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My daughter began noodling around on the piano a couple years ago, making up songs, and giving them names1.
She's been taking lessons for a year now, and while it's super cute to watch her practice, dog at her side, there's one particular thing she does that drives us (and surely our neighbors) bonkers.
Whenever she gets stuck or forgets a note, she circles back to the beginning and starts the piece again.
Not a big deal at first, but when it's the 634th time you've heard the first two lines of Bach's Minuet in G , there's a part of you that reeeeeeally wants it to work out this time and silently screams NOOOO!!! when she gets stuck and leaves you hanging as she hunts and pecks for the right note to complete the V chord and instead jumps back to the beginning.
I know this phase will pass in time (or else we may be looking for a new place to live), but it's a glimpse at a bigger issue that strikes fear into the hearts of many (if not all) musicians.
Memorization. Dun dun duuuun!
Mindless memorization?
We know that practicing mindlessly (i.e. playing something over and over without much pre-planning, analysis, or reflection) sort of works, but that it's not especially efficient or effective. And that "deliberate," or mindful, thoughtful, and problem/solution-focused practice is one of the hallmarks of elite performers.
Well, it appears that the same may be true for memorization too.
The typical approach to memorization involves a process called "associative chaining." This is where you play through a piece from beginning to end a bunch of times, until you can get through it without any issues.
So very often, we end up memorizing pieces even if we're not trying, simply by virtue of working on them long enough. It's not such a bad system, in that it happens naturally and easily. With enough repetition, the first phrase reminds us of the second phrase, which reminds us of the next phrase, which reminds us of the one after that, and so on.
Good while it lasts
And when it works, it's great. But when it doesn't, we're kind of screwed, because the only way to recover when one chain breaks is to go back to the beginning of the piece and hope that our memory holds up better the next time we get to that same spot.
Remember those old-style strings of Christmas tree lights from ye olde days of yore, where if one bulb in the chain didn't work, the whole string wouldn't work? And how Dad would sit around in a tangled mess of wires swapping bulbs in and out along the chain, muttering under his breath? It's kind of like that.
So…what's the alternative?
Deliberate memorization?
"Better" memorizers don't necessarily have a better memory. They just utilize a more effective strategy – a more deliberate strategy that gives them a safety net in case their memory fails.
What they do is embed little retrieval cues (or "performance cues") throughout the piece. Little reminders about phrasing, dynamics, character, articulation, musical structure, and more. You'll notice that these things aren't necessarily related to memorizing notes, but nevertheless comprise a "mental script" of little details to focus on as you make your way through the piece. Reminders to keep you on-task, ensure that you bring out every nuance and detail, and don't just cruise by on autopilot.
Recovery points
The idea being, every time you start playing from one of these sections and think about its associated performance cue, the connection between this cue and the phrase gets stronger. This, in effect, creates a "recovery point" in the event that your associative chain is broken. Kind of like creating a trail of breadcrumbs for you to follow in the woods – where even if a little forest critter comes and eats one, you can just skip ahead a bit and pick up the trail without too much trouble.
The downside (if you want to call it that), is that this kind of memorization takes effort and a lot more active thought during your practice sessions.
Which brings up an interesting question – is this something anyone can do? Or does "deliberate memorization" require advanced knowledge of music theory, a high degree of technical expertise, and a real commitment to memorizing music?
A team of researchers and musicians conducted a case study of an 18-year old piano student named "Maria," who had been taking lessons since age 4, and practiced ~2-4 hours per week. She had memorized pieces before in the course of learning them, but not in any deliberate, conscious way. So, her memory would fade pretty quickly, and she'd be unable to play them without the music after a few weeks.
She began the study having sort of learned Schumann's Der Dichter Spricht . Meaning, she could get through the piece, but "…haltingly and with extremely limited musical expression."
Over the course of 7 lessons, her teacher (one of the authors of the study) introduced her to a more deliberate method of memorization.
Creating a mental map
Maria's teacher showed her how to mark up a blank copy of the score with arrows and colored pen, so as to begin coming up with specific "cues" to pay attention to while practicing. There were four kinds of things she was encouraged to think about:
1. Basic technique (e.g. positioning of her hands, the notes)
2. Musical structure (e.g. phrasing)
3. Interpretation (e.g. dynamics)
4. Expression (e.g. the mood or character she wanted to convey)
They did this together at first, writing short notes into the music as Maria reflected back on the previous week's practice and described what aspects of the music she had paid attention to while practicing. It looked like this:
Maria had 6 more lessons over the next month and a half, where either she, or she and her teacher together took out a blank copy of the music, and repeated this exercise of identifying and writing key musical/technical landmarks or interpretative/expressive cues into the score that Maria had focused on while practicing.
They also did this after in-lesson performances of the piece to see what sort of cues Maria had focused on while performing the piece from memory.
It didn't take long to get the piece memorized. By her fourth lesson, Maria successfully played through the piece from memory – surprising both herself and her teacher. And by her sixth lesson, Maria was happy with how the Schumann sounded and felt like it was time to move onto a new piece.
What would happen after 2+ months away from the piece?
This was near the end of the school year, so Maria took a break from piano lessons for the summer, and didn't touch the piece until her next lesson about 9 1/2 weeks later.
Would she still be able to play it through from memory after that long of a break?
Well, she couldn't play it straight through without stopping. But she did manage to get through it without looking at the music. And when given an opportunity to play it a second time, it got better. All in all, quite a departure from previous memorization experiences.
You can read the complete study here for more of the nitty gritty details and nuances, and keep in mind that it's just one student's experience – but the concept of deliberate memorization and the strategies used in this case study are based on a convergence of past research and theory. In any case, here are a few important takeaways:
1. Increased confidence in memory and performance
Maria had long avoided performing in public, but after learning this memorization strategy and participating in the study, she volunteered to perform (from memory) at her teacher's annual student concert.
Associative chaining is great, but when this is the only method we've used, I think there's a part of us that knows that we're taking a chance by putting an awful lot of eggs in that one basket.
Having a full set of consciously accessible performance cues to help guide us from one meaningful musical moment to the next lets our inner worrywart rest easier, knowing that we have a solid Plan B, just in case.
2. More engaging practice sessions
Even after the study was complete, Maria continued to mark up her scores, saying "This is a much more interesting type of practice than just repeating bits of the music."
Identifying and embedding performance cues is something you could do specifically for memorization, but I think enhanced memory security is actually just a bonus. The primary benefit of this approach may be that it encourages us to be more thoughtful practicers, and more thoughtful musicians, by compelling us to think of and verbally articulate what we want to do with each note, gesture, or phrase instead of having just some vague, fuzzy notion of what we hope to get.
Indeed, pianist Leon Fleisher once emphasized the importance of being able to verbally describe in clear terms what we are striving for in the music, explaining that if we can't articulate our desired objective in words, it's a sign that our ideas aren't clear enough, and as a result, they're not likely to come across to the audience.
So in many ways, it seems that being an expert memorizer goes hand in hand with being a more mindful, self-reflective practicer, and a better musician too. A win-win-win!
Odds and ends
Here's Alfred Cortot performing the Schumann: Der Dichter Spricht ala Cortot
And video of Cortot in a master class, talking a student through some of his performance cues in this piece: Cortot Master Class - Paris, 1953
- Like "Walking the Dog," which was essentially just a bunch of middle C's, punctuated with the occasional IV chord. Pretty much on-point, now that I think of it…


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The Bahamas are so close to the U.S., but once you leave Nassau, they feel miles away. The destination is for people whose idea of nightlife is sipping a Bahama Mama at a barefoot in the sand local bar or unwinding onboard your yacht under a star-flooded sky. The reefs are teeming with fish making snorkeling, scuba and catching your own dinner a highlight. Charter a catamaran or a motor yacht with a shallow draft so that you can anchor close to the islands. If you charter a superyacht, look for one with a large "towed tender" that will zoom you where the big yacht cannot go.
The Bahamas are one of the most preferred getaways on the planet. Credited with having the clearest water on earth, this archipelago is known for its pristine white sand beaches. The mesmerizing waters host a variety of water-sports besides boating, swimming and diving. It is a world-class destination for sport fishing and scuba diving. This tropical paradise enjoys very pleasant weather and tranquility throughout the year, which makes it an ideal place to depart from the chaos of city life and get away from it all.
The Bahamas are a group of 700 islands and over 2000 cays in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Yet, only around 30 of them are inhabited. It is located 50 miles (80 kilometers) south-east of the coast of Florida and 244 miles (392 kilometers) to the north of Cuba. The total area of the territory is 5383 square miles (13940 square kilometers) which is comparable to the size of Connecticut. It has a coastline of 2,201 miles (3,542 kilometers). The capital city Nassau is located in the central and most populated island of the region – New Providence.
The first instances of human presence in the Bahamas can be traced back to 300 to 400 AD. The next occupants were the Lucayans who migrated here from the present day Cuba between 900 and 1500 AD.
Baja Mar, from which the name Bahamas is derived, meaning shallow sea in Spanish, was used by Christopher Columbus to describe the low waters of the region when he arrived here in 1492. The 40,000-odd peaceful Lucayans who lived here then were enslaved and within 25 years, the entire race perished.
Around the 1640s, Bermuda was deep in a religious conflict with a group of English Puritans opposed the protocols of the Anglican Church. The group headed to the Bahamas with their religious ambitions. They arrived at a small island when their boat hit a reef and all of their provisions were lost. A starving William Sayle sailed in a small boat to Virginia and returned back with food and a ship. The English Puritans managed to sustain life on the island, which they named as 'Eleuthera', meaning 'freedom' in Greek. In the 1670s, new migrants arrived on what is now known as New Providence island.. home to the famous city of Nassau.
The islands also had their stints with pirates - Blackbeard and Calico Jack being the most infamous. Urban legends also claim that the treasures of William Cat and Sir Henry Morgan are still hidden here.
In 1718, the King of England appointed Woodes Rogers as the Royal Governor. He led a successful mission to bring law and order to the region which had been dominated by lawless buccaneers. During the American Civil War, British Loyalists fled the United States and brought slaves, agriculture, and shipbuilding to the islands.
The Bahamas benefited greatly from the American Civil War during 1861-1865. Since British ships were forbidden from entering the southern ports, traders met in the Bahamas and made huge profits from their shipment. This prosperity spiraled downward at the end of the war. The islands further declined in the 1930s when the U.S.Prohibition ended, and the sponge harvesting industry was on the decline.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Bahamas has relied on its continuously growing tourism industry. On July 10, 1973, the Bahamas attained freedom from 325 years of peaceful British rule and became a sovereign country.
The Bahamas Express Ferry connects Freeport to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS) on Nassau is the country's gateway to the world which connects the region to important cities in the US and Canada. Several direct flights are available from London to Nassau as well as connecting flights from other major UK airports.
Since the weather in the Bahamas always remains pleasant, the islands can be visited any time of the year. Winter months of December through February can be cool if a cold front descends from the North. The ideal months are best time to visit the Bahamas is from April through July and November. The official hurricane season is from June 1 to November 30, with late August, September and October being the active months.
The gentle trade winds add a touch of magic to the weather of the Bahamas this place and keep it the Bahamas temperatures neither too hot high nor too cold low throughout the year. The Bahamas water temperature is averages around 79°F(26°C) during summers and 75°F(24°C) during winters.
Bahamians are perceived as warm, affectionate and easy-going people. Their culture is largely influenced by their British hierarchy and their American proximity. Hospitality is in the soul of Bahamians, and Good Morning, Good Day, Good Evening is the way to start all conversations. Casual dressing complements the islands laid-back lifestyle, and beachwear is best reserved for the beaches. Formal dressing while attending Church services is recommended.
Currency: Bahamian Dollar with US Dollars being accepted in most places.
Time Zone: Eastern Time Zone(UTC-05:00)
Local language: English
Population: 386,524
Airport: Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS) at Nassau.
Entry Requirements: US and Canadian citizens holding a valid passport do not need a visa to enter the Bahamas, provided the stay is for a maximum of 8 months. Latin American citizens may also enter the Bahamas without a visa but their permissible stay is limited to 3 months. Citizens of other countries may require a visa along with a valid passport to enter the region. Children below 18 years of age are required by Bahamian law to carry a notarized letter from a guardian or non-accompanying parent granting permission for the travel.
Departure Tax: BS$15 per person (6 years and older)
Legal Drinking Age: 18 years.
Smoking Regulations: Smoking laws are liberal in the Bahamas. However some entities may forbid smoking in enclosed spaces.
Staying in touch: GSM services are available in Grand Bahamas, New Providence and other main islands where most US services are on roaming. Staying connected on some of the Out Islands could be a little difficult so check how your yacht is equipped.
Medical Information: Doctor's Hospital at Nassau gives primary specialty & subspecialty care both on an in-patient and out-patient basis.
Ambulance and rescue squads have their presence across the Bahamas. '919' is the emergency number on the islands.
Medevac is readily obtainable.
Public Holidays: New Year Day (January 1); Majority Rule Day (January 10); Good Friday; Easter Monday, Whit Monday (7th Monday after Easter); Randol Fawkes Labor Day (1st Friday in June); Bahamas Independence Day (July 10); Emancipation Day (1st Monday in August); National Heroes day (October 12); Christmas Day & Boxing Day(December 25 and 26 respectively).
Tourist Office: The official web address for tourist information on Bahamas is www.bahamas.com
Shopping Information: Jewelry, local crafts and authentic Bahamian items are the best selling products. Andros is famous for its local, colorful batik – Androsia. Port Lucaya Marketplace and the one on Grand Bahama Island are great places for indigenous crafts and cuisine. Straw creations of late Miss Ivy Simms at Long Island and hotel boutiques in the Exumas make a complete shopping itinerary in the Bahamas.
Shopping is duty-free on perfumes, leather goods, jewelry, fine linens, watches, photographic equipment and table accessories. Duty-free shops are identified with the 'DFS' logo.
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Booker Ervin Day
October 31, 1930 – August 31, 1970
The distinctive tenor-saxophonist is remembered
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Booker Telleferro Ervin II. was born October 31, 1930 in Denison, Texas.
Originally a trombonist, he switched to tenor while serving in the United States Air Force.
After his discharge in 1953, Ervin attended Berklee, worked in Tulsa with Ernie Fields, and within a few years was ready for the New York scene.
A member of Charles Mingus' groups off and on during 1958-63, Ervin's hard and tough tone, which was leavened by his bluish ideas, found its perfect home with Mingus which can be heard on such recordings as Jazz Portraits, Blues and Roots, Mingus Ah Um and Mingus Dynasty.
Ervin was well featured on his own series of albums including The Freedom Book, The Song Book, The Blues Book and The Space Book.
Ervin also recorded with Teddy Charles, Barbara Long, Mal Waldron, Bill Barron, Horace Parlan, Larry Young, Randy Weston, Roy Haynes, Pony Poindexter, Don Patterson, Jaki Byard, Sonny Stitt, Ted Curson, Andrew Hill and Eric Kloss.
Tragically, Booker Ervin was stricken with kidney disease and died at the age of 39.
Ervin is featured on a stirring version of "Milestones" from the mid-1960s with an all-star group.
Booker Ervin, tenor
Ted Curson, trumpet
Pony Poindexter, alto
Nathan Davis, flute
Kenny Drew, piano
Jimmy Woode, bass
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FREDERIK POHL—science fiction author, for which he won a Hugo and a Nebula (Gateway, 1977) and the only National Book Award given in a one-year category for that genre (Gem, 1980); editor (for which he won seven Hugos (Galaxy and If magazines, 1962-1969); literary agent (who helped get Isaac Asimov's first novel published); critic and historian—died on September 2, 2013, at the age of 93.
Pohl's memoirs, The Way The Future Was, is one of few such books in the genre. It is both educational and entertaining.
A few awards
From 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine If. The latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine.
In 1977, his novel Gateway won four Best Novel awards: the Hugo, the Locus, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
In 1979, his novel Jem won a National Book Award.
In 1984, his collection of novellas Years of the City won the Campbell Memorial Award.
In 1993, the Science Fiction Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
In 1998, he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, its third class of two dead and two living writers.
In 2010, Pohl won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer for his blog The Way the Future Blogs.
New maps of hell
In his book on science fiction, New Maps Of Hell (1960), British author and historian Kingsley Amis called Pohl the "most consistently able writer [that] science fiction, in its modern form, has yet produced."
Rest in peace, Mr. Pohl.


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Bayern Munich and Liverpool have completed a deal for the transfer of Sadio Mane with the Bundesliga champions committing to paying an initial €32 million for the Senegal forward.
Mane finalized a three year contract with Bayern, departing Liverpool in a move that could eventually reach €41 million, which would mean a profit for the Reds on the fee they initially paid to Southampton for the then 24-year-old attacker. The German club unveiled their new forward on Wednesday
Welcome to #FCBayern, Sadio Mané!— FC Bayern Munich (@FCBayernEN) June 22, 2022
After six trophy-laden seasons at Anfield, the 30 year old informed the club hierarchy earlier this summer of his desire to test his skills elsewhere; the Bundesliga offers him just that opportunity whilst with one of world football's top forwards added to their squad Bayern will feel they are well placed to compete for the Champions League next season. Mane had just one year remaining on his current contract with Liverpool, who he leaves having won every top club honor available to English teams. In 269 games for the Reds he scored 120 goals, providing 48 assists.
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Liverpool have already moved to secure their replacement for their outgoing No.10 and signed Darwin Núñez from Benfica earlier this week in a club record deal worth up to €100m. With Mane having spent much of the second half of this season at center forward it is possible that the incoming Uruguayan will simply slot into the gap between Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah, who is also heading into the final 12 months of his deal. With Roberto Firmino, Diogo Jota and summer addition Fabio Carvalho in the squad, Jurgen Klopp will not lack for depth in his frontline.
Perhaps more intriguing is what comes next for Bayern, who have a wantaway forward of their own in Robert Lewandowski. Like Mane, the Polish international has a hankering for fresh climes in the remaining years of his prime. Barcelona want to sign him and whilst Bayern are insistent that they want Lewandowski to see out the final season of his contract they appear to be fighting a losing battle.
It has been suggested in Germany that Bayern see Mane reprising his Liverpool role at the Allianz Arena, playing as the focal point of a fluid front three. Whether that will include Serge Gnabry, another of the string of star forwards out of contract in 2023, remains the matter of some debate with no sign of a breakthrough in securing an extension for him.


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Budget Dining And Holiday Cuisine
The total tally for your family holiday includes inputs from a number of sub-categories, including air fares, hotel accommodations, food and dining, entertainment, shopping and whatever other activities tap your wallet on vacation. Generally, expenses like lodging and transportation are arranged ahead of time, so that accommodations are in-place before embarking on trips. Other costs though, emerge as your holiday unfolds, adding unknown variables to your pre-holiday planning experience.
Food and dining expenses are among the highest recurring costs people tally while on holiday. Three meals each day are basic standards, but holiday schedules often include more than three food and beverage entries daily. Just beverage totals alone exceed many holiday estimates, surpassing what some families can reasonably spend on food and dining during holiday. This is where you could benefit from the additional funds parrot payday loans could provide, taking the stress out of affording those unexpected costs.
Regardless of whether you are on a once in a lifetime trip through India, or a big city tour of the United States, bargain cuisine is available to explore, yielding food savings along the way.
Soak up Epicurean Delights by Sampling Local Fare
Unique food and beverage options add charm to holidays, furnishing cultural exposure and enjoyment that isn't possible at home. Getting to know people from different regions and taking part in their customs is part of the travel experience sought by adventurous individuals, and the takeaway from other cultures includes unique and distinctive food.
In many cases, tourism is a significant part of regional economies, so food vendors are in-place to serve the dining needs of travelers. Your own personal tastes and spirit of adventure ultimately determine where you dine, but some of the best options are present in budget-friendly establishments catering to wide ranging appetites.
Street food is popular in many locales, ranging from primitive stands offering single dishes, to full service trucks capable of feeding significant numbers of people. One of the advantages of dining on the go is the small portion sizes presented by many vendors. Since items are designed to be eaten on the fly, they furnish opportunities for small samplings of regional fare, before moving to other similarly sized delicacies.
Holiday diners enjoy the leisure experience of sitting in local eateries too, resting as they eat between tourist attractions. If you like full-service dining, look at local diners and other humble establishments to guide you through your holiday culinary experience. Busy restaurants frequented by lots of local patrons are sure signs of delicious food priced at everyday levels.
Complimentary Meals Trim Holiday Food Budgets
To take better care of their guests, and set themselves apart from competitors, more and more hotel and lodging providers are offering food and beverage perks to guests. Atop the list of complimentary dining are popular breakfast alternatives included with many hotel stays. Continental and sometimes more elaborate breakfast options are included in many hotel stays, offsetting the cost of each day's dining. Families traveling with children save significant amounts of money by registering at hotels and motels with free breakfast options. Multiplied by the number of members in your family, breakfast savings can be significant, especially during extended stays when several morning meals are provided on the house.
Additionally, coupons and special offers are extended to guests as part of their hotel packages, offering discounted meals at the hotels' own dining facilities. In many cases, hotels operate premiere restaurants, serving not only travelers but highly discerning locals who enjoy fine hotel dining. While a Michelin 3-star property might be out of your financial reach during the remaining portion of the year, a discounted meal at one of the world's best restaurants might be exactly what the doctor ordered on holiday. For food savings on holiday, avoid room service, which tends to be among the pricier dining options available.
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The Death of Gracia Alkema
Rodolfo F. Acuñ
Lately, I have become more reflective, not because I am getting more considerate but because I am getting old. Grappling with what is surely the last edition of Occupied America that through no fault of its own has like Ulysses wandered. It started out in 1972 with Canfield Press (a division of Harper & Row and in the 1980s went under the direct supervision of Harper & Row. I worked with Gracia Alkema, a fiery editor with whom I often clashed. When things got heated she would fly down from San Francisco or I would drive up. It was a good exchange and she made frequent and valuable recommendations and changes.
You don't have that many editors in book building today. The industry has been privatized, and a strict division of labor has taken place. No longer do you get the opportunity to work with an editor and it shows. Today everyone in the film industry wants to be the director when in truth the best trained editors as former script writers and editors. The editor like Gracia fights for their ideas and then learns to direct them.
Harper & Row was a big publisher and much more difficult to communicate than with Canfield that had small offices in San Francisco. However, for the most part, they were available, and you communicated with the editors by phone. They were part of the formation of the book. By the fourth edition I was with Longman that I did not know at the time had been gobbled up. Founded in London, England, in 1724 and it became part of Pearson PLC in 1968. Under. Longman, Pearson it used primarily as an imprint division. The tone changed and it became less personal.
By 2013 (8th Edition) the shift was complete. Communication with the editors whose function under Longman was outsourced. The new Indian editors were more concerned with production and I was a fly in the ointment that kept changing things. Unlike with Gracia there was no give and take. Initially, I had difficulty because the grammatical corrections clashed with my English. They spoke a 19th century classical English. Slowly we both adapted.
Pearson is multinational publishing and education company. Unlike Grecia its employees are not editors in the historical sense. They are concerned with the presentation of the product. The political has been strained out of the product.
Being an old man I feel like an uncle of mine at the funeral of my cousin Sandra. When they were putting her in the grave they brought out a small cigar-like box with her ashes. In a loud voice my uncle kept repeating "that's not Sandy!"
Gracia Alkema died in 2011.


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Tue, 16 August 2016
In this edition of COLLAR TALK, Fr. Vogel asks Fr. Brady about his experience at the recent World Youth Day event in Poland. How is liturgy celebrated with a million fellow Catholics? Listen in to see what's different from what we see in our local parishes.
Direct download: CollarTalk_081616-PODCAST.mp3
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It seems that Asus is not the only one with an X99 motherboard that features more pins for overclocking. On a recent event a certain Gigabyte X99 SOC Force LN2 (GA-X99-SOC Force LN2) was spotted featuring a special LGA-2011v3 socket that has more pins than the usual X99 motherboard. Asus was the first one to officially reveal their still patent-pending Asus OC Socket, featuring more pins. Check out more features about the upcoming Gigabyte X99 SOC Force LN2 below.
Gigabyte X99 SOC Force LN2 With Special LGA-2011v3 Socket
The Gigabyte X99 SOC Force LN2 is somewhat similar with its mainstream counterpart, the Z97 SOC Force LN2 motherboard. The GA-X99 SOC Force LN2 is also built to cater the demands of every overclockers, specially the extreme overclockers community. Actually there's not much information about this motherboard yet since Gigabyte hasn't officially announced this motherboard. Most of the motherboards features and specifications can be deciphered just by looking at the motherboard itself.
But the most interesting feature about the Gigabyte X99 SOC Force LN2 is its special LGA-2011v3 socket featuring more pins than the usual, and this is similar to the patent-pending Asus OC Socket. Just like the OC Socket, the special socket of the X99 SOC Force LN2 is also expected to overclock better compared to the x99 motherboards with lesser pins. Below are close up shots of the socket on the X99 SOC Force LN2 and the Asus OC Socket.
If you noticed, both are very similar, if not 100% similar!
Gigabyte has been successful with their OC motherboards since more and more overclockers are using the company's OC series for overclocking and benchmarking. And I wonder how well or bad will this motherboard be in terms of overclocking against the Asus Rampage V Extreme that also features a socket with more pins. I'm sure we will know the answers very soon.
I'm sure Gigabyte didn't make their own special socket right after Asus announced their OC Socket. It's Foxconn who makes the sockets, but why is Asus applying for a patent for their socket? Is there any real difference between the Asus OC socket and Gigabyte's special socket? And if Asus' got their patent, will Gigabyte be in trouble and will we see another patent war? Finally will we see MSI implement the same special socket on their X99 OC series?
Gigabyte X99 SOC Force LN2 Specifications
Based on visual observation, the Gigabyte X99 SOC Force LN2 features four DDR4 DIMM slots and an 8 phase power design. It features all the overclocking-centric onboard buttons like the one we saw on the GA-Z97X SOC Force LN2. It has 4x PCIE slots supporting SLI and CorssFireX multiple graphics card configuration, and 3x PCIE x1 slots for add on cards. There is an optional 6 pin power connector used for overclocking. For storage, it features the regular SATA 6Gbps ports, SATA Express ports and an M.2 20Gbps port. It also features AMP-UP audio core like some of Gigabyte's latest motherboards. And on the rear I/O panel, you get the usual suspects like USB ports, audio ports, and the likes.
We'll know more about the Gigabyte GA-X99-SOC Force LN2 soon when the company officially unleashes this overclocking beast.
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A crowd of about 7,000 in Des Moines welcomed Shawn Johnson back from the summer Olympic in Beijing. The West Des Moines gymnast captured four medals, including a gold on the balance beam.
It has been a busy time for the junior at West Des Moines Valley high school who made a detour on her way home to make an appearance on the David Letterman Show.
"This is crazy, I mean why would you come out here for me?," Johnson asked,"it doesn't make sense, but it's amazing." Johnson says while winning medals was exciting just getting the chance to take part in the Olympics experience was the best part.
"Just being able to be with all the athletes and stuff, being able to experience what anybody would kill for," Johnson says. She says the all-around competition was the best part as she "gave her heart and soul for that meet."
Johnson finished second in the all-around and also earned silver in the floor exercise and in the team competition. She says she is just as proud of her silver medals as she is the gold.
"Everything I put forth in that meet, I knew that I gave my best, I knew that there wasn't anything more that I could do, and for some reason that day I was meant to have silver and the other girls were meant to have the gold," Johnson explained, "so, for me everything happens for a reason, and silver to me was better than any gold I could have had."
Olympic glory bring instant fame and Johnson says she is not used to being recognized wherever she goes. Her presence on a flight even led to an unfortunate injury to the pilot. She landed in Chicago and was getting a flight to New York for the David Letterman show and could be late. Johnson says the told the other passengers they had a delay and had to find another pilot. The airline employees told Johnson that when the pilot found out he was flying her, "he freaked out" and hit his head and had to go get stitches.
Johnson says she has not decided if she will try and make the U.S. team for the London games in 2012.


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Magazine: Elle UK
Puglished: August 2009
Cover model: Lily Allen
Photography by Rankin
Website: www.elleuk.com
Lily Allen is back on the cover of British Elle Magazine, this time the star is not only gracing the cover to tell us she's quitting show business, she's letting us know she's switching to fashion!
It was at a big party in Coco's apartments in Paris. I was drunk and got lost in the building. I wandered into an attic room and Karl was there. I got really embarrassed and apologised, but he said, "No, come in." – Lily Allen for ELLE UK
The above images is the subscribers cover, view more of her Elle magazine cover story after the jump:
Also visit Elle magazines ELLE TV to see behind the scenes and find out which supermodel Rankin compared Lily to. Rankins photography portfolio is available at rankin.co.uk.


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Click here to download the Current Indicators and Information file.
The Center for Regional Analysis produces more than 60 charts and graphs summarizing trends in the national and regional economies and housing markets. Data elements include gross domestic product, jobs, unemployment, consumer confidence, oil prices, coincident and leading indices, interest rates, sales of existing and new homes, home prices, and regional economic forecasts, among other items. There is information for the overall regional economy, as well as select economic and housing data for Northern Virginia, Suburban Maryland and the District. This set of charts is updated when new data are released.
Data are updated generally on the following schedule:
U.S. employment situation – 1st Friday of the month
U.S. housing data – 3rd week of the month
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Some of this economic trend data is available in Excel format and can be accessed on our Data page.


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On select dates at our sister salon Zealous Beauty Bar
We've partnered with Zealous Salon in downtown Statesville, a full-service Salon & Spa owned and operated by local artist and designer Sara Johnson (Sara Johnson Designs).
We make our guest appearances only on select dates. Click below to check out our Statesville schedule and book an appointment.
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Our Approach
Strategic Direction and Accountability
Since 2008, the Global Diversity & Inclusion Council is the guiding force for Sandoz diversity and inclusion, and addresses the topics of diverse talent, building an inclusive culture and identifying marketing opportunities to serve diverse, underserved patients. The Global D&I Council articulates the business case for diversity and helps to jumpstart some of our most important leadership, recruitment, training, mentoring and diversity programs both globally and in some key local markets.
To build on the momentum of the Global D&I Council, we have created a network of D&I Councils in many of our key markets. They work locally, with the support of their Country Managers, to implement diversity initiatives and make sure that our practices benefit employees and patients.
To measure our progress on diversity, we developed a global scorecard and local country scorecards with aspirational targets, and we hold each Country Manager accountable for the success of these efforts.
Being the Best Requires Attracting the Best
Our vision is to become the leading generics company by cultivating an inclusive, high performance environment that values diversity. Our strategy is to leverage our recruiting efforts around the world to create a pipeline of talented candidates with truly diverse backgrounds in the 160 countries in which we operate. Attracting and retaining diverse talent gives us a key competitive edge in the global war for talent.
Empowering Our People to Reach Their Full Potential
We don't just want to find the best employees, we want to make sure that all employees receive the guidance and resources they need to reach their full potential. We have created leadership development initiatives to support our associates in this journey. In 2010, we launched the Sandoz Leadership Experience, which provides ongoing leadership training to groom the next generation of leaders. In 2011, we launched the Women @ Sandoz leadership program which identifies and develops our female talent pipeline. We recently announced our new employee network, Global Women in Leadership (WiL), which offers women at all levels career development support and tools to build professional relationships.
Building a Culture of Inclusion – a Corporate Priority and Personal Responsibility
To achieve our goal of providing affordable, accessible medicines to patients around the world, Sandoz requires the participation of every employee. As such, all employees are expected to participate in mentoring, recruiting and supporting their colleagues. All employees also have an obligation to treat one another with dignity and respect – from the newest employee to the most senior. To this end, we have developed Inclusive Leadership training, a program which focuses on the importance of managing inclusively in order to build and sustain our high performance culture.
In addition to training, we are also focused on raising awareness for and promoting diversity and inclusion through the quarterly D&I Newsletter, the employee magazine Connect and global Townhall meetings. Since 2011, we have produced a global Diversity & Inclusion Annual Report, which highlights our programs and initiatives from around the world. Finally, since 2008 we have been recognizing D&I achievements with the Sandoz D&I Annual Awards. These awards are given to a team and an individual who make significant contributions toward fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.
Driving business results by leveraging diversity in the marketplace
By investing resources into understanding our patient groups and their diverse needs, Sandoz can better achieve its mission of increasing global patient access to high-quality, affordable medicines. Local D&I Marketing programs help to ensure we reach patient populations which would normally be missed by traditional market research. To date, we have developed D&I marketing programs in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Italy, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey and the United States.
It is clear that we already have the knowledge, skills and worldwide reach to be successful. Now, we are building a culture that draws on the broadest possible spectrum of ideas, experiences and perspectives. Looking ahead, our corporate culture aims to fully embrace its diversity and to empower every member of our team to succeed. This shared commitment will truly make Sandoz the very best it can be.


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About Us
News at NECHV
On November 4th, over 500 attendees filled the Seaport World Trade Center to support NECHV's mission and honor those who embody Leave No One Behind.
The night began with the presentation of the colors and a beautifully sung National Anthem from Damage Controlman 1st Class James M. Hough, of the USS Constitution. Sister Patricia Heath of the Holy Union Sisters delivered the invocation. The Salem High School Marching Band, led by Director Cynthia Napierkowski, returned for the second year in a row, and played an uplifting medley of military songs.
The event included both a live and silent auction, with some fantastic and exclusive items up for bid. The live auction offered a Bobby Orr package, with an autographed framed photo of "The Goal", an autographed book and puck, and a stick used by Orr himself; a VIP getaway to Martha's Vineyard for the annual Wine Festival; a trip to Oregon's Willamette Valley; a private dinner by Executive Chef Richard Rayment of the Seaport Hotel and wine pairings from Trifecta Wines; and a place aboard a Tall Ship during the Grand Parade of Sail in June 2017.
The honorees of the evening were the Honorable Martin J. Walsh, Mayor of Boston, who received the Brian A. Brooks for Distinguished Service for Veterans Award; Corporate Partner Honoree, the Arbella Insurance Foundation; and Veteran and artist Tobi Makinde, who received the Battlefield Citation. The Keynote Speaker was Former Staff Sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient Ryan Pitts, who eloquently talked about his service and the selflessness of others he witnessed in battle.
Thank you to all our friends and partners for a wonderful night. Your generosity and support allow us to continue to serve Veterans who have given so much, making sure we leave no one behind.
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A&C Tablescape
In support of the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County's 'season for reading' and "one book, one community" campaign, we were invited to participate in creating a chic, stunning tablescape for Art & Culture magazine. The style for this tablescape design was inspired by classic novels; Czarniecki chose Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. This was a fun, creative series that we had the honor of being a part of alongside Sara Mccann, Mccann Design Group, and Sean Rush from Sean Rush Atelier.


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Iowa woman, Bobbie Hora-Guill sentenced to prison for not paying taxes on money she stole
A woman who failed to pay taxes on more than $1.5 million she stole from her former employer was sentenced October 2, 2018, to 30 months in federal prison.
Bobbie Hora-Guill, age 46, from Bennett, Iowa, received the prison term after an April 4, 2018, guilty plea to making and subscribing a false tax return. At the plea hearing and in a plea agreement, Hora-Guill admitted she made and signed a false tax return for at least 2013 because she failed to report all of her income. Overall, Hora-Guill failed to report as income and pay taxes on more than $1.5 million she stole from her former employer.
Hora-Guill was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge Linda R. Reade. Hora-Guill was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment. She was also ordered to pay the United States' bill of costs. She must also serve a 1-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Hora-Guill was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on a date yet to be set.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jacob Schunk and investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Internal Revenue Service.


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We are pleased to announce the release of Nomad 0.5. Nomad is a distributed, scalable, and highly available cluster manager and scheduler designed for both microservice and batch workloads.
Nomad 0.5 includes a number of new features focused on increasing cluster security and enabling new workloads to be run on Nomad. Highlights include:
Nomad's integration with HashiCorp's Vault gives jobs a simple, declarative syntax for retrieving Vault tokens.
Nomad tasks are annotated with the set of Vault policies that are needed. When the job is submitted, Nomad will optionally validate that the submitting user has access to the requested policies. Once validated, Nomad schedules tasks across the cluster and through careful coordination between Nomad servers, clients, and Vault, a unique Vault token is generated for every instance of the task while never exposing the token to Nomad servers.
The following example shows all that is needed for a job to request a Vault token with access to multiple policies:
task "api-server" {
# ...
vault {
policies = ["user-db-read", "payments-api"]
# ...
The Vault token is made available to the task via the canonical
VAULT_TOKEN environment variable, and is also written to a file in a new
secrets/ directory.
secrets/ directory is backed by an in-memory filesystem on supported operating systems and provides a convenient location to write secret data that should not be persisted past the life of the task.
Nomad 0.5 introduces a new
template block that provides a convenient way to include configuration files that are populated from Consul data, Vault secrets, or just general configurations within a Nomad task.
template block is powered by the popular Consul Template tool. As such, configurations managed by Nomad can be updated dynamically. To make handling configuration changes as easy as possible, Nomad can signal or restart a task when templates are rewritten.
If the task requests access to a set of Vault policies, the Vault token created for the task is made seamlessly available to the template block. This makes reading secrets from Vault incredibly simple.
The below example shows a template rendering a configuration that is populated with data from both Consul and Vault. The template could also be stored outside of the job file and downloaded separately.
task "example" {
# ...
template {
data = <<END
"log_level": "{{key "service/geo-api/log-verbosity"}}",
"api_key": "{{with secret "secret/geo-api-key"}}{{.Data.key}}{{end}}"
destination = "local/config.json"
# ...
This simple block would materialize a configuration similar to the below and continue watching for changes to the data in both Consul and Vault.
$ cat local/config.json
"log_level": "TRACE",
"api_key": "2f11c4a6-a15c-11e6-80f5-76304dec7eb7"
Nomad 0.5 introduces a new option for persisting data between versions of a task called sticky volumes.
Nomad provides all tasks an ephemeral location to write data. Historically, when a replacement task is created because the user submitted an update job or the node is being drained, the data written by the original task is lost.
With the newly introduced
sticky parameter, Nomad will make a best effort scheduling attempt to place the updated task onto the original machine and re-attach the ephemeral volumes used by the previous task.
If Nomad fails to place the task on the original node it can optionally do a remote migration of the data. This is controlled with the
migrate parameter. Sticky volumes does not provide any guarantee that the data will not be lost as it is not replicated between hosts. It however provides a useful tool for applications that can handle data lost but would prefer not to, such as Cassandra or HDFS.
The below gives an example of how to both enable sticky volumes and remote migrations:
group "sticky" {
# ...
ephemeral_disk {
# Requst 2 GB of storage
size = 2048
# Enable sticky for the ephemeral volume
sticky = true
# Enable migrations for the case Nomad could not place the updated
# allocation on the same node
migrate = true
# ...
Nomad 0.5 brings the ability to encrypt all of its network traffic. There are two separate encryption systems: one for gossip traffic and for both RPC and HTTP communications.
Gossip traffic is encrypted using symmetric key encryption between Nomad servers and TLS is used to secure all other communication. See the Nomad Agent's Encryption page for more details.
Nomad 0.5 is a big release that adds lots of new features, improvements, stability, and bug fixes. As a result, we expect that there will be some new issues which will be addressed in point releases following.
Features that are currently planned for the next major release of Nomad are:
Until then, we hope you enjoy Nomad 0.5 as much as we do! If you experience any issues, please report them on GitHub.
Running Boundary workers as dynamic workloads can be challenging. Using the Nomad and Vault integration along with a custom Vault plugin, this process can be seamlessly automated.
HashiCorp Nomad 1.6 introduces node pools to help manage multi-tenant Nomad clusters, along with a redesigned job UI, Nomad Pack improvements, and more.
Learn about the internals of Nomad's evaluation broker and how we recently reduced scheduler loads by 90% during rapid cluster changes.


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Bolivia's Attorney General's Office dismissed or sanctioned more than 100 of its employees in 2015 for various transgressions, pointing to the pervasiveness of corruption within the institution, but also to an increasing vigilance when there is official misbehavior.
Attorney General Ramiro Guerrero announced on state television that 67 of the 500 prosecutors in his office had been dismissed due to accusations of corruption. The dismissals resulted from a range of complaints, including "ill treatment" of litigants, bribe-taking, lack of adherence to investigative requirements, missed deadlines and delays in filing charges, according to La Razón.
Guerrero also said that an additional 41 officials had been sanctioned with reductions of between five and 40 percent of their salaries for other misdeeds on the job, which he did not specify.
The attorney general announced that the agency would replace the dismissed prosecutors with 60 newly certified lawyers who will be "proven, appropriate and have professional ethics."
Additionally, Guerrero emphasized that his office exists to serve the public.
"The service that the Attorney General's office provides is totally free," he said. "It is not permitted to charge people even one cent."
InSight Crime Analysis
There two very different ways to read this purge. Although the dismissal or sanctioning of more than 13 percent of federal prosecutors suggests the continued existence of widespread corruption in public institutions, the dismissals might also serve as a sign that the Bolivian government does not intend to tolerate official malfeasance.
SEE ALSO: Bolivia: South America's New Drug Hub
The anti-corruption actions may also reflect an increasing awareness of the role corruption has played in Bolivia's growing involvement with the regional drug trade. As InSight Crime reported, early last year Bolivia's anti-corruption ministry began investigating allegations of illicit enrichment among dozens of police and judicial officials. In March, the attorney for the district of La Paz, Patricia Santos, was removed from her position along with several other prosecutors facing a large number of accusations of misconduct.
The drive to root out corruption appears to extend beyond the judiciary. In March of last year, the former head of Bolivia's anti-narcotics police, Oscar Nina, was arrested on suspicion of illicit enrichment and ties to the drug trade. And late last week, the Attorney General's Office announced charges of embezzlement and illicit enrichment against the head of the armed forces, Gonzalo Durán.


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AppliedMicro plans to put ARM mobile chips with 16 cores in servers, but is approaching the market cautiously following the abrupt shutdown of ARM server pioneer Calxeda late last year.
AppliedMicro will talk about its faster and more power-efficient processors called X-Gene 2 and X-Gene 3, which has 3D transistors and 16 cores, at a forum in Taipei hosted by Digitimes Friday, ahead of next week's Computex trade show. The company's first 64-bit X-Gene low-power chip is based on ARM architecture and will be in servers by the end of this year.
There is an interest in ARM chips for Web hosting. Their low-power consumption could help cut data-center electric bills. But only a handful of 32-bit ARM servers are available from companies like Mitac and Boston Ltd. More 64-bit ARM servers are expected to come out by the end of this year.
With the X-Gene 2 and 3 chips, AppliedMicro wants to pack more horsepower in dense and rack servers. Around 20 server makers have expressed interest in using the first X-Gene chip, said Gaurav Singh, vice president in technical strategy at AppliedMicro.
Hewlett-Packard has said it will use X-Gene in its Moonshot dense servers, and Singh said more partners will be announced at the Taipei forum. The initial X-Gene servers are a start and a good look at how ARM stacks up against Intel's x86 chip, which dominates the server market, Singh said.
AppliedMicro has demonstrated the server chip running OpenStack, Memcached and other key Web applications. The company wants to ensure the relevant software and tools are ready when the servers arrive, Singh said.
"The whole benefit of ARM versus the incumbent, people can actually see it now," Singh said. "There's definitely excitement."
The X-Gene has eight customized 2.4GHz CPU cores made using the older 40-nanometer process. It has integrated networking and I/O modules, error correction and RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) features.
The successor X-Gene 2 chip could appear in servers in as soon as 12 to 18 months, but it could be later, Singh said. The chip will also have eight cores, but will deliver better performance-per-watt and be made using the advanced 28-nanometer process. Network and I/O enhancements will result in throughput improvements, which will allow processing cores in a server to exchange data faster. The chip will also reduce application latency so servers can create and terminate virtual machines faster.
Singh did not provide a release date for the X-Gene 3, but it will boast many power-efficiency and performance improvements with 3D transistors. The chip could have 16 cores and will be made using FinFET processors, which allows placing 3D transistors on chips.
"We are looking at an increased core count where it makes sense. What the market wants now is eight cores," Singh said. "There are still innovations from the microarchitecture that can come. We're focusing on that."
AppliedMicro's main ARM server challenger is Advanced Micro Devices, which is shipping a 64-bit ARM processor code-named Seattle to test customers. Cavium and Marvell are also developing ARM server chips.
AppliedMicro has first-mover advantage as it is the only company with a 64-bit chip based on a custom core, while others are using off-the-shelf parts like ARM's Cortex-A57 cores, said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy.
ARM's Cortex-A57 core will also be used in smartphones and tablets.
But the competition will pick up as AMD is planning a customized ARM core, Moorhead said. The ARM core, called K12, was recently announced by AMD as part of Project Skybridge, a series of products that will provide the plumbing for its ARM and x86 cores to be interchanged or combined on a single motherboard.
A road map of X-Gene 2 and 3 shows that AppliedMicro has future plans for ARM servers, Moorhead said. Showing commitment is important for chip makers, especially with questions lingering around ARM servers, Moorhead said.
AppliedMicro's Singh acknowledged the skepticism surrounding ARM servers and said the company is approaching the future cautiously. The failure of the first ARM server chip maker, Calxeda, raised eyebrows, but AppliedMicro learned some lessons.
"Calxeda was a very good exercise in validating. They were able to come out and show TCO [total-cost-of-ownership] benefits in using their parts," Singh said. "They were too early, and were not able to sustain the investments."
Calxeda started off with a 32-bit ARM server chip and had an innovative fabric, but server performance is critical and there was a demand for 64-bit chips, Singh said. AppliedMicro decided not to invest in 32-bit chips and started off with 64-bit server chips.
Though pitted against each other, ARM server chip makers have a common goal to dismantle Intel's dominance, Singh said. ARM server companies jointly defined 64-bit server architecture through ARM's Server Base System Architecture organization and worked on software development through the nonprofit Linaro.
But AppliedMicro believes it has an advantage because of the custom cores in X-Gene.
"There will be excitement," Singh said. "The first company out there gets feedback from the market."
Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Standard Code, an Atlanta-based company that builds cloud-based data apps and tools for global health organizations, has partnered with life sciences and pharmaceutical enterprise Merck to deploy their proprietary SDK platform in Africa. To put the platform to use, Standard Code will be expanding their operations and opening an office in Nairobi, Kenya, and sending Jared Malan, founding partner and product designer, to lead it.
"We're good at collecting, storing, and sharing data," says Malan, who has been commuting back and forth from Africa to Atlanta for two years. "We've gotten especially good at collecting data in unconventional places and ways. Africa has made us good at that. Being here will make us much better."
Through the partnership with Merck, which is the oldest and one of the largest chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the world, Standard Code will help track donated drugs from inception to its recipient in Kenya, as well as obtain insights from users to further improve the product.
"Beyond the tool, we are creating our own datasets to relieve suffering. We maintain some of the most important global health databases for others. We are in discussion to map cancer throughout the continent as well as noncommunicable disease in children," says Malan, who has officially crossed the pond along with his family to build the team in Nairobi.
Hypepotamus caught up with Malan after his first week on the ground and learn more on Standard Code's partnership with Merck, get a sneak peek into the team's decision process to expand, and how he hopes this will reflect back on Atlanta.
How did the partnership with Merck come about and how did it influence your decision to expand to Nairobi?
We built the technology that the World Health Organization uses to track drug donation programs. One of the pharmaceuticals that donates a huge number of drugs through the WHO is Merck. We became direct clients with Merck to help them run a pilot that tracks the donations all the way down to the child who receives the drug. Earlier this year, I came to Kenya to prepare for that pilot. I got to know the Merck team and learn about what Merck resources are in the country. This led us to extend our partnership with them through their accelerator program.
While you have business all over Africa, why did you choose Nairobi to set up your business? Is this just due to the Merck partnership?
Nairobi is the place to be when it comes to working in East Africa. It is a thriving hub for global health and international development. This was very apparent as we spent time here. We considered other locations, but Nairobi is central to our work and doesn't have major safety concerns like other countries we are active in. Merck has also been key to bringing us to Nairobi. The move has been much easier because we are leveraging their resources.
How will the Nairobi office help connect the field teams to your technology?
Standard Code is a team of developers in Atlanta, Georgia. Most of us have never been to Africa and don't really understand what life is like there. My first time in Kenya was just last month. People are in many ways the same everywhere, but there are also important differences. Also, the environment, the infrastructure, the opportunities throughout Africa are very very different. Understanding the people and environment make us better and more empathetic builders.
What kind of team members are you looking for to grow the team in Nairobi? Will the team be product development focused?
We are looking for people who have a deep understanding of Africa and can help us find opportunities and implement solutions. We're looking for global health experts. People who have roots in Africa. Global health requires a lot of partnership building. You need buy in from the government, help with implementation, and funding support. Different organizations are good at these activities so it's important to have someone who knows how to get all the parties activated.
We'll keep product development in our home office because there are a lot of benefits to being in the same space, but we want to provide many more opportunities for the coders to experience Africa. Each member of the core team will be joining me in Nairobi for two weeks to experience the country.
Standard Code saw an opportunity to grow in order to innovate. There's still a risk. How did you decide as a team that this was the right move?
We started Standard Code as a way to supplement our product work. We did web development for whoever had money to spend. During this time, we happened to be introduced to a global health organization. We did good work for them so we found ourselves expanding within the global health world. We kept getting new opportunities referred to us by our clients.
Four years later, we build almost exclusively for global health organizations. We are now at a stage where having a presence in Africa is important. It adds a level of credibility for our clients and helps us make better technology decisions. From the outside, this looks risky, but we have set the expansion up in such a way that it's only a modest investment on our part. Merck has been instrumental in making the expansion feasible.
I'd say the biggest risk is moving my young family over. Nairobi is not an easy city for children. But the experience was something I and my family wanted. My seven-year old thought it was a bigger risk. He was both concerned about the airplanes ability to fly over the entire ocean and the lions.
This partnership is one of a kind! How do you hope your success will reflect back on Atlanta's startup scene?
Atlanta is especially good at a few things. The tech community has taken advantage of most of those strengths. Global health however has been missed. Atlanta has the CDC, the Task Force for Global Health, Emory, and the Carter Center to name a few of the highlights. We hope to help others tech startups think about making a real impact. We like to say that we help relieve suffering with data. That's a big mission that many other startups could embrace.
While startup life is unpredictable, how are you handling the move along with your family? Do you have any immediate goals you hope to accomplish once you're on the ground?
I've now been in Nairobi for a week. It's been difficult on many fronts. Just getting food and water requires a whole new level of effort. But we're now mostly settled in, we're past our jet lag, and we got out of the city to see giraffe and zebra and hippos and many other animals.
As for work, we continue to progress our work with Merck as we build out a focused use case for Secure Data Kit. My days will be spent talking to pharmaceutical companies, ministries of health, and NGOs. We also have a few product updates coming online that we'll test in country.


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Unlike most virtual reality captures of landscapes, sporting events or concerts, The Lion King's allows viewers to experience "Circle of Life" from the actors' point of view and see activity otherwise invisible to an audience. The camera allows viewers – in a seamless 360° sweep – to experience the number from within it, completely surrounded by the 31 cast members onstage, Julie Taymor's eye-popping puppets and masks, the audience seated in the Minskoff Theatre auditorium, set pieces flying in from above and actors emerging from two floors below the stage as Pride Rock rises up to present Mufasa, Rafiki and baby Simba. The virtual reality technology enables viewers to choose where to look at every point, inviting repeat viewings of the video to take in every possible vantage point.
"In our 19th year, The Lion King continues to be embraced to an unprecedented degree around the world, and we are humbled," said Thomas Schumacher, President and Producer Disney Theatrical Productions. "But with that success comes the responsibility to consistently find new ways of sharing Julie Taymor's bold artistry. What better way to do that than this cutting edge virtual reality technology that puts you right in the middle of one of the most unforgettable production numbers ever staged? For the first time ever, you become part of the 'Circle of Life.'"
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Located within the Judiciary Square of D.C., the museum is expertly situated between three court buildings and directly adjacent to the National Law Enforcement memorial. Aside from the entrance, the majority of the museum is entirely below-ground, containing various exhibits, a forensics lab, a hall of remembrance, a research center, and a theater. Our acousticians initially made site noise and vibration measurements of the passing Metro-Train and E-Street vehicular traffic due to the location of the museum. They also provided acoustical design for all occupied areas, review of acoustical finishes for the theater and multipurpose spaces, as well as reviewed the HVAC system to ensure suitable noise levels are maintained.
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This is a partial transcript of "Special Report With Brit Hume" from Dec. 1, 2005, that has been edited for clarity.
CHRIS WALLACE, FOX ANCHOR: Let's just take the example of one prisoner who is now in U.S. custody, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, would you want him to know all the things that the U.S. wouldn't do to him as a prisoner to in effect eliminate the fear factor?
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Well, first of all, he doesn't know all the things that you wouldn't do. Second of all, if you decide to torture him, you probably don't get the right information because torture doesn't work.
BRIT HUME, HOST: Torture is long forbidden — has long been forbidden by U.S. law. But Senator McCain has gotten the Senate to pass overwhelmingly a further ban on "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of any enemy captive." Is this a good idea and is torture, as Senator McCain argues, always a bad idea? For answers, we turn to the syndicated columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer who has an essay on the subject in the current edition of our sister publication, The Weekly Standard.
Charles, welcome.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, FOX CONTRIBUTOR: Good to be here.
HUME: Your thoughts on this? Now, it's against the law right now to torture.
KRAUTHAMMER: Right. But it's a very narrow definition. Organ failure and death. What we are talking about here.
HUME: I think we have it. Let's just take a look at it. I think we may have that definition. Torture is defined as — there it is: "An act committed by a person acting under color of law specifically intending to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering."
KRAUTHAMMER: Right, well, look, the definitions are less important than the question of what can you do to whom under which conditions? And under the McCain amendment, which is what people are talking about, which got 90 senators in support of it a few weeks ago, nothing that would be called cruel, unusual or degrading would be allowed.
On the face of it, I think that's something that is not supportable, and I give in the essay two exceptions. The first is the "ticking time bomb" exception where, for instance, you have got a bomb in Manhattan, you have got a guy who knows where it is. He planted it, he's not talking. It's hard to imagine anybody who would say that you don't do what you have to do in order to find out where the bomb is and to save hundreds or thousands of people. That's number one.
And under this law that McCain is proposing, there is no exception. What's interesting is that in Newsweek he was asked about this particular example and his answer was, well, in that case a president ought to do what he has to do and take the responsibility. But how can you argue on the one hand that torturing this person who knows where the bomb is what you have to do and on the other hand argue it's something that ought never be done.
HUME: And doesn't work.
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, that's also problematic. I mean, I respect Senator McCain. He suffered torture and he knows how horrible it is. But that's simply not so that it doesn't work. There is a classic example 11 years ago, the Israelis had a soldier kidnapped. The Israelis located the driver of the car who kidnapped the soldier. Yitzhak Rabin, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was the prime minister, and he admitted that they tortured the driver, he talked and they located this soldier. So here's a classic.
HUME: They saved him?
KRAUTHAMMER: No. Unfortunately, in the assault on the house where he was being held, the Palestinians killed him in the middle of the assault. But that doesn't change the moral calculus. If you are a prime minister and you are deciding you don't know where the guy is and you have got to launch a rescue mission and you can't unless you know where he is, you have got to make a decision. And Rabin decided in that way. I can't imagine a leader of any country would decide otherwise.
HUME: So where does that leave this debate in your judgment and what — I mean, is this — what about the idea, for example, Charles, that we as a nation have held ourselves out as being the most civilized nation, the most advanced in terms of the great powers, that we are the good guys? And torture has, for whatever — you know, rightly or wrongly as you suggested in some cases perhaps wrongly, a bad reputation in the world and we need friends and allies and if we do not have at least firm-stated policies against it, where does that leave us?
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I think if you state a policy which you cannot sustain, again, in this example I gave and the example I would give of — there is a second example exception, which I think is extremely important, it's less hypothetical, the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the high level Al Qaeda who knows all kinds of logistics, all kinds of information. And we know that he was subjected to rough treatment. And one in particular in which is a terrible interrogation technique in which you douse water and the person senses he is drowning. He talked.
HUME: It's called water boarding.
KRAUTHAMMER: He talked after two minutes of that, two minutes. Now if we got information out of him and other high level Al Qaeda.
HUME: Does that qualify, by the way, under this definition, in your view, as torture? Cruel, degrading, inhumane?
KRAUTHAMMER: It would under the — I mean, how can you define anything like that which is quite horrible as not...
HUME: You feel like you are drowning.
KRAUTHAMMER: Of course. It's cruel, it's inhumane, it's degrading.
HUME: But you are not drowning.
KRAUTHAMMER: You're not. But it's horrible. It's like a mock execution over and over and over again. If it gave us information — and that kind of treatment with other high level Al Qaeda, gave us information, which would explain why we have not suffered an attack in four years, I would say it was not the wrong thing to do.
And because of these two exceptions, I think you cannot have a law which says this can never ever be done, even though you would like the world to think that it would be hypocritical and dishonest to say otherwise.
HUME: And from what Senator McCain says, it appears that his view is, well, you might have to do it sometime but then you take the consequences.
KRAUTHAMMER: Right. And I'm saying it's not an honest way to argue the case.
HUME: Charles Krauthammer, see you later on the panel.
KRAUTHAMMER: Sure.
HUME: Glad to have you here.
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'Anti-solar panel' concept generates power in the dark
A researcher at the University of California, Davis, is developing prototype anti-solar panels, which he hopes will generate power from wasted thermal energy.
Solar panels harness the photovoltaic effect to generate electricity. They absorb packets of light (photons) from the Sun, causing electrons to become excited and flow within the module, generating a current. Surplus power generated during periods of intense sunlight is stored in batteries for use at other times, although battery technology has advanced relatively slowly.
Professor Jeremy Munday, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Davis, has laid out proposals for a "night-time photovoltaic cell" in ACS Photonics, which would use the Earth as a heat source and the sky as a heat sink into which the device releases infrared radiation (light of a lower frequency than visible light).
While the concept has been compared in statements to a solar panel, it does not use a similar process and is essentially a heat engine.
"A regular solar cell generates power by absorbing sunlight, which causes a voltage to appear across the device and for current to flow," Munday explained. "In these new devices, light is instead emitted and the current and voltage go in the opposite direction, but you still generate power. You have to use different materials, but the physics is the same."
Munday's prototype produces 50W per square metre, while conventional solar panels produce approximately 200W per square metre during daytime.
Munday told CNN that the concept device has a clear advantage over conventional solar panels, which can only work during the day: "Nobody wants to lose power once the Sun sets," he said.
He suggested that the devices could run on excess heat generated from industrial processes, as well as potentially being incorporated into domestic buildings like conventional solar panels.
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