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Art professor reaches beyond the classroom to transform spaces around the world
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Professor Prete at his solo show at Studio Gallery.
Davide Prete, an associate professor of art in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a highly influential and sought-after sculptor. His work has been showcased in the U.S. and around the world. Born in Treviso, Italy, Prete moved to America in 2007 and D.C. in 2011. He has been a professor at UDC for four years, teaching sculpture, digital tools, and ceramics.
"The teaching position here was perfect for me," Prete said. "The department was interested in focusing on new technologies applied to art. I am good at traditional sculptures and ceramics but also in new technologies such as 3D printing and 3D scanning, so it was a great fit. Another thing I greatly appreciate is that I have received much support from the Dean's office—it has always supported my work and how I pass my professional experience to the students."
Prete was introduced to metalsmithing art by his father, Alessandro Prete, and another international sculptor from Italy, Toni Benetton. Prete studied jewelry and metalsmithing at the Institute of Art in Venice. In 2003, he obtained an architecture degree at the prestigious Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV) in Venice, Italy. Afterward, he worked as an award-winning architect, notably with famed Italian architect Toni Follina.
Yet, Prete yearned to do other forms of art. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2010. He studied under professor Hank Knickmeyer and developed a personal sculptural process, mixing traditional metal casting and new technologies.
In 2014, the professor received a diploma from Fab Academy, where he studied digital fabrication with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Neil Gershenfeld through an outreach project from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms— an interdisciplinary initiative exploring the boundary between computer science and physical science. Later he received a more specialized certificate in Design for Additive Manufacturing from MIT
Prete's work is installed in Italy and the U.S. and has been shown at national and international venues, including New York, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, England, London and France.
Soundwave Art park in Washington D.C.
In addition to temporary exhibitions, his bronze sculpture "Icarus" is now in permanent exposition at the Facchina Italian American Museum of Washington DC (I.A.M.D.C.) along with his 3D printed reinterpretation of the Senate Corncob Capitals made in collaboration with the Architects of the Capitol. In the past four years, he installed two important public sculptures. The first one, "Freedom to Read" was explicitly made for Capitol View Library in Washington D.C., and the second public art project, "Soundwave Art Park for Playable Art," was installed at Fort Dupont, Washington D.C.
These public art installations led to Prete being one of four artists nominated for the 35th Washington D.C. Mayor's Art Award for Excellence in Visual Arts in 2020. The award honors an individual, group, nonprofit organization, or private entity that has made significant contributions to Visual Arts in the District of Columbia through the direct practice of their artistic work.
He was also recently selected to install the public sculpture "Solar Flare" and "Beginning and End of a Rainbow" at the Beale Circle in
Professor Prete working on "Solar Flare"
Riverdale, Maryland. He will also present his work at the Generative Art International Conference in Rome, Italy, from December 12-14. His proposal for Carroll Creek Kinetic Art Promenade with the Kinetic Sculpture "Blooming Life" was successfully sponsored and will be fabricated and installed next year in downtown Frederick, Maryland.
It has been a busy year for Prete, but he said he is up for the challenge.
"I have to keep a good balance between teaching and creating. Sometimes it's demanding, but I am delighted with my work," he said.
Prete enjoys focusing on new technologies such as 3D printing and laser scanning applied to traditional sculptural techniques. He connects figurative images with mathematical language using toroidal warping shapes and other mathematical forms. He says that mathematical equations gave him a pretext for discovering a new formal language in his last projects. Prete wants people to see the connection between shape, materials, technologies, sculptural techniques, and the beauty created by their relationship.
One of the things he enjoys most about his work is inspiring his students and involving them in his projects.
"Last year, we worked on two big projects, which was amazing," Prete said. "Right now, we are opening a new space where students will work with new technologies. We will combine 3D printing and laser scanning with traditional metalsmithing techniques. Students will be able to get the technical parts as well, which is great."
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The storms have gone, our muscles have adjusted and despite not being any closer to India the last two weeks have been a blast. This post is about our Féricy friends and Fontainebleau fun from the last two weeks of our England to India bike tour.
If you've read the first part to our journey you'll know our England to India tour started in suitably problematic fashion. The first 7 days were a constant battle with the elements and when you're fighting Storm Gareth it's unlikely you'll win. The beginning of any long-term, physically demanding trip is always hard work and it was an abrupt reintroduction to the world of saddle sores, crooked necks and constantly being on the move. Two weeks ago we arrived to the bouldering Mecca of Fontainebleau and the warm welcome of our first Work Away hosts: Hilde and Pete, and now those darker days seem a million miles away.
From the word go we knew we wouldn't be cycling straight from England to India. This is down to a number of things but primarily because we want see too many places to cycle a logical route and we're also pretty skint. Our solution has been to find 'bases' along the way where we could stay put for a while, explore the local area and try to scrape some pennies together in the online world. These 'bases' would be made up from Work Away placements, house sitting arrangements, friends with spare beds and any other people willing to let two smelly cyclists stay with them for an amount of time.
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As soon as we knew our route would be crossing France we set our eyes on Fontainebleau. You may, or may not, know we are big lovers of bouldering and rock climbing – Fontainebleau is pretty much Disney Land for climbers. 400 miles into our trip, it seemed like the perfect first 'base' so we got searching on Work Away to see if we could find a host. After not too long we found Hilda and Pete and were immediately sold after reading their profile.
We got in contact and agreed to exchange our culinary skills, green fingers and bike expertise for a 2.5 week stay in their amazing home in Féricy, on the edge of Fontainebleau.
Just over two weeks later and it's been a beautiful experience, one that we'll be sad to leave.
Although it's been a dream climbing the rocks of Fontainebleau the real highlight has been getting to know Hilde, Pete and the family. As promised in their profile we have been fully integrated into their lives and spend most of the day chatting and exchanging travel stories.
Pete's job as a botanist has taken him to many of the jungles around the world and as an anthropologist Hilde has spent time with some of the most remote tribes in the world. Whether it's chasing off burglars with frying pans in South Africa, wild pigs running through tents in Madagascar or escaping from riots on a motorbike, every moment has been filled with incredible stories. It's really wowed us and inspired us to fully pursue a life of creating adventures of our own.
On top of our new human friends we've also made a few of the furry variety. Benji and Maya are the two most lovable dogs, each with completely different but equally endearing personalities. Every morning they come to join us as we do a bit of work. Each evening, as we're drifting to sleep Ella the cat scratches on the door and spends the night by our feet.
Our Work Away duties have mainly been in the garden; digging new flower beds, planting trees and fighting roots. We've also spent our days walking Maya and Benji: the two wild dogs, chopping wood, and, with the dirt washed off our hands, cooking up a vegan storm in the kitchen.
Turns out wood chopping is pretty good exercise!
Outside of Work Away duties we've tried to spend every spare moment climbing and bloody hell has it been good. All of the main climbing areas are right in the heart of Fontainebleau forest which makes the whole experience very natural and therapeutic. Whenever possible we've jumped on our bikes and peddled into the woods to spend the day on the rocks, armed with bags of walnuts and dates for energy.
Not only is the climbing out of this world, you're also surrounded by immense natural beauty. In quieter spots you can just close your eyes and listen to the breeze blowing through the trees and the birds singing in the sky. It really has been incredible and we could honestly spend an infinite amount of time discovering news parts of the forest, climbing and completely chilling out amongst the trees.
During these few weeks our schedules have been damn busy but completely filled with highlights. Outside of hanging out with Hilde and Pete and climbing we've caught up with our writing, worked on the blog and finally got to wander around with a camera. We had our first restaurant meal in France (not French food but some damn tasty Italian pizzas), drank champagne as the sun set in the forest, made friends with board game designers and had interesting run-ins with prostitutes in the woods.
As well as our first restaurant meal in France we also got to visit our first chateau. I'm not sure what we were expecting, maybe just a big fancy castle in the middle of the woods, but this one was ridiculous. The Chateau du Fontainebleau is one of the largest royal palaces in France, originally built in 1137, and filled, head to toe, in over-the-top luxury and splendour.
It really was a marvel to see, definitely not how we'd spend our money, but very interesting none-the-less. On the first Sunday of every month national monuments are free so it was well worth the free visit, even to just realise we quite enjoy living in a tent.
Over the two weeks we've fallen for Féricy: a stunning little village that almost feels like it's been forgotten by time. Despite the 600 residents there are no shops, bars or services, just a tiny post office, a small school (though we've never seen any children) and a church (though we've never seen any church-goers). Besides the occasional loud dog the streets are almost silent and empty. The houses are beautifully antiquated with crumbling walls and aged terracotta roofing, the likes people in England would probably pay a fortune to impersonate.
Though this may not be how someone would envisage a perfect town, for us it's been serene. Walking the dogs into the nearby woods, across streams and through the quite streets has been the best way to start and finish a day. And to top things off, when it gets to 5.30pm and the sun slowly starts to go down, each evening has been filled with a perfect auburn flare through the skies, filling the sleepy streets and magnifying the terracotta roofs.
After our first two weeks being so damn hard our stay with Hilda and Pete has been just the respite we needed. Even so, with the burden of having forever itchy feet, we're ready for our next stage of our expedition.
Tomorrow a good friend of ours comes to join us for a leg of our journey and we begin peddling towards Lyon. Our bikes are ready, we're feeling fresh, full of energy and completely eager for the adventures to come!
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A 29-year-old man died after his vehicle was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer on Route 28.
The tractor-trailer was unable to stop and crashed into the back of the young man's vehicle. The victim was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries. He died two days later due to the severity of this injuries.
It is not certain as to why the tractor-trailer was unable to stop. Two other vehicles were also involved in the crash, but no other injuries were reported.
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Allister – 20 Years and Counting (review)
Allister are one of the great forgotten pop punk bands. They had all the tools – cool image, solid musicianship, a great attitude, killer tunes, witty lyrics, tattoos – yet somehow got lost in the shuffle. Don't get me wrong, they achieved modest commercial success, especially with their Last Stop Suburbia album in 2002, and cemented their place in pop punk folklore long ago (lest we forget they were one of the first bands signed to legendary label Drive-Thru records, also home to Senses Fail, Something Corporate, Newfound Glory, Halifax and Finch, to name just a few) but the big time always eluded them. In most places, anyway. Allister, and in particular bassist and singer Scott Murphy who for a long time sustained a solo career (I think he still does), was absolutely huge in Japan. No doubt a talented individual, Murphy's charisma and boundless enthusiasm is admirable. I met him at a gig in London a few years back, and he was awesome.
This album comes through necessity more than anything. They haven't released anything since 2012 and wanted to mark what is essentially their 25th anniversary as a band, and 20 years since the release of their debut album which, incidentally, was recorded on a purported production budget of $700 and featured a cover of the Fraggle Rock theme. Kudos. Someone somewhere suggested a 'greatest hits' style compilation, but that proved problematic as it turned out Allister didn't actually own the recording licenses for any of the tracks on their first few releases but owned the rights to the songs themselves. Hence, the solution was to re-record, and in some cases, 're-imagine' them, and pad the thing out with a few new tracks. The pick of these is probably the high-octane Peremptory Challenge, ran a close second by the slightly more restrained opener Stay with Me.
As for the re-recorded tracks, most have been updated only in the sense that they've lost a lot of that energetic immediacy so prevalent in pop punk circles. The guitars are choppier, the bass section slightly higher in the mix, and most tracks have been brought down an octave or two in an effort, you feel, to ingratiate them with a mainstream audience who are rapidly forgetting what drums and guitars sound like, let alone pop punk. Some, like Moper and Flypaper benefit from this treatment, but others like Scratch and A Study in Economics seem to lose a little something. Or maybe I'm just too attached to the original versions and resistant to change. Dunno. Regardless, even at 50% capacity Scratch is approximately 50% better than 90% of other songs.
One of the biggest missteps is a wholly unnecessary remake of the ska-infused Stuck Powered On from the 2012 album Life Behind Machines. In my humble opinion it was one of the band's weakest tracks anyway, and the 2019 version adds nothing to the original. Meh. All things considered, 20 Years and Counting is a somewhat patchy affair, but has enough quality to carry it through. Beyond the new material seasoned fans are unlikely to be overly impressed, but if this release exposes Allister to a new generation, it will have done its job.
To promote the release the band have made a cool new video for Somewhere Down on Fullerton, which you can catch HERE.
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You're going to hear a lot of talk about musical legacies, with Levon Helm. With good reason.
"The Weight" is also about legacies. It's about connections. It's about forming communities. It's about generosity and shared responsibility. And every time I see and hear my favorite artists play it, I'm grateful for Levon Helm.
I'm having problems putting the words together, so I'll just say that "The Weight" is the closest thing to religious doctrine I have, I'm sad he's gone, and I am grateful for his life and his work.


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Эффект недавности (аберрация близости) — тенденция оценивать значение недавних событий выше, чем более ранних событий.

Другими словами, это увеличение вероятности припоминания последних элементов расположенного в ряд материала по сравнению со средними элементами ряда. Изучается в контексте исследований памяти, процессов научения и социальной перцепции. Установлено, что эффект недавности зависит не от длины запоминаемого ряда и темпа его предъявления, а от характера деятельности, выполняемой непосредственно после предъявления ряда: если решается задача на обнаружение сигнала, то эффект недавности сохраняется, если же решается вербальная (например, арифметическая) задача, то эффект недавности отсутствует.

В узком смысле — аберрация близости. Это искаженное восприятие историком недавних событий. Так как все последствия того или иного явления ещё не ясны полностью, исследователь, воспринимающий обширный поток сведений, не способен отличить в нем главное от второстепенного; события теряют масштабность. Некоторые процессы, кажущиеся современникам ничтожными, проявят себя лишь в будущем. С другой стороны, значение многих недавних событий раздувается пропагандой или общественным мнением, которые влияют и на историка.

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История явления
Первыми предпосылками описания эффекта недавности стали исследования понятия «эффект края» (1879-1884) немецким психологом-экспериментатором Германом Эббингаузом, занимавшимся изучением закономерности запоминания. Эффект края - явление, заключающееся в том, что из расположенного в ряд заучиваемого материала элементы, находящиеся в начале и конце, запоминаются быстрее, чем элементы, находящиеся в середине.

В 1960-е годы было обнаружено, что успешность воспроизведения первых и последних элементов ряда зависит от различных факторов, что привело к разделению эффекта края на эффект первичности и эффект недавности.

Последствия обнаружения феномена
В 1969 У. Кинч и Г. Бушке показали, что в случае запоминания списка, состоящего преимущественно из слов, имеющих аккустическое сходство, уменьшается эффект недавности.

В эксперименте Ф. Крэйка и Р. Локарта на свободное воспроизведение (1972) эффект недавности был также установлен.

Критика и альтернативные точки зрения
Р. Аткинсон и Р. Шиффрин создали математическую модель функционирования системы переработки информации с тремя блоками памяти. В рамках этой модели, эффект недавности обусловлен извлечением информации из вербально-аккустической кратковременной памяти. Однако экспериментальная критика показала, что в рамках трёхкомпонентных моделей сделана неправомерная попытка редукции качественно различных явлений к одной упрощённой структурной схеме. В других исследованиях было показано, что эффект недавности сохраняется при полной нагрузке на кратковременную память, хотя согласно моделям он должен был исчезать.

Отличия от эффекта первичности
Эффект первичности проявляется не только когда люди составляют впечатление друг о друге, но и во множестве других ситуаций, связанных с оценкой последовательной информации. Во многих случаях люди более подвержены влиянию первого впечатления, нежели последующих. Однако в некоторых случаях названное последним может произвести более сильное впечатление, чем названное первым – это явление известно как эффект недавности.

Вопрос, какой же из двух эффектов сильнее, был исследован Норманом Миллером и Доналдом Кэмпбеллом в 1959 году. Миллер и Кэмпбелл инсценировали судебный процесс, касающийся ущерба, нанесенного подозреваемому в результате ложного обвинения. Разбирательства были устроены так, что материалы обвинения поставлялись в виде одного блока текста, а материалы защиты — в виде другого. Иными словами, информация одной стороны (истца) включала в себя показания вызванных этой стороной свидетелей, перекрестный допрос этих свидетелей и вступительную и заключительную речи адвоката истца. Ответчик представлял информацию, включавшую показания и допрос вызванных им свидетелей и вступительную и заключительную речи его адвоката.

Миллер и Кэмпбелл составили магнитофонные записи, где роли адвокатов, свидетелей и прочих озвучивали разные люди, каждая из записей длилась около 45 минут. В некоторых случаях субъекты давали оценку непосредственно после прослушивания информации, состоящей из двух блоков, в других случаях неделя отделяла различные фазы эксперимента. Учёные обнаружили, что в одних случаях проявлялся эффект первичности, а в других - эффект недавности. То есть, в одних случаях на людей большее впечатление производила первая часть информации, в других - вторая. Когда спустя неделю после прослушивания подряд обеих сторон испытуемых спрашивали, какой бы они вынесли приговор, проявлялся эффект первичности. С другой стороны, когда между выступлениями сторон проходила неделя, а решение выносилось сразу после прослушивания второй стороны, возникал эффект недавности. Миллер и Кэмпбелл установили, что эффект недавности также обусловливал и разницу в воспроизведении субъектами описанных событий.

Примечания

Ссылки
 McLeod, S. A. (2008). Serial position effect.
 What Is the Recency Effect? - verywellmind.com

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Planning your Safari in Uganda -The Pearl of Africa -The Best Experience for you is to be part of the Safari Planning Stage. This will raise your level of anticipation of what awaits you on your Safari in Uganda. The Planning or Designing Stage of your safari becomes easier with our assistance since we take the confusion and chaos out of Safari Planning. We live and work here, we know the country, we have done and do the activities that we tell you about on our site and we know what works best from creating a logical Safari Itinerary to the quality of lodges that we suggest for you during your time in the Pearl of Africa. Most importantly we know how to implement the Itinerary that we have created with your input. Some think that they can do all that on their own, our experience in rescuing do-it-yourself safaris tells us otherwise. As we have said, we live and work here, have done all of the Safari activities ourselves, have stayed at the lodges that we use. We try to leave nothing to chance and the majority of the time it works out just the way it was intended.
Uganda or Rwanda. Planning your Safari with us is your first step toward a successful Safari. The number of days you have, the amount of money you can spend, the permits like Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Climbing, Hiking fees, the type of lodging. the number of participants, the kind of lodging you prefer all determine the final cost of your safari.
Uganda, know before You Go – knowing about Uganda, what you can do here, the kind of lodges you can stay in. African Travelers, know that in Uganda you can trek Gorillas and that at a lower price than Rwanda- those same African Travelers do not know what else there is to do and see in Africa's most Bio-Diverse Country, Uganda.
Uganda is more than Mountain Gorillas, Chimpanzees and other primates- there is much more to do and see in the Pearl of Africa.
Most Visitors to Uganda are not aware that you can fly into two different airports to get to Uganda. Entebbe International Airport and Kigali International Airport. If you come to trek Gorillas fly in and out of Kigali Rwanda and save a total of 12 hours drive time that it would take if you were coming and going from Entebbe.
Most of our Clients fly into Kigali and fly out of Entebbe if they are on a 5 day or longer Primate and Wildlife Safari.
Chimpanzee Trekking: Kibale Forest, Kalinzu Forest, Kyambura Gorge in Queen Elizabeth Park, Semliki Park.
Savannah Wildlife: Kidepo Valley Park, Murchison Falls Park, Queen Elizabeth Park Semliki Park, and Wildlife Reserve, Lake Mburo Park.
Hiking – Climbing: Mgahinga Gorilla Park Volcanoes, Bwindi Impenetrable in and near, Queen Elizabeth Forest, the Rwenzori Mountains of the Moon including the Foothills, Mount Elgon, Kidepo Valley, Lake Mburo Park, Semlki Park, Kibale Forest.
Authentic Africa: You can still find it in Uganda, in places such as Kidepo Valley Park, Africa as it was 50 years ago.
Nile Adventures in Jinja: White Water Rafting, Kayaking, from mild to wild.
Cultural Encounters in Uganda– such as time with the Batwa, Karimojong and Ik Peoples.
A Safari with Gorilla Trekking or the Gorilla Habituation Experience does not come cheap, you are paying for an experience that is not replicable elsewhere. No Mountain Gorillas are found in zoos, only in a small part of Africa, Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The permit price is the reason that Mountain Gorillas are thriving and their numbers have increased dramatically.
A Safari with Gorilla Trekking costs more, yet you cannot compare it to a safari costs in Uganda or Tanzania – there are no gorillas found there. You save 900 USD on permit cost in Uganda over Rwanda – Uganda is the only safe and secure other Mountain Gorilla Trekking location in Africa. Virunga National Park is closed to Tourism for the rest of the year.
Planning a Safari in Uganda on your own tends to cost you more.
Planning your Safari in Uganda – You need someone who knows Uganda, has the latest information – adds value to your Safaris and takes the Chaos and Confusion out of the mix when planning your safari.
Gorilla Trekking and Habituation Safaris are our specialties. We realize the cost involved and do our best to give you Value Plus for your money on a private moderately priced or Luxury Safari in the Pearl of Africa.
We make planning your Safari easier, you give us your ideas and we weave together the Tapestry that Turns out to be your Safari. Contact us soon – you will be glad you did…We know Uganda – we live here and have in the business of offering Safaris here for over a decade.


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Pharrell Williams is a visionary recording artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. He has been a creative force in the music industry and beyond for more than two decades.
Over the years, Pharrell has been honored with 13 Grammy Awards, including 2004's, 2014's and 2019's Producer of the Year, and ASCAP's prestigious Golden Note Award in 2012. In 2014, his original song "Happy," featured in Despicable Me 2, also received an Academy Award nomination. In 2017, he received an Academy Award nomination for co-producing Best Picture-nominated Hidden Figures (2016), as well as a Golden Globe nomination for co-scoring the film. In the summer of 2020, Williams was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame along with Chad Hugo for their work as The Neptunes.
In 2019, Pharrell founded YELLOW, a non-profit working to even the odds for all youth through education. YELLOW's ecosystem approach puts youth at the center and surrounds them with the supports they need to realize their potential. In 2021, YELLOW launched YELLOWHAB — an immersive educational environment that sparks imagination in a story-filled space where children transcend the everyday on a journey for deeper learning. In 2020, Williams launched Black Ambition, a non-profit initiative that will provide a bridge to success for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs who are launching tech, design, healthcare, and consumer products/services start-ups. Black Ambition is committed to leveling the playing field and fostering the ingenuity, determination, and resilience of underrepresented entrepreneurs.
In addition to his musical and philanthropic endeavors, Pharrell narrated Universal's 2018 remake of the classic film THE GRINCH, authored the book A Fish Doesn't Know It's Wet, and released a new Netflix Original series with his producing partner, Mimi Valdés, titled Brainchild (2018). Past projects include Dope (2015) and Roxanne Roxanne (2017). Next up, Williams and Valdés will team up with Kenya Barris for a stage musical inspired by the Juneteenth African American holiday tradition celebrating the final day of United States slavery.
Not stopping there, Pharrell has excelled as a fashion designer with his Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream apparel brands, the textile company Bionic Yarn, Adidas and Chanel. In the fall of 2019, he opened a restaurant and cocktail lounge called Swan and Bar Bevy in Miami's Design District along with David Grutman. Williams and Grutman have teamed up once again to open The Goodtime Hotel in Miami in April 2021. Most recently, Williams announced his newest venture, Humanrace, his luxury product company with a mission to empower all people in their pursuit of wellbeing.
In April 2019, Pharrell launched the first ever SOMETHING IN THE WATER, a multi-day music festival and cultural experience on the beach in his hometown of Virginia Beach. The festival's mission was to unite the community and celebrate the diversity and magic of Virginia Beach.  It was an opportunity to bring the best of what Pharrell has encountered around the world back to his hometown.
In June 2019, Williams released "Letter to My Godfather," an Emmy-nominated original song for Netflix's Black Godfather about the legendary music executive, Clarence Avant. Williams also produced five songs on the soundtrack for Disney's 2019 remake of The Lion King including, "I Just Can't Wait To Be King," "Hakuna Matata," "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" and "Mbube." Most recently, Williams teamed up with Jay-Z on their single "Entrepreneur," a song celebrating and empowering Black entrepreneurs.
A longtime advocate against racial injustice, Pharrell was an integral part in the talks with Virginia Governor Ralph Northam about Juneteenth being a permanent paid state holiday. Virginia has long marked Juneteenth by issuing a proclamation, but the date has not previously been considered a state holiday. This June, Pharrell joined Governor Northam at a press conference at which he announced his plans to do just that. Since the press conference in Virginia, Pharrell continues to push other states and companies to do the same and remains at the forefront of the fight for racial equality across the country.


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#SOSNicaragua: Where is the global outrage at Nicaragua's abuse of Irlanda Jerez?
December 1, 2018 by Dan Moshenberg 113 Comments
Irlanda Jerez
On July 17, the government of Nicaragua celebrated el Día de la Alegría, the national Day of Joy which honors the day in 1979 when the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle fled the country. This year, on July 17, the State sent soldiers and paramilitaries into Masaya, the protest or rebel city, and "regained control."That control cost more than 300 dead and untold injured, wounded, scarred, violated, tortured, and traumatized. On July 18, woman human rights defender Irlanda Jerez was abducted by hooded, armed State agents and dumped in jail. Irlanda Jerez's "crime" was having lead merchants in the Mercado Oriental, Nicaragua's largest marketplace, in a campaign in which merchants refused to pay taxes in protest of Nicaragua's violation of human, women's, and civil rights. Irlanda Jerez was abducted, dumped in jail, processed through a fake court hearing the next day, July 19, and condemned to five years in prison. Irlanda Jerez was sent to La Esperanza prison, near Managua, where she sits with other women political prisoners and where she and others have been beaten. Irlanda Jerez continues to speak out, continues to not accept the current repression as inevitable. The United Nations, the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights and others have condemned the violence committed against Irlanda Jerez and her sister comrade prisoners. Where is the global media on Nicaragua's abuse of Irlanda Jerez? Where is the global outrage at the abuse of Irlanda Jerez?
On July 19, Irlanda Jerez entered La Esperanza prison. On October 26, around 4 pm, four masked, armed men dressed in black came into Irlanda Jerez's cell and demanded that she come with them for interrogation. She refused. Irlanda Jerez and her cellmates resisted any attempt to seize Irlanda Jerez. At around 6 pm, a larger group of unidentified, disguised armed men swarmed the cell and beat Irlanda Jerez and her cellmates. Finally, after three hours, Irlanda Jerez agreed to leave the cell. Behind her, one cellmate lay unconscious and the others were battered and bruised. No medical attention was ever provided.
The men told Irlanda Jerez they intended to transfer her to solitary confinement at La Modelo men's prisons. When Irlanda Jerez did not return quickly to her cell, prisoners across La Esperanza raised a hue and cry, and Irlanda Jerez was finally returned to her cell.
On October 30, Daniel Esquivel, Irlanda Jerez's husband, was allowed to visit. On the same day, prison authorities refused admission to members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Permanent Human Rights Commission.
According to Ana Maria Tello, coordinator of the Special Follow-Up Mechanism for Nicaragua, MESINI, there are currently more than 400 political prisoners in Nicaragua. MESINI is particularly concerned about the health and safety of Irlanda Jerez and her cellmates, including Amaya Eva Coppens Zamora, Olesia Auxiliadora Muñoz Pavón, Tania Verónica Muñoz Pavón, Solange Centeno Peña, María Dilia Peralta Serrato, and Nelly Marilí Roque Ordoñez. Meanwhile, according to the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, in the first ten days of November, 32 people were illegally detained. The war and the struggle continue.
On July 19, Irlanda Jerez's sister, Dolma Jerez went to the gates of the prison to demand the release of her sister and much more: "We are demanding justice and freedom for my sister and not only for my sister but for the thousands of detainees who have been accused and have been deprived of their freedom only for speaking out."
Why is the global media not speaking up as well? Where are the reports concerning Irlanda Jerez and her sister comrades; the conditions of women in Nicaragua's prisons and jails; the constant threat to free speech and expression and to the right to association; Nicaragua's State violence against women; and the levels of State repression in Nicaragua more generally? When the world acquiesces to the reign of terror and silence currently exercised in Nicaragua, what happens to Irlanda Jerez happens to all of us. Why is the world news media silent on Nicaragua's abuse of Irlanda Jerez and her sister comrades? Where is the global outrage at Nicaragua's abuse of Irlanda Jerez?
(Photo Credit: La Prensa)
Filed Under: General Tagged With: #SOSNicaragua, Dan Moshenberg, Haunts, Irlanda Jerez, Nicaragua
What are you, Nicaragua, but pain and dust and screams in the afternoon, screams of women
July 18, 2018 by Dan Moshenberg 121 Comments
In Nicaragua yesterday, July 17, the State celebrated el Día de la Alegría, the national Day of Joy which celebrates the day in 1979 when the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle fled the country. In Nicaragua yesterday, July 17, the State sent its soldiers and paramilitaries into Masaya, the protest or rebel city, and "regained control." The cost of control, extracted over the past three months, is more than 300 dead and untold injured, wounded, scarred, violated, tortured, and traumatized. This has been unfolding for the past three months and, until this week, the world press, and in particular the English language world press, has gone largely silent. The one exception has been Al Jazeera which, from the very start, seemed to sense that something was going on, and has had almost daily reports, often two or three a day.
Yesterday, Al Jazeerareported on a march through Managua. People demanded justice for victims in a scenario in which masked paramilitary forces are attacking barricades, churches, schools, communities, individuals, and justice itself. Another Al Jazeera report yesterday noted that the United Nations and much of the rest of the international community has called for a negotiated end to the violence, but there is no negotiation with masked parastatal agents who seek to terrorize not only the population but the very idea of negotiated settlement. Al Jazeera also updated its ongoing "Nicaragua unrest: What you should know".
You should know that the world has stood by while 300 people have been butchered. You should know that the world press largely stood by while 300 people have been butchered, and you should ask, "Why?" How many Nicaraguans must die before "pressure mounts on Ortega"?
There is "unrest" in Nicaragua, but there's unrest everywhere. The news in Nicaragua is that there's a massacre taking place, and yet again much of the world has not cared. It took an assault on a church, with students and, significantly, a Washington Postreporter, to draw some attention. Yesterday, José Mujica, the former President of Uruguay, condemned the State violence in Nicaragua and lamented his error in not doing so much earlier. In his remarks, Mujica declared, "I remember the names of comrades who gave their lives in Nicaragua, fighting for a dream. I feel that something that was a dream has gone awry, has fallen into autocracy that those who were once revolutionaries have lost the understanding that in life there are moments when one has to say, 'I'm going.'"
There's much to say about what's going on in Nicaragua, for example the role of women as leaders of the struggle for justice, but for now it's important to say anything, to insist that our local and national and international news media do better, do something, do anything, because if they don't, when the "international community" finally decides to "do something", almost certainly that something will be military, which is precisely not what the Nicaraguans calling for Ortega's resignation want. They want justice, not invasion.
In another context and time, and yet the same, Nicaraguan poet Giocanda Belli wrote,
"¿Qué sos, Nicaragua?
¿Qué sos
Sino un triangulito de tierra
Perdido en la mitad del mundo?
Sino un vuelo de pájaros
Guardabarrancos
Cenzontles
Colibríes?
Sino un ruido de ríos
Llevándose las piedras pulidas y brillantes
Dejando pisadas de agua por los montes?
Sino pechos de mujer hechos de tierra,
Lisos, puntudos y amenazantes?
Sino cantar de hojas en árboles gigantes
Verdes, enmarañados y llenos de palomas?
Sino dolor y polvo y gritos en la tarde,
—Gritos de mujeres, como de parto—?
Sino puño crispado y bala en boca?
¿Qué sos, Nicaragua
Para dolerme tanto?"
"What are you, Nicaragua?
What are you,
a little triangle of earth
lost in the middle of the world?
a flight of birds,
hummingbirds?
a roar of rivers
carrying off polished, shiny stones,
leaving footprints of water in the mountains?
a woman's breasts made of earth,
smooth, pointed and threatening?
a song of leaves in giant trees,
green, tangled, filled with doves?
pain and dust and screams in the afternoon,
screams of women as if in childbirth?
clenched fist, bullet in the mouth?
What are you, Nicaragua,
to hurt me so deeply?"
What are you, Nicaragua … and who is asking? Who hears the screams in the afternoon and who is paying any attention?
(Photo Credit: Al Jazeera)
Filed Under: General Tagged With: Dan Moshenberg, Giocanda Belli, Haunts, Nicaragua
Nicaraguan feminists protest for their bodies, autonomy, lives
February 17, 2012 by Paul Seltzer Leave a Comment
The news of the day was that Democratic representatives walked out of a hearing on "religious liberty and birth control." Republicans had blocked the testimony of a woman who wanted to speak in favor of the Obama administration's compromise on birth control. But the Republicans allowed representatives, men, from conservative religious organizations to testify. House Representative Carolyn Maloney remarked, "What I want to know is, where are the women?"
A picture tweeted by Planned Parenthood illustrates this question completely.
Where are the women? In Nicaragua, some women are in the streets.
Yesterday, at the International Poetry Festival in Granada, there was a parade, with dancing and singing and cheers.
There was also a protest by Nicaraguan women. Nicaraguan feminists.
On the parade route, a group of Nicaraguan women, wearing signs that read "Fui violada y ahora estoy embarazada. ¿Te parece justo?" ("I was raped and now I am pregnant. Does that seem just?) lay down in the middle of the parade, stopping the flow of the marching. They passed out flowers in protest of the ban against therapeutic abortion in the country.
Therapeutic abortion—an abortion performed to save the life of a pregnant woman—had been constitutional in Nicaragua up until October 2006. When Sandinista politician Daniel Ortega re-assumed the presidency, he kept the law intact, a complete reversal from his stance before his re-election. Women's groups have been pressuring the State to repeal the ban, but Ortega's switch came with the support of an important Catholic bishop. Within a year of the law's passing, 82 women had died due to lack to life-saving abortion procedures.
The State passes regulations preventing women from accessing health care that would save their lives. Then the State uses religious institutions to embolden its position. Sound familiar?
Violence against women more than often flows from patriarchal institutions trying to police their bodies and autonomy. It happens globally, outside the United States, and inside the country just as easily.
Women are defending their equality all over the world, in the State and in the streets. That is where they will be until the job is done.
(Photo Credit: Esteban Felix / AP / Guardian)
Filed Under: General Tagged With: abortion, feminists, Fierce, Nicaragua, Paul Seltzer, rape, reproductive rights, U.S.
Domestics: I am myself and my circumstances
April 16, 2011 by Alba Cáceres 2 Comments
I am a member of a women's group called Woman, Action and Change. We are part of Tenants and Workers United of Northern Virginia. We are predominantly Latina immigrant and migrant women from all parts of Latin America. Our members include Mexicans, Dominicanas, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Chileans, Argentines, many women from many countries. I am from Nicaragua. I have been living continuously in the United States for only 16 months.
When the group selected me to talk about domestic work, I was worried about how to approach a subject of which I am not an expert and then I remembered an expression of José Ortega y Gasset, a Spanish philosopher, who said: "I am myself and my circumstances" so I decided to approach it from my own experience.
I'm from Nicaragua. My mother came from a poor farming family. As a single mother she raised 5 children alone. My mother was an entrepreneur. She had a store and all of us had to work ever since we could remember. I grew up with the image of a strong, working woman, and in an environment where domestic work was part of an effort to sustain the family. I grew up working and studying, got married and, as my mother did, I took care of my home and my children as part of my duties to support and protect my family.
As we all know, in developing countries, domestic work has been used as a mechanism to preserve machismo. In most of these countries, girls are educated to manage the home and boys are educated to have jobs and participate in the greater world.
Under these conditions, domestic work is a form of subjugation of women because their principle duty is to look after the home. Often, women are exploited and in the case of working women, they work the equivalent of triple shifts in order to manage a career and take care of the home. This represents an obstacle to professional development because many women drop out of school to find jobs to solve the needs of their family. For Latin American women like me, completing household chores in addition to our career responsibilities is a source of identity and pride.
There are countries that have incorporated legislation for domestic workers and social security. In some cases this is an appeal by the ruling parties to provide a progressive image and appear concerned about this part of the electorate marginalized by all public health policies.
This is a way to hide the inability to create better jobs. However, the inclusion of the domestic worker in the social security system provides them with medical care benefits and pension rights.
Domestic work in the USA
In this country domestic work has become a job for immigrant women to allow them to survive and meet the needs of their family. Except for in the movies, where we see an elegant butler, well trained and educated for these tasks, this "profession" seems to be exclusively for poor immigrant women.
A little while ago, the National Domestic Workers Alliance convened in Washington, D.C. This organization deals with the work of humanizing domestic work. It has brought to the table an interesting proposal to give more substance to this career.
Estimates are that the Baby Boomer generation reached 13 million in 2000 and in 2050 will be 27 million. This will require over 3 million healthcare workers to take care of them as they gradually age, making geriatric care a moral imperative for this country. Thousands of people, who have built the economic success of this country, will enter old age alone and without help as a result of globalization and the global economic crisis.
We have heard a lot about the budget cuts to social services in the media and the only proposals for jobs seem to focus on technology. In my opinion, there is no effort being made to support real people living in this country today. This is very irresponsible. Domestic workers can help resolve major societal issues through the care of the elderly, disabled and young members of our community. In the long run, this is much more important for building our quality of life because each of us will eventually be old and need help, too.
Today anti-immigrants accuse immigrants of taking jobs from Americans. I don't think anyone is taking anything from anybody. The jobs filled by immigrant women, in particular, are low-wage domestic workers. These women work in horrid conditions for the chance to feed their families.
It is important that we discuss the legislative opportunities available to improve working conditions and educational opportunities for domestic workers. Improvements in those areas are connected to the outcomes and improvements in the care and wellbeing of our health, for the elderly, disabled and children. By supporting the development of women we will make our society stronger.
(Photo Credit: D.C. Intersections / Kate Musselwhite)
Filed Under: General Tagged With: Alba Cáceres, Argentina, Chile, domestic workers, Domestics, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, immigrant women, Latin America, Latinas, Mexico, migrant women, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Nicaragua, Tenants and Workers United, United States, women, Women Action Change


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Thomas More College appears in these rankings:
9 Best Value Colleges and Universities in New Hampshire
20 Best Value Colleges for Students with ADHD
Thomas More College was originally opened in 1921 by the Benedictine Sisters as Villa Madonna College to unite young women "In Pursuit of Truth." Since its inaugural class of 152, the teacher's college was acquired by the Diocese of Covington and made co-educational in 1945. Today, Thomas More honors its Roman Catholic namesake by providing private, nonprofit faith-based liberal arts education to approximately 1,900 Saints. Endowed for $19.6 million, TMC is a Catholic college for ADHD students to gain support in 40 bachelor's and 29 associate majors. Courses occur on Thomas More College's inclusive 100-acre campus in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, just 13 miles across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
According to the U.S. News, Thomas More College is the South's 79th best regional school with students scoring in the top 87th percentile on the ETS. On Niche, TMC is ranked the 153rd best Catholic college, 251st best college with no application fee, and 466th top value in America. The Times Higher Education placed Thomas More in the top 800 U.S. universities overall. Named a "College of Distinction," Northern Kentucky Tribune lauded TMC for its record-breaking 41 percent enrollment jump from 2015 to 2016. In Washington Monthly, Thomas More was also deemed the 159th best Southern bang for the buck.
Thomas More College Accreditation Details
At Level III, Thomas More College holds 10-year regional accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) through 2020. Conducted under President David A. Armstrong, the institutional approval is recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). TMC is accepted by the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA) for online education. Other programmatic accreditations come from the following:
• Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
• Kentucky State Board of Nursing (KSBN)
• Council on Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)
• Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)
Thomas More College Application Requirements
Don't let the 88 percent acceptance rate in Fall 2015 fool you because Thomas More College is classified as a "selective" liberal arts school by Carnegie. First-year applicants interested in this Catholic college for ADHD services must complete a high school diploma or GED. Finishing a college-prep curriculum, including four credits of English, with at least an 80 percent average or 2.5 GPA is expected. At minimum, TMC Saints must score 20 on the ACT or 940 on the SAT with critical reading and mathematics subsections combined. Since 1999, the Gemini Program has provided transferrable credit for nearly 4,000 nearby high school seniors.
Interested in transferring for Thomas More's ADHD program? Incoming students from other accredited U.S. or foreign schools need 12+ college-level, non-remedial credits graded "C-" or higher. Non-native English speakers have an extra step to pass the TOEFL Internet-based exam with a 68 overall and 15 or better in each section. Transfers with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 can cover 30 credits for their associate or 60 credits for their bachelor's at TMC. The TAP Program in Crestview Hills or Blue Ash requires 60+ credits. Many transfer agreements exist with the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges, including Chatfield College and Gateway Community & Technical College.
Thomas More College has rolling admissions with the final deadline being August 1st for the Fall semester. Prospective students submit the free online TMC application with no essay requirement to receive an admission decision in just three days. Interviews are optional but suggested at the Admission Office in the Administration Building anytime Monday through Friday, 8:30am - 6:00pm. Other application materials include:
• Official transcripts from each school attended
• College entrance exam scores (SAT, ACT, and TOEFL)
• List of extracurricular activities and honors
• One faculty or counselor reference form (optional)
• Personal statement of religious preference (optional)
• Copies of ETR testing and medical diagnoses for ADHD
Regardless of Kentucky residency, TMC undergrads are charged $14,425 per full-time semester or $28,850 annually. Part-time students will pay $635 for each credit. The Saints Experience price of $710 each term includes student activity, technology, and book rental fees. Residential students must budget $1,900 for dorm housing and $2,250 for unlimited meal plans each term. Total annual cost of attendance is roughly $40,793 for on-campus students and $35,915 for commuters. The Institute for Learning Differences will charge an extra $30 application fee and extra tuition for services each semester.
The NCES displays that 70 percent of full-time TMC undergrads share $26.18 million in financial aid annually for an average package amount of $21,678. After submitting the FAFSA with code 002001 by March 15th, students could receive the Federal Pell Grant, FSEOG Grant, TEACH Grant, and any needed low-interest loans like the Perkins or Stafford. Bluegrass State natives could obtain the Kentucky College Access Program (CAP) Grant for up to $1,900 or Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES). Undergrads taking 6+ credits qualify for Federal-Work Study jobs providing around $945 per term. Institutional awards, including the James Graham Brown Honors, Bishop Roger J. Foys Ministry, Parochial Promise, Amber Johnson, George A. Renaker Foundation, and Saints Spirit Scholarships, are abundant.
Support offered at Thomas More Catholic college for ADHD
At Thomas More College, the Institute for Learning Differences has an extensive, fee-based program to work closely with students whose primary diagnosis is ADHD, autism, or a language learning disability. Individuals with at least average intellectual capacity are given extra tools to meet the rigors any TMC major, such as the B.S. in Accounting, B.A. in Psychology, or BFA in Art. Coordinated by Amy Osborne, the Institute sets up weekly, one-on-one meetings for student-centered supports and individualized learning plans. Trained counselors assist with self-advocacy coaching, life skills development, early intervention monitoring, social skills workshops, and more. Prospective ADHD students will attend an Enrollment Boot Camp in February to become oriented.
Another reason Thomas More is a great Catholic college for ADHD students is that free accommodations complying with ADA law are available in the Disability Services Office. Undergrads can sign the Accommodated Testing Agreement to take exams in secluded rooms, use aids like text-to-speech software, and receive 1.5 times the allocated time. Assistive technologies, such as ClassMate Reader, AlphaSmart, Dragon, and Livescribe Pens, are accessible. This combines with the five to seven hours of coaching contact in the Institute for Learning Differences. From the First-Year Seminar on, students with ADHD can thrive at Thomas More College thanks to the low student-faculty ratio of 16:1.


New online investment platform wiseAlpha has announced its launch in the UK market. The site offers its members the chance to earn interest on a range of corporate loan-based investments in blue chip companies that major FIs already lend to.
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On the End of the World (Giorgio Agamben)
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This short essay ("Sulla fine del mondo") appeared on Agamben's blog on 18 November 2019. The translation is mine ( Alan Dean ).
The theme of the end of the world has appeared repeatedly in the history of Christianity. Prophets emerged in all periods announcing that the end is nigh. What is singular today is that this eschatological function, long abandoned by the church, has been assumed by scientists who increasingly present themselves as prophets, describing and predicting with absolute certainty the climate catastrophes that they say will lead to the end of life on earth. It is singular but perhaps not surprising, if we consider that in modernity science has replaced faith and assumed a properly religious function. Science is, indeed, the religion of our time: it is that which men believe in. At the very least, it is that which they believe that they believe in.
Like any religion, the religion of science requires an eschatology. That is to say, it needs an apparatus to keep the faithful afraid, and so strengthen their faith, while also keeping a priestly class in power. Apparitions like Greta Thunberg are symptomatic of this situation. Greta blindly believes in the prophecies, and so she awaits the end of the world in 2030, just like the millennialists in the Middle Ages who believed in the imminent return of Christ to judge the world. No less symptomatic is a figure like that of the inventor of Gaia, a scientist who, concentrating his apocalyptic diagnoses on a single factor (the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere) declares with astonishing naivete that the salvation of humanity lies in nuclear energy. In both cases, the stakes are religious and utterly non-scientific in nature, and this is betrayed by the fact that salvation plays such a central role.
This phenomenon is especially disturbing because science has never before counted eschatology among its tasks. It is conceivable that this assumption of the prophetic mode betrays an awareness of responsibility for the catastrophes predicted. Like any religion, the religion of science has its unbelievers and its adversaries— namely, the adepts of that other great religion of modernity, the religion of money. These two religions appear to be divided, and yet they are secretly united. It was the close alliance between science, technology, and capital that produced the catastrophic situation that is now being denounced.
It ought to be clear that these reflections are not taking a position on the reality of pollution or on the harmful changes wrought by successive industrial revolutions on the material and spiritual conditions of living beings. To the contrary, by warning against the confusion of religion with scientific truth, against the confusion of the prophetic with the lucid, the point is to avoid having interested parties dictating choices and views that, in the final analysis, cannot but be political.
D. Alan Dean
Lives in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Studied English literature in the PhD program at Johns Hopkins
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LSN – the newer, more accurate name for what was previously called Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) – is simply a NAT that is located in a service provider network rather than in a customer network. It is almost always a service on a router rather than a standalone device; whether LSNs live up to "carrier grade" performance or scaling expectations is yet to be seen.
NAT444 is the simplest architecture for providing IPv4 addresses on the provider-to-customer links. The existing NATs at the customer network can be used, and the same basic NAT44 functionality is used at the provider's LSN. But as explained in the previous article, there are concerns with using RFC1918 addresses on the customer links: Overlap between the customer's RFC1918 addresses and the provider-assigned RFC1918 addresses, and problems with routing between customers behind the same LSN are the main issues here. The proposed solution is to reserve a block of the remaining IPv4 addresses to be used as "shared addresses" that do not overlap with RFC1918 addresses and will not encounter filtering problems when routing between customers behind the same LSN. However, this is only a proposed solution and no IPv4 address blocks have yet been reserved for shared address use.
An alternative to using IPv4 shared addresses between the provider and the customers is to use IPv6 addresses. This solves the same problems that are solved by shared addresses, and eases the administrative burden of the provider having to assign and manage both an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address on every link. It also gets a bit closer to where the provider ultimately wants to be: An IPv6-only infrastructure. The downside to this NAT464 architecture is that both the CPE NAT and the LSN must perform translation between IPv4 and IPv6 (NAT64), which is complex and introduces performance, scaling, and redundancy problems.
Dual-Stack Lite is a promising approach that takes the best of NAT464 while avoiding its problems: It uses IPv6-only links between the provider and the customer, but does not use NAT64 translation. When a device in the customer network sends an IPv4 packet to an external destination, the IPv4 packet is encapsulated in an IPv6 packet for transport into the provider network. At the LSN, the packet is decapsulated and NAT44 is performed (Figure 1). Tunneling IPv4 over IPv6 is far simpler than translation, so the performance and redundancy concerns are eliminated.
There is, however, an extra functional element that must be added to the NAT44 in the LSN for DS Lite to work.
If a simple mapping between inside IPv4 source address / port to outside IPv4 source address / port was performed on outgoing packets, as is done with regular NAT44, the LSN would have no way to differentiate between overlapping RFC1918 IPv4 addresses in different customer networks. Therefore an additional element is added to the address mapping: The source address of the encapsulating IPv6 packet (the address of the customer end of the IPv6 link) is added to the inside IPv4 source address and port. Because the IPv6 address is unique to each customer, the combination of IPv6 source address + IPv4 source address + port makes the mapping unambiguous. When a responding IPv4 packet is received from the outside, its IPv4 destination address and port can be correctly matched to a specific customer behind the NAT based on the IPv6 address in the mapping table; the packet's IPv4 destination address and port can then be mapped to the inside IPv4 destination address and port, encapsulated in IPv6 using the mapped IPv6 address as the IPv6 destination address, and forwarded to the customer.
In other words, the mapped IPv6 address not only disambiguates the customer RFC1918 address, it provides the reference for the tunnel endpoint.
Assuming there are multiple end systems in the customer network, the DS Lite function occurs on a CPE device such as a home gateway as shown in Figure 2. If a device sends an IPv6 packet, the packet is routed normally to the IPv6 destination. If a device sends an IPv4 packet, the CPE gateway performs the IPv4-in-IPv6 encapsulation, setting the destination address of the IPv6 packet to the address of the DS Lite enabled LSN. This model allows use of dual stacked, IPv4-only, and IPv6-only devices behind the gateway.
A frequently cited drawback is that DS Lite functionality must be added to existing customers' CPE either through a software upgrade or by replacing the unit. Broadband providers are generally reluctant to inconvenience customers and to incur the expense of replacing installed equipment, so DS Lite capable CPE is more likely to be deployed initially only for new customers. However, this should not really be a significant issue since it is only new customers that are creating demand for new IP addresses. Existing customers' CPE can be upgraded or replaced on a more casual schedule as a part of normal end-of-life equipment changes.
Another DS Lite model, depicted in Figure 3, implements DS Lite on an individual end system rather than on a CPE device. The device is dual stacked, and so can send and receive both IPv4 and IPv6 packets. Not only is this model relevant to customers that connect a single PC, game system, or laptop to the Internet rather than a network behind a router, it has great potential for mobile broadband.
Mobile providers face the same problems of needing to address "smart phones" and 4G wireless technologies such as LTE with IPv6 but providing a means for those mobile users to reach IPv4 content. A recent article in The Economist suggests that by 2015 all mobile phones sold will have IP capabilities (thus obsolescing the term "smart phone") and most laptops will be sold with some sort of 4G wireless capability. The rapid growth of the mobile broadband market will soon make IPv6 as essential there as it is now becoming in the DSL- and cable-based broadband markets.
Comcast is the driving force behind DS Lite, and through Cablelabs DS Lite CPE development is well underway. Rumor has it that on the LSN end, the "big two" router vendors are developing DS Lite support. It's a smart, reasonably simple solution to the dual stack problem, and I think we can expect to begin seeing DS Lite deployments soon.


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Tobias Hegewald, né le  est un pilote automobile allemand.

Carrière automobile
 2005 : Formule BMW ADAC,
 2006 : Formule BMW ADAC,
 2007 : Formule Renault 2.0 NEC,  (3 victoires)
 Eurocup Formule Renault,
 2008 : Formule Renault 2.0 NEC,  (1 victoire)
 Eurocup Formule Renault,
 2009 : Formule 2,  (2 victoires)
 2010 : GP3 Series, avec l'écurie Mücke Motorsport

Pilote automobile allemand
Pilote de GP3 Series
Pilote de Formule Renault 2.0
Pilote de Formule Renault 3.5
Naissance en août 1989
Naissance à Neuwied


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The Other Oscars 2015
by Joe Hennes | Jan 30, 2015 | Feature, Fun Stuff
Here we are, in the middle of another awards season, wondering about the outcome of the Academy Awards. As if they matter. Yes, I'm still bitter about the lack of Muppets, and I'm much more interested in the results of our own Snuffy Awards (and if you haven't already, you should cast your votes!), but we're still talking about some really good movies and some really talented people, who I guess deserve a little praise for the pieces of cinematic art they've created.
But choosing a "best" film or actor or whatever is so subjective. Maybe you think Meryl Streep deserved to win all 93 of her nominations, while I think Jean Claude Van Damme is long overdue for an Oscar nod. So we're predicting the winners based on the only criteria that matters: Muppet connections.
Obviously, Muppet connections are the most reliable way of predicting how the Academy will vote. Only the best, most talented people in Hollywood have worked with the Muppets or were inspired by the Muppets in some capacity, so logically, they're the ones who will receive the most accolades. It's math.
So without further ado, let's get started! And the nominees are…
Actor in a Supporting Role
Robert Duvall for The Judge
Ethan Hawke for Boyhood
Edward Norton for Birdman
Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons for Whiplash
Our first category comes down to just two contenders: Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo. Ethan Hawke got his Muppet connection first, being interviewed by Gonzo in a 1985 issue of Muppet Magazine. Mark Ruffalo talked about the word "empathy" with Murray Monster on a recent episode of Sesame Street. So who wins? There's only one way to settle this: DANCE OFF!
Actress in a Supporting Role
Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
Laura Dern for Wild
Keira Knightley for The Imitation Game
Emma Stone for Birdman
Meryl Streep for Into the Woods
I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of picking Meryl Streep in these Oscar articles. Not only does she get nominated every freaking year, but she's got a great Muppet connection after having a Sesame Street character named after her. Emma Stone and Patricia Arquette are splitting the remainder of the vote, as they both appeared on Sesame too, introducing Words of the Day with Abby Cadabby (Patricia got turned into a penguin, Emma balanced a laundry basket on her head). So we're defaulting this win to Laura Dern, who came this close to starring as Sarah in Labyrinth.
Actor in a Leading Role
Steve Carell for Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper for American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton for Birdman
Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything
Sorry, Steve Carell, but your Word of the Day segment on Sesame Street just won't cut the mustard. And apologies to Michael Keaton, because starring in the Jim Henson Creature Shop film Jack Frost probably gives you negative points. This award is going to Benedict Cumberbatch for not only appearing in a PBS video with Murray and The Count, but for also having the most Muppet-like name for a human in all of filmdom.
Actress in a Leading Role
Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones for The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore for Still Alice
Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon for Wild
Reese Witherspoon made a solid effort, having been photographed with Abby Caddabby (at the White House egg roll) and Miss Piggy (at the CMA awards), but neither of those are anything but good timing. So this award is going to Julianne Moore for spoofing her Academy Award-nominated role in Far from Seven, finally giving her the Oscar she deserved back in 2002.
Animated Feature Film
Yep, we're still disappointed that The Lego Movie didn't get a nomination. If it had, we would've predicted it as the winner in honor of the recent campaign to make Muppet Legos a reality. Aw, what the heck, we'll still pick The Lego Movie. Who cares, Zongo.
"Everything is Awesome" from The Lego Movie
"Glory" from Selma
"Grateful" from Beyond the Lights
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
"Lost Stars" from Begin Again
Oh, come on, Academy! Where are the Muppets?? I haven't even heard of three of these movies! Don't you think it'd be worth throwing Muppets Most Wanted a bone for the slim chance that they might appear during the ceremony to sing their song and give you lots of ratings or whatever it is you dummies care about?? I'm not even picking any of these as the winner. It's Muppets or nothing.
Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman
Richard Linklater for Boyhood
Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game
Theory: Richard Linklater was inspired to make a movie about watching a kid age 12 years by noticing how Muppets age over the years too. Shut up, it's plausible!
Foreign Language Film
Ida – Poland
Leviathan – Russia
Tangerines – Estonia
Timbuktu – Mauritania
Wild Tales – Argentina
Can you believe that a Russian filmmaker made a movie all about Farscape's sentient spaceship Moya, which belongs to the Leviathan race? I know, it's a bit of a stretch, but that's the best I got unless you want me to pull out the name of an extremely obscure character named Tangerine the Argentinian Cockatoo from a Sesame Street Live show. Hey, you can't say I didn't do my research.
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Here's the biggie! But how can we choose when every one of these films is so obviously a reference to a Muppet?? The American in question is Sam the Eagle. Birdman is our buddy Big Bird. Walter is a boy who becomes a man (or a man who becomes a Muppet), as seen in Boyhood. The Grand Budapest Hotel is a thinly veiled reference to the Happiness Hotel. Nobody plays imitation games like Constantine. Selma may or may not have been inspired by Sesame Street's chicken-dressed-as-a-worm. The Theory of Everything might as well star Bunsen and Beaker. And Whiplash is the story of how playing the drums could drive you insane. (Sound like anyone you know?) Can we have an 8-way tie? No? Okay fine, let's give it to the drummer.
The guy who appeared on Sesame Street as the Fairy Shoeperson? The guy who answered phones at the Muppets' telethon? One of Hollywood's biggest Muppet fans? The guy doing that dance below? DOOGIE HOWSER??? Yeah, I think he'll do just fine.
The Academy Awards will air on ABC starting at 7:00pm ET on February 22nd. Be sure to tune in to see how many of our picks take home one of those little golden naked men!
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by Joe Hennes – Joe@ToughPigs.com
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