Imagine you're a high school student. Tonight, you have a couple hours of basketball practice. Your history teacher also assigned a paper on the industrial revolution. Using the internet to do your research when you get home should make it go quickly, however, so you're not too worried. But imagine that there is no internet access at home. What do you do? Go to the library after practice? But it closes early and you'll need dinner. Search the town for free public Wi-Fi spots? But it can take hours to find a spot that is free to use and has reliable service. Just not complete the assignment? But that will hurt your grade. For millions of underserved students this is the dilemma they face nearly every day.
The homework gap forces students out of the comfort and safety of their homes in search of an internet connection to complete their homework. It means millions of students are unable to do independent research, work on shared documents, connect with teachers and classmates, and submit assignments online from their own homes. This is an issue impacting millions of students. In fact, according to a study by the Family Online Safety Institute, 49% of students say they have been unable to complete a homework assignment because they didn't have access to a computer or the internet. 42% of students say a lack of internet access caused them to receive a lower grade. Students are well aware of this divide: 80% say that students who do not have access to the internet have an unfair disadvantage to those who do.
Home internet access appears to have a lasting impact on the success of students. A 2008 study by the Federal Reserve found that high school students who have broadband internet at home have graduation rates 6-8 percentage points higher than students who don't. Students with internet access at home also tested 24 percentage points higher than their disconnected peers. School districts have started to recognize the importance of leveling the playing field by ensuring that students have equal access to the resources needed to succeed. In today's digital world, the best way to do this is by increasing home internet connectivity and closing the homework gap.
School districts across the country are looking for solutions to expand internet service and make it more affordable. Companies, like Sprint and AT&T, have stepped in to provide both devices and access. This, however, is not enough to bridge the digital divide for many students who lack not just a device, but access. Also the service packages they offer are still not affordable to many students that are under poverty line. School districts have taken steps further to close this gap, largely by deploying a private LTE network mostly on EBS or CBRS spectrum to cover on and off campus areas and providing devices like MiFi, Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), or LTE enabled laptops for underserved students to use at school and at home. FiSci Technologies, a leading private LTE solution vendor can take part in.
FiSci Technologies seeks to overcome the two major factors that prevent students' households from having internet: the cost to build and the complexity to maintain a private LTE network. At FiSci, we provide the full end-to-end LTE infrastructure at an very affordable price. The small cell form factor Base Station provides both targeted area coverage and high capacity-driven scenarios in a very cost-effective way. Cloud based LTE core, aka, EPC eliminates prohibitive upfront CAPEX expenditure and enables quick launch of service. Plug-and-Play features for both eNodeBs and devices and dedicated technical support will provide ease of mind to IT teams of the school districts. Therefore the Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO) for school districts to build a private LTE network is significantly reduced. This makes building the network much more cost effective than using the services from major service providers, and it allows a much greater number of families and students to afford internet access.
FiSci doesn't seek to bring internet access to underserved students as a charitable donation. Instead, serving the underserved is a core part of who FiSci Technologies is and what we aim to do. FiSci's mission is to enable our internet service provider partners to expand their LTE networks to rural areas to bring internet service to those who need it. With this mission guiding us, we will partner with public and private organizations to bring reliable and affordable internet to millions of underserved households. Together, we will open new doors for underserved students nationwide.
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Most areas of the islands of Hawaii are provisioned with traditional DSL, Fiber or Cable Broadband solutions.
However, the issue is both the monthly cost and the required 3-Year service terms required by some providers for even the basic $14.95/mo 11×1 Mbps internet service to lower income families.
Many of the low income families that have fallen on bad times have defaulted on the payment for less essential services like internet access and now find it difficult to reinstate or start new service even at a new service address.
In regards to the Cost Of Living, Honolulu currently ranks 6th out of 99 most expensive places to live in North America (https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/honolulu).
And with the average household at 2.7 people the Median income is at $67,905 (https://www.point2homes.com/US/Neighborhood/HI/Honolulu-Demographics.html), it is very difficult for the lower than median income families to afford internet connectivity for their school age children once they pay for Honolulu housing costs, food, transportation, electricity (Highest cost for electricity in the nation http://www.newsweek.com/most-expensive-place-live-us-hawaiitoilet-paper-costs-more-628977) and other basic expenses.
Housing in Honolulu is expensive. Honolulu has some of the highest costs for rent in the nation. The average apartment rent within 10 miles of Honolulu, HI is $2399. One bedroom apartments in Honolulu rent for $2025 a month on average and two bedroom apartment rents average $2761 as of December 2017 (https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-honolulu-rent-trends/). While you can find cheaper apartments with more basic accommodations, the challenge is that the availability of those cheaper living quarters is very limited within 10 miles of Honolulu. Many live outside of Honolulu and endure some of what has been rated as the worst traffic in the nation (http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/18599683/honolulu-ranked-worst-in-country-for-traffic).
Many choose to live in crowded Multi-Generation Family conditions. This in turn causes a strain on the basic internet connections that they can afford. And for those that can afford only the basic level of internet service, they have very high (and somewhat unrealistic) expectations of what those lower basic service levels can provide them. While consumer education helps them to understand why their internet service cannot support their large family of users, they are still in a situation where they can't afford what they really need in terms of Bandwidth to support their larger household.
My heart goes out to these families. And while I would like to be instrumental in providing an alternative and affordable internet access to these families, I can't see a way to do so and stay in business in Honolulu.
Any input, suggestions or help would be appreciated!


Hazel Morrison-Frank, who was one of Cork city's leading business women, has died after a fall in her Brooklyn home.
An Irish mother of two young children, who was one of Cork city's leading business women, has died after a fall in her Brooklyn home.
Hazel Morrison-Frank, 37, the co-owner of Concept Creative Consultants in Cork, passed away on Sunday ten days after falling down the stairs of her Brooklyn home.
Morrison-Frank had been planning to visit her native Ballingarry, County Limerick with her husband Andrew and their two young children, Caoilainn, 3, and 14-month-old Cian – for Christmas.
Instead, according to the Evening Echo, her remains were flown into Shannon Airport yesterday for burial on Sunday.
The successful marketing executive had moved from Cork to New York in 2009 after her marriage to Andrew. They had married in the Honan Chapel in University College Cork.
Morrison-Frank had recently set up her own brand consultancy firm in New York and had also worked with Fragrances of Ireland, which produces the Inis fragrances.
She was listed among the 100 businesswomen in Cork in the 2006 "Who's Who of Cork's Leading Business Women," by Business Cork magazine.
Triona said Hazel's remains will lie in repose in O'Grady's funeral home in Ballingarry on Saturday from 4.30 P.M. to 7.30 P.M. before removal to the local church. She will be buried on Sunday after noon Mass.
In addition to her husband and two children, Morrison-Frank is survived by her parents Ned and Mary, her brothers John-Paul and Aidan and by sisters Aisling and Triona.


Neha Dhupia is currently playing hide and seek with fans. Why do we say that? Neha and Angad Bedi's surprise wedding pictures took the Internet by storm. Since then, we are witnessing a difference in Dhupia's pictures that she is posting on social media. To talk about her recent picture, from their honeymoon in Maldives, Neha chose different ways to pose and then post it. Also Read: Neha Dhupia Confirms, "I Am Pregnant." Angad Bedi Adds, "Ha! Rumour Is True"
Shall we say that the actress is good at hiding her baby bump, cleverly? Or it's just a coincidence? But coincidence in all the recent pictures is too hard to digest? Don't you think so?
Further, when he was asked about the reason behind the intimate ceremony, Neha's father had said, "It was decided by both the families and the couple as they didn't have much time because of their respective work commitments. We only got a day or two to make all the wedding arrangements after the date was finalised." Coming back to her pictures, we'll just leave it to Neha and Angad to make the official announcement, when they feel the time is right, if at all they are in the family way.


Alabama officials have, for now, tabled a resolution to rescind its adoption of a set of common reading and math standards for its students.
At their Aug. 10 meeting, members of the state's board of education indicated that the best time to tackle the standards would be as part of the normal standards-revision process. Alabama's math standards are due for revision in 2018-19 and its English/language arts standards in 2019-20.
"I guess my point is we have a process in place by which we review standards, and this would be a mammoth undertaking when it was done correctly," said board member Cynthia McCarty. "I'm all about rigorous standards, but I also believe we have to have educators involved at every level telling us what works in our classroom and then we need colleges and higher ed. and industry telling us what they need, and where we're weak."
Under the proposed resolution, the state would rescind the standards formally on Aug. 1, 2018 and immediately commence writing a new draft. But at the meeting, board members seemed reluctant to make any changes to the standards outside of the state's usual standards-revision process.
Are the Standards Too Weak?
The state adopted the standards in 2010, and has altered them several times since (excising, for example, an appendix that spells out examples of texts that could be used at each grade level in reading). This has led to some confusion. At the recent board meeting, even Alabama staff weren't able to say definitively what percentage of the current standards were directly based on the common core.
The research and evaluation group Abt Associates once did an analysis of nine states' tweaks to the Common Core, including Alabama. It concluded that those nine states kept about three quarters of the standards the same, and mostly clarified or added to the other quarter. Few actual standards were dropped.
Beleaguered Alabama schools chief Michael Sentance seemed to favor a quicker timeline for revising the standards. At the board meeting, he claimed that the common-core standards were not internationally benchmarked with the highest-performing nations' math practices.
Similarly, he seemed to question the common core's emphasis on nonfiction text. "Fiction has a higher level of vocabulary more diverse vocabulary that informational text, and higher levels of critical thinking involved when you're reading fiction when you're trying to work through a story. There are studies that a literature based curriculum correlates with higher achievement scores," he said. Read local reporter Tricia Powell Crain's take, too.
In fact, much of the debate at the meeting had to do with whether the standards were too low—though they are widely considered to be more rigorous than what the state had before.
Sentance acknowledged that creating new standards would touch on nearly all aspects of the state's K-12 system: "It's not simply textbooks and so forth, it's teacher preparation, the tests we have to give to teachers; all of these kinds of things would have to be aligned to standards. They can be done, but it takes time to do that."
With the focus on instruction, the debate was a far cry from some of the more heated rhetoric that has surrounded the standards in Alabama. In fact, some of the state's board members have sought for years to do away with the common core.
Board member Betty Peters has repeatedly denounced the standards as a form of nationalization or federal takeover of education. (The U.S. Department of Education didn't create the common-core standards, but it did offer states financial incentives to adopt them.) Those fears seem to be shared by other state policymakers, who have for several years running introduced a number of bills to kill the standards, though none has ever passed.
The most recent such bill, introduced in April by Rep. Barry Moore, would do away with the common-core standards and revert back to the reading and math standards that preceded them. Like Peters, Moore has said in interviews that the standards are "indoctrinating" students in liberal viewpoints.
A few years back many more states were traducing their common-core adoptions, but that activity seemed to level off recently—until the election of President Trump, a common-core opponent, seemed to give that movement more juice.
Earlier this summer, New Hampshire decided not to entertain revisions to its common-core standards that were being pushed by its state superintendent—though it is likely to revisit the topic next year.
Photo: The Alabama statehouse.—Mark Goebel/Flickr. Licensed under Creative Commons.
New Hampshire Won't Overhaul the Common Core. Its Schools Chief Still Wants To.


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Johnny Clegg: How political parties reacted to the musician's death
South Africa is in mourning for Johnny Clegg this Wednesday, after one of our most beloved musicians passed away following a battle with cancer.
World Impact Award winner is Johnny Clegg during the Naledi Theatre Awards at the Lyric Theatre in Gold Reef City on June 05, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Naledi Theatre Awards, recognise and reward excellence in the Performing Arts in South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images / Frennie Shivambu)
Renowned South African artist Johnny Clegg OBE passed away in his Johannesburg home on Tuesday 16 July, after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. His musical legacy is one of the greatest ever produced in Mzansi, and he also used his status to vehemently oppose the apartheid government during the eighties and nineties.
Amongst his many glorious achievements, Clegg won a Grammy in 1994 for the album Heat, Dust and Dreams made with the group Savuka. They were just the second South African act to be honoured at the prestigious awards.
Needless to say, the sorrow of the nation runs deep as the sun rises on Wednesday morning. Responsible for some of the classic anthems that have soundtracked the lives of so many South Africans, Clegg has gained universal acclaim and praise for his character as well as his talent – as reflected by SA's main political parties.
Political reaction to the death of Johnny Clegg
ANC issue a heartfelt statement
The ANC issued a statement earlier, praising him as a brave musician with the ability to unite people from all walks of life. The party also stated that his loss was "a huge one" to the music fraternity of South Africa:
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The ANC is saddened by the untimely passing of one of South Africa's music legend Mr. Johnny Clegg. Mr. Clegg, 66, has not been well for sometime as he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015. Mr. Clegg was known as the voice of transition in South Africa.#RIPJohnnyClegg pic.twitter.com/nhj2qgyLCs
— African National Congress (@MYANC) July 17, 2019
DA mourn "fallen giant" Johnny Clegg
Meanwhile, the DA also Tweeted their sincere condolences, saying that "our nation was honoured to have known your talent". That was supplemented by a message from party spokesperson Solly Malatsi, who believes that the artist's music will "live forever".
"Indeed a giant has fallen – Johny Clegg was one of the few South African musicians whose music was able to unite people across cultural and racial backgrounds, as well as tie different generations together."
"His contribution to the Struggle for a Democratic South Africa through song will always ring dearly in our hearts. Johnny Clegg may have played his last note but his music will live forever."
Party leader Mmusi Maimane also shared his own personal tribute to Johnny Clegg:
I'm deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Johnny Clegg.
A true legend and one of our greatest ambassadors. He wrote our SA story when our country was at its worst and at its best.
I'd like to extend my heartfelt condolences to his family, may his soul rest in peace. 🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/m2WP8T8xqh
— Mmusi Maimane (@MmusiMaimane) July 16, 2019
Tributes from the EFF and ATM
Elsewhere, the EFF shared their message via their official account, acknowledging the vital contribution Johnny Clegg has made to both the music industry and the political environment of the 1980s and 1990s:
The EFF sends its heartfelt condolences on the passing of award-winning legendary musician Johnny Clegg.
May his family be comforted and his soul rest in perfect peace. pic.twitter.com/OwKbBT3Wju
— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) July 16, 2019
There was also a brief message shared by the African Transformation Movement, who gained their first two seats in Parliament this year. They wished his family well and hoped the singer would "rest in eternal peace".
We wish to pass our condolences to the Clegg family for the passing of #JohnnyClegg
Rest in eternal peace pic.twitter.com/Q4t9meLj0g
— African Transformation Movement (@ATMovement_SA) July 16, 2019
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Techland have released a video giving you a closer look at The Following, the upcoming story-based expansion for Dying Light.
The video features over 15 minutes of uncut gameplay coupled with commentary from some of the Dying Light team recorded during last week's Twitch stream.
In the playthrough, you'll get a look at The Trust Is Out There quest chain.
Dying Light: The Following will include a rather large new new map, drivable and upgradeable dirt buggies, and new types of ranged weapons.
The expansion is without a release date, but it will be priced at $14.99 with EU and UK pricing TBD. All Season Pass holders will receive it completely free.


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We love to gush over Hollywood A-listers and walking alongside them as their red carpet companions, there's only one thing we love to drool over more and that's musicians who know how to rock it on stage and perform to a sold out show. But when these two things collide, they make for a megastar who is impossibly desirable! What could be better than a hunky man who can throw down a hot track or perhaps a beautiful woman with pipes that soothe your soul? This list checks out those rare few that really can do it all when it comes to entertaining a crowd! Here are 10 actors who are also great musicians:
10. Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg got his start as the pseudo-rapper and front man of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch back in 1991. After appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, Wahlberg posed for one of the most famous Calvin Klein ads of all time! He made the move to the big screen in Boogie Nights and eventually earned recognition with performances in The Departed and The Fighter, a film that earned an Academy Award for Best Picture. It seems like Mark's rapping days are over but Deepwater Horizon is set to release in 2016.
9. Johnny Depp
Who doesn't love Johnny Depp? He's a mega babe and is regarded as one of the world's biggest film stars. In addition to his countless films including Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp is also a skilled musician and has combined his acting and singing chops on screen in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Depp has also played slide guitar on the Oasis song "Fade In-Out" and acoustic guitar in the film Chocolat and on the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Depp's musical cameos and side appearances are countless, but in 2015 he formed a supergroup with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry called Hollywood Vampires. They released a self-titled album featuring eleven classic rock covers and two new songs.
8. Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx has come to be appreciated for his musical proclivities, rapping with Kanye and releasing hits like "Blame It," which received many accolades and nominations, including a win for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 52nd Grammy Awards. But he actually got his start on the small screen on In Living Color and The Jamie Foxx Show. He's also an Oscar-winning actor for his portrayal of Ray Charles in Ray, and has been in box office hits like Any Given Sunday, Law Abiding Citizen, Django and the musical Dreamgirls. Atta boy Jamie!
7. Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson got her start on American Idol after losing to Fantasia Barrino in 2004. But there was no stopping this soulful songstress and she made her big screen debut as Effie White in the musical film Dreamgirls. Her portrayal of the character landed her an Academy Award in 2006! This is a pretty big accomplishment for someone without any background in acting! Since then, she has also starred in The Secret Life of Bees and Winnie. In the midst of a budding acting career, she's still found the time to release 3 albums and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album in 2009. Now that's a force to be reckoned with!
6. Jared Leto
Jared Leto is a well-respected actor with brilliant performances as a heroin junkie in Requiem for a Dream and as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club, for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is known as being a method actor who stays in character the entire duration of filming, even to the detriment of his own health. He is also a multi-instrumentalist and the main songwriter for the band Thirty Seconds to Mars. The band has released four studio albums to date to much success having sold over 15 million albums worldwide!
5. Zooey Deschanel
Most people fell in love with Zooey when she starred alongside Will Ferrell in Elf, but this adorable leading lady, also has a set of pipes that have the power to induce nostalgia and old-time sentimentality. She showcases her musical talents in her indie folk band She & Him, and you can cross one off your Christmas list this year by picking up A Very She & Him Christmas. How fitting! She was nominated for a Grammy Award for her work on "So Long" for the television motion picture of Winnie the Pooh, and her show New Girl has been continuously nominated for Golden Globes and Primetime Emmy Awards.
Jennifer Lopez has held all posts in the biz. Getting her start as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color she remained a regular until she left to pursue acting. She earned her first leading role in the biopic Selena and became the first Latina actress to earn over $1 million for a role the following year in Out of Sight. She made her debut in the music industry in 1999 with a chart topping album On the 6, which included the single "If You Had My Love" that hit the number one spot in the United States. While she continued with films like Enough, Maid in Manhattan, and Gigli, which earned her a Razzie Award for Worst Actress, her music career may be her crowning achievement with eight studio albums to date!
3. Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake made his debut on the small screen back in his Mickey Mouse Club days and then of course spent his stint on the boy band scene with 'NSync, who is one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. He graduated to the big boy leagues with the R&B influenced and Grammy Award winning album Justified produced by Timbaland and The Neptunes. His next album FutureSex/LoveSounds was met with the same acclaim, and his acting career was brewing. His films The Social Network, Bad Teacher and Friends with Benefits have earned him much credibility in Hollywood. His appearances on Saturday Night Live have also earned him praise and a new generation of fans.
2. Drake
While most of the world knows Drake as the rapper from Toronto, he got his start under his real name, Aubrey Graham, on the Canadian teen series Degrassi, as the bullet wounded basketball star. Drizzy has also shown up in Ice Age: Continental Drift and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. While he hasn't won any accolades for his acting, he has won a Grammy for Best Rap Album in 2013.
1. Will Smith
Will Smith is known to a to the tween population as an actor of high degree with flicks like The Pursuit of Happyness and Ali, but to their predecessors, we know Will Smith won the first-ever rap Grammy in 1989 with "Parents Just Don't Understand" and made the move to the sitcom comedy circuit in 1990 with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He also had some hits in the late 1990s like "Miami" and "Getting' Jiggy Wit It" that won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, but it's been his roles on the big screen that have kept us watching for all of these years. With 3 projects set for release in 2016 and Bad Boys 3 rumored for 2017, Will is still going strong!
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SEPTEMBER 13 – DECEMBER 30, 2012
On September 13, 2012 at 6pm MOCA will present artist Tracey Snelling's installation exhibition entitled Woman on the Run.
As dusk settles upon a sleepy little town, a lone woman checks herself into a seedy motel for the night. Her name is Veronica Hayden and she is on the run. Her husband, Victor Hayden, has gone missing. Rather than submit to police questioning, Veronica has gone into hiding. A private eye is hot on her trail, forcing her to keep on the move.
Veronica Hayden's story and her reasons for running away are hinted at in this multi-media exhibition. The narrative of her life is presented in fragments. Details can be found in the miniature-scale town, video projections revealing snippets of Hayden's trail and in clues left behind in the full-scale motel room.
Presented in the style of film noir, Veronica Hayden defies traditional stereotypes often found in modern cinema. Her role as either a femme fatale or good girl is not clear. That is for the viewer to discover and determine.
Woman on the Run was initially exhibited at Selfridges of London in 2008 and at Frieze that same year. It has since traveled to Smack Mellon in New York City, the 21c Museum, the Frist Museum and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
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Article: Multimedia Exhibit Explores Representations of Tough and Sexy Women
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Wednesday, March 21,2012
MULTIMEDIA EXHIBIT EXPLORES REPRESENTATIONS OF TOUGH AND SEXY WOMENBy Jordan Green
Setting and content of artist Tracey Snelling's Woman on the Run exhibit are a study in contrasts.
On a recent Saturday, the sun played dazzlingly across the sylvan refuge of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, or SECCA, formerly the English Hunt-style mansion of hosiery magnate James G. Hanes.
Hanes' bequest to the art world reflects the industrial aristocracy, gracious living and assured social status that made his one of the three families, along with the Reynolds and the Grays, that put the city on the map.
The post-World War II milieu of Snelling's imagination is an altogether more insecure place fraught with betrayal, seemingly on the verge of violent explosion and animated by desperate social striving. And it's a parched and gritty landscape seething with instability, not the patrician East of strictly defined class relationships that Hanes knew.
The protagonist of Woman on the Run is obviously female, but a quick reference to heroine Veronica Hayden's husband is in order. Described in an essay by Frist Center for the Visual Arts Associate Curator Trinita Kennedy as a "dark and shady businessman" and in a static-y, blackand-white newscast as a "man about town," one imagines the fictitious Victor Hayden as a man from a hard and unforgiving background willing to cut corners to attain money, status and pleasure. He can be contrasted with the real-life James G. Hanes, a man who during the same historical period energetically promoted involuntary sterilization for the so-called "feeble minded" with a self-assurance that can be held only by those with unparalleled financial and political power.
The multimedia installation that is Woman on the Run thrusts visitors into a fragmented narrative based on the premise that its heroine is wanted by the US Marshals Service for questioning in the disappearance of her husband. Veronica Hayden somewhat resembles the character played by Susan Sarandon inThelma & Louise with her casually thrown scarf and oversized sunglasses, but Kennedy describes her as an homage to noir pinup queen Veronica Lake. She's a pastiche of any number of alluring Hollywood femme fatales who chafe at the moral constraints of society, flirt with danger and swerve between the roles of victim and perpetrator. Beyond the setup, the installation leaves all the questions it raises unresolved and gives no clue about Veronica Hayden's eventual fate. Is she guilty or innocent? Is her husband really dead or has he staged his own disappearance? Is he a threat to her? Will she get caught? Will she pay for her supposed transgressions?
In a fitting if completely unintentional parallel, my wife and I walked a labyrinth at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Greensboro as part of our Lenten reflection before visiting SECCA. Walking the circular configuration at Holy Trinity gave us both a sense of calm. As a traditional labyrinth, there were no forks or dead-ends, but the pathway wound in and out before finally reaching the center.
Woman on the Run is a different kind of labyrinth. A hall of mirrors assembled from paintings, video, signage and set designs, Snelling's installation is disorienting rather than centering. The story is told in video screens set inside windows in paintings that show the heroine hurriedly packing and drinking booze. In other scenes, she drinks in a seedy bar and dances in an upper room with a mysterious man. A musty scent hangs in a forlorn hotel room with molding wallpaper complete with a disheveled bed, cast-off blond wig, brassiere dangling from a doorknob and stilettos tossed carelessly across the floor. A jarring soundtrack of lonesome steel guitar and train whistles plays up the desolate feeling to histrionic effect.
Visitors won't find any definite answers in this funhouse, but if they pay close attention they might run across some stray clues about the nature of power, personal quest, female identity, desire, freedom and acceptance.
wanna go?
Woman on the Run remains on exhibit at SECCA, located at 750 Marguerite Drive in Winston-Salem, through May 27.
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SECCA's Woman on the Run exhibition Opening March 1
WINSTON-SALEM, NC (Feb. 21, 2012) – It's a dark and stormy night, with neon motel signs providing the only glow. Out of the shadows of dingy back alleys and tired brick storefronts, there is a woman trying to slip away. The only thing she leaves behind is the hollow sound of spiked heels clattering on the sidewalk. What has she done? Where is she running?
Film noir intrigue comes alive in Tracey Snelling's stage set installation Woman on the Run at The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) beginning March 1, 2012. SECCA is located at 750 Marguerite Drive, near Wake Forest University.
At 7 p.m. Friday, March 1, SECCA will host an introductory artist talk by Snelling in the McChesney Dunn Auditorium followed by an opening reception. During the presentation Snelling will discuss the motivations and manufacture behind her exhibition, as well as the larger context of her cinematically influenced practice. The event is free and open to the public. Woman on the Run will be on view until May 27, 2012.
SECCA Executive Director Mark Leach says, "Snelling's work is continually evolving as it changes in the eyes of each person who walks through her sculptural maze. While she leaves a constellation of clues as to who the woman is, and what she's done, Snelling presents no answers. In a sense, the mystery of the story becomes the core of an exhibition that never reaches a full conclusion."
In Woman on the Run, Snelling evokes a world of black & white Hollywood crime thrillers where the lines between good and evil becomes tantalizingly blurred. Within the exhibition space Snelling creates a world unto itself, where audiences will walk through pieces of a city and an abandoned motel room. The woman is the protagonist, and the question remains what did she do and did she really do it?
Snelling builds sets of all scales, from toy model to lifesize, that map the seedy, but unmasked sides of cities across America. This exhibition brings cinema to life, and invites the viewer inside to navigate a world of femme fatales, gritty theatre, and the questions of female representation in film. The viewer lives the mystery and follows a trail of clues through film, video, sculpture and environment.
SECCA Curator of Contemporary Art Steven Matijcio says, "In anticipation of the River Run film festival and the film lovers it brings out, Snelling's Woman on the Run allows people to experience cinema in an expanded field. Without a beginning or end, the audience is thrust into the middle of a retro crime drama whose meaning accumulates with every additional step through the set. One can only really know this experience by becoming part of its world."
The exhibition was collaboratively produced by The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN and SECCA. Woman on the Run recently showed at the 21C Museum in Louisville Kentucky, and will be presented at the newly re-named Virginia MoCA this Fall. For additional details, please visit www.secca.org.
About SECCA
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem is an affiliate of the North Carolina Museum of Art, a division of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. SECCA is also a funded partner of The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Additional funding is provided by the James G. Hanes Memorial Fund.
About the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources
The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources annually serves more than 19 million people through its 27 historic sites, seven history museums, two art museums, the nation's first state supported symphony orchestra, the State Library, the N.C. Arts Council and the State Archives.
The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources serves as a champion for North Carolina's creative industry, which employs nearly 300,000 North Carolinians and contributes more than $41 billion to the state's economy. To learn more visit www.ncculture.com.
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Woman on the Run at the Frist Center for Contemporary Arts, Nashville, TN
Critic's Picks in ArtForum:
FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
September 9–February 5
Tracey Snelling, Woman on the Run, 2008–11, mixed media. Installation view.
Is she an innocent woman or a femme fatale? The question lies at the heart of Tracey Snelling's elaborate multimedia installation Woman on the Run, 2008–11, which follows the fate of the fictional Veronica Hayden, wanted by the police for questioning after the disappearance of one rather shady husband. Perhaps to avoid detention, Veronica, played by Snelling, dons a blond wig, dark sunglasses, and a leopard-skin scarf, and makes a run for the US-Mexico border.
Snelling translates the classic 1940s whodunit of so many film noir classics into a three-dimensional fantasyland. Partly reverential, partly Disney kitschy, her sets, installed throughout the gallery, borrow freely from Hollywood tropes: Long vistas are nothing more than photographic wallpaper and buildings are just thinly constructed facades. Weaving around billboards and cut-out figures, and heading down make-believe streets, we see our heroine through the windows of dingy hotel rooms and darkened bars. Her visage, presented sometimes in short looped videos and at other times in still photo light boxes, is that of a fearful woman trying to exist in the shadows. Our final stop is in the "No-Tell Motel," where we find Victoria's suitcase resting on a rumpled bed, her signature blond wig spilling over the edge. Did she make a final dash to the border, leaving all evidence of her past behind? Or was she captured? We'll never truly know.
— Rebecca Cochran, ARTFORUM (http://artforum.com/picks/section=us#picks29234)
Here are some additional images from the Installation at the Frist:
And the original mock-ups for the Entry and Main rooms:
Woman on the Run Drink at Proof on Main @21c Museum Hotel, Louisville KY
Video trailer for Woman on the Run--Screened at ArtPad SF
Woman on the Run! from tracey snelling on Vimeo.
Photoshoot of Woman on the Run at 21c Hotel and Museum
All photographs are courtesy of the 21c Hotel Museum and All rights reserved by BrainSpark Media
21c Main Entrance
Walking into the 21c
Lobby Gallery from Check-In area
Looking down the Lobby Gallery
Inside the Motel Room
Wide View of Motel Room with Dresser and TV
View of The Alley from Proof on Main
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Feature: 21c's Director, William Morrow.
Reposting this great article by Elizabeth Kramer of Louisville's Courier-Journal about William Morrow, Director of 21c's Musuem. William is seen below, photographed inside the "Woman on the Run" motel room.
Photo by Matt Stone, The Courier Journal
21c art wrangler extraordinaire: Hotel job keeps William Morrow hopping
By Elizabeth Kramer
ekramer@courier-journal.com
21c Museum Hotel has defied definition since it opened in 2006. It's a hotel. It's a gallery. It's a restaurant. It's open 24 hours a day. And it has received accolades for its art and its hospitality.
That makes director William Morrow more than a busy man.
Morrow, 32, along with owners Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown, manages all the art and arts-related activities at 21c, and that covers a lot of ground.
A few weeks ago, Morrow was on the hotel's rooftop setting up equipment for a film screening by the Louisville Film Society. Back inside, he was managing a change of exhibitions in the galleries. Morrow and Wilson curated the outgoing show, an exhibit of photographs and sculptures by Simen Johan called "Until the Kingdom Comes," selecting works from the 21c collection and securing other pieces through loans from galleries and other private collections.
As that came down, Morrow was working with artist Tracey Snelling to coordinate the installation of her sprawling piece, called "Woman on the Run." This exhibit, with its film noir influence and an architectural landscape of buildings incorporated with photography and other media, essentially meant setting up a motel in the hotel's lobby.
"One day I'm up on a ladder working on a projector, but also thinking about interpreting art at 21c," Morrow said.
Morrow is busy, but he likes it that way. He enjoys the diversity of his job even more. And keeping up with all of those tasks is exactly what Wilson expects from his director.
"It's a variety of things he helps us do, including documenting the collection and keeping up with the values and the trends," Wilson said. "And he keeps up with upcoming shows and the museum shows around the country and the world."
Morrow, a Louisville native, met Wilson and Brown nearly 10 years ago, after he graduated from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with a master's degree in art history and English literature.
Morrow went to work for Wilson and Brown at their home in Goshen. Their art collection was growing fast, and keeping track of the contemporary work the couple had assembled inspired him. He went back to Europe and enrolled in the graduate program in museum studies at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain.
Through that program, he got to work at museums and handle pieces by Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. While working with fellow students to curate an exhibit of heroes and villains, he began to explore the collection of Latin American art at Essex University.
"And I discovered, literally, in this broom closet, this 6-foot-by-6-foot painting by Raúl Martínez, one of the most famous pop artists from Cuba," Morrow said.
If he wasn't hooked on museums already, that sealed the deal.
Morrow wrote his dissertation on the role of the benefactor in American art. Morrow researched the institutions set up by philanthropists during the Gilded Age of the late 1880s through the Progressive Era of the early 1900s. He documented how corporations become involved in supporting art in the latter part of the 20th century — and how that support waned as the year 2000 approached.
That provided Morrow with a historical perspective on the evolving idea of supporting visual art when he moved home to Louisville in fall 2005. At that time, "21c was on the front burner and in full swing."
He hooked up with Wilson and Brown right away, as they were preparing for their spring 2006 debut as hoteliers-cum-gallerists.
Morrow sees Wilson and Brown's venture — which now includes developing other 21c Museum Hotels in Cincinnati, Bentonville, Ark., and possibly Austin, Texas — as a new and much-needed way of making visual art accessible to the public.
"Most of my colleagues (at traditional museums) are constantly doing capital campaigns to sustain themselves," he said. "Most traditional museums seem so static because they are so separated from real-life scenarios. And I do think there's a place for that, because there is definitely a need for places of contemplation, and that's what some of the more traditional museums are better at."
The primary challenge at 21c, he said, is not financial but the result of the Main Street building's architectural limitations. The experience here has proved instructive, he said, as the 21c design team develops the new properties.
Morrow has expanded his role by reaching out to other arts groups in the community, such as the film society.
That partnership led to a film series that has brought movies to 21c for 36 consecutive months.
There is the 21c Monthly Poetry Series with Sarabande Books, the acclaimed Louisville-based literary press, and a regular Sunday event called Cabaret Life Drawing. It provides interesting models for anyone who wants to come and practice drawing. There's also Yoga with Art, where yoga students can practice among 21c's artworks.
Molly Swyers, who works with Morrow on publicity and marketing efforts, credits him with making 21c more of a cultural center.
"When we first opened 21c, I don't think anyone involved saw the potential for it to become a cultural center for the community," she said. "William really took it upon himself to develop relationships and collaborate with many other organizations in this community to create opportunities for people to have these cultural experiences."
Expansion beckons
Looking back on the last five years, Morrow called himself lucky to have the opportunity to have such a novel job in his hometown.
"I'm not coming from a restaurant or a hotel background, so the learning curve there has been tremendous," he said. "But being able to be in on the 21c development from the design phase has been fascinating — to see how a restaurant gets started, and how the hotel came to fruition, and being a part of Steve and Laura Lee's collection before 21c."
Wilson feels fortunate, too.
"We're lucky to have someone like him who happens to be from Kentucky and is well educated in the field that we are so involved with," Wilson said. "The scope of our collection has grown, and when we first began collecting, we didn't even know we were going to be doing 21c. And as our collection has increased, William's been able to keep up with the pace."
With what is planned for Louisville's 21c and the opening of others across the country, Wilson said, he sees Morrow keeping very busy over the next few years.
Reporter Elizabeth Kramer can be reached at (502) 582-4682.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20101122/SCENE05/311220009/21c-art-wrangler-extraordinaire-Hotel-job-keeps-William-Morrow-hopping
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21c's film about Woman on the Run, with the artist.
Tracey Snelling "Woman on the Run" Interview at 21c .
21c Museum
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts
Smack Mellon
Selfridges&Co.
Pan American Art Projects
Aeroplastics Contemporary
Osborne Samuel Fine Art
San Pablo Arts District Fund
Wedel Fine Art
Nine AM, UK
woman on the runSEPTEMBER 13 – DECEMBER 30, 2012On...
Woman on the Run intricately mixes architecture, scale modeling, video, photography and 3-D storytelling with a heady dose of Hollywood glamour and Hitchcock-like built-in suspense. Through manipulation of scale and perception, this cutting-edge installation employs miniature recreations of urban decay and downtrodden malaise to highlight the plight of the independent woman in peril. Focusing on that film noir staple—the femme fatale—Woman on the Run straddles two realities, today's and yesteryear's. Initially commissioned by Selfridges, Woman on the Run was shown at the Oxford Street location in London during Frieze 2008, before being brought to the U.S., where it was shown in the non-profit art space Smack-Mellon in Brooklyn's DUMBO district in 2009. After 21c, Woman on the Run will be showing in September 2011, through February 2012, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN, and later at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem in March through May 2012.
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An interesting evening of French music which brought together the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Choir in full force. When he was with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez transformed our perceptions of the Debussy & Ravel orchestral music, and he has recorded Daphnis & Chloé at least twice, with the NYPO and, more recently, the Berlin Philharmonic (DG 447 057-2GH).
Following an unhappy experience of Daphnis & Chloe in St Sebastian , confidence in this grandiose ballet score on a slender Grecian pastoral (for a larger orchestra than any other commissioned work for dance) was entirely restored by Boulez's overall grasp of its large scale form, and firm yet flexible control of the thoroughly rehearsed orchestra. The LSO played as one, feeling the ebb and flow, with every detail emerging perfectly (the flute at dawn, played by one of the joint principals - both named Davies - was delicious).
I have not always been convinced previously that the wordless choral involvement warranted a night out for the singers (the orchestral suites are generally given without voices) but this time they were integrated perfectly and their numbers contributed to the right feeling at climaxes, where they were not overwhelmed by the orchestra under Boulez's fastidious ear for sonority and balance. One of those performances, which for its duration wipes out all comparisons and will remain a treasured memory.
Before the interval I had reservations. Cecilia Bartoli appeared to be still feeling her way into the tricky Berlioz song cycle (originally intended for sharing between mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor and baritone voices), continually referring to the score which, unusually for her, she held in her hands. Musical line took precedence over clarity of words; we too needed to keep our eyes on the texts supplied (mercifully, we had not been plunged into darkness!). Quite short phrases were broken with her characteristic intrusive aspiration of breath, which first worried us in Zurich and seems to be an ongoing problem. Her tone could charitably be described as 'husky' and AW likes it. Bartoli's appearances ensured sell-outs for the two performances and following Les nuits d'été she obliged her predictably ecstatic audience with Zaide plus castanets.
The Berlioz overture had been distinctly cooler under Boulez than recently with the same orchestra under Sir Colin Davis, and I confirmed this impression by playing at breakfast his warmer, more impulsive and involving performance of it from their LSO Live concert recording of all the music in the opera Beatrice & Benedict, superbly captured on the LSO's bargain disc which is complete with full words and translations for well under a tenner!
This LSO Live label is a triumphant success, and for people not in London far cheaper than fares + tickets. The engineer Tony Faulkner explained to Seen&Heard the LSO Live recording philosophy of using 'as few microphones as is practicable to try to capture concert atmosphere without the boring obsessive so-called detail of many digital-age orchestral studio recordings' and he achieves excellent balance between singers and orchestra and a convincing representation of the experience from good seats in the auditorium.
La damnation de Faust has received a lot of attention recently in S&H in DVD and staged performance in Zurich. Sir Colin Davis' 15 & 17 June 2000 Berlioz Odyssey performances at the Barbican are conflated and released in a most desirable 2-CD boxed set on LSO 008 CD. Settled down at home, with no visual distraction, this was persuasive listening, and I quickly abandoned critical reflection and comparisons with other versions. At £10 including full texts and translations, with synopsis and an authoritative essay by David Cairns, another unmissable bargain.


from her adventures out west, was out there when Nami went for a walk in the snow..
Today I tackle the pockets on Alice's apron, and hopefully there will be some pictures soon. I also need to catch up on my knitting, since yesterday was the first day I did not meet my quota. So I have to make up for yesterday, plus do my daily amount for today.
Again, wonderful photos ! Well I would say that you do so many things per day that you can be proud of it, even if from time to time you don't meet your quota !
The perspective here is just so clever! I really am taking notes on this one! LOL!
Shooting from above is usually not a good idea, but the piles of broken tree branches from the ice storm were the only suitable setting for these photos, so I had no choice but to shoot from above - which works very nicely for these photos.
Martha Boers is an award-winning Canadian doll maker and costumer specializing in fantasy and historical-style costumes.


No. You cannot switch balls on a hole,unless your ball is visibly cut. You must play out each hole with the same ball. You can however, under the Rules of Golf, switch balls between holes and even brands for that matter. If you are playing in a competition though, they will most likely have a local rule ("the one ball rule") in effect to prevent you from switching brands.


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"I've Never Covered a More Important Story": Journalism During COVID-19
Daniel Hautzinger
'FIRSTHAND: Coronavirus' producer and director Pat Odom and director of photography Kimmer Olesak interview sanitation worker Sammy Dattulo. Photo: Liam Alexander/WTTW
Frontline: Coronavirus Pandemic is available to stream. Making Sense of 2020 is available to stream at wttw.com/makingsense.
The new Frontline investigation, Coronavirus Pandemic, not only narrates the spread of coronavirus in Washington State and the evolving responses to it—it also illustrates them. As the documentary progresses, in-person interviews and camera shoots disappear, replaced by video calls from room to room. Frontline correspondent Miles O'Brien arrived in Seattle in mid-March, after the state had tested and treated the first COVID-19 patient in the United States and companies like Microsoft had told employees to work from home, but before Governor Jay Inslee instituted a mandatory stay-at-home order.
"It literally changed as we went along, in terms of social distancing and sheltering in place," O'Brien says. "Initially we were saying we would maintain six feet and not put makeup or a microphone on people in order to respect that six-foot rule. But as time has gone on, it's been harder and harder to get people to be in the same room as us, so it shifted to a lot of Skype or Zoom interviews, and that changes things quite significantly. In the world of television, we have to get on planes and set up cameras and lights in order to do what we do, so eliminating that has been hard. But we're all in a new normal now, aren't we?"
O'Brien is working from a hotel room in Seattle with editors, each in their own homes, in Boston; the photographer he had with him in Seattle recently left the city, while a producer went home earlier to self-quarantine before returning to her family. "Going back to Boston wouldn't help, since I wouldn't see the team in person, and I didn't want to lose a day on a plane, so I decided to stay here," he says, explaining with understatement that producing an hour-long Frontline documentary in five weeks is a "big job." On The Frontline Dispatch podcast, he told Frontline executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath that there are only about six or eight people in the hotel.
The FIRSTHAND team isn't so far-flung. Dan Protess, the executive producer of WTTW Digital's FIRSTHAND: Coronavirus series, is working from his kitchen or bedroom with two other people at their homes in Chicagoland and two in the field. "At the end of a day of shooting, the photographer sends footage to our editor, who sends me five or six rough cuts, then I offer notes and he sends a finished cut back," Protess says. "At the very least, this proves that I don't need to go into the office to do my job," he says, laughing.
The two-person field crew for 'FIRSTHAND: Coronavirus' take as much precaution as possible while filming. Photo: Liam Alexander/WTTW
Since March 24, Protess and his team have released twelve stories about Chicago-area people "who are being impacted by this crisis in an emotional way, and also people who are stepping up and taking this opportunity to change the world, even in a small way," he says. They range from a nurse and a homeless woman to a disability activist and owner of a small family grocery store. "As someone who's also stuck in my house, I'm curious about what's happening out there," he explains. "I want to take people to places they can't otherwise go, and to give them a glimpse of what's going on outside."
FIRSTHAND: Coronavirus's producer and director Pat Odom and director of photography Kimmer Olesak are the only people on the team venturing out into the world, and they do so with as much precaution as possible: they wear masks and gloves, continually disinfect their gear, don't pin microphones to subjects, and keep their distance from other people. "Pat is super passionate about believing that these stories need to be told right now, and he's also fearless," says Protess. "But there are still stories we would never do, for safety: for instance, one about people who are currently sick with coronavirus."
WTTW News is both sending people into the field, like FIRSTHAND, and also conducting its fair share of interviews via video call, like O'Brien has been doing lately. "The need for trustworthy news content that's informative, that is educational, that's empowering, is paramount in this crisis," says Hugo Balta, the director of WTTW News. "In order to protect our team, we decided to split it in three: a third is working from home, a third is at the studio, and a third are in the field. Speaking specifically about Paris [Schutz] and Brandis [Friedman], clearly we could not have our co-anchors in the same space, for fear that if one was compromised the other could be."
While Friedman anchors the nightly Chicago Tonight broadcast from the WTTW studio, Schutz visits a different neighborhood every day with a producer and cameraman. "While all of us in Chicago, in Illinois, in the country, are experiencing COVID-19 in the same general way, there are difference and nuances in the way Little Village and Pilsen experience it from the way Lincoln Square and North Park do," Balta says. Schutz has reported in everywhere from Beverly on the far South Side to Austin on the west edge of the city and West Ridge in the north—and he has also ventured to the suburbs of Highwood and Aurora and the Wisconsin town of Kenosha.
Paris Schutz interviewing U.S. Representative Jesus "Chuy" Garcia in Little Village on March 26 for 'Chicago Tonight'
"A point of differentiation between public broadcasting and commercial media is that we have the opportunity to afford the public a platform to be seen and to be heard in a way that commercial media doesn't, because commercial media's formula is more about volume: they just scratch the surface of daily stories," says Balta. "We dedicate resources, including time, to go in-depth about particular topics, the five or six stories of major importance that day, whether it's about getting expert voices for a discussion or by going out into the community. That means ensuring that every day we're in a different neighborhood, on all sides of the city, during this crisis, especially with marginalized communities that are often unseen and unheard even in a situation that is 'normal,' but more so in times of crisis."
Some of the practices WTTW News has adopted both for television and digital stories will stay in place once the COVID-19 crisis has passed, says Balta, who only came to WTTW at the beginning of February. "What we're doing now were things that we had been talking about and forecasting progressively throughout the year. Then COVID-19 accelerated a hypothetical into a reality, and there's no going back."
"This is not your father's broadcast journalism," says O'Brien. "There's a horrible paradox: people need journalism more than ever right now, but the already fragile business model has crumbled even more in the midst of this, and it's difficult to see a way forward. But this is why we exist: to be here as independent voices who honor facts, present them in a way that is understandable against current events, and project ourselves into a crisis as it's unfolding. This is exactly why I'm in this business. I've never covered a more important story in my career."
17 New Restaurants to Try During Chicago Restaurant Week 2023
A Q&A with WTTW News Director Jay Smith as Changes Come to 'Chicago Tonight'
Chicago's Semifinalists for the 'Oscars of Food'
'Vienna Blood' Recap: Season 3 Episode 1
'Miss Scarlet and the Duke' Recap: Season 3 Episode 3
Five Ideas That Can Change the Conversation about Poverty
A Look Ahead at 'FIRSTHAND: Living in Poverty'
Five Ideas That Can Change the Conversation About Gun Violence
Using Storytelling to Build Empathy for People Affected by Gun Violence
A New WTTW Digital Series on Gun Violence


Practice your binary conversion skills using this great game!
The images we have been looking at so far have been very simple, pure black and white images, but when we think of black and white images, we aren't usually thinking of just black and white, we are thinking of images that contain lots of grays. These are known as grayscale images.
Here is the same grey-scale image, converted to pure black and white.
How do grayscale images work?
With pure black and white images converting them to binary is easy, we just use either a 1 or a 0, but greyscale images are more complicated.
Gray-scale images use a number between 0 (black) and 255(white) for each pixel. This means that instead of just using one bit (0) for each pixel, we have to use 8 bits (e.g. 10100010) instead.
This means that grayscale images are 8 times larger than pure black and white.
Here is an example of a tiny image, with only 4 pixels. We have enlarged the image, because normally you wouldn't be able to see an image this small!
It is made of a four shades of greyscale – black, dark grey, light grey and white.
Click on the spreadsheet below and when it opens up, make a copy (otherwise you won't be able to edit it!) and then create your own image by placing a number from 0 to 255 in the cells.
Open up your Google Sheets learning log and fill out the log for today's lesson.


The imposition of Governor's rule in Jammu and Kashmir will not affect the anti-terror operations, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Bipin Singh Rawat said on Wednesday, adding that there's no political interference. "We only stopped our operations during Ramzan. But, we saw what happened. The imposing of Governor's rule will not affect our operations. Our operations will go on like they used to. We don't face any political interference," said Rawat at an event in New Delhi.


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PHOTOS: The Aisha Buhari connected to Jefferson bribery scandal
The Aisha Buhari connected to the Jefferson bribery scandal is an impostor and not the President's wife
Also, the President's wife is from Yola not Daura as indicated in the impostor's passport.
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Monday revived a controversy surrounding the role played by Aisha, President Muhammadu Buhari's wife, in the messy bribery scandal involving U.S. Congressman, Williams Jefferson.
Mr. Fayose distributed a link to the U.S. Department of Justice Web site holding court documents where Mrs. Buhari was alleged to have transferred suspicious funds to a convicted former American congressman, Williams Jefferson.
In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Mr. Fayose said President Buhari was far from being a clean man.
"Even the President cannot claim to be an angel," the governor said, in reaction to the freezing of his Zenith Bank account by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
"The estate he built in Abuja is known to us. His wife was indicted over the Halliburton Scandal (sic). When that American, Jefferson, was being sentenced, the President's wife was mentioned as having wired $170,000 to Jefferson. Her name was on page 25 of the sentencing of Jefferson. We can serialize the judgment for people to see and read."
However, former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde confirms the Aisha Buhari named in the bribery scandal involving a U.S. Congressman, Williams Jefferson, is not the Aisha that is President Muhammadu Buhari's wife.
"I can tell you authoritatively that the Aisha Buhari named in that case is not President Buhari's wife," Mr. Lamorde said when contacted Tuesday morning. "It is another Aisha Buhari entirely.
"I was the director of operations at the EFCC at the time so I know about the case very well. I can tell you that it is not her (President Buhari's wife). That much we established."
Mr. Lamorde, who was EFCC chairman until he was removed in December 2015 by President Buhari
The U.S. had at the time requested Nigeria to help it investigate the Nigerians named in the scandal, and Mr. Lamorde, as director of operation at the EFCC at the time, coordinated that investigation.
"It is unfair to link the President's wife with that case," he said. "She was definitely not the one involved, and Fayose and other Nigerians should know this.


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Tag: forest in perpetuity
The Secrets To Finding World Class Parks for Richard St. Barbe Baker Quickly
"It took a long time to find a suitable site for such an important memorial, but eventually, a seven acre site was found right in the heart of England, in part of the famous Charnwood Forest." It was here that the Richard St. Barbe Baker received its dedication ceremony in 1985, the International Year of the Forest. Well over a hundred people came for the ceremony and the official opening. His Royal Highness, the Patron of the International Tree Foundation [ITF], the Prince of Wales paid the tributes in the official opening. Greetings were brought from co-founder Senior Chief Josiah Njonjo, and ITF branches worldwide sent greetings. HRH unveiled a magnificent plaque, and planted a fine Canadian Oak, in respect of Richard St. Barbe Baker's Canadian connections. 1.
This was a celebration which Richard St. Barbe Baker would have surely approved of, "for he said to a lady once who wanted to plant a tree in his honour, "Madam, don't plant a tree, plant a wood." Well, in England they have! 1.
And, that's not all, here in Saskatoon we have honoured the Loving Father of Trees, Baba Wya Miti with a 326 acre afforestation area in the city of Saskatoon! Following their meeting of October 19, 1978 the , the Parks and Recreation Board resolved to put forward the recommendation for the naming of this afforestation area as the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area (urban regional park). On October 30th, 1978, City Council received the proposal, and on January 4, 1979, Council approved the naming of this Urban Regional Park, which was part of the first 660 acres set out as "forest in perpetuity" by A.L. Ligtermoet, Assistant Parks Superintendent in 1972.
What an honour and tribute for Richard St. Barbe Baker, the Loving Father of Trees. Along with the recommendation, the Parks and Recreation Board submitted a number of notable biographies and commemorations bestowed upon Richard St. Barbe Baker worldwide.
There is a forest in Saskatoon. It is a secret forest which no one had ever heard about. This forest is named after Richard St. Barbe Baker because he planted trees, and here in this park hundreds upon thousands of trees were planted. It was a perfect match. Forest visitors hearing the story of Richard St. Barbe Baker fall in love with the Saskatoon forest and want to protect it. They want to make the forest as special and magnificent as this great man was special and magnificent.
The Legacy of Saskatoon's Secret Forest Saturday November 6, 2021 at 1:00 pm CST (UTC-6) A free community service event. Many people have heard of David Suzuki, David Attenborough, British Ecologist Thomas Crowther, or Greta Thunberg. Richard St. Barbe Baker was the first global conservationist and humanitarian. This is our way to remember his international legacy.
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Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area. Chappell Marsh. West Swale Wetlands. Saskatoon, SK, CA
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area. Saskatoon, SK, CA
1.Source page 8. Tree Journal 1985. Title 1985 is the International Year of the Forest. The Richard St. Barbe Baker Memorial Wood.
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Home » How To Watch Men's West Virginia Mountaineers Basketball Live Without Cable?
How To Watch Men's West Virginia Mountaineers Basketball Live Without Cable?
by David Miklos Hazi May 23, 2022
written by David Miklos Hazi May 23, 2022
You can watch the West Virginia Mountaineers games online via live TV with multiple live stream services available out there. You're not going to need any cable or satellite subscription. Some sites are free, while others are paid, with serious benefits.
1 Stream and record West Virginia Mountaineers college basketball live on TV sports channels
2 How can I watch Mountaineer basketball?
3 What channel is WVU basketball on today?
4 Where can I watch the WVU basketball game?
4.1 Sling TV
4.2 Hulu + Live TV
4.3 FuboTV
4.3.1 A cut above the rest
4.4 DirecTV stream
5 How can I listen to the WVU game?
5.1 ESPN+
5.2 FoxSports.Com
6 Bonus app features
Stream and record West Virginia Mountaineers college basketball live on TV sports channels
In this article, we will share many options for you to check out. The rest is easy. Some live stream services let you record the game on your favorite channels, like ESPN, where you can watch West Virginia play against the other teams.
How can I watch Mountaineer basketball?
Not everyone can watch the West Virginia Mountaineers games live at the WVU Coliseum on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. In that case, your option is to watch the game via live stream for free (in the trial period) with various streaming service providers if you don't have cable.
What channel is WVU basketball on today?
The West Virginia Mountaineers college basketball games are aired on ESPN+, ESPN2, and FoxSports. In fact, you can get FoxSports and various ESPN TV channels on several streaming services without cable, which we are here to help you discover!
Where can I watch the WVU basketball game?
From February the 19th to March the 5th, you'll be able to watch West Virginia Mountaineers play both home and away games.
Look out for West Virginia vs. the TCU Horned Frogs at Forth Worth, Texas, on Monday, February the 21st, and then straight after that, the game between West Virginia and the Iowa State Cyclones on Wednesday, February the 23rd.
Sling TV is one of the cheapest ways to stream. Their service includes national TV channels, local TV channels, and regional sports networks in your area.
It is supported on various web browsers, Apple, and Android devices and offers 50 hours of DVR storage.
Sign Up - Free Trial
Hulu + Live TV only has one package, but this allows you to stream a total of 67 channels, including national and local channels as well as regional sports networks available in your area. It also offers 50 hours of DVR storage but does allow simultaneous streaming.
Get Live and On-Demand TV from 75+ top channels, including sports and news. Stream the entire season of West Virginia games on ESPN+
Another great option is FuboTV. They have three fantastic packages with a 7-day trial for you to try out before you commit. Like the others, they offer national and local TV channels and regional sports networks available in your area.
Three specifically awesome things about FuboTV are:
Wide sports coverage.
Their 1000 hours of cloud DVR on the cloud (with their Pro and Elite packages).
Ten streams at the same time.
This means your entire household can be streaming from the same site simultaneously. Any day of the week, Monday to Friday.
Sign-Up Free Trial
DirecTV stream has four packages to offer. The Premier package allows you to stream 140 channels which include ESPN and, of course, national and local, plus whichever regional sports networks are available in your area.
How can I listen to the WVU game?
You'll be delighted to know that both ESPN and FoxSports have listening options if you're unable to watch the West Virginia Mountaineers games.
The ESPN site allows you to watch the game, including future scheduled ones and replays (like the one between WVU and Baylor Bears on January the 31st (which Baylor won). It also allows you to listen with four different options: ESPN Radio, Listen Live, ESPN Daily, and their podcasts.
And as if that's not enough, you can always access everything basketball-related on the FoxSports.Com website. You have the option of following each team, getting the latest news, schedule, standings, roster, stats, and odds.
This all-new app is designed for modern-day sports fans. Follow your favorite teams, leagues, and players. Keep up to date each week with scores, odds, live games, and events.
Bonus app features
It even has a Bonus Cams feature, where selected games and events will let you choose between secondary camera feeds and angles to give you a whole new perspective of the game! And it's available on the App Store for your various Apple products, like Apple TV.
Never miss a thing!
Want to know all about what happened between West Virginia and Texas Tech? Or between West Virginia and Baylor?
That's easy. Just select the game from the list, and you'll be redirected to a page where you'll get a recap, box score, play-by-play, odds, news, and more. All right at your fingertips!
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Moses, Milling honored for Second Harvest mission
Published on Tuesday, 08 September 2015 14:10 | Written by Christine Bordelon |
As community volunteers and leaders, Leann Moses and Anne Milling have no trouble rallying support for local causes. But they were caught off guard on Aug. 24 when Archbishop Gregory Aymond and executives of Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana honored them as "emeritus board members" for their longtime service to the archdiocesan food ministry.
Tricia Weeks, board chair of Second Harvest, and Natalie Jayroe, president and CEO, joined Archbishop Aymond in making the emeritus honor.
"Anne and I were really surprised, and it was nice to be able to help," Moses said about the honor, presented in the archbishop's office.
"It was such a surprise," Milling added. "They didn't tell me."
The honor was bestowed not only for their long-time association with the nonprofit – Moses since 1998 and Milling since the 1980s – but also for their valiant efforts during and after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
"As we commemorate the 10th anniversaries of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it is important for us to honor the leaders who positioned Second Harvest to become the largest food bank in history and respond to the hundreds of thousands of people who needed food and water in the aftermath of these disasters," Jayroe said. "Anne and Leann are two such leaders, and become only the second and third people to be named emeritus members of the board, after founder Bishop (Roger) Morin."
Moses was the first lay chairperson of Second Harvest's board, serving from 2004-06 during the tumultuous time of Katrina. She remained on the board until 2010 and currently is on the finance and nominating committees.
"What Second Harvest does is provide food – which is the most basic of human necessities – to the most needy in our community," Moses said. "And, it's not just the poor. It's really the working poor and elderly and children. We also provide access to SNAP (food stamps)."
Moses said when people fall on hard times, food is what they cut back on most easily before they stop paying rent or filling prescriptions.
"You can cut what you eat," she said. "And, unfortunately, we see kids suffering."
Milling remembers when there were two food banks in town – the Emergency Food Box Program through the United Way and Second Harvest. A yearlong discussion about duplication of services led to a merger around 1989.
"It was such a smart move," Milling said. "We could serve the community so much more efficiently."
Response to Katrina
After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Second Harvest Food Bank became the largest food bank in history with the help of America's Second Harvest (now Feeding America) and more than 70 skilled food bank volunteers nationwide.
Moses said Second Harvest's "standard procedure" in hurricane situations before Katrina had been to put water in the Superdome, take trucks out of town and evacuate the staff. She and then-Second Harvest president and CEO Brian Greene (who went to Second Harvest in Houston after Katrina) were able to quickly set up camp in Baton Rouge.
"Within 48 hours after Katrina struck, we started distributing food," Moses said. By Friday, Sept. 3, Second Harvest was operating from a shuttered Walmart in Baker, Louisiana, procured by then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
"Second Harvest is part of the Feeding America network, and we were able to coordinate with Feeding America and organizations all over the country," she said. "Food companies starting contacting Feeding America asking how they could help. That's what we needed – a facility in Baker to receive food and start handing it out. We were able to get food to the convention center."
She said the Baker facility helped fill the void left by the food distribution network wiped out by Katrina. (Second Harvest had distributed food through a network of 353 agencies in 23 parishes, including 250 agencies in New Orleans, before Katrina; only 50 remained immediately after.)
"So, we had no network in our area for distribution," Moses said. "We had to find where people were. It was a huge coordination effort – finding out where people were and getting food to them."
One million pounds of food were distributed within 14 days, equating to two million meals, mostly at shelters, relief agencies and nonprofits helping evacuees. By the end of November 2005, Second Harvest had distributed 32 million pounds. By the end of May 2006, Second Harvest had distributed more than 44 million pounds of food and grocery products.
Changes to Second Harvest
In response to the needs that were exposed by Katrina, several changes were made at Second Harvest. A working kitchen was built to prepare nutritious meals year-round for school children in afterschool programs, and it concentrated on a weekend backpack program for kids and providing food at summer camps and meals for the elderly.
"The whole food bank world has changed because there is a greater focus on fresh fruit and meals," Moses said. "Before Katrina, we distributed prepared box items, so it is better now with our kitchen. When we get fresh food, we can cook and freeze food to store and distribute at a later date."
Second Harvest also opened a facility in Lafayette to handle future disasters. Second Harvest moved to a larger location on Edwards Avenue in Harahan about five years ago and is currently renovating its warehouse. It has introduced nutrition classes, connects clients with other government benefits and supports anti-hunger measures in government.
During the past decade, Second Harvest Food Bank has become a "critical part of disaster response plans in the 23 parishes it serves in southeast Louisiana," responding to the needs after hurricanes Gustav, Ike and Isaac and the 2010 BP oil spill.
Milling said no one could have imagined in the 1980s that Second Harvest would expand to food distribution in 23 civil parishes.
"I've seen it evolve from such a small operation on Hill Street to expanding in 1991 to a state-of-the-art warehouse where we did refrigerated food to today where our warehouse does prepared food, meals and refrigerated food," Milling said. "The tragedy is that the need is so horrific in this region. The food bank has been there through all crises – Katrina, the mini depression in 2008, the oil problems. The food bank is there for the people in this region."
Second Harvest Food Bank is an affiliated ministry of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, a Feeding America member and a United Way Partner Agency. Visit www.no-hunger.org.


Frombork lies 10 km on the south-west off Braniewo. Entering the town from the random side you must follow the main road the whole time and head for the center. You will find the defensive complex there without any problem.
There was never a castle in Frombork, but the local building has a distinct defensive character, therefore it has been presented on the website.
The original provisional Teutonic or Episcopal castle arose there the most probably in the place of earlier Prussian settlement. The building of a defensive complex was begun at the beginning of the XIVth cent. The cathedral came into existence in the years of 1330-1388, and around it the cemetery arose. Later the circular wall was built, to which residential buildings were annexed. The construction lasted nearly uninterrupted till the beginning of the XVIIth cent.
The fortified cathedral complex was many a time besieged and conquered by the Polish, Teutonic and mercenary Czech troops. There were severe especially the destructions made by the Swedes in the years of 1626-1630 and 1655-1660. In the years of 1843 and 1856 the part of the fortification was disassembled, and in 1945 the complex was partially burnt down and devastated. After the war numerous conservation works were carried out.


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One of the objectives of Iranian Student Association is to serve the incoming students and provide them with the resources and help needed for the best transition possible.
If you are an incoming student, please send us an email at "isancsu@gmail.com" and let us know. So that we can plan accordingly and answer any questions you might have.
The orientation for incoming international students for Fall 2018 semester will take place on August 15th, 2018. As part of that program, ISA will be having a meeting with incoming Iranian students (detail will be provided later). Please join us and meet your fellow incoming students and receive some of the great resources that we will have available for you.


Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has identified four factors that could help the country improve its rate of infrastructure delivery.
Delivering his maiden Budget Speech in parliament on Wednesday the minister noted that while government already spends a lot on infrastructure it would reprioritise resources from the wage bill towards the President's Infrastructure Fund.
"Four things will get us better infrastructure," Mboweni said. "First is to create a sensible project pipeline. Second, is streamlining the law to make it easier to build. Third, is better information for everyone, and finally, is to actually build," he explained.
In this regard, the minister highlighted that the Infrastructure Fund would help accelerate R526 billion worth of on-budget projects by bringing in the private sector and development finance institutions.
"The infrastructure fund is a central pillar of the Budget and of reprioritisation," he said.
"In several instances the private sector will design, build and operate key infrastructure assets. In addition, government will commit R100 billion over the next decade," he continued.


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The Society raises wholesale funding via the money markets through Short Term Time Deposits.
We can offer fixed rates on wholesale deposits from £1 million to £2 million, invested for periods from 3 months to 2 years.
If you would like to find out more about the investment opportunities we can offer, please contact the Society's Treasury Department on 0161 923 8073 (the line is available for enquiries from 8:30am until 2:00pm, Monday to Friday).
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Legendary Chef David Burke Checks into a Long Island Hotel
By Meghan Harlow| September 4, 2018 | Photos by Yvonne Albinowski
This article appears in Fall 2018: Issue No. 24 of Edible Long Island.
The chef's signature whimsy has found a perfect home at the Garden City Hotel.
Chef David Burke at his latest restaurant, Red Salt Room, in Garden City.
Legendary chef David Burke is a man with opinions. He is, for starters, ready to declare that restaurants are officially—"finally," he says—entering the post-"weird shit" era of dining, having moved on from things like pig's ears in favor of more universally appealing eats. "Nobody says, 'Honey, let's go out and get a sweetbread steak,'" he says. He also believes restaurants are becoming too pricey.
"Whenever I open a restaurant," says Burke, "I try to keep things as affordable as possible. Unlike some other people, we're not trying to bang anybody over the head."
Still, Burke reserves his most impassioned words for what he sees as the increasing egotism of chefs. "They show off too much," he says. "I don't need to be wowed by some ingredient that was picked off the mountainside by a blind monk with a palsy. I don't need to be a part of some chef's ego-driven journey. I say this after years of experience; it's just too much. I cook what people want to eat."
David Burke's take on onion rings.
If it sounds like David Burke would fit in nicely on Long Island—a veritable breeding ground for loveable loudmouths—it's because he already has. He opened two new restaurants here—Red Salt Room and King Bar, both located within the Garden City Hotel—this spring.
And while the restaurants are Burke's first foray into the Long Island restaurant scene, they also signal something of a reunion: The project has reunited him with executive chef Ari Nieminen, with whom he worked closely at Brooklyn's River Café in the late 1980s.
"I feel more confident knowing he is at the helm," says Burke, just days before the restaurants' opening. "He knows what to expect from me and I know what to expect from him."
But what can guests expect from their restaurants? Excellence, for starters—thanks largely to their menu's balance of Burke's signature whimsy and more standard steakhouse fare. At Red Salt Room, the more elegant of the two new eateries, for example, Burke's legendary pretzel-crusted crab cake is offered as an appetizer right alongside a traditional iceberg wedge, just as his much-celebrated angry-style lobster—prepared with garlic, lemon, chiles and basil—appears as an entrée beside more familiar beef offerings, like filet mignon, bone-in ribeye, sirloin, and a porterhouse for two.
These ain't your mama's kebabs; instead, they're made with octopus chorizo.
At King Bar, Red Salt Room's more casual sister-restaurant open for all-day dining, guests can enjoy breakfast, small plates and large plates, with all three menus reflecting a similar Burkean balance. Don't leave without trying the Candied Bacon on a Clothesline—which is (thankfully) exactly what it sounds like; don't even try resisting the urge to snap a pic and share it on Instagram—and the chef's signature sweet: cheesecake lollipops, served whimsically as branches stemming from a plated metal tree.
"We're not reinventing the wheel. Garden City has always been a world-class place and we're just adding to that," says Burke. "You know, I have a good understanding of what's out here. I've eaten at Guy Reuge's places in the past. The late Gerry Hayden [who opened the North Fork Table & Inn with his wife Claudia Fleming in 2006] was one of my sous chefs. There are a lot of great places out here. Our goal is simple: To be great, too."
Here, Burke pauses to laugh, charmingly, before offering one last view.
"I mean, I've been doing this for 34 years. If you're not capable of doing great things in your field after 34 years, you're in the wrong field. I'm sorry; there's just no helping you."
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