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Still Amazing-3rd Review
I posted two prior reviews, one on the application process and one since having the card. I have had the card two months now. On my 60th day (4/9/17) I applied for a CLI (read reviews and everyone said they applied after 60 days and got 3X the current limit) so I was told I had to wait until the day after 60 days. Well, I applied and it is true I was approved for 3 times my original limit. I started with 2k which I was initially surprised anyway due to my credit score (thought it would be more like $500) and now I am at 6K. I read some comments that people do not believe that individuals are getting these limits. I can attest this is true, when I was initially approved I had a 659 credit score with three collections, several store cards, subprime credit cards and 27% utilization. I now have a 673 Experian score and 1% utilization across all accounts. I follow the recommendations of charging and paying off in full so I only charge what I was going to pay in cash anyway (monthly bills, gas, etc). Do the prequalifier first!


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Diagnostic Endoscopy
An esophagoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure used to diagnose and treat conditions of the esophagus. This procedure can identify diseases of the esophagus, determine the cause of symptoms, remove growths and swallowed objects or stretch narrowed areas.
This procedure uses an esophagoscope, which is a thin tube with a light and camera on the end that is fed through the mouth to the esophagus. Your doctor is able to view the area in real time on a video monitor in order to identify any abnormalities in the area that may be causing difficulty breathing, swallowing or eating.
This procedure may be performed with a local anesthetic, although it is virtually painless. There is no preparation necessary for this procedure, as there are with many other diagnostic exams. An esophagoscopy takes less than ten minutes and is a generally safe procedure with few rare risks such as bleeding or puncturing of the intestinal wall.
After an esophagoscopy, you may experience a dry or sore throat or coughing from the procedure. These symptoms usually go away quickly, and can be relieving by drinking plenty of water. There is no downtime from an esophagoscopy and patients can return to school or work immediately.
Flexible Laryngoscopy
Flexible laryngoscopy is a diagnostic examination performed to view the throat and its surrounding structures. It is performed using an endoscope. At Coastal Ear, Nose and Throat physicians use both distal chip tip scopes and fiberoptic endoscopes to perform this exam. For the examination, a patient's nose is topically decongested and anesthetized. The endoscope is inserted into the patient's nose and moved into the throat. The patient stays awake, giving the doctor a more accurate view of the back of the nose, back of the throat, and the voice box. Patient is asked to do some tasks to see the vocal cords in motion. After the examination, patients can immediately return to normal activities.
A Tracheobronchoscopy is a test performed to view and diagnose problems in the large air passages leading to the lungs. This procedure is done on patients who may have either breathing difficulty, airway stenosis (narrowing), tracheostomy dependence, coughing up blood, or suspected masses or lesions of upper airway. The examination can be done in awake patients with a flexible endoscope inserted either through the nose or tracheostoma. In anesthetized patients, either a flexible or rigid bronchoscope can be used to evaluate the upper airway. Local anesthetic will be administered to prevent discomfort during and after the exam.
Suspension Microlaryngoscopy
Suspension microlaryngoscopy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure to study the vocal cords. A metal cylinder known as a laryngoscope is passed through the patient's mouth; the surgeon will be able to look through the laryngoscope and check for abnormalities on the vocal cords. If abnormalities are found, the surgeon can remove them with special instruments that are passed through the laryngoscope. Patients undergoing suspension microlaryngoscopy benefit from shorter recovery times than traditional surgery. Learn more »
Videostroboscopy is an endoscopic procedure that comprehensively evaluates structure and physiology of voice production. The procedure is performed by, or under the direct supervision of an otolaryngologist with training in diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders such as hoarseness. During the procedure, the physician is able to observe vocal cord anatomy and physiology using pulses of light from a stroboscope. Vibrations of the vocal cords appear to be slowed to enable evaluation of vocal cord oscillation and any structural pathology.


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So you have completed your data science learning and are pitching for a job. If you have done an online course, like the ones we offer at Springboard, you will most likely receive mentor guidance and leads for data science job applications. However, if you are an IT or statistics professional looking for a lateral shift to a data science career, you may be wondering what questions you have to deal with in an interview.
Carving a career in data science is not merely about steep salaries. It is also about your own passion for data, analysis and out-of-the-box thinking. It is about domain knowledge, analytical tools and technical skills, that can swing around the most challenging business problems to a profitable driver.
So if you are thinking of applying for a data scientist job, walk through these steps and learn how to crack that data scientist interview!
At the outset, get your portfolio in shape. Notch up your toolbox skill sets. Make yourself familiar with the business environment in India, that has transformed the country into one of the largest economies in the world. Understand the innovation landscape powering this momentum and ask yourself how you can be a part of it.
Ask yourself,
How 'deep' should be my grasp of statistics?
Which programming languages should I learn on a need-to-know basis?
What add-on technical skills can get me a good offer?
How can I best demonstrate my toolbox savvy?
So are you ready with the "josh" to tackle a data science interview?
Read on.
Although most interviews begin with a question asking you to introduce yourself, data scientist hirers in India look for a strong understanding of the basics. As a data science job role calls for multiple skill sets and knowledge base, the interview questions include a mix-match of the basics, depending upon the business model of the company and technologies used.
We have listed some of the most-asked interview questions and answers, so you know what you are up against. Some are simple and to-the-point, while others may be tricky and open-ended. Questions usually begin with the core fundamentals and move on to tougher ones if you are lucky to make it that far!
The sample questions have been broken down into easy-to-soak-in sections:
A. Statistics
B. Data Analytics & Management
C. Machine Learning
D. Deep Learning
E. Tool/Language
F. Guess-estimates
G. Case Studies
A1. Differentiate between univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis.
- Univariate analysis is used where the data contains only one variable, bivariate analysis when there are two variables, and multivariate analysis is implemented when there are more than two variables.
b) The purpose of univariate analysis is to describe the data and discover patterns. While bivariate analysis discovers the relationship or correlation between the two variables. The multivariate analysis technique is used when you need to predict a certain outcome with a given set of multiple dependent variables
A2. What is p-value?
P-value is the probability value of the occurrence of a given event, measured by assigning number between 0 and 1.
When performing a statistical hypothesis or null hypothesis (H0) of a study, the p-value helps to determine the strength of the results. The null hypothesis is the inference about a population of statistics. Generally, the p-value of 0.05 is used as a threshold. A low p-value (< 0.05) indicates strength against the null hypothesis, which means the null hypothesis can be rejected, and the alternative hypothesis accepted. A high p-value (> 0.05) indicates the evidence against the null hypothesis is not strong enough, and the null hypothesis cannot be rejected.
A4. When is resampling done?
- When it is required to interface two systems that have different sampling rates;
- When you need to test the models under small samples;
- When drawing randomly with replacement from a set of data points;
- When performing significance tests or exact tests by substituting labels on data
- To validate models by using random subsets.
A5. What are the types of biases that can occur during sampling?
- Selection bias..
- Under coverage bias.
- Survivorship bias.
Explain selection bias.
Selection bias occurs when there is a bias in sample selection. The sample is not representative of the population under analysis, as proper randomisation was not achieved during sample selection. An error is introduced due to the non-random population sample, creating a distortion in statistical analysis.
A6. What is logistic regression? When is it used? Give an example, when you have
used logistic regression.
Logistic regression is a statistical method for analysing a dataset in which one or more independent variables determine an outcome.
It is used in predictive algorithms, when you need to predict a binary outcome of a linear combination of predictor or independent variables.
Example. To predict whether a particular customer will buy an online product or not, the outcome of the prediction is binary (yes/no), and the predictor variables are the previous spend data of the customer, buying or browsing behaviour, cart abandonment rate, etc.
A7. What methods do you use to identify outliers within a data set? What call do you
take when outliers are identified?
The answer demonstrates your analytical skills. So explain the process briefly with examples, to display your understanding.
- Use visualisation techniques like histogram and scatter plot for univariate or bivariate data
- Use simple statistical techniques, where the process includes
-> sorting the data -> calculating the medians of the first half (Q1) and second half (Q3) of the data -> deriving the difference between the interquartile range (Q3 – Q1) -> identifying outliers by the position of data point.
A data point that falls outside the inner fence is a minor outlier, and a data point that falls outside the outer fence is a major outlier.
Once the outliers are identified, they have to be examined in the context of the nature of the data set, data validation protocols, and the behaviour of the variable being analysed. If the outlier is uncharacteristic but correct, like a large cash withdrawal, it is left untouched. However, if the outlier is unrealistic like a peak city temperature of 250 degrees, it is incorrect and has to be dealt with. When feasible, a resurvey is done for fresh data collection, or otherwise if not feasible, the data point is deleted.
A8. What is the goal of A/B Testing?
A/B Testing is a statistical hypothesis used when there are two variables, A and B. The objective of A/B testing is to generate insights by testing both variables A against B, to discover which performs better. A/B testing is done in testing two versions of a web page, and to detect what changes in each web page can maximise or increase an outcome, like better conversion rate for a page.
B1. What is root cause analysis?
As the name suggests, root cause analysis is a problem-solving technique used to identify the root causes of faults or problems. It adopts a structured approach to eliminate the root causes of an incident so that the most effective solutions can be identified and implemented.
B2. Explain the steps in making a decision tree.
- Identify the decision to be made i.e. the problem to be solved or the question to be answered.
- Gather relevant information. Take the entire data set as input (root node).
- Look for a split that separates the dataset.
- Apply the split to the input data.
- Re-apply steps c) and d) to the divided data.
- Add more branches and leaves. (Branches connect to leaf nodes, containing questions or criteria to be answered).
- Stop when a stopping criteria are met.
- Clean up the tree if there are too many splits. This pruning (opposite of splitting) removes sections of the tree that add little value to the classification and improves predictive accuracy by reduction of overfitting.
- Verify accuracy.
B3.What is data preparation?
Data preparation is the process of making sure that the data used meets the needs of the analysis, is of high quality, precise, describable, and in a format that can be used by the data scientist.
B4. When must an algorithm be updated?
In instances, when
- The underlying data source is changing,
- You want the model to evolve as data streams through the infrastructure,
- There is a case of non-stationarity, where the statistical properties like the mean, variance or autocorrelation are changing.
B5. How does data cleaning play a vital role in the analysis?
Data is often collected from multiple sources and is always in a raw format. Datasets come in various sizes and are different in nature.
- Data cleaning is essential when data comes from heterogeneous sources, as the time taken to clean the data increases exponentially with an increase in the number of disparate data sources, dataset sizes and the volume of data generated.
- It helps to transform and refine data into a usable format, that data scientists can work with.
- Cleaning up data removes errors and inconsistencies, and improves the quality of data for robust analysis. For instance, removal of duplicate or invalid entries, refines the analysis.
- Data cleaning reduces analysis time by nearly 80%.
- It improves the accuracy and performance of the model, as biased information can alter business decisions.
C1. What is the difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning?
- Supervised machine learning uses a full set of labelled data, i.e. data is tagged with the answer the algorithm should come up with on its own. Unsupervised machine learning doesn't required labelled data.
- In supervised machine learning, the machine learning task is trained for every input with a corresponding target or response variable. In unsupervised machine learning the machine learning task is trained only with a set of inputs with no target variable, or specific desired outcome.
- Supervised learning is useful in classification and regression problems. Unsupervised learning is used in problems of clustering, anomaly detection, associations, and in autoencoders.
C2. What is 'Naive' in a Naive Bayes?
Naive means the algorithm used to classify objects is 'naive' or uniformed, as it makes assumptions that may or may not be correct.
C3. Explain Decision Tree algorithm in detail.Decision tree is a supervised machine learning algorithm chiefly used for regression and classification. The dataset is continually split up into smaller subsets of similar value, to develop a decision tree incrementally. The result is a decision tree where each node represents a feature (attribute), each branch represents a decision (rule) and each leaf represents an outcome (categorical or continuous value).
C4. What do you understand by the term recommender systems? Where are they used?
Recommender systems are a kind of information filtering systems, to predict ratings or preferences based on content and collaboration.
Recommender systems are commonly used in ecommerce, movie review platforms, music downloads, dedicated apps, news curation, and so on.
C5. What are the different types of collaborative filtering, and what are the common methods used?
- Memory based approach uses the entire database for prediction. Common methods are classification, neighbourhood and item-to-item.
- Model based approach develops models using various data mining and machine learning algorithms to predict users' rating. Common algorithms are Bayesian networks, clustering models, latent semantic models such as singular value decomposition (SVD), probabilistic latent semantic analysis, and Markov decision process based models.
- Hybrid approach combines the memory-based and the model-based algorithms, to overcome limitations like sparsity and loss of information, as well as to improve predictability performance.
D1. When does a neural network model become a deep learning model?
When you add more hidden layers and increase depth of neural network.
D2. In a neural network, what steps can prevent overfitting?
Adding more data, using Data Augmentation, Batch Normalisation, Reducing architecture complexity, Regularisation, and Dropout.
D3. For an image recognition problem (like recognising a human in an image), which
architecture of neural network is best suited to solve the problem?
The Convolutional Neural Network is best suited for image related problems because of its inbuilt nature of factoring changes in nearby locations of an image.
D4. Which gradient technique works better when the data is too big to handle in RAM
Stochastic Gradient Descent, to get the best possible neural network.
D5. Suppose the problem you are trying to solve has a small amount of data. You
have a pre-trained neural network used on a similar problem. Which method would
you choose to make use of this pre-trained network, and why?
The answer demonstrates your problem-solving skills. So explain the process briefly with examples, to display your understanding.
If the data is mostly similar, the best method would be to freeze all the layers and re-train only the last layer; because the previous layers work as feature extractors.
It is not all about mentioning the projects you have worked on, or tools used. At a data science job interview, you will be assessed on your understanding of why you chose an algorithm or a technique, and why you reached the conclusion. Generally, a sound, hands-on knowledge of Python, R and SQL are considered must-haves. So you can expect to be grilled on the same before you are tested for other tools and languages mentioned on your resume!
E1. Give examples of aggregate functions in SQL.
- COUNT() function returns the number of rows that match a specified criteria.
- AVG() function returns the average value of a numeric column.
- SUM() function returns the total sum of a numeric column.
- MIN() function returns the smallest value in the table.
- MAX() function returns the largest value in the table.
- DISTINCT function returns distinct or different values, allowing you to omit duplicates.
E2. Consider you have a column 'A' in table1 with three values (1,2,3). This is a
primary key and is referenced to column 'B' in table2. How to insert more values
without getting an error?
Any value except duplicate values can be inserted in column A of table 1. However, because of foreign key integrity (column B in table2 referenced by the column A), values other than 1, 2 and 3 cannot be inserted in column B.
E3. Python or R – Which would you prefer for text analytics?
The answer demonstrates your understanding of the two programming languages and their application in real-world scenarios. So explain the reason why you opt for one vis-a-vis the other. Better still, if you can demonstrate your knowledge with examples.
Python would be preferred because:
- It performs faster for all types of text analytics.
- Can be used further for data manipulation and repetitive tasks, like say, social engineering techniques.
- It has the Pandas library that provides easy-to-use data structures and high-performing analysis tools.
- It has many NLP libraries and other dedicated packages like Gensim for Topic Analysis,
- It can also be used to explore Deep Networks using Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) for more refined results from a vast dataset.
E4. What are negative indexes and why are they used?The sequences in Python are indexed, i.e. in an ordered list with both positive and negative numbers. Positive numbers use '0' as first index, '1' as second index and so on. The index for the negative number, however starts from '-1' and continuing below. Negative indexes use counting from the last element in the list or the penultimate element, so you count from the right instead of the left.
Negative indexes are used to
- Remove any new-line spaces from the string, and allow the string to except the last character that is shown as S[:-1].
- Show the index to represent the string in the correct order.
- Reduce the time spent, in writing, to access the last item of the list.
A guesstimate is a portmanteau of guess and estimate, used to make a rough approximation pending a more accurate estimate, or just an educated guess. Guess questions are common in interviews for data science roles. You are judged on how structured your approach is, how good you are with numbers and mental calculations, and if you are able to quickly analyse using different methods.
EXAMPLE 1. Guess-estimate the quantity of cheese consumed in Bengaluru in a day.
The guess-estimate considers either the consumption side (end customer, grams consumed per person, types of cheese available in the market, etc.) or the production side (brands in India, quantity sold, etc.).
Let's say, you are considering the consumption side as the approach:
Break down the end consumers into age groups, consumer types (regulars/occasional),
consumers with diet/medical restrictions (diabetes, heart problems, high cholesterol, etc.), and so on.
Work out the population of Bengaluru in this age group, the statistics related to users and diseases, and other variables. Assign percentages and appropriate weightage to make a guess-estimate!
EXAMPLE 2. How many red coloured Swift cars are there in Delhi?
Consider Swift as a youth brand, and red Swift as a sporty vehicle more than a family car. Going by this logic, consider the numbers in the age group 25–40 as buyers of a red Swift. Further, assuming that Swift has an approx. 10% market share in the car segment, and assuming than 5% of the people in Delhi in the age group 25-40 can afford a car, you can get your values. At the end, think of how many Swift red cars you see on the road (one of every six?), and derive your final numbers of red Swifts in Delhi!
EXAMPLE 3. Guess-estimate the number of people in India that would use a cricket kit of an elite brand [Fractal Analytics]
So think aloud, as you connect numbers and links, and work your way through the puzzle before you find your Eureka moment!
Jagdish Chaturvedi, Director, Clinical Innovations at InnAccel, however, has a unique but perhaps useful take if you want to be thinking on your feet. According to his comment on Quora, "there are very few lateral thinkers and everyone wants to hire them. The reason for these questions often is to elicit some lateral thinking and not meticulous and detailed logic." So he says, you have the option of an "Akbar-Birbal answer" if you find yourself in a tight spot. Ultimately hirers want fast and smart thinkers!
The answers demonstrate your analytical skills. So walk through your reasoning. Begin with understanding what the company does. What is the business problem? Why are they applying a certain technique? These questions help you find solutions to the problem being considered.
EXAMPLE1. Optimise pricing for an e-commerce product, where variables are
- Market Price/Unit
- Cost/Unit
- Profit/Unit
- Average Number of Units sold
- Increase in total customer response rate for every 10% drop in unit price
- Increase in sales volume with every 10% drop in unit price.
A price hike of up to 20% is allowed.
EXAMPLE2. Route optimisation for a school bus with given two alternate routes (X, Y) where
- Average permitted speed is 25 km/hr
- The two routes are of length 5km (X) and 7.8 km (Y)
- Traffic congestion on route X, which also has a traffic signal configured for 120 seconds time.
EXAMPLE3. How would you investigate a drop in user engagement?
The nature of interview questions usually depends upon the analytical and technical skills required by the hiring company, and the typical issues surrounding the business and industry it belongs to.
So now you have an idea of interview questions, get cracking. Prepare yourself for your data science job drill. Survive the interview hot seat and grab that job you want!


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Source3 Launches Platform To Recognize Branded IP In Online Marketplaces
Deep data and technology to link high value Intellectual Property to consumer products powers a new ecosystem of brand insights and monetization
Oct 11, 2016, 10:26 ET
NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Source3® announced today the rollout of an IP Recognition (IPR) platform, the world's first product platform enabling the recognition of high value branded content in products of all types, with a special focus on online marketplaces where products are created and uploaded by individual sellers and makers, including handmade, apparel, print-on-demand, consumer goods and digital goods such as 3D animation and virtual reality content.
The IP Recognition technology is powered by a comprehensive data set containing granular property-level information covering the canon of content underlying the $260 billion global licensing industry, including Film/TV, Comics, Gaming, Toys, Corporate, Fashion, Automotive, Sports, and much more and identifies brand ownership for each record of IP. A combination of image and text matching algorithms allow Source3 to recognize third-party IP in uses ranging from simple "logo-slapping" to highly creative interpretations and mash-ups.
Source3's IPR platform is designed to help both brands and marketplaces monitor and manage third-party IP and proactively establish licensing relationships with each other. To this end, Source3 also provides a range of scalable licensing tools, supported by a team of licensing veterans, to manage the licensing process from negotiation to real-time approvals to royalty reporting. In addition, robust analytics provide brands with unique insights into consumers and superfans, enabling them to develop, license and market compelling products.
"We created this product to solve a clear unmet market need," said Patrick Sullivan, CEO. "While working at YouTube, the team here at Source3 saw first hand the commercial and creative power of makers harnessing third-party IP. We see a similar explosion occurring in the much wider world of maker products. From handmade products to 3D models, creative makers are transforming commerce and consumption. Source3 provides the IP recognition and data analysis infrastructure to enable identification, content management, and monetization at scale, enabling brands to gain insight into innovation, consumer engagement and monetization around their IP."
Visit www.source3.io/iprecognition to learn more or request a demo.
About Source3
Source3 is the world's first platform for end-to-end management of third-party IP in user-generated content. With an extensive database of IP information, we provide IP recognition, licensing, brand analytics and rights administration services that connect creators, marketplaces and brands, and enable monetization of user content across physical and digital products. Based in New York City and founded by Google and 3D Systems veterans, the team's previous venture was RightsFlow, an enterprise licensing technology for the music industry acquired by YouTube in 2011. For more information, please visit www.source3.io.
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Spooky Saturday with Karan Goddwani!
Tellybuzz brings to you 'Spooky Saturday' with your favourite stars. Tellybuzz will try and get your stars to open up about their brush with the uncanny!
Do you believe in Supernatural and uncanny?
Absolutely yes!
The scariest horror story you heard as a child.
We all have heard horror stories as kid. I remember I was petrified of 'Teen Mundi Waali Aurat' ( three headed lady ). The story went that she would surface only at night and would prey on helpless kids. As soon at the clock would strike 8pm I would run home and be petrified as I did not want to end up on the plate for that scary lady (Laughs)
Have you ever had a brush with the uncanny?
I was about 16 years old and we were returning from Goa. It was a train journey and there are a lot of small villages along the route. We stopped at one station for tea and I decided to venture out. I was staring at this jungle which was not very far from me , when I saw a flour scent green light shine in one part of the jungle. It just kept moving from one tree to another. I stayed there hoping for some explanation but could not find any. It was very eerie and spooky!
When have you been the most scared?
I used to share my room with my brother and one fine night he gets up at 3am screaming his lungs out. He had a horrible nightmare and there I'm trying to console him. He is not talking, just screaming and crying. However, he just kept staring at a particular wall and kept crying. It was terrifying.
Your favorite horror movie.
1408 is my favorite horror movie.
Any horror dare that you have done.
Where I stay, there is this supposedly haunting building. The dare was to step inside the premises and stay there for a couple of minutes and then get back. None of my friends attempted it. I did gather my guts and went to complete the challenge, but I just touched the building and came running back (Laughs!)
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History and milestones:
a specialist bank with a consistent track record
dwpbank in its current form was created on 4 August 2003 as a result of the merger of bws bank and WPS Bank. These two predecessor banks had been positioning themselves as central service providers for the German Cooperative Financial Services Network and the German Savings Banks Finance Group since the 1990s.
In March 2007, dwpbank continued to grow with the acquisition of TxB Transaktionsbank GmbH. TxB, which initially remained a wholly owned subsidiary of the "dwpbank Group", was merged into dwpbank on 25 August 2008. As TxB's universal successor, dwpbank took over all of its employees and clients.
dwpbank has continued to expand its client base since then and has demonstrated its expertise in implementing complex migration projects such as with the acquisition of Dresdner Bank's retail securities settlement activities. The first pinnacle of this development was reached with the preliminary completion of the 2010 systems consolidation, which saw the successful migration of SEB, the German Cooperative Financial Services Network, BayernLB, Helaba and approximately 120 savings banks to dwpbank's central securities settlement platform WP2 within a single year.
|Migration of around 50 savings banks from Baden-Württemberg
|Migration of 24 savings banks from Rhineland-Palatinate
|Migration of BHF-BANK
to WP2 after just 11 months of project work
Strategic agreement with savings banks associations
in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg relating to future securities settlement activities
|"Year of migrations"
Three key steps successfully taken towards systems consolidation – migration of German Cooperative Financial Services Network and SEB, and completion of WIS migration project. All dwpbank clients on WP2
|Ready for the definitive withholding tax
Securities business from five local credit cooperatives for the first time via dwpbank's WP2 platform
|Merger of TxB with dwpbank
is implemented two years before the deadline
|Acquisition of TxB Transaktionsbank GmbH
giving rise to the dwpbank Group; TxB's former owners (Bayerische Landesbank, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale and HSH Nordbank AG) acquire a 10% total stake in dwpbank
|WP2 Release 2 goes live
as does the web-based relaunch of WPDirect
|Pilot clients of the BVS system
are migrated to the WP2 platform; three subsequent migrations over the year
|90 savings banks and three state banks migrated on schedule
|Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG (dwpbank)
is founded from the merger of Bank für Wertpapierservice und -systeme AG (bws bank) and WPS WertpapierService Bank AG (WPS Bank)


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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
As the two Freestyle Friday finalists, Blind Fury and Moon, wait behind the scenes on the set of 106 & Park in separate rooms, the anticipation is high. It could be the defining moment in each of their rap careers. Both up-and-coming artists have been battling contenders week after week to get to this point, and now one of them will go home as the champion.
Moon says he's bringing the title back with him. "I'm focused, and I'm ready to battle," says the 19-year old. "I'm gonna bite his head off—all the way off."
Moon has got his work cut out for him, though. He's going up against Blind Fury, the blind MC from South Carolina who is the favorite for the battle. "Blind Fury is going to have an advantage because he's blind," Moon says. But while some might feel as though addressing Blind Fury's handicap is off limits, Moon says it's all or nothing when it comes to a rap battle. "Yes, I'm going in."
"When I first came up here to battle, I was just going hard. I didn't care about winning or losing," Moon says. But the Plainfield, N.J., native has built up enough confidence to change his mindset. These days, he knows what he has to do. "It's real important. I will be the first person in my 'hood to do something positive," he said.
In another room not far from Moon, Blind Fury comfortably sits in a chair patiently waiting for the time to come. "You know what, I don't even know what I have in store. You're just gonna have to watch it," he says calmly, while wearing a shirt with the word "YAGA" on it.
For Fury though, there is no doubt in his mind that he will be the victor. When he finds out that Moon believes otherwise, he matter-of-factly states, "That's the right way to be thinking. Im sure he'll wake up from that dream really soon. Somebody will get him a cup of coffee and he'll be fine." Then, in true rap fashion, he adds, "If Moon ever dreamed about beating me, he better wake up, call me and apologize."
Tune in to 106 & Park at 6pm today to see the two combatants go at it on Freestyle Friday.
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."


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Celebrating a home for the holidays with Habitat
The best Christmas gift they ever received? That's easy, teenagers Jamian and Jaquille say. It's the home their mother built for them.
The holidays for the brothers now are about celebrating the gifts the house keeps giving — a place to study, a place to have friends over, a place to create their family traditions, like grilling pork chops, hamburgers and hot dogs on Christmas Day. "We weren't allowed to grill at our apartment," says 15-year-old Jamian, the self-appointed grill master.
Their mom, Jill, listens as her sons count their blessings and offers a few of her own. Before partnering with Habitat for Humanity Greater Birmingham, she was paying most of her salary from her job at Alabama's organ donation registry counseling families for a too-small apartment where the boys slept on air mattresses in the living room. Now she has a mortgage that is half of what her rent was and her children have rooms of their own — one plastered with University of Alabama posters, the other with posters of chief rival Auburn.
As in many cities across the United States, families in Birmingham are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of housing. "My burdens have been lifted," Jill says, "and I couldn't be more grateful."
Jill did most of the heavy lifting. She built her Habitat home as part of Habitat Birmingham's 2018 Home for the Holidays program, which sees two families build two homes in the two weeks leading up to Christmas each year with the help of local sponsors and their volunteers. Jill put in hundreds of sweat equity hours, took financial and homeowner education classes, and met a host of other requirements before she closed on her house. That commitment and the affordable mortgage she pays each month allow Habitat to partner with families.
"Our work wouldn't be possible without the families who are making a great contribution to their future," says Charles Moore, Habitat Birmingham's president and CEO. While this holds true year-round, the Home for the Holidays program is special. Thanks to the annual build, 22 families now celebrate Christmas in their own homes. "We help families who have a need for housing and what better time to do it."
Christmastime is now even more magical for Jill's family because of where and how they spend it. When they lived in that cramped, overpriced apartment, they rode around looking at other families' decorations. Now they have a shivering snowman in the front yard and a projector that flashes colorful snowflakes on the front of their house. "It is really special that we get to put decorations out," Jamian says. The real Christmas tree that they now have room for is what's special for 13-year-old Jaquille. "It smells good," he says.
Across town, the two families who are building their home as part of the 2019 Home for the Holidays program are thinking about what makes their new house special.
Melonie and her children, 4-year-old Jaysen and 8-month-old Melodie, have been living with her grandmother in the same home where Melonie grew up. "This will be my first time on my own," says Melonie, who works at the local hospital. She's proud of herself for creating this opportunity. "It's been a lot of work, I'm not going to lie," she says. "I do think of it as the Christmas gift that I am giving to my children and to myself."
For Tamika, her new house offers space. "My children need a lot more space to grow into themselves as individuals," she says. "This wouldn't have been possible without Habitat and the people who are taking time away from their families around the holidays to make this a special time for my family."
It also wouldn't have been possible without Tamika, who, in addition to managing a retail store and raising her children, found the hours to put in her sweat equity and meet the other requirements for becoming a Habitat homeowner.
All of her efforts haven't been lost on her 12-year-old daughter, De'Mareyia. "I just want to thank my mom for working so hard to provide a house for me and for my family."


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VPN services are able to see and store various types of information related to the identity and behavior of their users. Some VPN providers keep logs for troubleshooting, others for improving their systems. However, there are VPNs that do not keep any user information. Such a service is called "logless VPN", or "no-log VPN", or "zero log VPN".
What are VPN logs?
Typically in Virtual private networks (VPNs), incoming and outgoing data is encrypted so that to protect user's privacy, anonymity as well as personal information transmitted via a network. A record of customer activities while using VPN services is called a VPN log. Logs can be found in various categories and forms.
Usage logs
Both ISP (Internet Service Provider) and VPN can see and store users unencrypted data including:
- Records of visited websites;
- Accessed internet resources such as downloaded files;
- Passwords entered into non-HTTPS secured sites.
Many times these records may request by court orders. As an example, in the UK, it is required to store these usage files for 12 months so that various government departments can be accessible to them.
Connection logs
Connection logs include:
- User IP address;
- Timestamp – when a connection was started and finished;
- Bandwidth usage.
Real-time logs
All network devices, including VPNs, generate real-time logs which may last within few milliseconds. They can be monitored in real-time, and VPN services monitor them to identify issues related to the connection. Nevertheless, real-time logs can be less harmful to user privacy.
Server logs
Almost all VPN service providers indeed hire third-party servers spread over the world. These server data centers may not have committed to protecting user privacy, though VPN service providers do. But anyway, it can be identified that the greatest threat is log files which keep by VPN providers, not third-party server centers.
From a logged IP address, the VPN provider is able to match a corresponding email address and other personal information of the users.
What is a logless VPN?
No log VPN or logless VPN means a VPN that does not collect or log any user information exchanging through the network. Therefore, it protects user privacy and anonymity even from the VPN service provider. No log VPN service providers are more trusted because users choose their service to encrypt sending and receiving data and no-log service ensures that these service providers will not collect user personal data and sell to third parties.
VPN logging policy
Before selecting a VPN service, it is worth to go through logging policies. The logging policy can be divided into three parts as below.
Error logs
Some personal information like username, IP address, etc. can be considered as error logs. VPN service providers use these data to identify problems related to their services and to enhance them.
Connection logs
Type of logs which users to track records of user online activities. When digital privacy companies need to monitor their multi-login features, these records become useful.
Activity logs
VPNs can monitor each user's activities including web requests, what kind of files are downloading etc. in other words, VPN servers can route all web traffic comes through their network.
5 Eyes, 9 Eyes & 14 Eyes Countries
5 Eyes, 9 Eyes & 14 Eyes are standard terms involving the VPN and other privacy tools. These are international surveillance alliances countries that work to collect and share mass surveillance data. On the other hand, these countries acting as one global surveillance entity and spy on users and their activities (as examples documents, location data, calls, etc.).
It is worth knowing that in many countries, data retention is legal while in some countries like Australia, it is mandatory. Unless a user does not use an excellent VPN service, it is easy to log all user DNS requests and collect the data (BTW, I recommend using a no-log DNS as well).
- 5 Eyes countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States;
- 9 Eyes countries: 5 Eyes + Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway;
- 14 Eyes countries: 9 Eyes + Germany, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Spain.
So simply above countries monitor online activities of all users and regularly share them. Therefore, better to avoid choosing VPN services that have their headquarters in the above countries — in addition to those below countries also acting as spying agents on online activities.
- South Korea
- Singapore
- Israel
- Japan
- United Arab Emirates
The best logless VPNs
As mentioned earlier, before choosing a VPN provider you should be aware of the disadvantages of a VPN and you should go through their logging policy and focus on the following factors:
- Jurisdiction;
- Should have shared IP addresses;
- No traffic logging and source IP logs;
- Bitcoin payment option.
And here are the logless VPNs that I recommend:
- VPN provider based in Panama, so there is no influence from USA NSA and copyright holders, servers in 47 countries. Perfect at your logless VPN service.
- Six simultaneous devices.
- Accept anonymous payment in Bitcoin.
- Route traffic through two servers (double-hop VPN chaining), so this has excellent utility.
- P2P permitted.
- OpenVPN encryption with perfect forward secrecy.
- Supports obfsproxy technology to defeat censorship.
- 30-day money-back guarantee.
- VPN provider based in Romania.
- It does not keep user logs.
- Multiple usages on up to 5 devices.
- 1-day free trial plus 15-day money-back guarantee.
- Full IPv4 and IPv6 DNS leak protection. WebRTC leak protection.
- HTTPS and SOCKS5 proxies available.
- Advanced Kill Switch functions.
- Excellent customer service.
- Read our complete ibVPN review here.
- VPN provider registered in the British Virgin Islands.
- For practical purposes, this keeps minimal anonymous usage statistics excluding IP and connection timestamp.
- Fast performance, 24/7 customer support, and 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Servers located across 94 countries enhancing the speed, privacy, and access to geographically restricted data. Impressive number of IP addresses offered.
- A new free smart domain name system (DNS) helps to run streaming media smoothly on a VPN (Ex: unblock Netflix).
- Simple and effective Kill Switch.
- Available as a desktop tool as well as Android and iOS apps.
- Three simultaneous connections, peer-to-peer (P2P) permitted (learn how to torrent safely).
How to be sure your VPN provider does not keep logs?
Read VPNs privacy policies and terms of service
Although "no logs" mentioned in the VPN web site or advertisements, it is worth to read printed terms of services to make sure the same replicate in there.
Warrant Canaries
Sometimes companies must hand over customer details for legal purposes when they require by gag orders, without alerting customers. Some VPNs operate warrant canaries that help customers to identify this kind of thing that has not happened to them.
Although many VPN providers advertise as "no log," most of them keep some logs for troubleshooting and to enhance the connection.
When choosing a logless VPN service users have to go through VPN logging policies as well as have to look at the based countries. We recommend NordVPN (the best VPN in my opinion), ibVPN, ExpressVPN, but you may also go for Private Internet Access (PIA) or HideIPVPN.
Because in some countries it is entirely legal to access user log files (in other words to spy on user activities), countries where VPN is illegal.


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Aviamost recognized as best Russian magazine in the UAE
Aviamost, a Russian language magazine in the Gulf published by MediaMost Publishing, was recently awarded Best Russian-language Magazine at a ceremony marking Russia's National Day held at the Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai.
Launched in 1996, Aviamost, which means "Air Bridge" in English, is a monthly, comprehensive Russian language magazine in the UAE. The magazine is distributed on board 10 Russian airlines visiting the UAE including Emirates Airline on their Dubai-Moscow route and is available in VIP lounges of Emirates Airlines at Dubai Airports.


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"Dolby's Top 50 Indie Rock Music Videos of All Time"
It should be noted upon intaking this list and invariably developing your own strong opinions about its components, or about the general entity of indie rock as a whole, that I am primarily a music lover, and not a cinematographer. I feel grateful for the ability to enjoy videos but at the same time, always in the back of my mind is the voice of Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam, one of my favorite bands, who, even with their major label status and likely endless budget, backed out of the video making business completely at their creative peak in the '90s, to focus on the music itself. Women and Abe Vigoda, two very vital indie artists of the late '00s, have never made a video in their careers, as far as I've observed (after the knowledge of which you might as well ransack this list to sh**, unless you just have an overly oppressive zeal for this stuff like I do). Also, you'd be hard pressed to find a better song, or a worse music video, than Yo La Tengo's "Sugarcube." As possibly a means of leniency toward the general boat these musicians are typically in, I judged these videos undoubtedly in terms of the holistic, multimedia viewing experience they provide, whereby two cuts with cinematography of an equal sharpness find the one with the better song ranking more highly.
All in all, anyway, it's been a pleasant surprise to me how many of these bands actually had the means and the valor to get this stuff done. It certainly can't be easy, coming up with the creative vision, getting all of the people and effects together and then just making it work, with the artists even going home happy and everything.
By the way, here's a pencil note: when shooting your own homespun, cliched-lonely-protagonist video for Modest Mouse's "Trailer Trash," it might actually behoove you to get some shots of some actual TRAILERS in there somewhere. That's just my expert advice.
One cool thing about this list is that I don't see ANY director on here twice. Enjoy.
50 Broken Social Scene – "Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)" (director unknown)
I would personally allot this as the top-notching BSS track of all time and this video certainly features some cheesy dancing, but also some dancing that is actually cool… hey, dance as if nobody's watching, right?
49 Beach House – "Astronaut" (director unknown)
In this strange cut you get a bunch of young Chinese girls in a sort of rank and file all doing gymnastics competitions, the innocent vibe lending itself to the childish lyric "At the end of the day is a glass of lemonade". "Astronaut" culls from the excellent 2008 album Devotion.
48 St. Vincent – "Cruel" (Terry Timely)
"Cruel" is an overall entertaining spot for a solid song on an excellent, standout album (Strange Mercy), probably my personal favorite St. Vincent album to date. Personally I can relate to listening to this song in this one workplace where these people 10 years younger would constantly talk about having sex with each other and the guys would all really hate me for no reason.
47 Spoon – "Inside out" (Scott Cudmore, Michael LeBlanc)
This tune has some of the founding band funk we enjoyed on "I Turn My Camera On," et. al. and the dark, spooky cinematography makes for a tense experience but also one of a certain resignation, as if mourning a general loss in the world, something rock and roll should usually do, to an extent.
46 Fleet Foxes – "If You Need to, Keep Time on Me" (Ryan Heffington)
This excellent, possibly career-defining cut here gets an average treatment of an impossibly metrosexual-looking dude out at a trendy lake cottage apparently struggling with identity amidst a gaggle of people who to a greater extent know who they are. "If You Need to, Keep Time on Me" emanates from the band's 2017 album Crack-up, for which they switched employers from Sub Pop Records to Warner subsidiary Nonesuch. Yeah, I know this makes it technically not indie. I cheated. Trust me, you won't get mad at me.
45 No Age – "Glitter" (director unknown)
In a strange and bizarre spot here we have a random sequence of snow-bound imagery framing a young boy at school over what is the best song on Everything in Between that HAS words in it (to say nothing of "Dusted," that is).
44 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone" (director unknown)
To me this video sort of makes you realize how overwhelming this whole endeavor can be, when you put to visual life this music which explodes out of the speakers as so unencumbered by the corporate dollar: Leo treks in in this cold-weather gear and then the shots switch to these mannequin-looking people starving by a shoreline… struggle is bound up in these images but all the while hopefully encompassing some of the artist's inner vision he weren't otherwise able to portray.
43 Liars – "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack" (director unknown)
Liars definitely play around with the pop structure on this song in an important way, in key indie form: constantly switching tempos, taking an obstinately simple chord progression and running with it toward an obstinately simple album closeur that none of us probably truly ever unpacked to enough of an extent (at least if I'm any indication).
42 Dirty Projectors – "Break-Thru" (Sean Pecknold)
Sean Pecknold, Robin Pecknold's (Fleet Foxes) little brother directed this project and basically it's a series of scenes depicting a parrot flying at and away from this dude in a suit who's sitting in a colorful room and playing a guitar. Strikingly, from looking at it, it's not a Grizzly Bear video, but Dirty Projectors are from New York and are by my Midwestern standards obnoxiously well-dressed, of course.
41 Arcade Fire – "Intervention" (David James Lennon)
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day and even a whiny fop like Win Butler sometimes comes across in his muse a song that's listenable and a video that's viewable, here I must admit laying down some strikingly prescient cinema covering the subject of totalitarian conformity and brutality.
40 Spoon – "The Underdog" (Keven McAllester)
What's nice about this video is that, while I'm pretty sure we all love this song and most Spoon albums in general, you pretty much get the point of it within the first 15 seconds: it's this well-dressed square-looking dude acting excessively boorish and confrontational to a noticeable extent. Then, elsewhere, he's basically, amidst a bunch of ostensible nonsense, looking around for people to pin on something, but finds only a woman playing an amusingly and poignantly simple tambourine line, a guy pretending to jerk off, and a bunch of other stuff which to me is entertaining for its just taking place in Austin, Texas (I've always wanted to go there).
39 Blitzen Trapper – "The Rebel" (Jon Meyer)
Here is a crafty urban video in which the subject matter, in alignment with its city setting, is pretty much just about craziness — the craziness taking in this particular case on the inside, as Eric Earley is "A rebel to the one I love". "The Rebel" opens up the Trapper's strong most recent effort Wild & Reckless.
38 Califone – "Spiders House" (director unknown)
"Spiders House" marks the exact moment when I initially truly realized the brilliance of the band Califone — it was the amazingly textural and intricate mix of folk rock wielding this strong, pithy Beatles influence toward a sky-reaching mark of sheer indie rock beauty. The bare "Spiders House" video does excellent, austere justice to the gravity of the song.
37 Grizzly Bear – "All We Ask" (Unofficial video/director unknown)
On the strength of what without any question is a spooky, surreal tune, the "All We Ask" video seems to meaningfully project the utmost American mundane in the form of an outwardly conventional modern, or newly modernized, household featuring of all "necessary" luxuries and ensuing truncations from the outside world, as it were.
36 Califone – "Magdalene" (Jesse Stein)
"Magdalene" is the strongest tune on Califone's most recent LP Stitches (which I found a success in general), particularly laudable for the band's noticeable penchant for embedding a song title within an unusual spot in a song, in this case toward the beginning of the second verse, and nary in any chorus. The Leo Leoni style of illustration in this video behooves it as well.
35 Pavement – "False Skorpion" (director unknown)
This is kind of like Pavement's "resident Nirvana song," the way "Low Desert" is R.E.M.'s "resident Pearl Jam song"… well both tunes are excellent and the message is clear from the cinematography at play here, a spoof on he-males.
34 Broken Social Scene – "Texico Bit**es" (director unkown)
What I remember from this video was that it was strange, bizarre and beautiful, just like this whole album itself, and just like the funeral pyre of those douche bags Coke Machine Glow who attempted to rip on it (the only site to give Forgiveness Rock Record a bad review, as far as I know).
33 Kevin Morby – "Aboard My Train" (Kevin Morby)
The "Aboard My Train" collage features just the artist shooting himself writing a bunch of stuff on a mirror, sort of like a little kid would do, the song itself then featuring gripping lyrics of childhood innocence ("I once loved a boy so smart and true / We would walk home every day from the school").
32 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – "The Mighty Sparrow" (Jack Ferry)
I had to watch about three seconds of this video in order to know that I loved it: it was incredibly "simple and plain," just like Art Alexakis of Everclear declares in the band's lambasting 2015 album Black is the New Black, depicting just Ted Leo hauling off and unleashing some bare bones rock and roll on guitar and vox. "The Mighty Sparrow" leads off the brutal The Brutalist Bricks.
31 Cat Power – "Lived in Bars" (Robert Gordon)
In "Lived in Bars," a precocious tune from CP's heady 2006 album The Greatest, we have a dissociative phenomenon similar to what gets projected in Natural Born Killers: the completely lurid and unconscionable predicament of a particular woman facing constant untoward sexual advances and expected to keep a cheerful face before all of them, hence placing it in a rare class where the video actually provides a different mood from the one the song does, itself.
30 Spoon – "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine" (director unknown)
Ah, you can't beat a good crossdresser and those devils Spoon were just bound to throw one on you here: you know I envisioned a relatively manly figure nonetheless when I first heard the lyric "He makes love to the duke", but still, they're clearly city boys with a taste for this stuff and they pull it off phenomenally in this pictogram here.
29 Speedy Ortiz – "My Dead Girl" (Elle Schneider)
Elle Schneider, I think, is probably a makeup artist, and should be commended for dolling up Sadie Dupius in all these different looks, from that weird vaudeville curly-white-hair get-up to her normal one and back, this song then carrying a certain jazzy tension which is somewhat rare in the band but certainly most welcome and commendable.
28 No Age – "Eraser" (Andy Bruntel)
Here I'm just going to unabashedly say that I fu**ing love this song and that Dean Spunt has the absolute perfect kind of voice for spewing this apocalyptic and disarmingly simple noise-rock which somehow derives a vague Beatles influence (which is to say a Nirvana influence)… in the video I think they're running around doing some crazy sh** or something.
27 Cat Power – "He War" (Brett Vapneck)
To me this was sort of a spooky and unexpectedly stark video from Cat Power, seeing as this was supposed to be the lead single off of You Are Free (while I don't find it bad there are probably six or seven songs on this album I like better) but ultimately it's not a failure for its similarity to certain Speedy Ortiz and Beach House spots in just showcasing the sexiness of the female lead singer and how she's nonetheless trying to wield an artistic muse in the face of all of it.
26 Mark Mulcahy – "Stuck on Something Else" (Jason Mazzotta)
"Stuck on Something Else" is the peaceful and spare centerpiece from 2017's The Possum in the Driveway, an energetic but mournful and textural slab of folk rock which should be a staple of any fan of Wilco or Kevin Morby.
25 Broken Social Scene – "Stars and Sons" (Christopher Mills)
This video had a canny way of shifting in and out of reality, displaying the band's ethereal surreal aspect while still keeping things light and psychedelic in a traditional American sense.
24 Kevin Morby – "City Music" (Christopher Good)
There's a lot to love about this spot here, from the literary and groundbreaking spoken-word intro, to the easy funk of the music itself, to, of course, Mr. Morby himself dancing around in that tacky leisure suit with the musical notes on it. I wonder if they sell one of those at The Men's Warehouse these days!
23 Dinosaur Jr. – "Almost Ready" (director unknown)
The "Almost Ready" video gets its props for showcasing the great Fender-stack master J Mascis in action playing, but also juxtaposing shots of all this crazy sh** like a monkey and the Egyptian pyramids. Is it trying to be serious or trying to be funny? Well, it doesn't have to tell you, now, does it? That's the whole point.
22 Kurt Vile – "Jesus Fever" (Ricardo Rivera)
I have to just say that Kurt Vile is the man on a musical level: he can cast off an orchestration of just footage of him walking around a city when the ground is snow-covered (that giant frock of hair probably helps him out with this) and have it somehow come off as poetic, that pristine guitar sound certainly not hindering matters in the meantime.
21 Pinback – "Fortress" (director unknown)
Pinback will always exist to me as a sort of model indie rock band which brought forth something pure and true and did things in entire blindness to the corporate dollar. "Fortress" is ARGUABLY their best song and probably their most high-profile one, here soundtracking a semi-animated segment of dark, cloudy and vaguely romantic matters which ultimately leave the meaning of the song refreshingly murky (like is he saying that a "fortress" is a good thing?)
20 Aloha – "Boys in the Bathtub" (lucstanner)
This video is composed of a lot of goofy sh** and compliments a song which is nothing short of astounding, off of the album Here Comes Everyone which I was lucky enough to score on CD at Tracks in Bloomington, Indiana at the recommended listening station in about 2004 or so. Aloha, despite their name, hail from Pittsburgh, and in my opinion do a pretty good job of detailing the city and the life of a real visionary lazy a** who refuses to leave his bed.
19 No Age – "Send Me" (Jonn Herschend)
"Send Me" had the obvious nice message of considering the plight of an upwardly mobile stuck in static office work, emaciated and disarmed in the corporate dormancy and wanting a way out (at which time she pulls an Office Space and starts messing up some electronic equipment out in nature, which is always pretty cool).
18 Beach House – "Walk in the Park" (Allen Cordell)
Uh, go Orioles?
17 St. Vincent – "Pills" (Phillipa Price)
I was pleased to see "Pills" given the best treatment off of MASSEDUCTION in terms of the video itself: not that it was FULLY ingenuous but I thought Miss… mm-hmm.. Vincent… er… girl with her butt in the air… there I said it… did a pretty commendable job of capturing a certain zeitgeist of static aspects and sameness within this medicable society we habitate. I'd just like to say in closing, though, Lorde is my hero for covering "New York" and unleashing a godlike, legendary bout of the word "motherfu**er." It literally changed my life to hear her cursing like a giant douche bag.
16 Mike Pace and the Child Actors – "Summer Lawns" (Angus Scrimm)
Oh yeah, this was when post-Oxford Collapse-era Mike Pace was really swingin' with the best of 'em: I can just picture this guy having like one pleasurable experience in an entire Long Island summer, and it's his muse which pumped out this Beach Boys-influenced march of American pop candor. The video does justice.
15 Speedy Ortiz – "Tiger Tank" (director unknown)
With a great voice somewhat like PJ Harvey, Sadie Dupius of Speedy Ortiz (whom I typically accuse of being pretty similar to The Breeders but can definitely wield some funk and come up with some original moments and tunes) belts out a great whopper of a plaint against the bilious masses with memorable tune and video, sure to leave your eardrums and your heart bleeding.
14 Grizzly Bear – "gun-shy" (Kris Moyes)
Wow, are you kidding me, this is only 14th on this list? This has got to be easily the sketchiest video ever, the work of true New York masters who will always be my heroes (somewhat like Interpol with "NYC") framing these bewilderingly rapid shots of disfigurement in jarring adjacency to a pastoral scene typifying the overall folk-rock m.o. of the music itself. Remember, this stuff is steeped in Crosby, Stills & Nash, just more damaged and powerful.
13 Dirty Projectors – "That's a Lifestyle" (Kitty Faingold)
Let's hear it for that deformed butt! "It!" There, we heard "it" for that deformed butt! In all seriousness, I'm so glad David Longstreth stripped it back on this cut and album for some organic Neil Young-type acoustic guitar work and this is by far my favorite song on the album.
12 Liars – "Cred Woes" (Yoonha Park)
This was that new Liars album I was really impressed with last year: apparently Liars is just the solo project of Angus Andrew now, the Australian-American by way of Germany, which I never could have imagined before I actually heard it. Yeah, this stuff rocks. The song before this on the album "No Tree No Branch" is awesome too and nothing like this one.
11 Blitzen Trapper – "Black River Killer" (Daniel Elkayam)
As far as the cinematography went, per how fluid, natural and memorable this song itself is, I thought the video unfurled as just a little bit angular, but certainly viewable within the excellent song, the delicious-looking brunette Northwestern girl the presumed cause of it all and, what I found perhaps most haunting, the band's seeming unwillingness to depict very much imagery from their home state of Oregon in the video.
10 Battles – "The Yabba" (Roger Guardia)
I don't understand what a "Yabba" is and I don't really understand very much at all, like how a governing indie rock album such as "La Di Da Di" could go so unnoticed and unheralded and why in general just saying "La Di Da Di" would be in any way commendable or necessary, in life. But then, that's why we call on the yabba for answers, now, isn't it?
9 Sleater-Kinney – "Entertain" (Bernard Derriman)
A couple of things I noticed while watching this video (by the way, anybody who names any album other than The Woods as the best S/K feast is a moron) were that a.) the "the woods" imagery is apparently that handiwork of Carrie Brownstein, which is ironic since she's the Seattleite of the group and the remainder is from Olympia and (b.) that's actually Corin Tucker singing my favorite part, the "Don't wear me down / I'm not falling down"… hot da** if their voices don't sound exactly alike… and is that Janet Weiss driving away in once scene in symbolism of a certain drumming power which somehow evaded the cameraman? Well, is it?
8 Speedy Ortiz – "Raising the Skate" (Casey Herz)
I think it's safe to say that sexuality is always everybody's favorite topic to discuss until it actually gets real, at which point it's extremely painful and demoralizing… anyway, this is definitely not a song that's about workplaces or "sexual harrassment"… bona fide rapes happen which are violent crimes and this is the statement of a potential victim thereof giving us a glimpse into her world… but more than anything it's a great alt-rock track from a diva who I think sounds a lot like PJ Harvey.
7 The Dandy Warhols – "Catcher in the Rye" (Mike Bruce)
I sort of have a complicated relationship with The Dandy Warhols… k I'll just take you through it from the top… Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia was probably one of my top 10 favorite CD's in high school, then I heard Welcome to the Monkey House and decided they were by far the worst band on the planet, then I went bald and saw girls in yoga pants and thought This Machine wielded a certain Elliott Smith influence pretty tautly, blown away thoroughly by Distortland and all of its divine majesty… I think this is an ugly song about an ugly thing which is… the next moment you're about to live, all of you.
6 The New Pornographers – "Failsafe" (Casablanca video) (director unknown)
Obviously, purely, this spot gets by on the strength of the song itself: you know I WANTED to like the other Pornos cuts 'cause they're definitely one of my favorite bands and they epitomize indie rock without any question but I just couldn't get into 'em and sometimes you've just got to appreciate this great music as what it is, in this case set to shots from Casablancas, a movie I've never actually seen. See, I told you this was an ironic blog! Er, I kinda told you that!
5 Julia Holter – "Goddess Eyes II" (Yelena Zhelezov)
Did she just call her eyes "goddess eyes"? Ok, I really hate this person… hey this song's really great… I'm gonna hit her up on Facebook… hey she never wrote me back… I really want some licentious pleasure in my life… oh it's a good thing I have these classic songs like "Fur Felix" and this "Goddess Eyes" sweet (suite) which channels Annie Lennox toward a textural bridge into the new century to beat tha band.
4 Grizzly Bear – "Ready, Able" (Allison Schulnik)
There is a MESSAGE behind this video, of course, the mad clay-mation creation of Allison Schulnik (that name sounds so Polish she might even almost fit in in my hometown of South Bend, Indiana), but it almost seems secondary to the fact that there WAS a dark message which is representative of life itself and now we can all get to our crazy lives knowing that there's a clay-mation video out there that's this crazy besides TOOL – "Schism," and junk.
3 Oxford Collapse – "John Blood" (director unknown)
To me, this is undeniably the predicament of touring across the long, boring United States which is so filled with "blood" (the video depicts several bellicose images across its board by and large), the song itself being about a pro wrestler which… hey I'll let you draw your own conclusions… I happened to personally enjoy that last Ronda Rousey bout, if I may.
2 Califone – "3Legged Animals" (director unknown)
It's Lansing, Illinois, a gas stop. I get out of the car and there's four Cubs fan douche bags glaring at me. It's 75 degrees and sunny. I go into the store, buy my can of Grizzly or whatever it was I was buying and get the fu** out of there. I stare into the 45 year old female clerk's eyes and they look like the sunset. Tonight there is everything going on in the city of Chicago. It is the year 2007. I'm moving out to Colorado, which I have no desire to do. I don't think there's anything going on in this video. With how cinematographic life is, there shouldn't be.
1 Kevin Morby – "Parade" (Elise Tyler)
I have been sort of waiting for a while for a new folk-rock elder statesman to come in and take the reins in favor of Wilco and… I think he's the one, this particular delicate, pliable rocker apparently being so "ready to die" ("If I were to die today / Slaughtered in that masquerade / The last thing you'd hear me day / Put my body on display in the parade"), a couple things jumping out being that a). he's apparently been driven to this insane city as a homosexual unwelcome anywhere else and (b.) this song is of such stately pop perfection that it could probably soundtrack all of our lives were it not so depressing.


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If you watched the previous video on the blog, you would have been introduced to the new smartwatch concept featuring Android Wear. Moto 360 aims to bring the traditional watch integrated with the latest technology to bring you the ultimate accessory piece. Check out the reveal and design inspirational video above!
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Palo Alto High School's annual Spirit Week began Monday, with students competing in a traditional opening game of tug-of-war and competition for the title of best dressed. Spirit Week 2019 continues until Friday.
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Although naturally linked to the sport of tennis, tennis elbow can be caused by various other sports and activities. Over time, tennis elbow can be painful and lead to inflammation and micro-tears in the tendons of the elbow.
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Repetitive use leads to inflammation of the tendons that attach to the bony prominence on the outside of the elbow (lateral epicondyle).
Symptoms of lateral epicondylitis include:
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To properly evaluate and diagnose tennis elbow, your OrthoAspen physician will review your medical history, perform a thorough physical examination and order X-rays, an MRI or electromyogram (EMG) to detect any nerve compression.
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- Application of ice packs on the elbow to reduce swelling.
- Restriction of activities that trigger symptoms and increase stress on the tendons.
- Anti-inflammatory medications and/or steroid injections to treat pain and swelling.
- Physical therapy may be ordered for strengthening and stretching exercises to the muscles of the forearm (once symptoms have decreased).
- Pulsed ultrasound to increase blood flow and promote healing to the injured tendons.
If conservative treatment options fail to resolve the condition and symptoms persist during a six to 12 month time period, your OrthoAspen physician may recommend surgery.
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>>>VALENTINA LEO aka MRSLOVE
Performance artist, dancer, teacher, director, choreographer, world traveler and Madame Zingara's creative vision and inspiration.
Valentina was born in Milan the year that the Beatles broke up, Janis Joplin died and the floppy disc was invented. There she completed a degree in art and advertising before moving to London in 1990 where she worked as a fashion photographer for five years.
Becoming disenchanted with the superficial nature of the industry, Valentina teamed up with independent writer, Betti Marenko and their collaboration gave birth to in.sect.corp, "a permanent laboratory of research and documentation of the body's explorative journeys into the unknown".
After an eighteen month sojourn of self-discovery to India and Zanzibar, Valentina finally arrived in Cape Town in 1997 and never left...!
She regularly travels abroad to collaborate on various commercial and art projects. In Cape Town Valentina has been involved in both the movie and commercial industries as well as collaborated with several local productions and artists, such as Mark Routenbach Splendid and award-winning film maker-Kali van der Merwe.
In 2006/7, together with Richard Griffin, Valentina conceptualized and directed Madame Zingara's very first show: Arabesque.
She went on to direct Rosario, in 2007/8 , 'The LOVEMAGIC TouR' in 2010
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EL MILAGRO- 2012 , currently showing at the Theatre of Dreams.
MRSLOVE conceptualized and directed "CABARET EXTRAVAGANZA"in december 2010- for the cape town's well renewed gentlemen's club MAVERIKS, creating a sensuous indulgent burlesque feast for the senses.
In 2011 MRSLOVE was invited by SEXPO to present a body of work that she called "THE PUSSY ROOM " -a journey into acrobatic eroticism .
Leo's visual work is about what real life has to offer. It is a constant exploration around the boundaries of bodies, dreams and desires...particularly her own. . Dressing up in surrealistic colours and credos, she creates a mystique around her doing. She has been using her visionary art to elaborate extraordinary performances that please the eyes, touch the senses and inspire the spirit .
Currently she is madly in love with the Moon, and Hopes one day to make a living out of late sleeping....!
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Night-scented flower I&II
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns
- Ada Lovelace
Moths have a strong fascination for artificial sources of light. They are less active, feed less, and pollinate fewer flowers when drawn to light at night. Lamps can distract them to the extent that they forget about everything else, perhaps similar to the way in which humans are drawn to screens.
With the help of a computerised Jacquard loom, I translated infrared photographs of nocturnally blooming flowers (that moths feed on) into woven tapestry. The photographs were downloaded into a software program that translated each colour into a combination of threads.
Produced at the Textile Lab of the Textile Museum in Tilburg (NL).


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Estonia took part of the China International Import Expo on 3-8 November 2018. The official delegation was headed by Minister of Rural Affairs Tarmo Tamm, who met with Minister of Agriculture of China, Mr Han Changfu, the leaders of the General Administration of Customs and local entrepreneurs, as well as introduced Estonian flavours to the locals.
"While developing export we have to make sure that the state supports entrepreneurship in order to encourage economic ties between countries. My visit as minister and our meeting with the Minister of Agriculture of China reiterates the fact that both Estonia and its entrepreneurs are interested in long-term cooperation," Minister Tamm said.
On 5 November, Minister Tarmo Tamm met with his Chinese colleague, Minister Han Changfu. "Estonia can offer China high-quality dairy and fish products, as well as organic products where we see a rise in our production volumes. Our food safety and supervision in Estonia are also at a high standard," Minister Tamm noted after the meeting. During the meeting with Minister Han Changfu, both sides also discussed possible cooperation in research and digital solutions for agriculture. Minister Tarmo Tamm also invited Minister Han to Estonia to attend the international conference Agroforum Mare Balticum, which in 2019 will focus on agroecology.
On 6 November, Minister Tamm signed a poultry protocol with the Vice Minister of the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC), Mr Wang Lingjun, which gives Estonian entrepreneurs the opportunity to export their poultry products to China.
"Estonian food safety and supervision are at a high level. Chinese inspectors have also seen this and as a result, we have already signed food safety protocols for dairy and certain fish products. Now we have taken one step further and also signed a poultry protocol with the Vice Minister of the General Administration of Customs," Minister Tamm said. "What is especially noteworthy is the fact that we are only the second country in the European Union after Poland to have such enforced protocol with China," the Minister added.
At the same evening, Minister Tarmo Tamm opened a reception dedicated to the introduction of Estonian food and food culture. The reception hosted Chinese officials and potential partners in the food industry to establish stronger political and business ties.
"Estonia's advantage lies in our clean nature, which allows us to produce food that is both pure and high in quality," Minister Tamm said in his opening address. He added that "Our businesses are greatly interested in exporting their products to the world and our current logistical and trade networks allow us to make it happen. Direct contacts are vital for developing export in the Chinese market and they can only be achieved through eye-to-eye meetings. That is why this event is of great importance to our businesses." Renowned Estonian chefs Angelica Udeküll and Kristo Malm offered an array of Estonian flavours, including fish, beef, black garlic, curd snacks and nettle jam.
The official visit continued in Beijing, where Minister of Rural Affairs Tarmo Tamm opened the business seminar for Estonian entrepreneurs interested in the Chinese market, visited the Sino-Dutch Dairy Development Centre and met with representatives of the China Agricultural University to discuss scientific and technological cooperation in agriculture.
Estonian food and drinks producers that were represented at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai: AS Balsnack International, Heimtal Spirits OÜ, Saku Õlletehas AS, Värska Vesi AS, AS EBM Grupp, Vaba Aed OÜ, Amoor OÜ, Loodusvägi OÜ, Haage Joogid OÜ, Tanker Brewery OÜ, Farmi Piimatööstuse AS / Tere AS, HKScan Estonia AS, Reyktal AS, Orkla Eesti AS, AS PRFoods.
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The Minister of Rural Affairs of Estonia, Mr Tarmo Tamm, visits China International Import Expo on 3-8 November 2018, meets with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, Mr Han Changfu, and signs a poultry protocol with the Vice Minister of the General Administration of Customs of China. Minister Tamm was accompanied in China by a delegation of Estonian entrepreneurs. Photos: Eveli Post / Ministry of Rural Affairs.