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Name Index for "Bookmarking Book Art"
Curated by Robert Bolick
History of the Ebook
Bookmark – Fast.co interview with Henrik Berggren, Readmill
2013/08/31 2013/09/01 Books On BooksLeave a comment
Michael Grothaus interviews Henrik Berggren about the Readmill app and the future of reading. E-Books Could Be The Future Of Social Media ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community.
Henrik Berggren, Readmill
Berggren says he never believed that single-purpose devices like the original Kindle would become widespread, a prediction that seems to be playing out. But he did believe that multi-purpose tablets like the iPad would become most people's primary e-reading devices, not phones. According to Readmill's data, however, phones are not only the most popular e-reading device, they're the best at keeping readers engaged, too.
"It is not only that they are spending more time reading the books because the screen is smaller. Even taking into account screen size, smartphone users read more often, they finish more books in general, they start more books, they share more quotes, and they write more comments," says Berggren. "This paints a very clear picture that the people that are most engaged with their books are the people who read on their phones."
Surprisingly, people spend more time reading books on smartphones than tablets (venturebeat.com)
Readmill Update Adds PDF Highlighting, Profile Viewing And Email Sharing (appadvice.com)
Readmill Update Introduces Reviews And Highlights, Gets Rid Of DRM Complication (appadvice.com)
Who owns the networked future of reading? | Books | theguardian.com (theguardian.com)
Book Art/Book ArtsBooks in Browsers, Ebooks, Henrik Berggren, History of the Ebook, Readmill, Social Reading
Bookmark for your browser or ereader? | Anniversary Update
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Book with florentine paper bookmark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Publishing and editorial folk who wish to educate themselves in the changing craft of the book should track this ongoing discussion on the merits of browsers versus apps/devices –even if at times it becomes finely technical.
Books On Books logged several articles on this last year when Jason Pontin declared MIT Technology Review's colors (decidedly HTML5). Here is another worth a quick read: 5 Myths About Mobile Web Performance | Blog | Sencha. A quick read? Yes, publishers and editors need not be HTML jockeys or Java connoisseurs, but they need to have a business-like grasp of what they are choosing to ride or drink.
Understanding why to publish an ebook through an app or in a browser-friendly format — or both — and what the implications are for crafting finds its rough print analogs in selecting the primary channel and form of publication (trade or academic, hardback or paperback) as well as the structure of the work (design, layout and organization) and working out the financial case for deciding whether to publish and how.
Design, Future of the BookAnna Lewis, Bill McCoy, Books in Browsers, Design, E-book, Ebooks, Future of the Book, history of the ebook, History of the Ebook, Jason Pontin, Michael Joyce, Michael Kozlowski, Nellie McKesson, Publishing and Printing
Bookmark – Education for the Future of Publishing
The Elements, Theodore Gray
When it comes to acquiring skills and professional training in book publishing, from the early days of the printing press onwards, learning by doing has been book publishing's order of the day. Consider the following interview exchange between Mac Slocum (Tools of Change) and Theodore Gray (The Elements):
MS: What skills — or people with those skills — must be incorporated into the editorial process to produce something like the iPad/iPhone editions?
TG: Specifically in the case of "The Elements," the skills required were writing, commercial-style stills photography, Objective-C programming, and a whole, whole lot of Mathematica programming to create the design and layout tool and image processing software we used to create all the media assets that went into the ebook.
Other ebooks might well require different skills. My next one, for example, is going to include a lot more video, so we're gearing up to produce high-grade stereo 3D video. That's one of the challenges in producing interesting ebooks: You need a wider range of skills than to produce a conventional print book.
Starting out in book publishing late in the last century, a novice would have consulted Marshall Lee's Bookmaking and the Chicago Manual of Style to learn the basics of design, editorial and production. If it were Trade publishing that beckoned, a familiarity with A. Scott Berg's biography of Maxwell Perkins ("Editor of Genius") would have been likely.
Maxwell Perkins, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing slightly right / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If scholarly book publishing, then Harman's The Thesis and the Book, Turabian's A Manual for Writers and maybe Bailey's The Art & Science of Book Publishing.
But as with the acquisition of print publishing skills through learning by commissioning, designing, editing, printing, marketing and selling, the acquisition of the skills required for ebook publishing could use a hand up from appropriate resources. People like Joshua Tallent, Joel Friedlander, Liz Castro, Craig Mod, Matthew Diener are those resources — either by example or authoring — and novices today would do well to start bookmarking their output.
For notes on the availability of formal training and career conditions in publishing, see Thad McIlroy's The Future of Publishing.
Related sources:
"Joshua Tallent of Ebook Architects on the State of Digital Publishing," Bill Crawford, Publishing Perspectives
"Understanding Fonts & Typography," Joel Friedlander, The Book Designer
html, xhtml, and css: 6th edition, Elizabeth Castro
"Our Future Book," Craig Mod
"Resources," Matthew Diener, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion, ePUBSecrets
English: Image of the cover of the 1906, 1st Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Book Trades, Design, Editorial, Future of the Book, History of the Book, Production & MaterialsA. Scott Berg, Chicago Manual of Style, Craig Mod, Ebooks, Eleanor Harman, EPUB, Future of the Book, Herbert S. Bailey, History of the Ebook, iBook, InDesign, iPad, Joel Friedlander, Joshua Tallent, Kindle, Liz Castro, Mac Slocum, Marshall Lee, Matthew Diener, Maxwell Perkins, Publishing, Thad McIlroy, Theodore Gray
Bookmark — The evolution of bookselling
Nate Hofhelder, The Digital Reader
No good history of the book in the late 20th and early 21st century will overlook this part of the book's value chain. In covering the earlier eras, the outstanding historians — Chartier, Davenport, Eisenstein, Johns, Lefèbvre and Martin, McMurtrie, Pettegree, Pollard, and Suarez — touch on distribution and retail to varying degrees. When it comes to our era though, the effect on the book itself of the distribution/retail roles played by Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon, Apple, Google, OverDrive and a host of other smaller key players such as Project Gutenberg will loom larger. (So will that of self-publishing if we consider BookStats' report that self-published ebooks represented 30% of ebook sales in 2012. What the effect will be, though, is harder to say.)
Around since 1986, OverDrive has its roots in the production end of the industry, providing publishers with conversion and formatting services from diskettes to CDs to ebooks. Its owner, Steve Potash, set the foundations of its contribution to distribution and retail in 1999-2000 with his participation in the Open eBook Forum, now the International Digital Publishing Forum, and his creation of Overdrive's Content Reserve. As of this writing, Content Reserve contains over a million ebooks; it is the "overdriver" behind the firm's library distribution service and the OverDrive Retail Kiosk.
If the OverDrive Retail Kiosk becomes a key to unlocking the way back for book retail in the "real world," it will by its own definition contribute to the evolution from the printed book to the ebook. Anyplace — in the mall, the main street or high street, the coffee shop, canteen or library — can become an outlet for the purchase of ebooks, which will feed back into the supply and value chains.
No doubt, historians will note that OverDrive required no physical ereader of its own, no Kindle, no iPad, etc., to reach this point in the evolutionary path but rather, it was its dual focus on finding an effective way to rationalize the delivery of multiple formats while pursuing a standard (EPUB) and on meeting the distribution needs of libraries then retail that put OverDrive in its current position. That position is symbiotic with both "closed garden" ereaders and apps as well as books-in-browser solutions.
Just as the Gutenberg press would not have taken off without the regular supply of a more relatively standardized form of paper, the digital book has had to await — is still awaiting — a more standardized format and mechanism of delivery. In reinventing themselves and these parts of the book industry's DNA, OverDrive and others contribute to the evolution of the book.
Overdrive Digital Bookmobile (Photo credit: Librarian In Black)
OverDrive's Upcoming APIs to Allow Ebook Checkouts from OPAC (thedigitalshift.com)
eBooks and OPACS: OverDrive and Innovative Interfaces Announce Plans for "Deep API Integration" (infodocket.com)
OverDrive and Sourcebooks to Launch Ambitious Ebook Data Experiment (lj.libraryjournal.com)
Overdrive Unveils Big Library Read Pilot Project (goodereader.com)
New Report Reaches the Obvious (And Wrong) Conclusion: There's No Technical Justification for Incompatible eBook Formats (the-digital-reader.com)
Hands On With OverDrive Retail eBook Kiosk (the-digital-reader.com)
App Wars (cathybarandiaran.wordpress.com)
OverDrive/Who We Are
From format war to sustainability fight, Tim Boezeman, FutureBook, The Bookseller (futurebook.net)
The Business Rusch: The Changing Playing Field (kriswrites.com)
http://www.bookstats.org/index.php
Book Trades, Future of the Book, History of the BookBooks in Browsers, Bookselling, Digitization, Ebooks, EPUB, Future of the Book, History of the Ebook, International Digital Publishing Forum, Libraries, Open eBook Forum, OverDrive
Bookmarking the Objectification of the Book
The book as object is not new. Think of Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
What might be remarkable — or book-markable — is whether the surge in objectifying the book through sumptuous illumination, miniaturization or the creation of book art occurs at definitive moments of shifting media. One-off illuminated manuscripts preceded the invention of moveable type, but was there a definable surge of them in the decades either side of 1450?
The Audubon double elephant folio books appeared in 1820 about the time of Frederick Koenig's invention of the steam-driven letterpress.
Are William Morris's fine editions from Kelmscott Press in 1890 a datum in a surge of book objectification either side of Mergenthaler's invention of linotype in 1884?
Either side of September 1999 (the release of the Open eBook Publication Structure 1.0), we have the Miniature Book Society, founded in 1983 and, in 2003, Michael Hawley's Bhutan:
A Visual Odyssey across the Last Himalayan Kingdom, the world's largest book according to Guinness.
Last week, the New York Times ran an article about Neale Albert's collection of miniature books. Is this popular interest in unreadable books and the surge in altered and sculpted books an anxious reflection of another shift in media?
Bookmarking Book Art – A Virtual Exhibition (books-on-books.com)
Bookmarking Book Art – Emma Taylor (books-on-books.com)
Book Art/Book Arts, Future of the Book, History of the Book, PrintingE-book, Ebooks, Friedrich Koenig, Future of the Book, History of the Ebook, Johannes Gutenberg, Michael Hawley, Neale Albert, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Printing
Bookmarking Book Art — Emma Taylor, updated 20140205
The fate of the book is becoming more and more critical as digital replacements ingrain themselves deeper into our society. To me the possibility of the end of the book is a tragic one; I appreciate books as an object as much as I enjoy the stories and knowledge which they hold. I predominantly work with antiquarian books as they often show evidence of their own personal story, perhaps through an inscription on the cover or a drawing on a page which adds a new layer of narrative. The theme for each sculpture may be inspired by a number of things including the title, size, shape or cover of the book. I work with wire, wadding and strips of book pages to create the impression of the sculpture emerging from within a book.
Emma Taylor, From Within a Book
Ironic that Emma Taylor's site has its main life on Facebook, to which one must subscribe to read the great number of comments on her bookworks. Her Tumblr site (see link above), however, displays many, if not all, of her sculptures, and in her posting of 29 March 2013, you can find an article from the Cambridge News covering her work as displayed in the local shop Plurabelle Books.
Of course, the bookwork above (made from Poor Folk in Spain by Jan and Cora Gordon, published by Bodley Head in 1922) represents what appears to be a store clerk taking down a book but could just as easily be a housekeeper dusting the bookshelves (after all the chapter in which it appears is named "Verdolay — Housekeeping"). Why "of course"? Small sculpted books created "from within a book." Tending and caring for the physical artifact by altering the physical artifact. (A touch more irony could have been had with the addition of a tiny computer, iPad or Kindle.)
One direction Ms Taylor's craft may take to evolve further into art would be to recognize and reflect that the fate of the book and ebook are as likely intertwined and separate in many respects as have been those of the many forms the codex has taken — from incunabula to paperback, bookkeeping to fiction or reference to textbook.
Paratextual devices such as the manicule, footnote, running heads, etc., have their "analogues" in ereaders, ebooks and books-in-browsers such as navigational icons, hyperlinks, breadcrumb trails, etc. Through the W3C's open annotation specification, even marginalia may be finding a place in the so-called digital replacement to the printed book. With the insights of Matthew Kirschenbaum and others into digital forensics, the digital replacement and its "perfect" copies may yet yield the "evidence of their own personal story." And if "social reading" takes deep root in the individual reading experience, the reader's relationship to the author (and vice versa) could be enriched by the reader-to-reader relationship in ways hard to articulate. Ways that will offer the book artist new opportunities to "make it new."
Photographs and postcards of Emma Taylor's work can be purchased at Etsy.
View the artist's hands at work here. 5 February 2014
Book Art/Book Arts, Future of the Book, PrintingBodley Head, Book Artist, Books in Browsers, Cambridge News, Cora Gordon, digital forensics, e-Incunabula, Emma Taylor, Future of the Book, History of the Ebook, Jan Gordon, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Paratext (devices and conventions), Plurabelle Books, Printing, Project Gutenberg, Social Reading, W3C Open Annotation Specification
Bookmark for the "Used e-book, slightly foxed"
In "Used e-book, slightly foxed," Nicholas Carr ponders Amazon's widely reported patent on a method allowing the resale or giving of ebooks and other digital objects.
"Tiny Library Filled with Wee Books and a Deep, Dark, Secret," Artist, TheMistressT. Accessed 10 February 2013.
Matthew Kirschenbaum might dispute Carr's view that there is no difference between the new and used ebook however. In his book Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, he explores the nano-differences between masters and their digital copies, much as textual bibliographers have delved into the meaningful and revealing differences among print editions and even copies of the same print edition.
And with the recent publication of a W3C specification for Open Annotation of digital text, what might be inside that used ebook? As Baratunde Thurston, author of How to Be Black and founder of Cultivated Wit, writes:
What if you could download books that had been pre-annotated? I would pay extra to read Freakonomics with commentary by Paul Krugman,The New Jim Crow with notes from editors at The Nation, or the Bible annotated by the creators of South Park. A book could always inspire new layers of meaning, but now it can host that inspiration and a slew of associated conversations.
Thurston's proposition though is more akin to the digital equivalent of the Norton critical editions or Robert Strassler's oversized, beautifully enriched Landmark editions of Thucydides, Herodotus and Xenophon. Still, a pre-loved ebook is a different virtual matter and might be desirable to some hapless, non-haptic readers. No doubt, resellers of used ebooks will want to assure their customers that their digital goods are free of lesser annotators' bytes of marginalia and the latest viruses and Trojan horses favored by vandals and hacksters. How will eBay cope, assuming it can come to terms with Amazon's patent claim?
But to bring Thurston's proposition and Open Annotation together suggests another market: the collectible ebook. Can there be such a thing as a rare ebook? Which libraries will be bidding for Clay Shirky's ebook collection after he has shuffled off his digital coil?
The implications for DRM and copyright are delicious. Recall the hoax that Bruce Willis was considering legal action against Apple over his desire to leave his digital music collection to his daughters? If his collection's metadata contained extensive annotations providing insight into the music or, more likely, the celebrity himself, why should iTunes' Terms and Conditions override the family's claim to the Die Hard star's intellectual property that they could share (or not) with future celebrity biographers?
This year looks set to be one of important bookmarks for the evolution of the book: secondary markets for ebooks, Open Annotation, social reading and still more devices and applications for reading.
Book Art/Book ArtsApple, Baratunde Thurston, Clay Shirky, Crafster.org, DRM, Ebooks, History of the Ebook, marginalia, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Nicholas Carr, open annotations, Robert Strassler, Shareable annotations, Social Reading, textual bibliography, TheMistressT, W3C
Bookmarking the Index
2013/02/02 Books On Books1 Comment
In 2003, at McGraw-Hill, we discovered something about making ebooks while working with Dr. Bill Detmer and Unbound Medicine to create Harrison's On Hand. Don't start or present through the Table of Contents; start with the Index.
Ten years later and the lesson's being rediscovered. Read Hugh McGuire's A Publisher's Job Is to Provide a Good API for Books – Tools of Change for Publishing.
Future of the BookEbooks, Future of the Book, History of the Ebook
Can Print and E-Books Coexist? Ceci n'est pas un signet!
2012/12/26 2017/01/23 Books On Books1 Comment
"So a video journalist goes into a bookstore …" and finds little to report. Beset by the BBC's wallowing in non-events and the trivial, I am probably flailing out unfairly at the PBS's "dog bites man" story or perhaps indigesting a bit of humbug this Christmas season. MediaShift . VIDEO: Can Print and E-Books Coexist? | PBS.*
At least one commentator (gfrost; Gary Frost?), however, points out what video journalist Joshua Davis and his interviewees failed to explore: "[M]issed is an inherent interdependence between print and screen books. An eerie complementary fit of the different affordances means that neither will flourish without the other." Now there is a premise worth exploring, which Gary Frost does (see previous posting).
And what would Joshua Davis and his interviewees make of David Streitfield's story in the NY Times that sales of e-reading devices seem to have reached a plateau? "Even as prices fall, though, the dedicated e-reader is losing steam. The market peaked last year, with 23.2 million devices sold, IHS iSuppli said in a report this month. This year, sales will be 15 million. By 2016, the forecast is for seven million devices — as opposed to 340 million tablets, which allow for e-reading and so much more."
Streitfield's story actually begins with "the dog that didn't bark": the prices for ebooks themselves have not fallen, despite the predicted result of the US Justice Department's case against and settlements with six of the big publishers (five, now that two are merging). For Frost's premise that neither form — ebook or print — will flourish without the other, does that raise the question of whether either will decline without the other's declining? The rules of logic alone suggest otherwise, but consider Streitfield's "more counterintuitive possibility … that the 2011 demise of Borders, the second-biggest chain, dealt a surprising blow to the e-book industry. Readers could no longer see what they wanted to go home and order."
Perhaps the ebook and print are more intertwined than even Frost's premise implies. Simba's Jonathan Norris is quoted in Streitfield's article: "The print industry has been aiding and assisting the e-book industry since the beginning." Of course, someone needs to point this out with a cattle prod to the publishers withholding their ebooks from public and academic libraries. The site TeachingDegree offers a succinct collection of data (PBS take notes) on the topic in a sort of dialectical digital poster.
Perhaps the whole story is just "human reads book" and is not worth a bookmark, but then where would have been the fun of finding out in punning
with Magritte's painting that the French for bookmark is either un signet (digital) or un marque-page (print), and in English we can make no distinction?
*In fairness to PBS, readers should take a look at the series "Beyond the Book 2012."
Still, Frost's Future of the Book goes far deeper.
Future of the Book, History of the BookBBC, David Streitfield, E-book, Ebooks, Future of the Book, Gary Frost, History of the Ebook, Jonathan Norris, Joshua Davis, PBS, Rene Magritte, Simba, TeachingDegree.com, The New York Times
(A general indifference?) Towards the Digital Divide
How might we explain the ascent, pervasiveness and popular appeal of digital art?
From www.creativeapplications.net – September 9, 12:18 PM
A few months ago, Greg Smith, a Toronto-based artist, reviewed Claire Bishop's "Digital Divide" (Art Forum, September 2012). The review and Bishop's article touch on a recurrent theme in Books On Books: the materiality and immateriality of books.
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2204574815/expanded-artists-books-envisioning-the-future-of-the-book
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2540958720/a-bookmark-for-letters-outside-themselves
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2276808444/ebooks-do-we-really-want-our-literature-to-last-for-ever
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2204732117/bookmarking-a-forthcoming-title
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2213422701/the-bookless-library-and-what-will-become-of-the-paper-book
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2173038714/and-there-you-have-it-the-kindle-of-the-late-eighteenth-century-mike-kelly-amherst-college
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2182994587/this-is-for-you-in-support-of-libraries-books-words-ideas
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2123229496/to-see-a-world-in-a-grain-of-sand-or-tobacco-leaf
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2082258113/post-artifact-books-and-publishing
http://www.scoop.it/t/books-on-books/p/2079452417/the-making-unmaking-and-remaking-of-books-guy-laramee-s-book-art
But the review and Bishop's article resonate with some more recent and popular seismic tremors in the world of ebooks. With all but Macmillan caving into the US Justice Department, we are still left wondering where and when the consumer benefits in cheaper ebooks will be handed out. The prices on e-reading devices have plummeted, but in the world of ebooks, a slight unease about the inevitability of e-readers is creeping in as tablets and mini-tablets seize the imaginations of some with the loudest digital megaphones. "Are e-reading devices doomed?" And by extension – given that tablets are far more than ebook devices — "Is the trajectory for ebooks leveling off?" While the post-Xmas sales analysis will be more assiduously examined for the "evidence" than the equally predictive gizzards of our Xmas fowls, as Greg Smith paraphrases Julian Oliver, "the New Aesthetician": material or immaterial, "we should all just keep focused on making stuff."
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A Simple Machine
2015 France / Duration: 5 mins
Directed by: Greg Hackett
Fingers turn a key, push a green button and the gears of le telepherique grind to life slowly. A Simple Machine: The Life and Death of the La Grave Cablecar is the story of the contraption that, for decades, has carried skiers 7,000 feet up from a tiny village in the French Alps over glaciers and crevasses, providing access to steep off-piste skiing. The yellow and orange gondola cars soar overhead with the help of longtime machinists, who lovingly grease, weld and replace the parts to keep it running smoothly. But the future of La Grave's cablecar — as well as the town's connection to its skiing heritage — is uncertain because the lease on the machine is up in 2017, and no one has stepped forward yet to take it over.
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Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter accused of rape
Hik — November 22, 2017 in Entertainment • add comment
Nick Carter says he's "shocked and saddened" by accusations made by a singer who said he raped her about 15 years ago.
Melissa Schuman of the girl group Dream wrote in a blog post that she was "forced to engage in an act against my will." She said the Backstreet Boy took her virginity.
But Carter says in a statement Wednesday that "Melissa never expressed to me while we were together or at any time since that anything we did was not consensual."
He adds that he "was always respectful and supportive of Melissa both personally and professionally."
Dream was signed to Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records and produced the hit He Loves U Not.
Schuman and Carter recorded music together after she said he attacked her.
Schuman tweeted on Tuesday: "I just want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support. Thank you for bearing witness to my story."
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ONLY about a thousand dollars? I told him NOT to send the package because if he does I will not accept it.
I got his phone number, called Marquis Who's Who (the real one) and found out that they do not have anything to do with him, that indeed, I was almost scammed—again.
My credit-card number gets changed often. He did not get far enough for that.
It's lucky that I have a bank credit-card department that calls me every once in a while when a charge goes through that looks suspicious. They must have intuitive people there who call when a number has a weird look about it—too long, too unusual, too something or other.
I appreciate them. I feel that they look after me. They know that I sometimes fall for ego-building promises. Not this time.
You should hear about the one who called me, flattering me about my art, compete with a fetching story about buying it for a wedding anniversary gift for his wife. It was a secret. He had lots of instructions for me. He wanted it shipped along with a box of personal things. Suddenly I realized that his signature was not on anything. If anything in that box of his personal things was illegal it would have been traced right back to me. The bank told me to call police.


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Hawks to be sold, but stay in Atlanta
August 8, 2011	0 Comments
The Hawks have scheduled a news conference for Monday to announce the team and Philips Arena are being sold to Meruelo, a person familiar with the deal said Sunday.
The son of Cuban immigrants is a California developer and pizza chain owner. He is expected to become the NBA's first Hispanic majority owner.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no official announcement has been made. The deal is subject to the approval of the NBA.
Meruelo, who will have controlling interest of more than 50 percent of the Hawks, will attend Monday's news conference. The team will remain in Atlanta.
The Hawks ownership group, led by Michael Gearon Jr. and Bruce Levenson, also recently sold the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers to a group that moved the team to Winnipeg. The Thrashers' deal was for a reported $170 million, including a $60 million relocation fee to be split by the rest of the owners.
Meruelo was born in New York and raised in California. He heads the Meruelo Group, a Downey, Calif.-based investment firm. The firm recently acquired the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, Nev., for a reported $42.45 million.
Meruelo also founded La Pizza Loca, which has over 50 franchised and company-owned restaurants in Southern California, catering to the Latino community, according to the Meruelo Group website.
Details of the Hawks' sale, including the purchase price, have not been disclosed. It is not known if any members of the current ownership group will retain minority shares.
The sale of the Hawks is the latest in a series of dramatic moves by the ownership group, less than a year after Gearon and Levenson bought Boston-based Steve Belkin's 30-percent share of the teams.
A tearful Gearon said at the news conference to announce the sale of the Thrashers on May 31 that the owners failed in attempts to find someone to keep the hockey team in Atlanta. Gearon said no local buyer emerged with a serious offer for the Thrashers.
The ownership group, called the Atlanta Spirit, also had to look outside of Atlanta to find a buyer for the Hawks. This time, there was no threat of moving the team.
The group bought the Hawks, Thrashers and operating rights to Philips Arena, where the teams play, in 2004. There was almost immediate dissension among the owners.
The ownership split began in 2005 over Belkin's objection to the Hawks' trade of Boris Diaw(notes), two first-round draft picks and a $4.9 million trade exception to the Phoenix Suns for guard Joe Johnson(notes).
The dispute led to a long legal battle that ended when Levenson and Gearon announced on Dec. 22, 2010, they had purchased Belkin's share.
Gearon, the son of former Hawks executive Michael Gearon Sr., grew up with the team and has said he would like to retain a minority share if the team was sold. The elder Gearon also is part of the ownership team.
The Hawks have made the playoffs the past four seasons, including three straight second-round appearances.
While the owners were criticized for failing to keep the Thrashers' stars, including Ilya Kovalchuk, in Atlanta, the group was aggressive in re-signing Hawks stars Johnson, Josh Smith and Al Horford(notes).
"The perception is we don't spend money," Gearon Jr. said recently about the Hawks. "Yet you look at our roster and the core assets, we've kept all of them."
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Twitters fans fall out over Damson Idris complimenting UK singer Rebecca Winter
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British actor Damson Idris has been going viral on social media since declaring himself the "CEO of the Dark Skin Society" last month.
On Wednesday, the Snowfall star tweeted a video of London singer Rebecca Winter, who jumps out of bed to get dressed, with hair and makeup, to answer a FaceTime call from Idris himself.
"Aw babes. Next time I call you can stay in bed. You're already beautiful," Idris captioned his tweet.
Despite his delightful response, some of Damson's female fans were apparently not happy about him appearing to flirt with other women on social media.
""I am so jealous. Ugh you're so sweet Damson," tweeted one fan, while another wrote "You're supposed to call me." Still another said, "Are you trying to hurt my feelings right now? Is this what we are doing, baby?"
More fans responded with claims that Damson Idris was "cheating" on them in a hypothetical relationship, while others gave him a pass for "complimenting" Winter's beauty.
"She's pretty, so I'll excuse your behavior," wrote one fan. Yet another said, "Complimenting queens. I love to see it."


CAIRO - 15 January 2018: New minister of Tourism, Rania al-Mashat held a meeting on Monday, with the different central managers of Egyptian Tourism Authority to discuss their working plans and problems they face.
Head of the Authority, Hesham al-Dimairy and Deputy Head, Ahmed Hamdy attended the meeting.
"We have showed the Authority's role and the obstacles it faces during the meeting that is held yesterday with the new minister," Hesham al-Dimairy said to Youm7.
Rania al-Mashat Ph.D. worked in several important economic positions as a chief economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, and the deputy governor of the local central bank for monetary policy.
The new minister got her bachelor's in Economics from, the American University in Cairo in 1995, and her Ph.D. in Economics from University of Maryland in 2001.


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Q: LoggingHandler and it's effect on handlers further down the pipeline I'm testing a TcpClient that uses netty (against a TCP server that is written in Rust). The clients sends LengthPrefixed messages in a burst (without waiting for responses) and then processes the responses as they arrive.
Strangely, some of the messages never get a response (but I'm pretty sure the responses have arrived from the server but are never delivered to the handler).  Now, if I introduce a LoggingHandler into the chain, things start working, so just wondering if the LoggingHandler in anyway changes the behaviour of handlers further down the pipeline. BTW, things also work if I introduce a small delay (say 100ms) between two requests. Any pointers/insights will be helpful.
The pipeline is quite simple - LoggingHandler->LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder->TcpClientChannelInboundHandler
(The code is available here - https://github.com/rkbalgi/tcpasync/blob/master/src/main/java/com/github/rkbalgi/tcpasync/client/TcpClient.java#L80 and test is here - https://github.com/rkbalgi/tcpasync/blob/master/src/test/java/TcpClientTest.java#L82)
I'm using netty-4.1.51 on Windows 10.
Update - Some messages never got a response because they were never sent out :). Looks like the problem may be related to doing too many concurrent writeAndFlush() without checking the result of those. Adding a sync() appears to fix the issue. Still investigating.

A: No the LoggingHandler has no other effect than logging.

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Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning living monarch in the world, is one of the most recognizable figures in royalty. Being a very busy royal, it's highly unlikely for the regular Joe or Jane to even meet her in their lifetime. But just in case one is lucky enough to have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, here are a few things to avoid when in the presence of Her Majesty.
Even among the closest of friends, there is always that unspoken rule where a few awkward topics must never be discussed with each other. For those lucky enough to enter into a conversation with Queen Elizabeth II, a similar rule also applies, albeit stricter.
As the Head of the Commonwealth, she represents the country and, unlike normal folks, just can comment about anything arbitrarily. For this reason, it is improper to ask a question or offer a topic where the Queen will have to give an opinion, most especially if it's about politics. It is best to stick to neutral and safer topics — the weather, for instance.
In fact, leading the conversation is also frowned upon as the Queen or any other member of the royal family should have full control of the conversation, including the topic of choice. To be on the safe side, it is probably best to only speak when Her Majesty initiates the conversation.
Since the invention of smartphones with high definition, it has become the norm to document any event by taking the obligatory selfie. But for those who think that meeting royalty is exciting enough to be documented on social media, the answer is — it's a no-no.
However, in events where the Queen or any royal family member is present, it usually means that a professional photographer will cover the occasion. In this case, one just might be lucky enough for a photo op with the royals.
When greeting the Queen, the proper thing to do is to curtsy if one is a woman or to bow if one is a man. A handshake, the internationally recognized gesture of greeting especially within the business community, is only appropriate if it is initiated by the Queen. Apparently, another exception is when one is a U.S. citizen, like when Angelina Jolie greeted Her Majesty with a handshake.
This rule is a bit depressing for foodies. But when dining with the Queen, which is a privilege in itself, one must take cues from Her Majesty. For instance, the Queen is supposed to take the first bite, initiating the meal. Once she is done, everyone should stop as well.
When one is in her presence and has to address her, calling her Queen Elizabeth is not the right way to do it. Instead, the proper phrase to use is "Your Majesty." One can then switch to addressing her as "Ma'am" afterward.


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US: Tesco Fresh & Easy looks to create "warm" vibe
UK retailer Tesco has said that it is "tweaking" its Fresh & Easy format in the US in response to feedback from customers.
The 61 Fresh & Easy stores, which launched with a functional design and basic layout, will be given more colour and signage in an attempt to create a "warmer" atmosphere, the company has said.
"We have made a few minor tweaks, like adding some signage," a spokesperson for the company told just-food. "Consumers told us that they liked the clean fresh look of the stores but wanted them to feel a little warmer to reflect how they felt about the brand."
Tesco opened its first Fresh & Easy outlet in the US in November last year. The group paused in its expansion drice in April to assess the format.
The company has said it is making some "very minor" alterations to the format, including starting to accept American Express payments.
These changes are expected to be completed by July, when the Fresh & Easy rollout will continue.
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Brian Conley is a comedian whom I grew up watching on ITV, back in the day when we only had four channels to choose from! "It's a puppet" will be his catchphrase for all eternity, but catchphrases aside, as a performer and entertainer he is in a league of his own. The show he currently has on the road provides a mixture of pure comedy genius, combined with musical moments and indeed Conley can be serious too – when he's not trying to coax an unwitting audience member into putting her hand down his trousers!
Like all of the greats, there are jokes you would associate with Conley when you know his material. I know it inside out so I was slightly ahead with the punchlines. However, far from spoiling the experience, his familiar humour proves to be as much of a hit today as it was years ago. He interacts with the audience effortlessly and, naturally, his 'victims' are not scared to engage with him and that speaks volumes in itself.
We are treated to a number of his musical theatre characters with Conley's velvet tones lending themselves beautifully to 'Hush-a-bye Mountain' from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and what a superb surprise for him to include a performance as Fagin in the mix. Jolson was a big hit for the master of comedy and no evening with Conley is complete without an excerpt or two from the show. Although no evening is complete without 'The Devil Went Down To Georgia' either. If you know the violin trick Conley does, you'll howl with laughter as if it was the first time you'd seen it. If you haven't seen it before, just you wait.
There are few entertainers who are able to grab my attention and hold it for a full two-hour show without any waivers – Conley held me to rapt attention and I would watch this show again and again without hesitation. Catch this tour while you can. If you miss it you'll have missed out. It's like watching Tommy Cooper, with a dash of Russ Abbot and a sprinkling of Morecambe and Wise. Let me tell you, you ain't seen nothing yet.


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Iran: Harsh conditions of nurses; 15 died at work last year
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Many nursing graduates are dissatisfied with the nursing system and emigrate for not having employment license.
Dr. Jaleh Ezzati, a deputy to the Organization of Nursing System, talked in an interview about the problems of female nurses in Iran.
She said, "We have documents that 97 per cent of nurses are deeply dissatisfied with the country's health system. The number of nursing graduates is not small, however, there are many who do not get employment licenses after graduation. Presently, many of the graduates decide to emigrate."
Ezzati also said, "Last year, 15 educated nurses died while at work. All of them worked two shifts due to work pressure, shortage of staff, and strong need for funds… Having to work overtime and these sorts of pressure leads to the death of some nurse in some province all the time. The latest example was in Kerman Province, where a 35-year-old nurse had a heart stroke at the hospital."
On the nurses' salary, she also said, "We are not complying with international standards. In Iran, every 15 patients have one nurse, while by the international standards every nurse has to attend to one or maximum of four patients. The difference in the salaries of a nurse and a doctor in 99 per cent of countries, is three folds at most. In Iran, however, the difference is 100 folds. We have even had payrolls that are 500 times greater than those of nurses. This is while many doctors say that they receive only the fee for visit or for surgery. They leave and all the work must be done by the nurse. In such circumstances, nurses cannot receive the salary they received eight years ago while the salary of their colleague is over 100 or 500 times more."
She added, "Our research shows that immigration of nurses has grown 300 folds. When nurses see that doctors receive 300 folds more in salary, they would no longer respect them. The amount of work is so much that they see no reason for staying. They just leave everything behind, and leave." (The state-run Alef website, June 11, 2017)
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Dr. Malcolm Sears, an internationally renowned respirologist and epidemiologist, has been named joint winner of the prestigious 2016 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine.
The Robarts Research Institute of Western University in London, ON, awards the prize annually to scientists who have made significant contributions to a field within one of the Institute's principal areas of research. The 2016 Prize recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the area of chronic lung disease, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
AllerGen investigator Dr. Sears leads the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study—one of the largest studies in the world to look in depth at how our genes and the environment interact in early life to cause asthma, allergies and other chronic illnesses.
Read the Robarts Research Institute press release and the McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences news story.
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Anna Marazuela Kim answers: Why does iconoclasm continue to matter?
The history of iconoclasm, or image breaking, reveals much about our continuing and complex relationship to images, giving insight into larger questions concerning the sacred and the profane, materiality and spirituality, religion and modernity, says an art historian.
We need to recover and tell the stories of our organizations to see ourselves and our God more clearly.
The Bible is not a modern work but an ancient anthology of many voices, says a noted Hebrew Bible scholar. So be careful about saying, "The Bible says . . .," because on almost every subject, it has more than one perspective.
A feminist scholar finds inspiration in Jonathan Edwards the experimenter, who had no choice but to reach for new language, new methods and new ideas to make the truth of the divine drama come alive for his age.
Christians are made in the image of God the creator, destined to create music, poetry, fiction, dance and other works of art. This resource page gathers Faith & Leadership interviews, essays, videos and sermons by artists, writers, theologians and scholars on the subject of Christianity and the arts.
God redeems and purifies us, much like the fuller who creates a softer, stronger cloth using caustic chemicals and hard labor. The process isn't easy, but it is hopeful.
Learning to read the Bible well and developing a scriptural way of living requires slow reading, sustained attention and community, writes the New Testament scholar.
Timothy Larsen: Why is history important for Christian leadership?
Pop culture may be obsessed with the pope's red shoes, but Christian leaders can't live entirely in the present. Christians should move toward the future without letting go of the past.
Poetry can help us recover a sacramental sense of presence in the world around us, says a writer and teacher.


NEW YORK – Time Warner Inc. (TWX), the world's largest media company, on Wednesday reported an 8 percent drop in third-quarter net profit as it set up a $500 million legal reserve and said it will restate results for AOL Europe prior to 2002.
The company said the legal reserve relates to investigations of its accounting by the U.S. Department of Justice (search) and the Securities & Exchange Commission (search).
It also said the investigations continue and it may have to further restate results.
Time Warner said it has not established a reserve to deal with shareholder and civil lawsuits as they have been "unable to reasonably estimate a range of possible loss," the company said in a statement.
"Until we know the terms and findings of the SEC, we really don't know the scope of the potential litigation," said Tom Wolzien, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.
The owner of America Online, HBO and the Warner Bros. studio said net income fell to $499 million, or 11 cents a share, from $541 million, or 12 cents a share, a year earlier.
It posted third-quarter earnings per share of 15 cents, which excludes income from discontinued operations of 1 cent a share and one-time charges totaling 5 cents a share, beating average analyst estimates of 14 cents a share.
Revenue rose 5 percent to $9.96 billion, topping estimates of $9.84 billion.
Time Warner said it will restate financial results for 2000 and 2001 and said its results for 2002 may also be affected, which were largely expected by Wall Street, analysts said.
AOL has been the target of two federal investigations into the way it accounted for advertising deals in the past. The SEC has launched a probe specifically into how it accounted for the 2002 purchase of the stake of its joint venture AOL Europe it did not own from German media giant Bertelsmann AG.
The company said it will change the way it accounted for its interest before it purchased Bertelsmann's stake.
Previously it accounted for the deal using the equity method of accounting, with AOL Europe's results having an impact only on the bottom line.
It now says its interest should have been consolidated into AOL's results starting in March 2000 that could deepen AOL's 2001 net losses by $855 million and 2000 net losses by $308 million.
Time Warner said its decision to alter the way it accounted for the results of AOL Europe reflects its discussions with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
"While we're continuing to work to resolve the government investigations, we're staying focused on moving the company forward," Richard Parsons, CEO of Time Warner said in a statement.
The company also said it is expected to incur approximately $50 million in restructuring charges in the fourth quarter or first quarter next year for AOL.


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Cyprien Gaillard: Nightlife
Monday, April 16, 2018 9:03 PM
Cyprien Gaillard (b. 1980) is a prominent young French artist who makes films, sculptures, and paintings. His work focuses on the artistic expression of concepts of entropy, destruction and humankind's impact on nature.
Gaillard was born in Paris, France, but spent his childhood near Silicon Valley in the United States. He had a rebellious adolescence that contributed to his artistic focus of destruction. Gaillard is "interested in things failing, in the beauty of failure, and the fall in general."[2] In 2004, at age 24, Gaillard began his career as an artist and attended the Cantonal School of Art of Lausanne in Switzerland. He currently lives in New York and Berlin.
Gaillard's pivotal work is his 2009 piece Dunepark. In this work Gaillard excavates a recently discovered World War II bunker on a beach in the Netherlands with the help of a museum and excavating equipment. This work criticizes the practice of burying such discoveries under new layers of construction. The excavation is also a form of negative sculpture. It is for this work that Gaillard was awarded the Marcel Duchamp prize in 2010.
On display at the Gladstone Gallery in New York is Gaillard's piece Nightlife (2015). Taking over 2 years to film, this work features 3D footage of night scenes from Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Speaking as the author of a 3D computer graphics library, I am happy to see 3D effects used in a way that doesn't feel like a gimmick. The piece consists of four sections, starting with film of Rodin's sculpture The Thinker (1880) that was partially destroyed in a 1970 bombing by a radical political group. The second section shows unique movements of trees in Los Angeles that seem to sway and dance to Nightlife's soundtrack while being constrained by the man-made structures surrounding them. The third section consists of film of fireworks in Berlin, presumably shot from an aerial drone. The final section returns to Cleveland to show the Oak tree planted by Jesse Owens after he won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympic games. Themes of destruction are expressed through the fireworks and the damaged statue.
Of particular interest is Gaillard's choices for Nightlife's audio track. Gaillard sampled the lyrics "I was born a loser" from Alton Ellis' 1969 song Blackman's Word. To this sample Gaillard added sound effects to make it somewhat muffled and distorted. This is heard repeatedly for the first three sections of the piece. In 1971 Ellis re-recorded the song on a different label with the new title Black Man's Pride and the lyrics "I was born a winner." The new version of the song gives Gaillard an opportunity to change the sampled lyrics for the fourth and final section of the piece. This small change sends a powerful message as the film focuses on Jesse Owens' Olympic Oak, a monument to Owens' athleticism and victory.
Cyprien Gaillard is a French artist expressing themes of destruction and humankind's interaction with nature. His piece Nightlife expresses these themes through film in ways that are subtle and powerful and demonstrate his skill as an artist.
[1] Wikipedia contributors. "Cyprien Gaillard." Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. 18 Jan. 2018. Web. 18 Jan. 2018.
[2] Artsy Editors. "Cyprien Gaillard." Artsy. 13 Apr. 2018. Web. 13 Apr. 2018.
[3] Huff, Andrew. "Cyprien Gaillard: Nightlife." Gladstone Gallery. 23 Feb. 2018. Print. 13 Apr. 2018.
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Ката Думбовић — Мати (рођ. Ковачић; Луковац, код Сиска, 1903 — Загреб, 14. јул 1941) била је учесница Народноослободилачке борбе и народни херој Југославије.

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Потиче из сиромашне сељачке породице. Током Првог светског рата погинуо јој је отац Марко, а мајка је остала са шесторо мале деце и старом бабом. Да би се смањио број чланова породице, мајка је Кату врло рано удала; као шеснаестогодишњакиња, и сама је постала мајка.

После неколико година, брак се распао и Ката је отишла од куће. Привремено је склонила код тетке, а затим је, 1924. године, отишла у Загреб, где се запослила као кућна помоћница. Касније је почела да активно ради у Уједињеним радничким синдикатима. Ту је упознала и кројачког радника Мату Думбовића, за којег се после удала.

Учествовала је у штрајковима и другим акцијама загребачких радника. Била је веома позната, међу радницима Трешњевке, где је становала. Од миља су је звали Мамица. Године 1938. постала је члан Комунистичке партије Југославије. По упутствима Раде Кончара, 1939. године, преко једног наредника, набавила је војне исправе које су секретару ЦК КП Хрватске Ради Кончару служиле за несметано кретање по Хрватској. Учествовала је и у демонстрацијама у Загребу, у јесен 1939. године, када је полиција напала демонстранте.

Почетком 1940. године, Ката је изабрана за члана Рејонског комитета КПХ Трешњевка у Загребу. Осим рада у Рејонском комитету, обављала је и друге важне послове. Преносила је илегални партијски материјал и др. Кад је, 1940. године, требало пронаћи поверљиве људе за рад партијске штампарије, одлучено је да се тај задатак повери Кати. По директиви Раде Кончара, Ката је у Загребу изнајмила кућу од Барице Левак, која је пристала да је уступи за ту сврху. Активно је учествовала у организовању рада Пете земаљске конференције КПЈ, одржане октобра 1940. године у Загребу. Бринула је за допрему хране, посуђа и других ствари потребних делегатима, као и за смештај делегата.

После окупације Краљевине Југославије и проглашења усташке Независне Државе Хрватске, априла 1941. године, Ката је остала у Загребу. Током јуна 1941. године, у масовним хапшењима комуниста, и Ката је била ухапшена. Упркос мучењу на саслушавању, није ништа признала, па је пуштена због недостатка доказа.

Месни комитет КПХ за Загреб је, јула 1941. године, организовао акцију ослобађања затвореника из усташког логора Керестинец, у коме су тада били затворени — Огњен Прица, Божидар Аџија, Отокар Кершовани, Аугуст Цесарец, као и многи други комунисти, међу којима и Катин муж, Мато Думбовић. Акција је била изведена у ноћи 13/14. јул, али је била неуспешна и Ката је у њој погинула.

Указом Президијума Народне скупштине ФНР Југославије 20. децембра 1951.  проглашена је за народног хероја.

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Рођени 1903.
Умрли 1941.
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Посавци (Горња Посавина)
Комунисти Хрватске
Југословенски партизани
Загреб у Народноослободилачкој борби
Жене у Народноослободилачкој борби
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"As an experienced professional engineer with more than 30 years engineering experience and having been a professional engineer for more than 25 years since 1989, as I climb up the top management ladder, I visualize that there are ever increasing need for me to furnish with management knowledge, skills and techniques as well as a gaining doctoral degree award."
As an Executive Director managing a manufacturing company in China in his early thirties, Clive Tsang believes that successful management is an art, which requires individuals to have a creative and critical mind not only solving daily operational problems but to have a readying mindset discovering potential unknown problems and creating new knowledge for the future.
Prior to entering UMT for the degree of Doctor of Business Administration, Clive has an engineering bachelor and master degree. He is a Certified Six-Sigma Black Belt, Project Management Professional, Certified Supply Chain Professional, and a chartered management accountant accredited in the United Kingdom and the United States.
It was a new yet inspiring experience studying the DBA program at UMT for Clive. With all his previous professional education attainment, Clive has learned the skills to solve problems in different aspects in the business realm. However, at a doctoral level of education, he was challenged not to limit himself at the stage of problem solving with a technical and pragmatic mindset, but seeing a problem or a phenomenon from a multi-dimensional, conceptual point of view. In the process of completing this program, Clive was challenged to create his own knowledge and at the same time was inspired to think out of a box in which the box does not even exist. This cognitive training process has changed Clive's perspective in facing the unknowns in the future.
After university, I have been working for multinational corporations for the past 25 years; I believe an orientation toward continual learning (education) is one of the most important attitudes toward life in today's world. As many CEOs have whispered, CHANGE is inevitable! UMT distance education provides me a flexible environment to work and learn at the same time. Managing corporate life is never easy, e.g., engaging with high positive energy, embracing changes, and striving for cost effective but innovative solutions. UMT delivers a learning platform that revitalizes my "soil" and makes me feel great about going back to school again — passionate to learn; optimistic for opportunity; succeeding in human relationships; reaching out from good to best — everything is possible. This is a mental exercise, focused on what you think, how you think, when you act, and what you'll get. As Philip Morris CEO, Geoffrey Bible, put it: "If you think it is right, you fight and you'll win." This statement captures my philosophy of life.
Another motivation for me to pursue an MBA is to set an example for my family members and send a message from the old folk to the younger generations, which is: If he can do it, why can't I? University days were the best time of my life; I hope this is true for everyone else, too. With UMT distance education, I manage to make my dream comes true, and uplift my body and soul, ready to take on the next level of challenges.
I am a police sergeant. I have joined the Hong Kong Police for 23 years after finishing Form 5. I am a School Liaison Officer under the Public Community Relations Office. Parts of my job are to instill a sense of discipline and positive values in students, give talks in schools as well as give advice to teachers to prevent delinquent behaviours of students.
I have not stopped to enhance my qualification by attending evening schools since joined the Police Force. For the time being, I have completed three diplomas from different institutions. My goal is to get a university degree but I have no idea how to start it until I came to know the UMT through my friend who has stressed to me that UMT has provided the BBA which was absolutely suitable for someone who wants to get professional knowledge in management. The course especially fits for someone who needs to work on shift as the studying time is flexibility.
With all the sales and management skills I learned from this previous job, I decided and convinced myself that it was the right and perfect time for me to go ahead and accomplish my passion and my dream since I was young, which is to open up a snooker and billiard club business of my own. The club started off as a small business, and despite all the doubts in my capability from people around me, I managed to stay in the business for nearly ten years. Even though it was only a small scaled business, this snooker club was a successful accomplishment to me as I have put a lot of my time and effort into making all of this happened. As I have made my teenage dream and passion come true, then I moved on and noticed that I had another dream to achieve, and it was to finally get a bachelor degree, which I did not have the chance to do so when I was younger. With this ambition, I applied and got accepted in the UMT BBA program. Meanwhile, I met an extraordinary person, who also acts as my mentor at this stage of my life. He introduced me to the industry of insurance and joined ING Group, which became a new page of my life. As I am now finishing the one and a half year BBA program at UMT, I wish to be able to apply all the knowledge and skills I learned from the program to my new and exciting career.
To me, life is all about meeting new people, chasing new dreams and overcoming new challenges. One should never be too satisfied in the current state. Just like the running water in a flowing stream, our lives should never go stale in order to prove ourselves worthwhile. At the end, I want to thank UMT for offering me an opportunity to achieve my second dream of my life. Without the innovative program, flexible class arrangement and the professional help and tutoring of the UMT instructors, I would never be able to know my capabilities and what really defines me as a person.
I obtained a Diploma in Office and Executive Support in CUSCS and Certificate Programme on the Professional Executive Secretary Course in HKMA in 2012. Currently, I'm a Secretary in one of private hospital in Hong Kong. As a top management's secretary, I should have good time management skills and the ability to juggle multiple responsibilities. I also need other qualities, such as discretion, diplomacy, sound judgment and the ability to solve problems independently. I would like to upgrade my educational qualification and skills, in order to meet broader and higher level duties.
I chose UMT because the flexible program enables me to complete study without having any difficulties to the time spent with my work and family. There isn't any local institution can provide such as good and flexible BBA program.


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// $dbContent = the response from the database

$dbContent = str_replace( $search , ''.$search.'' , $dbContent );

echo $dbContent;

Any instance of "programming", even if as part of a larger word, will be wrapped in  tags.
For instances where more than one word are used
$search = 'programming something another';
// $dbContent = the response from the database

$search = explode( ' ' , $search );
function wrapTag($inVal){
  return ''.$inVal.'';
}
$replace = array_map( 'wrapTag' , $search );

$dbContent = str_replace( $search , $replace , $dbContent );

echo $dbContent;

This will split the $search into an array at the spaces, and then wrap each match in the  tags.
You could use  or  tags (See What's the difference between  and ,  and ? for a dicussion about them).

A: $search = @$_GET['q'];
$trimmed = trim($search);

function highlight($req_field, $trimmed)  //$req_field is the field of your table
{
        preg_match_all('~\w+~', $trimmed, $m);
        if(!$m)
            return $req_field;
        $re = '~\\b(' . implode('|', $m[0]) . ')\\b~';
        return preg_replace($re, '$0', $req_field);
}

  print highlight($req_field, $trimmed);

In this way, you can bolden the searched keywords. Its quite easy and works well.

A: The response is actually a bit more complicated than that. In the common search results use case, there are other factors to consider:

*

*you should take into account uppercase and lowercase (Programming, PROGRAMMING, programming etc);

*if your content string is very long, you wouldn't want to return the whole text, but just the searched query and a few words before and after it, for context;

This guy figured it out:
//$h = text
//$n = keywords to find separated by space
//$w = words near keywords to keep

function truncatePreserveWords ($h,$n,$w=5,$tag='b') {
    $n = explode(" ",trim(strip_tags($n))); //needles words
    $b = explode(" ",trim(strip_tags($h))); //haystack words
    $c = array();                       //array of words to keep/remove
    for ($j=0;$j<count($b);$j++) $c[$j]=false;
    for ($i=0;$i<count($b);$i++)
        for ($k=0;$k<count($n);$k++)
            if (stristr($b[$i],$n[$k])) {
                $b[$i]=preg_replace("/".$n[$k]."/i","<$tag>\\0</$tag>",$b[$i]);
                for ( $j= max( $i-$w , 0 ) ;$j<min( $i+$w, count($b)); $j++) $c[$j]=true;
            }
    $o = "";    // reassembly words to keep
    for ($j=0;$j<count($b);$j++) if ($c[$j]) $o.=" ".$b[$j]; else $o.=".";
    return preg_replace("/\.{3,}/i","...",$o);
}

Works like a charm!


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