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Before October 27 Auction, a Q&A With Gregory Rose, Author of 'The WiMAX Band'
WASHINGTON, October 23, 2009 – Next Tuesday, October 27, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to hold Auction 86, for the use of radio-frequencies being deployed through WiMAX technologies. The presence of two major carriers in the band – Clearwire and Sprint – makes this auction crucial for the success of WiMAX in the United States. Last week, BroadbandCensus.com began offering for sale a major report on "The 'WiMAX Band': Characteristics, Technology, Major Spectrum Holders in the BRS-EBS Service and Prospects for Auction 86." BRS-EBS stands for Broadband Radio Service-Educational Broadband Service. Click here for further information about the report – including an extensive series of detailed and searchable auction tables in spreadsheets.
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Editor's Note: Next Tuesday, October 27, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to hold Auction 86, for the use of radio-frequencies being deployed through WiMAX technologies. The presence of two major carriers in the band – Clearwire and Sprint – makes this auction crucial for the success of WiMAX in the United States.
Last week, BroadbandCensus.com began offering for sale a major report on "The 'WiMAX Band': Characteristics, Technology, Major Spectrum Holders in the BRS-EBS Service and Prospects for Auction 86." BRS-EBS stands for Broadband Radio Service-Educational Broadband Service. Click here for further information about the report – including an extensive series of detailed and searchable auction tables in spreadsheets.
BroadbandCensus.com Reporter-Researcher Christina Kirchner interviewed Gregory Rose, the author of the report, to provide a layman's guide to what's happening in the auction – and why it matters for the future of broadband. Below are edited excerpts from the interview:
Q: What prompted you to research this information and compile this comprehensive report in anticipation of this auction?
A: I have been working on spectrum issues for many years and I have contacts with the principal players. Also this is available in terms of [press] releases from these companies. They keep websites, they put information about them, all it takes some very digital searching and running into the right information and the right people.
Q: How long you been working on spectrum issues in relation to WiMAX and Clearwire?
A: WiMAX is an up and coming technology which has, in addition to Clearwire, been a particular national player in the provision of 4G [fourth-generation] wireless services. The fact that Comcast, Time Warner and several other companies – together with Sprint and Clearwire – invest heavily in the technology suggest something well worth keeping an eye on.
Q: WiMax is intended principally for wireless networks in metropolitan areas, correct? Will the presence of Clearwire engaging in more widespread spectrum leasing create more competition between existing spectrum license-holders?
A: Well, I think that the intended purpose is to challenge the incumbents in urban areas. Well, I mean the WiMAX technology can be used in rural areas. It has a 50-75 mile transmission zone, so that it is perfectly feasible technology for some rural areas. WiMAX competitors like DigitalBridge and Xanadoo, which have chosen smaller towns and rural areas because they know areas where Clearwire is not deployed, [are focusing] particularly in rural areas.
Q: What do you mean by not deployed? Are they purposely not doing that?
A: I think it is probably the influence of Comcast and Time Warner [which have an ownership stake in Clearwire] on their policy. Roughly 10 percent of America is in rural area, where there is not enough population or where the cost of deployment is relatively high, such that the rate of return that investors receive who deploy there is not terribly high. Given the fact that all major wireless companies are publicly-owned, they are held hostage to the expectations of financial markets. Deploying in these areas would significantly reduce their mean rate of return and they would be punished by investors in the stock market. So they have simply redlined 10 percent of America. And Clearwire seems to be following in that same policy probably for much of the same reasons. Smaller, privately owned companies are, however, beginning to deploy in some of those areas.
Q: In page seven of the report, it says "Spectrum coverage is in such redundant depth in these locales that there has been speculation that Clearwire believes that complete fixed and mobile WiMAX coverage will be more spectrum-intensive than originally projected." In layman's term, what is spectrum intensive?
A: Ah, yes, WiMAX is suppose to be non-line-of–sight.Rather, it goes through things rather than have a direct line of sight connection to where it is transmitting. In Portland, the first major WiMAX roll -out deployment, that there have been more line-of-sight problems than the engineers thought there would be. There are WiMAX "dead zones" so they had to put up more towers to retransmit signals than they would have expected to if WiMAX didn't have at least, in practical terms, some line of sight limitations. And that involves using more spectrum, transmitting at higher power levels, that sort of thing.
Q: So being spectrum intensive is, effectively, a bad thing?
A:Yes, although Clearwire has enough spectrum in redundancy in places where it is planning to deploy, it is confirmatory that there is some problem. [That's why] they have acquired so much spectrum redundancy in given areas.
Q: How do hills and other physical obstacles have an effect on these transmissions?
Apparently they can. And some weather conditions, too. It is very wet out here [in Portland] much of the year, and I think with the intersection of hills and precipitation surprised Clearwire a bit in how much a difficulty they were going to have covering the entire Portland metropolitan area.
Q: Hence, in hindsight, the cost of deploying WIMAX abilities in rural areas more than they thought it would be. So when a company is coming to auction, how do they properly value what they should bid on particular frequencies?
A: Well, very little of WiMAX spectrum was actually auctioned. The rest or the majority of the spectrum is picked up on the secondary market, which is where they will transfer licenses or long-term leases of their licenses. And those transactions have to be approved of the FCC. Given the fact that there has been encouragement from the FCC to have BRS-EBS licenses-holders agree to use other spectrum, they will have an incentive to go onto the secondary market to either transfer or lease the spectrum they have, while they are migrating to other spectrums of the FCC.
Q: What is going to happen at the buildout deadline set for May 2010, and what kind of action can we expect for this auction on October 27?
A: They have set relatively low build-out expectations and the FCC has a history of giving waivers to those who don't meet build out requirements. It has been a matter of continuing public interest to the community who vigorously see it as a failure of enforcement of the build-out requirements, which allows incumbents to warehouse their spectrum.
I expect the FCC to enforce the rules, but also at the same time, can see them do one- or two-year long waivers in cases where the spectrum holder has not been able to meet the requirement if they show evidence of serious intention [to deploy].
We have a relatively small number of bidders and I am expecting Clearwire and Digital Bridge to clearly dominate the scene, particularly Clearwire, making a national footprint by holding over half of the BRS-EBS spectrum. There are going to be three active bidders over the Gulf of Mexico region, mainly with communications with oil rigs. Then there will be smaller companies competing for spectrum in their existing footprint, competing for a handful of licenses.
Q: Any other issues?
A: There were some issues from the commenters of the bidding. The FCC has resolved them to the satisfaction of the people who are more likely to bid in the first place. Some of these issues were raised because of the implications that were raised at the other auctions, because once the FCC has decided on the rules of the auction, they will carry those rules over from one auction to another auction to another auction. So there were some commenters concerned about the long term effects on auctions of the certain kinds.
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John Godfrey, senior vice president of public policy and acting head of U.S. public affairs at Samsung
LAS VEGAS, January 6, 2022 – The possible near collision of 5G signals and aircraft altimeters emerged out of a lack of coordination on the federal government's part to bring all relevant information to the Federal Communications Commission before it auctioned off the spectrum that has now been put on hold for safety precautions, observers said Thursday.
This week, Verizon and AT&T agreed to delay the rollout of their 5G services using the C-band spectrum surrounding airports after the Federal Aviation Administration raised the alarm for months about possible interference of the wireless signals with aircraft, which use their own radios to safely land planes.
But the issue could've been resolved back in 2020, when the FCC proposed to repurpose a portion of the band to allow for wireless use, some said on a panel discussing 5G Thursday in Las Vegas.
"After the FCC had adopted the rules, auctioned off the spectrum, raised over $80 billion and deployment began and then additional information that apparently had not been brought to the FCC before comes over…that's not good for the country," said John Godfrey, senior vice president of public policy and acting head of U.S. public affairs at Samsung, a sponsor of Broadband Breakfast.
"The time to have that information be disclosed and discussed and analyzed is when the FCC is conducting the rulemaking," Godfrey said, adding the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration should, as federal telecom rep, be spearheading coordination efforts between the FAA and the FCC on telecommunications matters.
"I think it's their job as the leaders of telecom policy in the administration to facilitate bringing the full federal government to the table in a timely manner," Godfrey added.
Asad Ramzanali, legislative director for Democratic California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, said that the fallout of the aviation issue has shown that, "Looking backwards, I do think this is a failure. This is a failure in government to be able to coordinate at the right time…when there's a process, those impacted should be participating — that is the role of the NTIA."
NTIA head confirmation 'should be a priority'
And the hope is that such coordination issues can be averted in the future with the confirmation of a permanent head of the NTIA, said Ramzanali. President Joe Biden nominated Alan Davidson in October to be the next permanent head of the agency, which has had temporary figures fill in the role since the resignation in May 2019 of the last full-time head, David Redl.
"That should be a priority," Ramzanali said of pushing Davidson through. "The NTIA is doling out $42.5 billion of that $65 billion [from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act]. The NTIA is supposed to deal with those types of issues. They have brilliant people there, but this is the kind of leadership that they should be in the middle of.
"And this isn't a recent NTIA thing," Ramzanali added. "This has lasted many years, especially in the prior administration where the NTIA wasn't doing this part of it — coordinating with other agencies.
"I'm hopeful with Alan Davidson presumably getting in soon that we won't see that kind of issue."
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Sally Lange Witkowski, founder of business consulting firm Slang Consulting
LAS VEGAS, January 6, 2021 – Educating consumers about 5G is necessary to achieving wider adoption in its upcoming deployment in the United States.
At Wednesday's CES "Path to A Better 5G World" session, industry leaders discussed how 5G will change the digital landscape by offering new experiences for businesses and consumers.
Sally Lange Witkowski, founder of business consulting firm Slang Consulting, said that companies should educate consumers about the benefits of 5G.
"Some consumers don't even know 5G exists," she said. "They believe faster is better," but said that consumers don't know about 5G's wider applications. "Consumers should want to have [5G] because of how innovators and entrepreneurs will use the technology."
Slang's research shows that consumers are only willing to pay up to $5 more per month for 5G service. "It's not about the hype, it's about the usability," Witkowski added. She noted that people are living longer and older Americans are growing old without the necessary digital skills to thrive in our new ecosystem.
"A child born today has a one in two chance of living till 100," she said. Educating consumers about 5G's benefits can help the elderly prepare to participate in the revolution.
Witkowski also said closed hardware software ecosystems, sometimes referred to as "walled gardens," prevent consumers from discovering new experiences.
"The really large organizations have a hard time innovating. Big corporations are built to scale. The ability to reach out to entrepreneurs to access creative thinking is important," Witkowski added. "The pandemic changed a lot [for technology companies]. They are going to have to embrace something they don't normally embrace," like the fact that another company may be better positioned to create solutions.
Kevin Ross: The Time is Now to Expand Internet Access with Fixed Wireless Broadband at Gigabit Speeds
New approaches must leapfrog the slow pace of extending fiber to the home and high costs of 5G and satellite.
The author of this Expert Opinion is Kevin Ross, founder and CEO of WeLink
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered our behaviors in bandwidth consumption and driven enormous demand for reliable, high-speed internet access. Even before the pandemic spiked, high school and college students nationwide experienced this need for speed and continue to face this challenge today.
Broadband access also remains a critical need for millions of employees seeking to increase their productivity while working from home. According to ABI Research, "many business are allowing remote working for some of their employees after the pandemic, which will boost the need for home broadband services even further." Fast, reliable broadband access is critical for file sharing, Zoom meetings, streaming content and other bandwidth-intensive applications. This business imperative will continue in the post-COVID-19 era as the home is now the new office.
High-speed uplink connectivity is another growing concern for at-home workers, not only for web-based conferencing applications but also for sharing large files and rapid uploads. This need puts increasing pressure on upload links.
Symmetrical broadband connections, enabling equally fast uplink and download speeds.
With symmetrical access, there is no "speed discrimination" based on the direction of data traffic. End users receive the same network speed for both uploads and downloads. Businesses and work-at-home employees who rely on cloud applications, fast data transfers and non-stop, high-speed connectivity ultimately will benefit from balanced, symmetrical internet connections.
However, a major issue with most broadband services is the prevalence of asymmetrical internet access speeds, reaching hundreds of megabits per second on the downlink but much slower on the uplink. As a result, upload speeds are significantly slower than download speeds, throttling business operations and employee productivity with unnecessarily slow upload speeds. According to Speedtest, the median download speed for fixed U.S. fixed broadband subscribers in October 2021 was 131.16 Mbps, while median upload speed was 19.18 Mbps.
To help close the digital divide, we need innovative, new approaches to broadband deployment that leapfrog the slow pace of extending fiber to the home or the high cost of current conventional 5G wireless and satellite internet options.
Fixed wireless access networks, enabled by new mmWave based FWA technologies, provide an ultra-high-speed alternative to fixed-line broadband service. Although wireless internet service providers have traditionally focused on rural areas, some are deploying services in metro areas using next-generation FWA networks based on ultra-fast millimeter wave technology. FWA has been around for years but with the rollout of mmWave alternatives, FWA networks are commercially viable and speed-competitive with traditional fiber deployments.
In fact, mmWave networks are so fast they are dubbed wireless fiber, bypassing miles of underground fiber and cable infrastructure with faster, easier deployment while delivering multi-gigabit uplink and downlink speeds. The rapid rise of mmWave networks is a game-changer for WISPs and FWA networks, enabling ultra-high-speed broadband services at symmetrical gigabit speeds to residential subscribers and enterprise customers and providing a competitive alternative to fixed-line DSL, cable and fiber as well as emerging satellite broadband access.
Given the complexities of America's broadband access needs, we'll see an optimal mix of fiber, mmWave FWA wireless and satellite deployments based on infrastructure requirements. FWA service, for example, makes sense for denser urban and suburban environments where it can provide high-speed wireless broadband to homes and businesses at up to gigabit speeds, connecting the unconnected and expanding and improving broadband access.
This alternate FWA approach is much quicker and less expensive to deploy than traditional fiber-to-the-home or conventional 5G, and unlike Low earth orbit satellite, it has sufficient capacity to deliver gigabit service with significant penetration in densely populated areas. With the steady expansion of mmWave wireless networks, gigabit-speed FWA service will also make symmetrical connectivity a must-have feature and market imperative.
Now and in the future, mmWave-based FWA networks will help drive digital transformation in homes and offices and give at-home workers greater freedom of choice. This trend is even more important today as the COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed the balance of work and school from home.
Kevin Ross is founder and CEO of WeLink, a rapidly-growing, next-generation broadband provider. Kevin is pioneering the use of mmWave technologies and small cell micro-pop network architectures, combined with a crowdsourced site acquisition model, that reduces small cell deployment costs and time to market by greater than a magnitude of order. This piece is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast.
Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene. Please send pieces to commentary@breakfast.media. The views reflected in Expert Opinion pieces do not necessarily reflect the views of Broadband Breakfast and Breakfast Media LLC.


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New sensors to monitor deadly pollution levels in London's poorest are
In 2013, 9-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died after struggling for years from extreme bronchial asthma assaults. Within the years following, inquests into the dying of the younger lady, who'd lived in the southeast London borough of Lewisham, discovered that the reason for dying was air pollution from the South Round Street, a close-by main thoroughfare. She grew to become the primary individual ever in the U.Ok. to have their reason for dying formally listed as "air pollution."
Ella's dying, the coroner's report, and commissioned research that adopted, sparked larger consideration to air pollution in Britain's capital, and particularly to its disproportionate impression on low-income and minority communities. In an effort to enhance, and democratize, the gathering of air pollution knowledge, a venture funded by the mayor of London—and by billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg—is putting in air high quality sensors in communities across the metropolis, with particular concentrate on poorer communities, in the hope that the information can affect native coverage modifications.
The Environmental Research Group at Imperial School runs the London Air High quality Community (LAQN), a group of air pollution monitoring stations in London and southeast England first established in the Nineties. The group has grown to embrace a workforce of epidemiologists, lung toxicologists, coverage consultants, and others who monitor and research the information. However its advanced infrastructure, made up of cumbersome and costly sensors, has confirmed a troublesome system to replicate elsewhere.
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In response, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, with funding from C40, a worldwide community of mayors preventing local weather change, established the Breathe London community to present that it's doable to improve air high quality measurement in all elements of the town by offering cheaper, smaller, easier-to-install sensors to anybody who needs them. This community- and citizen-led monitoring mannequin is a comparatively new idea, says Andrew Grieve, senior air high quality analyst with Imperial and LAQN.
These newer sensors are solar-powered and in regards to the dimension of a shoebox, and may simply be hooked up to lampposts, visitors lights, roofs of houses or companies, and in locations like playgrounds, allotments, and residential areas. Made by California firm Readability, the sensors are coated with a chemical that reacts with pollutant particles, producing a tiny electrical present that's then magnified, and the energy of the voltage suggests the quantity of pollution in the air. However the system could be affected by situations resembling temperature and humidity, and subsequently is much less correct than the LAQN's conventional sensors. So, the Breathe workforce syncs the nodes up to LAQN's already established sensors to guarantee accuracy. Imperial's scientists research the information day by day in actual time, and proper the displays in the event that they are off.
As a result of they're compact and straightforward to set up, they can be utilized by particular person residents and communities. "It opens up new potentialities for monitoring," Grieve says. "We are now ready to monitor in locations we by no means may have with a reference station." Breathe began as a pilot, the place the Better London Authority gave sensors to 30 colleges and 10 hospitals, from essentially the most to the least polluted areas of the town. Now the sensors are accessible through on-line buy to any group or individual with funding. As an example, a partnership of 5 boroughs in southwest London have purchased 140 to place in colleges, playgrounds, and roads. "My sense is that having an air high quality monitor in your child's playground, or in your avenue," Grieve says, "is doubtlessly a way more highly effective method of individuals feeling instantly linked to the air high quality in their space."
With out funding, although, the nodes are nonetheless costly, at simply lower than 2,000 kilos ($2,600). So, over the subsequent three years, Breathe is offering 60 free ones, donated by Bloomberg's charitable group, Bloomberg Philanthropies, as a part of his 720,000-pound ($1 million) funding. Breathe can be taking applications for these 60—the primary spherical, for the primary 12 months's allocation of 10, ends this week—and is trying ideally for neighborhood teams, like residence associations or parent-teacher associations, fairly than people, and for outlined and achievable outcomes. Most crucially, it's favoring socioeconomically disadvantaged communities, which have a better prevalence of pollution and "haven't been concerned in the air high quality dialog but," Grieve says.
Since Ella's dying, her mom, Rosamund Kissi-Debrah, has become an activist, pushing for consciousness and alter round air high quality. Her work helped affect the commissioning of two studies from the town council; the most recent, from 2017, found that in areas of the poorest air high quality, 32% of individuals are from essentially the most socioeconomically disadvantaged teams, and seven% from the least disadvantaged. And, areas with excessive populations of Black and different ethnic individuals are "extra probably to have nitrogen dioxide concentrations above the EU beneficial restrict than areas with a excessive proportion of white individuals."
In an effort to encourage functions from these areas, Grieve, who's working the method, has launched a web-based consciousness marketing campaign, and has been dropping off leaflets by hand in the 5 boroughs that the stories confirmed have the best levels of air pollution and financial deprivation: Barking and Dagenham, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Croydon, and Hackney.
Grieve imagines the information assortment may finally consequence in native coverage shifts, like getting authorities to add new college routes, scale back idling, or construct new parks. Already, 70 bought sensors have been synced with cameras from Vivacity Labs, which captures street knowledge, in an effort to discover tendencies between visitors and pollution knowledge. Bloomberg additionally bought 4 sensors for cultural establishments, together with the British Library and the Nationwide Gallery, to discover how they'll talk air high quality data to guests.
However Grieve is intentionally stopping in need of citing desired coverage outcomes. He needs communities to determine their very own desired outcomes for themselves, with out his bias, which is the crux of the citizen-led strategy. "London's an enormous place," he says. "There can be teams on the market that can strategy issues in a method that we have now by no means considered. We're excited to see what individuals do with it."
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This week: Future Histories at the BMA, Black Artists & Baltimore: A Conversation w/ Myrtis Bedolla at the Creative Alliance, Cat Gunn: Super Bloom opening reception at Hotel Indigo, Artists + Climate Change at the Hirshhorn, David Jewell: Night reception at Exeter Gallery, and The Peale presents Leah Clare Michaels: Melpomene & The Trinity of Mourning closing reception at Carroll Mansion.
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BmoreArt's Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.
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Tuesday, December 17th • 6-10pm
10 Art Museum Drive : 21218
Join Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning investigative reporter and creator of The 1619 Project for The New York Times, activist/art collector Pamela J. Joyner, and Baltimore-based artist Zoë Charlton for a conversation about how a more complete accounting of history makes different futures possible. The evening includes:
Free admission to Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art
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Interactive mural painting project with multi-disciplinary illustrator and muralist Megan Lewis
Music by Jamal Moore & Organix Trio and DJ Harvey Dent
Free tickets available at the door. Overflow viewing via live stream will be available throughout the Museum. Seating in the auditorium and overflow viewing areas is limited.
Black Artists & Baltimore: A Conversation w/ Myrtis Bedolla
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3134 Eastern Avenue : 21224
The Founding Director of Galerie Myrtis will speak about her experience in Baltimore and the importance of having Black artists visible in Baltimore. There will be a conversation with Visual Arts Curator, Thomas James, and a Q&A session with the audience.
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https://www.creativealliance.org/events/2019/black-artists-baltimore-conversation-w-myrtis-bedolla
Cat Gunn: Super Bloom | Opening Reception
Wednesday, December 18th • 6-8pm
24 West Franklin Street : 21201
On View: November 19, 2019 – January 10, 2020
Maryland Art Place (MAP) in partnership with Hotel Indigo, are pleased to present its last exhibition of the year at Hotel Indigo by introducing new works by Baltimore based emerging artist, Cat Gunn! As an abstract painter, Cat is known for re-interpreting the boundaries of the traditional canvas. Gunn's paintings will be hung in Hotel Indigo's library and Poets Modern Cocktails and Eats. The reception will be held on Wednesday, December 18th from 6 to 8pm.
Cat Gunn is an artist living and working in Baltimore who identifies as non-binary transgender and queer. They create abstract paintings with layers of oil paints and mediums built up over time, using a variety of techniques to manipulate the alchemy of the paint. Gunn has recently exhibited work at Terrault Contemporary in Baltimore, MD, Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, MD, Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, 40 West Arts Gallery in Lakewood, CO, and Ashton Gallery in San Diego, CA among others.
Gunn received a BFA in Painting from Towson University.
Artists + Climate Change
Friday, December 20th • 4pm
Hirshhorn Museum
Independence Avenue + 7th Streets NW : Washington DC
Join artist Katie Kehoe at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on Friday, December 20 at 4pm as she discusses how her artistic practice encourages dialogue about sea level rise and climate change. This program will begin with a brief introductory performance inspired by Harbinger, a performance organized by Kehoe that took place around the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC on October 20, 2019. The performative introduction will begin in the museum's lobby at 4pm and move to the Lerner Room, on the third floor. It will be followed by a conversation between Kehoe and Blair Murphy, AAC's Curator of Exhibitions, focused on the artist's use of performance and public engagement in her practice. The program will conclude with an opportunity for audience members to experience Kehoe's approach to cultivating dialogue in public spaces.
Katie Kehoe creates object-based performances and site-specific installations, often incorporating duration, social engagement, and adaptive reuse of materials. Embracing the absurd to engage the everyday, Kehoe produces scenarios that invite conversation and dialogue with the public. Her performance series Provisions for Buoyancy: on the East Coast, involved producing eighteen durational performances in ten US states and two Canadian provinces, drawing attention to areas that would be flooded if sea levels rise by six feet. Raised in Cape Breton, NS and currently living in Fredericksburg, VA, Kehoe teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and George Mason University. Her work has been exhibited across the US and Canada, highlights include: The Contemporary Museum (Baltimore, MD), Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME), RedLine Contemporary (Denver, CO), Emerge Art Fair (Washington, DC), SummerWorks Festival – LiveArt Series (Toronto, ON) as well as solo exhibitions at VisArts (Rockville, MD), Verso Gallery and Type Books Gallery (Toronto, CAN). Kehoe holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD) and a BA Hons from Saint Mary's University (Halifax, NS).
David Jewell: Night | Opening Reception
Saturday, December 21st • 3-6pm
Exeter Gallery
241 South Exeter Street : 21202
November 21st – January 10th
Two consecutive exhibitions, "Night & Day," celebrate dualism in the work of David Jewell: light and dark, construction and destruction, drawing and painting, finished and unresolved, hope and despair.
The first of these two exhibitions, "Night," is on view now with a reception on Saturday, December 21st 3-6pm, just before the winter solstice. "Day" will run from January 17th – February 29th with a reception on February 15th. Exeter is open by appointment only. Email [email protected] or call 443-250-2345 to coordinate a visit.
Jewell's underdrawings are built in geometric terms. They are wrought by perspective, isometry, and mathematics. There is an exactitude in this work, a mysterious knowledge and execution in the drawing, that underpins these paintings which could snuff out human tenderness under another artist's hands. But when Jewell uses this linear armature, he is free to paint with joy, doubt, carelessness, despair, and deep reverence. The surfaces of these painting are replete with thumb prints, globs, sparkles of gold, cookie crumbs, napkin daubs, big swooshing slops, and intricate stipples which coalesce. Each painting is really many paintings, over paintings, over paintings… built like layers of dust swirling endlessly on a desert plateau. It is apparent that these paintings have been found through a deliberate searching, even fumbling, by the artist. Yet the final state of the painting feels paradoxically inevitable. Like coming upon a ruin and realizing that, only through the forces enacted upon stone over a millennium, did the thing come to bear the beauty it possesses now.
Jewell's insatiable creativity and boundless productivity is perhaps only matched by fits of careening destruction. Some years ago, after returning from a trip to Martha's Vineyard where the artist made many beautiful landscapes over the period of a month, he asked to borrow my table saw. I gladly obliged and was horrified later to find tiny squares of the formerly whole paintings littering the trash. Another time, after discovering that his massive painting on linen had sagged in his humid midwestern studio, he destroyed the painting. David Jewell personifies a duality inherent in the creative process. The cycle of making and destroying is central to the creative process of many of our greatest artists and seems to be the underlying principal of all ten of Richard Diebenkorn's Notes to Myself on Beginning a Painting found among his papers after his death in 1993.
Jewell typically paints in oil and acrylic on panel. Sometimes the panels are covered by canvas or muslin. Other times the paint is applied to canvas on stretchers. "Night" features a sampling of twenty-four paintings spanning a period of twenty years. The show is comprised of predominantly still life, some allegorical scenes (his Social Media Failure series), and a few nocturnes. A group of small heads painted on cigar box panels as classroom demonstrations are also included in the exhibition. These works are extremely reduced and almost three-tone in nature. Large geometric forms, reminiscent of Euan Uglow and Catherine Kehoe but with a more subtle earthen palette, are broken down into smaller more particular fragments that define individualized headshapes and features. By combining ochre, black and white and allowing the rich amber tones of the wood to show though Jewell can make white appear blue or make greens by combining ochre and black. These simple paintings demonstrate Jewell's masterful understanding of structures and temperature shifts and offer a nice counterpoint to the larger and dauntingly complex compositions throughout the exhibition.
Leah Clare Michaels: Melpomene & The Trinity of Mourning | Closing Reception
Sunday, December 22nd • 3-5pm
Carroll Mansion
800 East Lombard Street : 21202
Exhibition runs October 26 – December 29, 2019
In each of the three pieces, Leah embodies Melpomene, Greek muse of sorrow and tragedy, creating a series of mourning rituals intended to draw awareness to personal and political social justice issues.
In the piece Clean All the Stolpersteine, Leah, dressed in black, uses white rags to clean individual brass cobblestone memorials in Berlin and Rome that are dedicated to victims of the Holocaust. The memorials, called Stolpersteine, have been created by German artist Gunter Demnig since the early 1990s. His series acts as an ever-growing collection of intimate memorials embedded in the streets outside the houses where people lived when they were kidnapped and taken to concentration and extermination camps. Each Stolperstein ("stumbling block" in English) bears a brass plate engraved with the name and birth-death dates of the victim. To date, Demnig has placed more than 70,000 stones throughout Europe.
As an American with European ancestry, including German and Italian, Leah's act of cleaning and mourning aims to: honor the individuals who were lost to the Holocaust; honor Gunter Demnig for starting and continuing his project; draw attention to political cycles we have seen before that are occurring again; raise awareness of the role the United States has played in turning away Jewish immigrants and others seeking asylum, as well as carrying out the internment of Japanese immigrants and United States citizens of Japanese descent during World War II; and discuss the United States' lack of memorials to the atrocities our government has enacted. The piece focuses on the role of public space, public memory, and rituals of mourning. Leah plans to continue cleaning Stolpersteine wherever and whenever she stumbles upon them.
This exhibition features video and photographic documentation of the performative works.
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I visited Lombok for the first time in the mid-80s, December 1984 to be exact. We visited part of the main island and spent a few days in Mataram, but we spent more time hanging round Gilik Trawangan, a real paradise at that time. In Gili Trawangan there was only 1 small basic accommodation then, this belonged to the family who lived there in the island. Gili Trawangan was truly untouched then, clean water and the cost of this accommodation was only £2 per night at the time (Rp.25,000) all inclusive (room and meals 3 x daily). Today, Gili Trawangan is a little Ibiza full of drunken tourists never-ending noisy bars and restaurants. I am so happy that I saw it when it was still a real paradise.
Lombok is located east of Bali, is part of the West Nusa Tenggara Strings of islands (Bali, Lombok, and Sumbawa). Lombok is less famous than its neighbor, Bali, less spoiled and less commercialize in many ways. When millions of people still flocking to Bali every year despite its being overcrowded, Lombok, on the other hand, less visited in spite of its beautiful beaches where many places there are still untouched.
Lombok offers amazing things for tourists, such as fabulous food, white beaches, beautiful hotels with sea views. From the mainland, you can reach the Gili islands fairly easily by small motor boats.
Hotels prices here in Lombok are reasonable, and during the low seasons, you can stay in a 4-star hotel for as little as US$ 50 a night. We stayed at a lovely seaside hotel in the Senggigi Resort but travels to many parts of Lombok during our stay. We visited the Kuta Beach Lombok, Sade – the Sasak Village and the weaving region of Sukarare.
To me, Lombok is very special, because I love less-touristy destinations. The people here are friendly, and the food is still authentic and superbly delicious. My favorite dish is "plecing kangkong", morning glory vegetables slightly cooked and served in super hot special chilly condiment flavored with local lemon juice.
There are so many things to see in Lombok. If you hire a car during your stay, drive around using the sea-side road and sample some local cuisine in local warung/restaurants. Enjoy freshly grilled fish for a mere US$5 per portion, you won't be disappointed. You can sit on a hut by the beach, watching local activities, whilst you are waiting for your meal. Everything here cooked from fresh.


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Honduran Women Farm Workers Are Fighting Back Against Fyffes Company's Abuses
Caitrin McKee, USLEAP, International Labor Rights Forum
On the morning of December 3rd, in Choluteca, Honduras, 14 women melon workers had to be hospitalized after their exposure to toxic chemicals on a Suragroh melon plantation owned by the Irish food and fresh produce multinational Fyffes. None of the 150 workers sickened that day were provided with the necessary safety gear to protect them. One of the victims, who asked to remain anonymous, told a local newspaper, "we began to feel our eyes burning and the urge to vomit…and our legs felt weak and we started to fall down. Our legs didn't respond to be able to stand up."
Labor rights abuses such as these are well-documented in Honduras' melon export sector, which employs an estimated 25,000 workers – 70% of them women. A 2012 ILRF report revealed that over 85% earned less than the minimum wage and were subjected to other illegal working conditions. A third of melon workers were single mothers with two or more children. In addition to their family responsibilities, they put in 12-14 hour workdays, seven days a week. These women left home before sunrise and returned late at night, relying on neighbors to supervise their kids.
The vast majority of Suragroh workers are employed on an informal basis (with no written contract). This lack of paperwork enables the company to avoid paying for benefits through the Honduran Institute of Social Security (IHSS), a practice that disproportionately impacts women by denying them access to health care, maternity leave, and education vouchers for their children to attend school. Women workers also face discrimination on the job, with most lacking access to restroom facilities, and one-fifth reporting having been fired after becoming pregnant.
Despite these proven violations, the Honduran government has routinely failed to hold companies accountable, and workers have long been unable to speak out, afraid their contracts won't be renewed the following year. Unlike their counterparts in Honduras' banana sector - where women are actively involved in well-established unions - melon workers have not yet been able to organize into unions to fight for just wages and working conditions.
But things might be changing: on January 28th, 2016, workers for Suragroh achieved a historic milestone, becoming the first in their sector to unionize. The trade union federation FESTAGRO, an ILRF partner, helped workers establish a local branch of the trade union STAS, which presented a list of demands to Suragroh in the presence of officials from the Honduran Ministry of Labor. With this important step, the local union leadership – most of them women – officially requested an agreement to begin negotiations and collective bargaining to address the injustices they face.
Not surprisingly, local management is fighting dirty to crush the nascent union and protect its profits. The day after presenting their demands to management, four union leaders were locked up in an office for hours where the company's Chief of Security threatened them until they signed a document renouncing their membership in the union.
Yet Suragroh workers didn't back down, electing a new union leadership board of five women and men the very same day. The company quickly tried to use the same intimidation tactics to force the five leaders to renounce, but the workers resisted.
Since then, Suragroh has failed to meet two legal deadlines to respond to workers' demands and agree to negotiations, and a local Ministry of Labor official refused to deliver a subpoena ordering Suragroh to appear before the body. According to FESTAGRO leader Nelson Nuñez, companies in Southern Honduras are vehemently opposed to accepting the existence of even one union, fearing it may inspire others to follow in the Suragroh workers' footsteps.
This is not the first time Suragroh has been called out for violating Honduran labor laws. The company was named in the CAFTA complaint filed in 2012 by the AFL-CIO against the government of Honduras. In a 2015 report, the U.S. Department of Labor confirmed the complaint's allegations that Suragroh failed to pay the minimum wage, among a lengthy list of other violations.
Suragroh's intransigence is being enabled in part by parent company Fyffes, who inexcusably takes the lies told by local management at face value. And despite Fyffes' membership in the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) – which requires honoring workers' rights – the company has failed to take workers' claims seriously.
In response to letters written by ILRF and the Solidarity Center informing CEO David McCann about the union's treatment, Mr. McCann said only that Fyffes "is engaged in employee consultation processes in the countries in which we operate," and that they "believe it is appropriate that local processes should be used to resolve local issues." And in a statement to The Guardian, ETI Executive Director echoed Fyffes' erroneous claim that "there are local processes in place in this case."
On February 11th, the British trade union GMB called for Fyffes to be expelled from the Ethical Trading Initiative, a move that substantially increases pressure on the company. The Honduran union STAS sent its own strongly worded letter to ETI on March 3rd, declaring, "We categorically refute these statements from Fyffes" that it is handling the situation locally. STAS' letter pointed out that Suragroh has refused to negotiate and included official government documents to back up workers' claims. Fyffes is now in possession of a Honduran Ministry of Labor report declaring that Suragroh owes workers over $80,000 from 2015 and has until March 7th to pay up.
Fyffes needs to take this case seriously, along with other cases of labor abuses in its supply chain (including in Costa Rica, where union members have been systematically fired). ILRF is working with European allies in the "Make Fruit Fair" coalition, to demand that Fyffes and Suragroh end their entrenched disregard for workers' rights, including discrimination against women workers.
ILRF echoes STAS' demand that Fyffes "initiate a process of investigation into these allegations," so that workers can "have trust in assurances that the company monitors and enforces labor laws in the countries where it has business operations." Fyffes must immediately halt the threats against union leaders, agree to initiate negotiations and collective bargaining, and bring its labor practices into compliance with Honduran labor law and the ETI.
Speaking to international solidarity groups, union leaders recently recounted the insults they had been subjected to for years at the hands of employers, who, they said, "give more value to a tomato than a worker." But they have joined farm worker women from across Central America to push back against attempts to silence them, and ILRF will continue to amplify their voices for as long as it takes, until companies – including Fyffes – start to listen.
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Passed January 1, 2016
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School University of Arkansas, Northwestern Law School
Family Married Betty Flanagan; three children
National Office(s) Served Senator
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DALE BUMPERS was born in Charleston, Arkansas, on August 12, 1925. He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, and received an LL.D. from Northwestern Law School in 1951. Early on, he practiced as a small-town attorney, owned and operated a hardware store, raised cattle, and became active in community affairs. After serving in the Marines during World War II, he finished his education at the University of Arkansas and Northwestern University Law School. His public service included: member, County Board of Education (1952-1970); Charleston School Board (1958-1970); Charleston City Attorney (1955-1970); and Special Justice of Arkansas Supreme Court (1968). He ran for Governor of Arkansas in 1970, and was elected to two terms. During his first term, he and his wife, Betty, became early advocates of childhood immunization. Governor Bumpers chaired the Democratic Governors' Association from 1972 to 1973 and served on the National Governors' Conference Executive Committee from 1973 to 1974. Governor Bumpers was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974. He chaired the Senate Small Business Committee, advocated a strong but sane defense budget, and was a champion of the taxpayer and a foe of government waste. Throughout his 24-year career in Congress from 1975 until 1999, he was the acknowledged leader on immunization issues. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, he worked to increase funding for efforts to improve and purchase vaccines for childhood diseases like measles, mumps, whooping cough and polio, and to develop new vaccines against diseases like bacterial meningitis.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs recalled goaltender Michael Hutchinson from the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Friday.
Frederik Andersen's backup, Garret Sparks, has lost nine of his past 11 decisions and has never played in an NHL playoff game.
Hutchinson was acquired from the Florida Panthers on Dec. 29 and posted a 2-3-0 record with a 2.64 goals against average and a .914 save percentage in five appearances with the Maple Leafs when Andersen was sidelined by a groin injury. He has registered a 14-5-3 record with a 2.70 goals-against average and a .910 save percentage in 23 games with the Marlies.
Hutchinson owns a 46-43-13 record with a 2.70 goals-against average, a .908 save percentage and four shutouts in 111 career NHL games. Like Sparks, Hutchinson has no postseason experience.
Andersen is expected to start Toronto's final two regular-season games leading up to the first-round playoff series against the Boston Bruins.
Sparks has a career .898 save percentage, and the Maple Leafs are expected to go with Andersen as much as possible during the playoffs.


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Colin Thurston was born in Singapore in 1947. He had previously worked as a jingle writer and had also played in bands extensively across London before crossing over into audio engineering. During the course of his career, he worked with such industry greats as Tony Visconti, David Bowie, Talk Talk and The Human League to name but a few. Thurston first achieved major recognition however following his work alongside Duran Duran on their 'Rio' and 'Duran Duran' albums. John Taylor, Duran bass player, has since described him as "the major catalyst for the Eighties sound". In short, this guy was influential!
'I think that's got something guys' proclaimed Gambo, as the song was transformed following three re-writes and a change the middle section as late as the day of the final recording. Thurston, in conjunction with Nick Rhodes, had turned the track from a prospective B-side into Kajagoogoo's first hit. The subsequent album, 'White Feathers', was a global smash.
The relationship between Kajagoogoo and Thurston was no passing fancy however, as he was again to join the band again in the studio to record 'Islands', not only in the capacity of producer, but also as a backing vocalist (a hangover from his days as a part of a gigging band perhaps?) The dynamic of the band had of course changed by that time. Nick had taken over lead vocals and also introduced the Chapman Stick into the mix for the first time. Songs were recorded very differently too, with tracks being laid down in a number of studios often with lyrics and melody lines being written in the studio itself.
The leisurely pace seemed to suit the guys, who have since declared the recording process to be "leisurely and enjoyable". Islands also incorporated a brass section and a shift towards a jazz based sound, giving the band more worldwide success. The "leisurely and enjoyable" atmosphere cultivated by Thurston had reaped its rewards.
That was however the last time that that Kajagoogoo would work with Colin Thurston, as legendary producer Ken Scott produced the next 'Goo long player, Crazy People's Right to Speak'. It is however important to recognize what a major part Thurston played in the creation of the Kajagoogoo sound. The band and indeed the fans owe him a great debt of gratitude.
Colin Thurston died on January 15th 2007 following a long illness.


Home » SHOPPING LIKE A LOCAL: FOOD MARKETS!
Visiting a market is often one of the highlights of our Barcelona walking tours: it is the best way to get in touch with the local lifestyle and the traditional products and food. Today I am glad to introduce our guest author Catriona Robertson who is sharing with us what are the best marketplaces in Barcelona.
Barcelona is known for tapas dishes such as patatas bravas, marinated olives, cheeses, mussels and sausage, as well as seafood paella plus delicious craft beers. If you want to sample local produce, or purchase your own to cook in a self-catering apartment/hostel, markets can be a great opportunity for finding inexpensive food and beverages plus small eateries within a lively atmosphere on Spanish holidays.
Mercat de la Llibertat. Gracia is a popular district of Barcelona where this market stands as a shining example of 19th-century brick and iron Modernist architecture. Formerly a hub where local farmers came to sell vegetables and poultry, you can now enjoy a whole variety of products from fish to pulses and fruit here. Try Bordas for the best quality meats and make sure you also stop by the Hueveria (egg market) Vigatana, adjacent to this building, where you can purchase almost every type of egg imaginable – even ostrich!
Mercat de l'Abacería Central. Dating back to the 1800s, it has remained largely unchanged across the years. It's a vibrant, no-frills market that offers true local flavor and feels a little more authentic than the Mercat de la Llibertat. Those looking to sample the produce on-site can choose from three bars serving up tasty dishes prepared with delights from the stalls, and look out for the beautiful oval roof above the central aisle.
Mercat Galvany. For a more upscale experience, head to the upmarket Sant Gervasi-Galvany neighborhood. Its uniquely striking structure is topped by a huge dome and decorated with stained-glass windows and mosaic and it is certainly a sight to behold. It's also pricey, so you might just want to take a good long look and grab a sandwich instead of doing major shopping there.
La Boqueria (Mercat de Sant Josep). Accessible via La Rambla, this market has attracted tourists for decades with it's wonderful aromas and magnificent colourful stalls. Walk amid fresh mushrooms, chocolate and salamis, pick up a refreshing fruit smoothie, or just stroll through to soak up the unique atmosphere. Slightly more expensive than some of the hidden gems, it might be better to stroll around here before making your way to more reasonably priced dining experiences.
Mercat del Ninot Popular with the locals and close to the Square of Catalonia, but hidden enough not to fall within the reaches of tour guides, Mercat del Ninot is certainly great if you are looking for tapas bars or fresh Jabugo ham. Iberian (or Jabugo) ham is some of the finest in the world, produced in the region of the same name from pure-bred black Iberian pigs. The pigs thrive on nuts meaning the meat has a very distinctive flavor, definitely a must for those passionate about sampling Spanish cuisine. Try it with a glass of sherry or tomato bread for a tantalizing experience.
Shopping in markets and supermarkets abroad is all part of experiencing the local culture, whether you simply want to admire the fresh produce or barter with the stallholders. Unfamiliar sights and sounds will fill your senses, and you will certainly be tempted to make some purchases!
Why not try some of these fantastic Barcelona markets or tell us about your own favorite markets in the comments?
Part-time travel writer Catriona Robertson works nine to five but lives for weekend city breaks in Europe and beyond. She loves foodie experiences from touring Italian vineyards to sampling local drinks such as Greek/Turkish Raki and her favorite so far is Churros con Chocolate (to satisfy the sweet tooth)!


Little Paper Planes | Session 3, Week 3!
We are over half way with session 3, how did that happen so fast! This week we had the biggest group we have had so far this session, a whopping 5 kids! The spring break kerfuffle is nearly over and we cannot wait to have the whole group together again!
This week I (Dana) took the lead on planning the project, choosing the artist and teaching the class. I was so excited this was during the week we were scheduled to explore the concept of 'color'! I have been in awe of Brazilian artist Yago Hortal for quite some time now… So I was very happy to be able to show the kiddos his impressive work. Yago works with manipulating acrylic paint in the most beautiful ways. He makes it so that his medium is in fact the art piece.
Check out some of Yago's work here.
In order to use the inspiration gathered from Yago's blending of colors, I wanted to have the kiddos do a project that would require the same movements. With little 5×7 photo frames, the kiddos made small 'stained glass' pieces. They used glitter glue (definitely the most popular medium), acrylic paint and food coloring and blended their chosen colors together. When they finished with their 'glass' (plexiglass) piece, their next task was to paint the frame. The only catch was that they needed to use their knowledge of mixing colors to choose the color for the frame…. No primary colored frames allowed!
This proved to be a very fun, exciting project… Especially when they got to the point of covering their entire hands with glitter glue and getting to the messy portion of the class! I cant wait to show the kids their dried, finished projects next week!
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[Blog post] Is owning and operating really any safer?
One of the arguments I hear over and over again with regard to cloud computing is that entrusting your enterprise secrets to the stewardship of a cloud service provider does nothing but relinquish your control over your information, which will inevitably lead to bad stuff happening.
In some cases this makes me laugh while in others I feel my toes curling in my shoes. Loss of control is by far the least compelling argument I've heard as to why cloud services might not be for your business.
I ask you this - how much control do you have today? Most people have no idea. Do you really know what every administrator is doing, whether on the payroll or a subcontractor with a privileged account? Could the bios in your laptop be potentially untrustworthy, Lenovo?
How do you know a competitor or hactivist isn't lurking in plain sight in your security team or even your executive team? How about network configuration: who manages those tricky configuration files on all your switches and routers, and do they notify you every time they make a security-relevant change? Are your operating systems fully patched and up-to-date?
Do you oversee the quality control in the development process that created the code used in the browser you use to surf the internet?
Just last month we had yet another SSL vulnerability that had us all scrambling for the big red update button, so who's really in control?
The real question should be: is our data any worse off when it's in the cloud as opposed to your own data centre (that may or may not be 30 years old and built on a flood plain).
The reality is that cloud has become the new IT services model and we need to embrace it. Cloud providers understand that security is fundamental to their offerings as it can literally make or break them.
If Salesforce or Amazon repeatedly suffered breaches or major outages, you wouldn't touch them with a bargepole. They need to be better than the rest and better than what you can do yourself.
As such, they are providing services with more security than the majority of users need; just take a look at the Amazon Web Services security site to get an idea of what they have provided to assure you that they can keep you safe.
If you happen to store your prized customer database on an old Windows 2003 Server in a back room in head office, what happens after July 15th when Microsoft stops sending you security patches?
If you weigh it up and decide cloud is for you, just remember to do some due diligence before you dive in.
What certifications do they have? Certs don't make them great, but it shows they have done enough to meet the demands of an external audit – which in itself is some level of assurance. Look at the audit scope and ensure it's comprehensive. If it's limited to just one part of their service, walk away. They are unlikely to care that much about security and have done the exercise just to make them sound as good as the next guy.
Where will your data be stored? What happens in the event of a continuity incident? You don't want your data going offshore even if they have a major catastrophe.
What rules do they play by? If it's an American company, it may be bound by the US legal system, hence allowing the FBI or CIA unfettered access to your data.
How much auditing do they do? And how much will they provide to you? Audit logs can be fed into your SIEM solution to alert you when bad things are happening, but you might also be content to just get reports for investigation after the fact.
How do you off-board from their service? Should you decide to leave them, how can you be sure they have removed all your data and not left copies of your confidential information lying around?
This is just a subset of the questions you should be asking a prospective cloud provider; there will always be specific questions to your business that may be more pertinent. Once you get agreement that this meets your needs, make sure it's all covered in your contract.
You can then focus on mitigating the risks that they can't handle for you, such as what to do if they go into administration, or if a breach still happens (despite everyone's best efforts). You'll still need your communications plan and an incident response capability because bad things inevitably happen.
Using cloud services is an excellent way to reign in your IT spending and ensure you remain as secure as possible, while still gaining the advantages of better uptime and availability.
But like anything shiny and new, there is a downside. Be sensible and treat it like any other service provision and you'll not go far wrong.
A little sprinkling of due diligence up front could save you heaps of grief later.


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There will also be a new multi-episode story-arc format.
Donald Glover of "Community" voices the character Miles Morales in an episode airing in 2015.
Come on, who did you expect - Superman?
There are sure to be tons of adventures for the Avengers this season.


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The Decemberists and Olivia Chaney are OFFA REX
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 • 8:00pm
OFFA REX— new project from Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists - to release The Queen of Hearts July 7 on Nonesuch Records.
Watch their studio performance for the title track at NPR Music: http://n.pr/2q7adQQ
On July 7, Nonesuch Records will release The Queen of Hearts, the debut album from Offa Rex, an adventurous new project featuring English singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists. Produced and recorded by Tucker Martine (Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Neko Case) and Colin Meloy at Martine's studio in Portland, OR, and mostly arranged by Olivia Chaney, the thirteen tracks on The Queen of Hearts draw largely on traditional English-Irish-Scottish repertoire to create a transatlantic musical conversation that flirts with psychedelia and folk rock while maintaining its own inimitable identity. Pre-orders are available now from iTunes and the Nonesuch Store, where the title track may be downloaded instantly; Nonesuch Store pre-orders also include an exclusive print, a limited number of which will be autographed by the musicians.
Listen to Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists' Colin Meloy discuss the project with Bob Boilen for NPR's All Songs +1: http://n.pr/2q7adQQ
And watch a studio performance video for the title track "The Queen of Hearts" at NPR Music: http://n.pr/2q7adQQ
The origins of Offa Rex can be traced to a tweet. Meloy, a fan of Chaney's 2015 Nonesuch debut, The Longest River, struck up a dialog with her over Twitter, which eventually led to her supporting The Decemberists on a U.S. tour. Chaney says: "Every so often [on the tour] Colin and I would have these fleeting but quite intense conversations about songwriting and singing traditional songs. One night he asked me, grinning, 'Have you ever thought of having a backing group? We'll be your Albion Dance Band.'"
Meloy adds: "There's this weird relationship between British and American music, this interesting trade and theft that goes back and forth. My hope was that if we—the neophytes, the dilettantes, the pretenders—brought Olivia to Portland to work with Tucker, perhaps these traditional British songs would be infused with something different."
From the heady harpsichord swirl that engulfs album opener "The Queen of Hearts" to the warm, delicate drone of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," or the cold, grey riff that heralds "Sheepcrook and Black Dog," it's evident that Offa Rex is different indeed, upending its folk roots and imbuing these songs with exploratory verve.
Offa Rex will tour this summer, including performances at the Newport Folk Festival, Town Hall in New York, and at The Aladdin in Portland. They will also be performing at Travelers' Rest, The Decemberists' two-day curated festival in Missoula, MT on August 12 and 13. Additionally, Olivia Chaney will support The Decemberists during their August tour, during which she will join the band on stage to perform songs from The Queen of Hearts. Chaney will also do a few solo shows around these dates.
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Much has already been said about Jessie, the elderly silver maple in Stewart Park which was taken down Thursday, March 15, by arborists. However, some updates on the removal, and insights into the remarkable life of the tree's namesake, are in order here.
Jessie was cut down because her health was deteriorating, and she was showing her age – with rotting, and previous damage from severe weather. There was the possibility of falling limbs in the future, and this became a safety issue. The stately tree was 93 years old, and she was the named after of Jessie Mabel Stewart, who left a wonderful legacy for the Town of Perth in the form of family lands and endowments.
Later in the same year, Jessie Stewart penned a letter to the chairman of the public school board stating: "Not long ago, I was approached by Dr. C.B. Church and others associated with him with regard to a site for a new school. It was thought that a suitable site would be the property which I own in the town of Perth which fronts on Wilson St. and is in part bounded by the River and Leslie Street, which I believe has an area of about 11 acres.
It was a sad day in 1956 when Perth citizens learned that Jessie Stewart had passed away at her home, known as Thuresson Place. She was in her eighty-eighth year. The house was originally constructed in 1878 by her father, Jesse T. Henderson, on Drummond Street West near Boulton Street, and is now known as the Perth Manor Boutique Hotel.
Locally, Stewart was a Life Director of the Great War Memorial Hospital of Perth District, Honourary President of the Women's Hospital Aid Association, Honourary President of the Perth Museum, and District Commissioner of the Girl Guides.
As you have probably noted, Stewart had been awarded the OBE (Officer – Order of the British Empire). The citation reads: "Mrs. Jessie Stewart on June 29, 1935, 'For public service in Dominion of Canada.'" She was installed alongside such luminaries as author Lucy Maude M. MacDonald (Montgomery), and Wilfred Reid 'Wop' May, OBE DFC, who was a Canadian flying ace in the First World War and the last Allied pilot to be pursued by Baron Manfred von Richthofen.
And so, the remaining stump of Jessie the silver maple is destined to be removed within the next few weeks, and it is thought there may be left a small seat or table to signify the location. Perhaps an engraved plate as a fitting memorial to the tree and the person.


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Manufacturing, Medical Tourism & Reform: Kenya Woos Investors into Health Sector as Public Hospitals Fail to Cope
Written by Isaac Mwangi
Quality health facilities in Kenya are limited and concentrated in the country's capital, Nairobi. Although there are private hospitals that offer great services — and have specialized equipment — their fees are too high for many. With Kenya's health facilities unable to keep pace with the demands of its rising population, the shortage is translating into huge opportunities for potential investors.
These opportunities exist in virtually all areas of the medical world, including inpatient and outpatient care, preventative care and diagnostic services. However, it's a stable government, economic reforms and a large pool of skilled workers that attract potential investors.
Strained Health Services
Kenya's weak provision of public health services and increased constraint of health resources have opened a gap for private enterprises to step in and fill. Other factors placing a strain on services include poor remuneration of health personnel and the growing affluence of the country's middle class. Lifestyle diseases have been rising, stretching existing facilities to the limit.
Recent reports indicate that congestion at the Kenyatta National Hospital, the largest referral hospital in the country, has now reached a worrying level.
The most affected are the orthopedic ward and accident and emergency departments. The orthopedic section is supposed to hold 32 patients, but holds up to 110.
The hospital communications officer, Simon Ithae, says that provincial and district hospitals could play a role to ease the hospital's patient load. Ithae believes these health facilities have the potential to offer equivalent and quality services.
"We have long queues of patients. Our cardiologists are currently booking patients for the year 2015," Ithae said.
Government and Public-Private Partnerships
The government is currently working on a health sector public-private partnership strategy — created to allow private investors to get a share in the management and control of public hospitals. It also proposes that private investors get returns on their investments, but at a rate that does not hamper the operations of these facilities. The majority of these are manned by the government, with private enterprises being in charge of 34 per cent of Kenya's 6,190 health facilities.
Speaking during the opening of Wesley Mission Health Center — which is modeled on the new government strategy — Nakuru County deputy governor Joseph Ruto advocated for a concept that benefits patients.
"We are ready for public-private partnerships (PPPs) to build more health centers as close to the people as possible," Ruto said.


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Q: How to find the number of elements in least common multiple problem? The problem is as follows:

Over a table there is a certain number of muffins, if we count them by
  multiples of four the remainder is three. If we count them by
  multiples of six the remainder is five but if we count them by
  multiples of ten the remainder is nine. What is the least number of
  muffins over the table?

What I tried to do is to build up the equations to get the supposed number as follows:
$\textrm{n is defined as the number of muffins}$
$4k+3=n$
$6k+5=n$
$10k+9=n$
Then i equated those to get the value of $k$.
$4k+3=6k+5$
$2k=-2$
$k=-1$
$10k+9=6k+5$
$4k=-4$
$k=-1$
$4k+3=10k+9$
$6k=-6$
$k=-1$
However in all cases I reach to $-1$ and it does not seem to be reasonable to use it in any of those equations. I'm lost in this one can somebody help me to address this situation the easiest way possible?.

A: The reason you are getting a nonsensical answer is because there is no reason why the values of $k$ in your three equations should be the same. All you really know is that there are integers $a,b,c$ such that
$$\begin{align}
n &= 3 + 4a, \\
n &= 5 + 6b, \\
n &= 9 + 10c.
\end{align}$$
To solve this, you can iteratively substitute. From the first equation $n = 3 + 4a$, we see that
$$ 3 + 4a = 5 + 6b,$$
or rather that $2a = 1 + 3b = 4 + 3(b-1) = 4 + 3b'$ for some integer $b'$. Note that $b'$ must be even so that the right hand side is even (which must occur as the left hand side is even). So we can write $b' = 2b''$ for some integer $b''$.
Then from $2a = 4 + 6b''$, we have that $a = 2 + 3b''$. Substituting into $n = 3 + 4a$, we find that $n = 3 + 4(2 + 3b'') = 11 + 12b''$ for some integer $b''$. It's annoying to write $b''$, so I'll write $d$ instead of $b''$.
The point is that the information that
$$\begin{align}
n &= 3 + 4a \\
n &= 5 + 6b
\end{align}$$
is contained within the single equation $n = 11 + 12d$. Indeed, if $n = 11 + 12d$ for some integer $d$, then its remainder upon dividing by $4$ is $3$, and its remainder upon dividing by $6$ is $5$. We showed the converse above. Thus from two equations, we have one.
Now we repeat, this time with
$$\begin{align}
n &= 11 + 12 d \\
n &= 9 + 10 c.
\end{align}$$
Equating, we see that $9 + 10c = 11 + 12d$, or rather that $5c = 1 + 6d$. As above, we massage the right hand side a bit and write $5c = 25 + 6(d - 4) = 25 + 6d'$. In this form, we see that $d'$ must be divisible by $5$ to make the right hand side divisible by $5$ (as the left hand side is divisible by $5$). So we can write $d' = 5 d''$ for some integer $d''$. Thus $5c = 25 + 30d''$, or rather $c = 5 + 6d''$. Writing $d''$ is annoying, so I use $e$ instead.
Then we have that $c = 5 + 6e$. Substituting into $n = 9 + 10c$, we have that
$$ n = 9 + 10(5 + 6e) = 59 + 60e.$$
Notice that if $n = 59 + 60e$, then dividing by $4$ leaves remainder $3$, dividing by $6$ leaves remainder $5$, and dividing by $10$ leaves remainder $9$. And to get $n = 59 + 60e$, we just massaged the equations above.
Thus the set of integers that leave the three necessary remainders are exactly those integers of the form $59 + 60e$. The smallest (positive) integer of this form is $59$. (Note that $-1$ is also of this form, and you found $-1$ by essentially guessing a value for $e$ at the start).
So the answer is $59$.

Addendum: the computations I performed were elementary, but they can seem a bit uninspired. But I knew to do this because I was modifying a proof of the Chinese Remainder Theorem, which would apply naively if $\gcd(4,6,10) = 1$ (which it's not). The computations feel more natural when considered in congruences. To see this, let's redo the first pair reduction using congruences.
So $n = 3 + 4a$ is the same as $n \equiv 3 \mod 4$, and $n = 5 + 6b$ is the same as $n \equiv 5 \mod 6$. So we are trying to solve the simultaneous congruence
$$\begin{align}
n &\equiv 3 \mod 4, \\
n &\equiv 5 \mod 6.
\end{align}$$
To do this we write $n = 3 + 4a$ and substitute into the second congruence, getting
$$ 3 + 4a \equiv 5 \pmod 6 \implies 2a \equiv 1 \pmod 3 \implies a \equiv 2 \pmod 3.$$
And thus $a = 2 + 3b$ for some $b$, so that $n = 3 + 4(2 + 3b) = 11 + 12 b$ for some $b$. Or rather $a \equiv 11 \pmod {12}$.
This is exactly as above, except without the various variable shenanigans I employed previously. The rest of the argument works the same.

A: While I cannot compete with mixedmath's more general solution, one interesting aspect of the problem leapt out at me:
$n=4\alpha-1$
$n=6\beta-1$
$n=10\gamma-1$
For $\alpha,\beta,\gamma\in\mathbb{N}$
So... $n+1=4\alpha=6\beta=10\gamma$ which is to say that $\frac{n+1}{2}$ is divisible by $2, 3$ and $5$.  As the problem asks for the least value of $n$ then we're back on the subject of least common multiple.
$$\text{i.e.}\quad\frac{n+1}{2}=\mathrm{lcm}(2,3,5)=30$$
However I suspect the problem was structured so as to allow this approach.

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