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PHOTOGRAPHER MELANIE PULLEN : EMS UNDER THE DARK CLOTH SERIES # 3
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A film by Eric Minh Swenson. (Film number one-thousand one-hundred and sixty-seven in the series.)
The EMS Under The Dark Cloth Series are a continuing film exploration of candid conversations with photographers who have an impressive body of work in craft, dedication and vision. These artists are recognized by EMS as fulfilling a career in the medium and applying professional practice in the field. These personalities bring unique and historical ideas into the dialogue of creative arts and serve the communities through their ongoing passion to chronicle and document.
Melanie Pullen's extensive series, High Fashion Crime Scenes (2003-2017), is based on vintage crime-scene images Pullen mined from the files of The Los Angeles Police Department and The LA County Coroner's Office.
Drawn to the rich details and compelling stories preserved in the criminal records, Pullen began re-enacting these crime-scenes, with well-known actresses and models, outfitting the "victims" in current haute-couture, and photographing them in her elaborately staged settings.
Photographs from this series employ the power of fashion to disguise, distract, and to draw the viewer's attention away from the otherwise gruesome subjects.
In High Fashion Crime Scenes, Pullen focuses on both social values and taboos while purposely taking aim at the media's exploitation of sex, gender, and violence.
Pullen herself has noted that she targets society's glamorization of violent acts and crimes by literally re-dressing what are deeply disturbing events, forcing the viewer to question their own values and observations.
EMS Legacy Films is a continuing series of short films produced by EMS on artists and exhibitions.
His art films can be seen at
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Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts :
what was I supposed to say oh so I am from a little bit of New York and a little bit of Los Angeles as a kid I was primarily in New York and kind of back and forth my whole life which is cool because I've seen both places transition for my first camera or experience with a camera was I grew up with a bunch of crazy New Yorkers chain-smoking screaming New Yorkers and there was a Polaroid and I grabbed it I was 6 years old grab the Polaroid and I am said freeze and the whole room 20 New Yorkers screaming over each other froze for a picture and I realized in that moment I wanted to be a photographer that you had this power over anyone really you can get anyone to stop what they're doing pose or listen to you and that was like an amazing power as a six-year-old so that was the first moment my grandmother was the one of the first female photo editors in the world and she was the photo editor for Autobahn magazine which was like a big nature magazine still Autobahn it's really famous and she tried to convince me not to be a photographer and told me for a good part of my life that I was not a good photographer I would never make it and made the stakes much higher for me but I just ignored her and she has always been one of my great inspirations as a woman working in a primarily male-dominated industry which you know never really fazed any of us but we I looked up to her for that and her eye her ability to do things despite the odds it was kind of a major thing for me what was professional gaze oh boy my first okay so when I was around 18 or 19 I got a the Canon like the best Canon at the time and I got you know I started doing like some portrait stuff and I got like some jobs shooting wedding dresses and I was very into angles and light and playing with these like almost like a classic a classical style of photography and I was working in the darkroom I was working with this guy kind of doing his darkroom stuff so I was just teaching myself everything and then from that I moved into like a lot of music photography and did some pictures with the Rolling Stone and I did some of the very very first pictures of the Black Keys which was I I think I shot them the first picture ever used in Rolling Stone of the Black Keys which was like long before they were there playing little tiny gigs around town which is cool you know I got really fascinated by crime scene photography and realized like I grew up with all artists every my mother was a painter I you know anything else like I didn't know how to have a normal job I did not go to art school it didn't occur to me to go to art school because I was just always doing it I was kind of looking at art as or photography is an art form and that was what it really wasn't it was just starting to get a little recognition as an art but art collectors were not collecting photos you talked to somebody about like that collected art and you'd say well why don't you get a photo and they were just confused by you and painters would be really nasty and be like you're not an artist you're a photographer but there's like this this thing going on and I was really like in my mind I was as much a painter as a photographer so I I never saw it like that because I didn't know how to use a camera it was just a tool to get what was in my and onto paper can't my canvas so I decided to do a big art show and came across a space and you know I remember telling my father like you know I'm doing this art show it's gonna be amazing and all these giant art pieces and photos and later he told me after I did the show because I was just sitting there thinking what the fuck is she talking about what art so so I did this I got this amazing space in Silverlake it was a space that was owned by the woman who owned the paramour and she had a 4,000 square foot warehouse and I got you know I did all half the crime-scene photos and I blew them up really big and then we were hanging the work and I had this moment where I was like I only have a hundred people and my mailing list like who the hell am I gonna invite to my art show I'd spent all my money all my money was gone like I had no money and there was like this whole thing where somebody was like I know someone who knows someone who has the MOCA mailing list and if you show up with $20 in an alley we'll give you the MOCA mailing list and I was like driving over I still don't know what mailing list this was but I gave some lady in an alley who was angry $20 and it got this incredible mailing list and mailed out like 4,000 hard invites of the piece that's now in the Getty of the hanging woman to the MOCA a parent allegedly the mocha mailing list and knew I was expecting like drop-off and that that opening night there was like thousands of people showed up to the thing it was like a wine down and around the block of I think they all thought it was some mocha I did multiple solo shows with ace calorie so city block except I did the crime scenes in Korea I did it like the Korea of or the ACE type Kokosing of Korea I did a big solo show there and gangam I did I've shown it in Japan just all over the world I get the MOCA Florida is so a show there and recently the work was including icons of style at the Getty Museum which they also acquired the piece and own the own now high the high fashion crime scenes is in the Getty and I have a survey show coming up with the moa Museum and probably a bunch of I have a book coming out in Japan crime scene seriously the logistics oh okay so for high fashion crime scenes I the way I went about it was I I went to the Chief of Police I kind of stalked him a little bit at the time it was bråten who was the chief of police in Los Angeles and I told them about my series and I always had this like thing like if I want needed something this is secret one of my secrets I just talk forever and then people just kind of say okay okay whatever you mean get out of here so he ended up giving me like full access to the LA crime scene archive and I got the this amazing archive and really what I'm doing is I'm exploiting these images and these these horrible things that have happened so I'm recreating them in fashion and glamming them up as kind of a social commentary in a tongue-in-cheek way but it's also pretty messed up and so I did that for I worked with and I set up a series of rules like the one thing I I do instinctively and I don't know why but whenever I start a series I set up guidelines so instinctively with the crime scenes I for myself I said okay I'm not going to work with any picture post-1950 I'm primarily looking for crime scenes where the victim is you know John or Jane Doe like they're you they're on identified or the crime file was lost I'm yeah working with you know images that open up a story to me to me it's a end to a story so it should almost like open up this whole world so I had these these rules and the high dashing crime scenes became the feminine series and after I did war series which was the masculine they kind of play off each other so there was like four that and that and then I got to know that la I was doing an autopsy recreation so I got to know the LA County coroner at the time who is this guy David Campbell he was the chief of the coroner's office and he came to a lot of my shows it was really a nice person you know I was just working with these people and realizing like the how interesting this whole facet of life is in this the science behind it the forensics and the and now I'm actually on the advisory board of the school of forensics in Los Angeles which is like one of the biggest ones so I'm working with them a lot now to help with equipment and stuff so for high fashion crime scenes I for the locations I would look for areas that either replicated the exact crime scene or the exact location of the crime scene so oftentimes it would be I would recreate this place up to like sometimes I had a crew of a you know some of my shoots involved up to a hundred people to recreate these scenes but like you I hand-built rooms and recreated like all these little things and going to prop houses and built walls like it early on I was doing it all myself I would buy a fabric downtown and glue it onto a wall to create the wallpaper and you know and the fashion actually when I first started I had no money or recognition in the fashion industry so I I did have an American Express card so I would go to Barney's and buy up to like $10,000 and clothes a day because there's a no limit on your and if you get American Express eights like they gauged the like I don't know how they do it but it's just limitless money and I would go buy everything and then return it the next day and like they hated me and then eventually Barney's like start supporting me and I got featured in The New York Times the first T magazine which was cool and they I mentioned Barney's and then the next thing you know I was like oh come borrow stuff from us and and early on like the Rodarte day girls would bring clothes to my like once I started getting pressed they would bring clothes to my house and designers started sending me stuff so it got a lot easier but early on it was like I was falling I was like on the brink of going to jail oh yeah so high – in crime scenes yeah high fashion crime scenes was all guerilla style like I I there were moments where we snuck into the LA River and you know my crew I had all my stylist and the models and then help police helicopters came in and we were like literally running from the police to get away because we're there illegally so it was a you know I used to really love kind of that risk and then I started the next series you know I was showing I always have this like theory and maybe it's not totally ethical but I feel like you do whatever you need to do to get the art done not anything harming people of course but you do what you need to do and then once you start like making money and doing stuff you start to like get more legitimate so now I'm for you know 10 15 years I'd get it's a very legit well I being a big I'm very into Hasselblad I have a why I'm not like committed to any brand I used like for the last project I did and um I but Hasselblad has been the one that was kind of a game changer for me where I could really blow the work up to ten footprints which is kind of like what I'm known for are these giant photos I love my Hasselblad I went and for years I did only shock them and finally when the camera when they hit the 50 megapixel one it was like okay I can buy this camera and finally digital works for me so and the other camera I love that play with it's not really a what I use for my art as much but I love this Sony r7 whatever and it has this capability of shooting like an almost pitch black and you can make it like day it's really a beautiful camera the chip is I don't know what it is it's magic camera I love it yeah so yeah I'm totally self-taught I was rejected from art school and my family really didn't have the funds to send me to school so I it really didn't occur to me there was just a moment where I was like I'd like to go to Art Center and then I went in it was like I want to go to hurt senator they're like no so never went dart Center yeah so for me when it became I knew I loved photography but was about this visualization like every picture and even now I see exactly the image what I see it done in my head so it becomes my whole processes problem-solving I do all my own lighting everything is but it's problem-solving like how do I get this to look like what's in my head and it's maybe a maybe it's like a process of extraction I'm extracting what's in my little brain so that's how I learned I mean and at in the beginning I'm shooting with a cannon some of the first pictures I did nobody was blowing up 35 millimeter jayegi into these giant prints I was one of the first people to do that and but I knew I had to because it was in my head and all I had was a 35-millimeter camera I didn't know how ayuh so I didn't know anything so I had an auto like the first pictures I ever did were just Auto on my camera and early you know 19 whatever 98 and so to get the print super big from these little 35 millimeter neg negatives I started thinking like okay digital is coming in and how are these billboards so big so I found this guy that was involved in making billboards and I found this crazy software that would reap Ixil ate my pixels and then suddenly I could blow up these these pictures so they were massive it was like you know weird weird computing I'm pretty good with computer stuff so I would just do these weird increments of 10% and 10% and add these pixels in and then like work magic but you know by if I knew I was doing if I actually knew I probably would have been shooting with a large-format matte camera and nothing would look the way it looks like I have a very defined look because it's all been my invention my favorite photographers like I love and it's not what I do by have a dream of doing it when I'm very old I love war journalism so a lot of my favorite photographers are war journalists I always say there's like creating moments and capturing moments and it's definitely capturing moments is the art of war journalism but for the people that remain favorite are the great cinnamon hog refers I'm very inspired by movies and cinema miss cinephile you know the the great cinematographers have always been my inspiration and I'm bad with me is why I couldn't like and a lot of the old like French new-wave I love that like rawness we don't need all these fancy Hollywood lights or giant trucks we're gonna just film movie and make a movie I like that so that's a lot of my inspiration okay besides photography I do DJ but that's more of like I think an outlet for me it's so different from I kind of fell into it with friends my friend Chris Holmes who I'm just now on tour with Paul McCartney he opens for Paul McCartney is amazing once asked me to DJ with him at the Roosevelt Hotel million years ago it was so much fun and and for me when I'm editing photos I'm always listening to music so it really inspires me visually and as a photographer as opposed to a filmmaker you can listen to things if you're on a deadline or working all night you know your that gets me through the night so that became kind of like a way for me to just immerse myself into what another thing I love but another thing another reason why I do is I used to have a lot of parties at my house and I got sick of cleaning up everybody just got to hang out at the wherever I'm doing that it's easier but it's a it's a lot fun it's it's also like a thing where you're not like isolated you're around people so it's just it's a different feeling yes I love Los Angeles for years there was always this thing growing up where in New York I would come to visit my family in LA or vice-versa and in New Yorkers hated people from LA they would just say hey did they be like oh god you're going to lay it so horrible and I was it gets terrible it's like 80 degrees in the winter whoa so I always had a fondness for LA but the there was a little bit of the thing with like that it wasn't as sophisticated as New York and now it is now it's hit I think New York got kind of you know artists are constantly driven out of places in LA is just at that in that little area right now where artists can have spaces and here and there finally as a community they're real galleries here it's become a pretty important place I think internationally and culturally a lot of my New York friends are here now now everybody loves that by the way now that like they forgot about that like pudding la but I I don't know that I would ever I like to go back to New York to visit but I don't think I'd moved back there at this point it's just a different city it's kind of sad to go back there it's not like it was growing up the old days


Finding a career they'll love.
Developing the skills that'll make them true rock stars in future careers.
It starts with a summer job.
The Ohio Travel Association is piloting a program with the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Zoombezi Bay and The Wilds to raise awareness of our front-line jobs as valuable career training experiences. It also changes the conversation about these jobs as they recruit workers. Opportunities exist for other attractions, museums and businesses who hire students to take part in this innovative opportunity.
Finding enough workers – particularly during peak visitation months – is a challenge for many Ohio businesses, including many of our members. At the same time, those outside the industry sometimes talk about our jobs as being only entry level. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as more than 53% of our total workers earn middle-class wages and higher.
A few years ago, US Travel released research showing how those who start their careers in the travel economy end up making more money than those that start working in almost every other industry, such as health care and manufacturing. The jobs these folks held were front-line and entry-level, and a lot of them started working in high school. It got us thinking about how we could leverage this finding to not only help Ohioans in their careers, but also to make our front-line job opportunities stand out.
JP Morgan Chase and Co. also did summer job research, and it shows how youth who are employed are more likely to stay in school, more likely to graduate high school and have higher earnings as young adults. Another study proved that part-time work by students results in higher earnings even when they are in their 40s and 50s.
OTA started attending Ohio Department of Education meetings and conferences to learn more about how students choose careers and what influences these choices. We also met with the Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation to get to know their programs and priorities. In the process, we learned about a new program called the Career Readiness Seal.
Students earning the Career Readiness Seal are granted a diploma distinction identifying them as having 15 of the top skills needed for success – a majority of which can be learned during a summer job. Learn more about these skills and the seal here.
Our idea was pretty straightforward – how can businesses in the travel industry who employ high school students be part of this program.
We worked with the Ohio Department of Education and the Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation on a concept, then we connected them to HR leadership at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium to test the idea.
This week, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium launched The Edge program. While working in paid positions at the zoo and its subsidiaries, students can earn the diploma seal while building skills in leadership, teamwork, etc. To make it work, the zoo created its own rubric demonstrating the required skills workers must exhibit to earn the seal, as well as a rubric to assist supervisors in identifying the behaviors that must be demonstrated. Students are assigned mentors (supervisors) who evaluate them for these skills. As part of the program, the zoo is also holding parent meetings at local schools to tell them about the opportunity. .
"We are proud to offer the Edge Program to the many talented, motivated high school students in our community who are looking to enhance their skills and demonstrate their advanced proficiency in working in a professional setting," said Columbus Zoo and Aquarium President and CEO Tom Stalf.
Interested in Launching a Program at Your Business or in Your Community?
OTA invites you to contact Melinda Huntley at mhuntley@ohiotravel.org if you want to explore launching a similar program for your workers.


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Our first stop in Germany was Hamburg. Since its inception it has been a vital seaport, and to this day still beats with the heart of a sailor. You can feel the toughness and grit of the place the moment you step out in the streets. There is nothing fancy about it. Hamburg is a "what you see is what you get" kind of place. The people of Hamburg are rough, hardworking and not necessarily the kind that take too well to joking around. Even though the Library of Congress disputes this fact, White Castle restaurants says it traces the hamburger's origin back to this old shipping town. So, naturally we had to look for one as soon as we had locked away our things at the local backpackers' hostel. We came across a place called Saints & Sinners and we each had three different variations of an exquisite burger. True or not, believing that the iconic sandwich was conceived here made it taste that much better. At the end of this meal we came to the shocking conclusion that many businesses in Germany do not except credit cards, and that cash is not only king, but in most cases your only option. Luckily my all-knowing mother had prepared me with ample Euros before I left. This was the first realization of the many stark cultural differences we would soon discover here.
The only knowledge I had of Hamburg before arriving there was of the many shows the Beatles played there before the British Invasion. On Reeperbahn street, which is what seemed to be a Germanic version of Bourbon Street, are sleek hollowed out (silhouettes) of the Fab Four paying homage to the times they graced the town before they became bigger then Jesus in Germany.
Hamburg, and what I would soon find out, Germany as a whole was the first place on my journey where I didn't feel welcomed. This was a city build on blue collar work that takes great pride in their beloved nation's past, present and future.
That pride is more visible here than anywhere else I had visited in Europe. This was the first country that hung their flags out their windows. They even had German flags them waving off their cars just like we do back in the states to cheer on our local football team. Smiling locals were pretty hard to come by… until they started drinking. Once they were sauced up the people seemed to be jolly, loud and remove their hard outer shell. Yes, we all get similar effects after we have a few, but here it was much more visible that the weight of their world was lifted off of their shoulders the deeper they dove into their night.
From Hamburg we traveled to Berlin a place which is a place I had read a lot about before but soon realized I knew very little about. If you flip through the pages of a world history book you will notice a disproportionate amount of the chaos over the last century stems from a single location – Berlin. This city has found and lost itself many times in many different ways since its inspection and has treasures, triumph and scars unlike any other modern city. Berlin is now the thriving centerpiece to a country that is the economic overlord of Europe. Even with that the effects of its past transgressions are visible throughout the cityscape. When you are attentive to it you see how it shapes the lives of those who dwell there today. It's a city where the people seem to have done their very best to forget about the horrors their nation once fueled and focus on the potential of Germany's future.
It is a city that for decades was separated by a wall that represented much more than just a border between nations, but a stark line drawn between two polarized views on life. Talking to some locals I learned that the ideological divide that the wall created is in some cases still seen today between those who are from the West and East making Berlin a city with a shared heart but split personalities. I figured there was no way better to truly experience this Germanic pride then fully amercing myself in what is a national celebration. So, I watched the German nation soccer team's opening match of EuroCup 2016 on a massive screen lit up behind the Brandenburg Gate with over 10,000 of their most invigorated supporter.
The emotions of the entire nation weighed on each roll of the ball. This national pride was something I have never really experienced so closely before. It felt much more like they were cheering for their country to prove its dominance as a whole rather than just on the soccer pitch. I've been lucky enough to have a been a several high stakes sport events, but never have I seen or felt the kind of intensity that was buzzing here. They roared when Germany scored, and collectively gasped when Ukraine had the faintest chance of scoring a goal. The man behind us grabbed us and yelled "If you're not here to watch futbol, then you leave!" as my friend and I casually turned to each other to comment on a play. The intensity was embodied in the multitude of "Deutschland chants" throughout the match as Germans from all over the country ravenously participated in this nearly religious event.
Germany stands out as a beacon of hope that shines through the uncertinty and turmoil which are indicative of modern life. They are a nation that is dedicated to not letting their past define them and one that is taking the lead in securing a stable and peaceful future for not just themselves but for the world.
It is 6 am in Stockholm, and we had just touched down from Reykjavik, Iceland. Lugging our sleepless selves off the jet-bridge with our lives strapped to our backs we stumbled toward the airport exit. Our passports were ready in hand expecting to be greeted by the friendly face of Swedish or EU customs agent. There was no such encounter. It wasn't that the individual wasn't nice it was that there was no customs check at all. I was expecting one since this was our first stop in the EU. So, we freely strolled into Sweden. Delirious and a bit bewildered that there was no record in our passports that we had entered Sweden. We hopped on a high-speed train heading for Stockholm Central Station. We were dropped off in the heart of what we would come to know as a pristine city. We had no place to go or any place to stay yet, so we did what any two sleep deprived American twenty somethings would do – we looked for a bar! Since it was 7 am on a Sunday, we couldn't find one with its doors open. So instead we found ourselves laying down in a park back to back resting each of our heads on our backpacks on a beautiful Sunday morning.
The city was sleeping, dead silent and entirely peaceful. The only noise one could hear was the faint hum of the few passing cars, the birds chirping and the wind wrestling with the surrounding trees. I realized in that moment that the real adventure had begun. I wasn't exactly sure where we were. Okay, I had absolutely no clue where we were, but my level of contentment with very high.
There was an owl hooting nearby, and it's hooting was acting as the baseline to the songs that nature was blissfully reciting. The grass was the most spectacular of greens as if each blade was freshly painted. The air had a lovely chill like someone knew what temperature to set it at for our optimal comfort. There could not be a more picturesque little park to rest in. What we seemed to have stumbled upon was an oasis of serenity in the midst of a city that would soon be teeming with life. In Europe's smallest large city Sundays are seen as an actual day of rest where nothing except a few coffee shops open their doors before 11.
After our attempt at a nap we headed to the heart of Old Town Stockholm just to be greeted by a police escorted procession with hundreds of soldiers on horses surrounding what we came to find out was the Swedish Royal Family. I was under the impression that they heard I was in town even though no customs agent could have made them aware of that. I found out later that they were doing a practice run for the procession that would be occurring the following day which happened to be Swedish national day. The Swedish people don't celebrate their national day anything like we do back in America much to our disappointment. We were told that is a day where most people "go out on boats, drink champagne and enjoy some fresh strawberries." That statement gave pretty good idea of who these people are. Stockholm is a pristine city. On our first day we walked 18 miles around the city. During all that walking I didn't see one part of it that wasn't either beautiful or clean or a stunning combination of both.
I had never seen such a place like Stockholm. It is like a real world fairytale, something as close to a utopia that any place could ever be. The streets were lined with fantastic store fronts, shops and restaurants from all around the world. The main thoroughfare has classic, borderline pretentious restaurants sprinkled in-between some of the world's most well-known brands like Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton and TGI Fridays. Yes, I said TGI Fridays, which for some reason seems to be a decently cool place to go in this little wonderland. The citizens of Stockholm are all sweet, well put together, beautiful and educated. Every time you turn your head you see something that catches your eye. Whether it is a beautiful Scandinavian woman or a building cascaded with the history that its opulent architecture attempts to tell you about. Their culture is the highest I've ever seen and their nightlife is some of the most spectacular on the planet.
This place almost feels like a different planet with its own logic. Everything about this place is wonderfully paradoxical from the frozen warmth to colorful darkness to her midnight suns. Founded by a pretty unhappy, violent bunch, the Vikings, around the year 871. It has been sustained by some of the happiest, most peaceful people alive today. The actual term Viking means to go to a place and take what is not yours which is something the Icelandic people take great pride in. Again, this is entirely in contrast to the morals and schools of thought that drive the nation today. Iceland is currently one of the most liberal democratic welfare states in the world.
Around 350,00 people call this tiny frozen wonder island home, and this year alone they are opening their arms to a record high 1.7 million tourists. Iceland's capital, largest and only actual city sits on the 46th parallel making Reykjavik the northern most capital in the world. We landed at 4:30 in the morning with our western-facing window blinds open, allowing the sun that perpetually shines this time of year to warm our faces. The airport gave me a good idea of what the rest of the country would operate like. It was simple, clean and the people were openly trusting.
There is no national army here. Police do not carry guns, and government buildings are all open to the public with no security. There was one recorded death by the department a few years back in which they had a stand-off for 7 hours with a suicidal man wielding a shotgun in town. Police consistently attempted to ask him to place it on the ground with no success. The department finally had to call in their SWOT team, who are the only ones who do have weapons, to shoot the man down. The next day the Icelandic citizens peacefully protested this murder leading to the police department releasing an official apology the next day saying they could have done more and they are deeply sorry. I can only imagine how different both parties' actions would have been if this incident would have occurred stateside.
Christmas is a huge deal here where for decades the 13 Icelandic Santas individually drop treats or potatoes in the shoes of children if they leave one on their window sill. These Santas come one day at a time starting on the first of December till January 6th. Each one of these gifting elves has a name like Pot Scrapper, Window Peeper or Sausage Stealer. That is until Coke-a-Cola got here. They changed the way Santa was seen and introduced the jolly red suited man I grew up accustom to.
This tiny island in the middle of the northern Atlantic Ocean is home to more natural resources than most countries could ever imagine. The whole island sits atop geothermal pools which fuel one of the nation's largest pastimes: hot tubbing. These pools also allow the entire nation to be run on all renewable energy sources. The world's largest glacier finds a home here as a neighbor to multiple volcanos and the geyser that gives all geysers their names. Iceland is made entirely of volcanic rock and sits upon the boundary of the North American and Eurasian continental tectonic plates. The countryside is sprawling and takes your breath away acting as a natural embodiment of the local's peaceful demeanor.
The citizens here are some of the most educated in the world and have a deep knowledge of their beloved nation's history and a passion for preserving its natural and ideological beauty. Iceland has had one Nobel prize winner in its history, but that still gives them more Nobel prize winners per capita than any other country in the world. Similar to most countries the main problems they struggle with are the urbanization of its city leading to gentrification and inflation, a growing wealth gap, particular citizens straining their government sponsored social systems and that same government being corrupted by larger corporations.
Iceland is a place where some of the world's most wonderful, beautiful and proud people call home. The sun shines for 24 hours straight in the summer allowing for the nightlife to thrive deep into the wee hours of the morning with no lull. Sitting outside a coffee shop in the town square enjoying a perfectly crafted cappuccino I notice that everyone here seems to enjoy life and live in the moment in a way that is uniquely Icelandic. A tour guide told me that Icelanders rarely think more than three years ahead, which is in part, the reason for the drastic volatility of their economy. This also gives them the ability to intentionally live in the present. It seems like every conversation with a local leads to a contradiction whether in their personal belief or a fact. What's interesting is that in no way do you ever feel like you are being coerced because each person is genuine, and what they say they really believe.
Iceland is by far one of the most interesting, beautiful and wonderful places I have ever experienced. I would encourage anyone to make the voyage here at least once. That said, the locals wouldn't mind if you didn't out of a fear that is rampant that the new 6 million annual tourist cap will quickly erode one of the world's best kept secrets.
Advertising is not a profession. Advertising is a sport. It is a constant competition between the globe's most creative minds. It is a business where collaboration summons ideas that change how people view everything that makes up their world. Life is 100% about perspective and what advertising does is give people different lenses to view it through. Advertisers must grasp onto a genuine understanding of how all facets of our world work. Each of us is continuously learning about our evolving world in search of truths about humanity. Like all sports there are winners and losers in advertising too. In this game the winners get more work and the losers use that feeling in the pit of their stomachs to light a fire beneath them to earn more work.
At the end of the day the satisfaction of creating something wonderful from a simple idea is what fuels each of us to push the boundaries of what is believed to be possible. This occupation requires each who joins it to keep two fingers of the pulse of the latest trends all in an attempt to create their own. It is not like many other jobs; in the ad world you work with fascinating people in an ecosystem that is pristine for the incubation of creativity. Risk takers are rewarded and failures are celebrated because if you aren't ever failing then you aren't ever thinking big enough.
Advertising is not a profession. Advertising is an art. It is not just about selling a bottle of Coke or redesigning a company logo. What advertising is about is balance. Balancing innovative thinking with real world business objectives in order to shape the cultural landscape that the globe takes for granted. Advertising makes the world as we know it go-round and being a part of the machine that keeps it moving is one of the most rewarding professions anybody could dream of.
Damn it… advertising is totally a profession.
I've never been a great sleeper but on this night my mind has gone wild. It's racing like a wild mustang in an open pasture with no intent on stopping and no idea of where it is going.
The fact that I have 5 weeks left of college hit me like a ton of bricks around 1:25 in the morning, and now I lay in my bed wide awake doing something I hadn't done in quite some time…reminiscing. I'm a 22-year old college student who lives his life a moment at a time but what I just realized is that sometimes we need to step back just to admire all the amazing moments we have lived. The more I think about it the more bewildered I get.
Although I have planned for my next step for quite some time, I find the uncertainty of my future exhilarating. Wherever this wave takes me is where I am meant to be, BUT there are moments when I freak out. Moments like now. For instance, when I realize that in two months I will get to realize one of my lifelong dreams of seeing more of the world. Parts of the globe that people dream of I will get to bask in.
Even though I get to travel and be free it's hard to get over the fact that I've built a dream world here in the Heartland. It's not just over these past four years in Norman, OK but how every experience in my life has led me to this moment. We all say everything happens for a reason, but I wonder how many of us really believe that's the case.
I never want to miss an opportunity for any adventure. I'm not afraid of not finding a place to live or a way to provide for myself. I'm not afraid of anything the future holds.
What I am deathly afraid of is losing touch with the people that have woven themselves into the fabric of my life. Missing these souls might be the hardest and most daunting part of this next phase of life. These are the people who helped craft me into whoever I am today.
Regardless of my fears we all have to carry on with our lives. Time and fate both have undefeated records. That being said, if I am intentional with my actions, I can carry those cherished relationships into my next, unwritten chapter of my life.
If I care about a thing or a person, I tend to form a strong attachment extremely easily. It's a blessing and a curse that makes each moment sweeter but letting go that much harder. I choose to take the good with the bad and roll with any punches life throws at me. So in a way this is a mandate for my future self to always stay in touch with those I admire, like and love because no matter where I end up those relationships are what makes life worth living.


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using namespace clover;

CLOVER_API cl_kernel
clCreateKernel(cl_program d_prog, const char *name, cl_int *r_errcode) try {
   auto &prog = obj(d_prog);

   if (!name)
      throw error(CL_INVALID_VALUE);

   auto &sym = find(name_equals(name), prog.symbols());

   ret_error(r_errcode, CL_SUCCESS);
   return new kernel(prog, name, range(sym.args));

} catch (std::out_of_range &e) {
   ret_error(r_errcode, CL_INVALID_KERNEL_NAME);
   return NULL;

} catch (error &e) {
   ret_error(r_errcode, e);
   return NULL;
}

CLOVER_API cl_int
clCreateKernelsInProgram(cl_program d_prog, cl_uint count,
                         cl_kernel *rd_kerns, cl_uint *r_count) try {
   auto &prog = obj(d_prog);
   auto &syms = prog.symbols();

   if (rd_kerns && count < syms.size())
      throw error(CL_INVALID_VALUE);

   if (rd_kerns)
      copy(map([&](const module::symbol &sym) {
               return desc(new kernel(prog,
                                      std::string(sym.name.begin(),
                                                  sym.name.end()),
                                      range(sym.args)));
            }, syms),
         rd_kerns);

   if (r_count)
      *r_count = syms.size();

   return CL_SUCCESS;

} catch (error &e) {
   return e.get();
}

CLOVER_API cl_int
clRetainKernel(cl_kernel d_kern) try {
   obj(d_kern).retain();
   return CL_SUCCESS;

} catch (error &e) {
   return e.get();
}

CLOVER_API cl_int
clReleaseKernel(cl_kernel d_kern) try {
   if (obj(d_kern).release())
      delete pobj(d_kern);

   return CL_SUCCESS;

} catch (error &e) {
   return e.get();
}

CLOVER_API cl_int
clSetKernelArg(cl_kernel d_kern, cl_uint idx, size_t size,
               const void *value) try {
   obj(d_kern).args().at(idx).set(size, value);
   return CL_SUCCESS;

} catch (std::out_of_range &e) {
   return CL_INVALID_ARG_INDEX;

} catch (error &e) {
   return e.get();
}

CLOVER_API cl_int
clGetKernelInfo(cl_kernel d_kern, cl_kernel_info param,
                size_t size, void *r_buf, size_t *r_size) try {
   property_buffer buf { r_buf, size, r_size };
   auto &kern = obj(d_kern);

   switch (param) {
   case CL_KERNEL_FUNCTION_NAME:
      buf.as_string() = kern.name();
      break;

   case CL_KERNEL_NUM_ARGS:
      buf.as_scalar<cl_uint>() = kern.args().size();
      break;

   case CL_KERNEL_REFERENCE_COUNT:
      buf.as_scalar<cl_uint>() = kern.ref_count();
      break;

   case CL_KERNEL_CONTEXT:
      buf.as_scalar<cl_context>() = desc(kern.program().context());
      break;

   case CL_KERNEL_PROGRAM:
      buf.as_scalar<cl_program>() = desc(kern.program());
      break;

   default:
      throw error(CL_INVALID_VALUE);
   }

   return CL_SUCCESS;

} catch (error &e) {
   return e.get();
}

CLOVER_API cl_int
clGetKernelWorkGroupInfo(cl_kernel d_kern, cl_device_id d_dev,
                         cl_kernel_work_group_info param,
                         size_t size, void *r_buf, size_t *r_size) try {
   property_buffer buf { r_buf, size, r_size };
   auto &kern = obj(d_kern);
   auto &dev = (d_dev ? *pobj(d_dev) : unique(kern.program().devices()));

   if (!count(dev, kern.program().devices()))
      throw error(CL_INVALID_DEVICE);

   switch (param) {
   case CL_KERNEL_WORK_GROUP_SIZE:
      buf.as_scalar<size_t>() = dev.max_threads_per_block();
      break;

   case CL_KERNEL_COMPILE_WORK_GROUP_SIZE:
      buf.as_vector<size_t>() = kern.required_block_size();
      break;

   case CL_KERNEL_LOCAL_MEM_SIZE:
      buf.as_scalar<cl_ulong>() = kern.mem_local();
      break;

   case CL_KERNEL_PREFERRED_WORK_GROUP_SIZE_MULTIPLE:
      buf.as_scalar<size_t>() = 1;
      break;

   case CL_KERNEL_PRIVATE_MEM_SIZE:
      buf.as_scalar<cl_ulong>() = kern.mem_private();
      break;

   default:
      throw error(CL_INVALID_VALUE);
   }

   return CL_SUCCESS;

} catch (error &e) {
   return e.get();

} catch (std::out_of_range &e) {
   return CL_INVALID_DEVICE;
}

namespace {
   ///
   /// Common argument checking shared by kernel invocation commands.
   ///
   void
   validate_common(const command_queue &q, kernel &kern,
                   const ref_vector<event> &deps) {
      if (kern.program().context() != q.context() ||
          any_of([&](const event &ev) {
                return ev.context() != q.context();
             }, deps))
         throw error(CL_INVALID_CONTEXT);

      if (any_of([](kernel::argument &arg) {
               return !arg.set();
            }, kern.args()))
         throw error(CL_INVALID_KERNEL_ARGS);

      if (!count(q.device(), kern.program().devices()))
         throw error(CL_INVALID_PROGRAM_EXECUTABLE);
   }

   std::vector<size_t>
   validate_grid_size(const command_queue &q, cl_uint dims,
                      const size_t *d_grid_size) {
      auto grid_size = range(d_grid_size, dims);

      if (dims < 1 || dims > q.device().max_block_size().size())
         throw error(CL_INVALID_WORK_DIMENSION);

      if (!d_grid_size || any_of(is_zero(), grid_size))
         throw error(CL_INVALID_GLOBAL_WORK_SIZE);

      return grid_size;
   }

   std::vector<size_t>
   validate_grid_offset(const command_queue &q, cl_uint dims,
                        const size_t *d_grid_offset) {
      if (d_grid_offset)
         return range(d_grid_offset, dims);
      else
         return std::vector<size_t>(dims, 0);
   }

   std::vector<size_t>
   validate_block_size(const command_queue &q, const kernel &kern,
                       cl_uint dims, const size_t *d_grid_size,
                       const size_t *d_block_size) {
      auto grid_size = range(d_grid_size, dims);

      if (d_block_size) {
         auto block_size = range(d_block_size, dims);

         if (any_of(is_zero(), block_size) ||
             any_of(greater(), block_size, q.device().max_block_size()))
            throw error(CL_INVALID_WORK_ITEM_SIZE);

         if (any_of(modulus(), grid_size, block_size))
            throw error(CL_INVALID_WORK_GROUP_SIZE);

         if (fold(multiplies(), 1u, block_size) >
             q.device().max_threads_per_block())
            throw error(CL_INVALID_WORK_GROUP_SIZE);

         return block_size;

      } else {
         return kern.optimal_block_size(q, grid_size);
      }
   }
}

CLOVER_API cl_int
clEnqueueNDRangeKernel(cl_command_queue d_q, cl_kernel d_kern,
                       cl_uint dims, const size_t *d_grid_offset,
                       const size_t *d_grid_size, const size_t *d_block_size,
                       cl_uint num_deps, const cl_event *d_deps,
                       cl_event *rd_ev) try {
   auto &q = obj(d_q);
   auto &kern = obj(d_kern);
   auto deps = objs<wait_list_tag>(d_deps, num_deps);
   auto grid_size = validate_grid_size(q, dims, d_grid_size);
   auto grid_offset = validate_grid_offset(q, dims, d_grid_offset);
   auto block_size = validate_block_size(q, kern, dims,
                                         d_grid_size, d_block_size);

   validate_common(q, kern, deps);

   auto hev = create<hard_event>(
      q, CL_COMMAND_NDRANGE_KERNEL, deps,
      [=, &kern, &q](event &) {
         kern.launch(q, grid_offset, grid_size, block_size);
      });

   ret_object(rd_ev, hev);
   return CL_SUCCESS;

} catch (error &e) {
   return e.get();
}

CLOVER_API cl_int
clEnqueueTask(cl_command_queue d_q, cl_kernel d_kern,
              cl_uint num_deps, const cl_event *d_deps,
              cl_event *rd_ev) try {
   auto &q = obj(d_q);
   auto &kern = obj(d_kern);
   auto deps = objs<wait_list_tag>(d_deps, num_deps);

   validate_common(q, kern, deps);

   auto hev = create<hard_event>(
      q, CL_COMMAND_TASK, deps,
      [=, &kern, &q](event &) {
         kern.launch(q, { 0 }, { 1 }, { 1 });
      });

   ret_object(rd_ev, hev);
   return CL_SUCCESS;

} catch (error &e) {
   return e.get();
}

CLOVER_API cl_int
clEnqueueNativeKernel(cl_command_queue d_q, void (*func)(void *),
                      void *args, size_t args_size,
                      cl_uint num_mems, const cl_mem *d_mems,
                      const void **mem_handles, cl_uint num_deps,
                      const cl_event *d_deps, cl_event *rd_ev) {
   return CL_INVALID_OPERATION;
}

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An advertising company put a park up for sale in Egleston Square. Residents are fighting back.
"The peace garden is like the heart of Egleston Square."
The Egleston Square Peace Garden is up for sale. Pat Greenhouse / The Boston Globe
By Ethan Steinberg
Dozens of Egleston Square residents, community leaders, business owners, and elected officials gathered outside Robert Lawson Park in Roxbury last month amid rain and near-freezing temperatures for the neighborhood's annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
There was music, hot chocolate, and churros. Mayor Michelle Wu was there, as was state Rep. Liz Malia, who represents the area in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
But the ceremony, which residents of the neighborhood straddling Roxbury and Jamaica Plain have taken part in for over a decade, felt different this year — and not only because it was raining, Rosana Rivera, owner of Latino Beauty Salon in Egleston Square, told Boston.com.
For the first time in more than a decade, the neighborhood's illuminated Christmas tree wasn't located in the community's park better known as the "Peace Garden."
Instead, the tree was housed down the block, because its usual home in the garden on the corner of Washington and School Streets was blocked off by a fence. Trash had been piling up, needles were left on the ground, and the park was on the market — for $1.1 million.
For more than two decades, local residents and many Black-, Latino- and immigrant-owned businesses in Egleston Square stewarded the nearly 5,500-square-foot parcel of land. It's become a performance venue, a garden, a memorial site, and a "flashpoint for activism" over the years in the neighborhood, which has struggled with youth violence, disinvestment, and houselessness, among other challenges, according to residents.
"The garden itself is more than just a green space or a park," Malia told Boston.com. "It's kind of a monument to a community that has worked through some difficult problems. It just brings back some of the history and helps people reconnect with each other."
The space, once a vacant lot, contains a billboard that since 1980 has been operated by Clear Channel Outdoor, a multinational, multibillion-dollar outdoor advertising company that maintains billboards, wallscapes and other advertising spaces throughout the world. Malia said she believes the billboard was installed at the location because, when it was built, it was located just down the street from where the MBTA's elevated Orange Line stopped. When the subway was rerouted in 1987, the billboard remained. And since the late 1990s, the billboard has hung over, and right in the middle of, the neighborhood's only green space: the peace garden.
Now, the advertising company has listed the park for sale, suggesting to prospective buyers in the online listing that the space is "ideal for an affordable or mixed-income residential development with ground floor commercial use." The listing shows renderings of a multi-story housing complex that could occupy the space.
Since the property hit the market in early December, local residents have fought back, with nearly 400 signing a petition calling for the corporation to transfer ownership of the property to the city, which could maintain the space for public use.
"Clear Channel has really gotten a huge amount of free labor from the community in terms of maintenance and upkeep of this space over the years," Jacob Bor, a local resident and active member of the neighborhood association that helped organize the petition drive, told Boston.com.
The property was listed for sale after community members struggled for years to sustain the attention of Clear Channel and negotiate an agreement to govern use of the space, according to Denise Delgado, executive director of Egleston Square Main Street, a local nonprofit that dedicates resources to public space revitalization.
Clear Channel maintained a lease with ESAC Boston, another local nonprofit, from 2003–2018. Delgado said the agreement provided community organizations the legal grounds to take ownership of the property's design and use the space for cookouts, small festivals, film screenings, and various other activities.
The park grew into a community space, despite private ownership.
Memorial bricks commemorate victims of violence at the garden. – Pat Greenhouse / The Boston Globe
In addition to the annual Christmas tree lighting — which became a tradition over the years, drawing the attendance of the mayor — murals were installed. Picnics were held. The park also features a layer of memorial bricks commemorating local youth who died as a result of youth violence.
"The peace garden is like the heart of Egleston Square," Rivera, the local salon owner, said. "I cannot imagine Egleston Square without that being a space."
The residents' petition was delivered late last month to the mayor's office and to Rick Waechter, the regional president of Clear Channel's Boston branch.
Waechter did not respond to multiple requests for comment from Boston.com.
Days after the petition was delivered, residents received a response from officials in Mayor Wu's office saying the city had reached out to Clear Channel to open conversations about the land.
"The Egleston Square community has taken responsibility for the Peace Garden and transformed it into a space for collective healing and joy," Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, chief of environment, energy and open space for the city, said in a statement to Boston.com. "The City applauds this important work and is looking into ways we can support the neighborhood's efforts."
Local residents allege the parcel of land was only placed on the market after Clear Channel discovered that a nearby warehouse sold last summer for $2 million.
According to Delgado, prior to that discovery Clear Channel was considering donating the land to the community.
But she said the move was only under consideration for Clear Channel after the company declined to re-sign a lease with the community, citing "liability concerns."
After the initial lease expired in 2018, community members continued to maintain the space as a park. But Delgado said increasingly, local residents with substance abuse disorders, some of them living unsheltered, used the space to gather and drink. The community had trouble reaching Clear Channel, and residents allege the company failed to maintain the space.
Instead, Delgado said, local business owners would "put on gloves, grab rakes, and in the middle of their work days, clean up trash" in the park.
Rivera was one of those business owners. She said she made friends with some of the people who hung out in the park, and she worked with local agencies to provide resources and outreach to them.
"We made community with the homeless, with the merchants, with the neighbors," Rivera said. "I've gotten to know a lot of people that, without the peace garden, I don't think I would have known. We're like a family here."
But with Clear Channel allegedly unwilling to sign a lease similar to the one that expired in 2018, community organizations have been denied funding from the city to perform repairs since they lack a legal right to the space, according to Delgado.
Three local community organizations, including Delgado's, were in line to jointly receive $150,000 in grant funding in May 2020 through the city's Community Preservation Act. The act provides funds for affordable housing and to help neighborhoods preserve open space, among other things.
But the funds, which the organizations planned to use to revitalize the park, were never delivered, with Clear Channel never having signed an agreement that would have allowed the organizations to receive the grant money, according to Delgado.
With the community lacking the resources to maintain the park and Clear Channel allegedly neglecting to devote consistent attention to the space, the property fell into decline, residents say.
"The community health issues that we have in Egleston, and the opioid epidemic, and the way homelessness has increased during the pandemic: All of those things are part of the story of the peace garden and part of what made it really challenging for the community to continue to put resources into it," Delgado said. "For a neighborhood to work, everyone has to invest in it. Property owners have to contribute."
City officials in November declared the space a public health hazard and Clear Channel enclosed it with a fence, according to the community petition.
In December, it was listed for sale.
But residents, community leaders and elected officials are optimistic that the park's ownership will ultimately land in the public's hands.
"I think the major players are at the table, and we're hopefully going to be able to work something out with the help of the city," Malia said. "We're very hopeful that things are going to get resolved and we'll have a real tree lighting this time next year in Egleston, at the peace garden."
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory keeps watch on the sun constantly. What it found recently is incredible. A filament appeared on the sun a few days ago and stretches for 1 million miles. It's hard to even imagine 1 million miles. NASA tries to help and compares the filament to 100 times the size of Earth.
You can see the filament below as a dark line snaking across the upper right portion of the sun. Filaments are fascinating because they aren't actually on the sun. They hover just above it and are suspended by the sun's powerful magnetic forces.
These same magnetic forces make filaments incredibly unstable, but they can last for days and in some cases weeks.
The image above was captured in different wavelengths. Here's NASA's Steele Hill explaining the different wavelengths used to capture the images.
The brownish combination image was produced by blending two wavelengths of extreme UV light with a wavelength of 193 and 335 Angstroms. The red image shows the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme UV light.
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Q: Is AudioSource.Play() async a function? Expectation

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*first, the Brick produces a sound.

*then, the Brick disappears.

Code
public class Brick : MonoBehaviour
{
    private AudioSource _audio;

    public void Awake()
    {
        _audio = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
    }

    public void OnCollisionEnter2D()
    {
        _audio.Play();
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

Result
the Brick produces no sound and the Brick disappears.
I wonder why the Brick produces no sound.
Guess
reference
does not say that it is async, however, AudioSource.Play() is async function?
codicil
of course, the gameObject attaced c#Brick.cs has valid AudioSource.
So when I write code at Start() like this , Brick produces a sound properly.
public void Start()
{
    _audio.Play();
}

A: Yes, it is async. If it wasn't async your whole game would freeze until the sound effect is played. One way to solve your issue is to have one GameObject dedicated to being AudioSource and then using AudioSource.PlayOneShot to play all the sound effects.
Another option would be to destroy the Brick once the audio is played. You should probably remove/disable the SpriteRenderers and colliders so the block wouldn't be visible. Destroy has second parameter, which is the delay before the object is destroyed.
Example code for the second option:
_audio.Play();
GetComponent<Collider2D>().enabled = false;
GetComponent<Renderer>().enabled = false;
Destroy(gameObject, _audio.clip.length);

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Definition: Zero trust is a cybersecurity strategy and framework for cloud and mobile security that emphasizes that by default, no user or application should be trusted. By ensuring that a zero trust architecture is in place, all users, whether in or outside the organization's network, need to be authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated for security configuration and posture before being granted or keeping access to applications and data.
Zero Trust explained
Following a fundamental zero trust principle - least-privileged access controls and strict user authentication - trust should be established contextually, with policy checks at each stage, (e.g., user identity and location, the security posture of the endpoint, the application or service being requested) as a zero trust principle is based on the premise that there is no such thing as a traditional network edge and that networks can be local, in the cloud, hybrid, or a combination of both, with people and resources spread around the globe.
The Zero Trust architecture implies that there are attackers both within and outside the network, hence no users or machines should be automatically trusted. Zero Trust authenticates user identities and privileges, as well as device identities and security. Once established, logins and connections time out on a regular basis, requiring users and devices to be constantly re-verified.
Zero Trust leverages technologies such as multi-factor authentication, IAM (Identity and Access Management), orchestration, analytics, encryption, scoring, and file system permissions to deliver this. Zero Trust also advocates for governance policies such as granting users the least amount of access necessary to accomplish a specific task.
By following the Core Principles of a Zero Trust model, this stricter approach to security has been shown to prevent data breaches.
Utimaco provides a range of solutions and services that help setting up zero trust architectures even in decentralized and geographically distributed structures.
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Two design and lifestyle media powerhouses – MWC Media and Indesign – have announced a new collaboration across Australia's TEN television network.
A new exciting contribution to Australian design journalism has been forged with the announcement of an industry-first partnership between Indesign Media Asia Pacific and Australia's producer of lifestyle television programs, MWC Media.
Indesign Media Asia Pacific joins MWC Media's Australia By Design programming as Official Media Partner. Joining all four programming verticals slated by Network TEN for 2019 – Australia By Design Architecture; Interiors; Landscapes; Innovations.
"Separately, Indesign and MWC Media are two authorities in the field of architecture media. Together, we are excited to bring the world of architecture and design to a new, wider-reaching audience of design lovers and architecture enthusiasts. We've always been passionate about design, architecture and its associated industries, and through our core offerings, we have always strived to make design accessible. This new partnership is a natural extension of what we've already been doing for two decades and we cannot wait to share the region's exceptional design talent to even more people," says Raj Nandan, Founder and CEO of Indesign Media Asia Pacific.
Raj Nandan and Mike Chapman represent two of the most significant and wide-reaching media commentators on design in the country. This new combined reach and exposure for the local design industry will be unparalleled in the market.
If you'd like to get involved to want more information, drop a line to Raj and the team.


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Disruption of Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling and Telomeric Shortening Are Inextricable Consequences of Tankyrase Inhibition in Human Cells.
telomere length
Authors: Ozlem O. Kulak, Hua H. Chen, Brody B. Holohan, Xiaofeng X. Wu, Huawei H. He, Dominika D. Borek, Zbyszek Z. Otwinowski, Kiyoshi K. Yamaguchi, Lauren A LA. Garofalo, Zhiqiang Z. Ma, Woodring W. Wright, Chuo C. Chen, Jerry W JW. Shay, Xuewu X. Zhang, Lawrence L. Lum
Published: 05/04/2015, Molecular and cellular biology
Maintenance of chromosomal ends (telomeres) directly contributes to cancer cell immortalization. The telomere protection enzymes belonging to the tankyrase (Tnks) subfamily of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs) have recently been shown to also control transcriptional response to secreted Wnt signaling molecules. Whereas Tnks inhibitors are currently being developed as therapeutic agents for targeting Wnt-related cancers and as modulators of Wnt signaling in tissue-engineering agendas, their impact on telomere length maintenance remains unclear. Here, we leveraged a collection of Wnt pathway inhibitors with previously unassigned mechanisms of action to identify novel pharmacophores supporting Tnks inhibition. A multifaceted experimental approach that included structural, biochemical, and cell biological analyses revealed two distinct chemotypes with selectivity for Tnks enzymes. Using these reagents, we revealed that Tnks inhibition rapidly induces DNA damage at telomeres and telomeric shortening upon long-term chemical exposure in cultured cells. On the other hand, inhibitors of the Wnt acyltransferase Porcupine (Porcn) elicited neither effect. Thus, Tnks inhibitors impact telomere length maintenance independently of their affects on Wnt/β-catenin signaling. We discuss the implications of these findings for anticancer and regenerative medicine agendas dependent upon chemical inhibitors of Wnt/β-catenin signaling.
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The 2018 ANACHEM / Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) Detroit Symposium was held Thursday, Nov. 1 at Burton Manor in Livonia. The conference is devoted to analytical chemistry.
ReBUILDetroit Scholar, Victoria Torres, along with several other University Detroit Mercy students (Kaitlin Lambert, Kayla Marshall, and Danielle Maxwell) presented their research poster, "Development and Validation of a Method Using QuEChERS and Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry for Atrazine Determination in Crayfish (Faxonius virilus)" that received the 2018 Undergraduate Student Award, which recognizes outstanding posters, oral presentations and papers presented during the symposium.
The Association of Analytical Chemists (The ANACHEMS) was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1942 to serve the professional needs of chemists in the Detroit Area. ANACHEM also works closely with the local section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) to organize a one-day symposium and exhibit every year.
2018 ANACHEM / SAS Undergraduate Award Winners (from left to right Victoria Torres, Danielle Maxwell, Kayla Marshall, and Kaitlin Lambert).


Nursery is a very exciting time for young children. They are learning some of the most important lessons in life; to explore, take on challenges, and socialise with other children. They are beginning to develop independence and consideration for others. For some children it is the first time they have ever been away from their grown-ups.
During an academic year our children make lots of progress, develop self-confidence and learning behaviours in readiness for starting full time school the following September.
A major part of school readiness is that we ask parents to pick their child up on time as lateness can be very upsetting for young children.