its mining pool to institutional customers.
The latest survey by Bank of America shows inflation fears have replaced the pandemic impact as fund managers' biggest worry, and that "long bitcoin" is still the second-most crowded trade, behind "long tech." TAKEAWAY: "Most crowded" does not mean "unadvisable." It does warn investors that, should sentiment turn, the stampede toward the exit could be nasty.
An Investopedia survey showed 20% of respondents have added bitcoin to their portfolios, while 60% believe it is in bubble territory. TAKEAWAY: The U.S. financial website's editor in chief, Caleb Silver, said respondents' concerns were based on good reason because bitcoin's price has risen without any specific catalyst other than growing institutional demand. I'm perplexed as to why that wouldn't be considered a catalyst.
Hong Kong-listed software firm Meitu has bought another 16,000 ETH valued at around $28.4 million and 386.086 BTC valued at approximately $21.6 million. TAKEAWAY: Could this be another corporation on its way to becoming an ETF-by-proxy? These purchases more than double the previous investment earlier this month. The company's share price did not noticeably react to the first announcement, but has picked over the past couple of days. I haven't seen the 2020 balance sheet, nor am I clear on the distribution of the crypto holdings among subsidiaries, but we can probably conclude that $90 million is starting to feel more material for shareholders than the previous investment of $40 million. Also, given that Meitu's main business line appears to be social media apps, this could end up being part of a strategic business pivot.
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package org.domeos.framework.api.biz.event.impl;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Event;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference;
import org.domeos.framework.api.biz.event.K8SEventBiz;
import org.domeos.framework.api.consolemodel.event.EventInfo;
import org.domeos.framework.api.mapper.domeos.event.EventMapper;
import org.domeos.framework.api.model.event.EventKind;
import org.domeos.framework.api.model.event.releated.EventDBProto;
import org.domeos.framework.engine.model.CustomObjectMapper;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by xupeng on 16-3-28.
 */
@Service("k8sEventBiz")
public class K8SEventBizImpl implements K8SEventBiz {

    @Autowired
    EventMapper eventMapper;

    @Autowired
    CustomObjectMapper objectMapper;

    @Override
    public void createEvent(int clusterId, int deployId, Event event) throws IOException {
        EventDBProto proto = toProto(event, clusterId, deployId);
        eventMapper.createEvent(proto);
    }

    @Override
    public String getLatestResourceVersion(int clusterId) {
        return eventMapper.getNewestResourceVersion(clusterId);
    }

    @Override
    public List<Event> getEventsByHost(String host) throws IOException {
        List<EventDBProto> protos = eventMapper.getEventsByHost(host);
        List<Event> events = new LinkedList<>();
        for (EventDBProto proto : protos) {
            events.add(toEvent(proto));
        }
        return postProcess(events);
    }

    @Override
    public List<Event> getEventsByNamespace(int clusterId, String ns) throws IOException {
        List<EventDBProto> protos = eventMapper.getEventsByNamespace(clusterId, ns);
        List<Event> events = new LinkedList<>();
        for (EventDBProto proto : protos) {
            events.add(toEvent(proto));
        }
        return postProcess(events);
    }

    @Override
    public List<Event> getEventsByKindAndNamespace(int clusterId, String ns, EventKind kind) throws IOException {
        List<EventDBProto> protos = eventMapper.getEventsByKindAndNamespace(clusterId, ns, kind);
        List<Event> events = new LinkedList<>();
        for (EventDBProto proto : protos) {
            events.add(toEvent(proto));
        }
        return postProcess(events);
    }

    @Override
    public List<Event> getEventsByDeployId(int clusterId, int deployId) throws IOException {
        List<EventDBProto> protos = eventMapper.getEventsByDeployId(clusterId, deployId);
        List<Event> events = new LinkedList<>();
        for (EventDBProto proto : protos) {
            events.add(toEvent(proto));
        }
        return postProcess(events);
    }

    @Override
    public List<EventInfo> translateEvent(List<Event> events) {
        List<EventInfo> eventInfos = new LinkedList<>();
        for (Event event : events) {
            eventInfos.add(EventInfo.fromK8sEvent(event));
        }
        return eventInfos;
    }

    @Override
    public void clearDeployEvents(int clusterId, int deployId) {
        eventMapper.clearDeployEvents(clusterId, deployId);
    }

    @Override
    public long deleteOldDeployEvents(int clusterId, int deployId) {
        return eventMapper.deleteOldDeployEvents(clusterId, deployId, 100);
    }

    @Override
    public long deleteOldDeployEvents(int clusterId, int deployId, int remaining) {
        return eventMapper.deleteOldDeployEvents(clusterId, deployId, remaining);
    }

    private Event toEvent(@NotNull EventDBProto proto) throws IOException {
        return objectMapper.readValue(proto.getContent(), Event.class);
    }

    private EventDBProto toProto(@NotNull Event event, int clusterId, int deployId) throws JsonProcessingException {
        EventDBProto proto = new EventDBProto();
        proto.setClusterId(clusterId);
        proto.setVersion(event.getMetadata().getResourceVersion());
        proto.setEventKind(event.getInvolvedObject().getKind());
        proto.setHost(event.getSource().getHost());
        proto.setDeployId(deployId);
        proto.setNamespace(event.getMetadata().getNamespace());
        proto.setName(event.getMetadata().getName());
        String content = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(event);
        proto.setContent(content);
        return proto;
    }

    // do not need merge events now
    private static List<Event> postProcess(List<Event> events) {
        return events;
    }

    private static String getCharacter(@NotNull Event event) {
        String character = null;
        ObjectReference object = event.getInvolvedObject();
        if (object.getUid() != null) {
            character = object.getUid();
        } else {
            character = String.format("%s:%s:%s", object.getNamespace(), object.getKind(), object.getName());
        }
        return character + ":" + event.getReason() + ":" + event.getMessage();
    }

}

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Half-hour outage affects Apple App Store, iMessage, iCloud Drive, and more
By Christian de Looper March 29, 2021
Experience issues with the App Store today? You're not alone. Both the iOS and Mac App Store were listed as having experienced issues today, along with other iCloud services, like iCloud Drive and iMessage. By midafternoon, the issues seem to have been resolved.
The iCloud issues seem to have started around 10 minutes earlier than the App Store issues this morning, and it's currently unclear if the two are linked.
So what should you do if you have issues with these services? Well, there's not really much you can do. You could try turning your phone off and back on again, but considering the issues are linked to cloud-based services, it's unlikely that would do anything. Ultimately, when issues like this arise, you usually just need to wait until they're resolved on Apple's end.
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Outages like this aren't uncommon for cloud-based services, and while they can be frustrating, they're usually fixed without any serious loss of user data. If you're still experiencing issues, or experience new issues, you can check Apple's system status page here. Thankfully, not all users were affected by the outages — and many could still access the App Stores and their iCloud services without any issues. Others may have been able to access the services, but with slow load times. In total, the issues seem to have lasted a little over 30 minutes.
All the major tech companies experience issues like this from time to time. Late last year, an Amazon Web Services outage caused a number of large websites and services to go offline, including the likes of Roku, Adobe, and more.
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Choice of Openings
Openings Psychology Tournaments
I like to think about chess. All aspects of it, whether they are psychology, plans in a certain type of position, openings, endgames, ways to study.
I have written before about certain puzzling moments from chess history that I will probably never know the reason for, like why Fischer chose 1 e4 d6 2 d4 g6 in Game 17 of his match with Spassky in 1972, allowing a King's Indian. He didn't play a King's Indian in the first half of the match when Spassky played 1 d4, so why did he allow it in the late phase of the match (and why did Spassky not take that opportunity)?
These opening choices in the matches have always been fascinating to me, especially when they were out of the ordinary repertoires of the players. I have always wanted to know the reasons why the players chose those openings.
While I have my own opinions on these choices, no matter how deeply-thought they may be, only the players themselves can give the complete answer. From the recent chess history, two questions have been on my mind for quite some time:
Why did Nigel Short play the QGA in his match against Karpov in 1992? He never played the QGA before that and very rarely after that match.
Why did Garry Kasparov think the Dragon was a good choice against Anand in 1995? Similarly, why did he think the QGA was a good choice against Kramnik in 2000?
Luckily, the protagonists of these matches are still alive and well, and even more fortunately I had a chance to meet them and ask them these questions.
A bit more than a year ago, in the VIP room of the Carlsen-Caruana match I had a chance to ask Nigel Short about his match with Karpov. There were other GMs present and they were also curious to know Nigel's reasons.
I was expecting a reply based on deep analysis of the QGA and the positions arising from them, resulting in understanding that these do not suit Karpov's style. However, the answer was much simpler and a lot more practical.
Nigel said that he chose the QGA because that was the only opening that did not feature in any of Karpov's previous World Championship matches. As simple as that!
He said that Karpov probably hadn't analysed the QGA in the same depth as the QGD (which was Short's main opening back then) and the others that were at his disposal. This answer was illuminating of sorts, as it showed how Nigel approached one of the most important matches in his career – in a practical way, yet armed with excellent novelties in all the QGA games in that match!
[On a sidenote, I didn't ask him about the choice of the Budapest Gambit in Game 1 of that match. The next time I see him I will.]
A bit more than a week ago I was in Monaco for the European Women Rapid and Blitz tournament and during the event the first European Chess Awards ceremony took place. One of the winners was Garry Kasparov.
During the gala there was a lot of socialising and Garry was in the centre of attention all the time. I didn't think I would get a chance to talk to him.
But suddenly, at one point later in the evening I noticed him outside of the hall posing for a selfie. I recognised my chance and approached him. He didn't seem too happy to be bothered, but when I asked my chess-related question he sort of showed interest.
In view of the positive atmosphere of the ceremony I decided to skip the part on the Kramnik match, not to bring unpleasant memories back and I just asked about the Dragon and Anand.
Surprisingly, the answer was very similar to Short's. Kasparov said that while checking Anand's games he noticed that he wasn't very comfortable playing against the Dragon and that his results there weren't very good. Therefore he took the practical decision to prepare this opening. Again, a very practical approach!
My own take on the use of the Dragon was a bit different. I thought that since Kasparov expected Anand to limit him a-la Karpov, which he did rather successfully in the 6 Be2 lines of the Najdorf that transposed to the Scheveningen after 6…e6, just like in the first two matches with Karpov, he needed a weapon to break the grip. In the Dragon the only theoretical way for White to play for an advantage are the lines with long castle where a super-sharp battle ensues. (This is especially true for the mid-90s when the lines with 9 0-0-0 instead of the Yugoslav attack with 9 Bc4 weren't that prominent yet. Nowadays White successfully curbs Black's attack after 9 0-0-0 d5 10 Qe1.) Anand would be surprised and unwilling to enter the sharp territory knowing that Kasparov would be excellently prepared and this would give Kasparov a tremendous practical advantage. The match proved that my thoughts were not far from the truth, which did feel satisfying.
Kasparov also mentioned that once he got "wind" in Game 10 he decided it was time to use the secret weapon in Game 11 and the rest, as they say, is history. He turned the match around and never looked back.
It was great to talk to the legends and ask these questions. It broadens my chess understanding when discussing chess with these players who have been the best in the world ever since I started playing the game! I was happy to have my curiosity satisfied, but I still have a few more questions prepared, just waiting for the next occasion!
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Anthony Boron
Dec 10,2019 at 5:32 pm
Wonderful and insightful post !
Now to dig out my books on those matches ! Thanks!


The Case Discussion Guide for Reflective Practice (See Appendix C) serves to structure reflective case discussion in supervision and supports both supervisor and supervisee. The Case Discussion Guide for Reflective Practice is especially useful for new supervisors to build a flow of reflective conversation without getting lost in conversation with a supervisee. This guide is also useful in preparing supervisees for sessions by clarifying what occurs during clinical supervisions sessions and setting a standard of expectation for preparation and participation in sessions.
On the next page, the first of the organizers, the Bio-Psycho-Social (BPS) Framework, is presented. It is a tool used for organizing information about a person's life situation to help reveal importation fact patterns necessary developing a clinical understanding. A basic biopsycho- social grid gives a foundation for gathering and organizing information about a person in services or seeking services, providing a holistic view of the person.
The BPS framework provided below synthesizes data into easily understood components, called the "5-Ps". The "5-Ps" identify Predisposing, Precipitating, Perpetuating, Protective, and Predictive Factors that each and every practitioner should know about a person's life situation as a basis for developing a clinical case formulation, documentation, and work with a person. These "5-Ps" are applied across a person's physical, psychological, and social history and present situation to develop clinical insights that will be useful in planning interventions, supports, and services.
The Clinical Reasoning Worksheet works to guide supervisees towards a clinical question for the supervision session, and to organize for oral presentation of a case for supervision. This organizer is particularly suited for new practitioners.
The Case Formulation Worksheet examines the pertinent factors influencing a person in services and build understanding of the whole picture of the person in context of a person's life experience.
The Planning Worksheet can be used with a practitioner is "stuck" in what actions should be taken next, when there is decreased or difficulty engaging a person in services, early in the delivery of care to build rapport and trust, or to organize and deconstruct actions in response to crisis or an emerging crisis.


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