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"If you thought you knew ice cream, think again"
God Save the Cream, Lick the Icecreamists Cones on Covent Garden Piazza! In London's hip and fashionable Covent Garden you will find the United Kingdom's answer to the famous Italian Gelato.. The IceCreamists boutique ice cream pallor breaks the mould with its sex, drugs and rock and roll attitude and decor. The term revolution can be thrown around, but trust us when we use this term in conjunction with the IceCreamists. In this ice cream pallor the only thing bigger then its attitude; is its mouthwatering taste!
The Icecreamists Covent Garden piazza
Matt O'Conner
Kate: As to be expected with such a brand, the Icecreamists founder Matt O'Conner is no stranger to controversy and publicity.
Matt is the founder of the fathers' rights group 'Fathers 4 Justice' in the UK. This campaign is one that Chelsie and I firmly believe in, and its message is simple: Parents should have equal parenting rights after separation, and that throughout a child's life fathers should be allowed to play an active role in their child's development regardless of said separation. Matt has been recognised for his actions, and was voted the 92nd most powerful man in Britain by GQ Magazine for his work with 'Father's4Justice'.
It was during his campaigning for 'Father's4Justice', Matt was labeled an extremist his reply to such a statement " I am not and extremist I am icecreamist! " and thus the name was born .
Matt unsurprisingly a lover of ice cream initially began his journey with the Icecreamists at the iconic Selfridges department store with his very own pop up store. It was in these early days that Matt invested heavily in understanding the requirements of creating great tasting ice cream, and even travelled to the home of Ice Cream; Italy to pick up tips. Alongside acquiring vital information on ice cream production, Matt also had experience in designing restaurants and bars. So coming up with something quirky and inspiring was something that was almost second nature to him.
It would be fair to say that the Icecreamists knows just how to generate lots of publicity, which of course includes the infamous breast-milk ice cream, neatly titled Baby Gaga. This is the somewhat bold idea that if you drink milk from cows; why not from a human female? Baby Gaga resulted in a lawsuit from Lady Gaga herself demanding a name change and Westminster Council embarking on a crusade to ban the ice cream. Although the product is no longer sold, it's legacy lives on.
A final interesting fact Chelsie and I were told when visiting their flagship London store is that each ice cream flavour on the menu is subject to scientific testing. By this we mean lucky tasters were blind folded and allowed to sample each flavour. Only the most popular ice cream flavours are allowed to proceed, and it is these that are sold in the store today!
Chelsie: In February 2012, Kate and I visited the Icecreamists. We love to try things a little different and we love ice cream so it seemed a very logical pastime. I can honestly say approaching the front door, I had no idea what to expect.
The decor of the store, is awesome! Very Sex Pistol/ Vivienne Westwood. The store is two stories, the ground floor is split in two with a take away part, enticing customers with its luxurious ice cream and the other side a kooky restaurant with neon flashing lights, plastic splatted ice cream cones, ice cream inspired quotes including 'lick your addiction' and ice cream art featuring some very iconic and dare I say infamous faces in the style of Andrew Warhol.
Kate: We began our Ice Cream revolution with the tasting menu, and we did in fact try every flavour in the store (if only I owned a time machine!). I can honestly say in some cases the decor can compensate for a mediocre product, but that could not be further from the truth with the Icecreamists. The flavoursome taste blew me and my taste buds away.
We could not resist a photo without the hats on!
All the Ice Cream that is sold in the store is produced in the Icecreamists sister store also located in Covent Garden on Maiden Lane. The Ice Cream has a maximum shelf life of two days unlike some of more commercial generic brand name ice creams we are familiar with. The ice cream flavours available range from the traditional vanilla, to the more quirky peanut butter (with real peanut butter chunks in!) to the extravagant Ferraro Roche and finally to the downright kinky Sex Bomb, with a few shall we say libido enhancing extras included!
Maiden lane boutique
I enjoyed every flavour! Each one had its own punchy attitude and taste, Chelsie and I debated for some time but our top 5 picks are as follows-
Kate: (1) Ferrero Roche, (2) Mould Wine, (3) (Smack, Crack, & Pop) Popcorn, (4) Glastonbury, (5) Jamaican ginger cake.
Chelsie: (1) (Smack, Crack, & Pop) Popcorn, (2) Sex Drugs and Choc and Roll, (3) Peanut Butter, (4) Pistachio, (5) Sex Bomb
Chelsie : The Icecreamists signature item without doubt is its lustful ice cream, however the restaurant does offer some additional guilty pleasures with choices varying depending on the time of year. The winter menu includes a chocolate fondue, hot chocolate, ice sandwiches, ice cream cocktails and British doughnuts..
I shall begin with the British doughnuts which the Icecreamists have included in their revolution. The doughnuts are all made to fresh to order, and are piping hot little rings of pleasure dusted in a top secret blend of cinnamon and spices served with a choice of winter ice creams.
We ended our revolutionary experience by trying two of the Icecreamists cocktails MissWhip lash (red cocktail pictured) and The Molotoffee Cocktail. These two cocktails were real headbangers in terms of the intense flavour and alcohol kick with each sip. Our favourite cocktail although granted a close call was the Molotoffee.. why? See below!
THE MOLOTOFFEE COCKTAIL: – This cocktail is a combination of chilled Crème De Banana Liqueur topped with Dulce De Leche ice cream, and toffee all insulated under a pillow of soft meringue. The cocktail was then blow torched to perfection at our table!
THE INFAMOUS SEX-BOMB™ – Gird your loins for the infamous 'Sex Bomb' ice cream cocktail – the one ice cream authorities can't diffuse. Benefiting from a weapons upgrade in 2011, this classic Fior di Latte ice cream is blended with natural stimulants (Ginko Bilabo, Arginine, Guarana) and other secret ingredients for blood flow and energy! The cocktail is scented with a gentle infusion of citrus zest and topped with a shot of burning La Fee Absinthe. This cocktail is administered from a hospital IV drip, for explosive results.
The cocktail is s strictly limited to one ice cream per customer. Suitable for persons of 18 years and older.
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We give the Icecreamists a rare 10/10! The style, taste and fabulous staff make this experience unmissable! This is THE PLACE for any ice cream lover, or even a sinful tasty treat. The parlour is something unique, and your unlikely to have seen anything quite like it before.. and thats not even including the ice cream which will captivate you- we promise!
DID YOU KNOW? The Icecreamists will soon be releasing their very first book with unprecedented access to all the closely guarded secrets allowing you to re create the ice creams, sorbets, ice cream cocktails, sundaes, desserts and ice lollies! Chelsie and I cannot wait to get our hands on this book!
The Icecreamists: Boutique Ice Creams and Other Guilty Pleasures to Make and Enjoy at Home
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No end of options for world-trotting teens
As uncle and grandfather, we are planning to treat 13- and 15-year-old boys to an overseas trip next summer. Budget and time constraints limit possibilities, but could you suggest countries, cities and travel sites to interest teen-age-boys?
Despite a few drawbacks (weird sleep schedules, staggering food bills), traveling with teens can be rewarding, even exhilarating. Here are a few ideas:
• A world-class city. Vibrant European capitals have plenty of teen-friendly attractions, such as sports and music venues, cool markets and classic sites. Go easy on the museums and seek out funkier attractions, such as Paris' Catacombs, featuring stacks of bones and skulls, or Rome's Mamertine Prison, an ancient dungeon where new arrivals dropped in through a hole in the ceiling. Let the boys explore on their own via subway, or sign them up for a Segway or bike tour. In Paris, a four- to five-hour Segway tour costs about $99 per person (www.segwayguidedtours.com).
• Outdoor adventures. For the adventure trip the boys will remember their whole lives, cruise the Galapagos Islands and see sea lions, giant tortoises, warm-water penguins and other exotic creatures up close. It's expensive, but tour prices vary considerably, so shop around (Ecuador Tourism, www.ecuador.us). Other overseas adventure options: Go trekking in Peru, see Wales on horseback, go sailing in Turkey, hike Iceland's lava fields, play cowboy in Argentina, mountain-bike in Switzerland.
• Islands and beaches. Swimming, diving, kayaking, tubing, horseback riding – what's not to like? St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands has all that and more, and lodgings range from affordable tent camps to luxury hotels (USVI Tourism, 800-372-USVI, www.usvitourism.vi).
The picture page of my passport picked up some kind of fungus in dampest India. Now some scanners can't read the bar code, and one immigration officer told me he could technically deny me admission to his country. Will the State Department replace my passport, even though there are several years left until expiration?
Damaged passports aren't valid for travel, so you'll have to replace yours – and unfortunately, it'll cost you. Not only will you not get credit for the unused years, you'll have to start from scratch as a first-time applicant, according to an agent at the National Passport Information Center. That means applying in person at an acceptance facility or passport agency, providing the required documentation (your damaged passport does not qualify) and photos, and paying $100 in first-timer's fees. Details:
National Passport Information Center, 877-487-2778, travel.state.gov/passport.
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Her approach to visual arts is bound to geometry and basic shapes, statuary poses and surrounding space. We asked her some questions about her interests in youth culture, her favourite collaborations and her spare time!
How did you get into photography and what made you think "that's what I want to do!"?
I think I should thank my mother's photo album. She would make me pose for her and stare at the camera. It's always been a constant thing to take pictures in my family with my mom's 35mm camera. I got my first camera when I was 15 and I started a photography class. This is when I realised that photography was gonna be the only way to express myself.
Your work is mostly on analogue cameras, I know you're pretty much into medium format! Why did you choose that over digital photography?
It might seem a cliché saying that film is more authentic, but it is actually true. Colours are more blended, the image quality is definitely higher. Medium format is much better then 35mm and with the right films and camera you can photograph whatever you want with amazing results. .
You're principally a fashion photographer, but I notice some art references. What inspires your work?
I really like fashion photography but I always try to mix it with something else. I love still life and at the same time street and portraiture photography. I did a BA in photography but it was mostly related to Fine Arts and the relationship between photographs and art galleries. Besides photographers like Doug DuBois gave me like a "narrative mood", that's why I'm always trying to create a concept and/or a kind of story alternating portraits, details, still life, interiors and landscape.
What's the biggest mistake you think you've made in terms of photography?
I've burnt so many films that probably had loads of nice pictures on them hahahah! But seriously, I think my way of being sometimes doesn't take me where I'd want to go or where I should buy original viagra online go.
I'm very introvert and quiet and unsure and I know that if I wasn't like that I would have probably worked way more and would have made more connections.
What does an average day of yours look like?
I'm very lazy, I could stay in bed all day watching movies, binge-watching, because until I go out I forget that the world outside is as beautiful as the one in my bed.
So my average day is basically try to do the fewest possible, looking at pictures on the internet, watching at least one movie and eating loads.
What's the best collaboration you've done?
I think my best collaboration was the one with Sasha Vergolini, (sound artist / 3d artist) and he created the sound for a video I made and two other 3d-digital projects.
It's amazing when you find someone who shares the same taste and interests as you, you can get a beautiful result.
Do you ever get stuck with your creativity?
Often. Very often. Sometimes I think I have everything on mind but I can't find any ways to let it out. I see so much stuff everyday and I feel so conditioned by it! I personally don't even like the word "creative" so maybe I think I'm okay with it.
Do you travel a lot?
Unfortunately not, I haven't seen a lot of places in my life. I spend my days on google street view though, does it count?
Do you have any exhibitions planned / projects going on?
I reckon for now my plan is to settle down here in London, cause I just moved! So no exhibitions for now, but I think something is moving and I'm hopeful for the future.
Any other photographers you'd recommend us to check?
Dammit! Making lists is one of my favourite things in the world, in fact I have a never ending list of photographers on my macbook notes but again, it's way too long so I'm just gonna write three names: Benjamin Vnuk, Marcello Junior Dino, Adrian Catalan.


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From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031027
Description of problem:
After installing Fedora Core Test 3 and installing all the available updates (as
of October 28th AM), I tried out sound-juicer. When I chose the "FLAC" encoder
option, I got an error message that FLAC was not installed, and the FLAC and MP3
encoder options became grayed out.
After that I downloaded, compiled, and installed the FLAC encoder. Running FLAC
from the command prompt works fine.
I restarted sound-juicer and went into preferences to choose FLAC, but the
option was still grayed out.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run sound-juicer with no FLAC installed.
2. Try to choose the FLAC encoder in the sound-juicer options.
3. The FLAC encoder choice will become grayed out.
4. Install FLAC
5. Restart sound-juicer and try to choose FLAC.
6. The FLAC encoder choice stays grayed out.
Actual Results: Cannot choose FLAC once it has been disabled, even after FLAC
is installed.
Expected Results: After installing FLAC, I should be able to choose it as an
encoder option in sound-juicer.
Additional info:
Refiled upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127636
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Brad Mehldau: Creativity in Beethoven and Coltrane
In a series of exclusive blog posts throughout the season, Brad Mehldau talks directly to the Carnegie Hall audience, revealing his thoughts on composition and improvisation.
Creativity in Beethoven and Coltrane
Part One: Taking Stock and Shoring Up in Opus 95
How do we map the total creative output of a musician over his or her lifetime? One approach is to divide that output into distinctive periods. An example is the well-known three-period appraisal of Beethoven's music: There is an early period where he is imitating, a second period of maturation in which he finds his own voice, and a third later period in which Beethoven transcends his own voice, forging yet another style. Does this method have any currency when it is applied to an improvising jazz musician?
There is potential folly in the practice of demarcating supposed creative periods. As a critical venture, it is retrospective, drawing its lines through a body of work that already exists as a totality. It is by nature anti-holistic and might mutilate the integrity of that work by severing the continuity that exists throughout a musician's lifetime. In short, this approach will be fraught with inconsistency and will have an arbitrary aspect.
Nevertheless, by demarcating different periods of creativity and assigning a specific quality to each one, we are trying to give form to that shapeless totality of a musician's total output. Once a preliminary form exists, the real venture of criticism may begin in earnest, and that is to fashion a credible narrative that corresponds to the musician in question.
The power of this narrative, like all narrative, rests on its ability to represent the passage of time. Throughout a novel, for example, we observe the protagonist. Events befall him that effect a change within him, or he elects to change his surroundings. This process of change is contingent on the movement of time, as is another key element of any narrative: memory. The memory of the protagonist will affect his decisions, and in turn, the memory of the reader will allow him to understand the protagonist more deeply. Ultimately, the role of criticism should be the same as the role of great fiction, to a point: By placing its subject in a temporal context, it allows the reader/listener to empathize with that subject more closely as he reflects on how time and its vagaries have affected him as well. There is an opening between the subject and his or her reader, and a communion is possible that can span centuries.
So we shatter the oneness of a musician's total work when we split it into periods, destroying the organic unity that existed, but this shattering is a creative act as well because it allows us to begin constructing a story about that musician. Time begins in this moment of rupture.
To the extent that we are telling a story about creativity, one great recurring theme will be mortality. Every time a musician can create, he escapes, momentarily, his mortality. The much-feared drying up of creative juices is a metaphor for one's demise. The passage of time is central to the narrative here because creativity is not endlessly doled out from above; on the contrary, it is often cruelly finite. Musicians, artists, and the like are given gifts along the way—most commonly earlier in their output—but as time passes, the gods are more fickle. Something truly creative must increasingly be coaxed out; it does not flow freely.
The narrative of Beethoven's creative output, with its exalted third period, has an Odyssean hue. Through ruthless cunning and sheer will, Odysseus vanquishes his foes and survives to return home as victor. He has completed his circular journey and is once again home, but now he possesses a great amount of knowledge and wisdom that he gained during his adventures.
Beethoven likewise returns in his later period to a simple, paired down form of expression that he never would have attempted in his earlier years. In his last string quartet (F Major, Op. 135), the music is unfettered and light in the opening Allegretto movement and touched by a new kind of grace in the slow third movement. In one sense, the lightness and grace evoke the Classicism of Beethoven's predecessors—gone is the Sturm und Drang of his early and middle periods—yet there is something new here: The composer has attained this classical symmetry once again, after a great struggle. A new, strange kind of peace breathes in this music, but it is not a peace that has been granted; it is a peace that has been won.
In comparison with the epic scope of other late string quartets, like Op. 131 or Op. 132, Beethoven's very last strikes us with its brevity and economy. I remember my first exposure to the late quartets. I listened to them in the order of opus number, eagerly awaiting the last one, and when I first heard it, I was puzzled and a little disappointed—it seemed like a dwarf among giants. The characteristic expansiveness was absent.
Beethoven's style had grown more expansive in his middle period, and that trend continued during his third period. But Op. 135 usually runs no more than 25 minutes in performance, compared with the 45-minute length of another late quartet, Op. 132. We often see this kind of expressive retraction as a welcome outcome of aging: We grow tired of our own long-windedness—and that of others—as the years pass, so we learn to express something more quickly and succinctly. Hopefully, though, our ideas do not become dulled.
This is certainly not the case with one of my favorite of Beethoven's string quartets: Op. 95, often subtitled "Serioso." In this quartet, it is as if all the kinetic energy of one of Beethoven's great extended middle-period works has been squeezed by a vice grip into something more compact: Because it is shorter in length, the gravitational force of the music has intensified. There is no fat on this quartet, only lean muscle. The "Serioso" still inhabits Beethoven's second period proper, but it can be seen as a transitional work between the second and third periods. I imagine, in my own narrative about Beethoven, a process of taking stock and shoring-up before a descent into deeper waters.
At the opening of the "Serioso," Beethoven presents his motivic material with no fanfare or introduction:
There is no preparation for the jagged, almost brutal theme that begins the piece, and the effect is violent. What follows immediately is equally violent. The tonic F-minor tonality has barely strutted on the stage when it is brashly yanked away by the dominant:
A quick battle between tonic and dominant ensues. The dominant tonality has the last word in bar 5, ending unquestionably on a unison C. This gives the listener an uncomfortably asymmetrical pair of phrases in the opening bars of the piece—a two-bar opening phrase and a three-bar reply. It is clear that this is not just an argument—it is already a shouting match. The dominant unison at bar 5 is that extra bit of screaming—"And don't you forget it!"—that is meant to eradicate any further reply from the tonic. These opening five bars are shocking and jarring, but there is also humor. The lopsided rejoinder in bars 3–5 is uncouth, disregarding the Classical ideal of symmetrical phrase length immediately at the beginning of the piece, with no explanation. The F-minor tonality initially argues its point forcefully but with restraint; what follows is simply screaming back for a longer duration.
There is a counterintuitive logic underlying all this feisty rhetoric. The opening phrase in bars 1 and 2 is scalewise and thus melodic in character; the next phrase is full of octave leaps and goes out of its way to not be melodic, with its repeated Cs. It is essentially a harmonization and nothing more. In fact, it looks strangely like an ending cadence—a kind of anti-cadence that ends on the dominant. A basic principle of harmony—one could say the basic principle of harmony for several centuries now—is that the dominant leads to the tonic. By strongly differentiating the shapes of these two phrases, though, Beethoven has cast the tonic and dominant as adversaries. They are like magnets that repel instead of attract each other.
This gesture is a prelude to Beethoven's later genius. His early- and middle-period innovations are largely expressive—the stormy introduction of the "Pathetique" Sonata, the mysterious opening movement of the "Moonlight" Sonata, or the great funereal slow movement of the "Eroica" Symphony are obvious examples among many. Beethoven was expanding the expressive potential of music, pushing it out of the 18th century court and giving the audience a richer, more intense emotional experience. The innovation in Op. 95, by contrast, is less overtly felt but more deeply subversive. Beethoven is calling into question a deep, founding principle of tonality. The music is deconstructive, not destructive—he is not doing away with the rules of tonality or turning them outright upside down; he is asking us to look differently at something that we always see.
Violence is a driving theme of this quartet. Beethoven willfully thwarts the development of his motifs, striking them down at once. But when he shuts down ideas like this, there is logic involved. The gesture in bars 3–5 is no mere stupid blow; as forceful as it is, it is a rejoinder to the initial motif. It forces Beethoven to essentially begin the piece again, as he does here at bar 6:
The theme redresses itself in the warm key of G-flat major. In the opening, it was heard in stripped down, unharmonized octaves, which gave it a raw, brutal quality. This time, it is heard only in the cello, less threateningly, and is harmonized sweetly by the other strings above. It welcomes us away from the battle, promising reconciliation and a brand new start with its ascent upwards by a half step. This, coupled with the shift to a major mode, sends us a message: "Here is that theme for you, new and improved, easier on the ears and less jarring!"
We cannot properly speak of an actual modulation to G-flat major—there has been no voice leading between bars 5 and 6. This shift to another tonal center without preparation for a surprise effect had long been a favorite device of Beethoven's, for example, at the beginning of a development section. Here though, the stark juxtaposition between F minor and G-flat major has a specific meaning. It tells us right away what this piece will be about: opposition between poles, followed by resolution, followed by more opposition.
The resolution is always provisional and temporary. The sunny mood at bar 6 is over almost as soon as it begins. The listener feels G-flat major as a new tonic because Beethoven gave us the opening theme again. This is subterfuge, though. In bar 10, one more time, the dominant attacks again, with a pathos and subtlety that was absent in its first attack on the tonic seconds earlier; this mood change correlates to the more lyrical quality of theme's statement at bar 6. We see that G-flat major was ill-fated as a tonic: The dominant usurps that fleeting status through voice-leading at bars 8 and 9 and recasts G-flat major in a mere Neapolitan role—as a flatted second chord which must lead to the dominant. This is a completely legitimate move, well within accepted practice already for a good century, but it is downright sneaky here because G-flat had appeared to be the new tonal center seconds earlier.
The Neapolitan chord—built from the root of the flatted second degree of the scale that constitutes a given tonality; in this case, the G-flat of F Minor—is a more chromatic alternative for the subdominant in a progression that will continue to the cadential dominant and then resolve. But Beethoven withholds resolution here—the dominant is allowed to revel in its victory at bar 10 for the next several bars. So, for the second time, we have the strange feeling of anti-cadence: we have arrived at the dominant as if it were a kind of tonic, and we can go no further. The Neapolitan progression has been used partially and its original function is now eradicated. What we have now is a similar struggle between two tonalities like the opening of the piece, but one that sounds particularly sinister because they are a tritone apart. We see this simply if we harmonize those tonalities into simple triads and play them back-to-back a few times:
The tritone relationship is one of equidistance within the chromatic scale: If I travel upwards or downwards from either triad in stepwise motion, I will arrive at the other triad in the same amount of steps. This directionless spatial relationship has a corollary effect on our ears: It is the sound of utter instability. Because they are equidistant from each other, neither triad wins over our ears as a tonic. In the early 20th century, as the tonal hierarchy gives way and we approach complete chromatic saturation—in the music of Richard Strauss and in Arnold Schoenberg's earlier works, for example—this kind of tritone relationship is normal. Or rather: It becomes a normative trope for everything that is not normal, and often denotes something sinister or scary. It becomes a cliché in film soundtracks, heard as the enemy's army marches toward us. Beethoven anticipates the sound of 20th-century instability, but he achieves that by thwarting and subverting conventional principals of harmony that had already existed—principals that he had reflected on, at this later point, for quite some time.
In his book about Schoenberg, the pianist and music scholar Charles Rosen comments on true originality—the kind that comes around only a few times each century—and distinguishes it from mere individuality:
Originality requires the exploration of a self-created universe coherent and rich enough to offer possibilities beyond the development of an individual manner. An individual style built upon the placid acquiescence in a disintegrating language is stamped, too, with a peculiar character; it is reduced to the exploiting of a limited set of mannerisms[...]
Beethoven is his own alpha and omega; when he subverts, he is subverting a style that he himself mastered. With some quick unpeeling, we always find that mastery. This is subversive and authoritative at once, and it is why no easy reduction of Beethoven is possible, as it is more readily with much of the music of the 20th century, which was never harmonically tethered in the first place. Rosen notes that Schoenberg spoke with contempt about contemporaries of his who composed "pseudo-tonal" works—those who acquiesced to that "disintegrating language" of tonality. Schoenberg took tonality—or more specifically, the guiding principles of Western tonality that began in the Renaissance and developed up through his own day—at least as seriously as Beethoven, and recognized that a limit had been reached.
Limitation, and how to bypass it or transcend it: In the narrative about Beethoven's creative mortality, he has won a victory in Op. 95 over the limitations of his genre, not by ignoring them, which would lead to nonsensical expression. Instead, he reexamines his—and our—assumptions about these limiting principles. Thus, the stage is set for Beethoven's compositional endgame strategy in his exalted third period, when he will return to seemingly conventional, at times even banal material, and then transform it into something the world had never heard before, and still shocks our ears today.
So much drama takes place in the first 15 seconds of Opus 95 that by the time the more lyrical second subject of the exposition starts, a bloody battlefield already stands before us. The expository material of the first movement unfolds through a dialectical process rooted in the sonata-allegro form, but there is a merciless quickening to that process, which makes the music sound perpetually modern.
That quickening calls to mind the writing style of the 20th-century German thinker, Theodor Adorno. In his Negative Dialectics, a sentence will fold back into itself like the thematic material of Beethoven; the act of positing and answering is wrapped in a single, compressed bundle. Adorno is critiquing the dialectical tradition of Kant and Hegel; the first movement of Beethoven's Op. 95, likewise, is a critique of the sonata-allegro form found in the high Classicism of Mozart and Haydn, and his own earlier works. In both Adorno and Beethoven, there is a disavowal of complacent thought, or perhaps they have unavoidably arrived at this impasse. This sentiment is familiar in the 20th-century context—there is a rejection of the expressive devices of the past and often an accompanying despair. That implies defeat or a Beckettian endgame, but in Beethoven's case, his new, leaner, and meaner form of expression is a stepping stone to creative victory. For when he turns again to the more expansive approach in his later works, it will be even more audacious and more profound than what he had previously achieved.


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- The IAF commander revealed on 22 May that F-35Is have carried out airstrikes in recent months.
- One of the missions may have involved deep incursion to hit a target at Aleppo airport with Small Diameter Bombs on 29 April.
Israeli Air Force (IAF) Lockheed Martin F-35I Adir multirole fighters have carried out their first airstrikes against enemy targets, IAF commander Major General Amikam Norkin revealed on 22 May.
"I think we are the first to attack with [the] F-35 in the Middle East," Maj Gen Norkin said during a speech to visiting air force chiefs during a conference. Displaying a photograph showing an F-35 flying over Beirut, he added, "I'm not sure about other areas, but as you can see here, we already attacked, and this is the first time that we are talking about this issue.
"Our main goal for the short term is to integrate the fifth-generation [F-35] airplane with the fourth-generation squadrons," he said. "[It's] a huge challenge and I think we started to understand the huge potential of this platform."
Responding to those comments later in the day, Rick Edwards, executive vice-president of Lockheed Martin International, told reporters in Israel, "I'm not surprised at all that Israel is the first" F-35 operator to use the aircraft to carry out strikes.
Edwards also confirmed that "Israel will integrate its weapons of choice in the plane". While he did not identify what munitions the IAF intends to use with its F-35I, he said, "I don't see a concern about Rafael products integrating" and that the two companies are continuing talks on this topic.
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The lines and marks on his hands for ages interested in, absorb and attract seekers of knowledge. One of the most important line is the line of life. It shows the length of life, and various other things and events that accompany us in life. Some people are concerned that they have a short line, thinking that they will have a short life.
Kasia, the lady at the age of about 40 years came to me in a very difficult time for herself. She was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Despite earlier disease treatments is not retreating. In addition, doctors withdrew from further treatment giving it up to 3 months to six years of her life.. I looked at her and felt sorry for her. She was exhausted by the disease, but it seemed to be reconciled with fate.
Received an offer from a friend, to go to Germany to work with the care of an older person.
She had a dilemma – to go or not?
On the one site, thought-
anywhere so far I have not been abroad, was my little life, do not do anything, do not work, do not do anything to just get sick, I could see a little world, on the other site
-leave my family and the house,my husband, two teenagers (generally known that this is not an easy age), as they can manage without me and that I can manage this trip and work, yet I am seriously ill.
I looked at her hands. Both the left and the right hand line had a short life and it broke off at about the point in time in she was, also had poor health line, which clearly indicated that her life may be finish. I noticed, however, that the fate of the lines are different. On the left hand line breaks in the middle of a hand, and on the right hand of fate line is long, strong and wraps the line of life, as if taking and giving further continuation. Additionally, the upper part of the line of the spores formed a triangle with one side adjacent to the line of the fate and one vertex in contact with the lifeline.
I was hope – there is a chance.
A short life line and fate on the left hand indicated that if Kasia will be in the country and surrenders to home and family, it will be passive, it actually can fulfill the prophecy doctors.
While the right hand said, if you think about yourself and go abroad (triangle), it will create such situations random (fate line), which will extend your life, give a new meaning, a new job, you will have the strength and energy, the body starts to regenerate and family without you somehow manage.
After this analysis, Kasia was reassured and decided to take a chance and go.
After two years, came to me again. I was amazed, and happy that she to be alieve and was with us.
She told her story. In fact, she went to Germany. Initially, she worked at the old nice lady taking care of her. Then she accidentally encounter different kind of friendly person, so that interest in unconventional medicine, graduated from various courses, and for some time she opened a business there and methods taught to help others. She said that there is a very good feel from the very beginning that it is conducive to the climate and the environment. Although still had ups and downs but the body slowly began to regenerate.
Then, when he came to me the second time, I saw a woman a few years younger, pleased with life at full strength and healthy.
Kasia came to me again with the same question as before.
Go back to Germany or be in the country?
Unfortunately, would remain in the country that would come back to the old paths, and began to be realized by the road on the left hand, which would have a relapse and she willingly would shorten his life.
By far the best solution was to leave again, and the country from time to time come for a visit. In this way, it can ensure a long, good and fulfilled life gets, the more that any confirmation of this, already has.
Lifeline line is very important. Comes mostly from the mound of Jupiter or the space between the thumb and index finger of Jupiter, coming down the hand and wrapping the thumb. He talks about the length of our lives, but not only, but also about our relation with your family, with your partner in life, the ups and downs, happiness or failure, commitment to love, approach to life, nature. On it are marked as various important decisions, changes, trips or other life events. Informs us about everything that happened in our lives and leaving a lasting impression on our psyche, which shook us hard and what we will build in the future. Life on the line, there are also warnings against accidents and diseases, including life-threatening diseases before.
Interpreting life according to this line is not always accurate. A short line of life, or the total lack thereof also (and this also happens) does not necessarily imply a result of a short life. Sometimes the analysis further we have a line of fate (Saturn). Folks who have short lines of life do not worry about it for stock because, despite appearances, you may find it waiting for you a long life in health and happiness.
Through knowledge of lines and other marks on the hands, and the acquisition of skills of interpretation, we can help you at different times of your life.
Our hands are our life plan, our map. In our life , we move this map. We checked different ways, which way to go, depends only on us, from our decision.
Sometimes one decision may have determined many years of life. It happens that we can not go back to the time chosen path and we have to go through the selected experience. Sometimes we can go back out of the way and start again. Sometimes from Warsaw to London go through Rome. Do not make it easy for our life, but difficult.
It is to know yourself and your map of life, to know how to move along it that ways are appropriate and which are not. It should also find out how the various moments of his life complicated deal by finding the best possible solution.
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PELHAM, N.Y. -- The Picture House (TPH) will celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of the film "Parting Glances" with a screening, post-film discussion and Q&A with executive producer Christine Vachon on Tuesday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m.
"Parting Glances" chronicles 24-hours in the life of preppy boyfriends Robert and Michael (Richard Ganoung and John Bolger) as they juggle social engagements before Robert, on assignment with an international health organization, embarks for Africa, and Michael is left to sort through the remains of his relationship with his H.I.V.-positive former lover the eccentric rocker Nick (Steve Buscemi).
"Parting Glances" was one of the first feature films to grapple with AIDS and the only feature film directed by Bill Sherwood, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. It was also the first screen appearance of Steve Buscemi, who would go on to become an award-winning prolific actor best known for his roles in "Boardwalk Empire," "Fargo," and more.
After the screening, TPH critic-in-residence Marshall Fine will host a discussion and Q&A with Vachon, who is the co-head and co-founder of Killer Films, which has produced some of the most acclaimed American independent films. Vachon has received ten Independent Spirit Award nominations, winning Best Feature for the Academy Award-nominated "Far from Heaven" and the Producers Award for "I'm Losing You."
Vachon's other production credits include "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination; the Academy Award-winning "Boys Don't Cry;" HBO Films' "The Notorious Bettie Page," "Cairo Time, Cracks," "Motherhood," and many more.
Tickets to the screening of "Parting Glances" and post-film discussion are $12 for general admission, $6 for members, $10 for students and seniors, and free for Secret Summer Series ticket holders. Tickets are available at www.thepicturehouse.org or at the box office, 175 Wolfs Lane, Pelham, N.Y. 10803.
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This year the Moscow Music Week will be held from 30th of August to 1st of September with the support of the Moscow Music School. Leading figures of the world music industry will take part in the conference: journalists, program directors of festivals, club owners, foreign and regional promoters. Delegates will come from different countries to share their experiences within the framework of general discussions, lectures, cross-sharing within the framework of the conference, as well as viewing contemporary Russian music and selecting groups that will present themselves on showcases.
The conference is held on Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Ulitsa, 10, bld. 2.
How to make Russian musicians popular on the European scene: the ways to establish connections with foreign promoters and become clients of leading international booking agencies
Ilya Voronin, Mixmag Russia, publishing house "Beloe Yabloko"
Brandon Rosenbluth, UK/ LITTLEBIG International Booking Agency
Natasha Padabed, NL/ More Zvukov Agency
Matwe Kaščák, SK/ Partnership & Media & Booking Pohoda Festival 2018
Koen Ter Heegde (NL), booker and promoter at Yugofuturism
What's the role of showcase festivals in the artist's career?
Dmitry Midborn
Kirill Richter
Daniil Brod
Evgeny Gorbunov
Anton Maskeliade
Nadya Samodurova
Who decides today whether a particular musician should be a superstar or not? Do mass media still have a significant impact on shaping consumer tastes in music?
Richard Foster, NL/ PR Manager, WORM Rotterdam, music journalist Quietus, Guest curator (Emerging talent) at Liverpool Sound City
John Robb, UK/ editor of the leading culture website and magazine : Louder Than War, musician and conceptualist : the membranes, TV and radio presenter : BBC radio 2/4/5/6 also BBC documentaries and lots of worldwide programmes author : "Punk Rock an oral history"; "Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop"; "Death To Trad Rock history of UK 80's underground"
Jördis Hagemeier, DE/ Musikexpress
Lotti Blaizer, UK/ music journalist and writer
Boris Barabanov, RU/ music journalist, Kommersant
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Andrey Roschevkin, Marketing Director at Moscоw Music School
Gaya Marina Garbaruk, Lyric Writing teacher of the program Songwriting and Music Performance
Within the panel, participants will speak about music education: how it should be reformed, and what tasks it should perform. Moscow Music School is part of Universal University—a platform for education projects in the field of creative industries, which embraces British Higher School of Design, MARCH Architecture School and MACS (Moscow Advanced Communications School). Over the past 15 years, we have developed a powerful education expertise in the area of creative industries that we effectively implement at our school.
Music Export Office: how they work, and why it is important
Stepan Kazaryan
Veronika Belousova, RUSH Music Initiative
Sigtryggur Baldursson, Managing director at Iceland Music
Michał Hajduk, expert at Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Natasha Padabed, More Zvikov Agency
Musicians and brands: learning to develop interconnections between sponsors and commercial promoters on the one side—and musicians interested in performing at their events on the other
Vadim Pugin, co-founder of the Strategists United consulting company, musician at Wet Red Band
Yulia Sigunova, partner DEPARTÁMENT NEW&WOW
Maria Pirumova, co-founder at UNITY
Ekaterina Zhivoglyadova, PR Director at STEREOTACTIC
RDS Records session: the role of copyright in contemporary music industry
Do we still need music labels that take care of their musicians' legal aspects, among other issues?
Copyright collecting societies: how many of them do still exist, and why do we need them?
How can a musician earn money today, except by giving concerts?
Laws regulating the adherence of copyright of others and the protection of one's own author's rights.
Is it necessary to register one's intellectual property? And if yes, where and how it should be done?
Streaming, content, synchronization: these and other complex terms, vitally important for the creators, will be explained during the session.


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Moto Art Show - First of Its Name
Moto Art Show, a unique art initiative, has launched India's first gallery art exhibition dedicated exclusively to art inspired by motorcyclists, their machines, journeys and their stories. The debut exhibition entitled "First of Its Name" will be held at Peepletree Art Gallery, Bangalore from March 31 - April 28, 2018. In this month long debut show, 12 multi-disciplinary moto artists from all across India will be showing their artworks in all mediums such as paintings, illustrations, metal sculptors using bike parts, film and performance. This is the first time such an event is happening in India with so much motorcycle art in one place with around 80 unique pieces of art for sale.
There's something for everyone in this exhibit if you love motorcycles. Moto Art Show is making a statement and riding strongly through the headwinds of the Indian art world bringing with it a new genre "motoart" to the forefront. It aims to give a voice to the moto artists in the real world and breed a new wave of art patrons. It aims to combine the artsy and the biker lifestyles and make lives a little less ordinary. Moto Art Show is run by Mallika Prakash and Nidhi Agarwal. Mallika, the founder and curator of Moto Art Show is a biker, new mom and an engineer turned moto artist aka @mallikamoto.
With roots in Delhi, Mallika started riding in San Francisco towards a self-propelled art career and has shown and sold her work in various galleries in and around San Francisco. Already a show old as a curator, Mallika is entering the Indian art scene, tires smokin'. Nidhi Agarwal, Moto Art Show's other half and Partner in Design, is an automobile designer by profession, moto artist by passion and likes to call herself a Motoholic.
Currently based in Japan, Nidhi has worked with International brands like Royal Enfield, Honda 2 Wheelers and Yamaha Motors as a designer and founded Motoholic Works® in her free time.
About the Artists
Heardrush_art from Delhi does acrylic paintings inspired by his motorcycle journeys and has been showing his motoart since the last 10 years in the NCR region. Motartcycle also from Delhi is a motorcycle designer and has worked with one of the biggest brands in India. She will be showing her colorful watercolor paintings. Pranav__95 from Dehradun does very detailed drawings of motorcycles, many of which are his own imaginary builds. Chiranjith_barui is another watercolor painter in this show. His works have delicate washes of colour that make his scooters and motorcycles look alive. Then there's misfitmotorcycles from Pune, a group of 5 that build custom bikes and are bringing custom painted helmets to the show.
Another painter in the show is known as milesoncanvas. From Bombay, he rides out to the countryside with his acrylic painting kit complete with an easel and paints his bike in the natural landscape. Biker, dancer and performer known as archkathak will be performing live at the opening party with a motorcycle as her dance partner accompanied by a guitarist. She has created a brand new piece for this show expressing the emotions she goes through while riding and the chance encounters every curve brings. Filmmaker and gallery owner Aigars known as aa_ell has been documenting all his bike journeys and will be sharing some of those with the audience. Mallika and Nidhi better known as mallikamoto and motoholicworks will be showing their acrylic and watercolor paintings respectively.
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Schedule + Timings
Regular gallery hours April 2 - 28 | 11AM - 7PM
Closing reception: April 28 | 7pm - 10PM
Mondays closed.
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Earlier in the first part I was discussing about the 'Indian way to shake your ass.'
My awe for traditional dance forms continued. My earlier post introduced you about Kathakali, Mohiniyattam and Kathak. I didn't stop there. I went on exploring other formats too
Odissi is believed to be the oldest form of Indian traditional dance according to the archaeological evidences. Originated in Orissa, this art form is performed upon the independent movement of head, chest and pelvis areas. You can watch out pure dance formats and poem recital formats in this category. Mainly there are three schools existing in this format; Mahari, Nartaki & Gotipua. These were earlier performed in temples and other sacred places. They wear a crown which is made of a dried reed called sola and the jewelry they use are of silver. No wonder, this beautiful art form once even featured in Michael Jackson's album Black & White.
Another art form originated in South India is Kuchipudi, from Andhra Pradesh to be precise. The performer arrives on stage, introduces her as a character and entertains the crowd with a story. Dressed up in typical South Indian costume and light weighted jewelry, she showcases her steps with the support of music accompanied by mridangam, violin, flute and maybe a tambura. The movements are quick paced which makes the viewer exc
ited and the music is based on Carnatic music. They even use brass plates, candles, water pots (kundi) as props for their performance. A unique art form, I must say.
Bhangra is a very popular form of dance, originated in Punjab region of the country. This dance form was initially to celebrate the coming of Vaisakhi festival. There is a distinctive music style associated with this form of dance. It's a display of happiness, so the fast paced-whole body moving steps are the main attractions of Bhangra. Drums, table etc makes the effect better. Nowadays, you can watch many fusion bhangra mixed the traditional stuff with hip-hop and folk dance. You can see this dance format in weddings, engagement ceremonies and anywhere where people want to celebrate happiness.
In my next part of this series, I will be reviewing some other forms which I found out interesting and unique in their own way. For a cue, it comes from the central part of our country. Do keep a tab on this space.


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This course focuses on building a baseline knowledge of IEEE 802.11 wireless networking by gaining an understanding of wireless fundamentals and best practices. This course examines the following topics:
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· Characteristics of the IEEE 802.11 standard
· Wireless best practices
Upon completion of this course, students will have an understanding of the various characteristics of the IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless networking, a baseline knowledge of wireless architectures and a comprehension of the differences between the various wireless frequencies. The students will be able to apply the design criteria learned in the Wireless Fundamentals and Best Practices to the conceptual design of an IEEE 802.11 wireless networking system.


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Aug 14, 2018
FAANG Lovefest Rolls On, But Who Timed It Right?: Taking Stock
Bloomberg News,
(Bloomberg) -- S&P futures are retracing most of Monday's losses as a relative sense of calm was restored among Turkish financial assets (lira appreciated ~5% against the dollar, Borsa Istanbul 100 index +1.3%) while the Europe and China stock markets traded in unspectacular fashion.
Interesting must-know moves, or non-moves if going by the first entry here, include:
- Tesla initially higher after Musk goes to Twitter again, this time to promote that he's working with Goldman Sachs and Silver Lake on the go-private proposal; the stock is now back to the flat-line, perhaps thanks to a Reuters source noting that Silver Lake was offering assistance to Musk without compensation and wasn't hired as a financial adviser "in an official capacity"
- Home Depot is up, but well off highs after a beat and raise quarter; Goldman expects an in-line reaction given elevated expectations and the fact that the company guided to a notable second-half deceleration against tougher storm-driven comps
- Switch Inc., a ~$3.3 billion market cap data center REIT whose shares are heavily owned by hedge funds (nearly one-fifth of outstanding), is tanking ~25% in the pre-market after a revenue forecast cut and three sell-side downgrades
- Chinese ADRs are getting whacked every which way after a slew of earnings: Live-streaming companies YY and HUYA are both sliding more than 9% while e-commerce name Vipshop is almost down by the same amount; note that ~$50 billion market cap hedge fund hotel JD.com reports Thursday
FAANG Lovefest Continues
BofAML's fund manager survey for August is out, and it's pretty clear that investors are loving the U.S. lately (allocation to U.S. stocks up 10ppt to net 19% overweight, the largest percentage since Jan. 2015, and first time in five years it gets designated as most favorable region) and still loving tech ("Long FAANG+BAT" trade remains most crowded for seventh straight month and most crowded outright since "Long USD" in Dec. 2015).
"August rotation shows survey participants are buying banks and continue to flock to perceived safe havens like US equities and cash; they are selling commodity sectors and defensive sectors/regions like materials, energy and UK equities," according to the note; in fact, allocation to U.K. equities fell 10ppt to net 28% underweight, it's largest one-month drop since May 2016 on rising concerns of a "no deal" Brexit.
Happy 13F Day!
Today is the deadline for money managers who oversee more than $100 million in the U.S. to disclose their positions at the end of the second quarter (and notably what they added, exited, boosted, or reduced) in a Form 13F.
Some have already released their filings, for example Third Point and Baupost, but plenty more will hit throughout the day followed by an avalanche after the bell. We'll be hosting a TOPLive starting at 3:30pm to talk 13Fs as they cross the wire (click here for the event page) and we'll also publish a wrap of stake changes from the biggest hedge funds and activists tonight once we've dissected a giant chunk of the position shifts (click here to see last quarter's rundown).
Things I'm looking for this go-around include which funds did what with the FAANGs (e.g. bought into Facebook after the Cambridge Analytical scandal only to get knee-capped by the earnings disappointment, got big in Apple before it smashed the $1 trillion milestone, kept riding Amazon as it notched a new record seemingly every day), who held Tesla prior to the "funding secured" melodrama, and who got caught up in NXP Semi before the collapse of the $44 billion Qualcomm deal.
And, as always, we'll scour the filings to detect who the new "hedge fund hotels" are that fast money has piled into of late -- like Camping World Holdings, which bounced as much as 5.9% yesterday after Third Point reported a whopping new stake (see a breakdown of this in Monday's Taking Stock) to become the second-largest holder in the name.
Also of interest are those stocks that have heavy hedge fund ownership and showcased large swings since the end of the second quarter, such as:
- TMT: Alteryx +44%, Intelsat +37%, Roku +30, GrubHub +24%, Yelp +20%, Sinclair Broadcast -13%, Shutterfly -18%, Twitter -25%, Diebold Nixdorf -62%
- Health care: Mallinckrodt +70%, Endo International +61%, Iqvia +21%
- Consumer: Carvana +29%, Hertz +26%, New York Times -12%, Sotheby's -15%, Mohawk Industries -15%, Papa John's -18%, Newell Brands -21%, Weight Watchers -25%, Scientific Games -35%
- Industrials & Materials: Arconic +20%, Tronox -24%
Notes From the Sell Side
Goldman is positive on Deere ahead of Friday earnings after a meeting with the president of a major U.S. ag machinery dealer, which revealed an outlook for modest improvement in Deere's early order program and a further tightening of used equipment inventories, which is the analyst's favorite lead indicator.
Morgan Stanley boosts its price target on overweight-rated Salesforce.com to a Street-high $178 on optimism over the Mulesoft integration: "Unlocking data trapped in legacy systems via MuleSoft brings SFDC to the forefront of driving digital transformation for its customers. Consensus expectations likely underestimate this growth potential and SFDC's improved M&A track record."
JPMorgan rebalances ratings in the payments sector, upgrading Alliance Data to an overweight as sentiment nears an inflection point (delinquency trends stabilize, expanded buyback and potential for divestitures provide support) and downgrading both Fiserv and Paychex to an underweight ("below-average growers with below-average earnings upside risk").
Deutsche Bank slashes insurer Chubb to a sell with a Street-low price target $126: "We believe that the past several quarters have shown post-merger Chubb to be unable to grow its business at levels in-line with the peers group." Meanwhile, BTIG downgrades On Deck Capital to sell (only its second sell rating out of 13 total analysts covering the stock) on uncertain growth prospects and overextended valuation.
Lastly, there are a couple takes on Elliott's activist stake in Nielsen. 1) Macquarie sees potential for a "rapid sale process" to ensue with private equity leading the way and estimating a breakup value of $26 to $47, which compares to Monday's close at $24.62, and 2) Morgan Stanley sees shares rising ~20% on a sale of the entire business, noting that strategic buyers could include WPP plc and Ipsos, or potentially plunging ~23% if the company fails to sell itself.
Tick-by-Tick Guide to Today's Actionable Events
- Today -- Deadline for 13-F fund filings for the second quarter
- 7:00am -- EAT earnings
- 7:30am -- CDK earnings
- 8:00am -- GDS earnings call
- 8:30am -- Import/Export Price Index
- 8:30am -- TPR, CHRA earnings calls
- 9:00am -- HD earnings call
- 9:45am -- IBM at Keybank Technology Leadership Forum
- 10:30am -- LRCX, CTXS at Keybank Technology Leadership Forum
- 11:00am -- New York Fed releases 2Q Household Debt and Credit Report
- 12:00pm -- CWH investor open house
- 2:05pm -- TXN at Keybank Technology Leadership Forum
- 3:00pm -- Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin on Bloomberg TV
- 4:01pm -- CREE, VIAV earnings
- 4:05pm -- A, MYGN, WYY earnings
- 4:30pm -- API oil inventories
- 5:00pm -- HOLI earnings
- 9:30pm -- China New Home Prices
- 10:00pm -- Tencent earnings (roughly)
- Tonight -- Congressional primary elections in Minn., Conn., Vt., and Wis.
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To contact the editors responsible for this story: Chris Nagi at firstname.lastname@example.com, Steven Fromm
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Super chuffed for @doris4jin @TechnicallyWell on your wins plus all the other winners out there
Congrats to this weeks winners, especially @doris4jin & @TechnicallyWell
@TechnicallyWell You lucky son of a gun! lol Congrats man!
Congrats to all winners this week 🏻🏻
Good to see familiar names on winners list, especially @TechnicallyWell and @doris4jin
Congrats to the winners! It's exciting to see names that I recognize on the list - I haven't been here all that long, but I'm starting to see familiar faces
Congrats to the winners.
Reed, have you received your prize from the Valentine day event ?
I have - they came on Thursday I believe, and I just posted a review on the SoundBuds Curve that was part of the package. Are you still waiting?
Thank you!
yep adding congrats to @TechnicallyWell on the Viva win
I expect a review in a few weeks!
Congrats to this week's winners !
Yah it's been a while and I still haven't gotten even a shipping confirmation yet.
Have you checked your spam folder? Also you don't always get a shipment notification
I'll wait another week and see what happens. Maybe it was held hostage by usps.
Thanks! Yes, I will definitely review it and then it will be gifted to a good friend who has had to endure an old, buggy Toyota Entune infotainment system for the past few years.
The more we can move towards car infotainment being handled by Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, and voice assistants like Alexa in the Viva, the better - it's always blown my mind how car manufacturers still insist on providing proprietary systems that are almost always inferior. I bought an Anker SoundSync Drive last summer for my commute, and even something as simple as that was a game-changer for the 2008 CR-V I was driving.
My bucks are itching in my pocket for something good in the draw this week.
Cars usually are used for many years, the "Smarter" you make them out the factory the more embarrassingly backwards they appear a few years later.
Cars should focus on smart driving and let add-on technology innovate.
Can you imagine a "smart" car from 20 years ago with a SKY dish on its roof?
Car makes 12V 10A, use that.
I am still carrying an unopened new Powercore II 10000 in my work bag to encounter the magic words "my phone is flat". May happen this week. I have all I need and its just spreading Anker joy smartly. Why I do this is even though Anker is a huge popular well respected brand, there are huge quantities of people who do not know.
In the meantime we can enjoy @TechnicallyWell latest review, published today!


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[Updated On, March 14, 2014]
I received an email from Vizify this morning. Yahoo is closing Vizify. Bummer.
"We appreciate that you invested time in creating and sharing your bio and apologize for any disruption we may be causing you. We're going to miss our bios, too, but we're taking the following step to make the shutdown smoother."
On the brighter side perhaps they can bring some of their talent to a larger audience. An updated FAQ is provided.
[Updated On, March 12, 2014]
Most of us have an idea about how our personal information is used when we sign up for an online service. It stands to reason, participation requires sharing some personal information. But what happens to our personal data when a company acquires another?
Vizify is an an online service where participants share personal background like, work history, Twitter connections, noteworthy Tweets, professional associations, and more. The benefit of Vizify is that it presents professional and personal life in a info-graphic style dashboard that's easy for others consume. If you want to see Vizify in action, take a look at my profile.
Now that everyone an idea of Vizify's services, let's think about the acquisition further. I was wondering what would happen to my personal data when Yahoo purchases this company. Investigating further, I reviewed Vizify's online privacy policy (image shown).
|Image: Vizify Privacy Policy
First of all, Kudo's to Vizify for the worlds shortest privacy policy. Most privacy policies I review these days read like the Dead Sea Scrolls. Vizify's privacy policy is short and to the point. In fact, the policy is quite clear about what happens during a merger or acquisition. Any personal data shared with Vizify will be included in the negotiations or sale of the company. In this case, personal data shared with Vizify is now Yahoo's property.
Small disclaimer, Yahoo was a previous employer, I know how important security and privacy is to Yahoo. I'm not concerned about this acquisition. However, what if a different company purchased Vizify? Considering more chilling scenarios, what if an insurance company purchased another company with medical information like WebMD? WebMD does not hold medial records in the strictest sense and not subject to government regulations like HIPAA but they do have a treasure trove of medial information. Continuing the thought, what if LinkedIn wanted to sell information about your job searching to the highest bidder which may include your employer? My point is not to stir up conspiracy theories but personal information can be used in chilling ways that's difficult to imagine.
It's a fact that companies are sometimes purchased solely for the competitive value of their intellectual property (e.g., patents, information). I'm not a lawyer, but outside of corner cases like medical records or credit card information, there are few laws describing protections for personal information or the disposition of personal data after corporate acquisitions and mergers.


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Winter/Spring 2007 | Table of Contents
An Insider View of the Extravert High Sensation Seeking HSP
By Jacquelyn Strickland
Note: This article was motivated by "What to Do About Extravert Envy" in the November 06 issue of The Comfort Zone, Dr. Elaine Aron's online newsletter. If you didn't read it you can go here:http://www.hsperson.com/pages/1Nov06.htm. She was not writing about extraverted HSPs, so I am taking this opportunity to provide a glimpse into just who we, Extraverted, High Sensation Seeking HSPs might be.
I will also try to explain why we do not necessarily envy either the introverts or the Non-HSP extravert.. If you are not familiar with exactly what is meant by the "high sensation seeking" HSP, please go here: http://www.hsperson.com/pages/1May06.htm to read an excellent article - again by my HSP mentor and colleague - Dr. Elaine Aron.
I do want to add that this inside view is from my point of view only and it includes not only a description of myself but other Extravert, High Sensation HSPs I have known and worked with. For brevity sake, this term will be abbreviated as E-HSP-HSS in the article. And finally, I should add, to best understand this article, you will need a working knowledge of the following concepts: the IN and OUT continuum; the Myers Briggs Type Indicator; the empowered vs. unempowered HSP; and the high sensation seeking HSP.
First, E-HSPs-HSS do not have introvert or extravert envy - HSP or Not
Why? Because we are able to go IN anytime we want. In fact, we chose to go IN just about as much as we chose to go OUT. If you are not sure what I mean by IN and OUT, you can go to Elaine's first book, How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, pages 47-54. There she describes the In-Out Continuum I am referring to.
Going IN for the E-HSP-HSS is like finding an oasis of inner calm and beauty … an oasis filled with a deeper spiritual meaning of the world and our place in it. While IN this inner oasis, our thoughts and feelings are processed with reverence for their complexity and depth. We are renewed, centered and strong and are just as deeply reflective as the Introvert-HSP can be. It may seem ironic that an E-HSP-HSS would actually seek to go IN that much…but what I have found is that being IN can be quite spiritually expansive and exhilarating…something the "inner high sensation seeker" thrives on. So, really when we are totally IN, we E-HSPs may not be that much different from the I-HSP.
Sounds lovely, doesn't it - that inner oasis? There is a drawback however. Being IN too much for an E-HSP (especially a HSS) can bring on a sense of lethargy that if left unnoticed can lead to feelings of restlessness, moodiness or irritability. It can also lead to a dwindled sense of motivation, even sometimes to rumination and a sense of low grade depression. I think this might be true for the introverted HSP as well. I mean, I think we can all relate to the fact that "we can only take so much of our deep processing without wearing ourselves out."
So is there a myth about the Extravert HSP being as "social" as extraverts in general?
Well, yes and no. First, let's take a look at Jung's definition of the Introvert-Extravert scale. Extraversion means focusing one's attention and energy on the world outside of self. Introversion means focusing one's attention and energy on the world inside self. Of course, we all do "extraverted and introverted things" though we do not do them equally as well or as often. Jung's definition is correct in the broadest sense, however for the E-HSP-HSS, we draw energy from the outer world only if it fits with our intuitive and subjective sense of our inner reality and knowingness. Let me explain. At a recent dinner party, reluctantly attended by an E-HSP-HSS, it became (almost painfully) draining. It was draining because of the seemingly endless social chit chat, niceties, and surface exchanges about a myriad of unimportant topics. When sharing an automatic authentic response "be grateful you have a mother who is still alive" to someone who was joking and complaining about an elderly mother, it was one of those awkward HSP moments when we unassumingly speak our truth - only to have the other person stop in mid-sentence looking at us as if we were being too serious. Well, you get the picture?
Like many HSPs, we E-HSP-HSS's have a deep sense of intuition especially if that is our dominate Myers Briggs preference, and when it is, watch out - our clarity of seeing can be powerfully accurate, and at times uncomfortable if we dare speak our 'truth' out loud. And although we may not withdraw as much as the Introvert-HSP, we can see the world through our own subjective lens, especially if our dominate or auxiliary preference is an F (Feeling) on the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Inventory) scale.
Are Extravert HSP-HSS more grounded in reality?
No we E-HSP, HSS's are not necessarily more grounded in reality (whatever that means?) and although we may seem to be more effective, decisive or spontaneous that is not always the case. We do our fair share of processing information deeply before acting.. Unless of course a value is threatened, then we may speak out of our passionate convictions which can be both a positive or negative experience depending on the situation.
On Being Very Sociable
Yes, it's true. We E-HSP HSS's, when in the right circumstances, can hang out, laugh, joke and enjoy animated conversations. See this picture of me and my friend, Beckye, from first grade. We had a reunion at her childhood home. Beckye was actually reading about us from her 4th grade diary. Such loyalty, depth, love and expression - all wrapped up in a beautiful evening. Maybe something only an E-HSP HSS would enjoy? Hard to say.
Again, we-EHSP-HSSs can make new friends easily, but only in the right environment. When I visit my beloved city, San Francisco, I am always amazed at the HSP connections I make there. I'm convinced the Bay Area has the most concentrated population of HSPs. Just riding the bus, eating in a restaurant, or at a beach, the people I've met and the conversations I've relished have been amazing. I'm not sure the Introvert-HSPs would have the same experience while on "vacation" - even in the Bay Area.
E-HSP-HSS are not Comfortable in Crowds
Notice the connections I mentioned making in San Francisco were made in relative solitude - alone while riding the bus, alone while eating in a restaurant, or alone while on the beach. We E-HSPs, even HSS's, are definitely not comfortable in malls, at national conventions, at board meetings. And we would never think about running for public office, though sometimes our passionate convictions make us seem as though we would be a likely candidate. Yes, I did spend two years on the Commission on the Status of Women, as part of my local city government. But I was on a small subcommittee and our overall commission had only about 12 women - great, enlightened, caring, and passionate women I might add. So, again, the environment was "right."
Do E-HSP-HSS ever feel lonely?
Probably not as much as our Introvert-HSPs friends can at times, especially if we are empowered HSPs. Why? Because we usually do have a variety of friends, both HSP and non-HSP who have come to know us very well. They have come to know us well because we have allowed them to do so. By "allowed" I mean it is our very nature to share and disclose our authentic selves. I think many of us would agree with the saying "we wear our hearts on our sleeves." Luckily for most of us, (if we are empowered HSPs,) we have learned who is "safe" and who is "not safe" to share the more intimate parts of ourselves with. If you aren't sure the difference between an empowered HSP and a non-empowered HSP, you can read the descriptions in a past ezine, here: http://www.lifeworkshelp.com/newsletter/5/empowered.htm
So, if we E-HSP, HSS's do feel sad, lonely or discouraged, we may first turn to our journals, but sooner than later we do find that avenue for coming out and for most of us that means sharing with a trusted friend.
E-HSP HSS's Do Need Our Time Alone
Yes, we E-HSP HSS's, need our down time alone to do what feeds our souls as well. We need our solitude to read, reflect, create, listen to music, write our poetry, paint our pictures, take our walks in nature,and take our much needed naps! We also then love to share our creative thought process with others to gain validation of our ideas, projects and visions.
We also need this collaborative process to share our fears of putting our authentic selves "OUT" to the world. Our inner visions are just as fragile and susceptible to perceived (or real) judgments as any other creative artist. We also enjoy the collaborative process because of our sincere curiosity which can sometimes lead to probing questions. I think this comes from our natural tendency to want "to know and be known" and to connect in an authentic way with others.
Do E-HSP HSS's Experience More Positive Emotions from Introverted HSPs?
I would disagree with the current dogma in psychology that extraverts, or E-HSPs, experience more positive emotions than introverts. I think it is safe to say that we HSPs, introvert or extravert, experience more emotions in general - whether positive or negative - than the population in general. And I would add the emotions we do experience are exactly what our sometimes beleaguered society needs more of: feelings of deep connection with nature, music and the arts, feelings of concern for the planet and the pain of others who are less fortunate. I think we also experience more gratitude, poignancy, irony, forgiveness, and deep love just to name a few.
Elaine cites in Hoard et al, 1989 Journal of Personality & Social Psychology (p. 321-333), that there are plenty of (neurotic) extraverts who report feeling great as they rush about from thing to thing, and from person-to-person. I agree that this type of somewhat "frantic" lifestyle which can often be seen in the dominate culture is actually a defense that keeps them from feeling what is really happening inside.
This now leads me to a discussion of the dominate and the non-dominate culture and how the media tends to portray those in the dominate culture as "happy, proactive, decisive, efficient and successful."
What About the Dominate Culture?
It is interesting how those in the dominate culture may be perceived as appearing more energetic, happier, decisive and effective than those in the non-dominate culture. Again, let's take a look at Jung and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and what preferences mainstream culture tends to value. As we know, there are eight preferences on the MBTI scale, and four of them come more naturally to us. These eight preferences are:
Extraversion or Introversion
Sensing or Intuition
Thinking or Feeling
Judging or Perceiving.
Now ask yourself a serious question - Which four preferences does mainstream America tend to value most? I would definitely say the E-S-T-J type is the dominate model of mainstream America - although I do think that is changing, albeit slowly. My informal research shows that most HSPs are of the NF temperament. The further one is away from the dominate paradigm (ESTJ), the more one might have experienced a feeling of swimming "upstream." Or… what it is like being a minority in the dominate culture.
Do E-HSP-HSS's Envy the Dominate Culture?
No, we do not. If we are empowered HSPs, we are often angered by the dominate culture value system being imposed on us. Many of us are "social justice activists" working hard to make changes in our world either politically, socially, environmentally and spiritually. Many of us are inspirations in our families and within in our own spheres of influence. Many of us are "empowered priestly advisors" as defined by Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person Workbook, pages 17-18.
Are E-HSP-HSS's the Real Ones to Envy?
Again, the answer is no. Yes, it is easier for we E-HSP-HSS's to be both extraverted and introverted, and we most likely have an easier, if not more enjoyable time being "out" in the world -- especially if it is a "world" we have been fortunate to create and which honors our own values … However, if we are not very careful and conscious of our intentions, when we are "out" in the world we can be found wearing our emotions on our sleeves, making ourselves unusually vulnerable. Just like all HSPs, we E-HSPs can also be vulnerable to taking on unwanted energies of others. One E-HSP, HSS recently shared with me " You know, it's just not safe out there in the world…I have to continually be aware of who I'm with and what I want to share."
In closing:
In Elaine's article, she quotes Carl Jung as saying:
" Everything we know is subjective because it comes to us through our mind. So the subjective is, in a sense, the source of all reality."
Yes, the subjective can distort things but so can the "facts" as perceived by someone - and they always are - perceived by someone - so we might as well honor our own sense of interpretation - at least for ourselves! Jung also reminds us that this enthusiasm for the objective and bias against the subjective is all around is.
So, in closing I like to say :
"Trust your subjective view of your own HSP reality…it is needed in the world - whether you are an Introvert, Extravert or High Sensation Seeking HSP."
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Volume 10 Supplement 1
Born too soon
Edited by Journal Editors: Jose Belizan and Pierre Buekens; series Editors: Christopher P Howson, Mary V Kinney and Joy E Lawn
This supplement is jointly funded by Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives programme through a grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and March of Dimes and published in collaboration with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the World Health Organization (WHO). The original articles were published as PDFs in the WHO Report "Born too soon: the global action report on preterm birth" (ISBN 978 92 4 150343 30), which involved collaboration from more than 50 organizations. Articles have been reformatted for journal publication and have undergone peer review according to Reproductive Health's standard process for supplements, and may feature some variations in content when compared to the original report. This co-publication makes the articles available to the community in a full-text format. The Supplement Editors declare that they have no competing interests.
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