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In 10 unorthodox years, the MFA's Malcolm Rogers has popularized, polarized
LONDON -- The champagne has already been poured when Malcolm Rogers arrives at Sketch, a hip London restaurant, to greet a group of British art writers. The Museum of Fine Arts organized this schmooze so Rogers, the director, can brief the press on the MFA's planned $180 million expansion and its recent acquisition of a $20 million-plus Degas masterpiece, and trumpet his 10-year anniversary in Boston. That's the script, which Rogers will deliver from the podium.
But before that, Rogers works the room. That's when he faces his critics.
They're not physically here, but their complaints follow him wherever he goes. They started on Rogers in 1996 for giving celebrity photographer Herb Ritts his first major museum show. Three years later, they were back, enraged when Rogers fired a pair of longtime curators and, so the story went, had them escorted from the building. Then, just last January, the MFA loaned 21 Monets to a Las Vegas casino. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Arts paid at least $1 million.
Christopher Knight, art critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote that the Vegas show was "without intellectual merit, is educationally corrupt, and puts a fast-buck premium on financial gain."
James Cuno, the former director of the Harvard Art Museums and current head of the Art Institute of Chicago, actually debated Rogers about his decision on National Public Radio.
"I don't think Monet would have wanted his pictures to be seen in casinos," Cuno said in an interview more recently.
Despite the criticism, the MFA announced two weeks ago that the Bellagio show, which had been scheduled to end this month, will be extended through Jan. 9. It has drawn almost 250,000 visitors, making it the most commercially successful show in the casino gallery's four years.
"The Salvation Army would be criticized if it didn't go to Las Vegas," Rogers says, holding court at Sketch. "Shouldn't we be seeking new audiences?"
Ten years ago this month, Rogers, 55, arrived in Boston a virtual unknown, an outsider picked to run the show in the ultimate insider's town. Today, his unorthodox approach has made him one of the most polarizing museum directors in the country. Supporters say Rogers's daring has opened up the MFA. They point to increasing attendance and membership, and to the museum's move forward on a massive expansion project scheduled for completion in 2009.
His detractors counter that Rogers is nothing short of a slick, commercially-driven sellout. They say his tenure has been marked by the museum's embrace of the lowbrow, starting with his decision to plaster the walls with Ritts portraits of Madonna and Jack Nicholson. They're readying their poison pens for this spring's exhibition of fashion designer Ralph Lauren's antique cars.
It's not just the MFA's list of exhibitions that's created controversy. Convinced that the museum was being dominated by uncooperative curators, Rogers fired two powerful figures, Jonathan Fairbanks and Anne Poulet, in 1999, a move some dubbed "The Boston Massacre." Five years have done little to soothe the raw feelings left by the act.
As he updates the British writers at Sketch, Rogers refers to the controversies. Though he hopes the MFA expansion will define his career, he knows others will see the Ritts show and Las Vegas deal as his legacy. As he moves about the room, Rogers meets an editor from The Art Newspaper. That sparks a mention of Jason Kaufman, a writer for the publication who, in 1999, wrote that "patrons may well ask why they should contribute art or money to an institution which so cavalierly treats its own employees."
With a smile, Rogers references the Lauren show.
"Wait till Jason gets his teeth into that," he says.
Curator controversy The root of the criticism, Rogers has come to believe, can be traced to the most controversial act of his tenure: his decision in 1999 to reorganize (his words) departments or fire (their words) two MFA figures with a combined 48 years of service to the museum: Poulet, curator of European decorative arts and sculpture, and Fairbanks, curator of American decorative arts and sculpture.
Today, Rogers says that he did not want to hurt feelings or disrupt the museum. But he felt he had no choice.
Rogers has never before addressed the situation in detail, begging off on the grounds that it's a personnel issue. But after years of what he claims is misinformation delivered by his detractors, he's decided at least to explain some of what he says led up to that difficult day in June.
He says Poulet, currently director of the Frick Collection in New York, and the retired Fairbanks -- both of whom declined repeated requests for comment -- were let go because they had shown they were not willing to be part of what Rogers saw as the new MFA. Instead of sharing information and donors, they were concerned with protecting their respective turf, Rogers says. At one point, Rogers says, he asked Fairbanks to organize an exhibition to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the MFA's 1876 opening in Copley Square. Poulet, Rogers says, refused to loan works from her department to the show.
There were many longtime MFA staffers who Rogers thought could adapt to his mantra of "one museum." By 1999, he decided Poulet and Fairbanks were not among them.
On June 25, a Friday, Rogers asked each curator to see him separately. In his office, he thanked them for serving so ably, but said that he had bad news. Their departments were being merged with others, and their jobs eliminated, along with 16 others. He told Poulet and Fairbanks that they were being offered positions as curators emeritae, and asked them to go to human resources, where they would be offered severance packages.
The story that filtered out of the museum had a different take on the meeting. In that version, the veteran curators were told to leave the building immediately. Members of the museum community seethed.
"More like criminals than loyal servants of the museum, they were given only hours to clear their desks," read a letter in The Burlington Magazine, an art journal, signed by nine art historians, many from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Kaufman slammed Rogers in The Art Newspaper. John Walsh, a former MFA curator who was then director of the Getty Museum, wrote to Rogers asking for an explanation. He received none.
"What stunned people at the time was the extreme foolishness of getting rid of the best curator in her field in the country, which was Poulet, and gratuitously pushing out Jonathan Fairbanks, who could have been retired gracefully," Walsh says today. "I don't think the MFA's reputation has really ever recovered from that."
In the end, Poulet and Fairbanks accepted the emeritae positions, but not until months later. That, Rogers believes, created the false impression that he had been pressured by the trustees to make the offer. He insists that he wasn't, and that the deal was the same as the one offered in June, in his office. Complicating matters, two of Poulet's associate curators, Jeff Munger and Ellenor Alcorn, surprised him by resigning several months after the changes. He had hoped they would stay on.
"I was voting with my feet," says Alcorn, who had served as an assistant curator at the museum for 21 years. "He had so curtailed the influence and the experience of the curatorial staff that all we had left to express ourselves were our feet."
Facing challenges The firings left Rogers with a new challenge. Now he had to build a staff that could continue developing the collection and programming exhibitions.
His choices were not always conventional. Not long after arriving in 1994, he had eliminated the department of exhibitions and put Katie Getchell, a 24-year-old secretary with an art history degree, in charge of coordinating shows through his office. By 2000, Getchell would be named a deputy director. Some curators complained that her appointment created a level of bureacracy between Rogers and the staff. Others felt Getchell helped them get a quicker response from the administration, even when Rogers was too busy to meet.
When he eliminated the positions of Poulet and Fairbanks, Rogers merged the museum's European decorative arts and sculpture department with its paintings department into one called art of Europe. George T. M. Shackelford, hired earlier by Rogers from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, took charge of that department, and Elliot Bostwick Davis, an assistant curator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was hired to run the corresponding art of the Americas department.
Shackelford, last June, engineered one of the MFA's greatest maneuvers of the Rogers era: the acquisition of an 1876 painting by Degas. At more than $20 million -- the total price has never been disclosed -- it was the most expensive purchase in the museum's history.
The new curators also oversaw a series of exhibitions that would, over time, draw more people into the museum. The majority of these shows didn't shock museum-world observers. They featured such MFA-tested warhorses as Monet, Rembrandt, and John Singer Sargent. Other exhibitions, however, did turn heads. The Ritts show inspired criticism from a host of local art types, including Milena Kalinovska, then the director of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.
"It's disheartening for art professionals," she said at the time. "All of us are trying to attract audiences. But we're learning institutions. We're not entertainment. We're not Hollywood. We're not Vanity Fair. If we are, then we're not museums."
Nobody snickered, though, at 2000's "Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar," even though it also featured the embrace of celebrity culture, in this case rock stars. James Taylor narrated the audio tour. Guitars once played by John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix were featured.
"I don't recall an instance in 10 years where trustees have second-guessed his exhibition ideas," says Frederic Sharf, a trustee since 1994. "I don't see what he's done as risk-taking. I see it as audience-building. He felt that the Herb Ritts photographs would attract and interest an audience that hadn't shown much interest in the MFA, that didn't think the MFA had shown much interest in them. And he was right."
The Ritts show still ranks as one of the top 10 in the history of the Gund Gallery, with its 253,000 visitors outdrawing recent shows on Gainsborough, American folk art, and Gauguin.
Rogers also determined that he had to find ways to drum up money. The museum, which he likes to call "the largest privately funded art museum in the world," receives $600,000, or just over half of 1 percent of its $98 million operating budget, from public sources. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in comparison, gets 13 percent, or $21 million of its $159 million annual budget, from New York City.
Some of his ideas fell flat. An attempt to turn the MFA's catalog business into a separate, for-profit entity backfired, with the museum losing $10 million before shutting down Museum Enterprise Partners in 2003. But Rogers did make the Las Vegas deal, which turned the Monets -- many of them not on permanent display -- into easy money.
Still, Las Vegas became another lightning rod in the Rogers tenure. This time, the debate took place outside the rarified world of obscure art journals. Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times devoted stories to the arrangement. At a conference of the American Association of Museum Directors in New Orleans in May, Rogers arrived late to find a panel of his colleagues angrily denouncing the move.
Director Peter Marzio of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a supporter of Rogers, says that he can think of only one museum head who gets criticized as much as Rogers: the Guggenheim's Thomas Krens, known for staging "The Art of the Motorcycle" and an Armani exhibit that came with a massive gift from the Italian designer.
"There's something so fundamentally annoying to the museum profession about the efforts to break the academy walls down and kind of rethink the role of great art museums in America," says Marzio. "They're so concerned about these fake, institutional standards that I don't think these people ever look at Malcolm clearly. They immediately have glasses on that blind them to the end product, which I think is a healthy MFA."
The `joy of change' A healthy MFA is not what Rogers found when he arrived in Boston to interview back in 1993. Only two years earlier, director Alan Shestack had been forced to lay off 21 employees and close the museum's Huntington Avenue entrance to try to cut $2 million from the next year's budget.
A financial crisis of the same scale would greet the new director. But Rogers didn't mind. He viewed the MFA as a "plum job," he says. As he pursued it, he was still smarting from a setback of his own. After nine years as deputy director of the National Portrait Gallery, Rogers had recently been passed over for the top job by the London museum's trustees, sparking his search for a job in America.
Strangely enough, the man who would be criticized for his commercial proclivities in Boston was viewed as too academic in England, according to veteran British journalist Godfrey Barker.
"No one saw him as a director in the making," said Barker. "He was always seen to be a scholar or a curator, and not thought to be a man who was shaped for the swashbuckling world of raising money, running a large organization, and keeping everyone happy. He would not be the first Englishman who would become more valued abroad than at home."
The rejection, Rogers says today, emboldened him. It also made him hungry, says his friend, London art dealer Christopher Foley.
"If you're riding a racehorse and you dig your spurs in it and goad it, it goes a whole lot faster," Foley says.
The Malcolm Rogers who showed up in Boston for his job interview was a vastly different man from the one who had spent years at the NPG, writing about such traditional portraitists as William Dobson and Van Dyck. He was also an outsider, a virtual unknown who only got an interview after personally finding the MFA's headhunter and making his pitch.
After being hired, Rogers reported to the MFA without a plan, he admits. But he had developed a philosophy, particularly after seeing how MFA staffers worked, or didn't work, together.
"I had just gone through his huge change in my own life and was enjoying it, so why should I think other people wouldn't enjoy change?" says Rogers. "I remember it was just instinctive because I hadn't done it before, and I wanted this institution to feel the power and joy of change. That was one thing. And that we had to do it as one museum, that we couldn't do this as a collection of departments and special interests. We're all in the same boat."
The "one museum" mantra would have to wait, though. In February 1995, five months after taking over, Rogers, facing another financial crisis, trimmed 20 percent of the workforce, eliminating 83 of 480 museum jobs. That marked the most serious cut during his tenure.
Rogers did take a step toward rejuvenating the MFA. He had the doors on Huntington Avenue reopened.
"They had been closed by a previous director almost as an outward sign of suffering," said Rogers. "I remember one curator saying to me, `If you reopen those doors you'll have a rebellion on your hands. You're cutting people's jobs and you're doing something as frivolous as reopening those doors.' We opened the doors."
Moving forward Even his most ardent critics have to concede: The numbers don't lie.
After the initial cuts, Rogers added staff, and now -- even after a series of budget-related layoffs -- the MFA has about 1,000 employees. Attendance, which topped 1 million annually only twice in the decade before his arrival, has averaged more than that in all but one of his 10 years. The blockbuster "Monet in the 20th Century" exhibition helped the MFA set a record in 1999 with nearly 1.7 visitors.
"I don't agree with everything he's done," says Thomas W. Lentz, director of the Harvard Art Museums. "But I think people would be very hard-pressed to say that the MFA is not a stronger institution under his leadership."
With the museum's finances more in order, Rogers moved forward on the MFA's expansion. It hired Foster and Partners, the London-based architects who would renovate the British Museum. The expansion calls for new galleries, a covered courtyard, and -- as its most architecturally significant feature -- a "crystal spine" running through the existing building.
One morning during his London trip, the slimmed-down Rogers -- he's lost more than 25 pounds over the last year -- walked through the Great Court of the British Museum, where Foster and Partners completed a renovation in 2000 that has much in common with the MFA's plan. The stone-floored courtyard, once open, has a glassed-in ceiling. And below the courtyard, there are galleries. In the expanded MFA, the Gund Gallery for temporary exhibitions will move from the west wing to a larger space under the crystal spine.
Then Rogers headed to the Foster offices overlooking the Thames. Architect Michael Jones showed Rogers the latest idea for a pair of pavilions that will flank the spine and greet visitors coming up Huntington Avenue from downtown.
"Don't be shocked," Jones said. "You haven't seen this before."
As he sat, Rogers hung his omnipresent sportcoat on the back of his chair. With sleeves rolled up, he took a sip from a cup of coffee. The drawings showed that Jones wanted to use dark stone and tinted glass to complement the crystal spine. Rogers had already rejected a half-dozen proposals for these towers. This look, however, was more promising.
"It's a great relief to me to see this," Rogers said. "The trustees will want to see this, too."
Rogers will tell you that he can take the criticism. After all, he has been blessed, the adopted son of a country farmer who, due to a series of fortunate contacts with gifted teachers, found himself at Oxford. And then, after being hired in the library at the National Portrait Gallery, Rogers worked his way onto the curatorial staff. His history shaped him, and also leaves him with a complicated set of motivations. He wants to take risks, embrace change because that worked so well for him after his NPG setback. But he also longs for approval.
"Remember, I'm an only child," he says, one of the rare moments when he will psychoanalyze himself. "So I was brought up not being spoiled, but with a great deal of love around me and no competition from siblings. Is that a preparation for life?"
Even in his adopted hometown, affection can be hard to come by. Take the Harvard lecture series, held in 2000-2001, by Cuno, then still the director of the university's art museums. Cuno recruited Walsh, the Metroplitan Museum of Art's Philippe de Montebello, the Museum of Modern Art's Glenn Loury, and the British Museum's Neil MacGregor to take part. Rogers was not asked to contribute, even as his institution came under criticism.
To celebrate his 10th anniversary, Rogers has decided to hold a lecture of his own. On Sept. 29, at the MFA, he will give his take on the state of the art-museum world. The words and ideas will be his, but he's decided to steal the name for the lecture from Cuno. It will be called "Art Museums and the Public Trust." This time, though, Rogers is putting together the guest list. Jim Cuno won't be invited.
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The Kingdom continued severe censorship of any critical reporting, taking special measures to obstruct coverage of protests in Eastern Province calling for political reform and greater rights for the country's Shia minority. Foreign and local journalists were forbidden to enter the province, where demonstrations had begun in February 2011. Imprisonments ticked up during the year. In February, the authorities arrested three online journalists reporting on Eastern Province protests and blocked their news websites. During the same month, a former columnist faced death threats for Twitter postings detailing an imaginary conversation with the Prophet Muhammad. He was later jailed on blasphemy changes that could bring the death penalty. Restrictive laws suffocate independent coverage in traditional media, a sector in which editors are government-appointed. Beginning in 2011, online journalists became subject to the same harsh controls that apply to traditional news media. Self-censorship is widespread, and international news outlets operating inside its borders limit their reporting in order to maintain accreditation.
CPJ ranks Saudi Arabia among the 10 Most Censored Countries in the world. The authorities have the right to appoint and fire senior editors in traditional media. Regulations require government registration and approval of editors for any organization or individual conducting "electronic journalism" or "displaying audio and visual material" on websites.
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A Facebook page calling for the execution of imprisoned journalist Hamza Kashgari attracted more than 30,000 members. Kashgari, a columnist for the Jeddah-based daily Al-Bilad, came under fire after posting comments on his Twitter account that described a fanciful conversation in which he addressed the Prophet Muhammad as an equal. He faced charges in late year of "disrespecting God" and "insulting the Prophet," which could bring the death penalty upon conviction. More than 25,158 people signed a petition seeking his release.
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|Malaysian authorities arrest Kashgari less than a week after his arrival and extradite him to Saudi Arabia, where he is taken into custody.
Although the authorities heavily censor the Internet, blocking tens of thousands of websites, Saudi Arabia has one of the highest rates of Facebook use in the region, according to Facebook statistics. The social media network provided one of the few ways for news about the Eastern Province to reach the outside world.

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On this day, April 12 last year, I opened this blog. Yes, I have been blogging on MHNblog for 1 year! I won't be doing anything to celebrate because I have no ideas, though.
Technically I have been blogging for almost three years, counting the time spent on my old MHN blog, but the new MHN deserves it's own blogiversary, so…
First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who has stuck by me, or even followed me from my old blog to this one ❤ Thank you for all your encouraging comments!
Second, in this post I mentioned that I'm having trouble with post ideas and I was considering changing my blog name. For now, I think I will just leave it as it is, because when I first started my first blog with this same name I wasn't thinking days in the life of a homeschooler, I was just thinking journal entries; thoughts; snippets from my brain. That's why it's My Homeschool Notebook. It still might not work and I may eventually change it, but not for now.
Stat Time!
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My First Post
And because I totally forgot (like I always do) to put something in my last post, it's going here. At least it gets its own post. Enjoy. 😉
I also remember when my older brother decided he wanted to give the chickens a scare. So with the help of my oldest brother, my younger brother and myself, we built a scarecrow out of old clothes, a bucket and hay. We staked it into the ground beside the garden bed and headed to the chicken coop.
We opened the door and let all the chickens out, the experiment in our heads going that the chickens would be scared of the scarecrow and we would have a good laugh. And I'm guessing they were scared of it because my Mom recalls seeing us through the window running around probably with out arms outstretched trying to grab the runaway chickens.
Coming outside, my Mom asked what we were doing, and my brother told her. We were having a pretty hard time chasing after those chickens.
Then as siblings do, we all blamed my brother for his monstrosity of an idea.
I hope you enjoyed that extra snippet, and THANK YOU to all my awesome followers. *throws confetti everywhere* *hugs my computer because it keeps my blog alive*


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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop ovarian cancer with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing ovarian cancer. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
The most common risk factors, gender and age, cannot be changed. While ovarian cancer is more common in women over 60 years old, it can occur in younger women. Ovarian cancer in women under 40 years old is rare. The risk increases with age as women approach or complete menopause.
Other factors that may increase the chance of ovarian cancer include:
Medical History
- History of breast , uterine , colon , or rectal cancers
- Having never been pregnant
- Your first period was earlier than normal
- Menopause started later than normal
- Use of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- Obesity
- Endometriosis
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- Previous tubal ligation
- Previous hysterectomy
- Breastfeeding
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Ovarian cancer tends to run in families. This is especially true for for first-degree relatives like a sister, daughter, or mother. Other cancers in your family also increase your risk of ovarian cancer, including colon, rectal, or breast cancers. These cancers that are associated with genetic mutations. Genetic mutations are also linked to diseases that increase the risk of those colon and rectal cancers, such as Lynch and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) syndromes.
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If you've ever felt like grabbing your guitar by the neck with your sore fingers, smashing it against the floor, and stomping it to pieces – I have some important questions for you.
Think carefully as you answer…
- Have you dedicated months, or even years, to playing your fingers raw – only to be frustrated by newbie after newbie coming along and just blowing past you…and you couldn't see how they were doing it?
- Do you ever think about how long has it really been since you felt 'in the zone' as you played and seriously doubt if you'll ever feel that again?
- Have you ever worked with an instructor or jammed with someone a lot better than you and felt like you were really making progress when you were together only to slide back into your same frustrations when you practiced alone?
- Are you apprehensive about playing in front of even a small audience because you can't consistently get your fingers to play all of those notes in the right order, and you don't want to end up looking and sounding like a fool?
- Do you secretly fear that you may NEVER experience the passion and satisfaction of blowing away a cheering crowd with a kick-ass solo?
If you answered "YES" to any of these questions, then I have some important news for you…
The good news is that you are NOT alone. The BETTER news is that you're about to discover how to put these problems behind you forever.
Here's the problem.
It's a fact: Relationships with guitars so often start off "hot and heavy"…but then quickly and UNEXPECTEDLY turn ice-cold…
Nearly all new guitar players have had the experience of feeling like they've finally found their thing… and they start pouring their hearts and souls into their playing… only to reach a frustrating plateau where THEY JUST DON'T GET BETTER…
And what's worse… when this happens, there often seems to be no explanation…and NO GOOD REASON AT ALL.
Well, I know why this happens and EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO DO ABOUT IT.
Who am I and why should you care?
By now you're probably wondering who I am, how I know all of this, and why you have to listen to me to immediately improve your skills to start playing killer solos much faster than you ever thought possible.
My name is David Motto and I'm the go-to expert for frustrated musicians who are sick and tired of being stuck.
My students are professional musicians (who are actually paid to do what they love), music teachers who need to help their students make new breakthroughs, and even a Grammy winner.
"The Ten Minute Virtuoso makes for compelling reading and challenges many aspects of musicianship as it is still taught today. I first heard the ideas contained in this book during my lessons with David, and they reminded me that practicing is as much about shaping and focusing the mind as it is about instrumental technique. Learning this balance through my experiences with David has helped me to find and stay on my path as a musician."
John-Carlos Perea, Ph.D.
Grammy-winning bassist, cedar flute player, and vocalist
San Francisco, CA
I'm also a member of the Grammy Voting Committee. So, I'm one of the select few musicians who actually decides who gets every Grammy Award. (Do the work to develop your chops and I'll vote for you – and even help you write your acceptance speech.)
After years in the 'music biz inner circle' and decades mastering my music teaching skills, I have discovered, compiled, and organized 101 'secrets' that can take any player at any level… and launch you into a whole new world of amazing skills that will leave other musicians wanting to jam with you – after they pick their jaws up off the floor.
"… clearly a product of decades of research on what works and what doesn't. God bless you for de-mystifying the process for us who never thought we could get better at this."
Monet Silvestre
Manila, Philippines
Here's what you'll get.
You'll get all 101 secrets organized into a digital book that hooks you up with real-world tips, tricks, and strategies of GUITAR MASTERY that will immediately take your playing to mind-blowing, fun levels—much faster than you ever thought possible.
The ebook is packed with all the tricks, tactics, tips and shortcuts I've discovered in my 27 years teaching and learning from the best in the music industry.
Part 1: Secrets to Achieving Your Musical Goals – In a Fraction of the Time
You don't have time to waste when you're playing guitar. The tricks and tips in Part 1 give you the secrets of accelerated learning and efficient use of your time. These strategies make the entire process of learning a musical instrument easier and faster than ever before. You'll accomplish more every time you play.
- Secret #2: This is the same secret used by top project managers who know how to get the job done without feeling overwhelmed. Learning the guitar is a BIG project and you'll benefit by applying this secret to your playing.
- Secret #3: Shows you how to create and maintain a laser-beam, locked-in focus that clears everything else from your mind and drops you right into 'the zone'.
- Secret #4: Olympic athletes do this to be the best in the world. Oscar winning actors do this to effortlessly embody their most difficult roles. Why not you?
- Secret #5: With this secret, memorizing a song will be a snap.
- Secret #9: Save a ton of time and learn full songs faster with this secret (Bonus: you'll also lower your stress level and stop beating yourself up for minor mistakes that may be stopping you dead in your tracks).
Plus 20 more secrets in this section that will help you cut years off your learning curve.
"I had no idea how much time I was wasting. David Motto's fresh and creative approach to learning broke my old mind-set and assumptions about how the best musicians got that way. I use his simple secrets every day and have seen (heard) the results, especially when performing or playing with other musicians. "
"My confidence is greater, my fear is reduced and most importantly, I am more connected with what I love about playing music. I do more now in ten minutes of practice than I used to accomplish in weeks, if ever. It's a great feeling when people you have played with for years start to notice, on their own, that you have improved."
"I feel bad for the other guys out there, still struggling with old methods that don't really work."
Michael Papanek, Guitarist
Piedmont, CA
Part 2: Secrets to Mastering Any Song – No Matter How Difficult
Here I'll pull back the curtain to reveal the practice secrets of the world's most successful musicians. These secrets reveal exact steps to make you as effective as possible while you're practicing your guitar. Use these strategies during your practice sessions to master new techniques and quickly learn songs.
- Secret #28: This is a secret that's so simple to miss–but if you miss it, you'll unnecessarily struggle 2 or 3 times longer than you should to master difficult songs.
- Secret #29: Learn the secret to overcoming the all-time, worst ever practice habit that will prevent you from ever displaying the mastery you know you have within you.
- Secret #32: Discover why a standardized warm-up routine is probably blocking your progress and 3 simple steps to creating a custom routine that will have you ready to rock in a matter of minutes.
- Secret #34: Learn the secret to putting your pencil to work to help you deeply embed songs in your brain so you couldn't forget them if you tried.
- Secret #35: Learn how to play all those fast licks you thought you could never play.
And there are 20 more practice room secrets that guarantee you keep improving between lessons and jam sessions.
"David Motto delivers powerful tips designed to transform musicians by helping them make the
right decisions with their limited practice time. When he first shared a few of these strategies with me at a lesson, I realized there was a whole new way for me to think about playing my instrument. My playing immediately changed for the better."
"I highly recommend this book and proudly use it personally and can confidently recommend it to
any player looking to hone his or her craft."
Jason Craven
La Honda, CA
Bassist/Guitarist and Music Educator
Part 3: Secrets to Inspire and Motivate You – Every Time You Play
The more motivated you are to play your guitar, the more you'll learn in a short amount of time. Part 3 reveals the most effective strategies for musicians who don't always feel they have enough time for their music. Use these secrets to stay inspired, stick to your plan, and build a success mindset.
- Secret #56: Find out how simple changes in your choice of words can take practice from a frustration to a joy without being weird or fake.
- Secret #57: If you think learning guitar is like a roller coaster ride, you are not alone. You will learn how to deal with it here.
- Secret #58: Learn this simple mental trick to set yourself up to look forward to practicing so you don't have to depend on being 'in the mood'.
- Secret #59: Discover the hidden value of just having fun before practicing.
On David Motto's best-selling book Musician's Practice Planner:
"This is a great book. If you want to make serious use of your practice time, the Musician's
Practice Planner is for you."
BRANFORD MARSALIS, Saxophonist
Part 4: Secrets to Getting Ready for the Stage – And Feeling Comfortable There
At a certain point in your playing, you need to prepare for a performance. Included in Part 4 are the insider secrets that move you from the practice room to the performance venue. By following these strategies, you'll be ready to play in front of any audience.
- Secret #82: Learn the most powerful secret to feeling completely comfortable on stage that you can actually do while you're alone.
- Secret #86: How to keep your performance moving forward – no matter what!
- Secret #87: Learn the simple secret of becoming natural, habitual and automatic.
- Secret #88: Discover how exaggeration will effortlessly lead to greater levels of audience engagement and fascination.
- Secret #90: Learn exactly what you must tune out to tune in to what's really important.
Forget all those myths about what it takes to become a better guitarist. This book will have you on the path to success in no time.
So, how much does it cost?
Good question, but first let me ask – What's it costing you to stay where you are? How much time, energy, and money are you wasting every month by not having these behind-the-scenes secrets at your fingertips?
You could easily spend $5000 for just 5 days at a Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp where you'll have a great time, but lose 90% of what you get in just a month or two without the use of these secrets to embed that experience so deep into your mind you'll never forget what you learn.
Or you could spend $2000 a year to work with a good guitar teacher. If you're doing that already, what you'll discover in this book will easily double the value of your investment because it will actually make your teacher better by having you in the right state of mind and attitude to take full advantage of what you learn.
With all of that in mind, I have been thinking about how to price this "book of secrets." If I knew what I have revealed in this book when I first started out learning music, I would have literally saved thousands of dollars and also shaved off hundreds of hours of my time.
My students have consistently paid me more than $1000 to discover what you'll be getting for a fraction of that price.
As an introductory offer, and a drop-dead bargain, you can have every one of these 101 insider secrets today for only $47. This is our first market test and this price may never be offered again. So this is your opportunity to grab the book of secrets before we change our mind and raise the price to match the value you're getting.
That's less than 50 CENTS for each insider secret that's going to make you the guitar singer in your town.
Here are the details: 10 Minute Guitar Virtuoso by David Motto
An Insider's Guide to Transforming Your
Guitar Playing in Ten Minutes a Day
"I was very reluctant to order the 10 Minute Virtuoso because I felt the price was just too high. I finally ordered it and cannot tell you how significant this book has been to my musical development. It is not possible to put a dollar amount on what this book has given me and what it will bring me for years to come. I am so thankful that I finally ordered it."
Matthew Marshall – guitarist, saxophonist, and banjo player
New York, NY
After seeing the price, some musicians sabotage themselves and short-circuit their dreams by coming up with reasons why 'now isn't the right time' – even though they want results so badly they can taste it. Through personal experience I've discovered you can either make great excuses or you can make great music – but you can't make both.
I really care about all musicians and I've dedicated my life to supporting them. I want to do the same for you. So I've decided to take away all the risk to you, and I'm backing the 10 Minute Guitar Virtuoso with the following unconditional guarantee.
If for ANY reason you don't see the value of learning the secrets in the book, you can ask for a FULL refund within the next 60 days of your purchase. You have 60 full days to review and learn from the book and actually
apply some of the strategies into your playing. Your satisfaction is of utmost importance to me and if you are not satisfied, I don't deserve your money.
Just send me a note and say that you want a refund and it will be on its way.
***Note: If you purchased the Premium Package and asked for your money back, I'll still send you a daily secret – just to say thank you for trying out the Ten Minute Virtuoso.
"OK, let's do it!"
"Yes David, I'm ready to sign up and can't wait to uncover your book of secrets."
- Virtuoso Premium $67 – yes, give me the whole package ($418 total value).
- Virtuoso Basic $47 – no, let me go with the basic option ($97 value).
P.S. – You may be wondering how many of these 101 secrets will take your guitar skills to the next level. To be honest, I don't know which ones will be the most powerful for you. It depends on where you are in your development and what your current stumbling blocks are. The important thing to acknowledge is that if you continue on your current path, you'll keep getting the same results. But, if you're ready to take your playing to the next level, this program is for you.


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Through their broadband connections, smart TVs provide consumers with innovative, on-demand access to an unlimited array of entertainment options throughout the Internet. In addition to standard, linear TV, they provide two-way interaction and personalized content, enabling new "intelligent" consumer services.
Today's announcement at the IFA consumer electronics event in Berlin provides IBM cloud services on a pay-per-use basis to TP Vision, an Amsterdam-based joint venture between Philips and TV manufacturer TPV responsible for the development of Philips Smart TV.
TP Vision needed a cloud computing environment resilient enough to support unexpected service demands at any given time when millions of TV units access a variety of services on its network.
"IBM's cloud platform allows us to place the service and application intelligence into the cloud, and reduces the complexity of managing software in the TVs for our consumers," said Albert Mombarg, head of Philips Smart TV at TP Vision. "This provides an economic, more flexible way to create new services for our viewers. By engaging with IBM on a cost-per-device basis, we obtain a new business model with predictable costs, and great flexibility to expand our services and grow our user base. We expect it to transform the way we offer new services and drive ongoing business innovation."
The new IBM cloud platform opens up paths to new revenue. The data stored within the cloud can provide new insights about consumer needs and behavior for the media and entertainment industry, such as recommending TV shows based on past selections. Service providers, chief marketing officers and advertisers can use Big Data analytics to deliver more personalized entertainment options and targeted advertisements. Marketers can generate collective consumer knowledge derived from the aggregation of data from a population of homes, in addition to an individual TV.
"As the Internet and smart devices continue to infiltrate home entertainment, today's consumer electronics manufacturers are looking to deliver new interactive entertainment services," said Bruce Anderson, general manager of IBM's global electronics industry. "Televisions are about to become the next open application platform, similar to the application platforms on mobile devices. Organizations are turning to the IBM cloud as the channel for their innovation."
IBM Launches IBM SmartCloud Service Delivery
Today IBM unveils a cloud-based platform managed by IBM global cloud data centers, for subscriber and device management, service life-cycle management and more. IBM's new service delivery platform, called the IBM SmartCloud Service Delivery for Electronics, provides consistent management of millions of different connected consumer devices, provisions services, interfaces with third parties, and acts as a collector of customer intelligence. It bundles services, software, hardware, network and third-party services in a single integrated service, for an all-in price, with per active user pricing, making smarter TV services more cost effective for manufacturers and consumers.
Examples of live solutions demonstrated at IFA include the Philips Smart TV and service portal, and a smart home proof-of-concept, with home management and monitoring, as well as home energy management.
For more information about IBM's global electronics industry, visit http://www.ibm.com/electronics
To read more about IBM's news at IFA, visit this Smarter Planet blog post.
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Capricorn Caves is a tranquil bush retreat, located just 23 kilometres north of Rockhampton, just minutes off the Bruce Highway. The 33 hectare property offers a range of accommodation options which can cater for the individual right through to large groups.
Spacious one and two bedroom deluxe cabins are fully self-contained, and air-conditioned with large decks for outdoor dining. The caravan park has large van sites, a spacious undercover barbecue area and immaculate amenities.
Guests can enjoy easy walking guided tours through the spectacular limestone caves or a wild caving adventure. Cook up a barbecue, swim in the pool or photograph the kangaroos and other native animals.
Due to current health advice on social distancing, please contact the business for the most up to date information regarding opening times and services.
Large cabin suitable for the budget conscious or large family. The fully self-contained two bedroom cabin sleeps up to ten people.
The 2 bed room fully self contained cabins are large an spacious making them ideal for families. The master bedroom has a queen size bed and the second room has 3 single beds. Some cabins also have additional fold out sofas in the lounge area. All guests are treated to a welcome hamper upon arrival. The cabins also feature a full kitchen and large decks for outdoor dinning.
The park is nestled amidst native bush land and is the perfect retreat from the hustle and bustle of the cities and from traveling. Catch up on some much deserved rest and relaxation and enjoy the company of the kangaroos. There are 25 sites available.
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Apple's own Mail app is a serviceable mobile e-mail client on iOS, but it definitely lacks flair. The developers behind the popular OS X e-mail client Sparrow aim to address that with their new Sparrow for iPhone. The app offers a unique UI as well as compatibility with most IMAP accounts. But because of Apple's limits on background-processing APIs, the first version of Sparrow shipped without push notifications for new e-mails, which will undoubtedly limit its appeal as a true Mail alternative.
Inspired by top iPhone apps
Like the desktop version, Sparrow for iOS aims to make dealing with e-mail as quick and painless as possible. The main view is a list of e-mails in your inbox presented in a Twitter-like fashion. Swiping an e-mail reveals a contextual menu which lets you reply, star, label, archive, or delete a conversation or thread. The title bar is also swipeable, letting you easily switch between inbox, starred, and unread-only views.
Also like the desktop version, which owes much of its UI design to Loren Brichter's Tweetie/Twitter app, Sparrow for iPhone takes design cues from several other favorite apps from the developers. Its rounded corners were inspired by Twittelator Neue, and its conversation view is based on the Reeder RSS app. Sparrow's stacked navigation levels are also very similar to the most recent version of Facebook for iOS. Tapping the "list" icon on the upper left slides the main view to the left reveals a list of folders and labels to choose from. Tapping the "user" icon in the upper left again slides this list to the left, and lets you choose from your other e-mail accounts or a unified inbox.
Sparrow will pull in your contacts avatars from Contacts, Facebook, or Gravatar, depending on which one is available. It will show these avatars in your inbox list, and also show them when choosing who to send a message to. Using images this way helps users see e-mail senders and recipients at a glance, and is a major usability improvement for visually oriented people like me.
Other UI touches include using an up or down pull-swipe to move between messages in a conversation, tapping the top bar while composing an e-mail to quickly switch which account it is sent from, and tapping the top bar from any folder or label view to quickly jump back to the inbox.
Sparrow supports e-mail accounts from Gmail, iCloud and MobileMe, Yahoo, and AOL out of the box, as well as custom IMAP accounts using your own e-mail server. If your company uses Exchange, you can also add your work e-mail if your IT department has enabled IMAP support. It doesn't yet support POP e-mail accounts, though support may be added in a future version depending on demand from users.
No pushing
The most frustrating omission from Sparrow for iPhone, however, is that it lacks support for push notifications. Without this support, users will have to launch the app to find out if there are new e-mails. For folks who rely heavily on getting e-mail as quickly as possible, this could be a deal-breaker.
We spoke to developers Dominique Leca and Dihn Viêt Hoà to find out why push e-mail isn't supported. To use standard push notifications, Sparrow would have to store user names and e-mail addresses for each user's account on a remote server. That server would then check for new mail and send a push notification to a user's device.
"This is a responsibility we're not ready to take," Leca told Ars. "As a startup focused on iOS/OS X development, we do not have the skills to secure your data on our servers and we do not want to put sensitive information at risk."
Sparrow could, however, use a combination of IMAP IDLE and local notifications, and that's how the app was originally designed. Since all the login information is stored locally, Sparrow can simply use IMAP IDLE to wait for the server to alert it that there is new e-mail. When new mail comes in, Sparrow could update its icon badge and even send an alert to Notification Center with the "from" and "subject" lines.
"We used the VoIP API to put Sparrow in the background while keeping a network connection open to the server," Dihn told Ars. "Sparrow is then 'suspended,' which means it will not use any CPU cycles. iOS will take care of the persistent connection, and it won't use much battery since nothing will be going back or forth on the network," he explained.
When receiving a notice from the server that new e-mail has been received, Sparrow would then resume, doing just enough work to update the icon badge and send a notification.
If you get mass amounts of e-mail, that can still potentially cause a big drain on the battery. However, the developers took care to optimize Sparrow to use up as little of the battery as possible. "It took us 2 months to get it right," Leca said.
"After extensive optimization and testing, we made sure Sparrow had decent battery consumption," Dihn added. "The battery consumption of native Mail and Sparrow are quite the same when enabling push."
Unfortunately, Apple was having none of it. Sparrow got rejected on the grounds that it used the VoIP API without providing any VoIP functionality. After removing the push support, however, Apple approved Sparrow for sale.
"Just a year ago, Apple would have rejected Sparrow for 'duplicating functionality' of Mail, so we see this as positive," Leca said. Still, the developers are trying to gauge demand for push support in hopes that Apple may reconsider its stance on the use of the VoIP API.
"It's tricky for [Apple]. We've done all the optimization work, but my guess is not all developers would. So Apple is right to keep the limits tight," Leca added.
Playful, yet usable
Sparrow is still a great first effort, especially given the constraints that Apple places on iOS. For example, you can't set Sparrow as your default e-mail application as you can on the Mac. And the push notification issue means that only Mail has the ability to keep you alerted to incoming mail as soon as it happens.
"We tried to make e-mail friendlier, and make it playful, while keeping in mind that we're also trying as much as we can to improve user efficiency," Leca said.
Sparrow for iPhone is $2.99 and is available now via the App Store. For now, it is iPhone-only, but Leca said that he is not ruling out an iPad version in the future.


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SWAN Forum North American Alliance will Promote Data-enabled Smart Water Future
In the past five years, the North American municipal water industry has laid the foundation to leap frog the rest of the world in the adoption of smart, data-driven technologies. The SWAN North American Alliance is organized to help speed this adoption. This webinar is a joint effort between the SWAN Forum and Frost & Sullivan, and will form the first of an ongoing webinar series to highlight and promote best practices for smart solutions within the water industry.
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Chirag Rathi, Consulting Director, Energy & Environment, Frost & Sullivan
The Oil & Gas industry is going through a costly war, and the weapon of choice is innovation for all operators. Wellsite operation is a key area of CAPEX and OPEX and also one of the most workforce-intensive. However, wellsite operations are quickly evolving as operators embrace the "digital oilfield age." New technologies such as the Internet of Things/Internet of Everything, predictive analytics, cloud, and profit insights from Big Data are provided operational efficiency opportunities but offer a new set of challenges as well.
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• Gain insight into the top operational pain points and how they are driving investment priorities.
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The oil and gas industry has overcome major volatility over the past decade. We have witnessed $130 oil and, more recently, $30 oil. Now we are seeing an outburst of start-ups and a changing culture that is founded on innovation. The upstream oil and gas industry is increasingly focused on cutting costs and improving recovery rates through the adoption of radical new solutions and digital technologies. While some oil & gas companies are developing these innovations themselves, many are investing, acquiring or partnering with start-up companies to drive change. Some believe we are in the "Golden Age" of emerging technology development and investment. The oil and gas start-up ecosystem is certainly alive and growing.
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Non-revenue water loss across the globe is estimated to account for about $39 billion annually and there is a renewed urgency to address leakage in pipelines. North America and Europe are driving the market growth with other regions following suit. Digital transformation in water utilities is resulting in the deployment of analytic platforms for event and asset management. Multiple solutions, including both invasive (Smart Ball) and non-invasive (acoustic) sensors for leak detection, are seamlessly integrated into a single platform for leakage management. Water utilities demand accuracy and immediate results to facilitate urgent redressal and reduce non-revenue water losses.
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Large corporations around the world are sourcing renewable energy for self-consumption. Companies are becoming part of prestigious groups to source renewable electricity.
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Frost & Sullivan invites you to join Farah Saeed, Research Director, Digital Grids, for the webinar: Growth Opportunities and Challenges for Optimizing the Electric Grid through Data Analytics. Learn what type of data analytic solutions are gaining the most traction along with market growth projections by region for smart grid analytics.
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Seth Cutler, Principal Consultant, Maria Benintende, Senior Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan
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Mar 26 2019
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Jonathan Robinson, Program Lead, Utham Ganesh, Energy Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan
Many battery manufacturers are building energy intelligence into storage systems to unlock multiple revenue opportunities by allowing the customer-sited energy storage to participate in the local energy market. Solar paired with storage is increasingly becoming attractive due to the falling solar PV and battery prices with self-consumption becoming a significant driver toward decentralized energy. The growth of electric vehicles in critical global markets is also expected to spur the adoption of commercial battery storage because of its ability to stabilize the grid as well as generate an additional revenue stream. Partnership across the value chain is necessary to fully realize the potential of multiple revenue-stacking opportunities as the energy markets are rapidly changing with the evolution of numerous business models.
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Feb 21 2019
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Gautham Gnanajothi, Global Research Director, Vasanth Krishnan, Energy & Environment Analyst, Frost & Sullivan
Modularity in data centers and related infrastructure solutions are gaining significant traction as a means to optimize cost and efficiency and keep pace with technology evolution in the IT field. On the other hand, the data center architecture is expected to become highly decentralized, where we will see a high volume of smaller edge data centers being deployed closer to the consumer.
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Dec 6 2018
53 mins
Kiran Unni, Vice President, Frost & Sullivan
The oil and gas industry has a reputation for being relatively tech-averse. However, innovations in technology and business models, and applied innovation from other industries, are impacting the use of technology in various stages of oil and gas exploration and production. The industry is taking new steps in innovations to create significant improvements in operational efficiency, non-productive time and cost of completion.
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Farah Saeed, Research Director, Digital Grids, Naren Pasupalati, Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan
Many states across the US have taken a proactive approach to address climate change despite federal pushback against clean power. California recently joined the growing list of states and regions that are committing to carbon neutrality and becoming 100% green with the recent passing of SB100. Reaching these goals is an ambitious task on many fronts. Regardless, there is a growing positive sentiment and a sense of urgency to embrace electrification of transportation (EoT) coming from the consumer and electric grid sides.
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Oct 22 2018
60 mins
Seth Cutler (Moderator) John Presta, Gary Thompson, Darrol Weiss
Canadian utilities struggle with fiscal constraints, high customer service expectations, and disparate and aging networks, just like many other utilities globally. At the same time, they have built a reputation for the progressive adoption of advanced technologies and solutions, including smart water data-based solutions. This puts Canadian water and wastewater utilities in a pivotal position to share knowledge and best practices for tackling local problems that deliver global lessons.
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Aug 7 2018
62 mins
Seth Cutler (Moderator), Kyla Jacobsen, Jody Crabtree, Reese Johnson
The SWAN North American Alliance's 5th webinar, hosted by Frost & Sullivan, will explore how data-driven, smart water solutions play a critical role in shrinking a multi-billion dollar deficit in North America's wastewater and CSO (combined sewer overflow) management needs. Smart water solutions minimize and optimize compliance investment, reducing wastewater utility spend to operate the network today and into the future.
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61 mins
Dylan Ellett, Upstream Advisor - Oil & Gas, Frost & Sullivan, Panel of Industry Experts from Start-up Companies
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The global energy transition is underway and is being led by renewable energy. Massive capital investment is being made in transforming the global power infrastructure; over $200 billion was invested globally in wind and solar in 2017. The fundamentals of the market are being challenged, creating growth opportunities for new players to disrupt the market and forcing existing players to innovate or gradually cede market position.
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56 mins
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Tim Braun, EMNET, Chris Rezendes, IoT Impact Labs, Jeffrey L. Lape, EPA, Peter Mulvaney, West Monroe Partners, Frost&Sullivan
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Nov 1 2016
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Frost & Sullivan and SWAN Forum
In the past five years, the North American municipal water industry has laid the foundation to leap frog the rest of the world in the adoption of smart, data-driven technologies. The SWAN North American Alliance is organized to help speed this adoption. This webinar is a joint effort between the SWAN Forum and Frost & Sullivan, and will form the first of an ongoing webinar series to highlight and promote best practices for smart solutions within the water industry.
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00196742
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : September 20, 2005
Last Update Posted : March 12, 2020
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The Fabry Registry is an ongoing, international multi-center, strictly observational program that tracks the routine clinical outcomes for patients with Fabry disease, irrespective of treatment status. No experimental intervention is involved; patients in the Registry undergo clinical assessments and receive care as determined by the patient's treating physician.
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aGAL (alpha-galactosidase)
GL3 (globotriaosylceramide)
Anderson-Fabry Disease
GLA deficiency (gene deficiency)
errors in metabolism
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Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System
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