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Aeria Games announces Dynasty Warriors Online
Special news! The popular brawler title, Dynasty Warriors, is going online – and Aeria Games will be publishing it as an MMO.
Set in the Three Kingdoms period, players take the role of an officer and battle hundreds of foes on special maps to meet victory goals. Dynasty Warriors Online will include PvE, territorial warfare, PvP, and story-based battles. Skirmishes can features 4 versus 4 and 12 versus 12 modes. Power-ups can be found on the battlefield to increase the power of your warrior.
Closed beta is to start soon, and Aeria Games is accepting applications now at the new website: http://dynastywarriors.aeriagames.com/.
The Original Press Release:
Dynasty Warriors Online Slashing Its Way to North America, Europe
Veteran Free-to-play Publisher Aeria Games Will Host and Produce Legendary Title
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – (Aug. 12, 2010) – Dynasty Warriors, one of the leading hack 'n slash franchises of all time with more than 18 million copies sold, will be available soon as a free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) game: Dynasty Warriors Online. Aeria Games, a leading publisher of interactive entertainment, struck a licensing agreement with TECMO KOEI to distribute and operate Dynasty Warriors Online in North America and Europe. The first MMO version of the acclaimed franchise combines the fast-paced, epic-scale action made famous by Dynasty Warriors with intense online multiplayer gameplay. As with all of Aeria Games' titles, Dynasty Warriors Online will be free to play.
Dynasty Warriors Online is an action-oriented tactical combat game, focusing on frenetic fighting and deadly showdowns against giant hordes on sprawling battlefields. Player-created characters interact with historical generals and warriors from China's famous "Three Kingdoms" period. Players swear allegiances to warring factions and battle online to determine who will conquer Ancient China.
Vicious Head-to-Head Combat: Unleash your skills in hard-hitting 4-on-4 brawls and 12-on-12 clashes against opposing players
Epic Online Battles: Wage war supported by massive NPC armies across several game modes, including PvP, territorial control, story-based battles and more
Dynamic Character Growth: Fight with a broad variety of weapons and level up your warrior mid-battle – start each skirmish with basic attributes and collect power-ups from the field
Rewrite History: Change the dominant faction of the Three Kingdoms based on players' in-game performance and victories
"Dynasty Warriors is one of the most fun, beloved and treasured video game franchises and is among the first great gaming IPs to be offered as a free-to-play online game experience," said J.T. Nguyen, COO of Aeria Games. "The free-to-play Dynasty Warriors Online delivers the experience of the popular franchise into a fresh new multiplayer setting, allowing players to both compete and cooperate in grand battles for control of the Three Kingdoms. We're delighted to share the game with Aeria's growing community of more than 13 million members."
Dynasty Warriors Online will begin closed beta testing (CBT) soon. Aeria Games members can sign up on the Dynasty Warriors Online website at http://dynastywarriors.aeriagames.com, and first-time players can register as a member for free at http://www.aeriagames.com.
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The view from the top is mind blowing. You will also find water tanks on the top. Dheraj River, the vaitharna river, Bandre dam and Tak-Mak.
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Very few of the historical evidences are coherent to this fort. Looking at its well-dug cisterns, the fort can be said to be belonging to Bhoj-period. But no such evidences are available. In 16th century, Portuguese captured this fort from the King of Gujarat. They constructed fortifications and bastions on this fort. Later, in 18th century, Peshwa's conquered this fort in their campaign of 1737. Afterwards the fort remained under the British rule.
Manor is 102 km from Mumbai on Ahmedabad highway. You have a option of getting there from Palghar as well. Two km before Manor proceed on the Wada road to either Vathote (13 km) or Ambai (11 km). Wada is 15 km ahead of the Vaghote via Kanchan (2km).


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Svami Vivekananda (12. januar 1863 — 4. jul 1902), rođen kao Narendranat Data, bio je indijski hinduistički monah, glavni sledbenih indijskog mistika Ramakrišne iz 19. veka. On je bio ključna figura uvođenja indijske filozofije vedante i joge u Zapadni svet, a zaslužan je za podizanje međuverske svesti, čime je hinduizam doveo do statusa velike svetske religije tokom kasnog 19. veka. On je bio glavni pokretač u oživljavanju hinduizma u Indiji i doprineo je konceptu nacionalizma u kolonijalnoj Indiji. Vivekananda je osnovao organizaciju Ramakrišna mat i misiju Ramakrišna. On je verovatno najpoznatiji po svom govoru koji je započeo rečima - "Sestre i braćo Amerika ...", u kojem je uveo hinduizam na Parlamentu svetskih religija u Čikagu 1893. godine.

Rođen u aristokratskoj Bengali Kajasta porodici iz Kolkate, Vivekananda je bio sklon duhovnosti. Na njega je uticao njegov guru, Ramakrišna, od koga je saznao da su sva živa bića otelotvorenje samog božanstva; prema tome, služenje Bogu moglo bi se ostvariti služenjem čovečanstvu. Nakon smrti Ramakrišne, Vivekananda je ekstenzivno obilazio Indijski potkontinent i stekao znanje iz prve ruke o životnim uslovima u Britanskoj Indiji. Kasnije je otputovao u Sjedinjene Države, predstavljajući Indiju na Parlamentu svetskih religija 1893. godine. Vivekananda je održao stotine javnih i privatnih propovedi i predavanja, šireći principe hinduističke filozofije u Sjedinjenim Državama, Engleskoj i Evropi. U Indiji se Vivekananda smatra patriotskim svetiteljem, a njegov rođendan slavi se kao Nacionalni dan mladih.

Publikacije

 Objavljeno za vreme njegovog života
 Sangeet Kalpataru (1887, with Vaishnav Charan Basak)
 Karma Yoga (1896)
 Raja Yoga (1896 [1899 edition])
 Vedanta Philosophy: An address before the Graduate Philosophical Society (1896)
 Lectures from Colombo to Almora (1897)
 Bartaman Bharat  (March 1899), Udbodhan
 My Master (1901), The Baker and Taylor Company, New York
 Vedânta philosophy: lectures on  Jnâna Yoga (1902) Vedânta Society, New York
  Jnana yoga (1899)
 Objavljeno posthumno
Ovo je spisak izabranih Vivekanandinih knjiga koje su objavljene nakon njegove smrti (1902)
 Addresses on Bhakti Yoga
 Bhakti Yoga
 The East and the West (1909)
 Inspired Talks (1909)
 Narada Bhakti Sutras – translation
 Para Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
 Practical Vedanta
 Speeches and writings of Swami Vivekananda; a comprehensive collection
 Complete Works: a collection of his writings, lectures and discourses in a set of nine volumes (ninth volume will be published soon)
 Seeing beyond the circle (2005)

Reference

Literatura

 Majumdar, R. C. (1999). Swami Vivekananda: A historical review. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama.

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Умрли 1902.
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Q: Regex matches flow together because of .* I'm trying to separate the hosts from this file, but my regex selects both hosts together:
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A: Make the star lazy:
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.* is "greedy", matching as much as it can. .*? is "lazy" and matches as little as possible to achieve a match. Therefore it will match only until the closest host_end and not until the last one.
Also, no need to escape the dot inside a character class. And do you really want to allow a comma in the character class, or did you mean [\w.]*?

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ON a frigid, gray Dec. 28 in 1958, Alan Ameche, the Baltimore Colts 6-foot 222-pound fullback, blasted 1 yard over right tackle to score a dramatic overtime touchdown in the National Football League championship game at Yankee Stadium.
The Horse's 1-yard run pulled the entire N.F.L. into the end zone with him. Baltimore's dramatic 23-17 overtime victory against the New York Giants, which was the first championship game televised nationally and also the first sudden-death overtime game in N.F.L. history, is credited with the coming of age of professional football.
Forty years later, the new Giants, now working out of New Jersey in Giants Stadium, face a different kind of sudden death. On the final week of a bittersweet season, the Giants travel to Philadelphia for a game that might be instant elimination or that could be slow, torturous agony. Or, it may not be a death at all, but a rejuvenation. The Giants go to Philadelphia needing one victory and two miracles to reach the playoffs.
First the Giants need to beat Philadelphia. And that won't be easy on a day that's sure to be filled with emotion. Tomorrow may well be Ray Rhodes's final game as head coach of the Eagles (3-12). He expects to be dismissed after the season. Tomorrow will also be the final game in the meandering 15-year career of Irving Fryar, an Eagles wide receiver.
And the Giants need help. They need Cincinnati to beat Tampa Bay, then they need lowly San Diego to upset Arizona, which is looking for its first playoff appearance in a non-strike season since 1975.
At least one pair of hands are injured. Jeff Blake, the Bengals' quarterback, fractured his wrist in last week's victory over Pittsburgh and won't play against Tampa Bay. But that may not be as bleak as it appears. The Bengals haven't had a winning record since 1990, but they have won their final home game in each of the last five years and in nine of the last 10.
There's also the issue of cold weather. Tampa Bay is 0-16 when the temperature is below 40 degrees at kickoff. The Bucs have won only six road games in December in franchise history. A cold spell hit Cincinnati last week, sending wind chills below zero just in time for tomorrow's game.
But even if the Bengals win, the Giants need yet another miracle: they need San Diego to upset the surging Cardinals in Arizona. Given the spiritual morass of the Chargers, this might be a greater stretch than the Bengals defeating Tampa Bay.
Back in September, the Arizona-San Diego game was scripted as a battle between a pair of wealthy, high-gloss young quarterbacks: Jake Plummer and Ryan Leaf. Plummer is the N.F.L.'s second-richest player, and Leaf has been called a $31.25 million mistake. Plummer has been on fire, and Leaf has been like a fire raging out of control.
Leaf cursed a TV cameraman in the locker room after a dismal performance early in the season, then went into a tirade at a reporter for writing the story. Leaf threw a football at the head of the same reporter, but, like most of his passes this season, it missed its mark.
That bravado was in contrast to his reaction after a horrific game against the Giants in which he threw four interceptions. Afterward, he wondered whether he was good enough to play in the N.F.L. ''It kind of feels like someone ripped my heart out of me,'' he said.
Dec. 28, 1958, is regarded as the day professional football took a major step toward becoming the signature sport in the United States. It was the day pro football and network television were married. Leaf, sadly, typifies the character of so many of the grandchildren of that union: spoiled, brash, reckless.
Far from the relative glory of 1958 -- when players were underpaid, shackled to the team and thankful for it -- the only frame of reference for young players is the sort of payment-first, performance-later-if-ever attitude embodied by Leaf. The Giants' season, in many ways, is a byproduct of that attitude: a great season in 1997 followed by unfounded overconfidence in 1998. Now, humility has finally set in as a young generation of Giants faces another sudden-death scenario 40 years later.
The season could miraculously continue, or it could come to a screeching halt. What a way to celebrate an anniversary.


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Coca-Cola has just hired its first chief digital marketing officer and here's why
By Natalie Mortimer-12 December 2016 16:40pm
Coca- Cola has just hired its first chief digital marketing and here's why
It's been a role fraught with discussion about its necessity, but Coca-Cola is the latest high profile brand to appoint its first chief digital marketing officer to help steer the business towards becoming a "digital company, but not just to put ads in social media".
Earlier this month Coca-Cola hired former Bank of America executive David Godsman to take on the role and quicken the global alignment of its systems around a single digital marketing agenda. Speaking at an industry event last week the drinks giant's chief marketing officer, Marcos de Quintos, was frank about the effectiveness of Coca-Cola's digital investments to date, which he said historically haven't been made in the "smartest way".
Given the argument that 'digital' today is simply just 'marketing', the move could be viewed as somewhat passé, however Nic Howell, head of strategy UK at DigitasLBi, said the appointment is a "timely and provocative political move".
"As we stagger punch-drunk into 2017, it seems odd to even talk about Coca-Cola hiring its first chief digital officer. After all, back in 2014 Forrester predicted that only 1% of firms planned to do the same that year. Isn't the CDO a footnote in history rather the future of marketing?
"Coke already spends on digital activity and wants to spend more – it has to be part of everyday life. The challenge is to prove the ROI of this spend in the context of all the other levers a brand can pull. Putting someone in the C-Suite to tackle this - and make sense of why Coke has over 300 apps alone - may seem retro, but it's a timely and provocative political move."
Coca-Cola is working hard to quicken the pace of its digital transformation having already centralised its social media operations by creating the North American Social Centre, a real-time newsroom to manage social media marketing for all its trademarked brands. By removing multiple agencies running different accounts independent of one another, Coca-Cola is hoping to movie its social media to a much lower cost base that is more effective.
The centre is staffed by 55 people, including marketers from Coca-Cola North America alongside executives from agencies Possible, Havas and Publicis-owned Moxie, who are focused on listening and analytics, content strategy, creation and publishing, community management, marketing science, legal and media buying.
The maker of Diet Coke and Sprite is also looking at how it can use Beacons, not as a sustainable marketing took, but as a way to exploit the data it can collect and apply it to the company's mobile app strategy, that could see it drastically reduce its 300 strong app portfolio to increase its user base. Currently the majority of Coca-Cola's apps have less than 50,000 users.
Earlier this year Nike too appointed its first chief digital officer to run all products and services across Nike.com, Nike+ as well the brand's other digital platforms to help it compete against the likes of Under Armour, which has been working hard to build its position in the wearable space, something Nike had been an early pioneer of.
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Jared Jackson '10 opening an event at the Strand bookstore just before the pandemic (February 2020) for a conversation he curated between bestselling author Mitchell S. Jackson and distinguished scholar and writer Imani Perry.
JARED JACKSON '10 can't overestimate the value of writing. "I think it's an essential skill, full stop," he says. "Just on a basic level, being able to sit with your thoughts and express yourself is crucially important, and writing equips us with the ability to think critically and refine our ideas." In his work as literary programs manager for the New York branch of PEN America, Jackson fosters thought- provoking conversations with some of today's leading minds and works to promote free expression and effect social change.
Jackson joined PEN in fall 2019, while still in his final year in Columbia University's MFA program, serving first as literary programs coordinator before being promoted to programs manager this past January. "I curate and produce events that aim to bring out nourishing reflections on literature, society, and what we're reckoning with," he explains. In this capacity, he oversees the weekly PEN Ten online interview series and PEN Out Loud, a conversation series that focuses on amplifying diverse voices by bringing authors, poets, journalists, artists, and activists into dialogue with each other.
He also leads the Emerging Voices Fellowship, an immersive five-month program that looks to cultivate promising writers and diversify the publishing and media landscapes. "I've always valued teaching and mentorship, and this role gives me the opportunity to almost administer my own creative writing program," he says. "We pair our fellows with mentors and bring in publishing professionals to speak about their craft and their artistic life. But more than just focusing on the fellows' writing, we want to provide them the foundations for the business of books and demystify the publishing industry."
Jackson's passion for writing stems from his time at Taft, where he found a home in the English Department. "I loved the minds that were in that department and just wanted to soak up as much as I could," he says. "And outside of the class- room, I wrote poetry, loved reading, and formed a rap group called Split Second with my friends Doug Profenius '11 and Louie Reed '11. We even converted one of our closets into a makeshift studio."
He carried this love of language with him when he enrolled at Trinity College, majoring in political science with a minor in English, and then on to Columbia. Jackson used his time in graduate school not only to hone his writing but also to think about the impact he wanted to have on the world. "I started looking into industries that aligned with the things that I'm interested in, particularly literature and publishing," he says. "That's how I landed at PEN America, which stands at the intersection of literature and human rights."
Most recently, Jackson helped organize the 2021 World Voices Festival, PEN's largest annual event, which typically encompasses 50 different events across New York City (though this year's installment was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic). "We bring in writers and activists from around the world and put them together to try to find common ground while engaging in honest discussions," he says. "After a year in which we experienced so much division, the festival tried to celebrate writers and thinkers who exemplify resilience, courage, and radical imagination—and to encourage the kinds of vital discussions that challenge us, make us think deeper, and maybe even reconsider our stances."
Outside of his work with PEN, Jackson volunteers with a creative writing program, LiveWrite, teaching (virtually, because of the pandemic) in New York City jails on Rikers Island. Additionally, Jackson is gaining recognition as a writer in his own right, and is represented by Meredith Kaffel Simonoff of Manhattan's DeFiore and Company. In September 2020, The Yale Review published his debut short story, "Blanca," and in June, another of his works made its way into the pages of Guernica. Both pieces will appear in Locals, his forthcoming debut book. "It will be a collection of nine to 10 stories that follow adolescents in different neighborhoods throughout Hartford," he explains. "I had some of the fondest moments of my life growing up in Hartford. It can be a rough city, but it's also a beautiful city, and I wanted to reflect that on the page. I really wanted to be particular about the young people I was portraying, who experience life in a working-class way that's both tragic and wonderous."
For Jackson, writing has become much more than a pastime, or even a career: "Writing is really rewriting, and I try to do revision in my life every day," he points out. "It provides me an opportunity to reevaluate my thoughts, my ideas, my convictions, and I think that is essential in our world today."
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To acknowledge the efforts of bright international students, IHE Delft is now offering exciting SIDS Fellowships for the academic year 2021-2022.
International applicants who want to apply for the master's programme are eligible to apply. The applicants will be awarded tuition fees, health insurance, cost of visa/residence permit, and monthly allowance at IHE Delft.
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Jacno, "Five capital letters!"
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We are taking advantage of the news of an exhibition on the work of the graphic designer and draftsman of character "JACNO" which is currently taking place at the ÉSAD d'Amiens to enrich our collection of portraits of the great names in graphic design.
Marcel Jacno (1904- 1989), known as Jacno, is a French graphic designer, famous notably for having designed the NPT logo, as well as the Gauloises cigarette pack, which will be at the time one of the most popular logos for the French and is a kind of world record in the distribution of a signed creation.
Before going into Jacno's story, we would like to thank Alice Savoie (teacher-researcher and type designer) who kindly provided us with the texts and images of the exhibition that you will find below.
JACNO - Five capital letters
Marcel Jacno, some biographical references
Jacno, whose real name is Marcel Jachnovitch (1904-89), is a French graphic designer and type designer. Self-taught, he entered the world of graphic arts in the 1920s, when he was employed as a draftsman in a printing company alongside a literary painter. On the strength of this experience, Jacno decided to embark on the "advertising art" and then received his first commissions for the cinema. He created over twenty posters for companies such as Gaumont and Paramount, including films with Charlie Chaplin and Louise Brooks.
But these orders taken from the famous production company were for him disappointing, because they remained without tomorrow. And when he discovered, in the hall of the famous cabaret "Le Bœuf sur le toit", a silver panel with the Bifur alphabet on it, created by Cassandre for the Deberny-Peignot foundry, he understood that the letter could be an object of creation. Very impressed, soon puts to good use his experience of painting in letters to start in his turn in the drawing of characters. Two of his creations were published by the prestigious Parisian foundry Deberny & Peignot in the 1930s: the Film, in 1934, illustrates Jacno's filiation with the world of cinema.
"The modernity of these graphics delighted me. And inspired me to draw a print character too. The work was spread over long months to arrive at an alphabet with modernist forms, in the taste of the time. I pretended to propose it to the editor of the Bifur I had so admired. Overcoming my uncertainties not without difficulty, I was going to put my drawings before Charles Peignot's eyes (...) He accepted my drawings." [Jacno, A Beautiful Future, pp. 35-38]
After the font character "Film" follows the "Scribe", published in 1936, a script-inspired character that moves away from classic English-style models to a letter reflecting the "spoken style. More familiar and spontaneous in tone, the Scribe was essentially intended for the advertising sector, which was in full expansion at the time, and is still today emblematic of the successful characters of the time.
You can find a digital version, published under the name of Gaulois, right here.
Bloody Gauls!
Despite his obvious appetite for the letter, Jacno is far from being limited to typographic creation. Above all, he is an accomplished designer who enthusiastically tries his hand at the art of posters, packaging and visual identity. In 1936, he did one of his best identified works: he revisited the famous winged helmet on the Gauloises cigarette pack, originally designed in 1929 by Maurice Giot. Jacno now signs with his name the famous blue rectangle, which will greatly contribute to his fame.
"I was the record-breaker of multiples, given that this so banal package was printed in a number of copies that beat all signature records: one and a half billion copies every month." Marcel Jacno
No signed work approaches this figure, even from very far away. This record is all the more curious as it is the work of an author whose fame is limited to a few small professional circles. His roadmap was to "modernize" the helmet, not to find another logo. A simple rebranding of sorts! He said he was inspired by a helmet from a Latin Quarter sculpture. He won the Oscar for packaging in 1955. Originally there is the logo of Maurice Giot created in 1925, a winged helmet, without real connection with tobacco, whose object is to give the idea that smoking gives a feeling of freedom.
[ Find the history of Gauloises packages here ]
For the anecdote, the musician and singer Jacno (aka Denis Quilliard (1957-2009) who largely influenced french pop in the 80s owes his nickname to his fatal consumption of "Goldos".
His commitment
Jacno made several trips to the United States between 1936 and 1938, where he offered his services as an independent commercial artist, and taught at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. When he returned to France, the Second World War put a brutal brake on his projects; he then went through one of the most difficult periods of his life, which saw him enter the Resistance and then be deported to the Buchenwald internment camp - an experience that left an indelible mark on the artist's mind and body.
As soon as he returned to Paris after the war, Jacno resumed his professional activity. He brought the Gauloises package up to date, and produced numerous other packaging and advertising materials for prestigious fashion, perfume and spirits brands (Lip, Chanel, Bourgeois, Guerlain, Courvoisier, etc.). In an economic and social context favourable to advertising art and the expansion of the sphere of influence of what we would today call "graphic design", his work was increasingly visible and courted throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He then extended his graphic practice to the fields of publishing and the press (France Soir) as well as theatre.
The collaboration between Jacno and the type foundry Deberny & Peignot also resumed at this period, giving rise to the publication in 1951 of its eponymous character. Inspired by what could be described as manual 1, Jacno adopts the logic of the cursive layout to produce a robust and catchy character, with "rustic" contours and assumed darkness. Beyond the characters edited by Deberny & Peignot, Jacno created several alphabets for the exclusive use of his clients, in the field of publishing in particular: let us quote an alphabet script intended for advertising Quillet editions, an onciale for the Bible and the Gospel according to Saint John illustrated by Edy Legrand, or a set of illuminated initials for the Club des Bibliophiles de France.
Théâtre National Populaire posters
As his clientele diversified, one of the most emblematic collaborations of Jacno's career began in the early 1950s with the Théâtre National Populaire, then under the direction of Jean Vilar. He signed the entire identity of the NPT as well as numerous posters that would follow one another for nearly twenty years. This work also gave rise to the Chaillot character (distributed by Deberny & Peignot from 1953 onwards), imitating the stencil style and based on the lettering Jacno produced for the NPT posters and logo.
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The work initiated in the 1950s by Jacno is still relevant. For more than 60 years, the Théâtre National Populaire has still not changed its logo, and each season entrusts its communication to new graphic talents. The 2015-16 programme was produced by Guerilla grafik. This is what it looks like (the spirit of Jean Vilar and Jacno is there!).
The fruit of this collaboration constitutes an outstanding and visible part of Marcel Jacno's production, which led him to work later for many other institutions of the performing arts such as the Comédie Française, the Paris Opera, the Théâtre de l'Est Parisien or the Théâtre de L'Athénée (see below). For each of these institutions and like his work for the NPT, the letter plays a central role in Jacno's thought identities, which usually result in the creation of a specific alphabet. He designed the Corneille for the memorial theatre of the same name, the Molière for the Comédie Française, and the Ménilmontant for the Théâtre de l'Est Parisien. Although each of these alphabets draws its sources from different models, each time we find the same will to propose a letter "raw", matte, alive, a letter intended for the street and all those who walk it - and which testifies to the deeply democratic vision of culture that Jacno wishes to communicate through his graphic work.
Sources: The images in this article are presented for educational purposes.
Photographs of the exhibition "Jacno, five letters in capitals" by post-graduate students Typography and language of the ÉSAD Amiens : Dorine Sauzet, Isaline Rivery, Erwan Beauvir, Quentin Schmerber, Hugues Gentile, Martin Pasquier.
Wikipedia page on Jacno: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Jacno
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March 1, 2018 March 1, 2018 Laura Waters
Yesterday the De Blasio Administration announced that New York City's new Chancellor will be Alberto Carvalho, most recently head of Florida's Miami-Dade school district. A native of Portugal, Carvalho was once an undocumented immigrant who arrived in New York at age 17 speaking no English (he did speak French and Spanish) and started out as a dishwasher. At times he was homeless and, according to Chalkbeat, "slept in the back of a U-Haul truck while attending community college." Now he'll run America's largest school district. (Technically he hasn't accepted the job yet; he will make an announcement today at the Miami-Dade Board of Education meeting.)
Here are media reports on the appointment.
And perhaps most crucially, Carvalho has managed to walk a precarious political tightrope on school choice. Though de Blasio is philosophically opposed to most charter schools, he learned within his first few months as mayor that the city's political realities do not give much quarter to his personal opinions on the matter. In the last few years, he has sought to extend an olive branch to parts of the local charter sector he and Fariña approve of, and has mostly avoided criticizing the city's charter schools, except for Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network.
It's a fact of contemporary education politics that no mainstream schools superintendent can be completely ideologically opposed to charters and Carvalho is not.
Chalkbeat:
"Who wouldn't want Mr. Carvalho? He has done an amazing job here in 10 years," said Lawrence Feldman, a longtime Miami-Dade school board member.He also spearheaded an effort to eliminate out-of-school suspensions, similar to the push in New York City under de Blasio. He has railed against standardized testing, leading an effort to cut back on district-mandated exams. His philosophy for turning around struggling schools also fits well with de Blasio's. In Miami-Dade, Carvalho pushed out many under-performing principals and established an office to support needy schools with instructional and behavior coaches…Politically skilled, Carvalho's name has often been floated for top jobs in education and beyond. He was rumored to be considered by Hillary Clinton for a possible U.S. Education Department job, and recently weighed a run for Congress.
PoliticoNY:
He won the prestigious National Superintendent of the Year award in 2014, which was accompanied by a ceremony at the White House, and earned Miami-Dade the Broad Prize in Urban Education in 2012. In 2016, he won the Harold W. McGraw Jr. prize in K-12 education and Carvalho was appointed to the National Assessment for Education Progress by former Education Secretary Arne Duncan in 2015. NPR has called him "a miracle worker."
Wall Street Journal:
Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz , who has often sparred with the mayor, applauded the choice of Mr. Carvalho and even took some credit, saying in a release that "he's specifically one of the candidates I suggested to the Mayor in December."…Mr. Carvalho supported the adoption of performance pay for teachers. In recent years, amid a backlash by some parents against what they consider too much testing, he introduced measures to reduce the number of assessments students faced.
New York Times:
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Carvalho, a career educator, is seen as a superstar in the superintendent's world, having brought the graduation rate in his school system from about 60 percent to about 80 percent. He would take a pay cut of about $100,000 to move to New York to run what is seen as the most prestigious education job in the country.
De Blasio struggled for months to find a replacement for retiring Chancellor Carmen Fariña, 74, and was widely criticized for conducting his search in secret.
WNYC:
Carvalho has had a successful career in Miami, but he would have to learn how manage a a district with nearly three times as many students in New York City, said CUNY education professor David Bloomfield. "It's going to be a steep learning curve for the new chancellor who spent his entire career in Miami-Dade," he said.
Miami Herald:
"He will really think tonight," [Miami Mayor Enid]Weisman told the Miami Herald. "He's talked to all the board members today. They all asked him to please stay. He will make a decision tomorrow."…Carvalho has been outspoken about political issues, including immigration and gun control. He often shares his own immigration story of arriving in New York City from Portugal at the age of 17. After attending Broward College and Barry University, Carvalho became a math teacher at Miami Jackson Senior High, where he was known for his smart suits and fashion sense. Students there reportedly called him "Mr. Armani." He then rose through the school district ranks as an administrator.
Miami New Times:
Carvalho, 51, has been one of the few — and we do mean few — examples of good governance and solid leadership in Miami-Dade over the past ten years. Though many of his predecessors were generally seen as unpopular with the public, the graduation rate in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) jumped from 60.5 percent to 80.4 percent — an all-time high — under his tenure. Carvalho's 345,000-student school district in 2012 was awarded the prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education, which honors school districts that improve the lives of minority students.
StudentsFirstNY:
"On behalf of our more than 13,000 parent members, we welcome the new Chancellor and hope that Alberto Carvalho will be the independent leader that public school children desperately need. We extend our best wishes for his success and we look forward to working together to expand school choice and improve teacher effectiveness. After four years and half a billion dollars on a failed school turnaround program, NYC students need a leader who will work with urgency to give them the quality of schools they deserve," said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.
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Blue Blanket Investor Profile
Every so often one reads a human interest article about an elderly retired schoolteacher, janitor, seamstress or government employee who worked for 40 plus years, lived extremely frugally, saved diligently and left a considerable amount to the family, an educational institution or charity. Their demographic confirms that they were Depression babies when extreme financial self-discipline was accomplished out of the necessity to survive.
This Marvel superhero is not instinct, rather they exist in far greater numbers (albeit still few) than you can imagine. Because of the severe economic meltdowns in this young century their numbers will grow in leaps & bounds. These are the Depression babies' offspring who've discovered that their grandparents and parents had the right idea about financial management all along.
So who is this unique creature? I call them the Blue Blanket Investor (BBI). Why? Imagine the extreme ultra-conservative investor, a financial prepper, who believes in liquidity at all costs with immediate access and protected under the umbrella of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The bolder elements of this group have investments in short-term government securities, precious commodities such as diamonds, gold and silver - the physical variety.
I compare this elite group to the Peanuts character Linus who uses his blue blanket as something psychologically tangible to help him successfully manage stress. This same blue blanket was used by the accountant Leo Bloom (played by Gene Wilder) in the iconic comedy The Producers (1967). Eventually in the movie his formerly lifelong free-spending partner Max Bialystock (played by Zero Mostel) asks for his blue blanket as their play becomes an unexpected "success."
For the BBI cash is the only financial royalty. They blatantly forgo a higher interest rate on "riskier" investments and consider inflation merely the cost of insurance in order never lose principal. The BBI is the financial prepper who opts for strong boxes, safes and house vaults. For this reason they have a strong proclivity for liquidity and access to it at home to that cash – small bills. No one is willing to give change for a $100 bill, or even a $20 bill, in a crisis. The BBI would rather climb Bear Mountain than the Himalayas.
The BBI is multigenerational and comes from every racial, ethnic, religious and professional background. The only commonality that the BBI shares is their almost pathological fear that their non-cash investments will vaporize overnight. Their so-called paranoia has already been justified as they take "risk averse" to a new level because there have been no less than three economic meltdowns in this young century: Recessions of 2000 (dotcom) and 2008 (Great Recession) with the 9/11 terrorist attack squeezed in between and now the pandemic. How many senior citizens have you seen riding roller coasters? For the BBI market volatility is merely an academic exercise. It's not just an investment strategy rather a financial lifestyle and mindset.
We know more about the shadow markets based on debt than the shadow market based on savings because the BBI is quiet and invisible. It's impossible to determine how many BBIs, even anecdotally, because like all preppers, they're secretive and will blatantly lie about their equity investments. Like prepper survivalists who never divulge where they've stored the food & water, they don't want anyone to know about their financial liquidity inventory.
For this reason you won't find them at financial seminars which peddle higher risk investments for fast growth. When the music stops they'll have a chair and pour themselves a vodka martini while everyone else scrambles to the narrow exits.
The BBI's mantra is that they're "more interested in the return of money than the return on my money" and who will concur with corporate raider Gordon Gekko's personal investment advice to Bud Fox in Wall Street (1987), "Stay liquid."
The BBI Demographic
The following are the three generations of BBI:
1. The Elderly: Great Depression babies - although they're dying off few regret piling their monies into cash and government securities after suffering horribly during the Great Depression. They hoard everything for the purposes of survival particularly when things can go sideways overnight.
2. Baby Boomers: Their retirement and other investments were badly damaged during the Great Recession and probably vaporized during the pandemic in their attempts through aggressive investing to make up for the former. Many may never return the markets ever again and risk wiping out their remaining meager savings. The resultant mass layoffs and emergence and probable dominance of teleconferencing will change everything as firms actively seek to reduce headcount and shed high-priced employees. Forced into early retirement this group's career is dead in the water and any economic recovery will occur just as they enter a nursing home.
3. Millennials: Millennials are considered the "cursed" generation with the Shakespearean misfortune of compiling huge college debt, limited career mobility, unaffordable housing while suffering the one-two blows of the Great Recession and now the pandemic.
A comfortable retirement is an oxymoron for most Americans has shown in the following chart entitled A Quarter of American Have No Retirement Savings, provided by the Federal Reserve and presented by Statista, an online statistical firm.
Benefits of Being a BBI
· Low stress: deposit and forget. Principal guaranteed. Inflation is merely de facto insurance or management fee.
· Market vicissitudes are nothing more than an academic exercise.
· Becoming a monetary monk as a behavior modification in a world of excess spending and debt by maximizing minimalism.
· No need to hire a financial planner because management of cash is not required.
· High liquidity especially with cash-on-hand preferably at your immediate disposal in a home safe in case of unexpected bank holidays, power grid outage or other high risk street chaos which eliminates the risk of going to a bank during civil unrest or banks/ATM which will be surveilled closely by criminals.
The Emerging New Members to the BBI
Mirroring climate change, the 21st century featured more frequent and intense economic storms like the dotcom bust in 2000, financial meltdown with the Great Recession in 2008 and the present-day pandemic all within 20 years.
With respect to the wealthy during the March market meltdown major financial institutions made frantic calls to their wealthy clients for margin calls, requiring considerably more money to cover their investment positions. The wealthy liquidated everything except their primary house such as equities and corporate bonds which exacerbated the market plunge. This seismic event has given them an insight to a new world and new possibilities into the benefits of investment simplicity and psychological serenity.
After mass layoffs and indefinite furloughs the lower and middle classes after depleting their meager savings, they're tapping their IRA and 401K accounts and maxing their credit cards and credit lines for purposes of survival.
Government Betrayal Facilitating Corporate Lies
The impetus to new BBI membership is the increasing crumbling governmental and corporate credibility. Since 2000 the skyrocketing macro-economic figures have overwhelming benefited the wealthy while the lower and middle class have barely benefited. A multitude of metrics, notably the Gini-index, have quantitatively documented this increasing and accelerated economic inequality.
Regardless of the political party there's a lack of trust in government to curtail the excesses and abuses by big corporations. Conspiratorially this two-headed hydra work in tandem and engage in openly unethical practices such as when municipalities give corporations obscene tax breaks and facilitate land grabs through eminent domain. Government has failed to protect the people who elected them and instead favor the corporations who bought them through campaign donations and lobbyists, both of whom are protected by a phalanx of white shoe lawyers.
For many years the BBI have been disillusioned which has enabled their ranks to quietly swell since The Great Recession. They've realized the capitalistic iron circle created by big corporations with government as their enabler and partner that tout that the consumer can't live without their products and services while laying off thousands of employees which in turn raise their share price for their wealthy shareholders, legally evading taxes with offshore accounts, while probing and piercing privacy laws to keep track of every customer and potential customer to sell them even more products and services. Let's not forget how they sully the environment and directly or indirectly gentrify neighborhoods or the enable those that do in the. It's where governmental betrayal facilitates corporate lies.
This powerful sentiment was captured by the brilliant by Sean Connery as an ex-con about to being released from prison in the movie The Anderson Tapes (1971) who rants about the social inequities of the market, matrimony and the justice system. His poignant diatribe almost 40 years ago is just as powerful as it was then.
Finally the justified loss of faith in the system and subsequent nationwide protests emerged through government's preposterously incompetent handling of the pandemic. The militarized law enforcement was already well-equipped to handle the social chaos but the medical community had to scrap and beg to obtain the required equipment to handle to viral chaos. The brutal reality is that the cavalry is not coming to rescue the little guy.
The Updated BBI Investor Paradigm
Aside from the penny-pinching minimalist lifestyle, future financial planning will focus evermore on the legal perspective to protect those savings such as various classes of insurances, living wills, health proxies, living trusts, and estate planning.
Because of the continuing high market volatility and uncertainty of economic stability, offshore banking will be considered by the BBI for the purposes of jurisdictional diversification in case of an extreme scenario in which the US government imposed capital controls or declaring a bank holiday.
Indeed the BBI is a silent yet growing extreme minority but their tenet is their only salvation.
[Originally published 19 June 2020]