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Meet alums who grabbed this crazy year and made the most of it
Julia Maddalina assembled her 100 portraits of medical front-line workers into a composite poster print. (More photos below.)
By Karen Sandstrom
When COVID descended in the spring of 2020, Julia Maddalina watched most of her work evaporate. A painter, portrait artist and illustrator, Maddalina normally earns her living through a combination of sources, including commissions and contract work demonstrating art materials at conventions for the General Pencil Co.
Suddenly conventions were being canceled. Two weeks into a job as a substitute art teacher in the Ann Arbor Public Schools, that opportunity dried up because education went online.
Maddalina '18 still had her skills, but she didn't feel especially useful.
So she improvised. She took to Twitter to announce she would make portraits of medical workers free of charge as a way to honor pandemic front liners. A trickle of takers became an avalanche. She challenged herself to paint 100 oil portraits of those who were doing some of the most important work of the moment.
Within months, she had a new body of work. She also had renewed her sense of purpose and improved her painting. "I'm 100 portraits better than when I started," Maddalina says. "I found a new process for working. I really like the style. Not only did I grow as an artist, but showing myself that I was able to make 100 portraits is pretty powerful."
Her series is on view at portraitsofthefrontline.com. A poster with all 100 portraits is being sold through Worldbuilders Market, a site that raises money for worldwide charities.
Separately, Maddalina's still life of a roll of toilet paper—famously in short supply during the first months of COVID—was included in the Emergency Art Museum, a pop-up art space in Los Gatos, California.
Maddalina is just one example of CIA artists who are finding opportunities amid COVID challenges. They find large and small ways to succeed, and they demonstrate the benefits of seizing the moment. Sara McClelland Phillips '06 was furloughed from her job but earned money by sewing and selling masks. She says she is "thankful for the skills I learned at CIA—art and perseverance."
Designer Dan Cuffaro '91, chair of Industrial Design at CIA, took advantage of the all-virtual landscape to recruit experts from across the United States to take part in students' thesis reviews.
"The shift in format meant that we didn't have to rely on people who had the time and means to travel," he says. "A challenging time presented a unique opportunity."
And Dawn Petrill '95 was selected as one of four artists to create public art decals in Dublin, Ohio. Petrill's artwork helps people stay the "three paintings" (6 feet) away from others when they're in public spaces.
Becoming the go-to guy for storyboards
For Lincoln Adams '98, the pandemic created a boost in his career making storyboards for film and TV.
Adams, assistant professor in CIA's Animation Department, already had a robust freelance career and had been getting assignments from Los Angeles-based studios, including Nickelodeon and Illumination. Those companies employ union artists, however, which limited the scope of what Adams could do as a freelancer.
Before the pandemic, Adams had arranged to join the union. Thanks to that move, the studios were free to use him even more when COVID hit.
Ironically, some of their full-time artists—now stranded home—lacked the artmaking equipment they used at the studios. Adams had everything he needed in his home studio. From January through to mid-September, "I worked almost nonstop.
Studios included Universal Animation, DreamWorks TV Animation, Illumination, Oddbot Animation, Pipsqueek Animation and Black Sands Entertainment."
He was able to reap the opportunities of the moment because he'd sown seeds of preparedness for years by networking on LinkedIn and attending animation conventions.
"I think that persistence paid off," he says. "You have to put the nets out early and often.
Sometimes you get nothing. Sometimes you get a few fish. But you never know when the next time will land a big haul. It takes a while before all the fish know where to find the bait."
Having the right equipment was critical as well—a message he imparts to his students.
"You can find really good used hardware such as Cintiqs and MACs or PCs that won't break the bank. It's the software subscriptions that get you. So a budget that allows you to do this and still pay on your student loans is mission critical to successfully working remotely."
People still shop during a pandemic
As counterintuitive as it sounds, three months into the pandemic was exactly the right time to launch a new business for Alisha Merrick '98. In June, she opened FERN, a small shop in Friday Harbor, Washington, where she sells her hand-made art and jewelry and works by other artists and craftspeople.
"It has been a lifesaver financially and emotionally during the pandemic," she says.
In fall 2019, Merrick realized she needed some-thing beyond the local markets where she had been selling her work. In January, she wrote a business plan to rent a retail space in the quaint tourist town of Friday Harbor.
She had planned to open March 16—the day that all the local retailers She opened June 1 instead. While tourism was slower, the town enjoyed an influx of property owners who decided to ride out COVID in their vacation homes.
Sales didn't quite hit her pre-pandemic projections, but business has been good, she says. "My sales for the third quarter were the same as my entire 2019."
Lessons from the portrait project
For Maddalina, the front liners project paid big emotional dividends. When she sent her subjects the digital images of their portraits, "they were incredibly thankful and happy. I was equally as grateful to them."
The project also reminded her of the unpredictable rewards of thinking big. Her offer to make the portraits created a deluge of requests, which she was forced to manage and mitigate. At times she felt overwhelmed.
But in retrospect, she says, "It's fun to have those things where you say what was I thinking? Either it's going to be awesome or you're going to have a great lesson. In my case, I feel like I've had both."
So yes, COVID erased a lot of Maddalina's plans and expectations for 2020. But, she adds, "the impact of seeing 100 nurses and doctors all together is something I would never trade for all the stress."
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Installation view of Banu Cennetoğlu, right?, 2022, in the 58th Carnegie International, Courtesy of the artist, Rodeo Gallery, and Carnegie Museum of Art.
Photo: Sean Eaton
A Weighty Conversation
The 58th Carnegie International explores the unvarnished histories of social movements.
By Marylynne Pitz
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Ten giant towers of gold Mylar balloons float upward in the Hall of Sculpture, a two-tiered white marble temple modeled on the Parthenon.
Inside this hushed cavern of antiquity at Carnegie Museum of Art, plaster replicas of Greek and Roman statues arranged on an upper balcony gaze at the installation featured as part of the 58th Carnegie International.
The stark visual contrast between neoclassical aesthetic and those shimmering balloons is an irresistible, made-for-Instagram moment.
Each balloon is shaped like an English alphabet letter. Titled right?, this installation by Turkish artist Banu Cennetoglu spells out the first 10 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a 1948 agreement that leaders from hundreds of countries signed three years after World War II ended.
As the balloons deflate—something they are doing far faster than anticipated—visitors can consider what it will take to protect freedom of religious expression, freedom of speech, and freedom from slavery.
"We are surprised by the rate at which these articles are deflating," says Ryan Inouye, associate curator of the International, who worked with Sohrab Mohebbi, the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of the 58th Carnegie International, curatorial assistant Talia Heiman, and a large team of advisers and associates.
Inouye notes that some visitors who photographed themselves with the helium-filled balloons, then posted the pictures on social media, were a tad embarrassed after learning of the serious message that underlies the artwork. Kettlebells anchor the balloons to the floor, a visual suggestion that upholding the shiny promise of human rights remains a heavy lift for humanity.
The 58th Carnegie International, which opened September 24 and runs through April 2, 2023, is Pittsburgh's continuation of a 126-year-old conversation with emerging and well-established artists chosen from all over the globe. Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist, started the exhibition in 1896, and it remains the longest-running North American survey of international contemporary art, second worldwide only to the Venice Biennale, founded in 1895. The museum's leaders have acquired paintings, sculptures, films, installations, and videos from past shows that have become an important part of the overall collection.
Among the more than 100 participating artists and collectives, 25 are from North America; 6 are from the Caribbean; and 47 are from the Middle East and North Africa.
But this International is more than an effort to highlight the art world's hottest talents. "This is a show about social movements," explains Dana Bishop-Root, Carnegie Museum of Art's director of education and public programs.
The exhibition showcases artists' heroic, inventive efforts to archive, record, or reclaim important chunks of history. One example is the black-and-white photographic collages titled What we choose to not see by Panamanian artist Giana De Dier. These collages reveal the resilient Afro-Caribbean women who, during the early 1900s, disguised themselves as men in order to obtain lucrative, backbreaking work building the Panama Canal.
Giana De Dier, What we choose to not see, no. 1, 2022, Courtesy of the artist; photo: Giana De Dier
A Political Exhibition
The International's title—Is it morning for you yet?—is a query and an invitation. In the Mayan Kaqchikel (pronounced Kak-jackal) language indigenous to Central Guatemala, it is a customary greeting to acknowledge that each person's internal clock and mood varies. It may be morning for you, but it is likely night for someone else.
Among its varied stories, the art in this profoundly political exhibition highlights the United States' military intervention in armed conflicts during the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as citizens' struggles against authoritarian governments throughout the world.
"It is certainly a forum for expression for a lot of artists about what their countries have suffered or are suffering," says Monica Valley, as she took a docent-led tour of the exhibition in late September. An independent curator and museum educator who has worked at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Valley spent much of the pandemic working at the Terra Sancta Museum, housed inside a Jerusalem monastery in Israel. She returned to the U.S. in 2022 and lives in downtown Pittsburgh.
The heart of the exhibition, Inouye explains, is the Hall of Sculpture, a hard architectural space filled with artwork that conveys what he calls "resilience and tenderness."
On large walls at both ends of the hall's balcony, 10 frescoes comprise Colors of Grey, by one of more than 25 artists specifically commissioned for this International. Thu Van Tran, an artist born during the Vietnam War, used the six colors of the lethal "rainbow herbicides"—known as Agents Orange, Blue, Green, Pink, Purple, and White—that U.S. military troops sprayed over more than 4.5 million acres of Vietnam, contaminating canals, farms, forests, rice paddies, and rivers.
Thu Van Tran, Installation view of Colors of Grey, 2022, in the 58th Carnegie International,
Courtesy of the artist and Carnegie Museum of Art
In scale and choice of palette, Colors of Grey may remind viewers of Claude Monet's water lily paintings, one of which resides in Carnegie Museum of Art's Scaife Galleries. A gifted gardener, Monet cultivated the plants at his Giverny home in France. Some of Monet's water lily canvases are on view at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, the city where Tran lives.
"It is certainly a forum for expression for a lot of artists about what their countries have suffered or are suffering."
– Monica Valley, An independent curator and museum educator
All around the Hall of Sculpture's first floor are haunting images by Hiromi Tsuchida. For more than half of his 82 years, the Japanese photographer has studied the August 8, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima by the U.S. military near the end of World War II.
The artist meticulously documents objects from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum's collection. The result is Hiroshima Collection. One picture shows a torn school uniform worn by Akio Tsukuda, a 13-year-old boy who was doing fire prevention work the day of the bombing. The boy's father discovered the uniform hanging from a tree branch and kept it; his son's body was never found.
Hiroshima Collection consists of black-and-white photographs of everyday objects, such as a lunchbox and a pocket watch. The images are composed with a palpable reverence, imbuing each quotidian item with the sacred rarity of a saint's relic.
Hiromi Tsuchida, 双眼鏡 (Binoculars)(left) and 弁当箱 (Lunchbox)(right), in the 58th Carnegie International, Courtesy of the artist and Carnegie Museum of Art; photo: Sean Eaton
Ed Horvat, who lives in Hopwood, Fayette County, visited the 58th International exhibition twice, spending three hours on his first visit. Horvat says he found the exhibition "heavy," but was nevertheless compelled to return.
"It's moving in its intensity," Horvat says, adding that the pictures are so powerful, political, and personal that for a while they became "a repetitive slideshow in his brain."
Beauty on Barkcloth
But amid the dark themes there is also light. The Heinz Galleries hold astonishingly vivid, richly textured paintings that appear to be made of shells. Instead, the medium is colorful recycled paper rolled into tiny handmade beads that are sewn onto barkcloth. Think of it as pointillism with paper dots.
The recycled paper folded into beads is gathered from many sources, including magazines, retired school textbooks, and political campaign flyers. The Uganda-born artist, Sanaa Gateja, a trained jeweler, is called the "Bead King" in Kampala, Uganda, where he works with a group of women who assist him and earn income from their painstaking artistic practice.
Sanaa Gateja, Soils of life, 2022, in the 58th Carnegie International, Courtesy of the artist, Afriart Gallery and Carnegie Museum of Art; photo: Sean Eaton
A different type of beauty—the triumph of indomitable human beings—radiates from color photographs made by LaToya Ruby Frazier, a Braddock, Pennsylvania, native who spent three months of 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland. There, Frazier recorded hours long interviews with 33 community health workers, the front-line foot soldiers who rolled out the COVID-19 vaccine to some of Baltimore's most vulnerable residents. Frazier photographed each of the community health workers in a place they chose that was meaningful to them, and also taught them to photograph themselves. Her installation earned her the International's top award, the Carnegie Prize.
A corps of patient advocates who have their neighbors' trust, the community health workers documented in Frazier's work educated people about COVID's threats to public health and helped them navigate the healthcare system to find the right treatment. Beside each picture is the story of what motivated the person featured, plus their recounting of experiences as liaisons with faith leaders, doctors, and government officials. The 36 portraits, attached to 9-foot-tall intravenous poles, stand 6 feet apart, with 18 portraits by Frazier hanging on the front and 18 taken by the community health workers themselves on the back. A black-and-white portrait of Tiffany Scott, the first certified community health worker in Maryland, conveys a palpable mixture of a pioneer's pride and a superhero's strength. Scott connected Frazier with other community health workers and also gave her a tour of Baltimore.
Frazier calls this combination of art, archive, history, and installation More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland. The artist hopes the artwork will aid community health workers in obtaining better pay and healthcare benefits.
LaToya Ruby Frazier, More Than Conquerors: A Monument For Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland (detail), 2021–22, in the 58th Carnegie International, Courtesy of the artist and Carnegie Museum of Art; photo: Sean Eaton
Michele Borkoski, who lives in Oakdale, admires the humanity of Frazier's work.
"I think that's really involving the community in the art world," says Borkoski, a regular patron of previous Carnegie Internationals, as she studied Frazier's portraits during a visit in early October.
Artists' choices of medium, materials, and style often reflect the aesthetic and cultural tenor of their times. Several examples are outside the museum's front entrance on Forbes Avenue. A 40-foot-tall sculpture, Carnegie, was forged from four panels of COR-TEN steel by Richard Serra for the 1985 Carnegie International. The sculpture honors Andrew Carnegie's cultural and philanthropic contributions to Pittsburgh. Like the nearby Cathedral of Learning, a Gothic classroom building on the University of Pittsburgh campus, the Serra sculpture is also an exercise in placemaking.
"I think that's really involving the community in the art world."
– Michele Borkoski, Oakdale Resident, on Latoya Ruby Frazier's portraits of community health workers in Baltimore
"One conceptual, art historical thread through which I think about Richard Serra's work is how the scale of and material with which he made his sculptures was in conversation with new typologies of architecture that would define the American city in the second half of the 20th century," Inouye says. "I think of this as the context in which Serra was working."
Tishan Hsu, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, made three artworks this year for the International. Two of them, displayed near the Carnegie sculpture, are especially colorful and curvy: car-grass-screen and car-body-screen.
Hsu has spent more than 40 years thinking about the acceleration of technology and artificial intelligence and how both affect our bodies, behavior, and the environment, Inouye says.
"In Hsu's work, we have encounters with surfaces, forms, and imagery that we are more used to experiencing on our screens or in the so-called digital domain," he explains. "But is the digital any less 'real' than a street or building when so much digital infrastructure shapes the way we think, live, and relate to one another? Hsu's work helps me think through such questions about present-day life and our surroundings."
Hope for peace
Two International installations that are especially striking are Julian Abraham's OK Studio, 2021 and Dia al-Azzawi's Ruins of Two Cities: Mosul and Aleppo.
The organic evolution of OK Studio, 2021 by Julian Abraham "Togar" began during the March 2020 lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, he was living in Amsterdam as an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie. He bought a drum, and soon other artists who heard his rhythmic beats joined him. OK Studio, 2021 includes instruments, video, nine automated ocean drums, and gongs.
Witty text paintings on the studio walls are drawn from sonic culture. "You May Say I'm a Drummer, But I'm Not the Only One" sounds like a variation on a line from Imagine, the 1971 song John Lennon wrote as the Vietnam War raged. "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one," Lennon sang softly in his understated wish for world peace.
But war remains a constant, and Dia al-Azzawi's large, bird's-eye view of Mosul, Iraq, and Aleppo, Syria, shows how these ancient cities have nearly been leveled in recent history.
The artist, who was born in Baghdad and lives in London, cast the three-dimensional model out of polyester resin, calling it Ruins of Two Cities: Mosul and Aleppo. For millennia, Mosul and Aleppo were razed and rebuilt, remaining centers of artistic endeavor, culture, and commerce.
Monica Valley, the independent curator, has visited Aleppo and Mosul, an experience that immediately connected her with al-Azzawi's portrayal of ancient urban ruins.
In the Middle East, Valley says, "You are surrounded by ruins. … You can see the hand of time everywhere. And yet people live in ruins, live in walls that are 800 years old, conduct their daily lives, surf the Internet, and talk with their cellphones."
Installation view of the 58th Carnegie International featuring works by Dia al-Azzawi (front) and Melike Kara (back), Courtesy of the artist and Carnegie Museum of Art; photo: Sean Eaton
Valley believes al-Azzawi deliberately made the work large enough to cover nearly the entire floor of a single gallery.
"He is very clear and very exact about how he lays out the grid of these cities. You can't escape the details. He's there. He's seen it," Valley says.
The scale of the work, she adds, "catches your eye. It's very tactile and it's something that hooks you, that bird's-eye view. You have a position of power. He wants you to almost take ownership of it."
Krista Belle Stewart literally did take ownership of land when her mother, Seraphine, gave her 50 acres in the Okanagan Nation. Stewart, who grew up on a First Nations reservation in Canada, dug up some of the land and carried it around in a suitcase. Her wall mural, titled Eye Eye, features rich tones of ocher, terra cotta, and umber. The massive mural is displayed inside the museum's fountain entry. Stewart transported the land from her reservation in the form of a tile and mixed it with water to create pigment for the mural—a slow, meditative process.
JJ Potasiewicz lives in Ben Avon and works remotely as a design studio manager for a San Francisco company. He called the 58th Carnegie International "the most international" and the "most transporting" art show he has seen in quite awhile.
A notable feature of the 58th International is how far beyond U.S. borders it reached in choosing the organizers of the exhibition. Sohrab Mohebbi is the first person from a West Asian nation to organize a Carnegie International.
Now director of SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York, Mohebbi, who was born in Iran and is now a U.S. citizen, studied photography at Tehran Art University, then curatorial studies at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Mohebbi hopes that visitors to this exhibition will realize that one of the show's messages is that, "trying to understand others and approach other cultures" is also a way of crossing borders.
The 58th Carnegie International, presented by Bank of America, is made possible by leadership support from Kathe and Jim Patrinos.
Major support is provided by the Carnegie International Endowment, The Fine Foundation, the Jill and Peter Kraus Endowment for Contemporary Art, and the Carnegie Luminaries. Significant support is provided by Teiger Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Susan J. and Martin G. McGuinn Exhibition Fund, Henry L. Hillman Foundation, and the Keystone Members of the Carnegie International. The 58th Carnegie International has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is provided by the The Heinz Endowments, the Heinz Family Foundation, the Louisa S. Rosenthal Family Fund, and the Friends of the Carnegie International.
Additional support is provided by the Akers Gerber Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and Allegheny Health Network, NOVA Chemicals, Sotheby's, Fort Pitt Capital, the Henry Moore Foundation, Advanced Auto Parts, Giant Eagle Foundation, UPMC and UPMC Health Plan, the Japan Foundation, the Fans of the Carnegie International, and the Carnegie Collective.
This program is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. This exhibition is supported by Etant donnés Contemporary Art, a program from Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy of the United States.
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Hilda Heine
Marshallese politician
8th President of the Marshall Islands
Assumed office
Casten Nemra
Hilda Cathy Heine
(1951-04-06) 6 April 1951 (age 68)
Majuro, Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands (now Marshall
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Hilda Cathy Heine (born April 6, 1951) is a Marshallese educator and politician, currently serving as the eighth President of the Marshall Islands. Prior to assuming office, she served as the Minister of Education. She was the first individual in the Marshall Islands to earn a doctorate degree, and the founder of the women's rights group Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI).[1][2]
Heine is the first woman to hold the presidency of the Marshall Islands.[3] She is also the first female president of any Micronesian country, and only the fourth woman to serve as head of government for any independent nation in Oceania (following Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark of New Zealand and Julia Gillard of Australia).[4][5][6] She is one of only three women currently serving in the Nitijeļā, the country's legislature, as of January 2016.[5]
Education[]
Heine attended college in the United States where she earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon in 1970. She earned a master's degree at the University of Hawaii in 1975, and an educational doctorate at the University of Southern California in 2004.[7]
Career[]
President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, H.E. Hilda C. Heine walking through the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery Sept. 12, 2017.
Heine worked at Marshall Islands High School in Majuro from 1975 through 1982, serving both as a classroom teacher and as a counselor.[7] In 2000, Heine founded Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI), a women's rights group.[8][9] Since 2005, she had been Pacific Resources for Education and Learning's (PREL) Director at the Pacific Comprehensive Assistance Center.[7] Heine participated in the 2009 with the Pacific Islands Climate Change Education Partnership. She has also been associated with the Leadership Pacific Advisory Board, the Commission on Education in Micronesia, and the Human Resources in Health Task Force.[7]
Representing Aur Atoll in the Nitijeļā (Legislature), she became Minister of Education.[10]
On January 27, 2016, Heine was elected President of the Marshall Islands after defecting from the Aelon Kein Ad party along with former Minister Thomas Heine and Wilbur Heine who joined the coalition and the majority Kien Eo Am (KEA) party.[11] After a vote of no confidence removing Aelon Kein Ad elect Casten Nemra, President Hilda Heine was chosen as the replacement by the opposition. As sole candidate she received 24 votes with six abstaining and three absent from the 33 members of the Nitijeļā. Heine was sworn into office on January 28, 2016.[3] She succeeded Casten Nemra who was ousted by a no-confidence motion just two weeks after his inauguration.[12][13]
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^ a b Johnson, Giff (2016-01-28). "Hilda emerges as RMI President". Marshall Islands Journal. Archived from the original on 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
^ "Hilda Heine Becomes First Women President Of The RMI". East-West Center (Radio New Zealand International). 2016-01-27. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
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^ "Hilda Heine elected Marshalls president". Radio New Zealand. January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
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I have an issue with Uninstalling and Reinstalling McAfee on MACs within my companys estate. Whenever i uninstall McAfee it will never reinstall and communicate properly with the ePO server. This results in having to rebuild the MACs with a clean build and reinstall McAfee. This is obviously not ideal.
If you open up a terminal and enter the command below then you should be able to uninstall the agent.
The above was shamelessly stolen from either KB articles or other folks posts here.
Reboot the machine, try to install ENSM and whatever modules you want for that client (provided you have communication with ePO... cd /Library/McAfee/agent/bin ./cmdagent running the -p/-e/-c switch).
Let me know what you find after running this, I have one last thing in my book of magic that will fix this if those terminal commands don't work.
Hi Cookand thanks for that but it has made no difference.
Hmmmm... That should have done the trick, that will list all components for EPM/ENSM on a recursive removal. The only other thing that I could suggest is that you call in to support and get a SR spun up and we can give you the Removal Tool for MAC. When you call in you can reference me if you'd like but I will most likely be on a call, but I can give that tool to whomever you speak with if it's not me.


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Healthcare associated infections (HAI) affect approximately 1 of every 25 hospitalized patients, lead to substantial morbidity and mortality, degrade patient experience and are costly. Risks for HAI are multifactorial and it is known that microbial contamination of the healthcare environment increases risk for HAI. Portable ultraviolet-C (UVC) surface disinfection as an adjunct to standard hospital disinfection has been shown to decrease both surface microbial contamination and HAI. However, there remain significant gaps in the understanding of the efficient and effective application of UVC in healthcare. Specific barriers identified are: 1) the variability in size, shape, and surface materials of hospital rooms as well as the presence of medical devices and furniture, which impacts the amount of UVC energy delivered to surfaces and its disinfection efficiency; 2) the significant resources needed to acquire and efficiently use UVC equipment and achieve the desired patient benefits- a particular challenge for complex healthcare facilities with limited operating margins; and 3) the lack of implementation guidance and industry standard methods for measuring the UVC output and antimicrobial effects from the multiple commercial UVC options available. An improved understanding of the efficient and effective use of UVC surface disinfection in healthcare and the implementation of standard device industry metrics may lead to increased use and decrease the burden of HAI.


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A top rated located eatery in downtown West Palm Beach serving really delicious New York style pizzas. Their Soho Pizza with artichokes, tomatoes and gorgonzola cheese is a must try!
Historical Clematis Street has been the host of a friendly restaurant for more than 20 years, Pizza Girls. Serving one of the best N.Y. style pizza in West Palm Beach, Pizza Girls is located near the waterfront and features big slices, gourmet pies with a signature crisp crust.
This eatery has been praised by critics for their hot and delicious pizza offering a casual dining environment. It also features a dog-friendly spot in the outside seating section overlooking the gorgeous Green Lawn on Clematis street.
The menu at Pizza Girls in West Palm Beach includes Caprese Pie, Soho Pie, Kale Yeah Pie, Greek Salad, Manhattan Meat Pie, Manhattan Meat Pie, New Yorker Pie, Pizza Dog. Take a look at the menu here before you pay them a visit.
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Find information about the restaurant in downtown West Palm Beach, hours, menu, directions to the pizzeria, see photos and get daily special offers.
Small place, but truly a terrific pizzeria with excellent people making delicious pizza. Great service, friendly staff. The pizzeria has been a tradition of delicious pizza at affordable prices in downtown West Palm Beach for many years.


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QCL anglers are revelling in some of the best weather of the summer and finding that they have fantastic fishing to match! These past few days have been fairly typical for August with very steady Chinook fishing, especially along the traditional shores between Cape Naden and Klashwun Point. While it often tends to be hot and cold, Parker Point seems to be the single most productive spot out there, turning out nice Tyee-class fish every day.
At this stage of the season we generally find that the bulk of salmon are off shore a little, in 120 to 180 feet of water and found at a full range of depths, from 90 feet right up to the surface. This is the case off both the Bird Rocks shore as well as the north shore beyond Klashwun Point. Anchovy/flasher combos are catching loads of salmon but many of the larger fish are falling for herring, fished "wholly roller" style in close to the kelp beds. There always seems to be a few of those big ones hiding in the kelp! Glen Matys chose to release a 40 pounder there last trip, fishing with guide Matt Brown. Well done Glen! Vince Parker picked up a 44 with guide Sam Johnstone, Mitchell Wolfe turned back a 34 and Russ Carter released a 37 pounder with guide Ryan Kelly. First timer at QCL, Bobbie Ence landed a stunning 39 pounder with her guide Dakota Kitchen on Monday. Our special congratulations go out to Holly and Vince Morelli who chose to celebrate their wedding anniversary with us and did so in fine fashion, boating a matched set of Tyees on their first day of fishing! So lodge guests are still getting a decent shot at landing a big salmon, right into the last days of summer!
Coho fishing has been pretty crazy with huge quantities of beautiful chrome fish found throughout the grounds, particularly up topside between Green Point and Klashwun. The sizes are still very mixed but we are seeing some of those awesome 15-18 pound Northerns on the dock every night. It's worth noting that we're also seeing well above average numbers of sockeye at the lodge this month, maybe something to do with the huge projections for the Fraser this year!
Our awesome halibut fishing is still the big story of the summer with lodge guests catching / reporting way more larger-sized halibut than we've ever had before. A new approach to halibut fishing at the lodge is providing lots of excitement and very happy anglers at the Bell Ringer in the evening! Perhaps most notable are the number of 100 lb. plus fishing being released. Dale Johnson taped out 2 giants last week, a 107 and a 124 with guide Emmo Scharnberg – way to go guys! Larry Schultz turned back a 105 with Lucas Grayson and Murray Olson battled a huge fish to the side of Nick Mercer's Grady White where they measured it out to score 220 pounds! That's 4 fish over 200 this summer! Amazing fish! On the keeper side, Breauna Hatecke's 60 pounder was one of many super fish to come to the Bell Ringer this week! Well done!
Heading into the Labour Day weekend, traditionally the final trip of the season, we expect the weather to switch to moderate southerlies, retaining the nice calm seas we've enjoyed but switching to liquid sunshine rather than the nice warm stuff we've gotten quite accustomed to lately! Moderate tides with changes in the 8-12 foot range should help keep the action pretty steady throughout the day! Fingers crossed for a big finish to an excellent season!


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I'm not clowning around, and I'm not lion. The media thinks we're a circus and I'm not gonna jump through hoops for them any more!
Nothing gives me more pleasure then when an athlete or celebrity of any sort has an altercation with a member of the media. I especially love situations like this when a member of a team I support is involved. This morning, Jets linebacker, and media favorite, Bart Scott, got into a heated and almost physical argument with Dan Leberfeld of Jets Confidential magazine. Bart Scott is not one to shy away from the media for anything, but this season he has taken a different approach as he has decided to boycott the media since week 1 of the NFL season because he said he was angry at reporters for portraying the Jets as a "circus."
Strangers in the night, exchanging rants and it turned out so right, for strangers in the night.
Before Scott's boycott started, he found himself at the front of a lot of media related stories, both good and bad. Everyone can remember the jovial, yet somewhat angry interview Scott had with ESPN reporter, Sal Palantonio, after the huge win over the New England Patriots, to advance to the AFC championship. "I can't wait!." Here's a short video that I thought a was funny mash-up of that interview, which also shows the intensity that Scott plays with on a nightly basis.
Scott has never been a player to bite his tongue. This was one of the reasons that he almost got into a rumble with Dan Leberfeld. While speaking off the record to reporter Jane McManus of ESPNNewYork.com, Leberfeld walked by and tried to take a picture of Scott with his phone. The sole purpose of the photo was for Leberfeld to use on his Jets website in a story he was writing about Scott's media boycott. Supposedly this same thing had happened on Wednesday and it resulted in the reporter, that Scott was actually talking to, getting upset. Scott's reaction to Friday's attempted picture might have been a little of an overreaction, but I loved every second of it.
It's a matter of professional pride. And he was mean to me!
As Leberfeld tried to take the picture, Scott asked him why he was taking another picture after he already got one on Wednesday. Dan responded by telling Scott that he was taking the picture because he wanted to. Scott then went on to tell Dan to "get a life." In a mature fashion, Dan told Scott to "get a life." After only those few childish schoolyard comments, Scott had to be restrained by a Jets media relations worker. Scott hollered, "I'll kick the shit out of you," and Dan followed that remark by threatening to sue Scott. Scott then added an emphatic, "I DON'T CARE!"
I know you are, but what am I?
"I don't think a player would be that stupid," Leberfeld said. "A player would be suspended or have legal issues, so I don't think a player would ever do that." Leberfeld has been working for the Jets for 18 years now and clearly he hasn't learned a thing. If he paid attention to anything, he would know that Scott is not one to be messed with. I think it would be a great fight, the 32-year-old 240 lb 6'2 linebacker vs. any sports reporter. If I was Scott I would have wanted to hit that smug SOB also because of his antagonizing remark. "Because I want to;" I feel like that reply definitely warrants a punch to the face. And then he followed it with a threat to sue Scott. If I was the Jets organization, I would fire Leberfeld for being such a little bitch.
Shortly after his altercation with Scott, Leberfeld was asked to be on the Mike Francesa radio show to explain what went on. It really seems like Dan is the type of person to stir things like this up just to get his own name out there. Here is the link to the interview with Mike Francesa; http://newyork.cbslocal.com/audio/865-wfan-audio/dan-leberfeld-with-mike-francesa/. Now I don't want to see Scott get sued or suspended so I'm glad that he didn't hit him, but I ask that if anyone ever sees Leberfeld in a dark alley, that they give him what he is owed for being such an arrogant prick.
September 21, 2012 | Categories: Football, NY Jets | Tags: Bart Scott, Bart Scott fights a reporter, Dan Leberfeld, Mike Francesa, New York Jets | 1 Comment


Getting my Halloween groove on... | Lucy & G.
LOVE this DIY Halloween costume idea by bellamarie on Polyvore. So easy, so cute, and you most likely already have the items at home.
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I WILL so be making this this weekend! Some serious yum going on there.


This article is about a script to provide database restore report for all or selective databases.
How many of you got requests to restore database from one environment to other? Yeah, I know it is one of those common activities in day to day life of a DBA. If I ask how many of you had to provide a restore report of a single database? There will be many of you have an assertive answer.
But one of the not so common request is to provide restore report of all databases. Here I am going to provide the queries to pull restore report of all and selective databases. First of all lets see the restore report of all the databases.
Furthermore the result set is more useful if you get the following fields: Source Instance, Destination Instance, Source Database Name, Destination Database Name, Restore Type, Restore Date, the login id/user name who performed the restore and the backup file name used in the restore.
Note: I have commented out few fields in the query which are not so important in all situations. You may need to uncomment them as per your requirement.
Most noteworthy field in the above result set is backup file name. The complete path with the file name shown is the location where backup was taken and not the path from where the restore files was picked. In other words if you take a backup on X location and then copy the backup file to Y location and restore process picked the file from Y location the result set will show the X location. Hope I am clear enough.
Hope this is helpful. Please feel free to let me know your thoughts by leaving your comments below.


It's time to lose racial categories.
Some years ago I listened to an program on NPR in which they attempted to show that racial categories had little validity in medicine. For the most part the program made sense, though it did leave one hanging about a heart disease treatment that might have worked but was ignored. After discussing health they dealt with the connection between race and athletic ability. Their conclusion was the athletic ability was a byproduct of the lack of options in other areas and not in genetic skills related to racial categories.
We all know that in the real world medicine uses categories. Nobody tests Norwegians for Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle cell disease affects Africans, Arabs, some Mediterraneans and some from the Indian sub-continent. When you plot the distribution of the disease on a map, it becomes obvious that geography has as much to do with this as race. There are other diseases such as Tay-sachs that affect religious groups. What has been called a race can be replaced by ethnic and geographic categories.
In the US we still categorize people by race. In the NY Times there was an article about civil rights groups were condemning the desire of 'white' families to take their children out of the testing pool.
It is impossible to tell ourselves that racial categories have no meaning for some purposes and at the same time classify others by race. Our current racial categories are almost meaningless since we lump Cubans with Mexicans or Indians with Vietnamese. If we need to create special categories on the US Census Bureau to track Native Americans or the descendants of slaves, let us do so, but lets stop with racial categories for any other purpose.


Daniela Huppenkothen is the associate director of the Center for Data-Intensive Research in Astronomy and Cosmology (DIRAC) within the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington.
Previously, she was a Moore-Sloan Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, after receiving her PhD at the University of Amsterdam in astronomy in 2013.
Daniela is interested in leveraging new statistical and computational methods to improve inference within astronomy. Her current research focuses mostly on time series analysis, across all parts of astronomy, including asteroids, the sun, neutron stars and black holes. She is interested in how we can use machine learning and statistics to mitigate biases introduced into our data by detectors and telescopes. She is lead developer of the open-source software project Stingray, which aims to build a well-tested, well-documented standard implementation of the most commonly used time series methods in astronomy.
She is interested in finding new ways to teach data science to astronomers as well as facilitating interdisciplinary collaborations as a co-organizer of AstroHackweek. She also thinks about participant selection for scientific workshops a lot.


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Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Book of the Year short list
The shortlist for the inaugural Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Book of the Year award has just been announced -
A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming (Harper Collins)
Dead Men & Broken Hearts by Craig Russell (Quercus)
Gods & Beasts by Denise Mina (Orion)
The Lewis Man by Peter May (Quercus)
Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr (Quercus)
Redemption by Will Jordan (Random House)
Broadcaster and journalist Sheena McDonald chairs the judging panel, and her fellow judges are Waterstones' crime fiction expert Ewan Wilson and Len Wanner, author of The Crime Interviews Vol 1,2 and 3. The award is in association with Waterstones.
The winner will be announced on Sunday September 16th during Bloody Scotland, where the winner will be presented with a trophy and a cheque for £3,000.
The Award seeks to recognise and reward excellence in Scottish crime writing, first published between 1 August 2011 and 31 July 2012. Over 40 books of fiction and non-fiction were submitted by UK publishers. Eligible books were by writers born in Scotland, by writers living in Scotland, or books set in Scotland.
Bloody Scotland which is Scotland's first International Crime Writing Festival is due to take place in Stirling between 14 to 16 September 2012.
Congratulations to all the short listed authors.
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From Roy Fontaine, serial killer
Just because I'm a dead serial-killing Scottish butler doesn't mean I don't have feelings. And on behalf of Lucifer and all the gang here at the Ninth Circle Book Club, I'd like to express my disappointment at there being no True Crime titles in this short-list.
Of course, many of you will already have read the hilarious, thought-provoking account of my life and times, The Butler Did It,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Butler-Did-Terrifying-Encounters-Serial/dp/17805...
by some poor Scottish bastard whom I threatened to kill. I'd already offed 5 people. Wasn't that bloody enough for Bloody Scotland? What more can a patriotic serial-killer do?
Lucifer claims that the Bloody Scotland Festival is a great marketing tool for Scottish crime fiction, around which all its events are organised. He loves the fact that it pays lip-service to True Crime whilst completely ignoring it and condemning it to oblivion, or as he prefers to call it 'The Outer Darkness', where he spends most of his time.
So fess up, Bloody Scotland organisers, and just admit that True Crime, despite my own best efforts to promote it by stealing precious jewels and brutally killing anyone who got in my way, will always be the poor relation of that made-up, namby-pamby fiction you peddle on behalf of your corporate masters. I mean that as a compliment, since Lucifer and his cohorts love nothing more than corporate slaves.
By the way, Lucifer asked me if you could put him in touch with the evil Lord Quercus, who must be doing something right to have three titles on the shortlist. Lucifer likes the guy's style and thinks he and Lord Quercus should work together. Maybe next year they can have all six titles on the shortlist!
My laptop's starting to melt, so I'd better go, but Lucifer would like to show his appreciation of the excellent work done by the Bloody Scotland shortlist committee by reserving some great seats for them here in the ninth circle.
We'll give you some great books to read. They won't be fiction, they'll be True Crime, but they'll be bloody good. Titles like The Executioner's Song, In Cold Blood, and of course, The Butler Did It. Then you can see what you're missing.
We'll also supply sunscreen and asbestos suits.
Roy Fontaine, (anti)hero of The Butler did It
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Frances Coppola spent many years working in banks and IT, and now writes and speaks about finance, banking and economics.
Bitcoin has proven incapable of accommodating growing demand without deviating considerably from Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision of a "peer-to-peer electronic cash system."
It was intended to provide a fast, secure and inexpensive means of making payments without using the traditional financial system. Today it still only manages a tiny proportion of the traffic of, say, Visa or Mastercard, yet has become cripplingly slow and very expensive.
Solving bitcoin's scaling problem has become a principal concern of developers. But the problem has proved intractable.
Now, making a virtue out of necessity, the buzz is that bitcoin is "digital gold." Its built-in limit of 21 million bitcoins makes it an ideal anchor for a hard-money financial system similar to a strict gold standard. A new payment system could be built on top of it.
The problem is, it isn't possible to have full decentralization, a fixed money supply and sufficient liquidity for an efficient payments system. This is bitcoin's "trilemma."
Immobile money
In the gold standards of old, there was no trilemma. They were always centralized.
For example, the "classical" gold standard of the 19th century was the heyday of the British Empire, which at that time covered a third of the globe. The pound was the currency of international trade, and it was backed by gold.
Countries in the empire were forced on to the gold standard by the British government; countries outside the empire joined the gold standard, or even adopted the pound as their currency, because it made trade much easier.
In the center of the web, the Bank of England managed both the price of gold and pound issuance. It was the most centralized financial system since the Roman Empire.
But for bitcoin, the fact that it is designed as a decentralized system means something else has to give. And the clue is its rapidly rising price.
Bitcoin is becoming illiquid.
Bitcoin's growing illiquidity is due to a toxic combination of high demand, hoarding and designed-in scarcity. The rapid price rise indicates that purchases have increased much more than sales. More and more people are buying bitcoin in the hopes of cashing in as the price rises, while those who already own bitcoins are Holding On for Dear Life for the same reason.
People are also reluctant to spend their bitcoins, because that rapidly rising price means that they face huge opportunity costs.
And although bitcoins are still being mined, the rate at which they are mined is nowhere near enough to meet demand – and anyway, miners too can HODL their bitcoins.
Meanwhile, rising transaction volumes are causing network congestion. Bitcoin has no means of adjusting capacity other than rationing verification. Miners verify transactions with higher fees more quickly than those with lower fees. Those who want fast verification (which is nearly everyone, since bitcoin's price is rising so fast) will pay higher fees. Those who don't want to pay higher fees must wait longer for their transactions to settle.
Bitcoin's popularity therefore means both higher transaction fees and slower settlement times. The design feature intended to prevent it coming to a hyperinflationary end is driving it towards deflationary gridlock. As Business Insider asked, what on earth is the point of money that you can't spend and can't convert to anything else?
But is there a way round this problem? The clever folks working on the Lightning Network think so. Their solution is to take most transactions off-chain, and to share liquidity across the network.
Supply shortfall
Lightning is a decentralized network of pre-funded, bilateral bitcoin payment channels off the bitcoin blockchain. Lightning transactions are typically small, and most are not broadcast to the blockchain. So they should be much faster and cheaper than on-chain bitcoin transactions.
Assuming enough people open Lightning payment channels, there will eventually be a sizable bitcoin liquidity pool distributed across the network. The question is, how to enable it to be shared.
Lightning developers are designing a routing facility that identifies which network nodes have sufficient funds to make a payment, calculates the shortest viable route to the payment destination across those nodes, and sends the payment. If this works, it would resolve the bitcoin trilemma.
But it is not certain that it will work. There are two potential problems.
The first is that Lightning's pre-funded channels tie up funds that could be used for other purposes. Because of this, people may choose to keep very low balances in their Lightning channels, topping them up frequently rather than making infrequent balance adjustments.
And the second is that channel funding changes constantly. Typically, people would fund their channel, then pay the balance down gradually. Soon after funding, there could be quite a large balance, but only a few days later, the balance might have diminished considerably.
If a lot of people fund their channels at around the same time – for example, if people fund their channels on payday, then pay them down over the next month – liquidity across the network could vary considerably. This would mean that, at times, particularly for larger payments, it could be difficult or even impossible to find a payment route.
As it stands, therefore, Lightning could prove as illiquid as bitcoin.
Lightning's illiquidity problem could be solved by creating large payment channels kept open and fully funded at all times, so that they were always available for payment routing. But this would mean Lightning was not fully decentralized.
Such "hub" channels would be more efficient for payments, but they would be a magnet for thieves and a point of weakness in the network. If one went down, an awful lot of payments could be disrupted.
The alternative would be to allow channels temporarily to go into deficit as a payment passes through. This would ensure that payments always settled.
But since it is effectively fractional reserve lending, it would breach the "gold standard" principle of bitcoin. If gold is needed to settle payments, and you haven't got enough gold, you can't settle payments. That's how a gold standard works. It is also why it fails.
Lightning is still a work in progress, of course. But at present, it is hard to see how it can resolve bitcoin's three-pronged problem.
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Tuesday, Aug. 26th, 2014
Lloydminster Rescue was called to a plane crash in Marwayne on Saturday. Kitscoty RCMP received a call from a plane crash involving a float plane, 35 kilometres northwest of Lloydminster. The plane had made a refueling stop and was attempting to take off. The wind died as the plane was attempting takeoff, causing it to lose lift and the wing to hit the water at an angle. The plane cartwheeled and landed upside down in the water. The pilot and passenger were able to escape the plane and swim to shore. They were uninjured in the crash. The crash has been referred to the Transport Safety Board to follow up.


Designer Interview: Victor Sanz of Tumi | DA MAN MagazineDesigner Interview: Victor Sanz of Tumi – DA MAN Magazine – Make Your Own Style!
Within Tumi's vocabulary, a bag—whether a piece of luggage or a backpack—is not merely a unit to stuff our belongings in. It is a well-innovated, sculptural and fashionable item that serves as an extension of ourselves and, most importantly, the multidimensional and often fast-paced life we live in. The understanding of the latter is definitely what Tumi excels in, which is evident from its innovative approach, practical designs and high-quality craftsmanship. The fashion and style element is also glowingly present—and growing. So, it goes without saying that Tumi is definitely looking up to a promising and even greater future.
DAMAN: What kind of new features is Tumi introducing this fall and winter?
Victor Sanz: Some of the things that we're always looking at, again, are not only from a material standpoint, but also from how we execute the materials. We have the 19 Degree Aluminum cases and we've been playing a lot with how the material is finished and how we apply color on to it. And even with our materials that are tried and true Tumi materials, we always continue to evolve them and make them better, whether it's making them lighter, more durable, putting different coding on it, so that they'll repel dirt more. And I think this is kind of the secret to what Tumi is known for, it's to continue to evolve and push itself forward. Even from collections like Tahoe, where we are mixing the idea of material, where we take patterns, the coded zippers and taking a lot of outdoor cues and bringing that into a street fashion detail.
DAMAN: Is the Tahoe collection water-repellent?
Victor Sanz: All of our bags are water-repellent. We know that our customers are not just in an office, but they are in transit and sometimes they are caught in the rain and conditions are not ideal. Therefore we make sure that our products can survive all of that. For example, all the pieces on our Tahoe collection have a rain cover that is built into the bottom of the bag, and the reason we did this is because we know the customer that is buying into the Tahoe collection is much more of a commuter that is riding their bag to school or work.
DAMAN: Was the optical pattern in this season's Tahoe backpack inspired by Scandinavia?
Victor Sanz: It was. So, what we thought about was "How can you digitize the northern lights?" And we created this pattern from that and it just became this kind of optical effect, similar to the feeling that you would have when you see the northern lights. It becomes a bit magical.
Victor Sanz: Exactly. For us, when we talk about inspiration and destination, we don't look at it from a very literal perspective, but it is more about how do we get inspired by that, how do we put that through the Tumi lens and filter to create something that's in line with what our customers want. And it's more than just architecture; it's about food, culture, people and music.
DAMAN: You mentioned that you are heavily influenced by architecture, like in the Tumi 19 Degree collection. How do you translate that into design?
Victor Sanz: You know, being a designer, you're always seeing new things. You're traveling the world and you're being exposed to so much. Tumi's 19 Degree, for example, was born out of the idea of "how do we create a sculpture that you can travel with?" So there's a lot of visual interest as the piece moves around.
DAMAN: Is this part of Tumi's approach to design?
Victor Sanz: From the very beginning I think we live in a very sculptural world. I think that we're trying to connect with our customers on a more emotional level. I think Tumi's DNA is grounded in that functionality and durability. What we're trying to do now is move even further beyond that, where the customers come to us for those elements and we're never changing those elements. So, how do we place this more fashionably in a way that has more of an emotional connection to our customers? Now the walls are slowly coming down between design, fashion, streetwear and architecture. They're not as rigidly defined anymore because we're so exposed to it.
DAMAN: What do you think are the biggest challenge today when it comes to designing luggage?
Victor Sanz: Keeping up with the ever-changing regulations that airlines put on. So, I think for us it's always being on point with what those changes are, reacting quickly to the industry and ensuring that our customers have the best options. We want to take the headache of travel away and we want to make the trip as easy and enjoyable as possible. And then it is always about creating new and innovative products. We're always looking outside of our own industry and inventing new manufacturing process.
DAMAN: Since smart luggage are trending right now, how do you personally define this and is Tumi heading towards this direction?
Victor Sanz: I think the way it's been defined is about having power in your luggage. Our approach for smart technology within our bags and luggage is through knowing that our customer's days are so versed. They are at the office and from there straight to airport and right into another meeting. So, we want to make sure that the technology that we offer is versatile. In certain regions we offer our global locator, which is a tracking device you can put it in any bag and it'll track it anywhere in the world. But we also know that if it was just embedded into the luggage then that technology and that innovation stays there. And that's how I see it. It has to be flexible and versatile. I think we went through a phase about two years ago where everything had to be connected, even your water bottle was connected and I think people are smart enough to know if their water is hot or cold. [Laughs] I think people got very excited about putting it everywhere. Technology should be used in the right places and that it should be engaging. We shouldn't just use technology just to use technology.
DAMAN: Undoubtedly one of the most important markets of today are the millennials. How is Tumi approaching this generation?
Victor Sanz: They're really interesting. I think they have a bad stigma, but they're going to define the future for us. They want to travel to get that connection and experience. And it's less about just traveling for business; they'll put money aside to travel to experience new destinations. That's a very interesting aspect for us. We have a collection called Merge that is really focused on millennial travel. It's where we focus on the person that's traveling for leisure. So, we really think about how they're living their lives to make it as adaptable as possible.
DAMAN: And how do you think luggage is different today?
DAMAN: And finally, what would you say is the most important thing for you when you're designing luggage?
Victor Sanz: Really, it's about understanding the customer and whom I am designing it for. To me, that is the key: To know how their lives have changed and know how they're going to use the product. I think that's testament to a good design. And then from there, it is really to inspire the customer. That's the difficult part. I want to connect with them and the entire design team strives to do that, and we are always pushing ourselves to be inspired, pushing the industry and also the customers to be inspired.


Computational Psychiatry: Mathematical Modeling of Mental Illness is the first systematic effort to bring together leading scholars in the fields of psychiatry and computational neuroscience who have conducted the most impactful research and scholarship in this area. It includes an introduction outlining the challenges and opportunities facing the field of psychiatry that is followed by a detailed treatment of computational methods used in the service of understanding neuropsychiatric symptoms, improving diagnosis and guiding treatments.
This book provides a vital resource for the clinical neuroscience community with an in-depth treatment of various computational neuroscience approaches geared towards understanding psychiatric phenomena. Its most valuable feature is a comprehensive survey of work from leaders in this field.
Alan Anticevic, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, where he co-directs a research division and laboratory focused on the integration of cognitive, computational and clinical neuroimaging approaches with the objective of understanding the neurobiology of neuropsychiatric disorders. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis.
John D. Murray, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Physics at Yale University School of Medicine, where he directs a research program in computational neuroscience with a focus on computational models of neuropsychiatric disorders. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at New York University.


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January 30, 2017 12:00AM EST
Crimea: Defense Lawyers Harassed
Drop Bogus Charges Against Crimean Tatars
(Kyiv) – Russian authorities have detained two human rights lawyers who represent prominent Crimean Tatar leaders, Human Rights Watch said today. The lawyers' clients are being prosecuted on politically motivated charges in retaliation for their activism.
Emil Kurbedinov, who was detained on January 26, 2017, and Nikolai Polozov, detained on January 25, represent Akhtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, prosecuted on bogus charges related to their vocal and public opposition of Russia's occupation of Crimea. Chiygoz and Umerov are deputy chairmen of the Mejlis, the Crimean Tatar representative body. Crimean Tatars are a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in Crimea, many of whom have peacefully protested the Russian government policies since it occupied Crimea in February 2014.
"With the detention of lawyers defending Crimean Tatar activists, the Russian authorities are going even further to undermine human rights protections and the rule of law in occupied Crimea," said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia division director at Human Rights Watch. "The Russian authorities should stop harassing lawyers and activists and guarantee Crimean Tatars' rights."
Officials from the Center for Combating Extremism, operating under Russia's Internal Affairs Ministry, detained Kurbedinov on January 26 in the city of Bakhchysarai, a colleague who was with him told Human Rights Watch. Kurbedinov was on his way to see a client when traffic police stopped his car, claiming they were making a routine check. Anti-extremism officials soon arrived and detained Kurbedinov.
Officials took Kurbedinov to the Simferopol district court, which found him guilty of a misdemeanor for "public distribution of extremist materials" and sentenced him to 10 days in detention. Kurbedninov's alleged offending act was to repost on social media an article about a 2013 public meeting of supporters of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamist political movement opposed to the use of violence, in Simferopol, Crimea's capital. Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in Russia as a terrorist organization.
Law enforcement officials during the search in Emil Kurbedinov's office, Bakhchysarai, Crimea, January 26, 2017.
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Police also searched Kurbedinov's home and office and confiscated two laptops and several electronic storage devices. One of Kurbedinov's lawyers told Human Rights Watch that police denied him entry to Kurbedinov's apartment for 40 minutes before allowing him to enter.
On January 25, agents from Russia's Federal Security Service's (FSB) Crimea Department detained Polozov as he was on his way to represent his client Chiygoz in a hearing. Polozov told Human Rights Watch that six agents approached him outside his hotel in Simferopol, forced him into a van, and drove him to the Simferopol office of the FSB to question him about Umerov's case. Polozov refused to answer, citing attorney-client privilege. He was allowed to leave two-and-a-half hours later.
Polozov said that officials took him through the back door of the FSB building and made no record of his presence there. They did not allow Polozov's own lawyer to be present during the attempted questioning. Polozov had just returned from a trip to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, where he publicly presented information about fair trial violations in the Chiygoz and Umerov cases, as well as about pressure on defense lawyers in Crimea.
In September 2016, the Crimea Department of Russia's Investigative Committee initiated a criminal inquiry into Polozov for allegedly interfering with the activities of a prosecutor, contempt of court, and defamation of a public official. The allegations are linked to a Facebook post in which Polozov called the prosecutor in Chiygoz's case "small" and "insignificant." Polozov told Human Rights Watch that he believes the criminal inquiry was retaliation for his work defending Crimean Tatar leaders. The inquiry, briefly suspended in November 2016, remains open.
Chiygoz faces criminal charges related to a public protest during the initial weeks of Russia's occupation of Crimea. He has been in pretrial detention for 23 months, and his trial is ongoing. Umerov faces charges for "public calls to action aimed at violating Russian territorial integrity," after giving an interview to a Crimean Tatar television channel in March 2016, in which he criticized Russia's occupation. He is not in detention, but was forcibly confined to a psychiatric hospital for three weeks in August and September.
Emil Kurbedinov speaking at the Supreme Court of Russia.
Russia's Supreme Court in September declared the Mejlis an "extremist" organization and banned its activities in Russia.
Article 12 of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders stipulates that states shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of human rights defenders against "any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary actions" related to their efforts to protect and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Since Russia's occupation of Crimea, Russian and the de facto Crimean authorities have detained, imprisoned, forcibly disappeared, attacked, intimidated or forced into exile many people who peacefully opposed or openly criticized the authorities' actions and policies. The authorities have also have shut down numerous independent Crimean Tatar media outlets.
"There are very few human rights defense lawyers willing to work in Crimea, and they do so at great risk," Williamson said. "The intimidation and harassment of Kurbedinov and Polozov is intended to, and will most likely lead to, more lawyers being unwilling to defend anyone facing politically-sensitive prosecutions."
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Theravitae Inc. Announces Leadership Transition
Elmar Burchardt to be Appointed CEO and Director of TheraVitae Inc.
Bill Baker, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian-based TheraVitae Inc. ("TVI") announced today the appointment of Elmar R. Burchardt, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. as the company's incoming Chief Executive Officer effective October 22, 2014. At that time he will also join the company's Board of Directors.
"On behalf of our shareholders, Board of Directors, and employees," stated Board Chairman and outgoing CEO, Bill Baker, "I am pleased to have a regenerative medicine executive with Elmar's depth and breadth of experience to lead the company during this very important transition. His combination of leadership skills, technical expertise and industry experience provide the company a solid foundation to emerge as a leader in the cell therapy sector."
Dr. Elmar R. Burchardt, M.D., Ph.D, D.Sc., has over 20 years of academic and industry experience in the areas of cell therapy, hematology, and cardiovascular diseases. As Vice President of Aastrom Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ) from 2006 to 2010, Dr. Burchardt initiated and successfully completed Aastrom Bioscience's US-based clinical cell therapy trials in Critical Limb Ischemia and Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Dr. Burchardt has been the Vice President of Pfizer Inc. (NYSE) from 2010 to date.
Previously, Dr. Burchardt worked for Miltenyi Biotec GmbH in Germany, where his responsibilities included the worldwide development and market introduction strategy of 10 new clinical cell therapy products, including one of the most extensive cell therapy development programs in cardiac diseases. Dr. Burchardt holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biochemistry and an M.D. from Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany.
"I am excited to lead this company and the development of its technology," states incoming CEO Elmar Burchardt. "I believe we have the opportunity to build something very clinically and commercially significant."
Closing Update
TVI has executed an Amending Agreement (the "Agreement") to the original Plan of Arrangement Agreement with Technical Ventures RX Corp. ("Technical") dated July 19, 2013, as amended, Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, the outside closing date for merger with Technical has been extended to November 14, 2014. The extension will provide time for Technical to complete the increased financing, which was increased from $2M to up to $3.5M, as described in Technical's news release dated September 23, 2014, a copy of which is available for review on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
About TVI
TVI is a clinical-stage Canadian-Israeli company developing and commercializing innovative, autologous (patient's own), blood-derived cell therapies to treat a variety of medical disorders not adequately addressed by current treatments. The company has launched a phase 2 clinical trial of its lead product (ACP-01) in critical limb ischemia.
TVI has two subsidiaries, Hemostemix Ltd. and Kwalata Trading Ltd.
Hemostemix Ltd is a company incorporated in Israel with an operating research, development and manufacturing facility in Kiryat Weizmann Science Park, Ness Ziona. Kwalata holds the intellectual property on behalf of TVI.


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