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Anomie's Winter 2020/21 catalogue now available
Anomie Publishing's Winter 2020/21 brochure is now available to view online and to download, featuring recent and forthcoming titles along with information about our backlist publications. On the cover this season is 'Torso (Lady James)' (2020), a resin, ink and lacquer sculpture by London-based British artist Nick Hornby from his forthcoming publication 'Zygotes and Confessions', co-published with MOSTYN, Wales, UK, on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition at MOSTYN, until April 2021. Also released in January 2021 is the first published book by Jadé Fadojutimi, produced by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London to accompany the second solo exhibition at the gallery by this talented British painter. Whether you're looking for great gift ideas for Christmas, or simply seeking some books to enjoy over the winter lockdown, Anomie has plenty of exciting arts titles to offer.
To view and to download a copy of the Anomie Winter 2020/21 brochure, please click on the image above.
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Now available: Nick Hornby – Zygotes and Confessions
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'Zygotes and Confessions' is a new publication devoted to the work of London-based artist Nick Hornby, and has been produced to accompany his first solo exhibition in a public gallery. The exhibition, which shares its title with the publication, is presented at MOSTYN, Wales, UK, from November 2020 to April 2021.
Hornby is known for his monumental site-specific works that combine digital software with traditional materials such as bronze, steel, granite and marble. In this publication he presents a substantial new body of smaller, more intimate work comprising three discrete yet interrelated series of works inspired by the history of sculptural busts, modernist abstractions and mantelpiece ceramic dogs. United by glossy photographic surfaces created by means of an industrial process in which his marble and resin composite sculptures are dipped into liquid photographs, these new works explore themes of portraiture, the body, identity, sexuality and intimacy in the digital era. A number of the works have been made in collaboration with fashion photographer Louie Banks.
Along with a foreword by Helen Boyd, Head of Marketing and Publisher Relations at the Casemate Group, the publication features a text by MOSTYN director Alfredo Cramerotti and an essay by London-based publisher, editor and writer Matt Price. Price writes: 'With one eye on the sculpture of the past and the other on that of tomorrow, technology is at the heart of London-based Nick Hornby's practice and is central to the production of his often imposing, mind-bending and futuristic-looking sculptures. Using materials such as bronze and marble, his work points back towards the Renaissance or the nineteenth century, yet his use of resin and digital technology positions him very much in the present, exploring languages both figurative and abstract, often simultaneously.'
The texts are presented in both English and Welsh. Newly commissioned studio photography of the works by Ben Westoby, along with installation views of the exhibition commissioned by MOSTYN from Mark Blower, illustrate the publication, which has been designed by Joe Gilmore / Qubik. The publication is co-published by MOSTYN, Llandudno, and Anomie Publishing, London, and distributed internationally by Casemate Art, a division of the Casemate Group.
Nick Hornby (b.1980) is a British artist living and working in London. Hornby studied at The Slade School of Art and Chelsea College of Art. His work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Southbank Centre London, Leighton House London, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Glyndebourne, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Museum of Arts and Design New York, and Poznan Biennale, Poland. Residencies include Outset (Israel) and Eyebeam (USA), and awards include the UAL Sculpture Prize. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, frieze, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, The FT, and featured in Architectural Digest and Sculpture Magazine.
RRP: £18 / €21 / $25
UK release date: 28 January 2021
US release date: 11 March 2021
Translated into Welsh by Cymen Cyf
Designed by Joe Gilmore / Qubik, York
Co-published by MOSTYN, Wales, UK, and Anomie Publishing, London
Images © Nick Hornby 2020. Courtesy the artist and MOSTYN, Wales, UK
Photography by Ben Westoby and Mark Blower
Now available: Jadé Fadojutimi: Jesture
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'Jadé Fadojutimi: Jesture' is a publication produced by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to accompany the second solo exhibition at the gallery of new paintings by London-based artist Jadé Fadojutimi, presented in autumn 2020. Described by Fadojutimi as 'environments', these complex compositions, neither wholly abstract nor figurative, are built up with layers of oil paint, interrupted by the more linear mark-making made possible by her recent adoption of oil pastels. The introduction of new materials into her painting has enabled Fadojutimi to think more broadly about palette, composition and depth, while translating the spontaneity of her drawing onto the canvas.
In her essay for the publication, 'From Life – Thoughts on the paintings of Jadé Fadojutimi', writer and editor-at-large of frieze magazine Jennifer Higgie writes: 'In these paintings, the world, in all of its chaotic glory, exists as an intimation. Art is not an explanation: it's a shot of energy, a flash of colour; a shimmer, a reaction, a line thrown out to see who might pick it up. Pictures are made by people and, like people, their tone can switch direction in the blink of an eye.'
This, the artist's first published book, designed by A Practice for Everyday Life and printed by PUSH, London, has been co-published by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, and Anomie Publishing, London.
Jadé Fadojutimi (b.1993) lives and works in London. She earned a BA from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2015 and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2017. After Pippy Houldsworth Gallery took on representation of the artist and presented her first solo exhibition in 2017-18, she had her first one-person institutional show at PEER UK, London in 2019. Acquisitions by Baltimore Museum of Art, ICA Miami, Tate London and a promised gift to Dallas Museum of Art followed soon after. She had her first solo exhibition in Germany with Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, in 2019 and will have her first solo exhibition in Japan with Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, opening March 2021. Fadojutimi has been selected to participate in Liverpool Biennial 2021. Her first solo US museum exhibition will be presented at ICA Miami, opening in November 2021. She will also have a solo exhibition of new work at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2021.
US release date: 25 February 2021
Produced by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life
Co-published by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery and Anomie Publishing, London
Images © Jadé Fadojutimi 2020. Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.
Photography by Mark Blower, Eva Herzog, and Todd White Art Photography.
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Anomie's Autumn catalogue 2020
Anomie Publishing's Autumn 2020 brochure is now available, featuring recent and forthcoming titles along with information about our backlist publications. On the cover this season is a detail from 'Study for Heading In, Midday, May' (2019), an oil on paper by London-based Scottish artist Caroline Walker from her publication Janet, co-published with Ingleby, Edinburgh, on the occasion of a solo exhibition of the same name with the gallery this autumn. The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau, the debut novel by The Old School Writers Circle and the first title under Anomie's third imprint, Anomie Special Projects, was released just as lockdown struck back in the spring, and has proved popular with critics, featuring in Art Quarterly magazine from Art Fund, and on the websites of Christies.com and Art Society, among others.
To download a copy of the Anomie Autumn 2020 brochure, please click on the image above.
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Now available: Caroline Walker – Janet
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152pp, hardback, 260 x 215 mm, c.80 images
Scotland-born, London-based artist Caroline Walker is celebrated for her paintings exploring the lives of women, from those living luxury lifestyles to those fleeing oppression. In this publication, which was produced to accompany Walker's first exhibition with Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, in autumn 2020, the artist turns her attention closer to home, presenting a series of paintings in which the focus is the artist's own mother, Janet, as she goes about her daily tasks: cooking, cleaning, tidying and tending the garden of the Fife home where the artist spent her childhood.
The publication features a newly commissioned essay and an interview with the artist by critic and author Hettie Judah. The essay opens by comparing Walker's works to the Dutch Golden Age, encouraging consideration of everyday domestic scenes. Judah then leads the reader through Walker's latest series of works, exploring the daily routines and household chores that have filled Walker's mother's days for the past forty years, along with the artist's treatment of these activities. Judah deftly locates this latest body of work within Walker's wider practice, opening up discussion of women at work in different capacities. She asserts: 'While Janet extends Walker's long-held interest in women's work, the series is also a loving undertaking. The artist offers us her mother with great pride, both in particular, and on behalf of other mothers overlooked and working out of sight.' The interview offers further insight into Walker's thoughts and working processes in relation to the Janet series.
The publication presents around eighty illustrations of the preparatory studies and paintings that comprise this new body of work. Designed by Joanna Deans, Identity, with photography by Peter Mallet, the publication was produced by Ingleby, Edinburgh, and printed by Die Keure, Bruges. It was co-published in 2020 by Ingleby and Anomie Publishing, London, in an edition of 1500 copies.
Caroline Walker was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1982. She studied at Glasgow School of Art from 2000-04, before completing her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2009. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, the Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham, and the British Art Show 9. She is represented in a number of public collections including the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, the UK Government Art Collection, London, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway, and Museum Voorlinden & Kunstmuseum den Haag, in the Netherlands.
Hettie Judah is chief art critic of the British daily newspaper The i, a regular contributor to The Guardian, The New York Times, Frieze, Art Quarterly, Numéro Art and The Art Newspaper, and a contributing editor to The Plant. Recent publications include a short biography of Frida Kahlo (Laurence King, 2020) and Art London (ACC Art Books, 2019).
UK release date: 15 October 2020
US release date: 12 November 2020
Produced by Ingleby, Edinburgh
Designed by Joanna Deans / Identity
Co-published by Ingleby, Edinburgh, and Anomie Publishing, London
Images courtesy of the artist and GRIMM, Amsterdam / New York. Photography by Peter Mallet.
Book photography by Ossie Morris.
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Anomie's Spring 2020 catalogue
Anomie Publishing's Spring 2020 brochure is now available, featuring recent, new and forthcoming titles along with information about our backlist publications. On the cover this season is a detail from 'Pajoji Electricals' (2019), an ink and mixed media work on paper by the celebrated Zimbabwean artist Gareth Nyandoro from his new monograph co-published with Tiwani Contemporary, London. Also released this season is The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau, a curious art-themed Parisian adventure, the debut novel by The Old School Writers Circle and the first title under Anomie's third imprint, Anomie Special Projects. 'A page-turner rooted in the phenomena of pareidolia […] a mystery story with an arty edge. Just the thing to curl up with in front of the fire.' Hettie Judah for Christies.com
To download a copy of the Anomie Spring 2020 brochure, please click on the image above.
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Newly released: The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau
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256pp, hardback, 220 x 165 mm
'The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau' is an oddly intoxicating, gently mind-blowing novel that follows a summer in the life of Adam King, a promising young British art student undertaking an internship at a contemporary art museum in Paris. A strange revelation in front of Leonardo's Mona Lisa during an evening out with an unusual group of young people who are looking to change the world proves not only to be the cause of intense debate, but also a turning point in a series of interconnected events in which Adam finds himself caught up in much more than his own coming-of-age.
Against a backdrop of late capitalism, media and surveillance, 'The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau' not only asks questions about how people's images, words and lives are given a platform, used and manipulated in the digital era, but also invites readers to question the very nature of what they perceive. Within this modern-day story about painting, visual communication and how creative ideas are responded to by society, Leonardo, of course, is still ahead of the game, more than five hundred years after his death…
The Old School Writers Circle is a group of friends who periodically meet up to discuss art, writing and books. The current members studied at the same school in Birmingham, UK, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and now live in various locations around England. Famous literary alumni of the school include, somewhat eclectically, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lee Child and Jonathan Coe, all of whom are on the circle's ever-growing list of influences. Projects can be serious as well as playful, confronting surprising and challenging themes through stories that do not necessarily fit squarely within conventional genres.
For their debut publication, 'The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau', the starting point was a shared love of Paris and The Louvre – inspired in part by numerous trips across the Channel by members of the circle over the past twenty-five years. The other driving force was the long-standing interest of circle member Matt Price in esoterica and unusual optical phenomena in the history of painting – ideas explored and brought together by the circle in the form of this curious, engaging and thought-provoking novel.
UK release date: 06 February 2020
Written and edited by The Old School Writers Circle
Designed by Modern Activity
Published by Anomie Special Projects, an imprint of Anomie Publishing, London and Swindon
Images courtesy of Anomie Publishing, photography by Ossie Morris
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Now available: Gareth Nyandoro
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Gareth Nyandoro is noted for his large works on paper, which often spill out of their two-dimensional format and into installations that include paper scraps and objects found in the street markets of Harare, where he lives and works. The artist's primary source of inspiration is the rapidly changing urban and cultural panorama of Zimbabwe. Inspired by his training as a printmaker, and derived from etching, the artist's distinctive technique, 'Kucheka-cheka', is named after the infinitive and present tense declinations of the Shona verb 'cheka', which means 'to cut'. This, the artist's first monograph, documents selected bodies of work created since 2015 and presented in exhibitions at venues including the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Quetzal Art Centre, Portugal, Tiwani Contemporary, London, Modern Art Oxford, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.
The publication features an introduction by Adélaïde Blanc, who curated Nyandoro's 2017 solo exhibition 'Stall(s) of Fame' at the Palais de Tokyo. The publication also includes a newly commissioned essay from Cape Town-based writer, critic, and editor Sean O'Toole, which discusses notions of 'cutting' and 'spilling' in Nyandoro's practice against a backdrop of both Zimbabwe's colonial past and 'southern urbanism' – city life in the global South.
Gareth Nyandoro was born in 1982 in Bikita, Zimbabwe. He lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Recent solo exhibitions include '…Read All About', Van Doren Waxter, New York (2018); 'Stall(s) of Fame', Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); 'Stall(s) of Fame', Tiwani Contemporary, London (2017). Selected group exhibitions include 'Par Amour du Jeu', Magasins Généraux, Paris (2018); 'Drawing Africa on the Map', Quetzal Art Centre, Portugal (2018); 'Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era', Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2018); 'Kaleidoscope', Modern Art Oxford (2016) and 'Paper Cut', Tiwani Contemporary, London (2016). Nyandoro won the FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices award in 2016 and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2014-15.
The publication, launched alongside a solo presentation of work by the artist at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2019, is produced by Tiwani Contemporary with generous support from the A. G. Leventis Foundation, allowing for the production of artists' books and their dissemination to libraries and institutions across the globe. Designed by Joe Gilmore, the publication is edited by Maria Varnava, Founding Director of Tiwani Contemporary, and Eva Langret, former director at Tiwani Contemporary, currently Artistic Director of Frieze London.
Edited by Maria Varnava and Eva Langret
Designed by Joe Gilmore / Qubik
Co-published by Tiwani Contemporary, London, and Anomie Publishing, London and Wiltshire
Images courtesy of: Tiwani Contemporary, London / Photography: Deniz Güzel; Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY / Photography: Charles Benton; The artist / Photography: Gareth Nyandoro studio; The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam / Photography: Gert Jan van Rooij
Anomie's spring/summer 2019 catalogue
Anomie Publishing's spring/summer 2019 brochure is now available, featuring recent, new and forthcoming titles along with information about our backlist publications. On the cover this season is a detail from 'Patio' (2016), a painting by the much-admired Zambia-born British artist Jonathan Wateridge from his new monograph 'Enclave / Expatria'. Wateridge is also one of forty artists featured in 'The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting' – an anthology documenting and celebrating national and international solo exhibitions by artists born or based in Britain which, since its release last autumn, has become an Amazon UK number one bestseller for contemporary art titles. Also released this season is 'Greg Rook – Honyocker', co-published by Anomie and Vento & Associati to coincide with a substantial mid-career survey exhibition of Rook's work at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan this spring. Rook's paintings lead us on an unforgettable journey through a world of colonies, communities, communes and cults.
To download a copy of the Anomie spring/summer 2019 brochure, please click on the image above.
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Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, introduced two bills on September 10 aimed at curbing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's authority.
The first measure, the Litigation Oversight Act of 2014 (H.R. 5422), would require the EEOC to approve, by majority vote, all lawsuits or interventions in lawsuits involving multiple plaintiffs or an allegation of systemic discrimination or a pattern or practice of discrimination. As discussed in the agency's strategic plan for FY 2012-2016, the EEOC's Systemic Initiative "makes the identification, investigation, and litigation of systemic discrimination cases - pattern or practice, policy, and/or class cases where the alleged discrimination has a broad impact on an industry, profession, company, or geographic area - a top priority." The new legislation would make it more difficult for the EEOC to pursue this initiative, although it is not expected to advance.
The second measure, the Certainty in Enforcement Act of 2014 (H.R. 5423), takes aim at the EEOC's updated 2012 enforcement guidance on criminal background checks. Many in the business community have faulted the EEOC's stance regarding an employer's consideration of an applicant's criminal record in making hiring decisions. According to the bill's "findings" section:
(1) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has, since 1965, been responsible for enforcing Federal laws against employment discrimination, but there are growing concerns about the enforcement and policy approach adopted by the EEOC, raising questions about whether the best interests of workers and employers are being served.
(2) The EEOC may promulgate guidance under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but that guidance does not have the force of law, and in some cases has been rejected by the courts.
(3) In 2012, the EEOC promulgated enforcement guidance regarding the use of criminal background checks that put employers in the position of acting contrary to Federal, State, and local laws that require employers to conduct criminal background checks for certain positions, such as public safety officers, teachers, and daycare providers.
(4) In EEOC v. Peoplemark, Inc., a case challenging Peoplemark's use of criminal background checks in making employment decisions, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in October 2013 affirmed an award of $751,942 against the EEOC for prevailing defendant Peoplemark's attorney's and expert fees.
(5) In EEOC v. Kaplan Higher Education Corporation, a case challenging Kaplan's use of credit reports in the hiring process, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the district court's decision granting summary judgment in favor of Kaplan and stated that the EEOC brought a case on the basis of a "homemade methodology, crafted by a witness with no particular expertise to craft it, administered by persons with no particular expertise to administer it, tested by no one, and accepted only by the witness himself".
In response, the legislation would amend Section 703 of the Civil Rights Act to add the following provision:
(o) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer, labor organization, or employment agency, or for a joint labor management committee controlling apprenticeships or other training or retraining opportunities, to engage in an employment practice that is required by Federal, State, or local law, in an area such as, but not limited to, health care, childcare, in-home services, policing, security, education, finance, employee benefits, and fiduciary duties.
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Q: What is the best way to avoid code duplication between views and controllers in Ruby on Rails? I currently have code in my ApplicationController to check if a user is logged in and has the required access to perform a given action (the tests take place in a before_filter).
I require the same functionality in the views to decide if I should be showing the admin links in a list view, but how do I best avoid duplicating code in the controllers and views?
The way I have chosen to do it now, is to have the user_can_edit_customers? essentially be a wrapper for 'can_edit_customers?' on my User class:
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class ApplicationController
And then do something similar in my view helpers.
This way all functionality is encapsulated in the User model but I still need to define wrappers in my controllers and helpers, but are there smarter ways of doing this?
Note, the user stuff is only an example - this also applies to other pieces of functionality.

A: I would say do away with the wrappers and just call can_edit_customers? directly on the user object passed to the view.
If you want to keep them a solution might be to use helper_method in your controller.
helper_method :current_user, :can_edit_customers?

def current_user
    @current_user ||= User.find_by_id(session[:user])
end

def can_edit_customers?
    @current_user.can_edit_customers?
end

This way the method also becomes available in the view.
<% if can_edit_customers? -%>...<% end -%>

A: Just to be more direct. The helper_method "macro" in a controller causes a controller method to behave as if it's also a method in the application helper.
helper_method :current_user, :can_edit_customers?

A: Personally I think you should not use helpers.
I would take a different solution.
Let's say that we have Cucumber, a model, that should not be editable by some users. I create #editable? method as follows:
class Cucumber < ActiveRecord::Base
  def editable?(current_user)
    # Something happens here.
  end
end

Note that if a page is accessible by everyone, current_user might be false.
Then, in the views you're able to do:
<%- if @cucumber.editable?(current_user) -%>
<%# Something happens here. -%>
<%- end -%>

And, in the controllers, use a filter.
The best thing about this approach is that it follows Fat Model, and enables you to easily cover your permissions with unit tests.

A: I think helpers are the way to do what you want.  As for checking in views whether the user has or not the priviledge to do something, you could put a flag in your session data (e.g. session[:admin] = true and check that in your view.

A: It is common practice to make methods like logged_in? available in the controller and the views. For most cases, you don't need to push down authorization logic into the models.
Definetly go with with the approach user Hates described. Have a look at plugins like restful_authentication and acts_as_authenticated, to see how they did it.
There are several railscasts (http://railscasts.com/episodes?search=authentication) covering this topic. For instance, you could write a helper that takes a block and is then used like this:
<%- admin_user_ do %>
  <%= link_to .. %>
  <%= link_to .. %>
  <%= link_to .. %>
<%- end %>

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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Peter Paltridge, Nov 18, 2014.
Come on, now! Fan art has been around for years. If anything, companies should be honored that fans love their characters so, in order to come up with different ideas of them and stories in their pictures. Companies need to stop calling foul on the fans, that's how you lose people in your fan base.
I agree that the companies should be honored by the fanarts that the people who love the company make. It's riddiculous to say something different about this. It's lucky that they held on to their fanbase before they weren't ok with the fanart.


Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has added the Qualcomm® Gobi™ 9x30 platform with extended lifecycle support to Snapdragon Automotive Solutions, enabling advanced telematics and infotainment features for next-generation systems. Based on Qualcomm Technologies' fourth-generation LTE platform, the Gobi 9x30 supports LTE Advanced Category 6 with up to 300 Mbps downlink data rates, enabling broadband vehicle connectivity for enhanced navigation, Wi-Fi hotspot, infotainment content and telematics services.
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In addition to 3G/LTE connectivity, the new platform is pre-integrated with QCA6574, a dual-stream 802.11ac Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth 4.1 chipset designed to simultaneously support in-car Wi-Fi hotspot functions and Bluetooth profiles. The QCA6574 also supports DSRC (dedicated short-range communications), a technology required to comply with future regulation recently announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to increase safety through vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. The Gobi 9x30 and QCA6574 will also be pre-integrated with Qualcomm Technologies' recently-announced automotive-grade Snapdragon 602A processor.
Gobi 9x30 is currently sampling to customers.
Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including Qualcomm Technologies' ability to successfully design and have manufactured significant quantities of the Qualcomm® Gobi™ 9x30 platform on a timely and profitable basis, the extent and speed to which the Gobi 9x30 platform is adopted, the extent and speed by which 4G LTE is adopted and rolled-out in various regions, the extent of the demand for high-speed connectivity in the automobile, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in Qualcomm Incorporated's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 29, 2013, and most recent Form 10-Q. Qualcomm Incorporated undertakes no obligation to update, or continue to provide information with respect to, any forward-looking statement or risk factor, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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• Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck said that while the team will have more depth this year, that doesn't mean it will have more experience. "We have nine total scholarship seniors, which is not a lot. We have to rely on our youth, our inexperience, and our depth is going to be full of young guys to really provide that type of boost for us."
• Fleck has 11 verbal commitments for the Class of 2019, a class that ranks No. 15 in the country, according to 247sports.com. That's third in the Big Ten behind Michigan (No. 8) and Ohio State (No. 9).
• Fleck talked about how the Gophers need to get more players into the NFL, noting they have had only 13 picks over the past 13 drafts: "We have to up that. That's one of the reasons I came here. We haven't had an offensive lineman drafted in 12 years."
• Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph said he is excited about new offensive coordinator John DeFilippo. "The success that he's had with tight ends that he's been around, it's exciting," Rudolph said. "We have a ton of playmakers on offense and he's mentioned multiple times that he's going to get the ball in everybody's hands."
• Gophers baseball coach John Anderson on Eli Wilson, the son of former Gophers and major league catcher Dan Wilson: "Last year he shared the [catching] duties with Cole McDevitt, and I think another big story line here with regards to how well we've pitched has been Eli Wilson's development behind the plate. He's much stronger than a year ago. He calls the game for us. We do not call pitches. He has done an incredible job of handling the pitching staff."
• Torii Hunter Jr., the son of the Twins great, played football at Notre Dame but is now making a name playing baseball in the minor leagues for the Angels. Hunter Jr. entered Saturday hitting .284 with 20 runs and nine stolen bases is 28 games for Class A Burlington.
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CAGAYAN – The Australian Government has provided P23-million (AUD600,000) to assist 2,000 farming families in Cagayan Province, in the most affected areas by Typhoon Ompong.
Australia's emergency assistance is being implemented in partnership with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
FAO will distribute fertilizers to the farming families to complement the Department of Agriculture's provision of rice seeds, and vegetable seeds as alternative short-term income source while waiting for the next harvest season early next year. FAO will also provide technical support through production-related training. These interventions will help the vulnerable farming families who missed the harvest season in October due to the typhoon.
WFP will roll out an emergency cash-based program to address food security and nutrition needs of the farming families. The program will provide one-off cash support representing 10 days of the minimum wage for agricultural workers in the area.
"WFP is grateful to the Australian Government for their generous support, which allows us to provide cash assistance to safeguard the food security of the affected farmers and their families while awaiting the next harvest," said Stephen Gluning, WFP Philippines Representative and Country Director.


The drive to reduce costs in semiconductor and integrated circuits remains a key challenge for the industry. For example, many of today's ICs use expensive gold wiring. As a result, the industry is pushing to use copper wires and copper pillar bumping in an increasing array of applications. This has created a number of challenges related to the bonding and packaging of these components. Copper Wire Bonding Technology and Challenges is a 2-day course that offers detailed instruction on the technology issues associated with today's semiconductor packages. We place special emphasis on current issues like bond formation, bumping, and tools for package analysis. This course is a must for every manager, engineer, and technician working in semiconductor packaging, using semiconductor components in high performance applications or non-standard packaging configurations, or supplying packaging tools to the industry.
Basic Semiconductor Wire Bonding Metallurgy. Participants will study the phase diagrams that are most useful to IC packaging and learn about basic metallurgy topics such as melting, solidification, intermetallic compounds, oxidation, corrosion and welding.
Important Copper Alloy Systems in IC Packaging. The course presents metallurgical principles with selected alloy and materials systems that are key to the understanding and analysis of semiconductor (IC) packaging assembly and reliability.
The participant will see several case studies associated with copper wire bonding.
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The Other Bentley Boys
by Elizabeth Nagle-Turnbull
"In the wake of old cars follows often one of the most sincere and valuable collection of friends."
—Halvor Haneborg, 1898–1999
The term "Bentley Boys" brings to mind a bunch of overgrown schoolboys (from the "right" schools of course), clad in tweeds, flat 'ats and cravats, dashing about hitherto unspoiled countryside when they weren't demolishing places of refreshment. This is unfortunate, and more unfortunate is the behavior sometimes considered obligatory, in perpetuating the myth.
There was another group going by that name, before it was applied, by the fabricators of legend, to the drivers and their acolytes. To quote Bentley mechanic Wally Saunders, "…we were always called the 'Bentley Boys' by the others. It didn't dawn on us for ages that the drivers were being called the 'Bentley Boys' as well; I think it was the papers that started that."
So, to the book.
Nagle in her 3 Litre, chassis 1003, photographed in New Zealand by John King in 1965.
In October 1960, native New Zealander Elizabeth Nagle, who as a journalist and writer passionately championed vintage cars (look for her books Veterans of the Road, 1955 and Old Cars the World Over, 1958) was in Norway and met a long-time (from 1928) Bentley owner, Halvor Haneborg. He told her to, "Go and see my friend 'Nobby' Clarke and ask him to tell you a story worth telling."
Thank goodness she did, and through Reginald "Nobby" Clarke (1892–1978) she met the Bentley driver and engineer Frank Clement (1886–1970), and the mechanics Wally Hassan (1905–96), Leslie Pennal (1902–77) and Wally Saunders (1899–1972), whose father Arthur also worked for Bentley after an early career as mechanic and riding mechanic before the Great War.
Leslie Pennal working on Miss Nagle's Bentley.
The book covers various aspects of the Bentleys built at Cricklewood, and each of the five memories plumbed, with footnotes by W.O. Bentley and Nagle adding further context and comment. Admirable, and all we could ever hope for.
To read of the conditions in which the men who built these cars worked is sobering, but essential. No machine tools, so every hole had to be drilled by hand; castings and forgings had to be fettled by file and emery paper, with no OSHA to safeguard from absorption and inhalation of noxious substances; dirt floors; long and arduous hours; and pipes and tubes being formed with the help of trees and their forks, as well as sand filling to obviate kinks, and numberless trips to and from heat sources.
And the good old British class system… The mechanics don't seem to have first names, except amongst themselves, and Frank Clement is always remembered as "Mr Clement"; ironically, the only informality upwards is their calling their ultimate boss "W.O."
(for Walter Owen).
Petty Officer Reginald ("Nobby") Clarke at Dunkirk in 1916.
Elizabeth Nagle had just approved the proofs of the book when she brought her 3 Litre Bentley to New Zealand for the 1965 Vintage Car Club of New Zealand's Haast Pass Rally. She stayed with Andrew and Mollie Anderson, and Andrew writes of her book, "It really is a classic from every angle; those early photos of the 'Exp' cars, the Tourist Trophy, and onwards to the final machine shop and shop floor… the continuous direct quotes make it really live, and Elizabeth gets the real feeling of 'shop floor' work as I vividly remember it myself from the family foundry. I am continually delighted by all the wonderful Service Department stories, and the almost unbelievable characters those guys met and worked for. The interplay of quotes as each of them remembers the deeds of the others, and brings them all to life, warts and all."
As Bentley turns 100 years old, we have here the opportunity to hear from men who were active at that time, men with memories still active in their 60s, thanks to Elizabeth Nagle's initiative. She died in 2006 after a long and active life as an historian and clergyman's wife.
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Summit Power International to invest USD 1 billion in collaboration with GE and Excelerate in power generation and LNG supply
Media Release– August 4, 2017: Summit Power International Limited ("Summit" or the "Group"), the Singapore incorporated power producer, today announced collaborations to develop USD$1 Billion of gas-to-power generation and an offshore liquefied natural gas ("LNG") import terminal. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has been engaged as the lead arranger for financing to develop the Meghnaghat II natural gas based combined cycle power plant. Upon completion, Summit will have a total installed generating capacity of over 3,000MW. The expansion in its core market coincides with Summit's strategy to expand across emerging markets in the South-East Asia. To enable clean, sustainable power, Summit will be chartering a floating storage and regasification unit ("FSRU") from Excelerate Energy for LNG storage and regasification services.
GE, through GE Capital's Energy Financial Services, and Summit have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for GE to potentially provide USD$50 Million of equity to Summit, to be used for the development of power projects in Bangladesh. In addition, GE Gas Power Systems will have rights to supply equipment for the power projects based on gas turbine technology and developed in the next 36 months by Summit.
To make gas available for these projects, Summit LNG Terminal Company ("SLTC") will sign the FSRU Time Charter Party agreement for 15 years with Excelerate Energy L.P. ("Excelerate"), the floating LNG specialist. The agreement is for the provision of one of Excelerate's existing FSRUs.
The arrangements will be formalised at a signing ceremony to be held later today at The Fullerton Hotel, Singapore in the presence of Mr. Kazi M. Aminul Islam, Executive Chairman of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority, Mr. Abul Kalam Azad, Chief Coordinator, Sustainable Development Goals of the Government of Bangladesh, Mr. Fazle Kabir, Governor of Bangladesh Bank, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, former Minister, Prime Minister's Office Singapore, Mr. Satvinder Singh, Assistant CEO of International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, and Mr. Muhammed Aziz Khan, Chairman of Summit Group.
The MoU with Summit and GE will be signed by Mr. Faisal Khan, Additional Managing Director of Summit Corporation and Mr. Banmali Agrawala, President & CEO, GE South Asia.
Mr. Tariqur Rashid, Managing Director of SLTC and Mr. Karlman Tham, General Manager of Asia of Excelerate, will sign on behalf of Summit and Excelerate respectively.
Mr. Aziz Khan, Chairman of Summit Power International said: "We are delighted to announce these significant projects valued at over US$1 billion over the next three years. The addition of these power projects is in line with our objective to grow our sustainable power capacity to empower nations and transform lives. This development is testament to our deep long-standing relationship with GE and IFC which began some 20 years ago. The Summit brand has grown from strength to strength over the past decade and today, our name is synonymous with "infrastructure for development". We are excited to begin working with Excelerate for the first time. As the partner of choice for global players in the region, we endeavor to become the leading provider of energy solutions in Asia and deliver sustainable long-term value to all our stakeholders."
Mr. Banmali Agrawala, President & CEO, GE South Asia said, "The MoU is a step towards furthering GE's strategic partnership with the Summit Group in the region. We will continue to evaluate collaborations that provide comprehensive energy solutions to Bangladesh, including in the form of technology, services and financing."
IFC Head of New Business Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Asia Pacific, Mr. Lubomir Varbanov added, "We value our engagement with Summit, and have been actively supporting the group's mission to bring sustainable long-term power solutions to Bangladesh. Our strategic relationship with Summit goes all the way back to 1997, when IFC financed Khulna, followed by Bibiyana in 2015, and more recently, in 2016, through financing from IFC's own account and mobilizing from IFC's Emerging Asia Fund and EMA Power. IFC remains committed to paving the way for the country to achieve energy security, and we look forward to supporting Summit to help meet this objective in the region."
Mr. Karlman Tham, General Manager of Excelerate, said: "We are pleased to be partnering with Summit on this very important project. We are confident our experience and expertise in FSRUs will ensure an efficient and reliable project for Bangladesh for the years to come."
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Goals: Hedging grapevines is a common canopy management practice in vineyards in the northeastern United States, however, it is criticized as being a short-term solution to vine vigor because it can stimulate lateral shoot growth, resulting in a repeated cycle of hedging and leaf removal that costs growers time and money. Palissage is an alternative canopy management tool where long shoot tips are tucked down into the canopy (Tuck) or wrapped horizontally along the top of the canopy (Wrap). Anecdotal reports from growers suggested that palissage slowed shoot growth during the growing season earlier and reduced or eliminated the need for leaf removal in the fruiting zone, due to fewer lateral shoots. This work tested the effects of palissage on vegetative and reproductive growth, yield, disease incidence and severity, and juice and wine sensory qualities of Riesling (Vitis vinifera L.) grown in the northeastern United States.
Neither palissage treatment affected vine yield in 2015, but Tuck increased yield over that of hedging in 2016.
Wrap reduced the number of laterals in the fruit zone more than hedging in 2015, but not in 2016.
Tuck increased rachis length by 1.4 cm over hedging in 2016, but cluster compactness wasn't reduced by either treatment.
Tuck and Wrap decreased botrytis incidence slightly in 2016 when compared to hedging.
A sensory panel found that wines grouped separately by treatment based on aroma.
Impact and Significance: This study demonstrated that palissage, particularly Wrap, was a potentially viable canopy management technique to reduce lateral growth in the fruit zone. Impacts varied by year, but in at least one year, palissage reduced lateral shoot growth in the fruiting zone, increased rachis length, and maintained or increased yield, although fruit in the Tuck treatment was less ripe. The potential long-term impacts of palissage on vine vigor, yield, and fruit quality need to be further explored, but these methods hold promise to break the hedging-leaf removal cycle in vigorous vineyards.


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