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Emmys 2018: Stars and Creators React to Their Nominations
Jessica Napoli July 12, 2018, 12:45 pm
The 2018 Emmy nominations were announced on Thursday morning and many top actors and producers are celebrating.
Streaming giant Netflix beat out premium cable network HBO with the most Emmy nods — 112 total to HBO's 108. Game of Thrones came out on top with the most nominations at 22 nods, followed by fellow HBO series Westworld and NBC's hilarious Saturday Night Live, which are tied with 21 noms each.
Emmys 2018 Nominations: 'Game of Thrones,' 'Westworld' & 'SNL' Top the List of Nominees
'Game of Thrones,' 'Westworld,' and 'SNL' headed up the pack. Were your favorites nominated?
This year's ceremony will be hosted by SNL's Colin Jost and Michael Che, airing live on both coasts at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Monday, Sept. 17.
Check out some of the reactions below, and stay tuned as we'll continue to add more as we hear from nominees:
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series (To TV Insider)
"I'm at the airport! I was going through security when my phone started ringing and I couldn't get to it. Of course, I was chosen for the random search so I didn't find out until about five minutes after it came out [that] I was nominated. Elie texted me but I haven't had a chance to call anybody yet. It never gets old. This is the fourth one and it feels as new and exciting as the first one."
Mark Duplass, Wild Wild Country, Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series - EP (To TV Insider)
"I feel overwhelming pride for our fearless creative leaders on this project. If I were to take any more credit for the creative process of this show it would be false honestly. I felt strongly that the show was good and people were going to like it but I had no idea how many people were going to see it and how far-reaching [the series] was."
Ted Danson, The Good Place, Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
"It's truly an honor to be nominated, and especially nice not to be the oldest person in the category. Thanks, Larry."
Claire Foy, The Crown, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
"I am so grateful for and honoured by the Emmys continued support for The Crown. I am so proud to have been part of such an extraordinary cast, crew and production team and I share this nomination with them. To be nominated alongside such incredible actresses is a true honour thank you Emmys…. see you in September!!!"
Jeff Daniels, Godless, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series
"My genuine gratitude to the Emmy Voters. Godless was Scott Frank's triumph. Thrilled to be a part of it. Plus I got to ride a horse."
RuPaul Charles, RuPaul's Drag Race, Outstanding Reality Program
"Making RuPaul's Drag Race is a labor of love. The fact that members of the Television Academy have recognized that passion by nominating us for 12 Emmy's is a true honor. It takes a village, people. I want to recognize the hard work and dedication of my partners at VH1 and World of Wonder, our dedicated cast and crew, and most of all, the amazing queens that help us celebrate the heart and soul of drag. Condragulations to our fellow nominees."
David Collins, Queer Eye, Outstanding Structured Reality Program - Creator & EP
"Here at Scout Productions, our hearts are filled with gratitude for this honor the Academy has bestowed on Queer Eye. We are so proud of the show and thankful to everyone who worked on it, especially the Fab Five, a fab crew and our partners Netflix and ITV. We also hope that in these divisive times, in some way, Queer Eye changes the conversation our culture is having, to one of empathy and understanding. Or stated more simply, Yasssss!"
Karamo Brown, Queer Eye, Outstanding Structured Reality Program - Star
I don't know who created this photo but we feel Incredible right now! @queereye got FOUR #EmmyNominations so proud of my brothers, scout productions @itv @netflix pic.twitter.com/J1OOAsmEjc
— Karamo Brown (@KaramoBrown) July 12, 2018
Brian Grazer & Ron Howard, Genius: Picasso, Outstanding Limited Series - EPs
"We are again incredibly grateful to the Television Academy for recognizing the second season of Genius, a series all of us at Imagine are immensely proud of. We also want to congratulate Antonio Banderas for being recognized for his unbelievable transformation into Pablo Picasso, his lifelong hometown hero, and a role he was born to play. This is also a celebration for the hundreds of hard working crafts people whose work behind the scenes brought this story to audiences around the world, several of whom you've honored this morning as well. We'd like to thank our partners at National Geographic, Fox 21 Television Studios, Madison Wells Media and EUE/Sokolow for their tireless efforts."
The Americans, Outstanding Drama Series
The ultimate honor. Congrats to the cast and crew of The Americans on their Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series. #TheAmericans #Emmys pic.twitter.com/mUSFnKBVRe
— The Americans (@TheAmericansFX) July 12, 2018
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us, Lead Actor in a Drama Series
THANK YOU @TelevisionAcad 🙏🏿 #Emmys #ThisIsUs pic.twitter.com/7fa6WW8xH4
— Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown) July 12, 2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, Outstanding Limited TV Series or Movie/Outstanding Variety Special (Live)
"I am so proud of the cast and creative team behind Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. We poured our hearts and souls into this production and we are honored that the Television Academy has recognized the show. I am extremely moved that the show continues to touch audiences nearly 50 years after it was written."
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
"Being on set with our extraordinary cast and crew was the most wonderful way to receive and celebrate the news today. I am beyond excited that the entire Maisel team was recognized for their insane talents and hard work. This was a MARVELOUS boost to power us through the rest of Season 2!"
Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
"I'm so honored to be part of This Is Us. This sort of opportunity comes along once in a lifetime. I'm especially grateful to Dan Fogelman and the writers for finding a way to continue to tell William's story. Thank you to the Academy for recognizing so many of the talented cast and crew from THIS IS US today. I can't wait to celebrate with them soon!"
Dan Fogelman, Creator/EP, This Is Us, Outstanding Drama Series
Sending congrats to our entire #ThisIsUs fam on the Emmy nods. The individuals and the collective!
Dusting off the tux and starting intermittent fasting, whatever that is.
— Dan Fogelman (@Dan_Fogelman) July 12, 2018
John Legend, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lead Actor, Limited Series or a Television Movie
"Being a part of Jesus Christ Superstar was one of my favorite experiences in my career. Such a wonderful show, such a wonderful team. I couldn't be more proud of what we all did together and I'm so grateful for the opportunity to do this."
Amy Sedaris, Star/Creator, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
"I'm honored and so thankful to the Television Academy for thinking of us. A big thank you to truTV and the writers, cast and crew for making our show possible. As this is my first Emmy nomination, I feel compelled to ask, does this include a cash prize? I'm asking for a friend."
Lin- Manuel Miranda, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Pretty, pretty, pretty grateful. #Emmys pic.twitter.com/7GWOXdQHcP
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) July 12, 2018
Tiffany Haddish, Saturday Night Live, Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
OVERJOYED to be nominated for an #Emmy for when I hosted @nbcsnl!! I might even splurge for a new dress for this one!! Thank you everyone for your love and support! #sheready
— Tiffany Haddish (@TiffanyHaddish) July 12, 2018
Thandie Newton, Westworld, Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Wowzas! Humbled #Emmys2018 Huge shout out to EVERYONE who worked so hard @WestworldHBO and to every single person who uses art as a force for good xxx T pic.twitter.com/f5MLKtcK29
— Thandie Newton (@thandienewton) July 12, 2018
Ricky Marin, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie
Yes yes yes!!!!!! I'm so happy and humbled about this nomination. I think my head is about to explode. Joy joy joy THIS IS CRAZY!!! Thank you @MrRPMurphy https://t.co/GZvYKlVQ2l
— Ricky Martin (@ricky_martin) July 12, 2018
Yvonne Strahovski, The Handmaid's Tale, Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
"I am so excited for everyone in The Handmaid's Tale who has been recognized and am thrilled to be standing alongside of them. I'm so grateful to Bruce Miller and the writing team for the extraordinary storyline this season and to the academy voters for the recognition."
Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things, Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
12 nominations for our show!! I love this cast and crew so much and I'm beyond thrilled to see how much Stranger Things has been embraced by our peers and The Academy," the Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nominee shared. "It's incredibly special and rewarding. I'm the luckiest girl...."
Ryan Murphy, Creator/EP, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Outstanding Limited Series
"Of course it's thrilling to see this series attract so much recognition, and I am forever grateful to Tom Rob Smith for his brilliant take, to my producing partners Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson and Brad Falchuk for their collaboration and friendship, and to our talented cast who breathed such humanity into these characters. This was a heartbreaking story to tell, made more so by the fact that we continue as a culture to grapple with homophobia and shame and intolerance."
Hiro Murai, Atlanta, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
"I am beyond flattered and honored to be nominated, especially amongst such an inspiring group of directors. Making Atlanta is truly a family affair, and I'm so grateful to Donald and FX and to the writers, actors, and crew that make this show possible."
Jimmi Simpson, Westworld, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
"I thought today was gonna be special because I get to go kayaking at noon. now this?! What an unexpected blessing! I feel so proud to be included in the Television Academy's list of outstanding performances- what a lovely compliment. Westworld is storytelling at it's finest and I'm just ecstatic to be a small part of it. I'm ecstatic about the kayaking too so I better get ready and find my swim trunks as they seem to have disappeared."
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Cult, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
"I am incredibly honored to have been recognized by the Television Academy, and want to thank Ryan Murphy and the entire cast and crew of AHS, with a particular shout out to the magnificent Evan Peters, who inspires me and makes me want to be a better actor."
Jessica Biel, The Sinner, Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Series Or Movie
I'm so blown away by this Emmy nomination that I'm drinking alone. No shame in my champagne game! 🥂 pic.twitter.com/kQkh5lw5j4
— Jessica Biel (@JessicaBiel) July 12, 2018
Regina King, Seven Seconds, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
"It feels amazing to be recognized for "Seven Seconds." It tells an important story which shines a light on truly relevant societal issues. The subject matter could not be timelier. I am incredibly proud of the work that our cast and crew put in."
Allen Hughes, The Defiant Ones, Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series
"This was such a personal one for me, having literally grown up in the business with these two forces of nature. I'm incredibly grateful to both the television academy and the public for having embraced so fully their journey."
Jane Lynch, Hollywood Game Night, Outstanding Host for Reality, Reality-Competition Program
"Hosting Hollywood Game Night has been the joy of a lifetime and to receive this Emmy nomination is lovely icing upon an already delicious cake."
Joseph Fiennes, The handmaid's Tale, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
"I'm a little dumbstruck and elated! The nomination is a reflection of great production values, prescient and powerful writing, assured directing and working alongside an extraordinary team of actors as well as those behind the camera who elevate me! Today I've got a skip in my step! I thank the voters for embracing the darker complexity of Gilead."
Megan Mullally, Will & Grace, Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
"I'm thrilled and grateful to be nominated for an Emmy today! As if Will & Grace coming back in the first place wasn't enough, to have the chance to play Karen Walker again feels like a miracle to me. Will & Grace allowed me to move out of my apartment in West Hollywood and buy clothes from stores that weren't Jet Rag. It's given me confidence and changed my life. Thanks and kisses to all the Emmy voters. xox 💝"


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St. Mark's has formed a Health & Wellness Committee, comprised of teachers, coaches, health and wellness staff, and administrators. This Committee began its work by launching a comprehensive review of the School's physical and health education programs and curriculum across all twelve grades. The Committee is reviewing the program inventory, identifying learning outcomes for students, and strengthening programs to achieve those outcomes: equipping boys with the knowledge and skills to understand their physical, social, emotional, and relational health.
"Our mission is to produce well-rounded boys who know themselves physically, emotionally, academically, and spiritually," said Mark Sullivan, a forty-year veteran of St. Mark's who recently took on the newly-established role of Director of Physical and Experiential Education. "We have to be intentional about teaching the boys what it means to be healthy and thriving young adults so that they can carry those lessons forward when they leave St. Mark's."
Health and Wellness policies and practices at St. Mark's School of Texas are guided by a Medical Advisory Committee, comprised of medical and public health professionals from across the Dallas community. This longstanding committee includes school administators, health and wellness staff, and physicians from a wide variety of specialities and disciplines.
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The Health Education Committee was established to identify ways to enhance the curriculum and prepare students with information that will support their health and well-being during adolescence and into manhood. This Committee is charged with developing a comprehensive framework for health education at St. Mark's by assessing current curriculum and topics, identifying outcomes for a comprehensive approach, and developing a curricular sequence to achieve these goals.
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Brentwood railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the town of Brentwood, Essex. It is  down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Harold Wood and Shenfield. Its three-letter station code is BRE.

The station is currently managed by Transport for London and is on the Elizabeth line between  and London Paddington.

History

Eastern Counties Railways (1840–1862)
Brentwood station was opened on 1 July 1840 as a temporary terminus by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) on what was to become the Great Eastern Main Line, until 1843, when the line was extended towards . From opening, a small railway turntable was provided and by 1845 as the size of locomotives grew a larger turntable was provided. As it is located at the bottom of a steep incline locomotives were allocated at Brentwood to assist trains get up the bank and by 1868 the turntable was enlarged. A three-track engine shed located at the London-end of the station behind the then London-bound platform of the two-platform station.

Initially provided with temporary wooden buildings, substantial brick buildings were provided on the London side in 1842. These included a tower and a bell sounded when trains departed.

A north-facing siding behind the London-bound platform was provided for traffic to the nearby Warley Barracks.

By the 1860s the railways in East Anglia were in financial trouble, and most were leased to the ECR; they wished to amalgamate formally, but could not obtain government agreement for this until 1862, when the Great Eastern Railway was formed by amalgamation.

Great Eastern Railway (1862–1922)
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) took over operation in 1862 and renamed the station "Brentwood & Warley for Billericay" in 1882, shortened to "Brentwood & Warley" in 1889.

By the 1870s the goods yard which was located on the country side of the line south of the station contained a number of loops and sidings. As well as serving a goods shed, spurs served a local gas works and Robsons Maltings. By the 1890s a coal siding operated by East Anglian coal merchant Thomas Moy was in operation.

The engine shed was rebuilt in 1893.

London & North Eastern Railway (1923–1947)
After the grouping of 1923 operation of the station passed to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). The LNER doubled the number of tracks passing through to four, from 1934. Two new platforms were opened on the south side of the station, with a new booking office.

The bell tower was demolished during the 1920s.

Plans to electrify the line through Brentwood to Shenfield were announced during the 1930s but put on hold after World War II broke out. The station was bombed during World War II and the new booking office was damaged.

World War II saw an increase of engines allocated to Brentwood engine shed, possibly re-sited away from the larger and more obvious target at Stratford.

British Railways (1948–1996)
After nationalisation on 1 January 1948 Brentwood became part of the Eastern Region of British Railways.

The engine shed was closed in 1949 although the goods yard had a small petrol shunter that was maintained locally, being withdrawn in September 1956.

The electric service to Shenfield was inaugurated on 26 September 1949 but services were run to steam timings with a number of steam trains still operating. The full electric service officially commenced on 7 November 1949 (although a full dummy run had taken place the previous day).

In 1969 the station's name was changed back to "Brentwood".

Privatisation era (1996–present)

The station is sited at the bottom of a bank which ascends to the east towards Shenfield. This presented a significant climb to down-steam trains. Until 2001, embankment ladders were present to allow workmen to access the tracks but these were replaced with a walkway along the tracks.

In 2010, National Express East Anglia, then the operating company for the line, commenced an improvement programme at the station, including the expansion of the entrance and ticket hall, refurbishment of waiting rooms and provision for the installation of customer lifts to the platforms.

In May 2015, the Shenfield stopping service was taken over by TfL Rail, and subsequently became part of the Elizabeth line in May 2022.

Accidents and incidents
On 19 September 1850, nine workmen were killed when they were struck by a train near Brentwood station in dense fog. The ECR was criticised by the coroner's jury for not adequately protecting the men.
On 20 November 1902, approximately 80 passengers were injured on an -Liverpool Street service that had stopped at Brentwood & Warley station when it was rear-ended by a train that was not in service. A Board of Trade report stated that the empty train's speed "was not more than four or five miles an hour" at the time of the collision as it had only just pulled out of a siding to enter service from Brentwood.
On 8 July 1926, 12 people were injured when a passenger and mail train from Liverpool Street was approaching Brentwood & Warley and collided head-on with a train pilot engine. At the moment of impact the speed of the passenger train had been about 10 mph, whilst the light engine was almost or completely stationary. The primary causes of the accident were recorded as driver and shunter errors, as well as excessive speed.
On 10 February 1941, seven people were killed and 19 seriously injured in a collision on the track between  and Brentwood & Warley. An express train travelling from Liverpool Street to Norwich Thorpe came to a stand on the main line, unable to ascend the bank due to a shortage of steam, and about eight minutes later was run into from the rear by a -bound stopping service which had passed a signal at danger. The speed of the Southend train was reported to have been around 30 mph, resulting in a violent collision. The driver of the Southend train was fully fit, highly experienced and should have noticed both the red signal and the stopped train ahead. He "fully admitted his responsibility for the collision" and according to a Ministry of War Transport investigation: "Such a grave lapse on the part of an experienced main line driver is difficult to explain."

Services

The following services typically call at Brentwood:

References

External links

 Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06

Railway stations in Essex
Transport in the Borough of Brentwood
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations served by the Elizabeth line
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840

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Abigail Grewal's collection was inspired by her childhood love for creating light movement using sparklers. What began as playful experimentation evolved into a more intentional creative process as she grew up and began to use the shutter speed function on her camera to create beautiful light movement photographs. The photographs influenced the print design in this collection.
ABIGAIL SKRENTNY
The starting point for Abigail's graduate collection was The Florida Project Film. It gives an insight into an American Childhood with resiliency and freedom through being yourself.
The imagery informed the collection's mood and colour story. The film led to research into American suburban life including 1970s suburbia and 1930s depression era. Stephen Shore's imagery from a road trip in 1970s America was a key piece of inspiration.
Designer, Dayun Lee's, creativity comes from her interests. Before starting the concept, she usually researches art movements and historical visuals of the women at the beginning. These could be from the book, movie or art. She found that women in the past and present give her interesting point of views as a womenswear designer.
For example, 1930s representation of female bodies was interesting topic that she wanted to observe. She loves how it depicts in various ways.
The SS/19 collection is inspired by Body Modification, body modification transcends any cultural boundaries. During the process of my design development I Looked at both the primitive and modern primitive practises in a contemporary society were consumer culture uses the Body as a representation as well as a display of a source of identity.
"Bodies are sites of representation, are not only physical but communicative" (Atkinson, 1971)
Alexandra Afanasyeva's graduate men's jewellery collection is dedicated to polar expeditions. Conceptually the collection evokes the spirit of exploration which is closely linked to such notions as identity and rite of passage.
Climbing gear, survival equipment and various tools including ones from Inuit tribes and those dating back to the Ice Age are the main basis for the collection.
ALEXANDRA ANDERSON
@KNITWEARBYALEXANDRA worked in collaboration with embroiderer Amelia Skarpellis to create a new generation of punk. Together, they wanted to celebrate advancements within the textile industry and create a collection that appreciates the scope of possibilities that fun and vibrant textiles brings to today's fashion industry. Their aim: to develop a new wave of punk – just as rebellious, embracing colour and unmasking societies playful side.
ALEXANDRA LARRABURE
Material Memories explores the construction of memory and identity in relation to materiality, through a collage-like autobiographical narrative. The collection delves into family memories and temporalities, engaging in an ongoing process of defamiliarization and refamiliarization which understands memory as a construction based on ever-changing patterns and textures.
ALI AKBARI
Bacha posh means "dressed as boy" in dari. In Afghan culture, boys are considered to be worth more than girls. If there are only daughters in a family, the parents can choose one of them and make her into a bacha posh. A bacha posh is a make-believe son, a girl that for a period of time takes on the role as a boy in the family."
Bacha posh is not only about girls being dressed as boys – it is about women's situation in Afghanistan. I grew up with my grandmother, and I have seen what it looks like. Dressed as a boy, the girl has more freedom. The clothes thus become a vehicle to expanded freedom.
ALICE CALLUM
Alice Callum's graduate collection, 'BLOSSOM AFTER MIDNIGHT', explores the concept of how the body can become an artistic medium through the essence of performance both on stage and in the street. For years the body has been used as a medium to translate the essence of art through performance. Focusing primarily on 20th century performance, she explored a variety of performances from the Ballet Russes and the works of Leon Bakst to Marchesa Casati to late 20th Century performers such as Leigh Bowery, Bowie, Lindsay Kemp and the rise of club and drag cultures.
ALICE HENFREY
Alice's collection was inspired by historical sportswear silhouettes from her dad's personal Olympic magazine collection. From these she established large billowing shapes in contrast to tight restrictive bodies, this became the foundation silhouette throughout each of her designs.
Alice enhanced this silhouette through 3D development, using personal swimsuits ranging from different periods in her competitive swimming background.
ALICE PONS
Alice Pons' graduate collection, 'NEVERLAND', was inspired by a long lost picture, found hidden amongst childhood belongings. A five-year-old Alice, wearing her father's black suit, beams unknowingly into the camera whilst unconsciously playing with the lapels of the jacket.
The photo communicates the innocence of youth, and the pure joy that can be derived from wearing a garment when unburdened from the self-consciousness of the adult world. This snapshot of youthful naivety has inspired this collection, which looks to recreate the blissful ignorance of a child unaware of the meaning of fashion.
ALVIN LAM
Focusing on the body and movement, particularly within dance was a major influence when it came to Alvin Lam's first collection. By looking into the history of dance and seeing how it has progressed through the ages allowed him to understand how the art is connected to romance and sensuality.
After interviewing dancers Alvin learnt how important the waist and the legs are, predominantly within ballet. Focusing on the muscles in these two areas allowed him to create designs that enhance the beauty of these.
AMBER KIM
Amber Kim's collection is inspired by her attraction to fun, exciting and carefree experience. However, her personal experience of music festivals demonstrated the negative impact on the environment that the entertainment and creative process can cause.
She has used sustainable thinking, skills, and creativity to address the environmental issues that harm the ecosystem. Her sustainable approach was applied throughout the whole process. Every stage of the process should be resourceful, responsible and retractable.
AMBER MAY
Amber May's graduate collection was inspired by bodily kinaesthetic intelligence. The ability to construct physical objects which evolve through the repetitive hand movement fascinated her. Led by the creativity of 'Hands', she explored physical evidence of this whilst travelling in Bangkok, Thailand. Captivated by architectural patterns and hand crafted applique tiled surfaces, it was an immediate source of inspiration for the collection.
AMY MCCANN
Amy McCann's collection was inspired by her dissertation, covering the issues behind the female form in the sense of how accessible plastic surgery is in the postmodern world. She explored the manipulation of the female form to encourage the 3-Dimensional design which can be seen within the development of her final collection, following a route of artistic and conventional design using mannequins to work on the stand and drape materials in order to grow the research she produced.
AMY THOMSON
Merging fashion and illustration, Amy's collection tells a narrative through surface pattern elements that can be interpreted and told in multiple different ways dependent on the interpreter. Responding to this by using a personal illustrative style to create stories within the garments based upon a primary research project creating a narrative based upon views of beauty; questioning what beauty can be defined as and how stereo types can effect perceptions in society, challenging and encouraging difference.
ANNA LOWE
Anna Lowe's collection was inspired heavily by female fighters and protectors from the past and present, whilst including family references. During the summer she visited the Women's library, Museum of London and the Imperial War Museum for initial research, and went through family photos. Structured uniforms, pleated skirts, draping and volume were all key links she found between her various points of research. This inspired Lowe to create a womenswear collection exploring tailoring and draping to create empowering garments.
ANNA SCHUSTER
This collection is not inspired by trends and aesthetics. This collection is inspired by people and materials to shift the focus towards a more conscious fashion identity. The design process demands creativity and strategic thinking of fashion designer who are trained to focus on aesthetics. They have an essential role and their power of decision-making need to support a sustainable future. Collaborating across disciplines challenges designer to think beyond the fashion design process as we know it. This collection is based on three diverse collaborations which discover a variety of pathways that lead to garments with value and quality.
ANNE MARIE K
Anne Marie K's collection revolves around a journey down the Nile taken by a woman in the 1940's. As she travels through an almost "Timeless" Egypt. Each statement piece tells a story. The colours used in the garments are derived from the scenery in Egypt; a lot of blues, greens, and beiges and mustardy oranges.
The materials used encompass Egyptian "dying art", including Tulle bel Telli, Tent-making, glass-blowing, Sadaf Jewelry boxes technique, fishing nets, and more. Anne Marie K chose to use these particular methods to help the women's position in the Egyptian society and break extremist social norms.
Having spent her time in the halls of London's elite fashion schools and surrounding herself with industry peers, Annie began to notice a stark similarity. Black has circulated saliently, a modest staple in wardrobes and central piece to many designers' collections. She poses the question, how many black items do you have in your wardrobe?
Her research then started off with two simple queries: What is black? Why do people love wearing black?
The eye often plays tricks on us. We usually see what we want to see – our brains way of filtering out all the tiny nuances that would otherwise be too overwhelming. Anson Lau, a Textile Design graduate from Central Saint Martins focuses on these preconceptions and more often than not misconceptions. Taking some wise words from the wise philosopher Aristotle to heart, "our senses can be trusted but they can be easily fooled", her collection focuses on the disparity between what we see and what actually is.
Atelier Jen focuses on creating bespoke statement pieces that are colourful, decorative and highly detailed. Made from layers of durable paper, securely glued together, then decorated with gold and silver leaf overlayed with an array of pattern and colour. When finished they are coated in waterproof varnish.
The fundamental step is choosing the background papers, hand painted textures with gold, silver or copper leaf designs are prepared meticulously. The paper and template are then merged by cutting and gluing together layers of paper to achieve the required thickness.
AYSE DAGA
Ayşe's collection is mainly inspired by the mystical relationship between objects and humans. Besides her passion for collecting materials, she is also interested in the construction of cabinet of curiosities, the human subconscious, memory and the psychological phenomena called Pareidolia. Her aim was to create a dream-like narrative constructed with different objects each having a personified character inspired by history and mythology. Her collection is a representation of each character through the expression of their faces and eyes.
BECKY HONG
" Fragility "
{ The quality of being easily broken or damaged. }
We are standing in reality, we are existing in this world filled with imperfections and impermanent.
BEICHEN GUAN
Beichen Guan's collection is inspired by the star pattern emoji that people easily can understand, transformed into teeth whitening products and tools. The collection is a entertaining way to show people just like her, who try so hard to whiten their teeth because of aesthetic pressures from society.
The human tooth has evolved since the ancient age. Dental development in the modern world is a milestone that every person has to undergo in child development. But in the contemporary consumer culture, dental treatment has always been "cosmetic", concerned with aesthetics as much as function.
BEN STEPHEN FORD
Ben Stephen Ford's graduate collection is inspired by the concept of wanting to 'fix it' or 'put it right', playing with the impulse of those who can't stop that internal need for perfection.
The idea can be best described as a crooked hanging frame, some would see the fault from a distance away, however some may just walk past it. It is those who have to fix the problem who are the ones that are being captured in the collection.
BERENIKE CORCUERA
Berenike Corcuera's collection was inspired by kirilian photographs of her aura, first captured in Chinatown's reowned Magic Jewelry when she lived in New York in 2014. She began studying the electromagnetic field of the human body to understand how to translate the invisible. She began the practice of mandala and colour studies, to understand how metaphysical bodies could be interpreted into physical bodies and contemporary menswear clothing.
BETHAN CURRIE
Colour and labour intensive textile techniques are the key aspects of Bethan's creations, as well as personal and meaningful narratives. She designs for a woman who is feminine, fearless and with a sense of humour.
Drawing on her interests in retro aesthetics and interiors, Bethan's final collection, "NUKE KID ON THE BLOCK", began with a hunt to find 1970s bathrooms full of vibrant colour and intricate textures. Her own Grandma's bubble-gum pink en-suite proved one of the most intriguing, with it's floral tiles and bulb shaped taps, that later went on to inform silhouette and print.
BETHANY HILTON
Meaningful movement, Natural habits, And Intuitive behaviour. Derived from the German term, meaning a longing to travel to a place where you feel at home, Bethany's debut Graduate collection 'Heimweh' looks at traditional nomadic qualities in a contrast to a modern society.
Exploring the time-honoured lifestyle, the pulls of life and a new evolution of nomads, driving the urge to re-nature and trust our instinct in, the tech driven world of today. As part of the nomadic art movement, Joseph Beuys aids Bethany's research in understanding the connection of the nomad and the natural world.
BHAVINI RAINDI
The 1920s Flappers were heavily featured in 'The Great Gatsby' and were important in deciding the silhouette and fabrics. The 1920s Gangsters gave the structure needed to the soft and flowing silhouette of the Flappers. The staple item worn by this subculture was a tailored jacket/suit, this was manipulated to create some interesting shapes. The lapel of a jacket became a key design feature. The jacket lapel was changed in size and position on the garment, in response to imagery from the Ocean Liner exhibition.
BOBBY CAMPBELL
Walking the streets of India, viewing an extraordinary range of Temples and Mosques, featuring delicate pastel shades and inspiring pigmented blocks of colour. Pure cotton displaying a range of extravagant hand-dyed fabrics, layered by screen-printed patterns inspired by India's most amazing landmarks. The luxurious, yet wild silhouettes may be spotted en-route to Lakme Fashion Week.
The utilitarian function of clothing is to house the human body, a body that is always in constant motion. Bo Yang Jiang's collection is an interpretation of this relationship. She dissects the prime functions of what clothing does, on one hand it satisfies the practical demands and on the other, its a manifestation of character.
For her MA Fashion graduate collection at Kingston University, BoYang turned to contemporary dance for inspiration. She looked into female contemporary dancers and choreographers such as Silvia Gribaudi, who is know for her work in body politics through dance.
"When your world is collapsing, when everything is closing in, what you want is to be somewhere else, somewhere you can breathe in peace, a scrap of beauty, far from the noise and ugliness but, if there is no escape then you go there in your dreams and you paint that landscape into existence."
Bryan Wan's collection was aiming to express the concept through his pattern cutting and designing processes, inspired by his initial inspiration which is trying to translate the elegant and simple lines and the shapes and spaces of traditional Chinese hand made Ming furnitures and ceramics.
CAROLINE PERINO
Although Caroline Perino's collection is clearly inspired by art and painting, firstly it found inspiration in the kinetic sculpture field and the movement of machines. The process started by researching pictures that brought inspiration to the designer, and by doing so she realised most of the pictures were sculptures with complex forms or paintings with many elements and objects spread on the canvas. Some of her inspirations included art work made by Alexander Calder, Miró, Picasso and Kandinsky.
CAT O'BRIEN
Cat O'Brien's graduate collection; Cat's Coven has come from a culmination of personal interests and concerns regarding women and power, combined with the whimsical twist in a love of all things Halloween. What began as a more serious observation of the emergence of Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Science in 19th Century Britain, and the links to Witches and women in particular, the mood of the collection plays on a lot of the tropes associated with Witches and promiscuity, creating an overall aesthetic from the parody that is both dark and Campy at once.
CECILY OPHELIA
'Etaka' is Cecily's projection of beauty amongst apocalyptic visions of a destroyed landscape. Situated in this "AWAY" place, somewhere between the utopian and dystopian wreckages of postmodernity. Considering her own place in the creative renewal of this catastrophe, her collection follows certain principles of wabi sabi, in that it is made primarily from recycled and natural materials "whose devolution is expressive and attractive." (Andew Juniper-Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence).It is also for this reason I have placed emphasis on the handmade. Valuing the process of time serves both as a therapy and a protest against the voracious cycle of the fashion treadmill, which weaves obsolescence into the very fabric of its garments.
CHLOE NEZIANYA
Chloe Nezianya's collection was heavily inspired by historical and mythological imagery and representations of Amazonian goddesses. Chloe drew comparisons between the big statuesque women depicted in the imagery to the plus-size women that she aimed to dress. The statues boasted soft drapes and fluid movement, with fabrics loosely hanging over the body. These garments inspired Chloe to find more deliberate ways to use drape in her work.
In an effort to combine luxury with comfort and ease, Chloe found that the properties of powermesh were the most effective to use as both the base of a garment and to use as a drape. The fabric has the most forgiving stretch and ease which gives the person wearing it more confidence in their movement. Using mesh was also the perfect fabric to make considered drapes and ruching inspired by her research.
Looking into history, Japanese and Indian culture, Cleo finds new ways to create drapes, to play with pattern constructions, proportions and colours.
For her first collection "Cibachromes", the designer was inspired by a few still life photographs by the American photographer Sally Mann. 'Cibachromes' refers to the manual photo-printing technique in which colours overlap. Bright, pure and expressive, the key words of the sustainable fashion label Cleo De Laet.
CÉLINE MARIE
The AW18 debut collection HUMAN MECHANOIDS has been inspired by Swiss surrealist painter HR Giger and his idea of the biome- chanoid and explores the physical relationship between digital technology and the human body. The partially controversially perceived imagery created by the artists' depiction of reality at the time suggests that we are inevitably transformed into a kind of human machinery. Placing his idea into modern context leads to the idea of viewing social media as an extension of ourselves due to constant engagement.
Chaerin Lee fuses the silhouettes of 1980's sportswear, the expressionism of renowned artist Jackson Pollock and the vibrant colours of Leigh Bowery's make-up and costumes. With these inspirations at the forefront of Chaerin's mind, she set out to create a collection that could have a positive impact on human emotion using Colour Theory.
Knowing that people in busy modern societies often suffer from fatigue, Chaerin Lee developed energetic prints and patterns inspired by the expressive movement seen in the work of American artist Jackson Pollock. She tested these colourful yet subtle prints on different fabrics, familiarising herself with the nuances in the results.
CHARLOTTE MOORE
Charlotte's collection California Dreamin was inspired by the beautifully accessible Salvation Mountain which is based in California where people from all around the world go to worship anything and everything they wish to. Charlotte created this collection using her own strong handdrawn prints with cultured silhouettes. She also gained a massive LOVE for embroidery design inspired by converting everyone to see the world in the way others do.
CHARLOTTE THOMPSON
Charlotte Emma Thompson's collection portrays a feminine, dreamy atmospheric portfolio that shows the story of her collection, the individual inspiration and design process for each piece.
The concept of her graduate jewellery collection 'Babygirl' is a celebration of the strength in sisterhood. In a current world of strong male politics culture her project embodies femininity and girlhood with strength. The main inspiration/concept came purely from icons such as Chloe Sevigny, Tavi Gevinson and Solange. Along with Sofia Coppola's film: The Virgin Suicides and Deniz Gamze Ergüven's film: Mustang.
CHRISTINA SEEWALD
Christina's research topic is concerned with sexual dependency and interdependency between individuals. Many people in big cities like London have the desire to be independent, but at the same time a craving for the intensity that comes from interdependency. The tension this creates seems to be a universal problem. (Nan Goldin)
In order to get visual inspiration she collaborated with Jelly Luise, another CSM student to create a mood film that would support her final collection in terms of colour, shape and structure. Christina provided image-heavy research that was rooted in Nan Goldin's 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency', Schiele drawings and many others.
CLAIRE TAGG
Claire Tagg uses detailed print work in an illustrative style based on narrative to design her pieces. Her inspiration derives from travel and photography but mainly from her previous occupation as an air stewardess.
Claire created remarkable illustrations by drawing in a mixed media style in different scales to create motifs. She would then use Photoshop to allow her to digitally print onto her garments through a mixture of digital and screen printing.
Constanca Entrudo's graduate collection is inspired by the whole idea of performance, circus and transgression. By embracing chaos during the creative process she aimed to generate fabrics that would challenge the usual processes of print making through the use of techniques such as dyeing, bondawebbing, melting different materials, pleating, folding and embossing.
In the first phase of her research she looked at Circus archives, London based performers and visited various vintage costume shops all over the UK in order to learn more about the materials and fittings that have been used in theatres and burlesque performances.
DAOYUAN DING
Daoyuan Ding's collection was initiated by the study of the artist Alicja Kwade's artworks and influencing surrealist artworks. Also based on the philosophy, Object Oriented Ontology, Ding started to see objects by different statuses.
For example, a wooden stool can be seen as a tree which would be the raw material of the stool in the future and the wooden pieces which was the work in progress when manufacturing the wooden stool.
Desree Akorahson conducted her primary research by visiting Kew Gardens and drawing and collection information about the rarity of the flowers. She wanted to create a hand rendered, botanical look about her prints, which is why she chose to draw her prints by hand using fine liners and using Photoshop to add in the colours. By using this technique, she was able to enhance the brightness in all of the colours chosen.
Desree was inspired by artists such as Bridget Riley and William Morris when it came to creating her prints. She combined these two styles and added in some influences from 60s fashion.
DINA FUSI
Attention at the core to these craft techniques gives a sense of childlike play through tactile experimentation and draws consumers into a rich and unique tangible experience with the brand.
The attention to craft processes is complemented throughout the collection by the use of modern digital techniques, including laser cutting and computer embroidery, allowing for more experimental and unique results.
EDEN KESHIA
Eden Keshia's graduate collection is inspired by the curiously beautiful artworks created during early infancy. The erratic brush-strokes and experimental nature of the paintings and scribbles prove to be an interesting starting point for colourful prints and hand-painted designs.
Always adorned with hand-rendered intricacies, designs feature hand-painted details, bespoke embroidery and tactile embellishments, intended to appeal to all senses. The ethos of this collection embraces the concept of a slower-paced fashion; the design process focuses on creating high-quality wearable art pieces which can be kept and treasured.
EDWIN CHARMAIN
With a narrative that stems from the journey of Indonesian batik to the heart of its modern society, Charmain's jewellery collection explores the evolution of Indonesian batik through history in terms of technique, pattern, production and consumption.
He gives a new life into the thousand years tradition by transforming what once a two-dimensional waxing technique on top of fabric into a three-dimensional jewellery object, emphasising on the sustainability and survivability aspect of Indonesia handcrafted batik in this machine production era.
ELENA KURGINYAN
A starting point for Elena's collection was a film "The Colour of Pomegranates" as cinematography takes a big part in her research and design developmentt. One of the key points of both of her concept and designs started after reading a book by Hamid Naficy "An Accented Cinema". Elena's thinking process and the narrative of the project has been influenced by numerous personal feelings such as memory, nostalgia, family and relationships between people.
Illustrations are the most important step in the development of the NILEMLOH collections. As the colours and prints are directly put onto the garments once finished, there's only one chance to reach the desired result. Therefore, the illustrations give the designer the opportunity to plan ahead and visualize the final result of each piece in relation to another. The Printograms collection which is the first complete collection utilizing this technique is a mash-up of luxurious vintage, romantic lace, muddy colour tones and a touch of rough rave aesthetics.
ELISHA CORINNE
Elisha Corinne's debut collection titled 'The Lost Boys' came from her interests into travel and exploration of new places. Shackleton's famous Antarctic voyage first inspired this story with influence from the equipment, clothing and surrounding environments.
During the design development process Elisha wanted to distort the normal shapes and silhouettes of garments. Enlarging and folding trousers and classic shirts then pairing these with fisherman inspired silhouettes creating a well-considered collection.
O R I G I N S
Ellis' latest collection, Origins, takes inspiration from the jewellery hoards which have been found across Scotland, containing pieces which transcend the centuries and encompass the heritage of many different lands.
Origins takes qualities from these hoards; a myriad of coins and jewels, fragments of history, pollinated from different areas. Sculpted in 14 carat yellow gold and set with diamonds, the Origins collection is a fusion of intricacy and erosion. Historical shapes are deconstructed into sculptural fine jewellery situated firmly within today's modern world.
Emily began designing womenswear because, as a young girl, the idea of designing for men simply never occurred to her. It wasn't until her second year at Kingston University that a tutor assumed her clothes were for men, when all of a sudden the penny dropped. Ever since she has been obsessed with Mens clothing, from tailoring and formalwear to sportswear and RTW.
When studying abroad in Asia Emily became extremely aware of the stark differences between male friendships in the East compared to that of the West, and began to question the social construct of masculinity.
EMILY HE
Many words have been penned about the differences between the East and the West. The list is rather extensive, subcategories under umbrella categories. Emily He, a graduate from London College of Fashion BA Jewellery program, can speak extensively about this subject - a subject that inspired her graduate collection.
Having spent an equal amount of time in both Hong Kong and the UK, Emily's voice on culture difference, habits and behaviours comes from experience.
ERICKA SANTIAGO
Islanders is a project that celebrates the lives of the people in the Philippines -Ericka's place of birth. She wanted to portray the happy and colourful lives of the people that inhabit the Islands. She was particularly fascinated by the mode of transport that is widely used in the country - The Jeepneys. They are known for their crowded seating and decorations which have become a symbol of the Philippine culture and Art.
As someone who did not grow up in the Philippines, her view of the country is different to those that have lived their whole lives there. To the Islanders, the jeepney is a vehicle to get to work, school and home. To Ericka, it is a special reminder of the diverse culture that she is a part of.
A variety of strange shapes and colourful, innovative materials can be seen throughout Xin Wen's series of works. She incorporates different cuttings and colours that have a diverse chemical effect to enhance the wearer's character.
She is inspired by fairytales, nature and life and uses a range of different techniques such as silkscreen printing, laser cutting and embroidery to create her designs.Each piece of work is handmade, allowing them to be completely unique.
The making behind the beautiful shoes.
Fields of Gold artisanal shoes are born out of passion for travel. Turning local authentic handcrafts into fashion masterpieces. Fields of Gold represents unique eastern motives, combining tradition and innovation. Each pair are completely unique, with over 30 hours of hand embroidery followed by strict quality control.


Ten personages who've mixed cricket and politics.
Raised in Brixton, John Major is Surrey through and through and the Oval is his happy place, so that was where he headed after receiving a drubbing in the 1997 General Election. He has since described that afternoon as "soothing" and says cricket has given him a lifetime of "solace". Post-politics Major served on the MCC committee and has also written a history of the game.
English cricket is littered with figures who unsuccessfully turned their hand to politics. There was CB Fry, who ran three times for parliament as a Liberal candidate in Brighton but lost on each occasion. Then Ted Dexter who, aged 29, gave up the England captaincy to run as a Tory carpetbagger in Cardiff South-East in 1964 against future PM James Callaghan. The doyen of the press box, John Arlott, also had a go, twice running, and twice coming third, as the Liberal candidate in Epping.
Alec Douglas-Home is the only British PM to have played first-class cricket. He played 10 games for six different teams, including Middlesex, in the 1920s and while his batting was no great shakes his bowling stats (12 wickets at 30) are respectable. Coincidentally, the number of runs he conceded in first-class cricket was 363; the same number of days he spent as PM after replacing Harold Macmillan in 1963. He later became MCC president.
As a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in the 1950s, future Australian prime minister Bob Hawke was 12th man for the university side and, more importantly, set a world record for the downing of a yard of ale (two-and-a-half pints) in 11 seconds. He spent eight years as PM and afterwards earned a shedload of money in business. More recently he's been seen skulling frothies live on TV at the SCG. Plenty of Aussie PMs have declared their love for cricket, including Robert Menzies, who liked Commonwealth meetings to "coincide" with Tests at Lord's, and John Howard, who failed in his attempt to become ICC president.
he later became deputy minister of Postal Services before sacking politics off in 2015 to take on the far more taxing role of Sri Lankan chairman of selectors.
class cricketer – albeit a considerably less successful one who made one appearance for Railways in 1973, registering a duck in his only innings.
When politicians and administrators failed to do their jobs during England's shambolic 2003 World Cup campaign, Nasser Hussain was forced to step in. Social unrest, culminating in death threats from a rabble calling themselves the Sons and Daughters of Zimbabwe, meant that England's players, who received little support from their government, boycotted their fixture against the joint hosts. It was a complicated situation from which few emerged with credit but Hussain remained the dignified statesman throughout. The ICC awarded Zimbabwe a walkover which resulted in them, not England, qualifying for the super sixes. "Nasser Hussain is a bloody hero," the Zimbabwe seamer Henry Olonga later said.
Once one of the world's most beguiling batsmen, Mohammad Azharuddin began the first decade of this millennium banned from cricket for life as a match-fixing pariah and ended it an elected member of the Indian National Congress Party. Azhar's not the only Indian cricketer to turn to politics. Mohammad Kaif, he of Lord's 2002 fame, unsuccessfully stood for the same party in 2014 and two years prior to that Sachin Tendulkar became the first active sportsman to join India's Upper House, the Rajya Sabha.
The final English rebel tour to South Africa in 1990 was a miserable, regrettable affair. With apartheid finally nearing its end, the players were castigated by the press and local public, with waiting staff refusing to serve them – at one stage skipper Mike Gatting slipped on a chef's hat to cook steaks – and demonstrations taking place at matches, eventually leading the tour to be cut short by a fortnight. Yet the players misguidedly seemed to believe they were on a political mission. "It wasn't an enjoyable place to be, or an enjoyable tour to be on," said Essex seamer Neil Foster "[but] in a bizarre way, we did help change the country." Three cheers all round!


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By Rene Buest, Contributor, CIO | PT
How AI can help to avoid Amazon Web Services disruptions
An AI-defined infrastructure – specifically, an AI-powered IT management system – can help to avoid service disruptions of public cloud providers.
Back in February 2017, an Amazon S3 service disruption in AWS' oldest region (US-EAST-1) shut down several major websites and services, such as Slack, Trello, Quora, Business Insider, Coursera and Time Inc.
Other users were reporting that they were also unable to control devices which were connected via the Internet of Things since IFTTT was also down.
These kinds of disruptions are becoming more and more business critical for today's digital economy. To prevent these situations, cloud users should always consider the shared responsibility model in the public cloud. However, there are also ways where artificial intelligence (AI) can help. An AI-defined infrastructure – specifically, an AI-powered IT management system – can help to avoid service disruptions of public cloud providers.
A typo crashed the AWS-powered Internet!
After every service disruption AWS writes a summary of what was going on during an incident. This is what happened on the morning of February 28, 2017:
"The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) team was debugging an issue causing the S3 billing system to progress more slowly than expected. At 9:37AM PST, an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process. Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended. The servers that were inadvertently removed supported two other S3 subsystems. One of these subsystems, the index subsystem, manages the metadata and location information of all S3 objects in the region. This subsystem is necessary to serve all GET, LIST, PUT, and DELETE requests. The second subsystem, the placement subsystem, manages allocation of new storage and requires the index subsystem to be functioning properly to correctly operate. The placement subsystem is used during PUT requests to allocate storage for new objects. Removing a significant portion of the capacity caused each of these systems to require a full restart. While these subsystems were being restarted, S3 was unable to service requests. Other AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region that rely on S3 for storage, including the S3 console, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) new instance launches, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes (when data was needed from a S3 snapshot), and AWS Lambda were also impacted while the S3 APIs were unavailable."
You can read the full text of Amazon's outage message if you want to hear more.
AWS outages aren't anything new, and the more AWS customers running their web infrastructure on the cloud giant, the more issues end users will experience in the future. According to SimilarTech, Amazon S3 is already used by 152,123 websites and 124,577 unique domains.
However, the philosophy of "everything fails all the time" (Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com) means if you are using AWS you must "design for Failure"…something cloud role model and video on-demand provider Netflix is doing to perfection. In doing so, Netflix has developed its Simian Army, an open source toolset everyone can use to run a cloud infrastructure on AWS high-available.
Netflix "simply" uses the two levels of redundancy AWS offers: multiple regions and multiple availability zones (AZ). Multiple regions are the masterclass of using AWS, very complex and sophisticated, since you must build and manage entire separated infrastructure environments within AWS' worldwide distributed cloud infrastructure.
Multiple AZs are the preferred and "easiest" way for high availability (HA) on AWS. In this case, the infrastructure is built within more than one data center (AZ). In doing so, a single region HA architecture is deployed in at least two or more AZs – a load balancer in front of it is controlling the data traffic.
However, even if "typos" don't happen, the recent accident shows that human error is still the biggest issue running IT systems. In addition, you can blame AWS only to a certain extent, since the public cloud is about shared responsibility.
Shared responsibility in the public cloud
An important public cloud detail is its self-service. Depending on its DNA, providers are only taking responsibility for specific areas. The customer is responsible for the rest. The public cloud is based on the Shared Responsibility model. The provider and its customers divide the field of duties among themselves. In doing so, the customer's self-responsibility plays a major role.
In the context of IaaS utilization, the provider is responsible for the operations and security of the physical environment. He is taking care of:
Setup and maintenance of the entire data center infrastructure.
Deployment of compute power, storage, network and managed services (like databases) and other micro services.
Provisioning the virtualization layer customers are using to demand virtual resources at any time.
Deployment of services and tools customers can use to manage their areas of responsibility.
The customer is responsible for the operations and security of the logical environment. This includes:
Setup of the virtual infrastructure.
Installation of operating systems.
Configuration of networks and firewall settings.
Operations of own applications and self-developed (micro) services.
Thus, the customer is responsible for the operations and security of his own infrastructure environment and the systems, applications, services, as well as stored data on top of it. However, providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure provide comprehensive tools and services customers can use e.g. to encrypt their data as well as ensure identity and access controls. In addition, enablement services (micro services) exist that customers can adopt to develop own applications more quickly and easily.
In doing so, the customer is all alone in its area of responsibility and thus must take self-responsibility. However, this part of the shared responsibility can be done by an AI-defined IT management system respectively an AI-defined Infrastructure.
An AI-defined infrastructure can help to avoid service disruptions
An AI-defined Infrastructure can help to avoid service disruptions in the public cloud. However, the basis of this kind of infrastructure is a General AI that combines three major human abilities that enable enterprises to tackle IT and business process challenges.
Understanding: By creating a semantic data map the General AI understands the world of the company in which its IT and business exists.
Learning: By creating Knowledge Items the General AI learns best practices and reasoning from experts. Knowledge is taught in atomic pieces of information (Knowledge Items) that represent separate steps of a process.
Solving: With machine reasoning problems are solved in ambiguous and changing environments. The General AI dynamically reacts to the ever-changing context, selecting the best course of action. Based on machine learning the results are optimized through experiments.
To put this into the context of an AWS service disruption:
Understanding: The General AI creates a semantic map of the AWS environment as part of the world in which the company exists.
Learning: IT experts create Knowledge Items while they are configuring and working with AWS from what the General AI learns best practices. Thus, the experts teach the General AI contextual knowledge that includes what, when, where and why something needs to be done – for example when a specific AWS service is not responding.
Solving: The General AI dynamically reacts to incidents based on the learned knowledge. Thus, the AI (probably) knows what to do at this very moment - even if no high availability setup was considered from the beginning.
Frankly speaking, everything described above is no magic. Like every new born organism an AI-defined Infrastructure needs to be trained but afterwards can work autonomously as well as can detect anomalies as well as service disruptions in the public cloud and solve them. Therefore, you need the knowledge of experts who have a deep understanding of AWS and how the cloud works in general. These experts need to teach the General AI with their contextual knowledge that includes not only what, when and where but also why. They have to teach the AI with atomic pieces (Knowledge Items, KI) that can be indexed and prioritized by the AI. Context and indexing enable this KIs to be combined to form many solutions.
KIs created by various IT experts create pooled expertise that is further optimized by machine selection of best knowledge combinations for problem resolution. This type of collaborative learning improves process time task by task. However, the number of possible permutations grows exponentially with added knowledge. Connected to a knowledge core, the General AI continuously optimizes performance by eliminating unnecessary steps and even changing routes based on other contextual learning. And the bigger the semantic graph and knowledge core gets, the better and more dynamically the infrastructure can act in terms of service disruptions.
On a final note, do not underestimate the "power of we!" Our research at Arago revealed that with an overlap of 33 percent in basic knowledge, this knowledge can and is used outside a specific organizational environment, i.e., across different client environments. The reuse of knowledge within a client is up to 80 percent. Thus, exchanging basic knowledge within a community becomes imperative from an efficiency perspective and improve the abilities of the General AI.
CloudWorld
Rene Buest is the Director of Technology Research at Arago.


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SLEEPY HOLLOW looks great, has a capable cast, and splashes some neat (and many grisly) moments around its 105 minutes, which, if nothing else, set a record for decapitations—eighteen. Tim Burton directs a $100,000,000 blow-up of the classic 1820 Washington Irving short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", with Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane.
Irving's tale of a lanky, superstitious and fumbling schoolteacher over his head (sorry) in a haunt-ridden post-Revolutionary War village in New York ran a mere 24 pages. As written by Kevin Yagher and Andrew Kevin Walker, teacher Crane is now an upstart police constable investigating a series of bizarre murders. Burton-Depp's dork hero is still clownish (way past the "we get it" point) and, to suit the vapid "thrill ride" tempo set-in-stone for modern blood-thirsting audiences, the carnage starts from the get-go and never lets up, lopping off suspense before it has a chance to make you give a fig who lives (few) or dies (most). By the time an entire innocent family is massacred, interest in anything beyond the visuals has long flagged. The script spirals into boredom, and the loud, drawn-out finale just leaves you thankful it's over. Eighteen lopped noggins?
Come Oscar-time, it won for Art Direction and was nominated for Cinematography and Costume Design. Depp's nervous dweeb lays in groundwork for his later fopping-up excursions as Jack Sparrow, Barnabas Collins and Tonto: a little twitching goes a long way. The normally enticing Christina Ricci is a let-down as the bland romantic interest. Sparking some life into all the death is a wicked turn from Miranda Richardson.
With Marc Pickering (not very good as Crane's young assistant), Michael Gambon (can you see the villain coming?), Casper Van Diem (demoted from Starship Troopers), Jeffrey Jones, Richard Griffiths, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, Christopher Walken (whacked out, ala Walken, as 'The Horseman'), Steven Waddington (a comedown from The Last Of The Mohicans), Lisa Marie (yowza!), Christopher Lee (gravitas cameo to get things off on a Hammer), Alun Armstrong and Martin Landau (briefly, before rapidly losing weight from his shoulders). Filmed in England (Old, not New). It grossed $207,068,340.
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MIT engineers test an idea for a new hovering rover
Jennifer Chu
Caption:MIT aerospace engineers are testing a concept for a hovering rover that levitates by harnessing the moon's natural charge. This illustration shows a concept image of rover.
A levitating vehicle might someday explore the moon, asteroids, and other airless planetary surfaces.
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This article was first published on MIT News.
Aerospace engineers at MIT are testing a new concept for a hovering rover that levitates by harnessing the moon's natural charge.
Because they lack an atmosphere, the moon and other airless bodies such as asteroids can build up an electric field through direct exposure to the sun and surrounding plasma. On the moon, this surface charge is strong enough to levitate dust more than 1 meter above the ground, much the way static electricity can cause a person's hair to stand on end.
Engineers at NASA and elsewhere have recently proposed harnessing this natural surface charge to levitate a glider with wings made of Mylar, a material that naturally holds the same charge as surfaces on airless bodies. They reasoned that the similarly charged surfaces should repel each other, with a force that lofts the glider off the ground. But such a design would likely be limited to small asteroids, as larger planetary bodies would have a stronger, counteracting gravitational pull.
The MIT team's levitating rover could potentially get around this size limitation. The concept, which resembles a retro-style, disc-shaped flying saucer, uses tiny ion beams to both charge up the vehicle and boost the surface's natural charge. The overall effect is designed to generate a relatively large repulsive force between the vehicle and the ground, in a way that requires very little power. In an initial feasibility study, the researchers show that such an ion boost should be strong enough to levitate a small, 2-pound vehicle on the moon and large asteroids like Psyche.
"We think of using this like the Hayabusa missions that were launched by the Japanese space agency," says lead author Oliver Jia-Richards, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "That spacecraft operated around a small asteroid and deployed small rovers to its surface. Similarly, we think a future mission could send out small hovering rovers to explore the surface of the moon and other asteroids."
The team's results appear in the current issue of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. Jia-Richards' co-authors are Paulo Lozano, the M. Alemán-Velasco Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and director of MIT's Space Propulsion Lab; and former visiting student Sebastian Hampl, now at McGill University.
Ionic force
The team's levitating design relies on the use of miniature ion thrusters, called ionic-liquid ion sources. These small, microfabricated nozzles are connected to a reservoir containing ionic liquid in the form of room-temperature molten salt. When a voltage is applied, the liquid's ions are charged and emitted as a beam through the nozzles with a certain force.
Lozano's team has pioneered the development of ionic thrusters and has used them mainly to propel and physically maneuver small satellites in space. Recently, Lozano had seen research showing the levitating effect of the moon's charged surface on lunar dust. He also considered the electrostatic glider design by NASA and wondered: Could a rover fitted with ion thrusters produce enough repulsive, electrostatic force to hover on the moon and larger asteroids?
To test the idea, the team initially modeled a small, disk-shaped rover with ion thrusters that charged up the vehicle alone. They modeled the thrusters to beam negatively charged ions out from the vehicle, which effectively gave the vehicle a positive charge, similar to the moon's positively charged surface. But they found this was not enough to get the vehicle off the ground.
"Then we thought, what if we transfer our own charge to the surface to supplement its natural charge?" Jia-Richards says.
By pointing additional thrusters at the ground and beaming out positive ions to amplify the surface's charge, the team reasoned that the boost could produce a bigger force against the rover, enough to levitate it off the ground. They drew up a simple mathematical model for the scenario and found that, in principle, it could work.
Based on this simple model, the team predicted that a small rover, weighing about two pounds, could achieve levitation of about one centimeter off the ground, on a large asteroid such as Psyche, using a 10-kilovolt ion source. To get a similar liftoff on the moon, the same rover would need a 50-kilovolt source.
"This kind of ionic design uses very little power to generate a lot of voltage," Lozano explains. "The power needed is so small, you could do this almost for free."
In suspension
To be sure the model represented what could happen in a real environment in space, they ran a simple scenario in Lozano's lab. The researchers manufactured a small hexagonal test vehicle weighing about 60 grams and measuring about the size of a person's palm. They installed one ion thruster pointing up, and four pointing down, and then suspended the vehicle over an aluminum surface from two springs calibrated to counteract Earth's gravitational force. The entire setup was placed within a vacuum chamber to simulate the airless environment of the moon and asteroids.
The researchers also suspended a tungsten rod from the experiment's springs, and used its displacement to measure how much force the thrusters produced each time they were fired. They applied various voltages to the thrusters and measured the resulting forces, which they then used to calculate the height the vehicle alone could have levitated. They found these experimental results matched with predictions of the same scenario from their model, giving them confidence that its predictions for hovering a rover on Psyche and the moon were realistic.
The current model is designed to predict the conditions required to simply achieve levitatation, which happened to be about 1 centimeter off the ground for a 2-pound vehicle. The ion thrusters could generate more force with larger voltage to lift a vehicle higher off the ground. But Jia-Richards says the model would need revising, as it doesn't account for how the emitted ions would behave at higher altitudes.
"In principle, with better modeling, we could levitate to much higher heights," he says.
In that case, Lozano says future missions to the moon and asteroids could deploy rovers that use ion thrusters to safely hover and maneuver over unknown, uneven terrain.
"With a levitating rover, you don't have to worry about wheels or moving parts," Lozano says. "An asteroid's terrain could be totally uneven, and as long as you had a controlled mechanism to keep your rover floating, then you could go over very rough, unexplored terrain, without having to dodge the asteroid physically."
This research was supported, in part, by NASA.
"Reprinted with permission of MIT News"
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BLADE WEAR: The blades appear to be full to me, but I don't know great deal about Robeson knives.
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The state Department of Health, along with Jersey City, is investigating a suspected case of measles in a baby, a state official said Thursday.
If confirmed, it would be the first case of measles in New Jersey this year, and would add to the growing number of cases of the highly contagious disease across the country.
According to state Health Department spokeswoman Donna Leusner, the suspected measles case involves a 1-year-old baby who not been vaccinated. Health authorities do not recommend vaccinating children under 1 year old, usually recommending that parents wait until the child is between 12 and 15 months old.
The baby has recovered, Leusner said.
However, the potential for individuals to have been exposed to the virus remains. According to Leusner, the latest time a person could become ill due to exposure in this case will be Feb. 7.
In addition, residents of the building where the baby lives were notified of a potential measles exposure "out of an abundance of caution." The statement did not identify the baby's family's address.
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Measles is an easily transmitted disease that is first marked by runny nose, fever, cough and achiness followed by a spotty, itchy rash.
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