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Nearly three quarters of U.S. small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with fewer than 1,000 employees have plans to purchase tablets over the next 12 months, with the Apple iPad being the most considered tablet among those firms planning an upcoming purchase, according to IT research firm The NPD Group's 3Q 2011 SMB Technology Monitor.
Among the SMBs surveyed, 73 percent said they plan to purchase tablets over the next 12 months, up from 68 percent in the NPD Group's 2Q 2011 survey. The vast majority (90 percent) of all firms anticipate spending the same amount or more on tablets over the next 12 months. The total average amount an SMB will spend on tablets is projected to exceed $21,000 over the next 12 months, but depending on company size, the intent and amount spent changes drastically, the report indicated.
Among larger SMBs (501 999 employees), 89 percent said they plan to purchase new tablets in the next 12 months, when polled in 3Q 2011. This represents an 8 percent from those who said the same in 2Q 2011. Most (95 percent) are planning to increase or maintain their spending levels. On average, larger firms plan to spend nearly $39,000 on tablet hardware, according to the report.
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It's not often that I get up on my soapbox about 'IP' issues, though I did write about a copyright infringement problem I had a few years ago — that one turned out well, maybe this one will too.
It's also not often that I will write a negative review — not because I like everything that I read, just that I'd rather follow "Thumper's Rule" and just not write anything. Every once in a while though, something comes up that makes me go against these personal policies. Yesterday it happened again.
Lately, I've been getting interested in extracting information from unstructured data. (I blame some of my recent reading like: Visualizing Data and Programming Collective Intelligence.) So, I was really excited when IBM Press sent me a review copy of "Mining the Talk".
I sat down and started reading, I'd nearly finished the introduction when I hit a problem. Right there on page xix, the last paragraph reads:
On the other hand, if you want to take our methods and create your own software solution to sell as a product, while we applaud your initiative and enthusiasm, you really should first discuss this with suitable representatives from IBM business development. IBM has sole ownership of all the intellectual property described in this book, all of which is protected by U.S. patents, both granted and pending. All rights reserved, etc., etc.
Wow! How broken is this? IBM has put two senior staff members through the effort of writing a good looking book; put untold others to work editing and marketing said book (at $45 a pop); then put the whole thing under lock and key by claiming that they hold patents over the whole of it. They might as well have written the book in Klingon -- ehh, no I guess not, too many geeks can read Klingon.
I don't know about you, but I read books so that I can learn how to do something. If a book carries a warning label which states that I'm putting myself at risk of patent litigation by implementing the ideas in the book, I've got a problem with that. A big enough problem that I'm not going to reading it.
I brought this to the attention of the authors, and I got the following response from Scott Spangler:
You raise a very important point, and it is one that we wrestled with in writing the book and in making the software that implements its methods available for free on ibm.alphaworks.com. It seems to me there are competing interests here. There's the interest I have as an author to publish my work so that interesting and thoughtful people will read it and comment on it and use it for productive purposes, thus giving me valuable feedback and new avenues for application of my ideas. There's the interest IBM has as a publicly traded company to produce value for its shareholders and make a return on the investment it has made in its research assets. There's the interest of the reader has to get a return on her investment in purchasing the book and spending the time to read it. I believe all these interests are fairly balanced by this book and by the underlying patents that support IBM's ownership of the intellectual property described. ...
Is this a perfect solution? Perhaps not. It would be better if the reader could just read the book and do whatever they wanted to based on the ideas within it without fear of lawyers. And then somehow, magically, if the reader used the ideas to make significant money, IBM's fair share of that profit would be transferred to compensate the company for its foresight in investing and supporting our work over the years. But this is the world we have. And in that imperfect world, I don't regret writing this imperfect book (and I hope Pearson [the publisher behind IBM Press] doesn't regret publishing it!).
Scott closes by saying "I don't know if I have persuaded you to keep reading, but I sincerely hope so." Sadly, while I understand his point of view, I'm still not willing to cross the line they've drawn in the text. Hopefully, I'll hear back from their business development person with a clear statement that Free/Open Source software developers can implement the ideas contained in the book without fear of patent litigation.
I hope that IBM press, and any other parties involved in this book will see the light and specifically allow individuals or companies to use the information that they have worked so hard to publish. Until that happens, I can only recommend that you stay away from this book and look for other alternatives.

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Building on our work, parent feedback, and student interests over the last several years with Summer Learning Clubs, we are excited to launch a new learning initiative. This new learning plan will incorporate a Project Based Learning model into our already existing and time-tested program. This approach integrates all of our math, literacy, and STEAM activities into a thematic approach for an extended period. Each week this complete immersive experience will cover a different topic over 2 days. Mondays center around a blend of inquiry, design, research, writing and the arts. The Tuesday class builds on the deep work from Monday, and focuses on math, science and revision, testing and technology, with students creating a physical representation of their learning. This longer program will seamlessly blend our traditional activities into a Project Based Learning experience and student-driven study.
Using a Project Based Learning model, students will work together to solve challenging problems that are authentic, curriculum-based, and interdisciplinary. Following this format, learners will decide how to approach a problem and what activities to pursue in their unique approaches. They gather information from various sources and plan, synthesize, analyze, and derive knowledge from it. Their learning is inherently valuable because it connects to something real and organic and promotes essential skills such as collaboration, revision, and reflection. In a culminating activity, students will demonstrate their newly acquired knowledge and communicate this with others. Throughout this process, the teacher's role is to guide and advise rather than direct and manage the student's work.
There will be a short movement and snack break.
REGISTER for Week One (July 11 and 12) HERE.
The inside of the human body is an amazing place. We will explore the major body systems. We are investigating the brain, heart, lungs, and digestive system, as well as skeletal and muscle systems.
REGISTER for Week Two (July 18 and 19) HERE.
We will provide curious students an opportunity to dive into an architectural topic of interest and test out their own design ideas. We will explore architectural themes through art and building activities, design challenges, guided investigations of architectural examples, and special virtual site visits.
REGISTER for Week Three (July 25 and 26) HERE.
Students will explore musicians and instruments. They will have the choice to design a project that demonstrates their reading and research - from composer presentations to musical instruments and even original compositions!
REGISTER for Week Four (August 1 and 2) HERE.
This class will be an exposure to historical events and people. Students will be guided to explore and research a specific person of interest inside the historical context of which they were or are relevant. Learners will look at the intersection points of which the historic individual is present.
REGISTER for Week Five (August 8 and 9) HERE.
This class is designed with the intent to inspire confidence, promote invention skills and study of inventors - and the inquiry process. This is accomplished through collaborative and creative problem-solving activities in order to design and build inventions.
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Sports can be academic! The idea of sports and recreation can be a physical activity as well as research and analysis. Sports offer physical activity, structure and competition as well as rivalry.
REGISTER for Week Seven (August 22 and 23) HERE.
Students will study several schools of art movement as well as specific artists. Learner discourse will be encouraged to foster the idea of artistic interpretation and this skill will later be built upon when students shift to the mode of artistic expression. They will be encouraged to create original pieces that model the inquiry into the school or specific artist.
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At the beginning of the year, residents of Charleston, West Virginia smelled a licorice odor in their water. It turned out a chemical used in coal production had leaked out of a nearby storage tank, contaminating the water supply for 300,000 people. This week, tanks at the center of this crisis are being demolished. But as Dave Mistich of West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports, that doesn't necessarily bring closure.
DAVE MISTICH, BYLINE: A bulldozer with a big blade attached to it is cutting into a huge, white storage tank and pulling off large sheets of metal. Among the tanks that will soon come down is the one that housed the chemical that leaked into the water supply earlier this year. The site's owned by Freedom Industries.
MARK WELCH: I think tearing down the tanks is pretty much the end. This is the end of Freedom, and it's visible.
MISTICH: That's Mark Welch, Freedom's chief restructuring officer. The demolition is hardly the end of his work. Freedom brought him in three months ago to see the company through bankruptcy proceedings. He's dealing with ongoing litigation, creditors and personal injury claims. He'll also oversee the cleanup of this site.
WELCH: So we'll go forward from that. We'll test it, and we'll report on whatever is in the soil and how we're going to clean it up.
MISTICH: As tank demolition was underway two miles from Charleston, federal regulators from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board were in the Capitol, releasing early findings from their investigation into the spill. Lead investigator Johnnie Banks said what many residents already suspected.
JOHNNIE BANKS: Due to the extensive corrosion, that the CSB suspects that the leaks existed prior to January 9.
MISTICH: In downtown Charleston, Suzanne Spencer said she saw this update on the news.
SUZANNE SPENCER: We're aware of it. I'm not happy about it 'cause sounds like we've been drinking polluted water for years.
MISTICH: Spencer says she and her husband are still drinking bottled water even though the ban on tap water was lifted about a week after the spill. That was almost six months ago. But most others are back to drinking tap water, which isn't to say they don't think twice when they do so. Penny Goff owns a greenhouse business on the outskirts of Charleston.
PENNY GOFF: I don't think there's ever a day that I don't drink a glass of water out of the faucet that I don't think about something lingering or even about something different being in the water that might affect not only the health of our employees and the people working with the water but also health of our plants.
EMMETT PEPPER: At this point, I'm pretty much drinking the water all the - you know, as I was before. Of course, it makes you wonder how safe it was before.
MISTICH: That's Emmett Pepper. He's an attorney working with a local group called Advocates for a Safe Water System. The group formed after the spill and will provide input to the state public utility regulators, who are still investigating the water company's response to the spill.
PEPPER: We see a lot of areas where the water company could've done things differently. And some of those are making sure they had a plan in place and were testing for the water. Some of that was just knowing what was upstream.
MISTICH: Lawmakers have already passed a bill requiring the water company to provide an early warning system among other precautions. Companies that own aboveground storage tanks will also come under new regulation. That's being hammered out by the state's Department of Environmental Protection. As for the Freedom tanks coming down this week, resident Suzanne Spencer calls that a good first step. For NPR News, I'm Dave Mistich in Charleston, West Virginia. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Jeff Bezos becomes the richest person in the world again
Oct 28: Amazon Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jeff Bezos is now the richest person in the world for the second time.
Amazon stock opened up more than 8% higher than Thursday's close, adding nearly $7 billion to Bezos' net worth overnight.
According Forbes, Bezos had a net worth of $89.7 billion, as of the start of trading on Friday.
Bill Gates has a net worth of $90.1 billion, up $550 million from yesterday.
Then by 10:15 a.m. by Friday, Amazon stock had climbed nearly 2% since the market opened, adding $900 million to Bezos' net worth and putting him in the No. 1 spot with a net worth of $90.6 billion versus Gates' $90.1 billion at that time.
Amazon stock surged in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company reported strong third quarter earnings.
Amazon reported $43.7 billion in revenue, well above the $42.1 billion analysts expected.
Bezos became the richest person in the world for the first time three months ago as Amazon stock hit an all-time high on July 27, just before Amazon reported its second quarter earnings.
But Bezos' first time at the top of Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires List only lasted a few hours.
Bezos first joined the Forbes 400 in 1998, one year after Amazon went public, with a net worth of $1.6 billion.


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CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE, the final production of the year for the DuPont Theatre, is "so full of energy it could end our dependence on oil" according to the New York Daily News and "stuffed with so much holiday cheer and audacious acts, Scrooge would exit with a big ol' smile on his face" proclaims the Erie Times News about this "Broadway-worthy spectacle".
Imagine if all your ornaments, decorations and cookies came to life and decided to have a party of their own. Renowned director Neil Goldberg, creator of the groundbreaking Broadway hit CIRQUE DREAMS JUNGLE FANTASY, re-imagines the holiday season with CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE. An international cast of over 30 multi-talented and brilliantly costumed artists come to life and perform astonishing feats of disbelief. Experience gingerbread men flipping mid air, toy soldiers marching on thin wires, snowmen daringly balancing, icemen powerfully sculpting, penguins spinning, puppets dancing and reindeer soaring high above a landscape of holiday wonderment. An original music score and some seasonal favorites accompany hundreds of spectacular costumes and holiday dreams in a setting of gigantic gifts, colossal candy canes and 30-foot towering soldiers. The perfect way to come in from the cold, forget the holiday stresses and rediscover the magic of the season.
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The FSFE re-elects president, vice president, and financial officer
At this year's General Assembly, which took place in Essen, Germany, on 12 October, the members of the FSFE re-elected Matthias Kirschner as the president, Heiki Lõhmus as the vice president, and Patrick Ohnewein as the financial officer for another two-year term.
Matthias Kirschner has been serving as the president of FSFE since 2015 and working fulltime for the FSFE since 2009. In 1999 he started using Free Software and realised that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Kirschner is convinced that this technology has to empower society not restrict it. He joined the FSFE in 2004 while studying Political and Administrative Science. Kirschner is passionate to help governments, companies, other organisations, and individuals to understand how they can benefit from Free Software -- which gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software -- and how those rights help to support freedom of speech, freedom of press, or privacy.
Heiki Lõhmus has been serving as the FSFE's vice president since October 2016. Lõhmus first started volunteering for the FSFE in 2011 as a translator and soon after assumed the responsibility for translation coordination. In 2013 he became a member of the FSFE. As a member, his main priority has been to make FSFE more appreciative of its volunteers and their contributions. Over time his focus has broadened to include other strategic questions about the FSFE's community. Though his main focus in FSFE has been and continues to be on people, he holds a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering and is currently pursuing a PhD on remote sensing of the Greenland Ice Sheet. He always welcomes an opportunity to hear from our supporters, volunteers, or potential volunteers, so drop him a line.
Patrick Ohnewein joined the FSFE as a member in 2009 and became its financial officer in 2017. He has been dedicated to building up a Free Software community in South Tyrol since the nineties. He co-founded the Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan and has served as its board member. He has also been organising the annual South Tyrol Free Software Conference. Ohnewein coordinates mailing lists about software projects and is involved as an IT-expert in various work-groups and committees for Free Software and for the IT-community. In his day job at NOI Techpark in the Italian region South Tyrol he is responsible for coordinating European development and research projects in the fields of tourism, mobility, energy, and food -- promoting an innovation strategy built on top of Open Data, Open Standards and Free Software.
The General Assembly consists of the members of the FSFE e.V., the FSFE's legal body. It is responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, agenda-setting, and the election, exoneration, and recall of the Executive Council and the Financial Officer.


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Day 4 of Ubuntu Open Week starts at 1400 UTC today. Today's schedule (Thursday, October 20th, 2011) includes a Q&A with Rick Spencer. As Jorge Castro said yesterday, "Rick is the engineering manager for the Ubuntu Platform, so he's got good working knowledge of Ubuntu as a whole, so bring your hard questions!"
- 1400 UTC: How to Become a Bug Guru!
- 1500 UTC: Ubuntu Orchestra — Servers, Live and in Concert!
- 1600 UTC: Xubuntu: What is that?
- 1700 UTC: Canonical and the Community
We had some great Ubuntu Open Week sessions yesterday; those sessions included:
- Advanced dualboot (Win/Ubuntu) config sharing a lot of stuff!
- How to contribute translating Ubuntu
- Volunteer Leadership -What does it take?
- Writing your first Ubuntu app
- Social Networking in Ubuntu: What's new?
Want more information on how you can participate? Check out the Ubuntu Open Week wiki page.
Originally posted here by Amber Graner on Thursday, October 20th, 2011.


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Listen: Street Tuff / Rebel MC RebelMCStreetTuff.mp3
According to DS, lifting the infamously recycled rhythm riff from Toots & The Maytals '54-46 (That's My Number), and the toast from Scotty's 'Skank In Bed', resulted in yet another pop hit. This one still gets played here in my house, usually on repeat all these years later. I don't care who turns their nose up – I mean, really, as if anyone in England can seriously criticize this one.
Let's face it, UK rap is 100% hysterical. Have you heard The Streets or Dizzee Rascal? Funnier still because they're meant to be taken seriously. I love it. "Feel the beat, beneath your feet" Is this for real?
Not sure if Rebel MC faded into Betty Boo land or is now credible, but 'Street Tuff' is one hell of a teen pop anthem either way. The UK Kris Kross….fine.


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Tresah is an exclusive collection of modern condominiums, located in the heart of Victoria's Midtown. This growing & vibrant neighbourhood is right next door to the Galloping Goose Trail, Gorge Waterway and within minutes to some of the city's best parks & downtown. Residents of Tresah West can take advantage of central heating/cooling and hot water in their strata fees, a lobby lounge, roof top patio with outdoor kitchen and expansive views PLUS a smart home control panel that allows full automation of lighting, window coverings and security. 802 is an east facing 1 bedroom plan. Tresah is brought to you by local developer, Mike Geric Construction and offers secure bike parking, two MODO Car Share electric vehicles & is located within walking & cycling distance to shopping, dining & outdoor recreation. SALES CENTRE OPEN ON-SITE AT 629 SPEED AVENUE SAT/SUN 1-4PM.


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A married, Nkeiruka Cynthia Kamalu, has alleged before a Federal High Court in Lagos that she was raped by a member of the House of Representatives, Uju Kingsley Chima on August 9, 2015
Mrs Kamalu told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that following an incestuous relationship with Chima, the lawmaker offered to pay her N20 million if she was divorced by her husband, Mr Gabriel Igbibi.
Chima is the Member, Federal House of Representatives for Ohaji/Egbema, Oguta and Oru West Federal Constituency of Imo State.
She is seeking protection from Chima, who she alleged caused her to be arrested on 27th day of May, 2019 tortured, humiliated, detained for seven days by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and arraigned on a fictitious N40million theft charge.
Kamalu made the allegations in a fundamental rights suit marked FHC/L/CS/1458/19 which came up on September 11, 2019.
Her counsel, Chijioke Jiakponna, told the judge that Chima had been evading service. He alleged that when the bailiff called Chima on phone to inform him that he wanted to serve him, the lawmaker cut the call.
Justice Oweibo adjourned till yesterday to rule on whether to allow substituted service.
Monday, the court did not sit.
When Chima was contactedon Saturday evening for his reaction to the rape and N20m allegations, he said "I'm inside a court now, can we talk later? I'm inside a court."
Later that night and Monday, his number rang out.
In her August 22, 2019 Affidavit of Urgency, Kamalu said she filed the suit due to the "intimidation, mounting surveillance and or illegal oral invitation threat of life and annihilation of property."
She said she had been living "in perpetual fear" of being further detained "indefinitely."
Kamalu is seeking several reliefs including a declaration that her arrest and detention "by the respondent at the State CID Police Headquarters, Owerri, Imo State (SARS) for seven days was unconstitutional."
Others include a declaration that her invitation by the police for another investigation while the case has been adjourned sine die at the Chief Magistrate Court, Owerri, violates her rights.
She also wants an order restraining the Respondents, from further arresting, pursuing and intimidating her.
"An order directing the 1st 2nd, 4th to 6th Respondents to release forthwith her Infinix Note 7 and lnfinix Note 8 illegally seized by the Respondents during the arrest and torture in Lagos.
"An order awarding damage in the sum of N50 Million to the Applicant for the unlawful arrest, torture, unlawful detention, insult, disgrace, intimidation and the embarrassing treatment meted out on the Applicant."
In her August 22, 2019 Affidavit in support of her application, Kamalu averred that she and Chima began dating in 1993 while she was in secondary school.
"We dated for 10 years, after which he proposed marriage and we both agreed to settle down as husband and wife. Unfortunately, our parents kicked against our relationship on the ground that we are biologically related and that we were committing incest and could not get married, so I married another man called Gabriel Igbibi," she said.
The applicant said she reconnected with the lawmaker when she needed assistance to execute a contract she secured and that after she refused his advances, "he raped me."
"I lodged the case first at New Owerri Police Station wherein he influenced it and I wrote a Petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Force State Quarters, Abuja. The petition was assigned to Zone 9 Police Command, Umuahia, Abia State.
"The 1st Respondent settled the police and they brokered peace between the 1st Respondent and me, wherein he promised to take proper care of me because he cannot withdraw himself from me.
She said following their reconciliation, they resumed their incestuous relationship "fully again".
Kamalu added: "My husband got wind of the relationship between the 1st respondent and myself," following which he filed for divorce.
When she informed Chima he allegedly gave her money to hire a lawyer for the case.
"The 1st Respondent promised that if the divorce succeeds, he will be giving me N20 million every six months and also buy me a property in any designated place in Lagos.
"The marriage was dissolved at the Ikeja High Court, Lagos. After the divorce, the 1st Respondent told me that before he will take the relationship serious, I will have to bear a child for him."
According to her, she took in for him, but had a miscarriage. He then asked her to adopt a baby which would be his and claim that the baby was born in Canada, but that the baby also died.
She further claimed that he made her swear to an oath of loyalty, but she eventually caught him with another woman.
"I became infuriated and he became furious and warned me never to visit him again, that he is no longer interested in the relationship. I reminded him of the oath he forced me to take that no man must have any relationship with me again and the promise to be giving N20m every six months, buy me a property in a choice area, buy a brand new car every six months, which he had never fulfilled.
"I told him that I would tell the whole world how he has ruined my life and deceived me out of my marriage where I had four children."
She told the court that this was why the lawmaker used the police to arrest her on May 27, 2019 and detained for seven days


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Public storage units are gaining popularity daily. There are numerous Mobile, AL storage facilities near you to choose from. You no longer have to worry when getting the things you want due to space limitations. Convenient and affordable storage facilities in Mobile are the way to go for anyone who needs some Mobile extra space storage. Save space time and money, rent your unit through CheapStorageUnits.com.
Depending on the level of demand storage prices in Mobile per month vary. Smaller units could cost as low as $50 per month while larger self storage units could cost as much as $300 per month. To find the best price on any storage unit, just search on cheapstorageunits.com
A 5 x 5 storage unit is not great for any type of furniture other than a desk and some chairs, but it is good for any size and quantity of boxes, storage containers, luggage and a couple of twin size mattresses.
10 x 15 or larger storage units that have drive-up access can hold small cars, vans, SUVs and pick-up trucks. You must clear with the facility to make sure they allow vehicle storage in those units though.
In Mobile as in most of the United States, you are not allowed to live in a storage unit nor have anything living like plants or animals. You cannot store food other than canned food as well as flammable, combustible of hazardous materials.


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MBA Scholarships at Nottingham University Business School
MBA Scholarships, Nottingham University Business School, UK
For the 2011/12 programme, the School is offering a number of scholarships for the Nottingham MBA. The School will only consider you eligible for a scholarship once you have been offered a place on the programme and have accepted your place by paying the course deposit.
Nottingham MBA Leadership Scholarships
The Nottingham MBA has a number of competitive scholarships available to all self-funding applicants. We award scholarships to exceptional candidates on individual merit, considering the following criteria:
* Academic achievement to date
* Career experience and progression to date
* The quality of your application
* Your potential to contribute to the learning experience of the programme
If you are awarded a scholarship, the Business School may ask you to become an Ambassador to support and promote the Nottingham MBA.
Nottingham MBA International Scholarships
The Business School provides several half fee scholarships for nationals from particular countries who want to student for the full-time MBA. If you are awarded a scholarship, the Business School may ask you to become an Ambassador to support and promote the Nottingham MBA. International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) Scholarships. The ICCSR will be providing scholarships and bursaries for exceptional candidates.
Other Scholarships
* The JJ Salmon Scholarship.
£500 bursaries may be offered to Home/EU candidates with a background in science.
* The Sir John Anstey Scholarship.
Several bursaries (up to £500 each) are available towards travel costs within Europe that are associated with the management project.
Applying and deadlines
The deadline for all scholarship applications is Friday May 27th, 2011.
No decisions can be made until after the closing date.
If you have queries in respect of any of the above scholarships, please contact the MBA Office: Tel: +44 (0)115 951 5500 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +44 (0)115 951 5500 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Art & Design
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn Museum is the artist's first major retrospective in the United States in three decades. While Klein's work has long been under-explored by American museums, his once radical ideas inspired many of the artistic movements of the last half century, such as minimalism, conceptual art and performance art. Although Klein's career only lasted seven years (he died of a heart attack in 1962 at the age of 34), the artist produced an impressive body of work that explored how pure color, space and the body could be used to communicate immaterial spiritual truth.
Klein's genius was not immediately apparent. When you enter the Hirshhorn exhibit, you notice a collection of early monochromes in green, hot pink and a myriad of other colors. The pieces are not especially impressive. They are small, shabby, and sometimes poorly executed. The paint handling is often sloppy. Hints of naked canvas can be detected around the edges – breaking the illusion of pure color. While imperfect, these early works are important within the context of the show, because they illustrate how a few conceptual changes can determine the difference between unsuccessful and great.
The artist had had his first great epiphany while contemplating the deep blue pigment in one of Giotto's frescoes. Klein instantly recognized that there was something otherworldly and splendid about this color. The ultramarine hue had long been used in Christian religious paintings. Without looking garish or artificial, it possesses a depth and intensity rarely seen in the material world.
Klein believed that the intense blue possessed a mystical quality and realized that the deeply saturated color was exactly what he needed to make his monochromes pop. He invented a technique for combining the gorgeous pigment with a synthetic binding material and patented the process. In effect, he owned a color, which he christened International Klein Blue (IKB). Without the interruption of lines, the pure lapis canvases provide the viewer with a totally overpowering experience. In a room filled with blue monochromes, you are totally transfixed by the intensity of the color. For Klein, the blue represented space. He wanted the experience of looking at his pure blue pigment to resemble what we feel when contemplating the endlessness of the sea and sky.
Klein maintained that he was only interested in working with one color at a time. Despite his intentions, his pieces inevitable interact with the environment around them, affecting how they are viewed. The transcendent power of IKB can partly be attributed to the way it affects white gallery walls. There is a known optical illusion that occurs when you stare at one color intensely and then look at a white surface. Suddenly, you see the hue's complimentary hue – in this case orange. In the presence of Klein's monochromes, the gallery and everything in it takes on a pleasant golden tinge and appears illuminated. Klein occasionally experimented with other colors, such as a cranberry red, but these attempts were rarely successful.
The creation of International Klein Blue was only one of the artist's many significant inventions. Klein introduced the radical notion that an idea without a physical form could be a legitimate work of art. He also blurred the distinction between artist and artwork. In his 1958 Paris exhibition at Gallerie Iris Clert, The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, Klein simply emptied the gallery and presented visitors with bare walls. Viewers were supposed to contemplate the invisible trace of the artist's presence.
Klein's work also contained an undeniable performance component. In the famous photograph, Leap into the Void, by Harry Shunk and Janos Kender, Klein threw himself out a second story window. The image was then printed in the fake newspaper, Dimanche, which he had created to accompany the Avant-Garde Art Festival. While Klein asserted that the image was about being in space, its drama really comes from the artist's interaction with the world. He appears to soar through the air, his face tilts up towards the sky, rather than downwards towards his inevitable collision with the pavement. You imagine him hitting the ground and marvel that he does not seem more concerned about his immediate fate.
Klein must have known that the viewer would inevitably have been more affected by the sense of a man's impending splatter than the idea of his 'leap into the void.' You begin to wonder to what degree the artist truly believed his own metaphysical notions and to what extent they served as effective marketing tools. In another project, Klein sold Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility to wealthy patrons. His customers traded gold ingots in exchange for a receipt and a zone. In order to activate their new purchase, the receipt had to be burned and one half of the gold thrown into the Seine. Naturally, Klein kept the half that remained.
In one of Klein's, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and directed naked ladies while they painted themselves in IKB paint and impressed their bodies onto the canvas. Musicians played in the background and an audience of art lovers watched the spectacle. The impression of these bodies represented the energy and temporal nature of the human form. While Klein spoke about his Anthropometry pieces in cosmic and asexual terms, the edginess of the project cannot be denied and is one of its greatest strengths. The mysterious, headless impressions reduce women to their most elemental signifying components. Against a white canvas, we see cosmic blue breasts and thighs and stomachs. They are as primitive and as powerful as the Venus of Willendorf.
While we cannot hold Klein to the feminist standards of today, there is something unsettling about the role of women in his art. The contrast between the fully clothed Klein and his naked, anonymous sponge girls is a bit uncomfortable. In another project, Klein created haptic sculptures – three-dimensional works that were placed in a box and that the viewer could only experience through touch. The artist imagined creating one such sculpture by placing a shapely young women inside a box and allow his 'viewers' to touch and squeeze away.
In the late 1950's, Klein incorporated a new medium into his work – fire. Klein had always been fascinated by the elements. For him, fire was "the universal principle of expression." The artist burned the canvas while firefighters chaperoned the project to avoid an accident. Klein incorporated his girls into many of these pieces, either dipping them in IKB and impressing them on a burned surface, or tracing them in water, so that the ghostly outline of their bodies would resist the heat of the flames.
Despite the abbreviated nature of his career, Klein created work that redefined how we think about art. By combining his visual ideas with his notions about the spiritual, he imbued his pieces with deep meaning and invigorated the art world. On a purely aesthetic level, Klein created beautiful works that were simultaneously timeless and completely original. His smart, clean aesthetic and romantic theories about the nature of art are as relevant today as they were in the 1950's.
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers will be on display at the Hirshhorn Museum through September 12, 2010.
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Surprise... your target.
Kill... your enemy.
Vanish... without a trace.
Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion and, yes, assassination.
With unprecedented access to forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils-like never before-a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers and saboteurs.
Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine.
Written with the pacing of a thriller, SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen's exclusive interviews-with members of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon's generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special Activities Division's Ground Branch operators who conduct today's close-quarters killing operations around the world reveal, for the first time, the enormity of this shocking, controversial and morally complex terrain. Is the CIA's paramilitary army America's weaponized strength, or a liability to its principled standing in the world?


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The Charter School is certified as a Dashboard Alternative School Status. This means we adhere to a different accountability model than traditional schools.
Dashboard Alternative School Status
In 2013, California's accountability system significantly changed with the adoption of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). Included in LCFF is a new accountability system, the California School Dashboard (Dashboard), which contains state indicators and standards to help identify a school's strengths, weaknesses, and areas in need of improvement. In recognition of alternative schools that serve at-risk/traditionally underserved students, in May 2017 the State Board of Education approved the Dashboard Alternative School Status (DASS) program. The DASS replaces the previously-administered Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM) and holds alternative schools and alternative schools of choice accountable for alternative accountability indicators that will be incorporated in the Dashboard beginning with the Fall 2018 release.
As described above, and as allowed under state law, the Charter School has applied for and qualified as a DASS school.


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Deep sea marine science is key to unlocking the potential of our oceans | 17 May 2019
Mr. Michael W. Lodge, Secretary General of ISA and Mr. Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of IOC-UNESCO
There has never been a time of greater promise or greater challenge for the future of our oceans. This is the topic on everyone's minds as the international community gathers in Copenhagen this week for the first Global Planning Meeting for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030).
From transforming the scientific capacity of Pacific island countries dependent on the ocean for their survival, to increasing ocean literacy for the sustainable development of Africa's Blue Economy – international cooperation to advance deep sea marine science will be key to unlocking the potential of our oceans.
The role of ocean science in furthering the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is widely recognized. In 2017 the UN General Assembly declared the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development for 2021-2030 to foster scientific research and technological innovation in support of a healthier, more sustainable ocean. An initiative led by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (IOC-UNESCO).
In his annual report on 'Oceans and the Law of the Sea', released in March 2019, the UN Secretary-General, underlines the cross-cutting role of ocean science in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is at the core of the International Seabed Authority's (ISA) mandate. Indeed, ISA's mission is to promote and encourage the conduct of marine scientific research in the international seabed area, and especially to facilitate effective participation by developing States in deep sea exploration and research programmes.
Recognizing these synergies, IOC-UNESCO and ISA have joined forces to achieve shared objectives, such as improved mapping of the seabed and enhancing ocean observing networks. By building inclusive, innovative and transformative partnerships, IOC-UNESCO and ISA are meeting their strategic objectives and those of the UN Decade – to universally foster action to advance ocean science for the benefit of all mankind as a whole.
There is no doubt that ocean science will be critical for the survival of our planet. Nearly 3 billion people depend on marine and coastal biodiversity to meet their needs. The ocean absorbs around a third of the CO2 produced by humans and reduces the impact of climate change. Yet we still know so little about the cumulative effects of the human activities on our oceans. According to the IOC's 2017 Global Ocean Science Report, national spending on ocean sciences only accounts for between 0.04 to 4 per cent of the total invested in research and development.
Indeed, the ocean remains one of the least known areas of the planet. It covers 71 per cent of the globe, yet we have explored less than 5 per cent of it. Covering 54 per cent of the world's oceans, the international deep seabed is at the center of this new frontier. The rich biodiversity and large mineral deposits found on the sea floor create exciting challenges and opportunities to further develop a sustainable future. Yet our knowledge of the seabed in areas beyond national jurisdiction, including the interaction between the physical structures and the biota in those areas remains limited.
But things are changing. In light of new developments in science and technology, as well as shifting economic circumstances, commercial interest in deep sea mining has grown rapidly in recent years. Over the last decade, ISA has issued 29 contracts for exploration of the international deep seabed area, involving 22 different countries, covering 0.7 per cent of the world's seabed. Most of these are in the abyssal plains of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a region spanning 5,000 kilometers across the central Pacific Ocean.
The research undertaken as part of these contracts is the main source of data and knowledge helping us to better understand the deep seabed ecosystems and functions. It is through this research that we will be able to identify the best measures required to protect the marine environment from the effect of human impact.
This will be crucial as ISA finalizes the draft Mining Code for deep seabed mining in the international seabed area. ISA has led several rounds of global stakeholder consultation with its 168 Member States and Observers from civil society and international organizations over the last five years to develop the draft regulations.
More than ever international cooperation to advance marine scientific research in the deep seabed is required and will be key to the sustainable development of our oceans. Strengthening multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral multi-stakeholder cooperation at all levels will be essential to addressing capacity and other gaps in ocean science.
The partnership between ISA and IOC-UNESCO is a vivid example. This common mandate to promote international cooperation and capacity-building has been formalized by the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding in 2001. By working together we can improve deep sea marine science and unlock the potential of our oceans.
This year, as we move toward the launch of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), the need to develop and execute concrete investment and implementation strategies to advance ocean science takes on a renewed urgency.
We are all dependent on the ocean for survival. Together, we must build the capacity of Member States, civil society and the private sector to address knowledge gaps and enable action at all levels to deliver, together, the ocean we need for the future we want.


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Back to the concerns about the Busby/Bilbray special election results shortly...But until then...
The attorneys for alleged felonious vote fraud scammer and Republican hate-monger, Ann Coulter, have asked for special treatment by the Palm Beach County, Florida Supervisor of Elections office, according to a documents obtained exclusively by The BRAD BLOG.
In a letter (posted in full at the end of this article) written by Coulter's newly retained attorney, Marcos Daniel Jimenez --- a legal-eagle ally of the White House, involved in Bush/Cheney's 2000 Election "victory" in Florida --- the deservedly-derided GOP pundit has asked for the special privilege of having correspondence sent to her attorney, instead of to the address where she registered to vote in the Sunshine State --- the address of her real estate agent's house, where she never lived...
In reply to a May 10 Palm Beach Post article by columnist Jose Lambiet, reporting that Coulter had failed to answer an inquiry (document here) within 30 days, as requested by the Palm Beach County officials and as sent to the address that Coulter herself used on her Voter Registration application (document here), Jimenez claims to be puzzled why the officials had said they were considering removing Coulter from the voter rolls due to her apparent refusal to explain her felonious misconduct.
Writes Jimenez in his letter asking for special treatment on behalf of Coulter: "I find it difficult to understand why your office would make such a statement to the press when more than one month ago I asked the head of your office to send me the letter so that Ms. Coulter could respond. Please explain."
The attorney representing Coulter --- who recently told Fox News that she doesn't even live in Florida, where she submitted a voter registration application nonetheless --- asks the Supervisors office to set aside their rules, regulations and possibly the rule of law in favor of his wealthy client. He suggests that it was Supervisor Arthur Anderson's office who failed somehow, rather than his client who didn't respond to the letter which was sent to her via registered mail.
"In view of my prior request and your office's failure to provide me with the letter," Jimenez writes, "I would ask that your office postpone any further action, including any planned public hearing, until we have had a chance to review and respond to the letter and any subsequent correspondence to Ms. Coulter. Please advise."
Aside from potentially removing Coulter from the Palm Beach voter roles, Anderson's office has said they are considering referral of the case to the Florida State Attorney for possible prosecution, depending on Coulter's response to the allegations. If charges are brought and Coulter, who claims to be a constitutional attorney, is found guilty, she could be fined $5,000 and/or face 5 years imprisonment. She signed her name next to an "oath" on the Florida voter registration application when she submitted it, affirming that she understood those terms as the rule of law.
As a convicted felon in the state of Florida, she would also lose her right to vote.
Jimenez closes by asking the office that they not disclose the address --- where Coulter claims to not live anyway --- for Coulter's own safety:
"Finally, I as advised Mr. Anderson, Ms. Coulter is a public figure who has valid concerns about her personal safety and requires that her personal address not be made available to members of the public who might wish to do her harm. I look forward to working with your office to protect Ms. Coulter's safety while honoring her constitutional right to vote."
We have no word yet on whether Jimenez will also seek leniency for Coulter in regard to her apparent $25k fraudulent tax evasion in relation to a "Homestead Exemption" she received on her $1.3 Palm Beach crib in violation of the Florida tax code which requires such exemptions be taken only by "permanent resident[s]" of the state.
In addition to her claim to Fox News' Alan Colmes last Wednesday, where she said, "I live in New York. And I'm not going to tell you anymore about where I live, Alan," Huff Po's Michelle Pilecki has also reported that Coulter has made similar denials about living in Florida when asked about the issue on her college speaking tour.
The BRAD BLOG has previously released the following documents in the case (amongst others):
Jimenez' May 12th letter to the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections follows in full...
(Hat tip to Daniel Borchers of Citizens for Principled Conservatism.)


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Another Great Blacksmith from Sanjo, Niigata Syuuji Toyama
All his knives is made only by him self !
This is new Toyama with Noborikoi Kanji on backside is made only for JNS
With Better Fit and Finish and his best heat-tread and steel he loves to use most !
I simply ask the maker to make what he thinks is his best performance !
This is Sujihiki with excellent finish and grate steel ! It is not to thick and not to thin and have little flex
Steel: Blue Carbon with stainless cladding (can rust !!! )
Handle: D shape Ho wood and Horn
Approx.. measurements:
Handle Length- 140mm
Handle Width- 18mm
Handle to Tip Length- 410mm
Hell to Tip Length- 270mm
Blade Height at edge- 38mm
Width of Spine at Handle- 3,5mm
Width of Spine at Middle- 2,2mm
Width of Spine 1cm from the tip- 1,3mm
Weight- 155g
All knives JNS cary is handmade and made one by one, so they can vary in size and thickness. Unevenness in finish can occur.


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Application Process
We've put together a list of popular questions about who can apply, how to apply, and the application process.
Living here
Who can live at this community?
Here at Howe Place we want everyone to feel at home! Anyone who meets our qualification guidelines and passes the screening process can live at this community. You do not have to be a student or affiliated with any university to live here.
What are the qualifications?
Any person's requesting to live at our community will need to pass a criminal background and rental history screening, as well as, meet our income and credit requirements. The minimum income requirement is 3x the monthly rental rate of the floor plan you are requesting. If you do not meet these requirements, do not fret, we have many options to help you get approved. The specific options available to you will be based on your screening results and range from adding a guarantor to co-sign your lease, or even paying a higher deposit.
How do I reserve an apartment home?
You must complete an application, sign a lease contract, and pay any applicable upfront fees to reserve an apartment home. Availability for housing is limited and will fill up very quickly, so don't wait to lock in your rates and floor plan.
When can I apply for housing?
We begin accepting applications up to 1 year prior to your desired move in date. We can also accept applications for immediate move ins at any time. Follow our social media pages and submit a guest card to get the most up to date information on available lease terms and apartment homes for rent.
How do I apply?
Applying is easy and can all be done online! We want you to be able to apply during a time that is convenient for you, so if you prefer to be in the comfort of your living room after a long day, no problem here! Simply go to the floor plans page and click the "apply" option located by your favorite layout and fill in the blanks. Not all fields are required, but the more information we have; the faster we can process your paperwork.
Do I need any special documents or paperwork to submit my application?
You will need to be prepared with certain personal information to complete the identification section of the application; for example, driver's license number, social security number or passport number. If you are listing any household income on the application, you will need to provide proof of that income at the end of the application on the "Summary" tab. Proof of income can be your 2 most recent pay stubs or your most recent W2.
How long does it take to get approved?
Once your application is submitted it will take anywhere from 4 business hours up to 2 days to receive your screening results. Once your results are in, we will reach out if there are any other steps needed to get you approved. If your results come back as fully approved, then we will send you the lease contract within 24-48 business hours. Remember, your apartment home is not reserved until your lease is signed by all parties including the property manager.
What is a guarantor?
A guarantor acts as a co-signer and financial supporter of the lease contract. This person will need to meet the income and credit requirements from the qualifications above to be approved. The guarantor on the account will also sign the lease contract and have access to the resident portal to make payments and manage the resident account. The guarantor is equally responsible for all terms of the lease contract.


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Definition is Americana's Greatest Challenge, Not Diversity
At the 2018 Americana Music Awards held on September 12th, the amount of diversity represented in both the performances and the award recipients was above and beyond anything we've seen from a country music organization, whether it's the CMAs, the ACMs, Ameripolitan, the IBMAs (bluegrass), or any other similar grassroots awards or country music offshoot. Out of the six Lifetime Achievement honors handed out on the evening, five were for women, three were for members of the LBGT community, and two were for African American performers. There wasn't a single white male to receive a non-voted award personally curated by the Americana Music Association.
The 250+ names in the lineup for the week-long 2018 AmericanaFest had more diversity than ever, whether that's considering the amount of women, members of the African American community, other minorities, representation from foreign countries, or LBGT performers. 2018 saw Americana sanction the first "queer roots" showcase, where artists like Lavender Country, Little Bandit, and Amythyst Kiah performed. Multiple panels and showcases during the event specifically highlighted the influence of African Americans on Americana music, as well as a panel on the challenges women in music face.
Americana has always insisted on being inclusive, and has emphasized the role of blues and soul as vital influences to the diverse palette that composes Americana music. Keb Mo and Taj Mahal were early adopters and champions of the music, Mavis Staples and the McCrary Sisters are now as synonymous with Americana as anything.
2018 was a high water mark when it came to the amount of diversity showcased by the organization and its community. But still the criticism for Americana's lack of diversity have grown louder, bolstered by the current political climate where many feel they need to insist upon more diversity, regardless of the level of diversity being represented already.
Jason Isbell, who won Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Duo or Group of the Year at the 2018 Americana Awards said the following day, "I'm conflicted. Yes, I'm extremely grateful for the awards last night, but I also wish the list of winners was at least as diverse as the list of nominees. How to move forward with voters who share that sentiment? I don't know. I'd honestly like to see it, though."
Jason Isbell's opinion underscores the underlying problem with Americana diversity. The community's diversity issue is not on the stage, or even in the representation of award recipients or nominees. The problem is that when you look out over a given crowd at an Americana event, it is still nearly 100% white. It also tends to be very educated and predominately affluent.
Americana does not have a diversity problem on the stage, it has a white gaze problem from the crowd, and this is on the fans and the community, not the organization or its representatives and artists, if anyone deserves to be blamed at all. When Jason Isbell said that he hoped the award winners were more diverse and that it somehow needed to be dealt with in the voting population for the awards, he was referring to a voting population that is predominantly white.
UK-based African American soul singer Yola Carter was one of the cornerstone performers at AmericanaFest 2018. As the Artist of the Year for the UK-based arm of Americana last year, she's a burgeoning star in the scene. On Thursday night of AmericanaFest, she appeared at the Nashville Palace as part of the week's Music City Roots taping. Yola received standing ovations for her heart-stopping performances. But not a single African American was in the audience. At the 2018 Americana Music Awards show, the audience was almost exclusively white as well, even though African Americans made up nearly half of the performers and musicians who appeared on stage.
There is no easy way to diversify the Americana audience. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. People listen to what they want to listen to. African Americans and other minorities are just not as interested in Americana music in the same numbers as they are in other genres, and efforts to integrate Americana with more African American and minority artists in general has not changed that outcome. That's why it also stands to reason that adding even more diversity to Americana events will not in any way influence the white gaze issue.
There will never be a point where Americana will find a level of diversity that will satiate the calls of those who see a lack of diversity as a blemish on the burgeoning genre. But in its effort to try, Americana could continue to erode the support behind the genre as it continues to work to define itself, and the listening public continues to be more confused by what the term means—even more so as more diversity is added, and artists from other genres outside of the intuitive borders of Americana are included.
This is not to say that diversity is in any way a bad asset for Americana, or shouldn't be constantly strived for. Diversity is one of the elements that has created the strength behind the movement. But if the genre stretches to meet arbitrary diversity requirements imposed that will never be satiated in the first place, it risks losing the integrity of the superstructure of representing and defining American roots music in all of its multiple forms.
At the discussion panel "Minds in Potion: Ongoing African-American Innovation in Roots Music" that occurred on Friday, September 14th of the event, the idea of adding hip-hop to the Americana was discussed, and was championed by important members of the Americana community such as NPR's Ann Powers. "People who don't think hip-hop is part of Americana are out of touch," panelist Kam Franklin of the band The Suffers said, later suggesting that hip-hop acts such as Big K.R.I.T and others should play AmericanaFest in the future.
It's true that many of the same blues influences that went on to infer country, bluegrass, and other more established Americana art forms are also at the foundation of hip-hop, and there may be some artists that could be represented in Americana that could help illustrate that shared lineage. But hip-hop is also the largest, most successful popular genre in all of music, enjoying much more representation on radio and at major mainstream festivals, and is a genre that is heavily funded and favored by major labels.
Regardless of anyone's definition of Americana, something most can agree on is that it's a genre that represents music that otherwise would not be represented by a major organization. Though just like country or Americana, hip-hop may have acts that need support that is not being received, hip-hop enjoys its own infrastructure and support base to find and develop talent. Americana was set up to give support to music that didn't have it at all. Adding hip-hip to Americana would ultimately mean the edging out of artists who do not have opportunities without the Americana organization, while once again working to confuse the public about what the term "Americana" even means, and still not measuring a dent in the white gaze issue. Many of the artists supported by Americana had to flee country because of the infiltration of hip-hop influences edging them out.
At the 2018 Americana Music Awards, country comedian Wheeler Walker Jr. joked that Americana is country music that nobody listens to. Often people have defined Americana as the the farm league/retirement home of the country genre. As funny or insulting as these things may come across, there is also an element of truth to these assessments, and something the Americana community shouldn't be ashamed of. Calling Americana the non-commercial side of country music should be a badge of honor for the community.
Americana was created because artists such as Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller, Lucinda Williams, and even aging country greats like Johnny Cash were being overlooked. Since then it has found a shared mission with artists such as Keb Mo, The Mavericks, Irma Thomas and Buddy Guy who both won Lifetime Achievement awards in 2018, as did Rosanne Cash and KD Lang, with little to no complaints from the Americana community, but a honor to represent such diversity, both sonically and culturally.
But the most talked-about moment of the 2018 Americana Music Awards was not Jason Isbell's three wins, John Prine's award for Artist of the Year, any specific performance, or the Lifetime Achievement recipients. It was the moment Tyler Childers won the Emerging Artist of the Year trophy, and then proceeded to lash out at the idea behind Americana as being a distraction from the real issues plaguing country music, and for being a nebulous, indefinable term.
There will never be a firm definition for Americana, and what the genre encompasses will always be up for discussion. Diversity should also always be a priority of the genre, as it should be for every art form and cultural institution. But as the community moves forward, it should also understand that the greatest risk and challenge to Americana is its inability to explain itself. You can strive for diversity among the population of performers, and still help define Americana sonically by not stretching the sonic palette too far.
And Americana music should never be embarrassed about putting its best foot forward. Jason Isbell winning most all of the competitive awards right now may feel unfair. But he's also the genre's superstar, and the way for Americana to put its best foot forward. At some point in the future, other artists will rise up to take Isbell's place, possibly a woman or a minority, and Isbell will be the one receiving a lifetime achievement award. But that will only happen if Americana survives, and doesn't implode from trying to be all things to all people, as opposed to attempting to define its place in the music world, even if that definition continues to breathe and shift, and is never fully codified.


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We can't make users happy when we insist that every IT service comes straight from our own datacenter. Now's the time to start thinking of new ways to manage IT.
IT pros are going to have to be a lot nicer to users in 2013. We've seen it coming, so this statement shouldn't catch anyone off guard. And I don't mean to imply that we don't want to be nicer to our users, because most IT pros I know really do want to do a good job by their users. The problem arises when our users have different needs and wants than our broader organization is prepared to meet.
Consumerization of IT The problem is that our users are running all over the place, picking up IT services from wherever they want, because we aren't providing them with those services. It's not usually IT's fault per se; in some cases, we simply don't have the money or manpower to deploy things such as Internet-connected, secured, authenticated storage solutions. So our users sign up for a Dropbox account instead, which we promptly block at the firewall. Then they manage to access it via their mobile device's LTE connection anyway. And they do so even though Dropbox and other similar services don't provide the security or accountability that we're required by law to provide for the documents those users are flinging around the intertubes.
We end up spending a lot of time saying "no," and even more time explaining why "no" is a perfectly reasonable answer. "No, you can't have a new Web server, because you're going to be putting up content that we need to control and secure. We've got to put a system around that, and we don't have any budget or manpower to get it done. Get the executives to free up some resources and we can make it happen." Next thing you know, your company has 11 dozen Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. (True story: I know of one large company that had more than 130 unauthorized AWS accounts in addition to the one that they thought they had.)
Reversing the Trend So what can we do? Obviously, this is something that requires an organizational-level commitment. It's also going to require some serious rethinking about what IT is. For example, I know a lot of IT pros who get crazy-nervous -- and justifiably so -- when companies start talking about outsourced IT. "Well, if we all just use Dropbox, what is my job going to be?" they ask. "Will I still be needed?"
IT often can't help with the broader organizational issues such as budgeting and manpower -- but we can be smarter about our jobs. For instance, I think in this day and age we all have to accept that outsourcing, in various forms, is going to happen. Why not embrace it, and help make our users happier at the same time? "You know, we don't have the resources to set that Web site up internally, but let's look at what you plan to do with it. If you've got budget, and if you're not going to be hosting any customer data, then I can help you spin up an AWS-based Web site. You'll get what you need, and I'll still have a job managing that outsourced service."
Or: "I know you need to share those files with customers. But the bottom line is, they contain sensitive information and we've got to make sure it stays encrypted and whatnot the whole way. We can't do that with Dropbox -- but I've found this other online service that will work. Let me help you write up a justification document, and we'll run it through channels and see if we can't get that working for you."
We can't make users happy when we insist that every IT service comes straight from our own datacenter. We're going to have to allow for outsourcing (when we can do it without damaging the organization). It isn't going to obviate our jobs -- not all of them. The more we, as IT, can become enablers, the more valuable we'll be to the organization -- whether we're enabling in-house services, cloud-based services or whatever. We don't need to be button-pushers in order to be valuable and keep our users productive.
It's something to think about as you wind down 2012 and start looking forward to 2013. Happy New Year!
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Don Jones is a multiple-year recipient of Microsoft's MVP Award, and is an Author Evangelist for video training company Pluralsight. He's the President of PowerShell.org, and specializes in the Microsoft business technology platform. Follow Don on Twitter at @ConcentratedDon.
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But how did the tulip end up in The Netherlands?
The Turkish sultan Süleyman, who lives in 1550, is a very rich man. He fills his gardens full of flowers, especially tulips. When the Sultan is in a very good mood he gives, by exception, some tulip bulbs as a gift. For instance to the Flemish envoy in Turkey, Ogier Gisleen van Busbeke. Ogier gives a few tulip bulbs to the Fleming Carolus Clusius (Charles de l'Écluse) who manages the herb garden of the Austrian emperor. The tulips occupy a prominent place in the emperor's garden. Clusius becomes professor at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Of course he takes a number of tulip bulbs with him. Clusius is very careful with his bulbs and refuses to sell them. One night, thieves steal some bulbs from his garden. This is the beginning of the tulip and bulb trade in the Netherlands.
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