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Man shot dead on New York City subway in latest random attack
NEW YORK (REUTERS) - A 48-year-old man was shot in the chest while riding on a New York City subway car on Sunday (May 22) in what appeared to be the latest in a series of random attacks in the city's transit system.
The unidentified gunman fled when the train pulled into a station in Manhattan and remained at large on Sunday evening, Kenneth Corey, NYPD chief of department, said at a news briefing.
"Preliminary investigation reveals the suspect was walking back and forth in the same train car and, without provocation, pulled out a gun and fired it at the victim at close range as the train was crossing the Manhattan Bridge," Corey said.
The gunman, described only as a heavy-set, "dark-skinned" man with a beard wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sweat pants, fled when the train pulled into the next station, Corey said.
The suspect and the victim did not appear to know each other and had not interacted prior to the gunfire, police said.
The victim, who was not identified by police, was pronounced dead at Bellvue Hospital.
New York City has seen a rise in violence, accompanied by a series of random attacks on subway system riders.
The transit violence has included passengers pushed onto the tracks from platforms, including a Manhattan woman whose murder was seen as part of a surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
On April 12, a gunman set off two smoke bombs and opened fire in a New York City subway car, wounding more than 20 people. A suspect identified as 62-year-old Frank James was taken into custody the following day.
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A guide to the Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations 2016
- Date of publication:
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About this guidance
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- identifying sources of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in your workplace;
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The categorization and mapping exercise was an opportunity for you to identify the conceptual maps you hold and perhaps take for granted. Just like the image exercise in Module 3.
Just to review and reiterate some of the ideas we have engaged so far. Conceptual maps are made of shared assumptions, cultural values and norms. Certain categories make sense to us because we share the meaning underlying them. Think of the categories you put together in the previous exercise and the discussion you had. The categories you put together are in a way part of your conceptual maps.
However, as we have seen so far, belonging in particular categories is not fixed, nor are the categories themselves. For example, historically men have been identified with work outside the home, and women with home making and childcare.
This photo, taken from an article featured in The Economist, "Who's Your Daddy," refers to a trend, in the US, for more men to become stay at home dads. Here the magazine is reporting on an emerging social reality in the US. At the same time, by showing these images and writing about the topic the story contributes to discussions about new trends in parenthood and meaning of manhood. The example shows changing associations with parenthood.
Media also draws similar connections, that is, media rely on our shared and assumed conceptual maps in order to convey a message. In addition, media in powerful ways shapes our conceptual maps. By making only particular kinds of connections (categories, meanings) media, and we as audiences, reinforce particular meanings.
Below is a link to an article that parodies the many travelogue pieces that have been written by foreign visitors and journalists in Kosovo. As Hana Marku's piece shows, much of this writing relies on stereotypes, generalizations, and little contextualization. The meanings attributed to Kosovo, in the articles Marku parodies, continue to reference conflict and war, inter-ethnic tensions, a working class guide, generalizations about peoples' beliefs and cultural values, and an emphasis on rural-urban differences. The photographs, also, almost always contain one picture of a cultural heritage site, one picture of a local culinary specialty, and one of a group of people. Quite often these kinds of articles provide superficial accounts of a much more complex social reality.
However, as the example from The Economist shows, media can make new kinds of connections and affect our norms and values, thus being a powerful force in social change. The article shows how larger changes (mainly economic) make a previously rare practice (men being primary care givers) possible, and how these larger changes interact with social norms.
Media can also be used to promote certain issue, raise awareness and empower citizens. The following video is an example of a Prizren (Kosovo) based NGO, Ec Ma Ndryshe, providing an online platform (mahalla.info) for citizens to improve the living environment in their neighborhoods. This is an example of how social media are used to engage the audience.
Think of audience, conceptual maps, and media as part of a process that is not linear, rather as a process where one shapes the other.
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We noticed the stain on the bathroom vinyl right away, a kind we've seen before, pink-colored, next to the tub. Someone told us recently that this blush is caused by water hitting the glue that is used to hold the flooring. I don't know, but I do know it is permanent, and on this black-and-white-pattern vinyl, it was very noticeable.
We were pretty sure that the floor would be called on the termite report even if there was no actual damage to the wood underneath, plus we felt a floor with less bold contrast in the pattern would make this large and nicely appointed bathroom look more elegant.
Replacement didn't seem to us too hard. We had enough money in the budget to use ceramic tile rather than vinyl, and we had enough lead time to have a tile floor installed. Anet and I went to Import Tile in Berkeley and walked the aisles, gazed for long minutes at gorgeous, but expensive, glass tiles. Our favorite ceramic tiles were more reasonable in price but had to be special ordered, and we didn't have the time. We happily settled on a beautiful porcelain tile in softest gray and asked for a sample.
Over the following few days, we tried out the sample tile, found it perfect, measured carefully, and went back to the store to place our order. It had been in stock but today they had no more. They would be getting more, but they didn't know just when.
We tried other tile shops without luck. Disappointed, we went to the Armstrong store on Broadway in Oakland to see if maybe there was a vinyl we might use. We've looked at vinyl many times over the years but have not found any we like. We don't like the shiny, wet look, nor are we fans of the pretend-something – fake cobblestones, brick, wood planks, etc.
Marmoleum is beautiful but expensive to lay, in part because it must have new underlayment. Also, at my own house, Marmoleum in a bathroom was damaged by water. We'd rather use another material in a bath.
Hanging on display racks at Armstrong were a couple of vinyls we liked, how very surprising, new ones since we'd last looked, I guess. But they are no longer available. We asked why discontinued products remain on display – just to torture us? There was no answer. About the time we were going to give up, we chanced on a very interesting ring of vinyl samples. These were not sheet vinyl, but 18-inch squares, in lovely colors including a dove gray similar to the porcelain tile we'd liked so much. The pattern is subtle, just a hint of the look of marble, but without a direction in the pattern.
Best and most wonderful of all, these tiles were available and we could get them in plenty of time for our contractor to lay them. We borrowed a sample and took it to the house. Perfection. We placed our order. The company that makes the tile is in Georgia, they'd fed-ex the 2 boxes we needed to arrive within 5 days. In fact, they did arrive at the Armstrong warehouse but they'd sent the wrong color. A new order was placed.
Meanwhile, Shaun, our contractor, in town for a few days to work on this house, was making minor repairs at the house, trying to get all done by the time the painters would begin the interior paint. The new shipment didn't come in time for him, and when it did arrive, one of the boxes was damaged. Half a dozen corners of tile were broken; we needed another box. The warehousemen were helpful though. We talked each time we went to the warehouse and on one of our visits, they mentioned that the mastic needed for the job would have to be ordered ahead. We added mastic to the order.
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So, what is it that's coming for us, helicopter flight enthusiasts? I hate to be the bearer of bad news but folks, right now, not much.
Let me start by saying this: do not stop reading after the next paragraph. Keep on reading and you'll understand DTG's plan for helicopters. Because there is one. And I, personally, am putting a lot of faith in it.
Dovetail Games Flight Sim World will not bring any helicopters at launch. It won't even ship with a helicopter flight dynamics module. That's right: nothing. Not right now.
DTG decided not to develop helicopters from the start. Why is that? Because they are taking a baby step approach to their sim. Remember that FSW is coming from a rather old base code (FSX) and they need to improve a lot of areas, enhance what's done, rebuild a lot of stuff and get the sim up to pair with their competition and our expectations.
If you take a look at this video from FlightSimCon 2016, Steve Hood mentions exactly that: they have a huge list of stuff they want to add but they are starting with the basic stuff and growing the sim from there. Flight School was a huge part of it (and now Dovetail is giving us, Flight School users, a free copy of FSW).
This video is great to understand a lot of what's going on and why is it that FSW will bring some stuff and not some other stuff. Do make yourself the favor and watch it.
At minute 48:15 our friend Belgeode asks specifically about helicopters and Steve mentions that it's on the list and they will get there. But not just now. At minute 48:57 he says a certain guy (I will leave it up to you to guess who that is *wink*) has pressing him about helicopters. Dovetail is aware of our existence. And they are aware that helicopters, in the base code FSX, sucks.
As such, they will be working on it and, hopefully, do a great job at it. We need good simulators that can give us all the bells (no pun intended) and whistles we required to experience our sims and enjoy our hobby to the fullest.
So, when exactly will we have helicopters available?
We don't know. Heck I don't know if DTG knows. They might have it slated but this is software development. From experience as an 18+ year software developer, I know things can and will always will go the wrong way and software may get delayed.
Should we wait for it? I would say yes. Should we get FSW even without helicopters? Definitely. Why?
Well, because if we all start pitching in, giving our opinions towards other areas of the sim such as scenery, weather, physics (remember: fixed-wing physics obviously also apply to helicopters), tools and everything else that, though not particular to helicopters, help us enjoy our sim better.
I'll do my best and my part on this as I know a lot of you will as well. For those who won't, for whatever reason that might be: we'll do our best to help DTG make FSW a great sim for you all to give it a proper try in the future. As a community, we owe it to each other.
We'll make sure to let you know whenever something about these birds come out. Until then, let's give our support to this new sim and hope DTG does a darn fine job with it.


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Despite a late-season slide that nearly cost them the division — Los Angeles lost seven of its final 11 regular season games — the Dodgers finished with the National League's best record (95-67) in 2009. However, they once again fell flat against the Phillies in the NLCS. Perhaps a result of their owners' pending divorce, the Dodgers lost more talent than they acquired this offseason, costing them their designation of NL West favorites.
Three questions
1. Which Manny Ramirez will show up?
Ramirez was rolling (.348 average, six homers, 20 RBIs in 27 games) before his shocking 50-game suspension in early May. After returning, he hit .269-13-43 in 77 games. He lost bat speed and confidence, and approaching age 38, there are doubts about whether he can recapture the form that made him an instant sensation/hero upon his arrival in Los Angeles in 2008.
Among the Dodgers' starting outfielders, Ramirez already was the weakest defensively. Now he enters the season as arguably the third most productive offensively. Andre Ethier (31 homers, 106 RBIs) and Matt Kemp (26 homers, 101 RBIs) both are coming off career years and have yet to peak. "Manny is no different than any other player in that he's going to have his ups and downs, but I'm not going to change a thing with Manny," hitting coach Don Mattingly said. "Manny is the last player that I'm worried about heading into (this) season."
2. Is the rotation strong enough?
The Dodgers opted not to offer Randy Wolf arbitration and declined their 2010 option on Jon Garland, losing both starters in free agency while getting nothing in return. Wolf led the staff with 34 starts and 214 1/2 innings pitched, while winning 11 games and posting a 3.23 ERA last season. After being acquired from Arizona in late August, Garland went 3-2 with a 2.72 ERA in six starts.
Because they failed to sign/trade for a No. 1 in the offseason, the responsibility will fall on the 22-year-old left shoulder of Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw's 2.79 ERA and 185 strikeouts led the rotation in 2009, but it would be advantageous to ease him into the No. 1 role. The ideal No. 1 is Chad Billingsley, who faded badly (5.20 ERA) in the second half last season and has yet to solve his consistency issues. Behind them are the oft-injured Hiroki Kuroda, the temperamental Vicente Padilla and a huge void that could be filled by either Ramon or Russ Ortiz.
3. Should Russell Martin lose 25 pounds?
Frustrated by his declining production, Martin packed on 25 pounds this offseason. Early in camp, he suffered a strained groin muscle, which will sideline for the first couple weeks of the regular season. Martin recently told the Los Angeles Times that his extra bulk in no way contributed to his injury, but he has averaged 150 games played the past three season. While you could question his fading offensive output — from 19 homers and 87 RBIs in 2007 to seven homers and 53 RBIs in 2009 — Martin's durability never was in doubt. Until now.
Projected lineup
1. SS Rafael Furcal: 12 SBs in '09 were career-low for full season.
2. CF Matt Kemp: 30-30 season is close (26 HRs, 34 SBs) in '09.
3. RF Andre Ethier: Fourth in MLB with 19 game-winning RBIs.
4. LF Manny Ramirez: .624 career SLG vs. lefties; slugged .514 vs. lefties in '09.
5. 1B James Loney: 13 HRs, 90 RBIs in '08 and '09.
6. 3B Casey Blake: 9 HRs through May; 9 more rest of '09.
7. C Russell Martin: SLG (.329) lower than his OBP (.352).
8. 2B Blake DeWitt: .276 career AVG at home; .239 on road.
Projected rotation
1. LHP Clayton Kershaw: Allowed no ERs in 9 of his 30 starts.
2. RHP Chad Billingsley: NL-worst 14 wild pitches last season.
3. RHP Hiroki Kuroda: Injuries limited him to 21 games (3.76 ERA).
4. RHP Vicente Padilla: 4-0, 3.20 ERA in eight games with L.A. in '09.
5. RHP Ramon Ortiz: Last pitched in MLB in '07 (5.45 ERA).
RHP Jonathan Broxton: Led MLB relievers with 114 K's in '09.
Offense: B. Despite Ramirez's woes, the Dodgers finished first in the National League in on-base percentage, in a virtual tie for first in batting average and fourth in runs scored. However, they were 23rd in the majors in homers. A return to form by Ramirez and a little more pop from James Loney would be welcome.
Pitching: B. The Dodgers led the majors with a 3.41 staff ERA, and their rotation ERA (3.12) was nearly a half-run better than the next-best team's (Oakland at 3.46). Their 3.58 rotation ERA ranked behind only the Braves' 3.52. Anchored by dominant closer Jonathan Broxton the bullpen will be strong again. However, the rotation is weaker.
Bench: A. Newcomer Jamey Carroll can play all over the diamond. Ronnie Belliard (.351-5-17 after joining the Dodgers last August) moves to a reserve infielder role, and Reed Johnson is the fourth outfielder. It remains to be seen whether the bench will be big enough for Garret Anderson and Doug Mientkiewicz.
Manager: A. Torre has reached the playoffs for 14 consecutive seasons but extending that streak to 15 will be challenging. Entering what could be his final season as a manager — there are discussions about a one-year extension that would keep him at the helm through the 2011 season — Torre must be near-flawless in his handling of the pitching staff.
Sporting News prediction: The Dodgers will hang tough in the NL West and NL wild-card races but will fall just short of a third consecutive division title and playoff berth.
Coming Tuesday: Rockies preview.
Chris Bahr is a senior editor for Sporting News. E-mail him at email@example.com.


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Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal expressed deep concern over Delhi Golf Club official's alleged misbehaviour with a Khasi woman who was denied entry to the club because she was wearing jainsem, a traditional Khasi dress.
Sonowal called up Union minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju and asked for exemplary punishment to the Delhi Golf Club over the incident.
Expressing his anguish, Sonowal while discussing the incident with Rijiju, termed the incident as despicable and condemnable. He said denying access to Delhi Golf Club and subsequent misbehaviour by the club management 'is not only a disrespect to the woman, it is a discriminatory attitude towards Northeasterners'. Sonowal also requested Rijiju for taking exemplary step against Delhi Golf Club so that it acts as a deterrent towards such discriminatory attitude in future.
Honorary adviser to the Assam health department, Nivedita Barthakur Sondhi, who was present at the Delhi Golf Club, narrated the whole incident to the chief minister on Wednesday. She informed Sonowal about how the Delhi Golf Club denied entry to Tailin Lyndoh on the pretext of her traditional dress.
Later, Sondhi also said that she would take up the matter with the National Commission for Scheduled Tribe to which Sonowal assured all assistance from the government.


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Now entering our fifteenth year, Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana (GSGCNWI) is excited to bring you a new and improved version of Camp CEO as part of our Zoom into Summer Camp series. We are calling on all high school Girl Scouts interested in developing their leadership skills while learning from women in various high-level careers!
This year, Camp CEO will run July 26-30 and will be a hybrid program, with some days happening in person (location TBA) and some days happening in a virtual capacity. See tentative schedule below!
What to Expect
Throughout the week of Camp CEO, we will focus on the themes of networking, communication skills, self-discovery, and personal insight. We will do this through workshops (in person and virtual) that are hands on and driven by girl and mentor conversations and voices, not lectures.
The highlight of Camp CEO is the opportunity for Girl Scouts to be paired one on one with a mentor who they will work with throughout the week of camp and beyond! The Girl Scout and mentor will be paired after the first day of camp on Monday, July 26. The expectation is that Girl Scout and mentor touch base at least once per day on prompts that will be provided to you.
Through attending Camp CEO, it is our hope that girls in any stage of high school learn the following skills that they will take with them well beyond high school:
- Personal development (self-awareness, self-discovery)
- Skill development (public speaking, conflict resolution, effective communication, problem solving, etc.)
- Exposure to female mentors
- Collaboration skills (team and group work)
- Opportunities to build lasting mentor relationships
To participate in Camp CEO 2021, the following criteria must be met:
- Girl Scouts must register for the program and THEN complete the intake form they will be emailed. Intake forms are due by Friday, June 11. Failure to complete intake form will make the Girl Scout not eligible to participate. In this case, a refund will be issued.
- Girl Scout must be entering grades 9-12 in Fall 2021.
- Girl Scout and their assigned mentor must check in with each other at least once per day via email, phone, or virtual platform. Prompting questions will be provided.
- Girl Scouts must be able to attend all parts of Camp CEO including in person days and virtual workshops. See tentative schedule below for more information.
- Girl Scouts must complete a health history form prior to Camp CEO. The form will be emailed once the intake form is complete.
Camp CEO 2021 Schedule (tentative)
- Monday, July 26 – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (in person)
- Tuesday, July 27 – 10 a.m.-12 p.m. (virtual)
- Wednesday, July 28 – 10 a.m.-12 p.m. (virtual)
- Thursday, July 29 – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (in person)
- Friday, July 30 – 9 a.m.-12 p.m. (in person)
Meet some of our mentors for Camp CEO 2021!
GCNWI Board President Sidney Dillard, (Partner & Head of Corporate Investment Banking, Loop Capital Market
Former GCNWI Board President Kathy Scherer, Managing Partner, Business Tax Services, Deloitte Tax LLP
Mary Bakken, EVP & COO, Silver Cross Hospital
Christine Concari, General Manager Customer Service, Celevland-Cliffs Inc
Julie Marcello, Managing Director, Marsh
Carol Murphy, Managing Director, AON Risk Solutions
Monica Weed, Former Executive VP & General Counsel, Navigant
Katy Lynch, Co-Founder & CMO, Codeverse
Jennifer Montague, VP, Communications and External Affairs, NIPSCO
Cynthia Hunt, Career Advisor, WHEN Way of Life
Tracy Ardis, VP of Human Resources, Silver Cross Hospital
Annie Logue, Freelance Writer, Teacher and Consultant
and more!
Register for the Camp CEO program to receive your intake form.
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Strength, resilience, togetherness, and the support of community—that's what Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana is all about. So in this uncertain world, you can count on one thing for sure: today, tomorrow, together, we are on your team. Join Girl Scouts or renew your membership today!


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Serves 12
|½ lb
|Italian sausage
|4 oz
|cream cheese, softened
|¼ cup
|Pastene Plain Bread Crumbs
|2 Tbsp
|scallion, minced
|¼ cup
|Pastene Grated Parmesan Cheese
|3 Tbsp
|parsley, minced
|1 Tbsp
|Pastene Minced Garlic
|egg, beaten
|32 oz jar Pastene Cored Hot Cherry Peppers, drained
|salt and pepper to taste
Prep time: 25 minutes | Cook time: 25 minutes
- Preheat the oven to 425° F.
- Remove the meat from the sausage casing. Heat a skillet to medium-high and crumble the sausage into the pan.
- Brown for about 5 minutes until cooked through and crispy. Remove from heat, let cool slightly and chop into smaller pieces.
- In a large bowl, combine the sausage, cream cheese, bread crumbs, parmesan cheese, scallion, parsley, and garlic. Season to taste with salt and pepper, then stir in the egg.
- Stuff each cherry pepper with a scoop of the filling.
- Place on a sheet pan and roast for 20 minutes until the peppers look softened and the filling is golden brown on top.


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PSEi Breaches 8,000
Manila—(PHStocks)—Following a slight dip in the previous trading session, Philippine stocks recovered to close today's market a little above theRead More
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Manila—(PHStocks)—Local stocks recover on Friday, 28 November, as investor appetite returned after the sellout in the previous day due toRead More
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Manila—(PHStocks)—Philippine stocks retreated Tuesday, Feb 26, as widespread profit-taking gripped the market. The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) declinedRead More
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Budget IRL Streaming Backpack – A Good Solution for Live Streaming
Live streaming from different locations is an amazing experience and it's made simpler with IRL streaming backpacks. There are decent priced alternatives to Gunrun's IRL streaming backpack on the market. One thing is for sure – an essential part of your budget IRL streaming backpack is making sure you have stable and fast internet. This way, you can send untethered broadcasts to a number of platforms including Twitch, Facebook Live, YouTube, and other channels.
When you're connected to flaky internet services, it will result in buffering screens, leading to a bad live stream experience. To make sure you have a stable internet connection when you live stream to your audience, you'll need Speedify in your toolkit. It's not a heavy piece of hardware. Speedify is a simple-to-use connectivity app that will help you have a fast and seamless internet experience. Best of all, it supports all platforms, including Linux and Raspberry Pi.
Speedify will make sure your streams are uninterrupted and secure. See below how it does this.
Speed and Security Issues with Budget IRL Streaming Backpack
When you stream live content, you'll need high-speed internet. If you're using your phone data or the local café Wi-Fi, it won't be enough to stream HD videos. This will lead to broken video on the viewer's side and you don't want that.
Another issue with live streaming is security. If you're live streaming a corporate meeting or a training session to your team, you'd want the information to be private. There might be hackers lurking on your network.
To ensure that the data you send stays secure, you need to encrypt it. This way, even if someone is spying on you, they won't be able to view the contents of your stream.
If you're looking for a tool that can get you stable, fast and secure internet, you're looking for Speedify. Remember that for your budget IRL streaming backpack!
When Do You Get the Most Connectivity Problems?
The major reason behind live streaming connectivity issues is unreliable internet. Slow internet is frustrating on its own but it becomes downright agonizing when you're live streaming to your audience. The connection can go slow as a snail as you may be stuck to one of those bad WiFi hotspots, for example.
The internet can get unreliable and result in choppy video at any time. But there are some particular situations that create an unstable internet situation.
When you're on the move – whether you're driving or walking to a different location, you'll notice an uneven connection. This is because as you move away from the Wi-Fi or cell towers you were connected to, your connection will get poorer.
If there is a general outage in your area, you'll be unable to go online. During this time, your internet might get painfully slow or stop completely.
When you have a slow internet connection, you won't be able to live stream at HD. If you still try to live stream, the video will be delivered with lots of artifacts, and this can turn off your followers.
Do your live stream viewers experience choppy videos, buffering or even disconnects from your part? Then it's best to use Speedify and get a stable and fast internet connection in no time!
How Speedify Can Help with Your IRL Streaming Problems
Speedify is a bonding VPN, that uses channel bonding technology to combine 2 or more internet channels together at once.
It is an app that can be installed on your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or Raspberry Pi and there's no need for extra hardware with it. Just download and install it – make it part of your budget IRL streaming backpack! Speedify will run in the background to make sure you'll stay connected to the internet, and boost your network when you live stream to your viewers. If you're using that on a Linux machine, you can also share the bonded VPN connection over Wi-Fi or Ethernet to your other devices!
Now you can use public Wi-Fi networks without worrying about unsecured connections. With its advanced encryption, it keeps your data safe from snoopers.
Facing issues with low-quality live streaming videos? Say goodbye to lags and buffering with Speedify – the best connectivity app for our budget IRL streaming backpack.


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Srinagar: A two-day capacity-building workshop on career counselling concluded at the University of Kashmir on Tuesday.
At least 24 participants representing various post-graduate departments/centres of the main and satellite campuses participated in the workshop, organised by the varsity's Centre for Career Planning and Counselling (CCPC).
Resource persons Kapil Mahajan from TATA Advanced Systems Limited and Archie Makhija from Chalk-Talk Organisation spoke at length about various aspects of career counselling during the technical sessions, which were both interactive and inquisitive.
Dean of Academics Affairs Prof Shabir Ahmad Bhat chaired the valedictory session as chief guest. He applauded the resource persons for leading the capacity building of the varsity's career-counsellors with the larger objective of enhancing its Industry-Academia linkage.
He urged career counsellors to take their job seriously and try to make a difference in the lives of the students.
"The workshop is aimed at training the faculty members and to strengthen CCPC's newly-established structure of career counselling set up earlier this year," said Prof Mohammad Shafi, Director CCPC.
He said the Centre maintains a strong Industry-Academia linkage in the larger interest of the student community.
He thanked the participants for their active involvement in each session of the workshop.
"We are here to prepare a pool of professional career counsellors and facilitate their capacity-building so that they serve the cause of the student community better," he said, assuring that more such workshops will be organised in future.
In their feedback, the participants appreciated the planning and the management of the workshop.


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- Full Time
- Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Marketing Manager
Our Company
Everyday Technogym inspires 35 million people to work out utilizing our innovative physical activity solutions. By promoting the wellness lifestyle of exercise, a balanced diet and a positive mental approach, Technogym has rapidly grown into a success story of over 2,300 employees in 14 Branches, reaching 100 countries. More than 80,000 wellness centers and 300,000 private homes in the world are equipped with Technogym. Technogym has been the Official Supplier of 8 Olympic Games since 2000.
At Technogym, we reshape the present and future of physical activity every day. To pursue our mission and continue our success, we are looking for team players who are eager to invest their energy into building dreams. If you naturally fit in with our culture by practicing sport and living a healthy lifestyle and are forward-thinking, always proactive and satisfied only achieving the highest standard, move with us for a better world!
About the Role
We are looking for a result driven and creative Marketing Manager will be responsible to ensure successful delivery of all integrated campaigns and marketing initiatives in the Country.
You are engaging and highly motivated people manager who can create a positive working environment, keep the team sprits up and encourage staff to perform to the best of their ability. You lead by example and provide coaching and regular feedback to your team.
- Define the marketing plan in terms of campaigns, initiatives and events, proposing the correct mix of activities capable of achieving the agreed targets in terms of leads, revenues, margin and profitability
- Define the deployment of all sell-in and sell-out tools (events, mailing, web marketing) in order to generate leads, orders, sales in accordance to Segments Sales strategies
- Manage marketing investments needed to generate expected profitable growth and allocate financial resources among business-building activities
- Implement web marketing plans in line with Sales and Trade Marketing strategies to support new product, solutions and services launch and develop e-commerce plans to increase leads and sales
- Monitor ROI of marketing investments through pre and post analyses of results
- Ensure effective launches of new products into the local market by bundling together marketing activities and creating partnerships with key industry's influencers, in accordance to Marketing HQ guidelines
- Leverage merchandising value and assure proper stock management and control
- Guarantee the best use of CRM to have clean and update market data and support sales force productivity improvement
- Guarantee quality layout/project design in line with Corporate standards
- Leads the team by maximizing performance, people development and engagement according to Company Culture
- 8+ years' experience in similar role and in multinational fast-paced environments
- Master's degree, MBA or other relevant fields, strongly preferred
- Ability to think and act strategically and drive organization toward strategy execution
- P&L Management
- Strong financial skills and organization methodologies and processes
- Sales Network management and organization
- Communication & Presentation skills
- Project Management
- Problem solving
- Strong leadership which inspires colleagues and customers
- Team Management with high degree of empathy
Passion for sports, enthusiasm, humility, pro-activity, and ethics complete the desired profile
Technogym is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.
Discover your potential with a career at Technogym, where work means loving what you do, taking on challenges, learning from others, sharing a vision and making it come true
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Everyone needs a fleet of flying monkeys to rip the stuffing out of the annoying people in their lives
— Laura
From the daily archives: Sunday, September 5, 2010
Yeah I know, I said I was going to stop doing this exotic fruit review thing but I couldn't resist. The exotic fruit the grocery store was showcasing this week was the quince. They're from Asia, but mine was grown in Chile. It wasn't too expensive ($1.29) and when [...]
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- Moth.
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- Pot Noodles.
- The Hyena Handlers of Nigeria.
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- Hitler's Home Movies.
- Adopted!
- Subway Surfer.
- MC Mom.
- Is Your Girlfriend a Horse?
- Now I want to go to Iceland.
- Karaoke Hitler.
- Wake up! They see us!
- Wasted.
- How a Gas Nozzle Knows When To Shut Off.
- A Yelp Review left for Walter Palmer's Dental Practice.
- Sleeping Guy Gets Twizzlered.
- Birds in Watercolor.
- When Taunting Goes Wrong.
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Jayne Nakata from New Zealand joins this episode, which coincides with the 10-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disasters. Jayne has lived and worked in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture for nearly 20 years, and she details her experience of being in Iwaki when those disasters occurred in 2011. On top of being seven-months pregnant with her first child at the time, she and her husband had just finished building their new house as well. She tells a fascinating story about the important decisions they faced and the actions they took. Jayne also talks about why she and her family still live in Fukushima Prefecture, how much the area has recovered, and the ways in which her city is still struggling. We also get to hear about the Transformations with Jayne Podcast, which has helped thousands of people feel less alone in their part of the world, and the other projects that she is a part of that specifically bring women together to create new networks, prioritize themselves and their goals. Jayne also coaches budding podcasters to start their own shows through her PodLaunch service. Please check out her podcast and activities in Iwaki mentioned in the episode through the links below.
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The following 'Generative NLP' process was first developed by Robert Dilts (GTC, London, 1998). Further refinements were added by he and Robert McDonald for the Group Mind, Team Spirit seminar. The purpose of this process is to share and enhance the experience of resourceful states by exploring them from different perceptual positions. The process produces the experience of fourth position through the co-creation of "a felt sense of sameness" between people that is explicitly derived from being in the other three perceptual positions. The process incorporates principles of spatial sorting, psychogeography and Somatic Syntax.
To be done initially in pairs.
Another variation of this process in a group (say of seven) would be for each person in the group to make his or her own resource movement, one at a time. While that person is making the movement, the rest of the group goes to "second position" taking on the movement themselves. When all group members have demonstrated their movements, the group members begin to first individually make their movements, incrementally changing them and blending them into a "group resource" movement.
This process demonstrates the generative aspects of perceptual positions (and in particular fourth position), preserving Bateson's notion of characterological adjectives and the creation of a "larger mind" as a function of the interactions between two or more others. Bateson provides the example of the dog and gibbon at play who create activities that are neither exclusively "dog" behaviors or "gibbon" behaviors, but "gibbon-dog" behaviors. The fourth "dog-gibbon" position emerges naturally out of their interaction. Thus, such a fourth position is, in Bateson's terms, "immanent" in the interaction between the dog and gibbon, rather than being some sort of "transcendent" awareness.
For information on Robert Dilts products and services, please see Upcoming Seminars or Roberts Product Page or return to Home Page. If you have problems or comments concerning our WWW service, please send e-mail to the following address: email@example.com.
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We have a great collection of famous snow Poems / Verses. Our selection of snow Poetry focuses on poems that are about snow and easy to comprehend. In addition to snow Poems of famous poets, there is a huge collection of other unique poems in our website.
Here you will find List of poems with theme as snow and also funny poems. Click on the poem title below to browse through the snow Poems both from famous poets and those submitted in our site. You can search and find famous snow Poems using the ajax based search.
|The Arctic Voyager
|The Christmas Tree
|In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78. Again at Christmas did we weave
|January Morning
|A Ballad of Dreamland
|Snow in Europe
|The Human Face
|somewhere i have never travelled
|City That Does Not Sleep
|Another Awkward Stage Of Convalescence
|what if a much of a which of a wind
|White Knight's Song, The
|The Forest Reverie
|Song Of The Broad-Axe
|Death-Lament Of The Noble Wife Of Asan Aga
|I Know the Music
|Autumn Evening
|Strephon to Celia
|Holy Week at Genoa
|Acon and Rhodope
|The Master of the Dance
|Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode
|A Supplement of an Imperfect Copy of Verses of Mr. William
|In School-Days
|Storm and Calm
|Birds Of Passage
|Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 13
|A Child of the Snows
|Martha Washington
|At A Vatican Exercise (excerpt)
|Robin Redbreast
|Veni Creator
|The Groans Of The Tankard
|The City Limits
|Listen, Leo
|Graydigger's Home
|Clancy Of The Mounted Police
|Another Version
|The Forsaken
|Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl
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|How Babs Malone cut Down the Field
|The Light o' the Moon
|Fairy Tale
|Back and Side go Bare
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RICHARD BLANKENSHIP, Executive Chef
CBD Provisions, a Texas brasserie in downtown Dallas, is brought to life by Executive Chef Richard Blankenship, who brings a fresh perspective to modern Texas cuisine, with a focus on locally-driven, seasonal ingredients and a "nose-to-tail" cooking.
A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, Richard first began his career with the Charlie Palmer Group in Dallas where he worked for five years, before assuming the position of Executive Chef at Nick & Sam's Grill, an energetic, comfortable Dallas bistro.
In June 2013 Richard had the opportunity to join CBD Provisions, a modern Texas brasserie concept in downtown Dallas, adjacent to The Joule hotel, as the opening Chef de Cuisine. In the role, Richard worked closely with the restaurant's executive chef on menu development and planning and together, earned numerous awards, including a four-star review from the Dallas Morning News.
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It's a lot harder to write a daily blog when you are not traipsing around on a bicycle going places to which you've never gone before, taking photos along the way. Speaking of bicycles, I was supposed to be on mine (if for no other reason than to determine its current health) at the time I write this blog post however a late night turned into a late morning and I failed to convince myself to get out of bed.
A Day In Chamblee
I made it out of the house yesterday by lunch time so that I could eat at Pollo Norteño while doing my loads of laundry. By the time I returned home I was beat and took a short nap prior to putting away my now-clean clothes.
I considered making a grocery store stop on my return trip, but decided that I should continue to eat the contents of my pantry until I'm left with only random bits and bobs from which I cannot make a meal.
A Night In The 'Hood
Last night was the first night I've been out in EAV in quite some time. Not much has changed, both for good and bad, and I had a good time.
On a slow Monday night it's easy to find street parking. Whew! I'm still trying to keep the M6 ding free (conveniently ignoring the damage I inflicted upon it in February), so I like getting a street spot when I see shows at The EARL.
With time to spare I wandered around the village a little, checking out the spots that have changed since I last did so. Since I'd already eaten dinner and am trying to be a little cognizant of the money I'm spending, I stopped into Argosy for one beer prior to the show. While at the show I also allowed myself just one beer, would you believer, a Miller High Life in a bottle.
The show was solid. I missed the first of the two opening acts, but caught Victor St. Baloo's set, which I enjoyed quite a bit.
Kyle Craft and his band took the stage around 11pm (?), which is no problem on a Monday night when you are on sabbatical. The band, six strong, played songs from Craft's first solo album, "Eye of the Hurricane", which was released earlier this year. Craft followed the band's set with three acoustic songs as his encore, ending with his rendition of Lou Reed's "Take A Walk On The Wild Side".
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"I Had Moxie!" (Danville, Vermont, United States)
Fun Fact: I love regional sodas.
Sad Fact: Regional sodas are much harder to find these days.
Moxie is a soda company that has been in New Hampshire since before 1900. These days it's owned by a MegaCorp (what company isn't?), the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northern New England in this instance. To my taste buds Moxie has a "Coke + root beer" flavor to it, but what do my tastebuds know?
"Charlie O's" (Montpelier, Vermont, United States)
After one of the hardest days of riding, Middlebury -> Montpelier via the App Gap, my roommate Bob and I stopped into to the biggest dive bar in Montpelier, Charlie O's. It was worth buying an $8 bike lock to get the experience of Charlie O's. Charlie O's was a dark, empty at 2pm, cash only, pay as you drink, dive bar tended by a pretty young woman named Alena who showed me where her Vermont hometown was on the tattoo of the state that she had on her forearm (what 25-49 year-old doesn't have at least one tattoo these days?).
Given the matches on the bar I asked if smoking was allowed in bars in Vermont. Alena looked at me as if I were a crazy fool, since I was dressed in a bicycle kit at 2pm on a Monday I understood her position, and answered "No". I may have blew her Socialist mind when I told her that it was still legal in Georgia.
What Are We Going To Do Today Brain?
In addition to studying German in preparation for tonight's class, as well as some computer-science shit in preparation for the rest of my life, I think that I will try to make it to High Museum of Art to see some of the exhibits that have escaped my eyes thus far.
Have a great day friends!
Paulie [eatl/ga]


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With our partners, AMCS reduce social isolation, improve the wellbeing of seniors and alleviate financial hardship for individuals from every culture and diversity.
Throughout the years, AMCS has organised:
To learn more about partnering with us, please arrange an appointment with Medha Gunawardana, Manager – Community Strengthening, through reception (03) 9689 9170Enquire now
We have collaborated with AMCS on a couple of projects over the past few years and each time, it has been a great experience. The friendly, passionate and knowledgeable staff are extremely dedicated to improving the lives of clients and understanding what they need. When we work together, it is a true partnership. Their open-minded attitudes are refreshing and their can-do approach means anything is possible. AMCS has such a positive and wide reaching influence on the communities they support. We look forward to our next project together.
Maribyrnong City Council has close links with AMCS. We have worked together many times over the years and have had enormous success with our creative and collaborative projects that have had a positive impact upon the lives of people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. AMCS has always been open to exploring new ideas and working together with us to make them a reality. Our CALD community in Maribyrnong has benefited from this partnership and we hope to continue to work together into the future.
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As the vehicle speed increases, the transmission control module-(TCM) receives inputsignals from the automatic transmission input and output speed sensors, throttle positionsensor and other vehicle sensors to determine the precise moment to deenergize or"turn off" shift solenoid-1 and command OFF the normally-high R1/456-pressure controlsolenoid-3.Low & Reverse Clutch Releases
Shift Solenoid 1
When shift solenoid-1 is "turned OFF", CSV2 enable fluid from the clutch select valve-2passes by the #2-ball check valve and enters the solenoid-1 fluid circuit. Solenoid-1fluid from the #2-ball check valve and TCC regulator valve is then routed to the solenoidwhere it exhausts.
Clutch Select Valve 2
Clutch select valve-2-(CSV2) enable fluid is exhausted from the clutch select valve-2and clutch select valve-2 spring force moves the valve to the released position. Withclutch select valve-2 in the released position, drive fluid from the manual valvepasses through the valve and enters the drive-1-6 fluid circuit. Drive-1-6 fluid thenfeeds the R1/456 and 35 reverse clutch regulatorvalves and the TCC regulator valve.
R1/456 Pressure Control Solenoid 3
The R1/456 pressure control solenoid-3 is commanded OFF allowing PCS R1/456 fluidfrom the R1/456-clutch regulator valve and 456-clutch boost valve to exhaust.
R1/456 Clutch Regulator Valve
R1/456-clutch regulator valve spring force moves the valve to exhaust the R1/456-clutchfeed circuit and allow drive-1-6 fluid to enter the PS4-fluid circuit. PS4-fluid isthen routed to the normally-closed pressure switch-4 and opens the switch. PS4-fluidis also routed to the #4-ball check valve and flows into the CSV2-latch fluid circuit.
#4 Ball Check Valve
PS4-fluid pressure seats the #4-ball check valve against the 456-clutch fluid circuit.PS4-fluid is then directed into the CSV2-latch fluid circuit and routed to the clutchselect valve-2. CSV2-latch fluid combines with clutch select valve-2 spring forceand holds the valve in this position during all 6-forward gear ranges.
#5 Ball Check Valve
Drive 1-6-fluid pressure seats the #5-ball check valve against the 35-reverse clutchfeed fluid passage. Drive 1-6-fluid is then directed into the 35R-supply fluid circuitwhich is routed to the #7-ball check valve and orifice-#16.
#7 Ball Check Valve
The 35R-supply fluid seats the #7-ball check valve against the 35R-feed fluid passageto force 35R-supply fluid through orifice-#16 before entering the 35R-feed circuit.The 35R-feed fluid is then routed to the 3-5-reverse clutch regulator valve.
Low and Reverse Clutch
Low and reverse clutch spring force moves the low and reverse clutch piston whichforces R1-fluid out. R1-fluid is routed to the clutch select valve-2 where it entersthe exhaust backfill circuit. The low and reverse clutch is in the released position.Drive Range, First Gear
Lower Anchors and Tethers for
Children (LATCH System)
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Alfredo Gisholt seems relieved when I say he can just tell me stories; he doesn't have to explain the work. He calls his paintings "pictures"; they are places where glimpses of experience and narratives congregate. I have been following his work since his 2014 solo exhibition at the Cue Foundation, New York, and part of what attracts me is that the paintings are seductive and meaty and difficult to locate. They are abstractions that operate in the interstices between still-life, landscape, and interiors, all at once. The forms within them are vivid, tactile suggestions of plants, animals, furniture, buildings, train tracks, and waterfalls. The short linear marks make me think of metaphoric raindrops, as if a landscape could cry.
It's fitting that Pablo Neruda's book of poems, Canto General (1950), has been a major influence on Gisholt's work. The canto — a division or segment within an epic poem — feels like a model for how Gisholt's paintings, and his studio, are organized. On one studio wall is a perfect grid of dozens of identically sized small panel paintings. The studio has stations for different modes of working, loaded with the appropriate tools and materials. The window wall is verdant with house plants alongside Day of the Dead objects.
Gisholt has set up a table with our beer between two handsome rocking chairs. The studio objects become part of the raw material for a vocabulary of forms that mingles and accumulates in his paintings. I think about the concept of "memento mori" while looking at his work — and it's not simply because the skull is often the only recognizable form. It is the potent combination of plenty and decay.
When we visit the campus of Brandeis University — where Gisholt is a professor — he indulges my curiosity about the history of the department: who was there, where they worked, what they left behind on campus. Gisholt cultivates the same kind of "studio ghosts" in his own work. The paintings are compressed with this layered history augmented by art historical references.
Gisholt was born in 1971 in Mexico City and spent his high school years in Miami. He attended the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City and received his MFA from Boston University. In addition to the 2014 exhibition at the Cue Foundation, New York, he has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of the University of Maine; the Deborah Colton Gallery in Houston; the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, New York; and Recinto Project Room, Mexico City. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions at venues that include the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Marist College; Denise Bibro Gallery, New York; and the Nielsen Gallery, Boston. He serves as Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Brandeis University, and lives and works in Boston.
Jennifer Samet: Where did you grow up? Were you exposed to art as a child?
Alfredo Gisholt: I grew up in Mexico City, very close to the center of the city, which has a great, crazy energy. Both of my parents worked, and the work day in Mexico is 9 am to 9 pm, so I grew up also being raised by my nanny who had been with our family for 40 years. My parents were very conscientious, good people, in terms of being aware and helping others. My siblings and I grew up with that spirit of lending a hand. In Mexico, there is a lot of disparity between the rich and the poor, but also a lot of interaction. I was raised by someone who came from a different place and looked very different from me, and that was very normal. The street life was the same. My siblings and I were neighborhood kids. We would ride our bikes, kick the ball around. Everyone came together on the street, all kinds of people. And I have a lot of nice memories of that time. My parents got divorced and when I was 15, we left Mexico with my mother, and went to Miami.
I was not making art as a child, and would never have predicted that I would become an artist, although creativity was fostered. My father, and all of his family members, are engineers. I grew up building things, like little toys. I used to draw, but it was all diagrams. I really wanted to be a soccer player, so I would watch games and draw plays. But it wasn't about being an artist; it was that I wanted to score a goal like that one day.
In my last year of high school, my mother moved back to Mexico, but my brother, who was a year younger, and I decided to stay in Miami. We had made good friends there. My brother and I moved into a small apartment and we were independent. We had jobs at the grocery store. We could afford to rent a little apartment in the south of the city, near US 1., and support ourselves.
JS: That's amazing that you could do that. What led you into art-making eventually?
AG: I had gone from a very small private school in Mexico to a 3500-student public school in Miami. I was a bit of a loner and a reader; I hung out with who my son Diego would call the Emos. But I was also playing sports which is a totally different crowd. In my last year of high school, I was taking a lot of humanities classes. I started worrying about what was going to happen if I went to engineering school, which had been the plan.
Instead I went to the community college at Miami Dade and got a scholarship for the humanities. In that program, you could take up to six classes, and two of them had to be studio art classes. As soon as I walked into figure drawing I never again thought twice about it.
Then I went to Spain for a year because my cousin was living there. By then I was pretty committed to art-making. My dad used to say, "What other classes are you going to take?" But I made a very conscious decision not to give myself a plan B. I didn't know what the outcome was going to be, but I wasn't going to plan for an alternative. That year in Spain was the first time I had access to museums. Then I would go back to Mexico in the summers and see work by Frida Kahlo, and the muralists, and Jose Guadalupe Posada.
I really identified with the sensibility of Spanish art. It felt familiar: the simultaneous optimism and pessimism — the contrast and tension between something being incredibly beautiful and moving, and painful at the same time. That is something that I remember about my life in Mexico. You see it on the streets. You pull up to a traffic light and you see a flame thrower, and someone wanting to sell you little Popeye figurines. They are very humble, and it tears you apart. Goya was the first artist I really identified with. And since that time, the Spanish painters have been a strong presence for me.
When I saw El Greco's "Burial of Count Orgaz" (1586–1588), I was 19, and I remember thinking, "One day I want to make a painting like that" — as silly as that sounds. My cousin had an internship in Spain, but this was during the Iraq war, and his internship was terminated and we ran out of money. So I came back to Miami, gathered my things, and went to Mexico. I decided to go to the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City and get that kind of formal training. I was there for three and a half years.
JS: What was the teaching like at the Academy? How did you react to it?
AG: Originally the Academy was not part of the university; it was a like standalone technical school, and not degree-granting. It was established in the 1860s by the French who came to Mexico. It was a sky-lit building with an inside courtyard and big studios. It was taught in a master and apprentice model. Every year you would be assigned to a workshop led by a teacher. The university model was somewhere else. I liked the building and I liked the vibe of downtown Mexico City. The emphasis was on dexterity with drawing and paint in terms of observation and representation.
It was a funky place at the time that I was there. Art and politics in Mexico were not separated at all. It was during the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. There was a lot of activity around that, that you would somehow have to engage.
I got a job with a friend who had a restaurant that was reviving 19th-century Mexican cuisine. I used to do prep in the morning and go to school after that. I had to go to market at 5 in the morning every day to buy food for the kitchen. You would see the goat and lamb truck arrive, filled with still warm meat. It looked like a Goya painting. It was just the most amazing visual.
JS: How did you end up moving to the Northeast and going to Boston University for your MFA?
AG: I had a good friend from Miami, John Bailly, who had gone to Yale. In between his first and second year I invited him to come to Mexico and paint over the summer. He was having a great time painting at Yale. He said, "I have these great teachers and you should come." That stayed in the back of my mind.
While at the Academy, we used to go to the symphony because with a student ID you got free tickets. One day they were playing Beethoven's Ninth, and it was totally sold out. Instead I went to the bookstore. There was a book about the School of London painters. I opened it up and it was organized alphabetically, so the first artist was Frank Auerbach. I thought, "Whoah. This looks good." The last artist was John Walker. By then I was thinking, "This is a sensibility that I trust." In the little biography, it said, "teaches at Yale. Lives in New York." That's when I decided to take off and go find him.
But I couldn't apply to Yale, because I didn't have a degree. I went to Florida International University in Miami for two years. Then I applied to Yale, got an interview, and didn't get in. I had no Plan B. So I went back to Miami and lived with John Bailly, who had a bare-bones house there. Both of us had a studio. It was great; we were painting all the time.
My wife and I got married that summer in Mexico and she had just finished graduate school at Lesley University. She was able to continue to work in the same school she had interned. So, we moved to Massachusetts to a little house off of Route 2 in Maynard. The first week I was there, I opened the Boston Globe, and in the Art section, I read about an exhibition of faculty member John Walker at Boston University. I was like, "He's here?" I had no idea he had left Yale. I painted in Maynard for a year and then applied to BU, and I got in.
JS: What attracted you to John Walker's work, and what was he like as a professor?
AG: I felt John was painting about the things that I cared about. I've always liked painting that talks about the big things: who we are, where we come from, where are we going; life, death, our relationship to nature. The paintings that I initially saw were the ones he made in Australia – the "Alba" paintings. They seemed to have a way of reaching the same sentiment without having to paint Jesus.
I've always painted skulls. I collect them. It's always been Day of the Dead. You see this in Mexico all the time. It was a motif and a way for me to think about those things. So the first thing I did was set up a little still life with a couple of sugar candy skulls. In the first weekend at BU, I filled my studio wall with still life drawings. And then John came by and peeked into my studio. He went into his own studio, and came back with a human skull, asking me, "Would you like a real one?"
By the third week, I was making paintings about a hurricane that had hit Acapulco: this overturned world. They were heavy-handed in their subject; I would take magazine clippings and put them all together. John came into my studio, sat in my chair, and said, "Imagine if you could paint to the water." What does that even mean? But he came by later that afternoon and said, "I live by the water in New Bedford. I'm leaving tomorrow. Buy a French easel and come with me." I was a studio artist; I had never painted outside before.
The instruction was like holding up a mirror, in a way that only a few people can do. It was like "You figure it out, and I'm just here to point to a few things. I'm not going to explain." I arrived and he said, "I'm going to Vassar tomorrow for an exhibition and they said some of the paintings need repair. I'm leaving in the morning. There's food in the fridge. There's paper and paint in the garage, if you need."
It rained for nine days, and I painted every day under an umbrella, with plastic bags wrapped around my Converse shoes. The paint wouldn't stick. I would come back to the studio and dry out and go out again. But it was a real experience. When I returned to my studio, I looked at my old paintings and thought "I know what he means." I looked at the ones that had been painted outside. They had barely anything on them, but it was a very different thing. They were not "art." What was there was experience.
JS: Can you talk about the tension in your work between abstraction and representation? I see sets of symbolic shapes, recognizable forms, and more abstract passages.
AG: My older paintings were a lot more referential, with piles of things, skeletons and little figures. They were very much in dialogue with narrative figure painting. I started thinking about how I could tell a story without figurative elements, but still using representational forms. In the past, my more representational paintings seemed to predict their outcome. I started to get suspicious about it.
I was also very affected by the Willem de Kooning retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2012. I saw that de Kooning could look entirely different from one group to the next, maintaining the same profundity, the same gravity. That drove me crazy. Could I do that? Would I allow myself to do that?
Some of the painterly marks are ways to touch things. They are notations and they are directional. I had the goal of making drawings with shallow, compressed pictorial space, like the space in Caravaggio's painting. I would do different things to allude to content, but I also wanted to go there without symbols.
I would paint my studio and the things around me: flip my trash can over and paint it. I recently made paintings called "Day Studio" and "Night Studio." They are the studio as an evocative, metaphoric place — like late Georges Braque studio paintings, where the studio is not a rendering, but a place where a bird can start to fly.
One of the things the skull does is set up a scale within the painting. By having that one measure, it gives you an indication that the space is human scale. I want them to feel like rooms or spaces that you can walk through. I look at where things accumulate, where people leave things. Every house has a corner like that.
JS: Earlier you spoke about the social climate of Mexico City in your childhood, and the political situation when you were attending the Academy. I'm wondering if you consider how your work responds to political or emotional situations.
AG: I've always felt that great painting doesn't just engage internally; it also engages externally. There are different ways of engaging, though, like the difference between Matisse and Picasso during the war. People said that Matisse was ignoring the situation, but it was just a different way of responding. Picasso was much more direct. Recently, I think political protest signs have been very powerful. But paintings can engage in a different way. I don't want my paintings to be signs, even though I hope they have the same clarity.
When there were photographs in the news of the 2017 earthquake in Central Mexico, I came into the studio and realized some of my paintings looked like that. There were things tumbling down and unstable. The palette was very similar. I was surprised that happened, but I do want my paintings to feel familiar. And there is a tumultuous thing that I want to paint: relationships between shapes, the way things overlap, the way material is applied. I'm interested in the kind of visual energy that could be violent, but also very sensual – an energy you could smell and hear. But I also want the paintings to be somewhat beautiful. Titian's "The Flaying of Marsyas" (1570–1576) is like that. It is horrific, but you cannot take your eyes off of it. It's so seductive. That's the way that I want these to engage – that you feel those extremes. I don't want these to look like you're going to the mall. But I do want them to feel like going to the market in Tepoztlan, Mexico: stopping, smelling the fruit, hearing the sounds and looking around.
JS: Do you find that you use a recurring vocabulary of forms to evoke these places?
AG: I find forms that I can move around and use to construct pictures. It's a way to internalize something and reconfigure it, re-process it, and try to always get to another place. It's like going to see the sunset. We go today and it's a beautiful experience, and we know it's going to be similar tomorrow, but we still go to see the same thing happening again. There may be a variation, or a difference in our perception and experience. I draw these forms all the time. I make drawings and then see the world in relation to them. For instance, I am looking at clouds and thinking of ways to simplify them so they can be brought into the work. It is a back and forth.
I'm always testing it. I need to keep looking at the world. Sometimes I put a plant in front of my painting and I draw the plant and the painting. I want to see the painting in relation to something that has a real, dimensional presence – something that is not full of art moves. I do that to test it, to see it again. If I put my rocking chair in front of my easel and look at it, it reminds me of how, in "Las Meninas" (1656), Velázquez introduces space by blocking it with a canvas. The space opens up. Or I put an easel near the painting and it casts a shadow on the painting. I think about how, in Goya's paintings, there are shadows coming from outside the painting. It's all about internalizing these experiences — painting from life and in different situations, and looking at the wonderful history we inherit and considering what I can contribute to it, given my personal experience. I do want my paintings to feel Mexican: to have that element. I want people to think, "I've been to the market too. I've walked down those cobblestone streets." It is important that they have a feeling of familiarity of experience, and a sense of place: a sense of place that feels human.


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To the west of Sydney, you'll find the quaint town of Orange inviting you to experience it's charm, historic buildings, and stunning scenery amongst Mount Canobolas. Upon arriving, head to the Visitor Information Centre which will tell you where to start your walk along the Orange Heritage Trail that will take you through the town to see historic buildings, sites, and places of significance to the town.
Food is central to Orange, and as a large agricultural hub you'll experience some of the most incredible meals, produce and culinary cafes. The region is also home to a large selection of regional wines that develop at a much finer process thanks to the cooler climate. Head to the farmers market for a fun weekend activity or experience the F.O.O.D Week for a complete culinary experience.
Perhaps the grandest aspect of Orange is the scenery you'll find thanks to Mount Canobolas. This is an ancient volcano, and the surrounding area has been made into a large conservation area complete with several walking tracks to take in its majestic beauty. Just below Mount Canobolas sits the town of Orange, complete with several gardens and parks. For a beautiful, scenic afternoon spend time at the Orange Botanic Gardens. For an art scene, head to the Orange Regional Gallery and wander amongst various gift shops and stores doting local goods and artisanal products. A place to experience the four seasons, you'll find something new and enticing no matter the time of year.


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Modeling is representing, in a rigorous and formal manner, in such a way that the model is able to answer all anticipated needs along the transformation chain.
We model with a specific aim, to help with decisions or to prepare action.
Our precept is: represent before deciding; decide before acting.


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Create your own Lane
Updated: Jan 11, 2020
Ever gone weeks without a gig? Ever experienced a New Year's Eve without being booked. Or maybe you've called venues to try and book, but they're all booked for the year.
This is probably one of the worst feelings as a gigging musician.
I've experienced this feeling a number of times. It was almost light weight depressing. It meant a lack of performing, a lack of potential fan exposure, networking, and spending long periods of time out of my creative space.
Instead of doing the things I love, I found my self complaining to myself, and watching all my musician friends going to gigs, doing shows, just staying busy.
I've thought long and hard about my skill set, what I have to offer, and what potential fans would think? As a drummer how can I create my own lane to where I can keep gigging, and keep gaining exposure?
Literally, after every show I've played in, fans have come up to me and have said, "I love the way you play drums. I've never heard or seen anyone play the way you play."
So then I thought, It's all about the groove, people love to groove. So I decided to book myself at a local street fair we call Farmers Market. Still not sure how this was going to be accepted, I wanted to do something that would showcase my drumming ability.
Groove Thursday, "come groove to your favorite R&B, Soul, and Funk grooves, featuring Gerald Purify on the drums."
The concept is very simple. I take popular songs and I play drums over them.
The first Groove Thursday was a huge success. Playing from 6pm-8:45pm, I gained a lot of exposure and was able to create a positive experience for people. So I thought, I need to do this more often. I've booked myself to do Groove Thursday on average of once a month.
This night has allowed me to network with people, direct people to my music, and get session work from other bands.
All in all, this is just one of the examples of ways I've created my own lane. There's no reason why you can't do the same. Think outside the box and get creative.
I would love to hear what you as a band or artist are doing to create your own lane.