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Benjamin Jones Speaking Retrospective
Dec 7, 2019 - Feb 15, 2020
BENJAMIN JONES
Guest Curator: Barbara Archer
About BENJAMIN JONES Speaking
Organized in seven enticing themes, Benjamin Jones Speaking spans 40 years of making art including fresh work never seen before.
Jones continues to hone his distinct visual language as a thought-provoking force for change. "I want people to feel the rage and to fight injustice in today's crazy world," Jones says. "The drawings are my way of screaming out, hoping to make another person speak out, and then another."
As a keen observer of current events, Benjamin Jones keeps intricate journals. He mines images clipped from magazines, newspapers and his travels, then recycles this source material into his drawings.
Parallels have been drawn between Jones' work and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet and young Pablo Picasso. Each influence gave Jones new tools to break the rules and discover a visual voice undeniably his own.
Mixing whimsy with horror, humor with malevolence, Jones' haunting creatures speak to life's paradoxes and struggles, compelled by the artist's internal urgency.
Inhabiting an intriguing, indefinable space, each poignant portrait reveals a glimpse of Benjamin Jones' own innermost feelings and insecurities, while touching a familiar place in all of us.
About Benjamin Jones
Born in Atlanta in 1954, Jones received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of West Georgia. His work is in many museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; Atlanta's High Museum of Art; the J.B. Speed Museum in Louisville; the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans; and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia.
Jones received a 1994 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Southern Arts Federation. In 2003, he was awarded a grant from the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in New York and is the only artist in Georgia since 1979 to receive the honor. In 2006, Jones made his international debut at ArtLondon. He was a featured artist in Drawing a Diversion at London's John Martin Gallery in 2007.
Jones recently returned to making art with renewed conviction after a hiatus of several years while caring for his mother and recovering from his own health issues. His current collaged drawings exude edginess and poignancy while conveying a sense of peacefulness and calm inspired by his new home on Tybee Island, Georgia.
Jones is represented by Whitespace in Atlanta; Henry Boxer Gallery in London; SHRINE in New York and Laney Contemporary in Savannah.
Featured image: Invasion (Decline of Civilization Series), 1995, Graphite, colored pencil and paint on wood, 40.75 x 80.75 inches, Collection of the Artist.
MOCA GA is grateful to the individual donors and those who supported the 2019/2020 Legendary Retrospective Series through the Power2Give campaign run by the City of Atlanta – Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs:
Harvie and Charles Abney, Linda & Jim Alexander, Judith M. Anderson, Barbara Archer & Peter Hand, Susan Bridges, Marcia R. Cohen, Laney Contemporary, Louis Corrigan, Sandy D'Aprile, Steven and Catherine Fox, Susan Gwinner, Rick Kaye, Judy Lampert, Marianne Lambert, Amy Landesberg, Elizabeth Lide, Tom Meiss, Fabio Rossi, Rob Smulian, Hilton Spence, Elizabeth Spiegel, Stephanie Sudden, Stephen Swicegood, Hal Vaughn, Julie Wallace, Jane Weinmann, Allison Claire Wertheimer, Andrea Weyermann, and Robert Woodhurst
A special thank you to The Judith Alexander Foundation and The LUBO Fund for supporting this exhibition!
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Yes. You can connect a number of network devices to your eero's Ethernet ports. This may be useful in connecting streaming players, speakers, and additional storage devices to your network. You can connect these devices to your gateway eero or to any of your additional eeros.
Note that at this time, the USB port on your eeros is used for diagnostic purposes only.


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If you are convinced of the dynamic spirit in an innovative company and would like to become a part of it, then send your application and information about your earliest possible availability as well as your salary expectations to [email protected].
In accordance with the Austrian Equal Treatment Act, we are obliged to indicate the annual salary for this position as a basis for negotiation for full-time employment. This amounts to € 27,045.00 gross. Your final salary will, of course, depend on your professional experience and qualifications. The actual salary range varies from approx. € 35,000.00 to approx. € 50,000.00 gross per year and is agreed in a personal meeting.


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Q: How to get Windows user credentials using forms authentication? Our all libraries and application use forms authentication, so it is necessary to use it here.
The application is hosted on IIS with below settings:

*anonymous authentication: enabled

*forms authentication: enabled

*windows authentication: disabled (this must not be changed)
This returns the user under IIS runs (in my case IIS APPPOOL\tdm)
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In web.config:
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Is it possible somehow to take the Windows credentials of the user who uses the application?
My job is when someone enters the app to log in with this credentials automatically, but for that, I must find a way to take his Windows user account.

A: I don't think that what you are asking for is possible within a standard webforms framework. You cannot automatically get a browser to send the windows credentials without enabling windows authentication.
If the application is hosted on the same domain, it is relatively easy to use standard forms authentication with an existing AD username/password - also called Single Sign On.
When you enable Windows authentication in an application, and then make a request from a browser, it actually returns a 401 - Unauthorized status code. The browser then decides based on your settings whether to send your identity in a second request. This may happen automatically, or it may prompt for credentials.

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To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the launch of NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, the mission team has put together this image showing just a sample of the millions of galaxies that have been imaged by WISE during its survey of the entire sky.
NGC 300 is seen in the image in the upper left panel. This is a textbook spiral galaxy. In fact, it is such a good representation of a spiral galaxy that astronomers have studied it in great detail to learn about the structure of all spirals in general. Infrared images like this one from WISE show astronomers where areas of gas and warm dust are concentrated -- features that cannot be seen in visible light. This gas and dust is primarily found near star-forming regions in the spiral arms. There isn't a significant amount of gas and dust in the central core in this type of spiral galaxy, so it appears relatively dim. At about 39,000 light-years across, NGC 300 is only about 40 percent the size of the Milky Way galaxy.
The upper right image shows Messier 104, or M104, also known as the Sombrero galaxy. Although M104 is also classified as a spiral galaxy, it has a very different appearance than NGC 300. In part, this is because the dusty, star-forming spiral disk in M104 is seen nearly edge-on from our point of view. M104 also has a large, ball-shaped bulge component of older stars, seen here in blue. In visible light, a dark dust lane extends across the galaxy, blocking out some of the bright starlight in the disk behind it, and causing it to resemble a sombrero. This dust lane encircles the entire galaxy and glows brightly in infrared; it is seen here as bright circle surrounding a dense galactic core.
The large, fuzzy grouping of stars at the center of the lower left panel is the galaxy Messier 60, or M60. This galaxy does not have a spiral disk, just a bulge, making it a massive elliptical galaxy. M60 is about 20 percent larger than the Milky Way galaxy, and lies in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The brighter dense spot inside but off-center from the blue core of M60 is a separate spiral galaxy called NGC 4647. In visible light, M60 is much brighter than NGC 4647. However, in the longest infrared wavelengths that WISE sees, the opposite is true. Recent evidence suggests there is a black hole at the center of M60 with a mass of about 4.5 billion times that of the sun, making it one of the largest black holes known. Two more galaxies are near the upper left corner of this panel, NGC 4638 (the brighter one) and NGC 4637. In addition, two different asteroids were caught crossing the field of view when WISE imaged this portion of the sky (seen as dotted green lines extending out from M60 at about the 2 o'clock and 8 o'clock positions).
The galaxy in the lower right panel is Messier 51, or NGC 5194, also frequently referred to as the Whirlpool galaxy. The Whirlpool is a "grand design" spiral galaxy. It is interacting with its smaller companion -- NGC 5195, a dwarf galaxy, which can be seen as a bright spot near the tip of the spiral arm extending up and to the right of the larger galaxy. The Whirpool's very bright spiral arms show areas of compressed dust and gas. These arms have been enhanced by the recent encounter with NGC 5195.
These images were made from observations by all four infrared detectors aboard WISE. Blue and cyan represent infrared light at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 microns, which is primarily light from stars. Green and red represent light at 12 and 22 microns, which is primarily light emitted from warm dust.
WISE launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket on Dec. 14, 2009, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.


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Christopher Wolfe is a Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas and President of the American Public Philosophy Institute. He is also the former co-director of the Thomas International Center in Raleigh-Durham NC and emeritus professor of political science at Marquette University.
Dr. Wolfe's main area of research and teaching for two decades was Constitutional Law and American Political Thought, and he is the author of various books, the best known of which is The Rise of Modern Judicial Review, which the late Judge Robert Bork, in a 2006 Wall Street Journal contribution, listed as one of the five best books on the Constitution.
Dr. Wolfe subsequently shifted his work back to political philosophy, and especially the area of natural law and liberal political theory. His book Natural Law Liberalism was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. He has authored 5 books, edited 8 other books, and published over 50 scholarly articles, as well as more popular pieces.
In 1989, Dr. Wolfe founded the American Public Philosophy Institute, a group of scholars from various disciplines that seeks to bring natural law theory to bear on contemporary scholarly and public discussions. The APPI sponsors conferences, lectures, panels at professional meetings, and publications.

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Google +1 Effect on PPC
Tracy Earles July 12, 2011 Marketing, Matrix, PPCLeave a Comment
Tracy Earles
VP of Marketing & Business Development
Bryan Connally recently wrote a blog post on Google's new social recommendation tool, +1. In particular, he addressed whether your site should implement +1. While his analysis was fairly broad (i.e. should your site participate or not), I'd like to take a narrower look at +1's effect on pay-per-click advertising with Adwords.
Google presumes, and we agree, that users will be more likely to click on ads that others within their social circle have recommended by previously clicking on the +1 button. Therefore, Adwords advertisers should care about +1 and its effects. Given that there is no way to opt out of the program, they should also take the necessary actions to maximize its value.
Adwords advertisers should recognize that the +1 recommendation is attached to the landing page, not the ad. Clicking on the +1 button next to the ad will subsequently show that recommendation anytime Google serves that landing page URL in a paid or organic search result.
If users are more likely to click on ads with +1 recommendations, then +1 will have an indirect effect on quality score, by improving clickthrough rate. Given the potential for abusing +1, and the importance of quality score within Adwords, we believe Google will limit the impact on quality score of the +1 effect on CTR. How will they do that? It's too soon to tell, and we may never know for sure.
Some search marketers even believe that +1's social signal will be strong enough to have a positive effect on landing page conversion. While we believe that may be possible, we'll wait to see evidence in the data.
Adwords ads may not request users to click on +1 in their ad copy. According to Google Adword's creative guidelines:
"Your ads may not direct users to click on Google +1 buttons. Your ads and landing page should not imply or directly promote offers, prizes, monies, monetary equivalents, services or deals in exchange for +1 clicks. Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings."
However, firms could certainly promote +1 in other media, particularly word of month. Just ask.
In addition, firms can place a +1 button on their website so visitors can recommend directly from the page they're viewing. In fact, site operators should consider adding a +1 button to all relevant pages of their site, and all of their PPC landing pages, to maximize the likelihood of capturing recommendations. As Bryan pointed out, there is no "-1' or negative action, so there is little risk in doing so.
When a user clicks on the +1 button next to an ad, the advertiser is not charged; it's a free action. Although Google has stated that they will start reporting +1 actions in the Adwords interface [under Dimensions tab, Free Clicks selection], we have not yet seen evidence that it is active.
Conclusion: Let the data be your guide
At Parallel Path, we're big believers in testing. We'll test the +1 button on a few landing pages and see if it drives improved CTR. If it proves to be valuable, we will recommend that Adwords advertisers take the time to place +1 buttons on every landing page to take advantage of the 'compulsory' +1 program.


Sunday, August 11, 2013. Chris returned to South Los Angeles on Sunday to join forces with the Los Angeles Police Department, 2nd Call and Gang Interventionists for the opening of his L.A. Unity Games, a series of neighborhood basketball games aimed to inspire a spirit of respect and compassion. Chris hopes that his Unity Games will bring much needed hope and attention to South L.A.'s neighborhoods and the inspiring heroes who uplift them.
The Games on Sunday recognized unsung heroes from South Los Angeles and Watts who exemplify the strength and spirit of respect, compassion and community.
Cynthia Mendenhall, Kathy Wooten, Jerald Cavitt and Reggie Sims, all of whom lost a child or children to gang violence, were honored for their extraordinary work and leadership to stop violence and bring peace to their neighborhoods.
Guests invited from community organizations were asked to bring back-to-school items as the price of admission which were donated to kids from the Jenesse Center Domestic Violence Intervention Program, an organization that Brown has been supporting for the past four years.
The Unity Games are a project of Chris' Unity Campaign, which aims to inspire creativity and individuality while recognizing that we are all connected by our humanity. It is the motivating philosophy behind many of his artistic and philanthropic endeavors.
Chris launched his Unity Campaign project early in the summer featuring children and families from South LA's Crenshaw Community in his "Don't Think They Know" music video, a powerful and inspiring statement to turn away from violence and toward unity.
Later he launched WE US – Walk Everywhere in Unity Shoes, a community-wide effort in which Brown distributed 1,000 Reebok Classics to young people at three diverse neighborhood events in South LA to underscore the message that "wherever and whenever we walk, we are a unity community." WE US events will take place in Brown's hometown of Tappahannock, VA and also Richmond, VA later this month, as well as in Harlem, NY this fall.
In the Spring of 2013, Chris reached out to city officials and former gang members turned gang interventionists Skipp Townsend and Eugene "Big U" Henley to discuss working together to help uplift South Los Angeles' often overlooked neighborhoods and to promote a message of respect and community.
Early next year, Townsend's 2nd Call will honor Brown with 2nd Call's "Second Chance at Loving Life" award.


Kenneth Ning pulled from a varied set of influences for spring.
Kenneth Ning pulled from a varied set of influences for spring. Moroccan spices informed the bright palette, sand storm references came through in cotton face masks, and floral tapestries were used to disrupt pinstripe suits.
The diverse themes made for interesting pieces including pleated shorts, a bomber jacket splashed with a watercolor print, the lace shirt styled with wide-leg pants and the tonal looks. Things didn't go over so well though with the graphic black-and-white tailored pieces, which seemed more conceptual than inspired.


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This paper deals with induction drive control implementation according to the requirement of maximal efficiency for a traction application in a small electric car. Optimum setting of the motor slip frequency was found according to the criteria of maximal motor efficiency in a wide range of torque and speed (see  and ). The traction drive is an application without any extreme dynamic response requirement. It is possible to use scalar control strategies without any significant impact on the vehicle dynamic behavior. An implementation of the optimum motor setting into a scalar control is described in this article. Optimum rotor frequency and stator current look-up tables for any operating point in the used range of desired torque and actual speed were generated and used in common induction machine scalar control schemes.


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New Fujifilm Jet Press 750S at Straub Druck & Medien AG is the company's third Jet Press installation in five years
Looking to boost capacity to keep up with consistent year-on-year growth, one of the first companies to install a Jet Press 720S back in 2014 has now become one of the first to install Fujifilm's third generation Jet Press 750S. It is now running all three presses simultaneously.
Fujifilm today announces that reputable German commercial print company Straub Druck + Medien AG, based in Schramberg, installed a Jet Press 750S in May 2019 to meet growing business demands. A long-term Fujifilm customer, the company already owned two Jet Press 720S presses, making this the company's third Fujifilm Jet Press installation. Straub Druck + Medien produces a range of high quality printed products, both long and short run, including brochures for luxury brands, short-run promotional packaging and calendars and mailings for regional, national and international customers. It also offers a wide variety of processing and finishing options for all applications.
Francisco Martinez, CEO, Straub Druck + Medien AG says:
Our business is expanding and we are now consistently achieving 35% year-on-year growth. As our demands grew, the Jet Press 750S became the obvious choice for us to ensure that our capacity keeps pace with business demand. The uptime and quality we have been able to achieve from the 720S presses has been outstanding, but with the Jet Press 750S the best has got even better!
The Jet Press 750S is already showing an enormous amount of potential within the short amount of time it has been operating. Initially, we planned to replace one of our 720S machines with a 750S, but we quickly decided we just couldn't part with any of them just yet and now intend to keep all three for the foreseeable future. The Jet Press 750S is undoubtedly a higher productivity machine, but our 720S models keep on delivering for us as well.
Fujifilm Jet Press technology has been transformational for our business since our first press was installed in 2014. In the Jet Press 750S, Fujifilm has produced a machine that takes levels of quality, productivity and up-time to yet another level. In its first full month of operation we have seen output of one million sheets and we expect that this will only continue to grow once the machine is operating around the clock. We anticipate being able to print up to 2.5 million sheets per month across our three Jet Press presses during the busy period in the lead up to Christmas.
What's more, the new drying system featured within the 750S gives us greater control and fine-tuning of the drying temperature. Not only is this easier to use and much more efficient, but it extends the range of substrates that we are able to print.
Our Jet Press 720S presses have already enabled us to significantly enhance our environmental credentials. With the 750S, we expect to also reduce our energy usage by 23% and to reduce our already low levels of waste still further. All of which allows us to meet our customers' expectations as sustainability becomes an increasing concern for them.
Finally, the updated design of the press appealed to us and the smaller machine footprint saves us space – which is an increasingly scarce resource given our recent growth. The sleek exterior and upgraded visual display look great, and the new software interface that can be automated via a tablet or smart phone is an additional bonus to streamline the production process. Our press operators love it.
Martinez has also been complimentary of the service and support received from Fujifilm over the past few years.
As always," he concludes, "the sales and installation support we've had from Fujifilm has been second to none. Fujifilm has always been readily available when we've had any problems or questions over the years and we're excited to be developing this relationship still further.
Taro Aoki, Head of Digital Press Solutions, Fujifilm Graphic Systems EMEA says:
"We're delighted that Straub Druck + Medien are trusting Fujifilm technology once again for their print requirements, and we're pleased to have seen the substantial impact that the first two presses have had on its business. The Jet Press 750S is the new benchmark for digital print quality and uptime productivity, and we are confident that this installation will aid Straub Druck + Medien in growing their business still further.
Daniel Porter | AD Communications
EMail: dporter(at)adcomms.co(dot)uk
www.straub-druck.de
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Melbourne people, this is for you!
The Little Bookroom are hosting a launch for Shout Out To The Girls on Thursday evening (which is also, not coincidentally, International Women's Day).
I'll be there, along with other Melbourne-based illustrators: Sonia Kretschmar, Evie Barrow, Emma Leonard, and Cat MacInnes. We'll be signing books and chatting about interesting ladies and our various illustration processes.
Tickets are $5 and include light refreshments + a donation to the Malala Fund.
So yeah, come say hi 🙂
March 5, 2018 December 8, 2018 aivleyalso you can buy the book in stores and online now, and forgot to tell tumblr, apparently i only told instagram and fb about that, shout out to the girlsLeave a comment
Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize winning molecular biologist.
The second person I got to illustrate for Penguin Random House's Shout Out to the Girls (coming out in Feb/March 2018) was Elizabeth Blackburn.
In the mid-80s, she co-discovered telomerase, which is an enzyme associated with ageing. For this research she was awarded 2009′s Nobel Prize for Phsyiology/Medicine, along with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak. She was also appointed to, and then kicked off, the President's Council on Bioethics – it seems George W Bush didn't like her ethics…
Anyway, she seems like an all-round pretty cool person, and she's still working as a scientist in the US, so go forth and be inspired 🙂
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Nancy Wake, war hero.
In Feb/March next year, Penguin Random House are publishing Shout Out to the Girls: A Celebration of Awesome Australian Women, and I illustrated Nancy Wake for them.
Here's her wiki page for a rundown of how she worked for the French resistance and the British Special Ops during World War Two, and a link to an interview to give you a sense of who she was. There's lots more info about her around the web, but one of the weirdest things is that she's not really famous within Australia at all. She was the Gestapo's most wanted in 1943 and, for a country that grounds a lot of its national identity in war, I'm pretty surprised I'd never heard of her before.
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Underwater Ghost Towns of Tennessee
Tennessee is known for its many beautiful lakes. What people don't know is some lakes have a secret. Under the sparkling waters are sunken towns. Whole communities were flooded by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the 20th century.
The rivers of Tennessee have a long history of flooding. These floods destroyed farms, washing away crops and homes. In the 1930s, the United States government wanted to help stop this from happening. They also wanted to aid farmers in protecting the farmland so important to feeding the nation. To do this, the TVA was created to build dams to control the rushing water and produce electricity. Many of these dams created reservoirs. The new lakes they created covered many towns with hundreds of feet of water.
One such town was Loyston, Tennessee. It was first settled around 1800 by the Stooksbury family. John Loy moved there in the early 19th century and by 1866 it was called Loy's Cross Road. In 1894 the name changed to Loyston.
Home of Mrs. Jacob Stooksbury in Loyston, Photo by Lewis Hine, Tennessee State Museum Collection.
Oakdale School in Loyston, Photo by Lewis Hine, Tennessee State Museum Collection.
The town was near the Clinch River in East Tennessee. By 1935, there were 70 residents. They had built homes, schools, churches, and several businesses. It was a lively community. All of it had to go when Norris Dam was built in 1936. Many of the residents did not want to leave. Their families had lived there for generations. The TVA made them move. How would you feel if someone from the TVA came to your door and said that they were going to make great improvements to bring electricity, but that you would have to leave the only home you've ever known? Many residents moved to Knox, Anderson, Blount, and Loudon counties nearby. Today the site of Loyston is remembered as the "Loyston Sea". It is a small inlet on Lake Norris. It is known for great boating, fishing, and other water activities.
Postcard of Norris Dam and Lake Norris, Tennessee State Museum Collection.
Another sunken ghost town was Willow Grove, Tennessee. Known today as "the town that drowned." It was located on the banks of Iron Creek and named for the willow trees that grew nearby. Like Loyston, it was a thriving community. It had churches, a general store, a school, and a grist mill. In 1942, the government bought the land and began demolishing homes and other buildings. They forced the people to move. On July 18, 1942, the community had its final picnic. It was a way to say goodbye to the home they loved. Soon after the completion of Dale Hollow Dam, the waters came, and a lake was created. It was named for the Dale family that owned the land where the dam now stands.
Willow Grove Before Flooding, Image courtesy of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.
The foundation of the Willow Grove School, Image courtesy of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.
A third Tennessee town flooded by the TVA was Bulter. It had a long history of flooding by the Watauga River. In 1940, a bad one hit the community, and several people died. This event led to the building of Watauga Dam. Construction started in 1942 but World War II stopped it. Building started back up in 1946 and was finished in 1948.
Lake Watauga and Dam Postcard, Tennessee State Museum Collection.
Butler was the largest town to be flooded in Tennessee. Over 700 families had to move. Butler's story didn't end like those of Loyston and Willow Grove though. Instead of being flooded and never seen again, Butler was moved to 200 acres of farmland on higher ground. The town was rebuilt, and the people returned. Many people today call it New Butler. In 1954 and 1983, drought lowered the water in the lake so low that the old town could be seen once again. Many of the old residents returned to see their old home.
(Right) Depot Street of Old Butler, TSLA Collection.
(Left) Moving Fenn Curtis's home from Old Butler to New Butler, TSLA Collection.
Modern towns were not the only ones to be flooded by the TVA. The site of the Cherokee towns of Chota and Tanasi in Monroe County were also flooded. Located along the Little Tennessee River, Chota was the most important town of the Cherokee people in the late 1700s. The famous Cherokee leader, Attakullakulla, once lived there.
Toqua, Print by C. Motte (example of a Cherokee town), Tennessee State Museum Collection.
From 1969 to 1974, the University of Tennessee excavated the site and discovered several townhouses and over 60 other buildings. In 1979, the land was partially flooded by the Tellico Reservoir. A monument was built near the site in remembrance of the people who once called Chota and Tanasi home. The monument is designed like a Cherokee townhouse. It contains eight pillars for each of the seven clans and one for the whole Cherokee nation.
Chota Memorial, Image from www.tennesseerivervalleygeotourism.org.
Loyston, Willow Grove, Butler, Chota, and Tanasi are just a few of the many Tennessee towns flooded by the TVA. Their goal was not to destroy the towns but improve the lives of Tennesseans in the future. Today we benefit from the loss of those towns by the electricity the dams produce and their protection from damaging floods. Just think, the next time you are at your favorite lake there might be a sunken ghost town resting below the surface.
Dam - a barrier to hold back the flow of water.
Reservoir - a place where water is stored.
Inlet - a small or narrow bay of water in a lake, river, creek, or sea.
Grist Mill - a machine that uses the flow of rivers to move gears that turns large round stones. The stones crush grain (corn or wheat) into a powder that the owners used to make food or sell.
Demolish(ing) - the act of breaking something into pieces.
Drought - a long period of time with little or no rain.
Excavate – to carefully dig up or uncover an artifact or historic site.
Why did the TVA want to build dams on Tennessee rivers?
When did Willow Grove have their last community picnic?
Can you think of other ways building dams benefitted Tennessee?
Pretend you lived in the Tennessee Valley in the 1930s and the TVA was going to flood your town. Write a journal entry describing your move and how you think it made the people of the town feel.
Tennessee State Social Studies Standard(s)
Recognizing how and why historical accounts change over time.
Recognizing how past events and issues might have been experienced by the people of that time, with historical context and empathy rather than presentmindedness.
Identifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present.
SSP.06 Develop geographic awareness by:
Determining relationships among people, resources, and ideas based on geographic location.
Determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the purpose.
Analyzing the spatial relationships between people, circumstances, and resources.
Analyzing interaction between humans and the physical environment.
Examining how geographic regions and perceptions of them regions change over time.
Explain how geographic challenges are met with bridges, canals, dams, freshwater supply, irrigation systems, landfills, and tunnels.
5.16 Describe how New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt impacted American society with government-funded programs, including: Social Security, expansion and development of the national parks, and creation of jobs.
5.48 Describe the effects of the Great Depression on Tennessee and the impact of New Deal policies in the state (i.e., Tennessee Valley Authority and Civilian Conservation Corps).
TN.51 Describe how the Great Depression and New Deal programs impacted Tennesseans, including the significance of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
US.43 Analyze the impact of the relief, recovery, and reform efforts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, including:
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
National Recovery Administration
Works Progress Administration
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Quri Chay Rural District () is a rural district (dehestan) in the Central District of Dehgolan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 8,206, in 1,887 families. The rural district has 22 villages.

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Rural Districts of Kurdistan Province
Dehgolan County

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est un film dramatique américain écrit, produit et réalisé par Ann Calamia, sorti en 2008. Ceci est un film moderne en langue des signes américaine.

Synopsis
Se sentant très coupable de la mort de la fille de sa fiancée qui lui avait confié la garde, un jeune artiste sourd, déprimé et en colère, s'est introverti jusqu'à ce qu'il ressente une nouvelle vie avec sa nouvelle petite-amie, tout en se pardonnant, en redécouvrant sa muse et en surveillant son amour…

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 Réalisation : Ann Calamia
 Scénario : Ann Calamia
 Direction artistique : Hilary Frisch
 Costumes : Hilary Frisch et Laurie Satran
 Photographie : Daniel Watchulonis
 Montage : Ann Calamia et Catherine Miller
 Musique : Joe Renzetti
 Production : Ann Calamia, Catherine Miller et Lupe Ontiveros
 Société de production : Universal Signs Productions
 Société de distribution :
 Pays d'origine :
 Langue originale : langue des signes américaine
 Format : couleur
 Genre : drame
 Date de sortie : 2008

Distribution
 Anthony Natale : Andrew
 Sabrina Lloyd : Mary
 Lupe Ontiveros : Claire
 Margot Kidder : Rose Callahan
 Robert Picardo : Père Joe
 Aimee Garcia : Trish
 Robert Hogan :  Callahan
 Troy Kotsur : Chris
 Deanne Bray : Natalie
 Ashlyn Sanchez : Katie
 Robert DeMayo : le colporteur

Distinction

Récompense
 Festival international du film de Philadelphia 2008 : Meilleur film pour Ann Calamia

Annexes

Article connexe
 Langue des signes américaine

Liens externes

Film américain sorti en 2008
Film dramatique américain
Film en langue des signes américaine


Playing croquet is a perfect way to spend a summer's afternoon in the garden or at the beach. Fun for all the family we have a large range of croquet sets to choose from.
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What Patti Smith looked like at the beginning of her career in 1976:
Patti Smith has always done things her own way, and that began at an early age. While her friends went off to college, Smith went to work in a factory. Like many young artists, she struggled to make it in the industry, but she was driven and talented.
What she looks like now:
Her independent streak ensured that she refused to compromise on her art and because of that she earned the nickname the "punk poet laureate." Patti Smith is a legend in the NYC punk movement of the 1970s and remains that today. In 2007, Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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1988 Murrey Professional Series Cues Brochure
This is a 4-page December 1988 Murrey Professional Series Cues ad from Billiards Digest magazine. I was almost 8 years old when this ad went live.
The cues are nothing special, but what is significant is the 4-page spread in a print publication in that era dedicated to a pool cue line. Murrey was flush with cash off sales fueled by the movie "The Color of Money".
Companies were not typically purchasing four -page full-color spreads in print magazines in the 1980s. It wasn't cheap.
billiardsforum
Chopdoc on 12/21/2018 7:54:52 PM
These are all Viking made cues.
billiardsforum on 12/21/2018 7:57:27 PM
I wasn't aware of that. Good to know! Thanks.
Viking also made some of the Lou Butera cues and some of the Excalibur cues.
I have one one of the top Viking made Lou Butera cues but missed out on a Viking made Excalibur recently.
Some of the earlier Murrey cues from the 60's-70's were made by Valley.
Incidentally, the cue on the cover photo has vinyl veneers, and I think most of the others in that ad with veneers are vinyl as well.
Title: 1988 Murrey Professional Series Cues Brochure
Author: billiardsforum (Billiards Forum)
Published: 12/21/2018 3:16:04 PM
Last Updated: 12/21/2018 7:04:15 PM
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As part of the 2012 UFO Friendship Directory mailing, UFO members were surveyed about health habits and life style choices. An amazing 65% responded! Using his alma mater (Purdue University) connections, then-President Don Newman offered the raw survey results to Dr. Kenneth F. Ferraro, head of Purdue's University's Center of Aging and the Life Course (CALC) department.
CALC was thrilled about such an abundance of data and set about analyzing it. Some of the results weren't overly surprising; 83% of us are within our normal weight range, 82% exercise regularly and only a few of us still smoke. Other factors, such as mental and social activity registered high among UFO members. In the end, the researchers observed that "staying healthy is all about doing what you love!"
CALC's full report is linked below. The UFO article starts on page 3.


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You are here: Home / Community/ Connected Hobart / Smarter Hobart Challenge
The Smarter Hobart Challenge – Bus Shelter and Integrated Digital Interface Design Competition – is a creative challenge for the community to bring forward their most innovative and exciting ideas to help transform Hobart's public transport services, and help make waiting for the bus reliable, safe, accessible and socially connective.
The City of Hobart is delighted to announce the highly anticipated winner of the Smarter Hobart Challenge – Supermanoeuvre.
Supermanoeuvre is an award-winning architectural and innovation practice operating out of Sydney and Zurich, which has exhibited internationally and represented Australia at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.
The winning entry from the shortlisted group was a modular design that will service future community need and technological change. Rather than developing a single bus shelter design, Supermanoeuvre developed an end-to-end, computational design and fabrication process (parametric design and manufacture), which is highly innovative and enables shelters to be easily configured to each site and locally manufactured.
An augmented-reality process allows a shelter to be viewed and configured on-site (through VR goggles) before being approved for manufacture.
The shelters are planned to be built using local timber supporting local production and construction industries, with job creation and skills development in new manufacturing techniques.
Un-thinned and renewable plantation hardwood is planned as the main construction material for the shelters, utilising a timber product from a Tasmanian start-up company that has developed a cross-laminating timber process to value-add to timber that would otherwise go to pulp.
The large close-fitting "dovetail" joints and exposed timber speaks of the Tasmanian story – pride in craftsmanship, local materials, and traditional building techniques.
The digital bus shelter will offer a low-cost, community-inclusive, nationally compliant, sustainable piece of iconic social infrastructure in Hobart.
A prototype is to be fabricated and installed in the coming months.
Shortlisted finalists
The winner was selected from shortlisted finalists who presented their design concepts to representatives from Metro Tasmania, the local design community and architects, engineers and officers from the City of Hobart. The other four finalists were:
Urban Lab (Tasmania)
URBAN LAB - Concept Presentation(PDF, 13MB)
WOW and Core Collective Architects – Runner-Up (Tasmania)
WOW and Core Collective Architects - Concept Presentation(PDF, 34MB)
Monash University Mobility Design Lab (Melbourne)
Monash University Mobility Design Lab - Concept Presentation(PDF, 9MB)
The Collective & Metrospec (Melbourne)
The Collective and Metrospec - Concept Presentation(PDF, 27MB)
People's Choice Award
The City of Hobart would also like to congratulate MAC Studio (Launceston/Melbourne) for winning the People's Choice Award.
People's Choice Winner - MAC Studio(PDF, 3MB)
Images of the majority of the 120 entries are available for viewing below.
Our community co-design competition captured the imagination of creatives around the world, with over 120 design and technology teams stepping up to the challenge from far and wide. New York, India, South America, Russia, Ukraine, Singapore, Hong Kong, Italy, France as well as local and national innovators all contributed to the extraordinary pool of collective ideas and proposals.
The quality and thoughtfulness of the submissions highlighted the timeliness and relevance of this project in finding practical, technology-based solutions to address climate imperatives and keep our community safe, empowered, connected and informed.
We appreciate your time and patience in relation to the unexpected delays this competition has experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lets reimagine public transport travel as a playful, connective informative and an immersive personalised experience!
Queries can be directed to ConnectedHobart@hobartcity.com.au


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All positions are at Waves' offices in Israel.
Waves Audio, the leading manufacturer of audio software for mixing, sound design and music production, is looking for a brilliant content writer and editor to write and edit various types of marketing content, published on Waves.com and Waves' other channels.
The successful candidate will collaborate with other content creators as well as Waves' designers, sales professionals, product and marketing managers, and SEO professionals in order to publish effective and competitive content. The work will be done at Waves' offices in Tel Aviv.
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A position in research and development of advanced audio signal processing algorithms using artificial intelligence and deep neural networks. Development is done in C++, Python, and MATLAB, with real-time implementations on both native Intel Architecture and GPUs.


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Ivan Kolenič (ur. 22 stycznia 1965 w Zwoleniu) – poeta i prozaik słowacki.

Życie
Ukończył średnią szkołę rzemiosła artystycznego w Bratysławie. Imał się różnych zajęć: pracował jako robotnik zatrudniony przy wykopaliskach archeologicznych, magazynier w bibliotece, technik, wychowawca, redaktor. Uprawia również malarstwo i muzykę, a inspiracje plastyczne i muzyczne widoczne są w jego poezji.

Twórczość
Debiutował zbiorem wierszy Prinesené búrkou (1986, Przyniesione przez burzę). Kolejne jego tomy poetyckie to Rock and roll (1990), Pôvabné hry aristokracie (1991, Czarowne zabawy arystokracji), Slasti anarchie (1993, Rozkosze anarchii), Korienky neviditeľnosti (1994, Korzonki niewidzialności), Nespíš a nežne zapieraš (1997, Nie śpisz i czule zaprzeczasz) oraz Na výslní (2003, Na słonecznym miejscu). Jest również autorem prozatorskich tomów Mlčať (1992, Milczeć), Porušenie raja (1993, Pogwałcenie raju), Ako z cigariet dym (1996, Jak dym z papierosów), Jeden úsmev stačí (1999, Jeden uśmiech wystarczy) i Daj zbohom básneniu (2004, Pożegnaj się z poezjowaniem).

Wzorów wczesnej twórczości Koleniča należy szukać przede wszystkim w poezji beat generation, Charlesa Bukowskiego, ale także w dziełach, biografiach i legendach francuskich "poetów przeklętych".
Z inną stylizacją mamy do czynienia w Czarownych zabawach arystokracji (nad tą książką unosi się duch poezji Ezry Pounda, echa jego wierszy słychać w wielu z zawartych w niej utworów). Tutaj podmiot to zblazowany arystokrata ducha, erudyta, hedonista, intelektualista, przerafinowany i z lekka wszystkim znudzony ironista. Kolejny tom, Rozkosze anarchii, Kolenič stylizuje na maksymalnie szczerą, epatującą fizjologią, brzydotą, dekadenckimi nastrojami, myślami samobójczymi, dezynwolturą, ekshibicjonizmem i pewną naiwnością wypowiedź o sobie.

Recepcja polska
Jego wiersze przekładał na polski Leszek Engelking. Duży blok poezji znalazł się w antologii Oko za ząb. Trzej współcześni poeci słowaccy. Proza Koleniča dotąd nie znalazła polskiego tłumacza.

Literatura
 Leszek Engelking, Posłowie [do:] Oleg Pastier, Karol Chmel, Ivan Kolenič, Oko za ząb. Trzej współcześni poeci słowaccy, Sejny 2006 Pogranicze
 mz [Miroslav Zelinský], [hasło] Kolenič, Ivan. (W:) Slovník slovenských spisovatelů, Praha 1999

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Clarith, a macrolide antibiotic, is sold not only in domestic markets but also in over 100 countries worldwide and is prescribed on various medical fronts.


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Situation of Meng Hongwei - Q&A - Excerpts from the daily press briefing (08.10.18)
Q : What is your reaction to the situation of Meng Hongwei? What is the status of the legal proceedings opened in France with respect to his disappearance?
A : France took note of yesterday's announcement by Interpol of the resignation of its president, Meng Hongwei, effective immediately. It reiterates its full support for the work of Interpol, the international organization for police cooperation whose headquarters is in Lyon.
For questions concerning the legal proceedings opened by prosecutorial authorities in Lyon, I refer you to the latter.
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Crises and Conflicts
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Fight against organized criminality
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Foreign terrorist fighters – Q&A from the press briefing (13 Jan. 2020)
NATO – Role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – Reply by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to a written question in the Senate (09 Jan. 2020)
OSCE - Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne's participation in the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Bratislava, 5 Dec. 2019)
NATO – Q&A – From the press briefing (22 Nov. 2019)
Fight against terrorism – Ministerial meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS – Statements to the press by M. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs (Washington, 14 Nov. 2019)
Joint Communique by Ministers of the Global Coalition against Daesh (Washington, 14 Nov. 19)
Visit of Jean Yves Le Drian to Washington (13-14 Nov. 19)
Statement by Jean-Yves Le Drian - Death of Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (27 Oct. 19)
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Virat Kohli retained his top spot in the latest ICC T20I rankings while Jasprit Bumrah toppled Imran Tahir to reach the second spot in the bowlers' list.
Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli retained his top spot while Jasprit Bumrah moved to the second position in the latest ICC Rankings for T20Is, released on Sunday.
Following the conclusion of the Independence Cup consisting three T20Is played between Pakistan and the ICC World XI at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, the ICC has released a fresh set of rankings in which Bumrah has moved up one spot ahead of Imran Tahir. The ICC had granted international status to the three-match T20I series.
Going into the tournament that marked the return of international cricket to Pakistan, the South African ace spinner Tahir was ranked No 2 with 744 rating points. Bumrah was at the third spot with 737 rating points.
However, Tahir took just two wickets in the three-match series, returning with the figures of 1 for 34, 1 for 29 and none for 26 respectively.
Tahir has slipped to the third spot with 719 points and Bumrah, whose rating points remain the same, has ascended to the second spot in ICC Rankings for T20I bowlers.
Virat Kohli, on the other hand, is fixated firmly at the top spot with as many as 826 rating points. Following him is the explosive Australian batsman Aaron Finch (787 points) and West Indies' Evin Lewis with 780 points.
The biggest gainer in the latest release is the Pakistani middle-order batsman Babar Azam, who went up as many as 21 spots to reach the No 6 spot after he played a vital role in Pakistan's series win by 2-1 against the ICC World XI.
Among the teams, West Indies have now moved one spot ahead of England to get to the third spot, behind the second-placed Pakistan and the top-ranked New Zealand cricket team.
England, who lost their one-off T20I to West Indies on Saturday, have slipped from the second position to the fourth with 119 points.


I wrote about going for daily walks a few months back and we pretty much go out everyday. I love getting out in the sunshine and fresh air. It is so good for the soul, plus I get to snap lots of photos and we all know I love doing that too. We went out yesterday morning, I put Jack in the wrap because where I wanted to go was not buggy friendly. He still loves it in there and it is not too uncomfortable for me either.
I wanted to go out down the lane and into the fields to see if there were any blackberries - there are literally gazillions but they are not ready for picking yet so we will have to go out on the weekend again to see if they have ripened.
Here are a few snaps I thought I would share, it was such a beautiful morning but we had to make a dash for it at the end because the rain clouds were looming!


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White House Announces ConnectALL Initiative to Spur Broadband Deployment and Adoption
By Kelley Drye on March 10, 2016
Posted in Broadband, Federal & State Regulatory, Universal Service Fund
The Administration continues to drive efforts to spur broadband deployment across the country and to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable broadband service. Yesterday afternoon, President Obama announced ConnectALL, an effort aimed at connecting 20 million more Americans to broadband by 2020.
This announcement builds on the successes of ConnectED, the White House effort with the Department of Education and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which brings broadband access to 20 million K-12 classrooms and libraries, and ConnectHome, the White House effort with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which brings 28 communities together to ensure kids living in public housing have reliable access to get online and do their homework. ConnectALL integrates these efforts into a comprehensive approach to making broadband available and accessible to all Americans by:
Submitting Formal Recommendations to the FCC Proceeding on Modernizing Lifeline
Under ConnectALL, the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunication & Information Administration (NTIA) submitted formal recommendations, on the Administration's behalf, to the FCC on modernizing the Universal Service Lifeline program. NTIA recommended that the FCC maintain support for affordable voice service and create a process to periodically assess and calibrate the Lifeline subsidy, noting that $9.25 may not be adequate to foster the zero-to-low cost options that will encourage the level of adoption required to bridge the digital divide. NTIA also argued that the FCC should further examine costs and benefits before imposing minimum service standards for broadband, stating that Lifeline consumers should have the ability to use their subsidy to purchase the broadband services that meet their needs.
Releasing a Study on the Economic Benefits of Broadband
The Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) released a new study on the economic importance of broadband. Building on data from the Department of Commerce's 2014 American Community Survey and CEA's prior research, the study highlights the progress made in connecting Americans to broadband while noting a significant digital divide. The study finds while 75% of American households subscribe to an internet connection, under half of households in the bottom income quintile use the Internet at home compared to 95% of households in the top income quintile. The study also highlights that broadband can improve labor market outcomes, increase economic growth, provide access to better health care and enhance civic participation. Addressing the digital divide will require a focus on affordability through policies that promote competition, access to devices and digital literacy.
Increasing Access to Digital Literacy Training and Devices
The Corporation for National and Community Service and the Institute of Museum and Library Services are launching a Digital Literacy Pilot Project. AmeriCorps VISTA members will support libraries, museums and community organizations located in tribal and rural areas to build capacity and enhance existing digital literacy training.
To increase access to devices, the General Services Administration (GSA) is re-engineering its Computers for Learning Program, which provides surplus federal computer equipment to schools and libraries. GSA will expand Computers for Learning to more organizations providing digital literacy training for low-income Americans.
Empowering Communities to Accelerate Broadband Planning
In yesterday's blog post, I discussed NTIA's Community Connectivity Initiative, designed to help local communities accelerate local broadband planning efforts. The White House announcement highlights those organizations who are partnering with NTIA's BroadbandUSA to help develop and design the Community Connectivity Initiative:
American Library Association; Blandin Foundation; ConnectME Authority; EveryoneOn; ICMA, The International City/County Management Association; National Association of Counties; National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors; National Digital Inclusion Alliance; National League of Cities; New America's Open Technology Institute; Next Century Cities; NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association; Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition; and US Ignite
Additionally, the initial communities supporting the effort are:
Ammon, ID; Arvada, CO; Baltimore, MD; Bettendorf, IA; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Greenbelt, MD ; Hopewell, VA.; Hot Springs, AK.; Hurst, TX; Kansas City, MO.; Kenmore, WA; Lenexa, KS.; Oak Harbor, WA; Putnam, CT; SeaTac, WA; Red Wing, MN; Sammamish, WA; and Seattle, WA.
This initiative is designed as a public-private partnership. Any private sector entities interested in participating should plan to attend the half-day workshop on March 22 in Seattle, Washington or alternatively, either of the webinars scheduled for March 24 and April 12.
We expect to see more activity from the Administration on the broadband front in the coming months and will continue to monitor these efforts.
Tags: Broadband Adoption, broadband deployment, Community Connectivity Initiative, Computers for Learning, ConnectALL, ConnectED, ConnectHome, Digital Literacy, FCC, GSA, HUD. OSTP, Lifeline, NTIA
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Republican lawmakers want to use campaign funds to protect themselves — from their own voters /
Republican lawmakers want to use campaign funds to protect themselves — from their own voters
U.S. Congresswoman-elect Lauren Boebert speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Credit: Gage Skidmore
Roger Sollenberger
Both of the national political committees dedicated to electing Republicans to Congress have asked the Federal Election Commission to allow lawmakers to use campaign donations to hire bodyguards, citing heightened fears related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and its aftermath — an attack overwhelmingly carried out by Republican voters.
In a letter sent last week, attorneys for the National Republican Senatorial Committee and National Republican Congressional Committee requested guidance on whether regulations on campaign spending cover "personal security personnel" to protect members of Congress and their families from "threatened harm."
"In light of current events involving concrete threats of physical violence against Members and their families, Members have been compelled to consider further security measures for themselves and their families," the letter says. "As has been well-documented in the media, Members and their families continue to endure threats and security breaches, which are being timely reported to appropriate law enforcement officials."
While the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol chiefly targeted Democratic leaders, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have expressed fears for their safety. Last week, more than 30 members asked House leadership to grant broader use of taxpayer-funded allowances to hire security in their local district offices.
Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., told CNN on Jan. 13 that he was afraid of threats that would follow his decision to break with the overwhelming majority of his party and vote to impeach former President Trump.
"I am not going to let that sway my decision," Meijer said. "I think if we give the assassin's veto, if we give the insurrectionist's veto, we lose something in this country, and I won't let that happen again." He later told MSNBC that he plans to buy body armor: "It's sad that we have to get to that point, but you know, our expectation is that someone may try to kill us."
Federal guidelines currently allow lawmakers to put campaign funds towards installing and upgrading home security systems without violating prohibitions on personal use, but the regulatory body has not ruled on personal protection. Only a handful of candidates have reported security details as expenses over the years, campaign filings show. In 2013, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., spent about $30,000 in campaign cash on travel expenses for his security team, but filings show that he appears to have reissued those payments. In a single week between Oct. 29 and Nov. 7 last year, however, Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., dropped more than $20,000 on personal security, some of that explicitly for protection on election night. A few weeks before those hires, Cawthorn, who complained that some young "punks" vandalized campaign signs outside his home. Later, at a December event, Cawthorn told a crowd of young supporters to "lightly threaten" their elected representatives while urging them to overturn the results of the presidential election.
While the FEC advisory process typically lasts up to two months, the GOP committees — citing a number of public incidents, news reports and a Jan. 19 arrest for threats to murder lawmakers — asked the six-member board to expedite the process. Trump's upcoming impeachment trial appears to figure prominently, with the letter citing an Associated Press report that "law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second [impeachment] trial of President Donald Trump nears," including "plots to attack members of Congress during travel to and from the Capitol complex during the trial."
Prior to the Jan. 6 attack, three newly-elected Republican members made headlines for their politically-driven defiance of local and federal laws regulating the carrying of firearms in Washington, D.C., and on the House floor. Salon reported that one of them, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, was given a customized Glock at a private event last week, which would be prohibited by law. After Salon contacted Boebert about the gift, she issued a statement to say that she had not accepted the gun but planned to pay for it in the future, which would probably be legal.
Following the Jan. 6 attack, some Democratic lawmakers expressed fear of their Republican colleagues, some of whom have expressed solidarity with groups involved with the riot. A group of 31 Democrats, concerned about whether some of the rioters had inside help, sent a letter to the acting House sergeant at arms last month asking for a review of visitor logbooks and closed circuit video from the day before the siege. The Democratic counterparts to the GOP national committees have so far not filed a similar letter to the FEC.
If the FEC grants the GOP's request, it is unclear whether or how it could restrict lawmakers from hiring personal security details that included members of fascist or anti-government organizations that were involved in the riots. Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone frequently receives protection from the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, who escorted him in Washington on the night before the Jan. 6 riots. Boebert has drawn criticism for her public appearances with members of militia groups. At least one militia member is connected to the biker group that presented her with the customized Glock, and later shared video of the event on social media.
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Chris Catalano
Blasting/Explosives Industry Professional & Consultant, State Regulatory Official (Pennsylvania),
Author of Christian Fiction and Non-fiction, Physical Science (Environmental Geology) Major
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which
Go speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." -- George Washington Carver
Current Academics
My ultimate goal is to work within a scientific discipline known as geobiology. Geobiology is the study of how physical environments affect life and conversely how life affects environments. This has applications across a wide variety of personal research interests and my professional work. The progression of academics begins with an Associate's Degree in Physical Science with a concentration in geology. This will be followed by a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Geology. The Bachelor's Degree will include a minor in Biology. The final step is to then transfer to one of the few schools that offer a Geobiology program.
I am currently enrolled in the Physical Science A.S. program at HACC in York, Pennsylvania with a GPA of 3.63. Upon completion of this phase of my education I plan to transfer to Millersville University of Pennsylvania to continue my studies in their Environmental Geology program with a minor in Biology.
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COMMERCIAL USE OF BLASTING AND EXPLOSIVES IN LUNAR AND MARTIAN ENVIRONMENTS
I have worked in the blasting and explosives industry for over 24 years. I also have a passion for space science and exploration. Any real effort humanity makes to harness the resources found in non-terrestrial environments will require new and specialized technologies for accessing and harvesting the natural resources found there. Working with explosives in these environments will require highly specialized products, methods, and regulations.
BLASTING AND EXPLOSIVES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
In the years I have worked in the blasting and explosives industry I have developed a keen interest in several areas of study, such as: focusing of seismic waves and air overpressure, the effect of blasting vibration and gasses on wetlands and other wildlife, vibration frequency change over distance and its application in improving prediction equations, and the development of new blasting agents from mined materials, and structural response in buildings that are not built using typical components.
THE RECOVERY OF ENVIRONMENTS FOLLOWING CATASTROPHE
I am very interested in understanding how environments recover and life is re-established following natural catastrophic events, such as floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. This also has application to understanding the recovery of environments following disturbance from mining activities. This area of study includes understanding the adaptation of species in radically changing environments, such as sudden changes in ocean salinity, wide-ranging temperature fluctuations, and excessively wet and dry periods.
INTEGRATED RECREATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
I love to travel, vacation, and explore, so as I think about humanity heading out into the solar system for extended periods of time, I recognize that those intrepid souls will lack one essential thing I believe humans need: the opportunity to rest, relax, and recharge in environments that approximate natural earth environments. That will be hard to do in places where there are no beaches, hiking trails, and fresh air. I believe an integral part of long-term human survival on a world such as Mars will require adequate opportunities to recreate. This can incorporate studies that involve developing nearly self-sustaining, functional, closed ecological environments that also provide essential support to any greater habitation infrastructure that is constructed.
Academic Papers and Presentations
Blasting Beyond Blast-off (PDF)
A technical analytical research report examining the use of blasting and explosives in Martian and lunar environments for construction and accessing natural resources. Topics include methods, equipment, and future regulations.
Soils Suitability Analysis of Ketner Valley, Jones Twp., Pennsylvania (PDF)
A technical environmental geology poster presentation examining soil suitability and land use for the defunct Ketner Dam area of Jones Twp., Pennsylvania near the town of Wilcox.
Education and Training Already Completed
Clarion University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1996
Started a double-major program consisting of a combination of Chemistry and Technical Theater. While in school I was able to begin an apprenticeship in the explosives industry and obtained my state blasting certification in 1996. This alone fulfilled the first major requirement needed for my goal of working in the special effects industry.
C-1 Professional Driving School, 2000
In 2000 I temporarily moved to Indianapolis, IN to attend a school to obtain my CDL-A for commercial driving. This is a second requirement for working with explosives and other hazardous materials. I completed the training in the same year.
Chippewa Valley Technical College Professional Defensive Driving Program, 2000
Following completion of my CDL-A training in Indianapolis I went to work in Marshfield, WI to work for a company hauling freight nation-wide. Job qualification required completion of a defensive driving and skid pad course at the Chippewa Valley Technical College. Training was successfully completed in the same year.
Harrisburg Area Community College, 2019 - Present
Currently enrolled in the Physical Science A.S. Program at H.A.C.C. This is a transfer associate program intended to provide all the necessary requirements to transfer to Millersville University of Pennsylvania's Environmental Geology Program where I plan to minor in Biology. Projected completion date is Spring 2022.
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Yemen 'war crime' footage emerges day after Theresa May defends Britain's Saudi arms deals (VIDEO)
Royal Saudi Air Force jets © Fahad Shadeed © Reuters
Just a day after Prime Minister Theresa May defended UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia, cell phone footage has emerged apparently showing a college in Yemen being bombed by Saudi jets.
The footage, filmed in January 2016 and first published in the UK by independent media outlet The Ferret, appears to show a college hit by an airstrike. Attacks on schools are explicitly outlawed under the Geneva Convention, and thus constitute a war crime.
Filmed by a security guard on a cell phone, the footage was first passed to the Yemeni NGO Mwatana and then submitted to the UK government's Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC).
Saudi FM to meet British MPs, make case for continued arms exports despite war crime claims
A leaked draft of the report claims: "The weight of evidence of violations of international humanitarian law by the Saudi-led coalition is now so great that it is very difficult to continue to support Saudi Arabia."
The revelation comes just a day after British PM Theresa May was confronted with the issue in the House of Commons.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the weapon shipments should be banned because of the "humanitarian devastation" taking place in Yemen.
"That is why I remain concerned that at the heart of this government's security strategy is apparently increased arms exports to the very part of the world that most immediately threatens our security," he said.
May dismissed Corbyn's idea that "what happened in Saudi Arabia was a threat to the safety of people here in the UK."
"Actually, what matters is the strength of our relationship with Saudi Arabia. When it comes to counterterrorism and dealing with terrorism, it is that relationship that has helped to keep people on the streets of Britain safe," she insisted.
The UK granted arms licenses for £3.3 billion (US$4.4 billion) worth of arms and ammunition in the first year of the war, which has to date killed a reported 10,000 people.


Lionel Barrymore was a famous actor of stage, radio, and film who came from a family of entertainers. He spoke in this seance saying he was still interested in the theater. When he passed away, his mother, father, and dog there to meet him. He describes the afterlife as a natural world but without factories or automobiles.


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DHS-sponsored research targets social media, gang graffiti
Dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement and first-responder agencies are working with the Department of Homeland Security and researchers from Purdue University to produce new visual analysis technologies for analyzing social media posts, blogs and even gang graffiti. The technologies are now on the verge of adoption nationwide.
Researchers from the Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments project, known as VACCINE, have developed a tool called ScatterBlogs that allows law enforcement map social media posts in real-time to crime analysis tools, and also enables first responders to better understand what is happening in communities during a disaster.
"We have the ability to take Flickr, YouTube and Twitter feeds and from that create the ability to interactively explore and navigate the topics and anomalies that are occurring," said Dr. David S. Ebert, director of the VACCINE program at Purdue. But Ebert, who spoke Feb. 11 at the First Responder Technology Demonstration, sponsored by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, said it's not about tracking the most popular social media posts.
"If I just show you the top 10, it's not going to be very useful," Ebert said. "But if there are 10 tweets that involve a knife, that's probably going to be unusual, and that's what a law enforcement officer wants to do."
The tool, which is currently part of a pilot project with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, is capable of conducting interactive topic classification and interactive anomaly detection of real-time social media messages. It also allows users to filter specific topics of interest, plots the social media postings on a map and allows officials to view profiles and previous posts to help determine a person's credibility.
Purdue researchers have been refining the tool with direct input from 40 federal, state and local agencies, focusing on everything from crime analysis to monitoring disaster response efforts.
"For example, after Hurricane Sandy, lower Manhattan wasn't well evacuated after the order went in, but the majority of tweets were coming from grocery stores," Ebert said. "So people were actually hunkering down to ride it out instead of evacuating. If you were able to pull up that information in real-time, you could decide that maybe you need to get a different message out, or your planning and response might change."
Researchers are now studying how to integrate other social media outlets into the tool, depending on the feedback they receive from law enforcement agencies.
Fighting gang violence
Another project that researchers from the VACCINE program have developed includes automatic image recognition and interpretation currently being used by more than 15 state and local police departments to document, map and analyze gang graffiti.
Known as GARI, or Gang Graffiti Automatic Recognition and Interpretation, the system allows police officers "to take a picture, categorize and compare the graffiti images that you have to a database, see where there are similar images and do simple shape interpretation from that," Ebert said.
The GARI system has been pilot tested with the Indiana Division of Homeland Security, the Indiana Metropolitan Police Department, the State of Indiana Gang Intelligence Network and 15 other police departments. More than 8,000 images of gang graffiti have been uploaded into the system since 2012.
Purdue and DHS are currently looking at ways to deploy the technology on a broader basis to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, intelligence analysts and the nationwide network of fusion centers.
The next steps for the program include developing a community policing version for public access, development of a tattoo image version for use by prison officials, explore use by school districts and find a corporate or government partner to transition the technology to the nationwide market.
Video: How the GARI gang graffiti tool started out as a HAZMAT identification tool
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7 Important Cleantech Price Points Worth Remembering
Fire sale? No. These prices are the result of continued progress in clean technology.
Stephen Lacey September 06, 2013
Stephen Lacey is a contributing editor with Greentech Media. He is also the founder and executive producer of Post Script Media. Lacey produces and hosts The Energy Gang and Interchange podcasts, two of the most popular podcasts on energy and cleantech.
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Irish writer Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as a "man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
But a sentimentalist, Wilde wrote, "is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing."
We think we've found a balance between the two. Below is a list of seven important price points from this year that are proving the value of cleantech.
30-year solar PPA: 6.9 cents per kilowatt-hour
In July, Palo Alto's municipal utility approved 80 megawatts of solar PV projects that will supply 18 percent of the city's power load. By purchasing the power for 6.9 cents per kilowatt-hour over a 30-year period, the city secured one of the lowest power-purchase agreements recorded. "Try building a new nuke or coal plant at that price," said Adam Browning of Vote Solar.
LED street light: $99
After rolling out an LED bulb for less than $10 at Home Depot, lighting company Cree is now offering a $99 LED streetlight with a payback of less than a year. With manufacturers continuing to decrease the cost of producing LED lights, the price of products continues to fall, opening up previously inaccessible markets for the technology.
Lifetime cost of an electric vehicle: $44,325
The upfront price of electric vehicles is still a major barrier for drivers. But when the Electric Power Research Institute compared the lifetime costs of EVs, plug-in hybrids and conventional cars, it found that the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf cost less than 10 percent more. When factoring in tax credits, the cost of gasoline and maintenance, EPRI found that the average EV only cost $44,325 over its lifetime.
Multicrystalline solar module manufacturing: $0.36 per watt
From 2010 to 2013, leading Chinese solar companies dropped the cost of producing a multicrystalline solar module by 54 percent down to $0.50 per watt. GTM Research Senior Analyst Shyam Mehta recently outlined how leading Chinese solar companies can continue the trend and bring the cost of producing a modules down to $0.36 per watt. The answer: advances in conversion efficiency, reducing yield loss and automating production lines.
Intelligence in LED fixtures: $0.05 per square foot
There's a rush to make controllable LEDs more intelligent by embedding sophisticated computing platforms in lighting fixtures. Sounds expensive, right? Not necessarily. As companies develop new integration partnerships at the manufacturing level, Digital Lumens CEO Tom Pincince said the cost of embedded intelligence is moving toward $0.05 per square foot -- down from more than a dollar. "This will bring us from dollars to dimes, and eventually from dimes to pennies," said Pincince.
Centralized solar inverters: $0.14 per watt
Just like we've seen in the solar module market, inverter prices are falling quickly due to shifting demand for product and oversupply. As a result, GTM research projects that centralized inverter prices will fall 10 percent annually through 2016, hitting $0.14 per watt by 2016. That's going to put major pressure on inverter manufacturers. But the market should moderate after 2016, alleviating some of that pressure after a period of consolidation.
Decrease in the price of energy efficient appliances: $12
Conventional wisdom says that efficiency standards will raise the price of products. In some cases that's true. But in the appliance sector, it turns out that standards have actually reduced the price of dishwashers, dryers and air conditioners. According to an analysis from ACEEE, nine recent Department of Energy (DOE) standards have dropped the price of appliances by $12 on average. That's exactly the opposite what DOE said would happen. When the rules were being crafted, the department estimated a $148 increase in the upfront price of those products.
(For the cynics out there, keep your eyes peeled for an article on price points that some in the cleantech business would like to forget.)
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In a fabulous setting on its very own south coast beach, Carlisle Bay is blessed with splendid isolation to ensure your holiday can be enjoyed in the utmost privacy, but still within easy access of English Harbour. You'll find plenty of boat trips available nearby, but when you've got it this good why would you want to leave?
When the hotel opened in 2003 it set a new, luxurious standard for the Caribbean. Gone were the outdated, blousy florals and in were the sophisticated stylings, soothing neutrals and a sigh-inducing spa. Despite its understated nature the charm of the West Indies shines through, and despite being on the petite side, that spa is something else. Glamourpusses will enjoy facials by Voya and you can try out all manner of wraps, massages and scrubs – there are even treatments just for teens.
Rooms are just as chic as the rest of the hotel, with contemporary designs, muted colours and dark wood furniture, accented by a splash of vibrant bougainvillea on the veranda.
Enjoy a luxury beach holiday at Carlisle Bay this winter and save 30% on all room categories (excluding Carlisle Suites).
Stay in either an Ocean Suite or a Beach Balcony Suite and enjoy a 40% reduction on your stay.
It's the little extras that matter here: don't miss the 11am fruit kebabs on the beach each morning, plus there's a complimentary beachside afternoon tea that will refresh you with delicious sweet and savoury treats – perfect after a hard day on the sand!
All of the rooms at Carlisle Bay overlook the beach that gives the hotel its name, and are exquisitely decorated in neutral colours. All accommodation is suite style, with six categories to choose from. The resort has carefully been designed so that families are accommodated in one half of the resort and couples in the rest.
With views into the tropical gardens, these suites have one king size bed. They can interconnect for couples travelling together.
Those seeking peace and tranquillity should book these suites. Located at the calm end of the beach, the split level room has an open plan sitting/bedroom.
Aimed at couples, these are the latest addition to Carlisle Bay. Set on the beach, these suites have a private butler service, and a vodka and rum bar set up for arrival.
Positioned in the family half of the resort and overlooking the beach, these suites have a master king size bedroom and a second twin bedded room.
Located on the ground floor, Terrace Suites have direct beach access. They too have a second twin bedroom.
The largest suites of the resort, with three ensuite bedrooms, large private terraces and beautiful views. Ideal for large families.
While you may not want to leave the 500 metres of crescent beach, there is plenty to keep the young and not so young busy at Carlisle Bay. There is the PADI Bubblemaker programme, aimed at introducing children from the age of eight to the underwater world of scuba. Perhaps you would prefer hopping onto the resort's new cruising yacht for a trip to the UNESCO Heritage Site of Nelson's Dockyard or a helicopter flight over the island.
If you haven't learnt to dive yet, why not try a PADI one-day course?
There are four restaurants to choose from at Carlisle Bay, all with different cuisines to suit any palate. If you are looking for a relaxed atmosphere, then head to Indigo on the Beach. For a taste of the Orient, then East is the place for you; after all, it is one of the best Asian restaurants on the island. Romantics can experience dinner for two on the jetty and families can have flexible timings to suit their little one's sleeping schedule.
The place to head for a quiet lunch of grilled meats and fresh fish straight from the sea.
Sophisticated Pan Asian cuisine, though we love the fried ice cream with caramel pineapple.
The all-day restaurant where you can enjoy grilled seafood, salad, homemade bread and pasta.
An Italian treat serving authentic wood-fired pizzas, antipasti and of course delicious gelato.
At the heart of the resort. Plantation style wood shutters open to let in the sea breeze and the fresh scent of the rainforest.
Located beachside and popular for its tropical fruit punches and cocktails.
Perfect for couples. Chairs and tables are scattered under the palm trees and complimentary afternoon tea is served here every afternoon.
Serves fresh coconuts, beers and light snacks, perfect for relaxed dining as shoes are optional.


There is a confusion about the distinction between innovation and disruption. It's not precisely black and white, but there are real differences. Think of this concept: Disruptors are innovators, but not all innovators are disruptors.
Innovation and disruption are comparable because they are both creators and builders. Disruption leads a left turn by literally extracting and transforming how people think, act, do business, learn and go about day-to-day. However, for business application, the term "disruption" certainly took off with Clayton Christensen's 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma. In it, Christensen began the idea of "disruptive innovation." He applied this expression as a way to think about flourishing companies not just meeting customers' current needs but awaiting their unstated or future needs. His theory worked to demonstrate how small companies with least resources were able to access a market and displace the established system as what SophiaTX is aiming to achieve utilizing the blockchain technology.
SophiaTX endeavors to expand the opportunities of business applications with the trust and security that comes with blockchain technology. It is the platform that focuses on integrating blockchain with ERP and other major SAP, CRM, and SCM systems. The project was born from the concept of creating a link between two ecosystems – the traditional enterprise application software that is primarily represented by SAP and the emerging ecosystem of Blockchain.
Private blockchains build entry barriers making it challenging for small and medium enterprises to participate. These barriers include invitation-only or required network permissions, reducing the number of participants and limiting the potential reach of the blockchain project. Privatizing this technology is counter-intuitive of integrating SophiaTX blockchain into SAP and enterprise applications across multiple industries.
By opening the network for anyone to connect and participate, SophiaTX has the best possible chance for global adoption.
Several ERP vendors and technology companies are reviewing the utilization of blockchain in different areas. The procedure offered often takes them to both private or consortium based approaches which do not provide to open holistic collaboration across enterprises and value chains. The method by SophiaTX provides a valid and open public blockchain, which is significantly more beneficial in addressing the whole value chain providing businesses of all sizes to engage and collaborate. SophiaTX Blockchain grants flexibility and allows accelerated adoption by end users via standardized building blocks, process flows and uses case designs.
The overall adoption is facilitated by establishing a well-managed ecosystem of players involving technology partners, blockchain engineers, and ERP consultants as well as internal company IT leaders who are accountable for the adoption of innovative technologies.
On November 21, 2018, as part of their continuous success, SophiaTX has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Magnus Consulting, an independent consulting firm specialized in the design and implementation of SAP enterprise solutions, to promote disruptive blockchain technologies and its uses in major supply chain industries over the ASEAN region.
Under the agreement, the companies set a framework for the parties to work towards developing businesses through the adoption and implementation of the blockchain. Other areas of collaboration include innovation, knowledge-sharing, and the best applications on enterprise blockchain technology, co-developing and executing SophiaTX-based solutions to allow collaboration and information flow within the region's key sectors, as well as bringing critical manpower and innovations collectively to help facilitate the building of apps and drive widespread uses of blockchain technology.
SophiaTX and Magnus Consulting also expressed interest to collaboratively expand their ASEAN client base, explore project opportunities to address other industry challenges, identify key application opportunities based on the SophiaTX platform, as well as create cross-border Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and use cases of enterprise solutions and business automation for various industries. These industries include agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing, construction, energy and many others.
Magnus Consulting, Managing Director, Roger Deslorieux commented on the mounting business challenges to keep pace with the rapidly changing technology trends and market directions as they are confronted with the shortage of blockchain and disruptive technologies know-how and expertise. He thinks that the newly forged alliance with a focus on helping major sectors in the region is a vital move to help companies leading into the new age of technology and digital transformation.