A Bachelor of General Studies offers students the quality of an IU degree along with the most flexibility of any academic program. Offered through the Indiana University School of Continuing Studies, this degree allows graduates to have nearly endless career choices—a must for today's changing workforce.
Whether your degree is an AA, an AS, or an AAS, most (if not all) of the college level courses in which you receive a C or better should count toward your IU East Bachelor of General Studies degree (64 credits, maximum). You will even be able to count up to 30 credits of technical courses in this degree.
For more information see the Bachelor of General Studies or contact the director of the General Studies program, Carrie Heller, at 765 973-8404 or hellerc@iue.edu.


February 14, 2018 Newsletter – How Do We Love You? Let's Count!
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We LOVE you! The casual encounters we enjoy each day at the store with customers, both adult and kid, have led to warm relationships through the years. The Learning Tree is our ultimate social networking center!
We LOVE our community! You are our friends and neighbors. We are proud and happy to donate to hundreds of local children's organizations, schools and community projects every year. We love helping our local kids and families!
We LOVE providing quality toys, games and books for kids, so they can grow up to be the best they can be! Play matters- it's a vital part of child development and supports the path to important physical, cognitive, social and emotional milestones.
We LOVE playing games and having fun! We're not kidding- in our monthly staff meetings we pull out new games and toys to play with and share all that delight us. Heck we even have staff game nights!
We LOVE our passionate staff! We like to call them "Toy Experts"! They inspire us and devote themselves to knowing our toys, knowing YOU, our customers, and they LOVE to play!
We LOVE our Learning Tree connections! Our toy makers, our reps and our fellow toy store owners are a group of caring, creative people who want to make a difference in the world one kid at a time. What a wonderful bunch to call our friends!
We LOVE to be challenged! Stumped for ideas? Have a child with a particular interest? It makes us feel good when you rely on us. Your special need becomes our project. We'll try our best to find the source for a new or interesting toy, game or book that might be just what you're looking for.
We LOVE getting compliments from YOU! Every time we hear someone say "I just love the Learning Tree" we feel warm all over! We pledge to do our best to be your neighborhood toy store.
We LOVE the idea that our local business helps to strengthen our local economy! Each dollar you spend at independent businesses returns 3 times more money to our local economy than one spent at a chain (almost 50 times more than buying from an online mega-retailer) — a benefit we all can bank on! Of course, our small business creates jobs right here in the toy shop but in addition we use local printers, sign makers, window cleaners, bankers and attorneys for our business needs- all local!
We LOVE the choice we bring to you! We bring our distinct character and unique stores to our community. We are in your neighborhood.and help shape the character of the places you shop, eat and spend your time. We love delighting you with a personal, interesting experience!
Happy Valentine's Day to all of you from all of us…love you…and love what we do for you!
Wednesday Feb. 14th, 10:30am, Park Place: Special Valentine Storytime – Miss Elisa will put her heart into Valentine stories, special treats, and hugs and kisses activities to make this an extra special Storytime! We'd love for you to join us!


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HBCU Radio Network
A channel created to provide a forum for expression in the African Diaspora.
List of HBCUs
FAMU Now!
Produced by: Florida A&M
Mo3pm - 3:30pm
We4pm - 4:30pm
Th10am - 10:30am
Fr9 am - 9:30 am
FAMU Now! is a 30-minute, weekly informational program that focuses on highlights and achievements of Florida A&M University students, alumni, faculty and administrators. It also features topical issues that impact historically black colleges and universities and its stakeholders. FAMU Now! airs weekly on Sirius XM Radio HBCU Channel 142.
Jacquell Lawson
Jacquell Lawson is a native of Tallahassee, Florida. Jacquell's higher level education was received from Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University (FAMU) where she was an honor graduate in the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication with a Bachelor's Degree in Broadcast Journalism. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
Jacquell worked with Florida A & M University Radio Station WANM-FM, 90.5 in several capacities including Gospel Music Director, Program Director and Disc Jockey. Faithful listeners tuned in every morning to hear their favorite DJ known as "The Apostle."
Belleaire Radio Show
Black Docs
Cool Jazz Countdown
Glasshouse Project
Global Mixx: The Workshop
HBCU Hip-Hop/R&B Music
HBCU Jazz Music
HBCU Nation
HBCU Neo-Soul
It's A Matter of Your Health
Jazz Reflections
Latinos On The Hill
Lessons In Jazz
Money Making Conversations
Outlook On Agriculture
Plumbline
President's Desk
Press Box To Press Row
Real Women, Real Talk
Sheryl Underwood Radio
Tennessee State Talk
The Leadership Zone
The Pastor's Study
Wildcat News Feed

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Among a group of friends you can capture all your expenses (e.g. when you are on a trip).
You can tell Splitty who paid a bill and who attended without paying.
Splitty will calculate for you who has to pay how much to whom.

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Smartwatches can be quite handy, but they do have a small screen, so you are not going to be able to navigate menus or enter information on your watch as easily as you can on your smartphone or tablet. What if you didn't have to even touch your smartwatch to interact with it? That's what Skin Buttons are all about. By integrating laser projectors into a smartwatch, you can project touch sensitive icons on your skin.
The developers behind this project promise high touch accuracy. Such a system could also save battery life since your smartwatch does not need to have its display on to work. A pretty innovative solution if you ask us.


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Shirley Winifred Jeffrey  (4 April 1930 – 4 January 2014) was an Australian marine biologist and naturalist, who researched biochemical separation techniques, specialising in micro-algal research; her discovery, isolation and purification of chlorophyll c allowed for the evaluation of oceanic microscopic plant biomass and photosynthesis. She was christened The Mother of chlorophyll c by one of her early mentors, Professor Andy Benson of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.

Biography
Jeffrey was born in Townsville, Queensland as the daughter of Tom Jeffrey and his wife, Dorothea (née Cherrington). During her younger years, she did not have a particular interest in science, preferring "playing with animals and dolls and helped my mother in the kitchen and loved cooking". While studying at Methodist Ladies College in Melbourne in the early 1940s, she was inspired by a "most memorable teacher", Connie Glass, who led her to be interested in studying the natural world.

Education
Dr Jeffrey completed her secondary schooling in Sydney at Wenona, and completed a Bachelor of Science degree in 1952 and a master's in 1954 at the University of Sydney. She completed a doctorate in biochemical pharmacology in 1958 at King's College, London.

Scientific career
Dr Jeffrey returned to Australia in 1961 after completing her PhD, to work at the Division of Fisheries and Oceanography at CSIRO; it was during this time she researched pigmentation in microalgae, in 1962 becoming the first person to successfully isolate and purify the accessory pigment chlorophyll c previously known, but incompletely characterised, in various algae.

In 1965, she was aboard the maiden voyage of the scientific expedition on the Alpha Helix, the research vessel of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, which was coming to Australia to study the ecology of the Great Barrier Reef. Her research led to a sabbatical at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1973; during this period she met Australian biologist and future husband Dr Andy Heron.

Between 1971 and 1977, Dr Jeffrey was a principal scientist at CSIRO's marine biochemistry unit, then a senior principal research scientist CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography (1977 to 1981) and then senior principal research scientist and then acting chief of CSIRO Division of Fisheries Research (1981–84). While at CSIRO she was in charge of developing the CSIRO's Collection of Living Microalgae (also known as the Algal Culture Collection). Her co-edited work Phytoplankton Pigments in Oceanography was published in 1996 by UNESCO.

Awards

Throughout her career, she received many awards, in recognition of her work, including the 1988 Inaugural Jubilee Award from the Australian Marine Science Association; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) (1991) and she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1993. In 1991 she was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales.

In 2000 Dr Jeffrey received the Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal from the United States National Academy of Science, the first person outside the United States to receive this Medal, and was later elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Science.
In 2003, she was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal, and in 2007 she received the Shinkishi Hatai Medal at the 21st Pacific Science Congress in Okinawa, Japan.

She was a member, Fellow and former Council member of Jane Franklin Hall, a college of the University of Tasmania and an office-bearer of the Royal Society of Tasmania.
In 2012, several of her colleagues recognised her achievements in "Tribute to Shirley Jeffrey: 50 years of research on chlorophyll c" published in Phycologia (Volume 51, 2: 123–125). Despite retiring in 1995, Dr Jeffrey continued to research and publish as an honorary research fellow with the CSIRO until her death in 2014, and was an accomplished violinist in the Hobart Chamber Orchestra.

References

External links
 Interviews With Australian Scientists profile

 Tribute to Shirley Jeffrey: 50 years of research on chlorophyll c - Phycologia
 Sydney Morning Herald Obituary
 Simon W. Wright, Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff, and R. Fauzi C. Mantoura, "Shirley W. Jeffrey", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)

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How do filmmakers create slow-motion and time-lapse videos?
Sports fans are familiar with slow-motion instant replays. Fans of nature shows have seen a flower bloom in a matter of seconds. But how, exactly, do people create videos that slow time down or speed it up?
In this lesson, students use unit rates to explore the frame rate of a camera and video player. They discover that filming at a high frame can be used to create a slow motion effect, while filming at a low frame rate can make motion look sped up. In the end, students have a clear idea of how these tricks work, and will be able to create stunning videos on their own!
Students should be able to fluently multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals. This lesson serves as a nice application of unit rates for students with little prior experience.
How hard is it to steal second base in baseball? Students use the Pythagorean Theorem and proportions to determine whether a runner will successfully beat the catcher's throw.
How do the rules of an election affect who wins? Students calculate (as a percent) how much of the electoral and popular vote different presidential candidates have received, and add with integers to explore elections under possible alternative voting systems.
Why do certain pairs of notes sound better than others? Students use ratios and fraction division to explore what makes two notes sound good or bad when played together.
Is Wheel of Fortune rigged? Students use percents and probabilities to compare theoretical versus experimental probabilities, and explore whether the show is legit, or whether there might be something shady going on!
How many calories does a body burn? Students interpret and apply the formula for resting metabolic rate (RMR) in order to learn about how calories consumed from food, calories burned from exercise, and calories burned automatically contribute to a body's weight.
How much of your life do you spend doing different activities? Students use proportional reasoning and unit rates to calculate how much of their total lifespan they can expect to spend sleeping, eating, and working...and discuss how they'd like to spend the time that's left over.
How fast is the Earth spinning? Students use unit rates to find the speed at which the planet rotates along the Equator, Tropic of Cancer, and Arctic Circle.
When you buy a concert ticket, where does your money go? Students use percents and proportional reasoning to describe how revenue from tickets is distributed among the various players in the concert game.
How do you determine the best scorer in basketball? Students compare LeBron James and Tyson Chandler in various ways, from total points, to points per game/minute, to a new measure called net points in order to decide.
What size ice cubes should you put in your drink? Students use surface area, volume, and rates to explore the relationship between the size of ice cubes and how good they are at doing their job: chilling.
How much should people pay for cable? Students interpret scatterplots and calculate the costs and revenues for consumers and providers under both the bundled and à la carte pricing schemes to determine which would be better for U.S. companies and customers.
How should we tip in a restaurant? Students use mental math, percents, and proportional reasoning to compare different approaches to tipping.
How much do different professionals earn in a year? Students use rates and ratio reasoning to compare how much a teacher, the President, and LeBron James earn...and to compare how much value the create.
How does the what we see affect our happiness? Students explore the concept of the jen ratio – the ratio of positive to negative observations in our daily lives – and use it to discuss how the content we consume and the things we observe influence our experience of the world.
Like the jacket, this lesson is for Members only.
Mathalicious lessons provide teachers with an opportunity to teach standards-based math through real-world topics that students care about.
In basketball, should you ever foul at the buzzer? Students use probabilities to determine when the defense should foul...and when they should not.


Father John Misty is the brainchild of singer songwriter Josh Tillman. Tillman has released three widely acclaimed albums Fear Fun (2012), I Love You, Honeybear (2015) and his most recent release, Pure Comedy, his Grammy nominated album (2017). Father John Misty has also recently contributed to songs by Beyoncé and Lady Gaga. As for his most recent album, Pure Comedy it is a complex, often sardonic, and, equally often, touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. The album has earned Father John Misty placement on over "50 Best of 2017" lists from Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Pitchfork and more. The reception to Pure Comedy also led to a series of incredible performances with Saturday Night Live, Austin City Limits, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Tonight Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers. He recently completed a wildly successful tour in support of the Pure Comedy, and will release its follow up in 2018.


St Petrocs were beneficiaries once again of the annual Sleep Out which the Eden Project run as part of the national End Youth Homelessness campaign. The campaign addresses the fact that 83,000 young people experience homelessness each year across the UK (Centrepoint 2017).
Funds raised at the Eden Sleep Out are in aid of St Petrocs and the Amber Foundation. 100 people gave up their bed for the night and braved the cold, sleeping on the ground in just a sleeping bag with a cardboard mat, raising over £9,000 for St Petrocs.
Prior to the event, residents from St Petrocs and Amber were invited to the Eden Project and had a tour of the local attraction. While there, students from Falmouth University made a film with the clients, where they shared their personal stories.


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By Alvin Weston
Coinbase and Ripple invest in Mexico's largest cryptocurrency exchange
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The American fintech company Ripple led the new investment round of the Mexican cryptocurrency exchange Bitso, one of the largest in the Spanish speaking world. It was also attended by Coinbase, Jump Capital, Digital Currency Group and Pantera Capital. Some of them, including Ripple, have worked with Bitso before.
The amount of attracted funding was not disclosed. The company intends to use the funds received for expansion in the Latin American region, in particular, in Argentina and Brazil.
Bitso was founded in 2014 and today has about 750,000 users. According to Ripple, the exchange played an important role in creating a payment corridor based on the RippleNet system between the United States and Mexico. Earlier this year, Ripple, in collaboration with MoneyGram, launched a "liquidity on demand" service for residents of the country, where Bitso played the role of a key partner.
Last week, Ripple announced a rebranding of its product line, which will now be touted as a single solution for money transfers.
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/**
 * (C) 2016 Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.
 *
 * All rights reserved.
 *
 */
package at.srfg.graphium.osmimport.reader.pbf;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.container.v0_6.BoundContainer;
import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.container.v0_6.EntityContainer;
import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.container.v0_6.EntityProcessor;
import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.container.v0_6.NodeContainer;
import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.container.v0_6.RelationContainer;
import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.container.v0_6.WayContainer;
import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.domain.v0_6.Way;
import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.domain.v0_6.WayNode;
import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.task.v0_6.Sink;
import org.openstreetmap.osmosis.core.task.v0_6.SinkSource;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import at.srfg.graphium.osmimport.helper.WayHelper;
import gnu.trove.map.hash.TLongObjectHashMap;

/**
 * @author mwimmer
 */
public class SegmentationNodesSink implements SinkSource, EntityProcessor {

	private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SegmentationNodesSink.class);

	private Sink sink = null;

	private TLongObjectHashMap<List<WayRef>> wayRefs = new TLongObjectHashMap<List<WayRef>>();

	private int wayCount = 0;
	private int nodeCount = 0;

	// TODO: consider barriers; discuss if we should treat them as segmentation points

	@Override
	public void initialize(Map<String, Object> arg0) {
	}

	public SegmentationNodesSink() {}

	public SegmentationNodesSink(TLongObjectHashMap<List<WayRef>> wayRefs) {
		super();
		this.wayRefs = wayRefs;
	}

	@Override
	public void complete() {
		int segmentationNodeCount = 0;
		int endNodeCount = 0;
		for (Object obj : wayRefs.values()) {
			List<WayRef> wayRefList = (List<WayRef>) obj;
			for (WayRef wayRef : wayRefList) {
				if (wayRef.getType() == (byte)1) {
					endNodeCount++;
					} else if (wayRef.getType() == (byte)2) {
					segmentationNodeCount++;
				}
			}
		}

		log.info("total way count: " + wayCount + " ways");
		log.info("total node count: " + wayRefs.size() + " nodes");
		log.info("segmentationNodeCount: " + segmentationNodeCount);
		log.info("endNodeCount: " + endNodeCount);

	}

	@Override
	public void release() {
	}

	@Override
	public void process(EntityContainer entityContainer) {
		entityContainer.process(this);

		if (sink != null) {
			sink.process(entityContainer);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void process(BoundContainer bound) {
	}

	@Override
	public void process(NodeContainer node) {
		if (nodeCount == 0) {
			log.info("processing nodes...");
		}
		nodeCount++;
		if (nodeCount > 0 && nodeCount % 10000000 == 0) {
			log.info(nodeCount + " nodes");
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void process(WayContainer wayContainer) {
		if (wayCount == 0) {
			log.info(nodeCount + " nodes processed");
			log.info("processing ways...");
		}
		Way way = wayContainer.getEntity();
		way = WayHelper.preprocessWay(way);

		long firstNodeId = -1;
		if (way != null) {
			for (WayNode node : way.getWayNodes()) {
				long nodeId = node.getNodeId();

				if (firstNodeId != nodeId) { // ignore duplicate nodeIds on same way (e.g. roundabout)

					byte type = 1;
					if (nodeId == way.getWayNodes().get(0).getNodeId() ||
						nodeId == way.getWayNodes().get(way.getWayNodes().size() - 1).getNodeId()) {
						type = 0;
					}
					List<WayRef> wayRefList = wayRefs.get(nodeId);
					byte oneway = WayHelper.checkOneway(WayHelper.createTagMap(way));
					WayRef wayRef = new WayRef(way.getId(), type, oneway, way.getWayNodes().get(0).getNodeId(),
												way.getWayNodes().get(way.getWayNodes().size() - 1).getNodeId());
					if (wayRefList == null) {
						wayRefList = new ArrayList<WayRef>();
						wayRefList.add(wayRef);
						wayRefs.put(nodeId, wayRefList);
					} else {
						wayRefList.add(wayRef);
						// this node is referenced by more than one way; so it is potentially a segmentation node;
						// => update type of referencing way (IDs)
						for (WayRef ref : wayRefList) {
							if (ref.getType() > 0) {
								ref.setType((byte)2); // 2 ... node is a segmentation node for this way
							}
						}
					}
				}
				if (firstNodeId == -1) {
					firstNodeId = nodeId;
				}

			}
		}

		wayCount++;
		if (wayCount > 0 && wayCount % 100000 == 0) {
			log.info(wayCount + " ways");
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void process(RelationContainer relation) {
	}

	public TLongObjectHashMap<List<WayRef>> getWayRefs() {
		return wayRefs;
	}

	public int getWayCount() {
		return wayCount;
	}

	@Override
	public void setSink(Sink sink) {
	}

}


The trophy is bigger than it looks in the picture. It is laser engraved on steel and it's fairly heavy. In addition to the logos of some of the match sponsors, it says "2nd. Senior" and NSSF Northwest Rimfire Championship"
Thursday morning I drove about four hours to Selah, Washington to my friend Larry's place, and we went out to the range in Moxee to do a little shooting. In particular, i wanted to put some rounds through my super radical custom Ruger 10-22 rifle to see if it still worked, and to sight it in a bit. The last time I had it out of the safe was almost exactly a year ago! Was I a bit rusty with it? That would be a very kind description! I got it sighted in, and also put some rounds down range with my High Standard Victor race gun.
After shooting a bit, Larry and I swung by Cabela's to pick up some ammo, and then we grabbed a truly outstanding burger at Miner's Diner in Union Gap. If you are ever anywhere close to Yakima, WA. and are looking for a good meal, go find Miner's! It's worth going out of your way, it's that good.
After dinner we grabbed some sleep, as we were heading out early Friday morning for the National Shooting Sports Foundation's Northwest Rimfire Challenge Championships being held in Parma, Idaho on Saturday and Sunday.
We got an early start Friday morning, and it took us about six hours to get to Parma. We checked it at the motel, then headed over to the range to have a look. The stages were set up, but no pre-match practicing was allowed, so we looked and tried to figure out the best way to shoot each stage. There were 14 stages, and 7 plates per stage, and some were VERY small to shoot in a hurry! We would be shooting each stage 5 times, and our slowest time would be discarded. The other for would be totaled, and that was your score for that stage. 7 of the stages were to be shot with a rimfire rifle, and 7 of the stages were to be shot with a rimfire pistol. That's a lot of shooting over two days!
On Saturday we put in a long and at times hot day, and completed 10 of the 14 stages. On Sunday we shot the remaining 4 stages. I knew I would be slow with the rifle since I never practice with it, so the plan was to try to be as accurate as I could, and not worry much about speed. With the pistol I figured I would try to push a bit harder for speed and try to make up a little for the slow rifle. Although there were a few bobbles, it went pretty much according to plan. By the end of the second day I was actually starting to feel comfortable with the rifle! I'm glad we didn't have to shoot any more stages on Sunday than four, as that was plenty, and I was getting tired.
You couldn't ask for a better bunch to shoot with!
After the shooting was over, we all gathered for the Trophy ceremony. Our squad did really well! Aimee was Top Lady, Ron won Open Overall, Larry won Senior Division, and I managed to end up right behind Larry in Senior division 2nd. place. Bill was 4th in Senior Division. Larry, Aimee, Bill, and Ron shoot their rimfire rifles almost every week in matches and/or practice, so finishing as well as I did was quite a surprise, considering I only shoot a rifle once a year!
After the match a bunch of us got some dinner, then got to bed early, as Monday was going to be a long day. Larry and I were back on the road before dawn Monday morning, and by late afternoon I finally reached home, totally exhausted! It was a fun weekend!!
South Whidbey Record on Mr. C.!
Free Ammo at The Gun Blogger Rendezvous?


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Q: URL to fill input fields There is a website that I use regularly that has quite a few log in fields. I'm trying to formulate a link to pre-populate most of them.
The fields in question are formatted like this:
<input id="frm:User" type="text" name="frm:User" autocomplete="off" style="width:80%" />

I've tried using "http://website?frm:User=User&frmGroup=Group" to no avail. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

A: There exists no standard way to fill in HTML inputs by passing values into the URL's query string. The URL including the query string parameters is sent to the server as a request, and the server generates the HTML as a response. It's completely up to the remote server how to interpret the incoming query parameters and how to generate the HTML.
What is the reason exactly you want the fields for this particular site to be auto filled? Maybe a password manager like lastpass could do the trick for you?

A: If you are using Google Chrome, this can be done pretty easily with Autofill extension. All you need to do is:

*

*Install Autofill extension.

*Open the website page that you want to auto fill input fields. Activate the Autofill extension.

*Fill the input fields manually and then save it to a profile.

*Click "Generate Autofill Rules". Next time, when you visit this page, the input fields will be filled automatically.

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Welcome to Champagne Lifestyle, I am Valerie and have been in the retail industry since 1985. This is my new retail venture, brimming with luxury homewares and other quality items.
We sell quality products from world class designers. Vera Wang, Bianca Lorenne, Flaxfield, Waterford Crystal, Royal Doulton and other world renowned designers.
Looking for unique items? We sell all kinds of products, something for every occasion, whether it is for a wedding, birthday or just for your own home, we have products for your lifestyle.
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When seeking the finer things in life, many look towards the internet to find the beautiful items that they seek. At Champagne Lifestyle, we are very proud to carry these items all in one place. Our stylish décor items are perfect for all of your decorating needs and many of the items that we stock are unique. When you choose to shop at Champagne Lifestyle, you will have access to high quality products from world class designers. Start shopping today and see the difference that the items at Champagne Lifestyle can bring to your home.


Thank you to all those players who participated in the Team Canada tryout process. The talent across the country was deep and we appreciate everyones patience while we made difficult decisions. That being said, we are excited and confident in our rosters. We know that those selected will represent Canada well at the 2018 World Inline Hockey Championships in Italy. To check out the final rosters, click on the Team Canada tab, then 2018 Rosters and then 2018 Final Rosters.


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4-time CMO Kirby Wadsworth on how to get ahead and get heard
In #BehindTheMarketing we ask marketers to share their stories. In our first episode, Kirby Wadsworth, CMO of Illusive Networks, discusses how to break through the noise with your marketing campaigns, and break through to the next level with your career.
What was the biggest a-ha moment of your career?
Clearly a CMO that has internalized the importance of customer feedback, Kirby answers our question with a story about a conversation with an existing client. In fact, Kirby had asked his own question:
How do we start conversations with you without driving you crazy?
It's notable that this client started his answer with what not to do as a marketing or sales team looking to earn his business. He firmly denounced classic enterprise sales and marketing investments: invitations to sporting events, steak dinners and wine tastings - and an endless stream of logo-printed plastic. Invitations and tchotkes would all destined for the garbage. Furthermore, salespeople should be warned not to step uninvited into the landmine that is a conversation about his family. The man in question is divorced, and his ex-wife has full custody of the kids.
In Kirby's telling of the story, the advice for marketing teams is clear,
Give me a new way to look at an old problem… change my perspective.
The powerful takeaway is that we as marketers should carefully examine programs that may have worked in the past, and have slowly lost potency, avoiding doing things that we've always done. Marketing teams should source expertise, original data, and resources that can truly be of value to customers and prospects. Only a fraction of customers will ever want to engage with a company's reps socially outside of what's required in their roles, but almost everyone appreciates information and insights that will truly make them better at their jobs. As we hear in this video, we should endeavor to develop marketing resources that will improve the daily lives, careers and companies of the people that we work with.
Kirby emphatically defines what "pay off" is not.
If it's all about money, power, control or a big office - or all that comes with that... I probably can't help you.
He continues, "I had all those things, and worked for a $9 or $10 billion company. I had a newly minted MBA. And I walked away from it all to be a founding member of a startup. With nothing. We had four guys in a basement with a white board and box of Oreo cookies and a bottle of Scotch. That's all we had. We didn't even have a dog. Usually, it's two guys and a dog. That was a long time ago."
That startup failed miserably, as did several others that I was involved in. That's the nature of the startups, and anybody who tells you that it's different is lying to you. But every once in awhile you get lucky, and maybe you'll make some money and maybe things will work out."
I left BigCo where I was fat, dumb and happy. Many people who stayed are still fat, dumb and happy and make a lot more money probably than I do and have retirements and pensions. I left because I walked into a conference room and there were 40 people in the conference room and every one of them employees for that company. It took over 30 minutes to go around the conference table for everybody to explain their name, their title, who they worked for, what they were doing in the meeting before we could get to the subject of the meeting. It was a one hour meeting, and I walked out of that session and went home, and I told my wife, "I can't do that. I don't want to spend my life doing that. Life's too short. I want to go create things and break things and make a mess. I don't know what's going to happen, and I don't know if we're going to starve or thrive. But I can't do that. I'd rather chop wood or fish than that.
It's been 30+ years.I've done eight startups now, and the payoff for me has been personal. Some financial, but it's been in the people that I've worked with, the people that we have helped and the companies that we've created, the jobs that we've started, the industries that we've shaken up, that's been the real payoff for me.
I have a lot of little things and some big ones.
The first thing I would say is learn to write. Write every day, write until you write in your sleep, write. Writing focuses your mind. It forces you to put thoughts together in coherent sentences. It helps you structure your thought patterns. And it gives you a way to express yourself beyond your thoughts. So learn to write and write every day about anything and everything that you are interested in.
The second thing is to build and nurture your network. Your network is probably the most important thing that you'll ever have. You need to rely on it for references, for job offers, partnerships, all kinds of things. So collect people, build it, pay it forward, help people. Helping people actually feels good. It's good for your soul, it's good for your network, and it's good for your career. Conversely, ask your network for things too. People like to help and a as long as you're not begging. Asking people for help and asking people for advice and asking people for favors is good. It actually builds on relationships, and it helps you build a tighter network. So help and and ask for help.
Three. Learn, learn, learn all the time. You also have to go to school. Learning on the fly is great and worked out forBill and a few other people, not getting degrees, but in marketing, having an MBA matters. And rail against it - but it matters. It matters in career selection and recruiter attention. If you want to get ahead in marketing and get to a leadership role in marketing, you pretty much have to have an MBA. Or you have to have an amazing thing happen to you when you're relatively young so everybody thinks you're brilliant. One or the other or both. There's no barrier to doing it. I'll just tell you my quick story. I had three children. I had a good job in a great company in Boston, and one day I looked at my wife and I said, I want to apply for executive accelerated MBA program in Chicago. It's going to mean I'm gonna be going every other weekend for two years and I'm going to be gone most of the summer for one whole year. And she looked at me and she said "So, about that fourth kid. I really want to have a girl." She's a pretty good negotiator. We ended up having a girl for the 4th and I ended up getting my degree just about the same time she was born.. So there's really no excuse. If I could do that, and she can do that, you can too. So get off your butt and get back to school and get your MBA. And if you already have an MBA, get back to school and learn some other skills that you're not an expert on. Learning is really important.
Conversely, teaching, mentoring and coaching are really important to because paying back, pays you. You'll learn more from the people that you helped, than you have given them. It forces you to learn. It also gives you a great feeling inside of confidence.
The last thing I'm going to say (I'm sorry if Steve if you and the folks don't like this) but it's true. Don't be an asshole. You know how to tell about assholes right there. There's one on every team. If you don't know who it is on your team, look in the mirror. Don't be that person.
It's always easier to talk about the campaigns that don't work than the ones that do. I'll tell you a quick story about both. We ran a big, expensive ABM campaign in the UK, hired an outside agency, and put together all these lists of senior executives that we wanted to meet with. We decided that this tennis event was going to be a big deal and everybody would want to go to the tennis event. (See to lesson number one that I told you: don't invite me to come to a ball game - anyway we did.) We sent people massive tennis balls with our logo on them. I guess they're used to get signatures. The idea was: come with us to this game and you're going to get to meet the players and get signatures, and it's all gonna be great. We spent $50,000 on this thing. People showed up, but absolutely nothing came out of it. There were no deals. Nothing. Very frustrating all the way around. So that's the kind of thing that didn't work.
Conversely, we recently ran a program that worked great. It was the silliest little thing I had ever seen, but it worked. It's cold and flu season, so we sent out boxes of Kleenex with our logo wrapped around them, disinfecting wipes and bottles of hand sanitizer that you could hang on your purse or your bag. All in a little little kit that said, "it's cold and flu season we're thinking of you. Protect yourself. And while you're at it, protect your systems and let us tell you how with Illusive Security." Silly little tie in. We had a handful of people who actually wrote us notes back and said, "Wow, this is really creative." "Thank you very much. I love it." "I always throw this stuff away. But, you know this one? I'm gonna keep on my desk because everybody needs Kleenex." So there are two examples: the big blown out one and a simple one. The lesson there is simpler is better.
Ah-ha, the self serving Vocal Video question. Editor's note: Guilty as charged. What do we see as the role of video going forward? So obviously what's happening is that everybody's attention span is shrinking down to that of tsetse flies. We have 17 seconds or something like that to pay attention to something before we either devote time to it or don't. So of course, video's important. We have all grown up with it. Nobody really reads anything anymore. Aside from my advice about writing all the time, nobody ever reads anything, so it's becoming pervasive into everything.
Video is critical for outreach. It's critical for sales enablement because if we all have tsetse fly's attention span - sales reps have baby tsetse fly attention spans. So you have to feed him in small chunks and make things really interesting.
We're doing a lot with it here at Illusive. The coolest thing that we're doing right now around video is taking our crunchy old powerpoint sales presentation and turning it into an immersive experience. We're in the network security business, so we're going to take customers into the network and show them around what it looks like from the attacker's perspective. We're gonna let them interact with the elements of the network, see the attackers off in the distance, moving around the network, and interacting with with the network elements. We let them see what happens when you install our product and how the network reacts to that, and how the attackers interact with this stuff. It's just the coolest approach to technology I've seen in a long time from a marketing perspective. We're pushing the limits of this gameified view.
I could just imagine not too long in the future we're gonna walk into a prospect's office and ask him to put on an Oculus so that we can give him our sales presentation. That's where I think we're headed with it.


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The Complete Etchings of Norman Lindsay
Lin Bloomfield, Norman Lindsay, Bloomfield, Lin, Lindsay, Norman, Print run of 2000 copies, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (lower tips lightly bumped, book is otherwise Fine, dustjacket spine ends and back cover rubbed), Odana / Josef Lebovic Galleries, Sydney, 1998, 1st, 12.2 inches, 9.9 inches, 480 pages, over 500 color and black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English
"Over a period of eighty years Australian artist Norman Alfred Williams Lindsay (1897-1969) produced a prodigious amount of work -- pencil drawings, pen and...
Sanjulian
Sanjulian: Master of Fantasy Art - Hardcover with Signed Bookplate
Sanjulian, Sanjulian, With an illustrated bookplate signed by the artist, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, Big Wow Art Books, Lafayette, CA, 2019, 1st, 12.2 inches, 9.25 inches, 312 pages, 330 color and black & white illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English
Out of print. Includes an illustrated bookplate signed by the artist. A new art book featuring 312 pages of the art of Manuel Perez Clemente, aka...
Alex Nino
Satan's Tears: The Art of Alex Nino - Signed & Numbered
Christopher Zavisa, Alex Nino, Zavisa, Christopher, Nino, Alex, #691 of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket (upper front corner bumped, other three corners lightly bumped, brown spotting to the top edge, binding and interior very soun, Land of Enchantment, Detroit, 1977, 1st, 13.5 inches, 10.5 inches, 302 pages, 30 color plates and over 250 black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English
Alex Nino is one of the most unique and distinctive artists to work in comics. This massive 1977 art book was the first book devoted to this Filipino comic...
Andrew Hem
Andrew Hem: Dreams Towards Reality
Amanda Erlanson, Andrew Hem, Erlanson, Amanda, Hem, Andrew, Edition of 1000 copies, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, Claremont, CA, Zero Plus, 2012, 1st, 9781937222086, 12 inches, 9.5 inches, 120 pages, 125 color illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English
Limited to only 1000 copies, this monograph is long sold out. From the publisher: Andrew Hem: Dreams Towards Reality is an exploration of the work...
Andrew Loomis
The Eye Of The Painter And The Elements Of Beauty
Andrew Loomis, VG+/VG- (spine ends slightly frayed, upper corners mildly bumped, lower corners rubbed with boards peeking, otherwise very sound, tight, bright pages, dustjacket quite worn), Loomis, Andrew, Viking, 1961, 1st, cloth spine
Loomis' final and scarcest title . Contents: Unity, Simplicity, Design, Proportion, Color, Rhythm, Form, Texture, Values, Beauty of Subject, Technique. Two...
Sencilla Fanta - Variant Cover (Signed)
Ashley Wood, Signed by the artist, VF, Wood, Ashley, IDW, 2004, 1st, color wraps
A mint copy, signed by Ashley, of the variant cover edition. "Drawings, scrawls, ideas, sketches, scribbles, and scratches by markers, ink, and paint."...
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
The Language Of The Body: Drawings By Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Fine/NF, Elderfield, John, Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul, Abrams, 1996, 1st, cloth
"This volume showcases the ravishing chalk studies of male and female nude models made after 1800 by famous French painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon." One of...
The Art of Pin-Up - Boxed Edition
Dian Hanson, Sarahjane Blum, Louis Meisel, Hanson, Sarahjane Blum, Louis Meisel, Dian, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in a Near Fine carrying box, Cologne, Taschen, 2014, 1st, 978-3836535700, 19.5 inches, 13.5 inches, 546 pages, color and black & white, Hardcover, pictorial boards
Out of print. This copy is new and unopened. Armstrong, Bolles, Elvgren, Frahm, Medcalf, Moran, Mozert, Petty, and Vargas. The Art of Pin-Up is one of...
Claire Wendling
Forget-Me-Not - Signed with an Original Drawing - K
Claire Wendling, Wendling, Claire, Signed by the artist with a drawing, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Stuart Ng Books, Torrance, 2016, 1st, 9.75 inches, 6.6 inches, 184 pages, color and black & white illustrations, hardcover, pictorial boards, English
Claire has added a full page drawing on the first blank page inside this book. Forget-Me-Not: a new art book by Claire Wendling. Forget-Me-Not is...
Forget-Me-Not - Signed with an Original Drawing - D
Cycle of the Werewolf Portfolio Set - Signed & Numbered
Berni Wrightson, Wrightson, Berni, One of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist, Very Fine in Very Fine box, Nakatomi, Austin, TX, 2016, 1st, 14.5 inches, 11.5 inches, color, English
This was Wrightson's final Signed & Numbered edition. In 1983, Stephen King wrote a novella especially for Wrightson to illustrate and Cycle of the...
Sergio Toppi
Tarot of the Origins - Tarot Card Deck
Sergio Toppi, Toppi, Sergio, Very Fine in Very Good+ box, Torino, Italy, Lo Scarabeo, 2000, 4.75 inches, 2.6 inches, color illustrations, softcover, wraps, English
A 78 card deck (in English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, and Dutch) and 14-page instruction booklet in English. 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana...
Mead Schaeffer
The Life and Art of Mead Schaeffer - Deluxe Edition
David Apatoff, Mead Schaeffer, Apatoff, David, Schaeffer, Mead, #31 of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in Very Fine slipcase in publisher's shrinkwrap, Illustrated Press, Decatur, IL, 2020, 1st, 12.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 224 pages, over 300 color and black & white illustrations, hardcover, pictorial boards, EnglishSpanish
This Deluxe Edition--limited to just 100 copies--sold out in less than 24 hours! It has a black slipcase embossed with the artist's autograph in...
Al Parker
How I Make A Picture by Al Parker - Famous Artists Advanced Program (Very Good+)
Al Parker, Parker, Al, Very Good+ in Very Good+ binder. The binder is moderately worn along the edges and seams, and has a mild bump to the top of the spine., Institute of Commercial Art, Westport, CT, 1949, 1st, 14 inches, 12 inches, 192 pages, 4 color and over 500 black & white illustrations, printed custom binder, English
A complete copy with wear from use as well as storage (some folds and creases, torn or stressed ringholes, age toning, rust stains, other mild staining,...
Opus, Vol. One - Signed Limited Edition
Barry Windsor-Smith, Windsor-Smith, Barry, Limited to 750 copies signed by the artist on an extra illustrated limitation page, Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket (moderate wear to the dustjacket), Fantagraphics, Seattle, 1999, 1st, 11.25 inches, 8.8 inches, 176 pages, 66 color and 60 black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English
The scarce signed limited edition of BWS' art book featuring a tipped-in vellum limitation page illustrated with a beautiful pen & ink drawing of a...
Godmachine
The Art of Godmachine - Signed Three Times including Kickstarter Exclusives
Godmachine, Godmachine, Signed by the artist, Very Good+ in Near Fine dustjacket (upper corners badly bumped, board peeking thru one corner, and the tips of the pages lightly bent at that corner, otherwise the book is Very Fine, new and seemingly unread), Flood Gallery, London, 2014, 1st, 13.5 inches, 11.5 inches, 240 pages, color and black & white illustrations, Hardcover, boards, English
This copy from the Kickstarter campaign is signed by the artist and includes these exclusive extras: Two signed A4 size (8.25 x 11.75) color prints...
The Art of Bob Peak
Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in publisher's box, Tom Peak, Bob Peak, Peak, Tom, Peak, Bob, 2012, 1st, 12.5 inches, 11 inches, 380 pages, over 600 color illustrations, Hardcover, boards, English
Now out of print , this comprehensive oversized coffee-table book on the art of Robert Peak. 380 pages with over 600 images and illustrations. The book...
Gary Baseman
Ppaper Special Edition: Gary Baseman - Signed with a Drawing
Gary Baseman, Baseman, Gary, Inscribed and dated 2007 by the artist with a drawing, Near Fine (light shelfwear), Taipei, 2005, 1st, 10.5 inches, 8.1 inches, 80 pages, color illustrations, Softcover, wraps
With a wonderful full-page, 8x10 drawing in Sharpie signed by the artist and dated 2007. A special edition of the Taiwanese design & lifestyle...
Dean Cornwell
The Art of Dean Cornwell - Signed & Numbered Special Edition
Dan Zimmer, Dean Cornwell, Zimmer, Dan, Cornwell, Dean, #85 to 100 numbered copies signed by the author and slipcased, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in Very Fine slipcase, Illustrated Press, St. Louis, 2016, 1st, 12.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 224 pages, over 260 color illustrations, hardcover, pictorial boards, English
This sought-after book has sold out two printings. This is a Mint still-in-the-shrinkwrap copy of the Special Edition. The book is signed and numbered by...
Berni Wrightson: A Look Back - First Printing
Christopher Zavisa, Berni Wrightson, Zavisa, Christopher, Wrightson, Berni, Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket (dustjacket edgerubbed with several tears), Detroit, MI, Land of Enchantment, 1979, 1st, 0960382801, 12.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 360 pages, 100 color and 300 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, leather, English
The original edition from 1979. A thorough retrospective of Wrightson's work through 1979 concluding with his illustration of Frankenstein. Chapters on:...
Antonio Lopez
Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex, and Disco
Mauricio Padilha, Roger Padilha, Antonio Lopez, Padilha, Roger Padilha, Mauricio, Lopez, Antonio, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, Rizzoli, New York, 2012, 1st, 12.3 inches, 9.9 inches, 304 pages, color and black & white illustrations, Hardcover, boards, English
Out of print. Antonio Lopez as Fashion Illustrator and Photographer: Fashion, Art, Sex, and Disco. From the publisher: The first complete...
Chesley Bonestell
The Art of Chesley Bonestell - Signed First
Ron Miller, Frederick C. Durant III, Chesley Bonestell, Miller, Frederick C. Durant III, Ron, Bonestell, Chesley, Signed by both authors Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III on the title page, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (dustjacket spine slightly sunned), London, Paper Tiger, 2001, 1st, 1855858843, 12 inches, 9.25 inches, 256 pages, over 300 color illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English
This is the ultimate book on Bonestell--especially when signed by both authors Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III on the title page! This was the...
Brush with Passion: The Art and Life of Dave Stevens
Dave Stevens, Stevens, Dave, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, Underwood, Nevada City, 2008, 1st, 12.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 288 pages, over 300 color illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English
A beautiful copy of this career retrospective. It is sold-out in all editions and long out-of-print. From the publisher: Brush with Passion charts...
Percy Crosby
Sport Drawings
Percy Crosby, This is out of series of a limited run of 1000 signed numbered copies, but this copy is neither signed nor numbered, Fine in a VG+ slipcase. A bright pristine copy of this book., Crosby, Percy, Percy Crosby, 1933, 1st, cloth with onlaid plate
Crosby's most elaborate self-published book is this collection. Six color plates and 43 monochrome plates of drawings in charcoal, watercolor, oil,...


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Success! Sran from Cambodia raised $216 to fund pterygium eye surgery.
$216 raised, $0 to go
Sran's treatment was fully funded on July 11, 2020.
Sran's story
Sran's update
Sran underwent pterygium eye surgery.
Sran has returned home after a successful operation. She was given eye drops and an ointment to reduce pain and prevent infection. Post-operative swelling has started to go down, and her vision has improved. Thanks to surgery, she will be able to work and go about daily life with improved vision and without discomfort and irritation.
"I am so happy that my eye surgery removed the pterygium from my eye. Now, I can feel much better than before and am more comfortable working and going anywhere outside on my own again," Sran said.
Sran has returned home after a successful operation. She was given eye drops and an ointment to reduce pain and prevent infection. Post-oper...
Sran is a 68-year-old rice farmer from Cambodia. In her free time, she enjoys listening to the monks pray on the radio.
Twenty years ago, Sran developed a pterygium in both eyes, causing her irritation, tearing, and blurry vision. Pterygiums are non-cancerous growths of the conjunctiva, a mucous layer that lubricates the eye. The growths occur when the conjunctiva is exposed to excessive sun damage and the cells grow abnormally over the pupil. She has difficulty seeing things clearly, recognizing faces, working, and going anywhere outside.
When Sran learned about our medical partner, Children's Surgical Centre, she traveled for four and a half hours seeking treatment. Sran needs a surgical procedure to remove the abnormal conjunctiva from the cornea surface and replace it with a conjunctival graft to prevent recurrence. The total cost of her procedure is $216. This covers medications, supplies, and inpatient care for two days. The procedure is scheduled for January 6th.
"I hope that I will be able to see more clearly and can take care of my grandchildren again and help feed the cows," she said.
Sran is a 68-year-old rice farmer from Cambodia. In her free time, she enjoys listening to the monks pray on the radio. Twenty years ago,...
Sran's case was submitted by Lindsay Bownik at Children's Surgical Centre in Cambodia.
Sran's Timeline
Sran was submitted by Lindsay Bownik, Stakeholder Relations Officer at Children's Surgical Centre, our medical partner in Cambodia.
Sran received treatment at Kien Khleang National Rehabilitation Centre. Medical partners often provide care to patients accepted by Watsi before those patients are fully funded, operating under the guarantee that the cost of care will be paid for by donors.
Sran's profile was published to start raising funds.
Sran's treatment was successful. Read the update.
Sran's treatment was fully funded.
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Funded by 3 donors
On average, it costs $216 for Sran's treatment
Impact on patient's life
Cultural or regional significance
What kinds of symptoms do patients experience before receiving treatment?
A pterygium, a non-cancerous growth of conjunctiva covering the cornea, causes tearing, redness, blurred vision, burning, itchiness, and discomfort.
What is the impact on patients' lives of living with these conditions?
When the growth affects the central visual axis, vision will be decreased. The abnormal growth also causes pain and discomfort. Patients usually complain of irritation, light sensitivity, foreign body sensation, and decreased vision.
What cultural or regional factors affect the treatment of these conditions?
Pterygium occurrence is much higher among people who live near the equator because of greater exposure to the sun. It is nicknamed "surfer's eye."
Risks and side-effects
What does the treatment process look like?
Surgeons scrape the dysplastic conjunctiva from the cornea surface, removing the affected conjunctiva. They place an autologous conjunctival graft to cover the defect and prevent recurrence.
What is the impact of this treatment on the patient's life?
Surgery cures the symptoms caused by pterygium. Patients experience improved vision and reduced pain and discomfort.
What potential side effects or risks come with this treatment?
Surgical excision of a pterygium is curative. The procedure is very low risk.
How accessible is treatment in the area? What is the typical journey like for a patient to receive care?
Most patients live with the eye irritation and decreased vision until it starts to affect their daily life. Then, they seek care.
What are the alternatives to this treatment?
Irritation can be temporarily treated with lubricating drops.
Oum is a 65-year-old potato framer from Cambodia. He has three daughters, five sons, many grandchildren. Seven of his children are married. Oum likes to watch the news and Kun Khmer boxing on the TV. Four years ago, Oum developed a cataract in his left eye, causing him blurred vision, photophobia, irritation, pain, and tearing. He has difficulty seeing things clearly, recognizing faces, and going outside independently. When Oum learned about our medical partner, Children's Surgical Centre, he traveled for six hours with his wife seeking treatment. On December 10th, doctors will perform a phacoemulsification cataract surgery and an intraocular lens implant in his left eye. After recovery, he will be able to see clearly. Now, he needs help to fund this $229 procedure. Oum said, "I just want to see clearly so I can easily go to the field to plant potatoes and take care of my wife and myself."
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Turyamusiima is a 16-year-old senior high student from Uganda. He is the second born in a family of three children and all his sisters are also still studying, the first one is in an institute while the last is in fourth grade. He enjoys playing football during his free time but now cannot endure the pain his condition causes him whenever he is playing. Both his parents are small-scale farmers who struggle to educate their children from the little money they earn from farming. Since seven years ago, Turyamusiima has had an inguinal hernia. If not treated, the hernia may result in intestinal tissue damage. Fortunately, on September 7th, he will undergo hernia repair surgery at our medical partner's care center. Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is requesting $230 to fund Turyamusiima's surgery. Once completed, this procedure will hopefully allow him to live more comfortably and confidently. Turyamusiima shared: "I hope to get well after my surgery because this condition has given me a hard time. I will continue with my studies and maybe even enjoy football as I used to before."
Born Doun is a 57-year-old farmer from Cambodia. She's married and has two daughters, two sons, and two grandchildren. She lives with her husband who is also a rice farmer and enjoys listening to the monks pray on the radio. Three years ago, Born Doun developed a cataract in her left eye, causing her blurred vision, tearing, irritation eye, a cloudy lens, and photophobia. She has difficulty seeing things clearly, recognizing faces, and going anywhere outside. When Born Doun learned about our medical partner, Children's Surgical Centre, she traveled for four and a half hours with her daughter seeking treatment. On October 12th, doctors will perform phacoemulsification and an intraocular lens implant in her left eye. After recovery, she will be able to see clearly. Now, she needs help to fund this $229 procedure. Born Doun said, "I hope after my surgery I can recognize everything clearly so I can take care of my grandchildren and join ceremonies at the pagoda."


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Yeah, we talked about elliptic curves
And how we can use them as a sort of drop-in replacement for the mathematics in things like diffie-hellman key exchange
and the digital signature algorithm and so on.
There's another interesting story that people are asking me to talk about which is the story of the
Dual EC-DRGB or the Dual Elliptic Curve
Deterministic Random Bit Generator, which is a pseudo-random
generator for generating random numbers.
Most of the time you do programming, you don't need something that's truly random, right.
If you're writing a computer game, and you need the AI to act in a kind of unpredictable way, a normal
general mathematical random number generator, but just move some bits around and produces numbers between a minimum and a maximum
Should be fine
For cryptography that is not the case for cryptography
What you need to not be able to do is predict anything to do with what it's going to output it needs to be as
Random as you can and of course the problem of computers is they aren't random?
They don't operate in a random way
So if I produce any mathematical function or any logic circuit that produces something that looks random the problem is it isn't actually
What a normal operating system will do is combine an
Actual source of randomness so for example the decay on over radioactive isotope or my mouse clicks which are kind of random
Or my typing which is sort of the pace of which is a bit odd?
It'll combine that actual randomness with something that produces a very long stream of random bits for use by
Applications on a machine like these. Oh these are called cryptographic random number generators. We're not talking about the actual randomness today
We're talking about the generators for generating these random bits
but they used all the time if you go onto if you perform a
Handshake on the Internet
you're going to be generating a random number used once you're going to be generating the private part of a
Different key exchange and so on so these need to be unpredictable if I can predict your private diffie-hellman key
Then I can just get straight in on your conversation
That's not a good thing the way
Normally a random number generator like this works is a bit like this so we have some kind of state
Which we'll call s and that's the current internals for our random number generator, and that is a secret now
This is seeded based on real random date so for example the keyboard taps or the hard disk
Latency and things like this on a computer now what we do
I ask this random number generator to generate some random bits for me, and it passes this state
Through a function G. Which is a one-way function like a hash function and this produces some seemingly random bits?
Which I can use in my application for something secure now if I ask it to produce G of s again
It's going to be the same thing the hash is always the same
So what happens is at this point?
We pass s through another function f of s
And it comes back down here to be s plus 1 and so the state gets updated. This is in general
What a random number generator will do so we seed the random number generator
With something actually random and we keep doing that whenever we can, but it doesn't happen all the time
And then we can update the state and we can generate
Random bits as required now usually these are different functions
But often hash functions of what we use the reason is because it has to be one way
What we absolutely want to make sure is that I can't work out as an attacker what this state is because if I can I?
Can predict the next random value you're going to be that could be your password, but you're generating on your password manager
So I've seen this output. This is something you sent in the clear. Let's say a random number or something I've seen it
Can I calculate what the state is well no because it to do that I have to reverse this one-way function this hash function
So I can't do it. I'm stuck here
That's the idea now in the early two-thousands the National Institute for Standards and technology's in the US
Published a list of four new random number generators the idea being that these would be adopted by
the kind of key players who are actually building these libraries like open SSL so most of these were kind of standard like like I'm
Showing you here one of them was based on elliptic curves and was a little bit unusual
And so it kind of piqued everyone's interest and though I say peak devil and suspicion at the time this was called the dual
Elliptic curve drbg which I was going to call Julie C from now on otherwise
I'm going to get very tongue-tied it works very much like this using elliptic curves
just to remind you when we talked about elliptic curves an elliptic curve looks a bit like this and it has a
formula of the type Y squared is XQ plus a X plus B
The idea is that this can be used to perform a one-way function like our hash if we have a point here
P on our curve. We can produce a multiple of P
Let's say here. Which is a P, and if I give you that you can't tell me? What a was right?
That would be solving the elliptic curve discrete log problem
very very difficult
That's all we really need to know about the mathematics for this particular one so we could replace these two one-way
Functions with these elliptic curve functions this point addition and kind of get the same kind of structure going and the and the nice thing
If it worked would be that this is kind of mathematically
Provable in some sense because we know how difficult this problem is we don't know for sure what the difficulty of this hash function is
Because no one's broken it yet right we all fought sha-1 with unbreakable and then what happen
So how does Julie C work all right? So we have our two random variables on our curve right P?
Thank you. It doesn't matter where they are for this example
They just points on the curve, so those each have an X and a y-coordinate
We have a state for a random number generator s. That is not a point on the curve
It's just a number so what we do we want to use s to generate some random bits
But then we also need to update the state and their state has to remain secret remember
So the first thing we do is we calculate s
P all right, so we're moving P around the curve s x right and that gives us our R is
Just the x coordinate of this so this is going to be a point on the curve
we take the x coordinate and that's our number now ah
It's sort of an intermediate variable we're going to use it to generate our random bits, so we
calculate our
Q and we take the x value so our Q X in some sense and we scrap the first 16 bits of that we take
the least significant bits of that from
16 to the end
I'm using sort of Python notation. Why not write what sort of size and in bits is that number? They're going to be approximately
256 bits because they're modulo upon bits 256 bits and this particular curve now this has been our random number
Right so so far so good. We've got some random bits out
We then use our we pass it through P again, so we say our P. Don't doesn't so why and that?
Produces our new s but by taking just VX again
So what we've got is the exact same framework that I showed you at the beginning
We've got a state. We update the state by moving
It around the elliptic curve a bit and taking just the x coordinate
But we also can output some bits in principle
Which is not a terrible idea for a random number generator
except for actually this is much slower than a normal hash based one by about a thousand times right which
For you know for someone who really cares about security
Maybe they would be able to accept that but in fact actually
there are some other bigger problems with this that mean that the thousand times is really the
Good part of the deal in SATs in some sense
Remember that the whole point of this is that if I get this in the clear?
I can't reverse to find this internal state the reason
I can't do that is because first of all I don't know what our Q was and even if I did I
Can't go backwards through this to find R. And then go this way right so we can't reverse that because that is a one-way function
Remember just because of the elliptic curve problem if I was an attacker how might I attack this well the first thing is to notice
Is for 16 bits it's not actually very many
So I can brute-force through the possible our Q's quite quickly to to the 16 operations
65,000 operations even on a laptop not going to take very long so I go through and I find all the possible
X's for this random data
And only some of them are going to adhere properly
To that elliptic curve formula where we can find an actual Y that goes with them. All right?
So let's say we go from 65,000 to 10. We have 10 candidates
That's a real problem, so we found that our Q fat alone
Wouldn't actually be much of a problem
So then the question becomes can we reverse this discrete log problem and find our way into this state
Which would be a huge issue and the answer is?
If these two a random no we can't do that all right if P
And Q are truly random we have to brute force it we have to start with as one doesn't work ours, too
Doesn't work and how many how many of those are there?
256 bits worth which is
Yeah, it gets a bit more complicated that not all point to valid on the curve and so on but is a lot of them
Now what if there was a secret mathematical relationship between would that change anything?
What if he was actually equal to some multiple of hue like this now it will be very difficult to prove that
Because if we can't solve that problem we'd have to find that a by brute force ago
Or there is a relationship between the two brilliant
Right we don't know but the problem was that when this standard came out
It was implied that the NSA were the ones that generated these points
And they did not explain how they did it you remember the video on nothing up my sleeve numbers
Let's pick a number at random
I don't know 24, and then did some trick with it you think well that's great but clearly 24 wasn't random
There's something up the sleeve. We're not sure about it. If this is true. If there's a secret e
Which we can multiply by Q to get to P, then? Here's what happens? We have our Q because we've derived it from bith here
All right, we can calculate e
Our secret e times our cue, it's associative so it's actually our times EQ
EQ is P so we've got R
Of P which is this and we've calculated the internal state?
Right this should be impossible to go backwards from here to get to here. It's trivial if we know this secretly
Right which is kind of worrying? What's more interesting about this
It's not so much the mathematical backdoor, but could exist it's wherever it exists. No one knows and
What happened when this NIST standard was announced so when it was announced?
Cryptographers said well first of all this is not enough bits. You're cutting off here right. There's a slight bias in the output
We don't like it. It doesn't look random enough. That's a problem. It's a thousand times slower. That's a problem
All right, this didn't worry too much about this. They said it's fine. Why we're gonna put it in
then in
2007 dan sumo and Niels Ferguson from Microsoft did a short talk
Explaining that this backdoor could exist you know that should have killed this off straight away
But the problem was but it was an agreed standard in this it was starting to be implemented in some of these libraries
And that's deeply concerning. We don't know whether this exists
Hypothetically it could all right
But no one can find this e so how can we know but then the Snowden leaks came along?
And it looks even more suspicious money was changing hands between the NSA in companies to have them install this as their star
For a number generation. That's deeply suspicious and so
The strong opinion should he be consensus of the cryptographic community is that this is indeed a backdoor?
someone knows that a but it isn't me and
But we don't know for sure, but it's a really interesting issue because
There could be a backdoor
But they might not now of course when you're using this you can generate your own P&Q and
Then it's not it hasn't got a backdoor. Well if you put it in yourself
But the interesting thing was in my list standard they said you have to use this P, and Q if you don't we won't
Give you a fits accreditation for being extra secure which is also suspicious
So it's a really interesting read if you read the history of this
People were coming up with problems. They were publishing papers saying that's not right and
They were being ignored and the standard was put through anyway, which is you know very interesting?
if I was on stage I
Don't do magic right, but if I was on stage and I said to you let's pick a number at random
I don't know 24
And then did some trick with it you think well that's great but clearly
24 wasn't mathematics to do with lines and the tangent of this curve
It's actually not very complicated the point is of what we're doing is by multiplying G
By both numbers or adding it to itself this point addition. We're moving around this curve
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Blast from the past 3 Up the Creek and on the Hard
21° 7.36′ S, 149° 11.74′ E
Mackay's Boatyard
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Up the Creek and on the Hard…
Watching out for Red Eyes
By Lois Joy
Jimmy, Ann and I shined our flashlights along both sides of mangrove-lined Vine Creek while Gunter worked the giant spotlight. Captain Ken, whom we'd just gotten to know and respect, was steady at the helm, gingerly easing Pacific Bliss through the shifting sandbars. I glanced at the depth sounder. It showed less than four feet, but Ken's craggy face was unperturbed. The sky above and the creek below were dark as witches brew. It was a little after midnight in Queensland, Australia and here we were, searching for crocs.
"Just keep on watching for them red eyes," said John Bates, the owner of Mackay's Boatyard, where we would haul out our vessel. "The three of us know this creek, we'll keep 'er off the bars."
There were seven on board for this midnight excursion—each of us with a job to do. Pacific Bliss was in good hands, but even so, the adrenaline ran high.
I would not have wanted to do this by ourselves! The voyage up the shallow creek had been hair-raising enough, but when we arrived, John would have the most difficult task of all. He planned to jump into the croc-infested creek to fasten Pacific Bliss onto a truck trailer that would pull her up the ramp, out of the creek, and on to dry land—what sailors call 'the hard."
The dawn at Mackay Marina was gold and bright. It was a good omen for August 18th, the day we would prepare for haul-out. Right after breakfast, Jimmy and Gunter began to take down the main. (They had already taken off and stored the jib the previous day, after our arrival from the southernmost Whitsundays.) Within three hours, the men finished their task and were ready for a 'smoko,' the Queensland version of a coffee break. Knowing
that we would disconnect and defrost the freezer, Ann and I made a huge casserole with various and sundry meats and vegetables that could be quickly re-heated for our last evening meal dockside. Then Gunter and I attempted an Australian 'pensioner's nap,' knowing that we would be up most of the night. But our attempt at napping failed. We were simply too pumped. I completed the defrosting of both fridges and then purchased large blocks of ice to convert them into iceboxes for living on land. We finished our chores far too early. Now we had little to do but worry and wait.
There would be no sunset tonight. As the sky turned from a gray haze to thick black, each of us nurtured our own Dark & Stormy— a unique blend of Bundaberg rum and ginger beer. We dawdled over our last supper together. We still had 2 1/2 hours to go.
Gunter paced the salon, excited and irritable, like a new father-to-be. We attempted to quiet him down by suggested we all watch a DVD movie on the laptop computer.
"A movie?" the Captain sputtered. "There's no time. They'll be here in an hour or so to talk with us and get us all set up.
"I doubt it," I reasoned. "John Bates said 2300."
"2300? That's the time we leave," said Gunter.
"What DVDs do you have?" Jimmy interrupted calmly.
Gunter went down to the cabin and selected a black-and-white: Two Women by Sophia Loren. We passed the time by listening to the old movie, unfazed by the scratchy soundtrack. Gunter went out on the docks periodically to check for the guys, then returned to pace some more, periodically glancing at the little screen. As the movie reached its climax—Sophia in war-torn Italy hugs her raped daughter who has suddenly grown up to stay out all night with an Allied soldier who gives her nylons—the clock said 11 PM.
"2300," said Gunter. " Where are they? Perhaps they can't get through the gate." Our Cat proved far too small to hold Gunter's anxiety. He rushed out to check again and again.
But, of course, the pilots had keys to the marina, and we all knew that. They were familiar with the routine. By 2315, Gunter called them using Jimmy's cellular. "They are on their way," he exclaimed. "Let the adventure begin!"
John and his two helpers came on board and took charge. Ken was the assigned helmsman. He took the wheel, backed out from the dock, carefully motored around the breakwater in the pitch black, and then headed out to sea. Ken was approaching the two islands opposite the Pioneer River channel when I asked John, "Why don't you just go around the breakwater and head into the river channel?" I recalled the diagram on the back of the promotional coasters he hands out (see insert).
"It's still a little before midnight, high tide..still a little shallow there. Besides, I want to kill some time because high tide comes later further up the river." I hadn't thought of that. Of course, it would take awhile for the far reaches of Vine Creek, a tributary of the Pioneer River, to fill in.
I recalled our visit to Mackay's Boatyard when we arranged for the haul-out. We had told John we wanted to haul out sometime in August, preferably near the end of the month.
"You don't have much choice of dates," he had replied. "It all depends on the tide." He looked up the tide tables. "Looks like the highest tide in August is on the 19th. Unfortunately, high tide that day is a little after midnight. But you'll need all of the tide to get 'er up here."
"Perhaps it's a full moon, or close to it…" I faltered, my mind still grappling with the idea of going up a creek at night.
"No luck there…looks like new moon. It will be dark, but no worries. We've done it many times before."
He showed Gunter the rig he would use. I went down to the creek to take a look at the ramp where Pacific Bliss would be pulled out. Even during the daylight, it looked plenty dangerous to me. John's dog followed, then ran ahead to frolic in the creek. John and Gunter came up, having worked out the details of the haul-out.
"Your dog just went in that croc-infested creek," I said to John. "What if he gets attacked?"
"That's why I have more than one dog."
"And I understand that you will be jumping in to fasten the gear to the trailer when we pull out?"
"That's why I have my dog jump in first."
"These Aussies," I thought. "Straightforward and practical. No fear!"
John had seemed confident then, and again later, as we motored around Flat Island and Round Island, then headed slowly toward the Pioneer River. It was past midnight and the channel was barely filling up. My eyes were glued to the depth meter. It showed less than 8' beneath our hull. We had yet to enter the shallow river channel.
The time passed ever so slowly as we inched up Pioneer River, all eyes riveted on the water, shining opal under the spots. Ken maneuvered the Cat expertly around sandbars I could barely make out. And then we were making a wide turn into Vine Creek. I could almost touch the mangroves lining the shore. But I couldn't see the crocs I was sure were lurking there. Six feet, five feet, four…I took turns squinting for crocs and pacing back behind Captain Ken to stare at the depth sounder.
Finally Ken turned Pacific Bliss toward the haul-out ramp and gently eased her forward. Another worker backed the big rig down to meet us. The dogs leaped into the water. Next there was a loud splash. John had jumped in?clothes, boots, and all. He quickly fastened Pacific Bliss to the trailer, obviously sure of what he was doing and conditioned to do it in record time. Soon we were moving steadily up the ramp.
"What if the truck slipped on the loose gravel? Could those lines snap?" My eyes were blinded by the bright yard light. I wanted to see everything. As if that could make a difference! I was barely breathing.
Soon we were all cheering and the dogs were all barking, mimicking our joy. We did it! Pacific Bliss was on level land in the ship's yard. We could stay there, on the trailer, for the rest of the night.
John pointed out the bathrooms and showers. He explained that later in the week, a giant crane would come to the yard from Mackay City. Pacific Bliss would be put into a sling, lifted off the trailer and onto four stacks of wood topped with tractor tires. There she would remain strapped down 'on the hard' for the cyclone season. Getting her onto those blocks would be our next adventure
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Die Berner Kantorei ist ein Konzertchor in Bern, der Werke aus der Chormusik einstudiert und aufführt. Ihre Hauptaufgabe ist die musikalische Gestaltung der halbstündigen Samstagabend-Vespern im Berner Münster. Ausserdem singt sie in weiteren Gottesdiensten und veranstaltet jährlich mehrere Konzerte (Weihnachtskonzert, Passionsmusik, Abendmusik) mit grösseren Werken der Kirchenmusik aus allen Stilepochen in unterschiedlicher Besetzung. Einzelne Konzerte singt sie gemeinsam mit der Zürcher Kantorei zu Predigern sowohl im Berner Münster als auch in der Zürcher Predigerkirche.

Geschichte
Die Berner Kantorei entstand kurz vor 1960, als der Organist Kurt Wolfgang Senn im Berner Münster die Samstagabend-Vesper einführen wollte. Er hatte auf einer seiner Konzertreisen in Deutschland eine Samstagabend-Vesper gehört und sich vorgenommen, so etwas in Bern auch einzuführen.
Im Anfang wirkte ein Chor mit, der sich aus ehemaligen Teilnehmern in den Singwochen der Engadiner Kantorei zusammensetzte.  Ab 1961 wurde der Chor von Martin Flämig geleitet. 1962 gründeten die drei von Martin Flämig geleiteten Chöre in Bern, Basel und Zürich die Evangelische Singgemeinde (ESG). Mit dem Namen Berner Kantorei wurde der Chor Teil dieses Vereins.

1971 wurde Flämig als Kreuzkantor nach Dresden berufen. Als Nachfolger wurde 1972 Klaus Knall gewählt. Er war von 1981 bis 1996 auch Leiter des Instituts für Kirchenmusik in Zürich. Nach seinem Rücktritt 1997 wurde 1998 Johannes Günther gewählt, der seither die Berner Kantorei und die Zürcher Kantorei zu Predigern leitet. Seit 2003 gibt es am Berner Münster auch den Berner Münster Kinderchor, der ebenfalls von Johannes Günther geleitet wird.

Repertoire
Das Repertoire für die Vespern stammt aus allen Zeiten der Kirchenmusik, insbesondere von der Renaissance über die Barockzeit und die Romantik bis zur Kirchenmusik des 20. Jahrhunderts.

In den Konzerten singt die Berner Kantorei klassische Werke der Kirchenmusik, so von Johann Hermann Schein, Heinrich Schütz (Motetten, Psalmen Davids, Opus Ultimum), Claudio Monteverdi (Marienvesper), Dieterich Buxtehude (Psalmen Davids), Johann Sebastian Bach (Passionen, Messen, Kantaten), Georg Friedrich Händel (Messias, Israel in Egypt), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Requiem, Messe), Johannes Brahms (Motetten, Deutsches Requiem), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Anton Bruckner, Peter Cornelius, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger.

Die Berner Kantorei singt oft auch Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts von Ernst Pepping (Passionsbericht des Matthäus, Weihnachtsgeschichte des Lukas), Hugo Distler (Choralpassion, Weihnachtsgeschichte), Willy Burkhard (Jesaja, Der kleine Psalter, Die Sintflut, Das Jahr), Frank Martin (Messe, In Terra Pax, Golgotha), Arthur Honegger (La dance des morts), Luc Balmer (Messe), Hans Studer (Gott ist Mieter, Apostolische Motette), Walter Kraft (Christus), Ernst Pfiffner (Maranatha), Ronald Bisegger (Kohlet, Triptychon), u. a.

Sie ist bestrebt immer wieder auch zeitgenössische Musik aufzuführen, zum Teil auch als Kompositionsauftrag. Beispiele dazu stammen von R. Waldmeier (Pfingstkantate VENI), Iris Szeghy (Menschheit), Pierre Funck (Psalm 139), Kurt Widorsky (Türmische Träumereien), Elvira Garifzyanova (Suchet mein Angesicht), Ulrich Gasser (Transcredo), Christian Henking (Ich bin so müde vom Seufzen), Kurt Meier (Singet Gott, Magnificat) und Daniel Glaus.

Diskographie (Auswahl)
 Adolf Brunner: Markus-Passion. Regula Zimmerli, Dieter Agricola, Martin A. Bruns, Ulrich Studer; Berner Kantorei; Heiner Kühner (Orgel); Collegium musicum der Evangelischen Singgemeinde. Dir. Klaus Knall2. CDs. Musikszene Schweiz, Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund 1985/2001.
 Ernst Pepping: Die Weihnachtsgeschichte des Lukas. Für 4–7stimmigen Chor a cappella. Pan, 1981
 Musik aus dem Münster in Bern : Samstagabendfeier. Werke von Paul Müller-Zürich und Antonius Scandellus. Berner Kantorei, Berner Kammerchor; Kurt Wolfgang Senn (Orgel); Martin Flämig (Ltg.). Fono, Luzern 1964. (In Reihe Aus schweizerischen Klöstern, Kathedralen und Kirchen.)

Literatur
 25 Jahre Evangelische Singgemeinde. Festschrift zum 25. Jubiläum. Februar 1987
 Wer sind wir? In: Musik und Gottesdienst. Nr. 4, 1978, 32. Jahrgang.
 Anna Katharina d'Uscio-Hegg (Red.): 40 Jahre Evangelische Singgemeinde 1962–2002. Festschrift. August 2002.
 Daraus: Johannes Günther: Der Gegenwart (s)eine Stimme leihen – Die Evangelische Singgemeinde und die Neue Musik. In: Musik und Gottesdienst.  66. Jg., 2012. S. 127–138. (Digitalisat)
 Fragment-Mosaik, Festschrift 50 Jahre Evangelische Singgemeinde 1962–2012. Juni 2012.

Weblinks
 Berner Kantorei auf der Website der Evangelischen Singgemeinde

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Kirchenchor
Gemischter Chor
Musikgruppe (Bern)
Chor (Schweiz)
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Carol Bui
Everyone Wore White
AllMusic Review by Stewart Mason
It's a tempest in a teapot almost entirely forgotten now, but when Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville was first released, there was a fair amount of kerfluffle about the semi-naked woman in the Polaroid shots in the CD booklet, who turned out not to be Phair but a friend of hers. Similarly, singer/songwriter Carol Bui would like everyone to know that although there is a quite pretty drawing of a topless Asian-American woman on the cover of her second album, she wasn't the model. That's not the only point of comparison between Exile in Guyville (or PJ Harvey's Dry, or Rufus Wainwright's Poses, to name other examples) and Everyone Wore White: although it's entirely possible that Bui wrote these ten songs (plus an a cappella cover of a traditional Vietnamese folk song) in character voices other than her own -- that she's no more the woman in the songs than she is the woman on the cover -- there's an intimacy to her performances that suggests otherwise. There aren't just big themes on this album, there are Big Themes, from the many-layered symbolism of the album title (in opposition to its western connotations, white is a color of mourning in many Asian cultures, and then there's the whole "passing for white" concept as well) through to Bui's poetic, emotionally shaded lyrics. Musically, the album reminds listeners that Bui is based in Washington D.C., with all the post-rock angularity, sudden dynamic shifts, and full-on guitar noise assaults that implies. Although Bui's press kit names Hole as a key early influence, Mary Timony's similarly sweet-and-sour dissonance on the early Helium albums is a much closer musical fit to songs like the jittery, propulsive "The Year After." Combining the lyrical weightiness with the spiky post-rock vibes of the music makes Everyone Wore White the sort of album one takes in slowly, over the course of a few close listens, rather than absorbing all at once. Those willing to take the time will be amply rewarded.
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First the president unveiled his myRA concept in the State of the Union (along with a reference to an automatic IRA proposal previously included in the White House's annual budget), followed a day later by introduction of the Retirement Security Act of 2014, a bipartisan proposal by Sens. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Susan Collins (R-ME). A day after that, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, formally introduced the Universal, Secure, and Adaptable (USA) Retirement Funds Act of 2014, an updated version of his 2012 proposal.
All three were intended to expand and improve the retirement savings of Americans—although, as you might expect, the three take quite different approaches. Consider that the myRA calls for the development of a "new retirement savings security" to encourage savings in a kind of Roth IRA, while Sen. Harkin's proposal would require employers above a certain size to offer a whole new type of retirement savings plan (and would impose some new threshold enrollment and withdrawal requirements on existing 401(k)s, as well). As for the Nelson/Collins proposal, it seems to be largely focused on lowering or removing certain current regulatory and administrative barriers to smaller employers offering retirement plans.
Despite their varied approaches to the commonly-stated goal of expanding retirement savings, all three do have one other key commonality: All look to leverage the success of the work place and systematic payroll deductions in fostering retirement savings. Of course, that's a foundation whose worth previous EBRI research has documented:¹ the impact that eligibility for a work place retirement plan can have on retirement readiness,² as well as the additional help that automatic-enrollment designs can provide.
It remains to be seen whether the legislative proposals will go anywhere—and the potential impact of myRA on motivating new savers is also uncertain. Just this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced a proposal on defined benefit pension smoothing—not to provide any kind of help for retirement, but as a way to pay for a three-month extension of unemployment benefits.
¹ The January EBRI Notes, "The Role of Social Security, Defined Benefits, and Private Retirement Accounts in the Face of the Retirement Crisis," is available online here.
² See "The Impact of Automatic Enrollment in 401(k) Plans on Future Retirement Accumulations: A Simulation Study Based on Plan Design Modifications of Large Plan Sponsors," online here, and "Increasing Default Deferral Rates in Automatic Enrollment 401(k) Plans: The Impact on Retirement Savings Success in Plans With Automatic Escalation," online here.