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Monarca Season 3 Renewed By Netflix
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Last Modified date: January 11, 2021
Monarca series is one of the most popular Netflix series. The show has been gaining a lot of popularity as it has a unique concept. The performances of the cast have also been appreciated by the audience. The previous seasons of Monarca have been well received by the viewers. The audience from different parts of the world has been getting positive reviews of the show. The two seasons of Monarca have been released and the Monarca Season 3, is due for release.
About Monarca Season 3
Monarca seasons 1 and 2 have been received well by the viewers. The creators of the show have not made any official announcement regarding the series. The third season of the show hasn't been confirmed by Netflix and the makers of the series. In some interviews, the creators of Monarca have hinted that they have plans to release a new season of the show. The third season of this series is indirectly official but there has been no announcement regarding the show. The fans can expect to get a new season of the show sometime in 2022.
Monarca Previous Seasons
The first season of Monarca was released on 13 September 2019. A total of 10 episodes was released and the first season was appreciated by the audience. The audience appreciated season 1, and this was why the creators released the second season of the series. The second season was released on 1 January 2021. A total of 8 episodes of the second season was released, and it was also a major success. The creators of the show shared some news about the show and hinted at the release of the third season.
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Monarca Cast
We know that the fans of the show are eager to know about the cast details of the third season of the show. The Monarca season 3-star cast includes:
Irene Azuela as Ana Maria Carranza Davila
Antonio de la Vega as Bernardo
Rosa Maria Bianchi as Cecilia Davila De Carranza
James Hyde as Martin Rose
Osvaldo Benavides as Andres Carranza Davila
Sophie Gómez as Amelia
Juan Manuel Bernal as Joaquin Carranza Davila
Carla Adell as Camila Ross Carranza
Luis Rabago as Agustin Carranza
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Monarca Plot: what to expect from season 3?
Monarca stars Osvaldo Benavides, Juan Manuel Bernal, Rosa María Bianchi, and Irene Azuela in the lead roles. The star cast of the show has been appreciated by the fans and they want to see their favorite characters return to the small screen. The lot of Monarca revolves around a billionaire tequila magnate. The show also focuses on his family and how they manage to live in a corrupt world.
The show focuses on the corrupt world of Mexico's business elites and how they are facing struggles to win the battle of money. The show has full of mystery and revolves around various scandals and violence. The first season of the show released on September 13, 2019, on Netflix. The show will take forward the story of the billionaire tequila magnate and will bring back the exciting and mysterious stories of the corrupt business world.
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Q: Find critical points of function $f(x,y)=(x^2+y^2) \ln(x^2+y^2)$ I want to find critical points of $$f(x,y)=\left\{\begin{matrix}
(x^2+y^2) \ln(x^2+y^2) & \text{if} &(x,y)\neq (0,0) \\
 0& \text{if}  & (x,y)=(0,0)
\end{matrix}\right.$$
I have started to find first derivatives:
$$f_x=2x(\ln(x^2+y^2)+1),$$
$$f_y=2y(\ln(x^2+y^2)+1).$$
Here it is my problem that I cannot find critical points here. I have tried to do like this:
$$2x(\ln(x^2+y^2)+1)=0,$$ therefore $x=0$ and $\ln(x^2+y^2)=-1$ but this one doesn't seem correct.

A: When solving problems of optimization, one should always look for transformations that simplify the problem.
if you apply the coordinate trans $$
\begin{cases}
x=\sqrt{r} \sin{t}\\
y=\sqrt{r} \cos{t}\\
\end{cases}
$$
you end up with the function defined in $\mathbf{R}^+$
$$
g(r)=r \log{r}
$$
which has got a minima for $r=\frac{1}{e}$
so the set of minima for the original function is :
$$
M_n=\left\{(\frac{\sin t}{\sqrt e};\frac{\cos t}{\sqrt e})\middle| t \in [0,2\pi]\right\}
$$
which is the circle of radius $\frac{1}{e}$ centered in the origin where the function f attains it's minimum value of $-\frac{1}{e}$
Remark: the origin is a local maximum as can be seen from your partial derivatives

A: Use the polar form of the equation:
$$f(r,\theta)=r^2\ln r^2$$
(where $f$ is zero if $r$ is zero). Since the expression only depends on $r$, $f$ is circularly symmetric about the origin.
We can then differentiate $r^2\ln r^2$ to find critical points; we find two at $r=0$ and $r=e^{-\frac12}$. Hence the critical points of $f$ in the original Cartesian formulation are the origin and the circle with equation $x^2+y^2=\frac1e$. (The origin is a removable singularity.)

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There's been much speculation as the real nature of the relationship between Beetle and Sarge. In the absence of any leadership from Camp Swampy's officer corps, has Sarge's near-limitless authority over his subordinates simply allowed his inner brute to emerge in full, sadistic force? Or is Beetle no mere subject, but rather a participant in a complex and largely unspoken sadomasochistic relationship? Today's strip offers another, even darker take: Sgt. Snorkel is an artist — an artist whose medium is human flesh and bone and blood, and Pvt. Bailey is and will forever be his greatest masterpiece. In this view, the opinion of Beetle on his role in this transaction is really no more important than a dab of paint's views on being part of van Gogh's Sunflowers. The chaplain, naturally, is horrified by the human price of art, but the angry beauty of Beetle's mangled still-living body cannot be denied.
Hey, remember a while back when gym teacher Bull implied that he wanted Les to knock up his ever-smirking wife? And now here they are, black-helmet-haired tot in tow? I'm sure that it was really adopted from Romania or something, but let me just for a moment revel in the idea that Les is at long last seeing the result of a fairly lucrative 20 minutes he spent "running errands" while Lisa was in chemo.
Marvin's look of numb, wide-eyed horror tells us all we need to know about mom's sadistic will to power through infinite punishment. Presumably he realizes that he'll spend the rest of his life in that playpen. When he gets tall enough to climb out, his mother will simply put a lid over the top of the pen, leaving him to become a tiny, bonsai-sized adult with stunted limbs, a gruesome example to any toddlers thinking of doing whatever I'm-too-lazy-to-come-up-with-something-specific act of mischief the cowed dog is referring to in panel one.
I've played a fair amount of Wii Boxing in the past few weeks, and I've even seen filmed evidence (with audio) of what I look like while playing Wii Boxing, so I have a pretty good idea of what Dawn's fists in that position portend. Drew and Vera, get ready to have those little knuckle sandwiches come flailing at you while she lets out little high-pitched grunts of rage! You won't be able to fend off her head-vibrating assault without giggling.
Dawn's "And I thought you were the 'one'!" is actually a pretty effective comeback, in the sense that it riffs off of Drew's "I thought you were studying" excuse, which is so lame that she could never have anticipated it in advance. I hope she uses her razor wit to further humiliate Drew and Vera as she pummels them. I suggest she start with their bizarre decision to wear matching brown pants.
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Welcome back to the Disney Parks Moms Panel! We are so glad to have the opportunity to help you again with you plans for your December visit to the Walt Disney World Resort. I'm also looking forward to a December visit and can't wait to soak in the spirit of the season throughout the theme parks and resorts!
My plans also include the Candlelight Processional, Janice. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about hearing the Christmas Story told by one of my favorite celebrities accompanied by the amazing choir and orchestra. It will be extra special for me this yEAR as we will be there on my daughter's birthday! Because of this, I also booked the dining package to secure our seats for this moving event. I double-checked my reservation information and can share with you that you reserved your spot with only a credit card guarantee. Your card will be charged once you dine at the restaurant you selected for your package. If you want to use another form of payment on the day of the reservation, just let your server know. And if your plans change, be sure to cancel at least 48 hours prior to the reservation so you won't be charged the no-show fee.
Janice, I'm so happy you've found us helpful with your vacation planning. Please don't hesitate to reach back out if you have any other last minute questions. It's almost time for the magic to begin!


My work comments our times, our view on life and the way we choose to categorize our environment. By dissolving the most well known and commonly occurning from our close environment, I perform a gentle scraping on the surface of a conception of the world we normally perceive as evident.
The play with the most usual and commonly occurning from our close environment, and consequently with our expectations of it, results in new objects that exist in between, below and above the groups in which we categorize our surroundings. In their new shapes the objects exist beyond definitions of pretty or ugly and in the interaction between playfullness and seriousness. The broken parts within every object are presented as both strength and flaw from a micro, as well as macro perspective and the objects can, in their new states, leave their original functions behind. This movement between roles challenges and questions our own perception and our expectations of our surroundings.
Through deformation new things appear, that have yet to recieve a function or role. New qualities have emerged at the expence of old ones and the objects can, in their new undefined states, be perceived as both better and worse than before.
The exhibition Planned Obsolescence at Galleri Thomas Wallner consists of sculptures, drawings and paintings.
The title of the show alludes to patterns within production industry and consumer habits and thereby allows the works to act as contemporary symbols of a time when broken objects around us have increased in numbers.
The series of paintings entitled Meant for Greater Things are based on found images of furniture made from old suitcases. Through this transformation process the suitcases are given a second chance.
By performing something similar to portrait painting and thereby isolating them from the context they were originally presented in, I want to dissolve the predefined meaning of what these objects are meant to communicate.
In the paintings the suitcases are humanized and tell a different story than they originally did.
The sculptures presented in the show are inspired by forms found in functional objects from our close environment. Doors, tables and chairs are pushed towards abstraction and take new forms, at the expence of their original functions.
The forms of these new, still unidentified, objects are foremost the outer shell of an internal happening, where objects with clear predetermined basic functions and in total lack of any real unicity or uniqueness, suddenly are allowed to achieve autonomy.
In their new states of being, as both better and worse versions of themselves, the sculptures manifest the contradiction between functioning according to a predestined pattern and the ability to be different.
The works illustrate broken, yet unique, objects wich, through their very existence and their newly achieved visibility and originality suggest that the preassumed certainties around us, the scene we all live and move around in on a daily basis, may not be as certain as we percieve them.
The exhibition also consists of a series of drawings entitled Out of Your Tree.
The works are made of bought paper rolls, which, through drawing, are regressively transformed into the resemblance of a memory of the origin of the basic material from which the rolls are manufactured.


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Ben Crenshaw, född 11 januari 1952 i Austin, Texas är en amerikansk golfspelare. Han utbildade sig på University of Texas och vann tre raka universitetsmästerskap innan han blev professionell 1973.

Crenshaw vann sin första tävling under sin första säsong på PGA-touren och han blev Rookie of the year 1974. 1984 vann han The Masters, en av golfens fyra majortävlingar. I mitten av 1980-talet drabbades han av en sköldkörtelsjukdom men han fortsatte att vinna och avslutade sin karriär på PGA-touren med 19 segrar inklusive sin andra Mastersseger 1995. På penningligan blev han som bäst tvåa.

Crenshaw vann många andra proffstävlingar även utanför PGA-touren, både individuella tävlingar och i lag i World Cup of Golf 1988. Han har spelat Ryder Cup tre gånger (1981, 1983 och 1987).

Crenshaw är nu bland annat verksam som banarkitekt.

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1984 The Masters Tournament
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1973  San Antonio Texas Open
1976  Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Hawaiian Open, Ohio Kings Island Open
1977  Colonial National Invitation
1979 Phoenix Open,  Walt Disney World National Team Championship
1980 Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic
1983 Byron Nelson Golf Classic
1986 Buick Open,  Vantage Championship
1987 USF&G Classic
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1990 Southwestern Bell Colonial
1992 Centel Western Open
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Capgemini recognized in the Winner's circle by HfS Blueprint Report for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Services
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Paris – Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has been recognized in the Winner's Circle in the HfS Blueprint Report: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Services. The report shows Capgemini's strong positioning and highlights its expertise in providing organization-wide consulting and delivery capabilities.
According to the HfS Blueprint report, Capgemini is positioned in the "Winner's Circle" based on the level and depth of its client engagement and satisfaction, strong manufacturing industry expertise, its dedicated manufacturing Center of Excellence named CHROME showcasing best practices, consulting-led delivery of PLM services, in-house tools and accelerators, and its strong presence across Europe.
Sanjay Salunkhe, Head of Product and Engineering Services at Capgemini said: "We are delighted to be featured in the 'Winner's Circle' of this HfS report which recognizes our vision for the evolution of PLM services. Our customers are aware of the digital imperatives for PLM as products become more complex in today's connected world; Capgemini has built its portfolio to be a trusted advisor and business partner for our customers in the PLM space. This recognition is a testament to the fact that we are providing lasting business impact for our customers through successful PLM transformations."
The HfS PLM Services Blueprint collected more than 650 data points and, assessed 13 service providers of PLM Services and identified relevant differentials between service providers across a number of facets in two main categories: innovation and execution.
HFS BLUEPRINT REPORT: PLM SERVICES 2016, November 17 2016
With more than 180,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2015 global revenues of EUR 11.9 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business, technology and digital solutions that fit their needs, enabling them to achieve innovation and competitiveness. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model. Rightshore® is a trademark belonging to Capgemini
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Revenue at Universal Music Group grew 13.5% year of year last quarter, according to financials reported by corporate parent Vivendi. But on everyone's mind were Vivendi's plan to sell a 50% stake in the world's largest music group.
"Start with the premise that if there's anything that comes up in music, we likely look. We're as big a force, we have as much cash flow, as anybody in the music business. We will look at everything.


This is the area where I will be documenting my recommended two year church security plan week by week. You don't have to do it in this order. Sorry not all the content is there, mainly the first few weeks of titles of the content and the template I plan to use…..but I will be documenting them as quickly as I can.
Some of these steps will take you a few minutes, others maybe two weeks. Remember when you are done with each week's plan, you can move on to the next one. Also remember that what you have previous got up and running needs to be continually maintained with excellence.
As a rule of thumb, each four week series could be considered for a specific policy, procedure, guideline, training session.
Week 2 - Getting Started Month - How will we measure Success?
My Church Security Plan - Week 2 - Getting Started Month - How will we measure Success?


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.field public static final CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE:Ljava/lang/String; = "vnd.android.cursor.item/privatelist"

.field public static final CONTENT_TYPE:Ljava/lang/String; = "vnd.android.cursor.dir/privatelist"

.field public static final CONTENT_URI:Landroid/net/Uri;

.field public static final ID:Ljava/lang/String; = "id"

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Donuts confirms six-figure .news buyer used a fake name
Kevin Murphy, July 16, 2018, Domain Registries
Mike Texas is in fact noted conspiracy theorist Mike Adams.
New gTLD registry Donuts confirmed with DI over the weekend that the buyer of six figures worth of "platinum" .news domain names used a fake name.
The company last week said that a company called WebSeed bought registry-reserved names including science.news, climate.news, medicine.news, health.news and pollution.news.
After a small amount of digging, I discovered that these sites were affiliated with a controversial site called Natural News, which is regularly criticized for spreading bogus, anti-science content.
I suspected that "Mike Texas", the WebSeed CEO quoted railing against "fake news" in Donuts' press release, was very probably a pseudonym for Natural News owner Mike Adams, who calls himself the "Health Ranger" but peddles theories often characterized as dangerous.
Yesterday, Donuts told us that, following DI's coverage, it has managed to confirm with Texas that he is in fact Adams. The company has changed its press release accordingly.
I will note that the most compelling piece of evidence connecting Texas to Adams was a pre-GDPR Whois record.
Donuts makes six-figure .news sale to dangerous conspiracy theorist
Donuts has sold a package of "platinum" .news domains to a network of dubious news sites peddling what many describe as dangerous pseudo-scientific nonsense.
A company called WebSeed acquired science.news, food.news, health.news, medicine.news, pollution.news, cancer.news and climate.news from the registry for an undisclosed sum in the six-figure range last December, Donuts said.
It appears that the same buyer has acquired several other presumably non-platinum .news domains, including vaccines.news, nutrients.news, menshealth.news and emergencymedicine.news
The sites have already been developed, incorporating a back catalog of "news" content from other sites under the same ownership, and Donuts reckons searches for "climate news" and "science news" already return the matching domains prominently (they don't for me, but Google can be fickle).
Unfortunately, the domains seem to have been sold to a leading purveyor of misinformation and conspiracy theories.
That's right, climate.news now belongs to a climate change denier, vaccines.news belongs to an anti-vaxxer, and medicine.news belongs to somebody who values alternative remedies over science-based medicine.
As far as I can tell, pretty much all of the content on the network of .news domains comes from Natural News, the controversial site owned by "Health Ranger" Mike Adams.
Natural News has been fingered as an "empire of misinformation" and a leading contributor to the "fake news" crisis that has been blighting society for the last few years.
Check out climate.news today to be treated to Adams' theory that climate change is nothing but a conspiracy peddled by the UN and the mainstream media.
Over on vaccines.news, you'll find a scaremongering story about how the measles vaccine has killed more people than measles over the last decade.
(Gee, I wonder why measles isn't killing anyone any more? Could it be that we have a fucking vaccine?).
On medicine.news, Adams himself writes of "PROOF that vaccines target blacks for depopulation".
And at pollution.news, you'll find any number of articles discussing the "chemtrails" conspiracy theory.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not scientifically literate enough to debunk most of the content on these sites, but I know quackery when I see it.
Donuts' press release goes to suspicious pains to point out that the sites' content is "thoroughly researched" and advertising is "limited and relevant to the sites' content".
In fact, the advertising seems in most if not all cases to lead back to Adams' own stores, where he sells stuff like water purifiers, dietary supplements and alternative medicines.
The Donuts press release also quotes the founder and CEO of WebSeed, one "Mike Texas".
Now, I have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Mr Texas is not a real person.
Whois records (remember those?) show that the original registrant of science.news was one Mike Adams of WebSeed LLC, and WebSeed.com, while under privacy for some years, was originally registered to Adams' Taiwan-based company.
It goes without saying that Donuts, as a neutral registry, is under no obligation whatsoever to police content on the domains it sells. That would be a Bad Thing.
But I can't help but feel that .news has the potential to take a big credibility hit due to the content of these sites.
Imagine a fox, buying up all the good .henhouse domains. It's a bit like that.


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CRM for Life Sciences, SAP ERP and Miami Schools, Creative Manager Pro Becomes Workamajig, Recommind and Orrick
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The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is one of those happy albums that gets the mix of traditional British and rock right -- The Crofters' Hold My Beer While I Kiss Your Girlfriend. After that we'll have the most perfect pop album ever recorded by people not named John, Paul, George and Ringo, The Kinks' Something Else:
SAP Public Services, a subsidiary of SAP AG, has announced that Miami-Dade County Public Schools has selected SAP ERP.
The district-wide business transformation project, called BOSS: Business Operating Solutions for Schools, "aims to improve administrative processes and to enable the district to reallocate resources to schools and students," according to school officials.
With this selection, SAP officials say, Miami-Dade becomes the fifth school district in Florida to run SAP products. The announcement was made at the co-located events Sapphire 2008 Orlando, SAP's international customer conference and the America's SAP Users' Group Annual Conference.
As the fourth-largest school district in the United States, M-DCPS has 342,000 students, more than 50,000 employees across 850 work locations, and maintains an annual budget of over $6 billion. The system needed "a current, integrated financial and human resource system in order to improve decision-making and provide data about student academic progress," SAP officials say.
School system officials say the M-DCPS legacy systems were labor intensive, difficult to navigate, costly to maintain and risk-abundant due to their age, growing obsolescence and the diminishing knowledge-base of IT staff able to work with the old code.
Another concern of the school system was to eliminate isolated pockets of information, to improve collaboration among principals, teachers and administrators.
The SAP software will be used to integrate financial, procurement, human resource and payroll business processes, and provide greater employee access to personal information and self-service options for benefits and payroll. Processes like time and attendance recording or the management of travel expenses, formerly paper-based, will be replaced by electronic workflow and approval processes.
In the last nine months, company officials say, fifteen life sciences companies have signed with Verticals onDemand, a vendor of SaaS CRM products for the pharmaceutical industry. Verticals onDemand's latest customer, UK-based ProStrakan Group, selected VBioPharma shortly after establishing their U.S. division earlier this year.
Verticals onDemand's client roster also includes biotechnology companies.
ProStrakan has been recruiting both specialty and managed markets sales representatives to commercialize ProStrakan's products in the U.S. The sales force will promote the company's new oncology supportive care product, currently under FDA review. Verticals onDemand's professional services team is now implementing VBioPharma to the managed markets account team at ProStrakan.
"I already knew the pluses and minuses of most of the major pharma CRM vendors from previous experience," said Paul Bidawid, Vice President of Managed Markets & Supply Chain at ProStrakan. "SaaS is definitely where we're heading."
One industry analyst, Datamonitor, predicted just such a major industry shift in a Pharma CRM report published last year, titled "Decision Matrix: Selecting a CRM Vendor in the Pharmaceutical Industry."
VBioPharma is a CRM product to come pre-validated for PDMA and CFR Part 11 compliance. Built on the Force.com platform from Salesforce.com, VBioPharma physician and account profiling, visual affiliations tracking, call scheduling and route management, call reporting and mobile call reporting with electronic signature capture and full samples management.
Matt Wallach, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Verticals onDemand, said SaaS technology is "much more flexible and cost-effective than client/server systems of ten years ago, making it attractive to pharma and biotech companies." VBioPharma runs in a disconnected mode on smart phones, laptops, and tablet PCs.
"In the not so distant past, companies built their entire organization around their old bricks and mortar systems. Pharma companies today simply cannot invest financial resources in these types of infrastructure," said Bidawid.
Creative Manager Pro, a software program for ad agencies and other creative and design firms, has launched a new brand. "Throughout the next twelve months, Creative Manager Pro's almost 17,000 users from across the globe will upgrade to the new brand, simply called Workamajig," company officials say.
The software, which was established in 2001, helps manage advertising agencies' projects and billings. Creative Manager Pro officials say it was just time to enhance both its product and its design.
Ron Ause, vice president for Workamajig, said the old brand -- Creative Manager Pro -- "did not properly reflect the product and organization. It wasn't very creative at all. Our old brand was too straitlaced and did not properly convey what we are all about."
It was time to "actually look like a brand that was meant for the industry it serves," said Push official Michael Alberici. The new brand was created by Push, the company's agency of record for the past two and a half years..
"Simply stated, Creative Manager Pro was not a brand that looked like it was meant for creative agencies," said Mark Unger, Push's media creative director. "We wanted to create a brand and name that was quirky enough to attract businesses, especially since those businesses appreciate creativity."
Workamajig offers many upgrades as well, especially through its functionality and design, including an avatar which embodies the "spirit" of the software, performs many different tasks within the program as it is used as an interactive guide to help and inform users, Workamajig officials say.
Along with the avatar, all of Workamajig's program navigations and desktops have moved from .net to Flash, while the overall look and feel of the program is now configurable by each user.
Workamajig was established in 2001 with the merger of two consulting and technology firms, A La Carte Systems and Streamline Technologies.
Recommind, a vendor of software systems for enterprises and law firms, has announced that Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a global law firm, has deployed Recommind's MindServer Legal platform for knowledge management.
One reason for the move is to let Orrick's network of over 2,400 lawyers, paralegals and staff locate knowledge and expertise across their 18 offices worldwide. Peter Krakaur, Chief Knowledge Officer, Orrick, said the product results in "a significantly more productive billable hour for our clients."
To date, Orrick has implemented MindServer Legal's Enterprise Search, which connects attorneys and staff with relevant information located in the firm's document management system, contact database, and portal systems, plus myriad other applications and databases. It can also connect with the Practical Law Company database of legal know-how resources.
The firm has also implemented the Matters & Expertise component, which provides a firm-wide view of matters, deals, cases, and experience across a firm by tapping into a variety of information sources, such as CRM applications, portals, internal firm matter and case databases, and other information repositories.
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DETROIT — General Motors' October U.S. sales plunged 45 percent, and Ford's and Chrysler's weren't far behind, as low consumer confidence and tight credit combined to bring the industry's sales to a crippling level that is the worst in 25 years.
Automakers sold 838,156 vehicles in October, 32 percent fewer than the same month last year and the worst performance since January 1991, according to Autodata Corp. and Ward's AutoInfoBank. The seasonally adjusted annual sales rate of 10.6 million vehicles was the lowest since February 1983.
The annual sales rate in October 2007 was 16.1 million.
Chrysler's sales tumbled 35 percent and Ford's dropped 30 percent. Toyota's sales fell 23 percent despite its zero-percent financing offer, and Nissan and Honda posted 33 percent and 25 percent declines, respectively.
If GM's sales were adjusted for population growth, October would be the worst month of the post-World War II era, DiGiovanni said.
"Clearly we're in a very dire situation," he said. Detroit-based GM said its light truck sales tumbled 51 percent compared with the same month last year, while demand for passenger cars fell 34 percent.
Despite the steep drop, GM's total was enough to keep it ahead of Toyota Motor Corp. for the No. 1 U.S. sales spot. Toyota, which rolled out an offer of zero-percent financing during the month, sold 152,101 vehicles. The Japanese company's light truck sales fell 34 percent, while car sales dropped 15 percent.
The vast majority of Toyota models still posted double-digit declines. Notable exceptions included sales of the Corolla, which rose 6.1 percent, and the Sequoia sport utility vehicle, which posted a 21 percent gain.
Bob Carter, Toyota Division general manager, said the financing offer, which had been set to expire on Monday but will now be extended for another month, gave October's sales a needed boost. "This managed to breathe some life into an otherwise lackluster month," Carter said.
GM's financing arm, GMAC Financial Services, said last month it was tightening its lending standards to require a credit score of at least 700, shutting out some potential buyers.


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Genocide Prevention Day: Important to understand root causes of genocide
Unchir-Dunktok, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, 9 December 2021: The India Greens Party (iGP) today said it is important to understand the root causes of the genocide conflicts, which are generally rooted in the identity-based issues.
In a press statement issued on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime today, the iGP Chief Spokesperson Suresh Nautiyal said such atrocities tend to occur in societies with diverse national, racial, ethnic or religious groups that are locked in identity-related conflicts. However, governments guided by the democratic societies can prevent such occurrences.
Mr Nautiyal said the genocide, whether committed in time of peace or war, is a crime under international law.
He reminded the world governments that they, at the 2005 World Summit, had committed to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, as well as their incitement.
"The 1948 Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide or the Genocide Convention, the first human rights treaty adopted by the General Assembly, clearly says that the primary responsibility to prevent and stop genocide lies with the State," the iGP pointed out.
On this occasion, the iGP leader reminded the world governments that they, at the 2005 World Summit, had committed to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, as well as their incitement.
–Issued by Chief Spokesperson, iGP.
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Without any ability on the behalf of the UN to enforce past international treaties or international law, the trend of shifting borders will continue.
On May 15, Palestinian protesters gathered at two border crossings and two international boundaries with Israel. It was at the borders with Syria and Lebanon where protesters breached the fenced areas that represent the border and began to pour into the Golan Heights and other areas in the north.


Salford has a long and unabashed tradition of destroying its patrimony. This 1822 drawing depicts the Salford Cross (described elsewhere in this blog) two years before its demolition. The illustration is based on the work of John Ralston (1789-1833) , who struggled to make a living as an artist. He was a cultured, gentle and retiring man, but lacked the art of self-promotion, and consequently died penniless in the workhouse. He was buried on 5 November 1833 at St. Stephen's Church, Salford, which, with the exception of Sacred Trinity, was the oldest church in the city. Now, before you dash off to pay homage at St. Stephen's Church, it too has been demolished, but there is a quiet garden, located between Lamb Lane and St. Stephen Street that was once the church's graveyard. This burial ground was consecrated in 1817.
Some of the best pictorial records of late 18th and early 19th century Manchester rely on drawings made by Ralston, including his many studies of Market Sted Lane (now Market Street).
The Church of St. Philip was built by Sir Robert Smirke in 1825. The illustration above is from a study by Thomas Allom (1804-1872), and engraved by John Pass (fl.1796-1829). It was originally produced for W. H. Pyne's ""Lancashire Illustrated", from original drawings... London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1829.
Also from Lancashire Illustrated are engravings of the Salford Town Hall (page 100); the Irwell Street Methodist Chapel (page 84) and the New Bailey Prison (page 72).
The depiction of Salford Town Hall is the work of topographical draughsman, John Harwood, and was engraved by Frederick Rudolph Hay of Edinburgh.
Engraved by J. Davies (i.e. John R. Davies (fl.1829-1843) ; Drawn by S[amuel] Austin.
The drawing above is the work of Thomas Ashworth, and is one of the illustrations included in his book, Sketches of old Manchester and Salford, published in 1877 for the Royal Jubilee Exhibition held in Manchester to mark Queen Victoria's 50th year on the throne. One particular area in the exhibition grounds was dedicated to "Old Manchester and Salford", consisting of full-scale replicas of buildings from the past. Salford Cross was included, and visitors could walk through the reconstructed street.
Photograph of the buildings that inspired Ashworth's illustration.
This area was demolished in the 1890s.
We are looking at the south side of Chapel Street, anciently known as Sergeant Street. It has been suggested that part of the building behind the two gentlemen, particularly the Fisherman's Hut, which can be seen in Ashworth's drawing, was a remnant of Salford Hall (not to be confused with Ordsall Hall).
 Ralston is described as a 'drawing master', and lived at 26 Brazennose St., Manchester according to the Palatine note-book, vol. 3:54-5.
 This could be W. Henshall, engraver, active 1830-50, or J. Henshall, engraver, active 1828-50.


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An Update on the Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse
Written by AJ Ortiz , MSSP | Social Science Director at CHILD USA
How many children experience child sexual abuse (CSA) in the United States? This question has been difficult for researchers to answer definitively, in part due to delayed disclosure arising from trauma, shame, and humiliation.
For over 20 years, various organizations including CHILD USA have reported that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will experience CSA, citing the 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study. (1)
CHILD USA's Social Science Department did a lengthy literature review and consulted leading experts to conclude that 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 13 boys (roughly 20% and 8%) are likely to experience CSA. The majority of CSA perpetrators are family members and acquaintances. (2)
Let's take a look at how we arrived at those numbers and how the child protection field can do better in understanding CSA prevalence.
Research methods and approaches vary widely across the field.
A consensus view does not yet exist on the most accurate way to assess the prevalence of CSA; research since the 1998 ACEs study has resulted in a wide range of estimates. There are several important differences in research designs that produce this variability:
Sampling – Studies that draw a large, random, and representative sample from the general population are likely to produce lower estimates (albeit likely more accurate) than those that use smaller "convenience samples" or include individuals from clinical settings.
Data collection – Researchers can use questionnaires, phone interviews, or in-person interviews to ask individuals about their experiences with CSA, and they can rely on adult retrospective reports or study the experiences of children in late adolescence (in the 14 to 17 age range). Alternatively, researchers may utilize official reports of child sexual abuse from Child Protective Services, which tend to severely underestimate incidence of CSA.
Definitions of CSA – Research employing a narrow definition of CSA seeks information on categories of contact-based abuse (e.g. fondling, penetration, etc.) at the hands of adult perpetrators or those who are at least 5 years older than the victim. A broad definition expands the abuse to include sexual assault by peers and non-contact abuse (e.g. exposure to pornographic materials). Furthermore, states have differing legal definitions of child sexual abuse which may inform a researcher's conceptualization.
These are just a few of the differences found across the developing CSA research literature. At this time, it is difficult to reach a definitive answer on the question of prevalence. However, we can cautiously draw conclusions based on studies that look at the literature as a whole and account for the variation in sampling methods, data collection procedures, and definitions.
A wide-ranging literature review offers more clarity.
Table 1 below summarizes three studies that systematically reviewed the CSA prevalence literature and reported averaged rates. We have chosen to rely on rates based on North American samples.
In addition to reporting these rales of prevalence, Moody and colleagues also report ranges of rates to reflect the considerable variation across studies. The ranges include 7.5% to 29.8% for overall prevalence; 13.2% to 33.6% for females; and 4.3% to 21.0% for males.
CHILD USA's conservative estimate of 1 in 5 girls is supported by the work by Stoltenborgh et al. (2011) and Moody et al. (2018), and the estimate of 1 in 13 boys is supported by both Pereda et al. (2009) and Stoltenborgh et al. (2011).
Current research presents prevalence by gender in a non-binary world.
Although CHILD USA has chosen to communicate estimates separately for girls and boys, we acknowledge that this conclusion is simplistic. For example, it assumes that individuals fall into a binary construct of gender. Current research identifies this binary construct as an inadequate representation of gender, which has complications for further understanding CSA.
Individuals identifying as transgender, non-binary, genderqueer or gender non-conforming are significantly more likely to experience abuse during childhood. (6) Without considering those whose gender identity does not conform to their sex or gender assigned at birth, researchers are missing important subpopulations who are particularly vulnerable to CSA.
While we currently rely on studies that utilize a binary gender construct given the current state of research, we recommend that future inquiries into CSA prevalence expand this approach to specifically include individuals who identify as transgender and genderqueer so that prevention efforts can be implemented appropriately.
There are other lenses through which we can examine prevalence: race and disability.
Researchers should also attempt to comprehensively study the experiences of other subpopulations based on racial and ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation (as distinct from gender identity). A 2006 study of women growing up in two-parent households showed that African American women were 1.75 times more likely to have experienced CSA compared to White women. (7)
Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities are also at a heightened risk for abuse. For example, one study of child maltreatment reports found that children with learning disabilities were 2.5 times more likely to be associated with a sexual abuse allegation compared to peers without learning disabilities. (8) Most researchers studying CSA prevalence do not directly address populations with learning challenges or developmental delays.
Including vulnerable groups in prevalence studies can only improve prevention strategies.
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Gewirtz-Meydan, A., & Finkelhor, D. (2020). Sexual abuse and assault in a large national sample of children and adolescents. Child Maltreatment, 25(2), 203-214.
Pereda, N., Guilera, G., Forns, M., & Gómez-Benito, J. (2009). The prevalence of child sexual abuse in community and student samples: A meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 29(4), 328-338.
Stoltenborgh, M., van Ijzendoorn, M. H., Euser, E. M., & Bakersman-Kranenburg, M. J. (2011). A global perspective on child sexual abuse: Meta-analysis of prevalence around the world. Child Maltreatment, 16(2), 79-101.
Moody, G., Cannings-John, R., Hood, K., Kemp, A., & Robling, M. (2018). Establishing the international prevalence of self-reported child maltreatment: A systematic review by maltreatment type and gender. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1164.
Tobin, V., & Delaney, K. R. (2019). Child abuse victimization among transgender and gender nonconforming people: A systematic review. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 55(4), 576-583.
Amodeo, M., Griffin, M. L., Fassler, I. R., Clay, C. M., & Ellis, M. A. (2006). Childhood sexual abuse among black women and white women from two-parent families. Child Maltreatment, 11(3), 237-246.
Helton, J. J., Gochez-Kerr, T., & Gruber, E. (2017). Sexual abuse of children with learning disabilities. Child Maltreatment, 23(2), 157-165.
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Winning At All Costs – Is It Worth It?
by AJ Ortiz , MSSP | Researcher at CHILD USA | Dec 20, 2022
Elite athletes are at the peak of physical and mental fitness. But that doesn't mean they're safe from abuse. When you watch an elite sporting event like the Olympics or the College Softball World Series, it's easy to think that the athletes on the field seem almost invincible. They're strong,...


Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale installations. Her multi-media environments are a collaboration between the architectural site of her installation, sound, our experience in space, and the inventiveness of the viewer/interlocutor. Her work invites viewers to imagine the histories and stories inherent in a location. Storytelling is embedded in the objects and the spaces she uses, as well as a result of the cumulative effect of her installations. Using time as process and material, her methods of making serve as an invocation of place, of collective voice, of communities past and of labor present. Often using sound, found objects, and the spoken and written word, as well as photography and video, her objects and environments invite the audience to embark on sensory and metaphorical explorations of time, language and memory.
She has described her work process as a "conversation." She begins with a particular site, and engages in animated discussion with its' constituent communities, all the while researching its socioeconomic, historical, cultural and commercial contexts. Language is often key to her choice of elements in her installations and to her overall process.
Hamilton is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Her major commissions include projects for The Guggenheim Museum, New York, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, and La Maison Rouge Foundation de Antoine Galbert, Paris, France.
Ann Hamilton will speak about her artistic process and the stories that her artwork tells. Hamilton is visiting Goucher as a part of the Center for Art & Media 2017 Unobskey Visiting Artist Series.
Thursdays-Sundays March 30th to April 30th. In this newly devised immersive theater experience by Submersive Productions, you are invited to the Grand Opening of H.T. Darling's new exhibit of artifacts from the planet New Galapagos. By interacting with the curious inhabitants of the museum, the building, and the exhibition itself, each audience member must choose their own path through the evening's strange events.
Making the most of your experience will require you to ascend and descend at least two staircases (and more if you choose). Some amount of standing and light walking will also be necessary. Seating and gentle guidance will be available throughout the space for those who may require it. We expect the experience to last about two hours from the posted start time. Beverages and snacks will be available (donations appreciated). Restrooms will be accessible throughout the experience. Coat racks and safe storage for bags will also be available.
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts announces the return of Light City, the nation's first large-scale light, music and innovation festival to Baltimore's Inner Harbor Friday, March 31 through Saturday, April 8, 2017. For nine consecutive nights, the free public festival will redefine what is possible in the public realm by transforming Baltimore into an interactive playground of light art installations, activities for the whole family, concerts and performances. The festival is openfrom 7-11pm on weeknights and until midnight on the weekends.
Building on the success of the inaugural festival that brought more than 400,000 visitors and $33.8 million in economic impact to Baltimore, Light City 2017 promises to be even bigger, bolder and brighter with brand new installations and experiences. Central to Light City is the BGE Light Art Walk, a 1.5-mile trail along Baltimore's Inner Harbor featuring illuminated artworks, performances, music, locally sourced food concepts, a children's area and maker tents. Of the 23 light installations on display, 21 are brand new to Light City with ten brand new commissions making their debut at Light City. Two "crowd favorites" from last year are returning for 2017: The Peacock by Tim Scofield and Kyle Miller and The Pool [Reflect] by Jen Lewin. With a distinguished roster of local, national and international artists, seven countries will be represented at Light City including the UK, France, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Lebanon and Israel.
The new works created for Laura Amussen's solo exhibition; Nourish, currently on view in the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College, address issues relating to personal wellness and fulfillment. Life's challenges can be overwhelming. We live in an ever increasingly stressful and hectic world; one which demands our constant effort and attention. Thus, it's important – and difficult – to take time to replenish our mental, physical, and emotional reservoirs.
Nature offers humanity reprieve and provides metaphorical narratives. A moss blanket comforting a broken soul. A nest bursting from and engulfing a bird cage. A large-scale, site-specific, wall mounted mandala comprised of a thousand golden lotus seedpods, begs the viewers to find stillness in contemplation. A wall of multicolored baskets, symbolize our need to constantly hold and care for ourselves, especially when difficult life experiences arise. And two smaller mandalas; one made of seeds, the other of Bodhi (ficus religiousa) leaf skeletons, speak of ritual and meditation.
Transformed into visual expressions, materials become metaphor for these psychological associations. Each work relies on repetition and expansion of a fundamental unit to explore the relationship of the physical to the psychological. In all the works, less is more. Spare forms, and conceptual innuendo swiftly carry each work into the bio-philosophic, investigating the connections between the inside and outside of the body and mind and our relationship to the natural world.
Brunch Poems: Sunday, April 2nd, 12-1pm with readings by Malcolm Lomax, Kennon Brice, Janea Kelly, & Stephen Zerance.
Opening Friday, March 31st, Wickerham & Lomax and Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc. will launch DUOX4Odell's You'll Know If You Belong, an ode to the legacy of Odell's; the legendary nightclub that stands today as an aberration of its former self, no longer in use and still maintaining its peculiar facade on North Avenue. Through an installation spanning multiple projections, personal testimonies, and free standing sculpture, Wickerham & Lomax investigates the rich history of the club's years of occupancy from 1976-1992, in an attempt at preserving and illuminating its cultural memory in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District and contemporary Baltimore Club Culture. This project is part of Neighborhood Lights, Light City's immersive community artist-in-residence program and will occupy the former Everyman Theater (1723 N. Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201) starting with an opening reception on Friday, March 31st (7-10PM) with a live performance by 3lon. This project will run from April 1st-8th with open hours from 12-6PM.
The title of the project borrows the club's popular slogan, "You'll know if you belong," and alludes to the codified aspects and unspoken suggestive qualities of collective experiences and an implied sense of kinship. While striving to establish congruence between the creation of fiction and historic collective realities, Wickerham & Lomax perform the contemporary essence of Odell's, inviting visitors to participate in its life and continued legacy.
By connecting to those who formed the Odell's community and clientele, the duo expanded in its mythology by recording and recreating nuanced, personal accounts of the space. DUOX4Odell's highlights moments of collective joy created by Odell's and the creative, expansive group who thrived in the space, while questioning how the legacy of these individuals and the cultural institutions they built are being honored and preserved today. This project, while discovering slippage in fact and fiction, is a positive interruption to the changes happening throughout Baltimore, and acts as a reminder of the strength and beauty that predates what is now known as the Station North Arts & Entertainment District.
About Wickerham & Lomax: Wickerham & Lomax is the collaborative name of Baltimore-based artists Daniel Wickerham (b. Columbus, Ohio, 1986) and Malcolm Lomax (b. Abbeville, South Carolina, 1986). Formerly known as DUOX, the artists have been working together since 2009 across diverse media, curatorial platforms, and institutional contexts, creating a body of work at once context-specific and broadly engaged with networked virtualities. The practice's aim is to take marginal – peoples, phenomenon, and pursuits and prioritize them in the realm of art.
About Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc.: Station North employs an arts-based revitalization and placemaking strategy by managing quality public art projects, providing thought-provoking programming, and forging strong supportive relationships with local artists, designers, residents, businesses, and institutions to guide development in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District.
About Neighborhood Lights: presented by T. Rowe Price and produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Neighborhood Lights is an immersive community artist-in-residence program that spreads the magic of Light City beyond Baltimore's Inner Harbor into neighborhoods throughout the city. By pairing artists with communities and providing them with full project funding up to neighborhoods across the city will light up with artwork created with, for and by Baltimore City residents.
Common Senses features collaborative artwork and immersive installations that trigger multi-sensory experiences in order to ignite new forms of perception. These parallel, audience-driven exhibitions offer macro and micro experiences through a focus on interactive participation and accessibility.
Reception: April 2, 2017 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
The Gun Show is a traveling solo exhibition of one hundred mock assault rifles forged out of everyday household and industrial items made by David Hess in order to create a platform for cross-communication and dialogue. This thesis exhibition opened in the fall of 2016 at Art in Odd Places in New York, NY and is currently on view at the Metal Museum in Memphis, Tn. Find more information at www.hessgunshow.com.
April 7 – 8, 2017 , 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m .
April 10, 2017, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
April 10, 2017, 4:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
You Are Here is a socially engaged public art project that maps the multicultural story of the historically overlooked African American neighborhoods of central East Baltimore, while proposing the eastward expansion of the Baltimore City Heritage Area map.
Check out this interview with Illustration Practice, MFA student, Tiffany Lin.
You can also see Tiffany's thesis work on display as part of MICA's Grad Show II – MFA Illustration Practice from March 27th – April 9th at the Riggs & Leidy Gallery in the Lazarus Graduate Center, 131 West North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201. Opening reception March 31st, 5-7pm.
On Saturday, April 1st 2017, a special interactive art exhibition will pop-up at the historic Northeast Market. The Day at the Market program and Community Artist, Ben Hamburger, present: Facing Change, a socially engaged art project that brings together different perspectives on the contentious issue of community development in East Baltimore. Portraits on salvaged formstone debris paired with audio narratives honor people and their stories about the area's past, present and future. Participatory elements of the exhibition provoke viewers to think critically about their sense of place, home and the meaning of fair development. This project aims to confront the difficult realities of rapid urban development and raise awareness about a range of impacts on diverse stakeholders.
There will be subsequent showings of the work at the Northeast Market on Wednesday, April 5th 2017 and in Maryland Institute College of Art Grad Show III in Decker Gallery, 1303 W. Mount Royal Avenue, opening Friday, April 21st, 5pm – 8pm.
This project is made possible by generous funding from Alternate ROOTS, an arts and activism organization in the American South, and the Maryland Institute College of Art's Office of Community Engagement.
Featuring drawings and prints by Miguel A. Aragon, David Avery, Jessica Burke, Lauren Caldarola, Rita Elsner, Carol Foerster, Gill Alexander, Joshua Hatfield, Sanzi Kermes, Dimitrina Kutriansky, Danielle Johns, Martyna Matusiak, Guy Moshayov, Bruce Muirhead, Robert Pierosh, John Sproul, Denise Stewart-Snabria, Caroline Thorington, Vessekina Traptcheva, Ralph Steeds, and Brian Webb.
C. Grimaldis Projects is pleased to present undercurrent, a solo exhibition by Hidenori Ishii. Extending from the artist's focus on the aftermath of Fukushima Daiichi, the exhibition posits a series of meditations on what utopia might be possible after nuclear collapse and how beauty might persist as landscape turns mutant.
Four paintings entitled Ekki Múkk (Icelandic for "quiet here") are fragments of a burnished floral motif based on the traditional woodwork adornment of a late 17th century Dutch cabinet attributed to Jan van Mekeren. Ishii's own painting practice is influenced heavily by 17th century Dutch still lives and their concern with freshness and decay. Rendered with synthetic materials, these flowers appear to be distressed, oxidized copper, as if their metal has been exposed to harsh elements for years.
Copper also forms the support system for Ishii's Follow the Map series; breast-shaped cast resin works in neon vitrines which could be lab samples to be tested or artificial body parts for sale. These small, gene-like works might be scattered like seeds, germinating hybrids between biological and artificial, natural and technological.
In new paintings from the artist's Nostalgia series, abstracted foliage grows around toxic chain-linked fencing. The reflective pool in Nostalgia VII and BLK Nostalgia VII intimates the exhibition's title, suggesting a flow of hazardous material which might nourish or poison its surroundings. Ishii describes these paintings as a response to Monet's water lilies: examinations of how space shimmers between surface and reflection, between visible and invisible.
The works in this exhibition feature the artist's signature use of synthetic resin Kuricoat C-720, a neon-green substance sprayed at Fukushima Daiichi after the reactor meltdown in an effort to resist the airborne spread of radiation. At disaster sites, invisible radioactive material weaves itself into the contaminated environment, redefining space and one's relationship to the body. Ishii's utopias respond to such an undercurrent, hypothesizing the entangled trajectories of objects and their fates; the fate of a vein, an organ, a machine or of a flower.
Hidenori Ishii (b. 1978 Yonezawa, Japan) is a graduate of the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Joan Mitchell MFA Fellowship Nominee. His work has been included in group shows in New York, Dallas and Baltimore, as well as a recent solo exhibition at Erin Cluley Gallery in 2015. undercurrent is the artist's third solo project at C. Grimaldis Gallery. He currently lives and works in New York.
Make plans now to come to this highly anticipated showcase of limited editions, drawings, multi-part portfolios, and photographs by established and emerging artists from approximately 20 vendors from around the U.S. New collectors and curious art enthusiasts are always welcome. Take advantage of the Fair's intimate and inviting setting to talk to printers and gallerists to learn more about the art, artists, and printmaking techniques.
The Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair is presented every two years by the BMA's Print, Drawing & Photograph Society (PDPS). For more information about PDPS events, call 443-573-1789. Proceeds from the Print Fair support contemporary acquisitions for the BMA's collection of works on paper.
Open Space is pleased to present the Eighth Annual Publications and Multiples Fair!
The Publications and Multiples Fair is an annual exposition of contemporary artist books, prints, publications, sculptures, jewelry, textiles, and works produced in multiple.
This event has grown tremendously, from having 15 vendors in its first year to having 150 in its seventh year. Taking up one weekend in the spring, PMF acts as a beacon for artists across the country. People traveling from both coasts come together to sell the wares they have produced throughout the year and stay for the connections made with makers they may have never met before. In more recent years we have curated additional on-site programming throughout the weekend that includes panel discussions on contemporary identity issues, poetry readings, musical performances, motivational speeches, and artist talks.
Doors open 12:30pm, FREE program begins at 1pm – SHARP!
Inspired by the humbling projections that predict earth's global population to increase by nearly 2 billion over just the next three decades (that's a whole lotta new hungry mouths to feed!) and in further compliment to AVAM's latest thematic exhibition, Yummm! The History, Fantasy, and Future of FOOD, the 2017 Logan Visionary Conference will feature plain-speaking experts passionate on agricultural sustainability and sanctity, solutions for the enhanced future production and delivery of food, and offering great take home information for better nutrition, fitness and well-being.
Speakers at the Logan Visionary Conference include keynote speaker Seth Goldman, the Co-founder & TeaEO Emeritus of Honest Tea and Executive Chairman of Beyond Meat. Also speaking, University of Delaware Tilghman Professor of English, Journalism, and Environmental Humanities, and writer of Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet, McKay Jenkins. Food futurist, senior health system advisor and co-founder of Food Systems 6, Kenneth L. Kaplan, will share his research and vision for the future of food. Our culture of disposable food packaging will be brought to task by the husband and wife, art-making team, Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang. Featured in the award-winning documentary, One Plastic Beach, the Lang's curated collection of plastic debris found near their home in California offers a rainbow hued response to a dire ecological crisis. Clinical herbalist, nutritionist, and co-owner of Apotheosis Herb Farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Deborah Mizeur sends out the call return to nature. The world's oldest competitive female bodybuilder and professional trainer, Ernestine Shepherd, will offer seasoned pro-tips on staying forever young. Finally Judy Wicks, founder of White Dog Cafe and the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, will be on hand to guide listeners in building a more compassionate, environmentally sustainable, and locally based economy.
Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Barry Blitt will present a slide talk on his work at 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 3, at Mattin 101, Jones Building, N. Charles & E. 33rd Streets.
Blitt's presentation, "In One Eye and Out the Other," starts at 5:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the F. Ross Jones Building, Mattin Center, on the Homewood campus at 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Admission is free and open to the public.
Since 1992, Blitt has done illustrations and drawn over 80 covers for The New Yorker magazine, including "Deluged," which was voted Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2006, and "The Politics of Fear," a finalist for the same award in 2009. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic. From 2003-2011, he illustrated Frank Rich's weekly column in the New York Times.
Blitt has been honored with exhibitions and awards from the Society of Illustrators, Print, and American Illustration, and is a member of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. He has also illustrated numerous children's books, notably Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds) and George Washington's Birthday: A Mostly True Tall Tale. He lives and works in Roxbury, CT.
Barry Blitt's appearance is co-sponsored by the Center for Visual Arts and Homewood Arts Programs. Visitor parking on campus is available in the South Garage, 3101 Wyman Park Drive.


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The Friends of Anahuac Refuge is happy to announce the 2017 WINTER Photo Contest!!!
Take pictures at the refuge between November 5, 2017 and January 27, 2018 and submit your best photos to the Friends of Anahuac Refuge 2017 Winter Photo Contest. A "Photo of the Week" will be chosen each week, and that image will be featured on the Friends of Anahuac Refuge webpage and Facebook page. At the conclusion of the winter contest, the best three images will be chosen from the 12 "Photo of the Week" winners. From those, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners for the summer contest will be chosen.
The photos may be of wildlife, plants, macro, landscape or any activity on the refuge. Each person can submit up to 3 images per week during the contest. For more information about the contest including how to submit photographs and to see the contest rules below.
The official rules of The Friends of Anahuac Refuge Winter Photo Contest.
The Winter Photo Contest is open to all professional and amateur photographers. Refuge Employees, their families and members of the Friends of Anahuac Refuge Board and their families are ineligible. By submitting an entry to the Photo Contest, entrants certify that their participation in this Photo Contest is not illegal or in violation of any law, regulation, treaty or administrative act, and that the laws of their governing jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry do not prohibit or restrict the receipt of any Prize under this Photo Contest.
The Winter Photo Contest will run for 12 weeks, and begins at 12:00am Central Daylight Savings Time on November 5, 2017 and ends at 11:59pm Central Time on January 27, 2018. Entries submitted before or after the Entry Period will not be eligible. The time shown on the email submission per Yahoo's email server will determine the official time the image(s) were submitted to the Photo Contest.
ALL PHOTOS MUST BE TAKEN DURING THE CONTEST (November 5, 2017-January 27, 2018), however they do not have been to be taken during the week in which they are submitted.
The Friends of Anahuac Refuge is committed to a future for people and nature. For our 2017 Winter Photo Contest, we'd like to see your best photograph taken at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. Everyone sees nature differently and we want you to show us your view!
Each week, a winner from that week (Images submitted Sunday-12:00AM through Saturday- 11:59PM) will be chosen as the Photo of the Week. That photo will be displayed on the Friends of Anahuac Refuge's Facebook page and website. The Winter Photo Contest's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be chosen from the winning Photo of the Week photos.
All images must be submitted though our photo submission e-mail address, foarphotos@yahoo.com including all required fields, including name, email and other information about your photo submission. You may enter 3 images per week starting each Sunday through Saturday during the contest. Sponsor reserves the right to reject any additional entries or entries that do not comply with these Official Rules. By entering, you indicate your unconditional agreement to, and acceptance of, these Official Rules and Sponsor's decisions, which are final and binding. You cannot win a prize unless you comply with all requirements in these Official Rules. Entrants may be asked to supplement their submission (such as with a paragraph about their photo or the highest resolution version of their photo).
Photos will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact, artistic merit and subject matter relevance to promote Anahuac NWR. Photos of the week and the final 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will be decided by board members of the Friends of Anahuac Refuge. FOAR will notify the winner via the contact information provided at the time of entry.
The Friends of Anahuac Refuge will endeavor to credit all photographs with the name person who took the photograph.


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Kien Nguyen (; born in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, 1967) is an author who was born to a Vietnamese mother, a banker from a once wealthy family, and an American civil engineer. His mother's family, who had lost their wealth when the Americans left Vietnam, lived among neighbors who treated them as pariahs because of their background connected to the Americans, which the communist government had seen as evil capitalists. Nguyen, a child of mixed race, was especially ostracized from the community. He left Vietnam in 1985 through the United Nations "Orderly Departure Program." After spending time at a refugee camp in the Philippines, he arrived in the United States and became a dentist. He practiced dentistry in New York, NY; New York University College of Dentistry, New York, clinical instructor in general dentistry and management science. He lives in California.

Awards
 Grinzane Cavour Prize, 1998.

Published works
The Unwanted, a Memoir of Childhood, Little Brown & Co (2001)  - The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood A childhood memoir, written in first person, with the reader seeing the boy grow, in South Vietnam, until the book's ending at age 18, on his way to the U.S.
The Tapestries, Little Brown & Co. (2002)  The Tapestries
Le Colonial, Little Brown & Co. (2004)  Le Colonial

References

External links
 Author's Official Website. Currently under construction. (8/13/2010)

Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
1967 births
Living people
American writers of Vietnamese descent
American male writers
People from Nha Trang


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package com.android.tools.idea.run;

import com.android.ddmlib.AdbCommandRejectedException;
import com.android.ddmlib.IDevice;
import com.android.ddmlib.ShellCommandUnresponsiveException;
import com.android.ddmlib.TimeoutException;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.io.FileUtil;
import junit.framework.TestCase;
import org.easymock.EasyMock;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

@SuppressWarnings("StaticMethodReferencedViaSubclass")
public class InstalledApksTest extends TestCase {
  private InstalledApks myService;
  private IDevice myDevice1;
  private IDevice myDevice2;
  private File myFile;
  private String myPkgName;
  private String myDumpSysOutput;

  @Override
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    super.setUp();

    myDevice1 = EasyMock.createMock(IDevice.class);
    EasyMock.expect(myDevice1.getSerialNumber()).andReturn("device-1").anyTimes();

    myDevice2 = EasyMock.createMock(IDevice.class);
    EasyMock.expect(myDevice2.getSerialNumber()).andReturn("device-2").anyTimes();

    myFile = FileUtil.createTempFile("test", ".apk");
    myPkgName = "com.foo.bar";

    myDevice1.pushFile(myFile.getAbsolutePath(), myPkgName);
    // Instead of testing how many times the sync service is called, we use the UploadResult value.
    EasyMock.expectLastCall().anyTimes();

    myDevice2.pushFile(myFile.getAbsolutePath(), myPkgName);
    // Instead of testing how many times the sync service is called, we use the UploadResult value.
    EasyMock.expectLastCall().anyTimes();

    myDumpSysOutput = "Package [com.foo.bar]";
    myService = new InstalledApks() {
      @Override
      protected String executeShellCommand(@NotNull IDevice device, @NotNull String cmd, long timeout, @NotNull TimeUnit timeUnit)
        throws TimeoutException, AdbCommandRejectedException, ShellCommandUnresponsiveException, IOException, InterruptedException {
        return myDumpSysOutput;
      }
    };

    EasyMock.replay(myDevice1, myDevice2);
  }

  public void testCacheHit() throws Exception {
    assertFalse(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));
    myService.setInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName);
    assertTrue(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));
  }

  public void testUploadModifiedApk() throws Exception {
    assertFalse(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));
    myService.setInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName);
    assertTrue(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));

    FileUtil.writeToFile(myFile, "changed!");
    assertFalse(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));
  }

  public void testUploadApkAfterDisconnect() throws Exception {
    myService.setInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName);
    myService.setInstalled(myDevice2, myFile, myPkgName);

    myService.deviceDisconnected(myDevice2);
    assertTrue(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));
    assertFalse(myService.isInstalled(myDevice2, myFile, myPkgName));

    myService.setInstalled(myDevice2, myFile, myPkgName);
    myService.deviceDisconnected(myDevice1);

    assertFalse(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));
    assertTrue(myService.isInstalled(myDevice2, myFile, myPkgName));
  }

  public void testUninstallFromCommandLine() throws Exception {
    assertFalse(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));
    myService.setInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName);
    assertTrue(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));

    myDumpSysOutput = "";
    assertFalse(myService.isInstalled(myDevice1, myFile, myPkgName));
  }

  public void testDumpsysParser() {
    myDumpSysOutput = "Packages:\n" +
                    "  Package [com.foo.bar] (423123d0):\n" +
                    "    userId=10096 gids=[3003, 1028, 1015]\n" +
                    "    lastUpdateTime=2014-09-29 11:58:19\n" +
                    "    signatures=PackageSignatures{420cf360 [42139088]}\n";
    assertEquals("lastUpdateTime=2014-09-29 11:58:19", myService.getLastUpdateTime(myDevice1, "com.foo.bar"));
    assertNull(myService.getLastUpdateTime(myDevice1, "com.foo"));
    assertNull(myService.getLastUpdateTime(myDevice1, "xyz"));
  }
}