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I'm not sure how many of you have been keeping up with Nena's renovation of her mom's house but she recently posted photos of her bedroom and it's really something. The concrete looking walls and neutral bedding makes this place look so warm and relaxing. As usual, nice job Nena!
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I wasn't keeping up with it, but now I am! That looks like rooms we see in magazines and can't believe it's actually someone's home!ReplyDelete
So beautiful, thanks for the link to another great blog! Are you back now? The guest bloggers were great but it's nice to see you posting again :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012
love this room, that bedding is just gorgeous!ReplyDelete
That room looks amazing and fresh. You always share such wonderful moments on your blog.ReplyDelete
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A judge ruled against Halle Berry Friday, disallowing her from permanently moving her daughter Nahla to France, TMZ.com reports.
Halle Berry drops out of film to fight for custody of daughter
The Oscar-winning actress (for 2001's Monster's Ball) has been fighting former boyfriend Gabriel Aubry for the right to permanently move their daughter Nahla to France. Berry argued that the paparazzi in Los Angeles made California a dangerous place to raise her daughter.
Berry and Aubry split in April 2010 after four years of dating. In December 2011, Berry's boyfriend Olivier Martinez proposed. Before her relationship with Aubry, she was married to singer Eric Benet and baseball player David Justice.

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Well, Aaron Paul fans, we knew this day was coming. (Ok truthfully I thought they might break up before they got married.)
It's a strange thing when a celebrity crush gets married, isn't it? I mean it's not like I think Aaron and I would be suited to each other in real life – we aren't even suited to each other in fantasy life. He and Lauren did a Jack-and-Jill trip to Vegas recently – I helped plan a bachelorette party in Las Vegas in a few weeks, no boys allowed. They had a masquerade theme wedding – I don't even dress up on Halloween. They Instagrammed every step leading up to the wedding – I don't have Instagram. He calls her Mrs. Paul – I didn't change my last name after I got married.
Some more details, per US Weekly (they curiously have more candid-looking photos, whereas People had the official wedding portrait):
John Mayer played Daughters. (Yech.)
Bridesmaids wore cream/white. (I love this look.)
There was a Ferris wheel and a swing ride in keeping with the Parisian 1920s carnival theme. There were also burlesque dancers. (I don't even know how to process this.)
In the US photos, you can clearly see Aaron is wearing a dark blue suit (I would guess Burberry) and looks fantastic.
Yet there is a Twi-Hard-like urge to gauge whether their chosen partner is a good fit for them and debate about the wedding dress with your friends. But seeing Aaron look all happy on Instagram feels like there may be hope for Jesse Pinkman. Right now, I can't quite separate them.
If Aaron's Twitter is any indication, Breaking Bad has wrapped for him. The final season airs this summer. One of the best shows ever, in which he co-starred, is over. It's a massive transition for an actor to go from working with a consistent schedule in New Mexico to spending all his time in LA (hopefully not driving around in a Lambo. Aaron also signed on to Need for Speed, a Dreamworks feature. And now he's married. He's transitioning away and looks like he's doing it with a plan, which includes an expeditious photo release to PEOPLE Magazine. Oh this is where I'm supposed to rag on him for selling photos to PEOPLE, but - double standard alert – this is exactly the right move for him. Get his face out there in a pleasing, family-friendly way to reach all those people who don't watch Breaking Bad but may buy a ticket to a car movie. (Lainey: why do their eyes have to be closed!?!?!)
Aaron needs to push past the last season of Breaking Bad and still be interesting to casting directors and the public – a happy family life may be key to that. The market for 30-something actors trying to be movie stars is crowded so he definitely needs something to elevate him past the Taylor Kitschs and Charlie Hunnams. And lucky for him, Lauren seems up for the job. She's young, blonde, pretty and the co-founder of Kind Campaign, an organization that aims to bring awareness to female bullying. If he can be disciplined with his choices and message, we could be looking at the next Afflecks. (Lainey: um, Maria's views on this matter are her own.)


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DURHAM — In the law school rankings released by U.S. News & World Report in the 2015 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools, UNH Law rose to No. 93, 26 spots higher than last year.
Over the past two years, UNH Law has moved up a combined 49 spots, a rise unmatched by any other law school. This places UNH Law among the top 100 law schools in the nation for the first time.
"Our improvement in the rankings is consistent with the progress we are making at UNH Law, such as admitting highly-qualified students and continuously strengthening our employment and bar passage efforts," said Dean John Broderick. "In this time of upheaval in legal education, the top-notch, hands-on training for which we have long been known is increasingly valued."
In an interview with the National Law Journal, Dean Broderick noted, "We've brought in our best two classes over the past two years. I'm proud of what we're doing on the ground, and our new relationship with the University [of New Hampshire] certainly hasn't hurt."
In the US News specialty rankings, UNH Law has again been named a top 10 school for the study of intellectual property law. UNH Law continues the tradition of Franklin Pierce Law Center of being ranked among the nation's top IP schools every year since specialty law school rankings began in 1992. In this year's rankings, which are based on a survey of IP faculty members around the country, UNH Law was in ninth place, in an increasingly competitive field.
"With the addition of the Sports & Entertainment Law Institute last year, the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property continues to forge new ground with innovative teaching and research," said Broderick. "Generations of faculty, students, and alumni have built the reputation of the IP Center as one of the world's foremost places for the study of IP law."


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The issue is not complicated. Two Trees Management is willing to build affordable housing units along with market-rate apartments in its development at the old Domino Sugar factory, but de Blasio wants more two- and three-bedroom units and less studio apartments, which would mean less space for the market-rate units.
Two Trees bought this property two years ago with the understanding that 30 percent of the units would be set aside for affordable housing, more than the 20 percent the original developer agreed to in the initial plan in 2010 before Two Trees took over the project.
De Blasio may be taking a hard line here just to set a tone for the next four years. The problem, however, is this can slow down or spoil a deal like this. The Domino Sugar refinery is a historic part of the city. The sooner it gets a makeover, the better.
Perhaps there is a solution for de Blasio and Two Trees developer Jed Walentas. Would Two Trees be willing to build bigger affordable units in another location?
The city may be able to use eminent domain in another area of the city where Two Trees can meet the mayor's demands. That would give the administration the bigger affordable units and it would not interfere with Walentas' plan to revitalize the waterfront.
How City Hall negotiates with Two Trees may set a watermark for how it deals with other developers. They want to know how the government is going to work with them. It's all new to them right now.
Staten Island's Playbook
The city's Republican Party can take a page out of Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis' playbook.
In a city where one party dominates in politics, the agenda comes from one place and the opposition simply reacts. Malliotakis is a state representative, but she is stitched into almost every local issue as well.
If the GOP is going to compete in this city it is going to have to be proactive. They are going to have to manage social networking where they do not look like elders in the movie Footloose. They need to get out ahead of the other guys.
Malliotakis does have the advantage of being from an ideologically safe district, but nonetheless, she works. More important than ideology is the notion that someone works hard. This is why Charles Schumer was so affective in the House of Representatives (which would actually be a good next step for the Assemblywoman).
This is how one survives in urban politics. This is what the GOP has to do. Reacting to Governor Andrew Cuomo or de Blasio will not cut it. The party needs to be visible.
In the end, the city needs a two-party system. The Greeks gave us democracy centuries ago, and in a small way, maybe one of them is doing it again.


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Wayland offering evening courses in Altus
ALTUS - Beginning with its winter terms in November, Wayland Baptist University in Altus will offer three courses at Western Oklahoma State College in an effort to make continuing education more convenient for residents.
The classes will be offered at nights three days a week, which makes working toward a degree or completing one more attainable, said Dr. Marty Akins, dean of the Altus campus.
"We're wanting to provide a local Christian education presence, which will help both traditional and nontraditional students complete their bachelor's degrees," Akins said.
WBU-Altus has been offering courses at Altus Air Force Base for almost two years, offering bachelor's degrees in business administration and occupational education. By beginning to expand their offerings into the city, Wayland is giving students who may not be military personnel access to the Degree of Difference that is Wayland BAPTIST UNIVERSITY.
For information about beginning a degree with Wayland or transferring after completing study with Western Oklahoma State College, contact the campus office at 481-5243.


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Among all the Anna Hazare news over the newspapers, one news from the City (Nagpur) caught up my attention today. Veteran actor Vikram Gokhale had been in the city yesterday for staging some of his play. He visited the ongoing protests by Anna Hazare supporters at the RBI Square. Donned with a Gandhi cap reading "I am Anna Hazare", all the local newspapers have published his photo in their respective city editions. Marathi daily Sakal quotes him saying "The youth should not stop their movement until a system change." The leading Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar quotes him advising the government not to teach the people about democracy. He goes on to say "This movement is nonviolent because the youth respects the democracy, but I wonder what way the youth will turn if something happens to Anna during his fast." I want to analyze both of these statements in light of a past incident related to the Mr. Gokhale.
Mr. Gokhale is a veteran actor of Marathi Cinema and stage. He has also worked in a few Bollywood films (Remember Aishwarya Roy's musician father in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam). He is a respected figure in his field; we expect the same respectful behavior from him in the other fields of life.
I must mention here a personal incident. Some five years ago, in February 2006, as I was a student of BAMS, we had a state level university youth festival at Jalgaon Khandesh. Medical students all over the state were participating in this annual event managed by Maharashtra University of Health Sciences. Mr. Vikram Gohkale, our actor in question, was one of the chief guests at the ceremony. During his speech, almost completely out of context, Mr. Gokhale advocated Vande Mataram to be the National Anthem and said "Our blood must boil up when we are asked to sing Jana Gana Mana as our National Anthem." He was speaking from state-run stage, he was sharing the dais with the vice chancellor of the university, he was speaking in front of thousands of students all over the state, did he make any sense making such controversial, potentially nearing to treason, statement? No voice of protest came up, neither from the students nor from the dais. Everyone, including me, remained silent. As a student, we were among the audiences. We hoped someone from the dais would ask clarification to Mr. Gokhale, but no one spoke, and the issue ended there only.
Now coming to the sentences from the news papers, what system change Mr. Gokhale wants? We live in a multiparty, secular democracy and a welfare state working to ensure social justice among all sections of the society. Does Mr. Gokhale mean a change in this system? Does he mean a system that would favor Vande Mataram over Jana Gana Mana? The views that Mr. Gokhale expressed from the university dais are the stated views of the Sangha Pariwar. Wasn't he using the state platform to condemn our national symbols? Wasn't he using the opportunity to propagate the Sangha pariwar philosophy in from of a large number of malleable youth?
In the second statement, he wonders what turn, instead of a nonviolent movement, would the youth take if something happens to Anna; doesn't it suggest violence?
As a student, I had no means to express myself back then, but I can certainly raise these questions now from my own platform. The mainstream media kept mum then; and now too I wonder if anyone from the biased media would ask these questions to Mr. Gokhale.


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Sad: University Of Alabama Student Falls Off Boat!
This is really sad. Student falls off boat during
sorority event. "Tuscaloosa Police along with other
authorities and search/rescue teams oversee the Bama
Belle's docking on the Black Warrior River. A
University of Alabama student fell off the boat while
on the river during a social event. The incident
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Two days ago I was checking my FineArt America newsletter and I came across an interesting topic, that stemmed from a popular blog by a prolific and super talented Graphic Designer Milton Glaser. He is the creator of more than 300 posters for clients in the areas of publishing, music, theater, film, institutional and civic enterprise, as well as those for commercial products and services.
In the Article that I read – that actually was a talk he has given quite a while ago – Mr. Glaser touches interesting subjects that no one talks about. The everyday search for work, the effort to preserve integrity despite the pressure to earn income, the everlasting pull-push relationship between Client – Consumer – Designer. Mr. Glaser is a graphic designer. However – his insights are equally valid – probably even more so for Artists. I know – some Artists are looking down on Designers – for some inexplicable reason. How I know? I am a Designer. Has been one for all my life. But I am also an Artist . A good one too. Ultimately I am hybrid of the two. Where does the Designer end and the Artist begin?
I wondered many times. Once of my Facebook connections – I saw a comment about a Designer – by a novice Artist saying: "…. He is just a trained technician – that is what designers do …" I laughed out loud. I could no believe that someone could be so narrow-minded. This made me think. What is the difference between Artists and Designers? And where is the fine line between the two – if in fact it does exist? Here is my view on this . Designers are Artists, who learn how to harness their talent and skills to the specific need of a market of a Client, who use their creativity to produce an great amount of designs. Their final result is measured by the reaction of the Client and /or their Public – and in that sense it might be geared to a specific extroverted effect. Designs can be groundbreaking, innovative, uplifting, flattering, complimentary…. Designers seldom stand and admire their own work…. They are already on the next project…. While Art is more intuitive, introspective, meditative and philosophical . Artists vision is unharnessed by their Clients wishes – rather, they are expected to provide their own criteria and aesthetic value. Designers act like aesthetic agents for their clients while Artists possess an aesthetic nucleus, which is a reflection of their own perspective on life. Their Collectors ( Clients) follow.
In general, however – Artists can learn a lot more from Designers. Designer work requires more discipline – freedom is conditional. Yet – in essence – the two professions blend in a way that leaves us asking for more. It is not an accident that the best projects in Public Art are a result of the successful amalgam of Design (Landscape Architecture) and Art or Sculpture and architecture or poster designs and contemporary painting. And if anyone wants to dig deeper through the centuries – they can go as far back as Gian Lorenzo Bernini – or his successor Michelangelo. They were both Sculptors and architectural designers. I suppose these titans of art were the harbingers of interdisciplinary practice of blending design and art seamlessly.
So – here are the 10 things Milton Glaser has learned…. My fellow Artists, are you listening? Good Designers are Artists – and good Artists are Designers. I will let ponder this on your own. I found the text below – both incisive and rather an eye opener. Here it is:
10 Things I Have Learned – The Secret of Art
Ten Things I Have Learned, Part of AIGA Talk in London, November 22, 2001
This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn't particularly like the people that you worked for or at least maintained an arms length relationship to them, which meant that I never had lunch with a client or saw them socially. Then some years ago I realised that the opposite was true. I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client. And I am not talking about professionalism; I am talking about affection. I am talking about a client and you sharing some common ground. That in fact your view of life is someway congruent with the client, otherwise it is a bitter and hopeless struggle.
One night I was sitting in my car outside Columbia University where my wife Shirley was studying Anthropology. While I was waiting I was listening to the radio and heard an interviewer ask 'Now that you have reached 75 have you any advice for our audience about how to prepare for your old age?' An irritated voice said 'Why is everyone asking me about old age these days?' I recognised the voice as John Cage. I am sure that many of you know who he was – the composer and philosopher who influenced people like Jasper Johns and Merce Cunningham as well as the music world in general. I knew him slightly and admired his contribution to our times. 'You know, I do know how to prepare for old age' he said. 'Never have a job, because if you have a job someday someone will take it away from you and then you will be unprepared for your old age. For me, it has always been the same every since the age of 12. I wake up in the morning and I try to figure out how am I going to put bread on the table today? It is the same at 75, I wake up every morning and I think how am I going to put bread on the table today? I am exceedingly well prepared for my old age' he said.
This is a subtext of number one. There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the 'whole' before you can understand the details. What you have to look at is the entire culture, the entire family and community and so on. Perls proposed that in all relationships people could be either toxic or nourishing towards one another. It is not necessarily true that the same person will be toxic or nourishing in every relationship, but the combination of any two people in a relationship produces toxic or nourishing consequences. And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn't matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life.
4.PROFESSIONALISM IS NOT ENOUGH or THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE GREAT.
Early in my career I wanted to be professional, that was my complete aspiration in my early life because professionals seemed to know everything – not to mention they got paid for it. Later I discovered after working for a while that professionalism itself was a limitation. After all, what professionalism means in most cases is diminishing risks. So if you want to get your car fixed you go to a mechanic who knows how to deal with transmission problems in the same way each time. I suppose if you needed brain surgery you wouldn't want the doctor to fool around and invent a new way of connecting your nerve endings. Please do it in the way that has worked in the past.
Unfortunately in our field, in the so-called creative – I hate that word because it is misused so often. I also hate the fact that it is used as a noun. Can you imagine calling someone a creative? Anyhow, when you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or doing it in the same way as you have done it before, it is clear why professionalism is not enough. After all, what is required in our field, more than anything else, is the continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success. So professionalism as a lifetime aspiration is a limited goal.
Being a child of modernism I have heard this mantra all my life. Less is more. One morning upon awakening I realised that it was total nonsense, it is an absurd proposition and also fairly meaningless. But it sounds great because it contains within it a paradox that is resistant to understanding. But it simply does not obtain when you think about the visual of the history of the world. If you look at a Persian rug, you cannot say that less is more because you realise that every part of that rug, every change of colour, every shift in form is absolutely essential for its aesthetic success. You cannot prove to me that a solid blue rug is in any way superior. That also goes for the work of Gaudi, Persian miniatures, art nouveau and everything else. However, I have an alternative to the proposition that I believe is more appropriate. 'Just enough is more.'
I think this idea first occurred to me when I was looking at a marvellous etching of a bull by Picasso. It was an illustration for a story by Balzac called The Hidden Masterpiece. I am sure that you all know it. It is a bull that is expressed in 12 different styles going from very naturalistic version of a bull to an absolutely reductive single line abstraction and everything else along the way. What is clear just from looking at this single print is that style is irrelevant. In every one of these cases, from extreme abstraction to acute naturalism they are extraordinary regardless of the style. It's absurd to be loyal to a style. It does not deserve your loyalty. I must say that for old design professionals it is a problem because the field is driven by economic consideration more than anything else. Style change is usually linked to economic factors, as all of you know who have read Marx. Also fatigue occurs when people see too much of the same thing too often. So every ten years or so there is a stylistic shift and things are made to look different. Typefaces go in and out of style and the visual system shifts a little bit. If you are around for a long time as a designer, you have an essential problem of what to do. I mean, after all, you have developed a vocabulary, a form that is your own. It is one of the ways that you distinguish yourself from your peers, and establish your identity in the field. How you maintain your own belief system and preferences becomes a real balancing act. The question of whether you pursue change or whether you maintain your own distinct form becomes difficult. We have all seen the work of illustrious practitioners that suddenly look old-fashioned or, more precisely, belonging to another moment in time. And there are sad stories such as the one about Cassandre, arguably the greatest graphic designer of the twentieth century, who couldn't make a living at the end of his life and committed suicide.
But the point is that anybody who is in this for the long haul has to decide how to respond to change in the zeitgeist. What is it that people now expect that they formerly didn't want? And how to respond to that desire in a way that doesn't change your sense of integrity and purpose.
The brain is the most responsive organ of the body. Actually it is the organ that is most susceptible to change and regeneration of all the organs in the body. I have a friend named Gerald Edelman who was a great scholar of brain studies and he says that the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic. The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is constantly growing and throwing off seeds, regenerating and so on. And he believes that the brain is susceptible, in a way that we are not fully conscious of, to almost every experience of our life and every encounter we have. I was fascinated by a story in a newspaper a few years ago about the search for perfect pitch. A group of scientists decided that they were going to find out why certain people have perfect pitch. You know certain people hear a note precisely and are able to replicate it at exactly the right pitch. Some people have relevant pitch; perfect pitch is rare even among musicians. The scientists discovered – I don't know how – that among people with perfect pitch the brain was different. Certain lobes of the brain had undergone some change or deformation that was always present with those who had perfect pitch. This was interesting enough in itself. But then they discovered something even more fascinating. If you took a bunch of kids and taught them to play the violin at the age of 4 or 5 after a couple of years some of them developed perfect pitch, and in all of those cases their brain structure had changed. Well what could that mean for the rest of us? We tend to believe that the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind, although we do not generally believe that everything we do affects the brain. I am convinced that if someone was to yell at me from across the street my brain could be affected and my life might changed. That is why your mother always said, 'Don't hang out with those bad kids.' Mama was right. Thought changes our life and our behaviour. I also believe that drawing works in the same way. I am a great advocate of drawing, not in order to become an illustrator, but because I believe drawing changes the brain in the same way as the search to create the right note changes the brain of a violinist. Drawing also makes you attentive. It makes you pay attention to what you are looking at, which is not so easy.
Everyone always talks about confidence in believing what you do. I remember once going to a class in yoga where the teacher said that, spirituality speaking, if you believed that you had achieved enlightenment you have merely arrived at your limitation. I think that is also true in a practical sense. Deeply held beliefs of any kind prevent you from being open to experience, which is why I find all firmly held ideological positions questionable. It makes me nervous when someone believes too deeply or too much. I think that being sceptical and questioning all deeply held beliefs is essential. Of course we must know the difference between scepticism and cynicism because cynicism is as much a restriction of one's openness to the world as passionate belief is. They are sort of twins. And then in a very real way, solving any problem is more important than being right. There is a significant sense of self-righteousness in both the art and design world. Perhaps it begins at school. Art school often begins with the Ayn Rand model of the single personality resisting the ideas of the surrounding culture. The theory of the avant garde is that as an individual you can transform the world, which is true up to a point. One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty.
Schools encourage the idea of not compromising and defending your work at all costs. Well, the issue at work is usually all about the nature of compromise. You just have to know what to compromise. Blind pursuit of your own ends which excludes the possibility that others may be right does not allow for the fact that in design we are always dealing with a triad – the client, the audience and you.
Ideally, making everyone win through acts of accommodation is desirable. But self-righteousness is often the enemy. Self-righteousness and narcissism generally come out of some sort of childhood trauma, which we do not have to go into. It is a consistently difficult thing in human affairs. Some years ago I read a most remarkable thing about love, that also applies to the nature of co-existing with others. It was a quotation from Iris Murdoch in her obituary. It read ' Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.' Isn't that fantastic! The best insight on the subject of love that one can imagine.
Last year someone gave me a charming book by Roger Rosenblatt called 'Ageing Gracefully' I got it on my birthday. I did not appreciate the title at the time but it contains a series of rules for ageing gracefully. The first rule is the best. Rule number one is that 'it doesn't matter.' 'It doesn't matter that what you think. Follow this rule and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late or early, if you are here or there, if you said it or didn't say it, if you are clever or if you were stupid. If you were having a bad hair day or a no hair day or if your boss looks at you cockeyed or your boyfriend or girlfriend looks at you cockeyed, if you are cockeyed. If you don't get that promotion or prize or house or if you do – it doesn't matter.' Wisdom at last. Then I heard a marvellous joke that seemed related to rule number 10. A butcher was opening his market one morning and as he did a rabbit popped his head through the door. The butcher was surprised when the rabbit inquired 'Got any cabbage?' The butcher said 'This is a meat market – we sell meat, not vegetables.' The rabbit hopped off. The next day the butcher is opening the shop and sure enough the rabbit pops his head round and says 'You got any cabbage?' The butcher now irritated says 'Listen you little rodent I told you yesterday we sell meat, we do not sell vegetables and the next time you come here I am going to grab you by the throat and nail those floppy ears to the floor.' The rabbit disappeared hastily and nothing happened for a week. Then one morning the rabbit popped his head around the corner and said 'Got any nails?' The butcher said 'No.' The rabbit said 'Ok. Got any cabbage?'
The rabbit joke is relevant because it occurred to me that looking for a cabbage in a butcher's shop might be like looking for ethics in the design field. It may not be the most obvious place to find either. It's interesting to observe that in the new AIGA's code of ethics there is a significant amount of useful information about appropriate behaviour towards clients and other designers, but not a word about a designer's relationship to the public. We expect a butcher to sell us eatable meat and that he doesn't misrepresent his wares. I remember reading that during the Stalin years in Russia that everything labelled veal was actually chicken. I can't imagine what everything labelled chicken was. We can accept certain kinds of misrepresentation, such as fudging about the amount of fat in his hamburger but once a butcher knowingly sells us spoiled meat we go elsewhere. As a designer, do we have less responsibility to our public than a butcher? Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.
To learn more about this prolific and wise artist , please visit his website MiltonGlaser.com. The design Company is located in NY, if anyone is interested to subscribe for their newsletter visit their website. Milton Glaser, Inc. 207 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016 T: 212-889-3161 F: 212-213-4072 email@example.com.
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The poorest Pakistanis share already scant resources with Swat refugees.
|Almost 1.5 million people have been displaced by this month's fighting, the UN refugee agency says
Imran Khan, Al Jazeera's reporter in Pakistan, will be filing regular dispatches from the country as the army battles Taliban fighters in the North West Frontier Province.
|Mirabadi Village, Wednesday, May 20, 07.40GMT
The vast majority of Pakistan's almost 1.5 million refugees are living outside of the camps in private accommodation.
|Mirabadi Village, which lies just outside of Islamabad, is a 'slum village'
We visited some of these people to really see what their living conditions were like and to hear their stories.
The term "private accommodation" conjures up images of families helping each other out, living in nice conditions with a homely atmosphere.
Whilst that might be true for some, for others the living conditions are as challenging as those in the camps.
Mirabadi Village – just outside of Islamabad – is a slum village. It's dusty, with narrow cobbled streets, open sewers and poor house workers. The type, although not Pakistan's poorest, that have little.
But even here amongst the heat and barefoot children are stories of incredible generosity.
Nazimuddin is a labourer, working whenever he can find a job carrying bricks in one of the capital's many construction sites.
If he earns a dollar a day he considers himself lucky.
His house is basic, two rooms and toilet, with an outdoor cooking area.
Crucially, however, he has a basic house next door in his village which was empty.
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A Pakistani charity, FHRO, based in Swat asked him if he could house refugees.
He jumped at the chance to help.
"I have no television, radio, but the villagers her were talking about the fighting in Swat, I knew I had to help," he says.
"It is my duty as a Muslim, as a Pakistani. I have very little."
It has made a massive difference to Ahsanullah who lives in the house.
They have few facilities. Pakistan's energy crisis means they are without electricity, they use gas to cook with, but even then the cost of gas means the have to use it sparingly.
Ahsanullah fled with his familiy and were placed here by the charity.
"This man has very little, but what he does have he shares with us," he tells me.
Ahsanullah and Nazimuddin are now firm friends. As their children play together I can't help but be struck by just how, in the face of a massive crisis, Pakistanis have united and continue to unite.
|Islamabad, Tuesday, May 19, 13.13GMT
After careering around the North West Frontier Province for the past week or so, it feels good to be back in the relative calm of the capital Islamabad.
|The government assault on pro-Taliban fighters has forced 1.5m to flee their homes [AFP]
I say relative calm because, despite the fact that I was here just a few weeks ago, I have noticed a few changes.
Huge concrete walls have gone up around some buildings. In other parts, black and yellow concrete safety barriers have turned open roads into go-kart courses.
The Marriott Hotel, subject to a massive bomb blast in September last year, is cocooned in a massive shell made out of blast walls and sandbags.
Armed guards, pump action shotguns draped casually over their shoulders, stand on every street.
This is Fortress Islamabad.
It's been like this for a while now, but in last few months security the capital has gone into security overdrive.
Driving past the Parliament requires you to navigate several checkpoints and the route from one end of Islamabad to the other, which used to take 20 minutes, can now take an hour.
I contrast this with the Islamabad of my youth. My younger brother, sister and I used to come to the capital city on holiday as children.
In the 1980s it was nice place. Families would picnic in the hills that surround the city, you could go horse riding, every available space seemed to taken up by young men playing cricket and groups of girls would sit in cafes sharing ice cream and gossip.
The only security you would see was on the outskirts of the city. You would have never seen Pakistani army soldiers ensconced in sand bag posts.
That peaceful Islamabad seems to have gone.
Don't get me wrong, Islamabad still continues in it's own way, but as city it has changed irrevocably.
Fashion shows still happen here, there is a thriving arts scene, the markets are packed with every kind of Pakistani buying every kind of cloth and the cafes are still doing a brisk trade.
But it's not the carefree atmosphere of my youth. People tend not to hang around as much as they used to, most entertaining now happens at home and Islamabad's vast array of restaurants, though packed by day, remain emptier than ever at night.
Islamabad – they call it the beautiful city here. Carved out of the hills it's definitely that, but it's also nervy and tense.
|Mardan, Monday, May 18, 12.03 GMT
|The outpouring of charitable aid has been 'extraordinary', says Imran Khan [AFP]
Mixed in amongst it all is a small stall with a black and white flag gently fluttering away.
The flag is a surprise to me as it belongs to a group that was banned: Jamaat Ud Dawa.
The UN put them on a terrorist watch list after the Mumbai attacks last year.
The group then disappeared as it members were arrested. Now here they are, working alongside the UN.
The group seems to have risen from the ashes.
But there is a new name to describe it: Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, which translates as the Humanitarian Welfare Organisation.
I asked the spokesman, a young bearded chap with and high visibility orange jacket on, if the name change was simply cosmetic. He was non-committal.
"We coordinate with Jamaat Ud Dawa, but we co-ordinate with several charities," he said.
Inside the tent sat Yayha Mujahadin, a key member of Jamaat Ud Dawa. I asked him for an interview but he declined.
It seems whoever this particular group is, they are keeping a low profile.
For the people in the camp, though, it matters little who is supporting them, whether it's groups with alleged links to jihadist organisations, the UN, or student organisations – the aid is important.
The vast majority of Pakistans estimated 1.5 million refugees live with family or friends but a significant chunk live in camps which are supplied by Pakistanis of every political hue.
It is extraordinary, the outpouring of generosity I have witnessed over the last week.
But what will stick with me is the sight of a member of a group the UN has put on terrorist watch list work alongside the UN when it comes to helping refugees.
|Peshawar, Sunday, May 17, 14:09 GMT
It has been a very eerie day in Peshawar.
After Saturday's bomb blasts – which killed at least 11 people and wounded several others – Pakistan has had time to digest the events.
Pakistani politicians seem to have taken a bullish stance. They want to get rid of the Taliban.
|Pakistan is braced for what could be a decisive assault on the Swat town of Mingora [AFP]
The chief minister of the North West Frontier Province says he wants the army to go after the Taliban in other areas of the country.
He has some support for the idea, but others are fearful over any more military action.
With something like 1.5 million Pakistanis already displaced, any additional military action is likely to cause that figure to skyrocket. Pakistan is struggling to cope with the problem it has, never mind any more.
Also, ordinary Pakistanis are terrified of reprisal attacks. The Taliban are said to have several bases across Pakistan from which they can launch attacks.
It is a very tense situation.
The government, though, seems to be sensing victory.
Pakistan is braced for what could be a decisive assault on the main Swat town of Mingora.
The Taliban have said it's victory or death.
Whatever the outcome, what is clear is that Swat valley is only the beginning of Pakistan's fight.
The Taliban are unlikely to just give up Swat without attacking major cities.
The government may be confident of victory, but Pakistanis are terrified of at what cost it will come.
|Peshawar, Saturday, May 16, 12:44 GMT
Another shocking day for Pakistan.
This time it's not in the Swat valley but here in the city of Peshawar.
|The car bomb exploded outside an internet cafe in the city of Peshawar [EPA]
It was little after midday when a car bomb exploded outside of an internet cafe killing and wounding many, including several schoolchildren waiting in a nearby bus.
More innocent victims of Pakistan's battle within.
I was on the phone with a Peshawari friend when the news came in.
His reaction was telling.
"Imran, I have to leave this country. I have to get out. What on earth is going on?"
My friend Yousef is the future of this country. Young, educated and articulate he is exactly the kind of person to drive things forward.
But he, and many others, no longer feel safe in Pakistan.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that many young Pakistanis are leaving.
I was in Dubai in March and what struck me most was the amount of young Pakistani nationals who had settled there.
The situation is much the same in Britain and the US.
As news of the Peshawar car bomb continued to come in, I called Yousef back and asked him whether he would really leave.
"My uncle works in Washington as a political lobbyist. He says his firm needs people who understand the US and Pakistan. What would you do?"
I understand that Yousef is beginning to feel like he has little choice but to leave. I only hope Pakistan will one day tempt him back.
|Peshawar, Friday, May 15, 13:47 GMT
One of the great things about Peshawar is its history. Behind its noisy, congested streets lie alleyways and markets that have stood for centuries. One such place is Storytellers Bazaar.
In days gone by, this was where artists, poets and thinkers would gather to sing, argue and swap stories late into the night.
|Thousands of charities have sprung up in response to the crisis [GALLO/GETTY]
I have come here because another song is now being sung, a lament for Pakistan's displaced – refugees in their own country.
Here one of thousands of charitable organisations has set up a stall gathering together vital food aid, money and supplies to ship to the camps where hundreds of thousands now live.
The stall is surrounded by electric fans. Stacks of rice are piled high and small denomination currency is strewn across a ramshackle wooden table.
The stall is run by Habibullah Zahid, a large, jolly, bearded man who runs restaurants by day and the charity by night.
I asked him what on earth refugees living in tents would do with electric fans.
"They need these desperately," he said.
"Those camps will get electricity eventually. You have to remember that these people are used to the cooler climes of the Swat Valley. This is [a] hot place. You will see these will be most useful."
Whatever Pakistanis feel about the military operation, the humanitarian crisis has united them.
Newspapers are full of advertisements urging readers to donate, television commercials run on loop showing heartbreaking images of children and the elderly.
As I talked to him, people drop money onto Habibullah's table. Some of Pakistan's poorest people, are donating as much money as they can to stalls such as these all over the country.
Their generosity is humbling.
As Habibullah and I talk, a small boy – he must be seven or so years old – begins to sing and a crowd quickly gathers.
His voice rises as more people watch; his words capture the crowd's attention.
I later find out that he is singing the poetry of Sufi Rehman Baba, a 17th century mystic more commonly known around here as the "Nightingale of Peshawar".
The boy's choice of song is particularly poignant. A few months ago Sufi Rehman Baba's shrine, which has stood since he died in the 17th century, was attacked by men claiming to be Taliban fighters.
They planted four devices to try to destroy the shrine, but it survived.
When this chapter in Pakistan's history closes, perhaps it will be remembered and re-told by the storytellers in Peshawar.
Perhaps people will wonder how such a thing ever came to pass.
|Swabi, North West Frontier Province, Thursday, May 14, 12:22 GMT
The first thing that hits you when you visit a refugee camp is the sheer scale.
"Camp" is too small a word to use- these are cities of canvas and rope.
|Yar Hussein is home to 4,000 refugees, much smaller than the 48,000 strong Jallala camp
Yar Hussein camp has only been running for a few days. So far it houses 4000 refugees – a small town compared to say Jallala refugee encampment which has upwards of 48,000 people living there.
But nonetheless housing people is a mammoth task.
Getting these tents up, supplying water and food is a logistics nightmare.
I spoke to the cook at the camp. He told me: "We are doing the best we can, but look at what we have."
He pointed to huge cauldrons bubbling away, cooking rice. The pots had definitely seen better days.
His whole open air kitchen reminded me of a wedding I had been to in Pakistan as a child – the fires roasting, the multi-coloured awning covering the kitchen area.
This, though, was far from a celebration. It is a "massive crisis" – according to Antonio Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees.
A soft-spoken man, he is visiting the crisis area for the first time and has passionately pleaded for the world to take notice.
"Pakistan has hosted the largest refugee population in the world – 5 million Afghans – Pakistan now needs help itself and the world must pay attention."
The UN and other aid agencies have a big job on their hands.
This is the biggest movement of people in recent times. The figures are worth going over again.
At least 1.3 million people are on the move and more than 800,000 are registered with the UN alone as refugees.
But behind that figure lies another one. You could call them the forgotten refugees.
Since August 2008, people have been fleeing clashes across the North West Frontier Province. The army has been battling Taliban fighters and more than 500,000 refugees have been registered in camps by the UN since August last year.
They have been living makeshift accommodation since then. The Red Cross has registered another 400,000.
These figures are mind boggling.
I had a chance to reflect on the numbers while I was in the camp. Watching children roam freely, playing as they do, I found myself wondering how many of them would spend their formative years living in places like these.
When so many people live together disease also becomes a problem. Cases of diarrhoea and skin problems have already been registered.
I wonder how many of the children I saw will survive.
|Peshawar, Wednesday, May 13, 06:43 GMT
The army is really selling its side of the story.
On Tuesday, it proudly told the media that it had managed to capture a key Taliban stronghold, Gatt Pachar.
|The humanitarian crisis persists as thousands of families are displaced by fighting [AFP]
This mountain is the base of Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban.
It is said to house armed fighters, training camps and arms dumps.
Capturing it was key.
But has it made a difference?
Well, yes and no. Denying the Taliban any ground is crucial. But were key Taliban leaders there at the time?
It would appear not. That's an issue.
The longer Mullah Fazlullah evades capture, the more of a totem he becomes, and a symbol for the Taliban fighters.
That gives him strength and power beyond his tactical skills.
Speculation suggests that Fazlullah remains in the Swat valley. Sources close to the Taliban have told Al Jazeera that Fazlullah knew that the army would target his base and that, by leaving fighters there, he was able to escape along with the senior leadership.
That's important because the Taliban has plenty of fighters, but what the group lacks is men with military knowledge to guide them.
Experts say the Taliban's senior leaders have that knowledge, which encompasses guerrilla warfare, bombmaking and other skills.
If Mullah Fazlullah and men such as his senior commander Ibn-e-Amin perish, then the army can say the Taliban has been defeated.
So far, the Taliban insists that its leaders are all still alive and battle goes on.
So, while the army sells its message of success, success, success others are less sure.
The humanitarian crisis continues; so far, the government says 1.3 million have been displaced. Ordinary Pakistanis are watching the pictures on their television screens nightly and wondering how on earth this spells peace.
|Peshawar, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 09:22 GMT
Peshawar is a town with a past littered with the ghosts of war.
|A palpable fear now hangs over the city after frequent deadly attacks [EPA]
Traditionally it has inhabited the crossroads between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
It was here the British Empire headquartered its great game against Russia in the 19th century.
It is here that the Afghan mujahidin gathered logistics to fight their war against Russian occupation in the 1980s.
This dusty town with its cobbled alleyways was the place where CIA agents mingled with their Pakistani counterparts to conduct their war in Afghanistan after the twin towers in New York fell.
And now Peshawar is once again at the centre of conflict.
It's already home to thousands of refugees fleeing those wars in Afghanistan.
But this time its war is raging within Pakistan's borders and those refugees are Pakistani.
It's had an incredible effect on Pakistan.
The media here have dubbed this the biggest movement of people since partition, when millions crossed the new border between Pakistan and India in 1947.
"The media here have dubbed this the biggest movement of people since partition… in 1947"
Ordinary Pakistanis have taken to the streets demanding the fighting stops.
One taxi driver told me he fears the break-up of Pakistan.
Another shop owner in one of Peshawar's hotels says war will only make the situation worse, that the Taliban will hide in the mountains and fight until the bitter end.
The bitter end.
It's worth thinking about how exactly Pakistan will end its military operation.
The government wants a swift operation that will allow them to claim victory.
Analysts say the army wants to be able to secure the area quickly and withdraw leaving the police in charge.
At the time of writing, the end is nowhere in sight.
The only thing we can say with any degree of certainty is that Pakistanis will flood into the camps and the battle still rages.


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Information security policies, whether corporate policies, business unit policies, or regional entity policies provide the requirements for the protection of information assets. An information security policy is often based on the guidance provided by a frame work standard, such as ISO 17799/27001 or the National Institutes of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800 series standards. The Standards are effective in providing requirements for the "what" of protection, the measures to be used, the "who " and "when" requirements tend to be organization-specific and are assembled and agreed based on the stakeholders' needs.
Governance, the rules for governing an enterprise are addressed by security-relevant roles and responsibilities defined within the policy. Decision making is a key governance activity performed by individuals acting in roles based on delegated authority for making the decision and oversight to verify the decision was properly made and appropriately implemented. Aside from requirements for protection measures, policies carry a variety of basic concepts throughout the entire document. Accountability, isolation, deterrence, assurance, least privilege and separation of duties, prior granted access, and trust relationships are all concepts with broad application that should be consistently and appropriately applied.
Policies should ensure compliance with applicable statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements. Auditors and corporate counsel often provide assistance to assure compliance with all requirements. Requirements to resolve stakeholder concerns may be formally or informally presented. Needs for the integrity of systems and services, the availability of assets when needed, and the confidentiality of sensitive information can vary significantly based on cultural norms and the perceptions of the stakeholders.
The criticality of the business processes supported by specific assets presents protection issues that must be recognized and resolved. Risk management requirements for the protection of especially valuable assets or assets at special risk also present important challenges. NIST advocates the categorization of assets for criticality, while asset classification for confidentiality is a long standing best practice.
Requirements for policy may arise from a contractual source or from a partner's request, the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requires a policy addressing the Standard's requirements that applies to all assets within the scope of the standard. DSS requirements can be integrated into a single corporate policy but given the stringency of the requirements an enterprise may elect to segregate protection domains with separate dedicated policies so that less stringent requirements are applied to assets outside the scope of the DSS, saving resources and tailoring protection based on the lesser perceived threat/risk to the assets.
Risk assessments are an important source of policy requirements that are specific to the environment and assets to be protected. Risk mitigation measures based on an assessment of risk and the assets at risk allows managers the opportunity to weigh investment against potential damage to reach a level of risk acceptable to the decision makers.
Attacks targeting online applications and their data have become an issue of well-founded concern, policy should focus on risks in this area by specifically addressing the software development lifecycle and measures to ensure bespoke applications are sufficiently robust to withstand common attacks.
Policies should be reviewed and accepted at senior levels, ensuring the policy's authorizing authority has the stature necessary to make policy compliance mandatory. An authorization process to document and approve instances of noncompliance should also be provided. Often a compliance window is granted to allow time for the implementation of the policy by all applicable organizational entities.
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Security guidelines, component configuration standards, and standard operating procedures are based on and build on the information security policy. Care should be exercised that the documents are consistent with each other and are reviewed and exercised for correctness and reliability. Security training is often based on the detailed documents ultimately leading to repeatable processes and a predictable level of protection being realized.
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In 1995, astronomers began finding planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system. One technique detects how a planet's gravity affects its parent star.
Jo Pitesky, PlanetQuest Scientists and Cassini Science Planner - What we would like to do is look at other stars where we don't know if there are planets or not and see if they wiggle around on the sky. If they do wiggle, that tells us there is a planet there.
So far, well over 200 giant planets have been found in the Milky Way galaxy alone.
Tracy Drain, Flight Engineer - Kepler: Let me tell you guys a little bit about the Kepler mission, which is launching in February of 2009 and its going to be a really exciting mission because its whole purpose is to look for Earth-size planets around other stars outside of the solar system.
We found over 200 Jupiter size and larger gas-sized planets and we will be able to know that out in that direction of the sky are Earth-sized planets that we can eventually send people to. If you have another space track on the other side you would be able to see it happening on that side too.
With telescopes in space like Spitzer (currently orbiting) and Kepler (launching in 2009), JPL is engineering new ways to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos.
They way we use cameras to find stars and planets is that planets like the Earth give off heat, so even if you can't see them very far away next to a bright star with light, you can find heat from a planet.
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Perhaps I should title this post "In defense of melancholy."
Attracted by the mist and the sun rising behind the trees this morning, I opened a living room door, leaned out and took this photo of the garden. I posted it on Instagram. Several people commented, a rather rare occurrence on Instagram, so I interpreted this to mean they found this image particularly appealing or moving in some way. One of the comments was, "heartbreaking," another, "haunting." I compared it to a painting of the Hudson River School. Someone else said, Caspar David Friedrich, the German Romantic painter (and a favorite of mine).
What do these comments have in common? I think they point to melancholy … to my sensibility one of the most powerful emotions experienced in the garden, and in the landscape. And it's a much richer and fuller emotion than most people–today–believe.
I'm reading Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape, by Jacky Bowring, published by Routledge in 2017. Here are two brief quotations:
"Melancholy is at once complex and contradictory. For some it is an emotion, for others a mental illness, or even a mood, a disposition, an affect, an effect. Melancholy's extensive history ranges across everything from cures for something considered a disease, to paeans to its poignant beauty. While in the Dark Ages the 'melancholy of monks' –also called acedia –necessitated a redoubling of prayer and an extra dose of courage, by the Romantic era melancholy was a source of inspiration for the poetry of Milton, Coleridge and Keats. Melancholy imbues artworks from Dürer's Melancolia I (1514) to Anselm Kiefer's Melancholia (1989), literature from Shakespeare to Sebald, and music from the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen to Nick Cave. But it is to the landscape that this book turns."
"The overcoming of a single-minded pursuit of happiness needs to be yoked to an inclusive re-engagement with the breadth of emotions. Melancholy's marginalisation results not only from a fear of sadness, but from the pervasive hesitancy about showing emotion that characterises the modern Western world. Even the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley revealed how his fear of displaying emotion limited his full appreciation of an evocative landscape, something which he later regretted. In a letter to 'T.P. Esq.' (Thomas Peacock), describing journeying through Switzerland, Shelley explained how, The hay was making under the trees; the trees themselves were aged, but vigorous, and interspersed with younger ones, which are destined to be their successors, and in future years, when we are dead, to afford a shade to future worshippers of nature, who love the memory of that tenderness and peace of which this was the imaginary abode. We walked forward among the vineyards, whose narrow terraces overlook this affecting scene. Why did the cold maxims of the world compel me at this moment to repress the tears of melancholy transport which it would have been so sweet to indulge, immeasurably, even until the darkness of night had swallowed up the objects which excited them? (Shelley, 1845, p.96)"
I don't know if anyone will read this, so I leave it as a reminder to myself to return to this subject at greater length in the future.
For anyone interested, I highly recommend Jacky Bowring's intriguing and fascinating exploration of melancholy in the landscape.


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False alarms: Pneumonia. On a chest x-ray, both pneumonia and a tumor look white. The pneumonia will resolve, but you'll need another x-ray 4 to 6 weeks later.
The test: Biopsy.
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E. Stanley O'Neal, the former chief executive of Merrill Lynch, was paid $46 million in 2006, $18.5 million of it in cash.
But Merrill's record earnings in 2006 — $7.5 billion — turned out to be a mirage. The company has since lost three times that amount, largely because the mortgage investments that supposedly had powered some of those profits plunged in value.
Unlike the earnings, however, the bonuses have not been reversed.
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BING SELFISH -Selfish Works 12" EP (El Frenzy/Noise Method 008): 125 original records from 1983 with a numbered, limited edition silkscreened jacket.
Further artpop adventures from the post-Homosexuals / This Heat / Rock in Opposition squats in exile....
(Please note that a limited-edition, reasonably-priced 7" version is forthcoming as Messthetics #702!)
A 1981 junket to Barcelona found Bing Selfish, Amos a/k/a Jim Whelton, Chris Gray, Rob Storey, and Milk From Cheltenham recording three tracks for a compilation LP, Domestic Sampler - UMYU, alongside the once-and-future stars of the Barcelona underground. Bing and Joe Torres (a/k/a Victor Lounge of Milk From Cheltenham) stayed on, and a few months later welcomed back Rob, Chris and Rodrigo Lodwick to tape an Amos & Sara LP. The only recordings to come of this adventure, however, were the five Bing Selfish-led tracks on 'Selfish Works'. The 12" features those in boldface above, plus Rita Chuli (who married Lepke Buchwalter and had a cassette on her own), Gabriel whod played sax on the MfC track for UMYU, and Enric Villalba (a/k/a Victor Nubla), one of the locals who'd helped organize UMYU. Selfish Works was pressed back in London through Rob's Noise Method label, although it's officially on Bing's own El Frenzy imprint. Hardcore Messthetics/D.I.Y. fans will appreciate that most of the songs are introduced by fragments from the traditional Spanish music tape reels over which they were recording
As with the Hot Club Murphy 12", the original jackets were screened as needed: two basic designs were used, and both were modified as the screens degenerated. The "new" screened jacket combines both designs, adding a proper track-list and, for the first time, personnel-credits. (Cover #1 had ten small drawings on a hand-colored paste-on; version #2 had a drawing of Bing. On the back both featured an enigmatic story that loosely incorporated the song-titles, but no other info...)
$33 [counts as one LP postage. Please note that Bing will have copies in the UK at bingselfish.com for roughly the same price (£20) and postage will be much less for UK and EU if you don't mind waiting!]
(P.S. Most original copies of the 12" featured additional decorations by Rob or others - please let us know if you'd like extra decorations for yours!)


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NYSE wins 2012 IPO warsDecember 27, 2012: 3:19 PM ET
The battle for the hottest IPOs among stock exchanges is fierce, and it looks like the New York Stock Exchange has won first prize.
Early in the year, it looked like Nasdaq (NDAQ) would be a shoe-in, after it landed the Facebook (FB) listing.
Of course, the Facebook IPO was an epic flop, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYX) ultimately edged ahead of its rival.
The NYSE landed the majority, or roughly 53%, of all U.S. initial public offerings, according to data from Dealogic. And after missing out on Facebook, the NYSE also landed 52% of all technology IPOs.
Corporate spinoffs also helped, with 20 of the 77 companies that listed on NYSE spun out of existing publicly traded companies.
That's quite a reversal from 2011, when Nasdaq won 78 IPOs and NYSE claimed just 71 listings for its exchange.
Related: Best and worst IPOs of 2012
Shares of the NYSE's parent have also surged 21% this year, compared with Nasdaq's nearly flat performance. The bulk of the rally came last week, after NYSE Euronext agreed to be acquired by ICE, an exchange that trades commodities and derivatives, for $8.2 billion.
Beyond winning listings, the exchanges also try to lure companies away from each other. NYSE nudged out Nasdaq, with 16 companies moving to the NYSE from the Nasdaq, compared with 12 that moved the other way.
Overall, 2012 was a relatively slow year for IPOs, with only 145 companies going public. That was one fewer than in 2011, but they raised $47 billion in 2012, compared with $41 billion in 2011. Part of the increase came from Facebook's outsize offering.
The IPO market is still a far cry from its recent high point of 2007, when 288 companies filed for IPOs and raised $65 billion.
After a tepid 2012, many investors and market participants predict an uptick in 2013. Hotly anticipated IPOs like Twitter and Square should be absent from the lineup, but Bob McCooey, the head of listings for Nasdaq, said he's seen more companies considering an IPO compared to this time last year.


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To help you get started, here are two sample programs to try out your new VEX speaker attachment.
Uploading Sound Files to the Cortex
Before you can start using the VEX Speaker with ROBOTC, you must first move the sound files you wish to use onto the Cortex. The sound files must be formatted for 8-bit, 8.000 kHz, Mono output and saved as a .wav (waveform audio file format) file. You can use a free, open source program called Audacity to perform this conversion.
1) Download and install Audacity from their download site, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
2) Open Audacity and open the file you wish to convert (File -> Open).
3) Play the opened sound file to make sure Audacity was able to read it properly by pressing the green 'Play' button.
4) In the bottom left corner of the screen, change the 'Project Rate (Hz)' setting to 8000 Hz.
5) Navigate to the File menu and select 'Export'. A window will pop up asking you how and where you would like to save the file. Choose an appropriate file location and change the 'Save as type:' drop menu to 'Other uncompressed files', then click the 'Options' button.
6) Another window will pop up labelled 'Specify Uncompressed Options'. Select 'WAV (Microsoft)' for the Header option and 'Unsigned 8 bit PCM' for the Encoding, then click OK.
7) On the Export File page click 'Save' to save the file to your computer. A window will pop up labelled 'Edit Metadata'. You must click select all of the information provided (including any blank cells) and click the 'Remove' button. There will still be some Tag titles remaining; this is normal. Once the information is removed, click the 'OK' button to save the file.
8) With the Cortex connect to the computer and turned on, open ROBOTC and navigate to the 'Robot -> Advanced Tools -> File Management' window.
9) On the right hand side of the window, click the 'Download' button and select the formatted audio file. Once the file is uploaded it will appear in the Cortex's file list and the window can be closed.
10) Now that the file is on the Cortex, you can access it via code by using the 'PlaySoundFile("filename.wav");' command.
Example Code
Sound Test:
task main() { //Basic "Play Sound" commands PlaySound(soundBeepBeep); wait1Msec(200); //Intelligent "Play Sound" command //Delay until sound is done playing PlaySound(soundFastUpwardTones); while(bSoundActive) wait1Msec(1); //Play a tone: //First Parameter: Frequence in Hz //Second Parameter: Length to play in 1/100th of a seconds (50 = .5 seconds) PlayTone(440, 50); wait1Msec(500); //Play a Sound File (need to use the File Management to Upload First) PlaySoundFile("1.wav"); wait1Msec(1000); }
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Anders Eljas, studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He started his career as a keyboard player on tour with Björn Skifs and ABBA on all their world tours – Australia, Europe, U.S., Canada and Japan. He worked early on with arrangements for recordings with a variety of well-known Swedish artists as well as a producer at CBS Records (now Sony Music). In the early 80s he orchestrated the music for the musical Chess, and conducted the London Symphony Orchestra at the disc recording, as well as during the European tour in 1984. At the first performance of Kristina from Duvemåla in Malmö in 1995, Eljas was responsible for the orchestration and was Musical Director and Conductor, as well as at the productions at the Göteborg Opera and in Stockholm. At the Swedish première of Chess in Stockholm, Eljas was Musical Director and Principal Conductor.
Over the years, Anders has also conducted musicals such as Les Misérables and Guys and Dolls and performed with Povel Ramel as a conductor in many of his revues. During 2009, he was Musical Director and Principal Conductor for Mamma Mia! in Norwegian, performed at Folketeateret in Oslo. In recent years, Eljas has devoted more and more time to conducting. He has performed with the majority of our most established symphony orchestras in the Nordic region, with a number of productions having been broadcast on television.


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Pr. Mohamed Hijri's excellent presentation at the TEDxUdeM conference held in Montréal on March 11, 2012 caught the attention of the persons responsible for TED conferences in the US. As of today, his presentation on a microscopic mushroom is online in its French original version on TED.com (English subtitles).


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First, let me caveat this request with the following statement: I've never used SE, but I'd be interested in it if it allowed the user to assign keyboard hotkeys to rocker gestures. Rocker gestures are discussed here. Essentially, it allows one to use different mouse button press sequences to cause an application to do something. I think Opera was the first browser to include this capability in it's web browser. I'm sure that other apps have followed suite (I know Avant Browser has). I'd love to assign "backwards" and "forwards" rocker gestures to a particular source code editor I use (Source Insight) and a few other programs.
In particular, I find rocker gestures much more handy than mouse gestures because there's no interpretation of how you draw using the mouse to fool--essentially, it's like having digital as opposed to analog: there are very discrete steps that can't be confused.